A HUMAN ELECTRIC BATTERY.

Anton Saverne Can Xiignt Els Lamp and His Pipe by Snapping His Fingers.

Anton Saverne, a Belgian cabinet-maker, employed at a Kensington shipyard, and living all alone in the little frame house, 962, Schleswig-street, has the wonderful power of producing electric sparks by rub bing his fingers. Saverne is a little, swarthy fellow, about 40 years old, with a bushy head of black hair, keen blue eyes—very rare among his countrymen — and very small bands. His motions prove that he is excessively nervous, and his senses of hear ing, sight and smell, as he assured a re porter of the " Daily News," are unusually acute. His parents still live on a farm in Belgium, near Brussels, and he is the youngest of a family of 11 children. " I know not how I do it," he said one evening, as the reporter saw sparks shoot from Saverne's fingers. The cabinet-maker rubbed his finger-tips rapidly up and down his pantaloons. Then, holding his hands out, with the fingers widely extended, jets of tiny yellow flames or long sparks shot out. They seemed propelled by some un seen force ten or twelve inches into the air, when they vanished. The right hand ap peared more charged with electricity, if the sparks are electric, than the left. The lamp in Saverne's front room—there are only two in the house—was put out so that the sparks might be seen in all their brilliancy. It was a wonderful sight. Again and again did the bushy-headed Belgian rub his fingers and hold them out, while tiny showers of bright sparks darted out as if from toy fireworks. "I was not always so," said Saverne, Jighting the lamp and his black pipe, filled with villainous tobacco, at the same time, " When I was sick, ten years ago, it was said I would die. I lay very weak one night in my father's house, when there came up a storm. Such thunder and light ning I never knew before. And my body had such queer sensations. While I lay, covered up with bedclothes, my mother sat holding her face in her, hands by my side and I seemed to feol a thousand needles pricking my limbs and chest and the soles of my feet. It was not so painful, for queer thrills came with every pi'ick, and when the thunder rolled away and the rain stopped, I rose up, leaned back, and put out my hand to take that of my mother's. My eyes were closed, but I heard her cry, •Anton !'

" ' What?' I gasped, weakly. " ' Your hand.' " I looked at it. The one nearest to her. It was aflame. God preserve tts. I was terrified. My cry brought my father and sisters to the room. They looked at me in horror. I took my other hand from the clothes to rub my right. Sparks shot from the fingers of the left. Soon they died away, but I have but to rub my hands as you have seen, and the lights come." , iSaverne told of the hardships brought upon him by his singular faculty. Tho neighbouring peasants in Belgium avoided him and told awful stories of his being in league with the devil. Men would not hire him to plough or in harvest time. His own family clung to him, but the farm was small, and'he came to this country live years ago. Hero he learned the cabinet-making trade and got employment at finishing ship interiors. But when his companions saw his faculty, or infirmity, they treated Him coldly; His ignorant neighbours in Schleswig-street regard him as possessed of an evil spirit. Saverne's electric fingers are the curse of bis exis tence.

A Discouraged Man.

',',Jt" is £Bo "last time lam to try,,, There is no use in struggling whim' theodds ere dead against you." *■•'■'*

It was John Harris who was talking. His wite was sewing buttons on the children's clothes after they had gone to bed. As her mouth was full of buttons she could not answer her husband had sho felt inclined. Mr Harris resumed: " I'm clean discouraged. Of course I don't think of myself; it is you and the children I'm worried about; and if it wasn't for leaving you alone, Mary, I'd—" He did not finish what he was saying, as his wife coughed, and all the buttons flew out of her mouth.

"Is it such a bad failure?" she asked presently. She was darning the children's stockings now, having finished sewing on buttons.

"Itcouldn't be worse. When a man's partner takes all the money out of the busi ness and skips to a foreign country, every body hounds him to death as if he had been dishonest. All the creditors are clamouring for their money. It's no use, Mary ; I'm a ruined man, and I'm going to find a way out of it all."

"How?" asked Mrs Harris, trying to speak calmly. i" There are more ways than one. I shall not live to see you want, or to 'be a burden on you and the children. There is no dis honour attached to my name now. It was rash, I suppose, to embark all in one venture, and lose it!" "You have not lost all," suggested Mrs Harris; "you have health,wife andchildren, and an unblemished character." "Poor capital, these," retorted her hus band, gloomily. " No, lam going to give up ! I tell you, Mary, lam a discouraged man ! You do not know what it is to en dure these business worries; you women are sheltered and protected from all such annoyances." '•Are they ?" answered Mrs Harris, with dry lips. She had done the work of three women that day. She had been cook and murse,s and now. she was seamstress. She had cut and contrived, counted pennies, and was engaged to give music lessons to the doctor's daughter to offset their last year's bill. Her whole frame quivered, with the pain of jarred and tangled nerves. But it never entered into her head that she dared to complain. "Doe the Next Thynge" was the motto she had framed and hung tip where she could see it, many times a day. ." As I say," continued her husband, after a spell of gloomy thought,, "there's a way out of it, and many a man has been driven to it. I won't live and be persecuted by a mob of circumstances. If I were out of the way you and the children would have enough to live on comfortably the rest of your lives. It's only anticipating our final fate by a few months or years." Mrs Harris folded the last pair of stock ings and laid them neatly away.' A little smile hovered about her lips. " John," she said in a firm voice, " I have a last favour to ask of you." v

"What is it, Mary?" "-Don't die in the house." , Before the aatonished man could speak she continued :

f< Because it would be so unpleasant for the child.ren and for me. It is our home. I have the deed of it in my possession, sent to me by my father ..yesterday. And I should hate to have any unpleasant associa tions connected with it. I should very much dislike to have you buried at the four corners near here with" a stake driven through you,. though people would soon forget that \ve ever belonged to you. For I wouldnot own to being the widow of a coward or let my children bear his name. And even if you were not held responsible I would be" ashanjed to think you had written your own epitaph. ' Here lies a discouraged man..' ". John, Harris was dqmb w,ith ; surprise.., ; -\. "I know,"continued his wife,'" Ohtitit is a favourite thing.for men to i say tlioj will get out. of it all, find thai; yipnii flo not realise how deeporato the situ'afcipri i», -and a j dot) morerubbish' tbafc they to, be,j phanjedof." ; '

John tried to speak, but his wife had the *'ifc is only a coward who would take refuse in death and leave his wife and children to fight the battle of life alone. And right here, Jack, I want the subject to end for ever. It is hard enough to live with a man who is chronically discouraged, but when he hints at getting out of it I object." John Harris never again made any vague and improbable threatß, but he took the dilemma of business by both horns and practically mastered it. . Nor has his wife ever heard him declare since that he was a " discouraged man."

Electric Motor Cars.

The result of. the trial made in Philadel phia on Wednesday of a motor built by the Wharton Company, and driven by stored electricity, seems to have convinced some of the stockholders and directors of our Citizens' Passenger Railway Company that the time is approaching when electricity and the mechanical appliances used in con nection with ifc will be found an efficient substitute for horses. The practicability of converting the cars in use into electric motors will' tend to facilitate this change. The terrible waste of horseflesh, apart from the cost of the service otherwise, is an ad ditional reason why some mechanical sys tem of traction is desirable. It is a know ledge of this fact that has led to the desire, on tho part of managers of horse railways themselves, to .find some other method of propulsion. Several methods have been devised to meet this want. Steam, compressed air, mechanical springs, cables and electricity have nil been tried. Of those different motors only cables and electricity have been tried with any measure of success. _ The cheapness of the cable system, which is said to be 30 per cent, less than that of horses, lias recommended its uso in some of our cities. But it has one defect which, being inherent in the system, it is impossible to overcome. All tho cars are put in motion by the same line of cable, and if any mishap or break occurs at any one point along the line of route all tho cars are brought to a stand-still until the obstruction is removed or the cable is repaired. There are other minor defects, such as the fraying of the cable and the failure at times of the grip, but these are more easily reme died. The same difficulty appertains to the direct employment of electricity. There, also, the; movement of the cars is dependent ou one source of power. * When that fails from any cause every car on the line is stopped until a duplicate power, if there should happen to be one, transmits a fresh relay of electricity to the third rail between the tracks or to the con duit beneath it. Notwithstanding these disadvantages, the moving of stroet cars by electricity derived directly from the dynamo at the central station has been gaining ground. '' Five years ago," according to an account we have before us, " there was not a practical working railway of this sort in the country." Now, weare told, "more than three million and a half of passengers are carried every year in this country on street cars propelled by electricity." About a dozen roads aro said to bo in operation, and as many under contract. But after all, it is very generally admitted that traction by cable and direct olectricity are simply makeshifts. When onco constructed it is claimed that they are cheaper to operate than horse-powor by one-third. But they are defective as we.have shown, in this that thoy are both dependent on one source of power, and all tho cars must movo to gether at intervals along the line or they cannot move at all. In the Waton motor , the powor is derived from electricity stored in ' Secondary batteries placed beneath the cars. Each ear, therefore, has its motivo ,. pouter,, within Qcmseopntly pendent of any other ear, and iff an accident should happen to it can be shifted from the track without affecting the movement of the other care on the line. It is claimed that the system and appliances have been nearly perfected. Wβ Know nothing of this beyond the fact that the trial on Wednesday is sai'J to have been satisfac tory, and that the President of the Citizens' line contemplates tho adoption of the new motor if convinced that the cost of operating it will compare favourably with that of horse-power.— ,, Baltimore Sun."

The Volcano at Tanna.

On the cruise of the H.M.S. Raven in the New Hebrides a visit was paid by the com mander and a few of the officers of the ship to the volcano in the island of Tanna. The volcano was active, and from, the descrip tion given by the officers it is certainly one of the finest in the South Pacific. Viewed from the sea it presents a most wonder ful sight, and might readily be taken for a burning ship. The party left the Raven at half-past 7 o'clock in the morning, the Rev. Mr Grey acting as guide, and after a most trying walk up a steep incline of some 1,100 ft., along shaded paths and richly-wooded ground, came on to a kind of plateau. Here a grand lake came into view, the grand expanse of water being snrrounded y rich vegetation and that foliage pecu liar to the islands of the Pacific. Passing along close to the lake, the party again ascended and came on to the volcano, an 4 got a beautiful view of the crater, which ap peared to be some 1,500 ft deep and a quarter of a mile in diameter, with almost perpendicular sides, thick with lava, The volcano was in full action, and the huge clouds of smoke as they belched forth into the air, followed by a fine stream of lava, presented a grand spectacle and well repaid the party for their visit.. Exploring on the north-west side of the mountain the party came across sulphur beds. These are carefully guarded by the natives, who. seem to look upon them with great pride. The Tanna natives, we are informed, work the sulphur beds, and under no pretence whatever will they allow other tribes to come there. The natives met on the journey were very friendly with the party, and no opposition was met with. The return journey was commenced after lunch and the ship reached at 5.30 p.m., the dis tance from the crater to the beach, some eight miles, being covered in about four hoiu's.

Execution by Electricity.

As electrician of New York-~at present a visitor in the French capital—recommends to the attention of sensitive Frenchmen three systems for putting condemned criminals to death which are being studied in his own country,, and one of which, he believes, will shortly be selected for carrying out the death sentence. The first consists of a copper bandage placed round, the crimi nal's head in such a manner that a magnetic pole presses closely on the nape of the neck. The "patient" stands on a large zinc plat form ; his hands being tied behind his back. A second, pole is attached to this species of platform. At the right moment the signal is given. The discharge takes place; death is instantanequs. Jabloch koff has invented a mom "comfortable" plan ; hie , notion being to place i the condemned man in an easy chair, with his hands tin the arms of the fauteutt, and his feet touching the zinc plat formy A stop is pressed; the electric ! current "seizes the man by the two elbows, and by his feet;" and in half, a second all is over. A third system has been devised by another electrician, which differs in no material way irpmi the first mentioned; and certain Amencan legislators are, it ap pears, carefully examining the three, with the object of deciding in favour of that, which will insure l|he; quickest and- most ' painless death. ,

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, 1887,

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The nave is cast iron; tho spokes are screwed into it; they are liable to get 100-e, and break off, and are difficult to repair; there °The Paragon Wire Wheels can only be had at COPEMAN & CLEGG'S, 34 and 36, GREY-STREET. 1860. A UCKLAND JJOLLER ]JJ ILt B, AND BISCUIT MANUFACTORY, FORT-STREET, AUCKLAND, N.Z. ~ (Oflico at tho Mill). J O H N L A M B , HAS FOR SALE: WTTTCAT MEAL in sacks, 100's 50's and 25's: WH P E RF,mSfLOUR, InMok.^.STANDARD FLOUR, in sacks; QUEENS I LOUR, in sacks, 100's, 50's, and 25'sr Royal 1' lour, in sacks, 100's, 50'e, and 25 s. SHARPS, BRAN, FOWL,W OATS (whole and crushed), CABIN BlaCUllb, FANCY BISCUITS. Flour and Biscuits packed in air tight tins Islands trade. Ask your grocers for the A» ck land Roller Mills' Flour, and encourago locai industry. THE FOLLOWING TESTIMONIALS Show the Utility of „_. T LAMB'S PATENT PORRIDGE MEAL. "Auckland, June 14,1887. John Lamb. Esq. Dear Sir,-It has been on my mind for some time now to drop you a line about your Patent Porridge Meal. 1 believe you are aware I have suffered considerablyfrominjury to tließtomaoh from tea-tasting, and having consulted my medical adviser, ho strongly recommended Porriilgo for breakfast, which I havo taken until I heard of your Patent Porridge M cal. I may here say tho Oatmeal soon causod unplea santness, sournoßs of tho stomach, and pimples and spots, with irritation, on tho surface of the body. From this I was glad to get away, and at once took to your Patent Porridge Meal. With it I find none of the irrcgu aritics com nlained of above, but a roost palatable Porridge, and the whole system free from unpleasantness or irritation. 1 can strongly recommend it, and certainly think you should do a large trade in rnich an excollent article—Yours vory truly, 8 (Signed) FREDK. WHITEHEAD Industrial School. Kohimarama, Auckland. June 2,1887. Mr John Lamb. < ;_,-.';_ Sir,—Wo nave nowheon using your Patent Porridgo Meal at this school for two months, and I oonslder it but right to inform you that wo all (staff as well as boys) like it so well that I would find it a difficult matter to get them to ■return to using oatmeal. It is without a doubt a splendid article of diet. I may add on my representing to tho Education Department in Wellington that I was using your Patent Por ridge Meal instead of Oatmeal. I rooeived authority from Rev. Mr Habens, Secretary for Education, to continue its use in the school. —Yours faithfully, _„.____ „ ~__.__ i (Signed) GEORGE P. HOGAN, - -";:<■;■ A i Ponson Auckland .:-—,; i..;,-.-iv...',- v .■ '^■"-«-Ma' Mr John Lamb AA" * Dear Sir,—l think it a duty to let yon know results of your Patent Porridge Mai on our youngest boy. He was weakly, and refused every food preparation that comd to got, but upon getting somo of yours ho took to it at onco, and afterwards nothing would satisfy nim but this porridgo. Five or six times a day is not too much for him, and seoing it being prepared cried until ho got it. He is now strong and healthy, and can eat anything, wishing you success.—l remain, yours, tec, _.___:_ (Signed) ■ W. CARDER, Orphan Home, Parnell, May 26,1887. Mr John Lamb: Dear Sir,-We aro greatly pleased with your Patent Porridgo Meal, having used it for somo time. The ohildren all like tho Patent Porridge Meal better than anything they havo had before. Wo thank you for supplying a long-felt want-a pure Porridge Meal, prepared so as to keep all the most valuable properties of tho wMafc— am ' Bit 'ilS^ Y ' E.NEAK*. Matron. 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F. G. E w " r, ''*' T6 « : ESTATE AGENT, . ' QUE EN-STREET, ATJCKXAJfijii t I : {Established 21 years.] TO BE LET. those Premises known as the' «*Sailor3' Rest," on tho Wharf, opposite the : Railway Station Gates. TO BE LET at very low rentals, Shops in Lower Hobson-street. . » Al' A TO BE LET, cheap. Cottages in Lome-street, TO BE LET, a Large House in Karangahane ' Road, suitable for a Boarding-house. f; s TO BE SOLD in one of the best positions Joe twoen the Asylum and the Avondale StatUh, a . compact little property comprising: over Kaores of land, house, stables, dairy and outhouses. There is a never-failing creek running through' the land; the property is well fenced, sub. divided, and commands a lovely view. Price £590, on terms. SHOPS AND OFFICES TO LET in Coombes's Arcadeatlowrentals. ~ q "1 v Jl H, tj O L I A B n Begs to inform his frionds and the public gea. eraliythat he has commenced businessln Auckland as ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT VALUATOR, ETC., A And trusts ho will merit a fair share ot public patronage. J. 8., having many years' experience as a A VALUER OF REAL ESTATE, LIVE ; STOCK. ETC.. '.**»*, Is in a position to advise buyer and seller for their mutual benefit, r-\ J. 8., also, having received a thorough agrlcul tural and pastoral training in the United King. dom. and having 25 years' experience as a farmer In Auckland, is capable of V : PURCHASING ALL KINDS OF STOCK, . FARM SEEDS. ARTFIICIAL MANURE, 1 AND IMPLEMENTS, ETC., For bin farming frionds who live at a distance from the principal markets. john"bollard, ! ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT. 4s; ; Office: Durham-street West, A* pHAS. ;XT/r IL'ii-IA MS ON, HOUSE, LAND & COMMISSION AGENT, 83, QUEEN-STREETA Bankers: NATIONAL BANK OF NEW A ZEALAND. TELEPHONE NUMBER-194. ':? RENTS and INTEREST Collected. . ' f- ESTATES Managed for Absentees.. .;, HOUSES TO LET and PROPERTIES FOR SALE placed upon my Lists Free of Charge. - BUILDING ALLOTMENTS AT PER FOOT :— Sussex-street, 45s Pollen-street, 70s Birkenhead, 10s Haydn-street, 55s View Point Road, 508 Epsom Road, £2 ~ Kyber Pass, £10 Hepburn-street, 80s Newmarket, 80s . Ligar Place, 80s - Richmond, 40s Emmett-street, 62s 63 Berest'ord-street, 70s Victoria Park, 25s Howe-street, 100s Conquest Place, £4 Shelly Beach Road, £5 Customhouse-street ; Northcote, 10s and £5 Grey-street, £25 Lake Road,£2oo per acre Onehunga And in various other streets at low rates. MONEY Invested for Capitalists on Firs*;' class Securities without. charge. Six pei cent, allowed on deposits until invested. ;.,;. MORTGAGES and LOANS Negotiated. BUILDING SOCD2TY SHARES Bought IfON.EY TO LEND. ALLOTMENTS Bought and Houses Built on the Weekly Payment System^ £5 Deposit—Cottage for Sale in the centre of the city; balance by weekly payments. r HO USES AN D SHOPS FOR SALE. - . Wood-street-New 6-roomed House, £350 Richmond Road—s-roomed House, £290 "" Marshfield— a Rooms, leasehold, £150 k-..-i Beresford-street-Leasehold, 6 i.'oomß,'£2so ; ,' Newton Road—Leasehold 3 Cottages, £325 Oxford-street—6-roomed House, £290 Rokeby-street—New House; gas, &c., £250' • ■ Bond-street-5-roomed House, £200 i Union-street—4 Rooms, gas, &c, V 350 Stuart-street—4 Rooms, city water, £250 , Cameron-street, Devdnport—s Rooms,£4oo Collingwobd-street—7 Rooms, vinery, &c, £370 , Remuera—B Rooms and large allotment, £400 . Hackett-street—6 rooms, leasehold, gas, &c., £110 .-, ; . '.'...:-.:■.■ f' ! :y Stockade Road—s rooms, city water and gas,; £270 ' A Wellington-street—2 Shops and Dwelling, £320 Waterloo Quadrant—B rooms, city wafer and's gas, £1.050 -*- Franklin Read—Three Beautiful Houses, £1,500 Glenmore—New 5-roomed /House, £280 Oven's Rbad, Mount Eden—Large 'NewHouSeJ 1 • £600-- ■- -.■■■ ... -■ ■ -.- Rose Road—B-roomed House; gas, water, £350" Ireland-street—New Hesse,- 8 jiooms, £350 Clareraont-streetA-S roomed House, £300 A St. George's Bay—lo-roomed House, 1$ acres Devon-street—s-roomed House, £195 Onehunga— 7,Rooms, stable, | acre; £700 . Bond-street—s-roomed House, £260 Commercial Road—New 5-roomed House, £135 _ Allotment, View Point Road, 63 r 110, £130 Waterview—6-rodmed House and 3 acres fitst; class Land, orchard, garden, £350 Richmond Road—House, stable, and shed, £420 House, new, £460 HohSe, £200 Sussex-street—s-roomed House; city water, £185 Anglesea-street—New 6-roomed House, £550 House. £275 Haydn-StreetA-5-roonied House, £160 Summer-street—6-roomed House.3 lots. £550 Devon-street—6 rooms (new), £300 Grey-street—Boarding-house, £1,600 Russell-street—New 5-roomed House. £160 Mount Eden-rGeneral Store and House. £800 < Roomy HOUS4, £490 Beresford-street—Leasehold, lis 6d weekly Runncll-street -Leasehold,'Us weekly Howe-street-Leasehold, lis 6d weekly ; ; Day-street—Leasehold, 12s 6d weekly Inkerman-street-Leasehold. 10s 6d weekly Kyber Pass-Shop and Dwelling, £42!) PrattnStreet-4 rooms, city water, £200 I '-' Kyber Pass -Shop and Dwelling, £11000 j . ' Colling wood-street- New 5-roomed House, £240; Devonport—New 5-roomed House;. gas, £360"? Kmgsland—New 4-roomed House, £100 i : Surrey Hills—-NewC-roomedHouse;£37s A ' Mary-street—New 5-roomed House, £350 A; i Stewart-street, Mount Eden—New 4-roomed House, £275 Norman-street—New House; bay window, £265: Russell-street -Now House, A rooms, £230 . -T-fl Charming Seaside Residence for Sale; quite new, with 3i acres under cultivation; near Devonport; grand view.. . i SIX ACRES for Sale at Waikomiti for £69. AlaO, Six Acres, Waipareira, HObsonviOe, £60 FARM AT KATIKATI forSaie, 540 acres; river and road frontage; a bargain. COTTAGES and VILLAS to Let in Princes -street, Upper Queen-street, Emmett-street, V nion-street, Hdwestreet, Ireland-street, fcrd-street, Kyber Pass, Arch Hill. -A.* COMPACT FARM of 88 acres for Sale, within 16 miles of Auckland, on.good roads. Six : roomed House and outbuildings; large run for cattle adjoins. Splendid timber on property. FIVE ACRES OF LAND for Sale on Lake Road, partly fenced, in grass; 2 miles from the first wharf. A bargain. . ONE ACRE OF LAND for Sale; at BelmOnt, North Shore, vHth three road frontages. ,h ', , A / £260.—New House, in Devon-street, Newton, for Sale; a bargain at the price. .- A ■ • ' ■ , RICHMOND ROAD.r-Protty Cottage For SaierwithaUconveniences ,• £220.J gas Ma. on. Also, new House fOr £270. " ■„• :' iJ PRETTY VILLA RESIDENCE for Sale in Lincoln-street; gas, city water, range. £330. FARMS also for Sale at Waikomiti. remo, Waitakerei, Mahurangi, North. Shorfc Papakura,etc. Also;seeListin"NewZealand Herald" and " Weekly News." - •■■• ;■•■■, ■ : : , CHAS. WILLIAMSON, "- :■ ','■.■■'; i ESTATE AGENT, , -83, QUEEN-St. (Opposite Fort-street , HAMILTON ROAD, Ponsonby.-Villa Residence of 6 rooms, with every con venienco ; rent, 14s.—J. H. Witheford. "\TORTHCOTE.—A nice Homestead of ±S level land, with 3-roomed Cottage,^! good brick well, orchard, strawberries, etc.; «~; Me J»'" frontage to main road. Easy terms.—Apply J. H. Witheford. Shortland-street. ■ .: GUSTOMS-STREET WEST.—To Let, for one or two years, Allotment in Customs street, 26tt x 90; good water frontage,; cutter can get alongside; suitable for cOal andfirewbott or any heavy goods; steam power can be had it required at next property. Rent low.-J. ■»♦ Witheford, Shortland-street. 1 PROSPECT TERRACE, MOUNT ROSKIIJ- House, scullery, 2 register grates, stove, bow-window; 50x 172; price very low.—J. H. Witheford. .. L"~AKE TAKAPUNA. — For Sale, 10 Acreaof Land, near Hurstmere; sea beach frontage; Lake 'buses pass every hour ; close to, main road to Devonport. Price, £150. |f #«*, the immediate neighbourhood sells at £100 per acre.-J. H. Witheford. Shortland-street. :.■;_ CLEVELAND ROAD, PARNELL.-For Sale or to Let, Villa Residence of 9 rooms, with wash-house, bath-room, and every convey ence; splendid view of harbour; allotoentM by 180; terms reasonable.—J. H. Witheford TURANGA CREEK.—Nice Homestead of 49 aores;l3 acres fenced, S.acres.m. grass; 4-roomod House on property, with Jwry and new stablo and outbuildings; irontege.to tidal river, and plenty of fresh water all the year round.-J; H. Witheford. TO LET in Dunedin-street, a ?-roomed House, with out-hoase, register gratej; gas, waters bay window, commandmggoon view ofharbour; garden; rent, 125.-Appiy j. H. Witheford. / ■;' ■■■ : ■ ■_" ' - -; -TVTOR.THCOTE7"- 5-roomed House, on, M allotment 200 ft"to Pearl-street by lßOftv good well and pump bearmg, strawberries, etc. Price reasonaplcy- Apply l, ; H. Witheford, Snortlaod^treet.



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