MAKARETU CASH
STORE.
i’ahiatua, 19th August, 1887
A few lines not generally kept in country stores, or at any rate not at our prices are subjoined :
Groceries.
Silver Dust Flour, 18s ; Potatoes, 10s per baj; of 1J cwt; Oatmeal, 4s; American Evaporated Fruit as Nectarines, I'lums, Pears; Lusk's Canned Peaches; Salt in stone jars; Pure and Mixed Coffee. Nelson Moute's Tea in half pounds, pounds, and 5 and 10 pound tins, at 2s lb.
Hardware.
Guns and Ammunition in very considerable variety. The Makaretu Watch, a stem-winding, hand-getting, enamel-dial, sunk - seconds Pound's worth—C OM E AND SEE IT. The Waterbury Watch, let a man have it if he will, 11s Gd. Turkey Stones and Slips; I .atop Fillers; Mixed l’aint ; Trowels ; short Weeding Forks. Table Kerosene Lamps, as Anucapnic, Sham Kilbcr, Duplex, Bracket. Axes, as Maine, Georgia, Mann's. Eureka. Booting Felt; Galvanised Iron, liedclytTe Brand, at 22s by the case.
Crockery.
Garden Flower-pots, Choice Glass Dishes, Painted Fern-pots, Expensive Tea-pots, Vast Butter Crocks, Stewpots.
Drapery.
Green and Red Baize, Heavy Worsted Fringe and Fancy Nails, with which you can convert a Kitchen into Boudoir. Trimmed Huts, Feather Ornaments, Fur Capes, Claret and other l'lstor Cloths, Chenille Flowers, Ostrich Feathers, lllack Straw Hats, Fancy and Felt do., Ulsters in variety. Boys' Wool Shirts, Infants’ Pelisses and Hats; Silk, Satin, and Velvet in black, navy, inarone, and cardinal ; Ladies' Handbags and Muffs; Wadding, Bonnet Wire; Men's Socks up to 8s 6d and worth it. Boys’ Knicker Hose, l>est in market, American Brown Duck riveted Pants, and Coats l these are direct from ' Frisco, a very special line, worth early inspection i. Men's Wool Gloves, White Comforters, Cashmere Mufflers. Children's Ulstkrs---Si-k«ial Link. Selling off at 2s and upwards. A few pieces of Dress Stuff at 6d a yard by the piece, about half-price.
Sundries. Chinese Fireworks ; Tobacco, as Juno, Venus, Victory, liuby, Navy, Black Swan ; Cigars, as Indian, Eagle, Queen's, Manilla, Swiss. Doors, Windows. Fresh Fruit, as Apples, Oranges, Cocoa-nuts, Bananas, Lemons. Smoked Fish, as Burracouta. Garden Seeds—Sutton's, immense range of Vegetable ami Flower; none like them in N.Z.; ask for printed list. Fruit Trees, named varieties, excellent, not like you get from a hawker, as Gooseberry Od, Currant Is, Apple 2s, also Filbert, Pear. Flowers, as Hose Is (>d, Lily, Fuchsia. How business is done at Credit Stores—Those who do pay have to pay for those who don't. How business is done at CaAh Stores—Every man on his own bottom.
TOWN SECTIONS FOR SAI.F.
Mr Horace Ttaker's remaining Seelions near Makarutu Store, anil most of the Sections across the Tirauuiea lvoad. Terms and maps mav be seen on application.
Delivery of Goods in town only by wheelbarrow express. Hours, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturdays open till 10 p.tn. No trade uu .'sundays. W. F. lIOWLETT.
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Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 124, 2 September 1887, Page 3
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464Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 124, 2 September 1887, Page 3
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