Aaesli niate of the nature and extent of the available: market may be arrived at from the fact that the value of such imports into New Zealand alone for the year ending December last amounted to £7000fr at which Otago alone imported £22,000 worth of pottery-. • warp. The Promoters have every confidence that they- ■srH: be enabled to supply the whole Colonial Market witfc. any article in Pottery ware, at a figure sufficiently lowr. to compete successfully with the home article, whjJc securing a large margin of profit to the Oonipasy, who have secured the services, as Mauager of 3ft- Chethani, for 30 years proprietor of one of the largest English Potteries, and practically acquainted with the various processes adopted in every branch of the trade. The services of the present Staff—of over SOr thoroughly experienced" hands^-brought fronivt&ft: Staffordshire Potteries direct, and now engaged open, the Works, have also been obtained. Ihe projectors have agreed with Mr "VT. JL White bn. take over the Freehold Property, consisting of Ttu-efc- Acres of Land surrounding the present centrally srJa ated Works (secured with a view to their future de velopment), and the large and substantial bufldinssi. with plant and stock, at a valuation estimated at, "oc about, £7000, including the General Goverrtnieat bsonas of £300. The amount of goodwill; estimated at £2004. Mr Wliite has resolved to invest in the Company inK paid-up shares to that amount, so confident ishe in the txma fides of the undertaking in the hands of a nubUii Company. The projectors have also secured from Mr^ White his right obtained from the General Govern ment to remove clay from the lands adjoining the lla» ---of raihvay between Tokomairiro and the Clutha, KhicU_ clay is allowed, by competent judges, to be equal-I*. any found in England for manufacturing purposes^ The Government are no-vr forming a siding to these; claypits.whicliareinexhaustible. The projected briaA, line to the Tokoinairiro «oal fields hts al o been sui>- ' veyed to pass in front of the premises, so that thei works will be in railway communication with the raoi material, with uulimitect and cheap coal supplies, a»r, with a port of Shipment; as also with the metropolis: and the larger townships of the Province likely J»>. form good markets for supplies. 