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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4593, 9 December 1875, Page 1

Drapery. ■y ICTOBI A HOUSE, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand), LAMBTON-QUAY fc WILLIS-STREET. J. McDOWELL & CO. beg to inform their customers and the public generally that they have just completed large alterations to their premises, which affords them a very large extent of room throughout their establishment generally, and also the additional space of a gallery over the drapery departments and a gallery over the clothing and outfitting departments.. In making these extensive alterations they have been able to carry out a double purpose, namely, to give ■ EXTENDED SHOP AND WAREHOUSE : „ ACCOMMODATION, And at the same time so arrange their new shop lights that the most delicate colorings can be selected independent of ordinary weather changes, their new lights being most complete in that respect. j. mcdowell and go. Have therefore very great pleasure in calling attention to their : SUMMER SHIPMENTS, The whole of which have just been opened up during and since the completion of the alterations, as underneath Ex ship Rodney, ex ship Halcione, ex ship Elinfauns Castle, ex ship Border Chief, ex Mail Steamer. In addition to the above, we have received by the ships Howrah, St. Leonards, and s.s. Great Britain, all of which have arrived, a second series ofi shipments, consisting of upwards of one hundred packages of very choice and carefully selected goods SUITABLE FOR THE APPROACHING ' .HOLIDAY SEASON, So that we offer a larger and more complete stock in every department than we have ever exhibited during any previous season. We would, therefore, ask our, customers, heads of families, j settlers, and visitors to Wellington to inspect pur stock before making their season’s purchases, as our stock is admittedly the largest in the province, and our study is to supply goods of the most modem description AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES OF PROFIT. Our purchases being in a great measure direct from the manufacturers, avoiding intermediate charges, and being under the supervision of a buyer of large and recent . New Zealand experience, places us in possession of goods of the j most modern description, and of good and i durable ‘ quality at prices that must prove ■ : ’ satisfactory to the purchaser. | j. McDowell & co., IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND. RETAIL DRAPERS, j Lambton-quat and Willis -street, Wellington, .(Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). The following are among the many items of OUR IMPORTS EOB THIS SEASON’S TRADE, To which we wish to direct the attention of our customers, assuring them of our best attention to all postal communications and orders either for patterns or otherwise : MILLINERY. MANTLES, AND UNDERCLOTHING— French millinery bonnets, English millinery bonnets, ladies’ trimmed hats, girls’ trimmed hats, feathers, plumes, and flowers, Hamburg netting polonaises, silk polonaises, lace polonaises, Cashmere polonaises, cashmere capes and jackets, summer ( shawls, lace capes, ladies' stays, children’s stays, ladies’ underclothing, children’s dresses, children’s underclothing, children’s hoods and hats, hat and bonnet ornaments. DRESS DEPARTMENT— Silk warp lustres, summer lustrines, Japanese silks, linen tassores, marsallas, new striped camlets, French poplin laines, colored batistes, Hamburg cloths, white batistes, i fancy batistes, Jupon striped piques, grenadines, bareges, British and French' muslins, British and French prints, summer alpacas, summer check winceys, China silks, Hollands, alpaca costumes, poplinette costumes, marsella braided costumes, batiste costumes, delaine costumes, tassore linen costumes, grenadine costumes, Hambui’g cloth costumes, Holland costumes, figured lustre costumes, French mohair costumes, French print costumes, Hoyle's print costumes, morning wrapper costumes, glacie lustre costumes. . FANCY DEPARTMENT— Real lace sets, linen sets, ruffle sets, striped summer sets, linen tassore sets, ’ linen cuffs and collars, embroidered sets, thread gloves, Berlin gloves, silk gloves, Lisle gloves, millings, ruffles, chemisettes, sleeves, parachutes, Hamburg nettings, gossamers, Hamburg laces, hair nets, sash ribbons, hair plaits, beltings," hair rolls, belts, hair oils, fancy ribbons, perfumery (assorted), fans, albums, crimped frills, jet chains, lockets, jet goods, trimmings, back combs, circular combs, lace falls, frilled falls, lace handkerchiefs, kid gloves, yack laces, Elizabethian rufflings, Cluny laces, crepe leise, Valenciennes laces, Valenciennes rufflings, Maltese lace, trilled cuffs, Duchess laces, frilled collars, Arnold’s trillings, trilled sets, cotton hosiery, mourning frillings, merino hosiery, spun hosiery, lace hosiery, silk hosiery, lawn handkerchiefs, parasols, Chinese parasols, umbrellas. MANCHESTER AND FURNISHING DEPARTMENTS— Finlay’s plain and twilled sheetings, Crewdson’s calicoes, wet wove calicoes, Horrox longcloths, New Zealand shirting, Finlay's window Hollands, damasks, damask cloths, diapers, linens, towels, quilts, toilet covers, antimacaasors, wool reps and damasks, billiard cloths, velvet pile cloths, cocoa matting, cocoa mats, Crossly’s tapestry carpets, felt carpeting, felt squares, floor cloths (various widths), flannels, blankets, window curtains, window reps, window muslins, curtain holders, 4 x 4, 8 x 4, grey calicoes, oil baize, wool baize, American leathern, &c., &c., &e. CORNER OF LAMBTON-QUAY AND WILLIS-STREET, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). j. McDowell & co.