THE LONDON POOR.

Letters by Sir George Grey

Jnsi now. when public attention in England is thoroughly aroused to the de plorable condition of the London poor, tho following letter, which formed one of a series written by Sir George Grey sixteen years ago to the " London Daily News," possesses a special interest. At that time it was impossible to movo the Government to do any thing for the amelioration of the widespread suffering, which is now making itg appeal for aid with greuier prospect of success:— Ex-Governor Sir George Grey on tho Agricultural Labourer.

[To the Editor of the Daily News.] Sir,—You were good enough in your papor of the Bth of February to insert a letter from me upon the condition of the agricultural poor. I should like to be permitted to re turn to that subject. Our inquiry, as fat as it was conducted, showed an almost in numerable multitude of human beings either sunk in the abyss of pauperism, or rapidly converging to it. It also appeared that during the last thirty years vast numbers of British labourers had been expolled from homes and cottages which their forefathers had inhabited for generations, and had been forced into close villages and into dwellings unfit for a human being in the lowest scale of civilisation to dwell in, and in which, as a consequence of their poverty and surround- i ings, they have adopted habits, and manners, and morals, and modes of thought unknown to the English labourers of former times, j It now becomes a matter of great interest to try to separate this vast disorderly mass of sufferers into groups of human beings sub jected to similar sorrows and ills, and then to strive to realise in thought what is the extent of misery, and degradation and woe to which tho members of the group we are examining must of necessity be subjected. The materials for making such anj examina tion of the condition of one group are at hand. They are contained in the 6'th Report of the Children's Employment Commission, 1867, and in an admirable and able article on that report in the'''Quarterly Review" for July, IStu. ~' V ~' ' '. ; This group of human beings consists of poor wretches who are not yet paupers, but are ultimately to be'so." We sholl see what fate their present freedom from pauperism secures for them.'.They are.the moat help less, and the, most easily oppressed of tho innumerable mass of human beings who by sure, degrees aro reaching pauperism, for they are young girls and the other children of agricultural labourers. As long as pity has any, residence upon earth, these little ones born'to such dire misfortunes have per haps, of all human beings, the strongest claims upon our interests and sympathies. Their number is popularly estimated at about 77,000—7,000 in what' are called public gangs, the Temfilhder in what are called private gangs. This possibly is an exaggerated estimate, but the number must be very large. Within the last thirtyjor. forty years a system has sprung, up in soma. .counties of ■working young girls and children in what ace called gangs.' Tho children so employed vary from six to fifteen-years of age, with a considerable number of young women added to them. ■ A man called a gang-master hires these children from their parents, and sub lets them to farmers; he makes his own profit by getting the children for less than he charges the farmer for them ; ho charges the farmer by the day 8d or lOd per head, largo and small, or about 14s per score. The wages are paid to him. The gang master's principal source of profit is totako ■work from a farmer by contract, when the gang-master makes his profit in great part by pressing his gang to the utmost of their strength. In some;cases the wretched little beings are then kept up to their wnrU by flogging, for it is when' tts"">"t>ng work by the "piece <*»* '•'" vigour as a taskmaster comes into play. Not only are the v nliappy children kept at full stretch whilst at their work, with the shortest possible intervals of interruption, out to all this has to be added tho length of their walk to and from wovk. These distances are often almost incredible. A misorablelittlo girl of six had to walk eight miles to her work, to work from eight to half-past fivo for fourpenco, and then to walk homo eight miles, or be partly dragged, partly carried there by her little sisters. In my last letter I showed the nature of the homps these children issue from in the morn ing and return to at night. The public , gang-masters aro usually described as being in most cases men of indolentand drinking habits, in some cases men of notorious de pravity, and as being very rarely capable or desirous of exercising a benofieial influence ; iver those under them. Could there bo a • ■jtter description of 'a slave-drivor ? Is it I exaggeration to say that British children | \iow sold to the lash ? . . Mike to write at length on so dreadful ■g ect, and will therefore merely givo a S t wtations from the authorities I have 3S i to: j§\ Unices are not uncommon of severe >tt I \ "g in Juries having been inflicted by J- t tig-masters—gross outrages, such ip i T. knocking down, beating with r ) Is, or a leather strap, dyking, or *■: ito the water, are frequent. b strong workmen the labour these ~"t; Hgs are put to is very trying and J. ** • i and the children are constantly J t» & £ of their backs, and endeavour i o " '' ~ ;h a short interval of rest, placing s; „ a behind them, but tho gang ja S; • \'or on the watch, and an oath or a m \ \°° often tlle inevitable conse if | | of the intermixture of ,ol^ %}, ftule going to and returning from > r off jH as in the fields, are represented 5, s |A c ' i faastrous ; they aro much" too sgdoJ| fP ; state in detail. > ■ ■■• • !|^S 4 8' ' ! uickly become depraved, and I a Q g" I ' / i precocious independance which iis.l '■' iDflPatient of parental or any 1 -^/, .J?~ ■/' riman, speaking of the gangs in his JjiSj *"«•#•■ -fyd especially of the gross immo i _ S a-^tV «/|» girls at an oarly ago, says that £■ B r ft V'e.-.e had. been employed for many ~"~ ' — I a $ worst parts of London, he never .-l»q> jqualboldnoasandehamelossness, a g i \ *o? c obsconit >' °f their conversation IE \ ''A sonß s was beyond belief. I B W feyman> speaking of the moral con s' P1 fed" 8 ovvn I*"''B' 1' states—'l havo no I M in saying that its corruption ox -8 ft fthiug of which I have experience I '-.■' . Oen to Sierra Leone, but I have seen ■j ■.;■-■ s in my parish such as £■ P tver witnessed in Africa.' Ho, '-; 'J* ?*ecli *k?y must be civilised before ' '_" jj i Christianised." ; ...•*-•'■ as though the introduction ■ g B : #ry of what is, in truth, a kind of § 2 -.'.." fevel7' l°wer°d the population to &ri- lash fitted, it to produce slaves

"A mixed gang, composed of women, boys, and girls, returning from their distant labour, on a rainy evening, weary, wet, and footsore, but, in spito of their wretchedness, singing licentious or blasphemous songs, is a spectacle to excite at once pity, detestation, and disgust.

" The gang system is stated by the Com missioners to be greatly on the increase " The evils of public gangs exist to a much greater extent, and it is believed in .even a more aggravated form, in the private gangs; it is, indeed, believed that the oppression exercised in the private gangs probably considerably exceed.-! that of the public gang-mastors themselves."

A common error must bo guarded against in considering the question now before us. It must not bo thought that an evil of such magnitude will be put an end to by putting an end to the chief causes which called it into existence. To adopt that course may indeed to some extent stop the increase of the evil, but it can only do that to a slight degree, for now disturbing elements have been created which will have a lasting ten dency to foster, the continued growth of the evil. The cottages which have been des troyed cannot be rebuilt, the innumerable wretched beings who were evicted from them cannot be replaced in them, nor can you at once restore to these poor people, or to their children, the manners, the habits, the decencies, the respectability of the Eng lish cottagors of old. Out of the present model villages inhabited by favoured per manent servants a new raco may be bred to occupy new ornamental cottagos built on convenient sites, but agriculturists have in many parts based their present system of operations on the supposition that labour will be supplied to them in that manner in which the close villages supply it— that is, in just such amounts, and in just such a form of men, or women, or children as their requirements at tho various periods of the year demand ; and in these villages now exists a population which nsmst from day to day procure the instant means of live lihood, and whom habit, and now even tradi tion, have accustomed to a certain mode of life. Those who have lived much in new countries or amongst barbarous racos know how easy and rapid is the descent from civil isation to savagery, how difficult it is to re call the barbarised or thoir children to the restraints and habits of civilised life.

What makes all this still sadder is, that an examination of the parish registors would generally show that the forefathers of those innumerable people who have been evicted from their homes had for many centuries dwelt in the same parishes, that it was their patient labour, continued from generation to'generation, which had given their present great value to those very properties from which '.bey wore at last expelled, and driven to jthe depth of poverty iind woe, and that often to the property itself had been given in trust to the Church in great part for the benefit of those people who, with their descendants, had so long laboured on it, and then were at last expelled from it. Too often also these Church properties had passed from the church to the new possessors without any guarantees having been -taken to secure in the very slightest degree what was really the vested interest of the poor in them.

At first a solace seems to strike the mind ; it may be thought life is nothing compared with eternity. What we have been con sidering is a mere case of hard temporary training for human souls. Riches and pos sessions are but lent men to play their parts in upon earth. They are laid down at the tomb. Thoae souls which are chastened by poverty and suffering may rise to be the most glorious beings throughout an eternity. But then the little child is sent from, and returns to, p. home and life described by competent observers as a curse which must often be a very baptism into infamy ; and during its absence from home, what is the training it receives '! Will these thoughts not rouse England to some conceptions be yond arrangements for makirg mere tem porary savings ? Six weeks of resolute and courageous legislation, which would wrong no ono.and benefit every part of the Empire, would inconceivably mitigate tho existing aufferinfg, provide for its gradual extinction, and prevent the possibility of the recurrence of sucli a state of things for centuries. Now each step taken but represses some glaring evil which the public will no longer tolerate, but provides for its reappearance unrlor probably fi mom aggravated form. The recommendations made by the Com missioners whose roport I have quoted from, and which were adopted by Parliament in an Act for placing public agricultural gangs under regulation, however benevolent and well-intentioned those recommendations were, can in no way permanently improvo the existing evils. They may forco children from public gangs into private gangs; but probably in this, or some similar manner, that which was intended for their benefit will increase their ills.

I had finished my letter at this point some days ago, when a new report, which has recently been issued, was put into my hands. It is the first report of tho " Com mission on tho Employment of Children, Young Persons, and Women in Agri culture." On examining it, it will bo found that the recent legislation of Parliament, in accordance with the recommendations of the previous Commissioners, has produced the results which must have llowed from it

The report states that somo of the worst characters amongst the gang-mastors of the public gangs have been unable to obtain a license. That tho separation of sexes in pubiic gangs is being carried into effect, but that from these restrictions onpublio gangs the public gangs are being turned into pri vate gangs, and that tho private gangs have, therefore, increased since the restrictions were imposod on public gangs. It is here necessary to remember that it has pre viously been shown that the evils of the public gangs exist to a much greater ex tent, and it is believed in even a more aggra vating form, in the private gangs, and that it is indeed believed that the oppression exercised in the private gangs probably considerably exceeds that of the public gang-masters themselves. The report of this last Commission also shows that tho self-sacrifice and devotion of the ministers of religion is in all respects most admirable ; but it also shows that in various districts one-half the agricultural population is growing up without thf lowest standard of an education fitted for an agricultural labourer, and that in many parishes it is very rare, when a couple come to be married, that they'can sign the register. It is further stated that in some counties the dwellings of the agricultural labourers aro such that it is impossible to exaggerate the ill effects of the present state of things in any aspect, physical, social, economical, moral, or intellectual.

The several reports I have alludcrl to contain abundant proof scattered through out them that there was a timo when the laws regulating the distribution of lands in England wore very different from those which now prevail, when lands were more divided, when most of tho inhabitants of villages or manors held plots of land, which were sufKciont in many cases for main tenance, and in nearly all cases for independ ence in treating with their employers, and that the condition of the peasant was at least one of rude abundance. —I am, &c, G. Gbey. Bel«rave Mansions, Grosvenor Gardens, February 24.

The Poet-Laureate at Home

Mk.s Ritchie contributes a biographical paper to the Christinas number of "Har per's Magazine" on the Poet-Laureate. Besides the letterpress an excellent por trait is given of the poet himself, a sketch of^ Somersby Rectory (his birthplace), Watts's picture of his children, his house in tho Isle of Wight, and of his houso at Aldworth. Tennyson was born in a quiet Lincolnshire rectory, and here he passed the first years of his life. "Somorsby," says Mrs Ritchie, "was so far away from tho world, so behind-hand in its echoes (which must have como there softened through all manner of green and tranquil things, and as it were hushed into pastoral silence), that though the early part of tho contury was stirring with the clang of legions, few of its rumours seem to have reached the children. They never heard at tho time of^the Battle of Waterloo. They grow up together playing their own games, living theiro'wn life." These Tenny son children had quaint ways with them, even in their games. They wore champions defending a stono heap, or they would set up opposing camps with a lung in the midst of each. "The king was a willow wand stuck into the ground, with an outer circle of immortals to defend him of firmer, stiffer sticks." Then the opposing camps proceeded to the fray. The Poet-Laureate was ono of twelve children, of whom Frederick was tho eldest, Charles the second, and Alfred tho third. These three were all poets, and seem, says Mrs Ritchie, to have inherited their poetic gifts from their father, George Clayton Tennyson, a tall, striking, and impressive man, full of accomplishments and parts, a strong nature, high-souled, high-tempered. Ha was the head of tho old family ; but his own eldor brother share of its good things had passed by will into the hands of another branch, which is still represented by the Tennysons D'Eyncourt. Mrs Tennyson, the mother of the family (these early recollections were told to Mrs Ritchie by an old friend) was a sweet and gentle and most imaginative woman ; so kind-hearted that it had passed into a proverb, and the wicked inhabitants of a neighbouring village used to bring their dogs to her windows and beat them in order to be bribed to leave off, by the gentle lady, or to make advantageous bar gains by selling her the worthless curs. She was intensely and fervently religious." Mrs Ritchie says : " Tennyson's first at tempts at verse-writing were made when quite a child. They were written upona slate which his brother Charles put into his hand one Sunday at Louth, when all tho elders of the party were going into church, and the child was left alone. Charles gave him a subject—the flowers in the garden—and when he came back from church little Alfred brought the slate to his brother all covered with written lines of blank verse. They were made on the models of Thomson's " Seasons," tho only poetry ho had ever read. One can picture it all to oneself —the flowers in the garden, the verses, the little poet with waiting eyes, and the young brother scanning the lines. "Yes, you can write," said Charles, and he gave Alfred back the slate. I have also heard another story of his grandfather later on, asking him to write an elegy on his grandmother, who had recently died, and when it was written, put ting ten shillings into his hands and saying, " There is the first money you havo ever earned by your poetry, and, take my word for it, it will be the last." Speak ing of Tennyson's university life and early friends, the writer remembers hearing one of Tennyson's oldest friends, who had the best right of any to recall tho fact, say that Whewell, who was a man himself, and who know a man when he saw him, used to pass over in Alfred Tennyson certain infor malities and forgetfulness of com binations as to gowns and places and times which in another he would never have overlooked. Here is a description of the poet in his early days: "A man at all points of grand proportion and feature, significant of that inward chivalry becom ing his ancient and honourable moo ; when himself a • Young Squi«-°,' like him in Chaucer. '»f jj>otc strength,' that could liurl the crowbar farther than any of the neiirhbourin;,' clowns, whose humours, as well as of ilieir betters-knight, squire, landlord, find lieutenant—lie took- quiet note of, like Chaucer himself ; like Words worth on tho mountain, he too when a lad abroad on the world, sometimes of a nifjlit with the shepherd, watching not only the Hook on tho greensward, but also

The fleecy star that bears Andromuda far o!!'Atlantic seas, along with those other zodiacal constella tions which Aries, X think, leads over the field of heaven." Wordsworth died in 1S">O, when Mr Tennyson succeeded him as Poet - Laureate. About this time the Somcrsby homo was broken up, and Tenny son was living- in London. "He was poor ; he had in turn to meet that struggle with wholesome poverty which brings the vague ness of genius into contact with reality,°and teaches, better perhaps than any othcrscience the patience, forbearance, and knowledge of life which belong to it. The Princess, with aii her lovely court and glowing harmonies, was born in London, among the fogs and smuts of Lincoln's Inn, although, like all works of true art, this poem had grown by degrees in other times and places. The poet came and wont, free, unshackled, meditating, inditing." He lived in the Temple, .it 58, Lincoln's Inn Fields,and else where. It was about this time tliatCarlyle introduced Sir John Simeon toTennyson one night at Bath House, and made the oft quoted speech, " There he sits upon a dung heap surrounded by innumerable dead dogs ;" by which dead dogs he meant "CEnono" and other Greek "versions and adaptation?. He had said the same thing of Landor and his Hellenics. " I was told of this," said Mr Tennyson, "and some time afterward I repeated it to Carlyle ; 'I'm told that is what you say of me.' He gave a kind of guffaw. ' Eh, that wasn't a very luminous description of you,' he answered." One of the most interesting bits in the paper is an account of Tenny son's life at Aldworth, his house in Surrey. It stands in a most picturesque position on one of the spurs of the Surrey hills, a white stono house with many broad windows. Sometimes at Aldworth, when the summer days are at their brightest, and high Blaok down top has been well wanned and sunned, I have seen a little procession coming along the terrace walk, and pro ceeding by its green boundary into a garden, where tho sun shines its hottest upon a sheltered lawn, and where standard rose-trees burn their flames. Air Tennyson in his broad hat goes first, dragging the garden chair in which Mrs Tennyson lies ; perhaps one son is pushing from behind while another follows with rugs and cushions for the rest ot the party If the little grandsons and their young mother aro there, the family group is complete." In the early morning Mr Tennyson works, and comes down long after his own meal to find his guests assembling round the breakfast table. Beforo luncheon ho goes out for a walk "There is one little ceremony peculiar to the Tennyson family, and re minding one of some college custom, which is that when dinner is over the guests are brought away into a second room, where stands a white table upon which fruit and wino are set, and a fire burns bright, and a pleasant hour passes, while the master of

the house sits in his carved chair and dis courses upon any topic suggested by his guests, or brings forth reminiscences of early Lincolnshire days, orfrom the facts he remembers out of the lives ot past men who have been his friends." Here is an amusing story told of the Laureate : Ho was onu day walking in Covont Garden, when ho was stopped by a rough-looking man who held out his hand, and said, " Vou'ro Mr Tennyson. Look hero, sir, here am I. I've been drunk for six days out of the seven, but if you will shake me by the hand, I'm d -d if I ever get drunk again." Mrs Ritchie remembers on one occasion through a cloud of smoke looking across a darkened room at the noblo, grave head of the Poet-Laureato. "Ho was sitting with her father (Thackeray) in tho twilight after some family meal in the old house in Kensington. It is Mr Tenny son himself who has reminded mo how upon this occasion, while my father was speaking to me, my little sister looked up suddenly from tha book over which she had been absorbed, saying.in her sweetchiklish voice, ' Papa, why do you not write books like " Nicholas Nickleby 1" ' Then again I seem to hear across that same familiar table, voices without shape or name, talking and telling each other that Mr Tennyson was married—that he und his wifo had been met walking on the terrace at Clevedon Court; and then the clouds descend again, except, indeed, that I still see my father riding of!' on his brown cob to Mr and Mrs Tennyson's house at Twickenham to attend tho christening of Hallam, their eldest son."

Mr. Itanium's White Elephant

TilK latest (ile~ of American papers give tho story ot the negotiations that procoded Mr Barnum's purchase of the white elephant, which is to reach this country, on its way to the United States, about tho beginning of next season. According to the " New York Tribune," Mr Barnum's agent, Mr Gaylord, who in the first instance- approached the King of Slam with an offer of £20,000, or more, for a white elephant, was compolled to withdraw from Bangkok with much ex peditian to avoid the consequences of the indignation excited by his proposal to pur chase so sacred an animal. Even when tho purchase of a white elephant had been con tracted for with the agents of an irreligious or avaricious Siamese nobleman, and the animal had been delivered at Moulmein and thence shipped to Singapore, and £5,000 had been paid as an instalment of its price, it was killed at the lattor port by poison, administered, as was believed, by " Siamese emissaries," sent to rescue it from the dis honour of being exhibited to unbelievers. At Mandalay, however, courtiers were found willing to take large bribes to facilitate Mr Barnum's project; and after months of diplomacy, a sacred white elephant, the " genuineness " of which is guaranteed by documents under the seal of King Theebau, was handed over to the representatives of the great showman for £40,000.

STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, MARCH 8, 1884

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(KM)) WHATAWIIATA - Waipa River-Beautiful Homestead of 200 Acres; house stables sheds, and outhouses ; splendid chorry prove: steamer stops at landing four times a week; plenty of wood and water: good run for cattle. ~&.-„ AUCKLAND—City Property; valuable busi ness premises, situate in fchortland-strnet. near Hosi-otllce ; grand position. (875) AR^, RJ, MI T T'S X or1 3- Part ""Proved, part bush. Lot 03. Opaheke. (05 0 AVONDALK.-22 acres splendid land, mostly in grass; a largo portion in orchard nnd shelter trees; good creek. (834) AMY-STREET. ELLHR3LIE. - 2 Splendid Allotments, having a frontage or alout 254 feet. (811) COMMERCTAT. ROAD, off Great North »<oa<l. —■>! acres; 2 acres paMui/fcnccd and ulan cc. with 300 fruit trees. Very cheap. (838) COMMERCIAL ROAD, off Great North Road. - New Verandah Cottage of 5 Rooms, Regis tered Grate, Cupboards, &c. Allotment 94 x 150. £100. (728 i DAIRY FLAT-25Sseres good Land, part vol canic, bush, nice homestead of 4 rooms. Price, 3216 d per acre (97c) DEVONPORT. - Beach Road : 4 DweMnK honsea ; 3 let at £50 ouch, and one at £60 Firat-class inveatinent and very cheap. ED WIN-STREET. ROCKY NOOK.- Very^ce little Cottago of 5 rooms • goor volcanic al lotment. Price, only £250. EPSOM.—T Ula Residence and Grounds Also BplcndM BdiMing Allotments, near resi dence of X ItoaKeth, Esq. < 75) ELI.KKSUK:-UJ acres Volcanic Soil:, 9 Kood road frontage, near Racecourse. '51) GREAT SOUTH ROAD -IJ now and 6-roomed House and put-buildingx 0.. the main road near Kllerslie Station Price. £025. (ic:i) GE?Sg§-iAIS). WI,LLIAM STREETS, PON'- SONBY-Brick House of four roons and £°100 cry' CUthO"Se" &°'; allotluent- 3a x v'- GREAT NORTH ROAD-About S miles from Auckland -a new and woll-flniihed House of 6 rooms, ttalile. &c, and :\ anr.^s splendid land, in cultivation: bounded bj-n itrand Btream of water; more land if required (319) MANGARB.-Ono of tho best little Grazing b arms m the province of Auckland «M2| MONTAJGUE-STREET, NEWTON.—New Six rooio«d Verandah Cottage, fitted with register grates, colonial oven, cupboards, &c. Price. 280. (713) NORTHCOTE. -1' acres good Land. Price only *2l per acre 119S) NEW MARKET.-Ni-w-street: New Verandah House of 5 rooms; good wo!!, tank. &o n'e» garden ; allotment 48 x 120. Prico only £3o°- (315) NICLSO.V-S REKT. CITY.-A very nice and commodious Hou-o of 8 rooms, having a grnnrl vinw of liaibour Price, £030 (979) ONEHUNGA.—House 7 rooms, in Mfcyid order srond well, stiibio. Sec. and two allotments-' a great bargain. Price, £200. (S66j ' PAPAKUR, VALLEY. - 128 ncros good alluvial land ; partly fenced, and a nofftion linprovt-d; a .pltii.did crc.-k throuSjtitlie property; about 3 miles (rom RniTvfuy Station. /& y, POKKNO. -SO Jicres Vo!can<« Hand, nonrly nil level: 2G acres elenred -m in good craw and fenced Prico i2ptr nC ro. „ burgain. 01 POvENO.-Nico Littlo Farm "of 21 acres in crops, gniss, &c.; goon five-roomed Cottage and ontlionses, which, with 4 cows, dairy utenMln. to, &o , is now ollerod for £300 Bituate just at Pokeno station. (803) HANDSOME VILLA of 5 Rooms and Porch • fitted with Clipboards, Dresser, Registered Grate, Oven.&c; goodwell and tank, nice Karden, well-stocked. £330. (729) R«MaR Ma. 160 acres good mixed Land a shot didtanca fromDrury. Cheap, at £3 10a Tier acre. (7fU). RAZORHACK—IB Acres Good Land, 26 aciW in grass; cottago of three rooms, cow-shed piggery. &c; nover-fatling supply ol water. Price, only £250. (675) ST. MUIY'S HOAD corner of Dublin-street.— House of 5 rooms and scullery, and 2 rooms, detached ; gas. tanks, See. Price £565. TAMAKI EAST.- Compact little Farm ofl2o acres of which 3u acres are in crass. Gar oer c jl oroharrt j good piece of bush, and a pi " ;Jiil ptipply of water House of 7-' rooms *■■ .ole. »hed and sundry outtmiki lnprs J ;n good order. (912) VIIWEP J AMD THE TERRACE. MOUNT' i-OKi-A Klrst class Reslaenceof 7rooms compb-to wi'h every coorenience: well laid; out grounds about 1 acre : fruio and flower gurd^ n. MBKiiiflcßnt view 945, VIKW ROAD MOUNT HDEN.-5 minutes from Railway station — A new 6-roomed Two-otorey Building, verandahs, baih-roftc.. watn.- luid in fruit trees and vegetab c garden volrnnic mould. . Price. £430. 91-1 WARK\V"RTH.-Old KRta'aJlshed Boa'ding. hou-e nuslnesa for sale. First-clasn oppor tunity to socu.e a really good paying con cern. Vrlco only £500. WHANIUUBI —12' acr»s Improved Land small piece kauri bnsh; Lot 51, Taararoa. "VYH •»'G *Rv I. - Improved Farm of 143 acres, at Mangapni • .j!i acren In srraßS, and 6 ia orohard; dwellini} house Cheap, £600 884) WHANG ■ RfIHWAD-i.-Paruaßay -60aores. part, in wruss and kanrl; homestead farm ; good road. Price, £-221 IBS') WH I'.WH TA. -Waipa River-inn acres Iroproveil Farm : flrst-cIaSR residence; good orchard.; charming property. Price £ .1(10, (956) D. F. EVAN S, Rouse, land, and Estatb'Agent. Land Mart—Queen-stree