ST. JOHN'S EVE.

Martha Holuen was tho prottiost maid in North Hants. Who shall gainsay it ? But how am I to describe hor?

" Aour Patty bo vino onuff to be a laady born I" was tho oftspoken thought of her father and mother—tho one under gardener, tho other ox-laundry maid at the "Great

House."

And, suroenough, Patty, according to the wiseacres, had for some time boen iv a fair way to havo her hoad turned by her many admirers.

A nod and a chuck undor the chin from the " young Squiro ;" and a " Waal, if she beant noo !" from John Brown, the grizzled old earth stopper, as he saw her whisk across the court yard, woro perhaps the highest and lowest gradations of admiration diroctly ex pressed. But even "Tho Squire" himself had been hoard to say to "My Lady:" " Egad, Jane, that Holdon girl is devilish pretty !" And evory farmer and farmer's boy, whip and groom, kooper and poacher, within ton miles of the Great House, was worshipping, or had worshipped to his cost, at tho shrine of Venus Sylvestris. However, Patty was "going along " eigh teen, and her little heart seomod as sound as a bell; her cheok was round and downy as a peach ; hor blue oyes glanced clear and honest through the dark lashes, and her whole demeanour defied tho mostcurious of gossips to say sho had a thought other than to attend upon her young mistress.

But innocent as sho looked—inr.ocont as she really was—l'atty, like most of the rest of womankind, hugged to her own heart hor littlo secrot; and though scarco ten words had ptissod between them, sho knew full well as ho, at the timo our story ojiens, Christmas, 17 —, that William Halfacro of Eversley, "Gypsy Will," as thoy used to call him, was her accepted lovor. Simply enough, and in this wise, had it come about.

One day in tho August previous, North Hants had challenged South Hants to meet an tho cricket field outride of the garden gates of the Great Houso ; and Southamp ton and Lynhur.st, Portsmouth and Win chester had mustered against Brainshill and Basingstoke, the Vino and High Clere, to try their respective worths. No day was it then, as now, of whito flannels and straw hats, fancy club ribbons, and sill waist handkerchiefs, of four balls an over, and lightning-paced round-arm bowing, done by gentlemanlike professional cricketers, who make their cool hundred, and lounge into the marquee for a cigarette and a claret cup. No. In black tweed broadcloth and white duck trousers, white frilled linen shirts, and tall black hats, did our heroes of the close of tho last century meet to " do such other to death " with slow and fast underhand bowling. And what need of a marquee was there on that field, where each mighty linden of tho avenue on one side, or massive oak along tho church path, along the other side of the lawn, was in itself a tent for a regiment. What noed of n claret cup when the "old October" foamed in the Great House silver tankards under a holly bower presided over by tho brewer thereof- the old family butler?

And among the heroes of the " willows " gathered round the group of oldsters gravely discussing in the centre of the held the merits of the wickets—how many runs it should be into the ditch, how many ■over, kc, kc. — stood Gypsy Will, the fastest bowler ami hardest hitter in North Hants.

A second son of a favourite old tenant, the 'Squire had a few years before given him a start on a moorland farm—much too plodding a life for Will, who soon exchanged it for an underkeepership; whereat the numberless affrays with poachers kept excitement olive and stimulated his man hood into energy.

" Play " was at last called ; and North and South Hants bowled and batted, ran and fielded, and whon the occasion came for it, ate and drank as if life depended on it. The rector kept the score, and cheered each good hit to tho echo ; and tho old 'Squire mado his padgroom lift him out of his low phaeton, standing under the lime trees, and deposit him in a big urm chair, with his gouty foot on a cushion, a little nearer the play, and even forgot to curso him for a clumsy fool, so exciting was tho gamo.

At last the winning hit was mado by ■Gypsy Will. But the day was not over yet, us ero tho last cheers for the conguor ors and conquered had died away, a fiddle and clarionet struck up a country dance, in which it was somehow fated that Martha Holden nnd Will Halfacro should "cross hands and down tho middle " —a presage of what should follow. Suffice it for the present, that as Patty walked hack to the House with him an hour after, as tho drowsy shard-beetle took tho place of tho bees in the lindens over head, and she stolo a look into Will's face and thought of his manliness and beauty, she loved him once and for all, und ho looked down on her and loved in return. But tho limc-treo leaves began to turn aud dicker down on tho lawn, tho bracken bronzed under the sun, the last red-hoathor blossom turned purple, mauve, and then "brown, the puppies camo homo from walk, and cub-hunting began—and still no sign from William. November and tho opening meet of tho season brought its houseful of guests—its breakfast table sot in the grand hall, guy with pink, greon, and black coats, white breeches, and boots—spurs jangling on the stono floor—tho hounds frolicking round tho huntsman on tho lawn, save only one, old "Harbinger," the' Squire's pot, that was snoozling at the old man's knoes inside— -and brought for Patty its belter skelter run with her young mistross along tho grass ride, to got beforo tho rush of horsemen to tho old summer house, whero, onensod in .sturdy velveteen, gun on arm and retriever at. heel, stood Gypsy Will. Tho sign camo ! A bow and a blush for "my young lady," a blush, n bow, a sudden drooping of tho eyes for Tatty. Sho was content ! and repaid all three with interest ; but no word yet. Tho hunt is up ! The " dappled darlings" aro leaping madly through tho brown brneken, tho glon reechoing their madden ing melody. Tho last faint note of the horn has died away into tho dark bank of fir woods ; but tho beauty of all around her is -lost to Patty in .the memory of those brown eyes that so lately drooped before her own. Winter's first snow brings hcrfirst troubles for Patty. For somo time past sho has no ticed that the young 'Squire's looks havo their significance, and troubled she is. Shall sho confide hor fears to any one 7 No ! William may speak now that ho has got his now cottage, and then she will bo safe. ißut William is doomed not to speak ; for on the nightof tho snowfall tho "Hartford Bridge boys " swoop'down on to tho Squire's coverts, and handlo Will so roughly, before the rest of thokeopers and grooms can como to his rescue, that ho is carried down on a hurdle to his father's cottage to be nursed for a month, loaving poor Patty doubly disconsolate for tho loss of her lovor, and for the knowledgo that she is now moro than teyer at tho young 'Squiro s mercy. How ever, Christinas passes without any fresh" encounter, nnd by carefully kcoping out of his way sho manages to tide ovor tho time -till ho goos to college agnin — not to bo back till summer.

Easter comes round ; a late Easter, but a bright Easter to Patty—for coming home from the village on Easter Eve, with somo of the other sorvant maids, oyer the moor, at the bond of the avenue stand, at first sight to the girls' terror, and then to their relief, two men—old Stratton, the head keeper, and Will Halfacro—ready to pilot them safely through the darkness of the firs. And as tho old man ' warms us into some keeper-Saga—how under that very tree someone had killed someone else that was deer-stealing—William drops behind with Patty, and speaks ! .. Hoot! hoot! your warning to them, wise old owl coursing through the trees ! You know how hard it is to find food for two

young ones in the old church tower at Eversley, and avoid keeper's traps ! Yap ! yap ! your warning, crafty Mr I_ox ! You too have your family cares, and rabbits are scarce and cubs are hungry ! But tho wis dom of the owl and the craft of the fox are unheeded ; and the young couple live a life time of lore in that short homeward walk.

Happy at last was Patty. But still a cloud hung over her little horizon. The wedding day was not to bo till after mid summer —till after the pheasants' nesting season was well over, as till then Will would have to be up and out all night and every night : and "who knows," said ho carelessly, "that the Hartford Bridge boys mayn't pay us some more visits 2"

May's thirty-one days wore long to Patty, especially as the Hartford Bridge boys had ono heavy brush with the keepers of the Great House, and then another, till Patty began to fear for her swain's life. An impul sive lover was Patty—having onceloved, her love was her very life—and when tho third bi ush came with tho poachers the poor child was well-nigh wild. A month still of tho pheasant season an 1 the most dangerous of all—how could she survive it ? What could she do to help him V Pray ? She had prayed morning, noon, and night. Could she ask her young mistress to intercede with the 'Squire to get Will something else to do _ No —she dare not. The 'Squire at that moment was red hot, externally and internally, with gout, and ho had already given Will two chances. Ho would never give him another. What was to be done? While she was racking her poor little heart-strings and brains to find some securer life for her beloved, one day there appeared at the hall door, whore the old 'Squire was sitting in tho warm south sun, watching the hounds exercising on tho grass plot, tho well-known face of Dinah Lee—the Mother in-Israel of all North Hants gypsies. Every one was kind to old Dinah ; and the 'Squire, even, after cursing her and her tribe for sheep stealers, and goodness knows what else, chucked her a shilling, and sent her around to the buttery door, whero, as luck would have it, she met Martha.

Of all people Dinah was the one Patty had | wished most to meet, for a story of her grandmother's had been running in her head for tho last few weeks, to the effect that if "some one" did "something" on St. John's Eve, it would render him or his friends invisible. And ere Dinah could say a word Patty had drawn her into the buttery room, crossed herpalm with a Bllver sixpence, and asked the result; which was simple enough, for Dinah had seen the cricket match nigh upon a year &pro and— " My pretty honey would marry a tall, dark man, but not till he had passed through many dangers—even to the danger of death, from which he might or might not recover." Too ilutterod to see the incoherence of this prophecy, Patty 'hen broached her more important question. " Was there not some way Dinah could tell her that would make her lover invisible, so as to save him from all these dangers '!" " Yes ;" but Dinah could not let out the secret to everybody. Sho was "poor and had to live."

In a few moments the little hoard of money from Patty's box upstairs was in the old gypsy woman's hand, in answer to which came theso directions :—

"On St. John's Eve, between eleven o'clock and midnight, if you would find in visibility, tako a platter of-wood, and let there fall into il some seed of the king fern; which done in fasting and in silence, will in sure you to walk both day and night, in heat or cold, rain and lire, without being seen."

But where am I to find the kin" fern ?" "Ask your man, honey," was tho only answer vouchsafed ; and, to avoid further questioning, Dinah slippod away, deaf to all entreaties, and even to the enticements of the larder.

On that same day Patty found out whero the king fern grew, under the summer house bill; and 'twas only tho next that Will, unwitting of the purpose, had pro vided her with a specimen of tho fern itself, a wooden platter, nnd a full description of where to gather more down in the damp shaughs. Verily life seemed unbearable to Patty for the next few days, overwrought as sho was with fear for her lover. All tho superstition of j the old southern Saxon blazed out in her, so that, though Dinah had not absolutely said the fern seed would render Will invisible to tho poachers, she had come to the conclusion that if she could gather it herself, she could hover about him like a guardian angel and save him from harm. A doubt of the infallibility of Dinah's specific never entered into her mind.

Even the coming homo of tho young 'Squiro toward tho middle of June was of no import to her, though ho was more ardently inclined than over. Patty lived only for her lovor, nnd ignored all else. Indeed, so palo and anxious she grew that every ono noticed it; but with set purpose before her, she lookod not right nor left, except to mako such love to the old housekeeper as should get her possession of tho key of the door leading on to tho terrace, whence sho could easily go around by tho corner of tho bowl ing green into tho park. St. John's Evo came at last ! The morn ing seemed unending, the afternoon intoler able, and tea in the housekeeper's room op pressively weary. As luck would have it, Patty's young mistress went to bed early that night. Tho lights in tho lower suite of statu rooms wero put out at a littlo past ten, and cloven o'clock found Patty croeping on' tip-too down tho staircaso into the great hall, through whoso laticed windows the moon streamed in on to many a trophy of Middle- Age armour—on sword and lance, Puritan leather jerkin, pike and matchlock —and trophiosof Hood nnd field—from tho last red door head that graced the chaso nigh three hundred years ago to tho mask of tho last gallant fox that had died before tho hounds in February. Nervously she unlocked tho door and stepped out into tho intense black shadow of the Groat House. Beyond the terrace the home grass park was a blaze of moon light up to tho Groat Oak, beyond which the broken edges of bracken and bramble, thorn and mountain ash, wero shadowed in with mighty blue-black pines. Buttherc is no time to stay, and, keeping in the shadow, Patty flits along the terrace, through the arched gallory door, under which tho grand court ladies of former days had sipped their chocolate with Lady Zouch, and gossiped while the men were playing troco on the bowling green outside. Across this to the littlo arbor Patty steals like a hunted hare, conscious that there is the only dangerous spot. A moment more sho has passed the arbor, clambered over the littlo stono parapet, and, without wait-"

ing to think of its depth, has jumped into the moat surrounding tho terrace.

Here she pauses to listen ; but nor sound nor sign, savo tho bleat of tho sheep and whinny of the colts in the grass park, and the quick palpitations of her own heart. Littlo did she suspect that within fifteen feet of her in the arbor, crushing down his wonder and excitement, sat the young 'Squire, who, to avoid parental objection, was enjoying his evening Havana under the moonlight; and who had half recognised in the black-cloaked figure flitting past the nrbor Patty Holdon, the girl of ail others he most wished to have a word with.

Whore could she be going ? To see whom ? wore the questions that puzzled him. To see some relation or sick friend, she would have openly asked for leave or for an escort. No. This pointed to some clandestine meeting, the which he would take steps to see, and by taxing her with it turn it to his own profit. As Patty's footfall died away on the soft turf, the young 'Squiro slipped out of the arbour, and, vaulting over the railing, dropped into the shadow to follow her foot steps so soon as she should bo fairly hidden in tho Lime avenuo.

The Limo avenue ! How sombro it seemed to poor Patty, heedless of the scent of tho last few blossoms—dying upon the night—of the great moths that swooped and fluttered in and out. She saw only a roof of foliage arching in a great shadow, the gray and grisly stems, and the glare of the moonlight outside, into which she longed but dared not to step. Anyone from the House, or some of the men coming home, might sco her there; while in the gloom she was safe from all save the dread of a name'ess "something" stepping out and confronting her from behind every tree-trunk.

The end of the Lime avenuo is reached, and the Winchfield road crossing her path at right angles gleams white in tho moon light—the crossing sentinelled by four giant silver pines, from whose lordly tops a single jackdaw begins to chatter as he sees her, and as the whole roost take up the cry, she shrinks back in terror against the stein of the last linden.

But it is too late to go back now. Will's life—her own—depends on the .success of her venture. The long grass moonlit ride, fringed with heather and marked with scattering firs, would soon give place to the darker forest, in which there would be more safety ; and after a moment's hurried prayer, she sped wildly up the ride amid a chattering volley from the jackdaws. The great suvor fir—scarred and scored from crest to boll by lightning, the wonder of her childhood —is passed, and many another noble landmark of tho chase, till she stops at last on tho edge of the thicker forest under the shade of the well-known Deformed Scotch Fir, which, unable through some youthful in jury to rear a head as proudly as his brothers on either side, has perversely grown outward and downward till it has formed a bower fit for the Fir Maiden herself.

As soon as the excitement of movement had passed, a deadly fear of impending evil came over Patty ; but the brave littlo spirit would not quail ; and out again she crept into the moonlight, only to shrink back with a cry, as through the pines overhead,.' with evory undulating motion, there swept a brokensheet of whito twtjity feet square, and then silently faded into the distance. Poor child ! littlo did she deem, as sho cowered under the fir branches, that the same sheet which had scared many a one before, and should many a one afterwrard, was only a herd of swans wending their nightly way from Do gmesfiold to Bramshill, from Bramshill great pond to tho Loddcn at Swallowfield. But to Patty, as to others, it was a veritable moving apparition of the ghost and bogy of hor childhood ; and long it was ore sho could muster courage for an other start. She could but die ; and what if she did die for Will's sake 1 Better that than have him killed and leave her desolate. Then, fancy, if she was successful ! if she reached tho fern seed, gathered it and gave it to him, so that he would henceforth walk invisible among tho poachers ! For that meant absolute safety.

Yes ! up and on ! till the pine needless, crisped under her tread. § With an occasional start as a nightjar swoops into her path in pursuit of a moth, a rabbit scuttles into the fern, or a flock of snipe wails across from the moor down to tho gleaming reaches of the rivers below, a* length she emerges from the forest on to a chine, on the further end of which glints whito tho summer house. On either side the hill slopes down abruptly, coverod in with bracken.

It is not, however, to the right, where far below the thorn bushes rise in the dell, but to the left she looks anxiously, where the gleaming stems of the silver birches mark the bog^y stream by which grows the king fern. Sho can hear tho dogs at tho keeper's, half a irillo away, break out into answering tongue' as a fox sullies the still ness with a querulous bark, which reminds her that she is standing out in the open moonlight, where some of the keepers or watchers may sec her. So she plunges down tho little moor path, and disappear ing in overarching frondsjof bracken, is lost to sight to the young 'Squiro, •who, more and more puzzled with hor maiiteuvres, has almost mado up his mind to betray himself. But,- perhaps this doll may tell its tale; arid cautiously ho too dives down into tho bracken, and is lost to sight to a third person—Gipsy Will himself, gtinon shoulder, who, unknown to cither of the others, has been keoping pace with them through tho firs to the loft—a more puzzled spectator than even tho young 'Squire. The young Squiro ho had known at ©nee, but Patty was not so easily recognised, nor the reason for her being there and being followed.

There must be something wrong about this. And he, too, disappears under the green blanket of fern, converging so as to meet the othertwoat the bottom of the dell.

Not twenty yards apart do the two men roach it, and twenty yards alifcad of them on tho tinkling h_oor;Stream side, hedged in with silver birch stems, stands Patty Holden in the moonlight, shaking into her platter a giant frond of Osmuuda Regalis that towers above her head, while her face shames the very moon in paleness ; and the two men see hor whole form quivering with emotion.

The young 'Squire first recovered his sang froid, and jauntily stepped out from tho shadow with a " Hullo ! little Patty !" Tho girl's wild shriek as he stepped for ward to put his arm round her roused all tho slumboring devil in Will's heart, and, clubbing his gun, ho sprang forward.

The 'Squire's sword was out in a second, nnd, cro tho gun stock descended, was through Will's left .mi. : nevertheless tl_o blow fell fair on tho young mrtn's shoulder, crushing him senseless to tho earth.

About two months afterward, the door of a cell in Winchester gablopeneil,nnd akccper said to its.inmate, "Will Halfacro, you're in luck ! The young 'Squire of Bramshill is better and instead of proceeding against you, thoy havo withdrawn nil charges; and hero's Patty Holdon brought the warrant for your release." In another moment Patty was nestling in his bosom, and telling in disjointed sentences how the young 'Squire had said it was all his own fault, and how he had frankly for given ; nnd how tho old 'Squire, though he could not keep Will on the place, had got

him a hcad-keepership in Hertfordshire, and that he was to go there immediately ; and how sho loved him, and that they were to get married at once, and that she'd tell him how she got his release by-and-byc, and twenty other things — all of which Will quite forgot in his bewilderment. And to the day of his death he nover remembored rightly what passed at Winchester gaol, ex cept that ho got out, and that Patty thoro and then extracted a promise from him that he should never refer to the subject of pick ing fern seed on St. John's Eve.—From " Temple Bar."

* STA.R -^SATURDW 'SIJWL^ENT^'" JANUARY 12. 1884.

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AUCKLAND —City Property- valnable busi ness premises, situate In Shortland-Btroet, near Post-offlce ; grand position. (875) AHIPiHA.- Valuable Grazing Farm; good homestead : mock at valuation : together with about 20,'C0 acres leasehold, at very low rental. (920) ARARIMU — '73 acres, part improved, part bush. Lot 93, Opaheke. (950) AVONDALE.—22 aores splendid land, mostly in grass; a large portion in orchard, and shelter trees; KOtid creek. (851) AVONDALE.—IS} acres rich alluvial land, fenced, partly ploughed and in grass; fresh water Htream. sea rrontat?e ; good lignite on land. Price £35 per acre; half cash, balance at S per cent. (901) AMY-«TRKET, ELI.ER°LIE. - 2 Splendid Allotments, having a frontage or about 261 feet. (811) BLAK._-BTREKT NEWTON.-Very comfoit tablr)verandah Cottateof 6 roons; 2 flre pluces. colonial oven. &_,, good well. Allot ment 33 x 50. Price, £230. (902) BURLKIUHS-TREET — Near St Sepulchre's Church Good and substantial-built Villa of live rooms, litted with every convenience. Nic-position ; pretty place: nice garden: allotment 10 x isu. Cheap. (912) COIIMKHCIAi. ROAD, off Great North Road. —o_ acres: 2 acres paling fenced and planted with SOO fruit trees. Very cheap. (838) COMMERCIAL ROAD, off Grout North Koad. —New Verandah Cottage ot 5 Rooms, Regis tered Grate, Cupboards, &c. Allotment 91 z 150. £400. (728) DAIRY FLAT — 255 acre, good Land, part vol canic, hush, nice homestead cf 1 rooms. Price, otii tid per acre (970) DEVONPORT. — Beaoh Road: 4 Dwelling houses ; 3 let at £50 each, and one at £60. First-class investment and wry cheap. (839) EDWIN-STREKr, ROCKY NOOK.-Very nice little Cottage of 5 rooms: good volcanic al lotment. Price, only £250. EPSOM.—vilia Residence and Grounds Also, s-plcndid Building Allotments, near resi dence of E Hesketh, Esq. (.75) ELLKRSLIE —11] aores Volcanio Soil; Rood road frontage, near Racecourse. (954) GREAT SOUTH ROAD —! J acres and 6-roomed House and out-buildinga oa the main road, near Ellerslie Station Price. £625. (963) GEORGE AND WILLIAM STREETS, PON SONBY—Brick House of four rooms and scullery, outhouse, &c; allotment, 33 __ 133; .MOO. .GREAT NORTH ROAD-About 5 miles from Auckland —A new and well-finished House of 6 rooms, stable, 6to„ and 3 aores splendid land, in cultivation: bounded by a grand stream of water; moro land if required. (319) HARGRAVKS-STREET. off College Road.— Comfortable Villa of 5 rooms, workshop, Fowl-house, &o; grand view; near the city, and cheap. (949) MANGARE.—One of the best little Grazing Farms in the province of Auckland. , (642) MONTAGUE-STREET, NEWTON.—New Six roomed' Verandah Cottage, fitted with register grates, colonial oven, cupboards, &o. Price. 280. "... (719) MOUNT EDEN.—Handsome ilia of 6 rooma, pantry, bath room, stable, ana otner con veniences; large allotment. Price, only £525. (859) NORTHCOTE.—2>acrosHomestead Farm, wire fenced ; part in grass and crop; main .road * frontage; splendid view of Harbour. Price, £54' i. (9?5) NORTHCOTE. —ID aires gool Land. Price only nil per acre u96)" NEW LYNN, AVONDALE.— 20 acres good loam; rising district sevon miles by road: adjoining railway station. 4 good Grass Padilooks fenced; niitrht bo subdivided with great advantage. A bargain 944 NEW MARKET.—New-street: Now Verandah House of 5 rooms; good well, tink. &o.; nice garden : allotment 48 x 120. Price only £350. NELSON-S' REET, CITY.-A very nice and commodious House of S rooms, having a grand view of harbour. Price, £650 (979) ONEHUNGA.—Honse" 7 rooms, in good'order, good well, stable, &c, and two allotments: a great bargain., Price, £-00. (566) PAPAKUR\ VALLEY. - 426 acres good alluvial land; partly fenced, and a portion Improved; & splendid creek through-the property; about 3 miles from Railway Station. _•._., (812) POKENO.- ISO acres Volcanio Land, nearly all level: 26 acres cleared and in good grass and fenced Price * 2 per aore; a bargain. 943 PO'vENO.-Nice Little Farm of 21 acres, in - crops, grass, &c.; good flye roomed Cottage and outhouses, which, with 4 cows, dairy utensils. &c, &0., is now offered for £390 situate just at Pokeno Station. (893) , , PROSPECT TERRACE.-Handsome Villa of Rooms and i*oreh: fitted with Cupboards. Dresser, Registered Grate, Oven, &o; good well and tank, nice gardon, well-stocked, £360. (728» PUKKKOHE. — Splendid little Farm of 105 acres : email piece of bush; subdivided into paddocks, sco ; grand stream of water through the property: good House 6 rooms, oairy. stoo'»yard. &o. Price only £800; part cash (930) PAPARAT YALL'Sy.M»U>**"»AT >WHIRI. —1.3 acres Unimproved Bush Land at £2 per acre (972) R_MaR Ma. 160 acres good mixed Land a shot riistancafroniDrury. Cheap, at £3 10s per acre. (64) RAZORBACK—4B Acres Good Land. 26 aoies in grass; cottage of threo roonis.'cow-shed, piggery, &c; never-failing supply of water.' Price, only £250. ; (67») ' SEaFIELI> VIEW. Claremdnt-street—Veran dah Villa of 6 rooms, in good order, fitted; with cupboards, dresser, register, oven, , tank, wnll &c; good garden Cheap. (153)-/ ST. MARY'S ROAD corner ot Dublin-street.- Houso of 5 rooms and scullery, and 2 rooms detaohed; gus, tanks, Sco. Prico £565. TAMAKI EAST.- Compact littlo Farm of 120 ncreß. of which 3n acres are m grass. War der stud orchard . good piecu of bush, and a , ! pI"V7 <_ul jtjipply of water Houst. of 7 : rooms p .sale, shed and sundry outbuild ings, j* i. Ingoort ordc. (912) Vll.W ROAD AND THE TERRACE. MOUNT ! juDKV —-A First class Residence of "rooms. < complete with every convenience . well laid . out grounds aboiu. 1 acre ■ fruit and flower : garden. Magniflcftnt view • 045 VIKW ROAD MOUNT KDKN.—S minutes 1 from Railway Station — A new G-rcomed Two-ctorey Building, verandahs, bath-room wat<_r laid in ;' f.nit trees and veizetab 0 gardon. volcanic mould. Price. £130? 94s WARKWORTH.-Old Established Boarding. hou«o Business for sale. First-class oppor tunity to booiho a really good payingrcon oern. Price only £500. • P " • 1 WHANGAREI — 121 acros Improved Land: . small piece kauri bush; Lot 51, Taurxi-oa. W^^^H-ImProved Farm of 143 a2res . at Mangapai; 4u acres in era. 3, and 6in orchard; dwelling house Cheap, £6un WHANG ' Rill! <r - D ' -Pari.aß._y -GOat^ls. 1 part m itrass and kauri; homestead farm: ' ■ good rohd. Price, £___ _- ' (go.) '■- WH-.TVWH TA - Waipa River—inn acres Improved Farm : flrst-clas. residence; good ! orchard; charmingfcroperty Price. £ .100. WELLINGTON. - STREET. - Comfortable j verandae Cottage of 4 rooms, in gootl con-^ '■'-'•■ I ditiop. Room underneath for good work shop. Price, only £3;0 *(91t') D. F. EVANS, F.ouse, Land, and Estate agent. I Land Mart—Queen-Btreet, .