■whose action with the letters had struck me as bcinn so p-culiar, Jt recognised her nt lirst t'lanoe, though she was differently dressed and bad evidently passed through aouio worry or excitement that had altered the expression of her countenance and mad1) her manner what it was not at that time, strained nnd uncertain. But I saw no reason for thinking that she remembered me. <Jn the contrary, the lookshe directed towards me had nothing but inquiry in 4t, and when Mr Monell pushed me forward with the remark. "A frieDd o£ mine; in fact my lawyer from New York," the dropped a.hnrfied olu-fashioned ■curtsey who«e only expression waa a manifest desire to appear sensible of the honour conferred.upon her, through the nust of a certain trouble that contused every thing about her. "Wo Ihvo come to ask a favour, Mrs Belden; but may we not come in ?' said my client in a round, hearty voice well calcu lated to recall a person's thoughts into their proper channel. " I nav<! heard many limes ot your cosy home a"d would hkean opportunity to se« it" And with a blind ! disregard to the look of surprised.resistanco that roac involuntarily inU> her eyes, he stepped gallantly into the little room whose cheery red carpet aud bright picture-hung walk, showed iuvitingly through the halt open door at our ltfr, l<'in.iing }ier premise* thus invaded by a sort of Fronea coiip d'etat,M™ Bolden made the best of th« siuutiou, and pressing ma to eater also,dcvoted herself to hospitality. As for MrMoutll, he quite blossomed out inhUendeavours to make himself agreeable; ao much so, that I shortly found rnyael£ laughing at his sallies,though my heart waa full of anxiety lest, after all, our cllorts Should fail ot the success they cer. airily mesitcd. Meanwhile Mrs Belden softened more and mo-e, joining in the conversation with an ease hardly to be expected from one in her humble cireumstiuceu. Indeed I soon sawtlrit -ho was no common woman, There was a refinement in her speech and manner that, combined with her motherly presence and geuue air, wa» vpry pleasing. The last woma-i in the world I ehould ever have suspected of any under-hand pro ceeding, if I had not marked the peculiar look of hesitation that crossed her face, when Mr Monell broached the subject of my entertainment there. "I don'c know, sir; 1 would be glad, but," and she turned a very scrutinizing look upon me, "the fact is,l have not taken lodgers of late, and I nave got out of the way of the whole thing, and am afraid I cannot make Mm comfurtHble. In short, you will have to excuse me." " But we can't," returned Mr Monell. "What, entice a fellow into a room like this—" and he cast a hearty admiring glance round the nunrtoient which for all its sim plicity, both itR warm colouring and gener »1 air of cosiness amply merited, " and then turn a cold shoulder upon him when ho humbly entreats the honour of staying one •poor, little, pitiful nigbt iv the enjoyment of its attractions? No, no, Mrs Belden, I know you too well for that. Lazarus him self couldu't come to your door and be turned away, much less » good-hearted, ■clever'head«d young gentleman like my friend h<-rc."

" Yon are very good," she began, an almost weak love ot praise showing itself for a moment in her eyes, " but I have no ;room prepared ; I have been house-cleaning and everything i« topsy-turvy. Mrs Wright, now, over the way—"

"My young friend 13 going to stop here," Hit Monell broke in with frank poutivenesa, "If I cannot have him at my own houae, and tor certain reasons it seems that I cannot, I shall at least have the satisfaction of knowing he is in the charge of tlie best housekeeper in 11 ." "Yes," I put iv without too great a show of interest, " I should be sorry, once intro duced here, to bo oblig;d to g» elsewhere." The troubled eye wavered away from us to the door.

" I was never c.illed inhospitab-e," she commenced. " but everything is in such disorder—What time would you like to come ?" she suddenly rvked.

" I was in hopes I might lemain now," replied I; "1 have some Icttcr3 to write and ■would ask nothing better than for lea^ c to sit here and write them."

At tins word letters I ?aw her hand go to her pocket in a movement which muss nave been involuntary, for her countenance <!id not change and sbe made the quick reply, " Well, you may. If yon can pun up with what I can yive yoa, why it shill not be said that I refused you what Sir Monell is pleased to call a favour." And complete ia her reception as she hud been in her re sistance, she gave us a pleasant smile, and Ignoring my thanks, bustled ont with Mr Monell to tne buggy where she received my bag and, what w*s doubtless more to Ler taste, the corapl'ments he was now more than ever ready to bestow upon her.

" I will see that some room is pot ready for you in a very short spice of time," she said upon re-eaterin?. "Meanwhile make yourself at home here, and if you wish to write, why I think you will find every thing f.ir the purpose in these drawers." And wheeling up a table to the easy-chair in which I sa*:, she pointed to the small compartments beneath, with an au of such manifest desire that I should make use of anything and everything she had, that I found myself wondering over my position with a tort of startled embarrassment that was not remote from shame.

"Thank you," said I; I have materials of my own," and hastened to open my bag and bring out the writing case .which I slwavs carried with me.

"Then I will leave you," said she; and with a quick bend and a short hurried look out of the window, she hastily quitted the room.

I could hear her steps cross the hall, go up two or three stairs, pause, go up the -rest of the flight, pause aguin, and then pass on, I .was left on the lirst floor alone.

(To be continued.)

A Phenomenal Canary.

The power of imitation possessed by birds Of the parrot tribe has long been familiarly known, and it would not be difficult to find numerous examples of event well-educated members of the genus in this respect. We do not, however, usually regard the vocal powers of canaries as being equal to the production ot articulate sounds resernbliug thoae made by the human voice,*biu there is at prudent in the possesniou of Dr J. McUrigor Croft a little songster of tins description, which, besides giving utter ance to delicious warbiins>B, is also able to "talk" with a clearness and precision simply marvello.us. Somewhat sceptical •of the accounts we had received ot this animal wonder, we have, through the kindness of Dr Croft, had an opportunity ■of directly proving the truth of the state ments made concerning it. The canary -does veritably speak, and enunciate 4 a number of sentences which are clearly imitative of the voice of the lady who has had care of it since its early youth, The effect, indeed, produced by the clear, sweetly uttered sentences pronounced by the bird is almost weird at iirst; but the feeling of wonder thus created quickly gives rise to a sensation of oxquisite pleasure, which is deepened as the little creature suddenly at the end of a sentence

rushes off into an ecstasy of 'song. As illustrating the exquisite pliability of the larynßcal apparatus of small birds, and tho extent to which training may bo carried in such cases, the tiny animal is deeplj interesting to physiologists. As a more curiosity, however, it is undoubtedly unique, ani we are deeply obliged to Dr Croft for having been enabled to wit ness so phenomenal a bird,— Medical Press and Circular.

Interesting Clibbings.

It is believed that, with the pictures in cluded, the Duke of Hamilton will obtain at least £300,000 for the furniture of one house. A lady who has recently died at Bath has bequeathed to the Lou don Diocesan Homo Mission Society a legacy of £105,000; and the facs that £25,0U0 does doc fall in at once is a very trifling drawback. " Wanted, a distinguished and healthy looking man to bo 'cured putiont' in a doctor's ■ waiting-room. Address 1.8. R., Posta Kestante."—l'r-'nch advertisement. a trutnful girl, engaged in declining an undesirable invitation. "Doo't interrupt me juat noffjUia. I've nearly finished this lie.1' Jrate Colonel: " Why the devil don't you solute me, sir?" Militia Itecruit: "So I was v goiug to, but if I do now." A fasnion item states tbat cm-meal nibbed in tho hair will clean it. But who wants to take so much trouble about clean ing corn meal? Pithy.—One ot the shortest harangues battle ia tho following, attributed 10 Henry IV. of France:—"Soldiers, I am your kinp, you are Frenchmen, yonder is the enemy." —Contauseiui. During a clerical conference, tho follow ing conversation w:\a hoard between two newsboys :—" I say, Jim, what's the wean ing of so many ministers being here all tu geiher?" "Why," answered Jim, scout tally, "they always meet once a year to swap sermons." He is a festive fellow, that proprietor of a bone-mill, who advertises that -'persons sending iH their own bonus to be grouurt will find their orders attended to with puuctuality and despatch.'1 One of the quaintest jostlinga of European culture witn uative savagery is to be found in a simple story of an iudentured servant maid at Fiji, who tuus concluded tho narrif tiou of her domestic history in her own English:—''Pa got jealous; so he Bgnt and kdl ma ; then he put hot in an oven, and pa aud his friends cat poor ma all up." inquisitive Stranirer, addressing distin guished dramatist, in re the cricket match between the Australians aud Surrey : '"Can you toll me, sir, who won at the Oval to day, and by how much';" .uisutiguisbed Dramatist (temporarily oblivious tnrouj;h Scotch vrhisky oi the fact that race meetings are not usually held at the Oval): " Yes, sir, some d d outsider; won by threo lengths."

In tbe castles and palaces of the ancient nobility of France, the tapestry frequently presents memorials of tueir pride of an cestry. On tbe tapestry at the Duke of Choiaeul's is a representation of the Deluge, in which is seen a man running after Noan, and calling out, "My good friend, save the archives ot the Choiseul family."

"Water, Water Everywhere!"—* lady, whose education left aomethinu' to be de3ired, had just returned from her first tour in Italy, when shy was a-ked by a, friend how stie liked Veuice. " Oh, pretty well, on the whole," was the ivply, "only I am sorry we did no: go a bit sooner, as there happened to be a fl»od at the time of our visit.—" Miegende Blatter." An Equivalent,—Lorette, a young country lass, waatcd to get married, and the lady of tho manor gave her ten thalers (about thirty shillings) as dowry. Her ladyship desired to see the suitor. Lorette introduced him to her: he was a little, very plain-looking Savoyard. "Dear me," said the lady, as soou as she saw him, "what a sweetheart you have chosen, to oe sure, my dear girl." "Well, my lady, replied Lo;ette, "what can you expect for ten tbalcrsT *-" Juudwig," Koyal Mourning.—Quite inexhaustible is the list of senseless customs lo which fashion, that sovereign mistress of the world, has lent its sanction, To £ive an instance: the rules of etiquette in the Middle Ages requited that a queen of France should keep her bed for six weeks after her husband's decease, during which period her apartment was constantly lighted with tapers, daylight being completely ex cluded. Thus Maria "mourned" 'the death of her husband, Louis XII., in the year 1515.—"Buch fur AUe." A man once went to purchase a horse of a Quaker. " "Will he draw well ? " asked the buyer. "Thee will be pleased to see him draw." The bargain was concluded, and the farmer tried the horse, but he would not stir a step. He returned, aud angrily said—"You have deceived me; that horse will not draw an inch." "I did not tell thee it would draw, friend ; I only taid ' that it would please thee to sea him draw; so it would me! but I never did," A clergyman was fo'ced to nay to a con gregation that persisted in depositing buttons in the contribution box, " Brethren who wish to contribute buttons will please not hammer dowri the eyes, for while that process does not increase their value as coin, it does impair their usefulness as buttons." •'You must find it a monstrous bore," said a visitor to his hostess, " to bave to entertain so many people. How do you ever manage to get rid of tiresome folks ? " Easily enough. When I want to.get rid of anybody, I talk to him about myself. If I wish anyone to stay all I have to do is to talk to him about himself," The most pointed and probab'y the best remembered part of a Boaton divine's ser moD, the other evening, was as usual near the close. He paused suddenly and look ing to the door quietly said, " We would be glad if that yoang man in the vestibule would come inside and satisfy himself whether she is or is not here. That would be much better tban keepine a half-inch draught on the occupants of the back pew. One of the Rothschilds weighs only ninety pounds and is worth 9,000,000 pounds. . , It was a pleasant enough house in itself, but the daughters were not famed for thcr beauty, and their matrimonial prospscts seemed remote. Still there was one boy, supposed to partake largely of the nature of tue chowder-headed clam of commerce, who it was thought might be brought up to the scratch. With this view the Dow ager asked him sweetly one afternoon— "And now, Charley,dear, I must really ask you what your intentions are? Ohm-ley wasn't such a chowder-headed clam as supposed, for aB he rose from his seat, shook hands with his hostess, and made for the door, he replied, " Madame, I make it a rule never to have an intrigue with a married woman." Everybody recollects the romantic story of Mdlle. Blanche d'lm6courtr, who ran away with Musurus Bey, and after going through a marriage ceremony with him, and residing for some tin c under the same roof in England with her youthful husband, was enticed away te Paris by the Countess, her mother, and immured in a convent.

Poor Muslims Bey in vain endeavoured tflj gain possession of his bride again. Tee' marriage was pronounced illegal, as it had taken placa without the consent of the young lady'a parents ; andMdlle. Blanch?, notwithstanding all her supplications, could not manage to make her mother relent. At last the lady seems to have forgotten all her love-passagea with Musurus Bey, a« she in about to lie married to Count de colin?, Mudamo Kattazzi's son.—" Truth."

Serjeant Ballantine in his book tolls a good story of v cage heard at the Thames Police Court. It was iv a mutter of affilia tion that was decided against bis client. Said the magistrate to the Serjeant ufter watds: " You mado a very gool speech, and I was inclined to decide in your favour, but you know I am a bit of a naturalist, and while you were speak ing I was comparing tho child with your client, and there could bo do mistake the likeness was most striking." "Good heavens!' replied tho Scrjeanf, "my client was not in court. The person you saw was the attorneys-clerk !" ltnther rough on the poor man who has to pay the half-crown a weok, that!— Another good story out of the Serjeant'* book, and we must tell ie even at the risk of infringement of conyright. A Turk, who was a vendor of rhubarb, was robbed of his earnings, and tie prosecuted tho thief, and, tho case beiuj; very clear, ho was committed for trial- Tho Moslem was told that he must appear at the next Fashions to prosecute, and lie swore by the prophet that he could nof, and the msg'stntc nt once called upou him to find Vm.il to do po, aud, not beiujj able, ho was committed to prison. The prisoner, in turn, found bail easily onough lor his appearance. The the thief did nor, and the prosecutor, on being released, departed, saying, " God is groat," and wondering greatly at the ad ministration of justice in tsiis cimutry.

Umbrellas.

Tukke arc at present iv this country, soys the " New Yorlc Times," at lmst tweuty four miilioas of urivutc umbrellas, exclusive of those remaining unsold iv manufactories and >ho[)s. Kaon umbivllii-owiior buys at least one new umbrella evtry year, his pre vious nne hiving been hto'.un.'lcm, or worn one. We thus see that there is an annual apparent disappearance of twenty-four millious of umbrellas, and the monioot \vo fully comprehend tbii fact we perceive tua importance »f the question, what become-) of tht-so umbrellas ? We may lultnit that many of them ate stolen. Men who would not ttcal a oue-ccot postage stamp will, nevertheless, feel uo hesitation in seizing upon a?iy umbrella that is temporarily separated from in owner anil iv carrying it off iv triumph. About one-sixth ot the title to all umbrellas now iv active use, ia probably uf this semi-ftfloiiius nature. Them id 9nid to be a ricU uaibrella-seller in this city whoso stock cost him absol utely nothinp, since it is collected by playing upon tha consciences of his tellow raeu, tie walks along Broadway, end when he sees a desirable umbrella, he stops the. man who ia carrying it and re mark", " Excuse me, my friend, but you have sny umbrella." At least every fourth man thus stopped knows that his title to the umbrella ia bis possession will not en tltiro investigation, and so he hastily sur renders thti umbrella, remarking ax ho does so, " I wai looking for an owner for it, and intended to send it to the police head quarters this afternoon." On every over cast ami threatening: day this ingenious collector—who is always lollowed by a boy with :t baml-ca-t—gathers in from seventy live to a hundred umbrellas, wiiich he aftw wurds pells at the usual retail price. But, coucerling that one-s,ixlh of our umbrellas are stolen or sold for th-j second time, there still reraaiu eighteen millious of umbrellas whose annual (ii-fl|>pearanc« ii to be ac counted for. Let us assume that of this number two milli'ina are famished wiili new covers anil a fresh coat ot varnish, and no re enter into circulation as new umbrellas. Still there are sixteen millions more which utterly vaoisli from the face of the earth. In the cusu of the disapocirance ot pica—a familiar subject which has occupied for yearn the attention of our statisticians aud other scientific persons—it is easy to cay tljut their smalt size euables them 10 successfully conceal themselves. Old umbrellas hava not this advantage. Next to a hoop-skirt, an ol'l umbrella Is the most obtrusive tbiog iv nature. Wot only does it refuse to cou ceol itself, but itattacks everyone who comes within its reach, and clings desperatoly to his legs und garments, Its ribs protrude in all directions, Jike the tentncles of tho octopus, and no amount of force or in genuity can compress it into a small space. To get rid of an old umbrella will be seen, oa reflection, to be aoparently one of the moot ab-truse and difficult of problems. It is well established that old umbrellas arc not kopt iv houses. The housewife, when questioned as to what h»s become of any Riven old umbrella, will always rtply vaguely, " Ob, ie has been thrown away." Of courte this cannot be understood literally. If sixteen millions of old umbrellas were thrown into the street every year they would be blown about In clouds much thicker tbnn the ordinary city dust cloud, and there would not hi a borse or a pedes trian in existence who had not sustained injuries from old umbrella ribs. When the housewife " throws away " au umbrella, it unquestionably vanishes, but what she calls " throwing away " is obviously a pecu liar and mysterious act. Hasty thinkers may assume that old umbrellas are cant out into vacant lots, where they are promptly devoured by goat?. This may seem a plausible theory to any one [but a zoologist. The latter knows, however, that while the goat may be roughly described as an omni vorous animal he is not umbrellivorous. Undoubtedly goats do eat hoop-skirts, and in the days when hoop-spirts wore fashion able, thousands of goats were fattened upon them exclusively. The umbrella haa so many of the characteristics of the hoop-skirt, that one would naturally suppose that it would tempt the appetite of goats, but it is a well-ascertained fact that for some unex plained reasonnogoat will touch an umbrella except v/hen suffering from starvation. Professor Tyndall kept a goat for seven days without fond, and offered him an old umbrella overy day, but the goat would not touch it until the seventh day, when, being overcame with hunger, hn ate three ribs and part of the handle, and died two hours laler with symntoms closely re,<emblng those produced by strjehuioe. Thisexpsriment may he regarded a? conclusive, and we must: acquit, the goat of all share in causing the disappearance of umbrellas. To some extent it is possible that old umbrellas are used in cheap restaurants, the ribs being served up under the name of asparagus, but only a very small proportion of sixteen millions of umbrellas can be annually used in this way. Neither does ths occasional use ot an umbrella as a club by a vigorons female reformer have any real bearing upon the subject There is positively no theorj which satisfactorily accounts for the dis appearance of old umbrellas", and it is the imoerative duty of scientific persons to in vent a theory without further delay. Truly, we live in a world of mystery, and no thinking man can look at his umbrella and ask himself Where it will go when it is worn out without feeling that he stands on the shore of an ocean of unexplored truths,

THE FAILURES OF UNBELIEF.

The Rev. Joseph Cook delivered a lecture in Melbourne on "The Failures of Unbe lief." He commenced his discourse by referring to the great advancement made in modern times in bridging the ocean and bringing cities nearer together. Ciuaiir, lie said, could not drive hii chariot round the ' Roman Empire in less than 10© days, hut, iir the present time, a letter could be sent round the whole globe in 96 dajs, so mar vellous were the means of international communication, that it might be said without exaggeration that Loudon was as nour to all thu different cities of the Chris tian portions of our planet ns the city of the Seven Hills was to the outskirts of the Empire of Ciesar. In this position of attain whatever succeeded or failed in the moral buttles of the most civilised portions o£ the west must succeed or fail in the omt, for although the countries of the East were , older in civilisation, they wore young in intellectual thought. He next dwelt upon the growh of Christianity up to the present time, and contrasted it with tlio growth of infidelity. In his opinion the Christian Church never stood stroDger than it did at thu present day, whilst on tho other htuul tho relative strength of infidelity was never weaker than it was at tho present hour, notwithstanding tho great noise it nude and tliu many papers it had to support it. At the commencement of the prc-cnt cen tury there were only 50 diil'crcnt transla tions of tho Bible* now there were as many as 308, whilst in addition to that £4,000,000 had been raised throughout Grout Britain and America for missions alono. It was his intuition to speak first o£ America, then of England, and then of Germany, and of tho conflict with free thought in those lands. The experience of the American Church was one of the best replies to the statement that Christianity could not koop its place in the wuilil if it was not supported by the State. In America the proportion of church members a short time since was one in littoeu; to dny it was one in live; ami out of a population of 50,000,000 or 52,000,000 it numbered 10,000,000 church members. . Yet not a single church in America had a penny contributed tp it by the State, nor did any church have, or would it stand a feather's" weight of authority from any politieul source. The church prevented the S>tat« from governing the church, but it old not prevent the church from governing the State. It was Christianity that made a nation pay its debts, and if Christianity were given up they would find, as the result of infidelity—bankruptcy. It was Christianity which to-day maintains most of the higher institutions in America. It was to France that they must go for the innermost heart of Prc.thoiight, for there it had been tried, and it was only tho atmosphere of Christianity in Great Britain and America that prevented the full llower ing of vulgnr infidelity in Paris, in London, and in New York. They had tried three times to found a new religion in Buston, but eacli attempt had proved a " last year's bird's neat."' Uniiarianism was dead an.i laid out for decent burial, and there was not a single church that hold Channing's form of doctrine. Churches of that denomination had only half the chur ches in America that they had in IS4O, and Universaliat churches were in a proportion of 2J If ss than there were forty years ago. Unevangblical sects, it was found, did not regenerate the masses. The majority of studeot'* at Harrald's College sprang from evangelical families,and looked to evangeli cal faith for their future. All republican institutions, no doubt.brought forth a num ber of small philosophers, and iv his (the lecturer's) naiive state there were moro small philosophers produced to the square acre than in any other place in the world. These people were.however.only in a transi tion state when they raised moro questions than they could answer. In England and iv America, too, he could wish to see a more theological trainiog of the average curate, whose education was not so thorough ns that of the average Scotch preacher. He was afraid that they had not equipped the r theological halls with chairs intended to discuss the relation of Christianity to scientific truths. The New Testament had borne m ny attacks, but no man had as yet explained away the spiritual religion lying behind it. The Old Testament would bo submitted to similar attacks, but he for one held that the Old Testament would come out as the New Testament had come out, fit more defensible from those attacks, and those records of supernatural events would be looked upon with far more rcver euce than at first. They could not eliminate the supernatural portions of that book with out leaving aresidue of crumbling fragments which could no longer cling together in any form whatever. The lecturer then went on to combat the myth theory of Strauss. Four of the Pauline epistles, he said, were now admitted by all critics to be correct records of the events which, they described, for th« indubitable factß concerning those spiritual eventi, were carried back close to their oc currence. The monument of the origin ot Christianity was the Christian Qhurch,and the speeches delivered at its foundation were the sacred writings of the New Testa ment recorded within a few years of the crucifixion. Infidelity had been shattered again and again upon these historic truths. Pealing with Germany,hc characterised the Universities of that country ss foremost in theological research, and stated that the deep heart of Germaa theological learning was thoroughly devont. There was ration alistic teaching there, no doubt, but the students crowded the evangelical rooms, and abandoned those devoted to rationalism. He believed that learned infidelity, on the ground of historical scepticism.had no.foot ing that any m»n of weight should bear himself upou. Taking his position on the law that the fittest survived, he could lie down upon the battlefields of church history and see around him a noiizon of victory. He could look backwards through a vista of triumphs extending over 1800 years, and, looking heavenward, hear the anthem, "As it was in the beginning is now and ever shall bs world without end."- He could observe a white horse, and He who sal upon him was the Word of God. On His head were many crowns. He had vesture dipped in blood, and His name was King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.

The Economical Painter.

There is an eminent painter ia Paris who is economical and sententious.

Tne other day one of the students broke a pane of glass in the studio window, and ro plaeod it temporally by pasting a (sheet of paper over the aperture. Wh'n the painter came down next morning hs thrust his cine through the makeshift wi'h the remark, "He that breaks, pays 1" None of the class, however, took the hint, and next morning another sheet of paper was pasted across the window. It met with the fame fate. And so on the next d»y, and co on the fourth. On the fifth day when the artist came down, there was the paper, as before, Fire flatbed from his eye, and roaring, " He that breaks, pays !' he drove his cane throuoh the paper-and through the pane of glass behidd it that had been put in by the students a»d then carefully pasted over with a sheet of paper,

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, SEPTEMBER 9, 1882



Tx S\ E v A M s» BSTATs, HOUSB^ANp LAND AGBNT. GKACE-3TRBBT PONSONnv- . Price f« lot «2fc ' &Oli now »•' « 1««I TEggggS weu,tan*,« o . To boJom to^ihe?r \m ""'" v «'» o( 5 rooms, pantry. &o.: nice *^ ™l ( ? Uotmßnt' 3» * »"»; wator laid i™ Fo^" NBY-Hon9o, 7 rooms, pantry,- Btoro. room, dto., «0., wgathor with 5 aoreu. lals ""/Li" oroham, 'gurdon, paddoofc, &o: BDlondid Bon view. (61) LINCOLN-STUB XT- Very Comfortable Honw I™°^ »«hTaom, pantry, stable, fowl- JIOMBO. &0.. &c.: about halt an aoro laid out in ii.j«'Hc-K> Ir(te1 r(ten Iqrotiira)&o.,wlth1 qrotiira ) &o.,wlth entranoo WOOD-STKKKT-oomfortnWo Reßldonoo of 7' roDiiia. lltwd with K >ia and almost every convenience; nplundld allotment, about 140 x 51), «U tMtefuliy lala oat with flo were. fruit-trees. &o.; grand view of harbour «o. )27S| WOOU9 ratCKT-Hesldflneo. 8 rooms and out houses; atlotmont. 105 x 165; fully stocked, with fruit ana foruat treoa; splendid vlow. Prloo only £525. (301) AVONDAI.B (Whan)-Nico liUlo Lot of 9 aorea nour tho Station, quod land. Prlco. only £15 per aore. ' (&j) obkat NORTH ROAD (oornor of Brlsbano and Stanley-Btreots)-Two (?oo<t Vorandali uottaKea, with ontnousa, woll, &o. • allot mont to each 31 x 110. i'rioo *M 0 (or tho IoU (1M) MONTAOUK-BTRJCET, NRWTON - GoOft Verandah Cott&Ro; i rooms; Booa welL &o.; allotmentment 33 x 00, Cheap, £160 (179, MILFORD-STBKHF. PONBONBY-NOW «n 4 woll - finished Houso; 0 rooms, besides pantry, dairy. Hervantß' rooms, &o.: fitted with roKlator Rrntea. ovonn, &o.; allotmont: in x ioj; to garden ; togothor with stable. bugdy-houßß, &0i £600 (JU) CLAUtCNOK-STKKRT. VONBoNßY—Veran dah Cottage; i rouma, tank, &o.: allotment 18 x 80. Only £189. fjgoj S-HMKHAN-STKHKT. PONSONBY-NicoC!ot tn«o ; I rooms, verandah In front and very comforwbla j no*r the HalL £230, (300) BAILKY'3 PADUOOK (Newton)-New f!ot. toi?o of threo rooms; roo<l well; freehold allotment 33 r 100; only SUSi); eaiy terms. - tf (531) PONSONBy TKRBAOK — New House; T rooms (not quite flnlahed); Kood well, tank. woodehed, ceo.; Rood nilouuout, 80 XIOO. all fenoed and plantod. £150. (U7) NKWMARKKT-Nloo Vorandah Cottage ot 6 rooms, fitted wlih register, oven. etc.. corner lot, for £250. ' * JOHN-STKBKT, Ponsonby — Cheap Cottage. i rooms ana eoullery, freehold allotment. 40 x 80, crloe only fil'JO. (172) HAOKKV-BTKKKT, near stepa to heaoh, foot ot at. Mary's Koad—Handßomo Villa, Kablo ends, bow-wlndowß, and fitted with renla tor grate, oven, ounboarda, eto. ; allotment 33 x !K); prlos only £300. (401) OIiAKBNCK-STRKET - A N«w and Well • flnißhod "Verandah Cattap;a, i rooms nnd ncullory ; fltioa with rußlstor grate, oven, cupboards, tanks, etc; price £250, nasy terms. (198) PROSPECT THRRACK;—Hanasomo and very deslmole Houae. 0 rooms, Honllery, etc; reKlater grato. oven, oupboard, Bholves, am nnd water laid In, ato.; allotment 83 x 100 i. splendid little gurdcn, choice treos, eto. (IWI PRO3PSCT-3TRKKT,n«ar tho Ponsonby HaU new and well-flnlßhod House, (i roorafl. mglßtar oven, tanfe, etc, eto. j allotment 33 x 100. fenced, prloß £3io. (511) MOUNT KDTEN, near Mr Kolly'a-Now and well-flnlebed VUla, gablee, bow-window, etc,, otc., 7 roomn, ann wasu-houao ; allot ment 42 x 133; piioe £100 (505) PARVKLL—Commodious Family Realdenoe. containing 9 rooms, etc., eta, wash-honae *wlch copper, and other oonvenionoes, larcro and valuable corner allotment; prloe £750. ten MOUNT EDKN (near Toll Bar).—Nlea Veran dah Cottage, ± rooms, &c. allotmont about 68 by 90; cheap, only £280. OTAHUHU-Nloe Verandah Cottaae, 4 rooma etc., good corner allotment, for £190. (416) PAPAEURa.—Now Hoaso and ontballdlniw, and 37 aores real Kooi land In orohard, etc. In valuable position J lat at railway station. TU aX AU—A. very Compact Farm ol 101 acres, eplondld land, nearly all fenoed and sub divided ; plenty of water, a naver-falllntt spring tbrongh (he property: Rood Cottage, with workshop dairy, cowshed, onthonses, &o.;Kood poaitlon, and only U nillaa from Btatlon. Price only £550, (122) 1 TURANQA ORKKK (near Howlok)-A vory cheap Uttle Farm of 105 acres, part culti vated, plenty of timber and water; good Houbp, &o, (about 17 miles from Auckland). Only £225. (438) ONKHUNGA—Two nice Allotments in Catheiv lne-atreet (near corner). Prios, only £60 (KB RAZOR BACK-Pplendld little Farm, 83 aores, large Homestead, and every convenience * about 3 mlies from Polceno Station, (184) KAUKAPAK APA—223 aoreß, on which stands a valuable bash, and in good position, (491) OHALMERBTON—Oompaot little Farm ot 150 aorea: part in cultivation; splendid orohard; good pleoa of bush; oreelt, &a. Honae and outbuildings almost now. JEfIOO. PAVAKUR 4—A. desirable Farm of seoiwreß.* part In oaltlvatlon, plenty of water, timber, and beautit ally sheltered; good Homestead, 1 roams, and necessary ontbuildings,garden t orchard, &c, and Btook at valuation, if de- Blred. ~(217, TUAKAU—Splendid little Lot of 50 aores, nloo piooo bosh, p;en;y of water; near station. (UD BOMBAY-Nlce Uttle Farm of 20 oorea, good Homestead. &o. Price only £220. TE ARAl—Farm 589 oores, with house and all improvements tor £7000, MOUNT KD«N.-Handßomo Villa Resldenoo oontalnlntr 5 Rooms, bealdea Fantry. Scullery, &o.; all in flrst-olass order, with Stable, Bnggy-honse, Cow-shed, &0., &c, together with 9 acres Voloanio Land, Bub divided , and a portion planted, Terms easy If desired. £04 PARNKLTi-Valuable Property for disposal, consisting ot commodious Dwelling and Store, two Bouses, nnd Large Allotment; very good investment. (522> MOUNT BDBN—Verandah Cottage H rooms>, tanks, &c, with two Aorea Voloanio Land, pubdlvlrted Into paddooks and orchard. Price £500.1 1480). NORTHOuTK (Takapnna)-Snuß Uttlo pro perty of 63 acres good land, partly lin- S roved; orohard. So. Toicethor with Now ottage (five rooms), Btable, oowehed, &o» fto. Price. £1000. 1501) ■ NORTHCOTB-aplendld BnUdlng AUotmenta at from £35 each, NORTHCOTK—SpIendid lota, partly improves and fenced, at from £21 per aoro, " WH4.RKHINK—IBO aoros of very valuable Bnsh-totara. pnrlri, kauri. &o.—in gond. DOBitlon, cheap. . (5311 PAPAROA-160 aores good Bush Land (cheap', WAITAKKRHI -30 aorM good Land, partis' improved; plenty of water, corner lot. Only £30. (511) WAIKATO-Nlce little Farm ot 37 aorea. lm« proved; Rood position; nice house of five rooms and out-houses. Only SHiH. (231) AND NUMKRODS OTHKR PROPBRTIBS- Bnsh I^ands, Improved Forms. Building Site". Business Premises, &c, for Bale, on application to D. F. EVA NS, House Lind, and Estate AoeKt, qaseksxbbkx (hbxt <\hsiuu>"),