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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 652, 24 December 1880, Page 2

Keminiscenueb ob yyaiLijiui'OK.-lii the year 1845 a worthy oitizeii piodded his to With sqme difficulty %ongh fern and ti-treii to To Aro Flat batog in search qf the sup, veyor'B peg which had been driven in at the comer of what is now Cuba and Wxon streets. Upon this spot was erected a small house, in which a very successful drapery business was carried on by'two ladfes of remarkable talent and energy, Hr&Jiave long since retired from the scene to tsgland of their birth— v , J " Land'ot the mountain and tho flood, Land of brown heath and shaggy wood. In the year 1866 it passed into the hands of 'Mb Jamks Smith, the present proprietor, who gave fo the _wemjpes the,wpftmiate name of Tp Afo Bouse, and under whose, management, business (l hag,, steadily pro* with the rising fortunes of thtfoity. i until, at length lt-was-found.that MJkide- £ rable enlaigenftnt,.was necestaryJH the ". [result was, Te,Aro House, as T aßffient, lone'of the most "complete' arid mtensive j Drapery Establishments colony of I New Zealand. < The* jeneral Drapery ocou- ; pics a large space, being 4§ 'feet by 25 feet, f forall .Manchester goodß, % Fancy Dresses,-Bilks,gloves/' Hosiery, I Bibbops, laces, (feo. The Men's, Boy land « Youths' Clothing Department measures U I feet byJL4 feet, anAas attached* a ComM- t able and 'Household « furnishings have ( 4 elmUar "ipace J allottod to 4 thein., The Bhow4om'-for,the v sale of Mil- JT, linery, Mantles, 'Jaokets; Ooßtime9/40, , ;• is-J; a very spacious apaitment r -elegantly fitted/"'; up, andbeantifully lighted from the roof,( l f and measures 39 fceVby 22feet," 'TheitatfiJi