STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, JULY 15, 1882.

MASONIC ODE.

AT a Masonic bazaar and fancy fair in Dublin, the following ode, specially written for the occasion by Brother John Francis Waller, LL.D., was read by Rev. Dr Tis doll, brother of Major Tisdall :—

Three thousand years their course have well Fillott with*'tho mighty works that man has

done. Throe thousand years Binoo, built with heaven taught skill, Koeo to Jehovah, on Moriah'a hill, Tho noblest Templo reared by human hands— Judoa's glory—wonder of all lands— Holiest and fairest, with all splendour deck'd, A King its founder—God its archi'ect! And all tbo workmen of that fane divine Wrought out with highest art His great design. All noiselessly they worked—was heard no

sound • Of hammer, axe, or iron tool around; In silent awe each Mason did his share, AU felt tho Master Builder—God—was thero! With stones of marble white tho walls were

made. The roof of cedar, with gold plates o'eriaid. The graceful towers and pinnacles on high Boso o'er the massive structuTd to the sky. Each porch, each cloister, and each colounado Was rich in work that Mason skill had made. Beneath the radiance of an Kastera sun The glorious pile in golden splendour shone, Till dazzled|cyes in awe and wonder gazed. And felt God's glory on His Temple blazed 1

From thenoo it was our Mason Craft began, And Mason mystery ennobled man. With holy zeal for God, from olden time. Masons went forth through every land and

clime, Building where'er they came, with art drvino And loving labour, many a noble shrine, 'TU all the earth was filled with sacred piles- Majestic Minsters, Naves, and "long drawn Aisles." Yet not in temples built of wood and stone, Or "made with hands," the Almighty dwells,

alone; A holier temple is the Lord's abode, Whose Master Builder is Himself—our God. Of living stones 'tis built, and firmly laid On sure foundationer, fitly framed and made; Apostles, Propheta—Christ "chief corner stono, Tilll all tho fabric has together grown Into an holy Temple—meet to bo Tho habitation, of Divinity.

And still tho Craft has grown and multiplied; Spreading Masonic mysteries far and wide, 'Till now the sun that circles earth around, Looks on no land -where Masons are not found. The ice North, where reigns eternal snow. Warms in its frozen heart with genial glow Ol love fraternal that true Masons feel, Binding each Brother as with bonds of steel: And, in tho region* where flames out on high The Southern Cross beneath tho torrid sky, Tho Brother, wand'riug from remotest land. Still graspi a Brother Mason's friendly hand. And as tho sunbeams cheer with light sublime, Masonic Light illumines every clime. And many a noble, many, a pious name- Kings, Princes, Prelates—Brethren now wo claim. What region of the earth exists that still The Mason's love and labour do not fill?

Lab'ring to spread the light of Masonry— Peaoo, Harmony, and Heaven-born Charity; Labouring each needy Brother to maintain, With love to cherish, comfort and sustain, Nation with Nation may in war engage. Red-handed carnago o'er thelworld may rago, But still the Mason, in the battle strife. Will in tho foeman, spare a Mason's life; Peril his own a Brother's life to save,

When sinking hopeless 'neath the ocean wove, True to his Sovereign, to his God above, A Mason'a Creed is Loyalty and Love,

BrelAren, to-night, Masonic work have WC» For Masons' labour still is Charity; Our holy cause should liberal aid secure— The causo of children fatherless and poor; He to whom Mason's highest love is given, He, the great Architect of Earth and Hearen. He, whom as' ■ King of Kings" we all confess, Is still " the Father of tho fatherless ;" And all the terrors of His power abovo Are tempered by His tenderness and lovo; He Whose fierce lightning smites with fatal

Sends "gentle rain" to feed tbe tiniest flower; The Hand which lays a father in the grave Is stretched in love His orphan child to save.

Brothers, the dying Masons that we love, Bequoatb to us, our Brotherhood to prove. Those llttlo ones on whom their love once smil'd, To be a father to each Brother's child: Caring their bodies and their souls, that so As " the young plants" the sons may thrivo and

grow: The daughters, trained in truth and purity, As '.' polished corners" of the Temple be. Kemember, children unto us are given As "living jewels dropped unstained from heaven;" Oh 1 guard those treasures, pearls beyond all

priCO * From soil of evil and from stain of vice. So that when God upon His Heavenly Throne, " Makes up His jewels," these shall be His own.

What sadder Bight within this world of teara Than children orphaned in their early years; No mother's holy love and sweet caresa. To sootho each sorrow with her tenderness. No father's watchful care still at their side Their minds to nurture and their Bteps toguido; Like vines from which the storm has rent away The firm support that were their strength and

stay. Crußhed down and weak, no tree to cling to nigh. They trail upon the ground—perchance to dio 1 Ye men and women, whose young life did filiuro , The priceless blessing of parental care, "Who now, yourselves, as happy parents, prove Tho joy Ineffable of children's love; Oh! let your hearts with tenderness o'er/low For those who Father-love no longer know.

Give with " a willing mind"—in gratitude For all that God vouchsafes to you of good Sure that the gifts on others you bestow Back on yourselves in joy and love will flow. The moisture which from earth tho sunbeams

drew, Heaven kindly gives her hack in rain and dew; So when the sunshine of our God abovo

From grateful hearts draws gifts to Him in love. In tenfold richnesg they return again Upon the giver, like the dew and rain. And so the Master's words we will believe— "More blessed 'tis to give than to receive," Give.tthon, with generous hands, the means we ask . To help us in this true Masonic task. Hard 'tis for boys, when fatherless and poor. If unaostained. fife's battle to endure { But harder still for tender girls to bear The world's rude shock without parental care. * <?r them we've sought a ref age to supply, working beneath our Great Task-Master's eye, m .. v, ,BSBure<l, if graciously He deign •J 0, D<md the house/ our labour's not in vain; Aid us that house to finish as 'tis meet, 1 urnish d within-as 'tis without complete, That so a Mason's child may never come And find no place for her -within our homo. To me a grateful task has been assigned, ,i° please the fancy and instruct the mind. To cull from Shakespeare's page that lively scene Where the Fifth Henry courts his future queen, In that " false French" io which the warrior bold To tho fair Katharine his passion told. Though false the French, the Bentiment was true, Love finds fit words when honest lovers woo. I m next to tell you how one Peter Brown, An Irish gentleman, near Seville town, Made love to a young Spanish maid one night, How a Hidalgo he-engaged in fight; How Peter, with toledo keen and true, The haughty Don of many names pierced thro'; In fine, the brilliant Sheridan will Bhow What wit and satire from his pen could flow As he describes the cunning art of Puff, Of which to-day, alas ! we nave onough\ fcvery dead wall with puffs is now alive. On every hoarding hordes of posters strive Of ea«h unwary fool to catch the eye, ™9J ll2rara Btand, when all the time they lie. With these my pleasant work to-night shall end; «ek a kindly bearing km each, friend.

THE DOCTRINE OF EVOLUTION.

[By T. W. Leys.]

11. THE ANTIQUITY OF MAN;

As it is probable Unit a large number of persons under whose notice this paper may come are unfamiliar with geological terms, it will assist them in understanding our re marks on the antiquity of man if we explain, first of all, that the word pleistocene is the name applied to the last completed strata of the earth. It is the newest diyisiou of the tertiary formation. Overlying the pleistocene in places ore alluvial and other deposits such as are now in constant process of formation by the action of rivers, lakes, mountain drifts, and various familiar causes. The pleistocene for mation abounds with the remains of animals now on the earth, every species of which is represented in its fossil bones— man alone is absent. It is well to bear this fundamental fact in mind, because not only docs it prove that, according to our present ascertained knowledge, drawn fiom purely scientific data, man is a recent tenant of the earth, but it also shows that his advent was subsequent to the creation of that animal kingdom over which he now holds undivided sway. The obyions bear ing of this question upon Biblical chron ology, as well as on the evolution theory, gave a special impulse to the search for human remains, and in no department of geological inquiry has more activity been exhibited. Hitherto, these researches have resulted in an agreement amounting practi cally to unanimity among all classes of investigators, that uo trace of manh as yet been discovered in the pleistocene for mation. Alleged discoveries impugning this position have occasionally been put forward, but the application of scientific tents bos quickly dissipated the assumption and confirmed the former observations. We take the recent declaration of Professor Boyd Dawkins in the lectures at Owen's College, Manchester, as conclusive proof that the question rcnuins unaltered by any recent discovery. Professor Dawkins has, for many years, been the most ardent and successful British worker in this special department of science; he is also a member of the committee appointed by the British Association to conduct tho excavations in Kent's Cave. To a wide experience he adds great scientific attainments and a broad judgment. We are justified, there fore, in accepting his opinion as authorita tive, confirming as it does the previous observations of Lycll and other eminent geologists. Here, then, we find a secure starting point. CAVE-HUNTING. Among the deposits of the recent or human period, those in caves have been the richest in relics of man. Cave-hunting hss become almost a special branch of geologi cal research, and the literature relating to i,t is interesting and voluminous. The limits of a paper like this, however, confine ns to a statement of the general conclusions. In the Brixham caverns.flint weapons were distributed through, a bed of gravel twenty feet thick, intermingled with, the remains of the extinct mammoth, rhinoceros, and cave bear. In Kent's Cave,which li<w> been systematically prospected by a committee of eminent geologists appointed by the British Association, the discoveries were of a similar character, the bones of an extinct hyena being among the most numerous of the remains. Boue and flint weapons were fonnd intermingled with the ancient fossils. In the Brunquiel cave, France ; in tho lower gravels of Abbaville ; and in varions other places, human bones or flint implements have been found mixed indiscriminately with the bones of extinct mammals. DIFFICULTIES IN DETERMINING AGE. Many and widely different guesses have ! been hazarded respecting the age of these remains, but a moment's reilection will show how impossible it is to get any certain data upon which to proceed. Some of the caves have been used as burying places, and holes may have been dug to receive the bones. In others the bones may hare sunk into soft mud, or been disturbed by water. In order to determine, even ap proximately, the time occupied in the for mation of a particular deposit, we must assume that the same causes now in opera tion have always been operating. Bat this, we know, is most improbable. In no country more than New Zealaad are there better proofs of the unreliability of conclusions drawn from such premises. Being in transition from a state of nature to a state of cultivation, the country is a favourable one for observation — the changes are rapid and well marked. Consider, for example, the gravel deposits of the Wairarapa plain and. Hutt valley. There, broad rivers, carrying down enor mons quantities of stones and gravel, have shifted their beds frequently within a very few years, A farmer has looked out of his window in the morning after a heavy flood and beheld to his dismay that where his cattle were depastured the day be fore a river was flowing, while hit neighbour discovered, with equal astonish ment, nothing but a broad stony track where he had long been wont to fish. Art is now doing what nature would ultimately have accsmplished, by strengthening With protective works the points where these rivers are liable to break away. The destruction of the heavy forest on the surrounding hills will diminish the volume of water. And we may easily picture a learned savant of Masterton city, two centuries hence —finding these deep aid widely spread gravel deposits miles away from a little brook flowing through smiling fields in its well-formed bed—propounding learned theories about the causes of the boulder formation, upon the Wairarapa plains, and proving by abstruse calculations that the Maori bones discovered in the lower gravels date back at the very least to the glacial period. In other parts of New Zealand, rivers that were navigable have completely silted up within a very few years. At the entrance ■to the Waimea river (near Nelson) the depth of water has been decreased within a few years, by deposits of mud, from 14 feet to 5 feet. The Go vernment are at this moment erecting a retaining wall at Collingwood with a view of restoring the A6re River to its proper channel. The denudation of the forest-clad hills bos materially affected the volume and the rapidity of oar rivers, and. tbe amount of debris

brought down. In our harbours similar phenomena are everywhero observable. Bank* of sund forming at one point have given a u«w direction to tidal currents, pro ducing extensive and rapid alterations. Landslips have prepared new stumbling blocks for uuborn Ljclls and JDarwins. At Ta«po, within the last twenty years, the chief Tc Iluuhcu and his entire settlement wore cugutphoi by an enormous landslip. We can well imagine that some enterprising settler a century hence, sinking a well no the spot, may cast out tho buried warrior's skull from the bottom of his blutt, and another Whitney arising shall prove con clusively to his own satisfaction that instead of coming bore about the 14th century, as declared in their tradition? and genealogies, tho Maoris have occupied these islands at least five thousand years. Disturbances like these, climatic changes, and a multitude of other farces have been at work wittt tenfold greater power in Europe than in New Zealand, even within the historical period, aud they constitute an ever-varying quantity which it is uttcily impossible to compute.

When it is said that human remains have been found intermingled with those of the last representatives of the mammoth and other extinct mammalian monsters, the mind is carried back to some very remore period. But tbe deposits iv which these remains are found prove that tbe animals survived till a comparatively recent time, and man unquestionably unlisted in thsir final extermination, Ono con temporary of the mammoth—our friend the msa—has not long disappeared from tho earth, and some people Bra sanguine enough to believe that the mountain fastuesses of Otago will yet yield us a livlrig bird to keep company with the three surviving specimens of his old companion the giant noturois, the laat of which was killed near Lake Ta Anau, Otago, three years ago. The causes that produce the extinction of cettain species j are still a matter of the vaguest speculation, Cuvier attributed the sudden disappearance of certain extensive forms of life—and no doubt rightly—to violent changes iv the condition of the earth. We know that certain races of men are rapidly disappear ing. The whole of the ancient inhabitants of Polynesia, including the Maoris, are dying out with, extraordinary rapidity. " The black man always gives way before the white man," is a commonly ottered but exceedingly indefinite explanation of the phenomenon. And the answer fails to meet the cose, because, as Mr a. R. Wallace proved by tho rapid decrease of the Dyaks -rand the same facts have been observed in many parts of Polynesia—once densely populated places, where white men have never intruded, give the same evidence of decay that we see in the re-it of the Poly nesian people. Nor in Now Zealand docs the presence of the white man account for that extraordinary sterility which ia ono of the most striking causes of Maori depopulation. Mr l'enton, Chief Judge of the Native Land Court, in statis tics relating to certain Waikato tribes, shewed that there were 650 deaths to 320 births; while out of 433 marriages, 154 had been without issue ; and G8 were without children through death, leaving only 221 with living issue. A multitude of' pheoomenalend to the inference that races, like individuals, reach a stage in their his tory when they become incapable of reproduction, and then they decrease and iiually disappear by a process of natural decay. A very valuable p«per on this sub ject by A. K. Newman, M.8., M.R.C.P., is published in tho "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute for 1881." Besides the depth of alluvial deposits, other testa have been applied to determine man's antiquity. Agassiz found a human bone in the coral bads of Florida, which he believed must from its position have been lyiog there ten thousand years. But here again the same difficulty confronts us. Can we be sure that the formation of the coral has gone on with unvarying regularity for 10,000 years. The balance of probabili ties turns the other way. All that can be affirmed on this question of antiquity, as ; Professor Dawkins justly observes, is this— that recent discoveries appear to favour tbe belief in a higher antiquity for man than was at first supposed.* EXPLODED IDEAS ABOUT SAVAGE RACES. Nothing makes us more distrustful of conclusions drawn from uncertain pre mises than the blunders which scien tific men of high position have made in matters that are ascertainable. What could be further from the truth than the opinions that have been almost universally held concerning the intelligence of barbarous races. Consider the case of the Maori. Less than a century ago the aborigines of these islands were re garded as among the most barbarous and intractable of savages. Their cannibal orgies, their primitive stone implements and weapons, their perpetual wars, were cited as indicating a thoroughly vicious people. Close acquaintance, however, has Btterly dispelled the illusion. "We have found the Maori fully equalling the illiterate ; Caucasian in intelligence; brave and hospitable, possessing a remarkable poetry and mythology, a strong realistic belief in immortality, and preserving genealogical and historical records, the accuracy of which has been established by searching examinations in. the Native Lands Courts. Their representatives—of pure blood—take an active part in the Parliament of the coun try, speaking intelligently, not only upon native questions, but on general subjects. And only within the past month an Eng lish member of that Parliament (Colonel Trimble) who is not remarkable for phito- Maori proclivities, speaking in the House of Representatives of one of these so-called savages, declared his opinions in these words {vide Hansard reports): " I agree | with everything that has been said in i regard to the moral and intellectual quali ties of Te.Whiti. . . . I have not the slightest doubt that Te Whiti is as good a« any man in this Hou*c ; and in intellectual qualifications I believe that he exceeds a very large proportion of the gentlemen of this House." Wo cannot, in view of state ; ments like these made in the Parliament of the coloDy and receiving confirmation from our everyday experience, fail to admit that tbe savage who alarmed our infantile imagination is largely, if not altogether, as pure a myth as those other bogies tf>at caused the youthful horror-monger to draw his head shudderingly \indcr the bed clothes. Who does not remember those terrible coloured plates depicting Captain Cook clubbed by a band of monsters. Yet we Know that those very people were the mild Sandwich Islanders, who, in the first instance reverencing their pale-faced visitors * '• Cave] Hunting," ty Professor W, Boyd i Dftwkins,

as superior beings, soon discovered from the licentious behaviour of tho crew that they were very ordinary mortals "indeed ; and roused at last to indignation by the ruth less desecration of their sacred places, mustered courage enough to revenge their wrongs. If there remained any lingering belief in the faithfulness of that picture, the appearance of KingKuUkau us an honoured guest of the Knglish Court and American President must «re this have dispelled it. Moreover, a civilisation which has not yet discarded war as the arbiter in international disputes cannot afford to suy much about that recklessness of human life, which is the worst feature of pure barbarism. TIIK MAORI COSMOGONY. We do not wish to extend a paper which h.is already passed its intendod limits, by multiplying instances of misapprehensions by moa who writs with confidence and authority. Hut one blunder committed by Sir John Lubbock, who would be quoted us an authority by any author, tolls the story of many n learned theory built upon the unsound footing of defective knowledge. Iv that celebrated and oft quoted work, " The Origin of Civilisation, he tells bin readers that the New Zoalander had no idea of a creation, t Let us examine this statement by the light of the interesting little work on "Maori Religion and Mythology," lately published by Dr Shortluud. We therein find that though the Maoris had no clear tradition of a creation, they did possess n well-defined aud exceedingly curious co< mogony: "The (jroat mysterious cause of all things existing in the Cosmos was, as the Maori conceived it, the Generative Power. Commencing with a primitive state of Darkness, he conceived Po (Night) as a per son capable of begetting a race of beings resembling itself. After a succhkhioii of severul generations the race of Po Tc Atft (Morn) was given birth to. Then followed certain beings existing when Cosmos was without form and void. Afterwards come Kaugi (Heaven), Papa (Earth) tho winds and other sky powers, as are recorded in the genealogical traditions preserved to the present time." "The first woman iv the Maori mythology drags down her offspring to Po (Night), meaning death." Dr Short laud is struck with the many points of similarity between the Greek and Maori mythologies. J EDISON ON SCIENTIFIC FRAUDS. Though in some degree wandering from the subject, we have been led to these remarks with a view of showing by familiar illustrations how unreliable many of tho conceptions from which we arc accustomed to draw momentous deductions are, even when relating to matters where error is almost inexcusable. Edison, the great American electrician, asserted in a letter to the " New York Herald," on December 31st, 1879, that " They (scientific text books) are most misleading. I get mad with myself ■when I think I have believed what was so learnedly set out in them. Tnerc are more frauds in science than anywhere else. . I have been thrown oil' my track often by them, and for months at a time. You see a great name and you believe it. Try tho experiment yourself and you find the result altogether different." If in spheres of observation where,it is.possible to be exact, the way is strewn with errors j dressed in the learned garb of science, we must walk still more cautiously when pure ly speculative theories are oflcrcd for our acceptance. ANCIENT SKUUS REFUTE THE DOCTKIJJE OF DESCENT. Coming back.however, more immediately to the subject—we would observe that the question of man's antiquity has only one bearing upon the doctrine of evolution, and by general confession of the Darwinians that lias so far gone against them. It is of no great importance, whether man has been 0,000 or 20,000 years on the earth; it is, however, of importance to know whether the earliest human skulls bring us any nearer to a brute type; and scientific accuracy compels even ardent believors in Darwinism to confess that they do not. The two moat celebrated skulls are the JSngia skull found in a Belgium cave, with the re mains of the mammoth, and the Neanderthal cranium, Mr Hnxley has . carefully re corded his observations on these discoveries, and it is sufficient to give his conclusions. Of the Kn£is skull he says:—"lt i.». in fact, a fair average human skull, which might have belonged to a philosopher, or might have contained the thoughtless brains of a savage." Of the Neanderthal remain', though of lower type, he cays with equal emphasis:—" Iv no sense can the Neanderthal bones be re garded as the remains of a human being in termediate between men and'apes." II Sum ming up his observations on the moat ancient human remains yet discovered, Pro fessor Boyd Dawkins says : " There is no evidence that the palaeolithic people were inferior in intellectual capacitj to many of the lower races of the present time, or more closely linked to the lower animals, The traces which they have left behind tell us nothing as to the truth or falsehood of the doctrine of evolution." § Professor Owen adds his testimony tint the several .human skulls that have been found show no char acters whatever indicative ot an inferior or transitional type; while ultra-Darwinists, like Oscar Schmidt, candidly admit that there is no more possibility of the hard, bony, ox-like skull and powerful biute jaws of any species of existing ape, being trans formed into the human head than the human head could be transformed into tbat of a monkey. What refuge then is found in this unfortunate dilemma! The evolution ists offer a twofold reply. First of all they tell us that though the caves of Europe and America have been ransacked in vain for the "missing link," there are still those of Asia and Africa—the cradle of thehuman race—left to them. And next, they answer that it is not incumbent upon them to pro duce transitional forms, that inasmuch as their theory has, in their opinion, more inherent probability than the theory of special creation, they are warranted in believing it. Very true, there is no limit to a man's rights of belief, but pray do not let us have private beliefs and opinions thrust upon us in the name of science. If the doc trine of Descent is true, we know there must have been transitional forms ; and not only have those forms never been found, but the earliest human remains directly controvert their existence by extorting from the apostles of Darwinism an admission that the size and form of skull exhibits no trace of transition or evolution during a period which according to Darwinian calculations extends age 3 beyond the theological limit, six thousand years. This article has reached such an oxces sive length that we must defer our consid eration of the arguments based on reversals,

the similarity of human and animal ovules, and other physiological phenomena relied upou by the evolutionists, for another paper.



t " Origin of Civilization," Sir John Lubbock. t " Maori Religion and Myholoiry." by X" Shortlund, M.A., M.R.C.P., Into Native Secre tary; Now /.caland. ll" Huxley's " Jinn's Pluco in Natuw." 5 " Cave IluntJjiK," by Professor W. Boyd Dmvkins. "J " The Doctrine of Dcscontnnd Darwinism," by Professor Schmidt, StrasburK University,



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Only fIISO. (129) GRBAT N'OKrll KOAU (oorncr or Briibuno and Stanley-BtroetaJ-Two goi'd Vorandah UotURoB, with outhouua. woll, &o.; allot ment to oaoh 31 x 110. l'rleu £M 0 for the lot. ii'A) MONTAGUE-STRKKT. NRWTON — <Jood Voraadiih Cattaßo; i rooma; eood -well, &o.; alloimontmont 33 x 93, Cheap, £100 H7B. DUKK-STKKBT. NEWTON—Tory oomfort ablo llouso; 8 rooms; In flrat-class order; good woll, oven, ((as fitting*, fee.; allot mont 3? x9O Cheap, only em (320) DUK.K-STRKKT, NKWl'ON—Nloo Vorandah Cotfc»2B; i rooms; Rablo onis, a moet new: allotment S3 x 93. very desirable. (521) AIILFOHD-STKBKB1. PONBONHY—New and woll - flnlshßd Honso; C rooms, besides pantry, dairy. Borvontß' rooms, So.; flttod with register grates, ovene. &o. i allotment 13-i x )o'i; in garden i togotnur vriin stable, bugjy-houß3, &-•• *600 (211) ANCJIiKdKA-al'hKXT—Nlca Honee; Grooms; Seattle, waah-house, wooo-sbed. &o.; mile.n- Hiri garden; corner ollotmont; grand view. £550. 1269) CL AKrtNCK STKKKT.. PONBONBY-Veran dah Cottage; i rooms, tank, fco.; allotment 48x80, Only £180. (290) BHKKHAN-3TKKKT. PONSONBY—Nioo Cot tage ; I rooms, verandah in front, and very comfortable ; »ear the Hall. £230. (300) PROSPECT TE BRACK—Comfortable House; fi rooms; Jltted with sideboard, cupboard, &o.; g&B lain on; allotment iO x 190, £300. 1399) PONSONBY/ TERRACE — New House; 7 rooms (not quite finished); good well, taDk. •wondehod. it.; good utlotmant. 80 X 100 all fflncod »«<l planted. £100. Utf) NKWMAHKitT-Nioo Veiandah Cottage of 5 rooms. Uttcd with regtstor, ovon, etc., corner lo>, for £230. JOHXSTItKJST, Punsonby — Cheap Cottage, 4 rooms ana ooullery, freehold allotment, iO X SO. prioa only £120. (172) HAOKEr-aTHEKT, near Btepa to 'JOftoh, toot of a>. Mary's Koad—Hantlsooio Villa, Kublo ends, bo w-windows, and ilttol with, regis ter prnue, O von, onnboarda, vtc, ; a'lotment 33x93; price nnlv £300. (4'Ut CLA.RHNCK-3TRBET - A N w and Well flnishod VoMndah Co\.taga, i rooms und souHery ; flttea with resistor gr*to, oven, cupboards, tanks, etc ; price £250, rasy ternn (OS) PRuaPKCr TERRaCK—Handsome and very desirable House, G rootUß, souilory, etc., reßiatftr grate, ovon, cupboard, shelves, pras and water laid in, eto.; allotmsnt S3 X 100; splendid little Kardcu, cholcu tr isou, «to. (J9?) WILLIAM AND GKORGIC-STRKHITS - Cor ner lot, new and compaot Vnranriah Cot ta«o, fitted with oupbotirda, drcesar, cools- Ins n&xe, etc., etc.; prloa only sum (508 i PROsPKCT-STltKKT.oonr tn« Ponsonby Hall, now and well-finlshei House, 6 rooms, register, oven, tank, etc, etc.; allotment 33 x 100. fenced, price £325. (5U> MOUNT KDKN, near Mr Kn'ly'B—New and well-flnlfhed Vlllo, gublip, baw-wlnd-jw, etc , ot<\, 9 roams, und wj.vh tionso ; allot ment il x 132 ; prioe £4001 (505) PARNKLiL— Commodious Family Rwddenco, containing 9 rooms*, etc., ©to., ■waeh-bonse with ooDDer, and other conveniences, large and valuable corner allotment; prlou £750. (57) OTAHDHTJ—N/oa Verandah CgUurp, i rooms, etc. stood corner allotmont, for £l!)i). (i (G) PAPAKURA—Now House and outbuildings', null 'il aurea real ftond land in orohard, etc,, in valuable position, just ac railway station. ONEHUNGA— Splendid Allotmont In Selwj-n- Ptr»6», near Congregational Clmpot, 33 >:103; prloa only £33. (IS2) TD aKAU—a. very Compaot Warm of 101 acres. pplendid lnnd. no»riy. alt fenced and sub divided : plenty o( water, a never-fallinsE spring through tho property: eood Cottage, with workshop dairy, oowshed, outhouses, &o.: Rood position, »nd only 1J mllea from station. Price only £560. (ill) TURANG\ OBBBK (noor Howlob)-A very cheap little Farm of 105 acvoß. patt Oulti vatod, plenty of timber and water; good House, (to. (about 17 miles from Auckland), Only £325. (438) MANOtttfK—A Choice littla tot of It acres o£ unsurca Bed Land. Bub-divl<ted,fenoed, and in ftrnSH; with Cottage. onthoußoe, &o. R AZOK BACK-Bplenaid llttlo Farm, 82 acres, larga Homestand, and every convenience ; about S miles from Pokeno Station, (if 1) PAV-aKURA— a. destrftblo Kurm of 360 acres, part in oaUlv»t(6n. plentr of witot. umber, and baautlf ully dheltored; goort Homestead, 7 roomn. and necessary outbnildlngp^nrden, orchard, &c , and stook at valuation, it de sired, (217) TUAKA (7—Splendid llttlo Lot o£ 50 noron, nice pleoa bußh, ploniy of watsr; uear station, (IWI BOMBAY—Nice little Farm of 20 acroa, goad Homestead. &c. Prico only £320. MAUNGATAWHIRT—f huu litHo Farm of 40 aoren, teal good land; good House, Bitnate on Main, and about 1 mile from PoSteno station. Only £(50. MAUNGArAWHIHI-57 Aciee good Land; oheap Only £150. (ISS) ORUA.WHARO - Nice Farm. 317 ocroa Homes'.cod and nil Improvements for £350. TK ABAl—Farm 589 ocres. with houßß and all imorovements for £7000, ICA.UKAP AKAPA-223 aorcs, on whioh stands a valuable bush, and in good position, (Joi) CHAIjMKKSTON—Compact little Farm o! 160 acres; P*rt In cultivation; nplendld orohard; eood pieoe of bush; oreok. ftc. House and outbuildings almost now. £600. MOUNT KOltN (near Toll Bar).-Nice Veran dah Cnttago. 1 rooms, feo., allotment about 6G by 90 ; ohenp. only £280. AND NUMEROUS OTHHR PROPERTIES— Bush Lands, Improved Farms, Building Sited, Business Premises, &c, for Sale, on application to D. F. EVAN S, House Lind, ahd Estate agent, QUKEK-BISKSX (HBSt I'tiXßiW").