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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 403, 26 April 1871, Page 2

[ABTEBTISEKEifS.j To the Editor of the Evening Stab; ; i SIB,— A letter appears in the N&m 7LI j Herald, this morning signed^ fi '1 Hobb..» who is.evident!.; ifi^ g a strange delusion with regard to fW simple "local" of ours, which appears b the Auckland press. «We can assure ff • dividual that he was not classed amongst £ drapers alluded to } but as he has coma «» ward as the bell-wether of the flock£.fin be treated by us according to his deserts T many months ago a certain draper nur si weekly local in the New Zealand Jw ' saying he would advertise no more •-« (ft world wondered " Some were sorry, 'butnZ more so than the newspaper proprietors. Hi! friends remonstrated, bat the draper wa obdurate. He came to his store each day and gazed at vacancy. After the lapse of mZ days, perhaps weeks, seeing it was « no *£ he sighed and shooked his head and sLiJI Alas ! « this world is but a stage? Z J* Eichard.tobe successful, must be one of the players. He had to succumb. Up eoes ■«," posters-"Retiring from business." BroS Jones and Eobinson followed suit until if has grown fashionable to be a retirins draper. Hence the phials of the showman's wrath are poured on us for exposing the trick Mr. Hobbs has attacked us in an unwarrantable manner, saying we had " exhausted our stock of subterfuges," we had a "white elephant," we were "disappointed," and so forth. In the first place, we can assure him it was not necessary for us to resort to subterfuges to dispose of our goods, as from our financial and commercial position we can always command the trade of Auckland, or any other town in New Zealand. In the next place, with regard to the "white elephant" mentioned, if he means the extent of our warehouse in j ■ Queen-street, we only regret there is not space 1 sufficient to contain the quantity of goods we have. The third place, in reference to the words " disappointed man," the words are *'' quite inexplicable to us, as we have never been disappointed in business, and never been otherwise than successful. Mr. Hopbs threatens to expose our manner of conduct- ; ing our business (we do not think the mdi- 'i vidual capable), and sneers at our knowledge of ■« Russia-crush, or coarse towelling. If Mr..' Hobbs would only pay a little more attention, i to the selling of the same, he would not be ".... compelled to be in search of a responsible individual to relieve him of his " white'ele-"" * j>hant." —We are, &c, J. OOSOBATE AND Co.