NOTES AND NOTIONS.

[By a New Zealand er Abroad.]

Among the Churches — Some Notable Preachers—Dr. Phi li. . Brooks, of ; Boston—" Shooting without a Rest "-- ---; Henry Ward Beecher—A Child of ins I Age —Canon Scott Holland in St. i Paul's— Spurgeon—Dr. Farkar—Stov . ford Brooke—Dr. Dale, of Btuming , ham—Dr. Parker ix the City Temple — Father Newman — Voysey—is the Pulpit Failing ?

I do not spend all my Sundays with the Socialists. I visit tlie churches occasion ally. I have been giving you some Notes and Notions regarding some of the forces that aro at work in society outside the church. To keep a balance, I think I will give you now some Notes and Notions re garding those within the church. I have written of some of the typical leaders of Socialism. If you will allow me, I will now write of some of the typical leaders of the church. I -will begin with America, and out of those I heard there I will select two.

First,

Dr Phillip Brooks.

Dr. Brooks is the rector of Trinity Church (Espiscapal), Boston. Boston has its attrac tions for the globe trotter. As everybody knows it is the " Hub "of the Universe. A crank of creature once called upon Emer son. He was ono of those individuals who are in tha secrets of Providence. "Do you know, sir, that the end of the world is coming to-morrow ?" "My good sir," replied Emerson ; that does not concern me. I live in Boston." Just so. I went to this wonderful place then, among other reasons, to hear Phillip Brooks. I had read some of his books. I wanted to see and hear the man. I was fortunate in both. He is easily seen. There is a good deal of him—6ft and over—with a breadth and body proportionate. He ministers in Trinity Church. It is one of the most costly and most beautiful edifices in America. When he preaches the building is crowded. It was a sweltering August day when I was there, but the building was filled. I admire (dis tantly) the English prayer-book service. If I could hear its prayers read as Dr. Brooks reads them, I think I might come to love them. To listen to the rector of Trinity Church conducting the Episcopal service transforms it. You are not conscious of either reading or praying ; only of the rapt communion of an intense soul with the In visible. The spirit of the minister tells on his church. His congregation was tho most devotional that I saw anywhere. The impression made by the worshipping part of tho service is not destroyed by the preaching A rough backswoodman in Virginia heard Bishop Meade preach an extempora neous sermon, and, being somewhat un familiar with the ways of tho Episcopal Church, he said: "I liked him. He was the first I ever saw of thoso petticoat fellows that could shoot without a rest.'' Dr. Brooks, though not one of those petti coat fellows " (he has declined the offer of bishopric) shoots without a rest—that is, ho preaches extempore ; at least he did so the day I heard him, though I believe ho docs not always do so. He had not oven a note ; he read his text out of a small Bible which ho carried in his hand, then closed the book, and. drawing himself up he simply poured forth. He is the swiftest speaker I ever heard ; he is a perfect terror to re porters. When ho was in England a year or two ago they could do nothing with him. I do not wonder. His preaching is a Nia gara, on and on, without pause, without lack of a word, and yet thero docs not seem to be a word wasted. It is not elco quent verbiage. Every word, when you come to analyse it, is in its right place, and you could not miss one. Still, with all his rapidity of utterance, there is no difficulty in following him. His thoughts, clean cut and clear, and never lost in rhetoric, never clouded by words. They shape his vocabulary, never his vocabulary them. Two characteristics his preaching seems to me to possess—breadth and inten sity. It is rare to find these two united in any preacher ; you get them separate often enough. We know the preacher, who is broad, but his breadth runs into diffuseness, It loses point: it is like some of the roads in the backwoods. They begin Well— broad and beautiful—and so for a while; but then they narrow, lose definiteness, end in a sheep track, and run up a tree. And we all know the preacher, too, who has intensity without breath ; who is all point as sharp as a needle, and a.-> hard ; whose intense piety suffices to float his ignorance and make him dangerous. Dr Brooks lias a singular combination of breadth and in tensity. He holds with all his soul the great facts of Christianity—holds them with the force and fervour of the narrowest Evangelical; but he gives them forth from the alembic of a mind of the richest culture and a nature all open to every influence of both worlds. Tho word "breadth," as applied to a preacher, has a nasty taste in many mouths; but, as applied to Dr. Brooks, it has the best of meanings. He himself has defined it; "I do not mean liberality of thought, nor tolerance of opinion, nor anything of that kind ; I mean largeness of movement—the great utter ance of great truths ; the great enforcement nf great duties, as distinct from the minute and subtle and ingenious treatment of little topics, side issues of the soul's life, bits of anatomy, the bric-a-brac of theology." Dr Brooks is true to his own defi nition. This is the sort of preaching the age wants. It will listen to it. Dr Brooks is a witness. He has won the allegiance of all shades of religious opinion. There is a humanity and divinity, a breadth and inspiration, in all he says and is, that make him a preacher listened to by every class. The friend of Dean Stanley, he recognises that the kingdom of Christ is wider than any particular church, than indeed all churches ; that while it uses each as instruments for its propagation it is not specially confined to any single one. Hence he moved at a recent Episcopal Convention in Chicago that it should give its fraternal greetings to a similar Congregational Con vention that was sitting at the same time. A scion of the stock .of Emerson, there is a great deal of the lucidity and sweet reason ableness that characterised the Concord philosoper about him. Boston is proud of its great dead, and among its living none is nearer its heart, and none is exercising a more beneficent influence upon it than the rector of Trinity Church. It is a far cry from Brooks to

Beecher.

And yet both may be recognised as spring ing from a common root. Each represent a strain of blood which, mixed in due pro portions, produce the best American char acter. Brooks is the lineal descendant of the old Puritan stock. He has its reverence, its respect for tradition, and something of the English spirit which looks for change not to revolution, but evolution, " broaden ing slowly down, from precedent." Beecher, on the other hand, is a child of his age, and distinctively of the American age. He

possesses its courage, its restlessness, its daring, its irreverence. He loved liberty. 'He could live within no organisation. He

sought the laws of his being not without but within—not in a written code or creed, but in the inspirations of the soul itself. Brooks belongs more to the Motherland- England—and carries with him something of the gravity of the Puritan ; a gravity, be it said, however, nob sombre nor pon derous, " but like the hinges of the wonder ful gates of the ancient labyrinth—so strong that no battery could break them, but sol

delicately hung that a child's touch could make them swing back and let him m. Beecher is racy of the soil : clever, coura geous, impatienbOf restriction, lovingliborty and lighting for it. In thought and life he is the°best fcvpe of that part of the Ameri can nation we associate with the name of Yankee. I did not hear Beecher in Brook lyn-he had gone to England—but .1. heard him in Brigliton. The forces of hie wore failing, but one could easily guess what these°onee had been. The human heart was bub a pipe upon which he could play almost any tune ho wished. His audience the day t hoard him alternately laughed und -wept. His humour w. . irresistible. Beecher", perhaps, more than most has the credit of sending his fist through that sham solemnity which' has for so long done duty for sanctity and reverence. But he is al.o tho creator of that other sham which is even worse—the clerical joker, who leaves defilement on everything he touches. America is cursed with these, from the vul garity of Talmage down to the buffoonery of her coarsest revivalist. But Beceher's humour is a part of his religion. It grows out of him as naturally and as usefully as the wings out of a bird. Ho was describing the reception which men sometimes give to the answers of their own prayers. A rich man says he prays to be made good and holy, and Cod takes him in hand. And what is the first thing he docs ? He finds it necessary to take from him all his money ; and the man starts and rubs his hands, and says :" Oh, Lord, I can't stand that 1" Tho look and action with whieli Beecher described such a man set everybody laugh ing. A moment after he would lay tho spell of pathos upon them. He was des scribing death, and the way in which peoplo prepare for it—with fear, with gloom—put ting away all glad sights and sounds ; and thoii he would burst out into a strain of eloquence. Look at Nature Is that the way she goes to death ? Sco these autumn days. What sunsets! What colourings in the heavens! What gorgeous dress in forest and field ! What tints on leaf and flower! What changes of lights, what beauty in the dying wood ! " How autumn goes gloriously marching to its grave." It is sad now to think that before another autumn had gone gloriously to its grave, the speaker himself was there. By Beecher's death America had lost her greatest orator, and this age ono of its most characteristic children. There is a wide contrast betweeiiHenry Ward Beecher and

Canon Scott-Holland.

In St. Paul's. London. Beecher and Brook s aro men of the people. They are neithe 1' High Church nor Low Church, nor Broad Church, but a fusion of the three. Canon Scott-Holland is a tliflerent stamp of man. The thin, close-shaven faco bares au ascetic look, and one knows ab onco that ho in listening to a representative of that school of thought, in the English Church which numbers among its ranks somo of the saintliest and ablest men of this century. Next to Canon Lidilon and Dtan Church, there is no more popular nrcachcr in St. Paul's than Canon Scott-Holland. Ho has published two volumes of sermons, and that is all that, a.s a writer, he i.s as yot known by. But these sermons are among the ablest that havo appeared this generation. His lirst volume is entitled " Logic ami Life. ' No words could better describe the author and the preacher. Like Canon Liddon's, his sermons inarch clad in the armour of reuson. But they aro not atilf and unweildy. They aro instinct with lifo : they arc full of movement and energy ; thoy throb with passion; they glow with light, i heard tlio preacher twice in St. Paul's -each time with pleasure i»kin to de light. No ono who is in London should miss the opportunity, if it comes to him, to hear Canon Scott-Holland. I was sorry to miss Canon Liduon, who is admittedly the prince of living preachers ; but it was some compensation to hear Canon Scott-Holland, who, with the exception of Dr. Brooks, is the most impressive preacher I have ever heard. Of courso everybody and his wifo goes to heai

Spurgeon..

And I went with them. But I would not go again. Mr Spurgeon i.s a marvellous man ; marvellous in what he docs, and still more marvellous wherein his great strength licth. Certainly to ono hearing him only once, as I did, it remains a mystery to mt 1. There was nothing above the most commonplace in his utterance, but the vast crowd that filled the Tabernacle evidently thought otherwise. It is a long stride up—or down—from Mr Spurgeon to

Stopford Brooke.

Who ministers still in Bedford Chapel, Bloomsbury Square. Jtr Brooke's history is well known. He still retains as much of the Prayer Book and its forms as ho can. He sines the Hymns with the necessary alteration that will dovetail them into his Unitarian creed. Tho church is not hand some, and thero is plenty of room. I* will hold a thousand, and about half thatnumber are present. Mr Brooke has a handsome face, and there is a devout tone about his service. Still, lam conscious that it is more of a lecture-hall than a church. The preacher delivers an essay rather than a message. Unitariariism may havo a phil osophy but not a Gospel for the world. A very different stamp of man and message meets us in the tho ancient and historical chapel of St. Margaret's, Westminster.

Archdeacon Farrar. Is probably the most outspoken preacher of prominence in the English Church. The day I heard him he was thundering anathemas against Ritualism, or at least against those systems of religion that inter pose barriers between the individual soul and its God. Dr. Farrar impresses you with his earnestness. He sometimes, per haps, is " intoxicated with his own verbosity," but he speaks out with a directness and a force that are rare in Anglican pulpits. He has an extraordinary command over the resources of knowledge, driving home his points by illustrations drawn from' the four winds of Heaven. He has an amazing capacity for work, and hew he contrives to find time to do his parochial duty and write the books and reviews that he does is a mystery to most people. In the City Temple ministers a remarkable personage

Dr. Parker Has been much before the public recently— First, in connection with the inhibition of Rev. H. R. Haweis, and then later in connection with Henry Ward Beecher. Just now he is over in America, and it is not unlikely that he may be asked to fill Beecher's pulpit permanently. There is no question about Parker's ability. He is a genius, and when you get him possessed he is unsurpassable. But he is not always possessed, and on these occasions he is dull and heavy enough. It was unfortunate I did not hear him at his best; and, not hear ing him at his best, he pains you with his mannerisms. When he is inspired you do not think of these ; but when he is not you can think of nothing else. He conducts a Thursday service for City business men, and it was on this occasion that I heard him. I should not care to hear him again unless he were different. I could think of nothing but his eccentricites. He is an actor in more senses than one. So was Beecher, his beloved friend. But Beecher's dramatic power was only a means to an end ; with Parker it is often an end in itself. When Beecher preached, the man was lost in his message; when Parker preaches, the message is often lost in the man. Still, he is an undoubted power, and no man knows the art of advertising better than the minister of the City Temple. In tho same rank with Dr Parker in tha denomination to which they both belong stands

Dr. Dale, Of Birmingham, who is now on a visit to Australia I had the pleasure of hear ing him when in the manufacturing metro polis last year. Dr. Dale is a man who has left his mark upon his city and time.

Ho is one of the abes of the puftchers that I heard; h. lacks, howe|Vo. the popular gifts of Beet her or Brook 6 tat is _ o whit behind them in mtellectua anight and moral force. Bufr [^ bably be hearing plenty jb<»^.^f not further parjjcnlarj*. mo^ re- Birmingham, also, one oi ~ , marlmblo men in the religion,* 'UStoi _ ol this century—

Cardinal Newman. I was in hopes that I might see or hear him. 1 learned that sometimes he cotid ucts service in the Chapel attached to the * ora tory. Thither ou a Saturday evening Ina Me my way. I wished to find out wheU'er Father Newman would preach on Sunday 5 but I was not to be gratified—ho was no* . I was struck with the simplicity, boxy dering on plainness, which surrounds the* Oratory. The chapel is in aio sense ornate. ' I went in to vespers, and, comparing the place with others tbat I havo since seen ou the Continent and elsewhere, it is not only plain, but, I had aim .st said, mean. 1 cr imps it is best so. At .ny rate it accords. best, but I understand, wiuh ths Cardinals own desire. Though old (over eighty), he is an early riser. He is up at five "clock. Dressing and devotion fill up the time till seven, then breakfast, and afterwards cor respondence and study, and tte book on which heis now filling up the twilight of lite, occupy him till half-past one, when he dines. He rarely coca out.andonly chiUigeafrom his rooms to the schoolhouse while th. former arc being cleaned. The Orator., pupils do not see much of him. Ho lives .» a father iii his family, surrounded by tihe other priests, and preserving in his household a rare standard of "plain living. ai_d high-, thinking." So passes towards mg.bt the life of John Henry Newman ; and n« I go out from vespers, with tho evening shadows deepening into darkness in the •■Went cloisters around, I think of " Load, kiwdly light, amid tho encircling gloom '—ttmt immortal hymn, which will keep green tho memory of Newman long after his fame as a theologian and ecclesiastic shall have passed into oblivion. ,

Charles Voysey, B.A.

will let us down from theso hig,h altitudes to common earth again. Voyseyl, ministers in Swallow Lane, "Piccadilly. I told he was one of tho "shows" of Condon preachers. So ho is, but in a difiYrent sense from that I had expected. He ittfcd to be a minister of the Church of England, but has now advanced—or declined—int*, puro Theism, and he calls his Church tho "Theism Church." It is a poor place altogether, and as for Mr Voysoy—well, I must be charitable aud will not say much. A college professor was onco preaching to a country congregation. He was a dull, dry sort of man, something liko the ono of whom Sydney Smith said if you wero to horo holes in him with a gimlet sawdust would como out. When the service was ovor an old older remarked to his neigh bour : " Weel, it'll bo lang afore that man make tho do'il swat anyhow." So of Mr Voysoy. The service is an emasculated copy of tho Church of England, and his sermon wus chiefly devoted to pointing out the errors in Christ's sermon on the Mount, and giving an amended version of it a kt Voysoy." It was altogether a dreary busi-* noss, and 1 wondered that oven tbe score of people or so who wcro there eamo to hear such stuff. Perhaps a goodly number were like myself—" innocents abroad." When I came but, a snell sort of wind was wander ing about, and Burns's lines, as far as preacher and peoplo wero concerned, exactly expressed my feelings : —

As fault! a wind as ever blow, A (wilder kirk, and in't but few; As cnu'd a minister's e'er upak. _ o'se <. bo hot ere I como back.

Is the pulpit failing ? Are men losing in terest inits central themes ? I stH. ho sign of ite In nearly every church I found crowds of men and women. Tho exceptions aro noteworthy. Where the preachernbdicatea his true functions, becomes a philosopher, and instead of announcing amessago delivers an essay, thero it is losing its hold upon the heart and conscience. But where the preacher remains true to his original func tion, preaches the living Jesus and not doc trines or creeds about him, there still, as of old, crowds will como to hear. "It may bo good to bo a Hersholl, who describes tho sun ; it is better to bo a Prometheus, who brings tho sun's firo to tho earth. Tho "speaking man," as Carlylo calls him, who is a Prometheus rather than a Hershell, for j him "with all our writing and printing | functions there is a perennial place."

Madison Square, New York.

Madihon-squabb may bo regarded as the centre of tlio metropolis. Fifth Avenue, which runs towards tlio north, is crossed at right angles by Twenty-third-street, also a 'wido thoroughfare, and tho intersection is crossed diagonally by Broadway, coming ii (j from the south. This union of cele brated streets has laid out adjoining it an open square, covering about six acres with line trees, lawns and foot-walks. Surrounded by large hotels and famous buildings, this is probably tho best placo for the visitor to get his first im pressions of tho wonders and attractions of New York. For to the northward Fifth Avenue stretches with its rows of magnificent brown-stone residences, while Broadway in both directions is tho home of business and sends up a ceaseless roar from its constant traffic. They are both wide streets, and are filled from dawn till midnight with crowds of people and vehicles, the brilliancyof the electric lights in and around the square making the night almost as bright as day. The yellow tramcars move along Broadway upon the road whoso franchise was got by Jacob Sharp's notorious bribery of the New York aldermen, several of whom, as well as Sharp himself, have been gaoled for their share in the knavery. Bronze statues adorn the square. At the north-west comer is Dolmonico's famous restaurant, whose owner, after feed ing the jeunesse doree of New York upon the choicest viands for many years, half-demented went over into the wilderness New Jersey, and getting lost in the woods, died of starvation. On the west side is a row of stately hotels, the Fifth Avenue Hotel, with its white marble front, being the most imposing, while just above is tho Hoffman House, noted as containing the most gorgeously appointed drinking saloon on the Continent, where high art in painting, sculpture, and rich decoration is invoked by the Quaker proprietor to give a relish to " American drinks," concocted in seductive form at stiff prices. Fine resi dences and shops, picture galleries, restau rants and hotels are in abundance around this celebrated square; and the adjoining streets abound in churches, theatres, and popular resorts. Madison Square, in fact, is the social and fashionable centre of modern New York, whero its Parisian air and con stant life and animation show how vigorously aud successfully the Old World examples can be reproduced in the American metro polis.

A Plea for Old Maids.

Another speaker at the Congress, Miss H. H. Mason, in the course of a plea for old maids, protested against the " injustice and impertinence of the supposition that women remainded single because no one had asked them to marry." This is indefinite; many \voi_ en remain single for that very reason. It appears, indeed, to bo a very good reason for remaining single. Presumably Miss Mason meant—or said, and was misro ported—that it was not the only reason for female singleness. Let tho man who doubts a woman's ability to refuse an offer go and try—and if the lady accepts him, it will only be a fitting punishment for his ir reverence.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING- STAB, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1887.

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ALLOTMENTS Bought and Houses Built on the Weekly PayincntSystein. £o Doposit—Cottage lor Sale in the centre of the city; balanoe by weekly payments. HOUSES AND SHOPS FOR SALE. Wood-street—New .roomed House, £350 Richmond Road—6-roomed House, .290 Marsh, eld—s Rooms, leasehold, £150 Berestord-street-Leasehold, G rooms,£2so Ncwwn _.ou.tl—Leasehold. _ Cot.ta.g-es, ;£3__» Oxford-street—6-roomed House, £200 Rokcby-street-New House; gas, Sec, £253 Bond-street -0-roomed House, £260 Union-street—l Rooms, gas, Sec, r 350 Stuart-street—l Rooms, city water, £250 Cameron-street, Devonport— 6 Rooms, £100 ! Collingwood-stroot—7 Rooms, vinery, &c, £370 Romuera—B Rooms and large allotment, £100 l'Lacket. street—. rooms, leasehold, gas, &c, £110 Stockade Road—s rooms, city water and gas, £270 Wellington-strcot—2 Shops and Dwelling, £320 Waterloo Quadrant—B rooms, city water and gas. £1.050 Franklin Road—Threo Beautiful Houses, £1,509 Glenmorc—New 5-roomed House, .230 O wen's Roud, Mount Eden—Large New House, £600 Rose Road—B-rooined House; gas, water, £350 Ireland-street—New House, 5 rooms, £250 Ulai .mont-street—s roomed House, £300 St. Georgo's Bay—lo-roomed House, li acros Devon-street— 5-roomcd House, £105 Onohungti— 7 Rooms, stable, i acre, £700 Bond-street—s-roomed House, £260 Commercial Road—Now 5-roomed House, £135 Allotment, View Point Road, 63 x 110, £130 Watorviow—o-roomed Houso aud 3 acres first class Land, orchard, garden, ±350 Richmond Road—House, stable, and shed, £420 Duke-stroet—o-roomed House, new, £100 Howe-street—New 4-roomcd House, £200 Sussex-street.—s-roomcd Houbc, city water, £185 Anglcsoa-stroct—New li-roomea Houso, £550 Oxford-street—s-roomed House. £275 Haydn-street—s-roomcd House, £100 Summor-street—6-roomed House. 3 lots. £550 Devon-street—s rooms mew), £300 Groy-stroct-Boarding-house, £1.000 Russell-street— New 5-roomed House. £160 Mount Kdon—General Slore and House. £800 Russell-street—Large Roomy House, £190 Beresford-sirect—Leasehold, lis 6d weekly Bunnell-street Leasehold, Us weekly llowc-streot- Leasehold, lis Od weekly Day-street—Leasehold, 12. tkl weokly Jnkerman-strcot- Leasehold. 10s6rl weekly Kyber Pass-Shop and Dwelling, £120 Pratt-strcet-4 rooms, city wator, £200 Kyber Pass-Shop and Dwelling, £1.000 C'ollingwoed-streot-Ncw 6-roomed Houso, £210 Dovonport—New 5-roomed House; gas, £3(50 Kings land— New j-roomed House, £100 Surrey Hills—Now .roomed Houso, £375 Mary-street-Now 5-roomed House, *350 Stowart-street, Mount Eden—New 1-rooracd House, £27. Norman-street—Now House; bay window, £2C5 Eussell-strcot -New House, 4 rooms, £230 Charming Seaside Residence for Sale; quite new, with 31 acres under cultivation; near Devonport: grand view. SIX ACRES for Salo at Waikomiti for £69. Also. Six Acres, Walparcira, Hobsonvillo, £G0 FARM AT KATIKATI for Sale, 510 acres; river and road frontage; a bargain. COTTAGES and VILLAS to Let in Princes -street, Upper Queen-street, Emmet, street. Union-street, Howe street,lreland-street, Beres ford-street, Kyber Pass, Arch Hill. COMPACT FARM of &S acres for Sale, within IB miles of Auckland, on good roads, Six roomod Houso and outbuildings; large run for cattle adjoins. Splendid timber on property. FIVE ACRES OF LA.ND for Sale on Lake Road, partly fenced, in grass; 2 miles from the first wharf. A hartrain. ONE ACRE OF LAND for Sale, at Belmont, North Shore, with three road frontages. £200.—New House, in Devon-street, Newton,. for Salo; a bargain at the price. RICHMOND ROAD.-Pretty Cottage (New) For Sale, with all conveniences ; £220; gas laid on. Also, new House for £270. PRETTY VILLA RESIDENCE for Sale in Lincoln-street; gas, city water, range. £330. .ARMS also for Sale at Waikomiti, Paremo roino, Waitakerei, Mahuranfd, North Shoro, Papakura, etc. Also, soo List in " New Zealand Herald"' and " Weekly Nows." CHAS. AVILLIAMSON, ESTATE AGENT 83, QUEEN-St. (Opposite Fort-street. 'I Oil N O O L L A P. D Begs to inform his friends and the public gen erally that ho has commenced business ia Auckland as ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT, VALUATOR, ETC., And trusts ho will merit a fair share of public patronage. .T. 8., having many years' experience as a VALUER OF REAL ESTATE, LIVE STOCK, ETC., Is in a position to advise buyer and seller for their mutual beucilt, J. 8., also, having received a thorough agricul tural and pastoral training in the United "King dom, and having 25 yea-s' experience as a farmer in Auckland, is capable of PURCHASING ALL KINDS OF STOCK, FARM SEEDS. ARTIFICIAL MANURE, AN D IMPLEMENTS, ETC., For his farming friends who livo at a distanco from the principal markets. JOHN~BOLLAIID, ESTATE AND COMMISSION AGENT. Ofllce: Durham-street West, Auckland. Tjl fi Tfl W I N~G TO X *ESTATE AGENT, Queen-street, Auckland. [Established 21 years.] TO BE LET. thoso Premises known as the "Sailors' Rest," on the Wharf, opposite the Railway Station Gates. TO BE LET at very low rentals, Shops in Lower Hobson-streot. TO BE LET, cheap, Cottages in Lome-street. TO BE LET, a Large House in Karangahape Road, suitable for a Boarding-house. TO BE SOLD in one of tho best positions be tweon tho Asylum and the Avondale Station, a compact littlo property comprising over 11 acres of land, house, stables, dairy and out-houses. 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 Arcade at low rentals. F. G. EWINGTON. LAKE TAKAPUNA. — For Sale, 10 Acres of Land, near Hurstmere; sea beach frontage; Lako 'buses pass ovory hour ; close to main road to Devonport. Price, £160. Land in tho immediate neighbourhood sells at £100 per acre.—J. H. Witheford. Shortland-street. ■\TbRTHCOTB. — 5-roomed House on JL. allotment 200 ft to Pearl-street by 150 ft; good well and pump; fruit trees in full bearing; strawberries, etc. Prico vory reasonable.— Apply J. H. Witheford, Shortland-street. ■\TbRTHCOTB.— A nice Homestead of _Li level land, with 3-roomod Cottago, good brick well, orchard, strawberries, etc.; 300 feet frontago to main road. Easy terms.—Apply J. H. Witheford, Shortland-street. /CLEVELAND ROAD, PARNELL.-For \j Salo or to Let, Villa Residence of 9 rooms, with wash-house, bath-room, and every conveni ence; splendid viow of harbour; allotment 62 by 180; tonus reasonable.—J. H. Witheford PROSPECT TERRACE, MOUNT ROSKILL ROAD.—Five-roomed Houso, scullery, 2register grates, stove, bow-window; water laid on; allotmont 50 x 172; prico very llow.-J, H. Witheford. HAMILTON ROAD, Ponsonby.—Villa Rosidence of 6 rooms, with every con venienco ; rent. 14s.—J, H. Witheford. CUSTOMS-STREET WEST.-To Let, for ono or two years, Allotment in Customs street, 26ft x 90; good wator frontage; cutter oan got alongside; suitable for coal and firewood or any heavy goods; steam power can bo had if required at noxt property. Ront low.—J. H. Witheford, Shortland-stmnt. FOR IMMEDIATE SALE, as the I owner must loavo for England, a roally good Farm of 238 aores, 130 acros of it in grass, and fenced part with thorn hodgos, and the balance in bush; orchard, house, and buildings; and a very low price will bo taken.—Apply to John Soppet, House and Land Agent, 65 Queen Street.



Medical. STEEDKI Al^rs" SOOTHING POWDERS FOR CHILDREN CUTTING THEIR TEETH CAUTION TO PURCHASERS. The value of this well-known Family Medicine has bipwi largely tested in all parts ol; the world and in all grades of society, for upwards of fifty years. Its well-earned extensive sale ha. in ducod spurious imitations, some of which in outward appearance so closely resemble the original as to have deceived many purchasers The proprietor, therefore, feels it due to the public to give a special caution against the use of such imitations. Purchasers are therefore requested carefully to observe the four following distinctive characteristics, without which none are genuine :— Ist. In every easo tho words John Steed man, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey, are en graved on the Government Stamp affixed to each packet. 2nd. Eneh Single Powder has directions for the dose, nnd the words "John Steedman, Chemist, Walworth, Surrey," printed thereon. 3rd. The name Steedman is always spelt with two EE'h. . •ith. Tno manufacture is carried on solely in Walworth, Surrey. Sold in Packets by all Chemists and Medicine Vendors, at Is l^d to2s 9d each. Agents, Kemp thorne, Prosser and Co., Auckland, Wei ington, Christcliurch, and Dunedin. DR.~J. COLLIS BROWNE'S CHLORODINE. The ©rigiaal and Only Genuine. Advice to Invalids.—lf you wish to obtain qujet, l-efrcsbing sleep, freo trom lieo-dache, relief from pain and anguish, to calm and as suage tho weary achings Of protracted disease, invi'gorato the nervous media, and regulate the circulating systems of the body, you will pro vide youv3elt with thatmarvollous remedy dis covered by Dr. J. Collis Browne (lato Army Medical Staff), to which he gave the name of CHLORODYNE, and which is admitted by the profession to be the most wonderful and valu able remedy ever discovered. , CHLORODYNE is the best remedy knownfor Coughs, Consumption, Bronchitis, Asthma. CIUtORODYNE acts like a charm in Diarrhoea, and is the only specific in Cholera and Dysentery. CHLORODYNE effectually cuts short all at tacks of Epilepsy, Hysteria, Palpitation, and Spasms ..'■'■. CHLORODYNE is the only palliative in Neuralgia. Rheumatism, Gout, Cancer, Tooth ache, Meningitis, &c. FromSyrnes & Co., Pharmaceutical Chemists Medical Hall, Simla, January 5, 1880. To J. T Davenport, Esq., 33, • Great' Russell-street Bloomsbury, London. Dear Sir,—We embraco thia opportunity of congratulating you upon the wide-spread reputation this justly esteemed medicine. Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne,has earned for itself, not only in Hindostan, but all over the East, As a remedy for general utility, we much auestion whether a better is imported into the country, and we shall be glad to hear of its finding a place in every Anglo-Indian home. The other brands, we aro happy to say, are now relegated to the native bazaars, and, judging from their sale, we fancy their sojourn there will be evanescent. We could multiply in stances ad infinitum otythe extraordinary efficacy of Dr. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne in Diarrhoea, and Dysentery, Spasms, Cramps, Neuralgia, the Vomiting of Pregnancy, arid as a general sedative, that have occurred under our personal observation during many years. In Choleraic Diarrhoea, and even in the ,more, terrible forms of Cholera itself, we have wit nessed its surprisingly controlling power. We have never used any other form of thiij mcdi cine than Collis Browne's from a firm conviction that it is decidedly the best.and also from asenso of duty wo owe to the profession and the public, as we are of opinion that the substitution of any other than Collis Browne's'is a deliberate DKICACII OF FAITH ON THE PART OK THE CHEMIST TO PRESCRIBE AND PATIENT ALIKE. —We are, Sir, faithfully yours, Symes and Co., Members of the Pharm. Society of Great Britain. His Excellency the Viceroy's Chemists. . CAUTION.—Vice-Chancellor Sir W. Page Wood stated that Dr. ■_!. Collig Browne was, undoubtedly, the Inventor of Chlorodyne ; that the story of the defendant Freeman was de liberately untrue, which, he regretted to-say, had been sworn to.—S6o "The Times," July 13, ISCJ. ' ~. , ~-«, ~, .y. • Sold in bottles at Is lid, 2s 9d, ip 6d, and lis each. None is genuine without the words "Dr. J. Collis Browne's Chlorodyne' on the Govern ment stamp. Overwhelming medical testimony accompanies each bottle. Caution!:—Beware of Piracy and Imitations. Sole Manufacturer--J. ■_. DAVENPORT, 33, Great Russell-street. Bloomshury» London.; ~_TwMderful medicine. BEECHAM'S PILLS - f *^jj*'" <Sfc. :'' Are admitted by 1 ■ jj_<z. O•* A ' ''t. ousands'' to/ ba _f/ W'T'Nv'ZjA worth a Guinea a jfSjy *f*\ Bos for bihouß and #H_/ - VJ'V nervoU3 disiardors, l\iyf \ \i\ such' as wiiiii, and I / FA.LI-N 1 \'l sick headache, gid |_Jr "'—»."". •_» IW I dinsss, fulness and I »-3 I PI L L'S■ /Of j swellingaftermeals, ftv A s /to # dizziness and drqw \«\ —■ « ,—r- /«?/ ainess, cold c__!„ V^r* '/4?/ flushings" of heat, VCvv S4_?l loss <3f appetite, £ Bhorthess of breath, costiveness, scurvj-. blotchesonthesldß, MSSi disturbed sleep, Vipi. frightful idreams, and all nervous and trembling sensations, &o. The first d 039 willgive relief in 20 minutes.: This is no fiction, for they have dona if; in thousands of cases. Every sufferer ia earnestly kivitad to try one box'of these Pills, and they will be acknowledged to ba WORTH A GUINEA A BOX. For females of all ages these Pills are invaluable, as a few doses of them carry off all gross humours, opan all obstructions, and bring about all that is required. No females should be without them. TJiero is no medicine to be found to equal BEECHAM'S PILLS for removing any obstruc tion, or irregularity of the system. If taken according to the directions given with each box theywill soon restore females of alleges to sound and robust health. ,'■'<■' . ■- For a weak stomach, impaired digestion, arid all disorders of the lipf-or, they act like MAGIC," and a, fow doses will be found to work wonders upon the most important organs of the human machine. They strengthen the whole muscular, system, restore the long lost complexion, bring;back the ko3n edge of appetite and arouse into action with the ROSEB 0D of health the whole physical energy of the human frame. These «__>.'."FACTS" admitted by thousands embracing all classes of society; and one of the best guarantees to the nervous and debilitated is, Beecham's Pills have the largest sale of any patent; medicine in the world, i ! BEECHAM'S MAGIC COUGHPILLS As a remedy for Coughs in general, Asthma, Diffi culty in Breathing, Shortness of Breath, Tightness | and Oppression: of the Chest, Wheezing, &c, these Pills stand unrivalled; and anyone labouringunder : any of the above complaints need only try One 1 Sox to prove that they are the best ever offered to . the public for Asthmatic andConsumptiveCoughß, Hoarseness and Oppression of the Chest. They speedily remove that sense of oppression and diffi culty of breathing which nightly deprive tha patient of rest. They give almost instant relief and comfort to those afflicted with the above distress ing and, when neglected, dangerous complaints. Let any person troubled With any of the above complaints give Beeoiiam's Cough Pitts a trial. The most violent Cough will in a short time be removed. Caution. —Tho public are requested to notico that the words "Bbecha.m's Pitts, St. Helens," we on the Government Stamp affixed to each Box of the Pills. If not on they are a forgery. Prepared only and sold wholesale and retail by tho proprietor, T. Beecham, Chemist, St. Helens, Lancashire, England, in boxes at Is. Ijd. and 2s. ad. each.—Sold by all Druggists and Paten* Medicine Dealora throughout the Colonies. N.B.—Full directions are given with each box. A T LAST A REAL CURE -£*- FOR KHEUMATISM! EHEUMATISM I Dr. PARKER'S "PUL'VIS EHEUMATICON,'; A purely vegetable compoundfor the immediate relief and speedy euro of Rheumatism, Sciatica, Neuralgia, Toothache, and aU nerve and mus cular pains. Severe attacks cut short in afew hours. It supersedes all outward applications. Sea circulars for voluntary testimony of remarkable cures. , ,3s 6d per bottle; 3s lOd by post Sole agent for Auckland:— S. GILBERT, \ , CHEMIST. QUEBN-STRKET. ' I7ILLISDO.TS NEURALGIC DROPS, li • FOR THE '„'__." THOROUGH CURE OF NEURALGIA. ■ ;i From tho Rev. C. J. Morton, St. John's Parson age, Ferry Road, December, 1878. ■ "My dear Mr Ellisdon.-I havo for many yoars past from timo to time suffered severely from Neuralgia, and havo found nothing to re lievo me so speedily or 7a effectively as your 'Neuralgic Drops.' I can confidently recom mend it.-Yours truly, C. J. Merton. Numerous othor Testimonals in my posses- Prices: 2s and 3s 6d per bottle. BIGGS'S TOOTH A CHE ESSENCE Gives Instantaneous Relief. Price, Is. Prepared only by.F. BIGGS (late Ellisdon) Chemist, High-street, Christchurch, bold by all Chemists. Wholesale Agents: KEMPTHORNE ft PROSSER, Auolclana,



«nd Memory ■fc Dot _k\ ho •» *} > IJcpressioT, r-VruPtione nn il'^oti- unde_ii.«, Fos'th*o 0 iSt"l'. eT _&2&__g§£!& ra™«|?t l i_ifS4'B h"M.self. and ,S'^*w o*J &> KEATING'S POWDBB -^ KEATING'S POWDE . KEATING'S j?owdeV KEATING'S POWDEk KEATING'S POWDER KILLS BW,g, S1pI mIIISANIMa^BEE^- ■nJUtjHI,ESS TO ANrTWAIc > __-_. !S 10 ANIMALS HARMLESS TO ANIM_LS MOTHS IN FUBB Sd* _W_% s_jaaa.^s£at packages of the genuto boS» KEATING'S' WORM tffipw ' KEATING'S WORM T ffiS KEATING'S WOEM1 TABLETS. KEATING'S WORM TABLETS A PURELY, VKGET^LIS^Sj..; both in appearance. and.taste; fe*K.' only certain remedy for INTmrtjTP* TI&EAD WORMS. It is »Sffifet mild preparation, and is especkllyac.BS'S Children. ..Sold in Tins by aSwS PW fc Proprietor. THOS. KEATiN(£TSo-ioiL A SURE lUSMEDylfqrß '_____? HICKMAN'S ! i ECLIPSE HAIR PRODUCE* ; (Rfsjistered.) This Preparation eclipses all o&cri A now discovery lor the Growth of Hair on 'the Head ! and Face: for removing and preventing Dandruff; and arresting the fall of the Hair. Is : cures any Disease of the Scalp, and capes k. i growth on the head cflcr being bald for jm . vv here it lias become weak and t!4a, froa whatever cause, it quickly restores it to Its natural vigour. Hundreds of r_iil_ Is ii (.•Uruslchurch can testify to tbe fact t_U ■ ; liickiuan was COMPLETELY BALD toriwni . \ em's, and after trying ever/ known mutt; i without oftect, ho discovored this:wonderful preparation, which ENTIRELY RESTORE) ill. HAIR TO ITS NATURAL STATE AND COLOUR. It has also proved successful in* number of other similar cases in which the hair hadfalleufroui scrofula and othsr diseases d the scalp. Each bottlo contains supply for oda month. Price, 4s, of Grave? A 4-, kin, Hamilton Bros, J. P King and Sons, J. A.Pon .and all Chemists, Gcaeralfz?mtUG COMPANY. FEMALE PILLS, 2s 6d a box. A great boon. Prevent all trcubla ANTIBILIOUS & LIVER PILLS, Is 6d per box. A L'rand safeguard andcorrectiT» FEMALE TONIC, cs and 4s 6d per bottle. A splendid appetiser,. nerve-soother, and a?ncralinvigorate;. Km tivo cure for aU debilities pecuhar tofem aIM. ASK FOR. WP S D* g TUAET' s Sold everywhere. T^OOD NEWS for THE SUTFERffiG. QUEEN ANNE'S RHEUMATIC OIL RHEUMATISM NKURALGIA, SCIATICi, HEADAtmi. , Pains in the Bitck or any; pwt ofw BW-. or Pains between theSnoniq^i^wj"^.. mothers) should never be without. The following are a few of the many Tsffl- MONiAis received:— . Dear Sir,-I M »Shelly Beach, J^^ n^t ii_»«d have much pleasure in sW^MM,^ your Queen AnneV °^:^.*S°-hftt« fotmd lad between 'the s&ouldenvand ton* m nothing to-equal il I have>•*»*£ To , head__)ft.and'foimd.it>j|^"™^ tto "Russell. srd August,lßß7. ** nvich Pleasure m^swtogtflM in ™ r Queen. t^n^d aonewonde«W « Auckland. May Mg. fifrbiw used much pleasure ii st.ittns mm w „ Oueen Anne s Khftumauo V" *V* J^jr n an a-am Sy^shouiders, caused nam^^tlrom certain that I have derive* roo.s d^ K£ji Whoteal^Agw^ , VV meals is a wonderful appe^Jj^ . fITcPWIN COX, 113, Queen-streeti A -?.Sooiety'sU« • so N» E __i.cox ;W iatoiaDe^ K.C.rf., England- , SnWJf , ~~~~n>k B'"*'i''*' (ByKxam ination) (Lato flvo years witu *. M >y be CossotTtD Jf . ABBOTS botld^^ Kar an B aha P o Koad (nea^pc CHARGES JIODEBA T£ ' 7777yyyy7.yyy.yy. yi77. yyyy..h