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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume III, Issue 245, 6 February 1875, Page 2

SEWING MACHINES. THE undersigned have pleasure in announcing having accepted the sole Agency in New Zealand for the new “HOLT” FAMILY SHUTTLE SETYING MACHINE, A Machine we guarantee to be an exact facsimile of the AMERICAN “SINGER,” In every way equal for beauty of finish and workmanship, and From 20 to 25 per Cent Cheaper. Having just received another shipment of t he above excellent Machines, we shall be glad to supply sample orders. This shipment comprises : —Plain Table, with and without cover; Half and Full Cabinet, Medium, and No. 2 Wheel-feed Machines. ARTHUR BRISCOE & CO., Wholesale & Retail Ironmongers and Iron Merchants. NOTICE. rpHE Subscriber having disposed of his General Store business iu Gisborne requests that all Accounts against him will be RENDERED, and ALL MONIES DUE to him, will be PAID by the Ist March , next. G. E. READ.

Josh on Editobs. —The following is Josh Billings’s definition of an Editor:— “An Editor is a male being whose business is to navigate a nuze paper. He writes editorials, grinds out poetry, insert s deaths and weddings, sorts out manuslcripts, keeps a waste basket, blows up the “ devil,” steals matter, fites other people’s battles, sells his paper for a trifle, takes white beans and apple sass for pay when he can get it, raises a large family, works 19 hours out uv every 24, knows no Sunday, gets d dby everybody, lives poor, and dies middle-aged and often broken - hearted, leaves no m noy, iz rewarded for a life of toil with a slmrt but free obituary puff in the nuze papers. Exchanges please copy, Rejected Him.—A Brooklyn girl has just rejected a suitor because his a»*m wasn’t, long enough to go round her. She sn vs if she i< going (o have a lover at all, she means to have a good fit. ‘The vilest sinner may return,” wrote a pious giri to h«T' lover, with whom she had ported in anger.