Atrocious Murder of an Apprentice.

THE STOUY OF THK THAGKDY.

ATHOCIOUS cruelty met with its proper re ward on May 24th, in the sentence of death passed on Osmond Otto Brand for the murder of a fisher-lad, only fourteen years of age, named William Papper. The crime took place so long ago as the end of last December. The scene of the dreadful tragedy was a small fishing smack belonging .to Hull, of which Brand was master and 'part owner, and the circumstances attending the case, which tho jury believed to be fully

proved, render this murder one of the most ■dastardly c*i ncs for which a human being ever suttere<l the capital penally. Gh.vtly details of unheard-of cruelty form the .staple of the evidence presented at the Leeds Assizes against the prisoner. The story hardly bears reading, so outrageous and heart-rending is the tale of the unsneuk .ablo wickedness and barbarity practised by this wretched man. Brand had the boy Papper—a cheery, good-natured fisher youth—as his apprentice, and they went -voyages together in Brand's smack, the Rising Sun. Last December the prisoner, took a sudden dislike to the lad, owing to something the latter had said, or been supposed to say, which Brand chose to take as reflecting on himself. Whatever the truth of this part of the ose, there is i no doubt whatever that from that moment the master of the Rising Sun bore a deadly grudge against his young apprentice. The smack sailed from Hull on a wintry voyage into the North Sea on the 10th day of last December. Brand was in command, and besides him there was a crew of five souls in all, including the lad Papper and another Doy called Yatcs. So the human creatures on board' the fatal craft at its start were the master, armed with a revolver, three men, and a couple of boys. Three weeks clasped and the Rising Sun came back to the Albert Docks, Hull, iv the opening days of the tear, with the tidings that one of its hands had been lost at sea. This was William Papper, the boy apprentice to Brand. The master himself gave notice to the proper authorities of the death ot the lad by drown ing. He was on deck, so he reported, on New Year's Day, or rather night, when a sudden gust of wind caught the foresail, and the boy was hurled overboard and never soen again. Such was the master's emootli tale, and in this concocted narrative he was at first supported by the rest of his crew. By degrees, however, rumours got abroad —nobody knew whence or how—of foul play perpetrated on board the Rising Sun, of cruel murder done in the wintry solitude in the North Sea. The evidence given at the trial was chiefly that of the crew them selves", who were-all but the boy Yates— participators to a great extent in the violence practised on the weak and helpless body of wretched little William Pappjr. What the jury have believed, and that for which utto Brand is condemned to the sallows, is the broad fact that the prisoner, having all but complete power over the boy, did by his own brutal violence, and by the enforced assistance of his crew, treat Papper in such a way as to caueehis death. The witnesses, these three sailors who con fessed to having aided the captain in throw ing buckets of cold water over the starving lad, and in stringing him up to the cross trees, may have been, entitled to little cre dence. But the jury, who saw them, and heard their testimony, evidently believed that the men were greatly to blam*, and •yet that they were speaking the truth in their account of Brand's cruelties. The stories they told, separately and individu ally, tallied together, and cross-examination •failed to weaken the force of the evidence thus given. Two of the crew, Blackburn and Dench, swore to hearing the skipper aay to the boy when he came on board, "I'll pay you out, or " I'll do for you, when I get yon out of the dock." Accordingly, no sooner had the craft cleared the harbour, ■and got fairly out to sea, than the skipper bean a course of monstrous barbarity to Irishapless apprentice. The first day he contented himself with thrashing the boy on the head and face with a knotted rope about an inch and a half thick. This was only the beginning of similar ill-treatment, blows, injuries, and curses following un ceasingly, accompanied by what amounted to slow starvation. When they got to the Dogger Bank, ninety miles from Hull, Brand one day discovered that the trawl-net was torn. Fastening on the lad, he accused him of doing the mischief, knocked bira down, and bade him "go forward" for the next three days. This,meant being exposed in mid-winter for three days and nights to the inclemency of the weather. Accom panying this order, the skipper beat the boy savagely with one of the jib-sail ropes In a most shocking manner. Ho throw buckets of ice-cold water over him, and then forced him to stand on the bowsprit, shiver ing, numb, and weak, and pretend that he was a figure-head, calling out every now and then, "Cuckoo! If I had not been a bad lad I should not have been here." To emphasise the lesson the skipper there and taen gave Papper another sound thrashing. Drenched as he was to the skin, he was not allowed to go below and get a cbange of clotbes. On the 24th day of December—even at Cbriatmaa time the victim was not spared—a new form of tor tare was invented, which consisted in tying a rope round the neck and arms of the boy, ■dragging him along and swinging him up to the cross-tree 3. The cross-trees broke, and the lad was stunned by the fall, where upon tho savage skipper lamented the mis chief done to the woodwork, and regretted that he had not killed Papper. Another •amusement of Brand's was jumping on Papper's body. It is not to be supposed that the sailors were perfectly obedient to their skipper all this time. They did, it is true, help him in injuring the lad and mal treating him, explaining to the Court that they were bound to obey the captain, more especially as he threatened them with his revolver. Blackburn, cno of tho men, how ever, refused to work the winch with which ■young Papper was to be swung up to the trees, and Dench, another able seaman, expostulated with Brand for nearly hang ing tho boy. Moreover, when the inhuman brute was adding starvation to his other •cruelties, the crew used to administer to Papper part of their own food on the sly. But they- confessed that Papper was starved for several days, while all tho time ho was facing the wintry blasts at the bows of the smack. On Christmas Day the rest of the •crew had roast goose and plum pudding, and made merry. Papper remained out side, and the skipper held out one plum to him to take, and then hit him over the hand with the stick when he attempted to grasp it, Next day he ate a dumpling ravenously. Other nameless outrages fol lowed. The boy was half-drowned in the "dill,"and smeared with filth.» He was made to ran naked up and down the deck. He was knocked down and-trampled on, and ropes-ended, urnil at last he could not creep up the hatchway. Blackburn told the skipper he was dying, and the brute expressed his profane pleasure. "A good thing +00," he said. Asthefog-l)ellsounded Brand cried out to the lad he had so foully ill-treated, "There's the bell tolling for

your death." Yet tho atrocious muster of the Eising Sun did not know that death was as near as it was then.

On the last day of the year, on board this floating hell, far from his friends and all chance of help, William Papper died of the injuries inflicted upon him. The unlooked for event caused the greatest consternation on board. The skipper was terrified, and persuaded his men to get up tho story that the land had been blown overboard. At dead of night on New Year's Eve, the men actually threw the body into tho waves, at the same time raising the cry that Papper had fallen into the sea. This stratagem was to impress the mind of the boy Yatcs, who had taken no part whatever in the merciless treatment of young Papper. So, with their guilty consciences, and their trumped-up tale of accidental death, these men came back to Hull. Tho parents of the lost lad, however, were not so easily satisfied, and gradually the whole mon strous story oozed out. But why did the crew, Dench, Blackburn, and Yeoford, acknowledge their share in the terrible business? Why did they not allow the matter to remain in the obscurity which Brand so much desired ? Remorse may have impelled them to act as they did in confessing, or the guilty secret may have been revealed in conversation. Anyhow, the men made a clean breast of their part of the transaction. Undoubtedly they were seriously to blame in ever allowing the cajitaiu to exercise such inhuman spite and violence, mnch more in lending him a helping hand. At the same time, it innst be remembered on their behalf that the skipper was a man not likely to brook disobedience, and was, moreover, armed with a revolver. The prisoner's advocate attempted to discredit the case against Brand by throwing doubts on the testi mony of the sailors. Mr Waddy, however, was correct in observing that the fact that the men had come forward to bear witness against themselves was a point in their favour. It is deeply satisfactory that such a barbarous offence has not gone un punished. Yeoford, one of tho crew, was sentenced to a short term of imprisonment for an "assault" on the deceased lad; while Brand, his real persecutor, tormentor, and murderer, was condemned to death. The hisses nnd execrations which accom panied his appearance in court only express the sense of the community on the hideous cowardice and cruelty of which ho was guilty.

Facts and Figures.

There is a very remarkable csntra>t between the "personnel" in England and that of the great English-speaking Republic across the Atlantic. The difference between the House of Lords and the Senate is naturally grear, but it is curious that there should be so great adift'-re ice between the composi tion of the Bouse of Representatives and the House of Commons The Hou«e of Re presentatives contains 195 lawyers, 19 pro fessional politicians, 17 merchants, 1 capita list, and .1 metallurgist. Thus 195 out of 251 members, or about two-thirds, belong to the legal profession. In the House of Commons tho law has only 118 rcpr«senta tive3, about one-sixth of the whole.

It is stated that the population in France is at present stationary, or thereabouts, but what is oven more remarkable is that the total number of Jews does not exceed sevea millions, or about the same number who existed during the reign of King David. The Jews marry aud are given in marriage; while the French, are addicted to single blessedness. Of the total mentioned, Enrope claims five million of Jews, or thereabouts; Russia heading the list with two millions and a half and upward?. Austria lias 1,375,000 residing within its territories : Germany, 512,000; Roumania, 274,0^0; Turkey, 100,000. In Holland there arc 70,300, and in Great Britian and Ireland, 50,000. France includes 49,000; Italy, 35,000; while the Spanish peninsula and Sweden and Norway harbour only 4,000 between them. Besides these, thee are in Asia 200,000; in America nearly l,iJ00,O0O; in Africa, SO, 000. In the Holy Land we find there are 25,000 Jews; aud of the popu lation of Jerusalem, whicij amounts to 26,000, more than one-half 'is composed of the chosen people. This last total is being annually increased—a fact of which the significance is variously intetpreted. It is stated in a mining return just issued, that the greatest depth attained in the North of England mining district by vertical shaft is 2,850 feet, at Ash trn Moss Colliery, thi3 being probably the deepest pit in the kingdom. The greatest depth at which coal is now being worked is in Pendleton Collieiy, where the miners are digging 2.770 feet b.'low the surface of the earth. The most extensive single working in the Kingdom appears to be the Harvey Seam, at Bishop Auckland, the ramifica tions of which are no less than 114 miles long altogether, although out of the whole there is not more than a mile and a quarter pas sable by horses. The most extensive group of workings is the Risendale and Baxenden group, where the total length of the under ground passages is over 304 miles. In the salt mines the greatest area excavated is in one at Marston, in Cheshire, where the chamber is about forty acres in extent and sixteen feet high, the roof being supported on pillars.

Carlyle in Ireland.

Mr Carlyle'a rapid journal of a little tour in Ireland, now being published in "The Century," is not so far very interesting. It is chiefly about Mr Carlyle, his sufferings from the snoring of his fellow-passengers, and his request to one of them to "stop that beastly gluddering noise." "Glud dering" seems to be a word invented by Mr. Carlyle at the moment, tie also " swore profane," as usual. Of the Irish faces beheld on the steamer he noted five or six varieties,most of them showing "excel lent possibility much marred." He sug gests putting tho Irish " among conditions which are fair," or at least " fairer," a thing which Parliament is aiming with a fair suc cess to do. Through his stay in Ireland, Mr. Carlyle seeni3 to have suffered much from sleeplessness, which naturally darkens a man's view of all things with a mist "as of waklug nightmare." He gives no pic trresque impressions ot Dublin as a whole ; indeed, infinitely more may be learned from Thackeray's tour or from John Leech's and Canon Hole's cheerful little book than from Mr. Carlyle's_ notes, as far as they have been published, That sketch of Thackeray's, the casement held up by the hairbrush, gives a better picture of Irish casualness than anything said, so far, by MrCtrlyle. He hea<d a good deal of dis cussionSabout the relations ot Ireland and England, " wherein, Jas I really have no respect for Ireland as it now is, and has been, it was impossible for me to be popu lar. 1' A sad unreasonable humour pervades all the Irish population on this matter," says Mr Carlyle, and adds, " England does not hate you at all, nor love you at all, merely values and will pay you according to the work you can do. No teaching of , that unfortunate people to understand so much." That was the humour of it. But Mr Carlyle probably did hot increase Irish love of England and the Fnglish. '' Never saw such begginj? in the world. Often get iuto a rage at it." '

LIFE IN ENGLAND THE CENTURIES AGO : A Chapter in English Social History.

[By J. D. Davis.]

SECTION VI.

CONDITION OF THE WORKING CLASSES AND

TIIE I'OOR,

The population of England in ICBS has been computed by four staticians arguing from independent premises, to have been between live mil lions and five millions and a-half. Of these the largest portion were engaged in j tilling the fields, in manufactures, and other descriptions of labour moro or less skilled. Four-fifths of the common people were agriculturists, Tlieir condition varied according to the district they lived in; but there can be no doubt that they possessed much fewer comforts than even their unfortunate representatives of to-day. In some parts of the kingdom their poor dwellings were built of mud, as the follow ing quotation from Evelyn shows :—" 7th August, 1653. Went to Uppingham, tho .Shire-towno of Rutland, pretty and "well builte of stone, which is a rarity in that part of England, where most of the rural parishes are but of mud,and the people living as wretchedly as in the most im poverished parts of France, which they much resemble, being idle and sluttish." This is a striking picture, but it is evident that the squalor seen by Evelyn in Rutland and the neighbouring districts was such as to call for special notice. The better houses wcro composed largely of timber, with brick and stone intermingled in rather picturesque fashion, as any one familiar with old. English buildings is aware. Wooden houses were largely found ev-n in the metropolis; for we le.ini from Ponys that it was owing to this circumstance that tho Great Fire spread with such rapidity. Tho lower classes could afford to cat wheaten bread but seldom : they lived mostly on rye, barley, aud oats. Barley bread was the food of ordinary people throughout the reign' of Charles I. Ear lier, in 1596, we know that ryebread and oatmeal formed,'a considerable part of tho diet of the servants living in the g'eat houses of the southern counties. Beer was cheaper than it is mw. Meat also was cheaper (than it is in England), but was still so dear, that half tho nation tasted it not oftcner than once a week* (Gregory King). But most other nocessarics of life cost rela tively much more than they do now, and wercbesides worse made, and therefore less serviceable. Sugar, salt, coals, candles, i soap, shoes, nil articles of dress, and all articles of bedding were higher in price. One of the sarest means of judging of the •ommon people's condition, is to be found in the amount of wages they received. ; The following statistics will convey some idea of the rate of remuneration received iby the working classes towards the end of ! the seventeenth centnry. By 5 Elizabeth ic. 4 the justices of the peace in the various counties could fix at the quarter sessions the rate of wages, and this oppressive enactment was in force till the 53ril year of George 111. In 1655 the justices oi Warwickshire, in the exercise of their powers, decided to give each common agricultural labourer from Miirch to Sep tember four shillings a week without fond. From September to March, i.e. all through the winter, the weekly wages were sixpence less. At the same date tho wage* of the Devonshirepeasant were, without food about five shillings a week. The labourers living in the neighbourhood of Bury St. Edmund s would appear to have been even bettor oil". for the magistrates of Suffolk determined that five shillings in winter, and six shillings in summer, should be given. Tho highest remuneration paid to tho clas* under notice between 1060 aud lu'SS was fixed by the Essex justices tho year after the Restoration. The unboarded labourers were to receive six shillings during the winter months, and a shilling more through the summer. Gregory King, "apolitical arithmatician of great acuteness and judg ment," who wrote in 1696, reckoned that the agriculturists of tho Revolution year (lOSS)wera in receipt of £15 per annum, that is, five shillings and nine penco per week. It i* clear then from the abov>* com putations that the farm servants of two centuries ago earned less than half the wage their present representatives do. Take now the case ot the soldiers. T?o government would pay its triojh higher than average wages, just enough in fact to attract to the ranks a requiate number of the lower classes. Neal, in his History of the Puritans, says that tho ordinary soldiers of the army of the new model received six pence a dijy, and the troope s eightpence. Gregory King sets down £14 per annum, as the soldier's pay in 16S8, which, it will be observed, is not a great advance in forty years. The pay of the private foot-soldier in 1685 is given by Lord Macaulay at four shillings and eightpence a week; when that of a corporal was seven shillings. Lord Macaulay states that privates in the army of the Commonwealth got as much as a shilling a day, but quotes no authority for the a'sertion. which is ap parently in*contradiction to Neal. Weavers, prior to the Rovo'ution, con sidered that if they were paid wha'. was fair and jus', they ought to have a shilling a-day ; but by tyrannical masters they were forced to take less. A ballad of the time complains bitterly that a hard day's work at the loom earned butsixpence,a miserable pittance for which the poor craftsman had to rise early and toil late. The following rates of remuneration,taken from Gregory King's tables, will be of interest. The sum represents what the various classes mentioned received per annum in and about the year 16SS :— £ s. Farmers .„ _ - — J2 10 Shopkeepers.. .. .. .. 45 ' Artisans 38 Naval officers .. .. _ 80 Military do 60 Eminent clenrr '2 Other do 50 Seamen -. 2tt Soldiers ~ U Cottagers and paupers .. .. ClO Vagrants, gipsies, etc. - .. 10 10 The following extract from Evelyn's Diary is interesting as showing the small sum sufficient to keep a frugal person in the necessaries of life. " There was (at Swallowiicld in Berkshire) a maiden of primitive life, the daughter of _ a poorc labouring man, who had sustain'd her parents (sometime since dead) by her labour, and has for many years refus'd marriage, or to receive any assistance from the parish, besides the. little hermitage my lady (Clarendon) gives her rent-free ; she lives on foure pence a day, which she gets by spinning; say 3 she abounds and can give almes to others, living in great humility and content." In the entry preceding the above Evelyn speaks of "carp and pike taken out of the iishponds al Swallowheli, some of the former being so large as to be

• Milton's "I/Mlegro" furnishes an illustra^ tive passage :— " Where Corydon. and Thyrsls met Are at their savoury dinner aot Oti herbs and other country messes, Which th.9 neat-handed. PuiUis dresses."

worth twenty shillings a piece in London- A skilled workman, such as a weuveii would havohad to work three whole weeks to purchase so noble a lish.

We come now to tbe price of wheat, which, fortunately, can be determined with great accuracy from existing records, For some centuries the average pricj por annum of corn bought in Windsor market tor use at Eton College has been ca efully rogistered. The figures below re fer to middling or mealing wheat: —From 1019 to IGSB (10 years) the averag* price per quarter was 475; from 1659 to 16H8, 4l>s 8d per quarter ; from 1669 to 1678, 33t 4d per quarter; from 1C79 to IGSS, 3Ss 4(1 per quar ter. The dearest years were 1018, 1649, IGOI, 1662 and 1674, when the average p. ices per quarter wore respectively, 75s (id, 71s 2d, 62s 2d, 65s 9d, and 61s. The iir.st two amounts clearly represent famine price. Windsor prices would probably be slightly higher than those of Mark Lane, London. Sir Thomas Browne, in a letter written in November 1601, mentions that the best wheat was from 44s to 45s per comb of four bushels ; i.e.,of course.SSs and 90s a quarter. The poor in a year like this would be compelled to live on bread made of peas, oats, barley or rye. In the yaara 1054 and 10S7 wheat was exceptionally cheap, the prices per quarter n't Windsor being 23s Id and 22s Id respect ively, Another cheap year was 1667. Corn was in the autumn cheap "even to a miracle," and fanners, getting next to nothing for their produce.could pay no rent, and were compelled to leave their holdings. They would have paid their landlords in corn, but the gentry were so ignorant, or so wanting in enterprise ns to be unable to dispose of it. (Pcp^s, January Ist, 16GS). Gngory King estimated that 1,750,000 quarters of wheat were produced in Eng land in KISS. Defoe, in the ' History of the Plague," informs us of the price of bread iv the metropolis in 1665, the year of the pestilence. The first week of March ten and a half ounces of bread wero sold for a penny, and, what U very remarkable, the price never rose at any time during that timo of terror and alarm more than one-tenth. At the height of the contagion nine and a half ounces could bo purchased for a penny, and by the beginning of Nov ember prices had again reached their normal level.

Wo have yet to spe.ik of the paupers of the period, those who were either partially or wholly dependent upon parish relief. The class was never more proportionately numerous in England than during the last quarter of the seventeenth century. Gre gory King computes that one fourth of tho total population were puupcrs ; i.e. every fourth person was unable through age, sickness, or some less meritorious cause, to maintain himself. This is a high O'ttnmto, but in nil probability it is not fnr wrong. We nro not without some means of test ing its accuracy. Tho poor-rato was the heavioat tax our ancestors had to bear. In tho reign of Charles 11. it is reckoned to have beun nearly seven hundred thousand pounds, a little less than half the entire re venue of the Crown, and considerably more than either the Customs or the Excise produced. The figure afterwards rose to the enormous sum of eight or uiue hundred thousand pounds. How to deal with the poor had long been a oucstion of dilliculty and intricncy.especi ally niuce the dissolution of the monasteries in the reign of Ilenry VIII. There can bo no doubt that iv large proportion of the paupers of the realm were maintained by the charity of the religious houses, whoso system of indiscriminate almsgiving must have increased rather than diminished the number of beggars. That the poor were so entirely dependent upon the inmates of the monasteries ns Blackstone supposes them to have been is disproved by llalhm, who paints out that prior to the dissolution n system of regular collections for the relief of tha poor had been adopted by tho Legisla ture. At the same time the penalty for giving alms to beggars was the toifetture of ten tunes the amount. Compulsory contri butions, properly sneaking, began in the 14th year of Queen Elizabeth, although an Act of Edward VI, empowered bishop? to proceed against nny refusing to contribute. The poor were of two classes, viz., the sick, aged, and impotent, unable by their iuiirmi ties to work, and sturdy beggars who would not work. For tho relic? of the for mer, overseers in every parish were appoin ted by a statute passed in the 43rd of Elizabeth; and for the latter, houses of correction were established, where thoy were compelled to earn their food by hard labour. The chief defect of the system now introduced lay in the smulloess of the parochial divisions, many of which were unable to furnish sufficient work for vali ant paupers, or a suitable director. As many as were able to work were allowed to seekemployment wherever it could be found, and were not compelled to reside in tho parishes where thoy had been born or had made their abode. Tho wauderiDgof vagrants not in search ot work was sternly re pressed. By another Act of Elizabeth such •ould be publicly whipped, and srmt from parish to parish to the place where they had been born, or where they had pre viously resided one wholo twelvemonth. After the whipping the vagrant received from aJustice'of the Peace a testimonial, setting out hosv he or she had been Hogged according to the Act. After the Restora tion the latter plan was changed, and the poor were restricted to their respective dis tricts, with the effect of increasing their number and adding to their hardships. Lawsuits between parishes to determine the proper settlement of paupers wero also among the results. This unwise arrange ment gave birth, to the intricacy of English poor laws, the complexity of which cyen now has not ceased to vex not only legislators, but all who are called upon to administer their provisions. The following document dates a few years subsequent to the period with which we have been dealiDg ; but it is not entirely out of place, and it is interesting from its qnaintness and the information it gives on prices and other matters : — A trno and perfect Inventory of all »nd singular, tho Goods, Chattells, and Creditts of Richard Smith, late of Huratmonceux in tho county of Sussex, yeoman, deceasod, taken and apprized the Twentieth day of February, Anno. Dni. 1707/8, by those whoso names are under-written, £ s.d. Imprimis his purao, girdle, and monoy ia his pockett 18 6 Item his cloathes of all kinds, linnen and woollen 2 0 6 Item one feather bedsted and curtains vallance, and all otoer things there unto belonging - 2 5 0 Item a smal parcel of linnen 1 5 C It. one ring and a piece of gold 0 15 0 It. one trunke, one cheat, and a warm ing-pan 013 0 It. one waggon, a hurley roll, and a chess-press - 3GB It. in good debts U 0 0 It. in desperate debts £3 3 6 Item things unseen and forgotten 0 5 0 Sumstotall 28 17 0 Apprized by us Benjamin Mott, Danikl Butler. (To be continued.)

" Grace before meat," as the young lady remarked when she laced herself so tight she couldn't swallow.

The new colour, mustard yellow,ought to give the wearer an unusually smart appear ance.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JULY 8, 1882

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rp MoIVOR, Upholatcror and Undertaker, 52, x • City Market-Couches and Glialra to order. GJf. BKIMBLECOMBE, queen's Hotel, • Syroonda-streot and Kybcr Pusa R GEORGE (lato O. YVood), liutchor, Parnell, • Biipplioa beat quality Moat at LOWEST phicks. ___^ YOUNG, Family Grocer. Shortland-streot, • Auckland. DKST Placo for Kanjjes, uvoiih, oiuvom, and V Blacksmith's Work.—X. NICHOLLS, 328. Upper Queou-atroet rnHE AUCKLAND GAP COMPANY, JL Limited. PURVEYORS OF LIGHT, HEAT, & POWER. Goa fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gas-Enqinbb In Stock. FORT-STREET, AUCKLAND; (xood Value If or JMLohbyi R. B. Shaldkrs & Son, 200} QUEKN-STREKT. {202 LADIES' NEW DKKSS MATERIALS. HOOD VALUK VO'{ MONKY. BLANKETS, CALICOS, SHEETINGS, FLANNELS, &C. GOOD VALUK KOK MONKY. WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S HOSIERY AND GLOVES. GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY. NEW AND CHOICE MILLINERY. GOOD VALUK FOR MONKY. GENTLEMEN'S FASHIONABLE HATS, &C. GOOD VALUK FOR MONKY. MEN'S SKIRTS, COLLARS, TIES, HALF HOSE, FLANNEL AND MEKINO UNDEIt SHIRTS, PANTS, &C, GOOD VALUK Fuli MONEY. CLOTHS, TWEEDS, COATINGS, &C. GOOD VALUK FOX MONKY. MEN'S WATEKFKOOF COATS AND LEGGINGS. GOOD VALUE FOR MONEY. LADIES'AND CHILDREN'S ULSTERS, MANTLES, &C. GOOD VALUK FOR MONEY, Call at SHALDKRB & fciON for everything you may require, ivhero you will bo Buro to get UUUD VALUK FOR MONKY. DRESSMAKING ON THE PREMISES. Gkktxksibn's Soits Madk to Ohdeb, Sole Agenta for Wheoler and Wilson's SowtaK Maoblnee, NOTB THB ADDBKBB— 200 & 202, QUKEN-STREET. Q YMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOtT ENOCH WOOD, Family Butoiikb, Moat delivered at Mount Albert, Epsom, Mount Kden, Carlton Grove, Lower Synjonda Street, Newton, and Eden Terrace. First-class quality; rcaronablo pricos. Cush custouiera liberally treated. Inspection Invitkd. QTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING I'uWDBKS O FOR CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO PURGIIASKHS. Thovaiuoot this well-known Ftmlly Modlolno haa bi-en lar^oly tested Jn bj I parts of the world, and by all grades of rooloty, for upwards ot filty viuiw. Its woll-oarijod oxtvneivo aalo ha« induced spoKiooa imitations, aomo of whioh In OUTTC*nD J^I•PKARA^oB; ho oloeely resemble the original »■■* to bavu docjlved many liurchwers. Tho proprietor, therotore, feols ft due to the public to Rive s nij>:-cbl caution OKulnst tho übo or mich inntntiotiH. JPurchußora are therefore rpaueßted carefully to observe the four following distinctive chnrao i torlßiics, without whioh nono tiro KSxnioo :— Ist— ln ovory c«bb tho woids John Htkkd. man, Chkjiist. WAtwoiiTn, wuHitkY. are en graved on tfco Government Stamp eilixed to each, paokot. 2nd—Baoh Single Powdor has dlreotlonß for the dose, and tho worda John Hteedman, Chomlst. Walwonh. Snrroy. printed thareon. 3rd—Tho name Stueduian is alwsya epblt with, two ER'c. 4th—Tho manufacture la cnrrlod on solely at Wai worth. Hnrrey. Bold in Packets by all Chomlata and Medicioo Vendors, at Is ljd to 2s yd oncli. Agents : Kbmpthohnb, IJiifS«KHl JiifS«KH & Co. Auckland. Wulu»Ktou, Chrißtohuroh, and Dunodin. DAY I V . TAir.OK, &o VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, Regs most respectfully to call tho attention Gentlemen and the Public in genorul to his NEW GOODS of Best Quality for tho presont and coming season?. J.D. in returning thp.nks for past favours solicits a continuance of the saino, and will givo satisfaction to all who niuy fuvour him with their patronage. Note tite Address : i i OPPOSITE TilE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, Vulcan Lane. OR THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LINE IN TWEEDS, Try H. Robinson (late Stevenson), junction of Queen and Groy Btreots. TWEED SUITS FROM £3 10a. TROUSERS FROM 13a. 6d! STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED. Give he a Tkial. H. ROBINSON. I n LANVILLE & TtLLYETT TEA DEALERS AND FAMILY GROCERS, I«, QUEEN STREET, (Opposite the Union Bank), AUCKLAND. NEW SEASON'S TEAS, Highly Recommended. TTPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP U DRAPEf IX AND GROCERY STORE. ;J. HEAPE, Family Grocek, AND GENERAL DRAPER, * Is selling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores tor i cash as low as any house in tho Trade. Good \ Family Tea at 2s per lb ; Excellent do. at 2s 8d; ; Bacon and Cheese as good and cheap as any lieuso in town, Trial and Inspection Invited Ir\R APERY, MILLINERY, & LAIUJSsi UAND CHDLDREN'S UNDERCLOTHING, H. FOUNTAIN, Ponsonby Road, is now offering the above at lowest towk prices for cash, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage, of lua nuworoua oustomers,