A SWISS POISONER.

" Unparalleled Career of Crime. (from oub iondon correspondent.) Thebk died a short time ago in the prison of St. Antoine de Geneva a woman of the name of Marie Jeanneret, one of the most remarkable criminals of the age, and pro bably the most extensive secret poisoner of her time. Her case is all the more remark able in that it presents some curious psy chological problems, and that, strangely enough, she was the cause of the abolition of the death penalty m the canton of Geneva. The following sketch of the woman's career and crimes was contributed to the "Daily News" by a correspondent m Switzerland :-Marie Jeanneret, the biographer, belonged to one of the most Honourable families in the canton of Neu chatel, where she was born in 1836. She inherited from her parents, both of whom died when she was an infant, a modest competency. Marie remained at school until she reached her nineteenth year, and was carefully and religiously brought up by her uncle, who was also her guardian. Her character, as observed by those about her, was peculiar. She had a defective judgment and a strong will, inconstant tastes and a restless disposition, a tendency to falsehood and a passion for intrigue. She was vain too, and liked to attract attention and be talked about. On the other hand, she was regular in her atten dance at church, and assiduous in her reli gious duties. She did not enjoy very good health, but was suspected of exaggerating her maladies. By dint of reading medical books and consulting many doctors she obtained some knowledge of medicine, of which she vras very proud, and often expressed a desire to become a sick nurse. She complained much of her eyes, pre tended at one time to be blind, and in 1865 consulted Dr. Doy, of Vevey, who ascer tained by a decisive experiment that the affection was imaginary. He did not pre ■ scribe for her, but it is probable that she took an opportunity, while his back was tnrned, of appropriating a bottle of atro ' phine. Another doctor -whom she con sulted prescribed belladonna, and as she kept the prescription by her she was enabled to procure a supply of that drug at pleasure. In the spring of 1866 Mane Joanneret, while staying at the Pension Beroud at Vevey, made the acquaintance of a Mademoiselle Berthet, of Nyon, whose sympathy was won by her sufferings—real or euppoßed—her insinuating manners, and - her religious professions. They became fast friends, were nearly always together, and used each other's rooms aB 2 they belonged to both. One day after dinner Mademoiselle Berthet asked for a glass of water, but, the day being warm, Jeanneret suggested that a mixture of wine and eau , eucree would be the safer beverage. The mixture was made accordingly and drunk, and shortly afterwards the two friends started for Clarens. On the way thither iSademoiselle Berthot became very ill. She was sick, the pupils of her eyes seemed to be paralysed, -her head felt as heavy as lead. Jeanneret showed much sympathy, lifted the lids of her friend's eyes to examine them more closely, and suggested remedies. After a short rest at Clarens Mademoiselle Berthet recovered sufficiently to return to Vevey, whither she was accompanied by Jeanneret. . -•"Come in to my room, said the latter on their arrival at the Pension Beroud, "and I will give you an effervescing drink." The invitation was accepted, and Jean- Beret prepared the mixture, using for the purpose some drugs contained in the small arsenal of bottles which she always carried about with her. "Drink quickly," she said, "while the effervescence lasts." ' Mademoiselle Berthet did dnnk quickly. Jeanneret eyed her curiously, and while in the very act of returning her the glass her friend fell back on a sofa in a state of utter - nervous prostration. All the night and the whole of the next day she was delirious, ,and her friends, being informed by tele graph of her illness, fetched her home, and by so doing undoubtedly saved her life. Three days passed before she could suffi ciently command herself to explain to her •■■■ medical attendant, Dr. Lambassy, of Nyon, how she had been "taken ill. After hearing her statement, and asking her some ques tions, Dr. Lambassy said it looked very much as if sheJiad been poisoned by bella donna. Ihe pupils of her eyes were 'extremely dilated, her very features were I "altered, and months elapsed before her sight ■ was fully restored. Mademoiselle Berthet also believed she had been poisoned, but by mistake, her idea being that Jeanneret had got her bottles mixed and given her the wrong stuff inadvertently, and this opinion she retained until subsequent revelations showed how terrible had oeen her danger and how narrowher escape. This was pro bably Jeanneret's first essay at murder, and it will be observed, as a curious feature of the case, that she had nothing-to gain by her friend's death. On the iace of it, the crime was absolutely motiveless. \ From Vevey Jsanneret went to Loole, her native place, and in the following Octo ber she entered the nursing school of Lausanne in order to qualify herself for the calling for which she had so often expressed a predilection. After a stay of two months she left the school without completing her course, on the ground that the state of her * f eyes rendered her unfit for work. _M. Rey mond, the manager of the establishment, was struck by something strange and inde finable in the new1 neophyte's character. She was' restless, emotional, and talkative, peculiarities the reverse of desirable in a sick chamber; Whether she tried any 1 experiments on the patients in the hospital is unknown, but she was occasionally sent out to nurse patients at their own houses, and to one of them, Madame Chabloz, she almost certainly gave belladonna. One night Jeanneret called on Madame Cbabloz's married daughter, Madame Eichenberg, and said her mother was very ill. Madame I Eichonborg found the latter with wide open eyes, a face expressive of intense terror, and talking wildly and laughing deliri ously. The doctor was sent for and came, but suspected nothing. Another time she went into the 'dining-room while the Eichen bergs were at supper, and gave the children some bonbon's, which she Called "prin cesses." All" who ate of them were very sick and vomited much. Still nobody sus , pected; that •' Jeanneret was a secret poi soner. ■ ! The scene now' shifts to Geneva, where, ■at the time in question, there lived a cer tain Madame Juvet, wife of a tradesman, who, together with two friends—Madame Vaucher and Mademoiselle I Farsat—had formed the design of establishing a maison de sante, or private hospital, for convales-: cente. Thetetter to fit themselves for this undertaking they spent a few days in the nursing school at Lausanne. While there they made the acquaintance of Marie Jean neret, who, when informed of their project, applied for the situation of nurse in the new ■ hospital. She asked no salary, enly board, lodging, and washing. She nursed for the pleasure of nursmg, not for money. . iHer offer was accepted, and after a visit to Locle she went to Geneva, and quickly be came absolute mistress of the maison de sante. Madame Juvet seems to have sub mitted to her influence from the first, and - "before Jeaaneret had been in the house many days she contrived to set her and Madame Vaucher and Mademoiselle Fareat by the ears. They quarrelled, and the two latter refused to have anything further to do with the affair. When they "were out of the way Jeanneret took little Julie Juvet, who, sho said, was in delicate health, to consult a doctor at Lausanne. Shortly after their return the poor child fell ill, after eat ing gome of the nurse's .bonbons, and took to her bed; never to rise from it again. '. The doctor thought she was suffering from meningitis. One day, as M. Juvet subse quently related, his wife heard her daughter crying in the next room; On going in she founa Jeanneret whipping her, and the the child begged her. mother piteously not '*' to let the nurse come near her any more. But so great was her infatuation, so implicit "' her confidence, that even this incident does ;,i not seem to have shaken Madame Juvet's 1 faith in..Jeanneret. People remembered afterwards that it was about this time that ' the nurse told the-servants and several others that Madame Juvet was a doomed woman, and that her son Emile was threat ened with a serious illness. A few days ■ -later Madame Juvet did in effect fall ill, ' and one morning Emile, after drinking a cup of coffee, felt violent j>ain and vomited profusely. Eortunately for-him, heleftthe maison de sante on the following day, and thenceforward experienced no further un pleasantness eitb.-j from' drinking cocoa or - anything else. Meanwhile, Madame Juvet • suffered from continual relapses, and when ever Dr. Benet, who attended her, sug gested that she: was better, Jeanneret always answered that she did not think the ■ improvement would last. It did not. Poor little Julie died on December 27,1867, and amonthlater her mother was laid in the .' same grave. When Julie's body was after : wards exhumed it was too much decom - posed to bo analysed, but in Madame Juvet's body were'found great quantities of mor phine, antimony, and some copper., JTovwero these ,two tho. only victims^ ; Before'they-died the lives of three other fc/ymaatfls of the hospital, all of whom were

nursed by Jeanneret, had been qufinched by the same means. One was an old woman of the name of Hahn ; another, "an aged demoiselle," was called Gay; and the third, also a demoiselle, bore the name of Junod. She died, after three days' illness and deli rium, in great agony. Thus finished the maison de santd. Two servants, M. Juvet, and Jeanneret were the only survivors of the household. Still the doctors suspected nothing, or, if they did, they kept their suspicions to themselves. Jeanneret, whose occupation was for the moment gone, went into lodgings, pretended to be ill, and took to her bed ; but, more fortunate than her patients, she got better. When she recovered she began to look out for another situation, and, accompanied by a friend, paid a visit to tho hydropathic establishment known as the Bains de Divonne, a beautiful place at the foot of the Jura, and some eight miles from Geneva. She was received by Madame Vidart—who herself told me the story—the wife of the late Dr. Paul Vidart, the then proprietor and physician of the establishment. In the course of conversation tho friend mentioned that Mademoiselle Jeanneret had been garde malade in the Maison de Sante Junet, where five persons had died in three months. " How sad !" said Madame Vidart. " Yes, it is very sad when so many die," returned Jeanneret, " mais il y a deg beaux moments dans la mort." (There are some beautiful moments in death.) Then she spoke about a place as garde malade. One of tho patients happened to be wanting a nurse, and Madame Vidart told Jeannoret she would communicate with her in the course of a few days. After the two women were gone she wrote to a physician in Geneva, asking him to make some inquiries concern ing Jeanneret's character and qualifications. " Don't ha-vse anything to do with her," was the answer; "all her patients die." "I can never think of that woman without a shudder," said Madame Vidart to me one day; " she would have poisoned us all." 'However, Jeanneret was shortly after wards engaged to nurae a Madame Lenoir, an old lady who was suffering from inflam mation of the lungs. She too died, and then Jo'annoret leased a furnished room from M. Gros, a retired schoolmaster, with whom lived Madamo Bouvier, his widowed daughter. Again Marie obtained an engagement, this time to nurse Madame Bourcart, a lady who lived at La Boissiero, a country house near Geneva. Four days after she entered on her duties Madame Bourcart had a "crisis," accompanied by delirium and vomiting, and Jeanneret told the servants that their mistress would die young like her brother. When Madame Bourcart became a little better she showed a strong repugnance to Jeanneret, and would not have the nurse near her, and as Monsieur Bourcart had begun to suspect that she was playing some tricks with the medicines, she was sent away. He remarked one evening that a certain bottle of medi xine, of which ho kneSr his wife had taken 'several doses during the day, had not dim inished in volume. He put the bottle aside, but took no further steps, for though he distrusted Jeanneret it had not then 1 occurred to him that eho was a poisoner. She went back to her lodgings, and M. Gros and Madame Bouvier, whose confidence she had already gained, invited her to live with ■them enpensiou. Threedays later Madame 'Bouvier fell ill, and so rapidly grow worse that it was deemed necessary to call in two physicians, Dr«. Lombard and Goudet. They took it to be a case of congestion of the brain, albeit Dr. Lombard several times observed that it presented symptoms the like of which he had never seen before. She died on May 22, ISG9. Her father, after nursing her a few days, had also been taken ill; hia illness followed precisely the same course as hers, and, like hers, ended fatally. They were killed, as was afterwards abundantly proved, by atropine, morphine, and antimony. During their eickness one of their relations, a Madame Legeret, after drinking a flass of eau gucrdo given _to her by eanneret, became so seriously indis posed that she had to be taken home in a cab. The doctor who was called in recog nised symptoms of belladonna poisoning, but, thinking that Madame Legeret had swallowed by mistake some atropine in tended for external use, he did not suspect foul play. Proper remedies were adminis tered, and after a severe struggle she recovered.

Jeanneret next took up her abode at the Pension Desarzens, and made the acquaint ance of Mademoiselle' Fritzgiss, when one day, after drinking a glass of lemonade given to her by the garde malade, became delirious and terribly ill. The doctor who was called in, recognising symptoms of poisoning by belladonna, and suspecting foul play, ordered her immediate removal to the cantonal hospital. Doctor Rapin, of the hospital, made a similar diagnosis. He had heard of Jeanneret before. She never went into a house, whether as guest or nurse, that death did not follow. He com municated h?8 suspicions, together with a sketch of Jeanneret's career, to the Pro cnreur-General, who forthwith had her arrested. A long inquiry followed; the bodies, of her supposed victims were exhumed. Marie was examined au secret, and after a prolonged inquiry she was placed on her trial. The charge against her was that in 1867 and 186S she had attempted, in the Canton of Geneva, the lives of (1) Louise Junod ; (2), Jeanne Gay; (3), Jenny Julie Juvet; (4), Louise Hen rietta ; (5), Madame Bourcart ;.(6), Jacques Gros ; (7), Julie Bouvier; (8),. Madame Legeret; (9). Demoiselle Fritzges. There were several other charges that might have been brought against her, but as the rela tives of the persons whom she may have poisoned did not {suspect foul play, the bodies were not exhumed, and the attempts she had made in the Canton Vaud did not fall within the jurisdiction of the tribunals of Geneva.

Before the trial began the Judge of d'ln struction ordered the accused to be exam ined by three experts in mental disease, for it was hardly conceivable that any sane person could be guilty of the series of purposeless and diabolical crimes imputed to Marie Jeanneret. After along investi gation the experts came unanimously to the'conclusion that there was discernible in her no sign of feeble-mindedness or mental alienation. She laboured under no halluci nation, and during her long preventive imprisonment and Tier frequent examina tions she had shown more than usual intelligence and presence of mind. Of the nine persons whom she was accused of poisoning seven had died', and in the bodies of all of them that were' "not too much decomposed to be analysed was found enough of atropine, morphine, and anti mony to account for their death. Large quantities; of these .drugs were found in Jeanneret's possession, and in the bottle seized by M. Bourcart when she was nursing his wife atropine was also detected. Jeanneret herself was constrained to admit that she had given people poison, but .pleaded that she had given it in ignorance, and in the hope that it would do them good. To this the judge replied that, inasmuch as she had given poison to people in robust health, and .her patients invariably died, her excuse aggravated, rather than exten uated, her offence. In the end Marie Jeanneret was found. guil|.y of murdering six persons and attempting to murder two others by administering to them poisonous drugs, But as the jury gave her the bene fit of "extenuating circumstances," the Court could pronounce no heavier sentence than twenty years' imprisonment. At that time death was the penalty for unqualified murder in the Canton: of Geneva, and if Marie Jeanneret had been a man she would most assuredly have lost her head. But the jury could not bring their minds to decree the death of .a woman, and so the worst and most dangerous prisoner of the age escaped the rightful penalty of her crimes.' After letting-off Marie Jeanneret with a term of imprisonment, it was clearly impossible to punish any other murderer more severely, and a law abolishing capital punishment was shortly afterwards adopted by the local Legislature. The singularity of Marie Jeanneret's case lies in the apparently motivelese character of . her crimes. The people she poisoned had done her no harm, and she gained nothing by their death. At the maison de sante she had free quarters; in all her other places she had free quarters and good wages. She deliberately killed the geese that laid her golden eggs. Why? Her remark to Madame Vidart gives us one clue to the riddle. She had a morbid pleasure in suffering and death. She wrote letters to her friends, which were read on her trial, describing "with a species of exultation" the last moments of her patients. She loved power too, and had an egregious vanity. What power can be greater than the power of life and death •?■ What could be more gratifying to a diabolically-vain creature like, Jeanneret than to feel that, albeit those about you know it not, their fate, their very lives, are in your hands? "The doctor says that — will get better," she would, say, speaking of one of her vic tims. " Well, I—l tell you she will not get better. You will; soon see who is right. These doctors are fools." Then, to fulfil her predictions, she took a life. A weaker, though in intention an equally evil nature, might have been deterred from committing murder by fear. o£ the consequences; but Marie, who "had a strong will and no scruples, never let L I dare not wait on I would. She positively revelled in the idea that by, mean's- of-.the tiny bottle or the pinch of. powder she carried in her pocket

she could control the destinies of families j and alter all the conditions of human life, and in the end her passion for poisoning, growing by what it fed on, took entire pos session of her mind. She liked it just as gome people like slaughtering pheasants or shooting tigers. TEat she escaped detec tion so long was due in great measure to the absence of apparent motive. Next to a doctor, a sick nurse is the very last person likely to be suspeoted of secret poisoning. Either by accident or design, moreover, she generally gave atropine and morphine toge ther ; and as the active principles of opium and belladonna are in some respects antagonistic, the one to a certain extent neutralised the effects of the other, and thereby rendered it more difficult to diag nose the maladies of her victims. Yet even allowing for this difficulty, it is hard to resist the conclusion that the doctors with whom she came in contact justified by their ■ blindness the low esteem in which she held them.

After her condemnation Marie Jeanneret was incarcerated in the prison of St. Antoine, whore, as I have said, I saw her a short time ago, and where she remained until her death. She was a little woman with black hair, dark eyes, a very pale face, and square, resolute-looking jaws. It was impossible to contemplate that face without a shudder, and I thought I saw in it some thing indefinably strange, threatening, and sinister; but this impression may have been due in part to the consciousness that I was in tho presence of a criminal who had pro bably poisoned more people than any per son then living. I did not, of course, speak to her about her crimes. The subjects mooted wore her occupation—lace making, at which she wasa great adept—and the state of her hoalth. It was clear that she still liked to talk about herself, to think that she was a sort of celebrity, and had made some noise in the world. After her conviction, as the direotor of the gaol informed me, she fully admitted having poisoned all the persons whose deaths she had been accused of compassing, but she would never admit that sho had committed crimes: sho called them/onto—mistakes. The prison discipline of Geneva is ex tremely mild. The prisoners are not punished, they are merely detained, and the work they are given to do is rogarded rather as a recreation than an infliction. No difference is made between tho treat ment of murderers and any other convicts. Marie Jeanneret's cell was a comfortablo room, warm, and well lighted; and, as far as was possible to judge, she did not seem unhappy. Many a better person was a great deal worse off. Whether such a sys tem would answer in a larger community than that of Geneva may i>e questioned, but there can be no doubt that it is quite in accord with the prevailing opinion of the Suis.se Romanole (French and Italian speak ing Switzerland) that responsibility for crune rests in a great measure with society •itself, and that criminals, being the victims of circumstances and the creatures of their antecedents, are more to be pitied than blamed.

OUR RHINE WINES.

Under the abovo heading the Saturday Revieio recently published an article from which we take the following interesting particulars concerning the industry of viti culture in the Rhenish wine-making districts:

"The vines cultivated a hundred years since in the Rheingau were divided into the common, which did not grow very tall, and were called Riesslinge, a name which sur vives in the Forster Riesling of the Palati nate and in many other wines. The grapes of this sort ripened first, and gave, next to the Orleans, the best and strongest wine. Then there were the Orleans, the 'Klebroth,' or Red Burgundy, and those calted tho Lambert. ' Gerken advised vinegrowers to prefer tho Burgundy grape of Assmanns hausen, because the red colour did not hurt Rhino wines; because it matured sufficiently even in bad years, when other grapes did not ripen; and because its wine was saleable in the year of its manufacture—a great ad vantage to the poorer cultivators. But viti culture must then have been still in a most rudimentary state ; for the Rhenish peasant could not then bo considered rich, his whole income boing derived from his vinos, which have ever been at the mercy of 'bad years.' The nobles and the wealthy merchants, too, held all tho best vineyards, and a couple of poor vintages ruined tho peasant anal sent him to the money-lender. Then ho soon sold or lost his vineyard, and becamo a labourer for hire. Thus, at Assmannshausen where tho Bleichert was in 1789 beginning to be preferred to the finest Burgundies, tho villago plainly spoko of poverty, the greater part of the inhabitants being strug gling day-labourers. No wonder, then, that tho vines were manured hut every six or isovon years with road-scrapings, nld earth, mortar from ruined houses, and perfectly decayed farm-manure. This was done be fore tho winter, and the vines wore fre quently hoed during spring and summer, to destroy weeds. The summer prunings were tied round the stem to dry, and given to the cows the following winter. The Dunches of grapes were cut with a small sickle, and pounded with a great wooden pestle at Worms and in the Rheingau, but trodden under foot at Frankfort and its neighbour hood. Tho grapes thu3 crushed were brought in large tuns to the press, whence the must ran down, through long wooden tubes, into the vats in the collars. The presses were .either the ancient Baumkolter, m which the pressure was obtained by moans of the heavy trunk of a large tree, or the screw -press, in which the screw was of wood. A great novelty in 1789 was the iron screw-press— in which, of course, the peasants saw all sorts of imperfections. The first runnings of the press are the weakest, but also tho most delicate; that which follows has more character and strength; the last is bad and rough. By mixing all three, the first gains body and the last loses its harshness. But there was even a fourth pressing, and then the refuse was, as in many wine countries, used for distillation. This refuse had to be pulled to pieces with the hands, else would it take fire in fermenting; it was then trodden in a vat containing six inches of clay covered by a layer, of sand. Or the bullocks were fed with it; but given to cows it caused them to run dry. '' Gerken noted that in his time, as now, in the hot' dry years the vineyards on the heights away from the river produced the best wines, while in cold wet years the yield of the plain and the Rhine banks was to be preferred. Old casks in which good wine has lain, and in which much tartrate remains, are, when well cleaned and scalded, best for the new wine. If put into new casks it retains, it is true, a finer and more delicate flavour, but it develops more body and fire in the old wood, for the new cask absorbs much of the sulphates and the essential oils during the fermentation, whereas an old one gives strength and purifies during the same stage. In small casks, too, the wine becomes sweeter and gentler, and is 6ooner drinkable but the loss by evaporation is twice as great as- Ip tho genuine large Rhine tun, the Rheinische Stilckfass, which should hold seven ohms and a half, or about 250 gallons. In these the wino ripens better, if more slowly,.and develops moro body, and all the Rheingau produce must be reckoned hard and disagreeable when too new Here may be quoted an old dictum taken from Fbrstor about a good Rhine wine. First, it should have a strikingly agreeable flavour; next, it should be clear as crystal; thirdly, a mur mur as of some tiny brooklet should be heard in pouring it out; and, lastly, there should appear in the centre of the glass a suspicion of a ' sparkling,' which should rapidly bead away in evanescent bubblets. It is a bad sign, if a slight foam mount leisurely, and take an appreciable time to disappear. Such a wine has almost certainly been blended and doctored. A century ago, as nowadays, the first quality of the choicest wines was rarely to be had in the Rhine inns. The cost of transport and the Customs dues being the same for all qualities, the mer chants bought only the best, which also travelled best, leaving behind only the lower qualities. Thus it came to pass that all the finest Rhine wines were to be drunk in North Germany."

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Plant-Collecting at Arthur's Pass, Canterbury.

(By a Young Botanist.)

iFROM TUB " VOIITU NEW ZKALAND SETTLOR."J

An expedition organised by Messrs. Adams and Sons, tho new plant merchants, Christ churoh, to collect plants and seeds for trans mission to England by the direct steamers arrived at tho foot of Arthur's I'iihu on April 15th. I was one of tho party, and I havo tried to write an account of tho plants collected, and to doscribo the appoaranco of the country.

It was three o'clock when we arrived at the place fixed for our camp, and as it was cold and cloudy, wo gave up all hope of collecting anything that day. Tho first thing wo looked for was a suitable place where we could tether the horse, then wo pitched the tents*, and made things snug. Had a good wash at tho creek, tho water feeling icy cold, for it came direct from the snow. We wore all hungry, for wo had no dinner, tho only substitute being a slight refreshment at the Beaky Hotoi. After fixing the tents we were all employed, ono washing potatoes, another lighting tho fire and putting on tho billies, while tho third was cutting the bacon and measuring out tho tea and sugar. It being now dark we lighted up the sleeping tent, and had dinner, of which we had to prepare a further supply, the keen air of the mountains giving us a good appetite. The only real fun of the afternoon was a chase after a wood-hen or weka. One of the party not being a good shot, missed his bird, but it was afterwards secured by the help of stones and tho butt end of tho gun. Wo arranged our beds, and got into our blanket bags, sleeping Bound till six o'clock next morning, when preparations were made for breakfast. The tire was lighted, the billies put on, tea put in when the water boiled, bacon and potatoes fried. After breakfast, filling our pockets with biscuits and sardines, we started for our first day's exploration, all three with bags, trowels, hedge-knives and sticks. Being camped at the foot of the Pass we had to tacklo it at once, and our guide was; not sure about the road, as many changes had taken place since his last, visit. When we commenced to climb the Pass we were surprised by the waterfall, named "The Devil's Punohbowl." As we went along the road we saw many interesting plants. The first was a mistletoe on the top'of a big beech. On the left were many sorts of ferns and trees, on the right was the Bealey Gorge, covered with trees and plants to the water's edg3. Tramping onwards we made' for the Otira to get the beautiful Rota, which is so much admired by travellers to the West Coast. As we ascended the Pass the scenery became more beautiful. We crossed many streams of the Bealey on the1 road to the top of the Pass. When we left the beeches behind we entered into the' Herbaceous plant region. Now we began to see the plants we wanted—Mountain Lilies growing on the banks of the stream, Celonisias, Coprosmas, Aciphyllas, Ligusti cusus, Gnaphaliums, Sinecios, Droceraa, Veronicas, Ourisias and even Hymeriophyl-' lums on the glaoier deposit. As we ad vanced the more excited we became. Wo saw Dracoph'yllums here for the first time, their bare stems covered with a light brown bark, and a tuft of leaves at the end1 of each' branch like a bunch of feathers.1 As we'turned the point our botanist's face showed signs of something wrong. Wo were soon told what was the matter. It! appeared that some lunatic had burnt air the Dracophyllums growing on tho top of the Pass, which some years ago had covered it all up the slopes of Mount Rolleston, and on the opposite side. -It seemed a dreadful1 thing 'to him that all these beautiful trees and shrubs should be destroyed. He said their destruction might cause a serious acci dent from landslips, as it was the roots of the treesand shrubs that bound the rocks together which probably were a glacier deposit. We| collected most of our plants on the moraines' of an old glacier, which Dr. Haast said had' at one time covered, all the ground around. The next object of interest was a bog, with' here and there large patches of water. We went on to the bog to get the Droseras, but; they were gone to rest and we could not find them. The Donatia Novae Zealandire covered the bog, and it looked like a small saxifrazeJ We also found the true Gentiana saxosa there. We did not keep to the road, but close to tho Fagus, Dracophyllum, Olearia, Panax, and Gaultheria bush, which was filled with plants of all descriptions, also mosses, fungi, ferns, and Polystichums in profusion. We had before us one of the grandest Alpine scenes in the world. On the left was the Otira gorge and river rising in Mount Rolleston, lined with Ratas, Olef arias, Coprosmas, Cedars, Panax, Celery Pines, and Fagus to the water's edge; on the right were the huge mountain sides covered with dense forest. We were at sucn an elevation above the river that it looked like a small etream, but it is one of the worst rivers to cross. Where the road ie out the sides are lined with young plants, which were a guide to us, for we could see what plants grew thereabouts. In such places we round young plants of the Bate, ,&& well as Sunneras, Senecios, Dracotthyllums, Panax; Veronicas, and Nerteras, which were eagerly bagged, our botanist telling us to get* as many Senecio eleagnifolius as possible. The Farther down the Otira we got the more beautiful the scenery became. It is the very place for an artist to go and get some pictures' of this mountain scenery. What could surpass a good picture sketched in the .moonlight of this beautiful place, with the ■show-capped'-mountains above the bush? About one o'clock we had dinner of biscuits and sardines which we brought with us. We noticed on a rock a fine plant of Siaus

t mum pilifora, which we got out after a little picking snd having collected a good patch of Hymonophyllum villosum we started for camp. On tho rotum we collected the plants wo had previously noted, so that our bags began to fill rapidly. Determined to got sonio young Nei Nei—Dracophyllum Traversii—if possible, we made a closo ex amination of a good deal of bush, but were only able to find two modium sized specimens, which wo got up for want of a better. Anothor search further up tho Otira wan moro successful, as wo hit upon a lino batch of young plants, but it was dangerous work collecting them, ns they grew among tho bouldurs on tho slopes of tho gorge. Near ing the top of tho Vans wo began to collect hurbacoouß Alpines, comprising Colmisias, Aciphyllas, Ourisias and tho Edelweiss Gnaphalium grandicops. This interesting plant sooms to grow on nothing but puro shinglo, tho finest spccimon boing found on a bare rock.

Tho bags woro nearly full and trotting heavy, boing as much as wo could well carry down the Pass. On n rock ovorhanging tho road some rare plants were found—Raorlia grandillora, like a silvery saxifrage; Col mirtia laricifolia liko a little larch; Fostora sedifolia, ono of tho best of Now Zealand's Herbaceous Flora, and many other raro plants which would be highly prized in Eng land. Several varieties of Nortera and Gun nora woro found with water trickling over them. On a terrace of tho Bealoy wo found a new Sonecie with distinct foliago covered with white hairs which it is proposed to call Setulosa, also some Hymonophyllum Arm atrongii, tho smallest known fern in tho world.

We arrived at camp at about six o'clock, well loaded, and well satisfied with our day's work j the old horse looking out for us as he had missed his dinner for onco. Wo were quite ready for something to eat, after our long day's tramp, and wo quickly prepared ojr meal of salmon, potatoes, bread, cheese, tea and coffee. We were surrounded by mountains, the tops being covered with snow; the sky was clear, and a full moon shining upon the mountain peaks made them look like silver. Our botanist decided not to bundle up the plants that night so that we might have a good rest for to-mor row's work, so-we got into our blanket bags and after a few readings and a little music wo dropped off to sleep. We turned out about seven o'clock and found everything white, even our boots were frozen hard. After a hasty breakfast, we started at eight o'clock to get the Ran unculus Lyallii, or Mountain Lily, the chief object of the expedition, as we wanted to send them to England by the steamers. The lilies grew on the banks of a small stream, but it was difficult to get them up with spades, because the ground was full of stones, so we had to use the trowels and diggers to force them out. The sun was very hot, and after half-an-hour's work the sweat poured off us. As .the lilies were got up, the tubers were taken to the stream, washed, counted and bagged. A man with a dray, came from the Bailey township for some cotton plants and lilies, and he kindly offered to take our bags down to camp. We soon filled up our remaining bags with Sinecio Lyallii, with flowers like a single marigold, Celmisea boriacea, and Ourisa maorocarpa, all desirable plants, pn the way home our botanist met with a slight accident in crossing the Bealey ; he put his foot on a boulder, whioh, rolling away, throw him on his back in the water, his bag of plants being carried away by the stream. However he got safely over, and the plants were recovered. When we got to camp we shot a morepork, or New Zealand owl, which was busy eating a Weka, which we had shot the day before. The night was very cold, and we had to make a large fire to warm us and to cook our supper. Before we turned in we arranged our plants, finding it very cold work, as it was freezing hard. It was midnight before we had finished our work, and after a cup of coffee we got into our blanket bags, but found it difficult to sleep, as our hands were smarting and stinging with getting up the lilies. Our botanist said he had not worked so hard for a long time. I worked until I could not work any.longer, my hands being blistered and trembling. I woke about seven o'clock, and found both my com panions asleep. When I woke them one said he had been able to sleep very little all night owing to the intense cold. Tli6 horse was fed, and a good breakfast of tea, bread and butter, and fried pudding was quickly ready. We were eff collecting again about eight o'clock, Our instructions were not to leave any plants till our return, but to make sure of them. On tho road up the Pass we saw icicles two feet long hanging to the rocks. In a brake of the Fagus Bush we found Forstera sedifolia and Celmisia glandulosa covering the ground, many clumps of the graceful Snow Grass being dotted about. We were now collecting plants of all descrip tions, from the small Drosera up to the big Dracophyllum. On the roadside we found two orchids, Calendenia bifolia and Cyr tostylis oblonga. We dug the little tubers out of a peaty soil mixed with stones. The Bush Flax or Astelia was growing in peaty soil; it is remarkable for its handsome foliage and clusters of isoarlet fruit. We wanted the berries for seed, but the birds had eaten them all. The Celmisias or Cotton Plants were so numerous that I did hot know which to get up first. Biit-'JE wanted fine specimens, and I obtained some of each of the twelve sorts. The mpsli Mautifu} of them are:—Celmisia coriacea the.cottou plant), with its broad leaves two to three inches wide and one to two feet long, producing fine white flowers like a single aster. Celmisia petiolata, so called from long petioles or leafy stalks; it is unlike any of the other sorts, and it was much admired in Christehurch. ,C. belli dioides grows in small patches on the slopes of Mount Rolleston,,about 400Q to 5000 feet. This ia a really splendid thino. with

shining leaves about } inch wide, j inch long. It throws up fine cluster of daisy like uowern. C. Monroi, named after Sir D. Monro, can easily bo distinguished from tho other uorU by its leaves being of a light-brown and very narrow. C. incana forma striking patohes on peaty slope*. Thcao CelmUiM are amongst the bent of our Now Zealand Alpine Flora, and they would be highly prized in England. Amongst the Veronicas were V. Canterburiensi.s, V. legallii, V. liuifoliro, V. Bidwillii, all good things, which would take too much space to describe. After five hours wo thought it was time for lunch, so we sat down on the bank of a stream to our biscuit* and sar dines. We got another batch of Ourisas in two varieties, and shortly after this we made tho beat discovery of the trip in tho largest known 1 species of tho genus Aciphylla, and it was named G randis on the spot. Many of tho plant* were two yards across ; the leaves woro a dark shining green, and being much branched, made tho plant look liko a fan palm. Tho flower stem was eight feet high, but unfortunately all the Beed was blown away. Of tho small variety, A. Monroi, we got a good many specimens. Ligusticum Haantii, with a leaf like the carrot, was plontiful, growing on damp peaty slopes. It was beginning to freeze, and as our four bushel sacks woro now heavy tiro made the best of our way to camp, picking up Olearia lacunonn and a few of tho new Senecio sotulosa on tho road. After tea an excursion by moonlight was planned. Following up the creek Coproenia fwtidisaima was mot with ; it ia a bad-smelling plant. When we returned the driver had not ooffeo ready and tho tent lighted up, which made it look quite warm. After a little music and some readings vro got into our blanket bags and made all snug for tho night. On Wednesday we were up at six o'olock, hod breakfast, and went in search of ferns. We secured some fino specimens of the Grove Fern, Alsophila Colensoii, which represents tho genus in New Zealand. The fronds are like the tree fern, but its stem, instead of rising up liko the Cyatheas, creeps along the ground several yards; many were soon as much as five inches in diamoter. There were plenty of tho common Lomaria Alpina, Hostiopteris insisn, and the very pretty fern, Hypolepsis millefolium. When we returned to camp we found that tea and bacon were running short, and thai we must go on short rations until wo reached Springfield. To make matters worse, whilo we were engaged in wash ing, two sheep dogs ran away with the best part of our bacon. Everything was quickly packed, the horse harnessed, and the place that had been our homo for the last throe days, we left at ten o'clock. The plants were a heavy load for the horse, there boing IScwt. on the van. We crossed the Bealey four times successfully, and passed out of tho Bealey Gorge, leaving ite beau tiful forest covered slopes behind. On the river-bed grew Coprosma ascerosa, the blue berried sort, and Veronica Bidwillii, the creeping Veronica. We forded the Waim akanri at the same place as we did a fort night back. We bought tins of salmon at the Bealey at town prices. Wo made a short stay to give the horse a feed at tho Glaoier Hotel, so called for. being near the Waim akariri Glaciers, which have had many visitors during the summer. We reached Goldney Saddle at six o'olock, and the tent was pitched, fire lit, and a good supper prepared of salmon, biscuits and tea. Tho tent was sheltered by the Wild Irishman, and we passed a good night. Up at six o'clock, breakfast finished, norse harnesed, and off again by seven o'clock. We crossed the Cass Kivor, which was nothing more than a little stream. We were detained two hours at the Cass to get a shoo put on the horse, but made good progress along the straight road from the Cass. Passed Lake Grassmere, and rested at Lake Pearson, where we gathered seed of Pratia macrodon, one of New Zealand Lobelias. On the bottom of the Lake we got tho Mountain Quillwort Isoetes, Alpinus, and the'Pillwort Pilularia globulifera, also the Water Pepper Plant. We crossed the Craigie Burn, and saw wool washing actively carried-on. It was a stiff bit of road up the Craigie Burn valley, but our old horse knowing he was going home pulled with a will. At One Tree or Mur derer's Creek we got some seed of Aciphylla Colensoi, the largest' known Aciphylla, till we discovered Grandis on the Pass. We managed to get through the broken river bed and reach Eny's Creek before dark, whore we camped for the night, pitching our tent and making a roaring camp fire, as wood was plentiful. Supper was got ready and quickly eaten, for we had to turn into our blanket bags ■ immediately, as it was very cold. Up at six o'clock and made an early start, as we had a long day's journey before us. Mount Hutt and Mount Forlesse had put on their winter night-caps since we hid seen thorn last. We crossed the Porter River, and we tried to shoot a duck at Lake Lyndon, but we could not get within range of the birds, We stopped at the top of Porter's Pass to dine, and waited for the coach to come up. In the meantime we col ected some specimens and seeds of Celmisia yallii, C. augustifolia, and C. spectabilis, varieties not to be found at Author's Pass. Ye packed these plants on the van and commended the descent of the Pass, putting on the brakes and driving down carefully. We jolted through the branches of the Kowai, and arrived at the main bed of the river, where we camped. Supper had to be hcJped out with some boiled turnips. Next morning on the move at 7 o'clock, and collected some seed of the mountain snow drop (Gentiana saxsosa) on the roadside, by the Kowai water race. We passed Springfield about midday,and reached Shef field, where we bought some mutton chops, then through Waddington up to the terraces of the Waimakariri, where we had a spell for dinner. A swamp hen was seen here and shot, and a few miles beyond Courtenay we pitched our tent. For our tea. we had

to content ourselves with water from the .roadside,..which was different from moun tain water .The chops were fried, which we relished, for it was. twelve days since we had tasted fresh meat. Wo loft our last camp at nine o'olock, and arrived at our journey's end on Sunday night about six o'clock, after a trip of thirteen days. One of tho objects of the expedition being to obtain seeds of the Alpine plants, I col lected about fifty varieties. The season was favourable for seed collecting, most of the seeds being ripe. I could not get seed of the ratti us the flowering season was not over. Some of the Celmisias were difficult to obtain, as the seed is easily blown away when ripe. .

Haltering Unbroken Colts.

Having manoeuvred so as to got the Colt into a looso box without frightening him, you had better now leave him alone for half-an-hour or so, that ho may become accustomed to his new quarters, after which you may endeavour to halter him. Select a halter with a long " shank " (I prefor one about eight feet in lengthy if it is much longer it will be an encumbrance), and tie 6, knot In it so as to prevent the nose-band pinching the jaws when the colt pulls at the rope on finding he is fast. Enter the loose dox and close the door, hang the halter up out of the way of the colt, for it is better to approach him first without iti Avoid all unnecessary movements til the arms, as they will frighten the colt. When you take a step, do it slowly and quietly; if you only tako one step in a minute it will repay you. Be deliberate, quiet, and gentle in overy movement. The colt will now be watching you, not being able to understand what is going to happen. Speak to him soothingly, and approach gently and slowly. Watch mm ; do not staro into his eyes with a ferocious look, as some people do, under the impression that by to doing they can subdue the wildest animal. I have been told it will tamoa lion or tiger, but I know it will not subdue a horse, for I have tried it. Do not fix your eye on any one spot on his body, but keep moving them from his eyes to his ears, from his tail to his legs,— in fact koop them running all over his body, for a man who knows a horse will under' stand by any one or combined movements of the abovo parts What sort of tamper the oolt is In, and also in what form he may expect an attack. For instance, if the colt shakes his tail impatiently and moves one of hia hind legs, you may look out for a kicker; if he arches his neck, lay his ears back, and takes short snaps with his mouth, you must take care he does not bite you ; if he paw viciously with his fore feet, he probably will strike you if he can^ I do not lay these rules down as facts which are invincible, but that they generally show in which direction the temper of the colt will be manifested, and thus the breaker-in can avoid being bitten, kicked, or struck if he keeps his eyes open. As a rule, however, the man should imagine that every colt has each and every one of these tricks, and thus be prepared for any or all that may present themselves. I cannot lay down any rule as to what point on the body the hand should first touch; the beet plttco undoubtedly is the shoulder, but you must use your own judgment after having watched the animal as to what part of his body is most acces sible. Some colts will allow you to touch their heads directly) while others—and I think they aro the most numerous—present their tails to you. Anyhow, in whichever part they seem most inclined to allow your drat caresses, you must make it your rule to, by degrees, manipulate towards the head; which, after you have once been per mitted to handlo freely, you may considor the battle as won; for are not tho senses of see ing, hearing, smelling, and sensation (I have no doubt that the sense of taste has also something to do with tho matter) fully developed in the head ? Thus I make a point of advising my readers always to mako an effort to handle the head, as by a moro intimate and scrutinising inspection of your hand and body the colt is better enabled to arrive at a fair understanding with you. Now that tho colt has allowed you to handle him to a certain extent, and has found you are not going to hurt him, you may leave his 6ide (quietly and slowly as when you approached him), and get the halter you previously hung up; but avoid all hurry, jerking the arm, &c. Hold the halter in the loft hand with the "shank" coiled up, the end of which you must grasp with the right hand. Approach the colt gently as before, speaking soothingly to Him j place your right hand on any part of his body which is easiest got at, and work your way gently up to the neck ; spend some time hore handling him witli your right hand containing the "shank "end (I am here Lupposing the man to be on the near side of the animal, where ho ought always to endeavour to be). Having reached the mane, pay tho rope out slowly between your fingers, so that it will fall on tho off Bide of the neck. When about eighteen inches to a couple of feet have been worked out through your fingers, you will see tho end of the rope hanging down under tho neck on the off side. You must now keep handling the neck downwards until your hand is close to the rope's end, when you must catch it quietly and tie it on the near side so as to form a noose round the animal's neck. You can do all this easily with your one hand, as it is all finger work; but if you havo your left hand to help you, there would in all probability bo a good deal of elbow movement which would frighten the colt, make him move, and most likely all your manipulation would have to be gone through again. In some few cases the colt is so wild that you can only touch him at first with a thin stick, such as a willow, which cannot hurt him, with which you may quietly stroke him all over, by degrees shortening the stick by drawing it bit by bit through your hand until at last your hand rests on the animal. You can then proceed to handle him without the aid of the stick.

Although as yet the halter is not on tho colt's head, it is virtually there; for now that you have a rope round his neck you have him to a certain extent in your power, and the rest is comparatively easy. The next move is to endeavour to place the halter on Mb head ■with your left hand, whilst you hold the rope in your right, thus having partial control over tho animal. When the halter is near his nose, he will "bob" his head, move away, and feeling the constraint of the rope round his nook for the first time, will struggle and en deavour to drag you to the other side of tho box; but he wul soon give in, and then you can easily place the halter oh his head, after which untie the " shank " round his neck, and all is finished. .

You must now handle him, pet him, talk to him, and make much of him, but do not pull at the halter so as to make him fight. In half an hour or so, you can slip a leather head stall over the halter, and remove the latter. Some people may say, "Why do you not put the head-stall on first, instead of-taking all this time and bother to put the halter on ?" My answer is this: The halter is easiest put on, for the throat-strap in the headstall, unlike that of the bridle, is a fixture, and in placing it on tho head this throat-strap scrapes along tho skin from the chin to the angle of the jaw; causing the colt uneasiness. And another draw back is that in buckling on the head-stall the colt takes fright, jerks his head, and down drops the head-stall at your feet; but if you put it on over the halter the colt has by this time got used to seeing and feeling your hand about his head, and also you can steady his head with the halter. Again, I think I hear the question, " Why do you take so much time and trouble to tie the halter-shank round the colt's neck when you might throw a lasso over his head in a second?" My answer to this is that Ido not wish to frighten the colt, but by gentle ness and kindness to make him repose con fidence in me. If you can spare time, after placing the head-stall on the colt's head you may handle him for a time, then place water and food within his reach, and leave him to himself for the rest of the day to get accustomed to his new head-dress. On the following day you can handle him quietly in the loose-box, and offer him choice locks of hay or corn out of your hand to increase his intimacy with you, and then you may tie a rope to ,the head-stall and fasten him up.. He is sure to struggle when he finds himself tied up, therefore you must not leave him, for if you have done your work properly he will already, recognise you as a friend, and not a foe, and will, when he hears you speaking to him soothingly and encouragingly, become quieter by degrees, and will soon cease ,to resist. Stay with him for half-an-hour and pet him, then release him, take off the rope from the head-stall, and leave him to himself. The day following you,can repeat the above, and afterwards let him out in a yard or paddock by himself for exercise; do not stay with him, but let him amuse himself as he likes. .-

He has learnt his lessons very well so far, and will* be all the more fit for future instruction if he is allowed a little recrea tion. There is no greater mistake than tying up a colt for half-a-day at a time ; it makos him disgusted with his lessons, and also tends to make him hate the sight of his instructor, which should always be guarded against. The wildest colt I ever saw when first handled was.after a fortnight's handling, so fond of his breaker-in that he would follow him about wherever he went in an open field without having any allure ments held out to him in the shape of coin &c— Horse-breaking,by Robert Morettn,-, .-. \

BURGLARS AT HOME.

Some Strange Revelation* toy a Convlofc

The legitimate curiosity of the law-abiding subjects of the Queen which wants to know all about the miscreants that break into houses in quest of plunder has been re cently, to a remarkable extent, gratified by the revelations of one Clarke, a convict undergoing a sentence of penal servitude at Pentonville. "On the night of April 15, saya a London daily paper, summarising the circumstances, "this man, Clarke, was brought up, in custody of a warder, at Greenwich Police Court to give evidence in 'which Joseph Copoland, a ticket-of-leave man, and Frederick Bromley, alias Cam panV, who is also a convict " doing time at Pentonville, were charged with being concerned together In committing a bur flary on the premises of a jeweller at 'orest Hill, and stealing therefrom property to the value of £600. There were other burglaries also for which Messrs Copeland and Bromley were 'in trouble.' It ap peared from the statement of the prosecutor that Clarke and Bromley were some time since convicted of a robbery at a coffee tavern at Newbury. Early in January last Clarke imparted to the prison authorities his anxiety to disclose what he knew about the Forest Hill burglary, and he was directed to prepare a written statement. The knowledge of his having done so, how ever, reached—in what manner it is not stated—the ears of his fellow-prisoner, Bromley or Campany, who forthwith wrote to his father telling him that his {the con vict's) 'mate had 'rounded on or betrayed him, and directed hip to make away with some housebreaking implements and other suspicious articles which he had buried under a lime tree in his back gar den. This letter was intercepted by the authorities, and the police proceeded to search Bromley's house, where, among other things, they found a cash-box, in which was a pawnbroker's duplicate for A gold Albert chain, which was identified by the Forest Hill jeweller as his property. Another letter, written by Campany to Copoland, the ticket-of-leave man, fell into the hands of the police; and it will be re mombered that when the police went to arrest this man, who was In bed in the upper room Of a house in Westminster, the desperate fellow jumped out of a window, and, scaling wall after wall, was not cap tured until he had severely injured himself by falling on some railway,metals. Down to the time of his appearance on Tuesday before Mr Balguy, he had been in hospital. The convict Clarke was then suffered to throw some additional light on the affair. According to his statement, he first made the acquaintance of Bromloyj alias Cam pany, last November in a public-house near a well-known auction room in London, where he was offering for sale part of a sil ver tea service. A man whom he knew a« keeping a fish shop in Soho purchased ' the things" for two or three and twenty shil lings. Later in November he again met Bromley, who showed him a large quantity of gold and silver watches, and offered him ten per cent, of the proceeds if he would sell them. He went to two barbers, living in Seven Dials, taking Bromley with him, and they sold the gold watches for 15s and the silver ones for 7a each. One of the barbers sent his wife with a parcel of watches to the' gentleman who kept the fish shop at Soho, and she brought back £12. Accord ing to Clarke, he afterwards went to Forest Hill to see Bromley, who told him that he had taken a twenty years leaee of his house, and that he had been enabled to do so from the fruits of burglaries in the neighbourhood. The chances of success of a projected burglary at Newbury were then discussed by the precious pair. Bromley showed him a gold watch, and informed him that it had come, together with the other watches bought by the two barbers in Seven Dials and the gentleman who kept the fish shop in Soho, from the burglary at the jeweller's at Forest Hill. Further more, he incidentally mentioned a ' mate' of bis who kept a tobacconist's shop close by, and was 'doing' the neighbourhood for him—that is to say, finding out what houses might most conveniently be broken into.

Clarke and Bromley duljr wended their way to Newbury, but their burglarious enterprise there was a failure, and they were arrested. They were tried again at the Reading Assizes, and, fortunately for society, they were convicted and sentenced. What more the communicative convict had to say was of a general and somewhat of a rambling nature. Of course, in this instance, the French detective's axiom, 'Cherchezla femme,' has been ones more vindicated, and there is a lady in the case. This is Miss Louisa Campany, apparently Bromley's sister, who is only implicated to the extent that she is said to have pledged some of the property, and who has been liberated on bail. She is possibly quite innocent of any guilty cognizance of the Forest Hill ' job. The mention made of Miss Campany by the convict witness Clarke is brief but touching. Ho saw her at Bromley's house at Forest Hill. Brom ley was 'at work in an oven.' Melting any thing ? Louisa was at work at a sewing machine. On another occasion, Clarke meeting Bromley -Campany in the Strand, Louisa came up weeping bitterly, 'be cause she had been to pawn her bracelets.' With true fraternal feeling Bromley told her not to erf, and he would get them out again. Still, Louisa, although shorn of her bracelets, was not, according to Mr. Clarke, entirely destitute of ' contentments.' She was wearing a necklace and other jewellery. Clarke's evidence must of course be taken for what it is worth. It is tainted, to begin with, by the man's present position ; it ia the testimony, moreover, of a traitor and an informer; and when a convicted pri soner 'rounds on' his accomplices, he generally endeavours to get as many of them into gaol as he can. Otherwise this weak-kneed rascal Clarke, who seems on the/whole fitter to be a 'bonnet' than a burglar, has done some public service in, showing us what the private live* of bur glars and ' fences '• really are. It will not fail to be remarked that there is no trace whatever of Mr Fagin in any part of these transactions. We seek in vain also for the wholesale receiver, the Jonathan .Wild of modern times, who does business on a grand scale, and ships to the Continent the stolon valuables which he purchases. The largest capitalist in the case before us seems to have been the gentleman who kept the fish shop in Soho, and for whom one of the Seven Dials barbers is said to have acted as middleman. Perhaps the gentleman who keeps the fish shop knows where Mr Jonathan Wild—if he- be in existence lives, and where he does business. There must finally be mentioned another notable feature in the Forest Hill burglary. Only a solitary and insignificant item of the plunder seems to have been pledged. It is evidently not the pawnbrokers to whom the burglars resort for the purpose of turning their booty into cash."

THE AUCKLAND EVEN ING STAR THURSDAY MAY 9 , A 1881/.



-■;■-■'. /■ '-7- '>! ■ \'i:';-T^T." SttT* Vyfr~^rV7i; ."a i"f/■ J.7T T? /' jfuT NOTHING SUCCEEDS LIKE SUCCESS! Our Motto being "Small Profits and Large Returns " We SELL CHEAP, and DEFY COMPETITION. If you wish to prove this, give SAMUEL GOOMBES & GO. A visit dziring this Monster CLEARING SALE! Goods are being Sold at Nominal Prices during this Cheap Sale, the best proof being The Crowds of Customers ! Daily Patronising us. Come Early, and Secure the Genuine Bargains. SAML. COOMBES & CO., Canada Buildings, Queen Street., Auckland.



Public Notices. \ UCKLAND DEUTSCHER VEREIN. Gosolligu Zusamnienkunfte jeden Mittwoch Abend, Suhr, im Vereins Zimmer, Park Hotel, Wellesley-street. Deutsche Zeitungen und Journalo. Douteoho BiblioOiok. MAX KOBER, Schriftfiihrer. ■ \ UGKLAND HOSPITAL. COMMITTEE: Elected : Appointed. His Worship W. R. "Wad- Hon. Col. Haultaln del, Esq. (Chairman) Arthur Bull, Esq. J. M. Clark, Esq. Captain Daldy E. A. Mackechnie, Esq. Sydney Dando, Ksq. T. Peaoook, Esq., fcI.ILR. Applications for admission by persons suffer ing from diseases and' requiring medical treat ment will be received at the Hospital on any day betwoen the hours of 9a.m. and 10 v.m. In oases of accident or emergency, patients will ho received into tho Hospital without delay, beds being kept ready for urgent cases. Patients able to do so will be required to pay for their support at the Hospital according to their position and olroumstances. Subscriptions will bo thankfully received by any member of tho Committee and by the under signed, H. N. GARLAND, Secretary, Wyndham-street. TTIVERYONE who wishes to have the JOJ beat article that can be procured should accept none but GOO D WIN'S . ELEPHANT BRAND BAKING POWDER. ELEPHANT BRAND BAKING POWDER. No longer pay 3s per lb. for cornflour when you can got the Pure Artiole at the same price. One trial will convince you of its superior quality. Ask fob it. SOLD BY ALL STOREKEEPERS. Half-Lbb., Is 6d Pounds, 2s 6d It can be ordered through any Wholesale Grocery in Auckland. A supply is kept at Mr Canham's, High-street. Manufactured by F. Goodwin & Co.. Onehunga STOP THjAT COUGH! DONT DELAY. How can you stop it! Where is the Remedy! BOHHNIGTON'S PECTORAL OXYMEL or QAftRAQEEN OR IR.'SH MOSS (REGISTERED). * Can produce more evidence of real merit than any other article for the purpose. (feMM^mnkiwi G. BONNINGTON, Soli everywhere.} Chriatciurch.



Land and Estate Attests. •D« ' JJ» E V A N S,. ESTATE, HOUSE, AND LAND AGENT, AUCTIONEER, &o. : , mo CAPITALISTS AND OTHERS/ '; FIRST-CLASS INVESTMENT JN THIS : I CITY FOR SALE. .^ All that Valuable and Centrally Situated Prow j perty. consisting of FREEHOLD ALLOTMENT, I ngcther with Commodious Double Shop, Store- ' I room, and 5 Rooms upstairs, built of brick on Btone foundation, in flist-class position, and weU adapted for Solicitor's Chambers, being situated in Shortland-strect, near those handsome and extensive new premises in course of construe- <! ion for the Evening Stab ; and also near &b 'ost-offlce, banks, and thoso magnificent new rtock of buildings (the Arcade) now a*out to be erected for thelJew Zealand Insurance Com- -.'■:,-'. pany. ■ r ■ ! This is a real flrst-class investment, and well worthy the attontion of capitalists, i la, vrith' out doubt, tho most valuable and safest invest-' ment now in tho Market, with undeniable pros- : Deotivo value, second to none in Auckland. : : • (857) , AUCKLAND—VaIuabIe Business Site for mfiag&m situate in Shortland-street, corner of MiUg" ■ ■ Luno, and immediately between the pre-" ■ miees of Messrs A. Clark and Sons ana"-■- Bycrof t afld Co. Terms easy. - y , ' AVONDALE-22 acres splendid land,mostly in grass; a large portion in orchard, and: shelter trees; good creek. W*,7fft£ BABYLON—A very nice little Farm of 100 ">-? ---acres; new house of 7 rooms, cowshea, stockyard, pigsty, &c.; 2 good grass pad*! - docks. The land on this farm is really good; ". : and can confidently be recommended aa a very desirable little homeßtead. (1050): (. ; BOMBAY—S9I acres Improved farm Land very '': cheap. Only £30 cash, and £70 can remain for 5 years. (968)^ CHURCH-STREET-Villa Residence of 5 rooms, ■ fitted with cupboards, dresser register grate, oven, &c: good well and tank, well-atocteo gardon. Price. £380. (728) * COLLEGE ROAD—Hood Building Allotment - • in a Splendid Position for Business, being on the main western outlet from the city. (1136) '"■'"■' DAIRY FLAT—2SS acres good Land, part votf1 •' canic, bush, nice homestead of i rooms. ■.':• Price iffis 6dj)er acre; a bargain. (B7i) , DRAKE-STREET— Shop and Dwelling-home, freehold allotment» a bargain. Only £250. (use). ; EAST TAMAKI—Nice Little Farm of 54 acres; srood (trass; plenty o£ water j valuable bush: good alluvial boU ; £350. oi W ELLERBLDI—II} acres Volcanic Soil; jjood A road frontage, near Racecourse. (Ss»),»,: ;;,- ELLKRHUE (on Panmure Boad) — Vneholl , Building Allotment, ornamental trees' beautiful situation for building, main road* Land 198x198 feet. £400. (I<W> ;; EPSOM—V ilia Residence and Grounds Altai: t splendid Building Allotments, near reel-, dence of B Hesketb, Esa. (.7H KPBOM—Deßirable Property, House 6 rooms/ - &c., &c., and 5 aores First-class Vol«ni«v Land ; very choice. Price, only £1,640. . Terms easy. „ „ ■ (MM EPSOM—Gentleman g Residence and Grounds, | m This is the property of a Gentleman irto . has spared neither time nor money, not only,' in beautifying the Grounds, but in furnishY,. , ing the House with every po*Esiblo corns fort and con venieneo. Stables and neoosaurj ,', ouMroildinga, &c.. &c Cards to Tiew 1 from the undersigned. „ . 0118) 4 FBRNLEIGH-SfREET—3 Verandah CottagM of 3. i, and 5 rooms respectively. In jood? :■; order. City water laid in. Price,'for tie. , three, £560. A good investment. (1102)- FRANKLIN ROAD—Two Good VlUa EmP ;! dences, almost new—one of 0 rooms and &»'■." other of 5; gas and water. Allotments SS i 180 each; magnificent view of harbour. GEoSgIcWwWm STREETS,^! SONBY—Brick House of four roams and scullery, outhouse, fee.; allotment, 33 z 13}; £100 ■ ■ ' GLENBUBN, PONSONBY—Three magnificent v Sites for Marine Villa Residences!. Pricß-s.' for the three, £66U Superb view of Qaeeß street Wharf, North Shore and Harbour.' - • QDSSfw GREAT NORTH ROAD-About 5 miles froul Auckland —A new and well-finished Hpo^e; »' of 0 rooms, Btable, &c, and 3 acres Bplendid B land, in cultivation: bounded by.a wand stream of water; more land if required.': J;., (31» '■, HOBSONJ3TREET—First-class Building Sit«b.- HO WICK—Good Cottage of 8 rooms and" 2 sores \ I Idnd well fenced. Good.welL Price.£2oo,- . (1110) " ■ : INKERStANN3TREET — New Cottage orffv : rooms in a good position, close to Freeman's JOHnStReIt —First-lass Bunding AUrt; ment, quite level, and good tiew. Pncejai . per foot. (1067) KBPPEL-STREET-Large Allotment, double-, frontage; cheap; only £75. . («<}).. I LENCOLN-STREET-Splendid BuildingJjtet*;;, .' ment. " (1150" MAN GERE-Splendid little Dairy Farm; Kranfi position; ft Acres first-class Voloanjp Land; Residence aad Ou t-buildings; dffiO. „": (1162) >;■ MELFORD-STREET—Two good Villa Bites, ■> ; : eachSoxlso. Price, 50s and 55s per foot n; i (1099)^ MONTAGUE-STREET, NEWTON-New Sfle " ;■ roomed Verandah Cottage, fitted witn • register grates, colonial oven, cupboard* .. &o. Price. £280. • ffl9) . MOUNT EDEN (Main Boad)-Desirable Villa Residence, 6 rooms, &c.; good position; £365. (1168) :■■'■ MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD.-Villa Residence (6 rooms>, batn, range and shed. £600. 0124) ... NAPIER-STREET—Good House of 5 rooms; ; allotment 30 x 100. Price, only £300. 0145) = NEL3ON-S REKT, CITY.—a very nice and commodious Hou»e of 8 rooms, having a ; erand view of harbour Price, «650 |979>" :" NEW MARKET.-New-street: New Veraudah ; I House of 5 rooms; good well, tank. &o: nice garden; allotment 43 z 120, Price only g« £350. . (815) I NEWTON (near Ponponby Reservoir).—Two. Houses (5 and 4 rooms), corner allotment; £500 for the lot. pi 7) : NORFOLK-STREET — Several good Building BBJAUotments at from £2 lOsperloot Ol«0> Cottage and Allotment (free hold). -£85. (11271- ONEHUNGA-Grand Villa Sites, ranging from 3to 8 acres; magnificent views;. close to Pah Estate. (1143) PARK ROAD—Good House of 7 rooms, pleas antly situated; splendid view; largo allot* ■ nt. Price £650. . , 0121) I, ..jELL.—Several cheap properties. P&T/ROSE—Volcanic Land for sale in lots Bt four acrosormoro. Situate next to the ata tion; main road frontage. £50 par acre. This is desirable land, and very cheap. (1179 POKKNO- 189 acres Volcanic Laud, nearly all ' level; 20 acres cleared and in good gras>< and fenced' Price «2 par aero: a bargain. (94) POKJJNQ-Nieo Little Farm of 21 aorea la crops, grass, 86c.; good flve-roomea CottafK ; and outhouses, which, with 4 oows, dairy uteneilß, &c, &c ,is now offered for £300; situate just at Pokeno Station. (8031 > POMPALIERTERRACE-Firstrclassßuilding Allotments, 45 x 100. Price, £310s per foot; PONSONBY-Splendid Villa Site in Curranst WeU Bituated, grand view. OI3W> - BAZORBACK-48 Acres Good Land, 26 uoitM in grass; Cottage of three rooms, cow-shed, piggery, &o.; never-failing supply of water.:: §8 Prioe. only £250. (67-1) RICHMOND ROAD-Two ntcely.-flnished Houses of 6 rooms each, fitted with every convenience. Let well. Price, for the two, • £700; or would be sold separately, i 1 (1103)' SS RICHMOND ROAD-2 good Building Allot- , ments; quite level; 40x99 each; good view. Must be sold. (IMS EING TERRACE, Glcnburn, near the Beaoh, Ponsonby—Firstrclass Villa Site, grand view . of Auckland Harbour, 116 x 100. (1085) RTLE-STREET-Pretty Verandah Villa'of 5' rooms. Ice. ; allotment 66 x 120; a;very desirable residence. UWBiv-i1?' SALE^TREET - Nice LitUe Cottage of:i< . rooms; oomor allotment; very cheap; only • £210. (H3» KTUART^TREET (off Graoe-street). - Good '■ Building Allotment for £80. (1161)' SUMMER-STREET, Ponsonby—Niee Villa of 6 | rooms and good freehold allotment, £300. ?. (1166) - TAMAKI EAST—Snug little Farm of 60 aores.'1-;; Good House of 5 rooms, and usual .out buildings ; all new; stock, &c. Price, only £480. (iOM) TKPAPA-^!! —- - gob' *i'-,,iiiei.-i."(U Price* onlylssj. i ....j. ~ (1107)-. VIEW AVENUE, MOUNT EDK.--N(iW Villa Residence of 5 rooms, and outbuild ings; scoria soil, and good position. Only £320. (1097).' VII WROiO AND THE TERRACE. MOUNT JtDEV—A First class Residence of 7 rooms. M complete with every convenience; well laid ' out groundu about I acre -fruit and flower garden. Magnificent view (915) " WAlPU—Grand Farm of 260|ocres—the very best in the district; good house and out buildinßS; to be sold very cheap. (1146) WALLACE-STREET (next Tramway Termi nus).—First-class Villa Site; grand position; " splendid view; 80x170. (1172) B WARKWORTH-Old Kstablished Boarding- I hou»e Business for sale. First-olass oppor- < tunity to Becure a really good paying con- oern. Price, only £500. WHANGAREI — 120 acres Improved Land; •■. small piece kauri bush; Lot 51, Tauraroa, .(95H r WH**'-GARKI-Improved Farm of 143 aores atMangapai; 4u acres in gross, and 6 in orchard; dwelling house. Cheap, £6' 0 v': WHANG»RBI HWAD'—Paruaßay -60aorek,': M part in grass and kanri; homestead farm; £ - good road. Price £22> (96H .. WHATAWHATA-Waipa River - Beautiful: Homestead of 200 Acres; house, stables,V sheds, and outhouses ; splendid cherry grove; steamer stops at landing four times a week; plenty of wood and water; good run for cattle. (10^5):; .' D. P. EVANS, HOUSE, LAND, AND ESTATE AGBNT, : AUCTIONEER, &C. Land Mart—Quebn-kthket, next Bank tttt AUSTKALASIA. ' s Hotels. - SETTLERS HOTEL, WALTONJ STREET, WHANGAREL ; MRS S. H. FULLER, Pbopmkthbbs. This Old-established Hostelry occupies Hi* Most Central Position of any House in Whan garei, being within 2 minutes1 walk from either , Railway Station, Wharf, or PostofflcKpossesS" Injt Excellent AccraMMODAnoif for visitors ■ and Tourists. NONE BUT FIRST-CLASS BRANDS OP WINES AND SPIRITS KEPT; # , •" ' ' • : MAONAB AND HANCOCK'S SPARKLING ALES ON DRAUGHT. . BRILLIANTLY-LIGHTED BILLIAR D - R O O M AND GOOD STABLING. EVERY CIVILITY AND ATTENTION PAID TO VISITORS. ORDINARY DAILY AT ONE O'CLOCK. The Cuisine is under the Personal Suporin tendenco of tho Hostess Herself. ' ;.:-,'rBRMS~MODBRATK.