THE MYSTERY OF HADDON'S FERRY.

Br. E. D. E. N. Southwooth,

CHAPTER LX.

!KIB PARKNES3 DEEPENS.

The passage of the hours only deepened the gloom that was settling upon the soul of Gerald Fitzgerald. Time, in drawing him away from .the distracting horrors of the wreck, only plupged .him in a more pro found despair,

If, for a few momenta, while in the genial company of Dr Goodwin, he seemed to forget; the awful disaster which had deso lated his life, it was only to recall it with renewed anguish as soon, as he found him self alone. And oh ! ever and ever, his mind concen trated itself with morbid persistence upon one question—pne question that ever and ever recurred with cruel pertinacity of itera tion : , « Was Gertrude killed by the blow from the plank that struck her from me ? Or, was she drowned through my mad, delirious abandonment of her ? Was she the victun of an unavoidable accident ? Or am I, in effect, a traitor and a murderer ?" And with this question ever arose the vision that must haunt his memory while memory should exist —the vision of the young, beautiful pale face, visible for one moment, with its sad dark eyes turned on him—visible for one moment, and then whelmed beneath the waves ! Oh ! what said those dying eyes to him ? They did not reproach him. He knew that. They wore a look of sorrow too deep for anger or reproach. Dr. Goodwin, noticing thi3 increasing gloom and despondency of the soul-sick mail, sought to draw him oub from himself —to draw him out into the life of action around them. But in vain, for Gerald Fitzgerald seemed to have lost all interest in the world. One day the worthy doctor made him a new proposal. He remarked, "We must fill up the time between this and the first of March, and I do propose that we shall leave London at once, and go down to Wales, where we can visit quiet places of interest in a quiet way until it is time for us. to go to Liverpool to embark on our Bteamer. What do you say to that plan T " I have no objection." " Very well, then ; we will leave London to-morrow, if you like, but before leaving London I really ought to run down to Norwood, to see the worthy market gardener and hie wife, and have one last interview with them. It seems really necessary to do so. They may have remembered some other link in the chain of evidence, or else re covered some ether letter or other valuable document." „ " Well, you have time to go to-day. " Certainly, I have plenty of time to go there and do all I wish to do, and return to dinner. But—will you not accompany we?" " Well, yes, if you insist upon it." " I do not insist upon it, but I greatly de eireit." , , . " Very well, then ; if you greatly desire it, I will go with you," said Gorald litz gerald, with an involuntary sigh. Having gained hla point in winning his guest's consent to move anywhere out of the orbit of his sad thoughts, Dr. Goodwin despatched Jubal to the Royal Cambridge Hotel to ascertain from Miss Fitzgerald if she wished to return to America. He remarked," I promised when I parted with her to Mies Fitzgerald to take her back with me to her own country, if shq should; wieh to return, and I will keep my word." Twenty minutes' drive took the two gentlemen to the London Bridge Station, which they reached just in time to secure seats for upper Norwood station, where they got out, and whence twenty minutes walk took them to the market-gardener's little place. " Ib takes just one hour from Holland street to Cherry Grove, as this little place is called," said Dr. Goodwin, as he opened a green wioker gate in a low stone fence that divided the market garden from the road, and led the way up a gravel walk bordered each side with raspberry bushes, beyond which, on the right and left, lay vegetable teds already under cultivation for early spring vegetables. The house was a lovely, old-fashioned farmstead, with walls covered with ivy and verandahs shaded with creeping vines, green, even now in February. A dodr, on the right-hand back, opened, and a plump, fair, rosy-faced woman, really fifty-five, bub scarcely looking forty, dressed in a bright flowered calico, white apron, white neckerchief and whito cap, came out, smiling. The; woman placed easy-chairs for her visitors, and invited them to be seated. Thea drawing her knitting from her pocket, she sat down and began to knit while wait ing for one or the other to speak to her. " I have brought Colonel Fitzgerald to see you, because he hap, within the lasb few years, seen your son-in-law* Adam Lack land," said Dr. Goodwin. "Oh! indeed, sir, that is newa. But are you sure it was hej, sir?" exclaimed Jane Robbins, very much moved, "Nearly quite sure. The name, the personal appearance, of the man, and some circumstances of his, life which have come to my knowledge, combine to identify him as the same who married your adopted daughter, Maedala Haddon, the heiress of Gjabriel Haddon, of Wilde county, Vir ginia." ■ .. . '' Oh, blt !—oh, sir !—what did he tell you his wife and child, sir '£' exclaimed the woman* in eager, broken and faltering tones. . . _ , ■ " Hβ told me," began Gerald, speaking elowty, and very tenderly—"He told me that he bad lost them both many years ago." " oh, yes," sighed the woman, wiping the ' tears from her eyes—" oh, yes ! to be sure, it must have been so. I might have known it. It was foolish to feel a single hope tjbat it could have been any other way. If Mag dala—dear child—had lived, she never would .have forgotten us or neglected us. We should have heard from her every month, at least, and seen her every year. But it was very eruelof Mr Lackland not to write and tell us of our children's fate; for, gentlemen, I and my John loved that girl and her baby as much as if they had been our very own. Sir, it was very hard of Mr Lackland nob to write and tell us the fate of our children," she repeated, wiping away the tears that still arose to her eyes. Now, Dr. Goodwin, true to his instinct as a preacher, spoke up and said: " My dear, good creature, you should-not permit yourself to grieve over an old bereavement like that. You have so much to be thankful for, in your own, children, that you should rejoice." "Yes, sir, my children have all done ■well, thank the Lord," sighed Jane Robbins, with her mind still upon the lost ones. . , •■ "Tell me something about them, for fceyond, the bare fact of your, mentioning how well they were all doing, I know no thing," said the doctor, with the view of drawins away the woman's mind from the contemplation of her one trouble. " Well, sir, it ia very kind erf you to ask, and I thank you. Well, sir; besides Magdala, I had only three of named Jane after me, sir. She is doing wejl, shy. She is married to a .fisherman, at a place mled St. Margaret's Bay, on the south coast, ite«3f. Dover, sir. Jacob, our oldest) son, nameaiajEter flay father, sir, is three years younger* tjbtttt Jane, and six years younger than Mabdalft; euad Jobu—.

named after Ms father, sir. Well, en, John is doing very well, too, though he hag been visited with affliction.. John is a painter by trade, sir, and lives in London. Hβ maMed about two years ago, sir, more or Wind they have a fine child ; but the mother turned delicate, and poor John he took her for a Uttlo trip across to Calais. But, Lor', sir, coming back in the Mes senger, *ho ship took fire. Sure, sir, you saw in the newspapers all about the burn ing of the Messenger ?" . ... « Yes, certainly," said Dr Goodwin, while Colonel a more eager ear d attention. ■ . ( mna "Well, sir, hi 3 poor young wile was among the lost. I asked him, ' How was it, John, thab you caved yourself and couldn't aave her f for, you see, I»now«d I as John would a' died with her rather than o , left her to drown. But he told me as she was in the boat with the women, who waa to be saved first of all, aod where no man was allowed to go exqept the oarsmen wtjo were to row the boat; and how the steerage passengers ewarn for the boat and tried to set in it, and swamped thoboab, and co she Ind many others of the women on board were drowned before they could be reached. Oh no, sir ! My John is a mau I He would have drowned with his wife rather than seen her drown and savo himself when he could nob save her." said the mother proudly.

•*oh! many a shaft at random sent Finds mark the archer little meant, And many a word at random sppkpn May raotne, or wound, aheart that's broken," The words of the good woman, spoken unconscious of offence, seemed to stab the bosom of Fitzgerald through and through. Hβ could scarcely suppress a groan of an guish as he arose and walked to tho window and looked out ,' Dr. Goodwn, observing this, thought only thab the mention of the burnt steamer too vividly recalled Colonel Fitzgerald's be reavement. To slightly change the sub ject, he hastened to say : "But the child ! You say they had one fine boy. Was he saved ?" " Oh, yes, sir, I thank the Lord he was saved, and I have got him here at home ! He was saved, sir, and of all things in the world, ho was saved by a young lady!—a young angel, I call her, and she is a young angel now certain ; for after saving John a child, sir, she wa3 herself drowned.' "But that seemed very hard," said Dr. Goodwin. " Well, it might seem so to our short sighted eyes, sir ! But no one knows bettor than yourreverence that ib couldn't be hard for her! Isn't she an angel in heaven, sir ?' " Yes, I truly believe that she is; but how did it happen that after saving the child, she lost herself V' , "The dearLor,dknowq,sir! Idon't! All I know is what John told me—that he met her husband on board the relief-ship, and learned from him that the lady had been lost." " For Heaven's sake, Doctor, drop tho subject! The lady to whom she alludes was Gertrude!" hoarsely whispered Fitz gerald* as he hastily passed the unsuspicious Dr Goodwin in his restless walk about tho room. ♦• And here comes my John now ! cheer fully exclaimed tho woman, as eho heard the latch of the gato click and the heavy etep of a man come up the gai den walk. " Poor John slips out hero from London every chance he cota, to see his baby, poor fellow! Well, here ho is! Come in, John !" she added, as Robbins, the ship acquaintance of Colonel Fitzgerald, entered the room, and, seeing the visitors, took off his hat and bowed low

"This is my son, .'ohn, gentlemen ; John, these are, the gentlemen called to see me on business aboub Mngdala Lackland, you know. Colonel Fitzgerald and Dr. Goodwin, John, pursued Mra Robbine." John plucked hi« forelook and bowed very low ; then lifting his head, he saw and re cognised his benefactor of the ship. «• Why—-is it—l declare !—So ib Is, Your sorvanb, sir. We wore fellow-passen gers on the Messenger, I boliove," said the young man, with some surprise and hesita tion.

" Yes, we were follow-snfferers on that ill fated ship," sighed Colonel Fitzgerald. •j Why!—My ! Were you there, sir, too?" demanded Jane Robbins in profound aston ishment.

" Unfortunately, yes, madam," anewered Fitzgerald. "Mother, this is the gentleman whoso wife so nobly saved my child," said John Robbins, hi a low and reverent tone. "Well, well, well!" murmured the woman. "And so ib was your wife, sir, and aho was lost ? Oh J lam sorrior than I was before, and I was sorry enough then, I am sure. O ? sir, do tell me ! How did such a dreadful thing happen? After eho had saved the chilcFe life to lose her own f '

" Mother ! hush !" muttered John Rob bins, in a low, earnest tone. "Don't you see you put the gentleman on the rack? How can no talk aboub the manner of his wife's death? Why, / can't talk of—" His whisper broke down in a heavy eight, and he turned away. Colonel Fitzgerald arose to take leave; bub Dr. Goodwin had a few parting words to say. " One of the reasons for our coming hero thia morning, Mrs Robbins," he began, " was to inquire whether any other evi dence of the identity of Magdala Lackland with the daughter of Gabriel Haddon bad turned up ?" "No, sir; nob one," answered the gardener's wife. "Another of the reasons was to let you know that we sail for New York on the first of March, and to leave with you our Ameri can address, in case you should find any thing to communicate to us, or should wish to write."

" I thank you kindly, sir." ~ "Mother," here put in John Robbins, "I forgob to tell you until this blessed minute that brother-in-law John Reynolds saved two of the passengers on the Messen ger. He was out in his iishing-smack, and picked np a lady and gentleman—" " The Lord be thanked when anyone is highly honoured and privileged so to do. Wno were the lady and gentleman as John was so highly favoured as to save ?" " A Mr and Mrs Samuel Rawlins," an swered the young man, who now stood toss ing his baby up and down, and making it crow. .

* c See that now! O! what have we done to deserve such a blessing as to save two fellow creatures' lives ? How thankful and how humble we ought to be I" Colonel Fitzgerald once more prepared to take leave.

Dr. Goodwin on this occasion followed his example. " Now, my dear Mrs Robbins, you will keep our address," said the doctor, handing the good woman a card, upon which his name, residence, and post-office were plainly wrifcen. .

r Mr Bobbins, I trust that you -will bear in mind I am responsible for the nurture and education of the youngster you hold in your arms," said Colonel Fitzgerald. "Yes, sir; and thank you, sir. And thank you for your princely gift. I hadn't a suspicion that there was anything in that envelope but your address, until after I got home, when I opened it and foiind your cheque on Brown Brothers, bankers, for fifty pounds. It was a most) princely " "I thank you Mr Robbins; but you greatly exaggerate the trifling service I have been Enabled to do you. Good-bye," said Colonel Fitzgerald, offering his hand, j " Good-bye, and God bless you, sir," fer vently responded the man. Then Gerald stooped and kissed his in fant protege, murmuring as he did so: *t For Gertrude* sake." The two gentlemen bade farewell to the Bobbinses and leit the house. They arrived at London Bridge in due time and took apab to Holland-street, which they reached a little before their usual dinner hour.

•' Mise Fitzgerald senb you a letter by my hands, sir," he said to Dr Goodwin. j The doctor upon entering, sank into hi* arm-chair, and began to read his letter. Fitzgerald walked restlessly about the room. , " Well!" exclaimed Dr. Goodwin, when he had finished Geraldine's note. " Miss 1 itz gerald has written to me a few lines to say that she heariß from our servant that I am going to America by the Asia, which is to sail on the first of March; that ehe desires, above all things, to return to her native land; t'aab ehehae only waited to hear of some friend or acquaintance, or some other proper person, who might be going over, and whose protection she might ask for the voyage, and that if I will be so kind as to afford her my escort, she will very gladly and gratefully avail herself of bo good an opportunity to return home. She further requests mo," said Dr. Goodwin, referring to his note, *• to ascertain whether she can get a state-room on the Asia." " I fear thab will be inipoesible," said Colonel Fitzgerald. ."I Anew toafc will be impossible," added Dr. Goodwin, emphatically, " for when I engaged our state-room there was not another berth left in the first cabin. Wβ can "give up our double state-room to Miss Fitzgerald and her maid. We can eaeily take one or two berths in the second cabin." ColonelFitzgeraldhaving consented tothia course, Dr. Goodwin added, " Very well. Then we shall nob return to London ; but after a leisurely tour through Wales and Cornwall wo shall proceed to Liverpool to join our ship. I will write to Miss Fitz gerald this evening, tell her a comfortable state-room on the Asia has been eecured for her, and request her to join us at the AdelphiHotol at Liverpool, on the twenty eighth of February at lateet, so as to bo in time to go on board the steamer the next morning/* After the two gentlemen had dined, Colonel Fitzgerald took a book and lay down on tho sofa to read. Dr. Goodwin wrote his letter to Miss Fitzgerald and dis patched it by Jubal. Then ho also settled himself on a sofa, not to read, bub to take his after-dinner nap. He slept two hours, at the end of which he wae awakened by the return of Jubal with the second letter from Mis Fitzgerald. The doctor aroused himself, and read it aloud to Colonel Fitzgerald. It contained but a few lines, expressive of her gratitude to Dr. Goodwin, and her in tention to join , him at Liverpool oh the twenty-eighth of February. ** Well, Gerald, what do you say ?" "I suppose," said Fitzgerald, indiffer ently, " that will be satisfactory."

(To be Continued.)

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Saddlers and Harnessinakers. mENNIS Reetrunp; and Repaired Now "Z^^ Bu y Saddlery A Harness At OKEATLY RKDUCKD PRICES. ICS, QUEEN STREET. 1 QADDLERY AND TJARNESS. SELLING OFF ! SELLING OFF t 20 PER CENT. REDUCTION. G. F. HILL, , SADDLER. 175, QUEEN.STREET (Next British Hotel). Bogs to announce to his friends that ho will CLEAR THE WHOLE OF HIS STOCK durinßtheChrlitmaeeoaeon&tprices unequalled In thetown, to makeroom forfurthatenipmonte. G. F. H. would recommend purchasers to inepect hie stock before buying else where. INSPECTION INVITED. Tailoring. MY Summer Tweeds have just arrived, and can't bo surpassed.— J. H. Daltoa, Tailor, Victoria-street East. EXTRA PAIR Off TROUSERS 2 «<w suits s %^ >* Jl BOa Cse * 60fl# C> *j 05e. 70b. 75a, ~JO 5! TKOUSERS | m g I 12e. 6d. 153. 17e. 6d, k ® § 8 20a 22e. 6d. 26e. 3 JK v a H. ROBINSON, Tailob, Jf % > ao9 i s W ?* H. ROBINSON. ConTeyanccs. TIME TABLE, DAVIES BROS.' 'BUSES. Leaves Victoria Wharf, Devonport—7.2o c.m., 8.20 a.m., 9.45 a.m., 10.20 a.m., 12.4b p.m., 2.0 p.m. 2.45 p.m.. 4.20 p.m., 5.10 p.m. Suudaya—lo a.m., 11 a.m. 2.25 p.m., 3 p.m. Leaves Takapuna—B.o a-m;, 9.5a.m,, 10.35 a.m., 11.15 a.m., 1.36 p.m., 3.0 p.m., 3.35 p.m., 5.15 p.m., 5.55 p.m. Sundays—ll α-w., 12 noon, 4 p.m., 5 p.m. Return Fares, la 6d; weekly tickets at reduced rates. Special trip* can-be arranged at Poet Offices, Devonport and Takapuna. Visitors can have refreshments at Post Office Store Lake Road. ■\7ISITORS TO TE AROfIA.-Notice. V —The Undersigned will run a Coach from Te Aroha on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Satur days, meeting train for Auckland at Morrlni vilie on those days, and returning to Te Aroha from Morrinavillo on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays on arrival of train from Auckland, conveying; passengers, parcels, And mails.—E. Gallasrher. PATER SON AND CO., GRAIN MERCHANTS, LITERY ANdIJaIT STABLES. Omnibuses Brakes, Caba, and Saddle Horse* for Hire at lowest rates. Special arrangements made wilu Evening; aud Picnic Fortiea Stores and Stables:—Lorne-atreefc, MtßoskiU, and Avundale. Auckland, N.z. Hearse and Mourning Carriages for Hire. Undertakers liberally dealt with 'Bus leaves Union Bank for Waikomiti every Sunday at 1.30 p.m., returning at 4.30 p.m. DEYONPORT, WAIWERA, AND WARKWORTH ROYAL MAIL COACH. MONDAYS, WEDNESDAYS, & FRIDAYS- Leave Devonport 8 a.m., Takapuna 8.30 a.m., Wade 10.30. Waiwera 12 noon, Puhoil2.4B p,m, Arrive Warkworth 2.30 p.m. TUESDAYS, THURSDAYS, AND BATURDAYS~ Loave Warkworth 8 a.m., Puhoi 9.30 a.m., Wai wera 10.15 a.m.. Wade 11.30 a.m., Takapuna 2 p.m. Arrive Devonport 2.30 p.m. THOMAS BUTLER, ?roDrietoJf»_.



Business Notices. SMITH & GAUCrIEv WHOLESALE and FAMILY DRAPERS, Beg to intimate that for the present Season every Department is now replete with All the Requirements for a First-class Trade. S and C. being the Largest Retail Importers of SILKS, DRESSES, GENERAL DRAPERY AND GLOWING IN AUCKLAND, and conducting their badness on STRICTLY CASE PRINCIPLES, are in the best possible position to serve the public well. All Goods marked in Plain Figures, for CME ONLY. No /Second Prices. No Dis counts. Any article not approved, and returned in good coivdition within days, will be ex changed, or money returned. TELEPHONE No. 339. IMPORTERS. ERANCH , KEW TON. COMPULSOKY SALE. BY ORDER OF THE EXECUTORS. X In consequence of the death of Mr Robert Garretb, one of the partners in the well known firm of OARRETT BROTHERS, it is necessary to realise the whole of the Estate, in order to arrive at a (settlement, prior to a ro-arrnngenaent of Partnership. The acting Executors have theroforo ordered the ENTIRE STOCK of COLONIAL AND IMPORTED BOOTS AND SHOES now held by tv« tirm, to be sold a:; once, at Buch prices as will effect a complete and speedy clearance. _______________ SALE _STO"W 03-T. To fcivo a Comploto Prlco List of this Leviathan Stock (the contents of thousands of Trunks and weighing hundreds of tons), would bo impossible. An Inspection alone will prove the troth* of this announcement. SPACE WILL ONLY ADMIT OF A FEW PRICES TO BE QUOTED Infanta' Strap Shoes reduced to Iβ, Is 3d. Is 6d Ladios' Genuine Glove Kid Elastic Sides re lufantß' Strap Shoos, several styles, reduced to tlucocl to lfe ftd 2a 6d Ladies Kid Button Boots reduced to 9s 6d, Children's High Leg Lace Boole, 2s 6d, reduced lOedd, Ils6d ■ ._.,... to Is lid Lidies" extra quality Balmorals reduced to 14s 6a Children's Elastic Side Boots reduced to Is 4d. Jtlen'e Bluchorj, own nui,ko, reduced to 3a lid Is 6d Men's Cricket Shoes reduced to 5s 6d Girls , Derby Shoes reduced to4s6d, 4elld Men's Wulkingrßhoeßreducedtoss6d, 7e6d, 10s6d Girls' Button Shoos reduced to 4a 6d, 5a 6d Men's French Calf Shoes reduced to 12s 6d, 15e 6d Ladles* Prunella Walking Boots reduced to 4s 6d aien;s Kid Shoes, own make, reduced .to 13s 6d 6 e 6U Men s Elastic Sides reduced to 7s 6d. 8s 6d, 10s 6d Ladiea' Prunolla WalkingShoesreduced to4s9d, Men's English Elastic Sides reduced to 12s 6d 5s 6d Men's strong Balmorals reduced to 8s 6d, 103 6d, Ladies' Levant Welkins Shoes reducod to 6s 6d, lls 6d _~_., , , , 6s 6d Men c French Calf Balmorals reduced to 13s 6d Ladiea' Superior German Shoes reducod to Men's Watertlghte reduced to 8s 6d, 9i6d, 10s 6d 7s 6d, B»6d Boys' Goloshed Elastic Sides reduced to 4s 6d, Ladies' First Quality French and German Shoes, 5s 6d 10i 6d, 12s 6d Children s Leather Laco and Elastic Sides Ladies' Evening Shoes rednoed to 3s 6d, 4s 6d, reduced to 4s 6d 4e ud Boys' Balmorals reducod to m 6d ladles' Levant Walking Boots reducod to 6s 6d, Girls' Levant Elastic Sides reduced to 5s 64 6s 6d Children's DoutiJc-sole Straus reduced to 3s 6d Ladies' Kid Elastic Sides reducod to 5s 6d, Bath Slippers reduced u> is 6d. Is 9d 6a 6d. 7s 6d Men's Carpet Slippers reduced to 2s 6d Ladies' House Boote reduced to 3e 6d, 3s lid Ladles' best Frunclla Slippers reduced to 3s lid GARRETT BROTHERS, WAKEFIELD-STREET, , . AND KARANGAHAPE ROAD, AUCKLAND. ASK YOUR iIifJEH Fill Cd\ , /T\ B \h.Z.INDUSTRIAL GAZETTE. ' I 'AAA m fJ£b\ m " The blending is entirely atten -1 bBSL I BdLS if I-t«PS«S_» % ded to by Mr. Nelson himself, |/VV¥ M. Wr"? m who is a Taster of i'.rcat eKpori ar Wk pnc ?' an '! li:ls }ia< ? a s P ecial IM TLJ C mm rcMJK-m 1& training in the art." j; iiN inc.. g /CffiiffiU\ % TiMAKU herald; \a » _>■% B Bfn V win \ "This firm deserves the sup wl/f\ n I I) # / \ Vft portofallpurch-aaersofTea \J r\ \*» M S VW X '\sSST\Jtk. vk as the article they oiler is & MO* I<M *9fi "ii\ W _ superior- to any thing we r"\ Jv ffV o»w_toStO v\ Nm have seen in thtsColeny." *\& a Bin m IPR - ESS ' t if f& r3w* l xm f"ssioiial Taster and THOUGH B w** 7 % PRICES' .'BY j^ lj_ Ma^^^^^^^^^S^^m^ v^ 0/8 3/- PORE BLENDED TEAL AUCKLAND, WELLINGTON, CHRISTCHURCH, BUNttJIN. AGENTS EVERYWHERE, GLOVES. GLOVES. The Melbourne Drapery Company ARE NOW SELLING -56| BOZEIiT TJNBRESSED TAN JERSEY KID GLOVES, 8-button length, at Is 9d; regular price, 2s lid. Sizes, from 5| to 7 J. THESE GOODS ARE LESS THAN ENGLISH INVOICE. THE MELBOURNE DRAPERY & CLOTHING Co.



Business Notices. Iron Curved for Verandas (ANY PATTERN) SHORTEST NOTICE. GEORGE McCAUL, MANUFACTURING PLUMBER AND IMPORTEK OF ALL TRADE REQUISITES WELLESLEY STREET EAST (Opposite New Library) and BROWN & DAVY STREKTS, THAMES. HA3 FOB SALE— 200 Corrugated Galvanised Tanks, assorted 600 Colonial Ovens, all sizes BO 000 Feet Lead Edge Ridge Cap, all sizes 60 000 Feet O.G. Spouting, all smee 60*000 Feet Downpipcs, all sizes 60 000 Feet Galvanised Water Pipes, all sizes Lead-head Nails. Lead Waahei c Portable Ovens, Furnace Fraruee Copper Boilers Jam Fruit. Honey, and Butter Tins on the latest American principle, in quantities as per agreement Etc. Ktc - Etc - Awarded Three First Prizes for above lines at Auckland Agricultural Show. Latest and best selection of Gas Globes in XJa - wo " Auckland. Aa Mr McCAUL is a direct importer for j oa«h he is in a position to supply the trade at the lowest remunerative prices. Liberal discounts to tho trade. Country ordcra punctually attended to. UEORGE McCAUL, Manufacturing Plumber, and Importer of ftll Trade Requisites. Wollesley-st East (opposite New Library), and Brown and Davy streets, Thames. r>ECOiMMENDED by thjj MEDICAL JDu PROFESSION. Sold in tins Is each (sample tins 6d each) by Hie Patentee. RALPH ROBINBON, Chemist, liobson-fitreet. and by Chemists, Grocers, and i Storekeepers. Wholesale by Messrs L. D. Nathan and Co.: Kempthorno, Ptos'er. and Co.; Saarland and Co.; V. and C. T. Ronshaw, etc TjiNCOURAUE LOCAL INDUSTRY. CHARLES SMITH, «tv MANUFACTURER- OF BASSINETTES. ■ ' \%&mmma perambulators, INVALID CARRIAGES, AUCKLAND PERAMBU- JvATort factory, %7r\jnor Xy Victona-street West (near %iv Freeman's Bay). ! CHARLES SMITH, The Largest Maker in Auckland. My prices are as low as possible consistently with quality and workmanship. The fact that I guarantee and keep in repair for one year is a sufficient proof I of their excellence. Perambulators of any make i repaired or taken in exchange. Country order?; receive uiy special atteution. Price nets post frne. Buy direct from the Factory, and prevent mistakes. I ; — f~f USEFUL, DURABLE, CHEAP, AT McLEOD BROTHERS', DOLLS, Perambulators, Boys' Waggons, Picuio and Fancy Biscuits suitable for presents, cheaper than ever. Every purchaser of 5» worth of Basketwaro will bo presented wiiii a, ticket of admission to tbo Oddfellows' Demonstration, to be held in tho Cricket Ground on Tuesday next. THE AUCKLAND BASKET FACTORY, ALBERT STREET (near V.M.C.A.) npUCKKR'S -VtTHEATEN TmOOD FOR PORRIDGE. &c, &c, Specially prepared, consists of the elojnentß for the perfeot nutrition of the humau body. Haa had hij?h commendation in England i*rom Hospital Authorities and from Physicians, D&ntiste, and the Public. J. BYCROFT & Co. Have now completed the erection of costly plant, and having made arrangements with Mi W. F. TUCKER to produce this artioK confi dently recommend it as more suitable than oatmeal for this climate. AT A PRICE WITHIN REACH OF ALL, In 71b and 251b bags. To be h ad of all Grocers and Storekeepers, and Wholesale of the Jiiumfacturers^ J -OYCROFT AND riO., * LIMI>*D, City Ft'ouß Mills, Shortland-etreofc, Auckland. " TUCKER'S FAMILY BAKING POWDER. mUCKER'S OARING "OOWDER X For J3WholesomoJL Broad mUCKER'S HOAXING pOWDER JL Tea Cakes _O Pastry X Sconoe mUCKER'S "OAKING T>OWDER JL Ask your J_P Grocor jL for it Once Tried, Always Ueed* GR OU N D LI ME! ■ GROUND LIME For Sam, SOUTHGATE'S MAHURANGI KYDR/VULIO GROUND ROCJUO LIME In tiny quantity,, foi- Concrete" Paths, Floors. Collars, etc. Next to stono-llagßring it is mi ri vallod for d urabi iity andl.ard-setting qnalitiea, For tauks and other wet work it ia a flrst-claaa material. . . B. KEAKK, SOLE AGENT, CUSTOMS-STREET. W. L ~* ¥ K> bOOKBINDEU, PAPKR RULEB. ■ ACCOUNT .BOOK MANUFACTURES, Wyndham-stbert. MERCHANTS , ACCOUNT BOOKS,. Insurance and Mininsr Register Booke Specially Ruled and Bound, Music, Magazines, Public Librarios, ana Sunday School Books Well Bound. Bakers' Special Ruled Day Boo&a, Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books P'ATTO AND CHOIR"MUSIC BOOKS RULTTO ONE SHILLING PACKET of SALS ALINE will preserve TWENTY SHILLINGS" worth of food. To be obtained of all Chaniists and Grocers, in lß *le B a Ck Aleut, RICHARU A. CARR, For t-stttsut, Auckland,



■ AFFORD homes of Now ZealS m SSSNi SOAP. USE IT oiiCE . ■ CUiS VIJSCJS s p.; ; '-' ...■■r'-r" irr '' ■ -~i._^_x_- '•■ "Bic • *TV«: '' ' •'■'•"' ' iQJSlffj 1 .'!; ■(■■:? WHOLESALE AGENT- A. BIpCHAMAN, CUST OMS , S.T REST, iaS '! ' —'" ."" ' ''IV—< m \ D. E VITT, iQ- unhake ?" And Importer of every descriptloii of pjiearma, Ammunition, and shooting Appliances by' J - the best makers. are carefully loaded on the premised guaranteed best material. ,; FISHING TACKLE. FIREWORKS —Ai^inetoek^ x xxxxj v t v/xyfk.tj. great I'Turifttr At / • Fireworks, imported by tJie adveraset flafect . from J. Pain, tbecjijlebratedPyroteobirieLf T3IVPATKS--L GUNS RE-STOCKED, Barrele Browieii,- and everjr other ki.ad of repair done to Firearms. Guaranteed equal to t}io best UngHsh woci. Ibices reasooaple. Breechloaders and 'JffvnS* ii loaders cbokebored. ' ' ' ! _ ■ D. ;B VITT, ' ' Gnniriakef , aha ! lmp6rter, 254, Qaeen-streel, Auckland (opposite the Marfefc House); ! (Established 1869.]'' ; ' - r! ; Prico lists free on application, ,»[ TP E A C- 0 0 X, i , ° OPTICIAN, ' Mathematical akd NAvnckl-Jss^ttjOifi Maker, SHORTLAN^-STREET. ':' ' - Always in Stock- , „ 'j» Spectadea and iSye-glasses of every kind; 4a accurate) lit guaranteed '_: .-, ;: Opera Glasses o?Shperiorqaali:tjt:« ' Telescopes. Binocular Field GlasjKJßt a«t W«P* scopea, powerful and cheap ■~, Theoci.olitea, Mtaiiier Compasses, Abney liOVela Drainage Levels, Pr:srnafac Co^P 0 Drawing InstrumefatsJScales, Parallel toM Ships Logs. Sextants, Compasses, Bmnaolea Barometers, Thermometers, Dydroiisetas Electric Balls, Batteries, and.Fittings Magnetic and Galwnic ! Mali • Lanterns mi Slides, Hand Magiuflewf SU osftopes and Slides, Graphnscopes t j -h. Steam Eslino»eß>tß • % Eeceived-r ;. tii -, ; ■'■ '' I Settlers powerml, portablo, wd Barometers, strong anajoofl, Settlers' Microscopes, magnifying toes, Al3o?l^. on a3floctroMQtorWo l it.sil^f> and Stetuiiere. ■j ■■ « Insteumenis of every ,;; Opposite Thb —• — — —.;. , : ;..,.,::■•.., . •"' • x c TS. i McIiEOD BROS. ~'J choose from. t. ! McLEOD BROS., 1 THE AUCKLAND BASKET; FACTORY, Albert-street (near - corn ;bboom ca EXMQUTH STREET. COKE, CHARCOAL, , (j UAijS> WOOD. ..,., hapo BoaoA