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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4596, 13 December 1875, Page 1

Drapery. I C T O R I A HOUSE, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand), LAMBTON-QUAY & 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 apace 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 co. 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 Kinfauns 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 of 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, settlers, and visitors to Wellington to inspect our 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 modern description AT THE LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES OF PROFIT. Our purchases being in a j charges,.and being under the supervision of a buyer, of large and recent New Zealand experienqe, places us in possession of goods of the most modern description, and of good and durable quality at prices that must prove satisfactory to the purchaser. 1 j. Mcdowell & co., IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRAPERS, Lambton-quay and Wiixis-steeet, Wellington, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). , : The following are among the many items o£ OUR IMPORTS FOR THIS SEASON'S 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 bonuets, English millinery bonnets, ladies' trimmed hats, girls' trimmed hats, . feathers, plumes, and ice capes, lames stays, s, ' ladies' "underclothing, s, children's undercloth„oods and hats, hat and DRESS DEPARTMENT—Silk warp lustres, summer lustrines, Japanese silks, linen tassores, marsallas, new striped camlets, French poplin laines, colored batistes, Hamburg cloths, white batistes, fancy batistes, Jupon!_ striped piques, grenadines, .bareges, .British and French muslins, British and French prints, summer alpacas, summer check winceys, China silks, hollaiids, alpaca costumes, poplinette, costumes, marsella braided costumes, 'batiste costumes,' delaine costumes, tassore grenadine costumes, ; Hal ' tumes, Holland costumes, -figured lustre I costumes, French mohair costumes, print costumes, Hoyle's print costa morning wrapper costumes, glacie, lus costumes. ■;.,.' FANCY DEPARTMENT , . . Real lace sets, linen sets, ruffle.. sets, striped summer .sets, linen tassore sets, '- ' linen- cuffs i and collars, embroidered sets, i thread gloves, Berlin gloves, silk glove's, ! Lisle gloves, rufHings, ruffles, chemisettes, ! sleeves, parachutes, Hamburg nettings, i gossamers, Hamburg laces, hair nets, sash ' ribbons, hair plaits, beltings, hair rolls, belts, hair oils, fanoy ribbons, jerfumery : (assorted), fai " ~~ chains, locket „, Chmy laces, laces, ("Valen--3 lace, frilled Arnold's frillings, frilled cotton ilk hosiery, parasols, iimbrellas. MANCHESTER AND FURNISHING DEPARTMENTS— Finlay's plain and twilled sheetings, Crewdson'a calicoes, wet wove calicoes, Horrox longcloths, New Zealand shirting, Finlay's , window hollands, damasks, j n „l- "nlntfiß. diaiiers. linens, towels, ors, wool reps i, velyet pile cloths, cocoa matting, cocoa mats, Crossly's* tapestry carpets, felt carpeting, ielt squares; floor cloths (various widths), flannels, blankets, window curtains, window reps, window muslinß, .curtain holders, 4 x 4, 8 x 4, grey calicoes, oiL baize, wool ! baize, American leathers, &c., &0., &c. CORNER OF LAMBTON-QUAY AND WILLIS-STREET, | (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). j j. Mcdowell & co. '