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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4602, 20 December 1875, Page 1

Drapery. IOTOEIA 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 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 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 secpnd series of shipments, consisting of upwards of one hundred packages of very choice »nd, carefully selected goods SUITABLE FOR THE APPROACHING .:,.;.' HOLIDAY SEASON, So that we offer a larger aud 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 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 most modern description, and of good and durable quality at prices that must prove satisfactory to the purchaser. J. McDOWELL & CO., IMPORTERS, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DRAPERS, Lambton-quay and Willis-steeet, Wellington, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). The. following are among the many items of 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 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, fancy batistes, Jupon striped piques, grenadines, bareges, British aud French muslins, British and French prints, summer alpacas, summer check winceys, China silks, hollands, alpaca cosi tumes, poplinette costumes, marsella braided costtimes, batiste costumes, delaine costumes, tassore linen costumes, grenadine costumes, Hamburg 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 sots, ruffle sets, striped summer sets, linen tassore sets, linen cuffs and collars, embroidered sets, thread gloves, B*lin gloves, silk gloves, Lisle gloves, rufrlings, 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, laco falls, frilled falls, laco handkerchiefs, kid gloves, yack laces, Elizabethian rufflings, Cluny laces, crepe leise, Valenciennes laces, "Valenciennes rufflingh, Maltese lace, frilled cuffs, Duchess laces, frilled collars, Arnold's frillings, frilled sets, cotton hosiery, mourning frillings, merino hosiery, spun hosiery, lace hosiery, silk hosiery, lawn handkerchiefs, parasols, Chinese jiarasols, 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, antimacassors, 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 leathers, &c, &c, &c. CORNER OF LAMBTON-QUAY AND WILLIS-STREET, (Opposite the Bank of New Zealand). J. McDOWELL & CO.