GOSSIP FROM STAGE AND STUDIO.

[By Euterpe.]

Gadk's molodious cantata, " I'ysche," will be performed by the Choral Society on Tuesday next. Mr Milligan Hogg takes the difficult baritone part abandoned by Mr Garland,

A complimentary benefit to Mr J. Ed ards is on the tapis. Of all our amateurs he has perhaps the greatest claim to such a recognition.

Mr \V. K. Bishop, tho genial theatrical agent, leaves for Sydney on Tuesday next. He may be expected back with Bland Holt.

There are two circuses in Sydney just now, Chiairini _ and another.

Signor Majeroni has taken a lease of the Bijou Theatre, Melbourne.

Jennie Leo is playing Polly Ecclos in "Caste " at Sydney to good business.

At Brisbane Mr J. W. Holloway's Com pany have produced " The Silver King."

Frank Gerald has made a " hit" in Mel bourne in a part allotted to him—special engagement.

Mr Greville has been lately playing, in Melbourne, his well-kno,vnroleof "A Party by the Name of Johnston,"

Miss Jeffrys Lewis is playing "Odette" in Adelaido at tho Theatre Koyal. The South Australian critics recognise consider able talent in the new actress.

Morris Greenwall, it is said, intends to sue both Mrs Langtry and Dion Bouci cault for refusing to keep their engage ments with him.

The name of a new English opera to be brought out in Carl Rosa's next London season is mysteriously concealed for the present. Can it be Pascal Needham's " Fire King?"

William Black's daughter is said to be of great assistance to the novelist in decipher ing his illegible manuscripts. He finds them hard to read himself by the time the ink is dry.

Sellier, a Parisian operatic tenor, was serving behind the counter of a wine shop not so very long ago. Now ho is a success ful artist, and about to marry into an Eng lish aristocratic family.

Prior to her evacuation of New York, Mrs Langtry sent round photographs to the different newspaper men. On the back of eaoh portrait was the legend, " To So-and- So, with the regards of Lillie Langtry."

Madame Tussaud's famous collection of wax iigures are shortly to bo removed fiom their old quarters in Baker-street, London, to what are described as "palatial pre mises " in the same neighbourhood,

Madame Judic in " Nitouohe " is voted irresistible by Londoners. But'then a whole act is played in bathing costume, the real intrigue turning upon the accident and ro mance of a pair of —trousers I

The late Duko of Albany had a large collection of Bonapartist souvenirs.and con templated writing a biography of the Prince Imperial, whose intimate personal friend he was.

Amonc the characters in which Sarah Bernhardt is to appear in the course of a season which she was to have commenced at the Gaiety Theatre, London, on the 30th of last month, was that of " Lady Macbeth," of course in a French version of the tragedy.

"Fun on the Bristol," after a splendid career of success, closed at the Gaiety Theatre on August 1. I understand that arrangements have been made for the ad vent to Auckland of the Company, playing this piece about Christmas next.

One evening lately Toole was able to be lire. en. at the commencement of the Thea trical Fund dinner, to play in two pieces at hiVown theatre, and to return in Ume to p__pc.se t_ c health of the Chairman. Quite a variety art—'t •'

Mr James Ai-ison, theatrical manager, has received a telegra.™ stating that the Ramen r/e Concert Compa, y, who are under en dement to him, have'loft San Francisco, Sd will reach Sydney . y the next mail steamer, the Australia.

Miss Ada "Ward was recenijjr to make her first appearance in London " sloes her retnrn from her third tour round the world, at a splendid matinee at the Pnncess Theatre, a3 Pauline in the "Lady ot Lyons."

Mr Bland Holt has secured the colonial rights of a new Irish Melodrama, by George Fatvcett Rowe, called " The Donagh," now being played at the Islington Grand Theatre. The great attraction of the piece is a beautiful panorama of the Lakes of JCillarney painted by Beverly.

iCiiss Fanny Montague (daughter of .the we li.,.'tnown and popular ' journalist and manage, Mr Monty Brown), has tatoj _,_rl_ a genuine success in the part oi A-ete Go^on in "The Planter's Wife," now being _$*J*& in Adelaide by H- Jeffreys _!wis, U the Theatre Royal.

Dunning's Opera Company made their re-appearance in the Empire City, on Auo-ust 11, in "Les Manteaux Noire," and were greeted by a crowded house. They have now gone to Christcburcb, Mr and Pa-e (Miss Stanley) seceded from the Com pany in Auckland and went on to Sydney, whither also Mr Halifax (another secession) jias likewise gone.

V_» the same city Emilee Melville and her Open. Boaff. Company-at «AB.P«^ are s__ doing immense business. J-flpy are now in the twentieth consecutive wee_ of their season, and no signs of diminution «rf patronage. "La Perichole" has been re vived, and if arrangements can be made with M'dme. Simoneen, ",The Hermit's Bell . will be an early production.

The farcical comedy, "Twins," by Joseph _ e^rick vfhich «* vetoed bytke Examiner of Plays, had an English Bishop for its hero, attended by a Hindoo "convert The Sop talked ribald nonse.?^ with a bar ™ _d and generally conducted fcjmself like Td u'nken impostor. But the difficultyhas tZ been arranged, and " Twins will -hortly Jbe produced at the Olympic. Messrs W. B. Dibble and Son, of Cin „_„niHwffl_-hortly publish the first volume "extensive Fork entitled "A Library of American Litar^ure," the editors being Edmund Clarence Stedman and Miss Ellen Hutehinson. Their prated work is to be .^compendium, in ten Wo volumes of Ipectoens of American Werat^ from the Earliest settlement to tho present t W e. Stanley's Juveniles have been jflWWg: «. pin ifore "in Sydney. According to the j •'■BnTk-in," their whole idea seems to be to « Bulletin, d toburiegqaea! burlesque the ope fame r8 -satirical bur.lesq»° « s fe Jfoy and a lot vquires just a fcJ«o d / the Gaiet , Ibetter training «WlOtne kiuo j W anyttog »^J^ P and •<_uce to-night " the gCwßp""". ": _--■?,__ ~ wtomimf " of » J** ft. oiant Killer. Williamson, Gamer, un. #S^ .omic Opera Company, after a W«™ season in Brisbane, We returned*? $y<&n> _IT_™__l in " The Pirates of Penzanqe. \ S__l__S Montag-e is -"^to-M •and Miss Steivart secoi.l ladg *J*» £r ; Turner is leading tenor Uunng in Beas ou "The ferry D"° f hes*;. £". « E s tre!Ja will be produced for the ..lo time in Australia. Miss Georgia*Smithson, a versatile actress and singer, in giviag.a farewell entertain ment in Christ-hurt* a week or so since gave a " condensation " of the well-known ««_ bouffe "La Fille de Madame in^ot" In tl«s Miss Smithson, after tetiveringa highly diverting "Prologue" !_ the character of Fancy, " doubled " the narts of Clairette and Madame Lange, and P „ the "Quarrel Scene" and other from the work, not omitting the Srated "Conspirators' Chorus. m? s Martina sg^^fJS M^Vre_t operatic tenor singer. She time * Sre. at f0 °P signora Donatelli (the ;hM- 5TiSa), and Signor Ronconi, "hftlveexpSd groat approval of her Wh iracaukewents as a vocal artist, and present acquw■» „ L ; >. ..Kigoletto,' sh9 is to »BPT i » lto course of another °r „*f,T___er one or other of the follow-, month, in either one j Madrid, SSSKSS fK'preparatory to La Scala in Milan. there is J* 6,^" another mass as _~jll ooncoct bufcJ"^^ the fro „t_nd " pusii all fompewo _ is not necessary Intandsh-dyrettrement "^^S. Va^llconvey noadequate

THE ARMY, NAVY AND VOLUN TEERS.

(By " A Waikato Warrior.")

The York and Lancaster Regiment (Gsth), now stationed at Dover, were inspected shortly after their return from Egypt by the Duke of Cambridge, accompanied by Lord Wolsoley, General Sir A. Herbert, and Colonel Stephens, Aide-de-camp, and on being met by Major-General Newdigate and his staff (Colonel Eteson and Major Wyndham), proceeded on foot to Archcliffe Fort, where the Goth (Colonel Byam com manding) were formed up for inspection after their long foreign service. After minutely inspecting the troops the Duke ordered them to form three sides of a square. The Duke then said : ■'' It always gives mo great pleasure to have an opportunity when a battalion or part of a battalion returns home to see the troops and to judge personally of the condition in which they are. I take particular pleasure in deing so when that regiment has had the advantage and honour of taking part in any active operations in the field. I am very gratified this morning to see the efficient state in which the regiment has paraded. As far as I can judge, it appears to me that the men look wonderfully well and healthy, considering all the hard work they have had, and the change ot climate they have experienced during their long service abroad. As re gards the conduct of the regiment, I am glad to say nothing can be said of them except what is good. After a lot of hard service in India, the regiment was returning homo when it was suddenly re quired to tako part in the rocent operations in the Soudan, and the manner in which it did its duty there was most creditable. You may well bo proud of being a portion of Her Majesty's service. I always feel persuaded that the English army is in a condition to meet any emergency, and the circumstances under which this regiment found itself in the Soudan is an instance of what I mean. Tho regiment was ordered home after long sorvico in India. Suddonly tho emergency arose, and they wore called to take the field. There was no regular preparation made. They were ready to tako the field at once. I believe, either the same night or the next morning after they landed, they actually had a sharp engagement, and had an oppor tunity of distinguishing themselves. It shows how very necessary it is for any portion of the army to be prepared for the field under any circumstances. It also shows the necessity for the officers being well qualified to he able to adapt themselves to any emergency that may arise. 1 congratulate you, Colonel Byam, with you battalion, in having had the opportunity of seeing active and hard service, and having rendered such a. good account of yourselves, and I am glad to welcome the battalion home now to ordinary duty, which I hope they will perform with as much credit to themselves as they did by their conduct in the field." The troops then reformed and presented arms, after which the whole of the officers stepped forward from the ranks, and were addressed, some of them personally, by the Duke.

With reference to the old and well tried 65th a rumour was spread in Dover shortly after the regiment being quartered there, that two men came home in the troopship Jumna as prisoners under court martial sentence, or for trial for cowardice in Egypt, which was contradicted, for it seems it came from a paragraph which went the rounds of the papers. Whoever heard of cowardice being imputed to the Goth, or their old comrades the 40th, when side by side in every engagement during the war in Taranaki and Waikato ?

The regiment was entertained at a ban quet in the Town Hall, Dover, on Saturday ovening, the 7th of June. The chair was tiken by the Mayor, Mr Rees, who was supported by Major-General Newdigate, Colonel Goodenougii, Colonel Byam, C.8., and a large number of officers from the dis trict. The men marched through the town to the hall at 5 o'clock, and were given a cordial reception as they passed through the streets. The committee decided to curtail the speeches, and to devote the evening to harmony. After the usual loyal toasts "were given, the Mayor gave the toast of the evening, referring to the cir cumstances under which the Regiment took part in the Egyptian campaign, and by their deeds oi heroism and valour van quished their assailants, and covered them selves and their arms with victory. He likewise paid a well-merited tribute to the memory of their dead com rades, and said he was truly thankful tkst so many of them had returned to their nativtcountry. ThoMajor-Generalalso con gratuiated the men on their return, and subsequently Col, Byam gave the toast of the Mayor and Corpsnition, and those who hod entertained the regiment. Their old comrades, the 40th, Lancaster Regiment, still He at Peshawar, and will be one of the next regiments for home relief, having gone on foreign service in 1572. ° "Tactics" states, ie reference to. the belief that the fighting in ths Soudan was done by our young soldiers, that the exact length of service of men of the Gsth was of killed at ElTeb 14 years 5 months; wounded at El Teb, U years 2£ months; average of killed and wounded, 11 years 9 months; average service of killed at To^anieb, 12 years 4) -5 months ; wounded _fT_ m _-nieb. 11 years Gi months; killed and .__?__. ;' years 11 months; average wounded l_ .v. ffa y fe d v service of all men ol """. ,7"„ Hn j ~ vpftro ter Regiment, killed an" 1 WOtmded, U years 10J months. "An Arab," says the "E^._ • , Gazette," "who left Berber reports that _ nephew of Hussein Pasha Khalifa was captured along with Mr Cuzzi, whom he was accompanying. They offered to liberate the Pasha's nephew, an Egyptian, but stated that they must put Mr Cuzzi to death. He refused to accept his liberty on these conditions, and decided on staying with his friend Cuzzi, and said that his captors would have to put him to death first." True bravery.

There is considerable dissatisfaction as regardf, the clasp which is to be added to the Egyptian medal, and granted to those who took part in the Suakim expedition. It is argued that the battles of Teb and Tam_si (by the way, there never was a battle of Ta.manieb) were equally deserving a clasp ; and that to include the two in one clasp, " Suakim," gives equal reward to those who fought and tliose who remained where there was no fighting at all. The victory of September 13 has loft no more permanent results than the short campaign of General Graham. If a Soudan campaign is to be, it would surely be better to grant a Soudan medal, and make Teb and Tamasi tho first clasps.

NAVY.

. The total number of ships of war now of England's fleet is 19G, carrying 1,384 guns, a'ndlcontaining 32,171 men of all ranks. Ther.O a,i;e at present stationed in the Australian .colonies 10 vessels of the English navy—viz., Pari. IJCf.ew yacht, Diamond, corvette, Espeigic, soie. sloop, Harrier, schooner, Lark, schooner, Jjjfiranda, sloop, Nelson, double screw armour iron plated, Raven, screw composite gunboat, Swinger, screw composite gunboat, and Vndine, schooner. It appears that tho >elson, flagship of Commodore Er.kine on the Austra lian; Station, will bo re-commissioned shortily, and will in her new commission bear toe h>g of Rear-Admiral, who will be at once %mmand^.;in-chief on the Australian Station, &n\d a Jftgii Commissioner for tho Pacific Mantis. Jiy last advices of all the •M favourite j»en.-of-w.{ir which served in °-- . ,"• . -cater- only fouj-' are now in Australian „ o U raoo», ft. China.; Dido, ( commission, viz., .t, ire China; »nd| North America; Sapp.. Sappho, on the coast of Chili. - toe Post captains in the navy, say "Hampshire Telegraph," have a_ happy knack at times of making their ships un comfortable. For example, a captain with plenty of spare sleeping accommodation in his cabin invites a friend to accompany him on a cruise. To give up one of his own spare cabins would never enter his head. Instead, he displaces a lieutenant who has been located in a poop cabin, and sends him down into the cockpit, where darkness reierns supreme and fresh air is unknown. This has justhappened at Ports mouth, and, of course, is' being freely dis cussed in naval circles. Why do the Ad miralty continue to leave it within the power of commanding officers to so treat their subordinates ? The Mediterranean Squadron. — The Helicon, Com. Winsloe, flag of Lord John Hay, Alexandra, Superb, Monarch, In vincible, and Iris, were at Alexandria up to May 28 ; the Superb has since gone to Suda Bay for six days. The Condor was at Port Said. The Express was en route. to El Arish; would return to Alexandria, calling at Port Said. The Temeraire, Carysfort, and Cygnet were at Malta. The Inflexible was at Corfu. The Falcon was cruising; mails to Gibraltar. The Cruiser was cruising. The Bittern was at Constantinopb. The Cockatrice was at Galatz. The Albacore was at Suakim. , .'.v.. u_. t?__ SnaiH.-in fn_iire:to be included.

KIDNAPPING IN AMERICA.

A Sensational Affair.

(From Our Own Correspondent,)

London, Juno ■2:1.

People on the look-out for sensations have

got one with a vengoance in the ease of the Englishman who has quite recently - been kidnapped in America. The un fortunate victim of the embryo state of civilisation prevailing in certain regions of the .Vest is Mr Alfred Sheldon, who left ( England live years ago and settled in Kansas City, Missouri, with his wife and i child. "It is not "(the "Daily Telegraph " ' remarks detailing the circumstances of the cnso), "usually supposed that in dividual emigrants to the United States ' run much danger of being carried ' off by brigands, oven if they take to ( the loneliest occupations in the wildest and most unsettled part of the country. But Mr Alfred Sheldon has been luckless enough to bo treated with an exact repeti tion of those acts of brigandage which have given to (I recce, Sicily, and certain other 1 parts of Southern Europe so unenviable a notorioty. At tho present moment this j solitary Englishman is hold in durance vile c by some gang of miscreants, who threaten t to murder him if the enormous sum which t they demand for his ransom is not forth- . coming. Furthermore, they have coolly j. suggested that Mrs Sheldon, whose anxiety ," forhor husband's safety must be excessive, „ should write home to England for the cash required, and they offer to wait till a j .efficient interval has elapsed for tho fund.. ( to bo despatched From our shores and re- t ceived in Kansas. It is very . inceroly to , be hoped that Mr Sheldon will bo liberated j without t|io payment of a single dollar to t his captors '; but if, as very probably may happen, his relatives and friends provide j tho money rather than put his life into t terrible peril, it will be tho duty of the _ United States Government to take effectual _ steps, directly after the arrival of the cap- . five at his own homo, to pursue the criminals to their lair, and to deprive them j of any opportunity of profiting by their ill- g gotten gains. Representations, wo are | glad to find.; „nve already been addressed _ to tho American Government by Mr West, j. our Ambassador at Washington. In fact, directly a copy of the lettor sent by Mr J Sheldon himself, explaining the position in t which ho is placed and tho ransom do- g manded, was received at the Foreign Officio, „ Lord Granville instructed Mr West to take all necessary steps for M r Sheldon's eventual J liberation. Nothing is yet known as to the . particular plan of action which will bo j adopted in order to effect this object. But t it is a matter which touches tho American Government that such a lawless piece of j. brigandage should not bo allowed to go un punished. Even more is now at stake than j tho grave question of Mr Sheldon's personal _ afety. There is, in addition, tho necessary '_ removal of painful doubts which will bo j sure to spring up from this incident a.s to t whether America after all is such an earthly t paradise for settlers from tho old country. _ Here in England, at all events, we may bo t ■starved for want of work, but we aro not t liable to be carried off into the mountains ( mid held to ransom with a knife metaphor- ] ically pressed against our throats. ,_ ■■ I'imt all emigrants, even in unsettled * districts, aro not, however, in danger of f I eing treated liko Mr Sheldon, seems to bo ( si.owu from the fact that his capture was ~ not merely an act of lawless brigandage, ( but was the result of personal ill-feeling as t -oil. The facts appear to be that when Mr . -heldon omigra'ed he at once becamo c manager of the Blue Springs Milling Com- { [Uiiy,°in Kansas, and in a year or two was f cceived into partnership. Last autumn he j visited England, and only returned to j America in the spring of the present year. , h is stated that his Kansas frientls had , reason to dread lest somo personal injury ( should bo done to him, and he was cautioned o be 'very watchful.' How came it to j riass that- this English immigrant provoked ( ■h ill-will of these desperadoes? Apparently , ho management of tho com) any with which ( Mr Sheldon has been connected has led to . pecuniary troubles. At all events, the ( -ole explanation which is given for the ex- j raordinary outrage which has just been j ommitted is that Mr Sheldon refused to | j gree to tho assignment, by the other I , . artnors, of tho mills owned by all of them j j jointly to a linn of bankers and Hour ( merchants to whom tho company was in j debt. This seems an insullicient motive j j for carrying a man off into the wilderness, ! ( mid threatening him with sudden death, ; ( yet such is all the light thrown on the busi- j , a ess by the reports qlresfdy received. No , doubt we shall in a shojt time hear more ( detitiite details ; but one thing is quite eyi- ( dent, that if Mr Sheldon was known to bo , in danger, and if his removal has followed ; , on a personal dispute, the perpetrators of . | the outrage should not bo hard to discover. : , it. is no wanton act of violence, committed ] by some lawless men on the person of the first rich settlor which they happened to J come across, but a plot on tho part of oorsonal .nemie . evidently in pursuance of ■ , private designs. Early in last month, I when Mr Sheldon had refused to be a party j to handing over the Blue Spring Mills to i the creditor firm, the first step hi the kid- , napping plot was taken. One evening, j about half-past eight o'clock, two men of i ; gentlemanly appsarance drove up to the ; iiouso occupied by tho English settlor, ) which was located a few niilps away from the city. They produced a document, which purported to -be a warrant, and said that they were come to commit Mr Sheldon to the gaol at Independence city for the crime of fraudulently collecting money It is stated that one of the men seemed sg agitated while he was reading this sham "-••ant that Mr Sheldon took it from him *_.. -.^ himself. He then declared and peruo. '--utterly false, but expressed tho charge to l^ -«• w ith the two men, his willingness to go 0.. •-> .rely doing as they told him they "wereu. "--i-ors their duty as officials." The conspu_. <aid that it would not bo necessary for the Englishman to spend tho night in gaol; ■liter being lodged there for a brief period he would be permitted to sleep in any hotel in the town, while the two supposed officers of justice would keep guard to see that he d;d not escape. Mr Sheldon then told his wife to get ready to come with him, but on this proposal the conspirators placed a de cided veto, and it was finally arranged that Mrs Sheldon, should follow in the morning, and arrange for tho defence of her husband with his solicitor. Very unfortunately for Mr Sheldon, the friend and neighbour whom he always consulted in difficulty was away —a fact with which the sinister visitors were, doubtless, perfectly well acquainted. At all events, off drove the beguiled and en trapped settler, and when his wife appeared in tho "city" of Independance next day she found to her horror that neither her hus band nor his custodians had arrived at the gaol or at any of the hotels, and further that no warrant for arrest had been asked for or _ranted In fact, the whole plot was revealed in all its audacious iniquity, and it is added that up to the present time the Kansas police have failed to find any indica tion of the place where Mr Sheldon is con cealed. Perhaps when pressure from Washington is brought to bear, they may be less unsuccessful. But it is lamentable to remember that nearly two months have already passed over the head of the unhappy captive, who does not know whether any day his persecutors may not be as good as their threats, and murder him to escape detection. , Something certainly ought to be done for a British-born subject foully kidnapped in this manner, and no time ought to lie lost in effecting the rescue. His wife has re ceived two letters from her husband since he was carried off, in which he states tho conditions upon which his captors agree to liberate him. These letters are addressed |in envelopes bearing some unknown hand written, which ought to be of the utmost 1 yalue in some day running the conspirators :to earth, and. aeh ' letter was posted in fansas city. Mr Sheldon !.ffi tli#t ljo is in ■•"• of the two men who succeeded }n .the pow_ ---„, ills home, and that the . removing.him n... <. ~u ^ Commit*^,'' gang call themseives -<«4t)ly ««.. | Their conditions of release are ... _ . B' L , traordinary, because they imply that a con nection exists between the former partners in the milling company and the brigands, and because, if the conditions were actually | fulfilled, the discovery of who were tho ■ authors of the eutrage would almost follow as a matter of course. They stipulate in the ' first place that Mr Sheldon shall surrender his house, which is mortgaged, to the bank- : ing and flour-selling firm who are the ' mortgagees, without any legal proceedings. Ho must further assign the mills themselves j to this same firm, an act which he has hitherto refused to perform, At the same time the so-called "Committee" ingenuously assert, and apparently expect that it will be credited, that they have no connection whatever with the former partners of Mr Sheldon, and that they are acting with out their knowledge. The last condition is that a sum of fourteen thousand dollars shall be paid by the captive's friends to the account of the partners at the bank of , the before-mentioned firm. Could anything be more disinterested than the action of ~ these unselfish cut-throats ? They have no interest whatever in the dispute' between 'Mr Sheldon, his partners,;and the firm from

desirous to see justice and equity reigning all over the earth that they have been in duced to kidnap Mr Sheldon, and threaten to murder him off-hand, simply in order that some other individuals may receive a round sum of money which is owed them, and a house of which they are the mortgagees 1 Evidently " the Committee " would Lie exceedingly useful, from their un exampled zeal, if they set up as a legal firm devoting themselves to the collection of debts. Only their mode of enforcing tho moral law is so desperately violent that they may be not unreasonably suspected of having selfish objects of their own to serve. They have promised to release Mr Sheldon directly the fourteen thousand dollars are paid over to the bank ; but in the contrary event they intend to take his life. That is how the matter stands at present, and if tho kidnapped English emigrant is to bo released alive thero is need of skilful diplomacy, perhaps of a monetary sacrifice, and then of vigorous measures, to hunt down the lawless gang of Transatlantic brigands.

May We Live to Reach One Hundred?

Man Already Lives Longor Than Ho Did.

o bo told that under proper conditions we .gilt to livo ono hundred years, and that 10 discouraging doctrine of the influence ' heredity in shortening life is only true in limited sense, is interesting to most people, a, also, is tho circumstance that we are vitii;- longer than we used to livo, and tho isura'nce that much may yet bo done to i-long our lives. These and analogous ipios were given in a recent lecture by Dr. jhn Foster, of Bradford, England, read at 10 February meeting of the Sheffield [edico-Chirnrgical Society :—" The late r. Purr, in his description of the march irotigh life of a million children, has iven the following results:—Nearly )0,003 will die in the first year, 53,000 m le second year, 28,000 in tho third year, id less than 4.000 in the thirteenth year, t the end of 45 years 500,000, or one-half, ill have died. At the beginning of 60 mrs 370,000 will still be living. At the winning of 80 years, 90,000 ; at 85 years, i,000; and at 95 years, 2,100. At the jtriiiniug of 100 years thero will bo '22:1, id at lOS years 1. The mean lifetime of .th sexes in England was calculated some sars ago to be 40,858, or nearly 41 years. r. 11. Humphreys has shown, however, lat in then years, IS7O to 1880, the mean . at death was 43.50 (females 45.8), being gain of nearly 2J years. Thus within 20 jars, notwithstanding an increased birth ito, density of population, and the un mitary condition of towns suddenly grown rgo, more than 2J years have been added iFholife of every inhabitant of England. "Tho 'Spuctator' asks: What is the md of life which is increasing? Are wo sung longer, or mature longer, or old I mgor ? Do we live longer, or uro we only littlo slower in dying . I am bound to linit that somo of the gain in early life is >st in middle lifo ; that whilo tho expecta on of lifo at birth is 2| more, tho expecta on from 35 to (10 is a fraction less. But stwithstanding tho slight increaso of inor ility at ..5 and upwards, a largo portion of 10 additional survivors livo on to tho igher ages. Of 1,000 horn, tho additional umber of survivors is 35 at tho ago of 45 ; } at 55 ; 9 at 05 ; 3 at 75 ; 1 at 85. Tho in •easo is much greater.among females. By v- tho larger proportion of tho increased uration of human life in England is lived citwcen 20 and 110. It is interesting to as jrtain what is the natural limit of cxis ince. Dr. Parr says tho natural lifetime t a man is a century. That is tho length t time the body will livo under the most ivourable conditions. Another most inter -ting quostion is : When does old age com lonee? Dr. Parr has divided lifo as fol iws : Boyhood, 10 to 15 years ; youth, 15 i 25 ; manhood, 25 to 55 ; maturity, 55 to .">; ripeness, 75 to 85 ; and old ago, 85 and pwards. " Old age really begins in certain patho igical changes which take place at different o-os. It is interesting to learn what condi ems hasten or hinder these changes. It is old that all lifo begins in a formless fluid, nd from this develops into the varied forms f living heings. There is a life forco, me rited froni a pre-existing lifo, which uilds up matter into living tissuo, and olds it together for a time ; and the jnaeity with which this force holds organ ied matter together does not depend on ize, or strength, or muscular development ltogether, but rather probably on an even alanco between the several parts, and on omcthing more. As tho strength of a ham is equal to its weakest link, so tho ital strength of the body is equal to the oakest organ. After tho middle arch f lifo is passed, these changes become bm'rnoner, and thero is danger, _if ;o continuo to put the s^me pr'es urc on a weakened vessel, that it may urst. In the hurry and strife of lifo men oo often forget this truth and pay the enalty. After 50 or 55 a good deal more est and sleep are required thah in earlier innhood. The physical powers have begun o fail; tho mental powers should be at heir boat. It i. probable that some of the reatest literary productions have been the .ork of men between 50 and 70. Living mblic men in every department of litera ti re, science, art, and politics may bo cited a proof. For many years after tho do ;enerativo processes of age have weakened he bodily powers, the intellectual powers emain comparatively unaffected. A weak ned nerve fibre may retain its continuity, .ftd a diseased vessel in the brain may hold ts entirety for a great length of time if no ;rcat strain is put upon it. '.'"In" taking th- period of 65 to 75, and till following the fortunes pf t-lje p^illipn ihildren born, we find that 309,029 enter his ago and 161,124 leave it aliyp. Diseases if tho brain, heart, and lungs, are the most lommon; 31,400 die of old' age. The lumbers that enter the next decennial—7s o 85—are 161,124, and the number that eavo it alive are 88,505. About 122,500 lio ohiefly of lung, brain, heart, and other ' diseases. Nearly 59,000 die of ocai . •'s+v. and old age. Some writer .trophy, debii.., --or QQ cases o{ death ays'thathehasmettev* - • . f rom old age, everybody dying °!*» ecognised disease. It is true that the .ymptoms of disease become obscure m old i-o, many oases of pneumonia ana o.. ,Br nflammations escaping recognition. But t is also true that many deq.t\ia t^ttrtoupeff ;o disease are mainly due to old age; ilh'ht injuries, cold, heat, want," or itfacks which in early years would have _een shaken off. Of the million with which ive started, 2,153 livo to the age of 05-2.3 to 100. Finally, at the age of 10,8 one solitary life dies. "Diseases may bo divided into tvo great .lassos—the parasitic and tho degenerative. I'lie former are more prevlent in early and the latter in tho later stages of lifo. Of .ancor, which is one of the diseases of old acre, it is uncertain whether it belongs to the'parasitic or the degenerative typo. As it is the duty of the physician to help man through as many of these stages, and with as littlo pain as possible, it becomes im portant to study how to protect him from accidental diseases, and how to. husband his forces so that lie may travel far over the way before his strength shalj fa[l, The first essential of life is food, ar,d hey«t)<l doubt the majority are und.erf. d, and a largo proportion improperly fed, The mortality among the poor and tho hard worked," at all stages of life, is amazingly larger than among tho middle and higher classes. The human constitution possesses a great amount of elasticity, and will tolerate departure from correct diet for a length of time, but in the end the penalty is rigorously exacted by nature. Lessened vitality inevitably follows impoverished blood and ill-nourished tissue. Undoubt dely, men are better fed than formerly, and fewer die cf starvation. But the Increased density of the population by the flocking of people to the towns has intensified pld dangers. Unless sanitary improvements keep pace with the increase of popu. lation, the mortality increases. One seventh of the population of Great Britain liyp ip fjQfidon | » large portion of the rest live in large towns, fir, Fa.rsays ; 'What [s especially remarkable in London is the high _]0.-a,ity °f "J1 QSes after 25.' It is due *<> Pulmotiftry disease. The same holds good of all large town.. Improved health conditions a-d increased population are fighting a great battle, and, on the whole, if not at every part of the field, health is Wl" Heredity has also something to do with the chance of reaching old age. This transmission of qualities acquired and in herited lies at the root of all improvement of the race. To leave the body better than we found it, and transmit that improvement in vital force to posterity, is the true evolu tion by which heredity taints may be abolished. A cruel pathology was once taught that certain constitutions w^re .doomed to hereditary diseases, and distinct lines of demarcation were drawn between people so affected and others. Logically that doctrine can only be sustained in a limited sense. The blood cells, the mus cular fibres, the epithelial scales live their time, are cast off, and are succeeded by others and often better ones. Thus death is not only the end, but the beginning of life. ' That which thou sowest is not quickened except it die' is a philosophical truth, and lies at the root of all. improve-

AN INTERVIEW WITH LUCCA.

Hor Opinions on Music, Musioians, and

Audiences,

While listening the other night to one who seems to me to stand almost alone among prime donne, by right not only of histrionic und vocal powers, but also by charm of per son and manner, it struck me that most Londonors would care to hear what Lucca thought of her art, of artists, and of her audiences—in fine, of everything connected in any remotest degree with music or with herself. Accordingly I wrote to her on be half in especial of tho readers of " The Evening News," and asked her for an inter view. With her usual frank courtesy she granted my request sans phrase, and on Sunday last I made my way to the nouse which she calls home when in London, and the Windows of which look out upon Hyde 'Park. The diva mot me at the door of her sitting-room on the first floor with out stretched hand, and my first words of thanks for her kindness, spoken in German, seemed to remove all restraint. She answered me in the same tongue, with the soft Vienna enunciation which is so pleasant by vii'tuo of its broad vowel-sounds. Many a year had elapsed since I first saw Lucca— I beg her pardon, the Baroness of Wall hofen—in Vienna. A party of us, English and Americans, studying in Munich had suddenly resolved that twelve hours' im prisonment in a railway carriage would be fairly compensated by hearing herin Mozart's ' Cosi fan tutti." Nor were wo mis taken ; indeed, some of us, if I recollect aright, resolved at first sight and hearing of her that we could pursue our studies with fur greater profit and pleasure to our selves in Vienna than in Munich, and we chaffed those of our companions who decided upon returning to King Lud wig's capital on their insane pre dilection for Bavarian beer. In the interval Lucca had changed but little—in fact, I could without difficulty picture her again, as I first saw her, dressed as a doctor, andenjoy again in imagination .he piquancy of her appearance and tho sweetness of her voico. But reality was soon to outdo memory. In the room with her was a man whoso name is honoured by all in England who caro for what Plato called "the divinest of all the arts," and seeing that the piano wasopen, and that Lucca had just been singing, I prayed her not to let mo inter rupt her, and so had the pleasure of hearing a song rendered as she alone can render it whoso voico adapts itself with oaso to all re quirements of space, and who is herself always natural and unaffected. After the music was over, and the maestro had loft us, we sat down for a chat, and hearing her speak I noticed what I had not noticed whilo sho sang —that she was a little hoarse.

LUCCA'S OI'INIONT OF COVENT DAHDEM.

On asking her tho cause, sho answered, " Oh, it comes from tho draughts in that theatro. To sing in Covent Garden is like singing in the open air, or rather it is like singing in a tempest caused by several gales of wind which all blow from different quarters. It is frightful ! In that rospoct CoventGnrden isthoworststagein Europe"

l.g.a's love of melody

I then remarked that, as sho always sang in Italian opora, I supposed one might take it for granted that sho preferred that school of music. " Yes," she answered, " I think I do ; at least, I should like to say that I prefer music which has melody in it to music which pretends to be scientific. Tho piece I like best of all is ' Les Dotninos Noirs,' but I like, too, very much the little tiling you remind me that you first hoard mo in—'Cosi fan tutti.' It is charming, and f cannot understand why they don't put it upon tho stage here in London. 1 suppose it is too short for them; the people hore, it would seem, appreciate long pieces. They think they thus get more for their money. They are so business-like I But I like the melody of the Italian and French opera better than our own German music ; tho one often carries mo away, while much of the other leaves mo cold. I ought, too, to be able to speak here without prejudice, as my mother was German, while my father was an Italian,

locca's opinion ok waqnkr. Taking the cue, I asked hor what she thought of Wagner and his operas. Her answer was a most impressive shrug and little shiver, as if tho mero name had the effect upon her of a cold douche ; but then she said, "Once and once only they persuaded me to try it. I chose tho second act of 'Lohengrin,' and studied—oh, how 1 studied I—but without effect. _ Look you ! Wagner's music can only get into or come from heads framed expressly for it, and mino does not accommodate itself to that category. Our German musio is fine ! oh, very fine ! Beethoven's ' Fidelio' is " —and hands aft.l eyes went up in most expressive pantomime—"but it is not my genre. Furthermore, I believo that most person* who rave (schivacrmen) about Wagner's music affect an admiration of it which they don't feel. They can expatiate about it as muehasthoy please; it is beyond most of us." "Speaking of that," I said, "Albanidocs not seem to agreo with you. Sho succeeded admirably the other night as Elsa, and seems, too, to like the music." "Yes," answered Lucca, without a trace of envy, "so I hear. I heard also that she pronounced the German almost without nccent, and that is wonderful. My opinion

of Wagnet'a music is, of course, purely porsorthl. I can't change my nature—and wouldn't) on thjs point even if I could," she added, with q> moile. IiVCOI^S, p^yOpjllfE APJIipCE. •'Now," I .a}d, changing the subject, " will you tell Uie which city in Europe you prefep—whioh is yoijr favourite audience ?" "Oh,1' sho answered quickly, "that is easily done, I prefer to sing in Berlin to anywhere else," " What I" I answered startled beyond measure, " you prefer to sing to Prussians rather than to the Viennese, who hold you in such favour!" "Yes," she replied, "they are warmer, more enthusiastic in Berlin than even in Vionna;' „__ J B6™- JWIJ 0 have a finer a^p. Sp} ft. ion for music. When 6n6 6Ct! nPfi J bhfeseff, as'limmo .s fpni time to time, the 'Berlin people* sh-Vv yfrd'fnWji they know it, | while'jn'yiehfia th'p reception giyeYi to one is generally much 'the1" saino." But still, after Berlin, I lib Viflnt)4 b??t>." ' »Andth§n?" iaslfec). "Oh, than I ifte the Rn.sifmsi in St. Petersburg, top, one is wejl repeiyed." "And where does Londop stand in your liking?" I asked somewhat sheepishly. " Nowhere," was the frank reply. " 1 cannot understand the English people, or why they oorae to tho opera at all. They don't come for the musio, that's very cor tain ; for they sit and listen to it without over being moved—cold, just as if they wore pieces of wood," " Come I" I said deprecatingly, "that is surely going too far. With U6 it is a matter of custom to repress our feelings. That musiq'is appfeijfal:^ Ijers ypu oan see from the throngs w|ip gp, njgh'tly to Povent Qarden p» spite of the draught'?." "■ Alj I no,*' she answered, "it is custom whjch inftlfe(j them go'j |t is the fashion to talk about- the opera, and so they go ; but if they cared for music they couldn't listen to it as they do. Why," she went on with increasing vehemence, "they always get up and go away before the fall of the cur tain. Think of it! In the last scene of ' Les Huguenots,' when tho singers even are carried away by the music and forget <*»* they are acting, up rises One half of your London audience, and coolly walks away ; and so it js, toe, m 'Flgnrn,' in any and eyery 'op,pr_K If :icT too 'bad''of .horn, and besides'it j§ np,t sensible. '_f they only knew .vhat th .y deprive themselves of by their colduoaß, they would not treat us so. / never van sing or play my best here in London. Do they think that because they pay us £150 per night we need nothing more ? We are artists, and not pieces of mechanism, Our listeners affect us, If they thank us by ap plause when we do well it inspires us; if they applaudj enthusiastically when we surpass ourselves, that is as it should be. We can then sing better and better. But to sit there stolidly and seem not to hear makes our work mere mechanical drudgery, and when they got up and leave the theatre they teach us to sing simply for the monetary reward, and not for love of the music, and then we cannot sing well. Money can do but little to encourage art — or the artist, I sometimes think it rather harms than helps us ; but this I know, that it alone can never induce us to do our best. Don't praise your London public to me !" LUCCA'S FAVO.BITE CAPITAL. '■ Well, -611)" I said, "at least you must admit that London as a city is superior to Berlin." "Oh! it is larger, of course, she answered, indifferently, " but so is Paris, so is Vienna and St. Petersburg ; yet of all cities I like Berlin best and London least. "What," I said, pointing out of the window, "is not that park of unique beauty ; how can you run down London in ____j___"3__ - - ■ ...' .......__—

"Yes," I went on, "and in Paris theßois and in Vienna the Prater, but none of these surely can compare with Hyde Park ?" "Perhaps not," Lucca retorted, "but when you spoke of cities I thought you meant the amusements, Sec, which cities alone offer, and not the beauties of trees and green grass peculiar to the country." "Measure.them by your standard, if you will," was my answer, " you cannot deny that Berlin is only a great village of sur passing dreariness, while London is in much the first city in the world."

A low, prolonged whistle of intense sur prise escaped her. Then she said : "I call that a city where one can got whatever one wants whenover one likes. Now, in London, after the theatre, suppose that one wants to sup, every cafe, nay, every hotel, is closed at 12.30. The Eng lish say to their visitors at that hour, ' Go to bed, children ;go to bed,' and then boast of their liberty. London is intensely provincial, I think. Perhaps it seems so because the people are so puritanical, or rather because they protend to be puritani cal." LUCCA ON DKKSS. " Well," I asked, " what do you think of our dress ?" "The men hero," she replied, "are tho best dressed in the world. In Paris, now, they copy you, and they are beginning to do so in Germany, but tho women don't dress as well as the French or the Americans do. Yet in the last ten years they have im proved immensely. One often sees now really pretty toilettes here—such as one nover used to see—but still, their boots do not fit and their hair is badly dressed."

Now, I am not entirely indifferent to the charm of feet bicn chausses, but I know absolutely nothing of the art of arranging a woman's hair ; in fact, I regard it with sus picious awo, and. so, as Lucca seemed in clined to dilate upon this feminine mystery, I turned the conversation to simpler topics, and then after a little, rose to take my leavo, bearing away with me a pleasant memory of a gifted artist nature, courteous because kind, and sincere evon to outspokenness. Nor do Lucca's words seem to me of slight value. Englishmen would do well to remember that "Money can do but little to encourage art or the artist."—" Evening News."

Stupid Women.

0. theso, the " Boston Courier " gives the following examples :—Mrs Lincoln, of the Boston Cooking School, has just issued a volume of her receipts, in the preface to which she remarks that tho reader may consider her unnecessarily minute in her directions, but that hor experience has taught her that no dotail is small enough to bo loft unmentioned, and we might well add that it is not safe to take ever, tho possession of common sense for granted. This may sound a trifle severe, yet it would probably bo agreed to by any body who should take the trouble to visit the cooking school and sit for an hour listen ing to Mrs Lincoln's lecture, and to the stupid and inane questions asked by well dressed and apparently intelligent women. it chanced that one afternoon somo wooden spoons, such as Mrs Lincoln uses, had been ordered by her for various ladies ivho had wished to buy them. Tho spoons were distributed to their various purchasers, and a moment of silent examination fol lowed, then a lady inquired in a distrust ful voice— " Mrs Lincoln, could-or I use my spoon to-er stir frosting i" Mrs Lincoln kindly gave her the required permission, and sho relapsed into contented silence. Another pupil was much excited by the fact that when it was desirable to increase the heat of the gas range tho jets in the chandelier were lowered. " Why," demanded this bewildered female in an awe-struck tone, " why does she have to fry her croquettes in the dark ?" Sho evidently thought the frying of cro quettes to be a religious rite which de manded a dim and mysterious light for its proper pursuance. Yet another intelligent questioner—but this was in the old days of' Miss Parloa— propounded this conundrum with all the gravity which befitted its weight i " Mrs Parloa, my family Is so largo that ono loaf of angel cake is not onough ; now, if I want to make two loaves, must I double the quantity of materials?" These examples are not given as examples of ignorance of cookery, because that, of course, is entirely excusable in anybody who is not obliged to cook, but it is the lack of simple common sense which is so re markable in women of at least ordinary in telligence and good education.

Murder of a Girl by Her Father .

On Saturday night last a horrible murder was committed at St. Pierre les Calais, the victim being a young girl of 18 years of age, and the murderer her father. It ap pears that the assassin, whose name is Anglicus, aged 38 years, is a shoemaker, and belongs to Namur, Belgium. The daughter, to escape from the maltreatment of her father and step-mother, ran away from home re cently and took refuge in St. Pierre, Calais, where sho took lodgings. The father, through the assistance of the police, ob tained information as the runaway's where abouts, and followed her to induce her to return. This, however, she would not do ; and on Saturday he waited for her outside tho house where she was staying, evidently intending to assault her With the shooiria^erV hammer he carried. Thb'jriri lpft thp'h.use, but a woman' pr.eyeritea the man from striking his daughter, who, seeing hei danger, ran into a butcher's shop. She wa fullowed by the man, w^P, "> his feeling ol revenge, picked up a butcher's knife lying on the block, ftnd plunge^ it into tin girl's back, the instrument passing through the heart imd out ftt the breast.- The unfortunate girl died within eight minutes of the time tho aot was com mitted, the murderer in the meantitnt holding up her head and repeatedly kissing her. Tho body was removed to the hos pital, and the assassin conveyed to prison, and afterwards taken to Boulongo, and from there to St, Omer to await his trial.

Nobel Servants.

There comes from Rome a, story so strange and romantic that it might haye formed the ground-plot of Que of B.ocoaccio. novels. A certain Irish gentleman living in the Eternal City !lad among his servants a handsome young couple. The man, who did the work of cook, was but twenty-six, and his wife, who played the part of cham bermaid, waß but seventeen. They did their work intelligently, and for some time gave full satisfaction to their employer. But one fine day the Irish gentleman found that Re had been robbed. Suspicion floated over the servants, and was confirmed into certainty when they suddenly disappeared. Of course tb,ey TTjU .t ho guilty,or they would not have run away".' fl,et'eb tives set off after them, and—since 'the Italian' police is more efficient than ours—soon discovered the fugitives and locked them up, fhe day of trial oapie'. The ypu'ng m\r were 1. rou'ght into po^rt.' TH° juPgP ?pked tl. man hi. name, Putting his hands to hide his tears he replied Count Htocardo StrQ. id, and then he told a strange story t How he wan descended from the famous Florentine Strozzi—those haughty rivals of tljeMedini ; how he had fallen violent!" = n ' ove with jjj, j*'.Ti wno was now his wife; how their rela tives had opposed the match; how, fa spite of them, tho lovers eloppd t^hd yrfjfa happy, for a time until thei|f resources vanished ; and how,1 finally, they had been forced to enter the employment of the Jrish gentle man in ordpi' to support themselves. The young Count explained tjjftv they were innocent of the theft, and that they had disappeared because they wero afraid their secret would be revealed if they remained and were scrutinised. The story proved to be true, and the young couple were released, amid the cheers of the court. Whether Prince Don Pietro Strozzi Mayorca-Renzi, Prince of Forano and head of the furnilv, will doanythiug to help his unlucky cousins, remains to be seen. His princely pride ought at least to make him refuse to permit them to do domestic labour hereafter. — " Philadelphia Bulletin."

In the ships now under construction at the various naval yards, a mess place is no longer being provided for the warrant officers, the Admiralty having come to the conclusion that when the warrant officers have cabins no necessity exists for providing them with a mess place. This is (remarks a daily contemporary of the " Army and Navy Gazette") decidedly a retrograde step, the mess berth being provided for these officers seme years back upon a recognition or the faSthat it was undesirable they should be obliged to mess in their cabin.-instead of together, as is i,he custom with UI classes of officers. ' Ingersoll, the Freethinker, says he does not agree with the doctrine of future punish ment. Perhaps the doctrine of future punishment will not agree with Ingersoll. - ,Th_iT.:-i.rl._tti._ul.lif.f.r.?n'rfip,..,i,ftt

CLIPTOMANIA.

- [Specially Selected by Our London

Correspondent.]

Some people have curious ideas of sickness. Yesterday a man, who was lined iis for being drunk and disorderly, informed the magistrate that ho was " se:i '.lick " while in a tram car. What next! I "John Bull's Neighbour in Her True Light" is being translated- into French. We also understand that a new and very much improved edition, with many addi tions, will shortly appear in English. The work will bear improvement. Arsenic, as everyone knows, is one of the constituents in artificial greens. A : lady in Kansas,-. S., is said to have died j lately from blood poisoning, the result of ; wearing a green veil over her face while she had a slight scratch on one of her cheeks. Whalebone has become very scarce and high-priced. We hear that a quantity of it has just been sold at the rate of £2,250 per ton. Whether the whale 3 have been having a bad time of it, or are having a good time of it, must be left to the decision of experts. But, in any case, somebody is suro to urge the fact as an additional argument against tight-lacing.—"Globe." , While in New York next year Mr Irving , will produce either "King Lear" or "As 1 You Like It," and will bring all the scenery, j properties, etc., to Europe towards the end _ of April, ISSS, to open with tho revival at c the Lyceum. j Mr Irving has positively denied tho silly c reports which have credited him with the intention to build a new theatre in London, t Owing to chango of residence of the l clergy, remarks n publication representing a the printing trade, soveial lithographed letters of the Archbishop of Canterbury were recently returned though the Dead Letter Office. Several of the envelopes, it is alleged, were addressed, "Mr Edward Cantour, Addington Park." . Mr J. 11. Mapleson, whose anecdotes of _ himself may always be strictly relied on, _ wae, before he left California, interviewed l as to his early life. He said ho made his £ first appearance on the stage at two months _ old. The great Edmund Keen was (there is s a trifling difference as to dates, but that does not signify) thou acting at Drury Lane. He could not work himself up to do the necessary cursing over a property baby, and little Lieutenant-Colonel James Henry was . brought forward. He wae, he says, so sue- J cesst'ul that Kean engaged him for eleven weeks at a pound a week. Mr Mapleson added he had kept the first pound ever since, " and there it is, on my watch chain." Mr Maurice Strakosch, various theatrical and operatic managers.and other well-known "crackers" will have to think a little be fore they can beat this story. Cab-owning appears to be becoming a fashionable occupation. According to a society journal. Viscount Savernake lias ten li cabs upon the streets, all of which are fitted '•' with the newest appliances. A good many g of these, like Lord Shrewsbury's hansoms, IS arc let out by the day tq professional men and people of business. Cabmen who hire them pay, at present, eighteen and six pence a day. But when the season is in full swing the daily charge will be something like a sovereign. This ontitlos the driver to 3 two horses in the day. {J The death is announced of a pedlar who \ ( sold nick-nacks on a tray on London Bridge, and protended to be deaf and dumb. Though clothed in rags, ho was, it is said, a Swiss gentleman of fortune, who, stung by remorse, had taken a vow that he would not ~ open his lips for ten years, and that he would go bareheaded and barefooted, and forego for twenty years all the advantages which fortune had bestowed upon him. He stuck to his vow, and was in his four- „ eenth year of voluntary servitude when he died inSouthwark Workhouse on Tuesday. j The development of late years of the " ornament for your fire stoves" has been very marked. The latest novelty in this direction I have seen takes' the form of a j fanciful easel,'which fits into the, grate, in . such a way that a. picture placed in position upon it (there are 'chi.jnbty.pes, &c., spe- | chilly prepared for the purpose).effeobuttlty i J masks: the, uns^gh'tly. _ars, S_c'., \vlvjoh have 5, to be co'ncaaletl." (w \\yj\\-iA^ households v these'pictures ai-U Piitntctl by members of J the family, Another innovation that is taking strong hold on popular taste is tho corresponee, jj card. So many people now prefer to write 7 their shorter letters and other communica- S tions on these cards, which are as a rule a £ good size larger than a post-card, that stationers are preparing them in various styles and tints for their customers, It i^ : t usual to have the address stamped on tlj^s'e ! _ cards, and those V.'ta do not '^je.b.'io pa,y ! | an annual guinea $0 the''(_o;.erniiient 'fay- fc the fad cjl^o fla\s'tyie family (3rsat efab.o?_ed f on them. jj " Figaro " says; My undertaker—or, to . be strictly accurate, tho gentleman who j hopes some day to be my undertaker—has B " informed me that his telephone number is a —well, say 150,016. The facilitation of 9 business is, lam ready to admit, the Tire- c vailing tendency of the age, but J da^not think we are yet quite prepared to telephone the order for a coffin or a winding-sheet. In. another way, however, the telephone is capable of a developement, which I fully expect to see carried out. At present, t<h<= ' bringing down of a really first-clftsa doctor . - from London to the provinces is a matter of '' almost prohibitive expense ; but surely it \. willbo often possible by means of telephonic i agency for a metropolitan' physician to con- I suit with a provincial practiticmev- and I transmit minute instructions ?&v t. ie. treat ment of distant patents. ! Tfyis attendance by telep|ipn{] will hot take the place of per sonal visits,' it may be at oaco admitted, hut it may surely be resorted to i,n CSWS where there are insuperable reasc^a against the adoption of the facro fifaevent - and salutary course, The salient fact in the evidence lately given before the Islington oo«w.r was that three years $«_, the deceased lady, a widow of 57, came Into a share of a fortune of £I,OOQ, syn.d wont out of it by means of gin, at the rate of two bottles a day. That would be in all close upon 3,000 bottles, of whioh the widow 6eems to have drunk half. It just illustrates what can be done with a little determination aliu a great c\e^l of spirit,-," Olo'oe." '■ ill- Astor and his family isms., like Clive, though for another;, reason, bo astonished at their n^oderation. They actually travelled through ' Europe with only twenty-one trunks 1 It wa,s o;i th,e contents of these same twenty-one trunks-and a Saratoga ■ trunk, it must he remombored, is a ward robo v-n Cftstora—that tho New York Cus tom-house claimed 1,900 dollars for duty on the Asters return. But the oharge was pro tested against, and finally disallowed on appeal, What was for a time considered a mys terious robbory at Shenbridge Hall, Cheshire, has been curiously explained. The hall letter-box is placed in a gate at the roadside, and Mr Locket, expecting a cheque for £10 from Liverpool, went to the box and discovered that the er\Yel. pe had boen tampered with an.{j the cheque ab stracted, Coding to the conclusion that he had been robbed,' as the letter itself re mained inside', while the clfaque csuly had been taken, Mr tocke;t fa (_D(^e. rode to Nantwioh and, g^vie ijnljbriflatipp ajij thepost offioo $& ppHce, station,. 'Returning' Ipfa., ho examfaes tl;e box mo^re plos?!^ md dis covered a tpfatit _ nest ivi... c, and further investigation, T_vea'ed the missing cheque, lying twenty yards away on the turnpike road, whither it had evidently boen carried by the birds, and investigation revealed maiks of tho beaks 0. the tomtits on letter and cheque. Vv Sifen John Chinama^ £*tfyer begins to draw qn tq rJjPfl old"'ike, .the most appro priate present from his dutiful son is gene rally considered to be a coffin, But this is not a hint that the old gentleman ia in the way at all, and had betteY tsnk of going " topside." Certainly, not; it is only the custom p,f th.P country', and the more the coffin "pfls'ts the better. The commonest "coolie," or street porter, contrives to scrape together at least twenty dollars ; while men of means qften go to more than j two thousanddoilars in providing the author of their being with a suitable birthday gift. In shape, a Chinese coffin resembles the trunk of a tree planed and carved "artisti cally." It is always made of the hardest wood to be obtained. Nothing is new under the sun. Twenty years ago there was a noiseless organ which perambulated London, and delighted us with its " unheard music," and now there is a pianino, or silent piano, "invented," which allows the player and those in his '' immediate vicinity to hear its discourse, 1 but it is inaudible at a little distance. ; What an Elysium does this hold forth to 1 those who are next door to a young ladies 1 school I For my part, I should not mind ' « a little music in the evening " conduoted i on this ravishing instrument, for the per ' feet enjoyment of which it would be only s necessary to stand near the door. i Vienna just now appears to be the centre < for romantic suicides. 'Within the last few > days a young lieutenant at Laxenburg, the t Crown Brin'ce - summer residence., has ghot [ himself,' owing to a love affair j a girl, of good migdle-class family, only nineteen j years of age, has thrown herself from a -1 third-floor window; and two lovers have 3 shot themselves in an hotel, leaving a . jvritten declaration to the effect that they t. 1 referred death in cad, other', arms to the

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2_, 1884.

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_ porting. A&i ... -ATx, <&iM&A^A:M£7£*» ROBIN HOOD'S GREAT NOVELTY COMPANY'S PROGRAMME OS TIIK MELBOt'ItSE AND KJEW .ZSA LAND CUPS, NOVEMBER, 1884, Is NOW OPEN with a Subscribed Capital of £10,000 in 20,000 Shares at 10s Each. 404 PRIZES, EACH SHARE HAVING ! CHANCES. To an Investor of 20s the odds are 23 to 1, and £3,110 may he won with One Ticket. MELBOURNE CUP. NEW ZEALAND 134 FRIZES. CUP. Ist Horse .. ..£2OOO 70 prizes. 2nd Horse.. .. 900 Ist Horse .. ..£IOOC 3rd Horse.. _ 160 2nd Horse.. .. 40C Starters (abont 3rd Horse.. .. 20C £33 each) .. 900 Starters (about Non-starters £27 each) .. 230 (about£l6each) 1750 Non-starters (about £11 each) 650 £6000 £2500 200 CASH BONDS. 2at£so _ _. £100 40at£10 _ 400 6at25 „ _ 150 146 at - _ _ 730 6at 20 .. „ 120 £1500 WILL CLOSE ON NOVEMBER |. 55,000 SHARES on various events have been sold by us since starling. Applications as usual. Two 2d Stamps tor Reply and Result Money Orders or Cheques marked Correct, with Is exchange added, preferred. If Coin or Bank Notes are sent, letters should be registered. Telegrams an_ Registered Letters Re ceived. Ten per cent, deducted from all Prize Monoyß, four per cent, of which isl given to agents who sell Tickets, or Clients who pur chase Books of Twenty-five Tickets each. Programmes, with Nominations and full par ticulars (of past, present, and future), forwarded post free on application. Agents'returns must reach, us not later than 31st October, or they will not be recognised. Address: "ROBIN HOOD," Care of T. STAPLETON, Box 238, P. 0., Ghristehurch, or JUBAL FLEMING. City Baths, Colombo street, Christchurch. N.B. — Although we send to Newspapers throughout New Zealand the Names and Addresses of Principal Winners in our Com pany, as many other consultationists advertise they do, we respectfully remind the Public and our Clients that our Books are at all times open for in. pection to any Subscriber. Information not confined to the Press. We consider each subscriber has an equal right of inspection. MELBOU_NE~CUP AND NEW ZEA LAND CUP. 1884. Both Run November 4th. A. NEM OS GRAND CONSULTATION - On the above event is now open, by 6,000 INVESTORS AT 10s EACH. __ Each ticket has two separate chances. To be divided as follows: Melbourne Cw, New Zealand Cup, £2,000. £1,000. Ist Horse .. ~£BOO Ist Horse .. _. £400 2nd Horse.. .. 400 2nd Horse.. .. 200 3rd Horse .. ..200 3rd Horse ~ ..100 Starters (div.) .. 200 Starters (dlv.) .. 100 Non-starters (div.) 400 Non-starters (div.) 200 Total.. £2,0001 Total.. £1,000 ONE TICKET CAN WIN £1,200. Application by Letter Only enclosing two Stamps for replies. If bank notes are sent, please use two envelopes, one sealed and placed inside the other. No telegrams or registered letters accepted. P.O. Orders when convenient. Addresß— A. NEMO, Care of F. Tomunson, Barrel Hotel. Paraell. THE FEDERAL CONSULTATION COMPANY Herewith Submit their NEW PROGRAMME ON the I»! EJi BOURNE CUP OF 1884, Rim first week in November. CAPITAL. f25,000. IN 25,000 Shares of £ 1 Each. Premoteiwr-JSas. McLeod, Esq., Melbourne ;■ Ux. Ford, Esq., Sydney; P. Ingram, Esq., iVth iW. J. Ersklno, Esq., Adelaide; J. F. Meßain, Esq., Brisbane: all genuine names and men of good standing. Promoters guarantee to take up first 1,000 shares, and have already sub scribed £1.000. 1000 PRIZES GUARANTEED. ' Plan of distribution. FirstHorso ..£2,500 100 Prizes of £50..£5,000 Second Horse .. 1,000 200Prij8sof 25,. 5,000 Third Horse .. 500 300,P__es6f 12.. 3,600 Starters divide.. 500 200 Pri.es of 5.. 1,000 Non-starters „ 5fW . IQO Prices o{ i.. 400 10 Prizes of fiaffl.. 5,000,1 Total ..£25,000 -fcePublio arc-respectfully requested to join the\ Promoters is the. above enterprise, the bona Jtcty of whiph is unquestionable. Money promptly turned should any subscriber wish. ty> withdraw before the drawing. Drawing fleld 3flth Ootobor next. Conducted publicly in presonce of Shareholders; representative., of Press admitted. Result posted, and advertised tn " Town and Country Journal." Send P. 0.0., Notes, Cheques, and 3d extra {or' Reply and Iti'sult (Registered if convenient), Write for Prospectus giving Julie-Particulars. Enclose self-addressed e%y. 9po« Address all Letters and ma .P att Orders payable to the Secretary, r_ Tiudttr;' ROBERT RAMSAY, Commission t Agen,t, im, George-street, Sydney. £10,000 -^5 £10,000 ij^* £10,000 i^y\_ 2Q_QPf),Membf!r&,atlo3. 2VL iT. < ' ■ ~rrrT "R ; rp MELBOURNE CUP, 1884 £ BTo be sua Tuesday, Nov. 4. -jj—« - Jo O Will Close 30th OCTOBER, 1884. O U — TJ -a 402-PRIZES —402 « jNJ 133 Nominations. 2bo Cash Prizes. ]SI E First '.. ..£3MU 4at 100 £400 -j-> Second ..1200 _bt 50 20Q Jt__ Third.. .. 600 10at 24 230 CStartors (dlv. 20 a. So 400 about£2sca.) 750 9&at 15 300 l_, XT- Non-Starters 20 at 10 200 ■££ I) (about£lCtoaJl«s lOOat J TOO U --, Slat 5 458 -^ . £7095 269 £2905 J" Ple_se send P.O. Orders when convenient, they 1 fcah at all times be traced if lost, thus protecting i sender. Two stamps required for replies, and One Shilling added, as exchange on count.; ohoquea, which roust be certified to as "Correct. Each ticket has Nino Chances, the Cup being diawn first, after which tho marbles are all re placed each time till tho Nino Drawings arc completed, thus giving one ticket tho chance of drawing Nine Prizes, Roan thl. I Names and Aiictresses of three ncdU filial principal Winners in Cup, and four principal Cash Prize Winners can be ob tamed by Subscribers on application, Drawing is attended by tho Pros, (members of tho Presi can freely inspect Ada's hooks). Managors o: papers at a distance can appoint a responsible agent in Dunedin, to whom all information wit be furnished, thus giving to Sflbsorlherß £ guarantee of the bona fide character of this Consultation, a coursenp.fttiter. ''Consultationist' pursues in Dunedin, Tiho pup of 1883 congistei of 18,000 Subscribers, \vl>o contributed £9000 Names pi Cpmiuitteb furnished to Press on ap plioaition.' ' ' Ida mantva, Care of Mr, Abraham, Box 351. , Post Office; Dunedin. -W>O(T "^ £10,000 AW JSIO.OOC \A.S- -A, Offers a Special Prize of £100! • Whioh amount has beon deposited with th Editor of Otago Witness, and will be paid.to.an; Eerson in New Zealand who can name $. place orses in Melbourne Cvp1, in tho arder as rac reported in Otago Witney. Esph lettor will b dated when received, aort' money paid to firs "tipster." ' Cqmrattfors not restricted to on trial, huLaao try as often as they please, and: is $oit eonmulsory to have tickots in Consult! tion, thus giving anyone the chance «S ej)._.i_in i the above valuable prize. In the oventQt winnci not being tipped, tho £1M wljl op equally d vidod between tho QteS- Benevolent Institutlo and Industrifil achool (Caveraham). ft will I observe^ ftafAda is disinterested, having plaa the money beygnd her control, any it must i !paid to s'oincbddy—hence her declining to recev tips herself, for she .vill npt accept any. Applications will be'received until _Jth 0& : and must he addressed, only to Sporting Edito: i Otago Witness, Dunedin. Please keep copy tip. Winner must apply lor prize within oi month after race, 3 A LEO'S CO^SCLTATIOI ' ____.• LIST No. 1. ON THE •; t MELBOURNE COP, 1884 2000 INVESTORS AT £1 BACH. 2,000 lr> T v o^o ° dlvidcdM follows I , FirstHors. " '30(1 Second Horse " " 100 I Sw&S anl Nen-Starters-iDivided) " _6M Toto l - -.*2.«K> ' It Is partic-'arlv requested that SUfUr^K; , cation for Shares will be made, as No. 2 Lll wIS be opened immediately this one is filled. ' Rcsulti will be forwii_ie- to Subscribers in ; i mediately after IKawlng. ,_„„„», ! Any SubSfcrfber drawing a Horse can invest 1 I ! Na 2 List to th-ambunt'of Four Pounds withoi j j further payment, that amount to be. aedncw from prize monoy. ' .... r, : The Drawing will be cond-eted lay *£_* ' ,mittee, to v;h«!. th° VnBB will be Invited attend. , . _ , 1 Application by Letter ont.y, enclosing T. 3 1 Stamps.'with exchange on Cheques, or by Mon ' OrdeT, Rank Notes, or Drafts. Register. 9 Letters or Telegrams will not on any accou t be received. It Rank Notes are sent, please v _ two envelopes, one sealed aod placed inside t 1 other. P.O. Orders preferred when procurab a it will greatly expedite business if anaddress a envelopeisenclosalwith'application, . * Should it bo deemed advisable af tcs Aocei c ancesarepubl_hedtorearraM..oPr^ainE a Nrt. 2. the same will be notified by circular ai y advertisement aV.*__ED JS_D;



Sporting. 3 j rjSTK '.LESLEY'S CONSULTATION: !VV .. 1.-ait-LBOURN- CUP, 1884. oj »,C . ICKF "VAT 10s EACH, '. f I..VIDEO A. FOLLOWS: l.tHorse ...£..o| Starters '; £30$ 2nd Horse ..„_ 150 Non-Starters......Boßl 3rd Horse 100 '.'--. I m.O: ' Apply by letter only, e_cln_:n~ two sUniltf lor reply and result, to A. WELLE?LKY, _S Care Chas. F. Andrews, Tolwoconist, Wei.] lesley Billiard Hooms. .\ .lloslej -street, Auek'; land. -j TVfB LBbUENE CUP, 1884.^ ADAM BEBE IS NOW FORMING! A SERIES OF COM- - PANIES ON THE ABOVE GREAT EVENT. 2.000 INVESTORS AT £1 EACH. ' To be divided as follows :— First Horse _ „_I,OOO -'A, Seoond Horse _ - _. _ 200 iv Third Horse _ _ _ „ 100 1> Other Starters (divided) _ _ SOO o. Non-starters (divided)_. „ .. 400 ■' :.■;- Total _ J «. • ..<;2,000 .>! It is particularly requested that early applica-jjE lion tor shares will be made, as each list willbeTS drawn as soon as filled. Results will be _or_S wnrdod to Subscribers immediately after draiv- I ing, and tho next list proceeded with. ■.' Any Subscriber drawing a horso in any listj< will be allowed, it he so desires it, to investing tho following list any sum not exceeding Threei-fe Pounds without remitting any further cash,this io amount to be ultimately deducted from prize f money. The acceptances for this race are declared in * August. Before that date, all Drawings will I contain the whole of tho horses entered, andif every horse will reoeive a prize, hut after that: 1 dato tho accki'toks only will be drawn. 1 . ■.-„. NO. 1 NOW OPEN. Application by Letter only, enclosing Two*s Stamps with exchange on Cheques, or by Money S Order, Bank Notes, or Draughts. Registered I Letters or Telegrams will not on any account; bo received. If bank notes are sent, please use-5' two envelopes, one sealed and placed inside the l other. P.O. Orders preferred when procurable a] It will greatly expadite business if an addressed ■« envelope is enolosed with application. Address— ■ I ADAM BEDE, Care of H. N. ABBOTT, BOX NO. 2. PoST-OS-lOg. ApCEt-IS-). FIDELITY COMPANY'S.! ANNUAL PROGRAMME v>,.f_ ON THE "''•-;'».>SS MELBOURNE CUP. To be Run atJMolbourne on 4th NOVEMBER.,i 12,000 Programmes at ICb. '*■ 133 Horses and 195 New Zealand Bonda, divided -1 as follows:— % First Horse .. ... .. „ ..£I,OOO Second Horse., _ „• _ _, 800 -j Third Horse ~ .. „ „ ..310 Others diyw«d _ «. _ „ I.IUO Total for Horses £3,0.0 ! 10 New Zealand Bonds at ClOOeaoh.. £1.00(1 - 10 do do 50 do ... . -50. MB 25 do do 20 do. .. 600 fsd 50 da do 10 do .. 500 ',' 100 do do sdo ... 50(1 ,' 19S Bonds. Total.. £3,000 7 Total Amount of Prizes, £6,000. A.'iM Will CLOSE on or abont 30th OCTOBER. ' EACH Ms Vouoher has SIX CHANCES. ',';« 328 PRIZES. 328 . ■ 12,000 Programmes at 10s. ' • Please add stamps for reply and result i3S"Remittances can he sent as follows r—- , 1. Cheques, P.O. Orders, or Bank Notes. - 2. Make crossed cheques, with Is add ed for ox- - change, payable either to a No. or simply to ' hearer, as printed, but not to any particular person. If cheques or bank drafts are payable i either to a particular person or to order, they'll will be returned to the sender. 1 .'M 3. Post-office Orders may he sent, but ttteyl^ must be mado payable to Fidelity Company ' only, and not to any particular person, 1. Registered letters or telegrams CAmnot b_« replied to. --- -XH ! Address only as below :— FIDELITY COMPANY; J ffl Care of Alfred A. Cameron's Box, 251,' Post-office, Duaedin.' '■' _ Medical. i K-OLD'S BALSAM O. 'HOllt-. nOUNl>'j f\ UXOLO'S BAL'jAM \IV H " M' M) ii -ltNOLi)'- BAl.3A._i OF HOlilU-IOUNL.". A Pure; Ymiv,tabi.b Extuact. , v The Best KeiE,i _y Cor Shortness of Breath, j Nothing 60 oV:'Ck'J' oures Courtis, Bronchitis,;;? Aslhma, J*j»s or Voice, In uen_a, and Weal-s|! Uhest, s*s this Balsam, Where children having,(i >Vhij,»_irig Cough or are liahle to. Croup, alwajaf* •ieeji it in the house. A single dose quietens Psm fives relief. A small bottle often cures. Thisla!| lie best expcct'jrantnow in use; rapidly relieves:."! 'ho bronchial tubes by dissolving the congealed^.': phlegm. Ctvr-_ully observe name of solo _ua-y prictor and manufacturer on label and wrapper,-H JAMES BRINSMKAD,Chemist, / «;i St Kilda, Melbourne. - ; iKNOLD'S BALSAM OF HOR_-HOTJ_li« ; Ask for " Arnold's," una get it. Spurious ,;.[ imitations aro sometimes offered. • I .RNOLD'd BAi-SAM OF HOREHO"JNO 4 'ARNOLD'S BAI-51M OF HORKP.OHN«a i ARNOLD'S BALS.AM OF HORF,HOUNO| Sold by all Chemists throughout i New Zualand. Wholesalß Agents—Thk New Z____n> Di_ll« COMl'-AKY. Retail Aickin, H The Pharmacy, Queeer i . a t rM t, Auckland. STEED_r_J_>j| SOOTHING POWDERS' _j: ' FOR ■ 1 OP_jOJ)REN CUTTING ______ ' OAUTIOIf TO -UECHASBBS. '; The value of thin well-known Family MedleinJS; has been largely tested in all parts of the world, < and by all gradeß of sooiety, lor upwards" :oM fifty yeahs. li_9 well-earned extensive sale j has induced spumous imitations, some' ofn which in outward appeabanohi bo .olttswfjjf resemble the original as to have deceived _uuw& purchasers. The proprietor, therefore, leeUriE} due to the public to give a special cantloa; arainst the use of such imitations. ■ '"J Purchasers are therefore requested caifofttllw to observe the four following distinctive char;;] acteristics, without which none are genuine :-.S Ist—ln every case the words John Stibjewj man, Chemist, Walwohth, Bui____r, aree^ji graved on the Government Stamp affixed ■ t«j«,| each packet. , ;'<'_X 2nd—Each Single Powder has directions fori the dose, and the words John Steedmanv1 Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, printed thereon.1-1■ > 3rd—The name S teedman is always spelt with : two EE's. .-■'.' V)J;i; 4th—The manufacture Is carried on solely u»| '■ VValworth, Surrey, _~ '"- - I Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Mediqim»| • Vendors, at Is l.d. to 2s 3d each. • I ; Agents: KSMPvnoitNE, Prosser anij Cqii} i vuckland, Wellington. _>>»''»><.u_eh, ' 'ami f lunedin. ..'' j ; - gj . r-r_ 1 i Coaches. AA ! 1.-.—: . --|; aOLLIS AND CO.'S LINE .OB*' COACHES, j,. , M ALTERATION OF TIME LX. . ,',;. ---_)ave Onshunoa . Leavb Auoi_-i_ri>| . Mauukau Hotel). - (aroyhouncV Itoteli ) ..0 a.m. / 8.45 a.m. *l. ' ..30a.tr. -. 9.45 a.m. . ,'i 9.0 a.m. ~ si 1...30 a.m. ■ .'" 0.30 ojifc. ' *. H-0 a-'" lft..ft^W. ._ 12.15 noon- V>, »«■_ &\\.. 1.0p.w. . - I 11.15 noon .0 1.30 p.m. 12.15 p.m. .»o ._.op.m r t . 1.0 p.m,,. a.a 2.15 crli. L&'jM, rSH S.lsp.m. ', ' ; 2.'_ ;,.m. S5 4.(1 p.m. _ ..'l-.m. ' 2cS 4.30 p.m. it 8.30 p.m. t _ Mvvn- 4. ? 4.0 11.111. „Ss_ 630 p.m. •) it *.op.ra. *a d ii.il U' 1- s..<tip.m. S^-j G3-ip..i. •■ S Monday, d.O p.m. K'So Monday a, U.Op.ui,, •■s Satunt-i.ys. ".»p.m, S2s Saturdays. 10 v-aiS I- 6.30 p.m. Ma,H 11p.m. :.U ■n SSunuays. SustiAYSt •'; ";J| ie B.:toa,tn. 10.011.11_, ■'; ."A d 12 noon 2.0p,m. " ti( ie 4.30 p.m. 6.op.;_t v.. ye HOLLIS & CO., PAp'.etors.y t.. — '■ —- -~ oi OOYAL MAIL LINE OF CO ACT X* 10 JL\i —~»— . iff ALTERATION O- TIME-TABL _ Iho Royal Mail Coach Icarryt■..■ v>*wf*~f. will, on and after 6th October. ISS3, v "\}'J» further notloo, run to tho foUowmg UM_ : rlSe Cambridge forHamUton Junction Kstit . way Station daily at 8.15 _m.; returning Irote *' Ste&o_t<)C-mb_dgoon arrival of Train from Leave" Hamilton for To Aroha on Mondaj^; Wednesdays, and Fridays on arrival of TrSal rrom Auckland; returning from Te Aroha Wj _ÜBsdaya, Thursdays, and Saturdays,at 7 ai'^B catching the2o'clock Traia at Hamilton J,i|nß; Uoa for Auckland. BOOB3NB O_T.IC_S I . Gv-ynno's Hotel, Hamilton West; Coleman'l 1 Hotel Ye Aroha; andatmy Premises, KirkwooS and Laae-streo-SjOambridge. W. K. OjS_RTER, Proprletotl 1- Cambridga. October 1883. __ Passengers Booked, at H. H. Hayr aaaH VtoL rt High-street, Aucklan ,j; '■* ~ : a mELBOKAPH LINE OB COACHES 10 IMPORTANT NOTICE ¥0 TOURISTS vo AND OTHERS. i c? W. K. Carter bees to announce that oh.ar. z _ after TT;ESDA"S,«2»th January,. ISBI, he wJp nt Run a Coach through to the Hot Lakes, Ohltte ?e tnutu (conveying Passeiiiiers and Parcels); I*B. hfl isg Cambridge on TUESDAYS and Ti£.U^s le,# DAYS, at 7 a.m., returning from the Lakss <i) b* 1 WEDNESDAYS and FRIDAYS, at 7a.m.: |g Single Fares, £115s ,• or Return -ickets. aviijl '*" able for one week after date of; issue. £i. 1° All Passengers to be Booked. at, th«ti^W| r, Ihii-Kics mid Saddle _oreo«_.._fo' I*_rrt|JßH f.. ___-__^_t>pedi-^iMi_Jrji!alii-lifc________B-W