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Sporting: MELBOURNE CUR £10,000, £10,000. £10,000. 20,000 Members at 10s. MELBOURNE CUP, 1884, To be Run Tuesday, Nov. 4th. Will Cloae 30th October, 1884. 420 PRIZES. 133 Nominations. 269 Cash Prizes. Firßt ... £3000 4at 100 ... £400 Second ... 1200 4„ 50 ... 200 Third ... 600 10 „ 25 ... 250 Starters (dir. *0 „ 20 ... 400 about £25 20 „ 15 ... 300 each) ... 750 20 „ 10 ... 200 Non-Btarters 100 „ 7 ... 700 (about £15 91 „ 5 ... 455 eacb) ... 1545 £7095 269 £2905 Please send P. O. Orders when convenient, they can at all times be traced if lost, thus protecting sender. Two Stamps required for replies, and One Shilling added as exchange on country cheques, which must be certified to as " Correct." Each Ticket has Nine chances, the Cup being drawn first, after which the marblea are all replaced each time till the Nine Drawings are completed, thus giving one ticket the chance of drawing Kme Prizes. READ THIS ! Names and Addresses of three principal Winners iv Cup, and four principal Cash Prize Winners can be obtained by Subscribers on application. Drawing is attended by the Press (members of tbe Press can freely inspect Ada's Books). Managers of Papers at a distance can appoint a responsible agent in Dunedin, to whom all information will be furnished, thus giving Subscribers a guarantee of the lonafide character of this Consultation— a course no other " Consultationist " pursues in Dunedin. The Cup of 1883 consisted of 18,000 Subscribers, who contributed £9000. Names of Committee furnished 'Tress" on application. ADA MANTUA, Care of Mr Abraham, Box 351, Post Office, DUNEDIN. £10,000. £10,000, £10,000. ADA MANTUA OFFERS A SPECIAL PRIZE OF £1001 Which amount haa been deposited with the Editor of the Otago Witness, and will be paid to any person in New Zealand who can name the placed horses in the Melbourne Cup, in the order as race reported in the Otago Witness. Each letter will be dated when received, and money paid to firdt " tipster." Competitors not restricted to one trial, but can try as often as they please, and it is not compulsory to have tickets in Consultation, thus giving anyone the chance of obtaining the above valuable prize. In tbe event of winners not being tipped, the £100 will be equally divided between the Otago Benevolent Institution and Industrial School (Caversham.) It will be observed that Ada is disinterested, having placed the money beyond her control, and it must be paid to somebody— hence her declining to receive tips herself, for she will not accept any. Applications will be received till 27th October, and must be addressed only to Spobtihg Editob, Otago Witness, DUNEDIN. Please keep copy of tip, as Winner must apply for prize within one month after race. JACOB Tjl AITHFUL'S CONSULTATION On the Hawke's Bay Spring Meeting, OCTOBEE, 1884, OF 4000 MEMBERS AT 10s. Spring Handicap. Handicap Hubdles. Ist Horse ... £250 Ist Horse ... £250 2nd Horse ... 125 2nd Horse ... 125 3rd Horse ... 75 3rd Horse ... 75 Others divided 200 Others divided 200 £650 £650 CASH PRIZES. 2at 50 £100 10 at 20 200 20 at 10 200 40 at 5 200 £700 ABOUT 110 PRIZES. Six Chances Each Ticket! Six Chances Each Ticket ! ! To the investor of £1 the odds against obtaining are 17 to! with a single drawing, there being Six Drawings the odds so reduced are merely nominal. One ticket can win the First Prize in each of the Race crento, and also Four separate Cash Awards, Drawing under supervision of Committee chosen from Shareholders, including representatives from the Press. Country cheques must have Is added for exchange. P.O. Orders preferred ; two stamps required for reply and result. JACOB FAITHFUL, Care of N. Jacobs, Box 7, P.O. Napier. 2*otlce». VTOBEL'S FVYNAMITB Long and extensive use has established Nobel's to be the Purest, Safest, Most Reliable, Least Objectionable in cloie workings, and by far tbe Strongest Dynamite Mahupacttjbed. Inßist — as is done in many places— on getting only N OB E L' S Which all Bears the Company's Trade Mark, including the name of Alfred Nobel the Inventor of Dynamite. NOBEL'S PATENT BLASTING GELATINE. This is the Most Powerful Explosive Manufactured ; is fired the same way as ; Dynamite ; has various advantages over, is as safe as, and 50 per cent stronger. Detonators and Best Double Tape and Submarine Fuse in Stock. Users adhere to tbe printed instructions issued with every 51b of B.G. and Dynamite, to avoid i accidents and insure success. i Supplies may be had from Wilkins and Field, Nelson ; Thos. Field, Westport ; i Forsyth and Masters, Greymouth; A. Foldie, DiUman'B Town ; W. G. Johnston & Co.; and C. Linnemann, Hokitika, ' or at his branches at Rimu, Stafford, and 1 Kumara ; and others on West Coast, AT LOWEST RATES. Agents for Nobel's Explosives Company, (Limited), Glasgow: F W. M. BANNATYNE & CO., Wellington. DALGETY & COMPANY, Dunedin.

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West Coast Times, Issue 4685, 4 August 1884, Page 4

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Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 West Coast Times, Issue 4685, 4 August 1884, Page 4