THE GARDEN.

Calendar of Operations, may 7th.

[Bl' HORTC7S.J •nine to answor any queries. Cor ffl" <■ (Hyp their full names and ad

To Correspondents.

~„„ Walnut (Orange.).—lt docs n i\'GK. pIS h,vli orange you take seed from. oßittf»tter, ffll!fdffferentfrom the fruit. The t>X eraing on is the Seville or wjt 3'ock . It is hardier than others. You °S er oranE e/,„ t0 obtain fruit of tho abovo ffid be , ab ° jng season. The seel should itheM,?n afovv weeks af er beinpr taken W*h*C£ as it docs not carry its vitality Elm tie It*"::{a so w pine seed now or any X Wfht^nter, or early spring ft 85 *ffiriSg, they would probably need #**%^watering during the next sum mM an invp rcfer3 10 such hardy kinds Sr"".* tote etc. Some of the liner ■z. pints i"5 'f'H er sown in seed pans and '«#«? Tshady frame or house till they M m n would have been better if you Lffl^e the names of the varieties you y t«llJ • n You can easily raise both Ji3ht» Chestnut by planting nuts. Se v^nt are properly matured, and plant WmA if you like where they are to grow S*.wriv In some soils here both the ten*1" 611.?' chestnut are subject to a disease Gin1! 11, which causes them to die while the roots, I 0 Apple. Punt. Etc. (1) The seed lUcW 01,! imrarpa d°cs not SCCI" to «omo to «tW JK lliave tried it several times, SsWfWSs failed. Others tell me they mi" jtte same experience. The seed i Kjre lfj, .rets down in Cnnterhnry suc ljkß>'s aivo tho seed it should be taken ct^A wes vilC" r' pe- -^XPOSO tllu cones WO"I'till the y open, and sow in the oarjy \o*e!!Thß seed of the pnst season should s«»J;t], a s come to maturity, which I fc'pVon your soils apple trees gene )p,sgr, If you use the compound iJSjWLff'ecks affo by Mr Maclncloo, it si* i ander. If you also paint the i SffiUith any oily mater, that will iftff ff in cheek. (31 It would bo of ' »W foryon to transplant your plum troe i iJ^^urDosition unless you can place it *"*• «l have a greater depth of soil . •Junf volcanic soil on the top of rock is P'rLp-enough for fruit trees. If yon •* Miotctdepth the transplanting would KS Transplant now. iiiOTteor).—Stiff clay in the long run *i Scst soil of all; but it takes a large tf^.-flabour and manure to get it into & order. It should be d>aine-i now •fil? While digging you should put Knf stable manure or any vegetable ® siich'will rot quickly. Ashes of all "TVraterybeneficial. Sand, burned earth, - rabbish or any light porous material SbelP'nb""^ 11!; ,itillto a good state. Ji taredno* and bad to crop with any of K«lwu<crcrup=, so".' xt down in oat 3. Ku the spring comes m, shousd be dug Kb cr-imd' as you prepare for spring J The stalks of the oats and root matter jjjj^to the ground will do a large amount 1-,-ni-ll) Yon should put out your bulbs I*l':1 They like a rich, free, well-drained ffmft a northern exposure. They fid the winter, and arc perfectly hardy. S powers here never lift them out He borders-for yean, and they do err well 121 ft is no use to prune ever- IStsnow1 wfl'ttill about the middle or end Kttst-fait is the proper time. 'I hey wlj! Srfn to crow immediately afterwards. If Sdnoir the bare stumps would show till ta If you aPP'y to the lion Secretary of Motors' Horticultural Society I think bmmld be able to obtain a good ma . for

Kitchen Garden.

Jn lite heavy rains have put the soil in alandid order for planting and sowing the Bill winter vegetables. Rhubarb should mbe lifted &nd placed in the shade for a toaontia'' New beds should be made H (or planting out in the spring. Too urismaiiiite cannot be placed in the bed. B June not'the bed will be in good order fejtofinijtihen the season comes round. iwsWs should also receive an over y.'flis old stems cut close to the pi Sjiead plenty (say two inches) of nWAittirare over • the bed ; fork it itilklybfoM ground, taking care not to &ji/sfc'«ras of the old plants. Then nil s dressing- 'of coarse salt to the R Seakale treat almost in the same aw as asparagus. Where exten sile of either are required the new beds fie better made '.now. Cabbage and cauli ker: Earth up all the eai'ly crops requir fljit; plant a few more. Onions: Make lid sowing for early use ; thin out ad nmng.crppsof turnips, carrots, spinach, fejiiep them"free of weeds with the hoe. Iwtoes:, All .superfluous foliage should to stripped off the plants, so that the fruit bjreceive all the rays of the sun. It will lipi.nrach better if such be done. Broad w; Sow a few rows. Mallots, potatoes, »d onions should now be planted out in pod, rich, soU. .Like all other bulbs, Us like wood ashes. Lettuce: Plant Rf another ■'small patch; tie advanced N.for_. L blanching. Kumeras should wbe lifted''and stored away; they rap best if stored in dry sand. Every P8 of ground.not wanted for winter crops «*M be well manured and sown down in *i where green feed is-wanted. It will Khandy where not wanted, as it makes "pal manure if dug into the ground in a pstatein tie early spring. Use lime ™m, as, they, are becrinning to get ™blesome. ■ "

Flower Garden. All alterations in' the flower garden .Wilbebronghttoaclose now. Sow all » as boob as-possible, so that it may Evergreens of all Sv? °°. ff' be planted with . perfect y v ordinary care is taken that the "* are not exposed to the air for any 7»Mtime^or the ball with the roots »W to get dry. Flower borders should tii T 6 hor°ugh overhaul. Clear V"! of plants, reduce the Jjfte which have attained too large a .wide such as want root division. 5 IP? tie "borders all dug to a good in plenty of well-rotted , IB,as the digging proceeds. Also J We spositions of the different wffi ,™> er3 properly marked so 1 positions are known. Con- J7 .panting out spring flowering J«»M tubers. These all like more L,T ln the soil. Wood ashes are the about: a handful for each bulb will tijhVonderhu difference in the quality Msl c"' and produce much better far 4m*' year'8 flowering as well. A kZu bulbs can now be pianfced -4e fc — r eai-lv in the s PrinS- As if1"? of the borders proceeds, all tt T1 ®* sown early in the autumn • undiaturbed, unless a few Ks- » Inferred to a fresh situation, ijfc',,^ is the best time of the year ijli^iß lawns which have suffered HSS? lay or dsou^ t- >4 gf ff tresh grass seed ; rakw and roll ;;tne,usual autumn paring to 3v. c 'preparations for re wiii'Jf 6- from frequent parings are feUt^gft.too narrow. Nothing but est turf should be used tyiijjj^ 08?- Walks or drives badly cut junto T* receive fresh gravel, as it will l»tatji^weather, if properly rolled. htestif^avel -down, see that the dinto the bottom, only the NejS?? surface. Keep the whole T a neafc> trim condition. "SstCt is well ke P fc now > I think t!?^be '? Well asm the s PrinS' a.s a • ?* arid^v 'kardy winter and spring Bare now showing strong

ATLHETIC NOTES.

(By Action.)

FIXTURES.

AQUATICS y 168 V' XlS^ Ei«ht" May 30 IRS7 w th, e p arramat a States. Hanla" v- United Nov.' YeV c,Clner- United Stete9 shinoftL H, a, nlan the Champion snip of the world on the Paramata.

ATHLETICS.

May U-Five-mi!e Bicycle Race from Onch »gi

FOOTBALL.

Nkxt Saturday will witness the start of the Cup matches for 1887, when the teams will meet on the new ground secured by the Union at Epsom-Potter's Paddock. Foot ball is too popular a game in Auckland for the distance of the ground from town to prevent large crowds going there every Saturday, but the Union will have to do

their utmost to make travelling easy and quick if they wish to secure an average at-

:endance anything like last season's. As

1 the clubs stand now, and from what I can gather, the three clubs between whom the .struggle for supremacy will chiefly lie .ire the Ponsonby, North Shore and Gordon, and the latter has decidedly the best all round team. Besides their old men, Moginie, of the Aucklanders, and J. John ston, of the North Shore, have joined them, and their fifteen is strong in every department of the game. North Shore, as usual, appear to be weak in backs ; but if Snow turns out the good man he is said to be, and Wynyard plays with as much heart as he did for the old Victoria, they will be stronger than last year, while Maude has not nad a chance of showing us what he can do yet. Their forwards are very heavy lot, and though some of them have a lot to learn, taken all in all, play a good game. The blue and black boys do not speak so loud as in former; years, but there is any amount of " play " in them yet. There is a chance of firaund not playing for them, but Davy Jones will prove a valuable acquisition. Whiteside, of course, plays, while Arneil and Davy will start the season

far fitter than they did last year. Staphen son played well for the Club in 1886, and will no doubt keep up his reputation. It is hard to say how the fonvards will shape, but with Ned Mills, Keefe, Otway, Hewson and the old 'uns on the job, they will take a lot of bjating. Graf ton expect to be as sisted by Twiname, ot Dunedin. but they will be handicapped by the loss of Tom Ryan, Warbrick (most probably), Cooper. Gardiner, and, I hear, Lander Wells. The team at present is not what it used to be. The Waitematas are " dark 'uns," but

they have some really good players, and will have a good say in who is to win the Cup, though they may not come near it themselves. The same may be said of the Alberts, for they are far stronger than last year, and both the Gordon and Grafton Clubs will remember how hard they were to beat then. I hear that the Auckland Football Club will still piit a team in the field, but without Moginie, Henderson or O'Connor, and very little new blood, I do not expect much from them. I can only call shame on the team that styles itself Auckland 11., formed of men big enough, and mostly good enough, for any senior fifteen, standing aloof and seeing its first go smash without fcrying to prevent it. The Auckland 11. might as well call itself by some other name, and as for playing among the boya as juniors, if they do win the Junior Cup it will be no honour to them.

The New South Wales footballers are talk ing of altering the rule concerning forces, so that the team forced down will kick otF from behind its goal line, and not from the twenty-five yard mark. Downey, of the late Nelson F.C.has been elected captain of Auckland 11. The NelsonF.C. wisilydecided todisband, as they did not consider themselves strong enough for seniors, and thought too much of themselves to play as juniors after win ning the Cup of 18S6. All the Southern Unions have adopted the new rules concerning scoring. By these a goal from the field counts three and a try one, while a goal from a try counts three oniy Auster, the champion bicyclist was play ing in the scratch match in the Domain last Saturday. His place is half-back, and he is not at all bad. He has not joined any club as yet. Dave Gage has been playing a grand game for the Ponekes this season. He seems to do a great deal of running now. Mr G. B. Milton, the well-known Canter bury footballer, is seriously ill of typhoid fever. The colours of the Sydney Gordon F.O. are black guernsey and stockings with monogram.skull and crosabones on guern sey, blue nickers and black caps- Who re members the old Lestai—that unfortunate chib that never came off?

ATHLETICS, &C

Murphy left on Thursday for Wellington, where he will i meet young Williams for a substantial stake. R. Matthews ac companies him in the capacity of trainer and second. • An effort is being made to get up a han dicap road race from Onehungafor amateur runners, after the style of the English harrier runs. The idea commends itselt to all footballers, and should be the means of bringing some good men to the iront. It is proposed to have the race on Jubilee Day, the prizes to be gold and silver medals for first and second, and a trophy for third, the entrance fees to be devoted to their purchase. Messrs Cotter and W. W. Robinson have consehted to act as han dicappers. „. , „, , Now then, Waitemata Bicycle .Club members, where are you all ? The Christ church Bicycle Club have decided to have a weekly dance for members of the Uub °nClarke, the English amateur walker, beat the English amateur record for 8, V, and 10 miles in a ten-mile walking race, held under the auspices of the^ 10*1? 1!?" 01 Amateur Athletic Association on March sth. The records now stand -8 miles, lhr. 3min. 41sec. ; 9 miles, lhr. llmin. 44see; and 10 miles, lhr. 19min. 50sec. . " ' . On February 14th, E. N. Bullock^rode 100 miles in the Exposition Building, Omaha, Neb., U.S.A., on a bicycle in ohr. 59min. 59sec. Why lidn't the timekeeper say six hours straigh:, off ? ■," The result of the Davis Great Sculling Handicap on the Parramatta was—J. Wult, 23sec S .,l; G.Davis,33secs.,2;W Anderson 325ec5.,3. The prizes were £100, £3o and £15 Neil and Charlie Matterson and Christian Neilson took part in the race. _ Hutchens has sailed for England. He hopes to pay Australia; another visit next ■winter. • ■■'■' "'' , ]' x

Cash purchasers should remember J. H Hannan, Victoria street, who has. opened the newestand most serviceab e, goods m aU;Jepart m . ntq infiiidine Striped Silks,;oauns, as w?ll aßVari^us ki|s of New Bross^atacs Flannels, Blankets, Sheetings, Ulsters, OIoUV inTat prices than will defy compotlUon, ■

STAGE AND STUDIO.

(By Euterpe.)

[Mr \V. H. Webbe; of the Auckland School of Music, has for some time past been carry ing on week by week a series of " musical evenings " for the benefit of his numerous pupils. Thursday evening is the night pitched upon for this pleasant little fixture the pupils and their master are the per formers, with occasional assistance from visitors, and the admission is by ticket only. The gatherings' take place- in jV{ r WebboV establishment at the c'oraer'pf Hob son and Cook-streets, and for the purpose of indicating how entertaining they are to the guests, and how beneficial they must be to the pupils, I append fche programme* presented on Thursday night i'a.<t : (1) Piano quartette, "Marche Hongrofee f (2), piano solo, Mendelssohn's " Sprin'f Song;" (3) piano duet, Haydn's Third Symphony; (4) song, "Am I Dreaming ;."' (5) piano dnet, Finale of Haydn's "Sur prise " symphony ; (b') piano solo, selection from Spindler; (7) song, " Pepita;" (8) piano duet, " Potsdam March ;" (!)) sacred.' song, " Nazareth •" (10) galop, "Je suis Pret" ("I am Ready"), arranged as apiarao duet. This is the normal length of tho pro gramme, but there was given as nn extra item, Liszt's " Rakoezy March," arranged as a piano quartette,

Baker and Fat-ran have actually dissolved1 partnership, and are now doing the State* on their own hook.

Mrs Cr. B. Lewis is selling her wardrobe, books, &c., in Melbourne, preparatory, it is supposed, to her retirement from the pro fession.

The Municipality of Paris has voted the sum of £400 for a musical prize competi tion, restricted of course to Frenchmen.

Amateur vocalists in search of a new and pretty song should get Dr.Maokonzie's oay feivating little ballad "Wee Wifey." '■ '>■ goes straight to the heart. The Berlin Philharmonic Society has r! •■ cicled to end its existence at tho end of this season. This is a loss and a disgrace to the capital of tho German. Empire. The Edinburgh Burns Club proposes to erect a memorial to' John Wilson, John Tompleton, and David Kennedy, who did so much for Scottish .song-, during the past fifty years.. Colonial Scotchmen who have so highly enjoyed Kennedy's " Twa Hoors at Hame" 'concerts should liberally subscribe to the-memorial.

Miss Lingard, who once held such a high position as a London actress, cannot get iui engagement,, and is d'rivemby circumstances to go into, the small provincial towns with a number two company to play "Sister Mary," which proved such a disastrous failure when produced at the Comedy. News has arrived by the 'Frisco mail of the death of; Mr Jas. Broughton, conductor of the Leeds Choral Society. Ho was in Auckland rather more than a year ago, amd; dHiring his- stay Here sojpurtrsd at the residence of Mr Chas. Hemus, Pon.son by. He was a brilliant pianist, and a musician! whose heart was thoroughly in his work.

Better still -the Municipal Theatre of Frankfort has received a special subsidy of £7,500 from the Corporation to tido over a. linarcial crisis. Fancy the Auckland City Council donating n, few thousands to the Choral Society for the purpose of erecting a Choral Hall worthy of the cioy and the people. Yet it would be a better Jubilee' idea than some I have heard.

I understand that Herr Louis, Tutschka, who was obliged to resign the con ductorship of the- Auckland Philhar monic Society on account of over-work, has been created an honorary mem ber for life by the committee of the above society, thus recognising the ex cellent services he rendered while in office. Herr Tufeschka has- for some months pa.st suffered from, a severe relaxation of the throat, and in spite of the urgent recommendation of his medical adviser to take a rest,, he- has all along faith fully performed his duties. His many friends and pupils will be glad to hear that he has now fully recovered.

Another American "notion!" Mr Bow man, of Minneapolis, has invented a so called "anonymous programme." The names of composers are not given, and a set of coupons are attached, which corres pond in number with the pieces in the programme. These coupons are afterwards used as voting papers, each member of the audience being re quested to send in the number correspond ing with the piece in the programme which has pleased him most. Most laughable the results of the voting frequently are. At the first trial, a composition by Mr Dudley Buck had a majority of 70 votes over Mendelssohn's C minor Sonata ! Fact. I commend the idea to Herr Schmitt. Lets us have a local trial by all means. Mr George Rignold and Mr Forlonge (barrister) will shortly appear by special command at a matinee performance in Mel bourne, under the distinguished patronage and in the presence of one of the Supreme Court judges. Mr Forlonge will appear as plaintiff, a character a little out of his usual line. Handsome George is the defendant, and the allegedfacts of the case areas under: The parties live in Powlett-street, East Melbourne, the plaintiff being the owner of a ■'.valuable mastiff, while the defendant possesses a Newfoiindland dog. It is said that on a recent evening a fight took place .between the canine brutes outside the defendant's fence, and that Rignold came out while the battle was raging, and putting a rope round the mastiffs neck tied it up to the cross bars of the fence of his house. The ■■ Newfoundland took advantage of the unfavourable position of his opponent, and continued a one-sided combat with such success that when some bystanders came to the rescue of the unfortunate mastiff and cut him down, he was found to be dead—for a ducat dead.

AUSTRALIAN STAGE NOTES.

Melbourne, April 18, 1887

Bland Holt's great production, " A Run of Luck," is attracting enormous houses to the Theatre Royal. For spectacular show "A Run of Luck" far and away beats " Human Nature," especially with its blood racehorses, hunters and pack of foxhounds.. " Harbour Lights " has now entered upon its eighth week at the Princess Theatre. After the close of the Melbourne season Minnie Palmer proceeds to Ballarat, from there to Brisbane foraseason; and after that will play her farewell of Australia at Sydney. Frank Clark, of the Victoria Hall, has secured the services of the champion bicyclist of the world, Madame :Fran/ini, who has lately been appearing ia Sydney. ■. . . ; ■ ' ■; . : • Clifton..

Sydney, April 19th, (887.

We have three minstrel and variety shows at present in: this city, viz., The Coghill's, Frank Sxaith's and Fred His cock's — all providing excellent stuff, and each doing first-class business. James Pain, of firework fame, gave a dis play last Saturday week at Prince Alfred Park where he has gone to enormous, ex pense in fitting a grand stand for tho con venience* of the. public, - , Y> • A.%:

SNOWSTORMS ON THE HILLS.

No.vk.|»(jt those who hm& been cavight irf

them caw form any idea <?S now terrible aVe' mountain snow-storms. Blinding, bewilder ing, both nve» and animals qtabkly succumb to them. Clowda and banks off snow, rush hither and thit&er in opaque masses : the bitter hail sleet se«m to drive threiVgh you. A few momentsl after the storm' breaks, every wrap you lftwy have at command is soaked through, thwcold is intense ;' and a sense of numbness sWon takes possession of the whole body. Twice have I litirsbwly escaped death when suit on the northern mountains in winter,, suddenly finding myself at the close of a 1 short afternoon en veloped in a blinding storm. Once, offer long exposure, I owed my deliverance tol a search-party of shepherds ; on the second occasion I was saved liy the intelligent? iMeltfcy of a brace of foxhounds. Those who* have been overtaken in tills manner have-i not always been so fortunate ; and some terrible deaths have occurred among the higher hills in winter, asl the following sttories will show.

Half-way down this grey stone wall, on 1 bIW near side, is a sad gveeni spot; and beside it we have thrown up a» loose cairn. The1 snow had fallen thickly for'many flays ; ■ all the deep holes were filled up, and the mountain-rood was no longer to be seen. ■ The1 wall-tops stood out as white ridges on the- otherwise smooth surface. Only the cuags- hung ia shaggy snowy masses, black seams and scaurs rocking out Hits1 ravines. Nature was sombre and still; ifaessmecl us .. though her pulse had ceased to heat. The softly winnowed snowflakes still fell, and not even the wing of a bird of prej; moved in the thin cold air. It had gone hard with' the sheep.- Hundreds were buried in the snow, and would have to l>e dug out. . They sought the site of tin: old wall and fell into deep drifts ; but the li.irdy goat like Hfeid wicks-instinctively climbed'tO»the bleak and exposed fell-tops, and in tin's was their safety. Torelieve the sheep that had as-yet escaped,. Hay was carried to the fella ; each' shepherd having a loose bundle upon his hack, It was thus, with three dogs, that we toiled up the gorge by an unde fined trail parallel to the buried fence. Soon it began to snow heavily, and the sky suddenly darkened. The dogs that wore in front stopped before somo object. They whined', ran towards us, and. gave out short, sharp barks. With a kind of in stinctivodread wo followed them as they led us towards a granite boulder ; and on its lee1 side lay something starkly outlined against the snow. "Dead!" we whis pered' to> each other. There was no trace of pain over the features — nothing bwfc rigid quiet. The icy fingers graspedi a pencil, and on the snow lay a scrap >of paper. It contained only two words- " This day " — then stopped. Wo buried the body next morning in the little mount tain cemetery. Whence he came op whither lie went none ever knew. A few of the- dead man's belongings, trifling, enough, are thrust in a hole in the old barn, for- her whom we still expect to come for them one of these days.

In our .summer fishings, one of the spotsat ■which woaised bo resort was a quaintcottage in the beautiful vale of Duddon—the same that Mr- Wordsworth has immortalised in his series; of sonnets. The cottage stood' hard by the stream, and in it lived a widow woman, the daughter of a hill "statesman." During trout-time the house was embowered in greenery. Deliciously cool was its white washed porch and cleari-'sandal floor, a«r-at tree standing over all. In tho grate of her parlour in summer, where Mr Wordsworth ctften used to sit, she invariably had a thick, sod of purple heather in full bloom.. Here: many anglers came and drew from, their holds the pink-spotted trout. The dipper and the kingfisher darted by the (1001%. and those who drank-in the qniet and pastoral peace of Duddon never forgot it; The woman of the ootbage, by great in dustry and exertion, had reared1 and settled comfortably in life a small family. She was respected by all about her. Out of her small' means she gave away almost as much food and home-brewed ale as was sold by any country inn of the district. For one in so limited a sphere her life was almost an ideal one ; and yet her end was terribly sad. She- left home one wintry afternoon to visit a- sick relation, in EskV dale. At this time "pedlars"—of whom tho Wanderer- of the " Excursion " is a type —were common in remote country districts, and one of fehem. ottered to con vey her in his gig to. Eskdale-over-the Birk Moor road. At the-end of this he was to take her up at a stated time.. It happened that she was tco> Me for tho traveller,, but walked onwards,, supposing that ho was be hind and would overtake-her.. On> the sixth day after thisthe clergyman's daughter from Eskdale casually called at the poor woman's cottage. It then became known that she had not been seen at Eskdale, and a band! of dalesfolk at once sets out to. search the fens. The body of the poor creature was found only forty yards from the- road-,, her hands and knees terribly lacerated, and her dress torn.. These showed that after losing the power of walking she- had struggled onwards,, no one knows how far, upon her hands and knees. She had taken out her spectacles, as was thought, to- assist her in seeing-her way through the blinding mists. These had prevailed for a week, and to them must be attributed the fact that her body lay so long undiscovered by the mountain road. Some sweetmeats tied ma handkerchief,which she had carried for her grandchildren, were found near the spot where she died. Eskdale is. one of the most pi&tnresque glens among tho Cumbrian mountains—" a spot made- by Nature for herself," as some of the-Lake poets have it. With, its tarn, its ghyll-continued waterfall, and the fact of its being placed among the splintory peaks of the Be rrowdale series, it constitutes a wildly charming spot at every season. Here upon the snow, many years ago, was played out a cruel tragedy indeed A poor hard-working peasant and his \vi', named Green,were returing from Langd-iie late on a wintry night to their home i/i Easdale. A terrible storm overtook them on the way, and becoming exhausted, they both died in it. Meanwhile six children were snowed up in their cottage, where, without help, they re mained several days. Fully appreciating their situation, but as yet ignorant of _ the fate which had befallen her parents, a little lass offline assumed command at home, and exhibited unusual forethought and care in meeting the home wants of her brothers and sisters. After a time she mado hei escape from the snow-bound cottage*.anc ; told the hill-farmers and shepherafe. hoy her father and mother had not returned-. ■& search party was organised, and aister thro* days the bodies were discovered, upon th< hills at a short distance from cash, otheii 1-- "St. James Gazette."

A Wise Deacon.—" Deacon Wilder, I want you to tell me how yon kept yourself and family so well the past season, when all the rest of us have been sick so mvwin, and have had the doctors running to us so often." -'Brother Taylor, the answer is very easy, I used Hop Bitters in time, and kept my family well, and saved lavgo doctors' 1)1118, Four shillings worth of it kept us all well and ahle to work all the time, and I will "warrant it has cost you and most of the neighbours £10 to £100 apiece tokoop sick the sa.me time. I fancy you'll take, my I medicine hereafter." Sao.

A RUDE AWAKENING.

; The Effect oi & Colliexy CaVo-In dte

a Pecsveylvania Tleftoa.,

TH« New York &' World's" Wilkesbarra1 special says : The inhabitants ofa: portion of tire littlo town of Plains', four iniicS'fromJ this city, reoeived o raib'awakening- shortly' before midnight last nigjtfa The woflkingr of the Mill Creek collier?,- of the Delaware1 and Hudson Canal Company-, extend under a large part of the towr.j: known as the" Crary tract, and at some points come with1 in less than ninety feet of; the surface.- About 11.30 o'clock, while tke inhabitants wo c iv bed, the silence of ifa'e night was! broken by a rumbling crash. Houses shook and trembled, and with a shoclilike that of; an earthquake, six acres of grcsnd settled: from three to six feet, and the-earth was' traversed in all directions bt.1 gaping fissure, some of them two feet in • width and apparently without bottom. \ There are about twenty houses; on the [disturbed tract of land, and before the' (ground had ceased to shake and settle every house was vacant, and the trembling in iwafce.s, clad for the most part in nothing but their nightclothes, were running v/ildly about on the snow-covered ground, calling . for lights and help. In one place a hole ap peared in the ground twenty feet across ■ and. as many deep. Nearly overy building on the disturbed tract was greatly damaged. ■ Onoof the most serious results of the cave in Wftis- the drying up of all wells for a long distance around, the water finding its way into- the mines through cracks in the-*' rock.-1.

THE TORY PROGRAMME.

An Attempt to Goad tho Irish Into

Acts of Violence,

Mk Hrkky Laboitciterm's special to the " Work?" of March 23rd says: —"There can be (Ifctlo doubt that the Government is anxious to goad the Irish into over resis tance inonlur to influence public opinion in England and thus carry their Coercion Bill. Avtolujjnun of Balfour to Captain Plunkett was the direct incentive to the murder of a man at Youghal. In that town a crowd composed mainly of boya and women hnil paraded the streets to protest against thcurrostofuvenerableiuid venerated priest because lie declined to become a witness iv the Bankruptcy Court where it was hoped that ho would betray secrets confided to him in the confessional. In defiance of U»e protests of tho local magis trate thcpolice were ordered to charge the crowd .wieli fixed bayonets. Tho crowd at once flwi... but they were pursued by the police-uiu'-ui man in his (light was pitted by bayonets :»iid died of his wounds. Let anyone' consider what indignation all this- wwlil have aroused had it taken place -in England and he will realise the bitter: hatred which such atrocities evoke in Ireland.'. There is nothing more dangerous ,than:Hib«dy of week men instruatea with ipowerrand urged to act of firmness by their iadh'uroiitH. The Tory Government con sists of.'old women who are ready to plunge blindly, into excess to prove that they are men/.''

METHODICAL SUICIDE.

A "Sirlc'Bn Journalists Reoord of

His Last Moments.

Ti'ißxattttnvmbnncos connected with the sui cide of a young Turkish journalist, Beshir Fuad; Bey, arc of so singularly melancholy a nature that it may no; bo thought pruri ent on our part to record them here. On Sas&urday last Fuad Bey returned to his home, at Naili Medjid, Starnboul, about nine o'clock. After completing certain correspondence ho locked himself in, and proceeded to undress, . Then, having inoculated his left arm wi£h cocaine, to kill the pain, he opened the veins of it in four different points, cutting the carotid artery with a pair of scissors, While the blood was 'thus flowing from his wounds, Fuad Bey wrote as follows, until compelled by weariness to de.si.st: - My operation is performed. I felt no pain—only a slight ]>ricking after the loss of blood. At thin moment my sister is outside, knocking ; but I have sent her away, saying 1 am busy, Luckily she does not insist upon entering. I can ima gine no sweeter death than this. I lift my arm to let tho blood How freely. My head swims-—I am going to faint, The narrative stops there. Fuad Bey conld never continue it. When tho door ■ is at length broken open, which is not effected until his death-cry summons the household, he is found there in his last agony. " Doctor," he says feebly to the surgeon who tries to administer relief! " give yourself no trouble, 1 have but five minutes to live." And after a few moments of Fuad Bey breathed his last. A letter was found addressed to the police, in which the deceased begged them to accuse no one of hfe death. He bequeathed his body to the School of Medicine for tho purpose of dissection. In letters to his ; friends Fuad'Bey declared that his mother had died in a mad state, and that doctors had told him that a like fate was in store for him. Thus, after squandering his for tune of some £20,000 he resolved to. : kill himself. Fuad Bey was only 32. He lqaves a wife and two children- Beginning.life as an officer, he endjxl it as a journalist, for which his linguistic talents and his flex, ible intelligenceipeculiarly fitted him,,.

No Danger.

The recent w&H- scare having caused some> anxiety, it i&; satisfactory to leaipi ,that the , Franco-German '< preparations" have peace-., ful explanations, as the fallowing table. amply proves.: — Warlike PfejXtmtion. Peaceful Explanation., No horses.a'lswea" to Great. Scarcity of cats. loave frbnfoiior of meat. DittQ-^iwftany... Horses required for bathing machines at. German w-atoring? ---places. Purchase-»E 100,000,000 Required, for. ilring ; 1 rounds ot amraoni- birthday salutes. •D?tto*' IG©rmßny Bor, preservutioo in.Artt Museums. M% officers refused. 'Wanted aaba)s as.dan,. ioave in France. men Dititor-Gevmany. !*> prevent cash-squan r . dermg L in foreign, I parts. ; Acmrisition of 20 h:sMjv Intending for ivse aa olatls by France* • nanny river steam, DUto-Germanj,. by the Shoeblack Bxigade. ■Mobilisation.of the on- For the sake of th tire French, army. men s health, Ditto - Germany. To spe that none are rolssing. Issue of a, loan for 100 To ho spent, in renewing millions in Franco, roads in tho Boxs do Bo\ilogno. Ditt^Germany. TTlfeimatum teotn To prevent war. DUto nG CoMriany nto n>' To insure an honour- Fronco, ■•'" abl° and lasting **~.. peace.,!:; —Punch,,

™g__AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, IVIAY 7, 18S7

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