THE MYSTERY OF HADDON'S FERRY.

(By E. D. E. N. Soutiiworth.)

CHAPTER LVIX

FORSAKEN

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Sallust Rowleys dreams had been s Q haunted by visions of the burning ship, on tho midnight sea, with all its attendant horrors, that when he awoke, late in the morning, he did not experience that dis tressing feeling of bewilderment which usually attends the awakening from a deep and dreamless sleep In a strange locality, alter some awful disaster. On the contrary, as soon as ho opened his eyes, he was able to recall all the terrible events of the preceding night, and he knew that he was in the cottage of the fisherman who had rescued and sheltered Gertrude and himself from the waves. He drew on his clothes, which were a little stiff and harsh from the salt sea water, and groped his way down the dark and narrow stairs that led from the loft to the large common front room or kitchen ot the *°There he found the fisherman's comely Wife, sitting on a low stool in the midst ot a drift of nets which she was engaged in Snending. . ~ "How is your patient this morning, Mrs Reynolds — Reynolds, I think, is yoar name, if I remember rightly?" He Id qi"rYe.s sir, Reynolds — Jane Reynolds which I was Jane Robbins, the daughter of John Robbins, market gardener, before marriage, as they say-

"' To change'the name and not the letter, It is for worse and not for better. But I haven't found ib so, sir. I have noth ing to complain of in my John." " I am sure you haven't.^ You are a very happy woman, and look it.' "Thanky', sir." "Bub I was asking you about) your patient. How is she this morning ?" "Well, sir, lam happy to say as your good lady (the idea of calling a baby like that' a pood lady !' but .she is, for all that, though I never should have dreamt of it li I had not seen her wedding-ring), your good lady, sir, is.all right this morning, and she wishes to see you the first thing." _ Sallnst drove his long fingers through his flame-coloured hair and gazed at the speaker in bewilderment, being ' perplexed in the extreme' by her talk of Aw good ady and her wedding-ring. " This morning when ahe waked up I saw she was well in body, though awful ill in mind S" " 111 in mind!" " She was, sir. Awful! As soon as she woke this morning she began to sigh and moan and mutter in the mo.sb distressful way. I couldn't just make out what ib was nil about, sir; but I kind o' fancied she thought as you was drownded, sir : and bhe was takin' on dreadful about you."' " Dear girl! did she really think ho much of me as all that?" exclaimed Sallust, in genuously, as his boyish face beamed with gratified vanity. . "'Think so much of you as all that, sir ? Why, to be sure she did, sir \ Dear heart! what would ail her nob to think ot you, and you her own clear husband, though she is such a baby to have a hus band 0!" ** ' ' Sallust gathered his fair? "knobby fore head into hard knots and drove his fingers through his fiery hair, and ruminated : " I wonder if I'm tight ? I can't be, for I didn't drink anything. She must be tight, though she don't look like a driukmg ■woman either." "You say the lady fretted about mo.' he at length inquired. '•' Fretted' isn't the word, sir. oho took on awful, moaning and groaning, and sigh ing and muttering, and, as far as I could make out, reproaching us all for saving her; because, as I suppose, she thought you were drowned. And she kept on going on so, getting worse and worse until I went up to her and told her as her dear husband wasn't drowned ; as my man had picked 'em both up, which he was safe and sound in this very house, and fast asleep in the identical loft-bed. She must stop worry ing" about her dear husband." " Her dear—what ?" exclaimed the con fused Sallusfc, stirring up his red hair till it looked like a little lire.

" Her dear husband, sir, of course."

" Humph ! And what did she say when yon told her that her dear husband was all right ?" dryly inquired Sallust. " Oh, sir, her spirits sprang from the cellar to the attic, so to speak, that quick, it made me giddy. It was despair with her one instant and delight the next. Her face beamed like the sun, sir. She's as beauti ful as an angel, that she is. She folded her little hands and lifted her eyes—what lovely eyes she has, sir!—and she prayed and thanked' Heaven, still murmuring something about her dear husband." '♦Just so," .said Sallust. ("One of iiS three is tight or crazy,' he mentally added.) ' . " Shall I show yott_ into your good hdy s room now, sir?' inquired the matron. "By all manner of means. Lead the way. 'In for a penny in for a pound.' Go ahead, madam." Sallust following the good lady entered the chamber, and the hostess passed out into the kitchen, closing the door after her.

Sallust shyly approached the bedside, feeling as if he were treading upon forbidden ground. Gertrude started up, and held out her anus, exclaiming: "Oh, Gerald I Oh, Gerald !"

Then seeing her mistake, she gave one long, amazed look ab the intruder, and muttering, with white lips : " Salluat RowUy! Great Heaven .'" she sank back half fainting on her pillow. Poor Sallusb stood confounded. He knew not whether to keep his post or to turn and fly. He ran his slender fingers into his red hair, and stirred it up untilib crackled and sparkled with electricity, like a little bon lire*

"Oh, Heaven! what mistake is this? What does it all mean ? moaned Gertrude.

" You did not expect to see me here, then, Miss Haddon ?" Sallusb at length found courage to ask, though in a perplexed and aggrieved tone. She did not answer, but covered her face ■with her hands, as if to shut out her view of him. " Why, what is the matter* Miss Haddon ? This is all very strange," said the bewild ered Sallust.

She replied only by piteous moans. " Oh, Lord, this is just dreadful! What ails you, Miss Gertrude ? Bo tell me." Deep sighs heaved her bosom, but no re sponse came. "Can I do anything in the world for you, Miss Haddon.?. Please let me know." Shudders shook her light frame, but no word came from her lips. " Well, I do declare to goodness," ex claimed the ill-used Sallust, as he vigor ously stirred up the fire of his hair and gathered his fair, knobby forehead into knots, "I thought you sent for m^Miss Gertrude Haddon, else I should never have had the presumption to intrude on you. Didn't you tell the fisherman's wife to fetch »ehere2"

" Oh, no, no, no, I never did! I never did f" wailed Gertrude, in a heart-broken tone. „, -i .» Jfci "Well I'll be blown' to flinders if this isn't fche prettiest way in the world to treat a cove who has just risked his own Mo to save yours. You know that I saved you from the waves, do you not, Miss Ger trude?" . , T t "Oh, no, I did not know lb ! I—l sup posed that I owed my life to Colonel h ita- Se"Vho'> Gerald? Oh! to be sure, he had hold of you when I first saw ycu though, mind you, I did not know it was you then—bub he did have hold of you, and he dropped you when he saw his own wile in danger." " His wife ?" repeated Gertrnde, almost unconsciously. , « Yes ; that was the way or it. Oh, that vmst have been the way of it! pleaded Gertrude, in a tone of agony, as if beseech ing him to believe it, and by his fatth to hcTn her to believe it. "But in the meantime, the moment he left you, you went down like lead, and he never looked back to «cc how you fared : so, if I had not been on hand todive tor yov, you would never have come to fche surface filivo!" But, mind you, I do njjt blame liim. The man was in love and honour bound to save his own wife, let who would perish," concludod Sallust, confidently. "Mr Rowley," said Gertrude gravely, " she was not his wife." " Eh ?" exclaimed Sallusb. " Miss Geraldine Fitzgerald was nob the wife of Colonel Fitzgerald," repeated Ger trude. .. , " Geraldine Fitzgerald not the wife ot Colonel Fitzgerald !" echoed Sallust m in credulous amazement. " No, Mv Rowley, she was not. " This is stunning I But are you sur© ? "Perfectly sure.1" " But I saw them together oh the steamer. And I congratulated him on his marriage, and talked to him about his wife." " There was a misapprehension on your part, I suppose," said Gertrude, quietly. " I think I have been living in a forest of misapprehensions for the last few days. 1 should like to find my way out of it all. Then Fitzgerald is not married, alter all ?"

" Yes, he is married." "Gerald married?" "Yes." " And not to Geraldine ?" "No." "To whom is ho married, then, in Heaven's name ?" . ■ "Tome." "To you?" " Yes." "Heaven and earth and—and the other place !" At any les3 serious time Gertrude might have smiled at his look of perfect stupe-

faction. "When, where, how, and above all, why did he marry you ?" impulsively de manded Sallust, in his astonishment, quite unconscious of the rudeness he was com mitting. Any creature less humble and patient than "Gertrude must have resented such questions. She simply replied : "About eighteen months ago, in the Old Red Sandstone Church, by the Reverend Dr. Goodwin; to please himself and—me. "Well, upon my sacred word and honour! If anyone were to tell mo now that I myself, Sallnst Rowley, had been married ten yearn, and wits tho father of a fine family of sons and daughters, 1 could nob be more amazed! ho you really did think that your husband had saved you 1 Quite natural; and your disappoint ment was quite natural, too! You had a right to expect him to save you, and why the blue devils didn't he ?"

" I told yoa, Mr Rowley, that ho meant to save me. 1 told you how it was," said Gertrude, pleading pathetically for the faith thab was life to her.

"Come! So you did,"' replied Sallust, dryly and thoughtfully, as his face over clouded. "My cako L* all dough now. I shall never get her. She is another man's wife, and it is not lawful for me to express a regret, or even so much as to feel a re gret°that I could not marry her. She's an other man's wife. And ' Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's,' and so forth. Hard on a cove, though, to risk his Iffo, in saving the girl he love?", only to be told that she has been married to another fellow for eighteen months," he ruminated. jThen rousing himself, he spoke up, say ing : "Of course It was of Colonel Fitzgerald you were speaking when you talked to the fisherman's wife of your husband ?" " Yes, certainly ; but she first misled me. She told me my husband was snfe in this house—asleep in the loft. Of course I thought she spoko of Colonel Fitzgerald, and hf. had saved mo."

"Poor yirl!" murmured Sallnst to him self.

" Mr Pvowley," said Gertrude with grave sweetness, " I hopo you will believe how deeply grateful I feel to you for all yon have done for me. I hope you will pardon my seeming insensibility. I was mistaken in the first instance, then surprised and con fused. I hardly know what I said or did. You will pardon me ?'' "Oh, my dear Mrs Fitzgerald, do not mention it. I can perfectly understand it all now," said Sallust, with an involuntary sigh, as ho arose to leave the room. "And now, my dear lady, I hope you willtrust mo and use me and abuse me, too, if you have occasion. Lord ! why, you might con fide in me as if I was your grandfather, and order me round as if I was your servant," he added, enthusiastically. " I am sure that I might, bufc I will not abuse your kindness, Mr Rowley. Tell me one thing : Do you know the name of the vessel whose boats picked up the crew and passengers of the Messenger ?" "No; but I reckon Mrs Reynolds, tho fisherman's wife, does. I will send her in to you, arid you can ask her." "Thanks. Do so." Sallust left the room, muttering to him self :

" Very hard on g, cove, though, to save the girl he dote* on for some other fellow who don't care a snap for her, but leaves her to perish, while he looks after another .woman* 'So runs the world away.'" As soon as she was left alone, all Ger trude's short-lived courage died within her. Again sobs swelled her bosom, shudders shook her frame, moans issued from her lips "lt was not so hard to die," she wailed. " When my eyes beheld Gerald turn from me, leave me drowning, and hasten to save Geraldine, there seemed nothing left for me but to die, and it was not hard to do. But to wake to life again ! to remember that he left me to perish while he saved another ! to know that he believes me to be dead ! to feel that I am indeed dead to him while living in f/riej! Oh, this is indeed a conscious death in life. Oh ! tho cruel humanity that tore me from the peace called death, and brought me back to the agony called life | to the memory that my Gerald left me! left me to perish in the sea !"

Here the anguish of her heavfc became so profound, intense and insupportable that it produced a reaction—a necessary reaction — for that, or death or madness must have come. Again she seized and clung to the faith with which she had tried to keep her soul from sinking in despair—the belief that he did not mean to abandon her.

So Bhe had again attained some degree of calmness by the time Mrs Reynolds came into her room. The good woman sat down by the bedside. "Do you know what ship it was that picked up the crew and passengers cf the Messenger ?" inquired Gertrude. "Yea, dear. She was the Mary Jane, bound from Havre to London."

" Oh, lam glad of that. We were en

We have a friend there—the clergyman who married us. Colohel Fitzgerald will immediately communicate with him, I am sure. So 1 know where to tind him. Oh, 11 am so glad of that!" exclaimed Gertrude, forgetting, in her excitement, that she had neither strength nor money nor clothing sufficient for the journey. New hope inspired Gertrude1 with courage, and courage gave her strength ; and despite all Mis Reynolds's remonstrances, she de termined to rise and pub on her clothes. By the time she had completed her simple toilet, she felt very much exhausted, and hat! to lean cm the arm of her good hostess aa she walked from the bedroom to the kitchen.

Here she found Sallust Rowley, who im mediately sprang up from the stool upon which he waa sitting, and brought forward the one-cushioned arm-chair that the cot tage could boast, and into it Gertrude Bank, feeling weak as an infant. Their kind hostess bustled about and pre pared a cup of tea and a round of dried toast, which she arranged neatly on a little table before her guest. " How soon will it be possible for us to go <jo London, Sallust ?" asked Gertrude. [ The young, man exchanged glances \vith Mrs Reynolds, and answered discreetly : " Nob before the day after to-morrow, I think. You know we have neither proper clothing nor money, and we have to see to the providing of thoeo necessaries before we can go." Gertrude had gone through too many degrees of deep suffering within the past few days to let a trifling delay like this dis appoint her; but she looked a little more serious, as she said : " Well, I will write to Colonel Fitzgorald, to the care of Dr. Goodwin, to-day, so that bo shall be prepared to receive as."

(To be continued.)

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Auckland, arr. .. .. 5.13 9.30 • Llohfleld.arr. 1&5.25 .. i * Flag Mtation. a Runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only, b Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays only The others run dally, - - KAIPARABRANCH. -~ApO&land—Hesdersok—HmlenSViux Auckland to Hslbnbtille.—Wk'kk Days. HsißNavirxß: to ApckliAKD.—W&gg Days. ,__ _ | . -_ - _ ~ , am. am. p.m.1 p.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. ■o.va. Atiokland .. dep. 7.0 10.55 4.40 2.16 Helensville .. dep. 6.20 11.45 4.0 .. Newmarket JnnoVn 7.18 11.12 4.57 2.25 'Helenaville South.. * • • .. Mount Kdeu- .. 7.19 11.19 6.4 *Ohlranßl .. • • • •Klngeland ....•*** *Paeroa • • • •Morningnide.. - • * * • *Woodhlll .. • • • ~ •Mount Albert . * • * ! *Reweti.. .. .. • • * • .. Avondalo .. ..7.35 11.38 5.20 \ 'Waimauku .... * • • L •New Lynn ....*" * * *Kumeu .. .. 7.15. 1.5 6.0 •Walkomltl «:' ■.i "* * •3.0 *Tanp*Jct .. .. * • • 'Henderson .. .. 8.0 12.5 6.45 .. Waltakerol .. .. 7.35 1.30 E. 20 .. *Swanson .... * • * ~ •Swanson - .. * * * .. Waltakerel .. .. 8.25 12.32 6.15 .. Henderson .. _ 8.0 2.5 5.45 .. •Tanpakl .. * * * -. "Waikomiti .. * * * 445 Kurueu - .. 8.45 1.5 6.33 „ *Now Lynn ..'...* ♦ • » ♦Walmaukm * * * Avondale .. .. 8.37 232 6.10 • *Rewotl.. - «. *' * * .'. "Mount Albert ..***• *WobdhiU *. «. * * * .. *Momingßlde.. .. • •• • « •Paeroa.. «. .. * * * .. "Kingaland .... * • •. ■• •Qhlrangi, .... * • * •• Mount Kdon.. .. 8.47 2.55 6.24 5.15 •Helenaville South.. • * * ~ Newmarket Junctn 9.4 3.10 6.36 521 Helcnavllle .. arr. 9.40 2,10 1 7.30 ■■ Auck)and arr.^ 9.13 3.2Q 6.4!) 5.5Q \Sr^^^ A. Runs ou first Bund yiii each month only. WAI KATO TRAIN SERVICE. Trains from Auckland fok m« i «,«n,«tn i Mondays, Wedneadays, and Fridayu at 8.0 a.m. TflAwamulu «... „ Vruesdaya, Thursdays, and Saturdays at 11.40 a. m. ♦Otorohanga .. ~ .. Mondays and Fridays at 8.0 a.m. HamiltonAV e st {"SffiKt^fS. 011 M°ndaygi ' Wcdnesd^.«« "—' , u .,(,aa,i o, -v cdnesilays, and Fridays at 11.40 a.m. i """"'M \ Tuoadays, Thui'Bdaya, and Saturdays at 8.0 a.m. Morrlnsville Daily at 8.0 a.m. Te Aroha Tuesdays, Thuradaya, and Saturdays at 8.0 a.m. Oxiot'd and Lichfleld .. .. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 8.0 a.m. Trains fob Auckland prom Lichfleld and Oxford .. .. Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays Te Aroha Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 1.55 p.m. Morrlnsvilla .. .. .» Daily at 2.55 p.m. Cambridge .. .. .. Daily at 9.20 a.m. Hamilton Went Daily at 10.20 am. and 3.53 p.m. *Otorohanga Tuesdays and Saturdays at 8.10 a.m. ToAwamutu Daily at 9.15 a.m. • Flag Stations.—An asterisk * opposite a Station denotes that trains do not stop unless require* to nick up or set down paeawisora. Notloe shouli be given to the Guard at previous Btoppini stations by any passenger desiring to alight at StsTMons opposite which an asterisk isplaoed. gw All Time Tables issued prior to this date ore now cancelled. „„,„.. Wi „_ J. P. MAXWELL. General Manager.



fcXttonofVehloleßkeptln Bfook, oi-buflt to order. The trade uupplled. N?B.--Trapslentto cu»tomer» whilst repairs »re being exeouted. "t tt °-w ■D BN * WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET, %,-<»< Has now convenienoa for making and repair ing of Jewellery and for the repairs of ever/ description of Watches. Chronometers, Sec, &c, and to further increase his repairing and manu facturing department, he is disposing of tho remainder of hte PIANOS at and under coat. Persons having old gold j owallory can have it m&deup into new and fashionable articles to order, and all the bettor class of watches and chronometers recolvo Ms personal supervision. Rotherinams' Qenuina Bnyltoh Lover3in atoofc. GO TO B A T\H to ROTH'S PUBLIC HOT, COLD, AND SHOWER BATHS, Victoria-stbebt K*BT. Chirge-ONai SHILLING. Op6n aU weekdaya from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and SUNDAY MORN INGS*rom6tiU 10a.m. Thebath-roomaareaU irlvato and suppUcd with every convenience, Turktoh' Towlls, ftesh and hair brushes, combs, respirators, soaps, etc. Select Bath-roomi Jorivate) for ladies every day. at all hours, with Berber in attendance. ._ - T- — B. HEA TH, • BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, UPPKB SYMONDS-STBBET, Makoa it his principal aim to Bupply Boots and Sboes of the best material and solid workman- Ship at the lowest Cash Prices, thuß giving real satisfaction to his numerous customers. 1 .B.Hi does not make or sell the lowest gradea, which are dear at any price, but keeps on hand a large and well-assorttd stock o English, French, and Gorman goods, together with Colonial goods of our manufacture, for quality and price unsurpassed. : ■ TTNVENTIONS and TRADE MARKS X registered in aU parts. All drawings, otc, accuratelyprepared at the International Agency. Offices: Hill's Chambers, Queen-rtreet. D W I N JONES (Late S. and A. Jon tw, HonsK, fggßgwg^m.-QBnuuL Ponsonby Road and Pompallier Terrace, Auckland, N.Z. Agent for the Phoanix Five Office. Advertiaement Agent for AUCK&and EVESIXQ Star. Poat-ofßce Saving* Bank, Mone.r Order Offlee. Telegraph Station,, Telephoi le Bureau. T>APERHAN(JINGS. W. PHILIJPFs & (JON Have received, ex late arrivals, 185-PACKAGES-435 , Containing 55,000 ROLLS OY PAPERHANGINGS. Consisting of NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bed Rooms, Hall and Staircase, suitable for the Mansion or Cottage. > '' Beautiful Designs, and best value ever offered in Paperhangintjs. 916—PACKAGES-916 SCRIMS AND HESSIANS, Plate and Sheet Glass, White Lead, Oils/ Turps, Varnishes, and all Trade Sundries; W. PHILLIPPS & SON, $5 .AND 97, QtTEBN-STEiE'R FISHER k O 0., WHOLESALE SHIPPING AND BUTCHERS Established* 1804." By Special Appointment to Hia Excellency th« Governor, tilt W. F. Jervois: His Excellency Sir James Ferguson; and H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh; also,Kosha Butohers to the AUCKLAND. N.Z. Families waited on in Town or Suburb* POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER Dealers in Gac« Home-cured Hams and Bacon . Corned Boe fin Large Quantity. Imports Of Sausage Casings The Trade Supplleil N.B.—Calves' Rennet* t% Customers Supplied with Ice. Telephone No. 356. P.O. B6xNO,4Si HIS EXOKLLENCY THC GOVKRNOK. THAMES CARRIAGE AND DRAY FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST AND HIGH-STREET, AUCKLAND. Telephone. 308. JAMES MACKIE, Coacheuildlb, MANAGER. A , jkf Builder of every description of Yenioles, Repairs in all the branches of the trade faithfully executed-. Vehicles Bought and Sold on Commission, Coachbuilders' Requisites in Stock. The Trade Supplied. Country Orders punctually attended to* Cash Customers liberally dealt with. mHECITY OF,AUCKLAND DYEING JL AND CLEANING ESTABLISHMENT, Richmond, and. .Welleslkv-street Easi [Established A.D. 1864.1 i A largo stock of Newest Dyes for the most fashionable colours in Shawls, Opera Cloaks • Babies' Dresses, Feathers, etc. n Silk and Satin Dresses Cleaned 'or Dyed, wel a finished. Ostrich Feathers Cleaned or Dyed an j Bhado, well curled. Gentlemen's Ciothinj; Cleaned, Renewed, Dyed, well Pressed, anc neatly Repaired at short notice. Orders left at the City Establishment, Wellesley , street East, will meet with prompt attention • Ladies and Gentlemen waited upon by leaving their address, personally or by post. Latest importations. Sheepskins Cured", Cleaned, or Dyed. \V. EDGAR .. .. .. Proprietor. J. J. SWINNERTON, WOOD TURNER, WYNDnAM-STREET. Established 1866. A reduction of 25 per cent, on all common work Billiard Balls Exchanged^ Special care given to 80-turning and Staining Pool Pins, Marbles, and Chalk Pockets always on hand, /GROUND LIME! GROUND LIME » k For Sam, SOUTHGATE'S MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCKK LIME In any quantity, lot Concrete Paths. Floors Cellars, etc. Next to stone-flagging it is tin rivalled for durability andUard-setting qualities For tanks and othei- Wot work it is a flrst-class material. B. KEANK, SOLE AGENT, CUST6MS-STREET. W. L E V 5 BOOKBINDER, PAPER RULER. ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURER, Wyndham-stueet. MERCHANTS' ACCOUNT BOOKS, Insurance and Mining Register Books Special!] Ruled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Publio Libraries, and Sunday Sohool Books Well Bound\ Bakers' Special Ruled Day Books, m Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books, a Re-bound. g BAND; AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RULEI OLFE'S SCHNAPPS is sold by everj respectable publican. Accept no other



saw * study true ECONOMYTw ft?"""* .TW?^ BURNS'S Al 11MK8 -l havo spent hundreds trf w^f 1? 1 the women qTnS? M,h: CONVINCE YflU I \ "AS W^**1 '' : ~ """"■" 7"'., :.^4^W WHOLESALE IgENT-. ' § .A.-.BUCHANAN* * CUSTOMS SXRJBEt EiS; ! And Importer of every descriptitin oMPHtefagj Ammunition, and Shootings JLpgpliionwf tor , the s beet maks&iH ,*,, are carefully loaded; on. the plftoiiesfPW* guaranteed best matena).. '■.» J&,: • .... . fishing. TAcfiL'k ..; Fireworks, imported by th«i adverte afreet" from Ji Pain, tha^elebmtcdil'yrbtwJnWfe "E?TVP AfTf ft GUNS ~RE:STOGKUD, : every other JtmA tit tepair dbne^fe Brat™;; Guaranteed, equal to the best English worn Prices reasonable.. Breechloaders and Muzzle* loaders cbokebored. r D. EV"I TT, Gunmaker and Importer, 254, Que&i-fcfe^tli ':■ , Auckland {opposite the Market 1&M).1' [Established 1859.] Pricelistsfreeonapplication. ', " rt\ peacock, -V° OPTICIAN* J^AtHEMA*tCAL J.HD NABTICAt ISgiRBMftOT .■--■ iU MAKER; ■'•:-■' :!i v ''■■ ■. SHOR^EtAN^-STRfeET* " ■ * Always in Stock-* ■ '> Spectacles and Biyo-glasse^ofeverrkiM;I ** . ftcenratefiteuaratiteed .^. - b.iiii Opera Glasses of superior qualuy^, .^i iriot* Telescopes, Binocular Field Glasses, tea«uc» scopes; powerful andcfeeHp: , : Li'ZzJi*' ' 1 heodoWs,;MininK Otamaa^i A-bneJ UW* Drainage Levels, P^^nwfift.Coßawweftjr.^-: Drawing Instfuments^calesParallet^tfS r Ships'Ljgs. SextanUs G6nipa^9jßto«BU» • Baromet«rs, TherinometersiDyttKwwteWit Electric Balls, Batterisa,a^FxtttnM,:^; Stc • oacopcS and Slides, GliaHhOsoopes Steam Guages and Tubing, Sdlinomotprs : .:; .' ■ 'Just Received^- •;'-■ ■'• *'. Settlors Telescopes* poweriul,. portabl^ *I 4:.;. Set&^eroid Barometers, Bfeong Sotffi d MicrOscdpcs,^ magmfying 1,750 ti««« Als?steamand'^eotro Motor %rk&.gMfldeJ» aod SteamerS. .. ; .; instruments of every ktndßepatrtatU < 6pposmk -raa Posr-oßweiC' ; ; choose from. __]_—^ ' THE AUCKLAND BASKET FAOTOEIT, Albert-street (near^M.O.A.) . BXMOUTH STKBBt C OA!4 COKB^CHAECO^, «» 1 tj-.f ttktfc Titretf; and PWiri