THE DAILY EXAMINER, CHARLOTTETOWN, MAY 10, 1897

TREMENDOUS - - - BANKRUPT PURCHASE

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SPOT CASH TRARSACTION.

$49 486-Warlh Drv Coois

W, A. Weeks & Co bought from Assignees of Estate of

J. B, Gass & Co, Amherst, N, 8, at about half

cost price

Twelve Thousand Four Hundred and Eighty-six Dollars worth of Bankrupt Dry Goods, comprising a general and high class stock of dry Goods, Black and Colored Silks, Cloths, Hosiery, Curtains, Window Shados, Carpets, Ladies’ and Gents’ Underwear, Collars, Shirts and Neckties, Braces, Waterproofs, Ladies’ and Gents’ Kid and Fabrick Gloves, Staple Goods, Hats and Caps, Sunshades, ete; ete, etc. Bought at close on 50c on the dollar, paid for with Spot Cash, and must be sold low.

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NOW ON SALE AT

WEEKS’

£958.00 dollars worth Bankrupt Silks, Black

and Colored.

Black Dress Peau de Soig $1.30 for 95c, $1.80 quality for $1.25. $250 quality for $1.70 per yard.

BLACK DRESS BENGALINE SILK, $1.30 quality for 90c. $2.10 heavy for $1.45, $1.65 for 1.18.

BLACK SATINS at 49c, 75e and 89c, Gase & Co., price 75c, $1.10 and $1.45.

RLACK SURAHS at 49c, 65c, and 70c, weguiar 68c to 1.25 per yard, and Surahs Chinas fancy pungee blouse trimming _ gilke, ete., ete.,

Plain and Faney Silk Velvets and

Velveteens.

BANKRUPT.

! ss Press Goods.

$1,165.60.—Eleven hundred and sixty- five dollars worth of plain and fancy dress good*, Black and colored Cashmeres, Serges—marked at about 334 to 50 per cent discount.

BANKRUPT.

Ladies, Cents and Children’s Fabrice & Kid Gloves. |

‘French Kid Buttoned and Black and Colored. Best 7 book $1.25 quality for 95¢ Best5 * 12 66 Ofer 766 Mixed Lot, 60c to $1.00 for 50¢ Black and Colored Silk and Lisle and Eveuing Gloves at all prices, Gents Kid Gloves $1.00 to $1.25 for 80¢

BANKRUPT.

Silk, Lisle, Cashmere

- Cotton Hosiery.

Ladies Fine|Black Silk Spun Hose, $1.35 quality for 90c, $1.25 for 85¢, $2.25 Yor $1.65.

Black Lisie Thread, 45¢'for S8c. ‘Ladies Cashmere Hose, plain ribbed aad fancy; Gase-& Co’s price 46c to 65¢ Per pair, our Bankrupt price 29¢ to 48¢c.

Cotton Hose at all price.

4 Children’s Hose at ail prices,

BANKRUPT. ; Real Black Silk and Black Spanish *. Elegant Quality. Finest quality er imported to Charlottetown.

_LOUTACHE, MALTESE.—$3 60 for $1.95 per vard. $1.95 for $1.15 p«r vard,

Lacing—

$1.50 for 95e. In narrow widths~ $1.10 7 T G5e; 85e for 68c.. ete., ete.

IMMENSE

Dalkrigt Si

NOW ON SALE AT

WEEKS’

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Bankrapt House Furnishings

638—Three Dress’ Shades — 3x6 Complete with Spring Rollers.

300 WINDOW SHADES at i906. 18@ do at - 35e, 650 (aseorted) 65c. for - 45c. 108 pretty Dado, 72 for - 49c.

BANKRUPT

Lace & Silk Curtains

ECRU AND WAITE

About 200 pairs, Gass & Co., price 55c. up up to $1350. Marked Bankrupt, price from 29c. per pair to $8.75, or about 40 p. c. off regular price.

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Bankrupt - - Curtains

48} yards best Brussels, $1.35 for 85c.

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IMMENSE BANKRUPT STOGK

NOW ON SALE AT

WEEKS’

Gentlemen's Bankrupt Col- umn, Gents’ Summer Underwear.

Coiton Balbrigan and Natural Wool, About 50 doz Linders and Drawers in al] sizes from 24c to 95c. Gass & Co’s former price 35c to $1.35.

‘BANKRUPT.

Bicycle Sweaters,

MEN’S AND BOYS’, FINE QUALITY Gass & Co’s price $1.05 to $3.20 Weeks & Co’s Bankrupt Price 68¢ to $2.15.

- BANKRUPT

‘Braces, Collars, Ties

| LINEN COLLARS.—3 and 4 ply linen

| go d shapes, all sizes at Se, 9c. lle, aud } 15c, sold by Gass & Co. at from 12¢ to ) 20c.

|" CUFFS.—18c, 19¢, 22c, regu'ar 25¢ to . 38c, plain and link.

14 do Bordering to match, $1.30 80c. ; Pen Aur ane ents

43% do Secoud QualitygBrussels,......... 6 NECKTIES-—A bout 100 doz. at about Oe ca seal vae$1.52 for £0c.; 3 ‘049 per cent. discount.

72} do Tapestry, 75c. for 9e-

4 3 rolls of Hemp Stair Carpet.

56 yards Cocoa Matting, 75c. for 45c. Suitable tor Church or Hall, and odds and ends of Carpets.

Mat Fringe, 14c. for 8c., and 24c. for 16c.

per yard; Curtain Tassels, Mantle Drapery, etc., etc.

Bankrupt Corsets,

Tremendous Stock, 5 Large Cases

Standard and Best Makes.

Gass & Co, price 35c., Bankrupt 19¢. do do 55c. do 39e. | do do ‘65c. do 45¢. | do do 95e. do 69e.

TADIES' & CHILDREN'S Bankrupt Underwear.

ABOUT $400 WORTH.

White Skirts, Night Gowns; Chemises, Drawers, Corset Covers, etc., etc. Plain and Trimmed with Vest, and embroidery.

Ladies’ Bankrupt Wrappers

About 60 Ladies’ Print Cotton Wrappers from $1.10 to $3.25 Bankrupt pric: 75c. to $2.30.

BANKRUPT

Black Lack and Fancy Colored Flouncings

Gase & Co., price 90c. to $4.20 per yard.

Bavkrupt Clearing Price 65c. to $2.25.

Lace

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‘TWEED AND CLOTH

| 3 Cases in Factory, Canadian and Scotch Tweed>, Black Worsteds, etc. marked atabont 40 p. c. below selling price.

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BANKRUPT ‘Ladies - Waterprools. | Nearly 100—All Good Steck.

$3.60 for $2.45 ; $5.00 for $3.25. $3.00 for $1.95; $2.60 for $1.75.

And higher yri:ed goods at from 25 to 50 p.c. off Casa & Co’s. price.

BANKRUPT Goods in Mantle Room.

Last Year’e Styles. The price to clear no object.

BANKRUPT. Kmbroideries and Insertions

648 yards Embroidery at 24c. Gass & Co’s. price 5c.

963 yards do., 7 for 44c.

1623 yards Gass & Co. lle. quality ‘for 7}c. Odd pieces up to 33s. for 18¢. ' All over Embroideries, Tuckings; etc.

And about $2.000 worth of Bankrupt Staples, and a big lot of other goods generally found in a first-class stock.

W. A. WHRHEKS & CO.

WHOLESALE TND RETAIL

[LOCAL AND OTHER ITEMS

ARTILLERY.—N0o2Co,G. A, the orderiy roons= tu-night at 8 o’clock.

( Dramonp Jusines fa~-The parish overs of Kinkora have decided upon holding a tea party in aid of the new church fund on Monday, 5th July next. Train arrange- ments over the P. E. I. R., and other particulars will appear later in.

New Pacxine Hovse.—The tender of H. & 8. Lowe has been accepted for the new pork packing establishment to be erected at the eastern end of the city by the Messrs. Rattenbury. The work is to be completed by November. We have not heard the amount of their tender.

Received His Rewarp.—Mr. William Sharp Larkins, Alberton, has been ap- pointed Captain of the Dominion Dredge in the room of Captain Macdonald, who was dismissed for political purposes. Mr Larkins was the petitiover in the Hacket case. He bas been atthe Revere Hotel for some time past and went west this morning.

Pacts Race.—The two year old stake of the Maritime Province Colt Stakes having failed to fi!l has been declared off, and the promoter in response to a number of demands, has decided to substitute therefor a stake for pacers eligible to the 2.45 class, mile heats, 3 in 5. First pay- ment, $5, due June 1, when entries close; second payment, $10, July 15, when horses must be named; third and _ final payment, $5, Auguet 10. The stake is open to pacers bred or wholly owned in the Marintime Provinces previous to May 1, 1897, and will take place on the secouid day of tie colt stakes meeting, August 19 1897. ’

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PERSONAL.

Hon. J. W. Richards, Bidford, is register- ed at the Hote! Davies.

Hon. Peter Sinclair, Summerfield, is in the city. He is registered at the Queen Hotel.

Mr. David Watson, jr., the popular drug traveller, is among the latest arrivals at the Hotel Davies.

Mr. L. E. Prowse, M.L. A., left on Saterlay ov a bueiness trip West. He went yia Point Da Chene.

The many friends of Conductor Thom- son are pleased to see him out again afver ap attack of Ja grippe.

Mrs. John Inge, who has been spending the winter in Baltimore with Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Frost, returned to Charlottetown on Saturday evening. Mr. Ings met her in Morcton.

Mr. Talmage McMillan, who has re- cently received the degree of B. A., and also the gold medal in arts course a McGill College has arriaed home. He is # son of Mr. Hugh McMillan, New Haven.

At the Queen Hotel this forenoon: H. F. Coombs. St. John; Rovald Campbell, Suin- merside; Mrs. Honeywell, Hunter River. On, Saturday evening there were regis- tered: Neil McLeod, S’side; William C. Murdock, Murray River; E. C, Henderson, Truro; C. F. Gorham, Halifax.

Mr. J. Ly uis White, wh» wes here with the Crust of duciety Company a few years ago, is now advaice representative of the W. S.H.ikin: Company which opens in St. John ths night week. It is expected that Mr. Hir<ins’ Company will play in Charlottetown the first week in June. The company includes such favorites as Tom W.se, George Deyo, Charles K. French, Matcolm Bradley and Clifford Lee.

The latest arrivals at the Hotel Davies include: W. H. Rolfe, Portland; F. C. taitray, North Rustico. C. L. Baxter, Port- land; F. H. Cannon, Summerside; I. D. Scott, Montreal; Arthur McDonald, St. John; L. B. C. Calbeck, Boston; W. Green, Torontc; £..P. Romieel, Montreal; Donald Reid, do; W. J. Farrand Si. Jobn; A. C. McKee, foronte; Wm. Sneddon, do; C. W. Blenkhorp, Halitax; J. J. Hornsby, do; T. Belts, Londonderry; F. A. Churchill, North Ruatico; C. A. Blathier, Quebec; James Roberirav, Montreal; Thos. Doyle, Rustico.

Mr. O. A. Horusby, the popular acting manager of the Merchants Bank of Halifax here for the last two years, who is about to be transferred to the head offise in Halifax, was waited wpon by @ number of his personal friends and admirers on Saturday evening and presented with a valuable gold watch as a token of their esteem and regard. Tue Examixer while extending congratulations can on'y wisa for Mr. Horn-by m bis future career the came success, esteem and regard wuich bis uriform courtesy, bis gool avi ities aud his s‘e ‘ig inte,'r ty won frow the citizens uf Charlottetown generally.

Mr. T. T. irving, of Vernon River Bridge, a third year student at McGill, and a brother of Mr. George Irving of P. W. College, has secured a lucrative position in the employ of the Quebec municipality, ia the building of an electric railway in that city. Mr. W. M. McPhail, Urwell, another McGill student, has a position on the Bo-- ton subwav. He beld the same position Jastsummer. Mr. Geo. R. MacLeod, of Uigg, who graduated this epring, has takev a position which he formerly held in the observatory of Montrea!l,—Guar.

The Rev. Richard Harrison, Rector of St. Matthiae, Toronto, died some days ago: He was for a rhort time in charge of St. Peters in this city, and ‘was a man of great piety. The Church Evangelist eaye: Mr. Harrieon was one of the leaders of the

had written the “British'Catholic Church” and other tracts, oa the subject. He was the second to introduce a surpiiced choir in Toronto. While firm in the assertion of his opinion, he was noted for his great liberality and toleration of mind and was [ averse to publicity or controversy. Mr.

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Spring Cashmere Fiosiery. — Special pane

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V: »f:°3)) osies Black Par e Wool Cashmere Hose, full fashioned and seamless. with double heels and toes

Comfortable to wear. Fit like a Glove.

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$13.00 $15.00 SEEGE. SERGE,

The above prices are our leaders fora nobby suit, you cannot buy the same quality in the city less than $15.00, $17.00 and $19.00. We know tailors who sell the same class of goods at the latter prices.

Cut and Made by high class cutters and workmen,

McKay Woolen Co..,

High Grade Tailors.

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CUNN & COMPANY, LIMITED

Werchants, Millers & Commission Brokers, Halifax, W. $., and London and Liverpool, Eng.

PROVISIONAL DIRECTORS

Evan Tuompson, Elmsdale, Merchant, - - - . . Beprorp R. BENT, Amhert, Merchant, Vice-Pre ¢, dent Joun Bricuty, Rockinghem, Merchant, - - : . ° Secretary- Treasurer EUGENE SULLIVAN, Halifax, (late Manager A. Gun & Co ,), -- - Manager

H. W C. Boax, LL. B. Barrister, Halifax.

SOLICITORS.—VeEssrs. Ross, MELLISH & Matuexs, Halifax. AUDITOR.—W. Simms LEE, Halifax.

BANKERS.—HALIFAX BANKING COMPANY, Halifax and Branches. OFFICES: —At Mills, 19 to 23 Campbell Road, Halifax N.S.

President

Present Capital of the Company, - $70,000.00

Divided into 3.509 Shares of $10.00 Each. 350 Bonds of $100.00 Each

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The bonds bearing interest at 7 per cent. are redeemable ten years front date of issue, andl are to be seeuted by a first morigage of all the property, assets, and franchises of the Comp any to be made to the Eastern Trust Company of Halifax, and by a sinking “fund-which will provide for repayment of the bonds at maturity.

Gunn & Co., Liwrrep, has been incorporated by special Act of the Legislature cf Nove Scotia. Match Ist, 1897, and under the provisions of its charter it is empowered .to, purchase all the Mills, Warehouses Properties, Good Wills of A. GuNN & Co,, Campbell Road, Ilali

| fax, N. S.and Bricnty & PAGE, Unper Water Street, Halifax, N. S., and these properties

have been taken over by the Company with a view of further developing same. A few of the shares or bonds are still unalloted and the Directors beg te drew the atten-

Harriton was a man of great nobility and | sweetness of character, and was dearly : loved by his parishioners, for whem he

ticn of merchants and others interested in P. E. I. produce the advantage of being connected with this company. Each share ur bond holder will be advised weekly the state of the Eur opean and Local Markets. Hay is a special feature in the business of the company,and ‘their Col1 Storage arrangements both on this and the ether side of the water will enable them to ha idle all perishable produce more profitably than hitherto. The Secretary of the company ‘s now staying at the Davies House, Charlottctown, and is prepared to give any informafion vei ectiong the business.

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