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New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4231, 12 October 1874, Page 1

Drapery. Q_ RATIFYING INTELLIGENCE. Amidst all the changes and improvements we have to chronicle from week to week, none can be more beneficial to, the City than to sec old buildings, like the memory of the past, fleeting away, and, Phcenix-like, of their ashes NEW AND STATELY PLACES OE BUSINESS springing up in their stead. To our town and country customers, H. OWEN and CO., 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 TEST OE PUBLIC CONFIDENCE, 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., Lambton Quay, May urge as an ample reason, that the present IMMENSE REDUCTION IN PRICE is caused by an Urgent Necessity' for Diminishing the Stock, in order that the workmen engaged in the NEW BUILDING may not be retarded in their wort, as a portion of the front buildings must bo removed in fourteen days from this date. Under these circumstances, H . OWEN and CO. are determined to give Their Town and Country' Customers the benefit of their • GREAT CLEARING PRICES, as a Graceful Compliment for Past Payors. Annexed are a few quotations of the GREAT BARGAINS ! No. 1 L0t.—595 Fancy Dressses, at Gs. lid. the dress ; former price, 12a. SOILED BLANKETS to be SOLD AT A SACRIFICE! ISO dozen Men’s COTTON SOCKS at 3Jd. per pair ; worth Is. lIY. OWEN and CO. Art Unions, £.-• TEAKSIT cTf VENUS X AND OTHER NOVELTIES. APPLY AT B. 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, 3Jiu. object glass, by Troughton and Simms, 50 guineas. 3. —Thx-ee oil paintings, copies after Rombraudt, 25 guineas. And ninety-seven other prizes, consisting of THE ONLY COMPLETE SET OP SOAPSTONE ORNAMENTS IN THE COLONY, 53|Just arrived direct from China, per May, consisting of elaborately carved tables, arches, tombs, pagodas, &c. ONE HUNDRED PRIZES. JIfOETAUT NOTICE. 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 in frames, and a number of elegant and useful articles and fancy goods of all descriptions. The number of subscribers lias been increased to 300 at One Guinea. ALL PRIZES AND NO BLANKS. . The whole now on view.JAMES BERGER, Lambton Quay. R T TJ N I O N~. 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. Furs &c. Under 5m the SPECIAI ‘ Patronage op His Excellency the Governor. QOLONIAL INDUSTRY. H. E.,, LIAEDET, TAXIDERMIST AND FURRIER, Opposite the New Zealand Times Office, Willis Street. H. E. LI A.RDET 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, &c., made of the skins of the choicest Neiv Zealand seabirds, Every description of Furs Cleaned and Repaired, and made up into Tippets, Muffs, &c,