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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7988, 5 October 1887, Page 3

W.D.C. Have opened 146 packages, being our first shipment of SPRING NOVELTIEP, which will be sold at the WHOLESALE PRICE j FOR CdBH_ONI*W. PUirS made to measure, • which are cnt by one of tbe best cutters ever left Eng« land, and we are CHEAPER, and nave a better assortment of. Tweeds tban Any o'her firm in Pew Zealand. The public ate invi'ed to inspect without being pressed to purchase. THF WHOLESALE DRAPERY COMPANY, Dbvon-stbbet," *NEW PLyMOUTH, Tn the Press, and will be shortly published) PRIOK ONE SHILLING, THE SUNKEN ISLAND, A NOVELETTE, Written by A. Hood, author of " Oronoa," &c. rpHE plot of this Novelette is taken from £ a Maori Legend, and contains striking incidents in Native life going on ere the days of Captain Cook. The style of writing is quite r.ew, and entirely different from any preceding effort- at Msoii delineation ; replete from beginning to end with interest ; abounding with a remarkable diversity in incidents, depicting the daily proceedings of the Aborigines of New Zealand at a remote, bygone period. In short, a collection of topics which are eminently calculated <o stimulate all readers — bless them II — to provide themselveß Btraightway with a copy. BSir Copies may be obtained at the Tabanaki Herald Office, and from Mr. GILMOUB, Devon-street. PRICE— ONE SHILLING. * ■% ■Reserved for tbe New Zealand Clothing Factory's new ' <- advertisement. IMPORTANT CLEARANCE B&LEI OF JEWELLERY PLATE, qsr To make room for Goods ordered fiom London, ' 15 to 25 per cent discount off the plainly maiked and tsual prices 1 t#r Pee Circulars. FOR A SHORT TIME ONLY!! W. SKEATES. JEWELLBB, DEVON-bTHKET, N.P. 115-hb tc ENCOURAGEMENT OF LOCAL INDUSTRIES. rfHE following SPECIAL PRIZES are JL offered for competition at the dgiieu!rnl Society's text Autumn Show, with the object of inducing *he bush farmers to turn their attention to the wood product*, which, it is believed, can be profitably manufaci tured from timber tLat at present is destroyed in the process of clearing forest land. The following are the conditions : — Mr. JIENHY Wbston, proprietor of the Tabanaki Hkeald nnd The Budget, will give a prize of £5 5s for the best t ample of WOOD TAR produced from native timbers growing in the Counties of T«»rannk ; , Clifton, or Hawera, the quantities exnibited to consißt of not less than thirty gallons, in a cask of local manufacture, Each exhibit to be accompanied by a clear description of tbe process adopted in its manufacture, a^d estimate of cost of prodacliow. Five gallons of tbe prize exhibit to be available for i nalysis and trade tests. Mb, F. P. Cobkxeij will give a prize of £5 6s for the best sample cf rOTASH, produced from na'.ive timbers growing in the Counties of Taranaki, Clifton, or Hawera, <he quantity exhibited to consist of not lets than one hundredweight, put up in packages of local manufacture. Each exhii.it to bo accompanied by a clear description of the pToceuu adopted in ite mannfnctuie, and estimate cf coet of production, Twenty-eight pounds weight of the piize exhibit to be available for analyeiß and trade teits. • 971»,tQ