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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8635, 22 November 1889, Page 2

A stay-at-home man can have only a very vague idea of tho position of England as compared with foreign countries. Especially he can have little idea how much levelling up has to be done with the wages of most Continetal workers. If wo say that from a half to one-third of tho wages is the rate over vast regions of the Continent, we should not be far wrong. They are excessively low in some districts of bouthern Italy, as on the plains below Vesuvius, where five shillings a week for a man is not uncommon, and the agricultural laborer of Bohemia is not much • better off. The normal condition almost everywhere, is so far below ours that it constitutes a danger to us and a cause for tho migration of trades, which are always seeking tho easiest and most profitable lines. A traveller who during the last throe years has travelled over 30,000 miles of various European countries, declares that he has not onco seen wages equal to those at Nottingham. Messrs Dinglo & Corke have much pleasure in announcing to their customers and tho public generally that they have arranged with Mr C. E. Gledhill to rent his now building, adjoining their own, until the end of the year. The additional space tlniß secured will enable them to display their largo Btock of furniture and fancy ware to greater advantage than hitherto, and they would respectfully invite inspection. Tho stock is continually being replenished by shipments of new furniture, and nil the novelties in fancy ware, china, glassware, Japanese goods, &c. During December both shops will bo open every evening until ton o'clock, when the dialling and sixpenny tables will bo filled with fancy goods, a shipment of ten cases of whioh ia expected to arrive in a few days from England,— Advt.