KILDEE; OR, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of "The Bayou Bride," "The

Fugitive Bade," &c.

CHAPTER LIU

Notwithstanding the grand Inauguration Ball, the theatre was moderately full. Lottie was late in making her appearance. The manager frowned as she tripped up the greenroom stairs, but she smiled back a him in her half-saucy, half-deprecating way, as she opened the enveloping water proof and showed herself ready dressed for the second act, on which the curtain was about to rise. She went through her part with her usual grace and cleverness, but in the last scene she had a strange ex perience. She had one of those unaccoun. table impressions, visions—warnings—call it what you may—that, though out nature, are yet not of uncommon occurrence, and form the best proof of the existence of a soul, independent of the material organi sation. In the play Lottie had to recline on a sofa, in pretended death, while the villain of the piece enters and goes through a scene of remorse. The lights were low, the orchestra was playing soft, sad music; Lottie lay listening to the actor's impassioned soliloquy. feud : denly his voice seemed to die away—her sense of her present surroundings vanished ; Hazard's face rose before her, ghastly, witli a desperate expression upon it. He seemed seated at a table in a dim, low room, his hand clinched something, she could not tell what, but it impressed heras something with which to take his life. That look of desperate resolve, the haggard despair in his eyes, the clinched hand ! — the conviction was light ning-like—he is about to commit .suicide. So vivid was the vision, so strong the con viction, that she came near screaming aloud. It was gone In a breath, but the impression remained. She could not shake ifc off - v , , The scene was over; it was the last one to play ; she went at once to her brother. " Fred," she said, " did you hear what it was Hazard asked for at the drug store ?" " Yes, I did ; it was chloroform." She drew her breath sharply. " That settles it," she said. " He's up to some mischief, and I am going to him— right now, and you are going with me." '♦' Lottie, are you crazy ?" " Not a bit. I am as sound as a Mexican dollar. All the same, J >m going to hunt up Hazard—l had a vivid warning about him just now—and ypu are going with me, or I'll never tie your neck-ribbon, or call you a darling Puck while I live. Come right on." " You'll wait for the governor and the old lady?" " No; I haven't time even to tell them. She hurried him downstairs and into a waiting hack. "This will all turn out a humbug, and won't I laugh at you !" grumbled the boy. " I'll give you leave to laugh. May be it will all turn out a humbug. I hope it will, but I never saw anything plainer in my life than that warning vision, and I sha'n't be able to sleep to-night till I know it's all right with Hazard. My ! it's rain ing again-such a chilly mist 1" She shivered and drew her dark wrap about her bare arms. She had not taken time to change her stage dress. "Gather up my things, please, ma am, Bhe had said to the good Mother Duck as she flitted past her. " I've got to cro in an awful hurry. I'll tell you aboufc it later. ' " Drive fast," she said to the hackman, slipping an extra half dollar in his hand. In two minutes she was set down at the foot of the stairs that went up over the shop. The street was still filled with music from the Sharon House where the ball was at tye height. Lottie ran up the narrow back stairs ahead of her brother. Some body on the street had told Fred that the rooms on the second floor were all lawyers' offices, and the young man must be lodging on the floor above. The landing of the lust stairs was lighted only by the street gas-lamp, but she made her way to the next flight of steps. When she reached the head of these, she found the narrow passage in darkness. A dim light, however, came from beneath one of the doors that opened on the pass age. Lottie knocked sharply on the door. She put her head to the aperture, and a etrong odour of chloroform came to lier. " Force it open," she said to her brother. "Don't you emell the chloroform 1 Some thing is wrong. There ie only a latch fastening the door, I fancy. Shove against it with all your might, rll help." The door yielded to their strength. The elender iron latch snapped, the door flew suddenly opep, and they found themselves confronted by a ghastly scene , a man seated at a table, his face buried in a blood stained cloth—blood gushing from his arm, a> pool pi blood on the floor. Fred uttered an exclamation of horror, and etood transfixed. Lottie made no out cry. She went swiftly to the man's side and raised his unconscious head from the drug-saturated towel. " It's Hazard ; he still lives, I hope," she said, as she snatched a silk handkerchief from her neck and bound it tightly around ■ his arm just above the wound. Then she knelt by him and pressed her finger upon the lacerated vein. " Throw open a window, and run for a doctor," she said to Fred. He obeyed her at oace. He was gone fully fifteen minutes; it seemed as many hours to the girl. She knelt there in a pool of blood, pressing her finger upon the cut vein, her eyes fixed on toe death-like face that had dropped back on the table. Its pallor contrasted sharply with the blood splotches upon it. Blood! blood every where ! Lottie's heart sank as she saw it. Could he live after losing so much of the life fluid ? Oh ! why did not the surgeon come ? Aα she watched the white face she tt&w a quiver come over it. Suddenly the eyes opened, and looked at her—wildly—then with dljn recognition. He lifted his head, but it dropped again—dropped against her shoulder. She put one arm around him softly. She was afraid to move lest &t ehould jar the lacerated vein and set iit bleeding anew. As she knelt supporting his sinking weight with her strong arm, she held her breath to feel if the heart so close to hers still beat. When she dis tinguished its feeble pulsing, .tears of joy sprang to her eyea. And still the music played for ths go vernor's ball, and the sound of the dancers' feet came, across to the dreary room. Twelve strokes clanged from the city clock. Aβ the last one died away, Lottie heard the hollow sound of footsteps in the passage below. They began to ascend the " It is Fred with ttie Heaven I" whispered Lottie. The next instant she heard Fred's voice, full of cheerful relief. . \ ■■ " Sis, you are here all ngnt, are ypti ? I felt bad to be away so long, but I had a timeofittqgeba4oefcor." ' , '

She scarcely heard him. She was watch ing the doctor's face, as he raised the un conspious head from her shoulder, looked at the would-be suicide and felt the pulse in his wrist, then put his hand over Hazard 3 heart. "Now I will relieve you," he said to Lottie. " Turn that vein over to me and pet Up, my child. You are a brave little girl. You did just what was needed." "But—was it done in time?" Lottie faltered. « Yes—oh, yes ! He has lost a good deal of blood, he will be quite weak for a few days, but he will soon come around." Lottie wanted badly to cry, but she choked back the hysterical inclination and gave her attention to helping Dr. Blye. The half-severed vein was soonskilfully united and bandaged. While this was being done Hazard recovered consciousness. He re cognised the gurgeon ; he saw the blood, the bandaged arm, and comprehended that he had been saved from the consequences of his own desperate net, " Why did you take this trouble, doc'or ? lie asked. "It would have been much better to let me die."

"Humph!" growled the surgeon. "That's v grateful return for a man's get ting , ouc of hie bed to look after you such a nighfc as this ; a still poorer return for a nice young lady saving your life at the cost of adeuce of a cold and a pretty frock spoiled for good." "A young lady! Rid Honor —Oh, no; it could be none but Lottie. Did I dream it ?—or d\d I see her kneeling by me ?" "You didn't dream it—luckily for you. She was kneeling by you, sure enough, in a puddle of blood, holding back the life you had doyie your foolish best to let out. As I said, her pretty gown is spoiled, and she is booked for a sore throat." " Never mind the dress or the throat, Hazard," said Lottie, coming to the side of the bed to which they had helped the boy. "I'm top glad to see you alive to think of anything else." She wa3 blu.hing and laughing through her tears. She put her hand into the one that was feebly stretched out to her and he carried it to his lips. " Doctor, ho is quite cold ; ought he not to have a stimulant V she asked. " I was about to give him a little brandy. He's got too much of this sort of stimu lant in his system already, however. A bottle of hot water tolas feet, a few mouth fuls of some light nourishment and a good sleep—that's what he needs." Lottie whirled about and took a hurried inventory of the room's possibili ties in the way of fire and food. Dame Hubbard's traditionary cupboard was hardly more bare of eatables. A can of condensed milk more than half empty, on a shelf, was all that she discovered. And it was past midnight and raining hard. She looked at the cold, rusty little warming stove in the corner, and said to Fred :

" Make a fire, quick !" Hβ looked all about him carefully, saw neither coal nor wood, and said : " Show me how to make soiruthing out of nothing, and I will." " Don't make difficulties, dear," returned his sister. " Here's an old cigar-box and a blacking-brush and a political pamphlet— what better do you want to start with ?— and I stumbled over a broken chair in the passage." "Oil, fertile brain of woman," sighod Fred, preparing to break up the cigar box. "I supposo she is going to make soup out of a hair-pin." Lottie had found a large-sized empty tin can which she filled with water and sot on the stove to boil as soon as the tiro was kindled. Out of her pretty little satchel she took the half dozen Boston biocuits, wrapped in a white napkin, which she had meant to eat after the play with a glasa of sherry contained in n little out-glass bottle that had once held a heliotropo perfume. She would fill the can that held the remnant of condensed milk with hot water, give it a dash of sherry, pour it over the Boston biscuit and serve hot. It was the boat she could do.

Soon the vessel on the stove was bubbling. Sho filled an empty bottle sho had foun<* with the hot water and gave it to Fred to put to her patient's feet whilo she prepared the toast. When sho brought it to his bed, steaming, she saw his eyes kindle, and she felt, with a pang, that he must have been suffering for lack of food. Ho ate with a relish it did her good to sco ; then ho lay back on the pillow; sho covered him as well as she could ; the hot bottle at his feet was comforting ; and in a few minutes ho was asleep. Lottie sat and watched him. The doctor said good-night; Fred fell asleop in his chair ; the mueio of the ball ceased ; the rattle of vehicles in the muddy street and the dull monotone of the rain wero the only sounds from without. Lottie sat and looked yearningly at the face on the pillow. "Poor white, haggard face," thought the girl. "How ho must have suffered ! Did that Montcalm woman break his heart, I wonder. Proud minx !He is good enough for her or any other lady in the land—hand some, bright fellow that he is. I hate her for Seating him so. It's just as though she had treated Fred or Charlie badly. 1 care for Hazard almost as I do for one of our boys." She knew in her heart that she cared more for him than for her brothers, fond as she was of them. She knew she loved the boy she watched so tenderly through this long night with that half-paseionate, half maternal tenderness and pity which a woman can feel for a man she does not wholly respect—a strong yearning impulse which sometimes saves its object and some times wrecks the woman.

The sun was shining into the uncurtained room when Hazard opened his eyes upon the face of his little nurse. They were alone. Lottie had waked Fred and sent him on a variety of errands. First, to let Papa and Mamma Duck know what h*d become of their missing duckling. They were, no doubt, uneasy; but then they had confi dence in Lottie and in hei capability to take care of herself. Then JFred was to order a, delicious breakfast — coffee, oysters, eggs and broiled chicken—to be sent to Hazard's room ; also, a good nurse and a servant to clean up ; lastly, a carriage to take Lottie back to the Marshall House, where she would undress, drink a hot sanger, cuddle up in bed and be as fresh for the loatine'e as though she had not watched all night over a would- bo suicide and had her lilifcle heart torn with pity for biro.

When he opened his eyes and saw her pale, thoughttul little face (ready, though, to smile 00 him the instant their looks met), he said remorsefully: "Oh, Lottie, you here still! You have not slept at all. What a wretch lam to subject you to all this ! I am not worth it, Lottie. I don't deserve anything."

" Very likely. How many of us do de serve anything? But now let me batlio your face; your breakfast will be here soon."

" What an angel of goodness and charity you are! It's just charitable pity makes you come to look after me," Hazard said wisi a twinge of his old proud repugnance to pity. "Of course it is. lam such a famous Lady Samaritan. Now, sir, you know it's not pity or charity that makes me come to look after you. It's just a motherly solici tude. It!s a maternal weakness to care for wayward children." " But you don't know how bad it is with me, Lottie. lam at the foot of the ladder. I can never rise any more. I have lost everything—friends, and place and reputa tion, hope and talent, if I ever had talent, which is doubtful," ;

" You are an ungrateful boy to say so. You , know you have got talent—yes, genius. Doa't sbak&yOur head, papa says so, and you'll not deny that he ie a good judge, You've got genius, j?eniue can

always rise : if not in one way, then in another. As for your fall to the bottom ot the ladder ; why, it will do you good. You had mounted too fast; your head was giddy. The fall will bring you back to your good senses. It will shake the selt conceit out of you, and bring the manliness to the surface. Oh, it's all right. • Never can rise again—hope all gone ! Don t let me hear such whining from you any more. Go back to your early teachings, sir. Don t shame the curly-headed boy that used to spout from Festus, '" Rouse thee, Heart! Bo* of my life, thou art yet full of spring, Thy quiver hath yet many purposes. Lottie jumped up, threw out her pretty, bare, jewelled arm from the Mother Hub bard-looking wrap, and gave the lines in capital imitation of Hazard's boyish ora- He was obliged to smile, bub the next moment he said, drearily : "It'sall well enough in theory, bub Id just like to know how it is possible for me to rise without any lever of lucre or energy. I've gone now and drained myself of what little strength I had. What am I to do , .' No, Lottie, you ought to have let me com plete last night's business." " I'll give you a trial. If you disappoint me. why then you can make another attempt at your "last night's performance. What arc you to do? Why, in the first place, you arc to lie right here and get back your strength through good food and good nursing. You shall have both, and you are not to worry yourself about the 'fiow of the matter." "Which means I am to content myself with letting a woman pay for ib out of her earnings. I'll not do it; I'll be hunged if-" "Hush, if you please. Just wait, lam nob going to (live you anything out of my pocket. It's just an advance on your pay as second leading man in our troupe. That place is vacant, and papa wants you to fill it. He always said you were a born actor— and could beat Booth if you would. So you are to join us in a week. You'll bo all right by that time. And now not another word. Be quiet and rest until your breakfast comes." He obeyed, thanking her with a look and a kiss upon her little hand. He held the hand to liiri lips and lay siient. He was undergoing a transition. He saw, as in a dream, all hi.s adventurous hopes go down in eternal shipwreck—his aspirations for literary fame, for political distinction, for wea'th, Honor's proud face — all disappearing — go:io —" all but one little faithful hand to which lie clung, ono love that had been hi.s through all slights and coldness and change. Could he choose but love her? He had sworn once he would love her always. Had he ever really changed? He opened hi.s beautiful, sorrowful eyes, and fastened them on the little actress.

"Lottie, there's one chance for me. 1 can rise if I have one thing to hold to you, Lottie, will you lovo me and take me, unworthy as I am, and help mo to make a man of myself '!" Sho leaned over and kissed his lips.

" I accept the trust," she said. Sho remained an instant leaning over him, looking at him with her tender, yearning, tear-filled eyes. Then her quick ear caught the sound of footsteps. She stood up and dashed tho drops from her brown lashes.

" Hero comas your breakfast," she cried, cheerily. (To he Continual.)

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Business Notices. Business Notices. I """' J!fe^^, qYMONDS STREET BOOT FACTORY. Premises lately erected, is continuing the Sale of „ I the balance of the Stock at the same clearing ' B ' r iV > I prices, together with a large and varied assort- " * OPTICIAN, ' I ment of New Goods, which will be sold for cash MaWMMATICAL AND NAUTICAn Ixstrumkkt ' at a very smalt margin of profit. Maker, _ YtEsSsjTO»« I BONES. —Our price, delivered ab the vwm^/ Works. Railway Wharf, in quantities not Always in Stock— %S tf &n£ Spectacles and of every kind; an " . Btahuhu. Bags supplied or returned to Port q. « c sS^ t o fS?Kual«y THE ZEat iv MONUMFNTS Theodolites, Mininsr Compasses. Abney Levels "Wfng Bnrcluiwfl «. ; ™ °. Drainage Levels, Prismatic Corapaeses BB»istkrw,l 4 IN Drawing Instruments, Scales. Parallel Rulers bt£.w TW! Ba me.3 «» ITALIAN AND VKRMONT MARBLES, ships L>R3. Sextant*. Compasses, Binnacles ate that M P^r % toff ,, * and ABKBDJinw GKAXITK HEADSTONES < BaromuiArs, Thermometers, Dydrometers SUPPTv mJ 1 ' * IW mat>titt> ato omnvi- Electric B-sllf, Batteries, and Fittings Burr W THJ3 w T ■ ; M Pine. pptt "X? , **** Prices and Designs sent post free. Country c^r^lt\i^^ZS^ m CELLARS MAI&, orders carefully packed. steam Gnagee and Tubing. Selinometere QUEEN fiTEE* = TAIT BROTHERS Just Rcccived - Monumental Works, corner of Rnrlnnd and Settlers Telescopes, powerful, portable, and Tholareest »«fl iT^ :^ Lome streets Junction), Sett Barometers, strong and good, 25s 6d - w ~ — ~ ~ Settlors' Microscopes, magnifying 1,750 times, Deli™*. AB U N V A R D 22s 6d Miesas usual twicefl.n v • (late Hallett) Also, Steam and Electro Motor Working Models . ; - n^»?%(!«, FAMILY BUTCHER, and Steamers. N.8.-WebetH.,,!^* MA 5^L" fc inetrumentsof every kind Repaired. t^fS^^tf^ Shoul. Mutton, 2Jd „ Corned Beef, 2d to 4d ... ———— : W-- _>* '■' '■■■ ~ r ~~^- : -~—^_ Chops, 4d " ~' Beef „4d and 5d V\SK " r —.'^ ! ?>.-; »-.' Ox Tongues, 2s each Beef Sausages. 3d l/« «. f*DA« i-% Lam!). 2a 6d to 3s 6d Pork „ £d and 6d wMi&M A H per quarter HPliVil 1 Hm I W' wL>W«rwfc/> Sausages Freah Daily. .Families Waited on for i|TOJ 'tn»■■-©)•! M : '"" ■?' / ill AFF ! pHAPF ! /"IHAFF ! j^^P?^^M 9s I 1111 MESSRS bfOJsL JiKUb. - « ~ - - ' ■" S~«JCSi ' (My Agents) " 1 A It A WE. 1l A '■ .^IS WILL RECEIVE ORDERS FOR ABOVE. T> AKIN G OO WD E R VATt"^ , /. , '^ , ' X) Makes Wholesome JL Pastry. XI) 1) P ! AAT J 111 P. ANDREWS, Otahuhu. 1VT AXES A W 1 ? 1 ™ ft mn i:LXr VXID : XVX Sold by _jn the p Trade. T ,O S ~ete y Oßr ' n »«»^oßsCntotft» rh Tfir mrt Mil TT nTTc< vim Manufacturer in New Zealand : ■*• PRICKD SOAPa ft£S^fl*iWlfc J, koaS -f REDK. W HITEHEAD. studytrue ßWNom\& m ,WiS * lOl a£^An£ AU ' Thirty-two years before the En ßl ishpublie. — " f uH effect unlesßtheyinoSft to .««ii»li* W. COCHRAN, SE N R., housekeeper to m eysuoceeduil^ ( s FAMILY BUTCHER. " "DTTTniTfNIm nM ON. BUBJJS'S. Al T> APE R H ANGI NG S. \J Qf\ kTi **• W. PHILLIPPS & SON <TWON. f feUAjt, ; m '\r^6 K zATjr a - what is m v s'-sa^s Containing ■ ' __ " : _■■■ -a-'-:^,:. : 55,000 ROLLS OF PAPERHANGINGS. TTOBSON-st. 1 Ue» k ' A- Consisting of JLJL _ V US|JJ NLY For Drawing Dinin R , Bed Rooms, Hall °' C " IMM |% MllPB« f and .Staircase, suitable for the has 9kM)?&)*J Vvig/ty Mansion or Cottage. P C/AAa Beautiful Designs, and best value ever * r^ REMOVED . /VH^J|Qj|J», offered in Paperhangings. *" n iummmjiii ' & 916-PACKAGES-916 A FEW DOORS HIGHER UP THE Vmt „„ w ~ rf nfH \ unn S nT)TMB .v n 11 f««t a\ T o , in , T , rn ,,. Yon may have heard of it a THQDtan CRIMb AIsD HBbSIANS, STREET, TIMES without using it ONCfti rSI reverse the positionand ' ;,•■. f■ •: ■* ■ Plato and Sheet Glass, White Lead, Oile, And wishes to notify to all customers and _ = _-, T ___ . '•' '■',].'', Turps, Varnishes, andall Trade Sundries. |Jgg Jfjl Q^Qjj W. PHILLIPPS & SON, ALL DESCRIPTIONS OF Y °s J?rwt> it to oOibb a q^UD „„ ,-v TlMJiifa.—rhaye spent Imndraig of mMtii 95 and 97, Queen-strekt. TT PHOLS TE R V TII7"ORK convincing the women dl New ZaBIS II n^'L '^ J -^^ i \/y unft i their labour catt WtpceatiyUghlewSffi ——— Tm-lnriin* BUENS'S Al SOAP <THB WSKffi j. BUTCHEK.J [J. groom Jnoiuamg cutufßWlj, butl have lallenghoittfroii LOO A L INDUSTRY. & c. IOU.' , SPECIAL LINES: -_■'-' Everyone Interested in the prosperity of "a 1 Auckland should purchase SPRING MATTBKSSEB in Hair, Kapok, Flar, r-^/'^T'^-^^^ OCALLY-JIADB SHIRTS AND UNDER. ORD^° C y k MATT R ESSES in Hair , '' CLOTHING. Flax, Flock, and Feathers AYO M • And not imported iwjods. SUITES in Utrecht Velvet, Tapestry, Leather, Sr%y. . im -A* , ~ ... .. and Haircloth VfSR. 'WCd I lrf«©«? '■' SMt^^™fSnSn^detJ htbe OCCASIONALCHAIRSinVariety of Coverings V 9*. jpj|||||| ?, THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING T> ROW N, \ fL\ CmA Q MANUFACTURING CO., V/» A> LfJ--^2-~Slk GREAT NORTH ROAD HOBSON-STREET. ! -n^^ —— " HOME JEWEL WASHING MACHINE wholesale: ' ■ A.- BUCHANAN, by to TT WASHES EVERYTHING, from CUSTOMS STEEB^EASt ms EXOEtLENCy the governor. X LAOE TO A COALSACK; CLEANS ~...- --mHAMES CARRIAGE AND DRAY TKOUSERS without wetting a finger or „_ ,__„ : " --- :^--i 1 FACTORY, VICTORIA.STREIIT EAST k \Tdo&%^T^ett GO t, V ainsint^ & v ma , tjV DG A B AN J) QC and back, and breast, and does a big day's washing -&-* Tivim«! established I&''^ HIGH-STREET, in two hours. ""ya,ffyy,,,, v : AUCKLAND rv Still Dyikq to Liyk xsp LitCT TO Dft Telop --!: 308 ' ■ \ cSRSw«S4i|g r. \ Curtains or TibleGoTCM Cleaned,»m« JAMES MACKIE, Coachbuildbk, m ..JiC s T l L^.,., m n ...,.A .Jμ — n'ved Feathers and Gloves CtewiedMttWM MANAGER. S? uai e . at^o r o^urtainsßle^.r \ HOME til y EDGAR, Dm, Builder of every description of Vehicles. \. rt=ss=ssss jC r,rT™Tm-c™¥M FAST i\D RICH- Repairs in all the branches of the trade \/> Wsm WELLESLEY-STREET lASi._iS9, «v faithfully executed. MONO. COXB CRBBK;. ~ ■ Vchioles Bought and Sold on Commission. ■-__ srD WVL ■ ' : A — ■■ 'rfg , Coachbuilders , Requiaites in Stock. The Trade WfASLmm^^,a&. >l T T> ILEI L L AJf, Country Orders punctually attended to" ~\ : \ ■■ ~,,,,t,v\t n'r'wßmriWi ! Cash Customers liberally dealt with. HUNDREDS OF TESTIMONIALS. . COMMISbiOIS .ALKBV»¥y - , ,___ SHIPPING, CUSTOM. AND GISpV csMsMssrs M. M. LEVY, FiOTß'sßmLDise3,W,^tos«|F i '! SOLE AGENT, ALBERT HOTEL. * Auckland, NewZeausd. IHISHER & OOT T7 SOLE REPRESENTATIVE IS * ! WHOLESALE SHIPPING AND ' J-RON IyURVED FOR V ERANDAS ZEALA ND FOB BROWK AN£ ijff B U T W\ R S <ANY PATTERN, CORK FLOUR^UW— Established 1864. SHORTEST NOTICE —^ BySpeclal Appointment to His Excellency the ' AGENT FOB i£?^K»^ f Ewer fe Co.. Jlusic ««*•»" o^inburgh, also. Kosha to the Sutfcnd Sonsi^g^^^et^ QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. N.Z. AjMHiyim,. T "SorKtoi!lSSß»? ™! FamiUes waited on in Town or Suburbs. „ „« T> l> *. ??r POULTRY of all kinds DRESSED to ORDER, ■ I thb Dealers in Gamo 0 B ppnPERTK Imports of Sausage Casings ' 3 » aoentpfob Iho Trado Su PP»ed ft ? TRUSTEES AND ABSENTEES, N-8.-Calverf Rennets. *■&!!'.',' ..L-U^ aw, tea. Ciietomera SuppUed with Ice. OEORGE S¥1 C CAUL e K F Ol* cop one po Box No< m 1 Manufacturing Plumber, FP" 0 E R||| ONE SHILLING importer op all trade requisites ffw^pfffOSAUvv PACKET of SALSALINE will preserve «/«. f n Q > r. v ctoppt WAST TWENTY SHILLINGS' worth of food. WMXbbLfcY blKLfcl UiA&i I'H^I 1 To be obtained of all Chemists and Grocers, in (opposite New Library), and /~H li Off™ r - ' Is and 2s packets. β-j- t " , f isii f " Wholesale Agent. RICHARD A. CARR, BROWN ft DAVY STREETS, I'HAMES, . GKOtJND UME..,, Fort-street, Auckland. — ztzs, ■■- ■-; ; : HASFORBALB- : ' P^ ffl «>« ~ 200 Corrugated Galvanised Tanks (aMOftedl _ n rr mftj} A O P fl cfl# JTX O W D E N 500 Colonial Ovens (all sizes) , ; %.%&&$!!& )fr- ; H . d n, MBWea ™yiii-p* MAHuRAN ;; ? fc E te pftK WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, gijg ***** QUEEN-STREET. Lead-head Nails. Lead Waanera. Portable ' ' Has now convenienco for making and repair- Ove» 8 , Furnace BoUere. a(jfNT> ing of .Tewollopy and for tho repairs of every Awarded Threo nt pri zeg foPeb iSTe Unea. at B ; X S M^j^B^E-^t description o£ Watches, Chronometers, &c, &c, Auckland Agricultural Show. ' and to further increase his repairing and manu- Largest and beet selection of Gas Globei Iβ : « : ifT - Tj . > factnrinf? deparhnent, ho is disposing of tho Auckland. Vγ . BjSffißßß remainder of his PIANOS at and under coat. As Q. McOAUL is a direct importer tot BOOKBEjMft liaNWW v PersonshavingoldKoldiewellerycanhaveit AO0OP»» Jg^»* rnedo up into now and fashionable articles to t,- K ».-i n to ♦„ t>,*> t™n« Oonntr? "TrnnllNi!B°°Sli& crdcr.ond all tho betterclass o£watche 3 and *"** *"* MSRCHAS/SS* 9^ chroncmotcrarcccivo his personal supervision. ' '- ' ' jna _Rotherhams' Gonuine English Levorain stock. t gfffS^^XnU , Sli l " Jf«^^^''^^wWsS^*^ ftVT A 11 N O C X 7~" B R 0 THE R S» 1 B % r m%^ SOAP :Ji Manuiucwrers Uio Celebrated Extract of liJuo'Alottled, Double Crown, Economic, and fffnnjXaJiiTii COKE, Household, Carbolic, and other Medicina and w - r -^ Toilet Soaps, made from tho purest of Tallows. GEORGE M c CAULf V.-- 1 ;: Auckland. Mannfaotnrine Plumber, and Importer ef «U Beei'RafrlWSiiS&jSjg Egga^^^Sar , Oi lalloW ' WOOl> East (opposite S^tSSS^J^jS riftHE Best "'Gift"for Home friends is Wew Library), and Brown and Davy-street*. JL Brett's Atickland Almanac, containing a Thames. the j»H *T Pictorial Representation of Queen-Btreet, De- ■ ——■"• t°? Q fJi" iri aiia<»»* weip soripUon of the Provincial Distriot, New Quidt T~\ISSOLVED BONE MANURE. — i Roads. 0 , ■ to Ue« Lake. &c. Sk. \J Freez i ng £8, of all merchants. I M1?e ft