AUCKLAND'S EXPORT TRADE.

©UK CUSTOMERS ABBOAD

The following are the Customs House re turns for the past quarter : — Vessels cleared at the port of Auckland. —34 sailing vessels, with 6,229 tons cargo, and 4,284 tons ballast, 291 crew on board ; 18 steam vessels, with 20,253 tons cargo, and 1,117 of crew ; making a total of hi entered outward, 30,766 tons cargo, 1,408 crew, and 4,284 ballast. Entered inwards at Auckland.—3o sailing vessels, with 9,300 tons cargo, 157 tons bal last, crews of 255 men ; 20 steam vessels, 24,729 tons cargo, 1,282 crews ; making a total of 50 vessels, 34,029 tons cargo, 1,537 crew. Cleared at the port of Whangaroa. — 5 sailing vessels, with 1,026 tons cargo, o3 crew.

MINING NEWS

OHINEMURI.

Karangahake, Saturday. At the general cleaning up for the Dubbo mine at Railey's mill on Saturday last, the return amounted to 131oz. 4dwt. melted. bullion from the treatment of a 12 ton parcel <m**,.'.\.^tM, ...:..■ a.-'- .• .. of quartz. The amount which the bullion realised was £144 4s, and therefore the all round return took up to a little over £12 per ton, which should be highly satisfactory to the shareholders. Heiteman and party, tributers, in the Woodstock mine, finished the treatment of a 20 ton parcel of general crushing dirt at the Ivanhoe battery on Monday for a return of 31oz 17dwt melted bullion, worth about 48s per ounce. This should be payable, and the tributers have a lot more of the same character ready for breaking out. Owing to.the inclemency of the Weather during the past week, and consequent bad state of the roads, the work of carting quartz from the Diamond mine to Railey's mill has been brought to a complete standstill, and it is not likely to be resumed until a change for the better sets in. The Crown mine is looking very well at present, and it is rumoured that an expert will visit this property during the coming week, for the purpose of inspecting it on behalf of some English capitalists to whom a certain proportion of it has been offered for sale. It is not un likely that a start will shortly be-made by an English syndicate to prospect the Mammoth mine preparatory to embarking a large amount of capital in its development, and it is to be hoped the operations will be attended with success.

Waihi, Saturday. Brown and party, tributers in the Martha mine, obtained 18| ounces of melted gold from the treatment of a large parcel of low grade dirt at the Company's battery oil Monday last, and the return, is just about payable. Everything here is now in any thing but a lively state, and nothing short of the introduction of foreign capital for the development of our mines will bring about a revival in the local mining industry. Next month we hope to learn that the effort now being made to float the Union mine on the London market, has been crowned with success,. The one thing needed to bring this place to the front as a bullion producer is capital—not only for the opening up of the mines, buti also for the establishment of ore - reducing and bullion - saving machinery more suitable to our requirements than that which we have available here at present

MA.BITOTO, Saturday.

Several parties of surveyors are now at work defining the boundaries of claims re cently marked oft here, and Mcßrinn's and Mclsaacs's are two of the claims for which surveys are being done. There are still some disputes about surplus ground in the prospectors' claims to be settled, and after that the title to the ground should be suf ficiently clear to enable the owners to start legitimate mining opera tions, and thereby remove any doubts that may exist in the minds ot mining speculators regarding the permanence of the gold and silver deposits. What with the Dad weather and the elections, very )ittle work of any kind has been done here during the last week, but I am looking forward to a change for the better next tfreek, and before the end of that term I hope to be able to chronicle some fresh dis •everies.

Whangamata, Saturday.

McWilliams and party have been pros pecting for the last six weeks on the eastern water-shed of the main range, where they have unearthed a reef about -4 feet thick, and samples of stone broken out therefrom, when subjected to the assay process, have give» extraordinary results in both gold and silver, the latter predomi nating. This discovery was made about 3£ miles inland of the Whangamata estuary, with which it could be connected by means of a good road at a very small cost. It is located on the northern extension of and about eight miles distant from Mcßrinn's line of reef country. This find is in the Thames county, and the prospectors have made application for a prospector's claim, which will undoubtedly be granted to them, as they are more than the required distance away ftom the next neareat scene of mining operations.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Enterprise at ILakc Takapuna.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—l was very much pleased with the letter from Mr W. H. Shakespear in your paper of the 26 th, and consider he is acting very liberally by offering his own services and the use of" his boats to visitors two days weekly until Christmas. Mr Shake spear has now come to the front, and is doing all in his power to make the Lake as popular as possible. He has also at per sonal loss settled a case that would have caused a great amount of ill-feeling in the district. For this and for the way he has acted in several other matters of local in terest he deserves the thanks of all.— Yours, &c, E. Harrow, Lake Takapuna.

The Case of Mary O'Connor.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,-—As Mary O'Connor is now being cared for at the public expense, her name and her circumstances have naturally become public property. But where and who is the coward who skulks behind, and leaves others to bear the cost of his own mis doing? A father is bound to provide for his child at its birth and after wards, and for the mother for a time at least, and has no right to re pudiate his obligation because it is one he ought not to have incurred. It is the fashion in some quarters to speak _as if the public were bound to relieve men of this responsibility, and thus to offer to those who may be tempted to fall into sin the encouragement of knowing that they will, as far as possible, be shielded from its consequences. In the present case, as in all others of a similar nature, justice requires that the man's name as well as the woman's should be made public, and that he should provide for the necessary expenses, instead of leaving the burden to be borne by others. It Mary O'Connor is to be put upon trial, so in fair ness should the man, wherever he may be, to whose selfish neglect her unhappy posi tion is owing.—Yours truly, MakySteadman Alms.

Charitable Relief.

(To the Editor.)

Sib, —I wish to call your attention to a case that needs assistance. An old man of 76, who has been getting relief from the Hos pital and Charitable Aid Board for some time, has had the said relief suddenly stopped on tho following grounds : That he has a grown-up son and daughter to support him, and that they must do so. Now, sir, how is a son or daughter to support him when out of employ ment? The son has tried all sorts of ways to obtain work ; he tried to get a start at the gumdigging, but the stofeman refused to start him without he had the money, and he came back disheartened. If he could get work he would not ask any one for charity, and I think it a disgrace to the Board to cut off an old man's help at the present hard times, just on account of his son, who cannot help him.—Yours, etc., Fair Play.

Insurance Bates.

(To the Editor.)

Sib, —• "Veritas" makes long windings with side issues, and it is no use in my chasing him about through his long letter. He admits premiums were less when fires wero less, and that companies made a profit then, and he ends up by pretty well agreeing with me. _ He says : "All that companies require is that they shall have an income proportioned to the amount of risk or liability they incur. The fact of a man insuring for only half the value of his building or stock is really in favour of the company, inasmuch as it gives the insured an interest in attending to his property by minimising the danger of fire." We don't differ here, but " Veritas" then points to the sweets of increased tariff there with Avhich companies keep in view, and this, I hold, means increased unpopularity and fires, as dishonest-intentioned do not mind the difference, and insure ashigh as ever they can, the companies having little means of protecting themselves without the neces sary officers. No doubt one cause of fires at present is the hard times, but with half or two-thirds insured even dull times will not kindle them up.- "Veritas " would frighten us with the " Mutual" ex perience, but it acts, the other way to most of the shareholders, I think. I will conclude by asserting what I did in my first note, and what " Veritas " has not attempted to disprove, that the insurance companies are the creators of this heavy tax, and fires would be few only for them, and that great sums would be saved to the country every year if no fire insurance companies existed.—Yours, &c, Insurer.

Little Matters.

(To the Editor.)

Sns,-~Last night several thoughtful citizens had an interesting discussion over a remark able leader which appeared in your paper some weeks since upon the appreciation of gold. The result was that one of their number was deputed to wait this morn ing upon a very fair specimen of our newly-chosen representatives to con sult him upon the subject. In reply to inquiries, he said that no intelligent man who had carefully studied the problem could doubt for one moment that prices were being steadily ground down, lower and lower, not by general over-production— which theory, he maintained, J. S. Mill had demonstrated to be an absurdity — but by a change which was now going rapidly on in our standard of value itself, caused by the enormous demand for gold, since 1873, in consequence of the wholesale demonitisation of silver simultaneously with the alarming decline in the annual production of its costly rival. He frankly admitted that the result was to crush our industries and annihilate specula tion by vitiating all fixed money contracts, and that our foreign creditors were being enriched, at our expense, at the rate of several thousands of pounds a day by the unearned increment of gold. He also ac knowledged that the late fall of 40 per cent, in the exchange of silver currencies for gold was equivalent to a bounty of that amount upon the exports of all silver standard countries, and that our producers were being thus placed increasingly at the mercy of India, China, and other foreign competitors by each successive decline, in the exchange of silver, as gold appreciated. Why, then, in the name of wonders, he was asked, do not our representatives ven tilate this vital question in Parliament ? " Bleps my stars ! he exclaimed in utter amazement. "Do you really imagine that we can afford to waste time in Wellington over such ' little matters' as the industrial depression ? When prices are down another 50 per cent. > and wages are about one shilling a day, and the grass is com mencing to grow in Queen-street, the electors will be sure to get up a roar, and send the House a few monster petitions, and then it will* be time enough to begin talking about investigating the currency question." As you may easily imagine, our deputy hastily wished His Lordship "good morn ing," after assuring him that if such notions suited our representatives now that their seats were secure for another term of office, they were certainly very poor consolation indeed for those who were cruelly suffering already from this growing and unparalleled depression, or those unfortunate ones who had yet a little left to lose.—We are, etc., British Wqek^en. October Ist.

Amateur Opera Club.

(To the Editor.) Sre,-I would like to call your attention and the attention of the members of the Club to the seemingly decided mifirMj or total incapacity on the part of the Com mittee to carry out the duties of their office. Whether it is true or .not* Jj is currently reported that there are three or four drones on the Committee who seem to be satisfied when they see their names on the printed rules. The height of their ambition is reached, and whilst serenely enjoying their proud posi tion they simply act as stumbling-blocks ™ the advancement of the society^and the enjoyment of the members and public generally. , . „ It may possibly be urged as an excuse for the present unsatisfactory state of things that the delay ie caused by the difficulty m obtaining music. Other opera clubs in the Alony can obtain music ; other societies in the city can obtain music; and yet the Opera Club here cannot. _~,.. „,, It is about a year since the Club obtained their brilliant success in "Les Cloches, and yet there is no work under preparation. 1 think it is time matters were brought to an issue, and I trust the requisite ten members will take an early opportunity of calling a general meeting to consider what is best to be done. ■, ~ ... Beinf prepared to request the Committee to worit, or resign in favour of those who have more energy,—l am,

Lamorna.

Retrenchment.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—Now that elections are all over the electors will look to the elected to keep to the promises they have made during their canvassing. Retrenchment is required in many ways, but not wholesale blundering retrench ment which reduces all round at a uniform scale regardless of the many qualifying circumstances, such as length of service, ability, difficulty of work, standard of pay, etc., but a discriminating retrenchment, based on tho public useful ness of the department and the servant. A reduction of 10 or 20 per cent, all round will not create a large saving in the ex penses of the Government, and will further tend to stifle ambition and increase indif ference, whereby the public will lose moro than they gain by tbe reduction, lt is well known that Civilservants inNew Zealand are paid less salaries than the Civil servants of England or the Australian colonies, and less than clerks doing similar work in large offices, such as banks, etc., so that a reduc tion comes all the harder upon them. It is often forgotten in the blind cry for reducing the salaries of Civil servants that they have a grievance as well. Entering the service some twenty or twenty-five years ago, they did so under certain conditions, such as that they were not to engage in business in any shape or form, so they were debarred from making any money outside of their' own work, and, of course, could not enjoy the benefits of the good times which those engaged in trade nave had the opportunity of doing. But now, when the bad times come, they are ex pected to share in that—somewhat of an injustice, I think. Ever since 1870, when pensions were done away with, tho hopes held out to the Civil servants have not been fulfilled. Thoy, as a class, have to bear the same taxes as other people, and yet they are subject to a special tax into tho bar fain of 10 per cent, off their incomes, t is far better to do away with men alto gether than to keep up this tinkering way of meddling with their salaries periodically. Can't someone propose to do away with or cut down useless or ornate departments, such as the museums, with their directors, assayers, etc., costing the country £10,000 per annum; the Defence Department, costing £250,000 ; the Registrar-General's Department, costing £10,000; and the audit Department, which costs another £10,000 and only checks work which has been gone over tboroughlybeforereacbingit? The Land Department might safely be cut down. It costs the country £160,000, and its revenue does not meet half of the expense. The Railway Department is also a large source of expense, and large savings could be effected by doing away with small country stations, and allowing the fares and freights to be paid to the guards. The Native Department could also be very much re duced, and the Printing Department. The printing of the members' speeches is of little value, and there is one other way to reduce this establishment, and that is by reducing the number of members and consequently the number of speeches. There remains one more way of reducing the expenditure which will show the public spirit which actuates mem bers, and that is to reduce the honorarium, and especially that of tho members of the Upper House, who have no election ex penses, and whose expense for living in Wellington for four months it is ridiculous to suppose, amounts to more than £100; and if it does amount to more, is nothing less than extravagance.—l am, etc., A Toiler.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, MONDAY, OCTOBER | 1887

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EXPORT TOTAL VALUES FOR QUARTER KSDIXG SEPTEMBER 30. N.Z. Value. Foreign Value £ & United Kingdom .. 44,599 .-. 1192 New South Wales .. 4,679 ... 1,670 Queensland .. .. 2,244 .. 175 South Australia .. 1 •• ;*> West , 718 .. 2( Norfolk Is;and.. .. 710 „. 1.109 Fiji 4,906 .. 2.302 Mauritius .. .. 31 .. — Singaporo .. .. 3a .. — Hong Kong .. .. 525 .. 30o

Foreign N.Z. Produce. Produce.

Italy 40 Germany 682 .. — U.S., East Coast .. 91,b67 .. 137 U.S.. West Coast .. 3,125 .. 25,397 3S :: :: :: 5" :: » Brazil 2o .. — Friendly Islands .. 2,404 .. 1,808 Savage Islands.. .. 4 .. 60 Navigators .. .. 1,820 .. 2.887 Cook Islands .. -. 832 .. 1.471 Society Islands.. .. 1,135 .. 1.488 Sandwich Islands .. 54 .. 8 Suwarrow _. .. 23d .. "ri 1 Balier Island .. .. 101 .. 60



IMPORT TOTAL VALUES, QUARTER ENDING 20TH SEPTEMBER.

Prime Entry. Bonding. £ £ United Kingdom .. 190,136 .. 26,543 Victoria .. •• -. 10,163 .. 3,484- Now South Wales .. 96,519 .. 3,353 Queensland _. .. ,,,1,165 .. — South Australia .. 1* ■• 'u Tasmania 3.395 ■- — Norfolk .. 302 .. 4 Si :: :: .. 2,609 .. 25,22s Cape Colony .. .. 50 .. - Hongkong .. •• 1.609 .. 3,574 Bengal .. „ .. 346 .. 995 Canada .. .. .. 314 .. 78 Ceyloa .. .. .. 20 .. - France ..-...— •• *•*» Spain — ■• 1*5 Portugal - •• .1*5 Germany 1.205 .. 1,367 Belgium 63 .. — Holland - •• .226 U.S., East Coast .. 4,556 .. 2,673 U.S., West Coast .. 4,637 .. 360 China 807 .. 11,621 Japan 264 .. 920 Java - •• i *' luy Friendly Islands .. 114 •• — Savage Islands.. .. 293 .. — Navigator Islands .. 18 .. —• Cook Islands .. .. 2,686 .. 90 Society Islands .. 1,566 .. — Sandwich Islands .. 5 .. — Kermadec Islands .. 8 .. —



Wicked *or Clergymen.—"l. believe it to be all wrong and even wicked for clergymen or other public men to be led into giving testi monials to quack doctors for vile stuffs called medicines, but when areallr meritorious article is made up of common valuable remedies known to all, and that all physicians use and trust in daily, we should freely commend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily commend Hop I Bitters for the good they have done me and my friends, firmly believing they have no equal for family use. I will not be without them. —Rev. -. Washington. D.C.U.S.A- Architects. p. HERAPATH, F.R.1.8.A.J [S t p BfERAPATH PH ERAP AT H and S0 N, • ARCHITECTS, Colonial Bank Buiidingb. "PIDWARD BARTLEY, ARCHITECT, STICHBURVS BUILDINGS, QUEEN-STREET. MR, P. F. M. BURROWS, ARCHITECT AND BUILDING SURVEYOR. 317. Victoria Arcade. T^DWARD MAHONEY AND SON^ ARCHITECTS, Queen-street, Auckland. WH. SKINNER AND SON, • Builders, Carpenters, and Joiners, Vulcan Lane. Allßranches of the Building Trade executed by Experienced Workmen. ShopFronte, Office Fittings, &c. ■^nrriLLiAM errington, M.lnst. C.E..M. Inst. M.H., CONSULTING ENGINEER, AUCKLAND. HOLROYD AND LONGBOTTOM, GENERAL WOOD TURNERS. Albert-street, Auckland, opposite V.M.C.A. Rooms. Bandsaw Cuttings, Carvings, Arohitraves, and Fretwork done at Lowest Rates. Table, Chair, and Sofa Legs, Bed Posts, Drawer Stumps, etc., always in stock. BILLIARD BALLS RE-TURNED AND STAINED. A Trial is Respectfully Solicited. A FEW GOOD ARTICLES FOR SALE CHEAP. Best Coffee and Milk, is per tin, usual prioo, la 3d; Best Tahle Salt, 6d per bottle, usual price, ?d; Morton's Fruits, lid per bottle, usual price, is 2d; Best Preserved Ginger, 8d per lb, usual price, lOd; Large Bottle ISngliah Sauoe, 7Jd, usual price, Is; Fry's Eating Chocolate, 4dpor packet; Peaohes, Plums. Quinces, Pears, lOd per tin. at EARLE AND MONTGOMERY'S. Karangahape Road. ;r-?T QORN MANURE.-FreeingCo.'s. l £B, pfajl merchants. T**i



LITERARY COMPETITIONS THE STAR CHRISTMAS FUMRER. PEIZE STORIES, ETC. With a view to encourage the cultivation of Literature in New Zealand, and at the same time provide additional attractions for the SPECIAL CHRISTMAS NUMBER the Proprietor of the Star has this year resolved upon offering the following Prizes for competition:— No. 1. Christmas Tales. For Tales not exceeding in length three columns of the Star, having* special refer ence to Christmas-time, and having tho scene wholly or partly laid in New Zealand, the following prizes will be given :— Ist Prize - -'■•'•- - £3 0 0 2nd Prize, handsome Volume on New Zealand, value - £2 0 0 No. 2. Ladies' Competition. For Talesnct exceeding two columnsof the Star, written by ladies only; and having for subject the love, devotion, self-sacrifice, or heroism of woman, prizes will be given as under:— Ist Prize - - • - £2 0 0 2nd Prize, Handsome Illustrated Book. No. 3. Juvenile Competition. Open to Boys or Girls under 16 years of age, for the best DESCRIPTIVE SKETCH Of New Zealand Travel or Scenery; and for the best narrative of NEW ZEALAND LIFE AND ADVEN TURE (True or Fictitious), Each in length about one column of tho Stab, the following prizes are offered :— Descriptive Sketch. Ist Prize, Handsome Book on Maori War (illustrated) - - £2 0 0 2nd Prize, Handsome Book 010 0 Narrative. Ist Prize, Handsome Book on Maori War (illustrated) - - £2 0 0 2nd Prize, Handsome Book 0 10 0 N 0.4. Conundrum Competition FOB THE BEST CHRISTMAS CONUNDRUM A Prize of a Handsome Volume will be given. No. 5. Humorous Competition. FOR THE BEST ORIGINAL HUMOROUS ANECDOTE Of New Zealand Experience and Character, not exceeding in length 60 lines of Star News type, a Prize of a Handsome Book will be given. GENERAL CONDITIONS. 1. Each competition is open to all New Zealand. 2. All contributions must be original, not previously published, and written legibly on one side of the paper. 3. Communications must teach the Star Office not later than 15fch November, and must, in every case, be accompanied by the name and address of the sender, which may if desired be enclosed in separate sealed envelope, marked outside with a motto corresponding with the norn de plume attached to the competition article. 4. Competitors are requested to address theircontributions, "Christmas Competition (No 1,2, 3, 40r5, as the case may be), Star Office, Auckland." 5. The Proprietor of the Star shall have the right of publishing any of the contri butions sent in. 6. Rejected MSS. will not be returned unless the author makes written application for same, enclosing amount of postage.. 7. The prize stories, etc., with the name and address of the writers attached, will be published in the Star Christmas Number for 1887. 8. Competitors are invited to send pen or pencil illustrations with their papers; but this is not obligatory, and compliance or non-compliance with the reajuest will not affect tho judging. FIVE COMPETITIONS! OPEN TO NEW ZEALAND. HUMOROUS 1 SENTIMENTAL! • DESCRIPTIVE! Adults ! Juveniles ! Ladies ! THE STAE CHRISTMAS COMPETITIONS. N.B.—The Awards will be made and the Prizes forwarded so as to reach the winners by CHRISTMAS DAY,



Insurance GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT. " 1880. 1885. Surplus Cash Profits .. - £73.670 £245,3W Cash Divided as Bonuses .. mm £150,000 Total Reversionary Bonuses added to c£hße°s BerveProfiteinißßs 7 7. £95,315 Annual Income in cannon Total Funds .. .- -_ •■• •• £I.<™,UUU STATE SECURITY. LOW PREMIUMS. LIBERAL Conditions. Economy. Lowest Premiums.—These are the Lowest in the Colonies. _~ .... ___^j„ Liberal CoNDiTioNS.-Tho conditions are in all respects most liberal. . Prompt Payments.— Claims are promptly paid on proofs of deaths and identity, and valid Economy.—The ratio of expenses to income is far lower than that of any other ofhce of similar age doing business in the colonies. SEPARATE SECTION FOR TOTAL AB STAINERS.- The only Life Offlcc m New Zea land which offera to Total Abstainers the advantage of a Temperance Section. I CKNS QM MORTGAGE. — From time to time a limited pordon of the Funds is Lent on First Mortgage of Freehold Security, with op tion of Re-payment by Instalments. Information can ba obtained at the Mead Ollice, and all Branches and Agencies. D. M. LUCKIE, Commissioner. New York Life INSURANCE COMPANY. Cash Assets, Ist January, 1887 .. £15,518,817 Income for 1886 £3,956,874 Local Director: C. C. McMillan, Esq. (Messrs W. MoArthur & Co.) Solicitors: Messrs Russell & Campbell. Bankers: Bank of Australasia. Policies issued guaranteeing tho return of all Premiums in addition to the sum insured if death occur within a twenty-year period. J. HUGO HARROP, Resident Agent. ■\TBW ZEALAND INSURANCE COM- J3I PANY (EIRE AND MARINE). Capital £1,000,000. Paid-up and Reserve Funds £135,000 Protection from FIRE or MARINE LOS 3 Can be Effected in this Company. CLAIMS MET WITH PROMPTITUDE AND LIBERALITY. JAMES BUTTLE. Manager. Furniture. AT 0. C. BROWN'S, Cook and Hobson Streets. ANY FAIR OFFER ACCEPTED For Balance of Stock. Still a Large Quantity of Firstclass Upholstery and Furniture JFQR SALE. I have instructed Mr E. Leydon to sell Balance of Stock by Public Auction on October 10. . C. C. B ROWN * COOK AND HOBSON STREETS. Tailoring. EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS B y#S-UITS% I X W to N§N § g; MEASURE. (-3 S 8 -—« o ___\ g. g 50, 56a. 60s. g§! g I 65* 70s. 755. * H I 8 80s. Sss. 90s. § < Uq ay H. ROBINSON, Tailor, Jt * P NKsiv corner of /@y 2 5 N$V CooK & Grey Sts. j/s7y 9 I \ir I grey streets. I \f EXTRA PAIR OF TROUSERS Business Notices. A DV IC E TO LADIES. The Ladies of Auckland are now casting about for their new SPRING AND SUMMER DRESSES. The two considerations that weigh of most importance may be said to be—Pick and Price. A word of timely advice, therefore, may not be out of place. Look around well before buying. Dozens of Ladies select at first sight only to disappoint themselves by seeing an article a few days after that,would be much preferred and often at a lower figure. For instance, a lady remarked only a couple of days since, " Did you see that charming and magnificent lot of prints at Abbott's in Newton ? I feel quite vexed that I have bought." These were the actual words uttered, ana we fear will be the sentiments of not a few, as they review the stock now showing at the above-named's establishment. In refer ence to which R. H. ABBOTT & CO. wish to say that they have searched the markets in every direction to enable them to place before their patrons a choice, profuse, and unwearying variety of Prints, Hats, Bonnets, and Summer Goods in general, all at as reasonable a figure as it is possible for. them to be got for money. We have now over 1,000 designs in new Prints, and our Stook will be replenished by Novelties by each steamer. Wo further beg to inform our well-wishers that, notwithstanding the un dented badness of the times, our trade shows an increase of from 50 to 70 per cent, month by month upon last year's trade. This is a great proof to us of public encouragement of our endeavours to place before the public an EXCELLENT VARIETY OF GOODS at the Lowest Obtainable Figure for Cash, and encourages us to still further efforts on behalf of our patrons. It has never been a part of our policy to deceive the public in the slightest degree by largo advertisements announcing bogus reductions, etc. If we announce a Cheap Line, our customers can bear us out that it has never been over-described. We hope this season to open out from time to time Lines as Astonishing as Heretofore, of which announce ment will be given. Besides offering Good Value and a Splendid Assortment of Beiges, Prints, Millinery, and Season Goods in general, we have Just Opened a Job Line of Boys', Youths', and small Men's Flax Shirts of Good Quality, at Is. each. The regular value of these is fully from Is. 9d. to 2s. 6d., at R. H. ABBOTT & CO., Karangahape Road, and Upper Symonds-street TT ESS THAN WHOLESALE PRICES? One Pound Packet of good China Tea, 6 Pounds good Fiji Sugar, and 1 Dozen Boxes Swedish Matches for 2s 6d at— EARLE AND MONTGOMERY'S, Karangahape Road. ÜBLIC NOTICE.— If you want a Waterbury Watch go to J. H. Dalton, Tailor, Victoria-street East, and order a Suit, and he will give you a Watch for Nothing.



Eusiuess Notices. WATERBURY Watches for NothW at J. H. Dalton's. Tailor, Victoria-street East. ARNOCK BROTHERS, Established 1862 SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS. COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Extract ot Soap, Disinfectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medicinal and Toilet Soaps, made from the purest of Tallows. &c. Offices-DURHAM-STREET, Auckland. N.B. — Cash Purchasers of Tallow, Wool, Sheepskins, and Bones ! ""VTOW is your time : A Waterbury Watch, JAS an Extra Pair of Trousers, or 10 per cent., with each Suit, at J. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Vic toria-street East. J7"""H ° w D E_s; WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET, Has now convenience for making and repair- j ing of Jewellery and for the repairs of every description of Watches, Chronometers, &c, &c„ and to furthor increase his repairing and manu factoring department, he is disposing of tho remainder of his PIANOS at and under cost. Persons having old gold jewellery can have it made up into new and fashionable articles to order, and all the better class of watches and chronometers receive his personal supervision. Rotherhams' Genuine English Leversinstock. T>~A JP B X HAN GIN G S7. W. PHILLIPPS & SON HAVE RECEIVED, EX LATE ARRIVALS 185—PACKAGES—185 CONTAINING} 55,000 ROLLS OF PAPERHANGINGS, CONSISTING Off NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bed- Rooms, Hall aai Staircase, suitable forth Mansion or Cottage. BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. AND BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED IN PAPERHANGINGS. 916 —PACKAGES—9I6 SCRIMS AND HESSIANS PLATE AND SHEET GLASS, WHITE LEAD, OILS, TURPS. VARNISHES, AND ALL TRADE SUNDRIES W. PHILLIPPS & SON, 95 AND 97, QUEBN-STBEET, '//JThe American COEN BROOM CO. EXMOUTH STREET. , P. O. B. 284] [high-street & CUSTOMS-ST. w. MANUFACTURERS' AGENT AND WHOLESALE GLASS MERCHANT. ORDERS INDENTED. GOODS IMPORTED DHUECT. QUALITY GUARANTEED. Window Glass Plate Gla«3 Wire Nails Portland Cement Chinaware Havanna Cigars, etc. FOR SALE, 1.000 CASES WINDOW GLASS (assorted size "VTOW is your time: An Extra Pair of J3I Trousers or a Waterbury Watch with each Suit, at J. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria street East. OSBORNE AND LEVOI, CHEAP UMBRELLA REPAIRING DEPOT, 314, Upper Queen-street. All Ribs, 9d; Sticks, from Is. China and Glass neatly ri vetted. Cutlery of every description Ground. Sawa Sharpened and Sok "TVTO Bankruptcy, no Burglary, no Fire ; _Ll but the choice of two things —an Extra Pair of Trousers or a Waterbury Watch.—J. H. Dalton. Tailor, Victoria-street East. T~"o TRAVELLERS AND TOURISTS. PRESENTS FOR HOME.- Very beautiful Inl ai d Table-tops, Cabinets, Fancy Boxes, etc., ail made from Hie pick of N.Z. rioh Native Timbers. Other Collections carefully packed and shipped for Home. W. NORRIE, Cabiketwohkee, In New Zealand Timbers only, TOP OP SHORTLAND-STREET^ EDWIN JONES (LateE.andA.Jones>, House, Furnishing, and General IRONMONGER, Ponsonby Road and Pompallier Terraca. Auckland, N.Z. Agentfor tho Phoenix Firo Office. Advertisement Agent for Auckland evening Star. Post Office Savings Bank, Money Order Office. Telegraph Station, .telephone Buaeau. _ STILL'S Milk Bread, Milk Bread, • sweet and nutritious, and Farm House Home-made Bread, Milk Scones and Cakes delivered daily, and can be had at the Burlingtou Victoria Arcade, and at Eden Terrace, or at the Bakery, Udy's Farm, Mount Eden. Agents Wanted. ;- , , . — RICHMOND HOUSE PUNSONBY ROAD, AUCKLAND. W. COCHRAN, S.B*> FAMILY BUTCHER. -jVT O N U JN M E N T S ITALIAN AND VERMONT MARBLES, AND^ABERDEEN GRANITE. HEAD STONES IN MARBLE AND STONE. Iron Tomb Railings at Moderate Prices. Prices and Designs sent post-free. Country orders carefully packed. TAIT BROTHERS, Monumental Works, Corner of Rutland and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction), Auckland. QA PHOTONS, BUGGIES, WAGGONETTES AND TWO . WHEELERS, AT LOWEST PRICES. The Cheapest and Best ever offered to the Auckland public. COUSINS AND ATKIN, ELLIOTT-STREET. •■■r.» . ' ' ' " J. BUTCHER.] [J- GBOOM. j OC AL INDUS TR Y. Everyone interested in the prosperity of Auckland should purchase OCALLY-MADE SHIRTS AND UNDER CLOTHING. And not imported goods. See that your draper supplies you with tbo best article!, whioh are mado by THE SHIRT AND UNDERCLOTHING MANUFACTURING CO., GREAT NORTH ROAD CHOOSE for yourself. An Extra.Pair,of Trousers or a Waterbury o^_^_fß each Suit at J. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria st. East. Suits, 50s, 60s, 70s. — WEDDING CARDS.-Latest- Style M the Star Lithographic Work* Short. and-street, Auckland.



|t at«lMrv^ rW^Ve£s^ 1 eh aseof'oYeVr^-^^iSfee, 1 Auckland orsnh^S; ber 28th, 1887. mam »k% Port-atjjS*Sßt2 tSLssssitT p° * Safe Shortland-street ' ifPfe* and £160; also £7rm. eSmn^£iS opposite Bank otNmrzSSlS^ Qaeas* M3SE2asgffga atom ot yoars.-S 0B^H1«Q i of New Zealand). QaeenStSte^ LBANK OB* JSNGLAND Utrrm Pit.»;-"'"*«' ONDON MORTGaLTS^V DISCOUNT BAkff^':ASl> (Opposite A. Clark and^WaS 11 And Little ColUne-suaS^ LOANS are advanced from £10 to £5$ Personal, Freehold, aSd*Leasehold Sec* Advances made on Furniture without rawnl and all classes of Merchandise. ' Loans granted upon Life Policies, Legacia«jJ ,:■ Interests under Wills. bills Discounted at CfcRREKTRAm Loans upon Deposit of Deeds. Ra»Slr . _ Easy Instalment!!. m "^*i Advances on Lite Polices MONEY LENT ON PROMM NOTES.HOUSES, fusnbpS BILLS DISCOUNTED DAILY, i -MORTGAGES NEGOTIATED J JOHN W. HAEDIE, LAND,*COMJCBBIOTr, amp MmiMi I QUEENSLAND MORTGAGE, WSJ AND DISCOUNT BANKING COMPAW, Daeby-stheet (offQneawtl, AUCKLAND. Head Office: BKHBisi. Agencies: Auckland, Sydney, ami JUta, Money advanced from £5 gndupTHdiH any amount required, to suit th* tasis, upon Personal, Freehold, Leasehold, ornf Tangible Security, repayable fit any mj« may be arranged, either Weekly, Monir,« Quarterly Instalments, attowstcnirentnto Advances made on Ftnaflaw trithwU moval; also on all kfn&r of MercWn including Bond Warrants, etc. Bills Discounted at ennentratat Interviews and commmicata&^to W||| strictly confidential . Office Hoars: Frontloffliso'cli)£ Jp) ART HU R Q 0 sTsk LANDAND MONETAItI AGENI 1 24, skobxuhmiebk j, (Three Dears past Star Oftal. j I am prepared to valneland fe **seßl'L'li the country fo* intends* pmsasersaJ*<JH reasonable terms. AttJandso&byOTH^ j| land I charge2jper cent camaM'ft' || I am prepared to Mgott* ■*#*** Advancesnuwteaa GtaWw* »*»* PdHciea. Having AgeutsviuaU "partsof Austell England. fc^^ ■VTEW ZEALAND MOBW&^ j^ AND DISCOUNT BANK, (Next to Atkins Printto*offi«L GRANTS LOANS,£S TO-£W PERSONAL^EC^Rm'^jjBi FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD SOW* FIRST AND SECOND MOBTQAGE, ANyAVAIL^LESECUBHT Bills Discounted at Current R^* This Bank will receive Deposits mm* ing rates of interest:— sper*^ 12 months ■ fperpflif. 6mouths, •• •• " bvaofit B AKDMSCOnNTBAKI, _ **r ~ '■' ■' fjdt** jlepaymente p er Week. jepjjw* extending over lyear .-. •• « l«| 2 years.. •• *.V_ 113» .g fours;.. •• g}} $ lfl 4 years.. •• gjj-g |». 5 years.. .. .g *g 9 , J*.J| | 6 years .. •• S u , ljj !} If •ayears-. •• 6 3 Jfii-^H 10 years.. ■ ■■_ Ll—^^jf The Boardhas PO^S'S PaP> cB* 1 Jay ofrbis mortgage; %*s'%„&>* il . £is property subject to w -ffICIJB Society. , nTTWIB w.STEEET ano |f Cornor of QUEEN***" n DANE^Auckl^g^jc^^ AoPEKAgJ^X,. Bepa ymentse X fend-perWeek. reP»^| "■ v ing over : __^—- -^|& j ■ " £2 0 0 Joe'if I lyear -. •• £f 010 ft* I 2 years « - 0 « .J 121, I 3 years.. •• .0n 8 | 4 years .. ••■ o8 ? jflgji . 6 years .. •• o1 I ltfj^H 8 years.. o \AaAaZM 1 "^^^^^^celro.^ I