EVA'S ENGAGEMENT.

"Ipsa sod in somnis inliumati venit imago

conjugit.—Virgil: Ma. LI

I NEVEE liked Captain Henry, although he was shortly to be my brother-in law. j always felt uncomfortable in his presence, and had it nob been because of my regard for my only sister, to whom I was tenderly attached, I would never have sought his acquaintance, or, if I had accidentally formed it, would studiously have avoided renewing it. I often wondered how a frank' gentle creature like Eva could be attracted towards a person like the Captain, whose

whole character appeared the very an tithesis of hers ; but then Ero's ways at 6 not our ways, and the machinery which regulates the movements of a woman's hear ' is too intricate to be untbi'stood by any body who, like myself, has spent most 0 his time among books. Still, when now I look back to the period that lies beyond the terrible events which I am about to de scribe, 1 plainly discern that Eva did not really love Captain Henry ; she merely yielded to that inexplicable something by means of which a powerful will sways a weaker. When I first heard of their engagement I frankly expressed my opinion that Eva was worthy of more affection than could be ex pected from a man of Captain Henry's manners and appearance. Furthermore, my prejudice of the man suggested a con nection between his engagement only 12 months after his lirst wife's death to my sister and the fact of her becoming the heiress to a considerable property by our uncle's death.

Of Captain Henry's lirst wife I had heard very little, saving what everybody knew. I had heard from reports that he married her on the Continent, where her father was a banker reported to be of fabulous wealth ; but only a few months after the daughter's marriage ruin fell over his house and left him nearly penniless. A year or so later Captain Henry's wife received a telegram requesting her to proceed at once on a long journey if she wished to get a last look at her father. She started by the night train without wishing good-bye to anybody; yes, without anybody seeing her at. all. Three weeks after Captain Henry was in mourning. His wife had died from the same contagious disease which killed her father.

One evening, late, I returned from the University library, where I had searched for a certain book without success. When passing the house of my brother in-law in *pc, I thought thab probably I might be able to geb the book from him, ' for he had a splendid library, and was a scholar in every sense of the term. Often during conversation I had admired the originality of his ideas ex pressed in that harsh, dry voice which seemed to sound so unsympathetieally self possessed. I found the captain in, and soon both of us were eagerly exploring the bookshelves. While taking down some volumes my eyes caught sight of what appeared to be a large oval plate of glass behind the row of books. Taking it out, I saw ibwas a finely-polished and ovally-shaped piece of crystal of a milky colour, and about 6 inches long. "What is this?" I asked of Capbain Jfenry, He looked a little startled at first, bufc.gradually a half cynical. smile. spread overnis features as he said :— ,

"That was one rof, my jjoor wife's amulets; well, hardly an amuleb, bub something belonging to the same genus. It is a relic from the time of the alchemists. In those days this innocent-looking little glass was a potent instrument of necromancy ; for by looking into it the students of occultism saw scenes of past and fubure events, and spirits of tho saved and of the damned. But now (here he looked as eneeringly cynical as Voltaire himself), now it has nothing of the pristine virtue left. Ttmpora raulantur, ex not mutamur in iltis !"

I am naturally of a curious predilection of mind, some say of it supcrtitious disposi tion, and by Captain Henry's remarks this oval crystal became of wondrous interest in my eyes. It recalled to memory the • names of Agrippa, Nostradamus, Taracellus, Dr Dee, and other quaint men of quaint ■ learning, who flourished during the ages of darkness and faith. I l-equested Captain Heniy to lend it to me for a few days. He had no objection. " Do you wish to investigate its mystical propensities?" he asked. " Poor Nina once tried it, and perhaps more than once un known to me. She had a lingering faith in all things marvellous. However, she never > succeeded .-in seeing anything." " No," I remarked," spirits do not return —I mean as a general rule—for who will maintain the impossibility of a communica tion between us and those whom wo have loved and lost; still it is perhaps,a good thing for some that they do not believe in the theory of apparitions, it would be an awful belief for those who have wronged the dead while alive."

Never can I forget the expression which flashed across the immobile,. stern face op posite to me. The complexion—usually sickening white— became cadaverously greenish, and the eyes nhone with a mixed look of astonishment and rage. But it did not lasb long:. It passed away as quickly as the. streak of ripples which a sudden gust of wind draws on the surface of a still stagnant pond, and before-X had uttered the last words of my remarks the captain was- himself again, and his voice had the old familiar, calm, harsh, ring; : But that look haunted me all the lonely way to my home.. Somehow I felt nervous. I shuddered now and again at the rever beration of my own footsteps, and at the slightest sound which fell, on my ears through the stillness of the night. I felt relieved when I reached home, where I found all in bed; but a bright fire burned in my room, and.rol ing an easy-chair up in front of the fire I assumed the most com fortable posture therein, and sank into that dreamy state midway between eleep and wakefulness when the thoughts escape the supervision of.their master—the will, and rove afc random hither and thither. Mechanically I took the crystal which I had brought with me, in my hand. ■ : . . ; Could it not be possible that there was something in the theories of the old neero nraucers V If we are not ultra materialists, Is it irrational to believe that the minds of the disembodied can 'imprests the minds of us who are still in the flesh-—and impress them to such an extent that the ideas sug gested become seemingly actual pictures to the usual organs? Does not physiology teach that the retina of the eye may be impressed from within as well as from with out?*' . '.' ' ' ' >: v .'.;'',.. .

These .< questions I asked myself, and began afc the same time to fix my eyes on the glass. Why.l did so I cannot explain. At any other time I would have laughed afc the very idea, but there are times when the "wry wisest of us'are. impelled; to be and delight in being foolish. , How long I sat thus* I know nob. I felfc ■ay eyes getting weary, I remember fchafc the glass hi my hand became a black, opaque surface, and receded further and further away until it became a mere black speck; then it advanced nearer ami nearer, getting larger and larger! Suddenly the transparency returned, and shadowy forms seemed to float before niy feyes. Slowly and gradually thbao clouds fformed theuiselves intjp dipfciijqb object?, I

saw trees and scrub, gravelled paths, and in the background parts of a brick house were visible through the foliage. From a corner to the left of the scene floated a bluish cloud which increased in density as it approached the line of sight. It became a figure of a man who had a spade in one hand,and with the other he was drag ging some evidently heavy object, rolled up in a blanket, along the ground. Hisbackwas turned to me ; bub I thought that I recog nised the man who was soon to many my sister. I certainly recognised in the scene the back part of the park around his house. The figure stopped by a hedge, and began to dig a hole in the ground. I watched him descend into the grave, still keeping his face turned away from me. I watched every shovel of earth he threw up. 1 saw him ascend again) and then for the first time 1 saw his faco.

It was Captain Henry, Ho proceeded to uncover the object he was going to bury. Great heavens !It was the body of a woman, yonng and beautiful, but her throat was cut from ear to ear !

Whe>. I opened my eyes I saw my mother nd Eva standing by my bedside. They told me that I had had a severe attack of brain fever, but was now getting better. I recollected the fearful vision, and, lying there alone, I recapitulated every incident connected therewith.

Was it the work of-the incipient fever— the hallucination of a disordered brain ? I resolved to decide this as soon as I got well by searching the spot where the phantom grave-digger had buried the phantom corpse. ■ . iNext day Captain Henry came to see me. He sat by my bedside,, and, though feeling weak, 1 spoke much and feverishly. "By the way," I sriid, at length, " you had better take that witch's mirror of yours away. Ifc has a power mo3t fearfully potent. No scenes were depicted in the witch-minor in ' Faust 'half as terrible as those I have seen."

There I ro.se up in bed, and bending my face to his I whispered in his ear—" Cap tain ! I saw you bury the corpse of your murdered wife by the hawthorn hedge."

Here my memory is confused. I seem to recollect Captain Henry staggering out of the door, bent and tottering like an old man ; then there is a complete blank, and next Eva is again, by the side of my be:l, a little paler than usual, bub with the »ame serene brown eyes. When fully recovered I was told that I had a dangerous relapse during Captain Henry's visit. I was furthermore told that my sisters engagement was .broken off at Captain Henry's own request, and that he had sold out liis house the same week, and gone away suddenly, no one knew where. Tho house is now inhabited by its new owner. Once or fwico I have thought of going into the park during a dark night, and solving the mystery by digging up the ground by the hawthorn-hedge ; but I could never muster up sufficient courage. 1 feel thab I could not endure another sight of that pale corpse witii the oruel cut across her throat.

0. E. HtrCio,

EXTRAORDINARY SNOW STORM.

Destruction of Lambs,

It is not usual in Canterbury, ab this time of the year at any rate, (says the " Press"), to awaken in tho morning and find four or five " feet of snow banked up against your door; but such was tho experience on Monday morning of the unfortunate settlers in the now well-knotvn township of Methven, in Ash burtdn County. Our Ashb'urton represen . .tatiVje, making h'm usual niontbiy journey over the county, rel&MsffTstetftve*n byv the ordinary evening train on Saturday night. He left Ashburton in passably good weather though cold, and enjoyed the hearty con versation of the genial farmers who usually travel on the Methvon line on a Saturday night Of course the recently decided election was the subject of talk, but when Cairnbns was reached, and one of the' company had to disombark, which necessitated opening the carriage door, a change came over the spirit of all the occupants' dreams. "This night," said one, "will cost me a twenty-pound note." Another whispered his fear that that sum would not limit the loss. When our repre sentative asked what was meant he was surlily told to look at the Weather, and to remember that the owes '" were lambing." A glance at the night at once showed him that to camp out in the best tent ever made by a follower of St. Paul's profession would be no safeguard against a virulent attack of rheumatism in the limbs of the most stalwart, and any poor ewe fulfilling her mission in such weather would certainly suffer a good deal more than the camper, though in quite another way, and there was but little hope indeed for her tender progeny. Of course, all hands made for the nearest glint of comfort, • arid this was found at Bob- Patton's hotel, where •the remainder of the short evening was spent as happily as possible. But in the short, journey from the station to the hotel, the weather had been at work, and snow was falling heavily carried on the wings of a howling south-west wind. At daybreak on Sunday morning it was still snowing, and 6iri of winter's mantle' lay in the centre of the township. The snow fell unceasingly until midnight on Sunday, and during the afternoon. ther,e ; was quite 19in of snow on the.flat between the two hotels. To essay the journey from the one house to tho other in the blinding drift meant plunging to the hips in snow at every step, ao that there was nothing for lit except to stay .where you wei;e, unless you were fond of a ■ rough; joke,' and wished to be -abla-to cay that you had^ mad,e_th t e passage. There were a good ma.Dy,meh work uigin the vicinity, whose, camps had been swamped) and these men at once made for the hotels to be a little more comfortable, so that it can be readily understood the hotels were a little lively. On Monday morning the railway officials found their line lying under a couple of .feet; of, snow, and though guard and driver bravely tackled the journey with their train, carry ing with them a gang of surfacemen, two , miles in an hour was all the distance they could travel, and ,when near Cairnbrte, in a deep cutting, the engine plunged into six feet of snow, with a mile and a half of similar track ahead, it was considered prudent to give it up and come back again. Add. to this the fact, that the storm had stopped all telegraphic communication, and it can easily beunderstood that the "High land village" was most thoroughly isolated. Thanks, however, to the grand fellows who attend to the Canterbury railway lines, the surfacemen gangs to the number of about a score of men were, pub onto the work, and although the, train was not able to make the passage before nine o'clock yes terday morning, and so missed the Christ church train and the express, liakaia was reached in time to catch the mid-day train. The township of Mefchven— always in trouble about storm-water—is now under; about a foot,of water and slushy snow, and a heavy flood is feared ; while the storm happening at the time it did has simply ruined the lambing. Where 95 percent., of lamba were expected, not 6 per cent. will be secured, and in one instance ,th#, hands were, busy all Monday actuallydig ging out the ewe» from under the snowr drifts, but the lambs they had dropped were all dead. In inatiy cases the vfiere*. abouteof tho ewes were indicated to the searchers by the faint, vapour of then1 breath that lose from the hoi© in the snow that tho warmth of their breath had melted. Traffic and telegraphic communication have now been restored, bub nob hi the memory of the oldest inhabitant has puftb a heavy anowfs fyen $;pperj§#ceci, '•" ,

The Ways of the London Milkman.

"As ex-Milk Carrier " writes as follows to the London " Globe" :-" In recounting, a 9 well as I can, my experiences as a milk carrier, I hope to be able to arouse some interest in a humble but useful class of public servants, and to expose certain abuses which I think ought to be made known. What I have to tell is the strict literal truth ; I have neither the will nor the power to dress it up in fine language. I have never written anything for publica tion before, and it is not likely that I ever shall acrain. It does not much matter how I became a milkman ; it will be enough to say that I was brought up a farmer, and that having, like many other young farmers, failed through no fault of my own, to get a living in that calling, I found myself four months ago (twenty-eight year" of ago, with a wife and two children) ready to take anything that might turn up, and glad, after several weeks of enforced idleness, to engage myself as milk-carrier to a large firm in a suburb of London at 25a a week. My satisfaction soon abated. My employers were said to keep 300 cows. There were foramen and twenty rounds, of which six were ' cart rounds ' and fourteen 'walking, or perambulator rounds.' Mine was a cart round. I had to be at the yard by o o'clock, and my horse put to by 5.20 every morning. By that time the milk was ready for us. What happened to it before wo got it I cannot say. The big tins, which are called churns, were taken into the cellar, in which only tho foremen were allowed to set "foot. But this I may say, having been used to cows from a child, I know pure milk when | I see it. I have milked the cows myself for this firm, and found the milk not up to the average quality ; but when delivered to us you would scarcely recognise it as the same, it being both thick arid creamy looking. Next each man's milk was measured and ' booked'—that in, against each man's name, or rather number, was entered the quality of milk which he ro ceived at the commencement of his round, for which quantity, and more, he had to account at the end of it. It may scarcely be believed, but it is literally true, that it was the iniquitous practice of the firm to require their carriers to ' book over^ —that is, to account at the end of their round for more milk than they re ceived at the beginning. For initfance, if I received sixty quarts I should bo required to book in sixty-six. How is it done ? Well, you may either water the milk or give short measure. 1 don't know of a third way ' booking' is done. I started on my round, accompanied bjL my boy, to whom 1 had to pay Is 6d a week out of my scanty wages. All milk delivered I had to enter in my book, and on returning from my first round (which would be about eight o'clock), this,was checked with what I had left in my tins, and, if it did not amount to the fictitious quantity, I was told ' I must give a bettor account of my milk.' Then 1 had my breakfast, and started on my second round (known as tho 'pudding round ), which lasted from ten o'clock to 11.15. I was then allowed an hour for dinner, after which came my third round, from 12.45 to five o'clock. On our ' pudding round' we were not required to ' Dook over,'and, as a rule, we did nob sell moro than about ten quart?, but on each of the others I had to scheme to ' stretch' the milk, so as to make ifc Insb out. I need not say that I gob plentiful abuse from hiy customers. After returning from my third roun-d 1 groomed my horses and washed cans until 6.30, when my day's work was done. On Sundays no dinner hour was allowed, »ud wq managed to finish about three o'clock. Mjy wages' for "tin? dodgery were,' as;lj»wj, (od t 25s a wijekV I. paid my, poyls pro and was liable for further deduction* in tho shape of fines for being late, Ac.' When I add to the above recital of my experience that we were nob allowed to wear gloves in cold weather, and could not afford to tyuy 1 mucking? togs.' for wet, I think I have said enough to prove that a milkman's.life is not 'all beer and skittles.' I endured it for three months; and would have gone on enduring it- for the sake of the wife and the little ones, but I could not stand the miserable cheating which I was forced to practise. I left, and now lam once move waiting for something to turn up."

Treatment of Crop-bound Fowls.

This is perhaps the commonest form of crop trouble, and is generally caused fay careless feeding. If green food be with held for some time and then given in un limited quantities, the fowl will eat to re pletion, and as the crop cannot get rid of this mass of undigested food all at once, it becomes bardi and not only cannot itself pass into the stomach, but effectively bars the passage thereto. The same may, be caused by xhe giving of new grain, which, swelling in the crop, becomes a solid mass. Or on the other hand bound crop is often caused by an obstruction of the outlet suchar a twig or some undigestible substance that has beon swallowed by the fowl. The proof of acropboundis purely external, but is fortunately very easily discernible. In stead of the crop having a firm close ap pearance, in fact, not being noticeable, it is seen to hang down like a bag, and on being felt there is found to be inside a, lump or ball of food. This does not hurt, or in any way, until it has grown very large, incommode the bird, who often seems to eat more than usual, for the reason that the food it is eat ing is not feeding it, but going to increase the mass in the crop. If the trouble is dis covered earlyi cure is very easy., The first "step 18 to.pour.some ealacLoirpr melted lard down the throat, and then to work gently with the hand'the mass in the crop. ; Thifii, if property 4nd effectively .done,, will soon cause the food and the fluid to mix,jand when tne mass has been well brokon tip, it will in the course of a few hours pass away. The length of, time necessary to break up the mass will depend upon the nature of it, and I have known an hour required to 'do it. Warm water may be need instead of the oil or lard, but it is not so rapid or bo effective in its action. When the mass has been got rid of, great care is required in order £o pre vent a recurrence of the same thing, whM.-H would almost certainly result if food was immediately given without stint, After distention like this, the crop is naturally in a somewhat inflamed condition, and very susceptible to any strain upon it. The* food, ■ therefore, should for a few days be very limited in quantity, and be of the very • lightest kind, such as sopped bread pr Spratt'B food., oft6n!a. per manent diatention of the crop results from' a .neglect of this simple precaution, In about a week the fowl may safely be putoii to ordinary diet. When the kneading prpr ! cess is ineffectual,' then an operation be comes requisite, but' no one need fear the performing of this operation, as it is a, very simple c*ne and needs no great skill,- Nor,is there any danger involved in it. The obr jectiß;to remove from the crop the inasf of impermeable stuff gathered there, for with out tbut is removed the recovery of the bird is impossible, and it must soon die from I absolute starvation. The process is to make an incision lengthwise in the upper part: of the crop, about an inch or an inch and half ;in length. , Thii should ba very cleanly made with t sharp lancet pr penknife. Through this incision the contents pftue crop, may be removed, unrig for that purpqse a email eggsppon. Sometimes the inaßß ia bo that, ft, cannot "pass through the aperture, and in that case, it must be broken up, which can be done with care and patience. Thii maps "is usually very offensive indeed, and to remove any

contaminating matter from tnis <»W should be washed out with Condys'fluid ov a similar non-poisonous .. disinfectant. It is also desirable to pass the finger, well pared and oiled, into the orifice cc.as to be certain that there is no obstraetoon there, for if so the whole process may hawrto be gone over again. This done the incision must be sown up, and for this a small bent needle is best, as by it the skin can be moat easily gathered together, and borse hai.t not threacf. I prefer to cow the inner skin iirst, and then bhe outer one. Ihree stitches will be needed in each skin, ana it is preferable to tie each stitch separate in this inetance also. The food must be limited in quantity, and be composed either ol sopped bread or Spratfs food. No water must be supplied until the suture has com pletely healed up. For a time it is advis. able to keep a strict watch on a fowl that has been cropbound, as there will be a tendency to a recurrence ot it.-Live btoci. Journal. _

Breeding Geese.

Ok small places or on small farms, says the Fanciers' Weekly, a flock of geese are more of a nuisance than anything else, for they will trample down and desbroy far more than bhey will ever bring when sold. This is especially true oa a bruok or fruit farm, whore vegetables or small fruits are grown for they make sad havoc with the produce, and what they do nob eat they generally man age to trample down and destroy with their large, flat feet., To prevent this on such places they mußb be confined, and when confined they do not bhrive, while they never prove profitable unless they have bheir full liberty. There are, however, hundreds of farms on which geese can be bred with great profib, the srrass and grain farms being just the place for them to bhrive well Their principal food is grass, on which they will Hvo nearly the entire summer and early fall, and very little if any grain food need be supplied until they are taken up in the fall to fatten for market. This is what makes them so much more profitable bo raise than almosb any obher kind of poulbry sbock, and ib is a greab wonder to us that more persons do not breed geese largely U v market, for, aside from the great weigh b of flesh they will produce, they return a fair per centage of profit in bhe shape of " live peese feathers," which readily command about fifty cents per pound when sold, or which makes such warm, comfortable beds, wi< h out any appreciable cost for bhe farmer : r d his family during the cold, wintry nigh>. A trio of mature birds will produce all the " goslings " thab can be well cared for on a single farm, for we have scon over an hun dred raised from a single trio, by setting the first lob of eggs under ordinary hens an \ keeping the geese laying right along. Tlioold goose i«, however, bhe best mother and should be permitted to hatch out and care for a flock in the later season.

Whilo setting or when running with the goslings, very young chicks must nob be kepb within easy distance, else many of them/will pay tho death penalty, for geese are, afcsuch times, cross and pugnacious. Fully-feathered young chicks are generally quick enough to get out of the way and soon learn to do so. We were taught this ibem by.losing a whole coopjof very fine chicks, and have ever since remembered it. For general purposes, farmers and others will find the Bremen or Embdeu and the Tou louse breeds of geese to answer their pur poses admirably, as they ares arge size' prolific, hardy and easy to rear.

THE AUCKLAND, IMING STAB, SATTTRPAY, OCTOBER^^7.

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Medicines forwarded freo from observation. All Correspondence fceld sacrea. Call on or Address—- _, Doctor W. KNOX PACKER, POST OFFICE CHAMBERS, Corner Bourke and Eliiabcth Streets, Melbourne, Victoria. ',-*•'. FEMALE PILtS, 2s 6d a box. A great boon. Prevent all trouble ANTIBILIOUS & LIVER PILLS, Is 6d per box. A grand safeguard^ and corrective FEMALE TONIC, 3s and 4s 6d per bottle. A splendid" appetiser, nerve-soother, and general invißorator. Apoai tivo cure for all debilities pcculiartdi females. ASK FOR • • 7MTKS T)K- CjTUURT'S Sold everywhere. . , , STEEDMAIsFsT SOOTHING POWDERS FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH CAUTION TO PURCHASERS. The value of this well-known Fatally Medicine has Irnen largely tested in all parts of the world, and in all grades of society, forupw&rds off fifty years. Its well-earned extensive sale \ has in duced spubioos imitations, some of which in outward appearance so closely reaentblethe original as to have deceived many purchasers. Tho proprloter, therefore, feds it due: to the public to give a special caution against the use of such imitations. I _• ". - Purchasers are therefore requested to observe the four following distinctive > characteristics, without which none are genuine:— . lat. .In eyeiry case the w.o^,JjoJ(lj:.;J&mbk. MAX, CtlßMist, WaLwoß'S'H* BarcREV, are on graved on the Government Sjauip affixed 16 each packet. '■ ,^ :- ■ [ >: 2nd. Each Single Powder has directions for the dose, «nd tho words " John Steedman, Chemist. VValworth, Surrey." printed thereto. 3rd. The naraeSteedman is always spelt with twoJKE's. . ' ,; ■ ,j. ■• ... 4th. The manufacture is carried on solely in Wai worth, Surrey. , :'■_,__ ■ ■' Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors, at Is ljd to 2s 9d each. Agents, Kemp thorne, Probser and Co., Auckland, Wei ington, Christchurch, and Duncdin., . DR. J- COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLOKOmNE. Til© Original and Only CJenulnc. Advice to Invalids.—lf you wish to obtain quiet, refreshing sleep, freo from,headache, relief from pain and anguish, to calm and as suage the weary achings of protracted disease, invigorate the nervous media, and regulate the circulating systems of the body, you will pro vide yourself with that marvellous remedy dis covered by Dr. J. Collis Browne .(late Army Medical Staff), to which he gave the name of CHLOROD YNE, and which is admitted by tho profession to be the most wonderful and vain able remedy «ver discovered. CHLOROD YNE is the best remedy knownfor Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. CHRORODYKE acts like a charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery. CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all'at tacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation, and Spasms '■•'-■■ '. ■ ' ' ii ' ■ '-''■' '■':' •'■■'■■': :■ - CHLORODYNE is the only pa^liatiVß in Neuralgia, Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer," Tooth aohe, Meningitis, &c. From Synies & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists. Medical Hall, Simla, January 5, 1880, To J. T, Davenport, Esq., 33, Great Russell-street Bloomsbury, London. Dear Sir,—We embrace this opportunity of congratulating you upon 'the wide-spread reputation this justly esteemed medicine. Dr. J. Collis Browne's Clilorodyne.has earned for Itself, not only in Hindostan, bnt all over the East As a remedy for general utility, we much question whether a better is imported into the country, and we shall he glad tohear of its finding a place in every Anglo Indian home. The other brands, we are happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, ana, judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be evanescent, we could jpultiplj in stances ad ivfinitum of the efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne in Diarrhosa, and Dysentery, Spasms, Cramps, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, and as a generafsedative, that have occurred under our personal observation during ■ many years. ■< In Choleraic Dlarrhcea, and even in the more terrible forms of Cholera .itself, we^ have wit nessed its surprisingly controlling power/ We have never used any other form of thia modi oino than Collis Browne's from a firm conviction that it is decidedly the best,and also from asens<j of duty we owe to the profession and the public, as wo are of epinion that the substitution of any other than Collis Browne's is a deliberate BBKACH OB* PAITII ON THK PART OF THE CHEMIST TO PRKSCRIBB AND PATIENT ALIKE. —We are, Sir, faithfully yours, Symes and Co., Membors of the Pharm. Society of Great Britain, His Excellency the Viceroy's Chemists. CAUTION.-Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood stated that Dr. J. Collis Browne was, undoubtedly, the Inventor of Chlorqdyne! that the story of the defendant Freeman was de liberately untrue, which^ he regretted to say, had been sworn to—See '* The Times," July 13, 1864. ~v^,o •• ■:■■■■■' ,■■-: ; ■■■: .■" : '.; -: •:: :r" 1-* Sold in bottles at Is lid, 2s f)d, is 6d, and lls each. None iB genuine without the words " Dr. J. Collis Browne's Ohlorodyno' on the Govern ment stamp. Overwhelming medical testimony ■ accompanies each bottle. i Caution.—Beware of Piraoy and Imitations. r Solo Manufacturer-J. T. DAVENPORT, 33, ; Great Russell-street, Bloomsbury, London. \ M. - C A R TEE, ; - * SURGEON DENTIST (By Examination) (Late five years with E. Cox and Son), May be Consulted at his Resiobkcib, GARRETT'S BUILDINGS, Karangahapo Road (near top of Howe-street). j CHARGES MODERATE, GA3 AD MINIS TE R ED. EC OX AND SON, # , DENTISTS, r; KingflleyHouß©, Hobßon-atreet, ; Aubkland. BbwiK Cox, LioonUato in Dental Surgery R.C.8., England. Hrbbkht Cox, Dootop of Rental Swt«« ,



. Medical Xr EATING'S LOZENGES. IrEATINGTffo^N^S 001101116^ BS£° Ughßem^ #EATING?st^NB^£° Ughßeme^ o^ll^^ 0^ Reme^ B(fl S CoUgbßeEl^ #EATIN(^ d!! 6z nE dN BaE S COllgh Rem^ Jl\. , "Any Doctor tvili, teu, you' there is no bettor Cough Medicina than KEATING'S LOZENGES One gives relief; if you suffer ttam. cough try them but once; they will cure ana they will not injure your health; they contain only the purest drugs, skilfully crtmpounded. Sold everywhere in smajl tins. .'■■', KEATING'S WORM TABLETS, A PURELY VEGETABLE SWEETMEET; both in appearance and taste, furnishing a most agreeable method of administering tfie oniv certain remedy for INTESTINAL or THREAD WORMS. It is a perfectly safe and mild pre paration, and is especially adapted for Children —Sold in tins by all Chemists. PnOPRIETOB, THOMAS KKATING, LOHTJOX, Export Chemist and Druggist. , ■ .-. ; OLFE'S~SCHN"APPS.—I<> has d^ten. been pirated, but never had a rlvat A WONDERFUL MEDICINKT BEECHAWI'S PILLS \^^3^Nfc. Are admitted by i thousands to >to Jy \t^"^^/i^^ worth a (iuinea n /Stf X^iA Box for biUous^uiA fay/ \y*\ nervous disordars, §\t7f \^\ eu? b as ""^d, and I '/PATENT U 1 1 sick headache, gid' BUS I ... . » W 1 dincßß, fulness and 11^1 PILLd* /Oljj swellingaftermeals, b *j\ 7 CTI dizziness and drow. I*4l\ —•••-— /«7/ sifiess, cold (Ml«, \'^\ /*?/ things of hiftt, vti\ S'SyJr loss °' ftppetjtei \>JWS««__-»-'Vy^ BhortneßS of breath* fifih JZdr 1 coßtivenoas, sourvS; Wotohesontheskia, ' J^^T^ diaturbod sleep, <||J!SS» frightfal dreams, and all norvous and trembling sonsatidns, &o. TK* first dose will give relief in 20 minutes. This is no fiction, for they have done it in thousands of cases, Every sufferer is earnestly invited to try oneboz of : those Fills, and they will be acknowledged to be WORTH A GUINEA;,A BOX. For females of all ages these Pills are invaluable, as a fovr doses of them carry off all gross hnmours, open all extractions, and bring about aU that is required. Ho females should bo without them. There is no medicine to be found to equal BBBCHAM'S PILLS for removing any ovetruo tion or irregularity of the system. If taken according to the directions given with each Jbox they will soon restore females of all ages to sOu,ud ana robust health. . For a weak stomach, impaired digestion, aiidaU disorders of ths liver, they act like "MAGIC," and :• a few doses will be found to work wonders upon the most important organs of the human machine. They strengthen the whole muscular system, restore the long lost complexion, bring back tUo keen edge of appetite and arouse into action with the ROSEBUD of health the whole physical toeriy of tho human frame. These are "FACTS 5* admitted by thousands embracing all classes of society; and one of the best guarantees io the/ norvous and debilitated is, Boecham's Pills have the largest sale of any patent medicine iat ha world,' BEECHAM'S MAGIC COUGHPHIS As aremedy for Coughs in general, Asthma, Diffi culty in Breathing, Shortness of Breath, Tightness, and Oppression of the Chest, Whoozing, &c., these Pills stand unrivalled; and anyone labouringunder smy of the above complainta noed only try One •Box to prove that they are the best ever offered to tho public for Asthmatic and Consumptive Coughs, ■;•■ Hoars-eness and Oppression of the • Chest, They; speedily remove that sense of oppression anddifß culty of breathing which nightly deprive the patient of rest. Thoy give almost instant relief,aod comfort to thoso afflicted with the above distress ing and, when neglected, dangerous complaints. l<et aay person troubled with any of the above" complaints give Beech^m's Couoa Pills a.trial. • The most violent Cough will in a short time be removed. ■' -"> •...-•..■ iJ --«■-•■_-■■ -~ -—■--•«-" _<■■•; Oatoiow.—^The public are requested to .nqtjca that .the words " Brbckam's Phls, St. JSelcnis," .; rto ori the Gow&rninaafc Sfcampufflxeidto-eaebi Box pf tho Bills. If nofe on tbiey are a:forgctyr • , ■■• Prepared oioly,and"BoJ<f. wholesale ana rateil by the proprietor, T. Beecham, Chemist, St. HttlSSHi; i Ijancnsliirs, England, in boxes at Is. IJ<J. and 2s. 9d. each. —Sold by all • Druggists and Patenr Medtcino Dealers throughout the Colonies. ■ N.B. —Full directions are given with each box* "11|7"HEN the Adtai system has been T T weakened, use Woi.b'B's Schnapps: to renovate it. Business Mottoes./ ■- ■< ~ .. : «rf ZBSm»| iJß' HAUTHAWAY'S S Cblldron's Boots, B Rfi^nlSatc!lßbi ffJl6oDl S Si^^^ brushing. Always «JBHmß|^ g!?GS satisfaction. * v?kkSa* SSa-inm STABDiBII.' 8 O. L» H AUTH A WAY A SONS, 881 & MS Coagrcaltreefr Porto* "TO-HEELS! WHEELS! WHEELS I ENCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRIES. COPEMAN & CLEGGh 34 AND S6, G3REY-ST. NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. All persons desirous of encouraging local-i»" dustry should purchase their PerambulaWW Copeman and Clkgg's. By so doing, they geta bonaflde locally-made article, and One■■»». cheap, light, and durable. COPBMANS^Patent Paragon Wire Wheels are a speoiaUty, and en, tirely a new inyention. The BpqkeßMfff^SS. at both ends, and are guaranteed to tejao w« Wheel known. To prove th^ steeP?S{S •pair has been in use«n McLeod Bros.^ Qehvory Cart for five months, and can be seen there. All other Bicyclo Wire Wheels for^PeramMr lators aro imported. They could MOffiSf^fS ■ butareinferior to the Paragon Wire.WWerg construction. The nave is cast ironrtt*» are screwed into it; they are liable taget loo^e, and break off, and are difficult to repair, there 'The^agon Wire Wheels can only bohadat COPEMAN & CLEGG'S, 34 and 36, GREY-STBEET. JAMES ]\f WAN' & Q o "' London, Melbourne, and Suva (Fiji), Desiro to intimate tliat thsy have soured Offices in DUNCAN'S BUILDINGS,. . _ Corner of Cashel and Mancheßterstareots, were their Representative, , Will be glad to RECEIVE INDENTS „ . Tor English, Amerioan, and Continental Gooas of all descriptions. '~ Christohurob. December. IK** ,Jp IR E ! P IRE !! FIR E ! I.!. E. ALP IS, Jervois Road, PoNSONBy, . . Bogs to intlmato to the pare* to Bupply hia new Patent :Sffigp.fi2 JBsoapo, in efeeo to suit threo^or mU-WP,



The' high-cla®' nna}v 3 *i4 an Mticle which at jSh ' "^'l we are making a spicuijy ■ m*l^ able to cure in mildpickl» tl ting to small piecuiieia- A \i Aw i. MPT st j .QX.T'|7T T:! Dp \ yr h ■ ,;:v (whole Btti <jt«8to;, Ois.?_ Flour and Eiscnits P^^Sj^jj^j; hpre ssv the . S*s ifflTP (Signed) - __ I would find it ft «*^ , t _, > >ijj g