DraperyINTELLIGENCE. Amidst all the changes and improvements we have to chronicle from week to week, none can be more beneficial to the City than to see old buildings, like the memory of the past, fleeting away, and, Phoenix-like, of their ashes NEW AND STATELY. PLACES OP BUSINESS springing up in their stead. To our town and country customers, H. OWEN and C 0., National Drapery Depot, Lambton Quay, Embrace the earliest opportunity of returning their sincere THANKS for the Unprecedented Increase to their General Business for the last few months, and they can only view such an increase as a in spite of those sensational announcements which from time to time appear in the daily papers from rival establishments, who quote a few prices in order as a bait held out to allure the unwary. H. OWEN and C 0., Larnbton Quay, May urge as an ample reason, that the present IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICE is caused by an Urgent Necessity for Diminishing the Stock, ten engaged in the | NEW BUILDING not be retarded in their worl, as a portion le front buildings must be removed in fourteen days from this date. Under these circumstances, I. OWEN and CO. are determined to give Their Town and Country Customers the benefit of their GREAT CLEARING PRICES, • ■ as a Graceful Compliment fob Past , Favors. Annexed are a few quotations of the GREAT BARGAINS ! No. 1 Lot. —595 Fancy Dressses, at 6s. lid. the dress ; former price, 12s. „ 2 „ 2049 yards French Merino at. Is. 5d., worth 2s. 6d. „ 3 „ 2890 yards Colored Tasso at 9Jd.; former price, 13d. „ 4 „ 5040 ->ards Colored Ribbons at 10J-d. ; former price, Is. 9d. „ 5 „ 40 pieces White Flannel at llfd. ; former price, Is. 4d. „ 6 „ 28 pieces Scarlet Flannel at 14d.; former price, ISJd. „ 7 „ 14i dozen Trimmed Bonnets at 4s. 6d. ; former price, 15s. !>.S.—A lot of SOILED BLANKETS to be SOLD AT A SACRIFICE! ISO dozen Men's CQTTON SOCKS at 3id. per pair ; worth Is. HY. OW E N and CO. Art Unions, Lj. fjIEAUSII OF VENUS J_ AND OTHER NOVELTIES. APPLY at R. W. I. CARVER'S, Opposite Bank of New Zealand. TO COME OFF WITHOUT DELAY, AN ART UNION, Two hundred and fifty members at a Guinea. 1. —Collard and Collard piano, 7 octaves, 75 guineas. 2.—Astronomical telescope, 3Jin. object glass, by Troughton and Simms, 50 guineas. 3.—Three oil paintings, copies after Rembrandt, 25 guineas. And ninety-seven other prizes, consisting of THE ONLY COMPLETE SET op SOAPSTONE ORNAMENTS IN THE COLONY, |§f Just arrived direct from China, per May, consisting of elaborately carved tables, arches, tombs, pagodas, &c. ONE HUNDRED PRIZES. TMPOEIANT NOTIRB. " JAMES BERGER'S ART UNION, 1874. By desire, there has been included in the list of prizes in this Art Union, ' A MAGNIFICENT UPRIGHT GRAND PIANOFORTE, by Collard and Collard, trichord throughout ; value 85 guineas. There are also 299 other valuable prizes, amongst which are a capital English Harmonium, Cabinets of Games, a few choice Pictures iu frames, and a number of elegant and useful articles and fancy goods of all descriptions. The number of subscribers has been increased to 300 at One Guinea. ALL PRIZES AND NO BLANKS. The whole now on view. JAMES BERGER, Lambton Quay. SIXTEEN LARGE WATER-COLOR DRAWINGS, Framed and glazed, from original sketches of the Hot Springs, Lakes Rotomahana and Taupo, Mount Cook, the Glaciers, &c., by the Hon. William Fox, M.H.R. 100 TICKETS, £1 EACH. The proceeds to be devoted to the Temperance Hall Bazaar Fund. Tickets may be obtained from Mr. F. H. Fraser, Manners Street, and at Mr. E. Anderson's Store, Willis Street, where the Drawings are on view. Undeb Patronage oi pi O LONIAL His Excellency Governor. H. E. LIARDET, TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER, Opposite the New Zealand Times Office, Willis Street. 11. E. LIARDET has the honor to announce to the ladies of Wellington that he has now ready for the ensuing winter a large stock of MUFFS, TIPPETS, CUFFS, kc, made of the skins of the choicest New Zealand sea birds. Every description of Furs Cleaned' and Repaired, and made up into Tippets, Muffs, &c.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4228, 8 October 1874, Page 1
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