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Dunstan Times, Issue 471, 28 April 1871, Page 4

THE GROVER & BAKER ELASTIC AND LOCK-STITCH SEWING MACHINES I RE so well known and so nniveri\ sally used, that any description of their advantages is superfluous. They hem and width, cord, quilt, BRAID, FELL, GATHER, TUCK, BIND, AND embroider, and are considered by competent judges to be the best Sewing 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 “Express “ Having had an opportunity for several months past of closely inspecting the workibg of a Grover and Baker’s Sewing Machine, we have much pleasure in testifying that it is adapted for every kind of work set forth in the prospectus. It combines the charms of plain stitching with the attractions of embroidery, inwhieh of course the femalemind espeeialy delights. Although the Grover and Baker’s machine is exceedingly useful for plain sewing, it is an embroiderer that it takes its highest rank among its competitors, none of whom that we know of having attained such excellence. The machines are, in fact, in every way invaluable to households, and when the immense saving of labor compared with hand-sewing is taken into consideration, it is yfey are not more generally nfcd.” ) 4r, > Adelaidestreet, - Gentlemen,—Glaring on* of jvupr No Au Cabinet Sewing Machiaefr :in use four years, I have much being able to speak of its excellence. An addition to domestic work, we use it for the various materials in npbelstery, silk, bed-ticking, drugget, and furniture leather, and find it all that can he desired. It has never been out of order nor given any trouble in working from the first week, and I believe it to be the best machine extant. I am, gentlemen, yours, &c., D. M. Crowley, upholsterer. MATIIESON, BROTHERS, Sole Agents for Dunedin, Minton House, Princes-atreet. Wholesale A gents, NEWELL & Co. Melbourne. The tale that relate, This lesson seems to carry— Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry. Oowper. Even in the healthy climate of Australia there are many men—"Whose legs, like loadeu branches, bow to the earth, ■ Willing to leave their burden. Shakespeare. For now, as in the time of La Bruyen “ many men expend the early part of the lives'in cohtribntingyto render the latti part miseraheta” realising Spe ser’a discript’ As p aid as his look His e as a rake, And skin ike a dried rod ere In all count especially in nev settled reg , where a disparity of ons sexes exists, There is an order Of mortals on the earth, who do become Old in their youth, and die ere middle age Byron. While it is a well established fact that Anguish of mind has driven thousands to suicide. —Colton. Recently published, in 16mo, cloth hoards, price 4s. 6d. (by post, 55.), or handsomely bound in calf, 125., WEAKNESS In its relation to Married Life. P.Y DR. L. L. SMITH, For eighteen years the leading Consulting Medical Man in Melbourne in all Special Diseases, and in all Complaints incidental to Hot Climates. In this work will ho found an answer to the question which heads this advertisement. In the Australian Colonies, more than in the Mother Country, is continually heard the complaint that young men will not marry, and their conduct in abstaining from marriage, in certain cases, is highly commendable, for—“lt is less a breach of Wedlock to part than still to foil and pro f aue that Mystery of Joy and Union with a polluting Sadness and Perpetual Distemper. ” —M ilton. Yet it cannot he disputed that the highest degree of earthly happiness is that yielded by the permanent enjoyment of the married state, for—- “ Without our hopes, without our fears. Without the Home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial Beautv won, Oh ! what were Man?—a World without a Sun. —Campbell. It is true that many marriages prove unhappy from there being no children and other causes ; but it is equally true that the cause of unhappiness is generally removable ; for of nearly every woman it may be saidi “ I" any honed suit she’s framed as fruitful As the free elements.”—Shakespeare. DR. L. L. SMITH, 192 to 194, Bourse-street East. Melbourne. Consultation Pee (by lottor), £l. “Life is not to live, but to be well.” Martial. > Holloway’s Ointment and ! Pills.—Mercurianl salves, and all those compounds concocted of minoeal agents, are highly dangerous applications. This Ointment, composed entirely of vegetable extracts, is a harmless as well as an efficient remedy in all cases of eruptions, sores, boils, wound and contusions, and will cure any sore or nice’ however malignant or long standing.