MOTHER-IN-LAW.

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw ! Her finger thrust into every pie ; .Each secret bored by her gimlet eye ; And foa everything that amiss doth go, The comforting murmur—"Told you so."

Mother-in-lew. My mother-in-law- Dearest old lady that ever I saw ! Mousing and Meddling and stirring up strife, Now with the husband and now with the

wife; Perennial spring of a family care, From the day she began our comforts to share,

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw ! And now she says she is going away, When I've done so much to prolong her stay. 1 gave her a room on the topmost floor, With a banging shutter and a lockless door ; Choked up the chimney for her dear sake, And bought a cross watch-dog to keep her awake. Could a son do more ? She couldn't demand it; And yet the old lady declares she can't stand it.

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— -Dearest old lady that ever T saw ! Since you are determined to sever this tie, Give me your hand and say good-bye ! You won't ? Not a word or a parting tear, Save for her you have soothingly dubbed "poor dear?"

Mother-in-law. My mother-in-law— Dearest old lady that ever I saw ! Coming each Christmas-day to dine ; Now you bring joy to this heart of mine, Which quite wells over with grateful cheer As I think that day comes only once a year.

KERBY'S JOKE.

[From the Washington Eepublican.] Kekby is young and giddy, and conse quently will have his joke occasiouly. As fie was walking with Wilkins the other evening, he observed a quiet-looking color ed man walking toward them. It occurred to him that it would be exceedingly funny to pretend to have a warrant for this man. He stepped up to the individual and in formed him that he arrested him for stealing chickens. The man was sur prised, and declared that he hadn't stolen any chickens for a whole year, he hoped lie wasn't a nigger if he had. Kerby insisted until he saw that the ma7i was getting mad, then with a smile like that of a man with a boil on his neck, he told Mm that it was only intended as a joke. The colored man seized Kerby by the collar, and wanted to know if he thought he could work on his feelings like that for nothing. Eerby explained that he had intended no harm, but the man shook him until he thought that his spinal column had slipped down into his boots. Then he threw him down and dragged him over the cobble stones. Wilkins attempted to interfere, but the man jerked him down beside Xerby, with the remark that he was a bad colored man when he got mad. Wilkins said that he thought he was. After working his fingers through their hair and poking his knees through their ribs the colored man tucked their over coats under his arm and left. Kerby and Wilkins went home, keeping close to gether, telling each other where they felt hurt the most.

INTERRED IN BALL COSTUME.

The Brooklyn " Times " of January 19th says : " At St. Mary's Episcopal Church, Mott Haven. N. Y. on Friday last, funeral services were held over the remains of a lady whose initial only we give. She was the wife of a United States official who is well known in New York city, where he holds a prominent office. Mrs. L. was 36 years of age and the mother of five children. She was married at the age of 16, and her eldest child is a son about 20 years of age. She was passionately fond of dancing, and expressed the hope that when she died it might he in a ball room. During her "illness which preceded her death she said she had no desire to live if ill-health prevented her from attending balls and parties and from indulging in her favourite amusement.- She left in structions as to how her body should be prepared for burial, and her wishes were fully complied with. She desired to be laid in her coffin in full ball costume. She actually selected the dress to be used, and directed how her hair should be arranged. The services of a hair-dresser were procured for the purpose, who first curled the hair by doing it up in papers, and completed the head toilette by adding the false tresses which deceased had worn in her lifetime, and then sprinkling the hair with silver powder. In the centre and on each side of the forehead roses were placed. The body was robed in cream-colored silk, cub in the style and having the full trimmings worn in ball rooms. The head was turned partly to one side to present a side view of the face which was colored and powdered to give it a lifelike appearance and as though she were in full health. In one hand was a bouquet and in the other a lace handker chief. The feet were encased in white satin slippers, and flowers in profusion were laid over the remains. In fact, the corpse looked like a sleeping lady dressed for some extraordinary social gathering. Probably so strange a spectacle was never before witnessed at a funeral."

SOME FUN.

When is a mother a father ? When she's a sigher. Why is a retired carpenter like a lecturer ? Because he is an ex-plainer. What is that which no one wishes to have and no one wishes to lose ? A bald head. What should you do if you split your sides with laughter ? Bun till I got a stitch in them. Why is a horse the most miserable of animals ? Because his thoughts are always on the rack. A boy having been told " that a reptile was an animal that creeps," on being asked to name one on examination day, promptly ajid triumphantly replied "A baby: Why, Jimmy, said one professional £F*> ar to another," are you going to knock off already P It's only 2 o'clock." "No you mutton head," responded the other who wajs engaged in unbuckling his crutch "I m only going to put it on the other «®& y °u don>t su PPose a fellow can bee all day on the same leg, do you."

A man was seen coming out of a Texas newspaper office with one eye gouged out, and his nose spread all over his face like a piece of raw beef, and one of his ears chawed off. To a policeman who inter viewed him he replied : " I didn't like an article that 'peared in the paper last week an' I went in ter see the man who wrote it. He war thar, stranger." When the Duchess of Edinburgh wants to talk nicey-nicey to boy-baby, all she has to say : " And was it its own muzzy's blessed little Albert Alexander Alfred Ernest William ? " And then that over burdened infant goes into convulsions that would twist the backbone right out of a plebeian baby. An Illinois farmer's daughter just missed beins: a heroine. Seeing her father's barn on fire, she got a pail of water, ran towards the blaze, and—fainted on the way. The barn was destroyed, and her father rating her intentions by the low standard of her failure, warmed her shoulders.

A marriage on a railway train may properly be called a railway tie.

THE TRUE STORY OF THE DEATH OF CAPTAIN COOK.

THE STORY OF A TRADITIONAL GOD.

HOW THE GREAT NAVIGATOR TREATED THE ISLANDERS, AND HOW HE .VAS REGARDED BY TBEM.

A correspondent of the Boston Traveller writes as follows : I observe by remarks in severrl newspapers that an erroneous opinion prevails in relation to cannabalism among the Hawaiians, when those islanders were visited by Captain James Cook, and sub sequent to that time. If you will allow me space I will state the facts upon which that error is founded. When Captain Cook dis covered the Hawaiian Islands he anchored his ships in Kealakakua bay, Hawaii. Here he laid several weeks, refitted his vessels and refreshed his crews with the various pro ducts of the islands. Hogs, plantains, ba nanas, bread fruit, cocoa-nuts, taro and other nutritive articles were produced there ; and they were furnished lavißhably to Cook for a paltry consideration on his part of a few scraps of iron and nails. The natives having no iron had used bones and shells for fish-hooks, but the scraps of iron were sought after as a substitute for these imple ments. Cook took advantage of

THE KINDNESS AND SIMPLICITY Of the islanders in all respects. A tradi. tion existed among them that Lono, some god in the form of a white man, would at

some time appear among them. The great ships unexpectedly and suddenly coming into the view of these ignorant people as tonished them ; but when Cook appeared in gaudy uniform and as an imperious com mander of his officers and crews, they stood in awe of him and conjectured that this was the Lono, or god, who had been predicted for ages by their priests. They treated him with the utmost deference and kindness, and were equally kind to his officers and men whenever they were on shore. In order to increase the respect of this people and for the selfish purpose of plundering them of the food necessary for their own existence (for he had drawn upon their resources without charity of recompense), he even allowed himself to enter their great temple and 'Bit among the sacred idols and be

WORSHIPPED AS A GOD. They sacrificed hogs before him as to their most venerated idols, and he accepted their adoration pompously. One morning after these ceremonies an insignificant pinnance was missing from the stern of one of his ships. The common natives had learned the use of iron from the chiefs with whom Cook had traded for supplies ; and, having no means of obtaining it, some of them swam off in the night, cut the rope, which tied the boat to the ship, and slightly tow ing it to some secluded part of the coast, broke it to pieces for the naila. Upon the discovery of this theft (the first, so far as reported), Cook became extremely angry, demanded his boat of the chiefs and put an embargo upon the bay. All articles of food were brought to this village from the luxu riant parts of the island, for all this region was rocky and barren and used as a fishing port for their canoes. Cook's act was

among THE MOST HEARTLESS ON RECORD, For it was virtually reducing chiefs and people, all who had been bo kind to him, to absolute starvation, unless they should abandon their houses and temples, and travel over long reaches of dreary coast to where food could be obbained. No canoes left the bay, but the chiefs and people of distant parts, knowing nothing of the theft, or of the embargo, came as usual in the course of the following day to visit their friends and pay their respects to Cook. They understood no English and no sig nals, and notwithstanding signs and orders they continued to paddle their canoes by the ships and approach the shore. They were fired npon for disobedience, by Cook's orders. Several natives were wounded and a chief of the highest rank was killed. Consternation took possession of the entire population. The chiefs of the Hawaiian Islands are descended from the gods, ac cording to their most ancient traditions. In those days the famous taboo system also existed, and so commanding was

THE DIGNITY OF THE HIGH CHIEFS, and so obedient the common natives to custom, tradition, and law, that the native who walked erect in the shadow of a chief

was subject to immediate execution by strangulation. Even as late as 1856, when the writer was paying a visit to the late King Alexander (Kamehameha IV), at his country house at Waititi, a few miles from Honolulu, when he ordered a spit-box brought, the attendant crept on his knees and placed it near him in the most humble and amiable mnnner, Such being the re spect of the people Jfor their rulers, it will not appear strange that their feelings were suddenly and proudly changed towards the great navigator. They began to doubt if such injustice and inhumanity, after all their liberality to him, could proceed from a god. He discovered this change and went on shore to appease their anger. The fact of his being killed on that occasion is a matter of history and well known. He saw, after some parlej ing, that it would be use" less to further attempt to subdue their hos tility ; and as he turned his back to the crowd for a moment to order his boat to come near the shore and take him on board, he was STRUCK Itf THE BACK BY A SPEAK, And fell headlong into the water. The crew took to the ships and^ left him in the hands of the natives. He was motionless and dead. All that I am now relating I had from a venerable and honest native histo rian, named Kiha, residing on the island of Maui, who was present at thi3 event. Cook was dragged from the water and taken to the great temple. The people were appalled at what they had done. They had worship ped him as a god. They could not rid themselves of superstition, and upon con sultation they concluded to treat his re mains as they would one of their highest chiefs. They disemboweled him. They dissected the largest bones, as the thigh, leg, and arm bones, from the flesh, and wrapped them carefully in tapa (the native cloth, made from the bark of the mulberry saplings) in order to preserve them, and hide them in some secluded spot, where they could never be desecrated by being turned into fish-hooks. This was the method in which all treated the remains of their chiefs.

Even in 1844 THIS SORT OF CONSECRATION Was not wholly forgotten, notwithstanding ' the untiring efforts of our American mis sionaries to eradicate the ancient usages from the minds of those affectionate people. For I distinctly remember that a native was arrested by the police for having disin terred his wife, after Christian burial, and dissected out those bones which he intended to keep in his hut as a souvenir of her existence. This practice of treating the distinguished dead among the Hawaiians was not understood by the officers and crews of Captain Cook's expedition. When they subsequently succeeded in quieting the temper of the natives, they learned how Cook's body had been treated, and they at once concluded that his flesh had been de voured, and they pronounced them canni bals, and so reported them on their arrival ia England. Whan I pressed the question upon Kiha to learn if any part of Captain Cook's body had been used as food, he smiled with a curious recollection of

AN ANCIENT STORY. He said that Captain Cook's intestines were put into a calabash and left there while the ceremonies of dissection and the presenta tion of his remains before their great idols were being performed (truly a series of re ligious rites most piously performed, accord ing to their faith and knowledge in those days), and during these ceremonies a little boy named Konpa (whom I saw at Lahaina. in his old age) supposing them to be the entrails of a hog used in sacrifice, cut off a small piece and broiled and ate it. He was entirely innocent; of cannibalism, and was during his entire life stigmatised and laughed at for having made a great mistake. Such is the foundation for all reports reflect ing upon the inhumanity and barbarism of the Hawaiians. They sacrificed those killed in battle to their goda, but they did not de vour their flesh.

THE MATRIMONIAL MARKET.

The system of love, courtship, and marriage has undergone very radical changes since the days when Jacob devoted a considerable portion of his life to wooing and winning Leah the tender-eyed, and Rachael the beautiful. Who in this age of steam, electri city, and Atlantic cables, could devote seven years to paying those laborious attentions which have justly come to be called " serious"—so serious, indeed, that in many instances the fashionable pair are oppressed by a sad feeling of soberness during the re mainder of their life ? Even Jacob himself, did he live in our time, would scout the idea as preposterous.; Fancy the girl of the pe riod bombarded with flowers, at the rate of $10 per bouquet during seven mortal win ters ! Calculate how many hundreds of miles of " Germans" the aspirant would

dance during the same space of time ! Im agine the innumerable cups of tea he would imbibe in the dom tic circle while on such long terms of intimacy with his beloved' a family. No physical systein,,could stand it. The most robust man would break down under the ordeal. Even Patrick himself who from early youth has been brought up to constant and severe labour, would find it impossible, while " keeping company" with Bridget, to "ice cream and diacoorse her" for a period of seven consecutive years.

The world was made in seven days; but many of the enterprising youth of the pre sent age have show^Jgjr all the courting necessary bef or^marriage can be accom plished in much less time, Jacob to the con trary^notwithstandiag.

HENRY CORT.

By John Blackman,

' [The man whose memory these simple verses were intended to commemorate was an in dustrious blacksmith, who passed the greater part of his life at Gosporfc, Hants, arid -who was one of those useful, practical men whom England fails to reward. The warriors and tyrants of humanity are frequently lauded to the skies, while such benefactors as Henry Cort pass their honorable lives in seclusion, and die without the tribute of a sigh. Henry Cort, the Gosport blacksmith, shewed Englishmen how to turn their iron ore to prolitable account, in consequence of which they were rendered independent of other countries for their supply. Cort_ mada Englishmen the purveyors of wrought-iron to the world, which opened up to them a great source of national wealth. The direct gain to Britain from Cort's inventions were calculated as equal, by IS7O, to not less than one hundred million sterling ; and yet this brave son of Vulcan, after spending for the good of his country a fortune of £20,000, accumulated by his industry, died penniless and broken-hearted—"unwept, unhonoured, and unsung."]— In Gosport-town, beside the sea, Lived honest Henry Cort, A man from troubles rarely free—' The heir of Fortune's sport, Who toiled through many a summer day, I'or thankless hearts and meagre pay. His cottage of the simples), kind, j^^^pi With graceful vines was wreathed, And l'roni Jjis garden plot behind, Sweet flowers their odour breathed ; Jmt A pious, sturdy man was ho, *. WUo loved the music of the sea. v From early morn till dusky eve, Was heard his anvil's ring, And never was he known to grieve, But often heard to sing, And he performed from year to year The duties of his lowly sphere. This iron-worker bravely wrought, And strove with busy mind, To realise a growing thought, To benefit liw kind; A dreamer he was said to be, Within his cottage near the sea. Yet on he toiled, with dauntless will, To crown his heart's desire, If is iccret mission to 1 ullil— Beside hm smithy lire; And there lie shaped his thought a!onc, Wli'le others to the wars had gone. lly heeded not the taunts of those Who deemed liis labour vain, Who could not feel tin; inner throes That stirred his active brain ; While In- toiled on from day to day IPov thankless hearts and meagre pay. At length this honest Gosport man, A peaceful conq ucsr. made, llu saw perfection wreathe his plan W ithiu his smithy-shade; If is work increased his country's wealth, While he was losing means and health. Still lived and toiled, this Henry Cort, . Jit-side the foaming sea, The lmplcsH sou or Fortune's sport— from troubles seldom free; 'Neath Poverty's ungonial frown, Amid the glooms of Gosport-town. No pension came with gathering years His sorrows to assuage, Ho human eye beheld his tears— The wintry tears of age— Save those who shared his hapless lot Within his vine-wreathed seaside cot. His lucrative invention brought A sure, but tardy, fame, And round his toils a halo wrought, But payment never came; While thousands throve upon his plan, He died—a broken-hearted man.

Printed and published by the proprietors, G«org» MoCullagh Reed, of St. George's Bay, and HeMT Brett, of Parnell, at their General Steara PrintiM Office, Wyndham-street. in the City of *ißflaa«« New Zealand. XS' '" Saiubdait, Marcb 20, 1875J *

SUPPLEMENT TO THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR.



rpHISTLE HO TEL. P. DAEBY, Wholesale and Retail WINE AND SPIRIT STORE QUEEN-STIIEKT, AUCKLAND, Begs leave to return many thanks to the public, for the very liberal support accorded him for many years past. Having erected splendid Premises on the site of the old House which was destroyed by fire, he ia now prepared to execute all orders omtruated to him rom town or country, with the CHOICEST SELECTION OF WINES AND SPIRITS, Comprising— Sandiman's'Four Diamond Old Port Wine Duff Gordon's Sherry Champagne—Cliquot's Champagne—Perrler, Jovet's Champagne—Mosel'e, pints and quarts Claret—Chateau, Larose Claret—Lafltte Claret—Leoville Claret—St Julian's Real Old Jamaica Bum Henneasy's Three Star Brandy And othei choice brands. ASSORTED CASE 3 MADE UP TO ORDER DIFFERENT BRANDS. BASS'S ENGLISH ALE ON DRAUGHT. Liberal Allowances made to wholesale purchasers. TERMS : STRICTLY CASH. Spirits Overproof, the same as from bonded Store, sold in any quantity. A GENTS FOE THE "STAR" The Stab, can be obtained from the following Agents at any time after 5 o'clock p.m. :— j Dedwood—Mr Brown, Dedwood Store ! Ponsonby Road—Mr McKinstry, Ponsonby Store 'i Karangahape Road—Mr Y. Warren, Sydenham j Store ;Mr Nicholas, Grocery Store ! Newmarket—Mr Witheford, Ironmongery Store { Kyber Pass—Mr Burns, Grocery Store ;Mr Taylor, Grocery Store Onehunga—Mr Gilman, Chemist; Mr Watts, Store keeper Otahuhtj—Mr J. Hall, Post-office Parnell—Miss Ryan, Grocery store ; Mr R. Brown, Grocery Store ; Mr Augur, Bootmaker North Shore—Mr O. Mays, Grocery Store ; Mr Duder, Grocery Store ; Mr Bass, Grocery Store Wbllington-street—Mr Todd, Grocery Store ; M Higgins, Wellington Hotel. Corner ob1 Wellington-street —Mr McCrea Grocer. Freeman's Bay Hotel, Freeman's Bay—Mr Stow. Axma Place and Neighborhood—Mr West Alma Store ©beat North Road—Mr McGibbon, Glasgow Store Eden Vine Hotel, New North Road—Mr Popleton ROSBS' HOTBL, SXMONDS-3TREET—Mr Rose Newton—Mr Mclndoe's Store, Newton Ne-w North Road—Mr Collins, Bootmaker Newton Road—Mr Walsh HOMOEOPATHIC DISPENSAEY, 44, SHORTLAND-STREET, A few doors above the Post Office (same side). MR. GARRICK. HOMCEOPATHIC AND GALVANIC TREATMENT. Hours of Consultation :—From 10 o'clock in the forenoon till 2 o'clock; From 5 till 8 in the evening. Homoeopathic. Medicines and Magneto Electric "■'• ■. Machinery.



GENUINE SALE DRAPERY & CLOTHING AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES ! THE WHOLE STOCK TO BE CLEARED OUT. H. ATKINS Begs to inform his numerous customers and the public that he^jhas commenced a GENUINE CLEARING-OUT SALE pf *""" or HIS WHOLE STOCK OF •D-RAPBEY AND CLOTHING ] Which ha 3 been RE-MARKED, an! HEAVY BEDUCTIONB made on j every article. 11. ATKINS Begs to say that it isjmore particila'ly h CLEAR OUT A HEAV URPLU3 STOCK of DRESS MATERIALS, BLACK & COLOURED SILKS, AND CLOTHING, But that lie feels that he cannot advertise a CHEAP SALE Without including Manchester and other plain Goods : he has therefore REDUCED the prices of the whole Stock. Purchasers 1 have now an opportunity of buying Household Goods, such SHEETINGS, QUILTS, BLANKETS, TABLE LINEN, Sc at WHOLESALE PRICES, AND DRESS MATERIALS, BLACK & COLOURED SILKS, CLOTHING, <4c., &c, AT CONSIDERABLY LESS THAN WHOLE SALE PRICES. The f wing REDUCTIONS on the Prices have been made, and are genuine :— Dress Materials, 20 to 25 per cent reduction Black and Coloured Silks, 15 to 25 per cent reduction Japanese Silks, 15 to 25 per cent reduction Sheetings, Quilts, Blankets, Long Curtains, Table Linen, Crimean Shirtings, Flannels, Drills, &0., 12J to 15 per cent redaction Ladles' Silk Umbrellas, 15 to 20 cent reduction Black Alpaccast Cob t.rgs, French Merinocs, and all plain Goods, 12£ per cent reduction Silk Jackets, Lace Jackets, &c, 5 to 40 per cent reduction. IN THE CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Tweed Suits, Coats, Trowser?, Trowers and Vests, and Youth's Clothing, &c, 15 to 25 per cent reduction Tweeds, White Shirts, Crimean Shirts, Hats, Scarfs, Ties, Collars, Hosiery, &c, 15 to 25 per cent reduction. Real Macintosh Coats, 33s (id, all sizes ; usual price, 45s to 555. GOODS IN ALL DEPARTMENTS IN THE SAME RATIO. NOTE. B»" THIS IS THE FIRST JCLEARING-OTJT SALBJ H.A. HAS ADVERTISED, :AND IS A GENUINE ONE. H. ATKINS, LATB HAY AND HONEYMAN. I



j (TO SGR AY E & CO. Queek-street,|Atjcb:lanb, Annource for POSITIVE SALE their Magnilctnt Lvga Stoci o! DRAPERY AND CLOTHING, Comprising— Black and Colored Silks Mantles, Shawls, Fancy Dresses French Beges, Balernos, Printed Mnslins i Batistes, Prints, Brilliants, Sattems Printed Cambrics, ManchesterLGoods Calicoes, in Horrocks's and Crewdson'smake Wet-wove Brown Hollands Finlay's Sheetings, Tickings Damask Cloths, Napkins^Tablings Quilts Curtains—in Damask, Muslin, and Lace Ladies Underclothing Umbrellas and Parasols Feathers, Flowers, Ribbon 3 Gloves, Hosiery Haberdashery and Trimmings Millinery and Straw Goods. IN READY-MADE CLOTHING GESTLEMEN, YOUTSS, & BOY 3, There i 3 no better made or better assorted stock in the Colonies. HATS, SHIRTS, TIES, SCARPS, HANDKERCHIEFS Every portion of the Stock Seduced to COST PKICE ; and under quantities of useful Goods, in all the Departments, will be subjected to I .^PARALLELED REDUCTIONS. / The.Stock iB well-known to be the Largest and Be? in New Zealand, purchased direct from .the Manu urers. TjIXTRAORDINARY BARGAINS AT R. W. DYSON'S TEMPORARY PREMISES Opposite the City Hail, FOR ONE MONTH ONLY! MUSLIN DRESSES (White and Coloured), THE NEW FLAX AND OTHER DRESSES, FLANNELS, BLANKETS, SHEETINGS, ADD GENERAL DRAPERY, YAK LAC , HOSIERY, HABERDASHERY, RUFFLES, AND FANCY GOODS LARGE STOCK OF BABYWARES. JBST SPACE BEING SO LIMITED, THE STOCK MUST BE CLEARED. -®» NEXT BROWN & SON'S MUSIC SALOON. LADIES' UNDERCLOTHING, NEW PADS, PLAITS, COMBS' COILS, STEMS, &c. ' • ■ ■'- X



a 91 siF^* \ F IVE SI N OTES WILL BE GriVEN A.WAT AT THE L EVIAT HAN CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT IN THE POCKETS OF COATS, TKOTJSERS, AND VESTS, BETWEEN NOW AND SATURDAY NIGHT WEEK, The 29th Instant. To convince the public that this -will he a GENUINE GIFT, the names of those who are fortunate will be published. JOSEPH MOSES, LEVIATHAN CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT, Corner of Queen and Shortland-streets, Opposite the Exchange. the Leviathan pLOTHING T7STABLISHMENT, THE TAILORING WE GIVE ESPECIAL ATTENTION. You can be measured for a Tweed Suit from 425. i Tweed Trousers and Vest from 21s. A Perfect FIT Guaranteed, and every Garment well SHRUNK. JOSEPH MOSES, LEVIATHAN CLOTHING ESTABLISHMENT, Corner of Queen and Shortland-streets, Opposite the Exchange. CLOSED ON SATURDAYS TILL tI'ZIO V. . VTEW J7EALAND pfOTJSE, 66, QUEEN-STREET. W. EATTKAY'S FURNISHING DEPARTMENT Is supplied with a LARGE AND WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF BRUSSELS, TAPESTRY, KIDDERMINSTER, AITD FELT CARPETS. 2/4, 5/8, and 3/4 Stair Carpets. Hearth Rugs, Brush and Chain Door Mats. Floor Cloths (best quality), in all widths? The new noiseless Floor Cloth Linoleum. . Flax and Coir Mattings. 4-4, 5-4, 6-£ China Matting, extra quality. TAPESTRY AND VELVET PILE, Embroidered Cloth, Printed Cloth, and Victoria Table Covers* Union and Wool Damasks. Wool Repps. Printed Cabinet Cloth. Cretonnes, Swiss, Lace, Leno, and Muslin Curtains, Green, Buff, and White. Window Hollands, 10/4, 11/4, 12/4, Best Extra. SUPER BLANKETS. Cot Blankets. &0., &c, &c. W. KATTRAY, NEW ZEALAND HOUSE, 66, QUEEN-STREET. ■ /