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Lyttelton Times, Volume C, Issue 11702, 5 October 1898, Page 3

Business Notices. LARGE ARRIVAL OP NEW SPRING GOODS .•DIRECT FROM MANUFACTURERS. SMART GOODS.- BEST QUALITY: LOWEST PRICES/ 475 COPIES OF PARIS HATS AND BONNETS, at WONDERFUL LOW PRICES, viz., 9s fid, 10s 6d, 12s 6d each. Our Millinery speaks to all of the most educated and refined tastes. Grace, not gaudiness. Appropriateness, not guesswork. Artistic, not ” Blase.” In all this'our millinery retains its place in the estimation of those who’ value beauty, quality, .and economy. - FtjRTHEK SUPPLY OF NEW; >-’• - . - SAILOR HATS. • -■ ' • BUMMER DRESS GOOD?. Light and cool and dainty. If the combination of high quality and low price has any attraction for you, please see our now Dross goods. Blacks in wonderful variety. Hoyle’s Printed Cambrics, 45 different patterns. Nothing so fresh and dainty, so cool and dressy for summer, shirt waists for women and dresses for children, as these pretty prints, sid yard for Hoyle’s Washing Prints. 50 Dozen Gentlemen’s Frame Felt or Tourist HATS, the new style, assorted brown colours, at ss.fid STRAW BOATERS, all in wonderful variety ' and Economical ‘prices ' 60 Dozen' Gi-Gi Garden or Harvest HATS at Is Od this season, instead of 2s 6d.. • 1: SPRING CLEANING. ' : , Ladies, would do to inspect , our stock of, now. Outtains, .Cretonnes, Art Muslins, etc., for spring cleaning, which we have just landed per s'.’s.'Gothic. Lace Curtains, at fia 6d and 8s fid, are a dream of beauty. The lily .pattern curtains are ; to hand, and our customers will be able to get this wonderful curtain at 4s fid, extra large size ’ ' Linoleums and Floorcloths—l2 cases just received of the most artistic, up-to-date patterns, 2- yards wide, painted back, Is lid, . -full width ••-.••• TURKISH TOWELS. . 150 Dozen White and Brpwn Turkish Towels, -, direct . from manufacturers. Special line. 2 large for Is. . Our Tailoring orders are increasing very fast. Great satisfaction given. A large selection of tweeds—extraordinary value. 50 Dozen Gents’ New Triumph TENNIS SHIRTS, silk striped, 3s lid, worth 5s fid The Gents 1 NECKWEAR which we show: this season is as bright as the spring sunshine, . . and as variegated as the-colours of the " rainbow. The price about half. 100 Dozen MEN’S CASHMERE SOCKS, in Black and Navy, seamless, all at Is pair T. ARMSTRONG;& CO:, MARKET SQUARE AND HIGH STREET. ’ • • ■ . , , DR SPEER* . THE .ONLY ' AND - ORIGINAL H.- J. SPEER, M.D., of the Southern Hemisphere, is'now once more in WELLINGTON, where he will remain one year. Chropic and Nervous, Diseases a Specialty. Send .for Question Form with Stamp and be treated at home. DR SPEER’S' FEMALE PILL (regulator), 10s. a-Box; extra strong, £l. Send for it. • K 2314 P.O. Box 339. MODERN BOOT-MAKING ’ MACHINERY. upHE advancement made in machinery for -L warfare, and manufacturing purposes has, within the last few years, made most rapid strides, and this improvement is more, remarkable in the machinery used in the boot traae. . It ''is very 'interesting, to note the inventions that have been made in this particular line, as they have been made to lessen labour and cheapen the prices of .boots and shoes, for when the boots are first started to be made they hardly leave the machine till tuey a"A turned out fit to be worn. What a contrast to the old style, when it took a man almost a day to complete a single pair, which can now be done in.a few minutes. The sewing' machines are driven by power, the old treadle system being a thing of the past, and one stitch to five hundred per minute can be put. in-by merely touching a lever. The eyelits are put in as fast as one can count them, and another machine can fasten. one dozen buttons before one could thread a’needle. The sbles are’cut'out'by two machines. One forces a large steel die through the sole instantaneously to any shape or size required; the other has a travelling knife, which runs round the pattern at a most rapid speed., A very complicated machine is used for fastening the uppers to the inner soles. It pulls the upper over the last to the place required, and at , the same time drives the tacks into the soles, thus securely fastening the upper to the. inner sole. Capability, 3000 pairs per week.. The soles are sewn on by another machine in a 4ew seconds.. or, • if to be riveted, they are sent ■to a different machine, which drives...brass, .or , iron, .rivets,,, any ' size, , at the rate of two. hundred per minute. The heel s' axe'put on by a moat powerful machine, aS by one’ stroke -the heel .is securely nailed With as many nails as may be required. Capability, .1000 .per. day. . The hoot is then-passed to another- wonderful machine; which makes its own hails from a coil of wire, to any length or shape required, and the nails are shot into the bee is or .voles as 'rapid as a quick-firing gun. Capability, 2000 pairs per day. If it is a heavy boot, it is sent to the hobnailing machine, which drives the nails at the rate of two hundred and fifty per minute. The hoot is now made, and ready for the finishing department. The heel-trimming machine, which has revolving knives, travelling at a terrific rate, trims the heels nice and smooth in a few , seconds. Capability,. 500 pairs , per day. Another machine, also having travelling knives for trimming the edges of the soles anu-making them ready for polishing; capability, 500 pairs per day. The heels and edges are then stained black or tan, and passed to several machines for polishing. The boot is now practically .finished, with the exception of the soles, which are sand-papered, cleaned and polished off. One would naturally think all tuese machines, planing, sand-papering, etc., would cause a deal of dust, hut this is all carried off in pipes fixed to each machine, which empty themselves into one large pipe, or- tank, and carried by a strong current of air into the furnace.. One can now. see that the labour; on a pair of boots is reduced to a mere fraction compared .to, the old system, as they are made more solid and better finished. The well-known firm of Maine. Bro?., Hirii Street, Christchurch, . have ..imported from America add England all the "foregoing up-to-date machinery, and have again reduced the prices of their boots and shoes. People-buy-ing from.them buy at the manufacturers’ prices, ho ’two or three getting a profit, Call and see the goods before buying elsewhere. All made on the most, modern and- fashionable American lasts.' ’ ■ ; <T( ILLESPIE’S ESSENCE OF COFFEE. \JT THE BEST AND CHEAPEST. One penny allowed for empty bottles. X 2265 for BETTER THAM HOME-MAD^ - IS - U K 11 Raspberry JAM.