MR DUX'S SAD FATE.

" So you quit us to-morrow morning ?" "Yea, Mann; I guess they're agoin'to ang me at 10 o'clock sharp." I opoacd wide eyes and eara as I beard this fragment of conversation. At tho moment I was standing on tho threshold of a cell. But such a cell! -It looked more like » boarding-houso parlour; tho windows were barred, it is true, the walls were white woshod, and the lock of the door was ponderous, but on the floor' there was a Boft carpet, and against the wall* were arranged chairs and ottomans. In the middle o£ the room—some of them seated, some .standing—a dozen ladies in vi»itin<j costumes, formed a circle around a gentleman, , The latter wsa in correet'fcven ing dress—white cambric tie, a swallow tailed coat, white, kid gloves and boots that reflected one like a polished shield. * " That's the assassin 1" whispered thfi detective, who was showing me around (ten dollars a day, meals n>t iocluded ) I could not restrain a movement of sur prise. " It's James Dujc," he continued, taking no uotics: " he's nnder soutence of death." •In tho monotonous voice of a professional guide he went on to tell me the story of the man who was the focus of so much atten tion. "A crimuul of the highest class, this Dux. He began in an intelligent way by only attacking respectable people, worth $10 000 or so. Four times he hat cheated the gallows. The first time lie bought off the witnesses, tho second time he bought off tho jury, the third time he did business direct with the judgo. But a fatal accident was his ruin. The paper he found oa a banker he assassinated turned out to bo a counterfeit, James had killed a confrere by mtstako. Not being able to get together money enough to make his ianocence clear, he was fouui guilty. He was going to be sent alott, when a comrade starting iv trade offerod to buy the fraudulent bank notos at s sacrifice. He said he calculated he could pass them on his customers out West. With the sum thus r^alisod James. wa3 able to persuade the Governor of the State to take a disinterested view of his caie, and he was let off. " But Dux never got over the turn itgayo him. He became Kinder stupid—lost his head. 'look to robbing the firat that came in his road. One evening, in an out-of-the way suburb, he knocked out the brains of an old man with a sledge-hammer, for the s*ke of a miserable watch of no value. " Caught in the net by a young police man, who thougot he had a cliauco of dis tinguishing himself, James was brought up at the Assizes fur the fifth tim*. The evidence was overwhelming, tha defence ■weakened, the ju>y indiiFereut. While the dozen io the box were trying whisky cock tails, Judge Blackstone rose in ihe mid'lle of a cloud of cigar smoke and pronounced sentence of death, giving tho poor fellow only three months leisure to read the Bible in. His time is up this afternoon." " And that is the prisooer," I exclaimed : " the man in the dress clothes ?" " Yes, that's Dux,"he answered. " He's convened, you know. At present he is a great object of interest. Our richest ladies pay all his expenses. < The best families come round regularly' to comfort him. Ha is going to die b-j*utifully, we expect. It is a great victory for tha flard . shell Baptist Church. You'll see that Jamos will make a truly sanctified end." Meantime the assassin reconducing one oE his lady visitors to the door, passed quite close to me, and I had the opportunity of taking his likeness in .my mental camera. He was a low-sized, thick-set, ill-built man, with a face blotched with whisky pimp.tfl*, a low forehead, a cold eye, and the limb* ot a long armed ape. What a sinis ter and grote-qus caricature this bestial wreiwh was tricked out in the garb of good society, his big bony toes making humps on the patent leather of his dandy Diimps,and his close cropped hair glistening witn some perfume which could not kill the fetid odour that exuded from his vulgar body. A lady advanced toward the assassin and presented him with au immense white bou quet—the symol of purity of soul. But as she tried to murmur a few appropriate words, emotion overcame her and she swooned. The condemned felon had taken the flowers with a careless air, sniffed them and jerked them over his shoulder to a corner of the room where I perceived a mass of fragrance and bloom thrown in huddled heaps like so much refuse. " The poor creatures are nervous, do you mind," said James compassionately. "They should take a horn of gia before risking themselves here." "lAllowme to introduce you to my only daughter, Miss Blackstone," said a pen tloman of judicial bearing, bustling forward to make way for a lovely young girl who leaned on bis arm. The murderer bowed. The young lady courtesiei. The Judge did his best to imitate one and foe other —that i< to say a3 far as his corpu lence would permit him. •'Papa has sookeo tften about you, «aid the pretty girl, with a simper. "lam really sorry you cannot dine wilh us to morrow." "It'sout of the question, Miss, and I deeply regret it," said Dux, with- a coarse The young lady blushed and lowered her "trnle33, you know, your father would consent to'reviso his judgment," continued the felon. ''Ah, James, said the Judge, with a blending of formality and the cold amiability of the Bench; "it i 3 as you say out of the question. Business is business, you know" ; aud beading towards Dux, he whispered, "it would be as much as my appointment is worth to do anything at present." "It must be a terrible thing, Mr Dux, to be hanged," interrupted the young girl. " A moment's pain, more or less, Miss Blackstone; a short moment—do you hear ?" said the Judge "It is the death I would prefer for myself." " Well, that's as how it is, intimated Mr Dux. " I dare say it's swec enough, if tha tr,ip works proper and the Sheriff inexpe rienced. By the b,e. Judsje, would you kinply take care tb.it the rope is comfort ably Boaped?" "Willingly, my friend. Any favour I can <lo for you under the circumstances you are at liberty to ask." Mr Blackstooe left with his daughter. The latter turned back several times ia the hope of catching a parting glance at the assassin. . I afterwards learned that on the dawn of the following morning she forwarded a basket of magnificent flowers to the con demned cell. , " More po»ies 1" cned Dux. when he s*w them. "These women folks are fools. Xnere's only one in tho Jot— my gal Jane — who knows the right stuff to give a citizen of the great United States to help hini j die. Slie sent me a gallon of old Bourbo n ] By this time a crowd of new arrivals had invaded the cell, which had been trans ionned into an audience chamber. It was

a deputation of prominent citizens, who re quested to be received by the lion of the day. The orator of the crowd made three paces toward the condemned man, aud, exhibiting a handsome case ju morocco and gold, delivered the following disoourse with much dignity and feeling: Dear Mb Dux : Permit the inhabitants ' of Humauityvillc at large, and, conjoined with them, the members ot the jury, the Sheriff, and different persons who assisted at your trial, as well as the prison officials, also the members of the police force who took part in yonr capture, to offer you, through me as a medium, this feeble testimony of the esteem with which you have inspired us all; not only by your calm resignation and the attitude, in every respect worthy of a gentleman, which you have known how to preserve during the many days of your detention and throughout tho ordeal of the proceedings in Court,but like wise by the truly Christian, sentiments which have led you to pardon those whose actiou may have contributed to bring about your condemnation. ' Accept, I beg of you, in the name of all my fellow-citizens, and in my own, this modest gift. We heartiy wish that it may prove ueeful aud agreeable to you during the last hours of your terres trial sojourn." Mr Dux extended both his hands and re ceived from those of the orator a superbly enamelled massive gold wntch. He weighed it in his right palm for a few seconds, turned it over, and theu applied it to his right car. "Is it going!" "Oh, yes," answered the donors in chorus. "Keep good time?" "Oh yes." "Jewelled?'' " Rather." " Horizontal escapement ?" " Oh, yes." "American built?" "You bet." " Well, I'm sure I'm very much obliged ; but while you were about it you mighthavc given me a hand-made ticker." Here the members of the deputation saw that the series of explanations were ex hausted. After having shaken hands with courageous Mr Dux—whom they passed by in Indian file—they discreetly withdrew. A second deputation was ushered into the room. After the customary salute, the leader of the profession spoke his speech in. these terms : " Respected Sir : I am the twin brother and these ladies and gentlemen are the nearest relatives and most intimate friends of the late George Brown, whom you slew on tho night of the 31st of August last, by sundry blows of a sledge-hammer, in order to possess yourself of a nickel watch, which he had bought for §5. "Desiring to make known to tho public the sentimeuts of admiration and respect with which your conversion has tilled v.«, we pray yon to accept our humble homage in the shape of a complete suit of clothes for your own use. We will take it as an inestimable favour if you will wear them at to-morrow morning's ceremony." James Dux ejected a quid toward the pile of bouquets heaped behiud him, and, having tumefied his cheeks with a fresh plug of tobacco, he took the bundle, tore oft" the paper covering and successively unfolded the coat, waistcoat and trousers, examining the texture of the stuff with the tench of a connoisseur. "Are these English articles warranted, you know?" " Oh, yes," chorused the group of relatives and friends. "Latest fashion?" "»»h yea." " Buttons solidly sewn in—no slop-shop work?" " Oh, yo»." But, as he pursued his examination, sndden creates puckered his forehead, and in a voice trembling with anger, he ex claimed: " Where are the brace 3 ? There ain't no braces to the trousers, nor buttons to the coat sleeves 1" ! The members of the deputation regarded each other with an embarrassed oir. A whispered colloquy took place among them. At last two of the youngest of the party hurried out, and the orator regaining his presence of mind, gave Mr Dux his assu rance that the forgotten articles would be supplied without delay. "All right." said the assassin; "let's say no mow about it" At that moment a smothered sob was heard. It came from one of the two orphan daughters left by poor John Brown. " Oh, Mr Dux," she murmured amid her tears, " how did you find it in your heart to kill our good father?" " It waa his own fault." answered James. " He provoked me by making au exhibi tion of that durned watch. I could not re sist the temptation. Only for that all-fired timepiece I should have died of hunger, like a man, before I would have dreamed of robbery. It was more than imprudent —it was downright immoral on his part." " The Browns were always too fond of ostentation," loudly declared a fat lady with a red face, who was no other than the PresideDtess of the Society for the Pro tection of Penitent Assassins. "Poor man," she resumed, toward Dux, " you are dying a victim to the deplorable vanity of our relative. For my part, I am of the emphatic opinion that it is high time to pass a law interdicting ihe parade of articles of " That's, a fact," assented Mr Hiram K. Anthropofogua, Secretary of the Society. " A saint himself c«uld not resist. Brown was entirely to blame. He only got what he deserved. But you, Mr Dux. tell me, please, when the temptation assailed you to kill George, to get his watch, did you suffer much!" • ■ ' _ " Terrible, sir, terrible. When I saw him pull it out to look at the hour I thought he wanted to rile me. That's a thing, you know, no citizen of this free country can stand without setting his dander up. It sort of affected me in the stomach, then in trie legs, and then in the head. 1 tried to resist, and even made the attempt to nn away. B.it I can't tell how it all came to pas 3 I wasn't equal to it; and whoa calm ness returned, I was stooping over the man, a sledge-hammer in my hand, and his skull was smashed l * *■* JNo matter, it can't be helped dow that it's over. I forgive him from tho bottom of my heart 1" "Poor man I" cried all the ladies present in a tone of commiseration, and then began a rivalry between them as to who should give a farewell tokei to tho condemned. " Do take this porte-monnaie," said one. "And this flask of smelling-salts,' said another, . . „ "Here is my box ofpulraonic wafers, added a third. "They are a sovereign' remedy against asthma and difficult breath- Bux took anything that was offered him, but all went the way of the bouquets before long. - A tumult in a corner put an end to those effusions of friendliness. An unfortupatc wretch, all rags and patches, hia cheeks hollow from long fasting, 'was struggling in the clutches of some half-dozen persons. "I have caught him !" screeched a remale voice, "He was attempting to steal the venison pasty sent for James Dux!"

"Gentlemen, if you please, ladies," gasped the poor beggar, " I have not tasted food for two days—and I never murdered anybody." He wa3 flung neck and crop out of the room. A negro domestic here entered and an nounced to Mr Dux that dinner was served in an adjoining apartment. The company filed. out into the dining room of th« Governor of the jail, which had been amiably placed, together with the Go vernor's plate and Ifrench cook, at tho dis posal of the prisoner and his friends for the occasion. The condemned man to^k his station in the scat of honour, Judge Btackstono on his right and the Attorney-General on his left. A popular preacher^ of the Tnlmagc type said grace before lheat and made an im promptu prayer, in the course of which he made some eloquent allusions to the follow ing day. Mr Dux ate heartily and drank copiously, and burst into frequent explosions of good hornour, which; were vastly admired by the guests. The ropast was a veritable ban quet in its plenteousness, a fete in its joyous spirit. Severalcffectivc selections of music were performed during tho courses on a harmonium by the leader of the popular preacher's choir. After the coffee came liquors stronger than wine, and with them came the toasts. The shortest and most delicate of these was given by the twin brother of Gcorgo Browu iv the following neat speech : "Ladies and Gentlemen .- <>nr urbane and nmch-tu-be regretted friend James is on tho eve of his departure. May the de jection of his leave-taking be softened and its pains abridged." Dux got on his legs, and, in a robust voico, responded as follows : "Ladies and Gentlemen: This I shall ever look upon us the happiest and proudest moment in my career. Its remem brance shall hot quit me till my dying hour. In many a former period of my existence I was cast down by disappointment, and often almost gave way fc> despair. Little did I then imagine that I should one day have the privilege ot enjoying this honor. It was furthest from my hopes that I should have the pleasurn of being enter tained hy such a distinguished circle until I give that rooster Brown his pass-out checks for tho other side of Jordan. The death of that miserable sinner has made a now man of me, has regenerated me, and filled me, so to speak, with a second life. From the moment my sentence was pro nounced by my friend, the Judge here, I folt myself another being—indeed, I may safelj'say without boasting, that I should bavc lived in complete ignorance of tbe joys one feels in the consciousness of being good unless I had undertaken that job which procures me the novelty of beiug strangled to-morrow. Oh, my friends, would that you we c all in the ranks of tho just like your humble servant! His a blessed and profitable thing, I guess, to be awaken to the truth, to read pious tracts, and eat suritig chickens and canvas-back ducks! Personally, I can affirm that I forgive sincerely all who have had a part in my mutder. I havn't an ounce of animosity in my composition against any of you. If I "were let go free to-morrow, I would not hurt a hair of the head of an unborn babe. No, indeed, I would not! But to-morrow I shall be at home, and my business pros pects will be brighter than those of any citizen in the-se States. Yes, to-morrow I shall be walking urm-in-ann with the pro phets—to-morrow I would not exchange my log cabin In Zion for the White House in 1 Washington ! From the golden side of tho clouds 1 shall cast au eye of pity ou you, Soor sinners, down hero below, iv the cpths of this vale of tears. It is not for yon to attain to tbc glory I shall have attained, for you have done nothing to entitle you to the recompense. Neverthe loss, I pardon you all. I pardon the Judge, I pardon the jury, I pardon the witnesses who, by their depositions, have been the cause of my premature dissolution. I even pardon that contemptible old rooster; George Brown himself. There isn't an atom of resentment in my soul!"' Everybody was melted to tears. " Here is a saint," said the popular preacher. As for the judge, his emotion was flo great that he had to hide it in a napkin behiud a barricade of four empty bottles of California wine. As I left the room after this valedictory banqtiet I could hear the clergyman recom mending those who had obtained reserved tickets for the execution to come early, and not to fail to briog their children with them, asthesight was sure to be edifying,—"Tins leju's Magazine."

Value of Publicity.

HoiAOWAY.of pill and ointment renown,has issued a sketch of his commencement and progress in business. He says : —The IGth October, 1837, waa the iirst day my advertisement appeared 'in any paper. My pills and ointment obtained little or no favour. It was my rule from the commencement to spend judiciously all the money I could spare in publicity, which went on increasing, and in the year 1842 I expended £5,000 in advertising. Time rolled on, and from the hitherto unthought of yearly outlay of £5,0001 increased it to £10,000 in the year 1845, At the time of the Great Exhibition in London in 1851 my expenditure was £20,000; in the year 1877 it had reached £40,000, in advertising my medicines in every available manner through out the globe. !For the proper application of their use I have had ample directions translated into every known tongue—such as Chinese, Turkish, Armenian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and mo-*t of the vernaculars of India, and all the languages spoken on the European Continent. Amongst my corres pondents I number kings and princes, toge ther with other distinguished persons.

The Wife's Wages.

Tae " Woman's Journal " says : A little hoy on his way to build fires and sweep olEces while the stirs were yet iv the sky, tiki the writer : " My mother gets me up. builds the five and gets my breakfast, and sends m? off. Theu she gets my father up and gets him hisbreikfast and semis him off. Then shs gives the other children their breakfast and sends them to school; and then she and the baby have their break fast " "'How old is the baby ?'' I asked. "Oh, she is 'most two, but she can talk and walk as well as any of us." "Are you well paid?" "I get ten shillings a week, and father gats ten shillings a day." "How much docs your mother get?" With a bewildered look, lit! said: "Mother! Why, she dou't work for anybody I" " I thought you said she worked for all of you." " Oh, yes; for us she does. But there ain't any money into it." Tnis wife of a day labourer represents a large cliss of hard working women. The compensations of affection, the love of husband and children, and the nameless and numberless blessings that cony? with a«d belong to the family life, can no more make up to a.wife the loss of all money value fov her service than they would to her husoand if the same poverty of position were thrust upon him.

Done With.

" Very intimate once. Yes!—" &c. Well, you could as little holp beiDg inti mate once as you could help the coolness— perhaps even the aversion—now. People are drawn together by .community of tastef, pursuits, interests, dispositions. .People change, but they don't always change to gether.

Felix adored his aunt, -hut then Felix was seventeen and his aunt was livo-and thirty. Possibly to the end Felix will have a kindly feeling for his aunt; but perhaps ho will end by loathing her, for that beautiful blonde is now much over blown and over fifty. Instead of abdicating gracefully, or playing a still interesting role as experienced adviser and friend, she has failed lo compreheud his tastes—his disposition to marry, for instance. She lias given Felix's fiancee to understand that she knows more than she sa ye, alt hough she says, in fact, more than she knows. When she meets her quondam adorer, sho says with a bitter sigh. "Alii Felix, onco you were so dill'erent!" "So were you," says he sharply. Crying is no use. Tiic tears of fifteen are delicious, but who cares for the tears of Bfty? Aunt Jemima may go upstairs and write " Done with," iv her diary, as far as Felix is concerned.

And why not, Jomima ? Do you expect to reign forever? You will rcigu'just so long us your power lasts, and that will only endure so long as your look?, or your money, or your position, or your character, or your talent, or whatever else your power is founded on, lasts. The mistake women make is to fonjet the sourcen of their attrac tion. Kays the pretty scheming Amadeny who is over 35, to herself : " Harry is ns devoted to bis friend Joseph, uiid oven to that old Mrs Evergreen, as ever, but he never comes to see mo ; he always said ho was devoted to my husband, and every thing about our house once ; he makes ex cuses now when I want him to sing at my parties, and ho positively refused to join me at the Royal Academy the other day." Amadea cannot see that she had been just a shade too thick with Harry, and that there was really uqthing in her but a pretty face, a chattering tongue, and a very superficial intelligence. She hail no power to Keep him; and, in fact (a word every woman dreads), Harry is Ural of her. But he will go and sit for hours, and often, with Aspasia, who is no longer young, but whose conversation is delightful, and who improves so much on uearo' acquaintance thut she has never lost a friend, male or female, who was worth retaining. There ia no art at all in boms very intimate with people; but tho art of retiring gracefully from the position when, for various rea-. sons, it may become untenable, is a very great art, and it is very little understood; " but it will amply repay attention," as Ateumus Ward used to say of his worst jokes.

I knew Joues well at college. Jones is a fool, but I was young, and 1 did not sec it then. lam not a fool, but at college I thought I was inferior to Jones, and Jones was older than I was, and patronised me ; and I looked up to Jones then, iind we need to spond our " Longs " together—ay ! and our cush too !—at lea«t Jones spent, mine. When I met Jones after six yours' absence during which I had travelled and entered ono of the liberal professions (so called be cause, a* a rule, people in those professions give their service for nothing), I was dis appointed in Jones. He had entered his father's office, and was all day behind a desk, signing his name to documents pro p.ircd by his elder brother, who had brains, nnd made tho money. "When Jones came the " Well, o'd fellow, I suppose you've been making the usual mull of it!" over me, I resented it inwardly. Of course, I laughed, but what righthad Jones, a miser able merchant's clerk, to speak to mo like that? I had travelled, written a book, was received in the best hoiifea j my wit was admired; I was on the high road to succeed, and make a name. Joues. bored me. In six years be had learned nothing and forgotten nothing. In a word I had developed, Jones had stood still. Now, why can't Jones sec tbis! Why is he sulky when I meet him at the club on Saturday? Let us be friends, but let us not be intimate. We can't; we have nothing left in common—except, I regret to say, my nmbreila uccasionally. I should like Jones to feel that I don't want to cut him, but if he won't—sooner than bo worried by his inuendoes about my grand friends and his own silly imaginary anecdotes about his intimacy with Lord This or Sir Flunkey That, and his intolerable attempts to talk to me about art and letters-why. I sltall cut him, for I have "clone with " Jonc*.

Women arc often more intelligent in these matters—though sometimes they are very j great fools, too, Still, they know very well, as a rule, when their eharmsare on tho wane ; they a'so know when their charms depend upon what do<s not wane—charac ter, talent, grace of nature, tact, sympathy. Selia heroically lets off Hector without a quarrel—she ia nothing to him, nor he to her Tho other night I heard a hue lady in a fin crowded drawing-room say, sotto voee, to a fashionable dandy who went by with a charming young girl on his arm, as she heiself leaned on tho arm of her own cavalier, '' Each has one* turn and no more." She gave a quick glance at the young girl, and the dandy, who had probably once been her "devoted," twirled his moustache and gave a little forced laugh and a yery hollow little "Fie, fi- |" with what was meant to be one of the old, killing: looks, no doubt, and botli were soon lost in the " mazy dance !" These two, I thought, have "done with" each other, but they recognise the first canon of people in the great world—"no cuts." To cut people you have been known to .be intimate with is worse than a crime—it is a blunder.

I admire the way the oldhnnds meet, and fie oddest thing is that as time goes on a certain now pathos may even steal into their superannuated relations " Yes, we know one another! We know exactly what we a--e, what we have been, and why we arc no longer so. The years have taken the bitterness out o£ it, pride between us has been long dea-1, pique hardly survives, and jealousy is an unknown quantity. Let us meet and salute. Perhaps by-and bye, when many of tno younger ones are dead or married, we too may want an old friend I" Ah ! look in the first volume of Tennyson's poems There, by the river it vra<* picked, that littln forget-me-not, thirty years ago. He placed it in her bosom ; you took it out of her bosom—without leave. Her hu-band is dead-they never wero very happy. At one time, some twenty years ag", you thought yon h»d qui?e "done with'" her. You think differently —nnw knock a the door and send up rour name. Youloncly.unhappyold fellow! You have no reason to fear. She will be "at lw«e" t-> you, although you certainly treated her badly at the time. These women ! what depths of sympathy, patience, nhd divine for«iveness there is in them after all. "Done with?" Yes, long ago. But now, not quite I -!

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, AUGUST 26, 1882.



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(Cl) LIN OOLN-BTRKKT- Very Comfortable Houuo 7 rciomß, bath-room, pantry, stable, fowl ttonuo. &c, &c; about half an aoro laid ont in nuwor-nardou.orohard.&o., with entranoo to Uracs-stroet; could bo subdivided to ad vantage. ££00. j U80) WOODSTRKBT-Comfortablo KesldonooOf7 rooms, fitted with km and almost every convenience; uplondld allotmont. about 110 x ISO. -ill tastef ally laid oat with flowers, fruit-treos, &&; grand viow of karbaur, «co. (275) WOODBTRKKT-Rosidonoe; 8 rooms and out lioiihos ; allotment, 105 x 165; folly mockod with (role and forest troos; splendid vlow- Prloo only £525. (301) AVONOAIJfi (Whan)-Nioo little Lot of 9 acres near tho atai ion, good land, Price, only £15 per aoro, (533) GRKAT NORTH ROAD (oornor of Brlabnno . and Stanley-fltreota)—Two good Verandah Cottages, with outhouse, wall, &o.; allot raant to each 31 x 110. Prioa £350 for the lot. (151) MONTAQUK-aTRKKT, NEWTON - ttooil Verandah Cottage; 4 rooms; good wolU &o.; allotmontmeat 33 x 90. Chenp, PAW (179, DUKK-STRKET. NKWTON-Vory comfort able Houuo; S rooms; in (Ir.jt-eluuu order; Koixl well, oven, gaa ilitingg. &v.; nllot mont 33x99. Cheap, only £300 (320) DOKK-3TRBKT, NBWTON-Nioo Vorandah CottDCO; I rooma; gable onds, almost new 1 allotment 33x99, very desirable. (521) MILFORD-STRKKF, PONHONBY-Now and well - tlnlßhod House; G rooms, bosldes pantry, dairy, servants' rooms, &o.; lilted with register grates, oveos, &o. j allotment 134x101); In garden; together with stable, bugarr-houso, &oi £600 (211) CLARKNCK-STRKST. POM9ONBY-Veran dah Cottage; I rooms, tank, &c; allotmont 18x80. Only £180. (290) SHBKHAN-BTRBET. PONBONBY-NIOO Cot tage ; 4 rooms, verandah in front, and very comfortable s rnvit tho Hall. £2JO. (300) BAILKY'd PADDOCK (Nowton) —New Oot tago ot threo rooma; good well; freehold allotment 33 x 100; only £130; oaiy term*. 4 (S3i> PONSONUY TERRACK - Now Houso; 7 rooma (not quite lluixhud); Rood well, tank. wooiiehud, sic.; Rood allotment. 80 X 100 all fonood and planted. £450, (417) NKWMARKKT-Nioo Vorandah Cottage ot 5 rooms, fitted with loglator, oven, eto,, corner 101,f0r£250. v».a ... . :. .' JOHN-BTRBKT, Ponsonby — Choap Cottatre, i rooma ana aouliery, froehoid allotment, 40 x 80, price only £120. (172) HACKKI'-STUKKT, noar stopn to boaoh. fool' ot m. Mary's lload—Handsomo Villa, gable ondß,. Bow-windows, and fitted with regis ter Rrato, oven, oaoboards, etc ; allotment 33 x 99; prloe only £300. UOU CIiARKNCE-HTRBET - A New and WoU finlnhed Verandah Cottaga. i rooms luid ucullery ; fittoa with reglnter grate, ovon. cnphoardß, tanks, eto.; price £250, oasy ■ terms. (433) PROBPEOT TKRRACK—Hftnasomo and vory rteslraole House, C rooms, soullory, eto register grato. oven, cupboard, sholves, k» and water laid in, etc ; allotment S3 x 100 Bplendld little garden, oholce trees, eto. PRO3PKOT-3TRKKT,near the Ponaonby Hair, new and well-finished Honse, C rooms, register, oven, tank, etc, oto.; allotment 33 x 100, fenced, price £323. (514) MOUNT KDBN, near Mr Kelly's-Now and well-flnished Villa, gablas, bow-wlndaw, etc, eto., 9 rooms, and wash-houso ; allot ment 42 x 132; prloe £400 (605) PARNBIiL— Commodious Family Residence, containing 9 roomi, etc., etc, wosh-honou •with cooper, and other oonvonlenooe, large and valuable corner allotment; price £75(1. an MOUNT KDKN (near Toll Bar).—Nlco Voran dah Oottsgo, 1 rooma, &v., allotment about 66 by 90; cheap, only £280. OTAHUHU—NIoo Verandah Cottage, i roomß etc., good corner allotment, for £190. (446) PAPAKORA—Now Hoibo and outbuilding?, and 87 aoree real (rood land in orchard, etc, in valuable position Jaat at railway station. MANGATKTK—SO acres valuable Bush; con* elating Totata, Purlrl, fee, near a navfaable oreek being put ot lota 8U and 89, frloo* only £80.-. TUAKAU—A very Compaot Farm of 101 acres, splendid land, nearly all fonood and sub divided; plenty of water, a never-falling spring through the property: good Cottage, with workshop, dairy, cowshed, outhonaos, &c; good position, and only ll mllsa from station. Prloe only £550. (422) TURANOA ORBKK (near Howlok)-A vory choap little Farm ot 105 aores. part culti vated, plenty of timber and water; goad House, &o. (about 17 mllee tram Auckland). Only £225. (438) ONKHUNQA-Two nlco Allotmonts in Gather. lne-etroot (near corner). Prloe, only £00 (USD RAZOR BACK-Bplonaldllttloirorm,B2noroß, large Homestead, and every oonvonlenoo; about 3 miles from Pokeao Station, (184) KAUKAPAK APA—223 acres, on which stands a valuable bush, and in good position, (491) OHALMBRSTON—Compact llttlo Farm ot 160 acres; part In cultivation; splendid, orchard; eood pieoe ot bush; oreek, &o. Hooao and outbuildings almost now. £600, PAI-AKURA-A. desirable Farm of SCO aores, part in cultivation, plenty of water, timber, and beautifully sheltered; good Homestead, 7 rooms, and necessary ontbulldings.garden, orchard, &a,, and atook at valuation, it do- Bired. (217) TUAKAU— Splendid Uttle Lot of 50 aoros, nice piooo bush, plenty of. water; near station. (4Z») BOMBAY—Nice little Farm of 20 aorea, good Homestead, &c. Price only £220, TB ARAl—Farm 589 ocros. with house an .1 all lmorovoments for £7000. MOUNT BDBN.—Handaomo Villa ReaMenoffi contalnlnir 5 Rooms, besides Fan:ry, Soullary, &c; all in flrßt-cloas order, with ■ Stable, Baggy-house, Cow-shod, Sen., &c, together with 9 aores Voloanlo Land, sub divided , and a portion planted. Terms easy U desired. 601 PARNEMi—Valuable Property for disposal, consisting ot commodious Dwelling and Store, two Houses, and Large. Allotment; very good investment. (522) MOUNT EDEN—Verandah Oottaße (4 rooma). tanks, &0.. with two Acres Voloanio Land, subdivided into paddooks and orchard. Price £500.! I4S0). NORTHCOTH (Takapnna)— Snng little pro , perty of 63 acre;*, good land, partly Im proved; orchard. So, Together witli Now Cottage (five rooms), stable, cowshed, &0,, fco. Price, £1000. . (601) NORTHOOTK-Splendld Building Allotments atlrom£3seach. NORTHCOTK— Splendid tots, partly improves and fenoed, at from £21 por aero, WHaRISHINB—IBO aores of very valuable* Bash—totara. pariri, kauri. &c—in cooti position, oheap. (5211 PAPAKOA—ISO acres good Bush Land (obenpV WAITAKRRKI-30 aores good Land, partis improved; plenty of water,' corner lot» Only £30. (511) WAIKATO—Nice little Farm of 27 aores, im proved; good position; nloe house of five. rooms and out-houses. Only £210. (231) AND NUMEROUS OTHKR PROPERTIKB— Bush Lands, Improved Farms, BalldlDg Site?. Business Premises, So,, tor Sale, ozs application to J}. P. EVANS, i HOUSK, LAND, AND ESTATE AGENT, QUBBN-BTBKSX (mxt 'tftEIMSUT),