BUSINESS NOTES.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12184, 27 March 1909, Page 8

BUSINESS NOTES.

We have been informed that Mr G. N. Phillips, agent, has sold thY Mateateonga Estate, Aramoho, tof 3746 acres to Mr J. Dobbin (recenfly from England) at £9 per acre.

GREAT SALE OF CRICHTON AND .NEWMAN'S. SALVAGE FOOTWEAR

OPENS TPHIS MORNING AT NINE

O'CLOCK

This morning at 9 o'clock prompt the above sale of hi^h grade footwear will commence at the Cosmopolitan Club old premises in Market Square, " and the public may rest assured that real solid bargains wi'l be available. The reputation of the firm for stocking highgrade footwear is second to none in the Jiominion. the recent fire in premises adjoining tbjeir bulk store a . large quantity of stock was damaged ""by water, and smoke. So slightly in most cases as to be hardly noticeable, but true to th.eir traditions of stocking nothing but the best, the .firm have resolved to hold a salvage sale at priocs that really make the, goeds comparatively gifts. Every class of footwoaiiis incliided, and the old saying re .the! "early bird" applies a thousandfold in .this case. We have been requested to ask th# public to assist the management in. mainta,ining order. Entrance will only ba permitted by the side door, •and having completed their purchasfes ;clients are requested to make their eXit i b^ tho Ifront way. A special <>f ; assistants have been engaged and every effort will be made to attend to customers promptly.

■■;"• LOCAL INDUSTRY. :

• The up-to-date factory for ;the;_ manufacture .of wire-:woven mattresses^ door mats, and all kinds- of kapoc arid flax bedding has been established at 5, Wicksteed Place, Wanganui, by Mr B. Hart, who has had some 15 years' practical experience with Messrs Woolf, Hart, and .C 0,,, Auckland. Having such a sound knowledge of the manufacturing of the aforementioned aTticles, Mr Hart should have> liishands full in supplying the numerous, order, whiph, we feel sure, he will receive. The machinery which is installed is;; the mqst up-to : date of its kind in; the enabling him to turn out his • goods well .and promptly*. This new local industry should prove a booi\ to large and small buyers, as being able to obtain this class of goods, locally, they will jof course save a considerable amount in freights, etc.

SPECIAL CHEAP SALE OF MANUFACTURERS' SAMPLES.

The Sydney Cash announce a great purchase of English samples direct from Nottingham, consisting of ladies' cotton, wool, and merino vests, spencers, combinations, .silk blouses , black dress skirts,, lace and embroidered hose, gloves* blouse delaine lengths, children's silk embroidered cream pelisses and coats, hats, hoodsi arid bonnets, wool polkas, bibs, arid singlets. Special mention of woven spencers at Is each, the ■English prices alone being Is 6d to 3s 6d—a Tare bargain. Sale for ten days .only. Come in and see these lively English samples at unheard of prices. No two alike.