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New Zealand Tablet, Volume IX, Issue 431, 15 July 1881, Page 18

Messrs H. C. Fiske and Co., George street, Dunedin, aie agents for Davis' Sewing Machine. This machine at a contest held in Melbourne, proved of unrivalled powers. Mr. W. Melville, George street, Dunedin, is agent for the Wheeler and Wilson Sewing Machines, which have won the first pi'tze at several exhibitions. Fourteen thousand acres of the Waicolo Estate, Southland, are now in the market and offer magnificent lots of agricultural land. The President ef the U.S. continues to make favourable progress towards recovery. The name of his assailant is Guiteau. The United States debt has decreased during April by 9,690,900 dols. 25 cents. General Sherman's only son, Thomas, has just been admitted to the Catholic priesthood by Archbishop Gibbons, of Baltimore. Fresh excesses have been committed against Jews at Azgeneau, Germany, but the gendarmerie restored order. A number of Jewish families have fled. The police at Cork report that a comparatively small quantity ot arms has been surrendered there under the Arms Act. Later correspondence issued respecting the Greek frontier line, between Lord Granville and the British Ambassador at Athens, contains an explicit warning that no help is to be expected from England if the advice of the powers is rejected. Nihilist proclamations have been discovered in Easter eggs distributed through the street* of St. Petersburg.