STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER IG, 1882.

HARBOUR DEFENCE.

The following extract from an address delivered by Sir W. S. Armstrong, befoic the members of the Institute of Civil Eogi ueerH, London, upon his elevation to the chair, aa President (December 20th, 1S81), is of speci il interest now when the aubjoet of colonial defence ia under considera tion :—

" Another branch of nationul defence, which in a great meusure fulls within the province of tho enf iueers, is that which applies to the protection of harbours. Very little has yet becu done for aecuiiug our commercial harbours from attack, and it is to be feared that immense damage might be done by the incursions of hostile cruisers that succeeded in evading tho vigilance of our insufficiently numerous navy. Our navy arsenals have not shared in this neglect, but the efficiency of the defences which have been provided for their protection may well be questioned. Vast sums have been spent In the erection of ironclad forts, which have already outlived that stage of artillery progress for which they were adapted, and to this day it remains a problem how to make the limited space they afford available for artillery of the necessary power. Even if they ad mitted of being adequately armed, It is not easy to see how large guns crowded together in double tiers, as is the case in many of these forts, could be fired at a pissing object without creating auch an amount of smoke and confusion as would be incompatible with the efficient service of the guns. To render large guns effective in shore batteries, they Bhould be mounted well clear of each other, so that the smoke from one should not interfere with the sight from another, and I am not alone iv my opinion, that wherever the old hshioned system of earthwork is practicable it will be found the beat and cheapest kind of protection. Muzzle loading guns can be mounted iv such a manner that they can bevery easily turned and depressed so us to be loaded under the shelter of xn earthen parapet by hand-worked machinery of the very simplest description. Damage done to an earthwork by an onomy's fire admits of easy and immediate repair, while damage to an ironclad fort can only be rectified at great cost and after much delay. Guns mounted in earthworks can be rendered difficult to see and when well separated they can bring a converging fire upon a ship, which can only be answered by a dispersive fire on her («art. A great iron clad fort presents a largo andcon.«picuojs target for convergent fire, and the reil of smoke which would envelop it, would afford little or no protection against the fire of attacking ships, while its own gunners would be unable to see the objects to be fired at. The guns also in these iron, forts, instead of having a free lateral range as they would have over a parapet, project through contracted port-holes, which re strict to narrow limits the lateral angle of fire, and equally contract the view of pass ing objects. Many of the ironclad batteries that have boen erected are built as islands in the sea, where earthworks are impossible ; and it may be contended that shore batteries would in these cases be too distant to command the channel. Jb'ut if may be asked, Are not floating defences preferable under such circumstances to insular batteries, both in point of coat and efficiency ? Gunboats, constructed a* mere floating guv.carriages, can be made to carry the heaviest artillery. They would present only very small targets to the enemy's fire, and at the varying distances at which they would be used they would be extremely difficult to hit. They could be Bpread out so as to clear eacn other's smoke and bring a converging fire to bear upon a single ihip. They could retreat, when necessary, into shallow water, and in many cases maintain a fire over break waters, which would afford them protection. Instead of bciup rooted to one spot, like a battery, they could pursue or retreat, or unite in taking up new positions, and they could thus perform mauy services to aid or relieve a fleet ? combined with steam lauuehes, armed with torpedoes, they would afford a llcxi'nlo and powerful means of defence, and will' probably still have to be adopted even where iron-cased batteries have already been erected. At all events, for the protection of commercial harbours, gunboats thus associated with torpedo craft would be far more affective than fixed batteries of any kind, and the first step towards making our commercial harbours independent of external naval protection appears to be to furnish each of them with a sufficient number of such vessels, which might be placed in the hands of trained volunteers resident on the spot"

Remarkable "Finds" of Gold.

A volume might be filled with anecdotes of remarkable "finds" in the Victorian goldfields. In midsummer, 1869, two poor men were at work in a gully, when, on digging round the roots of a tree, the pick of one ot them came upon something very hard. The man exclaimed he wished it had been a nugget, even if it had broken his pick. la proved to be a nugget, and one destined to be famous. A waggoner was one day driving his team along the road, when his wheel, in turning up the soil, suddenly exposed to view a consider able lump of shining matter. The waggoner stopped to pick it np, and by so doing be cama the owner of a, nugget which proved to De worth £1,600. In the early days of sluicing, a Scotchman was working an extensive claim, and employing a number of men nnder him. His last shilling was spent before any sold was found. He told his men he had no more funds, and could ge on no longer. They had a great respect for him, and subscribed among themselves enough to carry ob the works for a few weeks. Gold was soon afterwards found in abundance. The Scot retired with £40,000, and made over the mine, while still in full yield, to the men who had so generously helped him. On one occasion two men who had just arrived from England sat clown to re«ic on the outskirts of a spot, to which there had been a recent rusb, It was a broiling hot day, and they were glad, after their toilsome walk up the country, tn rest in the shade of an old cum tree, As they sat, one of them, rubbiug up the earth with the heel of his boot, dis disclosed to view something hard and yellow looking. Pulling it from the ground, they found it was a huge cake of veritable gold. Without having had to use pick or spade they had realised a fortune, and speedily turning thpir backs on the diggings, they took the first, ship home,—"Cities of the World,"

An old, Old Story.

C-0 m-e in ! Well, I declare, stranger, you pave mo quite a turn ! I—l—was kind of expectin' somebody, and for half a niinuto I thought mebbe as 'twas her, but she'd novor stop to knock. Want v bito and a sup and a night's lodging ? Why, of course. Sit down, do. I—a-ruo.it forgot to usk you, I was that fluetratt'd. Poor soul ! now tired and worn-out you look ! I csv make you comfortable for the night, and (jive you a good meal of victuals and a shake-down on the llior, but I would h-a-r-d-1 y like to put you in Lizzie's room—she was that par ticHlar, and your clothes arc ao wot and drabbled. Why, woman, what makes you shake so-ague? Never beard tell of any in those parts. Uues* you must have brought it with you. Well, n good night's rest will set you up wonderfully, and you can lie right here by tho stove, and thc'iiro a-smoulderin' will keep you warm, and the light will be a-hurnin' till it's bruui day broad day ?

Whatdolkeep the light a-burnin' for? Well, now, when folks asks me that, some times I tell* them one thing an*i i-oinutiiues I tolls them another. I don't know as I mlod tellin" you, because you're such a poor misfortunit crcetur, and a strange, and my heart kind of goes out 10 such. You *cc I have a daughter. Sue's beeu away these ten years, has Irzzie, und they do hay a* she's livin' in grandeur in some furrin' place, and she's had her head tamed with it all, for she never lets her poor old mother hear from her, and the line people .she's with coaxed her oil' unbekuownsc to me, and I don't mind teldn' you i»9 it was a great Bhock to me, and I ain't the same woman since Lizzie went out one night, und when she kissed me said, "Leave a lijjht in the wiudow, mother, till I come back." And that was teu years ago, and I've never seen her since, but I've burned a light in the window every night these teu years, and shall till she comes homo. Yes, it'n haul to be a mother and be disappointed so. I allowed she was dead, till folks as seeu her well and splendid, told me different, and 1 was sick a long time—that's what made rcy hair so white—but 1 hope she never hauid of it, 'twould have made her as miserable as I was, and her line things wouldn't have been much comfort to her. Folks blame her terribly, but I'm her mother, and it just seems as if I could see her, so pretty, with her bug brown curls, and the smile aho had, and her geutle ways, and I loving her better than Huaven above me I This is my punishment—to sit alone all day and never to sleep at night but I hear her cry ing " Mothsr ! mother I whore are you !" and if I go once, I go a dozen times to the door, and look up and dowu the lonesome road, and call, "L-i-z-z-ie! L-i-z-z-i-e 1" and there's never any answer but the night wind moaning in the trees 1 Well, I didn't meau to make you feel bad. Don't cry, poor soul! You've hud eaough trouble ot your own, I gmss, by your looks ! Your hands are like ice—and your temple and your face is white, and—and—why, what is this? You are not old, and your hair bungs in brown curls—and your cvcb merciful God ! it'u Lizzie come back to her mother—it's my child that was lost and is found 1 Put out the light—put out the light, for the night is over, and it's the clear broad day at last! — " Detroit Free Press."

Melbourne Immorality.

Without any wish to exaggerate the facts, it may be declared that to the lax super vision of the police is mainly due the immense nvimber of abandoned women to be found in Melbourne. In the city alone, it is stated that they number some thou sands, aud there is not a single suburb, ex cept Williamstown and Footscray, free from their pestilential presence. Many of them maintain establishments superbly furnished, well known to »nd, it is alleged, patronised by, the ocerffis and detectives of police. There exists a regular system amongst the less reputable furniture-dealers of fitting up cottages and letting them at exorbitant rents. One house of this de scription is said to be fitted up at an enor mous cost by a well-known trader, where may be found a regular seraglio of young giris, whose presence is occasionally con spicuous in the stalls at the theatre?. There are several houses of this kind—sonic of them the property of the occupants, and used as places of assignation for the more wealthy orders of the population. There is not a lane or by-way in the city that is clear of houses of doubtful reputation, and in the suburbs of Richmond, Colling wood, Fitzroy, and Carlton, the difficulty is to find a spot wholly free from such contaminating iulluence?. Every street has its particular set of perambulatory nymphs the better-dressed class affectiog Collins street East, the next patrolling Bourke Btreet, the more retired thoroughfares at night having each its own particular contingent. In Bourke - street alone and its immediate neighbourhood there are about a dozen hotels, osten sibly respectable, maiutained solely .by the wages of prostitution. Some barmaids are women of the town, and depend for their remnneration upon the liberality of those whom they lure and fleece as occasion serve?. Not the least sigailicant fact is that many of tho*e places have borne the same reputation for the last seven years, and still flourish, a virtuous magistracy not withstanding. There are also houses of accommodation which d<> a roaring trade. The profits made by the latter, it would seem, have led publicans to add this branch to their bui«ine-s One witness has declared before the Police Commission that when engaged in watching one of those places he observed between 30 and 40 couples entering in the space of a few hours, clearly fur immoral purposes. It was proved 4>eyond all doubt thac the system had been worked up to such a pitch that, irrespective of drinks sold, tho proprietor could make £20 for the mere rent of his rooms for a sinjle evening. Every deference and consider ■tjon is shown to the women who serve t> bring this trade. Some hotels ko p open till 3or 4 in the morning, merely for the purpose of enabling the women of the town to meet their associates. In certain places the orgies deposed to are such that they will not bear description or more than passing notice in a public newspaper. In connection with some of the theatres there are rooms set apart by the licensees for the conveni ence of louse women and th»ir friends, suilicient regard being paid to propriety in the furniture being strictly in accord ance with the nature of a drinking bar.

David and Goliah.

The Stoby as Toi,n by a LocatjPbeaciier

in the South-West, Last week, ray brcthrin, .as I was a-rendin my lSibl'.', 1 found v story of n I%' light (1. Sumuel, xvii.) It was powerful wterosiiu' and 1 studied it ninostall the week. Theic wa« two armies a campin' on two mountains right foruonst each other, mid it holier ami I rockou some fiood bottom laud and a meildcr lot lyin' between 'cm. In one of the armies there wns it big feller—a whop pin' great big feller—<nd every day he went down into the medder lot and looked up the hill to t' other camp and just dared 'em. He told 'em to pick their beat man and send him down and he'd fight him. Aud ho juut strutted around there in his aoger close and waited for 'em to send on their man. And Bticb soj;cr close 1 never heard tell on afore.

Ho had a b ass cap and bra»H trousers, and a coat made like mail bags where thoy are all ironed and riveted together. But the foilers in t'other camp just clean flun ked. They daren't (light tho big feller nary one on 'em, They jest nil sneaked away, and tho big feller he went back to camp. Bat be didn't quit tbar, the big feller ilidu't. He was spiliu' for a light, and lie was boand to have it. He jest went down into the 4>ottom lant], into the medder lot, every day, inomin 1 ami cvenin' and (lured them ami dared 'em. I tell you he pestered 'em mightily. The old feller, Saul, tlieUiucra', lie felt mori* chawed up and meaner than the and, when he couldn't stand it no louver, he told the buys that if any ou 'cm would go dowu and lick the big fuller he'd give nim his g;il and a right smart chance of plunder, lint they were all so skeer'd that even that didn't start one of 'cm. The big feller went down and dared 'cm and pestered 'em luorc'n a mouth — forty days, the liible says. I don't know what ttiey'd a done if it hadn't a-lieeutliat a peart little follow had comu down to camp one day to fetch some extra rations to his three big brothers that their old dad had sent to 'em from home. Kind old pap he was, and sharp, too, for he (isnt along a big present to tho boy* cap'en. Well, jest us the little fellow drove up, they wns all gwine out to fight, and the little feller left his traps with the driver, and legged it after the so^eio, and told Inn big brothers howdy. Itlgllt thar the old big feller came out und dared 'cm again, and they were all so .skeer'd that they justruu like mad. The little feller heered him, and then went back into the camp anil heered all the sogers talking abmt him, and what the old Gincral woulil givo to have him licked. He nuked 'cm a heap of questions about it all, and his ha brother had got mad at him and twitted him about ki-cping shoep, and gave him a right good smart of sacs. He was plucky, but you see he had to stan' it, 'cause it was his brother. Big brothers ure mighty mean somctiires.

But tho little feller talked a heap with the other sobers, and they told the old Gineral about him, and he told thorn to tell the lictlo feller to come and sec bim. The little feller was mighty plucky, and ho jest up uud told the old Giiural Saul that he'd tight the big feller ! The Gineral looked at the handsome little feller-lie was real haudsomc and [s<"S he, kinder softly, "I reckou," and stiakin' his head, "its too big a job ; you're only a chunk of a boy, and he's an o'd lighter." The little feller .spunked up and told the Gineral that hod had one bar fijjht and he had killed the bar. He said there was an old lion and a bur got among Ms dad's sheep, and was gwinc off with a lamb. lie broke for 'im, and as soon as he met up with the old bar he lamm'd him till ihe bar turned on bim for a hug ; but he got one Laud into the long ha'r under his jaw, and he lamm'd him with the other'n till he was dead. He'd killed the lion and the bar and he kuow'd he was enough for the 61c big feller. • Then the little feller talkedraal religious to the oldjGineral. You see, he'd got reli gion afore that, and he knowed thai the Lord would h>;lp a feller, if he was oil right, and got into a tight place. He told Gineral Snul tbat the Lord had made him mighty supple, and looked out for him when the old lion and bar tried to get their paws into him ? and he knowed He'd see him through the fijtht with the old big feller, for he was just dariu' 'em aud pes tcdn' 'em to make game of religion. When the old Gineral seed he was so plucky and religious too, he knowed them's the kin 1 that iit powerful, and he told him to go in, and he made a little prayer for him hissclf. Tncn the old Gineral put his own soger close'on the little feller, and strapped his sword onto him. But they were a iicap too big, and he shucked 'cm off directly, and made for a dry brkudi down iv the bottom. Theu he hunted five little rocks, smooth as a hen egg, put 'em in a little bag where he carried his snack when he wasa-tendin' the sheep, got his sling fixed all right, and hur ried up to meet the old big feller in the medder lot. When he seed him coruin1 he was powerful mad they'd sent down such a little feller, and jawed awful. But the little feller jest talked back religious, and kept his eyes peeled. And I reckon the big fellow couldn't a ben lookin'. I've studied a heaa on it, and I just know the big feller could'n a ben a lookia' for the little feller got out his slim; and drew away and shied a little rock at him. and down he tumbled. Then the little feller ru«hed up and mounted him, just as an old hunter loves to get on a bar after he's shot him ; and he out with the big feller's long sword and off with his head. Then it w.ib them Philistine sinners' turn to be skcer'd, and they broke for the brush ; and .all of them chil'en of Israel fellers jest shouted and chased 'em clean over the mountain into a valley, and then com'd back and got all their camp plunder. My brethrin, that's the best story of a light I ever read after, and you can't buy no better stcy book nor this rery Bible.— From Dr Picrson's llciiiiniiccnccs.

The Milky Way.

PiCKHAI'S tbfi mo.»t wonderful feature ot llii! heaven- is t,hu Milky Way. Omitting pagan anil mythological legends, it was not a bad idea, wticu a toliil firmament was the prevailing theory, that the Milky Way ■narked the junctiou or seam Where the two transparent uemii-pheies were soldered to g-u,her, - VVe now know that the Milky Way, with its strange irre«Hlaritiee, its divided aireams, aud its indited pitches of light, seemingly torn off, like flucks of carded wool, is really formed by an in numerable multitude of stars crowded to gether, and as we also know that those stars, far from touching each other, are separated t>y intervals ot several millions of

leagues, the immensity revealed by this prodigious agfrlomer.iU.iu of hubs ceiics 'uvcry olTort <ii ilio mind to p^rasp it. ihe holi.tuft poetical iinugerj. o: antiquity f.uies into nothinif beside the overwhelming p;r frpeetives which li.>vu been oi eu«d up by modern science. Iv thu constellation of the Swan, Cygnus, one of the d*n«est in the Milky Vvuy, iv a teksoupio liold uo bijigcr than the full niuon, William Her;-chell counted eighteen hundred and two thousand s'ars. A nmginiiont spec tacle is beheld by pointing a telescope, lilted with its weakest eyeglass at any white region of the Milky Way. Tako care to focus the telescope accurately, in order to distinguish each separate star like the prick of the Oncst nuedle, and let it remain undisturbed in its place. When your i'ye bus adapted itaelt to durkness, you will see the tield of the telescope lilled with diamond dust sparkling with a thou sand lights. And not only does the Milky "Way stretch ucross thu wnole heavens, like a mighty arch ; it continues its course be neath the earth, and returns, by the anti podes, to rejoin tho portion visible above our horizon, ho that, if the earth were suppressed or rendered trauspareut, tbig celestial girdle would iippcur entire in the completeness 'of its u,,b.ukeu con tinuity. Consequently, if the Milky Wny surrounds us iv all directions, we are in it, and our sun is nucesmirily one of the stars of the Milky Way In certain calm hours of a clear moonless night, the Milky Way comes out from the depths of heaven as luminous aa a phosphorescent summer s;a. It is certain that, the istars composing those brii;ht agglomeration" are not all of equal diuieusious--uf the si/.c of. our sun, for instance, or still more bulky— bnt that a great numb r uf them are smallei- suns than our own, anil distributed in innumerable groups, in winch hundred?, perhaps thousands of suns, instead of be ing separated by trillions of luaguos, are only distant thousands or hundred of millions of leagues from each other, or oien less. What a region of - unfailing and super abundant warmth and ouusbino tttose interstellar spaces must be.—"All ihe i car Kound."

Oyster Planting.—Horter's Little Mistake.

A Max uiimed Ilorter lived South of Culor ado 11 lew years ago but as I'u health Wrts barf he waa ordered to spend a year or turo at the seashore. Ho waa boni in the far. Weft, and hud never seen au oyster in Its shell. He bought a cottage in Atlantic City, and went there to live last spiiity. A few days atter his arrival he saw a man going by with ft cartload of oysters, which Ilorter mistook for stones. Stones arc mighty scarce in Atlantic, and as lir.rter wanted some to maku borders for his llower Led, he asked the man what he would take for his load. It struck Ilorter the pii> c was high, but lie bought thelutand had them dumped by his gate. The next day ho stuck tight hundred of them in the sand in his garden, around his beds, and when the job was done he thought it looked uncommonly handsome. A week afterwards there were three or four warm days, and Horter re marked that the sea-breezi; smolled very strong, and ho told Mrs Horter that he thought there must be a deal whale lying some where down the beach. The next day the smoil became more offensive, and Mrs Horter said that it was an ontrago that the authorities didn't clean up the street and remove the garf age that poisoned the air. On the following day the weather' was extremely hot, and the stench bucame per fectly tcrrifrc. Mr Horter said there must be a dead rat somewhere in the. weather boarding, and ho got the car, enter to come and remove some of it. But he found nothing, and upon going away ho remarked to Horter that that suuer-kiaut they were cooking for dinner was the deadliest sauer kraut for smell that he cv-r t>ncouutered. The stenchg ew stronger all iha> night, and nn the next morning a committee of neigh bours waited upon Mr Ilorter to say that if he would kill that pol'cat he would confer a personal favour upon thorn and upon the people of the country generally. Then Horter told them hoy perplexed he was about the matter, and ■ aid he would be only too glad to have the cause of the trouble detected. So the committee made a tour of inspection, holdin;; their iioses. When they got into the garden they per ceived the oysters all gaping wide open, and evolving an awful smell, absolutely in fumes. One of tliecomtnitteemen, gracing the fact that Horter planted these oysters, imagined he >\ns crazy, and sud denly climbed over the fence and went home. The others remained and asked Horter what on earth he momt by laying those oysters around in tho sun in that manner. "Oysters!" said Horter. " Oysters? you don't mean to say those are oysters! Well, well, that beats all! I was wondering what made all those stones split even down the middle, I couldn't account for it. And so these ac oysters.? Why, I thought oysters always chna in cans." This afternoon ho buried the shell fish deep in the sand, and the- smell censed. Then he sold out his cottage, and moved to Long Branch, He told Brown, hia next door neighbour, that hn knev they were oysters all the time, and he did it for a joke ; but he moved because tne people seemed to sec too awful much fun in it,— "Philadelphia Bulletin."

THE SYMPTOMS.

(With Hints on Treatment.)

First notice if ho Bits alone, And meditates or wrircs a lot. Or talks in an abstracted lone, Or wa'ks about at nights a lot. Observe if he delights to wade Through multitudes of "spooney" verse And if he hints a certain muid Is peerless in the universe.

And als'> note if ho awaits The postman's coming eagerly, And if he often vows thu fates Are smiling on him mongrel}'. Observe if he appears to pino, As though affairs were grieving him ; And if he's disinclined to (line. And appetite seems leaving him. If over and anon he groans With sobs and sighs mysterious, And mutters in abstracted tones, He sure hi« state is serious. And if he raves of some "sweet dove," And gazes on a carte at times, You'll know he's suffering from love, Which much afreets the liCiirt at times. Your treatment must at first lie mild— Don't rashly mar hi 3 " mooninesa;" A man's as helpless as a child When Buffering from "spooniness." Love patients ne'er like being chaffed 1 Although they show inanity : Just give hini wedlock, that's tho draught To bring him back to sanity.



MX. JOHN HA JIT WELL, Organist of St. Mahy's Chukcii, Parneix. PROFESSOR OF THE PIANOFORTE, Lessons given by the Quarter, or by nrrangement. ORGAN. PIANOFORTE. HARMONY. Amateurs' Compositions revised and prepared for Publication. Address: Ponsonby Road, opposite Franklin Road. Letters may bo left with Steaara Hoff man and Sons, Jlusic Warehouse, Queen-street. •jyi" E D I C A L. THE ENGUSH PHARMACY, 184, QOEEN-STREET (Telephone Kxchango No. 10). GARDNER, JI.P.S., ENGLAND, Pharmaceutical Chemist. Branch Establishment, North Shore Pharmacy. TTPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP U DRAPERY AND GROCERY STORE. J. HEAPE, Family Groceb, AND GENERAL DRAPER, Is selling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores FOR cash as low aa any housoln the Trade. Good Family Tea at 2s per lb; Excellent do. at 2s 8d; Bacon and Cheese as good and cheap as any house in town. Trial and Inspection Invitorl QXEBDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO POECHA3KR3. Tha value of this well-known Family Medlolne has been largely tested In all parts of tha world, and by all grades ot society, for upwards of Fißix years. Its waUear"»ed extensive sale baa Induces spumous imitations, some of which in outward appkakanok bo closely resemble the original as to have deceived many parohisora- The proprietor, therefore, feels It due to the pabllo to give a special caution against the nse or such Imitation!/. Purchasers are therefore requested oarefully to observe the four following distinctive ch»rao terlstios, without whloh none ara uannine :— Ist—ln every o»ae the worda John Ktkbd man, Chbmist, Wai.wortb, sohrky. are en graved on toe Government Stamp affixed to each 2nd—Baoh Single Powder baa directions for 'the dose, and the worda John uteedman, Chemist. Walworrh, Surrey, printed thereon. Brd—The name Steedinan is always spalt with two Kit's. , , 4th—The manufacture la carried on solely at Walworth. surrey. fold In Packets by all Cbemlsta and Medicine Vendors, at la IJd to 2a 9d enofi. Agents : Kkmpthoknk, Phis'bb & Co. Auckland, WelUugtonj Christohuroh, and Dane&ln.



TNSUKANCE A DUTY. '* With caution judge of possibility: Things thought unlikely, c'en impossible, Experience often shows us to bo true."— Shakspeak. All property is exposed, daily and hourly, to dangor by fire. No man can leave his house ot a morning with the assurance of finding it un eonsumed when he returns at night. No man con lay his head on his pillow with the certainty •that hia warehouse, or storehouse, or shop, or Other place of business to say nothing of the very honse in which ho sleeps, will not bo burned daring tho night. There i 3 literally no perfect seounty in this respect. An unforeseen acci dent, a lighted match, a careless servant, a bad chimney, an incendiary, and hundreds of other causes, indeed, are ever at hand to work destruction. Whoever has property, there/ore, and neglects to insure, is guilty of folly, if not or wanton and culpable recklessness. He must watch the growth of hia property and keep an eye to the insurance all the time. Property accumulates gradually—almost im perceptibly. A tradesman's stock grows in his hands. A citizen's household goods increase almost without hia knowledge. lllnsurance makes him as safe as any man can ever be in a world of change and uncertainty. To this endjlet him insure his property, and pay the premiums regularly and promptly, to THE NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. Queen-street, Auckland. GEORGE P. PIERCE, General Manager.



]%/■ B D I C A L. NORTH SHORE PHARMACY, Devonport. GARDNER, M.P.S., ENGLAND, Pharmaceutical Chemist. Prescriptions are dispensed, and Medicines, Toilet Articles, Nursery Requisites, &c, sup plied at the same price ea in Queen-street. JD A V E V, • TAJLOR, &o • VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, Begs most respectfully to call the attention Gentlemen and the Public in general to hia NEW GOODS of Best Quality for the present and coming seasons. J.D. in returning thanks for past favours EOlicits a continuance of. the same, and will give satisfaction to all who may favour him with their patronage. Note the Address : opposite the occidental hotel, Votcan Lane. FOR THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LINE IN TWEEDS, Thy H. Robinson (late Stevenson), junction ot Queen and Groy streets. TWEED SUITS FROM £3 10s. TROUSERS FROM 13s. 6d. STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED. Give me a Trial. H. ROBINSON. JJuLLIS'S "WEEKLY TIME-TABLE Leave Onehunga: Leave Auckland t 8.0 a.m. 9.45 a.m. 9.45 a.m. 1.0 p.m. 11.15 a.m. 2.0 p.m. 12.0 noon 4.0 p.m. 4.0 p.m. 6.0 p.m. 6.30 p.m. 7.0 p.m. — Monday, 11 p.m. RETURN~FARE: Is. 6d. SINGLE FARE: la. WANTED KNOWN-"Poctorine," " Coniferine," " Sulpholine," Quinine and Iron Tonic, Gardner's Blood Mixture (a most reliable medicine). Taraxacum and Po dophyllin. Genuine Oil of Eucalyptus, Per fumed Solution of Carbolic Acid, Liebig's Beef Wine with Bark, Extract of Malt and all its preparations, Worm Powders and other medi cines for children, &c, &c. may be obtained at The English Phannaoy, 184, Queen-street, and North Shore Pharmacy, Devonport.—For par ticulars apply to Mr A. W. Gardner, M.P.S., Eng., Pharmaceutical Chemist. TMcIVOR, Upholsterer and Undertaker, S2, ■ City Market. CancliesanaChttira to order. F. BRIMBLECOMBifi, yueen'a Hotel, Srmonds-street and Kyber Pass GEORGE (late O. Wood), Butcher, Parnell, • supplies best quality Meat at lowest PRICES; T YOUNG, Family Grocer. Shortland-atreec u> Auckland, REST Place for Ranges, Uventj, otoves, and ** .Blacksmith's Work.-R. NICHOLLS, 328, Upper Queen-street