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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 131, 3 June 1878, Page 4

A Vienna mechanician has recently succeeded, after many fruitless trials, in constructing a sewing machine which does not not require the person working at it to submit to the unpleasant and unhealthy necessity of constant bodily exertion, viz., setting the machine in motion by the foot. Since, for pecuniary reason3, the application of electricity, steam, or water-power was impossible, the inventor of the new machine was restricted to gravitation or elasticity, and he, preferring the latter force, has contrived to make springs strong enough to keep an ordinany sized machine in motion for hours, A system of cogwheels is arranged underneath the surface of the table upon which the machine.is fixed, and by a handle at the side the spring is wound up with the greatest facility. The velocity at which the machine works is entirely at the option of the person using it, and can be regulated ad libitum, and in the simplest manner. "VTELSON JAM AND FRUIT 1* PRESERVING COMPANY. (To be registered with limited liability, under •• The Joint Stock Companies' Act, I860.") Capital £5,000 in 5,000 Shabes of £1 each. Copies of Prospectus may be seen, and applications for Sharep, accompanied by a deposit of 2/6 ptr £hare received at the Colonial Bank of New Zealand, Nelson and Wellington. R. AITKEN, 1*37 Interim Secretary. CAUTION. T)OISON is laid on my land for DOGS. A. G. JENKINS Ennerglynn, llth May, 1878. 1628— 7a NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS, 878 TONS OF 52-lb. IRON RAILS AND FASTENINGS FOR THE NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. Public Worts Office, Wellington, 6th February, 1878 WRITTEN TENDERS will be received at this Office until NOON, on MONDAY, the 2-ind July, 1878, for the above contract. They must be addressed to the Hon. the Minister fcr Public Workc, Wellington, and marked outride ' Tender for Rails and Fastening?." Plans and specifications may be seen at the PuUio Works Offices, Auckland, Christ church, Dunedin, Invercargill, and Wellington, and at the Chief Surveyor's Office, Melton, and the Railway Manager's Office, Napier. Telegraphic tenders, similarly adiressed and marked, will be receivod if presented at any Telegraph Office by ivOUN of the eauie datu, provided that written tenders in due form are lodged at aey of the above-named offices by the same hour, and accompanied by a cheque on some bank in the town whGre the tender is lodged ; such cheque to be especially marked by a banker as good for twenty-one days, and to be in favor of Receiver- General's Deposit Account only, and not to bearer or ordtr. The lowest or any tender will not necessarily be accepted. By[commahd, JOHN CARIIUTHERS, 1 4 *2 Engineer-in-Chief.