Wool-growers and Merchants desirous of offering clips or skins at this sale will please send samples and particulars as early as pos sible, in order that the same may be properly catalogued. 8465 MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, AT 12 O’CLOCK. SPECIAL SALE OF STORE. SHEEP, At the Rlccarton Yards. BIRD AND BENNETT have received instructions to Sell by AUCTION, as above, in lots to suit purchasers, 2000 F OUR * TOOTH WETHERS, maiden four-tooth Qljy EWES, in wool, admirably adapted for crossing with long woolled rams. The above are in first-class condition, and having been fed on English grasses are better suited for paddocks than hill sheep. BIRD & BENNETT, 8387 c Auctioneers. Meetings. INTER-PROVINCIAL MATCH. A MEETING of the COMMITTEE will be held THIS DAY, at White’s Hotel, at 1 p.m. A. J. COTTRELL, 8582 Hon. Sec. KOWAI DISTRICT, NOTICE TO RATEPAYERS. THE General Annual MEETING of Ratepayers of this District will be held at the Office, Northport, at Noon, on TUES DAY, the 3rd January, 1871, for the purpose of electing two members to serve on the Board, in the places of Messrs Fendall and Masked, who retire by rotation. C. J. WENTWORTH COOKSON, *586 Surveyor. Insurance Companies. i iHh ROYAL INSURANCE COMRANI I FIRE AND LIFE. Agents, MILES & CO.. 3 t Lyttelton and Christchurch VICTORIA FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. THE Undersigned is prepared to Accept at Current Rates, all kinds of FIRE AND MARINE RISKS. GEORGE WARNER, 7544 c Agent. Properties for Sale



BUILDING LEASES. *1 p* ACRES Christchurch Building Front- Xt) ages TO LET, on long Leases, 7636 c W. WILSON. FOR SALE, CUST FLOUR MILL, standing on forty acres (Freehold) land, doing a good Grist and Flour trade, stones 4 feet in diameter ; silk dresser, almost new ; machin ery in good order; comfortable four-roomed cottage, stable, shed, &c. For particulars, apply at the MILL to 8487 I). F. M'VICAR. SODA WATER. TO BE LET OR SOLD, the whole of the WORKING PLANT of a Soda Water or Lemonade Manufacturer. Apply to MR, J. PERKINS, 8576 Albion Hotel, Colombo street north. Stock TO BE SOLD, A GOOD COB, perfectly quiet in saddle or harness. Apply to F. K., office of this paper. 8579



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