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Southland Times, Issue 1643, 4 October 1872, Page 4

APOTHECARIES' HALL, DEE STREET, INVERCARGILL. To the Inhabitants of the Southland District of the Province of Otago. TI/E HAVE ON THIS OCCASION deterVV mined to draw attention through the Public Pre«s, rather than by circular (in consideration of the scattered nature of the population), to the entire change in the conduct of our Business, which was intimated so far back as May, 1871, but the misfortune of the lamentable Tay-street Fire of • October the 11th, of the same year, frustrated for twelve months the completion of plans then about to be initiated. THE CONSTANT COMPLAINT of the community has been that Invercargill business men hold only a second or third rank, through the fact, in many instances, of prices of various kinds of leading merchandise ruling higher here than in Other towns in New Zealand. The real cause is apparent to those watching the business career of the place, and can really be put down in a great measure to the fact that there is a large amount of jealousy amongst those who have it in their power to metamorphose, as it were, the business of the district — by combination. Where one or two willing but small business men are inclined to go in for direct Home Importations, they are at a disadvantage, for the larger importers are not at one in this desirable course of action ; the consequence is, we have all along been dependent upon those who are reaping the reward of our shortcomings, whereas a market should have been made for ourselves (instead of bolstering up that of others), naturally making more important the trade to the Ports of Bluff, Invercargill, and Riverton — each vessel, locally owned, always leaving the mark of prosperity behind her. With thes preliminary remarks, we are in a position to state that with the arrival of Goods per "HYDASPE S," FROM LONDON, JUNE 21st, 1872, THESE DIFFICULTIES have been overcome. We shall then be in a position to do business which we could never touch before with profit, and in many cases either or both wholesale aud retail prices will be considerably reduced, as it has been our steady aim to consummate this advantage to all, it being our intention to give, where able, the whole of the benefit derived from our satisfactory conclusion of business relations with London direct ; we expect from the numerous branches of the community, the support that we shall. prove ourselves to merit, deprecating also the idea that the jealousy of location in ibis or that street should be sufficient justification for the withdrawal of support from one who has buffeted the adverse current of events concomitant with the history of any new locality. Here we would wish to remind our constituents that until further notice is given, the whole of our business will be carried on iv premises previously known as JAMES EEED & CO.'S, and immediately opposite TULLOCH'S EXCHANGE BUILDINGS, and placing all articles at our disposal beyond a doubt as to their genuineness, which is always regarded as a boon in our particular line. THE IMMENSE LENGTH to which the credit system lias extended here, has also been a great drawback to business men, recoiling on those who have participated in it as the primary cause of, and excuse for, higher prices than would remunerate the importers, if sure of a speedy retui'n — even when the goods were disposed of. The reductions in our prices, which will now vary from ten to twentyfive per cent., which partly represents the intermediate Wholesale Importers' Profit, will correct this to a great extent, and if fortunate in receipt of Goods per "Hydaspes," either at the close of this or the commencement of the coming month, our new principles in Business will be inaugurated with the new quarter on the first of October next, immediately at the close of our financial yeav aud stock taking, prior to which date, to enable us so to do, all accounts as now rendered should be settled within the month, aa previous partnership, and the taking over of Mr G. M. K. Clarke's, and J. Reed & Co.'s business, as also the October fire, have caused some little derangements. Entire New Books will be now opened, and the others, both for Invercargill and Riverton, finally closed. THE ATTENTION of the residents of town and the suburbs — Pastoral Tenants, Farmers, Diggers, Storekeepers, JBrewers, Photographers, Cordial Manufacturers, Motelkeepers, Surgeons, Hospitals, Druggists, and others, is directed to our list of PATENT MEDICINES— Drugs, Cliemica(s, Perfumery, Brushware, Dyewoods, Drysaltery, Medicinal Glassioare, Mechanical and Surgical Appliances and Instruments, Toilet Soaps, Confectionery and Sick Room Requisites, c^c, i^c, of which we are now DIEECT IMPOETEES, And enumerated more particularly in the columns of the Southland News, comprisiug as it does a shipment of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY CASES AND CASKS of well-assorted Goods, and of the DECLAEED IMPOST VALUE Of £1000 STEELING. JOSEPH HATCH & CO. September 2nd, 1872.