A Little Hero.

In the city of Hartford, Ct, lives the hero of the true story I am about to relate—hut bo longer 'little' as the perilous adventure which made him famous in his native town happened several years ago. Our hero was "then a bright, active "boy of fourteen—the son of a mechanic. In the severe winter of 1835 the father worked in a factory about a mile from lis home, and every day the boy carried him bis dinner across a piece of meadow land. One keen frosty day he found the snow on the meadow nearly two feet deep and no trace of the footpath remaining. Yet he ran on as fast as possible, plunging through drifts, keeping himself warm by vigorous exercise and brave, cheer ful thoughts. "When in the midst of the meadow, fully half a mile from the house, he suddenly felt himself going down, down! Be had fallen into a well. He sank down> down into the dark, icy water, but rose immediately to the surface. There he grasped hold of a plank which had fallen into the well as he went down. One end of this rested on the bottom of the well; the other rose about four feet above the surface of the water. The poor lad shouted for help until he was almost speech less, but all in vain, as it was imposs ible to make himself heard from such a depth and at such a distance from any house. So at last he concluded that if he was saved at all he must save himself, and begin at once, as he was getting extremely cold in the water. So he went to work , Pirst he drew himself up the plank, and braced himself against the top of it and the wall of the well, which was of brick and quite smooth. Ihen he pulled off his coat, and taking out his pocket-knife he cut off his boots, that he might go to work to a greater advantage. Then with his feet against one side of the well and his shoulders against the other, he worked his way up by the most painful exertion about half the distance to the top. Here he was obliged to pause to take breath and gather up his energies for the work yet before him. Ear harder was it than all he had gone through, for the side being from that point covered with ice, he must cut with his knife grasping places for his fingers, slowly and carefully all the way up* It was almost a hopeless attempt, but it was all he could do. And here the little hero lifted up his heart to Gk>d and prayed fervently for help, fearing that he could never get out alone. Doubt less the Lord heard his voice calling from the deep and pitied him. He wrought no miracle to save him, but he breathed into his heart a yet larger • measure of calmness and courage, strengthening him to work out his own deliverance. «. After this, the little hero cut his way upward inch by inch. Bis wet stockings froze to the ice and kept his feet from slipping, but his shirt was quite worn from his shoulders ere he reached the top. He did reach it at last—crawled out into the snow and lay down for a moment to rest — panting out his breath in little white clouds on the clear frosty air. He had been two hours and a half in the i well. His clothes soon froze to his body, but he no longer suffered with .. ccld, as full of joy and thankfulness, he ran to the factory where his father was waiting and wondering. The poor man had to go without his ) dinner that day, but you may be sure ho cared little about that, while listen • ing with tears in his eyes to the thrill ing story his son had to relate to him. .He must have been proud of the boy that day as he wrapped him in his . own warm overcoat, and took him home to 'mother.' And how that mother must have wept and smiled over the lad, and kissed him and thanked 0-od.for him!— Grace Green wood.

How He got Even with Him.

Ik East Toledo there is a man whom 1 the boys all regard as a crusty old bear, without one grain of sympathy in his composition, and who regards all the . boys as so many pests. It's a sort of mutual feeling* of dislike on general principles. On Monday night, one of the aforesaid boys was on his way home from town, and passed the dining-room window of his particular foe. A big, ugly-looking dog had followed him; ■ bis particular enemy had a dog that 1 was, if anything, uglier and quite as large. The family were at supper; and the head of it sat in his shirt-

sleeves and bare feet, doing vigorous I justice to a plate of cold pork and beans. Ail idea seized the lad. He softly approached the door leading into ■ the dining-room and opened it. His newly-found dog, after ttfe manner of all dogs, plunged into the room with ' 'out. ceremony, and then the boy shut the door and ran for dear life; The ..brute inside went for the strange dog, and they commenced chewing each other's gullets with all the cordiality ■-• of old acquaintances. They knocked over chairs, upset the table on the .old man, and nearly killed the babs. 'The frightened old fellow scrambled ~ out from under the ruins of his supper, tore open the door, and ran down street •in his bare feet through the snow anH OTer the ice, flourishing a case-knife .;■••*&& shouting for help; Bis wife 4 ..™1? Kttle ones, including jthe C>Mmjms^f*%s\ under her arms* anil ftowng .ta> a ; bed-room tfor safety^

trenched herself in the middle of a bed. Finally the dog who belonged to the house whipped the stranger, the old man returned, and order was again restored.— Toledo Commercial.

How Lovely Woman Selects a Piece of Meat.

Wsen a woman enters a butcher-shop to select a piece of meat for dinner! she has made up her mind to have mutton roast. Therefore, when the butcher rubs his hands and asks what she will have, she promptly replies : j ' I'll take some of that mut—' She stops there. Her eye has caught sight of a ham, and she sud denly decides to take ham. 'Is that nice ham?' she inquires. ( 'Best ham I ever saw, madam. How much?' 1 Well you can give me three p . Well, I don't know either. My hus band was saying he'd like some sausage. Have you any real nice sausage?' 'Plenty, madam. Now, then, how much sausage will you have?' It's pork sausage, is it?' ' Yes, ma'am.' 'Well I suppose a pound would be enough for our small family, but—but' ' bhall I weigh a pound, madam?' ' I was just wondering if a veal pot pie wouldn't suif; him better,' she answered. ' You have veal, 1 suppose ?' ' Oh, yes, madam. B ere's a splendid bit of yea good a piece as I ever saw.' ' Yes, that does look like nice veal,' she cays, lifting it up. 'Andyou'll take it?' ' Let's see!' she muses. ' V—no, I guess not. I guess I'd better take' pork-chops.' ' Nice chops—how much ?' he asks. 'One of these slices will weigh a pound, I suppose?' ' About a pound, madam.' * And it was a young hog ?' ' Quite young, madam.' ' And you'll cut the rind off ?' 'Yes, madam.' •Well.' she says, heaving a deep sigh. ' I guess you may give me some beefsteak—some that's nice, and be sure to cut all the bone out!' And she's only been half an hour coming to the point.— Detroit Free Press.

Feminine Strategy.

How a Danbtjby Wife Supplied Hebself with Kindling Wood.

Ljjhes who have husbands who are neglectful in supplying them with kindlings should carefully study the experience of a Division &treet sister. All her married life she has had an unbroken struggle with her husband to keep herself supplied with wood, and the greater part of the time she has been obliged to depend upon her own deftnees with the axe, and any man who has seen a woman handle an axe knows what a dreadful thing it is. Two months ago she begged of him not to go away without leaving her some kindlings, He said he wouldn't. But he finally did. Then she hit upon a plan. She had four dozen clothes pins. She took one dozen of them for starting the fire, and found they worked admirably. The next day she used another dozen, and so she continued until the four dozen were gone. Then she went to the store and purchased another four dozen—having them ' put in the bill.* When they were gone she repeated the errand. She said no more to him about kindlings. Kor ten years she had kept up the battle, and now she was tired and sick at heart. He could go his own way and she would go hers—patiently, un complainingly—until the end would come. On Monday he signified at the store that he would like to settle his account. The bill was made out and handed him. He glanced down the items. As he advanced along the column his face began to work. First his eyes slowly enlarged, then his mouth gra dually opened, caused by the drooping of his lower jaw; and wrinkles formed on his forehead. One third down the column he formed his lips as if to whistle. Half way down he said: ' Gracious!' A little on he said: 'Thunder!' Pour more lines were taken in, and he spoke again: ' By the jumping Jupiter!' Then he read on, smiting his thigh vigorously, and giving vent to various expressions of the liveliest nature. Einally he threw the bill down. •Isay Benson, look here; this bill can't be mine; youv'e got me mixed up with some laundry.' 1 That's your bill, sir' said the grocer smiling pleasantly. ' I tell you it can't be,' persisted the Division street man, beginning to look scared. ' Why, here's fifty-five dozen clothes-pins in a two months' bill. What on earth do you take me for—a four-story laundry ?' 'But it is your bill. Tour wife can explain it to you. She ordered the pins.' 'My wife.' gasped the unfortunate man. . j ' Yes, sir.' The debtor clutched the bill, jammed it into his pocket, and hurried straight home. He bolted into the house with out any abatement of speed, and flinging the paper on the table before his wife, knocked his hat Jon the bacjc of his head, and said: r 'Martha. Ann Johnson,^what] does

this mean ? There are fifty-five dozen clothes pins in Benson's bill for the past two months, and he said you ordered every blessed one of them.' ' And so I did,' said she demurely, JW-h-at! Fifty-five dozen clothes pins in two months 1' and he shot down into a chair as if a freight car had fallen atop of him. 'Fifty-five dozen clothes-pins in two months!' he howled. ' Will a just heaven stand that!' ' I tell you, you needn't stare at me in that way, Beuben Wheeler Johnson, nor go calling unto heaven with your impiousness. I ordered them clothes pins myself, and I have burnt every one of 'em in that there stove, just because you were too all-fired lazy to get a stick of wood. And I declare, before I'd be bothered jawing and fighting to get you to cut wood, I'll burn every clothes pin in the land, and you shall pay for them, if you have to sell the shirt on your back to do i . So now!' And Mrs. Johnson, with a face pike scarlet, snatched up the broom, and went to sweeping the carpet as if every flake of dust was a ied hot coal, while the unhappy Mr. Johnson has tened to the store and paid the bill. And before dark that night he had a half cord of wood sawed, split and piled up ready for use. — Banhury News.

Varieties.

Flags of All Nations.—Paving stones. Sensible Opinions.—Those that concide with jour own. When is a cafe like a tea-pot ?—When you're teasin' it. 1 This is to my face' as the young lady Baid to the powder-puff. Sense shines with a double lustre when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel -worth a kingdom.— William Perm. Why was Gen. Sherman the most gallant general iv the army ? Because he marched across the country to Savannah (Save Anna). What are those things which, though they appear twice in every day, and twice in every week, yet are only seen twice in a year ? Vowels. Why do girls like looking at the moon ? Be cause there is a man in it. What ship carries more passengers than the Great Eaalern ? Courtship. Why is the bell of an omnibus like a man's conscience ? Because it is an inward check on the outward man. Who says angels must be young and splen did ? Will there not be some comforting oneß shabby and tender ; whoße radiance does not dazzle nor bewilder ; whose faces are worn, perhaps, while their stars shine with a gentle, tremulous light, more soothing to our aching, earth-bound heart than the glorious radiance of brighter spirits ?—Miss Thackeray. There appeared once in the London Times the following advertisement, ' to be sold a gi/, | the property of a gentleman without a head.' ' Please don't,' said Augustine Brohan, to a person who touched her foot under the table, My heart is old and my boots are new.' Anna Dickinson, alone and single handed will do more toward making people give up theatre going than a regiment of Talmages. She is going to act. Why is a dishonest bankrupt like a poor man ?—Because both/<zi7 to get rich. Honour thy father and thy mother, par ticularly abou^i circus time, when yon don't know where to raise fifty cents. A reporter writes of a man whose two legs had been cut off by a railway train* • He will probably be a cripple for life.' When a foreigner finds that plague is a word of one syllable, and ague, a part of the plague, is a word of two, he wishes that the plague might take one half of the English language and ague the other. A very religious eld lady being asked her opinion of the organ of a church, the first time she had ever heard one, replied,' It is a very pretty box of whistles, but, oh! its an awful way to spend the •abbath.' A Pittsburgh lawyer drew a writ, the other day, which a deputy Bheriff went to serve, and found the party had been dead for a week or t wo. The officer returned the paper indorsed, 1 Present place of abode unknown.' — Boston Traveller 't> An editor wrote: 'The first duty a man owes his country is to stand by its consti tutional rights.' It appeared in hie paper thus: 'The first putty a man does his courting is to stride in continental tights.' Alynx-eyedproof-rcaderandanintelligentcom positor are now dodging about town aB best they can, to avoid a frenzied editor with a double-barrelled shot-gun.— AlbanyArgus. Dr, Barnes, when nintey-fire years of age'| slept during a sermon, and on being joked about it by a friend, insisted he had been awake all the time. 'Well, then,' said his friend, 'can you tell me what the sermon was about ?' ' Yes, I can,' he answered— * it was about half an hour too long.' When a girl crops her front hair, and pnlls it down over her forehead like a Mexican mus tang, ftHd then ties a piece of red velvet round her neck, who can wonder at the number of palwfactd young men that thiow away their ambition, and pass sleepless nights in trying to raise down on their upper lips, — Kansas City Times. A letter passed through the Detroit Post office the other day, bearing the following superscription: 4To the Fat Kuss what eddits the Pontyac weekly ' Gazette' and sent me a duhnin' letter in a envelope he stoll; Pontyac, Michigan.' A blunderbuss—Kissing the wrong girl. A man sticki at nothing when he tries to stab a ghost, ~].!'..._,. ,;■.■ : - n / li;:! ;; : .

That Amateur Flute.

Hear the fluter with his flute— Silver flute— Ob, what a world of wailing iB awakened by its toot! How it demi-Bemi quavers > On the maddened air of night! And defieth all endeavors To escape the sound or sight Of the flute, flute, flute, With its tootle, tootle, toot— With reitreated tootings of exaspera ted toot The long protracted tootleings of agonizing toots, Of the flute, flute, flute, flute, Flute, flute, flute, And the wheezings and the spittings of its toot. Should he get that other flute —■ Golden flute — Oh, what a deeper anguish will its presence iustitoot! How his eyes to heaven he'll raise, Ab be plays, All the days! How he'll stop us on our ways With, its praise! And the people, oh! the people, That don't live up in the steeple, But inhabit Christian parlora Where he visiteth and plays— Where he plajF, plays, plays In the crudest of ways, And thinks we ought to listen, And expects us to be mute, Who would rather have the ear-ache Than the music of his flute— Of his flute, flute, flute, And the tootings of its toot— Of the toots wherewith he tooteth its agonizing toot

Of the flute, flewt, fluit, floot, Phlute, phlewt, phlewght, And the tootle, tootle, tootin' of its toot.

The German Lady in Her Household.

[From tho Lecture by Carl Scliurz on

Educational Problems.] Business qualities, too, are needed in a household. In the upper classes of society, he knew, it was reckoned un fashionable to do anything practical, except, indeed, to go shopping, and that, he thought, was about the most unpractical thing he knew of. They prided themselves on doing nothing. A lady of this country had once expressed to him her great surprise at having noticed, while on a visit to the wife of Prince Bismarck, that she went about her tiouse with a bunch of keys at her waist and personally superin tended the affairs of her own household. In Germany that bunch of keys is re garded as more ornamental than splendid diamonds. The diamonds merely prove that the lady has a rich husband. The keys prove that she has elevat6d herself above the rank of a drone in society. Perhaps the very spirit that makes them wear those bunches of keys is a strong attraction to their future husbands ; for to any sensible man those keys would be a strong attraction. And if in our own society ladies would wear bunches of keys rather than costly diamonds, it would be greatly improved. At the beginning of the last century a lady educator of great experience said to the first Napoleon, who was visiting her institution, that any educational system is wrong which does not educate mothers. ' Madam' said he; ' there is in that remark wisdom of a whole science. What a nation wants is mothers.' But at what age shall this education be begun ? A lady once asked the same question of a celebrated teacher, and he asked her in reply how old her child was. 1 Four years,' she answered. ' Then, madam,' said he,' you have lost four years already.' And the remark was a true one, for in the first ten years of our lives, if not in the first five, more is learned tban in any other period of corresponding length. And we learn it almost entirely from our mothers. While the father works, the mother teaches. She opens our eyes to see, and our minds to under stand. The germs of good or evil she first plants in our souls. The home and the nursery are the first school, and the mother is its genius. What, then, should .our girls learn to fit them for this position ? They should learn the dignity of work. Our girls need a just understanding of the dignity of work. The greatest danger of woman in this country is the emptiness of her daily life.

A Bright Woman.

The presence of mind and prompt courage of woman need never here after be doubted, since Mrs Church, of Newark, has so conspicuously demon strated her possession of those qualities. She was sued by a sexton, who had slipped and broken his leg while hold ing her horse, for the value of the leg. The sexton obtained a verdict in which his leg was estimated to be worth $2,000, which sum Mrs. Church will be expected to pay. Now, mark the manner in which that astute woman received the news of the verdict. In stead of bursting into tears and in sisting that she would never pay the extortionate sexton for his grossly over-valued leg, she quietly went out into the street, selected a nice icy bit of pavement, and, gracefully falling down, broke her arm. Of course she will sue the city of Newark for the value of that arm, and, of course, no jury will estimate it at a higher rate than the sexton's leg. Indeed, she will pro bably make a handsome profit out of the affair, besides demonstrating that her sex is capable of the most brilliant feats of legal strategy.— -New York World. . • j

The General Chorus.

We all keep step to the marching chorus ■ j Rising from millions of men around, i . MilHonß have marched to the sam« before us, Millions ceme on with a sea-like sound. I Life, Death! Life, Death! , .t ' Such is the song of human breath. i Wbat is this multitudinous chorus, ! Wild, monotonous, low, and loud? j Earth we tread on, heaven that's o'er us ? ' I in the midst of the moving crowd ? « Life, Death .'Life, Death! What is this burden of human breath ? On with the rest, your footsteps timing! Mystical music flows in the song! jj . (Blent with it?— Born from it?)—loftily chiming, I Tenderly soothing, it bears you along. Life, Death ! Life, Death 1 \ Strange is the chant of human breath!! / :,.,..,; :n, • ' ■ •—Eraser's Magazine.

Snow-balling Farmers.

Snow-balling farmers,' said Bijah as he handed out a small boy. ' Bub,' said the Court, after a long look over the desk, ■ suppose you had killed an honest, hard-working farmer by hitting him with a snow ball!' ' I won't never do it again!' sobbed the boy. ' Suppose, my son, you had killed I him, and his body had been taken to the morgue, and word of the terrible affliction sent to his family. Imagine, bub, the terrible grief of his gray haired partner, the tears and sobs of his children! Picture the scene to yourself. It is dark; a happy family has gathered around a cheerful stove hearth. They are waiting for husband and father to arrive with four pounds of brown sugar, half a pound of sal aratus, five cents worth of molasses candy and three crash towels. A sleigh drives up. They rush to the windows and doors crying: ' Father has come!' but a strange knock is heard. 'J he door is opened, the man asks if Mr. Miller lives there, and then in a sad voice goes on to say that Mr. Miller is no more, a Detroit boy named Patsey Hern having murdered him with a snow-ball ! Graze on the picture, my son—imagine the sorrow and woe and desolation !' ' Oh ! boo-hoo-woo !' wailed the boy. ' You see, my son, this world is becoming crowded for room, and if each one of us goes through life kicking and striking and throwing, some one will get hurt. Let your mind dwell on these things, my boy, and see if you can't get along after this with out trouble. You may run home^now, and if your father ever buys you a hatchet, and you cut his cherry tree, don't lie out of it when he a9ks who's been hacking at his standing timber. — Detroit IPree Press.

"De Pervisions, Josiar."

A sapient looking ITayettevill-3 darkey, oscillating between twenty and twenty five summers, overtook an old negro on the street the other day, and wedg irjg him in a fence corner, proceeded to acquaint him with all the gorgeous provisions of the Civil Bights Bill. Toung Africa imparted to old Africa a fund of valuable information, thusly: ' Well, Uncle Billy, Sumner's swivel rights bill has passed de Senate ob de United States widout a murmur.' * Is dat so, Josiar ?' ' Jess so, Uncle Bill. And say, Uncle Billy, we colored pussons is gwine to see whose pervisions is in de pot. We are gwine to be allowed to ride free on de railroods, smoke in the ladies' car, and put our feet on de per cussions ob de seat's wheneber we please.' ' Is dat so, Josiar ?' ' Jess so, Uncle Bill. And say, Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to stop at de hotels, and eat at the head ob de table, and hab de biggest slices ob de chickeDS, and lay around in de parlor, and spit on de carpets find make de white trash hustle themselves and wait on us widout grumblin', and wheneber de boss ob de concern shoves a bill at us, we'll hab . him sent to Washington and obscured in the Plenipotentiary.' ' Is dat so, Josiar ?' * Jess so, Uncle Billy. And say, Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to go to de white schools and set up on de natform wid de teacher and learn gehography, trigger-manometry, ge hominy, Latin, Dutch, French, Choctaw, algebray, rheumatics, de rule of thrice, and de diarrhea.' 1 Gtood Q-racious! is dat so, Josiar ?' 1 Jess so, Uncle Billy. And say, Uncle Billy, we's gwine to be allowed to be buried in italic coffins wid look ing-glasses on top ob dem, and dey will hab to carry us on a herrse to de grabe yard and bury us on top ob de white folks, so when de day ob resurrection am arrived and de angel Gabriel come tootin' along, he'll sing out troo his trumpet: ' All you colored gemmen rise fust!' And say, Uncle Bill, de pervisions, ob dat bill—' ' What's dat you say 'bout pervisions, Josiar ?' ' Well, Uncle Billy, as I was gwine on to state, de pervisions ob dat bill—-' 'Stop right dare, Josiar. You say dare's pervisions in dat bill ?' ' Jess so, Uncle Billy. De pervisions obdebill—'.... 1 Stop right dare, Josiar. Ef dare's pervisions in dat bill, I want a sack ob flour dis berry minnit. Blarst de smokin' in de ladies car, and de geho graphy, and Latin, and de italic coffins ! I want de pervisions, Josiar. Dey's all dereas in de bill wuffa cent'!'" —JFayetteville (Ga.) JSxpress.

A good story is told of an old farmer whose son had for a long time been ostensibly studying Latin in a popular academy. The old farmer, not being perfectly satisfied with the course arid conduct. of the young hopeful, recalled him from school, and, placing him by thje side of a cart one day, he thus addressejd him: • Wow, Joseph, here is a fork, arid there is a heap,of manure and a cart; what do you call them in Latin ?' • Forfc-' ibus. cartibus. et manuribus,' replied Joseph. ' Weli, now,' said the old farmer, 'if you don't take that forkibus pretty quickibus, and pitch that manuribus into that oartibua, I'll break your lazy backi bua.' Joseph went to workibus forthwith ibus. A correspondent writes to us to learn if a deaf boy can.become a book-keeper. Certainly. Is there not a maxim of *deaf as an adder?'

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SUPPLEMENT TO THE ATTCKL AND EVENING STAE.



rp 0 THE WOEKING MEN OF • AUCKLAND. Fellow Workmen :— We regret that circumstances compel U8 to make the following appeal to you, and at the same time to place before you a few cancise facts bearing upon our mutual in terests. For a considerable^, time past you have been grossly misrepresented by a portion of the trading community of this city. Many of you are aware that the Early Closing Association have been constant in their en deavours to establish a uniform hour for closing the retail drapery and clothing estab ishments, namely, at 6 p.m. from Monday to Friday, leaving the hour for closing on Saturday an open question. The Association has been only partly successful, having been met by the most determined opposition by a few tradesmen whose action in "this matter we refrain from characterising in terms it so justly merits. They assert it is to supply your wants that they keep open till 9 or 10 o'clock at night. Now, this is the point upon which we wish to concentrate your particular and earnest attention. We are personally acquainted with many of you, and have no hesitation in saying that we believe this assertion to be a base slander upon you as a body, and we ask you to join us in re moving it once, and for ever. We have yet to learn, that you, having secured the eight hour system to yourselves, are so lost to every right feeling between man and man, as to be, not only indifferent to the position and fate of your fellow workers, both male and female, but that you are the actual cause; that it is your in dividual action which justifies these men in a determined effort to establish a late system of trading, which,, if successful, would com pel the assistants to work double the number of hours allotted to yourselves. I ■ In Melbourne and Sydney the same opposition was experienced ; but true to the great principle that had formed their bond of Union, the Trade Unions rallied round the Association, and openly declared that they would not support the houses that kept open after six o'clock. What the Trade Unions did for them, we ask the work shops, the manufactories, the friendly i societies, and others to do for us. ■ ' - We shall in a few days meet the various trades, and the men engaged on all the con tracts in and about Auckland, and shall ask them to delegate one from each calling to act with us as a sub-committee. The opposition experienced has neces sitated a constant expenditure, the funds for which have been subscribed by the assis tants in weekly payments—many of these contributions coming from young girls whose earnings are not more than twelve or fifteen shillingß per week. Under such circumstances, we ask you it is not absolutely incredible that you-—the very bone and sinew of the country—should have the credit of perpetuating such a state of things. If you support this late system you are false to yourselves—you are sapping the foundation of your own" institutions ; you are tearing a strand from your bond of union, and fostering a canker worm about the roots of the tree you have reared and guarded with such jealous care and beneath the shade of which you have enjoyed time for mental improvement, with social recreation, and numberless other advantages, the immediate offspring of a proper adjustment of time and labour. Trusting that you will afford us a hearty response, and cordial co-operation,— We are respectfully yours, The Committee of the Eaely Closing Association.



—w————^ -.. V L , HOT BERI%gf TO THE SICK AND DEBILITATED. Follow Shakespeare's advice, " Throw Physic to I the dogs," and visit the Waiwera Hot Springs Th a ■ . healing virtues of these famous springs border on S the miraculous, scores of persons afflicted with ''<& Paralysis, Rheumatism, Eruptions, Contracted and : I Stiff Joints, Gout, Lumbago, Skin Diseases, Sore Heads, and varieties of painful diseases have been I restored to perfect health through bathing in these I marvellous springs, and drinking the mineral water who gratefully bear testimony to the fact. The water has been pronounced the most remarkable healing I water in the world, and effected most wonderful " ' ' cures. :, TO THE TOURIST OR PLEASURE SEEKER IN LUSTY HEALTB the Waiwera Hot Springs will be a source of amaze- i ment and delight. The, scenery in the neighbourhood is diversified and picturesque, and affords abundant material for the Botanist, Geologist, Painter, Poet ■ or Recluse. j|, THE FAMILY HOTEL is fitted with every convenience for comfort. A wel % supplied table is provided, and this, coupled with B excellent accommodation, attention, civility, and i|-' moderate charges, leave nothing the most fastidious I' can desire. A Yacht is kept for the use of visitors. There ig m fishing, shooting, and other pastimes for the strong or convalescent. Steamers leave Auckland (which is only 24 miles Si; distant) for the Hot Springs twice a week, and there are two conveyances twice a week overland., d I Wakefield-street, Auckland, • :': ;.;■ December 14,187*. ■ r-~ Sir, —Faring derived much benefit from bathing : in your Hot Springs, Waiwera, I think it is a duty I that I owe to the public—especially suffering humanity—that my case should be made known. Before I went to the Springs I suffered for more ■ than a month the most excruciating pain from rheu matic gout, had to be lifted in and out of bed, in .-, ' fact was unable to walk without the use of two sticks, i It took me an hour to walk from Wakefield-street toJH the 'Lady Bowen.' After getting to the Springs I I bathed twice a day and drank freely of the mineral I waters, at least a pint each day, and after six days I I felt quite well, iree from pain, and can walk as well J1 as ever I did. It is now eleven days since I left arid I have had no return of pain. If this should induce- ••.■■ any person suffering as I was to try the hot baths, I ■; feel sure they will get cured, and if so, serve the object I have in writing to you.—l am, sir, your . obedient servant, Thos. Weaving. Robert Graham, Esq. Auckland, January 5,1875.: i Mr Robert Graham, Sir, —Understanding you are the proprietor of the Hot Springs at Waiwera, I think it is only due to you I to give a short account of my successful experience of the efficacy of the Springs in the cure of Bheuma- ' . tism. I had been suffering from Rheumatism since I the year '69, contracted through cold and wet work ing on the West Coast, and from that time until I left the Springs I had suffered periodically from the it same. The second bath I took brought back all the I rheumatic xoains I had ever experienced in different * parts of my body. At the end of a fortnight I wag .■& free from all pains, with the exception of the ankles ■■...' (which was always the worst part affected), and with I the exception of my feet being very tender from so much hot bathing lam quite a new man; I have not 1 the slightest pain of Rheumatism about me, not even • in the ankles. To parties visiting the Springs I should advise them not to feel alarmed or disap pointed if they find themselves worse the first day or .;. two; according to the general opinion it shows the ; action of the waters. Also I would recommend the :■ drinking at least two or three glasses of water both '. on entering and leaving the bath; also, sweating in the blankets, for which accommodation is provided '■•>■' in each bath; and to parties affected with acute \ Rheumatism I think the more they use them the more speedy will be the cure. > , I remain, sir, Yours respectfully, C. H. WILLOUGHBT. Auckland, 10th January, 1875. Dear Sir,— In the interests of those who may be similarly ; afflicted, and in recognition of the benefits I derived at your sanatorium, the Waiwera Hot Sbrings, desire to record the efficacy of the baths and wat •*■ in the cure of Dyspepsia, from which I hai suffer many months. Thanks, however, to the virtues a, the mineral waters, together with a free use of bath 6 I was relieved of the distressing symptoms, and hay since enjoyed the best of health. Yours truly, John Bent. Robert Graham, Esq. Robert Graham, Ksq. Dear Sir, —Having suffered from rheumatism for some time past, on the recommendation of my medical adviser, Dr. Turnbull, of Christchurch, I visited your Hot Springs. After three weeks'bath ing and drinking the mineral water, I am restored to perfect health. In fact, I have not felt so well for years as I am at present. The trip altogether has been a most enjoyable one. I found the hotel com fortable, excellent table, attendance good, civil and obliging, pleasant for the invalid seeking health, or the man of business requiring laxation. I know of no V place in New Zealand where a person could pass a few weeks more agreeably than at your Hot Springs. | Yours faithfully, J. J. FITZGrBBON, Postmaster, Christchurch. n EOR G E W. OW EN, I FORT-STREET, AUCKLAND, HAS ON SALE, TD ARRIVE EX SHOOTING STAR, FERff 3LEN, EMILY TtfcLAREN, DUNBDIN, ' >W CALLER OU&j&c.— -. IB 80 barrels and cases New Currants ■'? '-Mm 80 cases bottled Fruits &i boxes Eleme Raisins 7 cases Figs and Muscatels 20 barrels Prunes 20 cases Imperial Plums, 21b and 41b bottles . 25 cases Red Herrings, Whybrow's 20 cases Fresh Herrings, Morton's 30 half-barrels Pickled, do > ml , . | 2 tons Ling / Overall ; -,| 30 cases Lobsters and Mackerel 38 bales Paper and Paper Bags 50 cases Capers and Currie Powder ~ j ''J 50 cases Vinegar, Whybrow's ana Morton's 50 cases Bottled Salt 3 cases Essences 7 casks Canary, Hemp, and Rape Seed - ■ {: 6 casks Carraways ... .''§»H 21 cases Taylor's and Epp's Cocoa, &c - f ''" 32 cases and casks Blacking . ?>; | 40 cases Kieller's Jujubes and Confectionery' ■• 40 cases Marmalade 350 boxes Candles , ' S 35 cases Brown and Poison's Corn Flour 160 boxes Pipes and Bath Bricks 65 cases Castor and Salad Oil ■.: ,*fs| 50 cases Colman's Mustard and Blue 82 gross Nixey's Black Lead I 2 tanks Sago and Tapioca * ■ I 5 cases Liquorice, loz sticks ■ 70 casks Bi-Carbonate Soda and Crystal . . M "3 8 cases Twine and Lines 4 cases Brushware 'i -13 cases Baking and Egg Powder 16 cases Fancy Soap and Soap Powders ' " ' ' B 2 cases Chlorodyne Nutmegs, Spice, Piments, Ginger, &c. \ -55 drums Linseed Oil 108 tons Paint, &c. '■> ' *. I 4 tons Crushed Lump and Loaf Sugar . 30 cases Bell and Black's Vestas, 250's and Plaadl, ■ ON S A L E By the Undersigned : , „ ..| Candles—Brandon's Pickles—Morton's and Whybrow'al Salmon—American Preserved Milk—Eagle Brand Salad and Castor Oil Coleman's White Starch Confectionery . . Ijffl Malt, English' Tanks . : "*' lea —Boxes and half-chests . I Jams—Peaks, Peacock and Hawkins Tart Fruits, ditto ditto c I Candied Orange Peel Butter—Sydney »nd Canterbury Bran, Pollar*» Maize, Oatd ' . on ,1 Wheat Crushed Otti : ■"' I Lucerne P^y • ,; ,-|j Preservsfl Jffeat and Soups ' Kesnr ~,,;•■. ,'* \ ■'■:. &C.. C OEO. W. BINNEY, AGENT __l 3 ON SALE, to arrive ex Agnes, Excelsior, Fairle, and Lsetitia, ■. ■- 100 tons Oamaru flour 500 bags oats 100 sicks oatmeal g. w. binney: -\ QN SALE, EX^MAKY ADAI? Expectfid to arrive about the end of the present month, a Cargo consisting of about 200 TONS SUGAR (assorted expressly for this market) GEO. W. BESTNTEY.