THE WHITE LADY OF THE HOHENZOLLERNS.

(Prom the " Cornhill Magazine.")

ffHREE distinct persons are said to be fche originals of the White Lady, in addition to the old widow of whom Pollnitz speaks. These three are Agnes, Countess of Orlamunde. Bertha of Rosenberg, and the Princess Kuni gund, who married, first, OfctocarlL, of Bohemia, and, secondly, a Baron of Rosenberg. . Agnes, Countess of Orlamunde, was of the ducal family of Meran.* She was married first to Count Otto of Orlamunde, and bore him two children. He died in 1294, when she fell madly in love with Albert Burgrave, of Nurnberg, a Hohenzollera, who died 1361.; Albert, who goes by the name of "the Handsome," was much younger than herself. When she made advances to him, he is said to have re plied that four eyes stood in the way. He meant his parents. She under stood that he referred to her children, whereupon she murdered them. Albert visited her in the Plessenburg, near Kulmbach, but when he discovered what she had done he shrank from her in horror, and afterwards married (1348) Sophia, daughter of Henry, Count of Henneberg. Agnes of Orla munde went on a pilgrimage to Rome to expiate her crime, and on her return founded the convent of Himmelskron, near Berneck, in Upper Franconia; there she was buried beside the chil dren she had murdered, and there also Albert the Handsome was laid. Unfortunately for the story, _ history does not substantiate it. It is quite true that the wife of Otto of Orla munde'was of jMeran, but her name was Beatrix, not Agnes. Moreover, she could not be the mistress of Albert the Handsome, because she was his great aunt, i.e., the sister of his grand mother according to one account, ac cording to another the sister of his grandfather's first wife, he being de scended from the second wife, Helena, daughter of Albert of Saxony. Be that as it may, she must have been a very old woman when Albert was a handsome blade. If the White Lady were Beatrix, she may have been Kunigund Landgravine of Leutchtenberg, who married Otto V. of Orlamunde, and this countess did give an endowment to Himmelskron in 1342, but did not found it. It had, in fact, been founded half a century before. She died without family. If there be any truth in the legend, she must be the guilty woman, but history says nothing about the murder. Cer tainly according to one version of the story, the White Lady is called Kunigund. There was a third Coun tess of Orlamunde living at the same time as Albert, but she was a widow with children who survived. —j

Bertha -was the daughter of Ulrich yon Kosenberg, head of the" Catholic army levied against the Hussites, and Burgrave of Bohemia. Bertha was born between 1420 and 1430. She married John of Liechtenstein,. a Styrian Baron, who treated her with great barbarity.. On his death she re turned to Bohemia, to her brother Henry of Rosenberg, and devoted her days to care for orphans. - ; She always wore the then customary white, mourn ing habit of a widow. She, superin tended the building of the, castle of NeuhaUs. Great structural .difficulties attended the erection, but Bertha en couraged the workmen by her kind words, and by the interest she took in the undertaking. When it was ended she gave a great feast to the masons, and founded a charity for the annual provision of a similar banquet. In accordance with this tradition, the White Lady is represented as loving children, and to have been seen by mothers and; nurses who have neglected their babes sitting by the cradle rocking and caressing the wail ing infants. On one occasion a nurse came into the children's room, arid, seeing a woman soothing the children, asked her sharply who sho was and •what right she had there. The White Lady replied, " I am not a stranger in the castle like you; and these little ones are not yours, but my children's children." " ' ,

The third person who is said to walk as White Lady is Kunigund yon Halicz, second wife of Ottocar 11. of Bohemia; his first wife was Margaret, daughter of Leopold VI. of Austria. He was divorced from her in 1261, and married Kunigund immediately ; by, the latter he had a son, Wenceslas 11., who suc ceeded him, and two daughters— Agnes, who married Rudolph 11. of Austria,, and Kunigund,. who died an abbess at Prague. Ottocar died in 1267, and then she married the Baron of Rosenberg. She certainly did not murder her ■, ~--.

We are therefore driven back on Kunigund of [ Orlamunde, and it is worthy to note that the earliest printed account of the White Lady calls her Kunigund, and not Agnes. She is said to have killed her children—a boy and a girl—by running a silver hairpin into their brains. The story forms the subject of a popular ballad. The elder branch; of the at one time powerful Orlamunde family were also Margraves of Meissen and Landgraves of Thuringia; it became extinct in i 095, whereupon the Orlamunde es tates passed to Count Siegfried of Bali lensfcedt, a descendant of the Orlamunde race on the female side. In 1140 they fell to Albert the Bear, Duke of Saxony, whose descendants branched off. His son Hermann became Count of Orla munde; the family died out in 1476. • It is not difficult to see that the two stories are quite distinct, and it is only the accident of an intermarriage be

tween the Hohenzollern and Rosen berg families which brought the storie3 together and confused them. The real White Lady of the latter. is most cer tainly the much-suffering, pious Bertha, and the White Lady of the former is the murderess Kunigund of Orla miinde, and not Agnes at all. < The name of the Eosenberg White Lady carries us at once to the real origin of the legend. Bertha is the medieval form of Perchta, and Perchta* is the old Teutonic Goddess of the Moon, called also Hulda the Gentle, and Horsel, whom the Christian Ripuarian Franks changed to a virgin martyr, Ursula. This goddess was represented as the guardian of souls, and travels about with a train of children's spirits. These spirits are the stars over which the moon reigns. Sometimes she lives in a mountain, and is represented as calling children to her. She has a great love for chil dren, but when they hear her call and obey they die. So she is at once the lover of children and their murderess. Then, again, she is the Goddess of Love, and she it was, living in the Venusberg, or Horsalberg, who lured the Tannhauser into it, and held him enthralled in unlawful love for many years. Exactly so does the Countess of Orlamunde lure Albert the Hand some to the Plessenburg, and hold him there enthralled till he discovers her crime. The Albert story and the Tannhauser story are based on the same myth, only in the former we have the children killed, which fails in the latter. Perchta is not only the moon, but the Goddess of Nature, and she calls her children, the flowers of of the field, to life, and destroys them with the advent of winter. She is represented as a widow, weeping the absence of her lost husband, the Sun. Her silver hairpin,wifch which she slays her children, is the frost crystal or icicle. Her day, Perchtentag, Dec. 30, was kept as a feast, at which a special dish was always present. This feature of the myth comes to the sur face in the story of Bertha of Rosen berg. Perchta always goes in white, wearing a long veil, and with keys _at her waist; the same is the description given of both the Lady of Rosenberg and her of Orlamunde.

More or less apparently well-authen ticated cases of the apparition of the White Lady at Berlin have occurred in 1840, before the death of Frederick William 111, and again in 1861, pre vious to the death of Frederick William IV. Whenever there occurs a death in the royal and imperial family, there is sure to be a statement in some of the German papers that the sentinels on guard in the palace at Berlin or Pots dam saw the apparition, and were nearly frighted out of their wits, but these announcements are generally destitute of foundation.

The Vicomted d'Arlincourt, in his curious ' Palerin,' says : ' The Prince of Montfort (son of Jerome Napoleon, former King of Westphalia) conducted me to. the old castle of the Dukes of Wurtemberg. A broad and not steep way, without steps, which can be ascended on horseback, even in car riages, leads to the upper storey, con sisting of galleries and halls, into which open the State apartments. ' Here,' said the young prince to me, 'this- is where the White Lady appeared.'

' White Lady !' I repeated, ' what White Lady I— that of Vienna V ' No, she is of Berlin, and she is not at all alarming.' ' Oh, there is something of the kind, they say, in all the German courts.'

1 And the same belief in her. The <■ likeness of the White Lady of Stutt-i gardt is in one of tho so-called imperial apartments. I do not be lieve in her a bit,' continued the Prince of Montfort; ' nevertheless there is a circumstance which has made a lively impression on me. My mother, a sister of the king (Katherine, daughter of Frederick.l. of Wiirtemberg), lay ill at Lausanne, but, as the doctor said, not in any danger; consequently we were not at . all anxious about her. One night—l was then living in this old castle in which we are— I heard a .great sound as of something stirring. What was it 1 The White Lady had come along this gallery, pass ing the sentinels, who were frozen with terror, and knocked at ray door. When the King of Wurtenberg heard my story next morning, he bade me be off as quick as I could for Switzerland. ' I fear for the life of my sister,' said he. I at once started, reached Lausanne, and received my mother's last sight (she died November 23, 1835). Now I will tell you something more,' Prince Jerome continued, ' and you may be lieve what you like of it. One very dark night, when everyone was asleep in Stuttgardt, a carriage with six horses rattled over the pavement, and drew up before the palace. The steps were let down in the sight of the senti nels, who looked down from the galleries ; the: White Lady seemed out. The gates did not open before her, yet she' appeared within, passing through the doors as though they were nothing but a veil of fog. She paced with stately along the great gallery. The sentinels did not dare to lay hands on her. What followed ? Duke Ferdinand of Wiirtemberg, the king's uncle, died January 20, 1834. At the time when my father was.king of Westphalia,' pursued the Prince of Montfort, ' his minister at the Court of Berlin wrote to him a letter, which I have kept as a curiosity. No news,' he said, ' at Berlin, except that the palace is in commotion because the White Lady has been' seen. How ever, I think nothing of that, as every member of the royal family is now in, the enjoyment of rude health.' How ever, not long after, in came a despatch with different tidings. The beautiful Queen Louise of Prussia was dead (July 19, 1810). She did not die at

Berlin; she fell ill suddenly on & visit to her father, Duke Charles of Meck lenburg, at his villa at Zieritz. ' That was the end of the Prince of Montiort's tale ; later, I heard the following. Katharine, the wife of King William of Wurtemberg, a sister of the Emperor Nicholas, was ill in bed. The door of her room flew open, as if driven open by a blast of wind. ' Shut my door !' said the Queen. Her companion, who was reading to her stood up to obey. When she had shut the door and turned to go back to her, place, she saw the White Lady in her seat. Two days later the Queen was dead (January 9, 1819).' The Vicomte dArlingcourt tells us further that he visited the Archduchess Marie Louise, tho widow of Napoleon, and from her lips heard that the White Lady never fails to appear in the im perial palace of Vienna before the death of one of the House of Austria. She told him : "My grandmother was the Queen of the Sicilies, and after the death of my father's first wife (Eliza beth Wilhelmina, daughter of Duke Frederick Eugene of Wurtemburg, died February 18th, 1790), he asked for the hand of her daughter (Maria Theresa, daughter of Ferdinand I. of Sicily). My grandmother, anxious about her daughter's welfare, consulted a pious nun, to whom it was allowed at times to see through the veil of the future. Her answer was as follows: 'Your daughter will be happy; but after she has passed her thirty - fifth year God will call her to Himself.' This was clear enough. The new empress ascended the throne (she was married in 1790 at the age of eighteen) in the expecta tion of having a short but happy life. She often spoke to her young children about it, but never complained that the term was short. Thirty-five years! She had a long time yet. Alas ! time flies very fast. The nearer the omin ous term drew, the more did the em press endeavour to banish the thought of it from her mind. She ceased to speak of it. In the year that preceded her death, a heavy sickness brought her into great peril. 'Be at ease,' said her majesty to those who surrounded her, 'my hour is not yet come. If heaven calls me, it will be next year.' ' Her five-and-thirtieth year arrived. One day my sister, the late Empress of Brazil, exclaimed in terror to her mother, 'Behind your elbow chair I see 1 see '

' What, child 1 Speak !' ' The White Lady.' 'She has not come for you, my dear,' answered the empress calmly, ' but for me; My hour has now come.' 'Next day she was dead (August 13th, 1807).' The story is also told of the Arch duke Rudolf, Prince Bishop of Olni fitz, who died on July 23rd, 1831, that he was dangerously ill in the palace of Vienna ; the physicians, however, had not the slightest apprehensions. An official in the night saw the White Lady; he ran towards her, thinking to stay her, and hardly suspecting her to be a ghost, when he fell as though struck with sudden terror, and when he was picked up he was unconscious. Next morning the Archduke Rudolf was dead. His brother, the Archduke Anthony, who died April 2, 1835, was danger ously ill, and had received the last sacraments. Then he asked, ' Who is that white woman yoti'W mi her knees'?' He had seen th> He died immediately af r. These are the only ca c «-t the White Lady aromas >ie Hap>burg famiy The appearances in that of Hohenzollern that has been recorded are more numerous, and ancient as well as recent. She appeared before the death of the Elector John George, in 1598 ; also before that of John Sigismund, in 1619; in 1678 she was seen, as we have already related, before the fatal acci dent at Bayreuth to Erdmann Phillip ; also in Berlin in 1628, when she was heard to exclaim, 'Come and judge the living and the dead!" In 1659 she was met in the gallery at Berlin, before the death of Anna Sophia Duchess of Brunswick, sister of George William Elector of Brandenburg; again in 1667, when she foretold the death of Louise Henriette, wife of the Elector Frederick William. Again, she was seen by the court chaplain Brunsenius in 1683, before the decease of the Great Elector. Some later ap pearances we have mentioned. Whether she showed the recent death of the Red Prince we have not heard. In 1859 a certain D. Hornung, in Berlin, took on him to communicate with the White Lady by a medium. He published a full account of the reve: lations thus obtained, which, of course, are disproved by history. He or his medium asserted that the spirit was that of Agnes of Orlamunde, and not Kunigund. We know better. [ |,|. I

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Eailway Time. Tjable.''/':'■■" " :^T^'TT§^",: JT E W ZEAL AND RAj t , TIME TABLE. — On and after APRIL 1, 1887, S ' AUCKLAND AND ONEHUNGA LINE. AUC^ AND WEEK DAYS. """""IT""" « ONEnuNGA. ___ _ . . oat 3 °%» Smiflj^ a.m. a.m. a.m.ja.m.|no'np.m. p.m. p.m.p.m. D.m, D.m nTTT— —-~._7 - Auckland., dep. 7.15 .. 8.4010.4012.0' 2.0„ 4.15 5.20 6.20 .. 100 i lnl£?• Newmarket June 7.25 .. 8.0 l 10.50 li.lo 2.10 4.25 5.30 6.30 . irfw H2 }H° 'MTt„- Ramuera. .. 7.30 .. 8.5610.55j12.15 2.15 4.30 5.35 6.35 .. 1015 li ftS^S Ellerslie " 738 .. 9.6 |11.5 112.25 2.25 4.10 5.45 6.45 ". 10 25 135 ' ?& ™$ Penrose Junction 7.45 8.56 9.11111.10112.30 2.30"1.45 5.50"6.52 7.30 {« Hv 9-22 ia *Te Papapa ■• ■ I •• ■ -9.26 is? Onehunga.. arc. 7.55 9.5 9.2011.2012.40 2.40 4.55 6.0 7.0 7_010.40 -_» 1220 A;. £7 Onega to Auckl'd. a.m.a.m.a.m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. nm n^T~~~^~ Onehunga ..dep. ' 7.5 | 8.20 9.30 10.0 12.U5 1.0 4.25 5.10 6.35 7d5 l 0» ' "HP-?•*. 'To Panana .. 1.. .■ ■ ■ .. . • r- u 10,0 s„i PenroseJunc. '.. 7.1518.30 9.40 10.10J12.20 1.10 111436 §5.20 §6.4517.30 if ft o'i« „•'• './ Ellerslie .. 7.20 8.35 9.15 10.15 12.25 1.15 440 5.25 .. 7,3511jfi |H. ft* 5.« "Green Lane „ .. .. 41a 10,15 s,_ Remuera .. 7.30 8.44 9.55 10.24 12.35 125 4.51 5.35 .. 7.45 1115 o« ,»• ..« Newmarket Jun 7.35 8.49 10.1 a 10.30 12.40 1.30 5.4 5.40 .. 7.5011 20 'Hi SB «-S Auckland, arr... . 7.45 8.58:10.10 10-39 12.50 1.40 5.13 5.50 1.. 8.0 jfi, *g 5.58 " Change for Onehunga. § Change for Otahuhr ' :,!j: -' } Change for Waikato Stations. .. ; _7. « Change for Kaipara Branch *.« t Chance for Mercer and Intermediate Stations. r rr® Stationg II Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. MAIN LINK AUCKLAND-MERCER-TE AWAMUTU-OTOROHANGA. South—Week Days. "- .■-•.-..."*■> A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. p.M t> vi P-K AUCKLAND .. ..dep. 6.0 6.20 7.15 8.0 11.40 4. 15 1.55 ] *j$ tt ■ ■ Newmarket Junction .. 6.10 6.3d 7.25 .8.10 11.50 4.25 5.7 fiS LP Remuera 6.15 0.40 7.30 8.10 b 4.30 5.12 - |§; m Elle e rslie Lalie " '.'. '■' 622 6.48 7.38 8.23 b 4.40 5_5 - fi« : #' Penrose Junction 6.28 7.0 §8.0 831 12.25 tU9 -550^'^ _. , , / arr. 6.40 .. s-10 .. .. ... 'en-'-' 1 •• Otahuhu .. .. \_ep. .. 7.10 .. 8.41 12.40 4.59 M Papatoitoi .. * - •• 5.8 7 " ;■•: Manurewa ... .. .... * •• •• l-'O 5.22 - , ..■•' '»'! Papakura., 8.0 „ .. 130 '5.37 ' \']~ ..& r y- Th-ury* '.'.'.'. '.'. '..'.'. 8.15 '.'. 9.25 1.47 5.56 : 7 ;_'.-. » ; "Runeirnan .: .. ..... * • • •• * * j_ ■•• "Paerata . ._ •• •• _ „ "'.'■-" " Pukckohe .. . 8.57 .. 9.02 2.19 6.2<S '• ;7 •■; 'Buckland .. " .. .. " ;"' ■ ■•■ Tuakau 9.21 .. .. 2.43 6.43 ;;,. ■-: *Whangarata ... .. •.• •• *„ •• •• „* ■ *7 Pokeno 9.4G .. .. 3.3 7.0 - /arr. .. 10.0 ... 10.35 3.15 7.10 ~ r.• 7- Mercer .. .. -j_ dep 10.55 3.10 .. " " "•Whangamarino •• •• *•-"■* •" '! . : "I *Wairangi .. .. .. ... •• •• •• „ .••' .. '",':';"■ *ltangiriri .. - •■ .... ■ .. '•■__ : *Ohinewai •• •• , « ■". ... 7. - Huntlv . .. .1 .. •• •• •• 12 - 15 5 - 2 ° •• "• Taupiri :: :; :: .. .. .. .. 12.30 5.10 .. ;; ./- Ngaruawahia .. .. .. •- •• •• l:iA ° «- lv .. ■- ■ #> : .• ," 'Pukete .•• *. I •■ ■■ ■;. ,-'-';• -:,";, 'Teßapa •• ••• , „ ... •• • .. , " ■a ,\ -r *■ ( arr. ~ .. .. 1.20 6.40 „ "- ~«i c Frankton Jimction \ de]} cS _o .. .. 1.30 _g.55 .. ~ |" :' " *Rukuhia * •• •• * *„ •• " . ; :-^- Ohaupo 5.30 .. .. 2.0 7.30 .. . #< ; . •Lake Road * •• •• , *' •• .. ' ' : " Ngaroto 8.a5 .. .. 2.25 7.00 .. v; ■.-; „ . 1 arr. 9.0 .. .. 2.30 7.55 ... ... . ... ••, •TcPuhi .. .. * ... !!'""; "Kawa .. •• •• •• •• •• ;. "Kiokio .... ■■ •• ♦Otorohanga I ■• ■„„••„,; , S _____________ '—7« North—Week Days. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. P.M. p_, p, r "Otorohanga .. .. ..dep. "■..:. - -.. '.. ■ '_&'10" ..'.,■* *Kiokio _ — ■ .... -..•-'. -• ■.?•:■ .■.—' "- •• ■ " •• '■■- .:■■'; ih # ';'7 •Kawa v . •■ — •• •• - . .-* •• :..: -r •TcPuhi. , •• •• ~ •• •• * .. ...;:;■' f arr. .... .. .. -9 0 ,: , ■ TeAwamotu .. \dep ; .. .. 9.15 -," ; .. .",";;. '^' : 7 : Ngaroto ." • •• •• •• 9 -23 .. ... .45 *Lakeßoad .. •• •• •• 'n * •• '„- ".'".»'" Ohaupo .. ..' .. •• •• •• -• •'• - 915 .. '_ .; 3.25: 'Rukuhia .. - .., -- - »' •- - - * .. .:'„ ... ?7 ,-._ , t t. .•«» /arr. ~ ~. „ .. 10.20 .. „■'■ i«, Frankton Junction .. | dep- _. _■ „ 10>35 _ !! 'If •Teßapa.. .. ..••" •-•' - ■..■■■.■-.: ..' '"..-.■'"■•' r ' :_;'.. ?._..-. j r t.. •Pukete ■.. .. .. .. •• •• -• •• .-.- * .-.-• .* Ngaruawahia .. .. .. — •• — •• .j •" 11.30 -'•„■'"'■ .. 4.43 Taupiri .. ... — •- -. 11.47. ~ : .. . -'_j Huntly .. .. - .- .. 12,25 .. ;.. =5,3 'Ohinewai _ .. •• •• •• .. .. ... * ». ..' : r/uV *Ranglriri .. .. .. ... •• •• •• .. ' » .„' •iWairangi .-.,, ~!i';»/.,-i.>-.>i . .-<.-. -~-•■ •• - -.. .. ». ;.' ; ;: f ' *AVhangamariho ■'..'•-.. '--'. x ~-7 ■.'•• ••• •- ** .T"' "":..', '> Mercer:." .. - {?gj 7 IUI IJf " ." g i'okeno .. .. .. .. — .V 6.31 11.4 i! li it. ... „ f.O "Whangarata .. .. ' — .. — _, I *■' .'/ * „ '>„■' * Tuakau .. .. .. - .. - To 64$ m-l S.4U. ...... *v 7 Mhickland .. ....... ~ .c * * j * . .... .., ,'; Pukekohe.. „ - ,12.31 ' 3.3 „ _ M? *Pa'erata .. .... .. « - «. [ * *•I*■■ -„- -■ -* *Runciman ~.-■«. - *. * ' * ;.' v '-v. !'•-"*.; Drury .. .. .. >. 7.47 1.10; 3.37 ... — '..■;• Mr *Hunua .. ~ .. *, * -.*.'..». ■•. .... y '-U Papakura.. .. « ~ .8.1 1.26 3.47 „ '.;■'. U Manure%va .. - .. 8.16 1.42 4.2 ■-.-.■• - .. *- Papatoitoi .. 7. .. 8.30 2.0 4.15 .-..:.'. V; Otahuhu.. .. ■.. .. .. 6.50 8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 6.20 7.15 - ' Penrose Junction .. '.. .:. 17.15 tD8.30 t8.54 t2.30 t1.36 tG.3O. 17.30 9.3.' Ellerslie ..... .. ... ..t.v-„. 7.20 8.35 8.53 ,2.35 . : 6.35 ' 7.35 V "7* "Green Lane •.. ....-'.. ■* * . *■ * -* ••'•• ■■:■■r-$ ■•'■ "hM. Remuera.. .. ".." ....... 7.30 8.41 9.7 2.15 6.45 7.45.", 1/, Newmarket June. .; :. .. 7.35 8.49 9.19 .2.55 15.4 6.51 7.50 9.23 Auckland .. .. _____ arr. 7.45 8.58 -1 9.28 3.5 5.13 7.0 ■ 3.0 -M. t Change for Onehunga. II Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations.'''':;, t Change for Kaipara Branch Stations. § Change for Otahuhu.. .7 . ;, : v A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations hetween Auckland '; Oneiuiga. B. Only stops to pick nn Passengers for South of Penrose Junction. .:•;-..-. C. Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, and Saturdays only. -.>; ' '- ,' r>. Ttnns on Mondays mid Wednesdays only. : ._... • -f . . f; E. Runs from Otorohanga on' Tuesdays and Thursdays only. ,77 s-. The9.ls a.m.-train from T(iAwamutu runs daily. . ■■' F. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, To Aroha and Rotorua Lines. ' r Cambridge—Te Aroha ajtd Rotorua Lines, < South.—Week Days. ' North.- Week Days. A.M.A.M. . :■■"■:-'■'. '-'■■ . A._.P.«.' : - Auckland, dep. • .. \ 8 01140 Lichfield, dep. ... .;..' ,v ••M': ■ • — '■ : *Putaruru Junction .. .',••>,; _' , _. ' ..p, M. P. •„ *Taumangi .. .. ' '.;; •-,„», Frankton Jun., dep. .. .. .. .. 1 0 Oxford, dep. .. ■ -..' ■> •• ':•• u f' Hamilton West.. 1%&.7 10 *Okoroire ....,■•• v 7» ♦Hamilton East.. ~ :..... .. * * *Mangawhara .. .. '.'•■•• ,»,• Ruakura Jun:, arr. .. ■.. ... -.; 1527 22 Matamata ' .-;. •'..-'' •• '•-. I J-,; . .1 : — : ■ — : —;— *Waliaroa ■ ■•:<■' ;..:'■■•••■ '»' Cambridge Br.— ...... " " *Walton ■... .. .. ..•;•• i.,. 1 Ruakura Jnn., dep. .. .. .. ' ... 2 *Kiwitahi:. ... 7 -..:...•• •• ,«' ♦Mongaonui .. .. ~ ... ~. * * Mori ins ville, arr. .. '•• ■;••', J . a , *Tamahere .. ... .. „ .. ;.* * __j —! : ■—• " ~ *Fencourt .. .-... .... -.. * * Te Aroha Br.—,i7 ~•*• oi .„ - 'Hautapu..,. * * Te Aroha, dep... .. .- »f «< Cambridge,arr. .'..- ...; .. .. 240 810 *Waihou .. .....;•'• ,>.■.?!;■'; ——; 7— —-7- ■ —;— *Waitoa .. .". ... '■''••• ' .;'.i Ruakura Jun., dep. ... .. ... .. 2 0&7-30 *Tatua o Haua .. « ■"'••'" J' •'■•'•■' *Eureka .. .. .. .... .. ~.-'* * 'Murray's -~. •• ./■ „,, ?.«■•' *Motumaoho .. '".. .. .. .. * * Morrinsville,arr.'" .. ■• " a '".f Morrinsvillo, arr. ..2 40 810 —-——- '——TTnMm; ■■ Morrinsville, dep. - ..:'.• 9 J 06 -f TeArohaßr.— .. .... *Motumaoho ~ -.-..- •• -. 7,' Morrinsville, dep. .. .. .....'. ... _255 : 8 15 *Eureka ....'... »•„>'«,>«''«i ! *Murrays .7 ..' .... .. * * Ruakura Jun., arr. '-'.'.-■ .: »* \?-f,. *TatuaoHaua .. .; •-"<. '..'■* *■ —— : —: — ~'\—~~ nvaitoa ... .. .... _';..'«■ * Cambridge Br.— • „,lL ♦Waihpu .. ...... .;.. ... .... * * Cambridge, dep. '..' - 9 l°^ t Te Aroha, arr. .. • •/._ ../",.. '.. 3408 55 *Hautapu..' - ..- '» '- :• ' , »; i — : ; — '■ I —; ——— *Fencourt .. ••. ,;•('»--■-*'■" Morrinsville, dep. •»......*• ... •: _■- >„62 50 ... _ *Tamahere .. ' .'. •■',* '» : 'Kiwitahi.. ■..;;.. ; _' •..-..* .. . • *Mongaonui7-■... ;..'•• „",: ,'■«_. •Walton".: ..';.,.'. _ .. .. * .. Ruakura Jun, aiT. ...7. •■ »^,_ff_' *Waharoa :.• ..-"' .: ...'.. * ..' •;—_--—i— -^—^ — '-—-.r^ZTnUm' Matamata .. ... .. .. .. 355 .. Ruakura Jun., dep. .. M •• Iu , UM r i . *Mangawhara .. .. .. ■-. _ .. * ... *Hamilton East.. ■;.'.•■ '•• in ona« ; ♦Okoroire.. .. .. ; ...... .. .. * .... Hamilton West.. .. —HSf?? Oxford .. .. ... .'. ■"..■ ..435 .." Frankton Jun., arr. .., vAPfih^i ■"Taumangi .. ..- .; .."-.. * .. : ——— '■ ... " ~-.« nm •Putaruru Jun... . .. .. * . ' Auckland, arr. -: -"•• ° v " Lichfield,arr. .. .. .. • ..-• .. 520 ,-..... ' ■-.; -.■-: :'■■'• ■■-'-■■'•• "_ * Flag Station. ■ -' • 7.'.'_. ,\ 'Aavi and 7. a Runs on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays only., b Runs on Mondays, Fridays only c Runs on Mondays. W. dnesdavs. Fridays, and Saturdays only, tt wins ou nesdaysand Saturdays only. The others run daily. . ..■! A Runs on first Sundays in each month only. '. 7.. 7 .; : > : : ' iJi 7 KAIPARA BRANCH. —ArjCKLAm)-HEXDEESOK--HELEKSTii.tg.__ LMt<< , Auckland to. HELEysviLi.E.-WEEK Days. | Helensville to AuckjjNg__^_-S_i-^ ... , ' am. a:m. p.m. p.m;f V iT - Auckland. dep. 7.0 10.55 4.40 2151 Helensville .. dep. ,a2O n.f ■*•» -^ Newmarket Junct- 7.12 11.12 4.57 2.251 'Helensville South.. "-*:, ,»7 .*;, ./; Mount Eden« .. 7.19 11.19 5.4 2.32 *Ohirangi .. - * : * *. •• 'Kmgsland .. ... v * * . ♦p ae roa.. ..••->'-** ... *Morningside.. _ « * *. ,« *Woodhill ...'. .• ,*r ■■;.•'■ * •■ 'Mount Albert _ * «-.■•-, 'Reweti.. .: ".- *, .. : ♦ ~! Avondale .. .. 7.35 11.38 5.20 * *Waimauku .. •• .-*. 15 5.0 .. 'New Lynn .... * * * *Kumeu .. ■~ H 5 * * - * WaikomiU, :..,..-* ;* I * 3.0 'Taupaki' .. ">« •• 'Henderson .. ..8.0 12.5 5.45 .. Waitakerei .. —' 9L f *-;.. 'Swanson, ... .. ... *. * * 'Swanson "in 25 5.15:/; Waitakerei .'." .. 8.25 12.32 6.15 .. Henderson .. •• Hr*- *A^i 'Taupakf ~. .. *• .«■ . » .. *Waikomiti .. — V . * ! Kumeu .. ~ 8.45 1.5 6.33 .. 'New Lynn ..- Q « 0.32 &10 » 'Waimauku .. .. * * ♦ .. Avondie .. -&V * ' ,J-i *w W Su;» "■ ••'•' * ''* * •• 'Mount Albert ..;,,» * * 'WoodhiU .. ;..::«. * * ... ' 'Morningside.. .••;*.,*: ■'•*'.,* 'Paeroa „ .. * * * .. *Kingsland .. •• ' i 7 2 55 e - 2 i ?« 'Oh-rang .. .. * • > Mount Eden.. •• fr* 7 if o 6.3? 4g 'Helensvdle South.. *■■' * * .. Newmarket Junct'p .9-f, .eAojJEm i-_l_-____J_ _ , arr -' !___j__i_j ■,-„ H.„.-„ Allfiklk ■•• ar^!--^ii^'i ':"''\^^ ; 'Flag Stations.-Trains do not stop unless required. Notice shouldbe;|fr enftJ -.-J. ■;'■■■. ' stopping stations by any passenger desiring to alight'at Flag Stations.. : -. . ~,,. ,-- ; j ~:.ta--. AU lime Tables issued prior to this date are now cancelled. _s, f -_ era i J1M82«6 ; i >,: ■■ .. {.'.-■ ,'-••>.> 'j'i J» P« MAAVY* iiU < M *-; ■ ■-..(..