SHIPPING.

SuNdET-Thia evening. 6.21. ' fiuNRISE—To-morrow morning, 5.7. Moon's Age—First Quarter, 24th inst., 5.25 a.m,

HIGH WATER.

AuCKLANO.—TMa evening, 0.20; to-morrow morning. 0.52. Manukau Heads.—This evening, 3.0; to morrow morning;. 3.32. Kaipara Heads. — This afternoon, 4.0: to morrow morning, 4.32.

ARRIVALS.

lona, s.s., from Mercury Bay Mariner, schooner, from Whangaroa Clansman, s.s., from Tauranga Suva, s.s., from East Coast ports ' Saucy Kate, schooner, from Mongonui Atlanta, echr., from Whangarei Agnes Donald, schr., from Russell Pukaki, s.s., from Lyttelton Te Anau, s.s., from South

STEAMERS TO ARRIVE.

Enterprise, from Thames, at midnight;. Coroinandel, from Coromandel, to-day, 5 p.m. Rotomanana, from Thames, Tuesday, 1 p.m.

SAILING VESSELS EXPECTED.

Zealandia, ship, left London July 23 Lurline, ship, left London for Kaipara, via Dunedin, July 25 Waikato, ship, from London ; sailed Aug. 24 Canterbury, ship, left London Sepb. 15 Waitangi, ship, from London, loading May Queen, ship, from London Margaret Galbraith, ship, leEb Glasgow

July 1 Himalaya, bq., from Liverpool Evie Reed, bq., from New York, via Lyttel ton ; sailed June 20 Mary A. Greenwood, bq., left New York July 27, via Lyttelton Ada Sbott, barque, sailed August 4 from

New York Rebecca Crowell, barque, left New York

Sept. 8, via Wellington Deubchland, barque, from New York, via Wellington, to sail 20bh insb. Star of the East, from Dunedin Jennie 8., schr., from Fiji Kirkdalq, bq., from Java, early Louie, schooner, from a cruise. Myrtle, bn., from Hobarfc, early

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Rangibiki, ship, loading for London Piako, ship, for Napier.

IMPORTS.

Per s.s. Te Anau :—2 cases cigars,_ 18 cases tobacco, 5 cases curacoa, 6 cases wine, 247 cases whibky, 11 casks whisky, 113 sacks wheat, 144 sacks oats, 20 bags tapioca, 20 bags sago, 13 bags and 6 casks pepper, 381 packages tea, 115 bags onions, 36 cases raisins, 150 cases currants, 2 cases hops, 75 cases glucose, 6 bales gunnies, 40 £-bags flour, 24 cases bacon and hams, 300 boxes candles, 11 packages drapery,, 250 cases kerosene, 20 bags ginger, 287 sheep, 70 bars angle iron, and sundries.

The schooner Mariner arrived early yesterday morning from Whangaroa with a load of timber.

The schooners Atlanta and Agnes Donald have arrived with coal, the former from "Whangarei, and the latter from Russell.

The passengers and cargo of the R.M.S. Coptic are being forwarded by the s.s. Wairarapa, which leaving Port Chalmers to day, and will arrive here next Monday.

The s.s. lona arrived from Mercury Bay on Saturday night. Passengers: Miss Millen, Messrs Flowerday, Johnston, and Gilmer.

The following small coasters have ar rived : —Fanny,' cutter, from Wangapoua : Waipu, barge, from Tairua with timber; Agnes Martin, ketch, from Russell, with coal.

The s.s. Gairloch arrived at 3 a.m. yester" day from Waitara with cargo and the following passengers : — Messrs Hewitt, Brook, Shearer, Miss Hooper, and 2 steer age.

The ship Crusader arrived at Napier on the 9th, and had all cargo discharged by the 20th. As the wool season is a fortnight behind she is not expected to get away before the middle of December.

The shipßangitiki was brought alongside the Piako this morning for the purpose of discharging ballast into her. The Piako will be finished unloading her cargo towards the end of the week, and she will theri take her departure for Napier.

The Clansman arrived from Tauranga , early yesterday morning with the following passengers :—Miss Beale, Mesdames Gill, McClure, Fletcher, Messrs Mowett, Snod grass, Aster, Jeffreys, Fletcher, McClure, Smith, Harding.

The s.s. Suva arrived at 11 a.m. yesfcer j day from Wellington via East Coast ports, ! and berthed at the Queen-street Wharf. ■Of the trip Captain Spinks reports that the ' Suva left Wellington at 4.15 p.m. on the 18th ; arrived at Napier ab 5.30 p.m. on the 19th ; left for Gisborne at 4.30 p.m. on the 20th ; and arrived at Gisborne at 5 a.m. on the 21st ; left again at 8.30 a.m. on the same day, calling in at Tologa Bay, Tuparoa, and Hicks's Bay, and arrived in Auckland as above. Experienced fine weather from Wellington to Napier, thence N. winds and moderate sea to East Cape, thence strong S.W. winds and heavy head gea to arrival. Her passengers were: Mr Wood, Mrs A. Drummond, Mr Ray and family (9), Messrs A. Drummond, Ball, Jones.

ARRIVAL OF THE PUKAKI.

The steamer Pukaki, the latest addition to the fleet of the Union S.S. Co., arrived in port at 11.20 a.m. from Glasgbw via Lyttelton. The purser (Mr Petheridge) reports leaving Dunedin at 6.15 p.m. on the X6th inst. Oamaru was reached at 6a, m. next day, left again at 11.15 p.m., arrived Timaru at 6.30 p.m. on the 18th, sailed 12 hours later for Lyttelton and arrived at 8 a.m. on the 19th, sailed for Auckland direct at 6.30 p.m. on the 2Qth inst., arriving as above. Experienced fine weather to Lyttel ton, from there to crossing Cook's Straits strong N.W. gale with heavy sea, thence to the East Cape fine weather, thence to crossing the Bay of Plenty strong head winds and*sea, and to arrival light ■winds and fine weather. Passengers: Mr Britton and child and 4 steerage. Caigo : 1,391 tons produce and 25 tons stone. The Pukaki is commanded by Captain Johnson, formerly of the steamer Mawhera and others of the Black Diamond Line. The other officers are Mr J. Tickell, chief, late of the Rotomahana; Mr W. H. Patter eon, second, late of Hawea ; Mr Alexander L. Kerr, third, who is a stranger to the Company, having come out from Glasgow with the vessel. The engineers are Mr Henry Hay, chief; Mr J. '■' William son, second j , Mr, J. MjLean, third ; and Mr J. Dunlop, fourth. She was brought out from Glasgow by Captain Duder, late chief officer of the Rotomahana, ; and afterwards of the steamship Iriumph. Mr H. C. Petheridge fills the position Of purser, while the chief steward .is found in the person 'of Mr J. L. Hewitt, late of the Grafton. The Pukaki is rigged as a brigantine, and is different in her construction to any other of the Company's steamers, having been specially built by Messrs Denny Bros,, at Dumbarton, for ; ,sbe coal trade which the Union Company are.about to open up be itween the West Coast and Australia; She Aβ 230ffcJong, 36ft in and has'a depth iofhold ; ofl<Sft9in ; her registered tonnage iis 850 net'and 1,400 gross/ She has been erigined by Mcssars -Denny Bros., and is fitted with quadruple i surface conden ■ing engines of 700 mdi« f . ■ ■ - ■ ■ ,■».....■■. ■'....■ ,■" ..., ■■ -■■ -i

cated, the diameter of her cylinders being respectively 16in, 24in, 36in, and 47in, with a length of stroke of 36in. . She has multitubular steel boilers, loaded to a pressure of 1701b to the square foot, while her three furnaces are Foxe's patent corrugated of the latest make. She has a paten? evaporator and distiller for making fresh water for boiler consumption, and is also fitted with Weir's patent pumps for feeding her boilers. There are three cargo hatches, each fitted with patent steam winches, and generally she is fitted with all the recent labour-saving appli ances. There is a large bridge deck amid ships, on which is the wheel-house, chart room, and captain's cabin. Underneath this, on the main deck, is the saloon—a very tastefully fitted-up place, capable of acconi modating twenty passengers. It is panelled in ornamental woods, and has crimson velvet seats, a chofibnier, mirror, and clock. The sleeping cabins are most comfortable ; and there is a special compartment for ladies. The officers and engineers have comfortable rooms on either side of the alley-way, under the bridge deck; and directly under the forward part is the galley, which has been fitted with every modern improvement. The second cabin, which is in the after part of the vessel, is one of the best we have yet seen ; it is flush with the main deck, is lofty and well ventilated, and is fitted up in very neat style. The sleeping cabins fire very comfortable, and on the whole this part of the ship exceeds what is usually provided for this class of accommodation. The Pukaki' left Glasgow at 3 p.m. of August 2nd; crossed the Equator on August 20th in longitude lldeg. W. The meridian of the Capo of Good Hope was crossed on September 7th, and passed the meridian of Cape Leeuwin on September 26th ; met light winds from E. toN.E. for nine days, and sighted the South-west Cape of New Zealand at noon of the 6th October ; had moderate to fresh N. and N.E. winds, and arrived at Dunedin on the Bth inst.

ARRIVAL OF THE TE ANAU.

S.s. Te Anau, 1652 tons, J. Mclntosb, master, arrived to-day at noon. Tho purser (Mr R. Guy), reports :—Sailed from the Queens Wharf, Melbourne, at 2.20 p.m. of the 12th inst., and Williams town at 6 p.m. Cleared Port Philip Heads at 8.50 p.m. Arrived at the Bluff at-6.a. m. of the 17th inst. Sailed same day, and called at Dunedin on the 18th, Lyttelton the 20th, Wellington the'2lst , Napier the 22nd, Gisborne tho 23rd, taking her departure from the latter port same day at 10.15 a.m. arriving along side as above. Experience strong southerly and south-west winds from Melbourne to Bluff, and on the coast had fresh north-west winds and fine weather, The Te Anau brings the following passen gers : _Saloon : Mr and Mrs R. Proude and family (4), Mr and Mrs Andrews, Mr and Mrs Mcßurne, Mesdames Carter, Alston and 2 children, Bond, Misses K. Man ning, Bews, Major Bodham, Messrs McQueen, Rohl, Baldwin, Sweetapple, Carey, J. H. Owen, Walker, P. Dufnur, Farrcll, Malavey, Dufaur, Weotman. Steerage, 21.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Wellington, this day.—Arrived: Opawa, ship, from London. WELLINGTON, October 22.—Sailed: Janet Niclol, for Auckland.

Port Chalmers, this day.—Arrived : Coptic, from London. Bluff, this day.—Tho s.s. Wairarapa arrived from Melbourne at 6.30 a.m to-day. Saloon passongors for Auckland : Mr Wing field, Mr, Mrs, and Miss Woods.

San Francisco, October 21.—The Mari posa sailed at six o'clock this morning for Auckland, with tho London mails to Octo ber sth.—«

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, October 24. Messrs Arthur and Bcddi/e's Weekly Report.—There has been an unsatisfied want fen , produce ond fruit of all kinds. Until Friday there was but little in the mart. We would remind our friends nob to wait until Friday to send their produce ; a supply on hand enables us to meet the de mand all through the week. Poultry should be sent only on Thursday or Friday for the market day sale. The supply of poultry this week was small; no geese entered and but few turkeys. There was a fair demand. Pigs sola well—a email supply. New potatoes brought fair prices. Onions are wanted. No carrots entered. There is a good demand for all kinds of root crop and vegetables. Bacon of pood quality has sold readily at satisfactory prices—it is in good request. A large quantity of fresh butter in pats was entered for sale—brought good prices. But little good salt butter entered, fair prices were obtained ; no de mand for inferior. Cheese of good quality in fair demand, but prices continued low. There is a good demand for general gro ceries. Auckland-grown apples sold at 6d to 7Jd per lb; loquats brought 3d to 4d ; lemons were in good demand. Furniture has been quiet, no outside sales ; there are several advertised to bo held next week in various parts of the city and suburbs. Monday: Sale of drapery, clothing, etc., at mart; there wrs a good attendance, and fair prices were obtained. Tuesday : Sale of household furniture and effects at mart. Tho demand was limited, , prices ruled low; not a large business was done. Wednesday: Sale of unclaimed luggage and cargo, furniture, etc., at mart. A very large number present, fair competi tion ; good prices were obtained. Thurs day : Sale of property, Wynyard Road, Mount Eden, by order of the Registrar of the Supreme Court; the mortgagee was the buyer. The sale of drapery, etc., was fairly well attended, but bidding was languid ; J many lines had to be passed. Friday:! Market-day sale of poultry, produce, fruit,; groceries, etc., at mart. There was a large attendance, good competition ; an unsatis- j fied demand 7or good stuff, a large quantity changed hands; the sale continued until after five o'clock. The following are some* of the prices obtained: —Fowls, Is 5d to Iβ lid; Spanish, Is 8d to 2s 3d ; Brahmae, dorkings, etc., 2s 3d to 2s 8d; ducks, Is 9d to Is lid ; small turkeys, 3s ; small pigs, 3s to 3s 6d ; pigs; 7s 3d to 7s 6d; small dead sucking pigs, 3s 3d each. Produce, etc > New potatoes, fd to l£d ; kidneys, lfd to 2d ; old potatoes, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; onions, f to l^d; cheese, 2|d'to 3d ; bacon, 3d to/?£a ; ham, 6d to 7^d; fresh buttered td gait butter, keg, to sd; chaff, 2a, 2s 6d ; bran, 4s 6d; wheat, 3s lid ; lemons, to Is 2£d; local apples, 6d to 7-!jd per lb; Hobart apples, 8s 6d to 13sj.' per case; loquats, 3d to 4d ; jam, 4s 3d per dozen ; sharps, ss; box tea, 20s; Jbiscuits, 4|d; honey, 3d; oats, 2s 3d;/pines, 4s; flour*

Messrs Paget and Ralston report following prices as obtained by them on Friday last, at their market sale. Poultry ; Ordinary table fowls, Is 6d to Is lid each ; turkeys, 5s to 5s 3d; ducks, Is 6d to Is lid; geese, 4s 6d; small pigs, s s 3d to 11s each; pigeons, Is each; fowls, 2s 6d. Produca : —Prime Seed potatoes, £6 per ton; Oamaru • table, potatoes, £2 10s to £3 ; pig, potatoes; £1> 5s ; onions. ■ 3Jd per lb; wheat, 6e 10d per bushel maize, 3s 6d to 3s 7&; barley, 3s 3d ; oats 2s 2Jd to 2s 4d j bran, £4 10s per ton • sharps, £5 ss; chaft; £4, sacks extra ; corned beef, ljd per lb ; cheese, to 3d ; hams, 2£d to 6Jd; 2d to 4^d; salt butter, 2d to 3|d; honey, 3d ; new potatoes, |d to Id per lb; lemons, 4|d per dozen • fresh butter, 5d perlb. The property at Mount Roskill known as Timothy Hayes's' was sold on WedQ63day, a.nd fetched £350. 1 Edward Leydon reports business for tba week eatisfaofcory. The have been well

attended; furniture improved a Übble. There was a good demand for produce of every description. At Tuesday s sale in Ponsonby the attendance WM very large, bidding brisker, and the goods on the whole fetched very fair prices. At Wednesdays sale of drapery, fancy goods, and clothing, all the lines offered were sold ; prices filed low. At Thursday's sale of furniture the following are a few _of the prices obtained :-V™™> f 2 l_ sul _ te > £14; chests of drawers, 30a to £3 15s; washstand and dressing; table,, £1 la to £1 5s per pair ; couches, £2 to £2 10a ; B. W. easy chairs, 22s 6d to 24s 6d ; American rocking chairs, 7s 6dto 8s 6d j wood chairs, 3s 6d each ; cane ditto, 4s ; round table, 14s; bedsteads, 15s to 60s, &c.,-&c, &c. Friday's sale of produce, furniture, &c. : Potatoes, 2s 6d to 2s 9d ; new potatoes, Id to l*d ; bacon, 4Jd to 6*d ; hams skl to 7kl -'fowls, Is 4d to2s; ducks, Is 7d to 2s Id ; salt'butter, 3d to 5d ; fresh butter, "5d to 8d ; tea, 16s per box. Thero was also a large quantity of furniture sold at prices in favour of the vendor.

Mr D. F. Evans reports :—A slight im provement in business this week. Many capitalists seeking investments, bub it was nob an easy matter to meet thoir views ; a few properties changed hands, bub at prices more satisfactory to "the purchaser than the vendor. Five-roomed cottage and allot ment 33 feeb, Stanley-street, £200; four roomed cottage and allotment 59 feet, Shelly Beach Road, for £250; hand some residence and grounds, London street, for £1,500. The furniture sales at the mart were pretty well ab tonded, nearly all the second-hand furni ture being cleared. Magic lantern and slides, £8 15s; caligraph or type-writer, £13 10s ; bentwood rockers, £1 Is; bent wood lounge, £2 ; tapestry suite, £10 10s ; half-tester iron bedstead, £1 5s ; piano, £9 10s ; duchess suite, £7 10s ; spring mab tress, £1 5s ; sets toiletware, 9s ; bedroom ware, 3s 3d; rocking chair, 8s; chest drawers, £2 2s ; tapestry carpet, 2s 6d por yard ; linoleum, Is 9d per yard ; horsehair suite, £5; and other lines equally cheap.

Notices to Correspondents.

Constant Reader.—•The richest man in America is John Jacob Astor, the cele brated landowner, who is estimated to be worth two hundred million dollars. The Vanderbilt family rank next, as they are known to be worth overonehundred million dollars, while Jay Gould's wealth is esti mated from one hundred to one hundred and fifty million dollars. Greenlane.—lf a dog worries sheep its owner is responsible for damage9,and the owner of the sheep would be entitled to destroy the dog if he caught it in tho act of worrying. The fact of the dog being seen in the paddock where sheep had beon worried would, of course, be some evidence upon which to found an action for damages.

The Evening Star. TH WHICH INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, An* the good that we can do.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1887.

Daily collisions, our cable despatches report, are occurring between the unemployed of London and the police; bakers' shops have been sacked in Piccadilly, and a series of monster meetings, torchlight processions, and other demonstrations of a character that will command the attention of the authorities are being organised. If the masses of the great were ever to grow desperate and rise in their great power, the arm of authority would be powerless to cope with the outburst, and the horrors which happened in Paris at the close of the last century, and later still in the days of the Com mune, after the Franco-German war, would be repeated in the usually orderly streets of the British capital. This great problem of the want of em ployment is tlie question of the day. The Tmrdens thrown upon the State by sickness and crime are Kepi by natural laws within measurable limits, and may be easily coped with; but when a large portion of the popu lation is able and willing to work and is yet unable to get it at rates of wages that will provide them with the bare necessities of existence, we have an evil which cannot be remedied either by philanthropy or repression. The first is degrading and the second unjust. Yet this evil has at tained a magnitude in England that few people who have not studied the question suspect. Dγ, Farrar, in a recent address at Westminster, stated: " There are in London at this moment 80,000 paupers, and half-a-million atleast are engaged in a terrible struggle to hold back by the ears the wolf of poverty." He said the number of the unemployed was steadily increasing, and he could not therefore join in the jubilations about progress. One of thfe most re markable, reliable, and practical works that have been issued from the press of late years on this burning question is that written by Mr Herbert V. Mills, entitled, "Poverty and the State, or Work for the Unemployed," being "an enquiry into the causes and extent of enforced idleness, together with the statement of a remedy practicable here and now." This writer enters into careful calculations of the number of unemployed in England and Wales, basing his calculations upon the statis tics of parishes, trade societies, and other organisations, and he arrives at the startling conclusion that "there must be some six millions of the un l employed and their dependents in this wealthy land," and he asks:—-

What are»the hungrj masses doing to day ? What are they thinking of ? Are they content to go on for ever thus? Is our be loved England safe still ? I am not by any means sure that it is. , We may hay© no thing to fear from France, from Germany; from Rrussia. But if we have English men rebellious, at home, we have a more terrible enemy to deal with than any combination of foreign powers. Already clouds are gathering. Working men are intelligent enough to understand that their sufferings are not inevitable. They may not know what is the best method of reform, but that does nots save us. Any method is better than none. There are avowed revolutionaries . openly incit ing them to resistance, every day, in public spaces, and the hungry and unemployed are listening and learning. How long shall we be safe ? Six millions prosperous, and thirty millions, two-thirds of whom are either . over-wrought and under-paid or destitute. : How long ? Ire land even now is weary of our government; but there would be no "Irish Question' , possible if it were not for the lack of work and the starvation which prevails through out the land. No wonder she longs to take the reine in her own hand. Matters could not be much worse. But it is not only in Ireland; London, Manchester, Birmingham* and Liverpool aro causing trouble.

Mr Mills does not magnify jbhe danger. In every large city of Great Britain the rumblings . of the revolu tionary thunders have been heard. Socialistic and Anarohist agitators are nightly addressing eager throngs of earnest raea, who are rankling under a sense o| personal wr<mg. When

these men are highest statistical wealth of the nation as a whole is increasing afc the rate of £230,000,000 a year, they feel that there is some* thing wrong in the mode of distribution; and are the more disposed to lend an attentive ear to the harangues of the advocates of force.

Mr Mills aims at a remedy which will anticipate and avert this danger. He attacks the parish system of England, and shows that the poor-houses might be made self-supporting if the power of work possessed among the in mates were applied to land instead of to useless and. profitless occupations. We cannot here follow the author through the 382 pages in which he sets forth his facts and establishes his position. It is sufficient to say that his conclusions are logical and convincing. He goes back tq first principles, and finds the true solution of the problem in settlement on the land with co-operation. He maintains, and we think successfully, that an estate of 2,000 acres of good land, if utilised to its fullest capacity on co-operative prin ciples, would furnish the means of sub sistence for 4,000 persons. All would not of course be engaged in tilling , the soil,but as he remarks, "We cannot pos sibly bring together 4,000 persons with out at least requiring 4,000 suits of garments every year. Here, then, is work provided for a certain number of Spinners and weavers, of tailors and hatters, of milliners, dressmakers, stocking • knitters and shoemakers; tanners of leather, etc. We cannot bring together 4,000 persons without requiring 365 breakfasts and dinners and teas and suppers for them every year. Here, then, is work provided for cooks and kitchen maids, for fanners and gardeners, for milkmaids and dairymaids, and bakers and preservers of fruit, and—within certain definite limits—we shall have no diffi culty whatever in disposing of our produce." In the foregoing passage we have condensed into a nutshell the kernel of his scheme, and it is the more interesting to us here becaiisfe the means of applying it are so much more ready to hand. In the great cities of Europe, the wail of the unemployed is one of all but utter hopelessness. Here, it is within the power of most to go back to Eden. In village settlements some attempt has been made at, this;, and if an effort to promote co-operative farming upon the plan advocated by Mr Mills were made upon a larger scale, the "practical remedy here and now" would, we believe, be found by many who are now vainly trying to settle for themselves the problem of how to live without continual haras sment and fear for the future.

A LESSON IN TACTICS.

It was the South that gave Auckland her Tactician, and it is very plain that the Queen of the North may learn something of the science of political manoeuvring from the " pawky cliiels " of Otago. We do not say that we should descend to the shady practices i by which Dnnedin and Christchurch obtained a Government subsidy for the unemployed, for in the field of legiti mate agitation we have still much to learn. For example, in the important matter of placing our claims to railway construction before Parliament, we have lagged "behind most deplorably, the result being that the North has ob tained nothing like her fair share of public expenditure on railways. The' patient persistence of the Otagans is exemplified by the manner in which; they keep pushing for the construction j of their Central Railway. Bβ it remembered that Otago has long since had its' Trunk Railway completed, giving through communication with Invercargill and Christcburch, and that the Central line aims at developing largo tracts of unoccupied lands, and not at connecting two centres of popu lation. For years the people of Otago have kept pestering the Government (after the style of the .widow and the unjust judge) until at last the Go vernment started making the line. A section of 20 miles from MQSgiel to Hindon is now being made, but as there is little prospect of the Govern ment carrying on the work a proposal is now made to allow a company to finish the line on the land grant system. The complete line as sur veyed to Lake Hawea is 180 miles in length, as it takes a very crooked course to avoid large pastoral tracts and barren hills, and get through the valleys suited for agricultural _ pur poses. The cost of constructing ifc will be over a million sterling, and there is little hope of the line proving remu nerative. But the Otago folks have set their minds upon it, and their latest tactical stroke is one worthy '.of imita tion. They have sent to each member of the House of Representatives a glow ing report on the prospects of the line, accompanied by an attractive coloured map on a large scale, showing large tracts of arable land with townships dotted here and there, arid mountain ranges bristling with " goldfields," as denoted by bright yellow dabs of paint. "Things seen are mightier than things heard," and" such a vivid representation of the advantages of the proposed railway must produce an ex cellent effect on members. The com mercial community of Auckland, \if they adopted a similar course, could make out a far more glowing case in favour of the Taranaki route for the North Island Trunk Railway. .They could help on the cause mightily by sending down a coloured map, show ing the geological, arboreal, and agricultural value of the Mokau 'and Taranaki lands 1 ; that • would be tapped by the railway if taken by that route j. md by " way ■ $ contrast they should wad a company

Auckland .„ 8 Wellington ..] '" '" Lytfcellon .'.'.' '" 'HI^^IIIIB -—-1 '" *%&':• ■ Auckland ;.. I ■Dunedin ... " --'""£ H Money orders amounting to / v- I were issued, and '" I /3Q 840 ■ W it- ,o; ■ total amount of postal riotea fiSdW' as against )5 27;Ej e^ : and the four cities are represented t^■ the following amounts:—AdclM /2,535; Christchurch, • ■£]%., Dunedin, £ 1,696; Weilin S toD The telegraphic revenue for thei-' shows a large dimiimtiori made up for by an increase-.of Tsis in the posbil receipts. would appear to be eoine'Sm-irwhi rapidly than before, proving $>(# I dull times have teu. 1 ' - - \>a|pjj actual distress or want as wßm lot economy. The amountii^BH but the fact that the c6lon'y%OTfflH antee of the permanent nature of fij I coming tido of prosperity. M The adjourned manslaughter ca»,tts wM O'Connor. • .. v ,J'J his injuries. . - ■ I i the sum of.-;ll6 1 -ButecrjpWpffl ' lected for Steven Clark, -whose vpUnre* rt rL m and P «J'*£&, shipping companies, ban k "V> SmSelial ftlSpibl^

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HOT LAKES DISTRICT. : THE WONDERLAND OF NEW ZEALAND. THE SCENES OF THE LATE VOLCANIC ERUPTION. AUCKLAND to ROTORU A, ROTOMAHANA, TAUPO, TAURANGA, AND BACK. Full and reliable information as to routo, coat, etc., supplied. Through tickets can be issued at an exceedingly low rate. Auckland Booking Office: H. F. WAY, AgentforMcßac's I'alacollotol, also Robertson's ■ Coaches from Oxford to Rotoruu, Ehrenfeied's Buildings (Next Northern S.S. Co.), LOWKK QUKEN-STREKT A UCKLAND AGENCY IN LONDON. FREDK. LARKINS Having rotired from his partnership with Win, McArthur and Co., is establishing hlmsolf in London as a COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL. AND CONFI DENTIAL AGENT AND REFKREK London Address pro torn.: 17, GnESHAM-STKKKT, E.G. (care of ThOB. Miokloin, Esq.) Auckland Agent: MR F. G. EWTNGTON. CONSIGNMENTS received and sold under the Buperlntcndancoof F. Larkins. INDENTS executed by him. ESTATES Bought, Sold, or Liquidated. MR LARKINB will bo in London by Nov. Ist for general business. .., ■ **• TN CONSEQUENCE Off THE DEATH of ' '*;>.■•' Mb ALEXANDER INGLIS, Tho only surviving partner of tho Firm, TENDERS ARE INCITED ' FOR THAT WELL-KNOWN & OLD-ESTABLISHED BUSINESS (Successfully carried on for the last 24 years by Messrs A. and T. Infrlis, at George-Street, Dunedin), AS A GOING CONCERN, IN ONE LOT. THE BUSINESS COMPRISES ' Genkhai. Drapkry, Clothing, and Mercery Boots and Shoes Carpets and Furnishings furniture, crookbby Ironmongery. Undertaking Boot Manufacturing, Cabinet and FuRNiTUKK Manufacturing. ■ For particulars as to Leases, Gronnd Rents, Buildings, Book Debts, Stock, Turn-over, etc, apply by letter to " Tho Executors of tho Jato Mr Alexander Inglis, Goorcre-strcot, Dunedin;.' or on the Promises to the Manager. Tenders must be at the Office of the Firm not later than TH URSDA V, tho 20th day of October, 1887, at 12 noon. • The highest or any tendor not necessarily accepted. Each tender must have attached a Marked Cheque foe 10 per cent, of. the amount of the i tender. J; ; " I, *■!'"' -.■■ i ■ ■ TH E k "' ; "U •' N ION" I ■ ~'■■ , i> p' ',:$ And the. • : "SOUTHERN SPEKM" CANDLES, Mode by *rHE UNION OIL, SOAP, and CANDLE COMPANY, Of AUCKLAND, Are all Guaranteed FULL WEIGHTS (16 ounces to the pound). Many of the Colonial-made Candles' now in 'the market are Lightweights, and therefore dearer at the money than the Auckland-made Candles. . TRY. FOR YOURSELVES.. : and USBTONLY THE LOCAL ARTICLE OPPOSITE THE TOWN CLOCK. CHRISTMAS 4p4ARDS l" /CHRISTMAS riARDS ! The Rbovei'aro a speciality, and are shown in a separate room. rpENNIS "O ACQUETS ! mENNIS T> ACQUETS! AT KELSEY'S, " " •OPPOSITE THE TOWN CLOCK.



COUNTY COUNCIL ' ELECTION. • BIRKENHEAD RIDING. October 19,1887. TO J. H. WITHEFORD. Dear Sir,-We, the undersigned Ratepayers of Birkcnhead Riding, considering it advisable that a person of weight and experience should be elocted to represent this Riding in tho Waito. mata County Council, respectfully request you to become a Candidate for the same, and should you comply, wo hereby jromiss not only to give our own support, but to use our utmost exertions to secure your return. "Wo remain, Dear Sir, (Signed) Youra faithfully, 11. J. Hawkins, Chairman of Road Board. John J. Bond, Member of Road Board. B. T. Hawkins, Member of Road Board. John G. Kay, Member of Road Board. T. Buddie New Zealand Sugar Co. (W. Philson, Acting Manager). Graves Aickin (Auckland Tramway Co.), And 27 others. mo THE CHAIRMAN AND MEMBERS -*- OF ROAD BOARD, T. BUDDLE. W. PHILSON, GRAVES AICKIN, and twenty seven others signing requisition. Gentlemen,—l have much pleasure in com. plying with your requisition; and if elected will use every endeavour to promote tho interests of the district and aid in it 3 practical advancement, I remain, . Gentlemen, Yours faithfully, J. IL WITHEFORD. Auckland, October 21,1887. "JT'EEN 'COMPETITION. FRESH EGGS. 7d per dozen . FRESH BUTTER, finest quality, 6Jd FRESH BUTTER, vory.good, 8d CANTERBURY BACON, finest, 7d per lb CANTERBURY BACON, good, 5d & 6d pot lb CHEESE, 4d and 5d per lb lr,B TEA, in Fancy Packet, Iβ 8a Ilb TEA, in Fancy Cannister, 2s REMEMBER, WE SELL FOR CASH. For nil Orders over 20s, 2J per cent. Discount EARLE & MONTGOMERY, CO-OPERATIVE- STORE, KARANGAHAPE ROAD; WIIOLESALE-FORT-STREKT. STARTLING A NNOUNCEMENT. MONSTER SALIToF BOOTS AND SHOES AT GAEUETT BEOS.' Previous to Stock-taking. GARRETT BROS, have decided to offer tho wholeof their immense Stocks at Wukefleld-stroot and Karangahapo Road at COST PRICE, for a few weeks only, and also to make room for two large Stocks from their Southern branches, about to be closed. Now is tho opportunity for those feeling bad times to purchase those great necessaries at genuinely Wholesale Prime Cost. Tho superior character of our stock is well known throughout New Zealand, thoroforo puffing is unnecessary. It only remains for the Proprietors to say THE SALE 18 TRULY GENUINE. Many thousand different lines are offered. A very fow only can be quoted hero ;— s.d. Ladies' House Boots ',". .. reduced to 211 Ladiea , House Boota',, ..reduced to a 9 Ladles' Carpet Slippers ..reduced to 2 9 Ladies'Buif Slippers .. .. reduced to S 3 Lartios' Prunella Slippers .. reduced to 3 9 Ladies , Fur-boujMl iSlipncra ~ W|Auoed to .8. ■&■ Ladies' sto 7 Shoes, assorted .. reduced to 4 9 Ladies' Button Shoes .. ..seduced to 6 c Ladies' Levant Lace Shoes .. reduced to 6 6 Ladies' WalkingPrunellaßootg reduced to 4 6 Ladies' Levant BlasticSides .. reduced to 6 9 Ladies' Button Boots, 5t07 .. reduced to 6 « Ladies' Hygienic Lace Boots - reduced to 8 6 Ladies' Prunella Shoes .. ..reduced to 4 9 Ladies' Suporior Button Boots reduced to 9 6 Ladies' Levant Elastic Sides .. reduced to 6 9 Ladies' Kid Elastic Sides ... reduced to 611 Children's Felt Boots .. .. reduced to Oil Children'sßuttonßoots,2to6.. reduced to 1 6 Children's 7to 13assorted E.S.. reduced to 2 6 Children's Laced reduced to 1 6 Maids' Kid Elastic Sides, land 2 redncodto 4 II Children's Strong Elastic Sides reduced to 3 6 Men's Elastic Sides .. .. reduced to 711 Men's Bluchers, tips, nails, etc reduced to 5 6 Men's Watertights .. .. reduced to 8 6 Men's Balmorals reduced to 10 6 Men's Shoes.. ..- „ .. reduced to 8 0 Boys' Boots .. reduced to 4 6 Boys' Lace Boots .. .. .. reduced to 311 Women's Leather Elastic Sides reduced to 6 6 Women's Laco Boots .. .. reduced to 8 0 A Job Lot of Ladies' very superior Walking Boots, assorted, from 8s tid to 13s &L Most ot these Bargains will be cleared, auickly, therefore come early and sceuro the best. pARRETT TVBOTHERS, WAKEFIELD STREET ■ AND ■•. GARRETT'S BUILDINGS, KARANGAHAPE ROAI>. AUCKLAND. VENI! VIDI! VICI! " mHE VERY" BUTTON (Shakespear). JL The Latest Novelty. We have imported a Button-making Machine, and can now supply Buttons same cloth as Garment, Onkhunoa Tweeds included. No extra charge Call and see the Machine at work. AUCKLAND CLOTHING COMPANY (G.Mcßride), Customs-street East, opposite Coupland's Store. lF\ X EM P ¥, * SURGEON DENTIST, Has Removed to CORNER OF ELLIOTT AND WELLESLEY STREETS (Opposite the Opera Houso.) Box 210], [Telephone 378 HF. WIND SO R, • SURGEON DENTIST (by exara.J (Late of tho Firm of Kempt and Windsor.) I beg to intimate to the public of Auckland and Provincial District that I continue in prac tice at the Old Chambers, Shortland-street (opposite Post Office.) Having secured the ser vices of a first-class Mechanical Assistant, and reduced my charges, I hope to merit a share of their support. Box 210, P.O.] ' ; [Telephone 37?. OT ICE 01 REMOVAL. Mb T. TRAFFORD, The oldest-established Surgeon Dontiet of 18 years, Desires to inform his patients and friends that ho has' removed from Wakefleld-street 1 to more central offices, QUEEN-STREET (over Wayte's, Bookseller), opposite Wyndhamtstreet Professional hours : 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. E■ N T I. S T R Y. Mb A. L. SMITH, OLD-ESTABLISHED DENTIST, Corner of Hobson ajstd Wellkslky Streets Artificial Teeth fitted without extracting stumps. Other dentists'work repaired. Teeth stopped. Gas administered. Charges moderate 'JVamcars pase the house. _ rtaE"" MELBOURNE AGE." Circula- X tion, 68,000 daily. Tho largest Commercial, Advertising , , and General Newspaper in the Colonies. Price, Id ;Cs Cd per quarter. The " LEADER," 48 pages. The best Farm ink*. Agricultural, and General Weekly News-- P « NEWS" (New Zealand Edition). The leading Monthly Illustrated Newspaper. Single num bers (id; double numbers, with coloured plate, Is. Agents; Messrs Kidd and Wildman, Upton andrCo.,.«itL E. Wayte, Auckland; and all News Agoato. Post free. ___, T> EMEMBER, if you leave your .order at W\j 3. H. Dalton'B for a Suit, you get a choice ot three Extra Pair of Trousers, Waterbury Watcb opW per cent. Iwe we,



RTT -DARTLETT, » — JLjL* -O PHOTOGRAPHER. MrsBARTLETT begs to announce that she has purchased the above business. In thanking her .past patroh9 and friends for their uniform kindness. Mrs Bartlett also takes this Opportunity of stating that the BUSINESS will be carried on under the same title La the future, and that evory effort will be made to give satisfaction. Mr EDWARDS Having kindly consented to take charge of the Studio will bo a sufficient guarantee that all work will be done in tho same high-class style as hitherto. PRICES GREATLY REDUCED, Both of first sittings and extra copies. Mrs BARTLETT, 244, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND.