Mrs Howitt.

MARY Howitt, wife of William Howitt, the once popular author, was a model wife, and, in every sense of the term, one of the moat perfect of English women. The late Key. George Gilfulan, of Dundee, said : "Mary Howitt had a narrow escape of be ing exceedingly beautiful," ajd tli >se per sons who knew this estimable and talented lady in the prime of her life will readily enorsc Mr Gilfillan's opinion concerning her personal and intellectual attractions; One of the plcasantest memories ef my life is the recollection of an hour in the com pany of William and Mary Howitt. Their conversation was full of cheerfulness and animation. That pleasure can never more be repeated in this world. William Howitt died two years ag.>, in the suburbs of the city of Borne, in his 89th year, under the watchful core of the wife of his youth, who had made his life beautiful for fifty - seven year*. Mary Howitt, with her bright eyes and silvery brow, has passed her eightieth year, awaiting, but otill working, in faith and hope, for" the inevitable change from life temporal to life eternal. Mary Howitt was a poetesi from her girlhood, and in middle age.unsurpassed as a writer of story books, and altogether lovely in her several capacities as a woman, a wife, and mother. Her maiden name was Mary Botham. She was born of _Qu»ker parents at Uttoxcter, in Staffordshire, at the beginning of the present century. She was highly educated, and was initiated very early into those quiet, contemplative habits of mnd and reverence for the truth, which are 'the peculiar and commendable traits of the Friends. William Howitt was seven years her senior, was a native of Heanor, in Derbyshire, and was also of a Quaker family. In subsequent years, they cast off the Quaker garb. The young couple were brought together in early life, partly through a friendship which existed between the two families, and partly through kindred tastes and religious associations. They submitted their verses to each other, and in 1823, they were united in marriage ; William being being-in his thirtieth and Mary in her twenty-fourth year. Hence forth tbe names of William and Mary Howitt were household names in the realm of English literature. Beautiful wore their liveSj and singly or jointly, they wrote and published about ninety volumes of prose and verse. Immediately after their marraige they issued a volume of poems, with their names on the title-pnge, entitled " The Forest Minstrel." with a preface by Mary Howitt. William Howitt was a chemist by profession, and started in that lino of business in the Radical town of Not tingham. The Elowitts, who always loved the quifetude of Nature,apart from the busy crowd, occupied for a time »i wood-sur rounded cottaga by the river Trent, in the village of Wilford, rendered famous by the poems of Henry Ivirke White. At Notting ham, William Howitt became very popular with the people, and was frequently inviteil to take the chair at public meetings, and his popularity was uieatly increased by the publication of his " History of Priestcraft," which had a large circulation. During this period Mary Howitt was ever at his side, acting as his counsellor in every public veature, and she published, in thirteen suc cessive volumes, the "Dial," a Beries of instructive books for the young. WEliain Howitt was elected Alderman by the unanimous vote of his townsmen. Although most industrious as a writer, Mary was equally assiduous in her house duties, which were never neglected. The influence of Mary Howitt's charming tales helped to check a tendency to move in common-place grooves,helped to elevate the ideal of life, pointed to a higher level of possible attainments, and proved that nobleness may bs given, by honest and perseverrigoflbrt, to common and apparently mconginial employment. There is much in the writings of Mary Howitt which may be received with advantage, such as her lessons of industry, contentment, puuetu ality, precision, and virtue. In many of her stories she evidences a power of depict ing the hidden springs of huraau character and action. Not beinsi; entirely dependent upon trade, William and Mary Ho witt, in 1840, left Nottingham, with the two-fold object of ecaping that popularity which had become a constant soiuce of annoyance, and of retiring to some "nestling place," wiicre they might pursue, unmolested, a purely literary course. They removed to West End Cottage, Exeter, in Surrey, then to Ge many, then to t-weden, and on re turning to England, they settled first at Clapton, then at the Hermitage, Hanip staad, then at West Lodge, Highgate, and lastly at Home. It would require a lecture, however, to follow the Howitrs through their pilgrimage. Some years ago, I had a brief corretpondence with both William and Mary Howi't, and the lady wrote a friendly notice of a small volume of verse of mine, " Flowers and Fancies," published by Green, Paternoster Row. Mary Howitt, as already intimated, was thoroughly domesticated, and her husband was sever ■weary of extolling her many personal ex cellencies. ■ Nothing came amiss with Mary Howitt; she was mistress of her h msehold; her home was a home of taste, and alw iys m order. *he had a place for everything, and everything was in its place Mury Howitt was not too proud to b* useful, nor was she afraid of soiling her bands in the kitchen. Her husband believed that hi < wife was the best cook in the country, and not a woman in Nottingham could beat her in the making either of pastry, butter, or cheese. Her servants left her with regret, and yet with gratitude that they had had such a skilful, kindly and conscientious teacher. Her generous and «vec dis position was proverbial among all who had the plea litre of her acquaintance. Mary Howitt superintended the education of her children, instilled into their mind-i a reve reuco for the true and beautiful, a regard • for the precepts of Christianity, and a ten der feeling towards birds and animals, and especially towards the poor and afflicted of the g cat human family. Mary Howitt's works are the reflex of her own gentle* spirit, full of that quier. b.anty which glad dens the .home, snowing, tha'. duties may ..become pleaiur.es, dn.<i that useful work may be performed, withnut disgrace, by women of refinement and education.—From a Ice tute on " Wives of Men of Letters."

The Multiplication of Divorces.

The rapid rite at which divorces ate multi plyiiig is alarming those grim moralists whose joy in life it is to discover s >me hidden lessoD in a row of figures. Since 1857 we have b-en improving, until there is little now left on which to pride our selves. In Great Britain in 1860 there was one petition for divorce or legal separation for every six hundred and twenty-eight marriages; and every succeeding year the percentage has been increasing, until last session something like one ia every three hundred persons who had b-cn married were willing to pay a good deal of numey, and bear a vast amount of pxp 'sur1, to gat clear of that condition which for them was not "honourable in all." But if_ these figures stood alone we niijjht he justified in concluding that there is something p irticu larly wrong about our. social condition. However, all the world over the same kind of thing is going on. In Belgium, forty years ago, there was only one divorce in

every five hundred and seventy-four mar riages ; nowadays there is one in every 200. In France divorce is not permitted, but there is one legal separation for every 150 maniages, most of these separations pro ceeding from causes which might have war ranted a more heroic treatment. In Ger many the young people moon about so loog in the betrothed condition that they know ea^h other's temper so well by the time they get finally married bs to render after quarrels rather rare And, moreover, the Teutons are au unexcitable, easy-going race, not prone to stray after delights more car nal than fresh sausages and old beer. But the Americans carry oil' the palm in the matter of divorce. In South Carolina —not, it may be remarked, a very cleanly liviugSta:e—there has never beeu any pro vision for incompatible couple* getting clear of each other. But in nearly every other State a divorce' may be obtained, not only for the usual unpardonable offences, but for almost anything which ruffles the even tenor of domestic bliss—for instance, in many of the western portions of the Union, habitual drunkenness, conviction for a penal crime, desertiou for two years, if the hus band is " extremely cruel,"or, in brief, docs anything inimical to the wife's good plea sure. Finally, in Conncctieut, " any such misconduct of the other party hs perma nently destroys the happiness of the peti tioner and defeats the marriage relation " was, until lately, quite sufficient to obtain a dissolution of, what it is still styled, "the holy sacrament of marriage." The result is that society gets almost as mixed as in Bucharest, where it is not uncommon for an innocent young thing of onc-and-twenty to lead up her third husband to the altar, the other two looking on from the gallery ; or for a lady to stand up in a quadrille set with three gentlemen, all of whom have been at one time her spouses. Indeed, did not the Greek Cliurh limit the number of divorces to the uumbcr of the members of the Trinity, there are .Roumanian matrons who could dispose of a much greater num ber of husbands. Number three is, how ever, apt to be in the awkward position of being the lady's lust chance, aud of playing the somewhat inglorious part of a cloak for many unlawful flirtations. In America it has hardly as yet come to that pass; though when the mother told her little girl that the gentleman who had bowed to ncr from the other side of the street " was your pa last year," she was probably fast approaching the happy Mol davian mean. Nevertheless, the Western States are not the worst for divorce. Chi cago, it is true, has the reputation of being more addicted to untying the marriage-knot than any other city in the Union, Yet the ratio of divorces to marriages in the great Illinois town is only one in twelve—less than in either Ne>v Haven or Batigor. The Western Reser'e of < hio is, however, the liveliest place in all i lies great Republic as regards this social feature. The people are nearly all of New England origin, and thesforc p'Csumab'y of Puritanical ways. Still one dvorce in every eleven marriages is not confirmatory of the theory of the Yankees being a steady-going tribe; and when we learn from the recent census that the fanners iv Ashtabula county divorce and marry at tho rate of one to eight, and that in Lake county, some parts of Maine, and Tolland county, Connecticut, where once on a time a man was not permitted to kiss his wife on a Sunday, things are rather worse, the statistician gets adrift in his guosses as to cause and effect.

Books Worth Heading.

Shakespeare,

There are more admirers than readers of Shakespeare ; there are manyjwho listen to his plays, read or acted, few who make them a study. Or, if the aggregate of those, who not only admire, but read and 3tudy his works, bo considerable, the nuso ber fails far short of what it should be. When one considers the many novel-rea ders, to whom Shakespeare is almost un known, or certainly unread, (in any form or degree worth notice) perhaps "Sweet Will," as lie was once fondly called, has been, and is still, the most ill-used of poets and dramatists.

The tfermans read, study, analyse, and dissect his plays, with an energy and miuutcnes, that put his own British fellow countrymen to shame. In recommending a more diligent study of his works, we think we shall honour his memory and worth, while tending to improve the intellectual tone of. men and women. Why is Shake speare less popular than novel writers ? Is it that his moral tone was low, or his sen timents debasing? Are we afraid of those rude, and broad sentences, which in onr age are tabooed as impure and demora lising ? Whatever deftcts of such a kind, exist ,in the plays are m ire than counter balanced by an almost Puritan severity, with which he rebukes vice, and scathes the men and women who are intentionally vicious. Let tha fate of Clarence, the agonies of remor.se which afflicted .Richard the llL.Lady Macbeth, Hamlet's uncle and mother, even Cardinal Wol*ey, preach v. lay»sermon to p.ove that, " there is no peace for the wicked. Let the pious tone of Henry VI, Henry the V. Henry the VII, and others tell the other side, thai where men are devout and honourable, then trouble is only a storm, which wafts them to the desired haven, and leaves the inner life at peace. A book has lately been much read in thin town, and in England, called " Shakespeare's Study and Use of the Bible," in which it is shewn how largely the poet drear on the Sacred Book, not only for great principles, but for metaphors, similies, illustrations, and moral sentiments, which place the great poet close after the Scriptures as the moralist of all the ages. Or, are the plays heavy, turgid dull, or o'os-ure? Certainly not. To any but iofantile—weaklings in "intellect they are full of moving incidents, of startling interest, rising, as in the cae of P.ince Arthur's mother, and many others, to that sublim* tragedy of style in which heart must answer to heart and human sympathy by-stirmd to its depths. We bave, no space tor more on this great poet's works. Tosiy that they are worth reading is but an irony of tone, and almost insults them by faint praise. We -ay, therefore, to our re 'ders, honour Shakesp 'arc, as the acknowledged poet of all Countries, and ages, by reading and (•tudyiny his writings, as good, especially because of those exquisite touches of nature which make the wiio.e world kin and for that undying freshness which three hun dred years nave not impaired, and which are, so far. successive stages duri 'g which Shakespeare has be<;n more a.id mure widely known. It may be impossible, judging from the past, for another poet to arise who shall be his peer, and did the earth produce a second su :h as he, it would not destroy the fact that tic last man on the earth ahxll lhi'l the works of Shakeepeave to be a re pertory of human und divine wisdom, whose value canuo'. be estimated nor surpassed. To the very end will it be true, also, that ", Sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child," shall be king in the domain of human romance and imagination, still to body form of things unknown, and gi«e to airy unsubstantial uofiin,* a local habi tation, and a name.

A Beautiful Legend.

IT is a beautiful legend of the Norsland : Amilias was the village blacksmith, and under the spreading chestnut trcclan his village smithopiken stood. He the hot iron gehammcrcd and sjhod horses for fifty cents all round, please. He made tin bjel metß for the gjodds and stovepipe trousers for the hieroes. Mimir was a, rival black smith. He didn't go in very much for de fensive armonr,buthe was lightning on two edged bjswords and cut and slash syrcutlas3e». He made cheese knives for the other gjodds, and he made the great bjsysstnscn, an Arkansas toothpick, that made af.ee incision clear into the transverse semicolon of a cast-iron ichthyosaurus and never turn its edge. That was the kind of a ohjairpin Mimir said he was. One day Amilias made an impenetrable suit of armour for a second-class gjodd, and put it on himself to test it.and boa*tfully inserted a card in the Suenssika Nordedbjraviskj kanahcldespivtdenskgorodovusaken, saying that he was wearing a suit of homo-made best-chilled Norway merino underwear that would knock unnumbered saw-teeth in the pot metal cutlery of the iron-monger over the way, that, Amilias remarked to his friend,Ljohnn Bjrobbinson, wa« the kind of a bdiuocck he was. When Mimir spejied out the card next morning he said, " Bjjj I" and went to work with a charcoal fnrnace.a cold anvil, and an isom irphic process, and in a little while ho aime down street with a akjvaard that glittered like a dollar store diamond and mot Amilias down by the new opera-house. Amilias buttoned on his new bjannoor, and said, "If you have no hereafter use for your old ebvieese knife, strike!" Mimir spat on his hands, whirled his skjvaard above his head and fetched Amilias a swipe that .seemed to miss everything except the emp'y air through which it softly whistled. Amilias smiled, and said, " Go on ! " adding that it "seemed to him that he felt ageneralsense of cftld iron somewhere iv tho neighbour hood ; but he lndn't been hit," "Shake yourself," said Mimir. Amilias shook him self and immediately fell into lulves-tho moit neatly divided man that ever went, beside himself. " That's.where the boiier maker was away oil'in his diagnosis," raid Mimir as he went back to his shop to put up the price of cutlery sixty-live nor cent in all linos, with an unlimited advance on special orders. Thus do we learn that a good ad ion is never thrown away, and that kind words and patient love will overcome the harshest natures.— Burlington Hawk eye.

Evening Dress and the Laws of Health.

"What has physiology to say on evening dress;" asks Dr J. Milncr Fothergill in " Good Words." Decency hid her head in shame long ago at low dresses and h is been silent. Physiology say« such dresses are a violation of tho law* cf health. Let it be granted they do not entail much harm in the heated atmosphere of dining-room and drawing-room, yet what of the drive back wards and forwards, even with the help of numberless rugs and wraps! What remarks have been made from tun* to time about the long tarrying in cold ante-rooms, halls, and passages at Hoyal drawing-rooms? of colds and chills and.of unprotected lungs injured thereby ? It beseems us not to parade the horrors of a "drawing-room '' here ; hut tho fact is well enough known, that many a resilience alonsj the shores of the Mediter ranean lias been the long ou<co;nc of such exposure Whether it be that he is a les-i aesthetic creature, or that convenience presses more strongly upon h'm tliau upon the gentler sex, man certainly escapes the grave change* of dress seen i>. the other sex. He mildly oscillates from the weakness of pegtops or knickerbockers to continuations of a fan-like character, where the trousers almost conceal the boot,asin the apparently permament fashion with our blue jackets The lappel of the coat covers th« tip of the lung just where the low dress leaves it ex posed, as if inviting disease t > settle there. The shirt front is exposed in a very liberal manner in man ; but a well-starched linen shirt front is no bad protection against a rude blast, providing. the exposure be not too p olonged. Even when there is no low dress, tho upper portion of the chest in women is often too far thin y clan. Fair reader, ray connection with a hospital for disea cs of the chest tells me somewhat about female underclothing, or perhaps rather the want of it. In pr-vate practice, too. opportunities are afforded for observa tion of the scanty and utterly insufficient underclothing worn by many whose means do not prevent their indulgence in proper raiment. If ladies would only weir something approaching the merino vests, &c, seen in gentleman's hosiers' wind >w, they would not require the heated rooms at present rendered necessary from the in sufficient attire now in vogue. To'be sure, this admits of heavy ovcr-clothiug being worn when out of doors—cloth jackets, furs trimmed with fur, and all the paraphernalia of costly ou'er attire in which the female rejoices. But stouter underdo him; would be far, far better in every way. It would admit of lighter outer-clothes, and be cem patible with a healthy stroll,even for fiose who arc not unfamiliar with a carriage. '

Popular Science.

It is acknowledged that ons electric light in Boston has the same effect m five police men in " uplifting the moral condition " of the people. M. Millet, a brother of the late dis tinguished artist, is the originator ot an idea for using thin panels of natural woods for the covers of books—veneers, such as have been u«ed for furniture and wall decoration. These veneers are cut so thin that over one hundred are*ne;ded to make a pile an inch high. The Ptilman cars on the Brghton Rail way, England, arc lighted by electricity supplied by secondary batteries. The Ugnts can be turned out when pot needed, and the effect is said to be very line. Two men are ronuircd to look after the batteries, making an Item of expense which of itself exceeds the cost of lighting the same caw by gas. A Philadelphia surgeon has succeeded in supplying upper and lower cyeids to a miner whose face was horribly burnc.l by an exp'osion. The upper lids were supplied by from the man's forefinger and the lower lids by a piece cut fnm Ins arm. Some of the New York physicians are discussing the question whether ice from the surface of an impure body of water is itself impure and containing the germs of disease. There is a popular impression that the freezing of water purifies if,; but the scientific men who a re giving attention to the subject generally di sent from that theory. Large heads are found in the cold regions and smaller ones in warm regions Men with lar^e heads endure cold better than those with small ones More vitality is required to .sustain life in cold dim ites than in warm ones, hence nature gave larger heads at the North. The Lipys have the largest heads in Europe in p'oporton to their size; Norwegians next; then come the Swedes, Danes, Germans, French, and Italians. Arabs have the smallest of all men in Europe.

" From Log Cabin to White House."

We cannot hear too much of James Abrara Garfield; no title can enoblc his name. The few facts given in the above brief sketch of his life are strung together with such a genuine simplicity that one must read the whole to see how beautiful a whole it is. Garfield was what he was because his faith in God meant something to him; to him, Christianity meant culture—the culture of every noble faculty in man ; thus ho was great because he was good, with a manly consistency that at onco commended his words and deeds to the thoughtful mind, and proved that, even to this day, one man can achieve individual and national mar vels if he be but the right man. His death is deplored as a personal losi, but how great again in his, life all the way down to the "It is finished." He patiently cut his way to honour inch by inch, through all but insuperable barriers. How he worked ! Braced both body and mind by hard toil. Work, for work s;sakc, made him the strong, the brave, the enduring independent man he was. And work for work's sake is llie secret of all success worthy the name. It not only develop the physical frame, but kindles the heart's enthusiasm so as to con strain the heroic workers to do and dare the ri"ht until they become very kings among men. Yet, how great a gam is his finely rounded whole-souled life ; especially now that the many live wholly iv the present, to cat, drink and to be merry by means of the "Penny Gait," and such like. "Too tired, they say. " for anything but nonsense after the day's work is done." Not so Gattield. Life to him was too divinely good to be frit tered away in nonsense too vapid to amuse an ape. Head "Jtom Log Cabin to , White tiouse,"' and see what pigmies mental indolence-a WOMO disease than unall-pox—lns made of men generally, as compared with (.aifield. Place the poverty-stricken yet cultured mm beside the educated man of nonsense and say whose is the uobler.the happier life. Tor as between man and man the con.tra-l presented is far less a question of brains and capacity generally than of indolence, against industry—work loved for Gods sake. It is sid that so many who should be uiou, should allow nonsense to steal away their brains. Mental pleasures are en during, seu-ual pleasures cloy. Even under the soveiest toil, mental labour, re productive energy not mechanical nicely, is no less necessary to the healthy condi tion of the body than of the mind. Welcome poverty, suffering loss, and every means by which the spirit is ripened ; progressive well-doing is joy unutterable to the hum m spirit. After all that may be said of our hero, it is difficult to determine whether the mother or the son poracascd the greater heroi-m. The mother's «ood sense and strong individuality could best Reproduce themselves in her children ; hence honour's voice w.is distinctly heard above the din of a too prevalent "worldliness that lives only ior self. When women are women, men will be men, and what a heaven thu world will be then. Christ will then bo lifted up by the life.uot by the lips only.as is now too often the case. Hut alas ! the world has yet to learn what woman's work really is. She has nothing to hope tor from bad men, nor from tlu men who are good in name only, she must carve out her own niche in Fame's enduring timiple at whatever cost to herself of personal suffering.

Napoleon 111 and his Extrava gance.

THE great Napoleon assumed state and en couraged luxury from calculation; bis nephew from policy and taste. Wapol-on 111. was fond ol pomp and show, being be ■fides a conliined sensualist ; and he de rived a personal enjoyment from his enter tainments. They wee on a maguihcient scale ; but the only marked or lasting in fluence of the Imperial Court, as regards fashion or manners, was on female dress The invitations to Compiegne and * on* tainebleau were commonly for eight days; and a lady was expected to c lange her dress three or four times a day, and never to wear the same dre-s twice. The outfit for the visit was computed at not less than 12,000 francs. AVc have heard a French woman of tho Imperial circle complain Hint she could not dress for less lh»n £1000 a year. A milliner's bill on which an action wa* brought amounted to £15,000 for three years, and the f-iir d:fendant paid £12,000 into court. The case was reported in the " Gazette desTribunaux." This spirit of extravagance proved catching, and exten ded-to England, where traces of it are still discernible. It is not uncommon, for a lady at a country house to come down m a ruorninx dres-, change it for lawn tennis or a walk, put on a neglige trimmed with lace for the afternoon tea, and tben dress for dinner or a ball. The only parallel in the male sex must be sought among the '' icunesse doree " who indulge in fancy cos tumes for tho smoking-room. Male dresses err on the side of negligence. Ihe cut of a coat, the tie of * neck cloth, or the pattern of a waistc;at, is no lonser a title to fame, and a Brnmmel or a d'Or.av would be a social anomaly or im possibility. No indefensible fashion has taken so complete a hold on wom-n of all classes as the fashiou for false hair. Seventy five tons of hair from the East paid duty at Marseille* alone in 1875, and M. Bauiiril latt computes that double.that quantity is annually worked in France. The exports, principally to England and the United States^ are estimated at £75,000.-" Quar terly Review."

Gradations of Guilt.

THE wisdom of many peoples and of all ages ordains for the punishment of the same act varioui degrees of seventy,iac cording to the influeuce of circumstances, or the guile of the offenders. Thus, homi cide miy be only killing by misadven ture, or wilful muider.i or High treason, as the case may be. It is, therefore, strictly on principle that the act of con vening to one's own use the money ot another, exhibits in tha light of our lofty civilisation, various gradations ot emit, which after the manner of criminal statutes, are signified hy appropriate names, the amount of th': spoliation being w line C a3e the principal criterion. Thus : -

Taking £200,000 is called a case of Genius. Taking £50,000 is called a ease of Shortage. Taking £10,000 is called a casa of Litigation. Taking £5,000 is called a case of Insol vency.

Taking £2,000 ia called a case of Irregu larity. Taking £1,003 is called a case of Defal c itioo.

Taking £500 is called a c:>se of Corrup ti >n.

Taking £100 is called a ca-e of Embezzle' meiit.

Taking £50 is called a case of Dishonesty. T .king £10 is called a case of Thievery. Taking £5 i% called a case of Total De pravity. Taking one ham. is. called a case of War oii Saeiety.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 29, 1883,

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TMoIVOR, Upholsterer and Undertaker, 52, » City ftfarket. Couches and Chairß to order. GF. BRIMBLECOMBE, Qoeen'B HotOl, » Symondß-Btrcet and Kyber Pass R GEORGE flate C. Wood), Butcher, PameU, • supplies best quality Meat at lowkht PRICES. J YOUNG, Family Grocer. Shortland-street, • Auckland. BEST Place for Itanges, ovens, oiovcs, and Blacksmith's Work.—R. NICHOLAS, 320, Upper Queon-Btroet A UCKLAND WOMEN'S IMMIGKA. A. TION SOCIETY. Ladies and Gentlemen -wishing to become Members o£ the above Society can do so by sending the sum of One Pound to the Secretary, at the OlHco of J. M. Clark. Esq., (Mayor of Auckland,) Shortland-street, where a copy of the Kules can be seen. GEO. MOCATTA, Hon. Sec. pUBLIC NOTICE. W. PETTY, Stay and Corsbt Maker. Ladies' Mantles and Jackkts made In all the latest styles, and old onca remodelled a la mode. Surgical Appliances for Ladieß and Gcntlomen. Solo Agent for the Celebrated Cyclops Sewing Machines. To bo Bold at English Prices Only. Upper Qucen-Btroet, oppoaito Army and Navy Hotel. DN. GAItN IE R, , Manufacturing Jeweller, dealer in curios Albert Street (near Star Hotel), Auckland All kinds of Ciirios—Ornamental Knurl Gum, Wholesale and ltetuil; Shells of every descrip tion mounted at moderate charges. an Early Trial is Respectfully solicited Repairs of every description. On Parlo Francals. QYMONDS STREET MEAT DEPOT. ENOCH WOOD, Family Butcher. Meat delivered at Mount Albert, Epsom, Mount Kdun, Curlton Grove, Lower Symondß Street, Newton, and Eden Terrace. _ First-class quality; reasonable prices. Cash customers liberally treated. Inspection Invited. FOII THE BEST AND CHEAPEST LINK IN TWEEDS, Try H. Romnson (late Stevenson), junclion of Queen and Grey streets. TWEED SUITS FROM £3 10s. TROUSERS FROM 13e. Gel. STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED, Give me a Trial. H. ROBINSON, RII. II UGII ES. . FAMILY GROCER & TEA DEALER, DRAPER, HOSIER, AND HABERDASHER Junction ok Union and Wkllinutox Streets. Goods of best quality at moderate pricc3. A nice assortment of China and Earthonwaro always on hand. Families waited on lor oi'derß, Goods delivered. DRAPERY, MILLINERY, & LALuKs AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOTIIINa, 11. FOUNTAIN, Ponsonhy Road, la now offering the abovo at lowest town pricks for cash, and respectfully solicits a continuance of the patronage of has numerous customers, TTPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP U DRAPERY AND GROCERY STORK. J. lIEAPE, Family Grocek, AND GENERAL DRAPER, Is selling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores for cash as low as any house in the Trado. Good Family Tea at 2a per lb ; Excellent do. at 2s 8d; Bacon and Cheese aa good and cheap us any house in town. Trial and Inspection Invited Jl) A V E V, . ta;lor, &c vulcan lane, auckland, Begs most respectfully to call the attention of Gentlemen and the Public in general to his NEW GOODS of Best Quality foj the present and coming seasons. J.D. in returning thanks for past favours solicits a continuance of the same, and will givo satisfaction to all who may favour him with their patron.ge. Note the Address : opposite thk occidental hotel, Vulcan Lank. THE NEW REMEDY FOR ASTHMA DIFFICULTY OF BREATHING, &G. "EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA/ (Queensland Asthma Herb). A MOST VALUABLE REMEDY Also, E D S 0 N"S "SYRUP OF HYPOPIIOSPHITES,' WITH " EUPHORBIA PILULIFERA." For Asthma, Chronic Bronchitis, Coughs, Hoarseness, Tightness of the Chest, Incipient consumption, &c. Tho advantage of this preparation is the com bination of the expectorant qualities of tho Euphorbia Pilulifera with tho jrcparative pro perties of the Hypophosphitcs so universally esteemed for their power to recoup the waste and loss of tone attendant upon this class of complaints. . Tho numerous voluntaryjtestimomos receivod from time to timo as to the groat benefit derived by those who have suffered from affections of tho chest and respiratory organs for years induces tho proprietor with increased confldenoo to make it virtues more widely known. The syrup is a pharmaceutical preparation, agreeable to the taste, and may be taken by tho most fastidious. In Bottlesat 3s. 6d. EDSON'S m"kdTcAL HALL, QUEEN-STREET. Auckland. / riLANVILLE & DLLYETT TEA DEALERS, AND • FAMILY GROCERS, UJ. QUEEN STREET, (Opposite the Union Bank), AUCKLAND. NEW SEASON'S TEAS, Highly Recommended, rXuLLIS S WEEKLY TIME-TABLE. Leave Onehunga: Leave Auckland: 8.0 a.m. ' D.loa.m. !U5 a.m. 1-0 V-m ---11.15 a.m. 2.0 p.m. 12.0 noon *•« V-m. 1.0 p.m. G-0 p.m. 5.30 p.m. 7.0 p.m. — Monday, 11 p.m. RETURN FARE: Is. 6a SINGLE FARE: Is.