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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3024, 5 March 1881, Page 1

Insurance. HAMBURG - MAGDEBURG FIRE INSURANCE CO. of HAMBURG. CAPITAL fully paid up) .. .. 2,500,000 marks. THE MAGDEBURG FIRE INSURANCE CO. THE MAGDEBURG REINSURANCE CO. THE MAGDEBUKG GENERAL INSURANCE CO. 1 (With Capital and Bc-erve Fund amounting to over Thirty Million of Marks.) Are interested in every Risk undertaken. This Company ia prepared to take risks against loss or damage by fire on every description of insurable property at the Lowest Rates. The Company is not connected with any Tariff Association. ALL LOSSES promptly paid in the Colony as soon a3 claims are adjusted. Reference—Union Bank of Australia. Dunedin. LANGE & THONEMAN, General Agents for New Zf aland, Bond Street, Dunedin. AGENT FOR HAWKE'S BAY,FRANK PELL, Emerson-street. nPRANSATLANTIC FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY OF HAMBURGH. Capital 222,000. cad Office of New Zealand— COL' _80-STREET, CHRISTCHURCH. Insurance scepted upon Bulldin 8 Goods, Grai aid every description of P onerty,| AT THK LOWEST POSSIBLE RATES. All losses promptly paid by the Hawke's Ba Agent. RICHARD B: VANCE. Agent for Hawke's Bay. Napier, July 6,1880 SOUTH BRITISH FIRE akd MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY of NEW ZEALAND. Capital £1,000,00 Buildings ol every description and contents insured. Wool from sheep's baok or shipping port to London. Vessels, Freight, Gold, Grain, Gum, and Cargoes generally insured to and from London, the Colonies, America, China, Mauri tius, the Islands, &c. Lowest Cxjerbkt Rates. Forms of proposals and all information may be obtained from Mbs Barev, Sub-Agent for Taradale. Thomas Gilpin, Sub-Agent for Havelock and Hastings Or from EDWARD LYNDON, Agent for Hawke's Bay. UNION FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND. Capital—s2,ooo,ooo. Head Office—Chbibtohuboh. THIS Company are now prepared to insure at Current Rates against Loss by Fire on Houses, Stores, Furniture, Stock-in-Trade, and all descriptions of Pro perty. We would call particular attention to the amount of capital, which is double that of any other Colonial Office, and is not exceeded by any Fire and Marine Insurance Office in the world. Insurances effected with open or valued polices on Wool from sheep's back, woolsheds, or shipefng port to London. Risks accepted on Vessels and Cargoes to or from en port to the United E!i_gdon_j America, or the Colonies; Forms of proposal and any information can be obtained from the SUB AGENTS— Coward and Co., Waipawa J. White:, Porangahau A. Levy, Norsewood Watson and Co., Havelock. Bowes & Co., Taradale W. Maloney, Wairoa W. O. M'Leod, Hastings Mr Trestrahi, Waipufe_.___ F. A_gab, Clive Or from BANNER & LIDDLE. Agents for Hawke's Bay. !________■—_»-—__——_———_—_————_—-— Sewing Machines. SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES! SEWING MACHINES! Of all kinds to be obtained at the -VfAPIER QEWING TV/TACHINE TTvEPOT Five years guarantee with every Machine bought at our Establishment. SINGER'S, WERTHEIM'S, WHEELER AND WIL. SON'S, HOUSEHOLD, WANZER'S, ALL AT COST PRICES. Machines on Deferred Payment. Experienced workmen always on the premises for Repairs. SEWING MACHINES on the Singer system, FROM £5. J. H. GROCOTT. Opposite Holt's Timber Yard, Hastings-street, Napier ANOTHER SEWING MACHINE E. W. KNOWLES IS THE APPOINTED AGENT FOR IHB NEW WHITE, HORIZONTAL, FEED, NOISELESS, EASY RUNNING, (And without fear of contradiction) THE BEST OF ALL KNOWN QEWING TyTACHINES This, the latest claimant for the tbe position o " Cheapest and Best in the world " is to be seen at tbe Warehouse of Mr E. W. Knowlbs, Hastings-street, and unquestionably the many ingenious points displayed in the construction render it well worth examining. As a matter of fact the horizontal feed is common to many machines, and the term has therefore no signification of importance. But in the White machine there is this marked improvement on many other varieties—that the feed plate acts on either side of the needle. In other words, the work is pushed along as if by two fingers instead of one. Obviously this tends to produce very even results, and it enables the operator to sew along the right or left edge of the fabric at pleasure. At the same time, the arm of the machine is at % more than ordinary height above the table, and the pressure-fcoi also has a liberal amount of play given to it by aid of a well-contrived spring. A large mass o material could therefore be passed over the worktable, and through the machine, without the remotest chance of n jury. The entire mechanism is of the most simple character, and so little friction is there that one may run tho machine—almost without being conscious of the fact. When the main part ot the machine is not required to be run—as, for instance, when shuttle bobbins are to be wound —a little spring catch is thrown baok, and the sewing mechanism is thereby disconnected from tho driving gear. Further, when any given bearing may in the course of time become worn, the mere turning of a screw effects a refitting of the friction surfaces. One specially ingenious contrivance is displayed In the tension arrangement of the shuttle. Thero are no holes to be threaded, as is commonly the case; but the thread being wound in and out of a few grooves, a little steel plate pops down, and by the action ot a spring- which can be made light or heavy at will, keej'S just the desired Btrain on the under thread. The tension for the upper thread is also automatic. The machines are now on view, and an inspection is respectfully solicited, when Price lists, etc., and iuller particulars can be obtained at E. W. KNOWLES, General Merchant HASTINGS STREET, Napibr.