A CORSICAN VENDETTA

By C. A. GUNTER,

I ' The Successful American Playwright,

CHAPTER XVI.

LOVE'S BATTLI'

There are some joys so glorious they can hardly be imagined.

As the girl turns her faco towards this man, even the world seems to change to her and become another and a brighter one. The sea that was sombre sparkles in the sun's rays, tho sky that was leaden is as blue and clear as "painters give to that of Italy; and tho modern garden, with its light, frivolous loungers and gaudily decked women, its earthly orchestra play ini>-a Hush French melody, is as Eden with cefe.stial choirs .singing it .paean of joy. This feeling comes into her face, and makes it very beautiful. Ans.ti-uther gazes at her with ;i look of amazed admiration, and cries: "You arc

happy to nee me."' '• Happy ''.—• -Gerard !" Tho lh\sb is a, cry of astonished eestacy ; the last end!" in a sigh of abject misery. Tho light fades from her face, the world becomes a world of gloom once more, for Marina feels that tho presence of thus man-who could, but whom she has decreed shall not, make her happy—will but add to the agony of her struggle and her despair. She falters, trembles, and almost_ falls ; gives a golden opportunity for coming on good terms with her ab once, of which Barnes would have taken advantage, and bestowed upon her tempting waist a deli cate pressure that would have done his battle no harm : but Edwin, who had been at sea a great portion of his time, and has that immense respect that all good men have for women, until they know them well enough to discover that Eve is hidden jn most of them, lets hia-chance go by, and merely says : "Forgive me; I have startled you !" For a moment she does nob reply to this, and he stands inactive and lets this volcanic creature cover her raging tiro with a little glacial ice, until she can utter slowly but coolly: "You surprised me at first! — Alexandria and Monte Carlo are so far apart. 1 had forgotten you English nre such traveller.-;. You came to see your sister! presume, Monsieur An-stru-ther !" She struggles a little with the last word, as if she had pronounced it, seldom. "You make bad work of my family name," he .says, " Won't you coino back to old times and the old name '.'' " The old name !" " Yes ; the one you used to call me by when you came eaoh morning to tho Kgyp tian hospital to see I was not dead. The one you uttered when you lirst saw me here — Gerard !"

Mr Anstmther has steadied himself, and is now doing good'work. Hβ has made up his mind to iight a great, square, honest battle for the happiness of his life ; and, though it will not have the delicate touches and quaint skill of fence with which Mr Barnes would have embellished it, still it is a kind of attack that always wins where a woman loves ; and, in this case, iv would be & dashing victory in one round, but for the girl having grown to regard her oath of vengeance on her brother's slayer as a sort of holy mission, for which she must, like tho palmer of old, give up home and friends, and even love and happiness, He gains a little advantage from his speech. The remembrance of Egypt melts some of the artificial ico the girl hai put about her. She answers, " Yes—Gerard, I remember," holds out a tiny hand, which he clasps, and when she would withdraw it, has sense enough to clasp it tighter. His touch overcomes her ; her head droops.

" Now 1 can call you Marina, as in those happy days in Alexandria," ho whispcra. If ere a sudden resolution comes to tho Corsican ; she will again flee from this man, who will make her forget her oath. She raise 3 her head, though there are tears in her eyes, looks him fairly in the face, and manages to say : " Yon must let mo go. I have'the afternoon train to take; I am leaving Monte Carlo !" "What? When I have just found you, after seeking for you a year i" " I must !" "Very -well!" ho replies sadly, relin quishing her hand, " lam afraid my coming lias driven you away !" " Oh ! jWfc say that !—fiood-byc !" She turns and gets a little away from him. He has not answered her adieu—ho thinks her cruel to him; she faltern and turns to have one more look at the being she adores, but flies from. This look is her undoing. Edwin, gazing after her as ono does upon his last dying hope, sees, within her eyes, something that makes hope live. The next instant ho is at her side again. "Won'tyou say good-bye to me':" .she falters. "No!" "No?" "No!. For I am going with you .'" This is a tender touch worthy of Barnes. With these words come to Marina visions of DaneUa plotting with her the murder, and this man discovering it; this man, who has been educated to despise an assassin ; this man, whose good opinion is more to her than all the world's. " No ! No !" she cries, "you must leave me." " Not till you have heard me !" "As you are a gentleman, you must go !" "As I am a man lighting for my happi ness, not till you have answered my ques tion !' "As you will! What is it?" she says, forcing herself to be calm ; then looks at the gloom of the evening that is beginning to make the garden dark, and murmurs : " I can give you ten minutes !" "Ten seconds will be enough forme. I once hoped, prayed, thought that you loved me. Tell me was I mistaken ':" She does not answer this ; but, in her face, which is turned towards the earth, joy is conquering grief. Her beautiful features are flushed; her eyes are begin ning to beam with a strange light ; the volcano of her passion is on the eve of an eruption. " Do you love me ?" he goes on in rapid intensity. " Look me in the face and tell me do yon love me ? Though it breaks my heart if you say no ; if you even shake your head, I will believe you. If you had not fled from me in Egypt I would have asked you then. Now, alter 1 have sought for you so long, look me in the face, sweetheart, and tell me do you love me ?" The eruption takes place ! The repressed passion of a yearat last comes from her lips, " Do I love you, Gerard ? I love you better than my soul!" She can say no more, for she is in the, arms that she has nursed to strength, sob bing as if her heart would break. Marina is now a miracle of tenderness. Being conquered by love, she gives way to it with that charming abandon and those graceful arts of endearment peculiar to the women of the South. And so the minutes run along, until Anstruther murmurs in the delicate ear nestled against his cheek for the hundredth time : " Do you love me ?" She whispers back : " You cannot doubt that now." " Then, sweetheart, when will you marry me?" At this shostarts and struggles from his arms, and cries, in the voice of despair, " Never !" , 11 Never I' , he echoes with a paleface, " Never ? and you love mo V* **I adore you better than my life, but I will never see your face again !" and with i these astounding , words she darts from him into the darkness* j

For a second ho is stunned, but -the next instant follows and tries to find her, but in the gloom of the evening immediate pur suit is useless. He stands considering for a moment, then turns to a lamp and con sults his watch. It is past the time of the out-going train ; until another departs she must remain in Monte Carlo. _ If she is at a villa, she may ' baflle him; if she is at an hotel, ho will find her. He runs to the Casino and despatches one of the servants of the house, with Marina's name, to discover if she is registeied at any of the hotels While the man is gone he stands thinking if this is not a dream, or the ravings of a disordered brain that has brooded too much over the fir! who has filled his mind ever since she ed from him to Egypt. But no, the soft impress of her lips still lingers upon his ; the perfume from her dress is still about him. Here another fear darts through his mind. What if she should leave Monte Carlo by carriage !" Ho must send word to all tho public stables to notify him if they receive an order from Mademoiselle T'aoli. Ho is just about to make such an arrange , menli when the servant brings him word that the young lady in registered at the Grand Hotel.

He rushes there and iiuds that Mademoi selle Puoli lias ordgreel a carriage to be ready to take her to Nice that night; a little more delay and liv would have missed her.

Ho knows that) his card will be refused, and walks u|> to her apartments himself. Ho knocks at Marina's parlour door and there is no answer : then, listening, hears a subdued sound that makes him sigh. He raps again several times unanswered, and then calls through the panel: " Before you Co I must see you !" After a moment a reply comes in Marina's voice ; '' You may pursue me for ever, but you shall not look on me again !' " You will not open the door?"

" Never!"

• ( Very well, I shall wait in the hall until you come out, and speak to you then ; and, if you will not listen to me there, J shall follow your carriage to Nice, and again de mand an interview, and so on, till you or I die !"

"Then I shall not leave my apartments till morning !"' " In that case I shall remain here all night to see that you do not escape me !" Here a piteous voice comes to him — "Gerard, why do you add to my misery? ]do away ! Leave me, 1 beg of you, as you j ft re a gentleman !" J "As lam a man, 1 stay here !" Ho gets ;no further answer, and .stands waiting ; for j Edwin Anstruther, now that lie knows hiw j sweetheart loves him, is like v lion that has j tasted blood and longs for more. It is i'ear i fully tedious in the dreary hall, when there :is bin. a little door that he could easily break down with his foot between him and the being for whose presence lie hungers, I Bub he i.s accustomed to taking his watch I nb night on shipboard, and he paces the cor j ridor as ho would his quartor-deok. And so an hour poshes, when Hie who is panting behind that door, like a hunted creature in its lair, watching for tho hound to tire in j his vigil and leave her a pathway to escape, j speaks to him again. " Yon are still there ! Gerard, have mercy, and let me go !" " Not till I see you." " 1 cannot bear that you should make yourself unhappy for me in thia cruel way. I Go, for God's .sake !" " For yours I will stay." His persistency tortures, nay, almost I angers her. She will sco him—she will crush any feeling of hope In this man who I insists on pursuing her. In this resolution ! Marina hurriedly throws over her disluibillo ! (for blio has preparing , to dress for her journey) a. light morning robe, opens her parlour door, and cries, "Entorl Ask me what you will—aud then—in mercy to me— go !" ) " Then, in mercy to me, answer my ques tions?" And before hoi , in a man whose passion, being now aroused, has all tho fervour of the Southern, but still retains tho steadfast resolution of his Northern nice. A man who may be made to despise her and so give her up, but who, as long as he thinks she loves him, can no more be shaken off by her than a deer can throw oft" the lion who has struck it down. In fact, Anstruther looks to her now as j stern and terrible an that king of beasts, as j he gives her a glanoo that makes her cower, j for he is fearfully angry as well aw fearfully lin love with this beautiful oreaturo who j tortures him. She returns him a little broken-heartedsmilo,andsaye, tremulously, '• Ask them." " Very well," he replies. " Yon tell me I that you have me, and yet «ay you will never l marry me. What reason have you to dare I to tell me that ?" " What right have you to dare to ask me that?" " The right you gave me when yon eaid you loved me. Dare to tell me those kisses were a shame on your womanhood and a fraud upon my manhood—deny that you are a true woman, and I ask no more." This is a terrible speech for Murina ; she knows now she must either toll him why she refuses to give herself where she has given her heart, or let him think her a flirt, a coquette, or even worse, and so despise her —and let her go. His content is not to be borne for an instant. She cries proudly: "Gerard, I love you ! My kieses were as 1 i true as ever woman gave to man ; but I—l j cannot marry you." \ : "Cannot many me 1 Are you the wife I of another ?" I "No." I "Thank God!" J "And I will never marry anyone but you. That I swear—if that will make you happy." * " Happy—when after to-night I am never to see your face again ? Happy*-when you love me and will not be mine ?' And Edwin seizes this woman in his arms, whose beauty i and whose love madden him ; for if Marina I had hoped to bind him to her for ever she ! could not have looked more enchanting than she does now, as her bare white arms flash out of the dress that drapes tho exqui site undulations of her graceful form, and close in pitying tenderness around the neck of this man she had sworn to herself she would never see again. He looks closely at her a moment, and then shudders. " There is despair in your face?" for her eyes are filled with that same hopeless agony that makes Guido's head of Beatrice Cenci the saddest painting upon earth. " Despair !" she cries, " despair for you I Despair for me ! Adovalo mio, 1 love you— but I leave you !" (t Let me understand you," he says, forc ing himself to be calmer; " were it riot for an obstacle, you would marry me ?"

" With all my soul. Oh, I should so like to be happy." "Then you shall be." " I cannot—l dare not."

" You shall he, ! Tell me what stands between you and me, and I will destroy it."

'' Nevei-. You would condemn." At this he seizes her, looks her in the eyes, then laughs, and says "Condemn? You, couldn't do anything , very wrong if yqu tried. Dear one, you were an angel in Alexandria, you could not bo anything else in France."

His confidence makes him dearer than ever to her; she will never tell him what may coat her his respect. "Now," he says, "I will know what is destroying our happiness." " Never ! It is a matter of tny conscience. I do not tell it to the holy father who con fesses me."

'.VWould he give you absolution if you did ?" This is a terrible question; she droops her head. " Ah ! you are ashamed of it ?" "No," she cries, "I am proud of it— 4 oh ! how cruel you are»" "Cruel 1. To youl" and lie has her in his arms again, "Oh! my love. IV

member that you had no right to, resurrect, by your tender nursing, my life in hgyjib, to make it unhappy for ever afterwards. This view of the matter affects her more than anything ho has said; Bhe begins to falter and hesitate, and whispers: I— I did not know you loved me so much ; that I would make you so unhappy. I— I will consider." "Then it is a matter of your You could be my wife if you would ?'

"Y-e-s." ~ v " Then you shall be. 1 swear it. You love me. I have no fear." Slio looks at him—hope is in hieiaee; she knows he is. conquering her, breaks from him, springs to the door of her bed room, and there cries, " Leave mo ! I can tell you no more. Leave me alone, and let me fight the battle out between my duty and my love !" , " But my answer," saye Anstruther, fol lowing her. " To-morrow ! Gerard ! l>on b comemear me," and she struggles from him and pants, " Don't Uaro to kiea me—you fight your battle too strongly with them, 1 love you rtj — Keep away ! — Give my vow one chance 1" ■ t n " Your vow? What vow , / "That you shall never know." " That 1 will know, unless to-morrow you will promise to be my wife. Do you sup pose I will liavo my life ruined and not the reason of it ?" " Have I not told you you shall have my answer to-morrow?" '•From your own lips." " No—by letter." " From your own lips !—Promise." "And if nob?" " I wait in that hall so that you do not fly from me." "All night?" " Yes; and all day too—to win you." " Oh, Gerard ! You foolish one. But I promise to tell my answer to your faco as I epeak now." "To-morrow?" " Yes. Go." He makes no effort to caress her, but simply says : " To-morrow," and is going away, looking very solemn and somewhat downhearted. She cannot bear to see him uuhappy ; she knows chat $he can never re fuse him now, though she will not answer him to-nipht. She calls him back to her and cays: "When yoxt get downstairs tell Totnasso, my servant, he may send the carriage away. I will not leave Monaco for a week." '• For a week?" cries Anstruther with a ring of joy in his voice. " Yes ; you're not going away, ore you ':" " J no—-I—what do you mean '! Is this your answer ?" "No. 1 muHfc bury my vow—before that. No answer till to- morrow; but, good of my life, take this one Ids*, and think perhaps God will let me mako you happy. Bhe holds up her lips to his ; but, when he would keep her longer, breaks from him and runs into her room; then locks tho door and walks the floor wringing her hands like one possessed. Some time afterwards old Tomaieo brings her a telegram, and she reads : — I hnvc found tho man! Ho ia near us. where we can reach him. Bo happy! Danhixa. Ab tble hlio utters ft cry of battled rafre. Vengeance ie at hand ; but eho cannot take it without milking the man she loves des pair, for Gerard'a wife must have no vow of the Vendetta on her eonl. Thon eho staggers to her brother's picture and bepe, "Let us bo happy ! It was your wish, beloved one, that I should not remember t" and hero suddenly erica, " Antonio, forgive me J I, your sister, have betrayed you ! Your face makes mo ashamed !" turns his jMottiro to tho wall, and einks down to pray to God to take the Coreican out of her huurt and mako her worthy to be Gerard's wife !

Anstruther, whose battle thie girl is fight- Ing against her tradition*, the faith of her wild race, and the vow that she hud made her household god, comes down from tho interview with a serious but happy face, and v inomeut after mutters to himself: "George! how I must love her; I'veforgotten my dinner!" Then looking at his watch finds it is justs time for supper, to which he goes humming a merry tune, "To the victors belong the spoils."

{To be continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EYEKINu-STAR,*-THCRSI>A*< -iHfICEMBER 28.- 1881. -■

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Business Notices. ■ Established 1859. GEE & rOTTEII, COACHBUILDERS, LORNE AND KUTLANfI-STBttKTS. Coachea, Carriages, Waggonettes, Buggies, Pony Carriages, Carte, Drays, and erery de- Bcriptlon of vehiclea kept in stock, or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B.—Traps lent to customers whilst repairs ere being executed, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STRKET, Has now convenience for making and repair- Ing of Jewellery and for the repairs of every description of Watches. Chronometers, &c, &c, and to further increase his repairing and inanu-j factoring department, ho is disposing.of the, remainder of lus PIANOS at and under cont. Persons having old gold jewellery can have it] nrndc up into new and fashionable articles to order, and all the better class of watches and chronometer receive iJia personal eupor vision, j liotberhama' Genuine stock. 7TOTO B A T H \JC to ROTH'S PUBLIC HjuT, COLD, AND FHOWER BATHS, VjotomA'STßEet East. Chargo-UNB SHILLING. Open all weekdnye from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and BIINDAY MORN INGS from 6 till 10a.m. The bath-roome are all private, and supplied with every convenience, Turkish Towels, flesh and hair brushes, combs, respirators, soaps, etc. Select Bath-rooms (orivate) for ladies every day at all hours, with female attendance. One Shilling and Sixpence. Please note the address—Victoria-street East, « above the Greyhound Hotel, and next the Clusap Bedding and Furniture Mart, Auckland. N. 8,: Barber in attendance. m 17 he t~~h; JL • BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, Uppkk Symonds-stkekt, Makes it his pr ncipal aim to supply Boots and Shoes of the best material and solid workman shio at the lowest Ca*h Prices, thus giving real satisfaction to his numerous customers. T.B.H. does not mako or sell the loweet grades, which are dear at any price, but keops on hand a largo and well assorted stock o English, French, and German goods, together with Colonial goods of our manufacture, for qtialiry and price unsurpassed. INVENTIONS and TRADE MARKS registered in all parts. All drawings, etc., accurately prepared at the International Agency. Offices: Hill's Chambers, Queen-street. ED WI -» JONES (Late B. and A. Jones), House, Furnishing, and General IRONMONGER, Ponsonby Road and Pompallier Terrace, Auckland, N.Z. A.(rent for the Phoenix Fire Office. Advejs.aement Agect foe Auckland Evsxikg Star. Foet-ofllee Savings Bank, Money Order Office. Telegraph Statiou, Telephone Burejiu. -pAPERHANOINGS. w. phillipFs & son . Have received, ex late arrivals, 185-PACKAGES-ISS ~ : Containing 55,000 ROLLS OF PAPERHANGINGS. Consisting of . NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bod Rooms, Hall j and Staircase, suitable for'the , Mansion or Cottage. vpt\ Beautiful Designs, and beet value eyet j offered in ~T < ., 916-PACKAGES-916 * ? " ; | SCRIMS AND HESSIANS, Plate and Sheet Glass. White Lead. OjJfl, j Turpa, Varnishes, and all Trade Sundries, j W. PHILLIPPS & SON, J % AND 97, QOESK-STJUBKO!. Tji IS HER 4 ; '* O O« JD WHOI4MAJJESHIPPINO AND ' B U T C HER S -J-. - Established 1864. ' By Special Appointment to His Excellency the Governor, Mir W. F. Jervois; HislSxcolleacy Sir James Ferg:ueon! and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; also, Kapha Butchera to the sQOkBN-eTKBKT, AUCKLAND, N,& Families waited on in To wn or Suburb* POULTRY of all kinds DRESSBID to ORDER. ; Dealers in Game : .':- , :"" ,J Home-cured Hams and Bacon 1 Corned Beef in Large Quantity. ! Imports of Sausage Casings i The Trade Supplied N.8.-Calves' Renneta, B5&. Customers Supplied with Ice. - Telephone No. 353. P.O. Box No. 431 BT A P POINT-'**»"» !^l "**»^Oi> r M EN T TO I 1113 EXOBLIBSCr THB QOTEBNOR. mHAMES. CARRIAGE AND DRAY X ■ FACTORY, VICTORIA-BTREB.T EAST AND. ..; ' HIGH-STREET, AUCKLAND. \ <■;... IXelephoue, 308. JAMES MACKIE, Coachbuildkb, ■ -0 MANAGER. Builder of every description of Vehicles. Repairs in all the branches of the trade faithfully executed. .' Vehicles Boujjht and Sold on Commission. j Coachbuilders' Requisites in atook. The Trade ; -', :..!, •- t-: Supplied. v ',-,! l> -iJ ■ Country Orders punctually attended to" j Cash Customera liberally dealt with. j mHE CITY OF AUCKLAND DYEING X AND CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT, Richmond, and WKtLEaLEY-sTKEET East [Established A.D. 1864.1 A large stock of Newest Dyes for the most fashionable colours in Shawls, Opera Cloaks, Babies' Dressee, Feathers, etc. Silk and Satin Dresses Cleaned or Dyed, well finished. Ostrich Feathers Cleaned or Dyed any shade, well curled. Gentlemen's Cothinp; Cleaned. Renewed, Dred, well Pressed, and neatly Repaired at short notice. Orders left at the City Establishment, Wellesley streot East, will meet with prompt attention. Ladies and Gentlemen waited upon by leaving their address, personally or by post. Latest importations. Sheepskins Cured, Cleaned, or Dyed. W. EDGAR .. .... Proprietor. J, J. SWINNERTON, WOOD TURNER, Wyndham-strket,. Established 1866. A reduction of 25 tier'cent , on all common work. Billiard Balls Exchanged. Special care given to Re-turning and Staining, Pool Pins, Marbles, and Chalk Pockets always on hand. pBOU , N B LIME! GROUND LIME For SAtte," SOUTH GATE'S MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCHE LIME In any quantity, for Concrete Paths, Floors. Collars, etc. Noxt to stone-flaKKing it is un rjvallod for durability and Lard-setting qualities. For tanks and other wee work it is a Ih-si-clasa material. b. keane, sole agent, cust6ms-street. W. L E V s> BOOKBINDER, PAPER RULER ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURER, Wyndham-btkekt. jnCRCKAKTS , ACCOUNT BOOKS, Insurance and Mining Register Books Specially Exiled and Bound, Music, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books 110-bound. , BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RULED W""*"" OLFE'S.SCHNAmi is sumi v*. ; *""";*. respectable publican. Accept no uum , ;



— -^^o^^ ' y 111 YOU CAN'T mn AFPOED I study true ISCONOMv U PractiS(J ThrfrV J BURNS'S Al SOAP. . .• '' "I/ , 'idS'-feu-® ftlIV •'■■ -' TIMES without using is ONOft llSAfe reverso the position and 'WUtfii T USE IT ONCE convincing the women o{E Zeffi^ : COJN'VIJNCfi 100. .: : ' ■ ' "-/"' ■ .'- ,i i, \ ' '\7r-s ■■'■'■■.:•'" ■■-^^ii-'-f?' A >Acl/ >»■«, •: ■' - 1 :;■.,- rif';.,-.'., : |: 1 *w4HV /"N jjfe , S? ■ »«* ■ ■"" WHOLESAIiTGENT-, A. BUCHANAN. CUSTOMS STREET EAS '~" ' r , -gjVITT, Q.UNMAKSR And Importer of every description of Ffreams," ' Ammunition, and Shooting Appliane by the best makers. CARTEIDGES.-^Sg^ are carefully loaded on the premta, ant< guaranteed beet material, . ~,,, FISHING TACR&J2. , ; "ETRTCWOTCTCSi AlwysiM stoeki a r ixvrj vv vjitjvo.— variety o£ Fireworks, imported by the advertiser fllroct from J. Pain, the celebrated PyratenhpiKt <!■■■ ■ SXILiXrJX±SXO. — Berrola Browne^. p$ every other kind of repair done to Fireartne. Guaranteed equal to the best EnjjlUJb ffWk. Prices reasonable, firecchloadera una Murak loaders chokeborcd. : , .■ ■ ■■■'! ■■;. . ' ."■■; -;; ; ij; ;-iv'. , D. EVI T T Gunmaker and Importer, 854, Queen-stwct, Auckland (opposite the Market House). (Established 1859] Price Jjsts free on application. m peacock, JLs OPTICIAN, Mathematical ANn Nautical IsstrW-M iIAKKK, SHORTLANO STRIfiT. Always in Stock— Spectacles and Eyeglasses of everr liind; aa ; , awurAtettteuarau.tccd Opora. Glasses of superior quality telescopes. Binocular Field Qlasaes. ar 1 .w-»" scopes, powerful and Bheap Theodolites. Mining Compasses. Abney Lews Drainaso Uvels, Pr!sniktio Gompaeses Drawins Instnimenlß,yoalea. Paralloil?fU|frf> Ships' L-)KS. Sextants, qoippassos. Baroriieters, Thermometers, Dydronjetcra Electric Bills, JBWteriefcA»d;Fltaßß» Magiietioand Gal vanl?.»«to»l K^S™ Magi • Lanterns and Slides. Hand Magnpis 3tt, oscopes and Slides. Graphqseppes Steam Guages and TUbing, Salioomctcts Just Received— Settlers Telescopes, portable. i#A Aneroid Barometers, Settlers' 4 Microscopes, nmgnlMng i,/::timc3, Al8o?lSnn and Electro Motor iKrMnffaWea ..and Steamersi '._■■■••' ■ ' ,;: . ;! ''.'' l '' Instruments of every fcind Repah ed« OPi'OSWB T»K POSTtOFWW* - •■■■ ~, '■-■ .• .- ■'. ■■:■■:-.!■■ '• ■ . _—__ ... ;, 'I. w- -j-*!*?- ,, .; iVi'.v.'.M T> I C N I C _^_ A B X E T fit *-' McLEOP BEOS. „ ; ' \ a™nnw oreDarea to make, at)jpw-»*#» Pjf,2js £fd m a theni jjgsK^SK Baskets from Js; ,f ExSwats. choose from. -•■■ :._ ' , MoLEOD BROS., THK AUCKLAND BASKET FACTORY, Albert-street (near YM.V.A.) rf , Amebic an COEN BROOM CO. EXMOUTH STREKI. KE woS AECOAL ' F * te no tTlata Titree,«d Puriri HP liapeßoad*^*-"