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Dunstan Times, Issue 450, 2 December 1870, Page 4

THE SROVER & BAKER ELASTIC! AND LOCK-STITCH SEWING - MACHINES A HE so well known and so univerL \ sally used, that any description of their advantages is superfluous. 1 lIEY lIKM AND WIDTH, CORD, QUILT, BRAID, FELL, GATHER, TUCK, BIND, AND embroider, and are considered by comp-tent, judges to be the best Sew itig Machines yet known. The following are a few of the many testimonials we are constantly receiving, furnishing a convincing proof of their superiority. From the “Ararat Advertiser.”—There are few modern inventions of greater practical utility, or which cause so large a saving of time indl.hor, as the Sewing Machine, The benefit which the steam engine lias secured to manual labor on a larges ca'e, the Sewing Machine has effected (only to one class of work, it is true) on a larges calo also. What it has achieved for women whose livelihood is earned by the needle, such as sempstresses, milliners, Ac., there needs no dissertation to prove. These machines, however, have been of equal service in private families, saving not only hours but days of wearying and monotonous work. Of Sewing Machines there are several varieties, differing slightly in their construction, but all affecting, more or less, the object for which they are designs l , that of saving labor, So far as we have been able to learn, the machines patented by Grover and Baker appear to he the simplest, most economical, and most efficient ; and since Mr Chadwick has been appointed agent here a large number of their machines : have been disposed of in this town and district. Still however, opinions differ as to which of the several varieties of Sewing Machines is really the useful, and we generally And that our lady friends declare in favor of that machine to which they have been accustomed, all agreeing, nevertheless, that the invention of them has indeed proved a boon Richmond, October 22, 180.°. 1 have much pleasure in forwarding a testimonial in favor of the Grover and Baker Sewing Machine, which I have had in use for the last four years. It is a most useful machine for a family, and very easily learnt. Josephine pannifex. MATHESON, Brothers. Sole Agents for Dunedin, Minton House, Princes-street. 'Wholesale Agents, NEW RLE k Co. Melbourne. NOT CONNECTED WITH THE MONOPOLY IN TOWN. \ | ESSPS BRNNET & WEDDER- ' I SPOON have now on hand the undermentioed Doors and Sashes, at reduced town prices. DOOBS. Every description of Doors and Sashes made to order, at the above scale ; also Moulding at reduced prices. Contractors liberally dealt with. RATTR \ Y STREET DUNEDIN. Mr. HENRY J. COPE, LEGAL, MINING, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, Collector, Accountant, Valuator, and Arbitrator. Rees-st.,Queenstown, & atArrowtown CASES conducted in the Resident Magistrate’s and Warden’s Courts. MR. COPE has made arrangements with Mr. John Bathgate,Solicitor, Dunedin, for the transaction of any legal business, conveyancing, &c. Cases stated and counsels opinion procured. Crown grants uplifted Goods stored and sold on commission. Communications by letter promptly attended to. CROMWELL AUCTION MART. W. J. BARRY, AUCTIONEER & CATTLE SALESMAN, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, CROMWELL. WJ. BARRY begs respectfully to . announce to the public that he is prepared to conduct sales in any part of the province, and would also draw attention to his Auction Mart & Store, Capable of storing Five Hundred Tons of Goods. N.B. Sales of Drapery, Jewellery, and General Merchandise. EVERY EVENING.