PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Wellington, September 25 The House nut at 7.30 p.m LEAVE OF AB3ENOB. Further leave of absence was granted to Hons McKerzie and Ward ] LOCAL BILLS. Several lc osl Bills passed their final stages, and others were read a second time. The University Otago Leases, the laveroargiil Reserves Leasing, and the Timaru Harbor Board Bills passed through Committee without amendment, and the House adjourned at 10 30.

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When all was ready the king came ' forth, followed by his indunas and by me. As he appeared, wrapped m his kaross of tiger skins and towering a head higher than any man there, all the multitude cast themselves to earth, and from every lip sharp and sudden went up the royal salute of Bayete. But Chaka took no note. His brow was cloudy as a mountain top. He cast one glance at the people and one at the slayers, and wherever his eye fell men turned gray with fear. Then he stalked on, and sat himself upon a stool to the north of the great ring, looking toward the open space. For awhile there was silence; then from the gates of the women's quarter came a band of maidens, arrayed m their beaded dancing dresses and carrying green branches m their hands. As they came they clapped their hands and sang softly: We are the heralds of the king's feast. Ail AH Vultures shall eat it. Ai.l Ah! It is good—it is good to die for the kingl They ceased and ranged themselves m a body behind us. Then Chaka held up his hand, and there was a patter of run ning feet. Presently from behind the royal huts appeared the great company of the Abangoma, the witch doctors men to the right and women to the left. In the left hand of each was the tail of a vilderbeeste, m the right a bundle of assegais and a little shield. They were awful to see, and the bones about them rattled as they ran, the bladders and the snakeskins floated m the air behind them, their faces shone with the fat of anointing, their eyes started like the eyes of fishes, and their lips twitched hungrily as they glared around the death ring. On they came till they stood m long ranks before the Black One. Awhile they stood thus, then suddenly every one of them thrust forward the little shield m his hand, and with a single voice they cried, "Hail, father!" "Hail, my ehildrenP' answered Chaka. "What seekest them, fetfoer?" they cried again. "Blood?" "The blood of the guilty," he an swered. They turned and spoke each to each; the company of the men spoke to the company of the women. "The Lion of the Zulu seeks blood." "He shall be fedl" screamed the wo men, "The Lion of the Zulu smells blood." "He shall see iti" screamed the wo men. "His eyes search out the wizards." "He shall count their dead!" screamed i the women. I "Peace I" cried Chaka. "Waste not I the hours m talk! Wizards have dared | to smite blood upon the gateways of the i king. Dig m the burrows of the earth [ and find them, ye rats! Fly through the i paths of the air and find them, ye vul j tures! Smell at the gates of the people I and name them, ye jackals! Drag them j from the caves if they be hidden, from j | the distance if they be fled, from the graves if they be dead. To the work! ; to the work! Show them to me truly, and your gifts shall be great; and for i i them, ii they be a nation, they shall be ' slain. Now begin. Begin by companies | of ten, for you are many, and all must be finished ere the sun sink." "Jt shall be finished, father," they an- j swered. ) Then ten of the women stood forward, I and at their head was the most famous | witch doctress of that day—an aged woman named Nobela, a woman to whose eyes the darkness was no veil, ' whose scent was keen as a dog's, who heard the voices of the dead as they cried m the night, and spoke truly of what she i heard. All the other Isanusis, male and female, sat down m a half moon facing I the king, bxit this woman drew forward, | and with her came nine of her sister- ; hood. They turned east and west, north and south, searching the heavens; they i turned east and west, north and south, searching the earth; they turned east , and west, north and south, searching the i hearts of men. Then they crept round and round the great ring like cats, then they threw themselves upon the earth and smelled it And all the time there was silence, silence deep as midnight, and m it men hearkened to the beating of their hearts; only now and again the vultures shrieked m the trees. ; At length Nobela spoke: ] "Da you smell him, sisters?" "We smell him," they answered. "Does he sit m the east, sisters?" "He sits m the east," they answered. "Is he the son of a stranger, sisters?" "He is the son of a stranger." Then they crept nearer, crept on their hands and knees till they were within j ten paces of where I sat among them- 1 dunas near to the ling. The indunas \ Jopiced on each other and grew g*ay with fear, and for me, my father, my l knees were loosened and my marrow turned to water m my bones. For I knew well who waa that son of a stranger of whom they spoke. It was I, my father, I was about to be smelled out, and if I was smelled out, I should be slain with all my house, for the king's oath would scarcely avail me against the witch' doctoip. I looked on the fierce faces of the Isanusis before m# as they crept—crept like snakes. I glanced be hind and saw the slayers grasping their kerries for the deed of death, and I say t felt like one for whom tfie bitterness is overpast Then I remembered the words which the king and I had whis pered together of the cause for which this Ingomboeo was set, and hope crept back to me like the first gleam of the dawn upon a stormy night. Still I hoped not overmuch, for it well might happen that the king had but set a trap to catch me. Now they were quite near ana halted. "Have we dreamed falsely* sisters?" asked Nobela, the aged. "What we dreamed m the night we Bee m the day," they answered. "Shall I whisper his name m your ears, sisters?" ; They lifted fiheir heads from the ground like snakes and nodded, and as they nodded the necklets of bones rattled on their skinny necks. Then they drew their heads to a circle, and Nobela thrust hers into the center of the circle and said a word.

"Ha! Hal" they laughed, "we hear you! His is the name. Let him bo named by it m the face of heaven, he and all his house; then let him hear no other name forever!" And suddenly they sprang up and rushed-toward me, Nobela, the aged Is anusa, at their head. They rushed at me, pointing to me with the tails of the vilderbeestes m their hands. Then No bela switched me m the face with the tail of the beast and cried aloud: "Greeting, Mopo, son of Makedama! Thou art the man who smotest blood on the doorposts of the king to bewitch the king. Let thy house be stamped flat!" I saw it all, I felt the blow on my face, as a man feels m a dream, I heard the feet of the slayers, as they bounded for ward to hale me to the dreadful death, but my tongue clave to the roof of my mouth—l could not say a word. I glanced at the king, and, as I did so, 1 thought I heard him mutter, "Near the mark, not m it." Then he held up his spear and all was silence. The slayers stopped m their stride, the witch doctors stood with out stretched arms, the world of men was as though it had been frozen into sleep, "Hold!" he said. "Stand aside, son of Makedama, who art named an evil doer! Stand aside, thou, Nobela, and those with theo who have named him evil doer! What! Shall I be satisfied with tho life of one dog? Smell on, ye vul tures, company by company, smell on! For the day the labor, at night the feast!" So I arose, astonished, and stood on one side. The witch doctresses also stood on one side, smitten with wonder, since no such smelling out as this had been seen m the land, ftor till this hour, when a man vas swepfc withthe gnu tail of the Isarrasi that was flta insieafi of his death. Why, then. mm. askefl i» their hearts, was the death fleltye^ The Ts^n&xjtwww^cdftpflftso, mid looked to Ibe Mug fop Bgttfe,. aw men lodk to a thTrndefckrad far tfce dash. Bat from the Mod: One ffaete oatoe no word. So "We stood on ooe Sfffe, mid -ft second party of the feEcmiSi Vomen began their rites. As the others h«d done, so they did, and yet the§r worked otherwise, for this is the fashion of the Isanusis, that no two of them smell out m the same way. And this party swept the faces of certain of the king's councilors, nam ing them guilty of the witch work. "Stand ye on one side!" said the king to those who had been smelled out; "and ye who have hunted out their wicked ness, stand ye with those who named Mopo, son of Makedama. It well may be that all are guilty." So these stood on one side also, and a third party took up the tale. And they Earned certain of the great generals, and were m turn bidden to stand on one side, together with those they had named. So it went on through all that day. At length it drew on to evening and the last company of the witch doctors did their work, smelling out some of the keepers of the Emposeni, the house of the women. But there was one man of their company, a young man and a tall, who held back and took no share m the work, but stood by himself m the center of the great circle, fixing his eyes on the heavens. And when this company had been also ordered to stand aside together with those whom they had smelled out, the king called aloud to the last of the witch doctors, asking him of his name and tribe, and why he alone did not do Ms office. "My name is Indabazimbi, the son of Arpi, O king," he answered, "and I am of the tribe of the Maquilismi. Does the king bid me to smell out him of whom the spirits have spoken to me as the worker of this deedf' "I bid thee," said the king. | Then the young man Indabazimbi stepped straight forward across the ring, \ making no cries or gestures, but as one who walks from his gate to the cattle kraal, and suddenly he struck the king m the face with the tail m his hand, saying, "I smell out the Heavens above me!" [a Zulu title for the king]. Now a great gasp of wonder went up from the multitude, and all looked to see this fool slain by torture. But Chaka rose and laughed aloud, "Thou hast said it," he cried, "and thou alone! Listen, ye people! I did the deed! I smote blood upon the gate ways of my kraal; with my own hand 1 smote it, that I might learn who were the true doctors and who were false! Now it seems that m the land of the Zulu there is one true doctor—this young man—and of the false, look on them and count them, they are like the leaves. &cc! there they stand, and by them stand those whom they have doomed— the innocent whom, with their wives and children, they have doomed to the death of the dog. Now I ask you, my people, what reward shall be given to them?" Then a great roar went up from the multittrdß—"Let them die, O king!" "Ayef' ho answered, "Let them die as liars a&craldF Wow, the lisanewfef, tten and women, ecreamed aloud In tme and cried for pi&Gffg, themselves with their itails, for lead of all <M»gs did they de sire to taste of th^t own medicine of death. But *he ktag cwly laughed the more. ;p«r ttemlft, pointing to the I crowd of to wh*) had been smelled out, i "Ye were doomed to death by these false prophets. Now g*at yourselves upon them. Slay them, my children! Slay them all sarve ftrte young man!" Then we bounded from the ground. We koafed ourselves upon the crowd of €he Isanusis. In vain they screamed and cursed and struggled; we slew them an. At last it was done and we drew back from the heap of the dead. Chaka drew near and looked on the piled up heaps of the slain and the cloud of dust that yet hung over them, "There they lie, Mopo," he said. | "There lie those who dared to prophesy j falsely to the king. That was a" good J word of thine, Mopo, which taught mo i to set the snare for them, yet methought I saw thee start when Nobela, queen of

THE ASHBDRION GUARDIAN; TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, ISfS

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INSTRUCTIONS FOR WORKING, ADJUSTING & SHARPENING FOLLOWS & BATE'S NEW PATENT "RON A WAY " JLawn Mower. NOTICE. I^. This Machine ia despatched from the Manafsctory m perfect working order, and requires no alteration whatever on reaching the hands of the ewer. If broken or damaged m transit), the purchaser is strotigly recommended not to give it to Inexperienced pers-na to repair, but to return it at once to tho makers. Before commencing to cut, see that the machine ia clean, then oil all the bearings m the holes provided with the best Sperm or Olive Oil, at the ear^e time patting a little on the edge of the cutters »nd bottom blade, and secure the handle firmly m the socket- Do not use inferior or thick gemmy oil as it will clog the bearings and prevent the machine from running easily. S Sweep the lawn befo c using the j machine, removing a'l st nes, worm j heaps and rubbish, which will blunt the , knivei. Walk w i ha quick s'ep m working the machine. How to Cut the Gbass and Le we it | to 1 Ikc;j Lomi —'< h-i height of cut is varied by raising or lowering the wooden roller m the slides, and m al'crmg ciro must be taken to do so equally at each end, and to tighten np the nuts on bolt' afterwards. If the ground is soft ar d pponsy tho back roller must bo 1-. wered a little (o prevent the machine from cutting too closely. HOW TO CCT TTIJS EDGES CR BORDERS OF Gkaveo Walk- —Lower th<3 back roller as far a< pjttiblo. and run one wheel on tile grass an^ tho other on the walk, taking only 5 or 6 inches of grass. How to Mow a Bakk.- Stand at the lop and w-rk tho machine down lh« inc'iji.', r aland at tho bottom and woik ih i m ciint) oiagnally ah.ng thr bank, I vi nut m ;» direct liua from bottom to top. How to Collect the Grass.-—Slide the curved iron iiame plate between the two grooves, and secure io fiimly by tightening the thumb screws ; then drop the Grass Collecting Box into the recess provided. How to Scatter this Cct Gbass FVKNLY ON THS LaWK IW Hot W EATHEB, to Protect the too Frosi Beikg SCOBOH&n BY THK Vs'B BAYS. —Use the machine wiihouo tho Gra^-s Collecting i Box and the carved iron name plate. In this order the machine cuts long grass without clogging, and will be found ueefai for undulating ground ; also close op to treep, clearing the grass well away fiom the bottom of the trucks. In moving tho machine about from p^ce to place, turn the handle over, so aa to raise the cylinder from i he ground, and ] then push it forward ; the cylinder will j then cease to rotate. It can be taken m this Convenient manner on the roughest road, without doing it the slightest injury. How to Shabpen and Atjtjst the KNxVE j .—Firat by means of the box spanner, bring the cylinder and bottom blade m contact, then remove both of the driving wheels and the pinions, taking care not to lose the ratchets ; revereu tht direction of the cylinder by placing the kfchand pinim m the right hand bide ; refix the driving wheel n this side and screw the small handle into it. Mix some corn emeiy and oil together m a saucer aud put a little on a slip of leather about two inches wide ; draw tho handle of the machine to the ground and kneel upon it, turn the cylinder backwards by no sans cf the ?m\ll handle m tho driving wheel, applying the emery at she same time to the edges of the cutters, and continue \ until the cylinder revolver easily. \ After sharpening, clean the machine j thoroughly and replace the diiving wheels, j plntoflp, and la'.chets, m their original j positions, the cylinder should then cut thin writing paper when tested, revolve with freedom, and not requite sharpening again for a year. FOLLOWS & BATE, LTD,, Patentees andj Manufactures, Bortop, Manchester. The above is on« of the Best loglith Lawn Mowers, and are for sale by F- FEBRIMAN*



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