" But what, ray child ?" said I.coaxingly, assuming a patriarchal manner, which, seeing how inihnned my eyes were with admiration, was absurd enough. A ton-cut of tears washed those scintillating beads away, and she sobbed - "We are very poor, sir, and I was afraid " "Tut, my child: take mc to your sister," I said, ririiig and placing my hand lightly upon her shoulder. I was already so much the lover that to release myself of my embarrassment I continued my assumption of a fatherly manner. She looked up brightly through hor tears, and cried— "Oh, sir, if yon can do her any good, I nkall be so grateful te you." Her sister, she said, was in an adjoining room, and togother we went to her. She was a tliin.blne-eycd girl,with flaxen liair. On her cheek consumption had placed its hectic Hush. She had once been lovely. Same would have declared that she was still beautiful.bnt the staring, wist ful eyo, tho pink dash over hor cheokboncs, ber vermillion lips-were the touches that Death had given hia bride—tho graces of the charnel-house 1 She started as we entered, and very anxiously asked Lena •who I was. "But," the poor girl cried, in a terrified voice, when she learnt my name, " wc can never pay him, Lena, darling." I walked to the sido of her bed and felt lier pulse. Something in my manner told her that I should never troublo her with my bill. She allowed her hoad to fall back upon ker pillow, a smile-a vory painful one to witness — overspread her death marked faco, and yielding to a sudden im pulse, sho kissed my hand with great enthusiasm. As I drew it away I felt two tears trickle from it,

Their story was a sad one, but one unhappily not rare. Mrs Herrick hud been a Scotchwoman ; yhe had died some years before, leaving them to the caro of their father, who was a German, aud a musician Of considerable ability. All had gone well with them until their lather's illness. They had no relations liviug,and such friends as at_ first took com passion upon the dying violinist in the end grow tired of contributing to his support. One remained, more constant than the others, and this was a certain Macphcrson, who had a business of a miscellaneous character in Sheffield, He certainly had done a great deal for them. The Inst time he showed bis generosity was shortly before Mr Hcrrick'sdeath, wbcu he lent Lena, the eldest daughter, the sum of eight pounds _;pnn the joint note of the two girls. Almost as soon as the funeral was over, he proposed to her. Sho would have married fiira for hor sister's sake the girl was ill and needed more nourishing tilings than t'aoy could buy—but the invalid protested against the sacrifice, and declared that it would kill her t.i know that her beloved sister Lena was linked to a man she hated. Macphcrson, nothing doubting that ho would-be readily accepted, took his rcpulso with an exceedingly bad grace, and Immediately begun to threaten the poor girls that unless the money they owed him was paid, he would break up their home and drive thorn into the streets.

Tho letter from him that had been acci dentally deliver.'d to mo contained the last JIAUcI most decisive nienaco. Lena hud, so far, by industriously plying licr needle, managed to keep them both from actual starvation, and if Macphcrson did not enforce hi* claim, and the landlord omitted to call for his rent, thoro was no saying bow long they might not continue this pitiful race from death. I,'fiill-flcdgcd surgeon, with my broad nnd cheese, was living in n state of riotous afllucncc com pared with these poor struggling things. The quarter day was at hand, and I had some money by mo which, in the ordinary course of events, would in a littlo lime leave my desk for my landlord's pocket. The greater portion of it, however, was, on this occasion, destined for another person. After leaving Lena and her invalid sister, I took eight pounds three shillings from my little stoic, and at once went in search of Macphcrson. I did not see my way to the replacing of this sum, or, failing its re placement, to tho assuaging of my land lord's disappointed fcclir.gs. But I was madly in love, aud how could I be cautious? There is no love like first love. I had taken the disease late in life ; the termina tion was certain to be fatal. Mr Macpher s»n did not exhibit any astonishing joy when he received, his money—indeed, it appeared to me that he did not want to be paid—at least in tho current coin of the realm. He chose to be exceedingly face tious at my expense, and to say more rude things than I intend reproducing here. It was enough for mc that I obtained his receipt, and that, that very night.it was iv the possession of Lona, whose whole frame seemed to swell with gratitude when I gave it to her.

This was my introduction to Lena Hcr rick, and from what you havo read you will be quite prepared to hear that soon after our first meeting I asked her to share my cru=t and my cheap cheese. She looked a glorious creature as I held her in my arms, the softest, the richest crimson mantling her cheeks, her eyes swimming; with an inexpressible ecstasy, and her little hand fluttering about my neck.

"Myheart was yours," she whispered, " the moment I saw you. God forgive me if I love you too much." I was one of the happiest men alive !

I forgot to tell you that though I had no money, I was exceedingly rich in expecta tions. Airy wealth enough, you will say, but wealth that would not fly away until the day when my old uncle in Jamacia should die and forget to mention mo in his will. Mv aunt lived in Sheffield ; she had not seen" her husband, Roger Bo3cawen, for somo years. I did not remember him. The truth was he had a liver, and she pos sessed a temper that in no way harmonised with this erratic and much abused gland,so while he swore.with much energy and satisfaction in Jamaica, she nagged to her heart's content in a dingy house in the neighbourhood of tho Parish Church. They had never had any children, and I was commonly regar Jed aa being their pro bable heir. Not because they ever evinced any particular regard for me, but rather for the reason that there was no one else belonging to them who had any claim upon their wealth. I had not failed to direct my uncle's attention to tho fact that a little money when I was commencing life ■would be of more use to me than a great deal when I had accumulated wealth for myself. His reply was a huge ease con taining boxes of cigars, which I need scarcely say I sold. Nor did my aunt escape my importunity. Her answer was a bundle of tracts and an invitatiou to take tea with her, at which thin and vapid meal she propounded to me the scarcely original theory that lods were best left to shift for themselves. So I had nothing to hope for from my relatives while they lived, and I was not so mercenary as to wish them dead. Each day my Love grow more tendor and apparently more devoted to me. The hours that I spent with her were the most delicious that I have ever experienced. Straitened though my circumstances were,

we had, with all the audacity of youth, determined upon an almost immediate union. There was little, except poverty, to fleck the brilliant horizon of our passion, but that little rendered me very uncomfor table, It was a small thing, but, gnat-like, the itritation it occasioned was altogether out of proportion to its size. Linda, who had quickly learnt to regard mc with a sister's affection, could not bring herself to look hopefully upon the projected marriage. She never spoke upon this subject before her sister, but when, as it sometimes hap pened, wo wore alone she would murmur, stroking my hand the while— " Poor ltobert, I hope you will be happy. Lena is a good girl, but she doc 3 not under stand your grand heart. I pray to heaven that alio may never so far forgot all you aye done for us'as to grieve you." I affected to laugh at her fears ; indeed, I believed them to be idle and most foolish. Still, her words haunted me and worried me until I grew nugry at myself for think ing about them. So f.ir I had not told my aunt that I was about taking unto my poverty-stricken solf a wife, and it is vory likely I should never have done so had we not quite unexpected ly encountered this severe and gaunt old lady ou one of our afternoon rumbles. She received the information that I was about to be married with a grim smile, and sho examined Lena s appearance with the cold, critical eyo of the woman who has borne no children.

To my surprise she expressed herself glad to see us. She Bddcd that sho was on the point of sending for mo.fora gentleman hud just arrived from Jamaica who was a great friend of my uncle's, and who was anxious to meet me. He was staying at her houso, she added with a sniff, and her house wouUl he his home until he returned. She begged that we would accompany her back and take a cup of tea with her and the stranger, one Growlvent by name, and, I may add, by nature. The stranger had a -skin as yellow as a toad's stomach, he was as ill-tempered as my dear mint herself, and he was as dog matic and narrow-minded as middle-aged gentlemen who have owned slaves in hot countries usually are.

From the moment wc met I felt n most energetic prejudice against him, which I was not at any pains to conceal.

Lena, to my amazement, appeared to be drawn to him,and her beauty had so soften ing an effect upon him that when address ing hor he fo-got his ill-temper and his fiery speeches. My aunt, being so delighted with .tlie effect Lena hud produced upon the old savage, protested that my darling must be a frequent visitor during bis stay. I confess that this prospect did not occa sion me any satisfaction. But I could scarcely interfere, and so it came about that Lena, leaving her sister to the care of a little girl I had found for the purpose, win frequently at my aunt's when I was busy at home or attending my patients.

One day I entered Mrs Boscawen's dining room unexpectedly, and, I suppose, noise lessly. To my indescribable amazement Lena' was sitting on tho barbarian's knee, and her delicate arm was round tho old ruffian's neck.

"So," said the bilious old crocodile, with a hideous leer, "you'll throw that young fool over and marry mc .' "Of course I will, darling, Young men arc so stupid," TART 11, Wcop on, and as thy Borrows flow I'll taato tho luxury of woo. lam not a passionate man. Perhaps you will understand mo better if I Bay that I am not a blatant one. When I suffer 1 become subdued. If my heart is wounded, my tongue hangs heavy nnd useless, and for the moment I articulate with difficulty. I can give you no idea of tho agony I endured as I watched Lena lavish those caresses that should have been mine alone upon that old "guinea" pig. A whole world of misery was prcsacd into those bitter seconds.

I advanced towards them and cried,

"Lena I"

She started slightly, but did not exhibit anything like tho confusion I had expected She left old Growlvent's knee, nnd stood, her eyes cast down with a brazen affecta tion of modesty. Perhaps her cheeks wore a deeper tinge than usual. Thero seemed to lurk about her lips tho hint of a mock ing smile. She had the grace of beauty, but not tho grace of shame. If my lovo could havo turned to hate my wretchedness would have been at least endurable. But as I looked at hor my heart yearned for her. I could havo fallen down and worshipped her, false though sho was.

"Lena 1" I repeated. She raised her eyes; there wa9 no sorrow in tltose deep, black orbs ; rather a pitiless, laughing demon. "You mustn't be very angry with mo," she pleaded in a low, thrilling voice. " I could not help it—indeed I could not, Mr Herrick"—but three short hours beforo she had called me Robert I—" wo made a mistake, we dtd not know our own minds, wo have been very foolish, Conic," she wont on.olfcring me tho daintiest hand ever kissed by breathing man, " let us forgive and forget. Is it not a good thing," she added, with an ill-timed dash of sprigbtli ncss, "that we discovered our mistakes when we did ? It would have been very unfortunate had we discovered that we did not care for each other after we had been married some time."

I listened with staring eyes, and speech lets. My brain was in a most incomprehen sible state ot confusion. I placed my hand upon the corner of the table for support. I know that my hand was there, and yet I could not feel the table. I heard indis tinctly, and a mist was before my eyes. It was some time before I cohld speak. When I did my voice sounded strange to me, and it seemed a long, long way oft. " You are fooling mo, I said; "it cannot —it must, not be true ; it is some foolish joke. You cannot teU me in all serious ness that you are going to marry that old man."

Through the gathering mists I saw her form dimly. She placed her arm round old Growlvent's neck and kissed him.

"I am going to marry Mr Growlvent," she said, with an insolent laugh, "and I love him very much." "He! he I he I" the jaundiced old sin ner chuckled. "You young fellows think to bave it all your own way with tho girls, and I can't help laughing when I sec what precious fools you look when the conceit is taken out of you, he 1 he ! he ! " The old fellow fell back in his chair in a paroxysm of merriment, which threatened to produce an apoplectic fit. When at last he recovered his breath he continued — " Lena is a sensible girl—a very sensible girl. She thinks a well-lined purse more attractive than a good-looking face. Don't you, mercenary little Lena ?" "You know I love you for yourself alone," she protested, with a coquettish air, again kissing him ; " but of course you're only in fun, or I should be very cross with you." This was the woman who but a few weeks before had, resting her head upon my chest, said, "God forgive me if I love you too nmch." i The old savage chuckled to himself with i keen enjoyment.

"Yes, yes," he went on. "Lena is a sensible' girl—very, very sensible. She prefers carriages and yellow fever to health and poverty with you. Shrewd girl, shrewd girl, very !" and Growlvcrtt again became convulsed.

Not very pretty speeches these, but tho old rascal hated to be pleasant, and they did not appear to hurt Lena's feelings in the least, for she affected to treat them as excellent jokes. I staggered rather than walked from the loom.

In the lobby my aunt took my two hands in hers, and pressed them affectionately. "Puir laddie, puir laddie," she said, "whan a' the warld turns frae ye, dinua forget that ye've ac fricn in Him wha' kens a' hearts if ye wull but seek Him." So tliis gaunt figure, this tract-distribu ting and evening-tea vapidi'y, had a heart I Wonderful! I had never noticed beforo how shabby and desolate my own little sitting-room looked, nor had I before that day seen how gloomy tho street in which I lived really was. I sat nursing my sba'tered hopes all that day, and maybe more than once indulging in that woman's lnxury—tears. I had not so many patients that I could afford to offend the meanest of them, but, what ever the consequences might, be, I reso lutely declined to see anyone. God help me I Of what use would I have been to the sick and tho suffering ?

Naturally my thoughts travelled from the one sister to the other.and now I under stood poor Linda's fears and her anxiety. She knew Lena better than I did—knew her inconsistent nature—her heartlcssncss, and alio trembled lest I should at tho last moment find myself jilted. Although the poor girl had never regarded our engage ment hopefully, she had now set her heart upon it, and if I felt sure that should the truth he told her in her present critical state it would hasten her end.

Lena had no love for me, but surely sho was dcroted to her sister? I should write to her and bog her to keep all that occurred a secret for poor Linda's sake. I offered to call in nnd see the dying girl as u?nal, so as to prevent her from suspecting that any thing was wrong. My letter was confided to her sister. Not a murmur o«capod me in it, not a sign of grief could be detected in one single line. It was hard to pen such a communica. tion; but I was anxious to save the poor consumptive girl from tlie unhappiness of hearing of her sister's treachery, and so en dured as well as 1 could the misery of in diting it. I received a reply written on fine rented paper. Lima was already affecting the lady. She thanked mc coldly for tho intc-cst I took in her sister, but uho begged to assure mc it was unnecessary. Linda was not so ill as I had striven to make out. Lena con cluded by saying that she believed the delicacies she "could now supply her sister with would do her more good than the visits of any doctor, however talented lie might be. iler words were very cruel. I crushed the letter in my band, aud threw it into the lire. All energy, hope, and life seemed to have left me.

Some eight diys after this, as I stood at my window moodily gazing upon the dreary street, I saw a hearse and a funeral carriage standing at the next door. I knew then that Linda was dead.

Time passed,and day by day I grow more depressed, dreamy, and unfit for work. My patients became fewer each week. Often I bad not sullicicut money to purchase tho bare necessities of life. This was a small matter, for I seldom ate.

One gloomy afternoon a hired brougham stopped outside my bouse. A lady, clegantlv dressed, stopped out, and wnlkod quietly down the garden. It was L?na. I trembled excessively as I waited for her to enter my room.

Had sho repented? Had she come to throw herself on her knees, and a»k me to tako her to my heart again ? Alas, for me, she had never left my heart, and with what joy would I not have taken hor to my arms again. "Dr. Herrick," she said, sunnily, "I won't detain you a moment. lam afraid I ought to bave called upon you sooner, but I have been so very busy. You have an account against mn for your attendance upon my poor sister Linda. I won't troublo you for the details, for I havo no time to stay. I daresay this will satisfy you." She placed a roll of notes upon the tablo beforo me. I was speechless with indig nation. She bowed, and smilingly wished mo good-day. The strings of my tongue were loosened. For almost the first time in my life I exhibited passion, and I cursed her. She did not hear me, tor she had almost reached her carriage. Thank heaven, I was in timo to Ret to it before it drove away. With bitter words I threw her money into tho carriage, and returned to my little room completely shattered. I cast myself upon my couch, aud after this all is dim and hazy for some time. I can remember being consumed by a raging fever, aud then suffered as though au Arctic winter was about me.

The light seemed to havo loft the world for ever. But, notwithstanding, I could see weird and fearful forms dancing in the air. Confused voices, cries, and wild laughs rang in my ears. Slowly, graduully as through a glass darkly, I distinguished my aunt's face bending over mine, and the dawn appeared to break, and a light at last stole into the room.

Tlion I fancied that I heard old Growl vent's voice, but surely this was only fancy? What had he to do by my sick bed ? "The farce has gone too far," I imagined I heard him say. " You have much suffering to answer for," my aunt's voice floated through the room like'a voice heard in a dream, " but I won't spare her—l won't spare her; she shall be fooled until he is strong enough to hear the truth."

I listened to no moro, I tossed aud tossed about In my bed. Would these dreams and voices and foims never leave me and give mo rest ? Why would not God have mercy upon me and let me die J

I had been very ill, and my aunt, with whose crotchets I had never evinced any sympathy, had nursed me with the utmost tenderness. Without her ceaseless care I should most certainly have died. • " Now, Robert," she said to mo, when at last I was strong enough to leave my bed. " You must come with me to my home. I've got a cab already for you." After a pause, during which she studied my appear ance intently, she asked— " Would it disturb you very much to meet Lena now ?''

" I could bear it, if it is necessary," I re plied. "Is it necessary ?" " Yea, my dear," she answered, "it is." After a moment's hesitation he added, " Whatever happens, Robert, you must not blame me. I have had no hand in this business," with a sigh she added, " it has gone so far now, it must be seen out to the end."

My aunt had one peculiarity ; it was only when she was speaking on religious matters that she spoke in brpad Scotch. Perhaps she thought that English was not good enough for such a grand question. "There is a surprise in store for you," she continued, as she assisted me on with my overcoat; "but bear up, Bobert; he strong,"

Wondering to what her hints tended, I walked to the cab, and wc were driven off. When I entered my aunt's principal room I found Lena there dressed as a bride. She was alone with Mr Growlvcnt.who was attired in his usual slovenly manner. My aunt followed me. AYe four were the only people in that apartment. " You are late," said Mr Growl vent, cpn sultinghis watch, " and we were growing impatient; "weren't we, Lena'" " You were, dear," said Lena with an assumption of modesty. She looked at mc, and h«r face became troubled. I suppose my face was very corpse-like. Did her conscience prick her at last ? "I heard that you were ill," she said ; hsr voice trembled a Uttle ; " I am glad to ace you about again." I inclined my head. My heart was beat ing furiously. I felt that the unexpected was about to happen. " Now that we are all here," said Growl vent, with a loud chuckle, " let's proceed to business."

He stood up in the centre of tho room, and he regarded Lena in a way that made her recoil.

" I suppose," he said to her with a Bneer, " you think that you are going to marry mo?"

"Of course I am, dear." Shespoke con fidently, bat the colour left her cheeks; her fingers moved nervously. Growlvcnt grinned, and with malicious satisfaction went.on—

"Perhaps you might marry me —and perhaps you, might not —if there didn't extst a trilling obstacle. " Obstacle 1" the wretched girl echoed, turning from Growlveiit to my aunt with wild staring eyes. "It's a mere nothing to a sensible girl like you," tho old man went on—indigna tion mastering his attempt at jocularity, and swelling his veins, and purpling his yellow face—"but I'm married already!" In a moment it seemed as though Lena would faint. Suddenly she started to her feet, and stood rigid, with her hands clenched at her side. Her face was per fectly destitute of colour. Her eyes sparkled like diamonds on a snow mound. " You scoundrel I " she cried without moving her jaw. The words came cold, steely, and distinct, but I never in my life heard anything that reminded me so much of the spitting of a cat, " I'm married already," he went on, raising his voice : "and allow me to intro duce you to my wife." He took my aunt's hand! My Uncle Boscawen !

Not a muscle of the girl's body moved ; there she utood as she had when she dragged those two words from the bottom of her raging heart " \on scoundrel 1"

"When I came home from Jamaica, I heard that my nephew had engaged him self to"a young woman whom nobody knew anything about. It didn't matter to mo who he married—he might have married a half-caste for all I cared. But I'd come over here to make a rich man of him, and I determined to find out what sort ot a •woman it was that was to have the spend ing of the money, I tried you. 1 ottered you my gold against his love, my bilious, diseased old carcase, and carriage, against his handsome manly form without one. You showed your true mercenary nature, and jumped at me. His agony was nothing to you; you fooled him, to find yourself the only fool at lost. She mado a spring upon my uncle, and she would, I verily believe, havo done him serious injury, had not my aunt dragged her away. Then followed a paroxysm of rage that I cannot dwell upon—n demoniacal fury un worthy of a woman. Then she left us, and a strange stillness fell over the house.

My uncle swore that I had much to thank him for, in saving me from so heartless and selfish a woman. But I could never feel grateful to him for his trick. "When he bad make up his mind to carry his scheme through," said my aunt, '•I invented the name of Growlvent— wasn't it an appropriate one ? I objected to tho trick from the "first, but I have no voice, my dear, in your uncle's plans." Since that day I have enjoyed a hand some income, which has enabled mc to sur round myself with luxuries—lias, I flatter myself, weaned me from all thought of my early bitterness.

When I commenced this story 1 told you that my heart was free from aches. It was then. Barely had the inkdried on this manu script, when I was visited by a bright-eyed but emaciated child, who brought me a piteous letter from her mother—Lena I It beseeched me to send her a few shillings to save her from starvation. Will my old sor row never die ?

[THE END.]

Courtship Under Difficulties.

A fair but not faithless Parisienne has de viled a novel, ingenious and altogether satis factory method of celebrating the l«t of April. Having for some time been pestered by the attentions of an aged beau, she finally consented to permit him to visit her oa the day in question. Punctual to the hour he rang, all in his gay attire, and was ushered into the reception-room and into the pres ence of the lady's husband and brother, one of whom was playing carelessly with his re volver, while the other was putting an edge on a murderous-looking dagger. There was an awful silence for about a minute, when the husband remarked, carelessly, "Oh, you're the man that my wife said was to call to clean the kitchen coppers, eh?" "Pre cisely," stammered the oy no means gay Lothario, catching at this desperate hope. " AUright, stepthisway I" and the lover was led into the kitchen and set to work. At the ond of his task, having ruined his new suit and sorely abraded his knuckles, he was summoned into the presence of Madame, who paid him three francs, promised to re commend him to her friends as a good work man, and desired the bonne to give the poor man a glass of something to drink.

Fashionable Freaks.

Every new caprice^ of fashion brings forth a new industry. Never before was tho commerce of natural flowers so [exten sive as it is at this moment. The compul sion to appear at Queen Victoria'sdrawing rooms with none but natural flowers, and tbat these flowers' should be assorted to the dress, has created an immense demand for blossoms of the testhotic colours in vogne used for the patterns of the satins and velvets worn by the world of fashion. YcUow is your only wear,' and the .modest and homely daffodils are carried away in such quantities from Covent Garden Market tbat they had become for a few hours on absolute rarity. Large hunches of daffodils are carried in the band; a knot of daffodils, with the blossom turned down, ward, ii worn on the shoulder; n single daffodil is worn in the hair; and at the last Drawing-room the rustic flower studded the front of many of the white satin petti coats seen with the court trains of moss green velvet. It is quite a novel sight for the early visitor to Covent Garden to be , hold the numbers of well-looking clerks and

milliners' commission agents rushingaboufc in all haste, bolding 'twixt linger and thumb a collection of flutteiing specimens of silk or satin of various colours, some of them mixed in apparent confusion, which the wearers are seeking to match in flowers of the same hue. If not absolutely of the same shade of colour, they must necessarily be of tlie same harmonious tint, and tbus we behold the strangest combination borne forth from the market. Daffodils, with the green mildew mos«, yellow marsh mangold with the little drab coloured mushroom.dark green fern with dark blue hyacinthe and so on. This fancy of assortment of colour i 3 carried even far enough to govern the wearing of jewels, for the. dull-coloured gems, such as aqua marina, and the olive green perodean, are at the present moment in great request. And thus, although by royal injunction courteously conveyed, tha aesthetic form in dro'S has been avoided,the aesthetic colour has been preserved by the influence which seems to pervade all things at this moment.— Court Journal.

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TMcTVOR, Upholsterer and Undertaker, 82, • City Market. Ceuchea and Chairs to order. F. BRIMBLECOMBE, Queen's Hotel* Symonds-Btreet and Kyber Pasa R GEORGE (lato C. Wood), Butcher, Parnell, • supplies best quality Meat at lowest pricks. YOUNG. Family Grocer. Shortland-street, « Auokland, BEST Place for Ranges, uveus. curves, and Blacksmith's Work.-R.- NICHOLLS, 326. Upper Queen-street THE AUCKLAND GAP COMPANY, Limited, purveyors of light, heat, & power. Gas fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gas Enqinbs In Stock. FORT-STREET, AUCKLAND. T~ HE NEWREMEDY FOR ASTHMA. DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING. &c. "EUPHORBIA PILULIFEKA,* (Queensland Asthma Herb). A MOST VALUABLE REMEDY Also. E D S O N'S "SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES," with "EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA." Foe Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis. Cough ' Hoarseness, Tightness ov the Chkst, Incipient Consumption, &a The advantage of this preparation is the com bination of the expectorant qualities of tha Euphorbia Pilulifera with the {reparative pro perties of the Hypophosphiteß bo universally esteemed for their power to recoup the waste and loss of tone attendant upon this class ot complaints. The numerous voluntaryttestimonies received from time to time as to the great benefit derived by thoso who havo suffered from affections of the chest and respiratory organs for years induces the proprietor with increased confidence to make it virtues more widely known, • The syrup is a pharmaceutical preparation, agreeable to the taste, and may be taken by tho most fastidious. INJ'BOTTLESAT 33- 6D. EDSON'S MEDICAL HALL, QUEEN-STREET. AUCKLAND. FOR THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LINE IN TWEEDS, Try H. Robinson (lato Stevenson), Junction of Queon and Grey streets. TWEED SUITS FROM £3 10a, . TROUSERS FROM 13s. (3d. STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED. Give me a Trial. H. R 0 bTn SON. UPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP DRAPERY AND GROCERY STORE. J. HEAPE, Family Gboceb, AND GENERAL DRAPER, Is selling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores fob cash as low as any houso In tho Trade. Good Family Tea at 2s per lb ; Excellent do. at 2s 8d; Bacon and Cheese as good and oheap as any house in town. Trial and Inspection Invited _ _ _ g _- , TAILOR, &c VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, Begs moßt respectfully to call the attention ot Gentlemen and the Public in genoral to hia NEW GOODS of Best Quality for tho present and ;oming season?. J.D. in returning thanks for post favouaj solicits a continuance of tho same, and will give satisfaction to all who may favour him with their patronage. Note the Address : OPPOSITE THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEI* Vulcan Lane. /pLANVILLE & •pLLYETT TEA DEAL ERS AND FAMILY GROCERS, ■ ' - I 1«, QUEEN STREET, (Opposite the Union Bank). : AUCKLAND. NEW SEASON'S TEAS, Highly Recommended. sT GARN IE R, , Manufacturing Jeweller, DEALER IN CURIOS Aliiebt Street (near Star Hotel), Auckland All kinds of Curios—Ornamental Kauri Gum, Wholesale and Retail; Shells of every descrip tion mounted at moderate charges. An Early Trial is Respectfully solicited Repairs of every description. On Parle Francais. O YMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOT. ENOCH WOOD, Family Butcher. Meat flellvered at Mount Albert, Epsom, Mount Eden, Carlton Grove, Lower Symonds Street, Nowton, and Eden Terrace; First-clas3 quality; reasonable prices. Cosh customora liberally treated. Inspection invited. RAPEKY, MILLINERY, & LADi_,»; AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING. H. FOUNTAIN, PONSONBY Road, Is now offering the above at lowest towt? prices for cash, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of his numerous customers. TXuLLIS'S WEEKLY TIME-TABLE Leave Onehunga: Leave Auckland: 8.0 a.m. 9.45 a.m. 9.45 a.m. 1.0 p.m. 11.15 a.m. 2.0 p.m. 12.0 noon 4.0 p.m. ---4.0 p.m. CO p.m. 5.30 p.m. 7.0 p.m. — Monday, II p.m. RETURN FARE: Is. 6d. SINGLE FARE: Is.