THE SUEZ MAIL.

(PER S.S. ROTOMAHANA.)

WRECK OF -THE P. & 0. STEAMER TASMANIA.

A SCENE of IHSORGANISATION

AM© CONFUSION.

(from our special correspondent.)

London, April 29. •The facts that have como to light in con nection with the wreck of the Tasmania will seriously shake public confidence in the much-vaunted efficiency of the P. and 0. service. If the graphic and thrilling nar rative of the catastrophe contributed by a well-known . Anglo - Indian to Tuesday's \t Standard " be accurate, there can be no doubt whatever the most deplorable con fusion and disorganisation prevailed. Passengers who have travelled by *£_ c gorgeous steamers of this line and watched with admiration the smart brass-bound officers superintending boat-drills, fire-drills, and other elaborate preparations for accidents will learn with surprise and disgust the practical utility of such dress rehearsals.' In the case of the Tasmania, clearly theboat-drill wasn't even remembered, let alone regarded. The ship's organisation,' in fact, proved a fair weather one. At the supreme moment of danger it broke down. But I had better, perhaps, allow Mr Allen to speak for hii. - ■self. He says :—

The Tasmania, a 'nearly new screw steamer of over five thousand tons, left Port Said for Marseilles on the evening of Tuesday, the 12th of April, with about three hundred souls on board. She was well found and Ventilated, the fare excellent, the arrangements of every kind displaying a studious desire on the part of the great company which owned her to secure the comfort and contentment of her passengers. The dinner hour of the following Saturday saw a jovial com pany gathered in the brilliantly-lighted saloon, for we were within twenty-four hours of our voyage's end, our programmes for the journey across tho Continent were in our pockets, and every heart beat high •with glad expectancy. Captain Perrin, having seen the ship safe through the Straits of Bonifacio, had retired to ■his cabin about an hour, leaving the Becond officer (Mr Curtis) in charge. The chief officer (Mr Watkins) was •called for his watch at four a.m., and due on the bridge seven or eight "minutes later. At four minutes after four the sleeping ship was rudely awakened by a sudden crash, whicli made her shiver from stem to stern, and roused every soul of us to terrible consciousness. Tho steady pulse of the screw stopped instantly, making the dead silence of the next few seconds, broken only by the tramp of hurry ing feet on the deck above, more appalling. Another deafening" crash) arid soon three or four crashes in quick Succession, * the sliip staggering with .each concussion.- 'Theuy ' from every cabih,meri, women, arid children rushed in their night-clothqs out of the darkness into the dim. saloon and towards the companion stairs, filling the air with their- piteous cries and agonised inquiries ; whilst the rush jot* water and the roar of voices above increased the horror. There was—there could be—no doubt of what had happened; sp^^here-werei'the ominous command forailthe passengers to dress as quickly as possible and come1 upon deck soon dispelled it. ' Once there, the nature : of the disaster was but too clear to everyone. Day had just broken. From the after bridge, close to the captain's cabin, where a group of ladies and children, and some two or three husbands, were huddled together, half ' dressed, exposed to the bitter north wind, the whole ghastly picture, was before us. The ship ran straight upon a reef; her " bows were settling down upon the bottom, some thirty feet, her keel churning up the sand from below and '■ discolour ing the sea all around us, whilst her stern was impaled high upon a rock. She was lying .over to leeward, so that her windward side opposed a barrier to the •waves, but for which none could have been saved. In our. rear, less than a stone's throw distant, was a substantial beacon of masonry, on the wrong side of which our Course had been taken, over which the waters perpetually broke, sweeping all the fore part of the half-submerged vessel; be yond, the open sea. In front and to our left '- an eager group of men, with the chief officer in command, were.struggling to lower , the two starboard boats, two out of the three which, so early, alone remained of the 'eight there were originally. ■ They had been removed within the davits' from which they were suspended the day previously, ■which greatly increased the difficulty of releasing them, and from the ship listing over had become jammed. .' There was a Crowd of passengers at the gangway ladder, eager to be taken off; some aft, standing by their lifebuoys, othersalready intherigging, in preparation for the worst. Lying oil' the wreck, a hundred yards away, was the gig, ■ with the' doctor (Powell) and carpenter, both of,whom had swum off to it, in charge. The long line of coast, with a lighthouse . t: the point, lay before us, with here and thero, - _i : vm§gO,pestling in the-bills,--a tower, or a patch "of the mid-distance broken by a line of jagged reef. At last got away with some six* "or "eight ladies arid children,' and at la§t-^for it-seemed an eternity, though only an hour or two—the two other boats were i launched;: -, The second 'boat, in charge of the boatswain, .^vas: . Pushed" by the second-class pas sengers, some .thirty.people, all of whom, with; two. honourable exceptions—men, , womem, and children —got away,. the men who had jumped, into the boat in the course of lowering it. refusing the captain's peremptory;prjier, to. tbem to leave it. The third—the lifeboat'—was "in charge of Mr Andrews, anofiicer in the Company's servibe on leave, the .second,' third, arid fourth officers of the ship accompanying hini. She. bore away:.some. : fifty or Sixty ladies--.arid children—all save two of the forriier—Mrs Walker aiid Mi-s Pigott—who'elected to re main with their' husbands. ' Thfe Work oi getting the forlorn 'fugitives loured was one of gzreat difficulty and daiigpar, for the boats rose and fell on the"heajg;. ground. swell a height of from twelve to fifteen feet, arid" Whilst the children were thrown on board their * mothers, ha^ to be lifted in;at the critical moment when the boat was poised on the rising wave. To write of the mute agony of what seemed those last fare wells would .be.prpfanity. Suffice it that the women behaved with the calrii ness and Courage of martyrs."., • We Baw: them safely off with a sense of infinite relief, and for the time our spirits rose almost to. cheerfulness as .we counted the chances that: the wreck would , hold together and rescue come. Yet our plight was pitiable enough. ; It , was how about ten \ a. ria. A small' siip ot whiskey and .a. few fragments of biscuit, more "or less sbddened with salt water, recovered from the passengers' cabins by the stewards, was Our faro. As the day wore "on . the wind strengthened, and"the yaves, breaking over the wreck with in creiasiug, violence,'.not 6nly-,deluged our, scanty clothing and half paralysed us With cold* but obliged us to cling to the bul warks for dear life. : By degrees the capj tain'^cibin And th 6 cdifcJtaftioh Virenty'and

one after another our frail shields from the force of the enemy were carried away. The captain himoelf was among the earliest vic tims. A part of the skylight of the engine room, which had been unshipped, knocked him off his feet and pinned him, at a moment when relief was almost impossible, and the back-wash of the sea carried him away. Most of us then sought refuge at the stern end of the rjoop, in the lee of the smoking saloon, and joined the group which was still in ' comparative safety there. Meantime, the chief officer, almost deserted by his crew, but aided loyally by some of the passengers, the Earl of Buckingham shire, Major Croker, of Lord Dufterins Staff, among them, had contrived to rig up a couple of rafts, each of which might 'have carried fifteen or twenty at once. One of these was washed overboard with a solitary Lascar, who sprang upon it when just ready for launching, and with it the Earl, who, however, managed to save himself by almost a miracle; the other, when already floated, was taken possession of by eight of the Seedee Boys, who calmly cut the rope before our eyes; but they paid dearly for their treachery, as, being unable to steer their craft, they were borne away into the broken waters near the reef, and only one man reached the shore. At about four p.m., the look-out announced that a craft of some sorb was approaching, and, after a. long and weary wait, we made out that it was the new lifeboat., Once again our spirits rose, the precautions necessary to stop the native crew from rushing it, the need of giving prior deliverance to the in jured and invalid of our company—for one, Sir Bradford Leslie, had been crippled by a fall-were eagerly discussed. But, alas 1 the boat, evidently undermanned, was making little or no way, and by dusk she went about and made once more for land. So much we could conjecture, that her living freight was safe ; but what of the remaining boats ? What could we con clude from their also making no sign ? As we learned eventually, however, their pas sengers had all reached the shore safely, at distances varying from five to thirteen miles, and it may suffice to add hero that whatever the simple peasants of the rude coast could do to lighten tho sufferings of the shipwrecked people was done with such self-denying thoroughness and generous sympathy as entitles them to the gratitude of every Englishman. The officials at the little town of Sartene and Propriana, through .whose agency and that of the Britisli Consul at Ajaccio, the sufferers were able to rejoin their husbands and friends, vied with their humbler neighbours in the performances of these ennobling offices. As dusk began to set in the wind still in creased, and we were evidently in for a bad night. By night, beyond two or three of our number who remained outside from first to last, and some of the crew who still either cliing to the rigging, or perforce sought precarious shelter on tho deck, wo had all squeezed into the smoking saloon— a low room, strongly built of steel, about sixteen feet by fourteen, and nine feet high, with a pent-roof of thick glass, and barred windows with Venetian shutters all round. No words of mino could quite picture to an other the horrors of that terrible night. There were seventy or eighty human beings —passengers and stewards, and sailors black and white—huddled into that cage, the sea breaking with stupendous force upon it, dashing through and over the roof and windows, drenching its occupants, swamping tho floor. As each succeeding wave struck it the wreck shuddered and shook, the metal keel grated on tho bottom with a scrooping sound; the receding wave left us with a swirl and a roar, and we held our breath in suspense whilst for an instant it seemed as though the weight of the blow had dislodged us from the rock on which we were mercifully pinned.. Then there was tho pitiful cry of the Lascar or Seedee Boy, who would force himself desperately into the doorway, pnly to add to the number of helpless and par alysed of his kind already cumbering the ground, and who was, in mercy to the rest, ejected, only to die of exposure ih the open ; the frequent warning to be care ful of our one poor lamp; tho weary in quiry as to the hour of a man who had a watch ; the false alarms from with out and within of people whose fevered fancies conjured up a rocket or a light. Worst of all, perhaps, our own reflections, for we were face to face with death. All this till about 11 p.m., when the wind changed and slackened, the sea gradually fell, and we felt relieved of the certaintj that but for this, in a few hours at the most, the end must have come. With the first glimpse of daylight the look-out reported a sail on the horizon, and in the right quarter, but, al ready the prey of several false alarms, we refused for an instant to be beguiled. A- -quarter of an hour . later and all doubt was removed. It was not only a sail but a steamer, and making for us in a bee-line. What our feelings were only wrecked men can realise. We were saved. In less than an hour a trim littlo yacht, the Norseman, belonging to Mr Piatt, of Old ham, was at anchor a few boats' lengths from what remained of the Tasmania, and within another hour or so she had sailed with us for Ajaccio, from which port she had started for our rescue at one a.m., and we bid adieu to our gallant saviours with a feeling of gratitude that can never be effaced.

There are legally - appointed tribunals which will lose no time in making a com petent inquiry into the cause of the above terrible calamity, and I will not presume even to .hint at the due apportionment of blame. But that a ship should be lost in fair weather, on a moonlight night, on a welLlighted coast—that, this is a matter requiring searching investigation is evident. It may be trusted, also, that the Court will pronounce Some opinion on the question both of age and the test of fitness for com mand in the persons of the captains Of these large passenger ships, upon whom such an enormous respon sibility in respect of human life devolves. W6 all liked and respected Captain Perrin, a kind and courteous gentleman, full of solicitude for the comfort of his passengers ; but he had been more than twenty years in many trying latitudes, was obviously in bad health, ancTwhen the blow fell was utterly dazed and almost helpless, and quite in capable of taking his proper place. The Company must pay men more and retire them in their prime. But if poor Captain Perriri was physically unfit to face a gre. t' disaster, what shall I say of the CreW? lit was almost a Lascar crew.- , About such crews in general I offer no opinion { but about the utter arid lamentable collapse of this particular one there is absolutely no •doubt. When the ship struck a number of these men rushed to the two port boats on the poop, and let them down iri a panic, with the ports open, only tp capsize. From that moment the native creW b.came im pervious alike to order, remonstrance, or threat. They were so many logs and worse. Again, several of the stewards began looting those cabins which were accessible at an early date, and it will be necessary to in quire why, if No. 2 boat could be* trusted in charge of orio petty officer, it required that a special officer should take commahd ot the lifeboat, With the second, third, arid fourth officer to help him. Had these no possible duties still on bbard ? I say With regret, but with the utmost deliberation, that there was something seriously at fault in the discipline of the ship's company. It was a fair-weather organisation, but the. moment a strain was pub on it, it broke «P-. ----- ?•;'.'« A ■May I crave a few lines more of your sg^nce to publish the names of those of the ship's officers who by general consent did well. Mr Watkins, the chief officer, behaved noblyi the passengers presenting him with a purse and a handsome written testimonial before they parted ; Mr Leslie, thee Hief engineer; Mr.Baigent, the chief steward j Mr Salter ©nb of the. cabin

stewards; the storekeeper; and Mrs Arnold, one of the stewardesses, deserve our warm thanks. Among the second-class pas sengers, Messrs Stoimont and Guffiin, who refused to save their skins at the price of their manliness, earn honourable mention. Of the passengers, Major Cooper, brave, cheerful, full of resource under difficulties, did admirably. Indeed, I may say, on the authority of .the chief officer, who had every opportunity of judging, that the coolness and discipline shown by the large body ot passengers was extraordinary ; in only one instance did I see the white feather, and that not in the case of an Englishman. _ The total loss of life was thirty-four, in cluding the captain, fifth officer (drowned whilst lowering the boats), and Quarter master Hall, washed from the rigging. The deaths were almost wholly among the See dee Boys and Lascars, from cold and ex posure.

CORRESPONDENCE.

Poultry Show.

(To the Editor.)

g rR) _With your kind permission I would respectfully suggest that the Committee of our Poultry Association offer some induce ment, at the forthcoming show in the shape of an extra prize or award of some kind, for competition of incubators, as is the case in some poultry shows in'the old country. The rapidly - growing practice of artificial incubation among£t*,,-,poultry farmers there has developed aTai-ge^ demand for reliable incubators, and if ib pays to farm poultry in England, how much more in a climate like North New Zealand with the help of these useful little machines? I think our worthy secretary would have no difficulty in getting half-a dozen competitors to enter for this class, as we have three local manufacturers, and at least two English machines and one American, in of near Auckland. Of course, the two main points to be decided by the judges would bo reliability and relative cost. Let all machines be working, and I think that it would be an attraction as well as a novelty to some, and would materially add to the funds pf tho Association. — Yours, etc., . „ „ J. F. Roberts. Parnoll,

"Cheap" Mattresses.

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—ln reporting a caso under the above heading you have done the public and the respectable part of the furniture trade good service, by placing the matter in the proper light, and by giving the purchasers of spring mattresses so correct information regarding the value of a fairly good article, for which you deserve, and I believe you will receive, many thanks. But I notice that your morning contemporary, in publishing an account of the same mattor, goes out of its way to say that this mattress was of " colo nial manufacture " ! and leaving it open to inference by theuninfor mcd that this particu laroneis a fair specimen of colonial manufac ture, while they say not a word to those who go to auctions expecting to get articles worth 50s for 15s. Now, sir, one of the ob jects I have in writing this is to open the eyes of some of those who buy " cheap " im ported suites at auction, as to what they are sometimes liable to. Some time back a suite was bought, at an extravagant price for such muck, at one of our most respect able auction rooms, and after being in the house a short time, it stank so much that it had to be ripped up, and lo ! several kinds of refuse composed tho stuffing. I venture to jtbiHk. sir, that tyou and many of your readers will agree that the imported articles should bo exposed.equally with the said colonial-made matttess.v One word on be-' half of the poor makers should surely bo said, and the fact pointed out thab both these articles were " flung together " at starvation prices, and specially made for auction.—Yours truly,

(To the Editor.)

Sir,—You are deserving of the thanks of all right-thinking people for your manly exposure of the spring mattres3 revelation aB shown in your columns of the llth inst., and, sir, not only in that particular class of goods, but in other branches of the trade are these practices deserving of exposure. These things are not only found in the auction rooms, but in many of the respect able shops in our midst, the general excuse being, . We must compete with the auctions," a very weak excuse in deed. Bub let us look at the question more closely. In your Satur day's revelation you state that a fair value for a spring mattress is L 2 to L 2 10s. I grant that to be a fair value, but nob for a good one. But, taking this as a sample value, what can the discerning public expect to get for 15s (auction price), or 25s at a respectable shop ? No, sir; I say that the public are sadly to blame for this sort of trade—they, in their superior wisdom, expecting to gen first-class articles ab less than cost price, caring nob one job whether their fellowrman lives well or not, or pays his creditors for his materials. Another wrong attached to this ques tion is that our boys are taken into these places to be taught a trade (some paying a premium)—a sober and honest, trade which every boy should have. And do they learn such? In many cases I emphatically say no. A few, when they see what and how it's done, leave in disgust, and many others who faithfully serve bheir term are turned out scarcely able to do a good piece of work, and all because the master must compete with an auotion room, or undersell a brother trying for an honesb living. uAndi sir, who is it, also that un fairly bears the burden of these low prices ? decide*dly the* workmen. The riiaster l-eaps his 25 per cent, or 40 per cent, all the same, but the poor workman is expected to reduce his price or go. For instance, in my own time as a journeyman, a man had 15s piecej price for upholstering a best spring mattress, which with faithful work and good material occupied 10 to 12 hours' time. But now, in many places, a man is expected to do the,same for Bs.to 10's, and commoner ones at half price. We -arelconbiriually crying out againsb imported rubbish -.(fcrulyj it,is)— but let us also 4s man to man make and give honest work, and. let, the public demand such and pay the tradesmari a fair price'for his article, •just as they expect to get a fair day's wage for their daily toil—then the state of com mercial morality will improve— "Then, man and master each will live, The public get as they shall give, , And all be honest men. —Yours, etc., Duty,

THE IUCKLAND EVENING STAH. TUESDAY, JUNE^ajIBB7.

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Educational. MR J. H. SWALES, Certificated Pupil of Professor Swallow. p^'sMusio Warehouse. Lessons in Pianoforte-playing and Violin-playing. ' ~~~ [A CARD.] MR. J. X E L L V, TEACHER OF DANCING. JUVENILE AND ADULT CLASSES. Ponsonby oppositeJVanjd^jta^ MR F. B. WOODHAM, Teacher of tiie ,_.„„,, PIANOFORTE AND HARMONIUM. Address: Care of Mr A. Eady, Auckland Music Warehouse, Queen-street. Architects. P. HERAPATH, F.H.1.8.A.] [S. M. HERAPATH P HERAPATH and SON, • ARCHITECTS, Colonial Bank Buildings- Tm D W ARD BARTLEY, ARCHITECT, STICHBURY'S BUILDINGS, QUEEN-STREET. Insurance GOVERNMENT LIFE INSURANCE "department. Loans Repayable by Inutalmenta THIS Department is prepared to make ad vances on Mortgage, not exceeding one hall of tho value ol the property mortgaged, in sums of Money from £100 to £3,000, repay able by half-yearly instalments extending lor each £100. Period of Loan— | <_• d. Twelve years >•• ... 6 i.7 Fifteen yeara _ ,_ 2 Twenty years _ ,«. °. , Loanß of this nature, repayabla by instal ments whereby principal and interest are both liquidated within a given time, and on terms of a most favourable character, present marked advantages to settlers and others. The borrower, any timo before the expiry of the full period (but not aotnor than four years after the commencement of the loan), may redeem the same, with or without notice, on terms which can be ascertained at this office, or at any of the offices of this Depart ment, where also forma of application can be obtained. Mr _„.„„. D. M. LUOKIE, Commissioner February 21st, 1878. Business Notices. pUH SI G NS! GUNS! Rifles Rifles REVOLVERS REVOLVERS GUNPOWDER! Shot, Caps, Cartridges, Wadding, Wire Cartridges, Loading Apparatus, AMMUNITION Of Every Description, Fishing Tackle, Cutlery, Fireworks, &c. The best and cheapest House in Auckland for the above is at f>. EVITT'S, 254, Queen-street. Repairs and every description of Gunworkdone ttho'lowest possiblo prices, and satisfaction guaranteed. D. EVITT, GUNMAKER, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND (Opposite tho Market House). PRICE LISTS SENT TO ANY ADDRESS. np PEACOCK, -**•*- • OPTICIAN, MATHEMATICAL AND NAUTICAL NSTRUMENT MAKER, Shortland-street. ALWAYS IN STOCK- Speotaoles and Eye-glasses of every kind; an acourato fit guaranteed Opera Glasses or superior quality Telescopes, Binocular Field Glasses, nd Micro scopes; powerful and cheap Theodolites, Mining Compasses, Abney Levels Drainage Levels, Prismatic Compasses Drawing Instruments, Scales, Parallelßulera Ships' Logs, Soxtants, Compasses, Binnacles Barometers, Thermometers, Hydrometers Electric Bells, Batteries, and Fittings Magnetic and Galvanio Medical Machines Magic Lanterns and Slides, Hand Magnifiers Stereoscopes and Slides, Graphoscopes Steam Guagos and Tubing, Salinometers JUST RECEIVED- Settters' Telescopes—powerful, portable, and < cheap, lis Settlers' Aneroid Barometers—strong and good 25s 6d Settlers' Miscroscopes, magnifying 1,750 times, 22s Gd Also, Steam and Electro Motor Working Models . and Steamers. instruments of kvery kind repaired. i OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE. KARANGAHAPE ROAD (Opposite Foresters' Hall). TEMPERANCE DINING-ROOMS. Mealsatall hours, 9d. Special facilities for Grilling Chops and Steaks promptly at any time. Dinners, 12 to 2. Separate room for ladies. Tea (fresh made for eaoh customer), 2d a cup. A really good cup of Coffee ahvayß ready, 2d cup. GLAZING! GLAZING! GLAZING! Every description of Glazing. The Cheapest in Auckland. A. H. MORRIS, DIRECT IMPORTER OF GLASS. Karangahai'e Road. Sashes sent for and delivered free. TT R 0 U N D L I M E. GROUND LIME FOR SALE: S O U T HG A T E'S MAHURANGI HYDRAULIC GROUND ROCHE LIME, In any quantity, for Concrete Paths, Floor, Cellars, &c, (next to stone flagging is un rivalled for durability and hard-setting qualities). For tanks,and other wet work it is a first-class material. B. KEA NE, SOL E AGENT CUSTOMS-STREET. DWA R D BRADFORD Having taken the PROVINCIAL HOTEL, Shor tl _rid-street, will be glad to see old friends, and hopes, by strict attention to give satis faction to all. GOOD ACCOMMODATION FOR BOARDERS WINES AND SPIRITS OF THE BEST' BRANDS.



Business Notices: Q N S A L c; HARRICOT BEANS BLUE BOILING PEAS VICTORIAN ONIONS OAMARU POTATOES ADAM LAYBOURN AND CO., Durham-3treet.. WARNOCK BROTHERS, [Established 18621 „,,,„„,,, SOAP AND CANDLE MANUFACTURERS, COX'S CREEK, AUCKLAND. Manufacturers of the Celebrated Extract of Soap, Disinfectant Powder, First Prize Yellow Blue Mottled, Double Crown, Economic, and Household, Carbolic, and other Medicinal and Toilet Soaps, made from the purest of Tallows, &c. . Offlces-DURHAM-STREET, Auckland. N.B. — Cash Purchasers jot Tallow, Wool, Sheepskins, and Bones. _>_ TT "O N E V! Finest Pale Bright Extracted Honey in bulk at Id per lb, cash over the counter. FREDK. WHITEHEAD, 95, VICTORIA-STREET, Auckland. JC. PELHAM, Ladder, Step, and 0 Barrow Maker, Carpenter, Joiner, and Shop and Offlce Fitter, Albert-street, near the Firebell. Every description of Ladders, Steps, Barrows, Clothes Boxes, Travelling Chests, and Clothes Horses, in Stock. _~_.,. ~ Baltic Pine Poles, from 22 to o5 feet long, suit able for Boat Spars ana Flag Poles, on sale. N.8.-Ladders, Steps. Burrows, Screw Jacks, and Floor Cramps on Hire. TARANAKI BUTTER. REGULAR SUPPLIES COMING FOR WARP WEEKLY. APPI7 JOHN BUCHANAN. F"~ COSTER c (LATE OF QUEEN-STREET), . TOBACCONIST, &c, KARANGAHAPE ROAD (next Garrett, Butcher). Finest Brands of Cigars, Tobaccos and Cigarettes, Sundries, etc. CUT TOBACCOS A SPECIALTY. Every description of Pipes Mounted and Repaired to order. \ USE \ QLOSE BROS; \IP \ BLEND OF % Ypttre _ n\ TE AS AND / \ ft / PER LB. \(|ili Pronounced the best.value\ in Auckland. \ HOLROYD AND LONGBOTTOM, GENERAL WOOD TURNERS. Albert-street, Auckland, opposite V.M.C.A. Rooms. Bandsaw Cuttings, Carvings, Architraves, and Fretwork done at Lowest Rates. . Table, Chair, and Sofa Legs, Bed Posts, Drawer Stumps, etc., always in stock. . BILLIARD BALLS RE-TURNED AND STAINED. A Trial is Respectfully Solicited. [a card.] X^T E. THOMAS (Twenty-four years with H. M. Customs), CUSTOMS, SHIPPING, AND GENERAL COMMISSION AGENT, BROKER, ACCOUNTANT, and PUBLIC AUDITOR. Offices: Firth's Buildings, 75, Queen-street, Auckland. "VT O T I C E O F R E M O VA L E. LANGLEY, BUTCHER, Begs to intimate to tbe publio that lie has re moved to new and commodious Brick Premises, Hobson-street, and begs to tender thanks for past favours, and hopes, by strict attention to business, combined with good quality and moderate prices, to merit a continuance of the same. ED WI i_ JONES (Late E. and A. Jones), House, Furnishing, and General IRONMONGER, Ponsonby Road and Pompallier Terrace, Auckland, N.Z. Agent for the Phoenix Fire Office. Advertisement Agent for Auckland Evening Star. • Post Offlco Savings Bank, Monoy Order Offlce. Telograph Station, Telephone Buaeau. RICHMOND HOUSE, PONSONBY ROAD, AUCKLAND. W. COCHRAN, Senk., FAMILY BUTCHER. MISS SMITH, CORSET & BANDAGE MAKER, Has always on hand a Good Supply of Stay Material. STAYS MADE TO ANY PATTERN. Riding Stays, Stays for Invalids, Bandages, and Shoulder Braces on the Most Approved Principles. STAYS CLEANED AND REPAIRED. Ladies waited on by sending address to ESKBANK COTTAGE, GUNDRY STREET, NEWTON, by New Epiphany Church. JUBILEE ILLUMINATIONS MADE BY _. F 0 R S T E R, (Late Branston and Forster), , Albert-street, and Mills Lane, Telephone 118, COPPERSMITH, PLUMBER, BRASS FOUNDER, GASFITTER, AND HYDRAULIC ENGINEER. Etimates Given for all Branches of the Trade. Steam and Vaccuum Gauges Tested and ■ Adjusted. BRASS CAST DAILY AT LOWEST RATES. No Charge Made for Use of Patterns on hand. F. F. being personally a Practical Tradesman can Guarantee Good Workmanship. HACKS. SACKS. SACKS. We are Buyers of Good Seoond-hand Grain Sack ... STONE BROS.



JKuisiaess nonces' GO TO BATH to ROTH'S PUBLIC HOT. COLD, AND SHOWER BATHS, VICTORIA-STREET EAST. Charge—ONE SHILLING. Open all week days from 6 a.m. to 9 p.m., and SUNDAY MORNINGS from 6 till 10 a.m. The bath rooms are all private, and supplied with every convenience, Turkish towels, flesh and hair brushes, combs, respirators, soaps, &c. Select Bath-rooms (private) for ladies every day, at all hours, withfemale attendance, one Shilling and Sixpence. Please note the Address—Victoria street East, above the Greyhound Hotel, and next the Cheap Bedding and Furniture Mart, Auckland. N.B.—Barber in attendance. CIOALS, GOKE, CHARCOAL, FIRE- I WOOD. Best Rata, Titree. and Puriri Firewood ; also, first-class Taupiri, Newcastle, and Kamo Coal, at Lowest Price for Cash. Furniture carefully Removed, and Goods delivered to all parts of the city and suburbs, at Loweat Rates.—Note the Address : C. PIPER, opposite the Pqusonby Reservoir, and corner of Newton and Karanga hape Roads. jTjTswinnerton, WOOD TURNER, Wyndham-street. Established 1866. . A reduction of 25 per cent, on all common work. Billiard Balls Exchanged. Special care given to Re-turning and Staining. Pool Pins, Marbles, and Chalk Pockets, always on hand. pAPEE HANG INGS. W. PHILLIPPS & SON HAVE RECEIVED, EX LATE ARRIVALS, ISS-PACKAGES-185 CONTAINING 55,000 ROLLS OF PAPERHANGINGS, CONSISTING OP NEW PATTERNS For Drawing, Dining, Bed- Rooms, Hall and Staircase, suitable for the Mansion or Cottage. BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS, AND BEST VALUE EVER OFFERED IN PAPERHANGINGS. 916 —PACKAGES—9I6 SCRIMS ANDHES SI A N S PLATE AND SHEET GLASS, WHITE LEAD, OILS, TURPS, VARNISHES, AND ALL TRADE SUNDRIES. W. PHILLIPPS & SON, 95 and 97, Queen-street. J. BUTCHER.] • [J. GROOM. TVTB HAVE FOR SALE:— Rod and Bar Iron, Wire Nails, Fencing Barb Wire, Roofing Iron, Sash Weights, Buckets Tubs, Springs, and Patent Axles, Coarse and Fine Salt. GROOM, BUTCHER, & CO., FORT-STREET. Telephone 211.] p.0.b., 284] [high-street A R T H U R TUT A S V, MANUFACTURERS' AGENT AND WHOLESALE GLASS MERCHANT. ORDERS INDENTED. GOODS IMPORTED DHtECT. QUALITY GUARANTEED. FOR SALE, ' Plain Enamelled, and Coloured Window Glass. Wire Nails Portland Cement Royal Remy Starch Havanna and Manilla Cigars Claret and Brandies OR CHEAP GROCERIES go to T. H. Matthews, People's Co-operative Store, Patterson-street, Freeman's Bay—2lb Butter in Jar, 8d; New Season Jams^assorted, odTin; Peacock's, 5s Id doz; Large Vineear, 9d; Corn flour, 5d lb; 1001b Bags Four, 10s; 251b Bags, 3s; 81b Bags, Is; New Currants, 6d; New Raisins, 6d; Rice, olbs Is; Matamata Cheese, 4d by the cheese; Oamaru Potatoes, is; Local, 2s 9d cwt or 5s sack; Sperm Candles, 21bs 9Jd or 4J by box: Star Mullet, 2 tin** lid; Tomato Sauce, 6d bottle ; Wax Vestas, 5d doz; Good Tea, ls6d; Washing Soda, Id per lb; Whitening, Id; Car bonate Soda, 3d a lb; Best Wax Candles, 9|d; Lemon Peel, Is per lb ; Nestles Milk, 7sd ; Figs, ,8d box ; Golden Syrup, 7d; Canterbury Honey, id a lb; Cocktail Salmon, 9id: Tobacco, as Signe?, 5s 3d, Gem of the Sea, ss, Oneida, 5s a lb. The above prices referred to are for cash. Prime dairies of butter and eggs always to hand, at lowest prices. Orders promptly at tended to, and den vered to any part of city or suburbs, at shortest notice. Give us a trial. INVIGORATE the system with Wolfe's Schnapps if you would avoid bilious attacks. BY APPOINT- MENT TO HIS EXCELLENCY THE GOVERNOR. THAMES CARRIAGE AND DRAY FACTORY, VICTORIA-STREET EAST AND HIGH-STREET. AUCKLAND. Telephone, 308. JAMES MACKIE, Coachbuilder, MANAGER. Builder of every description of Vehicles. Repairs in alllthe branches of the trade faithfully executed. Vehicles Bought and Sold on Commission. Coachbuilders'Requisites in Stock., The Trade Supplied. Country Orders punctually attended to. Cash Customers liberally dealt with. •T^ILLIAM ERRING TON, M. Inst. C.E., M. Inst. M.E., CONSULTING ENGINEER, ;, AUCKLAND STEAM LAUNDRY COMPANY, UPPER PITT-STREET, NEWTON.. Messrs Grubb & Sons beg to inform the public that they have taken over tbe Laundry them selves, and by having the clothes well done on the shortest notice, it being the only steam laun dry in Auckland, .hope to merit a share of their patronage. Ships' washing done on the shortest notice. Communication by telegram or post promptly attended to.-GRUBB & SONS, Pro prietors. TO TRAVELLERS AND TOURISTS. PRESENTS FOR HOME. Very beautiful Inlaid Table-tops, Cabinets, Fancy Boxes, etc., all made from the pick of N.Z. rich Native Timbers. Other Collections carefully packed and shipped for Home. W. NORRIE, Cabinet-worker, In New Zealand Timbers only, _r TOP OF SHORTLAND-STREET. " // JL he .American CORN BROOM CO. EXMOUTH STREET. W. L'" 'T * BOOKBINDER, PAPER RULER, ACCOUNT BOOK MANUFACTURER, . Wyndham-street. MERCHANTS" ACCOUNT BOOKS, Insurance and Mining Register Books Specially - . Ruled and Bound; Musio, Magazines, Public Libraries, and Sunday School Books Well Bound. BAKERS' SPECIAL RULED DAY BOOKS. Bibles, Prayer and Hymn Books Re-bound. . BAND AND CHOIR MUSIC BOOKS : RULED. . ,"*^ THE Biggest Literary Shilling's Worth in Australasia-Brett s Aucklana Almanao, Illustrated* .



■':- '■■"■' Mopfty.^ "V a term of yeare.-T n XO^ at the enS^ M ONEFToI^%?~r^ IVJL current rates" oa . Money ■£ BYeeMdSecnri^ ion-^fc.cl4 WM. READ BLOOMFTOt,: - .iO^VletoriaAread^ " MONEYToISSsP~^~^ H/TONEY TO LENlvT^Tr^ Nation allSSei^ au Seen C S °& c- DISCOUNT BANKING COMPANY Darby-street (off Queen-street), Ac^ HEAD OFFICE:; Brine' Agencies Ancklan^Sydneyv^dM^ MONEY advanced from £5 and m, fffln , . any amount required, to suit the boniZ- & PERSONAL, FREEHOLD *__*&s&**■ any TANGIBLE SECURITY, repaS'M way as may be arranged, either- ■Ym__ MONTHLY, or QUARTERLY-inst^* lowest current rates. - - -'; ■. , _^ eil«. at ADVANCES made on FURNiru HE »«"iv removal; also, onaUkindsof MERCHaS? including BOND WARRANT :&o^_ BILLS DISCOUNTED at currentrates. Interviews and communications willhn _m strictly confidential. ,y , y .« "^ Office Hours : From 10 tiU 5 o'clock; Bank of England Notes Chanokti LONDON MORTGAGE, !&% DISCOUNT BANK * - ' - D 50, SHORTLAND - STREET, AUCELANh (Opposite A. Clark and Sons' Warehouse) And Little Collins-st.; Melbourne. LOANS are advanced from £10 to £5 m Upon ';,;,1^ Personal, Freehold, and Leasehold Secnrih, Repayable by * .f^' Weekly, Monthly, or Quarterly lifitai^k At Lowest Current Rates.- ™^^ Advances made on Furniture Without remnvnl and all classes of Merchandise. "' Loans granted upon Life Policief, Eegacies.»_i'fi : Interests under Wills., 6™a,aM Bills Discounted at Current Rates. Loans upon Deposit of Deeds. Repayment br Easy Instalments. - * *. Terms Gratis. All communications and iatay views held strictly confidential. ?p - MONEY LENT ON . PRGSnSSOR? NOTES, HOUSES, FURNITURE, &o, BILLS DISCOUNTED DAILY. MORTGAGES NBG 0 TIXTEDT JOHN W. HARDIE, Land, Commission, and Estate Asm. , HIGH-STREET, Auckland. A R THU R . /.OHEi', LAND AND MONETARY AGENT, 24, SHORTLAND - STREEJ (Three doors past Stlr Office).: I am prepared to value land-ia. A-nekta-iK the Country for intending "purchasers at most reasonable terms. All land sold byineik Aunt land I charge 2J per cent commission. I am prepared to negotiate Mortgages in! sums from £25 to £15,000 , Having at command a large sum of money lean make advances on Life Policies, Having Agents in all parts of Australia aiiiiia England, I can make Advances upon Wilis in sums from £50 to £15,000. >p INDUSTRIAL AND PROVIDENI! PERMANENT BUILDING, LAND AND INVESTMENT SOCIETY OF AUCKLAND SCALE OF REPAYMENT^REDUCED. J^ ~ T . , „ „ T 1 Totai.AmonnJ Repayments extend- Per Week payable lot - ing over -: for £100... * °f> £iqq.;_^ £s. d.~ - & B- d. lyear - . 20 O -.■;%{-! I years" _ 014 7 .[ '-Ml. ;. 6 years-. .. 010 0 9 7 years „• . 0 711 . \M\ 10 years . *.. .. 0 6 3.- 16216_. And other Periods to suit Borrowers. _' The Board has power in caseslo!grtn&g Want of Employment to -SUSPEND-, WV MENTS. '-, y y.y-'yyyy: BORROWERS SHARE IN PROFITJ. „ . PART OR WHOLE OF m THE^ADVAOTE MAY BE REPAID .AT' INTEREST CEASES ON THE PORTIM .repaid. ~ _ ;;;.;';' A member who has obtainedap adyaace^' liberty to sell his property at any time,;an?. pay ofthis mortgage ; or may, if mW& Z £i_l property subjlct to the mortgage pt?™ Society; , y'Jy'y'-yy..^ Corner of QUEEN STREET and VULCAN LANE, AUCKLAND. ': -:V ■ JOHN BANCROFT, -.■•A UCKLAND -PBRMAMTENWg A OPERATIVE BUILDIN&^INW f MENT SOCIETY. 7 tyy?). Office: i_^QufiKNi, rBBBT. ' LOANS grafted upcm _^£^Si Freehold or Leaseho d Pwpertie3 m £20 to £6,000, principal and «W ablein instalments at the f°u„ o,^^ed:- Rates for repayment of each jfiiOO-bonoww ._.-— —_ -.■-■- 3 — r—■ rSai Am"1111' RePXg eover X grWeek. Jlepaya^ , lyear - _ f0 0 1« g| I years.., ,~ 1-0^ . 113 i 3 years- .. OH 7 ■ J 2r « 8 ,4 years _ _ \Vi,\ 1. 18 » . 6 years.. ,_■__ fill ■■ H713.» 8 years. " ° n I 3 ;'M^L 10 years «. -... ■» -° 3 —— -* And in the same proportion for smallO or larger loans. ■•_yy_^ m DEP6SfS.^e^^^|||& deposit -.-For 6 months. 5 pwee^, at 7 days' notice, * per o^JUff |3&»B_fc ■ - JU- UXN • secretMT' ~T O 7v ALAND MORTGAGE,I-O^ ;^EW ZEALAND m^^^ j_% A High-stoem 0 -.- e r . (NexttoAtkin^PrmtmiOfflc^ GRANTS LOANS, *& _ U*V . PERSON^MffisEOIIBI^ FREEHOLD AND L^fEHO^^, ; tt a°rLE SEOUB.I" 1 ANY AVAI BL4M#NSTAL»S Wnr?n^.w Ma_to TffiVeßorro,e, * :.-- 6^'! BUJsDißCOunteda^^tßatc, j ThlsßankwiUrec^eD^at^ , 6 months * - " :..6^ rc I T A iJ, I