FOR THE LADIES.

THE WONDERFUL, SWEET MYSTERY OF KISSING.

\LL facts elucidating the swe«t mystery ot kissing sliould be hailed with joy by the children of the sons o£ men. A real con tribution to the literature of the glorious mystery was contributed in New York on Thursday by a stage actor. This artist lias moved hearts this many a day. Maidens who have witnessed his heroic caresses have been inspired with n new realization of the wonders of love When an actor is willing to dissect the grand passion and set forth the sentiment that the stage devotes itaelf to illustrating, the recorder of the brief ami Hitting chronicles of the time owes it to take up his analysis and set it forth to the generation that seeks to know the signs and tokens of love. The controversy came about in tliis way. George Clarke, who plays the lover in contemporaneous comedies of human interest, was met in the streets of New York and violently beset by a youth who accused him of bestowing real kisses while simulating the unreal pas sion of the stage lover. Thereupon Clarke, conversing with a scribe, made known that the stage kiss is a mere sham ; that the stage lover, sighing like a furnace, kisses as lie gesticulates, making no account of the lips ho touches nor the warmth lie inspires. In fact, as he expresses it himself, the kiss of the stage might be impressed on the " whiskered pandour or the fierce hussar" a.s well as on the pink and whie loveliness of Juliet, and the preoccupied Philander would be unconscious of the difference. It was charged against Mr Clarke that that he rather crowded the kissing into the play. This he denies. For, as he assarts, to please the public, too much kissing cannot be done. As all the world loves a lover, all the world enj >ys the evidence of the lover's felicity. He remarks that so soon as the audience discovers yoiu-g people in love they tako a keen interest in the kissing. Some stage lovers can kiss more effectively than others. When the gay young lover does his level best m kissing, the audience invariably takes an interest in the hero and heroine. But if the hero kisses as jurors touching the Bible the audience display a chilling indifference as to the crowning of love in the laKt act. Nor is the heroine insensible to the real kiss. If the actor makes a mere perfunctory use of his lips, imprinting a salutation like Macboth's air-drawn dagger, the drama moves sluggishly, like the Alexandrines de scribed by Pope, lint when the eye, the lip and the heart are of accord, then the kiss is like the movement of Camillus in the poet's verse, and the sentimental part of the audience enter heartily into the mimetic joys and sorrows of the stage per sonages. "When the stage lover misappre ciates the kiss, the action of the drama, like the wounded snake, drugs its slow length iilong. It will thus be observed that, as love is the life of a gallant hussar, kissing is the point do rmxtttnw of it suc cessful drama. Indeed, looking at it philosophically, the man, woman, or child who neglects to give proper scope and resonance to the kiss fills a very unimpor tant role in the drama of life, as well as in the counterfeit joys and woes of the stage. Mankind owes many debts to the drama, but not the least of these is the joy secret, sweet and precious—which make the witches' night ride a delicious event in Tarn O'Shanter's fireside symposium. It pleasures are like poppies spread, whose sweetness scizd, the joy is shod, or like the snowtlake on the river, a moment seen, then gone forever, they arc like the fumes of fragrant cigars or the bouquet of very old wine ; they leave the memory of un speakable felicity, and they «ive xhapc to dreams that can only take form from ex perience. It will brighten and broaden love's young dream to learn from the actor that the sham stage kiss instils none of that intoxicating bliss that rewards the real lover, who, through long days of suffering and nights devoid of ease, dreams of the wonderful music of melodies that awake only to the touch of the lips. .The kiss is the sign and seal of perfect love ; it cannot be imitated, even by the realistic passion of the (•tage, just a.s the rose that has once bloomed and shed its fragrance, caunot close and become a bud again.

A Wife's Relatives.

To bachelors who contemplate with pardon able anxiety the responsibility of a lilelong union with a girl of the period, the situation has one advantage at least, which should not be disregarded. She will have no rival near her throne. If mischief be brewing and lurks in every nook and corner, she alone will brave the tempest and appeaso its fury.ii I'l 9UC'I a household, a mother in-law—the being before whom the stoutest hearts quail—is clearly out of place. Her occupation is gone. The bachelor whose courage does not flinch in presence of the dauntless young lady whom, he makes his own, feels himself equal to any emergency. From the onslaught of the ancient and deadly foe he has a sure protector in the person of his bride. She has through early girlhood withstood maternal influence with commendable firmness, and it is not to be supposed that later in life she will yield the reins of government to any ' authority, domestic or foreign. Of course, under such circumstances, the marriage tie is .simpli fied. It is simply a Gordian knot, to be severed with one powerful blow. It is not uncommon, even in American families, to find the bride's mother an unflinching par tisan of her son-in-law ; and this rare con dition of good fellowship has been recipro cated to such a degree that the daughter's husband has been known to declare that had he not married his wife, ho should have selected her mother as his companion, In most households the demon of intrigue is sure to enter.in some form, but in diminish ing the dangers to be apprehended from the mother-in-law, a man relieves himself of his most experienced and formidable adver sary. Next on the list of obstacles to domestic peace may be enumerated the wife's sister. The hostile element mani fested in this shape may be equally difficult to cope with, whether its form be that of intense hatred or intense liking. The dan gers of the latter sentiment, naturally, far exceed those of the former, A wife's jealousy once aroused on this subject is difficult to allay, Another uncomfortable, if not so perilous trait in the wife's sister is to carry her little flirtations, which may be viewed at home, possibly, with disfavour, on to the neutral ground of her brother-in law's house. In such cases the unfortunate •rentleman is apt to find a callow youtli installed in his favourite armchair when ho is nl'ost in need of it, and a general air per vading' the apartment that his presence is an intrusion.

Sweel Home.

When two young people love each othci and many they restore the picture of the Apostolic' Church. -.They are of one heart and soul. Iseither di\> tkey fay that any thing they possess is fjieh: own, but they have all tilings in common. Their mutual ■trust in each other draws all that is best in both, l/ove is the angel wfco rolls the stone away from the grave in which we limy our better nature, and it comes forth. Love makes all things new; makes all cares light, all pain easy, It is the one enchant

mcnt of human life which realises Fortu nio's purse and Aladdin's palace, and turns " The Arabian Nights " into mere prose by comparison. Before real society on come true homes must come. Asm a sheltered nook in the midst of a great sea of which rolls down the summit of Mount Wane is found a little yrcen spot full ot tender llowers, so in the shelter of homo, n the warm atmosphere of household love spring up the pure affections of pa-ont and child lather, mother, son, daughter; of brothers and sisters. Whatever makes this Insecure and divorce frequent makes of manage, not a umon for life, but an expimenUvhielunav be tried as often a, we choose and abandoned when we 1 ke And this cuts up by the roots oil the dcai affections of home; leaves childre or phaned. destroys fatherly and mot y love and is a virtual dissolution o society. I know the great difficulties of this ques tion and how much is required to solve them. But whatever weakens the perman ence of marriage tends to dissolve sociey, for permanent homes are to the social state what the little cells are to the body, ihoy are the commencement of organic lire, i.v centres from which, of necessity, all or ganisation must proceed

Neilson's Legacy.

I'OOlt AiMxi.ie NciLson! How strange it seems that the mouey sl-.e earned during a half-dozen seasons of the hardest life in tlio world-that of a traveling theatrical star m America-should all have been worked lor to contribute to the case and elegance oi a man who loved her dearly, and that is all that can be said, and it can be Haid concern in.' a good many other men, too, whose heads were turned by Adelaide Ncilsons loveliness and talent. But what she appre ciated in Carr Glyuii, as she frequently told me, was his constancy. "No matter where I "o, or how long I stay away," she said, i find him always the same when 1 come back—his love as deep, as ardent, as ever. It is really wonderful. Nothing seems to chance it." There were several things that might have changed it, too, if Carr Glynn had been as easily influenced as most lovers ore when they hoar the least whisper against their sweetheart's loyalty ; but his love for her secniß to have been founded o» an un shaken rock of sailor steadfastness and feali y which no malevolent aspersion could influence. I, for one, am not sorry that such unswerving fidelity has met a good, tangible money reward, and, therefore, 1 wish Admiral Carr Glynn full enjoyment of his lost sweetheart's fortune. Yesterday 1 passed the house in Park Lane, which she occupied during her last season in London. How well I remember writing to you of tli ■ receptions which I attended in this charming honbonniere; and with what beauty and grace she presided over them, looking a picture ot human loveliness in rose satin or white satin tea-gowns, with bie diamond buckles in her high-heeled black-velvet shoes; how lords passed about the tea cups, ami with what picturesque abandon this beautiful creature conducted herself, though never trespassing, by a hair's breadth, upon what one may call forbidden ground in speech, look, or action 1 Ah, me ! what a tragedy her own life was ! As dire as that of poor Juliet, every whit. And I will tell you a strange thing. Uer residence ih that little house has killed it as a letting property. Isn't that curious? I do not believe the house has bad an occupant since she left, except the landlord himself, forced to return to it in default of a tenant. The landlord is a General somebody or other she showed me a letter from him (she had a fascinating way of showing people other people's letters and reading them s ■ joy ously, as if she loved them and you and herself most rapturously); yes, read me a letter from her laudlord, which mode some usual landlordlv complaint, and she had written him to come and see her and talk it over, and he had written that he woubl come and do so; and when I had heard that this old general, her laudlord, was coming to see ncr to do so, I thouuhi to , myself, old man, you're a gone landlord ! old landlord, you're a gone general! And so it proved. Ah, she was a charmer of old Nile ! Mother Nature will have to bestir herself to produced another such dark-eyed witch. The laud on which the little house in Park lauc stands belongs to the Duke of Westminster, and the best think the Duke can do will be to pull it down and build quite another residence upon it. As it is, the story will ever cling to it of the won drous beauty, the second Peg Wellington, who lived there and held high revel on the fortune she had gained in America, and who died pitconsly of a stomach-ache in Paris, and was found by her sailor-lover stretched out on a marble slab, in ptiris, at the Morgue 1 Oh, horror! terror ! Zola outdone by facts in real life 1

Making Her Will.

" I have been referred to you, sir," said a middle-aged lady, entering the office of a Brooklyn lawyer not far froirn the City Hall. "I have some important business I wish attendee to, and at once." " Take a seat, madam," said the lawyer, rising and offering his visitor a chair. "You. say your business is of an urgent nature?" "Yes," said the lady, taking from a satchel a bundle ot papers. " I have come to the conclusion that it should be done at once."

" You will please be kind enough to give me flic facts in the case," said the young lawyer, visions of a good fee crossing his mind as he glanced over the lady's rich attire.

" Well, you see, I am getting on in life, and I have made up my mind to make my ■will," said the lady, fumbling nervously at the papers in her lap. "I don't like to have people lighting over me after—after I'm dead, you Know," and she gave a suspi ciously hollow little laugh. "No, of course not, It is always better to have such things settled in time," said the lawyer, taking up his pen, "now whom do you wish to make executor of your pro perty?" '' Make what ?" asked the lady.

" Whom do you wish to take charge of the division of your property ?" " Oh, yes," said the lady. " I undestaod. You see, you professional people have such queer ways of talking. Do you know, I have a brother who is studying to be an engineer, or surveyor, or something, and I really believe he delights in bringing out the most outlaudish names when talking to me The other evening i happened to mention the building of the bridge, and he got off the greatest lingo about trusses, girders, elevations, and a lot more, that I was really all mixed up. Speaking of the_ bridge, do you know that I had an invitation to cross on that little footpath, but I wouldn't do it for worlds. No, lam sure I should jump off, or do something horrible of that sort. 1 don't see how ladies can be so bold, but nowadays they will do most anything daring. I really believe they will hire themselves out as sailors before long. I know I should never make a good sailor. I crossed last summer and had a terrible time. Do you know I was seasick the whole time ? Yes, and everything I tried to prevent it only made me more ill, and " " You will excuse me, madam, 1' said the lawyer, " for interrupting you, but you were about to say in relation to your -will " •' Oh, yes," said the lady, laughing. "Do you know I had quite forgotten it. One gets interested, you know, very often in tlia.

way. I have a cousin who is the most absent-minded creature you ever saw. I actually believe that girl will forget to be un baud at hur own wedding. She isn't engaged yet, though, and I hope she won't be for some time, poor soul. Itrea ly makes me sad to see girls become engaged nowa days. The men are growing to bo so unre liable. 1 heard of a very sad case only the other day. A couple hud not been married over "

"Madam," said the lawyer, "don't you think it would be well to come to the will ?" "Oh, yes, of course," said the lady; " I'm co glad you reminded me. I have the reputation of being such a talker. I'm not a bit like my sister, either. She never says a word from moruing till night. lam sure it is better to say something now and then. They say we w'onitn outtalk your side of the house, but Ido not believe it. lam acquainted with a gentleman who can beat me all to pieces in talking, Inid he never says anything either. Now, I can stand a good talker if they will only throw out some ideas." . . , "Madam," said the lawyer, rising and glancing at his watch, "I find I have five minutes in which to reach the c mrt-room an'i be in time for the calling of a case. We will attend to your will another day. when I have five or six hours or so on my hands, ' and he bowed the astonished lady out before she had time to open a fresh battery of words upon him.

MUSICAL NOTES.

[Written for the "Star" by Pro fessor V. 0. Cailliau.]

NO. IT.—THE EVILS OF BAD SING ING AND HOW TO CURE THEM. I HAVE said that in order to be a singer one must not only know music, but that also by vocalisation fie must have gained absolute mastery over his voice? and this can only be achieved through assiduous effort and the exercise of the greatest care, especially in the case of delicate voices.

Before addressing himself to the treat ment of a patient, the skilled doctor ex amines him attentively, sounds him, ques tions him as to how he feels, etc., after which, knowing his constitution somewhat better, he prescribes for him the remedies which his experience indicates as most suited to the case. A good profeasor of singing should act much in the same way towards his pupiL From the first lesson he ought at once to know his temperament and his degree of musical knowledge—as for the voice, it will only be at the end of several mouths that he can definitely classify it. It is then that he ought to act like the doctor, that is to say—point out to the pupil the true pose of the sound ("Fix your voice and sustain the sound of it," Farinelli used to say to his pupils) and the necessary exercises for acquiring a perfect vocal mechanism. He insists upon distinct enunciation, which is unfortunately so rare, and lie applies the best means for the curing of thick or lisping utterance and all tj\e other infirmities which hinder articula tion. .. . .

Alter that, and when the pupil is of an ascertained force or power, he ought to ap proach an important subject, viz., expres nion-v accentuation—in a word, style, with out which music is only a confused mass of notes and of noise.

The good result of everything depends upon its commencement, and without a solid foundation no odifice is durable; Un fortunately music in the Colonies, through not following this principle, is in a state of disorder that defies description. There are each year a number of gatherings or shows where prizes are awarded for the finest Mowers, and the best-bred horses, cattle, iiigs, the object aimed at of course being the improvement of plants and useful animals. The end is a worthy one. Each year, too, we have horseraces and regattas for the en couragement of things of less utility, per haps, than the shows referred to above. As for the voice however, we do not seek any means—l shall not say to improve it, nor even to encourage its cultivation—but only to preserve it. Yet, everyone knows, it forms part of the preservation of the man himself. We love music to distraction, and still we leave it in jeopardy, allowing it to die by inches, so that Defore ten years have passed away, unless the remedy is applied in time, we shall not have amongst us a voice capable of executing a good part in it; while our youth, left to struggle without assistance through a vicious system of in struction, have their health affected in a manner that causes serious anxiety to those who know the extent of the indifference which prevails with regard to a matter of such gravity. When the violinist scrapes on the strings of his instiument too strongly, he finds that they are apt to snap, and if the performer upon a big drum strikes too hard' upon the tightly-stretched skin he will rend or burst it. The cords and skin, however, can be replaced. The musician does not suffer by it except pecuniarily. But if through in sufficient knowledge or inadequate care a singer allows his voice to break, it is finished,'for hero he has not simply to do with strings or skin, but with an instru ment that forms 'an integral part of the instrum ntalist himself, and, consequently, if the one^s injured the other mast suffer, while, notmfrequently, if the one breaks the other dies.

AYe know that at the age of puberty the vocal organs undergo a general revolution, andl that then males ordinarily lose an entire octave of their compass, unless by some morbid cause, whether general or local, the organs which assist in the pro duction of the voice have become enfeebled. This enfeeblcmcnt may also result from the exercise of singing, a very dangerous thing at this critical time for both sexes, inas much as it may injure the organ at its development, ci iher by paralysing it partially or totally, or by causing an inflammation, the last stage of intensity of which may end in complete aphony or loss of speech. One can liiirdly imagine all the care and precaution that have to be exercised in learning singing, especially if the learners be children. It is this want of precaution which is the cause of there being hardly one good voice in Auckland, particularly among the sterner sex. Speaking for my self, 1 can say that I have not been able to hear a single true tenor or a single true bass here. On the other hand, there are a few sweet feminine voice* which only need proper direction and training in order to become much better. This happens' be cause the injury is less sensible with females, and consequently works less mischief. I have seen children singing so strongly as to be quite black in the faco with the effort, and that too in a diapasou very much, above their natui al voice. How could one hope that these young^ organisations would be able to resist such-a strain? It is in view of tbesc things that I say " Stop the evil at its source," for unless that is done we shall have to renounce the expectation of heaving agreeable voices in a country where they laok nothing. This may appear paradoxical, but it is nevertheless unfor tunately too true. Parents who confide their children to the tuition of inexperienced and untried pro fessors do not stop to reflect upon the responsibility they_ thus take upon them selves nor to consider how, by doing so. they contribute to the decadence of music.

Ar for the churches, which ought to be & nursery for singers, they operate rather in a contrary sense in causing to be sung pieces written for practised voices and which are for the greater part for a diapason beyond tbeir reach, co that the executants force themselves by amour proprc to under take that for which they are unfitted, the result being that at the end of the year they have only the remnants of their origi nal vqice. I would proceed at once to cite numerous examples which would serve to sustain these views, but as the Star has been good enough to reserve for me a place in its columns, I shall return to this subject, which is of the greatest import ancce, both from an artistic point of view and from a regard to the health of those who are engaged in learning singing. The public requires to have repeated to it frequently the same thing: forunless that is done, no attention will be ]jaid to it.

"Heiress to Six Millions."

It is not unusual for millionaires with no; near relations to leave their fortunes to dependants instead of di-tant relations in some far-off country, whom they have per. haps never seen. When the latter, how ever, hear of the rich man's death, they not unnaturally remember their connection with the deceased, whose heirs they hoped to be, and whose will, if necessary, they are p«3paied to dispute. A lady residing in Chicago has justhad herexpectationsraised by a paragraph in an English paper headed " Heiress to Six Million Dollars, "in which she is represented as the legal claimant to the estate of a gentleman named Smith, who resided formerly at Dumfries, in Scotland. She is reckoning, however, pro bably without her host; for according to the Scotch'papers, the son of the deceased millionaire, who died a few months ago, wa* oblivious to the claims of distant kith and kin, and has left the whole of his pro perty to his servants, a young man who served him formerly as a shepherd coming in for the lion's share, This fortunate individual, with two or three other servants in the house, appear to have been treated with almost royal liberality by their somewhat eccentric master during the last few months of his life. It is, for instance, related in a Scotch paper that a forester in his employment was one morning thrown a parcel of scrip, rcpre \ sen ting a value of £17,000, on which snug fortune he forthwith retired to live as an independent gentleman in a suburban villa. A cheque for £3,000 was on another occa sion Biven to the coachman as a tip; a present ot £13,000 was made to the lucky shepherd in Mr Smith's employment, who later on bought the Steilstone property belonging to the latter, and then became the landlord of its tenant, whom a few years previously he had served as herd laddie. The almost incredible story, says our Scotch contemporarjy.does not end here. When Mr Smith died last summer the shepherd and coachman followed him- to the grave as chief mourners. On the will being opened, it was found that the estate of Newtonairds was bequeathed to the former, handsome legacies to his brother and the coachman, the residue of the estate (after payment of a few minor personal and charitable bequests), amounting to £70,000, going to the happy owner of Newtonairds, who began lite as a herd boy. Whether he will be allowed to enjoy his wealth in peace is doubtful, since, besides the lady claimant in America, there is, it is stated, another competitor nearer home who means to contest the will. For the time being, in any case, the shepherd is a landed proprietor, and rides about in his carriage instead of driving cattle.

Posing as a Reorganiser.

" I see you didn't have enough of politics during the campaign, Mr Breezy, said Mrs Breezy, looking over the top of her evening paper. ! t'% How is that, dear?" asked Mr. Breezy, iooking up from a vain attempt at squaring a little account in his note-hook.

" That's just what I should like to know, Mr Breezy. How is it ? How is it, I say," said Mrs Breezy, "that you cannot have sense enough to keep away from those po litical people and attend to your own busi ness? Here you have been making a speech on reorganisation or some such non sense. Reorganisation, fiddlesticks! I ■wish your audience could see lyou in the bosom of your own family, and then they would appreciate your opinions. You must make a fine orator, Mr Breezy. Daniel | Webster was probably a mere baby to yon. So yon believe that the salvation of the Democratic party in King's county depends upon uniting all its forces. What a pro found thinker you are growing to be, Mr Breezy. You feel that the young and the old members of the party should clasp hands and work in perfect harmony. Now, what editorial did you get that out of, Mr Breezy! 'A ship divided against itself will sink,' you say " '■ • " No I don't,"said Mr Breezy, excitedly, " I never said any such thing. " Here it is," said Mrs Breezy, " in black and white."

"Confound those reporters," said Mr Breezy. "Don't confound the reporters," said Mrs Breezy. "It is very probably lucky for you that they are as good-natured as they are. If it wasn't for the reporters, the Lord only knows ihow great an ass you would appear to the public. I don't doubt but that they put in all the best parts of your speeches, but, to be sure, that isn't saying much. Now, Mr Breezy, I should very much like to know how long you arc going on posing before the public in this style and bringing ridicule on your innocent family ?" "But, dear," said Mr. Breezy, "that speech was made by special invitation

"Special invitation," said Mrs Breezy, " then they brought it on their own heads. Well, they are not so much to be pitied after aIL But you can depend upon it, Mr Breezy, one dose will cure them ; or at least I hope so," concluded Mrs Breezy, folaing up the paper and stalking out of the room. Perhaps her words would not have ap peared quite so bitter to her husband if he could have seen her a few minutes later pasting his speech in her scrap-book.

Printed and Published by the Proprietor, Hknbv Brett, of Symonds-street, at his General ; Printing Office, Wyndham-street; in the Pro vince of Auckland, New Zealand, I Saturday, Fbbbdasx is, 1882.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 11, 1882.

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XT 0 T I C E. To Owners, Occupiers of Warehouses, Shops, Schools, Dwellings, ok the City and Suburbs op Auckland. Mr George Wilson, Sole Contractor to the City Council for Emptying Closets, Cesspits. Supplying Earth, Removing Rubbish, &c, has this day made arrangements with Thomas Slater, Lessee o£ City Market, to keep the Books (or said Contract and receive all Moneys and Orders. All Accounts must be paid the first week of each month (unless specially arranged for). Any account remaining unpaid, notice wiil be given to the Inspector of Nuisances. No more work done until such accounts are paid. Central Dep6t for receiving Money and Orders: Weighbridge Office, City Market, from 9 to 5. GEORGE WILSON. Witness: A. Buckland. Auckland, 2nd January, 1882. N.B.—For all Casual Boxes the money must accompany the order.or it will not be attended to. Visitors to Auckland should have their prescriptions dispensed at the English Pharmacy, 184, Queen-street.—Austen W. Gardner, M.P.S., Eng., Pharmaceutical Chemist,—[Advt.]



hT HUGHE S. 1|::;: FAMILY GROCER & TEA DEALER, Mil DRAPER, HOSIER, AND HABERDASHER J»V Junction of Union and Wellington ' , tin Streets. GoodsxftlJest quality at moderate prices. A We nice assortment of China and Earthenware i always on hand. Families waited on tor orders, m Goods delivered. • DRAPERY, MILLINERYj & LAIHIH»| E AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING*. Ofo? H. FOUNTAIN, Ponsonb* Boas, is now offering the above at lowest tow* j pf.icei! fob cash, and respectfully solicits B S3 continuance of the patronage of nia numerous* wg customers. . ___ F. G. SINGLETON* i|t Electro-Plater, Gilder, Jeweller, and Silversmith, ;. Having, at considerable expense, fitted up those Commodious Premises, situate next the corner 9 of Victoria and Hobson-strkkts, Auckland,. mii is now prepared to execute all kinds of Electro-- |. : . plating, Gildine, and Repairing. Ladies cat!' Mif have their Old Jewellery renovated and made [ equal to new. All kinds of Jewellery. aMt- Watches repaired at the lowest rates. • 'WE F.G.S. would call the attention of the PnbliOr ; to his Stock of New Goods, and an inspection of IBs his Window is respectfully invited, > i "A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever f As the Festive Season is approaching, and we ail' H look forward to meeting "Our Uncles. Our Cousins, and Our Aunts," nothing at these io- H unions looks nicer than a well-spread table: but i if your Cruets, Spoons, and Forks are shabby, it * i will spoil the effect; so if your Plate wants re- ! novating or plating, F.G.S, is prepared to da !■ them at the following reasonable rates:— [.■.[ RU-PLATINQ. ' KB Table and Dessert Spoons and Forks, W doi, ; Tea Spoons, 8/dozen i;! Salt and Mustard Spoons,6/dozen /',.] Cruets, from sto 12/6 each ; . . Hi Salvers, Cake Baskets, and Side Dishes at s reasonable rates, according to size "■ ■"*■ • Albert Chains, 2/; Watch Cases; £'6 ill Comet Mouth-pieces, from.l/ 6 . : . Brooches, 1/; barrings, 1/ per pair, /',"- |j RE-GILDING, ijij Watch Cases, 3/C each; Long Chains, 5/6 each ' Albert Chains, 3/6 each Brooches, from 2/each ij Earrings, 2/pair: Kings, 2/each. , ' ' ' 4 A liberal allowance to the Trade. ' f F.G.S. has a Large Stock of Spectacles alwajn ' "M To Arrive, a Splendid Assortment ot the Best Electro-plated Ware, consisting of Spoons, '. Forks. Cruets, Salvers. lee., &c. ■-' • ' THE NEW KEMEDY POR ASTHMA^ DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING, &O, ' "EUPHOEBIA PILULIPERA" . (A NATIVE PLANT OV QUEENSLAND), ' ~] A MOST VALUABLE REMED I Also, ' ■ ■'!;-'; •'" vy it '> t..",W E D 8 O N'S ;7f:;:•/■-■'!'' '■■■!■> M SYRUP OF HYPOPHOSPHITES," WITH "EUPHOKBIA PILULIFERA," or Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis. Cooons, Hoarseness, Tightness of the Chest, • Incipient Consumption, &c. • , The advantage of this preparation is the com bination of the expectorant qualities of tho Euphorbia Pilalifera with the reparative pro perties of the Hypophosphites so universally || | esteemed for their power to recoup the waste and losa of tone attendant upon this elaßsJ|J;|v; :1:: complaints, "fhe proprietor can, with confident recommend this chemical combination;alttaiigji it has not been made publicly known, thej considerable and daily increasing, togethenrfUi tho voluntary testimony from time Ja Umetft the marked benefit derived from its use, induces greater publicity. The syrup is agreeable to th»f||j taste, and may be taken by the most fastidious. In Bottles at 3s- 6d. J. ED SON, MEDICAL HALL, QUEKN-STBEET. AvcRJJXp. ■ysammmmammmmmmmmmmmmr | WALTER" BAYNE, KYBKR PAS 3, UNDERTAKER Of 20 years' experience. Funerals conducted with dispatch, and at prices to defy competition, i aLANVILLE & T7LLYETT \ ] tea dealers < aiid! FAMILY GROCERS, 1«, QUEEN STREET, (Opposite the Union Bank), . ii ■" : ' '■■?$■ AUCKLAND. I] NEW SEASON'S TEAS, * | Highly Recommended. WIZARD OIL; is a dietingniihina name, given by Frank weston to his Medicine, which is composed ol various Vegetable Oils, Healing Gumß, Bare Balsams, Boots, Barks and Herbs, (found only on the Great Amer ican Continent,) forming the Chemical Compound universally \ known M "Weston'a Wizard OiL fl This Medicine was first Introduced! by Frank Weston, to the Australian Public in 1864, and the wonderful and mysterious influence it exhibited is stopping the most excruciating Faint** Acnes and Infirmities, in a few day* after its use is well known. Its mirac ulous power in rising the Bed-ridden, ; Crippled,Kheumatic,lTeuralgic,divest ing the system of all suffering from pain, inflammation and weakness, curing in a few days the sickness and diseases of months and years giving instantaneous Ease and Comfort in au ordinary pains and aches.either inter nal or external, all cramps, spasms, congestions, &c., is well known. Weston's Wizard Oil has the power to distribute itself over every part of the body internally as well as extern ally, curing ths most inveterate ease> of tumors, ulcers, scrofula, diseased liver, piles, swellings, woundß, &C..&&.