OSCAR WILDE IN SAN FRANCISCO.

TUB /BSTH&TS'S iIKCWriON. The 8 o'clock ferry boat to Oakland, from San Francisco on Sunday naming, Murch 20, carried on a Committeo of deception, self-appointed, to meet Oscar Wilde, thu apostle of twtheticism. The committee con siatcdjof Manager Locke, several Bohemian Club men, and tho usual flock of reporters . that gathers on tho railroid approaches to the city whon some hapless celebrity is to be waylaid and ruthlessly tilled of hisidoaa of California. -■ESTHETIC COMMITTEE OF RECEPTION. As tho committal) filed out to the train for Port Costa an opportunity wan given to note tho srsthetic beauties of their atliro. Manager locko, w'm li'iil evidently bern studying a cut of n ui-iUaival ... tiut, had donned a dark blue cout and a bright yellow necktie, which contrasted so violently with the umuhd-icd hue af his moustache that be looked like Julian liix'a sensational picture of tlio "Kedwoods on Fire." Each of the Bonemiuu CluU men sported a largo broast pin, on which a one-legged silver stflrk gazed pensively on a bronze frog, as if deliberating whether to go hungry or risk tho terrors of strangula tion and dyspepsia. MEETING THE ESTUETg. The run to Port Costa was pleasant and rapid, and the Committee of Reception met the overland train and Oscar Wilde at 10 a.m. Marcus Mayer, formerly of tho .Democratic party of fan Francisco, and now the agent of tbe divine Pat'i, con. vcyed to tho committee from the fore plat form of the train the pleasant news that tho poet had breakfasted. " Ho was presented with a magnificent bouquet of sunflowers aod cnmelias by Mr Woodson at Sacramento," said the cheerful agent, unconscious of tbe intimation which the remark conveyed. The mediaeval splendour of Manager Locke's attire gained him an immediate audience with the poet, who was in tho rear portion of the sleeping-car, paying his morning devotions to a pansy presented by a. Benician withete. Tho moment tbe -manager entered the floral sanctuary the door was closed by the poet'B coloured valet, and the committee was left to its own envious thoughts. After minutes wbich seemed hours to tbe anxious asathetes tbe door of the sanctum was opened and tho manager came out hurriedly, and looking as if be had been worshipping a thistle or paying a compli ment to a nettle. . MANAGER LOCKE'S MISTAKE. " I ought to have known it myself," said he, bitterly, to Mr Vale, the poet's travel ling agent, and he took a poster out of his coat-tail pocket and exposed the offensive advertisement, " What," gasped the terrified agent: "is that tho way you've billed him? A plain yellow poster, without sandhill cranes, or lilies, or sunflowers—not even a line in old English text." The guilty manager looked utterly woe begone. " Not even a marguerite or a frog on tbe border," continued the agent, with a wither ing glance at tbe offender. The manager groaned and hung his head. "You haven't shown it to him, 1 hope," gasped the agent, The manager nodded despairingly. "Great Cceaar," exclaimed the agent, and he bounded into the poetic retreat. The alarmed spectators were about to follow, but tbe valet closed the door and faced tho crowd grimly. Presently the agent re-appeared, looking very pale. "Where's that camellia that was pre sented to us at.JKeno!" he anxiously in quired. SAVED BY A VALET. The valet fished the precious souvenir out of a silver ice-pitcher, and the agent, snatching it, dashed into the sanctuary once more. " Bring them violets!" he yelled a moment after to tho vilet. While the coloured servant was climbing over the baggage on the rear platform to reach the box of violets on the roof of the oar, the audience,heard a deep sigh of relief from the sanctuary. " Ah, that is so beautiful, co joyous. Pat it away, Vale. I feel much better already." " Take, another sniff," replied the sturdy voice of the agent, and immediately the painful suspense of the audience was-re lieved by. hearing a long-drawn inspiration, followed by another exclamation of aesthetic gratification. >■« — 4 How delicioW;'•' how sweet } how sur passing and too utterly sweet is the incense of the wild flowers in the joyous spring time.'!.. -' "IgueeSßO," replied the soulless agent, as he .banded the poet his cherished bunch of violets,'and came out to announce that Mr Wilde would immediately appear to the -visitors.' ■-.'-■ ■'"h<;;; ' \ ! •

THE RAPTUROUS iESTHETK. In a few moments the eminent aesthete stepped through the doorwayof thesivnctum, and, bowmg to f.ho group of admirers, ad' vanced to the middle of tho car. l'he poot was still pale from the elFects of the severe shock to his .sensibilities, but the si^ht of tho dlstaut h'lls purplioj; in the moruiag kuii completely reawed him. "They look, nice," remarked a prosy adniuer.

" Ah—y-e-s—liow utterly lovely—how exquisitely be.uititul—ob-eryo tbe softness of the outline so full of tlio grace and per fcot bii'inony pf nature's handiwork."

Having di'livored him-elf of this rap tnrnuH compliment to tho wooded peaks of Miirin, tba poet clasped his hands and guzed out ot the window iforsnme i.unnieiit v, lose in tbejtoo utterly joyous abstraction of the rosthotio. AM OFF-HA.>.'D SKETCH OF TI£E /ESTHETIC, Tho poet's face wai almost boyish, and the closer >ye examined it the mora juvenile it seeinci!. It was the fnci; of a man 21 years; n long f<io.j in ido up of a pair ot o.vo-t sat ratHer deeply, it larga aquiline noso, full lips, and a decidedly heavy chin. The dross of tho yiet was not less runark uble thtiH hid face, and consisted of v short velvet coat, roM-colour«d uecktio, and dark brown trousors. The loivor ciirntcnta wuro cut with utterly sublime dinrega'd o£ tlio latest fasbimi, but the jesthute U»d yielded sullicieutly to his shoemaker to allow that worthy artisan to lit him with til'! ueivcst production of his last. The poet wore the perennial suufluwer in his button hole, iind a'loweii Ins brown locks Co iloat over hia shoulders and ju'jt show onougb ambition to curl to prove tlmr, they hhurid the wearer's haired of ibo rigtrfly straight. Thn amount of ink that has L'Oeu expended in En^liindand America to prove that Me Wilde, in the dross of ajsthcticisui, is a very remarkable ])erson, is t^e best proof that hi< h'^ute is sutisatiuiially uncom mon. Though occasionally willing to show liis ability to discusi the all'aira of the world of man, theflosfcbota could with didiculty his kept from raviug over tho world of art. He appeared able to j»ive point ito Huskin in artistic rhapandy, and to discount every one THE /BSTHETB'S TALK. " I like yonr names lierc po much," said (.he poet, after he had fed his soul to satiety .m tho purple ot Tanuilpais and the blue of the sky over San Kafa:]. "How delight ful it is to hear such names as San Antonio, Sun Pablo, and San Lorenzo, after one's ears have been bonibly shocked by such ; terms as GringaviUe;'-

Tho poet shuddered as ho thought of the presumptuous borough of the hast which ims proudly taken to itself the tile of G rings ville.

"The fierce sugceslivcuoss of your West orn names, such as Bloody Gulch and Murderer's Bar, have in them something of interest," he continued, "but iv such a niune as Gri'igsvillo there is nothing but uttcrly,unmitigatdd and offensive vulgarity, ugh," ami again the tvsthcto's vclvot collar shook with the violence of his cmo'knS. THE /ESTHETE'S LECTURE. •' Oscar Wilde's lecture on the "English Renaissance," on Monday night, March 27, was the means of filling PJatt'a Hall with the most fashionable audience that any entertainment could attract iv this city. The doors of the hall at 8 o'clock wero fairly besieged by the beauty and wcatli of San Francisco. So great was the press of silks and so dazzling the flash of diamonds in the narrow entrance of tho lmll that it was long past 8 o'clock before the door- : keepers wero able to completo their labours. At 9.20 o'clock the audience, after Homo futile attempts to attract tho poet to the stage by tho concussion of white kid gloves, deputed the task to the more vigorous owners of pointed shoes and swell cones near the dnot. A few sounds of disappro val from these ornaments of fashionable youth causetl the doors in tho middle of th« set fceno on the stago to opeu, and the apostle of resthoticism stepped iutojview. A buzz indicative of feminine surprise and suppressed comment arose as the poet bowed to tho audience and strode down to the medioeval pcdestalwhichhad been placed for him near the footlights. The pedestal was of black, an I in its niches were stored several specimens of bric-a-brac.

The poet's attire was even less modern than his travelling costume. Bis long hair was brushed back ovar his ears, and ho had just enjoyed the luxury of a barber's chair. His coat was of black velvet, with lace cuffs. He wore a full lace necktie, which flowed over his shirt bosom, and left visiblo just enough of the immaculate linen to serve as a background for some antiquated jewel, which oparkled in tho gaslight. His waistcoat was of tho orthodox full-dress pattern, but his lower garment was an un compromising knee - breeches of Rack vel vet, beneath which tho not too muscular legs of the poet stood out in. all tho promi nence, that black silk stockings could give them. 'The aesthete's feet wore cased in patent-leather shoes, with silver buckles. His gloves. wero white, and as ho stood for a moment at the footlights before commen cing his lecture, he looked like one of Itubens's portraits or an opcra-bouffo artist about to sing a solo.

A goblet of water in which some lily 01 lime juice had been placed stood on the aesthete's antiqne reading dusk, and quietly moving the fiflass aside he addressed himself to his manuscript. His unadulterated Eng lish accent,with its cadences so strange and at times so amusing to American ears,niade his hearers for some time more observant of his manner than bis ideas. He had spoken for several minutes before the audience, hav ing become partially reconciled to his cos tume and his accent, realised that he was lecturing them on art education with the earnestness of a drawing teacher. He told with the elegance of sestheticism of the necessity of art in handicraft, of the union of the artist and the handicraftsman, which is essential to the creation of .admirable models. The moment that in any handi craft you obtain beautiful models that in stant you have men and women who have the power to reproduce and. perpetuate beauty, 'the real difficulty In the way of our artistic progress is not that we do not love beautiful tilings, not that we are not interested in art, but that wo do not suffi ciently honour handicraft.- The power and the beauty of the esthetic movement in England lies in the fact that they have brought the artist and the handicraftsman together. Thq lecturer in concluding his appeal for the elevation of .handicraft and the spread of artistic taste, deplored the hideousness of San Francisco's wooden houses and the dreariness of their colours, and said : " Let there bo no flower in your meadows that does not wreathe its tendrils ; around your pillars, no little leaf in your Titan forests that does not lend: its fprm to design, no curving spray of wild rose or briar that does not live forever in carven arch or window of marble, no bird in your air tbat is not giving the iridescent wonder of_ its colour, the exquisits curves of its wines in flight, to malce more precious the preciousness of simple adornment. We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life, which is in art." ■ At the conclusion' ot the ■ lecture the aesthete was loHdly applauded; * -

For the Ladies.

Why is fashioniike the.weather? —Because it is so variable.

If you wish to cure a scolding wife, never fail to smile until she ceases—then kiss her. Sure cure.

A woman cannot be a successful lawyer. She is too fond of giving her opinion without pay.

A cynical old bachelor says it is called courtship because it is ofteu fullowcd by shipwreck.

Coloured Spanish lace appears on man y of the Paris trimmed hats for spring wear.

Irish servant, who has been sent with a letter to the nearest pillar-box to her mister: " tSlmre, suit, the door vis locked."

" What is love ?" asks everybody : aud sonieb »iy replies, " It is a feeling that yon don't want another inau fooling around her."

First Friend: "Did1 you get the photo graph while you were away ?"—Second Friend: "Well, ah, tlie fact is, she gave n:c her negative 1" " Fo'iteirlle thus daintily compliment" the sex when he compares women with clocks ; —"The latter serve to point out the hours, the former to make us forgst them." No woman would be happy to he the only woman in the world and have all the men worship her. She wouldn't be satisfied. She'd want a jollier woman or two to envy her.

A flirting belle lias ca-jsed asocial c-xcitc cnont by having all the love letters she lias received bound handsomely in a morocco volume for her parlour table, la place of an ordinary autograph album. Marriage increases a man's modesty, so that after a year or two he c^in't summon up enough courage to kiss the woman whose lips in the vanishing past were glued to his four hours on a steteli three times a week,

Concerning the campaign in favour of an Englishman's marrying his deceased wife* sister, the lioston "Transcript" wishes to know why Englishmen do not marry the sisters in the first place. (here is a cliscusaioii in Ohio concerning whether pastors have aright to kiss other people's wives and daughters. A few husbands and fathers can se'tie the dispute when they haven few moments' leisure. A little girl once heard her mother remark that she thought v certain lady's daughters made very poor matches. " Well, then, mamma," lnqiiited the young hopeful, " why don't ifiey get better sulphur." More than3,ooo womeirare employed in the railway offices in Austria. This explains why Austrian railroads are so slow. Fre quently, when a train is behind time, there isn't am in about the 'flice to tfwear at it.

A German complaining of the oversha dowing influence nf militarism :— " See the effect on our children ; if we have hand some, w«ll-iiia'*e hoys they join the mili tary ; if girls, the military join them." " There," said Miss Dusliie, as she sealed a letter to her lover—"that isn't very bright; but it will do for him. Lovers are all alike. If you only write to them, they don't care a snap of the fingers what you say." A lecturer on peace soared over his audi ence, Baying: "Lotus have peace every where ! Let us have peace even at homo ! I_ have peace at home! I have been mar ried twenty-live years, and never yet gave my wife one cross word." " 'Cause you didn't dare to!" whispered an urchin, who knew what the lecturer's wife was.

At Chatangua a little girl was asked if Bhe was a Methodist.—"Oh ! no 1" she re plied—" 1 am a Brethren, and ray mother is a Brethren, too." These were of the United Brethren. At Montreal one of this Plymouth Brethren was ast-d why they never spoke of the Plymouth sisters.— "Oh !" was his answer, " the brethren em brace the sisters."

Of Course Such an Idea Would Como Only to a Husband l—" I think, my dear." said Mr* Brown to her weighty huff, "that I will escort Clara to (he ball this evening, livery body will say, ' How liko she is to her mother at her age i' " " Yts," reulied her hu«band, " but it is not impossible that they may aay, ' See how she will look when Ac is of her mother's age !'" When a certain lady refused, soon after her husband's death, to let the hounds go out, a sergcant-at-law asked Cliief Justice X. whether there would bo any harm if they were allowed to do so with a piece of crape round their necks, " 1 can hardly think," said the Chief Justice, "that a crape is ncccessary; it will auiely suffice if they are in full cry." In her girlish days Queen Elizabeth cared much less far dress than for learning and high feeding, wh'ch went together. In the year 1601, she had attained the age of fixty eight, her stock of wearing apparel com prised 99 complete official costumes, 102 French gowns with trains, and 67 without, 126 antique dresses, 136 bodies, 125 tunics, 96 mantles, 85 peignoirs, 18 mantillas, 13 apron*, 27 fans, and nine pairs of slippers. Woman.—As the vine which has Jong twined its graceful foliage about the oak and been liftcdby it in suushine will, when the hard plant is rifted by the thunder bolt, cling around it with its caressing tendrils, andlnnd up its shattered boughs ;. co it is beautifully ordered by Providence that woman, who is the dependent of man in his happier hours, should be his stay and solace when smitten with, sudden calamity, wind ing herself into the rugged recesses of his nature, tenderly supporting the droop ing head, and binding up the broken heart. We often expect much of children; and in certain' cases the exportation is unrea sonable. We forget how untrained in the very nature of things all their faculties must be. We grow impatient because the boy fails, for instance, to apply himself to study as he ought, forgetting that our very pro cess of education is largely this—the train ing of the mmd1 to the habits of applica cotion. We cannot make ourselves perfect with one endeavour. How can we, with one endeavour, expect any such thing in children? • •

Chemises of the most fashionable make and fine quality are of linen cambric, trim med with insertion and edgings of Valen ciennes lace, hand wrought in uniting the lace with | open work to admit the narrow tinted ribbon strings. Medallions of fine needlework are appliqued on the face at' intervals with admirable' effect, and all the seams about the bosom and sleeves aredeli catoly festher stitched. The shoulder straps are long and high, the sleeves are only an edging of lace appliqued on to a band of insertion. The neck is cut low, in heart shape, back and front. The long shoulder straps rise above the shoulder. Many years ago, on the eve of a general election, the late Colonel Sibthorp, who so long represented the city of Lincoln, was askedat a publicmeeting whether ho was for puvity of election; " I shall do," loftily replied the gallant candidate, "as I have always done on similar occasions. I shall go round to-morrow, and present the wife of every voter with a pound of the best green tea; and to every young lady under the age of thirteen I shall give a kiss." "That's right, colonel," observed a moral elector in a corner. '' And to every young lady above the age of thirteen," continued the gallant candidate, withering the moral elector with a scornful defiant glance,' "I shall give two kisses/ Colonel Sibthorp was always re turned at the head of the poll-for Lincoln.

St. Valentine's Day.

A STERN moralist has considered that " the custom of choosing or sending a valentine is a reiic of Paganism," but this opinion is so harsh and ul-supported that we much prefer to believe that "it is a mere relic of that natural religion which was undoubtedly the primitive form of worship in norlh westt-rn JEurope ,as elsewhere, and sprang from a recognition of the peculiarity of the season. "About this time," to quote Ba'ley's Dictionary, ""the birds choose their mates, and probably thence came;the cus tom of young men and maidens clioosiog valentines or special loving friends of that day." Si'akspeare al-o alludes, in his ■' Midsummer Night's Dream," to the old saying that birds bpgin to cuple on St. Valoutinos Day—

St. Valentine is past; Begin those wood-birds but to couple now.

The youth of Ancient Rome were wont, we know, during the Lvpercalia, celebrated in February, amongst other things, to put the names of young women in a box, from which they wew drav.n as chance directed. Later on the Christian clergy, unable to ex tii pate what they considered a heathenish practice, compromised matters by giving it a religious aspect, substituting the names of particular saints for those of the women, a custom still common at the present time ia the Roman Catholic Church. Whether or not the feast of Saiut Valentine was known to our Saxon foiefnthers Listrry dues not relate, but it is sufficiently evident that the practice mu'.t have spread rapidly, in the days of the Normaas. Chaucer, who died in 1400, and Lydgate hoth wrote verses in connection with the day, while in 1415, Okui'les, Duke of Orleans, who was taken prisoner at At»incourt, and for several years confined in the Tower of London, wrote the first poetical love billets that have been handed down to up. Considering the time these were composed,some being in French, others in English, they must be allowed to possess considerable merit. That ecentric old diarist, Mr Pepys, notices Hakit Valentine's Day, thus showng how common the practice of observing it then wa», and in his diary for February 14, 1G67, the following entry will be fonnd :— " I am also tbisjyear my wife's valentine, and it will cost me £5." "I find," he adds, "that Mrs Pierces little girl is my valentine, she having drawn me, which I was not'forry for,it easing me of something more which I must have given rd others." The same entry al*o shows that it was then the fashion, having just been introduced,to draw mottocs^as*'\vell"*a6 names. In those day.-), indeed, the custom of valentine choosing appears to have been not only very general, but also-very expensive, a-i roay be judged from the following entry from 'Mf Pepy's diary in reference to Miss Stuart's iewels: "The Duke of York, being once icr valentine, did give her a-jewel of about £800, and my Lord Mandeville, her valen tine this year, a ring of abqufc £300." If the foregoing entry may be accepted as a fair sample of what was generally expected of va entities ia these days, the post would certainly appear to have been no sinecure, as far at least as the pocket was concerned. — Queen.'

The Height of Fashion in Central Africa.

Standing about are many pretty girls in most fantastic head-dresses, worn, only on special occasions, and highly prized. Pre dominant is" the pink bead, appropriated by the Royal family. A small group of wag gon-drivers, either those who nave come up here with white men, or who belong to the doctor's party, whose •wagepns accompany the King in all h's movementa, are dressed to the height of the fashion—as near as they can manage it—in European dres», for which the stores of the place, have been ransacked, and high prices paid, no matter 'at what sacrifice. One has a chimney-pot. These fellows are usually the greatest scamps in the country—idle, vain, insolent, and vicioua. The King is dressed much like h>s warriors, and looks himself. He is' a fine-looking man, and has an agreeable expression and a ready smile. He is one of the darkest-complexioned men. I have si>en bclonginp to thii nation.— Mctabcle Land and the Victoria Falls.

Legends of Abraham.

Fkom the. mas^ of legendary and traditional matter, Dr Ainsworth says we can discern about Abraham that he was educated in an idolatrous country, and in a family ac tually concerned, by the manufacture of idols, in tbe propagation of a falsj religion; that having.. renounced the worship of the heav only bodies, or of their emblem on earth, "'fire," he was subjected to some de scription of persecution, most generally re presented as having been cast into the element which he refused to worship, but more probably having reference to the escape of the family from the said "Land of Fire i" that he was provdentially removed from the scene of danger; and lastly, that called upon by God to go forth from Harau, and to be ihe founder of a great nation, he ever after wards laboured, to just sentiments concerning the Diety wherever he sojour ned The fame of his wisdom .and piety spread far and wide among the nations of the world. This appears from the testimony of profano as well as of inspired writers. His name is, indeed, only mentioned with honour all over the Fast to the present day.' . . ...:.' .:•'... ,' '

Interesting Items.

The man who discovers the North Pole will probably be a Chilian, When is a boat like a pile of snow?— When it is adrift

" What does the proverb say about those who live in glass houses?" Small boy: " Pull down the blinds."

"Stoleany chickens dis week, Brudder Jones?" said a searching clase-leader to a member of suspiciously thieving proclivi ties.—" No sah—tank the Lor '."—V You'se done well," said the leader, and passed on, while " Urudder Jones " turns to " Brudder Brown" and whispers: " Lucky he said chickens; if he'd said ducks he'd, had me suah!" ' •> ■■■■■

Be the day ever so dark,-and the rain ever so 'dreary without, kind words will shed sun shine within, and dry the drops of sorrow in the eyee. No matter what clouds lour npon the spirit, no matter how deeply it may suffer, land words, uttered at the ngKt moment, will of ten touch the heart as with amaeic wand, and smile away its grief.; A Forger's Toast.—The proprietor of a forge, not remarkable for correctness of language, hut who by honest industry had realised a comfortable independence, being called on at a social meeting for a toast, gave, " Success to forgery." There are times enough for speech—times when silence is false, cowardly,treacherous, To know when to be sileiit, and how to be silent, neither defiantly nor artfully, but gently,.truly, and strongly,,a silence of the mouth uncontradicted by look of the face or thought of the heart—this is one of the finest of thefine_ arts, one of the most beautiful of the beauties of holiness. ' •' • ',1

There is a man who has moved so of ton that whenever a covered waggon conies near his home his chickens all fall on their backs and cross their legs, ready to fee tied and carried to the next stopping-place. j

Erinted and PnWtehed by the Proprietor, HENBr Brbtt, of Symonds-street, at hia General ' Printing Office, Wyndham-etreet, in the Pro. m . vlnce o|Auckland, New Zealand. I;. \', ■ •'■■-.. Satubdat, Mat 6V1882.';';',. -.■"'*■

STAR SATUBDAY SUPPLEMENT, MAY 6, 1888,

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A FEW USEFUL HINTS SUGGESTED BY THB NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. How To Prevent Fnms: " Keep mutchoa in metal boxo-, and out of tlio roach of children. Wax matches aro especially dangerous, and should bo kept out of tlio way of rate and mico, and novor thrown on tho Uoor alight.. Bryant and May's, 801 l and Black's, or Lotohford's SAFETY MATCIIKi-to strike on tho box—aro tho best. "Fill kerosene l<un]>3 only due ni; daylight, and novor noiu' a lire. Novor bay tho oheapost oil, got tho host. , , " Deposit no ashes In wooden boxes or barrels : but in a non-coinbustiblo repository, removed a safo distanco from wood-work. Place no ashes or light uuder a staircase, lie specially careful witli tho ashes from Waikato Coal. "Novor pile up partially burnt wool "gainst tho ohimnoy ;' scores of houses have boon burned in this way in New Zealan t. Never put Ilre- WOOd inside tho tender or on tho stove to dry. "Never oximino a Ras-meter or j{aa-pipo by artillcial light. Never tako a H n 'ht into v. room lull of escaped gas. ". Avoid plaoiug a light near curtains or dra pery ; or taking a light into ti closet. "!IX> not read or smoko in bed at night. "Plaoo shades ovor gas-lights in shop win dows, and keep a suto distance therefrom. " I'ormit no smoking in warohOUßQS.ospocially where goods are paokod or flux is stored. '• Stovo-plpog should bo niuo inchiw or movo from wood, enclosed in non-oimbustlblo sub aUmco, and carried four foot above tho root. " Hatohways and other oponinßS In tho iloors of stores fiiutorics and warehouse;), should ha always closed at night. Close iron doors bo twoon Iloors when not required to bo open for business Have a few buckets ;ilwiys lillod with water, available in case of acudeula. Stores should havo an iron tank of water, always flllod, on eacli fluor,! "BnUdingß in which colton waste, ra£B, or oil uro used for cleaning and oiling machinery Bhould havo an iron box to lnld tho same, as those snbstaucM aro liable to spontaneous igni tion, and. it neglected, may o institute an element of very serious danger. "Havo your chimneys reanlnrly swept, at, fixed Intervals: at least onoo in three mouths. Useful as those precautions may bo, your greatest safeguard is fo INSURE AGAINST l'lllE IN TUB ■SJKW yKALAXD TNSURANCE /10.



, Gazette. Notification.* ~,» Extract from New-Zealand Gazette. 30tfe^ March, 1882.] . ' * A LTERATIUNS AND ADDITIONS A' TO THffi BOALE OB" FARKS" AND CHAR9BS IN FOBOh. ON XHK JHEWZHA. • LAND RAIUWAJCd. . ' ~; Io accordance with the By-lawa tot the New Zealand Kailwaya. fixed by Order* in Council da'ed tnr> 6th Jauuary, 1881. and the: 22nd 'Sep. tomber, 1881, the fol owing ecale of charges tot ■ the purposes specified below is hereby fixed,' in ilea or ii addition to that ai present in force, and mien soale shall come into force from and aftur the 10* April, 1882. • • ', : PAR-f I— PASSE SGKHS. " TRAVELtBBS' A.NKT7AI. 'JIOK'TS. ' *:'."■ ■■ Travellers' Annuil Tickets, available over the -, who>u of the New Zealaud railways for one year from date of. issue, ■» ill be charged £sO. ; PARTIV.-LOOaLi BATKS. .([! V AUOKtAND SECTION. ' , ' Passenger Hates. ' ■ .... . ' .: Ist Class Zod'Clasa ' From To ■ ——: •—- _.'•£ . ■;. .. . , :.U • I • ■ . , S. K. S. Bt -'■> . b, d, h. d. b. la; «,-a, Auckland MorniDgside 10 16 0 9 12' . The rato for freight eif goodß, Claßaes A, B, o,' U, X, between Auckland and Onehunga;, Is hereby cancelled. HklkmiviixbTuibsh Slip: ',' .- ' ■: Tyoa^ing hauri logs at Helo.- fcvllle timber slip '■■ will be oharged 4id per 100 pupe:ficial feet. part v.-thkouohrams;' ' ~ Atl CKXAND SECTION, The rates for river traffic are hereby cancelled Goods of Clowes A, B, O, V, X, between Oiie hunaa and Auckland, will be charged at per ■ ton <w follows:— , . , . : > Eoiween Auckland and; 4,8,U,U kT" '; Onohnnga Town • .. 1 o' i 0 Onehuoga Wharf ,;. .. sf3 4 6 . Thu rata to the whsrf Inclndss charges of wliarfoge and delivery to ehlps in trncks aIODB. woo the railway wharf, hhips' goodß by •wofehfr or measnrcKieiit aooordjng to Bhlpa' bill of isd- The following rates will bo charged at Der' ton on goods, Classes ■ A.B.C.D.K,- 'carried between jiuokand and. ■ ODehnnea and thn atatior,Bß'ated below:- , ~: ~, "7 Ftatlon. '. A . '.B. O d", X »• d. s.d. s.d. B.d. 8.4» Ohinewai _ _ ..33/1128/8 23/S 17/9 12/0 Knntly „ .. „ 36/0 31-/4 23/9 17/3 l»0 Taupiri _ ■ .. 37/8 31,8 tm 17/S m N«araawahia .. ..39/0 33,0 23/9 17/9.12/0 ,: Pnkete .. ... .. 40/tl 3t/l» 24/0 ls/o 12/2 ■^QKapa .. „ ... lu/n 34/0 24/0 18/0 12/2 HafitMjpn Junction ..10/0 31/0 21/0 18/0 12/1' Hamilton.. .. ::^W^jiili'iS/i 12/ i — -i_ii.'.m '""sM^j- -j 1 ■ ■■•■ . -T~T^ </■.. Rnknhla .. .. .. «/0 36/6 26/0 20/ n l^Ss^ ?ft .■■ •• •• *5/0 38/2 ' 11 1 21/4 13/0> \s£l£ ad - "m 39/0 2S/0 22/0 13/2 ' KY • IVO 39/10 2S/8 22/8 1M le Awamntn .. .. iS/0 iO/S .2M 23/ij 13/ff ! ■ .. /^/."iAßT'yn. ■ . ;,'i!i,,, t ;. ;,' • tai»ssIFIOATIO^f of Goods. Forniture, loose in socking, matting: straw, bands, partially or wholly ■• ~: >: exposed. Rate and a quarter. '.. _ Special goods. Owners'risk .. Class A. Rabbits, dead, at owners'riak.. .. Class O; ' PART VEL-WHARVES. Auckland Section, Onehtjnga WHAEVEg. Wharfage Rates. ■ 8' d Cattle and horses, per head .. .. „o 6 Sheep, pi(?s, and goats, per head* .. .. n; 1 Bonedust, guano, and artificial manures (imported), conveyed by rail .. ;.Free. Othor gooas, olaps B, per ton „ .. ~"16 Timber. Class X, carried by railway," at -: r per 100 fret superficial and equivalent.. 0 2 Timber, Cla^ K. not carried by railway ..04 Goods of Classoi L, N, P, per ton _ .. * 0 Native coal _ ...BfJee.- Shells, undressed building ' stone, or '"'\.■■•'(■"/(■' thlngle. per ton ...... .. •_i6' 6 t wool,Bheeusklnßaori rabbitskiaa, in bales notoveriowt, per bale ...■■._ ..06 Flax, in bales not over 2 owt, per bale _ 0 S Four-wheel tehioles, each' .. .. :: 5 0 Two- wh»el vehicles, eaon .. „ ..2 6 All other goods, weight or measurement at '-■'■ the option of thewharfinaer.perton .. 2 6 '109t?allon Iron tanks,each .. .. ..1 0 Poal.'ry of all kinds, per head .. ..01^ Minimum oharices in all oaßes .. .. 0B Goods transhipped intoorher craft for despatch to plaoes outßide tile Manukaa Heads from ships ly inn alongside the wharves will be snb jeot to full wharfage charges. . ■■ ■ ... Goods transhipped into other craft for fies aatch to plaoes within the Manukau Heads from ships Jytag alonnside the wharves will be subject to hair wharfage charges. s frf o Notb.—i he wharfage on. goods. Classes A, B, ' C. D, and X, carried by rail between Auckland Stutlon and Onehunga Wharf, is covered by tba railway freight. . ',? Tolls. ,- & & ffaoh vcfuel lying at the wharf, per work ing day or part thereof, per ton gross register up to 160 tons .. '.v .. 0 « For each ton above 151) tons, per -working day or part thereof. ; . „ 0 W Minimum- charge, per working day or , partthereof.. .. .. „ ..2 6 For every wagon using the wharf, drawn by one horse, each time .. — ..-1 0 ■ For each additional horse ' _ .." .." 0 8 Kor each express cart or other vehicle, drawn by one horso ■„ ... . •..■ O'g For every barrow or hand-track, each I! time „ _..,. .. ... „••_ ot t Qrdnage, , For use Of crane on wharf, per ton.. \■« 08- Exoeptioiiai cargoes (as mar be determined br the Railway-Department) to be charged per dan or otherwise by ppecial arrangement. The oharge for cranage aoee sot include the oost of hau'age to the crane when the goods have been prevlonaly deposited at a distahoe therefrom. The working hours are from 8 tun. to S p.m. on week-dais. , .> • HBXBtreviios Whabf. Wharfage Rates'. r - , All Roods loaded or nnloaded from or into boats or other oraft Into or from boats or other oraft lying at the railway wharf will be charged the ordinary wharfage rates. Dated this 29th dsy of March; 1882.' *": ■ ~'■..:„,'■ JOHNHALt, V Minister acting for tha'Mlntete* for ' . Public SVorkß. ?ir: ' qpHE AUCKLAND GAS' COMPANY, 'X .'• "; . , LtJiITED,.:". ,'„■'.■-: "{'C^, '' ■ ■purveyors ofught, hkat,& poweb. Gfis fittings, Gas Apparatus, and Gas !ENQnB9 . laStook... .';.;. ~/,;• : v '".'■'. 'J . "'■' :'.'v'-;?fS FORT-STREET, AUCKLAND. •: f|^AKAPIJ^A LAKE. — Coach!, learn JL Poat-offloe, Devonport,. daily at 7.20,10.80 a.m., and 2.3oand i3O p.m., retttrnlngr at 8 aid {■ 11.15 a.m., and at 3.16 and 6.15 p.m. Sundays, leaves at 11 a m., 2.30 and iSO p.m. Fares, one shilling each way. Special trips when neces sary, baddle horses and. nil kinds of carriages for hire.—OLIVER MAYS, livery Stablest i Devonport. ;.;*. :■ : i " .' ' ;; «T ALTER BAY NE, VV : Ktbebpass, UN. D: RT A ]EB R ( . .:.'• ■■ Of 20 years'experienca' ... Funerals oonducted with dispatch, and c at prices to defy competition. > „■ ■■