were clear and simple enough. Care was taken, by questionings and cross-question ings, that the pupils should thoroughly ■ understand what was being explained to them. When the "cutting-out" was over, they were shown how to fix the things ; and as they all sat doing this, each one bringing up her performance when it was complete for approval or correction, there was much talk ing, and some singing, chiefly of hymns, in very high and generally in minor keys. It was very fatiguing work ; the long standing, the continuous talking, explaining, expound ing, arranging and re-arranging for the stiff, unaccustomed fingers, formed no lirfit task. After more than two hours and a half of such labour, it was time to go. The work was folded up, piled in heaps laid on one side, and the pupils prepared to leave.

Adriennc and Helena, both very tired, stood at the door, counting them as they filed ■4>ut. " Three hundred and five," they exclaimed together, as the last one departed, and they smiled, and turned inside tho room again, to divest themselves of their aprons and -shears. "Miss Blisset, will you not come home with me, and have sometea?" asked Helena, who had given the invitation several times and on all occasions received the -same answer as on this occasion. " Thank you very ranch. I am sorry to I cannot come." "You always say that," said Helena, ■looking earnestly at her. "Thaye tried in vain to get a little conversation with you, and to know you better. I never see you, •except at this dingy schoolroom, where I am sure the incentives to cheerful intercourse are not strong," Adrienne smiled rather faintly as she replied : " I am sorry ; it looks rude, I-know, but I must go home to my uncle. He is not ■very well at present; and lam obliged to leave him so much. You must excuse me!" "If-I must, I must, I suppose, but_ I •don't all the same," said Helena, turning ■away in some dissatisfaction, and at that •moment Sebastian and Hugo entered, arm inarm. "Miss Spenceley!" said Hugo eagerly, going up to her ; "it is getting dark; may I accompany you home?" "Oh yes, if you like," said Helena ab sently, while she attentively listened to what was passing between their fellow •workers. "Miss Blisset," she heard Sebastian say, "your uncle particularly asked me to call ■this afternoon. I will walk with you to -Stonegate if you will allow me," " I shall be very glad," said she. "I am .sure-he will be pleased to see you. Do you know, sometimes I am afraid he will not live long." " His is hardly likely to be a long life," said Sebastian evasively. "Oh, but it may be. Invalids—when they are taken such care of as I take care -of him—sometimes live a long time. And he is not old, and it is not as if he had a, ■complaint in which, there was danger of his ■dying suddenly." ' "Do you dread his death so much ?'' asked Sebastian, folding her shawl around her. "I do; and I fear for selfish reasons. Without him I should be perfectly alone in the world." " You alone ? not unless you wished it,"

-said lie, almost reproachfully, whilst Helena, assisted by the proud and happy Hugo, was wrapping herself in her fur ilined mantle with the sable border, the

mantle which, set off her dark, piquante ■«, ,'beauty to the utmost advantage; for she was or.c o£ those truly English beauties, who look almost lovelier in their outdoor ■dress, and with the flush of exercise upon .her cheeks, than in the airy fabrics of the "ball-room. But there was no flush upon Helena's cheeks now. She turned to the toy, who had been, or wished to be, since he first saw her, her particular page in attendance (he aspired to nothing more in his own mind, and despite all unfavourable • circumstances, he had always seen Helena the wife of his worshipped friend), and ; said, in a voice that had sunk and grown tired : "Come, Hugo. I have no time to spare. "We will leave the others to lock up. I must go." " I am ready, and waiting your pleasure, mem gnadiges jfraulein." " Don't speak foreign tongues to me. Do ; you forget what Gretchen said to Faust when he called her Fraulein ?" " ' Thank you, sir, I can walk home by myself.' That would beshocking, and I will not do it again." '• Good afternoon '." suddenly said Helena In a loud clear voice, as she looked careless ly over her shoulder at the other two, who : started, as if suddenly recalled to a sense of what was going on around them. Hugo and his companion left the mill yard, and paced down the street in the bitter cold of the March twilight, now rapidly becoming darkness. The lamps •were being lit; some shops were open; the passengers along the streets were not many, tl -) great factories were silent; there was no cloud of smoke to obscure the frostily twinkling stars, • • Helena suddenly began to speak, in a voice bitter, though it strove to tie careless, • and with a short laugh that was not a merry ■one.

"How. affecting—truly affecting it is, to see two such congenial spirits together as Mr Sebastian Mallory and Miss Adrienne Blisset. He likes a rose-watery kind of woman, who looks up to him and thinks he is better than she is herself, and -wiser; and she likes, a dreamy, unpractical kind of man, full of sweet compliments and vague generalities—like a sugar-plum that breaks ln'vour mouth, .and then you find it has been full of a weak, diluted kind of essence—like Sebastian Mallory."

" What a comparison !" exclaimed Hugo, in a tone almost of offence. " You are very harsh sometimes/Miss Spenceley. Sebastian dreamy and unpractical! Jawohl. I nsed to think so once ; but I have found out that ,ihere was an iron hand under the silken glove. Once I fancied he was all art, all—" ■■, ' .

"All art?" said Helena, perversely 'twisting his imperfect English to suit her ■ own purposes ; "perhaps you were .not so ; far wrong there, Hugo." " What has occurred to vex you, mem JFraulein ?'' asked her companion, inno cently. "To vex me '. I am not vexed. I am -tired, and it is so cold. Well,' go on ! I .don't think very highly of Mr Mallory, as you may be aware; and I should like to hear what you have to say in his favour. What other good points has he ?" "Serrgott ! He is all good." "Ha,, ha!1' "Miss Spenceley " " A good, bigoted Tory and Conservative, despite his professed Eadicalism. Mrs Mauory need not have been distressed. He 'may call himself what he likes, but he hates progress." " I don't understand about Kadicals and ■Conservatives, "said Hugo, good-humouredly. :"'J am densely ignorant about politics. _In Prussia there are Liberals and Conservatives and Social Democrats, but I don't know -what any of them want. I don't think the Seichslag is the sphere for me. Do yon?"

"Good gracious ! How should I know? I was not talking about Social Democrats or Meichsiag. If you don't know anything about them you know something else, Hugo," she said, softening her voice confi dentially. " I knowUhat you are charming—so kind to me," said he, with a vibration in his voice, and indeod Helena had been very kind to tho boy; "and I know that you sing ' Since first I saw your face' like an angel." '• You know perfectly well that Mr Mai lory and Miss Blisset are in love with one another—deny it if you can."

Hugo was silent. "Youcannot," said Helen triumphantly. " I am not in their confidence," he said slowly. "All the world is in the confidence of people who are so far gone, as they are. If yon mean to say that they did not each take you separately aside and tell you in so many words-—well, I can say the same. He that hath eyes to see, let him observe." Hugo was not yet master enough of the English language to be able to turn off her remark. Helena began to hum a littld song to herself, and then suddenly sank into silence and gravity, until it began to snow, and grew quite dark, when she shivered, putting up her umbrella, and saying pettishly: "My mantle will be ruined. Why didn t I bring a cloak ? I declare, another day, when the, weather is so bad, I won't take this horrid long walk." '' You will rather drive ?" suggested Hugo, with apparently the most childlike innocence of her meaning. "How ridiculous you are ! How far is it, Hugo, from the mill "to Stonegate?" " About as far as from the mill to Castle Hill, only in exactly tho opposite direc tion." " Oh! I don't know that end of the town at all. We, at any rate, have had time for a delightful conversation, haven't we ? Come in and have some tea, and play me something." Nothing loth, Hugo followed her, and they vanished within the portals of Castle Hill. (To be continued).

Charles Dickens as a Dramatist.

The Academy states that that Mr R. 11. Shepherd has in hand an edition, in two volume?, of "The Dramatic and Poetical Writings of Charles Dickens," never before collected, prefaced by a monograph on Charles Dickens as a dramatist and as an actor. The dramatic pieces arc live in number. Oi these, three—"The strange Gentleman," " The Village Coquettes," "Is She his Wife? or Something Singular," were produced with considerable success in 1835-37 at the St. James's Theatre under Braham's management. The third of these pieces was appaiently unknown to Mr Forster, who makes no mention of it in his "Life of Dickens." The fourth piece, entitled " The Lamplighter," was written in 1838 for Macready s theatre, but was never acted or printed at the time, and is preserved in MS. in the Forster collection at South Kensington. The fifth is "Mr Nightingale's Diary," written conjointly by Charles Dickens and. Mark Lemon, and acted by the Guild oE Literature and Art. The poetical pieces, with which the second volume closes, include the prologue to Mr Westland Marston's play of "The Patri cian's Daughter," " The Hymn of the Wilt shire Labourers," "A Word in Season," and a number of squibs contributed to the "Examiner."

Nazareth.

A volume might be written on the history and topography of Nazareth. A chief fea ture of the place must, not, however, be for gotten—the view from the summit of the hill by the little chapel of Neby Sain, whose untranslatable name is a puzzle to the residents. We can scarcely doubt that this scene, unchanged as it must be in its noble natural features, was one often before the eyes of Christ in childhood and manhood, and it is remarkable how much that is stirring in the history of Israel was enacted within the theatre of rolling hills which bound the view. Here on the south the broad brown plain of Esdraelon stretches away to the hills of Samaria. The . peak of the Precipitation stands above it at the end of the plateau of Nazareth, and beyond the top of Tabor and the cone of Jebel Duhy rise up on'the left, The ridge of Gilboa ap pears farther south, cliff over clift', tilted east ward and shelving gently to the plain on the west. Turning to the right the eye follows the broken outline of mountains rising into the volcanic cone of Sheikh Iskander, and farther on, the whole range of Carmel, in its length of twelve miles, is stretched dark and wooded from the peak of the Sacrifice to the convent promontory where Haif nestles at its feet. Over the ridge far south the gleam ing sea appears; to the north is the hollow bay of Acre with its white circle of surf, the town itself not visible ; behind us again on the north are the steep Galilean hills, the Safed mountains, the beautiful plain of Asoohis where Kanah stands on the slope; farthest away of all is the snowy dome of Hermon. very beautiful on a clear day is this panorama, and striking, indeed, is the jagged and broken hill horizon, purple against the orange sunset. Here, then, the Saviour may have stood and seen before His eyes the theatre of many a tragedy of Jewish history. Tabor, from which the army of Barak burst on the host of horse and cha riots by the Kishon springs beneath ; Endor where Saul crept round the hillside by night to the witch's cave; the broad valley down which Gideon drove the Midianites, up which Jehu came in his chariot to Jezreel, visible on its rocky knoll; Gilboa, on whose slopes Saul and Jonathan had perished, caught between the Philistines and the pre cipices ; Carmel, the site of the great triumph of the God of Elijah, and the great sea on which still in autumn the little cloud comes up like a man's hand and swells till huge thunder-pillars are piled black and high above the mountains. On the north is Sepphoris the Roman capital, Seph the " city set on a hill," Kumeh where some said Messias was first to appear, the road to Capernaum, and the solitary ridges of Her mon where the transfigured Saviour seen by the three Apostles. But, as we look- round nineteen eeDturies later, we mark the influence of the history_ of the Gospels, and of the growth of tradition. On the south the traditional Leap of our Lord, two miles from the city built on the brow of the hill. In Nain, beneath and unseen, the Christian chapel, commemorative of the raising of the widow's son, now a Moslem mosque. On Carmel a grotto of Elijah, venerated by Christians and Druses. On the hill of Sepphoris a ruined church, six centuries old, once thought to be tho home of Joachim and Anne, the Virgin's parents. On the plain a ruin cd Cana, perhaps only dating from Crusading times. On Tabor a false site of the Trans figuration, and three churches in ruins. Yet, with a history so long and eventful, the land itself is unchanged; the brown plains, the grey barren hills, the wooded cliffsof Carmel, the gleaming sea, the snow clad Hermon, are still the same that Christ once looked on; and we merely add to the theatre of Jewish victory or defeat the sites venerated, in loving, if mistaken zeal, by the Christian pilgrims of the eighteen cen turies before our time.—" Palestine Ex plored."

FOR THE LADIES.

The true way for a woman to drive a nail is to aim the blow square at her thumb. Then she'll avoid hitting her thumb, any way. An exchange speaks of a "rich heiress." When a young man makes up his mind to marry an heiress, we advice him to select a rich one. A poor heiress is a delusion and a snare and a hollow mockery. He was a little vordant, or he never would have said : " Perhaps we had better walk on till we come to a settee where we can sit together." " Oh! no," she replied sweetly; " you sit down in tho chair and I will be the settee."

The "Atlanta Constitution" thus an nounces an impending operatic innovation : " Miss Emma Jane Abbot will come to the front with a ne.v stage hug next season. She proposes to make ttomco grunt so the gallery can hear him." " That hat," said an ill-natnred man, re ferring to his wife's latest purchase, "is tho very climax of absurdity." " Indeed," said a lady friend, who overheard the1 remark, " then I should think she would insist upon your wearing it." Scene—Augusta's boudoir. Lucy holds an open letter in her hand, and says : "Well, you-see, dear, I only met him at Mt. Desert this summer, and we did llirt desperately, but it's too absurd, him writ ing to me and proposing, now isn't it?" Augusta—" Awfully bold, I think; but then, it's just like a man. Shall you ac cept him?" Lucy—"Well! I don't know what^o do. He don't deserve it, but then he's awfully handsome, and besides I really think I would be a good wife. I can mako splendid corn bread." She (bewitchingly)—"Oh, I'm so glad you're going to see me to my carriage, Mi' Brown." He (llattbred) —"Indeed; and may I ask why ?" She—" Oh, because the girls are so jealous, and I want to prove that I do not monopolise all tho frood looking men." Brown satisfied, but not so happy as he expected to be.

Better far than arts esthetic, Crewel-work and peacock fans, Are these studies diototie, Carried on mid pots and pans. This is woman's truo position, In tho kitchen's inmost nook, And a lady's noblest mission Is to cook.—"Punch."

A Pleasant Call—" Come here, Hilde brandj my love," said a fond New Haven mother, as her spindle-legged youngster appeared just inside the gate. "Hilde brand ! I should say so ! How came you :to tie such a homely boy to such a high price name ?" said a blunt-spoken caller. "He may be homely, but he's mine, thank you. I didn't have to marry a widower with four great overgrown boys, as you did." This treading on corns, metaphori cally, doesn't pay. Mr and Mrs Topnoody were getting ready to go out to call on a friend the other even ing, and Mrs T., desiring to look well, was arraying herself in a great variety of colours. ■ Topnoody noticed it and began to comment. Said he, "Mrs Topnoody, I think a woman of your age ougnt to wear more subdued colours." " Oh, do you ?" was the response. " What Would you suggest as becoming to your wife?" "I think a black dress is simple, tasteful, and always becoming." "Indeed?" " Yes, in deed." "Well, then, Topnoody, suppose you die and leave me a widow, so that 1 can wear the colour you think most becom ing to me. Of course, you can't see me in it, but it would be such a plesnro and com fort to me to know that I was pleasing my poor, dear, dead husband." Then Mrs Topnoody smiled in such a very satisiied way than Topnoody concluded his sug gestions were possibly too previous, and he busied himself tying his necktie, while Mrs T. distributed the rainbow tints as she pleased.—" Steubenville Herald."

Spoopendyke Tries A Bicycle.

"Now, my dear,"'said Mr Spoopendyke, hurrying up to his wife's room, "if you'll come down into the yard I've got a pleasant surprise for you."

."What is it?" asked Mrs Spoopendyke, " what have you got—a horse ? '' Guess again'" grinned Mr Spoopendyke. ■ " Its something like a horse." " I know! It's a new parlour carpet. -That's what it is."

"No, it isn't cither. I said it's some thing like a horse; thai is, it goes when you make it. Guess again." "Is it paint for the kitchen. wallas?" asked Mrs Spoopendyke innocently. " No, it ain't, and it ain't a hogshead of, stove blacking, nor it ain't a set ot dining room furniture, nor it ain't seven gross of stationary washtubs. Now guess again." " Then it must be some lace curtains for the sitting-room, windows. Isn't that just splendid?" and Mrs Spoopendyke patted her husband on both cheeks, and danced up and down with delight. "It'sa bicycle, that's what itis," growled Mr Spoopendyke. " I bought it for exer cise, and I'm going to ride it. Come down and see me."

"Well, ain't I glad," ejaculated Mrs Spoopendyke. "You ought to have more exercise, and if there's exercise in anything it's in a bicycle. Do let's see it."

Mr Spoopendyke conducted his wife to the yard and decanted at length upon the merits of the machine.

"In a few weeks I'll be able to make a mile a minute," he said, as he steadied the apparatus against the clothes post, and pre pared to mount. "Now, you watch mo go to the end of this path." He got a foot into one treadle and went head first into a flower patch, the machine on top, with a prodigious crash. " Hadn't you better tie it up to the post until you get on f" suggested Mrs Spoopen dyke. "Leave me alone, will ye?" demanded Mr Spoopendyke, struggling to. an even keel. "I'm doing most of this myself. Now, you hold on and keep your mouth shut. It takes a little practise that's all." Mr Spoopendyke mounted again and scut tled "long four or five feet and flopped over on the grass plot. "That's splendid!" commended his wife. •'You've got the idea already. • Let me hold it for you this time." ." If you've got any extra strength you hold your tongue, will ye ?" growled Mr Spoopon dyke. "It dont want any holding. It ain't alive. Stand back and give me room now." The third trial Mr Spoopendyke scram bled to the end of the path and went down all in a heap among the flower pots. "That's just too lovely for anything!" preclaimed Mrs Spoopendyke. "You made more'n a mile a minute that time !"

" Come and take it off ?'j roared Mr Spoopendyke. " Help me up ! Confound the bicicle !" and the worthy gentleman struggled and plunged around like a whale in shallow water.

MrsuSpoopendyke assisted in righting him and brushing him off. "I know where you make your mistake," said she. " The little wheel ought to go first, like a Bath chair. Try it that way going back." "Maybe you can ride this bicycle better than I can!" howled Mr Spoopendyke. " You know all about wheels ; What you need now is a lantern in your mouth and ten minutes behind time to be the City Hall clock? If you had a bucket of water and

,i hiindle you'd make a steam grindstone ! Don't you see the big wheel has got to go first."

" Yes, dear,"murmured Mrs Spoopendyke "but I thought if you practised with the little wheel at first you wouldn't have so far to fall!"

"Who fell ?" demanded Mr Spoopon dyke. Didn't you see me step oil'? I tripped, that's all. Now yeu just watch me go back." '

Once more Mr Spoopendyke started in, but the big wheel turned round and looked, him in the face, and then began to stagger. " Look out! squealed Mrs Spoopen-

dyke. Mr Spoopendyke wrenched away and kicked and struggled, bnt it was of no avail. Down he came, and the bicycle was a helpless wreck. •'What d'ye^ want to yell for?" lie shrieked. '' Couldn't you keep your measly mouth shut ? What d'ye think x'arc, any how, a fog horn ? Confound the measly bicycle !" and Mr Spoopendyke hit it a kick .that folded him up like a bold of muslin. "Never mind, ray dear,', consoled Mrs Spoopendyke ; '* I m afraid the exercise was too violent anyway, and I'm rather glad you broke it." ■ "I s.pose so," snorted Mr Spoopendyke. "There's £20 gone. " Don't worry leve. " I'll go without tl£ carpet and curtains, and the paint will do well enough in the kitchen. Let .me rub you wiih Arnica." But Mr Spoopendyko was too deeply grieved by his wife's conduct to accept any ollico from her hands, preferring to punish her by letting his wounds smart rather than ta get well, and thereby relieve her of any anxiety she brought on herself by actinS outrageonsly under the circumstances.

HUMOROUS.

We suspect that that Peoria infernal ma chine was nothing more than a condensed Western Blizzard, after all. It was fortu nate it was discovered in time. If it was the genuine article it would have blown the fast-anchored isle sky high from her moorings.

Backyard logic—" If you use a burner like this on your lamp,1' said' the pedlar, " you will save half of the kerosene." The lady,who belongs to one of the first families in Austin, said she would take two, so she would not need any kerosene at all.

A man who •was up before an Austin Justice for stealing a ham from the front door of a grocery store, raised up his hand and called on all the saints to witness his innocence. "Goon with the trial," said the Justice, "we can'.t send all the way to Dallas for witnesses."

The discoverer of the last comet got $200 for it, and he didn't have to deliver the goods either. That's the kind of business to go into, young man; no outlay required, no stock of goods to carry, no taxes or insu rance, no delivery charges. All you've got to say is, " There's your comet, take it," and pocket the §200. Next to the apothecary business, it's the best paying thing we know of. The Cornell Boat Club should "come home, dear father," before the clock in the steeple strikes one more. The fact that they have been defeated in every race in which they engaged shows that while in college they wasted too much time on loga rithms, trigonometry, hydrostatics, ethno logy, ancient and modern literature and other studies that are not a particle of use to a student, when he is rowing a race. Not long since Gus de Smith took a stroll through the Austin graveyard. When he came out of the graveyard he looked very serious, Gilhooly, meeting him, askedhim, what was the matter. "Nothing, only I was thinking that the Austin husband must have lit all the fires in the mornings." " What makes you think so ?" Well, I see so many of them burned to death. I noticed on three or four tombstones, ' Peace to his ashes.'"

Mrs Swisshelm siys if men wear boots at all the boots should reach to the waist and be fastened by a belt; that they should wear no collars, but leave the neck and throat bare; that the "pantaloon" is an awkward contrivance, impeding locomotion and catching dirt; that a " boiled shirt" is a physiological abomination, and the hat of a man is the climax of absurdity. We should like to see a man dressed after Mrs Swisshelm's idea. Ye. gods ! Chinese historians tell us that 2353 before the time of Christ some strangers from the South Seas came to China, bringing with them a turtle on whose back was written the his tory of the world. This is the first terrapin story. There have never been found in the woods of America tnrtles so old as this one, but the lie 3 told about them have been more startling, interesting and bare faced. This is owing to the ingenuity and industry of the local press. A second-class Virginian—'' Cap'n, Ihain't got no money and I want to go to Washing ton," said a seedy-looking Virginian to the Captain of a ferry-boat at Alexandria the other day. "You probably belong to one of the first families of Virginia," said the Captain, after looking his would-be passengor over. "No, suh," was the prompt response, " I belong to one of the second families of Virginia." "Jump right aboard," said the "■ptuin, " I never carried any of that kind oefore." '' No one,'' remarks an exenange, '' should be afraid to eat strawberries." lit may seem strange, but since our childhood we have been afraid to eat strawberries—at fifty cents a saucer, when we had to pay the bill. We noticed this fear in Miss Dip of Boston several weeks ago. We invited her to take a saucer (meaning strawberries and a saucer). She was " afraid " she couldn't, but she would try. " Would she try another saucer?" , " Oh, Mr R, they are delicious, but I'm afraid "' ' That's all right! Waiter, another sa.ucer of_ straw berries with ice cream." " Here, sir; they are, sir." [Gobble, gobble, gobble, gobble.] "That was a very small saucer, Miss Dip : do try another!" " Oh, Mr ¥~ Vm afraid " "Waiter, another saucer of strawberries." And so the battle continued, until Miss Dip had put away seven plates of strawberries, with ice cream. How sweetly she smiled while the bill was being paid, and leaned with tender heaviness on our manly arm as we left the saloon. _ It must be apparent to every one how foolish it is to be afraid to eat strawberries.

A certain rich man, possessed of great wealth, was wont to be proud of his posses sions and to refer to them often, but withai, he was not a man of intellect. One day he had an .old Irishman working for him and he went out to oversee the job. He looked at Pat a minute, hard at work, and said : " Well, Pat, it is good to bo rich, ain't it ?" "Vis, sur," said Pat, who had the wit of his nation.

t "I am rich, very rich, Pat." "Vis, snr." "I own lands, and houses, and bonds, and stocks, and railroads, and—and—and

"Vis, sur,"said Pat, shovelling away.. "And what is it, Pat, that I havon't got?" • ' " Not adorn bit of sinse, sur," remarked Pat, as he picked up his wheelbarrow and trundled it off full of dirt, and the rich man went into the houseandsat down behind the door.—Larapton, Steubenville "Herald,"

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■pEMOVAL NOTICE. MADAME BOTTENELLI Has removed to VINCENT STREET (tour Cook-street), where sho will continue to tuka orders for orcs9es, etc., as heretofore. MKS. EOUNTEEE, MILLINER AND STRAW WORKER, WELLESLEY STREET, AUCKLAND, Has just opened a nico Assortment of Hats, Flowers, Feathers, Trimmings, etc., etc., SUITABLE FOB KHE SEASON. Hats Cleaned, Dyed and Altered to any Shape required. Feathers Curled and Dyed. AH Orders for Millinery, etc., promptly attended to. With the aid of machinery for pressing Hata Mrs. R. is enabled to undertake any orders that may be entrusted to her care. HE A FT O N, . Baske* & Perambulator Maker; Junction of Queen and Grey Streets. Ijarcie Stock of Fancy Baskets always on: ' Hand. Discount to Wholesalo Dealers. ■pvEAPERY, MILLINERY, & LADIES J_/AND CHILDREN'S .UNDERCLOTHING,



H. FOUNTAIN, Ponsonby Road, is now offering the above at lowest TOWN prices for cash, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his numerous customers. H& J. BINSTEAD, .WHOLESALE & RETAIL BUTCHERS Victoria Street West, Auckland. Families waited on for orders. Shipping sup? plied. Corned Beef in any Quantity. WANTED KNOWN, G. HAZELL, Fruiterer;. Upper Symonds Street, Has added to his Fruit Business that o£ Gr er and Oilmen's Stores. His Teas will bo found of the choicest assort* ments. Has also a largo assortment of (Jams, Preserves, Spices, etc., etc., AT THE LOWEST TOWN TRICES FOR CASH. DN. GARN IE X , Manufacturing Jeweller, dealer in curios Albert Street (near Star Hotel), Auckland All kinds of Curios—Ornamontal Kauri Gum Wholeaalo and Retail; Shells of every descrip tion mounted at.moderato charges. An Early Trial is Respectfully Solicited Repairs of every description. On Parlo Frangais. WS E E V I C E , (Near Mr. Lambourn's) KARANGAHAPE ROAD, In thanking the Wholesale Houses, Manufac turers, and Dressmakers for the patronage.he has received in Frillings and Kiftings, ivishc3 to inform them that lie now makes Fancy Boxes, Orders for which will bolpromptly attended to. JOHN MAXWELL, SHIPPING & FAMILY BUTCHER, Drake Street, Freeman's Bay, Auckland. Poultry of all kinds dressed to order. Pickled Ox, and Sheep Tongues. Home-oured Bacon and Hams. Corned Beef on sale in kegs and tierces; quality guaranteed. Familos waited on for orders in city and suburbs. Tho best quality only kept. QYMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOT. ENOCH WOOD, Family Butcher1. Meat delivered at Mount Albert, Epsom, Mount Eden, Carlton Grovo, Lower Syinonda Street, NoiVton, and Eden Terrace. First-class quality; reasonable pricos. ' Cash'customers liberally treated. Inspection Invitud. M p X E O W N~ ' , Baker, Confectioner, and Biscuit Baker, SHIPPING GROCER, .ETC Imperial Bakery, - , Queen Street Wharf. Town and Country Orders promptly attended to. LOOK H E X E.t Corrugated Tanks, cheap, and always on hand. R, T U D E H 0 P E, UPPER QUEEN STREET,"AUCKLAND, Gasfltter, Plumber, Bollhanger, Coppersmith, and Zinc Worker. Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths. Gas Fittings IN EVERY VARIETY. Work Done in tho best style, mH E STA x. BAKERY. JAMES FERGUSON, Corner of Durham and Chapel Streets, Bread and Small Goods Baker. • 42T Orders promptly attended to. TEJI WANTED KNOWN' THAT H. WATT, ' ' GENERAL DEALER, Grey Street, Has always on hand a Large and Varied Stock of all kinds of Household Requisites at the lowest Cash Prices. Now Selling Cheap, 470 Volumes of Assorted BOOKS. Good Salt Butter, 8d per lb. „ „ by tho keg, 6d per lb. D A V IT V, . TAJLOR, kVULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, Has just received New Spring Goods, consist ing of tho Newest Patterns of best Mosgiel, Chipping Norton, Scotch Twoeds, Fancy Coat ings, and West of England Broad Cloths, etc. Inspection and Trial invited. HE AUCKLAND GAS COMPANY, Limited. PURVEYORS OF LIGHT, HEAT, & POWER. Gas fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gas Engines in Stock. FORT-STREET. AUCKLAND. '■ . ; A TRUE STATEMENT. By going to WALTER B A.V NE, Kyber Pass General Furnishing Store You can have Furniture, Hardware, and a General Assortment of Useful Articles at and below Town Prices. Funerals con ducted on moderate charges. Casket 3of all sizes kept in Stock. Prompt attention given to all Orders. n BC E O C X E R „ BOOT AND SHOE MAKER, *' 64, Victoria street. All kinds Of Ladies' and Gentlemen's 'Boota made to'order of the best quality. Town and Country Orders promptly executed.