A GHASTLY ROMANCE.

BY JAY CITAEXTON

If you had lived in. New York a year ago and had ever visited the new Court-house, you might any day have seen a tall, white-haired man ascending the stairway towards the Supreme Court chambers. His face was full of hard, cold lines, and the nostril was twitched upwards in cynical disdain. His lips had evi dently been red and full once, but now they were bloodless, and crue',, and cold, and his teeth had pinched them in. Once his eyes had been a bright bine ; but now they were cold and stern as steel. His hands were always clenched, as if his nails were burrowing into the palm. His square shoulders were braced back, as if he stood aloof from the world. No smile ever came to his lips and no moisture ever saddened his eyes. He walked, and looked, and spoke like an aged grenadier. If you asked him a question raid he deigned to notice you, his voice came snappishly in ruthless monosyllables, and his teeth settled back on his thin lips like exclamation points. Men feared 'him; men hated him. He did not care. If by any chance you followed him into Court, and saw him en~ "•stred in a case, your dislike of the man was hardly mollified by your admiration of his skill as a lawyer. Unhappy the witness opposed-to him. He was one of the keenest cross examiners the world ever saw. He was a scalpel undertaking vivisection. No man or woman ever escaped his cruel intellect. He did not rise to the noblest height of any occasion, but he never sank into the mud. His words came without accent. He was an animated •interrogation mark. His replies were witty only when they ruined a case for his enemies. Once a witness replied to him, " Why, any fool knows that." Said he, care lessly, "So I see." He won many cases. He was exceedingly wealthy, for he was remorseless in his charges'. I have" seen him at midday on the cold stones at Delmonico's, eating a tongue sandwich and drinking ice-water.. ' He always walked down town, even on the coldest days, and he never wore gloves. I think I never saw him in an overcoat. His clothes were always black and close-fitting. His necktie was narrow and black. No one ever heard him quote a line of poetry, but he had been known to quote from Voltaire and Timon of Athens. Someone once quoted in his presence a line from A Midsummer Ni»kfs Dream. His eyes showed no sign of recognition. I came to know him in this way : One day I was in Wail-street as he came down the iron stairway from his office. It appears that as he reached the corridor he stumbled against a basket' over which was a towel. From the depth-, of that basket came a cry. It was that of a baby. One or two passers stopped, but he was going on, when some one said, " Here is a foundling." He glanced at it as if he would have cursed it ; and he saw that, as the basket overturned, the child, a pretty, little, girl had rolled out on the cold stones and was bleeding from its mouth. Then he said to a woman who was scrubbing there, " Take that brat away." A few days afterwards I saw that the woman was again scrubbing the steps. Said Ito her, "What became of the baby?" She replied that a crooked old man with an ugly face had come and paid her $10 for it; and had promised to take good care of it. It was not long sub sequent to this strange episode, when I one night in Broadway,' near Twenty-third street, stood talking to Myron A. Cooney, and saw a peculiarly ugly old man, as crooked as a cork screw, go by. As Myron had to attend an opera, and as I was waiting to fultil an engage ment to dine with a friend, I strolled after the old man. He went down Twenty-third street, and then north, stopping finally before an elegant brown-stone house. It was a bold looking house, and there was no light in any window. The old man disappeared within the area-way and entered the door. I could see no light. Presently he came out, and I could hear a woman's voice reply in answer to some question, "It is getting on nobly. Do not fear. The mother has been found, and she is being taken care of. She is going to have a cottage near Newburgh or West Point. Its father has gone to Virginia." This surely was none of my business. But a newspaper man cannot always measure matters with a' squeamish mind. I hurried away so as to avoid any feelling of being a spy. I could not, however, help look ing at the house : and as the far-off light threw its ghostly red glare upon the street it fell upon the number and the door-plate, telling me that it was the house of the cold-blooded lawyer. True to the nature of its owner, it was opposite to a graveyard, one of the large, old-fashioned cemeteries'which busines and life have not been able to displace. It was winter, and there was snow everywhere. It lay in great banks in the streets. It made an extra white cornice for the houses. It lay on the wall of the graveyard, and hung, like' great ghostly arms and fingers outstretched on the branches and sprays of the trees.

I do not know what possessed me, or even that I had any will or purpose at all, but it so happened that a few nights afterwards I was walking up the same street. It was two hours after midnight. Cold hung like a pall in the air. The gaslight flickered and fell glamorously on the cold, forbidding snow. The rustic hinges of the cemetery gate creaked till my teeth were on edge. The ice on the side-walks there seemed to be more treacherous than it was any where else. What a cold, cold spot J What a cold, unlighted house ! From a far-off church I heard a bell strike two. How dolefully the the sound came! " One—two —" and they lingered in the air as if they were musing. *' Cold, c-o-l-d." The light seemed to shudder. My heart was a stone. In my pain I looked at the cold, steel-like door-plate, and it seemed to drive me away. In my despair I laid my gloved hand on the rail of the steps. The cold struck through to the bones, and I jerked it away. Why did I not go over towards the cemetery and peep through ? God knows. It was one of those purposes that come over men whom the fates guide. I leaned against the wall next the gate, and soon I heard the muffled sound of music. I glanced up the street and down. Pshaw ! I knew there was no concert saloon within a half mile. Yes; it was thr faint, sad, tone of the violin. Was I dreaming? I took off my glove and hit my hand. I was awake. The snow was falling, and was putting a dim veil of lace over the ghostly red face of the gas-lamp. Ithad covered me, too, so that I was unseen. Presently the gate of the lawyer's house opened, and something came across the street. It was the figure of the crooked, little, ugly old man. He stopped in front of the gate, but he did not see me. I could feel his icy breath. He 16oked up and down the street; but what could he see at that time of night ? He took from his pocket what seemed to be a key, and he opened the gate and went in. He was not long, for he presently reappeared, looked cautiously around, made a nod toward the gate, and a tall figure came out. The face was pale as death, and there were frozen tears on the cheeks. The gaslight flickered through the snow and the ice-drops looked like diamonds set in alabaster. Under the arm of the figure was a violin. I again turned my eyes cautiously toward the figure. That face! Great God! I never want to see it again. It was the face of death. It was the face of the lawyer ! The two crossed the street and entered the basement of the house.

What should I do ? Yes; that was the question. It was only a dim, vague question. I thought calmly that I would go home, and I had hardly will enough to conceive the idea. I made a slight effort to start, I could not. I hardly wanted to. Quietly the idea came to me that I was freezing to death. Just as I felt the last hope go out, the bell rang out, "One —two —three," in" a hoarse, cold monotone. It brought me back my thoughts. I was almost stiff. The gust which just then drove up the street I could hardly hear. Cer tainly I could not feel it. But it drifted the snow from the wall upon me ; it struck me and threw me upon the pavement against the gate. My head was bleeding ; that made the blood begin to circulate, and I started to my feet. Suddenly, in despair, I ran down the street, up the avenue, and soon was in the police station. On the bench by the fir.c lay a reporter from one of the daily papers. My entrance roused him. He started up. Said I, "Charley!" Said he, "Who are you?" I said, "Charlton." Said he, ''You're a bummer; you can't come that one me." I glanced at a mirror ; I would not have known myself JFate is a terrible thing. What W3S it that ££££& §°^J \ a ttJ? mOl™S kacfc to that graveyard? Ridiculous fate, Unwearying /ate.

Cruel, relentless fate. It was easy for me to obtain an entrance, because I knew the authori ties. The snow had long ceaeed to fall. The sun was striking the masts of vessels on the river, as I turned up the street. F*-om the gate I saw the half-filled tracks of two men. " Ah," said I to myself, "what now?" To follow them was easy. They curved around old stones, which stood shouldering themselves up to keep one another from falling, like old men in a crowd, They came at last to one grave over which there was a plain while stone. It bore no name.

A year passed. Illness had driven me from New York. I had seen the yellow brick city of Milwaukee, and dined with Bishop and Chittenden. I had been in the far-west part of Minnesota, and had told stories in the lawyer's offices at Mankato. I had hunted mossagates among the mountains of Wyoming, and tasted the waters of the far-sweeping Salt Lake. I had stood in the Sierra Nevada?, and had looked over the yellow, sun-lighted valley of Sacra mento. I had eaten oranges with Tom Brown on the Pacific shore. I had caught salmon at the mouth of the Columbia. I had plucked bananas fresh from the tree at Honolulu, and stood on the edge of the Pali, where the chief of the Sandwich Islands, in the olden times, had driven their enemies to death. I had trodden the noiseless streets of Acapulco, and had been shot at there for teasing the pretty Mexican girls who sold mangoes. I had seen sunset fall like blood upon the waters of Lake Nicaragua. I had wandered among the forests of Florida; and had swam in the muddy waters of the Mississippi. Where had I not been ?

I was in New York again. Fate was with me. One night I found myself in the old street by the cemetery. It was 3 o'clock. This time I sat by the steps. The same two figures came out of the cemetery gate and came across the street. I hardly knew what I was doing. As they neared the steps I arose in confusion. The pale old man and the ugly man both saw me. The lawyer knew me at once. " You belong to the ?" said he. "Yes." " What do you know ?" This was said like steel. "Everything and nothing," said I. Then I added, " How is the child ?" "Well; but," he added, "why, if you know everything do you know nothing ?" " Because," said I, "I respect the dead." " You do not respect me ?" "No." " You are right. You will write this up ?" " Not while you live." " Nor ever with names?" "No." " Come in." I went into the cold house with them. A dim lamp showed us the way upstairs. The little, ugly, crooked old man disappeared. We ascended to the upper storey. I had to grope along the wall, as the dim lamp and the white old man led the way. Presently a door was opened by him. As we entered he set the lamp down on a table. What a table ! It was of pine, and was unpainted. On it were two cups, two plates, two pairs of knives and forks. On the wall was a dull, cheap old picture ; the floor was bare. An old rusty stove, such as are used in kitchens, was giving out a_cold glare from its broken grate. Still, I felt that the room was warm. It was a room small enough for a log cabin. The old man laid his violin down on the table, and sat down in a broken chair. Tie motioned me to a stool. My sight had come back to me. I saw the old man's colour had come back, and his eyes were blue and moist with tears. His lips were full and red, and wore a sweet smile. The furrows were gone from his cheeks and forehead. He was really beautiful there in the red, warm light. I could not keep my tears back as I sat before the beautiful old man. Finally he said :

" The rest of this house is furnished with great elegance. In the room below is a Murillo and a Titian and a Powers. Take care of your elbow on that table."

I glanced downward, and saw a small picture. By the dim light I saw the features of an exquisitely beautiful young lady, with great .black eyes, and a cascade of raven hair. On the edge of the case was written "My Darling Wife." " Is she dead ?" I stammered. "To me." " Does any one with that face live ?" " In California." "How?" " With a wealthy man—years and years ago —fear not —it causes me no unhappiness —to me she is dead." " Why do you not kill him ?" " It would make her unhappy, and would not make me any the less the devil I am when I am down town." Then the clock struck 3, and the ber.utiful old man with great blue eyes took up the violin and played "Home, Sweet Home." When lie was through we were both crying, he played so swsetly; and I rose and kissed his hand. At length I rubbed my eyes —dawn was breaking through the window —we had both slept. The old man rose, broke some bread, gave me some, drank some water from a pitchra which had been pushed through a small trap in the door, and then he told me I must go. "In this kind of a room, with this kind of furniture, we lived during the only happy year of my life. She is dead." * * * That day I was in the Supreme Court-room. A great case was being tried. There I saw the tall, gruff lawyer, with the wrinkled face, the thin, compressed lips, the cold steel eye, the cruel, unrelenting voice. He was hounding a witness. He was winning his case. As he came out I said, " Good afternoon," He looked .at me savagely, and said, " G-way." " Good heavens !" said I, "did I not break bread with you this morning ?" " And," said he, angrily, I don't care Three weeks passed. Another cold, snowy night had come. Fate again took me to the cemetery gate after the clock had struck 2. The soft, sweet notes of the violin came softly through the curtain of snow. Why did I .climb the wall ? I know not. I walked quietly and uneasily towards the nameless stone. I stopped a short way off. There was the old man sitting and playing to the empty grave as he had played to his young wife in the long ago. The tune was " Home, Sweet Home." How sadly, how softly, how sweetly it came to my ear. I could plainly see him. His hat was off, and the 1 snow on his head was whiter than his hair. He was almost covered with snow. The tune grew slower, and weaker, and sweeter. I leaned against an old stone for support, and felt the tears chasing each other in hail down my cheeks. Suddenly, yet softly, the music stopped at—, " Sweet Home." I looked up. The old man was not sitting there. I hurried to the grave. There he lay as white as the stone, as white as the snow which covered him as a cerement. One arm was around the stone. The violin lay : by his side. The strings were snapped, the bow , was broken and the old man was dead.—Dan bury JVews,

AUXILIARY FAT MEN.

(FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES)

Mr. Chomel is an ingenious person who has devised a new nietkod of propelling ships. The motive power which he pro poses to use is furnished by the waves themselves. Scientific persons agree that there is an immense force developed by the motion of the waves, but they have been entirely unable to utilise ifc Now, how ever, comes Mr. Chomel with a beautiful model and quantities of convincing draw ings, which clearly demonstrate that the rolling motion communicated to a ship by the swell of the sea can be made to piopel the vessel in any desired direction.

The machinery by which Mr. Chomel's model is to be propelled is of the simplest description. It consists merely of a swing ing platform pivoted at the stem and stern posts of the vessel, and connected by a few simple cog-wheels with the shaft of a screw propeller. Every time the vessel rolls, the swinging platform, in the effort to maintain its level, turns the propeller shaft. The more rapidly the vessel rolls, the more swiftly will the screw revolve, and the greater will be the speed developed. Thus, without the expenditure of a ton of coal, or the labour of spreading a yard of canvas, Mr, .Chomel's ship will roll across the Atlantic, .and convert to its own profit the fiercest maftce of the waves.

Wfaiip np -fault can be loimd with this

infention, provided it is used only when the sea is in lirely motion, it is obvious that it will be useless in a dead calm. If the vessel does not roll, the swinging platform will not move, and if the swinging platform does not move, the propeller will not re volYe. Mr. Chomel's craft may shoot gaily by the fastest Cunardcr in heavy -weather, but iv a July calm the slowest steamer will pass her as though she were a dock. How the inventor proposes to remedy this defect we aro not told, but of course the resources ef science will be sufficient to overcome so trifling an obstacle to the success of a meritorious invention. Were Mr. Chomel to build a vessel after the model of a Water-tight "copper cylinder, fitted in the interior with an endless scries of steps, up which the passengers could con tinually climb, she could defy calms as well as storms. Neither screw iii»r swinging platform would be needed, hut the simple device which keeps the treadmill in motion would roll the cylinder over the sea. It is true that the passengers might become weary of the Sisyphiau task of perpetually climbing the aquatic treadmill, ami might occasionally clamour for air and other luxuries, but so long as they could be kept at work there is no doubt that the vessel would move.

There is, however, a much better plan than this ; one, too, which utilises a force almost as powerful as that of the waves, and hitherto as completely neglected. There are a vast number of fat men in the world, and it is painfully evident that they have no clear idea what they are placed here for. The fat man is a mystery to himself, and his vague gropings after his .correct solution are shown by his practice of associating himself with other fat men in clubs, and performing herculean feats of public over eating. Professional observers have failed to interpret the true meaning of the fat men's clubs, and have carelessly assumed that they are organised merely to gratify an abnornal desire on the part of fat men to make themselves conspicuously ridiculous. In reality, they are the outward expression of the fat man's vague feeling that ho has a mission, and of his noble determination to prove that he was not made without a purpose. Mathematicians have calculated that every fat man of the weight of 3001b, con tains S2£ units of work, which, if properly utilised." would be suflicient to raise S3i-lb. 83>}ft. above the surface of the earth at the equator. Nevertheless, although these calculations are familiar to all engineers, no one has yet devised a way to utilise this vast amount of latent energy, and many of our ablest scientific minds have found that the fat man is an enormous .mistake, and that he owes his origin to an occasional absence of mind on the part of nature, who has gone on ueapiag together unnecessary quantities of material when manufacturing a man, and lias thus produced a fat man in a purely unintentional way. Now that Mr Chomel has utilised the wasted energy of the waves, it is time that fat men should be turned to profit, and it is a remarkable coincidence that both waves and fat men can justify their existence by contributing to the perfection of Mr Chomel's new vessel.

As has becnshown, the vessel is propelled by the movement of its swinging platform. In rough weather, the waves will furnish the requisite motion. In calm weather fat men can be used with the best results. The fat man is so constructed by beneficent Nature that lie can roll to an enormous extent with out sustaining any injury, or overheating his bearings by friction. If six fat men, averaging 3001b. each, were to be placed on one side of Mr Chomel's swinging platform, and allowed to 101 l gradually and regularly to the otiier side, the shifting of their weight would immediately depress the platform and cause an entire revolution of the screw. By rolling back to the other side, a like result would follow, and thus, even in the calmest weather, the vessel would be regularly and rapidly propelled. It is estimated that six fat men of the specified weight would' thus develop the equivalent of no less than 1,000 horse power, and were.they to be encouraged with sharp boat-hook.1:, they would probably work up to 1,500 horse-power. Of course, they would only be needed in calm weather, .and would be regarded merely as an auxiliary to the power of the waves. They are imperatively needed, however, to make Mr. Chomel's invention a complete success, and there is no doubt that his ' auxiliary fat men wave-motor' will achieve far greater results than those which will be accom plished by the Keely motor. The new invention will, be hailed with the utmost joy by the fat men. Hence forth life is no longer for them a fat and foolish mockery. They now know that they were not made in vain. It was ages before men discovered how to loose the imprisoned energy of coal, and train it for their service. .Five centuries more were needed before the promise and potency of fat men were fully comprehended. The day has at last dawned when the fat man takes his place among the great sources of mechanical energy, and renders it un necessary for us to dread the future exhaustion of our coal mines.

THE AUTUMN MEETING.

hotspur's review.

Ask any good judge what he thinks of the past meeting, and he will answer, " If we had only had fine weather it would have been the best meeting ever held at Ellerslie." The first day was decently fine,'but the second was simply awful —what with wind and rain and mud. This year's experience should teach the Club Committee that it is absolutely neces sary to make the fixture earlier next year.. Fine weather is much more to be depended on at Eastertide than at the end of May ; and it is to be hoped that the autumn meeting of IS7B will be held on Easter Monday and Tuesday. Two things which particularly strike me in looking back upon the late reunion are the excellence of the general arrangements, and the satisfaction given by the two officials who, as a rule, come in for the lion's share of abuse and grumbling—l mean the handicapper and starter. Mr. Handley and Mr. R. Wynyard must be especially congratulated on their suc cess in discharging the duties of these two very important posts. The Champagne brought out a quartette of fillies and one colt. Of these, the pair that ran first and second, viz., Venus Transit and Longlands, are undoubt edly a long way superior to any of the rest. In Venus Transit Mr Walters has a very useful wear-and-tear-looking animal, who does credit 'both to her dam, the celebrated Peeress, whose first foal she is, and to Sledmere, who is un doubtedly her sire. She is not very big, but at the same time she is not too small to develop into a fifteen two 3-year old, and moreover has grand quality. Her owner did not fancy her, as she was suffering from dentition a day or two before. It is a question whether Long lands could have reversed the Judge's decision had his rider not been obliged to declare 61b. overweight. My impression on the day was that he could, but yesterday's running led me ' to alter my opinion, and I now think the filly will beat the colt whenever they meet on level terms. Queen Mab disappointed her owner and me too. She certainly ran worse in her two races than she had done in her preparatory gallops, and lam afraid she was overdone. Of the others, Venus deserves comment. She is a true-shaped filly by Sledmere—Minnie Athol, and should win races in moderate company } 3ut she is too small to make a great noise in th e world. While speaking of the two-year-old „.- I may as well refer to the Baron. This is a •nice-looking brown colt by Derby — Maori Weed's dam. His owner entertained a good opinion of him, which was not realised by his running in the Flying Stakes, in which lie was last. Another chance will be .given him of retrieving his reputation at the next summer meeting. The Tradesmen's Plate turned out the- good thing it looked for Isaac Walton, who was on his best behaviour during the meeting, and won this and the Selling Race like a race-horse. Perfume ran s. good mare, but with "Isaac" in the humour it was too much asking her to concede i6lbs. The Hurdle Race produced the most splendid finish ever seen at Ellerslie. Half a mile from home Butcher 807 looked clean out of it, but hg made up his ground

■wonderfully' in the straight, gaining at least j six - lengths. Shaughrauh was only a length a-head when they charged the last hurdle. The little grey pony was too done to rise to it, and so instead smashed right through it. Butcher Boy cleared it in his usual faultless style, and the shaking Shaughraun got enabled him to get up level. A scene of the wildest excitement followed, and shouts of "Butcher Boy wins," " Shaughraun wins," rent the air at the com mencement of the Stand. The "Boy's" neck was a-head, and his victory looked assured, but his want of "foot" told against him, and Shaughraun, whose jockey (Copesteake) rode capitally, by dint of sheer gameness got up again in the last stride and the two horses passed the post so closely locked together that it was impossible ; for any one but the judge to say which had won. The victory was given to Shaughraun by j" a nose" the judge stating that the grey • caught Ins eye first by a few inches. This is i cutting it very fine indeed, and I think a " dead 1 heat" would have been a very satisfactory j decision ; Buckstone in this race ran very fairly. ; With a little more schooling lie will make an ' accomplished fencer, and as he is possessed of I a hardy frame and decent turn of speed, he should win a steeplechase or two. The Don, Arrow, and Medea all baulked, and it is evident that none of them can be depended on in a race of this description. The result of the Birthday Handicap proved a great blow I for the " talent" who put down Ariel as acer ■ tainty for it. The winner, Bide-a.-wee, is a 5 j year old gelding, by Sir Walter, (the horse ■ that ran Bedouin a match the other day) out of j Lochinvar's dam. He is small, but like old j Yatterina, he is one of the cut and come again 1 sort ; Atkins, who rode him had orders to keep ; at Ariel's quarters till the turn into the straight ■ and then get home as fast as he could. He I carried them out to the letter, and although \ Ariel tried several times to shake him off on j the .far side, his little opponent kept dig- I ging away, and it was no use. A fine finish took place all up the straight, and it was six to one and half-a-dozen the other till fifty yards j from the post, when Bide-a-wee shewed a slight : lead. Ariel did not seem to struggle with his reputed gameness ; and, in spite of all the efforts of his jockey, he lost rather than gained ground th< |rest of the way, and Bide-a-weejwas 1 enabled to score a clever win •with apparently about 3lbs. in hand. Ariel looked well, but undoubtedly might have been made a few pounds fitter. The licking will do him no harm, as he is bound to have a few pounds less than he would have done in the Spring Handicaps, in which he is not unlikely to be dangerous. Shanneen ran very respectably, and for a mile and a-half looked as well as any of them, but the company wrs too good for him, and he fell away sad y at the finish. Elsa ran very badly ; in fact, so wretchedly that it was evident son tthing was amiss. §§I hear she was very.bid with jjripes after the race, and people h. d to ue tip with her al night. (To ie cmtinued.)

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j CHEAPEST PRINTING HOUSE IN NE W ZEAL AN D. I EVENING OTA X AFFICE, AUCKLAND. HENRY BRETT, MERCANTILE & GENERAL PRINTER. GE 0 RG E COO K'S 'BUSSES From opposite Coombes's. Kyber Pass and Newmakket, Daily, AT 9.15 a.m. 9.45 a.m. 10.45 a.m. 11.15 a.m. 12.15 p.m. 12.45 p.m. 1.45 p.m. 2.15 p.r_. 3.15 p.m. . 3.45 p.m. 4.45 p.m. 5.15 p.m. 6.15 p.m. 6.45 p.m. Leaves Newmarket: 10 a.m. 10.30 a.m. 11.30 a.m. 12 noon. 1 jp.iu. 1.30 p.m. 2.30 p.m. 3 x».m. 1 p.m. i.30 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 6 p.m. 7 p.m. 7.30 p.m. Saturday evening: 8. 8.30, 9. 9.30, 10, 10.30, 11. OEORGB COOK, ■WaVfifi el <i -fitreefc. OIMMEL'S CHOICE PERFUMERY Rimmel's Toilet Vinegar, a pleasant tome and refreshing adiunct to the Toilet and Bath, a re viving scent and a powerful disinfectant. For warm climates it is invaluable. Rimmel's Celebrated Lavender Water. Rimmel's Treble Distilled Eau de Cologne. Rimmel's Much Improved Florida Water. Rimmel's Jockey Club, and other fragrant per fumes. Rimmel's Lime Juice and Glycerine gives the hair a beautiful gloss without greasing it, nourishes the roots, and imparts an agreeable ' coolness to the head. Rimmel's Pure "White Glycerine Soap, Brown Windsor, Honey, Almond,' Lettuce, Coal-Tar, and other Soaps in bars or cakes. Rimmel's Velvetine, Violet, Rice, Rose-Leuf. and other Toilet Powders, in boxes and packets Rimmel's Aquadentine cleans, whitens, and preserves the Teeth, refreshes the mouth, and sweotens the Breath. Rimmel's Photochrome, for imparting to the Hair or Beard a perfectly natural and permanent shade. N.B.—All Rimmel's Prepara- a&** tions will bear liencefortk the K#S annexed Trade Mark. fTUD_^?s*'MAij_- E. RIMMEL, Perfumer by "^T^SksfSr appointment to H. R. H. the £~&T^^± Princaes of Wales, 96. Strand, "" »I*«*°- London BERDEEN POLISHED GRANITE MONUMENTS, In Red and Blue, from £5, Free on board ship to any part of New Zealand. Inscriptions Accurate and Beautiful. Plans and Prices fkhus from JOHN LKGGK Senlptor Aberdeen. Scotland. /TITfETIJ L. —C 6 MFORTINGf. EP P S'"i C~O CO A. R JtP A __" "F1 A S T "By a thorough knowledge of the natura laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr. Epps has provided our bre»kfast-tables with a delicately flavoured beverage which may save us many heavy doctors' bills. It is by the judi cious use of such articles of diet that a constitu tion may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies are floating around us ready to attackf.wherever there is a woak point, we may escape many a fatal shaft by keepiag ourselves well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame."—See article in the " Civil Service Gazette." Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only in Packets (Tins for abroad), labelled JAMES EPPS & CO., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMISTS, 48, Thrkadneedijs-strket, & 170, Piccadilly "Worts :3Euaton Road, Camden Town, London. l



Special Cablegrams. - THE TURCO-RUSSIAN WAE. WANT OF CLOTHING. 800 Russians Killed in the First Engagement, owing to not being Sufficiently Clothed ! I ! Sliould the Russians intend invading Auck land, tlio only chance we have against them is by Begins? that we are securely protected against the coming Winter by I. LEVTS OVERCOATS and ULSTERS. • VOLUNTEHRS TO THE FRONT !"—and IOSG HO time in Storming I. LEVY'S Stook of Winter Supplies. MEN OF AUCKLAND I—Be wiae, and if rou wish to Stand Flre, you must march first to I. LEVY'S. Should the Enemy Break Into the Bank our Monoy will go. The question remains, where can \re safely put it? Why, invset ifc at LEVY'S, and so secure a large par centage. I. LEW bogs to inform his Customers, and the Public generally, that it is his determination that ths coming Winter shall not be too severely felt for want of proper covering. He has just received, direct from the Best West of London Houses, his WINTER STOCK, of the Best Materials, and Most Fashionable Styles. which having boon Bought fok Gash m a : Depressed Market, he is able to offer thorn to the Auckland public at about ONE-HALF THE USUAL PRICES. Although I. LEVY is a large advertiser— i believing that advertising is the success of business—he does not believe in such clap-trap as " Premises to Let," " Stock must be Sold," but bases his claims for public support upon the well-known character his Shop has so long enjoyed. His stock is a credit to Auckland, and it must strike the eye of all passers-by that every article is Marked in Plain Figures, and that only Oxk PuiCJS is charged both inside and outside. Has Ju?t Opened Out a Line of OILSKIN SUITS COMPLETE. AND LINED ALT, THROUGH, at l^S. U&. The |»rioe elsewhere is 275. Gd. Clothing of every description (of all possible sizes) at equally low figure. Note the Address: I. LEVY, monster clothing establishment 210, Queen-street, (Opposite Me Arthur's New Building.) I"■ ~ ' T ONDON AND PARTS PATTERN JLJ DEPOT, Queen-strket. MRS. BUTTERWORTIT, MILLINER, In thanking her Customers and the public gene rally for. their kind patrongc during the past, begs respectfully to inform them that, at the re- I quest or many of her country customers, she has decided to add GENERAL DRAPERY to her Large and varied Stock of Millinery. We are Now Opening NEW WINTER GOODS, comprising all the Latest Novelties in DRESS GOODS. MANTLES, FUR & SEAL JACKETS. COSTUMISfi, HATS, BONNETS, &c. A Large Assortment of Ladies' Underclothing and Baby Linen. N.B.—First-class artistes are engaged in the Millinery Department, also in the Dress nnd Mantle-making, which is under the superin tendence of Miss Runcimax. $3L Wedding and Mourning Orders punctually aUended to. \f E It V CHEAP. NEW GOODS JUST ARRIVED, AND NOW OPENED OUT:— American Dried Apples, Bd. $ lb. French Prunes, Gd. V H». Finest New Figs, Is. 2d. %? box Almond Nuts, Is. V lt>. Crushed Loaf Sugar, in SOU. boxes, 6d. V Ib. Also, Messrs. Crosse & BlaekweU's Superior Goods in great perfection as usual. JELLIES. Guava Jelly, Okaxge Jelly, Apple Jelly. Red Currant. Black Currant (in jars and tins), Calves Feet Jelly, also Grossc and Blackwell's Honey and Raspberry Vinegar. FANCY BISCUITS. Huntley and Palmer's Best Kinds: —Dessert, Mixed, Ratafias, Italian Macaroons, Sugar Wafers, &c, &c. PROVISIONS. BACON, CHEESE, HAM, BUTTER, EGGS LARD. FRESH DUNEDIN OATMEAL, MAIZE-MEAL, WHEAT-MEAL, BROSE-MEAL, all at the Lowest Cash Prices. PURE TEAS. A Splexdid Stock: on Hand, in Chests Half-chests, and Boxes. THE BEST VALUE IN THE CITY. m- FRESH ROASTED COFFEES. "Always good alike" is the standard of excellence of our Coffees. They possess great strength and full flavour, and are Fresh Ground Daily on our own Premises'. COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES In Great Variety. Van Houten's Pure Soluble Cocoa, Cocoa Nibs, Epps', Fry's, Taylor Bros., /'"kknch Ciiocolatk, Coooa and Milk, &c., &c F. HEWIN & BROTHER, FANCY GROCERS, & TEA MERCHANTS, T>TX_T m -n^ri, CORNKR OF QUEEN AND THE i POT, WELLESLEY-STREETS, AUCKLAND. Alsa. at Grahamstown and Shortland. A MERICAN SEWING MACHINES the largest sale in australia. Reduced Price List. "THE HOME" SHUTTLE-LOCK-STITCH. THE PERFECTION uF MECHANISM. Simple, Compact, Efficient, Doe able, and Complete. It sews with the least possible amount of labour, and a Girl of Twelve Years can run it without fatigue. It is a Triumph of Mechanical Genius. " THE HOME" SHUTTLE is the only practica Low-price Lock-stitch Sewing Machine ever invented. This UNEQUALLED MACHINE uses a straight needle, makes the "Lock-stitch" (alike on both sides), has a self-adjusting tension, and is adapted to every variety of sewing for any wear, from the lightest muslins to the heaviest; AND WILL EVEN SEW LEATHER; it will Hem, Fell, Bind, Cord, Braid, Seam, lVck, Ruffles, Hemstitch, and Gather. This Machine will sew on and gather at the same time, and -wall work equally well on Silk, Linen, Woollen, and Cotton Goods, with Silk. J.'jien, or Cotton Thread. It isnot necessary for us to endeavour to de tract from the merits of any other machines. We to Price, and we feel confident that whenever persons wishing co buy Sewing Machines give the "HOME" SHUTTLE SEWING MACHINE a fair trial, in competition with other Machines, we will have the preference. With the Machine is furnished—Hemmer, Brader, Shuttle Bobbins, Oil Can, Oil, Screw driver, Five Needles, Guage, Table Clamp, and directions for use. All securely packed in strong case with hinges. „ ~ . • P RICE :— Complete in box .01 no With Table and Treadle .. .. '.'. " £6 ss! With Table and Treadle, Half-Cabinet, with Cover, Lock and Key £7 iQs Tii In.Proo£ oi: tiieir superiority over all other Machines, we guarantee them fob five YEARS* TvrYnfmsj^? Senuin(| "HOME" SHUTTLE MACHINES, stamped with our name, are not procurable, we will send them direct to pur chasers on receipt of remittance or reference. L. D. NATHA~N & CO SOLE AGENTS. We have appointed the undersigned Sole S 6^11 Auckland, where the Genuino ?n°^ c3 utt#i M»chines are procurable by time char?e. Ua °nS> Specimens * a^ 'Kution J. V. BREDA.



8, WYNBHAM-STREET, I , HOUSE,, SHIP,,: -;.'*.' ° ; AND • « 50 GENERAL DECORATIVE PAINTER, fcj * :- — H W. Estimates furnished, and experienced Workmen sent to all parts of the O o Province. _ ■ .H 55 s i -i: ■ w J.H. requests attention of Builders and "^ pq 6ther3 to his New Glazing Tariff. j W- O J. HENDERSON. ,- « 8, WYNDHAM-STREET. WT>HILLIPPS & QON, •X ' O HAVE NOW OPENED, Ex ' Emily Chaplin.' A Large and Vakikd Assortment of PAPERHANGINGS OF TIIE LATEST DESIGNS. E3^ NEW PICTURES! In Coloured Autotypes, Engravings. Oleographs, Lithographs, comprising Landscape, Sportine. Comic, and every variety of subject, Mottos, Texte, &c. Gilt. Stained, and Veneered Frame and Room Mouldings, Fancy Frames, Sec, &c. ( &c. Paints, Oils, Colours, Varnishes. Brushes, Sec, &c, Carbon's Anticorrosion Paint, Zinc-, White, Patent Silicate Paint, &c. Polished, Silvered, and Rough Plate Glass Plain, Coloured, and Fluted Sheet Glass Glass Shades, Deck Lights, and Photo Glass Cheap Hessian and Scrim. W. PHILLIP PS & SON, OIL, COLOUR, AND GLASS MERCHANTS, 95 & 97, QUEKX-STRBET. "O"USBANDS of Industrious Wives, \ 3^ L Remember tTiis day to do your duty by j BUYING a PATENT ROYAL WASHING ! MACHINE. Every wife who does her own Washing deserves one. FATHERS. MOTHERS, BROTHERS, AND LOVERS, cflil and select one of those usetnl Companions and Helpmates, called SEWING MACHINES, from the following immense stock and variety :—Princess of Wales, Little Stronger, Jenny Linh, Mkrmaid, Thomas, also Taylor's New Patent, Sinoer, Whksjes and Wilson, Howe, Gkover and Baker, and. other good makes. Just arrived, per Electra :—Princess of Wales, Taylor's Patent Friction Wheel, Ward's Arm Combination, *md other Sewing Machines. __r Weekly Payments Taken. "®a W. C. DENNES, McARTHUR & CO.'S NKW BUILDINGS, Queen-street. qPECIAL NOTICE. TIME! TIME! T IM El ON SALE AT B. KEANE'S, CUSTOCVI-HOUSE-STREET. To Builders.—B. KEANE having finished his New Lime Works at Wangarei, is now pre pared to supply WANGAREI STONE LLME in any quantity. To Farmers and Others.—For the use of Land or Sanitary Purposes, liberal terms are offered. Likewise, MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC STONE LIME is well adapted for Concrete Work. Will set hard under water, as the foun dations belonging to Messrs. Combes & Daldy, Fort-street, will amply testify. SHEI m LIME in any Quantity. B. KEANE. yi^TORIA STONE WORKS. Auckland, 17th February, 1877. TO THE CITIZENS OF AUCKLAND. Ladies and Gentlemen,—ln starting business amongst you, I have much pleasure in bringing before your notice a few very useful articles, which I can now produce at rates not yet known in Auckland, and which, for price, design, workmanship and materials, cannot be super ceded in tne English markets. Having secured the services of Mr. James H. Buchanan, late managing partner in the firm of J. H. Buchanan and Co.. oprosite, with my own experiences, I can confidenay ensure myself a share of your patronage. BUILDING DEPARTMENT— Mantelpieces, to any design in Freestone, from 20s. Hearths, Hobb-fire and Oven Sills Door and Window Sills and Lintels, Architraves, Quoins, Balustrades, & Copirga Sinks, Kitchen and outside Chimney Tops And every kind of Builders' Stonework executed. MONUMENTAL— Monuments, Tombs, Headstones, BgcL.t stones, Footstones, Crosses, &c, designs of which are always on view. ENCLOSURES— In Stone, Balustradings, and Perforated Panelling, to any design or size. In Wrought Iron, chaste, light and cheap patterns on hand, to any size. In Cast Iron, patterns chaste and light in stock. All of the above are Auckland workmanship. Address^— JOHN BROWN, VICTORIA-STREET EAST. j Door above Messrs Kempthorne and Prosser's ! I r\ N SALE, BY THE UNDERSIGNED— Oatmeal (Anderson's) Bj'dney Maize Tartarian Oats (black and white) Feed Oats Cheese (Wairoa and Canterbury) Butter -" Srass Seeds and Clovers Boneduat (Billyard's No. 1) Eoneflour (Bell's) Peruvian Guano JAKINS & WTLLGOX, DUEHAM-b rttEET. ZEALAND LEAD AND GaL -LS VANISED IRON WORKS COMPANY _ (LIMITED). VICTORIA-STREET EAST. - -FOR SALE— Galyamsed Iron Tanks, Chimneys, Spouting of all kinds, Lead Pipe, Sheet Iron, and all kinds of Plumbers' Materials. 7^ N.B.~Higho3t current rates given for Old Lead and Metala. K.flf| CASKS CEMENT (KBS) 16s. 20,000 Fire Bricks (Stourbridge, £1110s. .fr^re Clay KEANE & JENKINSON, Victoria-street East. QN SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER 100 tons Coatse and Fine Boneduet 20 tons Animal Guano 100 bags Maize 200 bags Canterbury Oats 50 bags Fowl Wheat 20 t*ns Wood & Wilson's Flour, 100's & 50s Bran and Sharps at Mill prices Potatoes in any quantity, Auckland. yanterbury, and Melbourne grown Canterbury Cheese, Hams and Bacon Canterbury and Auckland Butter Apples, Oranges Peanuts, and Cocoanuts T.'F.VT \y TTAT^AXr



REDUCTION IN. PRICES imp * TIME ONLY, TO^UCE^TOcI^ A Very Choice Selection of *JATr\rn±ii and PIANOS of the B^ltj^S^S Reduced Prices for Grab? ■ r! Just Arrived, ex 'Oxford.':—A FresVw , ChappelFs. Boosey's, and otter n$? plr°t Musical Publioktiona, Chl^ Violin Strings, &c, & 0 / 11. CUCKSEY'S MUSIC AVAREBOTT^ WIRE gAUZE^gg)!^^^ggp^j "•--' AT THE AUCKLAND VENETIAN BLIKn MANUFACTORY lji^kD CORNER OF COOK AND GREY-STfiEV-r Ol any dimensions, in any numberfroßonV tea Hundred, within-a given time oftrV nest quanty, and reasonable prices and sent to all parts oi: New Zea- ' land. Terms cash. Estimates " > returned by Post. ' - M. H. BUSBY, Local Manufacturer an d Im porter oi the Material, Practical Blind MaW and Wire, Worker (mam- years cstaWlehal £ '■ City Road, London), Manufacturer of ex:Ji£ description of Window Blinds, Plain and §£7 mental Wire Work. Old Blinds cleaned aWHtr repaired, and painted.—VENETIAN- EOTJ?P corner of Cook and Grev-sfcreet3. Auckland. ' mO TOURISTS AND'^isiTOßg^i X WAIKATO and this LAKES. , BUGGIES (DOUBLE AND SINGLE), AND SADDLE HORSES, ALWAYS READY ' FOR HIRE AT REASONABLE CHARGES. j Parties intending to go through to the Lakes provided with first-class animals by B. ED WARDS (Late of Cobb & Co.), LIVERY STABLEKEEPER, Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton. Waikato. Hp AY L O li'S PATENTSE Wlnlj J_ MACHINES The HAND MACHINE is perfectionfor family use. STAND MACHINES for Dressmakers, seven guineas and eigiit guineas. Recommended by Hundreds in our midst who poas-ess them as un equalled. dewing Machines of every kind repaired. Authorised -Agent : T. PEACOCK, OPTI C 1 A M SHORTLAND-STREET, Ot>voiit« ri-.f Posh-OtTiort. Auckland. [ESTABLISHED 18±2.] WJ A MIES 0 N, g UNDERTAKER, &c, is prepared to execute Funerals, either in first-class style or plain, at strictly moderate charges. WELLES LEY-STREET EAST, • Two doors from Queen-street. i"-—'—™ • i*i ■* .;: IimUNERALS CONDUCTED | ! JD respectably, at moderate charges, by N. McCULSXY, West End Funeral Estab- 1 lishment, top of Hobson-street. The charges includes all Cemetery and Minister's Fees, so that customers have no I further trouble beyond giving the order. -. | Coffins always on hand. Graves fenoed, acd Tombstones supplied. Designs,.by J. Brown, may be seen, and prices obtained. I on application to N. MoCulsky. ,: g . .<a. . j; GLADIOLUS. Mr, Palmer's Magnificent Coll tion of over 50 varieties. Also, hyacinths, crocus, tulips, }£^rci &c, &c., S&T, R. BAIBD, VICTORIA SEED STORES . Victoria -street. -, jt '. i % ft li %* CCtiWlil *Ms " ' ~~" ■ '::■ : PURE, VVKOLESOME, & DELICIOUS. MANUFACTURED BY 3EETHAM i CO.. AUCKLAND, AND SOLD BY ALL GROCERS AND THE TRADE. Orders addressed by post to the Manufactaiets wiu receive immediate attention. m o m at o sa v c c.: W. HOUGH's'tOMATO SAUCE C-. Is Now Ready, > • and he can guarantee it to be the Best ana Cheapest Sauce made, being free from arty » jurious ingredient, and warranted to twep. The Sauce may be obtained wholesale at the Manufactory, Drake-street, Auckland; or at alt ; : Wholesale and Retail Grocers. _, — nnHE GREATEST WONI)JS« <$ X MODERN TIMES. fa _, oßg Long experience has proved these I°j£t er remedies to be most eflectual in curing *>*» the dangerous maladies or the sligflte^wgi plaints which are more particularly idciw" to the life of a miner, or those uvtog *» w. Occasional doses of fliese Pills will S^^ system against those evils which so,'tt?~!/(lig the human race, viz.:—Coughs, colds, J^jm)! orders ef the liver and stomach- T tho»^"rj forerunners of fey r, dysentery, diarra»*» r* cholera. !^l Is the most effectual remedy.for °^,^iii; wounds, ulcers* rheumatism, jM.^toW diseases ; in fact, when used acdpfww-^ printed directions, it never fails to core »»~ aeep and superficial ailments. . f-om^ Thee« Medicines may be obtaißcd^iro^. respectable Druggists and Storekeepers"l^^ : put the civilised world, with directions «»> in almost every language. „ rymntietoll They are prepared only by the I THOMAS HOLLOWAY, KS, Oifora 61. London. _ omat*^ V Beware of Counterfeits that ma 7 en»?* from the United States. ■'-