CAPTAIN OBSTINATE.

MY story commences (said an old soldier of the "Grand Aimy," who had left one of his arms on the field of battle) on the fifth of November, 1812, a short time after the battle of Wisztna. We beat a retreat, not before the Russians, for they were at a res pectful distance from our camp, but before the sharp and bitter cold of their detestable country —a cold more terrible to us than the Russians, Austrians and Bavarians all put together.

During the preceding days our officers had told us that we wore approaching Smoleusko, where we should get food, fire, brandy and shoes, but in the meantime we were perishing in the glaciers and con tinually hnrrassed by the Cossacks. We had marched six hours without stopping to take breath, for we knew that rcposa was certain death. An icy wind blew the drift ing snow in our faces, and from time to time we stumbled over the frozen corpse of a comrade. We neither spoke nor sang ; even complaints weie no longer heard, and that was a bad sign. I marched by the side of my captain,' short, stiongly built, rough and severe, but brave and true as the blade of his sword. We called him "Captain Obstinate," for when once he said a thing it was fixed—he never changed his opinion. He had been wounded at Wiszma, aud his usually crimson face was then ghostly pale, while a ragged white handkerchief, all stained with blood, was bound ronnd his head, and added to the pallor of his countenance, All at once 1 saw him stagger on his legs like a druaken man, then fall like a block to the ground.

" Good heavens! captain," said I, bend ing over him, "you cannot remain here."

" You see that I can, since I do it," re plied he, showing his legs. "Captain," said I, "you must not give way," and lifting him in my arms, I tried ,to nut him on his feet. He leaned on me and attempted to walk, bnt in Tain; he fell again, dragging me with him. "John," said he " all is over. Leave me here, and rejoin your company as quickly as possible. One word before you go !At Voreppe, near Grenoble, lives a good woman, eighty-two years of ago—my mother. Go and see her, embrace her for me, and tell her what you will, but give her this purse and my cross. "Isthat all, captain?" "Thati* all, God bless you I Make haste. Adieu 1" My friends, I do not know how it was, but I felt two tears roll down my cheeks, '•No, Captain," I crie_, "I will not leave you ; either you come with me, or I will remain wi'h you." " I forbid you to rejaain." " You may put me under arrest, then,! if you like, but at present you must let me do as 1 please." " You are an insolent fellow, " Very good, captain, but you must oome with me." He bit his lips with rage, but said no more, I lifted him and carried him unon my shoulder like a sack. You can imagine that with tuch a burden I could not keep up with my cotnradeii. In fact, I soon last sight of their columns, and could discern nothing around me bnt the white and silent plain. I still walked on, when presently appeared a troop of Cossacks galloping toward me, with curious ge.ticulatins and wild, cries. The captain was by this time completely insensible; and I resolved at whatever it might cost me, not to abandon him. I laid him down on the grouna, aud covered him with snow; then I crept beneath a heap of dead bodies, leaving, however, my eyes at liberty. Presently the Cossacks came up, and began to strike with their lanes s right and left, while the horses trampled us under their feet. One of these heavy leasts set bis foot upon my arm, and crush ed it. My friends, I did not speak, I did not stir; 1 put my right hand into my mouth to stifle tho cry of torture which nearly escaped me, and in a few minutes the Cossacks had dispersed. When the last of them'had disappeared I quitted my refuge, and proceeded to dis inter the cfaptain. To my joy he gave some signs of life; I contrived to carry him with my one hand toward a rock which offered a sort of shelter, and then I laid myself by his side, wrapping my cloak about us both. The night had closed in, and tho snow continued to fall. The rear guard had long since disappeared, and the only sound that broke thestillne-s of the night was the whistle of a bullet, or the howling of the wolves feasting on the corpses that . lay stretched around. Heaven knows what thoughts passed through my soul that dreadtul night, which I felt sure would be my last upon earth, Bnt I remembered the prayer which my mother had taught me lons, before, when I was a child at her kneees, and, bending low, I repeated it with fervour. ' . That did me good, andlfelt astonishingly calmed when I returned te my place by the captain. But the time passed, and I had fallen into a state of half-stupor, when 1 saw a group of French officers approach. Before I had time to speak to them, their chief, a little man, drrssed in a fur pelisse, stepped toward me, and said ; "What are yon doing here? Why are you away from your regiment ?" ~_.... "For two good reasons," said I, pointing first to the captain and then to my bleeding *»rm> ,'»■_■"'_ " The man says true, sir," observed one of those who followed him; "I saw him inarching in the rear of his regiment and carrying this officer on his back." The finiperor for—my friends, it was he 1 —gave me one of those glaaces tbat only he or the eagle of the Alps could give, and said: "It is well. You have done very well." Then opening hfs peliste, he took the cross which decorated kis green coat, and gave it to me. At that instant I was no longer hunpry, no longer cold; I felt no more pain from my arm than if that awkward beast lad never touched it. " Davoust," added the Emperor address ing the officer who bad spoken to him, " see the man and his captain placed in one of the baggage-wagons Adieu!" And mak ing me a motion of the hand, he went Here the veteran ceased and resumed his pipe. •*"•"■>_ , „ . . ••But tell us what became\of Captain Obstinate," cried many impatient voices. "The captain recovered, and is now a general of the retired list. But the best of the joke was that as soon as he got well, he put me under arrest for fifteen days, as a punishment for my infraction of dis cipline. This circumstance came to the ears of Napoleon; and after laughing heartily, he not only caused me to be sat free but piomoted .me ti .the rank, of a sergeant As to the decoration, my children, here is the ribbon ak my button-hole, but the cross I weatnext to my heart," And openin™ hi-^vest, he showed the precious relic, suspendeS1 fiom his neck in a little satin bag.

A Little Mistake.

THE scene was a first-class carriage on the Great Western Railway. The date need not be mentioned. There was no ladies in the carriage. Ono of the passengers took out his cigar ca.e and, giving o look of inquiry, bnt not making any remark, lit Hp, and vigorously puffed away. As he progressed toward the end of his cigar he noticed a look of great irritation on the face of his vis-a-vis." "I am afraid, sir, said the smoker, hurriedly, " that my cigar annoys you?" "It does, sir; it annoys me excessively." " I am.sure I beg your par don," said the gentleman, and threw his cigar out of the window. " That's all very well," said his fellow-passenger, "but •! mean to-give you in charge directly 1 get to Bath. You were perfectly well aware that this is not a smoking car, and I mean to defend the rights of p.ssengers. •I am really very sorry, sir, but I took it lor granted that there was no objec'ion. I made up my mind, sir," was the dogmatic reproach, "soon after we left Swindon, that I would give you in charge the first opportunity." Then there was an _awk- ward pause, and presently the offender said : " Perhaps you will take my card ? I happen to hold apublic pesit-oo and should He-to avoid an disturbance." "I don _ want your card, sir." " But yon had better look at it." Tho aggrieved passenger looked at. it contemptuously, but it was the card of a loyal Duke 1 I hings now went on plea santly, b^ before, bo left the carnage, the gentleman expressed a hope that hisi Koyal Highness woH.d not think that he had noted wrongly. " That is a point which we need not discus.," said bjs Koyal Highness.- Jjondon Society.

Extraordinary Marriage Custom

That Pagan traditions aud customs yet linger in Southern Italy, wa3 illustrated in a recent criminal trial in Naples. _bout a year ago Caroline Gurguillo, one of tho belles of Sorrento, was married to a sailor named Giuseppe Ksposito. According to the custom of the country the bridegroom is bound on the morning following the marriage to pay a visit to the house of his mother-in-law, and of this custom the newly-mated Giuseppe Esposito was duly reminded by hi. relatives and friend.. For some reason or other the churlish groom declined to comply with the established usage, and a whole fortnight elapsed with out ilia having made the required call. ' By this time the mother-in-law had become fearfully exasperated; the honour of her family, she asserted, had been outraged, and that hononr she called upon her sou, for her sake and his own and that of his sister, to avenge. So the son, Yincenzo Gurguil lo, went So his sister's house and waited for the sailer husband, _ Esposito, when he came ho.ne, offered him a hearty welcome, and bade him stay to dinner; but the vin dictive Viocen-o drew a knife, nndthrowiug himself on his brother-in-law, stabbed him to the heart. Criminal proceedings in Italy are very dilatory, and it is only after the expiration of twelve months that Yin cenzo Gurguillo has been sentenced to hard labour for life, and his mother to three years' "seclusion." Clerical influence is powerless to suppress the custom, the non-observance of whichledto this shocking act of assassi nation, Tho usage is one of the oldest in Ma>»na Gracia, and obtained in Greece itself, thousands of years ago. "On another day, the apaulra-perhaps the second after the marriage -the bridegroom left his wife to live apart at his fathers-in-law, and the bride invested him with a garment called the apaulisteria." 'I bis matrimonial custom has bee a so far modified as to make tbe mother-in-law the titular recipient of the bridegroom's visit, but there can be no doubt that tbe observance for disobeying which Giuseppe Esposito lost his life is the antique Greek custom translated in "choice Italian."

The Scottish Horring Fishery.

Amsterdam is reputed to have been founded on herring bones, and the Dutch centuries ago derive, millions per annum from the fish; but the well-appointed "busses " of the Netherlands have almost disappeared from our seav, chased away by the simple built clinker boats of the Scottish fishermen, For these two hun dred and more years, hardy Scots have been drawing from the fish-teeming waters which surround their island homes with out fee or price of any description, save the wages expended in labour, annual supplies of herrings which, in round figures, may be estimated as worth the sum total at present invested in the machinery of capture. By means of the Scottish Fishery Board, an accouat it kept and annuolly published of the quantities of these fish which are cared for sale, It may be set down here, for the purpose of eacy cal culation, that one million barrels of herring are being cured every year in Scotland for the home and foreign markets, and (that each barrel contains eight hundred fish, which give, a total of eight hundred mil lions of herrings from the Scotch curing stations, But in addition to the Dumber cured, it has been calculated that quite as many arc, ia tho course ot the season, sold as what ate ealUd "fresh herrings j" the wholesale buyers b.iug now enabled' by means of the railways to despatch large supplies ot the great seats of population the moment they are caught, and to have them in the market almost befoae their sea bloom has bogun to fade. If these fish be estimated as being of tbe value of only one halfpenny each, they would yield a total sum of over three millions sterling 1 In realty they yield a far larger amount, the barrels of cured fish in some seasons Twing ing as much as from 28s to 50s, and a charge of ljd and sometimes of 2d for a single fresh herring in our large cities, as all householders know, is not at all uncommon, At preseut there are more than seven thou sand boats engrged iv the Scotch heiring fisherry, and the suites of netting which they carry would reach in a continuous line for nearly twelve thousand miles; they would go more than three times across, the Atlentic Ocean, and would cover more than half of London.— Good Words.

The Mummy of an Egyptian King.

It was desirable, in the interests cf science, to ascertain whether the mummy bearing the monogram of Thotbmas 111. was really tbe remains of that monarch, It was, therefore, unrolled. The inscriptions on the bandages established beyond all doubt the fact tbat it was indeed that most dis tinguished of the kings of the brilliant eighteenth dynusty, and once more, after an interval of 36 centuries, human eyes rested on the features ot the man who had conquered Syria and, Cyprus and Ethiopia, and had raised Egypt to the highest pin nacle of her power, so that it was said that in bis reit?u she placed her frontiers where she pleated. The speotaclo was of brief duration; the remains proved to be in so fragile a state that there was only time to take a hasty photo graph, and then the features crumbled to pieces and vanished like an apparition, and so passed away from human view for ever.' The director told me that he felt such remorae at the result that ho refused to allow the unrolling of Barneses the Great for fear of a similar catastrophe. Thothmes 111. was the man who overran Palestine with his armies 200 years before tbe birth of Moses, and has left us a diary of hiß adventures, for, like Ctesar, he was author as well as soldier. It seoms strange that though the body mouldered to dust the flowers with which, it had been wreathed were so wonderfully preserved that even their colour could be distinguished,and they looked as if only recently dried, yet a flower is the very type of ephemeral beauty thai paa-'eth away, and lit gone almost as soon as born. A wa«p, which had been attracted by the floral treasures, and had entered the coffin at the moment of closing, ■was found dried up but still perfect, having lasted better than tha kinp, whose emblem of sovereignty it had once beenj now it was there to mock the embalmer'a skill, and to• add point to tho sermon on the vanity of human pride and power preached to us" by the of that coffin. In exorable [is jtbe .decree, " Onto dust shalt thou return," Bnnning in the same line of meditation His difficult to avoida thought of the futility of human devices to achieve immortality. These Egyptian monarebs, tho veriest types of earthly grandeur and pride, wboie rule was almost limitless, whoso magnificent tomr-s seem built to outlast the hills, could find no better method of insuring that their names should be held in remembrance, than tho embalment of their frail bodies. These re main, but in what condition, aud how degraded in tbe uses to which they are.put I The spoil of an ignorant and thieving population, the pet curiosity of tome wealtey Yankee, who buys a royal mummy as he would buy the Spinx i_ it were removable ; "to what base uses art thou come," oh body, so tenderly nurtured so carefully preserved? How far bet.ci.' to have mingled with friendly mother earth, and served the nobler purpose of enriching other lives in natures wondrous transmuta tions '.-"TheFuneral Tent of an, Egyptian Queen," by Villiers Stuart

Lord in Trouble.

. Lord Albert Sidney Pelhara Clinton ap peared recently in a I ondon Police Court, charged with obtaining £150 by fraudulent pretences from a cigarette-maker named Isadore Weil. The noble lord bad been a customer of Mr Weil for several years, and when bis lordship called in one afternoon and asked tbe favor of a loan of £150, offering to give his cheque for the same, Mr Weil let him have all his ready cash— £s—and a cheque for £125 on his banker, <_ the following day Weil presented his lordship's cheque at the indicated bank for payment, but was informed that lord Albert bad no right to draw on them, In the meantime his lordship had cashed the c'ga'ette-maker's cheque ; hence tbe arrest. It came out during the preliminary exumi nttion that Lord Albert's sole suppo't was £500 a quarter, paid by the bankers upon whom he had is-ued the cheque to Weil, aud his attorney succeeded in convincing the Police Judge that his noble client fand no intention whatever of cheating Mr Weil. The case was therefore dismtss'd, and the only satißfacttoa which the victimized party had was to signify his intention to prefer a bill of indictment at the next Old Bailey Sessions, under tht Vexatious Indictments Acts. The noble swindler, however, is Unite likely to escape both punishment and payment of the loan,

A New Painting from Pomperi.

Mb Eustace Neville 'Rolfe, writing to the "Times" from Raples, says :—Anim portant painting has b.eu found at Hrimpeii, and was on Monday placed in the Naples {Museum among tne Pompeiau frescoes., It represents the judgement of -Solomon, and is the first picture on a sacred subject, .the first fragment either ot Judaism or Christianity that hasb.mdis coeered in the buried cities, I have, there fore, studied it carefully this morning, and forward you a description of it, as I think the discovery of such a painting is a matter of public interest. The picture is five and a-half feet Jlong and 19 inches-in hoight, and is .surrounded by a black liuo about an inch in width. The scene is laid upon n terrace (in front of a houso adorned with creeping |plants and -haded with a white awning. On a dais (represented as being four feet high) sits the King, holding a sceptre and robed in white. On each side of him sits a counbillor, and behind them six Boldiers under [arms. The King is to presented ns leaning over the front of the dias towards a woman in a green robe, who kneels before him with dishevolled hair and outstretched hands. Iv the centre of the court is a ithrco-legged table, like a butcher's |block, upon who is held in a re. cumbent position, in spite of bis straggles, by a womau wearing a terban, A Boldier in,armour and wearing a helmet with a long red plume holds the legs of the infant, and i* about to cleave it in two with his falchion. A group of spectators completes the picture, >Wiich contains in all 16 figures, The drawing is poor, but the colonr* are particularly bright, and the preservation is excellent. As a work of art, it is balow the avarage Pompeian standard, but it is full of spirit and drawn with great freedom. The bodies of the figures are dewarfed, aud their heads (out of all proporrion) large, which gives colour to the assertion that it was intended for a caricature directed agaicst the Jews aud their religion. 'Ibis may b. so, but my own impression i« that the ai)ist was anxious to devolop the facial expression, and to do this exaggerated the heads. 1 here is (nothing [of the caricature about it in other respects—ihe agony of the kneeling mother, the attention of the listaniag king, and the triumph of the second woman, who gloats over the division of the child-are all manifest, and to my mind there is no attempt intentionally to burlesque the in cident, but this is a matter of opinion.

Novel Advertising.

Some artistic advertising is found in Ger man newspapers. The "Berliner Tuge blatt " recently contained the following : "A German knightly landowner wishes to find a female life companion who resem. bles, externally as well as in character, the heroine of Saoher-Masooh's novel, 'Frau Yon Soldan,' published in the April num ber of the .monthly maganino ' Auf der Hoho,' by E. L. Morgoustern, Leipzig. Addreas Karl Eggcr, Beiderwie-e, near Passau." This is not a bad notion of a subtle puff for tho eminent Polish romancist, but an enterprising Viennese tailor, in un ingenious paragraph iv the ." Wiener Varatati Zeitung, tells the following incident, with a moral: " How to become a house-owner : Quite lately a gentleman made his fortune ou the YYieden in an astonishing and absolutely original manner. At my shop he pui.ha.cd a morning suit for ten florins, a dress suit f r nineteen florins, a pair of summer tromers for three florins, and a complete oostume for his little son at the low figure of throe florins and a half. Having reflected that, had he bought these articles in any other shop, he would have been oblig.d to pay at least twenty florins more for them, he resolved to invest his .avians to that amount iv a ticket for the Crown Prince Rudolph lottery. At the next drawing his number came out the first prize of twenty thousand florins, wbich sum this lucky person forthwith invested in a comfortable mansion. Thus, through dealing at my establishment, he became a house-owner and a weulthy man."

"Call Me Rebecca."

AMONG the more effective sceues in a new novel entitled "_Love the Debt," is one in which a lady suppose, that agontlemau has proposed to Iter. It should bo explained thut the heroine, who.;, name is Mabel Masters, wishes to mairy a certain "Ueoigo" at once, as he is going abroad, and she is ia some measure dependent on a very maiden aunt. This aunt, however, has by no means denied herself the greatest solace in life, hope—that is to say, the hope of get ting married. 000 of Mabel's friends is a middle-aged Irish gentleman, Bob Sagar, who, anxious to further her wishes and tho-e of her lover, calls on Miss Masters the elder for the purpose of interceding on their behalf. Having opened the inter' view, Mr Sagar proceeds :—" Come, come, Miss Master., you can't be so cruel as to cross the course ot true love." This was spoken in a wheedling touo, Bob at the time putting his hand out to touch the back of hers, " I—l don't know what to say." "Say' Yes,' and make two people happy for life," said Bob. Miss Masters's heart leaped within her, "At last 1" "But the acquaintance is so short, Mr Sagar." " There isn't much time to lose, you know," said Bob, alluding to George's immediate emigra'ion. " You will not have the heart to hold out, Miss Masters. It isn't in you You must consent. You will, won't yoa?" " You'll always be kind to me, Robert?" she said- in a timid and touching voice, looking up pleadingly into Bob's face. For a moment he thought her mad; next moment, with Irish quicknes?, he took in the situation, '.'Miss Masters," ho ex claimed, starting up suddenly, as if stung. " Call me Rebecca," she slid softly, taking his exclamation for an expression of joy. " Certainly ; I'll call Rebecca with plea sure," said Bob, with extraordinary pre sence of mind, hurrying to the door and affecting to think " Rebecca" was the name of Miss Masters's maid. " Rebecca 1" he cried at the top of the stairs and at the top of his voice, "Miss Masters wants you," and descended the stairs three steps at a time. Mr Sagar never felt quite safe till he found himself well under way in the Great Northern Express for London,

Humourous Extracts.

Batqub a Mistaks.—lt is related of Lord Ellenborough that, when on one occa sion he was about to set out on Circuit, his wife expressed a wish to accompany him, a proposition to which his lordship assented, provided that time wero no bandboxes tucked under the seat of his carriage, as he had too often found ther. h\d been when honoured with her ladyship's company before. Accordingly thoy both set out together, but had not proceeded vory far before the judge, stretching out his_ legs under the seat in front of him, kicked against one of the flimsy receptacles which he had sp.ci illy prohibited. Down went the window with a bang and out went the bmdbix into the ditch. The startled co.ch._nu imme liately commenced to pull up, bm was ordered to drive on and lot the thing lie whore it was. Tbey reached tho assize town in due course; his lord-nip proceeded to iobe for th. Court, "Aud now, where's my wig?" he demanded, when everything else had been donned. "Your wig, my lord," roplied the sorvant, tremulously, " was in that bandbox your lordship threw out of tho window as wo came along." The Prince of Wales lately received a diverting reply from the Mayoress of a mid land county town, whom he offered to escort to the refreshment room. " Thank your Highness," said the damp, *' but I'm shampooing a couple of young ladles, and I don't like to leave them "

The many collectors of postage 6tamps may follow in the footsteps of a Benedic tine monk, who has solved the mystery of their usefulness, and with them has papered the wall of the room iv the monastery in a most ingenious and effective manner. In three months he collected eight hundred thonsand stamp?, sorted them according to their colours, and then arranged them in a variety of animal and other designs, such as flowers, mottoes, and inscriptions, together with the date of tho day'when tbe task was ended.

Sir William Gull in his " Clinical Observa tions on Medicine in Modern Times," enunciates the following pithy tapliorisrn :—" I hayo often had occasion to remark, how little we can estimate the reparative powers, however able we m _y be to discover disease—this is, per haps, never more striking than in some chronic attections—organic strength lies nowhere but in the living circle of nutrition an", fun-tion." Tha lungs being organs readily liable to this lesion, they • require healthful mu-roundings and high nutrition. Wheu attacked byloss of function, contracted breathing power, with a cough and tenacious expectoration. Aickin's Syrjpp of Euca lyptus, withHypophosphlte of Lime and Quinine, should be taken thrice daily. This valuable remedy will excita a healthy vitality and S remote a reparative action in the disorganised ssues, the breathing will become freo, and the cough soon Cease. This course of treatment ia especially beneficial in consumption, bronchitis, and asthma,

TERRIBLE ACCIDENT.

The "Bcndigo Advertiser" gives the fol lowing account of a terrible mining acci dent that occurred on Fiidav evening last at Lansell's No. 180 claim. Victoria reef :— " A miuer, at.cd 23, named Win. Clemens, was working in the 1560-feet level, and au extra truck being required from the surface he signalled to the engine-driver. The empty cage was then raised from a lower lev.l and s,topi:e_ at the 1560-feet level. Clemens then stepped en it, and, giving the usual tignal, tlie driver started the engine and commenced the journey up the shaft. When the cage had ascended moi'e than half the total depth of the shaft—past the balauce, as it is called —the descending cage, with its weight, was beginning to l>_ iv itself suffi cient to raise the ascending cage in which Clemens was standing. James Eller, the driver, went as uauul to the engine to shut oil'steam, but he found he could not control the engine, and the speed of the ascent of the cage in which Clemeua was standing was accelerated by the in creasing weight of tho descending cage with its great length of wire ropo, besides the full strength of the powerful machinery being at the time wholly concentrated in bringing up the cage, now literally flashing up the shaft. The driver persisted in his eilbrts to reverse tho engine, but without success, and in a few more seconds the aicendiog cage appeared above the brace on the surface, and then, with tenific speed, was almost inataut.neausly dashed to the top ot the poppet heads. In a second the stout double chain connecting the hook of the cage and the ropa was snapped through, and the cage with its doomed occupant was seen to desc.nd almost as rapidly a. it had been raised. Uage and rauu went crashing down tho shuit to tho ICCO-feet level. The grippers on the cage, which was one of Webb's patent safety, appeared to catch for an instant before the cago descended below the brace, and subsequently it was dis covered, owiog to marks on the woodwork, that the grippers had tuorneuturily caught at intervals along the -kids, but net with sufficient grip to arrest or even materially slacken the descent of the cage. The vclootty of the descending cage in creased will- every foot bslow tho brace. At the 1,560-feet plat there were doors across the shaft, and the cage crashed through them, continuing its descent until the 1,660-feet plat was reashed, where a pent-houie is erected. Here there is also a cistern or well; about 16 or 17 feet deep in wuich there was five feet of water. Into this the cage and man dashed ; its further descent to the bottom of the shaft, 115 teet lower down, beiDg prevented through tbe cage being caught in tho cistern. At the bottom of tho shaft, 1775 feet from tho surface, men were engaged in sinking, and one of them, William Wright who was engaged at tho crab-wincb, heard tho crash, and -upposiug that an accident had hap pened' ascended to the 1660 feet plat, whero he found Clement lying in tbe cago, just out of tlie water. He was just alive, aud groaned once or twice wben Wright spoke to him, but died in a few minutes. He was soon afterwards raised to the sur face and laid in the engine-room, no medi cal man being called, as he was unmistak ably dead.

Missionary Work in Siam.

A NUMiiEit of American Missionaries on their w*y to their statio.i iv tae East were interviewed by the reporter of a Sau Fran cisco paper, with tbe following result: — The Rev. D. MeG lvury, is the senior of theparty.wh- has passed nearly a quarter of a century in Lao., tut f_r interior ot Siam and its northern provinces. Mr McGilvary is a iiue-looking gentleman, with a long grey b.ard, kindly expression aud pleasant ad dress. Of the paity, Mr McGilvary, his wife and son and tour young ladies go to Laos; the others go to dillcreut parts of China and Japan, Some idea of

THE JOURNEY the L-os-bound party huvo te niako to reach their field ot labour can La gained from the fact that after leaving this city ttiey must travel over three nnnths. After reachiug Yokohama they go to Bangkok, the capital of Slum, ana then in small uativc boats make a two months' voyage into tha interior, up a riv.r whwsc naviga tion over rapids and shoal* is so slow that one stretch of sixty miles tak»s twenty days to make. The people cf Laos, Dr. McGilvary reports, arc the most enlight ened and best physic.lly developed of the Siamose. The prince ot tha district speaks English and interposos no dilhculty in the way of tho rui-sionurics in their ei.'oits to convert his ponple from Buddhism to Christianity, Tne American Pres byterian Missionary Boaul, nnder whoso auspices the party proceeds and in whose interests Dr, Mcbilvary ha« so long labored, has two schools in i_a»s, ono fur bnys and one for girls. It is the car. of tne c Christian schools that tho f.ur young ladies accompanying Dr. McGilva'y are to take upon ttietnsclvfs. Two .f the missionaries, it so the ladies be called, arc from Chicago. This must naturally surprise tbe average reader, who, without any particular reason, supposes Chicago to bo a place where mis sionaries would go to rather than come from. The Chicago deiegatcses are both comely, bright-faced ladies whom it seems too bad should be buried in the mour.ts in-bound fastnesses of the land of the white e'ephaut Theio was an impression that bore was going to bs a waste of good nut-rial. It may bo that sine- the latest advices Chicago his been swept by

CrC_ONK OF MORALITY ; That thoto has beon such * wbolsale reform ing that Chrisiian workers cm find no further material for t heir labour. Perhaps the criminal element ins all been made good; tbe hovels of vice and ignorance purified and enl.ght.ncd ; the prisons, gaols, and hospitals emptied ot their impure inmates. Doubtless the need of Christian kiudergarten work no .longer exists in that once wicked city by the lake, and all there is so free from vice and sin and wickedness, from sickness and ignorance, that the fair young missionaries conld find there no field for their labours, Tbe Gospel has penetrated every by-way, and goodness so abounds that the c.rnest younj; ladies are forced to take along, tedious, dangerous voyage of over three months to find a field wherein to benefit tho world by their missionary work, Laos is iv luck that Chicago is so reformed as to no longer re quire the cervices of these young ladies. The party was made up in Chicago and received additions in Omaha. The trip overland has been pleasant to them all, they say, and they 1001. forward, without dread, to the longer and rougher voyage ahead, Although the reporter was dis app inted, pleasantly so of course, in not seeing in any of the gentlemen of the party, any external signs that they hid en countered

THBI-LING ADVENTUKES WITH SAVAGES, who desired to show tic appreciation shown to the famous mi sionary aud his hymn book, too; although these, which would have been interesting, sig»s were lacKing, still same members of the party were interesting studies. Thn young ladie? all showed in tbeir taces evidences of the emotional enthusiasm that has led them to give up plei.s.int homes ia pursuit of a self impo-od dbty, thut, aside from its novelty must be nothing but hardship*. In the faoes of the younger members not a single trace of expression whioh would suggest their consciousness of the s.icrilice they were making, end of the hardships they had adopted could be [seen. It was very CTid nt that with them they were perfojming a labor of love ; prompted only by a religious enthusiasm that Baw only the glory of the cause they had entered. With the elders, particularly those of experience, there was no trace of enthusiasm, but a closo observer could dis cern a cousciousnips that they were return ing 'to hard work and leaving pleasant fields behind. .

The names aud destination of tbe _arty ara as follows: Eev. D. McSilvary, wife and son, and Mieses Wishard, Warner, Wirt and Griffiu go to Laos; Key. K. P. Duuhap, wife and three children, Siani; Rev, f S. C. Peoples, J. P. Hurst and Mrß Hur.-t, Laos ; Key. Mr McLaren, Mrs Ma c and Miss Linnel, Siam ; Mif s Hesse and Miss Garvin, Janan ; Rev, W. W, Hayes and Mrs Hayes to China.

Cremating.

Doctor G~etano Pini, of Milan, has just been engaged in cremating the body of a Frenchman, M, St. Cyr Jtillien, whose brothrr is a consul iv England, The ere nviting piocess in the Milan futnaee took two hours, and four hours more were necessary for cooling the ashes; amongst them could ctiil be discerned some frag ments of bone and teeth. Tho whole ef these remains were placed in an urn of rather large dimen»ions, which was immediately packed and sent, per rail, to the widow in Pails, The cost of the cre mating psocess came to £10. The expense for tbe conveyance of the body from Paris to Milan amounted to £240.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, NOVEMBER 11, 1882.



lE. POETEE & CO., WHOLESALE AND RETAIL IRONMONGERS AND IRON MERCHANTS, QUEEN AND HIGH STREETS, AUCKLAND, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF FURNISHING IRONMONGERY ALWAYS IN STOCK. ENGLISH AND AMERICAN ELECTROPLATE. Cruet Stands mt^S Tea and Coffee Sets Butter Coolers J^ltiM J§?s|k Biscuit Boxes Pickle Frames f-llPik 7! IF Egg frames Sardine Boxes sS|h * ' j_f /)i«|| Candle Stioks Cakeßaskots F^A^CAfAk jP^Mt Fruit Stands Dish Covers Js|fjw|i^ Toilet Sets Fish Kflives W_^^^^^^^^^^^^ SPirit stanafl Napkin Rings E*^__£__ '^ < «^ Traya a&d.Salvors KNIFE CLEANING MACHINES. Rapid Water Filtew .^.dlb^ife.. Housemaids', Boxes Knife Boards and I'elish /^l^i^-.^k Patent Cinder Sifters Sausage Machines j^SS^iiil^^i^ Coffe* K°a*te™ and Mills Sausage Fillers Indiarubber Knife Boards Mincing Machines J^^^^&A^^^S Silversmiths' Soap Pudding and Jelly Moulds __rJtS^PJ_iSfe^^«l._—■». Brunswick Black Lady Help Knife Cleaners BS^I--i-__gD^^r_=->-. _mery Cioth and Black Load NOVELTY AND EUREKA WRINGERS. Spring & Lever Mangles _JB_a Bradford's Washing Ma- Combined Mangles and^HKßife_ *--_•>'■ a.ri»ajy_j^_a chines and Mangles Washers _»__' __H__B_^__ljf K-**''^ ifff ! mericanTubs& Buokets Copper Furnaco Pans At/lfr (' ast Iron Baths Mrs Potts's Cold Handle W™|P^Sai^Sy_B?-:^^a Wavql tollers Sad Irons ■ (WW" Shower and Plungo Baths Wash Boards and Clothes Jsf_t_g|_ "EUREKA" ||tj&f Bath Sponges Fluting Machines \SS-?^ffi^- s Jf Goffering and Pinking Wire Clothes Lines Irons BIRD CAGES AND AVIARIES. Brass and Iron Bkd _£. Hose Reels for winding Cages gal garden hose Braes and Iro« Parrot .__jr£_X Garden Shears Cages ■ • /-&Zz%ffi/w^^^s. W/flflljA nANv^. G1 rdon Rollers Wire Ell Traps M'/nfl l M TWTUk, _' _, _ -_, -, - ;^^<U444v^Ti^ bardon Seats and Chairs Fly Catchers _s^/Z_]iCl4*ol__A^ - . - . __-l_^2_--^-I^^^^XSr_i~-s Gar<Jen Syringes Garden Arches i-_*^ut________li?»^_? _ . _. ■ In^^f——__d-_JSS^tT Pruning Shears Galvanised Wire Seed ]| II I I \\\'a\ '~ _„ ~ Protectors | LL J-. 4_. J j | ft Scythes and Handles Metallic Labels and Gar- f^^||ilpii||^^§ ' n°ae Branches Watering Pots A$ '' *V>_~ < ~ I|k SBPti t\ s YH §|§ Cast Iron Flower Vases- Philadelphia Lawn V A -A^W _. , ' Mowers ' . --As?* Cast Iron Fountains Lnwn Bdge Clippers Gardon En Bineß Lown Sprinklera *^oos ' Kake *i Spades, and COAL VASES IN IRON AND WOOD. Marble and Slate f\ Kitchen Fenders Plated Fenders & _J^^^^^Py^K^|^^nn| 111 Marble Top Tables LAWN TENNIS. CRICKET. LAWN TENNIS. •H 1 I ■ _/_/: oTI fAoskt\ • s i I I 4^™ PSIS 11 h HI : ! 5 3" -J I s ®lll|lf Ml |1 11 Si H * M r#T \l ' VllF S« 1| •' y • S ' /H 5 H m g »■■■;■■- ~~^//||f li LAWN TENNIS. CRICKET. LAWN TENNIS. EL POBTBB & CO., RETAIL DEPAETMENT: I WHOLESALE DEPARTiMENT: Q!7_S-S-t' STREET, I HIGH STREET, AUOKLAND. AIL GOODS DELIVERED IN TOWN AND SUBURBS.



/;iO TO HJ-AD QUARTERS FOB PDRKBT j?INKS'- AND BESTM! OHBTSXOU POC-J_TKT_YAK_.., LAKE TA.KA. FUKA. VARIETIES- Ltght Bwhrnas, Dark Brahnias White Cochins, Buff. Ooo'.iins, Blaok Cooh ._ugsh-na, Manorc„o, Houdous Blaok Polish W.O. WWte t_»_horns. Brown Leghomo Oorklngs, Hamburg., Plymouth Rocks, Pekln Kuen.and Ayleaburr Duots SBND FO- FBIO-.-X-.T Off KGQ3. Kglts oarefnii; Paoked. and sent to &U parts the Colony, e.T Write for J net what yon wont, ana » dress as above,' I pinasantso satlafaotion in ai ovdlnavy oaprfc yißltoro welcome. Sunday -06 ptart. / .a t. .O. <- VHJ-3 KAI'AS OOSB BatXSK SfAOSORV, Das&j.«.KOi7B«<_3r : S!l_.X2 f WESBn irrom is/a pat' a»s< mIF~AUCjr-LAS-3 -WwS.KjjING I AHO PAltO__ D__.lV„Ry AGKMO- DeupatohGoods and F&roelr. of all desorlptlons to svciry pari of tne Town and anburha, at a Ch_u.p Batis, and with Kaarontood regularity. Ihe following nre the Bookino Agkwoihs i— A. R. J-ndd, Cab'troakor _ KJ-rangahape Road W, H. Yo.nK, Grocer ..Poaaonby KoKd K. Blrnle Baker _ _Aroh HUI J, Irteld, tiablnetmaker „Corner ol Kybor Pass and Bymonds-st 8, ISeld, Groce. - -Oornorof KyberPaas and Grafton Roads W. S. Collins, Groeor ..Parnell A, Holdt, Cabinetmaker ..Newmarket. 'DKUVB-IBSI- Town Hourly. 3nburba_ 111 _.m, ana I pjni No. 78. Telephone -zohange, HEAD OFFIO3I KATHAN'S KONU. OUBTO-..Bionßn-BTBJi«_ a_\ p? W 3 o .4 < § /T1 &■ « -.I*3 v So w»_ w _ w »ft r^^ r>g° •'M H, ,Jtl_«H-B a "so «, » BUSI.D-.RB, OJU-PBHf_.--a -SD JOIN_K«. VOLUAR 1-5* Ail .a tinoflw 0. th_ B-tttu—<g Trade exeonted by i.iperi_r.eed Workmen,. Bhop BTOnis. Offloa JTit-tlngg, ftc, PAIN'S V » wholesale ft EetaU »<J We H. HAZARD, G_---.a_er, Queen Street, Auokland, Agent for JAMES FAIN, London, PYSOTEOHNI-T TO THE SOVAU YACHT SQUADRON. Tara s s buichik, «l o_B_-E, CONTRAOTOK. So eoala o_r_—t and Dellverofi fcrara ship', aide OS Shortest Notice. BaUa-t-applied. (HKiraABT-- ABB BAST Of JtSl.AtTn* OOAI Aim Blrewot— lent an neon.) r—woaable.. '^^^^Dbbsh Sbikt ;^aMp£l(-a MA»BFACTOItV. l^W^^C D*" L' X AUi I ' -_fx -JUHH A-£'STi, iS-^S^^rj-a Corner of Albert-Btreet, lM^W**t.-l AtrC„L-sr':i>. ll^vl^ff«S Prlw.ro os-fSsruepeclally », ''" attende. tr. nr,_ exe {?SS-j^_rsfa, cntt. In Frenoh '•?^S Ji^A"%j<Rkl| Watfrle'r, importec '&5i%.4-:tiWs directly from the ■ • j mnnn/BO—rem, All Ittresaßhlrta to order ___0 on measrnenlent only. Fit S-ftr-~—~d. rgIHE KIVEKSDALE UAH UFaCTOK JL INS COMPANY (LIM-TED). 11, GRKT-BTRKKT, TANNERS, CURRIKR3. LKATHKR^AND GRINBERY MKROHANT3 AND IMPORTUR-. She abore Arm have just landed, ex various late arrival., SPLSNDID VA-VOK In Frenoh, German, and J-gllßh Calf, Kid. Patent Calf, Bast Indian Oi.lt and Elp, Butts, Elastlo, Web. Boot Webbing and Linings, And a Variety of GRJNDEKY AND SHOE MERCERY GOODS, WIU also have regular shipments of above arriving from the best English. American, and Continu-tai Hduiios. Colonial Tanned and Cur ried _eathers always on hand. Tlie R.M. Co, (Limited! are Cash Purchasers Ol Wool, Skins, Hides, and Talllow. Now Landing, ex Asterlon, excellent value In Linings, Eyelets, Heel Tips, and Barnsley's Tools of all descriptions, Telephone No. 05, „ WM. S. HAMPSON. Sooretary. ~_. _ __ '%£*?*lKfiß*£Art' r^-J !>.-, 7^JQ ; ut ,aK. _______J Ui 0 X ~ S ALE, 1 Four-wheeled Dog Cart (uearly new) 1 Two-wheelod nog Cart (nearly new) 1 Lar«e Ladj's Phaaton 1 Double-Beater" Bu„gy ■ Wanted to Furohase, Double-Heated Hooded Boggy. ____ r|t6 FARMERS AKD OTHERS, The undersigned have on Hand a Splended Bample of TARTARIAN SEED OATB-SISO 8.000 sacks Prime FEED OATS, at lowest current rates, S. MITOHELSON ft CO.« No. ID. Qneen-atreet wharf, LOGS! LOGS I LOGS I TO THE MILL Wanted known, that the Kauri Point Saw Mills, as Onehnnga (destroyed by fire Borne months slnos), are now In full work again. All lengths of logs at Mill waiting to be .awn, Beatna and girders for briok building and wharf work, up to .0 feet, supplied on the shortest notice. Customers may rely npon the cream of the timber going with tfiolr orders, as we have no manufactory to supply. Builders and contractors will find It to their interest to give their orders to ns, as they will get all fresh timber free from worm and dead sap. Orders executed with despatch, M H.ROE. Proprietor, Kauri Point Sawmill, Onehnnga, September 1 1832. IF W, m. arr 1 o 1• x, •Jo AUCTIONEER, ViLDATOR, HOUSE. LAND, AND GENERAL COM MISSION AGENT, QUEEN-STREET, AUOKLAND, C entry Sales Attended. TBt (THO COETRACTOJSS ASD OTHERS WELLS BROS.. Devon-port, Are pronared to supply at Lowest Races Rrioks, Lime. Sand, Shell, Ash. furlri Posts and Boose Blooks Sec, fie Contracts made for the de' livery ot Timber, fee, from the mills to anj part of Devonport District. Address WELLS BROS., CjABTEBS, DKiKOHPOBT.



aOBSON-STKBET STEAM COFFfE MII-S.-H. P. Gibbons -S Co,, Too, noffee, and Sploa Merchant. Wholesale an. Family Grocera. (Tool. Firewood, and Produce Dealers.-H. P. Gibbons and Co,, Hobson treet, Auckland. ' I VAt-ED AND BEAUTIFUL •"__ Assortment of Christmas and New Year's Cards (Royal Aosdemy aeries), to be toW at lowest poaalble profit. Vanoy .tattonorr and Cheap Books; writing Desks fitted with Stationery, at 6s Cd. Speoial Line ot Lodger? unci other Account Books. HENRY WHITE, BOOKSB_-I.EE AND STATIONER, High-street, Auokland. COD L I N'S COACH c LEAVES Onehnnga— Auosland— " 8.30 a.m. 12 noon 2.30 p.m..30 -..30 p.m. rday Nights— MS p.m TW" O R T H IS H O R B. WANTED KNOWN- That at the WHO__BALE WINK, SPIRIT. AND ALE 8TOR8! we are BOTTLING and SUPPLYING ENGLISH and COLONIAL ALT- and STOUT. In splendid condition, by the case or In Mixkddozsns of fay eight bottler. ot Ale and Stont. and four bottles Wines and Spirits. limejulc- and Cordials, roted Tonic Ho. Beer, Ginger Ale, &0,, &o. N.B.—Spirits (proof Btrength), Wines, Ales, &c. of finest quality. Orders delivered Fbee _t Tow.* Pbiobs. We thank the Inhabitants of tho North Shore for their very liberal patronage, aid ask a oon tlauance of the same. NOTE ___b"i.ES3- Close to Victoria Wharf, and adjoining -Teuton's Devonport Hon?B (Drapery Establishment), Victoria Road. I. PEE L~ & CO. GL T Chapman, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER, Has much pleasure In notify—;, to his Cus tomers and the Publio generally that he has now taken possession of and resume- Business in lila , NEW AND SPACIOUS PREMISES On the Old Site, viz. 64, QUEEN-STREET, OPPOSITE BANK OF NEW ZEALAND and also takes this opportunity ol thanking his Customers for the support aooorded to him during the past 23 years, and hopes that, with snob accommodation as ho now has, he wIU be able to supply all requit—nsnts. G. T. CHAPMAN, BOOKSELLER AND BTATIONER, 61, Queen street, J* ]_>• 13 LAIK I_, YIOTOBIA-STItEET. I -PORTER OF BUILDERS* & FURNISH ING IRONMONGERY JJIfcE.T FROM MANUFACTURERS, Has for Sale, at Low Rates— Garoenters' Tools Nails, Locks, Hinges Kltohen Kang.B Register Grates, In great Variety Marblo and Enamelled Slats Mantiepieoeß, Largest Stack in Auckland Marble, Eleotro-Plate, Curb, and other Fenders Galvanised Iron, Sueet Lead, and Zino Slates, Cement, and Plaster INSPECTION INVITED. mO CONTRACTORS AND OTHERS. We are prepared to Supply PIPES AND BRICKS In Large Quantities. JOHN WILSON & CO., 81. QPBEN-BTB-KT. Fencing a ot every description put up by contract. Nobody can do it cheaper or better thnn Sam, White. Paling _ oncee, post and rail i Wire _nd Ploket Fences of every sort. Prloe. on appL.oa.ton. All kinds of Gates made to order, and fixed where require— Fences Painted. Posts. Balls, Palings, Shingles, House Blocks, &0., tor sale at yards. SAM. WHITE, Fencer. Gore-street (near Brltomart Hotel J HENDERSON, HOUSE, SHIP, SIGN, AND GENERAL DECORATIVE PAINTER. No. 8, Wyndham-street. mISHER AND CO. (Limited), I? WHOT.HI6A-.E —t-IFPINO AND FAMILY Butch ens, Qu.en-stri.et (nest Bank of New Zealand, Auckland), — Poultry of aU kinds dressed to order. Prime Smoked Tongues, Home-cured B-Oon, Corned Beef on Sale In large .naßtltieu,—N.B,—Dealers in Game. Live Pheasants forwarded to all parts of the Colony upon reoaipt of orter. Families waited on In townor Bubnrb3. AMERICAN PORTRAIT ROOMS, 177, QUEBN-STREKT (Opposite T. & S. Motrin's), NOW OPEN. Gems taken dally—2 dozen for 2s Cd, larger st-es equally cheap. Come and see the Show Cases at the New Premises, next to Clark & Gene's, two doors above British Hotel, 177, Queen-street. J. LOW Proprietor. '■* '■ f _. A C '<.} U X _-•• . OPTIOIAN, Has n StOOk SPECTACLES AND EYE GLASSES of every description, an accurate Fit Guaranteed. COMPOUND MICROSOOPES AND TBLB I SCOPES, Powerful and OheaD. Awbkoic Babomktbes, Theh MOltaTZ—.,' iLKCrTBIO RBLLS, BATTKRIKS AND FrrnNoa, i Msgr.e.o Electric Machines and ?Me_'eel Colls. I OPERA GLASSES, BXNOOULAE FIELS i AND MARINE GLASSES, t Theodolites, Compasses, Sextants, Spirit Hydrometers, Saccharometers, Sail,lometers, Argentometera, &_,, &c,&c AOSSST _r_B TAYLOR- PATENT BBWINO t MACHINES & EXTRAS, 1 Instruments aud Sewing Machines repaired, OJ?J?oam_ ibb Post Oktisk, Hhortlaad-etreet. I rpo THE PUBLIO OF PONSONBY F. DA VIES, Boot and Shoe Manufacturer, ol 1 Ponsonby Road, oolle the attention of his one * tcmers and friends to the following i-ChUd ren's Elastic Boots, from Sat Goloshes, is Bd (children's); Women's Kid E.B. Boots, from 7s 6d; cheap line In Men's Elastics, 12s (colonial made, kai > Women's Colonial made Legleta, • 13a 6- |ST i _:_-l .■&:■» •_' 11 "O _a A S, * ? Ocrasr cf Lome and Vlertorievetreet-. A—_—__l Bos. coj.Jsra_.m_i, h_-se_.s akuqesssas B-lOHBaASOE, iE-tKI-SOTCBA-. -!B-_*-_r. AS3 SA&YS& lßsertpUons seems*ato and beau—tal. Monument., Tombs, Haa-stones, end evar, tSea-ription of Stone Wats at .ho lowa-* crj-tlbi' las tar town end ftoti-.pir -8 ISOCI. »Kt>T X.5 tte BOAP AND OANDLB MANUPAOTURKi.B OOX'S OSEEK. KIOHMOHS times: _jn_-__-.-ssubse. -etc-Sax. 2. 1 da-h PnMhasers of Tallow. Wool, Sheepskins. , andßonea. ■ pHAMES OAKRIAGB AND DKAY J. FACTORY. J JAMES MACKIE, PBOr_i_fToß. V«-TOBiA-BTE)-sx East, ADOB_—!ID, liapsli. ot every deseriptioß o Woo& sac I iron neatly executed on the test notice, Springe made ana repaired. n on hand, a large quantity of Lamps, also Ironbark Shafts ■ snd Spoke-, Red Gum Fnlloo?. and Hobart ' Covm Hard wood. 3 N.8.-CO-n-ry crflera Dtmct-all attended to. i jfj KOu a v LIMB. 5 GROUND LIME, I FOR BALE, . . 1 BOUTHGAT E'S SSAHURANGI HVDBAULIG GROUND ROC HE LIME, In any quantity, for Concrete, Paths, Floors, Collars, eto. (next to stone Sagging, Is —i- rivalled for durability and hard-setting qualities). For tanks and other wet work It Is a Orat-olas. msbiris!. B, KEAftE, SOLE AGEKT, On_To_r-Hon_B_Tß_—;. ELOOK-MILLS !. OATMEAL MANUFACTORY. PARTINGTON BROS. _ Beg to Inform the publio that they are now pre .. pared to supply Hotebior Oatmki.l in any ' quantity, guarantee- pure and fresh, ' Floor, Sharps, Bran, Wheatmeol, Malzemeal, MaL-, Oats, Fowl Wheat, fee., always on hand. Pep.t—Kf-mngah ripe Road, Newton. anils—Western Springß. jgaaea Au_o_.U,lßß_.



WATER LAID ON, AS LOW AS WILL PAY. PLUMBIKG, Gz-SFiITING, AND GENKBAL Jobbing, Patcbnt CHi_iN_iy Tops, SINKS} BATrtS, &c, &c„ &c. ROBERT PE .08, Sgoitxr-ANP-STRHET. QT, MUNGO CAFE. NOTICE OF REMOVAIr. C-—B. CAimmri, having to give up possession of the temporary premises occupied by him for tho past six months (opposite to the Union Bank of Australia), and ac his New Premises will not be ready for occupation before the Ist of Novem ber (about three weeks hence), and being unable to obtain a suitable placo to carry on his shop business, would beg respectfully to inform his customers and friends that all orders left at Messrs GlanvlUe & Ellyett's, Grocers, opposite the Union Bank ot Australia, and at the Misses McLaughlin, Shortland-strcet, or at the St. Mungo Cafe, at the rear of the new building, Queen-street, will receive his best and inime dlate attention BY 6PECIAI, S^roijlll^J?^ APPOINTMENT (GEORGE DIXON (Awarded Prize Modal Sydney Exhibition), MANtrPACTURER OP DOUBLE JKRATED WATERS & CORDIALS Cuba-street, Wellington Ask for his colebrated GINGER ALE, to be had in all parts of tho Colony. CLARKE BROTHERS, AitTIST PH. rOORAPHKttS (OPPOSITE TNION BAKK), QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. Photography in the Latest and Most Fashion able .4tj lea. executed In a manner Uneur- P_-B_d in the Co-onlop, All Photographs taken by the J_T Ihstaktaneous Pboojcss. "S_ LARGE COLLECTION HEW ZEALAND VIEWS Always on Band. - ri EE AND POTTER, Coaoh Buildebs, AX Grey-street, AuoMand.—N.B, i Iron-bark Shaftß. Spokes, Felloes, Blue Gum and all kinds of Hardwood, at Lowest Market Prices. QUPEKIOR CORRUGATED TANKS." J. L. KE A N Has for Sale a number of the above, with Taps ready for use. price Sis, at his shop, Elliou street. Large quantities of Spouting. Ridging, and Down Pipes, always in Btook. Verandan Iron'ourved at the shortest notica. Country orders wiU always receive hie prompt attention. Lead washers always on hand. J^/JR. THOMAS HOLDER, ARCHITECT. CaSTOMHOUSE-B__tl__T WEST, AUCKtAHD, Twenty-two Years' Oolonlal Ejcperience. [ Sis—. cwiaMorte, Ii TW-BW SBALAED FKBNB \Aa{ Unmounted, or -UtettUr Mounted In VMionj wan, not! II __• BO 120 TAB ■__«_, OXSalebjr - BRIOORAIG, -_-rora_n_i-i, ■ ■ ■ " _u__M__a_M__H_n-___H_H__i PROBE IT TO THE BOTTOM ASTD I -XOV WILL FIND THAT ET BWIB, pUSTOM-HOUSB-TBEKT • JL-KWIS, _/ EAST, HAS TBI OHEAPEST AND BEST ASSORTMENT or 1 China, (Jlass. & Earthbnware IN THE CITY, SURPLUS STOCK ON HAND SELLING AT ENORMOUS -{EDUCTION! WINE AND SPIRIT MERCHANT, ASENT FOB WALKER'H o_U____BATE- Scotch Whisky, griffin's sparkling ales. Speolal Shipment, now to hand. BASS'S ALB AND GUINBSS'S 3IOUT, E. L KWIS( Q CUSTOM.HOUSE-STREET EAST. "j AUCKLAND. rglO MERCHANTS, BREWERS. A BOTTLERS, AND SODA-WATER MANUFACrURERS. THOMSON & CO., ' ORAWFORD-STREBT. DUNEDIN (Established 1866). IMPORTERS OF ENGLIBH. FRHNOH. AND BPANIBH OUT CORKS. Always on Hand astd to ARnrvi.— Brewers'. Bottlers', and Soda water Man ufao turei." Sundries, Including all kinds of Corke- Bungs, Bhtves, Ties, and Spiles, Cellar Corks, Corking Machines. Capsules, Tlnfol Bottling Wire, Superior Islnglas- (Brewers'), Book, Purse. Eart India Pipe, andPareEußstat. and Brazilian Cu'; Thermometers, Blind and Common, All kinds of Ginger, whole and crushed : Tartaric, Aoetlc, Sulphurous, Citric and Bulph—'lo Aoi.s; Spirits ot Wine, 61 apT: .essences nnd Essential Oils, t.odawater Ma chines ; Bottling Backs, Patent and Common; Patent Syrnplng Pumps; Sodawater and Gin' gerbeer Bottles, Ordinary; Lamont's, Hogben'a and Codd's Patent Bottles; Herbs, Peels, and Roots of eveiy description; and every requisite for the Brewers', Bottlers", and Crated Water Maaufaoturero' trade. Agents fob Hatwabd; T_n_en & Co., London. . Messrs. T. & Co. Invite Intending Purchasers of Brewers' and Sodawat.r Machinery to an inapeotion of their Stock..: THOMSO-T& CO., ORAWEORD-STRE iIT. Duwbmn. ■ J>USINESS . X O.T'I OJt MB. jAMEJj~HICKEy ' (Lftto of the Thames) Begs to Inform the publio that having pur ohased Mr Duffy's Corn and Provision Business in Hobson-atreet, he Is prepared to oondnot tha same on the most libera lprinoiples. Make, Oats, Hay, &0., of the Boat Qnality. always In stock. . Y ACHT ANi> BOAT-BUILDING. A. WAKBRICK (Several years Foreman In Mr.a Bailey's shod), Has Commenced Business at the North Shore on his own aooourt. BOATS REPAIRED OHKAPLT. Pleasure and other classes cf Boa ullt at lowest Prloari. LYCEUM HALL, Hobson-street (near Vlotoria-Bt.-Pianof ortss and flarmoainms oa the deferred sy-tem ol payment a very «S^ r P_S ao br Ue, balll <tne *r^ of Perls* »?/«kL a» _*_• »K>lytO be met with; ai.o.t. No-3bßßt Bord Piano, full sized, nearly new. only __ guineas, beautlml c_se and flue tone. g.aar s- h' WEBB-.C& JMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT, Just Received, per 'Looh Awe.'-a Splendid M R rnm?« oJr.li OLl' m B°^8' AND KIW-»_B. m^.VtS'o Cosca: «'"H^s. and all kinds of UDBIOAI. iNBIBIIMENTfI, at THOS. E. CARTER'S. 82, VIOTORIA-STREET, AUCKLAND (Six doors above Albert-street). TEACHER, Tuner, and Repairer of Pianoforte, Cornn., and VIOLIN. Terms and Testimonials on application. Tuner and Repairer ot ail kinds of _lusioal In.trnmc-tg. ' orPHOLS T E R I N G. DRAWING AND DINING ROOM SUITES BK-UPHOLSrKHED IN BILK. RKP, OR HAIRCLOTH, Etc., By a first-class Wcrk_—n,at Reasonable Prices ALSO, Some very Handsome Wa-drobe., Chism of Dbawe_s. &0.. Foe Salb wm."norrie, Top of Shortland-itreet. Mutoal fire and marineln. land ck companx ofnkwz3bla. Thto Company;wiU be prepared to accept Flm and Marine Risks on and after MONDAY, Snd ootober. - Business will be conducted In the OfSoes at present occupied by Mr Blnney, Qneen-atraot, so soon as necessary alterations have been made By order ot the Board.' ROBERT DOBSON, General Manacar. Temporary Offices i Canada. BuUdings.