Bret Harte's New Romance.

N THE CARQUINEZ WOODS:

A TALK OF CALIFORNIA,

CHAPTER IV

'KBESA awoke with a start. It was day Iready, but how far advanced the even, nchanging, soft twilight of the woods aye no indication. Her companion had nnished, and to her bewildered senses so ad the camp lire, even to its embers and shes. Was she awake, or had she

randerod away unconsciously in the ijfht ? One glance at the tree above her Uwlpoted the fancy. There was the opon n.r of her quaint retreat and tho hanging trips of bark. And at the foot of the ppositc tree lay the carcass of tho f the bear. It had beon skinned, and, s Teresa thought with an inward hiver, already looked half its former size. Not yet accustomed to the fact that a om- stops in cither direction around the cir lumference of those great trunks produced ho sudden appearance or disappearance of my figure, Teresa uttered a slight scream is ho" young companion unexpectedly iteppsd to her side. " You see n change hero," ho said ; ' the itamped-out ashes of the camp tiro lie under ,ho brush," and he pointed to somo cleverly icattered boughs and strips of bark which •ompletely effaced the traces of last night's livouac. "We can't afford to call the at ;bntion of any packer or hunter who might traggle this way, to this particular spot md this particular tree; the more laterally," he added, "as thoy always n-efer to camp over an old fire." Accepting ,his explanation meekly as partly a re proach for her caprico of tho previous night, Teresa hung her head. "I'm very sorry," sho said, "but .vouldn't that," pointing to the carcass of tho bear, "have mado them curious?" But Low's logic M-as relentless. i" By this tiino there would havo been ittlo left to excite curiosity if you had been rilling to leave thoso beasts to thoir vork."

"I'm very sorry," repeated tho woman, her tips quivering. "They are the scavengers of the wood, he continued in a lighter tone; "if you stay hero you must try to use them to keep your house clean."

Teresa smiled nervously. "I mean that they shnllfmish their work to-night," he added, " and I shall build an other ocimp fire for us a mile from hero until they do." But Teresa caught his sleeve. " No," she said, hurriedly ; " don't, please, for me. You must not take tho trouble—nor the risk. Hear me; do, please. I can bear it, I will bear it—to-night. I would have borne it last nfeht, but it was so strange, and "—she passed her hand over her forehead—" I think I must have been half mad. But I'm not so foolish now." She seemed so broken and despondent that ho replied, reassuringly, "Perhaps it would be better that I should find another hiding-place for you, until I can dispose of that carcass so that it will not draw dogs after the wolves and men after them. Besides, your friend the Sheriff will probably remember the benr, M-hen he re members anything, and try to get on its track again." "He's a conceited fool," broke in Teresa, in n high voice and » slight return of her old fury, " or he'd have guessed whero that shot came from: and," she added; in a lower tone, looking doun at her limp and nerveless fingers, " he wouldn't have let a poor, weak, nervous wretch like me get awny." But his deputy may put two and two to gether, and connect your escape with it." Teresa's eyes flashed. "It would be like the dog just to save his pride, to swear it M-as an ambush of my friends, and that ihe m-os overpowered by numbers. O yes! I see it nil," she almost screamed, lashing I herself into a rage at the bare contem j plation of this diminution of her glory. ," That's the dirty Ho he tells everywhere, [and is telling now." She stamped her feot and glanced savagely around, as if at any risk to pro claim the falsehood. Low turned his im passive, truthful face toward her. '' Sheriff Dunn," he began gravely, "is a politican, and a fool when he takes to the trail as a hunter of man or beast. But he is not a coward nor a liar. Your chances I would be better if he were—if he laid your escape to nn ambush of your friends, than if his pride hold you alone responsible." "If he's such a good man, why do you hesitate?" she replied bitterly. "Why J don't you give me up at onco, and do a service to one of your friends ?" "Ido not even know him," returned Low, opening his clear eye 3 upon her. | "I've promised to hide yon here, and I ■ shall hide you as well from him as from anybody." Teresa did not reply, but suddenly drop ping down upon the ground buried her 1 face in her hands and began to sob convul- I sively. Low turned impassively away, and I putting aside the bark curtain, climbed into j tho hollow tree. In a few moments here -1 appeared laden with provisions and a few j simple cooking utensils, and touched her J lightly on the shoulder. She looked up timidly ; tho paroxysm had passed, but her lashos yet glittered. . " Come," ho said, "come and get somo breakfast. I find you have oaten nothing since you have been here—twenty-four hours/ "I didn't know it," she said, with a faint smile. Then, seeing his burden and pos sessed by a new and strange desire for some menial employment, she said, hurriedly, "Let me carry something—do, please," and oven triod to disencumber him. "Half annoyed, Low at last yielded, and, handing his rifle, said, "There, then, take that; but bo careful—its loaded !" ! "A cruel blush burnt the woman's face I to the roots of her hair as she took the i! weapon hesitatingly in her hand. j "No I" she stammered, hurriedly lifting I her shame-suffused eyes to his ; " no! no I"

Ho turned away with an impatience which showed her how completely gratui tous had boon her agitation and its signifi cance, and said, " Well then, give it back if you are afraid of it." But she as sud denly declined to return it; and, shouldering it deftly, took her place by his side. Silently they moved from the hollow of the tree to gether. During their walk she did net attempt to invade his taciturnity. Nevertheless, she was as keenly alive and watchful of his every movement and gesture as if she ihad hung enchanted on his lips. The iunerrinc way with which ho pursued ia viewless, undeviating path through I those trackless woods, his quick recon jnoissanco of certain trees or openings, his mute inspection of some almost imper ■ ceptible footprint of bird or boast, his critical examination of certain iilants which ho plucked and deposited in his deerskin haversack, were not lost on the quick witted woman. As thoy gradually chanced the clear unencumbered aisles of the central woods for a more tangled undergrowth, Teresa felt that subtlo admiration which culminates in imitation, and simulating perfectly the step, tread, and easy swing of her com panion, followed so accurately his lead that sho won a gratified exclamation from him when their goal was reached—a broken blackened shaft, splintered by long-for gotten lightning, in the centre of a tangled •arpefc of wood clover. "I don't wonder you distanced the doputy," he said cheerfully, throwing down his burden, "if you can take tho hunting path like that. In a few days, if you stay hero, I can venture to trust you alono for a littlo pascar when you are tired of the tree." Teresa looked pleased, but busied herself with arrangements for the breakfast, while ho gathered the fuel for tho roaring (ire which soon blazed beside the shattered tree. _. Teresa's breakfast was a success. It was a revelation to tho young nomad, whose ascetic habits and simple tastes were usually contonfcwith the most primitive forms of frontier cookery. It was at least a surprise to him to know that with out extra trouble kneaded flour, water and saleratus need not bo essentially heavy ; that coffee need not be boiled with sugar to the consistency of syrup ; that even that rarest delicacy, small shreds of venison covered with ashes and broiled upon the end of a ramrod boldly thrust into tho 1 flames, would be better and even more I expeditiously cooked upon burning coals. ! Moved in his practical nature, he was sur prised to find this curious creature of dis- I organised nerves and useless impulses in j formed with an intelligence that did not I preclude the welfare of humanity or the J existence of a soul. •He respected her for I some minutes, until in the midst of a culm II dry , triumph a big tear dropped and ll spluttered in the saucepan. But he forgave y the irrelevancy by taking no notice ol it, l'dssh by -xß^M n#5c to that particular I _j)Nevertheless;, .he asked;several questions ■ based upon fltese recently discovered | qualities. It appeared^ in the old Vf_\ McA herVranderings „ith the circus, troup^

she had often been forced to undertake th 8 nomadic housekeeping. But she "despised it," had never done it since, and always had refused to do it for " him " —the per sonal pronoun roforring, as Lor- understood, to her lover Cur.-on. Not caring to revive theso memories further, Low briefly con cluded :

I don't know what you were, or what you may be, but from M-hat f sec of you you've cot all tho sabe of a frontierinan's wife."

° She stopped and looked at him, and then, with au impulse of impudence that only half concealed a more serious vanity, asked,

" Do you think 1 might have made a good squaw ?" "Idon't know," he replied quietly. " I never saM- enough of them to know." Teresa, confident from his clear eyes that he spoke the truth, but having nothing ready to folloM- this calm disposal of her curio.-ity, relapsed into silence. The meal finished. Teresa washed their scant table equipage in a little spring near tho camp fire; there, catching sight of her disordered dress and collar, she rapidly threw her shawl, after the national fashion, over her shoulder, and pinned it quickly, Lor- cached the remaining provisions and the few cooking utensils under the dead embers and ashes, obliterating all super ficial indication of their camp fire as deftly and artistically as ho had before. " There isn't the ghost of a chance," ho said in explanation, "that anybody but you or I will set foot hero before M-e conio back to supper, but it's well to be on guard. I'll take you back to the cabin now, though I bet you could find your M-ay tliero as well as I can."

On their May back, Teresa ran ahead of lor companion, and plucking a few tiny leaves from a hidden oasis in the bark strewn trail, brought them to him. "That's the kind you're looking for, isn't it!" she said, half timidly. "Itis," responded Lorn-, in gratified sur prise ; " but how did you know it? You're not a botanist, arc you ?" " I roekon not," said Teresa ; " but you picked some when we came, and I noticed what they were." Here Mas indeed another revelation. Low stopped and gazed at her with _ such frank, open, utterly unabashed curiosity that her black eyes fell before him.

"And do you think," ho asked with logical deliberation, "that yon could line] any plant from another I should give you V" "Yes." " Or from a drawing of it ?" "Yes; perhaps oven if you described it to me."

A half-confidential, half-fraternal silenco followed.

" I tell you M-hat. I've got a book—" "I know it," interrupted Teresa; full of these things." " Yes. Do you think you could—" "Of courso I could," broke in Teresa again. " But you don't know what I mean," said the imperturbablo Lom-. "Certainly I do. Why, find 'em, and preserve all tho different ones for you to write under—that's it, isn't it ?"

Low nodded his head, gratified but not entirely convinced that she had fully esti mated the magnitudo of the endeavour. " I suppose," said Teresa, in the feminine postscriptum voice which it would seem entered even the philosophical calm of tho aisles thoy wore treading—" I suppose that she places great value on them ?" Lor- had indeed hoard Science personified before, nor Mas it at all impossible that tho singular M'omnn walking by his side had also. Ho said "Yes;" but added, in mental reference to the Linnean Society of San Francisco, that '• they were rather particular about the rarer kinds." Contont as Teresa bad been to believe in Low's tender relations with some favoured one of her sex, this frank confession of a plural devotion staggered her. "They?" she repeated. "Yes," he continued calmly. "The Botanical Society I correspond with are more particular than the Government Survey." " Then you are doing this for a society ?" demanded Teresa with a stare.

" Certainly. I'm making a collection and classification of specimens. I intend —but what are you looking at ':"

Teresa had suddenly turned away. Put ting his hand lightly on her shoulder, the young man brought her face to face with him again. She was laughing. "I thought all the while it M-aa foe a girl," she said: "and—" But here the mere effort of speech sent her off into an audible and genuine outburst of laughter. It was tho first- time he had seen her even smile other than bitterly. Character istically unconscious of any humour in her error, he remained unembarrassed. But he could not help noticing a change iv the ex pression of her face, her voice, and even her intonation. It seemed as if that fit of laughter had loosed the last ties that bound her to a self-imposed character, had swept aM-ay tho last barrier betM'een her and her healthier nature, had dispossessed a painful unreality, and relieved the morbid tension of a purely neivous attitude. The change in her utterance and the resumption of her softer Spanish accent seemed to havo conic with her confidences, and Lcm- took leave of her before their sylvan cabin with a com rade's heartiness, and a complete forgotful ness that her voice had ever irritated him. When ho returned that afternoon he was startled to find tho cabin empty. But in stead of bearing any appearance of disturb ance or hurried flight, the rude interior seemed to have magically assumed a decorous order and cleanliness unknown before. Fresh bark hid the inequalities of the floor. The skins and blankets were folded in the corners ; the rude shelves were carefully arranged; oven a feM- tall ferns and bright but quickly-fading floMers M-ere disposed arouncl tho blackened chimney. She had evidently availed herself of tho change of clothing ho had bought her, for her late garments were hanging from the hastily-devised wooden pegs driven in the wall. The young man gazed around him with mixed foelings of gratification and un easiness. His presence had been dis possessed in a single hour ; his ten years of lonely habitation had left no trace that this woman had not effaced with a deft move of her hand. More than that, it looked aa if she had always occupied it; and it was with a singular conviction that even when she should occupy it no longer it would only revert to him as her dwelling, that he dropped the bark shutters, athwart the opening and left it to follow her. To his quick ear, fine eye, and abnormal senses this was easy enough. She had gone in the direction of this morning's camp. Once or twice he paused with a half-gesture of recognition and a characteristic "Good !" at tho place u-hero she had stopped, but was surprised to find that her main course had been as direct as his own. Deviating from this direct line with Indian precaution, he first made a circuit of the camp, and ap proached the shattered trunk from tho opposite direction. He consequently came upon Teresa unawares. But the moment ary astonishment and embarrassment M-ere his alone. Hescarcely recognised her. She M-as wear ing the garments he had bought her the day before —a certain discarded goM'n of Miss Nellie Wynn, which he had hurriedly

begged from her under the pretext of clothing the wife of a distressed overland emigrant then on the way to the mines. Although he had satisfied his conscience with the intention of confessing the pious fraud to her when Teresa was gone and safe from pursuit, it was not without a sense of remorse that he witnessed tho sacrilegious transformation. The two women were nearly the samo height and size.and although Teresa's maturer figure ac cented the outlines more strongly, it was still becoming enough to increase his irritation.

Of this becomingncss she was doubtless unaware at the moment that he surprised her. She was conscious of having "a change," andthis had emboldened hor "to do her hair" and otherwiso compose herself. After their greeting she was the first to aliudo to the dress, regretting that it was not more of n rough disguise, and that as she must now discard tho national habit of wearing her shawl "manta" fashion over her head, she wanted a hat. " But you must not," she said, " borrow any more dress for me from your young woman. Buy them for me at some shop. Thoy left me enough money for that." Low gently put aside the few pieces of gold she had drawn from her pocket, and briefly rej minded her of the suspicion such a purchase by him would produce. " That's so," she said with a laugh. " Caramon ! what a mule I'm becoming. Ah I wait a moment. I have it! Buy me a common felt hat—a man's hat—as if for yourself, as a change to that animal,' 1 pointing to the foxtailed cap he wore summer and winter," and I'll show you a trick. I haven't run a theatrical wardrobe for nothing." Nor had she, for the hat thus procured a few days later be came, by the aid of a silk handkerchief and a bluejay'sfeather, a fascinating "porkpie."

Whatever cause of annoyance to Low still lingered in Teresa's dress, it was soon forgotten in a palpable evidence of Teresa's value as a botanical assistant. It appeared that during the afternoon she had not only duplicated his specimens, but had dis covered one or two rare plants as yet un classified in the flora of the Carquinez woods. He was delighted, and in turn, over the camp fire, yielded up Somo details of his present Ufe and some of his earlier recolleo i lions, ...'...';-,

"Yon don't remember anything of your father," she asked; "did ho ever try to seek you out?"

"No! uhy should he ?" replied the im perturbable Low. "Ho M-as not at Cherokee."

" No, he M'a.s a beast," responded Teresa j promptly. " And your mother—do you j remember her ?" [ " No, I think she died." " You think sho died ? Don't you know I" "No!" "Then you're another I" said Teresa. Notwithstanding this frankness, thoy shook hands for the night, Teresa nestling like a rabbit in the hollow by the side of the camp fire, Lor- with his feet towards it, Indian wise, and his head and shoulders pillowed on his haversack, only half distinguishable in the darkness beyond. With such trivial details three uneventful days slipped by. Their retreat M-as undis turbed, nor could Lor- detect by the least evidenoe to his acute perceptive faculties thatany intruding feet had since crossed the bell of shade. The echoes of passing events at Indian Spring had recorded tho escape of Teresa as occuiring at a remote and purely imaginative distance, and her prob able direction the country of Yolo. Can you remember," ha one day asked her, 'what time it was when you cut tho riitta and got away ?" Teresa pressed her hands upon her eyes and temples. " About ,'l I reckon." ''And you Merc here at 7. You could ha\ec.)vercd somo ground in fo.ir hours?" "Perhaps—l don't know," she said, her voice taking up its old quality again. " Don't ask me—l ran all the May."

Iter face was quite pale as she removed her hands from her eyes, and her breath ;:amc as quickly nt if she had just finished that race for life.

"Then you think lain safe hero?" she added after a pause.

" Perfectly—unless they find you are not in Yolo. Then they'll look here. Anil that's tbe time for you to go there." Teresa smiled timidly. "It will take them some time to search Yolo—unless," she added, " you're tired of mo here." The charming non scquitur did not, however, seem to strike the young man. " I've got the time yot to find a fow niore plants for you," she suggested. "Oh, certainly!" "And give you a feM- more lessons in

cooking." " Perhaps." The oonsciontoiH and literal Low Mas be ginning to doubt if she wore really practical. How otherwise could she trifle with such a situation ?

It must bo confessed that that day and tho next she did trifle with it. She gave herself up to a grave and delicious languor, that seemed to floM- from shndoM- and silence, and permoate her entire being. She passed hours in a thoughtful ropose of mind and spirit that seemed to fall like balm from those steadfast guardians, and distil their gontle ether in her soul, or breathed into her listening oar immunity from the forgotten past and security for the present. If thore M-as no dream of tho future in this calm, even recurrence of placid existence so much tho better. Tho simple details of oach succeeding day, the quaint housekeeping, the brief companion ship, and coming and going of her young host—himself at best a crystallised personification of the sedate and hospitable woods—satisfied her feeblo cravings. Sho no longer regretted the inferior position that her fours had obliged her to take tho first night she came : she began to look up to this young man—SO much younger than horself—without knowing what it meant; it M-as not until she found that this attitude did not detract from his picturesqueness that she discovered herself seeking for reasons to degrade him from this seductive eminence. A week had elapsed with little change. On tM-o days he had been absent all day, re turning only in [time to sup in the hollow tree, which, thanks to tho final removal of the dead bear from its vicinity, was now considered a safer retreat than the exposed campfire. On the first of theso occasions she received him with some preoccupation, paying but little heed to the scant gossip he brought from Indian Spring, and retiring early under the plea of fatigue, that he might seek his OM-n camp fire, which, thanks to her stronger norves and regained courage, sho no longer required so near. On the second occasion he found her writing a letter more or less blotted with tears. When it M-as finished, she begged him to post it at Indian Spring. M'here in two days an answer would be returned under cover to him.

" I hope you will be satisfied then," she added.

"Satisfied with what?" queried the young man. "You'll see," sho replied giving him her cold hand. "Goodnight."

" But can't you tell me now?" he remon strated, retaining her band.

"Wait two days longor—it isn't much," was all she vouchsafed to answer.

The tM-o days passed. Their former con fidence and good fellowship M-ere fully re stored when tho morning came on which he M-as to bring the answer from the Post Ollice at Indian Spring. He had talked again of his future, and had recorded his ambitioli to procure tho appointment of naturalist to a Government surveying expedition. She had even jocularly pro posed to dress in man's attire and " enlist " as his assistant.

"But you will bo safe with your friends, I hope, by that time," responded Lom-. " Safe with my friends, sho repeated in a IoM-er voice. "Safe with my friends—yes!" an awkward silence followed ; Teresa broke it gaily. " But, your girl—your SM-cct heart —my benefactor, will sho let you go ?" "I haven't told her yet," said Lom gravcly, " but I don't see why she should object."

"Object! indeed," interrupted Teresa in a high voice, and with a auddi n and utterly gratuitous indignation ; " how should she ? I'd like to see her do it!"

Sho accompanied him some distance to the intersection of tho trail, whero they parted in good spirits. On tho dusty plain without n gale M-as blowing that rocked the high tree tops above her, but tempered and subdued, entering tho low aisles with a fluttering breath of morning and a sound like the cooing ol doves. Never had the wood before shown so sweet a sense of security from the turmoil and tempost of the world beyond ; nover before had an intrusion from the outer life—even in the shape of aletter —seemed so wicked a desecration. Tempted by the solicitation of air and shade, she lingered with Lom-'s herbarium slung on her shoulder.

A strange sensation like a shiver suddenly passed across her nerves, and left them in a state of rigid tension. With every sense morbidly acute, with every faculty strained to its utmost, the subtle instincts of Low's w-ood craft transformed and possessed her. She knew it now ! A new element was in the wood—a strange boing—another life— another man approaching ! Sho did not even raise her head to look about her, but darted with the precision and flectness of an arrow in the direction of her tree. But her feet were arrested, her limbs paralysed, her very existence suspended by the sound of a voice : " Teresa!" It was a voice that had rung in her cars for tho last two years in all phrases of in tensity, passion, tenderness, and anger; a voice upon wliose modulations, rude and unmusical though thoy were, her heart and soul had hung in transport or anguish. But it was a cbimo that had rung its last peal to her senses as she entered tho Cur quinez woods, and for tho last week had been as dead to her as a voice from the grave. It was the voice of her lover—Dick urson ! Bret Haktk, (To be Continued.)

The Fowler's Art in St. Kilda.

After our levee with the inhabitants, we were "escorted up the hill to sco a specimen of the fowling art, which is their chief occupation. It was without exaggeration an " awfully interesting" sight to. see a man dancing down a precipice of 000 or or GOO feet with a rope round his waist, his bare feet against the rock, and a wand in his hand with a .horsehair snare at tho top, while two men, well planted on the brink above him, lowered the rope rapidly in ac cordance with the directions ho sang out to them, like a chaunt, all the way down. About half way down ho stopped at a narrow grassy ledge and began to poke about. Then we saw him stretch down his wand and instantly draw it up again with a white bird (a fulmar) fluttering at the end of it. Ho took the bird, stuck its head and neck under his waist-belt, and did tho same thing over again to two other birds. Then he was hauled up, but dis engaging tho rope from his waist when about 100 feet from tho top, he mado his way up unassisted through a fearful chasm, which, looked at from above, seemed perilous even for a goat. We breathed more freely when we saw him safe on the grassy brink. It was satisfactory to luvir that accidents in this "dreadful trade" are very rare, which says much for tho combined hardihood and caution of those who practise it.—(" The Last Cruise of the Lively," by Sheriff Nicolson, in "flood Words,')

THE GARDEN.

(BY ItOKTUS).

Calendar of Operations, December 8-

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TO COTtIIKSPONDENTa

Tulips iU.O., Newton).—You can lift, dry them in the sun for a few days, and store them past in a dry, cool place. They are belter lifted during tho summer months than lying in Ihe ground. April is tho limo for planting out again.

Vines (D.C, Auckland).— The 11 rst sloping back of the vines is not sulllcient. Immediately tho growing shoot, of a vine is pinched, the next bud below the cul part, will yield to the force of the sap and soon produce a shoot. When this attains a length ol from six to eight, inches, pinch back again to one bud, which again will Brow, so that continual pinching must be resorted to during the whole season. I would advise you to get a gardener lo give a fow lessons. It would be impossible for any one to direct you without seeing the vines for themselves.

HoKTici-T.TUKAi. Sociktv (8.G., Auckland).— Your communication should have bocn ad dressed to tho Secretary of the a hove Society, but m-o think we can answer jiart of it without giving alienee to that body. Though flic Show was a failure tlnancially, so far as tile takings al. the door m'iis concerned, it Mas otherwise a grand success. To show with M'hat euergy the Committee lias worked, and the number of friends the Society has got, they have nearly *M oin band now, and the promise of getting a good number of prizes iriven by numerous friends for Ihe Autumn or March Show, which promises to be one of the most, successful shows held in Auckland. It is to he hoped that the public will show their taste for horticultural exhibits by patronising it better than the last.

Kitchen Garden.

The crops ought now to be looking Moll, though tho season has been a little back ward through the cold wot spring. The different crops need frequent attention to hoeing between the rows; lit tlio snino time earthing such as require it. Thin out all late sown vegetables as they become large enough. Plant out as soon as possible the kumeras or sweet potatoes in drills three feet apart and eighteen inches from plant, to plant in rows. Make successional sowing of French and running beans; hoc up and stake tbe earlier sown crops. Lato planted potatoes—fork the soil between the rows and earth up. Attend to tho fortnightly Bowing of mustard cress, etc., forsaladings. Make tho sowings now in a cool shady place, giving them plenty of water, l'laiit out celery and looks in tho trenches. As the early crops come, havo the soil turned up at once with the spade, so that it may be ready for some of the successional crops. Keep the Meeds down. Flower Garden. There ought now to be a good display in the mixed flower borders A great number of the hardy and early som-ii annuals ought now to be making a brilliant display. Attend to the pinching and staking oi tho tall growing plants ; whenever a flower has passed its best, pluck it oil'; never allow seed pods to form unless wlieroyou want to save a little seed : the formation of seed pods simply robs the other and later flowers of so much strength, making them weaker and not. so profuse. Also, take out all rank watery growth. Still plant out dahlias j stake and tio up those which arc growing; give occasional Mate rings with liquid manure ; continue mulching when ever any material conies to hand, such as the gross from the lawns. 1 have often seen camellias, etc., parched brown and yellow in their foliage during tho summer months, making them look un sightly. All this can be avoided by taking a little grass and spreading it on the sur face of tho soil round the butt of the bushes; it, keeps the burning rays of the sun from striking the soil, consequently less evaporation takes place. I'orkthe sur face before putting the mulching materials on : when put on, then Mater heavily. Attend to the pinching and pegging clown of the bedding plants. Grecnliouso. All hardy plants which will grow out of doors during tho summer months should now be taken out and their pots plunged in soil in some cool, shady place ; this will give more room for the rapidly advancing summer foilago plants. Still give plenty of air. Re-pot advancing colons, etc., as their roots fill the different pots they are growing in. Shade every bright sunny day, Syringe all plants not flowering when shut ting up the house every evening.

Ground Vineries,

One evening last week I went up to see what will, in the near future of Auckland, be ono of the most profitable and pleasant garden operations, and that is the small ground,vineries which Dr. Sanders, of I'ar ncll, has under cultivation, lie has four vine? of about three years of nge, cadi covered with two seven-feet vineries, making altogether fourteen feet, lie still farther intends to raise them other seven feet more this season. The vines under neath were in splendid health, .showing a lino crop —one a boxwood muscat, carrying thirty-live bunches of grapes, a rather heavy crop. Thoy are nice compact bunches, nnd will weigh, when ripe, from ono to two pounds. Besides the above four, Dr. Sanders planted othor twelve vineries last winter, each of which he has covered with a seven-feet vinery. Some of these vines are carrying a few bunches. Xow, in the immediate surroundings of Auckland, M-hore vines are a failure in tho open air, this system of growing the grape vine has only to get better known, and a general adoption will ensue. It is a very cheap and effective system. Every person with a small garden can grow first-class fruit at a merely nominal cost. Tliero is no groat- skill wanted—onlyalittleattcntion. br..Sanders's heart is in the work, nnd he would gladly give any intending cultivator any assistance which might lie in his power. In fact, ho Mould only bo too happy for any such to pay him a visit, so that ho could show the system in full operation. To bettor promote the growing of tho vino under this system, ho has handed over to tho Gardeners' Horti cultural Society the sum of £3 3s to bo banked and distributed in prizes for grapoH grown under ground vineries during tho season of 1886 and ISB7, thus giving three years for intending growers. Vinos planted next winter will be in thoir second yoar of fruiting by that time. Tho money is to be divided into three prizes—lst, ±2 ; 2nd, £1; 3rd, the balance, with interest. If there are no competitors in this class, tho money is to be given for tho best collection of grapes grown in the largo vinery without the aid of heat. I intend doaling with this subjoct more oxtensively, especially the making of borders, &c, immediately before the planting season.

[Continued from Last Week.)

Having completed this work, and having reached the core, tho grub turns towards the cheek of tho apple and makes a third gallery, through which it eventually makes its exit; but not at present, for as soon as it has thus made sure of a means of escape, it returns to the centre of the apple, where it feeds at its leisure. When within a few days of being fully fed, it for tho first time enters the core through a round bole gnawed iv the hard, horny substance which always separates the pips from the pulp of the fruit, and finds itself in that spacious chamber which apples always possess in their centre. Prom this time it, eats only the pips, never again tasting the more com mon pulp which hitherto had satisfied it. Now nothing less than the highly-flavoured aromatic kernels will suit its tooth, and on these for a fewdaysit feasts in luxury. Some how or other, tho pips of an apple are con nected with its growth, as the heart of an animal with its life : injure the heart, an animal dies ; injure the pips, an apple falls. The maggot now leaves the core, crawls along its lateral gallery, the mouth of which, before nearly closed, it now gnaws into a smooth round hole, which will permit a froo passage without hurting its fat, soft, round body ; then out it comes, and for the first- time finds itself in the open air. It now wanders about, on the ground till it finds the stem of an apple-troo—up this it climbs, and hides itself in some little crack in the bark.

Tho fall of tho apple, the exit of the grub, and its wandering to a place of security, usually takes place in the night time. When safely ensconced in the bark, it remains without stirring for a day or two, as if to rest itself after the uncommon fatigue of a two-yards march ; then gnaws away the bark a little in order to get farther out of tho way of observation ; and having made a smooth chamber big enough for its wants, it spins a beautiful little cocoon, and within this changes to a mahogany-brown chrysalis, having on each segment of the body a transverse double series of minute warts. The length of time that elapses betwoen the spinning of tho cocoon and the transformation from grub to chrysalis does not seem to be very constant. Be this as it may, it is quite certain that tho creature, whether changed or unchanged, remains in the cocoon eight or nino months in the year, and always during tho winter months. The caterpillar is duly hatched during the spring, firstfeedingupontheleaves, andafter wards attacking tho fruit. In tho case of largo trees littleornothingcun bo done. With dwarf bush or pyramid trcos they may with a little attention be much reduced in num bers, by going over the trees in tho spring and destroying the larval as soon as thoy

conic lo life, whilst, they are confined to a limited spaco- being first enclosed in large spider-like wobs before they make their exit, from which thoy arc easily destroyed ; but if once they escape and become dis persed over the tree, little can be done. Much may be done by plucking flic infected fruit. Mr F. thus describes his efforts in this direction in a recent, number of "Field":—"All the trees I can get at I search very carefully, and every apple which I can find bearing any mark of the grub's handiwork I carefully pick off and have them burnt or destroyed in some way. The first tree I looked over was a young Welling ton, some "i or (i years old, just coming into bearing. 1 picked off that free Mlfi apples, or more than four-fifths of the crop, which had been pierced by tho grub. I then M'ent to a Nonpareil, a great natural bearer, all older and larger tree ; off this I picked "ilii apple* one afternoon, and 5)1 tbe next morning. In both instances the num ber of apples lefl on these trees uas very small indeed, so that these statistics, simple as thoy appear, will give a good idea of tlio ravages committed." Tbis method is very good as far as it goes, if tho grub be care fully destroyed, but if, does not reach tho grub which had left tho fruit before it dropped, and thoie are, doubtless, many others that escape by making their exit almost immediately after Ihe fruit falls to the ground. The remedy adopted to roach these consists of hay ropes or old bagging wound round tho hunks of the trees. ' This acts as a (kvny, afford ing a hilling - place in which lo open their cocoons. By careful removing and replacing with new bands every few days and ' burning the old, large numbers may bo destroyed in tho caterpillar and chrysalis state. One authority stales that bo has taken as many as one thousand in n season in this manner from one tree ; and M'horo it lias been thoroughly tried along with the first method referred to, its ravages arc kept at a minimum. Complete extermination can hardly be looked for if the insect has already obtained a footing here ; but every precaution ought to bo taken by overy fruit-grower wherever this terrible insect pest makes its appearance. Painting the trunks of tlio trees with lime, benzol, and turpentine, stripping the loose bark off tho trees, and destroying tho chrysalis, arc all recommended, and may bo all employed in helping to check tho insect, but there is no certain method known yet for its thorough destruction.

MAORI LEGENDS.

The Death of Kiki,

Kiki dwelt at Waikato. 110 was a man of great inlluenco among his peoplo, for ho \vas a wizard. This Mas a proverb used by his tribe ("Tho offspring of (tiki, tho trco- M-iflieror"), " When the sun shines, Kiki never deigns to visit a common place, for fear his shadow should folloM' him, anil render it sacred." This was thoir boast. Kiki well understood the black art of magic. 1 lo always stayed indoors, and should canoes coming down the river halt, for a moment outside bis village, ho drew aside the sliding dour of his house, and when it was open, any stranger who looked at him was immediately struck dead by the power of his evil eye. Kvon when his little window was open, every canoe that passed his village was sure to have sonic of the crow struck down either by sickness or death.

Owing to this, his fame spread abroad amongst all the tribes from Capo Reinga to Te Uuu'hiti, and a Kawhia chief, named Taniure, heard of him, as his doings were very soon known to everybody. Now, Taniure, being a wizard like Kiki, thought he Mould like to have a trial of strength with him, and at once decided to go and visit him at his residence on the banks of the Waikato. Taking four friends and his daughter with him, Taniure started in bis canoe, and, in due season, arrived at Kiki's village, and made last to the landing place. Now, Tamnre, being M-ell aM'aro of his danger, determined to practice every precaution he knew to shield him from the pernicious influence of Kiki, and chanted a powerful charm over the river as it safeguard to him self and his friends, lie and his friends Mere then invited by Kiki to enter the village, which they did, and while to lire in tho sacred oven M-as being kindled, and the food being prepared and put into it (Kiki being as usual indoors), Tniuuro stood outside and uttered incan tations over the door sill of the house. Now, when the contents cf the sacred oven were cooked, uncovered, and divided into various food baskets, Kiki called Tallinn; to cat, out of the same basket with him. This food Mas bewitched, therefore Taniure was asked to eat by Kiki so that ho might die, but Taniure called his daughter anil bid her partake of the food, when sho bad thoroughly disenchanted it by her counter incantations, She ate, quietly chanting her incantations, but whatever food she touched first in stretching her hand to the dish she threw under her feet and ate something else, till she Mas sntislied. Kiki Mas still in his house, and Tamnre at the door, and after the latter bad ended his incantations over the threshold tho former came out. But the girl had finished her food, and Taniure had eaten nothing at all. Taniure then desired his men to embark, and entering the canoe himself nnd taking his daughter, ho gave the word to start homo again. Shortly after their departure Kiki was struck down by severe indisposi tion, and as Tamilro was paddling nwny the men on tho beach hoard Tamuro call out, " Should you see a canoe following us, and are asked by the crew if you have seen our canoe, say that mo are a long distance ahead," and as soon as he had said thisfhe paddled away. Shortly aftorwards the indisposition of Kiki increased, and his tribe then began to sco that ho had been bcM-itched by Taniure. When the ennoe spoken of by Tamuro hovo in sight and stopped nt tho landing-place, and asked them—" Whoro is tho canoe that passed here gone?" They answered, "It is a long distance ahead." Tho canoe M-as then turned back, and as she vanished from sight, Kiki died, bewitched by Taniure.

Of Kiki's descendants, ono diod at Tauranga, and one livod called Te Maiho, "the offspring of Kiki the tree witherer," but ho was a moro shadow of Tamuro, to whom ho had to kneel. Tho descendants of Tamuro who lived woro Ngatimariu, Malm, and Kiake," ullj terribly powerful wizards. When a wizard dies, his super natural power and incantations descend to his offspring, as wo say, " wizard father, wizard child." The power only descends from father to son in the direct lino, but relations by blood of somo small ability to bewitch. Mata Kite.

A Millionaire's Career.

Mr Jay Gould, who has just been examined by the United States Senate Committee on Labour and Education, gave them nn inter esting account of his oarly life and of the origin of his enormous fortune. His father was a small farmer, and the future million aire, who possessed neither shoes nor stock ings at the time, minded tho cows. At tho age of fourteen he exchanged this occupa tion for tho more congenial ono of keeping books for a blacksmith, who gave him no other remuneration than his board. Ho managed to attend a night school, where lie picked up some mathematics and somo notions of engineering, for which he had always a marked taste. He rose at three every morning and worked at his favourite study till six. lie next got a place as as sistant in a country storo at §20 a mouth, and some time afterwards ho left tho store for a desk in a surveyor's office. 11 is employer having failed, his clerk started in business on his own account; and the firstmoney he earned was a dollar which a farmer gave him for making a noon-mark to tell tlio time by. He executed several local maps in tho courso of that summer, an 1 sold the copyright of them for 500 dols. In the next year he mado similiar maps of Albany and Delaware, and roalisod by their salo the considerable sum of 5,000 dols. This sufficed to purchase a share in a large tannery, of which he eventually became sole proprietor, and which ho then sold, realising a handsome profit on the transaction. Tho panic of 1557 occurring at this period in his career, the Rutland and Washington railroad to Troy was offering its first mortgage bonds at ton cents to tho dollar. Mr Gould bought them all, principally on credit, and thus became the owner of a line of railway sixty miles long. Having successfully developed tho business of tho road, it soon bogan to pay dividends, and he was ablo to sell out at an immense profit. Tho Clove land and Pittsburgh and tho Union Pacific wero his next ventures. Ho fared equally M'ell with them ; and from that time to tho present his career lias beon one of almost uniform and unbroken success,

Facts for "reformers."—ln England, 10 percent, of the produce of labour goeß to tho workman, 21 to capital, and 23 to Government. Tho proportions in France (tlio homo of the Commune) are 41 to labour, .'SO to capital, and 23 to Govern ment ; while in tlio United States 72 per cent, goes to labour, 23 to capital, and only live to Government. Does anyone know tho proportions in Kew Zealand?

SPORTING.

PRINCIPAL RACING FIXTURES.

New Zealand.

Auckland R.C. Summer..Dee. 20and Jan. 1 &2

Hawke's Bay Summer Decembor 2(1 Thames J.C. Meeting December 21! aud 27 Canterbury J.C. Summer .January 1 Cambridge Jockey Club Summer lanuary 1 Poverty Bay Turf Club Meeting .. Jan. 15 & Hi Onehunga Races lanuary HI Takupunu J.C. Summer lanuary 21) Wellington R.C. Summer Kebruury 1 and 2 Marlborough Hares February 13 and 11 Dunedin J.C. Autumn...February 21, 22, and 23 Wanganui J.C. Autumn March (land 7

Dates of Nominations, Entries and Accep tances.

Second forfeit for Ihe Cut, and Steeplechase und General Entries Auckland Summer Meeting Dec. II Nominations Tnkapuna Summer Meeting Dec. 21

To Correspondents.

WAURlC—Welcome .Jack ran the Auckland Cup distance easily in 1.7 lust year. T.P.—Normanby is by Hay Pawn out of a Traducer mare ; Woodpecker,by Day Dawn- Annie.

W.M.IC.-Beeswing, fouled in IMS, won ,11 out of 111 races, iiic-Im!inf,-2-.'( 'up ■:, IK.liln-n's 1 Males, aud Ihe Gold Shield at Doncaslcr. A.1,. — Ilerculniicum was purchased by Mr Montague Smith al .Mr Walters's sale in .lanuarv his!, lie is a full hrulher to l-'il/ berciile's, being by Yatlendun—Peeress. TaK.iit.NA.-Tlu! Agent carried I.st 71b on flic two occasions he won Ihe Auckland Steeple chase. The highest weight yet cai-i-icil to victory is I.'lsl, which impuit Lone I land had when he won in ISSO.

NOTES BY HIPPONA.

Tin-; Si'RiM; Mkktin'u of tho Tnkapuna Jockey Club on Saturday last furnished the most interesting afternoon's sport that has yet taken place on the suburban race course, and at no previous gathering of the Club has there been such a large attendance of visitors. On account of the supposed openness of the St,. Andrew's Handicap, a deal of speculation M-as indulged in on the event, but it tinned out to be a moral for Yuba Bill, who getting well away in advance of his field was never headed, and won with the greatest of ease, despite his carrying 41b over-weight. Directly the handicap appeared, he was picked out as the most leniently-treated horse in the race, and installed first favourite, but at the latter end of last week ho receded in the betting on account of having run his trial on tho courso in 2.50, and ho left the paddock at the nico odds of 5 to 1 against him. The favourite Woodpecker ran well up to his private form, and although lie came through his horses like a shot from a rillo before tho turn for homo, ho could not get up to Yuba Bill, Mho I may mention, also easily won tho Stewards' I'late later in tho afternoon. Chandler had little ditiiculty in disposing of his opponents in the Hurdles, but his Steeplechase M'in Mas not so easily accomplished, for Christinas and Fly keeping M-ell with him all the May, made a good light for it. It was a real good contest, not a single mishap occuring, and tho whole four competitors jumped in first-class style. Hue is to bo complimented on his riding and the condition ho has got Chandler in since being under his caro, and I think Harry Taylor is also well entitled to a word of praise for the excellent stylo in m hich he handled Christmas. liorso-OM-ners and others interested should bear in mind that the second forfeit for the Auckland Cup and Steeplechase must, be declared and paid on Friday next, or the nominator will be liable for the balance of the stake. Acceptances for the Derby, and general entries for the whole of tbe minor events of tho Summer Meeting, also close on the same day.

Tho M'eights for the Christchurch Mid summer Handicap, run on Mew Year's Day, came to hand during the week, and as the compilers havo allotted the imposts on somewhat the same lines as the big handi caps already issued, there is but little to find fault with. My fancy out of the whole lot is Oudois, who is nicely handicapped with 7st 131b, and if the Grip Lodge party have not a better thing in view for tbe brilliant son of Albany and No Name, ho should take some beating.

Tho well-known trainor French had the misfortune to meet witli an accident at Papakura in the early part of the week, He M-as brcaking-in a rising two-year-old lilly by Hippocampus from Venus Transit when she reared up and fell back, striking him on the chest with her knees. On coining to town for medical advice, it Mas found that French had fractured one of his ribs and a part of the breast-bone, but although suffering a deal of pain, lie is now progressing as M-ell as can be expected. After the St. Andrew's Handicap bad been run at the Takapuua -Meeting on Saturday last, tliero was a deal of adverse comment hurled at the gentleman who wielded the starter's Hag on account of liim being interested in tlio winner, Yuba Bill, who got away fully half a-dozen lengths in front of everything else, M'liile Woodpecker was absolutely last. The remarks coming to the cars of'Yuba Bill's party, they offered to match him against Woodpecker fori 100, but the owner of the latter declined. To say the least, it was a bit of bad taste for a person interested to have tho despatching of the field, and I think had he acted wisely, he would have transferred the position to somebody else, as be did in tbe Stewards' Plato—for M'here, I ask, are people more suspicious than on a race course ''.

At n meeting of the Taranaki Jockey Club this week, it M-as decided to hold tho Autumn Meeting on tho Ist and 2nd April, ISB4. The following Mas the programme agreed upon :—First day: Maiden Plato, £n 0 : Handicap Steeplechase, i'liO; T.J.C. Handicap, £2.">0; Welcome Slakes, 130; Novel Kmo, £25; Flying Handicap, £100. Second day: Taranaki Derby, £100; Handicap Hurdles, £o0; Hack Hurdles, £10; Autumn Handicap, £130; Nursery Handicap, £40; District Handicap, £50; Consolation, £30.

Mr Waltors's socond annual saloof blool stock will be held on tho 3rd of January, the day after the conclusion of tho Auckland Summer Meeting. Tliero are five lots to bo submitted, viz., a two-year-old colt by Musket—Fanny Fisher ; yearling colt by Musket—Slander (half-brother to Billings gate) ; yearling colt by Musket—Yatterina (half brother to Libeller) ; yowling filly by Musket—Resarina ; and a yenrling lilly by Maribyrnong—Peoress. To the excellence of tho colts out of Slander and Yattorina I can speak from porsonnl inspection, and for breeding and good looks the pair would take a lot of beating anywhore. Woodpecker has passed into the hands of tho local pcncillors, Messrs Lyons and Blaikie, who on Wednesday last gave Colonel Fraser tho tidy sum of £200 for him. Tho horso is still to remain in French's charge.

At tho Piako races there wero no less than five " spills " during the day. Robert the Dovil, who looked a certainty for the Cup fell, slightly injuring his rider Hod son ; Taipouri also camo to grief in the same race, injuring his rider ; Whalcbono fell over tho first hurdlo, soriously injuring his rider Mason, and Hector ran into the wire fonce. In tho Consolation Race, Taipouri, ridden by Hodson, also ran into the wire fonce, and tho rider sustained a sovcrc shaking.

Encouraged by unofficial promises of sup port from sonic of tho leading New Zoaland jockey clubs, "Beacon," "Pegasus," and " Mazeppa " havo resolved to make an effort to bring out a Turf Record on the pattern of a regular Turf Register. They have issued a circular to a largo number of clubs throughout the colony, asking each club to make a small subscription to the publication by way of bonus, and if they receivo favourable answers, a start is to be made on the work at onco, in order to get it, completed and circulated immediately on tho close of the racing season.

" Beacon " hears that the Hon. W. Rob inson has become so disgusted with bis bad fortuno in handicap races of late that he talks of taking his "whole fleet" of horses and his training establishment over to Australia, and going into racing on a big scale there, or else confining his attention to weight-for-nge races in this colony. Martini-Henry is to be reserved for the V.lv.C. St. Logor and Champion Stakes, run in March next.

An Adelaide paper states that a Now Zealand sportsman recently telegraphed to Mr VV. E. Dakin asking him if the owner ofSardius would sell, but Mr Aldridgo de clined to put a price on tho chestnut. Tho good sum of £2,309 passed through tho totalisators at the Taknpuu.-i Spring Meeting. M. Walters has decided to put the un fortunate thrco-year-old filly Fishgirl to stud duties.

Two errors crept into tho telegraphed list of Wellington Cup weights. Oudeis has Sst, not Sst lib, and the correct weight for Odd Trick is Gst 41b, not list 31b.

Matanaka has been scratched for the Dunedin Cup, Adamant is reported to have a " log." Nonsense and Oudois have been selected as first favourites for the Dunedin Cup at 100 to 10 each. Whon the weights for tho Wellington Spring Meeting wero telegraphed from Napier (writes -'Spur"),ahorse with weight givon, was by somo means added in the telegruph-oilice. The breeding was not stated, but the manager of tho Press Asso ciation remedied tho defect by stating that it was by Operator out of Stupidity.

[Latest itoms will bo found on Fago B.]

FIELD SPORTS AND AQUATICS.

(BY ACTA'.ON.)

Aquatics.

Bowing Association Regatta December IS Auckland Intercolonial Regatta ..January 2!Hh Lyttelton Regatta • • .January 1 Akurou Remitta leeember Ponsonby B.C. Trial Fours December 12 Kdwurd Hanlan v. Klias Haycock.or the next best inaiii in Australia, .CI.OOO a-side, before .March .11

Bicycling.

Auckland Ci.un (rendezvous at Service's, Ivuranguliupeßoud). Italian (I'apaloitoi) December S Captain's Kin. December la Henderson's Mill ,-;;,"V. OCCn,i Or. 5n Three Kings, via Mount Itoskill.. December ."J Waitemata Ciaih Puns (starling from Park Gates, Princes-street). Sati'lidav Huns at .'i P.M. Captain's I tun December 8 To Duke Tnkapuna 1 leeember lo To Otahuhu, via Mangere December '11 To Panmure, &c December 'ID TUESPAY KVENINO RUNS. To Olahuhii for Tea, returning by Mangere. Slarl ing al, S o'clock December 11 To Onehunga and back. Starting 7 o'clock December IS CRICKET. Victoria v. New South Wales I leeember 2(1 Wellington v. Nelson Dec. 11l and Jan. 1 Club Fixtures for the Month. December 8.-West, Knd v. Auckland ; North Shore v. Our Hoys (al N'orlli Shore), Otahuhu v. I.'niled. Auckland 2nd v. South Knd, United 2ml v. Kxeelsior, Sel'lon v. Kxeelsior Und, (Iraiiimar School v. Alpha, Eden v. Standard, Ponsonby v. Cordon. December 15. — Otahuhu v. Our Hoys (at Otahuhu), United v. West Knd, Ponsonby v. Kxeclsior, N'orlli Shore v. Auckland (at Nurlli Shore), Kilen v. Standard, "Herald " v, Parnell, Auckland 2nd V, Gordon. December 22.— United v. West Knd, Kxeelsior, v. South Knd, Our Hoys v. Otahuhu, North Shore v. Auckland (at. N'orlli Shore), Kdcn v. Auckland 2nd. "Herald" v. Our Hoys 2nd. United 2nd v. Darnell, Standard V. Sclion, Cordon v. Alpha, Ponsonby v. West Knd 2nd. December 21).—Alpha v. Kxeelsior, Ponsonby v. South Knd, West Knd v. Our Hoys. Otahuhu v. North Shore, Kdcn v. West Knd 2nd, " Herald" v. Avondale Union (at.Avondale). United 2nd v. Cordon, Oxford v. Kxeelsior 2nd.

AiiHAKtiK.MK.NTB for the proposed inter provincial cricket match between Auck land and Canterbury, and also the series of matches with the Christchurch Wanderers Club, are now assuming a very definite form. The Southern team will leave home on tlio 20th instant, and reach here about the 24th or 25th. It will thus be seen that the local men have very little time left at their disposal for practice, barely three three weeks intervening betevcen now and the dates of the matches. The result of the interprovincial match is looked forward lo in Auckland with the greatest interest, and it is to be hoped that our representa tives will not jeopardise their chance of success by failing to appear regularly at practice. The Christchurch "Times" has the following in reference to the proposed trip :—" For some time past cricketers have known that the Wanderers Club intend sending an eleven to Auckland at Christmas time. Their team was ex pected to bo a pretty strong one, and the proposition m-us mooted to try to get an interprovincial team up by supplementing the Wanderers eleven with tbree or four good men. The idea was strengthened by the evident desire of the Aucklunders to play an interprovincial match, and matters have now been so far settled that it is pretty certain the project will be carried out. The Northern cricketers have offered £50towards the expenses, and three matches will be played—two by the Wanderers against two different elevens selected indiscriminately from tho local clubs, and an inter provincial match, the players to repre sent the province, and the Wanderers will be selected from the following :—

W. V. Million, F, Wilding, E. J. C. Stevens, IL Edser, T. 1). llannaii, JI. 11. Secretan. W..J. Cotterill, Ji. Jlallcy, T. Buchanan, W. J. I'ocock, 11. R. iMathias, E. Barnes, A. T. Chapman, and W. Dudney. The teams will leave by the Kotomahnua on December 20th. An eleven of these will scarcely be so strong as a team containing Messrs Ashby, Hurtland, Watson, and Reeves; but unfortunately, none of the latter can go, witli perhaps one exception. The best of this year's bowling talent is available, but we must confess to misgivings as to the result of a contest with a picked team of Aucklanders on their own ground. We aro glad to sec Mr Secretan emerging from bis retirement once more."

W. Frit his said to be still in Christchurch but is not bowling this season.

Fred Plaisted and Wallace Ross have embarked in the saloon business at Pitts burg, Pa.

Pritchard took seven wickets for the Standard, and Goodacre six for Alpha, last Saturday.

The Observer Mas launched on Friday last, after having beon painted and other Mise improved.

Wnrbiick is getting on with tho 20-feet sailing boat for Dargaville. She will be finished about a week hence.

The Myrtle, which left for the Islands this week, tcok away an 18ft sailing boat, built Bailey for the Islands.

Tho string-test gig which won several heats in the North Shore trial-fours was built by lJailey several years ago.

Tom Farqnhar expects his new boat from Swaddle and Winship's in time for the second Association Regatta.

Carr has received orders for a whaleboat for Sir George Whitmorc, of Napier; and a small pleasuro boat for Mr Blomfield, the artist.

Wilding is said to be bowling remarkably well at Christchurch just now. In a match against Addington ho took 8 wickets foi ls runs.

At Bailey's yard, work is now progressing on Holland's yacht, the Naval Brigade pinnaco, and a small centre-board boat for the islands.

Donald Dinnio, tho champion athlete, is oxpected to be on the mail steamer City of Sydney, which arrives hero about eight or ten days honco.

Waymouth has now in hand a small open sailing boat for Mr G. Wilson ; a light pulling skiff, 14ft. long, to order ; and a 14ft. keel boat for Mr Crawford, of Waikato.

Tho 16ft. open sailing boat built by C. Bailey, junr., has beon sold to a gentleman at Hokianga. Tho builder intends to con struct another boat about the same size for his own use.

Plans havo been prepared for a new two story shed for tho Ponsonby Rowing Club, which will probably be erected after the Association Regatta. This is a step in the right direction.

The final heat of tho Krug Champagno trophy resulted; —Fittes (Victoria), 1 ; Brett (New South Wales), 2; Sharland (Tasmania), 3 ; Gadcn (Now South Wales), •I—Fittes having won tho trophy.

Ponsonby, as is invariably tho caso, has tho first crews out for the Association Re gatta, They will consist of tho follow ing :—Senior Amateurs : Smith, A. White, Edwards, Leatham. Senior Bona Fides; Jones, Cook, Nicholson, Cooper. Junior Amateurs: MclCinnen, Lloyd, Fogden, Emery, Junior Bona Fides : Goudie, Culpan (2), White. Maiden Fours: iMoKiniion, Lloyd, Fogden, Emery.

The Auckland Regatta Club has altered the small cutter-race to "for coasting vessels, 1 2 tons and under '25 tons," This will havo the. effect of excluding tho now vessel which Clare is building, which is in tended for the Island trade, and which will bo a little under the required measurement. He considers the alteration unfair, and mentions that the cutter Euphemia, which will take part- in that race, is only 12 tons.

Tho Avondale Cricket Club Secretary forwards tho following : —" The match between tho Ponsonby and Avondalo Cricket Clubs that was to take place in the Domain did not eventuate, owing to the non-appearance of the former team. The Avondalo men felt considerably disap pointed when thoy arrived at the Domain to find that not even tho captain of the team had put in an appearance. The Club now claims the match, and has decided not to play the Ponsonby again." This should be punishment enough to Ponsonby, who will, for the future, lose tho benefit of thoso numerous arguments which were wont to amuse them in days of yore.

A Sydney paper says :—" Australian Eleven the Fourth will bo banded together immediately after the intercolonial cricket match at Melbourne, and wc understand tho opening event of the preliminary colonial tour prior to their departure for England will bo against a combined team on the M.C.C. ground on Now Voar's Day and the following days. If it is true that Murdoch, Horan, Garrett, and Spofforth have declined to go to England, it is pos sible that a good match may be arranged between the Australian Eleven and a com bined team ; but if Murdoch and Spofforth are not available for the combined matches, 1 fear tho contests will bo very ono-sided. So far as is known at present, A. Banner nian is the only one from this colony who will bo one of tho band. Nothing is known as to SpoiTorlh's mtentions, but the public all say, ' He's suro to go.'"

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 188 S.

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From Symes & Co,, Pharmaceutical Chemists, i Medical Hall Simla, January 5,1880. To J. T. . Davenport, Esq., 33, Groat Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. Dear Sir,—We embrace this opportunity of congratulating you upon tho , wide-spread reputation this justly esteemed , medicine, Dr J. Collls Browne's Chlorodyne, has earned for itself, not only in Hindostan, but all over the East. As a remedy of general utility, we much question whether a better is imported into tho country, and we shall bo glad to hear of , its finding a placo in every Anglo-Indian homo. , The other brands, Mc are happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and judging from their sale, M-e fancy their sojurn there will be but evanescent. Wo could multiply instances ad infinitum of the extraordinary efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne in Diarrhoea and Dyscntry, Spasms, Cramps, Neuralgia, tho Vomiting of Pregnancy, and as a general scda , tive, that have occurred under our personal observation during many years. In Cholcroio Diarrhoea and even more terriblo forms of Cholera itself, wo have M-itnesscd its surprising controlling power. Wo have novor used any other form of this modioino than Collis Browne s from a firm conviction that it is decidodly the best, and also from a sense of duty we owe to the profession and the public, as we arc of opinion that the substitution of any other than Collis Browno's Is a deliherate breach of faith ON THE PART OF TIIE CHEMIST TO PRKSCRIBKK and patient alike, We are, Sir, faithfully yours, Symes & Co., Members of the Phar. Society of Great Britain, His Excellency tho Viceroy's Choinista. Sold in bottles at ls lid, 2s 9d, Is Gd, and lis each. None is genuine without the words "Dr J. Collis BroM'ne's Chlorodyne " on the Govern ment stamp. Overwhelming medical testimony accompanies each bottle. Caution.—Beware of Piracy and Imitations. Solo Manufacturer—J. T. DAVENPORT, 33, Great Russell-Street, Bloomsbury, London. QTEEDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS kj FOR CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO FUHCIIASERS. Tho value of this well-known Family Medicine has boon largely tested in all parts of the world, and by all grades of society, for upwards of fifty years. Its well-earned cxtenslvo sale has induced spurious imitations, somo of which in outward appearance so closely resemble tho original as to havo deoeivod many purchasers. The proprietor, therefore, feels it duo to the public to givo a special caution against the uso of such imitations. 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