Valet >-or Mpntey.—As a rule, nineteen people out of every twenty believe in getting value for tbeir money, and as a reminder to those who are about to furnish their houses, replenish their wardrobe??, or invest in a sewing machine—for adornment, convenience, or comfort, they should go, or send, to J. H. Milljgan's Waitaki .House, Thames-street, Uamam, where they will find the above adage carried out.—J. H. Milligan', Milliner, Draper, Tailor, and Boot and Shoe Importer.— [A DVT.] Gentle-mex's Ready-Made Colonial Clothing.—Hood and Sherman, corner of Tees and Itchen streets, Oamai'u, have the largest stock of Gentlemen's Colonial Clothing in 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. Every article of genuine quality, and their stock is free of all goods of a doubtful or jobbisli character. One price asked.—
It says something for the Mosgiel Woollen Factory when a window in one of the leading warehouses in the chief city in New Zealand can be decked out complete ly with its manu factures. That such can be done in a way that can challenge the attention and command the admiration ■ f customers has been demonstrated by Brown, Kwing, and Co., of Dlined in. They have decorated one of their fine plate-glass fronts in Princes-street, exclusively with Mosgiel fabrics in a way that demands something more than a passing notice. A more charming or inviting picture of all that can contribute to individual comfort during the winter season has rai'ely or never been presented to the public gaz '. fhe foreground is tilled with tweeds suitable for male attire of the latest and most fashionable j)atterns, while rising immediately behind are pieces of 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 as silk —blankets, in fact, that are not to be surpassed either in purity of color or quality by anything ever mported from the old-esta-blished manufactories of England. Over the blankets and ascending to the ceiling are a fine 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 the Factory. If we are not mistaken, this is the first 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 deve-
loped.—[Advt.] 22 oifr INew Zealand Industries —Messrs. Halienstein Bros., manufacturers and wholesale warehousemen, of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, following the example of Some of the large manufacturers at Home, aud more especially with a view of preventing the importation of English clothing, are opening extensive retail establishments in the large centres of population. For this purpose they have lately fitted up commodious premises in Messrs. Shriinski and Moss' buildings, Thames-street, where the sale of their manufactures wiJl be thrown open direct to the public of Oamaru. This branch, which will be opened on Saturday,
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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 360, 19 June 1877, Page 3
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