KILDEE; Or, The Sphinx of the Red House.

BY MAY E. BRYAN,

Author of " The Bayou Bride," " The Fugitive Bride," &c.

CHAPTER XII.

But Hazard was so occupied with the politi cal meeting that he failed to remember , the promised visit to his old acquaintances until rather late in the afternoon, when he met Max in the street, as he was on his way to the telegraph office. "I'll come in half an hour," he said to him, nnd he bought a bouquet from a mat and flower stand close by and sent lb by Max to Lottie. That "Primaß W*» heart had been in a flutter ever since she knew she was likely to see again the dark eyes which had looked into hers too often for her peace in the days when they both lived in the cheap tenement house in at. Louis, and when the young reporter—.ry ino- his restless energies in various flights— had taken lessons in stage lore from her papa, the then retired actor, whose card m the newspaper read : " Prof. Duyck, in structor in Shakspere and Histrionic Art. The professor thought it only a pro fessional license to introduce the "y into his name in such connection. Besides, it might ward off the malicious suggestion ot "quack," which had often wounded his spirit, the suergestiveness of 'name being ftirther accentuated by his appearance—his short, plump body and duck-legs. Lottie, in her new blue dress, with her hair arranged as Hazard used to like it, had flitted nervously all day about the three rooms occupied by the company at the Rock Spring Hotel. She caught up her guitar, threw its blue ribbon over her white neck.and sang to it a snatch of the song that had been his favourite—the last she had sung for him on the evening he left her to seek his fortune, first in New Orleans, afterwards in, Wallport. Ah, that last evening! Lottie'sheartswelled under her blue bodice, as she recalled the tender nothings he had murmured as they sat, touching each other, on the balcony. The surround ings were anything but romantic, yet transfigured by Lottie's sentimental fancy, they seemed so. There was moon—never mind that it shone on brick walls and dingy roofs instead of groves and .honeysuckle bowers. A cat squalled on an adjacent shed and the professor snored as he lay on the lounge in the inner room, but tho sounds had a nightingale melody to Lottie, so full Of romance was her foolish little heart. She recalled it all as she sat with the guitar ribbon round her neck, looking at herself in the dressing case mirror to see if the three years that had passed since then had traced any dines oh her peach-bloom skin. Kildee, sitbing on a low chair and rocking softly as she sewed, looked at her and wondered what she was thinking of. But Kildee was practical. "Bringme your kid slippers, dear, and let me whiten them up a bit," she said presently. "I have finished sewing this gilt' braid on Frank's jacket. Naughty boy, to be always ripping it off " "Gus did it with his clumsy sword thrusts in that fencing scene," complained the'boy j who was lolling on a lounge near by, yawning over his part for the evening. "Gus will punch my eyes out someday, and then father will be satisfied he can never play at swords." Mother Duck—bee pardon, Madame Ducciole -with her ample proportions buried in an arm-chair, fanned her plump, heated cheeks and xend a novel. Presently she lodked up: "Deal-, dear, I forgot that awful grease spot on my purple silk where I dropped the sausage When professor told me it was my time to go on the stage. Professor is so im petuous. He rushed behind the scenes and grabbed my arm just as I had the sausage between my teeth. I really wish he wasn't So nervous, bub he says it's the way with genius ; and now I shall have to wear it, grease and all, in the banquet scene to night." "I took the grease out with a hot iron last night, Aunt Polly," said Kildee, with out looking up from the soiled slipper she wd_ renovating by rubbing it with an enamel card. "Thanks, child ; but, Kildee, yOu forget again. You called me Aunt Polly. Pro fessor doesn't like it. Remember to say Aunt _farianne." "I'll try," said the girl, smiling; "but Polly suits you best, auntie. It's sweet and jolly and motherly-like you." " Kildee, I wish you'd see if I know my lines;" said Frank, rising from the lounge and lazily approaching, book in hand. "Kildee, hortfey," said the professor, coming in from the next room with his wig awry, " it's six o'clock —Soon time for me to be at the hall again j and I've got a splitting headache, what with worrying over fixing that stage and listening to the hammering and trying to drill those stupid supes. Ido wish, child, you'd make me a decent cup of tea; ? The slops they have here makes me sick." " POUy. put the kettle on, and let's have tea," sting Frank; pulling one of Kildee's curls. She got up and put the renovated slippers into a big basket cohtaining costumes, etc., that was°presently to be carried down to the scene of the performance. Then she opened a tall, narrow box—originally Mother Duck's bonhet-box—and took out bf it a small oil-stove, a package of good tea and a little metal pot. Frank lighted the stove lamp, and in a little while tlTe pbt wa3 in place over the .fire. While waiting for it to boil, Kildee took. Frank into a corner and heard him recite his lines, prompting ahd suggesting in a ldw tone, go as not to excite the professor's attentioh. Frank declared it put him "out of sorts" to have his father coi-rect him ih his loud, pompous fashion. ."You are a good girl, and I love you better than Lottie," said the tall, handsome jpoung fellow, giving her his favourite oaress —a pull atone of the short, nut-brown curls on her neck. Max saw it at he opened the door, and winced a litttof -&en abused fclhiself mentally, as he had dcafil every day idnce he made, the discovery that jealousy Vas beginning to be mixed with what he told himself was the half-brotherly, half paternal love he felt for Kildee. Max had a great bouquet of roses and carnations in. one hand ; the other hand he heid behind him. Lottie flew __ him and caught the flowers; ; " For me ! Say they are for me !" she cried.

"They are. Hall sent them. He will be here, he says, in half an hour. He has been very busy all day, but his heart has been with you, so he desired me to say ; I am not prepared to guarantee the asser tion."

Lottie iyuried her face in the bouquet, to hide the blush that made her cheeks as pink as She roses.

"You must keep them fresh; they'll be lovely for you to wear to-night," said Kildee, coining forward. "You shall have part of theta*" Lottie declared. Kildee shook Her head.

" I won't consent to rob you of a single rose," she said. Max still held one hand behind him. "Come here, little one," he said to Kil dee. " Did you think you were forgotten ?" He drew his hand from behind him, Bridging into View a- b6uqiiet ? si-jalle. than Lottie's? but composed oi .xquisjte flowers —white and delicately tinted and fragrant.

"Yonrfl,-* he said, and gave it to her. She caitght it in both hands and held it up. She whirled around in" delight. _ "Hazard is generous with his gilts, Lottie said, a faint shadow stealing over her "Hazard indeed! Do you imagine he sent it f Hazard has forgotten my existence. He never did fancy me—muchly— used to tease me hatefully, 1 remember, and cropped my kitten's ears once. No, my flowers come from somebody else—somebody who never forgetsme," she said, raising her brown eyes to Max and laying her head against his shoulder in the frankly affectionate way he had liked so well awhile ago, but of late, somehow, did not find so satisfying. Awhile ago, too, he would have stooped aad kissed her with a frankness equal to her own. He did not kiss her now. He touched her curly head with his plump, white hand ; he stroked it gently, and if she had been observant she would have felt the tremor in his fingers. None of them noticed it; hone of them paid any attention to him. It seemed a matter of course to pet Kildee, as it was to take advantage of her nimble fingers and deft, quick movements, her readiness to help and her womanly wise devices. _. The professor broke up the tableau. _ He had gone into the other room while waiting for his tea ; he came out this time, looking more worried than before. " Everything goes wrong," he satd. J- fat. Peter is in the "sulks and won't touch his violin. He'll not play a note to-night. He is sitting with his head botween his hands, and won't even look up." " Kildee can bring him around, bne always can," said Mrs Duck, soothingly. "Go to him, Kildee." Kildee had already gone. Gus, who came from the room pre sently, reported that Kildee had coaxed St. Peter round so far as to make him sit up and look at her. In a little while she came in, leading by the hand a remarkable-looking being—a man well-proportioned, but. gaunt and thin, with along, pallid face and long, snow-white hair and beard, contrasting strangely with his young-looking features. Those indicated a man scarcely thirty, while the expression that pervaded them was almost childlike. They indicated also refinement. His head was well shaped—the forehead broad and full. This made it most strange to see the black vacancy of the eyes. They had a bewildered, wistful look, as of a lost child, and there was a child-like pathos in the droop of the mouth. " I have brought him in here because this room is brighter and prettier, and he has the dumps worse than usual, poor dear," said Kildee. "I think his head hurts him. Auntie, let him have the arm-chair, please. I know what'lL brighten him -egg nog ; I'll make him some." "Where will you get the eggs, Kildee ?" "You never mind, Mr Frank, I'll not trouble you. Igo provided for St. Peter." She deposited her charge in the easy-chair and then drew out the ex-bonnet box and brought out of its depths a couple of eggs that had -been packed in cotton in a little box to themselves. " Why the mischief were not those eggs demolished by the baggage-smasher?" asked Frank wohdeiin°ly. " Because'they are guinea eggs, stupid— nearly as hard-shelled as your cranium ; shall I try conclusions ?" and she made a feint of breaking one'upon his'liead. She sent him tp stirring the yolks for St. Peter's bevevage, while she.beat the whites, standing before St. Peter, and talking to him cheeringly. The regular jwund and motion .oi the egg-.bea._ng amused the daft creature's sense of rhytlpnic harmony, the strongest instinct of his feature. He moved his. head in JSfflS to it; he looked about him wistfully, then at Kildee. "He want's his fiddle ; go and bring it to him," Kildee said to Frank. When the instrument was put into his hands, he made a few languid passes of the bow across the strings. Kildee touched his

hand: " ' . "" ' if. See here, St. Peter," she said ; "I am waiting for you to play that I may dance. And I'll keep time ; see ?" She began to move her pretty feet dance fashion, while she continued the egg-beat ing. He nodded and began to play at once, smiling at her as she danced and beat her eggs a.t the same time; Hef pretty grey gown came just to. the tops of her tiny boots, and the play Of her feet and the ease and grace of her motions were a joy to See. It had been a delight, tlie professor said, to teach Kildee to dance. She took to it by instinct. He had an exalted estimate of hie own family proficiency in this accomplish ment, and he meant it as high.praise of Kildee when he told his friends —"She dances, sir, like a born Duke"- meaning one of his oWn flock. The egg - nog was made and Kildee gently took away .the Saint's violin and gave him a goblet of the frothing nectar in stead. He tasted it and testilied his ap proval by smiling in his dazed, wistful way into her face. "Ah, he's all tight*" pronounced the professor, who had had his tea with a dash of rum in it, and was agaih in spirits, ready to greet Hazard, who now entered on the scene, with eflerveseent rhetoric. Mrs Duek'B Welcome was hearty; she had warmly liked the handsome boy and had cherished hopes of adding him to the family. Lottie's piquant face was beaming with delight and blushes as she held odt her hand.

" You know all of us," she said, looking around at the group. " Gus and Frank have, grown out of the pea-green stage Since you saw them. Gus *__i_ villain, Which accounts for the scowl he has de veloped ; Frank is our lover. We are ptoud of his moustache; it is the ' early variety' a_ we say of potatoes. Mamma here lias grown younger, and Kddee taller ahd plumper, and-=" "And Lottie lovelier," whispered Hazard.

"For shamei You have not oubgtown your propensity to flatter," laughed the sparkling Rfc-le actress. " But here is some one I do not know," said Hazard, -looking with curiosity at the strange figure seated in the arm : chair, sip ping egg-nog. The blank 'face, bewildered, questful eyes, the odd, child-like dignity, the white hair and the smooth skin. The figure struck him as.picturesque and quaint in the highest degree. " Oh, this is Signer Petrnchio—our musi cal phenomenon—otherwise St. Peter." "St; Peter 1"

" You see the Ducciole Family Company; carry their Saint along with them. The fun-making St. Louis gamins gave the poor dear that name because of his white beard, and queer face, I-suppose. He is inspired as to music, lik« Blind Tom—and a,stark, idiot in everything else." " Oh, Lottie, he is listening to you 1" cried Kildee, reproach! ully* l' Remember he can hear, though he doesn't talk except in dis jointed words. Ha is not an idiot. His soul has just gone out from him into his violin. His violin talks for.him, pleads and moans for him—oh, so wjell." >

Hazard turhed and looked at the girl more attentively. Some -ring in-her voice! was strangely familiar to him. And who was it she resembled ? Why could he not think ? The little high-bred way she: carried her head, the dignity that was blended with he.-^lild-like grace, the winning beauty of ]ssr smile—the veryi droop of .her eyelids raaainded biaa of .some one he had lately seen. He knitted his. brow in perplexing though^ but Lottie wafe claiming his attention. *• It is- the strangest thing-in the w<l_d-," M> she was saying. "He uadetstands -nothing, but music. Music must have been an instinct with him, and when he lost hisi reason (through illness or accident I think,, for that head Shows he was never born on; idiot) why the ihstineb stayed behind.! Instincts do .stay, you.knew,_Whsn reason| goes. He plays divinely—difficult .ompo.

sitions too. He had learned them by note, j before his misfortune, or else he had caught them by ear, as Blind Tom does." "Some day he may recover his reason —Suddenly," Hazard said, looking hard at the "singular being, who, strange to note, raised his head ab the same time and looked into Hazard's face with the wistful intent expression one sees in the eyes of dogs. "When and where did you find him, Lottie ?" "He is Kildee's discovery. She was wiilkiiig on a back street in St. Louis one afternoon when she saw a group of gamins tormenting a white-haired man. They had taken away his hat and Addle and were trying to get at his squirrel. They had seen the little animal run into his shirt bosom for refuge- He was frantically gesticulating, appealing, threatening in a broken jabber, which only excited the little imps' 'derision and made them wovp-j. Kildee' looked around for a police man, but, "_R usual with that fraternity when they are wanted, there was none to be scon. 'She knew it would be useless to remonstrate with the boys. They would only jeer at her; so what does our Kildee do, but begin to" sing and dance-and she dances like an angel, as you ought to re member. The gamins left off tormenting the man, and when she stopped they begged for another dance. '' Not unless you restore my'uncle his hat and fiddle,' said our girl. "Then he can play for me, and I will dance properly.' "The hat and fiddle were at once re stored and Kildee kept her promise. She began todahce, and the queer being began to play and played deliciously. She rounded up her pas final with a farewel courtesy and was running off', when the odd genius caught her skirt. She turned and held' out her hand and he kissed it devoutly. From that time he took allegi ance to her." He followed her home; he would not leave her. Fortunately we found we could put him to use. Wq wpre troubled abput music. He could play with so much soul and science in one that be always delights an audiencp. Nobody claimed him. He was daft, but harmless, so we took him travelling with us. He passes as a distin guished foreign artist musicale, who couldn't or wouldn't deign to speak Eng lish, and folks actually take on about hie dignity, and call Ids idiocy—the eccentrici ties of genius- In Mexico he lost his squirrel; somebody mashed it to death ac cidentally, and St. Peter had a fearful fight with the poor man. A lady who took a fancy to Kildee <_*aye her a marmoset for tho Saint, You know what a marmoset is ? a queer little miniature monkey. Well, the creature loves St. Peter as the squirrel •".id, and he carries it in his bosom. It is there now asleep." Supper was brought in at this moment. The company ate in their room, not caring to make themselves common and to sate the curiosity the public might have as to the looks of the troupe—the ladies particularly. They supped early, too—before the regular tea-time, that they might go to the Theatre. Hazard had a cup of tea poured out for him by Lottie's little hands. He would go with theifx to the theatre, he said, and would sec a part of the performance—the scenes from Shakspere—but at half-past nine he must say gvod-bye, as his train left at a quarter to ten. " That is such a pity," the professor said. " You will not see Kildee in the ' Knight's Temptation.' Kildee's songs and dances always bring down the house." " And you should see her play tho great lady,"-said Mamma Duck. '' It is amusing to see the dignified graces the little witch can put on. She seems to the manner bora."

Hazard thought it more than likely there was blue blood in the girl's veins, oti one side, at least, of her parentage. He wished he had asked Max something about her mother. Was she dead ? Had they ever heard of her since she left the tenement house so abruptly nino years before ? Ma* had busied himself sending off the needed paraphernalia to the hall, and had drunk his tea .at a gulp. His usually joyous fage was clouded. While they waited for the carriage, he took Lottie aside.

"Lottie," he said, " I wish from my soul it was possible to get along without the ' Knight's Temptation" this evening, or anything Kildee has to appear in." " VVhy, in wonder's name ?" asked Lottie.

" Because, you will call it imagination and me a fool, but I believe I saw Kildee's mother this afternoon on the piazza of the other hotel. She was dressed very dif ferently—neat and plain—and she looked a good deal older than when we knew her, and they called her a different name, but I do believe it was no other than Mrs Gon zalis. And just think, if she should see Kildee to-night, see how lovely and bright she is, she would be sure to claim her." "Oh! Max, that has always been your bugbear—that somebody would claim Kil dee. Don't cross bridges before you get to tbem. You have imagined before that you saw Mrs Gonzalis. Let's hope that it was hot she, or that she will not recognise us. I don't think she would know Kildee. And it is not likely she would want the girl. Why, if she was alive, has she never claimed her child before ? Even if it is she, and she does lay claim to Kddee, she will have to establish that claim, and we can show that she deserted the child, and has made ho sign all these years, and that -she was an improper character. You remember how showily she dressed, and how she went out nights ?" "She had some business, she said; she Was an agent for something. We couldn't prove her to .he an unfit person. She might explain the desertion ; she might work on Kjldee!s feelings and her sense of duty." '' Hush with your mights and perhapses. ' Cast that shadow from thy brow,'" sang Lottie, tapping him with her fan. " You broad-shouldered, braye follow, you. You are a coward where Kildee is concerned. There's the carriage. Come on." (__ be Continued.)

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER g 1887.

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Railway Time Table. TO* B' W ZEALAND RAILWAYS "*" TIME TABLE.—On and ajteb APRIL 1, IBS 7, AUCKLAND AND ONKHUNGA LINB. Auckland ~ \ ~ . , „ ' T o Week Days. Sat 3 only. Sundays Onehunga. ... ii ~a.m. a.m. a.m.ia.ra.lno'n p.m.lp.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. P.m. p.m. a.ni.p.m Auckland, den. 7.15 . 8.4010.4012 0 2.0 ..15 5.20 6.20 .. -0.0 1.10 11.40 9.0 2.31 NeSk June 725 11-l 10.50 li.lo 2.10 4.25 5.30 6.30 .. 10.10 1.20 11.50 9.10 2.41 Ramuera.. .. 7._ .. 8._'10.5512.15 2.151 4.30 6.35 C.36 .. 10.15 Uo 11.55 9.15 2.41 _?lle?Si_ lne " 73R " 9 6 1i.5 !l2*_- 2.25 4.40 6.45 ( 6*45 '.'. lO'L's K35 12.5 9.22 2.5! Penrose JuiicUon 7.45 8.56 9.11,11.1012.30 2.30 "4.45 6.50"6.52 7.30 10.30 1.40 12.10 9.26 2_ o___n£_\ arr! 7.65 9.5 9.2011.20 12.40 2.40 4.63 CLO 7.0 7.4010.40 LSO 12.20 9.35 3.7 I I L ! L , __. j I g ats Dne'ga to Auckl'd. _m. a.m. a m. a.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m. p.m.!p.ro. p.m. a.m. p.m Onohunga „dep. 7.5 8.20 9.30 10.0 12.10 1.0 4.25 5.10 6.35 7.1510.50 2.0 10.0 5.3( *Pernw Pe ajSnc. '.'. USts'.i. .40 10.10 J12.20 I.lC♦ |!*36 §5.20§6.45|t/.30 11."0 2*lo 1(U0 BM Kllerslie .. 7-20 8.35 9.45 10.15 12.25 1.15 440 5.25 .. 7.3- 11. 5 2.15 10.15 5.U Romuera" 6 " 7.30 8.44 9.55 10.24 12.3-. 125 4.'51 6.35 .'.' 7.4511.15 2.25 10.21 6.55 Newmarket Jun 7.35 8 49; 10.1 a10.30 12.40 1.30 5.4 5.40 .. 7.50 11.20 2.31 10.26 5.5$ Auckland, arr. .. 7.45 8.58110.10 10.39 12.50 -1.40 5.13 5.50 .. 8.0 11.30, 2.40 10.35 6.7 " Change for Onehunga. * Change for Otahuhr 1 Ojiange for Waikato stations. a Change for Kaipara Branch Stations t Change for Mercer and In'_ rmediate Stations. I Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. MAIN LINK. AUCKLAND-MEEOE-t-TK AWAMUTU-OTOROHANGA. South—Week Days. —r — a ' ■ ■ ' ~ A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. A.M. .M. . P.M. P.M. 6.20 AUCKLAND .. .. dep. 6.0 6.20 7.15 8.0 11.40 4.15 4.5. 5.20 6.39 .owmarket Junction - §•}" 6.# 7.25 8.0 uos 4.25 6.7 5.30 6.3, Remuera 6-15 6.40 7.30 8.15 B 4.30 6.1- s.*> SS Jane " " "6 22 6.48 7.53 8.23 B >40 _£25 Ms_ 7,50 Penrose® Junction 7. " 628 7.0 §4,0 831 12.25 14.49 5.50 ' - {_-r 6.40 .. 8.10 .. .. •• 6.0 dep .. 7.10 .. 8.41 12.40 4.59 Papatoitoi .. .. .. •• : - - *Jg Ha - ;; X y ua :: :: :: :: _: i*i :: m $ f$ .:: • "l.unoiman * " " * * ___£&. ~ :: :: :.: ww :: & .& •# :: •• *Bucklalid „„, ■• •• „.„ a .« Tunkau »-y •• •• H 3 6 *3 "Whangarata ■• •- „„ 70 Pokeno 9.46 .. •• 8.3 7.0 .. Mercer .. .. {^p! .. •• •• 10.55 5.40 __ hangamarino .... * *Wairangi •• .... # — "itangiiiri .. ._ •• - •• .... # - •Ghliiowai .. _. -• •• ■• •• ,„•'., ,„, Huntly •• •• 12- 15 6,Z5 Ngaruawahia ~ •• •• u -fs °v lu •• . *Pukete ►• •• * „ . __l.apa .. .. •• •• .„„ „., - cFrankton JiißCtiPß | dep | gg__g ~ .. 1.30 p6.55 "Rukuhia -- * •• •• or .on " *'* "~ Ohuupo .. - .. •- 8.33 .. -. -6 7.30 *J_akel.oad - .. •• ... •• •• „„- »,„ •• •• . Ngaroto 8."5 - •• £& <.50 „, . 1 arr. 9.0 .. .. «?d 7.p0 Tjj Awamutp .. | dep .. .10 "ToPuhi .' '.. ■■ •• •• * _Cawa ._ •• — •• .-• ■• •• •' * ■' •Kiokio •• - •• on "Otorohanga .. I ■" -I 3-0 -.1 .. Nokth—Week Uays. a.m. a.m. aj.i. a.m. aim. p.m. p.m. p.m. •Otorohanga - .. •■ dep. .*. - .. .. EB.IO •Kiokio .. — .. •" " " * "Kawa .. — — .. .. .. .. ~ *TePuhi , •• •• ■• •• •• on „ , f arr. - .. .. .. 9.0 « .. .. TeAwamutu .. r \d*.j>. - .. .. .. 9.15 .. .. 3.0 Ngaroto - •• •'- •■ 9- 23 •• •• 3.5 -Lukeßoad •■ •• •• - .. «• •• „„_ Ohaupo .. .. •■ 9*a •• ~ 3_> •Rukuhia .. _. ••, •• - " •• •• Ift „. •• « ■> ,-,,,- t , / arr. __.... 10.20 .. .. 4.0 Frankton Junction ... \ dep. — — •• .. 10.35 .. .. 4.10 "Teßapa.. .._. — -•• -■ •• •• * •• — * •Pukete .. • -• - •• "*" 11 an —" *" ,„ Ngarnawahia — - - •• •• }*•.*' •• •• ?-i . Taupivi .. r ~ - ~ H-_ — " !»■' Huntly ... _ _ ••'*,' •. -I" - - - 12v 2iJ •• •• • «•» ''Oliinewal ■«. -- _. ... » •• ~ •• •• «•• .. * *Rangiriri _. -. .... .•• .. •• .. ~. - .. — '•" •Wairangi .. .. •• •• •• — •• *Whapgamarino ~ .. •• • •• . •- .. * -, ' " / afr. .. -. .. .. 1.. .. jiih. ,R3o;> Mercer - \ dep# „ .. 0.20 11.30 2.5 .. .. 6.50 Pokeno .. -. «■ •• 6.31 11.43 2.16 .. .. 7.0 *Whangarat» . - * ,„* „' .... * Tuakau ..„-_...- - 6-50 12.8 2.42 .. .. * •Buckland _-....- _. ? * * .. .. * Pukckohe.. .._.._. - .. 7.10 12.31 3.3 7.37 *Pacrata ..«._.••"— •■• J ■ •• .. ' *Runcinian _ « „ — • — .._..^_„ .... . Drury .. « « •• 7.47 1.10 3.37 .. .. 8.10 *Huuua .. .. .... .. •• - •■ * .„„ .* Papakura.. _ .. .. . - - 8.1 1.26 3.47 .. 8.18 Manurewa '-- .. 8.16 1.42 4.2 .. .. * Papatoitoi ••„ •• 8.80 2,0 4.15 , .. * Otahuhu.. .... ~ .. 6.50 -8.18 8.41 2.10 4.23 6.20 7.15 * Penrose Junction ... .. .. Bfilfi 188.30 18.54 t2.30 tU6 t6.30 17.30 9.0 Ellerslie .. .. _ .. .. 7.20 8.35 8.58 -2.35 6.35 7.35 ♦Green Lane .. * .* * ,:*>. * * * Remuera 7.30 8.44 9.7 2.45 0.45 7.45 * Newmarket Juno. ._ .. -. 7.35 8.49 9.19 2.55 }5.4 . 6.51 7.50 9.20 Auckland art. 7.45 1 8.58 9.28 3.5 5.13 70 8.0 9.30 t Change for Onehunga. H Change for Auckland and Intermediate Stations. j Change for Kaipara Branch Stations. § Change for Otahuhu. A. Passengers are not booked by this train to Stations "between Auokland Onehunga. B. Only stops to pick up Passengers for South of Penrose Junction, c. Runs on Mondays, Wednesdays. Fridays, and Saturdays only. D. Runs on Mondays and Wednesdays only. E. Runs from Otorohanga on Tuesdays and Thursdays only. The 9.15 a.m. train from Te Awamuhi runs daily. v. Frankton Junction for Cambridge, Te Aroha. aud Rotorua Lines. Cambridge—Te Aroha and RoTOfttJA Ltnks. South.—Week Days. North.- Week Days. Auckland, dep. ~ s'6i__ tichfi^d. dep. .. ~ .. ——— — — • *Putaruru Junction * _ j; T ■ ..PM. p.m. *Taumangi » Frankton Jun., dep 130 c" 0 Oxford, dep 12 50 Hamilton West « .. 13S 710 *Okproire * *Hamilton East.. .. :....** *Manßawhara V. '.. " " * Huakura Jun., arr. 152 722 Matamata '. '.'. 133 r; —; •— ' >-- *W___S .. .. '.'.'.'. * Cambridge Br.— *Walton * Huakura Jun., dep 2 0d730 *Kiwitahi'.l * * *Mongaonui * * Mori insville, arr. '.'. " "2 35 *Tamahere * * ; " •Fencourt * _ Te Aroha Br. •Hantapu * * Te Aroha, dep.«. .. "8 20 Cambridge, arr. -. 240 810 *Waihou .. .. " " * " - —: _;^ :; — * Waitoa. .. \2 [' " # " Buakura.Jun.,dep. 2 0.730 *TatuaoHaua .. X' "" *Eur_ka * *Murray*s *, " " * " K.^e%rr: :: :: :: ::,ii£ __________ - ."9 gj£l .-_.."' .. .. SBBt_S.S; :: :: 9l 0b2!? Morrlnsville, dep. .... .. ... a255 815 *Ellreka .. * * *TaK!ia Ua :: :: :: :: •• 5 : S_g_3_^2_l_______iS *Waiioa - .. * « Cambridge Br._ •Waihon * * Cambridge, dep. .. 915d250 Te Aroha, arr. 3408 55 *Hautapu\. .. " •; a f tf-«- ZZ —; Vz —r —_-_—-— .___ *Fencourt .. '* *' * * Morrlnsville, dep. {,2 50 ... .. " * * *Khvtahi _ .. .. » ; *Mongaonui .. " _ * *Waharoa" ". I" f' '-- Ii" * *" ~^___J____^:__ s_i° Matamata .! " " '" \\ 355 .".' Ruakura Jun., dep. ■.. 10 oc3 40 *Mangawhara .. .. .. _ .. * .. "Hamilton East.-7 lu^cdiu o°Jford re _« " Hamilton West.. \. "1020 355 ?PutaruruJnn._ _ * [\ Auckland, arr. . 5 13"_3_ Lichfield, arr. _ 520 .. | * ** " * Flag Station. c Pwuns on Tuesdays, Thuredaye, and Saturdaysonl^. b Runs on Mondays Wednesdays »„* Fridays only c Runs on Mondays, Wi-dhesdays. Fridays, and Saturdays onP. _ _l____V_i; nesdays and Saturdays only. The others run daily. • ■ B omjr- v awxß oa »v ed A Runs oh first Sundays in each month only. KAIPARA BRANCH.-AUCKLAN-, _-HE_OKRBeN-H_BUNSVILI,g. AUCKLAND TO HELBX S VnX g ,-WE B K DATE. Hg,WßVll__ TO AUOgtAND.^WEEK DATS. A ' f ~ _~ *Momingnide.. * * « • *w_[_tin " " I t I " 'Mount Albert . * * * * »^,^ lU " - ! I 1 ;k '4BSI& _ :•*_•"*■«*» ; ;wa__r : : : .. » ♦WaikOmiU Z * * * 3.0 •T_n,e_ * X 7 -_5 *_ " _ts. •• •• •*■ ,2-- s I* i«a- : :: ijj ti *.» :: •woodhiu _ : ♦ • • ;■ __m__J_m -ill* •Paeroa.. _ .. • * • " WS&ffl*? -till ♦Ohirantri « • # Alngaland ....,* * * * •HetensTllle S'_'*h" » * » Mount Eden., .. 8.47 2.55 6.24 5.13 , . .H_«_a_ __ Mi.adaa 11 BM ft jii ii •Flag Stations.—Trains do not stop unless required. Notion ___3 S f« »h« Rum "' _t J. P. MAXWJSLL- Gejwra) Mun^fier.



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