stout it if there hadn't come along, not five minutes after, a buggy with two ladies in it, which stopped at our ga*e. too. I «aw they wanted to get out, so 1 went and lieW their horse for them, and they got out and went into the house." 11 Did you ace their faces ?" "No, sir; not then. They had veils on." ''Very well, go on." ," 1 hadn't been to work long, before I beard some one calling my name, and look ing up, saw Mr Stebbins standing in the door, beckoning. I wont to him, and he said, " I want you, Tim ; waeh your hands and come into the parlour." I bad never been asked to do that before, and it struck me all of a heap, but I did what he iwk-d, and was so taken aback at the looks of the lady I saw standing upon the floor with the handwme gentleman, that I ■tumbled over a otool and made a great racket, and didn't know much where I was or what was going on, till I heard Mr Stebbins say ' man and wife,' and then it came o»cr me' in a hot kind of way that it was a marriage I was seeing." Timothy Cook stopped to wine bis face as if overcome with the very recollection, and Mr Gryco took the opportunity to remark, "You say there were two Indies; now where was the other one at this time." " She was there, sir; but I diin't mind much about her, I was co tuk*n u.i with the handsome one and *ho way she had of amiling, when any one looked at her. I never saw the beat." I felt a quick thrill go through me, but why or for what I could not at that moment have determined. " Can you remember the colour of her hair or eyes?" "No sir; I had a feeling as if she wasn't dark, and that is all I know." " But you remember her face?" "Yes, sir." Mr Gryce here whispered me to procure' the two pictures whicu 1 would find in a certain, drawer in his desk, and set them up in different parts of the room unknown to the man. "You hato before said, pursued Mr Gryce, " thi.t you hay* no remembrance of her' name. Now, how was that? Weren't you called upon to sign tho certi ficate?" , , , , "Yes, sir: but I am most ashamed to say it, I was in a sort of maze and didn't hear much, and only remember that it was a Mr Clavering she was married to, and that some one called some one c se Elner, or something like that. I wi«h I hadn't been so stupid, sir, if it would have done you any good." "Tell us about the signing of the certi-

ficate," said Mr Gryce. " Well, sir, there isn t much to tell. Air Stebbins asked me to put my name down in a certain place on a piece of paper he pushed towards me, and I put it do<vn there, tbat is all." 41 Was there no other name there wnen you wrote yours f"

(To be continued. )

Skobeloff's Last Victory.

GRAPHIC STORY OF HIS DEFEAT OF THE

TDRKOIIANS.

OK the failure of the first expedition sent against the Tekke Turcomans, in 18S0, Skobeloff undertook to subdue them. This task was a serious one, for the Tckkcs, like all Asiatic races when flushed with victory, were dangerous enemies, hard to beat. When the mud fortifications of Geok Tepe, m which they had concentrated some 20,000 fanatical warriors, were in vested by Skobeloff s small army of abou f. 7,000. of all arms—the remaining 10,000 being occupied in keeping the roads open— the real difficulties commenced.

Sword in hand, the Turkoman " Ghazis " made furious sorties in bodies of two or three thousand, usually just before dawn; falling heroically on the parallels, ap proaches, and breaching batteries, which they more than once capcured, driving such of the Russian troops as were not at once cut to pieces completely oat of the trenches; so that these pHints had to be strongly re inforced and covered, keeping the whole force often day and night under arms. In one of theses allies SkobelofFs famous white charger,ton which he hud made the Turkish campaign, was killed under him, and he himself in imminent danger. The loss of this borse, which he took for a bad omen, teemed to shake his resolution somewhat. He telegraphed to Tiflis desiring that a general should be pent to take command " in,case ha was killed " in the final assault, which he proposed delivering immediately; and General Pauloff actually left fur this purpose, Skobeloff said openly that he would not survive if the attack failed, and significantly observed to his stall", "that if it did fail there was nothing for it but their revolvers."

The assault was made by escalade, at a point mid way between a breach effected by the batteries, and one made by_ a mine run under a bastion or mud cavalier some 300 yards distant from the first breach. Now, the defenders expected the assault to be made by the breaches, and had made every preparation to repel it at these points: and thus they were taken altogether oy surprise. On their being driven trom the rampart, which took some time to effect,the artillery was dragged through the broaches, and, being mounted on the wall, opened an effective cannonade on the crowded interior oE the enoeinte, while the cavalry moved round outside to cut off the retreat of the fugitives. Organised resistance having ceased, the Russian infantry descended into the enciente; and, orders having been issued to give no quarter.some 6 000 to 7,000 of the enemy were massacred, an equal number being shot or cut down by the Cossacks and dragoons outside while attempting to escape. Many of the Kussian officers themselves, were completely sickened by the slaughter, which was horrible. The Cossacks, as usual, spared no one, and made no difficulty about cutting women's arms off to get the bangles.and so forth. As contingents from the Akhal, Sator, and other Turkomans were in. Geok Tepe (all the hordes having for the time made common cause against the Kussian'*), this •evero lesson joined to the subsequent plundering of cattle and all the available effects of the Tekkes, com pletely broke the spirit of these hitherto unconquered nomads. In a few daya all the tribes sent in -delegates tendering unconditional submission.

Skobeloffs loss during the siege and assault amounted to "1,700 killed and wounded, among whom there were many good officers, and one General (Petropaie^ vitch),a man of considerable literary ability, who was much regretted.

The justification of the massacre at Geok Tepe is that the Kussiana having de termined to annex Turkomania a severe example was abioletely necessary; a war of a.very harassing and protracted nature would otherwise have probably dragged on for years, involving great expenditure both of men and money. And then, in the storming fortresses held by warlike and fanatical Asiatics, who invariably expect to be killed if th<: place is taken, isolated resistance is going on throughout. Few if any Ghazis will accept quarter : it is even dangerous to pass near tuem when they are ladly wounded,

Cn the conclusion of the campaign Gene ral Skobeloff repaired to St. Petersburg, where,it is raid,he was very coldly received by the Emperor. Anyhow, he almost im mediately applied for leave and went to Paris, made hij famous speech against the Germans, ;jnd returned to Russia, where he received an ovation on arrival and en route. His sudden death is (generally thought to be rather mysterious ; and certainly no man alive seemed lea* likely to die six months ago than Skobeloff, and none more likely to be entering upon a new career.

General Booth of the Sal vation Army at Home.

Macauiay somewhere says that a man who would write a history of England under the-reujn of George If., in which no notica should be taken of Wesley m of the rise of Methodism, would not know his business, And eertnialy no historian will deal quite adequately with the social and religious condition of " the residuum " of London and the great cities of Britain in tha reign of Victoria without noticing the strange personality and work of Mr Wil liam Booth, the seli-styled General of that new religious organisation which he has baptised the Salvation Army. At 101 Qneen Victoria.street rieoj a tall brown Btone building, the " head-quartera " of what the Parisians have learnt to call " I/Armta dv Jsalut," containing workrooms and offices o many sorts. Here the printing, the car pentry, the tailoring, the architectural and legol and accountant w«rk of the Army is seen to by " staff officers," who have also their tic-pin? ami diniug apartments on the premises. The ground-floor is a sort of compromise between MadameTuasaud's and the Keligious Tract Society-one side of its whole length displaying countless small books of devotion, in prose and verse, while oh the opposite Bide arc arringed life sized molten images of wax, clothed in the Beat uniform of the Army: for men a dresa not unlike that of a London commis siunnairc, the brass buttons being sup pressed ; for women an unadorned gown and "spencer" of dak cloth. This latter is far from unbecoming to a passable figure, especially when crowned by the ac companying bonnet, which, by-the-bye, the wearers are trying tn pilin upon the devil as a " poke," while it i« really a charming little modification, in dark straw, of the Dolly Vardeuhat.

Piishiuj! p.ist these attractions, the visitor ascends the stairs, mukm his way to a certain room, and af-.erdue formality enters. Tuc apartment is vast, comfortable, mas (.ively fursiilioil, pleasing to the eye in a uoit iin mixture of brown, bronze, andgruea, but nearly booklets, and absolutely pieiureless. The General is here, or soon will be here. He is a personage whom one would descrive by any other epithet sooner than by that of "vulgar;" a middle-aged, gaunt, iroa-gray man, who says his "Hbw do you do?" swiftly, and givee his hand warmly. In rpeakiog, he evidently much prefera standing to eittiog, and walking to standing. Excepting some half a dozen touches of professional idiom, bis speech, like bis blood, is pure English ; and fcnglish too is his manner, down to a certain tele graph-key action of the loot, when the rest of the body is buried in thought, and down to the sud den shame which overwhelms his hands, mil drives them into his packets, when they have been caught in the act of a ges> tare. Hie hazel eyes, earnest and impera tive, show signs of overwork. His head despite bair in quantity, colonr and arrangement like that of Professor Huxley, i and despite a heard which may hava been copied from that of Sir Wilfred Lawson, recalls.vague features of Ignatius Loyola, and lines of John Wesley. The face, with its large aqailinc nose, is lenten and pallid; the mouth is of tee sort given to Yankees in pictures, supposed to be typical. There is nowhe c any trace of the jolly che.-ks, the "dimpled chin, and liberal lip" of Martin Luther, Mr Spurgeon, Mr HeDry Ward Beecher, or Pere Uyacinthe. Mr Booth's conversation is jerky, hut, on the whoL?, good and vivid. Before those of whose sympathy he is not quite sure, he does everything he may to avoid showing his heart upon his sleeve ; bnt every now and then he forgets himself. The resale in a style almost as unequal as the poetry of Wordsworth, and almost as intermittent as the poetry of Robert Browning, such a curious mixture of pases and powers as recalls the pulse in certain forms of heart disease.

Mr Booth ia an ex-Methodist minister, of Nottingham by birth, fifty-two years of age. At fourteen his regular schooling cea«ed. His father, vrho trailt and aealt in small hon»PB, then lost all he had ever made and William had to go "to business." William seems, however, to bave prefeired a more stirring way of life. When only thirteen be was a passionate little Chartist, and at fifteen he was "converted." Al most immediately he took to lay preaching; and some sort *f preacher he has continued ever since. He has not looked to the right band or to the left. He plays no game, follows no science, has skill in no fine art, reads no literature, except so far as any of these may be directly called for in the breathless combat he holds himself to be waging with the devil, against whom (if an outsider may venture an opinion) he seems to entertain not only a public grief, bat bitter personal grange. He.has Dot an atom of music ia his constitution. Here, however, Mrs Booth and all hi* children are rjch in what he lacks. Mention of his family calls up the fact that he has a horror of promiscuous education and public echoola. His children have been taught what they know at home by a governess, and with this sole aim—" to do the devil all the harm possible, ia as many ways as possible." As a result, out of ten children—one an adopted child—of ages ranging from nine years upwards', two sons and two daughters bave already devoted themselves wholly to the work of the Arm?, and the remaining nix will fall into the ranks as they grow older, One of the smallest of these toddling " cadets" has announced his intention of setting up as a general in Japan; while a girl of 14 insists now and then upon her father's hearing her talk German, and cries out, with the light heart ef childhood and of &I. Ollivier, that she is ready to march, "a Berlin." Mr Booth declares that the main cor poral sin of his life has been an over-love of pastry and sugar. This weakness he has at last overcome; he now as entirely avoids Jthe delicious Haccharine[poison as he eschews tobacco and whisky. Tea only is left him. snd to that he clings closely, if not wisely; " though, alas," as he cries with a note of halt-real traeedv. "what a nothing tea is without sugar 1" More or less apropos of all this comes the General's bitter avowal. " Dyspepsia ia my physical' devil," In his Army he retains all power, intends to continue doing so, and says it. Shifitness.orwantof candour, are evidently not among his faults. Every one who sub scribes does so with his eyes open; sub scribes to an organization, but directly " to

the Kcv. William Booth, 101 Queen Vic toria-street, London. ' And on these term , scores of ihe highest names in Engliwd are written at the fo:it of donation cheque*, some o£ which run far into the tens, and even far into the hundreds, as may be seen by a glance at the published subscription lists, Tnen there nre weaknesses and dangers under a system of oue-ruan rule, this Cromwell of diasent from Dissent ad gits readily. To avoid tbeae he has again drawn up " consti utions "for a mure representative form of government; but he has found that his " cons'itu ions" like that one immorialisedby Ciilyle, " willnot march,!' cannot be made to work. Aod the reason is as novel as the situation is old : 111 have been ient into the world,' siys Mr Booth to his questioner, "to do'the Lord's gutter work. Bitter experience has taught me that nothing less thai the strong hand of absolute power held over them will keep many of my evangelists from getting $oo fine for this work. They begin to get res pectable, and to turn up their noses ai the gutter, out of which I have lifted them." This absolute power is to descend on Mr Booth's death to his oldest son. " Should both of us suddenly die, other arrangements have been made, so that the work may go on for all time."

Officers arc paid by the General weekly, and at the following rates, takt-n down irom his own lips: "Men lieutenants (and they are a'l unmarried) get eighteen shillings a week ; the corresponding women ollicers, twelve shillings. Men captains, when mar ried, are pad twenty-soveo shillings j when unmarried, twenty-two shillings. Married officers may claim a shilling a week extra for each child." Fromailof which ie appears that, on certain point* of social philosophy, the Army is not oa the side of Mi Punch or of M'tlthus, In answer to the question, " Wknt training or instruction do your evangelists get from you ?' the General ex plained that the more ignorant "cadets" are sent according to their sex, to oue or other of two training " homes " in Hackney, and there drilled in roadiog the Bible and in writing. To this are added a little aritumetic, " but not much," aud a few elementary axioms iv tueulegy. •* Bub what do you do," ie was instantly queried, " with those who may wish to examine your axioms?" "0," was the rtfply, "if a man has any doubts, I won't take him." " But suppose he vets thoin after you have taken him?" "Then I won't keep him." Mr Booth decidedly does not think more highly than he ought to think of the aver age " icvivalist." With Mr Sankey he ►ays hp once travelled two hundred miles by train. "But the acquaintance has uot come to much." A«t this »ny one who knows both men ■will not be surprised : Jeremiah aud Pompigna i are hardly likely to walk arm-in-arm, even to heaven. " Reviva's," says the Genuial, iv summing up the matter — " revivals, as generally conducted, are simply big straw bonlires : first a blaze, then a biaukuess, all the blacker because of the bluze."

At this point, it is perhaps only fair to say that the accounts of the receipts and expenditure of the Army are aunuully audited by Bcddow & Son, of Basinguall street, and can be sceu by miy seri us p. rson interested in them, i'urther, the General is supported solely by the sale of certain hymn-books edited by him ; nor, with the exception of the eldest sod, does auy member of bis family draw a penny from the Salvation Army came. In hisjgeneral doctrines Mr Booth holds with Methodists, reserviog only a tight to Quaker views as to the non necessi y of sacraments, and as j to the propriety t>i women speaking "in meeting." In the matter of sacraments, however, a certain latitude is allowed to' new or weak converts. As a whole, the vast organisation which he controls has been gradually develui>ing itself during six-1 teen years from its germ, ' ■ the East London Mission :" -while the name of it, and tho crowning stage of its evolution, were reached in this way: Ote day his secretary,*draw ing up a report, happened to wdte-it being a time of siidb excitement about the Volunteers—''We are a volunteer army." Mr Booth, who was looking on, moved by a sudden thought, took the pen, marked out the work "volunteer, 11 and wrute "salvation." Like a flood all the advantages and suggestions of the new title twept in upon him, not the least of which was an easily understood means of indicating ra;ik and function in his little hierarchy, without i encroaching upon the v. rbal property of other |churches. Ihe Geoeril collects—or teceives, when collected—and absolutely controls the distributi'm of, a sum lately estimated by himself at £50,000 yearly. He owns or rents—every lease anil deed being in his omx name-about 250 buildings used a> " stations." He directs and con trols the preaching of 15,393 evangelists, of whom 645 are paid officers. The circula-1 tion of his official gazette, the " War Cry," amounts to 250,000 copies Th's posit on of influence he has reached, despite of, rattier than by the assistance of, the leligions haut monde ; and consequently he ia accustomed to adapt sardonically a certain text of Scripture, and say, " The last enemy that shall be destr-yed is the parson." Nor could any phnse more exactly fit the man and the magniiieent sincerity with which, for all pracical purposes' he identifies him aelf with his Maker.

The Inventor of the Hansom.

The death of a notable man has just been announced. This is the inventor of the patent safety cab. Mr Hansom, an archi tect by profession, had a large practice.and executed works mostly of an ecclesiastial character throughout the whole country; bnt he will doubtless be remembered long est as the inventor of the cab which bears bis name. When the "Hansom" w«s first aeen in the streets of London it was looked upon with anything but favour by people of a grave turn of mind. It had to fight its way like every innovation, and it was years before a lady would be seen riding in one. But at last the ease and celerity of the new vehicle forced universal recognition, and now the hansom is a. metropolitan insdtu tion which has become indispensable. As Lord Beaconsfield remark* d, it is to London what the gondo.'a is to Venice. And the odd thins is that its existence is almost confined to the city of it" birth. Hansoms were tried in New York and in Boston, but failed from want of patronage. At borne they are seldom seen out of the Metropolitan radius. It we do see tlie.-n elsewhere they fail to beconie naturalised, and toon dis appear. Even Brighton, that suburb'of London, does not aii'ect hansoms. It seems ns if th* hansom was made for London.and London for it. And it must be confessed that, with a g'.'oJ horse and a driver of nerve and skill, a ride in a hansora is one of the pleasantcst modes of locomotion in existence. It is true hansom-riding is rather costly. While few persons think of giving ihc driver of a four-wheeled cab more than liis le^al fare, the mijority of riders in h'insomg s;erierallv off-r the smart Jehu who has tooled them satisfactorily sixpence or ■■< shilling beyond whar Jib is strictly entitled to. But, with a'l its draw backs the vehicle for wliic'i w are indebted to Mr Haoi'om is at o cc a luxury and a necessity. '"Punch" the other week ridiculed it for the Mimemus a hsuditie- of its construction. Still, with the long dis tances of iondon, it is not sion likely to bb displaced. Mr JBansom tta; a benefactor.

Gored to Death by an Elephant.

Between 8 and 9 o clock yesterday mora ine, Juno 25th., Charles Hodge, abut 27 years of age, was gored to death by an ele phant at the Alexandra Palace. One of the attractions of the paliicehas been M> era's Circus, nnd a daily performance by a number of trained elephants lakes place. The elephants have been regarded as quiet and docile. Among the six of which the troupe consists, no one was considered more harmless th«n a largo female elephant, which is stone blind, and is known by the male sobriquet of Blind BtlK She is a very largo animal, not very much inferior iv size to the famous Jumbo, and said to even exceed that celebrity in dead weight; Blind Bill has boen travelling in the profes sion for a long period, and always went through her work in a delightful manner, while her massive and imposing appearance —she is .reunted to weigli B'inetfiini' not far short "of tcran tone —male her .every where one of the leading members of the company. At the time stated Blind Bill was stand ing in the stable, having her breakfast out of a. huge tub on the floor. Hodges WO3 Hut the regular keeper of the elephants, but was employed by Mr Myers as a groom, and as such was always about the siablos, What induced the elephant to lull the un fortunate man cannot be ascertained, as Hodges was dead when rescue came. The prong of a large fork was found beside the •body, nnd it is suggested as likely that he must have been using it in some way to irritate the animal. But this is only a sur mise, baaed on the previous good charac ter, good temper, and docility of Blind Bill. At all events, whether iv a lit of temper or by accident, the elephant suddenly turned round, and flattened Hodges agaiust a pillar bsside which he was standing. The pressure must have been terrible. " Blind Bill" has got only veiy short tusks —60ine two or three iuchea iv length—which ordiuurily are quite covered by the thick skin at the formation of the trunk. Uow on this occasion she got these stumps un covered is not quite clear, but in some manner or other she did got them made bare, and theu literally gored her victim to death. One of the tusks pierced the top part of the breast, making a frightful wound, while tbo pro«suro of tuo elephant's heiui against the body wna so great that it almost furced the heart of the dead man through the incision thus made Death must have practically iustantnncflua. When assis tance came to hand, Hodges was found, half lying at the foot of and half leaning against the pillar, dead. A doctor was summoned as quickly as possible, but in this case his skill was of no avail. The body of Hodges was cared fur iv the stables adjoining the circus, where it now lies awaiting Ihe inquest. The elephant exhi hited no further sign of rage.— From the London l'elcgraph.

A Woman to Whom God had Given a Love of Books.

Janet Hamilton lived in the town of Cjat badge, iv Lanarkshire, if I am not mis taken. I should like to tell you whit can bo done by one to whom God has qiveu a great love of bookß. Janet Hamilton was the d*ughtcr of a shoemaker, who employed one journeyman, and a* might bo reasonably supposed, she became the wife- of that journeyman—(laughter)—ata very cnrly age, earlier than I hhould recommend iv similar cases. .However, during her life she had a family of ten children, moat of whom,-I believe, grew up to manhood and woman hood. (df»r, hear.) But she never went to school, and hcr-mother, who was the shoe maker's wife, taught her to read. She did not learn to write till she -was 50; she be came blind at GO, and she lived 1 thiuk to be about 75 or 76. As for the points of her lifo, she never saw any river but the JUiver Clyde, aud she never was twenty miles away from her own humble dwelling. She read in her childhood at 5 or 0" years of age Bible stories, little stories that her mother procured for her, and at 8 y»ars of age she found, by accident on the beam of a weaver's loom in her neighbourhood, two volumes, one was ••• Paradise Lost," and the other was Allan Kamsay's poems. She read with extraordiniiry eager ness, and did not forget what she read, which some of us are apt to do.

She read through the village library, his tory, biography, travels, and Trhen ehc got to Shakespeare, Shakespeare was like a revelation to her. (Cheers.) She liad no words in which she could express her ad miration for his writings, and she said that in those days it wai not considered a very good tbiog for serious people to read Shakes peare. (Laughter.) Tbcic was a ho>c in the wall in ber house near tho chair on which she nursed her children, and where she worked at somekind of tambour frame ; and when people came in she put the Shakespeare into tho hole in the wall, so that it might not be seen, and her conduct criticised. She said that in hor childhood her mother had led her every morning, after she could read, to read a chapter in her Bible, which was done with out intermission till the left her home and had a homo of her own. Her love of books was her ruling passion, notwithstanding tho characterot her childhood and the work she had to do. So far as I know, nothing was neglected, but she suffered from sitting up to'read till 2 o'clock in the morning, for she believed that it had the »ffectefvery much injuring, and at last depriving her of her si*;lit. Somebody asked her how, having never been to school, she wrote so accurately—not only ia a newspaper, but she wrote also for one of Cassell's publications when 54 years of age, and it is almost impossible now to read her writing, the letters are so curiously formed ; but she was asked how she came to write so gramatically, and she replied; " Yon might as well ask why the lark can sing." God had given her not, as Sir David Dtmdas said, " a great love of books," but a naiural gift of grammar. (Laughter.) This old lady hna written poems of which, if there were time, I would have quoted two or three, but certainly there are some of them, which if placed among the poems of Burns in a volume of his, no one would for a moment, doubt they were the production of the greatest of all the Scotch poets.—Fro?;! John Bright's Birmingham Speech.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 2,< 1882



Not the First. The other day an English ba'rister was prosecut ng in a case of fowl sto»lin<», and had worked up the owner of the birds into a positive identifica'ion of his property. The Judge, however,, thought fit to cross examine upon the point How could the witness pretend to be so certain about the fowls ? Fowls of one breed were very much alike. Was there any special peculiarity about tliee slolen spxnni'ms which enabled the witness to swear so decided y that they wotehis, and,c:rald belong to no one els?. The witness was ready to swear again to the fowls,he recognised th mby their feaihers. 'Oh, you recogoise then by their feathers do you," quoth his lordship ; "now it so happens that I have some fowls at. li.me with fenthe.B exactly like these." '• Well, my lord," replied the wan—unconsciously, let us hope—" tho*o are not the first of the lot I've had stolen." The Judge told the witness be might staiddovvu.



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(61) liINCOLN-BTRK XT-Very Comfortable House 7 rooms, bath-room, pantry, stable, fowl lionso, &c, &o.; about bait an aore laid oat la flawer-K&rdon,orohMd,&o..wlth entrance to Uraoe-Btroet; could bo subdivided to ad vaatage. £500, a (180) WOOD-STRKET-Comfortab'e Residence of 7 rooms, attod with gas and almost every, convenlenoo; splendid allotment, about HO x 150. till tastefully laid out with floweiß, /ruit-ttoofl, fee.; (trand view of hartaur. &0. ,270) WOOD-STRKKT-Realdonoe,B rooms and out houaea: allotment, 185 x 165: fully Blocked with trait ana forest tress; splendid view- Prioe only £525. (301) AVONDALK (Whan)-Nioe little Lot of 0 aores near the Station, good land, Price, only £15 per acre. (633) GRKAT NORPH ROAD (corner of Brisbane and Stanloy-etroetß)-Two good Verandah Cottagos, with outhouso. well, &o,: allot ment to onoh 31 x 110. Prioa £3W for the ; lot. (151) MONTAGUE-SrRKET, NKWTOtf - Wood Verandah Cottage; 1 rooms; «ood welt, &o.; allosmontment 33 x 90, Choap, £160 (179, DUKK-STREKT. NEWTOV-Vory comfort ablu Jlouno; 0 rooms; In Qrst-olaes order; «ood well, oven, (jaa flltinna. &o.; allot mont 33x89. Cheap, only «SM (320) DUKK-STRKKT, NKWfON-Nloe Verandah Cottoge: 1 rooms; uablo onds, almoet now I allotment 33x93, very desirable. (531) MILFORD-eTRKBF. PONBONBY-New and Well - Unlahod Houiw; 6 rooms, bealdea pantry, dairy, oervants' rooms, &c; fitted with register grntoe. ovens, &c.; uilotmont 131 x 100; in garden; togethor witn stable, buKOT-hoosß, too, £609 (211) CLARBNOH-STRKKT. PONBONBY-Veran. dab Cottage; 1 roams, tank. &c; oUotment 43x80, Only £180. (280) BHKKHAN-STRHBT, PONBONBY—Nice Cot tana; i rooms, verandah in front, and very comfortable; near the Hall. £230. (300) HAILKVa PADDOCK (Newton) —Now r!ot tOKa of three rooms; Rood well; freehold allotment 33 x 100; only £130; oaiy torm». » ma POSTBONBY TERRACK-New House; 7 rooms (not qalto flaUhed); Rood well. tank, woodehed, so.; Rood allotmant, 80 z 100. all feooed and planted, em. (117) NEWMARKKT-Nloo Verandah Cottage ol 5 rooms, fitted with register, oven, etc, corner lot, for £250. JOHN-STRKUfr, Ponsonby - Cheap Cottftflfe, * rooma and aonllery, freehold allotment. 10 x 80, price only £120. (17Z) HACKET-STRKKT, near steps to hooch, foot of St. Mary's Road—Handsome Villa, gable ends, bo \i- windows, and fitted with roßlß ter Frrate, oven, caoboai'dß, etc,; allotment S311)3; prloe only £300. (101) CLARENCB-HTREET- A New and WoU finished Verandah Cottage, 1 rooms nnd eeallery ; fittoa with reirtater grate, oven, cupboards, tanks, etc; prtoe £250, easy terms. (198) PJROSPKCrTKRRA.CH:-Hanaiiome and very desirable House, 6 rooms, soallery, etc register grate, oven, cupboard, shelren, sni and water laid in, eto.; allotment 83 x 100 splendid littls gardon, oholoe tree 3, eto. (197) PROSPEOT-STRKKT.near tho Ponsonby Hall, new and well-llal»hol llonec, 6 rooms, register, ovon, lank, etc., etc.;. allotment 33 x 100, f onoed, prloa £325. (511) MOUNT KDKN, near Mr KeUy's-New and well-flolßhod Villa, gables, bow-wiudow, eto., eto., 9 rooms, and wash-house ; allot ment 12 x 132; prloe £100 (505) PARNKLL— Commodious Family Besidenof, containing 9 rooms, etc., eto., wash-house with ootiper, and other conveniences, large and valuable corner allotment; price £75'j, (67) MOUNT BDKN (near Toll Bar).—Nice Veran tinb Cottage, i rooms, tea, allotment about 66 by 90; cheap, only £280. OTAHOHU—NIoe Verandah Cottage, I rooms etc, Rood comer alloiaiont, for £190. (US) PAPAKURA.—Now Hoibo and outbuilding, and 37 aores real cool land In orobard, etc, in valuable position J ast at railway Btation. MANGATKTK—BO acres valuable Bash, oon- Blstitig Totara. Purlri, &c, near a navkable creek being part of. lots 80 and 85, ttloe, only £30, ITJAKAU—A very Compact Farm ot 101 aores. splendid land, neuly all fenoed and sub divided ; plenty of water, a never-tailing spring through the property: stood Cottage, with workshop dairy, oowshed, onthonses, &c;Rood position, and only 1} mllea from station. Prioe only £550, (122) TURANQA ORKEK (near Howlck)-A yerjr cheap little Form ot 105 aores, part culti vated, plenty of timber and water; good House. &c. (about 17 miles from AnoUand). Only ££25. (138) ONKBUNGA-Two nice Allotments in Cathes lne-Btrcet (near oornor). Prloe. only £60(529 RAZOR BACK-eplendld little Fanni 82 ooreo, large Homestead, anl every oonvenlenoe; üboat 3 miles from Potceno Station, (131) KAUKAP AKAPA-223 aores, on which Btands a valuable bush, and ia good position, (191) CHALMKRSTON-Dompaot little Farm ot 160 acres; part in cultivation; splendid orchard; eood pleoe ot bush; orook, &o, Houee and autbaildlnea almoat new. £600. PAVAKURA-A desirable Farm of 360 aoreß. part in cultivation, plenty ot water. Umber, and beautifully sheltered; good Homestead. ' 7 rooms, and necessary ontbulldings,garden. orchard, &c, and stock at valuation. It de • aired. . (217) TUAKAU—Splendid little Lot of 59 aon», nloe pleoe bush, pfrniy ot water; near Btation. (Hi) BOMBAY—Nice little Farm of 20 aores, good Homeßtead, &o. Price only £220. TE ARAl—Farm 589 oores. with hooaa and aU improvements for £7000. MOUNT KDttN.-Handßomo Villa Residence containing S Reoms, besides Fautry, Sonllory, &o.; all in flrat-olaBS order, with Stable, Bnggy-honse. Cow-shed, &a, &0., togethor with 9 acres Volcanic Jjand, sub divided, and a portion planted, Xermseaey U desired. 501 ■pAßNElili—Valuable Property for disposal. •consisting of commodious Dwelling and Store, two Houses, and Large Allotment; very good Investment. (522) MOUNT KDEN-Verandah Cottaao ii rooms), tanks, &c, with two Acres Voloanio Laud, subdivided into paddooka and orchard, Prloe £500.1 (ISO). NORTHCf>TB (TatißpTina)-SnuK Httio pro. perty of 63 acres, good land, partly lm. ; proved; orohard, ffic. Together with New Cottage (five rooms), stable, cowshed, &*, fco. Price, £1000. i 501) NORTHCOTK-gplendid Building Allotments at from £33 each, NORTHCOTK—SpInndW lots, partly improved and fenoed, at from £21 per acre. WH&RKHINB—IBO acre 3of vary valuable Bash-totara, purlri, band. &o.—in (mad positiun, cheap. (521) PAPAROA—I6O aores good Bush Land (obeitp), • (175) WACTAKBREI-SO aores good Land, partly improved; plenty of water, corner lot, Ools- £30. (511) WAIKATO-Nlce little Farm of 27 acres, lm. proved; good position; nloe honso of fivo rooms and out-houses. > Only £UO. (231) AND NUMEROUS OTHTCR PROPRRTIK*- Eush Lands, Improved Forms, Building SlteP, Business Premises, &0., for Sale, on application to V. F. EVANS, House LiNo, and Estate Aokht,