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Southland Times, Issue 14816, 18 December 1900, Page 3

Public Not if eg CHRISTMAS 1900. CHRISTMAS COMES BUT ONCE A SELF-EVIDENT. -Tbe most precious posYEAR.— Its coming is nf the slow .and session time brings and leaves us is kind sure order. It has come 30 times to friends. Without the help of the friends Thomson and Beattie (generally with a of twenty and thirty years ago the Exsmile). 30 New Years have racketed hibition could never have been huilt; past them, have become old years, and without the help of the families of the have dealt kindly with them "in passing. friends of twenty ami thirty years ago Every Merry Christmas and Happy New tin- Exhibition cotdd not exist now. Year of all tho thirty has found them Their kindness erected the structure more anxious to learn how to best do the and filled it with the goods we point to best commercial thing than even the first with some pride aa one evidence amongst frantic Christmas and wild Wintoinan many of general prosperity and proNew Year did. (Winton witnessed and gross; thoir kindness maintains the staff applauded tbe trial steps of the Exhi- of workers whose nimble fingers turn bitioners on the rugged roads of com- out the Exhibition Suits, Dresses, ami merce, anil if the honest truth must be Millinery, as well as those attentive told, how to extract fun from the festi- young ladies and gentlemen who ai-u so vate was then everybody's only pro- anxious to sell them goods, blem). But to sink fun and strive after perfection everywhere is what all should A HOPE.— That thirty years after this tho do ; to fail and fall short is what every Exhibition may still exist as a go-ahead human being must do : to get up and drapery establishment and that its then try again is what every properly con- incumbents may be still running it on structed person ought to do. Winton has the old lines. The lines which those done this, so has the Exhibition. who consider business is business and GOOD RESOLUTIONS- -It is the correct conscience a thing for Sundays think thing to make good resolutions at foasilisetl but in which the faith of a Christmas an.l New Year time. Thorn- minority is farm as being lines of solid son and Beattie resolve on the same old and enduring growth, lines, to avoid shoddy and warehouse A STAND i N o INVITATION. -All old sweepings ; sell honest goods at honest , . , , , , . prices and where goods are known to fnenfls ma J' (le P en(l llm a warni wel " be defective in any way to tell the come will always be accorded them and Imver all about them ami make the tlwLt the most careful consideration prices and the defects balance each will be given to their wants. A lively other; to keep moving, and to pray ° , . regularly to be delivered from fossilisa- sense ni gratitude points out this tion. ' duty too. THE EXHIBITION SPECIAL VALUE DURING THE HOLIDAYS. Boys' Norfolk Suits ... 10s Gd i Men's Straw Ilats... ... Is 0d Sac Knicker Suits ... 18s Gd I Men's Frame Hatg... ■•• 3s lid Men's Sao Suits 2.3s Gd ! Men's Hard Hats 5s Od to en's Tweed Trousers ... 6s 6d Washing cind Silk Ties ... Gd Fox's Serge Suits ... 35s Od Men's Cashmere Sox ...- lOd N.l CLOTHING FACTORY, Corner Dee and Esk streetsIthe great show. To TOWN and COUNTRY FRIENDS, during the next few days we shall show some SPECIAL VALUE LINES making it well worth your while to pay our Establishment a visit. WE HAVE JUST MADE A LAKOK PURCHASE OF WHITE LACE CURTAINS Beautiful designs at the following prices :— 2s lid, 3s 6d, 38 lid, up to 37s 6d ALSO A LINE OF 28 lid, 3s lid CURTAIN POLES 2s lid, 3s lid 1 We have just opened a SPECIAL PURCHASE of PRINT WABDING COSTUMES, 12a 9d HOLLAND WASHING COSTUMES, 21a WHITK PIQUE COSTUMES, 25* 6d WHITE MUSLIN CO3TUM&S, 25j 6d TWEED TAILOR-MADE COSTUMfa'd, 25-j 9d The above are all ready u.&de at* prices very little more than for tbe material only Ladies' and Children's S^ ail or Hats The People's Favourite Flat. We can supply them by tho hundred in the very Ute<t shapes, at ptices to suit all. As moat of the SUNSHINE is yet to come, wo have much pleasure in drawing attention to oar largo stock of SUNSHADES recently bought by our Mr Hayne3 in London, which for va'ue arc unsurpassed. A visit of inspection invited. DIRECT IMPORTERS, TAY fl ■•• It 1C RT, TNVRUO ARG I L L GRAND DISPLAY OF NOVELTIES AND UP-TO-DATE GOODS AT THE ECONOMIC, DEE STREET. Novelties in Hats, Ties, Shirts, ic. Novelties [in Caps, Braces, Umbrellas, Latest up-to-date patterns in Gents', Youths' and Boys' Clothing. High class Goods at Lowe&t Cash Prices R. GRAY, Manager aud Proprietor. CHRISTMAS FRUIT. * f^& > A PPLICATIONS, addressed to tho Minister of \I7E »ro making epeoial cfforti to secure full and jOL Industries and Gonaneroe, Wellington, will be » V compute aiooks of delicacies for tho Christ- received up to Ihe 20; h Deoeniber, inst. lor tbe po:imaa and New Year Reasons, and hope to reoeive your tion ol Secretary to the New Zealand Industries and ordere for delivery as desired. We expect to have Commerce Department Age, qualifications and per to-d»y'» Melbourne steuner :— A general experience ot applicants to be stated in their „ t t„. , „,,„., ™ , apflication. Salary £W0 per annum. Prime Hobart Cherries, Best Victorian Cherries „ « . and Planiß, Californian Apnleo, Pipe Ban A ,, yO J tc l ei [' J - (}> WARD. anas, Italian Or&Dges and Lemons, Pine Auckland, 7th December, 1000. Apples, Tomatoes and Apricots, with — _..-••_. .. • __._ a (Jboicc Assornmenb of Confectionery, Nute, Figs, Dates, etc, oto. jTTvJL FRESH GREEN PEAS, ■lib is; Prime Canterbury TlrflKj^S. ' New Potatoes, Olb Is. cucumbers, our own GKOWiNc., Steamer to South Africa ALWAYS ON HAND. „„,„, „ . _, O uOULD gullloient, l&ducemant offer the Company T T TWNTTT? AND SONS *^ wi " place a ateatuer ou the berth to loarf at J. LittiNmU AXXL> RSUINO, Lyttelton, Timaru, Oaninru, and Bluff about middle SEED MERCHANTS AND NURSERYMEN, Of January 31 Dee street, Inveroar^il), and at Waikiwi. Rates Of Freight — — — OATS 6Oa per ton of 22401 b. RI VER TO N ANNUAL DBAN BUa P« «>n of zwolb. WIIKAT 409 per ton of 22401 b. REGATTA- GENERAL CARGO &ua per too weight or — measurement. Boxing Day, December 26, 190& immediate application for epaoo neceesary. FOUR OARED OUTRIGGED RACK (open), £20. VBMX STKAM SHIP COMPANY OK N.Z. LTD. N.Z.A.B.A. Rules. ._ WHALEBOAT RACK, £8. Vl/ ,,, n „„.. . ..,_ ,„„_„„,,, , n MAIDKN PAIRS, DINGY RACES, BAILINO RACE VIOLIN, VIOLA AND VIOLONOEUO. and other Aqualio Events. «-»T,,»n.,-,«,w,>», •» T, — . .... 13ROFE3SIONAL gentleman from Melbourne Ihe Steam Launch will run Excursions during the day ■*■ will.recei'.e pupils for above after Christmas B ' vacation. Card* of terms and full partfculMS at EXCURSION FARES. Lilliurap nod Go's Muci'j Warehouse, Yes street. For full particulars §cc posters. QT GEORGE JAM— Onos noed, always use. AJ T 8 MITCHKLL, Hon. Seoretary O Grocers. V