SHIPPING.

StTNSET—This evening. 6.52 Sunrise —To-morrow inorninsr, 4.41 Moon's Age—Fir3t Quarter, 22nd, 10.22 p.m

HIGH WATER.

Auckland.—This evening, 0.47; to-morrow morning. 1 20. Manukau Heads. — This evening, 3.27; to morrow morning, 1.0. Kaipara Heads. — This afternoon, 4.27; to morrow morning, 5.0.

ARRIVALS.

Ohau, p.s. , from Ease Coast Glenelg, s.s., from Tauranga,

DEPARTURES.

Glenelg, s.s., for Barrier

STEAMERS TO ARRIVE.

Coromandel, from Coromandel, to - day, 5 p.m. _ ~ Rotomahana, from Thames, Friday, 4.30 p.m. Enterprise, from Thames, Friday, 6 n.m. Balcarres Brook, from London, via Sydney : Bailed September 8 ; Monday, 18th inst. Ohau, from South, Friday

SAILING VESSELS EXPECTED.

Lurlinc, ship, left London for Kaipara, via Dunedin, July 25 Waikato, ship, from London ; sailed Aug. 24 'Canterbury, ship, left London Sept. 27 Waitangi,'ship, from London, loading May Queen, ship, from London Himalaya, bq., from Liverpool via Welling ton !Mary A. Greenwood, bq., left New York July 27, via Lyttelton Ada Stott, barque, sailed August 4 from New York M. Hennings, barque, from New York, to sail Nov. 15 Rebecca Crowell, barque, left New York Sept. 8, via Wellington Deutchland, barque, from New York, via Wellington ; sailed October 20 Jennie B?, schr., from Fiji Restless, brig, from Fiji, early Notero, barque, from Newcastle, sailed Nov. 9 Oregon, barque, from Java, early Diamond, barque, from Newcastle, early ■Welcome, schooner, from Rockharapton, early

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Rangitiki, ship, loading for London Evie Reed, barque, for New York, loading "VVanaka, s.s., for South, Friday, 5 p.m. (Onehunga) Zealandia, ship, for Napier, early. Richmond, s.s., for the islands, Saturday, 26th inst.

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Tarawera :—For Gisborne : 2 sacks oats, 1 machine, 4 rolls sieves, cases and sundries. For Napier: Cases and packages. For Wellington: 155 nests pipes, 288 bags cement, cases, and sundries. For Lyttelton: 396 cases gum, 128 bundles timber, 400 bags sugar, sundries. For Dunedin: 230 bags sugar, 7 cases tobacco, 3 cases cigarettes and sundries. For Bluff: 300 bags sugar, cases and packages. For Hobart: 1 pen and 1 crate fowls, 1 parcel, 2 drums oil. For Melbourne : 200 pieces timber, 15 sacks, 8 bags, and 985 hides, 10 packages apparel, 168 bags coffee.

The schooner Gisborne sailed for East Coast pert* yesterday evening with cargo •and one passenger —Mr Swan. The s.s. Glenelg arrived from Tauranga and Mercury Bay this morning with the following passengers : —Messrs Eraser, M. Jfienealey, M. Carina, Rev. Griffiths, Mcs dames Hay ward, Flowerday, L. Bromley, L. Bassett. The s.s. Gairloch arrived at Onehunga yesterday from Waitara with cargo con sisting of 348 sheep, 84 cattle, 5 cases, 26 cases butter, 3l packages and the following passengers : — Misses Ramsay, Hallon, Messrs Charnock, Ross, Witt, Brown, Rosser, and 1 native. The following coasters have arrived since yesterday : —Eleanor, cutter, from the East Coast, with, produce ; Mahurangi, cutter, from the Barrier, with firewood : Rnakaka, barge, from the Coast, with timber; Rob Roy, cutter, from the Barrier, with lire wood ; Mana, cutter, from Tairua, with timber ; Otahuhu, cutter, from the Thames, with timber ; Eleanor Morton, cutter, from Mahurangi, with lime ; Tay, cutter, from Waiheke, with shingle. Shortly after noon to-day the s.s. Tara wora sailed for Melbourne, via Southern ports, with the following passengers:—For Gisborne : Misses Barnard, Cruckshank and Longdill, Messrs A. Davis, De Latour, and Win. Pale. For Napier : Mrs W. .1. Beale, Mrs Spinks and child, Messrs VV. Hall, N. F'ritburg, C. Wnllnut, and W. Bolam. For Wellington : Mr Motris, Mrs Cottrcll. I'or Lyttelton: Mrs E. L. Dunbar, Atkinson. For Dunedin : Messrs R. Bowler, C. Maitland, Mrs Sheet, Miss Rooke, Mr and Mrs Hopkins, and 14 steerage.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Wellington, November 23.—Arrived S.s. Hawea, from Picton and Nelson : s.s. Rotorua and Wakatipu, from the South. Sailed: S.s. Hawea, for the South; s.s. Wakatipu, for Sydney.

Lytteltox, N oveni ber 23rd. —Arrived : Ocean Ranger, from Newcastle. Port Chalmers, November 23. — Ar rived: Wairarapa, s.s., from the North. Sailed : Te Anau, for the North. Passen gers : For Auckland, Mr and Mrs Bicott and two children, Mr and Mrs Collan and four children, Mrs Glover, Misses Cork and Duncan, Messrs Rotherham, Brien, Taylor, Reynolds, Cook, Dougall, Burton, Captain Irvine, and five steerage.

London, ,November 21.—The P. and 0. steamship Rome, from Melbourne on October 6, arrived at Plymouth yesterday (Sunday) evening.

Melbourne, November 23.—Sailed, this afternoon : The Union Company's Mana pouri, for the Bluff. Mr diaries Johnston, of Wellington, is a passenger by her. Arrived: The Union Company's Rotoma hana, from the Bluff, this evening.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, and Echo.

For the oause that lacks assistance, Per the wrong that needs resistance, Tor tho future in the distance. And the good that we can do.

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1887.

The Government bill handing over the management of railways to a non. political railway Board appears to provide for an absolute surrender of Government control over the rai]_ ways for a period of five years. Three Commissioners are to be endowed with power to regulate the traffic, dismiss and appoint employees, ■change rates, re-construct lines and play tho mischief generally without interference from Parliament or tho Government. Now, bad as the present system may be in some respects, the one proposed would, we fear, be very much woise. If political influence in railway manage ment is bad, it has its redeeming virtues. Districts can get grievances remedied. Making the railways pay is, no doubt, a very important matter, but the regular settlement of the country is more important, and this Board may lovy differential rates which will crush one district and foster another. There may, perhaps, be pro visions in the bill to prevent this, but they do not appear from the tele graphic summary, and without them it would be rank folly for Parliament to confer upon three irresponsible persons, of whose capacity we have no means of judging, a dictatorship over the transit and colonisation of New Zealand.

REDUCTION IN THE COST OF EDUCATION.

The Eev. W. Tobbs has forwarded to the Minister of Education a scheme for reducing the cost of the public school system. There is nothing par ticularly now iv his proposals. The expected saving is to be effected by the plan that was canvassed freely during the elections, of excluding children under seven years of age from the public schools, and charging £\ a quarter for those over thirteen. The objections to either coarse have Ibeen so often stated that it is Ihardly worth while reiterating them. The "poorer classes of the commu nity would, be the sufferers in ! both cases, and in the country districts | many schools would have to be closed. To provide for children under seven year's, shutout from the public schools, Mr Tobbs proposes that the State should pay private persons 30s a year for teaching them, In town this would neither result in efficiency nor economy, and would foster any amount of petty jobbery. In the country, where, in ■ many instances, all the children Rarely provide work for one teacher, i% yvould be unworkable. Tha im position of school fees as a means of paving the pockets of the people has* always struck us as emi nently original. That it would change the inoyidenoo of taxation for educa-.

tional purposes we admit, but it would do so by lowering the standard and compelling children in the community ■whose parents could not afford to pay fees either to leave school or accept charity. The moment we admit paying pupils into our public schools we de stroy the system of free education, which is now the pride of all tho Australasian colonies, and it then be comes a mere matter of expediency whether the cost of education should not be largely borne by fees charged in all the classes. Unless we very much misjudge the public feeling of the New Zealand colonists with re gard to national education, Mr Tebbs's scheme will never get farther than the pigeon-holes in the office of the Minis ter of Education.

HOSPITAL MAINTENANCE.

Popular dissatisfaction with the system now in vogue in New Zealand of main taining hospitals and charitable insti tutions finds vent from time to time iv various ways. The letter which we published the other day, complaining of the multiplication of salaried officers under tho Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act, disclosed one of the vulnerable points of the system. A letter which now lies before us indirectly arraigns the whole principle of the Act, by claiming that the duty of finding funds for hospitals and charitable purposes should fall upon private benevolence, and should in no case be assumed by the State. The writer urges that the different religious bodies in Auckland should give up the church collections on a particular Sunday in every year, to be known as Hospital Sunday, and he points out that the last Hospital collections in Melbourne realised the handsome total of £6,f>00, after paying all incidental expenses. It is very hard indeed to say whether our present system of making a levy on local bodies for hospital and chari table purposes is the best that could be devised. It is on its tria 1 , and judg ing by expressions of opinion, it does not give anything like universal satis faction. The more ample supervision of charitable aid, with its attendant ex pense, has in many cases exposed im posture, and prevented the abuse of public charity; but on the other hand its tendency is, on account of the pub licity, to prevent poor but high-spirited people from seeking much-needed as sistance. The old system created a professional pauper class of the most unblushing description, and it is much to be doubted if the evils under the present method of relief are likely to prove as flagrant. As to tho proposal to ask the churches to give a collection annually for hos pital and charitable purposes, it has not much to commend it to the logical mind. If it is the duty of religious bodies to relieve distress, let them take the whole control of it. If they shirk their duty, it would be humiliating, both for them and for the State if the latter made an appeal to the churches to find the money, and did not allow them a voice in its disburse ment. But the tendency of social legislation is to cause the State to assume the duty referred to. Such being the case, the State must devise means of raising the necessary funds without calling in tho aid of private benevolence. Most of our churches have quite sufficient to do at present to pay their current expenses,, in cluding interest on debt; and while those bodies that have a superabund ance of silver and gold are not debarred from voting a sum to the Charitable Aid Board, they prefer to dispense charity in their own way.

All the same, it does not follow that the Hospitals and Charitable Aid Act has hit upon the perfect method of dealing with tho difficult problem of wisely considering the < case of the poor. The elections to the Auck land Board, which took place yes terday, emphasises the fact that it causes an unnecessary multiplica tion of public bodies and officials. Who compose the Auckland Board 1 Four City Councillors, a suburban Mayor, and several country borough and County Council representatives. It would surely be much easier for the contributing bodies to deal with chari table aid as a part of their ordinary business, and much more economical for the officials of these bodies to supervise relief in their several districts, than to create a new board, offices, sot of offi cials, and machinery generally. If there is any purpose served by Charit able Aid Boards which could not be as well achieved by the method suggested, wo have yet to learn it,

In view of these considerations we think that Councillor Phil lipps is moving in tho wrong direction in giving notice of his intention to move that in future the Boards should be elected by the rate payers, and that the rates required should be struck and collected by the Boards, and not levied upon the local bodies. To alter the law in this would be to make a decided advance towards the establishment of a regular poor-law system. It is not desirable to increase the number of rating bodies, as a number of petty taxes will prove very vexatious. It would be preferable to retrace the steps already taken, and re-model the whole system of charitable aid, so that the pauperising tendency may be checked and a better method devised of administering relief. The colony assuredly does not require a poor-law, boards of guardians, and all the paraphernalia of poorhouses. Rather than that, let the relief of dis tress be left to the churches and private charity,

Shareholders of the National Fire and Marine Insuranoe Company can now obtain dividend warrants upon application at the Company's office, 85, Queen-gtreet.

At) the offtco of the Official A»*sghee to day, Edmund Roonoy, a bankrupt under examination, stated that he Was a miner, bub came to Auckland about three years ago, and had sinoo worked as a labourer at 7s per day when in work. Out of thiß ho had to support a wife and seven chil dren. Two of tho children were work ing, but a lad' of 18 had been out of employment sinoe last Christmas until. a fortnight ago. His liabilities were £178 Oh 9d, of which only £2 17a had been incurred since his arrival in Auckland. He had been compelled to file in consequence of the pressure of one creditor. Had no assets.

An inquest was held at Orewa, near the Wade, yesterday, on the body of Fanny Brunton, a married woman, 29 years of age, who died suddenly on the 21st inst. Evidence was taken and went to show that the deceased was in good health up to about: fourteen hours prior to her death, when -she suddenly became ill, and after suffering great pain for about twelve hours, died from " acute gastritis." The deceased the wife of John Brunton, a farmer, residing at Orewa. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes."

The subject of this evening's lecture at the Burns Club, Masonic Hall, Newton, by Mr J. Blackman, will be, " Robert Leigh ton, the Dundee Poet; his Life, Writings, and Travels." Illustrative readings will be given from Leighton's works, interspersed with Scottish music and song.

The Presbyterian congregation at Drury, since the unfortunate loss of their church by fire, have continued to meet in the Pub lic Hall; and in order to obtain a fund for current expenses, and, if possible, a nucleus for a building fund, a concert is to be held on Tuesday, the 29th November, at 7.30 p.m. The musical arrangements have been placed under the care of Mr Dixon, the conductor of the Philharmonic Society. He will be aided by a select choir, with Miss Blake as organist, and readings and recitations will be given by other friends. A large attendance is expected.

The meeting for the promotion of the higher Christian life in tho V.M.C.A. Rooms last night was an interesting one, the attendance showing that the subjects chosen have caused earnest inquiry. The subject was " Christ and our Service," the Rev. G. B. Monro taking the first address nnd. the Rev. J. S. Hill the second. The open meeting after the addresses was useful in showing the longing desire of many for a higher Christian life. Messrs Bamford, Shalders, Hum phries, Fell, and others spoke. An after meeting was also held terminating shortly after 10. The Rev. J. S. Hill ably presided and did much to give variety to the meet ing. It was decided to hold another meet ing this evening for answering inquiries. The Rev. J. S. Hill will deliver an address. The annual Home Mission meeting takes place this evening in the Wesleyan Church, Grafton Road. There will doubtless be a large attendance.

Last night, at the Waverley Hotel, the Auckland German Club held a banquet to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Prince Bismarck's entrance on official life in Germany. There were about thirty gentle men present, and Mr Hermann Brown (the German Consul at this port) occupied the chair, while Mr Luks was in the vice-chair.

The proprietors of the Foresters' Hall have had affixed to the ceiling of the pass age a hose reel for use in case of fire. At tached is between 80 and 90 feet of hose, and the nozzle is already screwed on. In case of fire occurring all that is required is to open the door of the cabinet, turn on the water and then run into the building with the hose which will unroll as the person carrying it proceeds. By such means any thing like an extensive lire should be put an end to, and thus additional security is afforded to audiences gathering in this hall.

A telegram was received from Tauranga the other day with reference to an enormous fortune being left to a resident of that town. Grave doubts are thrown upon the accuracy of the report by the following extract from the " Bay of Plenty Times" :

—" \Ve received a telegram from Auckland stating that a well-known Tauranga resi dent had fallen heir to property valued at £2,000,000. We give the report for what it is worth, but have very good reason to believe that although the gentle man in question has fallen into some money, the sum mentioned is a long way wide of the mark."

There was a very light charge sheet at the Police Court this morning. One man was fined 5s and costs for a first offence in drunkenness, and Michael Head, charged with being drunk while in charge of a horse and hansom cab in Grey-street yes terday pleaded guilty and was sen tenced to 14 days' hard labour with out the option of a line, the offence being a serious one and liable to endanger human life. Messrs P. G. Ewington and H. Wilding were the presiding justices.

Mr Duncan McPherson, the active and energetic Presbyterian missionary of this city, assisted by the members of St. David's choir, gave v religious service on Sunday last to the inmates of the Asylum, Avon dale. Mr McPherson's discourse on the words " God is Love " was listened to with marked attention. Suitable hymns from Sankey and Moody were rendered by the choir, under the direction of the conductor. At the close.of the service the patients re turned thanks for the consolation afforded them. The visitors left the Asylum very favourably impressed with the order and cleanliness which prevailed at this institu tion, and were particularly charmed with the gardens.

The Mohawk Minstrels appeared in " Fun on the Bristol" at the Agricultural Hall again last evening, and provided amusement for a moderately large audi ence. A special programme is in prepara tion for to-morrow night, when Johnny Collins and Will Perman wifl receive a complimentary benefit.

Messrs Winks and HalL batfe just com pleted a handsome chair for the use of His Worship the Mayor in the Council cham ber. It is composed of polished rimu, tastefully carved. On the headpiece is cut out a fac simile of the Corporation Seal. The chair is covered with crimson velvet, and altogether it is a very creditable pro duction.

A grand concert will take place in the Otahuhu Public Hall on Tuesday evening next, 29th inst., in aid of the Presbyterian Church there, by Mr J. H. Edmondes and his pupils, assisted by friends. A first class programme has been" prepared, and the Otahuhu people may expect a treat.

At the close of the Rev. C. C. Brown's lecture last evening, in the Foresters' Hall, an old gentleman at tho rear of the audience wished to debate the question with the speaker. The chairman, Mr Aidridge, ruled the request out of order, as Mr Brown was merely a visitor. Mr Aidridge also reminded the gentleman that they had already debated the matter about twenty times themselves, with the result that in nineteen out of the twenty the gentleman had been "whipped." This somewhat roused the ire of the challenger, who shouted out, " It's like you're im pudence," and then subsided amidst the laughter of the audience. Attention is called to Messrs A. Morton and Co.'s. flower show at Durham-street. They will sell to-morrow a large collection of potted plants at 11 o'clock, from Mi- Mason's nurseries, Parnell. Inspection is invited, as the collection is numerous and very pretty. Paiia green, for dealing with the Codlin moth post, oan still be had from Mr Andrew Snodgrass, oil and colour merchant, Manukau Road, Parnell. There has been Buch a demand for this articlo of lace that many dealers have run out of it,

lU0 P a ! m E vv ln 55 «ndgL ri Jt? and^e?^ ; • Complaints have bean 7 * ft li bee^3rT n^th^A^ f^ 3S aShol A S^ d ■«- Idferl famous beverage yeZrtJ 6t f ors « 2 ""Pounded over fa Urt 7 afterno <»>»3 analysis; Pond, a „ d the r eßl ilMf d W 2 known very shortly ult wUI -fy made

the Scottish Dramatic (& M** formers are well nigh perfect !*Vw • c P* and by Tuesday ne x rw he n n tt production takes place, they , tf lie trained as to oresent the pL " te 8 ° form and without a hitfVf for the different charts are and there will shortly be a hearsal As theticketeareaeSfer the performance is sure to™be?£?% from a managerial as from an SfiSW of view. The SfflSW* the Burns Cluti Hallfund dev °tedto; Three boys, named John .TnKW»; *«' liam Sutton, and John 55T' ¥' from the Costley Institute' ft o**0** Koad, on the 19th 2z W??*- O'Brien arrested U »* at Devonport yesterday, youth is still at large. were brought before Mr H G SeJhfe R.M., at the Police Court £T' noon, and charged with haSg' Sfe a breach of the Industrial IcHS Sergeant Pratt stated that theJ2Ljs the Institute desired that both boys E[l be sent back to the school. Mr CS manager, added that the trustees int3 to proceed against Sutton on■-«Sw of the mills, and charges of theft bad bee! made against Johnson. His Worship 2 I an order that Sutton and Walker shooK turn to the school. ,■

SPORTING NEWS.

TAKAPUNA SPRING MEETING.

The following acceptances for the events to be decided at the Takaptma Jockey Club's Spring Meeting oh Saturday next were received yesterday evening at the office of the Secretary, Mr S. Wyn' yard, Durham-street West:~ Spring Handicap, seven furlongs; £ Friendship, 9st 61b; Victoria, 9st 61b I An. telope, 9st6lb; Tennyson, Bsfc 81b; Capella Bst; Rewi, 7st 121b; Lady Alice 1 , 7st 101b • Britannia, 7sts 21b: Jessie, 6st 131b; Lioness' ■ ' 88 00 6st 111b; Leorfna! 6st 111b ; Vivid, 6st 61b; Haric6t/6st'6lbT St. Astdbew's .Handicap, ojie and a-half miles.—Victoria, 9st 31b; Friendship,'!& 31b; Antelope, Bst 91b;. Clogs, Bsb 91b • . Capella, 7st 121b; Lady Alice, 7sfc 61b; Tennyson, 7st 31b: Cat, 6st 121b; Britan nia,.6st 121b j Jessie, 6st 121b; Leorina,' 6st 71b ; Haricot, 6st 51b; Buzzard, 6sSib: Miss Alice, 6st 51b. Steeplechase, 3i miles.—Silvio, llsb 121b; Orangeman, lOst 101b ; Magnesia, lOst 91b ; Torpedo, TOst 71b; QuUpf;lOsfe* Rob Roy, 9st 121b; Pipi, 9st 51b; Sirloin,, 9st4lb; Black Joe, 9st. miles.-rPeter .Qsbeck-iSsi 51b; Magnesia, TOst 31b; Silvio, lOst;' Wideawake, 9s i; 131b; Rob Roy, 9stßlb; Pipii, 9st 21b; Holly, 9st;: Sirloin, 9stj s Boomerang, 9st; Black Joe, Bst7lb; Quilp, Bst7lb.. •■ *-~..■;;

As George Wright j the rweU-knojm trainer, intends giving up racing on bis own account, and confining his "attention" td the training business alone, he purposes selling* by auction to-morrow, at Hunter and Nolan's yards, the,well-known'iracebotsa Friendship, by Reprieve—Nydia.

Wellington Spring Meeting.

Wellington, Wednesday.

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

The following acceptances Kaya been re ceived in .connection with the Wellington Racing Club Spring Meeting:— . , Flying Stakes. - Forester, Shah; Eivuleb, Giriri, Tongariro, Kangaroo, Little Scrub,-:■; Fabrication, and Cupid. ] -; Hurdle Handicap.—Kangaroo, Eeputa tion, and Rata. Hutt Park Spring HANDiCA?.-rShab, : Strenuous, Rivulet, Laurel, Rumour, Ad ministrator, Giriri, Smooth, and Steelbbne. Grand Stand Handicap.—Shah, Fores ter, Rumour, Tongariro, Giriri, Little Scrub, Fabrication, and Smooth. The following entries have also been w ceived :— - ," ; :;: ' '' : - .7" : Ladies' Bracelet.—Voltigeur, list 31b; < Cloud, list; Steelbone; lOst lllb; Bronte, 9stl2lb; "\\aterfall,9stl2lb; Mascotte, W 71b.'- 7'l . UV-.i ,1/ ... Ji-:.->:iJS a.*.*

CHARITABLE AID BOARD ELECTIONS.

A meeting of the members of the Auckland City Council was held : at 3.30 } o'clock yesterday afternoon in the Corporation Offices for the purpose of electing four j members to represent the CouncU on the. Hospital and Charitable Aid Board. There ■ were present His Worship.'the Mayor, and Councillors Patterson, I* Roche, Cooper, Swales, Evans, Digt* *n> Atkin, Crowther, Lennox, Holland, Trenwitb Davies, James, and Kidd. . The Mayor briefly explained thati the _. meeting was convened by statu*, MJ purpose of electing four members to reg sent, the Council on the W Board. He then intimated that.he was Die Dared to accept nominations. . , __■ P Cr PhiHipps said that he jttrt wished^ several. Mayors W torrfjet upon I = office he must express nis gi« the present Mayor JjjJjg« ™* » + > Phillipps were pleasant ,lb and also veiy f #Sinue in would give V. m M°° iwntuponthematter theoffice; he must also *ank the Councu. assistance whichlhev had?' the past year in iiwtheniionii- ' The following gentlem m ated for the Messrs Crowther,, A«an, waß Buchanan, and D >f of C* taken, whichresv.gggjg £@s who Atkin, Crowther, , f ;, , were therefore M^Hjnotice of motion :-".f! l » fc is in adt-isable, that of this ■ Council, it is n «a g , d b« the following fgf| Cbaritable made in the "1886, *j Institutions Acts, JBBS ,an be Ist, that the Boa^ S Jttt the form °f: by the ratepayers, b# f ffi same as that of the V"? Jv tbf> | purposes Sr rates required * g. Juacjj S the Act should be tbo by the Boards,. and not local bodies." :-, fc ne niotion «on»r The Mayor §ajd {WUJg ffle etiog of $* brought forwafd at the nex*»», <v - Council. ■.„■'. ' - ¥■■ a/M"--^ 8

THE AUCKLAND EVENING" STAR, THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 24, 1887;

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i M ES P. B- AR,tBTT PHOTOGRAPHER. Mrs BARTLETT begs to announce that she ! I has purchased the business of R, If. Bartlett. In thanking her past patrons and friends for I their uniform kindness. Mrs Bartlett also takes I this opportunity of stating that the BUSINESS 1 will be carried on under tho above title. Mr EDWARDS 1 Having consented to take charge of the I Studio will be a sufficient guarantee that all I work will be done in the same high-class style I as hitherto. I PRICES GREATLY REDUCED. 1 Cabinets.. .. 30s per dozen, 20s per half-doaen I CD. V.'g.. .. 15s per dozen, 10s per half-doiien I Enamelled and finished in the highest style. j Every effort will be made to give satisfaction. I Clients are particularly requested to addrons tbeir correspondence to Mrs P. BARTLETT, I 244. QUEEN-STREET. AUCKLAND. KECIPE FOR COOKING RAKINO smoked; fish. I Put a cup of milk and a lump of butter imfe I rtowpan, then pcol off tho esalea and place, in j tho pan : otow for ton minutes on a i?low'4*6 I With tho Jid on tight. Servo with tho. milk ■poured over, ■ To he bought at the boat ouiy, '



MEDICAL HALL, PONSONBY (Opposite the Three Laima). J. G. HENDERSON, PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMIST AND SURGEON DENTIST, G?s Administered for Extractions Would again call attention to a few of the pro prietary articles manufactured by him, from drujrsof the very best quality procurable. Quinine, Iron, Sec. Tonic Mixture, Neuralgia, Rheumatic, and Gout Mixtures, Toothache Reliever. The above give Speedy Relief, es pecially in facial neuralgia. For Coughs. Colds, fee. Cherry Pectoral. Balsam of Horehound.Chlorodyne. Theabove are superior to the imported artio'c, being re cently prepared. ...,_,.., ~ \ntibiiious Pills, suitable to the climate: are purely vegetable ; eive speedy relief. From Is per box: by post, 13 2d. Prescriptions and Family Recipes faithfully PI J G.l-L's Worm Powders and Mixture are the most effectual remedies known to medical science. Try J.G.s Certain Cure for Corns. E DICAL^^EES - REJ 5 UCED~~TO ENGLISH RATES. Dr. R. H. BAKEWELL, M.D., Member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, Licentiate in Midwifery of the Royal College of Surgeons, late Visiting Physician to Chris' church Hospital, formerly President ot the Medical Board, Trinidad. - ..__, , x ,„ HOBSON-Hr. (near C'ook-st.), AUCKLAND. Fees for Consultations, including medicine, 2s 6d ; for visits, including medicine, ss. Cas n No booking. Hours for Consultation : 9 to 11. a.m., 3 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. SURGEON DENTIST, Has Removed to CORNER OF ELLIOTT AND WELLESLEY STREETS (Opposite the Opera House.) Box 2101 [Telephone37B TT* E N T I S T R yT Mr A. L. SMITH, OLD-ESTABLISHED DENTIST. Corner of Hobsom and WeixesLKY STREETS Artificial Teoth fitted without extracting stumps. Other dentisfa' work repaired. Teeth stopped. Gas administered. Charges moderate. Tramears pass the house. _ _— - - - - - ~ • SURGEON DENTIST (by exam.) (Late of the Finn of Kempt and Windsor.) I beg to intimate to tho 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, 1 hope to merit a share of their support. Box 210, P.O.] [Telephone 377. ■VT OT ICE OF REMO VA L. Mr T. TRAFFORD. The oldest-established Surgeon Dentist of 18 years, Desires to inform his patients and friends that he has removed from Wakofield-street to more central olflcea, QUEEN-STREET (over Waytc's, Bookseller), opposite Wyndham-stroet. Professional hours : 9 a.m. till 5 p.m. T3OOTS ! "OOOTS ! T>OOTS! CHEAP SALE OF BOOTS & SHOES AT GREAT REDUCTIONS, AT mHOMAS TOIL LI SON'S. To meet the depressed times, and being largely overstocked, also to make room for large shipments to arrive, THUS. ELLISON is now holding a Cheap Sale of Boots and Shoes AT COST PRICE, FOR ONE MONTH, FOR CASH ONLY.



The following lines at much less than cost :— 1 8. d. D Babies' Shoes 1 0 per pair , Babies' Klastic Boots .. ..10 per pair Babies' Elastic Boots . ..1 6 per pair ' Gir s' Morocco Elastic Boots. 10 to 13 3 6 per pair ■ Girls'MoroeeoElasticßoots.lltol 4 6 per pair i Girls' Kid Klastic Boots, 10 to 1 .. 4 6 per pair Girls' Kid Elastic Boots. 10 to 1 .. 6 6 per pair ' Ladies'good Houso Boots .. .. 3 6 per pair All other goods equally cheap. BOOTS OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS MADE TO ORDER ON THE PREMISES. THOS. ELLISON, | BOOTMAKER AND IMPORTER, 74, Queen Street. [ CJ T7l fi O O P B R, KARANGAIIAPE ROAD. Spring Stock of Youths Suits (16s 6d to 355) iust to hand direct from tho largest Clothing ' Manufacturers .in England. For wear, fit, and value these goods are unequalled in Auckland. S. E. COOPER, Karangahape Road. . 6 T I C I The Business hitherto carried on by ROBERT NEAL, At Wellesley-Blreet and Karangahape Road, Will be conducted from the KARANGAHAPE ROAD STORE. Customers will be called upon as usual. Country customers please note the change in address; THE NEWTON SUPPLY STORES, Karangahape Road. F. ROWE, Manager. [card]. W* ANTED Landlords and others o know that E. BARKER Undertakes Collection of Rents and Accounts, j Execution and Distress Warrants, Possession j under Bills of Salo, etc., with care and despatch, office: CITY CHAMBERS. VULCAN LANE (Top floor). VENII VIDI I VXCII n milE VERY" BUTTON ((Shakespear) .JL' The Latest Novelty. Wei'have Imported a Button-making Machine, and <eau now supply Buttons same cloth as Garni Ant, Onkhunga Tweeds included. No extra c hargc. Call and see the Machine at work. AUCKLAND OLOTHINf* COMPANY <G. Meßßimri, Customs-Btrant East, opposite Ooupland's Store IfT J * pulißn ° ° X'K ' * PRACTICAL ELECTRICIAN, Wfshew to announoo that ho hasi Removed to No, 38, .GRE^&STREET (JJwo doors above thcaMarkot Hotel), TO UNDERTAKE ALL, KINHS OF ELEC TRIOAL W«RK, Effirjctod. W AftfES wJU find. , a Good Shilling's wfcrth, at 'the Kifkino Boat lo morrow. - -



rp 0 PHOTOCIIA PIIE Rs- SCI 1 ERING'S 011EMICA LS, DRESDEN ALBUMENISED PAPER, DRY PLATES. SEEGNER, LANGGUTH, & CO.. QUKEN-STREET. SPRING £)RAPERY. The whole of their Sr.ring- Goods having now arrived, ex Ruapehu, Doric, and Arawa MILNE & CHOYCE Have great ploasuro in assuring their TOWN and COUNTRY FRIENDS that their Home Buyer haa displayed excel ent Taste and Judg ment in tho selection of Goods suitable to their class of trade. Their HOME and AUCKLAND-MADE MILLINERY, it is well known, is not to be equalled in Mow Zealand. Immense Stock of MANTLES, JACKETS, DUBTCLOAKS, and DRESSING GO WAS in all Styles and Prices. Ono of the LARGEST and MOST VARIED ASSORTMENT of DRESS GOODS in tho Col ony, their purchases being made from th- Con tinental, Bradford, London, and Colonial Markets. The Principal Styles this season are: PLAIN or SELF-STRIPED, trimmed Beadts. Ornaments PLAIN or SELF-STRIPED, trimmed fancy Chock Velvet CHECKS, trimmed Velvet or Plnsh STRIPES, trimmed Velvet or Plush CHECKS and STRIPES, worn together (the Latest Fashion) CHECKS or STRIPES worn with Plain ZEPH i RS and PRINTS in Now Styles A Great Fonture this season will be THE P,oXEl> EMBROIDERED CAMBRIC DRESSES In WHITE and COLOURS, a Largo Sto.uk has been laid in, in anticipation of a run upon them. PATTERNS BY POST ON APPLICATION. A Special Bargain of 45 DOZEN 4-BUTTON TAN KID GLOVES, at 2s 9d, worth at least 50 por cent more. Tho HOSIERY, HABERDASHERY. LACES, UNDERCLOTHING, HOUSEHOLD, aud JUVENILE BOYS' DEPARTMENTS a:e all Fully Stocked. N.8.-Ladioa aro Specially invited to look through the Various Departments. They will not bo solioited to buy, unless so disposed. Shop Closes on Saturdays at 2 o'Clock. lyr IL N E & riHOYCE, IMPORTERS, QtTKEN AND WELLRST.EY StREET\



SPECIAL y ALUB AND ■\7irORTHY OF TNSPECTION. Having bought a largo lot of Clearing Ware house Lines, will sell thorn at a small advance to clear quickly. A little money will go further than usual in purchasing tho undermentioned linos and others too numerous to particularise 250 Pairs Now Lace Curtain*, Is lid. 2a 3d, 2s6d. 2s lid, 3s 6d to 17a 6d ; mostly taped edges and now styles Black Cashmeres, lljd. Is 3d, Is 6d, Is lid; special valuo 860 Yards All-wool Jersey Cloths, Is, worth Is 6d 720 Yards All-wool French Cashmeres, Is lid ; worth 3s 3d N.B. -Turkish Towels, 6d Ulack, White, and Cream 36-inch Flouncing Laces, cheap Large lot of Silk Broche Lace and Cashmere Capes and Dolmans at a nominal price, from Is 6d 25 Boys' good Jersey Suits, half-price New white and Coloured Mattings, all widths, special value Men's Sorgo Trout ers 4s lid 70 Pairs Boys' Tweed Trousers, 3s lid Youths' Tweed Trousers, 4s 6d. 100 Hoys' Tweed Knickcr Suits, from ."613d Boys' Dressed Oxford Shirts, Is lid Splendid line Men's Dressed Regatta, Shirts, 2s lid. worth ts 6d Grand lino Men's Mosgiel Tweed Suits, 3256 d Boys' and Youths' Mosgiel and Kaiapoi Tweed Snitsln Knickar and Long;? Trousers, at greatly reduced prices Job line in 4-button Kid Gloves, fin it choice, cheap Large lot of Remnants, etc., worthy of inspection. "O T>RIC'GMAN, 288, UPPER QUEEN- STIfKET. Drapery and OtoTjaiNG AT REDUCED PRICKS. ■ H. A T KINS,. In order to reduce stock and/meet theatres, will se d for tho next few weeks ', AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICI& Attention is; invited to tho following 1 ':— 25,000 Yarda of last season's Dress Goods a Ji2s to 50 per cent*, reduction Silks. CashnAjres, Umbrellas. Snnsl Irtdes, Ulsters. Ft&r-lined Cioaks, &c, &c, 20 !to 25 uer cen(t. reduction ' New Dresa Goods, &c., &c, now being opened at 12i per cent, below usual charges MANCHESTER GOODS. Lace Curtains. Table Linen. Sheetings, C (niStfl, Blankets, Calicoes, Sldrtings, &c, &a, latltfi to 20 per cent, reduction CLOTHING DEPARTMENT. • 500 Boys', Youths', and Meu's Colonial TSvceo.' Suits at exactly invoice price. A nvtopiifi cont lot. of Suits to select from in all tuizos.i and will positively be sold at invoice trice. Also, Trousers and Trousers and Veßl£ &c.„: at invoice prico ! All other Goods, such an Shirts, Hats, CJd.llars,.' Braces, Hosiery, &c, &c , at 124 to 20 per j , cent, reduction ' 150 Very host quality over Imported/ Men's Tweed Waterproof Coata at 20 per ibent. olf the marked prices. THE ABOVE REDUCTIONS AR?! GENUINE, Tho intention being to reduce stock somo thousands of pounds, no matt or i* mt a heavy cost. H. A7 Kll f QUEEN-STRBET. . , 4. OPPOSITE THE TOWN? CLOCK, /CHRISTMAS TtARDSI ! pARDS ' The above are a speciality, and. are shown in a separate room," mENNIS T3 ACQUETS? mENNIS RACQUETS AT KJBLSE.Y'S, OPPOSITE THE TOWN CLOCK..



BLACK. HORSE BRAND SALT Is tho BEST for all DOMESTIC-and CURING Purposes. Manufactured by Mr John Corbett, M.P., at Stoke Prior Salt Works, England. „,„_ . Packed to suit A ■-L REQUIREMENTS In sacks, BAGS ALL SI3BS, and Glass Jars. The BEST SALT is tho CHEAPEST in tho Ask for BLACK HORSE BRAND SALT, and take NO OTHER. , All merchants and storekeepers sell it. ___,_ FARMERS must insist on their BUI TEH being made with thin SALT ONLY, otherwise they will suffer LOSS. ' HENRY BERRY & Co., Durham-street. Auckland. Post-office Box 103.) HIVING UP BUSINESS. CHEAP SALE! FEW DAYS ONLY! GOODS MUST BE SOL D ! Having decided to retire from the business, wo ' will, for a few days only, offer our stock of GENERAL FURNISHING GOODS At cost price and under, FOR CASH ONLY! THE DIRECT SUPPLY STORE, 249, Queen-street, Auckland. m H E "UNION" And the "SOUTHERN SPERM" CANDLES, Made by THE UNION OIL, SOAP, and CANDLE COMPANY, Op AUCKLAND. Are all Guaranteed FULL WEIGHTS (16 ounces to tho pound). Many of the Colonial-made Candles now In tho market are Light Wkigiits. and therefore 1 dearer at the money than the Auckland-mado Candles. TRY FOR YOURSELVES, AND USE ONLY THE LOCAL ARTICLE TTT S. LAURIE & C 0., SEED AND MANURE MERCHANTS, Customs-street, Auckland. Turnips, Clovors, Graan Pecdc, etc. Foncdust and ltoiinflonr. Guano. Superphosphate*), etc. Wooipack*. Comsacks, Twine. Bono Mill at Ngaruawahia, Waikato. Bone; p irchaaod.