A STRANGE, TRUE STORY.

The Langworthy Marriage.

CHAPTER LXV

THE SUBFfSNA AND THE HVST TARTY. Novhtnt; h more remarkable in the whole of these proceedings than the calm manner in which the Langworthys, mere el Jils, assume that the business of the Court should be subordinated to their convenience. Mr Langworthy carries out this to the extreme of ignoring the authoiity of the court 3 altogether, setting their decrees at defiance und treating them with contempt. This he is able to do by keeping himself outside the jurisdiction of the court. His mother is not able to do this because she is resident and has real property in the country. But she seems to regard it as a monstrous hard . ship that she should ever be summoned to ,attend the law Courts. The public is already familiar with the repeated affidavits "by .which she endeavoured to avoid ap pearing before Baron Huddleston. The .sanle .characteristic appeared in the bankruptcy proceedings. Leave was given -•to privately examine her. The case was eefc down for hearing on April 13. On i the Bfch— jwhioh was Easter Eve—she was served with a subpoena, demanding her attendance at the Registrar's chambers, Bankruptcy Buildings, to give evidence in the matter.

On the appointed morning Mrs Lang worthy, jun., with her counsel and solicitor, •was in attendance ; but Mrs Langworthy, . sen., did not put in an appearance. In her .place stood Mr Thomas Wilson Danby. VVhy was not Mrs Langworthy there ? Mr Danby rose to explain. Mrs Lang worthy, sen., was giving a hunt party, and it was most inconvenient for her to be present.; so she stopped away ! "Of course she was perfectly willing to come forward," said Mr Danby. Where upon Mr Registrar Hazlitt remarked drily, '" That is always said when a witness does iliot attend." " But," said. Mr Danby, "it • is Easter week* and most inconvenient for • an old lady of 70 to come to Court in holiday time." Then Mr Hazlitt (who'is well ad vanced in years himself) remarked blandly ■, that, however that might be* he knew he • had to. attend the Court. As Mrs Langworthy was not there he would post ,.pone the examination to a more convenient season; but she must pay the costs of that -day- - , . ~ Did ever a court accept in a more kindly i- fashion the plea of inconvenience to the rich .• as an excuse for non-attendance ? But even ■•this was not enough for Mr Danby. He protested against his client being saddled ■with the costs incurred by her own neglect ±o attend. His idea seemed to be that the other side should with counsel and all the ■ rest be allowed to dance attendance, while '■his client remained at home enjoying her hunt party without paying a penny of the costs. This view of the situation was too much for Mr Registrar Hazlitt. He said : "I do hot think so. I think it is just thatit should be sc. The expenses have been in curred, and gentlemen are here in various capacities to attend the appointment. And now, because somebody told her that she was not likely to be required until the 18th, and she has consequently got a party, therefore the sitting musb be postponed. Under these circumstances she must pay all costs." The examination was therefore post poned for several days* and Mrs Lang worthy, jun., left the Court wondering what would have happened if she had neglected to obey a subpeena on the ground that she was enjoying herself elsewhere. Bub then, of course, there is all the dif ference in the world between a poor platii tiff who is depending upon charity for daily bread, and the other party who is rich enough to give hunt parties.

CHAPTER LXVI,

SFEN~LOW A>"D JORKIN'S.

No arrangement conld be more convenient than the familiar and famous arrangement between Mr Sperilow and Mr Jorkins, which is described in the pages of '; David Copperfield." In that eminent firm the partner who was present was always willing to do anything ; the difficulty always lay with the invisible partner. Mr Spenlow. when receiving an applicant,' was always in mortal dread of Mr Jorkins. Of. course, nothing would give him greater pleasurej but the terrible Mr Jorkins in the back ground : no one could say what he would do. It was just the same when Mr Jorkihs was to the fore and Mr Spenlow was the invisible partner. This arrangement, con venient though it was for the members of the firm, had it's disadvantages for the general public. The advantages of the system seem to have been present to the minds of Mrs Langworthy, sen., of Maidenhead, and Mi- Edward Martin Larigv/orchy, of Bella Vista, and the Langworthys, mere ttjlh, seemed to have struck up some such partner ship arrangement. As in this case, Spen low and Jorkins were separated by some 6,000 miles, the inconveniences of trouble some customers were correspondingly in creased.

Mrs Langwofthy, Jan., had how got an order in bankruptcy against her husband, but no sooner was the order granted than it was discovered that Mr Edward Martin Langworbhy had no property at all in this country. On the contrary, instead of being, as was supposed, a man of great wealth, he was absolutely head over ears in debt. 'There were no assets—only claims ; and the chief creditor was none other than the senior member in the firm—to wit, Mrs Langworthy, of Geys .House, Maidenhead ! The way in which responsibility passes from mother and son Was illustrated in the success with which Mrs Langworthy, sen., . defeated Mrs Langworthy jun.'s raid upon the goods and chattels addressed to her Eton at Southampton. A much more remarkable illustration is afforded by the lawsuit now in progress between an artisan at Wool wich of the name of Wimble and Mrs Lang- This is an action brought^by Wimble for breach of contract. According to Wimble's story, he, with several other workmen,, was engaged ior a year by Mrs Langworthy, sen., to go out to work for Mr Langworthy in the Argentine Republic, When he got out, Mr Langworthy refused to pay him, and sent him and a mate about his" business. " 1 told him," said Wimble, "I had oome out to him on a twelve months' agreement with his mother. He ' said he knew nothing about it." Wimble had to work his way back as best he could. His mate not being a seaman, could not get a passage, and is still believed to be in the Argentine Republic, while his wife is , said to be at present in one of the London workhouses. Wimble, returning home; in stituted proceedings against Mrs Lang wOrthy. Her defence* was that she was only acting as her son's agent, and thafc he was the principal, against whom proceedings, if any, should be ■ taken. As the case is at present hung ■up until the report of a comViiission issiied to take evidence as to the complainant's conduct in South America, we only alliide to the case and the defence a8 showing that between Mr Langworthy in South Amefica, who knows nothing about his mottie'r's con tracts, and Mrs Langworthy, sen., who is only the agent of her son, the unfoytunate workman is in a somewhat evil case.' Yet at the same time that Mrs t-ang ■worthy, sen., was meeting the clahv of Wimble by denying that she was anything more than her son's agent, and therefore not liablejto be sued for his breach of con tract, If any such breach was committed, she was meeting her daughter-in-law's claim to the goods seized fit Southampton: by

apsertiho- that the goods were purchased by her on her own behalf and for her own use on her own estate in South America ! (This was in April, 1886.) What makes this more peculiar is that it was not till September in that year that she sent out a power of attorney to transfer her sons estate' to her own name. So at least she swore before Baron Huddleston in February last. CHAPTER LXVII. MORE ADVANTAGES l-ROM THE ME IN" THE A I'FI DAVIT. Ox the day on which Mrs Langworthy graciously consented to be examined, the proceedings were opened by a somewhat extraordinary demand on her part. As soon as the parties had settled in their seats, and before the entrance of Mr Registrar Hazlitt, Mrs Langworthy, sen., through her representative, made formal application for £2 expenses for heraelf and daughter. The railway- fare from Maidenhead to Lon don and back was £1. Mr Lumley replied : Does Mrs Langworthy, sen., wish Mrs Langworthy, jun., to give her two sovereigns? If so, Mrs Langworthy, jun., is in the room, Mrs Langworthy, son., had better ask her. :> But Mrs' Langworthy, jun., unfortunately has riot got two sovereigns. Eventually, Mr Harrington Charles James Groves said : -" We do not wish to press the point, Mr Lumley." For Which much thanks !

When the examination began, Mrs Langworthy, sen., presented elaborate ac counts extending from January 1, 1884, down to the present time. The nefc result of these was to prove that her son, Edward Martin Langworthy, who had beeil his_ own master and in the possession of an inde pendent fortune from the time that he was 18 years of age until he was 37, owning yachts, keeping an establishment, having banking accounts, horses, servants, &c, had in his 30th year become so dependent upon his mother as to transfer to her everything he had got in England, and further to have got into debt to a sum amounting to nearly £7^5,000 ! The ex amination lasted the whole of the clay, and was adjourned to Friday, 13th May. Into, the question of these accounts, which are still mb jiuticr, it is not, of course, our intentidn to enter. The broad fact is that every stick and stone which be longed td Mr Langworthy in England when his wife commehced proceedings against him was claimed to have been transferred, and therefore could ho longer be regarded as available for meeting tlie 'decrees of the Court. In the course of 1884, Mr3 Langworthy, sen., had transferred the whole of the £47,000 then at the bankers in bonds held in this country, and in addition had ex pended on his behalf £40,000; £27,000 more was sent him in 1885, and this With £1,000 in 188G, and some £0,000 interest, made up her total claim upon him of L 74.000. She had also sold the stables and land at Holyport and the yacht Meteor in 1885. Among the items which were paid in 1886 was £5 5s subscription to the United Universities Club. The result of these accounts broadly stated—for we have no intention of entering into details —is that Mr Langworthy. who, at the beginning of h'g \vi:e'.s proceedings, pos sessed property in this country valued at o.ver £50,000, had succeeded in removing the whole of it from the jurisdiction of the Court, and further secured advances from his mother amounting to L 74,000. lieflect for one moment what light this sheds upon the tactics that were pursued in 1884, when the application for alimony was first made. According to the order of the Court, Mr Langworthy was bound to pay his wife £100 per month from February 6, ISB4 j but owing to the affidavit which "I, Harrington Charles James Groves, of the firm of Messrs Bircham and C 0.," made on June, 23 18S4, that his client informed him there had been no form or ceremony of marl- riage, or pretended form or ceremony of maTTiage,between Mr and Mrs Langworthy the decree for alimony was not issued until August, 1885. The period of time thus ob tained by Mr Langworthy's falsehood ih the affidavit had been employed in order to transfer from the jurisdiction of the Court the funds which otherwise would have beeh available for the payment of the alimony. The decree which would have been issued in June, 1884, was not issued until August, 1885. What had happened in the mean time? On January 7, Mrs Langworthy had sold the stables and lands be longing to her son at Holyport, Maid enhead" for more than £3,000. At that time there was due, according to the decree of alimony subsequently granted, close upon £1,000. Aftev the decree df alimony was granted the yacht Meteor was sold for £3,000. And the two sums then transferred would even now have more than paid the whole of the alimony due. together with the costs. But beyond pointing, out that as the result of the denial of the mar riage or form or ceremony of marriage, we have no more to say; The whole matter will be fully gone into before the Senior Regis trar of the Bankruptcy Court, when the adjourned private examination of Mrs Langworthy, sen., takes place.

CHAPTER LXVHx;

A NATPHAL QUERY.

"Did they never offer to square it?" is the inquiry which most men 6f: the world versed in the familiar methods by which wealth chokes the cry of its victims have askel mcst frequently during the slow pro gress of this weary narrative. The very dreary, weary monotony of these chapters, against which the impatient reader pro tests, affords some idea, howe.ver faint and meagre, of the deadly, heart-sickening pro cession of delay and of litigation which Mrs Langworthy has passed through in these four years. But during all these long years, it is asked, did Messrs Bircham never offer to settle it ?. Did not old Mrs Lang worthy, who in the same period has advanced her son no less a sum than L 75.000, propose to buy off this indefatigable litigant by the offer of some adequate sum ? Above all. did Mr Langworthy himself, in the midst of his Argentine magnificence, never deign, to pro pose to toss to the woman whom he .wedded the ordinary allowance of a cast-off mistress? These questions are natural. The answer, however,, is in the negative. What passed between Messrs Bircham and their clients we cannot, of course,pretend to tell. It may be that Messrs Bircham, with the instincts of men alive to the firmer feel ings* we do not say of chivalry, but of humanity and of justice, seeing that Mrs Langworthy had undoubtedly been most cruelly wronged, have again and again pro tested that they could no longer allow their name to be associated with so dishonourable a case, and have urged their clients to honour the decrees of the Court and ; settle, say^ £500 a year upon the child and an equai sum upon the mother for life.. Suchadvicewould have been in every way consistent with the high character ,of Messrs Bircham and Go. It may even be, as many have imagined, that Messrs Bircham and Co. have threatened more than once to throw up the conduct of a case in which they have bo'en unwittingly made the instruments for practicing a fraud upon the Court, and that they had been induced to continue to act in the matter only by some overwhelming pressure, the nature of which we cannot even surmise. All that we kiiow is that, whatever they may have said to their client-from March, 1884, when the last, moiety of the monthly allowance promised to Mrs'Langworthy by their1 client was paid, down to March, 1887, they never made any proposal—never hold out any hope that their client would recognise the claims of his deserted and outraged wife. Of overtures from Mr Langworthy arid Mrs Langworthy, Ben., there werej of course, none, Hie whole attitude through

out has been one of unrelenting and resolute j refusal to do anything which \vould in any vny soften the hardness of poor Mrs Lang worthy's lot, or lessen the misery of her ruined life. To have done so would, of bourse) have been contrary to his Plan of Campaign. That Plan of Campaign seems —so far, at least, as Mr Langworthy is con cerned —to have been modelled with scru pulous fidelity upon the tactics which had been employed with the tortured cats in the Braga: m Hotel. CHAPTER LXIX. MESSRS BIRCUAM'S OFFER; But—it will be objected—in a previous chapter you mentioned an offer of £1,000, that was subsequently increased to £2,000. How does that square with the statement that no offer of compromise was made ? Ifc has not been stated that no offer of com promise was ever made. What was stated was that no offer of compromise was made between March, 1884, when the pittance allowed to her by her husband was stopped as a penalty for her attempting to vindicate her rights, down to March, 18S7, when negotiations for the first time began. And why was it that negotiations were begun in 1887? >fot because Messrs Bircham and Co. or their clients were for the first time advised of the destitute condition of Mrs Langworthy. As far back as the middle of 188(T Mrs Langworthy had presented a petition on affiavit to the Court stating on oath that sho was destitute, and had no money and no means of making money; that she was largely in debt, and had no means to pay even for her board ahd lodg ing. They heard that cry of despair, anc so far from offering terms, they tightened their hold upon the goods, valued at L 127, which Mrs Langworthy, jun., had seized at Southampton. Once more, towards the end of that year, Mrs Langworthy presented a Second affi davit, again setting forth her destitute condition. It had as )ittle effect as the former. Compassion, therefore, and all the kindly feelings which sway the hearts of men, had no more effect upon the tactics of the campaign against Mrs Langworthy than they have in the direction of a siege or the sacking of a city. Mr Lang worthy, out in South America, was _as silent and merciless as the Phoenician Moloch, whose incense was the wail of the dying, and whose altars blazed with human sacrifice.

The attitude of absolute vengeance was persisted in without faltering down to Feb ruary 3, 1887. When the interpleader was lost, and Mrs Langworthy, sen., was able to bear off in triumph the goods which her daughter-in-law had seized at Southampton, Mr Theodore Lumley went to Mr Harring ton Charles James Groves, of Bircham and Co., and said :— "How is this going to end? Will you hot settle it some way 5" This at the end of three years' litigation was a hot unnatural appeal—what was the response ? Mr Groves replied: "We shall go on as .we have done. We do not intend to offer a settlement;"

Mrs Langworthy overheard the remark immediately before leaving the Court. That was February 3, 1887- What then happened we have already told. She made her way to the office of the " Pall Mall Gazette " and prayed for an investigation into her pitiful and tragic story. On February 26th the editor of the " Pall Mall Gazette " wrote to Messrs Bir cham and Co., asking them for information, inasmuch as ( he was about to publish the whole story of the Langworthy case. Messrs Bircham—as the correspondence which has already been published shows—endeavoured to avert this exposure ; first, by disputing the right of anyone to publish anything ; and secondly, by hinting that the conse quences might be very serious if such a course were persisted in. They speedily dis covered, however, that their veiled menace was thrown away, and that they had to pre pare themselves for publicity-• the publicity whfclfatobve all things their client had-most to dread. That which compassion for the sufferings of Mrs Langworthy could not accomplish, that which a sense of justice had failed to do, was achieved by the mere intimation that the Eye of Man was at last to be turned upon the incidents in the long struggle. It was a great prayer that of the ancient Rabbi, who asked every morning that he might fear the Eye of God even as he feared the Eye of Man. The mere opening of the Eye of Man caused Messrs Bircham and Co. and then clients to make an offer which for three years the thought of Divine Justice had failed to effect.

And what sum was it that they then offered ?

Mrs Langworthy's claims had already been partially assessed by the Court. She1 held decrees for alimony amounting to £3,000, and an order had also been obtained for the taxed costs of her lawyers amount ing to nearly £500. That stood in black and white in the decrees of the Court. She had incurred further legal expenses amount ing to more than £1,000, and her debts amounted to at least that much. In addi tion to the provision made by the decree of alimony, which could be accurately assessed to the last penny, the Court had ordered that maintenance should be provided for the child oh the same scale as if it had been the issue of a legitimate marriage. No sum had been publicly decreed, but it had- been mentioned on the bench that £SQO a year would be a reasonable arrangement. More over, Mrs Langworthy laid her action for breach of promise of marriage, which had already been decided in her favour. The amount of the damages (which were claimed at £20,000) alone remained to be assessed.

How far did Messrs Bircham and Co. propose to meet their claims ? There could be no doubt whatever as to the ability of their .client to pay the whole sum : £20,000 for the breach of promise, £500 a year for the child (which allowing twenty years' value, would be worth £10,000), £3,900 far alimony, and £500 for the taxed costs. All this could be paid twice over out of the money which Mr Langworthy had drawn from English banks and received from the realisation of English securities since pro ceedings commenced, leaving his vast estates in South America untouched.

Messrs Bircham knew all this and they proposed as an adequate settlement, which might suffice to atone for all Mrs Lang worthy's sufferings, and wipe out all her claims, the.beggarly sum Of £1,000 ! A thousand pounds !—a sum probably considerably less than the bill of costs incurred by Mr Langworthy in the legal vendetta which he had been waging against his unfortunate wife. £I,ooo!—was ever offer made more miserably mean and in adequate? But they had cause; they knew Mrs Langworthy was destitute. Of course, thought, they, " beggars must not be choosers." . The long-continued series of cunningly-devised delays had, Mr Lang worthy may well have thought, worn down the strength and crushed the proud spirit of her whom in the old days he used to rally as being " such an independent dar ling." His agents were well aware of the shifts which she had been making to live. Bub a little more pressure and she might be thrust over the brink into the abyss Where mahy other victims of men like Mr Langworthy linger out an existence of tortured shame. And- now to close up the thing handsomely, and to cover up the lady's ruin with a Pharisaic phylactery of gilded munificence, they proposed to wind up everything and close all claims agairist their client by paying—£l,ooo ! And even this beggarly pittance was accompanied with the condition which of all others was most intolerable—Mrs Langworthy might have her money, but for that she should sell her child, Mother and daughter were to be separated; the child was to be sent out to Budhos Ayres to be reared amid such moral and religous influences as Btiirrovihclecl

Mi- Langworthy ; while the mother, de piived of her child and without a penny in the world, would be left to starve on the London pavement.

(To be Continued To morrow)

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' *■■< i! ?- ;*• -• 6-31 11*3 mi ".. >'..'» 'U' nvhangarata .. - •• - •• „' .„„ „,, •■ *• t Tuukau - •• b-pu u -2 % 4- •• " » •Bueklahd - •• " '• in 1011 <>o " " »n- Pukekohe i •• •• *• •• 7v lo 12-F *■$ •• •■- 7-f 'Paerata .. .-• — » » .. •• •• s prurV dman. :: ." "" " rt 7-i 7 h* 3-f » •• \ l6 Pamknra"' V. " '.'.'.'.?. 2 8.1 1M 3.47 \\ \\ BJB Mamircwa • •• - •• 8-16 lM L 2 PaDatoUof " -- •• 8-3° 2-° *-15 Otahuhi '.' •• ■• 6.50 8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 6.20 L 7.15 Penrosc Junction " E7.15 t|8.30 18.5* t2.30 14.36 t6.*o h.30 9.0 Ellerslio 7.20 8.30 0.00 2.3s C.30 7.30 * 'Kin™*?™ " il - - 7-3° 8-« 9-7 2-<5 6-*5 7-45 NewnmrketJunc. .. .. •• 735 8.49 9.19 2.55 t5.4 6.51 7.50 9.20 Auckland .. ■■ - air. 7.45 1 8.58 9.28- &5 5.13 J . 7.0 8.0. 1,9.30 t Chance for Onehuhgu. II Chantce for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. t Chance for Katpara Branch Stations. § Change for Otahnhn. A Passengers arc not booked by this train to Stations between Auckland Onehunjfa; b ' Only stops to pick ud Passengers for South of Penrose Junction, c Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays. Fridays, and Saturdays only. ». Runs on Mondays and Wednesdays only, i: Runs from Otorohanga on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. Th 09.15 a.m. train from Te Awamutu runs daily. . f. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, Te Aroha and Kotorua Lines. Cambridge—Te Aroha and EbfoRUA Ltne3. "^ South!— Week Days. North.- Week Days. a. m. a. m. a. m. p. m. Auckland, dep. ".." 8 01140 Llchfleld, dep. .. „ .. ..6125 , i—,i -I -,i. >aj —_ . *Pdtaruru Junction * ..P.M. p.m. *Tauhiangi .. .. .. .. * Frankton Jun., dep 1 30c7 0 Oxford, dep. 12 50 Hamilton West - ..138 710 *Okoroire .. .. .. .. * 'Hamilton East.. ;. :....** *Mangavhara * Kuakura Jun., arr. .. 152 722 Matamata 13) _ . : —. 1_ *Waharoa .. .. .... * Cambridge Br.— .. .. .. * Walton .. .. .. a .. * Ruakura Jun., dep .. 2 0c27 30 *Kiwitahi.. .. , * *Mbngaonui .. .. „ .. .. * * Moriinsville, arr; 235 "Tamahero * * —i — iH — *Fencourt * * Te Aroha Br.— *Hautapu ....** Te Aroha, dep. „ „ .. 820 .. Cambridge, arr. 2408 10 *Waihou * .. SisS:— -■--•■ ■■ -■■ i- yt. - • *Waitoa .. „ ... * Ruakura Jun.,dep. 2 0&730 *TatuaoHaua .. .. .. * .. *Eureka * * *Murray's _; ■.. .. * *Motumaoho * * Morrinsville, arr. .. „j 5 Morrinsvillo,arr. .. .. .. .. 2408 10 ■ — —it.——^— ■——. - —-" ~ '■ 1 — Morrinsville, dep 910 6250 TkAbohaßr.— *Motumaoho * * Morrihsyille, dep. .. ~ .. .. a255 815 *Eureka . * * 'Murray's * * Ruakura Jun., at-r. ... ..9 50 330 *Tatuaoliaua .. .. * * ~ :—• ■ ■ ■ . ut *Waitba ~ * * Cambridge Br.— *Waihou .. .. .. * * Cambridge, dop. *„ .. 9 15^250 Te Aroha, arr. .. .. 3408 55 *Hautapu.. .. .... * * — — —— - "-"' "' ' ":—> — ! *Fencourt .. .. ; . * * Mornnsville, dop „ ..62 50 ... *Tamahere • * •Klwltahi.. .i .. -....* .. *Mongaonui .. .. *' * * ...... * .. Ruakura Jun, aw. *. ..9 55 330 *waharoa .« .. • .. ;—■ —, ■■■■■ ■ — -. -■ • _^. — Matamata .. .;. ; 355 .. Ruakura Jun., dep. .. ..10 oc3 40 'Mangawhara ..• .. .. .... * .. *HamlltonEast.. .. .. *■ * *Okoroire.. .. *. .. Hamilton West.. .. ..10 20 355 Oxford. 435 .. Frankton Juh., ftrr. _. ..10254 0 . *Taum&ngl .. .. .. .; .. * .. -■■■>- v •PutornruJun.^ « .. .. .. . * .. Auckland, arr. ~ ..513 933 Liohfield,a«v .. .„ -~ ~ ..5 20 .. ■ • Flog fetation. ' a Runs on Tnosdaya, Thursdays, and Saturdays only* 6 Huns on Mondays, Wednesday*, and Fridays onkr. o Runs on Mondays, WVdnosdays. Fridays, and Saturdays only, d fiunaon Wed nesdayft and Saturdays onlf. Tho others Vun daily. A Kuns on first Sundays in eaoh niontli only. ! KAIPARA BfiA^ TCH t -AT;(fttLAin)-HKySSßS&y~gE^SYiiili, AuoKtAnp to BBtTOßvnjj.~TWtt- Dayb. HsMaomuß TO Apokuwd.^Wbbk mn, ♦Mount Mbefli - * * « « *Rowe« W " '* * * * ' „ ~ 7.85 U.SB «.» f *WaTmaani " M • I « " wSXfik t r * \ I v :§3, <« Sft 4 *8 ;; Sffl? 1:: :; 4.» iH° S Mm;: :; & t*> *$ S ♦WooSwYi M " • * * " t^°W,t Albert . * t * • IS - :: : : : :: :|^ dß:: ■: • : ' "•



!• P E A C 0 " w Spectacles SUg^TOCK. accurate at guarded BVtJ1 7 kta VIa K netic and GaiVani P Ht nf- Fi, ttin ß« lagic Lanterns ed/^M|hi tt(S s creoscopes and Slld£ (&&£ Mag^, iteani Guages and TnblnWfflw ■ Settlers' Tclescopos-powel, ~ , cheap, us , Powert.il, po ltab] OPPOSITE THK POST-OFFICE Iron Curved for VftiMm AT SHORTEST NOEtGB, George Manufacturing Piumber* ANT) IMPORTER OF ALL IRADE itEQUßlfej WELLESLEY STREET EAST (opposite New Library), mi BROWN & DAVY STREETS. tAWB, HAS FOft SAtE^ -50.000 feet I)ownpipes (all sizes) 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipes (allEteej Lead-head Nails. Lead Washere. Potum Ovens, Furnace Frames. Copper Boies otc.. etc., etc, Awarded Three First Prizes for above Ilia, it Auckland Agricultural Show. '™B littrpst and best selection ot GasQlobtjli As G. McCAUL is a direct import® (a cash, ho Is in a position to supply m\M at the lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to the trade. OttW orders punctually attended to. ' ♦ GEORGI WIcCAUL, Mahnfacturing PlnWber, and Impotttli (111 I'rade Requisites. Weilos!ey-st Jfcafit (bpjiosV Kevr Library), and Brown and DaTysfi&S; ' Thames. ; ,■»- i • ; ■ .',!''■ 11 j I jiyoij|jKlil|J | j^UINS! G tJNS! QVM . RftMS BffiM REVOLVERS, REVOLVEE3 GUNPOWDEft! Shot, Caps, Oarfcridgev ##4 "Wibl! CabtridSes, LCaDWo iii'ißite AMMUNITION Of EVBBT DESCRiFtto!'. Fishing Tackle, Cntleir, Fireworks, to ■ Thebestandcheap^taAucWtt K. EVTTT'S, 254, QaEES-siMfc guarantecn. D. EVITT* Qmnum,' and Floor Cramp 3 °^^_____---t-^'* AS!* HORSE COVJSRS, gaiteM Illustrated.