SKULL, BRAIN, and MIND

NEW DISCOVERIES CONCERNING

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(nv j. Simms, at, d.)

HAVltra been requested to pnbli«h my observations, and investigations regarding the size of heads and brains, as they relate to mind, is the reason for presenting this article to tho public. It has been observed by many anthropologists,- metaphysicians, and surgeons, that men with the largest brains are not the most talented, powerful, HX intellectual. On tho other hand, it appears that many men with extremely heavy brains and large heads have been idiots and the most stupid; whereas many of the most talented minds and most power ful men have had unusually small brains, Esquirol states that "no size or form of head or brain is incident to idiocy, or talent," and so we lind it. The largest Jbrain on record was that of an insann negro, ■who died at the Richmond, Virginia, Lunatic' Asylum. Dr. Barksdale recorded that his brain weighed 70 ounce?. See San Francisco "Weekly Bulletin," April, .1882. Als'>. F'rßarksdale'sown "reportof a large brain.'' Dr. Janass Morris records th- next brain in size, or second largest in the world, ns belonging to a thievish, drunken fellow, ■who could neither read nor write, His brain exceeded 97 oz. in weight. The ac count of this bram ani man may be found on page 465 of the " British Medical Journal," October 26, 1572. No intellectual person or man of power mi ever recorded as having a brain as heavy as either of the two here mentione). Among men of giant 'intellect the largest brain weighed only S4 5-in fz.—that was the brain ot Cuvier, tbo naturalist. Dr. Bucknill records an instance where a man of 37 years was sadly deficient in intellect, an imbecile, yet his' brain weighed exactly the same as that of Cuvier (page 367). '' The Brain as an Organ of Mind," Bastian, London). Agassiz was as great, ny greater, naturalist than Cuvier, and his brain weighed more than 10 oz. less —that is 53 310 oz. Agassiz's brain weight may be found, by Darril Wilson, recorded in the " Canadian Journal, of October, 1876. So rare a case was never before or since known where a man of great intelligence had SO larjie a braio, Tho forehead of John Kay, F.C.S., is contracted in all 'its dimensions, so as to form a direct contrast to that of Cuvier, another naturalist of equal industry and zeal, but perh ips not of more emprehen siveraind, page 192. "Lives of Eminent Zoologists," by M'Gillivray. Cuvier says the highly-eminent English botanist and zoologist's labours, " may be considared as the founontion ot modern zoology; for naturalists tire obliged to consult them cverv instant for the purpose of clearing up the difficulties which they meet with in tbe works of Linnaeus and his imitator?." " His botanical and. zoological writings laid the foundations oJ the classifications of the vegetabb and animal kingdoms." See John Ray, in Beeton's dictionary of Biography, London. Hero we find a man of surpassing genius, with a very small forehead in all its dimensions, equal in minrl, if not superior to the big headed Cuvier. John Ray was once a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, England, and Gr<?ek and mathematical lec turer there. He wrote the "Synopsis Methodica Stirpinm Britannicarum," than which a more profound work of it* kind was never, known. There was no idiocy about !tim,lhoiigh nis forehead was small. Esqnirol, in Transla'ion by E.K. Hunty, Philadelphia, 1545, page 375, mentioned a foolish monomaniac, whose head measured in cirenmferenco 2G inches, and 37•hun dred ths. Also on page -151 he gives an ac count of an idiot., whose head measured in circumference 33 inches and 66 hundredths. On page 45S also an'idiot is mentioned whose head was 22 inches and 14 hun dredths in circumfereDce, which is about the size of Charles Spurgcon's head, ac cording to Morgan, au English phrenolo gist. History hai no record of any roan of in telligence with a 33-inch head in circumfe rential Men who are not idiots usually have much smaller heads'. We measured one idiot's head in the Idiotic Asylum at Newcastle, on November 10th, 1881, that in its horizontal circumference yraS 26 and three-fourth inches. There ia uot a man of any sense in New South Wales whose head measures aa large. Thi3 head ■was on a boy of 14 years, who had a higher, 'finer, broader, and larger forehead than any man in the colony.and yet the'boy is a com plete idiot, For confirmation of this state ment see Rev. Mr F. Canes, who has charge ■of the Asylum for Idiots of New South Wales, Australia, or measure the idiot him self. Mr Canes said to me,'' Those boys in. this institution with the smallest heads are the brightest." One girl whose head we' ■measured iv that institution had a circum ference of 214 inches,and though 20 years of. ■age she is a complete idiot, and cannot feed herself. Her head was as high as usual, •with as broad a forehead as is common to women, and her head in every direction measured the average woman's size. Ano ther girl of 20 years, with a strong healthy body, a natural idiot, had a head 22J inches in circumference, and as high and broad in ■ the front head as the ladies in Sydney or other cities. This last head measured in every measurement more than the average of women. Another girl in the same asy lum, whose head measured 22J- inches, was an idiot from birth, though 18 years of age. A girl with the usual height of forehead, and strong healthy body, manifests extreme idiocy. Of the 15 girls' heads we measured in the Idiotic Asylum of New South Wales : the average.circumference was 211-15 inches. Their ages ranger! from 12 22 years!. Fifteen boys ag?d 12 to 22 years in the same insti tution ; the average circumference of their heads wai 21 51-50 inches. On the average intelligent boys and girls in New South Wales will n"t measure so much in the cir. • cumference [of their h?ads. These heads were as high, and well formed as those of in telligent lads in the colony. Only six men were measured in the Institution of Idiots ; they were fiom23to 40 years of age, and yielded an average of a fraction over2li inches. The average size of the heads in the warm p:uts of temperate climates is 21 Inches for females and 22 inches for males. The average weight of the adult male brain is said to be 42 ounces, according to the climate in which they live. Females average four to five ounces less brain than males. This weight is in accord with VTelcker, Dr. Peacock, Dr Boyd, Thurman, "Wagner, Parchappe and others. Dr. Langdon jDown states that ho dis sected the brain of an idiot that weighed, 53i ounces. (Page Bastian, M.D., London, 18S0.) Only three intelligent men ever had brains as heavy as this idiot, according,to the weights given by the best authorities. Dr. Thurman says —"The heaviest brain weighed. by me (620z), was that of an uneducated butcher, who was just able to read, and who died suddenly of epilepsy combined with mania, after about a year's illness." (Pages 366 and 307, Ibid.), M. Parchappe says the largest brain weighed 61 3-10ths oz. (Ibid,, page 376). Dr. Skac mentions an insane epileptic woman,

whose brain weighed the extraordinary amount of Gloz. ' (Page 37C, Ibid.). Dr. C. Clapham says that of 43 patients who died in an English Asylum, where he \ x nd charge, the weight was 55 uz and upward-1. Four of these brains weighed each C0 O 7 to 61oz. (West Riding Asylum Eep,,' rt s volume vL, 1876.) Dr. Clapham States that the average of 11 Chinese brains of men was 60oz and 45 hundredths. (Page 00, volume vii., " Anthropological Journal of the Institute of Great Britain and Ireland.") No one will claim that Chinese are as intelligent or powerful as Dutch French, Germans, Englishmen, or Ameri cans, and yet their brains overage heavier We measured about 30 Lapps, and found their heads larger oa an average than any other people in Europe, in proportion to the sue of tho persons measured, and yet they live in baric hots, subsist largely on fish, and exhibit about the same decree of intelligence and enterprise as the aborigines of Australia. We measured the hcadYof two boy idiots who were in tho Asylum for the Insane at Dunedin, in New Zealand and found each 23 inches in circumference! and the foreheads were capacious and well formed—not unusually renediug, but on the contrary, bold and wide in front Dr. Peacock state, that m 157 adult Scotchmen, whoso brains he weighed, he found four brains that weighed 61oz to (52|oz each. All were working men, one being a sailor, another a printer, a third a tailor. Dr. Peacock's tables give these weights also; page 365, "The Brain an Orjjan of Mind, by Bastiau, Louden, ISSO." Dr. 11. C. Bastian has made brains a thorough study, and in summing up, after having given many brain weights, gays :— " In the first place.then, it seems perfectly plain, from the facts recorded, that there is no necessary or invariable relation between the degree of intelligence of human beings, and the mere size or weight of their brains. We have seen that some demented persons may have very l;irgo braius ; and again, that in certain very ordinary members of society, suffering neither from disease nor from congenital defect, the brain may be decidedly large ami heavy;" pages 370 and 371, " Tho Brain an Organ of Mind, by H. Charlton Hastian, M.D., F.R.S., Lon don, ISSO." We concur fully in the above sentiments by Dr. Jiastinn, having arrived at that conclusion 20 years ago, from the examination of many brains and thousands ot heads. Again, Dr. 15 istian states, on page 3G4 of the same book, "Idiocy is, therefore, not necessarily associated with a very small size of brain " Baiu says on. pate 19, in '-Mind ami Body :"—" Occasio nally a stupid man has a larger brain than a clever man " "Joachim, G feet 9 inches high; skull, 1950 centimetres; brain weight, 1733 grammes; imbecile ; almost the size of Cuvier's. This fact shows plainly that intelligence is not thn only factor of the brain, but that staturs and weight have great influence on this rcsul'."—Page 40(36, volume X, •' Scientific .American Supple ment." We will append a list of eminent men who were the moat talented and powerful minds of the world, at the time they lived, yet they had small heads. On page 211 of the "Phrenological Journal," volume I. No. 7, Philadelphia, it reads:—Phrenolo gical Development of Prince Talleyrand, taken by M, Place, jointly with Dm. Coigny, Moreall do Saint Ludgire, Flourens, and Micard, reported in "La Siecle" news paper, published in Paris 19th of January, IS3S,abridged. General horizontal measure ment, 29 inches and 4 lines. (A. line in French measure is the tenth part of an inch. In England it is the twelfth part of an inch.) From thn root of the nose to the occipital hole passing over along tbe top head, 14 inches ; from the hota in the ear to the other over venoraticn, 11 inches 2 lines." Priuce Talleyrand was the'ablest man of his time. Speaking of Prince Talleyrand at an early age, Miraheau said : —'•For every combination he was prepared ono of the most subtle and powerful in tellects of the age. Generally counselled measxires marked by wise liberality and solid common sense."—"Universal Biog raphy," by Wm. A'Beckett, London. Napoleon "said :—" Talleyrand is a dex terous fellow, he has seen through me."— " Beeton's Dictionary of Biography," Lon don. " Talleyrand was unquestionably one of the greatest men of his time; to a great talent for business he added that per fect command over himself, which is so advantageous to a diplomatist. Hi 3 wit was caustic, ready, and penetrating, a crowd of examples attestina his accomplishments in this respect. Ho preserved all tha qualities of bis great mind until the close of his life. He had always the welfare of his country at heart."—(" Beeton's Dictionary of Universal Biography, London. 1') He was a much greater man than Cuvier, with a far smaller brain. We have examined many school children of two and three years of a»e in Sydney and other cities, with heads measuring more than the great minded Prince Talleyrand. We have permission to publish the fol lowing with address :—Miss F. Kate Howitt;, eight years of age, 16 Oxford-street, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, is in perfect health ; horizontal circumference of head, 20J inches; from root of the nose over the top head to occipital hole, 14^ inches : from tbe hole in the ear, to the hole in the opposite ear, over the place where phrenologists say veneration shows'itself, 13J inches. From the the hole in the ear over where phrenologists say casua lty is located, in the upper fore head to the opposite earhole, 12f inche?, It will be seen that in every measurement this litth Miss has a larger head than the famous and talented Talleyrand. William Richardson, jun,, 166 Sussex-street, Syd ney, is 12 years of age, with a horizontal measurement of head of 20 inches aud 5-16ths of an inch; from the hole in tbe ear to the hole in the fellow ear, 14 inches, vertically overtop head, as in Miss Howitt. From the roof of tho nose to the occipital hole, 14J inches. This lad's head measured more in every measurement than the talen ted diplomatist and statesman, Talleyrand, of France. In fact, each of the last two heads measure two to three inches more from hole in tho ear to cat-hole on oppo site side of the head over centre of top hnad than the great Prince Talleyrand. F.C. Hall, of Queen-street, AVoollahru, Sylaay, four years, horizontal cirenmfereuce of head, 20i- inches; from ear-hole to opposite ear-hole," vertically over top head, 13|< inches ; nose to occipital hollow over tip head, 13f inches. His brother, P. E. Hall, of nine years, circumference of head, 20A inches; nose to occipital hollow below occipital point of the occipital bone in the skull, 13J inches; earhole to the opposite one, 135 inches. All these children were born in Australia, and the measure ments were taken without selection, as they visited w for professional physiogno mical description of character on July Bth, 1882. By reference to the figures it will be seen that each child's head was two inches or more larger, in the measure ment from ear ope Ding over the top head to same place on the opposite ear, than Princel Talleyrand's. Cer tainly, all these children were very fine haired and thin skinned, and one could easily suppose that they were thin in skull bones. On ihe same day wo measured three lads, aged respectively 15, IG, and 19 yearsy They were not selected, and were usually

intelligent or rather above tbe common in intellectual power, and they averaged 21J inches in the horizontal circumference oi head, which by comparison with the mea surements of the iij idiotic boys at tho Asylum at Newcastle, New South Wales. Australia, ie will be apparent tbat the idiots had larger teads thun intel ligent lads of the same age in the same country, aud thia has been our experience in variuis parts of the world.

Dean Swift's skull was a small ono, and according to "phrenology, wit and ideality were small, and his life showed these powers larger than any man of his time "— Pages CO2 and 504, the " Lancet," London, 1835. be was a very able author. " The poetical pieces of Swift arc mostly of a humorous order. His prose stylo is remarkably clear and forcible."—Page 286, " Bcetou's Dictionary of Universal Biography," See "Jonathan Swift." Dr. J, B. Clarkson examined tho brain of Sir Walter Scottt, and the left hemisphere was diseased. The corpus striatum was a considerable portion of it in a stale of rcn.o lismeut, or softening. Tho brain was not large.—Page 130, "American Phrenologi cal, 1' aud "Miscellany," page 134, vol. 1, No 5, Philadelphia, February 1, 1839. " General' W. lr. Burtlott had a small head."—Pago 2!)S, "Memoirs," by W. F. Palfrey, .boston, IS7S. He was an able general in the great civil war in the United States of America.

General George Washington, a,« described by an acquaintance : " His head is small. ' Page (363, vol. 3. " Life and Times of Geueral Washington," by (Jyrus It, Ed monds London, IS.'!!). General Washing ton founded a government, or was the leader in establishing a grout republic! He is highly respected mall parts of tbe world. "Tho magnanimity of the hero was blen ded with the wisdom of the philosopher. His government was marked by that well tempered prudence which distinguished :• 11 his conduct, No general ever planned hia battles more judiciously. Ho was, indeed, in every sense of the word, a wise, a good and a great man," see Gonrgo Washington, the celebrated A mericau patriot, page 1075, DeetOll's Dictionary of Universal Bio graphy, London. "The military talents of General Washington were of the highest order, pi>>o 312, A'ol. 11., Tbe Life and Times of General Washington, by Cyrus li. Edmonds (an Englishman), London, IS36V'

"Shelley had a very small head," page 110, Wadsworth, Shelly M'Millan, l on.loii, Percy Bysshe Shelley was an eminent Eng lish poet. :>!>," John Marshall, Chief Justice of the united States Courts, had a small head." Page 409, vol. 2, John Flanders" " Lives of Chief Justices," Philadelphia, 1850. Also, on page 409 of the snoio work, we find Daniel Webster's opinion of John Marshall, thus :—' I bave never seen a man of whose intellect I have a higher opinion." "John Marshall: Low forehead." Page 426, "Illustrious Americans."

" Raphael's head was small." "Artists' Biographies'' J- R> O«good, Boston. .No mm ever excelled him in painting "John Selden, one of the most learned men England has produced, very tall, about six f.et, sharp oval face, head not very largo, long nose." '"Albion's Dictionary of Authors." ♦

Lord Byron's head was very small. '' His head was rema'kably small. Several of us one day," says Colonel Napier, "tried on his hat, and in a party ot 12 or 14 who were at dinner, not one could put it on, so exceedingly small was his head. My ser vant, Thomas Wells, who had the smallest head in tbe !)Oth repirncnt, so small that he could hardly get a hat to tit him, was the only person who could put on Lord llyro>'s bat, and him it fitted exactly," page 051, Life of Myron, London, 1851.

(To be concluded in next week's Supplement, J

The End of a Spanish Bull Fight.

THE swordsman advances, glittering, with a proud, athletic step, the traditional cbig non fastened to his pigtail, and, holding out his bare sword, makes a brief speech to tbe president: "Igo to slay this bull for the honour of the people ot Madrid and the most excellent president of this tourney." Then, throwing his hat away, be proceeds to his task of skill and danger. It is here that the chief gallantry of the sport begins. With a scarlet doak in one hand he attracts the bull,waves him to one side or the other, bailies him, re invites him—in fine, plays wit® and con trols him as if he were a kitten, though always with eye alert and often in peril. At last, having got him "in position," he lifts the blade, aims, and with a forward spring plunges it to the hilt at a point near the top of the spine. Perhaps the bull re coils, reels, and dies with that thrust; but more often he is infuriated, and several strokes are required to finish him. Always, however, the blood gushes freely, the sand is "stained with it, and the serried crowd, intoxicated by it, roar savagely. A sur geon, by the way, always attends in an ante-room; prayers are_ said before the fight; and a priest is in readiness with the conse crated wafer to give the last Sacrament in case of any fatal accident. The utter simple-mindedness with which Spaniards regard tbe brutalities of the sport may be judged from the fact that a bull light was once given to benefit the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals !— " Harper's."

A Comedy of Errors.

ON Saturday morning, about tbree o'clock, a policeman and a Taff Vale Railway official, hearing screams proceeding from a certain house in Newtown, proceeded there with all despatch, and found a woman standing at the door evidently in great dis tress. Addressing the railway-man, she said, " You know my husband, don't you ?" " Yes." he replied. " Well," she rejoined, " that's uot him upstairs." At her rrquest the two men proceeded to her bedroom, and there they had a view of. the intruder, who was sleeping soundly in the bed which had just been vacatad by the astonished woman. Neither of the spectators wore able to recognise the sleeper. Then the officer ot the law awoke him, and the intruder, rubbing his eyes, asked what was the matter, addressing the woman by name. He was asked by the man what he meant by being there, and he, in turn, asserted that he had more right than his interlocutors seeing that he was in his own bedroom and the lady -was his own wife. In the course of the conversation he succeeded in con vincing the railway-man that he was a workman engaged on the same line as him self, and the secret of the wife's mistake was then made apparent. The husband had left her on the previous day with a bnshy beard and whiskers. She did not expect him back thatnicht, but he came in quiet ly and got into bed. But he had shaved off his hirsute appendages, and when his wife next saw him by her side she mistook him for a stranger. His identity having once been established, she politely thanked her visitors tor their services, and showed them the door.—" Cardiff Paper."

Celestial Revolutions.

The comet of Juno, ISS2, Ims been the subject of conversntion at many hundreds of dinner tables, and of more public curi. osity thnn such objects, when not so brilliant as to force themselves on public attention, have hitherto received. A great comet vii-iblc to all the world is one of the mast strikiug and startling of celestial appari tions; a now star is in rea'ity a much rarer and v. much more surprising object. Indeed, the CiiiHge implied by the appearance of a so called now star to all the worlds dependent upon it, and to all thoir inhabitants, must bo i.i the last degree terrible. It is as if our sun were suddenly to blaze out 10 or 100 times as large, as bright, and as hot aa nov, It is scircely necessary to say that such auojcurrencewould neither be rcniem. bered nor recorded, for no life organised under the existing conditions of life in auy oue of the planets, of which the amount of solar light and heat is the met important element, could survive such a change for 24 hours. Even supposing that the increase of heat ami light is much more gradual thnn it scorns to telescopic observers on such occasions, nn addition even of one-fourth to tho total heat emitted by thn sun would probably destroy all the higher torms of imimato nature. The total heat received from the sun must not of course be measured by the nominal scale of the thermometer. Zaro represents an amount of wauntu practically derived in its entirety from the huh, compared with which the difference between zero and tropical sun heat is trivial. It is supposed that if the heat of the sun wore absolutely withdrawn, the temperature of our atmosphere would fall to more than 200 deg below zero Fahr., a cold which it is needless to say no Ufa could endure for many bourn. Similarly an increase of the total heat received from the sun, though men ly in the proportion of four to throe, would produce a temperature of which no earthly life h;is had any ex pciieiica, It would raise a summer'tem perature of (iOdeg Fahr. to at least ISOdcgS Fahr. Were tne urn's heat doubled to morrow we should bo exposed to a tem perature of over OOOdegs ; that is to say, a neat Buificicut to melt load, and to convert all the waters on the eaith'a surface into steam. The revolution implied by the appearance of a new, or the sudden bril liancy of a faint star is ii.finitely greater than this, and means nothing else than the total destruction of life on all the depen dent worlds. Yet awful as are such catastrophes, they hardly impress the imagination even of astronomers, and arc regarded by the public with utter indiffer ence.— "European Moil."

Spiders' Threads.

Tilßllov, 11. C. M'Cook hns been study ing tho mode of constructing webs prevail ing among tlio orb-weaving .spiders, and lie seeniß to have confirmed his previous opinions that tho silk-lino framework or foundation of their webs is laid in the fiiat instance by the hol]> of a current of air carrying the thread. In a great number of cases Mr M'Cook observed the spiders pas sing from point to point by means of lines emitted fiom tlioir spinnerets and entangled upon adjacent foliage. Those mimic "wire bridges" wore "f various lengths, owing Jto the direction of the wind and the relative positions of tho .spider and the fixed objects iiround it. Lines of 2 feet to >l feet -were frequent ; lines of from 7 feet to 10 feet occurcd pretty often f one lino bad been measured for a length of '2C> feet, and In several instances they had been observed stretching across country roads of from 30 feet to -10 feet in Width. Hs had also observed some of these carried by the wind directly from the spider's i-pinnerets ; had watched tha entanglement ; had seen the spider then draw the tbreads taut, and iiimlly cross upon them. These air-laid bridge-lines were often used for the frames of the orb, though undoubtedly the foun dations for these were also very frequently made as described by the liev, O. l'ickard (Cambridge), by the fpider fixing its line to one spot, then traversing the distance to some other spot, and then hauling in the slack. The observations of Mr M'Cook show nothing like a deliberate purpose in connoc ting the punt of occupancy with any special opposite point. The spiders seem to act in tho matter very much at hap hazard, but with a special instinct of the fact that such behaviour would secure available attachments. Many of the bridge-lines were evidently tentative, and were chiefly at the mercy of the breeze, nlthough some observations seemed to in dicate a limited control of the thread by manipulation. As a generalization from many observations, Mr M'Cook concludes that webs built in large open spaces are perhaps always laid out by Ibridge-lines, while in more contracted spaces the frame lines are generally carried around, and often a foundation is the result of both methods.—" Times."

The Violin Trick.

A SHORT time ago a young man, poorly clothed, presented himself before a dealer in curiosities, near the Palais Royal.

" Sir," said hc,showing a violin which he carried^ "I am a musical aitist. This is the season of balls and soirees ; I have just had a long illness which has exhausted my purse; my only black coat is in pawn; I will he much obliged if you will lend me ten francs to redeem it. I would leave as security one of the violins you see, for I have two; it is an excellent instrument. I shall return for it as soon as, thanks to my coatj I shall have earned enough money at some parties." ■ The yoursg man had such an honest bear ing that the dealer lent him ten francs, and kept the violin, which he hung up in. his shop. The next day but one a gentleman, well dressed, wearing at his button-hole the rib horfof the Legion of Honour, was choosing from the dealer's stock of goods some shell work. Seeing the violin, he took it up, ex amining it narrowly. " What is the price of this instrument ?" said he.

" It is not mine," replied the shopkeeper; and he related how he came to possess it.

"This violin," continued the unknown gentleman, "is worth money ; it is a Cre mona. Perhaps its owner is ignorant of its value. If he returns offer him two hundred francs for it; ho is a needy artist,who will, perhap", he obliged, and who can play just as well on another violin." Then, handing fifty francs to the sbopman. the unknown said, on taking his leave : "You will keep that for yourself, if the affair succeeds. I will return in a few days."

Two days after the young man re appeared, bringing the ten francs to redeem his violin, for which the dealer offered him two hundred francs. After some hesitation he agreed, pocketed the money, and with drew, lamenting the sad necessity which compelled him to part with his favourite instrument. At the end of the week, the dealer, not having seen the decorated gen tleman,hecame suspicious. He carried the violin to an instrument maker, who offered him three franca for it.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 19, 1882,



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(61) LIN OOLN-3TR X HTT-Vory Comf ortablo Honsa 7 rooms, bath-room, pantry, stable, fowl lioubo. &a, &o.; about halt an aore laid oat in <luwor-g>\rden,orahird,&o.. with ontranoo to liraoo-atro^t; could bo subdivided to ad vantage £500. I (180) WOOD-BTUKKT-Comfortab'e Rosldenoo of 7 rooms, fitted with Rib and almost every convonlonoo; Hplondid allotmont, about 140 x 151). «v tastefully laid out with flowers, friilc-tceon, &o.; grand view of harbour, &O. (275) WOOD STRttKT-UosMonoo, 8 rooma and out housos; allotmnnt. 155 x 11)5; fully utookod with fruit ami f arast trooa; splendid view- Prloe only £525. ROD AVONDAIJt IVVh»n)-Nlce llttlo Lot of 0 acreo noar tho Station, good land. Prlco, only £15 per aero. (533) GUKAT NOUTH KOAO (corner of Brlabano nnd Stanlor-atreotsO-Two itoid Vorandah, Cottages, with oiitiioujo, woll, &o.: allot, raant to ouoh 31 x 110. Prlca £350 for tho lot. (151) MONTAHUK - STRSKT, NttWTOM - Good Verandah CottiKo: 1 rooma; Rood woll. &o.; allotmontmont 33 x UO. Choap, £150 («79, DUKK-STRKKT, NHWVON-Vory comfort able Mouso; 0 rooms; In Urat-oIMB order; good woll. oviin, kh3 flttiuK*. &o.; allot mont 33 x 39. (Jhoap. only £ M 0 (320) UUKW-STKBKT, NKWi'OV-Nlco Vorandah Cottogo; I roomn; xablu onria, almost now) allotment 33 xl)a, very di)3lrablo. (j2l) MIbFORD-STHKSH1, PONaO.VBY—Now and woll - llnlshod lionaa; C rooms, besides pantry, dairy. oervuntB1 rooms, &o.; flttod with MKlator wutoa. ovonfl, &o.; allotmont 131 x 103; la stardon ; to«othor with stablo, bug(ty-houß9, &o. iSCOO (211) OLAKKNOK-STKKHT, POMBONBY-Voran dan Cottage; 4 rooms, tank, &o.; allotment ■18x80. Only £180. (200) SHKKHAN-STRKHT, PONSONBY-NiooCot taßO; i rooms, vorandah In front, and very comfortable; notr tho Hall. £230. (300) BAILKY'd PADDOCK (Nowton) —New Hot taKo of three roomB; Rood well; freehold allotment 33 x 100; only £130; va.iv tormp. j (03J) PONSONBY TERBAOK — New Houbo ; 7 rooms (not qatto tlnUluvl); good woll, tank, woodshed, B.o.; Kood allotment. 801100. all fonood and planted. £150. (117) NBWMARKKT-Nloe Verandah Cottago Ot fi rooms, fitted with roglstor, oven, oto., cornor lo', for £250, JOHN3TRKKT, Ponsonby- Cheap Oottaue, i rooms ana Bcullory, freehold allotment, 10 x 80. prioo only £120. (172) UACKEr-STKKKI', near ateps to hoaoh, foot of tit. Mary's Road—Handsome Villa, Rabla ends, bow-windows, and fitted with reßts tor grate, ovon, cunboarda, etc ; allotment 33 x US: prloe only £300. mi) OLARKNCK-RTRKKT - A Naw ona WeU finished Vorandah OottaK". i rooma and soullery ; tltton with roj^letor grate, ovon, cupboards, tanka, oto.; price £250, easy torum. (198) PRO3PKC r TK RR AC K-Handsomo and very dOßlrable House, C rooms, iionllory, etc roßlstor grato. ovon, cupboard, sbolves, sa and water laid In, etc.; allotment 83 x 100 splendid Uttlo warden, chotco trees, eto. (137) PRO3PKOT-STRKET,nnar tho Ponaonby HoU, cow and woll-flnichod Honao, 8 rooms, rcglstor, ovon, tanlt, oto., eto.; allotmont 33 x 100, foncod, prloe £325. (511) MOUNT KDKN, noar Mr Kelly's-New and well-finished Villa, gables, bow-window, etc., etc., 3 rooiOß, ann wash-house ; allot ment ii x 132; price £100 (505) PABNKLL- Commodious Family Boßldenoe, containing 9 rooms, etc., etc, wssh-honee with cooper, and other convonionoes, large and valuable oorner allotmont; prloo £750. (S7» MOUNT EDBN (near Toll Bar).-Nloo Voran dan Cottafcn, J rooms, fto., allotment abont 60 by 00; cheap, only £289. OTAHUHU—NIco Vflraniah Cottaeo, 1 rooms etc, good cornor allolmont, for £190. (US\ PAPAKURA—Now Hojso and outlinildlnttP. and 37 aores real ROal land In orohard, etc,, in valnablo ponltlon J ast at railway station. MANGATKTK—BO aorea valnabla Bnsh; oon- Blatirg Totem, Puriri, &c.,near a navlecablo crook being part of lots Su and 85. Jfrioe. only £90. TUaKAU—A vory Corapaot Faxm of lot acres, splendid land, noarly all fonood and sub divided: plenty of watar, a never.falllng spring throngh tho property: good Cottage, with workshop dairy, oowahod, outhousoa, &o.; Rood position, and onlyl} mil oh from station. Prioe only £550. (Ml) TURANGA GREEK (near Ilowlok)-A very oheap little Farm of 105 acres, part oaltl vated, plenty of timber and water: good House, .to. (about 17 mllea from Auckland). Only £225. (138) ONKHUNGA—Two nice Allotments In Catherw lne-Btroet (noar cornor). Price, only £60 (029 RAZOR BACK-PplonCld little Farm; 82 aores, largo Homestead, and every oonvenlenoo; about 3 miles from Potceno Station, (18i) KAUKAPAK APA-223 aores, on which Btanda a valuable bush, and in good position, (491) OHALMKRSTON-Oompaot Uttlo Farm of 180 acres; put In cultivation; splendid orohard; sood plooe of bush; creels, &o. House and outbuildings almost new. £500. PAHAKURA-A desirable Farm of 360 aorea. part In oaltlvatloa, plenty of wator. Hmber, and beautifully sheltered; good Homestead, 7 rooms, and necessary oatbulidings.g&rden, orohard, &c, and stock at valuation, if do* Hired. (217) TUAKAU—Splendid llttlo Lot of 53 aores, nioa pleoo bash, Plemy of water; near station. am BOMH AY-Nioe little Farm Of 20 aores, HOOi Homestead, &o. Prloo only £220. TK ARAl—Farm 589 ocrea. with houso and all imorovemonta for £7000, MOUNT BDKN.-Handsomo VUla Resldonoo oontatnlne S Rooma. besides Pantry. Soullery, &o.; all in flrst-olasa order, with Stable, Buffgy-honßO, Cow-shod, &a, &c, together with 9 acres Volcanic Land, sub divided, and a portion planted. Terms easy if desired. CM PARNELti-Vftlnoble Property for disposal, consisting of commodious Dwelling and Store, two Honees, and Large Allotment; very good investment. (522) MOUNT KDEN—Verandah Cottage (1 rooms), tanks, &0., with two Acres Voloanio Land, subdivided into paddocks and orchard. Price £500.! - (ISO). NORTHOOTHi (Tabapnna)-Snup: llttlo pro perty of 63 acre?, good land, partly im proved ; orohard, «o, Togothor with New Cottage (five rooms), stablo, cowshed, &0., &o. Price, £1000. (501) NORTHCOTB-Splendld Building Allotments at from £35 each. NORTHCOTK—SpIendid lota, partly Improved and fenced, at from £21- per aero. WHARTCHINK—IBB aores of very valuable Bush—totara, puriri, kauri. &o.—ln good. position, oheap. (521) PAPAROA—ISO acres good Bush Land (Ohesp\ H75) WAITAKKREI -30 aoros good Land, partly lmnrovod; plenty of water, corner lot. Only £30. (SU) WAIKATO—Nioe Uttlo Farm of 27 acres, in> proved; good position; nioa house of five roomß and out-houses. Only £210. (231) AND NUMEROUS OTHTCR PROPERTIES— Bush Lands, Improved Farms, Building Sites, Bueinosa Premises, &0,, for Sale, oil application to V. F. EVANS, House Land, ahd Estate Agent, QUEBN-BTBEET (NBXT "HBBAiD"). J YOUNG, Family Grocor. Sliortland-etreot, • Auckland. _^^_ BEST Plaoo for Ranßes, Uvens, ocoves, and Blacksmith's Worfc-R. NICHOLL3, 828. Upper Queen-street