ROMANCES OF REAL LIFE.

BY A WANDERING MUSICIAN.

LITTLE CHIP'S LEAP FOR LIFE.

In the circus' tho boy was known as " Chips," though in the bill he appeared as Young Domingo, son of IlYansesco

Domingo, the great Brazilian star. Do mingo himself, was a quadroon, and very clever and daring iii his perfor mances, which seemed to embrace everything in circus business. He was handsome in face, massive in build, and strong as a giant, but a careless, cruel taskmaster, who-made no allow ances for slips, and seemed to revel and delight in his pOwer to inflict pain. Ho needed a.boy in sonic, of his daring acts, and so '*c had picked up' Chips a few years before as an apprentice. The lad had no father, and his mother being only a poor servant in a lodging-house, was glad to get rid of the burthen of supporting h-*.i. She had only once been in a circus in her life, and with a recollection of the spangled dresses and golden armour ml her simple head, thought that her hoy was being pro moted to a princely life. The life .would have been a great deal better than any which she could have given tho boy, but for Chips having a pecu liarly sensitive and timid nature. Though he said nothing about it to others, Chips went into tho ring every night fally expecting to be killed in his performance. Yet when ho was strung up to the proper pitch, like a soldier after the first sweep of bullets in a battle, Chips would go through his feats with a dash and daring which as tounded even his trainer. .1 had gone out of my usual line to conduct the band in the circus during tho summer, while most of the theatres were closed, and it was on joining the place in a town in Durham that I met Chips. As I saAv him first a., the performance at night, I was astonished, at his daring and smartness, and as his faco and hands had been done up with a little Spanish brown to make him resemble' his trainer, I quite failed \ _ recognise him next day when I met him in the ring. I saw before me a boy of nine or ten, very slender, and very poorly clad, who sat apart from all the others, with list less and heart-broken look, so unlike his years that.l went up to him, and said cheerily—

' Well, Charlie, what do you do V

' I'm Domingo's apprentice, sir,' he answered, with very little lighting up of his thin features. ( Thoy call me Chips, 'cause my name's Shipstou.' ' What! was it you who performed with him last night . I couldn't, havo believed it. Youre1 a brave little chap. What a nerve you must have.'

He looked up into my face curiously for a moment, an4..theji in the same subdued, ap.athetlfi.tOno said— 'l'm' not bravo at all, sir; I'm a great coward, and I can't help it—in deed I can't!' and his' lip trembled in confirmation, while he looked as like crying as a girl when she is rebuked. 'He's always walloping me for it, but it won't be druv out ot me. I should have been born a girl, sir:' ' You arc very modest,' I rejoined, after some quiet wonderment. ' There was nothing of the coward in you last night.' [p ; ' Ah, nobody sees it,' he impressively answered, laying, one of. his slender fingers on my coat sleeve. ' It's \ all shut up inside of me,, though some times I blunder havvful, and ketch it hot from him after. After I'm warmed np' a bit at night I forget, about it till I've done, and them I'm all of a tremble thinking what I've gone through. .IN. been thinking that maybe I could get liold of some stuff to drink that would make me as brave as Domingo. Do you think-there is such a stuff, sir;?/ . / ''

I could see"that .the boy was a perfect bunch of nerves. The slightest snort or stamp of the horses being exercised in the ring, or .even a hasty word spoken near him, caused him to start and quiver; his eyes were full of eager,intensity of expression, and every fibre of his being, seemed to respond to the lightest touch of kind1 feeling. He was indeed like a fine musical instrument, from which the. grandest harmonies could be extracted by him who chanced t< have tho cun ning touch, but,whic'h to the , ignorant, or "brutal would''give forth only'the' harshest discords. v.mvi- ;»J ' ■ ' . ' '■' • 'There is no stuff- to be bad/1! answered, when he 'had; repeated his question, ' but perhaps;you'll get over that feeling when you're older.' . ■. .- '..-.<' I said it only to. cheer him, forit was clear to mc that -the boy _ could never have the boisterous -devil-may care daring of his master. 'I'll never get over it till I'm dead;' he said firmly,. .. but don't..tell .diiy of them about,"/cause they'd only laugh at' me 7 ' I'd' rather /killed than laughed at,' he added, flushing at tho thought. 7> . i ,;■]■«-.ii .*-.■; .<■■■■ <* •■■■ I drew out of him his little history, and found that he had only once seen his mother since he' was given over to Domingo, as an apprentice, and that she was delighted at his success; ■ She, knew nothing of his quaking heart and high-strung nerves,'and,, he Had never once, spoken of being. ill-trei. ed7 or horsewhipped by-his trainer. Bravery enough there 7vas in; that slender, quivering hoy, but-not of the kind which is usually recognised aud ap plauded. He had the courage tosuflei' and say nothing, which, few grown men' and women. possess. ; Hp seemed. to, have no idea of .getting- away from, the life into which he had been drafted; He'seemed to accept it as his: fate;-' and looked .forward to a . ceaseless round' of nights of terror till-his,,life should end.: Wluvt induced ■Chipsi to confide his secret'to me I never could determine; but'l am confident, that it was known. to no othevr till oae.day..at'uoQ»'pra?.t!ifie

in the ring Domingo, noticing Chips reluctant to try a dangerous leap, called him a coward. The crimson Hush of shame which instantly covered the boy's face, revealed how deeply he had been wounded. No lash of tho heavie.7 horsewhip could have cut so deeply as that word. In an instant he darted at the pyramid of chairs, ran up like a monkey, and made his leap be fore the trainer could utter another word.

Domingo, like a thick-headed brute, knew nothing of the feelings his thrust had excited,"but saw,only in the dis covery a new power over his apprentice. From" that hour he relied more upon taunts than on the whip, and so often showered down on Chipsthe dreaded word that the boy endured a double death every day—one of pain by day, and one of terror at night. He shrank more and more from sight, and was only to be found when ho was actually needed at the circus. Domingo wanted him at no other time; and never said a kind Avoid to him,' or treated him with as much tenderness as many of the company treated their, dogs. Quite suddenly, hoAvevcr, a change came over Chips, and the cause, was the touch of a loving hand. One of the clowns had a little girl, avlio appeared in the bill as Amy Gwynno, the Infant Wonder. She was just eight, and there was nothing wonderful about hcr-but her heart, which was big enough to take in tho whole world. One nightaftersho had gone through her little act, and Avas only waiting for her father to finish his performance and take her home, she caught sight of something moving in one of the horse's stalls, and going as close as Avas safe with such a dangerous horse, she found that the moving thing was Chips, who had crouched close up in a corner attempting to cover himself Avith straw. The horse in that stall Avas a perfect devil at times—a great black brute, pretty to look at, but with a set of teeth and jaws whicli could crunch through an arm or a leg as easily as one could break a lucifer match. Ho Avas supposed to be broken, but so much of his evil nature re mained that everyone kopt at a respec table distance from his mouth. Vet there was Chips crouching down near the terrible teeth, in tho very place most likely to irritate tho horse. 1 Chips I Chips ! what are you doing in there in Sholto's stall .' cried Amy, in terror. ' He'll bite your head oil*.' •Let him bite,' said Chips, calmly. •I Avant my head off. Then I'll be out of pain quick, which I won't be if 'Mingo gets mo. I'm hiding from him. He's" to give it to me for spoiling his act.'

' But Sholto will eat you up,' Amy continued, expecting every moment to see the horse begin the meal. ' Come out! do. come out!'

Chips shook his head resolutely, listening the while for Domingo's step an.l harsh voice. 1 1 think Sholto knows me and likes me,' he whispered, ' for I often speak to him when nobody will, but if he likes to eat me I don't mind. It can't be so bad to be eaten by a friend.' ' I'm going to cry,' said Amy, work ing her face up to begin. ' And I will cry if you don't come out, and then father'! 1 bo angry and blame you for making me cry'

' Don't care. Let him be angry ; I'm not his apprentice/ stoically returned Chips. Amy's manner altered. She crept closer aud said softly-^-

' Poor Chips! 'Mingo is very hard on you. Come out and I'll kiss you.'' Chips wavered in his resolve, but still remained in the corner.

' Then I'll come in and pull you out,' said the child resolutely. 'Sholto will very likely kill me, but you'll get all the blame of that. And I like being killed—its real nice. Now don't think I'm not coming, for I am,' and she was

coUiing, and Sholto was beginning to show signs of restlessness aud anger when Chips caved in and came out. Amy clutched him quickly round the neck and kissed him as she had pro mised, and then, with womanly deci sion, said—

•' •' Now, if you like, you may take mc home, and mother will hide you in our lodging till to-morrow, and then Do mingo will be glad to let you off. Chips demurred. He thought it would be better to be killed oil' that night than spend another night an ticipating the end; but Amy, by a clever feint, managed to make him believe that his master was approaching, and pushing Chips before her, got him out of the circus. • Then, of course, he could not be so cruel as to leave her in the dark in that rough town, whore iron workers and miners had everything pretty much their own, way, so she got him as far as her lodging, and explained the position; to her mother. Chips stood before her like one about to be led out f oi-execution, but the w. in an only glanped, kindly at his whito face and trembling form, and said—

;'Poor-little lad! They make it a hard life for you.'

. Thero was nothing in tho words, but the tender, sympathetic tone, and the gentle touch of the motherly hand on his-shoulder, were-too much for Chips. He turned round and crept into acorner, where he-had it out comfortably, Amy helping him a little herself,1 and using her pinafore to wipe both their eyes'. It was a new sensatiou to Chips—gentle caresses and kind words. Ho had been hungering,for these all his life, and now that they were .jshowered upon,him he seemed to wake up in another, world. He stayed all night with the clown's family, and next day was induced to go back to the circus to face his trainer. f; Domingo - was in the ring swearing loudly at-his apprentice, who, he de clared, had run away, and whom he would have back though he had to send the police,to Land's End for him, just that he-might have, the pleasure of half killing him for running away. Chips advanced tremblingly, and the moment the eyes"of his master fell upon him

gave himself up for lost. Domingo had a heavy whip in his hand, which he in stantly reversed with ferocious delight when the white face of Chips rose slowly before him.

.• So ! so you've come back, have you V he slowly exclaimed,'with a deadly em phasis on every word. ' Now, then, I'm just going to kill you straight off I' ' Yes, sir,' responded Chips, through his chattering teeth.

There Avere no protests, no entreaties no piteous cries or tears. He saw thai his end was come, and made no demur

A tiny figure stepped past him, and confronted the giant quadroon as boldly as if it had been six feet high instead of three. Amy, the little midget, clenched her hand and shook it up in Domingo's face, while she exclaimed with great determination—

' You touch my Chips if you dare !'

Domin.ro looked away down on the morsel of humanity, scarcely able to credit his own ears.

' Oho 1 what does this sparrow want.' he cried, with his breath nearly taken away by the audacity of the interference, and the whip swaying like a pendulum in his hand.

4lf you strike Chips you'll havo to strike me with him !' cried the small defender, aud she there and then clasped her arms about Chip's's slender figure in such a manner that it would have been impossible to strike him without touching hci

4 Aha !goon !go on!' said Domingo, quite paralysed ; but wishing to buily himself into tho belief that ho was not. ' You'll be striking me next, eh .' ' I would if I was big enough !' cried Amy, with great energy. 'If anybody would only hold mo up I'd scratch you!' Then, quite suddenly, she changed her tone and her manner, and said, pleadingly — ' Oh, 'Mingo, you won't beat him this time. You won't, and I'll be good and kiss you. Chips won't slip again if you let him off this time. 1 made him promise that before we came. Didn't I, Chips V Chips bobbed his head; but still shook visibly in the clasp of the small protecting arms, as ho raised his eyes to those of the lowering giaufc abovo him. The cruel smilo slowly curled the lips of Domingo as he fixed the boy with his eye. ' What a coward he is 1 what a baby, to need a girl to protect him !' he said with unction. Chips quivered, and tried to gently .disengage himself from the clinging arms. , . 'It'strue!' he breathed in a fearful whisper into Amy's ear. .'l'm a hqwful coward, and I can't help it. But I don't want him to bringdown the whip on you. I'd give anything or do any thing not to bo a coward, but I'd need to be born into somebody else before that could be. Just let him have it out on me, Amy dear, for I can stand tho whip better nor the company hear ing him call mo that.' He managed to shako her off, and stood forth alone. The heavy whip was raised, and would have descended upon his slender form, but just then, as if by a sudden inspiration, Amy raised a linger of warning, and cried out — ' Don't. If you do, something will happen to you to-night in the per formance !'

Tho quadroon was not a coward physically, and had a will of iron be sides, but he was suporstitious, and that startling cry stayed his hand. If ho went on tho trapeze even with an idea that he might slip or miss, nothing could save him from an accident.

' I'll let you off this time,' lie growled, tossing tho whip away, . as next Friday's my benefit, and I want you to be in good trim, but it's the last time.' ' The last time,' mechanically repeated Chips, then he was awakened as from a dream by feeling Amy leading him across the ring in triumph, with the

words—

' I told you I'd get you off, didn't I .'

After that Chips and Amy were in separable. Sam Gwynne, the clown, though so irresistibly funny in the ring, was a quiet thoughtful man in private, and had accumulated tho oddest col lection of books, into which Amy and Chips dived constantly—horrifying books with gastly pictures, bright books full of good fairies, hobgoblin books, and droll books, full of the most comical adventures and histories.

Little wonder that when Chips got free at night and went to sleep the strange shadows from those books followed him, and appeared in his dreams. The good fairies walked out of tho pages, and took him by the hand and led him safely across great moors, and bracken, and locky plains, and faces always resembled Amy's, though the forms wero thoso of angels with filmy wings, which sired forth a silver light in the darkness. It was the touch of the hand coming out from under those dazzling wings which mado all things smooth to his feet, for no sooner did the gentle fingers enwrap his tremb ling hand than-he appeared to glide over every obstacle. Sometimes Chips wearied for night so that his hard life might be changed for that heavenly one, and his path be made clear by the light from those silver wings. All these dreams ho repeated to Amy, and she sat holding his hands and looking into his eyes the while, and always said when ho had done that it was far better than any story in any of the books. She did not wonder at the face of his loving dream-angel resem bling her own, for they had arranged when thoy should grow up he was to leave Domingo, and marry her, there fore it was natural that he should always be thinking in his sleep that he saw her. But she was quite sure that the dream-angel was real, and just sent to take care of him in place of his mother whom he never saw.

One night the dream took a strange form—so strange that Chips woke in the gray of early morning and did not fall asleep again. He was moving over those interminable rocky plains,

with the thrilling touch of tlie dream angel's hands making all smooth aud easy, when they were stopped by a broad stream of clear water-so clear that Chips could see white pebbles and fishes of gold at the bottom. On the banks were men anxiously digging with pickaxes and spades for gold, and Chips was about to join these Avhen the dream-angel winged her Avay across the stream and stood on the other side beckoning to him to follow. He looked at tho clear stream in doubt and dis may, and then to his horror the clear waters slowly changed into a river of blood. With a shuddering cry .he shrank back, but the dream-angel cr ]ed across the stream—

' Wait! Avait! it will change.' While she spoke the river of blood began to shine and change till it bo came a stream of dazzling gold. Chips descended tho bank and touched the stream with his feet, and then found that he had the power to walk on those strange golden waters. With a glad cry he was about to run across to the outstretched arms when he \yoke and found himself trembling with'; fear and with a deathly cold SAveat covering him from head to foot.

Why the dream should have left on him such a feeling of terror he could not explain even to hims-'lf, but that was the impression, and that he could not shako off. He could not eat, and excited the Avrath of Domingo, on that account, for the day Avas Friday, and that night was fixed for the benefit of the great Brazilian Star, when, as a special attraction, young Domingo was to do his sensational Hying leap for life on the trapeze. ' You need all your strength and all your wits about you to-day,' said Do mingo, sternly, ' and if you don't cat to day you'll bungle at night, and I'll get hissed.'

Domingo ate a choice piece of beef steak for breakfast, under-done, and not too fat, but when he cut that across and offered a piece to his apprentice, Chips almost sickened at tlie sight of the blood, aud had to leavo the room, brcakfastless and very sad.

At rehearsal Chips had a hard time of it, for his master had never been so ferocious and exacting, and when his turn was over he was so pale and ghastly that Amy almost burst into tears, and indignantly exclaimed — 1 What has he done to you, Chips V 'Nothing,' was the calm reply; ' nothing, Amy dear, but I'm to be killed to-night. I'm to miss that leap for life, and come down. I'd be glad of it if it wasn't for you.' Thou ho led her into a corner and told her his dream. Amy listened in breathless silence, but at the close had quite a different interpretation to give from that of Chips.

' It means that 'Mingo is to be in a bad temper to-night, and fall down and hurt himself, and you're to bo his slave no more. But don't tell him of it,' she added, with womanly tact, ' for then he'd p'raps slip when you were perform ing with him, and get you hurt too.' Nevertheless Chips clung to his idea, though he obeyed Amy as far as to say nothing of his dream to anyone but herself. Amy watched him throughout the day with great concern. ' Oh, how cross Domingo will be, and how poor Chips will bungle to-night at the benefit,' was her constant thought. Anyone else wdio had known Chips would have thought so too. Domingo knew him,and he thought itand expected it. Chips himself expected it. Yet when night came, and he was painted and dressed, the cloud on his spirits vanished suddenly, and left him with a dash and daring which he had never I.C-Orc experienced. The house was crowded to the roof, for Domingo was an immense favourite with the public, though he was as intensely dis liked in private. A good many minor stars were put on first, but the applause was hearty to all. It was indeed an audience enthusiastic enough to carry a performer through any feat, however difficult or dangerous. In the dressing room Chips presented himself before Domingo, with a strange light in his eye.

' I'm going to do well to-night,' ho said, with strange confidence. 'Don't be afraid of me.'

"Then, by G—d, Chips, we'll astonish them !" responded Domingo, catching the boy's enthusiasm.

The chord of the band thundered forth a moment later, and hand in hand Domingo and Chips ran into the ring and had to bow there for a full minute in acknowledgment of the thundering applause. Then their performance began, and from the first it went liko clock-work. Everyone in the company agreed, that the two had never worked so well together, and applauded with the audience not from form, but in real enthusiasm. Near the end of the act came tho flying leap for life, which was simply Chips swing ing from ono trapeze, and caught by the hands by Domingo swinging from another. The feat was executed, like every other which they had gone through, with an ease and daring which brought down tho house. Do mingo, after acknowledging the applause, ran up to the trapeze to execute a final feat of his own, while Chips, breathless but" triumphant, whispered to one of the company— ' I said I'd do well, and I've done it.' The last word Was scarcely out of his lips, when one of the ropes of the trapeze slipped about six inches ; Do mingo, with ono desperate but unavail ing clutch in the direction of the bar, came down in a heap amid a yell of horror from the audience. But Chips had seen the slip, and darted forward with outstretched arms, while every other stood paralysed.' He caught the heavy form of the quadroon in his slender arms, and by the great weight was borne with a thud to the earth. A roar of applause shook the house as Domingo sprang to his feet unhurt, and raised Chips to his feeb *o me

chanicaily bow-.with him They ran off tosether-the Spanish brown on Chip's "face" hiding the ghastly pal 01. Chips W Shout to drop like a log, when tluf imperative voice of Domingo roused him

»' Hold up Chip? ! We must go on again, or they'll think you re hurt. Good lad ! I'll never say a hard woia to you, or be cruel to you again, Hold up ! for God's sake, hold up for one minute!' ~ They ran on and bowed repeatedly, Chips setting his teeth hard to keep back something, while the audience, de lighted and relieved, nearly took the roof off with cries of, ' The brave little lad ! What a blessing he ain't hurt! Chips tottered, and the strong hand of .Domingo held him firm through a red haze, while the company clustered round and covered the retreat. Then Chips opened his mouth, and the blood came forth with a gush as he sank li the outstretched arms of the company. Amy ran"to his .side with a cry of an guish and took his hand, while another brought a sack of sawdust as a pillow to support his hea"d,.and Sam Gwynne left the group and ran into the ring as'clown, crying out with boisterous

merriment—

{Hy !ay! ay ! ho>v are you yester day . Hoav were you to-morroAv V While the gap of the world's amuse ment Avas thus filled, and the audience Avere roaring Avith merriment over the clown's drolleries, the blood floAved from Chips's mouth like a stream, he saying nothing, but glancing feebly up in the overhanging faces of Amy and Domingo. They held his hands—a hand each— and he would not let the hands go, though one Avas the taAvny, powerful fist of the quadroon, whose, weight he had so often felt. One of the grooms Avas already racing a .vay on a pony, for a cloctor, but Chips seemed to Avant no doctor but those about him, for he tried to smile gratefully up in their faces, and at last managed to gurgle out—

' I did well. I—said —I—Avould— do—A.-ell. I'm not much hurt.'-

Presently the expression of his eyes changed, and the clasp of his slender fingers on the two hands tightened. 'Who's a-puttin' out the lights ¥ he asked, feebly struggling to raise him self and look about. ' Hold my hand, Amy, dear; keep a-holdin' of it, 'cause I don't see you. Don't tell my mother about it till I'm better.'

The soft strains of the band, playing the music to a soldier's dream of home in the ring; came wafting in on the group.andsbemed to soothe the sufferer. The eyes' drooped; and the look of pain gradually? melted into an expression sweet.andjialrpv • Amy's* *oft /lips, pressed hurriedly against his own*, foused him somewhat. His. eyes-opened and wandered about, looking everywhere, but seeing none of the 'clustering faces. At length they rested on vacancy, and a faint smile came to the lif!!

' I see lier on t'other side of the water.! she's a-holding'outher arms to me, and the blood's all changed and a-shining like gold '!'•'- He pulled himself right up by the clasping hands, looking straight before him, with the. glad, eager light shin.ng from his eyes; then his head dropped suddenly, a slow, long gurgle heaved t irough his slight frame, and they laid the form quietly back on the sawdust pillow, for the spirit had fled across the stream called death. And the baud payed lour'e-, and a burst of^applause shook the house, for the act in the ring was over.

Y rears have rolled away since then. Amy is no longer an infant wonder, but has infant wonders of her own, but she has never forgotten a little tumbler, ap prentice to a tawny quadroon named Domingo, who elapsed her hands in his own, and told her dreams and stories, and looked into her eyes as nobody has ever done since, whose name was Chips aud who passed over a crimson stream into a shining land after he had done well.

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"' Ballway Time Table. •*T. E W ZEAL A N D RAIL |il TIME TABLE. —Os and after APRIL 1, 18S7. " flt^ AUCKLAND AND ONEHUNGA LINE. Auckland ™" _ D .. c T^"*". TO W EKK UAYS" Sat 3 ml. , OXEHUXQA. ___ .___._ .. 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J B.o_ngg|g • " Change for Onehunga. § Change for Otahnhn. - i I Change for Waikato Stations. .. .a. .. B a eh&n S° for Kaipara BnaSfc t Chansre for Mercer and Intermediate Stations. ""^^ II Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. , MAINi-IiNK. AUCKLAND-MERCER-TK AWAMUTU-OTOROHANGA. South—"Week Days. - A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M.- P.M. P.M. a. -, , Auckland .. .. dep. 0.0 6.20 7.15 8.0 11,10 4.15 455 g Newmarket Junction .. 6.10 6.35 7.20 8.0 ii M .2o 5.7 $ .; Remuera 6.15 6.40 7.30 8.10 B 4.30 6.12 $ -Green Lane .. .. •• " 73g B- m >. " : ■■ Penrose Junction .! .. 0.2* 7.0 58.0 831 12.25 t4.49 s.so§|S Otahuhu .. .. {££ "f ilO B' lo ill 1270 4.59 « p.nn .1-11 .oi .. * «• •• 12.55 5S t^apatoitot ~ . . - ••'lilMH ManureAva on •• •• {-." £" , ..,{/, Salll Papakura 8.0 .. .. I*o 5.37 ,_ D?ury a .'.' .'.' !! '.'■ » 5.15 71 9.25 1.47 558 ['; •Runciman .. ...... * •• •• *'»■ ' !! Jracrata _ .. _. •■ •• _ _ •• net, n.n _oo -, ■r:- -»-.-.,--fllillfil Pukekohe 8-57 .. 9.52 2.19 6.23 ''~-'^Bh| *Buckland •• ■• „,, '. ' ; . f| Tuakau 9.21 .. .. 2.43 6.43., < « .'MiJRBE 'Whangarata .* 77 •• •■ * * ", Ilf Pokeno 9.40 .. .. 3.3 7.0 ' - ..'______BB; , r / arr. _ 10.0 - .10.35 3.15 7.10 "IH Mercer .. .. \ dep. 10-55 3.40 .. " 'Whangamarino •• •• * •• .! Tauniri " ".." .. .■ •! »• •• lz-30 .. " '_. : Nga'-uawahia .. 12.« 6.W .. " | 1 t? '. Pa' 7 "/arr. ".'. "I '.'. _ .20. 6.45 '.'. '"'. BSS c Frankton Junction ( dep _ c 3-0 ># # . 1.3(1 D 6.55 .. '.'. \ , Ohaupo ai! '.'. '.'. '.'■ 8.35 '.'. '.. 2.5 7.30 '.'. V .'Lake Road „ .. .. * .. .. * " •- - '^■| Ngaroto .. 8.55 .. .. 2.20 7.50 .. f ..„ p. m 7 1 arr. 9.0 .. .. 2.30 7.55 .. " fe teawamutci .. )^ e p; "•" " .. .. .10 ;*•■■ % p^m •Otorohanga. V. ". ■ " "„ i>l» .L " M " | n _J# B NobTH—Week Days. 1,, ,■_? A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. ' P.M. P.M. j,k'l' "Otorolianga .. ~ ■.. dep. .. - . .. .. EB.IO .. , , teaavamutu .. » {£"p. " >; ;; ':; g 9;^ '- •;. &' Frankton Junction .. 1 dep! «■ .. .. '.'. 10i35 '.'. NgaruaAvahia '.'. '.'. V. ~ ..-,.. " 11.30 __ '.'. % nVhangamarino" - •• •• •■ •• *. '" . Mercer .. .. - {$£ *| ■". 6 V 2 0 11.30 "..is '.'. '.'." t" Pokeno - •• G. 31 11.43 _.IG .. .. : " •Whangarata - •• * * * .. .. ' . \ Tuakau - •■ 0.50 12.8 2.42 .. . ' Pukekohe.. " .'.". '.*. 71 - " 7.10 12.31 3.3 \. .ff^H^ "Runeinian - .. * * * .. .. ,r. 1 prury - ~ .. ... 7.47 1.10 3.37 .. .. 1 Papakura!! !! " !^ !! !!! 1! 8.1 1.26 .3.17 !! .'-i«.nß Jranurewa .. .... .. _ * 8.16 1.42 4.2 .. ..! 'M- ' Papatoitoi .. ..... .. .. .. 8.30 2.0 4.15 /, JK, Otahuhu 6.50 8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 G.S. 7.15 H] Penrose Junction •_' 87.)5 t118.30 tß.si t2.30 14.36 16.30. t< JW •' Ellerslio 7.20 5.35 8.53 2.35 0.35 1,33 'm; . •Green Lano '. * * *" * * •■ '. Mmi Remuera .> 7.30 8.41 9.7 2.45 fi.io T« B <, Newmarket June. ._ A .. 7.35 8.49 9.19 2.55 15.1 6.51 ■ .■) AuCKLAN'i. .. .;. .. arr. 7.45- | 8.5S . 9-28 .. 3.5 5.13 7.0 7^^-IBP ' t Change for Onchunga. II Chango for Auckland and Intermediate Stations, f. j ; Change f.or Kaipara Brancli Stations. § Change for Otahuhu. m ■ A. Passengers are nor booked by this train to Stations between Auckland and OneWaffe B. Only stops to pick no Passengers for South of Penrose Junction. jitfl c. Runs on Mondays, A\ rednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. t.. i_>. Huns on Mondays and Wednesdays only. ' }; E. Runs from Otorolianga on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. m • The 9.15 a.m. train from Te AAvamutu runs daily. B f. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, To Aroha and Rotorua Lines. . Wkj ' Cambridge—Te Aboha and Rotobua Ltnes. p 1 Sooth.—Week Days. | Nobth.-Week Diva B , - ,- n^-.r --1.--I-1 'h.-rnsßa..yr----,-:a: m. — , ' ~fe.-j A.M. A.M. ■ -:;■4jS[*H|'! Auckland, dop. ... „■ • 8 0U JO Lichfield, dep • f-,'£ . ■ • *Putaruru Junction itfl'1 ..p.m. p.m. *Taumangi ..- .. ••'"ijjH'' Frankton Jun., dep ' .. 130 c 7 0 Oxford, dep. "?«.* Hamilton AVcst ... .. 13S 710 *Okoroiro •• _mi,\ "Hamilton Kast.. ~ : .. .. * * *Man_tawhara * I'lHI Ruakura Jun., arr, '. .. 152 722 Matamata .. .. •• •j| Cambridge Br.— •...'.. .. *Walton ..' '.. ... ■• ■■ «Bju Ruakura Jun., dep. ~ .. .. ..2 0 <Z730 *Kiwitahi ..;■■■ "-(jfer.S I *Mongaonui .. .', „ .....* * Moriinsville, arr. ••■'■•.'^|Hi *Fencourt !! ".' !! !! !! ■"* * Tk Aroha Be.-,. •• .- f' , •Hautapu.. ~ .. .. ....** To Aroha, dep. _ .. •■ »-J ,-ffl ■. Cambridge, arr. .. .. .. .. 2408 10 *Waihou ',{ j-._W Ruakura Jun., dep 2 06730 *Ta'tua 0 Haua !! .. -r-.'sftHP *Eureka .. .. .. .... .. * * *Murray's ... . ....^Sial •Motumaoho .. .. *■ ■* Morrinsville, arr. .. '•"•' '"i-.^MM Morrinsville, arr. 240 810 — ■ ——— 'Ti___l___B_l *— Morrinsville, dep. .. , - sffS Te Aroha Br.— .. .. .... *Motumaoho ■ ,1 | Morrinsville, dop. .. a 2 55 8.15 *Eureka ".. .. .. •.• « _ jjjfHH •Murray's .. ;; .. .. .. *' * Ruakura Jun., arr. ...:""■• :ss£&: TatuaoHaua ~ .. _ .... * * — ■ ; '■ irrr iffli^ •Waitoa __. .. .. * * Cambridge Br.— •■■a'-t'gitkmu •^Wailiou .. .. ■ ; ■.....:■•• * Cambridge, dep: .. •• 9}-.HK Te Aroha, arr ..' .. .. 3408 55 *Hautapu.. .. ... ■• »«j - 1 *Fencourt _ •«, Morrinsville, dep ..62 50 ... ''Tamahere .. .-. • , il , *Kiwitahi _ ..--..-* .. *Mongaonui .. '.. . .•'• 0 fi'._■.' *walton .. ~, ~ _ .. .. » r- w Ruakura Jun, arr. '■'.'•;•.■• ' t>™ :z>m&~3 ' Matamata .. .7. " "■ \'_ 355 " Ruakura Jun., dep. .. -•- -VT'sR. *Manga.vhara .. -.. .. ••■ _, .. •» _ -*Hamilton East.. .. '-'- Ift M»yß' 'Olcoroii-e ■ .. .. •* .. Hamilton West.. .. '■••«(« Oxford .. .. 435 ... Frankton Jun., arr.. _.-.■. M t_.° MSm *Taumangi „ ..: .. .'. . * , __— ; —^-rrT.g..:._'H_i:P *Putaruru Jun. „ .. .-. .. .. * " Auckland, arr. .. ••:-"'r i?._B_ LichllcUl. arr. . .-, rj -^S«a . * Flag Station. - ' ''7'o'^^H| a Runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only, b Runs on Mondays, W?SSotM Fridays only^ c Runs on Mondays^ Wpdnesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only, a KUs?rr|ffi nesdays aud Saturdays only. The others run dally. ' P A Runs on first Sundays in each month only. 1 | KAIPARA BRANCH.-AucKLAMD-HEx\DEKSoy-H^sv^^^p Auokxand to Helensvilxe.— Week Days. I. Helexsville to AucKiAj^jy^-j'BB . ~ _, am» a.m. p.m. ip.m. I ; 8;m,1,.^1^0 *_i Auckland . dep. 7.0 10.55 4.40 215 Helensville .. dep. : 6.20 Uf S H Newmarket Junct'n 7.12 11.12 4.57 2.25 *Hclensville South.. * v>; l' _ Mount Eden^ .~. 7.19 11.19 5.4 2.32 *uhirangi .. - * . »'f .. * * * . *P.7 r nn. I' im :^nmg«id e .. ..****. *^iiii :; • fl f *Mount Alhert _, * * * * *ReweU •• * ''I 4«wr dS le - - 7-35 u'3B 5-20 * nVaimaiiku !! .. * |S 0 ''|1 Now Lynn .. * * * * *R_meu ..7.15 1-J # *\ s_! :: ::,» ~'s ,; 5 « l^&U ':. :: 7 ■?' Ili: .gS-i:: ::_.»_,_ :: ISSIZ. :: :: n .y.ilH' *lanpakx .. .. . * . *Waikomiti •• » ' ,1 •v_JSS v 1 '• -H 5 h5 e-33 !! *NewLynn !. ... ~„■!> &!'Jt.sHl *-R P w™H Uku " - I * * - Avondale .. -8.27 rf ,L , Jis!!- S°'"_ r ..a ,; 0 1«7:I sar"^iy|^i: r,.?_-.n? l _3t^ tion- s-~Tra?ns d. not st°P unless required. Notice should be giA'cn W M' preuous stopping stations by any passenger desiring to alight at Flag Stations, p., ■ : , . Ife «T AU lime tables Issued prior to this date eve now cancelled. . QBDofß lJfti^' I. • J, P, MAaWJSIwi «*"' I