THE LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF JOHN MARMON, THE HOKIANGA PAKEHA MAORI; OR, SEVENTY-FIVE YEARS IN NEW ZEALAND.

TALL EIGHTS RESERVED.] CHAPTER Xl.— Continued, The moment Tawitiwai found I was going with him, his manner eutirely changed. He hungied me until I imagined every bone in my nose was broken, and immediately pre sented me with his heitiki, or neck orna ment, as a mark of his esteem. Having collected aud packet! up my swag, which bis vmhines (wives) carried down to his canoes for me, I bade farewell to my parson friends and pushed ofi for Tawitwais Kaluga on the Keri-Keri River. My patron—for so I must term him, now, I suppose seemed to regard me as a sort of pet animal to be treated with especial for bearance and kindness, though also to be remorselessly swindled if opportunity arose. For of what other use, according to native ideas, was a pakeha, unless as a foil to the superior Maori cuteness. So long as he patiently endured swindling he was a very excellent man, indeed ; but let him begin to swindl-, or rather let him be found out, and Taipo himself is an angel of light to him. Tho great secret of the Maori ambition to have a resident pakeha amongst them, was the deairc to possess all the methods of war fare and offence known to him, so_ as to confer on the tribe he honoured with his

presence greater success iv thoir constant conflicts, for fighting was, to the Maori, i 9 the chief ambition of life. Each winter he cultivated his taro, or kumaras, with the utmost diligence, so that the entire summer might be devoted to fighting. We sailed up the winding Keri-Keri for some distance, until at last Kawitiwai's Kainga appeared in view. It was situ ated on a small eminence on the banks of the river, being defended by an outer ditch of considerable depth, and a stockade of great strength on the inland side. Within the enclosure were the whares, consisting of wooden frames, upon which were lashed long, thin stems of t.i tree : to these were fastened bundles of raujh), or bulrush, the thatching being executed with t\>i-toi leaves or the long iviwi rush. About fifty houses comprised the settlement of which Kawitiwai was rangatira. As we neared the landing place, his wives recommenced the chant they had kept up at intervals during our journey. Our arrival was proclaimed in the kainga, ever}- man, woman, and child hurrying to the river bank. Amidst a babel of discordant sounds, we landed, every voice shouting at its utmost pitch, "haere-mai, haere-mai, welcome, welcome," every dog worth a bark joining in the chorus, nay even the very pigs swelling the concert by by intermittent sjueals. After prolonged liungieing, Tawitiwai demanding silence, delivered a, speech to tho following ofl'ect, whilst he walked up and down slapping his sides aud brandishing his mere -.— " My children, I have brought you a pakeha ; he is mine, and see that you treat him well, or what will he think of you? Give him plenty kai (food) aud a whare, and other pakehas will come and you will have plenty ptt (muskets) and paura (powder). He is mine ; I have won him with the niu ; look well after him." Then again arose the fiendish yells of haere-mai, during which Tawitiwai beckoned his daughter Tiu, who approached me with a roguish smihji of recognition. She was dressed for the oc casion in a large cloak adorned with kiwi feathers, which was fastened on the left side, leaving tho left arm and neck un covered. Site wore earring* of sharks' teeth, and a heitiki of polished greenstone. Altogether she was a very pretty girl, whom any epicure in beauty might long for. She was made over to me as my principal wife, he.wahine matua, hut as it was supposed the pakeha was by nature rather of a free ■ lover.four others were added from lesser in dividuals, boiug called iv distinction from Tiu, nga murt manu, the hirds that fol lowed/ Of course suclijf.ii event as the arrival of a pakeha ainongjft them could not be passed by without a great hakari or feast, followed by athletic sports such as he pui or skipping-rope, te takaro ringa ringa- or wrestling, te para mako or dart throwing, in which great skill was displayed by all competitors. It was nearly dawn before I betook myself with my wife-in chief to the raupo whare, henceforth to be my home.

CHAPTER XII.

Thus commenced my lifo as a Pakclux- Maori. It was quite in accordance with my restless disposition and dislike to the usages of society thus to bo without its pale, to go where my spirit listed, to do whatever I desired. Thus my life for two or three years may be summed up in a_ few sentences. I lived quietly with' my wives, raising quite a colony of children. I went out fishinj» in the bay for kahawai when ever the thought struck mo, I did a little potato-planting and kumara cultivation in tho season, I snared or shot birds, I tried boat-building, and wheu all things failed had my pipe to fall back upon, though tobacco was represented by dried koromiko leaves. I agreed pretty well; on the whole, with my wives, though Tiu turned out a perfect Tartar, with a temper like a bear with a cold. Angels have turned to devils before. Kawitiwai was frequently away on war expeditions, at which time our settlement was drained of all the young men, its defence being left to women and warriors too aged now to fight. I had two •or three pretty sharp quarrels with my patron, when I considered he wanted to over-reach me, and invariably held my own, declining to accept any compromise; and in almost every case got my own way; I did a pretty brisk trade in flax and pigs, bringing many traders up the Keri-Keri, when it got to be known I was there, thus vastly increasing the importance of Tawi tiwai's hapu. I still continued to raise the price of flax iv muskets, so that by the end of two years' time I found my self in possession of twenty muskets to the good. These I had to secrete with great care, as were it known I had them near me, a taua would at once be organised on the most frivolous pretence, and I should lose my hard-earned gains; for Kawitiwai was terribly jealous of his authority, and were he to dream that I was more powerful than he, I should be stripped to the very skin, father-in-law though he was to me. Some of the muskets I concealed rnder the roots of a gigantic totinv tree that overhung the river, and was avoided by everyone, as the abode of a fearful Taniwha or water-demon, which was constantly on the watch to entrap heedless fishermen or sailors ; others 1 buried under layers of ti-tree until required, selecting the loneliest and densest parts of the bush for -my purpose. I was now to all intents and purposes a Maori. I discarded the European shirt and

trousers for the more comfortable kartaka or blanket ; I relinquished European cooked meats and acquired, not without difficulty, I confess, a taste for the fat oily fare of tho natives, even to the length -of rotten wheat, putrid whale, and raw tainted pork. I could subsist ou raw eel and fern root very comfortably,'the former being considered a dainty kinaki (relish) to the latter, though almost certain to bring on scrofula. I lost the use of knives and forks, preferring the utensil, nature luw granted us, nnd I did not complain more than the others during the grumbling months when our sole food was shell-fish and nikau pith. I consulted the tohungo.s (priests) as regularly as my Maori brethren, and professed to exhibit as great awe as they, wheu the low whistling moan on the roof announced tho presonce of a spirit from the realms of Te Reigna. My only regret was that our supply of rum was very limited, until following out the directions I received from a sailor named Bill Green, at Tahiti, I succeeded in distilling some pretty fair grog from potatoes and maize, when the entire settlement got drunk for a week. Ah, those where happy days for me. As I lutd amused myself at sea in tattoo ing my arms and legs according to various devices, I was considered rather a hero, since the moko or tattooing as executed in New Zealand, is a most painful and agonis ing operation, calling for a great amount of pluck on the part of tho victim. In fact so excruciating is the sufforiii", that only a small part can be completed at a time, and it is customary, when any noted spark is undergoing the moko, for his sweethearts to sit beside Mm chanting such a karakia (s jell) as toe following, to deaden the pain: Xi to wahinc takiri karito kowhara Nakukoe 1 whakanako , To tangata ite whakautu Kia ata whakanakonako ; Tangata ile whakautu kore Knkoia kia tatahi Patua i te whaka tangitangi. To her who pluck, for you evergreens in baskets of Kowhara, Mark every line now. On him who has taken utu. Let the designs be intricate ; On him who has taken no utu. Let them be plain and commou. Oh may our chant dull the pain And give thee courage. But do not imagine, reader, that my life here was wholly devoid of care. When a man has a superfluity of anything, the very abundance of a good thing becomes a nuisance. I had an oxcess of wife, and her constant complaints, uttered by five distinct organs of speech, were, in the long run, wearisome. Perhaps I have no romance iv me, but I was mortal enough to consign them all to the — a week after I became the happy possessor of them. Again, my bargains did not always go straight, cither with the traders or thc_ natives, and a man gets soured as his bad' debts increase. But my chief cause of annoyance was from one of the natives, who had conceived a mortal hatred to me, not from any injury I had done him, but from tiio loss of nutnu (influence) he sustained on my arrival in tho settlement. He had for merly been chief favourite with Tawitiwai, and being a tohunga was perhaps in many ways useful to him in making the will of the gods to coincide with the will of the chief in matters affecting the welfare of the hapu; but after my arrival Kawitiwai con sulted me even more than Iwitangi (the tohunga's name), and thus drew upon me tho wrath of the neglected soothsayer. Not that this would have troubled me muck, but he was able in many ways to frustrate my wishes in regard to many things. If I wanted to purchase a few acres of land to cultivate as my own pro perty, when the gods were consulted as to the propriety of the action, the reply was that the land of the tribe must not be alienated; if I wished to take a journey any place ho had always a convenient vision warning him to prevent me going; if I was ready to strike a bargain with the trailers he would step in and prevent it, and although fre quently I told him to go to the devil, con cluding the bargain, still as I did not wish to come to any rupture with the religious spirit of the Maoris more often I yielded. He saw this and traded on it. Emboldened by the success he sometimes gained he determined upon a further stroke to effect my downfall. We were seated at a solemn hakari in honour of Tawitiwai's marriage to his sixth wife, when suddenly the toh migu started and seemed very utica_,v. He stared long and earnestly at me, so that I almost expected what followed, when his body be came violently shaken as if by some in- 1 visible spirit; he fell on the ground twist ing and turning as if in pain, his eyes rolled in their sockets, his arms swayed cease lessly to and fro, his legs twitched and kicked as if through cramp. Ho was sup posed to be under the influence of the god, and a dead silence prevailed until it would be heard what was the will of heaven. "Oh, Ngaputis, you are under the wrath of Maui. He is sore dis pleased aud has vowed enmity against yon, and why has he done so ? Because ye liavc received a pakeha who is distasteful, a scoffing pakeha, who laughs at Maui, j Sacrifico him to Maui that his wrath may be appeased, and he smile on you once more. The symptoms of divine possession disuppcarcd, and the tohungdroae, casting a switt glance of triumph in my direction. But his glee was of short duration.' In an instant Tawitiwai sprang to his feet, every feature distorted with rage. He rushed up and down outside the eirole of .castors, clapping his hands together, and ever and anon stopping to stamp his foot. "Maui is a great deceiver. He deceived his brothers—Atftmai the liberal one, Toa the strong one, Mohio the wise ooo—and he has been playing his tricks on our tohunga. All, Maui, you are in our tohunga just now, and I will give you a lesson so that you will not forget, Tawitiwai." With these words he seized the unfortunate tohunga and beat him most unmercifully, protesting all the time it was not Iwitangi he was beating, but Maui, to teach him better m'annors towards the pakeha. When it wss over, the soothsayer slunk away, most crestfallen, conscious that he was most ex quisitely fooled, convinced also that if ho would wreak any spite on me, it must bo through his own agency, not through Tawi tiwai. It was my turn to crow now, which you may bo sure I did most exultantly. This incident rendered the hatred of the tohunga towards mo utterly ungovernable. In every way he could think of heporso mccutcd, andalthough I affected to laugh at him, yet I refrained from giving him a sound hiding until I had sufficient reason. This came before long. I mentioned that I was obliged to conceal my muskets lest I should be considered too wealthy, and although I used every precaution to ensure secrecy, yet Iwitangi had got some inkling of this, had watched me, and finally succeeded in robbing me of live mus kets, which ho disposed of for flax. Suspecting who was the thief, I watched for some days, and at length detected him in the very act of abstracting a musket from the roots of the totara tree, He tried to fly, but in an instant I was on him, threw him on his face, and thrashed him till my arms ached again. "Now," I said, "go and try stealing from me again, do." I imagiued tliat I should have the entire | tribe up in arms against me. But no, .he was not liked, and besides Hvas too much ashamed cf the occurrence ever te breathe it to a soul. But even this lesson was not sufficient to drive the devil out of him, it only added fuel to the fire of his hatred,

until he at length made up his mind to kiU me so as to regain his lost influence with the tribe and Tawitiwai. For long _he sought an occasion to carry his design into execution, but was always prevented. Karakias (spells) had no effect on me, his makctu or witchcraft a. little. In yam did he procure portions of my food or clothing, bury them, and repeat spells over them, tiuder the idea as they decayed so would I also. Devil a bit. I got stronger every diy, and more capable of giving him a bigger thrashing should he become dis agreeable again. At last he made up his mind to shoot me. I had been down to the Mission Station at Rangihu to see parson Marsden, who was thinking of opening a station on the Keri-Keri, and had.brought out a man named William Puckey from Sydney to undertake the building work. My road by land lay through a very thick bit of bush capable of affording first-rate concealment to any murderer. Therefore, here it was that Iwitangi determined to make away with me. I was pushing on a« rapidly as I could so .as to reach the kainga before night fell, when suddenly the tohunga stepped out from behind a gigantic kauri, and say ing, "I have you now, Pakeha," presented a musket at me and fired. Three inches more and this veracious history would never have been told. The ball carried away the lower part of my right car and buried itself iv a tree right behind mo. In an instant I was on and had floored him. Reader, it lud come to such a pass that either he or I had to die. Both of us could not live, and I was thoroughly sick of the persecution to which I was exposed. Therefore, placing my knee on his chest to keep him from struggling I primed my pistol, placed it to his ear, and fired. There was a terrific con vulsion, a shriek, and the tohunga was a corpse. Was I a murderer, reader, did I hear you ask? Devil a bit; if any man troubles you in this lifo get rid of him as speedily as you can. But do it skilfully, so that detection may be impossible, for it is not the deed you have to dread, but the danger of being found out. ,_. I took the musket from him and pursued the journey, reaching the Kori Keri to wards nightfall, feeling an uncommon relief in having disposed of my adversary. After a day or two, speculation began to arise, where was the tohunga. Some of the na tives wanted to consult the gods, but the one way of access was denied them through liis absence. At length two of the Rangihu natives coming through the bush found his body, and brought in word to the settle ment. Three of the members of our tribe with myself were commissioned to go and bring the body to the settlement, we being declared tapu Umqo atna, or unclean for tho time being. This we did with great ap parent grief. On it being ascertained that he was shot through the head suspi cion was directed to some of the Aupouris or Whangaroa Maoris who were known to have a deadly hatred for Tawitiwai and his hapu, and without delay an expe dition was to be organised against them. But in the meantime the rites of burial were to be given to Iwitangi. The nchunga or ititerment of the dead was amongst "the Maoris considered a most binding and solemn duty, especially that of chiefs and tohungas. Slaves were either eaten or left to rot in tho bush, but with a great manthccascwasdiffercnt. Accordingly, when we approached the settlement with the corpse we were received by prolonged and mournful wails, every individual in the kainga joining in the lamentation. His wives and female relatives commenced to cut their faces and breasts with sharp shells, the greater the flow of blood the more the respect shown to the deceased. Guns were fired off, and the older men began a dreary chant for the soul of the dead, now in Te Reigna, or the Land of Spirits, whilst one of their n«mber made the haheru, or spade with which to dig the grave. This was rendered sacred by the karakias repeated during tbe operation, the one used on this occasion commencing—

Ko pi ko pa hui te ata Closed up, cloced up, Kakaie, inga In the womb of night, Kainga ngaki o te With the early dawn. Matua, i watho Eat the sacrifice of the dead, r . f From the cultivation of Iteaonei . your father, Ko pi ko pa hua te Which is left in. the world, Ala, ka kai-e Closed np, closed up. The body in the meanwhile lay in state under a kauri tree, clad in fine mats, adorned with feathers, his arms being laid beside him. After the spade was made the corpse was instantly interred, being conveyed to the wahi iapxi (burying ground) by the throe bearers who brought it to the settlement. During all this time we.could not help ourselves to food, but had to bo fed, as any vessel we touched would have been rendered unclean, nay, ourvery food have turned to poison within us •; When all was over then came tho tangior,' fh, mont, after whioh Iwitangi was left to hi._tj.Hc sleep. Thus. was I freed from.; | iUU cause of annoyanco, but scan ! ™ was I settled down to the tfiuct enjoyment of happiness when HE other cause of trouble arise. Tui, a ,my principal wife, was standing under a-trec during a great storm of wind and rain, when a large branch broke away, and de scending on her crushed her to'death. I did not so much regret this as what im mediately succeeded. This dispensation of Providence, according to Maori law, indicates the wrath of heaven against the unfortunate husband; therefore, it was only prov ing themselves good, religious heathens, anxious, to keep stjuare with the celestial powers that be, to organize a taita muru to sack his house and belongings whilst he sits by and considora himselt the more highly honoured the more thoroughly they destroy everything they can lay hands on, Scarcely was my wife buried, and that with all due solemnity, as became a chief's daughter, than the mob of plundering friends appeared, and in five minutes left me without a stick or stitch in the wide world, In an evil hour I had brought my muskets into my whare, so that they were a grand prize to the human -vultures. I was, therefore, not only destitute, but had not a single commodity to trade, with which to better my position. Sitting in my sacked wlutre that night, I commenced to review ray position, Maori lifo was all very fine, but was apt to be monotonous, and my three years' experience had made me foel very tired of it. Yet what was I to do ? Go back to Sydney I could not, to go to the mission was, if anything, a shade worse, to change my quarters to some other tribe was only to run the chance of being cooked or at least live over again the existence I had lived at Keri-Keri. Ha 1 havo it. There was a ship at this time in the Bay, bound for Van .Dieman's Land, why should I not got a passage in her, and see what was to be done in that colony. If hard came to hard I could take to bush-

ranging, with only the prospect of the gallows to dread. This was my determination, therefore, at night when the settlement was buried in slumber, I took a little money I had saved, stole out, unloosened a canoe from the landing-place, and noiselessly paddled down the river for tho Bay. Before day dawned I was off Te Puna, where the " Fanny " lay. But Tawitiwai had not been so blind as I thought. Finding he could not sleep he rose and directed his steps towards my whare to liavs a korero (talk) until sleep overtook him. He found the bird had flown, arid at once dropped to the conclusion that I had made tracks. Accordingly he also took a canoe and paddled for Te Puna; but I had

too great a start. Before he came in si^it I had boarded the vessel and had been ac cepted by the captain as a sailor, to whom I told a fictitious yirn about boing wreoked. When Tawitiwai came up he, of course, could not board, as to keep the natives away all ships spread a netting ronnd the sides, lest a large number of Maoris being on board at once they should seize the vessel, as had been done at Mercury Bay and the Thames. My former patron used all his eloquence to indueo me to return, but in vain. I had had enough of __iin,and longed onoe more to eommenoe my travels.. So with bitter re- Eroaehes on my ingratitude at not feeling onoured wheu so splendid a tarn mttnt had robbed me of everything he was forced to go ashore to seek consolation from the missionaries. After a day or two, the cargo being completed, wo sailed for Hobart Town, I very glad to have a change of scene. And yet a singular fatality always brougt me back to the Bay, for wander where I will, determine never more to see it, I am always brought back to thy shores, oh Takiraw, or tho Hundred I»fe*- . ~ _- (To be Continued).

THE DETECTIVE'S STORY.

It was on one of those miserably wet even ings towards the beginning of winter, in the smoky city of Glasgow, which make that flourishing but most unattractive Scottish centre of commerce and manufactures still more unattractive, that I found myself in lodgings in a busy street. My only com panion was a short, thick-set man, with grizzled hair, his smoothly-shaven face showing the lines about the mouth and chin, which usually denote a determined character, and his whole appearance gave him the air of a man who had apparently had at least a fifty years' experience of the world. He was a frieddof my landlord, aud we had only that evening made ac quaintance. H sat on one side of the window quiotly smoking and watching, like myself, the ceaseless bobbing of wet umbrellas carried by the hurrying pedes trians in the street below, and the endless stream of cabs, omnibuses, and' other vehicles. Anon came the drenched lamp lighter, dotting the side walks with a long line of bright points, as each black lamp post became tipped with flame at the touch of the long lighting-rod. The night had now fairly closed in, blinds Were drawn down in the houses op posite, and the shop windows on the ground floors become one blaze of gas-light. After watching for a little the general lighting up of the street, we drew down our own blind, lighted the gas, and stirring up the fire into a choerf ul glow, were soon comfortably' established on each side of it, with re-filled pipes_ and a sensible relief from that de pression of spirits which such an evening as I have just described usually produces. The first symptom of improvement was an evident disposition on both sides to talk. Iv the course of our conversation he told me he was an ox-detective, and on my shortly after remarking that it was wonderful some times how cases were worked ur) from very slight clues — so slight, in fact, that the majority of people would pass over the circumstance as not possessing the slighthtest value as leading to evi dence, my companion smiled and said, knocking the ashes out of his pipe, "Ah 1 right you are; I remember a esse in which I was engaged many years ago, and the only clue I had was a fittle bit of a thumb-nail and a bit of the flesh sticking to it." - "A little bit of a thumb-nail," I replied; '' how did that come about ?" " Well, this is how it was: I was at that time a detective in plain clothe- in this here city, when news came from a small country place away up north iv the Highlands of a gentleman's house having been robbed one Sunday afternoon when the family and servants were all away at church. The rural police had been poking and humbugging about all to no purpose; they could'nt make nothing out ot it, not they. Every inquiry had been set on foot about stranger's,' tramps and sich like, bnt not one had been seen in the neighbourhood, not for months, no one was missing, and the only suspicious persons known were some idle poaching fellows; they were all satisfactorily accounted for, not one of them but could prove an alibi, and I oan tell you they were just fairly bothered was them rural police; so they sends up to head quarters here,;? "„^'.%lit*'sf.fcd out for the l ob'jr«iough in fact a $> I dM. vas *? n3is_^sll .££. ____,-.>*•. the premises. It &*2E£ &&» shown the chest where the O^J 2 s'always kept, the lock of which I^S* been forced, and any greenhorn might rJruavo twigged that it was no regular cracks man had done it. A town-hand .at all up to his business would never have made such a beastly mess of it; but, bless you, them leather - headed rural police don't know tidy work when they see it. A chisel hod been used ,to 'cut away a part of the wood near the lock,: and in his flurry and awkwardness he had slipt with the edge tool and cut himself; as there were marks of blood about* and on the floor I noticed something Which on picking up and examining I found to be a wee bit of what seemed to be a thumb-nail and a morsel of flesh sticking to it. Oh ! thinks I, this will do very well for one day, for, d'ye see, it was very comfortable quarters, plenty of good grub and lush, and some very nice maid servants, so as I didn't* mind a bit of a holiday in the country I thought I'd just take things easy, especially as from what J had seen I knew perfectly well that my man was someone in the neighbourhood, and could not possibly get away without my knowing of it in a little bit of a place like that. Next day I thought I'd try what could be done towards finning out whotthe owner of the skin and nail was, with a view to becoming better acquainted with him, so I sauntered down to the village, where there was a little shop—half barber half apothe-. cary. I needn't tell you that there was not much difficulty in opening a conversation with the talkative old cove who acted as barber, and did any little doctoring jobs that were not of too serious a nature for the likes of him to tackle, so while ho was getting ready to give me a shave I began to apply the pump gently. "Suppose you don't have much to do here ?" "Oh, aye, I've jobs enough, ye ken, tho' I'm no just as busy as I'd like to be." " Don't do much in the doctoring line, I fancy?" " Aweel, I whiles hae au odd job in that

way from time to time. I had ane nae langer syne than aboot the time o' the robbery up at the big hooso." " Was it any thing serious?" "Odd, itwas'na very muckle certainly, just the gamekeeper's thumb that he wanted a bitsteclcing plaister on. He telled me it was tho hammer o' his gun did it, but it was nae gnn hammer made that hurt, I kenned brawly, for it was a clean cut made wi' a sharp edge." As this was about all I wanted, I paid for my shave and left. So! the gamekeeper was my man. As far as that went it was all plain sailing, but where had he planted the plate, and how was I to recover it? My next step was to visit the gamekeeper's cottage.

On reaching it I found that he was out on his daily rounds, and his wife was very close and guarded in her answers. How ever, I got out of her where I was likely to find him, and on turning the matter over in my mind while walking I determined to charge him suddenly with the crime, and by making him believe that I had got to know all from liis wife he would think the game was up, and confess what he had dono with the swag. The event proved that I was right in my calculations, whea I arrested him ho turned quite sort o' green like, and trembled so that he could hardly stand on his legs. He owned up right away, and confessed that the plate was buried in an old sand pit close by. True enough, there I found every ounce of it, I made a very good job out of it, and he got seven years at tho next 'sizes. So you see that's what, came of a wee bit of thumb nail 1

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STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 7, 1882.

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" I ■ MUSICAL BOXES, Newest Tunes.— Angelo Forrest, Auokland Mnaio Ware house, Queen-street. MUSICAL BOXES, with all the Latest Improvements.—___elo Forrest, Auok and Mtuio Warehouse. CIHRISTMAS PRESENTS!! ) CHRISTMAS PRKSKNTSI HENRY PBTRY, Jkwem,bk A_b Diamond Skttbh. Victoria-street (A few steps from Queen-street, opposite Royal Mail Hotel). N.B.—H.P. has a choice Stool, ot the Latest Novelties In Jewellery. Watches, etc., suitable tor Christmas Presents, always on hand. Re pairs neatly exeoated on the premises, and orders promptly attended *n. A.N6ELO Forrest, AUCKLAND MUSIC WAREHOUSE, 68, QUBBN-STB-KT. ALL PIANOS, ORGANS, 6R HARMONIUMS Bought from above Warehouse will ba KEPT IN TUNK AND GOOD REPAIR TOR TWELVE MONTHS AFTER PURCHASE; Also, a Wkittb-* Guarante- given with each Instrument for THREE TEARS. It is hoped the above arrangement. will be sufficient proof that monk but Kkaixy FIBST-OLAB- INBTRUMEOTS Will be kept in stook. BARDS SUPPLIED FOB EVKNIN- FARTIBS A Room specially built for Professors, Private Rehearsals, So., tree. Tbe Best aad Cheapest House in Auckland FOB MUSIC. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. „ STRINGB, FITTINGS, &C. A UCKLAND \f USIO WAREHOUSE. NO. 68, QUEEN-STKKKT. " QHOULU BE INEVER- HOUSE. CRAWFORD'S SARSAP A R I L L A TONIC Is'antfn valuable remedy for Nervousness, Blddl ness, Low Spirits, Indigestion, Headache, Chronic Diarrhoea. Impoverished Blood, General Debility Neuralgia, Pimples and Blotches oh the face, Eruptive diseases of tha akin, &c; and as an APPETIZER, It standi! : unrivalled. It never disturbs the most delicate stomach, but In most oases greatly assists DIGESTION and ASB___L_TION Of all NUIRIMBNT. BUSINESS MEN. GOOD TEMPLARS, and others will find In It a long-felt want, as A RESTORATIVE and STIMULANT of great power, without having resort to INTOXICATING LIQUORS. TS Purify the Blood, CRAWFORD'S I SARSAPI-RILLA TONIC IS oertalnly superior to most of the medicines Bold for this purpose, and by Its jndlolous use many a serious illness might be averted, and hundreds save themselves a lot of suffering and expense they now incur throng! i neglecting to take notioe ot mar.y little disorders that a few doses of this TONIC would speedily remove; It is VERY PLEASANT TO TAKE, and being compounded of only Harmless Drugs, may be taken by anyone, however DELICATE, with SAFETY and BENEFIT. Prepared only by CRAW F 0 R D, Phaskaceutical Chemist, If E f T 0 N, ' Auckland. ;.'"'"'. *'.:: Sold in Bottles at 6s. Each ■A NEW ERA IN^ DENTISTRY. MR. ALFRED WILLIAM CjE-itTFIELD (FORMERLY OF MELBOURNE), ' To whom was awarded the Second Order of Merit at the _-T_bnat-Onai. Kxhibition, Melbourne, 1880-1881, WILL BBBIN THB PRACTICE OF HIS PROFESSION IN AUOKLAND n that Centrally-situated SUITE OF ROOMS overhead Messrs. J. and T. Mason's Hair dressing Establishment, Queen-street, on WEDNESDAY. 28th December. His appliances were specially selected for him in London and Paris, and include the Latest Improvements In Dentistry known to the scien tific world. As Mr. Chatflbld has made arrangements te receive regular shipments of all Dental Requi sites from' London, his rooms will bo known as " Tbe London Dentistry.** Noto the Address— Ihe -London Dentistry. ISO, queen-btreet, AUCKLAND (Next door to the Savings Bank, and overhead Messrs Mason's Halrdreeslag Saloon). rriHE NEW BUILDING SOCIETY. industrial and provident perma nent BUILDING, LAND AND IN VEST MENT SOCIETY OF AUCKLAND. COBNEK Or QUEEN-STREET and VULCAN LANE, All classes ore invited to take np Investing Shares, payments weakly, Interest remunera tive. LOANS granted on security of Freehold or Leasehold Property for the purpose of Bmrats, Building, &c. In sums of £20 to £5000. repay able—for every £100 advanced—at the following Beale, by weekly, monthly, or quarterly instal ments^ itepayments I Per - Repayments Per extending overt Week, extending over Week, a. d. . _ S years .. 1510 7 years .. 8 3 4 years ..] 12 B 8 yean _ 7 8 5 years Jj 10 Bj 10 rears a 6 8 aPWOIAL j. AOILITIKS are given to Bor rowers for paying off part principal money and reducing weeKly paymrrat, or the whole sum may be paid o_ at any time—tbe Society grant ing LIBKBAL DISCOUNT. GEORGE ERASER. Manager. ii I .