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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 345, 1 June 1877, Page 3

It says something for the Mosgiel V\ oollen Factory when a window in one of the leading warehouses in the chief city in New Zealand can he decked out completely with its manufactures That such can be done in a way that can challenge the attention and command the admiration < f customers has been demonstrated by Brown, lowing, and Co., of Dunedin. They have decorated one of their fine plate-glass fronts in Princes-street, exclusively with Mosgiel fabrics in a way that demands something more than a passing notice. A more charming or inviting jiicture of all that cm contribute to individual comfort during the winter season has rarely or never been presented to the public gaz \ The foreground is tilled with tweeds suitable formate attire of the latest and most fashionable patterns, while rising immediately behind are pieces of elegant woollen tartans intended for female costume--, as free from loudness in color as they are chaste in design and comfortable in appearance. Above these again are tiers of blankets, white as driven snow, soft as swandown, and lustrous as silk —blankets, in fact, that are not to be surpassed either in purity of color or quality by anything ever, mported from the old-esta-blished manufactories of England. Over the blankets and asceuding to the ceiling are a tine collection of white and colored worsteds. The sides of the window are draped with hosiery, Crimean shirts, and other articles made up on the premises from the products of the factory. If we are not mistaken, this is the first time in the Colony that the window of a leading retail warehouse has been decorated exclusively with an assortment of Colonial woollen manufactures, and the exhibition is certainly one that does infinite credit to the way in which this important branch of Colonial industry is being developed.—[Advt.J "22 Gentlemen's Ready-Made Colonial Clothing.—Hood and Sherman, corner of Tees and Itchen streets, Oamaru, have the largest stock of Gentlemen's Colonial Clothing in the north of Otago, and unsurpassed for cheapness and durability. Working men and others will find this a safe and reliable establishment to make their purchases. Every article of genuine quality, and their stock is free of all goods of a doubtful or jobbish character. One price asked.— [Advt.] Ocr New Zealand livDitstries.—Messrs. Hallenstein Bros., manufacturers and wholesale warehousemen, of the Sew Zealand Clothing Factory, following the example of s- rr.e of the large manufacturers at Home, av l tiMiT! especially with a view of preventL'', nn: importation of English clothing, are ° r "' extensive retail establishments in - '•••■••«• i;~putres of population. For this pui- M --rtiey have lately fitted up commo-Ci-.ii premises in Messrs. Shrimski and ' : buildings, Thames-street, where the