A STRANGE, TRUE STORY.

The Langworthy Marriage.

CIAF.Y op THE CASS. In the diary of the case published in our Friday's issue one or two typographief.l

errors occurred in material parts. We therefore reprint the diary correctly, as it gives _ complete view of the case. February, IBSL—Edward Langworthy meets Mildred Long. June, JSS2. —Engagement* entered into. September, 18S2L—French marriage at Caen. January 10th, 1883.—Marriage at Ant werp. March 7th, 1883.—Repudiated at Buenos Ayres. August, ISS3.—Baby born. Now for the dates in the long legal cam paign : — July 4th, ISS3.—Petition filed for restitu tion of conjugal rights. Alimony refused, because of the lie in Mr Langworthy's letter of May ISB3.

July 10th, 18S3.—Snmmons to return to cohabitation posted to Mr Langworthy. August :Mth, ISS:>. —Mr iLarigworthy re ceives letter, and unites the infamous letter not delivered, lest it proved refusal to' return to cohabitation. Persistent silence, j December 21st, 1883.—Citation issued to j appear in six weeks after service. 1884: February 4th. —Citation served. March 4th. - Mr Langworthy arrives in j London and instructs Messrs Bireham to j defend the action. March 24th. - Messrs Bireham take out notice for time in common form for one month. March 31st.—Messrs Bircham's repre sentative applies to the Registrar for three months' or more delay, as Mr Langworthy was abroad, and it was impossible to obtain bis instructions. April sth. —Mr Langworthy discovered a* De Keyser's Hotel by his wife. j April 7th.—Messrs Bircham's representa-1 tive renews application for time, owing to Mr Langworthy _ being so far away. Alfi davit produced showing him to be in Lon-1 tion. Registrar orders answer to be entered | that day. April 7th.—Messrs Bireham enter a pro test, alleging Mr Langworthy was not domiciled in the jurisdiction. May l. r>th.—Messrs Lumley reply travers ing this protest. May 26th.—Registrar decides against Mr Langworthy, and ciders him to enter an absolute appearance in two days and file his [ answer in ten. June 11th.—Messrs Bireham file their answer. June 23rd.—Mr Groves ssvears an affidavit that Mr Langworthy had instructed him in March that no form or ceremony, or pre tended form or ceremony of marriage had ever been gone through. i June 30th.— Registrar orders Mrs Lang worthy to file particulars of marriage. July 24th.—Alimony refused on account of Mr Langworthy's lie in the affidavit. September 30th.— Particulars filed. i October.—Affidavit by Mr. Groves stating I Mr Langworthy denied having ever ad- j dressed Mrs Langworthy as his wife. [ December sth.—Affidavit by Mr Groves demanding postponement for Mr Lang- Worthy's affidavit, which never arrives. 1885 : February 10th. —Interrogatories adminis tered to Mrs Langworthy by Messrs Bireham. March lGth.— Dr. Potts examined on oath, proving the marmge in fact. _ i June 20th.—Case comes on before Sir James Hannen. i

July 7th.—Decree nisi pronounced. August 14th.—Alimony granted, LI ,200 per annum. 1886 : February 10th.—Application to have rule made absolute refused by Mr Justice Butt. March 3rd.—Case carried to Court of Appeal.

[The following Chapters (XXXIII. and XXXIV.), through an oversight in giving out the copy, were also inadvertently omitted from their pro per place in the narrative] :—

CHAPTER XXXIII.

TS THE SERVICE OK THE TOOR.

Towards the close of 1885 Mrs Langworthy went back to Ireland, where she spent Christmas with her parents, cheered by the presence of her little Gladys, the "alleged child," from whom she had been separated almost from its birth. Christmas time was, however, overshadowed by the near ap proach of the date when the six months for which the decree nisi was granted would expire. It was necessary to get back to London to press her claim, and to oppose the demand that the decree should be made absolute. But how was she to maintain herself in town ? All her efforts to procure an engagement as teacher, as companion, or anything, had failed. She was getting desperate, when suddenly, like a light in a dark place, came a letter from the Lev. H. B Chapman, offering her to become re sponsible for LI ft week for three months if she would come to the Mission Home, 152, Camden-grovei North Peckham, where she would have board and lodgings while en gaged in parochial work. Mrs Langworthy had heard Mr Chapman preach one of his eloquent and sympathetic discourses, and she had appealed to him in her despair. He answered her appeal without having seen her, and she at once accepted his offer. She left Belfast on January I, 18S6, ancl arrived, after a miserable journey, at her new quarters, with a severe cold, which so swelled her face as to make her by no means an attractive object. The arrangement made by Mr Chapman did not prove ac ceptable to the lady in charge of the home, who had not been consulted about the engagement, and, to make a long story short, in a few days he proposed to send Mrs Langworthy back to Belfast—the matron, ho said, did not want a woman worker, and the engagement must be can celled. As Mrs Langworthy could not go back to Belfast without risking the loss of everything, she humbly begged to _be allowed to remain in the home, with out wages, pledging her alimony—when she got it — to defray tho cost of her board and lodgings. She had a district given her of ISO families, which she had to visit, and she had to take chargo of a club for girls which )iad been established in the parish. In return for this, sho had credit for board and lodgings until such time as Mr Langworthy could bo induced to pay her alimony. Beggars, however, must not be choosers, and Mrs l_.ng worthy, sheltered at last, with plenty of work, and many loving youn£ hearts around her, was happier than she had be.on since her husband had re uudiated b'H marriage. The work was new, but not uncongenial. Parish visiting in .SouthwujU ia i;oc exactly 'dyl'ie work, but it brought her into ;I<js£ contact with the suflerings of others, and conferred Lhe i;)estiajflble 'joon'of compelling her tp forget her pwp 'orrowij in ministering to the wants of the ooor, the sick and the dying.

By decrees tho Btnuigcnes? w,9,rs pwaj', ifaty she learned to know the people among ivhom her life was spent. To seme of them she: naturally became miich 'attached. 4.mong t!ie:ic there was' a bedridden man of ainef'V-sii, who wn v special' 'favourite, us also was o very amiable blind old man, vith whom she used to while away many a

weary hour by reading and cheerful chat. There were among the ISO families the usual complement of sickly children, and she took great pleasure in tending the little sufferers ana doing what she could to alle-

; viate their pain. One of the many excellent charities in Mr Chapman's parish was the free dinner j for the poorest chiMrren, and it was ever a ! delightfal duty to serve the hungry yoisng-

seers who crowded to be Feel. On one occa | sion.aftot-shehad given them two "helpings lof treacle and suet pudding till round to | seventy children, Mrs Langworthy, sticky ■ and weary, felt as if she for once had had al | most too much of a good thing. Her great? delight, however, was in the ; Girl's Club, whcie she spent every even ! ing from seven to ten. * The institution j founded in 1885 under tho presidency of i Mrs Hone Ooldney; who is a kind of lady \ patroness 01 Mr Chapman's parish, constant lin all good works, and spending her time j and money without stint among his parish - i loners, passed under her charge. There | were 12.3 girl members of the club, and it j was an intense pleasure for Mrs Langworthy j to find herself becoming the centre round ; which gathered the love and devotion of so I many fresh young hearts.

CHAPTER XXNIT. Mil TO TifK UEbT-Ol'-MV-KeMEF DANT.Y. Ai.Tiiorcu Mrs Langworthy v/as thus spending all her waking hours in the service ' of the poor of Scuthwark, she was from j time to time called away to attend courts, and still more frequently to visit her solicitors, Messrs Lumley. In the early spring of this year a great misfortune befell her. Mr Robert Lumley, the senior partner of the firm, who had always been a staunch friend of her* from the time she placed her ease in his hands, fell ill and soon after died. Ho* was succeeded by his younger brother, Mr Theodore Lumley, to whom lie left the duty of seeing Mrs Langworthy through her troubles. Mr Theodore has been faithful to his brothers' trust, but it was some time before Mrs Langworthy could ascend the familiar stair without a "sense of strangeness and of the absence of the man who had stood by her when her troubles were the thickest, and when there seemed no ray of light amid her gloom. There is no place in all London more familiar to Mrs Langworthy than the office of Messrs Lumlev and Lflmley, in Conduit street, which is famous as having been the residence of Canning. The latter fact is attested by the mural tablet which _is affixed to the outside wall, and tradition says that the consulting room of Mr Lumley is the same apartment where George Canning1 used to receive the Am bassadors of foreign Powers in the brief day of his brilliant Administration. Ik is still a spacious room, and the ceiling, covered with frescoes, is much as it was when it looked down on Canning and saw " the flash of his ethereal brow," but the floor is littered with law books and the walls are lined with brief-boxes. A grim and grimy bust of Lord Eldon, perched on a bookcase, serves as a connect ing link between the past and the present. The present occupant of that room, Theodore Lumley, is a much more pleasant incarnation of the law than the soul-visaged Lord Chancellor who pre sides as the tutelary deity of his office, and it was under his direction that Mrs Lang -Torthy continued her unequal fight. It might have been thought that Mr I_uigworthy, having succeeded iv estab lishing the invalidity of tho marriage by which" he had entrapped his wife, would have been content to pay the alimony and the costs awarded by the Court. Not so thought Mr Langworthy. Coolly dis regarding the order and the con ditions on which the decree nisi was granted, he applied, in February, ISB6, to have the decree made absolute. The first move was made by Mr Thomas Wilson Danby, who filed "an affidavit which is worthy to rank among the other affidavits employed as weapons of war against Mrs Langworthy. This affidavit, filed February 1, ISSG, con tained several remarkable statements — made " to the best of my belief." One of these is as follows : - There is now exhibited to me, and marked D, an advertisement, which I am in formed, and believe, was inserted in the "Times" of August 23. 1882, by the said petitioner,™ which is the following words: " Will any gentleman kindly lend a young lady L4O for six months, on personal secur ity?-Miss P., Hamilton Brothers, la, Belgrave-road, S. W." And it was under this°advertisement, to the best of my belief, that the petitioner and the respondent be came acquainted. 'ilhere was not the least foundation for this statement. The truth about this ad vertieexnent has already been mentioned Not one fraction of evidence was ever ad duced in favour of this allegation. It rests solely upon " the best of my belief " and "I am informed "—theaffidavit does not say by whom, but the assumption is that the informant; was the same vera cious authority who assured Mr Groves in March, -ISB4, so distinctly and emphati cally that there never had been any form or ceremony, or pretended form or ceremony, of marriage between Mr and Mrs Langworthy. But no matter though Mr Langworthy*had been caught out in a barefaced lie, that does not prevent Mr Danby repeating his statements as truths always, of course, "to the best of my belief." , , _ But Mr Danby went further. He even ventured to make an absolute assertion on his own authority—which unfortunately was as inaccurate as those statements of his client which " to the best of my belief" were true. Mrs Langworthy in her affidavit stated that there had been as issue of the marriage one child only, Elizabeth Gladys Langworthy. In reply to this Mr Danby swore: — . As to paragraph 6 of said affidavit the said respondent has ngt admitted the paternity of the child i_ Jsuch paragraph referred to. Yet when the case was heard before bir James Hannen, Mr Inderwick, Mr Lan^ worthy's representative, intervened on his behalf, when the judge gave the custody of the child to the mother, in order that Mr Langworthy's rights to the child im>ht be preserved, and the words were adued by the judge to the decree -with that end. The decree nisi concludes thus :— And further ordered that the child Elizabeth Gladys Langworthy, issue of the marriage so in fact had and solemnised between the petitioner and ihe respondent, remain in the custody of the petitioner until further order of the Court, but directed that such child be not removed out of the jurisdiction of the Court without its sanction, and gave leave for further application to bo made. Nevertheless, in face of that decree, care fully framed at Mr Laugworthy's counsel's instance to have his claim to the ultimate custody of tho child intact, Mr Danby swore " tlio respondent has not admitted the paternity of tho child." Another enrious thing appears in the affi davit ot Mr Danby. He mentions as if it were a »tronj» point in favour of Mr Lang worthy thai it is by Belgian law an otlonce pt^tiiahftble by tino and imprisonment for a pgrsoo to perform such a ceremony as that pvex which tha llev. Dr. I'otta had pr, »idad. Bat who gQgftgfd \)h l'^*-* W brpak tha Beltfian low —Articles 199 and Wp af the Code I'enal—who paid him for tbe service, and so rendered neeeasniy tU action of the I'rocureur dv Hoi, who juwwoaed Dr. Tone to his parquet, bm found Bta. thu reverend Doctor hud left the country! u 'ho. indeed, bud &dwi^ MV?h> hand worthy, barrister at law, whose money wiw defraying a}' the eYpense of tnl.i prolonged litigation? Lang worthy waf shameless as he is cruel.

This affidavit of Mr Danbys was a reply | !to an affidavit riled by Mrs Langworthy j i setting forth the salient facts of her case, i I and praying that the decree might not be E made absolute, as the costs were unpaid, J | the alimony withheld, and no provision | I made for the maintenance and education j \ of the child.

Such were the pleas which went before Mr Justice Butt when Mr Langworthy applied for the rule to be made absolute.

[The narrative is continued from our Saturday's issue as follows] -.— CHAPTER XLU. v ECT lAM -VOX A BACHtXOU VICAR. ' Ix Christendom the woman instinctively s eeks counsel from the priest. Whether Protestant or Catholic, the Minister of Christ is the natural counsellor and confi dant of the weak, the lonely, the helpless. I Every one is familiar with some Of the | infinite varieties of tho manifestations of this i subtle but almost invariable law. In its highest development, where the natural

[opportunities of the sacred office are rein i forced by the ghostly terrors of the con ! fessional, the woman becomes the slave of j the priest. In its lowest; form it displays ! itself in the mild attractiveness of the curate or the potent spell which the Dis senting Boanerges exercises over the women of his flock. But, however it may be abused or degraded in its essence, the ascendency of Christian minister.-, over the minds and hearts of women is of Divine origin, and even in its most detestable shape bears some trace of the Creat Ideal which I for nineteen centuries has been steadily j working for the protection and elevation of I woman. Mrs Langworthy is not a woman excep ] tionally amenable to clerical fascinations, ! Rather the reverse. Her solitary attempt to secure assistance of the eloquent clergy man w rhose discourse on "Alone in London" had impressed her as instinct with the genu me pathos of a tender heart was- not calcu lated to encourage her to seek help from the clergy. Her second experience was even [ more unfortunate. It occurred shortly after t her expedition to Southampton and her suc j cessful foray on Mr Langworthy s goods. ! This time she succeeded in making her story | in its broad outlines familiar to the vicar, j from whom she sought advice. Like the | canon, the vicar was most eloquent in the pulpit. When he let himself go there was no limit to the fervour of his appeals, to the ! enthusiasm of his zeal. When she heard 1 him first in a West End pulpit.she thought i that she had never before " *at under" any j one so full of tender pity for his fellow men, ; so consumed by a passion of indignation against injustice, so anxious to do what in him lay to right the wrongs of the world. "Here," she thought, "ii anywhere, Ls a man to whom 1 may naturally look for help and practical sympathy." She wrote to him, and after a time was able to inform him of the facts of her embarassiug situation. At first it seemed as if he were really anxious to befriend her. But after a time the bright hopes built on his early promises faded away. Expecta tions held out were not realised, and it was with no very sanguine feelings that she received a message from the vicar asking her to call upon him that evening. Mrs Langworthy obeyed the summons. It was aftei eight when she reached his house. The man-servant opened the door, and introduced her into the sitting-room. It was a small front rpom : through folding j doors could be seen a small study with a miniature conservatory stocked with beau tiful tlowers by one of the lady patrons of the parish. In this sitting-room sat the vicar, in faultless evening stiit, ensconed in an arm-chair, over the back of which was spread a magnificent fur rug ; in his hand he had a French novel; on the table by his side was a cup of black coffee —he had just dined—and cognac, and by it lay a box of cigarettes. Motioning her to a chair at the other end of the three-feet dinmg-table, he began:— "I've been thinking a great deal about you." She bowed. She had often heard before from the same lips the familiar ex hortations. "Mrs Langworthy," he often said, "there is only one way. It is the way of Christ, the life of the Cross." The words sounded somewhat hollow in her ear. That day, for instance, she had been visiting among the poor in Mr Chap man's parish in the morning. She was on her way to the girl's club, where she would remain till ten o'clock that night. For the privilege of doing this she was allowed I credit for board and lodging at L 2 per week, to be repaid out of her alimony when she got it, and nothing more. What more had she to sacrifice? "Listen then to the •words of a great authority," and going to his library he took up a volume by Lacordaire, and read some passages con cerning the immensity of the sacrifice of the Son of "God. Some sentiment struck her as false, and " I don't agree with that," she said simply. Her spiritual guide bit his lip. He had an impetuous temper, not much used to bit and bridle. He flung the book down, ancl said pettishly, " If that is all you say, then I need not read any more." Mrs Langworthy said, " I did not contra dict you ; I only said that I did not agree with what you read to me out of that book, and that is true." " Therein you are wrong," said he vehe mently. "Bub let that pass. You are leading a dual existence." "How?" "By doing work for the Church while you are engaged in the courts." Mrs Langworthy,with one series of actions behind her, and a new series opening up before her, listened somewhat amazed. "Would you have me give up the parish work ?" she asked. "If I thought so I would tell you," he redlied. "Sir," said Mrs Langworthy, "what would you have me to do ? Abandon my lawsuit?" "Yes," he replied, decisively; "as a Christian, yes 1" Mrs Langworthy rose. " Then tell me, please, how I am to live ? -Am Ito sacrifice my rights and the legal claims of my child, to acquiesce in all the injuries and insults heaped upon me all these years, to abandon the alimony ordered by the Court, the security on which I have contracted debt ? That is what abandoning my lawsuit means. It means giving up everything. And tell me," she repeated, " tell me, if I do that, how am I and my child to live ?" " There is something in that," replied the vicar, impressed in spite of himself by the vehemence of her protest and the dignity of her manner, but, rapidly re covering his self-possession, he continued, " How are you to live ? live by faith !" She glanced quickly round the rooms; her eye fell on the embroidered mantle borders, the heavy, rich plushcurtains divid ing the sitting-room aud study, the exotics . _n the distance, the fur rug, and finally the cup of black coffee, and she replied, "But I'm not a bachelor vicar !" Then, suddenly jumping up, she left the room, and hastened with a heart full of indignation to her duties at the club among the girls of CamberwelL

CHAPTER XLHI

BREACH OE PROMISE-DAMAGES L_o,ooo. The seizure of the goods took place fe April. The question whether or not th»» wore rightly seized did not come on far decision until the following February. In the meantime, Mrs Langworthy consulted her advisers as to what should be done by way of carrying war into the enemy's camp, it is imposidoio, unfortunately, under the present law to prosecute a man like Lang worthy for fraud, When one man cheats

another man out of a paltry «nm of money by a forged cheque or a fraudulent altera tion of a bill of exchange, it is felony, and he can be sent to penal servitude for a long term of years. But when a man cheats a woman out of reputation, however, by means of livelihood,aiid everything that makes life worth having, although the fraud is ad mitted and even asserted by the scoundrel himself as his defence in courts of law, he is not held even to have committed a misde meanour, and hence a rascal like Lang worthy is a member of West-end clubs and of the Temple. Even a civil remedy for seduction accomplished under such fraudu lent -pretences is denied his victim. If Mrs Langworthy had been in service or in her father's house when her husband took her to the altar her employer or her father might by a convenient fiction of the law,- have prosecuted Mr Langworthy for injury done by loss of a lady's services. But as Mrs Langworthy at the time of her engagement was earning her own livinc, she had not even that remedy.

What then remained to her among the arsenal of weapons which tho Legislature has stored for tho redress of wanton injury? There was one, and one only, action for breach of promise of marriage. A marriage in fact hart been celebrated, but the promise, repeated times without number, wis that the marriaerc should not merely be in fact bub also in law. Edward Langworthy had broken his promise. Mrs Langworthy hesitated. She shrank from taking any step that involved the ad mission on her part that she was not actually married in law .13 well as fact. But on the other hand, there was the decree nisf, which at any moment might on payment of-alimony be made absolute, and she would no longer have even a quasi title to a wifely status.

So at last, after many doubts and mis givings, she yielded to her advisers ancl began proceedings against Mr Langworthy for breach of promise of marriage—damages being placed at L 20.000. He was served in South America with notice of the action. As might have been expected, he took no more notice of this than he has taken of anything else. After six months the facts were laid be fore the Court, and an interlocutory action whs entered against him. The effect of this was that judgment was given to the plaintiff to recover against the defendant damages for breach of promise of marriage, these damages to be hereafter assessed. Mrs Langworthy has therefore obtained a judgment against her husband that is decisive as to the fact of the breach. Judgment has gone against Mr Langworthy by default. It only remains for a jury to assess the precise amount of the damages which should be awarded to her as com pensation. Tbe breach of promise case, or rather the question of assessing damages for the breach of promise, comes on, by order of Baron Huddleston, in August next.

Odd as it may be for a wife whose marriage in fact is not yet absolutely an nulled to sue for damages for breach of promise, her position is clear and logical. Either she is Mrs Lan_worthy or she is not. If she i.s, she is entitled to maintenance as a wife. If she is not, she ia entitled to exem plary damages for the breach of promise to give her that status. When dealing with a man like Mr Langworthy, the only way is to rix him between the horns of a dilemma and to take care that the horns are as sharp as possible.

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The extract of beef is most (nutritive and invigorating, while the iron is a tonic lor the blood and food for the brain. To be obtained from all chemists. SHARLAND _. CO., WHOLESALE AGENTS. of rZemoyal. "*" mr. t. trafford, SURGEON DENTIST Desires to inform hi 3 Patients and Friends that he has removed from Wakefield-street to more central offices Quebn- Street, over Mr. Wayte's, Bookseller, opposite Wyndham-street Hours from nine a.m. till five p.m. IT is singular hew blind people are to their ow:n interests, by selling imitations of the genuine Wolfe's Schnapps. EXPERIENCE teaches that Wolfe's Schnapps is more suited to the Colonies than either brandy or whisky. Conveyances. TIME TAB L £ DAVTES BROS. 'BUSSES DEVONPORT TO TAKAPUNA, HURST MERE. LAKE KEAOH, AND SOHOOLHOUSE. Telephone: Devonport Bureau. Leaves Victoria Wharf, Devon port.— 8.20 a.m., 10.20 a.m., 2 p.m., 4 p.m. Sundays— 10 a.m., 2.25 v.in. Fares, Is. Leaves Takapona.—9,s a.m., 11.15 a.m.. 3 p.m.. o p.m. Sundajs— II a.m.. 4.30 p.m. Special Trips can be arranged at Post-Office, Devonport. Ladies and Gext3 SADDLE HORSES, BUGGIES, BREAKS, WAGGONETTES, and conveyances of every description at shortest notice. Expresses meet every boat to receive and for ward luggage of all descriptions. PA TER SO N AND CO., GRAIN MERCHANTS. LIVERY AND BAIT STABLES. Omnibuses, Brakes, Cabs, and Saddle Horses for Hire at lowest rates. Special arrangements made with Evening and Picnic Parties. Stores and Stables:— Lome-street, Mt. Roskill, and Avonuale, Auckland, N.Z. PATERSON'S .USES START _ rom v ictona-street to Mount Roskill—S, 8.15, 9.40 (via otoueyuurstj, 10.30, 11.16 (via Stoney hurst), _s, I tvia Stoneyhurst), 1.45, &30 (via bton-yhurst), 3.15, 4, 4.30 (via Stoneyhurst), 5 (via Stoneynui-at), 5.15, a.3o(via Stoneyhurst), s.loivia Stoneyhurst), 0.5, 7 (via Stonevhurst), 8.30, 10 (via StoneyknrsU. Saturday—l2.3o. From Mount Roskill—7 (via Stoneyhurst), 7_fl, 8 (via StoneyUurst), 8.25, 5.45 (via Stoneyhurst), 9.30, J0.30 (via Stoneyhurst), H. 15, 1^.15 (via Stoneyhurst), 1, 1.45 (via Stoneyhurst), 2.30 3.15 (viaStoney hurst), 4,4.45 (via Stonevhurst), 5.30 (via Stoneyhurst), 0.15,7,9.15. Saturday— 1.15, 2, 0.30, 8.45. J From yueen-street (opposite Wyndham-street) to Mount Eden—B, 8.30, 9, 9.30, 10.15, 11, 1t.30. 12.30. 1.15 (omitted on Saturdayj, 2, 2.45,3.45, 4.15,4.30, 5,5.7 (omitted on Saturday!, 5.30, 0.5. 9, 10. Saturday—l, 1.30. 7, 8.15, 9, 10, after opera. From Mount Eden—7.3o, 8,8.30, 5.45, 9,9.30,10.15. 11, 11.30, lits, 1.15, 2, 2.45, 3.30,4,4.15,5,5.3a 5.45, 7. 9.30. Saturday—o, 8, 9,9.30. From Union Bank to Mount Aibort and Avon da1e—9.15,10.15,12,15. 2 (omitted on Saturday), 3 (omitted on Saturday), 4.15 (omitted on Saturday), 5.15, u'.ld (omitted on Saturday), 8 (Mount Albert only), 10.15 (omitted on Satur day). Saturday—l.ls, 2.30, 3.45 9,10.11. From Avondale and Mount Albert—7,B,!), 10.13, 11.30 1.30. 3, 4, 5.30. a {Mount Albert only). Saturday-2.30,5, fj.3o. From National Bank to New Lynn—lo.3o (from Avondale only), 1.30, 5.30. Saturday—lo.3o. Sundays, weather permitting—lo.ls,o. From New Lynn —8.15, 12.15 (from Avondale only), 3.15 (omitted on Saturday). Saturday— 5.30. Sundays, weather permitting—9 a.m., 4.30. Special 'Buses put on should sufficientinduce men toller. DISSOLVED BONE MANURE. - Freezing Co.'a £8, of all merchants,



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