S PORTING.

PRINCIPAL RACING FIXTURES.

New Zealand.

H»wke s Bay J.C. Steeplechases June 28 Geraldino R.O. Steeplechase Meeting -June 26 Bouth Canterbury J.C. Steoplcchasoa ... July 11 • . , Australia. V,R,C. Steeplechase Meeting July 19

To Correspondents.

BciiscßinEß fWaiuku).-i. Eclipse was foaled wflon his siro, Marako. was 15 years old; West Australian was got when Melbourne was Id ; Birdcatchor sired Warlock when ho was 10 • o Dn7 v^i- re got Voltigour at the same ag-. 2. Bhnk Bonny was foaled when Molbounic

NOTES BY HIPPONA.

Out of the twenty nominated for the Hawke's Bay Jockey Club Steeplechase, eleven have cried content, tho most notable

absentees boing Canard and Tho Agent.

Old Clarence still occupies the post of honour with 13st 21b, and although a thumping impost, the veteran son of Ravensworth has proved himself such a worthy performer over the bier sticks that it will not be surprising if he again g*ts

home in front, but of course it will greatly

depend on how the race is run. He meets Chandler on 51b bottok.- terms than in the

A.R.C. Summer Steeplechase, and he also has an advantage of The Druid on their Wanganui tunning. Excellent accounts, howerer,|Jreach me of the latter, and not a fewof those who witnessed tho race think that The Druid would have won only for

mistaking the course. Of tho others en gaged the only one I think worthy of mention is Scrutinises.

Owing to tho tightness of the money market, it is yet an undecided question whether tho Auckland Racing Club will un dertake the erection of the new grand stand at Ellerslie this year. It is reckoned that it will hold 2,600 peoplo, and the cost Of putting it up will, in all *likelihood, amount to considerably over £5,000. Ac cording to the design, the building (which has a tower for flagstaff), will be W2 x 56, and contain Upper and lower stands, each IC>O X 35. It provides for bars, luncheon room, stewards' dining room, ladies* refreshment room, gentlemen's retiring room, kitchen, lavatory, &o. The stewards' and reporters' stand contain weighing room, steward room and two secretaries' rooms. In front of the stand is an artificial em bankment with steps on either fide, and altogether the design is a most handsome and ■elaborate one, far surpassing anything of the kind in New Zealand. Chaafe has made another addition to his string, having taken over Messrs Lyons and Blaikie'a yearling colt Enfield. Owing to being badly used when a foal, he is hardly s» well grown as might be wished, but nevertheless he possesses some good points, and is a particularly woll-topped youngster. He is a real well-bred 'un too, being got by Musket from Toi, hia dam being- full sister- lo that excellent horso Kakapo, and half sister to Hornby. I understand that Chandler and Gray Momua are to be shipped to Kapler on Thursday next for tho purpose of taking part in tho Hawke's Bay Jockey Club j-jteepleohaso Meeting. Our local knight of the pigskin, A. Sutherland, has a record this season that he has no cause to be ashamed of. Out of 72 mounts, he has been successful.on 32 occasions in attracting tho " tnan in tho box," has rode two dead heats, beon racond on twelve occasions, and eight times third, while 18 times he has been Unplaced. His notable victories were on Libeller in the A.R.C. Handicap (when he upset the big Southern "pot lf on Tim Whiffler), the Taranaki Autumn Handicap on Adminis trator, Taranaki J.C. Derby on Consul, A.R.C. Mares'' Produce on Necklace, and Takapuna J.C. Handicap on Fishwoman. In the dead heat between Administrator and Radames for the A.R.C. Autumn Handicap, Sutherland piloted the former, and in the Ellerslio Plato, when the judge •was unable to separate Necklace and Krupp, he had the "leg-up" on Mr J. Marshall's smart filly. This gentleman haß first call on Sutherland's services, and he is to be congratulated on having retained ouch an excellent horseman. The result of the Grand Prize of Paris reached us by cable during tho week, tfefo winner turning up in Due de Castrte'a oolt Little Duck, M. R. C. VynetWa nomina tion The Lambkin being second, and M. P. Anmont's Fra Diavolo third. So far as I can gather, the first two horses did eel •tart as two-year-olds, but Fra Diavolo was a most successful performer, winning three out of the f»ur events tlrtt he started for. Due de Caßtrie was also successful in appropriating tlie prize last year with Fronton, who It will be remembered upset tji© odds laid on the Epson Derby ■winner, St. 'Blaise. Little Duck was got by See Saw from Light Drum, and the Hon. G. McLean, the Otago sportsman, owns a colt got by the same sire fro)n Fairy land. He was purchased at Mr G. G. Stead's sale in November, 1882, for 135 guineas, and will in all probability sport the '-' Zetland spots " next season. There was some talk of J. Rue, Vue owner of Grey Momua, suing the Takapuna .Jockey Club for the stakes awarded .to Angler in the Selling Steeplechase at the Birthday Meeting, but after taking legal advice, Rao has decided to ttt the matter Since the New Zealand Cup weights ap peared, I have been asked by several 41 Who is Ingoinar ?" For the information •of my readers, I may state that Ingomar if the property of the Christchurch sportsmen Meara Studbolmo and. P. Campbell, and was imported by them to this Colony in December 1883. He was foaled in 1872, and waß got by Uncas from Wild Deer, by Red Hart from Mary O'Toole, by Annandalo. Uncas is by • Stockwell from Nightingale, by Mou«tain Deer from Clarind'a, by Sir Hercules. Ingomar was bred in Ireland, and ran there with considerable success as a three and f»ur-year-old, claiming amongst his other viotories the Baldoyle Derby and the Royal Whip. Since then he has been at the stud, and besides being the aire of Barbarian, one of the beat horses now running in Ireland from five furlongs to four miles, he is also sire of the steepleohaser Too Good, or rather he dis putes the sireship with Uncas. Ingomar's weight for the N. Z. Cup is 93t. From a private source, I learn that after the Wanganui-Steeplechase Meeting, Mr Pilbrow offered £300 for the promising young cross-country horse The Druid, but it was refused. It will be remembered that The Druid ran a good third to Clarence and Parnell in the big event, and shortly afterwards won the Maiden Steeplechase. The Pakuranga Hunt Club met on Sat urday last in the vicinity of the Scotch Church.Otahuhu, and had the moßt success ful run this season. There was a large muster of membors, and the day's sport ter minated with a dinner- at the Criterion In coming through the wires, a number of the horses names engaged in the New Zealand Cup got mutilated. The following ia a correct list, with their respective mPOStB:-- stib ' Btlb Welcome Jack- 911 Eskatos .. -73 ™* - ;; » g L^/lvelyn - f 1 PhevYot ■• 9 3 Kotero - - I \ Btik™ :: 5 5 BSSFSF*-« Vanguard - §»§s&„£ "| ?„ Sal vflZO .. ..871 lgreaitt .. c 5 & Df a:: 7 1 Dilby Grand " 6 7 Tafcroa " 710 Trumpeter -63 Nelson •• 710 Spinnaker -60 mS$ :. •• 710 Agnjnwr,.. - 6.0 ST 80 - "79 HoWerness' .. 6 0 Siwrta " .79 Loodosran "59 By Busybody's win in the Oaks a Napier sport landed a double. Some time ago he took the «hort odds of 100 to 10 that Lord Falmouth's breeding won both Derby and Oaks. After the result of the Derby,, it;is said, he kid 40 to 7 against Busybody for the Oaks, ao he actually tad more than twice the oddß against himself that he would receive in the event of the filly's sue- an English writer:—" An American Wilfred kww has discovered a new eround of reproach against the •fSoMM drink too much,' he declares, ' and,' he continues, ' the practice of giving whisky to horse*, which has been begun, will in the end destroy tho turf physically «Twell as morally.' This isi funny A racehorse, with a craving/for whisky, turn- Ks h^ad roundwhenheisbeingsaddled u& looking eagerly about for the bottle, presents a new idea of the animal. An un moral tbree-year-old destroying his consti tution with whisky would be a sad spec « v. . :,; /,v.-

Tho value of the Liverpool Grand National Steeplechase, won by Mr H. F. Boyd's yoluptuary, was £1,035. According to the time taken by Benson's chronograph, the Winner (a six-year-old, carrying lOst. 51b.) compassed the course—nearly four miles and a half—in lOmin. 6sec, while last year Zoedone (6yrs., list.) occupied 11 miv. 39 sec. The stable netted £15,000 by Voluptuary's win. The final payment for the Hawke's Bay Steeplechase is due on Tuesday next. The next Caulfield Cup has an entry of 137, which is four moro than the Melbourne Cup. Welcome Jack, Oudeis, Liverpool, and Eskatos are among those entered. W. Clifford, the well-known horseman, has gons to Australia for a four months holiday. A Napier paper says that W. Edwards has purchased the hack hurdle racer Gun dagai, who was recently disqualified by the Fielding Jockey Club for dark practices. Mr Slttu Barnard, the Secretary to the' S.AiJ.C, offered his horse Totalisator under the hammer, and failing to elict a bid for him, made a present or the Adelaide Gup winner of 18S1 to Mr John Hill, the trainer. [For continuation ef "Hippona's" Sporting

Notes, see Pago Eight,

ALL NIGHT IN THE STREETS OF LONDON.

By a Homeless Wamlem1.

Fob nearly fifteen months I had boon out of employmeufc. Acting upon advice, I pro cured introductions to two or three gentle men in London, and accordingly came here a month ago; but to no better purpose. Those who know what it is to depend on a weekly incoms—and that at the best very moderate—will readily imagine what fifteen inactive months must result in, especially to one who lias neither home nor relatives in this country. My pecuniary Resources gradually became smaller and smaller, till one cold> damp night 1 " stood with amaze ment, houselftss by night." I could hardly realise the truth at first, but by-and-by I awoke to the painful reality. I have not the slightest doubt that the people I had lodged with would havo trusted me to the extent of a week's lodging, but I have BUCh a horror of debt, and could see ho .possibility of my being able to pay them-. The many futile efforts I had made t>o obtain employment only served to Wake me utterly hopoless 6l ever succeeding again. _ During the daytime one can hardly get tired in London, or, I might moi'o cor rectly say, time can scarcely hang heavily oh one's hands, for thore is So much amidst its bustle and din to attract attention that time flies unheeded, But a night, homeless, is a very different thing. From early morn ing to ittidnlsM) there is plenty to divert one; but from midnight to early morning—ah, mo 1 I had been out since about nine o'clook in tho morning, walking about the city the whole day, making inquiries whore X thought there might bo tho slightest chance of Suc cess. Weary, footsoro, and Utterly dis hoarted, I stood oufeide the " Standard " office in Shots Lane as the clocks chimed the " Pitching hour of night." I walked to the end of the lane, and tnoro saw a man selling baked potatoes. I had three halfpencO left; I had had nothing to cat foi' about sixteen hours, so I invested ft penny, in two of those vegetable edibles.. I waited leisurely along enjoying niy slender recast as much as any hoblemah evtfr did tho most sumptuous ban quet. I turned down Essox-streot, and winded my way by tho Thames Embank ment to Westminster. I saw ono or two poor wretches cringing about tho steps of Waterloo Bridge, tho very personification of misery and want. Arrived lit West minster, I turned down Parliament-street, and proceeded by way of Charing Cross to the Strand, along tho no^th side of whidh I walked -till I.came to Bedford-street, up which I turned, and soon found myself at ■potent Garden markst. Eight or nine men in Vags were wandering about under tho porticoed way extending along by the Tavistock Hotel, vainly trying to gather warmth from their tattered garments. Ono of them asked me for a pipe of tobacco. 1 said I had none. Another accosted me "with, "Hey yer a light, guv'ner*'1 I had, and gave him one, when ho suddenly dis covered he had nothing to smoke, and asked me for tobacco. 1 told him I was sorry 1 could not oblige him and passed on, I heard him remark to tho man who Was with him, "It's a— — frost; he's hard up." Further along 1 found some lads, equally ragged, ageing apparently from fifteen'to seventeen. There may have been SiS: or seven of them. One of their number, as he saw me pass, whispered something to a companion, and approached me, showing mo a very handsome-looking Ecarf pin, and asking me to buy it at my own price. I replied that I never wore je^llery. "Never mind, sir," said he> "you might like to make a present to Someone as does." "NO) thanks,'1 I'answered-. "Look 'ere, air," he said, "it's a real beauty, a di'mond worth 70s at the least; but I'm awfnl 'ard up, and will part with it for a solitary dollar." I looked at the poor fellow, not "moro than sixteen, if indeed so much, and wondered what he thought of the gullibility of the English people—whethor he took me for a country Bitripieton or not. He, the possessor of a suit of clothes that might have fetched threepence for old rags., and the owner of a 70s pin! I said to him, kindly though firmly, " No, thank you; don't you trouble me further." I turned my steps, and heard him remark to his companions, "No^go; he's a broken-down swell." The pin may have been worth eighteeripence. It was now part & a.m., and market gardeners began to arrive with their well'stocked carte. I saw some of these poor lads creep slyly towards the carts^ and help themselves to a tjurnip, a oarrot, or whatever they could catch, and ravenously devour them. I could not help thinking of their past bringing up, and speculating as to their future. 1 got back into the. Strand by way of Wellington-street, and, passing the "Morn ing Post" office, a gentlemanly young man, well-dressed, and smoking a most fragrant cigarj asked me. the time. . I said I thought it was about three o'clock. He asked mo to have a drink. I said I did not drink intoxicanta, and he then asked me if I would like a cup of coffee. I said I should very much, but that it could not be got at that early hour—Dp places were open. "Aren't there?" said he, "I will soon show you I" and I went' with him along the Strand and Fleet-street to Shoe Lane, where he took me into a coffee-house and gave ma a good tneal, to which I did ample justice. We stayed there till about half past four, talking on politics, &c, when we parted, and I went by Ludgate Circus, down Bridge-street, to the Embankment. Here again I saw several of the " houseless" snatching a sit-down on the seats when a policeman was not looking, and getting up like a cat off hot bricks when they_ heard his tread. I did not spend much time On the Embankment. It was a new phase of life to me, and I did not at all relish the experience. I had no definite place to reach, no starting point to which to return, and my future prospects were as black as night. My feet wore blistered, and yory painful, the result of the excessive walking, and my innate self-respect rebelled against the solicitation of charity. Truly, it was a dismal loak-out; I felt morbid and dreary, utterly unfit to call anywhere when business should be resumed a few hours later. I cannot do justice to my feelings and thoughts on the occasion, but one Idea took forcible possession of my mind, and that was that while provision is made for tramps and casuals to get a night's lodging, surely something might be done for what one may call the middle ctos poor. A sturdy, lazy tramp can obtain shelter at any of our unions by pleading destitution, but what about the respectable portion of the poor, who blush at the very thought of a ward ? People who hare been brought up in the first walks of life, but from sheer mis fortune have been reduced to want: is it fair that they Bhould have to herd in a common casual ward with those whose occupation is vagrancy from the very commencement of their career to its close ? Morning dawned, and I stood in the streets of London, penniless, and not know ing what to do. ____

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FIELD SPORTS AND AQUATICS.

(BY ACT-fflON.)

A fifteen-ton cutter for Eckenbury will be launched from J. Clare's shed in a few days.

A four-ton fishing yacht for Mr Reed, oi the Thames, has been built by Mr J. Clare, and will be launched about a week hence.

Petley has become the owner of tho 13ft. open boat Secret, previously the property of Messrs Parker and Holder.

The North Shore Regatta of 1884 may now be considered to have fallen through, through lack of sufficient interest in the marine suburbs.

The Mascotte has been housed for the winter at Waymouth's private residence, and the Ika has been similarly accommo dated in Bailey's boat shed.

The West End Mowing Club have a good working committee, with Mr J. E. Cooke as Captain, and should attach additional in terest to rowing during the next season.

I understand that after paying all expendi ture in connection with the late Ponsonby Regatta, the Club will havo a small amount on the credit side, which must be regarded as very satisfactory, especially considering that the first prize (Gls) for the whaloboat race was paid twice over.

Tho Thames miners havo formed a foot ball club, to be restricted exclusively to their own class and those connected with mining pursuits. About fifty persons have Decome members since Saturday, when tho idea was first mooted, and I think the stalwart diggers will be able to place a strong team in tho field, numbering soveral very heavy weights, and others whose prowess as kickists 1b already considerable!

Thorn li some talk of the Auckland Row ing Clnb being re-formed and amalgamated with the Yacht Club, and it is also proposed that the Club shall .invest in a number of pleasure boats both for rowing and sailing, in order that members who do not care far raolng may have some return for their out lay of funds. Tho Club) I understand, is about to reinovo its shed to the reclaimed land outside of the dock, to tho westward of Queen-street Wharf, which will undoubtedly bo a great improvement in its position.

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ALICE LEE'S LIFE TRAGEDY.

The town of Hulmboach stood on tho sea shore. On the outskirts of it Btood an old mansion in extensive grounds, enclosed by high walls'. From two gateways a semi, circular carriage drive swept up to tho hoiisc, and in the little cottage, or lodgo, that stood just within tho first gateway, hved Andrew Lee, the gardener. Lee was a hian turned fifty years of dgb, a bacnblbr', noted for his plodding indUslry and quiot habits. Bo was a little bowed, and folks had come to calling him " Old Loo," but ho was a hale and vigorous man. Tho Sabbath morning found him soated just within the little church, which, by tho way, stood directly opposite his cottage, and tho roctor u«ed in nota ftpprSvingly his sub dued tlelneanour. But inwardly, by nature, Leo was a man of intensely strong passions. Ono day the rector sought to know more of his inward character, and questioned him as to his notions of and belief In Christ. Ho did not long pursue the subject. "It may be that Christ was all you say He was, but Igo to tho Father. If tho Son can nave tho Father can, thiit's what it come to wi' me. 1 can Bee Him in tho stars and sich like. So 1 beliovo in God, and that's good enough for me," That w.as his creed; Ho had led a life of quiet labour, could read, but with ditliculty ( but ho saw God in Hiq worksj and beHoved //">» to bo a God ni righteousness and jistice. The tender passions df old Lee had never boon Boriously touched, but how they wore to bo. Death removed tho rector's wife, and a woman, half housekeeper, half servant, camo to the rectory. She was forty years of ago, fair, comely, and of winning manners. Every morning for years now Lee had taken to the rectory a gathering of fresh flowers, going round by the box bordered pathway, and modestly handing them in by the back door. Now they wore received by now hands, and above them shone a face that to Lee was simply beautiful— almost saintly. Her frank and open featu res seemed to dazzle him, and her speaking eyes created in him a burning passion. Choice indeed were tho morning bouquets now, and they grew in dimension — and number. One morning, after internal struggling, he laid his hand lightly upon here, and she gave no sign of displeasure. He even thought she saw and was pleased with tho feeling he experienced. A burn ing fever now seemed to be consuming him, and for once he felt unable to settle down to his daily work. Three years pass by. Old Lee sits in his little latticed porch, his left arm encircles the waist of his Worshipped wife; and oh his right knee sits a pretty-featured child, a little girl barely two years old. The jasmine and the honeysuckle make the air fragrant, and peace and happiness reign. There are people of high degree who think the poor can never love with such deep emotion as that whioh is felt by members of the upper ten ; but that is a great mistake. No purer or more intense love could exist for two beings than old Lee experienced for his wife and child. Never a night passed but up to tho Throne Eternal went his praye* for their preservation. God, the Great . Creator, bad been kind end bounteous to him, and his own poor heart should ever throb in humble gratitude. So the days went by; the seasons came and went; and little Alice Lee grew to a beautiful girl. People stayed to admire her as they saw her through the open bars of the great gate, through which she would sometimes thrust them little bunches of freshly-gathered flowers. Seven years of supreme happiness fell to old Lee's lot, and then the spell was broken, for he had to lay his treasured wife in the cold grave. The trial was so great that for a time his reason was in extreme jeopardy, and a spirit of deep bitterness took possession of him. Surely there could be no God after all. If so, and He was a God of righteousness and justice, how could He suffer this great blow to fall upon him ? He would bow the knee to Him, no more. The sun seemed to fade from the sky, the stars from the firmament— and there was no God!

" You don't say your prayers with me now, father, when you put me to bed." "You don't see me, my bird, that's all." " God can see through the ceiling, father, you told me, and He'll see if you don't kneel down, won't he ?" " I dessay, my dear, I dessay.' But go to sleep, and I'll kneel down perhaps presently—by and by. Good night, pot." "Good night, father Gotf bless you." " God ble " Eh! What! Yes, yos, it was bound to come: "Godbless you, my darling!" and old Lee fell across the bed, his face in his hands, and the child knew nothing of the struggle he endured. As time sped by Alice Lee grew ever more winsome and attractive, and the father's love for her was unbounded. Approaching maturity added a timid modesty that rendered her simply charming. . Youthful hearts were set a flutteringljy the merest glance from Alice Lee. Frequently of sum mer evenings the father and daughter occu pied the little porch, she reading aloud and he an admiring listener, but more concerned about her future when he must be gone than about that to which he was supposed to be listening. There came a time, however, when Alice took to going out of evenings, and once or twice her father had seen young fellows at the gate. " Alice, my girl, who was that you were talkin' to at the gate just now ?" "It was Edward Parker. He sings at the church,.you know."

"What did he want? Did he say?" "No, father. I don't know that he wanted anything." Old Lee turned away for his evening ablutions, and Alice set out the frugal meal. They presently sat down to it. He seemed very sedate indeed, and she felt a little fluttering at her heart. "You've been out of evenings lately, I've noticed."

.." Yes, you don't mind that,'do you ?" • " W-e-1-1,1 don't like tosay I mind it, my dear ; I'm anxious, you know, that's all. Do you go hito town ?" "Not often. I mostly walk along the sea beach, I like to look at the shipa oat

there and sco the waves roll in upon tho sands."

Silenco ensued, fliid neither seemed to be over blessed with appbtitb. "Alice,, my girl, look at me, liston to mo. I can't put it as I'd like, but I foel that I must spealc out to you. You're 18 year old now, a woman. Come to me, come." Sho hurried and seated herself upon his proffered knoo, and his toil-worn hands held hers in their trembling grasp. "The time's come, my aarhng, when, danger's by you without you knowing it. 1 can't nsk you to be old, as I am ; I've no right to make your life unhappy, God forbid j but remembor this, let the words scorch into your heart. If you go wrong, your old father will go stank, staring mad !" With a look of intense love she answered him. He folded his trombling arms about her, aud silence spoke more soothingly than words. It seemed as though Heaven had witnessed a solemn compact that evening, and father and daughter together laid fresh flowers upon a loved one's grave.

A few months pass, and autumn has touched the trees with pleasing russet tints and golden hues. Out from the town Holm beach affords some enchanting walks for lovers in eventide. On the one hand the bonndless expanse of hearing ocean, the lightship rising to the gentle swell, and vessels passing out and away beyond the circling horizon. On the other hand shad; walks 'neath sheltering trees, through waving fields of mellow corn, and by leafy bowers of inviting seclusion. The song of the lark, the coll of of the mavis, and the hum of insoote fall upon the ear. ■ Hera lovers vow their Ufa long constancy ; and hero the seducer plys his heartless wiles. That hopeful maidens and buoyant you the seek these favoured walks need no record ing. What if old Lee could have seen his oherished daughter there in the company of one who surely could only be composting her rum ? Others saw her there, and Alice Lee was in danger now. Her charms had attracted the attention of Mr Frank Crosby, a handsome man, and one well versed in the ways of the world—the world to which she was so much a stranger. How could she withstand the passionate pleading of which he was so consummate a master T He swore1 he truly loved her and would make her his own ; she trembled, wavered, and then be lieved. His father was a wealthy lawyer, and a most proud and imperious man. Gossip was soon busy. The plain and en vious spoke loudly of the moral obliquity of Al'cb Lee; others again spoke of the matter sorrowfully, almost with bated breath. Old Lee was not an approachable man, and so heard nothing of the scandal. Poor Alice felt that she dare not tell him. She could believe her darling Frank, but not so her father. So time passed on, and she kept her secret from him. At last, however, there came an evening when old Lee heard maddening news, and a terrible scene ensued in the little cottage. The frenzied father with uplifted chair; at his feet, on her knees, a guilty daughter pleading for life. Alice Leo had fallen.

"Frank Crosby left Holmbeach—for good, it was said, and many hearts were moved to pity for gentle Alice Lee. The good rector was bo deeply grieved that he shed tears for her, as though she was his own child, and many good mothers did the same. " Poor girl I things would have been very different had she not so early lost a mother's care," they said. Old Lee hung his head now, spoke to no one, and his form was missed from the church. Then there came a time when it was necessary for Alice to "go somewhere," and she said she was going to London. Then old Lee raved again. Not only was she base and wicked, but she was a fool into the bargain. " You can't deceive me again. It's the scoundrel wants you there !'r '' Dear father, he will not desert mo. Be lieve me, he loves me. See, he has sent me money I" " Money ! the wages of sin ! Why don't the scoundrel marry you V " Dear father, I can not tell that now ; but faith, father; faith."

He snatched the crisp nates from her trembling hand, and thrust them deep into the consuming fire. She did not go to London.

Two years pass by and Alice Lee gits in the little cottage with a brave little baby boy in her lap. Time, that soothing angel who touches with such inestimable lightness our sorest griefs, has smoothed down the bitter feelings of the old gardener, and hearts that exulted in a poor girl's fall are now touched with pity and regard. But if old Lee appeared softened towards his daughter, he nursed a dire revenge for the seducer, and an indefinable something seemed to assure him that the time for it would come. "He'llcome like a thief in the night, but 111 catch him." So on many nights old Lee would sit by the little latticed windew of his bedroom, which com manded a view of the part of the grounds where he judged the "scoundrel would come. Many weary hours he sat thus, with fell purpose, poor Alice little aware of it

nnd of his deep-seated and terrible rosolvo. All the strongest passions of a strong and ignorant and passionate man now prevailed, and old Lee thought of nothing but revenge. He shunned the society of his fellow-men ; lie had no resources, and there was no God. Nobody seemed to know wjiat had become of Mr Frank Crosby, Poor Alice .-"oomod to be quietly resigned to her fate, und to find solace in the intense lore she ex perienced for her boy. Tho month of December came in un usually cold and cheerless this year. It was but ten days old when some thing happened. The great and wealthy lawyer, Mr Crosby, suddenly died. The sexton of tho old church told old Lee of it, and now he felt that his chance had come. He placed bis trusty spade handy by tho back door that night. That was a tool ha could wield surely, and it made no tell-tale noise. Be did, too, what he was not accustomed to do, took a good draught of brandr. " Good night, father dear, I'm going to bed now."

" Good night, girl, good night." There was a cheerfulness in her voice that seemed to nerve him to even deeper pur pose, and he took up his nightly watch. A high wind was up, the moon about a quarter full, but frequent clouds sailad over it, and obscured its little light. Old Lee kept steady watch at his window, only closing his tired eyes when darkening clouds passed o'er the crescent moon. Once no caught him self dozing, but never again must that hap pen. It was weary work, but he had waited long, and must not fail now. .Ah 1 what is that ? He thinks he sees a moving shadow there. Noiselessly he descends the few stairs, and in a moment his hand Is upon his brusty spade. Darkness seems to favour him, and he stealthily wends his way along by the trunks of some sheltering trees. A transient gleam of light and a shadow falls almost before him. In the next moment a human form takes up itsplace there. Down, with a terrific force, comes the fatal spade, and his victim falls forward with scarcely a moan. In another moment old Lee is in a soft potato patch. Great Heavens I how he wields the spade now. The night is bitterly cold, but the sweat runs freely down his guilty features. No time for heeding that now. In an incredibly short space of time all is over, and the earth alone knows his secret: and now merciful providence ! down comes the all-covering snow. In the morning all nature was wrapped in a white mantle, and snow and frost em braced the land. " How beautifully pure and whits the snow looks, father." "It do, my girl, it do." "You look pale and haggard this morn ing, father." " You only think so, girl. Don't trouble about me." "Father." "Well?" "I've got something to show you. I think it will make you nappy. Look; these are my marriage lines. If you'll look at the date you'll see we've nothing to be ashamed of. We bad to keep it secret, or dear Frank would have lost a fortune."

Trembling Old Lee scanned the paper, and great bead* of perspiration broke put upon, his brow. "Dear father, you look troubled. Are you not well 1 and pleased ?" "Humbled, my dear, humbled. Last night I had a terrible dream, which I shall never tell to mortal ears. May you both live long and be happy, my darling—and may God in his mercy forgive me I"

THE EVERGREEN BARNUM.

Whether Mr Barnum will see fit to revoke that famous will, executed to celebrate-the purchase of that sad impostor Uoung Taloung, the white elephant, whose pur chase wai the crowning mercy of a pious life, remains to be seen. His crowning mercies have been so many, and his life has been so long. However this may be, some sympathetic ipirit called upon the grand old man a few days ago to hear all about him, and found him "in hie luxuriously furnished parlour, plump, ruddy, lively, and active," in spite of his seventy-three years. Indeed, he declared that he could turn a somersault with the best of them, and pro mises to live as long as Old Parr.

What, he wm asked, have been and are the personal habits that have conduced to such good results? Primarily, regularity; secondarily, abstinence from things that tend to shorten life. " Sometime?, when my neighbours do not come to me, I go to them in the evenings and play a game of whist, and occasionally I go to the theatre, but as a rule 1 am in bra by ten o'clock every night. lam always up by seven in fche morning. All toy work, directing my

personal business, conducting my aor rospondenco, and communicating with my partners, I do in tho forenoons, getting through it in time for a drive before my dinner, which I take in the middle of the day. After dinner I am accustomed to doze for three or fire minutes. If I juafc losa consciousness that long I am as much refreshed as if I had slept for hours. After that I take another drive. In the evening an hour's reading, a few games of crlbbage cr whist, or a little music fills up tho time until my hour for retiring." THE WILL. When Mr Barnum made hii will he sum moned a conclave of physicians to attest his sanity. "I do not suppose," he says, " there is anything in my will that anybody will contest, but Ido not propose to leare any ground for legal trouble over it. I pro vide that any legatee who makes a contest shall, as the penalty for so doing, forfeit whatever is bequeathed to him in the will, and I have left a fund of 100,000dols. in re serve in the hands of the executors until the will is probated, expressly to fight any con testant who may arise. As a matter of pre caution I called in my personal physician, who is an allopath, a prominent homceo githio physician, and the treasurer of the ridgeport Hospital, who i» a leading doctor, and had them not only witneis my will, but make oath that they believed me to be of sound mind." MX BARITOM BREAKS UP HIS WINB CBIiAB. Mr Barnum was a "considerable " drinker up to 1847, although he would not bare al lowed anybody to tell him so. "When I built my magnificent Oriental oountry seat Iranistan, I was proud of the house, button times prouder of my wine cellar than of any thing else I had- I was not in the habit of drinking distilled liquors, but every day at dinner took my bottle of champagne or its equivalent in other wines or malt liquors. I did no business after noon, and my mother in-law used to say sometimes that I was ' heady' after dinner. I felt quite offended by the' suggestion, and threatened to go back to whisky if it was repeated, for I really considered myself quite a temperance man, since I drank only wine, and thought my after-dinner feelings were dno to over eating rather than drinking. I got the Rev. Dr. Chapin to come up to Bridgeport and deliver a temprance lecture, for the subject of which he took 'the moderate drinker,'and I saw myself in quite a new light. I realised for the first time the bad oxamplo I was setting, and when I went home that night I woe ao worried I could scarcely Bleep. The nextmorning I had my coachman knock the necks off all tho cham pagne bottles I had in my collar, some five or six dozen; the port and other medicinal wines I gave away in cases of sickness, and the liquors I returned to the dealers. That was the end of my drinking."

MB BARXUM PREPARES TO DIB—TOO SOON,

Mr Barnum was a great smoker. In the days of his poverty he chewed camomile flowers instead of smoking. When in luck he used to smoke ten cigars per diem. ■On one occasion I felt a strange choking' sensation away down in my throat, and then a throbbing or palpitation of my heart. I asked my manager, Greenwood, what it was, and he said it was heart disease, and the symptoms I described as mine meant death. That scared me pretty badly. I determined to give up business at once, retire to tho country, and prepare to die; but before doing so consulted Dr. Willard Parker. He examined me, and said: " You may have a very hard heart; for all I know ; but you have as strong a one as there is in New York. Nicotine is ajl that is the matter with you. Stop smoking." I did so at once, I was bo »cared, and never smoked again. TPE WOULD, THE FLESH, AND THE DEVIL. Mr Barnum's ideas concerning the future state are worth hearing. "Suppose," he says in his pithy way, " suppose a poor man goes out on Saturday night, gets drunk, and spends his week's wages. The next morning he may sincerely repent for what he has done, but that will not stop his headache or bring back the money he has squandered. If his repentance is sincere, perhaps he will not do it again; but what ever he does he has to-pay for in this world or the next, In many instances I have no doubt the payment is made in the next world, which I think will be found much the same as this, only that there we will not be surrounded by so many temptations. I do not believe in an eternal contort between evil and good, in an infinite devil and an infinite God, but believe that God will do that which he demands of man, ' overcome evil with good;' bo that eventually,. after every one has received proper punishment and chastening—disciplinary, and not vindictive—all will become good, and holy, and happy." He thinks the "doctrine of repent and ye shall be saved" to be bunkum, and illustrates his argument thus:— A pirate, who has killed in cold blood a hundred men, is caught, repeats on the

gallows, and says, "I'm sorry for what I Idone, and am going to Jesus." A certain proportion of those he has killed, say 60 per cent., having been cut off in their sins with out time for repentance, aro supposed to be damned. Is it conceivable, as consistent with the justice of God, that the repentant E irate shall look over the battlements of eaven down upon those fifty whom he sent to hell, and complacently congratulate his redeemed soul upon his luck in having had time to repent before he was hanged ? "No! no!" says Mr Barnum, "that won't do for me. Fear is not the proper thing to incite people to do good. It re minds me of the chap who was caught by a deacon in the act of stealing a piece of silk. ' Don't you know you will have to pay for that silk at the day of judgment?' said the deacon. 'I'd no idea you gave such long credit, or I'd have taken two pieces,' replied the thief." Mr Barnum has "donated," as he calls it in the polished argot of the States, largely during his useful career. His show has always been conducted on an admirable principle — business plus Christianity plus philanthropy. Result dollars, almighty dollars. "Impurity, vulgarity, and profanity," have been purged from his exhibitions, to which, to quote the old man's words, "a Christian mother can take her daughter with a blush combining amusement and information."—"Pall Mail Gazette."

A Tribute to Victoria's Book.

The Rev. Robert Collyer spoke Sunday evening at the Church of the Messiah on Queen Victoria's book concerning her life in the Highlands. He said: "I am going to talk to you about the work of a woman who, according to the ideas of rank entertained in the Old World, has not her equal in birth. It may be that many here also entertained such ideas, and regard dukes and earls and royal personages with that despairing long ing which we term sour grapes. This book, written by thw royal and noble lady, contains such a record as can b9 found no. where elae in the world. It is not hard to find out everything about the lines of English monarchs from Alfred down to thia gracious author, Victoria. In the fierce light that beats about a throne everything is shown, and in that long line of royal personages there have been so Jew that were wise, so few that were mighty, and so many that were the reverse, that We cannot but appreciate Emerson's words : ' God said I am tired of kings. 11l suffer them no more.' But with all that we know of them, good and bad, wise and foolish, we have to go back to Alfred the Great, the' shepherd of his people, before we can find another royal bookmaker. Through that long line of centuries Alfred reaches out his hand and touches that of Victoria; and both hands aro a« pure us the driven snow. Bo_tb_ over flow with domestic love, and centre it in the Homo rather than in the palace. Both were models of conjugal love. You will see from these remarks that I am not in harmony with the opinions that have been expressed about this book. I have road it, and I find it as whole some as brown bread and milk. I can re member when Queen Victoria came to the throne; how I contrasted my fate with hers, believing in my ignorance, that to be a queen was tho summit of felicity for a woman, that all was joy and comfort for queens, and they knew no care and sorrow. As I read her book I folt that in her life there had been far more sorrow than y\ my own. This book 1b not the histoiy Of the Queen Victoria of England, but of a woman who has been left a widow, from whose arina the husbafid of hot youth was un timely reft, and who looks' forward to meet ing him in another world. , " But the English do not like this bock.- They regard the Queen, or wish to regard her, as something superhuman, something moro than a mere woman. They do not like her to show a gentle, loving heart under her gold and purple. They do not wish her to prove that she i* own sister to every good woman everywhere. They pre fer to think of her as a grand and beautiful abstraction with mysterious powers and terrible knowledge. And they are a little jealous of her preference for Scotland, of her being more mindful of the Forth and the Toy than of the Trent and the Thames. It was a tacit rebuke to England that the Queen believed she could live a purer, better life in the Highlands of Scotland than in the royal Windsor. Your Scotchman is certainly no better than he should be, bat I do think he holds himself and his manhood higher than the Englishman. This royal widow felt that at Windsor she would have lived in splendid isolation—that is, gilded misery. But in the Highlands Bhe could be free as air, visit neighbours, and live the life of a great lady without being forced to accept an adulation that was distasteful to her. John Brown gave to her the unflinching devotion that a henchman gives to his chief, and the Queen, with the warmth of heart of an honest, noble woman, appreciated his unselfish service, and commemorated her appreciation. Ido not envy those who can see any more in this than the historic fealty of a Highlaid servitor and the grateful appreciation if a pure woman. The sneers are out of place, and do no credit to those who utter them or have written them." —" New York World."

HUMOROUS CLIPPINGS.

It is all right to toll,a bell, but it makes a difference how you do iti A man once told a belle ho would marry her, and it cost him £1,000 because he didn't.

• How to Cloak the Matter.—A lady in San Francisco recently celebrated the eleventh anniversary of her thirty-fourth birthday.

Geography Improved. — Schoolmaster : " Now, Saunders, where are the Caucases situated J" Saunders : " Birmingham, sk!"

Teacher (severely)—" John, why is it that boys' hands are always dirtier than girls'?" John (hesitatingly)—" Please, sir, the girls washes the dishes."

" I don't believe it's any use to vaccinate for smallpox," says a man, "for I had a child vaccinated, and in less than a week after he fell out of a window and was killed."

Maid of Athenß, ere we part. Tell me it them bast a heart; For so padded is thy breast, I begin to doubt the rest.

A lawyer engaged in a case tormented a witness so much with questions that the poor fellow at last cried out for water. "There," said the judge, "I thought you would pump him dry."

Jean (waking at the dead of night)—"Oh, div ye feel the smell o' the gag? Are ye sure ye put it out?" Tarn—"Sure? I wonder to near yo talking. Hiv I no got a big blister on my thoomb ?"

"Husband, you'll have to go and call that boy yourself. I can't make him get up. He sleeps as if he were a log." "Oh, well, Marie, the boy can't help it. Its fate. He was bern to be a policeman.",

A short time eince, as a regiment, headed by its band, marched by, a little boy, stand ing at his window with his mother, said, " I say, ma, what is the use of all those soldiers who don't play ?"

Mrs Perkyns, whoso son went to a dis tant city last summer, tells her friends that hs is getting op in the world. He gets up a ladder with .a hod full of mortar six days a week. -She does not tell .of this.

" If" it be true that the hairs of one's head are all numbered," said the man after he had escaped from, his wife's clutches, " there will be one angel at least who will show up with a big deficit."

From the Nursery : Dude (posing for a bold bad man): "How does water taste. Miss Belaeys?" Miss B.: "You don't mean to Bay they've brought you up on milk all this time !"

"You little rascal, what are you doing with that cigar?" exclaimed a father, ad dressing his son. "Ma said if I hit the cat again she'd make me • smoke;' an' I hit her again; an' I'm smoking."

Rev. Mr Beecher Bays: —"Pick out the worst, the meanest, the dirtiest rascal in. the crowd—bad as he is, there is within him a pearl." Perhaps so ; but it is safe to bet there is more beer than pearl,

The'"no-card" fever seems to have somewhat subsided. One unfortunate wight recently appended to the notice of his marriage: "No friends to send cards to!"

Irish professor in chemistry: "The sub stance you see in this vial is the most deadly of all poisons. A single drop placed on tho tongue of a cat is enough to kill the strongest man."

A Colourable Excuse.—German Count ess: "I told you expressly to paint the chamber blood colour; and you have made it blue." Painter: " I beg your pardon. I thought the gracious countess had blue blood/

"There is one thing connected with your table," said a commercial to a landlord, "that is not surpassed even by the best hotels in London." "Yes," replied the pleased landlord; "and what is that?" " The salt."

There was a very little boy wading up to his kness almost in the slush inMarquetic, one afternoon this spring, when a passing gentleman said to him, '■Why ain't you to school, young man?" "'Cos I've got the whoopin' cough 1" he explained.

"Here, garcon, your horse radish is a vory dark colour," said a gentleman to a waiter in a Paris restaurant, during the siege. "Yes, sir; so it ought to be," was the reply. "The animal belonged to an undertaker."

In a railway carriage an old soldier, noticing that his pipe troubled a lady, said to her: " They don't smoke in your regi ment, ma'am!" "In my' regiment, it is possible," replied the lady, "butinmycom pany, never I"

A writer—probably of the sealskin saok gender and unmarried—asks: "Did you ever watch a dear little baby waking in the morning ?" We never did. The little angel always woke so confuondedly early that we were not ready to open our eyes.

In an advertisement by a railway com pany of some uncalled-for good?, the letter "1" had dropped from the word lawful, and it read, "People to whom these packages are directed are requested to come forward and pay the awful charges on the same."

"James, my son, take this latter to the post-office, and pay the postage for it." After a while, the boy returns, highly elated, and says, "Father,.! seed a lot of men passing letters in a little place, and when no one was looking, I slipped yours i» for nothing."

A young doctor of 26, but who looked scarcely 20, was presented in a salon. "What, monsieur, so young and already a doctor?" said the lady of the houso. "Yes madam," replied the young physician, but I only attend very little children as yet."

"I understood you to say that your charges would be light," complained a patient when.liljj doctor handed him a heavy bill. "I believe I said my fees would be nominal," was the reply, "but-——" "Oh, I see," interrupted the patient, "phenom enal 1"

Several Irishmen wera disputing one day about the invincibility of their re spective persona, when one of them re marked, "Faith, I'm a brick." "Andin dade I'm' a bricklayer,"said another, giving the first speaker U Mow that brought Him to the ground.

Overheard in a barber's shop i Modern Elijah (who Inclines to be facetious): "I'm getting to be pretty bald, ain't I? Sup pose you'll have to out my hair for about half price hereafter—eh ?" Tonsorial artist (who is equal to the emergenoy): "Oh no, sir; we always charge double when we have to hunt for hair .1"

" I want a dog's muzzle," said a little boy entering a hardware shop. "Ib it for your father?" asked the cautious shopkeeper. "No, of course it Isn't," replied the little fellow indignantly; "it's for ourdog." The shopkeeper has resolved to be more guarded in the future when he asks customers ques tions.

"Is Mr Matthew Arnold lecturing here to-night?" asked a stranger of the ticket agent. " Yes, sir. Do you want a seat ?" " Yes, if you please." He was handed the ticket, and as he started to go the gentle man at the box office remarked' " Please go up stairs as quietly as you can, sir; the audience is asleep."

A countryman applied lately to a solicitor for legal advice. After ho had given1 the circumstances of the oase, the lawyer asked U he had stated the facts exactly as th(ry had occurred. " Oh, ay, sir," rejoined the applicant, "I thought it best to tell ye the plain trutb, Ye can put the lies to it yourself 1"

The following is an extremely affection ate poetical epistle, addressed to an Irish iflciden ; I'm youiM to command both in weepin' and rm awfira^il the nieut, that of you I may dhraxne: , I'd hang meseif now, 11 you'd marry me either; And though I may change, 111 bo ever the same. An Anxious Parent—Moses Levisolm asd his young hopeful went to the opera, and were fortunate enough to get front seats id the gallery. Before tne commencement of the overture, the boy leaned over the railing to take a full view of the house. "Isidore, Isidore 1" oxclaioied the anxious father, "mind you don't fall; yoS have to pay one thaler in the pit ?"

At Oxford, a proctor encountering on his founds two undergraduates who were with out their gowns or out of bounds, or out of hours, challenged one—"Your name and college ?" They were given. Turning to the other-" And pray, sir, what might your name be?" "Julius Cffißaf,' 1 was tfie reply. '' What, sir; do you mean to say your name is Julius Coßsar?" " Sir, you did not ask me what it was, but what it might be."

The Wrong Address.—A noted physician once sent his man with a box of pills to a patient, and a hamper containing six live pullets to be left at the house of a friend of his. Unluckily, the messenger bungled over his errand, and took the hamper to tho patient and the pills to his master's friend. Imagine the consternation of the patient on receiving with the fowls the following pre scription :—" Two of these to be swallowed every half-hour."

A lady had in her employ an excellent girl who had one fault—her face was always grimy. Mrs X., wishing to toll her to wash' her face without offending her, at last re sorted to strategy. "Do you know, Bridget," she remarked, in a confidential manner, "that if you wash your face every day in hot soap and water, it will make you beautiful?" "Will it?" answered the wily Bridget. "Sure it's a wonder ye never tried it, ma'am!" ■ _ ; ~

Harry Brskine, who succeeded Henry Dundas, afterward Lord Melville, as Lord Advocate of Scotland, happening to have a female client of the name of Tickle, defesd ant in an action, commenced,his speech in the following humorous strain :—" Tickle, my client, the defendant, my lord," The auditors, amused with the oddity of the speech, were almost driven.into hysterics by the Judge replying, "Tickle her your-; self, Harry. You are as able to do it as I.",

A fashionable lady being in urgent want; of a pair of gloves, and finding that her maid was out, rang for her new footman,' and told him to go and buy her a pair im mediately. "You will ask for flesh-colour," were her last words. In five minutes he was back with a pair of dark-brown gloves. '■Butl told you flesh-colour?" cried his mistress indignantly. " Well, ma'am 1" was John Thomas's only reply, as he held out hi? hands.

A young lady from the country got into a tramcar. In a minute or two the con ductor came to her and said, "Your fare; miss." The lady blushed. The conductor repeated, ''Your fare, miss." The lady blushed more deeply. By thia time the con ductor began to look foolish. After a pause, however, he again repeated, " Miss, your fare." " Well," said the lady, " they say at home that I am good-looking, but I don't see why you want to say it out-so loud."

Clergymen eometimes get answers they don't expect, even from children. One of them was questioning a Sunday-school class about the man who fell among thieves on the way from Jerusalem to Jericho. Bringing the story to a point, he asked: .•• Now, why did the priests and Levite pass on the other side?" Ascholar held out his hand. "Well, my boy, why did the priest and Levite_paas by on the other eido ?" "I know," saidthe lad, "because the man was already robbed." • "

A doctor, attending the other day a worthy baronet, received by mistake as his fee a couple of mint lozenges rolled up in paper. In the evening the baronet found the sovereign and shilling in his pocket in lieu of the mint lozenges, and on meeting the doctor asked him how he liked his fee " Oh, it was very sweet," was the reply! The real fee was soon after presented, en closed with the following :—

The fee wassweet-I thank you tor the hint These aro as sweet; 1 they've both been through the Mint.

The well-known- Henry Erskine once met an acquaintance, a barrister, who dealt in hard words and circumlocutioug sentences. Perceiving that his ankles were tied up with a silk handkerchief, Erskine asked the cause. "Why, my dear sir, "answered the wordy lawyer. "I was taking a romantic ramble in my brother's grounds, when comingto a gate, I had to climb over it, by which I came in contact with the first bare and have grazed the epidermis of the shin the accident being attended with a elieht extravasation of blood." "You may thank your luckyl stars," replied Erskiae, if that your brother's gate was not'so lofty as your 'style,' or you slight have broken your' neck." ./.. ,

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 1884.

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NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS AUCKLAND SECTION. The Kailway Department beg to draw the attention of the Public to the following Cheap Rates for Goods from Auckland to Onehunga Town, Onehunga Wharf, arid Ports on the Manukau :— Auckland and Onehunga. — Goods Rates. Goods will bo collected in Aucklaud within one mile of the Railway Terminus, and delivered to Onehunga Town Station for the following Charges :^- AMOUNT. & i. ar~ Any weight up to 3J cwt. «7 ~ . ... ... 1.6 Above 3| and up to 3} cwt. ... ... ... ... I 7 ~ 3i „ 3J - . I "8 „ 3! „ 6.t „ I 9 „ 6J at the rate of ... ... ... 5 8 per ton Goods from Onohunga Town Railway Station will bo delivered in Auckland within .one mile of the Railway Terminus for the same chargos. Auckland and Onehunga Wharf. — Goods Rates, Merchandise will bo collected in Auckland within one mile of the Railway Terminus, and delivered to vessels at the Onehunga Wharf, including delivory and wharfage, for : — ASIODNT. S. s. I "d. « *r '■ • Any.weight up to'3J cwt. i.. ... /.; ;,. I - 6 Above 3.J and up io 34 cwt. ... ... ... ... i 7 „ 31 „ 3J , I 8 „ 3? „ 5 „ I S „ 6 at the rate of ... 1 8 1 II 1 per ton Agricultural produce will similarly be collected in Auckland and delivered to vessels at Onehunga for 6s. 2d. por ton in two ton lots or ovor. Smaller lots at the same chargo as for Merchandise. The charges to bo pro-paid ia Auck land for goods to be delivered to vessels. Merchandise and Agricultural Produce will bo received from vessols at Onehunga and delivered in Auckland within one rnilo of the Railway Terminus for the same charge; Attckland and Ports on the Manukau. Merchandise will be collected in Auckland within one milo of tho Railway Terminus, and delivered to Ports on tho Manukau, including Rail, Wharf, and Steamer Ohargos, for— AMOUNT. Any weight up to 3i cwt. ..; ... ..; .... 3 0 Above 34 and up to 3} cwt. ... .;: ..; •■■ 3 2 U 3i ii 3i ii ;.; ;.;. in . i.. 8 4 i, 3i „ . 4| 3 6 ~ 4? at the rate of I 14 1 5 | per ton Agricultural Produce.—Two tons and ovor, at the rate of 13s. Bd. per ton,. Smaller lota at the B&me rate as Merchandise. Charges must bo pre-paid in Auckland. Merchandise and Agricultural Produco will bo delivered in Auckland within ono mile of the Railway Terminus from Ports on tho Manukau for tho same charges. Consignors in Aucklaud must advise the Cartage Contractor, Mr. Craig, Telephone No. 44, to collect their goods for despatch as above., C. HUDSON, Auckland, June 12, 1884. District Traffic Manager.



Chas. Williamson, HOUSE, LAND, & FINANOAL AGBNT 1- HIOH-ST., WEAK SKOBVLAHS-BT. Bankers: National Bank of New Zeolacflj i TELEfIHONB NUMBEE-^IM. RENTS ana INTEREST Collected, _, ..'. MONEY Invested, for Capitalists on BHratfl; olaaa Securities without onAKOB. Slxporcentfl allowed on deposits until invested. MORTGAGES and LOANS Negotiated. BUILDING SOCIETY SHARES Bought ESTATES Managed for Abseatoea. , HOUSESTOLET and PROPERTIES FOR 3ALE placed upon my Lists Free of Charge. iLLOTMENTS Boueht and Houses Built on i the Weekly Payment System. __ BUILDING AJBLOTMENTB FOB SABffi AT FHSt FOOT:— • Newmarket. 80s Kllerslie, f.l Mount KdonKottd,«lolo3HetiUurn-strect, 80s Randolph-street LU?ar Place, 80a Devonport, 10b Emmett-street. 62b 6a '•.• Bereaford-street. 60s Conquest Place. SA ' ' ;. Howe-street, 100s Duke-street. 90s SheUy Beach Road, 80s William-street, 80a Northoote, lOs Customhouse-street O'Conhell-street, 60s Fort-street (lease). (Mb And in various other streets at low rotes* . £4000 TO LEND, in Sums of £10 and upward* ""FIVE ACJREs'oF EXCELLENT LAND for Sale, near Western Springs: four miles from Auckland ; admirably suited for rilla residpneo, oremallmarketgarden; water or land oarrage; | PRETTY VILLA RESIDENCE for Sale, in Lincoln-street; gas, itty water, range, &3. T WANTED TO PURCHASE, Allotment wltti-: Jn five minutes of Qneeimtroet, ~ . SHELLY BEACH ROAD.-New 6-roomcd • House; detached wash-house; flno view; £350. EDEN-STREET.-Five-roomed House (new) workshop, aial Scullery for Sale j well-finished;.. water laid on. £320. . UPPER QUEEN-STREET.— Four-roomed j House for Sale, for £226; also", 6-roomed Houses, ■ at £290 and £385. A bargain. ",„,, ■ ■- MOUNT EDEN.—General Store ana Dwell- ■ ; ing-house for Sale for £760. , -,?• BEVONPORT. —Eight-roomed House and. S Large Allotment for Sale at Devonport, near " Trinity Church; well stocked orchard, fowl house and stable J good wen and tanks., £430. ■■;■ £1.150.—TW0 SHOPS and four DWELLIN&- HOUSES Sor Sale in Grey-street, with a targe allotment. A decided bargain. ' ~, , NEWMARKET.-6-roomed Houße For Sale In, New-street! aWte new: excellent well. £3s>.\, : RYLE-BTHEET, Ponsonby.—New 4-roomcd Houso For Sale; : dty water. Price; £315. - . FRANKLIN ROAD.—9-roomed House and 2 Allotments For Sale; 2 frontages. A barßafa: J i SHOP and Dwelling-house to Lease, with purchasing olause, for 10 years; centre of city;,: 6 rooms and cellar: gas*and water laid on, ; Good position f<ff business. :■- ii .' '■ 6ffi-NBW HOUSE (Just finished) For Sale in Bond-street. Easyterms. ■ .; ' ;_ . .' fii «210-ComtortableHQUSEForSaleinSußS»«:- . street, Newton Rood. Small deposit only. • • F<SR IMMEDIATE BALE-Beautltnl TIU» Site, near Domain; 'mlascs every 7 minutes. , ; £8 YEARLY—Allotments to be Leased In BeresfOrd-streot for Long Term of Yoait. , Money lent to build with ifdesired.,:. _ : ; £290.-New Home and Large Allotment For Sale in Newton on easy terms. • _ LAKE TAKAPUNA-29 and 80-aore Wsmt , For Sale.' excellent land, n,t£l£> per acre. SPRING-STREET, Freemorfß Bay—6-roomed h House For Sale, well finished; city water, and * . all other conveniences. Price. £354. „ ; NELSON-STREET —J Briok Beml-d*taohß« Villa Resldenoes For Sale, with larw allotmsnt and fine view. Chanoo i or sDeculflter, . : KY3ER PASS-New Shop and Dwelling house of 6 rooms and scullery For Bale; in the . best DOBlUpn for business in this thorouahfare.. MOUNT BDEN ROAD-SubstanUaUy-buiU 7-roomed Housfl Ifor Sale ; gaa;largo allotment, .; PNORTHSHORE.-New*-toomeft HouseiWiHt ; targe shed.£226; atoo, Houses near first wherf ; | Houso wiatiay window For Sale i TO^urio soil. m% Also, Seren-roomed House; quita new;.baf wSaow, Venetian blinds, every aocommoda- , r HREMUBRA^U acres of Land For Sftie.wHh iouse. stable. So. MaKnlfioent view of harbour. PONSONBY-Six-roOTJed^Efouse^nd Btab!e. FOT^Sale at £2 per acre, in laige or Wgfll WOeko. V BRIGHTON ROAD, ParneU - m-toomg . • House^r 8«!e. aUotment 40 x 100. JWee £SOT. <M PONSONBY-New Six-roomed; Housa Mft Workshop For Bale; two allotMontsi l^ro ■or.' Irontaices. Easy terms. j DEVONPORT — FouMroamed HoMOrWia m icullery. Quite new: large allonnent. Hrice %o!fHOUs7an«fc VvJM to"' (ViUiam-etreet. near St. James's uhnrob. ?. ;. HAMILTON <Waikato)-House and aeig OX mundFor Salo, two minutes' walk from Bade if New Zealand, for £95. Lot 3». _ " . _ NORTBTOOTK - Beyen-roojnea HoMg.^OUt; iuUdlngs, Sec, anaßo Acres of Laad. F» Sales Very Chrop. Grand view of the Eiibour, Atao, , : New 7-roomed House an* nearly 6 atree..' DEVONPOOr, Lake Road - Several wry ,: 3hoioe Villa Sffts ffcade,^hairing^road anAM [rontages, and possessinK the finest landscape , rtnws to be found around Auniuan*. FARMalsoForSale atWaikomltl,Paromo remvWaSakerei. Mahurajgi, North ftem. Papakura, fco. Atoo. see List to "New Zealand Herald " anfl " Weekly Mews." □ HAS. WILL! A M B O Nj ESTATE AGENT. HIGH-STREET. Cheap BLardwarh ; Housia, 234, Quken-stbbkt, ArOKtAHp. ,'• v [l V ■ •':• , \ J. & J. DICKBY,'m". HAVE 808 BA&E— BOWATT'S ANUCAPinO LAIIPJS, Alw. KXTRA BUENERS, yONTS, GLOBES, A ■ AND WIOKS, %j ' '... ' Anaaareatytotetlif'.-. _./\-'- r; OHIMNBYS. ; «v itODGBRS'S, LOokwOOD'B, ft WIGFALIi'S TABLE k POGKIT OOTLBRY. ; JOHNSON'S CELEBRATED SCISSORS. MARK'S BOILERS, SAUCBPANB, fto., GRISTITHS'S PATENT TEA AND: COFFEE POTS. : STAMPED TINNERJIBAT AND PIB AND MILE PANS, v At.t. Sizes, KUCKETS, TUBS, PAILS, AND OTHNS, BROOMS, SCRUBBERS, WHISKS. HAIR, GLOTH, & NAIL BRUSHES. PARJPiS'S, BLAOiK'S, AND LtNDONB ; SPADES AND DIGGINJJ TORJa. GARDES HOES, RAKES, 4 TBOWIBLS. DISSTON, SORBY, AND BPBAR A^D JACKSON'S HAND, RiPi AND TENNQKSAWS. AXES, ADZES, TOMAHAWKS AND • CHISELS, AUGERS, PLANES, HAMMERS, BRACES, TWIST . AND PATENT BITS, L , ■ ■ ■■■ AU.SIZSB, : , LOCKS, HINGE NAILS, &BEA3SWARE, SCOTT'S GENUINE WHITE LEAD, RAW, BOILED, fc LQISEED OIL, j riVE PER bENT. DIBOOUNf ALLOWBD TO OABH FOEOHABBBS ■'~ 1 On all Sales nmoutting to 20s and upwards. ; ■J. & J« DIOK BY, 234. QUEEN -STREET, O OVAL MAIL LINE OF COACHES ■ ALTERATION OF TIME-TABLE, . Ihe Royal Man Coach (carrying pas»anger«J will, on and after 6th October, 1883, and until further ■ notice, run to the following Too» TABLE.-— : ' ■ -. ."•• -~.-.--., ■. ,- : .-. .< Leave Cambridge for Hamilton Junction Rail way Station daUy at 8.15 a.m.; retußflnjji&om Station to Cambridge on arrival oJ Train from Auckland. ''"':- .. ■■;?.:■;-,,, '''■.'% I/cave Hamilton for Te Aroha pn Mon<3ny».; Wednesdays, and Frtdajrß on arrival :bf;!Tiifi from AiicklanfC, returning from To Aroha^co:: Tuoedays, Thursdays, aedSatardayi, at 7 catching the 2 o'clock ■ Train at HanultoftI'J^oa -ll tion tor AuckJand. '■ Booboto Ofhosis t ' Owynne'a Hotel, Hamilton "W re»t;-<3oloman» Hotel, Te Aroha; andatmy Preaiißes,lUriwood and LaKo-etxectH, Cambridge. W. K. CARTER, FtoprietCCi- > rvimbridßa, October 1883. ■V&MuttfttkM'Booked at 15a>r itTrtvißwiW ftJgtt-stn^AiMWaaJ-l .*? ~^ ' jjjs