Cromwell Advertisement GENERAL IMPORTERS, CROMWELL, QUEENSTOWN, ARROWTOWN, & MELBOURNE. W-K have much pleasure in calling the attention of the inhabitants generally to ' ' our Large Stock, as enumerated in this advertisement. It does not detail all the articles we keep, for to do so would be almost impossible. We have endeavoured to enumerate all the principal articles of each class ; but every want necessary iii a Mining, Agricultural, and Pastoral community can be supplied. All our purchases being for cash, we thus possess an advantage that few are able to avail themselves of. We therefore respectfully solicit a continuance of the patronage hitherto bestowed, with the conviction that all orders entrusted to our care will be promptly executed, and the articles found to be of good value. Drapery.—The attention of Ladies is respectfully directed to this Department. It will be found replete with all the latest novelties from the Melbourne markets, and arrangements have been made for regular shipments per each steamer. Dresses, in silks, fancy and black; alpacas, challies, mohairs, winceys, muslins, prints, coburgs Shawls, all-wool plaids, French merinos, skirtings, jackets, &c. Hosiery, gloves, handkerchiefs, laees, trimmings of all kinds Ladies' and Children's Underclothing. - Our stock will be found the largest and best-assorted on the Gold-fields Ladies' and Children's Hats, trimmed and imtrimmed Feathers, flowers, corsets, chignons, &c. A large assortment of white and coloured flannels, serge and cricketing ; calicoes and sheetings; and every other article required in the trade. Slop Department.—Men's Suits, Paget and sac; boys' ditto, Leopold, Stanley, sac, and knickerbocker ; Trousers and vests, all kinds Trousers, in silk mixture, doeskin, tweed, cotton, Bedford cord, and moleskin Shirts—white dress, regatta, Crimean, serge, Scotch twill, tweed, and jain Pants and under-shirts, in flannel, lambswool, serge, merino, and cotton Men's and boys' Hosiery, of all kinds Hats—straw, merino, tweed, silk-stitched, felt, and plush, in all the latest shapes Waterproof coats, overalls, leggings, and sou'-westers ; monkey jackets and pilot coats Boots and Shoes—A splendid assortment, consisting of : Ladies', girls', and children's boots, in kid, cashmere, morocco, and leather Slippers—canvas, patent leather (plain and fur-trimmed), sheepskin, and carpet Men's and boys' boots-elastic-side, Balmoral, Blucher, Wellington, half-Wellington, and riding boots ; Colonial water-tights, made to our order in Melbourne Gum boots—Hayward's North British and Liverpool; Hardy's nuggets. Carpets—Tn tapestry, felt, all-wool kidderminster, drugget; hearth-rugs. Matting—China and coir; oilcloth, door-mats. i ./ Ironmongery, Mining Tools, and Agricultural Implements.—Anvils, axes, augers, adzes, balances, bells, bags, blacking, brushes (all kinds), baking-dishes, billies, braces and bitts, Liack-lead, bellows, boilers, bedsteads, bolts, blocks, candlesticks, chains (various), can-dle-moulds, colanders, compasses, chisels, coal-scuttles, scoop and vase ; corkscrews, coffin furniture, cash-boxes, door-scrapers, drippers, egg-whisks, slice and cups ; fuse, fry-ing-pans, funnels, files, fenders and fire-irons, fish-hooks, gimblets, grindstones, graters, glue, gridirons, gold-blowers, dishes and sieves, grates, gads, guns, glue-pots, hammers (all kinds), hoes, jelly-moulds, knives, a large assortment j knives and forks, knife-boards, kettles, lanterns, locks, ladles, milk dishes, cans, strainers, sieves, and yokes ; measuring tapes, mops, mallets, nails of every kind, pitch, picks, pumps, powder, pincers, piping, ploughs, quoits, quicksilver, rules, rope, resin, rivets, rasps, rakes, skip scrapers, sickles and bats, slop-pails, saws of all kinds, sieves, seaming twine, sponges, scoops, sheepshearj. saucepans, shovels and spades, spirit-levels, soldering-irons, solder, spokesliaves, shot, steelyards, scales, screws, staples, stewpans, teapots, trowels, tar, tacks, tubs, tueirons, vices, waiters, washing boards and powder, window furniture of all kinds, writiug cases, zinc, &e., &c. . Timber and Building- Materials.—Shelving, 12 and 14 inches wide ; T. and G. lumber T. and G. Scotch Flooring, i, f, J, 1, 1} inch ; beaded and plain match lining Quartering, American hardwood, 3xl, 3x1,1, 3x2, 4x3, 4xC ; mouldings, various sizes Galvanised and painted iron, all sizes ; rolled zinc, spouting, brackets, down-piping heads Screws, nails, locks, hinges, and bolts : doors, glass, raised panel, and plnin sashes, all sizes. Paints, PaperhangingS, Oils.—Paints of all kinds; white and red lead; black, green, fclue, umbre, ochre, &c, ; Oils—raw, boiled, colza, olive, turpentine, &c. ; oak and copal varnish, asphaltum, oak-stain, knotting PaperhangingS—a large assortment of drawing-room, sitting-room, bed-room, hall, passage, and ceiling, various ; borderings, all kinds. Tinware of every description, a large assortment, all kinds. Kitchen Utensils—Stoves, boilers, saucepans, kettles, &c. Crockery—a large and well-assorted department. Lamps, Glassware, Kerosene, Lampware—large assortment. Furniture, Bedding, &C—Bedsteads : an assortment of French and stump double, single, and children's bedsteads and cots Chairs : Ladies, Florence, Lincoln, Fillimore, dining, American wood, spring hair, rocking ; easy-chairs, in hair, cane, and wood Commodes, cheffoniers, children's high and low chairs, cane and wood ; chests of drawers Tables : round and square, dining, 100, and dressing, various Washstands, in cedar and walnut; towel-horses, mahogany, cedar, turned and plain Sofas, a large assortment, colonial made, with or without backs, pillows, and cushions Mattresses : feather, hair, flock, fibre, any size ; pillows and bolsters, do. do. do. Leather—Crop, kip, calf, kangaroo, &c, from the Tannery of Michaelis, Ilallenstein, and Co Grindery—a large assortment. Tobacco and Cigars. - Being direct importers of these goods, buyers can always depend on getting a (irst-class article. Tobacco : fancy and aromatic, silver coil, Atlantic cable, old sport, navy, fives, sixes, tens, imperial ruby, gold bar ; dark aromatic—tens, bashful lover, little sunshade, monster ; Barrett's twist and cut tobaccos ; snuff Cigars : Trabucos, Havanah, Princess', and Swiss. Stationery and Books.—Account-books, all sizes and bindings ; minute-books, bill-files, blotting-paper, jnemo. books, copying letter-books, copy and exercise books, date-cases, envelopes, all kinds and sizes ; elastic bauds, foolscap (plain and ruled), gum mucilage, ink of all kinds; inkstands, a large variety ; letter balances, clips, and files ; pass-books Note and letter paper, white, blue, and mourning ; pens of all kinds, pencils, playing-cards, pocket-books, purses, slates, albums, rulers, sealing-wax-, tissue-paper, all colours; desks Books : an assortment of family and pocket Bibles, church services, and prayer-books Poetical Works of Byron, Moore, Scott, Burns, Milton, Cowper, Cook, Campbell, Longfellow Gift books ; dictionaries—French, Latin, German, and Fnglish ; geographies, arithmetics. Fancy Goods. —A large, choice, and varied assortment. Patent Medicines.—Large assortment; also, a variety of Horse Medicines. Perfumery, " from every flower that breathes a fragrance." Saddlery.—This department will be found very complete, as all. goods arc manufactured expressly for us by Alston, of Melbourne. Bridles, with or without bits ; a large assortment of ladies' and gontlcmcn's, double and single rein, Pelham and snaffle ; all prices. Curry-combs and brushes of nil kinds ; halters ; hobbles, various. Saddles, ladies' and gentlemen's ; demy, stock, green hide, and all over hogskin ; various prices. Saddle-cloths, kersey, felt ; saddle-girths, leather, web ; saddle straps, spurs of all kinds ; valises, martingales and breastplates, various ; stirrup leathers, ladies' slippers and stirrup leathers, cruppers, bits, buraistcrs, headstalls, ladies' worked saddle-cloths. Spring cart harness complete, dray harness complete, leading sets complete. Pack saddles, straps, needles, buckles, hemp knives. Whips, a large variety ; jockey whips, silver mounted, green hide ; ladies' twigs, various kinds ; buggy whips, cart whips, all sizes ; stockwhips and handles, thongs of all kinds. Produce.—Agents for Robertson and Hallenstein, Brunswick Flour Mills, Lake Wakatip - - We have .for sale their silk-dressed Flour, (equal to Adelaide); pollard, bran, oats, •wheat, barley, chaff. Garden seeds in great variety. Sundries.—Tents, tarpaulins, Manilla rope, hose canvas, horse-covers, wlieelbarrCft'fl, hosedirectors, brnahware, oamp awl colonial ovene, candle*, lime, &c. &c, &c,
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Cromwell Argus, Volume 2, Issue 85, 27 June 1871, Page 1
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