! It says something fur the Mosgiel TVootfen j Factory when a window i:i 0112 of the leading 1 warehouses in the chief city in Xeiv Zealand can be decked out completely with :;s manufactures That such cm be done in a way thai can challenge the attention and com- | maud the admiration < f customers has been demonstratedby Brown, lowing, and Co., of Duncdin. They have decorated one of their tine plate-glass fronts in Princes-street, exclusively with Jdosgicl fabrics in a way that i demands something more than a passing notice. A more charming or inviting picture of ail that can contribute to individual comfort daring the winter season has rarely or never iven presented to the public gaz >. The foreground is tilled with tweeds suitable fur male attire of the latest and most fashionable patterns, while rising immediately behind are pieces T>r elegant woollen tartans intended for female costume-, as free from loudness in color as they are chaste in design and comfortable in appearance. Above these again are tiers of blankets, white as driven snow, soft as swandown, and lustrous ns silk —blankets, in fact, that are not to be surpassed either in purity of color or quality by anything ever: mportcd from the old-esta-blished manufactories of Jingland. Over the blankets and ascending to the ceiling are a tine collection of white and colored worsteds. The sides of the window are draped with hosiery, Crimean shirts, and other articles made up on the premises from the products of tiie factory. If we are not mistaken, this is the iirst time in the Colony that the window of a leading retail warehouse has been decorated exclusively with an assortment of Colonial woollen manufactures, and the exhibition is certainly one that does infinite credit to the way in which this important branch of Colonial industry is being developed.— [Aj.vt.] ' 22 I.rESTLEMK-V.S Ee.ATA'-M.ADE COLONIAL CLoTiii>:<'r.—Hood and Shennan, corner of Tees and Itclien streets, Oamaru, have the largest stock of Gentlemen's Colonial Clothing ia=;:the north of Otago, and unsurpassed for cheapness and durability. Working men and others will find this a safe and reliable establishment to 'make their purchases. Kv;ry article of genuine cpiality, aud their stock is free of all goods of a doubtful or jobbish character. One price asked.— [Adyt.]
Our Xew Zealand Industries —Messrs. flallenstein Bros., manufacturers aud wholesale warehousemen, of the Ktw Zealand Clothing Factory, following the example of Si.nio of the large manufacturers at Home, and more especially with a view of preventing the importation of English, clothing, are opening extensive retail establishments in the large centres of population. I'or this purpose they have lately fitted up commodious premises in Messrs. Shrimski and Moss' buildings, Thames-street, where the
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 342, 29 May 1877, Page 3
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