OUR LONDON FLANEUR.

SOCIAL THEATRICAL, and LITERARY.

The Fortescue-Garmoyle Trial—No Com promise—The Tichbornk Claimant About to bkcomb an actor—hammond's won derfoi/ Luck— Spotting a Treble Event _Thb "Vanity Fair" Assault Case tvTkh Trsvklyan's Story— A. Little " Mill "—The Editor Whacks Loud Marcos — Description op the Scene— The Cabman's Evidence.

London, Novomber 6. go all the circumstantial and authoritative statements rolativo to a settlement having been cosjo to betweon the plaintiff and de fendant in the Forteacue-Garmoyle case wore without foundation, and the trial is positively down for hearing during the pre sent month. There will bo no defence, nor any appearance on the part of Lord Cairns's heir—so the story gotjs; tho question raised being purely one of damages. Well, I shall believe in this trial coming off when I read the reports of it in tho newspapers, not be fore. Depend upon it Miss Fortesoue will at last take what Lord Cairns offers rather than answer somo questions sho must know would be put to her in cross-oxamination. Another extraordinary report is to tbe effect that the Claimant to the Tichborne estates, finding the public arc not ao ready to pay their shillings and sixpences to hear him dilate upon his grievances as they were ten years'ago, has determined to take to the stage, and wilt appear in a melo drama descriptive of his own adventures. The idea haa the merit of originality, and would unquestionably "draw" for a time. We have, however, yet to learn whether the authorities will consent to the plan. Mr Castro, it must be remembered, is not a free but a ticket-of-leave man under police survoiliance for many years to come, and any misbehaviour on his part can, and probably will, be promptly punished by re arrest and incarceration.

The talk amongst men just now is all obout the wonderful luck of the ex-stable ltd John Hammond, who, with only two racehorses, and in tho course of a single season, has cleared the English turf of its most valuable prizes, and landed not less than a quartor-of-a-million of money in hots. Florence the mnro that carried off the Cambridgeshire for him tho other day, under 9st. lib. (an extraordinary burden), wao purchasod from one of the most ex perienced trainers at Newmarkot for tho price of a common hack, and St. Gation (the Derby and Cesarewitch hero) fell into this favourite of Fortune's hands equally cheaply. At Newmarket during tho second October Meeting, Hammond simply couldn't do wrong. Ho was almost the only man who backed Melton for the Middle Park Plate, and his winning on tho Cesarewitch can't have fallen far short of £50,000.

To show how difficult it is to "|spot" a treble ovont, I may mention, that the •' Prize Winner," a Tuesday racing paper belonging to Corbett, of tho " Sporting Times," offered .-£250 to any person or per eoris who successfully prophesied tho winners of the Cesarewitch, Middle Park-Plate, and Cambridgeshire. More than 101,200 coupons ■were filled up and sent in, yet enly 49 persons struck the double event of Cesare witch'and Middle Park Plate, and not a single soul achiaved the treble. Mr Corbett consequently makes a fat thing out of the business, for he sold papers to tho value of about £840, and keeps the £250 in his pocket. Talking of newspapers reminds mo that the editors of the two "society" journals, "Vanity Fair "and "St. Stephen's Review," have been having rather a warm time of it lately. Tho row at the " St. Stephen's Review " office was of a very trivial character, and need not be recapitulated here; but tho merry little "mill" between Lord Marcus Beresford and Mr Bowlea, of " Vanity Fair,", is being talked about everywhere jnst now, and moreover seems likely to develop into a small cause celebre. Tho motive of Lord Marcus's assault was a paragraph in " Vanity Fair " about his con nection with theunfortunace Mrs Treveljan, whoso piteous plight was surely a righteous subject for astonished comment. I will let Mr Bowles tell the talo in his own lan-

guage:—" There is a forlorn and unfor tunate lady named Trevelyan. She was married when a beautiful girl of nineteen to that Colonel Trevelyan who had ridden in

the Balaclava charge, and has risen to the command of the 7th Hussars. She had an affectionate husband and an honourable

position; sho became the mother of children and was envied, admired, and courted. But after sixteen years of married lift)

trouble arose. Complaints wore made and wrongs alleged on both sides, and in 1875 her husband separated from her, executing a deed of separation, under which she was to receive £400 a-year. Lord Marcus Beresford, who was then an intimate friend of both husband and wife, was appointed trustee of the deed. After some years, however, during which the allowance was regularly paid, Colonel Trerelyan stopped it, on the allegation that certain of the Covenants of the deed had been broken. Then ensued legal proceedings over the deed, and the events thereto belonging, between Lord Marcus Beresford and the Colonel, and also between the Colonel and Lord Marcus coupled with Mrs Trevelyan. But jneantime the poor woman has been left without her allowance. From stage to stage of poverty she has gone, until she baa become utterly destitute. She is now a wretched outcast, without a home or a penny to buy food, inhabiting by turns the streets, the workhouse and the prison, and driven by her sorrows to desperation. She has perhaps not been faultless herself; but, however faulty she may have been, it seems very surprising, very shocking, and very dreadful, that none of those who in her prosperity courted and admired her, and liivea with her on terms of friendship and intimacy, should now be found willing to stretch out a hand to rescue her from her pitiable situation. This poor creature has related her. sad tale in one police court after another, and in one after another has been told by the kindly but powerless magistrate that he could do nothing for her. Only a few weeks ago she was tried at tho Middle sex Sessions for stealing two pewter pots. She once again, with trembling lips," told her pitiful story, described how she had been repulsed by all those to whom she believed herself entitled to look for help, how she had been refused admission even to the workhouse, and how, having no money, she had to walk penniless about the Btreets all night. The judge, touched no doubt with pity, discharged her with a caution." Itwas onthis' policetourt case "Vanity Fair " in the first instance commented, re marking that either Lord Marcus or some of the unhappy lady's former friends ought to help her. Tho Beresforda are all more or .loss

bullies, Lord Marcus beine a notorious

bruiser. I suppose the observations of "Vanity Fair" struck home, for he was very angry, and went np to the office of the paper intending to inflict condign punish monttm the editor. . . V

What eventuated was subsequently de- Bcribed by Mr Bowles at the Police Court, as follows :—On October 16th I was driving to the office in Tavistock-street, Covent Garden, in a cab shortly before 4 o'clock. While crossing Covent harden, one of my staff came up to mo and said, " Lord Marcus Beresford is waiting at the office for you with, it is believed, hostile intentions." I took my gloves off, and told the driver to go on. Arrived at the office, a gentleman whom I did not know personally, but whom I know now as Lord Marcus Beresford, put his foot on the step of tho cab, as it was drawing - up, and said, " Are you Mr Bowles ?" I re plied, " Yes. Hay I ask what your name is?" He said, "I am Lord Marcus Beres ford. You published a letter in your paper last week containing lies about me. I want the name of the writer." I remarked, "This is hardly a proper way to ask it,", and therewith I got out of the cab. When we were on the pavement,. I aslied, "What have you to complain of J" lie said, " Will you give me tho name of the writer?" I replied, "No; I am afraidl. can't do, that." He said, "Then you adopt the authorship of the letter your self?" I replied, "No, I don't dp; that either." He repeated, "Then you adopt the responsibility yourself ?" I replied, "No; but pray step into the office and we willdiscuas the matter," and therewith I made with my hand a gesture of invi tation into . the doorway. At this time we were standing close together, almost touching. Without another word or any warning whatever, he pushed ma with his left elbow against thß shaft of the cab; so that my hat fell off and simul taneously struck me with bis right fist on the forehead. While in tho act of striking the blowi or immediately afterwards, he called me a liar, a thief, and swore at me. Up to'this time tho conversation had . been ■. conducted politely, the ; voices ;.. scarcely raised. Then I went at him and .struck him several times on the , face. This appeared to surprise and ;.;.'oonfnßf, Mm. He got s^ay. from me, ri and went into the road, I followed »£.: : "-'-'-* ■•■■■'-■

etill striking at him, and when he got to the other side of the road he went down fell down. While down, I tried to hold him, - and took him by the shoulders. He struggled, kicked, and swore, and some of his friends pulled me off". He got up, and simultaneously two youths—clerks—came out of " Vanity Fair " Office and took hold of him. He was swearing generally, demeaning himself more like a maniac than a human being. He broke away from them, called me names, and again rushed and struck at me. He stopped, danced about, and swore. I struck at him, as I was obliged to defend myself. He appeared dazed in his manner, as if he could not see mo, and I avoided and parried his blows. There was a little lull, and I sent for a policeman and went into the office. When the policeman arrived I went down to give the defendant into custody, but he Had gone, and I was informed that he had gone away in the cab which had brought me.—Mr Bowles's account of the affair was substantiated by three or four of his_ employee, but the cabman who brought him to the scene of action swore to quite a different story. He said: "On the 16th inst., I drove Mr Bowles to his office in Tavistock-street. I saw Lord Marcuß Boreaford there. They had some conver sation. I saw Mr Bowles leave cab and walk towards the office. He had a brown stick in his hand. If anything, ho seomed to raiso it. He pushed Lord Marcus with his left hand, and Lord Marcus struck him with his right, and knocked his hat off. Lord Maroua in the blow overreached himself and fell on his knees with his hands on tho ground Mr Bowles then pitched into him, and struck him on tho shoulders and on the back of the head. I then counted four men come out of "Vanity Fair" Office, and saw them pitch into Lord Marcus most un mercifully, and in a most cowardly manner, some of them holding his hands and some striking him. One of them got hold of his legs and tried to tumble him. Lord Marcus struggled with them across the road, and Mr Bowles followed, and did a most cowardly thing, worthy only of a cat or a woman. I saw him try and scratch Lord Marcus's face. Lord Marcus was hit on the back of the head Eventually he got free foom the whole lot, and the four men ran into the office, and Mr Bowles ran in also. Lord Marcus then jumped into my cab and drove away. At least*sor 6 men weroon Lord Marcus during tho scuffle, pitehingintohim whilst ho was on the ground. He got six orsovon blows on the back of the >head. I was astonished Lord Marcus came out of it so well. Thoy never got him actually down to the ground, but they tried to. They were not men enough to stand boforo him. I cried out " Shame I" and others did the same. Lord Marcus was overmanned, and cried, " How many of you are jjoing to bo at me ?" After several other witnesses had been examined, the magistrate committed Lord Marcus for trial, so we have by no means heard tbe last of this pleasant little affair.

THE LONDON THEATRES.

(Fkom Our Londox Correspondent.)

London, October 24. One of the most important theatrical premieres of the present season took placo on Thursday evening last, when Mr Wilson Barrett's much-talkod-qf and curiously an ticipated revival of "Hamlet" was pro duced • with great splendour at the Princesses'. Tho audience, as might be expected, proved worthy tho occasion. Not only were all the usual Htorary, artistic, and theatrical "first-nighters" assembled in unexampled force, but such bright and particular stars as Professor Ruskin, Lord Lytton, Mr Matthew Arnold, and Professor Huxley shone forth from the private boxes. Tho performance from beginning to ond was a huge success. For the first time many of the audience found "Hamlet "an easily comprehensible and deeply interest ing play. Instead of a ranting, mouthing, middle-aged madman, Mr Wilson Barrett makes the Danish Prince a lad. melancholy and suspicious at first, afterwards soured and revengeful. It is, however, the mounting and arrangement* of this revival that are so specially remarkable. Scenery, dresses, and armour have all been presented archteologically correct. Mr Barrett treats us to a series of brilliant pictures of life in mcdiceval Denmark. First we have a won derful view oi the platform and massive Castle of Krongberg rising sternly, tower upon tower and bastion upon bastion, far away into the chill grey sky. This changes to the banquetting hall of castle, where crowds of semi-barbaric courtiers surround the King, a handsome man of fifty, and the Queen, in this revival, a ripe beauty of perhaps five-and-forty. The play scene is treated in a singular and highly effective manner. The performance takes placo oat of doors.'' In a moonlit grove, with the silver path upon the distant sea, under the dark shadow of the castle walls and amongst gloomy fir trees the players pitch an open platform. Hither come the King, Queen, and Court, and .-:eat themselves at a right angle to the stage The situation is mysteriously exciting. The gay dresses of the courtiers, the amorous attitudes of the King and Queen, the lowering presence of Hamlet, half hidden in the Back-ground, tho variety of light caused by the flaring torches, the persistent beauty of tho clear still moon, and tho realistic acting of the players—all combine to mako up a striking contrast to the stereotyped reading of this scene. Later on, too, the fencing takes place out of doors. These alterations are dead on the face of precedent, but do much to heighten the interest of tho tragedy. Wilson Barrett's Hamlet will excite—in fact, haa already excited—any amount of controversy. It seems full of thought and strikingly original.. Miss Eostlake is, of course, tho Ophelia of the revival. -She made her first success in London in the part some yoars ago, and repeats it now. Other noteworthy performances are the Claudius of Mr AVillard.thePlayer Kingof Mr Walter Speaktuan, and the Laertes of Mr Frank Cooper. To-morrow (Saturday) week is fixed for the production of "Borneo and Juliet "at tho Lyceum. Miss Anderson has taken extraordinary pains with the mounting. She went to Werona specially to study the scenery,which will be reproduced (even to giving the effect of the burning Italian sun) with strictest accuracy. The fight in the first act that Irving bestowed so much pains upon in his revival, Miss Ander son also hopes to score with. It has been rehearsed daily for weeks. As for the cast, Mrs Stirling resumes her famous role of Nurse, and Mr Herbert Standingl has been specially engaged for'the part of Mercutio G orris should make a far better Romeo than Irving; tut I fear Miss Anderson is too passionless an actress to be a thoroughly sympathetic Juliet. The new burlesque on "Called Back," at the Gaiety Theatre, is a -wretched affair, wholly unworthy the traditions of the house. Nelly Farren mimmicks ''Curly" Bellew's affected attitudes amusingly, and Connie tiilchrist, in a long white frock, tries to assume Miss Lingard's famous dazed look ; but neither they nor Messrs Elton and Boyce are ablo to put any life into the piece, which will, however, probably be re tained on the programme till Christmas. The Alhambra has (by permission of the Middlesex magistrates) been re-converted in toamusic-hall.and opened on Saturday last with two grand ballets and a variety enter tainment. In the latter Arthur Roberts— at present the most popular comic singer in London —made his appearance and warbled " I'm Going to do Without 'em " and " Tbo Good Young Man who Died," ditties lhat were all the rage three or four years ago, He received a regular ovation, the audience refusing to allow the performance to proceed till he had bowed himself tired.

The revival of "The Sorcerer "is draw ing crowded houses to the Savoy Theatre. You have probably heard the commence ment of the second act has been somewhat changed When the curtain rises all the peasantry are discovered lying sleeping where they fell when the potent charm of Mr J. W. Wells commenced to work. The moon fhines softly down on the silent tKrong,'arid Aline, Alexis, and Wells enter on tiptoe with lanterns. They Bing a trio :

■" 'Tis twelve. I think; Ana at this magic hour The magic drink Should manifest its power. Oh! slumbering forms! . How little have ye guessed ■ The fire that warms Each apathetic breast!" Aline miseei her mother and Alexis his father1 from amongst the sleepers, upon ■which John Wellington Wells explains in recitative: . ■. I did not think it meet to see A dame of lengthy tc-iierce. A baronet and X.C.8.; A Doctor of Divinity, And that reaDPclfthle Q.C. All faat aslccop al-fresco-iy; And so I had them taken homo And put to bed respectably. I trust my conduct meets your approbation. Alexis: Sir, you have aotei with discrimination, And shown more delicate appreciation Than we expect in persons of your station.

Mb Wellb : But stay, they waken one by one, The spall has worked, the deed is done; I would suggest that we retire While love the housemaid lights the kitchen fire. Tho villagers yawn, sit up and fling. Men: Whore be oi, and what bo oi a doln\ A eleoping out j not when the dews dv rise. ! Women: Why, that's the very way our health to ruin, And don't seem quite respootable likewise. Eh. that's^! (Btarinßatßlrlß|: Only think o' that, now. __ Girls (coyly): What may you be at, now 1 Tell mo, dv. Men (admiringly): Eh! what a nose; And oh 1 what oyoa, miss; Ups like a rose, And cheeks likewise miss. Girls (coyly): Oi tell you true, Which I've never done, sir; 01 loike you As nover I loikednono, sir. All: Eh! but Idu loiko you. Men: If you'll marry mo 111 dig for you and rake for you. Girls: If you'll marry me I'll scrub for you and bake for you. Men: If you'll marry mo all others I'll forsake for you. All: All this will I do It you'll many me. Girls: If you'll marry me I'll cook for you and brow lor you. Men: It you'll marry mo, I'vo guineas not a tew for you. Girls : If you'll marry me, I'll take you in and do for you. All: All this will I do if you'll marry me." The villagers then break into a livo^ country dance, after which Constanc 0 enters dragging in the deaf old notary, and the opera continues as heretofore. A children's company will play the " Pirates of Penzance " at the Savoy on the winter afternoons (only) succeeding Christ mas.

Anecdotes of the Tichborne Claimant.

" Tkvih " rathor admires tho " Claimant" for his pluck and determination in Insisting upon being put back to work in prison so soon as he found that easy hospital nursing would not entitle him to so many daya off the full term of his sentence. It is a curious fact that during bis trial the London fipors sold moro copies than during tho ranco-German War, or any other recent eventful epoch. I confess that it nevor was proved absolutely, to my mind, that be was Arthur Orton ; on the orthor hand, whilst there was the strongest presumption that he was, he entirely failed to make out that bewasSirUogerTichborne. Whathi?friends seemed to forget was, that if a man lived for years in Australia as Castro, married, and has children under that name, and then suddonly asserts that he is some one else, the onusprobandi lies with him, not with those who deny it. I remember once during the trial, in company with Mr G. A. Sala, passing an evening with the " stout nobleman " at his hotel in Jermyn-stroct. We found him very pleasant, and he told us many tales of hU existence in Australia. He certainly hud a wonderful command over his features On the lost day of the trial, the room at tho hotel was filled with adherents, many of whom were Tichborne bondholders. Suddenly tho Claimant walked in. He leant against the manetl piece, took his cigar out of his mouth, and announced the fatal nows. Great was the excitement—great was the despair and the indignation. But the Claimant calmly smoked on, apparently tho only person in tho room who had no sort of interest in the matter' Then, too, .when the jury returned to give their verdict on tho second trial, the Ciaimant eyed them, and at once saw hia fate. Slowly he took off his watch and chain, and handed them to a friend in order that they might not find their way into the hands of tho prison officals. It was a strange instance of the melts ivqua in arduis.

Easy Lessons in Geography.

Of what is the surface of the earth com posed?

Of corner lots, mighty poor roads, rail road tracks, baseball grounds, cricket fields and skating rinks. What portion of tho globe is water ? About three-fourths. Sometimes the/, add a little gin and nutmeg to it. What is a town 1 A town is a considerable collection of houses and inhabitants, with four or five men who " run the party " and lend money at 15 per cent interest. What is a city ? A city is an incorporated town with a Mayor who believes that tho whole world shakes when he happens to fall flat on the sidewalk. What is commerce ? Borrowing §5 for a day or two, and dodg ing the lender for a year or two. Name the different laces. Horse-race, boat-race, bicycle-race, and racing around to find a man to endorse your note.

Into how many classes is mankind divided? - ■ ... _ Six: being enlightened, civilised, half civilised, savage, too utter, not worth a cent., aud Indian agents. What nut ions are called enlightened ? Those which have the most wars and tho worst- laws, and produce the worst criminals. How many motions has the earth ? That's according to how you mix your drinks and which way you go home. What in the earth's axis 1 The lines passing between New York and San Francieco. What causes day and night? Day is caused by night getting tired out. Night i 3 caused by everybody taking-the street cars and going home'to sujpper.' •: ; What is a map? A map i« a drawing to, show-tho jury where Smith stood wjieh. Jones gave, him; a lift under the eye. ; What is a mariner's compn-o ? A jug holding four gallons. —'' New York Graphic."

A Strange Execution.

A singtoarly primitive way of carrying • out a sentence of capital punishment was witnessed last month at Keneh, the capital of tho province botweon Assouan and Assi out; 'According to the law there the sen tence can be remitted at the desire of the murdered man's family, their, forgiveness being purchased. In this instance the pris oner's family had subscribed £60 towards £10b,-' which would hare been accepted had the balance beep forthcoming from his friends.- However, it was not, so at 9 a.m. the condemned man was led to'some very rude,gallows, under which he sat down -in the most unconcerned way, drinking water and altogether behaving as if he was merely a spectator instead of the principal actor in the tragedy, He put tho rope round his own neck, the knot being exactly at the back. An English officer in the Egyptian army suggested that it would be much better under the oar, but his interference was re jected. The family of' the unfortunate man then advanced and implored his liberation at the feet of the mother and brother of the victim. The latter was in clined to clemency, but the former was quite obdurate, shouting loudly that as he had killed her son he must die for it. The parleys lasted over an hour. It is the custom that the nearest male relative of the murdered man performs the office of executioner, bo at last the prisoner quietly stepped ou to a stool not two feet high, which the brother pushed away from under him. Of course this only caused'him to be strangled, his legs dragging about on the ground, so a bystandor took hold of them and lifted them up, whilst the exociitioner, amidsts the howls and groans of the crowd, shortened the rope and then had to escape as best he could. The body continued to writhe for a long time, and hung there till sp. m. There were scarcely an official or police present.

At a small dinner party one evening last week, a boy, evidently from the con ectioner's shop, had been engaged to do the waiting. When he placed two dishes of tarts Wore the hostess, she, probably thinking it not correct to know what was coming, asked: "What are these, Wil liam ?'" Whereupon the boy, pointing first to one dish and then to the other, replied: "Them's a penny each, tind thorn's two for three-'a'pence." . - , A volcanic tree is reported to exist in the Japanese village of Ono. It is sixty feet high, with a girth of ten feet, and is eaid to be centuries oijL Every day a white emoke like mist issues from the top, lasting from early afternoon till evening. .

A STRANGE STORY OF THE SEA.

A FEVER-STRICKEN CREW.

[FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.]

An extraordinary story has just reached us from America. It seems that & German ship was nearly wrecked in a hurricane in September last, and the crew could only manage to keep her afloat by dint of pumping all day and night. At last they became exhausted and could work no more, One morning, however, a large brig bore down on them, and, on hailing her, the Germans found the crew in as bad a plight as themselves : only four of the fever stricken wretches being still alive. Tho crew of the German ship then transferred themselves to the brig, and worked her home to America. When the first brief reports of this story appeared in one of the London papers, everybody imagined it to be the work of some penny-a-liner, but tho news was soon confirmod, and the following account of the affair appeared in all the London dailies :—

In . September last a German barquo named the Frederick Scalla was very nearly wrecked in a hurricane. She was bound for New York with a cargo of salt; she was manned by a crew of eleven men, and her master was one Hoffsehied, of Stettin. The tempest dismasted her; more than that, the seas carried away her rudder and all boats, leaving her labouring furiously amid the billows and taking in water fast from some started butt or timber end. Fortun ately, the salt was a soluble cargo; it melted with the water, and came up in liquid brine through tho pumps. Had she been otherwise freighted, tho vessel must speedily have foundered. Tho men kept the pumps going for nine days and nights. They wore by this time almost exhausted and quite hetploss; there were lour feet of water in the hold; and it was evident that another twenty-four hours would settle their fate. It was on that day that the woather, having been thick all the morning, cleared a little, and discovered a large brig at no great distance. She was evidently not under command, and there were a dozen signs of confusion aloft in stantly discernible by tho practised eye. The unhappy Germans, being unable to control their own sheer hulk, could only wait and watch tho brig, and pray that wind and seus would bring her noar onongh to enable them to hail her.

It happened ns they wished. In duo conrse the vessels had closed to within a couplo of hundrod yards of each other, and now the strange brig was to bo very easily scanned. In the first place it was seen that her wheel was deserted, and that up aloft everything seemed to be adrift and wrong. Suddenly a woolly head was thrust over the buhvork rails, and a negro was seen earn estly to examine thp wreck of the barque. Tho black face vanished; but the African prcsontly re-appearod, accompanied by another negro and a white man. All three then tell to work to run up a distress signal. This was no doubt regarded as superfluous labour by the sinking Gormans, who bawled to the three men that their vessol was going down ; to which the others replied by imploring Captain Hoffschied to send somo hands and a navigator aboard the brig to take care of her and steer her for her port, otherwise there was no chance of their ever getting home. Captain Hoffschied was greatly astonished, and shouted to them to send to tho barque, as they had no boats left; but the answer was that the negroes and the white man were too weak to steer t-hsir brig, and wore conse quently quite unablo to lowor their boats and ply a pair of oars. Howevor, when thoy saw that tho brig was drifting away from possibly the last chance of rescue that would be offered her, threo men, by dint of extraordinary exertions, got their boat overboard, and after a great deal of maneuvering, and many risks and narrow escapes, the wholo ot the people of the German barque were transferred to the brig. Tho scuttling and singing out, one to another, of the Germans, as they crawled over the brijr's side, brought up a forth mnn from the cabin. His eyes wore on fire with fever and his cheeks hollow with suf fering. Ho joined the two negroes and the other white man who wero seated near Captain Hoffschied, and whilst the crew of the abandoned barque rah about making sail on thotrig, the following singular story was related to the astonished German ship matter. The brig wai tho S. J. Merryman. She had loft Boston bound for Sierra Lcono with a general cargo, her [company con sisting o? eighteen souls. > Sierra Leono was duly reached, the cargo discharged, and tho brig proceeded to Bathurst on tho West African Coast. On her arrival the mate and a sailor wore seized with "climate fever." They died, but the authorities prohibited the crew from landing in order to bury the bodies, nor were they permitted to drop them overboard. Others of the crew sickened, and an a last resource natives were hired to row tho dead bodies out to sea and bury them there. Such, however, was the panic ashore that when these natives had done thoir work the people would not let them land, and the brig's people were forced to keep and feed them on board for thirty days. Eventually the men's health improved, and the brig was permitted to enter Bathurst and receive a cargo cf hides. Hands were wanted to replace those who had died, but no one was found willing to ship in a vessel that was regarded aa plague-stricken. At last a native African was induced to sign articles, and with this substitute the brig set sail. The singular interest of the story now begins. The brig had not left port above two days when the captain was seized with fever and died. The next to perish, within ten days of the death of the captain, was the second mate, a Swede. Thus the only men on board capable of navigating the ship wore taken. Thon a man diccMrom fear; be said he was sure he would be the next to be seized by tha, fever, and be expired on the following day. As fast as the crew died they were buried in their olothoB; in other words, they wero hastily dropped overboard ; there was no room for sentiment in the face of a malady that had desolated the biig so that in a few weeks the onl^snrvivbra were two negroes arid two white men. Sickness and anxiety had wasted these men until they were too feeble to haul upon-a ropo or t<? rovolve the wheel. In this manner day after doy passed, wheu one morning a vessel waa seen that was taken to be a steamer without masts. This proved to be the German barque Frederick . Scalla, and thus in the most extraordinary manner were two vessels brought together,! one sinking, the other helpless for the want of men, and each therefore exactly calculated to serve the other in her dire ex tremity. The German barque still floated, and such provisions as could be come at were taken from her in order to victual the brig, which was very poorly off in this respect; but shortly after tae F. J Merryman had made a fresh start for port the German craft settled low in the water and foundered.. "This," says the American'account of tho affair, " hurt the captain, because he lost two thousand dollars by it." However, he saved his own and the lives of his crew as well as of the four poor fellows he found on the brig, arid managed without further, trouble to carry his new command safe' to New York, where he and his crew related their surprising adventures. To the negro, whose woolly pate was the first live tiling visible aboard the brig, the captain pays a compliment that will flatter tho vanity of many a seafar ing " darkey." "There's no uso talking," he"is reported to have said in his mother tongue; " it's the boss man who comes out boss, whether he is white or black. There was that coloured steward, William Forbes, a full-blooded negro, born in Bormuda, and educated and brought up in Boston. As coon as the superior officers were dead and overboard ho took chargo of everything, ordered the whites around, and they were only to glad to obey him, and to Hud some one who would encourage them and to whom they could look up." The captain is quite right in stating that it is " the boss man who conies out boss;" but no particular wonder need be. felt that a full-blooded negro should behave with courage and judgment upon the high sens, since anyone acquainted with the annals of piracy must know that the most audacious, determined, and triurapbaut of the pirate vessels wereoften those commanded by "niggers," with crews composed of ferocious Spaniards, Portugue<e, anclothtr so-called white men. Be this as it may, however, as a tale of the sea the account of the meeting of the German barque with the American brig is one of the most remark able and striking incidents in marino history, and furnishes another justification of the opinion of sailors that what landsmen would be moat prone to ridicule as an im possibility, at sea is', scores of times, ex actly the thing that would happen.

SAN FRANCISCO MAIL NEWS.

THE CONSPIRACY TO KILL EMPEROR WILLIAM AND BISMARCK.

New York, November 18. — A cable special from London of SfovenlW 15fch says: —" The trial of the prisoners charged with conspiracy to blow up* the Neidefvtald monument, in the fall of 1883, will begin in January. The German Government officials have accumulated an immense mass of evi dence against the accused, and are confi dent of securing their conviction. They also expect to lay bare the whole scheme of the organisation of anarchists in Gormany. They nave secured, by promises of partial immunity, the testimony of several in formers, who furnished the outlines of \ho plans of Johann Most, recognised as the leading spirit among the anarchists, and a long list of his followers or dupes in many parts of the empire. Bismarck is terribly en raged against. tho conspirators, and will give no quarter. He believed for many months that the plot ts destroy the Ger mania monument was mostly an attempt at vandalism, intended to show that there was an active effective organisation of anarchist.', but that it was not aimed against human life. The evidence lately gathered, how ever, shows that tho projected explosion was not aimed agniiist the monument at all, but was intended to kill tho Emperor, Crown Prince, Chancellor and other august personages who passed in the procession over the roadway in which the mine was concealed. This discovery has intensified the Chancellor's bitterness toward the con spirators, and every effort of the Govern ment will be strained to make convictions certain and punishment terrible.

Strength of the Socialists. Since the Reichstag elections in Germany, it has been ascertained that not less than 650,000 ballots were cast for Socialist candij dates. This remarkably large vote for a party which is not only in opposition, but which has hitherto been supposed to num ber only a handful of malicious malcontents in each town, has set the Government to thinking. Tho Imperial Chancellery, soon after the olection, ordered a close analysis of the vote, with a view of learning tha char acter of the large number of electors who evidently voted with tho Socialists this year for tho first time. Tho rosult of the inquiry is said by tho Government officials to show that tho bulk of the new recruits to Socialism aro moderate men, who will be satisfied with the redress of the crying ovils which have resulted from a too-zealous execution of ro prossivo laws. The opening of the new Reichstag is eagerly awaited. There is great curiosity and no littlo anxiety as to the effect of the largo leaven of Socialism in that body, which, at best, has not been always tractable. Bismarck hopes to bo able to nullify the success of the Socialists by preventing unity of action on the part of their deputies. It is said a split is already menaced among tho Socialists, and that many are willing to support the Govern ment in return for somo moderate conces sions which the Government is willing to make.

A ZULU TELLS HOW PRINCE NAPOLEON WAS KILLED.

Nkw York, November 17th. — The " World's" Cleveland special says :— " Among tho number of Zulus now exhibit ing at the dime museum here is Charley, Chief of the party. In an interview last evening ho described tho killing of Prince Napoleon, saying : ' The English used us badly. Wo knew the English could whip us in battle, and so wo enticed them into jungles, whore we kept hid until diseases bad taken many .of us off. ■They first sent out a rogiment, which wo cut up, then five regiments, and thon an army under Lord Wolseley. The Prince Imperial camo then. The English had not seen a Zulu, although there were thousands of us hid in the long grass and corn; About noon the Prince Imperial, with two or throe companions, rode about a mile ahead cf the rest, and dismounred in a spot surrounded by tall grass and corn. They evidently thought there was no danger, but our scouts were hid everywhere, and word was sent to our chief that the dis mounted party of English were eating. Tho chief ordered 500 men to surround and kill the party. One of our mon exposed him self, and thoy discovered us and ran for their horses, while our mon rußhod for ward. The Princo's horso plunged and broke its saddle, and just then one of our men threw an assogi that struck the Prince in the eye, It was thrown so that it lifted him out of the saddle When our men camo to him ho was writhing in agony on the ground, and ono of us ran a spear through his heart. Then the others ran their spears into him several times, and the body was badly out up." Chief Charley said ho was present when tho Prince's mother visited the spot whero her son was killed and kissed the ground. The Zulus are homesick, and are continually begging, the agont to tako them homo. '

Drunkenness in Switzerland.

Tub labours of tho Special Government Commission appointed by the Federal- Council several months ago to inquire into the causes of the frightful increase of drunk enness in the Swiss republic, and to suggest a remedy, havo resulted in decisiveaction by the Council. 'It admitted, that the evil in vestigated is to be attributed entiroly to tho extraordinary cheapness of French brandies and. their native imitations. The cheapness of these vile and intoxicating compounds has made of them within a comparatively short time the national beverage for the Swiss. The commission found French brandy bottles in the cupboards of tho poorest families, and cite countless cases of once prosperous estates and families brought to absoluto ruin and-wreck by intem perance, thriftlessness,. and impotency, cauaed by tho free and long-continued use of cheap brandy. The remedy proposed is a law of almost unprecedented prohibitory, power. It will make,the duty on imported brandies so high ria to absolutely bar them' from the country, and will tax all domestic manufactures of the liquor, except those expressly mado for export, so ■ heavily as to mako the procurement ol bruudj in any form, by-any but the very rich, practically impossible in Switzerland. Tho enactment of tbe bill will probably meet with, but little, if any, opposition: ■

An Ex-M. P. 's Career.

From the royal navy to Parliament, and from Parliament to prison, constitute the principal passages in the career of Mr.Q. Hampden Whalley. "This gentleman, sentenced on Saturday' to nine months' imprisonment for somsthing closely akin to burglary, •-is still quite young. He served in. the. royal navy, where he attained to the rank of lieuten ant. He quitted tho service, and was next heard of in the Zulu War, where he held a commission in Lonsdale's Horse. Returning to England, he entered Parliament, receiving the • suffrages of Peterborough as a compliment to his father's momory. His career as a legislator was briet and inglorious Hegave way to dissolute habits and passed most of his time at the wine bar of the House of Com mons. Becoming involved in debt, ho re turned to his father's frionds tho trust they had placed in their hands, and wont out West. Returning to London, he appeared in the lobby ono night last session, accom panied by a man as seedy-looking as him self. Both found a temporary asylum in the Speaker's Gallery, where they slept off the effects of a doubtful dinner. That was. the last seen of Mr Hampden Whalley1 in Westminster Palace, The story is not pleasant reading, perhaps, because of ita" being an over-true tale,

English Royal Scandals.

The " Sun's " London cablegram says:—. "Truth" is making it very uneomfort-: able for Queen Victoria and .all her family. The'scandalous revelations of Katherine Bauer with regard to King Leopold of Bel gium induce the remark that he was one of the moat ovenated characters of the cen tury—weak, vain, exceedingly capricious and. unprincipled, and throughout his life perpetually involved in discreditable liaisons. His selection of Prince Albert as the Queen's husband is described as merely a happy accident, and piincipally due to Leopold's (iesire to interfere in English affairs." -

Another item with regard to royalty this week is that-the late accident to the Ger man' Emperor, on which the official papers observe such mysterious silence, wa3 -a fainting-fit. These fainting fits have now become periodical, and It is feared some day will result in fufr.il injury, but anybody who whispered such an ticipati in would bo deemed.guiltly of high treason.

The Kin^ of fjie Belgians has been so prostrated by politic.tloxcitoir.ent in his kingdom that his doctors fear he has be come insane. .

ODDS AND ENDS.

A great hard-ship—An iron steamer.

Remenyi, the great Hungariaii violinist, la to visit NeW Zealand shortly.

South Australia spent iti five months "£20,000 on the rabbit pest.

Gtago fish-poachers use dynamite at their nefarious calling.

LostFridayasii-rootnodhoQuein Russell street, South Dunedin, was destroyed by fire. Insured, of course ', cause unknown.

A bore.—The man who persists .in talking about himself when £6u wish to talk about yourself.

Do not judge from outside appearances. The football loolis plump and fair propor tioned, but there ia nothing in it but wind. The'rilling passion. Wellington milk men have just held a p\cnic where two or three rivers meet.

Waikato Cheese Factory, Hamilton, only takes milk from shareholders, and is pre sently using 800 gallons daily.

Last year the Danish Government voted £7,000 to build a factory where youths were to bo taught how to make butter.

"Women seldom stop to think." True enough; but they never fail to stop and talk.

Hancock, the English pedestrian, is to get £100 if he beats young Scott, of Otago, in a 24-hours walking match.

In a school near Napier built for 40 children, 120 are in attendance. Tho young disciploa have to sit on the floor. Tom—"l say, Georgei what is 'Nuda Voritas?'" George (vaguely)—" Eh ? Oh ! I don't know. Some new actress, I sup pose." Molbourno built a factory for beet root sugar, and made a railway to it 10 years ago, and is still waiting for the first pound of sugar therefrom. Thair ain't much sense to be got out of a good-looking woman; stained glass is pretty to look at," but no goodto look outer.

German and English sheep aro being frozen in London and sold as New Zealand meat, in order to get tho high prico ruling. An Australian lady married to an Italian prince a year ago has already left him. Some Australian girls are tod proud to travel around with a tambourino all day.

Timmins (gono for the day to North Shore side, and only just in time for the ebb tide): " Why, Ann, danged if they bain't a-lettin' t'vvatter off."

The Keast and McCarty Brewing Com pany, Dunedin.lost £356 last year through depreciation in tho value of hotel pro perties. Teetotallers rejoice. . Do not stare at the ladies in the street. You may cause them to think that you are admiring them, and therefore make them vain. •.'.;%.

At Bulls a shop j ust opened has this notice in the window:—" Goosberys For Sail From 4to 6d pr. quart. Any quantity from 1 quart to AIOO Wait." Mark Twain is tho richest humourist in America. Besides his own large earnings and- savings, he married a lady worth several hundred thousand dollars.

A teetotal orator in a speech remarked: " Water, what a blessing !' why, two-thirds of this globe iB water." " Yes," interrupted a voico, " it's not fit to drink, though." Property at Palmerston is rising, as three railways will soon meet there. The Govern ment are now survoying the Gorge route. £750 was refußed the other day for C 6 feet of frontage at Palmerston. "'; " Bathing scandals at North Shoro I' 1 said Brown, "An abomination, sir ! Why, i I've boen told of people bathing there i?i puris natnralibus I" " Ah, I daresay !— and somo not even thai I" Things in Wellington are stated to bo improving considerably. Over 100 housos aro being built, and tho City Engineer lately eaid enough carpenters could not be got.

It was a poet lean and brown Who by tho editor Bat down To read his now spring poem. It was an editor austere Who took said poet by tho car, And down the stairs did throw him! Old lady (who has been hearing the Bishop of Melanosia): "Only fancy! Onfr mission ary to ten theusaua cannibals !" Young lady: " Mercy, they must have terrible light appetites or awful big missionaries !" A new Australian undertaking called " Tho Land and Pastoral Company of South Australia " is announced, the object being to acquire the properties of Mr H. Angus. Tho capital is .£500,000. . Isn't it a little odd that the "best man " at a wedding is always somebody other than the bridegroom! And may not this bo the reason why so many marriages turn out badly ? The ingenuity of colonial youths is provorbial. At Hawera'some youngsters havo been cutting up sardine tins and pass ing them off as coin" to the doorkeepers of ■ shows during the passing in of a crowd of persons. While a boy was driving a cart across a railway crossing in Christchurch recently, an engine collided with the vehicle, smashed :it and injured the horee. The boy was thrown high in the air and landed on the engine, stunned, but not seriously hurt. " Suppose," said an examiner to a student in engineering, "you had built an engine yourself, performed everypart of the work without assistance, and knew that it was in complete order, but when put on the road the pump would not draw water, what would you do ?" " I should look into the tank and ascertain if there was any water to draw," replied tho student. _ ~ ..„ Tho emigratio i and immigration roturns for the month of. November show that the toiirist "season hasi commenced, During the month 1*779 persons arrived in the colony, of whom 780 were from Britain, 853 from Australia, and 140 from South Seas. Tho total doparturos were 689, including ISO for Britain, 405 for Australia, and 35 for the SouihSeas.,

The assertion that Vogel and Stout had fallen out roused the ire of the "Oamaru Times,'*, which'had a wild tirado against those people who; " sitting in tbeirj offices,, like tho editor of the 'New Zealand-Times' —the self-styled great colonial journal, but the weakest, meanesjr^and most untruthful public print in'the'oolpny—conjure up.from their own diseased imaginations accusations against Ministers,'which, thoyhopo\ the public will-bo giil'niio eopggb to ftr»p*pt !"*; The coiKi'i.;-.:-'?-;^ tS>-" "•• J V-'h.--:-.; ■•-. ,iv_ way has, according \to the "Ktitheih Advocate," boon gono about in tho most quiot and unostentatious., manner, Thoro was no official turning of ttie.iirst sod, arid hardly anyone knew that'the"work had commenced, but nevertheless" it.is going on right merrily, and by the ehd'of March next, the black diamonds should : come over the line. '.It is to be.hoped that the.Whau \Vhau'C;al Company will signalize its open ing with a little more ceremony, so that :the world may know that there is such a mine hero To hide one's head under a bushel is not biz. V

Inpureuanco of the Colonial Treasurer's. idoas for the encouragement of local indus tries tho "following bonuses are!gazetted 4s offered by the Government: — Starch : Bonus of £300 for tho firat 50 tons of good marketable starch manufactured in the colony of New Zealand. Printing paper': Bonus of £500 for the production of the first 50 tons of printing paper made by machinery, permanently established, and working in the colony. Silk : Bonus of 50 per cent, on the value realised for the first thousand pounds worth of cocoons of the Mlk-worme, or silk-worms' eggs produced in tho colony, to bo paid on quantities of not less value than £50 and not more than £100, produced by any one person. Iron : Bonus of £1,000 for the production in New Zealand of 300 tons of pig-iron of market able quality from ore produced in New Zealand. Wroughtiron : Bonus of £1,000 for tho production in New Zealand, by direct proce3S, of 200 tons of " iron'blooms " of marketable quality, from ore produced in New Zealand.

The decision to reckon time from zero up to 24 hours mui-t (says the " European Mail"), in the course of timo, work quite a revolution in the present mode of reckoning time. Midnight, instead of being "12 'o'clock " at night, will bo 24 o'clock, and while the breakfast hour, will remain at 8 or 9 o'clock a.m., as the case may bo, the dinner hour will become 18 or 19 o'clock, instead of G or 7 p.m. To students of Bradshaw the change will be a boon; for, instead of being in doubt whether their train arrives or departs "a.m." or "p.m.," it «ill.bo all plain sail ing from 1 up to 24 o'clock all through the day and night, and he will know that while 1 o'clock^ is 1 a.m., 24 o'clock is midnight. This, at least, will be the case in Eng land ; but in other parts pf the world the details will be somewhat altered, though tho principle will be the same. At Mon treal, for instance, which is 5 hours "slow" of Greenwich time, "24 o'clock " will not be veritable midnight, but will correspond With what we call 7 p.m., and cards of in vitation to dinner for that time of day will have to Hpecify "24 o'clock ' as tho hour fixed for the meal. At San Francisco or Sydney, again, 24 o'clock will be nearer midday than midnight; while at Auckland (New Zealand) the sun will.ba- actu.ally,,at the zenith.

THE AUCKLAND EVMING Blttl^

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FEMALE PRISON GATE BRIGADE, WOMEN'S HOMK-AND NiamP ■, ■■■,<:-HBaryoE. AN AUXILIARY OS1 THE SALTATION ABMY. CAPTAHMW-OIUBGE! Mbs C. J. Hutosinson, Hobson-Btreet, City. Bbieiadk Members. Mrs Bakzb, I Sins- CHiMPrAroul', Mns BoTNTOIf, . I Mrs Withebford, MrsBRAME, I . MR<j HiJT6HINSON, Miss Dave*. Treasurer: ■ Mr Robeß*FSyi Fstt-utreet, City.. Secretary: Mr F; W. Boynton, Fort-street, City. f- ■ HBEP. As tlio pressing ileiid Of th«> above Home is daily on the Increase, It has been decided to form this auxiliary to the work of the Salvation At tbe present time there are several Womon being boardod Out, whilo others whose needs aro of a pressing nature, are obliged to fall through, and return to their old haunts of vice and misery. Objects : The objoet of this Home is to reach and re claim tho fallen; leading them to Christ as their Saviour, who is mighty to save. " . To shelter and provide for their temporal wants until Bueh times as they shall bo nttott for suitable employment, wWoh will be found for them. Operations : We purpose, by God's grace, to moot every discharged prisoner at the prison gateß, givinf? them our sympathy and proffered help. •/ To vißit the evil haunts of those we aro seek ing to reclaim; also, to toko upihose who have become slaves to drink. APPEAL. Boeing that a large amount of money will bo required to obtain a suitable building, furni ture, &c, and to carry on tho work, we appeal to tho Christian public of Auckland for their liberal support. Wo have taken tho liberty of enclosing two vouchers, and shall be pleased to recolve your holp by donation and subscription through our Treasurer or Secretary. " Inasmuch as ye havo done it unto one Of tho least of those my bretrhen, ye have done it unto me."—Matthew 25, v. 40. DAiTATIOB ARMY. AUCKLAND PRISON GATE BRIGADE AND NIGHT REFUGE. Suporlntondant .; ... John Castlks Inspector of Home a ~W> F. EotntoS Treasurer .. .. _.. C; B. Ston* Secretary .. .. ..W. H. JjEONJBD Uaptajn-in-Cuajrge .. .. ROBT. LITTLE). THE HOME In connection with the above Institution being Now Open, Brigade Captain Little will be _ glad to receive DONATIONS OF GROCERIES OR PRO VISIONS OF ANY KIND, and also Ol ANY OLD CLOTHES, at THE BARRACKS, ..; From 8 a.m. to J p.m. daily. Tim Treasurer, Mr 0. B. Stone, Wfltild remind tbe Public that this Institution "cannot be car ried on successfully without" Funds. He will therefore be moat happy to receive Subscrip tions at his office. Queen-street, at any time. POBLI0 '■' TRUST OFFICE OF NEW ...... 2KALAND* '\ ,-_,.,,., i Any person may appoint the Public Trustee executor and trustee under his will or codicil. Any present trustee may transfer the man agement of trust property to thoPublic Trustee, who will thereupon hold such property upon the original trusts attaching thereto. .. c. »9 Any person, company, association, or publio body,|wlthin or, without tho colony, may place any_proporty belonging to them In charge of the Public Trustee upon trust torsuch uses as may be denned in the deed creating the trust Any building, land, or friendly society may, by its rules, provide that property belonging to it may be placed in the Publio Trust Office for such trusts and uses and with such, powers as may be denned in or by the said rules. . The ad vantages offered are:— ~ , Ist. State Goabantek against speculation, fraud, or dishonesty. .."■..',' ,i '■*, 2nd. All proposed investments are considered by a Board, consisting of the Honourable Colo nial Treasurer, the Attorney-General, the Comp troller and Auditor-General, the Government Insurance Commissioner, and thoPublioTrustee. Careful consideration of all securities offered is therefore ensured. »lffl 3rd. The Public Trustee, in his corporate ca pacity, never dies, NEVER LEAVES THE COUN TRY, and'NEVER BECOMES INCAPACITATED, thus avoiding the many inconveniences result ing from frequent fresh appointments of Trus tees, necessitated by death, change of abode, or mental or bodily infirmity. Ith. Punctuality and promptitude in the re mittance oj periodical payments to beneficiaries under trust or will to any part of the colony or elsewhere at which it may be desired that pay ments should be made. sth. The effective check which is called into operation before any moneys can be drawn from tho Publio Trustee's account fith. Reasonable charges. On estates such as »re now being considered the Public Trustee is authorised to charge H per cent on all receipts, and 1} per cent on disbursements, and 58 per cent on all moneys invested. No charge is made for obtaining probate, nor for passing jtamp and property tax returns, nor for corros pondencehowever voluminous. Thus the saving to eßtates placed in this office is considerable, B, C. HAMERTON, Public Trustee. THE COLONIAL MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY (LIMITED). AUCKLAND OFFICES: 139, QT7BES-BTBEBT. DIRECTORS: Auckland.—J. M. Shcra (Chairman), S. Thorno George, F. J. Moss, M.H R. Dunedin—B. J. Spence (Chairman), W. J."M. Larnaoh, C.M.G.. M.H.R.; Hon. George Mo- Lean, M.L.C.; Hon. Robert Stout, Premier, THE COLONIAL MUTUAL has addedjg aH the ordinary forms of Assurance SEVERAL DISTINCTfVE FEATURES, and is the only Colonial IJto.Offlco which issues TONTINE INVESTMENT POLICIES. The "Absolute" and "Modified" Tontine Policioa of the Colonial Mutual secure advan tages not offered by any Foreign Company. Colonial Mutual Policies are INCONTEST-, ABLE FROM DATE OF ISSUE, being en tirely free from obnoxious conditions as to travelling, residence, occupation, mode of life, or manner of death. -_J:» ~,'_ .. H. S. H. LYALL. Secretary for New Zealand. I A. and Gr. Price, ENGINEERS, BOILERMAKERS. IROK AND BRASS FOUNDERS, AND SENEGAL MACHINISTS, THAMES, Have for sale the following Machinery i— ' I Portable Engine, by Hornsby & Co., 8 h.p. 1 Horizontal Engine, double oylinder, lOim. diameterj2iin. stroke •■'" ■ -,i 1 Horizontal Engine. lOin. by 18in. stroke 1 Launch Engine, 4Jin. by sin. stroke 1 Multitubular BoUerj 17ft long by 6ft diameter I Cornish Boiler, 20ft long by 6ft diameter, IS ' 1 Cornish Boiler, 18ft long by sft diameter ' 1 Cornish Boiler, 17ft long by Ift 6in. diameter 1 Cornieh Boiler, 15ft long by sft diameter I * Vertical Poiier, Field tubes, 7f t x 3ft lin.; new ; £ ijUiiiUty o/ second-hand Quarts-crushing Pleat. , ■ • Estimates supplied for all classes of En glneorlnf Work.—Makers of Sawmill and Quartz-' crushing Machinery, Turbine .Wheels, Hydraulio Machinery, Timber Jaoki, , -and Patent Safety; Catches tor Hfjjfg Warehouse and other Lift -. ; Cwe*> ■ . - ' ■ DEVONPORT LIVERY AND BAIT BTABLES. CHANGE <5F PROPRIETORY. " '" I BEG to intimate that I have disposed of tny Coach and Omnibus Business to Messrs DAVIS BROTHERS, and trust that the support so generously accorded me in the past will be continued to ray successors. Thanking all patrons for their support I recommend the Messrs Davis as well qualified to manage and develop the trade. F . j. QUICK . Auokland, ISth November, 188 i. J~\ A V I~S iTo THE RS, COACH PROPRIETORS, DEVONPORT, Beg to announce that having purchased tho business lately carried on at North Shore by Mr F. J. Quick, with the Horses and Carriages, they have amalgamated the same with tneir own Business, and aro now carrying it on in all tho branches. Omnibuses between Devonport and Lake Takapuna as usual.' AH kinds of Carriages, Saddle Horpcs for Ladies or Gentlemen, always ready for Hire. 'Busses, Drags, &c. Supplied far Picnic Parties. Goods dolivercd by Drayß or Spring Carts, Removals Undertaken, and Cartage Contracts entered into Davis Brothers hope by close attention to business and moderate charges to secure the public confidence and support Devonport. 13th November. 1881. QUICK'S STABLKa, V© ALBERT-STREET. , . MR F. QUICK begs to return his Sincere Thanks for the Liberal Patronage received wMlo carrying on the Business known as "Quick's Livery and Bait Stables," Albert street, and trnets that MESSRS JAMEB DIG NAN & CO., the srentlemen to whom ho has relinquished the same, will be accorded Support in an equally liberal manner. Patrons can rely upon being treated civilly and /airly by his sua cessora, under whose proprietary he tools suye the'hqstelry will become the favourite of Auok ifTxDIGNAN] [T. FOLEYI [P. LUNDON MESSRS JAMES DIGNAN & CO. having purchased Mr F.Qnick's BueineßS. hope to merit the patronage so generously bestowed on thoir late and popular predecessor. For Hire—Han som Cabs, Open and Close Carriages. Buggies of every description, Waggonettes, Breaks and Omnibuses, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Saddle Horses. Private Carriages with Livery, Hearses and Mourning Coaches. Ordere by Post, Tele graph, or Telephone (No. 121) receive careful attention. The Stables provlda unsurpassed accommodation for Horses, &c. Night attend ance. Charges moderate. ■ ' , . ■' V3J H. SKIKNBR AND SON, ?T • Builders, Carpenters, and Joiner*. ' Vulcan T-ana. ii» Brsnchssoi the SiiMlng Trade exwsted fcT 1 * Krperieneu!.'Workmen^! Stop Sivaie, Gfiicu Jfittinse. &S,



* >: ' try-the; ; ~- -: „; i NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY FOR i BOYS1 AND YOUTHS' BOYS' AND YOUTHS' C '- - ■- j SUPERIOR QUALITY CLOTHING. SUPERIOR QUALITY CLOTHING. * TH3CIK BOYS' AND YOUTHS' SCHOOL SUITS * SPECIALLY GOOD-THK MATERIALS BEING MOST DURABLE, ■■■ ■ -WHILE THE I PRICKS ARE WONDERFULLY LOW. i AUCKLAND BRANCH: . t! 168 AND 160, QUEEN-BTREKT, - „ And at S ALBERT-STREET, THAMES. C j. fitzsimons, n Branch Mnnager, Q.U UB E V HIL LS. \ NOTICE. q .Some Splendid Alldtmente on New Plans.' ] Prices .and Plans can be had at the Office, next MessrsßrOwn. and CampTjelTs, Shortteaa-. * street. ."■■;..: j .' ■ ; V •.■■" '' ' . Terms.-One-flftH ;Caeh,; balance any time ■ wlthia five years j interest) fleven per cent A. BOARDMANj Agent, j iWpVERNMjENT, LIFE INSURANCE; ;,. ElbadV.Omda: PROyrtcClAL BUILDINQB, .'A. *.-■''.',-■■ iSViUJNOXOS. :' '■:•'■■"'. .'-..;■.'"' ---tH« OKIiT NEW ZEALAKD Lira OfTtOl, ' . GQYHJKNMENT SECURITY, -z'-^'k' ; 3h a MUTUAL INSURANCE, 9 LOWEST PRBMIUMfc The Ordinary Branch offers an Insurance at 6i,WO at the premium charged e'ao r -where tor £1,000, equivalent to 1 AS IMMEDIATE BONUS OF £200 I In addition to Full Participation in Proflti. . 'W OR X M AN'S INSU RAJS 01 | ; X 'Spebially provided for in the -' ' I INDUSTRIAL BRANCH. Policies Issued fbom £5 Upwabds, WITH . «. PARTICIPATION IN PROMTS. JV i PREMIUMS PAYABLE WEEKLY, •" For which a Collector will call. SPECIAL TABLES FOR CHILDRBN. Polloies of «20 and upwards, alter Ttae* Years, can be surrendered for Cash, or lor * FreePolioy. ' LIBKBAL BEGULATIOHS. f NOTE.—The Government not only bring*. Insurance within the reach of nearly every maa, . woman, and child in the community. Dot pro vldos the description of policy and mode of pay- I ment best suited to the requirements of each. D. M, LUCKIK. Commlaatanr. . 7^ R™E AT~ S A [L E 01 £7,000 WORTH •■■'•- . 0K BOOTS AND SHOES! ' *.'- -■* ■•' 'AT ' COST PRICE, FOR CASH ONLY I , ' . TOR ONE MONTH 1 m- THLLISON, being largely over- JL • Hi stocked with Boots and Shoes of airkindß,'ex Glenmore, s.s. Ruapchu. ande.B. Doric, etc., will Sell Off the whole Stock for one month, at Cost Price, for Cash only. As this is a genuine sale, the public will do well to come and bco tor themselves. Must ho sold to make room for large ship ments of Boots to arrive. ~ . ;■'_' .; ' A few prices as follows :— ■■■■■■• , ■, i ..- - ■ b. a- ■ Children's Elastio Boots, worth is '.. .. 20 . Ladies' Prunella Boots, worth 10b 6d ... 7 C . Do; do >-do. worth 8s 6d .. 6 0 I Do. Kid Elastiodo. worth 98 ... .. 60 ! Do.1 do. 'do. worth Us 6d .; 8; d Do. Kid Button do. worth 15s .. .;.1O 6 Do. House Boots' worth 4s 6d: .. SO . Do.: : do. '"'•' ' worth 6s 6d" ..:I'6 ' Do. Evening Shoes*': worth 8s ;6d ■;"','•}. .? 0 j 3PECIAL~CHEAP LINKS DF-SADIES' KID : S3 m ELASTIC BOOTS, 81ZE:5.;. ■; Afifi OtHBIR GOODS EQUALLY 'CHEAP. , THOMAS ELLISON, BOOTMAKER.AND } niPORTER;, .j. 17, QUEEN-BTBEET.'- • J}l*Z FTNION OIL, SOAP., AND ■CAMDLB U iJ* COMPANY (LIMITED), ~ ~. ;;!' ■■-; '::! : ;, ; 1 ; STEARINE CANDLES,- ; " COMMON AND TOILET SOAPS,.,: LUjBMCATISG oTH#'f6ltS. W^&O TU S »«E^|oW:: ALBIfiRTST;, AUCKLAND.>- var-i; - -Oaah Purchasers of Tallow. ' ;_!. _^ FOR ' ~ \ T"" BEDSTEADS 1 ■■>■■- MATTHASSES ! • . ■; ' PALLIASSES! ',".'. ■ .' , ' ' ; FENDERS! ■• ■ ii,', <-■':-", ' FIREIRONS! RANGES , • REGISTER GRATES ! AMERICAN STOVES! OILS! PAINTS! BRUSHWARE ! DOORMATS! FURNITURE 1 GARDEN TOOLS ! &0., TRY T ETTS, XTTOODWARD, & riO,, IRONMONGERS, &C. ,Uppeb Symondsstrbet, DUBLIC NOTICE. R. McCABE Begs to inform liis friends nnd tlie public gene^ rally that as he is compollod to raise bferbgqii to Btreet lavels.ho has commenced a CHEAP SALJC of HOUSEHOLD. CARPKNTEBS', and BUIL DERS' IRONMONGERY, to reduce his Stock before commencing alterations. CHEAP HARPWAEE HOUSE, PATTE3ON STREET. FREEMAN'S BAY. XT" B A TING'S pOWDJBK. lIiSi?Bw D IR KEATING'S K POm)ER Gg FLEAS » , - MOTHS t- - ' ' BEETLES. This Po^vdeb is Quite Habmlkss to Ani mal Life, but is unrivalled in destroying fleas, bu<rß, cockroaches, beetles, moths in furs, and c.very other species of insect. Sportsmen will find this invaluable for destroying fleas in their . doirs, as also ladies for their pet dogs. :.■■: THIS ARTiOLE HAS FOUND 80 GREAT A SALK that it has-tempted others to vend a so-called artiole infmltatlon. The Public are Cautioned that the tins of the 'Kenuine_powder bear the autograph otTHOMAS KEATING. •KKATING'S AVORM TABLKTS HEATING'S WO RM TABLETS , | KEATING'S WORM TABLKTS " A PCIJBXT VjSGKTABtE SWEKCMEAT, both in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agree able method of administering the only certain remedy for INTESTINAL orgTBREAD" WORMS. It is" a perfectly, safe and mild pre- ' caraHbn, and iasspeefall? adapted for Children. Hold in Tics by all Cheguata and I>ruggiflts. Froprietor: THOMAS KEATETU. Lokmk,



Jtl; dbbat . NOVELTY COMPANY'S PBOQBAMME OnC.J.C.SUMMER MEETING, to be ÜBM. f « ■ the Ohristohuroh Racecourse, on THURBDAYI- | January Ist, 1885.—Midsummer Handicap and - s~ Middlb Park Stakes. ' « 3,000 «tt*wv-=» at 10s. Sags — JSl.soo. . .._. FIVE SEPABATE ALMTMBNTS, BACH SHABB x_ HAVING FIVE CHANCES. IM-PRIZES-101 : . MIDBUMMEB MIDDLE FARE HANDICAP STAKES . r (30 Prizes). PiPrires). ..'.... lßt Horse .. ..£3OO Ist Horse .. ..*l5O 2nd 100 2nd „ .. .. W 3rd .1 .. .. 60 3rd ~ .. .. M' , Other Starters and Other Starters and Non^tartersdi- Non-starters di- • ■ •Tided .. .. 250 Tided .. .. &>O mo mo , 10 CASH PBIZES. : Ist Class 3atfi2o «60 2nd C1a55....6 at *10 •$» . 3rd C1a55....31 at to ..«165 ..„„..„ ......6275 WILL CLOSE ON DECEMBER 30th, 1884. :i jTom the big Business done by us ainco ,:-i. staftiDß, more ospeciajly on the Melbourne and Now Zealand Cups, just closed, we feel con fident in saying that to ?"8 ra°imc2^, m ( . o.£! Oian fill. We shDlI, therefore, soU on, no matter how maay, until ouf advertised date of olosinfj, >. < andOieTprizos willUiefl &ejncreasedjpro!rote. Wti onHcinatoanalo of fi.oH9,as our' Melbourne and New Zealand Cups Programme Closed with 10 625 members, whilst our SpflClal u?ll™»« . on New Zealand Cup closed with 2560 shares, which were applied fof Jn 7 days. Address- ~R OBIN H00I)i » Care Of THOS. STAPLETON, Box 238, P. 0., . Christohurch. . ' a Or care of JUBAL FLEMING, City Batta, Colombo-street, Christchuroh. ' -,!A xxxAles.S^_ t-Ale. xxxx w. j. suiter & co.s SPARKLING PALE XXX AND XXXX ALES AND BROWN STOUT, « J On Dbauoht and tw Bottlb. ; W.J.S. & Co.'s Botfled Aleß are givinK great satisfaction, being recommended by the Medical ; j ,- Faculty for their tonio and nutriave properUea. Thfiy have recently restored health and Btrenirth to the Most feeble and deteriorated constitu tions. The demand is daUyinoreasfoK, to meet . . ub with their Orders early. Address : i w. J. SUITER 4 CO., 18 . KYBER PASS ROAD.'„ „.,', [Telephone Exchange conneoted, No. 275.J N.R-As many people take "Hancock's; '" . Ciptain Cook Brewery for oura, we teketbJß. i opportunity to tell them it is not so, but to ~ I BfiuatedJnßtNextDoor.-W.J.S.feCo. ~,■:,, l; < MANCHESTER ITRE ASSURANCE company; _ , ";, , ~t j ■...;■". ESTABUSSKPIB2I. [ : CHIEF QFJPIOES: : J'if ', « '98, Rinß-Btreet, Manchester. > : 98, Cheapside, London. " ; / " ' ''■'■ Agents KOK!jiriiW Zealand': ■','.: ''.'.'., Mesaßß W. McARTHUR &CO., AUCKLAND. I •Thennaersignedis prepared to" accept Biska |, J at lowest current rates. .;, -._ - ;i . ; : AUlosseßprom^se^dta^on^ . i !;: . General Manager. ~, ■'-•■i:: " 85,Inisurance BuildinKH.AucKana?jt -' jnpHE;.CAMERA.IN. THE CORAIi iT 7 .'*'"' -'.. Tar;Am^t:. '■'. ': ■■ "■■ ■'• ""■'?* w "' WANTED. ;, '} SPiirchaaora for the itm Series of ;'- ; f SAMOAN: SCENERY.- j.;;,: : :^ ost ' Prices-Mounted, 2Ss per aozen; single obpl?? ; (^ pfi&,, Unmountedi2ißperdOßißingleoople«>^ ' ■ W. R". ROBINSON, . Next to Close Bros.. Wellesley^atreet East.; HE LENSVILLH TIMBHB a compakx; ■; .v^v Flwt, Medium, and Beopnd<laM BntttUnß !-j , r FtoorinK. IJtaing. ana other Breßged Timber. BhlngleB,&o. TOVHOOTKB _ ' , , OOIiONIAL BANK BUILDmGg. ;', ' THE UNION STEAM SAW, UOJJJJh INS, SASH, AND DOOR COMPANY - ■' (JjIMITK.Uti l! ; '«! : ■ WHOIKSAM OTAIiEBS IS .; TIMBER, DOORS, SASHES, AND TURNERY, ■ SOTPUES Dt WBOLESAUt tOJM, : • X ; From Bush, Mills, by direct delivery. At any , Publio Wharf in Auckland, :> ; : BUILDIN& MATERLAIi IN EVERY FORM, Including MOULDINGS.-':'•. And from Mochanlca' Bay Yard wi Faotorf, TIMBER, • MOULDINGS, DOORS, € . , SASHES, SPECIAL JOINERY," FRETWORK, '■;•:■ .-. AND TURNERY, v , ''A [KPOBTANT ITO BCILDEBS, OOOTBAOTOBbV*:' OABINETMAKEKB, AND JOUUSBS, A SPECIALLY SELECTED STOCK Qt ' 5 JOINERS 1 TIMBER,. " . from the Company'B Tairna MQI, ttdroughlj.,,, seasoned and ready for working up, is always ■ ". . kept in Stock at-Mechanics' Bay Yard, and j can be scoured in Lots to suit Customers' ~y n ! ' :^ " ie^aiißtatißta^ , .;,'...;.:;,:_'■■. XAIRUA TIMBER , !Ay { ; '■:■■'. -..-.'■< Is well known as tho • ■<> '■'••■ BEST JOINERS'TIMBER IN thb MABKJBT : ; ;3TOBAiGwi: Accommodation s ;' I Afforded BY abranqbmbnt in MsonAKlO^ ' ; ::- : ■; .-.'■■■■.: BAYYABD. , _ '/' ■■'■-■■' .: - i<: fiORTINa-UP ORDERS Kieouted from; Mechanics' Bay Yard wltfe J ' .'-..■' : : out delay, ;.■.■' .''. ." ':■ QtJOTATIONS ; .AND PATTERN BOOKS ; v ]■ *;"^"'.' .'' .'"On'arpllpationVat:';.1 :,,'V : "-.'l!Jj*' MEOHANICS'BAY OR CUSTOAT.S fiTT{P"-T. -OHAmtBS HKBKBTH.J _ IAUBX. AHJCBW, _ BpEBTKETH AND AI i'RTB'W" L are glad to Inform their Customers and; 3 ■the Public generally that having Bold the whole : pf their last year's Stook of Clorero, etc, they i *rs in a position to Offer an Entirely New Stock urirlng per direct steamer Aorangl, from Lou- - Jon, ana per Mail Steamer from San Franotooo,,., v under, all current eeason's growth, consisting ' , WHITE CLOVER (Trefollum repestf ; RED CLOVER (Trefollnm preteurt . :'. ••* ; ALSYKB CLOVER (Trefofiuni hybrldlt . CiOWGRASS (Trefolium perenno): ■: . SCARLET CLOVER (Trefolium lncarnitom) ; . • TRKFOIL (Medlcago snpulin») i . ... LUCERNSMMeoicagosativaP \ ; ? ALFALFA (Medicago ChOiana) TIMOTHY JPhlenm Prateuis) ' ■ S CRESTED DOGSTAIIi (Cynoanrus erlßtalnj) MEADOWFOXTAIL (Alopeourus pretensW g , BHEEPS FESCUE (Festuoa ovinaj WOOD MEADOW QRASS (Poa nemorall* - PRAIRIB (Bromns Sonroideri) ■ DDQB GRASS " : BAT-TAIL jSporoboluß olongattiß) ■ BYE-GRASS (Scleum perrene Bernpervirenrt . COCKSFOOT (Daotylifl^omerataL- : FURPLE and GREEITTOP ABERDBiKN t TURNIPS , DEVONSHIRE GREY STONE, WHITE STONK, AND GiOBK TURNIPS SWEDE TURNIPS They are also Agents for the Bonodcrt ai Manufaotnred by the Auckland Manure Coni- ■" ' pany, Syuney Bonedust and Flour, Mineral and - . Bone Phoapaatea, Potato and dross Jlannros, .i Peruvian Guano, Nitrate of Soda, and other* Artificial Manures; Oats, Maizo. Barley, Bean*. Pave; Coarse. Fin«j. and Rock-Halt, Cobra, and • UnaeaA Cake; Kew Zealand Flax and Tow. •**.;•/■ : tjainbkidQe's ti m c tabj, c. From Union Bank—22 minutes past the hour. From Tux Thiiee Lamps—7; minutes to the p nour. ■ - • ■■ ' - Night Tbips *bom TowN-4-past B,i-pa«t 9, ' }-past 10, and J-past 1C From Thbee Lamps- . i.^L 10. li. ' - From Union Bank to SHBttY Bbaoh and->; 3akskiei.l)-sTbhsT—7 minutes past 9,23 minttteil : tOlO,7minutespastlO,23rainutcstoll,7ininnteß .; past 11, 23 minutes'to 12, 1. minutes past 12.7 mlnuteapast 2,23 minutes to 3,7 minutes pastß, 23 m^utes to 1,7 minutes past 1,23 minutes to 5 t , 7 minutes past 5, 23 minutes to 6, and 23 minutes 1 1 tO-7. ' j-," ' '• ■' - ' ■-'■: ■ - ' Fbom SnELi-Y Beach—B.3o a.m., 8.45-a.m., ■■■■. [ 10.30 a.m., 1.30 p.m., 3.30 p.m., 1.30 p.m., and 7.4S ■/ '■ p-ra- ■ >tiprta . ■ • j,d YXT I r A UCKLAND AND ONEHUNGAMgItod by j A OF COACHES. > BEALLACK & JElitKll?S'%/ T. .'■ T^ E- (?K' LeaveOnkhonqa- ywiii be Pio\-iaed. I liaily at 1 .80 a.m. and f — a Nights at 6.45. a-ddbess : j. Leave AuqKiAJi^DvvAßnjiEYDpN, !; Dally at aisiiuotioneer, Durham-alreet East. ? Nifhiiiii '.■'.:..:;. :' ;'"•: :.-.:'.'' !*.. , '\h j-->y Continued pn Eigiitu jpsge.j ■ Snjp' ■ .;.:•-..: ■'-.- -.. .... SaUir" '::'..,