A CORSICAN VENDETTA.

By C. A. GUNTER,

The Successful American Playwright,

CHAPTER XII. (Continued.)

After play is over, for Enid canno be enticed away before, ami her admirer has a chance of a word with her—in fact is bid. cling her good-night afc the Grand Hotel— Barnes suddenly says, "Do you like gamb" lingi Miss Anstruthcr'.'"'

" 1 love it." cries the girl

" Then 1 advi.-c you to play no more.' , "And why not? l>o you fear I .shall squander my fortune and blow out; my brains like poor Yon Waldow, the German eludent? if I couldn't tosc care of my own there are trustees in England who grind me clown to my allowance.' . The re mark about trustees is made with some bitterness. "Certainly not! Bub the excitement «aftect3 your' spirits ; you exult too much when you win, and despair too much when you lose." " Oil, then I made a vulgar display of my passions ':" "Not at all!" replies Barnes, keeping his temper, for he sees Enid has tost soma of hers. " You know Ido not mean to in sinuate that; but to one who has known you R3 Ido " " Yes—three days !" He pays no attention to this remark. which Miss Anstruthev throws in with a sneering emphasis ; but goes on : '• You do not seeni exactly yourself. Remember, 1 speak to you as a friend !" "Of course! unpleasant advice always comes ttom/rhud" .'" A slight Interroga tion can be marked in the lady's voice. '• Besides"--here Barnes becomes very earnest—" the society of the table is not exactly proper for a "young girl like yon. Did you notice the woman who sat next, you —the woman you spoke to ? Of course, you did not know her face. It was that of the infamous La Belle Blackwood !" Barnes has lost his head, and loft himself open for a tremendous return shot, and he gets it. "But yov -did! Yes, and bowed to her, too, when you were in my company. Do you suppose I would have spoken to the creature unless yoU had guaranteed //«' % your bow ?' " I 1" murmurs Barnes, who had not ex pected this view of his conduct. " Yes," cries the young ludy, who is now thoroughly angry and will give no quarter : "and you" know her address in Paris, and told it to the cattle scoundrel: and fibbed about it, in very shame, .saying you had read it in the ' Figaro, , when I looked over every line of that paper, and it wasn't there. Oh ! it is noble in you to reproach we with having brushed past her in a crowd." " Very well," says Barnes, who concluded that ho had better not discuss La Belle Blackwood any more that evening:. " Con tinue to play, but remember that I warn you, you will regret it before threo days." " Will I? Not so much as you will recrret insulting me." And planting this Par thean arrow in her worshipper's heart with a very savage glance in her eyes, Miss An etruther rushes up the stairs and Hies to her room. As for Barnes, lie walks out into the moonlight, thinks it tho blackest night of the season, and .says, in a horrified way : "If 1 have lost her? She's nut an angel,

but 1 want; her more than all the nngelH fn Heaven. Then he. mutters to himself: " It' I don't win this battle she will despise me, and ' tho other one ' will get her! ; ' This seta him' tq , .deeply. He knows La Belle Blackwood too well not to know she will address Mis* Anstrubher ignin. She has fcbob eoH-nssertive diublery that loves to insult tin; world from which she is east out, and had made her infamy very famous by .several times fiuiiiahin" the Parisian journals with piquant little paragraphs in which her namo has been voupled with that of ladies of tho ymnd moiuie. Bamos makes up his mind tlmh by no lhaneo f-hnll this happen to the object of •)is devotion, so he walks off to the Hotel de Paris and sends yip his card to La Black wood ; and, while waiting , that Aspaeia's tnswer, Bee? to his joy a miserable little French dandy come Biieakinjr downstairs md go oft into the darkness. I have a card •hat'll fix Madame la. Diablo now, lie re 'locts, as he is shown to that lady's usurious apartments. La Blaekwood receives Barnes effusively. " Ah'! man cfier, ,, she pays, speaking be tween the puffs of a delieiously-ilavoured Russian cigarette, and half reclining in a languid feline manner in a sumptuous arm-chair, the blue satin of which is in ad mirable contrast to the delicate tint of her dress ; for she is in a masterpiece of Worth's, and looks as fresh as a violet after all her years of dissipation, "ilake yourself at home, my boy. Will yon have a glass of C'ftamertin, a cigarette, or both ?" "Neither, thank yon," replies the gentle man coolly. " Then take a chair. If you're not always thjrety you are always lazy." " Xot at present. I am here on business. Unpleasant business !" " You ! Business !" The lady opens her eyes in supieme surprise : " You never did any business before in your life." "Perhaps not, but I'm going to do a stroke to-night. You addressed this even ing at the Casino a young English girl ?" "Ah! The one with whom you are so much in love ! I can see you have always good taste !" Your charmer is here— alone f This last question is put with such a leering insinuation that if Barnes had any thought of sparing the miserable creature one pang in the interview he throws it away. "No!" he replies. "Had she been of yonr kind I should have nothing to say to yon on the matter. She is under tbe charge of Lady Chartris ; and you dared, to speak to her publicly this evening." "And why not, if I oai-ed to 5" "Because your addressing her/was an impertinence!" "Was itr says the lady, yawning politely in Mr Barnen's face; " then I shall be impertinent again tomorrow !" "Excuse me, you will not!" " And why not, nion cher ?" " Because yon are going to leave Monaco fco-morrow, morning before Miss Anstruther gets up." "And what makes you, think that, im becile?" says La Blaekwood, who is begin ning to get angry, though she likes Barnes in a general sort of way. "Because I am going to compel you to leave." "You? You are impertinently funny. Tell me how, j'ou idiot!" • "Because, if you don't, I shall tell Pvuggles that M. de Cravasse is here, and it won't take him long to find out who that gentleman is." "So you would betray me? she answers, for the cattle king's millions are at present an object to her. " But I shall not go, all the same. I love money a great deal, but I'll risk a break wifch-M. Ruggles to make you, unhappy, you miserable canailkola canaille nation !" and she lashes herself into a fury, and callg, Barnes and his —and her country too, for that matter — come very unpleasant names, for La Black wood has the. temper of,a.fiend when.slioal lows herself theluxury of giving it* on. out ing, which is pretty often, Mr Barnes, stands, before her and takes her invective, in. silence, but with a vei-y Ugly look-on Mβ fyce \ for he has flayed hw

card and lost. He had supposed the woman loved money more than all else, and ho now finds she likes her wickedness even better. Seeing he makes no move to go, she finishes in these words : "You come to me, a priestess of vice, and prate of virtue ; you who call yourself a man of the world, which means the .same as harlot in woman ! lon wish to shield your innocent miss; who is innocent because she is not old enough to have learnt vice ; and to protect her dainty exclusivouese, you insult me ! Fool ! you know f. always keep my word ; and I .swear to you if she comes to the Casino to-morrow I ivill Idas her ■lips—and if she resents it, which has the most to lose by scandal, your immaculate angel or ' La Belie Blackwood V And now, the door !" giving him an invita tion to go with a very impressive gesture of the hand. Barnes knows the woman will keep her word. To prevent Enid's going into the Casino involves an explanation that, in all probability may 00.-i, him-what be dares not contemplate ; for ho knows tho haughty pride of Miss Anstruthor. He almost stag gers from the room. But aw he goes out La Blackwood gives him a burst ot: mocking laughter, and cries after him, " My kiss won't hurt your baby; I was innocent myself once. A Hash of thought, and Mr Barnes comes back into her presence, and says shortly and in a hoarse voice, for ho is very des perate now, and will spare no man or woman to save tho girl lie loves from any scandal or annoyance : " Do you know a man named John Marshall Spotts, of Ores line, Ohio f

She gives a gasp ! . "Do you know ti woman named Martha Strowbridge Spotts of the .same place."

"My God!" " Within two weeks from this time there will be placed in their hands a portrait of you : a description of you, and your life and career taken from the Paris journals. Also a remark about that little scar upon the back of your fair neck. Yes, that one you put your hand to- the one you wear the lace to hide. I »o you think they will know ' La Belle Black wood'then?" "Oh, God! My mother! They think me dead! It will kill her!" And this woman who has fought her tight in all her pride of folly and wickedness, falls on the floor, and writhes and grovels at his feet, crying between her panting aobs, "Have mercy ! Have mercy !" " Then leave Monaco before nine 0 clock to-morrow morning, or you know 1 will keep my word !" Barnes leaves the miserable woman, confident that he has won his battle, and going to the hotel mutters a prayer—the first he !ias uttered for years— "That lie may win his idol yet!" which, being of a practical mind, becomes very like a petition to Providence that Miss Anstruther may have an awful run of bad luck at the roulette tables, and so be brought to bow down to him and acknow ledge him as her guardian angel price more. An event that is very likely to happen.

CHAPTER XII r.

BORHOW IT FUOM IUKSES.

The next morning Mr Barnes, who rises earlier than is his usual habit, strolls over to the Hotel do Paris and inquires for L:i Blackwood. Ho id informed by the clerk, with n .shrug of his French shoulders, that Madame has Cone. "Sho complained of

malaria ; malaria in Riviera

"AndM. Ruffglos?' "He has followed aftor her. Ho was

very angry : ho won swearing.' Barnes wondora whether the proprietor, who has a kindly greeting for him, would look upon him with so much complacency it ho knew that i< wan to his kind olhees he owed tlic loss of two of his most extravagant guests*. Ho goes over to fcho Grand Hotel and sees Enid and Marina vonio down to breakfast once inovo together; the two young ladies having discovered, perhajw, that they arc an excellent contrast : one dark and grand, the other fair and graceful. Mies Anstruther appears a picture of vivacious tenderness lv all in tlio party, save Barnes ; ehc Hguratively tickles Lady Chartris'e fat sides by one or two little km vict* from the Parisian newspapers, and compliments Maud on ft new dress, till that practical and outspoken infant gays mis picionnly : •" What do you want mo to do for you, Enid? You can't bribe me with words; I'm not Sir Barnes. Why haven't you spoken to him ? he's been looking at you for iivo minutes !" Thus compelled, Miaa Anstruthor says " <Jood morning !' to the object of her dis pleasure, in a frozen voice and with a glacial glance ; then, not waiting for his reply, rushes into an animated conversation with Marina that laste through break fast, trying to show how excitedly happy she is : and in this being easily distanced by the beautiful Corsiean ; tlie real article beating the sham, as for some mysterious reason Marina is to-day a creature of joy. Barnes imagines it is because Enid makes her feel Edwin is near her. They have hardly finished the meal when old Tomnsso enters, and, with respectful reverence, announces to Iris mistress: "Signorita, the carriage for you is at the door ! :, At this both the young ladies go to their rooms for their hats, some expedition ap parently being in their plans for the day. Mr Barnes walks out and posts himself by the carriage, determined to see if Miss Anstruther will stick to the lino she has taken through breakfast with him. Marina comes down first, arul as he places her in the landau, she gives him a little squeeze of the hand and says: "Thanks, Mr Barney, for your pleasant ac quaintance ; you have made my life, that was lonely here, very happy. But what have you done to Enid ? She is extremely angry with you 1" Reply ie here interrupted by Miss An struther, who coldly accepts Mr Barnes's assistance to 3tep into the carriage ; but her manner indicates that it is under protest, and instead of thanks she gave him a very ugly flash of her eyes. Marina, apparently anxious to palliate her companion's coldness of manner, says : " We are going for a little drive towards Mentone, would you •. —" Hero she pauses with a little gasp of pain, for Enid has given her a cruel pinch, and before she can complete the intended invitation Miss Anstruthor remarks cuttingly: " We would ask you to join us, but fear to take you from your other lady friends." With that the carriage drives off, old Tomasso sitting gravely on the box beside the driver, and the two girls engaged in a feminine dispute about something. " I don't envy poor Marina her ride with my angel this'morning. What a fiendish pinch she gave her to cutoff my invitation," thinks the American. "I suppose other lady friends means La Belle Blackwood. What a cursed dull place Monaco is !" and he gives a sigh and a longing look at the carriage that is just getting out of eight. Then goea in to do the agreeable to Lady Chartris and family: bufc making very poor york of this, he wanders off to the Casino, where he meets some men from New York, who have come there in a yacht; and they have a very wild day of it, though, perhaps not a merry one for poor Barnes. The two young ladies came back from their drive, better friends if possible than before, and soon go arm in arm to the Casino, where Miss,Anetrutlier rather shocks her companion by the desperate manner of her play; wins an amount of money that astonishes her, and conies back to dinner with, a reckless triumph on her face that makes it look very beautiful and rather naughty. Mr Barnes being present, she displays her luck by giving Miss Maud Chartris a couple of twenty-franc pieces for a present, and telling that infant prodigy of hey wonderful forfcuno and the great profits

of her play, until Maud's eyes grow very large with greed of gain and lust to v.m herself. And Enid has raised up a spirit in the little girl that ultimately turns upon and rends her, and strikes her to the earth upon a later day—for she has made that juvenile prodigy crazy to gamble. After bolting her meal in an eager sort ot way—for she is anxious to get back_ to her occupation again, and has a vague idea ot winning some fabulous sum and Haunting tho gold in Mr Barnes's? face, to show him how wise she w and how foolish Me wa-i-~ Miss Amsbruthcr seizes upon Manna again and drags her off to tho roulette tables, attended by old Tomastso. _ It is night; the lights, the surging crowd of people, the music from the fur-ofi band -all excite this wild young lady, and she play* with a feverish energy that, alarms Marina, who cautious her, and gets snubbed tor her advice. The luck, after one or two Itl.tlo Hnetua tions, settles against her. and Miss Anstru l,her goes home m a very angry mood againbt fate, and tho world, mid Mr Lames. Consequently that gentleman the next morn ing fets a genuine astonishment: not irom Enid, but from Mademoiselle Paoli. Ho doesn't see Miss Austiiifchor—she has a headache: but Marina greets him at breakfast with marked coolness ; and a tew minutes after, happening to eeo him alone in the hall-way, this peculiar young Cprsican comes to him, a great flash of anger in her eyes, and Kays sharply : " A word with you, Signor Barnes." '"'A hundred, if you arc kind enough to talk to me, Mademoiselle Paoli." Hero lie stops and looks at her in astonishment, for her great brown Spanish eyes are like coals of fire.

She doesn't keep him long in suspense, or beat about for any delicate expression, for she opens in these astounding words: " What makes you such a villain :" "I?—a. villain ?" stammers Barnes, who isn't quite sure he understands her. " Yes ; a villain ! Whut have you been doing to Enid V" "IV Nothing." "That ie not true. Why did sho treat you coldly yesterday ?" " Why, really— " "Ah ! you dare not answer. And what did you do to her last evening ':"

"I? Nothing. I didn't see her." "Impossible! Last night wo returned from the Casino ; she was in feverish spirits. Half an hour afterwards I chanced to puss her room. Love hus sharp ears; antl I caught a sound of suffering. At first she refused to admit mo : but I told her 1 would break down the door, and then 1 found her in tears. She passed half the night sobbing in my arms. I took the place that should have been occupied by you." " Y es — aH) of course, I should have been delighted to have boen there, ' murmurs Barnes, who wonders which of them is an idiot.

" And yet she said you had insulted her. You have led her on to love you, and now you are breaking her heart." •' I'm delighted to hear that," Hays Barnes in rapture. "Ah ! And you glory in it! But rcmem bor that I lovo Enid, and that if you play with her heart you shall answer to me, Marina Paoli." She leaves Barnes, but turning nt the head of the stairs sho hears a succession of ehrill sounds, and then mutters to herself: "The heartless one; destroying Enid's happiness and whistling joyously over it." For this communication gives Barnes as much delight as it would havo given Mies Anstruther chagrin if sho had .known that ho received it. Ho murmurs to himself: " Tho roulotto tobies are playing my game for me with a vengeance breaking her heart. My darling !" and he goes about whistling tho meniest airs of the merriest French operas, even enduring with wonder ful mng-h'oid a fearful stab with the eyes that Enid gives him when she makes her api>eaiance an how or no afterwards.

(To be Continued.)

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Saddlers and Ifarnessniakcr?. npEN NIS UACKE T Rostrang and Now is tlie time to $ a ddl el V & Harness At OIt£ATL,Y KKUUOED PRICES. 105, QUEEN STREET. AND TTARNESS. SELLING OFF ! BELLING OFF! 2 0 PER CENT. REDUCTION. G-. F. HILL, SADDLER,'I76, QUEEN-STREET (Next British Hotel), Bep;s to announce to his Mends that lie will CLEAR THE WHOLE OF HIS STOCK during the Christmas ROftSonatipricesunequallefl in thetown, to make room fovfurthmr shipments. G. P t H. would recommend purchasers to inspect his stock before buying clao whore. INSPECTION INVITED. Tailoring. EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS Zsf SUITS >hJ 50s. C3B. 60s. % I 6,-s. 70s. 75a. -\m Sg TROUSEB.S J^ g § 12s. 6d. Wβ, 17a. U. I g S 20s. 225. W. » 3 g x A H. ROPlNSOnTtailob, i" 5 ?f NSW CORNER OB" J@s P 3 XTV CoQK & ° RElr Sts ' Jsr' I \ I q»BTaTßM»iiir~"| J H. ROBINJBbON.



Business Notices. DEVONSHIRE DAIRY FACTORY BUTTER, STAR BRAND. Having completed our factory for the manu facture of Butter (in the district ml Manttaro), and are mow receiving a large supply of milk, we an: soiling our Star Brand Butter at lOd per )b at the lk-vonsbirc Dairy Depot, Karangahapo Itoail. and at our brunch, corner of Plcton-street and Poiisonby Road. Any Star Brand cold else where (for the present) will not bo from our Factory. Having secured the most modern tnachinury obtainable, and being nituated in the best butler-producing district In tho Province of Auckland, wo are in position to supply a bettor article than can be obtainocl from any other source. We respectfully solicit a trial from all who desire to obtain first-class butter. AMBURY AND ENGLISH, Proprietors. EST A HUSHED 1.059. GEE ie POTTER, COACHBUILDERS, ' LOKNE and liUTLA.MO-STRa.ETS. Coaches, Carriages. Waggonettes, Buggies, Pony UttiTifteee, Carts. Drays, and every de scription of \ ohielcs kept in stock, or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B.—Traps lent to customers whllet repaira are being executed. A S'K I'OUR GROCER FOR THE NEW WASHING PASTE (Patent). No Boiling '. No Hard Rubbing Needed ! It is claimed for this preparation that it will make washing; much less laborious and expen sive, by saving the coat of fuel and by removing the necessity tor the hard scrubbing, which not only wears out tho person washing, but also rubs to pieces the clothes washed. t or BcourinK floors and stairs, washing paints, cleaning windows, crockery, metals, etc., etc., the New Washing Paste is unrivalled. Put up in blocks which will each do tho wash ing for lh c or six porsons. Directions for use and testimonials with every package. Price, Sixpence per blook. Will not injure the most delicate material. Wholesale Agent— F. S. PHILLIPS, Kyber Pasg. Manufactured only by the Proprietor and Patentee, J. HOULDGATE, Brighton Road, Pahnelii. MONUM E N T S IN ITALIAN AND VERMONT MARBLES, AND ABERDEEN GRANITE HEADSTONES IN MASIHVE AND STONE. Ikon Tomb Railings at Modkrate Pnicua Prices and Designs sent post free. Country orders carefully packed. • TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, corner o£ Rutland and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction), Auckland. Thb American COEN BROOM CO. EXMOUTH STREET. ED W IN JO N E S (Late E. A. Jones), House, Furnishing, and General IRONMONGER, Ponsonby Road and Pompdllier Terrace, Auckland, N;Z. Agent for the Phoenix Fire Office. Advertisement Agent for Auckland Evening Stab. Po»t-offloe Savings Bank, Money Order Office. Tel9ffr*ph Station, Telephone Bureau,



Business Notices. fSZSt m USEFUL, DURABLE, CHEAP, AT McLEOD BROTHERS', Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of Wicker Furniture, Perambulators, and every description of Baskotwaro. THE AUCKLAND BASKET FACTORY, ALBERT STREET (near V.M.C.A.) HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACK 10 A COALSAGK; CLEANS TtIOIJSKUS without wetting a flngor or knociclng oil a button. It does away with wot feet, pains in the arms, back, and breast, and does a. big day's washing in two hours. \ HOME £J JEWEL^^ HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. M. 11. LEVY, SOLE AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. y\ T7IVITT, ri.UNMAKER And Importer of every description of Firearms, Ammunition, and Shooting Appliances by the best makers. CARTRIDGES.— AI \S^SSS£SS ai-e carefully loaded on the premises, and guaranteed besr mnterial. FISHING TACKLE. !?Tr?T?\A7fYPl4'Cl Always in stock, a V IIV.IiWUIi'IVO. Kre^t variety of Fireworks, imported by the advortiser direct from J. Pain, the celebrated Pyrotechnist. 1? IVP A T I-? Q GUN rf RE- STOCKED, XvJEiJ. xi.xiwo.~- Barrels Browned, and evory other kind of repair done to Firearms. Guaranteed equal to tho best English work. Prices reasonable. Breechloaders and Muzzle loaders chokeboi cd. I). EVI TT, Gunmakerand Importer, 254, Queen-street, Auckland (opposite tho Market House). [Established 1859] Price lists free on application. "SALS ALINE TS the best Food Preservative; keeps Milk, Butter, Meat, etc., pure and sweet, and Is without an equal for general household purposes. No home should be without it. JJ. BUTCHER.j J,J. GROOM T OCAL INDUSTRY. Everyone interested In the prosperity of Auckland should purchase OCALLY-MADE SHIRTS AND UNDER. CLOTHING. And not imported goods. See Uiatyour draper supplies you with tbo 'best articles, which are made by THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING MANUFACTURING CO., GKEAT NORTH ROAD IM SH E X 4 O a, ■? WHOLKtSALK SHlPjfixe AND ■ U AMlijx BUTCHERS Established 1564. By Special Appointment to His Excellency the Governor, Sir W. F. Jcrvoia: His Excellency fair James Ferguson; arid 11.11.11. the Duke of Edinburgh; also, Kosha Uutchers to tho Jews. QUEEN-STttEET. AUCKLAND, N.& Families waited on in Town or Suburb* POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER. Dealers in Game Home-cured Hams and Bacon » * c Oori J° d Bee fin Large Quantity. Imports of Sausage Casings The Trade Supplied N.B.—Calre3* Renneta tst Ouetoincrs Supplied with Ice. Telephone No. 358. P.O. Box No. 43k BY APPOINT-^^B°»^yßßt§!iWy M ey t TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. rfIHAMES CARRIAGE AND DRAY X FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST HIGH-STREET, AUCKLAND. Telephone, 308. JAMES MACKIE, Coachbuildeb, MANAGER. Builder of every description of Yohicles. Repairs in all the branches of the trado faithfully*exccuted. Vehicles Bought and Sold on Commission. Coachbuilders' Requisites in Stock, Tho Trade Supplied. Country Orders punctually attended to . Cosh Customers liberally dealt with. JTIHAFF ! i~IHAFF ! I MESSRS "STONE BROS. (My Agents) WILL RECEIVE ORDERS FOR ABOVE. Supplies in any qiiantity from Storo or Works. P. ANDREWST Otahuhu.. COALS, COKE, CHARCOAL, FIRE WOOD. Beat Rata, Titree, and Purirl Firewood: also, flrst-claes Taunirl, Newcastle, and Kaiuo 'Coal, at Lowest Price for Cash. E'urnituro carefully Removed, and Goods Delivered to all parts of the city and suburbs, at Lowest Rates.—Note tho Address: C. PIPER, opposite the Ponaonby Reservoir, and corner of Newton and Karanga hape Roads. RB /93T vUtmu-L .»— jpl BF STB US INVENTIONS and TRADE MARKS registered in a\l parts. All drawings, etc.. accurately prepared at the International Agenoy, Offlcea: Hill's Chambers, Queen-street.



Business Notices.. Iron Curved for y erandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. GEORGE McCAUL, U ANUFACTUJUNG PLUMBER AXI> IMPOItTEU OK ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLJSSLKT STREET EAST (Opposite New Library) and BROWN & DAVY STREETS, THAMES, HAS FOR SALE— 200 Corrugated Galvanised Tanks, assorted 600 Colonial Ovens, all sizes 50,000 Kcet Lead Edgo llidge Cap, all ewes 50 000 l''ect O.U. Spouting, all sizes 60,000 Feet Downpipec, all sizes 50 000 Feet Galvanised Water Pipes, all sizes Lead-head Nails. Load Washes Portable Ovens, Furnace JTramts Copper Boilers Jam, Fruit. Honey, and Butter Tine on the latest American principle, in quantities as per agreement Etc. Ktc. Etc. Awarded Three Firet Prizes for above lines at Auckland Agricultural Show. Lateet and best selection of Gas Globes in. Auckland. As Mr McCAUL is a direct importer for cash be is in a position to supply the trade at tho lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to the trade. Country orders punctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUL, Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer of all Trade Requisites, \Vellesley-st. East (opposite New Library), and Brown and Davy streets. Thames. li O U X ]> h>l M El "" GROUND LIME | Fon Sale, SOUTHGATE'S MAHURANGI HYIJRAOLIO GROUND I ROCJIE LIME In any quantity, for Concrete Paths. Fioors. Cellars, etc. Next to it is un rivalled for durability andl.ard-setting qualities. For tanks and othei: wet work it is a first-class material. B. KEANE, SOLE AGENT, CUSTOMSSTHEET. W7~ X" E V *■ bOOKBINDEU, PAPER RULER. ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURER, Wyxdham-strekt. MERCHANTS' ACCOUNT BOOKS, Insurance and Mining Register Books Specially Kuled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books Re-bound. BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RULED QJRKJK /^RION. r\RION. WHAT IS IT ONE SHILLING PACKET of SALSALINE will preserve TWENTY SHILLINGS , worth o£ food. To be obtained of all Chemists and Grocera, in Is and 2s packets. Wholesale Agent. RICHARD A. CARR. Fort-street. Auckland. ; i ]Hf & QO; IMPORTERS OF EARTHENWARE, CHINA, & GLASS. QUEEN'-STKEET, AUCKLAXD, HAVE ON HAND : -: i I A LARGE AND WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF EARTHENWARE. Consignments of New Good 3 every month, Now Landing, ex Star of the Easb,—'" MASON'S PATENT GLASS FRUIT JARS. Ex Piako,— ASSORTED CRATES OP EARTHENWARE (Suitable for Country Storekeepers), . W M - M C A RTHUII & 0 0, mUCKER'S AyHEATEN T^OOD FOR PORRIDGE, &c, &c, Specially prepared, consists of the elements for the perfect nutrition of the human body. Has had high commendation in England from Hospital Authorities and from Physicians, Dentists, and the Public. J. BYCROFT & Co. Have now completed the erection of costly plant, and having made arrangoments with Mr W. F. TUCKER to produce this article, confi dently recommend it as more suitable than oatmeal for this climate. AT A PRICE ALL, In 71b and 251b bags. To he had of all Grocers and Storekeepers, and Wholesale of the Manufacturers. J -OYCROFT AND riO., - * LlMl^u, City Flocb Mills, Shortland-streot, Auckland. TUCKER'S FAMILY BAKING POWDER. mUCKER'S TDAKING "OOWDER JL For JOWholesomeJU Bread npUCKER'S TOAKING OOWDER JL Tea Cakes JL> Pastry JL Scones mUCKER'S "OAKING T>OWDER JL Ask your JL> Grocer JL for it Once Tried, Always Uaed> WARNOCK BROTHERS, Established ISU2 SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS, COX'S OttKEK, AUCKLAND. MamiKiciurcrs of uvo Colubrated Extract of Soap, Dialntectftnt Powder, First Prize Yellow JUluu Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medicin u l and Toilet Soaps, made from tho purest of. Tallows, Offlces-DURIIAM-STREET, Auckland. N.B. — Cash Purchasers of Tallow, Wool, Sheepskins, jind Banea._ , ■ rJtHE~~Bes(r~Gift for Home friends is JL Brett's Auckland Almanac, containing a Pictorial Representation of Queen-etreet, De scription of the Provincial District, Now Quid* to Hot Late, &c, &o. „.,



s^^^= tq^'Mil|«iiHJ : .; APPot§ l USEIT..OIf3E : WHOLESALE AGENTV ' A. BUCHANAN. np ■ PEACOCK, JL -° OPTICIAN, '_ MATHEMATICS!/ AXD. !K[AraCAL IXs^^, ..■', ••,.' '~.. ,'.'. ~ ;,,,'.' V\ ' \ '.;• 7; -,'■ JUvk'-ays ia Stock-- ;'•' '■..,.',; Spectacles, and Eye-glasseso)! a accurate fit guaranteed \ ~ ■ Opera Glasses bf superior quality •"- •" , Telescopes, Binocular Field G losses, ord Micro scopes, powerful and cheap a , .•..-,.."■ Miiiiner Cpinrsasses, Abney pT?i Drainage Levels, Pr'smatic Compasses : D rawi n g Instrumen I B,'rieales/ Parallel Eulets !- Ships L )gs. Sextant?, ppoipasspg, JJ|tiise]|S • I Baromolprs, XBcruioinetcrs, Electric Bjllp, Batteries, and Bttttngs Maguotie tmd GdVanie ■ Magi • Ijanterns and.Slides, Hao&MWwfip: Si: O3copes and Slides, GraphogcopeS Steam Guagcs an d. Tuliing, Salinoinoteia ' ,/ ■ Jugtßecpivc4— ■"•>, .V r <V Settlers Telescopes, or^ cheap, 11b • " Settlers' Aneroid Boroinetera, Bttong'M good, .2556 d- ■■- ■:■>.■<.■■"!■' v.i V, -:V. i-v-l/r-vi:; Settlers' Micj-OECopes, magnifying 22s 6d '■ ■ ■ 1 «!* Also, Steam andßlectro Motbr WMing miiM and Steamers.: Instruments of crery kind Repair^,,;,,. •, ... OpeagnawtzPostt-stitiCßiyr If,: a c. brown Cook arid Hobson streets) v HAB R E MOVED TO QUEEN-STREET (Opposite Auckland- Savings : Ban|:)i i' And wishes to that he ; ha? a '|pp sW* ■■ ■ offlist-ekps { ; u ~ - ■■ '•■■= At" Low' Phi CBS, . :. : ■ SELL, PRIVATELY'AND AUCTIOS •■-.' > Atdates whioli will to adrdrtoecl • Goods sold on .commission, Nα work bat of first-claes makers accepted. , Turkish Tqwels, flesh wd respiratpre, soap*. , |t $ juraiSiWffl (privateTwr ladiee SiWifOf , ;v d c N,l W # ATCHMATEfe AND JEWELLER, Has «ow k r.t^ ;: ing of Jewellery and"*»^JjSS*^^' description of W^jgjJJ-i*" , ** ' and ft , ; faottoiuK remainder of bb MAN<» « » Pe«o n 3havipgold^W,ev™W c^« J madoup into now »"* Window Glass ■ Plate Glass ; ' Wire Nails . ' Portland Cement , fr ;! HaY» a ana r Cigßi-s, etc. LPOOCA^ESWINDOWGLASS^