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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 43, 19 February 1874, Page 4

TW O MORE GOLD MEDALS / AND THREE SILVER MEDALS AWARDED TO THB U "P< LORENCE." JL the Highest Prizes for Sewing Machines . WERE GIVEN TO THE I " F L O R E N C E , " In 1P67, AT THE AMERICAN INSTITUTE, NEW YORK) the greatest honor attainable in the United States); Mechanics' institute, in Lowell, Massachusetts, in October; EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE, PARIS, in July; Manfcliester and Liverpool Agricultural Society'p Centenary Exhibition, in August; and at Coventry and Midland Manufacturing Industrial and Art Exhibition, in October. THE BEST FAMILY SEWING MACHINE in the world. It comprises all the good points and combines ail that is valuable in the whole of them, besides which it has many important advantages possessed bv no other machine; ; THE REVERSIBLE FEED enables the operator to sew either way; fasten to ends of seams without stopping or turning the work. . — — . . it Hks //the self - Adjusting TysyN. i IT MAEr^fflU^ yjfl^ Xiim sAvnm of/thread oVer machines /making tlie chain or embroidery ptitch will in onef year be more, than \ the cost ol the /machine. \ ' THE LOCK STITCH, : compared with the chain stitch, is less clumsy l-r-is less liable to be washed or ironed off, and ldoeß not, like the latter, form a network to regain dirt. THE EXACT AND POSITIVE MOTION of every part, with no uncertain springs or brush pads, renders it almost impossible for a Florence Machine to get out of order, and enables even an ordinary operator to use it . successfully. IT USES THE SAME SIZE THREAD , on both Bides, and both sides of the Beam are ' alike. THAT IT IS THE BEST, ; is evidenced by the fact that of the thousands sold in the United Kingdom during the past two years, none give dissatisfaction. All extras, fifteen articles and one. dozen , needles i FREE OF CHARGE. \ALF RE D OAK EY , SOLE AGENT FOR NEW ZEALAND \ Bridge-street. Four Doors from ! \ McGke's Hotel. FLORENCE MACHINEB SOLD ON MONTHLY PAYMENTS: 2769 JUST .PUBLISHED— PRICE, 1/- --' LUCAS'S ; SeLSONALMANIC : AND YEAE-BOOK FOR 18_7 4. A Small Sheet Almanac, suitable for Offices, is issued with the Book. . The very large and increasing circulation' this Almanac has obtained is a substantial proof of its value. No house should be with- j out one. CAN BE OBTAINED IN Bridge-street The Publishers J Trafalgar- street ... J. Hounsell „ 11. D, Jackson Waimea Road... ... W. Walker „ ... ... F, J. Hingston „ W. Patterson j The W00d... • J. Hefier ! -Haven Road G. Adam , The Port ... W. Akersten j „ B Franzen . , W. Rowell j Stoke A. W. Barnett Richmond ... ... T. R. Hodder & Co. . „ A ••• ••• E. Dartnall ; Hope ... ... ... F. J. Hingston ; Appleby ... ... J. P. Horn '- \ Waimea West J. Palmer- : ! „ ...' ... L. Dron Spring Grove ... ... J. Rose , , . „ ... W_ Patterson ! Wakefleld ... ... E. Hooper I „ ... ... ... W. Patterson „ W. Painton Foxhill ... P. K. Watty Moutere ... ... 11.. Benseman Ngatimoti.... G.Young Motueka S, Stone „ J. Myers „ S. Buchholz J. Wilkie Riwak'a S. Stone ; Takaka ... ... ... W.Page _ „ ... .., ... H.Abbott Waitapu ... ... ... J. Reilly Collingv.ood W. C. Kiley „ J. D. Brace Slateford J. G. Lash Central Buller J. Grove. Blenheim W. Macey Renwicktown T. O'Sullivan Gibsontown J. Gibson Picton ... A. T. Card „ ... . . ' ... ... C. Harling 1 Havelock Mills Brothers And the various Booksellers on the West Coast Goldflelds. its contents comprise- — The Calendar — Diary — Garden Calendar- j — Farming Operations — Statistics — Itinerary — Law Items — Lighthouse Dues — Rates of Pilotage — Mail Routes — Port Signals — Postal Information — Sailing Directions for the Middle Island — Stamp Duties — Tariff — , Telegraphic Charges — Tide' Hours and Ranges— Compass Variations— Useful Tables —Principal Events— Cattle Trespass Act — . Eclipses — Directory— Wharfage Regulations . — Weather — Business - Land Transfer Act— Trade Adrertisements-f---and a variety of useful information for all. \ J [Extract .from Letts, Sons, and Co.'s ' 'Monthly Circular, April, 1873.] - "The Nelson Almanac and Year Book for 1873$ Nelson, N.Z., R. Lucas and Son. " Itlis a clear sign of progress In a Colony when year after year its Almanacs and Handbooks increase in size, and seem to brim over with useful nmtt er - Very lull information is given in the Nelson Year Book concerning the Customs tariff and regulations, population, mail routes, Government officials, law news, farming operations, local signals, and sailing directions, &c. The book doubtless is well appreciated in that part of New Zealand, where it iB intended more especially to circulate, and is also likely to prove of service, to merchants and' others in the old country taking an intereat In the Colony."