SHIPPING.

PrweET—This evening. 5.28. lii. nkise—To-morrow inorninc. 0.35. MOOW'a AGE—First Quarter, '.'(3 th, 8.2 a.m.

HIGH WATER.

Auckland—This afternoon, 1.17; to-morrow tnornmjr. 1,53. MAXUKAU ITeat)?. — This afternoon, 3.1/ ; to morrow morning, '1.32. Raipaba Heads. — This evening, 1.17 ; to morrow morning, 5.32.

ARRIVALS.

Saucy Kate, schooner, from MongonM Lucy James, ketch, from Mongenui Yolandej Schooner, from Dunedin

DEPARTURES.

Clansman, s.s., for Tauranga lona, s.s., for Mercury Bay Douglas, s.s., for Opotild Venus, cutter, for Napier Wellington, s.s., for Whangarei Norval, schi\, for Russell

STEAMERS TO ARRIVE.

Rotomahana, from Thames, to-day, 5.30

p.m. 33nterprise, from Thames, Sunday, 5.30 a.m. Balmoral Castle, from London, via Sydney,

sailed July 20. Whampoa, s.s., from Foochow, early Stella, from Kermadec Group, due Suva, from Southern jiorts, due Penguin (at Onehunga), from the South,

Sunday Tarawera, from Melbourne and South, ' ilonday, 10 ( a.m. Oh.au, from the South, Thursday Wanaka (Onehunga), from the South, • Thursday

SAILING VESSELS EXPECTED.

Crusader, sk, left London on May 27 Piako, ship, left London July 2 Waikato, ship, from London May Queen, ship, from London Lurline, ship, from London Margaret Galbraith, ship, from London Rosedale, from Middlesborough, for Kaipara Zealandia, ship, from London Evie Reed, bq., from New York, via Lyttel-

ton ; sailed June 20 Star of the East, from New York, via

Dunedin, sailed June 7 Mary A. Greenwood, bq., left New York July 27, via Lyttelton Grecian Bend, schooner, left Newcastle

August 22 Sharpshooter, bq., from Fiji Ricardo, bq., from Java, early Ada' C. Owen, br., from a cruise Maile, schr., from a cruise Louie, schooner, from a cruise. Ryno, schr., from a cruiso Torea, sch., from a cruise Olive, schr., from a cruise "Waiwera, schr., from Norfolk Island

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hermione, ship, for London, loading C. W. Janes, schooner, for New York Tarawera, for Russell, Monday, 5 p.m. Penguin (Onehunga), for the South, Tues

day, 4 p.m. Suva, for the South, Tuesday, 6 p.m. Ohau, for Greymouth, Thursday Tarawera, for Melbourne, via South, Thurs day, noon Wanaka (Onehunga), for the South, Friday, 9.30 a.m.

The barque William Turner has been berthed at the Sugar Company's wharf.

The brigantine Lady Mabel will go from this port to Whantraroa, ami load timber for Sydney.

The barque Panne will sail shortly for Baker's island to load guano for the United Kingdom.

The schooner Mary, rntter Lancashire Lass, and scow Kauri have arrived from coastal ports with timber.

Mr Millar, Secretary of the Federated Seamen's Union, Port Chalmers Branch, is expected to arrive here on Monday next in connection with the present strike. The cutter Venus sailed to-day for Mer exuy Bay with 557 nests drain pipes. She will. till up there with timber and proceed to Napier.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Wellint.tox, this day.—Arrived: Blair Drummond, ahip, from London Gr.KYArouTii, this day.—Arrived : Oma pero, t'roir Auckland, 6 a.m. Tauiiaxoa, this day. Arrived: Clans man , from Auckland, early. Nkw Plymouth, this day. — Arrived : Wanaka, from Onehunga, 6 a.m. Wellixoto^, August 26.—Arrived : S.s. Wakatipu, from Newcastle, and Tekapo, from Sydney. Sailed : S.s. Tarawera, fov Auckland via the East Coasb. Passengers : Misses Hutchinson and Lowry, Mr and Mrs HenpalkMessrs Abbott, Ludbrook, Phillips, KnapiD, Grey, Webb, and 10 in the steer age.

Notices to Correspondents.

A Membek of Auckland Bubn's Club. — The medal won by Mr Munro in the recent dancing1 competition has not yet been pub licly presented, but we are informed that an early opportunity will be taken to have it presented. As to the financial results of the entertainment, the Secretary of the Burns Club should be able to give you all information.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 27, 1887.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the ■wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

To employ an expressive South Sea phrase, Dri Girdler has " run a muck" against local bodies in general and the Municipal Corporation and Hospital and Charitable Aid Board in particu. lar. The opinions expressed in his paper read at the Athenaeum on Thursday night have reduced us to a condition of melancholic despondency for the future of our city, if not of civilised society in general, because the doctor has proved most con clusively—to his own satisfaction at least—that no good thing can come out of bodies so constituted. As the whole local administration of the colony is based upon the same system, our case is indeed a sad one. How deplorable, our readers may judge after reading one or two extracts from the paper : The local authorities are doing their best by their culpable negligence to spread epidemics and are converting one of the best and healthiest cities in the colony into a den of infamy, vice and disease. Men who cannot manage the simplest parochial duties without a row, who cannot cut down a hill or fill up a srully, or make a new road, build a wall or reservoir, without squabbling and appealing to the law— who cannot even agree as to the necessity of emptying the city closets, and keep the city clean —can you wonder the Hospital Board is adisastrous failure, and will continue to be so as long as the mem bers are elected annually ?

" On our local boards areas smart a lot of business men as you could wish to meet, —and individually quite open to argument — but when they meet round a committee table their individuality is lost; and they are simply a corporate body, led by any crank or whim.

We leave the doctor's own exquisite logic, displayed in these passages literally quoted, to carry conviction to the popular mind. That smart busi ness men lose their individuality the moment they meet round a committee table is truly a most startling pheno menon, and calls for immediate and earnest investigation by Dr. Girdler and his medical confreres. May we also be permitted to suggest that a committee of matrons might materially assist their deliberations 1

The worst of it is that although the doctor thus kindly diagnoses the dis ease, he has not furnished us with a remedy. In some instances, the re medy that occurs to us is exactly the reverse of the one the doctor himself appears to favour. For example, with regard to the Hospital Board he re marks :

How can such an institution as the Hos pital, with its ever changing crowd of sick inmates suffering from every disease under the sun, nearly always over-full, be man aged efficiently when the sole direction of aS'airs is under the temporary dictation of n, number of men thrown together by acci dent, animated by various sentiments, and imperfectly informed as to the needs and difficulties to be overcome? Can we wonder that decisions arrived at are too often the outcome of passion rather than reason.

This we agree with, and have there fore favoured the appointment of one responsible experienced Medical Super intendent. Dr. Girdler, on the other hand, shows his predilection for the present system of divided responsibility minus the Hospital and Charitable Aid Board j but what he would substitute for that he does not tells us, although his remarks imply that Life Governor ships or something akin would be more to his taste.

When we coraeto analyse the grounds upon which these grave accusations rest, we find them singularly unsubstantial. The first charge against the city is the suspension of the C.D.Act; but though the indictment of making Auckland conspicuous among the cities of New Zealand ss a " den of infamy, vice and disease" is very broadly drawn, the doctor does not attempt to prove that any other city in New Zea land works the CD. Act. He does not even instance one self-govern ing community of the Anglo-Saxon race in Europe or America that works it. And why 1 Simply because there is no such community. He trots out once more the old police statistics about increased pro stitution and immorality. Let the doctor quote them to the people who do not live in Auckland, who have neither eyes to see nor ears bo hear. We do not hesitate to say that these statistics are wholly unreliable. When the Act was in force the registered houses alone were includt«d in the police returns. It is true there is a wider circle embraced in the returns now, but it was there before all the same^ and the police admitted it. The raids on infamous houses have been fewer and less revolting since the Act was repealed than when it was in force. We say this ad visedly, end could supply tiata; but it

is idle to discuss the subject. If the regeneration of Auckland must await the restoration of that Act, it is dis tant indeed. We do Dr. Girdler the justice to say, however, that his re marks upon the prevalence of juvenile prostitution are none too sweeping, and his suggestion that a bill should be introduced to punish with heavy fine and imprisonment persons who harbour these children is far more practicable than the restoration of the CD. Act. Ho is, however, mistaken in asserting that the delay in raising the age of consent is attributable in any degree to differences of opinion among the members of the Social Purity As sociations. A bill protecting children has been brought before Parliament for two sessions in succession by the Hon. J. A. Tole, Minister of Justice, and has been shelved at the close of the session with bills which the House had not time to con sider. Monster petitions from all parts of the colony have been for warded in favour of that bill, and we look to the Minister of Justice to see that it is placed on the Statute Book without further delay.

Apart from the repeal of the CD. Act, the complaint against the civic authorities narrows itself down into a general charge of inattention to drain age and other sanitary matters. Dr. Girdler asserts that the Council per mits 2,000 night-soil boxes to be buried in the city. Now, minus his sweeping phraseology, we are afc one with him on this subject. Sufficient attention is not given to sanitary conditions. In the wide city area there are many houses having large gardens, where theie can be no possible harm in using the faecal matter of the household on the sur rounding land. It would be a positive hardship in many instances to prohibit this; but the Council should see that night-soil is not buried on small plots of ground, and should indict with greater rigour than hitherto the creators of nuisances. In this matter, however, the Bench is more to blame than the Council. Numerous cases brought by the Sanitary Inspector and supported by the clearest evi dence have been dismissed, and in others paltry fines have been imposed, regardless that the guilty person had imperilled not only his own life, but the lives of his neighbours, by the nuisance.

In the matter of drainage more might be done, and Dr. Girdler quotes a case in which he states tljat a family who were laid down with sickness through a foul drain put the ratepayers to a cost of £130, while the necessaiy drainage to have prevented the sick ness with which they were afflicted only cost about £20. We have not the requisite particulars of this case to discuss the question of the responsi bility of the Council in the matter, but it must be borne in mind that the Corporation cannot do impbs sibilities. It has borrowed to the full limit of its legal powers, and in curred an overdraft of some £30,000 in addition. A very large amount of very good work has been done, and more would be done if the funds were there. " Kome was not built in a day." In this matter of sanitary purity people can do a great deal to protect and help themselves. As with social purity, household purity is well within a man's own control, without CD. Acts or paternal governments. : A shilling spent now and then in car bolic acid will go a long way towards keeping premises free from the evils for which Dr. Girdler demands such drastic municipal interference, just as cleanly lives and a healthy moral tone in the community will accomplish a good deal more than a thousand CD. Acts in abating the other evil which the doctor lays at the door of the Corporation. While not agreeing, therefore, with much of the doctor's paper, and regret ting that the author should have deemed it requisite in order to arrest attention to couch his indictments in somewhat extravagant terms, we think Dr. Girdler is to be thanked for in teresting himself in a subject that so nearly, concerns the public well being. Discussion does good; and as for the members of our corporate bodies, if they are not pachydermatous enough to stand, without any serious amount of suffering, even such stric tures as were passed upon them in this paper, our experience of them is mis leading.

THE HOME RULE CAMPAIGN.

A cable despatch of two days ago declared hat popular' dissatisfaction with the action of the Government in " proclaiming " the Irish National League was becoming wide spread. This we take to mean that the English public are getting aroused on the subject of Irish grievances,,and are begin ing, to realise that the time has come for a reversal of the criminal but time honoured tactics of suppression and co ercion hitherto employed in dealing with that country. In the other divisions of the United Kingdom, there has been intense dissatisfaction with the Coercion Bill since it was proposed by the Government. To ..show how " widespread " was this feeling in June last, we note from Home papers that a Celtic League had been formed in London with Mr Michael Davitt as president,* and a number of Scottish and Welsh members of Parliament as vice-presidents. From the report of a public meeting held in Caithness shire, the most northerly part of Scotland, it would seem that the feeling there is as in tense against landlordism and in favour 01 Home Rule as it is in aiiy part of Ireland. The Chair nan of the meeting in Question, lit EsMiala! 'friiltttmson, made a most vio lent speech against English laws and do mination, both in the past and present. He referred to the iniquitous actions of the landlords — " English highwaymen —m clearing Sootland of her peasantry, said highwaymen being " backed up by the unmitigated cursed laws of a hypocritical British nation, whilst Scotland's own sup posed nobility gave assent to these dismal performance." The speaker wer.fr on to assert that the union of Scotland wltn England was achieved without , tne consent of the Scottish "commonalty, who had been " betrayed into the hands ot a Tory-riddehj tyrannical, English contami nation." Mr Williamson's emotwns fla\i>

rendered his utteran<*^—^ incoherent; but tv Point •„ tha ar fch e a^ 1 the 5oi!« «.* tnat the "commonalfv» ;* c *n<fej? now stand up u£al^ ;«fo*C^ Saxon" understand t^-'S "drain their JeanJ h>J J cause of liberty. vXj m * t we mean to fight f or , £V B?me fl in defiance of all t^l tt • hay« t*»«7 would probably havX'i? whlclllnsC meeting of hard?' NnS""'*o^ solutions condSJ^S^gjfi'S Amendment (Irel and^ g C^al for, oppressive, and unW^ >*i ing confidence in Mr ffi'♦ ttd e]cS resolution which constiX^ AI«S campaign" adopJSwt^lC crofters was that the sLl \r %N offer their landl ords , TS&""W equivalent value i n \ «wd, of 3 duce and farm st^^rf turkey-cocks-the swme ffif; tn*9l««d drum to the musicalSS^. the brethren !" Conies of th 7 , tt "m agreed to be t^V%3*£»A Northern crofters apnear M vl ?" earnest, despite thSw^* that ran. through th^ineZ^B^ land, almost to I man SS S^ at the general ekctioV Wats^i1' been won over, heart and soulShl t-^ cause, and the latest ne ;^f;fel to every portion O f the UnitSKinK 1

H.M.S. Opal, by permission 6f(W Bosanquet, was thrown opentotheSS between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. yeste£P % Devonport Ferry Company' 8 S S^ J veyed visitors on board at frequSteSi and all that was of interest 7t corvette was inspected withinJ* The Opal will be open again on & afternoon, when the feny JSJift vey passengers from Queen-street %?

The Board of Education haveniitah supply of gravel for Newton West SeE The next meeting of the Board takes Z on Friday, the 9th inst., nextweekS skipped on account of the Bcholarshibei animations. l We (" Imperial Federation") ate M to record the fact that the Admiralty Q begun to show themselves aHye to tha weakness of our arsenals and coaling sta tions. A large increase has just been mads m the number of torpedo boats assigned for their protection. Malta mil have ten instead of four, Gibraltar six instead of two, Hong Kong and the Cape eight instetj of two each. Esquimalt will have one ad ditional boat, making three in all; Bermuda time, with four each, and: Port Royal wist two. It was anticipated that all thea torpedo boats would reach their destination! by the end of.Jiinev The action of the Burns Club.in en couraging Auckland; Scots to attend tiw classes for instruction in Highland Ring and reel, &c., is not altogether i purely patriotic one,! as some wd» imagine. The primary idea; no ism, is to preserve the, art and practice tt picturesque national' dances of Caledoai; but) a most important secondary, ob^ci which the club have in view is to tniii number of local youths to take.palii these dances on the public platform ate tertainments which will be. goi Spa behalf of the Scottish Hall and Mile Building Fund. The latter subject is to be fully discussed at the annual meefaoi the Burns Club, to be held next Thnraiaj evening at Robson's Rooms. William Patterson, a debtor,, wasi ex amined upon oath by the Official Assigns yesterday afternoon. He deposed that la had been engaged as a painter in Auckland for the last 20 years. Latterly, owing to the prevailing depression,. his debts W risen to £9215s 9d. His stock had been sou by the landlord for £I*7 rent which was due, All that.he now had left was,tools worth about £5. He was at present out- of <m and had to.supporta sickiwife. Both of them were close upoa 70 years of age. Mr E. B. Hill, chemist,-whose. {»#» at Eden Terrace were destroyed by there cent fire announces that he will as m® possible re-commence business in W district, but in the meantime he is to M found at his father's city establishment in Queen-street. Hill's pharmacy mim Terrace was a, great convenience to resiacn in that and surrounding districts, wl«w be glad to hear that it is to to-iM** lished. ~'... ... j To Mr Elijah Spragg is duethe credito saving the letters- from the ,^.#T during-the recent fire at fcdea 2 Recognising the importance o: pg a ctioS,he S ma S hed.intheboxwitha.g hammer and resued the letters, for*' he was heartily cheered&**g He ran considerable risk d?™**" »g as molten leaded *2JSS the burning building Mr ftjjfJJ however, escape scot free. • H^ d \ it i was, cut, his right hot lead, and his neck scorched dj *!£*#*!??•:££& bo found in Au<4«. as wntowj produced quite a galaxy o^»emd«an^ to past year; • The ffr rSerbury cV the graduates at the Can^g r i. E was made yesterday Brown,whodeliver^anaddrgJ A!!: were presentedto the following. Miss EUen jMgffij £au^ Dunson Htom, ™%fis, A&* Craddock. B.A. s : Jg» «»^ Gibson, Miss Beatrice E tberO . Alfred Richardson Meek, Anwe« Alfred George Talbot. E X plom-s S entoutbyGorg i Tor^ ( Sonora, to ascertain toJgJ.SoD* Volcano, as reported, »*f Jjgft, have returned, an. d P SS s tofßa^ volcano fourteen niilessoutn »» fa LfcbeSierra.MadreMo^ ff yfoJ could not approach nearer tnan # miles of the mountains... w» pouring forth ™™™fS^K ire, and lava. Boiling water „ E sides of i^^SSdlS^S vast waves slowly pon»o a y#t tain side into the Wlsd down '"" th n e,S««f'C Bavispe is a complei» j^ pbirt , shopk. ■

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR SATURDAY AUGUST 1887

4



nri ha n k s. E. B~ H*l L L Tenders his sincere thankg to the numerous friends who so kindly assisted at the late fire in Eden Terrace, and also to the Medical Pro fession since opening his establishmenr, and kindly intimates that until re-opening in the above district hi<» business will be carried on as usual at Mr T. B. Hill's, Chemisr, Queen street. RANTED JT-NOW'N i Owing to the great success attending D. McPHERSON'S i .■ ■■ .. - •• ■ GENUINE WINTER CLEARANCE SALE, ho has determined to continue the same for a few days longer. Call and secure some bargains. Still.some of! the great bargains (as recently advertised) left. .DRESs'.GOODS all greatly reduced. REMNANTS at any price to clear, •• • ' (-;- ■' —_ ■OK; COLOURED BONE, METAL, AND SILK BUTTONS, 2d the card, to clear. BLACK CASHMERES from 11 Jd per yard ~ | COLOURED Do. from fl^d per yard During this week all Remnants, Black and Coloured Cashmeres, and Merinos will be offered at such prices that will make them sell speedily. Remnants suitable for Babies', Chil. dren's, Girls', and Ladies' Dresses. Don't miss this grand opportunity of securing a Dress at a very low price. Established 20 Years. KARANGAHAPE ROAD. j- c w sjjjjjjr: alt z. THE "ROYAL JUBILEE WALTZ" - (By P. F. Hiscocks) Can now be obtained at Eady's Music Ware house, Queen-street. Price, 2s net., WA ,N TED KNO W N GEORGE GREGORY, PHOTOGRAPHER, Ouicrc's BcrtDiNGS (Near Three Lamps), W' r ■ PONSONBY ROAD, Ib now producing First-class Photographs at the following reasonable rates :-Carte do Visite, 103 Cdpordoz.; Cabinets, £lls per doz. Chil • dren's at sameprice. High-class Enamelling at .ft moderate advance on above prices. Tram -1 cars pass the door regularly. , ,'ii> EMEMBER, if you leave your order at - J.L J. H. Dalton's for a Suit, you get a choice of three things-an Extra Pair of Trousers, Waterbury Watch, or XO per cent. Price uQs, SO*, 70s.



PUBLIC NOTICE. —If you want a Waterbury Watch go to J. 11. Dalton, Tailor, Victoria-street East, and order a Suit, and he will give you a vv atch for Nothing. ■ 1 i ■■■,; \ • ■• . CLEARING SALE. ) MILNE AND CHOYCE . Beg to state that, though they have now 1 discontinued selling the WHOLE of their o-oods at keduckd pnicES, still, in view of the spaco being required for the NEW SPRING GOODS, , now on their way from Home, they have decided to CONTINUE THE SALE FOR A SHORT TIME LONGER, OF THE BALANCE OF WINTER GOODS AT THE SAME I ! IMMENSE REDUCTION& ALL REMNANTS LEFT OVER FROM THE SALE WILL BE CLEARED i OUT REGARDLESS OF COST. N.8.-SATURDAYS, the Shop Closes at 2 p.m. MILNE & CHOYCE, GENERAL DRAPERS, AUCKLAND ; i 1 rriEAs i npEAS • mEAS i i [ Xt. REW'S CELEBRATED BLEND OF CHOICE NEW I SEASON'S TEAS At Is lOd per lb. Is the Best and Really the Cheapest in tub End. ALL GROCERIES AT WHOLESALE PRICES. REW'S, VICTORIA-STREET. mo WHEAT-GROWERS, Etc. W. S. LAURIE & Co. Have for Sale: Winter and Spring Seed Wheats Tartarian Oats—Black, White, and Dun Bonemeal and Bonednst of various descriptions (Analyses may be inspected;. Nitrate of Soda, Ammonia, Potash Guanos—lsland and Peruvian Wire, Sacks, Twine, &c, &c. CUSTOMS-STREET, AUCKLAND. TTkONALD W. JACK AND Co. PONSONBY ROAD, Are Selling— Ladies' well-mado Ulsters ah 5s lid each Fashionable Jackets at half-price Extra-wide Coloured Cashmere at Is per yard, or 8 yards for 7s Gd . • ~ Ladies' Straw Hats at 3d each Corsets, Is lid per pair, worth 3b Gd All-wool Shirting, Is per yard Our Ladies' Stockings and Gloves, at Is per paii\ are extra good value Other Goods proportionately cheap. DONALD W. JACK AND Co., Ponsonby Road. Box 329. . Telephone 435 IF YOU REQUIRE GOOD OATMEAL, FLOUR, CHEESE, POTATOES, or ONIONS, OATS, or MAIZE, CALL ON ALFRED JO WITT. "OONA-FIDB DALE , AT LESS THAN ENGLISH COST ( OF JEWELLERY, WATCHES, CLOCKS, ELEOTRO-PLATE, ! . AND SILVERWARE. H. l£ OHS ' Having purchased the Bankrupt Stock of A. Aley at a heavy discount, now offers the whole of the same at a large reduction offfirut cost. Being about to relinquish his Auckland business, and having purchased the old established business of B.Peterson & Co., Christclmrch, ho has determined to in eiime in the sale the whole of hi 3 largo and valuable stock at a. DISCOUNT OF THIRTY PER CENT. OFF MAKKED PRICES. This is a good opportunity £ or acquir ing really good articles and High-class Jewellery for "Wedding and Birthday Gifts, considerably under origami cost. H. X O II % JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET. "OOTATO MANURE.—Freezing Co.'s, JL £510s, of all merchants.



QTARTLING ! j^ NNOUNCEMENT. MONSTER SALfToF BOOTS AND SHOES AT GAEKETT BROS.1 Previous to Stock -taking. GARRETT BROS, hve decided to offer the vvlioloof their imiheuso Stocks at Wftkofleld-stroet and Karangahapp Voa] i< COST PRICK, tor a, few weeks only, uul ilto to make Un for two large Stocks from theuf Southern branches, about to be closed. Now is~tho opportunity for those feeling: bad ! tbnev Mk purchase these great necessaries at i -"nuineVwholcsiilcPrime Cost. Thesuperior character of our stock is well known throughout New Zealand, therefore puffin* is unnecessary. It only remains for the Proprietors to say THE SALE IS TRULY GENUINE. Many thousand different lines are offered. A very few only can be quoted here :- Ladies' House Boots .. .. "jgogg 2lj Ladies' House Boots .. r^StoJu Ladies' Carpet Slippers ;<S"^K \ i Ladies' Buff eilippers .. •■ « » Ladies' Prunella Slippers ••rc£"(^tn i<; Ladies' Fur-bound Slippers .. reduced to i 0 Ladies'sto7Shoes,assorted .. reduced to 4 J Ladies' Button Shoes .. ..reduced to > » La dies' Levant Lace Shoes ..reduced to (, b iSdics'Walking Prunollaßootß reduced to 4 b Ladies Levant Elastic Sides .. reduced o 5 9 Ladies' Button Boots, sto 7 .. reduced to 0 b Ladies' Hygienic Lace Boots., reduced o 8 6 Ladies' Prunella Shoes .. ■- reduced to 4 J Ladies' Superior Button Boots reduced to 9 G Ladies' Levant Elastic Sides .. reduced to 69 Ladieß' Kid Elastic Sides .. reduced ob 11 Children's Felt Boots .. .. reduced to 011 Children's Button Boots, 2to 6.. reduced to 1 ; Cliildrcn's7tol3assortedE.S.. reduced to 2 0 Children's Laced .. .. ..reduced to 16 Maids*KidKlasticSidcs. 1 and 2 reduced to 4 11 Children's Stronu Elustic Sides reduced to 3 b Men's Elastic Sides ~ .. reduced to 711 Men's Bluchers, tips, nails, etc. reduced to o 0 Men's Walorlighis .. .. reduced to 8 c Men's Balmorals reduced to 10 6 Men's Shoes reduced to 6 0 I'ovh'Boots reduced to i 0 Boyrf L^cc Boots . \ .... reduced to 811 Women's Leather Elastic Sides reduced to b 0 Women's Lace Boots .. ..reduced to 8 0 A Job Lot of Ladies' very superior Walking Boots, assorted, from 8s Gd to Ids (id. Most of these Bargains will be cleared quickly, therefore come early and secure the best. GAREE T T T> ROTH ER S, WAKEFIELD STREET AND GARRETT'SBUILDINGS. KARANGAHAPE ROAD, AUCKLAND. UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS ! OF A T^OOLLAMS AND /^O.'S GREAT SALE OF WINTER TWEEDS. STILL FURTHER REDUCTIONS. Black Diagonal Suits £2 10 0 All-wool Tweed Suits .. ~ .. 115 0 Stylish Trousers 0 10 0 Colonial Tweed Suits, handsome pat terns 2 5 0 Colonial Saddle Tweed, a [Suits ..376 large variety of shadc3 l.Trouser3 018 C Our best quality (£( 10s) Suits reduced to .... .. ?< 1 j 0 Our best quality (253) Trousers, stylish patterns 0 19 G Black Doeskin Trousers 15 0 Dress Suits .. .. „ .. .. 4 15 0 Tite Remnants are alt- Sold, < B\it we can sell you ALL-WOOL TWEEDS from Is 10c! per yd. All are invited to call and inspect this SPLENDID STOCK, Which is being sold far Below the Original Cost, and as we are in URGENT NEED OF READY MONEY, NO REASONABLE OFFER WILL BE REFUSED. Kindly Book your Orders Early. A. WOOL LAMS & CO., SYDENHAM HOUSE, Grey-street. intr a n t c BT We wish our name connected in yotir mind with TEA, because wo aro the only firm in Auckland dealing in nothing but TEA, and at our Establishment, 207, Queen-street, may bo seen samples of TEA from every Tea-growing Country in the World. We have TEA from India- TEA from China TEA from Japan TEA from Java TEA from Ceylon i EA from FIJI TEA from Formosa TEA in Chests TEA in Half-chests TEA in Quarter-chcsta TEA in Boxes TEA in Caddies TEA in Tins TEA in Packets. And as we devote our whole time to TEA and TEA-TASTING, we can give tea-drinkers better value for their money than they can get any where else. Any storekeeper may of course mix his teas according to the price paid for them and the profit ho requires, but only the skilful tea ex clcrt can properly proportion the peculiar characteristics of each tea. and so produce a Genuine Blended Tea, grateful to the palate and refreshing to the nervous system. This we claim to bo able to do, and our Puro Blended Teaa have becoriie a source of pleasure to our numerous customers all over New Zealand. Post Ojwicu Box 206. Agents wanted where not already represented. JOHN EARLE & CO., TEA MERCHANTS, 207, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. Established 18S0. A SK Your Grocer for the Candles and ~*-*- Soap made by the Union Oil, Soap and Candle Company, and insist upon having what you ask for. Cheap makes give light weights ' andinferiorquality. Bestbrandaare "Unions," " Standards," "Northern Lights," " Southern Sperms," " Carriage/ and " Self Fitting." , milE "MELBOURNE AGE." Circula- Jt_ t.ion. 63,000 da<Sy. '*3iu wws«ifci Commercial, Advertising, and General Newspaper in the Colonies. Price, Id ;6s (id per quarter. | | The " LEADER," hi pajjos. The best Farm ing, Agricultural, and General Weekly News paper. Price, 6d ;(5s Gd per Quarter. The " ILLUSTRATJSLi AUSTRALIAN NEWS" (New Zealand Mditipn). The leading Monthly Illustrated Newspaper. Single num bers, 6d ; double numbers, withcolourcd plate, Is. Agents : Messrs Kidd and Wildman, Upton and Co., and E. Wayte, Auckland; and all News Ascents. Post frte- j ANTED KNOW7N—That our stock of Feathers and Flowars is replete with an endlcs3 variety. We use now selling Ostrich Flats; worth 15s lid, for os 86. and others in same proportion during EXQ2RS. LATE THOS. SHORT'S GREAT STOCKTAKING CLK>R-, ANCB SALE,



THE UNDERSIGNED SUPPLIES:— A Good Rasher of Ham A Bottle of Delicious Sauco A Cup of Refreshing Tea ' A Piece of Prime Cheese. A round oi: Good Fresh nutter A Cup of First-class Coffee T>i«w,,n Also, Tarawcra Baking Powder to Blow up the Scoacs With anything else you require if yoit bring the CASH; wild let it he understood the effect ol the Goods on the purchaser will be just the same as the effect of the Cash on me-that is, to effec tual y remove all foelirigsakiri to melancho y or depression. My Sauce and Baking Power will, in future, bo know as " TARAvVJutA, oy ■which name both have been registered, that being my Trade Mark. FRE DX. WHITE HEA D, $5. VICTORIA-STREET AND PONSONBY ROAD. Terms-CASH. ("1 RASS MANURE.—Freezing Co.'s. £7 JT 10s. of all merchants. . mO THE LADY ELECTORS OF AUCKLAND. VOTE FOR EARLE & MONTGOMERY, KARANGAHAPE ROAD, Who are selling Groceries and Provisions as under :— TEA—New Season's, in lib fancy canisters, at 2s each. Ditto in hat-chests of 101b each, at Is Ud per lb SUGAR-Best White Crystal, in 401b bags, for Us 0d each COCOA-Fry's Extract (equal to Van Houtcn's), in Jib tins. Od each. Fry's Homoeo pathic, in Jib tins, BJd each



RAISINS—Finest Muscatels and Sultanas, Gd per lb BOTTLED FRUIT Morton's finest, IOJd per bottle. Thames Peaches, Apples, Pears, and Quinces, lOd per tin SAUCE—Pew's English Sauce, 7id per large bottle CHOCOLATE-Fry's, 4d per packet COFFEE AND MILK Is Id per tin LEMONPEEL-Best, lOd per lb FLOUR—Ss 6d, 6b, G3 >'d per 501b bag; 10s Cd, lls Ud, 12s (id per 1001b bag OATMEAL-Best. 2s lOd per 25!b BACON—CJd per lb in side ;7d per lb cut CHEESE—From best factory in the province, 4id perlb POTATOES—3s fid per cwt FRESH BUTTER AND EGGS-At wholesale prices OATS, SHARPS, BRAN, MAIZE, & CHAFF —At wholesale prices. TERMS : CASH WITH ORDER. Delivery in Town FREE. TjIARLE AND -jyTONTGOMERY, CO-OPERATIVE STORE, KARANGAHAPE ROAD. Wholesale Warehouse-FORT-STREET. I Telkphone No. 4C6.] jyiRANDA COAL AND IRON COMPANY (limited). SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLD AND STEAM pOAL IS NOW BEING PUT OUT ' TROW THIS COMPANY'S MINE, AND AGENTS ARE WANTED FOR THE SALE OF IT. APPLICATIONS TO BSe^DDRESSED TO THE UNDERSIGNED, AT THE COM PANY'S OFFICE, 14, VICTORIA ARCADE ORDERS FORWARDED TO THE SECRE TARY WILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION. BY ORDER, JOSEPH BARBER, SECRETARY. Auckland, August, 23,1537. T) X E 5 P T, SURGEON DENTIST, Has Removed to CORNER OF ELLIOTT AND WELLESLEY STREETS (Opposite the Opera House.) Box 210] [Telephone 373 H~li\ WIND SO R, • SURGEON DENTIST (by exam.» ! (Late of the Firm of Kempt and Windsor.) I beg to intimate to the public- of Auckland ! and Provincial District that I continue in prac tice at the Old Chambers, Shortland-street (opposite Post OlllceJ Having secured the ser vices ol! a first-class Mechanical Assistant, and reduced ray charges; 1 hope to merit a share of their support. ' Box 210, P.O.] [Telephone 377. MEDICAL HAL~L, PONSONBY (Opposite the Three Lamps). J. G. HENDERSON, Proprietor, in thanking the residents of Ponsonby and surrounding dis tricts for their support and confidence for the past eleven years, would again call their atten tion to a few of the proprietary articles manu factured by him troni drugs of the very best quality procurable. . Quinine, Iron, &c, Tonic Mixture, Neuralgia. Rheumatic and Gout Mixtures, Toothache Reliever. The above givu speedy relief, es pecially in facial neuralgia. For Coughs, Colds, &c—Cherry Pectoral, Balsam of Horohound, Chlorodyne. The above are superior to the imported article, being recently prepared. Antibilious Hills, suitable to the climate ; are purely vegetable ; give speedy relief. From Is per box ; by post, Is 2d. Prescriptions and Family Recipes faithfully prepared. J.G.H.'s Worm Powders and Mixture arc the most effectual. remedies known to medical cience. DR. J. MURRAY MOORE. M.D., M.R.C.S. Hours for Consultation: 11 to 1 p.m., at Pond's Homoeopathic Pharmacy. 153, Queen-street; 2to 3 p.m., and 7 to 8 p.m, tit Residence, Lower Symond3-street. Telephone 1130. Vaccinations at Pond's, 1 p.m., TUESDAY * and FRIDAY Pure Calf Lymph. M~"edlcaT7""fees reduced to ENGLISH RATES. i Dr. BAKEWELL regrets that, owing to the rush of patients in the afternoons and evenings, many ?iavo had to vre.it » ;*wst~r.is. He -would therefore advise those requiring lengthy consul ! tations, examination oi" the chest, etc., to come iin the mornings from f) tolJ. Saturday after noons and evenings will in future be reserved for male paticniß.only.—Address: Hobson- STREKT, 2 DOOKS KELQw" COOK-STRKET. liOUl'S: 9toU,3toi, 7to 9. Fees: Cash invariably ;no ' booking. For advice and medicine, *Js Ud; for I visit and medicine, ss. i~~ W I L X I N S, In the present depressed times, has reduced his fee to 5s for advice and medicine both in general and special practice. P.S.-Arranges Spectacles for all kinds of bad eighty , - QJUITS, £2 10s, £3, £3 10s, £4. Water-. bury Watch, Trousers, or 10 per coin., at v. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria-street East.



XINCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRY. Ask for Brown's Blue-Black Writing Ink, Coloured, Copying, Red Ruling, J icket, and Stencil Inks. v, . -„ i. Also ask for Brown's Yellow Stain. Water proof for Leather, I iquid Blacking, Black Oil, Black Reviver, Black Dye for Leather. All orders promptly attended to. Si BROWN & SON, Farnham-street, Parnell. yaccin at io nT Free Vaccination at Dr. Bcalc's Residence, Ponsonby Road, every TUESDAY. 3 o'clock.