CHOICE EXTRACTS.

No principle lS'inore noblo, as there is none more holy, than thai of a true obedience. Tli« faith which looks forward is far richer than the experience which look? backward. No atar ia lost wu over onco Have seen— Wo always may bo what wo might have boon. —Proctor. It is easy to be marry when the heart ifl light; but tho true philosopher is he who can make sunshine in a cloudy day. Sympathy is good, but it is cabbage inita raw state. It needs boiling and putting with something better to make it or value to an} otic. Purpose is tho edge and point of character; it is tno superscription on tha letter of talent. Character without it la blunt and torpid, By rousin« himself, by earnestness, by restraint and control, tho wise man may make for himself an island which no flood can overwhelm. Faitli builds a bridge across tho gulf of death tn break the shock blind nature cann it shun, and laod3 thought smoothly 1 on the further shore. There i^ nothing makes a man suspect much more than to know a little, and, therefore, men should romody suspicion by procuring to know moro, and not to keep their suspicions in smother. Earth proudly woars tho Parthonon As tho host gem upon hor v.ono; And Morning opos with lnisto her lias To Kuzo upoii tho Pyramids. — Kntcrsoiu

Fire, Hood, mi.st.iko, or accident may rob us of our material possessions, but they cannot yet nt tho troasure of the immortal wind, Tim s«arou of our future being is but a aecdlosß, anxious and uncertain haste to he kn .wing sooner than wo can what, with out all this solicitude, wo shall know a little later. As lamps burn silent, with unconaolous light, So inndcnt I'ttsu in uuftuty shinoa moat bright. Unainiin,' charms with orlRO roslatloss (all. And 311 ■ ftiio means no mischief does it all. — Aaron lull, Tbo true wiy to mourn the dead La to take care of tho living that belong to them. These are the pictures and statues of do> partcl friends thnt we ought to cultivate, and not "ucti as can be had for a few guineas from a vulgar artiste.— Burke. Affection,—How sacred, how beanti fol, fs 'his feeling in pure and guileless Bosom- ! The proud may sneer at it, the faihionanto may call it fable, the selfish and dis-i|iatod may affect to depise it; but ttio holy pn»sion U surely of heaven, and is made evil by corruption of those ■whom it w.is sent to bless and to prwerve. All through Ufa thore aro wayildo inns whero man may rofri'sh, his soul with lovo; Eron tho to west nmy q,uenoh his thirst at rivulets tea by springs from above. —Golden Ugend. < Happiness or misery is in the mind. It is the mind which lives, and the length of life ought to bo measured by tbo number and importance of our idoas, and not by tho nau'bi!.' ut our days. - Kelifiion slips through some peoples fin gers as rapidly as ill-gotten money. An eld Scotch minister told his congregation the tru-h when he said: " Bretmcn, you come to clinch every Sabbath, and I lave you all over with the Gospel water, and I pour It uvion you until you are almost drowned with it ; but you just gang awa1 hame a-d sit down by your fireside, gie your winjjj a hit o' a flap, and yoa are just as diy as ever again.' A Btbebt Incident.—Ona evening a gentle j a i w.is strolling alone a street in Toronto, with apparently no object in view but to pasi the time. His atteo'ion was attracted by tbe remarks of a little girl to a oompai.iou in front of a fruit-staud : " I wish Ih v lan orange for ma." The gentle man siw that the children, tbouji poorly dressed, wore clmu and neat, and calling them into tb« store he loaded them with fruit and candies. " What's your name ?" asked oue ot tho girls. "Why do you ■want to know ?" queried the gentleman, " 1 want to pray for you," was the reply. The gentleman turned to leave, scarcely darinc to speak, when the little one added, " Well, it don't matter, I suppose. God will know you, anyhow."

EARTH BUT A TARRYING PLACE.

Tlio soul on earth ia immortal guest, Compelled to starve at nn unreal feast; A spa k which upward tondu by nature's fOTCO; A Btreatn diverted from its parent source: A drop ili^evo od from trio boundless eea; A moment parted from oternity; A pilgrim panting for tho rest to come: An exilo anxious for his natiire borne. The pnople of tho East measure time by the length ot their shadow. Hence, if you ask a man what o'clock it is, he im mediately goes into the sun, stands erect, then lookin? whore his shadow terminates, he measures his length with his feet, and tells yon nearly the time. Thus the work men earnestly desire tho shadow which in dicates the t,!tne ( for leaving their work, A person wishiug to loavo his toil says, "How long my tthadow in in coming 1" " Why did you not came sooner?" "Because I waited for my shadow." In the seventh chapter of Job, we find it written, "As a servant earnestly desireth his shadow."

Depreciation.— Tho disposition to de preciate what is not ours is often shown vitli regard to pursuits in life. It is right and best that each person should follow a«me occupation, in which he should strive lor excellence. It is not snppoaablo that he can know as much, or bo equally in terested in any other pursuit. But, for this very reason, it is incumbent upon him lo be modest and unassuming, willing to obserso and ready to accord respect to that ■which is plainly oat of his powor to per form, "n the contrary, how frequently are sucli avocations mado the subject of conteinptuons remarks and slighting! There arc ptofrs.-ioni'l rnon who look down upon business as a lucre money-making alFair, am! business men who look down on the professions as offering no sure road to Wealth, There arc philosophers who despise the practical walks of life, and practical men who have nothing but contempt to give to philosophy. There are scientific men, dealing only with established fact?, who can eooord no respect to idca=, and idealists ■who have no p.uience with the tangible dents; of soie 'cc. Them are men carrying tho burdens of stnte who sneer at poetry and poets who disdain all knowledge of ■politic?. What does all this prove? Not certainly any Rupcriorty in one or the other, but a ti.'licieucy !in the power of apprccia. tion—not any pccnliar depth in one direc tion, but a decided narrowness in another.

FOR THE LADIES.

A LARGS majority of the pawnbrokers ill France are women. Never do things by halves. That's the way the divorce court does business. A handsome woman 'pleases the eye, but a pood one pleases the heart, The one is a jewel and the other is a treasure. "Are you any relation to my sister?" He blushed and stammered, until the young lady, taking pity on him, solved the matter by saying—" No; but he'd like to be — wouldn't you, Alfred?" Cards will .soon be out. iV-f:n " rral .f^'J^ "■'"""■ " Are you married, ,my dear?" asked an old gentleman ot a pretty girl with whom he chanced to be sitting in a railway car riage. "No," said she, "but I've sued a fellow for a breach of promise." A certain little damsel, being aggravated pist endurance by her big brother, fell down upon her knees and crici : " Oh ! Lord, bless my brother Tom. Ho lies, he steals, he swears. AH boys do. Us girls don't. Amen." They were loungingon tho parlour lounge, their urms entwined. "Oh! my Sophie, dear," he sighed, " you alone know how to love." "Yes, Eben, that is what, they all tell me." The thermometer dropped toO. An excited old maid in a temperance lodge, a few evenings since, read an original poem, entitled—" The Lips that Touch Liquor shall never Touch Mine," and the young men present gave three cheers, The latest style of young ladies' hat is called the " Kiss-me-if.you-dare," When worn by a crosa-oyed woman with a wart on hor nose, the defiance is torriblo and an answerable,

Prizes of the Harem.

It is quite notorious that every harem in the E ißt aims at getting a European tenant for it (says the JUondou " world "). Year after year girls arc reported to ba missing from London, or Paris, or Brussels, without anyone knowing what has become of them. In a few days the} nre forgotten ; they may bayo drowned themselves, become reformed, or died their usual death, Sometimes tbe story ia that the girl has been decoyed to Helgiuni. Meantime it is impossible to pass along the streets of London without seeing anaky-eyod Orientals peoring into the faces of millinery girls ; and ha must be an unobservant traveller, indeed, who has sailed in a Peninsula and Oriental steamer for Alexandria or Port Said without meet ing the same rapscallions escordug rosy checked damsel's Cairoward. The supply is, perhape, a little less than it used tv be wnen Ismail Pasha ran special trains for tho convenience of his consignment from Europe. But that in Egypt, India, Turkey, and the Orient generally, every harem of any consequence keeps in its gilded cage one or more foolish Britons is a fact which it is needless trying to deny, thougn it is humiliating to confess. These wretched girls are tempted by a lite of ease and in dolence. They are dazzled by a show of juwels, fino clothes, and the stories of the gorgeous Kast, and find too late that they haveentered a squalid prison, amid women as heathen as any woo in the world can show, and with whom it is impossible to exchange a word to while away tbe lone liness of a life ffhtch has lost its novelty. So long as they keep tlie favour of their lord, they are objects of persecution and plots; when they lose it, their lot is un bappy beyond conception. Such stray lambs are seldom sought after, though to their relatives they are as much lost as though they hid plunged into the sea. The harem rarely surrenders its prisoners, and if if did, they are too ashamed to return, poor and disillusioned. Again and again have rumours reached Delhi of General Wheeler's daughter »nd other European ladies being kept in the harums to which they were dragged during the Indian mutiny. But toon the scent is lost. If tbero is any truth in the gossip, it ia certain that the objects of it are just beyond tku chances of recovery, for whoever ihehareui ownor introduces to his guests, be takes care to m»ko au exception in favour of his Fer ringbees. But.if silly damsels err through ignoranco and a love of laziness, what is to bo said of woman, reasonably well educated, who calmly—to gratify ambition, to spite somebody, or from some vague idea of " the romance of the tning "—Bell themselves in cold blood to au Extern potentate ? The nnhappy Mrs Digby, after a varied marital experience, espouied tbe dirty Bedouin camel-drives, Mijuel of Mizrab. Wh.it her opinions were, eho kept to herself; for, a puisb amiug her kindred, Lord JSllen borough's quondam bride felt sour to all the Christian raca. It may ba that this hatred is shared by, and constitutes their approach to happiuess of, the weak-faced women wtio have chosen to be harem Britous.

Kissing. For words, always unsafe in women's mouths, kissing was substituted for the concealment of their thoughts. In its prime, the maaio of kissing can only bo computed to many things moro or less en chanting and romantic. Xhe chief tbing in kissing appears to be to hang on as long as posnible, and drop each otber with a crash. A sigh like a whirlwind, thrown in at the end is a proot of appreciation, and the signal for an encore. Tnc fondness for kissing is attributable to the ladies'taste for tooling around the end of the young men's moustaches, and to the young men s ambition to have the growth of their moustaches so encouraged ; the application of a red-haired girl to the beardless lips of a backward youtn has a stimulating effect equal to that of a hothouse, danger lurking in their too frequent repetition. Kissing comes as natural to a girl as a cunning fly to a bald head. A man slides as awkwardly into his first kiaa as into his elder brother s tail coat, and his vanity is equally great on both occasions. He considers them us stops up the ladder of life, and would havo his promotions proclaimed from the housetops, and shouted from the church steeples, but such is his modesty in his family circle that when a younger brother quietly mentions them, he looks red and fools unfraternal. The fonialo sex obtain their remarkable proficiency in kissing by perpetual study and constant practice. They are early distinguished for their aptitude in the nrt, for what girl is not ready to kiss a baby at all hours and all seasons ? This sort of kiss gradually dovelopes into tho embryo kiss allectert by schoolgirls, and finally into the kiss of re gular lovera—intense, passionate, and very nico to contemplate upon a starlit night " Of' in the stilly nigbt" mny tho sound be heard, and whop soundiDg out from the end of the passage, it may safely be concluded that the door will presently bang, and foot steps bo heard retreating, and that Jenny, will appearwith her collar ruffled and cigar ash upon her shoulder. One thing be care ful of, as you value your reputation for re spectability —don't kics a girl in the dark unleia you can depend upon the spot where tho pins protrude ; a sudden jot with one of tliKHo will spoil the best-inteutioned kiss ever bestowed on a pretty girl,

SCIENCE NOTES.

FOR the illumination of balloons M, Man gin uses .an iocandeseant electric light surrounded by water contained in a glass vessel. Italy is keeping steadily active in jftpar ing for the future. Last year the public works sanctioned by tha Government amounted to £10,000 000. So late a3 last year, Dr. Proust, in a paper to the Academy of Medicine, made the state ment that there were then no fewer than 219,270 houses in France without a window. French silk merchants are thinking about acclimatizing a species of spider which has been discovered on the African coast. This spider makes a thread very like yellow silk and almost as strong. If M. Kinler has made correct obser vations, the wheat plant never grows upon any day when the temperature of the air does not for a period of several hours at least rise above 43 deg'ees Fahrenheit. Upon examination, Dr J. Scbenkel finds that a petroleum which gives off more than 5 per cent, of volume below 140 degrees and more than 10 per cent, below 300 de grees, is to be rejected. He asserts that the commercial value ot petroleum is deter mined by the volume percentage which dis tills over between the ternporaturos of 145 degrees and 300 degrees. A novel, if not very practical way of disposing of the doad, so that the remains wilt not tend to imperil the existence of the living, has been brought forward by Dr. A. Mayer. He advises the adoption of solid glass coffins, which, after the introduction of the corpse, are to bo closed air-tight with cement. Two holes are in the coffin. Through one of them carbonic acid gas is forced, and by the other atmospheric air escapes. When the ordinary air is supposed to be all driven out, the holes are closed, War a. Mas Can't Fly.—No combi natron of wings will en«Me a man to fly until he can wield them with as much rnus oular power to the pound weight as a bird exerts in flying. If a man had in his legs the muscular energy an<i leverage of a flea, bo could jump a mile in three leap«, and if his arms had, in proportion to his weight, the driving-power of a wild pigeon's wing, he would have no use for railways or balloons. The tiansportati >n problem would be solved. Moving him>clf so easily and so swiftly, he would not need to move- anything else. The albatioss, weighing 28 pounds, can keep its winga, 13 feet from tip to tip, in motion all day, while the strongest man, weighing from six to eight times as much, would exbaust all hi« strength in keeping even an albatross's wings in motion Imlf-au hour. "We have in the bird," says the ".En gineer," "a machine burning concentrated fuel in a large grata at a tremendous rate, and developing h very largo power in a small space. Thero is no engine in existence— certainly no steam-enaine and boiler com bined-'which, weight for weight, gives out anything like the mechanical power ex hibited by the albatross." Consequently, no machinery yetdevised can operate wings with sutiioiont p >wcr to sustain its own weight in the air, aud there is no known machinery by which a man can wield the force neces sary to fly like a bird. K>ely'a alleged dis covery, or some process of storing and ex citing great electric power in apparatus of light weight, might supply the deficiency ; but soience has not learned how to develop in inanimate machinery anything like the mighty nerrous energy which acts in _ the bones, sinew*, and mußcles of a living bird's wing, — " London Engineer." The Disposal of Kxn.osms.—After the- discovery of 2001bs. of nitro-glycerine in Southampton-street, Strand, and a small portion had been ran off from its receptacle (an india-rubber big), it was decided to convey ihe remainder from Woolwich to a magazine in Plumstead marshes. This delicate mission was entrusted to Inspector Cavoll and a party of labourers, who, to mini mise tbe risk, carriod the box by hand the eutire distance, which is three miles from the Arsenal gates. Arrived at the magazine, the whole apparatus was immersed in water; and there it remains, with no other butlding near enougli to suffer if it should from any cause exploile, ot wich there is no apparent danger. The authorities^ are however, disposed to get rid of it without lielay, and tho only point upon which they have any doubt is as to tho safest way of destroying it. Some one suggested throw ing it into tbe river; but the professional r .ply was that It would sink in a cohesive moss to the bottom, and perhaps be deto nated by the keel of some ship. There is too much of it to be exploded except by the tedious process of removing it In small quantities to remote places, and the only feasible plan which suggests itself is to sprinkle it upon tho land. Ihis expedient is, however, not unattended with danger, as asoriouaaccident happened in Newcastle ou-Tyne by that very means in 1867, some nitro-glveorine exploding with disastrous effects as it was being poured ont of a vessel.. Once absorbed iv the earth, how ever, it will soon be re-olved by nature into its constituent elements, and simply serve as manure for the ground. In its present condition, it is far worse than dynamite, which is but nitro-glycerine mixed with inert matter, such as clay or earth, to the extent of 25 per cent., and Professor Abel i 9 at present engaged in experiments which have proved its superiority for destruction over all other compounds. In comparison with gunpowder, it has been hypothetically given fifty times the energy, but this is only local force, exercised within a narrow radius in a given time. All the nitro com pounds are converted into gas very rapidly, whereas gunpowder isof comparatively slow combustion, and, speaking of tho effects of the two explosives over a wide arei, the authorities consider that nitro-glycerine may be regarded as about eight or ten times as powerful as gunpowder. About 201b of dynamite, equal to 151b of nitro-glycerine, is believed to have been tho quantity which produced the recent damage at the Govern ment Offices in Westminster.

A Shrewd Girl With Biff Feet.

A YOUNG girl in a Memphis family in sisted upon having something tossy as to the selection of a new carpet for the pnrloru, " I don't care so much about the colours," said she, "nor whether we get a regular carpet or a rug, and most of the pattern may con sist of small designs, if you like, bo long as thoro aro a few figures in it of oblong shape, and about Bby 14 inches in size. I really must insist on those dimension?, and I want the outlines to be distinct. Why am I par ticular about these points ? Simply because my feet are rather largo. My knowledge of art is sufiiciont to teach mo that the eye judges of sizo by comparison. If my foot is put out fof view on or beside a figure in a carpet that is smaller than itself, don't you see that it shows for all its actual dimensions, but if it rests <m a distinct design of three or four times its own urea, it is apparently reduced? So our carpet must have a few big figures in it for my personal use. As soon as you have made the selection I will know by the colours how to make my pur chases of hosiery for the season. The exac tions of dross nowadays require harmony of hues."

SELECTED POETRY.

ONLY A BOX,

Only a box, s>a uro and shrug, ", Rough »nd wooden and > lx met long, , Lying here iv the drizzling rain, ■ WnitiEg to lake tha up-ooand train. Only Its ownor. justlnßid*. Cold and livid anrj glelfity-eytd ; Mttle to him if the train be Ute! Nothing has he to do bm wait. Only an open grava somewhere., .'■ . '■ Heady to olose when he ge's there; Turfs and Brasses and flowrots sweet, Beady to press him 'neat v their feet. Only a band of friend* at homo, Watting to see the traveller oome: Nmight will he tin of distant lands, 1 He oannot even press their hands. Ha has no stories weird nr<l bright; He has no gifts for a child's delight; He did not come with anything; He had not eveu tumult to bring. Vet they will softly him await, An! be will move about in etnte; They will dive him, when he appears. Love and pity and tender tears. Only a box, secure and strong. Rough and wooden and six feet long; AnKela RUlde that soul en breaat Into a long and peaooful real! —Will Cablktos In " Youths' Companion,"

NATURE'S MIRRORS.

I walk beneath umbrageous oaks Whose branches give me grateful shade ; I see, around, the city smoke, And hear a-nigh the strife of trade. . But awe. and wonder o'er me steal, A nil holy thoughts my senses aoizo; I look as In a mirror clear, I And see my life in these old trees. The wrinkled bark on these old oaks Mirrors to me the coming time When ago shall mark this now smooth brow With many a seam and furrowed line. The wrinkled bark on those old trees— These broken boughs with moss p'erspread. The yellow leaves, tho brittle twigs— fell less of iifo than of the dead. Tell leas of life, as now they live— For who can say when sudden blast May fell these sturdy forms to earth. Or what the day shall be their last 1 For life, so full of joy and hope. Swarms thick with germs of certain death; And ever/ mirrored picture shown Is clouded by a passing breath. In yonder city's orowded streets Ascend commingled plaints and mirth; And hurrying footsteps vainly Beck For consummations not of earth. Vain shadows float before the eye— Thoy vanish from our hopeful clasp; Wo olutoh at v sions -fail, and sink Beneath Despair's relentless grasp. Hero, in this arbour, nature-reared, Man to his better self retrurns; And, heedless of tho world's tierce strife, The lesson of his Maker learns. These quiet woods a templo form. Wherein to bow in peao«f ul quest Of that which earth elsewhere withholds— A heaven-born sense of holy rest.

The Smoking Habits of American Children.

AN investigation respecting the use of tobacco by tbe schoolboys of Boston, Massachusetts, has lately been made, and the result has. led to the conclusion that the age at which the non-users of tobacco come to be in tho minority Is but a tew months over ten years. It waaalso found the practice of smoking mild cigarettes was by no means uncommon at girls' schools, The head-master of the Latin School bad no doubt that half the boys, ranging from four teen to eighteen years of age, used tobacco to some extent; bat he did not believe that the habit afleoted the intellectual standing of the school as a whole, although in a few cases he had traoed a falling off in health and scholarship directly, to the inordinate use of tobacco. Information from tobacco dealers showed an immense trade among schoolboys; but one dealer stated that nearly half his trade inclgarettes was among women and girls. Some of tbe girls in the high and normal schools told him that an " occasional whiff' was i requisite for the sake of their nerves,—" Pall Mail Gazette."

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EaaytemM BRIGHTON, PARNBLL.-A veiynlfiik Cottage, new and weU-flolsheifffl with registered grato, oven, eon/?, &o.; allotment 33 x 99. Pricei onfiS CARLKTON GORK RO*.n_HaM«i!' oont&lnins 7 rooms, bathroomuS* waHbhouse, &0., &0., fined \JtSP' onpboards, and many other oomnwl corner of Carleton Gore Rons iu!?!r View Koad; grand aliotmeotr1*! little garden; In alt a very. fa£il Bie'tv plaoa, "till COMMERCIAL ROAD, off Grisii »!&■] -Now Verandah Cottage of SJfiSI teredGrate, Cupb<»rd^ 6s3| 150. £4UU. Ml-«^t OHALMKHnTON—Compact lltr, t, '. aoreg; part In cultlvation'Sß orchard; aood pleee of bn.«h?'<■?• House and outbuildings almiv>l ,?*• OLARBNCK-HTKKK T-T «Z*»a I finished Verandah Cottage. 1 Si. Boullory; fitted with re«ito?ffi!§ onpboards, tanks, uxa. ; d h«is»( ternw. mt>-fm EDKN PXjACK, offKrberPaaLii., 1 of B rooma anfl cellar Buodwlii iff" ELLKKriLln—Snlendla Vill»Hiai «f*(fi orn»mentiil tree«. anil i arti» sf**!l GEORGE AND WILLIAM STnSSS; SONBY-Brick Home o f SSI soaUery, onthouse. Sea.; *11^LS» H4CKKT-BTREET, sear nan.. i■:■-■■ of at. Mary's Roaa-HaSgl*'** ends, bow-windowe, and fltefS^' tor grate, oven, oaobo*oa»/S: *J#< S3 x 99: price only &my* •**! *H* HACKKTT-STREET, PONgOVnv : j Gable-end VerandaVvK??^V* window; weUflnißhe4 No^S?^ refused; must be aoldT nllwMan«|)l( HOWICK.-A great Ba^ain. »«,„„, and 2 aores of UDiMtß"^\^py «100 for the lot "" ?*& m KINO-^l nE»T, off GreatNortkD^ '" Building AlbtinemiNVii rs,?^** 78,100 x 162 teatffiffi^ft 7'''«* Howe..tr e e« ; oaiSa»^jg and in grass; balanceiitoidSiS well watered; fWap^ucra^Ki Bubatantial Cottage of i roomß,oo»SSi sundry outbuildings; siiaatovm? minutes' walk of Church of BttoffT school. Price only JJ37O, - ~ *% ™« MONTAGUE-STRBftT,NEWTON- &£ roomed Verandah Cotogji'ffljs'1 register grates, colonial ont^SJ &c. Price. 280. . ;°^W« MARY-STREET, MOUNT ISUSK ~f J L 3 Rooms, Bakehous , Stable, cSf£? allotment 40 x 99. £300. 9 MOUNT ALBERT-New liawt oi!s $ stable, piggery, &c., together wift'iv acre good volcanic land; sttuntsJiA Mount Albert Hall. Prioe, ffldJflS MAHURANGI.-43 Acre* tlrst-clua HJ acres in bush, coneistinij of kauFt puriri, &c.; all ploughable. To 15 Dargain. ■ ■ -^ ■ i MaTA&UKB-Part Lot «-« im<! principally kanrl; bounded on omlu deep creek; Eltnatad li nliga fw. ship of Matafeohe. Price, fiJfi ■ore. | MOUNT EDEN, Main Road.-PrettfM of 4 rooms; almost mew, and UK registered oven, tank, &c. Prl«fi% NORTHCOTE.—Handsome Newlfflß| rooma; bow window, &c; allobaiSi •with water frontage, 3 minuttfiH , Stokes'sfloint Wharf. Price, n^g NEW NORTH ROAD, near Uppjrft| street.—Comfortable Residence of jf bathroom, washhouse, stable, dim and many conveniences; standimfi 1} acres land; tastefully laid oit h garden, orchard, &c, &c Priotß NEWMARKET.-New-etreet: NWffi House of 5 rooms; good weu,:jjf nioe garden; allotment 48 x 120. m J335a OTAUUHC —Verandah CottaMgH - allotment !<sx 91. near Pablloßchgj;, £190. Terms : £5(1 ca*h; balwiM a) ln»r Soninty Drlnoltiles -'{ PONSONBY.-Bella Vista: MarinefH dence, and about 2 acren mW paddock; pleasantly sittiat cd; gadt PITT-STREET, corner of Cros»m| some Villa of .5 rooms, veraudaJM . dow, gable end, gas and watfij Price, only £370. PERCIVAL PARADE. PONSOmH House of 6 looms; allotment U%m ■ £300. . ■ PoNßoNßY—Housse. 7 rooms. UUK room, £c «o. together with MM out In orchard, garden, paifat . BDlendld sea view. : aim PONSONBY TEUBACK - Nnw.to ■ rooms (not quite finished); goodM, woodshed, so.; good allotmeWHW fenood »nd tilanted. £450. PROSPECT TERRACE.-HandMSWji Hooras and Porch; fitted wit!) Cn.pl Dresser, Registered Grate, weKH well and tank, nice garden, IHM £300. PAFAIvfJRA—New Hoise an! MM and 87 a«res real pool land'tt aStl in valuable nosltion 1 »t at isilwi PAPAROA. - Lota 101 and IM. KJ . situated about 1J miles from,!^t||l lage. Price, only 30a ser acre. '~ PUKKKOHE.^-81 acres Splendid iMM 3) aores In grass; balance in rateaH PAHNKLL.- Very Comfortahle Hoi rooms, &c, fitted up with many c and conveniences, such as Venefira i registered grates, oven goodwill** hold allotment 35 x 95. Price only which the greater, portion can ffl Mortgage. POKENO.-Nioe Little Farm of 211 crops, grass, &c.; good five roomei and outhouses, which, with i coil utensils. &c. &c, is now offored 1 BituatejustatPokeno Station. •' PAPAKURA VALLEY.-Valuable I 160 acres; nearly all improved at Tided Into paddocks; balance in bu - House, 5 rooms; and sundry on immediate possession. PAPAKUR i VALLEY. - 426 ftfi alluvial land; partly fenced.and.* improved; a splendid creek thro property; about 3 mllea from?; Station. RAZORBACK-48 Acres Gooa Lanl ' in grass; cottage of three rooms,'oc piggery, &o.; never-failing supply o Price, only £230. BAZOBBAQK—SpIendid Uttle Fannj! large Bomeetead, and every ooaf about 3 miles from Pokeno Stattoa SHKKHAN-3TKKKT. PONSONBY-] : cage; & rooms, verandah in front j Miratortahln • near the Hall. £!H> SPKING-STREBT.-A Bargain.-! Allotments. No.'b: 12,13, 14, aaJ per foot A SYMONDS-STREET. - Verandawl rooms, fitted with registered gnH water laid on. Ail in good owl building, &c. Lot 14 of aUotmaH 15: size, S3 x 120. Price £600. •&* TUaKAU—spinnnld Uttle JjOI olflH piece bush, planty of water ;nwß TB MATA, RAGLAN -280 aJH Land, level and well watejaH between Whaingaroa and A«W For absolute sale. ' WARKWORTH.-Houso of 6 roHB allotment. No reasonable oflfjjSH &c, &c, &elB V. F, .BY ANB House, Land, and Esta'oH , Land Mart—Quecn-sl refi