THE MILLER'S WILL.

Bedford Eow is a, spot that everybody knows, but no ouc knows it better than Mr Manby, the famous solicitor. Poople meeting him only on legal busi ness consider him a dry, cautious man, far more disposed to question than to answer or express an opinion ; but at times he is very different. If on a quiet evening there is only a comfortable pair, or, at most, a trio of friends present, Mauby unbends, and at once becomes the most genial and frank of hosts. He can tell many stories of his curious experiences and difficult cases. _ "About the neatest and most curious case of fraud I ever handled," he said, " was in connection with a testy old client of mine, a miller by trade. He made a deal of money, and didn't know what to do •with it. The man's name was Stokes— Matthew Stokes. "One day he called upon mo and said no wanted to ask my opinion upon some matter, but I soon found ho had made up his mind what to do, and asking my opin ion was only his way of getting mo to carry out his ideas. He went into the story with energy and bitterness. Ho wtn worth thousands, he said-that I know—all in vested ; and his only heir was his daughter, an only child, who had aggravated him by eloping and marrying one of his clerks named Moroly. The clerk was one of those good-looking whipper-snappers, the old man said with passion. ' Never could sec anything in him but impudence and talk— a kind of cleverness that would have helped to make him a good showman— but she thought him heavenly; and after they got to lovin<T each other, as ho said, if his impudoiwe didn't write to me, asking me to give him my daughter in marriage ? I gave htm his uotico at once, aud a fort night's wages; Imt that didn't cure the silly girl. !She toak to moping aud melan choly. "Oiicdiiyl found she had eloped, and the next day she sent me word they woie married. 1 felt awfully, I tell you, and could have killed him if I'd met him that day, and her, too, almost. They're miser ably poor, that's one comfort, though he's in a place and does copying at night, and they've some children and lots of trouble, so I ought to bo happy if I ain't. But, here's the danger : I'm getting old and my doctor says I might be taken oIF suddenly, so 1 wont you to make my will strong and firm as you can make it, doing her out of the least chance of "Retting any money - ' cutting her off with a shilling,' as it is called/ '"Seeing you've no other relations for whom you care, do I understand you wish the money left to charity?' I said, not liking my task over well, for I had no doubt that if the poor daughter had boon there she could have givon quite a different look to tho love story. "'To charity? No, hang charity, ho cried, with a snort. ' I want it all given to Henry Gunson, a cousin of mine, in tho city. I don't care twopence for him, and I know little about him, but he onco did me a kindness. It's all tho same to me who gets the money, ko as they don't get any of it. Seo?' " I did sec perfectly, but thought I would try to alter his determination, for i£ one tiling displeases mo moro than another it is to bo thu means of carrying dissension and hatred beyond tho grave. Could he not, instead of trying to crush the young man who married his daughter, try to lift him up ? From his own account it appeared that he was a hard-working, diligent lellow, toil iog hard for his wifo and children. What more could a father wish for his son-in-law? In a word, I tried to pour oil upon the water, but I might as well havo poured it upon tho fire. The fury of the old man in creased, and was even turned upon me when I pointed out that in commercial cir cles the cousin, Henry Gunsou, of whom ho had spoken, was looked upon with strong suspicious owin" to an ugly bankruptcy case with which! had to do. Ho remained unmoved. " 'I tell you it's all the same to me who gets it,' ho persisted. ' It's nothing to me whether the man's good or bad. Disobe dience in children must bo punished, and I can't do better thun enrich my own cousin.' " Finding him bo firmly resolved, I pro mi-ed to have a draft of his will prepared, aud to send it to him for psni'al by my confidential clerk, which was done the fol lowing week. The witnesses wcrs clerks of my own. When signed, I was about to place it with the other papers connected with his business, but tho old man suap pishly told me ho meant to keep that him self, and accordingly it was handed to him. "Two or three years passed, during which time I made largo and frequent in vestments for him,! but no further mention was made of his will. One morniug I re ceived a note from his housekeeper telling of his sudden death, and shortly after road ing tho note I was called upon by the cou sin. Henry Gunson. "I am a good judge of faces, and disliked the man the moment I saw him. Ho was no hypocrite, and made no show of chain grief at tho death of his relative; on tho contrary.he smiled aud appeared perfectly jubilant at the stroke of good fortune. "'You have heard,' he said, 'I believe, of my cousin's death, and I came here because he once told me that, three or four years since, you had drawn up a will in my favour.'

"All this was natural enough, but there was something in the man's manner that made me study his face closely. It seemed to mo that, under an appearance of sim plicity, he was playing a deep game. Yet what game could he do playing ? I was forced to dismiss the thought, and turn my attention to business.

"' It is true that Mr Stokes did instruct me to draw up such a will, but ho did. not intrust the keeping of the instrument to me,' I answered. ' I have the draft of it, and that is all.'

" The man looked startled, but the look was not one of genuine surprise, and only made me suspect moro than ever. V ■ " 'Where in the world can the will be, then ?' he said. ' Perhaps you could go out with me and take charge of things, and see if it can be found ?'

"This was said with a curious look into my face, as if he had been saying to him self, 'I wonder if ho suspects me!' and contrary to my usual practice, I resolved to go in person instead of sending a clerk. "A cab which he kept in waiting took us to the house, in which we found the nurse who attended the old man in his ill ness, and an elderly woman who had acted as housekeeper. The nurse was not so .stupid as many old-fashioned nurses, and took occasion during a momentary absence of Gunson, to draw me aside and say, 'I hope the old man's money won't go to that man. He was here ever so often before Mr Stokes died, and they quarrelled hot,l can tell you.' "' What did they quarrel about ?' I asked with much interest.

" 'I think that man asked for money, for I heard him say: "I shall he ruined if I cannot pay." I did not hear all that was said, but it was bitter while it lasted, and the old man called me in with a fearful ring of the bell, and told me to show that villain out.'

" ' I saw murder in his eye,' he said, 'and not a penny of my money shall he ever finger, I wish I knew where my poor

girl lives. She would have it all, poor thing.' Then he ordored me out of the room, and I heard him shuffle across to the fire; and when I camp back I could see he had burned something in the fireplace— which, I believe, sir, was the will,' " No doubt the old man's days had been shortened by the excitement from these frequent quarrels. When a man_ of no moral principles, like Gunson, is given an interest in another's death, it is not at all unlikely that ho will try to hasten tho re moval of all that stands between him and a fortune—especially when ho thinks it can be done without danger of discovery. I felt, however, as tho man rejoined me, a thorough repugnance to him, and was very near telling him not to trouble to look for the will, as I had reason to believe it had been destroyed, but I conquered tho feeling as well as I could; and, indeed, I had no evidence to prove that the will had been destroyed. "The housekeeper then showed us a trunk in which old Stokes had kept all his papers. I opened it, and at the top I found a little package ot letters from his daugh ter. I glanced at one; it was full of sorrow and tenderness, asking so earnestly if she might show him their boy. The letter went on : ' We call him Matthew, father; aud when we were without bread tho little fellow said lie would come to you and ask for some for mother. He was sure you would not say no; but now my dear husband has work, and although it would not be to beg we should come, yet I do want, dear father, to sco yon once more.' Over the next few words the ink had run, or the paper had got so wet that I could not, read them. Per haps, if the miller had been alive, ho could have told us how it happened. "I folded up tho letter, and turning sud denly to Gunson, who had been looking over me, I saw a sardonic smile on his face, which did not improve my opinion of him. We went over all the papers, but could not find the will.

"Just as I was about to close the trunk, Gunson said : ' We havo not looked in the pocket inside the lid.' I did so, and to my Biirpriso came upon a folded paper, which appeared to be the will, or so exact a copy ot it, that 1 was not prepared to deny the identity. It was written on a kind of paper that I have used for that purpose for half a lifetime, and the writing-was unmistakably that of a clerk of mino named Peter Chipps. The signatures, too, were all right as fur as I could sco, but yet I had a doubt. I caught myself taking the valuable paper out of my pocket and scanning it closely when Gunson was not by, as if lialf expect ing the senseless paper to ro veal some subtle treachery. I got back to my office as soon as possible, and read the will carefully through; then I hunted up the original draft and found that it agreed perfectly. " For somo two or three days the matter stood over, for I was called out of town on urgent business, but on tho morning of my return, I was told that an old woman— the nurse of Matthew Stokes—had called to sco me during my absence. She would not leave any message, but said she would call when I returned to town. That day, as I was leaving the office, the nurse camo, full of apology, and hoping I should not think anything the worse of her for what she had to tell me. ' You know,' she said, ' I told you that I believed'Mr Stokes burnt his will, and my reason for thinking so is this: when he waß fast asleep, I picked up two little bits of paper from the ashes, and I havo kept them in my pocket ever since, and here they are :'

"Sly root and personal ....Henry Gunso _........tho testator In ..." Ills presence, and in" " I compared the scraps of paper with tho copy I found in the trunk, and it was with- ' out doubt in tho same handwriting. I ■would have turned to the clerk whose I name stood first as witness, but he was dead; or to tho ope who had* written and witnessed the original will, and who, at; this moment, I felt sure, must know some thing oif the fraud, but he had gone to drink ' a year or two before, and I had been reluc tantly compelled to part with him. I asked if any one had his address, and by a , strange coincidence a letter had come from him that very day to one of my clerks, ask ing him to call for ho was very ill. Tho moment I heard that I started for Peter's lodgings in a cab. I found him in bed, evidently in a rapid consumption, and had only to hold up the forged will and Say sig nificantly. How on earth did $ou come to do tins? to make the blood leave his face. He would not confess, however, unless I gave him i\ pledge that he would not bo punished for his share in tho forgery. That was more than I could take on me to promise, so I left him and made my way to tho miserable home of the Morleya in Golden Lane. By miserable I don't mean unhappy, but poor. "When I was admitted j to the Louse I found that they occupied two rooms on the second floor. The heiress of Stokes's large fortune was busy on her knees before the lire, toasting bread for her hus band's tea, and her own rosy cheeks at the same timb, and Morely himself seated in a corner of tho room; writing with a swift sure baud on the law papers ho spent his evenings in copying. Mrs Morely was quite a young,'thing, and so good-looking that I could scarcely believe her the daughter of my deceased client. " When I told of tho death of old Matthew Stokes, anyone would have thought they had lost their dearest friend. His daughter was overcome with grief. I assured her from what I heard that her father had forgiven her,, and if he had known their address would certainly have sent for them. Both listened breathlessly to my story, and when I gave my opinion that nothing now could stand in the way of her inheriting her father's wealth, she simply went to her husband, clasped him in her arms and kissed liim, and burst into tears. But when I spoke of prosecuting her father's cousin, she said, 'No, my poor father would not have disgraced a relative even though he deserved it/ Perhaps if you Wrote. to him" telling him what you have discovered, he will trouble us no more,' .',."■ " It was hard to let the rascal slip, but I wrote to Gunson accordingly, and if my pen had been dipped in acid, I could not have written stronger. He needed no second dose. ' Without even having the politeness to reply he was off to America by the quickest route, fearing every inch of the way, I expect, that the police were in liis waKCi I got tho whole details' of the plot out of Peter Chipps, from which it appeared that Gunson no sooner discovered that his cousin bad really burned the will formerly executed in his favour, than he sought out my late clerk as a fitting tool to produce a duplicate from the draft. The price given, was a mere trifle—some £5 or £6; but Peter had resolved, to bleed his employer ' without mercy the moment ho, got possession of the old man's money, by means of the forged document. Peter was dying when lie made the confession, but Mrs Morely was at his house the next day, and took the poor fel low's breath away by telling Mm that his wife and children would be well cared for The stricken man stared at her some mo merits in dead silence, and then he feebly snatched her hand and burst into tears. He could'nt speak,. but the simple gesture said more than a thousand words could have conveyed.

"Mrs Morely has not been spoiled by her good fortune. She is tho same lovirfl and generous hearted woman that she was in poverty. She declares to this day that she is not a whit more happy in her grand house, than she was in the two pair back in Golden Lane. And I believe sue speaks the truth." . . .

Femmine Brevities.

If a woman can't take her parasol to heaven when she dies she won't be happy there. She will come back after it. ■■. >

" Marriage," said an unfortunate hus band, *' is the churchyard of love." '" And you men," replied his wife, " are the grave diggers." When a woman sees a new full-style bonnet on another woman's head, ehe de clares it to be hideous. The next day, when she gets one alao, she suddenly dis covers it to be as pretty as it can be.

A nice little maid in Boulogne, Whose heart was as hard as a stogne, When her lovers would sigh, Would say to 'em, " Fligh 1 I wish you would let me alogne." .

Any great event is now known the civil ised world over in a day or two. Verily, the railroads and the telegraph are already abreast of the sewing circle, The sewing circle must look to its laurels ere they are snatched from its brow.

An Ohio girl who loved another fellow married a dying man just to oblige him, and then he was mean enough to disoblige her by getting well. No wonder women occasionally exclaim that no man is to be trusted.

An exchange innocently speaks of "the bustle •' in Vassar College on the day the fall term commenced. Girls will be girls, and it may be taken for granted that there is always more bustle in Vassar than can b» seen in any boys' college—albeit the boy lias the reputation of being the noisiest auimal.

"That new girl is smart-looking and a good figure, but she is too confoundedly frank with the customerV said Mr Flemi shell, the dry goods merchant. "You ought not to expect anything different, sir," said tho confidential clerk. "Why not ?" " Why, sir, you say she is a good figure, and figures, you know, sir, won't lie." : .

Hans Boofcnsticker's son was recently married, and the old man was greatly re joiced and at ithe same time much excited. When the ceremony was orer, Hans went up to the new couple, and, taking each by the hand, he Raid! " Veil, my childers, I been very glat dat dis is all ofer." "Yes, fadder," they both answered. "Undnow, my childers, dat youvasbot'o marriod, you must be everytings and every tings to each other, and mooch more, und keep it up yoost so long as your life is, if do good Lord make it oud vid himself det you shall live as long as dat. Amen." The old man was in dead earnest, and nobody smiled, but a good many wanted to., "So women can't practise law in Massa chusetts," said Mrs Goodington,; looking up from the paper over her spectcclcs; "for my part, I don't see what they want to for. As Daniel used to say, poor man,, if women would consent to be women and, do their own duties contemptuously, and leave public affairs to the men folks, there ■would bo much less implieity in the mar riage revelation than there now is. What a woman wants to be an anatomy-at-law for, disporting with judges, sheriffs, and con stables, and all sorts of vilo characteristics, is beyond my compression." And the old lady stared_ a stony stare at the newspaper as though it were a would-bo lady lawyer whom she would annihilate with her re proving gaze. But let us not judge Mrs Goodington too harshly, and let us try and forgive her antiquated prejudices.

Modern Style of Natural Philo sophy.

The following choice specimen,,of imagery (in "a' recentlyrpublislied ~paper by. Sir William Thomson) will illustrate the grand style in modern natural philosophy. "The steani-lines.'.'says the distinguished Glasgow, physicist, ''are, as- represented in.;,the; diagram, in which the region of translational velocity' greater than waye-propagational-; velocity £ separated from; the region of trahslational-yelocity less than wave-propa gational-yelocity by a cats-eye border pattern of elliptic whirls." The curious mixture of homely simile and abstract ter minology io this passage is highly amusing. Its obscurity ii, however, surpasse A by Mr Herbert' Spencer's. famous , "J?ormula of Evolution," which runs : '* Evolution is a. change front an indefinite, incoherent homo? geneity to a definite coherent heterogeneity ■through .continuous differentiations ; arid integrations," by which, being interpreted into ,plairi,; Fnglish, the' mathematician means: "Evolution is a-change from a noho wish, uhtalkaboutable all-allikeness. to a som olio wish, and in-general-talkahontable not-all-alikeness by continuous something elsifications audsticktogetherations." Asa clever travesty cm the abore: cacophonous mystification of Mr Herbert Spencer, which, like the> language1 oft diplomacy,1 X conceals the meaning1 it ought to express, we have Mr Kirkman's ''Formula of .Universal Change, 'which is: . "Change is a peri choretical synechy of jjaniparil^amatic atid porroteroporeumtical differentiations' r aiid integrations." After such pedantryV as this, the clown in Shakespeare's "Twelfth- Night," who " did impeticos thy gratility," is absolutely nowhere.— Global .. ~ '

In a Barber's Shop.

Whether in town or country, the conven tional conversation of hairdressers, is quently not of a high order, and I question whether the following anecdote, pi which a near relation of my own was the victim, is often equalled in originality! The hair dresser began with probably a well-accus tomed opening. "A. fine head of hair, sir, for a gentleman of your lime of life, sir.f The gentleman, who was not in the habit of talking much on such occasions, signified that he heard the remark, but said nothing. The hairdresser proceeded. " Very odd, sir, but I never knew clever men have much hair, sir," Another grunt,- but nothing more, whereupon the cruel climax followed, y" It's a very singular thing, sir, but I never met with a bald idiot in all the course of my practice." Why a bald man,, idiot or not, should go to a halrcutterdid not appear, but this by the way. Whether the series of remarks was meant as,a punishment for the non-application of the compliment conveyed in the first was never known. I was once myself completely deceived by what I can imagine to be a common joke in the trade,; but for which I was not prepared at the moment. I asked whether "the principal," who, usually "waited upon me," was disengaged.. The assisant replied-in, as If thought, a very serious tone, "He's upstairs, sir;'; he's dying, sir." " Dear me," I replied, " I am very sorry to hear,it. Has he;been-ill: long?" "He's dyeing a gentleman's hair, sir ; he will be at liberty in a few; minutes,"; was the reassuring answer. Though I was of course glad that my worst fears had not j been realised,l was still conscious of haying been unwarily ■sympathetic.— Leisure Hour. - 5 ,

Humours.

A Sound Business.—Boiler-makers.1 That School Board.—At a Pawnbroker's. —Small Child :' " Please, sir, mother sent me to desire you to inform her to t what ex tent you'll effect an hypothccaion-upoh this flat-iron ?" ■ -\ ''■; < i; '-■'■[<_ Green-grocers.—Those that trust. What was it the pie-bawled, and who did the para-shoot ? i , A Fireside Tail.—The cat's. • Story Tellers.—Bate assessore. \" .' Neat Argument.—The proof of the spirit is iv the drinking. . Tne Prayer of Cornish Mine Investors :— Whqal may the mine go. the mine go, the mino go; " ': ■ tv ■ ■ ■ ■■■■:■ Whral may the mine go ( the one my moneys A coloured preacher, in translating to Ms hearers the sentence, "The harvest is past, the summer is over, and we are not saved," put it: "De corn has been cribbed, dare ain't any more work, and old Satan is; still foolin'wid this community." , .. A Boston paper devoted chiefly to machinery, has an article entitled "How to put on a belt." .Does the editor sup pose ho can teach any young lady how to put her belt on ? She can do it with a pin while going upstairs to breakfast, in one time and two motioos, while the editor would prick his fingers until they looked like an old-fashioned nutmeg grater, .and then it would be on hind side afore. . . An idle fellow complained bitterly of his hard lot, and said that- he was born on the last day of the month, and the last day of the woek, and heJiad always been behind hand. Ho believed it would have been £100 in his pocket if he had not been born at all. Possibly it would have been many hundreds in someone else's. Francois I. was a kind of gay Lothario. At Cognac, his native town, ne had smiled at a tradesman's pretty wife, and succeeded in making an assignation. On arriving at the house, the husband, who had divined matters,appeared in presence of his jVfajesty and, running to the window,,cried,;"Vive le Roi I" The inhabitants flocked .round the house, and marched the king, with torchlights, back to his castle, amidst gene ral laughter. "Did you serve in the Kentucky war, uncle ?" " No, sah; I was a cowardly nig gah. I was a Kentucky niggah. . And what did I want to 'list for 2 ■ . "Were not the white men fighting for you f' " S'pose they was. Dat was no sign why we should fight. Massa, did you ever see two dogs fightin' over a bone ?" _ " Well,, whaf s that to do with your fighting!" V A heap,: massa. Did you ever see de bone fight?" The questioner, left, amid a general laugh. "How do you like the Episcopalian,ser vice I" asked Jones. " Never heard it," replied Fogg; 'I dropped in at one of the churches last Sunday. It was quite early, andso I began reading the service. I didn't read far, though, before 'X found -that,it would never do for me. So I came out." "Why, what was the- trouble?" '.'Too many collections.", ■■ . "Top many collec tions V' ■ "Yes, on almost every page ■ it; said collect. One collection is all I can respond to. Must be awfully' expensive to be an-Episcopalian." ,4 . :! r,• ■=> ":';;'

The "Gentleman" in England.

"Do you call yourself a gentleman!" is the commonest andmost withering form of sarcasm in use, not only among snobs, but among costermongers, coalhcavers and the like. To persons of admitted pretensions to gentility the question is often put, aud perhaps negatively answered by the ques tioner when the superior person declines to recognise a false or exorbitant, claim. Thus, not long ago, I was asked if I called myself a gentleman by a "young lady" at a railway refreshment bar, because; I demurred at paying her a sovereign for not having runaway with a purse that I had inadvertently left on the counter for five minutes. And two of her friends declared that I was "no gentleman," without leav ,ing any doubt in the matter; , I have been called "no gentleman "for not paying a cabman three times his fare, and for; ob jecting to pay in furnished lodgings for articles which I had,neither ordered' nor consumed. A loafer in the street has sometimes picked up a glove before I could pick it up for myself, or told me that my handkerchief was hanging out of my pocket. In any other country than England the commonest man paying such attentions as these would be insulted by the offer of a reward, but in this country I have been freely called "no gentleman " for not encouraging the lowest kind of what is vulgarly called " cadging." ' It seemsjiii deed, that to be a gentleman in the eyes of large classes of the community you must pay whatever may be demanded of ydu upon any pretext, and ask no questions. Socially the term "gentleman" has be come almost vulgar. It is certainly less employed by gentlemen than by inferior persons. The one speaks- of a "man I know," the other of a ''gentleman I know." In one case the gentleman is taken for franted,iii the other it seems to need speci catio'n Again, as regards the term lady. It ia quite in accordance with the usages of society to speak of your acquaintance the duchess as " a very nice person." People who would say "very nice lady "are not generally of a social class which has much to do with duchesses; and if you speak of one of these as a "person" you will soon be made to feel your mistake.—"All the Year Bound."

The Camellia.

The history of the camellia is not gener ally known. Wo take the following account of its origin from the " Debats ":—lt was in in the month of December, 1739, that Maria Theresa entered the chamber of the melan choly King Ferdinand Vl.of Spain, hearing in her liand a ilower of immaculate white ness, which she presented to her husband. " It is a beautiful flower, but. a scentless one," he languidly remarked, taking it from her and placing it in a. china vase. The Queen replied that it had been found in the Plnllipine Islands by a Jesuit missionary who had just returned home, bringing with him. a tree a metre and a half in height, upon one branch of which were two snowy flowers. The missionary who had discovered it was named Camclli, and the flower was christened after him camellia. But although introduced into Spain in 1739, tho tree of Pore Camelli remained for a long time comparatively unknown. Marie Antoinette herself failed to obtain a root of the spotless white camellia to ornament her hothouses and gardens at Trianon; indeed, it was only towards 1799 that the flower brought over by tho Jesuit missionary sixty years before became obtainable by any but Hoyal personages in France. ■' ,

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F.G.S. would call the. attention o£ the Public: \ to his Stock o£ New Goods, and an inspection o£ \ his Window is respectfully invited. -'- . \ "A; Thing of Beauty is a Joy rf or Ever 1" Aar ' 1 the Festive Season is approaching, and we all look forward to meeting "Our, Uncles, Our ■, Cousins, and Our Aunts, nothing at these re- ■ unions looks nicer than a well-spread table; but If your Cruets, Spoons, and Forks are shabby, it • will spoil the effect; so if your Plate wants re- t novatmg or plating, F.G.S. is prepared to do ' I them at the following reasonable rates •—!: >''•*; i I "■'"■. i RK-PLATINO. ; ■■;!■:•. ..-"..',:. -Jtfjbl Table and Dessert Spoons and Forks, 12/doz^J'iH Tea Spoons, 8/ dozen M■ \ ■ Salt and Mustard Spoons, 6/ dozen ' •■" " Si; ™ Cruets, from 5 to 12/6 eaoh ■JtiMfl Salvers, Cake Baskots, and Sido Dishes f9f\X.'i reasonable rates, according to size B Albert Chains, 2/; Watch Cases, 2/6 '. ■' WR&M Cornet Mouth-pieces, from 1/6 Brooches, 1/; Earrings. 1/ per pair. flf g >■' Bli-GILDINQ. 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Inspection and Trial invited;:'.;; nnHE AUCKLAND GAS..'COWPANY,. JL Limited. ' , PURVEYORS OF LIGHT, HEAT, Si POWER* Gus fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gab Engines. InStoolcV ■• -■• ■.'--•,•> -'•:,. .• .^ ' FbRT-STBEBTi;AUCB!iiiANb.y j QYMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOIV ENOCH WOOD, FAimy Butcheh. ■'■'/ '" ■ Meat delivered at Mount 'Albert,! Eprtim^ Mount Eden, Carlton Grove, Lower; Bymond* Street, Newton, and Eden Terrace. , :■; , . First-class quality; reasonable'prices.','' ; ' Cash'customers liberally treated. ' - _ ' ' : Inspection Invited. , - * ; ', ; WAN TED KNOWN Til As' H. WATT, OESTBBAI. D.EALEB, ': "' ■ .'■:■ '~: ■"'. . _■.',', Grey .'Street, .;_', .'.' . * Has always on hand a Largo and Varied Stook. of all kinds of Household Requisites, at the; lowest Cash Prices. ' " ' ■ ---^ft".:^ :•!.„• Now Selling Cheap, 170 Volumes Of Assortedt BOOKS. Good Salt Butter, 8d per lb. . „ „ ' by the keg, 6dperlb, ' 7^ 7 riLmVJLLE & TTILLYETT. ' w -■;■ : h •;: ; : :::■-. IE A DE A LEES'; '~', .'• ' '?."•':'■ . *:•■■' .and1. \' . -.;' "'';'.'■■.■ ■''' ' '-' FAMILY GEOOEES, ! 111, QUEEN STREET, . . .■■■■...-.■■.:.•:■. ■(■:•' \- -, ;■ (Oppositb tias Union Bank), ' ' : 1 •. ■ " ' '■■ . " ■ ■ '-''■■'■;:; : ' ' ' - ' " '•: •. ■ AUCKLAND.. ' .ri j ■■..■■ ■ . . ■ '■■.■■.; I NEAV SEASON'S TEAS, . !.;■'■"'.■■ ' . • . ~■ Highly Recommended. I MRS. ROUN. TR E E,. MILLINER AND STOAW WORKER, WELLESLEY. STREET, AUCKLAND, Has just opbnbd a nice Assortment of Hate,- Flowers, Feathers, Trimmings, etc., etc., SXJITABLB FOR EHE SEASON. , ,' Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Altered to any.Shape^ required. Feathers Curled and' Dyed: AH I Orders for. Millinery, eta,' promptly" Wr'ffj attended, to. . WitJi tho aid of machinery for pressing Hats* ; Mrs. R. is enabled to undertake any orders that •yfa : ■■;••:■• may be entrusted to her care;': Olti; is a disttngaiahing. . ;'■ name, given by I^ankWeßtpntp v ma Medicine, which.,is oomp'oßed 6i" various Vegetable Oils, Healing Glims, „ i Hare BaQams, - Soots, Barks and. ; Herbs, (found only on the Great Amer- - | ican Continent,) foriningtha Chemical CJompbtuid': unlveraaUy kmwri ftjv I •■Weßton's Wiaard'OiL* - ■ m This Medicine was first introduced, by frank' ?Weston, to the Australian; Public in 1864; and the wonderflil andA niysterious Influence it-exhibited in. stopping tho most excruciating Pains, Aches and Infirmities in a fewdays after its use ib well known..; Its mirac ulous power in rising the Bed-ridden,. ;Crippled,R^ieumatic3'eiiralgio,divest— ing the system of all suffering from.. pain, inflammation and weakness,, curing in a few days the sickness and diseases of months and years giving ; instantaneous Base and Comfort in all. ordinary pains and aches; either iiiter nal or external, all cramps, spasms, congestions^ &c, is well known. ' Weston's Wizard Oil has the power to distribute itself over every part of" the body internally as well as extern-1 ally, curing the most inveterate eieeo; •..:: of tumors, ulcersi sbrofula; dißeaseat liver, piles, swellings, wonndSs &c.,Ssc. ■ .KEMPTH.ORNE, PEOSSER '* CO., ■■' ■ '■'•■ ■,■'■'■ ■ :',- .-Agents..':/.;.I';.;.'.' j'j."■■ ■'.. ' ■