KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of " The Bayou Bride," " The

Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XIII. «' Don't tell me I am not the deal Lady Macbeth," Lottie said, coining out from the little improvised dressing-room into the space before the dropped curtain and sweep ing a sta<je curtsey before Hazard. She was in all the stateliness of trailing purple velvet (cotton-back) and a tiara of (Irish) diamonds.

" I have been trying to drill my face into a granddame expression ; have I succeeded? DoT impress you as the Lady of Macbeth Castle, coining forth to congratulate her jord on his accession of honours ?"

She looked a deal more like a charming countess of the Louis XIV. period, Hazard thought, but he answered :

'*' So strongly do you impress me as the stately lady in question that I must imagine myself Macbeth, and say with him,

" 'My dearest love, Malcolm comeshere to-day.' He bo.ved his lips to Lottie's hand with his finest grace. " Well done," cried Papa Duck, coming out of the other dressing-box as Macbeth in plumes and a general's somewhat faded uniform. "I taught you that bow, you scamp. You ought to be with us now instead of following the dry business of scribbling. You've got genius—histrionic genius, sir. Lottie, you remember what a Hamlet he made ? His face was a whole funeral procession of melancholy !" "I remember his Romeo," Lottie an swered, stifling a sigh. Ho had played it to her Juliet once at an amateur per formance, and it was an ever-fresh memory with her. " We've got a noble house — I've just had a peep at it through a slit in the curtain," exclaimed Prank. " But I shall stall at those two long speeches of mine unless Kildee prompts. I can always understand when she prompts." " My dear Hall," said the professor, " you had better go to the front and get a seat while you can. The seats are fast being taken. We shall have a fine house. There goes the music ; St. Peter starts off vigor ously."

" I must say good bye, as I shall have to leave here at ten. I hope to see you at Wallport soon," Hazard said, extending his hand to the professor, who shook it heartily, saying : " Our craft is too little for such big waters ; however, we may come early in the fall." " I shall certainly look for you," Hazard said, holding Lottie's fingers in a lingering clasp. Max was on the other side of the curtain in his musician's seat just below the stage; and St. Peter was beside him. Tho audi ence forgot to be impatient for the curtain to rise, iv wondering at Signor Petruchio's music, and his strange appearance—his pal lidface, hislong white hair and beard, his big, pale, solemn eyes staring blankly forward as his bow moved over tho strings with that wonderfully light, firm, keon touch which drew forth the inmost secrets of melody. Max wa3 accompanying him on the violon cello. " Tlig fine house " did not seem to have put him in Ep&il as ifc had the pro fessor. He looked pale and anxious. He nodded to Hazard with a faint smile, and that astute youth saw thafc something was wrong. "He is jealous because Kildee is to play with that handsome Frank," thought Hazard; "or he is doubtful about her getting through all right. She looked such a mere .child, dancing before that inspired idiot as. she beat his eggs, that .1. can't fancy her in the rOle of a court lady."

But Hazard's conjecture only grazed the mark. Max's anxiety did refer to Kildee, but not in these ways. He had anxiously scanned tiie faces of all who entered the hall. He began to breathe freer as he saw nearly all the seats appropriated; and he gave St. Peter the signal to begin by playing a few notes of the " Souvenirs de Bellini." He played on quite cheerfully, till suddenly ho started and made a false note. While he had been attending to his instrument two vacant seats which had caught his eye previously had been occupied ; the one by a handsome man, with full blonde beard, the other by the dark woman whom he had seen on the piazza of the hotel, and had believed to be Kildee's mother. Max felt the blood forsake his face as she fixed her large black eyes upon him. Did she recognise him ? Was it indeed she ? She was changed, thin, hollow-eyed, but pic turesque still. She no longer wore her hair in masses of jetty braids ; ifc was put back with a plainness to correspond with her dress—of bl;-.ck silk with little trimming. But'the shapely head, the finely turned neck, were things that artist Max remem bered. Then, who could forget her eyes ? They had a wilderness in them now, how ever, which had nob belonged to theru then. '' Yet it is, ifc must be she," he said to him self. " Can that be her husband with her? Has she married again ? If she has, she may not care to claim Kildee. But no, she cannot help wanting her. When she sees how sweet, how bright she is she will be sure to claim her. My hope is that she will not recognise her." Kildee did hot appear in the first part of the performance—the scenes from "Mac beth'.'—save in the banquet scene ; where her parb was merely dumb show; but when the guests rose from the table in amazement at Macbeth's strange behaviour, Kildee's willowy form-leaned forward, with wide, surprised eyes and lips apart—made a con spicuous figure in the tableau. Max watched the pair who occupied the isolated seats. He saw the man lean forward and fix his opera glass upon Kildee. The woman did the same, but she dropped her glass in a second and drew her shoulders together with what seemed a shudder. Her companion bent down and spoke to her in an animated way. She responded. The curtain fell, and a conversation en sued between these two, which seemed agitating to the woman. Max would have given much to know what it was about, iiad he been able to overhear it, his sus picions would have been confirmed. " The girl is really lovely," Carleon said. "I thought so in that brief glimpse of her I had at the spring yesterday. Ifc is not often nowadays that I care to"have a second look at a woman's face but this one had something new in it. Ib was her laueh that caught my attention first. Such" a fresh, merry little peal. She had given a cup af mineral water to that queer, daft looking fiddler, and he had spilled it on his sbirfc bosom, and looked at her helplessly. She laughed to reassure him, and then she wiped the water off with a little handker chief she took from her neck, and patted his shoulder as much as to say, ' you're all right.' Her face struck me as something new—the wide, brown, woodland eyes, the fresh rose of a mouth, and the sweefc dignity of the brow and chin—made a novel com bination. I Tad determined to see her pgain, even before you told me who she

was. But are you sure, Zulimee, that this is the same girl — your daughter —so alleged ?" "■ Sure? Did yon see his eyes, the strong likeness to him'! It is fearful!" She shuddered again. He did not notice it, or at least paid "no attention to it. " A likeness may be accidental," he said.

"it is not in this ca«e. She is with the people who adopted her. I knew them; they occupied rooms in tho tenement I lived in when I had the child with mo. That fair young man took care of her when—" " When you left her to starve —tender mother 1" Carleon said, with his sarcastic smile.

" I did not mean that she should starve. I meant to return to her. I told you that. I. was miserable and desperate enough not to care much what became of myself even, but 1 meant to creep bjck to the garret and the child when I had sold books enough to buy us food for another day. I had walked all the forenoon under the hot July sun ; my head throbbed so I turned towards home—-or that apology for home—when a sudden vertigo seized me. I fell down insensible, and was carried to the hospital afterwards —but 1 have told you the story before. Believe it or not, as you please." He was- not listening to her attentively. He seemed in a brown study. Presently he said :

"You will claim her now—will you not ?"

"Claim her?" She gave vent to a little bitter laugh. " I could not be paid enough to make me stay where I could see her every day—with that face. Belles, what could Ido with her, pray ? I cannot feed myself." " Make her feed you." " With her pitiful earnings as a soubretle in a small company of strolling players? Absurd ! I have fallen low—low. My life is a record of miserable mistakes and sins and crime"— this last word in a husky voice—"but I repeat, I wpuld starve to death before I would do harm to that girl, who has his look and his blood in her veins." " Yet you stole her out of revenge on him !*' " I did. It was a foolish and insane act The temptation to do it seized me like the compelling hand of a devil. I did not wait to know certainly that the child was his. It was a year before I found out the mistake-too late then to restore her to her parents; they had gone to reside in a foreign land. I was neglectful, cruel some times to the little one. God forgive me, she had such a look of him ! I will not do her any further hurt. She is innocent now ; those are good people that have her in charge. I trust she may marry that young man who cared for her so kindly— boy though he was. Ke has a good face." »' A soft-looking nincompoop," Caileon said contemptuously, glowering at Max, who bad just stopped playing, for the curtain was rising upon the closing piece, " The Knight s Temptation." The opening scene showed a room in a palace, whose mistress, Kildee, in white silk and roses, had just avowed to her as tonished relatives that she would not

marry the withered grandee chosen for her, that she would many a man of hor own choice, let his station be what -it might. She declared her intention of going out in the disguise of a peasant-girl, that she might find some one who would love her for herself alone. In the next scene she has carried her purpose into execution. She appears in the pretty, simple peasant dress, dancing with other peasants at the fair. Returning across the fields, she is encountered by the inevitable villain, and is rescued by the inevitable knight. He offers her the homage of his heart. Sho loves him, but wishes to put his affection to the test, and so sends him on a mission into the Black Forest and contrives that he is

beset, overpowered, and left bound; is found by her attendants and herself, now in her own garb, as countess and further disguised by differently coloured hair, and convoyed to her palace, where,, he- ■caceivea, distinguished attentions and is entertained with music and feasted with wines and fruits.

The countess—so grand in her rich dress and jewels that he does not suspect that she is the lovely mistress of his heart—puts forth every aH to win him for herself. She is by turns tender and proud, wild and melting. She comes out presently in a ravishing gossamer dress that reveals her lovely limbs, and dances before him—first merrily, scattering flowers and perfumes, then dreamily, voluptuously, winding and unwinding about her a silken, silvery scarf as the music winds and unwinds its al luring melodies. Again, she reclines on a divan at his feet--in soft, flowing draperies, and sings for him, as she touches a little lute, sweet, impassioned songs that take his senses prisoner. Then she offers him her love, her wealth, herself. His heart seems bursting with the struggles against temptation; but he resists. His answeris: "Beautifulenchantress, my heart isnotinyown. Youarestrangely like my love, but you are not she. I could love yon if I had not given myself to her. Bub I am hers only." Then the countess laughs, tears off the golden hair, and holds out her lovely arms, saying; "I am Annetta. The tesfc is ended. lam yours." The little piece in three short acts, was nob much as a drama, but it was made charming by the fresh grace and natural ness of Kildee's acting—her sweet voice, her exquisite dancing. Carleon followed her movements with goafcingeyes. When the curtain fell on the last act but one, he turned to Mrs Gonzalis and said :

" You must claim that girl, and bake her to Aphrodite Island." " Never," was her answer.

"As you please; but listen to me. Upon your doing as I desire depends your future living. I will not give you another cent else ; and how will you live ?"

" I can die. I can stop this fever of living by my own hand." " But you won't do that, my friend ; you are too cowardly; too afraid of the bug bears your Mexican priests and grannies taught you to believe lie in wait for the sinful soul beyond the shadow of death. No, you won't kill yourself; you will live on—but how ?"

She made no answer, and he went on : " You cannot work; you have neither energy nor strength for ib. You are in dolent and luxurious, and, moreover, you are the slave of a habit. You confessed it to me. You owned that ib was a living death to be deprived of your daily allow ance of opium and brandy. And these cost money—how will you get ib? The time is past when . you might coin ib by smiling on us fools of men. Your youth and beauty are gone; they have dropped from you suddenly, strangely, in bhe past eighteen months ; I never saw a woman change in so short a time. When you dropped in upon me so unexpectedly a few weeks ago, I thought you the ghost of your former self — there was a haggard aspect in your face'—a wild, haunbed look in your eyes that might make one suspect that you were suffering remorse for some— ciime.:'

His blue eyes were like points of steel. They turned themselves pitilessly on the woman. She turned ghastly under them ; a writhing shudder passed over her as though she were stabbed at some vital point.

"Crime!" she uttered, trying to sneer. " You are wild ; you are simply seeking to torbure me inbo doing as you desire." " I am simply trying to make you feel that you are in my power, and that it is possible for me to punish you for your ob stinate ingratitude in refusing to do what I ask. Now, leb me show you the other side. Claim the girl, and take her with you to Aphrodite Island, ahd you are sure of a sup port for life. I will give you a home in one of the island cottages, or I will settle an an

nuity upon you, and you can go where you please.*' '' And the girl ?" " You have thought of marrying ? " I have. lam growing middle-aged, as I don't mind confessing to you." " It would be a pleasant change to win the love of a pure woman in a fair way and marry her at the altar, in the orthodox fashion — bridal-veil and wedding ■ march and priestly blessing, and all that. I havo thought I'should like to have a child to bear my name and fall heir to my money. Yes, I have thought of marrying; but where to find a wife? There is not a woman in my circle 1 would call by that title ; and the fair prudes outside of it have been taught to shun me, as a sort of moral leper, whose look is poison. This girl, has never heard of me. She would not be afraid of me ; I could make her love me— you know that. She is honest; she is sweet and refined. She would grace any man's home. She has variety, too, which is better than beauty. More than all, she has tho best blood in the State in her veins. And if I married her—//', mind—l would have her pedigree proved out; I. would let it be known whose child she was. You say you can produce the proofs; I would have you do this, and I would stand between you and prosecution. With the aid of her family and my money and a little diplomacy, I could enter the ranks of re spectability and become a shining moral light—eh ?" " Say, is it a bargain ? Will you claim the girl ? Think over the alternative. Be quiet. The curtain will rise in a moment." She hesitated ; her breast heaving, her fingers nervously locking and interlocking together. He leaned back and watched her under his half-dropped, curling lashes. " You will be wanting money this very night for a fresh supply of opium," he said. She gave him a dagger look, but in tho next breath she said, in a husky whisper:

"I will do it."

'' Thanks. I thought you were a sensible woman. You must put in your claim at once—to night. They leave to-morrow." " But if they refuse to give hor up ?" "You shall back your demand with money—offer to pay those people for her board, &c. The old chap may refuse at first, but he'll think better of it. He has his flock of Ducks to keep up, and itinerant play-acting isn't a lucrative business, by long odds.'' "She will not be willing to come to me." "Naturally; you deserted her, remember. You must explain that, and talk of duty, and your yearning heart, and call up your pocket-handkerchief. You . told me once you possessed the capacity to be a good actress. Show that gift to-night. The girl is young and tender-hearted, and will not doubt you." "Oh ! what a shame to deceive her," Zulimee said in a passionate whisper. " But we will not deceive that young musician so easily," she went on, after a pause. " And he will not take your money. Ho will re quire proofs that the girl is my child, and- that I am a proper porson to take charge of her."

" Then I will bring testimony forward to prove it."

" Whose ? Yours ?"

" No ; I will not come forward at all in the matter. Ido not wish to be known in it. It must not be known that she goes to the island."

" Then how will you get the testimony ?" "As everything can be got—by paying for it. There is a man Who will testify any thing I wish. And he has a well-known character for respectability and morality. He is my paid tool and agent secretly. Openly he holds me up as a warning and takes me as a text on depravity. You can say that a well-known and highly respect able gentleman is here who can bear testi mony to your character and fitness to take charge of your child. There goes the curtain 1"

Thoy had talked without danger of being overheard. Tliey occupied two chairs—a litfcladistanee from the other seats—and die musicianshad played continuously. YcfcMax had not ceased to watch the dark lady and her blonde companion. He had noticed the earnestness of their talk and tho agitating eftect ib had seemed to have upon the woman. Above all, he had noticed how intently they had looked at Kildee.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1887.

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' •— : Dne'ga to Auokl'd. a.m. a.m.a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m.;p.m. p.m. p.m.p.m.|p.m. p.m. a.m. p.m. Onehunga ..dep. 7.5 8.20 9.30 10.0 12.1* 1.0 125 6.10* 6.35 7.15110.50 2.0 10.0 5.3 C "To Fapaua .. PenroMjunc. .. 7.1518.30.9.10 10.10 U2.20 1.1MH436 §5.20§6.45 37.30111. 0 2.10 10.10 5.40 Kllerslio .. 7.20 8.35 9.45 10.15 12.25 1.15 410 5.25 .. 7.«5|11. 5 2.15 10.15 5.4 c "Green Lane .. Remuera .. 7.30 8.41 9.55 10.24 12.35 125 4.51 5.35 .. 7.4511.15 2.25 10.21 5.53 Newmarket Jun 7.35 8.19 10.1 a10.30 12.10 1.30 5. 1 6.10 .. 7.5011.20 2.31 10.26 5.58 Auckland, arr. .. 7.45! 8.53 10.10 10.39 12.50 1.40 5.13 5.50 .. 8.0 111.30 2.10 10.35 6.7 " Change for Onehunga. § Change for Otahuhr. J Change for Waikato stations. a ChaDge for Kaipara Branch Stations i Chance for Mercer and ln'-ermedlate Stations. I Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. MAIN LINK AUOKLAND-MERCIW-TK AWAMUTU-OTOROHANGA. South—Week Days. ' ' I A "*" P.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 11.10 4.15 4.55 5.20 6.30 Newmarket Junction .. 6.10 6.35 7.25 8.10 11.55 4.25 5.7 5.30 6.35 Remuera 6.15 6.10 7.30 8.15 B 4.30 5.12 5.35 'Green Lane * * * » * * 6.15 ICUerslio " 7. 7. 622 6.18 7.38 8.23 B 4.40 5.25 5.45 7.50 Penrose Junction .. •• 6-28 7.0 §8.0 831 12.25 t4.19 5.50 ... , . . f arr. 6.40 .. 8.10 .. .'. -■ 6.0 Otahuhu .. .. | dep- % , 7 . 10 .. 8.41 12.10 4.59 Papatoitoi * - - 1f65 68 .. , „. Manurewa * .. •• J-W 6.22 Papakura 8.0 •.. .. 130 6.37 Drury:/: 7. '7. 7 V. '.'. 8.15 !! 9.25 1.47 558 7. 7. "Rimcirnan 1 " " * * 'Paerata . _ .. .... •• •• .. .. Pukekohe 8.57 .. 9.52 2.19 6.2S 'Buckland * •• •• * * .. Tuakau 9-21 .- •• 2.13 6.43 'Whangarata „ 'A_ •• •• „„ '. .. ••• Pokeno - -. .... 9.16 .. .. B.S 7.0 f arr. .. 10.0 „ 10.35 3.15 7.10 Mercer .. .. | dep 10.55 &40 'Whangamarino .... * "Wairangi •• •• .... « 'Kangiriri .. ...... . ,: «. 'Ohinewal •• •• •;_ ... - . thmtly •• 12.1a 6.20 Wm 7 Z 7 12-30 6.10 .. „ .. Xgaruawahia •• •• 1--*8 6J° -• ... -Pukcte * I "Teltapa • • •• .„„»,- — , t .1 ( arr. .. .. .. 1.20 6.10 c Frankton Junction | dep< c3- q __ ~ 1.30 d6. 55 "Ruk'uhia .. * •• •• * _* •• .. - Ohaupo 8.35 .. .. 2.5 7.30 bake Road „....* •• •• „„_ _* — .. _ N'garoto .. . 8.05 .. .. • 2.20 7.60 .„ . 1 arr. 9.0 .. .. 2.30 7.55 .. ~-',• .. TEAWAMUTIT .. ) dep * .. .U) .. « I] 'TePuhi .. .. ». .. •• •• •• •• 4 "Kawa .. ~ ~ .. ■• •■ •• «■> # Iviokio •■ •• •• ' 'Otorohanga I ■• I m •- 9-° •• I .. North—Week Days. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. "Otorohanga - .. •• dep. .. - .. .. EB.IQ .. v •Kiokio .. — • •• •■• -• •• * '..'' "Kawa — " . "TePuhi ; •• ••■ - •• •• * •• •• .. „, . f arr. - .. .. .. 9.0 TkAwamTJTU .. _ I dep. ~ .. .. .. 9.15 3.0 Ngaroto .. .. .. •• •• •■ •• •• •■ •• •• 3.5 ' Lake Road .. •• •• •• •• ... * Ohaupo .. ... .- 94a .. .. 3.25 "Rukuhia .. - •• " ** •• -• in9 _ •• —*' * Frankton Junction .. \_\ll\ Z 7, '.'. 7. lo!35 7. 7. l.'lO *To Rapa - — •• »• •• •• * +• .-. " *Pukete ........... " -- ~ * '.. * Ngaruawahia ~ .. .. — •• — •- •• 11.30 .. .. 4.43 Taupiri ~ - •• - H-47 .. .. 1.53 Huntly .i'/~.A-, ~7- .v " - •• •• 1i25 i- •*• 5.20 'Ohinowai L. U •• .... ** .. .. * *Hangii-iri — — •• .... .. „ * *Walrtsiigi •• •• •• •• * .. .. '■ *Whangamarino .. .- -• •• •• ...li -..' * ■ .. .. *. ' Mercer .. ..,,„, \gg£ J m / 6.20 IUO 2.5 , Jfe J „ '&* ■. ■; ($& Pokcno .. .'.' - ... 6.31 U. 43 2^6 ..\ _ 7.0 "Whangarata .. .. .» •• — •• __ *_i ' * Tuakau - .. 6.00 12.8 2.12 .. ..' * "Buckland ...... ~ .. Y_ * .. .. * Pukekohe.. - .. .- ~ •• 7-J0 12.31 3.3 .. „ 7.37 *Paerata .. — .. .. — ■ * .. .. * "Runciman _„»...- ~ ' .. .. * Drury .. _ „ -. .. .. .. 7.47 LlO 3.37 .. .. 8.10 "Hmuia .. ... — .. * .. .. - - * Papakura ~ .. 8.1 1.2(5 3.47 U- .. 8.18 Manurewa » .. 8.16 1.12 4.2 * Papatoitoi .. .. .. .. -„ -- 8.30 2.0 4.15 _. '..' ■* - Otahuhu 6.50 8.18 8.11 2.10 4.23 6.20 •'.lo * Penrose Junction 117:15 1118.30 , 18.51 t2.SO 14.36 16.30 17.30 9.0 Elleralie .. .. _. .. *.. 7.20 8.35 8.58 2.35 6.35 7.35 * "Green Lane * * * . * * *' * Remuera 7.30 8.11 9.7 2.15 6.45 7.15 * Newmarket June. 7.35 8.49 9.19 2.55 {5.4 6.51 7.50 9.20 Auckland .. .... .- arr. 7.15 8.58 9.28 3.5 0.13 7.0 8.0 J).3Q t Change for Onehunga. 1 Chango for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. t Chango for Kaipara Branch Stations. § Change for Otahuhu. A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations between Auckland Onohunga, b. Only stops to pick uo Passengers for South of Penrose Junction. c. Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Satuidays only. D. Runs on Mondays and Wednesdays only. E. Runs from Otorohanga on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. The 9.15 a. m. train from Te Awamutu runs daily. v. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, Te Aroha and Rotorua Lines. Cambridge—Te Aroha and Rotorua Likes. ' C South.-Week Days. ; North.-Week Days. Auckland,dep. .. 8 Oil 10 Lichfleld. dep. .. #>. ..^.f'wls ■ '■ ■" ■ — ■ *Putaruru Junction .. .." 7 ~* a, ,_ -r o ..pm. km. *Taumangi .. .. .. * Frankton Jun., dep .. 1 30c7 0 Oxford, dep. ton) Hamilton West _ .. 1387 10 *Okoroiro * "Hamilton East.. .. :....** *Man«awhara .". * Ruakura Jun., arr. 1527 22 Matamata .. ™ !! !! 131 — •— — , *Waharoa 7. 7 *' " * Cambridge Br.— *Walton * Ruakura Jun., dep. .. _ .... 2 od7 30 "Kiwitahi".! * *Mongaonni ..... .. * * Moninsville.arr. " " "2 35 * » I _*" ♦Fencourt * * TeArohaßr. -"llautapu.. .. * * Te Aroha, dep. > .. "8 20 Cambridge, arr. 2108 10 *Waihou .. * " —— . *Waitoa .. J " * " Ruakura Jun., dep 2 067 30 *TatuaoHaua .. " " » " luiroKa * « *Murray's ** "" * "Motumaoho * * Morrinsville, arrT 7_ "95 " Morrmsville, arr. .. .. .. 240S 10 ■• !___ , " __ 7—. SsSSS'S!? K-r'MO Morrmsville, dcp a255 Sls "Eureka .. * . Murray s * * Ruakura Jun., arr. " "950 3so "TatuaoHaua .. .. * * ' *• •• ___y::*-M **}Jra^ ~ •-* * Cambridge Br.- Krohkarr ,l o .*i ?am bridge,dep. .. . 915d25H 10 aioußi Brr 3 10 8 55 Hautapu * # ZZ : ".7. r L "Fencourt .. *" *' * * Morrmsville, dcp _ ..62 50 ... "Tamahere J* • * "Ivnvitahi.. .. .. .. * "Mongaonui .. ;" V * * "WaharV" ." " " " ""l " R^ura Jun, am 7. 7. 455 330 ISara:: 7. 7 y • A^f: '& 3SSte^:^gl Oxford - ill - Hamilton West.. " 10 20 355 *Taumangi' 7 V * ¥ " Yankton Jun., arr. .. ~1025 4 Q SSg: 7. 7 7 :':»» ;; "T—Tis^ * Flag station. ..' a Runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only b Runs on Mmufava to-<»/i„„«j . Fi-idays only c Runs on Mondays, V^-dnesdaye Jvidayi and Sat^dava oX a R?^t daj'^?n 1 d nesdays and Saturdays only. The others run daily featurdays only, d Runs on Wed- A Runs on first Sundays in each month only. i KAIPARA BRANCH-Aucki.a.vd-Hexdersok-Hei.ewsvilli;. I AUCKLAND TO HttTOTlM^WteDgrgJ HELENSVILLE TO Adcu^.^ D AY B . A I ~ ■ — . £ ~ - , »m. am. p.m. n.m I „ ■*■ Auckland .. dep. 7.0 10 55 440 §«1 tr-i _«. , B-m- a-m' P-m' P-00* ( JwewmarketJunci'a 7.12 tl 12 Jl? Isfl «S c ens^l?«„*• aep. 6.20 1L45 4.0 .. \ Mount Kden- ..7.19 11.19 fS. W •?h&'i lle S°Uth ** I I I " "Kingsland .... * * * # | vnirangi .... * * * .. n "Morniugside.. _ * * *w^§*;, " •• * * * •• 1 ♦Mount Albert _ * * • * "Woodhill .. .. • * * .. { Avondale .. .. 7.35 IL3B 6.20 * .wSni™ ' " I t I " « "New Lynn «... * * * « vyaiaauku __, „ • * • .. r "Waikomiti „ .. * * * q ft «^,P e2, « ~ 7.« W 6.0 .. | ♦Henderson ._ .. 8.0 12.5 645 w5 && , " - * * - J •Swanson " . • * * " Waitakerel .. .. 7.35 L3O 6.20 .. | Waitakerei „ .. 8.25 12 32 615 "' gwajson „ .. , * » t .. t' *Taupaki „ 7 * » * " ,^ en,? BrB9B •• ~ 8.0 2.5 5.45 .. | Kumeu ~ 7. &45 1.5 f1.33 " •WwilS " - • I . H ■ *Waimauku . * •' * .ew l^ynn «. » * • * * •Reweti.. 2 .." * • * " nfiSM&li. - -• 3.37 &S2 6.10 ! «, •WoodhiU 7 * « • - .Mount Albert .. * * • * 5 "Paeroa.. _ ~ * * • " 'Morntagside.. .. • * * • *Ohirangl * * « i" Kmgsland .... * * * * » •HelensYille Sorb" * * * "I w°J^ K, den" .. 8.47 2.55 6.24 5.13 _ Helensvme ..^ urr.l 9.40 2.10 gj |g ) IVSSSS**"™? oH, || Hj ffl 8 •Flag Stations.—Trains do not stop unless reouirod VnH™ .i.» S v _. A S « T ■ J. P, MAXWKLL, Genw»l Manaser.



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