AMONG THIEVES

JACK 81-TT-EBY, Lord Barcleigh's fifth son, was on the verge of a general smash-up when lie encountered, at tho Ccrcle de In Meditcrranec, at Nice, Lazarus 15. Spadge, the owner of a silver mine at Nevada. This Spadge was a downright cad, but money flew off his fingertips like sparks oft' a grind stone. He had made his fortune all of a sudden, after having been hostler, bruiser, convict, soldier, keeper of a liquor bar, and finally a minina tramp. Ho had left Eng land at the age of 15 on an emigrant ship with his parents ; at 20 he was fighting as a private on the Confederate side ; at 22 he had deserted, and was a Lieutenant in the Federal army ; at 30 he was in Sing-Sing tinder a sentence of five years for murder and robbery ; at 35 he was in the insurance line of business, that is to say that he bought ramshackle houses, filled with gimorack furniture, insured them for ten times their value, and then set lire to them; at 40, after a new term in jail, he was keep ing the liquor bar at Jim's Gulch, but he had to fly suddenly to escape lynching, on account of two travellers having been found dead behind his premises with empty pockets. At 41, having bought a "claim' (supposed to be "used up") from a despond ent Irishman for a bottle of whisky, he had "Struck silver" tho same day (which! led, by-the-hy, to his being obliged to shoot tho Irishman, who wanted to cry off from the bargain), and now, at the age of 43, he was back again in Europe, travelling like a Srince, with a fortune estimated at a million ollars a year. Lazarus B. Spadgo was not one of your lantern-jawed, goat-boarded Yankees, who twang speech through their nostrils as if they had learned to talk by listening to a banjo. He did speak with a slight twang, and used slang that was often quite incom prehensible ; but on the whole he. had pre served many of the characteristics of his Anglo-Saxon blood. He was a tall, stout, broad-shouldered fellow, witli a fringing of orange-whiskers and board round his face, and a clean-shaved upper lip. He dressed in tight-fitting, horsey clothes, the result of his early profession as hostler, and looked somewhat like a jolly stage-coachman of old days. He always woro a white hat, and long whitoy-brown top-coat. The comer of a red silk handkerchief peeped out of his breast-pocket.' The French gentlemen among whom he had been spending his money most freely in Pan's and Nice looked upon him as a fine specimen of the "Ameri can Milord," though ho disgusted them somewhat by chewing Virginia tobacco and expectorating on carpets, wall-papers, po lished steel fenders—anywhere, in short. Jack Brittleby had little taste for card playing, but lie had come to Nice as a last desperate venture, thinking lie might by some hazard pick up enough at Monaco and the Cercle to carry him through the next season. If the truth must be told, lie was not without some ugly desire of trying a neat trick which he bad learned of a London conjurer, to ensure two or three safe deals at baccarat. He was fairly on his beam ends, poor wretch. His father, who was impecunious, had sworn not to give him another sixpence beyond his allowance of £300 a-year, so that Jack was only holding on to his commission in the Hussars by the skin ot his teeth. The particular hobby that had brought him to grief was plunging on the turf. Lazarus B. Spadge had been hold ing the bank at bac. one night, when he heard some one behind say; "Here's Brittleby." He gave a slight start, but went on making any amount of money, then passed the bank, and slouched up to Jack, who had not yet commenced play, but was sitting in an armchair, chewing a toothpick. " Guess you're Mr Brittleby?" " I am ; and you arc Mr Spadge .' «' You've about fixed it. How's ol d Bareleigh getting on? I reckon it's tarnally chewed up by this time." " Are you alluding to my father or the estato ? Both are pretty well, thank you." " Darn it! I'll go and see the old place. I was born there : and the first cowhiding I ever got was from your father's under keeper, Joe Barberry. Darn him !—n bully chap he war for settin' night traps to catch pheasants !" "These are pleasant recollections, aughed Jack Brittleby. "I suppose you have keepers of your own now »" "Come and have a drink," said Mr Spadge, drawing out a gold watch resemb ling a small warming-pan. Guess you'll have time enough to play by and by. What'll ver name—cock-tail, eye-opener ; sudden death? Along drink or a short «•»?" , , „ "Thanks. ~ I'll take a soda and brandy. " Reckon you like long drinks. I drink short-you bet. Garsong, take this gentle man's order; and bring me a tumblerful of whisky, right away, darn yer; and don t stand goggling there, as if ye'd a ten-foot pole down your throat!" The result of the little "wet" which Jack and Lazarus Spadge had together was that they became good friends. Jack would have sworn amity to the Devil nt that moment if he could have seen a chance of fleecing him. He played at bac. for a couple of hours, and lost £200, all the money he had, except a £20 note to carry him home. But he was staying in the same hotel as the American, and next morning he saw that worthy in the breakfast-room tackling a steak soused with pepper and chutney. "Guess thoy can't lisa steak in this country." grumbled Mr Spadge, with his mouth full. "Darned silly meat it is, which kinder melts in your mouth, and don't give yer teeth a fair chance. VV aal, Mr Brittleby, you were down on your luck yes'day night, I calculate. Sort o' cleaned out, I should reckon. Darned if I won't try a chop. Hie, garsong, you cursed white nigger, bring me two chops, starched out considerable, and don't stand showing me your biled shirt, with the flam gold studs "I was very hard hit last night, Mr Spadge, that's the fact," said Jack, who had made up his mind to tap the Yankee for a loan, if possible. \ "Hard hit; hold on! youve dealt out an odd trump there/1 exclaimed MrSpad"C. " What d' yer signify by ' hard hit?' You Britishers talk such darned queer English.' "Well, I got a pretty tidy facer." " Shuffle the cards, boss, and make a new deal. You've about spread me, I reckon. Can't read that nohow, not without specs.". " Well, I lost more money than I could afford," smiled Jack. "Asl am expecting remittances, I was going to ask you whether you would oblige me by kindly lending

"Darned if I lend yer a cent," replied Mr Spadge, bluntly. "Guess your name's Brittleby and mine's Spadge. You tie us both up in aba" and shake us. The man that holds you 'd flap yer over his head like a cotton pocket handkerchief, that's sartin; but he couldn't lift the sack in which I was situated. He'd 'aye to holler for the steam crane, by golly, if he bust for it, because I'm a rich man, stranger—there ain't a richer in Nevada. Every darned fool knows that."

"I did know it, Mr Spadge, and that's why I ventured to hope " "Hold on; don't shoot till the doll's up. Twenty thousand dollars is my bid. Will you go partners at the figure, and pilot

me about as the coon did Toby Flag's dog, till he'd shown that cussed pup all the picturesque locations in Virginy ?' " Do you mean that you want me to go to America as your partner ?" asked Jack mystified. He was already minded to accept, the offer. "Cussed if I didn't think your dad had paid some schooling for yer," remarked Lazarus B. Spadge, sententiously. "Boss, you don't comprehend your mother tongue. I shouldn't be exactly such a fool, not no how, as to take you to the United States where you'd be o' no more use to me than a prize-show 'oss with his tail clipped to a man boatin' down river on a pine-raft. Guess I'll have a darned mean opinion of yer if yer talk that—it's such a cussed foolish talk, it is. I calculate your sphere of usefulness lies in old Europe, as they said to the Dutchman who got kicked out of New York for trying to pass bad coin in that enlightened city. You know all these tracks about here; which I don't; so it's worth my while to rent you as a guide for so much down and all your liquoring free, so long as you suit. That's what I reckon. Then it transpired that Lazarus 15. Spadgo wanted to be taken to England, to visit the abodes of aristocracy, the Tower of London, Queen Victoria, and the Royal Family. But in particular he wanted— "wanted bad," as he said—to go as a guest for a fortnight's stay to Bareleigh Hall. He offered to pay for his board and drinks in that establishment at crack Paris hotel prices, but, work it any how you pleased, he wanted to dine at Lord Barcleigh's table. "Fact is, boss, I was bom on that estate, and 'taint no use try ing to forgot how grand a location I thought it. When my lord passed I mied to tremble in my shoes and feel kinder dried up. Guess 't won't bo the same now; no, not by a large majority. But, all the same, I'd like to see your dad, and do a good turn to the old 'oss if he wants it."

" I'm sure my father will be delighted to sec you," replied Jack; and in this he spoke the truth, for Lord Bareleigh was always glad to see people who had money. So the matter was "fixed," and about a week later, Jack having written to apprise his father, the pair started for Bareleigh Hall. Mr Spadge behaved well in shelling out his §20,000 in advance ; but he required good work for Ms money, and interrogated his guide all along tho route, asking him questions sometimes childish, sometimes deep, about every object they passed. At last, when Bareleigh Hall was reached, Lazarus Spadge showed considerable elation: and he wrung the hand of Lord Bareleigh, whose reception of him was kindly courteous, till the old man was ready to cry from pain. Then the American set eyes on a very beautiful, aristocratic girl, dressed in a bewitching costume.

"I say, boss," ho said, violently nudging Jack, and speaking pretty audibly; "guess I'm a bachelor, and that crittur would just about fit me, I reckon."

" Why, she's my sister, Emma," replied Jack.

"Guess that makes it all the oasier," an swered Mr Spadge. "If I'm of the same .mind tliis day week, I'll give jou twenty thousand dollars more for getting the busi ness fixed. Now introduce me."

The plague of the Bareleigh household was its poverty. My lord had five extra vagant sons, and three daughters who had married badly. His fourth and youngest daughter Emma now wanted to " make an idiot" of herself also by marry ing a brother officer of Jack's, who had nothing but debts. Miss Emma, however, had a pretty good dose of worldly wisdom. She was desperately fond of her lover, but he and she had resolved to adjourn their marriage till something should turn up. When she saw Lazarus Spadgo and heard of his wealth and vulgar ex travagance, she wondered whether he was not destined to be that something. Jack and his sister used to talk about their monetary embarrassments . with, affec tionate frankness. They did so on the night of Mr Spadge's arrival, when every body else was in bed. "Well, you made something out of the Nice trip, Jack," Emma began; " how much ?"

"Four thou, and I'll give you five hundred dollars to pay your milliner's bills." '

" Five hundred won't pay them, Jack— thanks all the same, for the money will be very welcome."

" You can mako a lot more for yourself, if you play your cards well. Look here, Emmie, you must let this disgusting brute make love to you; he's not half so bad a fellow when you know him." "He shall make love to me if he pleases." "And if he proposes to you, don't say

"I won't say yes, either. I'll do no thing beyond reason." "Well, you're a sharp girl, and you understand a demi mot. The brute was born as a stable-boy on this esiato, and he is literally coated with monoy. It's odds if we don't make something out of him, for he can afford to pay for his flirting." " I saw papa was already sounding him about a mortgage this evening." " Oh! it's quite iair that the governor should have his pickings, too," said Jack; " there's enough on Spadge for everybody."

The weatlhy Spadge was not a man who could have been gammoned out of his money by any New York sharper, but he had come to Bareleigh resolved to give money to the old lord, if the latter should need it. It tickled his vanity to do the magnificent toward his former master; so within less than a week he had parted with £10,000 on the security of a mortgage. He then asked Jack if it was the "k'rrect thing" to make presents to young ladies " whom a chap might be courtin' ?" and on receiving an affirmative reply, he bought Emma six rings, a diamond neck lace, five bracelets and a gold-mounted dressing-case all at once. The aggregate value of these things was £2,000, and Emma-made no difficulty about accepting them. She intended, as soon as the American had turned his back, to re sell them all, saving one of the rings and a bracelet, to the jeweller pi whom they had been bought, and who was her jeweller. Even if this man deducted 25 per cent, from the original price Miss Emma would still have made a splendid haul. She began also to see her way to marrying her lover. The American made hot love to Emma every day in language which obliged her to stuff her handkerchief into her mouth to keep her from laughing. In the evening hcwould play ecarte with Lord Bareleigh or Jack, and mostly lose, for his attention always wandered from his cards to Emma's fair face and lustrous shoulders. The ecarte he played was £5 the point and £20 on the rub, so that he contrived to drop a good deal of desultory coin into the laps of his kind hosts, All this had been going on for a fort night, when, of a sudden, Mr Spadge's at tentions toward Emma cooled. He became sliy, avoided her company, and seemed embarrassed whenever she was present. But he did not talk of shortening his stay at the Hall. On the contrary, he seemed desirous of remaining for awhile longer. Jack could not understand it. His sus picions were aroused, however, by the fact

tiiat Mr Spadge took to retiring to bed at the unusually oarly hour of 9.30. One night lie resolved to watch him, and surprised him in the very act of making love to the youngest housemaid-a pretty wench called Maggie—in the kitchen garden. " What ? Mr Spadge, is that you ?" he exclaimed, in accents of feigned horror, as the housemaid iled squealing. "Boss, hold on," answered the Ameri can, rather crestfallen, but still speaking firmly. "Guess you know the track now, so it's no use drawing a skunk's slot across it. Truth Ls, I was a darned fool to think of marryin' your sister, because I can't understand her lingo, you see, nor she mine. Guess we'd be like two figures in a waxworks show, squinting at each other. But now this female help o' yours, Miss Maggie, is a down-right, slap-up lady, I reckon. I and she can fix it right away. So I conclude I will make her my wife." "That's all very well, Mr Spadge, but you've trifled witli my sister's affections. Such conduct is not tolerated in this country." "Hoy' your six-shooter, if you like, said Mr Spadge, with a penitent drawl; "but if you'd sooner hoy' everything squared, name your ligger. I'm a gentle man, darn it, and can pay." '•Twenty thousand pounds, and you tear up my father's mortgage," answered Jack, making a grand coup. "Touch there —put your fist here, said the American, opening his palm wide. "The matter is concluded; but now, I guess, I'll ask a favour of you. I want my lord and Miss Emma to attend the wedding- it'll please Maggie so." _ "Maggie is a very lucky girl, sir, cried the overjoyed Jack. " Guess she ain't luckier than I, who ye found a good wife—a slap-up lady, too— who'll be a pride to the new country," repeated the amorous Yankee. And so the affair was happily settled, to the satisfaction of all parties. Lazarus B. Spadge had dropped about 50,000d015. to win the hand of a housemaid ;• but in so doing he achieved good things for others beside himself, for he picked a noble family out of debt and enabled Miss Emma shortly afterward to marry her lover, with a portion of £10,000 and a "clean slate"—i.e., all bills paid.—" London World."

Romance of an Egg.

"Yes, it is true,"said James Lynch yes terday, as ho stood in front of his produce market at No. 152, Grand-streot, Williams burgh, "an egg was the cause of it all, and it's the first time, I guess, that an egg ever acted as a matchmaker. I don't mind tell ing you the circumstances, but I prefer not giving the name of cither the girl or her in tended, for I know they would not like it, and the facts are just as interesting without them.

"It was on Saturday, night, I think, about two months ago. There was a great rush of customers, and our girl, who is very handy, came down stairs to help us in the store. She often did this, for the up-stairs work, which she is employed to do, is not very heavy, and on most evenings she is at leisure. Well, that day I had bought five barrels of eggs from a commission house on Duane-street, near Greenwich, New York. They had come from Tennessee. One barrel was used up when the girl came down and I had just opened another. She began to sell from this barrel. About five minutes later I heard her laughing, and saw her holding an egg to the light. She looked at it so intently that I drew near and asked her if it was had." " "'Oh, no,' she answered; 'it's too good.' " She handed me the egg, pointing to some words written upon it in a clear, busi ness-like hand. They were as follows : " ' Will the young lady into whose hands this egg may fall open correspondence with , county, Tennessee?' " I read it aloud, and a lady who chanced to be present said 'How romantic' I thought so too, and we all had a good laugh over it. After the shutters had been put up I told the girl, just for the fun of the thing, to comply with the request on the egg, and send a letter to Tennessee. Before going to bed she did so. She is well edu cated, and writes an excellent, letter. She was brought up in a convent in Ireland. She said she had no idea that she would get an answer, but I guess that she anxiously watched for the postman during the following week. At the end of five days a letter came, directed to her and post marked Tennessee. It didn'ttake her long to open it, and I'm pretty sure she read its contents- as quickly. A reply was sent, and other letters came and went. Photo graphs were exchanged before three week had expired. The girl after this refused to show any more of her letters, and we began to imagine that matters were becoming serious, and teased her a great deal about her correspondent. Well, to make a long story short, he proposed by letter and was accepted. . On Thursday last he arrived from Tennessee, and saw her for the first time. They were mutually pleased, and the wedding-day was set for some time in the middle of August. It is a good match, and I hope they will be happy together."— " New York Sun."

English Royalty.

The sweet and gracious Princess of Wales, says a London correspondent, still preserves the right to be considered the most;charming lady in Europe, as her husband is the best " poser." Though she is hovering perilous ly near the fatal year to feminine charms (the 40th. for she_ is fully 37), she still possesses that exquisite womanly grace and sweetness thatmore Man oTen the delicate outline of her features, the sculpturesque lines of her head and throat, or the dreamy tenderness of her soft eyes, have gone to make up her reputation for beauty. She will never lose her charms, for those charms do not depend on feature and colouring for their fascination. I think that were Nihi lism or red. Republicanism ever to becom rampant in England (but of such a consum mation I do-not perceive the smallest chance) the affection and enthusiasm which this winning and lovely lady has impressed in the popular breast would do more* to protect the imperilled throne than all^the virtues of the present Queen. The Princess evidently realizes and enjoys her own abounding popu larity, and she is the only member of the royal family, with the possible exception of her husband, who cares for such popu larity. She is extremely scrupulous about returning salutations from even the poorest of her future subjects. I was driving with a friend iv the park, yesterday, when the Princess's carriage passed. My friend's coachman took oil' his hat, and the Princess looked up and bowed as gracefully as though a Duke had saluted her. It is such little acts as these that endear her to the hearts of the British people. The rest of the roval family remain in a sort of Oriental seclusion so far as London is concerned. The Duchess of Edinburgh is in deep mourning, and the Duke and Duche>s of Connaught and the Princess Louise are off travelling. As to the Queen and the Princess Beatrice, they are as invisible as though they were Turkish Sultanas. Poor Beatrice, who is rapidly verging on a royal old maidism, is very like the members of the suicidal family in the old comic song of "A Horrible Tale," " who never hadnofunnornothink." She never goes to the theatre or opera with

her brother and sister-in-law ; she never makes her appearance at the court balls, and still less at any of the social gaieties of the season; she never drives in the park,and though reported to be the wittiest and most brilliant ot all Queeii Victoria's daughters, she certainly leads the dreariest existence to which a Princess outside of a fairy tale full of wicked fairies and impregnablo towers was ever doomed.

FOR THE LADIES.

The' Empress of Austria wears a train thirty feet long, and when she walks up atahs the disheartened Emperor goes up in the elevator.

A beautiful little Brooklyn girl being re proved the other day by her elder sister for using a slang expression, sharply retorted : " Well, if you went into society more you would hear slang." The man who goes to a picnic and discov ers the loss of his £1 note just after treating seventeen handsome girls to the delicacies of the occasion, has some slight idea of how it feels to be run over by a waggon-load of hay. Scene: An omnibus. Enter an elabo rately dressed lady, diamond' solitaire s, eight-buttoned kids, etc. Car crowded. At first no one moves. Soon a gentleman offers hi_ seat. " Thank you; you are-the only gentleman here. The rest are hogs." A contemporary asks : "How shall women carry their purees to frustrate the thieves?" Why, carry them empty. Noth ing frustrates a thief more than to snatch a woman's purse, after following her half a mile, and then find that it contains nothing but a recipe for spiced peaches and a faded photograph of her grandmother. Fashionable item : "Which had you rather be, a twinkling star in the heavens or a comet that with its broad train of fire sweeps in majestic course through unknown space?" "I should prefer, by all means, to wear a train," said she, "but not in unknoAvn space. It would never be described in the newspapers." A Detroit young man denounces tho poke bonnets " because they chafe his ears." Here, now, is a question for scientists. Can they explain how it is that a bonnet worn by one person can chafe the ears of another person not wearing it? Eh? How's that ? Oh—well, now, that may be it. How stupid not to see it before ! Walt Whitman goes right down to bot tom facts when he sings:

But her father is watchful and wary,

A very ill-tempered old churl. And I'm not the sort of canary To be kicked for tho lovo of a girl.

A couple of girls coming from the social last evening were discussing their young men evidently. One of them was over heard to say: "Well, I s'pose he's good enough, but then he always takes me to prayer-meetings, church sociables and school literaries, where there's no money to he spent, and never once to a theatre or for a drive."

"See her kiss that ugly dog," said one gentleman to a friend in a 'bus in a loud whisper, calling attention to a woman who was lavish with her endearments of a pet poodle. She overheard the comment, and, glowering upon the unfortunate man, said iv vinegary accents : "It won't hurt me, if I do." " Oh, I beg your pardon, madam, but my sympathy w_s wholly with the dog,"

A Few Facts About Kisses

When William, the stout Duke of Bur gundy, saw his fair and haughty cousin, the Princess Matilda, riding by, he was in stantly smitten with the pangs of love. But Matilda, like a true woman, • refused to accept the homage of the eye. When, the bold wooer rushed forward and kissed her beiore the whole train—she was won. History is full of instances of the conquering prowess of the kiss. When Walter Raleigh received hack his soiled jacket from the capricious Queen, the kiss implanted on the spot where her foot rested gained him the favour that years of sighing and devo tion had not won the proud, and handsome Leicester. When the poor student in Nuremberg fell on his knees and avowed to the royal Princess that he had wagered with his companions that she would kiss him in the public place, the guerdon of his temerity was the presentation of this r'6yal Gretchen's rosy lips, and the smack resounded in the ears of the whole corps of stupefied young reprobates. _ It is de priving .womanhood oi half its joy and all its mastery to remit the kiss. It should be taught "to hoys with their first pistol. It should be made the subject of prizes at schools. Mothers should encourage it, daughters should practise it—on their brothers—and no man should .be con sidered eligible who cannot kiss in all the moods and tenses. The poetic Bide of this question has been merely touched here. The practical opens up a field too exhaustive for present treatment, but it need only be suggested that kissing, pro perly encouraged, would be a means of enforcing temperance, since neither coffee, beans nor peppermint could disguise from a well-grounded maiden the flavour of such tipple as might have denied the masculine lips.

Because She L«ved. Him,

She read all the books of science, ■ Her fingers were covered with ink, She hooted at marriage alliance. She talked of the missing link; She quoted so vans and preachers Of greater or loss renown; Platonic in ali her features, .... .. At last she married a olown. Indianapolis "Sentinel."

A Practical Joke.

The love of a practical joke is a prevailing characteristic with the Khalifa. El-Kahir was blinded and deposed, but he could not help enjoying a trick at the expense of his successor, Er-Radi. The latter knew that El-Kahir had accumulated, more mqjorum,' a. fine collection of confiscated treasure, and he tortured him in vain to find out where it was hidden.- At last he spoke him fair, and El-Kahir, yielding to kindness, acknow ledged that it was buried in the garden. Now this garden was exquisitely laid out and planted with rare trees and flowers, and Er-Radi was much attached to it. Nevertheless, he resolved to find the buried treasure,' even if it lay under the choicest pasture. "I am blind and cannot "guide thee," said El-Kahir, " but dig up the gar den and thou wilt find it." So Er-Radi pulled down the pavilion and uprooted the trees and made havoc of the garden without result. It was only El-Kahir's little joke; he could not see and enjoy the garden him self, and he did not care for any one else to do so.— Saturday. Review.

Printed and Published by the Proprietor, Henr E. Brett, of Symonds-street, at his General Printing Office, Wyndham-street, in the Pro vince of Auckland, New Zealand. ' Saturday, October 22,1881.

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Agent for Auckland :— J. EDSON, MEDICAL HALL, ' QUEEN STREET. THE MEDICAL HALL, Queen-street Junction. C. HENDERSON, Proprietor PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST; IMPORTER OF PURE DRUGS AND CHEMICALS. Homoeopathic Chemist for the People. LA URI T_3 HENRIKSE N I PRACTICAL WATCHMAKER,; ' Victoria Street, Auckland, ~.; (Next door, to the "Aurora Hotel.*! . . Clocks, Watches and Jewelleryof every descrip* tion always on hand. RH. HUGHES, . FAMHjY GROCER & TEA DEALER, DRAPER, HOSIER, AND HABERDASHER, Junction of Union and Wellington Streets. Goods of best quality at moderate prioes. A nice assortment of China and Earthenware always on hand. Families waited on for orders. Goods delivered, LATEST IMPROVEMENTS IN PHOTO GRAPHY. MARTIN & PARTINGTON'S Instantaneous Photographs printed by the New Platinum Process are the most beautiful,, artistic and permanent pictures ever produced. Martin & Partington, Market Entrance. Messrs. Martin & Partington having' Intro-'" duced several improvements in Photography are now producing pictures which, for fidelity as Portraits, and excellence as Photographs, are unsurpassed .." PPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP GROCERY STORE. J. HEAP, Family Geocee, Corner of Symonds and East Streets, Is selling" Groceries and Oilmen's Stores fob cash as low as any houso in the Trade. Good Family Tea at 2s per lb; Excellent do. at 2s 8d; Bacon and Cheese as good and cheap'as any" house in town. . Trial and Inspection Invited. , ;■ ....-.■■ J O N E S '■■~ . Watchmaker and Jeweller, KARANGAHAPE ROAD (Noxt door to Mr. McPherson's). '." . Watches. Clocks, and Jewellery neatly repaired _T J. jWRI GH T, A Business Man of 25 years'experience, Is now travelling on own account, also for Importers, in the Leather, Grindery, Sad i dlery. Harness and Boot Trade, etc., an- Wholesale Upper Manufacturers. • mLANVILLE & TILLYETT TEA DEALE R S ■ AND '.■ FAMILY GROCERS, V 144. QUEEN STREET, (Opposite the Union Bank}, .7. AUCKLAND. NEW SEASON'S TEAS, Highly Recommended. WTCATyn OIL; is a distinguishing name, given by Frank Weston to his Medicine, which. IB composed 61 various Vegetable Oils, Healing Gums, Bare Balsams, Boots, Barks and Herbs, (found only on the Great Amer ican Continent,) forming the Chemical Compound universally known as "Weston's Wizard OU/* 7 . This Medicine was first introduced, by Frank Weston, to the Australian Public in 1864, and the wonderful and mysterious influence it exhibited in stopping the most excruciating Fains, Acne, and Infirmities, in a few days after its use is weU known. Its mirac ulous power in rising the Bed-ridden, Crippled,Rheumatic,Weuralgic,dive_t 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 Ease and Comforfin all ordinary pains and aches, either inter nal or external, aU cramps, spasms, congestions, &_., is well known, Weston's Wizard Oil has the power to distribute itself over every part of the body internally as well as extern ally, curing the most inveterate cases of tumors, ulcers, scrofula, diseased liver, piles, swellings, wounds, &c.,&c. KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER & CO.,] Agents, AUCKLAND. <V. 7