ARRIVAL OF THE ZEALANDIA WITH THE ENGLISH AND AMERICAN MAILS.

THE GREELY POLAR EXPEDI TION-

GHASTLY RETAILS.

Some additional and more ghastly facts have recently been communicated to the Chicago Press, relating to this ill-fated ex pedition, by Captain Norman, a Newfound lander, and ice-master in two United States Polar exploration parties, on board the Nep tune and Protons. According to a des patch from Chicago, on the 14th of August, Xorman is a man about 45 years of age, of line physique, and bears the marks of great exposure t(. vAhA and weather in his coun tenauce. Captain Norman was ice-master «i the Proteus when it bore Greely and his !>arty to Lady Franklin Bay in 1831, and lie held the same position in the Neptune, under the command of A. M. Beobe, tho following year, when provisions were cached at Cape Sftbino. He did not accompany the Proteus and Yantic in 1883, w hen the former foundered, owing to the jealousy of the American Consul fit St. John' 3. Ho was a member of the iinal relief ex pedition, however, and acted as ice-master of the Thetis; which was the flag-ship of the email squadron. To him belongs the honour «f being the first to discover the starving stiffcrerp, and in facti be remained in their tent with them alone for nearly an hour before the others of the expedition reached the spot. Captain Norman is reluctant to talk about the expedition, but he is expected to know as much of the history of ibas any one not a member of it. Last night the captain thawed out under the influence of a bottle of claret and related soveral circumstances which have never been published hitherto. ""iiTes," said' he, as he lighted a fresh cio-ar and leaned back in his chair, " I was the first man inside the tent where tho sur vivors were found. When we reached Cape Sabin I was detailed to take charge of the steam launch'and go to the place where we had stored two years' provisions. I had a rubber pouch Jillcd with whisky slung over my shoulder and a lot of biscuit. When the boat landed I jumped ashore and started on a run. I knew the lay of the land, and so was able to get to tho cache before any of ray companions. About a nii}e away, across a, level plain of ice, I could see a small MU, and alone started for it, and when xjwA covered half the distance I saw s'omeifflßfK object crawling- along the rough snow. At first I thought it was some animal, but approaching nearer I recog nised Sergeant Long. His faco was covered with blood, his clothes were literally tied on him, his beard was thick and matted, and his hair hung down below his shoulders.

" 'Is ib you, Norman ?' said he in a voice so thick I could scarcely understand him. * Thank God! 1 He told me Lieutenant Greely and six others, vK>jj9.ahve and in a tent a little further on. I gave him a drink of whisky and some. biscuit and he started on to the lunch. When I got near enough to the tent to be heard I called out, ' Cheer up, Greely ; we're here with two ships to save you !' The back of the tent had been blown down, and I had to cut my way in. The poor fellows were lying on the ground in their »||fo inr: bags, just able to move. I :jjave thoHHch a drink of whisky and a 'biscuit. acted at first as if they were in a dream and could not believe the evi dence of their senses. One man just on the point of delirium looked up and asked me if I knew his name. I know his face per fectly well, and name, too, but I could not ieeail it. ' I knew it, 1 said he. ' It's all a dream !' and he began to sob. Just then his name Hashed across my mind. ' Your name? Why, of course, I know it. It's Connell, and your worth a whole crew of aick men.' It took them all some time to appreciate the truth. " You- sec all the others, just before their death, became delirious, and would talk to friends just as if they were present. Those whom I found were deeply impressed with this circumstance, and were afraid that they were getting in the same condition. Sergeant Ellison was lying near the centre of the tent. His hands and feet had been frozen the winter before and had dropped off, not amputated, but actually dropped off. I gave him a big drink of whisky, and threw a cracker into his mouth, which he managed to eat by pressing it between his lips with the stumps of his arms. After a while Lieutenant Colwell and two men, carrying bags of bread and pemmican, uamo up. I introduced Colwell to Greely, and said he Avas a member of the Garling ton expedition, which had failed to rescue him the year previous." At this Greely began to curse and rave. He swore at the navy, and said there was not a decent man in* it, and that he wished it had beon the army that had comt to his rescue, Pietty soon a couple of surgeons uarae, and with these some men with stretchers, and the poor fellows were taken on board the Thetis.

" How about the stories of cannibalism, published after the Greely party had re turned ?" asked the correspondent. "Cannibalism was not the worst tiling that happened during: the expedition, by a long shot," responded Captain Norman «ft&r a moment's hesitation. "There were 311 st three bodies out of the thirteen we "found which had not been mutilated. Pri vate Henry's head and arms had entirely disappeai'ed. His bones were picked as clean as a child picks a chicken bone; his vital organs had been removed, and,in fact, there was scarcely anything left. There •MJfca well-trodden path leading from what mS left of his body to the tent. You could see where thick strips of flesh had been cut from Lieutenant Kislingbu/y's thighs, jusfc as a butcher cuts a steak. The others were horribly mutilated, but there is no use of going into particulars. " When 1 told Commander Schley the condition in which some of the bodies were found, lie told me to keep the matter as quiet as possible and not let tho men know anything about it. The bodies were taken aboard the ship and placed in alcohol. A wooden ball was placed on Henry's neck wild two wooden sticks were made to repre sent his arms. Their clothes were wrapped around them to conceal the deception, and in this way he was buried on Governor's Island. An attempt was made to observe the utmost .secrecy oi' the matter, and when Portsmouth was reached, no one was allowed to see the bodies, and the survivors them selves were taken ashore to the Navy-yard und surrounded by a cordon of sentinels so that no one could approach them without permission. I think it was this attempted secrecy that made people think something was wrong and which caused a portion of the truth to leak out."

"What did you mean by saying that cannibalism was not the worst thing about the expedition ?' inquired one of the gentle men present. " What became of Dr. Parey ? How did Lieutenant Kislingbury die? Why was Private Henry shot ? All these things will come out in due time. I believe Dr. Pavey was killed, and I never could get a satisfac tory explanation of Kislingbury's death. If Henry was shot for stealing, why was it he the only man so punished ? They all stele from the store of previsions. Lieuten ant KisVmgbuiy was under arrest from the Si i l?nded in I*dy Franklin Bay cie: anest the BwatWi part) of (;hc fcime> In i

fact, Lieutenant Greely was not on speak ing terms with any of his commissioned oliicers. On the night of rescue a private diary of one of the men was found. I saw it and read a few pages of it, which gave a very different version of the expedition from that given in the published reports. That diary disappeared the nest day, and I don't know what has become of it. I have had letters from Greely and Brainard in re gard to it, asking me if I knew where it wa.s or who had it. I don't think it has been de stroyed, and I believe it will be brought to light one of these days, and if it ever is 3 rou may look out for a sensation."

IRISH AFFAIRS.

Mrs MaeNamara, one of the tenants evicted at Boodyko, has gone mad from the sufferings and fright she experienced at the hands of O'Caliag-han's agents. James Q. Blame, the American Presi dential candidate on the Republican side, now travelling in Europe, lias declined a banquet proffered by the Lord Mayor of Dublin. Evictions were being continued with vigour, August 12, on the Mitchelstown estate. Several shopkeepers in the town who had been put out, made the most determined efforts to barricade their places of business. Afc tho Limerick sessions, August 17, three persons were sentenced under the Crimes Act, two of them to six months, and one to four months' imprisonment, for re sisting the sheriff. '* United Ireland" urges Irish landlords to accept Home Rule as inevitable. A riot occurred at Kenrnare, County ; Kerry, August 19. The mob attacked find j stoned the barracks where the police were quartered. The police charged with drawn swords upon the rioters, injuring many of them and arresting quito a number. A great meeting to protest against the proclamation of the Land League was held in Dublin on the. 22nd August, presided over by Professor Galbraith, a Protestant. It was one of the largest demonstrations — not excepting the O'Connell-Steele gather ing at Clontaif—ever held in Ireland. The delegation of English members of the House of Commons consisted of Jacob Bright, Manchester ; Richard Burden Haldanc, Haddington ; John Edward Ellis, Notting hamshire ; Charles Fenwick, Northumber land ; and Angus Sutherland, Sutherland. This deputation is said to be only an earnest of what the Liberal English mem bers are prepared to do if tho Coercion Act is going to be worked with vigour. The members are going to Ireland later on to address meetings, be present at evictions, and sit a« good lookers-on in courts where coercion magistrates will exercise summary jurisdiction. At tho meeting on the '23rd inst. M.P.'s advised tenants to double their demands.

The Loughrea and Armagh branches of the National League met yesterduy and re solved to continue work notwithstanding the proclamation of the League. Parnell's presence in Paris has ho significance.

The Land. BUI.

In the House of Lords on the evening of August 11, on motion to consider the House of Commons amendments to the Irish Land Bill, the Duke of Ai'gyle warned the House that the bill in its" present form was an immense development of the Gladstone Land Act of 1881, and was calculated to foster among the Irish, not industry but laziness. It would give tenants the privilege of regulating rents to such an extent aa to enable them, however lazy and ignorant, to remain on their holdings. The bill was a violation of recognized truths. If political reasons forced the House to accept a portion of the amendments, he hoped some of the members would have the courage to reject others which simply proposed the robbery of the landlords. Earl Granville admitted the bill was im perfect, but itUuas-a- compromise measure, and the best obtainable- under the circum stances, and it was therefore advisable that tho House should approve of it without discussing the measure on abstract economic principles. Lord Salisbury said he felt that the Duke of Argyll's criticism of the bill was undoubt edly the consequence of the Liberal Go vernment's land legislation, in which a de parture was made from the principle of free dom of contract; but it was only a tempo rary measure preceding larger proposals, by which the Government would try to miti gate the evils of previous legislation. Tho Govennent had not accepted the amend ments without an anxious consideration as to what tho result of their rejection would be. The abandonment of the bill was an alternative, and the Government could not accept that responsibility, therefore he urged the House to recognise the difficulties of the position, and accede to the amend ments. Earl Cadogan moved that the re vision of the rents be based upon the differ ences in price in 1887 as compai*ed with the prices from 1881 to 1885.^ffliis motion was carried, but the remainder of the Commons amendments were adopted. In the House of Commons Parnell strongly denounced the amendment, declaring it would diminish by one-half the value of the bill to the Irish tenant. Earl Cowper wrote to " The Times," on August 15th, urging the Government to firmly support Earl Cadogan's amendment. To accede to the wishes of the Opposition, he says, would mean a revision of all ronts fixed during the last five years, which would inevitably tend to block the land court. The Cadogan amendment was adopted in the House" on the 18th. Tho House of Lords amendment relating to town parks was also carried, and, on Balfour's motion, three others sent down by the same body were rejected. On the morning of August 20th tho House of Lords adopted the Irish Land Bill as re ceived from the Commons.

Tho National lieaguo Proclaimed.

The Government proclaimed the L"ish National League on August 19th. The Marquis of Hartington and Chamberlain advised the Government that such a step would be impolitic till the effect of the new Land Act was seen. Among the immedi ate consequences are the sevei'ance of Chamberlain and J. W, Russell, the Unionist champion of the Ulster tenants, from the Liberal-Unionist party. Glad stone has declared the proclamation unjust and imprudent, Balfour, in announcingl the proclamation, said the League was proclaimed as a dangerous association, under section 6 of the Irish Crimes Act Amendment Bill, recently made a law. (Cheers and counter cheers.) The Govern ment had thus taken the power conferred upon them by the statute to prohibit and suppress the League. Continuing;, Balf'our said: "Thero are two sub-heads of the sixth section of the Act mentioned in the proclamation which declare as follows: ' Whereas, we are satisfied that there exists in Ireland an association known as the National League, which in parts of Ireland promotes and incites acts of violence and intimidation," (A voice : " It's a lie. No branch of the League is engaged in such work.")

Sexton atkea whether the sole ground for 'th'eproclawy.tionwafe that the League simply was an Association tending to interfere wiMi the execution of the law. Balfour in reply read the terms of the proclamation. Harrington asked whether Balfour was aware that nearly all the branches of the League were engaged in registration work; whether he knew that the League was the only Association opposed to the Conservat ives' work, and whether the proclamation was intended to paralyze the efforts of the League to the advantage of the Conservatives on the new register. Balfour replied that no branch of the League whose work was confined to registra tion would be impeded in that work. Reply ing furtber to Sexton, ho said until the Viceroy issued an order regarding a partfeu

lar district the proclamation would havo no force. ~. ~ In order to emphasise their indignation, a number of Liberal members of the Commons have decided to join the League, and many Irish papers appeared with black borders. The announcement of the proclamation was received quietly in Ireland.

A RAILROAD HORROR, Shocking Scenes.

One of the most terrible misfortunes of the rail, on record, occurred on the night of August 10th, on the Toledo, Peoria and Western line, near Forest, Illinois. The exact time was midnight. The train had left Peoria about five o'clock the evening previous carrying more than 600 excursion ists bound to Niagara Falls. Twb miles east of Forest was a little trestle on fire, caught from a burning prairie, it is said, no longer than fifteen*feet, and above the ditch no highea than six feet. The train num bered 'sixteen otti'3, all but one carrying passengers, and the whole drawn by two engines. The burning tristlc safely bore the first engine ; but the wheels of its tender were caugiit in the sinking rails, and a frightful wreck ensued. Car after car leaped tho narrow chasm, and telescoped the coaches proceeding. The great weight and impetus of half-a-dozea Pullman sleepers drove their huge frames with ter rible force, against the chair cars and day coaches. Three cars were so telescoped to gether that it was almost impossible to tell the ruined ones from those uninjured. The floors were swept of seats and passenger?, shoving all into a mass at tho end The sleepers escaped, and as tho passengers emerged from their berths half-clad, their eyes met a. scene of indescribable horror. To fight the h're and prevent the wounded pained in the wrecked cars from being roasted to death, there was no other means than dry earth, and this for four hours fifty men dug with unaided hands, unmindful of bleeding fingers, and at last succeeded in smothering the flames. There was no water in the little channel spanned by the culvert, and there were no picks nor shovels to be had for loosening the earth. When morning came it was found there were over one hundred and thirteen dead passongers, and as many wounded, more or less seriously. Two of the unfortunates, badly crushed, and learning that their wives and. children had perished, managed to extricate a revol ver from their pockets and blew their brains out. Tho origin of the fire at the culvert \» being discussed, and tho awful impression is deepening that the place was :-;et on iire, and that the catastrophe is the result of a well planned scheme for robbery. No sooner had the wreck occurred than plundering com menced, and the shoes that covered the feet of the dead were even token off. Rings were plucked from the fingers of the corpses, and mqney and valuables taken from the pockets of those too badly wounded to resist. The thieves went into the cars while yet the fire was burning fiercely underneath, and when the poor Avretehes who were pinned there begged them for God's sake to help them out, stripped them of their watches, jewellery, and searched their pockets. When tho dead bodies were laid out in the cornfields, there human hyenas turned them over in their search for valuables, and that the plunder ing was done by an organised gang was proven by the fact that sixteen purses, all empty, were found in ono heap. Had the thieves been caught they would havo been lynched, but they managed to escape whilo the horrors of tho surroundings were at their height.

Bad Times for Labrador.

News from Newfoundland received at New York, August 15th, speaks of tho utter failure of the Labrador fisheries, and that 1,000 vessels are coming back clean, and the remaining 500 craft have only a few quintals of fish each. The news has pro duced an indescribable feeling of gloom and despair. There has been a wholesale exodus of Newfoundlanders this year. Colonies of fishermen have gone to the Pacific Coast to begin life anew in the rich fisheries reported there. Those who could gather together enough money to get away have, gone, and every outgoing steamer during the season has been so crowded that frequently passengers would bo left behind. Sir Robert Thorburn, the Premier, publishes in the St. John's, Newfound land, "Colonist," that the statements it and others published abroad regarding fcho suffering condition of Newfoundland are falso and malicious. There is neither bankruptcy nor universal destitution. The Bank and Western fisheries are successful. The Labrador and Northern fisheries have hitherto been poor, bub were improving at last advices. "The general outlook hero," the Premier says, "is much better than it was last season at the corresponding period." At the same time it may be stated that there was recently in San Francisco an agent of intending emigrants from New foundland, looking for a suitable place to colonisa on the Pacific Coast. The selection is understood to bo somo large islands lyipg off the Alaska shore. Cod and other marketable fish are found in great abun dance in the surroundihg waters.

The New Hebrides.

"rLo Paris " of August 9 announced that the British Government had requested of M. Flourens, Minister of Foreign Affairs, that France name the date of the evacua tion by her troops of the New Hebrides, and that M. Flourens, in reply, declined to do so until France is informed of tho nature of England's policy in regard to Egypt, and as to the neutralisation of the Suez Canal. Same date, Sir J. Ferguson, ot the British Foreign Office, stated in the House of Commons that England had never consented to the presenoo of French troops in the New Hebrides. He added that the British Government was un willing to believe that the French occupa tion of the New Hebrides would long con tinue, and declared the Government would hi no way consent that the withdrawal of the French from the New Hebrides should be postponed until an agreement respecting the neuti-alisation of tho Suez Canal had been reached.

The"RepubliqueFrancajse,"August23rd ) says, on this subject: "An entente cordiate between England and France in respect to tho New Hebrides could be easily secured if England were willing to stop the absurd calumnies and rhodomontade of the Aus tralians. England, who divided New Guinea with Germany, cannot oppose the annexa tion of the New Hebrides to France, but she can demand that the French shall not send their recidivistes and convicts there. The mutual exercise of goodwill would banish tho present irritation, which ought never to have existed."

" Le Payso," in its issue of August 25tli, asserts that an agreement has been reached on the New Hebrides question, and is only waitmp- the signatures of the proper officials. "Our flag," it says, "will be hauled down, and our troops evacuate the ports of Sandwich and Port Havannah in obedience to the yelling of the Australian colonies."

RUSSIA, The Funeral of Katkoff.

The funeral of M. Katkoff, the Moscow Editoi', on August Bth, was attended by three thousand carriages in line. The re mains were convoyed to Moscow from Zuameusky, where Katkoff died, a distance of twenty miles, and the coffin was borne the whole distance alternately upon the shoulders of the relatives of the dead Editor, workmen, students from tho University, members of tho press, and peasantry. General Tchernaieff has taken KatkofFs nlace as Editor of tno " Moscow Gn*.ette."

Emm Bey.

The messengers despatched to inform Emm Bey of the approach of the Stanley Expedition, arrived at M'Liera, on the east shore of Albert Nyanza at the beginni g of May, after having been detained by King Kassike and king M'Wangau. ft they were able to cross the Albexu Nyanza, it is thought (accord mg to a despatch from Zanzibar, August 15th), they must have reached Emm Bey about the end of May. It is stated he was in the Umkaro district about the beginning of that month, beinsenrmtfetp Lake Mutanzig by way ot the Kakibbi River. He was in good health.

Stanley, the Explorer.

Contradictory reports are being received in regard to Henry M. Stanley. A despatch from St. Thomas, received at London, August 4th, states that letters received at Stanley Pool announce his arrival at Aru whini Falls on June 18th, and that all bne members were well, and malung prepara tions for the overland march. loUowwr this (and received at the Foreign Ofheo, Auguatnth) comes one, as follows:-' Henry M Stanley, tho explorer, has been killed by natives after having been deserted by his escort." London despatches, same date, say neither the Foreign Office nor the Emm Bey Relief Committee had received this news. The officials at tho Foreign Office say that if it were truo the British Resident at Zanzibar would certainly have transmitted it. It is pronounced absolutely false by the officers of the Congo B reo btato Association in Brussels. Tho latest is o London despatch of August 17th confirming that from St. Thomas to the effect that letters were received the previous day from Gambruga, a village near the rapids o Aruwhinl, reporting Stanley and party all well.

New Guinea.

Sir Henry Holland, Colonial Secretary, replying' to a question by Sir George Camp bell, in the Commons, August 18th, in relation to, a bill passed by the. Queensland Government, said the Queen had advised that ' Government at once assume the sovereignty of New Guinea. The questions concerning the pioneer settlement of the Island, ho said, would be reserved until sovereignty was proclaimed. They would then he referred to the administration for its report. A despatch from Roine,Augusfc 25th, says the Government of New South Wales, having offered 300,000 acres of land to any missionary society that will undertako to civilise the natives, tho Pope has directed that immediate attention be paid to the offer, in order to forestall Protestant societies.

AMERICAN NEWS.

San Fraxcisco, August 20th, 1887.

Mr Robert Louis Stcphenson, author of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde," as well aa other popular works, has left London en route for New Zealand and Australia, via San Francisco. Stephenson is failing in health, and his physicians adyiso the trip as a possible means of restoration. Among the resolutions adopted by_ the United Labour Convention,-held at Syra cuse, New York, on August 19fch, and at the head of which movement is Henry George, is one favouring tho Australian system of secret ballot. * Two cannon prematurely exploded at a shambattle, held at Enfield, Illinois, on August 19th, mutilating live men in a terrible manner. The English steamship Madrid, which sailed from Philadelphia on May 25th for London, via Bull Kiver, South Carolina, where she loaded a cargo of phosphino rock, has been pi yon up for lost, with all on board. Sho was commanded by Captain Matthew Garcon, and his crew numbered 25. Value of vessel and eai'go, $150,000. Despatches received at Minncepolis (Minnesota), August 25th, represent the destitution at FortChippewyanlastwinteraa terrible. Cannibalism was common. One old woman at Little Red River admits hav ing killed and eaten her whole family. Starvation and cannibalism are also reported from Mackenzie River.

The Wise-Gaudaur race was rowed on tho evening of August 20th at Orillia, Ontario. Wiso wou by two lengths. Time, 14min., 2secs. Professor Orson Squire Fowler, the noted phrenologist; died in Connecticut, August 18th, aged 78 years. The United Labour party that met in convention at Syracuse, New York, August 18th, proceeded at once to cleanse the movement Of Socialism by unseating every delegate who professed socialistic principles. On the State tioketsproposed, Henry George is nominated for Attorney-General.

A feverish excitement prevails in the principal coast counties of California at the present time in regard to real estate. Land has. trebled and quadrupled in value. The movement is caused by an extraordinary emigration of moneyed people from the Eastern States.

The Pacifio Mail and Oceanic Steamship Companies of San Frapeisco, having been aroused by the fierce struggle, the Canadian Pacific Railroad Company is making for the Pacific Ocean traffic, are bringing pressure to bear on Congress for a subsidy. The recent bonus granted by the Imperial Government to the Canadian Company has alarmed them.

The contract for constructing one of the steel cruisers for the American navy ha 3 been awarded to the Union Ironworks, San Francisco, at $1,428,000-tSIB,OQO more than the nmoufct offered by the Cramps of Phila delphia. The Barrow Shipbuilding Com pany, of London, have furnished the Naval Department at Washington with plans for the construction of a battle-ship of about 8,000 tons displacement, and aßoaFd of five officers now have them under consideration.

Th.Q case of Mrs Herbert, who has been in a cataleptic etato for 219 days at Jolict Hospital, 111., is the latest sensation among the medical men.

The New York "Sun" of August 9th, argues that the Mormon offer to abandon their position that polygamy is a matter to be regulated by conscience and not by law, is the strongest possible proof that the Latter Day Saints is dying a natural death. The English sculler Bubear (champion) defeated Wallace Ross, American, in the tjiree-niile race on Saratoga Lake, New York, August 12. Bubear niado the dis tance in 20 minutes.

Bandman and Neilaeu's giant powdev M-orks at Fleming's Point, West Berkeley, Contra Costa County, California, about six miles from San Francisco, exploded with a tremendous detonation on the afternoon of August 12th. The loss sums up, in ex plosives, about §25,000, The structures destroyed being flimsy, and constructed with a view to such, contingencies wore comparatively valueless. One Chinaman was killed. The explosion was very sen sibly felt in the city of San Francisco.

A Sever© Brought

The States of Illinois, Indiana, lowa, and southern portions of Michigan and Wiscon sin are suffering from nn unprecedented drought. These territories have been for fourteen months as dry as a powderhouse, and during the month of August this state of things has been intensified in the districts mentipned, and much injury to growing crops lias resulted. Where crops were planted late in the season, the farmers will not realise the cost of putting the seed in the ground, and are, theroforo, disposing of live* stock at 25 per cent, of their ordinary value, rather than have them starve on their hands for want of feed. The effects for a year to conic will be felt in all quarters—railroads, trade and business as well as agriculture.

(Continued on pages 5 and 6.J

SPORTING NEWS.

Final Payment ior Great metropolitan Stakes.

(reuteb's cablegram.)

JSydnev, Friday. The following payment? were made to day for the Metropolitan stakes, to be run on Tuesday nexb :—

The Bettinsf. A large commission has been executed in favour of Spade Guinea, and all the money in the market has been taken about Morok, at 100 to 15. [rkutkr's telegram. ] The following are tho latest quota- Tietkopolitak.— The following arc tho latest quotations :—IOO to 18 agst Cardigan, 100 to 14 Morok and Spade Guinea, 100 to 12 Dunlop, 100 to 9 Acolyte, 100 to 8 Kit awa, Dkubv.— 6 to 4 on Abercorn.

Otahuhu Spring Meeting.

The following nominations for the Ota huhu Spring Meeting, to bo held on Satur« day next, have been received :■— Handicap Hurdles.— Revenge, }yde Awake, Huntsman, Orangeman, Fisher man, Exchange, Pipi, Fair play. Railway Handicap.—Pink Ptose, Wat Tyler, Turquoise, Cannon, Weasel, Ante lope, Friendship, Tamora, Tupaki, Black Joe (lato Hippo), Torori. Suburban Pmtk.— British Lion, The Cat, Turquoise, Cannon, Bangalore, Torori, Antelope, Friendship, Tamora, Clogs. Steeplkciiase.-—Huntsman, Orangeman, Fisherman, Exchange, Whalebone, Quilp, Rowdy, Reform, Hawthorn.

The local jockeys consider they have a grievanceagainst the Auckland Racing Club on account of the action of that body some time ago in reducing the amounts paid for riding in Hat and cross country races. A meeting, which was adjourned to Wednes day next, has already taken place over the matter. The jockeys propose to bring their grievance before the A.R.C. at an early date.

At the Dunedin Hunt Club races yester day, Snapshot, by Mu.'iket and Venture, won the Kensington Handicap, La Rose being second, and St. I vets third. Time, 2 minutes 17 seconds. Dividend*, £4 3s 6d and £3 3s.

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Election Notices. •VTOTICE OF POLLING DAY. ■ In pursuance of " Tho Regulation of Elections Act, 1881.' I, Thomas Cottbk, Returning Officer for the Electoral District of Auckland Wkht. do hereby Rive notice that, by virtue of a \Y fit bearing date the twenty-sixth day of August. 1887, under the hand of the Clerk of the Writs, an ELECTION will be hold for the re turn of ono qualified person to servo as Member for the said Electoral District, and that the NOMINATJON of Candidates will take place at St. James' 3 Hall, Wo Hngton-streot, Auckland, at noon on the 19th day or September, 1887, and that tho POLL, if nocessarv, will be taken at trie several polling places of tho said District on the 2Uth day of September, iBB7. I The following: arc the Polling Places for tho Electoral District of Auckland West:— St. James's Hall, Wellington street, Auckland THOMAS COTTE», Returning Ofticer.



t)ONS 6NBY EL EC TibN. MR. PE A C O C.X WILL ADDRESS THE ELECTORS In Iho PONSONBY HALL, ON MONDAY EVENING, 19th INST. At Eight o'clock. Tm D E N ELECTORA T E.



MR MITCHELSON will meet his Committee and Supporters in the Publio Hall, Avondale, on MONDAY EVENING next, 19th inst., at 7.30 o'clock. BUSINESS IMPORTANT. MR ft EADER WOOD Will Address tho ELECTORS OF WAITEMATA, At the SCHOOL - HOUSE, CHELSEA (SUGAR WORKS), Qy MONDAY EVENING, at 7.50. TO THE ELECTORS OF AUCKLAND N O R T H. Gentlemen.—l have the honour to offer myself aa a Candidate for your suffrages. I SHALL CERTAINLY GO TO THE POLL KOR Auckland North, and, if you are pleased to elect me as your representative, will do every thing in niy ppwer to promote tho interests of the colony generally and of your distiict in particular. Very faithfully yours, SAMUEL. VAILE. On THURSDAY, the 22nd, Mr VAILE wil* join in a discussion to be held in the Lecture Hall of the V.M.C.A. on " Our Future Railway Policy." Tho Electors of Auckland North are iuvited. to attend this de, bato.



On FRIDAY, the 23rd, at 8 p.m., Mr VAILE will deliver a Political Address in the City Hall. TTjIDEN ELECTORATE. MR J. A. CONN ELL Will have much pleasure in addressing the Electors of Eden On SATURDAY NEXT, tho 17th inst., in the Public Hall, SWANSON. On MONDAY NEXT, the 19th Inst.. in Mr T. R. Gunn's Private School, POINT CHEVALIER. On TUESDAY NEXT, the 20th inst., in the School-house, THREE KINGS. On THURSDAY NEXT, the 22nd inst., in Waile's Hall, MOUNT EDEX. On FRIDAY NEXT, the 23rd inst., in the Public Hall, AVONDALE. TIDES ELECTORATE. MR J. aTcONNELL'S COMMITTEES AND SUPPORTERS WILL MEET HIM AS UNDER :— SWANSON-SATURPAY, September 17. MOUNT EDEN - Wake's Hall. MONDAY, September 19. MOUNT ALBERT-Publio Hall, MONDAY, September 19, AVONDALE - Public Hall, WEDNESDAY, September 21. AT 7.30 o'clock Each Evening. Any Electors desirous of joining the various Committees are invited to attend. mo THE ELECTORS OF EDEN. Gentlemen, - -.lam a Candidate fop the honour of represent ing your district in the new Parliament, and will continue to address you at the various centres throughout the district. Tho dates aad places of meetings will be duly advertised. J. AITKI-. :-Llu



Election Notices. MANUKAU ELECTORATE. MR S. S. OSBORNE will Address the Elcctoi'3 of Manukau as undornoted:— ' Onehunga Public Hall.on TUESDAY, Septem ber 20. Thorpe's Harp of Erin Hall, on THURSDAY, September 22. ' Newmarket Public Hall, on FRIDAY, Septem ber 2i At Eight o'clock each E vexing. R MOSS WILL ADDRESS The ELECTORS OF PARNELL, At ST AINDEE'W'S SCHOOL, LOWER ' SYMONDS-STREET, On MOSDAY EVENING, The Cotnmittoeds invited to meet half-an-hour earlier at the sam<3 place.



PONSONBY TiI.LECTOR ATE. Hi ME E. COOPER WILL ADDRESS THE ELECTORS AX THE RICHMOND ROAD SCHOOL-ROOM OK MONDAY EVENING, AT 8 O'CLOCK. M~RirEADBR WOOD'S COMMITTEE will MEET at the Committee-room, Dovonport, on TUESDAYS and FRIDAYS, at 7.30 p.m. All Electors interested in his return g,ro invited to attend. npO THE ELECTORS OF AUCKLAND NORTH. Gentlemen, I respectfully beg to offer myself for Re election to Represent your District in the Houso of Representatives. Yours faithfully, T. THOMPSON. June 19. 1887. . mo THE ELECTORS OF EDEN. A Gentltsmrn,— I have pleasuro in offering myself as a Candidate for your electorate, and will, at an early date, do myself the honour of addressing you on political matters. EDWIN MITCHELSON. Auckland. 30th June, 1887, mO THE ELECTORS



NEWTON, Gentlemen, I beg to offer myself for Election as ypur Representative in Parliament.' Many o£ you have been my constituents for a period of over eleven years past in the late Electoral District of Eden, and if elected I shall servo you ag faithfully as heretofore. 1 will Address you at an early date. I have the honour to be, Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, J. A. TOLE. mo THE ELECTORS OF WAITE- M A T A. Gentlemen,—l beg to ofter myself for re election to represent you in the General Assembly. I shall shortly do myself the honour of address ing you at some of the principal centres in the Electorate. RD. MONK. July 7,1857. Educational. ri IRL S' HIGH SCHO OL.



UPPER QUEEN-STREET. The Third Term will begin on MONDAY, 19th September instant, and end ou k RIDAY, 16th December. Fees are as follows: UPPER FORMS (VI, V,, IV. a).. £310s per term. . ■ LOWHRFORMS £210sper term. ALL FEES MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE. The head-master will be in attendance at the School on FRIDAY next, 16th instant, from two p.m. to four p.m., to receive applications for the admission of now pupils. OIIAIN~~G~ RAM MAR SCHOOL." SYMONDSSTREET. This School will re-open on TUESDAY, 20th September. New pupils received on MONDAY, the 19th, between 9 and 12. For prospectus apply to Mr C. P. NEWCOMBE, Park Road. Vacancies for Boarders. LOWBR.G LITNSTde; UPPER sYmqnds street. Tho THIRD TERM of Mrs Glover's Board ing and Day School will begin on tho 20th inst. Pupils are prepared for the University Col lego Entrance Examination and for tjie New 1 Zecland University Matriculation. BOARDING AND. DAY SCHOOL, Manukau Road, conducted by the Misses Koger£. Third Term begins on the 19th inst. E" DUCTTIOXAL. — Sans SouePvUlaT North Shore. Mrs Ramsay Grimes's School will Re-open for Third Term on M.ON DAY, September 19. , MR G. OS W A ~tT~D Gives Lessons in Elocution, 12 to 2, at Moar3's. Entertainments given and attended. Terms in advance. Address—Champtaloup and Cooper, Queen strcet. MRS PALMER'S School, Cavlton Gore Road.- Duties will be resumed on Mon day, September ISth. BRIARFIELD7^^t^Road~i)a7Md Boarding School, for Girls. The Third Term of 1887' will begin on MONDAY, dopt. 19. ' mHE WILLOWS, Wynyard-street.— JL Mr3 and Miss Williams' * Boarding and Day School. The Third Term, will begin oir THURSDAY. September 15th. FRENCH AND GERMAN Taught by Mr C. Navkrxk—Membre de la Soclete JNationale dcs Profcsscnrs en Angleterre. The next term commences on MONDAY Septemborl9th. For terms, etc., apply at his residence, Dilston House (Captain Loverock's), Lower Symonds-st. MR ¥. X W O~O~D~H~Ali; Teacher of the PIANOFORTE AND HARMONIUM. Address: Caroof Mit A. Eady, Auckland Music Warehouse, O :i eca-strcet.



Busiuess Notices. WATERBURY Watches for Nothing at J. H, Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria-street East. O A D D L E R T T. ~~^ Great Reduction iq Priceß^^^^ Inspection and • >1(- *** 0**rSjjV, f or *^*^4>-^MLOUGH, DRAY, X SPRING CART, AND BUGGY HARNESS. W~"~A R# NO"b"k BROKERS] Established 1862 SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS. COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Extract of Soap, Disinfectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Meclicin.J and Toilet Soaps, made from the purest of Tallows, &c. Offioe3-DURHAM-STREET, Auckland. N.B. — Gash Purchasers of Tallow, Wool, Shocpskins, and Bones. "VTOW is youv time : A Waterbury Watch, J3I an Extra Pair of Trousers, or 10 per cent, with each Suit, at J. 11. Dalton'a, Tailor, Vic toria-street East. tjjf O~~W D E~W, • JX WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, QUEEN-STREET, Has now convenience for making and repair ing of Jewellery and for the repairs of every description of Watches, Chronometers, &c, &c, and to further increase his repairing and manu facturing department, he is disposing of the remainder of his PIANOS at and under cost. Persons having old gold jewellery can have it msde up into now and fashionable articles to or^cr, and all the betterclass of watches and chronometers receive his personal supervision. Rotherhams'Gcnuino English Levers in stock. P~ A P E ft"H AN G I N G S." \V. PHILLIPPS & SON HAVE HECJSIVJGD. EX LATK ARRIVALS 185—PACK AG ES—lB5 CONTAINING 55,000 ROLLS OF I'APERHANGINGS, CONSISTING OF NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bed- Rooms, Hall and Staircase,suitable forth • Mansion or Cottage. BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS. AND BEST VALUJ& EVER OFFERED IN "* PAPERHAJJGINGS. 916 —PACKAGES—9I6 SCRIMS AND HESSIANS PLATE AND SHEET GLASS, WHITE LEAD, OILS, TURPS, VARNISIJ ES AND ALL TRAPJfi SUWDIUIidL " W. PHILLIiPS & SON, 85 AND 97, QUEEN-STBEET. y^ The .American COKN BROOM CO.



EXMOUTH STREET. P. 0.8.284] [HIGli-STRKET & CDSTOMS-ST. W. A R T H U R 1%/r A S V, MANUFACTURERS* AGENT AND WHOLESALE GLASS MERCHANT. QRDERS INDENTED. GOODS IMPORTED DIRECT. QUALITY GUARANTEED. Window Glass Plate Gla«s Wire Nails Portland Cement China ware Havanna Cigars, etc. FOR SALE, 1,000 CASES WINDOW GLASS (assorted size "HC["OW is your time: An Extra Pair of Jj^ Trousers or a Waterbury Watch with eiicb. Suit, at J. H. Dalton's, Tailor, Victoria street East. OSBORNE AND LEV 01, CHEAP UMBRELLA REPAIRING PJSPOT, 314, Upper Queen-street All Ribs, 9d; Sticks, from Is. China and Glas3 neatly rivetted. Cutlery of every description Ground, Saws Sharpened and Set. "VTO Bankruptcy, no Burglary, no Fire ; _13i but the choice of two things —an Extra Pair of Trousers or a Waterbury Watch.—J. H. Dalton, Tailor, Victoria-street East. TO~TR A VBJLLEBS~ANP" TOURISTS." PRESENTS FOX i^OME. Very beautiful Inlaid Table-tops, Cabixets, ! Faxcy Boxes, etc., all made from thepic^ of j N.Z. rich Native Timbers. Other Collections j carefully packed and shipped tor Homo. , W, NORRIE, CAB IK ETWOB XE R, In New Zealand Timbers only, TOP OF SHORTLANDrSTRKET. ED VV I N JONES (Laj;e E. and A. Jones), HODSK, JTUKNISHIXO, AND UtiNBRAL IRONMONGER, Pon3Onby Road and Pompallier Terrace, Auckland, N.Z. Agent for the phoenix Fixe Office. Advertisement Agent fqr AcCkLano iiiyENiNO . Sta'p." Post Office Savings Baus, Money Ov4orOfllce. Telegraph Station, telephone Buaeau. STILL'S Milk Bread, Milk. Bread, • sweet and nutritious, and Form House Home-made Bread, Milk Scones and Cake 3 delivered daily, and can bo had attho Burlington j Victoria Arcade, and at Eden Terruco, or attao Bakery, Udy'a Farm. Rtouut Edeu. AgKNTa Wanted. RICHMOND HOUSE PJNSONBX WOAa 4UCKLAINW. W. COCHRAN, Senr., FAMILY BUTgHER, _______ b n v aF: c n t s IN ITALIAN AND VJfiKMONT MARBLES, AND ABERDEEN GKANITE. HEAD STONESIN 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 Kutland and Lome streets (near Queen-street Junction)) Auckland. I tf>{\ PHOTONS, BUGGIES, WAGGONETTES AND TWO WHEELERS, AT LOWEST PWCBS,



The Cheapest and Best ever offered to the Auckland public. COUSINS AND ATKIN, ELLIOTT-STREET. C~"oilN MANUEE.-Freezing Co.'s. £8, pf all merchants. - THE Biggest Literary Shilling's Worth in Australasia-BrettfsAuckland Almanac. Illustrated. _____ . T 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, Kaiuncah*pr Bo*o' *



-LTX Bums,uponfi«i-7»w la»«V^ repayabloeUher"&>freS^Ni a term of years-?n^'lS «tt»ew^ and 6, McrcanUlccto BurC&T>^ IVI —^ggr^ Am™ iwkta^rtw.^^ MONTHLY, op QUAKmilS'>^ lowest current rates. ~ m



removal; also, oaaU-klndaotSpS^JN j including BOi\'D WAKjK'X BILLS DISCOUNTS! atp atr6Bt^ Interviews and c6mm(inio»tihn. Jit. '' strictly copUdential, MJatloM *%h;i] Office HouKs^rpm dtUiStfoioek Baxk of England Norm m . .. —■. T ONDON v MORTUAG E 7 L te Vft ±J DISCOUNT BANK ' 60. SHORTLAND-STBEET AUfltrn*. (Opposite A. C Avk and Son* W_» Alid Liltie CoJluu-st,, ittelDotirfl^ ' LOANS are advanced from £10 to!" mi Upon '. >* Personal, Freehold, and ,ieasehiflil-'fiim». . Repayable by* Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly Inahi-u, AtLowest Current EateT^ Advances mads on Furniture without tsm» i and all classes 3f Merchandise; Loans granted upon Life Policies, Lee_i_,,i Interests under Wills. ® W Bill 3 Discounted at CußßßWßiiii Loans upon 'I)epp3it of Ijceds, fi^nyiai Kaay Instalments, Advances on Life Policies.1 Tt/TONEY LENT ON PROMISffI! ItX NOTES, HOUSES, FUIINIJ'UKH&j BILLS DISCOUNTED DAILY. M 0 UK G A GjKS - % EGOIf AlEft JOHN W. SARDIE, Land, Commission, and Estate Agei HIGH-STREET, AuCKtAND,; INDUSTRIAL AND' PROVIDER PERMANENT BUILDING, LAXD |ffl . INVESTMENT SOCIETY. Otf AUCKLLMt Repayments ' p _Wo k Totaliwi* . extending over cr vv oe(kl rc{iafabk 1 year .. .. .£2 0 0 £1M 0! 2 years .. ... - 1 QlO JIB 61 3 years .. .. , lilil .; 113|p 9 dyenrs .. .. Oil §: "12 fi 5 years '.-. .. 010 0 l»:f 6 years ~ .. 08 9 1W fyiars .. .. 0 711 ' it] Syeara D 1 l .If lfl years .. PC 3 liß__ The .Board hasjwer in casn-oyiw" Want of Eaiployinent to Suspend F^niw Borrowers Share in Profits, J Part or whole of the adduce liiay M "I* at any time. Ihtefost ceases oa XhtW repaid. A ruember who lias obtained an tt<lv«©s!! liberty to sell his property at any ,m& day off his mortgage; or may,« «o ttw» • his property subject to the mortgage.lSl' S°Confcr of QUEEN-STREET and f 4D C K L AN D PERMANENT JJ OPEiiATIVB BCILUISQ^'«VI» W SOCIETY. •■ Office: 147 QueesstkECT.' Rates for ropaymeiUof■eaeh^Mj'!"^' Per Week. lU* .2 years is .. 1 JJO ...H U | 3 years- .. 0. I. j| !. i years- ... g« » sßltj 6 years.. .. 08 J p And in the same proportion for && ;' . or larttoV loons- * AND MOMiTAHIf AOot 2J, BHOBTtANp-STUEET fjhrco door lara prepared to^^S any avai£Sg-gstiiytf lK.anßm a y»a«g^Sg|' c