THE STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT.

AUCKLAND, N.Z., SATURDAY, JULY 14, 188b.

RANDOM SHOTS.

[By Zamiel,.]

Some write, a neighbour*!! name to lash. Some write-vain thought!—for needful cash. Some write to please the country clash. And raise a din. For me, an aim I nover fash— I write for fun.

WHEN opiuione were beinp exchanged some time ago a* to the best bite for the AucK- Ljnd University buildings, 1 marvel that no one thought of proposiug to place them jn the Pousonby district. In my humble opinion, no other locality combines a tithe of the advantages possessed by Ponsonby in matters of salubrity, scenery, and conve nience to town, combined with the special attractions of "a quiet neighbourhood." Methinks 1 hear home wonderfully know ing reader ic.oark with a chuckle, "Ha, ha! now I know wheru 'Zamiel' is to be found haagiug out; of course he praisea tho soil where he has taken root!" Let me assure my smart friend that he is mistaken, and that hi* mistake lies in measuring the (nighty mind of Zamiel by the common place standard. But though Ido not re aide in Ponsonby, I am not blind to its many beauties and to its peculiar fitness to provide a site for Auckland's noble halls of learning. On the Surrey Bill* estate, for instance, a beautiful and spacious site might be secured before it is cut up for disposal, as it will be shortly, and thereon a building worthy ot Auckland's futnre greatness might be founded. "Westward the atar of Empire takes its wny," and I recommend " Westward Ho !" as a cry for the Univer sity authorities when in search of a site. My further thoughts on the attractive theme of the late western suburb—now a portion of our expanding city—flow natur ally in the form o£ verse : —

In Auckland city's bounteous bound. And all the suburbs clustering round, Tho fairest spot—tho garden groand— Tho gem of all—ia Ponsonby!

How swoot. on sultry summer days, To leave tho clty'B dunl and blozo. And breathe, upon those bowory braes, The cloar, cool air of Ponsonby !

How sweet, when early morning's beam. Mirrored ia Wuilemuta's stream.

Shines with a bright and hopeful gleam, Upon tho glades of Ponsonby!

While Qucon-stroet lies in shado or mist, Ry genial light and heat unbleat. The gladdening rays of Sol have kissed Tho sunny slopes of Ponsonby!

How sweet, again, at close of day. When with a lost, fond lingering ray, From far Waitakcroi's mountains grey Tho sunlight slants on Ponsonby ;

While climbing up tho eastern sky. Fair Luna, from her throne on high. Makes, to the raptured gazer's eye, A ParudLje of. Ponaouby. llr Laishley's defence of the application of (a physiognomical tCBt to men seeking public positions is more indicative of com bativeness than of discretion. Granting that the face affords a very fair index to character, skill aad vast observation are re quired to read the linen, and the Chairman of the Board of Education has not yet given any proof that he is either a Lavater or a Dr. Simms. If his theory be sound, he ought logically to go in for superseding the present teachers' examinations by one on physiognomical lines, or at least for supplementing the former with the latter I'he Board caDnot reasonably be expected to know, without the assistance of experts, ■whether a man's abdominal form is O.K. and bis osseous development on exactly the ri^ht lines. They should, therefore, have before them, appended to the teacher's Credentials, certificates attesting to hia due development in Temporinaturalitiveness, in Physiovalorosity, in Tonireceptionality, in Mnemoniconominality, in Computationu mericality, and other essential qualities, which, being translated from the jurgou of physiognomical humbug into simple Anglo- Saxon, means merely that the candidate has good power of judging the motions of the planets, is a man ot courage, has a good ear for music, a retentive memory for names, and powers of numerical computa tion, I'm afraid, Mr Chairman, a good many of us, if weighed in the balance, Would be found wanting, and would have to come down from the perches we so self oomplaccntly occupy. xxx An exciting incident in a city restaurant, in which the accountant of a leading soft goods establishment was one of the princi pal figures, seems to have escaped the notice of the übiquitous reporters ot ths daily press. The gentleman in question possesses anything but a pugnacious dis position ; and amongst his acquaintances he ia reckoned "too pood for anything." Seated in a local restaurant rece.itly, he was discussing his evening meal, when a young stranger, in a seedy black snit, entered, and took the vacant chair oppo-ite to our friend. He waited patiently for his grilled steak for a few moments, and then his restless eye scanned the mild features of: his vis-a-vis. The whole appearance of the youth's countenance changed, and jumping from his seat, he seized the peace able accountant, and overturned him bodily on to the floor, to the consternation of the crowd of spectator.". The intruder's violence increased rather than abated, and he made another rush at his prostrate foe. The struggling mass of humanity was pushed outside to enjoy itaelf quietly, and the patrons of the restaurant continued the • despatch of their respective meals. But the little incident served as a subject for discussion for some time afterwards, and . come people want to know, you know, tho reason ot the hubbub. xxx That sarcastic maiden of Ponsonby has been at it again. She has been troubled with the objectionable attentions of a ver dant youth from Parcell, whose offers of his possessions and his heart were spurned with contempt. He raved after the most approved fashion in vogue amongst modem lovers, and threatened that unless nhe relented he would end hia miserable exist ence by shooting himself. This terrible fate appeared to overwhelm the gentle creature with grief, and in mournful accents she diiected the attention of her adorer to a notice board on a neighbouring allotment, requesting him at the same time to go and read the words written thereon. Her manner was friendly, and aroascd hope in the bosom of the greenhorn. He went, and after wading almost knec-doep through a marshy Tiog, read the words—"Kubbish shot here." His Buicidal intentions have been abandoned. xxx Whenever Dame " Herald " condescends to come ilowr. from her tripod—drop the oracular, and pose in the " Popular Educa.

lion " lim»--she is immense. For has she not her trusty and well-appointed liege henchman, skilled and of great renown In all manner of lore ? And doe? she not scatter largesse broadcast and right cheer fully to all auch as bring to her of their wisdom and their brains': Of course ahe has, and of course she does, which nobody can deny (?) Owing to the vast resources of information at her command, she is always an authority on Biblical matters, bustles, bottled beer, baby rearing, critical canons, cucumbers, cork - manufacturing, cows, contemporaneous history, cats, diseases of dogs, dynamite, Dr. Watts's hymns, disin fectants, duck-raising, feminine fixings, fowls, future punishment, gas, godless education, goats, godfathers, heathen lands, ham-curing, horse pedigrees, high schools, laws of health, linguistics, lollipops, larri kins, liquid manure, musical taste, mutton, Mahoiuniedanism, mealy bags, Ottoman dynasties, otf.il heaps, oolitic strata, ox-tail soup, and olive-gro*iau. Yes, she is great on olives ; that Monday's paragraph was quite a compendium of information—an olive growers' "pocket companion " as it were. Bear in mind, now, " care must be taken to presi tne berries in order to ex tract the oil," This is most thoughtful and timely advice ; because, probably, a great many amateur orchardists would have pricked the berries with a fine needle and let the oil ooze out in drop% or put them into an air-pump, or frizzled them in the family stove and gathered up the ole aginous extract with a spoon ; or melted them with a blow-pipe, perhaps. Mr Mc- Gregor, of Coromandel, who produced the samples, has, we are told, " unfortunately forgottea^the name of the variety." Why unfortunate ? Surely the dame, with her marvellous powers of intuitive perception, could tell by a sniff, blinu folded, all about the variety, age of the tree, where its pro genitor grew, and who planted it, and how many bushels it yielded to the acre ? How ever, let the enterprising McGregor not forget one thing, viz., "to press the berries in order to extract the oil."

That literary notable, " The Vagabond," was lately in our city, but did not favour us with a racy lectare of the kind he gave in the .South. He promises, however, to re turn on the lecturing " stump " next year, aud then, I suppose, all Auckland will re ceive a flood of enlightenment on things in general. Travel is said to broaden a mat ',; sympathies, and to make the veriest cad something of a cosmopolitan, but this vagabond pressman seems to have had an opposite experience. He has been to China, and in consequence he loves John China man less than he did before. A study of the subject in the gross has converted him from a Chinophlle iuto a Chinophobist. His revised judgment on "John" ia briefly this : Individually he is useful and lovable, bnt collectively he is highly objectionable ; singly, or in moderation, he is a mam and a brother ; but in the slump he is an unmiti gated nuisance and should be at once "stamped out." When I learn that th Vagabond's sole reason for coming to this conclusion is that the Cbiaaman is too apt an imitator of European trading customs and sharp practices, I confess that I don't quite see the logic of the position. For if " John " is to be stamped out for that little peculiarity, common justice would demand that his .European brother should have like treatment. Then, how illogical it is to maintain that a race of men may be excel lent individually, and execrable when taken collectively. A nation or a people is com posed of units,and as the units are,so will the nation be. How would it look in syllogistic form ? (1) National or collective character ia according to individual character; (2) the Chinese are splendid fellows individually ; ergo (3) the Chinese are unbearable ruffians collectively ! That's not just according to Whately, but it seems to me to be about the sum and substance of the general in dictment against the Sons of the Flowery Land. It is just the burden of Messrs ttealop and Thwaites, who fancy their craft is in danger from the competition of the ingenious and easily paid Celestial. I should go in for the stamping out orocess being applied to the multitudinous'china man, only that I make it a rule never to cry out until I am hurt, and when I do advocate "John's" physical extinction, I hope I shall do so on common-sense grounds, I hope I shall confess honestly that the law of the survival of the fittest is too hard for me, that the Chinaman is an adversary not to be despised if allowed a fair field and no favour, and that.as the only chance for sslf preservation, I must change the issue from a trial of patience, skill, inge«uity, and economy, to one of pure brute force. And I meauwhile possess my soul in peace, for I know that force rules the world, and that the rice-fed wretches of China could not stand tor a moment before the men bred on the roast beef of old England ! xxx Among the Hindoos, I bave read, it is a high crime to say the word O'm. Even a priest cannot pronounce it aloud without am. And were you to give utterance to it, a holy pundit would stop his ears and run away in horror. These poor Hindoos have their counterparts in Auckland. It is a strange thing to write, but it is, neverthe less, literally true. 1 made this discovery the other day, and it caused me unfeigned surprise. It seems to me that there is a secret society in this city, whose members are bound not to write a certain shibboleth. It contains a few more letters than O'm, but is to me quite as mysterious and enig matical. As it has not destroyed my eye sight after the manner of the fabled basilisk, nor have the heavens fallen and crushed me since I first spoke and wrote it, I have no scruple about making it public. The O'm of this secret society is Hah AH B. As if there were not sins enough in the world, there must be manufactured another. I wonder if any ot the brethren ever ex perience a temptation to write the fatal letters? May they reveal them to their wives? If they mutter them daring a Sunday afternoon nap, what is the penalty ? Are there any more O'ms which it is un lawful to pronounce? How many more manufactured sins are there to torment easily-erring mortals 2 xxx Bnt " secret society" is a terrifying ex pression. Its associations are anything but pleasant. Hath " Zauiiel" been playing with the pass-word of some Nihilist or Fenian band, and so incurring the un sleeping vengeance of certain desperate men whose daily pocket companions arer dyna mite and nitro-glycerine ? The picture of "Zamiel's" weeping widow and unpro tected babes rises before hia blurred vision, and he has half a mind to destroy what he has written. Moreover, he may be bring ing rnin on the unoffending Editor of the STAB, thiough the window of whose sanctnm a bomb may be some fine morning deftly flung from the opposite side of the street; or the capacious W.P.B. may be made the vehicle of his "removal," as it

could be were a dynamite cartridge judiciously concealed therein. These and other disturbing thoughts at once take possession of "Zamiel's" mit_d, and he is inclined to retrace his steps and say nothing about O'ms and Mah ah B. Police protection is to be had, however. Let Inspector Thomson take the hint. That eagle-eyed, quick-witted detective who sheeted home the jewel robbery to its perpetrators, is, no doubt, the proper man to be told off to grapple with the secret society "Zamiel" has unearthed. The latter will watch developments, and scan anxionsly the columns of the 6TaR nightly, xxx

Delicacy, like most abstract expressions, is a comparative term, and is used by dif ferent miads in different ways, according to the taste, fancy, and breeding of the speaker. What is delii^cy in one society is accounted as false deiieiey in another, and perhaps deemed as sque*mishness in a tli id. It is however, urJy in Auckland that men of liberal profession have suc ceeded in layiug aside that delicacy > 1

speech which is elsewhere accounted T>i;lit ting in the presence of respectable women, and revel iv gross and obscene allusion to what is vulgar and detestable, it has re. ceatly been my Bad experience to overhear well-known members ot an honourable pro fession wantonly mention matters, wnich only the Courts of Justice reluctantly haudle, before those whose feelings, if they had had any chivalry, they were bound to respect. One of these cases was so atro cious that it is difficult to understand how the blasphemer gut away with a whole skio. There was a case at the last sessions of the kind which newspapers scout and judges loathe to face. One person who has passed through the course of training which Sir George Grey justly says has signally failed to produce the only results that would make it worth preserving—mcc of strict integrity and gentlemanly instincts— did not hesitate to flaunt this subject in a jocular spirit before a young woman of re spectable station, but whose duties compel her to be present at a place where men sometimes let their loose tongues looser under the influence ot license and liquor. If New Zealand is not to bscome a by word and shaking of the head ior all that is barbarous and ungentlemanly, such atroci ties es these inusr. be put down, and their authors be taught that the first element of civilization is honour to women. If they are not thus taken in hand, we shall soou be assimilated to the condition of the savages we are displacing.

Tennyson, it would seem, is getting quite popular in Auckland. The literary societies have taken to patronise the melodious Alfred. At St. Sepulchre's ectaool-room the other evening three hundred people are reported to have assembled to listen to Tennysonian readings and songs. Far be it from me to suggest that the music and not the poetry was the main attraction. Then the United Free -Methodists congre gated to have an hour with the poet under the guidance of the Key. Mr Maefarlane. And this week the cre»K d-c la nremcot Kemuera condescead to notice the aathor who wrote "Enoch Arden," the "May Qneen," and the " Idylls." All this is very gratifying, and the object of so much at tention would doubtless feel vastly honoured did he but know of it. But is Tennyson only a 'passing whim or fashion, to be speedily dropped for a newer play thing by-and-by? I sincerely hope not, and that Auckland is beginning to take a little more interest in literature. It has not been creditable to the taste and culture of the people that literary matters are 60 coldly looked upon. The discussion of literary topics in the papers, say once a week, meets with but small encourage ment. The space so taken up would, the majority think, be better occupied with a " thrilling" story, or the account of a sen sational murder or suicide. However, let us hope for better times, and that this affection for the greatest living English poet may be the harbinger of a new era. xxx Mrs Hampson's reception by the public of Melbourne is the latest illxistration of the adage that " a prophet is not witaotit credit, save in his own country," for we have come to look upon Mrs Harnpsoa as a New Zealander, though her mission life began in old Kngland." Literally true is it that Mrs Hampson has lieen acting the role of prophet in Melbourne, Cassandra-like, prognOEticaiing woe. She has told the people of their depravity, and has foretold for them, unless they repent, a doom worse than that of which Jonah forewarned the wicked .Ninevehitee. And the people have crowded to hear her, have be=eiged the door of tie Town Hall au hour befure it was opened, and hundreds have nightly gone away disappointed, ihe city rings with her fame ; the Bewspaper writers exhaust their choicest vocabularies in praise of her marvellous eloquence ; and politics, horse-racing, Kedmond's '■mis sion," and the naked Chloe in the Picture Gallery, »re each and all voted stale topics in comparison with the lady orator, with her impassioned denunciations of immor ality and threateninga of Divine vengeance. All this strikes me as somewhat curious, for though Mrs Hampson had a powerful "run" in Auckland, she failed co make any impression on other centres of popula tion in the colony which she visited. In short, the people of New Zealand (L speak as a man) never had Jerusalem tentrnms over Mrs Hampson and her " gift of the gab." We recognised, perhaps, that she had a volubility notable even in comparison with others of her sex; but we (I speak as a married man) did not conceive that to constitute a special point in her favour. Our lack of appreciation must have been due to the fact that we did not recognise in her the gift of prophecy, which is as superier to the gift ot tongues as silence is to speech! That we did not recognise the rate talents of Mrs Hampson is more our misfortune than our fault, and if our loss has been the gain of the Melbourne Gentiles, we may bave no cause for lamentation. New Zea land colonists seem to be altogether lacking ia appreciation of the oratorical powers of their sona and daughters. It is a truism that "The world knows nothing of iis greatest men," and this holds good in regard to our little New Zealand world. Let us look at Sidney Taiwhanga, that heaven-born Maori orator, and how we neglected hia noble gifts. Here we looked upon him as a lazy and incompetent school master who shirked his work and swindled Government by bogus capitation returns— as an idle and pestilent fellow who neglected hia wife and children while he lived in indolent ease. He goes to London, and to 1 he i.i transformed into a noble chief tain of an expiring race, whose eloquence moved the stony hearts of the Aborigines Protection Society, and slackened the

purse-strings of the benevolent Briton on behalf of an oppressed people ; and again, behold ! he stands forth as the rebnker of the London " rough " and the expounder to the London heathen of the blem-inga of the Gospel ! And this train of thought sug gests the opening of a wide field of useful ness for other orators who are presently "wasting tseir swee ness on the desert air " of this uoappreciative colony. Garrard we have always with us, and it is not stretching the point to say that Garrard is cruelly neglec'ed and misunderstood. The Rev. M. W. Green is always "there cr thereabouts," and the political psrson's voluble zeal for the human race is turned to no higher use than provtdiug fuel for our laughter. Dr. Wallis's power of jaw is still unimpaired, but so callous have the people become that they have e»en ceased to be tickled at his clownish excursions into the realms of politics, religion, literature, and medicine. If Garrard could only be persuaded to go to rfyuney, Mr Green to coudou, and ut. Wallis, say to Hong Koug, how yieat would be the blessings conferred upon humanity, how pure would be the lustre of their fame, and how bright a glory would be reflected upon New Zea land for having bred such noble sons ! Let everyone join iv saying — " So mote it be 1"

I have often been amused at the curious entanglements that a civil action in Court between litinious people sometimes reveals, bat a case that cauie under my notice the other day throws into utter insignificance all my previous experience. The complica tion of interests and processes involved in it, to use a vague but expressive and handy Hibernianism, "bangs Bannagher itself." It stems that a clerk, whom I shall name A., did a mouth's quill-driving service not long ago for a solicitor named 8., who paid him by cheque at the end of the term. Meanwhile the clerk had contracted a liability with tbe baker who sup plied him with the staff of life, and to this individual he gave the cheque in satisfaction of the debt, taking hi.-* departure shortly afteiwards for Ooro mandel. In due time the worthy trades man presented the cheque at the bank, when, to his great astonishment and deep disgust, it was returned inscribed with the ominous initials, "jy.S.F." He at once sued 8., the solicitor, and got judgment against him. Failing, however, to execute it, he obtained a warrant, traii=ruitted it to the clerk of the Court at Coromandel, and this official placed it in the hands of a bailiff, who seized the lawyer's horse and saddle. The bailiff who did the .business turned out to be our young friend A., and he promptly in«de up his bill of costs for the levy, while the clerk of the Court, as in duty bound, forwarded it on to Auck land for collection. B. aifeeted to be horrified with the amount, denounced it as most extortionate, and threatened various legal pains and penalties, bat eventually paid it under protest. There the matter rests at present, but the cream of the joke is that the sharp-witted man of the law is in blissfnl ignorance of the fsct that the extortionate bailiff ia his quondam clerk whom he paid with a valueless cheque. The lawyer is the only SHfierer by the transaction, and the clerk has considerably profited, while the baker has got his own [Since this was written the aspect of affairs has undergone some further change. The lawyer, ascertaining that the bailiff was irregularly appointed, and that therefore in making tne seizure he acted ultra vires, brought an action for damages against him, and has recovered a good preportion of his claim. Consequently, the odds against the man of law may be said to have become even again. At any rate it is now rither diffi cult to determine which of the two princi pals has burnt his fingers more severely in the interesting little game ] xxx Naughty little boys occasionally adopt very strange methods of escaping punish ment. I have known of boys who Dlayed the '"truant," boys who have deliberately run out of school, and boys who bave pleaded with tears irj their eyes that they were ill and that Vhe doctor said a whacking would surely kill them, all with that obje-ct. I have even known a boy when threatened with a caning for misbehaviour to rush the teacher, and having pulled him on the floor, run Into the street and challenged him to pursuit, but all these cases fade into insig nifisanc; when the manoeuvre of another boy becomes known. This interesting lad, who has, no doubt, effected quite a revival in schoolboy circles, belongs to an up country school. He was threatened with a flogging for having misconducted himself, but laughed at the master and told him to " try it." The latter responded by advanc ing in a threatening attitude towards the urchin, when he "made tracks" towards the fireplace, and, with remarkable agility, soon succeeded in climbing about half-way up the chimney. Both kind words and threats failed to bring the " little sweep " down until preparations were made for lighting a fire in the grate below, when he descended in a hurry, and with face, hands, and clothes begrimed with soot, he begged to be forgiven. The scene in the school was uproarious, for the rest of the children crowded round andgigglea most amusingly, but at length all Decame calm, tor the chimney inspector waa pardoned, and he probably will not attempt; the same trick again.

A Dog Story.

A LADY in Lowell owns a very intellectual dog, of which she defiied much to have a picture. She accordingly took him to a photographic gallery, and, with the assist ance of the artist, endeavoured to make her pet take and keep a suitable position before tha camera. But the spoiled dog was in an unaccommodating mood that morning, and after repeated trials, the attempt to conquer him was given up in despair. "Go home," the lady said at last, pointing to the door; "you are a bad, naughty, naughty dog." Theculpritchangedlnstantly hia saucy manner, and, dropping his tail between his legs, slunk away in confusion. All the rest of the day he seemed to realise that he was in disgrace, crouching in corners, and wearing a shame-faced air. The next morning he was missing, and all search failed to discovor him. About noon he reappeared, much elated, and having fas tened to his neck an excellent tin-type of himself. Inquiry disclosed the fact that when the photographer went down in the morning the dog was there at the door of the gal lery awaiting admission, as soon as the door was opened, Carlo ran joyously up stairs, and leaped into the chair on which his mistress had poked him the day pre vious. Seizing the situation, the artist made his preparations with all possible speed, and the result was the delightful picture which the fonr-foored penitent bad taken home as a pence-offering to his mistress.

SELECTED POETRY.

IN THE PARK AT SUNRISE.

Auckland, 10th May. 18S3. [The Albert Park. Auckland, though only about fourteen acres in extent, is, from itß com manding position in tho centre of and overlook ing the town, as well an from the tasteful way in which it has benn laid out and planted, likely to prove the most popular place of outdoor resort for the residents of tho city for many years to come. Tho walks are all in circular form, and on a largo circular terrace in tho oentre Of the Park, a beautifully-designed fountain from the works of Messrs Walter Macfarlane and Co., Glasgow, has been erected, and ia surron£clo3. with beautiful shrubbery and flower beds. On the "brow" of the Park,looking to the west ward, there are two pieces of ordnance mounted, and a large flagstaff erected: and from thia point a wide view of the city, barbonr and surroundings 13 „ u.,k- .. iw....-.c»lly considered, thia Park has an tndeliblo connec tion with the early history of the colony, a» the site of the barracks anri armnury. andae harics been fortified ior the . ; .-. .> .-> resiatinK a threatened descent of the natives.) I stood on the Park's green brow In tho miaty morning dim ; A t my ieet the city lay As the sun'a iirst feeble ray Pierced the horizon's rim. The sky was clear above. And flecked with fleecy clouds; But in fog the town below Lay swathed, like fields in snow, Or dead men in their shrouds. From tho darkness rose the din Of Labour's busy strife: For men lived and moved therein. As we do in this world of Sin And Death, and call it Life! My feet were in the mists, And my head in the sunlight clear, And I gazed on the scene beneath As a Spirit may look on Death i<rom a higher, happier sphere. And aa I gazed It seemed As the mists would rise amain Pill, Light and Life destroyed. The dark and formless Void Would envelope Eurth again. " Look upward!" came the thought; I looked, and lo ! the tun, Glowing with new-born .-itrenctb, Inumphantly at length His glorious race begun. Though city, and sea, and ships Lay hid in the rolling mist. By the morning breezes driven, The church spires, raised to He&verj, By the sun's firat beams were kissed. On Eden's bluff-like top The sunlight rested fair; Of Rangitoto bleak I marked the triple peak Piercing the upper air; And I thought—" Perchance like this The hour of Death shall seem, W hen Earth shall lie below, w itb ita sorrow and sin and woe, Fading away like a dream; " And doubts and fears will come. Like the mists that rise and roll,— As the dread of the Darksome Vale, And the Horseman grim and pale. Cornea over the fainting soul. "But though dark the Valley seems. Bright Is the If eaven above - Look up !' the Master saith, Oh, thou of little faith, To the Sun of Jehovah's Love!' •' Then the eye of Faith shall see In the lighs of a clearer day The glorious Hill of-God «y bright Immortals trod. And all fear shall flee away!" As thus my swift thought ran, The Sun had clomb the sky. And driven the mists away. And the beauteous landscape lay unvoiled before my eye. The dull town fairer seemed Because of the brief eclipse. The Waitemata'a tide Glanced with a sheenier pride, More stately looked the ships; And my homeward way I took. Glad in the knowledge sure That the mists of Sin and Krror And the clouds of Doubt and IVrror Can but for a time endure ; For like fogs before tho sun, They shall fade aDd pass away And in radiant rays divine Creation's bounds shall shine In the light of Eternal Day ! John L. Khi.lt.

THE SABBATH.

The Sabbath dawns in loveliness and peace Phe stars are paling in advancing light. The village slumbers in the drowsy vale The cattle lounge in shades of miaty trcee, Ihe sheep are moving down the eraasy ?>»— lowardß tho sheening stream between thehills And Nature wears itb hallowed Sabbath smile" And wordless objects breathe of prayer and And whisper of the Sabbath of tho soul. Sweet thoughts riso heavenward o'er the c&ree of earth, O'er all life's struggles, all its meaner joys. Its rush for gold, its pjausiblo deceits, And all the evils thac encompass life.

In spite oi all the chinnngs of the bells. The prido of dress, the love of outer creeds The long-drawn prayers proceeding from'the The true heart listens to tho still small ™v» That speaks in solitude: " Come unto me AH ye that toil, and I will gi vo you rest " And eof t responsive voiced toll of rest '• ' *nd r !1^<m- cd* sad STeiunloM gently'murmur Ans 2??°™-"? sUent beauty breathe of rest • And birds with notes melodious sing of rest •' And white clouds in tho distance seem at rest • The poor heart beats in harmony, arid feelf ' A brief, bright respite from its many cares • Man kneela in grateful homage to tha Power which gives to mortaln one bloat day In Beyen Enshrined in sunshine, full of peace and rest! ' JOIIN 81-ACKMAN.

MARIENLIEBE.

Twilight shadows dying, sunset oreezes aiehintc Rest-bearing night broods o'er land and sea-' Now with choicest lowers and hasty footatep hieing. Speed 1 will, anxious-beating, longing heart, to thee, Lest my coming late unto tho trysting spot Make my darling fearlul that I love her not.

Come, love, come, and we'il Heal our vows In the moonlight glancing 'Death the orange boughs; Come, love, come, for the troth we plight Sounds sweeter far when whispered m the silence of moonlight.

Homo-bound bees low-humming, star on otur forthcoming. Birds housing pipe their soft lullaby • List to yonder wooer his love-Bong lightly thrumming, Fragrant o"er new-movrn gras3 the lingering breeees die; ft AJtaond Wosßomß nutter down in Bnowy showers iair and ileet as beauieous youth's ecstatic hours. Come, love, come, and well seal our vow* In tho moonlight. Sec. Auckland, June. 1883. R.A.M.H.

Professor Ayrton baa invented a tricysle propelled by electricity, and requiring no foot treadles. It will ran up-hill, and the added weight only amounts to Hcwt, in cluding surplus stock to light the lamp,