Page 4 Advertisements Column 3

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 882, 2 December 1870, Page 4

Celebrated Premium JHE GROVER & BAKER ELASTIC AND XOdP-STTTCH SEWING MACHINES Arc so well known and so universally used, that any description of their advantages is superfluous. They hem any width, cord, quilt, braid, fell, GATHER, TUCK, BIND, and EMBROIDER, and are considered by competent judges to be the best Sewing Machines yet known. NEAL & CLOSE, .Agents foii Kapieb. The following are a few of the many testimonials the Proprietors are constantly receiving, furnishing a convincing proof of the superiority of their Machines ; From " The Ararat Advertiser." There are few modern inventions of greater practical utility, or which cause so large a saving of time and labor, as the Sewing Machine. The benefit which the steam engine has secured to manual labor on a large scale, the Sewing Machine has effected (only to one class of work, it is true) on a large scale also. What it has achieved for women whose livelihood is earned by the needle, such as sempstresses, there needs no dissertation to prove. These machines, however, have been of equal service in pdvate families, saving not onlj hours but days of wearying and monotonous Work. Of Sewing Machines there are several varieties, differing slightly in their const ruction, but all effecting, more or less, the object for which they are designed, that of saving labor. So far as we have been able to learn, the machines patented by Grrover and .Baker appear io be the simplest, most economical, and most efficient; and since Mr Chad wick has been appointed agent here a large number of then* 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 most useful, and we generally find that our lady friends declare in favour of that machine to wluch they have become accustomed, all agreeing, nevertheless, that the invention to them has indeed proved a boon. From "The Pleasant Creek Chronicle." The efficacy and general excellence of Grover and taker's Elastic-Stitch Family Sewing Machines have been signally tested by a purchaser connected with the olfice of this joui-nui. In every respect it has answered "the account given in the advertisement of its capabilities—the hemming, stitching, and felling being uncommonly good. For embroidery a better machine could not befound ; and in that respect it may take precedence of all other machines very easily. Altogether the Grrover and Baker Sewing Machine is an indispensable aid in the domestic economy of any house-hold, and who purchase it will not be disappointed. THE WAR IN EUROPE. On Sale at the Office of this Paper ; THE following MAPS, illustrative of the present War — I. Letts'* War Map of Central Europe, including France, Prussia, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, &c.; also, portions of Austria, Turkey, Italy, Russia, Denmark, and the British Isles. With packet of colored gummed dots,to indicate ihe positions of the contending armies. Price ls6d. Letts's Large Scale Map of the Seat Of War with indicating dots. A few copies still on hand. Reduced to one shilling. BOARD AND LODGING. | RS. MORTON begs to intimate L that »he has opened a BOARDING HOUSE on the premises in Hastings street, late in the occupation of Mr. A. C. Haymes, Watchmaker. Families accommodated, 42