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Otago Witness, Issue 1501, 21 August 1880, Page 2

BUSINESS NOTICES. TERRIBLE DEPRESSION ! ! BAKRUPTOY ! ! TD A N KfR U P T C V!! BANKRUPTCY!!! TOTAL COLLAPSE OF ONE OF THE MOST FLOURISHING DRAPER? ESTABLISHMENTS IN DUNEDIN. MESSRS A. EVANS AND CO., Drapers, George street, Having been compelled to succumb to Unbearable Pressure and Hard Times, THEIR STOCK Has been submitted to Publio Tender, and purchased from the Trustees, Messrs Rgsb and Statham, by A. AND T. INUL IS, Who jfhave t the pleasure to announce that 1 they regard this as ONE OF THE MOST ADVANTAGEOUS PURCHASES EVER MADE, viz,, £6600 VALUE FOR £2604 CASH. The stock is a good one, mostly NEW. Messrs Evans & Co. having been in Business only a few years, have not acoumulated any largequantity of undesirable Stook. We could very well afford to put it with our own, and sell it at ordinary prices j yet we shall not do so. We have^no desire to emulate the LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OP NEW ZEALAND, who, perfectly willing to reduce the '' screw of Night Porters, Platelayers, Lamp-cleaners, or Underpaid Policemen, declined in the most wrath some style to put the screw on its Honorarium, er listen to any reduction. We are in no sort of competition with honourables of this kind j we are determined to SACRIFICE, SACRIFICE, SACRIFICE! , NOT OTHERS, BUT OURSELVES! THEREFORE ON SATURDAY, 7th AUGUST We shall offer B vans' Stook, together with our own, at such Enormous Reductions as will cause a PANIC amongst CONSERVATIVE TRADESMEN, and oause them to cry out that ANARCHY AND REVOLUTION have taken possession of a once Steady-going and Respeotable Business. There is, however, no Anarchy, and the Revolution consists only in this one fact, that having bought £5600 value at the rate of One Pound's worth for sevenhhillings and Fourpenoe Half-penny, we shall give all our Customers the full benefit of this wonderful event. Enough is as good as a feast, yet one word more: Notwithstanding this upside-down way of trading, we shall continue to stamp all Bills for our Art Union of 1880, which we shall draw in due course — The Lotteries Aot, the Colonial Treasurer, and Parliament of New Zealand notwithstanding. EVANS' STOCK AND OUR OWN IOR UNRESERVED SALE ON AND AFTER, SATURDAY, 7th AUGUST. Ladies will no doubt remember the class and assortment of Goods sold by MESSRS A. EVANS AND CO., And will be able to recognise them again, Every article will as far as possible have attached to it the original ticket retaining Evans' Selling Price, by the side of which will be written in red ink INGLIS' SALE PRICE, Showing an almost incredible, or at least an unheard of Reduction in Drapery Goods. Ladieß will therefore see at a glance the immense advantage to be gained upon this unexpected occasion* A a few examples will suffice to choW the benefits we offer :— Evans' Price. Inglis' Sale Price. Is 3d Dresses 2|d the yard 39s 6d Mantles 6s lid each 35s 6d Ulßters 12s 6d each 253 6d do 6s lid each 27b 9d ■ Skirts 7b 6d each 2ls 6d Children's Ulsterß 5s 6d each A. AND T. INGLIS, GEORGE STREET, PRINCES STREET, ROYAL ARCADE, DUNEDIN. 29, HAMSELL STREET, LONDON,