NOTICE! OP REMOVAL. Wo JJ ARR 13. IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT. THE above BUSINESS is THIS DAY (Saturday, January 21st) REMOVED to ANDERSON’S NEW BUILDINGS, Opposite the " Press ” Office, and is opened with an immense variety of Boots and Shoes of all descriptions at reduced prices. IMPERIAL BOOT DEPOT, Anderson’s Buildings, Cashel street W. 908 KaDCLIFPH & J OUGHIN ABE NOW SHOWING All the LATEST NOVELTIES For the Season, comprising— Millinery, trimmed and untrimmed Costumes Dress Materials Pompadour Prints Satteens Plain and Fancy Galateaa Cambrics Sunshades Mantles Fichus Gloves, Hosiery, Soarfa Cord and Tassels, all colors. BADCLIFFE & JOUGHIN, BRADFORD SOUSE, VICTORIA STREET MUST BE TRUE. -EVERYBODY says STRANAGHAN’3 ILi TEAS are the best in the world. Prices —la 6d, Is Sd, Is lOd, 2s, 2a 4d, and 2a 6d per lb. Everybody says STRANAGHAN’S Prices for General Groceries are lower '■ban any other house in the city. And what everybody says, Ac., &o. D. STRANaGHAN, Coffee Manufacturer and Importer, Victoria street. VICTORIA BOOT DEPOT. BL CORR IC K Desires to Intimate that he has Purchased a Consignment of SUMMER GOODS At a Price that will enable him to Sell at Considerably LOWER PRICES THAN EVER. Note the following : Ladles’ Prunella Boots, sewn, 6s, 7s 6d, 9s, and 10s 6d per pair Ladles’ Kid Elastic Sides, from 6s 6d, 7a, to 10a Patent Leather Boots, at 4a 6d, 10s to 13s Do, 5a 6d Also an immense quantity of Ladies’ Venetian Slippers at 2a 6d per pair Other lines equally cheap The above consignment mnst be sold to make room for Incoming goods. H. CORKICK, VICTORIA BOOT DEPOT VICTORIA STREET. 82
THE NEW DAVIS Vertical Feed SEWING MACHINE PRO VHD itself superior to all other Machines In the Melbourne Exhibition, Read the following : COPY OF REPORT. Melbourne International Exhibition, 11th April, 1881. To J. Ooemo Newbery, Esq., Superintendent of Juries and Awards. Sir, —According to your instructions we have made a practical test and thorough examination of the following Sewing Machines, viz., the Wheeler and Wilson, Jones and Co, Wertheim, and the Davis, and the results of our experiments are set forth in the tabulated statement attached. We find that the Wertheim and Jones all of the Singer typo and similar In construction, and should be classed in the same order. The Wheeler and Wilson differs In construction, but the results of onr experiments are similar to the former named. As regards the DAVIS, we cannot but sgree with the jury that it is very superior to any of the others, and went through every teat to our entire satisfaction. We therefore beg to recommend that the Machines be placed in the following order : FAMILY MACHINES. Ist, The Davis ; 3rd, Wheeler and Wilson, Jines and Co., Wertheim. HAND MACHINES. Ist. The Davis ; 2nd, Wertheim ; 3rd, Wheeler and Wilson, Jones and Co. (Signed) BOBARDT I „ , QUARRY j Experts. STATEMENT OF EXPERTS AT THE MELBOURNE EXHIBITION. DAVIS. Threads broken .. ... Q Needles broken ... ... 0 Stitching on Leather ... ... Good Long stitching through thick and thin Good Binding Good Ruffling Good Lace Frilling Good Number of parts composing machine 133 „ ~ hard steel ... 11 ~ ~ In motion ... 11 Speed 550 Speed in stitching ... ... ... 575 Height of arm 4in Gap or open space under arm ... 9in Shuttle movement Radial Lift of needle Ij; n Number of accessories 17 Besnlt of Go-aa-you-Please Contest for half an hour in Melbourne Exhibition before Experts :~- Pample of good work 22 Variation of upper tension 0 „ lower tension .” L6tb Don’t purchase a Sewing Machine until you have seen the DAVIS. Remember that the DAVIS was awarded the only First Prize at the Melbourne Exhibition for Hand and Treadle Sewing Machines ; also. First Prize at Sydney Exhibition. The Second Prize was awarded to the unproved Singer. Remember ! No matter In what part the colony, yon can obtain a Davis’ Sewing Machine on time payment of Five Shillings per week, H. 0. FISKH & CO., Corner Colombo street and Cathedral square, Agentr. 8800
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2473, 10 March 1882, Page 2
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