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Evening Star, Issue 4941, 3 January 1879, Page 1

SEWZITO MACHINES. PASBS EXHIBITION, 1878. 'IJTHE -ONLY TbAND PRIZE XA -muck higher award than the gold medal) Has been Awarded WHEELER AND WHSON^ ’ 'SfBW DOUBLE POWER : SEWING MACHINES For their Superiority over Eighty Competitors. This Brilliant Triumph confirms the verdict of ■the American Institute, the highest authority, that the new Wheeler and Wilson is the “ Best Sewing in the World.” The New Wheeler and Wilson has More and Greater Improvements than any other Sewing Machine. Send for a Circular to WI LLI A M M B LTI LL B, Agent, And Practical Machinist, GEORGE STREET, DUNEDIN. All kinds of Machines Repaired with promptness and despatch. SEWING MACHINES. . SEWING MACHINES. BUY OF THE IMPORTERS. JpOHN SHEEN & CO., Rattray street, beg to inform the Public of Dunedin that they are now selling Sewing Machines by the best-known makers as follows:— : TREADLE MACHINES—- £ ,8. Singer’s Domestic ... ...CIO Raymond’s No. 1... ... ... 6 10, Jones’s B Manufacturing ... 810 : JjmesVO-■ -• ... 810 Jones’s Elastic Arm ' ... ... 12 0 Jones’s Wax Thread ..." ... K 0 HAND MACHINES—- • - Raymond’s Household u. ... £4 4s (Over 5,000 of this machine sold by our firm in New Zealand. Can strongly recommend them.) Raymond’s Home Shuttle ... £4 4s (A very handsome machine, beautifully finished.) Wanaer A : ... £4 4* (With new stand.) The above are all excellent machines, and we can confidently recommend them to the attention of the public. WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, liberal allowance to country storekeepers. Note Address— JOHN SHEEN * 0 0., Rattray street, THE SINGER MANUFACTURING CO.’S NEW FAMILY SEWING MACHINE, X3T The Best in the World, TS4 THE “ Survival of the Fittest ” is illustrated in the records of the Sewing Machine Market from 1871 to 1876. In 1871 the Singer Manufacturing Company had .twenty-four competitors, whose total annual sales were 424,834 machines. In 1876, thirteen competitors had gone out of business ; the total annual sales of the survivors had fallen off 121,217 machines, and the annual sales of the Singer’s leading competitor had fallen off 19,529 machines. Meanwhile the sales of the Singer Machine increased from 181,260 to 262,316 machines, and even this enormous number, despite the “ hard times,” was still further increased in 1877 to, 282,812 machines. All our Family Machines art now supplied wit* iha TRIPLE-ACTION WHEEL, And for the future no extra charge will be made for this most valuable improvement

Machines Worked by Hand or Foot. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. Illustrated Price lists sent free on application. • Machines sold on the Time Payment System on terms to suit purchasers ; weekly or monthly payments fixed, at a small sum within the means of every family. Machines'let out on hire, with the option of fiurchase, Deposit from 10s; weekly payments rom 2s 6d, G. M. ALDR IO H, ■ Singer’s Agency, Comer Princes and Dowling streets, Bunedin, PUBLIC NOTICES. HIGH SCHOOL GYMNASIUM. MR OSCAR DAVID, future Teacher of Gymnastics at the High Schools, will, with the kind permission of the Hon. Mayor and the Governors of the School, open a Gentlemen’s Evening Class the 14th of January, 1879. Evenings—Tuesdays and Fridays from 8 till half-past 9. Boys’ Class, the 18th of January. Mondays and Thursdays, from half-post 4 till half-past 5. Terms: One guinea per quarter, payable in advance. Applications received at Office of this Paper and at my residence, Harcourt Lodge, High street. Boys’ Class (junior), 18th of January. Saturdays, from 11 till 12 o’clock a.m. Terms : 10s per quarter, payable in advance. BOOK-KEEPING and SHORTHAND (Pitman’s) Taught on easy terms. For particulars, address “ Toomoy,” Albany street Tost Office. . WANTED Known—Just opening out, a flue assortment of Meotro-plated and Britannia Metal Teapots, Cruets, Bisouit Boxes, Cake Baskets, Waiters, Butter and Jelly Dishes, Fenders, Fire-irons, Brass Jolly Pans, etc., oto., all first-class goods, and sold at the lowest prices. J. & D. SCOTT, Ironmongers, Georgestreet. "XT m her of the Royal, A-V • College of veterinary Surgeons, hegs to inform the public generally - that- he has commenced practice ; in, his profession, and is prepared to treat horses,, cattle, and other domesticated aniiftals, and hopes, by strict attention and moderate charges, to share a portion of public favor. Colts castrated on the new method or otherwise. Veterinary medicines of all descriptions prepared for farm or station nse. Country orders-punctually attended to. Address N. Marguis, Y.S., Pritchard’s Veterinary Forge, Rattray street, Dueedin. M. MARSHALL’S HOMCEOPATHIC PHARMACY AND DISPENSARY, Comer of Princes street and Octagon. Open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (Sunday excepted). 'A- COMPLETE STOCK of Homoeopathic ±\. Preparations. Books and Specialities kfpt. Gases Re-filled and Prescriptions accurately Dispensed, etc., etc. _ v Dispensary on the same principle as those so successfully earned on .in Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, etc. ‘ Medical Advice and Medicine, ss. Consulting Hours : J. E. Wanless, M.D., 10 to IX a.ra.; J, Duncan Nivenf M.D., 3 to 4 p.nu