TAKING BOARDERS.

Good board in tto country, by tho riverside, at seven dollars per week. Largo chambers, broad piazzas, fine viows, berries, and new milk. One railo from the station. Address :

Delia Rogekson, Croftsborough, Maine. " Cheap enough !" commented an elderly lady who happened upon it. " Delia Rogeraon—an old maid, I suppose, obliged to Toefc out for herself. I've a good mind to try her broad piazzas and new milk. If I don't like it, there'll be no harm done."

And so Delia's first boarder arrived—an old lady with false front hair, brown wrinkled skin, faded eyes, a black alpaca gown, and a hair trunk. Delia made her as welcome as if she had been a duchess; lighted a wood lire in Mrs. Clement's room, a3 the night was damp, and brought out her daintiest cup and saucer, with the fade less old roses wreathing them. "Wonderful kind," reflected Mrs. Cle ment, as she combed out her wisps of gray hair, and confided the false front to a dox. "Wonderful kindness for seven dollars a week! She's new to the trade. She'll learn better. Human nature doesn't change with latitudes. She'll find it doesn't pay to consider the comfort of a poverty-stricken old creature."

But, in spite of her worldly wisdom, Mrs. Clement was forced to admit that Delia had begun as she meant to hold out, though other boarders came to demand her atten tion, to multiply her cares. The fret aud jar of conflicting temperaments under her roof was a new experience to Delia. "When Mrs. Gresome complained of the mosquitoes, with an air as if Miss Eogerson were re sponsible for their creation; of the flies, as they were new acquaintances; of want of appetite, as though Delia had agreed to supply it, along with the berries and new milk; of the weather, as if she had pledged herself there would be no sudden changes to annoy her boarders; of the shabby house and antiquated furniture, "too old for com fort, and'not old enough for fashion's —then Delia doubted if taking boarders was her mission.

" What makes you keep us, my dear ?" asked Mrs. Clements, after a day when everything and everybody had seemed to go wrong. " Why didn't you ever marry ? You had a lover, I dare say ?" " Yes; a long, long time ago." " Tell me about him—it ?"

"There is'nt much to tell. He asked me to marry Mm. He was going to Australia. I couldn't leave fatner and mother, you know (they were both feeble), and he couldn't stay here. That's all." "And you—you —" "'Now all men beside are to me like shadows.'"

"And have you never heard of him since ?"

"Yes. He wrote; but where was the use ? It could never come to anything. It was better for him to forget me, and marry. I was a millstone about his neck. I didn't answer his letter."

" And supposing he should return some day, would you marry him ?" " I dare say," laughed Delia, gently, as if the idea were familiar, " let the neigh bours laugh ever so wisely. I've thought of it sometimes, sitting alone, -when the world was barren and commonplace. One must have recreation of some kind, you know. Everybody requires a little romance, a little poetry, to flavor everyday thinking and doing. I'm afraid you think me a silly old maid, Mrs. Clement."

"No. The heart never grows old. The skin shrivels, the colour departs, the eyes fade, the features grow pinched; but the soul is heir of eternal youth —it is as beautiful at fourscore as at ' sweet ene-and-twenty.' Time makes amends for the ravages of the body by de veloping the spirit. You didn't tell me your lover's name. Perhaps you would rather not."

'' His name was Stephen Langdon. Some times Capt. Seymour runs against him in. Mebourne, and brings we word how he looks and what he is doing; though I never ask, and Stephen never asks for me, that I can hear."

Delia's summer boarders were not a suc cess, to be sure. If they took np money out of her pocket they put none in. She was obliged to eke out her support with copying for Lawyer Dunmore and em broidering for Mrs Judge Dorr. One by one her boarders dropped away like the antumn leaves ; all but old Mrs Clement. "I believe I will stay on," she said. " I am getting too old to move often. Per haps you take winter boarders at reduced rates. Eh?"

"Do you think my terms high ?" "By no means. But when one's purse is low—"

"Yes, I know. Do stay at your price. I can't spare you." She had grown such a fondness for the old lady that to refuse her own terms would have seemed like turning her own mother out of doors; besides one mouth more would not signify. But she found it hard to make both ends meet, and often went to bed hungry that her mother and Mrs Clement might enjoy enough, with out there appearing to be '• just the pattern." At Christmas, however, came a ray of sunshine for Delia, in the shape of a hundred-dollar bill from an unknown friend. . " It can't be meant for me," she cried. " It's directed to Delia Rogerson," said her mother; "and there's nobody rise of that name, now that your Aunt Delia's dead." "We are not sure that she's dead," ob jected Delia. "Horrors! Don't you know whether your own aunt is dead or alive ?" asked Mrs Clement, in a shocked tone.

"It isn't our fault. She is rich and lives abroad. I was named for her. I used to look in the glass and try to believe that I'd inherit her beauty with the name, though she was only our great-uncle's wife." "She ought to be doing something for you." . ' "How can she, if she's dead? I don't blame her, any way." Her money is her own to use according to her pleasure; Uncle John made it himself and gave it to her." .

. "But if she should come back to you, having run through with it, you'd divide your last crust with her, I'll be .bound." " I suppose I should," replied Delia. The winter wore away as winters will, and the miracles of spring began, in fields and wayside ; and Delia's boarders re turned with the June roses, and dropped away again with the falling leaves, and still Mrs Clement stayed on and on. Just now she had been some weeks in arrears with her reduced board. No money had been forthcoming for some time, and she was growing more feeble daily, needed the luxuries of an invalid and the attention of a nurse, both of which Delia bestowed upon her, without taking thought for the morrow.

" I must hear from my man-of-business to-morrow, Delia; I'm knee-deep in debt to you," she began one night. " Don't mention it!" cried Delia. "I'd rather never see a cent of it than have you take it to heart. You are welcome to stay and share pot-luck with us ; you are such company for mother and me. " Thank you, dear. I've grown as fond of you as if you were my own flesh and blood. There, turn down the light please Drawn the curtain, dear, and put another stick on the fire please. It grows chilly, dosen't it ? You might kiss me just once,

if you wouldn't mind. It's a hundred years or so since any one kissed me." And the next morning, when Delia carried up Mrs. Clement's breakfast, her boarder lay cold and still upon the pillows. The first shock over, Delia wrote to the lawyer of whom she had heard Mrs. Cle ment speak as having charge of her affairs, begging him to notify that lady's relatives, if she had any. In reply Mr. Willis wrote : "The late Mrs. Clement appears to have no near relatives. Some distant cousins, who have abundance of this world's goods, yet served her shabbily when she tested their generosity, as she has tried yours, are all that remain of her family. In the meantime I enclose you a copy of her last will and testament, to peruse at your leisure."

"What interest does he think I take in Mrs. Clement's will," thought Delia; but read, nevertheless :

" Being of sound mind, this 16th day of June, 18—. I, Delia Kogerson Clement, do hereby leave §100 to each of my cousins ; and I bequeath the residue of my property — viz., §30,000 invested in the Ingot mining company, §50,000 in United States bonds, |20,000 in Fortune Flannel Mills, and my jewels, to the beloved niece ot my first hus band, John Rogerson, Delia Rogerson, of Croftsborough, Maine. " ' For I was a stranger, and ye took me in ; hungry, and ye fed me; sick, and ye ministered unto me.'"

" Goodness alive !" cried the neighbours, when they heard. "What a profitable thing it is to take boarders ! Everybody in town will be trying it. Of course, Steve Langdon will come and marry her, if she were 40 old maids. You may stick a pin in there !" Delia did not open her house to boardersthe next season. She found enough to do in look ing after her money and spending it; in replying to letters from indigent people, who seemed to increase alarmingly; in receiving old friends, who suddenly found time to remember her existence. And, sure enough, amongst the rest appeared Steve Langdon, and all the village said, "I told you so." "It's not my fault that you and I are single yet, Doha," he said.

" And we are too old to think of it now, Steve."

"Nonsense! It's never too late to mend. I'm not rich, Delia, but I've enough for two and to spare." '' I wouldn't be contented not to drive in my carriage and have servants under me now," laughed Delia.* " Indeed ! Then perhaps you have a better match in view. Captain Seymour asked me, by the way, if I had come to interfere with Squire Jones' interest." •' Yes. Squire Jones proposed to me last week."

"Now, see here, Delia. Have I come all the way from Melbourne on a foolish errand ? Tliere I was "rowing used to my miseiy and loneliness, when the mail brings a letter in a strange hand, telling nic tluit my dear love, Delia Kogerson, loves and dreams of me still, is poor and alone, and needs mo—me? And the letter is signed by her aunt, Mrs. Clement, who ought to know. I packed my household goods and came."

" I am glad that you did." " In order that I may congratulate Squire Jones?"

" But I haven't accepted him. I fact I've refused him—because—"

".Because you will marry your old love, like the lass in the song, Delia." In Croftsborough people are not yet tired of telling how a woman made money by taking boarders.— lndependent.

The Colonies.

EARL DUNRAVEN DECLARES THAT TIIE KUTURE OF ENGLAND DEPENDB UPON HER RELA TIONS WITH THE COLONIES.

Eael Dunraven'S article on the " Revolu tionary party," in the Nineteenth Century, is of great interest, He goes over the whole field of British politics from the point of view of a Liberal peer, and in the spirit of a political philosopher, as well as an active and practical politician. The Earl is well known on this side of the water, and all lovers of bright and breezy reading will have read his book on the north-western wilderness—"The Great Divide." He writes as well about politics as he does about his travels, and Ms extensive tours in the United States and Canada have given him a familiarity with the industrial questions which interest England and the United States. His article is in reply to one which appeared in the Quarterly Review last April, entitled the "Revolutionary Party," mean ing thereby the Radical wing of the Liberal party. He points out especially the relations which should be maintained between the Mother Country and the colonies, and says :—

"Our colonies can supply us with every kind of raw material, and we can return to them all manner of manufactured goods. With them we could be independent of all the world, and independence is a good thing for both men and nations. The future of England certainly depends upon her re lationship with her colonies. She may re main the centre of a great empire, or become a small, scantily populated, and unimportant kingdom. The dream of the Radicals appears to be to withdraw as much as possible from business, to disembarrass our selves from all colonial responsibilities, and to retire within the limits of these islands, occupying ourselves with our own insular affairs, and settling down quietly to enjoy a green old age, feeding our bodies with the proceeds of our savings, and our minds with the memory that England once led the van in the cause of civilization, peace, and civil and religious liberty. The dream is not an unpleasant one, but unfortunately it can never be fulfilled. England might gradually descend from the position of a first rate power and a great and growing empire into that of a small, fifth-rate nation, tolerably pros perous, still doing a considerable trade, and a very large banking business, provided that she could get some one to guarantee her ex istence, and the integrity of those possessions which are necessary for her trade. But no European power will guarantee England. Nobody has any interest in doing so except our own kith and kin beyond the seas. The British Islands might not greatly tempt annexation ; but British possessions will remain British so long as we can hold them, by force if necessary. Lying as she does outside the plane of European politics, and revolving not altogether in the same orbit as the other European States, the fall of England would not necessarily overturn the balance of power in Europe. The property of no other nation could be divided without causing protracted quarrels, but the English estate might be peacebly and- easily distri buted among neighbouring proprietors. Russia could take India, and, Mediterranean roads not being necessary for her, she would not interfere ■with France, Italy, and Spain, who could divide our possessions and in terests in the Mediterranean among them selves. The Channel Islands, the West India Islands and our various coaling stations could be easily shifted from power to power, so as to counterbalance any dis placement of weight consequent upon an "alteration in the circumstances of Belgium and Holland, or any other of the smaller powers, until a state of nice equilibrium was obtained." ■ . ...... • '

The earl is not in favour of encouraging the colonies to act up in business for them selves as soon as they feel disposed.

A Singular Divorce Suit.

In the Probate, Divorce, and Admiralty Di vision of the High Court of Justice, the cause of ' Medley v. Medley' has been heard, and was a very singular divorce suit. The petitioner was Mrs. Rose Mary Medley, and she sought a dissolution of her marriage with the respondent, Thomas Pierce Medley, on the ground of his desertion, adultery, and bigamy. The respondent pleaded that he had obtained a divorce and had con tracted a lawful marriage with Maria Louisa Browne.

Mr. Inderwick, Q.C., and Mr. Bayford appeared for the petitioner ; Mr. Searle for the respondent.—We take the following re port of the case from The Times : — "Mr. Inderwick stated that the parties in this case were married on the 20th of December, 1577, at St. George's, Hanover square. The respondent, who was born in 1853, was the son of Mr. Thomas Sanders Medley. The latter gentlemen was born in England, but many years ago went to the United States, got naturalised there, and married the mother of the respondent, who was an American lady. He is dead, and his widow is married again, He carried on trade both in this country and the United States, and was living in this country at the time of the respondent's birth. The re spondent was born in England ; but at the time of his marriage with the petition had property in various parts of the world, and he and Mrs. Medley travelled together to various places after the marriage. In the early part .of 1878, he went by himself to the United States. He told his wife he was obliged to go there on business ; but it would appear that while there on the oc casion of that visit he met a married lady, named Mrs. Maria Louisa Browne, and fell in love with her. On his return his wife thought she preceived a change in his man ner, but she liad no idea of the cause of that change. He continued to show her much affection, and on the evening of the 11th of November, 1871, she saw him oil'to Paris, to which city he said he was going on busi ness. They were then residing at Kensing ton-park-road. On the 15th of the same month she received a letter from him dated Grand Hotel, Paris, November 13, in which, to her profound astonishment, he stated that he was going to India in consequence of finding that their natures were opposed ; told her not to follow him, though his life would be a dreary one; assured her that she should always have his greatest allcc tion, and directed her to keep his carriages, cellar of wines, and other effects. It was not till January, 1880, she discovered that instead of having gone to India he had pro ceeded to the United States, obtained a divorce in Colorado, and married Mrs. Browne, who had been divorced from her husbaud, at Chicago. In a day or two afterthis intelligence was communicated to her she had an interview witli her hus band at Paris, in which he confirmed it. He paid her much attention at the inter view, and sent fruit and llowers to her lodgings. It would appear that on the 4th of December, IS7S, he pieseiited a petition for a divorce to the County Court of Colo rado, and obtained one on the ground of his wife's cruelty. Mrs. Medley had had no notice of these divorce proceedings. In his petition to the Connty Court her husband charged her with cruelty and desertion. The date of his marriage with the petitioner was not stated in his petition, but all the acts of cruelty he alleged against her were put at dates anterior to their marriage. Mr. Searle wished to at once state that his position was this—the respondent ob tained in Colorado a divorce which ho believed to be a good divorce all the world over; but it appeared that Mrs. Medly, the petitioner, had had no notice of the divorce proceedings, and therefore the respondent, had now no wish to stand in the way of a better and more valid divorce.

The President: Very well. If the peti tioner is now in a position to establish the bigamy and adultery it will be for the re spondent to meet that ease if her can. The proper course, therefore, for you, Mr. Indeiv wick, will be simply to establish such a case.

Mrs. Rose Mary Medley was examined by Mr. Bayford, and said she was married on the 20tii of December, 1877, at St. George's, Hanover-square, to the respondent. He was 25, she was 20, at the time of the mar riage. She was an Englishwoman, and he represented himself as an Englishman. In November, 1878, she saw him off to Paris. She received the letter from him stating that he was going to India. He had never returned to cohabitation with her since. She was living in ICcnsington-park-roatl at the time. In January, 1880, she first re ceived information of his having obtained a divorcs and having married in America. That was from a friend of her husband. She saw her husband in a day or two after. He told her of his divorce and marriage, and that he was living with his second wife, but brought no charge whatever against the witness.

Mr. Duncan, a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States, said that the certificate of the marriage of the respondent with Mrs. Maria Louisa Browne at Chicago on the 22nd of January, 1870, was a good one according to the law of the United States."

The President said that the counsel on both sides had dealt witli candour towards the Court. The evidence given, and which there had been no attempt to explain, estab lished that the respondent during the life time of his wife had contracted a marriage with another woman, and had since lived with that woman as his wife.—After further reference to the evidence his lordship pro nounced a decree nisi on the ground of bigamous marriage and adultery by the re spondent.

The Largest Orchard in the World. —American papers state that an orchard belonging to Mr. Kinstry, and situated on the banks of the Hudson, contains 24,000 apple trees, 4,000 cherry trees, 1,600 pear trees, 500 peach trees, 500 chestnut trees, 20C plum trees, 15,000 grape vines, and 6,000 raspberry trees. Mr. Kinstry's fruit garden is said, in fact, to be the largest in the world. Of apples alone he sold last year upwards of 30,000 baiTels, and a pro portionate quantity of the other kinds of fruit.

Cheese made from Potatoes. — A cheese is said to be made from potatoes in Thuringia and. Saxony. Potatoes of good quality are boiled in a cauldron, and, after becoming cool, they are reduced to a pulp by means of a grater or mortar. To five pounds of this pulp is added one ponnd of sour milk and the necessary quantity of salt. The whole is kneaded together and the mixture covered up and allowed to lie for three or four days, according to the season. At the end of this time it is kneaded anew, and the cheeses are placed in little baskets, when the superfluous moisture escapes. They are then allowed to dry in a shed, and placed in layers in large vessels, where they must remain for fifteen days. The older these cheeses are the more their quality improves. Three kinds are made. The first and common is made as detailed above; the second with four parts of potatoes and two parts of curded milk; the third with two parts of potatoes and four parts of cow or ewe milk. These cheeses are said not to engender worms, and to keep fresh for a number of years'^ provided they are placed in a dry situation and in well-closed vessels.

Tricks of the Marriage Insurance System.

FLIRTING BEAUTIES IN VIENNA CAFES— DEBTS AND DOWNFALL O1'1 THE JEKSEV LILY, MKS LANGTRY.

Marriage insurance, says the Chicago "Tribune," is becoming as contagious in Pennsylvania and other States as death-bed insurance. There is likely to bo as much criticism of it. In some counties the judges refuse to grant charters to the marriage insurance companies, but the parties who are refused apply in a neighbouring juris diction and are successful. They readily pro cure a charter or license to go into the busi ness of guaranteeing single young men and women $1,000, more or less, when they marry. Soliciting agents find it very plain sailing in the country districts, and do con siderable business among young women by assuring them that young men seeking wives invariably select a young woman who has had sufficient business tact and judg ment about her to get herself insured in time. Tiie consequence is that the yoimg women pay over their hard-earned dollars and then revel in the hope that very soon a young man will come along hunting a wife ; that he will select her; that she will get $1,000 soon after her wedding day from the company, and that little fortune will be so very handy to have in the house to buy a parlour and bed-room set, carpets, a horse, a few cows, and many odds and ends to start married life with. These concerns, more properly, should be called guaranty com panies. They only do business with un married people. No capital is required to start a company more than is necessary to pay for a charter, furnish an office, pay for the printing of a lot of blanks, circulars and letter-heads, and start out a lot of agents. A few hundred dollars is sufficient. Agents scour the country, scatter the splendidly worded circulars broadcast, and in a few months 1,000 young people have joined Class A and paid $i each to become partici pating members. Some companies do not charge as much. Out of this $4,000 paid in the agents receive their very largo per centage for commissions, say $1,000, and the balance goes to the directors. When ever any one member of Class A is married ho or she sends in the certificate of marri age, duly witnessed by the local agent, and the company proceeds to collect §1 from each of the 999 other members of that class. They promptly respond, and the directors, after deducting 20 per cent, of the $999 so collected, send the balance to the member who is married. The company is expected to do this if it is governed by honest principles of business. Hence the directors receive nearly §200 from every member who marries as their charge for collecting the assessments. Some com panies with less brass will charge 10 per cent, for collecting the assessments, and return about $900 to .the beneficiary. The better kind of company charges but 5 per cent. The person marrying drops out of the class, and as fa st as marriages occur new members are substituted to keep the class of 1,000 full. Some successful companies have three full classes going. Children 13 years of age are received as members and assessed so much. The younger the person is the less rate, and the older the higher. The officials pretend to have a system based upon careful calcula tion as to marriage probabilities, just the same as the old-line life companies have as to the death probabilities. Hence it will be seen that a young woman engaged to be married a year from date may join a com pany, pay her initiation fee, run the chances of half-a-dozen assessments, and when she is married she will receive, if she is fairly dealt with, about $900. If her intended is smart, he, too, will join a company, and he, too, will receive $900 sixty or ninety days after sufficient proofs have been received of Ms marriage.

Thus far the experiences of some yonng men and yonng women in the marriage in surance business are interesting. A Scliuyl kill county young lady left Tier home be cause she could not bear to bo ridiculed about her misfortune with her intended. She thought she was to be married last month, but the young man ran away and left her. Now she nas neither the §900 that she would have received nor a hus band. The details of her bad luck leaked out, and she went to Philadelphia to escape the taunts and jibes of her ruder acquaint ance. Across in the next county, Lehigh, two young people were married. They be longed to different companies. In less than thirty days they fought and separated, but the proofs of their marriage had been sent in to the home office, and in due course of time each received the amount of money due, and they arc now separately enjoying it. The young woman is off on a trip to Europe, and the young man started a harness-making shop. There are many who now charge that the young woman jiist married to get her money, and never in tended to live as a wife to that man. Some say she boasted of the trick she was going to play to get money to see Paris. A young woman of Lckigh county was compelled to withdraw from her class membership be cause, she said, she had 103 assessments in two months, and to pay $1 for each was a tax heavier than she could bear. " Why, it seems to me," she said, "that all the members of our class were getting married at once. My father refused to help me any further, so I was compelled to drop out of the class after I had paid $88." An indus trious young mechanic, working in the shops in'this borough, joined a company sixteen months ago. Threfljrnonths ago ho was married, and yesterday he received §900, which he is using to improve his home. He said: "I am about $730 ahead of the investment, .and I consider myself lucky. It's all right for a yonng man to go in. If his girl ' goes back on him' he can very easily get another, and he will do so rather than continue to pay the heavy drain of assessments. But a modest young woman can't 'go courting' and choose a husband as a man can a wife. If she has a fall-out with her intended, or he deserts her, she has got td wait until another man offers."

A gentleman who is largely interested in the business made this statement: -'The business is perfectly legitimate. A thou sand unmarried people agree to pay SI to each member of the class as soon as they are married. We simply do the organising and collecting, and charge a small per centage for it. No bad results are at all likely to happen, as in the wild-cat death bed insurance, so-called. Some companies have it so arranged that if persons do not get married in a certain number of years they will be entitled to quite a nice sum in time, which the company will pay. There may be some companies that may have been imposed upon, as we hear of, and which you say you also have heard abouf, but nearly all the companies are very strict and do not take people without any character, or who have no respect for the marriage vow. The companies liereabouts are all honest and trustworthy."

M. H. Pellet has tested plants, muscular juice and yeast for ammonia. In plants he finds it to be widely distributed. In 100 grammes of beef he detected 0.15 of am monia, and in yeast an average percentage of 0.059.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, OCTOBER 8, 1881.

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MRS. KOUNT EE E, MILLINER AND STRAW WORKER, WELLESLEY STREET, AUCKLAND, Has just opened a nice Assortment of Hat 9, Flowers, Feathers, Trimmings, etc., etc., SUITAHLE FOB EIIE SEASON. Hats Cleaned. Dyed and Altered to any Shapo roquired. Feathers Curled and Dyed. All Orders for Millinery, etc., promptly attended to. With the aid of machinery for pressing Hats Mrs. R. is enabled to undertako any orders that may be entrusted to her care. X A F T 0 N, . Basket & Perambulator Maker, Junction of Queen and Grey Streets. Large Stock of Fancy Baskets always on Hand. Discount to Wholcsalo Dealers. DRAPERY, MILLINERY, & LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING. H. FOUNTAIN, Ponsonisy Road, is now offering 'the abovo ut lowest TOWK prices J'ou cash, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his numerous customers. H& J. B I N 8 T E AD, .WHOLESALE fe RETAIL BUTCHERS Victoria Street West, Auckland. Families waited on for orders. Shipping sups plied. Corned Beef in any Quantity. WA NT ED KNOW N, G. HAZELL, Fruiterer; Upper Symonds Street, Has added to his Fruit Business that of Grocer and Oilmen's Stores. His Teas will be found of tho choicest assort ments. Has also a largo assortment of Jams, Preserves, Spices, etc., etc., AT THE LOWEST TOWN TRICES FOR CASH. N\ G A X N I E X, , Manufacturing Jeweller, dealer in curios Albert Street (near Star Hotel), Auckland. AH kinds of Curios—Ornamental Kauri Gum, Wholesale and Kctail; Shells of every descrip tion mounted at moderato charges. An Eahly Trial is Respectfully Solicited Repairs of every description. On Parlc Franoais. WS E E V I C E . (Near Sir. Lambourn's) KAKANGAHAPE ROAD, In thanking tho Wholesale Houses, Manufac turers, and Dressmakers for tho patronage ho has received in Frillings and Kiltings, wishes to inform them that he 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-cured Bacon aud Hams. Corned Beef on salo in kegs and tierces; quality guarauteod. Fanules waited on for orders in city and suburbs. The best quality only kept. Q< YMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOT. ENOCH WOOD, Family Butciier. Bleat delivered at Mount Albert, Epsom, Mount Eden, Carlton Grove, Lower Symonds Street, Newton, and Eden Terrace. First-class quality ; reasonable prices. Cash'customers liberally treated. Inspection Invited. I^ McKE OW N, li, Baker, Confectioner, and Biscuit Baker, shipping grocer, etc. Imnorial Bakory, Queen Street Wharf. Town and Country Orders promptly attended to. MADAME BOTTENELLT, MILLINER, DRESS, AND MANTLE MAKER, begs to inform tho public that she ia now selling tho ENTIRE STOCK at less than HALF the original PRICE. An early call will prove tho fact. 218, QUEEN STREET. LO 0 X H E R El Corrugated Tanks, cheap, and always on hand. R. TUDEHOPE, UPPER QUEEN STREET,'AUCKLAND, Gasfitter, Plumber, Bollhangcr, Coppersmith, Hot, Cold, and Shower Baths." Gas Fittings in every variety. Work Done in the best style. THE STAR BAKERY. JAMES FERGUSON, Comer of Durham and Chapel Streets, Bread and Small Goods Baker. O" Orders promptly attended to. "®S WANTED KNOWN T~HAT H. WATT, GENERAL DEALER, Grey Street, Has always on hand a Largo and Varied Stock of all kinds of Household Requisites at the lowest Cosh Prices. T.™s^ eUlng chca P- 47° Volumes of Assorted BOOJvo. Good Salt Butter, 8d per lb. .• .. by tho keg, Gd per lb. JD A V E V, TAILOR, I VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, Has just received New Spring Goods, consist ing of the Newest Patterns of best Mosgiel, Chipping Norton, Scotch Tweeds, Fancy Coat ings, and West of England Broad Cloths, etc. Inspection and Trial invited. THE AUCKLAND GAS COMPANY, Limited, purveyors of light, heat, & power. Gas fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gas EncineS in Stock. FORT-STREET. AUCKLAND. MR. J. WR I G H T, A Business Man of 25 years' experience, Is now travelling on own account, also for Importers, in the Leather, Grindery, Sad dlery, Harness and Boor Trade, etc., ana Wholesale Upper Manufacturers. TTPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP U GROCERY STORE. J. HEAP, Family Gkocer, . Corner of Symonds and East Streets, Is selling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores kor cash as low as any house in the Trade. Good Family Tea at 2s per lb ; Excellent do. at 2s 8d ; Good Salt Butter at lOd per lb ; Bacon and Cheese as good and cheap as any house in town. Trial and Inspection Invited. TJ 0 N E S J . Watchmaker and Jeweller, KARANGAHAPE ROAD (Next door to Mr. McPherson's). Watches, Clocks, and Jewellery neatly repaired