A CORSICAN VENDETTA

By C. A. GUNTER,

The Successful American Playwright.

CHAPTER XIV (Continued.)

A WEEK, shortened by happiness, soon flies round for these two lovers, when, re turning; one evening from a drive with Miss Anstruther, Mr Barnes finds wait ing for him a letter from that young lady's brother. The minute he opens it he knows that it has been written by a thoroughly nice fellow. The communication reads as follows :—

H.M.S?. Sonlark, (.iiliraUur, May Villi, 133.3. My Dear tinnies,—Voir ask my eonsenl. to vuui- marriage with tu.v sister. 1 ..rant iM"'" threo reasons: first, her loiter to me ot lie saincdatesavsslieisin love with yon : and that, you are tlio one man in the wor it unit can make her happv-.which is'all I ask, as she is very dear io me. Second, il'youappvoaeh reasonably near to Ou- idea of manly perfection that I Know Enid holds in regard to the being worthy to he her mate, you must be a very line fellow : ami. lam sure, I shall he. pleased with you when I meet you, which will tie in England m about. two weeks as the Scalark is o rue red Home. Now, in regard to business; Enid has k?.Q ,000 settled on her. I am sure you will wish tins settlement to remain unbroken. I have no objection to my sister's marrying an American, who is rich enough to \ i.it England With her; and, from your s'aienient of your means, you and sho will Le able to live pretty wed how, when, and where you i h.asc. The financial arrangement., you propose are more generous Hum I or my sister ought to ex pect or ask. As your letter indicates that you both are apparently anxious to sail in company as soon as possible", you had better, on receipt of this, leave at oneo for London, aud there see 11. Mortimer, solicitor. Xo. 14. C'onihill. lie has been our family man of business for a genera tion or more. 1 have written to him in regard to you, and any settlement satisfactory to him will be the same to me. Enid will return to England under the charge of Lady ..hartris, who I believe goes Home in about three weeks. Wishing you alt happiness, and eongrafu at ing you on having won the best in all r.n_< land and the dearest of sisters to me, 1 am, Yours most all eel innately. EI.WIN li. ANJ.TKCTH..I.. This letter is exactly what Mr Barnes wishes. He takes it to'his. lady-love, and hands ib to her without comment. As she reads, she says impulsively, '* The dear fellow!" and "then, after a little pause of consideration, " You notice lie takes it for granted that you arc worthy of me ; 1 think he must, have met you before." This is preci-ely what lias been in Barnes s modest mind also". " I agree with yon : I suppose you've lois of his pictures in Eng land _" " Yes !'' "Tell me where I'll find one—so I may know if you are correct." " You are awfully impatient ; but, if you are at Beech wood, "look in the larije, photo graph album in .be drawing-room, and you'll find his face the third picture in the book !" "Very well; I'm going to England to morrow—l'll have a look ab him !" ' : To-morrow V" Miss Antruther gives a gasp. "Yes? I've gob no time to lose: only six weeks now to our wedding !" he replies, with a longing look which makes the young lady blush. " Then this is our last evening together for—for two weeks !" the girl says despond "-sty- , . ~ . i , ,-, " I supTKise you couldn t get Lady Char tris to come at onec ." suggests Barnes eagerly. "I'll try !" erics Enid, and runs oft, bub shortly returns pouting, and mutters with a sigh: "The sellish thing! She doesn't, want to go home till the first of June ; she has painters and plumbers in her bouse." " Well, I don't blame her for fleeing from plumbers,'' laughs Barnes, "so let's make the best, of our evening on tho terrace. ' And the two wander off." The thought of bis leaving her makes his sweetheart even more tender than she has ever been before. She entrances Mr Barnes with one or two little views of the inner sanctuary of her heart : and on parting says: "I am to meet you to-morrow at, breakfast, so I shan't say good-bye!' But as he takes her in his arms to kiss her she gives him a sensation. Enid Anstruther has permitted his caresses ever since she ac cepted his love, still, up to this moment sho has never kissed him ; and now, with a great rush of tender passion, she places two fairy lips upon his. then breaks from his amis, runs upstairs and disappears, leaving Mr Barnes alone on bhe balcony in such a blissful state of mind that for live minutes he hesitates to destroy the remembrance of that kiss by desecrating his own lips with a cigar. He has hardly done this, however, when two great passionate eyes glare at him in the darkness, and a soft, southern voice, made hoarse by anger, whispers in his ear, " You cruel one !" " I —l beg your pardon, Mademoiselle Paoli," he says with a start; " I scarcely understand you." " But you shall ! You have etolen from me my friend. I never see Enid now I You have caused her to desert mo when 1 am alone and desolate !" This accusation is true. Mr Barnes has prevented Miss Anstruther giving Marina during.the past week mure than a few hasty words? He has diplomatically arranged his fiancees days so that the two girls come but little together ; for, though he has said nothing to Enid, he has feared an intimacy that might lead to Marina's onec more meeting Edwin Anstruther. Before he can answer, the Corsican bursts out again : " Is it because I ntn nob worthy to associate with your northern love? "Would I do her a harm because I am un happy? Havo I ever said anything but good of you ? Or do you look upon me as one accursed because i have that vow v j ion my soul V Tho American considers a moment, and then says slowly : '* While you have the passions of an assassin, you are nob worthy to associate with the woman that is to be my wife. Your brother's last wish upon earth was that Ins death should nob ruin your life. You are better lilted to love and be blessed than bo hate and bo accursed !" "Cod knows," she murmurs, "how.-I have tried .to think as you do. How I have watched you and your dear one, who love and are so happy, as a lost spirit has looked, on a paradise she can never enter. You aro one of the blessed ; be merciful to me, an outcast, and do nob rob me of the only friend I have on earth." '«You have Danella," says Barnes shortly, for the girl's despair and loneliness aflecb him, and he is anxious bo end the interviev* " Danella!" cries the girl. "That devil whose one hope is my despair. He who knows that nob until I have no other refuge upon earth will I turn to him and his love. I cannob understand him. I loath him ! I dread him !" Her voice is tremulous with some unknown fear, and her beautiful form shudders with apprehension. " Then let me advise you, " says Barnes, more tenderly, for no man could look on such despairing loveliness unmoved, " to destroy Hanella's hopes ab once by giving up a pursuib in which success means greater misery than failure!" " Ah! You would have me go back to my dear nabive island to be tho scorn of my neighbours; to have them sing fche 'Rim beeco' to me ; to have them cry : ' A Paoli has forgotten she is a Corsican ! Her brother i? murdered and his slayer lives !' No, no, I could not endure that. Go your way. I will go mine. Your northern lily shall not be sallied by contact with a woman who has murder in her heart!" And she leaves him proudly ; but, on get ting from his sight, begins to pant with , despair, and Anally staggering to her I

room, finds, a telegram waiting for her that reads : You may have hope! Daxku.a. " Hope ! thero is no hope for mo ! Others may love and be happy, bub I", who hale, am accursed!" cries the girl, and she throws herself down and struggles and writhes in an agony of despair, until sleep, which is kind to those who suffer, comes to her and gives her peace.

CHAPTER XV,

at last !

LEAVING by tho morning brain necessitates an early breakfast: bub Mr Barnes finds Miss Ansfcruther fit the table before him, looking very pretty, bub somewhat oub of her usual good temper. " See," she cries, "misfortunes never come .singly: you arc going away from mo, and Marina sends me this,'" as sho exhibits a littio three-cornered note. " Well, what docs it contain ."' " Awful news !" | "Awful news'.'' Barnes's face lengthens. "Two days ago when I asked her to bo . one. of my hiiilcjsinai'ls, she promised lo ! conio to dear old England and sen tlio last of Enid Anstrnthcr; now she sends me i this, which lolls me that-she'will be unable | to accept my invitation. That's awful news' i isn't it. " says Knid with a little pout, " Oh, that's the matter," answers Barnes, i quite relieved, thinking of tho narrow ! escape Marina has had of meeting Edwin j again and blessing last night's interview for | what ib has brought about; this morning. j He is too wise, however, to express this j view to Enid, who would havo given him a 1 pretty battle if she had guessed that to him | she owed her friend's refusal ; so, noticing | ihe troubled expression on Win fiancee's face, I ho continues* nonchalantly : " Don't you know some girl in England that will act in her place." "The idea! Of course f know hun dreds -. bub 1 wanted /...-. You look as if you were rather pleased than otherwise. I How would you like to be disappointed I after you'd been promised. How would : you feel if I changed my mind in regard to j being the bride? Ho you know some girl in England that would take my place.' 1 I echoes __.n_.l, in super!) scorn. ] Now, there is only one way to answer his i firtwe'i) question, and Karnes does this so i'much to her .satisfaction that Marina is soon j forgotten in tho pleasant misery of saying ! gooii-bye. Miss Anstruther goes with him | to the railway station ; and though she has j promised herself to neb the Spartan maiden, \ at the last moment forget.-, her resolu | tion, and favours her lover with some i most pathetic tears, that glisten in her ; bright blue eyes like dew upon morn ! ing violets ; then tells him that j she has a presentiment that they I may never meet again, which overcomes ; her, and after glancing about- the com j partmenb being empty--she throws all I pride away, and, giving him a hurried kiss, whispers, "My own! Jf we were only j married that I might never leave you !" i pressing something in his hand by which he ! is to remember her ; and so sends him away ; sad, but also proud and happy, looking ab | her gift, which is a locket containing his , sweetheart's face and v lock of her sunny j hair. Mr Barnes, ns soon as lie has seen tho last I of her, proceeds to take an inventory of all i he has lefb of the two brightest weeks of ids life, and finds it consists of a little glove he j has stolon from her, a pocket handkerchief likewise purloined : n few flowers, faded and 1 dead ; the lockot, with its enclosed treasure, land Miss Anstrufcher's heart, love, and I promiso. And in return for this he ha* i o-iven all ho has upon earth, himself in j eluded, aud is proud of his bargain : though I a month ago he would havo jeered the 1 person who would have told him that there f was any higher happiness than the careless, : easy bachelor life that he has led up to jthe day ho met Enid _Anstrnthor. He ' communes thus with himself till the train j runs past Nice, and ho finds himself think ing : "At this station she was thirsty, j <ux\ I got her a glass of water. That vvni the room whore we had breakfast in the I morning." At Lyons ho comes across the : guard who bad starved his angel, and ■ astonishes that worthy by giving him a j hundred francs. So his journey is one , pleasant reminiscence until he passes Paris, : and here it changes to a hope of soon ; seeing her in London, und being happy j ever afterwards. Miss Anstruther returns to her hotel in a i discontented, erratic mood, that produces j some very unpleasant results for those she i chooses to honour with her company. The tirsb unfortunate, sho falls upon is I Maud. That young lady rushes to her fate | in the most reckless manner : for no sooner does she sec Enid in her own room than she Hies after her and whispers in her ear, "It's lucky lie's gone." " Lucky he's gone ? What do you mean V " Why, Enid, don't you know she was j trying to get him uwny from you !" '"She?' Who?" 1 " Why, that foreign eat, Marina, of j course !" returns Mauri, who line* hated the j beautiful Corsican with all a child's detestu i lion of those who arc unjust to them, ever > since she had obtained from her the details { of Enid's engagement, and then made her I go to bed for having delivered up her | secret. ! "Marina? Impossible!"' screams Miss | Anstruther. "Yes! you don't know her; she's so ! deceitful;*ho makes you think she loves you i —but she loves hnn .'"' j " What! does she dare ?" hisses Miss An struther, and her face takes a cruel expros ! sion at the thought! that Marina could be : guilty of an iniquity in which she has been indulging, i.e., tho fearful crime of loving Barnes. "Oh! she dares anything; she is a plotter from the word go—she gets tele grams !" Telegrams have a wonderful mysterious conspiritoi'ial signification to Maud. After a little pause, to give full weight to this 1 portentous declaration, Miss Chartris goes ion: "If she didn't love him, why did she j make me go to bed when I told her you : h ere engaged to him ? She was angry, of ! course ! Then last nighb I was downstairs j trying to find a bracelet of ma's 1 had bor- I rowed and lost, and I saw her wabching you ! two making love, with the look of a fiend— her eyes were so big. And when you had left she sneaked out to him, and they had a fearful time ; and afterwards I heard her sobbing as if her heart would break; and, though I didn't see him kiss her, you'd better look after Mr Barnes, of New York. Oh, Enid ! Great Jones ! Don't kill me !" This last is a scream of abject terror, for Miss Ansbruther has seized her by the shoulders, and is darting ab her a glance that might have come from Boadicea after she had passed under the Roman rods. All might have been well for bhe luckless Maud had she nob indulged in that last in sinuation in regard to the absent Barnes ; bub now there ia no mercy in Enid for the girl who has tortured her. "That!" she cries, " for brying to break my heart. And that! for telling stories about him. And now, having made me miserable, please go away." An invitation that Alaud is happy bo accept, as each of the " that's " had been a shake of such hysterical vigour that hoi teeth almost rattled in her head. She rushes from the room, and, after dry ing her eyes, groans : " What is the matter ? Enid used to have a nice temper. George, when I'm in love, if my younger sisber bells me anybhing about him, I suppose I'll murder her. All tho same, I shall keep myself to myself after this ; and I bhink I know a way of gebting even on Enid. Wait /" for IVliss Chartris, in all her misfortunes, is a philosopher. As for Enid, she sobs a little, thon tries to read a novel that unforbunabely conbains a female Judas; and this works on her

mind to such a decree that, having no better occupation, she thinks she might just as well go and have it oub with Marina on tho bridesmaid questioni-for all this time she will never admit to herself that she believes a word of what Maud has told her. (To be, Continued.)

"ROUGH ON CATARRH."

corrects olFensivo. odours at once. Complete ohro of worst chronic eases: also, unequalled ns . argle for diphtheria, sore throat, foul breath. ___________________

THE AUCKLAND EVENING- STAK, MONDAY/ DECEMBER m 1887,

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Pool Pins, Marbles, and Chalk Pockets always ou hand. •jV/t- O N U M E N T S italia* and vermont marbles, and aberdeen granite headstoke3 in marble and stone. Iron Tomb Railings at Moderate Prices Prices and Designs sent post free. Country orders carefully packed. TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, cornor of Rutland and Lome Streets (near Queen -street Junction), Auckland. /-I R O U N D J, I M E! GROUND LIME For Sale, SOUTHGATE'S MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCfIB LIME In any* quantity, for Concrete Paths, Floors. Cellars, etc. Next to stone-flaggintf it is un rivalled for durability and hard-sett ing qualities. For tanks and other Wet work it is a first-class . material; R. KEANE. SOLE AGENT, CUSTOMS-STREET. W * L r V *•• BOOKBINDER, PAPER RULER. _ ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURER, WYNDHAM-STBKKT. MERCHANTS' ACCOUNT BOOKS, insurance and Mining Register Books Specially Ruled and Bound. Music, Magazines, Publio Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Bodies, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books . Rewound. BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS RULEp (jLEDHILL'S CRATED WATER AND CORDIAL FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST (Late Sharland's. OLFE-S SCHNAPPS is sold by every respectable publioan. Accept, no other. ISSOLVED BONE MANURE. — FreeßingCo/s £$, of all raerchantU WOLFE'S SCHNAPPS and water makfe the best and most agreeable drink in hot weather.



Business Notices. IiAL SALINE TS the best Food Preservative; keeps Milk, Butter, Meat, etc, pure and sweet, and is without an equal for general household purposes. No home should be without it. " Eht .BUBHEU 1869. GEE & POTTER, COACHBUILDERS, LORNE anu RUTLANU-STRttETS. Coaches, Carriages, Waggonottes, Buggies, Pony Carriages. Carts, Drays, and every de scription of Vehicles kept In stock, or built to order. The trade supplied. N.B Traps lent to cu-itomers whilst repairs are being executed. T TT O W D E N, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET. Run now convenience for making and repair ing of Jewellery and for tho repairs of every description of Watches. Chronometers, &c„ &c„ and to further increase his repairing and manu facturing department,, ho i 3 disposing.of tbo remainder of his PIANOS at and undor cost. Persons having old gold J ewellery can have it j mado up into now and fashionablo articles to order, and all tho bettor class of watches aud i chronometers receive his personal supervision. | Hothcrhama' Genuine English LeyOr*in stock. r.0.8, 284] [HIOH'STREET &, oustomsst. w. A RTH U R jyj AS V, MANUFACTURERS* AGENT AND WHOLESALE CLASS MERCHANT. ORDERS INDENTED. GOODS IMPORTED DIRECT. QUALITY GUARANTEED. Window Glaca Plate Gloss Wire Nails Portland Cement China ware Huvanua Cigars, etc. FOR SALE, 1,000 '"•ASKS WINDOW GLASS (assorted size.) />.HAFF ! riHAFF ! /"IHAFF ] MESSRS STONE BROS. (My Agents) WILL RECEIVE ORDERS FOR ABOVE. Supplies in any quantity from Slow or Works. F. ANDREWS. Otahuhu. GO TO BATH to ROTH'S PUBLIO HuT. COLD. AND SHOWER BATHS. Victoiua-strket Bist. Charge -ONE SHILLING. OvmMVtyMß from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.,and SUNDAY MORN; INGS from 6 till 10 a.m. The bath-rooms are all private, and supplied with every convenience, Turkish Towels, flesh and hair brushes, combs, respirators, soaps, cte. Select Bathrooms (private) for ladles every day at all hours, with female attendance. One Shilling and Sixponoe. Pleuso note the address-Victoria-street East, above the Greyhound Hotel, and next tho Cheap Bedding and Furnituro Mart, Auokland. is.B.: Barber in attendance. T R V ROWE'S JJBWTON gUPPLY gTORES, KARANGAHAPE ROAD, FOR CHOICE TEAS GROCERIES. . Lale ROBERT NEAL. rp B. H E A T H, A • BOOT fit SHOE MANUFACTURER, Upper Symonds-stjieet, Mokes it his pr noipal aim to supply Boo's and Shoes of tho best material and solid worknian shio at the lowest Ca/_h Prices, thus giving real satisfaction to his numerous customers. T. 8.11. docs not make or sell the lowest grades, whirl. are dear at any price, but keeps on hand a and well-assorted stock o English, French, and German goods, together with Colonial goods of our manufacture, for quality and price unsurpassed. r^RION. QRION. r\RION. WHAT IS IT W M - M C A RTHUR & C 0 *- IMPORTERS OF EARTHENWARE, CHINA, & GLASS, Queen-street, Auckland, HAVE ON HAND: A LARGE AND WELL-ASSORTED STOCK OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF EARTHENWARE. Consignments of New Goods every month. Now Landing, ex Star of the East,— MASON'S PATENT GLASS FRUIT JARS. Ex Piako,— ASSORTED CRATES OF EARTHENWARE (Suitable for Country Storekeepers). W M - MCARTHUR & QO. J_„ B. O- 11 *''.^*' COMMISSION MERCHANT, SHIPPING, CUSTOMS, AND GENERAL AGENT, Firth's. Buj__i. Inos, 75, Queen street. Auckland. New Zealand. SOLE REPRESENTATIVE IN NEW ZEALAND FOR BROWN AND POLSON. CORN FLOUR MANUFACTURERS, PAISLEY. AGENT FOR Novello. Ewer & Co., Music Publishers!, Lon^ don. Sutton and Sons, Seedsmen, Reading. T. C. Hay ward and Co-. Canvas Smnners, etc, London, and other Loading Firms. ONE SHILLING PACKET Of SALSALINE will preserve TWENTY SHILLINaS' worth of food. To be obtained of all Chemists and Grocers, in Is and 2s packets. Wholesale A/rent. RICHARD A. CARR. Fort-street, Auokland. ■^WbhtobaUßE INVENTIONS and TRADE MARKS registered in ail parts. All drawings, etc.. accurately prepared at Agenoy. Offices' miToChambera,Queen-street.



Business Notices. USEFUL, DURABLE, CHEAP, AT McLEOD BROTHERS', Wholesale and Retail Manufacturers of Wicker Furniture, Perambulators, and every description of Basketware. THE AUCKLAND BASKET FACTORY, ALBERT STREET (near V.M.C.A.) DTmVITT, rjUNMAKER • Jjj , \Jf _ I And Importer of every description of Firearms, I Ammunition, and Shooting Appliances by i the best makers. ( "< A 1> TP TT\ CX V All Cartridges for . U/Vlvllt-IUCr-CiO. Fowlinß-picces are carefully loaded on the premises, and P nlsHl?ftACKlfi, FIREWORKS.— A S VVietf o" Fireworks, imported by the advertiser direct from J, Pnln, tho celebrated Pyrotechnist. GUNS RE- STOCKED, Barrels Browned, and every other kind of repair done to Firearms. G larantced equal to tho best English work. Prices reasonable. Breechloaders and Muzzle loaders chokeboied. I). EVI TT, Gnnmakcr and Importer, 254, Queen-street, Auckland (opposite the Market HoussJ. [Established 1859 | Price lists free on application. HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE IT WASHES EVERYTHING, from LACE 10 A COALSACK; CLEANS TttOUSERS without wetting a finger or knocking otl a button. ! It does away with wet feet, pains in the arms, I back, and breast, and does a big day's washing I iutwohoura. \ HOME ______ JEWEL J/* HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. M. M. LEVY, BOLE AGENT. ALBERT HOTftL. Iron Curved for V erandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. GEORGE McCAUL, MANUFACTURING PLUMBER AND IMPORTER OF ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (Opposite New Library) and BROWN & DAVY STREETS, THAMES, HAS FOR SAT.E— 200 Corrugated Galvanised Tanks, assorted 500 Colonial Ovens, all sizes 50,000 Feet Lead Edge Ridge Cap, all sizes 50,000 Feet O.G. Spouting, all sizes 50,000 Feet Downpipes. all sizes 50,000 Feet Galvanised Water Pipes, all aizes Load-head Kails. Lead Washes Portable Ovens, Furnace Frames , f topper Boilers Jam, Fruit, Honey, and Butter Tins on the latest American principle, in quantities as per agreement Etc. Etc. Etc. Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines at Auckland Agricultural Show. Latest and best selection of Gas Globes in Auckland. As Mr McCAUL is a direct importer for cash, be is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. I Liberal discounts to the trade. Country orders punctually attended to. GEORGE McCAUL, Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer of all Trade Requisites, Wellcsley-st. Euat (opposite New Library), and Brown and Davy streets, Thames. RECOMMENDED by the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Sold in tins Is each (sample tins 6d each) by the Patentee. RALPH ROBINSON, Chemist. Hobson-street, and by Chemists, GrOOers, and Storekeepers. Wholesale bvMcssrs L. D. Nathan and Co. : Kompthorne. Ptos-er. and C 6.; Sharland and Co. ; F. and C. T. Ronshaw, etc. "-pNCOURAGE LOCAL INDUSTRY. flßfew CHARLES SMITH, «s__ oIhB MANUFACTURER OF BASSINETTES* W*mmmWLWm perambulators, INVALID CARRIAGES.. AUCKLAND PERAMBU- Victor-a-street West (near b Freeman's Bay). CHARLES SMITH, The Largest Maker in Auckland. My prices arc as low as possible consistently \vith quality and workmanship. Tho fact that I guarantee and keep in repair for one year is a sufficient proof of their excellence. Perambulators of any make repaired or taken In exchange. Countiy orders receive my special attention. Prico lists post frete. Buy direct from the Factory, and prevent mistakes. EDWIN JONES (Late E. and A. Jones), House, Furnishing, and General IRONMONGER. Ponsonby Road and Pompallier Terrace, •Auokland, N.Z. Agent for the Phoenix Fire Office.- Advertisement Agent for Auckland Evening Post-office Savings Bank.'MOney Order Office, Telegraph Station, Telephone BurentU • j



YOTj~~c A j s ., T mn AFFORD .Al SOAP. Th« eifi_W b l U OaliSfal housekeeper to use cceed ijjg BURNS'S Al SOAP. u__SS_^.[ -3.?£_j nfty _ hava heard of It a THQno.,wi TIMES without using it ONC& M,* 4^ : reverse the position and Mtt Witt USE IT ONCE •Tim*? 1 ise - 1 * t0 oth ers a Tm.U__i.Mw■ 11MES-1 have spent hundreds oFBcmSSr ■■ convincing the woaien of New Zeatt 1 ! 18 ' their labour can be greatly i_*.AfS ll l ad $**'■■ BURNS'S Al coiWijNGJE iou; WiEtOLESALEToiNT-. a, bochanan; i. CUSTOMS STREET m pc Ac ,0 "c '.X -Lo OPTICIAN, Mathematical and Nautical IsstftjMESj Majjer, • SKpRTLAN*>SfREET. Alwaf 3 in Stock— ;' Spectacles and Eye-glasses 6f every kiisarau accurate lit guaranteed Opera Glasses of superior quality Telescopes, Bindcuiftt Field Glasses, aiitt M-Ota* scopes, powerful and cheap , Theodolites, Mining Compasses; Ahney LeTel* Drainage Levels, Pr'sm&tic Compasses,' Drawing Instruments, Scales, Parallel Rulers Ships' L . gs. Sextant,, Compasses, Blnt-to-les . Barometers, Thermometers, Dydroineters i > Kloctric Bjlls, Batteries, an&Fitti_.K3 ,■. j Magnetic and Galvanic Medical Machines Magi: Lanterns and Slides, Hand Magnifiers : '■ 1 Sti 0 .COpeS and Slides. Graphoscopes ' Steam Guagcfl and Tubing, Salindtoetcts v Just Received— Settlers Telescopes, poworrah portable.; and cheap, lis Settlers' Aneroid Barometers, strong anajjopa, 2556 d ; '"' ■"■ ■" 'J'-''*.*. *■■;;• Settlers' Microscopes, magnifying 1,7c0 timet, * 223 6d ' . ■..-,_ ■ AlsO, Steam and Electro Motor Worki_i.pMto| and Steamers. Instruments of every kind Repaired. ; \ •. OPPOSnE THK POST-o_tl.K.l_. if. •' ; < piCN-iC BAS : K|;|r J McLEOD BROS. Are now nrepared fomake, at lqw-ratjMi, Konta BasketeinStraw,Rush,«|g««£ , with Leather Handles, and Patent J-astefiuwala Leather, Brass, or NickeL These a very superior kind, being most durable v well as elecant. McLeod Bros, ate prepared.to RlnovatSnic Baskets and and fit them with Patent Fastenings. Puma- Baskets from Is ; Wicker portmanteaus, sort. ■ ?bf iov sS-jirls. TofV»lS from 2s; other lines equallycheap. assortment of Fancy Baskets in Auckland to . choosefrom. McLEOD , 1 :^ ! J. THE AUCKLAND BASKET , ; Albert-street (near Y.M.O.A,} 0. C. BROWN (Late of Cook and \ , R EM 0 V E D 7 TO QUEE^-STRE_rf v (Opposite Auckland SaYingß'lßaflk)i ,:' And wishes to notify that he lias a large .stoefc [ ".... of first-class . : -.:. ■:■■ < i i FURNITURE AND .UPriO'tst^^ ';':"- at Ltfw pßtffSi; ; Which he will SELL PRIVATELY AND fflf'AtJ-WW b oaft7ertfsci ' Goods sold on commission- ; NO work butt , of first-class lookers accepted i CORN BEOOM Ott ! EXMOUTH STRfißl*. ! riOAL* COKEy CEABOOtfr ™& , WOOD. iW Rata, Titree, and P.«M%^| ! fi IS^g___B_» Resarv6ir, and corner OS swm- **•"