KILDEE; OR, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bride,"' &c.

CHAPTER LIV.

A bleak bitter day in December; the sky leaden-dark overhead, the earth white in its shroud of snow. lb is the tenth an niversary of Kildee's wedding, and she is passing it travelling across the snowy prairies of the North-west, in a railway train whose engine plunges panting and labouring through the heaped snow-drifts, while the engineer eyes the lowering sky, and mutters to the fireman that more snow is close at hand, and thai) the " devil will be to pay." Inside the car, where Kildee sits, it is comfortable enough. The ereat stove midway the car glows red with heat; Kildee, tired of watching the monotonous expanse of snow outside, smgs softly to the little child she holds in her arms, and lets her thoughts go back to the past. , Ten years since she became the bride of Max on the same starry December evening that her stately sister Honor gave her hand to Ira Heathcl'iff. The years have brought changes. Governor Montcalm is dead. Heatncliff and Honor and their three lovely children occupy the ancestral home of the Montcalms. Heathcliflis now governor ot the state, elected for a second term to that office. The "Red House is no longer gloomy. The only spirits that haunt ib are two mischief-loving sprites who play tricks upon Caleb as he sits nodding under the macmoliaa. The golden-tressed girl and the dark-haired boy are the children ot David Holt and Laura. Hazard Hall and Lottie are still itinerant mimes. She is as charming and merry as ever, and believes as fully in the genius of her handsome husband. He has not yet developed into a Booth, but he is a fascin ating actor, if not a finished artist. He is exceedingly popular, and young girls pro nounce him "glorious, divine," and write notes to bog his autograph. He boasts cut his conquests sometimes, and teases I)tf little wife until he makes the angry Hash lighten through her tears ; then he desist?, and kisses the tears away. '' I can't help their loving me,' he pays, "and I can't help encouraging it—just a little; but you flught to know I love you and you only, Lottie." He is Hazard Hall still. The world says Kildee's marriage has been unfortunate. Max has made neither motley nor fame. He set up hi.s studio in New' York—a little gem of a studio— for Governor Montcalm had bestowed a liberal cheque as hiswedding-gift; but Max had not the steady application necessary to .succeed where genius is wanting. Ho had no genuine love for his art; uo deeply glowing aspirations to improve, to keep pace with progressive thought and methods of the day. He had an easy-going sweet nature, a 'delicate tasto in landscape paint ing and a repugnance to hard work. Ho was liked in society, caressed at his club, affectionate and lovable in his home. He was fond and proud of Kildee, and she devoted herself to making him happy. Was she happy horself ? Did ho satisfy her heart? Only ono who knew her best, who watched her most anxiously, knew that she was not a happy wife. She ful filled her wifely duties conscientiously. She was gentle and cheerful—sometimes merry ; but the wistful look in her lovely eyes'had deepened almost It told the story of a heart alone, in spifco of intimate companionship, a soul that had not found its supplement. Kildee had her father's brow and eyes and her mothers nature. For all her delicate fineness there was a strong fibre iv her that responded to the heroic. Ib was in her to understand and sympathise with great deeds ; yes, to suggest and inspire such deeds by her elevated, fervid, emotional powcr v and nor strong pure imagination. It was this sympathy with the heroic that made her admire Heathcliff. Sho had not lovod him so much as she had been moved by that commanding elevated chord in his character which found an echo in her own nature. She was hardly seventeen when she mar ried Max. She knew she did nob love him as she could love, but she was too young and. untaught to feel the deep moral neces sity that there should bo perfect love be tween two beings whose! ives are to be united by the close bond of marriage." Sho cared freatly for Max. She owed so much to him He had been so kind as a guardian, so devoted ac a lover, that she could not bare to hurt him by refusing to be his wi/e. Bub she had not given her consent until after she knew she was Governor Montcalm's daughter. When he had pressed her to marry him in the little town where they had stopped with the sick St. Peter, sho had begced for time to think it over, and before the time allotted had gone by there came a letter from Lottie with the paper containing Nell Barnes's story. Max read it aloud to her as soon as the candles could be lighted. In the midst of hie joy for her, she saw his face cloud. He had suddenly remembered that there was now a wide gulf between them. He said, with a look of one who has ' received a stab: "Now you will never think of poor Max. The girl's generous soul could not bear that look. "How can you think so of me? she cried ; and a moment later she had promised to be his wife. Having made the promise, she abided by it. She was firm under her father's representations, and unshaken by the brilliant prospect that had been opened to her. She married him ; and he never knew that he did not perfectly fill her heart. A more spiritually _ sensitive nature might have perceived the veil of uncongeniality that separated their lives, but Max was not spiritually sensitive. His was a sweet, sensuous, shallow nature, made to rippl© pleasantly in the sunshine of easy for-tuii* and social appreciation. She outgrew him. It was inevitable. Her nature was richer in possibilities for development. . When she went to New York 'she came in contact, by reading, and, more rarely, by personal association, with strong minds, and she took deeper intellectual and spiritual root. It was natural this should seek to flower in expression. She had never been ready to reveal her deeper thoughts and feelings in speech. She was shy, for all her child-like frankness. So the form of expression she chose was writing. -She began to write poems, at first for her own eye, afterwards she confined her secret to a friend—a warm-hearted and large brained woman—connected with the New York press, and through this friend's per suasions, the poems appeared in print, from time to time, under the pseudonym of Alfar Weir. They were always short—sonnets or lyrics, characterised by a delicate ye* sinewy imagination, a crystallisation of thought, a glow of passionately pure feeling which laid hold upon a small but intellec tual and appreciative class of readers. To some of these it) became known that she was the author of the poems they admired, and so she made for herself a narrow trafe congenial, circle of friends, Into

this circle Max often came with her in person, but did nob truly belong to it. He had no affinity with ib. Kf.ldeo's work and her associations satis fied the demands of her intellectual being, and her heart found an oubleb in love for her child. It was a fragile little creature, with dark, asking eyes like its mother's. From the first, the tenderest care had been re quired to foster its delicate life. Kildee had given ib that care. She was almost morbid in her devotion. She hung- over the little one, day and night, till she became worn and pale, and seemed to be hourly giving; a portion of her life to eke out the fragile existence of her child. Notwith standing this untiring care, the little otic faded. One day in April its life went out. The mother's grief, though it was almost silent, was passionately deep. With the dropping off of this frail flower her life had borne, that life seemed to have lost all its sweetness. The temptation was strong to let go the bare, blossomless bough and drop into the grave beside her child. Her friends rallied around her. One of them took her to hear a preacher whose talk, it was said, had the Christlike power of giving comfort and strength. She had heard of this preacher since she had been in New York. She had often wanted to hear him speak, for he was one she had known in years past. This eccentric speaker, bold writer and spiritual teacher, after Che ap ostolic pattern, was no other than Miles Carleon. She had hoard of him as strangely eloquent—with the eloquence of fervid zeal in his crusade against wrong, and of passion ate pity and love for men. iSho had heard of the'self-denying life he led—the severe asceticism of his babies, his devoted labours in prisons and penitentiaries and hospitals, among the poor, the wick, the sorrowing and sinful. In the cause of helping his fellow beings to a happier and higher physical and "moral life, he spared neither personal effort nor money. No 3 only had he given Aphrodite Island, with its costly building's and improvements, asa home for orphans, but he had established and endowed other charities. He had invested all his remain ing fortune judiciously, and he was spend ing all the interest and portions of the prin cipal iv the work into which he had thrown his life. He was after the apostolic type. Ho sought neither fame nor money. He took no pay, he asked no favours, ho courted no popular applause, he belonged to no dc nomination. He owed no allegiance to any church. He fenced in his broad creed of faith and deeds by no bristling hedge of theological tenets. Therefore, he could be independent. He could be bold for truth, and .strong for truth. And he was. Ho assailed .sin that sat in high places. Ho de nounced wrong that cloaked itself under spacious pretences. He withered the masks of hypocrisy, the sheep's clothing of human wolves and foxes, with his liery .satire. No St. John was he—rather a Paul of Tarsus. No Gabriel—rather a Michael with sword of lire. His voice oi' bold rebuke rang out against political crimo; against gilded .social debasement; against banded corpora tions—licensed robbers. Tho objects of his denouncing writhed under his blows, shrunk at hia unflinching exposure of their wrong-doing. He inudo enemies by the score. They decried him in the press. They called him a fanatic—a lunatic. Ministersaramled him in the pulpit as unorthodox and irregular. Ha heeded them not. Ho went yn in his crusade against wrong. Persecution only whetted his sword. His trumpet rang out more de fiantly for the charge. Anil yet, he waa tho soul of love, of pity and tolerance. Ho hud teudcr compassion for tho weak and fallen, for he knewu the strength of temptation. Ho had sounded tho depths of sin and suffering. Ho wtw fitted to talk to criminals in prison and con vict camp, and his work was often there. Ho was fitted to comfort and encourage the sorrowing, for he had drunk of tho bitter cup. It was to this man that-Kildee's friond took her iv the darjc days that followed the death of her child. She had met him more than once since her coming to New York. There was a look in his eyes that thrilled tlmb chord in her which responded sympathetically to tho heroin. There was tho look of. one who had fought and had conquered. Looking back sho re called him as sho had known him. She saw him in the light of his new developed character, and she felt that she had beeii right, when ahe told him that .last night at Aphrodite that ho could be a power for good aa ho had been a power for ovil. Sho had uttered tho words through a kind of inspired impulse. They had proved pro phetic. She know all that ho had renounced. She remembered hia social accomplish ments, his powers of fascination, tho hom age of his satellites, his fastidious, pleasure loving nature. Could she fail to remember how he had loved her? -How desperately he had sought to make vmends for the wrong ho hud tried to i\ her? He had saved her life—at what fearful cost to him self she was reminded every timo sho saw him. Thab terrible crushing fall had left its trace. A slight lameness clung to him : a deep fscar showed redly on his white temple. She went to hear him once, and again she caught the infection of his z&H. Hia eloquence took her out of herself. She was caught up in the fiery chariot of his im passioned love for his kind, his thirst to do them good, to win them to his side in the fight. He came to see her. His clear oyes read her secret. He knew that her heart was solitary. He had feared so from her poems. He alone felt the meaning of that under tone of sadness there was in them.

Ho said to her, " You need work." "Give me some of your work," she answered. And so he took her among those she could help—children starved in body and soul, women bowed with ill health and neglect, and the memory of past sins ; miserable and forsaken ones to whom a word of kindness came as the sweetest sur prise. She had a comprehending sympathy with such people: she was patient, so simple, so- kind, with no shadow of patron ising. She was so winningly helpful in small household ways of sick-bed attend ance and care of children and preparing of food, that she did more good than she knew. He watched her little ways— child like and winsome as of old, and yeb with thab unconscious dignity that had amused and charmed him then—he watched her, aud he said to himself as he had said be fore, "She is a pearl above price—and I lost her."

They talked only about her work, about books and the new thoughts that were born in the brains of progressive men, and the schemes for the good of humanity that were fermenting in other minds besides his own. She looked to him with loving rever ence. Here was a hero worthy to bend the head before—such a hero as the age de manded. She would have deemed ib sacrilege to remember, save as a past un meaning dream, that this man who seemed enthroned above weakness had once loved her. Ib was a mere flickering passion flune, she thought, long ago eclipsed in the white light of religious philosophy. Sho underrated her power of holding the heart of a man ; she underrated tho strength of the passion she had inspired. Men liko Carleon have benaciby aa well as strength of feeling. His love for this sweet child woman whose deep soul ho had instinctively probed was the passion of his life. Ib had been subdued, held in check, nob killed. No mortal man can crush a strong feeling utterly under the heel of his will. Only by repeated struggles, eternal watchfulness, is victory won. Carleon had sought to do the woman he loved a kindness; ho did himself a hurt. He realised it, and made his resolve. Strong as he was, he dared not stay and face this temptation. He left the city suddenly. He went to the far North-west—a self-sent missionary to the Indians. From time to

time Kildee heard through tho papers of Ins -real, work among the poor savages Uc easionnlly she saw his name appended to earnest appeals in behalf of tho Indians to bold rebukes of the injustice done them. Hβ espoused their cause against their .op pressors—against their pretended friend— the Government. , . He wrote of their needs, their wrongs, the cruelty that drove them from their valley homes, where they had planted their fields, had built their cottages, and churches andschool-houses.and were making pathetic efforts to become civilised and to rear their children in more enlightened ways. Through the grasping covefcousness ot the white man, with hi.s Government backing, the poor creatures were driven from these beloved .settlements in the more fertile valleys, and forced to fly with what they could take, and herd upon some bleak rocky spot of inhospitable plain or mil side, shelterless and heartbroken. _ Carleon depicted the wrongs ot this savage race, and their sins which had grown out of these wrongs. He denounced the villainy of agents aent among them to swindle and plunder, and to demoralise them with liquor. Kildee read his vivid words with eager sympathy. She missed him sorely. More than once she thought of writing to him, bub she could nob venture to do this. In hi.s short note of farewell he had not asked her to do this—had given her no address had said he would be as nomadic us Noah S raven. Once sho went to hear a lecture by a man who had been travelling and sojourning on the pacific coast. He spoke of Carleon—of his self-denying life—how, with all his ac complishments, his social and intellectual gifts, his large fortune, he yet lived in rigid simplicity among far-oil' wilds, with a savage, uncongenial people, through the sole motive of love and pity. " Tho man is sublime," said tho lecturer. "He is ii hero, to whom Napoleon is a pigmy. When he dies in that far-off land, let it be said of him U3 of one not so great: " Lay not a laurel crown, but lay a sword Upon his lonely grave, lor he has fought Alone against a host At his far, frontier post, Nor rest, nor love nor pleasure has he sougnt. (To be Continued. J

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1887.

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T*T E W ZEAL A_N_ D RAILWAYS. TIME TABLE. -On and akcbh OCTOBER 10, 1887. ATTnTTT-ANI) AND~ONKHUNGA LINK. Auc ,£J' ANl) ~~ Wbek Days. Sate only. Sundays. Onfhunga ~. ■ ———i — l Tis v "6 v^ p - n ftS■ p i.Td ftfc "aSA* »i ?! :: !|l|o |jo || § |§ :: |o If ;1J || |j§ sSLi ?;i 'L tsjpuk is® (β-p £»11 p 03£&g. arr. 7* o*s iAIW* 2.40 4.55 6.0 75 [ 7.40 10.40| 1.50 12.20 9.35 3.7 J— J j j I I J. Silts ■» w fflte W Wγ" !=?-• :; k<k 18 8:18' li iS'BB tl'S \%M «? » W md iMiiiilJlitii — ■MHILI-γ- f~ r~"77T ——— j Ohatiico for «>t,ahuw'. „ H • Chaffer Kaiparaßranch Station, t Chantre for Mercer and In'.ornaediate Statlonu. il ChftiiKe for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. -""""■ " """" MAINLINE. AUCKI^D-MERCEH^T^UTU-OTOROHANaA. I' " I 'A I *~ I.M. AM AM A V A.M. J*.M. P.M. P.M. 6.20 |»s™-- -: § fl I || ¥ II I II * Remucra G.xo °-™ 'f Z * * * 645 SfiSSß** , " 6*22 648 7.38 8.23 n 4.40 5.25 5.45 tblßO ffiiSo. Junction " Y. S M »0 8.31 12.25 14.49 6 * "Weatlleld * •• a Irt , n Otahuhu.. .. {«J 6 - 40 7 . 10 U ° 8.41 12.40 4.59 Y. Papatoitoi .. .. .. •• ; •• •• *S 5 A Papakura 8.0 .. •• l-f> *>.& Kγ :: :: :: :: :: us :: *'a w? w :: :: "Ruiioiuiau ........ * •• •• « * Pukekohe S.G7 .. 9.G2 2.19 623 a& and . :: :: :: :: ai :: :: " :: l>okeno .. I : If •■ ]d;js W ™ •; « Mercor .. .. ■( <f™; Y. 10.55 3.40 "VVhangaiuarino •• " * « "Waiwiiuf «■ •' " * * ** 'iUingiriri .. - .... # — 'Ohinewai •• •• ,„„_ roc " " " , Tttupiri 12.35 5.40 .. .. .. ■ N\-aruawabia 53 6 V IO "I'ukete .... » « ' Tcnupa fnr - r - •• :; :: 1.25 6.45 :: :: :: r: Frank ton Junction O J d "; '' J ~ c 1.40 K6.55 •Kukuhia „!. 7 ™ ohaupo - •• •• V , "Lake Road .... t % •- •• — N '' aroto Yaw " :: •• C 2.40 E7.55 .! " .. TjiAwamcto .. \ dep! :: .. •• d 2 -50 •ToPuhi .' I "ICILWII .. .. _ .. .. .. — m '• " '• "Kiokio •• •• , „,. 'OiorohaiiKa •• •• vi - i ° " North--VVbkk: days. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. "Otoroiuinga dep. •• - •• •• f3 , 10 •KioVlo .. _ - •• " ' * 'Ivuwa .. .. •• — .... # •• f arr, -. .. •• -• F "-0 — TkAwamutu .. - \de p. - .. •• •• 91 5 N T K«roto .. » •* ...... •• • " •hake Road 945 !! 1! ". ( nrr. — — •• •• 10.zo .. .. Kraiikton Junction ... °(dop. „...._ 10.35 .. .. 4.10 "To Riipa.. .. •• — *- •• •• ..... — •• # iS? :: :: : : " .. .. 5.20 'Oliiiicwul „ -• •• — *'-"** » •Uuntrfrirl ~ •■ •• •• • ' *" "'" * "WaLrniigl .. ~ •• •• •• * " " * ■Whansamarino .. .. ■• •• •■ •• 1M - •; fe irorew .. .. - \dcp. - .. 620 11.30 2.5 .. .. 6.50 t'oketto .. - .. .. - -' « 6.31 11.43 2.16 .. .. 7.0 •VVhiuißarata - « * * ~ •• •• » T'.iakau - - •• 6 -°° 12 -° 2 V 2 • I'Sohe.. :. :: :: :: " ;: 7.10 1231 v :: :: w "PuoMitn ...-«....—« % m t •' •• „ •i)rury im<Ul . Y. Y. Z " Y. Y. 7.47 1.10 3,37 Y. Y. 8.10 ISSV: :: :: :: :: : :: g.i i» i« :: :: β-la VLuUirowft - .. 8.16 1.42 42 .... • f'iLniitniloi •■ 2.0 4.15 'nX.hr. . .'.' ." .. -. 6.50 8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 6.20 7.15 lvSw;' uncUon :: :: :: m& i"ie.» w.30 ii» wi 9.0 KUcrJlle .'. '■ 7.20 8.35 8.58 2.35 4.40 6.35 7.35 * fPomueJf*" ".' Y. '.' V- 7.30 8.44 9.7 2.45 4.51 6.45 7.45 NowniarkctJunc 7.36 8.49 9.19 2.65 J5.4 6.51 760 9.20 1 Awkun" » •• -■ «t.. ~,7.05 868 1 9,28 3 5 5.13 7.0 8.0 9.30 t (hiatiKttVorV)'nominfra. v Ciianflte for"Aucfcland and Intonnediato Stations. t Chanijofor Kalyura Branch Stationw. 6 Change for Otahuhu. A Paesenxom arc not booked by this train to StAtions oer.ween Auckland and Onenunga. n' Only stbuM to pick nx> for South of Penrose Junction. a. Kvns on Mondiirs. Wedncsdaya. and Fridays only. D. Uuns on Mondays and Fridays only. B Rutin on Tuesdays, Tnur«dars, »nd Haturdays only. v Runs from Otorobanga on Tuesdays and Saturdays only. ' The'J. IS a. m. train from To Awitnnitu runs daily. a. Frankton Junction for Cambridge. Tβ Aroha and Rotorna Linoa. CAMBTtTpqK—Tg AROnA AJTD ROTORTTA LTXB3.. Sooth.—Wkkk Dayb. North.- Week Days. A. M. A. M. A. M. P. Ht. Auckland, dep. .. 8.0 11.40 Liohflold, dep 01210 , i ■ — -—— *Putaruru Junction * ..p.m. p.m. *Taumanffi .. .. .... * Frankton Jun., dep. 1.40 M.O Oxford, dep. 12.55 Hamilton West _ .. 1.48 7.10 "Okoroire "l-lainilton East.. .. :....** 'Mangawhara .. .. .. .. * KuakuraJiin.,arr. .. 2.0 7.22 Matamata 1.35 , —______ *Waharoa * Cambridge Br.— *Walton * Ruakura Jun., dep. .. „ .. ..a2.5 7.25 "Kiwitahi * *MonKaonui ~..»—..** MoninsvUle, arr a 2.40 *Tamahere ....** : *Fencourt • * Te Aroha Bβ.— •Hantapu * * To Aroha, dep. _ .. ~ .. 61.55 Cambridge, arr. a 2.45 68.5 'Wailiou .. * i *\Vaitoa .. * Ruakura Jun., dep 2.5 ... "Tatuao Haua .. * 'Eureka * .. 'Murray's * •Motumaoho * .. Morrinsvillo, arr 62.40' MoiTiusville, arr. 2.45 .. ■ ' i Morrinsville, dep 2.55 Tk. Arotia Br.— *Motumaoho • MoiTinsville, dop. a 2.55 .. *Kuroka * •Murray's • .. Itualcura Jun., arr. 3.35 •TatuaoHaua .. .. „ * .. •Wui'tpa ~ .. .. * .. Camtirtook Br ♦Wnihou * .. Cambridge, dep. .. .. 9.20 .. Te Aroha, arr. A3 40 .. *Hautapu.. .. „ .. * —— —— ' ' *Fcncourt .. ~ .. * .. Morrinsville, dep — ..i2.55 .. "Taimihero * ♦Kiwltahi _ .. .. • .. "Mongaonui * * Walton m .. .. * .. Rtiakura Jun, arr. .. .. 10.0 Matamata 4.0 .. Ruakura Jun.. dep 10.3 3.38 *Mangft\vhara «... * .. "'Hamilton East * * •Okoroire • .. Hamilton West 10.20 353 Oxford 4.40 .. Frankton Jun., arr. 10.25 3.58 *Tauinangl * .. ._ *Putaruru Jun. „ ~ * .. Auckland, arr. .. .. 5.13 9.3Q Liohtleld. arr. ■■ .. 65.25 .. "" "" • Flag Wtation. a Runs on Tuesdays, Tliursdays, and Saturdays only, b Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only The others run daily, KAIPAKA BRANCH.—Auoklakd— Hendersox —Hklensville. AUCKLAND TO HELBNSVILLK.—WEEK DAYS. HKLENBYILLB TO AUCKLAND.—WEEK DaY3^ A A a in. a ro. p.m. p.m. a.m. a.ni n m t> in Auckland .. dep. 70 10.65 4.40 2.15 HelonarUle .. dep. 6.20 11.45 4 0 Newmarket Junot r n 7.12 11.12 4.57 2.25 *Holensville South.. * • • Mount Kden_ .. 7.19 11.19 5.4 2.32 *ObiranKi .. .. • * * •Kingaland .... * • • * *Paeroa * * * •MorniDgside.. * * * * *Woodhill .... * * * ♦Mount Albert * * * • *Reweti * * • Avondalo .. ..7.35 11.38 5.20 • *Waimauku .. .. * • • *NewLynn ....**** *Kumeu .. .. 7.15 1.5 50 ♦WaikomiU ... .. * * * 3.0 *Taupakl .. .. * * * •Henderson .. - 8.0 12.5 5.45 .. Waitakerei .. .. 7.35 1.30 520 ~ •Swanson .. ... * * ♦ .. *Bwaneon .... * * •' " Waitakerei ~ .. 8.25 12.32 6.15 .. Henderson .. .. 8.0 2.5 545 ♦Tanpaki .. .. * * * ... *Waikoinitl .. .. * • * aic Kumen „ .. a 45 1.5 6.33 .. *New Lynn _ • * * * *Waimauka .... * * * .. Avondale .. .. 8.27 232 610 * *Reweti.. -..*■* * *Mount Albert ..**** •Woodhill « « * * * *Morningaido.. * * * ♦ •Paeroa.. - .. * *' * *Kingsland .... * * * * •Ohirangi .. .. * * * .. Mount Eden.. .. 8.47 2.55 6.24 515 *HelenevJlle South.. *.*.*■». Newmarket Junct'n 9.4 3.10 636 521 Helensvllle .. arr. 9.40 2.10 7.30 •• t.,,,,Anckland arr, 9.13 3.20 6.45 5*30 " ' """ " A.' Runs "on nrst Sunday'in 'eAcn'mon'ln'on'iy I .' "' " ' " WAIKATO TRAIN SERVICE. TRArNS FROM AUCKLAND FOB Tβ Awamutn \ Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8.0 a.m. TeAWamura - *• " t Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 11.40 a.m. *Otorohanga „ m „ Mondays and Fridays at 8.0 a.m. Hamilton West { D FrfdayfaUL4oa!m. OaM ° ndayS, Wednosda rs, and Cambridee ! Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 11.40 a.m. tftmDna » e - " •• •• (Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 8.0a.m Morrinsvilla .. ... .. Daily at aoa.m. . To Aroha .. .. .. .. Tueedayß, Thursdays, and Saturdays at aOa.m. Oxford and Liohfleld „ ~ Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8.0 a.m. Trains for Auckland from LJohfleld and Oxford .. .. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays Te Aroha Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1.55 D.m. Morrhmille .... «, Daily, at 2.55 p.m. Cambridge Daily at 9.20 a.m. Hamilton We»t Daily at 10.20 a.m. and 3.53.p.m. ♦Otorohanga ~ „ ~ Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8,10 a.m. ffpA,wamutii , r . „.' .. Daily at 9.15 a.m. ' • Flag StaUona.—An asterisk • opposite a Station denotes that traina do not stop unless required to pick up or set down pasaontjoru. NoUoeshould.be given to tho Guard at pro-vlous BtoppinK



WOED hojnes of New Zealand mustfeiit^S?^^ BUENS'S Ai SOAP. Itis aslmple but useful article.' ThoßawhnM touseitareetill more^stopig,aid fi^ ' ■ ••' : ■»■• ■ Yon may have heard of ft a THOtjSAKn TIMES without using it" reverse tlio position and ■?; ;■-, .; TJSEITOSCI You will praise it to others a THOUSAND TIMJiS.—I navp spent hundreds of poonJs m convincing the women of New'ZeaW flat their labour can be greatly lightened by mi BURNS'S Al SOAJ? (THE; Cleanser •i, but I have fallen atetb(mi» bit ion it 1 have failed to ' CONfINCiS- YOU, WHpIESALEAGENT- A. BUCHANAN. CUSTOMS STREET EAST. -piDGAR- AND DYERS, ESTABLISHED 1851,.';... Still Dying to Li\kaxd Living Tpßn. Ladies' ana, Gentlemen's: Wearing Mf Cieied, Renewed or Curtains or Table Ciovers Dyed. Feathers and eJOTwC*fM4"i&* any shade. Lace or other Curtains Sf«cl)cdfc Dyed " EDGAR, IttER, EAST, iSD M& MOND: COX'S CREEK. . -j- =g TTTTFunn^ J. ±>t . \JV '.;;':,■-.■:. COMMISSION iffiRGOT,;, SHIPPING," CUSTOMS, AND GENERAL .■ ' • :..-■ '■ ;'. :■.' Firth's BDH.MN6S, 75; QtrSKSMBHff, ArCKtANB.THWZWtiSD. ; SOLE IN ireW AGENT FOR Novollo, Ewer & Qα, Muste » *fe3SK3SE£ AGfflra; roß ' r ? s ;" SALE AND PURCHASE OF PEOPEHTDS. AOBNtro 11 ■ TRUSSES AND ABSENTS ' 'SHORTtASp-STBEET^^^ VX GROUND, IJME ; , ; yoR gAtSL-je Fbrianks ana ACCOUNT w B y ° N^AM-BTaEiff tape Boaoi. <t



Business Notices. m peacock, -*-» OPTICIAN, jitathematical and nautical instrument Maker, SHORTLANTt-STREET. Always in Stock— Spectacles and Eye glasses of every kind; an accurate Ut guaranteed Opera Glasses of superior quality Toieacopea, iJinocular Field Glasses, and Micro* scopes, powerful and cheap Theodolites, Minim? (Jompasses, Abney Levels Drainage Levels, Prismatic Compasses Drawing Instruments, Scales, Parallel Rulers Ships L >ixh. Sextantb, Compasses, Binnacles Baromciors, Thermometers, ])ydronietera Electric Bjllp, Batteries, and Fittingra Magnotio and Galvanic Medical Machines Magic Lanterns and Slides, Hand Maguillora Stc.-; oscopt-s and Slides. Graphoseopes Steam Guagea and Tubing, Saliaometera Just Received- Settlers Telescopes, powerful, portable, and cheap. Us Settlers' Aneroid Barometers, strong and good, 253 6d Settlers' Microscopes, magnifying 1,750 times, 22s 6d Also, Steam and Electro Motor Working Models and Steamers. Instruments of every kind Repaired, Opposite ran Post-opficie. « we c"a" BAKING DOWDER Makes Wholesome JL Pastry. -m/TAKES A T IGHT QCONE, JVtt Delightful JLJ Tea IO Cakes. Tl TAKES A "WHITE IVJL Sold by V? the £j Trade. I]l Manufacturer ~\%T in New Zealand : Iredk. W kite head. Thirty-two years before the English public. /^VRION. ORION. WHAT IS IT? A FEW DOORS HIGHER UP THE STREET, And wishes to notify to all customers and the public that he in'ends to confine himself to the supply of ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF UPHOLSTERY T7[7 ORE, VT Including: BEDDING, &c, &.C. SPECIAL LINES: SPRING MATTRKSSES in Hair, Kapok, Flax, and Flock ORDINARY MATTRESSES in Hair, Kapok, Flax, Flock, arid Feathers SUITKS in Utrecht Velvet, Tapestry, Leather, and Haircloth ~,,,., ~ ~> OCCASIONALCHAIRSin Variety of CoTerings C. C. "B R ° ws > HOBSON-STPJSET. HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACE 10 A COALSACK; CLEANS TttOUSERS without wetting a finger or knocking off a button. It docs away with wet feet, pains in the arms, back, and breast, and does a big day's washing in two hours. V HOMEIdI UEWEL^" ,^ HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. M. M. LEVY, SOLE AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. Iron Curved for V erandas <ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. George M c caul Manufacturing Plumber, AND IMPORTER OF ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), end BROWN & DAVY STREETS. IHAMKS, HAB FOR SALE— 200 Corrugated Galvanized Tanks (assorted) 500 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) 60,000 feet Lead Edge Ridge Cap (all sizes) 50,000 feet O.G. Spouting (all size?) 60.000 feet Downpipea (all sizes) » 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipea (all sites) Lead-head Nails. Lead Washera, Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames, Copper Boilers, etc., etc., etc Awarded Three First Prizes forabove lines, at > Auckland Agricultural Show. Largest and best selection ofi Gas Globes la ' Auckland. As G. McCAUL is a direct Importer for cash, he is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prioee. Liberal discounts to tho trade. Country Olden punctually attended to. GEORGE tticcAUS., Manufacturing Plpmber, and Importer of all Trade Requisites, Wellesley-et Bast (opposite Hβw library), and Brown and Dary-streete, . Thames. DISSOLVED BONE MANURE, — Freezing Co. 'a £8, q{ all merchants.