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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 347, 4 June 1877, Page 3

It says something for the Mosgiel Woollen Factory when a window in one of the leading warehouses in the chief city in New Zealand can be decked out completely with its manufactures That such can be done in a way that can challenge the attention and command the admiration r-i customers has been demonstrated by Brown, Ewing, and Co., of Dunedin. They hare 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 picture of all that can contribute to individual comfort during the winter season has rarely or never been presented to the public gaz-\ The foreground is filled with tweeds suitable for male atfcire 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 swandowny and lustrous as silk —blankets, in fact, that are not to be surpassed either in purity of color or quality by anything even, mported from the old-esta-blished manufactories of England. Over the blankets and ascending to the ceiling are a fiae 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.] 22 Ocr New Zealand IxmrsTßrES.—Messrs. Halienstein Bros., manufacturers and wholesale warehousemen, of the New Zealand Clothing Factory, following the example of m in • of the large manufacturers at Home. ii i :i:;ire especially with a view of prevent- ::._: f .iu importation of English clothing, are :;•■:::";,' extensive retail establishments in :':;.!■ jre centres of population. For this . -:e they have lately fitted up commo- •■■■■■■•> premises in Messrs. Shrimski and ■' / buildings, Thames-street, where the .= i. •: nheir manufactures will be thrown open iLirect to the public of Oamaru. This branch, which will be opened on Saturday, April 7, will be under the immediate management of Mr. 11. C. Lindsay, and under the personal supervision of Mr. B. Halienstein, the head of the New Zealand firm. Messrs. Halienstein Bros., under the management of Mr. Anderson, started the New Zealand Clothing Factory about three years ago. They commenced on a comparatively small acale, but at present they employ between 3UO ami 400 people. They had to overcome many difficulties, and much prejudice, and especially the persistent opposition on the part of the larger houses, glutting this market with imported goods, and no doubt the retailers found it to their ad% T antage to push these in preference to local manufactures. The proprietors of the New Zealand Clothing Factory have therefore judiciously decided to introduce their manufactures direct to the hrge consuming population of New Zealand, ind in order to do so effectually, they have determined to sen\ a single garment at the wholesale price. The selling price is to be marked in plain figures on every article, from ffhieli no abatement will be made. The business is to be conducted strictly on the c;«h principle, and all goods must be paid for on delivery, but any article not found mitable may be exchanged, or the money As will be seen from the garnents exhibited, the public will now be able o choose from the largest stock of men's, Fouths', and boys' clothing, superior in style md quality, and at a proportionately 1 »wer irice to auything that can be imported. fat, irrespective of all these advantages, it sto the interest of everyone to support an udustry which employs New Zealand labor, id ia a direct benefit to the butcher, baker, inner, mechanic, shopkeeper, merchant, ad to everyone in the community.—[Advt.]