A RACE FOR LIFE.

(From •' The Gavevockn." by the author of "John Herring," in the " Cornhill."

Mor maid, waa one of which he was justly proud, as the fastest sailer between Tinfcagel ami Tievose, that is for her size. She was a cutter, decked, and with fixed bowsprit and mast,

ike a schooner. Ilender Gaverock was as much at home on the deck of a boat as on the back of a horse. The only place where he was not at lionie was—at home, where lie found nothing to do and nothing to in terest him except the bottle.

Gaverock took with him his boatman, David Tregellas. If lie and Constantine were going to shoot seals, one of the party must be at the helm, another at the jib, and one must be ready with the gun for the sport.

" Cot the stone jars there, David ?" "Aye, aye, sir! Strapped together for easy carriage."

"That is right. I'll run the Mermaid to Featherstono's Kitchen —Owen's shop. We have drunk ourselves out of rum."

" I reckon us had better not go so far as that," said Tregellas, shaking his head. " The birds be all Hying inwards, and the water waa on fire last night."

"Glad to hear, it," said (laverock. "Here is (Ninstnnl.ine with his brains full of city fashions and his nerves as slack as trade in bullocks. Do him good to have a blow, to clear his head and brano his ten dons : and if he gfit.s a splash of brine in his face ib will wash out the milk and raspberry, and make his face less like a girl's."

~. " I was out selling, said Gaverock—it

was a day much like this—when 1 killed Feathcrstone. Have you ever heard the tale, Con V Well, 1 dare lie bound you've heard tell something about it, and all wrong. T^'one I; new the real rights but David Tregellas and myself. Red Feath-er stone was a rover as well as a smug' gler. If he had been only the latter, it would have given me a sour soul to have killed him, though we were rivals. Feather stone vas a proper bad man. He carried off whatever his hands laid hold of. He had a boat, the like of which was not seen then, but the Mermaid wouJd bo her match now. Golly, I'd like to have the chance of racing Foathevst.ono's cutter ! She was built some thing the same as this. Hut Featherstone no longer plies the trade. I spiked him. Luff! Mind your head, you fool !"

He altered the course of the Mermaid "lt is an old story ; ifc happened, Con, before you were born or thought of, before 1 married your mother. Indeed, I doubt if I should have had your mother if Feather stone had nob fiixh been put out of the way. .The folks cull liitn Red Featherstone, be cause he was fond of wearing a scarlet ; waistcoat laced with gold ; but over it he wore a long oilskin shiny blacU coafc. In :ill weafchnrs it was the same, anri lie looked like a porpoise ;in his shiny suit buttoned over his red waistcoat. But when he came a-eourt intr he left off the oilskin and showed his waistcoat. He was vastly attached to your mother, and I had a fancy towards her too. Of course 1 had, or 1 would not have married her. Well, Featherstone and I could not abide one another, as was natural, . for we were rivals for your mother, and, by the Lord ! lie threatened to carry her oil" in his schooner if she were not given to ihim, so her father . and brothers were nrmed and watched night and day when boat was about. One day, Uusb such a day us this—how well I remem ber ifc, and so does David yonder !— the sun was darting, a beam (bank of cloud) Iwas over the West, lying on the sea. I was out spearing seals. Guns weren't so .plenty or so good as now, and nothing like so sure of aim as a spear. I used to take one of the old weapons from the hall, a ihalberb with a j.-iggcd feather-like barb. '1 was partial to this weapon, because, if the head went in far enough, the seal could not slip away, tho barb held it Well, as I came shooting round that headland yonder, I was 'cloko on the Wiifccher, which is a shelf of rock leaning with the rough •■broken edge landwards, and sloping tho sea. It is only covered in a ■ heavy sea. David and J could not see the f-Watcher till wo wore closo upon it, and .then there T saw Tied Featherstone seated on the sloping shelf priming his pistols. He lind on his oilskin oo.it, ami oUAIn leggings and long boot*, and shone m the sun like a : porpoise. Yon couldn't see a scrap of red ! about him. If lie had his scarlet waistcoat in *ih was buttoned over. Hub wait, you ■shall hear." The old man chuckled/ l ;didn't see all his waistcoat that fifty, bub I jsaw some, of ib, ;is you shall hear. y" He paused, wiped his brow with his sleeve, and went on. "When Feather stqne saw me he sprang to Ins feet and Uwore, and Tregolkfl stayed his oars-he kvas that, struck with astonishment ho didn t iknow what to do. Then Feathersfcone 'shouted to me that now God or the Devil had brought us face to face, and we would ihave it out, and settle, that hour, who l.shonld have Lydia-fchat's your mother. 'He held a pistol in each hand : one was a Jcreat. brass-mounted horse pistol, and tiie iother was quite a toy tool, silver-mounted. •He held a horse-pistol in his right and Mia !other in his left. 1 had no other arms with me but the old halbert, bub 1 was iiot.afraid EAiraid !" The old man laughed. " I afraid . il snorted like a walrus, and called to David ito pull up to the rock. I stood up in the ifcoafc and held the spear above my head ijeady to cast; but Featherstone was be forehand with me, and he tired the horse nhfei. He missed, for the boat was rock lino- bub the bulleb whizzed past my lieaii, ;and' before ever he could discharge the sec 'end at mo I ilungthe spear, and it went through the air straight as a cormorant after a fish, and struck him in the chest and went

for me, as at the" same moment ' the second pistol went off— and they say Teathar stone was a better aim with his left than with his right. -When I picked myself up, I saw Featherstone wrenching at the shaft of the spear to lug it out of him, but he could not, for, as I "told you, it was barbed ; then it Was that I .saw fsomo of the red waistcoat, for as he pulled at the spear he pulled the frayed, ragged edges of the red cloth out through the hole in the oilskin where the spear had entered. He could do nothing with it, and he grasped hiß silver mounted pistol again, and tried to Ipad it and prime it; but it waa all no nse— down ho fell, and as he fell he threatened me with tho little pistol, but couldn't hurt me, it was unloaded. Just then a black boat shot out from the bay ; Featherstone's men were in it. They had been to the Kitchen with stores, and they heard the shot and hurried after me. David aud I made off then as best we might. Well, I was somewhat curdled in my mind after that, I allow ; but it was a fair fight. Nay, it was fair on my port jind unfair on his, for a halbert was no match for two pistols. Ked Featherstone had been outlawed for his malpractices, so no harm could come to me for having spiked him."

The day was rapidly. changing. The wind sobbed among the sea grass, and tossed the tamarisks as jf trying to tear them up. It carried the. sand in little pufl'a into Gaverock's face. A hazo had over spread the sky, and the sun was shorn of its brightness. Rays of vapour struck across the vault, radiating from tho west, straight as sun rays, but dark ; a mass of white, curd like cloud was drifting below the upper canopy. The sea on the horizon was like indigo, near land it waa the colour of olive.

" There is no time to be lost. Wo shall have a rough passage back to Towan," said the old man.

" Leave the Mermaid hero, advised the woman coming out with the bottle. " Stay the night in this placo. There be plenty of room, though the house don't look to have accommodation ; and when the storm be overpast, go home in tho morning. Or, if you prefer, go back by land." " No, no, answered Gaverock. " I said I'd be home in the Mermnid ; and as I came so I return, and that —tonight." "Ah, Squire," said tho wonian, "you always was as unturnablo as a rusty jack." " Take up the rum, Con '." ordered the old man.

" Here is the money for you, Owen." Then he aud his son wont back to the boat, the laltor laden with the jars of rum. "I was not born to be drowned," said Hender Gaverock, as ho slung himself on board, in reply to a question of Trogellas whether he would risk running into the storm. " (/'on, take charge of the bottles ; don't let them be washed overboard. Mind, as soon as we catch the gale we shall havo to reef. We must keep up some sail, as we have to tack to get homo, but we shall have to reef pretty sport if tho wind be violent."

"Hold the sheet, Con," ordered Hender Gaverock, "and throw yourself to wind'ard as ballast. Whatever you do, but one turn round the cleet. Many a score of boats liiive been lost by a double turn." The wind rose to a hurricane, the waves piled themselves up, and their foaming ciota broke against each other. The day was declining, bub the dense clouds made it dark before its time. All colour was gone out of the sea. Now the little Mermaid proved how pood a vessel she was ; she skimmed the waves like a seabird, she danced on their crosts like the mermaid that she was. A grim smile lighted the face of old Gaverock. He was proud of his boat, and happy to be able to prove her powers. She was scantily pro vided with ba>!-tst for.saicLo<a gale—only with Constantiifo latten with- the stone jars. • " Have the bottles with you, lad. _ Take them over from sido to side," said his father. "We must keep on all snjl we can." For some time he saw no more of the mysterious boat, but as he tacked he again obtained a glimpse of her ; she also, like the Mermaid, wasstandingpnbtosea. The little cutter leaned over with the force of the wind, the water rushed up before her bows, and at times swept her deck. For a moment the sunlight flared out a parting ray from the west, and, as the Mermaid swung up a great billow, the three men saw to port the strange boat, as if made of red hot metal, glowing, glaring, the sail a sheet of flame, the men on board as men of fire. This was only for a moment. Then the bl.ick cloud descended on tho sea, and night fell; but still for a while in the west a bloody streak marked the division be tween sea and sky. Rain began to fall heavily, driving before the wind, drops that struck as hard as hail ; it fell 80 that it cut off all sight of the land and of the horizon.

The sea rose higher. The gale lashed at the sea, like a savage groom lashing a horse into a frenzy of feav any fury. The wind shrieked in the rigging, the water hissed and gulped about the boat, the whole air was full of roar, in which, now and again, came the thunder and crush of a plunging billow distinct from the general noise. Already had they beai swept by two or three seas, and were drenched to the skin. The water foamed over old Tre gel las, who sat forward, and, pouring over the deck, rushed put behind over the Squire. The other boat was near them—so near that they could have hailed one an other had they been so minded. Another reef ought to have been taken in, but Gaverock did not like to confess himself beaten in a race—which was a race for life. Presently, however, when a furious blast sent them over so that the water wet half the sail, he was constrained to take in the second reef, and then, next time he caught sight of the phantom, he saw that those on board her had done the same. " Rum, Con, rum," shouted Gaverock, and passed the tin cup to his son, who removed the cork from one of the jars, pour ed out with shaking hand, and passed a jorum to his father, then drank himself, and finally handed the can to Tregellas. The spirit was needed; the three men wore numb with cold, and wet to the bone. When the rushing rain held up, the light on Trevoso Head was visible; bub Gave rock saw that it was now impossible for him to make Sandymouth that night. The wind was on shore, and he must run out to sea, and keep woll out till break of day. This could only be done by constant tacking. He did not tell Constantine or David. There was no need for him to do so—both knew ib as well as he. Unless he could work out to open sea, the wind would carry him ashore between the horns of Hartland and Trevose. If ho could manage to ruti under Lundy, he conld lie there all night, ready for return next day. Fortunately the gale was not front the north-west, but with a point or two to the south-west. The phosphorescent light on the black billows seemed to the Squire to break into lambent flanks about the mysterious boat that shot by out of darkness and iuto dark ness again at intervals. By this light he thought he could distinguish the men on board, witli their sou'-westere oh their heads; but as they were all to windward and tho boat keeled over steeply, he could see no faces. Their backs were towards him, but he fancied that he saw the man at the helm with a stake protruding from his back. That may have been fancy only. In the uncertain light, with the irregular motion of the boats, with glimpses caught casually between boiling seas, m the ex cited, strained condition of ■ bis mind, Gaverock was liable to bo deceived. Not for a moment did tho old man's bear fail him. His spirit rose to tho occasion. He hud oxprewea » wW» to rac* Foatthgr

stone's cutter. Foatherstono had tdh'un him afc hia word : tho phantom ship Wftß there, come at his challenge, at one moment fiery, as if the dead man aud his boat had sprung to the challenge from the flames of Tartarus, black for the most part, as though drawn from the blackest abyss of hell.

Presently ho saw a mighty wall- of water, as of ink, rolling on, with the blear light of the squally western sky behind it, showing its ragged, tossing, threatening crown, sharply cut against the light. Gaverock prepared to meet it, with firm grasp of the helm and set teeth. For a moment it seemed as though the Mermaid was about to cleave it—only for a'moment, and then she swung up, all her planks straining, as making a desperate effort; then a rTtsh of whirling foam swept the deck and streamed out of the lee scuppers, as the boat lay over almost on her side. lor a moment she staggered, as though hesitat ing what to do next, righted herself, and then went headlong clown into the sea trough, as though diving like a cormorant after a fish ; and the walls of black water stood about her, enclosing her as the waves of the Red Sea above tie chariots of Pharaoh. Whilst this happened, Gaverock fancied he heard a cry from the phantom boat, which he could not see, hidden behind the liquid mounds. Was it a cry of mockery, or was it a threat! He waited till the Mer maid had mounted a roller, and then ho re plied with a roar of defiance. It was no longer possible to carry so much sail, and he reefed again—but with reluctance. The fury of tho storm seemed to grow. He dared not reef further, lest he should lose all command over the boat.

Tho spray cub and cross-cut the old Squire's face, as though he were being lashed with a horse-whip. The water poured off his shaggy eyebrows, blinding him. He dared not lot go his hold of the tiller even with one hand to wipe his face, and he bent his head, and smeared tho brine and rain away on his sleeve. The rum was called for, and passed fre quently. Constantine suffered more than Iris father. His hands were numb and shook with cold. He was less accustomed to exposure than Ilender Gaverock and David Tregellas. For a twelvemonth, at least, ho had not been to sea. He was angry and bitter at heart with hits father for expqsing him to discom fort and danger. He firmly resolved never to go out with the old man again. It would be better for him to keep away altogether from homo, where he was tripped up, mocked, thrust into peril of his life by the inconsiderate, self-willed old man. Now he was afraid of losing the jars of spirits ; afraid of a wave washing them away. Therefore he took off hia kerchief and titsd the handles together with it. They wero already bound together with a pieeo of cord ; that cord lie passed behind his back, and the kerchief by this means crossed his breast, holding a jar in place under each arm. Thus, when he passed from port to star board, he carried them with him without inconvenience. That was his first idea in thus attaching them about him, but his second was that they might form a protec tion for himself in the event of his being washed overboard or of the vessel founder -

S'Vjathcrstone's boat—or that which Gave rock took for it — had been unseen for some while. All at once it shot by. Then the old Squiro thought he could dis tinguish the faces of tho men on board, lib t>y the upward ilare of the phosphores cent foam. They were white as the faces of the dead. Not a word was spoken as they went by, though tho wind lulled for a minute.

The lull was but for a minute. A little ■way ahead through the darkness loomed on them a mountain of water, with a curling, hoaryf spluttering fringe on its head. Gavcrock steered direct to the billow, and the sail was ceased as much as possible to help the little Mermaid over the watery heap. The wave came on as if on wheels, rushed down on them, shivering; into specks of foam" in all parts on its side, as sparks blink out hero and there in tinder ; with a roar and a blow, it engulfed tho vessel and her crew, For a moment the Mermaid lay on her lee side, as about to keel over, then gathered herself together and righted once move. Gavorock heard a cry from the water. Tregallas was overboard. "God bo with you, David !" called the old Squire, and said no more. Help was not to bo thought of. Then ho imagined that he hoard a loud, derisive laugh come to him over the water. He could not see Featherstone's boat, but the sound came— or he fancied it came—from tho quarter where she must be. Constantine was now alone in the vessel with his father. They had to manage hex- between them. The old man could not leave the tiller. He held it with iron hand, though uumbed with tho cold, and with the fingers stiff, without feeling, and contracted. Soon after, again, he caught a glimpse, but only a glimpse, of the phantom boat. The clouds had parted momentarily before the crescent moon, and a ray had touched this mysterious vessel. For an instant, an instant only, it shone out against the night and storm, ghost-like, »3 if out out of white paperand stuck against the soot-black back ground. Gaverock's pulses smote his ribslike hammers. He was very angry. Feather stone, the Rover, had revisited the world and the scene of his exploits, to have his revenge on the race that had compassed his murder! He was following the Mermaid, to watch and track to death the man and the son of the man who had spiked him. Gaverock looked about for, and with his hand groped after Constantino's gun. A foolish desire for revenge came over him. He would have liked, next time the strange bocit appeared, to discharge the gun at the helmsman. But he abandoned the idea almost as soon as it was formed. He dare not desert the tiller, and the gun was doubt less rendered useless by the water.

As the night wore on, Gaverock lost all sense of time. Hour after hour had passed, but the night became no darker; the storm, if it did not abate grew no worse. Some times the cjouds aloft wore torn apart, and the Squire could look up at the stars and see tattered fragments of vapour being whirled across the gap, which then closed again. At times driving storms of rain came on, and when rain did not fall the air was full of spendrift. J Gaverock guessed pretty well where he was, and he altered somewhat the course of bin boat. He was now, according to his reckoning, driving towards the Channel. He could see Lundy light at intervals, far away to leeward, but he had lost sight of that on Trovpse Head.

Oaverook's heart did not fail 'him, but he was less confident than he had been of reaching home alive. He took the peril ■without much concern ; it was what must be expected by those who went out boating in dirty weather. If he were drowned, well—it could not be helped. All must die. But he was vexed that he had nob been able to keep his word, and run home to Towan in spite of the gala Strange to say the feeling that prevailed in him, and nerved him to battle with the tempest, was rage against Featherstone. He had dared Featherstone. He had dared Feather stono to race him, and Featherstone he saw, would beat him, and be ablp to pxulb over the wreck of the Mer maid. Not a thought did he give to Towan, to his wife, to Gerans ; his one absorbing consideration was — ho'vv to dtaappoint Featherstone, his one consuming ambition was—to come off with life and with an un wrecked boat, not for his own sake, but to defeat and disappoint Featherstono. ' Betwepn three and four in the morning, aa tho dawn was beginning to lighten, Ooverock saw again a mountain of foam before him, so white, ea broken, that ho fearod he waa"fallon among breakers; MX\ womont bo recpgo]flo4 b4» mis

take. No rock* were there, no sand bank. What ho bwV was ft mountain of Boathing foam 'tic ohiah and churn of angry wavos had bodtsu against otwh other in aor «■. and liad resolved them* solves into i >W of milky brino, that workod and In ;d throughout its Bubstanco and over its fauo. Tho Mermaid wont in, and for a moment or two Gnvcroek and his eon were holding their breath, submerged in sea-water. When the Mer maid came out, she lay keel upper most, and the old man and Constautine were clinging to her takling and floating in the sea. Gaverock was prepared for tliia. He had not lost hia presence of mind. He hacked through the shrouds on tho side, so as to allow the mast to float, instead of working underneath her. Then, using great exertion, he scrambled upon the keel, and Constantino did the same.

There they sat, in cold and wet, gripping1 the bottom of the boat with hands and knees, covered every few minutes with the waves. Constantine found that his powers were failing. He could hold on but very little longer. There was only just sufficient light for them to know that the night was changing to day. Constantino pulled tiro corks out of the jars, one after the other, and poured forth their contents, then ho corked them tightly again. Would it not be well for him to pass one of the jars to his father? To do that, he must unknot both his kerchief and the cord, and his hands were to numb for this. Besides, it was doubtful whether a single jar would suffice to float a man who had .strength and endurance|in him yet, and Constantine had neither. Be sides, tho father had run him into this great peril, not he the father. In common justice, therefore, the risk should fall heaviest on the old man. "Father 1" lie called, "I can hold on no longer. " "Then let go, in God's name. I'll give your respects to mother." At that moment a great roller swept over both. As the boat came out, Gaverock saw the strange vessel, with the dark figures in it, shoot by. Then he looked along the keel—Constantine was gone. The old man's heart beat, not with sorrow for his son, not with fear for himself, but with auger that Featherstone should have witnessed and be exulting over, the loss of his servant and his eon.

" I will not drown. Golly ! I'll spoil his sport yet," shouted Gaverock ; and he took the great knife wherewith he had out through the cordage, and with it he worked holes between tho wood and the lead of the keel, into which he could fit his fingers, dead and frozen though they wore, but still with the cling in them, set as claws.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAE, THTJESDAr* AFEIL 14 Mfc

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New Autumn Goods. f Ladles' Umbrellas. g ©slip si ««k ' ' * I irlipfi' VYoOI ShaWlS. W lit QUEEN STREET, "°" . .. tr ot .t,l« .nd qoiJity Ik>» •• M AUCKLAND. Al^. st^o. gg^^ g^.l^ ,/-■»-* «. «■ y^^ihfiT^X '"^ Ladies' Hand Bags. Mantle Ornaments. A^W[u\ "■ The newest styles in Br.id, B.adea, and Che.ille Mantle Ornaments-rery choice. _ Astrachan Trimmings. f WILLIAM RATTRAY, Abtracnan B"u Draper and Hosier, p. " and Fioundngs. QUEEN STREET. |7* Real Mattese^La^ £S fJ? I!^^ \ / «s» Ladies' Handkerchiefs. / r^T * j- . ««j r n^yTPA Bordered Cambric Handkerchiefs froA 3s 6d per dozen. Lad,es' White^C^^Bordgjaj. yalue at lfi 6d each WirLiAM: Rattray 4 jf . 178, 180, 182, QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, IMPORTER OF DRAPERY. MILLINERY, COSTUMES, MANTLES, ETC., ETO -



/~i UN S ! GUNS! GUNS! Rifles ! Rifles ! REVOLVERS! REVOLVERS! GUNPOWDER! Shot, Caps, Cartridges, Wadding, Wire Cartridges, Loading Apparatus, .AMMUNITION Op Every Description1, • Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Fireworks, &o. The best and cheapest House In Auckland for the above is at D. EVITT'S, 254, Queen-street. Repairs and every description of Gunwork done t the lowest possible prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. D. EVITT, Gukmakeb, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND ■ (Opposite the Market House). PRICE LISTS SENT-TO ANY ADDRESS, D» H AYUIASON, . PRACTICAL LOCKSMITH AND RANGE-MAKER, DURHAM-STREET. LOCKS PICKED AND KEYS FITTED. Safes Opened and Duplicate."keys Cut. T> A P E R HANG INGS.. W. PHILLIPPS & SON HAVE RECEIVED, EX LATE ARRIVALS, 1 185—PACKAGES—185 CONTAINING 55,000 ROLLS OF PAPERHANGINGS, CONSISTING OP NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bed- Rooms. Hall and . Staircase, suitable for tho Mansion or Cottage. X BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. $AND BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED IN \' PAPERHANGINGS. 916 —PACKAGES—9I6 'SCRIMS AND HESSIANS •■'•"-■ PLATE AND SHEET GLASS WHITP LEAD. OILS. TURPS. VARNrsVIES AND All, TRADE SUNDIUKB. W. PHII LI P P S & SON, a 95 and 97, Queen-street. THOMAS J. HARBUTT MANUFACTURER OF ' I CORISr BROOMS, y Trade Mark: KAPAT. [UNION" BROOMS (Patented) 9s Ber do* ? PATENT BRACE, No. 1,14 a; No. 2 life • ~ . No. 3,185; subject to Trade * 2 ■ Discount. HAVING NOW CHEAP CORN Pmcvi GREATLY REDUCED. *.0.b.,,284JV' :i^ !? tHiG a . STREET A ill. THUB-M' A, s Y> MANUFACTURERS' AGENT ' AND WHOLESALE GLASS MERCHANT. ORDERaINDENTED. GOODS IMPORTED DIRECT QUALITY GUARANTEED, ' | FOR SALE, aSm* *nameUoa- ««»d Coloured window WiroNaili Portland Comont



KEEP PACE WITH THE TEIE° ■■ J. H. DALTOK, TASLOR, Victoria Street East, Auckland, |J "♦ AND Tennyson Street, Napior. gjgja PATTERNS OP CiO^|| GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHIJiG N To Measure, xm! P I H p °st Fre*with Price LijtSi *$■ Wmftw Sevse Suit •■ ■•210 lllin iKD1 'Fox' No. 1 Serge Suit 3 io.l; i||» S|j Fancy Serge Suit „ 4 1Q; Ji|f W Heavy Diagonal ..4 18 §§ H§ I Black Cloth Suit _4 10 Wr rExtra Sack .. .. 6Oi •^J^W Frock and Dress Suit 7 gjl Gentlemen's 'ffl CoT*lt Co*tß. PRBGE LIST , v IS! FOR 18S6-ISS7. LATEST FASHIONS ; In Gentlemen's and Boys 1 Clothing, etc., and Easy Hill Self - Measurement Forms are sent, X * I p GRATIS AND POST FREE, H|j| On Application. \ a J^— Cheques, Postal Orders, etc., \ to be crossed J. H. DALTON. -<$■ UeiiHfman's Korniuji ; Co*t ftnd V«it, 'i -.- " i it jL PAIR TROUSERS* ||y§||||| GIVEN AWAY ! Mmsr With Each Suit' V All Goods are sent CAR- 1 mm Wm RIAGE PAID, and if not im W\ approved ape exchang-l H ed, or the money return* ra p^S ed (whichever pre- / ■Gentlemen* Track Coato. Good Tweed Suit 2 10 0 Trousers » 012 6 Oentlemtn'gjlwttd , Sack Suits. . — 1 Iron Curved for"VerakdasJ (ANY PATTERN) ./ AT SHORTEST NOTIOB. /' :V: i'M George M ooa;U'| Manufacturing- Plumber, AND \",\ IMPORTER OF ALL TIIADE REQUIiSITES' WEI.LESLEY STREET EAST , (oppO3ite New Library), and BROWN EC DAVY STREETS, THAMES, j HAS FOR SALE— j ; 300 Corrugated Galvanized Tanks (assorted), I 500 Colonial Ovens (all sixes) ' ' I 50,000 feet Lead Edge IticlgU Cap (oil sizes) ,10,000 feetO.G. Spouting (all si/.es) , ?,' fiO.OOO feet llownpipes (all sizes) : 50,000 feet Galvanized Water Pipes (all sizes) j Lead-head Nails, Lead Washers, PortabWij Oveus, Furnace Frames, Copper BDilera, . I etc., etc., eto. Awarded Three First Prizes forabove l'nes, »l. Auckland Agricultural Show. Largest and best selection of Gas Globesta Auckland. As G. McCAUL is a direct importer for cash, he is in a position to supply the trada! at the lowest remunerative prices. i Liberal discounts, to the trade. Countl/l orders Dunctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUfv 1 Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer of *B Trade Requisites, Wellesley-st East (oppoait* New Library), and Brown and Davy-stre'etl»* j Thames. i , imr ■' [EBTABLISnED 1859,] ! GEE & POTTER, COACHBUILDEBSj LORNK and RUTLAND Stbkkts. ; | Coaohee. CarrlaKCß, Wapgonottes, Burb|«v Pony Curriaircs, Ourts, Drays, and every ae-1 soription of Vehicles kept in stock, or buut B| order. Tho trado supplied. ', N,B.—Traps lent to customers whilst »?<s*!§ ore being exooutod.