SCIENCE NOTES.

FOE lighting mine 3, M. Mangin has pro posed the use of incandescent electric lamps immersed in water contained in glass globes. The safety of such an apparatus has been demonstrated by placing it in the middle 0 f a balloon filled with hydrogen.

In Sweden, during a recent display of aurora borealis—the extent, vividness, and magnitude of which, it ia reported, has not been observed in that country for years—the big clouds which from time to time passed below the aurora did not affect in the slightest degree the phenomena.

In a letter to a friend in Berlin, Professor Nordenskjold lately wrote as follows : " As for my expedition to Greenland, it is my intention, starting from Auleitsivikfjord on the west coast ia 6S° 30' north latitude, to push into the interior. Relying ou the fact that all the winds which reach the coast from the interior arejdry and comparatively warm, I believe, contrary to the prevailing opinion, that the interior is free from ice, I further believe that under the meteoro logical conditions now existing south of 80° north latitude, ice-covered continents are a physical impossibility."

A NKW LIFEBOAT.—A lifeboat on a new principle was tried last week in the Thames off the Houses of Parliament, with every success. This boat is the invention of Mr Illius A. Timmins, C.E. ot No 17, Great George-street, Westminster, and Mr J. R. Hodgson, who was formerly known oa the north-east coast as the "Stormy Petrel," in consequence of his daring acts of bravery iv cases of shipwreck and the number of lives he has saved. The boat consists of a hull formed of two curved tubes of large dia meter meeting at theends, and thus enclosing open space, which is fitted with a deck composod of wood at the centre and of rope netting at the ends. The decking is placed midway of tho depth of the hull, and the water-line being below the deck-line, the boat is always the right way up no matter how she is put into the water. Tbe body of tho boat is made either of wood or of steel plates, and divided up iv compart ments which will serve for the storage of provisions. Tho boat can be either swung from davits or stowed away iv any position, and can be run out ou rollers end on into the sea. The trials iv question were made with two boats, one being steel built and the other of wood, each being 33ft. in length, with Bft. Gin. aud 9ft, beam respec tively.

An Electrical Tram-Car.—Experi ments in Loudon are being made to bring electricity into use as a motive power to tram-cars. One was recently tried at Kew Bridge, near London. The following de scription is from the " Dally News":—" The electrical tram-car is the last practical ex periment undertaken by the Electrical Storage Company. The accumulators are stored under the seats of the car, and the current is communicated by insulated wire to a Siemens dynamo machine, acting as a motor, and connected with the axle of the wheel. The tram-car is fitted with an ac cumulator consisting of 50 Faure-Mellon- Volckmar cells, each measuring 13in. by llin. by 7i0,, and weighing about 801b. This accumulator is capable of working a tram-car with its full load of 46 persons, for seven hoars. The actioa of the motor may be reversed at will, and the power may he increased or diminished as required by adding to or taking from the number of cells by means of a simple switch. By breaking tae circuit the motive power is stopped, and, the brake being then applied, the car is almost immediately brought to a standstill. The car is lighted by Swan in candescent lamps, and is suppied with electric bells, both being woiked by the ac cumulator?." Concerning the cost of the car and appliances, or the real result, as a practical achievement, no reliable informa tion is forthcoming as yet.

Decline in the .English Death Rate. —At tho last meeting of the Statistical Society, Mr N. A. Humphreys read a paper ou "-4'hc Recent Decline in the Buglish Death Rate, and its Effect upon the Duration of Life." He states that—l, the death rate of males in IS7C-80, com pared with the rate iv 183S-54, showed a decline at each of the 12 age periods dealt with by the Registrat-Genera', except at those between 35 and 75, which showed a slight increase. Xhe decline of the death rate of females was still lirger than that of males, and occurred at all ages except those between 35 and 55. The decline of mor tality of both males and females was must marked, and ranged from 24 to 35 per cent, at the age periods between 5 and 25 years ; 2, measured by the life-tib'.e method, it appears that the effect of this decline in the death rate is to raise the mean duration of life among males from 40 to 42 years, and among females from 42 to 45 years. It thus becomes evident that the increased mortality iv adult life, sj far as regards its effect upon the mean doration of life, is for more than counterbateaced'by the effect of the marked decline ia the mortality during childhood, which causes so largely increased a proportion of a generation to survive to adult and middle life. By far the largest proportion of the increased duration ol life in England is lived a\ useful "Pf?" aud not at the dependent ages of either childhood or old age, representing a remarkable increase of the productive capability of human existence In England. — " English Mechanic."

The ISruption of Etna.-The Naples correspondent of the ■• Athenreum " writes, UfclS TatV! April 15th: "The reP°rt which 1 send you of Etna is somewhat late, &.£.£.» U *h Bcß«*ctez that it cannot aJf,«nJSm ,M T*TOlne o£ the readera °f the wf?r? B Mb r* ?**» as to'low, (iti, taken from the "Gazette di Catania," and U from the pea of Professor Rieciardi): ' On the Bth fast. I vi.itedagafa the site of the eruption of last month Th e mouths of eruption reach the number of sixteen, and aro thus arranged. In the first group are three wfh two craters At the dfffi"of 6tmeTres from these is the crater catted the •• Principe dINK * n ™A h "^counted five mouths towards the north, some of which are of an elliptic form -On the south of this crater we observed a fiacre, in %££ we saw the reflection of the incandescent ma.3 having a temperature anciently high to melt a copper wire of the diameter of half a centimetre. About 300 mfetres distant from this, always ha £ from south-we»t to n-rth-east the™ is a proup of six small cratfts. Lastly still higher, there M another »«g. which yesterday showed great aciivltv According to tho information of the guides this was the first to show on i ncr ? aac8 e Cof activity after Marchi 23rd. I „,£■[ manygasses which will serve me for an analyst ••» •;• J have met also with a very interesting fact, to which I shall again refer in my next report. The volcanic bombs are formed almost c xc i„ sively of candy .silex enclosed in a thin covering of sconaceous lava, black and brilliant. At 12 30 a shock of earthquake was felt Tery sensibly towards the north •ast,"'

A GIRL NIHILIST.

xhe Romantic Story Drought tout at the accent 'xrial in at. Petersburg.

On the very eve of the Czar's coronation seventeen members of the Russian Social revolutionary party have just been tried in this city (St. Petersburg, April 25th), and in Odessa twenty-six members of the same party are now on trial. The idea of the Government was to shew the poople that, at last, the^Russian Revolutionists, or Nihilists, had been crushed. But on look ing over tho testimony of the accused per sons and of the witnesses, the Czar's officers realized that the effect would bo just the contrary to what they intended, if public city was given to the trials. Therefore the Minister ot the Interior and the Minister of Justice oonibined their efforts to make these iritis as secret as possible. Not only the public at large, but the relatives of the accused persons, and even the civil officers have not been allowed to enter the court room. All the reporters, those of the official publications included, have been strictly forbidden to approach even tbe building in which the court sits. For the sake of decency, however, the Government deemed it necessary to publish at least the verdict of the court. The " Pravitelstvenny Vestnik" (the Government Messenger) also contained the followisg :— After the crime of March 13, 1881, the victim of which was the late Kmparor. the party, though weakened by the arrest of many active members, nevertheless decided to continue its criminal acts. Having tilled its ranks with new recruits it resumed its operations. On March 30, ISS2, Major General t-trelnikoff, who by his Majesty's order was investigating polit'cal crimes, was killed iv Odessa. Iv the summer of ISS2 a depot was discovered in this city where ex plosives and bombs, intended for future criminal acts, were manufactured. Thus, thanks to the Czar's own organ, the Russians are now aware that toe Nihi list ranks are newly recruited, and that they are a3 active before. This ia not a pleasant piece of official information for tho guests invited to the coming coronation. All the seventeen men and women were proved) to be Terrorists, and were con demned for various criminal acts committed in "the last five years. So it seems that those men aud women for the last five years successfully evaded all the snares of the police. The satns holds true of hun dreds of other .Nihilists. What an encou raging demonstration of the efficiency of the Czar's police 1 This Nihilist trial, like the former ones, had its romance. Last year Michael Gracheveky. a Terrorist, was ordered by the Executive Committee to establish a technological school wherein Nihilists could be taught to manufacture explosives and make bombs. He persuaded a suc cessful veterinary surgeon, Alexander Pribyleff, aud his intended btide, Miss Raissa Grossman, to rent a separate house for him. In order to accommodate the Nihilists, the surgeon and his bride hurried up their wedding. In their new house they received from their friends many queer wedding presents, such as bottles of nitro-glycerine, boxes of electric batteries, aud the like. The Committee scut them the daughter of a priest, Mary Voushkoif, as au " experienced cook." Besides attending to the gastronomic needs of the family, she had to wash nitro glycerine. Thus the Pribyleffs began their married life. They had a small circle of selected friends, among whom were irof. Grachevsky, who delivered lectures ia their house on explosives, mines, aud bsmbs, with " demonstrations ;" Lieutenant of the Imperial Navy, Alexander Butaevitch, a specialist on mines ; Michael Klimenko, a Terrorist, who ran away from the Siberian mines: Miss Christioe Grinberg, and Mrs Anna Korba, who proved success ful students in the chemistry of dynamite. When tho house of the Pribylefi's was entered by the police a laboratory was dis covered in perfect working order. There •was an;ample supply of glycerine, sulphuric acid, pyroxilme; three demijohns full of nitro-glycerine, and so on. But the atten tion of the Czar's detectives wa3 nailed to somejqueer looking tin boxes, which proved to be bombs ready for use. They were a decided improvement on the ono by which the late Czar was killed. They were m*de in the shape of square flat boxes with a cover, and were said to be very convenient to carry concealed in the clothing. The f( riner nihilist bombs could not be*conven iently carried about the person, and had to be carried in the hands wrapped iv a hand kerchief or paper. On the Czar's day the I vans usually throw up their caps. At the coronation festivitila there will be a veri table cloud of caps thrown up. Now, who can guarantiee that some ef those caps shall not be bonus in disguise ? And this is what is greatly worrying the Coronation Com mittee. The gendarme officers suggest that at Moscow the Ivans shall be kept so far away from the Czar that he shall be out of reach of their caps. But everybody who knows Moscow ia aware that such a plan would be impractable. And so'his Majesiy, instead of being cheered by the caps, wiil tremble at their very shadow, Grachevsky {and the daughter of a priest, Prascovia Ivanovsky, were [arrested under the afsumed names of Burgher Prishibin and wife. In their rooms were found nine jars filled with black dynamite, a. charged with gunpowder and grapeshot. pistols, daggers, and a printing press. Miss Prascovia told the Court that she was a member of tbe Executive Com mittee, This simple declaration caused a sensation among the highest dignitaries of the empire, who were present in the court. Miss Prascovia lis of small stature, pale faced, and of|delicnte health. Her (.hands look like those of a baby. Yet her hand signed the orders which convulsed the huge empire of the autocrats and paralysed a score of regiments of the gaintlike imperial guards. A ttny girl at the jhead of a score of Nihilistic agents on one side, and Alexander 111., a Goliaih of Fssven feet, at the eead of an army a million strong, on the other,-whtch of these shunned the battlefield ? Upon that girl they have .already placed chains, whose I weight is greater than her own ; but the Czar will got a golden crown, that is, provided some of the agents of Prascovia do not spoil the ceremony. But. "fools are lucky," saya a Bussian^adage. * Upon arresting Ivan Kalujny and the daughter of a priest, Nadejda Smimitsky, the gendarme* discovered a large collection of Government seals and many official pass blanks. Here was a Nihilist pass bureau. In another house, where two women were arrested, there was a printing press with ftosh copies of "The Will of the People," It took only seven days for the Czar's court to try and condemn seventeen prisoners to the gibbet and the Siberian mines. The accused persons were not allowed to speak. Only Bogdanovitch, an artillery officer, the famous cheese dealer in Little Garden street, managed to make a short speech, with long, forced intervals. "We are few," he said, "and yon are many ; bnt we are right and yon are wrong, and so you will have to yield to us. We are children of the people and yon are oppressors of the people, and so in the end we shall be supported and yon will be over thrown. Though you live yon are haunted

by v horrible spectre. Our Government is republican, and it has a glorious future. Your Government is despotic, and its future is only ignoble death. Long live the Russiau republic !" In view of the fact that every year all classes of people become morerand more con taminated with " the Nihilistic poison," the Government har raised an importand ques tion. " Who shall euard the morals of the public at Urge?" The clergymen." replies the Chief Procureur ot the Holy Synod. But the Czar's tutor and advisor overlooks the fact that sons and daughters of clergymen constitute at least a third of the entire number of Nihilists. For instance, among these seventeen prisoners there are three daughters and one son of priests, and the son of a deacon. If Russian clergymen cannot save their own childrtn from the Nihiliatic poison, still less can thoy influence the children of other people. The Increase in the number of Nihilists among the' officers of the army and navy in duced the Czar to issue an order directing the officers to denounce their own comrades whom they suspected of being guilty of Nihilism.' This order enraged the officers, for the Russian officer knows no' meaner offence Than to turn informer against his comrade. I have heard that an officer said hotly : "My life ia at your (the Cxar's) command, but don't touch my honour : it is mine."

A FRENCH SCANDAL.

hlstoey of an heiress—the victim of Vice and an Usscbupslous and . Dissipated Mothbe;

The Monasterio case surpasses anything imagined by Zola ia writing his most nn. savoury novels. Such a collection ol sharpers and uninteresting, and indeed foul, dupes was never seen before, Madame Monasterio, who sits on the prisoners' bench in the Sixth or Correctional Chamber, is a lady of Spanish ancestry, born in Chile. She is distinctly related to M. de Lesseps, and is really very like him, notwithstanding the bloating and degrad ing effects of habitual intoxication. Her husband wui a man of very larae fortune He left his widow iv opulent circumstances, and a Bplendid heritage to his daughter and hers. The heiress was naturally weak minded,and has since become almost Idiotic. She is now forty years old. Her mother was galante, and gave birth in the third year of her widowhood to a son, who goes by the name of Carlos Lnfit. This indi vidual is a good-for-nothing spendthrift. He is his mother's idol. To insure him a fortune, she went deeply into Bourse and other speculations, and completely ruined herself. When all her , substance was wasted, she fell back on the income of her daughter and, when that was in sufficient, attempted to make her out a lunatic, and so obtain the control of her fortune. As a preliminary step, she locked her up iv the Caarenton Maa.House, but took her out again when she found that were the girl proved mad she would be handed orer to the guardianship of her father's relatives. The mother was sur rounded by swindlers and sharks. They seemed to have an elective affinity for her. She lived in the most sordid manner in the Avenue Frochot, getting drunk every evening, and feeding herself and her daughter on the vilest offal of the green grocers and the butchers' shops. Mile. Monasterio rejoices in the pretty name of Fidelia. It appears that she is addicted to numerous vices. Atiermaa waiting maid, cjther_ to obtain the stewardship of her large income or to hand her over for a sum of money to her father's relations in Chile, coaxed her away from the maternal domicile to a lodging-of her own. There she pandered to her vile lusts. The German took Mile. Monasterio to orgies in the Q'lartier Breda, and initiated her into all the mysteries of that ultra fast section of the town. She thus afforded the mother and Carlos a pretext for seizing upon the heiress aud taking her by force to a private lunatic asylum. The mad doctors of whom certificates were asked ap peared in Court. Some of them were as dis reputable sharpers as any of the spectators who plundered Madame Monasterio. It was these shady practitioners who certified to lunacy. But I should add that one of the most eminent specialists in France, Dr. Legrand dv Saulle, has testified that Mile. Monasterio has admitted to him her vices in a matter-of-course way, and was, if not a lunatic, an idiot. As the German woman notified the Chilean relatives of the young lady how she had been in carcerated, steps were taken by them to with draw her from the mad-house and transport her to South America. But? her mother and Carlos, getting wind of the plan, trans ferred her to England. She is now»living at Stone, in Kent, and lodges with the family ot aMr Hughes. What renders this trial so interesting is that it lays bare the workings of the lunacy law of 1838. No rich and ecceuttic -Frenchman or woman can be sure of remaining free while the law is unrepealed.—Paris Corr. " New York Tribune."

Improving mature.

Tub artistic merit displayed by Dame Nature in the colouring of parakeets has lately been inquired into with much care by certain chemists learned in the science of pigments; and the result seema to show that a very great deal of effect is capable of being produced by this master hand out of the simplest materials. The investiga tions in question havej resulted, in) a con clusion arrived at by the said savants that only one colouring element or essence is employed in giving to the feathers of these birds their orilliant hues. This is the matter called psittaco-fulvine, which has a natural green body colour, but in trans parency looks red and black. It is, however, possible to modify artificially the tint of this substance, and thereby of the feathers which it affects. Two curious instances are mentioned in which this process is said to be applied with success. The first is practised by the natives of South America, who, in order to produce yellow tail feathers in the birds sold by them, begin by pulling out those feathers which are of a less highly prized colour, and then inoculate tho roots trom which they sprang with a yellow milky secretion taken from the skin of a peculiar kind of frog. The .new feathera then grow with a bright yellow tint produced by the mixture of the inoculated liquid with the psittaco-fulvine naturally belonging to them. The other process is adopted by the Indians living oa the banks of tbe Amazon. These iogenious savages, who also particu larly appreciate the aesthetic and com mercial value of the' golden-tinted feathers, subject their parakeets during the moult to a particular diet. They feed them upon the flesh of a large fish of the siluroid kind, Which abounds in that river, and thus give the growing feathers a yellow colour. It is obvious that the principles thus established might be extended to.various other pur poses ; and in time it may be possible by various devices, gastronomic and otherwise, to produce plumage which will eclipse the best efforts of the Whitechapsl bird painters. —" Globe.".

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, JULY 21, 1885.

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TC"BW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE ON AND AiTEB JULY 6, 1883 AUCKLAND AND ONE HUNqALINE. g « a •"•* ,i i 3 S I __ ___.*& «S uS »d «d 5 . . « a 3 :| '4 :. 1 «i ri a3 4 o ,83 .8 I 5I : | i : i i : I , o jj »-« - S m . £3 2. 3 S!§!§« « « ! ! n. 5 s3« s•> «9 9 9 I M O I i 2 -; i 2 | — _ | B 2 :8. i i 3. 8 g «s —< -« 2 S S -a a i 1 a a a : a .. .s so *§ rco oo • • ocs ode» ,3 B 0" ». : " : : S S 3 • dT 7! —~—r :§ 5 I SoaaSHgg . £3 _ O a* ss.» ~ . s ~- a 5 ft 3 TJ —i ■ C 3 ■ gS S 3 * i 9 > 3 1 I -"3 - 13 3 5 *•« s 3 ! - ■ &3 3 3 3 3 £ 03 S ; c „ es ? i* ti i i 2 i § % . . E-i a <= 2 2 E? 2 £ 6 a o a «3 to Op pcs —es aa as - . s . o 6 *o «i io ' wS " o — ! g2 S S ~S3 .S? a "" *"' ""* — "* d >< . — a a i i i.« i 3 : g | * • - _ | i»sa i:§ ,§ | A« « « c « I ■ . _ IS a « „ _, j a ._ I 3 I 3 * • I i I ! I a~ s 8 ~ 3 , a I d 5:;: i : b cc o 3 iJ a § : : i § a : 8 h "S 9 § S MAIN LINE. AUCKLAND — MERCER-TE AWAMUXU SOUTH.—Week Days. HI i a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m.'p.m. 0 Auckland dap. 6.15 6.40 8.25 4.151 6.0 2 Newmarket Junot, 6.25 B.JO 8.37 4.25 i 6.10 3 Remuera .. .. 6.30 _ 8.44 4.30 6.15 *4 Green Lane.. - — — .._„ '5 Ellerslle _ 6 Penrose Junction.. 6.45 7.16 8.59 }4.4516.30 9 Otahnhu _ .. 6.55 .. 9.10 4.57 6.42 11 Papatoitoi .. .. "7T «. D.19 5.6 ~ •15 Mannrewa .. .. — -..__ 19 Papakura _ _ f1.15 6.35 _ "21 Hunua .. _ _ „ _ 22 Drury„ .. _ .. 8.1.710.3 5.53 - "23 Runciman „ _ — 30 Pukekoho _ .. _ 9.^510.35 6.25 i - "33 Buckland .. „_„„„.. 35 Tuakau .. .. _ 9.60110.53 6.43 .. •37 Whangarata _ .. _ .. .. .. 40 Pokeno _ 11.12 7.3 .. 43 Moroer (F**' " '«U. 22 U5 -- a moroer --id e p, „ 10.1011.42-77- .. •19 Whangamorino „ .. _ ■"51 Wairangi .. ..___.. •66 Rangiriri _ ..— _„_„ •59 Ohinewai „ ___„_.. 6.5 Huntly _ _ _ 12.5 1.0 _ „ 69 Taupiri _ _ 1.15 .. 74 Ngaraawahia - — 1.15 1.35 .. _ •78 Puketo .. _ .. _ .. „ .. «8l Teßapa „ .......... 81 Hamilton Junction _ _ 2.13 .. _ 85 Hamilton _ _ _ 1 „ „ 90 Rukuhia «. 94 Ohaupc _ 2.50 „ •96 Lake Road . „„__„„ ♦98 Ngaroto - ..-....._ 100 Te Awamutn arr. .. .. 3.15 .. NORTH.—Week Days. _ . . — a.m. o.m. a.m. p.m. p.m OTo Atramutu dep. _ _ 9.20 .. 2 Ngaroto _ .............. *i Lako Rood _ ..___..„ 7 Ohaupo „ _ .. 9.50 .. •11 Rukuhia _ ....___.. 17 Hamilton .. ....__ 2.5 _ II! Hamilton June _ .. .. 10.33 2.8 "20 Teßapa „ ..___.... *23 Puketo .. _...._.._ 20 Ngaruawahia .. „ _ 11.15 .. „ 31 Taupiri .. _ _ _ 11.33 _ „ 35 Huntly _ .. .. 11.65 3.45 „ •41 Ohinewai .. _ _ •45 Rangiriri _ _ _ „ *46 Wairangi .. „__...._ •51 Whangamarino _..„_.... kt i\jro«w.» 5 Brr" -• - LlO 6.0 _ 67 Mercer »i oep . 6 . ig _ 1.30 5.20 „ •60 Pokono _ .. 6.26 _ 1.41 _ .. "63 Whangarata 65 Tuakau .. .. 6.46 _ 2.1 .. *68 Buckland .. .. .. .. _ .. _ 70 Pukekoho _ - 7.6 .. 2.25 6.25 .. "77 Runciman — ~ .. _ 78 Drury- .. .. 7.43 .. 3.3 7.5 _ •80 Hunua _ -..._-...„ 81 Papakura .. .. 7.51 .. 3.15 .. •85 Mannrewa _. — 89 Papatoitoi .. .. 8.28 .. 3.49 7.50 .. 92 OtahuhK " „ .. 8.40 7.5 3.59 .. 6.50 91 Penrose Junction t9.0 1T.15t1.15 8.20 7.5 •96 EUerilto » _ ». "77" - .. .. •98 Green Lane— ....__.._ 97 Remuera „ .. 9.15 _ 4.30 8.35 7.20 98 Newmarket June. 9.21 If) 14.40 8.41 7.25 100 Auckland. .. arr. 9.3W .- 4.491 BJO 7.36



t Change for Onehunga. B—(Joorla Train—a Passenger Carriage is attached to this Traits which stops for P.ssongora by Signal only, and runs from Huntly to Hamilton on Tuesdays. Thursdays, and Saturdays only. J Change for Auckland and intermediate Stations. J Change tor Helensvillo and intermediate Stations. KAD7ARA BRANCH. AUCKLAND-HENDERSON-HELENS VILLE. OUT.-Wkek Days. a , ~ . a.m. a.m. p.m. 0 Auckland dop. 7.15110 430 2 Newmarket Junction _ „ 7.201112 in •4 Mount Eden „ .. .. _ . 5 Kingsland • *] ~ — *5 Morningside .... " ~" *7 MountAlbort .. .. ~ « Avon? ale •- •■ - -- 71J71L37 5.3 *9 New Lynn.. .. w '11 Waikomiti_ _ _ '.'.'.'. ~ ~ *14 Honderson_ .. S*io T>V " *17 Swanson .. _i "" oaulid - •20 Waitakerei _ _ •• - •• *22 Taupaki -_„"""" 25 Kumeu Junction .. - ~° n"i7 •29 Waimauku .. Ul' *31 Reweti _ "**."" *33 Woodhill .. _ _ \_ " ~ ~ *34 Paeroa .. _ ~ _ " — 38 Helensville _ „ arr. 9.55 Z 7I2G* IN.— WKIiK DAY 3. _ __ n tx , •„ a.tn. p.m. p.-m 0 Helensvillo dop. 6.25 _ J.3o' i Paeroa _ •6 Woodhill .. _ _ -••••— '7 Rowiti _ _ ~ ~ 1! ~ 11 *10 Waimauku .. _ ~ ~ " _ 11 Kumeu Junction .. .. I 1 5*35 *17 Taupaki _ *" 'ISt Waitakerei ~ „ ~ ~ ~ '\il\ Swanson _ _ .. ~ — — Z "25| Henderson.. ~ _ " s"io 2*o "* "271 Waikomiti.. J ~ ~ _ ~ "29 New Lynn _ _ _ _ _ ~ ~ 31 Avondalo .. _ _ S*lD 2.27 (LIT "32 Mount Albert .. I .. _ "' _ *33 Morningside _ „ ..«.**"* *31| Kingsland.. _ _ _ ~ — ~' "35, Mount Eden _ _ .... "" "" S6| Newmarkot Junction _ L° 9.i0l 2i53' 715 38j Auckland _ <ur. 9.20, 3.2 | 7.25- C—Goods Train—a Pnssengor Carriage ia at tached to this Train which Btops for Passengers by Signal only. " GENERAL CONDITIONS. Tho Railway Department does not pledge it self to tho despatch or arrival of the Trains at the exact times notified in tho above Tables and, in the_ event of any circumstances arising' either during or prior to tho journey beinz nmde, which may render it impossible or inex^ pedient for a Train to proceed, will return tho Fares paid, but.does not undertake to forward the Passengors. LUGGAGE.—Each Passenger is allowed to take 1121bs. ot PERSONAL Luggage freolnot including merchandise of any kind), and for every 561b5., or fraction of oGlbs., above thia weight, for every 50 miles or fraction of 50 miles the charge will be Ono Shilling. No Lugnage will be allowed to bo taken into the carriages unless of such a size that it can be placed under tho seat without inconvenience to other Passen gers. Passengers are strongly recommondcd to havo their Names and tho Station to which thoyaro proceeding distinctly marked on their Luggage, and to satisfy themselves that it ia placed on the Train, as tho Railway Depart ment will.not be responsible unless it is booked and paid for. Passengers can be booked at Stations only on condition that thero is room in the Train. Children under three years of age travel free - abovo three and undor twelve years of age" half-fare. HORSES, CARRIAGES, &c.-Tho Railway Department does not undertake to toward Horses aud Carriages by any particular Train - but when sent, they mnst bo at the forwarding Station half an-ho-.r before tho departure of the Train. The Owners of Horses must provide means for securing them in the Horse-box, and tho Railway Department will not be account able for any injuries sustained through their breaking loose or otherwise nor will it under take to carry unbroken or vicious Horses. At Country stations requisitions for Horse-boxes or Carriage-trucks must bo made tho day before they aro wanted. DOGS must be provided with chains, or othor sufficient means, of socuring them. They will not bo allowed in carriages, and tho sender must obtain a Ticket, to be given up at tho end of the journey, and before the Dog is delivered RETURN or PERIODICAL TICKETSwiIi not bo available for Special and Excursion fralns. except when tho Ordinary Time Tablei is suspended. ■ FLAG STATIONS.-Trains do not atop at these unless required. Notico should be given to„ t£2.S uard at ■£" Previous stopping Station. SPECTAL NOTICE. - To ensure despatch. Parcels. Extra Luggage, and Dogs must bo at. tho Station at least THIRTY MINUTES before tho Advertised Time of Departure of Train All Time Tables issued prior to this date are now cancelled, J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager. R^EW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. AUCKLAisrTsKCTION. PARCEL KATES, Not Kltceedlng 71bs. lllbs. 281bs. 661ba. 1121ba, „ , ,„ a. A. B. d. s. d. b. d. b. a. Helensvillo _ 0 9 10 16 19 20 Onehunga _06 06 09 00 13 Pukekoho _09 10 IB 10 23 Meroer _ „09 13 19 20 2s Ngaruawahla... 10 13 20 23 29 Hamilton -.13 19 23 26 30 TeAwamutu.. 16 20 29 33 pg To ensure despatch parcels must be at the Station at lesat Thirty Minutoo before adver tised time of departure of train. Lngaage and Parcels may be left at the Parcels offloe. In otiargo of the Railway Department, on payment of feeß ranging from 2d to Bd A. V. MACDONALU, ~, „„ t „ District Manager. Auokland, 25th Sept., 1883* BE. J. COL LIS BROWNE'S CHLORODYNB. THK ORIQINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. Advick to Invalids.—lf you wish to obtain quiet, refreshing sleep, frea from headache, relief from pain and anguish, to calm and aasuige tha weary ech'ngs of protracted disease, invigorate the nervous medio, and regulate the circulating systems ot the body, you will provide yourself with that marvellous remedy discovered by Dr. J. COIII9 Browne (lato Army Medloal Staffi. to which he gave the name ot CHL.OKODYNE, and whloh la ad mitted by tbe nrofosaloa to be the moat wonder ful and valuable remedy ev«r discovered. CHLORODYNK ia the best remedy known for Coughs. Consumption, Bronchitis, asthma. CdLORODYNE acts like la charm In Diarrheas, and ia the only specific in Cholera and Dyson terr. CHLORODYNE effectually outs short oil attacks ot Epilepsy, .Hysteria, Palpitation, and Spasms. CHLOROPYNE is the only palliative la Noaraiorta. Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Tooth ache, Meningitis. &o. Krom Symes& Co.,'Pharraaoeutloal Chemists Medioal Mall, hlmla, Jannary 5, 1880. To J. T' Devonport, Esq., 33, Great Rnasoll-Btreet. Hloomsbury, London. Dear Sir,—We ombrae. this opportunity of congratulating you upon the. wine-spread reputation this justly estoemee medicine. Dr. J. Collls Browne's Chbrodyne. has earned for Itself, not only in Hlndoetan, but all over the East. As a remedy of general utility we much ' question -whether a better i. Imported into the country. and we shall be glad to hesr ot Its finding a place in every Anglo-Indian home. The other brands, we are banpy to Bay, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and judginz from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be but evanescent. Wo could multiply Instances a infinihim ot tho extraordinary efficacy ot Dr Collls Browne's Chlorodyne in Dlarrhraa and Dysentery, tspaums, Cramps, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, and as a general seda tive, that havo occurred under our personal Observation during many years. In Choleraic Diarrhoea, and. even In more terrible forms ot Cholera itself, we havo witnessed its surprising controlling power. We have never used any other form of this medicine than Collls Browne's from a firm oonvictlan that it is decidedly the best.and also from a sense of duty we owe to tha profession and the publio, as we are of opinion that the substitution of any other than Collls Browne's Is a delibbratb brbaoh op Vaith OW THE PABT OF THE CHEMIST TO PRESCRIBES and patient alikb. We uro. Sir, faithfully yours, Symes & Co.. Members of the Phar' Society of Great Britain, His Ezoellenoy the Viceroy's Chemists. Bold in bottles at Is lid, 2s 9d. 4s 6d, and II each. None is creuuine without the words "Dr.. J. Collls Browne's Uhlorodyne " on the Govern ment stamp. Overwhelming medical testimony accompanies eaoh bottle. Caution.—Beware of Piracy and Imitation t. Sole Manufacturer—J. T. DAVKNPORT. S3 Groat Kusßeu-street, Bloomsbury, London,