OUR MR JENKINS.

A Counting-House Story. I Vv TAS fortunate in my uncle. So everybody thought, for Undo Braithwaite was as j ■wealthy and thriving a manufacturer as any in Lambeth, and I, his (lead sister's son, Cyril Vaughan by name, WBi not merely' drawing a fair ealary, wilh the prospect of a partnership, but was actually engaged to be married to my second cousin, reputed a great heircs*—dear, sweet, Lucy Braithwnitc—the old man's only child, a severe, just man, was John JJraithwaitc. He had Yon his own way in life by rigid self-denial and unwearying industry during a joyless youth, and I doubt if be ever thoroughly enjoyed the fruits of his well eumed prosperity. It was only when his eye rested on his daughter's pretty face that his stern look relaxed. Lucy reminded kirn, doubtless, of her gentle mother. But he was a good master to v good servant, notably where he, who was by natnreanrl habit suspicious, could repose full trust He did to in his confidential clerk; Jacob Jenkins. " Kespectable Jenkins" was the nickname by which irreverent youngsters in the counting-house spoke, with bated breath of that pearl of clerks ; but even those pert office lads had a belief In the man—he was so respectable, with his lean well-shaven face, his neatly-brus hed suit of formal black, and bis square toed boots. Never, as I have heard, in the twenty-nine years of his toil had honest Jenkins been known to ask for a holiday, to shirk extra work, or to make a blunder &q to tare and tret, v thing of moment with a firm like ours, large exporters as we were

Aa for myself, I am afraid that my poor merits, it I had any, were quite eclipsed by those of that commercial comet, Jen kins. Indeed I know of no reason, except my blood relationship to our principal, head ot the house of Braithwaite, Perry and Co., for any comparison between that veteran of tbc desk and my inexperienced self. But my uncle often said in his gruff way, " Take Jenkins for your model!' or " Cyril, lad, it will be one while before you fill Jenkins' shoes! Sec how neatly he settled that business with Chauvin et Fils, of Bordeaux, and how cleverly he avoided the heavy loss of that last shipment when Krakjaw and Kindergarten of Hamburg, were going to smash," Yet I stuck to my work, youns; as I wa?, and did my best not to be undeserving of of the prospective partnership; and some how, I got a vague impression in my head that, instead ot my being jealous of Jen kins, Jenkins was jealous of me.

One day there was a big cheque to be changed—nearer to three thousand pounds than two—and It was my task, no unusual one, to present the draft at Pea hotly and Sons', In a house like ours, where the furnaces were always aglow, and the tall chimneys always smoking, the outgoings for wages, horse-keep, and fuel were, I need hardly say, very large.

On that day—how well I remember it! — I was in exceptionally high spirits. I had been talking with dear Lucy, and though her father, who said that sve children need Toe ia no hurry, would never consent to name even an approximate date for our wedding, still there was a vogue prospect of connubial bliss next spring. It was line bright weather, and on the Tuesday there was to be a garden party at some Richmond villa, to which we were all to go. Al together I was in excellent spirits, and as far as any man could be from dreaming of the evil that was to come. " How will you take it ?" asked the bank cashier. "Short!" I answered, with a sort of boyish pride in my newly-acquired familiarity with business phrases; and, with my gold and notes, 1 left the bank. As_ f did so, a man staggered towards me, jostled me, then realed away, mutter iog, "Beg pardon?" and wonld have fallen but for the support of my arm. I saw in a moment that the man was sober. But he looked ill, very ill, haggard and hollow-eyed, though sttll young ; and he was decently clad in a well-worn velveteen suit, with large bronze buttons. There was a smack of the country about him, waif as he was in tho midst of London, and his accent, so far as I could judge.-, W3s that of Yorkshire cr Northumberland. "You are ill, I fear," I inquired, "and perhaps a stranger to London ?" " Nigh clemmed in this blessed London of yours, paved wi' gold guineas, as oar old crones say up in Craven," muttered the countryman, in the same thiD, reedy voice ; "paved wi'traps, say I, and cause tor it, since all that granreyther stored up, whether for Bess and Bell, or for me " And then he would have fallen but for my assistance. Clearly the man was fainting, and from starvation. We had walked some distance. In tempting proximity, at the corner of a side street, was a house over the door of which, in great gold letters, gleamed the words, "Luncheon Bar." Into this, quitein stinctively, I half dragged, ha]f hustled tne man. It was the middle of the day, luncheon time, a brisk hour for business in the City, in the catioc; and drinking line at l*ast, and the place which I had entered wivs full of customers, young man mostly, noisily chatting over their sandwiches. As I flung open the swing-door I felt sure that I caught & glimpse of my uncle's confidential clerk on the pavement outside. "Mr Jenkins I" 1 called out, but he evidently did not hear me, but passed on. There was a rush of excited young fellows towards us—" Bet you he's drunk !" " Four to five he's dead !' " Run over 1" and so forth, and it was not immediately that I conld get some restorative. But the poor countryman's face was livid, his eyes closed, his teeth fast shut, and he could swallow nothing. I hen a doctor was sent for, and the doctor was slow in coming, and I had explanation to give—first to the dull-witted landlord who cams blinking out of a back parlour, then to inquisitive customers; and when at last a breathless surgeon, hastily summoned, came panting in at the heavy swing-door, amidst the surging crowd, there was a necessary word or so with him. " But where is my patient 1" asked tha bewildered man of science ; and, indeed, the " poor fellow " who was the object of all this stir had disappeared in the midst of the hubbub, and with him had vanished the heavy steel-clasped black morocco pocket-book, which I remembered, too late, to have incautiously laid on a table in the flnrry and confusion of our sudden and awkward entry, and which was gone, pitilessly gone. " Cyril Vaughan, I always deemed you to be a simpleton—a soft, as we Yorkshire chaps gay—but now I know you to be a knave !" thundered out my irate uncle, the North Country accent in his wrathfnl voice becoming unusually predominant. "Had yon not been my relative, had Dot my girl who shall never be the wife of such a scoundrel—beg?ed you off, I would have prosecuted you as I would any other rogue, and sent you to quarry stone among con victs at Dartmoor or Portland. As it is, I won't hear another word of your lies, or your excuses. Go, go !or I Bhall forget iucy's pleadings, and act as a citizen, and not as a father, The 'confidence trick,' eh? The countryman—the lam not your dupe, lid ! Go, and get yourself hanged elsewhere! You won't starve, on the sum of which you have robbed me." Then came a terrible three months —it was that or more—a time of depression, of crushed spirits, a half-broken heart, for me. That I was wrongfully suspected gave me but cold comfort. I was innocent, but Lucy was lost to me ; my prospecti were blighted, no one would give work to me, and I wai poor, and sinking fast into the direst depths of want. I renu-mber how paie, and thin, and shabby I bad become when I received a visit from my uncle's lawyer, Mr Mordaunt. "Mr Vaughao, you wonder to see me," said the shrewd solicitor, as he took the broken chair I offered him—my wretched room in a suburban lodging-house contained but one—" but I come, now, as a messenger of good tidings. Do you remember a serving-man, Enoch Clint by name, whom your uncle, and my client, Mr Brathwaits, engagod some six weeks before the unlucky affair of the stolon money ? He was a smart young fellow, with excellent testi monials—all forged, by-the-bye—and made himself useful both in the house and in the stable-yard, and was vastly popular with his fellow servants on account of his powers of mimicry and the juggling tricks which ho could perform. I had an indistinct recollection of having seen and heard of such a person in my uncle's household, and I said so, wondering how there could be anything in Enoch Clint to concern me.

"This Enoch Clint," said Mr Mordaunt slowly, '"was a North Countryman." I stared at him sorely puzzled. "He was your countryman," drawled the shrewd lawyer, and then a light broke in upon me, and I grew sick and dizzy, and could hardly hear Mr Mordaunt'a friendly voice as he said, shaking my passive hand the while, '-You have been sorely wronged Mr Vaughan, I, for one, believed you guilty, for which I heartily beg your pardon. Now, you liaten to me. This poor wretch, Enoch Clint, was two days since ran over by a heavily laden -»- -<\t fifty ynidsEMSK&p

I master's door, and carried back to the house. ;the crushed and blood-stained wreck of a | man. He asked for his master, and Mr IJHrathwaite being absent, prayed to see i Miss Lucy. To her, iv the doctor's presence ■ the dying man gasped out s<>me inarticulate confession, clearing ynu from all blame but that of a credulity pardonable at your age, and implicating most seriously another person, d t his own desire hU broken state ment was, by the doctor's help, taken down in writing, but he liicd before the narra tive was complete. Mis* Lucy had an inter view with her father, I need -carccly say, on his return homo, us a sequel to which Mr Brnthwaite, more agitated than I had known him t>> be, called oil me, ami laid the matter before me. We, too, had a long talk, and the remit of it was, Mr Cyril, that on the following morning 1 received a visit frora—have you guessed it? — the con fidential clerk, Mr Jenkins." "Our Mr Jenkins V I retmneil, perplexed by the half-comic expression on the solicitor's face.

'•Your Mr Jenkins, if you will cling to theancienr formula," assented the lawyer, with twink'ing eyes. " That commercial luminary c;une to me blandly unsuspecting, for, as it turned out, he had not even heard of the death of his accomplice. My fust, act, when he hr/d rnaile his bow and Fcated him self in the client's chair, was to phut the door and lock it. When he heard the click of the Inck he starteti, and turned us pale as his shirt-collar." "'Mow, my friend,' I said to him, in a frank, pleasant way, ' my advice to you is, for your own good, to make a clean breast of it at once.' " Then you should have scim the in gonuous wonder of his interesting counte nance. "'Excuse mo, Mr Mordaunt, bu£ 1 cannot have heard you aright,' he said, after a pause. ' " Oh, yes, you have,' said I shaking a liugor at him. ' Come, come, Mr Jenkins, it ia time for you to drop the sheep's cloth ing and stand forth as the wolf that you are —only this 1 promise in Mr. Brathwaito's name, that if your revolutions be full and ample, you shall have gentler and more generous treatment than you deserve.' " A stormy coliloquy ensued. Onco I thought the man meant to strike me, but there was something in my eye that re strained him, I suppose, for next he began to sob, and then to whine like a beaten hound, as, sitting on the ed«o of my writ ing-table, and glaring at the carpet, lie stammered out a confession, which I re duced to writing, and to which ho presently affixed his reluctant signature.

"The revelation, when this slippery wit ness was at length brou lit to make it—he did not know, you see Mr Cyril, how much his colleague had confessed—was a tolerably complete one. He had it seemed, an especial malice against yourself, as the kins man, and future partner, and heir of the employer whom it had been tho business of his life to dupe by a show of zeal and a dis play ef mock honesty—l say mock, because probably, when the books come to be over hauled, it will be found that this was not the first time of a betrayal of trust. And Mr Jenkins thought, too, that, young as you were you did not share Mr. Uraithwaite's high opinion of him, and might one day ask troublesome questions. Wherefore, by the help of a forged character, he got this fellow Clint into your uncle's service, put him up to the trick which he played on you—Clint had been a low comedian, mountebank, and thimble-rigger in his time—and received from Clint himself, i»t the door ot the City public-bouse, the morocco pocket-book con taining the gold and notes, which you, in the hurry aud excitement of the moment, had Why, Mr Vaughan, you are ill !" But if ho said more 1 beird it not, for I was weak with long privation and sleepless ness, and the blood surged up to my temples and there was a roar as of waves in my cars, and I sank fainting on the floor.

I have not much more to tell. How cordial, and pelf-reproachful even, was the rcceptiou which my uncle, Mr Bratbwaite, extended to me, or whti what tearful joy my Lucy's eyes met mine, are easy to imagine but difficult to describe. "I wronged you, my boy, and I thank Heaven that 1 was wroug in what I thought said the old man, with a sob in his imperious vuico ; " Lucy, here, knew you best," — Casscll's Magazsne.

A Terrible Disease.

Probably the meanest trick that was ever played on a white man was played last week in this city, and the fact that there is no vigilance committee here is the only reason the perpetrators of the trick are alive. A business man had just purchased anew still hat, and went into a saloon with half a dozen friends to fit the hat to his head. They all took beer, and passed the hat around so all could see it. One of the meanest men that ever held a county oiliee went to the bar tender and had a thin slice of Limberg cheese cut off, and when the party were looking at the frescoed ceiling through beer glasses, this wicked person slipped the cheeso under the 3neat leather of his hat, and the man put it on his head and walked out. The m»n who owned the hat is one of your norvous people, who is always compU'iolng of being sick, and who feels as though some dreadful disease was "oing to take possession of him and carry him off. He went hack to his place of business, took off his hat and laid it on the table and proceeded to answer some letters. He thought he detected a smell, and when hi* partner asked it he didn't feel sick, he paid he believed he did. 'i he man turned pale, and said he guessed ho would go home. He met a man on the sidewalk who said the air was full of miasma, and in the street car a man who sat next to him moved away to the other end of the car, and asked him if he had jnst cone from Chicago. The man with the new hat said he had not, when the stranger said they were having a good deal of small-pox there, and he guessed he would get out and' walk, and he pulled the bell and jumped off. The cold pers piration broke on; on the forehend or the man with the new hat, and he took it off to wipe his forehead when the whole piece of cheese seemed to roll over and breathe, and the man got the full benefit of it, and he came near fainting away. He got home, and his wife met him ana asked what was the matter. He Baid he beitved mortifi cation had set in, and she took one wbift, as he took off his ha., and said the should tbinkit had. 11 Where did yon get into it? said she. "Get into it?" Bald the man, "1 hay not got into anjtbing, but Eom; deadlye disease his got hold of me, and I shall not She told him if any disease that smelkd like that had gut hold of him, and was eoing to be chronic, she felt as though he would be a bin den to himself if lie lived very long. She got his clothes off, soaked his feet in mustard and water, and he slept. The bat was laying on the centre table, and the children would come in and get a smell of it, and look at each other with reproach ful glances, and go out and play. The man slept and dreamed that a stnali-pox flag was hung in front of his housp, and that he was riding in a butcher'^ wagon to the poit house. The wife sent for a doctor, and when the man of pills arrived sne told him all about the case. The doctor picked up the patient's new hat, tried It on, and got a sniff. He said the hat was picked before it was ripe. Then the doctor and the wife held a post-mortem examination on the hat, and found the slice of Limberg. '' Few and short were the prayers they said." They woke the pa'ient, and to prepare his mind for tho revelation that was about to be made, the doctor asked bitn if his worldly affairs were in a nati-factory condition. He -asned «nd said they were. The doctor iiskerl him if he had made bi« will. Ho said that he bad not, but that he wanted a lawyer s"nt for at once, 'i he doctor asked him if he felt as though he was prepared to sbuHle off. The man said he had always tried to lead a different life,' and had tried to be done by the same as he would do it himself, but that, he might have made a misdeal some way, and he would like to have a minis 'er cent for to take an account of stock. Then the doctor brought to the bedside the bat, opened up the sweat leather and showed the dying man what it was that smelled so, and told him that he was as well as any man in the city. The patient pinched himself to see if he was alive, and jumped out of bed and called for his re volver, and the doctor couldn't keep up with him on tho way down town. The last we saw of the odoriferous citizen he was trying to bribe the bar tender to tell him which one of those pelicans it was tbat put that slice of cheest in his hat lining.

A nian, recently, in Glasgow, laid a wager that he would woo, wio, and marry a young lady, who, with his companions, he had just scca arrive at the hotel where he was Jiving. He introduced himself to the damsel,"she smiled upon Ms suit, a minister was called in, and they were mar ried within an hour. The wager of n« considerable amount, was handed over to the bridegroom, who left with his bride the following day. It was afterwards discavored that the couple had long been man and wife, and that they had been travelling about playing &fl «*me trick at varies hotels.

ODDS AND ENDS.

NEVER prorni»c a child, and then fail to perform, whether you promise him a bun or a b.'ating,

Rpritrgins saya he once prevented a severe case of byrdophobia by simply getting on a high fence and waiting there till the dog hud gone away.

That was very greedy of you Tommy, to cat your sister's share of cake." " You told me, ma, 1 was always to take her part," said Tommy.

A bald-headed man, who was heard that the hairs of a man's head are numbered, wants to know if there is not some place where he can obtain the back numbers.

A little girl was walking down a road with her mother the other morning when they met a buw-legged man. " Look ma 1" she cried. "There's n man with a tunnel under him !"

.Barney has never missed shaving regularly every morning since the day hia younge-t but one told the fond parent his chin looked like the barrel of a musical box.

Among the competitors for the darning prize lately oilered at Georgia State Fair, U.S. , one lady presented a stocking so neatly mended that the judges could not find the mark of a needle about the " darned thing."

"Good man? I believe you." said Barney, speaking of his doctor, " Why, the other night he threw down a 'nap' band to pound tittivate a man who'd just cut his throat in the next hou«e. I should just think he inn a good man."

J?ooth, the well known actor, had a broken nose, a lady once remarked to him :"I like your acting, Mr Booth; but, to be frank with you, J can't get over your nose." "P.o wonder, madam," "the bridge is jjone."

A man recently died from swallowing his pocket-knife, and injudicious medical treat ment combined. Be got along very nicely po lone aa the knife was closed ; but whon the doctor gave him opening medicine it killed him.

A dreamy writer says it would be curious to follow a pound of silk from its spinning until it becomes a Indy's dress. No doubt; but most men would prtferto follow it after it becomes a dress, and while the iady was in it.

For puro, unadulterated nerve, commend us to the woman who, having received a present that dosen't suit, calls at the shop where it was purchased, and seeing nothing that she would like better, concludes to take the money which bjught her present,

The approaching wedding of a favourite American lady lecturer has lately been an nounced in the following manner :—" Letty Hough willncver lecture any morein public. She has made a permanent engagement. His name is Gregory. She will henceforth privately lecture Gregory."

" Why don't you enme to Sunday school ?" said a superintendent to a boy. " 'Cause pa owps my teacher for a pair of boots, an' the teacher «ot to sen'linj; notes home by me, an' pa said I needn't go any more till he paid tor the boots, im' I don't reckon I'll go any more."

A 7-year old South Boston boy tried in vain for a long time the other evening to get his opinious heard upon a subject that was engrossing the earnest attention of several ladies at hia home. Becoming tiicd of the incessnut talk of one lady he at last was duly recognized upon asking her, "Who holds the key to your jaw ?'

Gomgom, jun., who baa only been married a few days, happened, in company with his wife, to pass near a beehive. The bees stung his wife, and Gomgom, instead of pitying her, said—" How intelligent ore these bee?, my dear, to know that wo are in our honeymoon."

A woman in New Jersey has hair eight feet loner, and it all grew right wheie she wears it, too. Commenting upon her won derful hirsute stock-in-trade, the ''Boston Post " says, that " when one of those hairs go's hold ot oue end of it, and goes to pull ing it out, the wild look in his eyes before he finishes the job is a caution,"

•'Yes," said the witness, " I remember the defendant's mother crying on the occasion referred to. She was weeping with her lclt eye-tho only one she has— and thn tears were running down her right cheek." " What l" exclaimed the judge, "how could that hi !" "Please your honour,"said the witness, "she wasawlully crosseyed."

An esteemed contemporary cautions iv lady readers ngainst sitting down on cane bottom chairs when thoy are dressod in velvet Tuia reminds us of a remark of Mrs Fanny Kemble, who, when she found such a chair provided for her at one o! her readings in the West, turner! upon the lead ing committee-man a basalisk glance, and exclaimed, "Man! do you wish me to give my best velvet gown tho small-pox ?"

The man who was about to morry for tho sixth time, and who replied, " We've usually sot," when asked by the minister to stand up, has been heard from again He recently led No. 7 to the altar, and when asked for the ring, replied, " Parfon, I've hooked on to six of 'em without a ring, and I reck'n we can get along this time I'll try and remember it in future, though."

An anecdote is related by Mr Barnnm in illustration of the axiom that driukiDg h a habit that grows : Last winter two of my elephants boi^an shaking with chills ono morning ; the keepers ran down into the village and got six gallons of whiskey. Hastily returning, three gallons were given to each elephaut. Fortunately it cured them. They liked the artificial warmth superinduced. Next morning when the keeper came to them he found both eliphants shaking with might and main. "No you don't," be shouted, '• You are well enough to day," and they stopped shaking,

THE LAWYER.

I alßpt In an editor's bed !as» night. VVhnn no other ohanood to bft niuh ; How I i)i light, as i tnmblod tho editor's bi il, How easily editors lie.

IHE BDIXOR,

If the lawyer Blept In an editor's bed When no lawyer chanoed to ba nigh; And though ho ha« written, and naively said, How easllr editors lie- He must tnen admit, as ho lay oj that bad And slept to his heart's desire. Whate'er In may (ay of the editor's bed ( Tttn the lawyer himself waij iho Hoi.

A comical ftory is told of two well known southern clergymen, one of whom undertook to rebuke the other for using the weed. ''Brother G.," he exclaimed, with out stopping to ask any other questions, "is it possible you smoke tobacco?" "I must confess I do," the other quietly replied. "Then I would quit it, sir," the old gentleman energetically contiuuod " It is a very unclcrical practise—an uncleanly one. Tobacco ! why, even a hog won't do it!" "Father C do you smoko tobocco?" replied the amused listener. "No, sir," he answered eroffly, with indication. "Then, pray, which h most, like thn hog, you or I ?"' The old doctor's f«t sides shook with laughter as he said : " Well, I have been fairly caught thi3 time."

A poor Hindoo, having been released from the care or this world, proaented himself at the gate of Brahma's paradise. " Have you been through purgatory ?" asked the god. " No but I have boon married."

" Come in, then—it is all the same." At this moment arrived another man, just defunct, who begged of Brahma to be permitted to go in also. " Softly, softly, have you been through purgatory ?" " No, but I have boon married twice. "Ob, pshaw," replied Brahma; "get away ! Paradise is not for fools !"

The Keverend Mr was one of the most bashful men in his profession, and was constantly getting into scrapes through his nervous mistakes. At one time he rose in his pulpit to give out the hymn, •■• This world is all a fleeting show," and after clear ing his throat, he struck a high pitch of voice and began, solemnly, "Tbia world is all a floating shoe." Everybody smiiod ex cept the deacons, and the minister was covered with confusion as he began agairi, " This world is all a shontine flow." This only made matters worse, and the unhappy man cleared his throat with tremendous force and began once again, " This world is all a floating she." Then he slammed down the bymn-book, and, wiping his clammy^ brow, said, "Brethren, for some reason I cannot read that hymn as it should be read. We will omit it, and the choir will please aingthe grand old line beginning, ,' Just as lam " **""< on<s flea.1"

A gentleman at the theatre sits behind a lady who wears a very large hat. "Excuse me mudame, madame, but unless you remove your hat I can see absolutely nothing." Lady ignores him, " Excuse me madaaie, but unless you remove yoar hat', something unpleasant will happen." I Lady ignores him again. Gentleman pnlls on his own bar. i.ouJ cries from the audience, "Take off that hat! take off that hat!" Lady thinks they moan her hat and removes it. "Thank you, madame.'

Colonel W. K. Stuart tells the following story of a >colch subaltotn at Gibraltar : Tho latter wan one day on fjuaril with ano ther olliccr, who, unfortunately, fell down a precipice 400 fee", and was killed. JVon military readers thoull understand that in tho "uard reports there ii a small adden dum^— viz , " N. J5. -Nothingcxtraordinary since euard mounting," the meaning ot which is that, in case anything particular should occur, the (iliccr commanding the guard is bound to mention it. Uur friend however, said nothing about tho accident that had occurred to his brotheroflicer, and, some hours ufter, the brigade major came to his quarters on the part of the, oilicsr com manding, with tlio report in his hand, to demand an explanation. The brigade major, addressing him, s;,.id •'You say, sir, in your report, ' W. 15.—Nothing extraordinary .«iuoe guard mounting,1 when your brother olliccr ou duty with you, has fallen down a precipice 400 feet and been killed." "Well, sir," replied B , "1 ainna think there's anything extraordinary in it, ava. If he'd faun docrn a precipice 400 feet, and no been killed, I should have thought it vary extraordinary indeed, and would hao put it doou in my ropor 1." Afttr a bootblack had polished the boots of a gentleman who wns rumbling nroutld the City Hall it was discovered that the man had nothing lesi thun a dollar bill and tho boy hud no more than fifteen cents. "I suppose you can !;et this changed!" suggested the man. '•Oh, yes." " And you can find me when you come back ?" "Yes." '• But if I place this dollar in your hands will it not be a temptation to you to cut stick ?" "I wouldn't s'enl no Ritch sum as that," contemptuously replied the boy. " but for fear 1 might git :i telegram and be called out of town in a hurry 1 guess you'd better go along." "My son, I think I can trust yon. Go on your way. I was never deceived in a boy jet " The boystwtcd down llriswold street and Hid not return. The man waited, however. It was a busted Canadian bnnk bill. A California millionaire guvc a dinner to Booth tho actor, recently. The host, to do honour to so distinguished a guest, pro duced n bottle of rare old wino, covered with cotwebs, and costly enough for a Crcesus. "What do you tbiok of that?" asked the host, in a tone tuat shewed grati ficatiou that ho was able to do honour to tha plate of his distinguished guest. Mr Booth held up his glass to the li^ht, sipped at it like a connoisseur and then with a classic otiginalitv. remarked, " Tisa nectar lit for the god*!" A few nights after the California!) milliouare had home to dine wiih him an old chum of his from tho mines. It occurred to him that it would hi: a clever thing tn paralyzn this rough from the coasts with a liquid with which he was totally unfamiliar. Another bottle ot the " old particular " was ordered up. "Now just you tell me, old boy, what you think of that." Utterly icgardless of tbe conven tional cunoßs of society, but with a sincerity of compliment that could not be mistaken, the eontleman in the gold-dust lino drank a lou>; time from the bottle. The million aire, as his friend leaned back, smacking his lips with evidentsatisfactlon, exclaimed, " Well, old boy, what do you say to thiit ?" " Pretty fair quality, 1 call it." " ' Pretty fair quality!' Why, do you know what Booth said of it when he dined here?" "What, Booib, tho actor fella"?" "Yes. Booth, tbe actor. Why, Booth said it was 'a neck-tie fit for the sods ' 1"

Questions and Answers.

ANSWERS written by the Metropolitan School Board pupils to questions put by a Government Inspector : " Where is Turin?"

"Turin is the (Jnppftnl of Chiner; the people there live in birds' nest, and has loDg tales."

"What do you know of tho patriarch Abraham ?'

"lie was the father of I-ot and ad tew wifes, Wun wa? called Hiamalc and the t'other Haygur. lie kep' wun at home, and he hurrieii the t'other into the desert where she became a pillow of salt in the in thn daytime nml a pillow of lire at nitc. '

" Who was Moses ?'

"He was nn Egypsinn, He lived in a bark mado of bulrushes and ho kept n golden ciirf and worshipt braizen snnked and ho bet liothin' but kwalcs and manner for forty years. He was kort by tho nir of his 'ed while riflio1 under v bow of a tree, and was kill'd by his sou Absalom no he wa« hanein' from a bow. His end was pen so," Verbal Answers : " What is a mlraclo?" "Don't know."

" If you saw tho sun binning overhead at midnight, what would you call it!" " Ihe moon." " Kut if I were to tell you it was the sun?"

" 1 should say it were a lie." "But suppose I declared to you that it teas the tun t' " I should say you was worry drunk "

A Well-Grounded "Misgiving."

A PakisiAN lyric artist, Mdllc. Delprato (says a London paper dated Jan. 13) experi enced a terrible lots, iih well as fright, hiat Saturday on her return to her apurttncnt in tbo hue llcchechourt, at live o'clook in the morning. Tho singer had been Riving a representation of LAfricaine at Amiens on Friday ni^rht, »nd being suddenly seized with an indescribable misgiving, to use her own wordi, lostcad of remaining in that town tho night, she took the mail train, which landed her in Paris at 5 o'clock a.m. dn entering her apartments, she found to her consternation, two men in the act of tying up large packages containing all that was valuable that they could Jay their hands on. Seized with fright, she piused through her\>edroom to arouse tho Eervnnt left in charge. Hut there was no need to go any further than her own room, for there in her bed, was the woman, and alas ! not alone. All, however, the third man did was to gather up some of his clothing and make his exit, leaving the whole of the booty to be carried off by his accomplices, The police hope through tho girl, who Is in custody, to put Iheir hands on her compan ions. The silver alone of Mdlle. Dclprato is estimated .at £SO, and oue small teaspoon Is all thai was overlooked. Costume?, linen, and all that was portable, were carried off.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, APRIL 7, 1883



"IyT.EW ZEALAND RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE ON AND AFTKIt JULY 6, 1882 AUCKLAND AND ONEHUNGA LINE. ■ o o co oo _ a co • -* * • to »n t* 6 £in'uj-' '« «J ai d «" £§:1: :S! el g —1~ l S$ . « :.S S3 g | I S L , . ..... .. q 5|:I: : : : : 8 ss.s. : as s i§ : S . : :. . ~ A ~" I a .2 s m gS..». .g 3 S 35 H Ari "j"'•* •* * S w 9 °. : 'i : : °i *l "■ 6 qS.S.. .8. q S § "•c•o• • o o os Oi H t-t rH t-l r-i fjj g B. 3: S : :3 3 S g , v ja ' 3 ' 'S S 3 | .._ . g * a o (j r-a S §I'SS 32 t * I£2l § | % | j , O .. I, „ 1"* . "S *3 I i»J : :S '=3 I a 2 *d g I i 3 § ::§ : 3 § Jj oil oi oi •• m en ci "O R I |1 b, afl a a a § « 9OSH■ ■ rf ; W • <_> CD to to \] basa. .s . o I „• m «i «i ' ' "5 "to g 6 6 a y a as : : ss : s ?J \ H ; : ', '. '. "i • !j Q __ . W " C [j • o »ra o o O a a = -.-.::«: rj s 1. „• (I H tl IN IN cj p » i °S f\ c 2; ::: ?i « g"" " z i aosa. .s . s c [hi: ' "" i g 12 c 3 rt • • «S • « % »i »: v ' ' h ' h §; a ■ - l :~^ i I: •: f:! 1 i 1! fi s"S I I - 3|31 § 2 & I Mil PIP j JIAIN* LINE. AUCKLAND - MERCEH - TE AWAMUTU. SOUTH.—W'kbk Days. -j—o r i a.niJa.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. (1 Ancklaml rtop. 6.15 8.40 8.251 4.15; 6.0 _ Newmarket Junct. 6.25 8.50 8.37; 4.25 8.10 3 Uomnera .. .. c.30 .. 8.44| 4.30 0.15 *t Green Lano "i! Pcnrosc Junction!.' C*. 15 7.16 8!-9 tj'.4s t(i!3o B Oiahulm .. .. 805 .. 9.10 4.57 <M 2 11 I'npatoitol .. .. ~ .. 0.19 5.6 TT "1"> Munurowa ■ •• •• ia Papokura 45 a.35 .. 'I. iSS£. :: :: :: ami :: •2:1 liunciinan I •• 30 Pukekoho 9.20j10.35 6.25, .. •33 ltvickland I .. .-I •■ X, Tuakau 9.5010.53 6.13. .. "37 WlianKiiratii 40 Pokcno H. 12 7.3 .. , , r ( arr. .. 10.2511.22 7.15 .. 13 Morcor ■ - dep . .. 10,3011.42 TTi .. "lii Whancftmarlno I •• -51 Wuira_*ci •60 Hanßirlrl •6i) Ohlnewni 65 Huntly 12.5 1.0 .. .. E» Tanpiri •• J-15 .. :.. 71 NKarniiwohia ■• •• 1-1>» L*l •• I•• "7_ Pukcto .. .. i •• •81 Te llapa 81 Hamilton Junotion .. .. 2.13 .. 89 Hamilton l-*5 <)0 Hukuhia ill Ohnupo 2.f10 .. .. '% Lako Hoad "IB N«nroto .. -. .. 10(1 Te Awamntn_arr. .._ .. 3.15 ■■ ,^_ NOUTIL-Wkkk Dayb. __ - g a.m. a.m. n m. p.m. p.m 0 ToAwamutu dep 9.20 .. .. 2 Ngaroto - •1 LakoKoad 7 Ohaupo 9.50 •• •• Ml Hukuhia •■ •• 17 Hamilton ,■■ 2.5 .. 16 Hamilton June 10.33 2.8 .. "211 Te llupa - •23 I'ukcto - 2l> Ngaruawahia U. 15, .. _ 31 Tanpiri H. 83 .. - 36 Huntly „ U. 55 3.45 _ Ml Ohlnowai .. .. _....« .. *4;" i llangiriri - •• •• '■111 Wairangl •51 WhanKamarino - .. .. ( arr IJO 5.0 .. 5i Morcor "{dcr. <U5 .. 130 5.20 .. 6(1 Pokcno .. .. 6.26 .. 1.41 .. .. HK! Whangarata CTi Tuakau .. .. 6.16 .. 2,1 .. .. 6,H Buckland - ■• 70 Pukokoho .. ..7.6 ..2125 6.25 .. *77 llunciman • .. >• •• •• 78 Drury 7.43 .. 33 7.5 ... •80 Hunua .. .. .. .. - •• •• 81 Papakura .. .. T.M .. 315 .. .. *B."> Mamirowa .. - •• •• 80 Papatoitot .. .. 8.32 .. 2.19 7.50 .. B2 Otnhuhu .. .. 8.41 7.5 a69 .. 5.50 .01 Ponroso Junction (9.0 17.15t1.16 8.20 7.5 •fl.'> Kllcrslio TT - .. 07 Komuora" 0;; '.'. 9.'li - (.%> 8.35 7.20 98 Ncwnmrkot June. 9.21 .. IMO 8.41 7.25 1(10 Auckland . . arr. 9.38 ■■ 149 8.50 7.85 KAIPARA BRANCH. AUCKLAND-lIENDERSON-HELENS VILLE. OUT.-Week DatSi — j r-p-n urn. a.m. p.m. 0 Auckland dop. 7.1511.0 4.30 , Newmarket Junction «£ T.g *& Mount Edon ■• •• G KlnKsland •• - - *6 Morninßsldo — — •7 Mount Albert -■;.,-„. -"i 8 Avondalo 7.4711.37 5.3 •0 Now Lynn — 11 Walkomlti_ _ .. .J - - •II Hondcrson_ 8.1012;2 ... •17 Swanson .. _ .. ■ - . •20 Waitakcrci _ - - - - *2L' Taupakl _ _ .. - - - 2f) Kumeu Junction .. - 8.55 .. 6.17 *29 Waimauku .. - - .... - •31 Rewcti - •33 WoodhiU .. - - - 38 Hclenßvillo" ■'■' " art 9.55 ■" 7.20 » IN.—Week Days, _ _ ——— 1 - a.m. p.m. p.m 0 Hclcnavllle de|. 6.25 .. 4.30 •4 Paeroa .. _ - •C Woodhill .. „ _ *7 Hewitt .. - - - - *10 Waimauku ~ ». - •• •• •• II Kumeu Junction .. .. 7.25 _ 6.35 •17 Taupakl .. _ - ~..._ .. •19 Waitakeroi - .. - "21 Swanson _ _ .. •„-„-;•• •2n Henderson.. .. _ . 8.10 2.0 _ •27 Waikomiti.. _ 1 %%&$?- : :.: :«o 2:27 & •32 Monnt Albert .. _ . - - •• *,s:i Morningsldo _ .. . - - *3i Kingsland.. _ ... ...->. •35 Mount Eden - - - 36 Newmarket Junction ar> U q 38 Auckland _ urt 9.20 3,2 7.2S C-Goods Train—a Passenger Carriage la at tached to this Train whloh nfcwi&K JPa»sengera by Signal on lr.



MONDAY, APIUL 9. GREAT SALE OP PIANOS! PIANOS!! PIANOS!!! BY IHE BEST M\KKRB. B. TONKS & CO. "O~AVE received instruction to * sell, ON MONDAY NEXT. A Largo Consignment ot PIANOS, la Walnut, Rosewoood, and Blaok and Gold, by the Oolebrated makers— WEbER, BOBD, KICHTEK, SIMON, ZEUTEIt AND WENKLEMAN, &c, &c. B. TONKS & 00., A»ictioneerß. NO ÜBSifHVK



* FLAG STATIONS.—Trains do not stop at these unless required. Notice should bo given to the Guard at tho previous stopping Station t Change for Onehunga. B—Goods Train—a Passenger Carriage is attached to this Train which stops for P.ssengera by Signal only, and runs from Huntly to Hamilton on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only. II Change for Auckland and intermediate Stations, t Change for Helensvillo and intermediate Stations. * FLAG STATIONS.- Trains do not stop at these unless required. Notice should be given to the Guard at the previous stopping Station. GENERAL CONDITIONS. The Railway Department doe 3 not pledge it self to the despatch or arrival of the Trains at the exact times notified in the above Tables, and, in tho event of any circumstances arising, either during or prior to the journey being made, which may render it impossible or inex pedient for a Train to proceed, will return the Fares paid, but does not undertake to forward the Passengers. LUGGAGE.—Each Passenger is allowed to take U2lbs. ot PERSONAL Luggage free (not including merchandise of any kind), and for every 561b5., or fraction ef 581b5., above this weight, for every 50 miles or fraction of 50 miles, the charge will be One Shilling. No Luggage will be allowed to be taken into the carriages, unless of such a size that it can be placed under tho 3eat without inconvenience to other Passen gers. Passengers are strongly recommended to have their Names and tho Statiomlo which they arc proceeding distinctly marked on their Luggage, and to satisfy themselves that it is placed on tho Train, as tho Railway Depart ment will not be responsible unless it is booked Bnd paid for. Passengers can be booked at Stations only on condition that there is room in the Train. Children under three years of ago travel freo; abovo throe and under twclvo years of age, half-fare. HORSES, CARRIAGES, &C.-TIIO Railway Department does not undertake 10 foward Horses and Carriages by any particular Train ; but when sent, they must be at the forwarding Station half an-honr before the departure of the Train. Tho Owners of Horses must provide means for securing them in the Horse-box, and the Railway Department will not bo account able for any injuries sustained through their breaking loose or otherwise, nor will it under take to carry unbroken or vicious Horses. At Country Stations requisitions for Horse-boxes or Carriage-trucks must be made the day before they are wanted. DOGS must bo provided with chains, or other Btifllciont means of securing them. They will not bo allowed in carnages, and tho sender must obtain a Ticket, to be given up at the end of tho lonrney, and beforo the Dog is delivered. RETURN TICKETS, for distances not ex ceeding 25 miles, arc available on day of issuo only; for each additional 25 miles, or fraction thereof, one extra duy is allowed. RETURN or PERIODICAL TICKETS will not bo available for Special and Excursion Trains, except when tho Ordinary Time Tablo in suspended. SPECIAL NOTICE. - To ensure despatch, Parcels, Extra Luggage, and Docs must bo at the Station at least THIRTY MINUTKS before tho Advertised Tiino of Departure of Train. AH Timo Tables issued prior to this date aro now cancelled. J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager, J»^KW ZBaLAND RAILWAYS. AUCKLAND SKCTIOy. PARCEL BATES, Not Kxoeedlng 71bs. Hlbn. ZBlt>a. 60ib8. 1121b8> h. d. b. d. b. d. a. d. g. d. Hulenßvlllo _ 0 0 10 16 19 20 Onehnnga .1 I 06 09 09 13 Pukekobe -09 10 16 19 23 Meroer _ .. 0 Si 1 a 1 9 2 0 2 fi Nuaruawahla.. 10 IS 20 23 29 Hamilton ..13 19 i 3 26 30 ■I« Awamutn.. 16 20 29 33 v U To ensure despatch parcels rnupt be at tbe Station at least Thirty Minutes before aC.ver tiMod time of departure of train. Lngfraue and Paresis may be left at the Paioels uffloe. Id ofiargo of the Hallway Department, on puymont ot fees ranitlng from 2d to (! 1 A. V. MACDONALO, District Manager. Auckland. 25th Sept.. 1832. £77,000,000, NEXT OF KIN. Now ReiDi fou Sale; A ISKGIBTKK Containing the Names of Forty Thonaand Persona who have been advertised for as Claimants to Money and Property. Prloa 6*. Post Free, on reoolpt of P. 0.0, or Stamps. ' Persona oin asoertaln if their names aro in tho heulctor by forwarding One Shilling for each n« me. Address- " w.s.p,/' Box 167 Auckland. T^R. J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CIILOKODYNE. THE ORIGINAL AND ONLY GENUINE. Advick to iKVALins.—lf you wish to obtain quiet, refresh ng rleep, frej from headache, relief from piln nud aoKUtoh, to calm and iinnuise the weary BOhlnun of protraoted dlKuase, lnviKPr.itii tho nurvons media, and roKUlato ihe nlrni.littnif sysicms ot the tody, yO'i will provide yourßßlf with tn_t marvellous remedy dlecovoreil by Ur.. J. Cfcllla Browne (Into k.imy ModlCttl StalFi. to which h» Rave thn nanio of OHU)!tuD\'Ntt, and which la ad mttved by tho urofosolon to bo the most wonder ful and valuablo romody evar dlscovortd. OHLORODYNK Is tho best rcnedy known forOouubs, Conpumptlon, Hronontiie. Asthma C iLORODYffK nota 11 »n a charm In Dlarrrioea, and. ia the only specific lnCholoraand Dyaenterr. CHLOROnYNE ef!botu»lly outg short all atiaoks ofEpliepdy, l-Jyßtoriß, Palpitation, and Sp>sms. CHLOROPYNE is the only palliative in Neurftisla. Rheumaiiim, Gout, Cancer, Tuoth acno. Monlngltls, &c. Krom Symea & Co., Hhitrmacoutloal Chemists Medical ttall Simla, Jsnnary S, 1880. Xo J. T. Devonport, Eiq., 33, Great Rn«6eU-street, Blooraßbuty. London Dear Sir,—Wo onibraco thin opportunity ot cnngratmatiD^ you upon tho wi'>o-Bproad rcpntation this justly tatcemud medioino, Dr. J. Coilia Hrowne'd Dhlorodynu. baß earned for itanlf, n»t only in llindoßtan, but all over the East As a remedy ot Reneral ntlity we much quofltion whether a betier i* lmpOtt«d into the country, and we shall be glad to hetr ot its iludinu a place ln every Anglo-innian home. The other brands, we are happy toeu>, aro now raloirated to the native baKaars. »nd judving from their sale, we fanoy their sojunrn thora will be bnt evanaaoent. We oonld multiply instances a inflnitum of the oxtraordluary effloaoy ot l)r Collie Hrownß'a Ohlorodyne ln Dlarrhosa and DyMntary, epanma, Oraropa, »eural»la. the Vomiting of Pregnanoy, and ai a general seda tive, that bavo ocoun-ed under onr cenonal abwrvatlon during many years. In Choleraic Diarrhea*, and oven ln more terrible forms ot Cholera iwel', we have wltniwvwl itn rarpmlng oontroUing power. We have never nneo _»y other foim of thwmedloine than OlUs Browne « from a firm oonvlollan lhat It Is deolaediy the beat,and also from a sense of duty we owe to iho pretension and the public, an we nre of opinion that the sabetltmlon of any other ih»n Oollln Urowne'd Is a dklibukatii nmstOH op faith OK THB PAkT OF THK OHItMISC TO PHE3CB'BBB and PATIKNT *HKic. vV e are, Sir. futihfnliy yours, qmw & Co.. Members of tha Phar' Society ot Ore»t Britain, Uis Rxoellecoy me Vioeroy'a Chemists. OtunON.-Vloe-Ohanolllor Plr W. Page Wood stated lhat Dr. J. Collis Browne was. undoubtedly, the Inventor of Cblorodyne; that the story of tbe defendant Freeman was deliberately untruo. whlob. he rearrottfld to say, ha-t been sworn to -Sao " The Times," July 13. 1861. bold in bottles at Is 1 Jd, 2s 9d, 4s 6d, and 11 each. None Is Reaulne wlthonc *h9 words "Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne" on the Govern ment stamp. Overwhelming medical testimony acoompanies eaob bottle. Caution.—Beware of Piracy and Imitations. Solo Manufacturer--J. T. DAVJCNPOHT, S3, Groat hnsaell-street, Bloomsbnry, London. QTBKDMAN'S SOOTHING POWDERS O fob CHILDREN CUTTING TEETH. CAUTION TO PCKCHASKRS. The valun of this well-known Family Medlolne has been largely tasted ln all parts of the world, and by all xrades of society, for npwards of fifty years. Its well-earned extensive Bale has induced spurious imitations, some of whloh in outward appkarapoe 80 olosely resemble the original aa to have dcoelved many purchasers. The proprietor, therefore, feels it due to the pnbllo to give a special oantlon against tbe nee ot snob imitations. Pnrohaßßrs are therefore reanosted oarofnlly to observe the four following distinctive oharao teristics, without which none are gannlne :— Ist—ln every c*so the words John man, Ohkmist, Wai.worth, snnu»T. are en graved on (tie Government Stamp aflixod to each packet, 2nd—Kaoh Single Powder has directions for the dose, and the words John Hteedmiui, Chemist. Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon. 3rd—Tbe name Steedin&n is always spelt with two BK's. 4th—Tho mannfaotnro ia oarrled on solely Walworth, Surrey. Hold, lv Packets by all Chemists and Medlolne Vendors, at Is ijd to 2a !Jd each. Agents t KKMi'THounE, ViinwKi'. & Co., Auckland, Wellington; Chrlstohuroh, and Dunetlin. The Oriental rPEA (Vs. STANDARD PACKET TEAS. Awarded Peize Medals : Sydney Exhibition, 1878. Paris International Exhibition, 1879. Sydney International Exhibition, 1881. Adelaide Exhibition, 1881. Please Note the Brands (which arc all registered): "ROYAL," "CHALLENGE," "STANDARD,' AND " UNIVERSAL MIXTURES." These Teas aro a proper Combination of Chinese and Indian Teas—have been tested at the Government Laboratories—aro guaranteed up to this standard quality -and have been pro nounced by professional Tea Tasters and Con sumers to be the best Teas offered in the Colonies, at their respective pricos. Pure Indian Teas— "VICEROY" AND "RAJAH," All Packed in I and lft> Paokots, and 101b Boxes. Sold by all Storekeepers. BROWN, BARRETT & CO., Whole'*^~ ■""■wars.



AUTUMN Ss "WINTER, 1883. I Opiosite Ar- and Navy Hotel. NEW SILKS-— LYONS' SILKS and SATIiNbr dress and trimming purposes in Black and Plain 'Vourines ; also a good aesonent of the Newßroch^s, now so much in demand. Prevailing >hade« — Brown, Mile, Kuby, Peacock, aud Grenat, &c. N.B,—Our Black Silks aie well known, anduaranteed makes. NEW DRESSES.-SC°TCH CHEVIOTS, r] e entirely of pure wool, with dark ground, having a dash of bright colour inspersed throughout the fabric, which gives to the cloth a pretty effect; 2fi inchesde, Is 6JH and Is BJd per yard, Some 30 shades to select from. The AB/,hGELDI(J)STUME TWe ED, a plain, useful material, in dark durable niixtutes, for Wren's cosumes, plain house dre.-ses &c. A most desirable cloth, 2G inehe* widllid, Is OJd, aad Is 3Jd per yard. other Seasonable Dress Materials, in the new)ather Mixtures, from 4£d per yard. Cashmeres, Homespuns, French Twills, and Bes, in Heavy Winter Makes, at Lowest Ruling f rices. N.8.-S. & C. beinz Direct Importers of Ores Goi, &c, from the be3t Bradford Manufacturers, we invite inspection and comparison NEW VELVETEENS. -Anticipating a large dand tor Velveteens, we have now in stock, and tv ariive ex P. and O, S S, r>izannd Cephalonia, an adequate supply, at price* ranging from Is 6id ti 5s lid. Tlce ebrated " L »UIS " and "BRUvSWCK " make", in all qualities and colouu, adverti«ed by us. OUR MILLINERY, HOSIERY, AND NDERCLOTHING DEPARTMENTS Wl he loun(l repute witilew and -eaßooable Goods ac considerably less than usual Que^nstreet pries. NEW MANTLES. S. & C. would direct special attention to a Purchase n a Southern Firm at 'a discount of 20 per cent, off Wholesale Pric*. s»me 70rfect fitting English and German Tailor made Dolmans, and Braided Jackets, aHces varying from 1 to 5 guineas. Purchasers may rely upon receiving the full Ijgt of this great discount, The NEW ABBESS ULSTER, Dolman Shape.hich pnmiae* to be the favourite, price from 19a 6d ; also the Nearraat and other makes, from 6s lid. Children's Jackets and Ul.ters in erea ir iety. ULSTER AND EUBIT CLOTHS, ia 20 differentjdings, from 2a lid per yard, double width. NEW BLANKETS AND FLANNELS, -ir reputation for Good Value ia iilunkcti, flannels, Calicoes aud Sheetings, it we are determined to sustain, by mirking those goods at the smilkst r^rauoeve profit. We receive our supply of Ko<lyn and Kaiapoi Blankets aud Fiaunellosierv, and Fingering Yarns, direct from the Mills, and can therefore sell 5e beautiful goods at almost Wholesale Price. Our Special Values ia Blankets, ox 4 size, 9i lid j quarter, 16< lid ; 11 quarter, 21s per pair; cheaper qualities kept in si. . IVEW ZEALAND FLANNEi.S at In 2J, Is sd, Is B<j 10d. and 2s. >■ NEW ZBAL4ND BLANKETS from 19s Gd to 37s G (r pair. J WIfLSH FL <vN.NELS at 6|d. BJd, IOJd. fr.ll ya'd win ( s , Z GIiEV CALICOES at 2sd, 3id, 4d, 4|d, and si. U^d Grey is splendid ft value, full yard wide, and equil to anything we hever sold before at W 6Jd. |£ WHII'K CALICOES in the best make*, at prices vaig from 2Jd to lOd. /a Special Valuei at 4s 6d per dozen yards Zi WASHKD TWILL SSBEriN JS, in double width, froid, JJ FINLAY'S SHEETINGS in all wid hs. w FLaX sHiIITIjNGS at 4Jd. s|d, Rfd, Hn.l up to lOd. q. WINCEY SHIRTINGS at 7|d, SJd, 10H 12Jd, &c. P Ex Brahmin snd Mataura, now unloading, G cases of \ Linens, Cambrio •■ Handkerchie rs, Linen Sheeting, Table Dimiaks, ihs and Napkins, Hollands, Diapers, Gents' Shirts, Col ar-i, and Culls. he<e goods having ifi been personally selected, and b 'iieht fjr Cash from E, 3 t Manufacturer*, will be sold as heretofore, at WHOLESALE PRICE NOT*.—Our reputation for givins: GOOD VALUieing sufficiently establisho-1, we need only add tuat w : a-e res dvec sustain this by strictly adhering to the principle upm which wee conducted our business ia the past i.e., giving it our personul atcerj, and by Buying Cheap and Selling Cheap FOR \SH ONLY. SMITH & GAUGIEY'S CHEAP DRAPERY AND PARCEL WAREH&E, 300 A 302, UPPER QUEEN - BTSET. BRINCH ESTABLISHMENT aT NEWMaRK^ A* 11. P O O L E V, A UCKLAND MUSK^REHOJSE. ■"-■- (Late Oisoanist and - } CHOIRMASTER FOR FOURTEEN YKARB OP THE nrynT trt ■or T riV Cathisdkal Church op Livbrpool, POPULAR WALT^i England). O j d L )V8 an( j seir Samirißhtg TEACHER of ORGAN, PIANOFORTE !f' De 5" J**' £«°A i XTT i ciMPTMn Kftlf ~du Hrea First» AND bINGINU. M 5 Queen J aauff Flows Bon i on Mnno M~XT '.VnnduNjbon Kuby; ENDELSSOHN VILLA, Offl^B Ljm as VINCENT-STREET. p»wo?oa LovoSaU-room Hrlnooßß inetA MX. JOHN HART WELL, p™™* * Fflßt J^ Organist op St. Mary's Church, i«"ln°a!l Hr»t Parnkll. [Jlolrn di Dijon Bweffts PROFESSOR OF THE PIANOFORTE, wood Hno vni-pois HomsauxDamM Lessons given by the Quarter, or by B? n °elJ^u» M* i arrangement. """f™™ F ll^ewe ORGAN. PIANOFORTE. HARMONY Indiana Lilltfa Amateurs' Compositions revised and prepared bß%uti'ol Kerns 'J'rej for Publication. Plnaforj ttfr- Address: Ponsonby Road, opposito Franklin Road. Lotlors may bo left vilh Messrs HoiT- ! man and Sons Music Warohowse, Queen-street' The Larncßt AraJntof FOR THE BEST AND CHEAPEST violins. How*, cwec, k, Sulniii. an LINE IN TWEEDS, oerilnag, Aoaordloo», MCrlpt B->oki. Try H. Robinson (late Stevenson), junction of Moß' c F°'J.^ l^JTni Queen and Grey streots. B°<>k Mn»l0 ln ** nd« TWEED SUITS FROM S3 10s. TROUSERS FROM 13s. 6d. r STYLE AND FIT GUARANTEED. !_„««,' GIVB MB A Trial. OZyEßy'd 101 K301883 M»y ba nsed In coDjunotioni any lngirnotloo H. ROBINSON. DoO k an diginat.pjnai)Pianoforte —— Studen: ThE KaKING PoWDEIR Cz«nj'sVelooltyßtudi«sWeloplnar»pld«r ■*- *■"' • ot finger and eqntof toaoh, PAR BXOSLI.4NOE IS Tbe Predal KflltlODß of above are now to . hand, and are obtain solely at ihs AIOKIN' 3 AUCKLAND MCSIiVAREHOUSE, tErated Baking Powder " Thb Most Kosnomioai." ARTHURIDf, 68. Qu«hn«»t. " XIBLD3 MOR« YKAST GA9." —' nn<un . ■ fMPEKI! V^CHIKDAM TURK MATERIA.I. ONLT. I X NOT MIXED WITH FtCE FLOUK OR ALUM. prJB^ AROS|O SPIRIT. I« TIN 3AT Ifi M 2/8. SFIOUL PBIOE WHOLESALE. Rare M D ffi^"? B 1 kidneys, bladd, and URiwAKV OKGS. Addio B- * Tonlo, Dlnretlo. AnWPJptlo CORDIAU by the recommends or the Leading "TTTT: PHARMACY Continental Pbytfa, »nd \b now THIS fUAKMAOX aCKHOWLKDGBP ASI^TESr AMD MOST QUEEN-STRKKT. VALUABLK lEDY FOB GKAVEL, GODT.'HRONICKHEU MAM. The Trade snd Ocniers are cautioned analnet epurlonß lmltoa, the genaine onlf JD A V E V, bonrinsj tbe alipiaturoi addreßß ot the pro- TAiLOK, &o prietor hart VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND, HENRI HAii 1, Begs most respectfully to call the attention MELtRNK. Gentlemen and the Public in goneral to his aln the Melbournospltul, and awarded NEW GOODS of Best Quality for tho present by the Jury FIRSKIZa at the Mel and coming season?. bourne Internaal Exhibition. J.D. in roturninß thanks for past favours _*_ eolicitsa oontinuanco of the same, and will give n » nigqiK rkport satrnfaction to all who may favour him with . Tho A ] n ß lyt ,^amntwry Institution, their patronage, lnH Jxua *•■«, a ob viaduct, X.C.. Note the Address : nndon, 9th " S y. 1877. OPPOSITE THE OCCIDENTAL HOTEL, Report of a Sampl Imperial Sohiedam Vulcan Lane. Fobnapp*, reoelveom Mr H. J. Uart. "Wo fiavo B(iblectee»mple ot the above named article to a verrefol ohemloal analyblb TTPPER SYMONDS STREET CHEAP »r,d exam (nation. I J nnjmpv iNnnnnrenv qthrdl "Theroßnlts of th»alyclß, which are Bel \J DRAPERY AND GROCERY STORK. forth & Beparate roU phow thai thlß »plrH T wwatjp w.twttv n-onnv-o lsofßoodßfenmh. prnally free from acidity. J< HEA£ f W^JtH ™ Yt,^ 11 °°E R< and that li contains Braces of solid matter AND GENERAL DRAPER, |D notation. It possesa OeUoate and agree- Ib Belling Groceries and Oilmen's Stores fob t, 1"0,, 81?^?'^ sJE.^."^^^™-.^ cash as low as any house in tho Trade. Good Harts aohiedam Soßps l»a veryjopejlor FamUy Tea at 2a por lb ; Excellent do. at 2a 8d; »rtio. le ot lw o'"8- feU Purlflea« Bn<l l >lllt> Bacon and Cheese as good and cheap as any «c.?^ Ed) ABTBm H aßß._u M.D., Trial and InspecUontavlted " Aatttor of V ood " Pnbllo Analntt" HuLLIS'S WEEIttY TIME-TABLE. — _ . ; . ~ . WboW Aseni i toveoSSf' AKTFTTR, NATHAN. Sfttil iB£S: W ANTED KrIVN-At ,he North 12.0 noon 4.0 p.m. »» Shore Pharjy. Devonport, will be d.O p.m. 6.0 p.m. found a complete assnento' Perfumes.Toilet 6.30 p.m. 7.0 p.m, Rcquis tce.SurKicaH DomesUc Appliances, - Monday, 11 p.m. Dieteti t Preparationnd Specialities for Inva- Kds. m well as Far Aledicmes of every RWTTTRI* WATfW- Ir fin descripSon, Homo»thic Medicines, and SINGLE FARE: is. articles reauiredbrjhers for the nursery. , —— t YOUNG, Familtrooer. Shortland-street, BEST Plaoo for Ranges, uvenij, ocoves, and O • Auckland. ; Blaokamith's Work.-R. NICHO_Ii3. 328, "/-i f. BRIMBLtfMBit,, Queens tiotel. Upper Qaeen-Btreet VJT. Symonds-atrßndJSyber Pass "GEORGEfIatoC. Wood),Butcher,ParneU XT'ILTING DobTJ."White's, Pirnell. • supplies best au_Uty keat at lowest X w««"^ «• w » PBIOBB. *



IT ITCH EN sS BLOOD RESTORER FOk rLKaNRINO. PURIFYING. AND INVIGOKaiINU IHB 81, ol). Seven Years' Te«t in Auckland. f ITHIS_ Medicine differs from ordinary pro. X prietary preparations, inasmuch as it was the product of years of study and investigation by an eminent physician of the Army Medical Staff, with whom Mr kitchens served during the New Zealand War, as Assistant Dispenser to the Im perial Forces. Vn its introduction to the public as a specific for the cure of Rheumatism, ■ heumatic Viout, Scrofula, Skin Diseases, Blood Impurities, and General Debility, i., quickly attained great celebrity, and soon was sought after from every part of New Zealand. It 9 curative and depnrative properties have been folly testified by the numerous testimonials received by the proprietor from patients who had long suflered from the above distressing maladies, who had ap plied in vain to physicians for relief, and in whose cases, Turkish Baths, Hot Springs, and other popular remedies had been re sorted to without effect. This celebrated medicine is compounded from products of the vegetable Kingdom, is palatable and easily taken, mild, but effec tual, in its action upon the animal econ omy. It is, in sooth, a veritable Blood Restorer cleansing it, and thereby restor ing diminished vitality. It presents, un questionably, a purer, safer, better, and more reliable alterative medicine than any that has hitherto been available to the people. MURB TESTIMONY! Not a SURPRISING CURE To thoss who know what ti ITCHEN81 Blood Restorer HAS DONE. In the Auckland Evsning Star of the 27th April last, appeared the following local, which explains itself :— The brig Bella Mary, from Melbourne in tallast, bound for Eaipara, put into har bour yesterday morning to obtain medical aid for Captain Owens, master of the vessel, who has been very unwell dniing the latter part ef the voyage. Captain Owens, who has followed the seafaring profession for many yearo, and had never until leaving Melbourne on Apiil 10th last, suffered trom illness of any severe nature, was suddenly seized on that date with violent pains iv the back. Since then he pas been swung up in a hammock in the cabin quite helpless. The vessel wa« off Kaipara at noon on Thursday last, but the weather being thick and fuggy, it was deemed advisable to come on to Auck land for medical assistance. Ihe barque arrived early yesterday morning, and Dr Moore having been sent for, visited Capt. Owens, arid gave instructions to the mate of the vessel regarding treatment. The invalid is suffering from a species of theumatiHm of a severe nature, and the doctor considers it advisable to effect a partial recovery before attempting the re. movat of his patient to more suitable quarters^ on shore. Capt. 0 wtns is well known in Auckland, and many residents will ha sorry to learn of his affliction." Referring to above, Captain Owen has this day (Ist December), stated: "After being treated for about five weeks by two medical men successively, with very little alteration in my condition, except that the pain in my hands and back was made somewhat easier throuKh, the effect of the galvanic battery, I felt a gradual sinking - that told me the dread end was not far 08. and one of my visiting frieuds tuggested that I should try what Hitchen's Blood Restorer would do, as it was beiug so talked about far and w;de. Without much faith in it, I consented to try it, Bui did not notice any good effect, until 1 had taken about the third or fourth bottle, when my appetite decidedly quick<;ne.d.._»nd, I felt tk it ray strength was coming back to me. I then ceased to take the medicine, and ullowed nature to take its course, but finding my appetite going, [ stimulated it by small doses of the Restorer, using do other medicine, but applying the ointment freely. By degrees my whole system seemed to be invigorated; and now, after a treatment of six months, I am able to re sume charge of my vecsel, and am only waiting her arrival in port to do to. I can easily walk four miles a day without the slightest inconvenience. I consider my friend's suggestion saved my life, and that it is a duty that I should publicly testify to the extraordinary power of Bitchens's Blood Restorer over the severest cases of rheumat ism." W. M. OWEN. The agents will be bappy to shew original manuscripts of the several pub lished testimonials anent the Remedy,with scores of others not yet published. L. D. NATBAN & Co. v|yE HAVE THIS CELEBRATED AND FAVOURITE BRAND or BASS'S ALE & GUINNESS'S STOUT Always in Stock. L. D. NATHAN & CO. ji E A S. We have b. large ana well-assorted stock, consisting of: ÜBOlCto MEDIUM AI»D LOW CONGOUS. CaOICE MEDIUM AND LOW KAISONS. CHOICEST MANDARIN SCENTED ORANGE PEKOES. MEDIUM MANDARIN SCENTED ORANGE PEKOES. ASSAM PEKOES AND PEKOE SOjCHONGS. DARJEELING PEKOES AND PEKOE SOUCHONGS. CACHAR PEKO S AC*D PEKOE SOUCHOhGS. AND OUR WKLL-KNOWN "COLONIAL MLSTCRF," A rich blend of India and China Teas, packed in Gib and 111b tina. L. D, :N ATHAN & C a Printed and Published by the Proprietor Henry Brett, of Symonds-street, at his General Printing Office, Wyndham-street, In. the Province of Auckland, New Zealand. Hvurdav, Apiul J, 1883.