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Press, Volume XVII, Issue 2317, 27 September 1870, Page 4

Public Notices A SURPRISINGLY CANDID AND NOVEL ANNOUNCEMENT. In consequence of the general dullness of trade during the past three is months, due principally to the unprecedented wet weather that has prevailed, I W. PRATT, of DUNSTABLE HOUSE Finds himself with a very Large Stock of Drapery on hand, that under more favorable circumstances in the usual course of trade would have been CLEARED OFF ! And having lately received advices of s ANOTHER LARGE SHIPMENT OF 94 GASES, IN THE "MONARCH, NOW DAILY EXPECTED, PiDds it absolutely necessary, financially and otherwise, to submit to a SEVERE REDUCTION OF PRICES, TO ENSURE B » A THOROUGH AND SUCCESSFUL SALE, And in order still further to merit the support and patronage of all the Ladies, t- whose sympathies are enlisted in favor of various Charitable and Religious ' 8 purposes, he has resolved to devote, from the proceeds of the sale, THE SUM OF £100, To be distributed as follows immediately after the close of the sale: — 6 St. Michael's Bazaar Committee £20 0 0 Benevolent Aid 10 0 0 '» Christian Knowledge Society ... ... 10 0 0 St. Luke's Parsonage Fund 10 0 0 2 Debt on St. John's Church 10 0 0 Catholic Orphanage ... ... ... 10 0 0 , Wesleyan Church Gallery Fund , 10 0 0 r Female Refuge 10 0 0 3 Sunday School Union 10 0 0 ', £100 0 0 •1 The SALE at DUNSTABLE HOUSE commenced on SATURDAY, 3rd a September, and will be continued until SATURDAY, October 1. WILLIAM PRATT. August 31, 1870. 9-1 ! A COMPLEMENT TO THE ABOVE ANNOUNCEMENT. - W. PRATT TN TENDERING HIS GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS TO AN 1 APPRECIATIVE PUBLIC FOB THE SUCCESS THAT HAS SO FAB ATTENDED THE SALE AT DUNSTABLE HOUSE, Takes the PREBENT OPPORTUNITY of ADDING to the FORMER LIST, DONATIONS to several INFLUENTIAL and IMPORTANT SECTIONS of the - COMMUNITY that were INADVERTENTLY OMITTED. He has, therefore, much pleasure in announcing the following additions: — Presbyterian Church £10 0 0 Congregationalists ... ... ... ... 10 0 0 United Methodists Free Church 10 0 0 c Jewish Synagogue ... ... ... ... 10 0 0 ', m Being desirous of disarming the adverse criticism of many who may regard this, and previous Notice, as a PHARISAICAL DISPLAY OE LIBERALITY, HE TBUSTS that they will be Charitable Enough to consider that tbe ability to carry out the objects proposed depended upon giving it FULL PUBLICITY. THE NEW GOODS NOW LANDING from the MONARCH, will be SOLD at a very moderate advance upon ' ENGLISH WHOLESALE PRICES. September 14th, 1870. 9-15 NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. THE "PRESS" GENERAL PRINTING OEEICE, CASHEL STREET, CHBISTCHURCH. THE "PRESS" COMPANY (LIMITED), in returning their acknowledgments to the Public for the extended support accorded to them, have much pleasure in intimating that they have just received an ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF JOBBING TYPE SUITABLE FOR PLAIN AND FANCY PRINTING OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, Which they are determined to execute at such ECONOMICAL CHARGES (consistently with good workmanship and a small remunerative profit) as will enable them to retain that liberal patronage which they have hitherto enjoyed. POWERFUL STEAM MACHINERY, Bpecially adapted for Newspaper or Bookwork —any size or any number; their Patent j Scandinavian Machine being of a superior class to any yet invented, and is the only one of < the came make in New Zealand. : __ 1 All the Finer description of Work in the Jobbing Branch is still performed by Hand Presses, to ensnre the greatest neatness in exe«ition.