A STRANGE, TRUE STORY.

The Langworthy Marriage.

CHAPTER XV.

MR LASGWORTHY'S SOLICITORS

As Mr Langworthy took no notice of her letters, a citation was issued by the Court Against him on the 21st of December, ISB3, und was personally served upon him in the Argentine Republic on February 4, 1884. Mrs Langworthy was then poor and friend less. Mr Langworthy was rich, and had the most respectable firm of solicitors in London to carry out his instructions. If the proceedings could be protracted it was possible that ther law's delays might suffice to bring her to despair and induce her to acquiesce perforce in any "settlement' that suited Mr Langworthy. Tho moment Mr Langworthy received the citation, which was. served upon .him in the hotel at Buenos Ayres, he was not a little startled) He apparently had no suspicion of the nature of the* missive, which he thought was a communication from a friend. After expressing his indignation emphatically, ho packed his portmanteau and started for Europe immediately.. 'Etc arrived in March, and, it is to be presumed, proceeded to Messrs Bircham and Co. According to the citation he was ordered by the Court to put in an appearance within six weeks from February 4, when lie received the citation. As he arrived in London some days before the expiration of that time, there was no reason why he should not put in an appear ance as ordered. But his policy was delay, He appears to have instructed Messrs Bircham and Co. to apply for an extension of time, on the ground that he was far away in Buenos Ayres, and that time was necessary to communicate with him. It will of course be supposed that Messrs Bircham and Co. refused to make any such application, seeing that their client, so far from being hundreds of miles up the country from Buenos Ayres, was actually within a hundred yards of the old Law Court at West minster. Messrs Bircham's office is in 43, Parliament-street. The fact is, however, that a summons was taken out by Messrs Bircham and Co. for an extension of time for three months or me, c, as their client ■was so far away. Mr Lo-.gworthy's arrival was not known, of course, to Messrs Lumley. F.t Mrs Langworthy was fortunately advised by a private friend that her husband had been seen in Pall Mall. Beyond this information, the source of which she could not disclose, there was no reason for opposing the application. Messrs Lumley were therefore in a difficulty, and at first demurred to object. Mrs Lang worthy was indomitable. Legal evidence she had none ; but she insisted that if Messrs Bircham made the application it should be opposed. Mr Colyer, then managing clerk of Messrs Lumley and Lumley, now of 4, New Inn Chambers, Wych-'street, Strand, whose energy and 2eal have been from the first down to the present beyond all praise, went down with a sinking heart to Somerset House. Of course there was still reason to hope that Messrs Bircham and Co. would not make an application for time on the ground of the difficulty of communicating with a client who was actually at the time in London when the application was made. The fact is, however, that Messrs Bircham1 and Co. did make that application ! After Messrs Bircham's representative had made the application stating in effect that they were informed their client was .700 or 800 miles up the country from, Buenos Ayres, and therefore he must ask for a very long extension of time, Mr Colyer rose and. stated that hejjnußfc-'tfpiMse the appiicatidfiy* as his client had reason to believe Mr Langworthy was actually in London. Mr Registrar Middleton, with the courtesy and sense of justice which always characterises him when acting in a judicial capacity, said at once that he would give Mrs Langworthy a few days to ascertain, the facts, and if he was in England the ap plication would be refused. CHAPTER XVI. DISCOVERED BY A DREAM \ Mrs Langworthy, who was waiting out side Somerset House for the decision of the Registrar, when told that she must be able to produce evidence in support of her asser tion, was not a little dismayed. All that she knew for certain was that he had been seen in Pall Mall. London is a huge place in which to hunt for a missing husband, when that husband is anxious, above all things, to lie perdu. Nothing daunted, she set about the task. She called at the Royal Yacht Club and at the United University Club. He had not been at either. Then she began a tramp round the hotels. The Grand Hotel, where she had stayed with him immediately after her marriage,was naturally the first. Here she struck his trail. He had been there for one day* but had left.leaving no address. Where could he be hiding? Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria Station, was next tried. He had not been there. Westminster Palace was next visited on account of its proximity to Messrs Bircham's. No Mr Lanarworthyhad been heard of there. Charing Cross Hctjl, St. Fancras, Euston, Paddington, Cannon street, Holborn Viaduct - all railway hotels were searched in vain. Then Wood's Hotel, Furnival's Inn, the Inns of Court. Morley's, the Golden Cross, Long's Hotel, Bond street, and the Langham were all tried in turn, and drawn blank. The Continental, Eegent-street, was the only place where her inquiry was received with anything but kindly courtesy. At last, footsore, weary, and almost despairing, she returned to her lodgings in Bayswater. . , That night a strange thing happened, . which, if this narrative were not; a strictly . accurate statement of.actual facts.would be omitted as too improbable. p Often Mrs . Langworthy spent sleepless nights, brood- ' ing restlessly over her wrongs. But on | that occasion the long tramp round Lond6n ( —for she had no funds for cabs—had ex- j hausted her so completely that she had no , sooner lain down than she fell into a heavy { sleep. . ~. :When she slept, the quest of the day j haunted her brain. In her sleep she had a dream. She dreamed that she found her- | self in a strange, hotel. She had never f been thgre before. ' She' knew, how, she, j cdiildnbt say, that it was in London ; but the curious ! thing was that everyone was l speaking a foreign, language. And there, : in the hotel, in the .midst of. the company,. ( stood Edward Martin. Langworthy. She c started in her sleep, woke—and behold it r was a dream! The,dream, however, was. r so vivid that she could not sleep again/ a She lay awake till the household was t asiir, and then taking a hurried and early t breakfast, took the train to SoUth Kensing ton to call on Captain Hewitt, a relative by fe marriage of Lady Alice, Mr Langwdrthy's t. first wife. The moment she reached 4, a Courtfield Road, she told Captain Hewitt of b her dream, and asked him if lie oould tell a her any hotel in London inhabited solely by i foreigners. He at once replied, ',' Oh, that q musb be De Keyser's Hotel, Blackfnars. p Mrs Langworthy went on to Messrs y: Lumley's, and then walked down to De L Keyser's. Crossing the court she en- tl countered an obsequious German waiter, to jVj whom she addressed, with a nonchalance ti which she was far from feeling, the usual cl Question: " Has Mr Langworthy yet re- re turned from Buenos Ayr* ?' ... ~-j ]* The waiter replied, lf Yes, madam! •I m

Mrs Langworthy's heart ought to have given a great bbtthd. In reality it almost stopped. Her first impulse was to turn and flee. Before she moved, however, the waiter said, " He is not in at present." Gaining breath, Mrs Langworthy made minute inquirieu as to when he arrived. By the courtesy of the manager she was shown the visitor's 1 book, where his name was en tered as " Langvorte " in the handwriting of the German waiter. On her saying that this was not tho way his name was spelled, the manager showed the ticket of hi 3 room» in which, in his own handwriting, he had entered "E. M. Langworbhy." This was the sth ot April, 18S4» Leaving the hotel, and just as she was crossing the Embankment, who should drive up but Mr Langworthy himself !

What a meeting! The recognition on both sidos was instan taneous. Tho hahsora was on the point of turning into the court of the hotel, when Mr Lahgworthy caught sight of the lady whom ho had so deeply wronged. Hastily flourishing his stick, he ordered tho driver to drive down .the Embankment instantly. The driver obeyed, and the hansom was rattling offtowarcb Westminster before Mrs Langworthy quite realised what happened. He need not have fled, save for the spur of a guilty conscience. His wife was in no mood to pursue the fugitive. She went to Messrs Luruley to announce the success of her quest. In order to obtain corrobora tive evidence Mrs Langworthy went off to the Langham, asked to be allowed to send a telegram, and wait for art answer. She despatched the following missive :— " From Popham, Langham Hotel, to Manager De Keysor's Hotel. "Has my friend Langworthy arrived? Reply- Paid." "Popham," otherwise Mrs Lang worthy,sat down to wait for an answer. In due time it came. It ran as follows :— "From Manager, Do Keyset's Hotel, to Pop" hum, Langham Hotel. " A Mr Langworthy was staying here, but has loft for Paris." Taking a sheet of notepaper and an en' velope, Mrs Langworthy wrote :— " 38, Queens-road, '• Bayswater, April 5,185 J. " Sir,—You 3ay a Mr Langworthy was at the hotel. As I atn expecting my friend Mr Lang worthy, would you kindly tell nio what wua tho name of tins gentleman aucl his appearance i— Yours truly, Popham." She posted this to the manager. Mrs Lang worthy had been cautioned not to use her own name in such communication, lest it might alarm Mr Langworthy, and "Pop ham'' was as good an alias as any other. Mrs Langworthy had passed through a bitter experience .since firefc, as a trusting, unsuspecting woman, she had joined Mr Langworthy at Southampton. She was fightiner a battle for her life. She had no money to hire any agents to work for her. She had to do it all herself or to be utterly undone. Necessity is a stern taskmaster, but there is no teacher like it. In due course the answer arrived. It ran as follows:— In answer to your letter, I cai only say that Mr Langworthy's initials were E.M. Ho was stout, fair, with reddish moustache. Armed with the letter and the telegram, she went back to Messrs Lumley, who drew up an affidavit embodying the fact 3 thus strangely brought to light. CHAPTER XVII. IS THE YEAR OB1 GRACE 1884 ! On the appointed day Messrs Birchatn's representative again appeared before the Registrar to press their application for a long> extension of the time. The Reason set forth for ; the demand; that the. Registrar should accord them a .long .delay was the a'emoteness ot the region in which their 'client was living, and the obvious injustice of pressing for an immediate appearance. i Mr Colyer, on behalf .of .Messrs' Lumley, 'produced Mrs Langworthy's affidavit, and rad it aloud, adding as he oonpluded : " The,fact is, sir, that when' "this gentle man (indicating Messrs Bircham's represen tative) alleged that Mr Langworthy was in South America he was within a hundred yards of this Court." . Mr Registrar Middleton asked whether this was correct. Did Messrs Bircham know that Mr Langworthy had been in England when £he application was made ? And Messrs Bircham's representaitve, in the very Court iil which he had alleged exactly the contrary, was unable to deny that the fact wa3 as Mrs Langworthy had stated it, Mr Registrar Middleton replied, " I will not give you another hour !" Messrs Bircham's representative begged to be allowed to have an extension of time at least to that evening. It was accorded ; but they were ordered to file their answer at five o'clock that evening. CHAPTER XVIII. THE LIE IN THE AFFIDAVIT. Mr Langworthy had bolted. The first and brutally simple expedient of wearing out his wife's funds and exhausting her re sources by stating that which was false and applying fora postponement on the strength of the lie had failed. But the resources of delay were by no means exhausted. The Registrar had ordered that an.ap pearance should be entered that very after noon. Messrs Bircham obeyed under pro test, alleging that Edward Langworthy was outside the jurisdiction of the Court. He lived in the Argentine Republic, and had no property in England. " The mar riage falsely alleged to have been cele brated " was not alleged to have been cele brated within the jurisdiction of the Court, and the same objection was taken as to co habitation. The service of citation in the Argentine Republic was objected to as illegal. They therefore prayed that the Court would sustain the protest, set aside the service of citation, and dismiss the re spondent from the suit. To this Messrs Lumley and Lumley re plied on the 13th of May that Mr Lang worthy had been within the jurisdiction since the citation, that he had property within the jurisdiction^ and that cohabita tion had taken place within the jurisdiction. Messrs Bircham replied, denying the allegations of Messrs Lumley to be in a great measure true or relevant^ They were, however, unable to maintain their assertions, and the Registrar, after hearing both sides, on May 2Gth ordered Mr Lang worthy to enter an absolute appearance in two days and file his answer in tenJ tia . On the 11th of June Messrs Bircham filed his answer as follows i—

1.. N o forni ■of ceremony of marriage was ever had between the petitioner and the .respondent. . \ ' 2. No lawful marriage1 was ever had be tween the.petitioner and the respondent.' Therefore :Mr, 'LarigWorthy prayed the Court to decree (1) that no marriage was ever had between the petitioner and the respondent; (2), that the petitioner be restrained by, injunction from hereafter asserting any such marriage ; (3) such peti tion and other relief to the respondent as the case may require. In support of this petition, "I, Haring ton Charles James Groves," a member of the firm of Messrs Bircham and Co., swore an affidavit on the 23rd of June, 1884, before Mr J. C. Garrod, a commissioner of oaths, at 9, Bridge-street, Westminster. The whole text of the affidavit need not be quoted. One passage is, however, indis pensable. After admitting, what had pre viously been denied, that in March Edward Langworthy had been in England, and therefore in the jurisdiction of the Court, Mr Groves "said that he had had an oppor tunity of conferring personally with his client on the subject of the petition,'and of receiving his. instructions. Then follows this statement for the purpose of crushing Jdrs Langworthy's application j-»

During my interviews with the said res pondent on the occasion referred to, he gave me a detailed history of his connec tion with the petitioner, and in answer to my inquiry whether any marriage had ever been solemnised between him and the peti tioner, the. respondent denied in the most distinct and emphatic manner that any marriage was ever solemnised between him and the petitioner, or that any form or tlr& inony of marriage, or pretended Jorm or cere mony of marriage, wan at any Hint performed or gone through between him and the -peti tioner.

To the reader unlearned in legal lore tho necessity for this affidavit may not be ap parent. Why did Mr Langworthy tell this lie, repeated on oath on his authority by Mr Groves, of tho firm of Messrs Bircham ? The reason is obvious. Mrs Langworthy was practically penniless. A wife suing for restitution of conjugal rights has aright to alimony pendente lite. Whether her mar riage be legal or illogal, the Court does not at the earliest stage v/hen application is mado for alimony condescend to'inquire. All that it asks is whether the woman who applies formaintenancewhile tho merits of her claim are being judicially investigated has or has nob gone through some form of marriage ceremony with the respondent of her suit. If this is not disputed alimony is awarded as a matter of course, no matter what objec tion may be taken to the validity of the marriage, upon which a decision will be pronounced hereafter. The only way to bar an application for alimony is to swear an affidavit denying in toto that there has ever been any form of marriage or pretended marriage between the two parties in the case. Mrs Langworthy wag therefore cer* tain to be awarded alimony unless her double marriage could be roundly denied on oath. Here a difficulty came in—* not the difficulty of the double lie, that never seems to have been any difficulty to Mr Langworthy —but the difficulty of get ting the lie into Court without bringing himself into the grip of the law for vulgar perjury. This difficulty was surmounted by an ingenious subterfuge. Instead of swearing the lie himself he told it to his solicitor and his solicitor swore, not that it was true, but that such a lie had been told by his client. Thus, while no one com mitted perjury, the end was as effectively secured as if Mr Langworthy had qualified for a convict cell. He did not commit per jury, he only lied distinctly and smphati oally, as his lawyers declare. chapter" xix. A STRUGGLE fOR LLFE. This ingenious device of a liar to escape the penalties of perjury met with complete success. When the application for alimony was brought into Court in 1884 it wa re fused, and refused solely on the strength of Mr Langworthy's lie in the affidavit of Mr Groves, member of the firm of Messrs Bircham. Mr Langworthy, roll ing in wealth, with yachts, palaces, French cooks, and all the luxui ies of a millionaire, stooped to lie in order to deny the woman whom he had deceived even the paltry pit tance which the Court might have awarded, until he had reaped the reward of his legal acumen, and secured the judicial declara tion as to the nullity of the marriage by which he had duped his victim. Mrs Lang worthy was poor. Her old position was gone for ever. She was married, but without the status of a wife or the position of a widow. Hope of employment in her former profession there wa6 none. Her relatives % were in more or less straitened circumstances, and had already strained their scanty means to provide her with subsistence money while her suit was in progress. Every day's delay interposed by the respondent brought the plaintiff nearer to the bottom of her slender resources. Mr Langworthy knew all this, so he could base his calculations upon it. If he could but spin out the litigation and prevent the grant of alimony, his wife would be reduced to starvation, and a pauper cannot conduct a lawsuit against a millionaire. The rich have many friends, but the destruction of the poor is their poverty. To be poor is to bo weak, to be penniless is to be impotent. The sailors in " Ruddigore " refer to the striking of a gal as a thing in famous beyond Conception, but to this millionaire the weakness and the com-

promising position of Mrs Langworthy seemed to invite a blow. It was not spared, nor was it Mr Langworthy's fault that his victim survives the poisoned shafts with which he endeavoured to complete her ruih.

The refusal of alimony obtained by Mr Groves's affidavit that there had not been even a pretended form or ceremony of marriage is easily written, more easily read, and still more easily forgotten. But to Mrs Langworthy what did it not mean ? A shipwrecked sailor buffeting the waves, swept backward and forward by eddying currents, at last seizes the projecting rock where he hopes to cling for breathing space before plunging shorewards. At that moment a ruthless hand flings him back all exhausted as he is into the abyss. That was Mrs Langworthy's position. Alimony pendente lite would have saved her. Alimony would have been awarded her by the Court as a matter of course but for that affidavit. But that affidavit was fatal. She left the Registrar crushed and hopeless. Insult, ridicule, contumely, were heaped upon her without stint. She bore up bravely until she reached the friendly shelter of a shop, and sinking into a chair, burst out into a convulsive flood of tears.

What wonder ! For nearly two years she had been living on the hope of the succour of which she now had been robbed by the dexterous lie. Everything had changed since the earlier days when the proud young girl left her Irish home to make her way in the world, so as ho longer to be a burden to her im poverished parents. It is the fashion to say that there is no such thing as caste in England, and to moralise over the Hindoos, whose treatment of widows is such as to make even suttee seem a beneficent institu tion. In England there is caste hot less merciless. In the struggle for existence there is no place for & lady who has lost her footing; the fernme detldssee if poor is denied all rights, even the right to earn her bread. This Mrs Langworthy was to learn by bitter experience, ' . The first thought after her child was born and she was once more free to take an engagement was to seek employment in the profession in which before her marriage she had made a good income. Lady Stanley of Alderly, who had known her before her marriage, interested herfielf in her case, and asked Mr McDowall, Secretary of the Girls' High School Council, to do what could be done to get her a post in the High Schools. Nothing could be done.' Appointments in the High Schools could only be given to those who had worked continuously in har ness. There was no opening for one who had been two years away from the desk. Mrs Langworthy must try elsewhere. She saw an advertisement for a lady companion, who must be tall and of good appearance. She called on Mdme. Auberb in Regent-street to apply for the post. Mdme Aubert received her kindly, and teemed inclined to entertain her applica tion. But the moment she heard that Mrs Langworthy was separated from her hus band she broke off the interview. Waving her hand contemptuously, she exclaimed, "No lady would entertain a thought of any one in that position." So that door was closed also.

Nothing daunted, Mrs Langworthy ap plied to the agent of a Civil Service Agency. She was civil enough, but quite inexorable. I' In your position," she said, "it will be impossible—quite impossible—for you to obtain any work in education." She then remembered that Madame Hubert, 19, Cockspur-street, had known her, and bad spoken kindly of her success at

Sfc; Margaret's School. She called upon her and asked for work. She shook her head. Growing desperate, she tried in sue cession al. the governess agencies in turn, in Regent-street, in Mortimer-street, in Bernera-street, in Buckingham-street, Strand. All returned the same unvarying reply. For her, or for any one in lier posi tion, no situation could be found. The agencies did nob go into tho merits or 'de merits of the ens-e. She was neither maid nor widow, and she was nob living with her husband. That was all, and bhab was enough.

Leaving the agencies, she turned her attention to the advertisement columns in newspapers. She answered every adver tisement that seemed to offer any hope of employment. At last she seemed as if'slie \vero about to succeed ill her weary quest. Two well-to-do Americans, mother and daughter, who had taken a houso in Bryanston-street, had all bub engaged her m a companion, when as an afterthought one of them remarked, " You're fi widow ? " Her reply instantly pub an end to the negotiations. So it went 6n, hope becoming daily dimmer and dimmer, until bhc only prospect of subsistence centred more and more in the hope of alimony. This hope was blasted by that affidavit sworn to by Mr Harrington Groves, of the firm of Bircham and Bircham, of 46, Parlia ment-street. (To be Continued To-morrow.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1887.

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I 8.&lil0.50jli.l0 2.10 4.25 5.30 6.30 .. 10.10 1.20 11.00 9.10 2.40 li3muera.. .. 7.30! ! 8.56|10.5512.15 2.15 4.30 5.35 6.35 .. 10.15 1.25 11.00 9.15 2.4S *Green Lane j .. 1.. .. ••_ „••„, „•;, Kllerslio .. .. 738 .. 96 |11.5 H2.26 2.25 4.40 5.45 6.45 .. 10.25 1.30 12.0 9.2J 2.02 JPehroue Junction 7.45 8.56 9.11111.1012.30 2.304.45 5.50 "6.52 7.30 10.30 1.10 12.10 9.26 2.57 OnehSnga* arr' 7.55 9.5 9.2011.2012.40 2.40 4.65 6.0 7.0 7.40 10.40 1160 12.20 9.35 3.7 "■"■■" " ' ~ " f~ ~ [ Sals'"" m.ip.m. p.m.:p.m. p.m. a.m. p.ni. <V iuuiunga ..aep. i.o e.zu u.*/i xv. v v.w t i.v a«ui iWtOJ 6.35 7.15J 10.50 2.0 10.0 S.X PenroafjSnc. .'I fMtfM &0 lO.'lO J12.201 1.10 t!!43<j!§5.20i56.45|||7V30|11."0 2.10 10.10 5.40 .. 7.20J &35 9.45 10.15 12.23 1.15 410! 5.25 .. 7.3511. 5 2.15 10.10 0.10 RomSem 110 " V.SOJ 8:4*1 9.55 10.24 12.35 125 4.51 5.35 II 7.tt|ll.ijS 2.25 10.21 5.53 NewmarketJun 7.35 8.49-10.1 010.30 12.10 1.30 5.4 5.40 .. 7.50 11.20 2.31 10.26 o.oS Auckland.an-. . 7.45 8.53 IQ.lol 10.391 12.50 1.40 5.13 5.50 .. 8.0 111.30 2.40 lfljaJM. " Change for Onehunga. § Change for Otahuhr. t Change for Waikato Stations. a Change for Kaipara Branch Stations t Change for Mercer and ln'*ermediate Statiohß. . , .■, . U Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. MAIN LINE. AUCKLAND-MERCER—TE AWAMUTU-OTOROHANGA, SOUTH—Wbkk DATS. A r-M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. P.M. P.M. 6.20 Auckland .. .. dep. 6.0 6.20 7.15 8.0 11.40 4.15 4.55 5.20 6.3a No wmarket Junction .. 6.10 6.35 7.25 tf.lo 11.55 4.25 5.7 5.30 6.35 Remuera ~ 6.15 6.40 7.?0 8.15 b 4.30 5.12 5.30 Xi| lerslie Lane '" II II 622 6.48 7.38 8.23 E 4.40 5.25 JA5_ 7150 Ponrose Junction .. .. 6.28 7.0 §8.0 8,31 12.25 t4.49 5.50 Otahuhu.. .. {«*• «? 7VIO 8;!° 8.41 12.40 4.59 *° 2 Papatoitoi * ■• 12.55 5.8 Mamirewa * •• •• 1.10 6.22 Papakura 8.0 .. .. 1.30 6.37 „ A Drurya II II II I! " 8.15 II 9.25 1.47 6.58 ". II *Kunciman 2 •• " '' *' I *Paorata .*. •- •• .. Pukekohe i 8.57 .. 9.52 2.19 6.23 Auckland •• * .- .- * '* Tuakau 9-21 -. .. 2.43 6.43 "W'hangarata * •• >• * * .. •• ' Pokeno — . ™«46 •• , •• B.* '•" .. •• Mercer .. .. 4> ... ># 10-53 3M "•Whangamarino •• •- * * , ~ 'Wairaiigi •• •• n> >- .. •Rangiriri .. ... .. .. ■• .- .. ~ * .. .. *Ohlnewai .. .. iti ... •» •• ••„ ~„ -'■ .. - Huntly „ ~ .. 12.15 5.25 „ .. ;. Taupiri - .. 12.30 6.40 Ngaruawahla I .. .- .. 12.48 6.10 .. j. *Pukete .. '. f " ~ . *Teßapa v « - * *■ cFranktonJunction {§£ $i j; \f o Jf s g » ;; "RUkuhia.. * .. .. * * Ohaupo .. 8.85 mi ~. 2.5, ?.3O .. *I^.keßoad „....* .. jJ „*, * Ngaroto 8.55 .. 2.26 7.60 .. i. .. TKAwAMvxcr.. }g : ™;| i; * 7:f 0 5 ii ; : 'TePuhi i *Kawa i. ~ .... * .. *Kiokio .. .. .. •■ •• * .. I. *OtorohanKa .. .. ..I .. I .. I m I ■- 9.0 ,_ .. j . . .... North—Week Uays. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. "Otorohanga - .. •• dep. .: - .. .. EB.IO •Klokio ..„....-■• - •• - •■•■■: *Kawa .. « .. • - «... * 'TePuhi.. .. .. .. •• •• - •• " * •• •• . .. TBAWAMUTO .. : „ {^p. Z II * II 9.'15 t*. !I 3.0 Njcaioto .. " " - ■• •• 9.23 .. .. 3.5 *Lakeßoad .. .. •> «. - •■ ~*, .. .. * Ohaupo <■- •■-' 9.45 - - . 3.25 'Hukuhia ..—...•• - «- ■• »..*.. _ .' Frankton Junction .. {g J J \\ ",.," ;; ~ |;J Q sToßapa^ - - ~ .... *Pukete .... - - - * • * Ngaruawahia - •• - •• ... 31-30 .. <. 4.43 Taupiri .. - i. h 11.47 .. .. 4.58 Huntly - - .. .- 12.25 „ ... .5.20 "Ohincwai „ « ■ ' .. ' .. " .. .. * *Rangiriri .. * ~ - * *Wairangi .. .. * " .. •■. *-: .. ! :. * *Whangamarino « •• .. * .. .. * ; Mercer .. .. - | dfep- _ ?> e2O I|#3o 25 rr r 650 Pokeno .. .. .. .&i . a -, .. 6.31 11.43 2.16 .. .. 7.0 i *Whangarata .. .. ~ .. - - * ,* Tb «. .. * Tuakau .. .. ..«..- .. 6.50 12.8 , 2.42 * ♦Buckland ~ » * * * „ • * Pukekohe ~ - •• 7.10 12.31 3.3 .. ... 7.37 'Paerata ~ ...... — ■ ~ * * . ... .. * ■Runclman ....»» - « " .. .. * Drury ..„.., .. .. .. 7.47 1.10 3.37 .. .. 8.10 *Hunua ... ~ ' "'* .. .. * Papakura - « 8.1 1.26 3.47 „ .. . 8.18 Manurewa - .. 8.16 1.42 4.2 .. .. * Papatoitoi 8.30 2.0 4.15. .... * Otahuhu 6.50 8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 6.20 7.15 * Penroso Junction 87.15 f[|B.3o t8.54 t2.30 t4.36 t6.30 17.3Q 9.0 Elleralie 7.20 8.35 8.58 2.35 6.35 7.35 * *GrcenLane £* " * "" * "■'*.. * Remuera 7.30 5.44 9.7 2.45 6.45 7.45 * Newmarket Juno. 7.35 8.49 9.19 2.55 }5.4 6.51 7.50 9.20 Auckland .. .. .. arr. I 7.45 | 8.58 9.28 | 3.5 5.13 7-0. 8.0 9.30 t Change for Onehunga. II Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations, t Change for Kaipara Branch Stations. I Change for Otahuhu. A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations between Auckland Onehunga. B. Only stops to pick up Passengers for South of Penrose Junction. ' " c. Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. D. Runs on Mondays and Wednesdays only. K. Runs from Otorohanga on Tuesdays and Thursdays only.. The 9.15 a.m. train from To AWamutu runs daily. f. Frank ton Junction for Cam bridge, To Arohu and Rotor ua Lines. Cambridge— Tb Aroha and Roxorua LtNES. South.—Week Days. North.-Week Days. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. Auckland, dep. .. 8 01140 Lichfleld, dep. .. .. ii k . 6125 .1 :■ i-—• -11 -ir 11 if TiMfcinitanr ■-■ " -^—^ *Putaruru Junction .. ~ .. *•-. . ..P.M.P.M. "Taumangi ".. .. .. .. * Frankton Jan., dep. .. i 130 c" 0 Oxford, dep. 12 50 Hamilton West.. .. .. - .. 138 710 *Okoroire .. .. .... * *HamiltoiiEast.. .. : .. * * *Mangawb.ara .4 k . .. .. * RuakuraJun., arr. .. .. .» .. 162 722 Matamata .. 139 -—I . ... - ..— -11 . 1 *Waharoa .. .. .... * Cambridgeßr.— .. .. .. *Walton .. ..-. .. .. * Ruakura Jun., dep. .. .. .. ..2 0dt730 *Kiwitabi.. .. .. ~ .. * *Mongaonui .. .. » — .. * * Moriinsville, arr. .. ..' 235 ■ .. .., * * >-——— ' " ' ' '; *Fencourt .. .. * * Te Aroha Br.— *Hautapu.. .. * * Te Aroha, dep. ™ .. "8 20 Cambridge,arr. :. .. .. .. 2408 10 *Waihou ... ..... * " — 1 « *Waitoa .. „ . " * "' Ruakura Jun., dep. ... 2 067 30 "TatuaoHaua I * *Eureka .. .. .. .. .. * • '"•Murray's * ■" *Motumaoho .. .. .. .. * * Morrinsville, arr. 96* Morrinsville, arr. 2 40 8 10 ■ " .. ", i;j ; ' " ' —' Morrinsville, dep. .. 910 6250 Tk Aroha Br.- *Motumaoho .; .. »xuo^wi Morrinsville, defc a250 816 .. "" " *. * •Murray's .. ~ * * Ruakura Jun., arr. " "960330 *TatuaoHaua .. .. .. .... * * ——.____ *Waitoa _ * • Cambridge Br.— •Waihou .. .. .. .. .. .. * * Cambridge, dep. .. ' 915<i250 Te Aroha, arr. .. .. 3408 55 •Hauta'pu... •■ . 4 .■ iwf «« "■• - .iii-- Tit.-..i 11 ■. —.. --— *Fencourfc ~ " • • Mprrinsville, dep. ~ .. «* ..62 60 ... *Tamahere " '" * * *Kiwitahi.. .. .. .. .. * .. *Mongaonui *" " * * *^ aiton .... .. ~ „ .. * .. Ruakura Jun, arr. II II 9553 30 fWaharoa .^ .^ ~ .....* .. . Matamata .. ..., mJi .. ..3 55 .. Ruakura Jun., dep. .. 10 oc3 40 ♦Mangawhara .. .. .._..« .. 'Hamilton East. • I" ♦OkorQire.. k . .. • .. Hamilton West,. I". "" 10 20 355 II I." II v "* * " Fraakton Jua- - -" 25 4 0 t?^ 1"?/ 11 Jtuu-■ '*• •' •• *• * •• Auckland, arr. .. 61i9 30 Lichfleld, arr, « .. .. .. ~ 520 .. * Flag Station. 4' f r ™ a Runs on Tiiesda;ys, Thursdays, and Saturdays only. 6 Rnna on Mondays, Wednesdays and Friday ß only c Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. dßunsoto% -nesdaysand Saturdays! only. The Others run daily. »»Huu««n«i A. Runs on first Sundays in each month only. KAIPARA BRANCH.-^Auokland—Heitdbrson—Hklensvilli!. »«m^m~—^ :— -^ 1. —... .■ .. . . 1 ■■ AtrCKEANP TO HElEKsViLlifc-WBEg PAYS. HEtENBViI.I.B TQ APCgtAND.-^WEEg DAYS. Auckland dep. if fofe *3> » HelensriUe ..dep S ?L45 Po" 4 Newmarket Junet m 7.12 11.12 .4.57 2.25 *Helensville South * • • Mount Eden. .. 7.19 11.19 5.4 2.32 *OhiranKl .. 1 * • * L *Kingsland .. .. * * * * | *Pa er o a ~ * * * *M,orningside.. 1 ♦ * * * 1 *Woodhiil ii '" * * * *Mount Albert _ * * * * *Reweti*7 "' " * * * '" Avondale .. ~ 7.36 11.88 6.20 * *Waimauku "" . * * • :|ate 1; :i : : : ®ga : » t'Mw sv° " fwanlor I* i; 8V° 12f 5 - SSr" "7.35 1.30 6.|0 ~ •Kakl™ 1 •* - 12^ s"' Henderson " t 8.0 2.5 6.45 II JSrL :: :: H™ i 7•• : : : iA * tttu^i- :: l.i :. :: 4SSSSu: :: *?■ fti° : *Woodhill * * * *MSrningside *" * * • * *gaeroa.. _ ... . • * * .. 'Kingsiand "■ ••• * * * *Helen«l<l1« e^th'" • * • " Mount Kden'.l 118.47 2.55 6.24 6.13 _jSS SOtttaVrl| 9.40 i?o 7.^ Ijj ll 5558^ JPa^| &&I SIS US' AH I'ime Tables iaaued prior to thia dftt« are Ww canculled. ■ aiauon3* J. P. MAXWELL, General Manager,



If S m ? \ ■ I hobson-st 1 CASH AND DEiFERR-p-n «,u UOBSON-BTRKKT, We respectfully invite aHj>nt- Stock of KOVKLWsfoaK* 11 Our Great Variety■ and chnV^aaw? 1 Fabrics, with thcS^lUnAteot *?L and thereat successo our $& e'°sr superior Garments PKI»iS.v fli? r!8 toPTOd*M every confidence in rwpe,tfirtti*^lflfcßi favour of a visit. 4Co*e«uuiy solidan^^ All Tweeds thoroughly siirnni-v » made up, and fitand WSfflpJSS,^ The Deferred Paympk™ <=™ found to be a great btou bfJa&> •** INSPECTIONTNVTTEa Tramcars pass the door. to Measure from 60s wilh ' KJ Extra Pair or.Trousers for nn'ttii^!! .*♦ st°reetKa^t Cc>~J: H* Dal^n' rS ?ictofl&! ri. EOR G E TH6.M f% 0 N ■ PIER HOTEL, ALBERT STREET (Two minutes from Wharf or Railway Station Thi3 new Hotel, havingamostcentralDMittfti, and magniffcent view of the Harbour m w been recently fitted and furnished-.-witheVter convenience. This bedrooms are large airy and with good outlook. Every accoramaiaiion tor Travellers and •Boarders. Best bitinds of WSS Hot aild Cold Baths. , Board and LodKing 20s and 25s per week. Best Brands in Wines and Spirits. Medical. ~ "VT O TIC E OF REMOVAL, MR. T. ;TRAFFORp," StJR&EON DENTIST Desires to inform his Patients and Friends that he has removed from Wakefleld-street to tarn central offices Queen-Stre^ 'oVer Jfr, ; Wayto's, Bookseller, opposite Wyndhani-streei Hours from nine a.m. till five p.m. •„■„ Business Koticea. XSTILLIAM T T YTTLE, BLACKSMITH, HOPSE-SHOER AND Begs to intimate his having commenced bud" ness at Captain Elliot's yard, in Pitt-Btteet, near the junction of Hobsun and Wd- ■ experience in the best workshops—oirertvveTS years in New Zealand—and promises good work* j manship at moderate charges. Also, having,bought a portion of the'stock and plant of the late John Hearst, Will be glad ,of a sbaro of the patronage of the-ciiatometsof S4 TILLS Milk Bread, Milk Bread, • sweet and nutritious, and Farm, Hop Home-made Bread, Milk Scones,and C&kea delivered daily, and canbe had atthe Burlington "Victoria Arcade, and at Eden Terrace, or at tin Bakery, Udy's Farm, Mount Eden. Agents Wantkdi . „ A PPLES. APPLES, APPLES. 20,000 Strong Clean and Healt)ij Tree*,on'' two, and three years old, at £3 10s, £4, and fi lCs per 100 respectively, all worked on Northern Spy Stocks. Considerable reductionaott la% orders; Plums. Peaches, Pears, eta; alBO,» fine collection of Roses. .. T+TiDtAfr m ' Nurseryman, Qtabnta-^ JBT APPOINT- '" MSNT TO HIS EXCELLKNCT THE GOVERNOR mHAMES CARRIAGE: AN^DRAY X FACTORY, .VICTORIA-STREET EA3I HIGH-STREET. AUCKL A N D. Telephone, 308. JAMES MACKIB, GoAOHBtrttDJUi, MANAGiER. Builder of every description 6f Veliicl* Repairs in alllthe hranches of the tr«4B faithfully executed. • Vehioles Bought and Sold on Commission* Coachbuilders'Requisites in Stock. Tie iw» Supplied. Country Orders punctually attended to. Cash Customers liberally deattjritj^. Tjl isHB B' & ■•<£ °" Jj WHOLESALE^gjPPINO AND BUTCHERS, . ESTABUSHED . 1864. . fl ,By Special Appointment to His f»gß££ •^Governor, £& W. F. Jervois: M^ffiEi Sir James Ferguson; and H.R& ■$*«£«« of Edinburgh; also, Kosha Butchers JeQUEEN-STBEET, AUCKLAWft NA FamUies waited dn> Town oi) Saborhs. POULTRY of all kinds PRESSKfI to OBUSF- Dealers in Game ,_ :.„.-,;. Hom«?d% BflKW^ Imports of Sausage Casing^ .^ gnppßed * • vn r«ilv(»^ Rennets.. ,•■ w. cochbTn, J*s*" FAMILYBUTCgg^-^^ GET one of my 40s Ove^i &re very taking with tto «w ** Dalton. Tailor. VfotwarsWgtjggS-at^g, TT is said that some people a h*f yfaofo 1 scibnee. It must ( Mjj&«fr,. ScHNAPira would not be piraieu w •, - I 'SHN^RI^HiH^HH