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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 18, 30 January 1891, Page 19

Messrs. Bcoullar and Chisholm, Rattray and Maclaggau streets, Dunedin, are now hoi 'ing a clearing <*\\<: The reductions made in prices bring their unrivalled stock of furniture and musical lustruments within reach of the most ecouomicil buyers. McNaughtou's prize sauce, which took two awards at the la'e exhibition — is now everywhere inquired lor. It grows in popularity every day, Messrs. A. and T. Inglis. George street, Djredin, are now showing a splendi 1 f-t>ck of goods. Tie convenience? provided by their recent improvements make a v sit to thuir es ablishment quite a matter of pleasure. Mr Mercer, who is now in New Zetland, ''escribes the famous hinder that b^ars his name as invented and first brought out near ToroDto about six yeirs ,ig<>. In Djct-inber, 18Si>, the machine wts first intjoduced into trip Austial isiin c >lonie-i, and this season 150 machines were (-old in Vietona. Messrs. II id and Giay first introduced it into New Zealand Very succes-dul tuals of the machine have been made at O^maru and Timaru, its chief feature being the ab-jence of all canvas fur <: mveying and e.evating the trr.un to the binder. Th ■ first trial of the nuehtne took place on the farm of Mr. John Deans, ot Kiccar'on, wheie it wa? tntd o>i a heavy and badly laid crop of dun oa's. Ihe woik was don-^ so successfully as to secure from Mr. De*ns himself an order for a binder. Among thp fanners, moreover, who wim ssed the trial tt c opinion wan txpresged that, owing to the lity of elevation possessed by the rnacbin >, it would sen c per fee ly well fot cutting crops wf peas and beans. The Pilot was the only papei favoured wrh the tull texr of Bishop Kpane's magnificent discourse on "'Revealed Ke i-jion, ' in the Du^k'ian Course at Harvard Unuet>ity. The demand for it exhausted a large extra edition. nark Twain has alwiys appeared to in (M^w York Freeman's Journal.) as a n-urow, bigo ed aid altogeiu r small-g-iine i individual. Therefore we find lutlo d fficulty in endorsing the following estimate of the S . lynns Gloht-Drmoerat : ''Mark Twain hag been guilty of a 1 ir<_'P piece of 8m illness in wiitirg a letter lor publication in the New York papers concerning an inhuit ne roceived from a stie( t-car conduc'or. li lei to the linchaige of the c> ductor, although the poor man mide a v -ry g>o i difencj by showing that when the insult was given he *as having an altercation with a druuken passenger. Maik Twain has done a larg-r amount of busmen as a humorist on a sranll-r amount ot humour than auy other mm in the United s a'e^, air l he muit bo Irnd pu-hed for a free advertist iik nt ( f hi-) fading talent w ien h..- ret>oitst) sue i divices to ye' cheap not' 1 1 tv. S ieet-car conducois, ;n ,t rule, to which thiie .-ire mighty i. w eve ptio .8. are apati'nt, polite, and much-enduring cl us- ot m -n. T ley receive a hundred insults for every one th^y irtve^and when 'hey d ) ntep i v. j r (he line of propriety they a c, in a vabt maiority ot I'ihi.vi'v.s, t-tioogly provoked to it