Dampier's Advertisement.

\S7IIAT DO [YOU THINK OF THE V v Following Wonderful Bargains i First of all I rm Belling oil' the Jewellery at about balf-price. Louk for yourself in tho window. Having also just bought 111' dozen of Barry's (iulebr.tted Tricojiherouß for tho Huir, lean now s.-ll it ;it 1^ ad the bottle ; also, a largo quantity of Moiley's Knitting Cotton, aiifarenc iiumbers reduced to Is 91 the lb.; Fingering Wool tall colours) reduced to 3d the Honk; Skeins of Silk, Id the dozen, usual price, Id each ; Large rkcins otbiack do. 6for 2d; 50 yd. reels if Silk, ljd, or Is id the dozen; Men's Drill Drawers, 2s Bd; pretty Kancy Baskets 9d; Silver Snake Bracelets reduced to (id: Silver Setß of Krooch and Ear rings, reduced to 13 b'd the sot: Silver Brooches., (id; Good Klzo Towels, 3d; Lyon'd celebrated Kntllairon for tho hair, Is tho bottle; Vandyke Braid, Id to 2d tho Bundle; Ladies' Carjjet clippers. Is tho pair; Ladies' and Men's Superior do. Is 9d ; Children's Odd Sockg, Id each; Odd Gloves, Id euch; 179 gross fresh Dress Buttons, 2dto id; Infants' Soft Brushes, Is; fresh lot Ladies' Black and Coloured bilk Mils, Is 6d the pair, worth about 3a; Superior Blue Serge Is 3d yd; Fresh lot of bilverod NeokllUes, lsCd; Boys' Dux Collate, 11 and Hi, 44 tho box; do., Bizo 1-i and 12J 6d; Ladies' and Men's Btand-up do. (boxes broken), Id the box; Men' 3ls Cd Winter books (damaged), id tha pair; Ladies' and Men's Cork Soles, id the pair; lEau do Cologne, 6d tho bottle; Wonderful Aciobats for children, 9d; Money Boxes, 2d; Bed-room Door Matß ( 23 each; Pe«rleßS Gloas, for Shitting botiU without brushes, fld tho bottle; Small Ciocka, in going i rdet, Is (id each; Ladies' Boot Uppers, for tho bootmakers, Is tho pair; Ladiea Utays, 2s; Heavy Cotton Blankets, in tho pair; Slate Lining, 3d ihe yd.; Dimity, U tho y«t.; Diaper, lid ; Climgy Lace, Id to 3d; Black Hooked Kyes, 2 cards for Id: empty Boot Trunks, 2s (id to ss; Boys' French Peak Caps, Is; Boot Klastic, 6d tho yd. { VVhi o do. (damaged)) Id the yard; Oroehet Cotton, 2id the hank; largo Ciiki:s of Glycerine Soap, 7 for is ; Brown Windsor do., 7 lor Is; large Burs of Glycerine Soap yd, sol.; frequently at Is elsewhere ; Eror lasiing Trimming, (id the yd.; Aicn's Bli«ck and Coloured S»t.n Scurves, 1*; Windsor do., Is; Steel Knitting Hins, Id the pair; Frilling 2d tv 1h ; fresh Lut Plaid Silk Squares, Id 6d ; ions, id tho box ; Cream La d and Foreign Kulcd Note l'uper,3d per quire; Ci cam Laid und EnvelOties,2J the packet of 25; Pen Holders, Id tho dozen; Lead Peucils, Od the dozen ; Superior do., 9d tho dozen; Infant Hats, 2d to Is; Men's Socks, 3d; Ladies' White Stockings, 3jd; Ladies' Coloured do., Cd; Men's Good Shirts, 2a 6d, with Collars ; Boys' Shirts, without Collars, Is 9d; Silesia, 6d tho yd.; Hois' Sachels, la : Sluto Pencils, 6d tho box ot 100 or 12 a penny; v üblcachcd Calico, lid; Turkey Twill, l()d tue yd; Grand, lsßpolls, Blacit i'ack Lacs, Jd the yd.; Swiss Kmbrcidery, id per yd.; Co«t Buttons, 6d tho dozen; AiiC Uankerchiefs, 2d ; Black and White Berlin Wool, 3d tho dozen. Como and 8«e tho great snow of other colourß at 4d the dozen ; good Raci Comb*, 2d; damaged ditto, Id; Purses, Id to 9d; S, issorj, 3d; Pen Knives. 3d to Is; Ladies' und Girls' Umbrullas, 2s; Elegant ditto, 3s; Tnpo, (id tho doeen pieces; Children's Socks, 2d the pairi Tooth Combs, 2d to 6d; Hair Brushes. Is j Marketing Kits, «ood sizo Ud; Men's Bows, Id, 2d, ia, Uil, and Is; Ladies \\ rool squares, Gd; Clouds, 9d. I am Belling such lovely pioturo paokati of Needles, contain ing ICO, .with gilt heads, at Ci tho pac*et, which is much cheaper than yo«. can buy them elso where without tho picture. Larg« assortment of Kibbons at 6d ttio yard: a faw Wincoy Frocks left, at Is 3d ; Silvered Looking Glauses, Is; Bull SUys, reduced to 2s Gd tho pair; Jet Bracelets, Cd tho pair ; Ladies' t.s. Boots, C-s Cd; Houso Bools, 2a Gd; Warm Felt ditto, 3s Gd; Ladies' Companions, It, 2s, and 2s Gd; such pretty Albumo in tho window at Is each; Ladies' Glove-Kid Shoes, 6s, worth 10s Cd; Laces for tho Shoes, od tho dozen; lot of Child ren's Auckland-mailo Boots, cheap; BootLacos, ■id the dozof : Youths' Felt Hats, 2sCd; Men's do, 3s Gd ; Gents' Doublo Pockot Books, Is; hand somo Day Books, Is 3d; Pearl Collar Studs, Gd; Men's Stud Suitor, with p»tent faMtenors, Is tho sot; Girls' Stays, 2sGd; Wool SUtpor Patterns, 2s Cd tho pair ; a few Ottoman Tassels, 3s tho pet; Blind Tusssls, 2d each ; 200y«. Reels Clark's Glazed Cotton, Id the reel or lOd tho doz.; Largo To.let Covers, 9d: Florida Water, 2sGd; Ball Drcssos, reduoed, from £1 to 8s: Black V»l ---veteon, 2s Cd tho yd ; Ladles' Hanasomo Night dressos, 3i Cd ; Worked Drawers, 2s ; Ladies' Velvet Wats, 3s ; Brown Holland, Gd; Morino, Is Cd ; Mareen, reduced to Is 31 tho yd.- Wiu coy, 3Jd; Union Damask. 2s Gd tho yd.; Tweed, Is Cd ana 2b tho yd ; School SUtcs, Id ; P.ush, 3s tho yd.; Haudsomo Matal Dress Holdora. 3d!; Kimmell's Assortod Scents, 6d ihe bottle : Back I'onibs, 9d. Como and sco tho Reduction in Ladies' Linen Collars and Culls ; liUck, Wliilo und Coloured Worstod, on tho counter, 2d tho ekcin. or two for 3d; Reading Glassos, 9d ouch ; ii few packets of Knitting Cotton, plightly eoilrd, Dd tho paokot; Mail's New-fashioned Felt Hats, is (3d; a fow Gamoa left, including Draughts, Backgammon, und Ruoo Games, Is the lot; Ladloi' Josophlno Kid (Jlotcs, Is and 2s tho pair ; Uiack and Whilo Hair Hrusho;1, la; Tooth j»rushus, Id and Cd;JNuil do., id; Su preme Haudsomo Clothes Brushes. 1b ; Intunl.V Soft Brushoa, Is; Linen BuUons, with two holes, Is Gd tho box of over 120; Fancy Jowollory Box;*, Is each; Ladies' Wool Bo.unres, Gd • do. Clouds, 9ii ; wool Half-squuros, 1» Cd ; vvool Scarves, 2s; Geut»'do., 1b Gd ; Mack Mat Orna moms, Id each; Wntoh Ouar.ls, with whistle, 3d; Pretty isootec?, Gd tho pair; Piping Cord, 18 knots for Gd ; Figured (very wide) Hlbbon Velvet, Is tho yd ; v.hildron's Grand, Largo China Tea bets, Is Gd; Metal do.. 9d; Money Boxes, 2d; Wood Spades. 2d : Hair Nets, Id and 2d each ; Orapo Trimming, Id tlio yd.; lu (imtV Blfii'.n and Coloured Felt Hoots, Is (id ; In fants' Klustio sido Kid do., la Gd : Hair Tins, 5d tho do/.un boxes; Ilanrtsomo Pull' Boxes, with PuM'h. Is : Hair Pads, threo for 3d; lot of Men'a Hard Felt Hats, Is each; Gum, Gd tho bottle ; Ncedlop, Id tho packet; (food Stay Busks, 2d tho pair; Wings, -Id each; Flowers, Id tho spray ; Superior ditto, Gd tho bunch ; haudsomo Large Or^an Concertinas, reduced to 6s and 8s ; Pen-Holder and luk-Krator combined, 2 for Id. Como and sco tho Purses at M and Id ; Frilling, 2d ; Suparior .Spectacles, Cd and Is, tec, Sco., &c. —W. H, DAMI'IrOU, corner ot Upper Queen and Wakofleld-streets.

In a Haunted House.

By F. W. F,

THE way I came to be an inmate of this haunted house, and to a knowledge of its ghostly properties, was in this way. Some years ago I was living with my sister and brother-in-law, in a bungalow about two miles away from the treaty port in China. Finding tho place too small for .Us,we began building another some distance off, which we anticipated would be finished and ready for occupation by the time we bad given notice to quit our present abode. Owing to unforeseen circumstances,however,nre found on the expiry of our lease that our new house would not be fit to receive us until about two months longer, stf we had to look about for a temporary dwelling for the mean time. As luck would have it, there was a large empty bungalow'very near us, which had been taken by a gentleman who had gone to get married, and was expected out from England with his bride in about four months' time. This bungalow we arranged with the gentleman's partner in China to take for the interval, little thinking what cause we should always have to remember it, in fact knowing nothing for or against the house. It was a large bungalow stand ing in its own compound or grounds of some six or seven acres, built of brick, of one story and raised on stones about five feet from the ground as Usual. Entering by the front door you came upon a large square hall, and facing were two doors which led into the dining and drawing rooms respec tively A passage ran past these two doors, parallel to the front of the house and almost the entire breadth ; and, turning out of the hall either to the right or left, you came upon a door which led into a large bedroom, with dressing and bath room en suite. Thus each front wing of the house was composed of a bed, dressing, and bath room. The right hand room, the door ot which opened into the hall, was the draw ing-room, of large size, and that on the left, of similiar faatnros, the dining-room. At the further cud of the last-mentioned room and to the left was another doorway, admit ting to another room and a pantry beyond, and leading from this room up four steps was another large bedroom with dressing and bath room, which formed as it were a wing of the house projecting from the rear. From the pantry, a ilight of stairs with a door at the top led dow« to the servants and cook-houses, with stables adjourning, all of which, were as customary in China, quite separate from the bungalow. It is necessary to be thus particular .in describ ing the plan of the place in order that the reader may be able distinctly to follow the ensuing narrative; and here let me say once for all that neither was I nor my two fellow occupants of the house at all of a nervous temperament, or given to the mysteries of uhostlore ; rather were we inclined to ridi cule such things.and call them "bosh." Well, we moved ourselves and furniture into the house in due course, and I occupied the front bedroom suite on the left of the entrance ot the hall, whilst my sister and her husband took the rooms in the wing at the back, up the small flight of stairs. The bodroom on the right front was, consequ ently, furnished and kept as a spare room. We commenced our occupancy three_ days before Christmas, and it was the nightly custom for the hall door to be locked, bolted, and put on the chain before we went to dinner in the evening, about half past seven o'clock. All the windows of the rooms opened directly to the stone verandah run ning round the house, and of course these were locked, and the shutters closed at an early hour, as the weather was very cold. The only door, therefore, which was avail able was that leading from the pantry down to the servant's houses, and this was locked on the outside, and the key taken away by the head boy or butler, after he had seen everything right and the lights out when we retired for the night. All night long we employed a Chinese watchman to walk round the house, and to ensure that he did his duty he carried a hollow piece of bam boo in one hand, which he had to beat with a stick in the other, the noise of which could be heard at a considerable distancs. We had, besides, a large dog outside loose, and a capital watch-dog he was. For about a week after our entrance we were fully taken up with Christmas festivities, had visitors to dinner every night, and were especially pleased with .the size of the hall, which ad mitted of the amusement of rinking on roller skates. In fact, we were aa lively and gay spirited a party as could have been found in that part of the world. For three or four nights before the first mysterious manifestation, as I must call it, occurred, we had dined alone quietly, and gone to bed about half-past ten o'clock. We had done the same on that night, and 1 shut my bedroom door, (but did not lock it, and turned my lamp down low before jump ing into bed. I had been asleep, as I after wards found out, about an hour, when I was awoke by a peculiar sensation that some one was in the room and to the i<ound of a rust ling, followed immediately by the noise of my door opening and then banging to again. I snatched up my revolver and was ou the lloor in a moment, and to look round the room and under the bed was the work of a second or two. Seeing nothing I rushed to the door, opened it, and was in the hall in less time than it takes to pen this. The hall lamp was as usual all night alight, the door securely fastened, and nobody to be seen. I looked along the passage to the right and left, but all was as usual, and on trying the drawing-room and spare bedroom doors I found both locked with the keys on the outside. I then made for the dining room, the door of which was of course not locked, but first I must mention that I went back to my bedroom for the lamp. The dining-room was empty, and I proceeded through the next room and the pantry to the door leading down to the servant's house, which I found securely locked from the cutside and the key taken away. Well, I was puzzled and could not make it ont at all, as I could have sworn that my door opened and shut, at any rate. The idea of a supernatural visitation never entered my head, and, atter satisfying myself that no one was iv the drawing-room or spare bed room, I returned to my own apartment, hearing the while the monotonous hollow sound of the bamboo in the watchman's hands. I took the precaution this time, however to lock my door, and then turned in again, whero I fell asleep after about half-an-hour's musing, and 'was not further disturbed. In the morning I refrained from mentioning my night's experience, not wish ing to alarm my sister, nor on the other hand be laughed at and told I had been dreaming. After this night's episode, I always took the precaution to lock my door bofore going to bed, and was »ot visited for several nights. But again—l had gono to bed about the usual time and after a quiet evening, hari locked my door and turned my lamp low, and was awoke as on the former occasion by the sound of some one passing quickly through the room round the foot of the bed and out of the door, the door slamming to as before. I was not in time to see any thing, if such had been possible, but was up quickly only to see my door securely locked as I had left it on turning in. I searched everywhere in the house as before, but thero was not the slightest trace of dis turbance, and, further to satisfy myself I opened the front door and went outside, when the dog came running to mo waggiDg his tail, and I ascertained that the watch man was on the alert. This was all very strange, and I was quite at a loss to under stand it, so I besan to think there was something in it" no canny." In the morn ing at breakfast 1 told ray two nights' ex periences to my sister and brother-iu-law,and said I believed the house must behaHnted, as it would have been impossible for any thing human to have eluded my search. Of conrso they were very much surprised, and inclined at first to think I had been the victim of a nightmare, but I quickly con vinced them that argument would not hold water. They assured me they had not been disturbed in any way. Abovita week after this,my brother-in-law and I had agreed to attend a, Masonic Lodge meeting. However, on the evening, I said I would not go, but would stay at home to keep my sister company. We two dined to gether and afterwards drew onr chairs up to the fire and began talking. About half p»st nine o'clock, as we were in the midst of our conversation, we heard the hall door open and close again with a loud bang. My sister at once jumped up and said, "Well, that is good of Harry; how early he has come home," whilst walking quickly to the door, and I following. What was our surprise and astonishment on looking into the hall to find nobody there, and the door_ locked, and with the chain on. On making enquiry, we found that no one had been to the door, the boys .and coolies being all down in their house. We could not have been mistaken as to the reality of the sound, for we both heard itdistinctly, and it seemed ust as if some one had swung the door to ifter enteriug. As a fact my sister's hus >aud did not return homo until past eleven o'clock when he drove out in his carriage. This night's performances served to dissi pate any lingering scepticism that my sister might have had in the tale of my former visits, but left us no nearer a solution of the mystery.

Among our friends was a naval doctor of one of H. M. men-of-war on the station and three or four days after the oc curenco last recorded we invited him to come out and stay a week with us, placing our spare bedroom at his disposal. I must here say that we had severally determined not to divulge to a soul a word about the strange

nsitations we had been aubiectto, cor, aa "fl inently our naval friend was in bS gnorance of everything to do with thpm yhen he accepted our invitation On h? irst night af teT his arrival we all went tn X j ibout eleven or half-past, and as far as I joncerned, the night passed away nnZ? mough. As usual, I was an early ,1 y aid after dressiug went to look the, dcif' ip and see he had all he required. I f f aim very much disturbed, and he pvi.il' 0*'11? "Well, you won't get me to atop£ ?l * jther night, I can tell you !" « What',, ??" ■ matter?" I said. "By Jove.' ho ren l h/ " I've had an awful scare. I bad hf ' asleep some time when I was awoke by b ing someone passing across my room j" thengoing out at the door.twhich he slmL 5 after him. I had turned my %htZ mea got up, struck a match, lititTaA* went and looked into the lull, but I v not see anyone. I had a good mind t* yon up. I felt positive I could notT** dreatat it; but as I could see nothing■ I t ? the precaution of locking my door anr! l* the lamp alight before turning in ,1,. ' After a time I fell asleep only to be in a similar mannner, and, hang it all * h door slammed again, although it was Wv l and the key on the inbide. I would not to bed again after this, and have been lit ting here all the rest of the nieht Xv 2 fire, which had luckily not gone ott and back I go again to the ship to-da* i Well, I gave him a soda and braridv ;"j tried to chaff him out of his fright bnt ■» was perfectly useless. He had'hi] thorough scare, and, although at all nth * times a light-hearted healthy Irishman » now completely " knocked off his peiH" I refrained from communicating to him own experiences, and was able to wan, *y sister and her husband of the adventure kT fore he met them at breakfast. Then'th doctor gave his account de noro, aadiii «St of all our indeavours to laugh the matt* away, and reason him that even if it were? ghost it would not do him any harm he it mained firm to his resolution, and left th house that day. Before leaving we 8n gested to him not to mention the cause of early return to his ship, and he agreed Z make some plausible excuse. Of contat the subject of our nocturnal alarms beis to 1)e a frequent topic of conversation aS am sure all of us most sincerely wished on phantom visitor would return to the shades although he had not as yet frightened any of us ; least of all myself, who had been the principal sufferer. I only declared mom thin once that if I caught sight of anybody or anything in aiy room at night-time I would shoot without a moment's hesitation, and Heaven help any practical joker. I think it was four or five nights after the doctor's departure that I was awoke by heat ing a knocking at my door, and my sister's voice calling out " Frank Frank; get un I want you I" I jumped out of bed at once opened the door, and there saw my sister and her husband. She said, " Fancy I that horrid ghost has been here again to-night • I was lying awake thinking, and Harry w u ' fast asleep when I distinctly heard aknock. ing at the bed-room door, as if some one wanted to come in. 1 called out ' Wio'g there ; what do you want V whentheknbek ing ceased, but there was no answer. Afew minutea later and rap, rap, rap, commenced again, and I called out loudly, " 'What is it ? who is there ?'" which awoke Harry but still there was no reply from the outside. I told iiarry what I had heard and he Bail it wan all nonsense, when rap, rap rap was again heard. 'Well,' I said,'l cannot stay here in bed with, that knocking going on. Get up, Harry, and see vho ij there.' 'No thank you,' s>aid he, ,',i; am not going to have anything to do wiih if " Well,' I answered,' IfeellmustEeewhat it is,' and got ont of bed, when Harry "id. lowed me with a revolver. On unlocking our door and looking out, I could see no one, no a trace of any one, so we came /straight on to you." We all three then searched everywhere, in every room, besides which I went all round the verandah outside. Nothing had been disturbed, nor was there j, sign, of mortal agency to account for the rapping. It was then nearly two o'clock in the morn, ing, and, as our adventurer had banished all desire of sleep, we called up the boys, and told them to make us gome tea. We now told the head boy of our disturbances,, both of this night and the former occasionr, and he then said that be had long known that there was. supposed, to;[be, as he put it, a devil in the house. He further informed us that soon after the bungalow had been built a Chinese boy had been murdered in it by one of his fellow servants, and is was doubtless he who was our ghostly visitant. He concluded by say ing he would not sleep in the house for any amount of dollars. So we drank our tea, and pretended cot to care a bit about tbe mysterious phenomenon which by this.time we had reluctantly come to the conduaoc was caused by a ghost (whatever thatiis), but we most certainly should have been ex tremely glad to have been left in peace, although as I remarked,before these noc turnal performances had not as yet madg me nervous. But if we imagined we were goinpto-ba let off bo easily ws were wofully mistaken, for our ghostly phantom finally drove <xt'\ from the house; in tact, caused a stampede, Our time for removing into our new house was now drawing near, and we had been left undisturbed for nine nights, when the final blow was dealt which left the nnqniet I spirit in sole possession of. house and | grounds, We had retired as usual after.a quiet evening at home, and after having carefully se en that all doors and windows were secure. My bed-room door I locked as usual, md left my lamp alight, but burning dimly be fore getting into bed, under the pillows of which I duly placed my loaded revolver. Again was I awoke by the same peculiar feeling I had experienced twice before, and to the sound of a rustling movement in the room. I looked up ana beyond the foot of the bed, to my intense surprise and no small shock, I saw a China bor moving | along with his side face to me, and gojng in the direction of the door. Isnatchedrap my revolver, and shouting " Hah!'fired r at him, and, as he still went at the imim pace, 1 filed again, when he turnedbiifaU face towards me and vanished, as it were through tho door. As ,he turned fully to wards me I saw he bad a great gash acrtss his throat, extending from ear to ear. ■All this had happened in the shortest possible time, and as I was out of bed immediately after my second shot I rushed to the door, unlocked and opened it, and passed quickly through the dining-room to my sister s bed room, calling out as I approached^ Botn.°t them answered, butneither of them had beam the i revolver reports. They quickly ap peared, and !we all (three repaired, to my bed-room. There were two buuet-marKs one deep in the wood-work at the aids; oi the window, the other had struck the; tacK wall and flattened. We did not care 'jbout any more feleep that night, and prefeneo company. I had had a decided scare, ana did not like it a bit, so we all detennutsa to go into the new house that day, altnoip I it was hardly ready for us. This we m i and slept no more in the haunted house. • As a queer conclusion to the above'nark tive, I may mention that the newlymwn* couple arrived [in China in dve1 cows*. •"" went to live in the bungalow which had oce» fraught with so many surprises for us., iw husband (landed in bad health; rapidly » came worse after living a few |week.^ in.'» house, and was ordered home again by w doctors. He never raUied, howcW but died on board the mail steamer J£ ( tween Point do Gallo and Aden. "« never told our experiences, and I.*lo^ say that his choice ot a dwelling in,anv J »J hastened his end, but I most candidly ana sincerely maintain that there is no pIHWP™ to be derived from living in a }*fV house. !',,,.,,: :

Printed and published by £*<-£?*# & Henry Bbett, of Symonte-streei, General SteJira Printing Office, .«J£ wZ e» street, in the Province of Auckland, wo« , lanlL Satukday, May 29, 1883.)

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Auctions. T> EGULAk o a L E £ Xi oh LIVE STOCK AND AGRICULTURAI PKODUDE Are hsH by tho unciersigned as follows:—3 On each Thursday, at Remaera, tho Prlncipa Market for Fat Slock cf all descriptions Oaeach Fridny, in Auckland. atthoHaymarket for Horses, Carriages, Harness, Hay, Corn Seeds, Implements, &c. On each Tuesday, at tho Haymarket, for Woo Sheepskins, nide3, .Tallow, &0., at 1 O CLOCK At Waiuku, on the first Saturday in each month At Pukekoho, on tho first Monday in eacl month At Drury, on tho third Wednesday in eaci inonthj At Papakura, on tho last Wednesday in eae: month At Queen's Eedoubt, on each Monday before th third Wednesday in tho months of Febri ory, April, Judo, August, October, an December ALFRED BUCKLAND. THURSDAY, JUNE 3. THE REMUEKA YARDS. FOR SALE, at the Remuera Yards, o Thursday next, June 3rd, at 1 o'clock, 6 Good Dairy Cows 140 head wcll-f-ttod Cattle GOO Fat Shoe? ana Store Sheep Store Cattlo Fat and Storo Pigd. ALFRED IJUCKLAND. TUESDAY, JUNE 1. JUNCTION YARDS FOR SALE, on Tuesday next, June Is at 1 o'clock, 80 Head Fat Cattlo 350 Prime Kut Shoep from Waitara 150 Prime F*t Sheep from Waikato 50 Fat Lambs 15 Fat Piss 1 First-class, v.-orking Bullock Also, Dairy Cows, Store Cattlo, Calve Yearlings, &C.5 AT 1 P.M. HUNTER & HOLAN. N.B.—Purchasers of Fat Stock are recrneste to be out not later than half-past 2 o'clock. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2. THE PAPAKURA YARDS THE usual Monthly Sale will be held a tho Papakura Yardsjon Wednesday next ■when A LARGE NUMBER OF CATTLE WILLBI YARDED, consisting of: Dairy Cows. Storo Cattle, Calves Yearlings, £c. Also, 10 Long-woolled Ewes and 1 Ram Horsea, Sheep, and Pigs. AT 12 O'CLOCK. HUNTER & NOLAN. MONDAY, MAY 31, AT 11 O'CLOCK. TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION, At Messrs Pottek & Co.'s, Dukham- STREET,! IRON SAFES DEED AND CASH BOXES PLATEDWARE, TINWARE GALVANISED IRON BUCKETS GLASSWARE, PICTURES JEWELLERY, TOYS CARRIAGE LAMPS WHIPS, SPONGES P.M. TABLES. E. ARTHUR HAS been favoured with instructions from Messrs Potter & Co. to sell by auo tiOn at their Premises, Durham-street, on Mon day next, at 11 o'clock a.m., A Largo and Varied CONSIGNMENT OF G I) S Ex ' Mercia,' from London. THIRTY-TWO CAS KS, containing—lron Safes, D-'Mjd and Cash Boxes ; Platedware Cruets, Teapots; Butter Coolers, Cake I'askcts, Spoons, &c; Glassware— I)O' canteM, Water Bottles, Tumblers, Wine Glasses, &c. ; Tinware— Trunks, Lan terns, fr.c. : Galvanised Buckets. Tea Trayj, P.M. Tables. Pictures, Frames (various), Jewellery, Toys, Carriago Lamps (a^sortefl), Whips, Sponges, liamps and Glasses, Wire and Block Tin Dish Covers, * c .ordians, Cutlery, Walking Sticks, 'Spectaclo*. Keg Cups (W. & G.). Silk Neckties, W.P. Coats. Also, On Account of whom it may Concern, A Largo CKDAR BOX AND BASKET (known in Theatre circles as tho "Mys terious Box.'") THURSDAY, JUnE 3. 'ALBATROSS,' SCHOONER •RELIANCE,' KETOH •FANNIE,' CT3TTER 'LIZZIE,' CUTTER r.L. & A. ISAACS HAVE received instructions to sell Tjy ■ auction at their Stores, Fort-3trreer, on Thursday, June 3, THE ABOVE VESSELS. faFull particulars in future aveitisemcnt. E. & A. ISAACS, Merchants and. Auctloreers. W. 8. COOHKANfi.J [JAMES DACKE. MONDAY, JUNE 7. NEW SIX-ROOM COTTAGE, NEWMAKKET. ffIHE subscribers will sell, at their X Land Mart, Fort-street, on Monday, 7th June, at 12 o'clock, A Comfortable and Substantially-built Cot tage of six rooms, all well finished throughout, recently erected on a free hold Allotment (part of the late B. Turner's property), having a frontage of 40 feet to the Parnell and Newmarket Road. Terms very easy. SAMUEL COCHKANE & SON, Auctioneers. W. S. COJHRANS.] ' [JAMBS DACKE. MONDAY, JUNE 7. By Okder of the Registrar of the Supreme Cotjkt. FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD ALLOTMENTS, POLLEN, MARY, AND MACK AY STREETS, SIIORTLAND. THE subscribers, have received instruc tions from tha Registrar of the Supreme Court of New Zo ilanrt. Northern District, to Bell at their Lund Mart, Fort-street, on .Monday, June 7 next, at 12 o'clock noon. ALL THO3E FRISK HOLD ALLOTMENTS, Situated in Pollen nncl Mary-streets, in the Township o£ Shortlarri, baing Lots 136, 138, 139, HO, and 111, Block 111. jind a:30, ALL THOSE ■OBASEHOLD ALLOTMENS situated in Mackay-sfcreet, In the Town ot Phortland, being Lot 569, Block 11., and Lot 431, Block V.—the Leases o£ which expire on the' 31st .December, 18S9— WITH ALL BUILDINGS thereon erected, The said Freehold and Leasehold Lands heing those comprised in two deeds of. mortgago bearing date respectively—the 2Gth April, 1872. and 4th May. IS72,—and mado respec tively between Frederick Kob:nson Packard, therein described of the one Dart, and John Nichol Crombie, therein also described of the other part, and registered in tho deeds registration office at Auckland aa No. 2725b and 2711 d. Further particulars msyte obtained from the Auctioneer? an' 1 conditions of sale may ho in spected at the offices of the vender's solicitors, Messrs JHes;.-cth and Bichrnond, TVynaham- Btreet, Auckland. SAMUEL COCHRANE & SON, Auctioneers. W. S. COCIIRAN3.] [JAS. DACRB. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9. THE "TOMATO NURSERY," ST. GEORGE'S CAY ROAD, pa raa lh. THE subscribers have received instruc tions from Mcpsrs. Bceth:im & Co. to soil by public cuciion. at tho Land Mart, Fort-street, on Wednesday, June 9, at 12 o'clock, THAT VALUABLE FREEHOLD PRO PBRTY, situato on St. Georges Bay Road Pnrncll, and known as the "TOMATO N URSiSi.iY,"subdivited into XI IiARGE ALLOTMENTS, Having average Frontage of 1C feet each. On Lot 5 is a nevcr-fsiling spring of wator. On Lot 19 is a Rreenhouso stocked with vines in full beating, to be taken at a valuation; also, | a good well and a cart-shed. Terms: One-thiro. cash; balance rasy remain i on mortgage for one, two, or three years, at 8 I Plans enn be son at tbe ollicea of Mr. C. Wil iamson, Vulcan Lan<;; or SAMUEL COCIIILA.NE & SON, Auctioneer.



Merchandise. 3 G. W. O WEN & C o> MEKCHANTS, j FOBT-STEKET, ■ Have for Sale, to arrive ex brig ' Emperor,' 1 from Lyttelton : il 23 Tons WOOD'S FLOUB, in Sacks, 100's 2 andSO's h Ex 'James A. Stewart': 200 Sacks OATS Ex ' Annabel!,' from Adelaide : 10 Tons DUNN & DUFFIELD'S FLOUR, in Sacks From Oarnaru : SOO SacksrßEST SHORT OATS 300 Sacks MILLING WHEAT 50 Sacks OATMEAL Xx ' Loch Dee,' ' John Bull,1 &c.: UAISINc!, CURRANTS OANDIKD PEEL T AUTARIC ACID SALAD, CASTOR, & HAIR OIL PICKLES WJIITK STARCH, MUSTARD V,'ASHING & 81-CARB. SODA . WHITING MILLSR'S BAKING POWDER BLACKING, BLACKLKAD ESSENCES BATHBRICK, COLO 0 RED TWINE SARDINES CONFECTIONERY, &0., &O. COARSE & FINH SALT Just Landed, ex ' Peerless,' • Ethel,' 'Hero,' &c. 30 Tons FLOUR, 50 Sacks OATMKAL 280 Sacks BRAN, 300 Sacks OATS 220 Sacks POLLARD, 20 Cases CHEESE 350 Boxes DeROUBAIX JENAR CANDLES GOO Mats and Gannioa SUGAR 220 Boxos TEA 50 Halt-Chosta ditto Also, ex Late Arrivals: 'JCBAS, in Half-Chests and Boxes SUGARS, from the Molbourno and Sydney Rellning Cornpanios OILMEN'S STORES & GROCERIES, in Varioty. OHOOTING QEASON, 1880. a, E. POKTEE x CO., il Licensed Dealers under thk II "Arms Act," I Bog to call the Attontion of Sporte j| men to their Annual Shipmont, iuj just Jjnndt-.fi. ox 'Strocathro,l If from London, of fl Doublo and Single Muzzle-loading 9! Guns »| Double and Single Brcech-loadlng i\ Guns I HiJl s Revolvers tl British Constabulary Rovolvers C| Bull Dog Kevolvera If Cun 1- And Hurvoy'a Sporting Pow- S ders Hall a Sporting Powdore I Pigou.Wilks.and Lawrence's Sport- Si ins Powdera il Walker, Parker and Co.'a Patent 51 Shot, in 10 and 281bs bags ijffl Kloy's Hercussion Caps 'ifM Shot Pou- hes fflpg Sint le »nd Double Shot Bolts Mil Powder FJaslts BJf3 Eley's Central Fire CartrldßO Cases jHs Eley's Fin Fire Cartridge Cases i!'ipl Jeli'erie's Cartridge-filling Machines .ffl Cloth and Kelt Gun Wads #3 Central Fire Kecappors flu Barclay's Patent Loaders tgli Powder and Shot Measures A3ißiir\ <:artrido Belts HIJ Game Bags • wWMJ Gan Nipples Kj-K' Nipple itoya Wsa Cleaning Rods VSWa Pocket Barrel Cleaners Wtk Wad Cutters W»\ Bullet Moulds wMk Leather Gun Cases W&fflk Dram Flasks Him DoB Wnistles and Co]iaxa illPilliK Tho above are all from tho Km best makers, and may be US I Bilk nad at very reason. ijlill able prices. JJ. POKT>^ & CO., QUEEN HIGH STREETS, AUCKLAND. Drapery. vv^ E HAVE NOW THE LARGEST AND CHEAPEST STOCK OF MENU BOrs', YOUTHS', & CHILDREN'S AVERCOATS (With and Without Belts) NOTHING SO CHEAP IN THE COLOMES. ■jl/JJWS "KpINE TTKAVY Down to the Heels, 275. : PHILLIPS' MART, 172, QURKN-STREET. ; |i i ' i ':\ 1 1



INDIA AND CHINA TEA WAREHOUSE. The nndorsiKnod having a considerable stock of Teas ou hand, bought beforo the late rlso in tho Uhlnu nml Colonial markets, intends giving his Custoniora tho benefit. Tho BBual quotations as under will bo found true to their various descriptions :— Very Klch D»op ISrown Ton," 33 per lb. "Family Mixturo,"'2s 6d ditto "Tea l'xtr»ordinsry," 2s ditto " firokon anrt Sittings" (flavoury) Is 8d ditto Half-chests and Boxes sold ttt lowest posslblo pricos (wholesalo or retail) for cash. Tobaccos as under:— Clno Pound Jiars—" Trinmph of tho Aro" (The flnost imported) Venus Sijea, new, quality tho best Tens—"Tho best that is made"—Virginia Crown Tons, new «ea"ou's make Aroniaiio—Water Lily now Sixea Aromatic—flnn new Csmoron's Aromatic "Two Seas" LOKKILLARD'S "TIN TAG" Cigars— Manilla Cigars, heavy weights Manilla Cheroots Ormond's Cigarettes Swiss Cigai'S llavannali Cigars Three-yeuro-old "IXL" Ciprara UASCARILLA BAKK Special.—Now that Pleuro is raging, and seemingly among dairy cows, thoro is uoublo reason why motticM should feed their infants on NKSTLiK'eS MILK FOOD. I have it In stock, and am-expecting a fresh supply from homo at an early date. F. WHITEHEAD, Tea Dealer and Importer or Tobacco & Cigars, Victoria-street, Auckland, And Tobacconist, Queen-streot. Gunsmiths. DEVITT, Gunmakcr, 244, Queen a street, Auckland, opposite the Market houso. Established, 1859.—Always in Stock and to arrive by direct importation from Kncrland, made to advertisers own order,—Chnkebnro Breech-loarling Guns, Double and Single Muzzle loadcra, Kreech-loa'Jing KeTolvcrs, Hr?ech-load ing Kook and Rnbbit WS\o!>, Game Ba«s, Gun Cases, Powder Flasks, Shot Pouches, and every article necessary to complete tho ontflt of a sportsman. An assortment of every description of Revolver Cartridges, and all the hr^Bt Rrnnda in Sporting PowOors are imported direct from tho makers by tho tho advertiser, who can guarantee their good quality. Cartridges for the Knflold, Snider nnd Torry Bines. Metallic Cartridge Cases, Chilled Shot and other speci alities always on hand. Country dealers liberally dealt with. Gunß 80-stocked, Browned, etc., nnd every other kind of Firearm Repaired ut reasonable prJcoa. Notice.-Just to hund, a lot of good aorviccablu C. V. Chokebnro Hroech lor.ding Guns cheap. Tho lartest etock in Auckland to chnoso from. Also, in stock, a largfl assortment of Firoworka of tho boat quality. Fishing Tacklo nuNsi nuNS! nu.nsi W. 11. HAZA RD, GUNMAKER, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALER IN FIEEAEMS AND GUN MATERIALS, 168, QUBEN-STRKKT, Bcga to announco that ho haa Just Kocoivcd LARGE ADDITIONS tO Ills STOCK OF breech and muzzle-loading Guns, BUTLES, Revolvers, Pistols, Bto. Chokkroee Bbkacii-loadbbs, ByjW. W. GxoGner, F. Bland & Sons, and other well-known makers. &. s. d li.L. Pin Fire D.B. Guns, from .. .. S 5 0 B.L. Centrol Firo D.B. Guns, from 5 10 0 B.L. „ Chokeboroß, by Greener .. 11 0 0 B.L. „ ■• Bland & Sona 1010 0 Good Serviceable S.B. M.L. Guns _110 0 „ D.li. M.L. (Juna .. 217 G M.L, Duck Guns 4 10 0 .F. B.L. do. do., No. i Guago .. .. 20 0 0 Revolvors;from_ 12 6 saloon Riflos ißoy's Breech-loaders) .. 0 0 Hundruds of Gums to Choose from. AMMUNITION, &C. SPORTING REQUISITES OF EVERY DESCRIPTION. Repairs promptly and efficiently executed on tho Moat Reasonable Terms. -V^AMCWORTH, MAHURANGI. CITAP.LKS THOMSON Uega to inform his friends and tho public he haa u"i7 i.ijd Kn=ines3 in tins O'd I'reiiiisoi, known nn " Thomson's lcmpyranca Hotel,"_ and hopca by strict attention to business to still merit the Datron&K" he hBB »lwiiys received. v™ Good Stabling and Paddocks. Horses for Biro,



Land and Estate Agents. ;-t m y, enn o x Estate Agkht amd vautatos,,.. QUICKX-STKEKT, AUOKIiAHD, . MONEY LENT OUT FOR CAPITALISTS ON FIRST-CLASS SECURITIES, OR IN VESTED IN BANK. INSURANCE, ; OR OTHER SHARES. NO CHABGfc tO LENDER OB INVESTOR. ' -triNCKNT-STRBET.—A Neat Cottage, fitted V up with gas and every convenience. Price ' £330; £130 cash, balancu can remain.—J. M ! Lennox, Estate Agent. i?l/ in— SIX-ROOMED HOUSE on freehold X/i-yJv a. lotment in the city. Price £300; £100 ! cash, balance can remain upon the property.— ' J' M. Lennox, Estate Agent. : r?on—A. BARGAIN.—Two Soctions, one of i XJO v 80 acres and the other of SO aores. Price, , £39 cash,—J. U. Lennox, Hstata Agent. ' X'KA CASH—A Bargain.—A good 6-roomed • 3JO\I Residence, quite new, with large free , hold allotment. This desirable property is situ ated. near to Mason's Gardens, Parnoll. Price, ! £175; £50 caßh, balance can remain at 8 per ; cent, payable weekly. This is a good oppor ! tunity for any person wanting to acquire a , freehold upon very easy tcrnii. —J. M. Lennox. ' i? Al\ -FUR HALE (a bargain), 52 acres of first' » *'4U class land at Awitu. Price, £10; £10 ' cash, balance can remain at 7 per cont.—J. M. Lennox, Kstate Agent, Auckland. ; rpo F ARM E US—A Bargain A Firm of 107 : J. acres in East Puktkoho, about 50 acr«s in 1 grass; a 5-roomt d Uouae ai:d every conveui l once. Price, £t9(J.— Terms can bj arranged.— . J. M. Lennox, n.stato Agent, >uokljnd. ; rpo F * hMERS.—One of tho finest little Farms , i. in tho country. There arc 150 acres of first ' oloßslanii. all laid doivn in Knglish sr-.ss.s, a ■" comi'ortable dwolling-hoUBO (quito new), and . other outbuitriingii. Price £I.SOU. Terms can bo ' arranged.—J. M. ; ennox, J' state Agent. 1 rjiO FARMERS—A Burgain-O eot tho beat X little Dairy Farms in tho Waikato. There I are l;>0 acres, mostly in tho best grasses, all J fenced. andwithaCottMge builtthmeon. There ai'o 17 line dairy cows, 19 calves, 19 Btjrc cattle, and 1 horse. I'rico, for iarm, stock, &c, only j £1,100. Tlio owner is leaving the country.— 1 J. M. Lennox. Esta:o Agent, Auckland, j rpo FAHMKRd—A Bargain.-Farm of 25G A ucres, 150 acren of which aro in grass. . This iirst-class farm is situated at the junction ' of two roads, and is near a railway station 1 Price £1 103 per acre—J. M. Lennox, Kstate Agent. XiT ANTED, as an investment, a Property in Vt tho city producing fair interest, for £350 or £100.— J. M. Lennox. MANGaRK.'.— 10 acres of tho richest Soil, near the Bridge. Prico, £150-£ 100 cash ; balance can remain.—J. M. Lennox, Estate Agont, Auckland. AFiJhS'I-ULASS Farm of SO acres, all in grass, a fow minutes' walk from n railway station. Price, £COO.—J. M. Lennox. RKMUERA— A Bargain—i, Beautiful Villa Bile of ten acres, all laid out in Garden, Orchard and Meadow. There is a comfortable and commodious Dwelling-bouse. Pr.co, £1100. —J. M. Lennox, KsUte Agent, Auckland. ■VirAKKFIKLD-STHKKT—A Shop near tho W junction of Q,ueon-straet, with freehold allotment. Price, £350. £50 cash ; balance can remain on tho property.—J. M. Lennox, Eutatc agent, Auckland. VILLA HlrE—Ono of the choicont Villa Sites in Rcmuera. Tho site is well sholtcred, and commuuds ouo of tho most delightful views in Remnora.-J. M. Lennox, Estato Agent, AuckUnd. PAKNKLL.— Firpt-class Businoss Premises, consisting of two shops, ono of which is occupiod by a Rutchor and tho othor by a Grocer. Tho freehold allotment is 40 x ICO, and fronts tho Mauuliau Road tlio junction of two othor roads. Prioo, £750; £150 cash; bulanoo can remain. —J. M. Lennox. Kstuto Agont, > uckland. PUKKKOHE WE3T.—Farm ot 200 Acros. adjoining BuckUnd uud Shonhcrd's; good lund. Prico, £3 ins per aero.—J. M. Lennox. PARNELL— Rutland and St. George's Bay Roads.—Two Cottiigos—one ot six rooms, tho other of four rooms-with freehold allot ments. Price. £170 and £300 respectively.—J.M. Lennox, Eatato Agont. >i O FARMERS und Othors.—Ono of tho a. Choicest Farniß in tho Provinco. Thoro uro 217 acres witliiu 8 miles of tho city ; quality of land cannot ho oxuollod: largo nino-roomud rcsidenco.—J. M. Lennox, Kstato Agent. Jlßr For Houses, i*urniß, and Allotinonts, see my long advortisomont in ' Weekly Herald." J. Iff. LENNOX, Estatk Agkmt. Auckland T> 0. GREENWOOD, XV* AOCTIOUEER HOUSE, LAND, and ESTATE AGENT. Corner of Siiohtland-btrekt. WANTKD— Intending Purchivors of Farms, Land, or Houhub, to call at my ollleo lor printed lint*. 17OH IMMEDIA.TK HALE—Two Six-roomed HouM'S and throo AllotmenU of Land, within a fow inlnutua walk of Quoen-streot; all'-fi!iioe<l, plenty of water, &c., &c. Houaealoi for 3t)s v week. Price, £750 ALSO, v FiYorooniod llous.) and Allotmont, 30 x 100 font, situutod in Chai>«)-.treot ; Rood fruit and flower gardoa, all fenced, good woil, &0., &c. Price, £3.')0. I.ioK SAl.lt—lmprovod Farm, 17 miles from Auckland by road or rail; very good land, £750. ITiOU SALIC—A Superi.'n- Slieop and Cnttio Run of four thousand aoroi (1,000) of itood lacd. in gnus : all fenced and subdivided ; j,'nod eight-roomed Houco, &0.. I.tXK) Sheep, 150 head C iitlo, Implunicnts, &c. Prico low, and terms 1° 7KJR SALK (Mount. Albortl-Choico Villa yites of fiom half an aero to threo acrob cash. » LSO, at Mount Albert—Choico Allotments auit^lilo for working men or innrkct gur denors, from two acres to live acres eaoh. Lund nil v oleanio and voryKOOd. IMPKOvKDFARMff over 200 nerea, Hituat-d in tho Tanmtii District; fenced nnd hiin dlvldod into paddocks; also, ID acres under cultivation; good road; streams through tho land; good <loi.t&Ke. l Jrico low, and terms to suit puichnsor. Ai) ACUEh (100 l Land, adjoining the Proper -"-J tics of tlio Roy. Mr Sunieuvillo and John Buchunun, mrroliant, Wliau, und i milo from 1 tho Railway Station. The view is unuurpiuiHed, nnd tho rcuds aro good. This loud will bo Hold in 5-acro lots, or to suit purchasers. 1710K HALu, a Fivo-roomed C'O'tngo and Allot . Mont C! 3 x 172 foeti. situated in Newton street; good garden, well, tanks, &c, &c. Prico, £ISU. FOR SAIiK, 6-roomcd Houso and over quarter of an aero freehold land, being a corr.or allotmont, ha\ing frontages to Kegont-atreet and Kden Road ; good stablo. garden, well. Sec, &c. Prico. £500. "pONSONBiT.—A new and well-finished Six- JL routned Houso, largo und commodious rooms, and allotment 132 x 210 feet, facing Gratten-atreot; all plunlo'l und laid out iv a choicogarden, &c; land partly fenced with cor ruKKteairon. price. £000. i, DUN l'.OAD.—Kourroomed House, with ii verandah, in good order, on freehold allotment, 33ft. x B9ft.: securely feneod, laid out in a garden, good well, &c. Terms very oasy. Prico, £150. FOX SALE, a Very Superior Gontlcman's Residence at tho Lake, North Shoro; houso largo and commodious, grounds tastefully laid out, land bost in the district, view unsur passed. Prico for tho house, with 112 acros of rich land,f£2ooo ; torma very easy HOUdK, off Mount Eden O Road, near tho railway crossing, with stable, well, pump, shorts, &c, situate on three allotment!) land, 75 x 100 ft., laid out in a good flower and fruit garden. Terms very easy. FOR S'ALE—BS acres of rioh lou m Land, of tho very Unest quality in the colony, all lovol and well watorfid, approchab'o from Auckland by good macadamised roads, all fenced, creator portion planted with quiok thorns : subdivided into six paddocks; 75 acres in rioh grass, tho remainder in cultivation ; orchard well planted with choico ifruit-treos. Also, a woll flnjshed six-roomed houso, dairy, cowehflds, piKStyes. workshop, and good garden, planted with fruit and ornamental trees. This is without excep tion ono of tho best farms in the neighbourhood of Auckland, both for the quality of soil and Improvements, being situated in the well-known District of Razorback, and within a few minutes walk of School and Post-office Prico, £1,100 one-third cash, or as osrreed. MERCURY ISLAND. FOR SALE, that Largo and Valuablo Free hold Island known as " Morcury Island," situated CO miles from Auckland on the Kast Coast and containing 1275 acres ot freehold land, mofltly in grass and subdivided. The island is visited twice weekly by steamer between Auck land and Tauranga, has a tirst-cla-s harboru. to gether with all stock and improvements at present on the land, coiifintiiig of well llnished 8-roomed houso and outbuildings, about 1,000 longwool sheep, 15U Load cattle, 5 horses, farm implements, tooh, ifcc, &c.; pigs, turkeys, fowls, &c, in abundance. 'I he island abounds ingatnoof overy description and is in overy way suitable as a sheep and c\ttlo mn. Tho price fortho'wholc, including stock, implements, &c, is £1,51^0. Terms ono-lliird or one-fourth , cash, balance at interest. Sales by auction of Household Furniture, &o. &c, undertaken by tt. C. GREENWOOD, CTIONEER, &O Offloa rner Shortland and Uuoanßtroots Coflee Merchants "RE, OWN, BARSETT & CO.'S AUCKLAND BTEAM COFFEE AND SPICE3MILLS. COFFEES. ir IS NOT SUFFICIENTLY KNOWN THAT GOOD COFFEE ia the boat stimulating '■ Bovorago both for Winter and Summer. To obtain what you roally want, ask for out Bast Jirandfi, tho EXCELSIOR or STANDARD, which have unstained thoir good names over Ton Years, and havo very much increased in demand—a Rnro proof o thoir being consumed and appreciated in all housoholda throughout and even out of our province. \pa. Wholoealo only at our Aims nnd Agonts re. Kotail ftt all Grocery Eatablishnionta in Town and Country. p a « « ? Jar bts*;; «mt g h:xcplsiorßrand,gresnlabel I qualities.? j EuO Standard „ red >l£vory pligo I^lLion .. Pink .. j B g J «l 2 i § O S \ Ohi lowest! ! >!?!-ri ,i i.«r, O j „ pnsc) ,p ' qnalitiea, ' v:-:5 Grown „ yjlioW.. fwiiiiout cur o^« ' a'Knature, j j-n'T.pß-pv'/i'.KM ■•.■■ :<1 r-iP'OV'Tj wo ! Brt't "ii'B.I'■■'-, ■ .ad fvr" of r.dn'toratlon. • ""^ ■' BROWN. BABRBIT&OO, I Sl'.lo ft root. ' July'! 3tb. 187S



Land, and Estatt brents. TTILLIAMSON, HOUSE, LAND, AND ESTATE AGENT, 3, Vulcan Lane, Auckland. RKNTS and INTEREST Collected. MONKY Inveatrd for Capitalists on flrst-olasa eocuritiee, without Charge. Seven per cent, allowed on deposits until invested. MORTGAGES and LOANS Negotiated, SHARKS Bought or Sold to order. ESTATES Managed for Absentees. BUILDING ALLOTMENTS FOB SALE, AT PKB FOOT:— Homo-street, 17/ Duke-street, 28/ West-streot, 21/ Parnell Rise, SA View Road, SO/ Edwin-street, 21/ Richmond Road, 25/ George-street, S\ Grattan-street, 12/ Victoria-street, £10 Randolph-street, 40/ Kyber Pass, 80/ Wyndham-street,£lolo/Grafton Road,Cs/ William-street, 60/ Nelson-street, 40/ Short-street, £9 England-street, 40/ Franklin Road, 60/ Vine-street, 10/ Union-street, 20/ Shblly Beach Road, 80/ Clarence-street, 16/ Liverpool-street, 40/ Anglesea-street, 30/ Ponsonby Road, 25/ Hackett-street, 35/ Prospect-street, 15/ Conquest Place, 30/ Norfolk-street, 25/ Also, in various other streets at low rates. -P9f)oo T0 LEND, in Sums of £10 and up- AJU\J\J\) wards, on good security -Pfifin— EIGHT-ROOMED HOUSE (now) f->t *uuu Sale in tfymonds-street. near win' 1" v splendid view : and can be sold on very advan tagooun terms, poftA-BIGHT-ROOKKDHOUSEforSiIeofi J^z.uu v , ellington-stroet: garden, Weil, &c. PUKKKOHE i.ASr.-jito Farm of 107 acres for Sulo, near Railway-station. Comfortable horuestiad ; ljttlo bush; never-failing creek. £1 10s per aero. V>KAFIKLD ROAD. — Comfortablo Cottage, O outhouses, &c, for Sale, on easy terms. r>i 70— HOUSiC and Two Allotments foi <^J-'U -ale, off Wellington-street; planted with fruit and ornamental irees. SHOP and DWELLING-HOUSE for Sale it Freeman's Bay. Also, [Shop, &c, in Kar angahapo ltoad. ST. GEOUUE'S B.iY ROAD.—Several verj eligible Allotments for Sale on highly ad' vantugeous terms. PAPAKUKA.— Six t. ores of Land for bale foi £35. Karalta.—llo acres for £100. "PONSONBY- Villa rtosidoneo for salo, sh X rooms, BtabiiiiK, out-offlces, &c; 2 acres orchard. &c; largo frontage to two streets splendid view of river. DEVONPOKT.— Gentleman's Resldcncoof 1( rooms for Bale, suitable for family hotel boarding-houses &c.; Six Allotments ; eplendic view of tho harbour. Uan be purchased on easj terms. X? A a n.—-Ne w Houso in Park Road, nine rooms X/'HOV f or sale. Splo-j did view. j?i on—FOUR-ROOMKD HOUSE, for sale JjLOV B ] SO , O noat£l2o. MAUNGAT4.WKIHI— Farm of 181 acres foi sale, with two comfortable hoinosteads Kxoo.lent soil, bush, water &c. i? I "I f)A— VILLA KtiSID«NC!C for Salo, a S-'-LJ-vv/ Mount Albert, possessing ono of the finest views in tho district. BKKttSFOHD-riTRxET. — Seven roomoc Houso. Scullery, wash-houso, tec; ga! and water laid on. Fine view. To bo sold i Bargain. GUE Y-STRKKT—<=ix-roomed Houso (now) foi sale. Large allotment. MOUNT JDDKN—Larg, ; Now House, fitted with overy convenience (two acres oi land), lor sale. Ila^ ouo of tho finest viows ir tno district. A-jLoTM XK Trt Hought and HOUSKS BUILI for Working Men. To bo ropaid by woeklj Instalment" P '■! 0 H—Five-roomed I Uiuße lor Salo in Nelson JjtJUKJ Bticot. Umden, tanks, and all con veniouccs. i?ocA—Now Sovtsn-rodinod House for salo ii •t/t>«J\» parnell. ixjuutiful vii>w. Also, Fivo roomod Houso »t £330. Sin-roomed llouso, £100 IpAKMH also For Sulo at Hunua, llonnt Kden *- Waikoniiti, lUchuiond, Komokorlki, Man gore, rV-reiuoromo.Kiwt Tatuaki.Stokoß'a Point WuiUikorei, llondiirson'a Crook, Papatoitol Romui-ra, Cambridge, Little and Big Omaha Kiirioi, Kiverhoad. Morningßldo, Alahurangi Wainui, Uuiim.ru, Ararimu, Coromandol, Mor oury Bay, Okuiliu, North Shoro, Owhiwha Itozorbnck, Pnpakuro, &c. Also, see list lr New Zealand Herald and Weekly Hews. CfIAS, wTI, LIAMSON, ESTATE AGENT. VUXOAN LANB- J. R. RANDERSON, BROKER, LAND, MINING, INVEST MENT, ESTATF, & GENERAL COMMISSION • AGENT, 5, insurance buildings, auckland. Money to Lend on Moetoaok. Loans Negotiated, Banic, Insurance, Mining, ok other Shakes Bought or Sold. Property and Estates Valued. Partnership ou otiikb Accounts Audited oji Aujubt&v. SPECIAL NOTIOK.—AI! Proporty placed In advertiser's hands for k.ilo will bo advertisod FItKE OV Chahrr. KIIiIHTKH of Properties for Sulo. &c, cas tin Irisi'SCTKD at lha oilieo, FOR bALE, VERY C.IEAP :— mWO-RTORIED NEW DUILTIING. om- J_ bracing two Shops and Dwollings, at corner of Wellington and Hepburn streots. Uuildlng 30 x 12, with brick partition; two lurg* rooms over ouch shop, ana ot'C bnhind. Thoroughly well fitted up, with water and gas laid on. COROMANDEL- Largo Uu'Ulintr in centre of township ; can ba used ns four shops, with linker's Oven, st'.li'c, and nuninr.iiia otlier out buililinu's. and flno Kcrrt^n*. PrlOfl, £:!.)0. Alao, two Paddocks ftiul »umber of Ailotmenta In Kingston and K»p«n/ra, (or -ule or exchange for other Cotom&mlol proptrty. PONS'iNHY— Several doairablo Rpsidoncps, with good freeholds, in this popular and healthful suburb. Also, IJIIOPKRTIifS for Halo In Boroaford, Nelson, and llowo streets; Newton. Henderson's Mill, Hamilton VVrnt, Mount Albert. MahurunKi, Mauku, liivorhcad, and To Awamutu. MANGERE— Farm of 180 acres good land; all fenced (principally livo fences) and In grass or undor cultivation. H:ight-'oomod House coctod thereon, with Mon's House, com nio 'lons PtaMos, and Out-buildings. Threo miles from Mnngoro Br'dgc. Price, £20 per aero. If desired, 200 acres adjoining would also bo sold, WANTED TO PURCUASE-About an aero of ground with Four-roomodlCottngo in tho neighbourhood of M onnt Kdon or Ponsonby; olovatcd. position proforrod. For further particulars apply to J. R. RA N D ERS ON, 5, INSURANCE BUILDINGS. Sadcuerv. W**m ■ \\* MAKER X 1 V? H I v s- W. S. JONES Has Just Rocoivod a Large Quantity of Every Variety of Ladioo', Gouts', Gig, Buggy, Cab, Cap rlago, (Tour-Horse, Curt, Waggon, Dog, Stock, Bullock, Hunt ing, and Boys' whip s, Fkom 18 Gn to 50s Eaoii. GREAT REDUCTION IN SADDLES. Tho great demand which has arisen for our own make has caused tho under signed to decide to deal in His own Manufacture Only, and to insure n, spcody closrunco of Gonta' Kngliwh-nindo Saddle?, has mado a Great Reduction \ipnn his usual Plain markod Prices. S AD D L E S, with Kxtrit "*.-ong Bar, Plated Trees, oompli to with Mounts, From u2s Nktt Cash. SOLID NICKEIi-SttVEB BITS, STIEKUPS, Ai.X) SPURS. A LflTKe Assortment, &t fully 25 per cent. Les3 than tho Prices usually charged. STKONO, Durauik STOCK SADDLES, our own uuiko, complete with Mounts, £c ss. Od. W. S. JONES, QUKEN-aTKKIiiX, AUOKLAND,



Cabinetmakers. U E WING Ty/TAC HINE S! SEWING MACHINES ! CELLING QFF! CELLING QVFI UNDER COST PRICE. BETIRING FROM THE SEWING MACHINE TRADE. [ WINKS AND jOTALL , j Are determined to CLEAR OUT tho wholo of their rj SEWING MACHINES BELOW COST , j PRICES. r|iHE "-SIT-ILSON" TMTACHINES ' I Are admitted to be tho 1 ! BEST SEWING MACHINES IN THE WORLD. \ i Baoh Machine has a Darner, or Patent Mending Attachment. T i ■! The following PRICK LI3T will show the former ~ and tho present REDUCED PRICES :— c No. s—£6 15s Kkduoed to £4 4if : j No. 6—£7 10s Reduced to £4314s \ | No. 7—£lo Reduced to £G 6a , j No. 9—£B 15s Reduced to £5 10s r\ Ho. 10—£8 15s Reduced to £5 10s No. 11—£9 10s Reducbd TO £6 No. 12—£12 Reduced to £7 7s *\ WINKS & HALL t '■ . Have also a f«w 3 GROVER AND BAKER MACHINES 1 j 3 I Whioh they will disposo of 1 j r I ear at Half the Original Cost J st \ • No. 2G-£l3 10s Reduced to £8 * ! Full Cabinet—£l9 10s „ £10 10s f ' Hand „ £5 5a „ £3".3a T _ I TFT INKS & XT ALL, ' j WHOLESALE AND lUCTAIL CABINETMAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS, : AND ;j CARPET WARKHOUSKMEN, " AGENTS FOR THE METALLIC VENETIAN J ' BLINDS, "rpHE gLIND OK THE pERIOD," ' Which do not requiro re-painting, Thoy do not warp llko wood blinds, and are all fitted with tho Patent JClimax Action. i ....... Sewinsr Macmuos. ALL FORMER YEARS OUTDONEj!! j f During the Year IS79>j TIIE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY (SOLD j Ugf 431,167 OF" TMKIK CKtKIIHATKD SEWING MACHINES I Thia number being 71,735 in oxcoss of the Salea of any previous year. Tho Sales of this Company during tho last ton years wero as follows :— 1870 ;. .. 127,833 Sinorr MACHINES. 1871 .. .. 181,200 „ „ 1872 .. .. 210,768 ~ ~ 1873 „ .. 231,111 ~ 1871 £ .. 211,673 .. 1875 S, .. 219,852 „ 1876 .. .. 262,310 „ 1877 .. .. 282,812 1878 .. .. 356,132 1879 .. .. 431.167 .. The recent Groat REDUCTION in thoir Prices and their wonderfully Kasy Torniß of Payment, will enable ovoryono to beoomo poßsos3ed of those UNEQUALLED SEWING MACHINES. Since THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COM PAN V inansurated thoir System to limit, with Option of Pitkcoask, it has been taken advantage of by the public to such an extraordinary extent as to prove that it has nw t a great public want. By this system thousandß havo become possoßßed of theso most reliable SEWING MACHINES; andltalways offorn peculiar advantages to familios in want of a SEWING MACHINKi for Domeßtio use by en abling such to havo a thorough trial before purchas ing. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, 39, Foster Lake, London, E.C. Boßt Quality Silk Twist, Cotton, and Linon Threads, Machine Oil. Duplicate Parts of Machinos, &0., always kept in stock. Needlos sent por post. The Needles of the Singer Manufacturing Com pany nro made onMroly by Automatic Machinery, and flniwlicd with a perfection, accuracy, and polish, altogether minqimlUid by any othor makor. SINGKK\S HEWING MAOHINKB aro made only by The Sin«or Manufacturing Coiupuny (formerly J. IVI. Sinner and Co.) and can oily bo obtained Wholesalo in Now Zealand from tho Chief Depot, which is also our only Retail Agenoy (for tho present) in thia City. Price Lists free por post. THE SINGER MANUFACTURING COMPANY Fort-street, Auckland. (jT UTHKIE & JL?A KNACH'S NEW ZKALAND TIMBER & WOODWAKK FACTORIES COMPANY (LIMITED) Havo on Salo at thoir Branch Stores, LOWER QUEEN - STREET, AUCKLAND ONKHUNGA. Dunkdin-Max>k Woodwauks Consisting of— . Neats Tubs, painted and varnished Huckets dol Fanoy Buckets, Cheese Vats, Churns Butter Firkins, Knife Boards Washing; Boards, Turning Trusses Storo,Tracks,&o. JAMES W. WALLER, Makagkb. f(LAUDE AND AAKCNER STOCK AND COMMISSION AGENTS. IADDRK6S— Cure. o£j2WrffwHt-oUico /Auokland.J



Medical. T^ R. G R A N T, Mombor of the Royal CoUogo of Surgeons, Eng land, and of the Medical Boards of Victoria and New South Wales; also registered in Now Zealand, and PROFESSOR WALLENBURG, Oculists, Aurlstp, and Specialists, (From Europe) may be consulted upon all Diseases of tho Eye, Ear and Throat, Deafneis, Noises in the Head, Def ootivo Sight, Squinting, Cataracts, A maur osis, Ophthalmia, Gutta Ferena, Loss of Eyelashea.ln fiammation, and all Diseases ofltho Ky o, Ear, and Throat treateduponnewandscientifloprlncipleßi DR. GRANT. Has nrrivod in Auckland, and may bo consulted at his consulting Rooms, Claromont House, Princes Street. Hours of Attendance : Morning, 10 till 1; After noon, 2 till 5; Saturdays, Morning only. OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. Blindness and Deafness. By the kind invitation of Profossor Wallen burg and Dr. Graut, the editor of thisjournal, in company with tho editor of tho Saturday Adver tiser, visited their consulting rooms, ac the Criteriou Hotel, yestnrday morning. The first case khown was that of a Miss Wuite, ago 11 years, the daughter ot a tetllor at Oamaru, who liaa bt'ou totally blind for years. This young lady }iaa beau under ilia treatment of these clever oculists for three days, and wonderful to say, hor| eyesight has been perfectly restored. Tho father of tlie girl asauroil ua that ho hac placed her under tho care of several medical mou who had f uilfcd to dv hur auy good, despite the money no had lavished upon her. Tho next was a ca>m of Mi»s Hughoa, a Dunedin resident, who stated, that fcho had been deaf for a period of ov«r threo years, btrangd to Bi.y, she has only been undor treatment for eight days, and her hearing has bcon fully restored. Thia fortunate girl ia nearly in ecstacies over her good fortune. Iho no>.t subject under treat ment, was a l*bouror, numud PatricK Francis, working at Louan's Point, who informed u« that latterly ho was struck in tho right eyowith a etone. by which ho lost his sight and of lute his left eye has been materially »,H'oct.cd by the hliud i.no; Dut, thanita to thu tkili of Professor VVallenburg, ho has now re covered th< sight of his two eyea, and is able to discern tno smallest print. Herman Schuitz, of Hyde, was ttio last patient introduced. Ho stated that ho had boon totally deaf fir years, und that he had been only undur treatment, for a fowdays, and now ho could hear plainly. These gentlemen havo numerous other cases under treatment. Tho cases thut we havo xmtaneod stiould oo suflicient to removo any douut from tho most sceptical. All tho patients that are now under treatment have been tampered with by tho medical profession with no satisfactory rouult, und this, m the major portion of castß, caußes n>oro aggravation, and makes efleciual cure more dilliuult. Tlia above oases c.eaily inudtruto that Dr. Grant and Professor Wat lenburg aru, without doubt, wh»tthey protessto bo—Oculists, Aurists, and Specialists. We wuulu stixingly recommend those who are either allhctud with blindness or deafness 10 consult these gentlemen at once, as their stay hoio is limited.—livening Tribune, Dunedin, September 2Kb, 1870. We can conscientiously recommend those sutioring from acufnusu or other ailmuuts that Dr. Urttut has made a special siudy of, to pay him a visit, when, if curablo uutients, they may ourtainly expect relief. An liiuUmoo came under our notice on lkursday, iv ttw case of a man named diaries Swuauun, who has boon very uoul for three years, but, after ton days' tro*tmont can now hear purfectly even theloweßt whisper. Tho cure is v. rather romurkab o one, as he has been unaor tho cii.ro of many medical men, but baa received no benefit wnatevor from their featinonu "Now Zottiander," Deosmbor 27th, 1879. Mr Ernest D'Egvill* Miohau callod at our ollleo >csiwduy, and staled ttmt he had been bliud with hlu right eye all his lifetime, H.ar ing aboul/ Dr. Urantuud Protossor Wallenbur^, tlio oculists, wiio are now on a vi*it to this city, ho determined to give them a trial. Ho bud only been under Dr. Grunt's treatment, ten or eleven days when he found tli.t ho could ace large objects at komo dibtunc-a. Mr Michau stated that no hud been uudur iho treatment of some of the best medical men at home, bnt bad not recelvucl tho bli({hteat bciieiu; Vk o are at aU times chary o( accoptlug detaila of " Wuudw f til cures," but tho >oung man who ottilcd at onr office appeared to be tolling the truth, and was exceedingly nruteful to Dr. Gra:at for tho relief he has already exparienced.—"New Zealand Times," 25th December 187 U., AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT. TO THE EDITOR. Sir,—You will much oblige me, as well aa benefit thopublic in general, by inserting inyour columns regarding tho cure eil'ccted on my right eye, which was totally blind when I placed myself under tho treatment of Doctors Grant and Wallenburg. I also found myself loaing the sight of tho left eyo. I havo now rccorcred mj sight, and am going to work to-morrow, Out of gratitude to thoso gcntlomon, allow mo to thank them, and hope all thoso suffering from tho ej o may avail thsmsolTca of thoir skill.—l am. &c:, Patrick Francis, Witness—W. J. Bawdkn. Logan's Point, Dunedin, 7th October, 1879. A WONDERFUL CURE. To Dr Grant and Profoauor Wallenberg. Gontlomcn,—Allow no to thank you for tho wondorful euro you havo performed in my case. I havo been deaf for twenty years in tho loft ear and twolvo years in tho right- I placed myself under your caro on the 6th ot October. This day lam t.blo to hoar tho ticking of a watch at a considerable dlstanco from my cars, and am quito well. I hope a sufferers may bo as fortunate as I havo beon Thanking you again, I am, Gcntlemon Your obedient sorrant, William Braokb. Poninsula, Dunedin, 10 October, 1879. Dn. Grant is also Specialist in tho Diseases of Womon and Children. Dr. Grant has rocontly effected a vory remark nblo euro in tho caso of Mrs D. Kvans, of Kumara, who has ricen undor his treatment for doafnosa since tho Uth February lost. Mrs Kvans has been doaf in both eara for a very long timo—no less than thirty yoars—her affliction having beon caused by a fever, from whioh she suil'oredlsoveroly. Sinoo that timo she has boen almost totally deaf, for sho could only h«ar tho loudest sounds. Since she has beon undor Dr. Grant's trcatnipnt her hearing has gradually improved, so that now sho can hoar plainly oon versalion in an ordinary topo of voice. She will return in a fow days to Knnmra cerfootly well nnd in possession ot tho full faculty of whioh she has been so long deprived.—" West Coast Timo9," 10th March, ISSO. One of tho crnployds in tho Public Works Oflloe horo has sent us tho following testimonial to tho snill of Dr. Grant. He says :—" I wish to let yo ' know that Dr. Grant has groatly im proved tho bearing of one of my ears, tho mem jruno of which was injured some six years ago. I may udd that two surgeons whom I consulted a short time ago considered tho case incurable." Dr. Grant has also boon very successful in several difllcult cases of disease of the oye.—" Hokitika Times," 23rd March. 1880. Thoro aro amongst Dr. Grant's successfnl oye cases at Hokitika a yonng lady at J. Jacks Esq., tho Mayor, ourod, by operation, of oquint mg • and Mrs Wavont, operation for artificial pupil. Nelson, 11th May, ISSO. I, Thos. Adams, havo boen under Dr. Grant's treatment for deafness of tho left ear. from whioh I havo sulTorod for two years, tho result of a Bovoro tropical fovor. I find my hearing greatly improved in tho short timo—sinco 30th April. THOS. ADAMS.



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