THE GARDEN.

.^ oVClDbers'. «gJffpabUoation.J i tf Coßß^b )-The best stock fbr I niiKt)S3 (J;%r o vvn from tbe seed W^^ nUj£2ee These arc bar teß9«*S. flwa the s«sd oj the wSSMPSS Socked hdre is >« Bshoald.^ time if you ob &fiH*^tls fSt and sow at oneo, &!* 831 ! «nat)suda is one of tbe can use either for the

Royal Horticultural Society.

•peeling of toe wnram,w» ■:"'" q .uy was held in Auckland. 0", „ Committee was "*S in referee to the best 'L to Wd a special meeting of fttofraitcultufe.soas todis" question. Atthemeet -s£ttatthe Agricultural Sail ■iLhio for holding the Spring aSk&te. was appointed SlebmUing- The judges and I*E wer e completed for fS&oZ the ISti. and 19th &*{lf nothfti? extraordinary SS*w»H>erftoin now till the f«f4 promts to be the be>b ffirmanyyeat1?, as thd pre -21 been a most favourable one 0 ft. The above Society are jStpW will give them hb- Pests. firm belief of many Csthat insect posts can thrive Sk unhealthy trees, and that ■rfftin1' repuleive in a perfectly rttlßt'fow a tendency to Mabld ,Ih rid itself of insect peats, ea "tlrt commonly known as scale "3 more vulgarly, acale-buga. Utr is in direcfc opposition to tjji namely, thab the more iktiN the more vigorous will be pfcdMvrili'i the cottony cushion yWsfljf t«e of all the other tkhmU wth whidh I ani ac-

K'be chief causes that has given IWlfef is tb fact that the , jsldewl trees are found to be ; $it«l *if& the scale insedts, vigorous trees are com , ihe from them ; but the fact j'tsHV casfi k fchaC the insects have jjyst work upon the sickly trees : ssrftoftertiine unobserved, and , idttieS wb? first detected only KkiMbbefl the trees of much of Kite sickly aspect of the trees Ekftof the work of the insects) H&gtow» to carefully examine Hefttiiiigif possible, the cause Kged vitality, and finding them fflpsS seals insects he naturally ie other trees, which have not , fWeJW, end are therefore in a (irfflij eoodition, and finding Bwcisuixihthem he concludes IWcW ftwrisfi best on sickly jsW* tft never would have ISlWtlft^art of the lehl'th of : Slytreos had been infested. imm idea, is that a perfectly i slfes tliftpo\Wr of ridding itself . iiasc«t« that infest it. Some ] HcbSonrish best u|>on dead or 9, to the scale insects do nob •■, Category: the pure, healthy (tt»BW9ifeßiiited to tboir wants, j Sfci keeping pace with , Isdrigirarof the tree they infest, njiniicli soil will, of course, be f the attacks of ] ify'sm they can more easily ' Jasaary elements from the coil ( !&(»token from them by the in hiSaQneoa certain number of , IBj^tasme affixed to a tree, no , BiSifcfcj will enable the tree to , VsiiDgld scale insect. ] ■few as as Inject Destroyer. * •Ms ago I gave an extract from ■fHMBtt papers on the result of 1 Wp sadffltaken by one of the < »*™taral Colleges to mitigate i Wp® rf the codlin moth with < Mil . VS 6ince raade the follow- i W*m satisfaction :—One- ( ■**« «ris green I mixed up '. ■Ww of water. With this I ■^"SBiagnmcestas, Hterally t m£*WPurtkasia. Immediately insects dropped from i • Two hours after i K;^' *■ *S»tt examined the i ■^more than half of the in- 1 ■a» ?fW<id,- dead ; the other ] Bkt- ♦ tlie bfanches, were 3 HKri thd f? rks of th# jKj*1 the nnder sides of some < X™" 1 ™ *we still a few alive, i ■i.y?^ uninjured. These, 1 M^T 1 not been touched by the i ■r»j,aSJnst Beven days since • Hkifnr' W" 'ai'^e number < MTf>died, only leaving a < ■Si h> Afc the same i m *tnn g"Uß^rowfcb,whete \ WfXtoS*- c Ranches an d i ■liJS?.*^ healthy appear- ( ■ffi"*1 * of the lasting eflect ] K% sfe* 141* that on some ' W'tVi h KJ\i iy curled upwards, I K^m.'PPa'-ent, and is i Hk r^? Wlhwvy rains wash ] ■•onmffir* mixfcure of one' J •tliS°three^lon6 of water ] K*!Nas and diren- i ■i^T^the application ] »>C"', ] applied the same ' H^WW?™1 us Planfcs fchafc < ■bfiJS 81- and fcl)esc also ' KSTI^™ else- i ■gtojiJQ J-no mixture was i Wb CT,v we? k to keep slugs < ■Wtfw^ are ' I •'■ yen them off- > Hs^'ift 011 the r^ ] ■■SiiSj6ol lfc must bo i ™Sw5S4"J itißa deadly i WK&H&y*"* dnve" back ||i|:f! «*ußinf? a prickly time> also «K^^. are used »si*-(fc Mt? protect SHoJwttii • _.mufcljre see mt lh order to

In America, Paris green is used exten nil t 6n a PPIe treea *<> kiU the eodlin moth. ihe beat season to use it is immediately after th 6 yotmgf fruic | a formed. The ?Art n yto use is one pound to every 100 gallons of water. To use it stronger is apt to injure the foliage! of the trees, as some of our local orchardifetl foiihd to their cost last season; American authori ties state that the poison must be applied withforee. The applesareeoneealed and pro tected by many leaves, and to insure contact of the poisonous liquid With the calyx ertd of each apple it must be dttshed on the tree with considerable, energy. Then it will scatter, each apple will fe66ite" fcka fatal atom, and every larva will be killed. Pear and quince trees heffc ar# attacked as well as apples, and should be treated in the same manner. To take 6ve*y precaution, a strong mixture of the above"«*-say oft# 6Uhc& to a gallon 6f water—should be made, ftfid the stems and branches of the trees' be" painted with it, tubbing it well iiit6 all th<S Crevices of the b>rk, and about all the forks of the tree. By these meahS thousands of the moths would be killed as they reach the chrysalis State. Of douree, tbi above mixture would be too sfcfdfig fdr syringing the foliage, as it would b6 apt t0 damage the leaves, t believe that the above treatmeht would thoroughly dis pose of the American blight on the hmbs, trunks, and roots of tfao Wees. Also on all trees affected by scald or other insect pests. Jt understand tha^ a large number of experiments were tried last year with Paria green. ThOle1 Who have been successful should give the public the benefit of their experience, so that) combined and safe action might be taken to feeep under the ravages of th 6 sodlifi i*6thi which, if allowed to gd tlrtelieokM, #6uld soon make the growing of sound fruit, such as apples and pears, almost an impossibility. The best way is to take h»lf-an*ounce of Paris green ; place in a teacup • putalittle water on top, then take a round sbick and j mix into a thin paste. .Place the1 paste in a bucket with three gallons of water* wash stick and cup. Thoroughly mix and apply With syringe. ifcshouldneferbahaMleiiwitb b&re handfi, nor tli6 dust or ipray &lf6wed to fall on the body. Ordhardists, where the codlin Moth has made its appearance, should give the above a th6fdttgh test dufitig this season. Paris green can be purchased iri Auckland for Is id psr lb.

STAGE AND STUDIO.

tßf £u*eApe.]

The Majeronie were so well pleased with their late Dunedin season that they intend paying a short return visit early in Decem" ber. The London Circus play in Christchurch during next week, Mr W. E. Korris'sttew novel "Major and

Minor" is just now in threo-volume form. Alfred Maltby irt consequence of weakness of the eyes, meditated a haflty trip to Eng land. An English translation oi Madam Adams's {Count Vasili's) " Society in Paris " will bo published shortly by Chattos. j Gertrude Warden asked £3,b00, and is | reported to have received over £2,000, for the copywright? of *' Scheherazade." Fred Maccabe is undertaking yet) another^ farewell tour of the world. He appears under engagement to Mr S"red Jtiseoeks. "La Fille dv Tamboutf Major" hfti been running at the Princess TJj©afcre*,Melb<Snfn^ with Mr Knight Aston in tn© roie of Moh thabor, the Tambour-majbr. Messrs BrOtigh and BondC&tilfe will tld# send their burlesque company through Uew Zealand until some time next year, prd bably aboafe March.... v William Black's' * * life on ft Kdttfeboifc " will appear aerially in the? " Illustrated; London News 1* upon the' conclusion df FarjeonV* Miser Farebrdtfidr."1 "Migrioii's Husband " .is J. & WiMeir'i latest shillingsworth. It describes the love affairs of " Bootle's Baby," and leaves her1 happily married. ' " , Alfred Collier's comic opera Ht)mztif" is aow long past* its" 300 th night in* London, aiio: his "Sultan of Mocha" is to !»'■ revived fey". Misi Lydltt TftoaifJiott at the Strand. On (lit that Mr George Suazelle and Mr Herbert Reeves, the latter the son of the great and only Sims, contemplate * raid upon the colonies with a little two-handed entertainment. Mdme. lima di Murska is to eing at con certs in NeVYork next season undeMh* management of Signor de Vivo^ 4ndt It is afterwards her intention t<» i«tt!e per manently in that metropolis as a teacher of ainging. Here is an American biography terse and to the point of ■'■'Buffaloßui/-' fche darling of the London drawing rooms :—"Cody, firiif name * Bil.' Invented the Buffalo early in the history of this country, and is now popularising Indians and Intro ducing fleas among the higher circles ip Europe." A good old-fashioned success bas been achieved it the London Comedy Theatre with "The Barrister," a farcical comedy folly equalin merit i 6 eltlet- the' "tU!ko6h mistress" or " The Magistrate." Mosgrove would Wti Mptltehastf tfei AtiStefclUHS ript* but it is understood that Mr Darnley, who playft iti&Mifc rote, meant* to* §>Jtain them himself.* L ~.■■*. ..*,* Herd w in#ner e«*nce*hin|' in ola ac quaintance, of ours :-—" Louise Ponieroy Was born the niglit Mtrsdow w&sJ fWrried by the First Napoleon. Her mother escaped with her ander cover of the smoke. She married a man ariiong tne* fiidneer editors of this dountry, dnd went on the stage to create a part specially Written^ for her by Otway, a dramatist of much ability m his HSr J\ F, Graham, who gome years. agq was a member of the Hostun's Dramatic CJOmpkny, vfm the stag© hiaiiager atthe Exeter Theatre at the time of the; fatal fire. He has Be^ii iiii no less than four theatres when they were on fire. These were the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh,; the Princesg Theatre, Duneditt; the Opera House, Wellington ; and now the Theatre Royal, Exeter. He had a marvellous escape from the latter. • ~._', "Alone in. London," with which Bland Holt opened in Dunediri, Is highly spoken of. As for the Company, "Pasquin," in the " Witness," says it is a decidedly strong one, and no dr*ma Has ever been more elaborately mounted in Dunedm than "Alone in London." The expense attending the pttjdtictibh of a. piece on such a scale must be prodigious, and it is even surpnsingfofchfrik that it can pay a manager to transport so much scenery and to bring over so large and powerful a company to play in the four or five cities fcbrt. are open to him »ii $6* Zealand. Mr i Holt himself is a tower of strength to any combination — dne of the best eccentric comedians, indeed, that can be found; and there is always a P«rt-*?" 01* him admirably in such playe as •'Alone, m London." Oh thid occasion he xt pbilo : sophical thief, an old and pradtieed craft* man with a certain hypocritical virtue in speech and bearing that makes him far and away the most entertaining personage upon the stage. Mr Holt's dialogues good, but his manner of speaking it is bet tor, and he gains a latigh for hearfy eveHr Speech. His villainy, too, i* a?,*11^011^ aixd i un blushing a* it can possibly be. Mr« Bland Holt, a very prepossessing and cWvet youhg actress^ has an extraordinarily Lavy part as the persecuted heroine but ih 6 proved fully equal to it- She wnot loud or demonstrative, »«t there »• roj diied intensity about her acting that telfe very favburafely, and ■■***>*" JsW£ dramatic power at command w.he« thm V fteed of it Ibd *m Of the Company do some excellent work, especially MWs Gates, Howes, and Wiseman.

DRAUGHTS.

Pitoiißk Ko. It—Correct solutibhs re ceived from "J.V Auckland;, "T.M.,'' Newtom

PfiOBLKJt NO. 14. %Ji 4 Blakey, Auckland

Black,

WHXtB.

White to move and win. SOMJTIOH Tb PEOBiiEJi No. 11.

5648 16-11 25-14 12- 8 14-18 11- 7 25 Drawn t&e following game was played at the Auckland Draughts Club, between J. G. ißlaksy iftjt.J: Leonard:— Ther fbllow'ihgf game was played by cor respondence between J. lilingworth, fN.S.W., and H. Henderson, Auckland ;—

Played betw^n A. 6. W., formerly of Ifori edin, and H, Henderson, Auckland. Game No. 36.— aWhilter." f ' Hetld<st«on's move*.

Played at the Auckland Draughts Club, tie't#ee*fl: H. Henderson and J. G. Blakey. Gamk No. 37.—" Cross." , Henderson's move*

: Played by ((Jdi'rtfpdnderice between J. iilirigfworiE» K.S.W., and H. Henderson, Auckland. GakM Mo. 2a—" Denny." ~ HKngwortk'a move.

Game No 39.—" Single Corner." Th© foflowing interesting gam© vtaa placed in St. George's Club, Glasgow, be tween two of the mettttiers :—

Given up **' tfi'&wn affcfir a few more jcnoVc**

Played.in the liatjariushire Tdutnartiehfc b&Meeii Messrs 3. Moir and W. Barclay. GUM Ud 40.-^-" Single Corner." Barclay's move.

A match of ten games, between H. Hen derson and G. Wilson, for a trophy, was commenced on the 31st October. Three games were1 played* H* Henderson winning all three.. The following is one of the* games. Game No. 41.—" Will o» Th<* Wisp." Henderson'B move.

■♦ 2548 looks strong for White.—EH. / •}■ 6-10 illovirs ft draW; -^-H. H. o^-tf j Black Wins by "First Position," an analysis of which was giv^n in th 6 Stab some time ago.

On the night previous to the 9th of November eight meinbei'B of the .Auckland Draught^ Club proceed Ho the Thame* to May a Übe nmnber of tb« Thames players a friendly match at dratitflrts. The Auck land team fill be picked from the follow inki-'& Wilson, A. Wilson, R. Batte^sby, Wl Mtlhro, D. Grubb, <J. Kelly, G. John stone, ft. Handley, G. B^tfcersby, A. Jy mocltf K. fienderson, J. G. Blakey^ The roetiibers of the Anckl&bn teato are re queited to meHfc at the Club-room to-nieifc (S&turday), when final arrangements will be mad* as ; i6 S&ctidn of tSani, etc. Zeai**!, «s©( them »^»g dr *^6 aad ***.

A CALIFORNIAN REMINIS CENCE.

A Good Story of Mine Salting.

"Talking about.salting experiences," re» marked a veteran member of the Califor nia colony to a number of fellow asso ciates, who were killing the-dog days in a down-town office the other day, "I had a funny one*. Its makes me laugh when I think of it now. In the good old Com stock days, I was in Virginia, Nev. * em ployed in an official capacity in one of the big mines. Which Was it? Well, never mind, it wasn't a long way off from where the big bonanza was afterwards found. Like everybody else employed in the Comstock, I gambled in shares. I held stock in S-—»and they had gone back on me seriously. I thought if I could get -even I would sellout and,swear off. The Superintendent and I were on friendly terms, and if there had been a point, I I knew he would give it to me. But, out ■ sides of sinking a %vinze from the 1,200 to the 1,300, about completed, which was on low grade ore, there was nothing to hang a point on. Just about that time a very lucky operator, who thought he knew a mine when be saw it, came up to Virginia to see- what was new in the mines. He dropped into an office and had a chat with the boss. After that he expressed a desire to see the new winze. By the way, ,he was a trustee and'had the entree of the "mine. The foreman happened to be away and the Superintendent had business up town, so I was delegated to show the big operator down the- wmzew A thought; struck me. If. this big operator was favour ably impressed he could make a deal in the stock. A hatful of ore had frequently caused spurs in the leading Comstocks, as you know, and this very operator had a big following. My mind was made up. I must get even on those shares, or there wouldn't be any meat in the house. The operator had about a dozen small canvas Backs to hold samples, which he carefully took all the way down the winze remark ing as he did so that the ore was1 kindly looking. It Was hot work, as you can imagine, atad when We larided on top, the big man was all in a glow of perspiration. ' Bfere,' said hey banding me the Samples^ ' take care of these for me while I take a bath.' In the office were any quantity of find specimens of sulphurets and other kinds of ores taken from spots in the mine. Ifc didn't take me long to ' salt' the sampled, and away went the big operator tobave them assayed ' for curiosity.'

A Speculator's Bull Luck.

" Then I watched the market, and sure enough the stock felt a certain upward pressure, and soon after it wa* rumoured around that my big operator was buying; that helped the ifpw&rd niovetrierit. For once I didn't change my mind—l g^tve my brokers orders to sell when she touched cost price plus assessments. Within ten days from the sampling process I was out. What did thel stock da then? That's where the fun comes in. It kept going1 tip, and inside* of two weeks was selling for double what I sold mine at, and when the deal culminated the bigl operator was §100,000 ahead. So that' salt' didn't hurt him any arid didn't hurt me. He afterward turned that $100,000 into more than $1,000,000 by other fortunate specu lations, and iff alive and well and as happy as a man of his disposition can be. Did he ever suapeet the : salt' ? No ; don't be liox'e he did. He believed in hia assays and thought probably that the insiders were trying? to keep him in the dark. He comos to New York occasionally and we have a drink together. Of course he has forgotten that little episode, and naturally I don't remind him of it. That was itty first and last 'salt' experience, and it was done just on the spur of the moment, and because—well, nobody liked that operator* anyhow r and almost any one on tneCom stock would have liked to put Such a job Oh him. And to think that ho made big money on it! TeJl you, jjcntlemon, hon esty is the best policy. Will you smile ?" They all smiled.

Tale of a Cobra and House.

I was visiting at a friend's house in Cal cutta, says Mr Keane, in his " Three Years df a Wanderer's Life,"' and was on this even ing sitting at dinner alone,- The table had been some time waiting for the host, and I had at last received a note that he was not conning home, so I sat down alone. I had finished dinner aiid wan .gstili lingering at the table, when a little mouse ran up to the top of a bowl with a sort of basket-work cover on it. I Should not have thought that of itself very singular, for the "tribes"on our frontier made most unexpected in cursions. But when he did get perched on the cover of the bowl, the little fellow rose On bis hind legs* with his hands before him, and began to entertain me with the fun niest little mouse song you can imagine. "Chit-chit, cheep-cheep-chit," he whistled, and kept it up before me in a m6st unembar rassed and self-possessed little way. I musti have been a trying audience, for I leaned back in my *haif afid roared with laughter. As I looked at the little performer I gradually became a,wftre of a shadow, a something strange gliding oufc from behind a dish toward the mouse. Silently and slowly it noared ihd mouse; in another minute a beady snake's eye glittered in the lamplight. My. hand stole softly for the carving-knife. The snake reared his head level with the mouse, and the poor little fellow's song, which had never ceased, be came piercingly shrill, though he sat up rigidly erect and motionless. The head of the snake drew back a little to strike ; out flashed the carving-knife. The spell was broken instantly,; for the mouse dropped and scampered. The snake was wounded, for there wer© spots of blood on the tabieciotih, and it was writhing about among febe dishes and plates. I could hot make a bold stroke At it for fear of breaking the crockery, and whenever I made a dig with the point it was like pricking the garter. I Would not have believed until I Bad seen it how much of himself a snake can stow away under the edge of a plate. At last I saw the end of his tail projecting out from under a dish. _ A snake held by the tail and swung rapidly .around cannot tftrn back and bite. I grabbed the tail with my left thumb and finger, and drew him out till I judged the middle of his body to be under the knife, then I came down and cut him in two. He was a cobra—a little one about two feet long—but quite long enough t6 l< gravel" a man.

A Pleasant Neighbourhood.

"Is that family thetfc has moved in: next] door neighbourly ?" asked one Chancery Lane lonian of another. , " Yes, they appear to be. They've bor rowed flour of me twice, tea once, andsugar three times. They have got our cofl'ee mill and one tub and the hatchet and two lengths of the stovepipe and the baby car riage, and the woman empties all her swill over the fence in our yard, and I see her coming across now to hang her clothes on our line." ■ r . ... i!I shouldn't think you would like to have them borrow things So much and act quite so free." \ *'Oh, I don't worry much about it. We've 'e°fc their mOP an<* a^oufc half of their dishes and their rolling-pin and wash ing machine, and the other day I borrowed ten stioks of wood from. them, and each afternoon our girl puts on better clothes than the woruah has to. her back and walks up and down on the sidewalk, and to-night I'm going to put out poison for their°dog. Oh, we're getting along very nicely, and I think they are, going J3O be very peasant neighbours. This always I wae la ipfefldid neighbourhood."

The Wreck of the Cheviot.

Tho Experiences of -» PhotograpMer.

.The narratives, of iHe survivors from, the steamer Cheviot are of a thrilling descrip i tion. The expef ien ces of Charles Pitch!biish .were those of Victor Hugo's hero in the Workers of the Sea, only they were more realistic, more pathetic* and more re markabla Driven by the sea into a dark solitary corner on the" tfansom lockers in %c cabin, the water slowly encroached upon his limited accommodation, cut him idff entirely from his companions in , misfortune, and ftepfr him pent up here in the darkest anguish and despair for nearly eight hodta, at the end of which time he wds rescued by Captain Richardson cutting a hole through the skylight and dragging him,, out into the storm and the pitiless night, Where he realised for the Bret time the awfulness of the catastrophe that had overtaken them. The stern of the vessel was alone visible above the foam, the passengers were huddled together on the quarter deck, drenched through and i shivering, and as each succeeding wave swept over the wreok, and the swift spray dashed itself upon the inshore* rdcfcsy the unhappy passengers groaned and struggled to retain their precdnacts footing and keep their firm hold upon the Btanchions, while they en couraged each other with hopes of a speedy rescue. Let Pitchforth tell his oira in teresting story, AS published in the1 "Mel bourne Age ":—-" I wai proceeding to Sydney,": he say si " with the idea of pur chasing a photographic business, and nad my camera, lenses, and general photo graphic kit,, along with all my otherworldly possessions, except my toothpick, with me. It was bad enough to- live at Prahran doing nothing, but it was still worse, as you will see, to go to sea and lose one's little all. The Cheviot had a hatJd time of it going doftn tha Jiay, and was tossed about a •good deal, as it was blowings a full gale and the sea was very much disturbed ; but she weathered the gale, and as she went through the Heads I was playing the piano in the cabin and Thomas Ryan, was sitting near me listening to the music The other saloon passengers had retired. All of a sudden there was a jolting* and then a crash that reverberated throughout the ship, and the engines appeared to stop almost immediately. Something had gone wrong, and it was evident that the ship had been disabled, but there was no im mediate alarm* One or two of the pas sengers put their heads out of their bunks, .and asked, ' What's up ¥ and on being 'assured, by the officers, who were hurrying to and fro, that 'it would bo all right presently,' they quietly withdrew to the warmth of their blankets. The movements of the officers became very mysterious all at once, and I went to the pantry, and ascer tained from the steward that the screw had gone, and the vessel was being rapidly carried inshore by tho sea. The stewards were already engaged quietly but deter nunedlystrippingthemselves, andreading in their faces that it was to bo a fight for lite, I immediately followed their example and took off my boots and all my clothes with the exception of my trousers and singlet. The vessel was bumping and pitching very heavily, and all of a sudden she parted in the middle, and 1 was thrown heavily and stunned for a moment or so. Ryan was thrown heavily on top of me, and I thought my back was broken, but I fortunately es caped with 6i few scratches. When I re covered I found that the ladies and the other passengers wore go ae—-drowned, I thought, and I was alone in;.tho dark, and the oabin wa? full of water, while out beyond the companionway there was nothing but the raging sea, and the fore part of the vessel wai either gone altogether or so deeply btwaftd in the foam that it could not be seen. As the water encroached upon the cabin I was washed astern, and ultimately took shelter in a dry corner on the top of the transom lookers away in the furthermost receiafcs of the stern; but ife did not long remain either dry or cosy, and indeed, now that I come' to think of it, I dori't remember whether it was dry or not at any time during my unpleasant visit. I was sitting in water up to my arm pita the greater part of the night, and passed the time ' coo-e-e-ingl' throuffh one of the portholes near me to some persons who stood around a fire that was burning on the shore. I thought I was,the only survivor, and had a very strong feeling to get out* into the open air where I might have a chance for my life, for it was a dreadful thing to be crowded to death iii a dark doruer like that. I made several ineffectual attempts to get through the porthole, but my shoulders \?ere too large, and I had to sit there grinning through the aperture at the cheerful fire and the inviting hills, with a very poor prospect of ever getting any closer to them. Oh, it was an awful iiight;—one that cannot but live for ever,in the minds of those who Were for tunate enough to survive it. When the ship parted fche agfdnising cries of the un happy beings who were isolated in the fo'c'stle rang out? dbove the howling of the storm, and were terrible indeed to hear. Thereal hero of this catastrophe was the captain, %ho worked bravely and manfully throughout the ni^htt protecting and cheer ing the passerigdfs' and crew, and doing everything that a mortal man. could do to make the best of the occurrence. When he dag trie out of my dark hole every hdpe had almost Bpen crushed out of me, and I felt satisfied that I was not alone. It. was a greit happiness to find that others were as I—that the sea had not swallowed the whole of usr up and crumpled us, to pieces on the rocks. I have lost everything I had in the world, with the exception of the pair of trousers that I am now wearing."

ATROCIOUS POISONING CASE.

Love's Potent Charm.

The facts have just transpired: in Sydney of a case of such a daring and reckless use of poison as should induce parents through out the colony to exercise the utmost care in looking after the well-being of thei r little ones. As far as can be ascertained, the circumstances reveal either a brutal disregard of the lives of some children* by a nursegirl to whom they were entrusted, or else an ignorance and thoughtlessness bordering on imbecility, and so dense that her employment in that capacity again would be little short of criminal. The,girl was employed by a gentleman of good position in Paddington, and had received thefullest confidence from her employers, so much so, in fact, that when they wished to spend a few^ days away on a visit, they left the family of young children in her charge. Their sur prise and consternation may be imagined When, on the parents' return, three of the little ones were found to be very seriously ill; | and to show palpable evidence of narcotic poisoning, which appeared to have been gradually and insidiously absorbed into the children's systems. A medical man was im mediately called in, and after confirming the supposition that narcotics had been ad ministered, set to work to counteract the in? fluence of the poison. After being questioned closely as to the treatment to which the children had been subjected^ this extraordin ary specimen of a nurse calmly confessed that she required hidre time in the company of her " young man " than attendance neces sary to the children wOtild adtttit, so she do»ed "fcfjetn periodically with chlproqyiie and laudanum. Medical attendance will have to be continued in the cases of the litfcle Qne|, one of whom it is feared will all &r life be a victim tbtfa«t effeobl 6f tfeis atrocious conduct.

POETRY.

SOKfGS OF 'EfiCßi NEW MOMOBRLAJsTt). NO 24UTttB GAKtoEN Or TBtiS teKWAtr. The morning'smiled; on<Sountl«9Striße«J! Were birds of fair and golden nue; The red sun rising o'er, the hills ; , =__ Dispersed the mist, kiss'd up the d6W, And gay festoons of crimsoii'd flowers- Made fairy realms and' fay-lite bowers. Fair Eastern palms* with leaves otlace, Bent low before the gentle breeze, And creeping lines of golden graeff Hung star-like, round the ceaartrees^ And mighty oaks and pjnes were set Beside the musk and mignonette. The lilsi6 bent her. purplel wealth To kiss the daisy s pale sweet face; The fair laburnam wove her spells In playful mirth around the mace! And cowslips stoop'd in love to. greet Forget-me-not and primrose dweet The blue-bell tang a merry chinia In answer to the morning breeze.; And gay nasturtiums crept and twined. Their smiles upon the camphor trees. And love-birds built their neßta of hope In tuber rose and heliotrope. The damask r6se her fragranbe threw' O'er pansies laughing'neath her shades The ftischla trees with bells of love Upon the musk thejir beauties laid; And buttercups threw on the scene Their wealth of love and golden sheen. And by huge rocks the graceful fern Peeped in and out among the fells. And striped tulips smiled beside „ Those frail sweet sprltes^-the asphodels; , And royal grass, of fcold'and green. With mammoth rushes' griawbetweea. And by each stream, and pool; and rill, Fair water-lilies graced the scene, And butterflies on golden wings- Flew weird-like, each a fairy queen; Whilst gentle zephyrs seemed to siijrh Their songf of peace when passing by. •Q! beauteous isle! O! Eden fair, , , I velovedthee well,and roauieathy.boweTS And revelled in thy wealth of gems, A devotee among thy flowers; And in my, waking hours of pain; 1 dream thy glories o'er again. W.E.WMM,

SWEET MEETINGS, FAREWELL.

"O, dulcfis comitum valetiffcaetus.1' We must part! Such i» life—a parting to each meeting— A farewell to every joyous greeting. One by one dear faces disappear. Leaving us *ith memory and a tear; Evening closeo round the fairest day, Love himself hath wings tend fließ awaty.; Nought endures but mutability - Nought is constant but inconstancy. We must part! Henceforth life tome is retrospection. Buried in the depths of recollection Are entombed like corals in- the-sea,. Every fleeting hour I spent with thee; Memories df tne days for ever fled Gathered are, like pearls upon a thread, And no change of time or change of place- Can the lustre of those pearls deface. O, E Hugo.

EMPEROR WILLIAMS ROMANCE.

Recalling the liove Affairs of His Early

Youth.

In a, broad, leafy road on the south side of' Wiesbaden, just where the sun etrikes hottest and roses spell sweetest, there lives an old lady belonging to an ancient German family. In her charming salon, arranged in the queer, stiff fashion affected in the ! early part of this century,, Fraulein yon Scherf has, offcener than she can county re ceived the great Kaiser William, who never fails, when he, is ab his palace mi feh© market place,-to pay daily visits t& her, in her villa in Nicolas Strasse. Hie sits on the cornflower - coloured: brocaded sofa and speaks of the time; wjhen all the world was young, when limbs did n,ofr ache, and eyes were undimmed; of the days when Elsa, Princess. Raizville, was queen o| his? heart. The old maid listen*and. answers;} tells how she conveyed his love letters to her friend, and fondly recalls what Eka* said, how Elsa looked when reading thcise preciou* sheets. IFhey live again eacfh small event. They cherish every remenv brance of the girl who has been dead these Dflany years, whose face, never forgotten, comes so often before the monarch, ana whose anguisH at the knowledge that, a more suitable marriage my it1 bearrAngedior the ycmrig Prince still rings in the ears of her devoted foster-sister. Thesd tiwo-c-this old man arid wbman, th& 6ios£ puissaint ruler and this maid of honour-^are swayed by the emotions of sixty years back. No one living can dharm the Emperor aw does the quiefc lady of Nicolas Strassej with her all powerful, "Ye»; I remember." Loiter ing in the sunshine outside the flower decked house, gassers-by try to catch a gjimpse of their idol. ''What can he have to say?" they ask eadjt other. "If he were taking coffee with Sismarck or Moltke now rid one could understand, but to stay ah hour chatlerihg with att old woman !" In the shaded blue rbomi, for getful of time1, see the pathetic figure of a victorious King, who, having all, has HO -thiiig ; who hM cried butt fo¥ "&s&t naif a century for juafc that something which a cruel godmother, showering all manner of other gifts at his christening, thought fit to ■vvithliold. Thei 6^hec side o£ th© table, to balance his imperial Majesty, with doubtless an ache ia her heart on her own accounti, the frauleitl. clicks her knitting pins and sighs,..'* Ach " in. sym pathy. . . .? It ia like a fairy stlory. Hani Anderson would have taken it as a motif for one of Ms inimitable sketches of "What the Moon Saw;" only I think he would have exercised his m&gie and altered the end ; he could not liave left his King complaining, unhappy to the last. But "which of us has his desire, or haying it, is satisfied 1" Perhaps Empress Elsa after a time would have been more of a success than Empress Augusta; who can tell ?, , . By the way, in connection with the profjhecjr which all the world knows, that the Emperor will live till he is 96 years old, they supplement it in Germany by declar-. ing that the same sibyl predicted the Crown Prince will die of starvations This is handicapping: Morell Mackenzie with a vengeance.—"Toronto Week." -

A Terrible Explosive.

Writing on the 12th of September, the St. Petersburg correspondent of the London " Times " gives the following account of a new explosive :—There is ho end to the per fectly diabolical competition of the military Powers of Europe in the discovery of new chemical agents for the destruction of man kind. It is reported that the Russian Minister for War has just* concluded a series of experiments of a new explosive compound which bids, fair to outdo the qualities of melinite, roburite, and all other explosives whatever in its application to all the present tittes of gunpowdeh This new and murderous cbnt position iS destined * say many persoiis, to revolutionise the existing ftystehyof ammu nition. The new explosive is fche discovery of a Russian engineer, and has been chriSt ened Sleetover. Its strength is equal to that of pyroxyline, and it has the advan tage of being ten time* cheaper tbatv ordinary villainous saltpetre. Another sjreit superiority which it possesses over all the known explosives of the dynai class is that wlieri fired its force dpes iiot, strifce downward, but* eriibirely in a forwstM direction, so that it can be used for all the purposes of cannon and musket charges to which ordinary gunpowder is now applied without any damage whatever to the Weapon from which it is discharged. Jtt is stated* in fact, that ball cartridges loaded wit/h it have been fired out of cardboard barrels, as^ » fcqet, withowt fch© leaet injtary to the latter* ; So latisfaototy, indeed, have been the oxperimsntß that it is reported tb© Minister of War is abouti to have a epeiijal factory built for ite wanatactufe. Too composition is, of course, a deep eecwfc.

.:SHI AUOKLANB EVEMNQr STMfc, SATUBBAY, KOVIMBBR ■'& k 18S7.

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JiflGfflLY I?QPI£LA>BI JfICIION. :most important announcement. A GREAT WORK [ A. GREAT AUTHOR. Specially Illustrated. ilfelksftnbeeii our pleasure to announce from tim» ■ to time for publication in the Stab ■Works by Novelists of the highest eminence among Authors of Motion, and we have notr^a 'Hiote than ordinal degree of satisfaction ia 'stating that negotiations hare been concluded ! whereby the readers o£ the Stab Fiction will have- supreme enjoyment of A NEW AND | BRILLIANT STORTby Black, ;Author of "Macleod of Dare," "A Princess Of ; Thulo,".&c. V This is the first occasion on whick Newspaper, 'readers have had the advantagel of a Seriaj/ Story written, by this great Novelist at first hand, and in anticipation of the customary Publication in volume form—an advantage ■ vrhich, wfr are confident, readers will not bs slow to appreciate, f tfBE TITLE >Oi tlie new and admirable story, written; bys WILLIAM BLACK, to appear in: the : '■"STAR" SUPPLEMENT next I SATURDAY, ; IS • '. SABINA ZEMBRA, : Which Will be a work in every" way worthy Of the enduring fame of this Gifted Novelist. r THE PLOT Of the hew and thrilling; story,, ettfitleff "SABINA ZEMBRA, "written by WILLIAM* '•■■',■ • Slack, ; . ■ v Displays' the genius of a master mind, develop ing intensely captivating situations, and '■ tiinfdldifng experiences of fare \ and thrilling interest. ; THE CHARACTERS In "SABINA the NEW aad SPLENDID STORY, by ! . .' TTTTILLIAM TjLACK,, Are creations showing great of iginality in con ception, and fine skill in treatment. Tha A'attaor's realism is so vivid that the men and woine# wTioiii he in#6duees seem to live their lives before us*, and we are spectators not only ,6^*ol^ tSttbtte actk'fcuifc pf the inner motives which Inspire th'ejft.' We: see clearly when I noble and generous sentiments, or selfish and mean considerations, actuate. We behold the ; inflated vanity of Sir Anthony Zembra, M.P., as he surveys the success of deft, artifices to popularise his name, and parade tho status of the Zembra family in the fashionable Circles of London society. We follow with an. ever-in cireaaing fascination the fortunes of Sir An' *hony's discarded daughter* whose penchant tor works of philanthropy leads her into many spheres of beneficence, but whose utterly un conventional habits and thoughts, having free play in a world full of conventionality, brins iabout niost critical dere'opments; Fred Foster, a sporting man, with nature so wholly absorbed ;in the: turf tha* racing events- seem to be the media through which he thinks; is a marveli lously well-drawn character; while Walter1 Lindsay,» young artist, is never likely to be [ opened a* a rdpreßentative ot the bewildering madness wliich. corifes of I6ve-sickness. Thes'o are only central characters met With in the openinf? of the story; but thelittle Ws haye seen bf them is enougil to warrant us in saying th^ personages in Mr BLACK'S NEW NOVEL' once there, will live maujr a year, in the re collections of its readers.



j. THE DESCRIPTIVE PARTS Of thtf STEW STORY, entitled "SABUsA 1., _ ; jZEMjfeA,1' by ' ' '' " j *Vr ILLI A M _O LA6 E , Are written in the Author's* best style. Whether in the' -whirl of LOndoli life; ■with distinguished artists at the Royal Academy; amid the gaietie a of the ball-room; among invalids seeking health by thd sea at Brighton; or with hones* Irish nature on the shores of the Shannon eyferywh^re the reader is perfectly carried away with the charm of the Autfior's descriptive power. t . ... ...:■..,... ~ , Each WEEKLY INSTALMENT of the story will he A.PPROPRIATELY Illustrated. The " Athenaeum," writing of the story now announced, says:—"Mr WitnAM Black ha 3 completed a new Novel, the chief scenes of which are laid in London and Brighton. The story deals in some measure with artistic life in the Metropolis, whilst one of the characters is of a sporting turn, and a good deal of racing ia introduced. The heroine, Sabina, who«e name gives the title to the story, ia the daughter of a rich M.B.* who> quits her father's hoiiae and lives in lodgings so as to devote herself entirely labour among the London poor. The Novel* •t 'frill tie seen, Is a departure from the-run of itttries to which Mr Black has accustomed Ma r^aderki Messrs Teclotson and Sotf, of Bol tbn, Mv#? secured the stbuy, and it will to® sirjiult&neotisly publishea in ths autumo in I■.Newspaitdri to all quairters of th 6 World." In fine, wo have the utmost confidence that the NEW STORY by Mr BLACK will aflbird the readers of our Fiction/a source of exquisite delight; and we very respectfully urge al* plfesent subEoribers to respond to the bold en* terpriae which is involved in protsufing iho work of thil Great Novelist, by making known to their friends and acquaintances the announce, inentthat;!; ?■- ■ ■■ .';ii. ■' ' a NEW STORY by William jßlack, The Eminent NbvicLisTjWio be pußflsaieff : .' ■■ ' : in THE STAR SATURDAY SUPPLEMENT, . COMMENCING ON SATURDAY NEXT,