BIRTHS.COOPER..

—On the 2nd December, at Jackson-

street, Petone, the. wife cf W. SaundersonCoopes, of aBin.

ATKINSON.— On tho 6th December, at Der-went-street, Island Bay, the wife of LeonardAtkinson, of a son; bath well.

MARRIAGES.ORR— USWNS.— On the 3rd September, at

Johannesburg, by the Rer.Dr. Ros«, ThomasHarry,eldest son of Thomas Orr, Wellington,to MiMred Juli», daughter of the- late Carle-tonL«-m», Hastings, England.

COOPER— BANKS.— On the 17th October, atSt. Paul's Pro-Cathedral,by the R*v. T. H.Sprott, Bertrand Cooper, fourth son of thelate James Cooper, of Hawkea Bay, to Ade-line, third daughter of the late W. DunbarBanks, of Hokitita.

DRUUT— WAIiEFIELD.— On tho 14th Novem-ber, at St. Augustine's Church, Petonf, byRev. J. D. Rnesell, Arthur, third 6on ofMr. Drury, Belftet, to Agnes Milne, seconddaughter of R. M. Wakefield, Petone.

DEATHS.COOPEB.— On the 18th October, 1906. «t Pul-

tency-street, Bath, England, Emily Gr«ce(Lady) Cooper, widow of Sir Charles Cooper,lor many years Chief Justice of Adelaide,South Australia, eldest daughter of CharlesBurton >'eweuhnra, formerly High Sheriff oftho Supreme Court, Adelaide, and devotedJiiee* <& the- late Commander W. T. Kewea-ham, 8.5., of "Burtcn House," Lymo Regis,Dorset.SHEW.— On the BthDecember, at Kapier, Eliia-beth, beloved wite of Ralph Thew, anddaughter of Mrs. Clias. Smney, Adelaide-road, Wellington. l»rivafo interment.

The Evening Post.

WELLINGTON. NEW ZEALAND. SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1906.No. 13VOL. LXXII. 16 PAGES. ONE PEjN'NY.LACE GOODS 1

A'

LARGE Shipment has just arrived-C3-. from London, and may now be seen

da our Laco Dopartment.LACE COLLARETTESLACE FICHUSLACE TIES.

iA Special Lino of Imitation MALTESE- LACE TIES (indistinguishable fromthe realMaltese),2s 6d,3s lidto 8a 6d

LACE SCARVES, in great variety, Is,2s6d, 4s 6d to 18s 6d

0. SMITH,THE CASH DRAPER, CUBA-STREET.

IT CONCERNS YOU ALL.

WANTED— Everybody to Know thatwo aro making thobest Tailor-mado

Suits to Measure, hand-made throughout,10a cheaper than any other tailor in thocity. Select and extensive range of sea-sonable materials to chooso from. Theonly house you can buy Puro Linon Un-starched White Shirts, 2s 6d.

W. AND T. MESTON,Tailors and Mercers, 21b, Ingestro-street,

threo doors from Cuba-street.ANTED to Buy, second-hand Gig

andDogcart;must be cheap. Ad-dress Eureka, Evening Post.WANTED, a respectable Girl as'light

general; easy place. Apply to-niglit,_or Monday, 55a, Owen-street. t

W'~ ANTED~to~Purcha£e, Goodwill ofGirls' School. Apply Froebel]

Evoning Post.'

WANTED, Section, near city, sunny;Northland preferred. Area, price,petition Watkins, Evening Post.

WANTED lo Let, a nice Room, withopen fireplace, partly furnished, at

Lower Hutt; lovely situation, near sta-tion, suitable for lady engaged duringday.Apply Room, Evening Post.

WANTED to Sell, two splendid Sec-tions, JohnEonville, 66 x 161;£112each; a bargain; gentleman just leavingfor England causa selling. Apply G. Bed--ford, Hotel Cecil Buildings.

WANTED^"arTlmprovet for blacksmith,business. Apply Evening Post.ANTED, during holidays, to Ex-change good Homo in country for

furnished Houso in town. Apply Hoii-days, Pahiatua.

W" ANTED, a.good Genoral. Apply,evenings, Mrs. Wilson, Watson-st.

AKTED, capablo Girl to assist withhousework r.nd children;no cook-

ing or washing. Apply No. 2, Hobson-crescont.

ANTED to Sell, four largo well-madeMotor Car Cases. Scott Motor Co.,

Cuba-street Extension.LASTED, Jobbing Work of all do-

Ecriptions by two Carpenters. Ad-dtcss E.T.8., Evening Post.WANTED, ChceEemakerft;no previous

experienco required;wages £2 perweek; half-day holiday. Apply AwatunaCo.-op. Dairy Factory, viaEltham, Tara-naki.WANTED, at once, a good Girl to as-sist, wagC3 15s a week; also aNursfery Housemaid, wages 12s a) week.Apply for address at Evening Post.

ANTED Knowu.— The prico of thocelebrated Rover Cyclo has been re-

duced to £10 lCs at Inglis Bros,.' Decembersurprise sale.■^STANTED, a socond-hand 3ft Range,'.» v- ,-Ot portoblq;&iMstJ)o.i» good orderand'reaeoimbl ;■ lUinge, Evoniug Post.WANTED, a younjg Man to work ingarden, mako himself generally use-ful, must bo able; to milk 3 cowa;wages15s por week and found. W. Wiuc, Para-paraumu, W.M. Railway.

ANTED, a Girl to assist;Bleep athome. Apply No. 1,Murphy-street,

Thorndon.WANTED, first-class Plumber; , con-,

stant employment;'good 'wages.

Apply Builder, Evening Post.., .WANTED, two youngr men Boarders,

willingto sliaro Room;telephone,conlral, terms 18s week. Address EveningPost.WANTED, a Boy to learn French;

Polishing. Apply Thompson andHolland, Brooklyn.

WANTED, competent Governess, forcountry. Apply, stating ago and

salary requirod, to Mrs. Hull, care ofBush Grove, Mastorton. '

WANTED, strong Ladß for boilershop.Apply Luke and Co., "Viotoria-st.

WANTED, a competent General Ser-vant. Apply to Mrs. T. Ballinger,

35, Boulcott-strect.WANTED~Known, that Sam Koo has

bought out Wong Loo's Laundry,Keut-torraco, and all work guarantoed inAl style^ ■

WANTED, at onco, an experiencedLady Bookkoeper and Typist. Ap-

ply, sharp, for address EveningPost.ANTED, a good Goner&l Servant;

good homo. Apply Evening Post.WANTED,,by lady, Lady-Partner with

£50 to £100 to opon seloct Board-inghotiio in popular seasido town. Select,Evening Post.

ANTED, first-class hotol PastryCook: wage* £2 por weok. Apply

toy lottor, Chef, Masonic Hotol, Wapier.ANTED, a strong Youth. Georgo

Winder, Ironmonger, cornor Cubaand Manners streets.

"ANTED, a Boy for tho hardware.Georgo Winder, cornor Cuba and

Manners streets.WANTED, for private school, Napier,

an oxporionoed Teacher; Frenchand Latin essential. For particulars applyMiss Sutton, Lincoln-road, Napier.

ANTED to Lot,' 2 part furnishodRooms, Fcasido;suit 2 lady-friends jor married couple. Address Evening Post.WANTED, Partner to go into second-

hand Business;must bo cabinet-maker or billiard-tablemakcr;small capi-tal required. Apply S. Simons, 50, Tory-stroot.WANTED, Employmont by 6toady, re-

liablo man, hotol, club, restaurant,etc. Trustworthy, Evening Poet.WANTED, a General; throo.in. family,

nurso kept. Apply Mrs. yon Zod-litz, Lower Hutt. ,ANTED, by first-claas Chef, second

anS pastrycook, now arrival, Situa-tion town or country hotol;Continentalcxporionco., Apply Chef, Evening Post.

WANTED Ki^own.— Startling ' reduc-tions in tho prico of Motor Cars,

Cycloa and Cyclo Accessories during Do-combcr, at IngliaBros.' surprise Bale.WANTED to Purchase, s{i ladies'

Bocond-hnnd Bicyoleß, in part pay-ment for ladies' Triumphs; liberal allow-ancos given. Adams, Limitod, Morcor-Rt.WANTED Known, SpccM Gaslight

Display of now Furnituro atShortt's, Ltd, to-night;call and inspecttho splondid now showroom.

ANTED yKnowr..— Tho 10-12 h7p74 oylindor 4-een.tod "Stuart" Car at

tho reduced prioo of £410 ia tho best valueobtainable in ears. , Cnll and inspectluglis Bros.' Burpriso sale. '

WANTED Known— Boots Repairedwhilo you wait. Gents' Boots solodand heeled 2s 9d, Ladws1 ditto Li 9dBluchers, nailed, Ha 6d; Boys* and Girls'strong School Boots, 2s 9d. AmericanBoot Repairing Co., corner Bucklo andTory streoU.WANTED, tho publio to roraomber thatFISn is proforablo to Moat in hotAvcathor. Whitebait frosh, daily at ThoBottaga,' Latnbtoii-quay, next Fornandos,Fishmonger. All now and w to date.Visitors should remember that Tho Bo-

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INSTEP-STRAPWALKING SHOES

x ARE ALL THE GO. .TY*-:CCTY'Stylish, Good-fitting, and thoA/ Coolest of allcool shoes for SummerWear.

SPECIAL LOW PRICES.Women's Glace One-bar Shoes, peak pat-

ent caps, smart, 6s lidWomen's Stylish Two-bar Kid Shoes, pat-

ent cap, pointed, 8s 6dWomen's Light Three-bar Shoes, pump

soles, French heels, 11s 6dWomen's Cross-bar Sandal Strap Shoes,

very smart indeed, 14s 6dWomen's Dainty Tan Kid Shoes, in Ox-

fords or Instop-straps, newest designs,lls 6d, 133 6d, 14s 6d

Women's New Colour Tan Kid Lace orButtonBoots, smart shapes, light walk-ing, ITs 6d

E. HANNAH& CO.,LTD.,79, LAMBTON-QUAY,

And28, CUBA-STREET.

np O LET. TO LET.

EIGHT-ROOMED DWELLING andSHOP, situated in Adelaide-road;all con-veniences; rental £1 per week.

ApplyHARCOURT. AND CO.,

46, Lambton-quay.

nnO LET, Wellington-terraco, 2 furnish-JL cd Rooms and kitchen, on groundfloor; will let only to approved couple.

J. H.BETHUNK AND CO.rW\O LET,near Upper Willis-street, Flat,-X- threa unfurnished rooms;gas cooker,bath, balcony, fino view. Apply Flat,Evening Post.fjnO LET, superior new 6-roomed Resi-JL denes; hot and cold water, bath,overy convenience, rheltered and sunny,Tinakori-road Extension. Moore and Var-low, 20, Customhouse-quay.fflrtO LET, Cottago and aero and halfJL Innd, Roseneath;lovely position, fac-ingsea;133. Apply Walter Jsmart, Pairo-brcker. «

TOLET,1or 2 unfurnished Rooms. Ap-ply Sunday, 15, Tasman-street.

VTHO LET, "an eight-roomed Houso inJL Hawker-street; every modern con-venience;lovely view. Auply 55, Hawker-street.linC) LET, 2 largo Rooms, single or■J«- double, furnished or/ unfurnished;hot and cold water. Terms and addressEveningPost.

TO LET, large eunny unfurnished frontRoom, ground floor; fireplace, cup-board, use kitchon. 3, Walter-street, offIngesire-sfreet.fTW LET, off tho Terrace, smin G.P.0.,.JL 5 rooms (cottage), 20a;6 rooms,'25s6d? no children prcferrea. Box 301,G.P.O.

TO LET, superior 8-roo_ied Residence,onet

floftr, situated Maarama-creecer.t.Possession 10th January. Apply I^o, Davis--

"_*Es__:- iStswfg^ -"- "-

fTFR>~L_a£ large Ifroo-reOT KiUdcnce,JL funlishcd; good gToundj, "»01l laidout; reasonable ront. SaH&tf-& .for rpri-vate hospital or .select " bfaraansho'use.MacdoEsld, Wilson and Co., 84, Lambtoii-qnay:

TO LET,5 rooms, Taitvilte;6 rooms,Sydney-rStreet;7 rooms, Adelaide-

road; 7 rccms, Athol-crcseant;7 room9,Wright-street;7 rooms, Hay-street. Ap-ply Macdonald, Wilson and Co.,84, Lamb-ton-quay.fS"tO LET, furnished Sitting-room, with-B- one or tiro bedrooms, clO3o to city;no other rooms let, no boarders. Addressat Evening Pest.

'

fW\O LET, 7-roomcd House, Boulcott-=- Etreet;rep.t 30s. Apply M'Kco andCo., Ltd., Pangma-straet.

finO LET, 5-roonicd House in Newtown.-B- Apply No. 2, Barker-streot.

TO LET, from 12th inst., alongsido 'busterminus, Karcri, 6-roomrd Cottage,

tv/o acrea fiat land, 12s 6d. M'Kee andCo.,Panama-street.

TO LETJ House, Epuni-ftrcet, ejxrocm?, h. and c, gas," otc. Apply

Mi«a Houghton, No. 21, Waterloo-avenue.O LET, at Rona Bay, on'beach, closo

new wharf, Cottajro five rooms, wellfurnished; two \tcolcs or noro. Mrs.Danla, 30, Tegmgy-stycet. .fT?O LET, Rooms, large, private entrance,-■- good po3ition and viow, walkingdie-lanes from city; also Workshop. 36,Wallace-street.nnO LET, 4-rooined furnished Cottago' atJL seaside for ono month or longerApply 15, Wellington-terrace.nP-0 LET, 5-roomed House, all conveni-"-B- cnoes. 'Apply 155, Adelaide-road.PTVD LET, at Lower lintt, opposito now-U- bridga, 5-roomed Houee v/itli eoupcrend rrash talm let In;garden full of inlittrcca. Apply Mka Pye, Lough ErnoHouse, Mulgrave-street.

TO LET, 5-rocmcd Hottze, leland Bay,15i;near Northland School,rent 15s.

Taylor,30, Daniol-atrcct.npO LET, three-roomed House, bath-JL room andEcullerj',etc., top of Willis-

street;will only let to tenant with refer-enew. Apply Dvran Broa., next 'GrandHotel.

TiU LET, one 5-roomfcd House, Gordon-street; ono in Mein-stroot, all con-

veniences. Apply 9, Garrett-stroet7TT\O LET, 9-roomed House, Watson-st.,JL al! convenioncee, fino view; also 3-

roomed Cottase- J. Charlton, Bb, Oriental-terrace. .fT\O LET, 7-roomed Houso in Ellico-st.-*- Apply at 13, Marion-street.HrO LET, aj S-romcd furnished Cottage,A close to Rona Bay Wharf. Apply A.Johnston, 8, Johnston-street.inPiO LET, House, Hiropi-street, eight■*■ rooms, overy convenience, rent 30s.Apply 61a, Owcn-stroot^

'

nf\O LET, furriishcel "Villa, 6 rooms, Ori-■*" cntal Baj'. Apply Talana, Evening

Post.TITO LET. Fa;r]]o-torraeo, Kolburne, top-»- Devon-itroct, 8-roomod House, bath-

room, scullery, washhouse, etc. Apply H.Earner, abovo address.7TO LET, for term, 5-roomed Cottago,JL, newly-built,rent low. Apply Mrs.. Fcrbps, Muritfti.

(TS^O LET, Cottage, 4 rooms, every con'JL venience, first houeo, Queon's Drivefrom SouthKiibirnie. Apply Mrs. Liiugh-lan's Store, Crawford-ro»d., ITV3 LET, Island Bay, furnished, "ThoJL Bungalow," Freeling-street. Applyon premises after 7 p.m. '

fTV> LET, a largo modern 7-roomodJL House, now, on tram route:

s 22s 6d. ApplyJ&lbirnie,Evening Post.t»iO LET, comfortablo furnished eingloJL Room, 6s per week; also a two-bedded largo frontRoom, suitable for twofriends, 10s per week, shower bath, otc.21, Boulcott-strcct, City.nnOLET/ new commodioui soven-roomedJL House, Upper Adclaido-ro*d. ApplyA. Robertson, 37, Abel Smith-street." nnO~l^»~Sliops~"and~Houios, all ebes,, jL in all parts of tho city. Apply W.. F. Eggors, Godber*. Building, 07, Lanib-ton-quay. (

JfOTOE, CAESFOB, HIEE,

Garage, 15, Molesworth-street,.

TELEPHONE 204-2.EVENINGTELEPHONE, 14-78.^

AUTOMOBILE OF N.Z., LTD.,AGENTS FOR FAMOUS FORD CARS.,

WANTED Known— Salo, ChristmasSalo. Specially Reduced Prices.Tablo Napkins, 2_d, 3_d, M,4£d, sd, 6d,marvollous value; Twill Sheeting, 7^d,B_d, 9_d, 10_d, Is,cheapest in this world;Tablo Linen, 10_d, Is, Is3d, Is 4d, Is 6d;Lace Curtains, half-price, overstocked;6yds Whito Fancy Muslin for Is lid, 2s3d, 2s 6d, 2s 9d, 2s lid;Printed Muslins,Delainettos, Prints, etc., 2a lid, 3s Bd, 3slid full dress; Cream Holland, 3id, 41d,6d, 6_d, 7_d, B_d, 9_d, 10£ d, Is;Nainsook,3_d, 4d, 4id, sd, 6d; Cream Corduroy,10_d, Is, 1b 3d, Is 6d;Cream All WoolCoating Sergo, Is 6d;Cream Nun's Veil-ing, 10_d, Is, Is 3d; double-width newEmbroideries, Id, l_d, 2d, 2_d, 3d, 3_d;Wido Lace, Id; Thread, Id reel. Otherlines cheaper still. Remnants, liali-pricV.Wo givo Stamps or Discount. Call early.You will 6ave money at LINDBERG'S,Cuba-street. Parcels free of charge.

WANTED Known, workers weekly tic-kets aro only 2s for 12 rides to tho

Hutt. Buy a Section at To Momi Auc-tion Salo next Wednesday evening, andlive cheaply. DwanBros., Auctioneers.

ANTED to Sell, a good 6-roomedHouse, with every possible conveni-ence; situate best part of Thorndon; largesection;price £1100. For terms applySidey,'Meeeh and Co., Manners-street.

ANTED,6 Boarders for private resi-dence, piano, bath, tramspass door.Bed andbreakfast 3s, full board 4s 6d perday. Mrs. H. E. Jones, Colombo-roadSouth, Christchurch.WANTED, Lad for pressing;wages£1.'Apply Cathie and Sons., 35, Vic-toriai-Etreet.

ANTED to Sell, 'Cottage Properties,Roeeucath;no reaponablo offer re-fused; terms arranged. Apply W. Far-

relly, Rosoneath.TS^rrANTED to Sell, 2 bay geldingv T DraughtHorses, 4 and 5 years old;

also DraY and Harness. Apply G. Bell,care'D. Rowell, Kiibirnie.

ANTED to Sell, aTailor's Stove and3 Irons; also a Block. Apply 5,Walter-street.

ANTED Known, an expert Lock-Bmith will always be found ready to

attend to your wants at auy time. Tele-phono2166. 'Ekins,Featherston-streot, rearG.P.O.

W" ANTED, 3 gcntlomenBoarders. 5,Macdonald-crescent.

WANTED, two respectable working-__?n?n Boarders. Apply 26, Dixon-st.

ANTH_r~to'Sell, 6-roomed House,every convenience, near trams;

price £525 ;cash -£25, easy terms. ApplyAjax, Evening Post.

WANTED, by stonemason, steady, rc-liablo Employmont. Apply FivePoints, Evening Posfe:

.■^TSTANTED to Buy, Section of Land"'» close' toIsland Bay School. ApplyM. Babich, 79, Molcsworth-street.W"ANTED to Sell, Karaka Bay, 2-

rOOiriefi Cottage, with scullery* goodsection. Apply 108, Tardnaki-street.WANTED Known.— Great ChristmasSalo of Furniture at MantelpiecoWorks, Adelaide-road,' oominencing Satur-day. Ganuina bargains./ -*

WWANTED, Commission Lines, forNorth and South' lslands, establish-ed manufacturer's agents;good connec-tion. Agency, EveningPost."iNTED to Sell, 4- Shares in No. 5,Co-operative Building Socioty,chcaplj_.jSubmarine )_carG Evening: Post.

WANTEDW'ANTED to SelC~Section overlooking-Oriental Bay, £3 5s foot. ApplyAir Ogilvie, Rosenoath, or Good Invest-ment, Evening Post.VATANTED, a Paporhanger; also a"» V Brush Hand;must be competentmen. W. Jennings, 157, Willis-street."^TANTED, gentlemen Boarders in"t V superior house, every convenienceApply 8, Kensington-street.

THTANTED, two strong Boys. Apply»» sido entrance, Kerapthorne, Pros-sor s, 8, Monday morning;good wages,easy work.TOAWTJBD'to Sell ,b.m. Iron Bed^a , "£?, anc'Sm:

"1 Medical Battery.ApplyClyde, KyoniiiK Post.Washing and Cleaning byJ* day.. Reply to W.M., Evening

\i7-ANTED to Soil, in Brooklyn, a con-, .; vemont 5-roomed "House, recently*«n

;l""1,32^ X 217ft >' beautiful viow'£450. Apply Terms, EveningPost.TTIT'ANTED, young Lady for shop. Ap-. Uv» tll'° this afternoon, Tho Talk-enes, Wilus-streot.'

TS7"ANTEDKnown— Grazing for horsesw V pl_u*y ° f.f?cdand water. Apply toW. Knight, Knights-road, Hutt.T^ANTED, a first-class Carpenter;one» » able to lako charge of workshop"no other need apply. H. Alexander,Builder, Petone.TS7"ANTED, three young ladies, in busi-a 1

nn5S5S8' to Sharo two furnishod Rooms.Apply Star Registry, Times Buildings. .'VyANTED, Barmaid and~Waitrcss,iV _i «

'Colmtry; Genera!, Northland,17a 6d Slar Registry, Times Buildings.Open_to-night.I^fANTED to Purchase, ono or twoT * small Houses in Nowtown or Ber-hampore. Apply W.S., Evening Post."I^ANTED to Soil, a farmer's or ha-wk-vv ors Spring Cart; cheap. ApplyR. Diugnan, Coal Merchant, 100, Motes-worth-street.TS7ANTEI),' a good Nureegirl. Apply▼▼ Mrs. Asher, 19, lugeßtro-streetWANTED to Sell, in Upper Dixon-» y street, woll-built House of 7 rooms,with scullery, bathroom, washhouse, etc.;land 60ft frontage; price £1700. Applyg_J_-Lg"*- 6628WANTED, Cooks, Waitresses, House-maid-Waitress, Kitchonmaids, Wards-maids, Generals, Ladyhelps. Morseis Re-gistry, ontrauco Plimmcr1s Stop's. Oponto-night.■*j7TrANTED, Woman for washing andy » cleaning, Monday or Tuesday. Ap-ply 10, Hospital-road.WANTED, Bioycle, gent's second-handmachine; must bo in good order.Roply, Btotinp; price,etc., Outrigger, Even-ingPost.

WANTED to Exchange, good Section,Island Baj', clear, for Houso. Box40, Xo Aro i;ost Office. '

ANTED, throo 'first-class Upholster-ers; constant cm_£oyinent ; topwages. Apply H. Fielder.T7JTANTED to Sell, sovcral first-olass"» Boarduißkouses in. To Aro, Towacc,

and Thorndon districts, all good, otherssmaller. Macdonald, Wilson mud Co., 84,Lambton-quay.

ANTED to Soil, Island Bay, eunnysido, poodSection, 66 by165;prico

moderato. Apply J. Beveridgc, 71, Riddi-ford-stroet.WANTED, young Girl as General Sor-vant, for Roseneath; liglu place.Apuly morning or evoning to Mr*. East,,Bell»-yiB_aI.Centrail-.terraoe, Kelburnoj, ■

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GEORGE & GEORGE,CUBA-STREET.

T ADIES!Wo wouldlike you to hustloJLJ round and soo tho GREAT SPECIALPURCHASE wo have ]vet set out of a-Manufacturer^ Stock ofWHITESATIN &MARCELLAQUILTS.1

For SingleBeds, 6s 9d to 10s 6dFor Doublo Bods, 8s 6d, 10s 6d, 15s.Honoy-Comb Quilta, 2s 6d to 7s 6d.

This is undoubtedly a line in BedQuilts which, as a good genuine bargain,stands first in the city, and they mako a,specially pleasing and acceptable Xmaspresent.

TADLORING.WANTED Known— Thos. Shields, Mer-chant Tailor,hassecurednew premisesat Empiro Chambers, next Empiro,Hotel,;where business will bo carried on as usual.!A new stock of all tho latest designs inSummer Suitings has been obtained fromt_e leading warehouses and from mybranches at Palmerston and Masterton.Clients will therefore suffer no inconveni-;ence owingto tho recont disastrous Fire. 1

NEWSPAPER MANAGER.

THE WELLINGTON PUBLISHINGCOMPANY, LIMITED, require thoservices of a" thoroughly competentMANAGER for tho Daily MorningNews-paper they are about to publish in Wol-

) lington. It is essential that applicantsshall have had thorough experienco in the

1publication of a daily nowspapor, nndpre-'ference will bo given to applicants whohavo practical knowledge if thoir otherqualifications are satisfactory. Salary tobo arranged.

Applications in writing, Etating previousexperience, and accompanied by copies oftestimonials, are to bo addressed to theActing-Chairman of Directors, the Hon.C. J. Johnston, Wellington, N.Z., and willbo receiveduntilnoon of tho 10th January,1807. 1

NEWTOWN DISTRICT HIGHSCHOOL.

CARETAKER.A PPLICATIONS from MarriedCouples,

-Ol accompanied by copies of testimo-nials, will bo received by tho undersignedup to WEDNESDAY, 19th inst, ot 7 p.m.for tho post of Caretaker to tho abovoEchool. '

Salary at rato of £75 per annum.Applicantsivill bo required to attend at

tho School Buildingsat 7 p.m. on Thurs-day, 20th inst., for personal interview.Schedule of duties may bo inspectod onapplication to tho Headmaster during

school hours.R.H. CHINCHEN,

Hon. Secretary and Trea.',151, Adolaide-road.

THE BES~T"SPEO INTHE CITY.100 PER CENT. IN THIS.WANTED to Sell, in closo city suburb,12 Soetiona of BuildingLand, front-

ing3 streets and with long- front^s/o;area*3 ceres;prico about 25s a foot;surround-ing land bringing £3 a foot;prico £1550..Owner leaving colony end of December.Mccdonald, Wilson

'and Co., 84, Lambton-

qua3r- 2926

WANTED,

A'

SMART to learn Mercory""- and Clothing Trace; slight previousexperienco prof -?<ed/ aApply

N.Z. CLOTHING FACTORY,57, Lnmbton-quay.

WANTED 'Known— Tho City ParcelDolivery Company's Town Doliver-

io» leavo daily at 9 a.m. and,2 p.m. ForIsland Bay, Kiibirnie, Roseneath, Brook-lyn, Wadostawn, Northland, Karori, etc.,everyMonday and Thursday, 9 a.m. Par-cels collected. Luggago removed. Ringup 381.

BHORTHAND-TYPISTE.

/tnHE D.I.C. require an experienced-3- Shorthand-Typiste. Applications,with full particulars of experience andcopies of references, to bo addrosscd to

THE MANAGER.'

TO GROCERS.<2<MART Counter Hands wanted, for

high-class trade. ApplyMANAGER,

Public Service Stores,Brandon-street.

WATCHES FOR NOTHING, M'FAR-LANE'S SALE.

WANTED, Customers to spend £2,and a 10s Watch will bo presentod

to you; Christmas Bargains. ■ M'Farlano,Courtenay-placo.

BUSINESS SITES.WANTED to Sell, two Business Sites,

Cuba-etrcot Extension;must besold;no reasonable offor rofused;termsarranged. Apply Chas. Botholl, SouthWellington Post Office. _^_J

XO TETtSCTNS BTFUjDING.

WANTED, endFobruary, neat 5-room-od House, convoniont distanco city.

Givo address, rent (moderate), all particu-lara Zinka, Evoning Post.

TO TAILORESSES.WANTED, Apprentices and Improvers

to tho machino and tailoring. Ap-ply at once. A. Lovy, Colonial MutualInsuranco Buildings, Custom House-quay.

RESIDENCE, NEWTOWN.WANTED to Sell, very high-class

Residence of 6 rooms, gas, gas Btovo,h. and c. water, all conveniences, splendidgarden 40 x 160, 2 minutes tram. Prioo£825. M'Kco and Co., Ltd., Panama-stroot. j

WASniNGTON-AVENUE.

WANTED lo Sell, tho cheapest Landin tho street, bost end, extensive

viow, i-ncro, room two homos;a bargain,£390; almost level. M'Keo and Co.,Ltd.,1, Panama-street.

KARORI LAND.WANTED, immediate, Purchaser near-

ly 3-acro,nearly level, finest Bito inKarori, adjacont proposed tram, also postoffice, church, school, Ftore, etc., etc.Prico, to closo at onco, only £250. M'Kooand Co., Ltd., 1, Panama-street.

SHOP ASSISTANTS.WANTED, young Girls for fancy

goods. Apply 30, Willis-street.PIANO.

WATSTED to Disposo of, now EnglishPiano;no reasonable cash offor re-

fuacd. Addroso English Piano, EveningPost.

LAND.WANTED, a Purchaser for good Sec-tion, cloeo to tram;room for two

houePß; pricn £2 12s por foot. AddressImmcdiato Bargain, Evoning Post.CHEAP "PROPERTYTIOWER HUTT.WANTED to Soil, Protoria-stroot,

Lower Hutt. good Houso, fivolooms, washhousc, bath, fowlhouso andrun;land 66 by 150 (about 1-acre);prico£480; £250 can fcmaiii at 5_ per cont;clioap properly;no agents. Vancouver,Evoning Post.FANOY CARDBOARD BOXMAKING.WANTED, smart Girls lo learn tho

abovo; good wages. Apply Em-piro Boxmaking Co., Ltd., Adolaido-road.

TO BUSY BUSINESS MEN.WANTED, Trading Books to koop in

order, audit, or prepares for audit,or clerical work of auy description;modo-rato chargoi, AudivA Evening Pa*-.

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS.

ON MONDAY, 10th December, 1906,tho usual 10.28 p.m. train from Lower

Hutt to Wellingtonwill leave Lower Hutt■t JO.45 p.m.

BY ORDER.

"»/«-«. MARTIN SWALLOW,PROFESSOR OF MUSIC,

28, Molesworth-street.

Harp,5 guineas; Singing, 4 guineas;Piano, 3 guineas."

THE VIBRATGRIUM,Institute of Modern Treatment,

12, KENT-TERRACE.

ffTIBRATIONi3the most modern treat-*yf merit known in the* whole range ofRemedies of Curing Disease and toningop the system locally and generally.ItPurifies the Blood by rapid motion.

It opens and cleanses all the circulatorychannels. Itrelieves all nerve and muscu-lar tension. Is tho quickest and surest;method cf treatment for Neuralgia, Rhntt-inatism, Sciatica, Nervous Headaches,Sprains, Contracted or Relaxed Muscles,reordered liver,etc.-'

MRS. C. J. GROSSMANN, NCertified Masseuse,12, Kent-terraca. 1

TKURE! FIRE! FIRE!

RIDER'S GREAT SALVAGE SALEKIDER'S GREAT SALVAGE SALE

CommencesSATURDAY, 12 o'clock.

£1000 WORTH OF~BOOTS and SHOES," Slightly Damaged by Firo and Water,

TO BE ALMOST GIVEN AWAY.Must be Cleared in 10 Days.

DON'T MISS THIS CHANCE,. AtKIDEB'S BOOT PALACE,I - Cuba-street.

~i(,-«H^ "**"■lP"**'*' "**«"* "». - , *

? - .TESTIMONIAL' , TO MBS. LEONIDAS M. SMITH.

DURINIG Xmas Week Iwas sufferingfrom AcutePain in tho wnole of my

Left Side, which the doctors described asCostal Neuralgia. lam pleased to he ableto cay that the Treatment Ireceived fromMrs. Smith ENTIRELY REMOVED'THE PAIN. Ihighly recommend herMASSAGE. -

BETHIA M'MASTEB,14(», Mulgrave-rtreet,Wellington.

,6th January, 1893.

N.B.—L.M.S.'b INFALLIBLE LINI-MENT, with her Massage. WORKS2&IRACULOUSLY. Try it. Read Advt,on.Pago 2. 1

rTV O L E T.14 rooms, Maj&ribasks-street; £314 rooms, Majoribanks-slreet (furnished);

£4IIroomn, Msranui; £1 739 rooms, ElHcc-strcet ; £28 roocif-j Owen-street;£1 10*8 rooms, topDevon-street;£1 7s 6d7 room.". Island 827 (fr.rn-shad); £2 1037 room?, Adelaide-road (Upper); £1 537 rooms, IslandBay, 1836 roomr, Wadestown;15*6 rooms, IslandBa7;£1 2a 6d6 rooms, M'Farianf-strect;£1 Sa4 rooms,Northland;9s

Also,Shop, with doublo windows and 6 rooms,in Yivian-"itrf>et

J.FANNING AND CO.,K3tate A~ent3, MannerE-£treot.

fl\ O J» XT. T O LET.

3 room*,Hiddiford-sfc firoomiM:irxnm4doTinalcori-rd "rtdoH_faiJ_».l« do moduvst 7,if> ]tatatai

sdo Khandallah 7 fl0 AVri-r'nt-sfc5do York-sfc 7u0 Adelai.lo ul.sdoKnrori 7(\0 InlandDaysdoKollojtonsfc BuoVivian-st5 do Emerxou-sfc 0 do llawker-at6 AoLower Hntt 10 doWaterloo-ov6 doMuljrrave-st 13 Aa 3Ja!(,Tftve.Bfc

FURNISHED HOUSK3.6roomsI'ouaBay 8 rooms Clcremont-6doleland Bay tor. (off)7&o Oriental Bay IITinakori-nl7doHnwkestone-tor. 12 do Majoribanks-st7doKelbnrne

Also S'uopK, Office 1?, Warohonses, &c., inT&rious parts of the city..Apply HARCOURT & CO..

46. J.ambtoir-rmay. City.

rjl O hK X. T~O LH T.

8 rooms Devon-st 0roomsKarori9doBronffliam-st (ido Kilbirnio6 doAbol Stnith-bt 5do Kilbirnio7do I7oscneat.li 4do I'uranaki-st7doWright-st 4do Khiiud-.tllah6doBerhamporo ' 7doNftwtown

FURNISHED HOUSES.14do Hobson-sfc C doHobson-iifc14do Grant-rd '8 do Thorndon-qy8 do Portland-croß. 8 do K>*)bnmoOdo Tinakori rd 8do Kolton-st11 doTinakori-rd 0do Khawdallah9 do ThoTerrace (ido Crofton7 do 'J'heT«rrace Cdo Austin-tor

Apply J.H.BKTHONK \CO.,Featherston-street,

TO LET.

fpHE CLIFF HOUSE TEA KIOSK,A At liluul Bay. ,"WITH 12rR00MED HOUSE Attached.

The Owners are now Prepared to Leaseto*n Approved Tenant.

Fall Particulars fromC. and A. ODEIN,

Timber Merchants,Jcrvois-quay.

ffV) LET, 6-romed House, conveniacce*,A 12s 6d per week;new train service.Key at tho Chemistfj Johnsonville.

XMAS MILLINERYAT

GIFT PRICES.

SPECIAL INDUCEMENTS are being-offered to Millinery Buyers for thisMonth.

PARIS MODELS, and our Own Ex-".clusivo Design, usually 15s S5" to 25b;jGIFT PRICE,I<r>S />D.,

CATERER & CARET,67 and 69, CUBA-STREET.

WANTED in offico, smart willing Girlus junior, knowledgoof shorthandand typing essential. Reply in ownhand-writing, stating previous experience (ifany),age, s.h. tpocd, wages required, refer-ences, -oto., to Assistant,1 care of GeneralPost Office, City.

WANTED, furnished or unfurnishedRoom, near town; moderate. Ap-ply H.8.,Evening Post.WANTED, two young men Boarders,in private family;near Willis-st. }18s. Ba., Alameda-terrace, Aro-street.WANTED Known, the land at T»Momi, oppositeLower 'Hutt railway;station, is second to none for garden pur-*poses. Auotiou sale, Wednesday next, ab8p.m. DwanBros.,Auctioneers.

_^

WANTED to Sell, Filly, 4 years, suitany tradesman, 16 hands, or wouldexchango for older horse. Apply60, Con-stable-street.ANTED Sell, 999 years' leate, House

and 5 Acres, close to town; easy]terms. Lingard,Lambton-quay. ,

WANTED to Sell, 6-roomed House,not far from. Basin. Reserve; only,

£60 cash required;balance on easy terms'.Apply Basin, Evoning Post.

ANTED, furnished small Cottage-;" any suburb if low ront. State tulT-particulars to Thurlow,Evening Post."

lOITANTED, by Person with good rofer-*»» ences, Work by day, washing orcleaning. Apply Oceans, Evening Post.ANTED to S.ill, Homo Phonograph

and 50 records; also Lady's Bike,cheap. Apply 7, Macdonald-erescent.

WANTED to Let, two furnished?Rooms, with all conveniences. 21,Caroline-street.

ANTED to Sell, 7-roomed Residencoand Section sunniest part of Kil-birnio; bouse built for architect six yearsago. Prico £875. Address Clearance,,Evening Post.

'ANTED Known— Pianos, 28, Jeasie-street, good sound second-hand In-struments, 12 guineas, 16 guinea., 20guineas, 26 guineas.ANTED, vertical Boiler, about 10

h.p/, pressuro not less than 751b.Send particularsto Boiler, Box 569,G.P.O.

WANTED to Sell, 9-roomed House, 1floor, good section, off Willis-street.Prico and particulars Sidey, Meech. andCo., Auctioneers, Manners-street.ANTED, Buyers to visit To MomiEEtatc, opposito Lower Hutt sta)-

tion.. 'You will bo sure to buy ait auc-tion lilo next Wednesdayevening inTownHail, Wellington. Only 5 per cent.,de-posit DwanBros., Auctioneers.WANTED, Offers for a- new* BlickTypewriter in. perfect order, with,all attachments. Write Blick, EveningPo'ahV--,, -.

'" . -,

ANTED JCnown— tt. G. Sherwood,.Jeweller, 12, Manners-street (nearWillis-street). Juet arrived, per Corinthic,9 cases Christmas Goods; gold broochesfrom 3s 6d, charm pins from Is 6d, goldearrings from 2s 6d. '

WANTED, Apprenticesand Improvers." Apply, at once, Madame Hadfiold,

Upper Cupa-street >

ANTED to Sell,;good-tone BordlPiano, £9, and gentleman'sBike £710s. A. Anderson, Karori Tunnel.WANTED to Sell, two largo Tanks, no, reasonable) offer refused. Addressat Evening Post.

by a young married man,"» » 'Situation as Uriver;" country pre-ferred.', Apply A.EJS., Evening Post.

WANTED to Sell, first-olass optScianiuSight-testing Case, La EraaeieoCigarette Madiino in good order. Apply

72, Willis-street.

WANTED Buyers to remember TeMomi is only ono minute fromLower Hutt station. Auction Sale, TownHall, Wellington, Wednesday next, at 8lp.m. Dwan Bros., Auctioneers.

ANTED to Buy, a good Incubator,50 to 100 eggs. A. O. Witten,Evening Post.WANTED, by two business ladies,

comfortable Board and Residencoin nico family; willing to ehaxo room;must bo central. Address Board, Eveuin*Post. [WANTED,W'ANTED, by yonng Girl, Eosition inoffice. ■ Address Work, Ev-eninjr

Post.■^OfTANTED to Sell, .pure-bred Black»" Minorca Chicks, fortnight oH, Iseach. Mrs. Sanders, Femrhill-terrace,Wadestown."OTANTkD— Scholoficld's Ansonia. LevorV

"Watchc«, 7-6<l, rofaotblo n_cL COIXCCI*

timekoopevs, lnftko a .useful present forman or boy; never late, andno more re-pairs. Address— W. R. Scholofield, 36a,Manners-street, next chop toFielder's.

ANTED,by young lady, justarrivedfrom. England, post as Daily or

Nursery Governess. Address Homer, careof Bowers, Alicetown, Lower Hutt.

ANTED to Let, about end of Janu-afy or February next, for a- term,

furnishod House of eight rooms, with allconveniences, within ten. minutes of PostOffice; good view;principals only. Ap-,ply 10a,Bolton-stroct.WANTED to Purchase, 5 or 6 roomedVilla, Residence, contral position;£25 cash, balance as rent. Apply Reliable,Evening Post.

WANTED to Dispose of, four-roomedCottago at Northland, new house-;

land 50 x 150, two fronlaafos;prico £590for quick sale. W. F. Shortt, Ltd.,EstateAgents, Willis-street.

WANTED Known, tho school adjoinsTo Momi Estate at the Lower Hutt.

Auction Sale, TownHe,ll, Wellington,next'

Wednesday, 8 p.m. Dwaax Bros., Auo-tioneors.

WANTED, sensible Gentle-woman,middle-aged, as Travelling Repra-

Bontativo for country; education, health,and enthusiasm for work essential; neededknowledge wHIbo givenbycourse of train-ing; promising permanency for suitable-woman. Apply Genoa, Evening- Post.

ANTED to Meet a good all-roundMechanic or Engineer with somo

capital, to join advertiser as Partner instartingenoineor-repair shop in prosperouspart of colony. Apply Storling, EvoningPost^ ; ?

WANTEDW'ANTED to Let, a Email 3-roomedCottage, with conveniences;rent10s. Apply J.W. Wood, 20, Nairn-Btreet.WANTED, Working Partner with £20,cash business: good investment.Ingl^*'s Agency, 5, Cuba-street,■oppositeRoyal Oak.WANTED,Position, after Christmas, asdaily or half-daily 'Governess toyoung childron. Apply X.X., Evening-Post.

WANTED,W'ANTED, Lady Partner, good payingbusiness, no outlay, cash, required£30, must he well educated. ApplyExcelEvening Post. " 'T\TANTED to Sell, &. tinst-class Hotel,'V* ono of tho leading towns in thoWairarapa; lotg- leaeeTlow'rental; owner

- ¥ S_

T OST.-^-Will tho lady who picked up a-"--I Pureo and Bag combined 6ut of thecar at the top of Coustsblo-sti'oct returnto No. 26, Hiropi-sircct? It not, a fullerdescription given on Monday.TT OST, yesterday morning, betweeni-* Moo's and Lindsay's shops, youngFox Terrier, about five months old, blackpatches over head and back. Reward.Apply 159,1 Lambton-quay.T OST, yesterday, near Rona Bay wharf,,-»--" lady's Purse, containing silver. Re-ward. Apply EveningIJO3t.lJO3t.T OST— Tho old price of Yale Lateh-i-i keys. Wo cut them notf at Is 9deach; reduotkm quantities. Ekinß, Lock-smith, rear G.P.O. Tel. 2166.LOST, in train, or between Mulgrave

and Manners streets, Gold CrescentBrooch, pearls. Reward, Publio TrustOffice.i"_~ OST, slut Fox Terrior ;answers namo-*-« Tiny. Reward, Flockton's Storo,Manners-street. ,LOST, gold bamboo Bangle iS vicinity

Wellington and Clifton-terraces.Reward at Mrs. W. Kennedy, Cliftcn-tcr-race.

IOST, on Thursday, ladies' silvor-caied-* Watch. Finder rewarded at'33, Edin-burgh-terraco, off Russell-terrace, Ncw-towu.

OST, in Town Hall, Lady's Ring, setwith diamonds andrubies. Finder re-warded on returning- to Custodian, TownHall.

LOST, a ioi ot I>»ncrun by ÜBing halfa bottlo of J?arkor!8 Hair Tonir, 2s6d a bottle, by post oa. ,Wm. Purkcr,Cacmi«3, Manners-street. 1fOUND, a Puree, in Ghusnee-slreet,

last Wednesday. Owner can havosame by paying cost of advt. Apply 19,Mulgrava-street.FOUND, a sure euro for fallinghair by

using Capilla Hair Tonic;prica 3s 6dper bottlo. Ask for Capjlla.FOUND— Tho MiUtary Hairdrcssingbiloon a- good place for a MorningShavo. four chairs going. 96, Cuba-st.TCTOUND, the cheapest and most reliable-If- Remedy for Groy Hair is Crumptou'si.!eetnc Hair Restorer;easily applied;nota dye; gradual darkening; price 3s, post3s 6d. B. Waring, 27, Courtenay-plaee.

CiHARLES MASON, Bluejacket— Writo-* to old chum Arthur Harris, EvoningPost;urgent. " i"mHE Widdy O'Erien" used to tako

■B- Talisker Whisky in her toa, endwhat a jolly old soul was sho. Ask forit.

ILLAEACTEU Sketch General Tropoff> W. T. Stead's criticism of "ThoSpring Chickec." "Tho F,speranto Con-gress." December Rorjpw of Reviews.I^OARD and Residenco for two young

■* ladies, in privato family. ApplyEvening Post.nRKUSTWORTHY and reliable youiig-H. woman wants a Situation ona farm;

|assist in light housework and milk;usedto horses and farm work;any district.Address to Reliable, care of Evening Po3t.

WAREHOUSEMEN.— Young man (20)scok3 Position;has had good cx-

psrienco in clothing: and woollon depart-ment as fir3t assistant;thoroughly under-stands fectory' work; good reference.Rex, Hi-raltt oftlcg, Auckland." A'EICIS/ -Whero .Art Thou?"— Busy| -Cjl curving out Taliskor Whisky inovoryhotel, in Wellington. Ask for it.ALINOTYPIST,with long experience,

seeks 'Employmont;first-olaas manr-fiJd-excellent knowledge,of 'machine; 23;FBobdr. Address F.WJB.,'^«x*r_;.t_i j*Mr3.[ Clare, Blenheim. "■'KTACANCIES for few Kentleincn Board-V er3, UVo minutM from. GovernmentBuildings and Station. Anply Woimarie,Sydney-atrcet. Tel. 2310.

BOAISO and Re3idcnco for-two gentle-men, in a quiet family, at Tmakori-road; h. and c. bath. Address,at Even-

ing Post, r |

BARGAINS to tho right of you, Bar-gains to the left, Bargains all round

you inHenryHopo's Drapery Store,Cuba-ttreet. "(TiORDON COLEMAN, Occult Stu"-15T dent, Clairvoyant, and Psychomotrist: letters articles psychometrized. Con-sulted daily. Correspondence invited. 46,"Vivian-street.

OUNG Person would givo services forpr.s:ago to England, either as

children's maid or ladies' maid, botwoonJanuary and April ;good iler. For ro-fcrcurc apply Archdeacon "V -lhams, Puke-hou, Hawkcs Bay^

ELRISTCHUUCH Exhibition— First-clrrs Hcmo, fMn. Roberts, 207,

Peterborough-street. Directly oppositeExhibtion entrance. Tariff moderate./POMPULSORY means ir-ust. Imust>-> coll, and have marked tho prices ac-cordingly. Hunry Hope-, Draper, Cuba-ctreot;/CHIMNEYS swept, windows cleaned,

c.-rpets beaten and cleaned, smokingchimneys cured; cheaply »nd quicklydone;distance no object. T. Faulkner,88, Courtcnay-placo.

F~OR ChriEtmas Noveltic, Postcards,etc., at People'aPopt-lar Prices, H.

J. nuntcr ar.d Co.'s NovoLy Dopot, 69,V/illis-strcot', is unequalled in th& city. In-upcction invited, and no ono asked tobuy. 1Ife/TY neecsuty ia your ehaa.oe, andbothiSCa. aro genuine. Como early to thoGreat Drapery Sale. Henry Hopo, Cuba-etreat.

CARPETS beaten by nrachinery, allgroa«o stains removed. Practical chiin-

-ney sweep?, window, houso, and officocleaning. Wellington Cleaning Company,25, Dixon-strect. 'Phone 2221. 1

AU Rovoir, but not Good-bye. Thoehanco of a lifetime. X<adioa' Under-

clothing, Silk Blousos, Whito Skirts, Rib-bons, Lace. Henry Hope's Sale, Cuba-gtrcet, . _1VACANCIES for a few Bo&rden, sing-lo

and aharo rooms. Mrs. Lovy, 9,Hobson-atrcct.

XMAS Gifts— Jewellery supplied onlatest London easy payment system;

-writo appointment coo samples. AddressStrictlyPrivate,Evcning'Pott.■EVERYTHING wo havo wo must sell.j!7_l We have only a short time to do it.Hurry up to Henry Hopo's Hale, Cuba-st.

MILLINERY— Every La-ly her ownMilliner. Madamo Marion, lato

Strand Arcade, Sydney only, teaches youin a short course- of lessons;ladies pre-pared for positions; ladies' last season'shati romodolled; American /ailors. cmarVly trimmod, 10s 6d; terms on application.MillinerySchool, 20, King's Chambers, op-posito Carroll's TeaRooms, Willis-ilrcot./TilVIL Servants and Otheu— GentlemanVV connected with large im-porting

'firm -will Supply acy Article on

latest Ldndon easy payment eystem;willcall with,samples by appointment. Ad-dress Strictly Private,Evonicg Post.

Exhibit;on-Comfort-\*J MoHome in respectable privato fam-ily; £1 week. For address apply EvoningPost. " ,IAM leoVinp; for England. Ican't tako

my stock. Catch tho fiw, car and gota bargain1. Henry Hopo, Cu'ia-strect.mE MOMI Auction Sale aext Wcdncs-JL day ovoning, Town Half, Wellington,

Bt 8 v «■ Dwan Bros., Auctioneers,TCTACANOIES for 3 or 4 respectableV young Men, sharo large front room,

convepiemee;terms lfa. Apply 14,Marjoribanloi-streot.

W"~~~

HEN in diflioultioß, consult MadamInghajn, Palmist. Business pro-

spdets. Advice faithfully. 5. Cuba-street,opp. Royal Oak.

'HY is Tdliskor Whisky liko abroken drum7 It can't bo boatcn.

Parsons a_d:Co., Ltd., Sole Agents.

HANLON'S GREATSTRENGTHENING TONIC!

FTJTHERE is nothing which will so quicklyJL and thoroughly restore and increase'muECular and nervous energy and buildupstrength and vitality asHANLON'SKOLA COCA and QUININE"

WINE!:Particularly adapted for those recovering

from an attack of influenza.

R. D. HANLON,CHEMIST,MOLESWORTH

-STREET.

Telephone 1033.Parcels promptly delivered to all parts of

City.

PERSONAL.'

WOULD Mr. FiUserald, late of Nga-hauranga, hotoliceeper,send his pre-

sent address to P.O. Box 157, Welling-ton.nnO Visitora for E-hibition.— Good Ac-A commodation for visitors, 69, Ar-magh-street, Christchurch City; charges,25s weekly.

MADAME MANTELL, OrnamontalHair Worker, etc., will bo closed

until Januarj-, owing to alterations to thopremises. Any connn\inic_tion addressed'to Maranui will recervo prompt attention.'"TSTSTHAT Aro tho Wild Waves Say-

VT ing?" Tliey aro saying- TaliskerWhisky is tho best on the market. Askfor it.

IT'S no good saying wo don't, wo do,mako keys cheaper than any ono

else. Try me and seo. Ekins, Locksmith,rear G.P.O. Tel. 2166.

MRS. TATES, Metaphysician, Ores-cent-road, Roscncath (oif Grass-

streot), can bo interviewed daily; orpaticuto visited if so desired.jpKn> DETCfSITT with easy terms, willcW_svy Buy good Houso 6 rooms, bestsheltered position, Island Bay. ApplyBay, Evoning Post.

C~~"LTENTST ploaso noto that nil pledgesare boing transferred to W. Smart

next Monday. Any arrangements or re-newals can bo mado before then. Zacba.-riah, National Loan, Mannarc-strect."TTVO You Remember, Sweet Alico Bon

Jt-M Bolt?" "No; but Ido know thatTalisker Whisky is tho best that Ihavoever tasted." Ask for it.

FREE Demonstration of Vibratory Mas-eago will bo given on Tuesday and

Wednesday Afternoons at Tho Vibra-toriuin, 17, Kent-terrace.

HADE of "the Old Apple Troo" and3000 other Edison Records just land-

ed. Talkeric3, WiHib-strect."DT'IA OKA, Muianui, Luncheon and Tea4^- Rooms. First-clats Board and Resi-denco;terms moderate.RENT'SBtcyclo for Sale, cheap,Rudge-x?T whitworth, nearly new,latest model.Apply,after to-night, 29, Murphy-street.iMOMFORTABLE Board, tradesman,\j sharo doublo room;bath, piano,nicogarden ; terms 18s, 6oft washing. 13,Evelyn-place, oil Webb-atreet."A.WAY Down tho Swaneo River"

_C3L they drink nothing olsq butTaliskor Whisky. .Solo Agents—Paponsand Co., AVellington. Telcphono 91"O>OYAL Bag Blud on Monday makesJLQ; tho clothes tho colour you deriro;leaves no streaky blno merles.TSTSTHrTEBAIT, r.icely browned forV 7\broakfast, will tempt an invalid.

St. George>Whitobait,- afc nil grocers.'

L.MARTIN,Metaphysician, 3, Har-"pcr-street, two doors from Daniel-fetreot, may bo consulted daily.

RIVATE Maternity Home.—

Mrs.-Starkio, Practising Midwife, 9,

Homo-street, Kcnt-tcrraeo.

E~VBNING POST ANNUAL." Now onSalo all Booknellcrs. New Zcriand

by Camera. One Shilling.' /

OVAL Bag Bluo gives the clothe3acolour that's tho envy of the neigh-

bours. Ask for Royal Bag Blue.

SIGNWRITING, bost workmanship,lowest prices. W. G. Tustin, 89,

Wniis-gtreet. '

B OTAL Bag B'.uo on Monday makesti the clothVs tho colour you desire;

leaves no ftrenky bluo mcrks.TpUIRISTCHUROH Exhibition.

—Com-

h_^ fortablr quarters for ladies, businessmen, families, and touriats. AbordaroHoueo (privato family hotol), Gloucester-Elreet, closo to Exhibition;tariff, 5s to10a per day. Enquiries promptly attended_2- j

TJ)OVAL Bag B^luo has no poisonousJiai chemicals ;does not injure tho Ekinor hurt tho finest fabric./pHRISTCHURCH Exhibition.— YouH_y will uoed a Travelling Bag, Glad-stone, Brief, Portmanteau, Straps, etc.Cheapest shop in town. W. H.Nash. Lea-ther Warehouse 54, Cuba-street.

'ROYAL Bag Blue, mado by exports,

and is positively tho cheapest andbest. Ask for Royal Bag Clue. :

rir_TE Post Annual. Over 100 Hhißtra-JL taons Ono Shilling. All Stationersand Nows Agents.,TTSOVAL Bag Bluo is used in the bestJl!j laundries to givo the clothes,a nicecolour.npME Post AnnuaL 100 Beautiful Illus-M. trationa

—100. Ono Shilling. All

Stationers.iTIJSTROUS, fine, wavy Hair by usingJLJ Capilla Hair Tonic; bo sure you getCapilla;5b 6d per bottle.

EOYAL Bag Bluo, mado by oxperts,and is positively tho cheapest and

bost Ask for Royal Bag Blue.

FALLING Hair is loon stopped by us-ing Capilla Hair Tonic; bowaro of

worthless imitations;3b 6d per bottle.VENING POST ANNUAL. Now on

Salo all Booksellers. New Zealandby Camera. Ono Shilling.(T^APILLA Hair Tonic makes the hair ■v>/ lustrous, wavy, and strong, and pro-duces a luxuriant growth. 3b 6d abottle."OOYAL Bag Bluo is used in tho bestMAf laundries to givo tho clothes a nico

T UNOH ori Whitebait. St. Gcorgo-Li Whitqbait j onco _you try it you

must havo it for a tit-bit.PTW-E Post Annual, 100 Beautiful Ulus-*- trations—loo. Ono Shilling. AllStalioners.

OVALBag Blue should be put oa thegrocer's list;it is the cheapest, and

hobt, for tho clothes.WHITEBAIT, fresh from tho limpid

waters. Ask tho grocer ■ for St.Gcorgo Whitebait.mYPEWRITERS should bo in overyJL homo and office. Wo offer second-

hand Bat-locks, Komuigtono, Yosts, andother makes, from £5. Smallbono, Gracound Co., 30, Victoria-strco^

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COSTUMED T~

MRS. MALE, Specialist in Coat* nndSkirls, Paris Costume Company,Woodward-street. Orders taken at' usualprices. Roady-to-wcar Costumes. Veryl'oasonablo for cash. 1

BOOTS! BOOTS! BOOTS!ARE now al lowest prices. Last 10

days Retiring Salp. Only Halo iv fiveyears. Hulbcrt, Courtfciiay-placo.

"MOUNT VICTORIA SLOPES.,TT ARC!15 Sootion for Halo;itletl sito forjLJ homo;perfect viow; prico under £10por foot. Investment, Evoning Poat;

CYCLE BUSINESS NOTKtE"Ij\ _>bHERTY late of Hawloy and." Dohorty) desires to notify nlrhis olilCustomers and tho Publio generally thatho is commencinpf business at 62, ADE-LAIDE-ROAD. Bicycles built lo orderand Repairs' til lowest pricei. Don't for-Bofc-62, AOI2LAIDE-ROAD.

POR NOW !T>ARGAINS AT-*-*

WARNOCK AND ADKIN'S.

No. 1.-I*o Whito and Holland Skirts,plain and ombroidered, good washing,from 58 6d

No. 2.—

21_ dozen Now Blouses, extracheap, opened up last week

No. 3.— Tho latest in Trimmed Millineryfor ladies and girls, from 7s 6d. SeeGills' Lace Hats at 3s 6d

ONLY AT THORNDON HOUSE.

WANTED Buyers to noto the progressmade in the Lower Hutt. Te Momi

Auction Salo, next Wednesday, at 8p.m., Town Hall, Wellington, is your op-portunity to invest your money and getbig returns. Dwan Bros,, Auctioneers.WANTED, anexperienced Bodymaker.Apply Balinc and Co., Coaoh Build-era, Nelson.

\\TANTED to Sell, ait once, a charming\ » House andLand in theLower Hutt,

with four acres of good land, nowpartly in crops and poultry farm; good vloaso on easy ront;will sell goodwilloflease, stock, crops, and effects, amd furni-ture if desired. Macdonald, Wilfcon andCo., 84, Lambton-quay. 1 39Q_

ANTED to Let, 4 or 5 roomedHouso;Newtown preferred. Sendparticulars to Government, Post Office,

Wellington. South'.ANTED,NWaitress, must bo experi-

enced. Apply sharp, Scarl's, Willis-streot.

'ANTED, a Blacksmith for about' amonth for country;must be good

ehoer. Apply John Duthio and Co., Ltd.WANTED, Cookß, 255; 22s 6d, 20s,

waitress 203, generals, laidyhelps(Hutt), general, boardlnghouso, no cook-ing, general (Hawera), s-enoral-ladyhelprVVostport), housemaids. Star Registryopen to-night.WANTED, a. Dressmaker;

employment. Apply Mrß. Dickson,Ladies' Milunory and ClothingEstablish-ment, 167, Lambton-quay.

ANTEDKnown.— Tho finest nil brass'and black and brass Italian and

French Bedsteads over seen-in Welling-ton. Gaslight display to-uig-ht at Shortt's,Lower Willis-stroet.

WANTED Known— Geese ss, Ducks' 4b,Fowls 3s 6d (delivered). Send Post-card Eainos, Poultry Farmer, Mitchell-

town.ANTED,after Xmas by trustworthy

Girl, Situation as mother's help'ornursery gororaess;- - fond of childron;country 'preferred; 'wages 10s. ApplyMbllie, EvokingPost.

ANTED to Hiro, suitable Turnoutfor hawking. Apply Hawker,

Evoning Post.■^TANTED to Sell, gentleman's firsT'* claEa Residence, Bituato best part;Thorndon; £250 cash required. Cory andCo., 5, Lambton-quay.WANTED, smart Message Boy. Ap^

, ply Froo Lance office.W"ANTED, Purchaser for 2 largo level

Section;splendid soil, sunny situ-ation, s,minutc3 from P.0.; £$ sa,per,per ft.A. Schlichting-, Knight's-roadj. .CowerHutt. ■" '. '

WANTED, few strongMen, ahy even-ing,at J3hooting Saloon, WijUsiat.

"SISTANTJaD to Soil, quantity of Corru-» v gated Iron, Doors, Windows, and,

second-hand Timber. Apply 4, Abel SmitH-street.

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ANTED, an experienced General,with references. Apply any day,

after 7 p.m., to Mrs. Butt, 84, The Ter-race, Wellington. ,

WANTED'Knbwn.rr'Xlio finest all brassand black ,and

'brass Italian and-French Bodsteads -ever seen in Welling-

■ton-. Gaslight display to-nightat Shortt's,Lower Willis-street.WANTED, at once, a Purchaser for ai

Dining Room and Boardinghousoingood suburb;doing wellnow;special rca-

,tqn forsoiling;£80 ossuios a good living;"terms.given;wouldloafee onsmall deposit.Macdonald; Wilson and'Co., 84, Lambton-.quay. 155

W;ANTED to Purchaco, good 5 or G-

roomod Houso in or near city. Ad-dress Corinlhic, Evening Post.

ANTED, a good Tenant for hand-some now 5-roomed House, Brook-

lyn;five minutes from tram. Apply Box633, G.P.O.WANTED, aBuyer for a Houeo of 11

rooms, with- 290 fcot frontago to~Knowl-stroot, splendid view,suitable to letfor summer residenco at IslandBay. Therearo threo separate ruites of rooms. Willsell as a bargain. Apply L.L.C. Mooro(owner), Island Bay.

WANTED, a tidy young Girl, aboutsixteen, to assist ; sleep at home.Apply "Lymo House," 95, Molesworth-street.WANTED, Employment as bioscopo

operator or magician with companytouring country towns. Bioscope, EveningPost.

f

WANTED, Lying-in Patients;overycare, terms moderate. Address Mrß.IRothcrts STaix-lig-Ut;, 34-,

_lintO-1-StrcCt, _M5-W-

lown.ANTED Known.— Tho finest all brassand black and brass Italian and

Erench Bedsteads ovor seen in Welling-ton. Gaslightdisplay to-night at Shortt's,LoAver Willis-streot.WANTED,a Man to sharo room;con-

stant preferred. 35, Ghuznca-strect.

WANTED to Soil, in Riddiford-street",junction Rintoul-street, magnificent

Business Site, 39 x 90; £46 per foot.Baker Bros. » 6626

ANTED, at oueo, a good Gonoral.Apply Mrs. Flavell, 46, Wobb-streot.

WANTED to Soil, TelephtJto Lens, byBeck, ÜBablo as ordinary half-plato

or enlarging to six times, at will; yellowEcreen to fit, new;£4. Camera, EveningPoßt.

WANTED to Lond, £3500 on mort-gage, Bums to suit. G. S. Hill andCo., 8, King'8 Chambers, Willis-streot.

ANTED to Soil, good 'Cello, £3.Apply A.8., Evening PoEt.

WANTED to Soil. Kolburno, overlook-ing Park, woll-built 7-roomodHouse,

with all conveniences, land 50 x 100;£1350. ApplyBakor Bros. 6621WANTED, young Girl mind twochildren, hours 9 to 6;roferoncesrequired. Apply 32, Manners-street.

ANTED, Lad for warehouse. Applypersonally to Warehouseman,

V&euum Oil CompanyPropy., Ltd., Quin-streot. JWANTED, emnrt Bhorthand-Typiste;

ono with provious experience pre-ferred; salary to commenco 20« i Applyto Box 667, G.P.O.WANTED, a- Blacksmith for Ea«t

Coast;must bo good shoer andhavoknowlodgo gundral smithy work;-Ibo anImprover;permanent work to good men.Apply, in first instuueo, Briscoo and Co.,

ANTED, furnished Housol four orfivo rooms, including kitchon, bath,

gas linen, piano, not exceeding £2 porweek;15 minutes' walk to city, penna-,nent, best referonoag. P.N., Evoning Post.W"ANTED, a respootablo Man lo look

after ahorso and make himself gone-rnllv useful about tho house. Apply, be-twocn 7 and 8 p.m., to Mrs. R. Hannah,24, Boulcott'stroet. ./^73_TANTEI), smart young Man takoi*V T £200 intorost ana mtvoiujo business;Vs:ilary irrospectivo intoro*t ■sfilSO, Apply,O,Y.Z.Jffix_a_og_R?st.J ffix_a_og_R?st.

%¥ \

Pills and potions, oils and lotions, liniments anddrugs,

Plasters, baths, and embrocations, mostly fromhumbugs.

I've lost my health in drinking thorn, and wornmy inside out.

The Universal Cure's the stuff to put your cold torout.

,-mr ■■ ' ' " t?i

f HALLO THERE! IHAVEAN AWFUL,COLD,SEND ME UP A BOTTLE OF

"UNIVERSAL COLD CURE"AT ONCE, AND IWILL BE ALL-RIGHT

TO-MORROW.

-Mr.,W. H. Field, M.H.R., for Otaki,was entertained at a banquet by theemployees of the Wellington and Mana-watu Railway Company at Paekakarikilast evening. Amongst thoso presentwere the Premier, the Hon. Sir JosephWatfd, and Mr. John Stevens, M.H.R.,for Manawatu. About eighty peoplevors present, and the gathering was ofa cordial nature. Mr. Wm. Bell pre-sided

The chairman proposed the toast of"Tho Guest of the evening." He -saidSir. Field had represented the interestsof the employees of the ManawatuRail-way Company in the House of Repre-sentatives in a particularly satisfactorymanner. In reply, Mr. Field stai-adthat lie was very grateful for the ex-pression of goodwill he had received attho hands of tho employees of the com-pany andtheunfailing courtesy that hadalways beenextended\to him. In con-clusion he referred in glowing terms totho future of Paekakariki and to thoneed for telephones in the district. Solong as ho was their member theycould always rely on him doing his ut-most for the whole electorate and thosein it. (Applause).

The toast of the Ministry was pro-posed by Mr. Taylor, and responded toby the Premier.

On rising to reply Sir Joseph was re-ceived with cheers. He congratulatedMr. Field on the fine gathering tender-ed him and said he was present out ofrespect to Mr. Field. In the Housetheir member had tried to do his bestfor the colony as a* whole. It couldnot be expected that all would agreeon every point. Sir- Joseph also paida tribute to Mr. John Stevens'3 workin the House

The toast of "Parliament" was re-plied to by Mr. John Stevens. inthe course of the evening some import-ant references were made to superan-nuation for the employees of the Mana-watu Company, the acquirement of therailway by the State, the Land Bill,and other matters. The remarks madoon these subjects will be found else-where in thi3 issue. The Premier leftby special train and arrived in Wel-lington shortly before 2 o'clock thismorning. L

AMATEUR ATHLETICS.

AUCKLAND SUMMER MEETING.

ACCEPTANCES AND fORFEIT^.[BT TELrGBAPH.

—riIESH ASSOCIATION.]

AUCKLAND, 7th Uecem-er.Following arc tho acceptances for the

Auckland .Racing Club Summer Meet-ing :—:

—Auckland Cvd

—Armistice 8.6, Pari-

tutu 8.2, Scotty*B.l, Apologue 7.12,Cam-briar. 7.11, Gladstone 7.9, Douche 7.8,Zimmerman 7.8. Ghoorka 7.7 (and 7lbpen.) Miss Delaval 7.6, Ellerton 7.1,Akarana 6.13, Rustique 6.13, Grenade6.11, Fashionable 6.8, Volume 6.7-

Railway Handicap— King Billy 8.12,Cambrian 8.7, Lady Annie 8.2, Land-lock 8.2, Leonator 8.2, Certainly 7.11,Carl 'Rosa 7.8, Sir Tristam 7.8, ToAroha 7.6, Mi3s Winnie 7.4, Strathavon7.1, -Wltmaid 7.1, Fontenoy 6.13, No-teorini 6.11, Sweet Alice 6.10, Tiri Cak-abou 6.9, Luresome 6.8, Golden Cairn6.7.

Grafton Hurdles— Hautapu 11.10, Do-lores 10.8, Swagsman10.8, Silicia 9.10,Commonwealth 9.6, Cannongate 9.6,Lady Hune 9.6, Aqua Regia 9.2, Nesta-tor 9.0,

After declaration of the third forfeitthe following horses remain in the un-dermentioned races:

—Great Northern Foal Stakes, of 500

Boys— Moriarty, Alaranui, Downfall,

Eona, Glenculloch, First Gun, Cadence.Thirty-third Great Northern Derby,

of 750 soys.— Cambrian, Volume, Seal

Rock, Zimmerman, Mcnuku.Twelfth Royal Stakes, of 500 soys.

—Foremost, IJuascar, Friskie, Downfall,Volume, Glenculloch, Zimm'erman, Eona,Cadence, Moriarty.

AUTUMN MEETING.Following are tho first forfeits:

—Northern Champagne Stakes, of 500

soys.— Hierarch, Canrobert, b.f.by Cy-renian— Dreamland, Cadence, RoyalSoult, jbr c by Explosion— \liss Rose,Downfall, Finery, ilpranui, br c byPil-grims Progress— Mamie, Rosette, Ma-hino, Aristo, Alannah, br c by Hotch-|kiss

— Mantle, br c by Hotchkiss— Aleg-er, br f by Bluejacket— Radiant, Lams-dorf, Taitoko, br c by Soult— LadyMusket, br c by Soult— Elf, Bobington,Wallassey, Eona, Moriarty, br c byHotchkiss— First Love, br f by Hotch-

Iciss — Sister Francis,Carmana,Lady Fer-ris, br c by Bluejacket— Bangle, Dun-borne, The Libyan,

Great Northern Oaks, of 500 soys.—

Cir?nse, b f by Cyrenian— Pitapat, MissDix, Lady Nell, b f by Birkenhead

—Lady. Helen, eft f by Phoebus— Apollo,Stamy, Lady dressy, Sweet Alice, b fby Cuirassier— Helen M'Gregor, Intel-ligencoj Mungista, Helen, Portland,jMartzrium.

REAL ESTATE VALUES.

. .WELLINGTON CENTRE.A meeting of the Wellington Centreof' the New Zealand Amateur Athletic

Association was.held last evening. Mr.R. W. M'Villy presided, and there werein attendance 'Messrs. Coffey, Hogben,Williams, Larkin, Kitchen, J. H. Pol-lock, Tremors^ Hcenan, Todd, Dawson,Parton, and Davies "(secretary).

The Wairarapa AIA. Club was grant-ed 22nd January as the date of its an-nual meeting.

Letters from the New Zealand Coun-cil relating tb the annual meeting ofthe association to be held in Christ-church on 30th ult., were read. Therule with reference to registration feeswas repealed, leaving it optional withcentres to deal with the licensing ofcompetitors as they thought fit. Thelocal secretary, who was present at themeeting of the association, presented areport dealing with the business done.Ho was accorded a vote of thanks forhis efforts on behalf of the centre.It.was decided to call a special meet-

ing to consider the followingmotionstabled by the secretary, Mr. Davies:

—(a) That all members of the clubs af-filiated to the Wellington Centre com-peting'In teWflts; lje"l6V undejthe;rulesofthe association must obtain a' licensefrom the centre secretary, such licenseto hold good as long as the-1competitorconforms to the rules of the'association,andjshall^on no

taccount be transferable.

No" unficeVrisßcl iflembor may compete ex-copt by special permission of the cen-tre, (b) The registration fee shall be2s 6d, and licenses shall -be issued bytho centre secretary. Such fee to bocollected by the treasurer of the clubto which the member belongs and paidby such club direct to the secretary-treasurer of- the centre.It was resolved, on the motion of Mr.

J. H. bollock— "That this centre sug-gests to the Council of the N.Z.A.A.A.that in the interest of amateur athleticsthe council deal as empowered by clauseA of the reinstatement rules with allapplications for reinstatement, andthatthis centre further suggests that clauseB of the reinstatement rules.be amend-ed by substituting the words "fiftymiles" for the words "one hundredmiles" (in the third line), and that theclause in the reinstatement rules relat-ing to tho formation of new clubs beamended to read "twenty miles" in-stead of "fifteen miles."

Mr. W. ,F. Larkin expressed theopinion that competitors were not suffi-ciently controlled by officials at sportsmeqtings, and said thoy should be close-ly watched, and more stringent methodsadopted where necessary.It was decided that "books of tickets

for the pr6vincial championship meetingbe printed and distributed among themembers of the committee at an earlydate. Messrs. Ross and Parton wereappointed an 'Entertainment Committeein connection with the meeting.

Invitations were extended io his Ex-cellency tho Governor, Ministers of theCrown, the local M.H.R's., and theMayor of Wellington, to tho provincialchampionship meeting to bo held onNew Year's Day.

Few fortunes are now to be made inany part of the world except from onocause

—the riia in the value of realestate, saj's Andrew Carnegie.

Whenever it is possible to procure apieco of land at a fair valuein proximityto a' large city, "and Wellington is theplace," that land must bring a largerreturn than almost any form in whichnioney could be placed. There are formsin which a given sum of money mightbo invasted"so that it. would yield agreater return than the average piecoof real estate,but the trouble is the mostattractive forms of investment arc veryoften tho most delusive. Thebonds whichyou buy cither yield a very small returnor are in danger of disappearing alto-gether in the changes that constantlyobtain control of business enterprises.The buying of land needs no such dis-criminating judgment;determine if pricesare fair, nnd the natural increase inpopulation does the Test.

Think for a moment of tho vast iu-icrease in

'valuo of land that has been

mado in the.Lower Hutfc district in re-cent years. What is the reason? Thepopulation has increased, and the lawof nature is,that witha given populationover a certain area of land, any increasein that population must thevalue of the land. The law of tho pastwill be the rule of the future. Any rea-sonable investment made within theneighbourhood of any big city like Wel-lington canhave but one way to travel

—upwards.

The advantages -which the To MomiEstate, opposito Lower Hutt railwaystation, holds over any other land on themarket are many. Its situation in secondto none. Being so close to the LowerHutt railway station, it is, most; conveni-ent for those who have to travel to andfrom tho city. TheTG can, be no doubtthat the already large population at theHutt will steadily increase. What betterproof,cn,n we have of this fa-ct than^tolook at the improvements being carriedout, not only by the borough-itself, butalso by tho Government, who are spend-ing an enormous amount of money onduplicating the Tailway' line in order tocope with tho conetantly-increasing pas-oengcr traffic; Soon tho trains will runout in fifteen minutes.

Te> Momi sale, next Wednesday, at8 p.m., in the TownHall, is going tobethe biggest success ever known in Wel-lington. Those who miss this oppor-tunity will miss the chanco of a lifetime.

For the convenience of intending pur-chasers there will be representatives onthe ground to point out the different sec-tions and to -give any explanations thatmay be Tequired.

Remember, Te Momi auction sale is tobe held in the Town Hall, Wellington,next Wednesday evening, 12th December,1906, at 8 pCm. Further particulars andlithographic plans from R. J. Thompson,secretary, Lower Hutt, or Dwan Bros.,auctioneers.—

Advt.

TAWA ESTATE AUCTION SALE.

THE MANAWATU COMPANY'SEMPLOYEES.

SPEECH BY"THE PREMIEPv.The question of admitting the em-

ployees of the Wellington-ManawatuKaihvay Company as participators in thebenefits of the railway superannuationschemo was referred to at the banquettendered to Mr.~W. H. Field, M.H.It.,by the employees of the company ivquestion at Paekakariki last evening.

The chairman (Mr. William Bell) intro-duced the subject. That the attempt tobring the proposal into operation hadnot been" an accomplished fact was, hesaid, due to no fault on the part of Mr.Field. From what the employees of thecompany know of him, it was evidentthat when he Get his mind to a thinghe did not turn back. He assured Mr.Field that the banquet had been tenderedto him as a- mark of the esteem in whichhe was held by tho employees of theWellington and Maaawatu Railway Com-pany.

In reply, Mr Field said it wastrue 'thathe had spared no efforts in. en-deavouring to get for tho employees ofthe Manawatu the benefits of the Super-annuation Act;and though the endea-vour had not materialised, yet theycould rest assured that it would be onthe statute book next yeaT. (Applause.)He recounted the hislory of the effortsto bring the employees of the companyunder tho Act. On each occasion thatthe matter had been brought forward ithad been sympathetically received, andgave it as his opinion that had it notbeen for the scries of misfortunes whichoccurred this year the employees of tiiecompany at the present time would havebeen enjoying tho benefits of the schemeunder which the railway servants of theGovernment were working. He hadhoped that the Government might haveseen its way to introduce a special Billto Nbring about the desired result, butthere were so many matters of urgencyto be dealt with that he could not blamethe Gpvernmnet in any way. In 1902tho clause inserted in the Bill then beforetho House had been thrown, out by theLegislative Council, but the whole of thefacts went to show that the Governmentwas anxious to do tho right thing. Themen in the employ of tho ManawatnCompany were not aid men

—they very

men in the prime of life. Next year forcertain, bar accidents, they could rely onSir Joseph Waid bringing down thomeasure a,ss before and passing it intolav,-. He did not want to take credit forall that had been done. Ho particularlymentioned the fact that for the past twoycors the employees of the ManawatuCompany had been voluntarily settingaside the contributions they would havehadto pay under the Government scheme.Sir Joseph Ward, he thought, wouldalso try in every way possible to meetthe cases of men who had reared largefamilies.

In proposing the toast of "The Minis-try," Mr Taylor sr.id that the ManawatuCompany's employees would have about£26 to their credit per head when theycome undar the scheme, and as the direc-tors of tho company had subscribed£5000 towards superannuation he didnot think the actuaries could say very-much against the proposal.

Sir Joseph Ward dealt with the sub-ject at length in the course of his reply.He said he had always been a strenuousadvocate of superannuation schemes. Howas responsible for asking the House ofRepresentatives to put on the statutebook the Railway Superannuationschomo which was now in operation.It was working very successfully, andhe would like toisee the ManawatuCompany's < employees with an equallygood scheme to make provision forthemselves, their wives and their fami-lies. That was bound to come beforevery long, and he would bo very sorryif, as had been 'suggested, only twohundred out of three hundred em-ployees were to join. The whole theoryof the Act, and he said it deliberately,was that those who did not join withinsix months should not have the oppor-tunity of joining afterwards. That wasdone with the view of offering an in-centive to the men to join in their owninterests, because the more who joinedthe greater would be the stability ofthe fund. Out of four or five thousandmen in the railway service who wereold enough to join Ihore. were onlysixty who stood out from the scheme.This was to their credit. He hoped thoManawatu men, when they came undera scheme, would not make the mistakeof not joiningbecause they were insured.Ho pointed out the benefits of a super-annuation scheme as against any systemof insurance. The reason tho Civii Ser-vice Superannuation Bill was not car-ried last session was that the PublicAccounts Committee required furtherinformation from the actuaries

—infor-

mation which could not have been pro-,cured even in a four months' session.Efc believed, however, that it wouldbe put through next session. (Ap-plause.) In regard to superannuationgenerally, so many werenow anxious tocome under it that there was some hesi-tancy .about imposing a liability on thecolony for years to come without beingsure.that tho funds were receiving suffi-cient contributions to make them safefor fifty years to come. His ownopinionwa3_ it would be necessary for the em-ployer, that was to say tho State, togive a contribution every year towardsthe fund to make it financially sound..If that was done ou an equitable basisand tho boneficiatics were contributingona fair equivalent basis the fundcouldbo inado sound oven to meet the 're-quirements which the actuaries con-,sidcred necessary for years to come.The country ought to ascertain whatamount was actually necessary to makeprovision for tho financial security ofthese very great benefits, and he hopedtho ManaWatu Railway Company Mouldalso come into the scheme. Ho did notbelieve in pensions ns against superan-nuation, towards which the persons bene-fited paid some contributions. Ho con-cluded by saying that where a concen-trated sacrifice was made over a. periodof years superannuation was justified,but where a. pension applied to such alarge number of persons as were nowemployed by the they would be.absolutely unjustifiable. (Applause.) Hissympathies were strongly for building upa greo.t scheme for the whole of the civilsorvico, and for a great organisationsuch as that to which,his hearers be-longed. (Applause.)

ANOTHER EXPOSITION BY THEPREMIER.

SPEECH AT PAEKAKARIKZ

THE MEMBER FOR OTAKI INEXPLANATION.

At the banquet tendered to Mr.W. 11. Field at Otaki last evening,the Land Bill \yas very much in evi-dence. An explanationby Mr. Fieldof his attitude to the Bill was responsi-ble for a lengthy speech by the Pre-mier. Mr. Field said he was one ofthose who was not in entire agreementwith the policy outlined by the Gov-ernment, and no thought he might saya few words concerning his position.Ever sinco ho entered the House hehad always been an ardent freeholder

—or rather an ardent frcehold-tcnurist.When he was asked to stand for Parlia-ment years ago he felt that the onlyquestion on which thero was a possi-bility of his not being in agreementwith the Government was the landquestion. At the time ho had askedthe late Mr. Seddon if his (Mr. Field's)views conflicted with the late Pre-mier's and Mr. Seddon's answer was:"If the people want the freehold theymust have it." For this reason hesaw no bar to his joining the LiberalParty. As time went there was a splitor a difference of opinion. The do-sirc of both sections was the same,but tho methods they would pursue toattain tho object in view differed. Theywanted to soo tha land settled and novery large estates. When the LandBill was introduced they had all hopedthat tho Government would have seenits way to provide the freehold for thelands held by the Crown, and alsothoso acquired under the Land forSettlements Act. Ho wanted to makehis position clear. He had been re-turned to Parliament as an advocate ofthe freehold tenure, and it was his in-tention not only to stick to his pledgesbut to battle for his views no matterwhat might happen. There was noman in the colony nioro anxious thathe(Mr. Field) should keep his pledgesthan Sir Joseph Ward. "Better," hesaid, "to suffer a thousand defeatsthanto go into private life discredited."(Applause.) He affirmed that theGovernment should not, in settling tholaud question, do anything that wouldresult in increasing the rate of interestin the colony. The whojo matter cen-tredround the question of whether peo-ple wero to havo the option of acquir-ing tho freehold or not. Before nextsession he hoped that such amendmentswould bo made in tho Bill that allwould be able to join hands and .placeit on the statute book. (Applause).

THE PREMIER IN' REPLY.In replying to tho toast of "the

Ministry" tho Premier said that ho didnot intend to deliver a political speechbut he just wanted to cay this: Thatthero were things on which there wasroom for differences of opinion. He"was a country member, and representeda farming constituency in the'HousoiThey must necessarily have differentideas and different opinions if theywere going to get the best out of every-Ithing. Some country members dif-fered from other country members ontho Land Bill, but ho desired, emphati-cally, to make it clear that the Govorn-ment neverproposed at any time to takeaway from the pooplo in New Zealandtheir freehold. There were 77 millionsof acres of freehold' land in tho colony,and there was not a lino in the Bili"which had been bofore tho House totake away a foot of thi3 freehold. T-her6wa3 a proposal in the Bill to limit thefreehold, and tho reason for this wasto prevent that ruin which had sweptin tho trail of people in England,' Ire-land and Scotland for years wh'erphugoareas had been turned aside from culti-vation and were convorted into deer-shooting and fishing preserves. Surelythen it was right for every man in theHouse to try andmould ourland legisla-tionina way not injurious to tho largoland holder,'but in a way thatwouldin-suro tho balance available being cut upand placed on oifer as a freehold toanybody who wanted it. That waswhat was proposedby tho Government."Wo may do persuaded to tho contrarybefore wo are done," ho added. Therowere seven men in this country whoowned 300 square miles of landi in onodistrict. If Paokakariki had been inthe centre of such a district thero wouldhavo been no settlers in the place. Heaffirmed that under thoso circumstancesthpso who owned vast areas of landlike this should bo given the option ofsellingportion of it at fair prices

—that

they should not bo compelled to lose itor (jellit to the Governmont, but thatthey should havo the right to sell it toany one they saw fit. As for thosewho held land under tho optional sys-tem, at present there wa3 (not a, linoin the Bill whichproposed to take'theirrights away from them. There wasan agitation that those who held landunder the 999 years lease should havotho right to acquire it at the originalvaluation. Tho value of such lands intho past 20 yearshad been gr6atly add-ed to by tho expenditure of PublicWorks monoy and the industry ofothers. Ho strongly condemned anysuch proposal, and stated that therowore cases where land which had beenacquired under tho lease in perpetuitysystem, if put up at auction to-day,would bring fnll value and in soino in-stances even more. If iho Govern-ment was not asked to make tho landlegislation of tho colony retrospectiveit would bo tho easiest question in thoworld, to settle. And what was thodifference between tho out and out free-holder and tho policy outlined in theGovernment Bill? Thero wero onlysome two million acres of Crown landsloft, and the wholo had been valued atan average of 7a 6d per acre. ThoGovornment did not propose to put itsfinger on millions of acres in the coun-try. Unless tho opponents of the BillB&idlegislation wastobo retroactive, andthat tho manholding loaso-in-pcrpctuityland was to havo the right of acquiringit at tho original value, then the wholetroublo applied to only two millionacres of Crown land of poor quality.Tho Government waa desirious of pro-moting settlement, and ho hopedacalmand dispassionate conclusion would boarrived at. He

—and thoir ropro-

sontative, too—wanted to dp what hothought was right,and they wouldhave,if an. opportunity arose, the right ofnaying through tho ballot box thattheir view was in a certain direction.(Applause.) Ho wes persuaded thatthat tho good sense of thoir -representa-tive would load him in tho right direc-tion. (Applause.)

In rogard to native lands tho Pro*mior spokoon tho samo lines as ho HAat tho Town Hall tho previous oven-ing, and concluded by saying that itwas his opinion that when the matterwas put through tho crucible of publicopinion and reasoning it would bo fortho bonoflt of all classes.

There wns a very largo attendance atthe auction rooms of iUcssrs. Thomsonmid Biown last evening, when tho firmsubmitted on behnlf of the Tawa StationEstate- sections opposite the. railway sta-tion. Tho auctioneers repent thdfc thebidding was spiriled, a total of 27 soe-tious being sold. Following is a list ofthe sales: —

Section 1, £60, G. E. Farley.Section 2, £54, J. Clark.Section 3, £49, J. N. Cumings.Section 4, £50, J. N. Cumings.Section 5, £49, J. M'Naugliton.Section C, £49, W. Waters.Section 7, £49, \V. L. SicveTs.Section 0, £43, It. S. Gaudy.Section 9, £64, J. M. Geddio. *Section 10, £55, S. G. Kirker.Section 11, £45, W. Anderson.Section 12, £50, Alf Seastraud.Section 13, £52 10s, J. Rogers.Section 14, £49, J. M. Geddis.Section 15, £51, J. M. Geddis.Section 15, £51, J. BlanuhimLSection 17, £51, W. Novson,Section 18, £50, J. 'Round.Section 19, £49, J. Needhnm.Suction 20, £80, Atox.Heid. "flection 21, £49, J. Kershnw. "Section 37, £42, J. M. Geddis.Section 42, £43, H. M. Smith.Soclion 43, £46, W. Fink.Rectiou 44, £50, F,. Fostor.Section 45, £52, J. Bknch,ard.Section 41, £40, G.B. Farley.^Total, £1343 10s. Tho nre&s~ranged

from 1rood 6 perches to 2 roods 5perches.Tho Secretary of tho Wellington Bo-

novolant Institution Contributors ac-knowledges with thanks tho receipt ofa donation of £5 from Mrs. Rhodos, of.Tho Orango, towards tho iCbristtnaa^Fund at tho-Qhiro-'Homot

Ithas beenproposed by severalmem-borß of bowling clubs in Wellington,'who aro willing to join a team of oow-lcra to tour the Old Country, that theNorthorn Bowling Association shouldvontilnto tho idea amongst all tho as-sociato clubs with a view to enlistingmombcrs willing to go. Tho proposalis that tho team shall lcavo Wellingtonin March. Itis further desired thattho team should be a thoroughly rcpre-sontativo one.

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1906.SPORTING.RAILWAY SUPERANNUATION.THE LAND BILL. MR. FIELD ENTERTAINED.

2

BT. PAUL'S PRO- CATHEDRAL,

MULGRAVK-STREISr.SECOND SUNDAY IN ADVENT.

Order of Services—Holy Communion, 8

a.m.;Matins, 11 a.m.;Eveosong, 6.3QJOffertories inaidof Diocesan Pension Fund.TINAKOItI-EOAD CEURCHROOM—Children's Service, 11a.m.;Evensong,6.30.

ST. PE T EIt'S CHUEC,H.SECOND SUNDAY INADVENT.

Order of Services :— 8 a.m., Hob Com-munion ;']Ia.m..MatinsandSe_mon;dp.m..Baptismsand Cliurchinga;7, UvensougandSeimon.

Brooklyn Charcliroom— Ba.m ,'Holy Com-munion;11a.m.,Matinu;",Evensong.KELBUItSE-iierviceat 11a.m.'i'ARANAKI-ST.— yerviee at 7 p.m,"ST. JOHN'S CHURCH, VTILLIS-ST.

(Presbyterian).TO-MORROW.

Morning, 11. Emling,6.30.Preacher— Rev.Dr. Gi!bb.

Evening-'"ri1Q Return God Seeks fromHis InTe&tmeutinUs."Si1'- ANDIIKVV'S PEEsim-EKIANy^J oiiuitCH, Wellington'.I'srbacbi.

SERVICES, SABBATH, 9lh DEC.Morning, IX." Evening,6.80.Proacher--Rev.J. Gibson Smith.

Evening subject— "The Gatowty of Life."QT. JAMES'S PJRBSB?TEUIAN)O CHURCH,

WELLINGTON SOU_H.Services at 11a.m.and6.58 p.m.

Preachers:Rev. W. Shirer andRev. W. 3. Williams.Communionat MorningService.* '

INMEMORIAM CHURCH, IslandBay—

3 p.m.,Rev. W. Shiror.'

KENT-TERRACE PRESBYTERIANCHURCH. - ,

SUNDAY, 9lh DECEMBER.Preacher— Rev.J.K.Elliott. B.A.

■Morning,11a.m. EvenitJg,6.30 p.m,Serviceat lioseneatli Schoolroomat 6.30.

ROOKL"_N PRESBYTERIANJ CHURCH.

Preacher— Rev.P.C. Rettnie.Services— Morning. 11; Afternoon, 2.30,

Sabbath School; Evening, 6.30 (Subject,"SpiritualMadness").

_^ONGE,EGATIONAL CUUJ&OHES.V_V

SUNDAY, 9fch DECEMBER.THE TERRACE—IIa.m. an_ 6.30 p.m.,

Rev.J.ReedGlasson. ,Ere—ing subject,'"Oid J-emoriesf"COURTENAY-PLAOE— Morniag, 11.Rev.

Macdonald Asp]and; Evening, 630,Mr.D.Miller. ;

CONSTABLE-

STREET " (Ne*tot9ai).—

11a.m.and 6.30 p.m.,Rev.W,A.Evans.

ALICETOWN (DrillH_U)-3 Am, SundaySchool;630 p.m.. _Ir.J.EU Ward.ISTHODIST CHU-iCH OF

AUSTRALASIA.ServicesTO-MORROW.

WESLEY CHURCH, 'laranski-street.—11 a.m..Rev.P. W. Fairclongh*} 6.30 p.m.,Eev.-C.C. Harrison.

MOI.ESWORTH-ST.,Thorndan— lla.m.,Mr.Ralph;G.30 p.m.,Eev.C.Perter.

KAItORI— IIa.m.,Rev.C. Poster;7 p.m..Mr. T.E. Corkill. TOfiY-STHBHI' MIS-SION— IIa.m.,Roy. 11. B. Redstone.;.0.3&p.m.. SisterIsabel Sinclair. ATK)-S'_RE_il'MISSION— O.3Op.m.,SisterEvdynLaws."

WELLINGTON SOUTH, Nowtown--(Trinityl11 a.m.. Rev.T.Koith Ewen; 6.30p.m.,Rev.W. Shirer.

KILBIRNIE— 7p.m.," Mr. C. D.- Maekio-tosh.

JOHNSONVILLE— IIa.m.,Eov.ColinC.Harrison;7 p.m., Mr. J. W. Black. KAI-WARUA— IIa.m., Mr. Jas. Htttfcon;6.30p.m.,Mr.Henry Hart. CROFHON(Choreh.Anniversary Servioes)

—3 p.m., 3iev. C. 0.

Harrison;7 p.m.,Rev.P.VV. E-irclqugh.pBIMmVEMETHODIST CIHURCHE-

WEBU-STREKT— II,Rev. F, W. Isitt;G.30, Rev.J.D&wson.

ROSENEATH— II,Rev..T.DawQon. TAWAPLAT, 11. POiIIRUA— 3 and 7, Rev.B.Motson.

SEWTOWJ* (Dp-aid M'Le_n-s4.)— H,Mr*J. Jtyres': O.UO, Eev.J.~Coo_er.

""sISLAND BAY— IIa.m., Rev. ~J. Cpoker;

3p.m., R3V.J. Coc-or.

PRIMITIVE M_TI*ODIST CHOROH.Sydney-street— ll,Mr.Bnrd;6.30,Rot.v.E. AVard. Petone— ll,Eev.O. E. Ward;7,Rev. R.J. Liddell. Northlaad— ll,Rot.11. J.LiddeU;7. Mr. fffaost. Apthem."TTSTELLINGTON BAPTISTCHURCH,W VIVIAN-STREET.

Preacher— Rev.J.J. Nocth.Morning,11. Evening,6.30.

Evening subject—" The Loafer and theLion."

Youare earnestly invited.PETONE

—Morning 11^ Evening 0.30.

Rev.Jas. Spottiawoodo.jyliKHAMPOltE BA_>TIST

'CHURCH^Jt>

SUNDAY SCHOOL SIXTH, ANNI-'

V-TRSARY.SUNDAY! SEItVICEO.

Morniug, ll—Rov. V\T.J. WgliamaAi'teruoou.3

—Rev.T.Keith,Ewen

Evening,6.3o—^Rev. T.KeitaEwenTUESDAY,11th INSl1.TEA AND PUHLIC MEIiJriNG.

Tea at 6 p.m. Publio Meeting,7i3op m.Tickets for Tea— Adults la, b'uiliolars6d.Special ftlusic at all Servioes by the

Scholars and Choir,under the direction ofMr.G.F. Krew.

Collections inaid ofSchoolFunds.Open-air Service To-night tD.V. andwcahor permitting) at Grecn-st> .off Riddi*

fortt-st.. 8o'clock.'i

HlliO-ROAl> BAPTIST CHURCH.BROOKLYN.Preuchoi'— Rev. AY. Lamb Morning—"

Tho l^ivst Great Preacher." Evening—"How to Understand." .Special <ifforhigs.HPHE MISSIONS TOi SEAMEN-1 CHURCH AND INSTITUTE,

(Whitmoro-streetj.SUNDAY, 9th DECKM_<ER.

Sorvicesat 11. 6 30,and 8.Morning Preacher— -The Rev. 0 1). Bates.Holy Communion atif1.EveningPreacher— Mr.J.Moore,Missionor.Subjects-(l) -'Some Helps to Belief-"(2)'"

Ear Enough."Sailors' Parlour openedat 10 k.tn.ai.-d 2.Prayor Moeting at 6.10. Institute openeddaily.

/IHURC H (Tf (TitlilSi;A-> RIDDIPOBD-ST,, Wellinftoa South;11a.m.~Church Worship. .-' '■">"

2.45p.m.— Schoolami BibleCkfeses.6.30p.m.— Gospel Service.

j(jPreacher— Mr. A. K- Turner, Subjoet--'A Great Proclamation."

LYELL BAY ROAD, South Kilbirnie.11a.m.— Worßhip.

.-.43p.m.—

SundaySchool. ,-C3O p.m— Mr. Poaplos will preaoh theGospel. ■ '

INGE&TKK-SXBKJOxIFiCLiI!~

rH-\HI>; Gospil will be preached (D.V.) ouJL Lord's Day. at 7 p.m. All invited,fceats all free. No collection.Acordial invitation toall.

W KLl.i^iiON~OKSTit_L MISSION,"V* HERBERT-STREET.SUNDAY, 9th DECEMBER.

11 a.m.— Councillor's Lcadii.g. Short,Sparkbng, TestimonyMoetiujj.2.20 p.m.— Sunday School. W'oleomo tonew snpox'intondont,Mr.Longluu-'ht.

7p.m.— Evangelistic, Sliss KolW.Awelcome forall.

OPEN-AIR SlfiltVlCKU. ,; A-"Wlmrf, 10 a.m 6 p.ni.*__F. W. DREDOI'...- ocretaty.

WELLINGTWi SPIRITOALISTS'* * sOCIEix.RECHABITEHALL^MAJTO ERS-ST. "

TO-MORROW (SUNDAY), 1 o'clock.pareweliTaddre&s. t' ''.

MRS. PRAEDj of Australia, will giveher Farewell Aduress uuder Bpi*it coutroFwhilst m <ranco.

Tho INDIAN Guide will also o-ivoCHIUSTIAN and .SURNAMES,of fric_d»of the nudionce who havo patted on toiho other eide of life.Message of X.U9 Newspaper ft>r Doccm-bor,

CITY DYE WORKS.Under ©L_3|_*J_l .P" c.r. Distinguished 2§_i§j§S? Distinguished

Patronage. __p&c2>_» Patronage.JETRENCH CLEANrnG by 3Sew DryPro-U? cess. Trial solicited.

TAYLOR AND CO.,[225, Lambton-quay (opposite Government1 Buildings).

BEFOREHAVING YOURi£j-_IK_TNG, PAPERHANGING, ETC.,

DONE,GET ANESTIMATE FROM ,'

J, -' W. JENNINGS, ,*"Th0_0^23267" Address:178, Willis-st.

*

'WATCH KEPAIRS.

WANTED Known— Watch Repairinga speciality. Geneva Watches

©leaned, 2s od; Levers, 3s; Mainsprings,£?; Watch Heads fitted, 6d each; Glasses,4d; other repairs at equally low prices.

work guaranteed...A. HAWKES, Practical Watchmaker,Morrah's Ttniirlingg,54.Willis-street.

WANTED to Sell, complete MillPlant,including 2 log-haulers, with large

area of bush, on a reasonable royalty,within 2£ miles of Upper Hutt RailwayStation; also, tho old-established TimberBadness situated at Petone, with or with-out-jnachinery. Apply

THQS. PRICE AND CO., LTD.,Petone.

FUENTEXTSS.grX7"ANTED Known

—Sidey, Meech andFV? Co., Muiners-street, are Cash Buy-

_es of Fnmitttre, Pianos, and Libraries.Established over 35 jeans.

TO CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITIONVISITORS. \WANTED Known— All people visiting-

the Exhibitionat Xmas timeshouldfcaso- their" Clothes Dry-cleaned or Dyedat Barber's Wellington Steam Dye andFrench=-Glutting Works, 46, Cuba-street.Ladies* dresses, gents' suits, curtains, fea-thers, gloves, etc.. cleaned or dyed at theshortest notice. Tel. 226.' t IT CONCERNS YOU a££7WASTED— Everybody to Know that

we are making the best Tailor-madeSuits to Measure, hand-made throughout,IDs cheaper than any other,tailor in theeiiy. Select and extensive range of eea-fonable materials to chooso from. Theonly house you can buy Pure Linen Un-Sarched White Shirts, 2s od.;" W. AND T.MESTON,Tailors andMercers, 2_b, Ingestre-street,"- 'three doors from Cnba-street.::: CHRISTMAS GIFTS.'tjJKTANTED Known— All purchasers of4T" 20s or more will receive a usefulirritable Present. Best value in New Zea-land for Millinery, Oostisrfes, Undercloth-ing, Ladisß* buy.hew,. Why.pay-doubleelsewhere for goods not equal in qualityto those obtainable from

MRS. DICKSON, .167, Lambton-quay;.

WANTED %NOW N-That LEN M'KENZEft,.The People's Chemist,'ha3' jusfc landed

Sparklets and Charges for the Xmca holi-days. Visit the OperaHousePharmacy,nextdoor to Opera Honso, far Xmas Gifts.Perfumes and Silver Toilet Articles ingreat.vari«y"at'.Lcri M'Kenzie'B.

ABOUT THAT SUIT!

WANTED; some one to wear one ofA. PATEESON AND SON'S 85s

Suits who hasn't worn a tailor-mado suitthat looked and fitted so well at sixguineas. The new Spring Suitings arenow ready. So como along to 19, Ingestrc-gtreet. We are reliable

SCRAP LEAD.

T*T:£sfrß& jo Bay, _OBAP LEAD in

"I,JUET.W-1"'ity. -Ap^ly -Mr,Whitelaw,

Stereo Dcpgrtm-ftt-, EveniagPost*OPPORTUNITY.

WANTED Known— Kouse, Black andSon iiiviie the publio to inspect their

new Eastic Carts, Gig3, »nd Sulkic*. Woh*v» also for Sale, second-hand Dog-carts,Vans, Expitesees, Butchers' and Bakersa&dJJpriDjj;CarU-^Remcinber our nerw lo-ca-ion— beiweon Pii-le-sircct andBasinRe-tqrfp: 'Erftranco from Piric-street, Nulson-street, and Ke-t-terraoa' .:.

- .- .rSPLIT PUIiKS".

W'ANtfiD to SoU, Wrought tron Split" Pnllfty, '42in dfctmcter, _Bin wide,ma bore," floublo anna. '.Apply' ' ' MANAGEE,Evening Po«t.

WAKTED Known— To Cycli3W. Seeonr latest U.S.A. Boucher Cycles at

£16 (terms),with tho verybe6t parts,- andbuilt up-to-date;bent workmanshipguaran-teed. Call and inspect. Why don't youbuy a bigBoucher Bell, very cheap; youcan't beat them. Large etoclc of all kindsof Cycle Accessories. Repairs nt the low-est price. Thovndon Cycle and MotorWork*, J. Bouchir _ud Co., Moiesworth-«treet. 'Phone 1579.WANTED, Ladies to Know we have

just received a largo assortment ofSample Silk Blouses, real beauties. Theyw«re £2 each, and -we arc selling them for253;25s- Blouses wo are soiling for 15s, 'Wo have «Im> very nice Coafcomc*, W»ft

' latest style, niado on the premisos. U- w«I" pa* yoa to iimpoot. Note the adijress—-Bicgei's, Mannew-ztreet. Tel. 225^., ''

ANTJiD, irrvi-ntors who a»o;dwjrOaßof tmruing their ideas iogopu ad'

yahtsgo to consult HonryJBnjbes,■PatentE»wrt, Qupen'3 Ch,a^j^J»plKwite PostOffiaß),

-Wolhngtg^^^^fim b&n beeneitabfisbtid nc&rJj^pHHpvuT^''^ years, andare thus in a jfoimfOn to'■'give invo-torsthe b<>nflfit of tboiit'long experience. F_m-phlet "Advico to liiTentora." post free.

ANTKD to Sell, Dart~Road Racer^No. 3896, 8.3.A. parts, nearly now;

ownsr porchssed Minerva- Motor Bicyclo;s splendid,bargain at £10 cash. Adams,Limited, Mercer-ctreet.

WANTED to Htli,a general assoramtjotof new and second-hand two and

four wheel Vohioloe, consisting of— __dicii'phaetons, dog-cart«, giga, sulkies, gzocers'and basincu cart«7.*.'Contractors' jprtßg tipdrays, ooa\ and timber drays* ooatuwtont'tip HcayA (from ZJ to 4 inch iitesl,expcQMand one ciurrio^ van, in gpsd orden _ti-. the'V/ellpgtonC^achL JfattO-f^jat^rJßSßtt

WANTED KNOWN.READ, MARK, LEARN

THIS NOTICE.THE LEONIDAS OINTMENT,Tho Miraculous Skin. Feeder and

(Woman's) Beautifier.Has Cured goitre, neuralgia, erysipelas,

eczema^ ringworm,sore throats, chest com-I plaint, pains, burns, cuts, sunburn, chil-blains, bad legs, headaches. Splendid for-

varicose veins and kidneys, etc. Use itwith baby. Worth five guineas per box.

3ST.B-— Obtainable ONLY of the Proprie-. tress.MRS. LEONIDAS M. SMITH,

♥,Vivian-street.At Home Wednesdays and Saturdays,10

a.m. to 7 p.m. Daily, 6to 7 p.m.Price 2s 6dper box. RECIPE for SALE.

(Established in Welb'ngton 1893).. WANTED TO SELL.A SCENIC AND MOST BEAUTIFUL

; .t\.ESTATE, the late residence of Mr. ]i Justice Edwards, Dee-street, Island Bay.

The above estate has just been cut up into15 good-siied Sections, andhas \ charmingaspect, and is planted with Shrub3andOrnamental Trees. Prices and Terms mostreasonable. Apply to

REAL ESTATE AGENCY,7a, King's Chambers.

', TO BUILDERS AND OTHERS.; TO CLOSE AN ESTATE.

WANTED to Sell, 6 SECTIONS inChinaman's Garden Estate, Island

Bay. ApplyTHE REAL ESTATE AGENCY,

7a, King's Chambers.

WANTED Known, we areKings of theTrousers Trade. Fine Fitting

Trousers, ready to wear, 6s lid, 100 6d,123 6d pair.

DUNCAN AND MACINTOSH,Manners-street,

Opposite Opera House. .'ANTED— Scholcfield's pretty Pr£

sents in Gsnuine Greenstone Gold-mounted Brccchao, 5s 6d;Heart and Pin,3s 6d; Heprt3, 2s 6d; Greenstone Rings,as od; N.Jj. Fora Brooch, 9b; Pendants,2s 6d. Sec window, 36a, Manners,Btreet,aext shop to Fielder's.

WANTED Known.— Purchasers forRaleigh Cycles at Inglis Bros.' sur-

prise sale. Price: gent's machine, Eadiehub, brake and mudguards, £U 10s. De-comber only.

WANTED Known— ll. Levy, Licensed,(jja_h Dealer in Left-off Clothing,

boots and ihoes, etc., No. 7, Courtenay-place; all correspondence receives promptattention.

-ANTED Known.— PurchasersXmas presents to, inspect Inglis

Bros.' stock of Cycles, etc. Every Jme, reduced during their surprise sale.ANTED to Sell, a sound establishedPhotographic Business a3 goingcon-

cern;small capital required;easy in-goingcan bo arranged; euit pithor sex. Write"first inatanco E. Squire, Hswera^WANTED "

Known— Startling Reduc-tions in tho prico of Motor Care,

Cycles, and Cycle Accessories during De-cember, at Inglis Bros. Surprise Sale.WANTED, every lafly who values her

complexion and eyesight 'to *have

that smokyRi'ige repaired by O. S. New-Ecn, Rangemaker and Engineer, Cornhill-/etreet (eff Manners-street) New Rangesraade cheaply and every Kind of Repair*undertaken at a moment's notice.

WANTED to Sell, Lcaso of Bakeryand Confectionery, Tearooms, and

Fruit Shop;,first-class business in risingtown;abargain;owner retiring;no good-will; moderate rent; no agents; prin-cipals onlydealt with. Apply C. Williams,Levin

WANTED to Dispose of, seven-roomedResidence on Mount Victoria;

every possible convenience, four fireplaces",fernery, nico garden back and front, «to.;prico £1200. W. F. Shortt, Ltd., EstateAgents, Willis-stroat. -_WANTED Known, Radford's,Maanerg^

street, is the cheapest 'and bo4t forall kinds of Furniture, Bedsteads, Bed*ding, Carpet?, Linoleums, and all House-hold Requisites. Brass-rail Bedsteads, 4ft6in, 28s 6d;ironcots, 203;34-picco dinnerset::, 20s;Chinese matting.Is6d,now &icl;hearthrugs from 2» 6d. Wo furnishthroughout;cash or terms. Inspection in-vited. "

WANTED to Purchase, 50 ladies'second-hand Bicycles, in part pay

rncnt for ladies' Triumphs; liberal allow-ances given. Adams, Limited, Mercer-st.WANTED~Known, SpleViaX~Gassght

Display of new Furniture atShortt's, Ltd, to-night;call and inspecttho splendid new showroom.

ANTED Known.— The 10-12 iTpT4 cylinder 4-seated "Stuart" C*r at

tho reduced prico of £410 is the best valueobtainable in cars. Call and inspectInglis "Bros.' surpri«o sale.

ANTED Known— Boots Repairedwhile you wait. Gents' Boots solod

and heeled 2s 9d, Ladies' ditto 1» 9d.Bhjchors, nailed, 4s od; Boys* and Girl*'strong School Boots, 2s 9d. AmericanBoot Repairing Co., corner Buckle andTory streets.

WANTED Known—That wo aro pre-pared to buy 50 second-hand ladies'. Bicycles in part payment for ladies' Swift

B-oyalg. Adorns, Limited, Mgrcer-atrcct.' \jtfANTED, your Work. Prices jfivenVy for largo or small lotu of every; de-

scription of builder*' joinery, shop fittings,■etc. Ranaf Jomerjr Works, 61, Adel»idn-road.

ANTED, tho Enterprising Public totake advantage of the present low

price? of Miramar Section! aud doublotheir money at an e«rly dnto;prices from£2 por foot. Apply W. _\ SboTtt, Ltd.,-Estate Agents, Wflflfritrcßt.'

ANTED,Purchaser"for Swift Road-ster, No. 3395, in good running

order, £6 ;inspection invited;terms ar-ranged. Adams, Limited, Mcicer-Btreat.

ANTED, "-"Buyer for * ffood goingGrocory liu«inc<ss, shop and 6 fooma,

rent 22s 6d a week; stock at valuationApply F.Loudon, Waring Taylor-stroet^

WANTED, tho public to remember thatFISH is preferable to Moat in hot

weather. Whitobait fresh daily *t TheBodega, Lambton-quay, noxt Fernando-,

. Fishmonger. All now and up tn date.H Viators should,remember that Tbe Bo-

tbeßt>ttJ*co-l9r I'M:. ... . , /t.«_SSB&I *

WIN A 6UINEA.

A PRIZE of Ono Guinea will be givenfor the Best Verso of Four Lines in

praiso of ZOLAK/the great French SkinFood.A ZOLAK TESTIMONIAL WRAPPER

must accompany each vcr3e, and must bosent in before 31st December, to ZolakCo., Box 559, Wellington.

ZOLAK is Sold Everywhere,Is 6d and 2s&d per jar.NOTICE.

WHEN you require nn Express, ringup tho Carriers' Union. Telephone

1025. All messages promptly attended to.Open daily, includingSaturday afternoons.No waitingwhen you ringup.NoteAddress— Camers' Union, 18, GREY-

STREET.THE CREAM OF TOILET SOAPS AND

PERFUMERY"""May bo found nt

CASTLE'S NEWTOWN PHARMACY,15, Riddiford-stroet.

Wo aro holdintr very large stocks forXmas and New Year trade. Our pricesaro right. Come and inspect our PerfumeCaskets.

TO YOUNG MEN.HARRY BAKER (lato of Osborne and

Baker), opp. Thornton's, Manners-street, has now opened new Summer Suit-ings. Fit and btylo guaranteed.

CLOTHING.T ADIES', Gents', and Children's Lcft-3-1 off Clothing, Boots, Bed and TabloLinen purchased in any quantity; highestprico given. Letters promptlyattonded to.Mrs. Jones, 62a, Tarannki-strcot.briSNTL'EMEN'S LEFT-OFF CLOTHINGHIGHEST Prices given for Gentlemen's

Loft-off Clothing,Boots, etc.;orderspromptly attended to. Mrs. Bruce, sa,Ingcstro-street.

ATER i» the great carrier of infec-tivo germs; it ,ia therefore advis-

able to drink only APOLLINARIS Guar-antoed to be of absolute purity and freofrom disease germs. '

BOYAL Bag Bluo on Monday makes'the clothes tho colour you desire;

leaves no.streaky blu3 marks.TRJSTHITEBAIT, cicely browned forVT breakfast, will tempt an invalid.

St. George Whitebait, at all grocers.

L. MARTIN,Metaphysician, 3, Har-o per-Etreet, two doors from Daniel-

streot, may be consulted daily. y

TT>BIVATE Maternity Homo—

Mrs.-JL Starkio, Praotismg Midwife, 9,Homo-street, Kent-terraco.

EVENING POST ANNUAL. Now onSalo all Booksellers. Now Zealand

by Camera. One Shilling.f>OYAL Bag Bluo gives the"clothes aJL% colour that's tho envy of the ncigh-boutt. Ad; for Royal Bag Blue.

SIGNWRITING, nest workmanship,lowest prieos. W. G. Tuetin, 89,

Willis-atreet.TJOYAL Bag Bluo ou Monday makesJL\ tho clothes tho colour you desire;leaves no streaky blue marks.A POLLINARIB has been aptly called

-C3C ''"The Quetm of Table Wators," fornobanquet or festivity is.complete withoutit. "By appointment tb/fcfta Majesty thoKing and to His Royal Highness thoPrinco of,Wales, etc.rf^HRISTCHURCH Exhibition.

—Cc-m-

V^ fortablo quarters for ladies, businessmen, families, and tpurists. AbordareHouse (privato family hotel), Gloucestcr-

1street, cloao to Exhibition;tariff, 5s to10s per Uay. Enquiries promptly attendedto"O OVAL Bag Bluo ha^ no poisonous_Xr'chemicals;does not injuro the skinor hurt tho finest fabric. .<P<HRISTCHURCH Exhibition.— You\J will need a Travelling Bag, Glad-stone, Brief, Portmanteau, Straps, etc.Cheapest shop-in town. W. H.Nash, Lea-ther Warehouso, 51, Cuba-street.XJOYAL Bag Blue, mado by oxports,'Juk) 'andi8positively tho cheapest andbest. Ask for Royal Bag Blue.rTWE Post .Annual. Over 100 Illustra-JL' teons One Shilling. All Stationersand News Agents.

ROYAL Bag Blue is used in tho bestlaundries to givo tho clothes a nico

colour-LUSTROUS, fine, wavy Hair by using

Capilla Bkir Tonic;bo sure you getCapilla; 3s od per bottle.

ROYAL Bag Blue, inado by cxpertß,and is positively tho cheapest and

best. Ask for Royal Bag Blue."OALLING Hair is soonstopped by us-X1 ing Camilla Hair Tonio; bewaro ofworthloss imitations;3s 6d per bottle.f'B'KHEtPost Annual. ■100 Beautiful Illus-JL ,trations~loo. Quo Shilling. All

'Stationers.'

\ POLLINARIS, Apollinaris. Its purityJ-J-. offers _tho best security against thodangers of ordinary drinkingwater;

E~~~VENING POST' ANNUAL. Now onSale all Booksellers, Now Zealand

by Camera/ One Shilling./SaPILLA\ \Hair Tonic makes the hairv>» lustrous', wavy, ftnd strong, andpro-ducps a luxuriant growth. 3s 6d abottle."OOYAL Bag Blue is used in tho bestJLAi 'laundries to givs tho clothes a nicocoTuur.

LUNCH on Whitobait. St. GeorgeWhitebait; once you try it you

murt have it for a tU-bit.fT\HE Post Annual. 100 Beautiful Illus-J- trations— loo. Ono Shilling. AllStationers.

ROYAL BagBlue should bo put on, thogrocer's list ;it is tho cheapoel, and

best for the clothes.mTEBAIT, fresh from tho limpid

waters. A*k tho grocer for St.Grorgo WhitobaitnnYPEWRITERS should be in everyJL homo and office. ,Wo offer second-hand Barlocks,■ Remingtons, Yosts, andother malcos, from £5. Smallbono, Graceand Co., 30, Victoria-street.

A P,OLLINARIB, Apollinarie. Apolli-_jL nnris is bottled only with its ownnatural gas, and only at the ApollinarisSpring, Nouenahr, Germany.

OVAL Bag Bluo has no poisonouschemicals;does not injure tho skin

or hurt tho.finest fabric.nRHE Post Annual. Over 100 Illustra-X tions. Ono Shilling. All Stationersand News Agents.

OYAL~I?ag Blue should bo puton thogrocer's list;it is the cheapen, and

bast for tho clothes.

BOYAL Bag Bluo gives Iho clothe* acolour thaj£s the envy of tho ncigh-

bouTß. Ask for Koyal Bag Bluo.■VKTHITEBAITj doljipious, frosli, dainty,vt and fit for the tablo of «, Qnoon..St. Gt)orga--Brand Whitebait. Ask for it.

GIVE your boy a watch for Xmaa. .Itwill toanh him habits of punctuality.

Our nickel»nd-Btcel washes at 22s 6d and25s each. Stewart Dawson Co., Welling-ton^SELECT your Xinaa gifts from tho most

up'ro-dato itock in tho colony, Ifyou"live out of town our catalogue willnolp you. Stowart Dawcort Co., Wolling-ton. . ■

' ;

WE ha,Vi> Opened up some very haiidTRomo purees inall the newest shadosof loathes. Prices, 11b 6d, 13s 6d, 15s 6d,

16s 6d, 18« 6d/tJ1«,. 25b, and 30s. StowartDa-wton Co., Wellington.FjrTHOUSANDS.of ouitablo Xmas gifts in■-B- silver, suiljrblo for men, women,boysand girls. -Priocii from Is 6d upwards.You'll -be surprised at tho assortment.Stewart' Dawson Co.

N' Z. EXHIBITION-WeningtonHotQi;" Tuam-slteot (opposito OperaIlonso), Ohristohurch. Good accommoda-tion; tariff 6s per diy; considerable ro-uuction to weekly boarders. G. Loudon,Proprietor.

OUNG WOMEN'S~OHRIBTIAN AS-SOOIATION, 6, Lambton-quayTNcxt Bank of New Zealand). Open Dailyfrom 10 a.m. to-9.30 p.m., Saturday After-noon exoeptcd; Luncheon from 12 till 2o'clock. Ploasn.nl Evenings. 'DON'T Forgot iqdSiil at Ashor's, 19,

Ingoitre-Blrcet,/ j___Bot quotationii«C rWfjWtttJ'o bsforo,)&'-■ i

'jeX

TTNITARIAN FREE CHURCH.U NEW MASONIC HALL,BOULCOTT-STREET.

Services at 11a.m.ami 7 p.m.Rev.Dr. Tudor Jonoe. F.U.G.S.

Evening—'* Tho Great Thinkers of thoPresent and their Message. (10) PrincipalLloyd Morgan, F.K.S., on'Tie Interpreta-tion of Nnturo:How Jteoson Modifies In-Btinut;, andHow PurposoModifies Reason,'"

41 Ult O H O~e CHRIST.DIXON-STRKKT.SUNDAY, 9th DECEMBER.

11a.m.— WonJiip.2.45p.m.— Sunday School.G.tfOp.m.

—(iospol Sorvioe.

Preacher— Mr.H.'I.MorrisonSubject— "Throe Great Truths Learned

from Conversion thoEunuch."/IHRISTADELPHIAN LECTURES arey giveu every SUNDAY EVENING at7 o'clook in tho Viotoria Hall, Adolaide-rood, to whiuh tillare cordially invitod.

Subject-" Christ's l'rotniso of Equalitywith thoAngels." , -,

l

Souls free. No collection.mHEOSOPHIOAL 'SOCIKTY

APublio Addresbwill be deliveredat theSociety's ltoom, York Übambora, Manners-street,on SUNDAY,at 7 p.m.

Subjoot—

"TheProgress of Thoosopby."Questions at oloso.

SPIRITUALISTICBAND or HELPERS(Itefristorod).

LONDON PIANO CO 'SBUILDING,88, Manuws-ftreofc.

MHtt'i'lNGS TO-MORUOW, SUNDAY—3 p.m.

— "Tho Beauties of Nature" Mr.Lord. ? p.m.

— "Mau iv Dominion," Mrs.

Soronsen. Clairvoyant descriptions andSpirit Massages civcu. 'I liureday, 8 p.m.Questions aiißuevofl und Psychoinotry. AHwolcoino. Colloulion.

WELLINGTON ASSOCIATION OFSPIRITUALISTS (Registered).NEW CENTURY " HALL, Kont-torraco.

TO-MORROW, 9th DECEMBER.Morning,a£ l1

—Opon discussion.Afternoon,at 2.3o— Children's Lyconui.Evening, at 7— Trance Lootnvo by Dlr.P.It.lhibsoll—

"ThoEvolutionof Spiritual-

lainund tho Developmentof Oitr Scnacs."Harbinger of Light and Mossago-of Life_or Deooinbor, r

THE GUINEA POEM.

ACHEQUE for £1 Ishas been sent tothe writer of this verso—-Mr. A.J.,

Takapau, H.8.:~SAVON is a triwty warrior,

Neither docs lio Imrin nor hurt—.Cut he i» v perfect demon\Vhcn lio mcefs n spsck of dirt 1

WIN A GUINEA! Prize Poem pub-lished ovory Saturday. Best four short-linoftdvortisomont vorso about "SAPON" winsoneli wpclc. "SAPON" wrapper mu«t bornolosed. Address, "SAPON" fOfttmcalWushiiiff Powder-1P.O. 80x.635, Welling-ton,

For bronchial cougho nnd colds,Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, la 6dftnd 2* 6d per bottle.— Adtf*

. "SECRETARY.

fjIHE Wellington Timber Merchants'JL Association invites applications forthe position of Secretary. Applicants mttsthave expert knowledge of New ZealandTimber and al«o of Accounts. Salary,£400 per annum. Particular* of dutios,etc., can be obtained on triplication totho undersigned, by whom v.rittcn appli-cations (witn references) will bo received,not later than WEDNESDAY, 2nd Janu-ary, 1907. All communications confiden-tial. Personal canvass Wilt disqualify.;WJH. HOPK2RK,

Aoiing-Chair 'nan,Wariug Taylor-st., Wellington.

NATIONAL DAIRY ASSOCLVITON OFNEW ZEALAND, LIGHTED.APPLICATIONS will be received at"^*- tho Office of tho Assof ation, Pana-ma-street, Wellington, up to ?lst Decem-ber next, from persons qualified to repre-

sent tho Association en the Hume markets.Particulars as to duties and wlary can beobtained from the undersigned on andafter Saturday, 24th November.

JOSEPH G. HARKNESS,Secretary.

Wellington, 15th November

SOUTHLAND GIRLS' HIGH SCHOOL.

A PPLICATIONS, accompanied by tes--tjL timonials, are invitod up to Friday,the 14th December next, for the Positionof First Assistant Teacher in tho Girls'High School, InvercargilL Salary £175per annum.

Applicants must bo Graduates, and cap-able of talcing English, French, or Latinup to standard of Junior Uni'.orsity Schol-arship. Considerable experieroo in second-ary school work essential. Duties to com-mence about the Ist February, 1907.

JOHN NEILL, Secretary. "

High Schools Board Office,Invercargill, 12thNovember, 1906.

A PPLICATIONS are invitod, and will_c3l be received at this oflii-e up to 11a.m. on Friday, tho 11th ffn.iuary, 1907,for the Position of Assistant Engineer andRoad Overseer to tho Wjiroa CountyCouncil. Testimonials as to qualificationsand character must accompany each appli-cation.

Conditions can be seen at this office, oron receipt of & request therefor a copywill be forwnrded to any intending appli-cant.

Salary £175 per annum.The successful applicant will be required

to takeup his duties as soon as possible.Applications to bo addressed to the

Chairman.W. F. SHAW,

■ - Olerk.County Council Office,".."_' iWairoa, 6th December, 1906.A HOME IN THE COUNTRY.

WANTED, at once, GIRLS for theFruit Season for peeling, packing,

and canning fruit, picking and,shellingpeas. Work for six months. Second-classfaro paid to Hastings; board and lodgingprocured at reasonable rates.' -Apply forfullparticulars to ,MANAGER,

Frimley-Canningfactory, " *---- :Hajstipgib H.B.vy ANTED KNOWN.

AYRES' SUMMER DRINKS for theXmas Holidays;made from, thopuro fruitsin tho following flavours:— '.Lemon, Rasp-berry, Pineapple, etc., etc. Our FamousHerb Beer and Ginger Wino Extractsmake ideal summer drinks. All one price,Is, obtainable at

E. C. AYRESAND.CO., .Chemist3,'90,- Cuba-street. -

PLATINUM PORTRAITS.

WANTED, for permanency, PlatinumPortraits, a most beautiful process.

We are finishing Photograph* in this stylofor 17s 6d per doz;'.worth 3Ss.

BERET AND CO.,1 64, Cuba-street.

WANTED Known— Cooper'a ParrotFood is composed of the finest fresh

seeds only, especially mixed in- tho..rightproportions to keep those birds in goodhealth and plumage. Inp-.lckots 4d, 6d,Is:or 121b for 3s 6d.

FREDERICK COOPER,30, Manners-street.

ANTED, Buyers to" utilise theirspare time by inspecting Sections

at To Momi Estate, oppotito Lower Huttrailway station;they aro the best ever of-feredinor near Wellington. Auction Salonext Wednesday etyaittg})8' p.m. Divan,Bros., Auctioneers.

ANTED to Sell, Pig and' Poultry.Farm, 105 acre/jj 8-roomed hou*o,

with all stock. For particulars apply F.W. Scott, Johneonville.,

WANTED Known— Wo havo justopen-

ed a large shipment, of Doublebraes-rail Bedsteads, from 30s. Ashcr's,19, Ingestre-strcet. "',

ANTED toBuy, Grocery; Wood, andCoal Business, Wnllington or

suburbs. A'ddreas Bnainea, Evening Po3t.ANTED Known, the tfiraw fixed for

To Momi Sale are the easiest onrecord, and the sections are the best. Auc-tion Sale, Town Hall, Wellington, nextWednesday, at 8 p.m. Dwon Bros., Auc-tioneers;

ANTED to Sell, a new 6-roomedHouse, nil modern conveniences,ono floor, land 33 by 100ft j five minutesfrom Kiosk, Kolburne. Prico and termson application to Sidey, M«cch and Co.,Mannert-strcet.

-WANTED, Window, House, and Office

Cleaning, carpets hand beaten.The Colonial Cloaning Co., 20, Ingertre-strcot. Telephone 2525.

WANTED Sell, Thorndon. picturesque6-roomod Cottage; lovely view, two

minutes Sydney-street, easy terms. Lin-gard, Lambton-quay.W^NTED~t<rSell, at Kilbirnie, beau-

tiful Homo, with every conveni-cnoe. Apply J. B. Lane, Eilbirnio.

ANTED to Sell, 1new HumborBicycle; 1 flat Section, Miramar,

closo tram'; t do, 'grand view;1Section,Hutt. Address Private ■Sale, EveningPost.

- __________WANTED Known, To Momi Estate,

opporite Lower Hutt Station, is tobe sold by publio auction in tho TownHall, Wellington, next Wednesdayeveningiat 8 p.m. Only5 per cent, deposit. DwauBros., Auctioneers.

ANTED, Ladies to know that thesimplest and safest Ilomedylis Dr.

M'Gill's inexpensive "Paetild Treatment."Nolecturing or canvassing required. Ap-ply No.I,Bolton-rtre'ot, Tuissdnye, Thurs-days, and Saturdays, or Mrs. A. Alpha,?OXJ_.I?OXJ_.I<_ WoUington.

WANTED Known— l"am offeringcheapest Land, Khaudkllah;1

acros from £110; aero £300 G. VVorufold,Kh-iiriallah,

WANTED to Sell, at liowor Hutt, »first-clan* House, containing 5 largo

rooms, bathroom and scullfery, overy can-vcnioncC;large Beotion;garden and fowl-run;prico £550 cash;no agents. Addressat Evening Post.

AN/TED to Soil, Cr&«ai, wholesaleVt and retail: povontfiiro Cream «

(peciality. Taita Dairy,, 210, Wiltii-stroct."«_fANTEI) Known, Te Momi, opposito»i Lowor Hutt railway utatjon,auctionmIo Wednesday next, Tow.a Hall, Wei-

lington,8 p.m. Dwa.n Broi., Auctioneers.

SPARKLET SyphonH 3s 6d,'Ch'arrfes li4d, Enoinns, Douches, l^adios' Requi-

sites, lowest prices. Blaud's Pills Is 6d,Antiphon, Trilonci, Anti-Jat FHln forladies 2» 6d. Wrn. Salok, Sydney Chem-ist, 17, Willii-Btrect.

TONE up after Influenza with our Spe-cial Tonic, 2s; Salck'it Blood Tonio,

SartapariHa, purifies and slxougthons, forpimples nnd boile, 2* 6d. Wm. Salok,

'Sydney Chemict, 17, Willig-iitreet.

rjHBOSSES.— O'Conor nen* palont,_noJL iron or steel, comfortivbb and dur-£b!c. Consul? inventor und tpprialist.

(Purtioulur* ftom Wm. fclnlpk, Syda^y'phewuU-l?* :V?iUifc*l,r«j>t.

WMB^^^^^^^^^g^^^^ Patent BallBearing;),High Wheels, Grass

'ZTr r .^^^^^^^^^B^»^^ TheHarp,Escelsio', Champion,Now Easy,

TJ3NNIS, CROQUET, CRICKET.- -■ EveryRequisite now in Stock, at lowest poasibls prices."

MECHANICS' TOOLS.On *«!connt of ourlflarge turnover we are able tojjstill furtlier reduce.iour already

LowJlPrices.________■

GEORGE WINDER? che esitRonmongBB|

CORNERJfCUBA akd MANNERSBSTREETS.

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906.3

TENNIS

ifS t:3 :IBsSIf CROQUET SETS, for 4 aud S players; .TL ■¥- WW;'' :[ 'C"":iw^ CRICKET BATS, speciolly selected from j * §1

::::at ::'-jffl -thebestmakers,compi'ißii)jj"\Yisden's," 9 9m>y

~ 'sfcß:"?*§' '"Bussey.""Warsop's," "Odd's." &c. j jfr H

S Ew^v'^ Cricket PnicHce Nets, Leather and Compo. 1 B|OMr

Balls, Stumps, Batting and Wicket- fl vj jrfy t keeping Gloves,LegGuards, ic.

"a Hf'

7 LAWN TENNISRACQUETS— Slazenger's, f 1 9j Dolierty, Gore, Vaile,E.G.M., Special II

Demon,Demon, &c. | S/ i|i TennisNets,RacquetPresses,GutPreserver, 1*33*1Covered Ordinaryuud Colonial Tennis I J

Balls. Rubber Grips,Court Markers,&o. I'if/~_ $11% TAYLOR'S LAWN BOWLS (Ivory and / >3|l§j&gk

Silver-mounted),Jacks,Measures,Botil *^t__2^vs?\

| ." SPECIAL DISCOUNT TO'CLUBSI' ''

JOHBr'DUTHIE &~CoTi/n>., Wilhs-st.

UNION STEA.M SHIP CO.illlsgSlJ OF NEW ZKALAND (Ltd{Weather and circumstances permitting1.)

LMTKLTOX.Rotomahana Saturday, Dec 8 11p.m.Mararoa Monday, ])cc 1U 8 p.m.Talnne 'Inesduy. Deo 11 4p.m.Uotoin-bana Tuesday. Dec 11 8p in.Mabeno "Wednesday, Deo 1_ 5p.m.Mararoa Wednesday. Dec 11! S v.m.Kotomahana 'luuvaday, Dec 13 8p.m.Uaruroa* Fiiday, Dec 14 9a.m.Mokoia. Friday, Deo 14 Spm.Kotomahana Saturday, Deo 15 1L p.m.*No cargo.

DUNEDIN, VIALiTITEI.TON.Talune Tuesday, Doe 11 4p.m.Mokoia Friday, / Deo 14 S p.m.MISJLIiOURNK,VIA IYTI'KI.TUiN,DU.n-

KDIN.BJUIFS1,AND HOUAIil1.Mokoia Friday. Dec 14 8p.m.NAI'UOK,GISISOUNIS AND AUCKLAND.Waikare Monday, Dec 10 4pm.Titlune Tuesday. Deo 18 noonSYDNEY, VIA NAPIEE, GISBOIiiNIS,

AND AUCKLAND.Waikara

"Thuradav. Dec 20 4p.m.

SYDNEY DIUECX.Moeraki Saturday, Deo 15 4p.m.NELSON,viaPlUTOtf (asd.BLUNHEIM)Penguin Monday. Doc 10 1p.m.Penjruin Wednesday, Deo 12 Jp.m.Penguin Friday Dee 14 lpmWainui Saturday, Dec 15 noon

NELSON DIEKCT.Kotoiti Suuuay, Deo 9 1.30pie.Mapourika Tuesday, Deo 11 midu't.Arahnra Saturday, Dec 15 8p.m.

.NEW PLYMOUTH AND ONKHUNUA,FOtt AUCKLAND.Connecting at New Plymouthwith through

train from Wellington on Tuesday,■Thursday, Saturday.

Kotoiti* Sunday, Deo 9 1.30p.m.VV<*<inestiiij-, X>ec 12 7 p.m.* Via Nelson.NELSON, WESTPORT, GREI'MOUTH,

AND HOKITIKA.Mapourika Tuesday, Deo 11 midn'tArahura Saturday, Deo 15 8pm.

WESTPORT, GItKYMOUTH, ANDHOKITIKA.Poherua Monday, Deo 10 4pm.

SUVA. Ann LKVDKA(fkojt AUCKLAND)Tavinui Wednesday, Dec 26SYDNEY, VIA TONGA, SAMOA, AND

FIJI (FROM AUCKLAND).Atua* Wednesday. Deo 12 10 a.m."Twin screw.11AROTONGA, FUOAI AUCKLAND.Manapouri Friday, Dec 28

Tickets available for -stop over or returnby Messrs. Huddart, Parker and Co.'«steamers.

SHOFwTEST ROUTETO AUCKLAND.VIA ONEHUNGA.Connectingwith through train fron.

Wellington.U.S.S. Co.'s Ste»mers leaveNevr Plymouth

as under (tre-lhor permitting):—

Takapuna Painnluy, Dec 8830 p.m.Kotoili Tuesday, Dec 11 8.30 pu..Takapuna Thursday, Dec 13 830 v.in.Takapnua Saturday, Doo 15 S.oO p.m.

Passengers can embark at Wellingtonon Sundays and Wednesdays, proceedingthrough by steamer to OnehungaforAuck-land.UNION STEAM SHIP COMPANY OF

NEW ZEALAND (LTD.)

NORTHERN STEAMSHIP CO. LTD.WELLINGTON-AUCKLAND SERVICE.

"SBfiSfc"^ TTMIK Twiu-screvr SteamerJM__B1RARAWA, 1072 Tons,Leaves New Plymouth for Onehunst*MONDAY,* WEDNESDAY, FRIDAY,connecting with through train from Wel-lington, and leaves Ouehunga for NewPlymouthSUNDAY, TUESDAY, THURSDAY,

connecting vyi>.h through train toWellingtonReturn Tickets available for return by

Uiiion Steam Ship Company's (teamen ifdesired y

Passengers con secure berths on applica-tion to

LEVIN 4; CO. (LTD.). Aaeuti.

WEST COAST SOUNDS!

fffTHE ANNUAL CRUISE to the Sounds-I- will again bo made during the com-ing seasonby the

S.S. WAIKARE,Which will leave Dunedin on TUESDAY,15th JANUARY, 1907. The trip willoccupy 13 days.

For pamphlets and^ullparticulars, applyto *UNIONSTEAM SHIPCO. OF N.Z.,

1 LTD.

CANADIAN-AUSTRAL-IAN LINE.

STEAMERS leave Sydney every fourthMonday, and Suva on tho following

Tuesday week.Passenger? booked to all partsof Canada,

United States, and Eqrope.MOANA— Leaves Sydney 24th Dec. |

MIOWERA— Leaves Sydney 21st Jan.LOWEST RATES.

N.Z. Passengers can join at Sydney orat -Suva.

For full particulars applyUNION S.S. CO. OF N.Z.. LTD.

i

«§£»£. fIWE undermentioned steamersJh^sSd -"- will leave (circumstances

permitting) as follows:—

FOR KAIKOURA. PORT ROBINSON.AND LYTTELTON, Via COAST.

The sg WAKATU.On MONDAY, * p.m.

FOR FOXTON.Tha s.s. QUEIiN OF THE SOUTH,Oa MONDAY, 4 p.m.

FOR BLENHEIM.TU« si. OPAWA,

THIS DAY,4 p.m.

For freight or passage, apply toLEVIN AND CO.. LTD.. AaonU.

WELLINGTON AND WANGANUISTEAM PACKET COMPANY."Jjßflfcji, HPHE followingiteamertwill bm

despatchedasunder, weatherand circumstance! permitting

—rrOr WANGANUI— Tho t». STORMBIKD,

MONDAY, 1p.m.'JOIINH'ION ANiJ CO. (LTD.). A_ent»

Por WANGANUI— Th« steamer HUIATHIS DAY.LEVIN AND CO (LTD.). Aaenti.

fggfe^nnHEundermentioned itcameri-X- will leave ■ (circumstance*permitting;) as follows:

—For EAST COAST— Tho s.s. KAHU,

MONDAY, 3 p.mFor XAPIER (Inner Harbour) and GIS-

BORNE— S.S. TOROA, MONDAY,at noon.

For PICTON (taking Cargo for Blenheim)—S.S. BLENHEIM, on MONDAY,at 9 p.m.

For MO'l(JEXvA (takingcargo for Takaka*nd Collinzwood)— Tho s.s. MANA-BOA, MONDAY, noon.JOHNSTON AND CO., LTD.,

A-tents.

THE PATEA SHIPPING COMPANY,LIMITED.

"SWOy^v/I I.S.«_K_s__r -*- MANA

Will MilFor PATEA— THIS DAY, 5 p.m.

THOMPSON BROS.,LIMITED,Agents, 59, Featherston-itreet.

Telephone No. 533.

WEBT COAST STEAMERS.ip-ft^ ANCHOR~LINE OF STEAM<ggG^*> PACKETS are appointed

to leave at under:—

(Tor NELSON, WESTPORT, GREST-MOIJTII. nnd HOKITIKA— The s.tWAVEP.LEY, on MONDAY, 4 p.m.

for PATEA— Tho s.». AORERE, onMONDAY,at Noon..W. & G. TURNBULL & CO.,

Asonls.

If you like ao other Cocoayou will like

It isuniqueamongcocoas;a pure soluble cecoa'wkich will please you by its delicious nafctnl (

RavoWi sai revive you by its nourishiag aqf {invigoratingproperties j

"Pure and unmixed. ;"Really cheaper to use."— Tha Lancet.5Perfect in flavour, pure and well prepared."— __

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j A GOOD INVESTMENT.mSE WAYRAU VALLEY GOLDJL MINING COMPANY, who have beenworking their Jubilee Claim, Wairau Val-ley, xklenlieim, for some considerable time,havo spent a largo sum of money in thopurchasing of Plant which is thoroughlysuitable for the working of tho mine, andhas won £4000 of gold to date. Throughwant of capital Some little time ago thoCompany were compelled to let part of themine on tribute to a practical miner nam-od Linstrom. Mr. Linstroin has beenworking on what is known as tho smallreef with very considerable success, hohaving won largo quantities of gold fromthe claim, and is also getting a valuableore called scheelite.

The_ Company entered into an agreement" allowinghim to work ina small way,buthavo now issued a new Prospectus withthe endeavour to supplement the presentcapital of the Company, and to furtherdevelop the working of tho mine, havingproved that tho lode increases in size andquality with depth.

Tho Directors havo instructed Messrs.Dwan Brothers to place the balance ofcapital on their behalf. They are issuing107,290 shares at 5s each, payment appli-cation 6d per share, allotment 6rl pershare, the balances monthly calls of 2d perBhare.

It is intended to go in for a very largedevelopment Echeme, opening up tho lowlevols bymeans of a main drive and twointermediates, and less than twelve monthsshould prove what a payablo mine thoCompany will possess.

Messrs. Dwan Brothers will give all in-formation roquirod to any who wish topurchase shares in. this mine.

Mr. Wearno, Mining Exprt, has givena very complimentary and exhaustive re-port of>tho prospects of tho mine, andalso Mr. vMeagher. Those reports will boshown by Messrs. DwanBrothers.

The winzo sunk on the top roof in themine, from which highly payablo resultswere obtained, filled, with water, and hasnot since been worked. This can easilybe developed, as tho drivo intended to beput in now will draw this water off andcnablo tho reef to bo systematicallyworked.

So far shareholders havo been satisfiedwith allowing Mr. Linstrom to work thomine on tribute, in tho meantime, to keeptho mino goinpj in a Email way;but re-cent developments havo shown them thatthoro aro very encouraging prospects re-quiring only a sufficiency of capital toexploit euccossfully and onsuro payabloresults. jIt is said by competent judges that

there is a big future in front of tho Jubi-leo, and this mine has undoubtedly gotthe gold in its roofs.

Tho gold can easily be won, as tho bat-tery is worked with water power, which iscloso to tho mino, and is a groat caving inworkingcosts; further, everything is work-ed on tho down grade.

A good number of shares havobeen ap-plied for by somo of our loading citizens,during the last few days, and promptaction will bo necessary for persons wish-ing to purchaso fresh shares in this goldmining company, as tho allotment willonly bo open for about 14 days. Messrs.Dwan Broq. will supply intending pur-chasers with any information required, andw^ll furnish them with tho name3of thoexisting shareholder, also tho fresh appli-cations for* shares. ■

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DURING tho past few days wo haveopenod up a largoquantity of useful

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SS. SUSSEX, 9000 tons, Captain" RobortEon, will be despatched fromWELLINGTON ((finalport) about

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Steamers of 6500 tons, undorpostal contract with the French Govern-ment, calling at' MELBOURNE, ADE-LAIDE. - FREMANTLE, COLOMBO,BOMBAY, SUEZ, and PORT SAID,will bo despatched monthly,as follows:

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WE ARE AGENTS FOR ALL LINES.Send for COOK'S SAILING LIST (posted

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BOXHILL, BROOKLYN.

WE have an up-to-date 4-romcd Housoal Boxliill for Sale, about10 minutes'walk from Wallace-street tram. Terms ex-

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FOR SALE"A MOST Desirable Properly, about cno

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13 MILNEE'S SAFES1MILNER'S STRONG-ROOM DOOR ;

WENT THROUGH THE DISASTROUS FIRE ON THE 23rd INST., AND AFTERTHE SEVEREST ROASTING, DELIVERED THUIR CONTENTS IN

HIGHLY SATISEAOTORY CONDITION.Wellington, 27th Oct., 1906.

MESSRS. E. W. MILLS AND CO., LIMITED, AGENTS MLLNER'S SAFES,WELLINGTON.

DEAR SIRS— Inanswer to your enquiries as to how the Milner's Safe opened byme preserved its contents,lhave to report as follows:

—Sinco the late disastrous Fire Ihave opened ,Milner's, , andSafes, andhavehave to say that tho paperslaken from tho Milner's Safe were inbetter order than those in either of the others.Tho whole of the contents of one of the Safes, which was a large double-doorsafe (not Milner's) were absolutely destroyed.Tho Milner's, ,and Safes were allcloso together in the onebuilding.

Yours faithfully,(Signed) H. H. EKINS.

MESSRS. E. W. MLLLS AND CO., LIMITED, WELLINGTON.DEAR SIRS—Iam sorry for having spread tho report that tho Safe in whichmy papers and books were burned in the late Fire was a Milner's. Iwas underthe impression that this was so, but onenquiry from the firm, from whomIboughtit Ihavo ascertained that it was a .Isend this letter asIfeelIhave done your Safes some harm in having told anumber of people that it was a Milner's Safe in which my papers were lost.Iwas _naturally very much annoyed at losing my records, in'whatIbelievedto be a reliable Safe.

Iam, yours faithfully,- (Signed) W. F. EGGERS.'Extract from Evening Post of October 24th, 1906:

Tho Union Bank's strongroom was opened this morning, and everything wa«found qwto unharmed. Tho M-ilner'o Safe, over 50 years old, bad held everythingsecure, with not oven the smell of smoko.

BUY A MILNER'S SAEE,AND BEiSECDRE FROM FIRE AND PERHAPS RUIN.

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LFBANCIS HOLMES.

JMLEY & HOLMES,[FOR MODKR-N and UP-TO-DATE

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WELL PIRES (Bowe's Patent)Ariistic, very Economical, Clean, and Labor-saving

ENAMELLUD BATHS, LAVATORIES, SANITARYWARE.

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AND

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'liieso goods were carefully 'selected, and am new and up-to-date designs, fresb.from tho makers.

CHARMINGVAKIETY. EXTRAORDINARY VALUE.QualityandLo<v Pricesaro accountable for tho enormous increaso ofbnsiness

in this department.

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fT f\ » H jlwardrobe fronts»4J\ f§[ ©Hi^K®.^ G|u&lity3 Price©

.II IW MANTELPIECEWORKS.^g&°.c

Q.ROWERS of Carnation-! and other BANKS'S CO-OP. MEAT DISTRIBUT"*-« I<lowers piiould havo thorn carefully j^G CO LTDstoked to provnnt tho flowors from being '' "'spoilt by rubbing on tho ground or by ARE now opon to buy Fat Stock ofBiiuiK, clc. Our Patent Wiro Supports -t— " any description.aro Hio best. Prico 4s dozen, 6d each. Applications may bo mado to Box 453,Wo havo nlpo in Block all douses 'of lotnra Wellington.and other stakes. Call and sco them. ISAAO SYKES

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NEW ZEALANDRAILWAYS.AUCKLAND-ROTORUA RAILWAY.HAMILTON RAILWAY BRIDGE.

CONTRACT FOR THE SUPPLY OFSTEEL SUPERSTRUCTURE.HoaS Office,

Wellington, 3rd November, 1906.WRITTEN TENDERS will bo received

at this office until Noon of TUES-DAY, 11th December, for the abovo con-tract.

They aro to be marked on the outside"Tender for Steel Superstructure, Hamil-ton Bridge," and addressed to the GeneralManager, Now Zealand Government Rail-ways. Wellington.Telegraphic- tenders, similarly markedandaddressed, will bo receivedif presented atany Telegraph Office by noon of the samedate, provided that written tenders arelodged at any Government Railway Engi-neer's Office by the same hour.

Drawings, specifications, and conditionsof contract maybe seen at this office, andat tho offices of the District Railway Engi-neers at Auckland, Wanganui, Christ-church, Dunodin, Invercargill, and Grey-mouth.

The lowest or any tender will not neces-sarily be accepted.

By order.T. RONAYNE,

General Manager.

TO ARCHITECTS.rTVHE Nelson Education Board invitesJL Competitive Designs, to bo deliveredby tho 21st January, 1907, for a Girls'iSchool in Wood to accommodate 350"pupilsin Standards 111. to VII.

Premiums of £25 and £15 are offeredfor the first and second best designs, whichwill become tho property of the Board.The winner of the first premium to beArchitect of the Building on tho usualterms. Cost, inclusive of commission, notto exceed £2200. Plans and levels of siteand full particulars can be obtained on ap-plication 10 tho undersigned.

STEAD ELLIS,Secretary, Education Board, Nelson.Nelson, 4th December, 1906.

TO BUILDERS!fTtENDERS are invited for ERECTINGJL . in Brick, NEW BANKING PRE-MISES at WAITARA for the Bank ofNow Zealand, to Closo on THURSDAY,Dec. 20, at nocn

Plans and specifications to bo seen attho Bank of New Zealand at Waitara,New Plymouth, and at my office.

J. CHARLESWORTH,Architect.

12, Grev-stroet, Wellington.TO IXCAVATORS~XNb CON-

TRACTORS.fJTENDERS, closing Saturday, 15th inßt.,JL are required for Excavation andRoading Formation at Khandallah.Drawings and specifications maybe seen

at my office on and after Thursday, 6thinst.R. S. ROUNTHWAITE, M. Inst. C.E.

/TPIENDERS (recflivabfo by tho under-JL signed, from whom particulars as to

area, etc., may bo had) are called for theSole Right for 5 years, from Ist January,1907, to take Gravel, Sandc Spawls, otc,from Mabey's Beach, Taita. Tendersclose at NOON, 12th Docpmber. Lowestor any tender cot necessarily accepted.

J. G. FALDER, Secretary,Taita Land Co., 3, Panama-street.

SCOW MAGIC!

nHEXDERS aro invited for tho Purchaso-a- of tho Scow Magic, as she now liesin Wellington Harbour, togothcr with thoRunning-gear,Stores, Boiler, Steam-winch,and Boat, etc., otc.

Particulars of whichcm bo obtained onapplication to tho undersigned.

The highest or any offer not nccesear-ily accaptod.

Tenders closo on Thursday, the 20thDecsmber, 1906, addressed to

ROBERT WILBERFOSS,Nat'onal Mutual Lifo Buildings,

Wellington.

nrasiNDERS are invited for tho SupplyJL of Coal, at pel ton, on trucks, de-

livered at Lower Hutt Railway Station atintervals: Coalbrookdale, Newcastle, andState Coal, aL°o Firewood, two feet nndfour feet lengths. Lowest or any tendernot necessarily accaptod. Tenders to bo6ellt *

J. ATKINSON,Camp-road, Lower EEutt.

TIMARUHARBOUR BOARD.

ISSUE OF MORTGAGE DEBENTURESFOR £38,000 at 4. PER CENT PERANNUM.

THE TIMARU HARBOUR BOARDinvite Tcndfr3 for tho PURCHASE

of 380 DEBENTURES cf £100 each, partof the loan of £50,000 riujkorisodby "

ThoTimaru Harbour Board Loan Act, 1904,for tho purposo of enlargingnnd improv-ing tho present Harbour and raoetinggreatly increased trado requirements. ThoDebentures will havo currency up to IstJANUARY, 1916, and will bear interestat £4 5s por centum per annum payablohalf-yearly, on Ist January and Ist July.Prinoipal payablo at Bank of New Zea-land, Timaru. Interest payablo at Bankof New Zealand, throughout tho colony,fron of exchange.

Tho advancement of tho Port is madomanifest in tho fact that the rovenuo hasincreased from £12,658 in 1890 to £27,362in 1905. The rateablo valuo of tho pro-perty in tho district is £9,033,968, and thoBoard ho3fullpower should the necessityarise to rate tho district for tho purposoof paying tho whole of the interest on thoLoan. In addition to genural security onHarbour funds, lenders are absolutely se-cured by the Loan Act on this SpcoialRate to provide interest.

'■The Timaru Harbour District andHarbour Board Act,1903," gives power toinvest Trust Funds in the Board's Deben-tures.

No Tender below par or for less than£100 will bo considered. Tenderers of thohighest premium will havo proferonoe, andto tenders of equal rates Debentures willbo allottod proportionately to tho numberapplied for.

A deposit (marked "Good for sevendays from date") of £5 por £100 tenderedfor must accompany each Tender, whichwill bo credited to successful and return-ed to Unsuccessful tendoror3.

The balanco of tho Tender if acceptedor ouch amount as shall bo accepted, willbe required lo be paid at tho Bank ofNow Zealand, Timaru, or to tho Treas-urer of tho Board, not later than IstJANUARY, 1907.

Tenders addressed to tho Chairman andendorsed "Tender for Debentures" ivjllbe received at tho Harbour Board Offico,Timaru, until Noon on WEDNESDAY,19th December, 1906.

Tlio Board ro«crvo3 tho right to dcclinoany Tender or Tenders, and in that eventtho deposit money paid with any Tendershall bo forthwith roturnod lo the personontitlud thereto.

"Form of Tender may bo obtained at theEvening Post Offico, Wollington, or acopy will bo forwarded on application.W. J. BARDSLEY,

Seorotnry and Treasurer.Harbour Board Offico, Timaru,26th November. 1906.

ASBESTOS SLATESAND WALLING.

"O ENDER Buildings FIRE-PROOF"*"*'from within and without. U&od in

Government Workmon's Homes.JAMES GILBERT AND CO.,

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THE NEUCHATEL ASPHALTE CO.LIMITED,PAVING CONTRACTORS,

CUSTOMHOUSE-QUAY, Wellington.Real Mineral Asplmlte. Flat Roofs andDamp Coursing a Speoiality.

Telechous 2191.

TTUDDART TJ-ARKER T INE.FAVOURITE PASSENGER SERVICE.

Sailings (circumstances permitting)

FOR LYTTELTON AND DUNKDIN.Zbaxandia. |Friday |Dec 21 | 4p.m.Itrv-RINA* IMi.ii IDeo 24| 4 p.m.Victoria IFrulay |Jan 4 | 4p.m.WiMMSKA. 1Thura |Jan 10 j 4p.m.

*'JoLytteltononly.FOll MKLBOURNK, via LYTTKI/L'ON,

DONKDIN. BUJFIf, and HOBART.Wimmeba. |Tburs |Jan 10 | 4p.m.FOllNAPIKU, GISBOUNK, AUCKLAND

AND SYDNKT.Victoria. IThura i Deo 13 | 4p.m.Zkat.andia IThurs | Dec 27 | 4p.m.

I<-QR SYDNMY DIUKCr.Rivbeina IFriday |Dec 28| noonWuiMiciiA |bat. |Dec _0 | 4 p.m.Cargo must be alongside Eteamor one-

hour before sailing time.All tickets are available also for Stop-

over or Return by ANY of UNIONCO.'S STEAMERS, and holders of theU.S.S. Co.'s tickets may travel by 'above-named vessels.

"Hoad Office for New Zealand—

Queen'tChambers, WELLINGTON.aae§3Sc^> fTVIE unctertnenUonea steam-Z&i&gSr- J. crs will leave (circum-

stances permitting), as follows:—

For NELSON, MOTUEKA, TAKAKA,COLLINGWOOD, and PUPONGA—

T.S.S. TASMAN,TUESDAY,4p.m.For freightor passage, apply to

W. M. BANNATYNE AND CO., LTD.,-.scats

OR BLENHEIM— Tho" S.S. WAIHIjOn MONDAY, 5 p.m. *

W. AND G. TURNBULL AND CO.,Agents.

Ip 'andr\ companrsROYAL MAIL STEAMERSTO LONDON.Following1aro thouroposeddates ofdeparture

fromAustralian ports for London:—

FIRST AND SKCOND SALOON ONM.Y.Steamer. Tons. Sydney. Molb'me

Victoria Z. ~. &S*2 Deo 22 Dee 25Ch'na "9H Jnu 5 Jnu 8ludia . .. Jan 19J.m 23Mongolia.* 10000 Feb 2 Fob 5Britannia 65.'5 Feb 16 Feb 19Marmora* 10300 Fob W Mur 5Mooluui't 10000 ilav 1.Jlar 19Woldavia*t '^KO May 27 April aHiraaUvat 6«>3 April 10Aoril. 10Victoii.if ... ... C523 Awnl 24 April 30

♥'i'wiubcre«T tt'alliugntHob.irt. TIIATIIS OF PASaAGK MOSKY" TO

LONDON (iticlading Saloon Passage toSydney):

—SINGLE TICKETS, JJ43 to _80.RETURN TIOKE'i'Ki, £iX) to Xl2O

JOHNSTON & CO.. LTD.. Agents.OHAW, A LBIO.N

COMPANY (LTD.).THE DIRECT LINE OF BTEAMERS

FOR PLYMOUTH AND LONDON,Vl_ MONTE VLDEO AND

TENHBIFFE.SPLENDID UP-TO-DATE PASSENGER

ACCOMMODATION.ROOMY CABINS AND SPACIOUS

DECKS.Sailings (circumstances pei-mittin?):

—

"COBIUTHICI223IDarid Jon 3'Wel'jl'n"MATATUA t>4ta"Maxwel Jail Sl.Wel'trt'ut'GOTHIiJ ,77551

—Feb 'iSiVVel'sfu

Z' IONIC >IJ-_ Carter Uarcli Wel't'fn

X Willcallat Hiodo JJnierouloo.'Twin screw.

All steamers are now being fitted withthe CO. 2 FIRE EX'iINGUISHLNGAPPARATUS.

For full particulars, apply to the Agents.LEVIN

_CO tLIMITED).

W. AND G. TURNBULL _ CO.MURRAY. ROBERTS _ CO

rf"JCEANIC S.S. CO.

A. AND A. LINENEW ZEALAND TO LONDON IN

28 DAYS!VIA AMERICA OR CANADA.

SAILINGS:Tx>.<> I Arrive Mails

Ste-ners. _£s£j San Arrive"*Frauciaco Luuiion.

VENTUBA ... Dec 21 Jan 7 Jan 19SLfiHEA ... Jim 11 Ja.i i« Fab 0bONOMA ... feb 1 Feb 18 JHur

-1907 RATES.

During 1907 Return Tickets will boissued to London, good one wayby P.and0., Orient, N.D.L., M.M. Co., Lund Line,Aberdeen, White Star Line, N.Z.S. Co.,and S.S. and A. Co. Low first and secondclaa3 tickets quoted.

ROUND TRIPS TO CHINA ANDJAPAN,(Via Honolulu and San Francisco).EXCURSION TO HONOLULU!Special return rates, including hotel ex-

ponscs in Honolulu.Return part good by C. and A. Line.Apply for Fares and full information to

W. M. BANNATYNE AND CO.. LTD.,Wellington Agents.

OL.TMPERIAL MAIL STEAMERS fromJ- Sydney and Melbourne to Southamp-ton, Antwerp, and Bremen, via Adelaide,Frcmantlo, Suez,Naples, and Genoa.

Stoame, Xons. .^„&.Giohser Kurfuret* .. 13182 Dec 8 Doc 11Bmlurußsu* 10915 Jin 5 Jan 8S-chnrnliorot' flUl Feb 2 Feb 5Bremen* 11570 Mnrcli2 March 5Bulow* 8:00 iUar 2J Mar 26Yoik* 6500 April2U Apul U-lHobenloiie* <i4OO Muy IB Bljy Jl*Twin-screw steamers.

Fares from New Zealand ports to Lon-don:— First, single, from £70 to £80;Second, single, from £43 to £46; Third,from £16 to £18.TO MANILA,CHINA, AND JAPAN.Regular four-weekly service of twin-

screw steamers from SYDNEY, via NEWGUINEA, to HONGKONG, YOKO-HAMA, and KOBE, connecting atHONGKONG with N.D.L. FortnightlyExpress Mail Service to Europe. Faresfrom Wellington— To Hongkong: First,£38 17b; 2nd, £28 17s. lo London:Fust, £95; Second, £64.

St^cr. Tons. SJ«£_Mamla ... 1800 Doc 20

Linen washed on board by expert laun-dresses.

For passage and fullparticulars apply toCASTENDYK & FOOKE, Agents,

7. Harris-stroot, Wollinzton.~^j~ mHE TYSER LINE,3_J_M£, 1 LIMITED.

MONTHLY DESPATCH OFFIRST-CLASS CARGO STKAMISRS TO

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Stcamen. Tons. Commander.Marcre „ „ 10,000 J. O. FclgateSiwaru „ .. 10,000 H. HolhsMimiro „ „ 10,000 1. C. Liditone.Hawkei Ba» „ „ 8,000 A. U. KempTomoana

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FKOtf OISSLEVAriOKS TAKKN Af 0A.M.

Wmd. -L, light. br, breeze; fb, freshbreeze; mg, inoderato gale ; g, whole orheavy gale; w, galo ot exceptional severity.

Weather.— ll, blue sky, bo the atmosphereclear or heavy; 0, clouds, passiog cloud*;D,drizzling rnin; F, foggy; O, gloomy, dart,"weather; H, hail; L, lightning; 11, misty;O, overcast, the wholo sky covered with thickolouda; I.passing showers; Q, squally; B,rain, continued rain; S, snow; T, thunder;U, ugly, threatening appearance.

WEATHER FORECAST FOR 24 HOURS SEOU9 a.m. TO-DAY.

Wind.— Modeuito from tho southward at all

places northwardofNapier and New Plymouth.Strong to gule from same direction southwuidof Kaikouru aud HoUitika; strong southerlyelsewhere.

Barometer.— R_e everywhere.Seu.— Considerable on all \vc6tern coast and

nt Cape Campbell and Ctatlepoint;model ateelsewhere.

Tides.—

Good on eastern coast of South Is-land;high between Cape Egmont und. M'jngu-utii; moderate all other ports.

Rain is probable in most parts of the SouthIsland.

Warning signal for westerly gale Is ex-hibited at Nugget Point.

SYNOPSIS OP LAST 24 HOURS.Falling barometer everywlreie, but most in

the southern districts, the fall nt Bluff beingquite 4-lOth by 5 p.m. yesterday, but it hasrisen again steadily smco that time. Mode-rate to etrcng westerly winds have beenprevalent, und nin has. fallen heavily mOtngo.

R. A. EDWIN.Saturday, Bth December, 1905.

PORT OF WELLINGTON.PHASES OF THE MOONFOR DECEMBER.

(Calculated for Now Ziaiawl Mean Time.)

111GH WATi-.R.To-day— 9h 28m a.m.; 9h E4m p.m.To-morrow— lob Win a.m.; 101i44in p.m.

SUN.Sets to-d»y— 7li 14m p.m.Rises to-morrow

—«i llma.m.;ecce7U14mp.m.AKIUVAUS.

December 7— Opawj, ss, 110 tons, Shaw,from Blenheim.

December B— Kahu, es, 132 tons, Thompson,from Cistlepoint aud East Coati., December B— Rotomahaua, 63,1777 tons, Col-lins, from Lj-ttclton. Passeusers:Saloon—Hisses Clark, Sutherland, Haicourt, Miles,"Wiles, Wood, Hjtams, Bock, Robineon; Porter,Toy (2), Game (2). Skelton, Hesdaines Clark,■Wfeemaii, F*rvett, Williams, She«h»u, Mil«s,Cockburn, Slack, Reid C2). Boden and threechildren, Frascr and child, Coates and twoboys. Baker, Borttrop, Mather, Piimnier andchild, Gartner, Pidgeon and 2 children, Smith,and 2 children, Harcourt, Daniel and child,Harrison, ..Williams and child, Wilkins, Revs.Haj-,Father Lewis, Dr. Farvett, llessre. Al-len. Clark, Sheehau, Wild, Friday, Hall, Grim-mett (2V Midlanc, Orr, Slack, Babingtou, Tan-ner, Blackman, M'Ticker, Efiey, M'Arthur,Boden, Jieare, Wiseman. Borttrop, Blewett,Mather, Plummet, R«id, Jackson, Columb, Pid-treon, C*idweU, Milsom, Hays, Harper, NichoHs,Thompson, Weiry. Bull, Mathers, Couper, Wil-tou, Warton, Mackenzie, Rcss, Drew, Wilkin*.Grant, Furness, Grimmett, Loone, Harcourt,Turner; 45 steerage.

December B— Xoroa, es, 268 tons, Peterson,from Lvfctelton.

December E—

Torgauten, es, 267 tons, Mor-ri*on, fcom Grevmoiifh."

DEPARTURES.December 7— K«lvmbank, ss, 2676 iocs, Byder,

lor Valparaiso.December 7— Tasajan, 63, 179 tons, L'ddiard,

for Kelson and Motueka.December 7— Blenheim, es, 120 tons, Watson,

for Picton.December B— Waihi, es, 92 tons, Carey, lor

Blenheim.December B— Mutatua, es, 64E8 tons, Maswtll,

for Bluff.December B—Clyde,8

—Clyde,schooner, 90 tons, Smith,

for Grevmoath.December B— Rangi,schooner, 85 toas, Soreo-

Bon, for Karamea.December B— Arahura, ss, 1596 tons, Lambert,

for Picton, Nelson, Westport, and Greymonth.Passengers

— Saloon:For Picton—

Misses Gane,M'Kenzie, Mesdames Gale, Wilkins, Messrs.Gane, Johnson, Flood. For Selson— MieeeaEast, Thomas, Mesdnmes Johnston, Orsanau,Simon, Budder, Hayes, Slesdaines Hughes,M'Rae, Greenslade, Davits, Anderson. ForWostnort— Mesdames Mackenzie,Raynbird,Carr,■Will'ams, Redcll. Mr.Drew. For Grcvmouth—Misses Maude, Bradley, Richards, M'Dermott,Mrs. Voucasavich, Messrs. Stacey, Clarke,Lezce1,Short, C'uiton, Maude.

ESTEKED OUTWARDS.December B—Kotomahnna,8

— Kotomahnna, ss, £598 ions, Col-Hvb, for Lyttelton. Passengers

—80 excur-

"lonists.KXPECTED ARRIVALS.

Penguin. Nelson nnd Picton. BthMapourika, Wcet Coast and Kelson, BthAorere, Patea, BthWaikarey Duncdiu and Lj.ttelion,9thPoherua, Southern ports, 3thManroa, Lyttelton, OthWaihi, Blenbeiu, 9thBlenheim, Pictoc, 9£hWaipori, Wcatport, 10thStormbird, Wauganui. 10thTalune, Auckland, Gisborne, Napier, 11thMaheno. Sydney, 12thTikipnua. Onehungaand New Plymouth,12thOorinna, Southern ports. 12Mi"Araiinra, West Coast, Nelson, Picton, 12thMoeraki, Melbourne, Hobart, South, 15th

Ocean-gome Steamer*.Susses, left Liverpoolsth October, via Auct-

fend; due about 10th December.OVari, left Liverpool 16th October, viaAuckland; due about 11th December.VRmJECTEu DEPARTURES.

Rotomahana, Lyttelton,BthOpawa, Blenheim, BthHuia, Wanganui. BthKini, Westport, BthHana, Pjitw, BthRotoiti. Nelson, New Plymouth, and Onc-

kunga, 9thWaikare, Napier, Gisborne, Auckland, 10thPoherua, Westport and Greymoirth, 10thPenguin,Pirtonand Nelson, "10thStormbird, Wanganui, 10thAorere, Patea, 10thWakatu, Lyttelton via caret, 10th"Mararoa, Lrttelton, 10thBlenheim, Picton, 10thWaihi, Blenheim, 10thSftaaroa, Motueka, 10th

"Toroa, Napier and Gisborne, 10thKahu, Napier and Gisborne, 10thQueen of the South, Foxtnn, 10thWaierley, Nelson and West Coast, 10thTasman, Nelson and West Coast, lliltTalune, Lytt-ekon arid Dunedin, 11thMapourika, Nelson and West Coast, 11thDraytonGrange, Lyttelton,lltliStaheno, South, Hobart, Melbourne, 12thTakapuna,New Plymouthand Onelnmga,12thMoeraki, Sydney, 15th

ly competed for at high prices:—

Somoof our most noteworthy Pales wcro:

—GS over P, crossbred (fine), 12d; WSo\er Waihoiijja, crossbred h. (fine) Hid;ditto, cro»ibicd (line), 12id; TK overF.iiiiieltl, crossbred (medium coaise),1UI; JS o\or Turapo, cru-sbrcd (mediumcoarse), lid; HFC!, Lincoln, 10id;DWF, hdf-bied, 12£ d; KM, half-bred(modiiu.i), HJd.

Tho Now Zealand Loan and Mercan-tile Agency Company lcporls:— Ourrange- ot prices v.as:

—Supciior h.ilf-bicd

12d to 14d, modiuin lmlf-bied lOJd to11AU, superior c»-os3brcd lid to 12Ad, me-dium crossbred lOd to 103d, inferiorto 9ijd,ibellies and pieces 6^d to 10id,locks 4d to sd. Our moro notowoithysales v.cro:

—Fornyhuist, half-brod 14u,

throe-quarter-bred 13id, crobbbrcd 12£ d,pieces lOAd; Matai over MJL overHuka, half-brod 12d. This clip was wellokirtcd and carefully classod. RDM, 20bales crossbred, lOjd; JT over Taw a-Flat, crossbred lid, 3 superior crossbredHid; EGJ 30 bales crossbrod, Hid; AX,17 bales crossbred, lOJd; O ovor C re-versed L, lambs, lOiJd; E ovor W,crossbrod, lid; AB o^or WAI, strongarcssbred, 10.?d; MT over CX, fino half-bi-od 12Jd; TW ovor curvo, super cross-bred, llgd; TT over T, 13 bales cross-bred, HAd.

Messrs. Abraham and Williams cata-logued 580 bales. Prices wcro about\d higher than raters ruling nt tho No-vember bale, and for somo lots_ olightlyhigher when taking into considerationtho higher shipping freights now charg-ed. Tno quality of tho wool submitteddid"not comparo favourably with thatoffered at last salo. Tho lower sorts ofjvool, biich as bellies and piooes, madehigh prices. We secured 12?dfor a'dinoof half-bred wool and lid for threo-quarter-brcd from

_tho South Island.

Taking everything into consideration wothink growers should bo \cry well satis-fied with tho prices received for theirwool. Our lending sale 3 wero a3 fol-lows:

—HB over Kotu 18 bales half-brod

at 12Jd, 7 bales half-bred log-stained16Ad, 6 bales three-quarter-bred at lid,5 bales bodies at Bd, Williams 2 balescrossbred fino lOJd, 3 bales at 10id, Rata-nui over IJI20 bales at 10id, AGK 34bales at lOAd, JM over JH whcol 16bales at lOAd, Waiwiri 9 bales at 10id,Waipuko 7 bales at lOgd, WK ovor Long-lea 9 bales at 10j{d, KJC over Kara 8bales at lOAd, Winecup ovor Tapui 10bales at 10ld, HS over P 10 bales at10id, 1'balo half-bred at Hid.

Tho Unitod Farmers and WairarapaFarmers roport that, as compared withprevious salo, all classes wero firmer andmot with a ready salo at from id to idndvance. Tho highest prico secured wasfor a small lot of Southdown, whichrealisod 13 lid. Wo quote as follows:

—Fino crossbred, bright anJ clean, lid toll^d, medium orossbrcd and Romncyskirtod and bright 10id to lid, coarsocrossbred 9Jd to 10id, dingy, skirty andlogstaincd crossbred 9d to 9ijd, piecesand bellies 7d to Bid, second pieces 3idto sd, locks 3d to 4d.

Tho deficiency in tho total offerings atthis salo as compared with last year

—about 5300 bales, as compared with 8000bales

—principally accounted for, stato

Dalgety nnd Co., by tho broken woa-thor during tho last ten dajs, and it isfully oxpected that tho January salo onthis account will bo an unusually largoone. Competition was extremely keenthroughout tho sale, especially for thobetter quality wools, whioh showed anadvance, as compared -with last sclo inNovember, of from Id, to ,ljd. Goodquality orossbrodß also advancod in pricoid per 'lb. Medium atid inferior cross-breds were from par to id higher thanlast salo rates. A largo portion of nilcatalogues was fluittccl under tho harn-mor. Tho highest prico realised by uswas Is lid for 11 bales Tataramoa half-bred. Tho following other prices wcrorealised for tho samo clip:

—Half-cross-bred Is lid; fino crossbred, Is; cparEOcrossbred, lOAd to lid;'pieces, 8d to lOd.Some othor noteworthy sales of ours woro

as follows:— TC, crossbrod, lid; WKovor PN, orossbrod, lid; CCC, crossbred,H3d; Half circlo over JM, Roninoy,Hid; Wrckin, half-bred, I3; CEL o\orRaukura, crossbrod. Hid;

—through G,

half-bted. Hid;OC overKoatanui,Rom-ney, Is; AHT conj., halfbrcd, lljd;JPover NZ,.half-bred, Hid; GRD over B,Romnoy, lid; PM ovor To Whiti, half-bred. Is Id;APO, half-bred, Hid.Atkinson and Co. roport:

—The prices

realised for crossbrod wool were fromid to id abovo last calo's vnlucx Me-dium crossbred made 93d to 10id, fino upto Hid. Tho following brand3fivcro soldas under:— Clavoy, Hid; JK over X,lOid; XVAE, 10id;AD oror F lOd; HJover C, 92d; DC, 92d; A G under —,lOJd.

Everybody is agreed as to the utterlyunsatisfactory position of our nativeland administration, and the Premierwas, therefore, on very safe ground inhis general references to the subject onThursday evening,but we see very littloground for hopein tho remedy which he

.suggested. Two of the essentials arccorrectly stated in his assertion that"the people should be able to settle onthe vast native territory of the NorthIsland, after the needs of all the. Maoris had been fully satisfied." Butthe third is that this settlement shallbe effected with the utmost prompti-tude, and in the Premier's proposal wesco a promising opening for further in-definite delay. "He was not sure," hesaid,s " that tho Government should notgrasp the nettle and appoint a commis-sion of high standing for the purpose ofinvestigating the whole position in con-nection with the nativelands of tho col-ony, with a view to helping the Maoristhemselves and setting aside the pro-ceeds from the excess for the inter-ests of the Maoris for all time." Acommission which was appointed to in-vestigate the whole position in all itsdetails would have a 'Herculean task be-fore it, and during the years which itdevoted to the work the present intol-erable state of affairs would continue.Inany event, a laborious and protract-ed investigation must .necessarily pre-cede any final solution of the difficulty,but a radical change could be immedi-ately made which would- permit of tholands being settled without waiting forthe complicated tangle of native inter-ests to be unravelled. No other coursewill bo in the least degree adequate tothe pressing needs of the situation.

Time enough has surely passed toshow that as a landlord the Maori isabsolutely unpractical andimpracticable;and what is wanted is not of courseto deprive him of his land, but of themanagement of that part which is inexcess of what ho requires for theper-sonal use of himself and his family.With this reservation, which has al-ways been recognised by our law, whyshould not an Act bo passed afc once forthe vesting of the fcp simple of all thesolands in a commission or board whichwould hold it as trustees for the nativeowners and turn it to immediate profitby leasing to European settlers? Wherethe intorests are already ascertained,they would of course be paid over tothe native beneficiaries without delay;where tho titles havo not been investi-gated and individualised, the' rentswould bo accumulated in trust for theclaimants proved ultimately to bo en-titled. Everybody would gain and no-body would bo prejudiced by such acourse. The principle has been parti-ally adopted in the Maori Land Settle-ment Actof 1905,but itnow requires tobe carried to a logical conclusion, un-contamindted with the provision en-abling the sale of land so acquired andthe handing over the proceeds tonatives who are just as unfitted to dealwith capital as with land. If thoappointment of the proposed commis-sion wero accompanied with the passingof such a measure, it would be a bless-ing indeed; otherwise it is a case of"taihoa"' worse than ever.

THE 'FRISCO SNAIL-SHIP SERVICE.

MAIL NOTICES.Subject to necessary alteration*, malls willclose at the Chief I'oat Oillcc as under :—l'jrhew Plymouthand Auckland, per Uana-

watu train, daily, 6.30 a.m.SATURDAY,BUi DECEMBER.

For Wcstport, per Kiiii, 5 p.m.Vor Southern OiUcbs of Xtw Zealand, perRntomahana, 7.45 p.m.lor Nelson, per Rotniti, 7.45 p.m.MONDAY, 10th DECEMBER.For Motueku, per Manaroa, 11.20 n.m.For Picton, Blenheim, French l"a«s, and Nel-son, per Penguin. 12.20 p.m.For Kaikoura and Cheviot, per Wakatu,

3.20 p.m.For Weatport, Greymopth, and Ilotltlki, pep

Pohcrna, 3.20 p.m.For Kapler, Qisbornc, and Auckland, pei*Waikare, 4.20 p.m.For Nelson, wcstport, Gieymouth, and Iloki-

tika, per Wavcrley, 4.20 p.m.For Southern Offices of New Zealand, per

Maiaroa, 6 p.m.TUESDAY, Uth DECEMBER.

For Southern Offices of New Zealand, perTalune, 3.20 p.m. \For Southern Offices oil New Zealand, perRoiomahanii, (> p.m.For Ncuion, We«tport, Greyraonth, and Hufci-

tikn, per Mapourika, 7.45 p.m.WEDNESDAY, 12tli DECEMBER.

For Hnvclooli und Sounds, per MiDuroa12.20 p.m.

For Picton, Blenheim, and Nelson, per Pen-guin, 12.20 p.m.

For Southern OfSce* of New Zealand, perMaheno, 4.20 p.m.

For New Plyuouthand Auckland, per Taka-punn, 5 p.m.For Southern Ofltces of New Zealand, perMararoa, 6 p.m. .

THURSDAY, 13th DECEMBER.For New Plymouth, per Corinna, H.20 p.nj.For Napier, Oisbornc, Auckland, and Aus-

tralian States (due Sydney 21st hist.), per Vic-toria, 3.20 p.m.FRIDAY. 14th-DECEMBER.

For Southern Offices of New Zealand, perMaraxoa, 8.20 a.m.

For Picton, Blenheim, French Pass, andNelson, per Penguin, 12.20 p.m.

For Southern Office* of New Zealand, alsoAustralian tit.ites (duo. SlcHjoiirno 23rd inst.),per Mokoia, 6 p.m.

SATURDAY,16th DECEMBER.ForCeylon, India, China, Straits Settlement*,South Africa, aUo Continent of Europe andUnited Kingdom, via Briudisi (duo Lontltm;26th January) (for specially addi-CKcd cor-respondence only), per Mocraki, Z p.m.For Australian States (dua Sydney 19th mat.)per Moeraki, 3 p.m.

Kote.—

Tlicro will be no steamer leavingNew Plymouth for Onelninga on Mondaynight, 10th inst., or Onehunga for New Ply-mouth on Tuesday, 11th diet.

The next best despatch for Continent o!Europe and United Kingdom will be TlaS«n Francisco, closing at the Chief Pott Office,Wellington, on Thursday, 20th December, nt6.30 a.m. (due London 19th January). Moneyordcro for despatch l>y tins mml muct heprocured before 4 p.m. on Wcdnesdaj, 19thDecember. All vegistarotf oorrcspondcuce amiparcels for United S&aite uuwt bu pi(.oratedbeforo 5 p.m. on Wcdiwvri, 1,, 10th December.

Uiilen otherwise ipK'.IV,!. ifiltered lctterimint be handed in a<vl v' )»".. ■"/clen obtainedone hour i>efore, am! pan'f'j ji- iit mail* thirtyminutes before, tho «/i il-i-.i'1

- iruil clotei.J. A. mmo:>. Lnr|'Postmaster,

BANK OF ENGLAND RETURN.[>BESS ASSOCIATION.]

(Received December 8, 9 a.m.)LONDON, 7th Dccembor.

Tho Bank of Enirland return issued fortho week ending Wednesday, sth Decem-ber, is as undor:—

Issue DrPABTJinxT.Note issue £50,070.000 Gor. d6bt i11,015,00

Othersecuri-ties ... 7,434,000

Goia . si.&u.ooo£',50,070.000 150,070,000Banciko Dkpartmknt.

Fr pnst'iV Gov.socun-capital.. J8U.553,000 tiej ... £15.45r>,0DJPublio de- Other so-posits ... C.125.000 curilios... a0,591,000Otlior do- Notoa ... 21,CG),000

posits ... 41,931,000 Com .„ l,ij±OJoRest, 7-iinjrandotliocUIU ... 5.530.000

£03,995,000 £68.995,000The leadiugitems of Uio Bank of En^iandreturnaffordtho following:comparison :—:

—This week. Last week. Last year"

£ X £Bullion ... 31,621,000 31,975,000 31,830,000lieserve... 22,942,000 23,(514,000 23,169,001)Noteoir'n 28,410,000 28,099,000 23,791,01)0Deposits 51,112,000 52,325,00'J 56,(509,000Proporciou "

reservetoliabilities 41.Si 41.73 40.SG

GOVJiBNMJSNX SKOUUITIUS.(The followiugore the latest quotations forGovornmeufc securities with a comparison of

tho&u rulniff hist week:—

" Inlere&tpajrubla xvAlayaudJsovtuiuei.t luteieatpayablolvJauuiu-y audJuly.Iluleresl.pajablomAprilnudUctaw.

THE MONEY MARKET.The market rato of discount for beat

three months' bills is 53 lower at 5£ percent. Tho Bank of England rato is 6per cent., as against 5 per cent, on18thOctober, and 4 per cent, on 11th Octo-ber.COLONIAL AND OTHER PRODUCE.

Wheat.— Tho English markets arosteady and unchanged, and buyers aroindisposed to operate. Tho Continentaland American markets aro equally apa-thetic. Cargoes are farm, but there islittlo business doing; 30a aro asked forNew South Wales and South AustralianNovember shipment, and 30s lid for Vic-torian November shipment: Thcro is ahotter -enquiry for Australian on spot at30s 6d to 31s 6d. Th»ro is littlo demandfor Now Zealand, as English wheat is re-lativelycheaper.

Flour is very slow owing to expectedlarge American arrivals. Australianflour is quoted inLondon at 20s 6d to 21s6d, at Glasgow at 22s to 22s 3d.

Freights arc quiet,24s being asked forVictoria and Now South Wales.

Butter— Danish 118s. Colonial steadyat last wcok's decline, with a slightlybetter demand, but secondaries aro diffi-cult to quit..Choose.— There is a quiot demand.New Zealand is quoted at 60s.

Sugar is steady. German beet, 88dog,Id higher.at 9s 2d; first-mark granulat-ed, f.o.b. Hamburg, 2d higher at 10s lOdper ovit.

Bradford Tops.— The market is strong,and quotations arc unchanged.

London Wool Sales.— Tho fleece por-tions of tho following clips vi'ero sold:

—"Gonn," 14d; "Clyde," 24Jd; "Cairo-arro," 24|d; "Clavcrton," 22id.

THE METAL MARKETS.Copper.

—Spot, 35s higher at £103 15s;

three months,"37s 6d higher at £104 10sper ton. '

Tin.—

Spot, £2 17s 6d lower at £195ss; three months, £3 5s lotvor at £19510? per ton.'

Lead.— £19 5s per ton.Pig iron.— 2s 2d higher at 63s 2d per

ton.Spelter.

—£27 12s 6d per ton.

Silver.—

31s 9-16dper oz.ARGENTINE BUTTER.

(Received December 8, 8.7 a.m.)LONDON, 7th December.Choicest Argentine butter is soiling

readily at 109s per cwt.About 3000 boxes aro arriving weekly.

The quality is excellent.Balgety and Company, Limited, havo

received tho following cable from Lon-don dated 4th instant:

—Tallow

—Expect

a declino in prices at to-morrow's salesas compared with 7th November fialo asfollows: "Prime mutton and beef tallowIs to 1»- 6d per cwt. Other descriptions,2s to 2s 6d, at least." The following mes-sage has also been received, dated sthinstant: "1898 casks wcro offered at tal-low sales, 29 sold. Thcro arc sellers atbasis as per our telegram of 4th, but nobuyers." Tho firm has also received thefollowing market advices, dated 6th in-stant; "Butter

—Market weak. Since our

telegram of the 29th ultimo tho Copen-hagen official quotation is higher by onekroner (about Is lid) per owl.. The to-tal imports of butter into the UnitedKingdom for tho week ending the Istin-stant amounted to 61,000cwt aa comparedwith 68,000cwt for tho correspondingperiod of 1905. Frozen meat: Frozenmutton (in general), prices aro firmer.Wo quote: Now Zealand frozen lamb(primo Canterbury), 32-401b, ojd. Aus-tralian lamb, prime, 6Jd.- Australianmutton, light weights, under 501b, 5Jd."Messrs. Dalgety and Co., Ltd., Wol-lington, shipped by tho Warrimoo yes-terday, to tho order of a client of theirSydney house, tho following lines oframs:—l32 W. J. Nix, 200 John Bid-will, 80 H, Wilkinson, 30 Gray Bros.,20 J. G. Oates, malting a total of 462.They are all Romneys, and aro consider-ed to bo the best sheep of their classthat havo ever been denpatohcd from thoWauarapa district.

TELEGRAPH MAIL NOTICES.Malta for tho Oanimorewivith of Australia,

Ceylon, India, China, .Innan. Straits Settle-ment*. nl«n South Afrit", Continent of Kiinipc,mid United Kingdom, rltwr ut Bltilf, per Wini-mera, on Monday, 101li inr.l,, at Z.ZO p.m.,and at Auckland, per Munul.n. at 4,15 p.m.

Mails fin* the Commonwealth ot Aiistriili.lonly, via Sydney, close ut Wcstpnrl, per,Bakanoa, onMonday,ICltli Drrcmhcr, ut 7 p.m.

1 Malta for Tonga, Snnioa, nnd I'lji, clntc ntAuckland, per Atua, on. 'luradjy, litli Decem-ber,^at 8;46 a.nj.

BY TELEGRAPH.LONDOS, 7th December.

Arrived—

Tong«riro, from Wellington.Sailed

— Tokomaru, for Auckland;Wakanui,Jor Sew Zealand.Sailed, from Liverpool— Surrey, for Auckland.SUVA, 7th December.

Arrived— Suva, from Sydney.STDJTET, 7th December.

Arrived—

Zealandia (6 p.m.), from Auckland.NEWCASTLE, 7th December.Sailed

—Kumara, for Wcetport;Hirotha, for

Auckland. FBEMAXTLE, 7th December.Arrived

—Oroya, from London. Passengers

far Auckland—

Messrs. Evans, Cab, WUdmg,Mrs. Jeffcoat, Mils Wig-ley. For Wellington—Messrs. Meek, Lloyd, Williams, Hobnden andwife, Mrs. Allen. For Lyttelton—9m«.Croryin, Ktzgeraljd, Traccy, Covia and wife,Bradley, Fletcher. For Xapier— Mr. Elbourne"ad wuV. For (Jiebcrne—

Meagre. Graham andwile, Gray and wife. Mis. Stubbs,Mr. Reckits.KAIFARA, 7th December.

Arrived—

Karifcane, from Dunedia.OSEHUNGA, 7th December.Sailed— TuVapona (335 p.m.), for New Ply-

mouth. Passengers— Missce Brook, Bell, Cor-don, Courtney, Stocker, Holmes, Whitfleld,Since Rtwrmarne, Mesdames Hunt, Ouff,Court-ney, Strange, Murray.Butcher, French, MessrsWiHimefct, Muslin, Williams, Grace, Richmond,"M'XeUar, WSboo, Hawke, Ldeirre, Jones, Dick,Beid, Jones, Etriiui. Jordan, Buttttude, Bright,Beattle, Butcher, -French, M'Laren, kbesten,and'Ootonel Davw.

AUCKLAND, 7Ci December.Arrived— Hanpiri, from Wellington viacoaet;ecov, from Hokianga.MASTTKAT HEADS, 7th December,

yakapgna. passed oofrwards at.S«i p.m.SEwTptmtOOIH, 7tli December.Sailed

—Raraura (8.30 p.m.), for Onehunga.

Bth December.Arrtred— Takapuna (4 a_m.), from 'Onehunga.

FATEA, 7thDecember.Arrived

—Aorere (1 p.m.) and Kapiti (1.30

Km.), from Weffineton.WASBASUI, Bth December.

Arrived—

Stonnbird (1.35 a.m.), from WeDmg-fcon. KAPIER, 7th December.

Sailed— Slwaru (10.30pjn.), for Gisborne.PIOTON, 7th December.Arrived

—Penguin (0 p.m.), fromWellington,

failed— Penguin (midnight), for Xelaon.Bth December.

Arrived—Blenheim (7 a.m.), from. W-ellmgion.NELSON*. Bth December.

Arrived—

Tasmaa (10.15 &m.), from W*Ming--"ton; Penguin (10.45'a.m^, from Pfrton.

ISETTEUTaBS.7th. December.Arrived

—Cygnet, from Kaafcourn.

Sailed—

"Eotoa (b p.m.), for Wellington-, Wim-feiera (5.20 p.m.), for Dcdc*j).

Bth December.Arrived— WaJruna (4.55 a.m.), Victoria (5.40

a.m.), and.Mararoa (9 ajn^,from Wellington.Frank Gay,boand from GJsborne*tG Welling-

ton, pgjaed at 930 a.m.To aail— Mararna. (8.45 p.m.) and Waikarc

(11.30 p.m.), for Wellington.To sail— Poherua (5 p.m.). for Wellington.DUSEDCf, 7th December.Arrived— Corinna, from Onehunga. via port*;

Eunice, from Kaipira.Sailed— Woikare, for Auckland viaEa» Coast

ports. Pasaengeus for Wellington—

TAturd.Akroyd, Sobie, Thompaoc.

toiled— HigfflJind Monarch (6.30 p.m.), forSydney.

WESTPORT, Bih December.Sailed— Walpoul (1.40 a.m.), for WdKnjrton.To sail— Kotoku (midnigln), for Wellington.

There will be no Mcamcr from TXerrPlymouthto Onehunga on iloi.day nierbt owiojf to tlioEarawa ccuoing down to Wellington, to boovniiatricd.

The Union Company'o steamer Uaiiroto,wlrch left Sawa, tor WeHinzton at 7 p.m. UnThursday, in bringing 34 passeegtw. Tl«ecargo for this port comprises 3600 bunchesbcnsuiM aod 570 tons of case fruit. She i»dec here on Wertaesday evening.

The Now Zcaloatf Shippinjr Company*ctcamrr Kaifeoar* ia fan call at Wellington to-morrow en her way from Napier to W*ffcaa»to take on. boarrl n number ot cargo -wttrlnsra.

Tho JJb«r Zealand Shipplne Company's«*w eteanrcr Ornri. now at Auckland, Is unzlorthe command of Captain J. P. Fonrdicfc. withTtr. O. W. Clements an chief officer and Mr. A.H. Parker as chief engineer. Dr. A. C. Pitt*is ouzgbjm, rail Mr. F. L. Mdrjcan ddef stew-ard. Mr.F. W, Bein<> if seuond officer.

Tbo Shaw-Savin steamer itonari, now atAuckland, will probaWy leave for Port Coalm-en* en tbe 3rd .TiUinary. Tlie vowel will comeon to Timaru ajitl Wellington, and wiQ leavehern on Uie 17th January,as as to catch theMarch wrol flaJe*.

Tlie schooner Amelia Sims loft Tairu* oa.Thursday wtth 85,000ft of timber tor Wel-Untrton.

The IMkarc, due from Lyttelton to-mouvw,kit BonedLa at S o'clock yesterday evening.

The westerly weather has pzevedan effective'Mock <ut the "hipping »t Poxton during the-past few diy». So leas thannine vessels /hawbeen tied up afr Foxtaillor a. week.

Tho Paberua. left 'Qmaru «* 1o'clock- thismorning, and is due<here-from '.Cyttelton*to-«morrow.

The- PukaU im'ioilmre'OitiyMnuih'Jtir Lyt-teTtoa at mStaigkb ■to-njfiit. The* vessej ioi

.to owns oa to WeliißgtQa'Mraß»*.LysJ*Ji(Jiri

YESTERDAY'S WOOL SALES.Messrs. Levin and Co. report on yes-terday's wool sales as follows:— Our cata-

'logue represented 900 bales. Bidding wasvery animated, especially for any lus-trous skirted clips. Fino wools broughtconsistently good prices; medium woolsof this character reached 1% to Is Id,and for superior lotq even moro wasforthcoming. As compared with lastsalothero was a rico of Id per lb on hslf-brods and fino crossbreds, and coareocrossbrods roue from id to id. Pieceswore well sought for at 6d to,BJd. Fol-lowing is the range of price?:— Ilalf-breds lid tb Is O|cL nuporior fino cross-breds lid to Is o£d, Medium crosabrodslOAd to Hid, coarso crossbreds lOd tolid, inferior crosabrods 9id to lOJd,pieces and bollies 6d to 9fd (special),locks 3d to sd.

Murray, Roberts nnd Co. report— Outof a total offering of 6300 bales wo cata-logued about 1000 bales. Fow lots wcropassed in, one] these oirfy whoro growersplaced prohibitive limit* on their clips.The wools shown wero for tho most partin sound, woll-grown condition, thoro bo-ing, however, a considerable offering ofheayy-conditjoned parcel*. Some verychoice lots of bright, light, crossbreds■wore shown, and for these thero wasstrong: competition, especially from thoAmerican and Continental section, ex-treme prices being realised fox any lotsshowing fino quality. We h«<l no choicerhalf-bred in our catalogue to-day, but.for tho few medium loto offered thorowas good competition, and prices forthese may bo quoted id per lb better

>thau at November sale. Fine, light-con-ditioned crossbreds were on the wholo,

.id to 3d higher, whilo medium tocoamo-McoMbreds in heavier/ oonditton woi per*tp.tn4t.rfrjs*d^p£i&h9f»~!ixeie mitrMU^

When the House decided to renew theSan Francisco mail contract, a mail wasetill on tho high seas which should havobeen delivered in the remotest hamlet "

in tho colony several days before. Afterthat decision was arrived at, the con-tractors celebrated the occasion by can-celling altogether the next outgoing mail,and leaving a six weeks' gap in tho ser-vice. It is therefore quite in accordancewith the fitness of things that tho firstapplicationof the new arrangement whichwas devised to supplement their defi-ciencies should have been rendered futileby another display of the incurableslovenliness which has characterised theirallegedperformance of their contract fromfirst to last. Tho countrymen of Messrs.Sprcckelj. and Company have a greatreputation for "hustling," and this com-pany seems to know how to drive a bar-gain as well as most, but as to hustlingacross the Pacific in order to keep pacewith a not particularly exheting time-table— that is quite another story. Byan arrangement which came into force onFridaylast for the first time, the steamerfor Sydney left Wellington on that dayinstead of Saturday, in. order to connectwith the. Australian mail via. Sue/, and coenable correspondents to answer theirSanFrancisco letters a. week earlier thanif they had to wait till the next out-ward Sim Francisco mail. As those let-ters havo not jot come to hand, thoarrangement has, us wehave said, provedvalueless.

But vie beg of the disappointedman ofbusiness whoso calculations havo beenagain upset that he will not grumble.There is always a good reason for thesethingp, nnd he should not forget it. Inthis case the delay m-:is duo to a leakin tho boilers, and n brcak-doun in theforced diaußht machinery. Ncrt monthit may be a- puff f wind that does themischief, and after ilmt the earthquakewhich occurred in San Francisco ninemonths beforo;or the forest of barnaclesthat has accumulated whilo the ship hasbeen waiting for a fair wind, will supplytho inevitable circumstance- over whichthe Spreckels Company has no control.Let the business man nnd tho privatecorrespondent therefore continue to exer-cise patience. It is the meek that shallinherit tho earth, though they maynot gets their lotlers delivered in time;and what better oppoitunity 'for thoexercise of this Christian virtue could be"desired than the treatment accorded tous by ting foreign company, whose con-,ta_ct wo .-.to anpu-enfcly prepared to.

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1906.METEOROLOGICAL.TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

COMMERCIAL &FINANCIAL

TOCORRESPONDENTS."Manuka."— The first syllable. The rule in

Maori is that the accent falls on the firstradical. With v. few exceptions (such n3"pakclia") native trisvllablcs are commonlymisaccontccl by Knglish speakers.

"Valuation."— So. Any steps in that di-rection muot be taken within a certain periodafter the sitting of the Assessment Court. Seehections 30 and 31 of the Government Valua-tion of Lnnd Act Amendment,19C0.

Heiuy Bodlcj.— Sot spnee.

Evening Post.SATURDAY

,DECEMBER 8,1906.

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2i% ImperialCousols4 % New South WoJed312> KenSouthWales3 % NowSouth Walesi% Victoiiuul3^ Victornuii3 % VicloruuiSj^,SouthAustralian* % South Aublnxliau3 f> Queensland31/& QueenslandU % yueeusland ...i%Isuw Zealand* ...Uk%Jic.v Zealoudt-..."i'lo Ze.U.uidt ..313, W«»' AustnUiiiu3% West AuatraLimJJ^tTusiuuiuou3 Tnauiamau

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FOR GIRLS.A Choice Assortment of Dressed and Un-

dressed Dolls of all Eizes.Drossed, from 3s 6d, 4s 6d; to 80s.Undressed, from Ib, Is 6d, to 29s 6d.Celluloid Dolls, at Is 6d, 2s 6d, 3s 6d.India-rubber Dolls, at Is, Is6d, to 9s 6d.Goggly Woks, 2s 6d, 33 6d, 4s 6d.Tea Set*, from 2s IH, is lid, 4s lid, to

21e.Dolls' Furniture, a wonderful array, from

Is, Is lid, 2s 6d, to 255.Dolls' Housos, from Is lid up to 16s 6d.Kitchen Stoves, splendid models, from 5s

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9s 6d, to 21s.Skipping Ropes, from lOd, Is, Is3d, to 2s.Sets of Croquet, from 3s lidup to 15s 6d.Sets of Garden Tools, from Is lid, 3s lid,

to 4s lid.Drawing Slates, ?t 9d, Is, Is 6d, 2s 6d.Books, nt Is, Is 3d, to 3s 6d.

FOR BOYS.A Wonderful Assortment of Trains, from

2« 6d, 5s 6cl, 7s 6d, up to 6iguineas.Also ScU of Rails, Buffers, Stations, Tun-

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air and Turbino types, from 4s lidupto 635.

RailwayEngines, beautiful workingmodels,from 49s 6d to 955.

Magic Lanterns, from 12s 6d, 18s 6d, to49s 6d.

Cricket Sets, from 2s to 21s 6d.Bats from 6s 6d to 13s 6d.Drums, from 2s lid, 3s lid, to 14s 6d.Sets of Soldiers, from Is6d, Is 9d, up to

10s 6d.Forts, from Is, Is lid, to 5s lid.Model Steamers, 4s 6c!, 6s 6tl, 8s 6d, to

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MECHANICAL TOYS.Tho Mechanical Toys,of whioh thero is amarvellouscollection, provemore fascinatingthan ever. Nothing moro wondoiful than tho busy world of motion1 and action inminiaturo

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So oomorightdowmandbring thelittle folks to see thornin our"TOYLAJTD."

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WF. NEWB ON," MERCHANT TAILOR,

ADDRESS: NEXT TOWN HALL.A TRIAL SOLICITED.

JANES AND BAKER.HIGH-CLASS TAILORS,

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U.M- KILGOUR,DENTIST,

EVENING POST BUILDINGS (upstairs),WILLIS-STREET

FULL UPPER or LOWER SETS, £3.Gas 2s 6d;Extractions 2s Gd andIs.

Gold Filling', Crowns, and Bridges atREDUCED FEES

Hours: 9 am. to 5 p.m., aud 7 p.m. to8.30 p.m.

TELEPHONE, 1713.

T\ R. T. A. BLACK,

Bachcl.r of Scmnco, N.Z University,Doctor of Dental Surgory, U.5.A.,"

DENIIST,110, WILLIS-STREET.

FullUpper or Lpwpr Plates, £3 os. Thebest qualty material ÜBcd throughout.

Crown andBridge Work, Gold and otherFilJinga, etc,

TMTR. 11. T. RICHARDSON,XTJL SURGEON DENTIST,Lato of Phiia., U.S.A., and London,

LINDSAY'S NEW BUILDINGS,Woodward-street (off Lambton-quay).

Telophono 2200.

X J^ E. BUTLER,DENTAL SURGEON,

Haa commenced tho Practice of his Pro-fession at his RoomH,

106, WILLIS-STREET.

MB. SIDNEY HALL,DENTIST,

Bouloott ■"troot> Wellington(Opposite Drs. Collins and Hislop).

Telephone 479.

BRIDGE AND FROST,Surgeon Dentists, 102, Willis-st.'

J. W. Bridge, H. W. Frost (lato of Napierand University of Pennsylvania).

Sets of Teeth, £3 3i.Gas, 2s 6d;Extractions, 2s 6d and Is.

fA. Card.]'

DR. D. N. ISAACS, Dontal Surgeon,has commenced tho practise of hisprofession at his Rooms, 89, WILLIS-ST.

(over Tustin's). Tolephono 2511.(Cud.)

HOBBS AND WHITEHOUSE,SURGEON DENTISTS.

WillisrStreet ... Wellington(Over Evening Post.)

TVffR. WALTER MANTELL,'li_L DENTIST,SYDNEY-STREET (Fir»t Gate from

Musoum-streot).Telephono No. 554.(Telephone, 2335.)

MESSRS. STENHOUSE _ TABOR,DENTISTS,

56, MANNERS" STREET(Ovor Opera Homo Pharmacy).

X k. blj"r7g ess," DENTAL SURGEON,(Lato 14 years J. W. Bridge)

Cornor Cuba and Ingcstro Btroets (oppositeNational Bank). Tol. 1048.

MR. W. R. HURSTHOUSE,DENTAL SURGEON,

7, WILLIS-STREET (next Singer Co.)Hours— 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

X nOLDSHIP,"BARRISTER & BOLK3ITORIMPERIAL CHAMBERS,

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CountryFreehold Securities.FIELD, LUCKIE AND TOOGOOd]

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Money to Lend at Lowest purrent Rates.fA~Cnrd']

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NEERS, LICENSED SURVEYORS.IVI. 2003, Harcourt'g Buildings.

CTILLEARD NATUSOH," ARCHITECT,Commercial Chambers, Hunter-street, and'< at Napior ana Gisborno.

FentT,7'thebe-stnatural aperient

WATER.A specific for tho certain relief of

HABITUAL and OBSTINATE CONBTI-PATION, and in DISORDERS of tbvMV3SJR.ind.BILIO,U« ATOAtfKB.

By Speoial Appointment to His Excel-lency Lord Plunket.

WATERWAYS OF CHINAgODA WATER,

Specially Prepared forINVALIDS,

In China-lined Syphons.NO METALLIC CONTAMINATION.

Privato homo deliveries daily.THOMSON.LEWIS & CO.,

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THE GRAND HOTELTS NOW OPEN TO RECEIVE

GUESTS.

BEVERIDGE AND HURN,Proprietors.

Publio Health Department Report to beseen at our office.

INVALID SODA WATER.,In GIaES-tubcd Syphons.

OUR WATERS havo been oxamined bythoHEALTH DEPARTMENT,and

declared ABSOLUTELY PURE.PH(ENIX~~CO

M LTD.'PHONE 880.

AGENTS FOR PURIRI WATER.GOING TO BUY

A PIANOTHIS CHRISTMAS?

rrUIE matter should receive your very—L careful consideration, for you wontthe Piano to last a long timo. A goodPiano of known reputation will servo you» lifetime, and your satisfaction will bo aslasting as tho Piano. Good instrumentsare not cheap, but they aro inexpensivejudged by their merits. '

Wo offor you tho choice of high-grado British, French,German, andAmerican Pianos, and don't worryif you haven't all tho lnouoj: topay for tho instrument.

Tako advantage of our very easy TimoPayment Plan, and havo the Piano inyour home for Christmas.

PIANOS FROM OpJ GUINEAS UP!

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mHOUGHTFUL COMMUNICATIONS,JL 28th NOVEMBER, 1906.

DR. FINDLAY, WELLINGTON."Accept congratulations. Press afraidyou will overwork yourself. Why

not avoid doctors' bilk and earlydeparture by training on 'Champion'Muscle Raiser and 'Standard'Soother, and put up a Century?

"(Signed) P.VIRTUE."P."VIRTUE, AUCKLAND.

"Many thanks your congratulations andyour oxcollent suggestion. Ipresumethe CENTURY is avoirdapoisJ

"(Signed) J. G. FES'DLAY."DR. FINDLAY, WELLINGTON.

"No| tho Century is 'Champion's' leasolimit. Wo havo no desiro that youshould emulato TOD SLOAN, ratherSIR JOSEPH, to face the zephyrswhen our Compensation.Bill comesbsforo tho Kouso for cornering thoTRUST single-handed.

"(Signed) P. VIRTUE."

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Towels, Dowl/.s, Forfar, Glass Cloths—

all the Best Makers' Goods ,

la HOUSEHOLD DRAPERY and FUR-NISHINGS GEORGE WINDER givestho verybest value in tho city or outof it.

800 tho Curtains at 8s 6d worth 10s 6d,at 103 6d worth 12a 6d.

A TRIAL WILL CONVINCE YOU.Wo Servo our Customers to Brhig them

Back Again.

GEORGE~WINDER,CARPET AND LINOLEUM WARE-HOUSE,

72, 74, MANNERS-STREET. jEXHIBITION

FOOTWEARFOR MEN.

WE have mado great preparations forthis event, and havonow ready for

your inspection a display of worthy Foot-wear that is unequalled in this colony.All stylos are shown, both Tan and Black,in Box Calf, Glaco Kid, and Patent Lea-thers. Tho logical conclusion is wo can-not bo beaten for Style, Variety, nndPrice.

SOME SPECIALS THATWILL INTEREST YOU.

SNOW'SRonownod AmericanFootwear, smarterand more up to dato than ever,18.dis-tinct stylos to chooso from in GlacoKid,Box Calf, andnow Patent Leath-ers. Prico 22b 6d up.

BOSTOCK'SReliablo English-made Boots, Blackand Tan, in narrow and medium toes,stocked in half-sizes. From 21s.

PINGREE'SAmerican Booto, always dependable, alarger variety thanusual, on now com-fort-giving lasts. From 245.

You'll appreciato tho now styles andextremely moderate prices. Better dropin before tho holiday rush comes on.

E. PEARCE~& CO., LTD.,33. CUBA-STREET.

OTRAW HATH! STRAW HATSIPANAMA HATS!

THE CORRECT SHAPES!THE LATEST STYLES!

THE RIGHT PRICES!

2s2s 6D6D 8 6DI6D1 !WALLACE & GIBSON,, THE "ICASH,"

WILLIS-STREET.MORI-] NEW SUMMER SUITINGS

JUHT Opened, includingover 100 lingloSuit Lengths. Tho latest importation

ib of the very highest grade, equal to anySuitings scon in Wellington, and as only IHIGH-CLASS TAILORS c*n handlo.

Clients and intonding cliouts are romind-o,\ that it is advisable to order as earlyaa possible.K. NORTON AND CO.. 61, Willis-streot.

FEDERAL COFFEE PALACE,OHRIBTOHUROH. ,

Charmingly situated in Victoria-square,fronting tho door is tho Queen'B Statuo

"'Midi tho Bnnd Rotunda, from whenco iswafted tho melodious strains of the greatlnantero. Tho lovely Avon, wondingthrough the piirk-ltko foreground, givei abOiitic glow to tho 'ivtUiok.I^iu__»:_.i3ATftJßa.:Prpiixiator. *

The members of tho Arbitration Courtleft for Dunedin and Invercargill by the-Mararoa la&t evening.

Messis Coff<?y and Gregan, tho suc-ocasful- tenderers for the carrying out ofthe Gear Island protective works in theiiutt ltiver have airanged to commencethe work at once.

IntheMagistrate's Court to-day, beforeDr. A. McArthur, S.M., an active look-ing -oung man named Erward llowMtwas charged with having on 3rd Novem-ber,at Christchurch, stolen £13 ISsworthof jewellery belonging to Annio Gil-mour Clay, from liter bedroom at oneof the Christchurch hotels. On th<* ap-plication of Chief Detective McGrath, ac-cn.*ed was remanded to appear at Christ-chuivh on 12th itst.From a report presented to the HuttRiver Board by the foreman last eveningit appears that the recent fresh in theriver eaily in the week reached withinlft lib. of the highest recorded. Itbrought down a great quantity of debrisand timber, but no serious damage wasdone. The County Council employees

were engaged during the freshin keepingtho d'ebria and timber from lodging

against the pipe bridges.A man suffering from the effects ofexcessivo drinking caused somo commo-

tion in Kelbume Avenue last night bycalling out "Murder." The cause of the'trouble was subsequently found to beduo to some one taking a whisky bottlefrom him. From the avenue he proceed-ed in the direction of the Post Officewhere he was arrested by a constable.This morning the man was chargedbeforeDr. A. McArthur, S.M., with drunken-ness and remanded for a week for cura-tive treatment. Dan Yun, for drunken-ness, was fined 20s in default seven days*imprisonment, James Rendal was con-victed and ordered to come up for sen-tence when called upon, one first offenderwas fined 10s in default 48 hours' im-prisonment, another was fined ss, indefault 24 hours' imprisonment, and an-other*" vas convicted and discharged.For having importuned passengers Lucy;Billinghurst and SarahFalloon were each'sentenced to one month's imprisonment.

As reported in last night's Post, theMinister for Labour (the Hon. J. A.Millar) and the Under-secretary forLands (Mr. W. C. Kensington) yester-day inspected the various areas of landin the 'Hutt Valley, which had been ac-quired for workers' homes. It was de-cided that the land comparatively nearto the Hutt station, which was pur-chased from Mrs. Kingdon, should beused exclusively for workers' homes.As another result of his inspection, theMinister is of opinion that some por-tions of the land acquired elsewhere ivthe valley is too far away to be requir-ed for workers' homes for some consid-erable time, and he has made other ar-rangements as to the disposal of theland.

At a civil sitting of the Magistrate'sCourt, presided over by Dr. A. M'Arttur,S.M., a claim for £1 was made by theCommercial Agency Company, on behalfof Briscoe and Co., against Wm. H.Nimmo in respect of a lawn-mower.Judgment was for plaintiff, for whoniMr. Yon Haast appeared, with 6s costs.Caleb Smith, Lower Hutt, commissionagent, sued Frank C. Matthews, LowerHutt, motor agent, for the recovery of£16 ss, commission on the salo of apro-perty at the Lower Hutt. The defencewas that plaintiff did not sell in confor-mity with his instructions, aud further,that the authority to sell had lapsed bytho length of time which intervened be-tween the -date' of the original instruc-tions and the 'sale. Plaintiff was non-suited, with costs. Mt. Herdinan ap-peared for plaintiff, and Mr. Skerrett forthe defendant.

Argument was heard by the ChiefJustice yesterday in the case ofWilliam Duthie Batter Strachan;mastermariner, and Elizabeth Strachan (hus-band and wife) v. John Williams,build-er, relating to a Newtown, land trans-action. The action was-,brought to re-cover the amount of a second mortgagefor £100. Judgment fcas given for £100and interest, with costs on the? lowest6cale. Mr. Atkinson was for plaintiffs,and Mr. Dunn for defendant.It is satisfactory to learn from Mr.

T. W. Kirk, headv of the Biology andHorticultural Divisions of the Depart-ment of Agriculture, that co far the pros-pects for the potato crop this year aregood. Although the much-discussed dis-ease exists in a number of places, yetthe dry weather experiencedhas prevent-ed any extensive spreading. As. is wellknown, this disease is dependent on ex-cessive humidity. It is not, however,Mr. Kirk points out, safe to neglectspmying on this account, as should alengthened spell of wet follow the warmweather so far experienced, the resultmight be disastrous to unsprayed crops.Throughout tl<e colony the potato cropsare looking very,well, though the diseasecanbe seenin places. So far as the ques-tion of the success attending spraying isconcerned, there is no doubt whateverthat proper spraying is very remunera-tive. This statement ie corroborated

—if

any corroboration were needed— by theletters from farmers and others publishedin this year's report of the department.One firm believer in the efficacy of spray-ing—rafter careful observations ami per-sonal experience— is the Rev. A. O. Wil-liams, of Patiki, Wanganui. Mr. S. Wes-ton, of Feilding, also wrote the depart-ment on thci subject, and as a typicalinstance, we quote from his letter:— "AsregaTds spraying for tho blight,Ihave nohesitation in snying that it is most bene-ficial in checking and" preventing the.blight."

At last, and a long-looked for last(says the Bulletin), a white man is oncemore wrestling champion of Australia,for, on Monday night, at MelbourneCyclorama Buildings,Button Singh threwup the murky Asiatic sponge to ClarenceWeber, afteT each man had secuicd afall. Nearly 4000 people were present,and whoopedloudly for White Australia,und went nearly mad with delight whenthe sinuous Pathan declined to go on.The first bout lasted 13 minutes, duiingwhich Buttan seemed a leg lock hold onWeber, and tho white man.had to eithergo down or have his thigh dislocated.So he went down. In the second Wsb^rattacked ferociously,- and put the Pathanon the defensive. Moving Touud andround the mat the coloured man triod allhe kn«w for one of his patentgrips, butWeber never gavehim amoment's oppor-tunity, and suddenly rushing in, secureda headbar, then a three-qu.vrtcr Nelson,and, before Buttan could Tetaliate, hewas turned over and dashed down on thomat. There he lay, refusing to rise, withhis nose and mouth bleeding-, and com-plaining that his leg and arm were in-jured. Considering the wild-beast tacticsby which he won his former matcheswith the same man, no sympathy is feltfor the Pathnn.

Jupp's Band will give a performanceat the Newtown Park to-morrow after-noon.

A performance will bo given on theBasin Reserve to-morrow afternoon bytho Wellington Cadet Military Band.

Tho anniversary mooting of tho Wel-lington Anti-Opium Association will b<;i hold in. the concert room of tho TownHall on Thursday evening. The speak-ers will be Messrs. J. G. Aitken andMathers (of Sydney) and the Re\\ J. J.North.

Kirkcaldie and Stains, Ltd., iutinialato their customers that Monday tUe 10*hinst., is tho last discount uay lor liej-onth^acpouiats.-r-Advfc,

For tho weok ending to-day one caseof scarlet fever and two cases of diph-theria arc reported by the Health De-partment as having occurred in thecity. No cases were reported from thoHutt County.

Records of wind and sunshine takenat the Wellington Meteorological Ob-servatory for Wednesday, Thursday,andyesterday, show a remarkable uniform-ity. The wind each day has averagedtwenty-one miles per hour audbright sunshine was accounted foron ten hours fifty-seven min-utes on Wednesday, twelve hours fifteenminutes on Thursday, and yesterday thetotal was eleven hours forty minutes.The temperature of the air has risenconsiderably. The maximum on Tues-day last was. 60.6deg., on Wednesday61.5deg, on Thursday 63dcg, on Friday66.2 deg, and this morning, at 9 a.m.,the air temperature in tho shade was 65dog, with a hot sun.

Leave to appeal to the Privy Councilagainst the decision of 'the Court ofAppeal in the ■Marlborough case ofHome v. Home was granted yesterdayby the Chief Justice, -Mr. Justice Coop-er, and Mr. Justice Chapman, on theapplication of the Attorney-General.

There wore very few domestic ser~vants among the immigrants by tileCorinthic. Some few who had ueen inservice at home were surprised to hearof the high rate of wages ruling here.One of them stated that if this factwas known in England and Irelandmany more girls would come out to thecolony.

"Trade prospects are good" is thetext oi a cable message received fromWinnipeg from Mr. J. G. Gow, who re-cently went to the west of Canada withsamples of New Zealand produce.Canada, it is understood, is interestedin the importation of flax, wool, skins,and hides.

A Royal Commission, consisting of Mr.\V. S. Short, solicitor of the Departmentof Roads, has been set up to enquireintoa dispute that has arisen between theadvisory board of the Brunner DisasterFund and the Public Trustee, concerningtho administration of the fund. Thocommission will be open at Greymouth onWednesday next.

The Minister for Labour is confidentthat the remainingunlct workers' homesat Petono will not be long before theyare occupied. There are twelve let, anjiapplications are in for more. It is in-teresting to compare the different re-sults achieved elsewhere with the man-ner in which the buildings have "hungfire" in this centre where the ordinaryrents have the reputation of being thehighest in the colony. In ChristchurchMr. 'March has ninety applications infor fourteen houses, while in Aucklandthe houses available there were over-ap-plied for at once. In fact, H is prob-able that when the Minister is in Auck-land next week, he will authorise thodrawing of plans for a further numberof homes.

The directors of the Gear Meat Com-pany, in their annual report for tho yearending 30th November, state that in-cluding the amount brought, forward, andafter making allowance for depreciationand payment of interim dividend, thereremains a balance of £14,814 10s 3d,which the directors recommend for appro-priation as follows :—ln:

— In payment of adividend of 4 per cent, for the half-yearended 30th ultimo, £3680; in paymentof abonus of 2.per, cent., J3K340; tobecarried forward to next yearts account,£9294 10s 3d;total, £14,814 10s 3d. Theretiring directors arc Messrs. James GeaT,and J.R. Blair, who,being eligible, offerthemselves for.re-election. The auditors,Messrs. D.T. Stuart and R. T. Badham,also offer themselves foT re-election.

The question of accommodation for adomestic economy class engaged the at-tention of members of the Technical

[Education Board last night. The direc-tor informed the meeting that he hadascertained that it wouldbea few monthsbefore it would be possible to obtaiiiflats close at hand suitable for the pur-pose, and it had been suggested thatalterations might be made to the oldcarpenter's ahop, and use this tempo-rarily. The cost of the alterations inwood would be about £65, with another£10 for gas fittings, and the cost of thework in iron would be £50 or £60.With this expenditurethe building wouldbe suitable for the purpose. sMr.Allan remarked that the schemooutlined by Mr. La Trobe appeared tobethe only method, as well as the mosteconomical and satisfactory means of pro-viding for the classes. It was resolvedthat the matter of carrying out the workshould be left in the hands of a com-mittee, consisting of Messrs. Cannichael,Ballinger, and the director.

The following additional regulationsunder the Beer Duty Act aro gazet-ted :—(1.):

—(1.) No permit under section 32

of the Beer Duty Act, 1880, shall begranted or, if hereafter lawfully grant-ed, shall be used for tho removal oibeer from abrewery to any depot,ware-house, or other place of storage or sale,as mentioned in that section, situatewithin any licensing district where fortho timo being no licenses exist as theresult of a licensing poll, or 'within fivemiles of the boundary of any such dis-trict. (2.) For the purpose of prevent-ing evasions of duty and ensuring thebetter administration of tho aforesaidAct, itis hereby declared that, exceptin special cases and with the previousconsent in writing of the collector ofthe district in which any place of stor-age or salo as aforesaid is situate, itshall not bo lawful to remove beer fromsuch place of storage or salo betweentho hours of 5 o'clock in the eveningand 8 o'clock of tho following morn-ing.

Atlast night's meeting of the Techni-cal Education Board the chairman (Mr.W. Allan) extended a welcome toMessrs. Robertson and Luke, who havejust returned from a tour abroad. Mr.Robertson paid a tribute to the lines ofwork adopted by tho director of thoschool, Mr. La Trobe. During his tourabroad he spent a good deal of timointho Liverpool Technical School, whichwas one or the best ho had seen in thoOld Country. The local school was,in his opinion, very nearly as far ad-vanced as tho institution m Liverpool.One striking feature of the Homoschool was the effort made to developtho brains of tho pupils, who wore madeto originate schemes and work them outfor themsolves. In a number of thoshops it was compulsory for boys toattend tho technical schools, and theyhad to submit to their employers,everyquarter, a record of their attendance.If the attendance was not consideredsatisfactory, pressure was brought tobear by tho employer. This schemo,Mr. Robertson suggested, might boadopted with advantage in Wellington.Thero was some trouble in bringing theidea in at first, but it was now work-ing well. In some case3, of course,non attendance was excusable, and dis-crotion had to bo used. Mr. La Trobopointed out that several specimens oforiginal work by pupils of tho Welling-ton school had been forwarded to thoExhibition.

Tho publio nro notified by advertise-ment in auothor column that owing tothe largo attondanco anticipated ut thosalo of sections in tho town of Tawa, tobo hold by Messrs. Maodonald, Wilsonand Co. onMonday night, thathrm havodecidod to hold tho salo in tho TownHall, instoad of their rooms, at tho samehour oriffiaftUy_»ovortij!oU~J.30+p>ciagk._

GRAND DISPLAY OF TOYS!WE havo devoted more Bpaeo to tbo Exhibitonof Toys than ever beforo, and havo

opened them earlier this season, &o that children and thoii: parents cancomo bofoi-o tho rush time aud bo corafortablo whilo selecting tho things that Santa.Claus is to beasked to bring. Como to KIRKCALDIE'Snest woek and brinj tholittlofolk alonff.

THOUSANDS OP TOYS FOB, BOYS AND GIRLS.

LOCAL AND GENERAL.A CARD.

DR. JONES,

DENTIST,

HUME'S BUILDING, WILLIS-ST.

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DEBATE IN THE BELGIANCHAMBER.

ANNEXATION URGED.

JPHES3 ASSOCIATION.](Received December 8, 8.47 a.m.)

BRUSSELS, 7th December.In tho Belgian Chamber M. BeeraaeTb

resumed tho debato on affairs in theCongo Free Stato. No further negotia-tions, he eaid, were needed before annexa-tion of the territoryby Belgium;an in-ventory alone would be sufficient.

Ho denounced placing the Governmentand exploitation of the country in thesame hands, and condemned forced lab-our, especially in the mines.

FRENCH MINISTERIAL STATE-Ml\\T.

[PEES3ASSOCIATION.)PARIS, 7th December. '

A discussion took place in the Cham-ber of Deputies yesterday over ilio Gov-ernment's connection with recent occur-rences in Morocco. ,

M. Pichon, Minister of Foreign Afi'uirs,explained that France and Spain woreonly forearming against the risks of an-archy in Morocco. Intervention wouldonly occur in case of absolute necessity.

A resolution of confidence in tho Gov-ernment was carried by 467 votes to56.

The Chamber unanimously ratified thoAlgeciras treaty.

JAPANESE INCALIFORNIA.

ODESSA UNEMPLOYED.SWELLING THE CRIMINALRANKS.

rPRES3 ASSOCIATION.!(Received December 8, 8.20 a.m.)

ST. PETERSBURG, 7th Dec.Owing to strikes, bankruptcies, and

industrial stagnation, there arc nowin Odessa twenty thousand unemployed,and these are swelling the criminalranks.

POLISH FACTORIES CLOSED.

ST. PETERSBURG, 7th Dec.Tho Poynansing, cotton mills, at

Lodz, have been closed indefinitely,throwing seven thousand hands out ofwork.

Other owners threaten to close theirfactories owing to constant strikes.

GERMANY'S WHITEELEPHANT.

ITS ACQUISITION BY THE STATEf

SPEECH BY THE MEMBER FOROTAKI.

The question of the acquirement oi*the Manawatu railway by the Statocropped up at the banquet tendered WiMr. Field at Paekakariki last night.

Inhis speech in reply to the toast oJ'his health, the member for Otaki saidhe had hoped to receive from the Gov-ernment some definite statement as tothe acquisition of the railway by theGovernment. The Government, he un-derstood, had been advised

—and had

been correctly advised— that if it -wait-ed until the 21 years were up therowould be no good-will to pay. In do-ing this he therefore contended thattha.State, in jiot proceeding with the pur-chase at the moment, had acted quiteright and properly. The present Min-ister of Hallways had given it as his

-'opinion that the railway should not betakenover till the Main Trunk line waa

'completed. That would be a long time*to wait, but they could wait, neverthe-less. Some of the settlers along the linohad suffered from the fact that the rail-way was a private one. It would haveibeen exceedingly pleasing if they couldlhave obtained some statement from thciPremier on the question, but he under-stood Sir Joseph Ward was not prepar-ed to do so. If the line was acquiredsome hundreds of employ/ees wouldcome under the State, and for then;sakes he hoped that the time when theiacquisition by the State would bobrought about was not far distant. {Ap«plausc).

This statement did not elicit anything}from the Premier.

EFFECT OF THE LABOURTROUBLES.

[PBESB ASSOCIATION.!(Received December 8, 8.20 a.m.)

NEW YORK, 7th December.The racial feeling in San Francisco

is intensified owing to the prosperityof tho Japanese merchants in the newbuildings erected by Japanese workmen,while the white merchants are stillstruggling against tho labour chargesfor the erection of their warehouses.

SOUTH-WEST AFRICA.

COST OF MILITARY PROTECTION.

[PRESS ASSOCIATION.!(Received December 8, 8.47 a.m.)

BERLIN, 7th December.Count Dernburg, German Colonial

Minister, estimates the annual cost oftho 8268 troops in South-west Africa at£480 sterling per head.

The protection of settlers is limitedto certain districts.

VARIOUS CABLED ITEMS.UNITED STATES CURRENCY.

ENTERTAINMENTS, ETC.

THE EDUCATION BILL.

READ A THIRD TIME IN THELORDS.

[TOE3S ASSOCIATION.!LONDON, 7th Dccembor.

In the House of Lovds yesterday thoEarl of Crowe (Lord President of theCouncils moved tho third reading ofthe Education Bill. The division wasas follows:

—Ayes ... ... „., 105Noes ... I. 28

Third readingcarried by 77The minority included all the Catho-

lic members of the House. ,Tho major-ity included many Unionist peers.

Tho bishops abstained from voting.After the result of the voting was

announced, Lord Crewe said he consid-ered the Lords had undertaken a verygrave responsibility in departing fromtho expressed wishes of the country.The amendments which had been madewould not be acceptable to the Houseof Commons, though that need not befatal to the Bill.

Tho Duke of Norfolk declared that itwas impossiblo for Catholics to acceptthe Bill as a settlement of the question.

Lord Landsdowne said he still re-garded the Bill as bad and dangerous.Ho was glad to hear tho Governmentdidnot intend to contemptuously rejecttho Lords' amendments. Ho advisedmutual forbearance.

WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION BILL.

LONDON, 7th December.The House of Commons decided that

illegitimacy of workmen's dependentsshall not be a bar io claims for com-pensation under the Workmen's Com-pensation Bill.

PRESIDENT ANDSENATE.MR. ROOSEVELT ASKED TO EX-

PLAIN.

[PKESS ASSOCrATIOKf.INEW YORK, 7th December.

It was announced a month ago thatPresident Roosevelt had dismissed anentire negro battalion for declining todivulge the names of comrades con-cerned in rioting and shooting intohouses at Frownsville, Texas, and kill-ing a citizen.

Tho Senate has now asked Mr. Roose-velt to fully explain his reasons fordisbanding the battalion.

REPORT BY THE SECRETARY TOTHE TREASURY.

STRENGTHENING BANK" RESERVES.

fItIESS ASSOCXATION\INEW YORK, 7th December.

In a repoit to C'ongiess on tho ques-tion of currency reform, Mr. L. M. Shaw,Secretary to the Treasury, suggests twopossible plans— first, the establishmentof a graduated reserve, on a scale deter-mined by statute;second, to empowerthe Secretary to the Treasury to requireall banks to slightlj* and giadually in-crcaso their reserves and hold the samewithin their own vaults, with a corres-ponding authority to tho Treasurer torelease the same as inhis judgment willbest serve tho business interests of thecountry.

Mr. Shaw considers tho second plantho better, ns an objection to the firstis that conditions vary with differentseasons in the West.

CHINESECOOLIES.SOUTH AFRICA.

A SOUTH AFRICAN SEEKINGGUIDANCE.

THE HON. A. WILMOT'S VISIT.

Australasia is apparently a region ofthe blest, in the eyes of South Africa.That modern "distressful country," asthe place ha9been called, is determinedto profit by the examples of more prosper-ous lands in other parts of the linipire."I have come to your country to studythe legislation and tire manner in whichthe legislation is carried out. There isno doubt that Australia, and New Zea-land havemade great advances," was thestatement made to a Post reporter bythe Hon. A. Wilinot, a member of theCape Colony Legislative Assembly, whoarrived in Wellington by the Corinthic.He intends to travel through NewZealand and Australia and on to 'lndia,where his investigations will cease.

"In our country," the visitor resum-ed, "we don't produce food sufficient forthe people, and large quantities, there-fore, are imported. The country mustbe exploited, and it is being exploitedby the Jameson Government, which isprogressive. When Iwas going awaythe Treasurer told me to find out allabout New Zealand's provisions for ad-vances to settlers, and Ihave othercommissions. We must have more manu-factures. Prospecting must be encour-aged, for by this means a great deal ofmineral wealth might be discovered inCape Colony."

The reporter reminded the visitor thatJNew Zeaianders who had returned fromCapetown had brought back dismal talesabout a "slump" in the country. "Thereis no doubt that theie is a considerabledepression," replied Mr. Wilmot. "Ofcourse we are hoping that the clouds willsoon roll by, and we are doing our bestto make them roll. We are striving toIdevelop the agricultural and pastoral aswell as the mineral resources. It is acountry that requires irrigation verymuch, and we have just passed an irri-gation measure of some consequence.'Ihis will be among the principal featuresin the new policy. By weirs and other-wise a good deal can be done to conservethe flood water of the rivers."Referring to the Dutch, he said thatthe Cape Government hoped by the con-stant exercise of conciliatory methods tomake a united and prosperous countryHe thought there was a slight improve-ment in the attitude of the Afrikanderstowards the British. 'There * oatthing to be said in favour of the Dutch"he added. "A land boom is not pos-sible with them. They are too conserva-tive to look for advances on their hold-ings; they are not a speculative people"tney have certain conservative virtuesHeie in New Zealand you will have tobe careful," he smiled. "You are boom-ing now. You may have to 'take in sailafter a while."

Another matter which is engaging MrWilmot's attention is licensing le^islaltion. He is president of the South Afri-can Temperance Alliance^ and is curious"to learn about New Zealand's experiencewith liquor laws. "One of our great ob-jects," life stated, "is to obtain the pro-hibition of the sale of liquor to nativesthroughout South Afnca. Cape Colonyis the only,country there which is notprohibitive in that .respect, and we aredoing our best to bring it into line withthe others. We have local option, too,in a certain If a man applies fora new license he must get a proportion—

about three-fourths, 1 think—

of the.residents of the district to sign in hisfavour. The; temperance party is verystrong, and we aie going to turn on fullpressure at the next general elections."Local option, as it exists in New Zea-land, has not yet been introduced intoCape Colony.

SALES OF LANDED ESTATE.

TOWN OF TAWA.Tho sale of sections.in tho new townof Tawa, Nvhich Messrs. Maodonald, Wil-

3on and Co. aro to offer at auotion attho Town Hall onMonday night, at 7.30o'clock, ia reported to bo exciting wide-spread interest. From nil parts of theprovincial district and beyond, the auc-tioneers stato they have received en-quiries for plans and full dotails of thonew township. Every facility for inspec-tion has been the auctioneerssupplying free' railway tickets for thopurpose. It is announced that tho roomsof tho firm will bo open to-night for thoissuo of tickets to thoso who may bo de-sirous of takjpg advantage of the lastopportunity of inspecting tho sections to-morrow. The train leaves tho Manawaturailway station at 10 o'clock. Tea andlight refreshments will bo provided attho central homestead on tho ground to-morrow afternoon. Lithographic planscan bo obtained on application. Tholongthy desoriptivo advertisement, rela-tive to tho township is inserted in ourauction column.

PAEKAKARIKI.Buyers of seaside residential sites aro

referred to tho advertisement inserted inour auction column to-day respecting thesalo to bo hold by Messrs. Macdonald,Wilson and Co. on AVodnesday noxt, at2.30 o'clock, in their Exchange} LandMart, of 74 building sections in thoabove seasides resort. Tho lots aro dc-soribad as forming sites of tho very bestcharacter, being close to the railway sta-tion. Thoy vjingo in area from a quar-ter-aoro _to over a quarter-aero, and thoterms of salo offered for purchase are10 per cent, deposit, 10 por cont. in sixmonths, and tho balanco in three .yoars.

Messrs. Macdonald, Wilson and Co.also advertise other sales of lauded pro-perties, comprising

—On Monday next, at2.30 o'clock, ut their Exchange LnndMart, under instructions from tho City

Corporation, tv^o Town Belt leaseholds,containing respectively eighty-two acresand, twonty-five acres, situate adjoiningtho Nowtown Park, Loraud-stroet, andRussoll-torrnce. The term of Icaso foreach property will bo fourteen years,computod from Ist January, 1907. 'Tues-day next,_ undor instructions from thebeneficiaries in tho estate of tho latoMrs. Hannah Field, a block of lnndnearWaikanao, containing 520 acres of land.It ia situato within four miles of thoWaikanao railway station, on goodmetalled road, »*nd oloso to the schoolnnd oroaniory. Iv tho somo estato willbo submitted ono-hnlf interest in 364ixores, close to tho first-mentioned block.On tho samo date, in tho estato of thoInto Mr.

_and Mrs. Lancaster, a number

of building sections situato at Karori,also a ten-roomed residence nt Karori,in tho occupation of Mr. J. C. Gavin;also a sovon-roomed residence, in tho oc-cupation of Mr. Atkins (lately of Mr.Smnllbouc). two city cotttges in Barker-street, nnd a dairy fnrm of 272 ncresGituato «( Miikarn, rintr fenced; nlso abuilding block of land" at Knrori, con-taining nearly an noro with fronlago of142ft to Macdonald-strcct and varying indepth up to 475ft: by order of tho mort-ffflfifeo. a. vorandnh residonco situato atIsland Bay, containing siv rooms, etc.,with section

#having a frontago of 42ftllin to Froolins-streo^ by a dopth of somo200ft; also two builclmpr sections close totho tunnel, Hataitai, ■withlontr frontafrosto Waitotoa-road. Various i>roportie3

are speoiallv advertised lay private salesand nn advertisement cf houses to lotalso appoars.

"WANTED IN GERMANY.

[MtESS ASSOCIATION.] .BERLIN, 7th December.

The Prussian Chamber of Agriculturehas resolved that owing to the terriblescarcity of agricultural labour the intro-duction of Chinese coolies is inevitable,though deplorable from a national pointof view.

PROPOSED CONFERENCE OXFEDERATION.

[PHKS9 .ASSOCIATION.!CAPETOWN, 7Ui December.

Dr Jameson, Premier of Cape Col-ony, has returned from his visit toLondon. He says tho Capo Govern-ment has invited Lord Sclbomo toconveno a conference to discuss " thequestion of tho federation of SouthAfrica.

*TS EXTINGUISHMENT GAZETTED.EFFECT ON THE~BANK OF NEW

ZEALAND.

An important stage in the history ofiho Bank of Xcw Zealand has been■reached. From the 17th iust. as an-nounced in a supplement to tho Gazetteissued last night, tho Assets Realisa-tionBoard goes out of existence. Thatvesult has been arrived at inpursuanceof the provisions of the Bank of NewZealand Act, 1903, whichprovided that

on a valuation being made, thoassets of the board were sufficient to'meet its outstanding liabilities, theGovernor mightby Order-inCouncil, de-Blare that tha board should cease tosxist. Tho result of such Order-inCoun-eil is that on the dato named (17thDecember) the members of the boardcease to hold office, and the assets andliabilities of the board will pass automa-tically to the bank, which must there-npon. redeem all the outstanding de-bentures of the board and deliver themto the Colonial Treasurer for cancella-tion.

The Assets Realisation Board was theoutcome of tho Bank 9f New Zealand'sitroubles of 1895, and was constitutedander an Act passed in that year. TheEstates Company was severed from thebank and the properties with which itwas concerned wero sold to tho AssetsBoard for £2,731,706 (subject to ad-justment), the purchase money beingpaid by the creation and issue of de-bentures, with a currency of nineyears, bearing interest at "the rate ofthree and a half per cent. The netproceeds made by the board were to boapplied to the payment of interest onand redemption of the debentures, aadtho bank was to pay yearly the sum of£50,000 to the board. In this connectionthe remarks of the then Colonial Trea-surer (Mr. J. G. Ward), riow the Pre-mier, are of interest. La tho courseof his speech he said: — "Inaddition toihese losses of £576,000, to whichIhave referred, there is an absolute de-ficit in the Estates Company of £460,-600 against which there is no asset atall- ■ .... These continued lossesalone amount to over £2,100,000. . .. The amount to be provided for inorder to enable the bank to be severedfrom tlie Estates Company, is £2,754,-000. . . What is the Value of the„estates as shown upon the latest re-duced valuations which were submittedto the committee? The value amountsto £l,78&,000. The average of the

"earnings upon the estates was S3id toamonnt to about £49,000, which meansabout 3 per cent, on the amountIhave'already referred to. . . It leaves adeficient of about £855,000.' . . Theamount transferred to the board wouldbeabotft £1,789,000. . . We propose,in order to enable the bank of NewZealand to wipeout this £2.734,000 that'the Realisation Board should be autho-rised to issue 3s per cent, debenturesto the Bank of New Zealand." Thoboardcameintoexistence onIstJanuary,*18S6, and has been at work ever since.From time to time complaints havebeenmade that the board was not doingits work with sufficient speed, that itcould have reached its assets far morequickly, but in each case the answerbas been that it was necessary to gossow in such matisrs and that "only bycarefully watching tkc market"andevincing noundue haste could the bestprices be obtained. The l.asi; report pJEtheboai-al'lo 51st' March, 1906, showedthat the sales of properties finally realis-ed from 1895 to 1906, totalled £740,294,being a deficiency onbook cost, includ-ing realisation expenses of £337,868." The properties partially rcriised duringthe same period amounted in value to" £807,306," making a total of £1,547.600.

One effect of the extinguishment ofthe board it is suggested will bo tintthe bank will be'able to pay more thanthe 5 per cent interest to which it waslimited by the Act of 1835. FEDERAL OFFICERS AND

STATE TAXES.PERSONAL MATTERS.

FATAL BOMB EXPLOSION.PERILS OF THE POLICE.

SOCIALISTS AND THE DUMAELECTIONS.

(Per Sierra at Auckland.)TIFLIS, 11th November.

A deafening explosion occurred onPathausk-street at an early hour thismorning, while the police were searchingan unoccupied house. The noise of theexplosion was audible for a great dis-tance, and the entire, city was shaken.Three policemen weic killed and fourwounded.

Tho police discovoied some Tevolution-ary proclamations under a bed in oneof the rooms in this house. They thenwent to a window andpulled aside a cur-tain. Then there was a flafh of blueflame, followed immediately by an ex-plosion, the force of which was so greatthat the body of a sergeant, one of themen killed, was hurled over a neighbour-ing roof. The wholo of the upper poT-tion of the house fell in.It is apparent that the. snare hadbeen

arranged, and tho police lured into theplace. The police received a "tip" tosearch this particular house, located inthe Tarui quarter of the city, whichhas not b^en inhabited since the TaTtar-Armenian massacres of last year.

MITAU, 13lh November.A punitive expedition which has been

operating in tho Kreutezburg dishict dur-ing tho last f6w weeks killed ninetypeasants belonging to a revolutionaryorganisation termed Forest - Brothers,which levied tribute on the surroundingcountry. Severalrobbers havebeen triedby drumhead court-martial and executedat Jakobstadt.

ST. PETERSBURG, 7th November.The chances of the Socialists in the

coming election of members of the Dumaweie dealt a sweeping blow yesterdayby the interpretation given by the Senateto anew election law, which at onestrokedisfranchised thousands -of the poorerclasses. City employees, the operatingpersonnel of the railroads, and even loco-motive engineers, and the most skilledand highest paid labour in Russia, areaffected by the interpretation. Outsideof factory workmen, the ranks of theSocialist Party aTe recrujted chiefly fromthe railroad men. This interpretationis supplementary to the Senate's rulingof 20th October, from' which it wasestimated that over half amillion personswho voted in the last election had beencut from tho election list. These twoTulings together undo to a great extentthe extension of tho suffrage proclaimedby Count de Witte in December lastyear. There object was to-day frankly«vowed hy a. member ot the Cabinetto rid the electorato of that class ofvoters which is too easily swayed by theinfluence of revolutionary agitators. Thisofficial, who is one of the few survivingMinisters of the old Teginie, doubtedwhether restrictions of the suffrage inexecution of Premier Stolypin's pro-gramme of agrarian, political, and reli-gious reforms would be effective in pro-ducing a now Parliament less in opposi-tion than the first. Cabinet has expressedthe conviction that it probably wouldbe found necessary to dismiss the newParliament with shorter shrift than thefirst one, and make a sweeping revisionin the election laws before summoning athird body.

COLLAPSE OF A HOTEL.

THE BALLINA MURDERER

A REPRIEVE ASKED FOR.NO EXTENUATING CIRCUM-

STANCES.[I'HESS ASSOCIATION.)

SYDNEY, 7th December.In the Legislative Assembly to-day

Mr. Thrower moved the adjournment oftho Hoii3c to discuss tho caso of thoyouth Brown, murderer of the O'Keefesat Ballina. He urged the Governmentto reprieve Brown r.s an act of mercy.

Mr. Griffith supported tho request,suggesting that Brown was sufferingfrom insanity.

Other speakers considered theroworeno grounds for mercy.

Mr. Carruthers, Premier, explainedthat tho Executive had given tho mat-ter, most careful consideration. Therewere no extenuating circumstances.Tho case was such a ono that if thelaw was not carried out they mightas well wipo capital punishment fromtho statutes altogether.

CRICKET.

IMPORTANT DECISION BY THE_^ PRIVY COUNCIL.

{.PHES3 ASSOCIATION.!LONDON, 7lh December.

The Privy Council has delivered judg-ment in tho appeal case, Commissionerof Taxes'of Victoria versus the DeputyPostmaster-General of Victoria. Theeffect of tho decision is that tho judg-ment of the Supremo Court of Victoriathat officers of the Federal Governmentaro not liable for State income tax isreversed, and the petition of tho Com-monwealth Government in tho matter isdismissed.

A BLOW AT THE HIGH COURT'S.PRESTIGE.

(Received December 8, 10.4 a.m.)MELBOURNE, This Day.

In connection with tho Privy Coun-cil's decision on the Commissioner ofTaxes' appeal, the great point on whichthe Commonwealth is interested is notthe payability or otherwise of the In-come Tax,but the finality or otherwiseof a judgmentof the High Court" in con-stitutional cases. The result is thattho finality of tho High Court is ser-iously affected by the Privy Council'sjudgment.

Tho amount involved under the de-cision is not known.

DIVORCE COURT.A LENGTHY LIST.

A sifting in divorce was held by thoChief Justice to-day, when a list of

'eighteen causes was sot down for hear-

l ing. One case was heard in camera, a" course which (under provisions of tho. Act) prevent publication of the names

of parties, or tho judgment given.In tho sun; of Flora Dennis v. Albert

> Newman Dennis, Mr. Blair appeared for> petitioner. The suit was based on de-. sertion. The respondent, was married. on the 14th February, 1900, and afteri living with his wife for two weeks ue. left lier, and has not since returned.| A decreo nisi was granted.

Another suit for divorce on ground ofdesertion was that of Fiederick George

1 Eiddler (for whom Mr. Wilford ap-peared) from Sarah Esther Riddlcr. Theparties were of Mitchelltoyvn (Welling-ton) and they were married in 1898.On 20th April, 1901, petitioner's wife'left him at Longburn, taking with herthe- only child of the marriage. Wit-ness obtained possession of the child,but his wife refused to come back tohim, saying she was sick of him. Hehad not seen her sinco 1901, nor heardfvom her. A decree nisi was made.

Louisa Frith v. William Frith. Inthis case .Mr. Blair appeared for pe-titioner, who seeks dissolution of themarriage between respondent and her-self, made at Dunedin on sth Novem-ber, 1892. The parties lived togetherfor four months, and after that pe-titioner had' to support herself until1896, when her husband lived with heragain for. a week. He paid nothing to-wards tho cost of living in that week,but ho borrowed £3 fiom petitioner andwent away to Napier, from which townhe telegraphed topetitioner to send him£2 immediately. Since then ho hadnot been heard of. After hearing evi-dence his Honour granted a decree nisi.

In Scoones v. Scoones, the applica-tion was one for lesbitution of conju-gal rights. Mr. Neaye, counsel for pe-titioner, called his client, who testifiedthat phe was the wife of WilliamH. Scoones, and that she had disagree-ments with him because of his gamb-ling habits. In1904, without cause, helocked her out of his home, and refus-ed to let her come back to him whenshe approached him. Efforts by friendsto effect a reconciliation failed, and pe-titioner had been obliged to earn herown living. A letter put inas evidencein the rase contained charges against

j petitioner, but petitioner denied theItruth of these. His Honour made anI order for restitution of conjugal rights

within one month.In Louisa Norton v. Alexander Nor-ton, the suit was for divorce on ground

of desertion. The parties were marriedat Invercargi.ll in 1899. They never setup housekeeping, but each lived withthe respective parents, and very tewknew of tho marriage until a year after-wards. InJune, 1900, respondent ventaway, saying that he was, to travel fora wholesale tirm. Shortly afterwards hewent to Sydney, and witness followedhim there and asked him to find a homefor her. He refused to do so. Shehad since heard that ho was employedwith a firm doing business at Queen-street, Melbourne. She had written tohim, but he had never answered. Adecreo nisi v/as granted.

A dissolution of marriage was soughtby Robert Edward Hornblow, of Man-gaweka, for whom Sir Kenneth Doug-lco appeared. A decree nisi was grant-r"'

""v applied for a-divorce fvoßr'GeorgoHoward. The grounds alleged vrkre mis-conduct and desertion. A decree nisi wasgranted.

Henry Carter v. Rose Elizabeth Carter.—This was suit for divorca ■ on the

ground of'desertion. Petitioner) a watch-maker, now resident at Mangaweka, wasmarckd to respondent in 1884, and after-ware*, lived at Kumara. Timaru, Terpuka,and "West Coast. On tho West Coast, in1901, she left witness, and hadnot sincereturned to him. A decree nisi wasmade.

In the case Luciano. Augusta Pybus v.John B. Pvbus, Mr. Lyons (of Mcrton)appeared for petitioner (of Crofton,llacgitikei) who sought dissolution of hermarriag3 on the g-round of constructivedesertion. There were children of thsmarriage, tbo eldest being now fourteenyears of age. It was two years cincehusband and wife had live^ together.His Honour reserved judgment.

The case of Ivate Ruby Lash (repre-sentedby Mr. Wilford) against FrederickWilliam Lash was for restitution of con-jugalrights. Anorder wasmade as askedfOT.

The case of Lena Pratt v. EdwinPrattw.tjadjourned till 1>- "hy to permit ofconfirmatory eviden . ' ..;tendered. Mr.Skerrstt appeared i'pijit. [letitioner.

Emma Randall Por*l^us,in whose fav-our an order ior restitution of conjugalrights was made against William Roland

in 19C4, applied through Mr. T.Wilford for a dissolution of maTriage, onthe ground that the order had been dis-obeyed. A decree nisi vras made.

In Lionel Cagelberg v. Cora MaudCaselberg, Mr. Skerrett was for petitionerand Mr. Mvcrs for respondent. Respon-dent had failed to obey an order to restoreconjugal rights. A decree nki wasgranted.In Fjtephen Leonard Parsons v. Con-

stance Bernice Parsons, Mr. D. M. Find-lay appeared for pstitiorer, and said thatthe suit was one for a decree of nullity,on'the ground that at the tims of themarriage Trspondent was already mar-ried; that was, she was the- wife* of an-other, inasmuch as a decree absolutehad not been granted in respect of a de-cree nisi to dissolve the former marriage.Tho facts of the case went to chow thatthe ceremony of marriage v/as performedbetween petitioner and respondt-nt atEltham on Ist October, 1902, whereasthe decree ab"olnte dissolving respondent'smarriage with Richard Plowman ErnestMansfield was not granted until 24thOctober, 1902. The caee stands adjouTn-cd till Tuesday morning for proof ofidentity. Mr. M. Chapman was counselfor respondent.

The Rev. Father Lewis, Administratorof the Wellington Catholic arch diocese,arrived from the South, this morning.

Mr. Robert Parker has been appoint-ed judge for the musical competitions»t the New Zealand Exhibition. Mr.Parker left for Christchurch last nightby the Mararoa.

Mr. C. A. Tipping, Chief Postmasternt Donedin, who has been 43 years inthe Postal Department and has servedat Christchurch^ Picton, Lyttelton, andJfapier will, it is stated in aPress mes-sage from Dunedin, retire in Apri'next. ,

Ths Minister for Public Woiks and"Railways (Hon.W. Hall-Jones) will leaveChristchurch for Wellington to-night.Ths Minister for Education (Hon. G.Fowlds), who is at present in Auckland,will be1back in Wellington on Tueedaynight.

Mr. T. W. Kirk, Government Biolo-gist, has returned to Wellington froma hurried trip to Auckland on depart-mental business. He will leave forChristchurch at the end of next week toattend to business connected with the.department's large exhibit at the Ex-hibition.

Mr. John Mnrrell, formerly managerin Wellington for the Huddart ParkerCompany, and also for the Now Zealandand African Steamship Company, whohas been absent in Australia and Amer-ica for several years, is on a visit tothis city. He will remain here for aboutten days.

Mr. T. S. Fraser, who has resigned hisposition as Inspector of Stock for NeUon,Westland, and Murlborough, and Mr.A. T. P. Hubbard, who has been ap-pointed inspector at Carterton, receivedpresentations yesterday from their col-leagues of the Agricultural Departmentat Nelson.

NEW SOUTH WALES v. QUEENS-LAND.

GOOD SCORING BY THE PAttENTSTATE.

[PKBSS ASSOCIATIONSSYDNEY, 7th December.

In tho inter-State cricket matchNew South Wales v. Queensland, tlioformer havo lost nine wickets for 465runs.

Whito contributed 77, Blaxland 93,M'Artney 122, and Hopkins (not out)126.

LAWN TENNIS.

FULLER'S ENTEKTSINERSvThe programme at the Theatre Royal'

was varied last evening, consequent uponthe reappearance of Mr. A. L. Cropp,who was loudlyapplauded for his einging.'There will be a complete change thiaevening, wlien several new faces will boieen, including those of "Wild Friday"'and "Wild Rose" in a bowie-knife d'is- 'play. Monaghan and Sheehan, two popu«

*

lar instrumentali&ts, will also reappear=tcnnight.MACMAHON'S DRAMATIC CO.

"The Keily Gang" made its final ap»pearance at the OpoTa. House last nigbHbefore an audience which, watched thadesperadoes' exploits with evident satis-faction. To-night the company will bring,its season to a close, when, "EastLynne"'will be staged. The company may bodepended upon to do full justice to thedrama. WheTever ithas beenperformed!throughout the present tourit has neverfailed in a single instance to attract atcrowded audience, in which ladies havainvariably largely preponderated.

"THE LITTLE STRANGER."The new farcical comedy which Mey*nell, Gunn, and Varna will introduce to

Wellington play-goeTs on Wednesday,next at the Opera House is described aspossessing the great charm of originality.Of Master Willie Parke's performance aMelbourne contemporary wrote:

— Theronever was required much of a peg onwhich to hang the plot of farce-comedy.If,those who foregathered at the PalacoTheatre on Saturday night were cate-chised as to why they laughed, the pro-babilities are that they would reply ;''"Oh! that funny baby!" And it reallywas the baby who was responsible forall the 'merriment. Itwasnothing rnoTothan a night's romp with the baby

—a,

nursery pantomime, with a precociouschild leading the revels. Master WillioiParke, who impersonates "the littlostranger," is what Artemus Ward wonldldescribe as "an amusin' little cuss" ineverysense of the word, bright and alert,.and with a clever appreciation of tlio"fact that he is the pivot of the piece,and author of all the fun. There is a.plausible excuse for the mother's failuroto detect the imposition, for the substi-tuted babe is made up ridiculously likothe real child, which is brought on forexhibition purposes more than once dur-ing the evening, and one of the drollest .scenes occurs when, the imported imp oi!imischief picks up "his other self," arid,"'-throwinghim overhis shoulder, strugglesout of the room with,his burden. ' " ';;

Anorgan recital will be givenby Mr.Maughan Barnett in the Kent TerractyPresbyterian Church on Tuesday night.The programme is advertised in thioissue.

A sale of work in aid.of St. Pa-ul?ri',*Sunday School and' Kindergarten"'school will be held in the Sydney--■street schoolroom on Thursday"next.-"^The programme of the concert to:b6t._given in the New Century Hall o»Friday next is published inour advertfe"- »■ing columns. A dance will be held at

~the close of tho concert. ",It was inadvertently stated in yester-

day's issue that Miss Adeline Curtuwas a performer at the concert giveroby Mrs Mueller's pupils on Thursdayevening. Miss Curtis was indispoiied,w<and was unable to appear.

The Submarine Miners wiil hold am,,"At Home" at Shelly Bay to-morrow-

'afternoon.

Qn Wednesday evening the NormalSchool, Thordon, will produce thaoperetta, "The Flowers o' the Forest."The principals will bo supported by a.strongchorus of archers, millers, travel-lers, village children and watchmen. A

-successful performance is anticipated. ,

The students of the Wellington Tech-nical Art Department will give an en- "

tertainment in St. Peter's Schooh^omto-night. The performance will take, "tho form of living pictures illustrating"the Rubaiyat" of <Jmar Khayyam,and "King Robert of Sicily" by Long-fellow.

On Monday evening at the Drillshed,Lower Hutt, a musical and dramaticentertainment will be held in aid of the

.funds necessary to the acquisition of aa town clock for tho new post office.Tho Hutt people are very keen aboutthe town clock question, and havo al-ready subscribed a considerable sum to-ward the moiety necessary to secure theGovernment subsidy. It thus happensthat several well-known public spiritedladies havo organised what promises tobe a most attractive entertainment forMonday evening, the proceeds fromwhich will help to supply a public need.Besides an excellent concert pro-giamnie, the presentation of a woman'smock parliament, at which the preten-sions of the mere man will be merciless-lyexposed, promises much amusement.

Messrs. T^mdou and Leonard direct attentionto tlu-ir revised list of proportion aad busi-nesses advertised iv to-night's issue.

The Rnilwoy Department notifies tlmt onMonday ncit the usual 10.28 p.m. train fromLower Hutt will leave nt.10.45 p.m.

Slcssvs. J. Funning and Co.call attention tothen1change list of properties for sale.

Mr. Frank Griuly advertises that for theconvenience of his customers his old-retanlish-cd, but iip-to-dnic "shop for presents" will re-main open till 0 o'clock during December.Inspection of the large slock suitable forChristmas presents is invited.

Tlio first nf a eerie* of open-air services\inder tlie aiupiccs of the Council ot Evangeli-cal Chinches will be held in the Basin. Reserveto-morrow afternoon.Mr. J. B. Finlay advertise* a list of sec-tions and properties for sal(.

A list of- properties for 6ale in the Lower Aand Upper Hutt is advertised by Meow*. "-

AUSTRALIAN TEAM TO BE SENTHOME.

[PHESf ASSOCIATION.!SYDNEY, 7th December.

The Austrrlasian Lawn Tennis Asso-ciation has decided to sond a team toEngland next year to competo for theDavis Cup. It is probablo thatSharpo(New South Wales), Brookes and Heath(Victoria), and Wilding (New Zealand)will bo selected.

I.PniiS3 ASSOCIATION.](Received December 8, 10 a.m.)ALASKAN SE.AL FISHERIES.

NEW YORK, 7th December.'

An official report to Washington de-clares that the seals on the PribilofIslands aro being decimated. There aronow only a hundred and eighty thou-sand, instead of from four to sevenmillions, as formerly.

[The Pribilof group consists of fourvolcanic islands in the Behring Sea,about two hundred and fifty miles fromthe coast of Alaska. They aro some-times called tho Seal Islands, on ac-count of their being tho breeding-placesof tho fur seals, and whero they areslaughtered for their skins. The islandsare a United States Government reserve,and aro leased to companies for terms oftwenty years.]

A NATIONAL THEATRE.NEW YORK, 7th December.

'Millionaires have subscribed six hund-red thousand pounds sterling to founda national theatre in Central Park, NewYork. It fs to bo completed in a year,and will seat two thousand persons.

WEST HAM WORKHOUSE.LONDON, 7th December.

Tho cost of alcoholic drinks in thoWest Ham workhouse in November was£6 15s, while in tho previousNovember,before the investigation was made, thecost was £20.

.HOLYROOD CHAPEL.LONDON, 7th December.

Owing to the impossibility of restor-ing Holyrood Chapel (Edinburgh) with-out injuring its historic character, thotrustees of Lord Loven's will havo de-cided not to apply to that work fortythousand pounds which he left for thepurpose

A REPORT CONTRADICTED.LONDON, 7th December.

Tho Standard is officially informedthat there is no truth in

-tho state-

ment made by tho Morning Post thatithe Colonial Conference had been post-poned till 15th May to suit the conveni-ence of colonial Premiers.

UNITED STATES NAVY.NEW YORK, 7th Dccembor.

Mr. C. J. Bonaparto, Secretary totho Navy, recommends Congress toauthorise the construction of two battle-ships of tho largest size, instead ofone, also two 16,000-ton battleships in-stoadsof one.

1 DEATH OF DR. LAPPONI.ROME, 7th December.

Dr. Lapponi, physician to tho Pope,is' dead.

THE IRISH DELEGATE.HOBART, This Day.

Mr. J. Devlin, M.P., ono of tho Irishdelegates, left hero by the Monowaiyesterday on a visit to New Zealand.

SWIFT FREE WHEELS AND BRAKES.To thoso. oyolists who rido a L'achino

fitted with a freo wheel, two brc'us aroalmost a necessity. Tho Switt Crabborim brake is just tho devico for thesooyclists, us it is light, poworful, andunique in action. Swift Royal Roadstersfitted with tho above, £22. Adams, Limit-ed, Morcor-strcct.

—Advt.

Mcsri-s. J. H. Bolhuno and Co. havoseveral announcements in our auctioncolumns. On Wednouday next a residon-tial property in llußßoll-torrace, with a s-roomed rcsideneo thereon, will bo sub-mitted. On Friday noxt, in tho estato oftho late Dr. Knight, tho library, includingold Now Zealand books, scientific works,etc., will bo Bold. On Wednesday, 19thinst., at tho reuidoneo, 89a, Broughum-streot, a salo of household furniture andappointments will bo hold. A propertysalo is advertised by tho firm, who, inconjunction with Messrs. W. H. Morrahand Co., aro soiling on Wednesday, 23rdJanuary, on behalf of tho Bank of Aus-tralasia, two freehold properties in tho cityof Wellington. Lot 1 comprises tho pre-Bent silo of lho Hank of Australasia inCußtom House-quay, uituntod between thoPier Hotel and lho officoi of tho A.M.P.Society. Lot ?. is tho business silo -ad-joining lho now Bank of Australasia atiho corner of Huntov-slrcet and Customllou3o-qua,y. On this section is proctodlho two-slory building known as "BankOhanibovo." Full particulars of both arondvertinod. Tho firm also insert nn adver-tisement with regard to a number of sec-tions in Hursfipldj Crofton, and an amond-od list of buGitiPßS und roaidoutial propor-tion.

The Wolliußtoi:, Publishing Company in-vites applications for tho position of mana-ger of tho daily morningp»gier which is tobo Blarlcd in WoHinglon. l'articulaM aroadvcilined in Ihis L-suu..

Moebw W. F. Shoi'tl, Limited, will holda special fnlo of bedsteads at their rooms,Willis-street, nt 2 o'clock, on Mondaynext. A ganlight display of tho goods willbo mndo to-night.

Mms/si-s. Eilward Anderson iiml Co., Ltd.,china und gluas merolianta, Willis street, ad-vertise spoolnl lines wlileli liavc been importedfor tlio Olirietnind season.-

Tlio omuinl pionio of tlio Wellington McutHxport Company will 1)0 lield Ot tlio UpperUnit nil Momlny next. Train arrangementsaro ndvcitlicd to-nlsiit.

Mcvsr*. Anyon and D,v«on will cell on thepremises, 11, Kent-tPirucc, on Monday after-noon tho content* ot an cifilit-ioomcu houseTho bt nto Tfift. bt *k Tlo* «* .ttwu jaanfttg.tftlio Mfc

SUCCESSFUL AUCTION SALE.Tho tremendous interest created in theTawa Station Estate culminated last

night in a most successful auction saleheld by Mossrs. Thomson and Brownat their rooms, 'Hunter-street. The landoffered 13 rccogniced_ as beingabsolutelythe pick of residential cections inTawa,being situated in a very sunny position,and enjoying a panoramic view embrac-ing tho wholo of the surroundings. Adi3iinct advnntago this land offers is bo-ing right o'npotito tho Tawa Flat rail-way station, and clooo to1 tho publicschool and church. A total of twenty-seven sections wero sold, ranging inprices from £40 to £64 per section, thosections being about one-third of anaero in area. Since tho auction saloMc&3ra. Thomson and Drown havo dis-posed of soven inoro sections, and havonow only six nioro left for sale. Toclear up tho wholo blpck the auctioneershave been instructed to offer for onoday Ofily these six sections at tho upsetprice of £40 per section. Never before,and probably novcr again, will you boable to purennse such dnsiniblo Bccfcionoat so low o price, und on such easyterms. Tho terms aro as follows

—£6

deposit, £5 in six months, nnd £5 intwelve months. Balanco of purchasemonoy may remain for fivo years at "5per cent. There wi'i bo no rates or in-tercit charged for tho first twelvomonths. You therefore havo tho oppor-tunity of inspecting to-day and pur-chasing the Bcctionn on Monday. Iftho sections aro not Bold byLhoy will be withdrawn from sale.

—Advt.

Tho managementof Tc Aro House noti-fies that it v making a (pedal diiplay ofuowliio*. tqy*, ud Christmas aaotU,

Thousands of toys for boys and girtaof fill 3ge3 are being displayed by Kirk-caldic and Stains, Ltd. -See their win-dows.

—Advt.'

Evidence of the triumphal progress ofthe motor-car in Mew Zealand is visibloeverywhere, and 13 further corroboratedby tho iact that the Aulomobiio Companyof New Zealand, Ltd., which haK its garagein Moleaworth-strcct, contemplate? erect-ing new and more commodious premiseaAdjoining Lambton-quay. At tho Earnaiimo tho company ia arranging for a con-liderablo extension of its business, whichtag already assumed very largo propor-tions. Next week tho company will landA sample ear of lho Ford model "N"— afour cylinder 18-h.p. runabout. This ear,it is stated, has met with phenomenal sue-CCi» in America, suid is claimed to boquito a revolution in the motor world.T*'.o technical details are such as appealreadily to lho motor-car faculty, and thoappcairaKCß of tho new vehicle in beinglooked forward to with considerable in-terest. Tho company is also landing aFord model "X," fix cylinder, 40-h.p.

—tho firai; six cylinder ear imported intoNew Zealand. The company rfpre3ontstwo of the largest vehicle-manufacturing"PBipanies; it has already placed order.,§or motor 'Iruse3 in tho colony, and expectsibortlj- to receive orders for motor wagons.Ahro, it has received an order for anotherof tho class of motor 'bus whioh in nowfunningbetween Nelson and tho port.

FOUR-CYLINDER ARGYLL CAR.'Arriving, ex llatatua, on Tucu'ay next,

14-16 b.p 4-cyliuder Argyll car, latestmodel. An exact facsimile of tho carordered by his Excellency Lord Plunket.Scott Motor Co.. Cuba-»treet Extension.

—Advt.

fFRESS ASSOCIATION^.(Received. December 8,10.4 a.m.)

INTENSE HEAT.SYDNEY, This Day.

There is great heat in the interior, atmany stations the thermometer register-ing 100 to 108 degrees in the shade. Tholast-named figure is Teported from MogilMogil, 490 miles west of Sydney, andconstitutes a. recordfor the district.

ADELAIDE, This Day.The weather is very hot. A hundred

and three degrees in the shade lias beenregistered.

ACTIVITY AT BROKEN HILL.SYDNEY1, This Day.

Much activity prevails at the BrokenHill mines. Eight thousand four hundredand -fifty men arc employed, and themineral output for the year is valued atover two millions.

RECOGNITION OF BRAVERY.ADELAIDE, This Day.

At a meeting in the Port AdelaideTown Hall, the Mayor presented Yvetofcand Ganguee, two seamen who risked■their lives to take lines ashore from theFrench barque Montebello, wrecked atKangaroo Island, each with a silverwatch, gold albert, andmedal, in recog-nition of their bravery.

[The Montebello struck on the rocks at2 o'clock on Sunday morning, 18th No-vember, during a strong southerly gale,with heavy raiu. IShortly afterwards themain mast went overboard. The crewTemtiined huddled on deck, heavy seascontinually breaking over tho ship, tilldaylight, when they discovered they werenot more than ahundred and fifty yardsfrom the land, close up against the cliffs.A sailor (probably Ganguee) attemptedto take a line ashore, but a heavy seadiovehim back. Another seaman namedYvetot then volunteered. The first timehe failed, but on making a second at-tempt a wave washed him on the rocks.He was severely bruised and his clotheswere torn into 6lrreds. A stout line wasgot ashore, a breeches buoy was riggedby means of an empty cask, and by7 o'clock all hands had landed safely.The crew suffered severehardshipson theisland before relief reached them.]

THE PERTH INSURANCE WAR.

A CONCESSION REPUDLVTED.PERTH, This Day.

In effecting a Government insuranceof a million and a half, the Westralianmanager of the Royal Insurance Companywaived tho right, oi cancelling the policyfor three years. This agreement hasbeen repudiated by the directors of thecompany. *

LICENSING LEGISLATION.

THE COMPENSATION QUESTION.MELBOURNE, This Day.In tho Victorian Assembly Mr. Bent

fuTther modified the Government's pTO-posals in the Licensing Bill for continu-ance of compensation after the ten years'period,abandoning all timo limit.

THE BETTING BILL.SYDNEY, This Day. '

The State Assembly is considering ananipndinent to the Betting Bill, placingtrotting on the same footing as horse-racing. ,

MR. CRICK AND THE ASSEMBLY.SYDNEY, 7th December.

The Legislative Assembly has resolvedthat that portion of tho Land Commis-sioner's report referring to findings ofmisconduct against Mr. Crick be restoredto the- order-paper and considered onTuesday.

(Received December 8, 10.15 a.m.)SYDNEY, This Day.

The Government will make known thecourse it intends to pursue in regard toMr. Crick when the LandCommissioner's,report comes up for consideration in theHouse.It is rumoured that drastic measures

are intended.

PARRAMATTA GAOL.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF APRISONER.

SYDNEY, 7th December.The prisoner HaTris,who tried to mur-

der the deputy-governor of Parrainuttagaol recently, inflicting serious wounds,made an unsuccessful attempt to commitsuicide by hanging. He used his socks asa rope.Itis understood that a few days ago

tho prisoners in aworkshop wheTe Harriswas employed revolted and attacked thowarders, but were quickly overpowered.

THE COUNTRY PARTY.NOT AN AGGRESSIVE ORGANI-

SATION.CHAIRMAN DECLARES HIMSELF.

Quite unexpectedly at tho banquettendered to Mr. Wield at Paokakarikilast evening, tho member for Otakiblossomed forth as the chairman of tho"country party," and in a speech in re-ply to tho toast of hie health set outon an exposition cf that party's atti-tudo towards tho Land Bill.

"In the House at the present time,"he said, "we have a small party calledthe 'country party.' It is not anaggres-sive party;it is composed of loyal mem-bers of tho present Government who areanxious to stick to tho Government towhich wo havo given allegianco for somany wears. Much ridiculo has beenheaped on the party without any justcause. It has been said that tho partyis about to startan aggressive land cani-vpaign throughout tho country. Well, Isim the chairman of that party, and Ithink I, therefore, kno,w something ofit, but it has not been decided to do janything of tho kind. There is aparty,or a small band of members, who areprepared, if tho timo arrives, to dowhat thoy think right, proper, and fairin tho way of putting their views onthe land question before tho Govern-ment. Tf tho time doos nrrivo when.itwill be nocessary to do this, they willbe perfectly justified in taking thecourse of action indicated;and theywill not do it in a way_ antagonistic totho Government. Their main founda-tion is loyalty to the Govornmont. Thoydo not want to leave tho Governmentparty until they are pushed out, and Idon't think it is the desire of SirJoseph Ward to do this. Iliopo thatbeforo very long wo will come to a(satisfactory solution of tho difficulty, ia<regard.to load legislation.."

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NINE MEN KILLED.(Per Sierra at Auckland.)

LONG BEACH, 9th November.With no warning save the cries of

workmen who first felt the floors 6agbeneath their feet, live stories of thecentral wing of the new 750,000 dollarBixby Hotel collapsed at 9.35 o'clockthis morning, carrying nine men t& deathin tons of tangled wreckage. About 150artisans and labourers were scatteredthrough tho structure at the moment it(ell, and of these nearly ahundred werecarried down in the ruins.

Tho Hotel Bixby, which, has beenunder 'construction for several months,was to have been one^ of tho best ap-pointed hotels on tho

'Southern Coast.

The total cost of the building was esti-mated at 750,000dollars. Planscalledfor276 guest chambers, and the buildingcovered a groundspace of 176ft by 348ft.Four stories of the structure which wasof re-enforcedconcrete,had reached com-pletion. It was being built on thebeach, facing tho ocean, and about 200ftfrom the shore.

Engineers agree from indications thatthe labourers removed the supports oftho concrete on the top floor of tho

structure before it was set. This deadweight collapsed, and in falling crushedother supports lower down, causing thewhole structure to fall.

Nothing is quite so good in bronchitisand chronic cough as Steams1 Wino.Its delicious tnsto makes its regular usoa, pleasure, and it acts as a matchlesstonic and body-builder.— Advt.

Your furniture packed, removed, orstored. Experienced and careful men.By road, rail, or eea. Anynhere. NewZealand Express Co., Customliouso-nuay.Tel. 1333.— Advt.

Mosfrs. Hrrcourt announco an auction,irnlo of city huiuness and residential pro-portion, to tako placo at their rooms, at2.30 p.m. on Friday, wfien they will offer,under instructions from the executors intho OEtato of tho lato Hon. G. M. Waterhouse, tho block ofbusiness promieee, coin-prising thi'QO brick chop?, oiturited on tliowest aide of Oubarstrcdt, occupied byMesara. Oeoreo and GcorgQ and Mr, 0.Smith. Tho land has n. fronlago to Cuba-etroel, having nccoeeby a right-of-way fromDixou-slreut. Tlioro is aleo a block ofvacant land adjoiling, having access alsoby a right-of-way from Dixon-streot, butwhich is not included ill the leases toMown. Georgo and Goorgo and 0. Smith.Full particularsand conditions of 'solo maybo obtained on. application to Hossrs.8011, Gully, 8011, ana Myers, or from theauctioneers. Tho firm will also submit asoven-roomod residonco, outbuildings, etc.,titunled on tho slopes of Mount victoria;also 0-roomed rcsidonce, withthirteen acresof land, at Johnsonville. Particulars andcurds ta vicv«gia»y bt.obtained from.-the

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1906.THE MANAWATU RAILWAY.NEW ZEALAND AS A MODELCABLE NEWS.

[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

THE SITUATION MOROCCO.

CABLENEWS.[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

IMPERIAL POLITICS.

CABLE NEWS.[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

INDUSTRIAL TROUBLES INRUSSIA.

CABLENEWS.[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]CONTROL OF THE CONGO.

CABLE NEWS.[BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.-COPYRIGHT.]

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

THE ASSETS BOARD.5

#An announcement regarding fruitis pub-

lished in our advertising columns by Mr.Bonlton, Ouba-strcct.Tlie noblo forests of our landBeneath man's devastating handSoon will havo vanished, leaving thereThia country lying gaunt and bare.No wooded clothing, now she's old,To save hor from her death of cold,But lo! now Woods ariso with healing

sure,All hail then— Woods' .Groat Peppermint1 "O.UVU— Adxfc.

GOBELINS."

In ths 15th century v/ero a family ofdyers established >n Paris, and in thefollowing century they added a tapestry

|manufactory. In1662 tho whole of theestablishments weio purchased by LouisXIV. of France and recognised as theRoyal Upholstery Works. Celebratedpainters were employed to furnish de-signs, the looms being known by thename of Gobelins. After many years ofconspicuous persistence and untiring en-er(?y> one of tho famous Continentalchina manufacturers has at last, bycombined industry, intelligence, andskill been able to reproduce on porcelain

Ifac similes of {he original Gobelins ta-poatry. A choice assortment of thesef'x<juicitp productions is now on viewin the show rooma of Messrs. i^dwardAnderson and Co. Ltd., Willi.vstiect,to which inspectioni3cordially invited.— Adrt. L '

The festive reasonof Christina*! will FOonbo here, and wilh it comes the perplexingquestionof what to get for buitablo Xnwipre*ent». Now in the time to Ret whatyou_ require, an firat rhoien iiicans beitchoice. Our fancy departmenti3now re-pleU with all the latest novelties, and wonaro endeavoured to mako tha selectionthat will bo most useful ami snitablofor Xdiu gifts. Lace ocorvci inRi-oat )iro-fuaion, Is to Un 6d;Ince collarettos, whiteand cream, 2i lid, 3» 6d to 18"ia fpecinllino of imitation Maltese loco tics, 2a 6d,4» 6d to 25*. Ton are »pceiai)y invitedto come and inspect Ihcso new B^ods,which we feel euro will plouso you- C.Smith,' tho C'»»h Draper, C«ba*lic;t.—

jLAdvt. " 1

SURPRISE SALE.For tho first timo in tho history of tho

Cycle trado of Wellington, a genuinecloariug sulo is boing held in tho heightof the cycling Reason. Mossj-s IngliaBroi. pall attention to their advortisp-mont in tho Wanted columns, whereinthey offer spooial attraotivo prices formotor oars, cycles and cycle accessories,for tho monMi of December only.*-Advt.

Noctino and Co., the oldest nnd host firmfor ladies' tailoring in A'.tstralaiil.i. Etongowns, coaU and *■!.irtr, h^biU, 0(0. 20,YValluigLoiHutriu*.--Adv*.

FIRE AT STRATFORD.- [BY TELEGRAPH.—

FBESS ASSOCIATION.]STRATFORD, This Day.- A fire broke out early this morning,

getting two small shops occupied byMr. 'Finnemore, bootmaker, and }lv.Price,' cycle importer. " The latter'sstock was safely removed, The build-ings were insured for £100 in the Im-perialOffice, and £200 in the Guardian.The.fire brigade saved tho adjoiningproperties.

THE FLOODS AT OTAKI.

INTERCOLONIAL LADIES' MATCH.

THE NEW ZEALAND REPRESEN-TATIVES.

The New Zealand Selection Committee(Messrs. Young, Gore, Wilson, andGoldic) have selected the followingladies to represent New Zealand in thesintercolonial match against the NewSouth Wales ladies' team, to bo playedinChrisSchm-ch during Christmas week:— Misses Nunneley (Wellington Pro-vince), Powdrell (Taranaki Province),Ward ("Wellington Province), and Trav-ers (Wellington Province). Emergen-cies

—Misses Campbell (Otago Province),

Udy (Auckland Province), Williams(Wellington Province). The team isplaced in order of merit, and MissesNunneley and Powdrell, and .vlissesWard and Travers will play togetherin the doubles. The team is consideredto be a strong one.

The New"South \Valcs team is as fol-lows:— Misses Baker, Lindeman, Fitz-hardinge, and Band. The latter ladyis now in Christchurch. Miss Linde-man arrives on Wednesday, and theothers on tho following Wednesday.,Each player will play two singles, bestout of "three sets advantage, and eachpair will also play two doubles.PUBLIC SCHOOLS CHAMPIONSHIP.

The Wellington Public Schools LawnTennis Championship meeting was con-tinued to-day. Tho boys' singles- eventwas concluded, Norman Brindley (Ter-race) winning the championship. Theboys' doubles (senior) was won by Nor-man Brindley and E. Donovan (Ter-race). Young Brindley and PhyllisIsaac carried off the combined doubles(senior). In the girls' singles, DorisThornton and Mary Pullman play offfor the senior cup this afternoon, whileIva Abbott (Horokiwi) and Lois Kella-way (Te Aro) play ofi the final for thejunior. The tinal for the boys' singlesis to be played between Douglas Mouattand Victor Abbott. In the seniorgirls'doubles, Flora and Chrissie Stevens(Hutt) meet in the final Daisy Gray andMyra Hill (Terrace). The only competi-tors left in the final for the juniorboys' doubles are Ray Robinson andClaude Batten (Clyde-quay) v. StanleyWickens and Douglas Mouatt, while inthe combined doubles, junior, Iva Ab-bott and Victor Abbott (Horokiwi) meetLois Kellaway and Mary O'Neil.

A THOUSAND-MILESMOTOR TEST.

After six days of strenuous effort andunceasing watchfulness on the part ofcompetitors, and ono rather serious acci-dent, the Dunlop 1000-Miles Motor Re-liability Test came to an end on a re-cent Saturday opposite Salvution ArmyBanacks, in Victoria-parade, Melbourne.The winner turned up in O. Camphin,who drove his 12-h.p. Darracq over the1000 miles in 39hr 58min, with the loss ofthree points only. Tho second man wasT. Rollason, in a 10-h.p. Do Dion, wholost 36 points, and occupied 45hr 7min.Third man was W. R. Grimwade, whodrove an Australian-made Tarrant car.He lost 40 points, but occupied only 37hr234min. Kellow in the 40-h.p. Napierhad wretched luck. A bigNewfoundlanddog chargedtho car, which was travellingat schedule speed, and got mangled. Itbent a Tod underneath the car in' theprocess, and threw the wheels out of lineto such an extent that they tore thetyres off every few yards, and, generally;,steerins was almost impossible. All thesame, the great Napier car M-as onlythree hours behind schedule time. Therest of the prize winners were A. G.Hampton, R. Edols, F.B. Roche, F. E.Fay, Guy Madden, and C. B. Kellow.The general teaching of the Test, writesthe Bulletin, is that, for nll-iound re-liability,6and 8-h.p. single cylinder carscannotbe beaten. The three that startedall finished. Three cars fractured theirframes, and coils and frame springs alsoproved to b-j too lightly made in the im-ported machines for Australian roads.There was only one serious accident, inwhich, a 15-h.p. De Dion car turnedturtle while travelling at 40 miles anhour. Strange to say, although bothoccupants were severely injured, tho carwas quite undamaged, and was drivenback to Melbourne by a young drivci)■without any trouble. Anothei solemnlesson is that, for low petrol consump-tion and fast time and all-Tound relia-bility, the Australian-built car is a lotahead of most of the imported ones.

THE BARQUE LUTTERWORTH.

iBT TSXEGBAPH—WRi COKEESPOXDKXT.j.' " OTAKI,This Day.~ Owing to the damage caused by the

■recent flood, the- -Waitohu sawmill hasclosed down, and 30 h-inrt<; have been'thrown out of employment. The wholeof the tramway has been, absolutelymined, bridges and all havinggone. Thedamage is estimated at over £300. .,'.Many,other serious losses arc report-ed. One Chinese gardener lost £150

"in.potatoes and peas alone. A Euro-pean -gardener adjoining estimates hisloss" at over £100.

The damage throughout the district toroads, bridges, railway, etc., must in-volve many thousands of pounds.

The rainfall onMonday and Tuesdaytotalled 4.180 inches, the fall on thehills being, much heavier.

GREYTOWN NEWS.

SPORTING.

(*BOH OTJB OWS COKHESPOSDENT.IGREYTOWN, This Day.

The Rifle Association held a meeting-&«re onThursday to make arrangementsfor the annual meeting. It was decided

"to work the- programme on last year'sbasis, but to increase the first prize to£4. The distances for the Feathersonmatch will be 800, 900, and 1000 yards,and it was- decided that the time limitbe enforced at the meeting. Mr. J.M'Kathie offered a special "prize of £3to the firet competitor whomade the pos-sible at 1000 yards. The meeting is totake place onthe 25th and 25thFebruary,1807.

Nominations for the Wellington Rac-ing Club's Summer Meeting close withthe. secretary (Mr. A- E. Whyte) onMonday, 17th December.

Nominations for the Wairarapa Rac-'iagClub's Summer Meeting, to bo held"on' Ist and 2nd January, close at 8"o'clock to-night.

THE CLAIMS OF LEASE-IN-PERPETUITY.

A statement made in a leading articlein thj. Evening Post on 4th Decemberaffecting the question of the right of ten-ants under the lease-in-perpetuity systemto acquire the freehold of their holdingsat the oiiginal valuation came under re-view by Mr. W. H. Field at tbo banquettendered to kjin aV. Paekakariki Fastevening. The matter was also referredto in a speech by Sir Joseph Ward atthe same gathering. The Post hadstated that :—"lt:

—"Itis hardly necessary to

say that if the demand ot the Farmers'Union were limited to the termsof futuredealings, the immoral paTt of the pro-gramme wouldhave entirely disappeared.There would still be a grave differenceof policy to fight, but no such moralissue as that which is raised by the claimthat existing contracts should be tamper-ed with in order to concede the freeholdto present tenants at a flagrant under-value."

Mr. F.ield asked the electors not to beguided entirely by the statements whichappeared ill tho public press, but to be jguided by their own judgment. In thequotationgiven above charges were pre- Jierred against .those who thought ag he i

did that in a word, they wished to tarn- jper with existing obligations. Unfor- ;tunately this sort of thinghad its effect, 'but nobodyknew better than the EveningPost that such a thing would not happen.Itmight be orthodox journalism to makethese statements, but they were not cor-rect. He would ask the Evening Postto place itself in the position of being ,the owner of 1000 acres of freehold. |Would it be idiotic enough to part with !that land on a basis of interest at £1per acre? He referred to tho three percent rate of interest, and pictured thocase as that in which the land, by pro-cess of time, had increased in value to£2 per acre Then he asked his heaTersto picture the Post seeking to borrowmoney on tho 1000 acres. What wouldhe the result if it desired to do this onthe basis stated? It would simply haveto part with its land for 1000 years. The-Government had lent money at 3 percent., and had to borrow at 4 per cent.,and he maintained it would bo good fo"the Government to get the money soinvested in again. The business aspectof the case had to be considered. Indoing this they would not be doing any-thing immoral, nor would tfiey be lettingsomeonehave something at a great under-value; and, to go a step further, sup-pose in the case of the 1000 acres theoriginal holder had sold out at £2 peracTe

— that was to say, ho had obtained£1 per acre on his bargain

—would the

Evening Post go to the secorfd purchaserand Gay, "This land is worth £2 peracre;if you want the freehold that isthe price." The EveningPost must knowthat it could not ask more than £1 peraero. To ask a man to give any moiewould be an :nsult to his intelligence.They (his party) felt that it was moTebeneficial for the State to get the moneyin. It wasnot for the tenant they want-ed to -do this;it was for the benofit ofthe Crown. Money was ill circulationin connection with lease-in-perpetuityland at a lesser rate of interest than1

would be the case if it ■was freehold. Hedid not want to set up his opinion againstothers, but it was the duty of the news-papers to put the Uicts fanlybefore thopublic.InJTeference to the question at a later

stage, the Premier wa3 veiy pronouncedin his views. "Even if a freehold partywere returned to the House," he said,"they wouldneverget a pioposal to givethe freehold at the original value throughif cney stayed there for twenty years. Aminority in the House will do what theybelieve to be fair and just to all classesin the community." If proposals werebrought down to abolish tJio kase-in-perpetuity syetem entirely,and substitutethe freehold, they would have to exnminathe matter very'carefully before arrivingat a colut;.on.

MONEY-LENDER'S PHILANTHROPY.

A SALVAGE CLAIM.His Honour the Chief Justice hadbefore him to-day the case of theAorere Steamship Company against the

owners of the barque Lutterworth,which was salved by the steamerAorere some months ago when in peril-ous plight near Capo 'Icrcwhiti. It willbe remembered that the ballast of theLutterworth shifted and disabled thevessel. The crew was rescued by oneof the Union Company's vessels, arid thebarque, dismasted and on her beamends was eventually picked up by theAorere and towed into port by theAorere and the tug Duco. In conse-quence of this the plaintiffs claimed&600. Mr. D. 11. tfindlay appearedfor plaintiffs, and Mr. Gray for de-fendants.

Counsel in opening said there wa.isome difficulty in finding the value ota boat of this land but it would beproved that she was a well-found ironsailing vessel in first-class order. Theclaim was less thanone half her value,the.stores having been found to be morovaluable than was apprehended a fewdays' ago. Plaintiff company submittedthat it was entitled to half the valu&of the wreck and if thathalf was morethan the half of the claim, the companywas entitled to the full amount of thtclaim. Coansel explained that there■svaoan arrangementbetween the ownersof the Aorere and the Duco, and thatthere would be no claim by those in-terested in the latter vessel.

Mr. Gray said there was a priorclaim for £100 by the Union Companywhich was not considered to be un-reasonable claims for salvage of goodsand saving life, which he said tookpriority to all other claims.

Mr. Findlay replied that the ownerswore able to pay and settle with theUnion Company, and ho did not needto bother with them.Captain Priske, master of the Aorere,gave evidence a8a8 to picking up ths Lut-terworth, taking her in tow, and even-tually standing-by the tug Duco whilstshe towed the barque into port.

Cross-examined by Mr. Gray, witnesssaid the Lutterwortn was anchored whenhe found her. The anchor and chainhad to be slipped. Witness could not getanything to buoy the chain. The Aorerehad about three and a half tons of coalfor steaming purposes. She could nothave taken the barque into Wellingtonwithout assistance.

Wm. Cable, iron founder and engineer,deposed that he made an inspection ofthe hull and stores of the vessel lastWednesday. The hull was very goodvalue for £1000: She could either beusedas ahulk or reTigged and run inherold trade. The hulk Coromandel wasrecently sold to the State Coal Depart-ment for £2000. The Lutterworth was aGuparior vessel to the Coromandel, andtaking the latter vessel as a standardwould be worth £1500. This was nottaking the Luterworth's stores into con-sideration. The latter would, he said,realise £800.

His Honour Taised the question of re-fitting the vessel and puttingher in com-mission again.

Mr. Gray said it would cost £3000 torig and refit her. He explained that ves-sels could be bought cheaply nowadays,and mentioned that theLutterworthonlycost the owners £1600.

(Left sitting.)

By the recent death inLondon of Mrs.AdaLewis-Hill, thereversionary bequests,■under the will of her former husband, Mr.SamLewis, the well-known money-lender,fell in. The full list shows a total ofabout a million. The principal bequestis the handsome one of £400,000 for theestablishment of dwellings _for the poor,which are to be provided and controlledby trustees. The King's Hospital Fundior London receives no less than a quar-ter of a million. For establishing aconvalescent home for Jewish poor on thesea coast, £100,000 is provided. The

bequests range from £20,000dowrr to £250. The separate London

-hospitals benefit largely with sums ofifrom £5000 to £20.000. The Cabdrivers'..JJ^neyolent,Association receives £1000 ;the Home of Rest for Horses, £500 ; theFactory Girls' Country Holiday Fund,,£500.: and the remaining bequests shew*"■ widespread benevolence eminently«reditabie to the giver.'Mrs. Lewis-Hill also devotes a large

;po#ion of her own fortune to charity bywill. To her second husband, CaptainLewis Hill, she leffc £175,000, together"with her yacht Ailsa. Her charitable be-

-quests amount to about £300,000. To"endow a "Rowton-house for Women,"£50,000 is devoted:and a similar sumto the.Governesses' Benevolent Institu-tion, to build and maintain residences.To found an "Ada Lewis" Winter Dis-tress Fund, £25,000 is placed it the dis-posal of the Lord Mayor;£20,000 is left

-to the Salvation Armyj and the like sumto the United Kingdom Beneficent Asso-ciation. The Lord Mayor of Dublin isentrusted with £10,000 for an "AdaLewis" Winter Distress TTund;£5000 isleft to endow two lifeboats,; £5000 tothe Cabdrivers' Benevolent Association,£5000 to a Home for German Sailors,£5000 to the.Royal Society of. Musicians,£2000 in the Little Sisters of the Poor,£2000 for providing coals for the Jewishpoor inLondon, £2000 to the Police Con--valescent Home, £1000 to the JewishLads' Brigade, £250 to each police courtpoor-box in London, £2000 to the Homefor Crippled Boyß, besides a host of otherbequests, in amounts ranging from£20,000 to £250.

These noble bequests of Mr. and Mrs.Lewis aieamongst the largest which,haveever fallen to the lot of the British chari-ties.

Our Dunedin correspondent reportsthat ho has good authority for statingthat owing to the readjustment of elec-toral boundaries, Otago will lose twoseats— Tuapeka andWaikouaiti

—Canter-

bury one— Courtenay. By putting- St.

Kilda into the Caversham electorate,and tacking North-east Valley on toDunedin East, community of interestwill be established. It is understoodthat one of the new. seats gained bythe North Island will go to the Wel-lington provincial district, one to Auck-land, and one to Taranaki.

Mr. A. W. Kitson, colonial represen-tative of tho Board of Examiners, fortho Incorporated Phonographic Society,England, delivered anaddress on Thurs-day evening to the shorthand studentsof the Technical School. Mr. Kitsontook for his subject "Practical Sugges-

tions to Shorthand Students."The Minister for Labour states that

there is no truth in the statement con-cerning the appointment to tho presi-dency of the Arbitration Court. Thematter, he states, has neverbeen consid-ered by Cabinet, nor has anyone beenapproached by him cither directly orindirectly in regard to tho appoint-ment.

The latest additions to the list ofcandidates for the Wellington Mayor-alty, are Mr. J. Reid, timber merchant,and Mr. T. M. Wilford, M.H.R.

Term-end , gymnastic competitionshavo been held during the past week atMessrs.

"Harrison ana Juriss's gymna-

sium among the pupils of the differentclasses. The following points weregained by the various pupils:— Men'sclass championship— A. Murrell (previ-ous holder),46 points (out of apossible50), 1; Nichol, 42|, 2; R. Paget, 41£,3; handicap, Nichol. Ladies' classchampionship— E. Carmichael, 46|, 1;A. Highet, 46, 2; W. Lowe, 43i,.3;handicap, V. Greville. Senior girls'championship— M. Bowse, 45, 1; R.Tiso, 44A, 2; handicap, Lush. Juniorgirls' championship

—W. Fenton, 1;

Boyd, 2;handicap. Lush. Boys' cham-pionship

—C. Hankins, 1;handicap, V.

Hankins. Messrs. Ryan and Partonacted as judges.

The latest "eccentricity" in entertain-ments in New York is a pony banquet,given by Mr. Harvey S. Ladcw, awealthy sportsman, at his country seatat Glen Covo, Long Island, in cele-bration of the successes achieved by Hisstables at the r-ecent Piping Rock horseshow. The guests of honour (.reportsthe London Daily Mail's correspondent)were two of the principal prize-winners,Welsh Princess, an English pedigreemaro, and All There, an exquisitelyshaped pony. Forty human guests hadbeen invited to meet them. They weremostly members of the fashionableLongIsland set, who were the chief exhibi-tors at the samo show. The spaciousdining-room of tho fine colonial mansionwas specially fitted for theoccasion. Atthe upper end two loose-boxes, drapedin sifk and embowered in roses, hadbeen fixed for tho two guests of honour.Between them sat the host, at the headof a horseshoe table, large enough toaccommodats forty human guests. Din-ner was served to ladies, gentlemen,and horces together, only for the horsesthere was a, special menu. As eachcourse was served at the table, the foot-men specially charged to attend to theprincipal guests brought them, oats, car-rots, and other delicacies in silver buck-ets, and water in gold-hooped woodenpails. During the progress of the dinnerthe double-doors at the end of tharoom opened, and there entered a pro-cession of other members of thD Ladewstud, each led by a groom and marchedround the room. Mr. Ladow, in feel-ing terms, proposed the health of theguest's of the evening, and was vocifer-ously cheered.

JuJgo Mair,of theNative Land Court,, has 'given judgment on tho question of

tho 'reserves in the valuable Waimara-. ma block, Har/kcs Bay. Tho reserves, includo tho homestead and woolshed of

Mr. G. P. Donnelly, tho homestead andother buildings of Messrs Meinertz-, hagen andMoore and also the boat land-ing place. The Hawkcs Bay Heraldsays that considerable conflict was im-

1 ported into this phase of the .case, dif-ferent sections claiming exclusive rightto one or othsr of the proposed reserves.The court, however, findsvery definitelythat tho Paparcwa. location under lcr.se" to Mcssr3 Meinertzhagen and Moore,

1 -which expires in May next, belonged to■ Tiakita'i, Mrs. Donnelly's grandfather,l and that his living descendants aro the! sole owners. The homestead^ woolshed

nnd other buildings of Messrs Meinertz-. hagen and Moore, with surrounding1 area of about 400 acres, also tho land-, ing place, arc therefore awarded to: them. The other reserve, lying to the> north, and including Mr. Donnelly'sr house and woolshed and several nativeL houses, is awarded to all or as many" of tho owners of the main block of1 Waimarama 3A, including Mrs. Don-, nelly and her people, as wish portions, allotted to them. The remainder of■ Waimarama No. 3A was divided intoj two, Mr. Lewis's clients taking a divis-

ion of 7516 acres, and the natives,L either represented by themselves or by, Mr. Morison (Wellington), Mr. ScannellI, or Mr. J. M. Fraaer, 8300. Tho court

now proposes to make any further in-[ ternal divisions asked for, and to ascer-t tain what persons desiro an award inr tho northern reserve. Theblocksknown}

as Waipnkn and Okaihau have practic-ally been disposed of, numerous parti-tions having been arranged and passed,

[ which, with the restrictions asked to beimposed, indicate an intention of ex-'tensive farming by the ownors.

A caretaker Is wanted for the District HighSchool at Newtown. '

1 A Inieluess announcementIn reference to ToMomi citnte is published to-night by Messrs.DwnnH:o*. Tlic sale takes place in the Town

■ Hnllon Wednesday evening.

! Mcsire. Dwnn Bros, publish anannouncement. in our ndvcrtUinft columns thisevening regard-. ing tho Wairau Valley UoUlminilig Company.1 M«.3is. Mncdonald, Wilson, and 00. advertisel details of the eaje 011 Tuesday next, com-I radioing at 11 o'clock, of the household fur-

niture, including upright grand piano, billiirddining table, etc., to be held at the residencenf Mr. A. E. Donne, Cliireinoilt-tcrraoc, who. is giving up housckcFping. " Detailed cata-logues can ho hud on. .inpllcatiou to theauctioneers, and the furnishlnfts will be on

1 view onJfondiiy from 1to 5 o'clock. Liinrhoon" will bo provided on the day of snip. On Wed-; ncadnv next, at their rooms, at 1.30 o'clock,

tho firm will sell one 3-li.p. Hritnimlaoil cn-1 gino, new, with fittings complete. On Fridayi next, nfc 1o'clock, under instructions from Dr.

FRchott. the- firm will sell tlin whole of Illshousehold furnishing*, comprising billintd-dining table, contents of trn rooms, which

: havo been removed to the auctioneers' 100msI for convenience of snip. Catalogues arc being

prepared.

Owing to a difficulty in obtainingartisans the work of erecting the plantfor converting the slack coal from theStatemineat Seddonvillc into briquetteswill not be completed until April orMay. The Minister for Mines stateßthat the Railway Department wiH takea large supply of briquettes for its loco-motives,and he believes that the publicwill also find that it will pay to usethe manufactured article. The plantwhich is being erected at Westport willbe most complete, and he is advisedthat it will produce briquettes at apricewhich will ensure a ready sale andleave a profit to the State Coal Depart-ment. Millions of tons of 'slack coalhave, he says, been poured into therivers of New Zealand because there-was no market for it, but it is nowpossible to turn what has hitherto beenregarded as a wasteproduct into a goodmarketable article. The Seddonrillemine in still being worked, and a fair?quantity of lumpy coal is coming to'hand. The Minister expresses him&eUn-satisfied with the financial results-o/;the Point Elizabeth mine*

The death occurred on the 18th Oc-tober, at Bath, England, of Lady Cooper,"widow of Sir Charles Cooper, for manyyears Chief Justice of Adelaide. Thedeceased lady was anear relative of Mr.W. H. Newenham, of the Education De-partment,and recently of the RoytilNewZealand Artillery, Wellington.

The-other day the OamaTU Mail launch-ed out into a lengthy impeachment ofbanquets. "The banqueting of Mjjiistersol the Crown fe," says the Miul, "acruelty to which they ought not to besubjected in a civilised, enfighteneij, pro-gressive country like New Zealand. Ifa- public man serves the peoplo well hedeserves something; better'at their hands'than to be tortured by such 'dangerousattentions. Itis not only a waste offood, but it is injurious to health, to eatand1 d-rink for the mere sake of eatingand drinking. Abanquetspells numerouscourses of variedandrich viands, the con-sumption of which isaccompanied by theimbibition of intoxicating liquors. Thealternatives of whisky or beer are so-call-ed "softdrinks," which arenot so soft asthose who take them indiscriminately.It is clear, then, that themoral tendencyof'ffoch functions

—sanctioned as they axe

by the most prominent/ and trusted mem-bers of the community— is bad. It is noexaggeration to say that such hospitali-ties are barbarous

—that they destroy the

health and reduce the usefulness ofMinisters, as well as shorten their lives.The colony sadly-needs'the institution ofan "association for the discouragement ofouch inhumanities. The day will comewhen banquets to public men will be

'bazred'fy-JBtatutf."-

The Attorney-General (Hon. Dr. Find-lay) will leave for the Auckland districton the18th inst. He will be absent aboutten days.

A welcome home was given last even-ing by tho Donnld M'Le;m-stTeet Primi-tive Methodist Church Sunday Schooland choin to Mr. C. R. Luke, who hasjust returned" from Europe. Addresseswere d-elivere'd by tho Rev. J. Cocker(representing the" church), Mr. E. C.Feltham (Sunday School), Mr. W. W.Wills (Christian Endeavour), Mr. E. A.Eyres (Junior C.E.), and Mi-. T. A. Bell(Young Men's), to which Mr. Luke re-plied. Songs, instrumental items, andrecitations were given by Misses Gilbert,Embury (2), and M. B.rles, Messrs H.Crump, Cutforth, and C. E. Feltham.The accompaniments were played byMcsdemes Bylea, Feltham, and H.Crump.

Messrs. H. J. H. Eliott (ex-Under-socrctary for Mines) .J. W. Poynton(Public 'Trustee) and A. M'Kay (Gov-ernment Mining Geologist) have beenappointed to examine the sixty essayswhichhave been received by tho MinesDepartment on "The present conditionand future prospects of tho mineral re-sources of Now Zealand, and tho bestmeans, of festering their development."The examiners will meet next week,andit io expected that their decision will beannounced before the end of tho year.The prizes arc a gold medal and fiftyguineas, a silver medal and twenty-fivoguineas, and a bronze medal and tenguineas.

Under the caption, "Business, Robbery,etc.," the following remarkable state-ment appears in the Bulletin -.— "Works(or the extraction of gold from sea-waterarc in course of construction at BrokenHead (N.S.W.),a few miles south of CapeByron. The power to work' the machin-ery is to be obtained from tho waves.A lease of five acres of beach

—not five

acres of ocean— has bsen obtained, end aconsiderable amount of preparatory workhas been done, but portions of it havebeen destroyed by violent storms latelyraging in ths locality. It is expectedthat everything ■will be in going order bythe end of the year. Analyses made inSydney show fTom half a grain to twograins of gold per ton of water

—depend-

ing on the richness of the patches. Theore-body is hug© and the mining costswill bo Gmall. Three funnel-shaped open-ings, each 3ft in diameter, and fixed inrock, are filled by every successive woveof the rising tide, and the water is forced/thiough a 22in pipe into a reservoir.After passing through various pipes andover numerous wheels, and receiving achemical solution on tho way, it finallyreaches a smaller reservoir. Here it iaallowed to rest. The solution, in com-bination with the gold,sinks to the bot-tom, and a pipe takes the water or tail-ings out to &ea again. The residue thengoes into a. tank, and subsequently into avat, where ifc is kept in a state of agita-tion. While it ig thus agitated a cyanidesolution is poured in, and the gold is!obtained. The chemical solution isknown only to the prospector, but limeis alleged to be its chiefconstituent. Thetank has a capacity of 10,000 tons ofwater, and can be filled twice aday. Cal-culated on the minimum amount of goldper ton disclosed by analysis— haif agrain— about 21oz of gold is expecteddaily."

In the course of a sermon at the Christ-church Anglican Cathedral on Sundaymorning, Bishop Julius referred to themission work amongst the Maoris. Ac-cording tc the Ljttelton Times, ho saidthat if New Zealand had not been acountry fit for white men, every Maoriwould have beromo Christian, whereas atthe present time more thanhalf werehea-thon. "It wa-3 now a bigger taskto win the Maori than it was in tho daysof Samuel Marsden," said the Bishop,"but w6 must take the plough. Foryenrs we hnve done pract/cally nothing,although the British race has neverin anypart of tho world succeeded with anativerace as it hns succeeded with the Maori.The New Zealand Government is tryingto do its best, and it is winning. TlioMaoris are not dying out. They are in-creasing, and we nro proud of it. Letus all do our duty and send more workersinto the field until every Maori has beenwon for Christ."

Jonos had' coino homo about two in thomorning rather tho worao off for a fowhighballs. As> coon as ho opened tho doorhis wife bogan upbraiding him for hin con-duct. Jonos wont to bod and whon howas almost asloop could hoar her scoldinghim unmoreifully. lie dropped off tosloop and awoko uflor nn hour or two,only to hoar his wife romnrk:"I liopo alltho worann don't havo to put up withrue!i conduct as Ihu." "Annio, BaidJone*, "aro you talking again or yot?"

Not far from Bishop Auckland a manwansoon wheelinganow bicycle along thoroad, Ho wn* met by ono of his matr ,who ohoutnd

—"G«t onand rido!" to whit iho replieds— "Ah Wdd| but Ahia in, a,

hurry. , \

The Irish Envoys, Messrs. Devlin and!Donovan, will speak on tho subject ofHome Rule at tho Wellington TownHall on 21st December. The Mayorwill presidt

The district around Paekakariki invarious places is covered with fine areasof native bush, and Mr. \V. H. .Fieldmade an appeal at tho banquet tend-ered to him at Paekakariki last eveningfor the best of the scenic spots, parti-cularly in the gorges, to bo conservedby the Government. He said that ifthis were dono, the district would un-doubtedly become one of the most not-ed tourist and pleasure resorts in thispart of the North Island.

The secretary of the Young Women'sChristian Association has been advisedthat the executive committee in the OldCountry has arranged with Miss Spencerto visit Australasia after her visit toJapan in connection with the World'sStudent Federation Confeience. MissSpencer, an American lady, is secretaryto the World's Student Federation.

Keen interest continues to be shown infirst aid work among the sailors who fre-quenb the Missions to Seamen gatherings.Last night some capital work was doneThe Misses Ellis presented a programmeof music, items being contributed byMrs. Barker, the Misses Ellis (2),Croucher, and Messrs. Harris, W. Riley,and Romanoff (s.a. Drayton Grunge), anda mandoline band.

Mrs. Hott and Mrs. Denton>have beenappointed members of the committee ofthe Ladies' Auxiliary of the WellingtonYoung Men's Christian Association.

At a meeting of the,- Hutt RiverBoard, a letter was received from theDistrict Land Registrar giving notico ofthe intention of the Fitzherbert LandSyndicate to bring section 76 under theLand Transfer Act. Instructions weregiven to inspect tho application and secthat the interests of the board wereprotected. A letter from tho TownClerk of Wellington, inviting co-opera-tion in the construction of a trafficbridgo over the Hutt river, was de-■ferred for further consideration, aswas aho an application from Pitcaithlyand Co. for an extension of the gravelleases. Instructions wero given to thosolicitor to report upon the title to 4acres 1 rood and 2 perches, being theland severed from tho Mudgway es- itate by the stopbank, in order that theboard might consider negotiations forits purchase. It wagdetermined also toobtain an opinion upon the question ofPeters's-roiid, and the powers of thoboard to widen same. The engineer re-ported that the work at Jorgenson's wasproceeding satisfactorily, and advisedthe acquisition of somo land from theGovernment in that locality in order toestablish further protection works.

Three members of tho Young 'Mens'Christian Association who ard about toj leave Wellington for America, are tobe entertained at a social gathering bythe members of tho V.M.C.A. this even-ing. They arc Mr. Charles Dickinson(captain of tho association's swim-ming club, and 'secretary of the gym-nasium), Mr. John Starr"(a member ofthe committee of the Sunday afternoon

( class), and Mr. Roland M'Gowan (whohas given tho association valuable as-sistance as an clocutionir.t). MessrsDickinson and Storr arb going <oSpringfield, Now Jersey, to undergo acourse of training at tho y.M.C.A.Training Home, to equip them for as-sociation work, and Mr. M'Gownn in-tendj to itudy.

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 190^LATE SHIPPING.

BY TELEGRAPH.

ORIGINAL AND PRESENT VALUES.LAWN TENNIS.EXTRA EDITION.AUCKLAND, Bth December.

Sailed— Talune, for Boutlicrn ports. Fasacii-pcra for Wellington— Mis. M'ltoi, Messrs. Jobn-itonc, M'Lee, Scott, Buckle.

NELSON, Bth December.Sail«l— Mapourifca (12.15 p.m.) and Penguin

(12.55 p.m.), for Wellington.BLENHEIM, Bth December.Anhcd— Wnihi (12.15 p.m.), from Wellington.To sail

—Wailu (10 a.m. Sunday), for Wel-

lington.WESTPOUT, Bth December.

Arrived— Kotuku (11.45 v.m.), from Welling-ton.

SEVERE EARTHQUAKE.♥

iBT TELTOBiPHi—

PSXSS ASSOCIATION.}EKETAHUNA, This Day.

A severe shock of earthquake was felthere at 11.23 this 'morning, the directionJieing from,east- to west. People- weremuch alarmed, and rushed into thestreets. Goods were shaken off theshelves in shops. The shock lasted half>minute." Reports from the surrounding districts:thow that the shock was general and"evere.

WAIPAWA, Thb Day.A sharp earthquake occurred this morn-

ing at sixteen minutes past eleven.WANGAXUI, This Day.

A smart shock of earthquake, followed-W a long tremor, was experiencedheroit11.20this morning.~'A"sharp,shock of earthquake was felt

in Wellington at 11.20 o'clock thismorn-,ing.

Press messages to hand show that tho..earthquake- was severely felt at Wood-

ville, Carierton, and other places up-country.

6

Ir\ P E R A HOUSE.*Direction MESSRS.'MACMAHON.

TO-NIGHT'S FAREWELL EVENT.TO-NIGHT'S FAREWELL EVENT.

I LADD3S' COMMAND NIGHT.LADIES' COMMAND NIGHT.MACMAHON'S

POWERFUL DRAMATIC COMPANYin (by special dssire) their famous pre-

sentment of Mrs Henry Wood'simmortal story

—EAST LYNNE " The play thatEAST LYNNE has appealedEAST LYNNE to millions ofEAST LYNNE women the worldEASTLYNNE over.

"Tho play and the sentiment that willsurvive as long as the race survives."POSITIVELY THE ONLY ANDFARE-WELL PERFORMANCE.

Box Offico at Holliday's during all to-day.Prices— 3s, 2s, and Is. D»y Sales atAbels and Chrieteson's.

HOUSE.Direction of Allan Hamilton.

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT t

SitgiJlSi!gf|gggggg

:Pi*&£B?. e*T!xace in New Zealand ofMEYNELL, GUNN, & VARNA'SNEW ENGLISH COMEDY^COMPANYNEW ENGLISH COMEDY COMPANYIs. the Latest and Most SuccessfulFarcical Comedy,THt; LITTLE STRANGER!rl LITTLE STRANGER!'i.-xi LITTLE STRANGER!THE LITTLE STRANGER!

Wn-LIE PARKE-aThTchil°df Wonde*.WILLD3 PARKE-The Child Wonder(Direct from the Criterion Theatre,London).

THBBOX^PLANSFor tho First Four Nights of the Seaso*now on view AT HOLLIDAY'S.

Prices— Dress Circle and Orchestra Stalls,3s; Stalls, 2s; Family Circle, Is. RE-SERVED SEATS, 4s. Early Doors toStalls and Family Circlo (7—7.30), Six-pence extra, obtainable at Abel's.

THRILL HALL, LOWER HUTt!Handel's "MESSIAH" will be rendered

in the aboveHall on, WEDNESDAY, 12thDecember, at 8 p.m.PRINCD?ALS: Soprano, Miss PhoebsParEons, Contralto, Mrs. Mitchell, Tenor,

Mr. J. Sosrlo, Bass, Mr. G. ParsonsCHORUS OF 100 VOICES, assisted byanEfficient Orchestra under the leadershioof MR. MAX HOPPE.CONDUCTOR, MR. J. SALKELD.TICKETS, 2s, Is. Children under 14, 6d.

E. ACKROYD,W. B. MARTEN,

: Hon. Sees.rTMLISKER Whisky. Sole Agents, Pjut-JL' sons and Co., Ltd., Wellington.

Telephone 94. r,

"WONDERLAND."~

/"WONDERLAND."

NEW ZEALAND EXHEBITIONi

A GRAND "MASKED" CARNIVAIiFETE AND GRAND MARCH

'

T^ILLbe held on WEDNESDAY,19tkV"' inst. All the youth" tod -tfeutyof the colony will be there. Masks sup^plied free.

FANCY AND EVENING DRESS; j

Twenty-fivo Pounda in Cash Priseo_ iaiMost Effective Costumes.

THE GROUNDS WILL BE A BLAZKOFLIGHT.

ABOUT 100,000-CANDLEPOWER INUSE.

WONDERLAND'S WONDERS WELLBE INFULL SWING.

TWO BANDS.

THE JUNGLE.

LORD ROBERTS says that Every Br£tisher should LEARN TO SHOOT.

Come and Learn to Shoot atTHE JUNGLE,

NEXT DOOR to the OPERA HOUSE.

Under tho Management of the Jungle^Christchurch Exhibition.

Tho Junglo is in charge of two of theFinest Shots in Australasia, who will giv«EXHIBITIONS AND INSTRUCTIONFREE to Patrons.

jTpALISKER! Is the only Whisky mad»SL iii Scotland which undergoes threodistinct distillations.,T A D I E~ Si""*-"' Attention is directed to the follow-lDg"~FREE HEALTH TALKS,Dealing with tho subject, Better Healthfor "\\ omen, illustrated .with excellentcharts, to bo given at

THE CONGREGATIONAL HALL,Courtenay-placc,

On TUESDAY AFTERNOON, the lltkinst., at 3 p.m.;also at thoVIAVI ROOMS, 1and 2, new Bank ofAustralasia, corner of Custom House-quay and Hunter-street, onFRIDAY AFTERNOON, tho 14th inst.,

At 3 p.m.Lecturess: MISS M'CALL.

ST. PAUL'S PARISH.~"

A SALE OF WORK will bo held in tho:£*:, Sydncy-streat Schoolroom onTHURSDAY, 13th December, in aid of-ho Sunday School and „KindergartenSchool.

Tho Committoo will bo grateful "forContributions to any of tho Sialis.Work and Fancy, Produce, Cako and-sweets," and Jumblo Stalls. ChristmasIreo and Afternoon Tea.

Contributions will bo received at thoschoolroom on Wednesday Afternoon audon tho morning'of tho'sale.

WELLINGTON CADET MILITARYBANDWELLINGTON CADET MILITARYBAND.Conductor, Mr. F. L. Dean.

BASIN RESERVE.A S IN RESERVE.TO-MORROW, SUNDAY,TO-MORROW, SUNDAY,

At 3.15 p.m.Members will piease note to bring their

own stands.H. A. OLIVER,

_^, . Hon. Sec.

Q<T. DAVID'S PRESBYTERIANE3 CHURCH, PETONE.TO-MORROW (SUNDAY), 9th DEC.

Special Floral Services 11 a.m., 2.30p.m., und 7.0 p.m.Distribution of Prizes at Afternoon

Service.Preacher^— Row J. M'Caw.

Organ Recital by Mr. Maughan Barnott,8 p.m., FRIDAY, 14th December.

mALISKER!— What is itV~"

JL

THEATRE ROYAL.Lessees,John Fuller and Sons.TO-NIGHT HEBDOMADAL CHANGE.Startling Programme New Artists.

1FULLER'S VAUDEVILLE COMPANY.First Appearance of:

' WILD FRIDAY,iIHE Bowie-knife Throwur, assisted by; INTREPID WILD ROSE.I MONAGHAN AND SHEEHAN,Australia's "Musical" Musicians.A. L. CROPP— Australasia's FirstA.L. CROPP— Basso, a Sterling Singer.

THE BICKNELLSIn New and Great Comedy Specialty,_-. IntroducingChampion Dancing.CONNIE BIRD— In New Life-like and,_ _ Extraordinarily Faithful Mimicry.APOLLO— The Perfect Man, in New' Classical Poses— An Artistic Reve-lation.Norman Mudford Hetty Patey

Carl Collier Arthur TauchortLewis Sisters . Bertoto SistersIn All New and Good Items.ALL NEW BIOGRAPH PICTURES.

Prices— 2s and Is. Doors, 7.15. Planas usual.

ORGAN RECITAL!

KENT-TERRACE PRESBYTERIANCHURCH,By MAUGHAN BARNETT, Esq.,

OnTUESDAY NEXT, 11th DECEMBER,

At 8 o'clock.PROGRAMME:

1. Prelude and Fugue— C-minOr (Bach)2. Lg Cygno (Saint-Saoas)3. Minuet (Handel)4. Sonata No. 3 (Mendelssohn)

"Con Moto Maestoso"—

AndantoTranquillo

5. Narcissus (Norm)6. Argels of Jcsu3 (Spinney)

Collection.7. Choral and Minuet Gothique (Boell-

mann)8. Idyl (Rheinborger)9. Improvisation.

WELLINGTONHIGHLAND RIFLESCONCERT.

NEW CENTURY HALL,Kent-terrace.

FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER,At 8 p.m.

Chairman— Mr. J. G. W. Aitken,M.H.R.Tho Wellington Banjo, Mandolin, andGuitar Club will render tho following

Selections:—"Masterstroke," "Bohemian Girl," "NewArrival," and Coontown Chimes."(Conductor, Mr. John. Turner).Quartette for Mandolin, Banjo, and

Piano—

"Montclair Gallop,'1 by MiebCairns, Messrs. Reid, Kiernan, andTurner.

Mandolin Duet by Messrs. Turner andKiernan.Xylophone Solo by Mr. J. Turner.Highland Reel by Highlanders.Sword Dance, Highland Fling, and Irish

Jig by Private W. Boyd, lato ofM'Lonnan's Troupo of InternationalDancers.

Songs, etc., by Misses M'Caull, Mitchell,Mrs. Collins, Messrs. "Jock" M'Lean(the.Popular Scotch Comedian), H.J. M'Gregor, J. R. M'Lean, and A.H. Knight.

Tickets, Is, from any member of theCorps.

A DANCE will be held at tho close ofthe Concert. Admission, includingrefresh-ments, gentlemen Is, ladies 6d.

T. H JAFFRAP,Secretary.

ELLINGTON TECHNICALSCHOOL.

THE RUBAIYAT OF OMARKHAYYAM

AndKING ROBERT OF SICDLY,

Illustrated by Magnificent LivingPicturesby- ART MEMBERS OF THE TECH-NICAL SCHOOL.

Recited 'by MISS JENNIE ARNDT toMusic arranged by MISS EDITHARNDT.

ST. PETER'S SCHOOLROOM,SATURDAY, Bth DECEMBER.

Tickets— 2s and Is.Under the arrangement of Mr. A. R.

Fraser. 'PRELIMINARY NOTICE. l

HOME RULE MEETING.

TOWN HALL.THE IRISH ENVOYS—

J. DELVJN. Eeq-. M.P., *nd J. T.DOITOVAN, Esq., LL.B.,

Will Lecture on the above Subject InTHE TOWN HALL,

Wellington,ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 21st,

At 8 p.m.

His Worship tho Mayor (Hon. T. W.Hislop) has kindly consented to tako thechair.

As Mr. DELVIN is a Great Orator,citizens desirous of hearing him shouldsecure ueats early. Owing to pressure oftime,, they can only give one lecture inWellington.

Tickets, Is. Reserved seats, 2s 6d.M. KENNEDY,

Chairman Reception Committee.BANK OF NEW ZEALAND!

NOTICE is hereby given that tho Half-yearly Gene.al Meeting of the Pro-prietors of tho Bank of New Zealand willbo hold in the Banking House, Welling-ton, onFRIDAY, tho 21st day of Decem-bor, 1906, at 11 o'clock a.m.

MR. WILLIAM WATSON has giventho necessary notice that ho is a candi-date for tho vacant seat at tho Board ofDirectors.By Order of the Board,

ALEX. MICHIE,General Manager.'Wellington, 23rd November, 1906.

OPEN-AIR SERVICES.

BASIN RESERVE.BASIN RESERVE

Undor tho auspices of the Council ofEvangelical Churches, a sories of

OPEN-AIR SERVICESWill bo hold in places of public resort.

First Open-air Service in BASIN RE-SERVE, TO-MORROW (Sunday),Oth Dceombor, commonoine- at 3 p."m.Speakers— Row Dr. Gibb and RowP. W. Fairclough.

,Tho Central Mission Band will assist.Hymn Loaflols provided. No collec-

tion. All cordially invited.J. GIBSON SMITH, Secretary.

y7m7c.X"

THIS EVENING,'at 8 o'clock,

DEVOTIONAL MEETING. Spoakcr:General Secretary.

TO-MORROW (SUNDAY), at 4 o'clock,BIBLE CLASS. Speaker: Mr. Mac-Lenan.Strangers' Toa at 5 o'clock.

WELLINGTON RACING CLUB.

SUMMER MEETING, 22nd, 241h, and26th JANUARY, 1907.

TVTOMINATIONS^for all Events at theJ-N above Meeting, cscept tho DisposalStakes, CLOSE on MONDAY, 17th DE-CEM.WSR, 1906, at 9 p.m.

1 A. E. WHYTE,I Secretary.

TOWN HALL CONCERT ROOM.

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13th,8 p.m.

A NNIVERSARY MEETINGA of the

WELLINGTON ANTI-OPIUIj: ASSO-CIATION.

o"''G. W. AITKEN, M.H.R.

REV 'J. J. NORTH AND MR.MATHERS, of Sydney.

Mr Mathers, who will bo'tho principalspeaker, will, tell us something ol his /ex-periences 111 visiting tho opium dens ofSydney. 1

The revelations ho will make of tho fear-ful evils wrought through the opium inSydney should arouso us to , our owndanger,and tho necessity of greater watch-fulness and .protection of our own sisters

Jin this colony.I Mr. Aitken will preside."picnic. picnic. picnic,

/hear employees' annual pic-Ijr NIC will bo held at Upper HuttWEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12th, 1906.

Tea', sugar, milk, and hot water pro-vided free.

Train leaves Wellington8.40 a.m. Trainleaves Petono 9.5 a.m.

Every child receives a toy. Races andBand.

Fares—

2s Adult Return; SevenpenceChildren Return. Ticketa to be had fromany of the Committee.

J. A. T. BARBER,Chairman.

T. A. RADCLIFFE,Secretary Picnic Co'mmitteo.

"TTpOR the Term of his Natural Life."£}■ 1Ho drank Talisker Whisky andwould have no other/ He's eighty now,and going strong. Ask f6r it.

RILL HALL] LOWER HUTT.MONDAY, 10th DECEMBER, 8 p.m.

Grand Entertainment in Aid of P.O.Clock Fund. Concert, followed by "Wo-men's Parliament," given by WellingtonLadies.

Prico;—

2s and Is.No. 6 CO., N.Z.E.V.(Submarine Miners.)

THE "AT HOME," SHELLY BAY.

THE ADMIRAL leaves Ferry Wharfat 2.30 TO-MORROW (Sunday), 9th

December. Return faro Is.Garrison Band in attendance.Afternoon Tea provided.

fgIALISKER! Is chipped direct fromJL tho Islo of Skye, Scotland

—the finest

whiskymado in Scotland. Ask for it.

WELLINGTON CITY COUNCDL.BY JUPP'S BAND.

(Under tho Conductorshixi of BandmasterJupp.)

TTUPP'SBAND will (weather permitting)fcF give a performance at tho NEW-TOWN PARK TO-MORROW (Sunday,the 9th inst.), at 5 o'clock.

JNO. R. PALMER,Town Clerk.

Blh December, 1906.

WELLINGTON TECHNICAL SCHOOL.

f¥THE Annual Distribution of Prizes and"*■ Certificates will tako place in St.

John's Schoolroom onTUESDAY EVEN-ING, at 7.30 p.m. Parents and Friendsare requested'to attend.

W. S LA TROBE,' Director.M. M. SLATTER,Registrar.

JOHNSONVILLE TOWN DISTRICT.NOTICE OF SPECIAL ORDER.

> A T a Special Meeting of tho Board-£a- held in tho Rechabito Hall, John-sonville, on Tuesday, tho Ist day of De-cember, the following Special Order was1H2.C10:Inpursuance and exerciso of tho powersvestedin it in that behalf by "The Muni-

cipal Corporations Act, 1900," and thoamendments thereto, tho JohnsonvilloTown Board hereby resolves, by way ofSpecial Order, that it is hereby declaredthat thestreet heretofore namedand knownas Earp-streot No.1, in tho Town Districtof Johnsonville, shall bo altered to 'andhereby is renamed BALLANCE-STREET.That it is hereby declared that the streotheretofore named and known as Earp-street No. 2, in tho Town District ofJohrtsonville, shall bo altered to and here-by is renamed TRAFALGAR-STREET.

J. W. BRAITHWAITE,Town Clerk.

And notice is hereby given that the saidResolution will be submitted to a SpecialMeeting of the said Board to be held intho Rechabito Hall, Johnsonville, onWEDNESDAY, tho 2nd day of January,1907, at 8.30 p.m., for confirmation as aSpecial Order.

Dated at Johnsonvillo this sth day ofDecember, 1906.

, " ' J. W. BRAITHWAITE,Town Clork.

JOHNSONVILLE TOWN DISTRICT.NOTICE.

OVERDUE RATES.

NOTICE is horeby givon that all Out-standing Rates on tho 31st day of

December will be sued for.J. W. BRAITHWAITE,

Town Clerk.*'JTnHE Man from Mexico" asks forA Taliekcr Whiskyevery time,andseesthat ho gets it; and so does everybody.Ask for it.

PAINTINGS OF NEW ZEALANDSCENERY.

AFTER C. N. WORSLEY, ESQ.

HAVE all tho Beauty of his originalwater colours, and aro told for

tho RIDICULOUS PRICE OF ONESHILLING EACH;a portfolio of eightfor 7s 6d; or framed for 21s. Tho Pic-tures &to 12 by 9 inches, and nothing Hkothorn has hitherto boon seen in this coun-try. No "words can adequately describetheir beauty; they must bo seen to bo ap-preciated.

THED.1.C.,SOLE AGENTS FOR WELLINGTON.

Sco Window Display.GSiptHARLIE'S Aunt" would havo no-thing but Talisker Whisky. Itwas tho tamo cry with bisters nnd cousiiiß.Ask for it.42 4242 42

GOOD WHOLESOME FRUIT,Direct from our ownorchard.

BOULTON'S, 42, Cuba-Btrot. For bestand cheapest Fruit. Tolophono2217. Wholesalo and rotail.

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"TTNCLETom's Cabin" wasnever with-*J out Taliskcr Whisky;they usod to"Eva ' Eigh when tho supply ran low.Ask for it. <

A RRIYED!— RHEO, Celebrated Amrri-lX can Palmist and Character Reador.Rhoo has mado successful tours of thoAmerican States, Canada, and Australia,und ovorywhoro been Consulted by promi-nont pooplc, and his readings declared mar-vellous, thoroughly Eciontific, and havingnothing in common, with fortune-tolling.Rhoo will remain in Wellington a FowWooks Only, ant!m-y N- coimiltod at No.16, HAWKTiSTONIMSTMSET, from 10a.m. to 8 p :*-.

WELLINGTON MEAT EXPORT COM-PANY, LIMITED.

jW-INTH ANNUAL PICNIC!Will bo held

AT UPPER HUTTOn MONDAY, 10th DECEMBER.

Sports and Amusements for young andold.

The Ferry Band has bcon engaged.Lots of Toys for tho little ones.Hot Water and Milk Free.Mr. Bould is tho only authorised photc*

grapher.Trau leaves Te Aro 8.32 a.m., Welling-

ton 8.45, Ngahauranga 9.3, Petonc 9.13,returning from Upper Hutt at 5.16 p.m.

Brakes loavo Johnsonvillo at 8.15 a.m.Adults, 2s; Children, Is.

L. P. DAVIS,Hon. Sec.

<«fTTHE Littlt. Stranger" wasn't TaliskerJL Whisky. It's well known,and soldin, overy up-to-dato hotel. Aek for it.

DANCING! DANCING!

A' GRAND SOCIAL will bo held inAlexandra Hall, Abol Smith-street

on TUESDAY, 11th Decembor, 1906.Dancing 8 till 12. Tickets Is.An. Extra Waltz for Ladies.

Music by MISSHAWTHORN.

"VTORMAL SCHOOL, THORNDON.

GRAND OPERETTA,

"FLOWERS O' THE FOREST."

SYDNEY-STREET SCHOOLROOM.WEDNESDAY, 12lh DECEMBER, 1906,

745 pm.

Front Seats, 2s. Back Seals, Is.

ttTTTTOW we Beat tho Favourite" didn't-OL refer to Talisker Whisky— it has

nover been beaten. Ask for it.

THE YOST TYPEWRITER.

fTIHE TYPEWRITER of Beautiful Workas supplied to tho N.Z. GOVERN-

MENT.

ILLUSTRATED CATALOGUES ONAPPLICATION.

YEREX, BARKER AND FINLAY,LTD.

Wellington.

HOUSE FURNISHINGS!CASH OR TERMS.

RICHARDSON BROS.' CHRISTMASPRICES-^2i yards Laco Curtains, Is 3d pair,,

Staii- Carpets 6d yard;Slip Mats, J6d each;Oilcloths, 2 yards wide, Islid;Linoleum, 2s lid;Passago Oil-cloth, Is 3d;Large Tablo Covers,83 6d, now 5s 6d;China and Japa-nese Matting, Bel yard; Stair Oil-cloth, 8d yard;Single Blankets, 5s6d pair; iJoublo Blankets, 9s 6d;Hearthrugefrom Is 9d;27in TapestryCarpels, Is9d yard;great reductionsin Brass-rail Bedsteads, Braes Fen-ders and Firs praises; DuchesseCheft, 39s;large size Duchesso Warh-Etonds, 255; Sideboards from 593;StuffedBasket Chairs, largo size,21s,Offico WashEtauds and Set of Ware,complete, 9s 6d, worth 15s; SpringRollers, 6d each;Curtain "Poles,complete Is lid;Blinds, completewith rollers ready for fixing. Is 6d;Babies' high OSairs, 5s 6d, with tray,6s9d;Folding Carpet Chairs, 5s lid;Boft English China. Cups raid Sau-cers 2s 6didoz ;5 Cako Tins for4id;Pink and Gold China Cups andSaucers, sld each:Common Cupsand Saucers, 3d;China Mugs, 3d;W. and G. Plates, 3d; China- Jugs,.4cl; Lamps from 3d;Largo SolidOak-framod Pictures, worth 2e, nowIs;Tumble^,2d each. Thousandsof Ornaments lees thanEnglish Cost.Note tho Name and Address—

RICHARDSON BROS., Complete HouseFurnishers, 115, Upper Cuba-street,OPPO3ITE THE ARMY HOME.

GREAT OPENING SALE!10th YANKEE HUSTLE SALE!10th YANKEP; HUSTLE SALE!

On Now Premises, on tho Old Location,26, WILLIS-STREET.LARGER,MORE NOVELTIES,

CUT RATE PRICES.1000 Bread Saws. Usual price,Is; HustloPrice, 5d1000 Spring Balances.. Usual price, Is;

Hustlo prico, 5d500 Torrey Razor Strops. Usual prico,

3s 6d;Hustle price, Is lid500 Leather Razor Strops. Usual prico,

Is 6d;Hustlo price, 9d5000 American 10 cent. Novols. Hustlo

prico, 3id2500 Glass Specimen Vases. Usual price,9d; Hustle price, 2gd

400 BengalHollow GroundRazors. Hustloprico, 2s 3d

350 Essex Hollow Ground Razors. Hustleprice, 2s

1000 Photo Frames, suitable for PieturoPost-cards. Hustle prioe, Id

300 Assorted PhotoFrames. Usual prioe,1b 6d;Hußtlo price, 9d

1000 tins Calvert Tooth Powdor.4 Usualprice, Is: Hustlo prjee,7d

1000 tuhes Vmolia Shaving Soap. Usual'price, Is! Hlistlo

-price, -7d3000 eakca Vinolia Toilet Soap., Usualnrice, 6d. Hustle price 3d250 E.P. Butter Knives. Usual prico, Is

6d. Hustle prico, 9d '500 Timepioc.es. Usual prico, 3s 6d;

Husllo prico, Is lid400 pairs Gold-filled Links. Usual prico,

2s 6d;Hustlo price, Is 6d200 paira Water "Wings. Usual prico, 2a

9d; Hustlo price, Is 9d500 Xylonilo and Horn Combs. Usual.

§nco;Is; Hustle price, 6dhaving Sets. Usual price, Is; Hustlo

price, 8d300 Hindo's Wire Hairbrushes. Usual

prico, Is 6d;Hustlo price, 9d50,000 Envelopes. Usual price, 3d packet;. Hustlo price, Idpacket2000 Aluminium Sharpening Stonoa. Usual

prico, 1h;Hustlo prico, 5d400 Pen, and Pencil Sots. Usual price,

Is;Huatlo price, 6d50 doz. Tablo Knivos (Xylonito handles).

Usual prico, 15s doz.;Hustlo prico,9s doz.

200 Baby Alarm Clocks. Usual prico, 6aGd;Hustle price, 3s 6d

10,000 Rolled Gold Studs. Usual price,6d each;Hustlo price, 8 for Is |

400 Lcckwood Tampa Knivos. <Usualprice, Is 6d;Huatlo price lid

10,000 Cigarettes. Usual prieo,6d packet;Hustle price, 3d

500 Writing Blocks. Usual prico, 9d;Hustlo price, 5d

200 Ansonia Piralo Alarms. Usual prico,6a 6:1;Hustlo "price, 4a lid

500 Clothes Brushes. Usual prico, Is;Hustlo prico,4id

Dixon'o Eloctro-plato Forks and SpoonsLockwood's, Humphrey's,and other makes

of Cutlery,all half usual pricesSEATON'S

10th YANKEE HUSTLE SALE,AMKRIOAN NOVELTY STORES,

I 26, WILLIS-STREET.TO BUILDERS.

ri^ENDERS aro invited until noon ofX FRIDAY, 21flt inst., for the Erortion

of Soihi-detdoiTod Housob, Roy-stroot, \Tol-lington south. Plans and,spooificationu atmy offiop.

J. S. ROWDEN, Architect.17, King'H Chambers, Willis-alroet,

Ist floor (opposito UlO lift).

LOST, this morning, a Yollow andGreen Parrot. Reward on givingwhorcabouts or returning to 65, Brough-am-strcot.■

LOST, yestorday, pair Child's Shoes,in Cuba-street. Finder pleaso leavo

Iat Pearco'*-.1300t Stor».

BEGG'S SIXPENNY EDITIONSOf

POPULAR SONGS."I'm Woaring Away my Hoart," "Man-

sion of Aching Hearts," "Down on thoFarm," "Picturo no Artist can Paint,"'■liaraoy," "Tho Shado of tho Old AppleTroo," "I Wouldn't Leave my WoodenHut, "Back to Baltimore," nnd hundredsof'othero exactly tho samo aa 2s edition.

SIXPENCEPER~COPY. Posted 7d.

BEGG'S,77* WILLIS-STREET.

TMPOUNDED at Kaiwarra, by John-L ronvillo Ranger, from botwoen John.-sonvillo and Tawn Flat, ono bay Mare,

with ehoos on, long tail, star on foreheadand thin whito glnzo down fnco, two whitohind fofil, no visiblo brand. If not claim-ed and oxponwii paid by 21st December,1906, wilt br> BOLD to n

Doi'g?jj pcIUIC'>

RoundUjCipoii.lxAiw»rr». j

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 8. 1906.7

WEDISTESDAT, 12th DECEMBER, 1906.At 2 30 p.m.

SPLENDID FIVE-KOOIIED DWEL-LINGHOUSE ON LEVEL SECTION,

KUSSELL-TERKACE.

■JI/ITESSRS. J. H.BETHUNE AND CO.ItJL havebeen favoured with instructionsto soil " by Auction, at their rooms,Feathcraton-streel, as above

—Freehold Allotment, part of Section No.1094, Wellington,having a frontage

of 33ft to Russell-lciTaco by a depththerefrom of 100ft (both moro orlc=s), together with Iho speciallywell-built dwellinghou'so, No. 55,Russeil-terraco thei'oon, containing 5large and lofty rooms, with hall,front and back verandahs, bay win-dow, scullery, copper, and tubs.

Tho above well-situated residence, which,is beside tho corner of Edinburgh-terrace,is ono of the most up-to-dato and well-finished- houses in tho locality. Tho yardand paths aro asphalted," and everything"isin first-class order. c"

JTor key to view and terms, apply' J. H.BETHUNE AN 0 CO.,____^ Auctioneers.

WEDNESDAY, 23rd JANUABY, 1907.A£ 2.30 p.m.

I "

I IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTTO MERCHANTS, FINANCIAL COM-

PANIES, "INSURANCE COM-PANIES, TRUSTEES, and INVES-TORS.

|THEMOST CENTHALLY-SITUATED EKEEHOLDPROPERTIES IN THE

| CITY op WELLINGTON.

Within 50 yards of tho G.P.O. and 100yards of the Queen's Wharf.

ABSOLUTELY THE ONLY FREE-HOLD AVAILABLE WITHIN THEABOVERADIUS. „

TWO MAGNIFICENT BUSINESSBLOCKS INCUSTOMHOUSE-QUAY.

MESSRS. J. H.BETHUKE AND CO.r' (in conjunctionwith MESSRS. W.

H. MORRAH AND CO.) aro favouredwith instructions from the Bank of Aus-tralasia to soil bypublic auction, at theirRooms, Featherston-streel, on WEDNES-DAY, 25rd JANUARY, 1907, at 2.30 p.m.

LOT. I.— FREEHOLD ALLOTMENTSNo3. 61 and 62, RECLAIMEDLAND, Wellington, having a totalFrontage to Customhouse-quay of80ft by a depth therefrom of 65ft(both more or lees), adjoining thePier Hotel on the Northernsido andtho Offices of the A.M.P. Society onthe Southern, together with tho well-known two-story Building construct-ed of Australian andBaltic Timber,for many years occupied by thoLocal Head Office and Branch of thoBank of Australasia. I

iThe above SPLENDIDLY-SITUATED j

PROPERTY is within 50 yards of the jGeneral PGSt Office, and 100 yards of theQueenV Wharf, and in tho HEART OFTHEBUSINESS AREA OF WELLING-TON. Land in tho vicinity will probablynever again bo offered for public competi-tion, tho few Freehold Sites being so firm-lyheld, and tho Land on the opposite sidoof tho street being under tho Glasgow-Perpetual

tLeasehold System.

LOT 2— THATMAGNIFICENTFREE-HOLD BUSINESS SITE, beingAl-lotment No. 2*, Reclaimed LandWellington,havinga frontage of 30ftto Customhouse-quay by ai depththerefrom of 86ft 9in (bothmoro or less), adjoining thenew Bank of NAustralasia on thoNorthern "side, together with thetwo-story Buildingthoreon,known as"Bank Chambers," the 'frontagobo-ing built of timber, and balance asubstantial brick building,ia^the oc-cupation of tenants. >

The above CENTRAL PROPERTY isdistant 75 yards from Lot1, andisoppositetho handsome premises of the NationalMutual Life Association of Australasia. Itis an ideal site for a Financial or Insur-anco Company, being close to the junc-tion of Customhouse-quay, Lambton-quay,and Willis-street.

At very small cost the wooden portionof tho present bliilding oa the frontagocould borebuilt in stone or brick, making,with the-brick building now on tho land,splendid modern business premises, anddoubling tho rentals received, which arenow £416 per annum.

TERMS OF SALE.10 por Cent. Cash Deposit on tho fall

of the Hammer15 por Cont. within 3 Months10 per Cent, in 6 Months.Tho Balaneo of 65 per Cent, may re-

main on aMortgago for threo or fivoyears, the Purohaser to have thoright to pay tho wholo amount at anytime. Interest onUnpaidPurchase Moneyto bo at 4i per Cent, por annum from23rd February, 1907. Possession, will bogiven on payment of 25 per cent, of thototal purchase money. The Purchasers,however, will havo th» right in tho alter-native to pay tho Balance of 90 per cent,in"3 Months, with interest from 23rdFebruary, 1907, at 4^ por cont.

ThePurchaser of Lot 2 will be creditedwith the Rents roceived from" 23rd Febru-ary, 1907, until possession is given.

For Conditions of Sale and FurthorInformation, apply to tho Bank's Solici-tors, "

MESSRS. BRANDON, HISLOP, AND:JOHNSTON,

Foatherston-street, Wellington,Or to Iho Joint Auctioneers, (

J. H. BETHUNE AND CO.,Feathcrston-street,

AndW. H. MORRAH AND CO.,

Willis-Btroet, Wellington.Wellington.

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SAUSFIELD, CROFTON.

THE CHEAPEST LAND INTHEMARKET.

WE aro now instructed to sell tho ro-uuiindor of tho Sections in tho

above subdivision at the followingprices—

Section, a.r.p.No. 3—o 113, 70ft frontage;prioo £60No. 6—o 128, 69ft frontago;prioo £65No. 7—o 131, 65ft frontage; prico £T0No. B—o 139, 350ft frontage;price £100No.11—0 115. 66ft frontngo, prico £55No. 12-0 116, bail frontage; price, £65

Thoso price: will remain open untilMONDAY, 17thDecember. Terms excep-tionally easy. Get plans fromJ. H. BETHUNE and CO., Auctioneers."

I'NEW ZEALAND"!WMfW^pM - TAILOR -CUT

Ib^ftld suits.BEADY TO WI3AE, Kg1(1 TWEED

EEADT TO WEAE, K_~/ SEEGE00/"EEADT TO WEAK, O/A /_ \7OBSTED

LATEST OUT AND BEST MATERIAL.WE INVITEINSPECTION. /

57, LAMBTON-QTJAY.

Tho D.I.C, whan necessary, will arrange furnishingtransactions on Special Easy Terms.

Comnlete 4.ROOMED COTTAGES, furnished through.vuuipicic " , ,outi with goods of rdiable . afc £ he

HntfCP Vurnivhitur 8.1.C. for £37 10/- eachnOUSe FUrmSnmg 5.ROOMED COTTAGES, furnished through-AT THE out with artlcles of good quality, at the1 UL D.I.C. for £59 10/- eachYT~*\ ¥ tiT** 6-ROOMED COTTAGES, furnished through.

I J? _fS (ik^ V out w'tn articles of superior quality,at theJL-^" ®BL ® y^SB/O D.I.C. for £99 15/- each'

:^=^^^^ljl^^—-— —

Estimates for complete orpartial Mouse Fur-—nishing supplied free on application.

. Without Disturbing CapitalThere is only oneprice at the D.I.C, which is marked in plain figures oneach article. No alteration in price is made when terms are arranged,,,

CHINA AND GLASS DEPARTMENT.

DINNER WARE.STOCK PATTERN, 36-piece set, Peerless White, for 25/6:61-piece set 40/-TUDOR COREA DINNER SET,Dark Blue, 36 pieces for30/., 61 pieces for 47/6.DINNER SETS— A large stock to select from. 36-piece sets, 21/-, 25/-, 27/6 to

35/- the set.TEA WARE;

21-piece TEA SET, White and Gold, for 8/6 the set. 40-piece TEA SET,White and Gold, for 14/9 the set. Dark Blue Mazarine Band 21-piece TEASET for 15/- Dark Blue MazarineBand 40-piece TEA SETfor 25/-TEA SETS (in endless variety), 40 pieces, 17/6, 18/6, 20/- to 30/-TOILET WARE.

6-piece CoveredSOAPPRINTED TOILET SETS, at 12/6 and 14/6 set.6-piece CoveredSOA,P WHITE AND GOLD TOILET SETS at W- the set.A splendid line of PRINTED AND DECORATED TOILETS to select from.

A splendid line, similar to Illustration, j^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^_4/6 each. White^RibbonFlower Pots,

Some lovely designs to select from, at

"^S> iw €>> Brown Rockingham TEA POTS, Bd,A\ y^^^S^^gss^^^Si\ ted TEA POTS at 1/-, 1/6 and 2/-\ \ f if fh fr uf^tf m each. Langley Ware TEA POTS,

V«M "I«yiCjiaiiSillS3c£1 «yiCjiaiiSillS3c£ "M M i/3. 1/6, 2/- to 3/- each. Fancy TEA

GLASS WARE<TUMBLERS, half-pint, fern pattern, a4a4

abi'

4/-perdozen. TUMBLERS,fluted andPlain, at 46, 5/6, 6j6 to 8/6 per dozen.

GLASS FLOWER BOWLS BEDROOM BOTTLES and GLASSESAND TUBES at iod.,1/-, 1/3 each. GLASSWATER

JUGS at 1/-, 1/6 to 3/6each. PICKLEWe have a largerange of these to select JARS, iod., 1/-, 1/3 to 3/6 each. Glass

fromat 4d., 6d., 8d.,"i0d., i/- each. SALT-CELLARS, 6d., 9d., 1/- each.Glass JAM DISHES,4d., 6d., Bd., iod.,1/- each.

IRONMONGERY .. . iiWkDEPARTMENT*.Light Brass Rail Fenders, 12,6, 15/-,

HeavyBrass Rail Fenders, 22/6, 26/-, pV\-"':"^'l^^^^T^ijSf^^SaPBlacK" and Copper Fenders, 17/6,

STEEL RAIL FENDERS,Suitable for Bedrooms, 7/-, 8/-, and

Mr3. Potts' ier*(jfi££ -fesssa

prices.~

Full Stocks of—

E P WARE, CASE GOODS, BRUSHWARE, TINWARE,ENAMELWARE, LAMPWARE, Etc.,

at Moderate Prices.

At the....JD«l«^>« ..Wellington.Warehouse Closed to=day (Saturday),at 1p.m.

f^Old Sai?ta Claog.J^^WB Old Santa Claits, ■withne'erapause, has workedboth dayandnight at

T° make these toysforgirls andboys whotry to do what'sright. §|§9| Thejollyelfis herehimself, 'midst allhis queercreations, Jjpgjjjj Andhisquick ear issure to hear yourwhisperedexpectations. jffi

■D What excitement when out from the big packing cases in fSu1 WS which they travelled all the way from Sonneberg— the Home of IBsQ£J Dolls, among the German mountains— stepped the cutest little finS|g| Dolls imaginable^ They have came in company with their big JgaB3 - brothers and sisters. They have golden curls or raventresses,,and .Sgß

BH ■ dimpled, smilingfaces. Though'sorneof fhemare Germany they T''KBBB have learned English, and say papa arid mama, and they keep £SMS awake or go to sleep. And there's some China Dolls that are §nggg washable, and some NiggerDolls that don't want washing. |JbJ9 . TheChinaFace Dollsare 9d, 1/-,'l/3,1/6, 2/-,2/6 11BS Pretty Wax Dolls,9d,1/-,2/-,3/- Sgi888 For2/6 youcanget aTalkingand Sleeping Doll, I2in. high gSS|H F°r 3/6you canget aTalking and Sleeping Doll, ijin.high KEHgj Then there are some Lovely Dolls, dressed in the newest §§§fH fashion, and nearly lifesize, at 5/- to 25,'- Kg"B9 SPEClAL.— Dancing Sailor-Boy Dolls, at 1/ each fflfS Dolls' Cradles, 2/6 to 6/6 each KBIS Dolls' Prams, interchangeable into Chairs, 2/- to 3/8 k|JeS| Dolls' Go-Carts andPrams,highly finished, and with rubber fli■B tyres, 8/6 to 21/- ' Sg]£m Tea Sets, inenamel,3/- to 4/-;Tea Sets, in china, 2/- to 3/- ffllSO MECHANICALTOYS for all thegood boys.— Motor-Cars, BgjBH a really grandlot, 2/6 to35/-;Engines,.Trains, etc.

'H«HI SHIP AHOY!SailingCraft of every kind,from a Fishing RS9■B Smack to a beautiful Model of modern Yacht Sham 8wHE rock 3rd, 2/- to 21/- , M

f^j Lifeboats, Gigs,Pinnaces, Skiffs, etc., 1/- to 5/- £§ygm Skin-covered Horses, with real mane and tail, saddled aril B&.ijjj^ .... ,Q/ft «*«** KflSBjgj Beechwood Horses and Beechwood Horses and Carts, 21- si A

|sj Single articles and full sets of Cricket Material, from 2/- ||HH - BuildingBlocks, Buckets,"Spades, Trumpets, etc., all kinds (§!

HM Santa Claus andeveryoneelse finds uswonderfully helpful ip IffMH getting things ready for Christmas. Here are the ,broadest B§fH| choicest stock of holiday goods to be found anywhere,roomy con- {Rfflgg venient,and comfortable store,and efficient and courteous sales- §gi

TeArc House,

J^ACDONALD, WILSONAND CO.,

No. B*. LAMBTON-QUAY.SPECIAL PROPERTIES FOR SALE:WILLIS-STREET— Houso of 6 rooms and

tcullory, land 27ft by 116ft; a finoposition; prico £1600. 2911

WALLACE-STREET— S rooms, on onofloor, land 38ft by 105ft; terms a.v-rariged. Prico £1000. 2944

WELLINGTON-TPJRRACE— House of 5rooms, land 40ft frontage, cornpr.Prico £1000. 2945CLIFTON-TERRACE — Corner buildingsection, 33ft by 100;price £550. a256

THORNDON— Good 8-roomed residence,with every convenience; land 37ft by90ft; prico £1500. . 2863

BERHAMPORE— SpIendidbrick 6 roomsand all conveniences;cash £100 ;price£700. " 2940

KILBIRNIE (near tho sea)— Cheapest 6-romed houso in tho district ;cost, £600to build;good section;price £700.

2777KILBIRNIE (Moxham-avonue)— 4 roomsand con., land 36ft by 100ft; nialcogood chop;tram route;terms;m-ico£675. 2957VOGELTOWN— A good spec, twelve sec-tions, long frontagos to threo streets,nearly 3 acres. Price £1550. 2926NORTHLAND— Fino now houso of 4-rooms, good section, cash £100 ;priced£620. 2950

LOWER HUTT (near station) Fino B-roomed residence, good outbuildings,tennis court and gardens,land over anacre, well planted; terms; prico£1500. 2902

EAST & EAS T,WELLINGTON

ANDCHRISTOHURCH.

SPECIAL PROPERTIES,

MOUNT VICTORIA— B-roomed House,with overy convenience, on land 20ft6in by 103f t; let at 23s per week to agood tenant; Prico £650 ; cash re-quired £100.

CROFTON— Best Section in this finosuburb, perfectly level, and only throominutes from the station;nearly £Acre, with 115ft frontage. Prico £300.

JOHNSONVnjDE— Good i-Acro Sectionin, town;66ft frontage;fenced;priceonly £80. Cash required, £45.

OWEN-STREET—

7-roomed Residence,with every modern convenience, onland 40 by 130ft; insured for £650;let at £65 per annum. Prico £950.

CHASE-MOREIS & CO.,AUCTIONEERS,

LAND AND COMMISSION AGENTSAND SHAREBROKERS,

TEMPORARY OFFICES:SOUTH BRITISH INSURANCE

BUILDINGS,27, LAMBTON-QUjAY.

FOR SALE— Lower Hutt, 10 minutesfrom railway station, 1aoro 25 perches,good house, 8 rooms and bathroom,garden and tennis court. Suitable forsubdivision.

FOR SALE.— One of tho finest and bestappointed country Homes in NowZealand;51 acros first-class land;15rooms.; largo stable and other out-buildings; Vinery; 8 acres orchard,and all tho appurtonances of a gentlo-man's rcsidonco. Pricq reasonable.

GOOD SHEEP RUN, about 11,165 AcresFreehold, 2100 Acres Leasehold;allfoiled with tho exception of 2000Acre?; well fenced and subdivided,and watered by permanent streams.Buildingsconsist of Houso of 13 rooms,with artesian water laid on;also soyo-ral men's cottageß, woolsheds contain-ing 8 shearing machines and a sixhorse-p^oweroilengine, [tables, granary,etc. Carrying capacity over 2 sheepper acre, besides over 1200

'head ofcattlo and 70 horses. Prico, £10 peracre for freehold, leasehold thrown in,nt an average rent of 5s per acre.Stock can be taken at valuation, ifrequired.

FOR SALE— Wainui-o-mala, 8 miles fromLower Hutt Railway Station, 7G7Acres, 200 acres of which is a splen-did shelter bush; carrying capacityone sheep por aero. Purchase prico£2511, loss £900 duo September, 1907,oqvial to £2 2s por aero. Terms one-half cash.

CHASE-MORRIS & CO.Postal Address— Box 132, Wellington.

TolepUono 2459.

PAUATA AND CO.,LAND AND ESTATE AGENTS,

106, Lambton-quay,HAVE FOR SALE—

6 rooms,Borhampore £5506 rooms, Northland £5506 rooms, Aro-strcet £6506 rooms, Roaeneath £7256 rooms, Coromnndcl-street £7506 rooms,Potono £7506 rooms,Lower Hutt i £8006 rooms, Stanloy-stroefc £8256 rooms,laland Bay £9006 rooms, Hawker-street £10007 rooms,Aro-atroet £750

JOHNSONVILLE— S-roomed Housoandscullery, over li aores land (lovel), goodwater supply, 1 minuto from station;room for 6 houses. Prico £725 ; £250 cashrequirod.

5000 ACRES, Waikato, near Cambridge,partly improved, good buggy roads, P.O.and crcamory closo by; first-class quality,rosombling tho beßt Hawkcs Bay fernland; free from tcatroo, gorse, briar, orother noxious woods; watered by runningstreams; tho land comprises low hills,flats, all ploughabloexcopt 1500 acres lightbush;500 acres grassed and cultivated;land takes all kinds of English grasses andolovors splendidly. Adjoining property,which is improved, grows eplondid cropsturnipß, oats, potatoes;and £12 acre isask-ed for it;now 6-roomod house, shods,,yards, etc. , Cheap property. With littlomono^ spent onit\ would fetch over fourtimes its present value. Prico only £2 10spor acre. Easy terms.

OUALTER,DYKES& CO.AUCTIONEERS, SHAREBROKERS,

FEATHERBTON-STREET.Wollington-terraco 8 rooms £2500Wollington-torraoo 9 rooms £2200Wollington-tirraoo 9 ropms £2000Wellingfcon-terraeo fi rooms £2600Vollington-ter., able. soc. 9 roomß £4000Wellington-torraoo 14 rooms £4250Wollington-terraco 14 rooms £4500Wellington-torraco 16 rooms £13,000Mount-stroet 6 rooms £1500Boulcott-torraoa 6 rooms £1750Siovorston-torrace 7 rooms £1500Botanical Gardens (by) 10 rooms £2800Kolburno 6 rooms £1100Murphy-gtroot 7 rooms £800Sydney-street, shop,stablo 4 rooms £850Portland-crescent 8 rooms £1550Tinalcori-road, 3 houses,oa 6 rooms £2200Tinakori-rd., grnd.rent £14 5 rooms £450Tinakori-road 10 rooms £1950Hobion-streot 8 rooms £2200Grant-road 9 rooms £1540Quoon's-torraco 7 rooms £1150Kolburno, lovel eoc, viow,by tram £400Goldio's Brao, do, do £525Bolton-stroet, do, do £1000Aitken-strcot, do, do £%0

WANTED, Buyer for Victor Bicycle,"No. 3385, overhauled and uuamol-

Ifd;suilablo niivchino V'r workiug man;abargaiu at £6 ;terms arranged. Adams,

Morcer-tl; et.

FRI&AYi 14tb. 1?0&4

At 1.30,p.m.

Estate of tho lato Dr. Knight.

AUCTION SALE OF A FAMOUSLIBRARY.

MESSRS. J. H. BETHUNE AND CO.havo been instructed to sell, atrthei*rooms, Featlierstan-stvcet,*&,ab~bve^-. ■ ■ -t

Tho Library of the Into Dr. Knight;which includes many rare '"and in-teresting- old New Zealand-books,scientific works, Transactions of theNew Zealand Institute, Transitionsand Journal of the Linnean, Buller'aBirds, Hooker's New Zealand Flora,Maori Dictionary and Bible, OldNow

rZealand, Hockstetter'B New-Zealand, Hurstliouse's New Ply-

mouth, White's " Ancient History ofthe, Maori, rare- New ZeaJandi'Pamphlets, books on law, medicine,mechanics, botany," zoology,'Includ-ing tho works of Leighton, Kutzing,Ji-oerber,FJoerkc,,Frjesi^BentKaaß," Jg.M. Bailey, Acharius, - Nylander,Masalongo, Lindley, and others.,

'"Catalogues are now ready, and will-bo,posted to any address. »,-rTho books are now on view. " - "

J. H. BETHUNE AND CO., s" ' -Auctioneers,

PRELIMINARYNOTICE.'

WEDNESDAY, 19th DECEMBER, 1906,At 2 p.m.

HIGH-CLASS HOUSEHOLD FURNI-TURE,At the Residence, No. 89a,'Broueham.-st.TfyTESSRS. J. H.BETHUNE AND Co!'■"■*" have been favoured with' instructionsfrom James Bee, Esq., who is leaving thecolony, to sell by auction, as above— '

Tho WHOLE of his HOUSEHOLD-FURNITURE and APPOINT-MENTS. ■ -.Particulars in future advertisement.Cataloguesnow" being prepared.MONDAY, 10th.DECEMBER, 1906,

At 2 o'clock.100 FRENCH AND ITALIAN 10li100 BEDSTEADS " 100100 And,CHILDREN'S COTS. 100iSOME OF THE HANDSOMEST BEIXSTEADS EVER SEEN IN WEL-LINGTON.

MESSRS., W. F. SHORTT, LTD:,havebeen favoured with instructionsfrom the holders of tho bill of lading' tosell at their rooms, Willis^street, as abo '6— <

vLot 1.— Handsomo 2iupillar all-brass Ital-

ianbedstead of massive and ixquisiiodesign

Lot 2.— Elaborate 2iu pillar black .aadbrass Italian bedstead, elaboratsly fin.Bhed and »f the very latest designLot 3.— Heavy- 2in pillar all-brass Italianbedstead * ,

Lot 4.— 6 very handsome brass-mounted2in pillar French bedsteads, all thisyear's designs

Lot 5.— 6 versr superior 2in, pillar French.bedsteads with all-brass frontsLot 6.

—9 massive braes-mounted French.bedsteads, inlaid with mother of pearl

Lot 7.— 20 superior brass-mounted Frenchbedsteads -^

Lot 8.— 7 children's heavy brass-mounted'> ■cots with drop sidesLot 9.

—10 "heavy brass-mounted children's

cots with extendedrail /Lot 10.— 6 extra strong plain iron chil-

dren's cotsLot 11.

—6 folding chair bedsteads

Lot 12.— 24 hospital bedsteads, with wiremattresses complete.

These bedsteads are without a, doubt thefinest assortment ever seen in Wellingtonin one lot, and as it is impossible to de-scribe those goods in this advertisement aSPECIAL GASLIGHT DISPLAY WILLBE HELD ON.SATURDAY-NIGHT.

CLEARING SAT/E OF HOUSEHOLDFURNITURE AND EFFECTS.

On tho Premises, 11, Kent-terraoe."MONDAY NEXT, 10th. December. 1906,

At 1.30 p.m.

A NYON AND DYSON havo received-CjL instructions, under Bill of Sale, .tosell as above, tho whole of the contentsof aneight-roomed House, on the Premises,11, Kent-terrace, comprising

—Diningroom table,, couch, chairs,.chif-

fonier, kitchen table, chairs, clock, ironbedsteads, wire mattresses, chest drawers,looking glasses,bedroom choirs and tables,toilet ware, crockery, saucepans.

Goods on view morning of sale._^ NO-RESERVE. .

MONDAY, 10th DECEMBER, 1906*"At 2.30 o'clock.' . "" ■

, IN THE FRUIT MARKET,"" * -( ■ ALLEN-STREET.

GENUINE UNRESERVED SALE OHMERCERY AND HOSD3RY.

'

mOWNSEND ANDPAUL, LTD.j hm-a- bcou instructed by" the CommercialAgency Company,Ltd., to sell at auction,as above

— - _ — '_."'"

The wEole of the oontenti-of'Vider*eer'a shop, comlmfiingp-' H "''_

Men'sbats and capsofall descriptions,shirts, pyjamas,< undefclothinc,socks, collars, braces, bolts, hand-kerchiefs (linen and ailk)^ -ties,bows, straps, brushes, link?,,s^uds,umbrellas,, and numerous otherlinos'. .' r "\ .'_' ""-

'NOTE.— AH' these 'goods '«e ;uf th&verybest quality, and' our instructions wo"todear to best advantage. . ""),'IZ.

JOHNSONVILLE SALETARDfe. \ <

TUESDAY, lIth~DECEMBER, 10067» Sale at 11o'clock.

ABRAHAM.AND~WILLIAMS, LTD.,-£jl sell usabove^

—61primobullocks' ....

120 prime wothors120 primo ewes60 primesheep ~

KILBIRNIE TUNNEL

BRINGS WITHIN TEN MINUTESof tho G.P.O. the weltknowo

HATAITAI ESTATE/\

Tho Electrio Tram will be runningithrough the tunnel in February, when the-next

-HATAITAI AUCTION

will be held.

Consider thest facto 'before buying: else-where.

HAFTAITAI provides Ihe most centralavailable building land in Wellington. '

Actual tram time from G.P.O. to mouthof tunnel is. 7minutes.

VT. £. TORNBKLL and CO., "

'Auctioneers, '

S, Pimama-street,

CRAIG & CO.,J4 Manners Street,

You'll be replenishing for Xmas or looking fordainty useful presents. We're thoroughly prepared foryou,and wouldspecially inviteyouto-day^ to call and seethebeautiful selection wehave just opened up of

■ " - ■ ' ■ l^O CNP-..—

■...»

NEWEST WEDGWOOD CREATIONS,IN TEAPOTS, HOT-WATER JUGS, SUGAR BASINS,

CREAM JUGS, TRINKET BOXES, Etc.Also something particularlypleasing and charming in

—LOVELY TOILET SETS.

New ideas indesign and decoration at surprisingly low prices. There aregifts todelight the most fastidious,gifts to suit every taste and everypurse.

DOUBLE YOUR MONEYSURELY AND QUICKLY.

T ANOASTEB ESTATE, KARORI.WELLINGTON SUBURBAN REAL

ESTATE ISTHE GREAT MONEY-MAKING OPPORTUNITY OF. TO-DAY.Nearly Every Wealthy Man counts tho

beginning of hi^ Financial Success fromtho Day ho investedin REAL ESTATE.In no other City of Iho Colony has

REAL ESTATE SO RAPIDLY OR SOQUICKLY INCREASED IN VALUE.

Every Real Estate Expert who hasgiven ihe subject any study whatever willtell you that tho tremendous and rapidgrowth of Wellington can result in butone thing— A CROWDING OUT OFTHEMULTITUDE AND A RUSH TO THESUBURBS.

These Facts arc solf-evident. It doesnot need any Wiseacre to tell you so.You now havo Iho opportunity to Buyin Karori— WELLINGTON'S BEST ANDMOST SELECT SUBURB.

THELANCASTER ESTATE

has jmtbeen subdivided, and you can ob-*tain Residential Sections in this Do-

lightfulLocality at tv prico far andaway below prices at presentruling in any other Suburb

in the City.'AT THE PRICE OFFERED YOUWILL BE ABLE TO DOUBLE YOORMONEY SAFELY AND QUICKLY.Remember tho Trams will pass right

through tliia Estate, while tho RecreationGrounds adjoin Iho land.If you have a Littlo Money, BUY INLANCASTER ESTATE, KABORI.You will be Buying Wisely and Judi-

ciously.Do not Miss this Golden Opportunity.PromptAction will mean Sure Profits.

Call to-day and boo tho Plans.Inspect tho Land.THEN BUY.

You will not regrot it.

THOMSON & BROWN,REAL ESTATE AGENTS,

HUNTER-STREET.(SOLE AGENTS.)

Qm S. HILL & CO.,LAND AND FINANCIALAGENTS,8, King's Chambers, Willis-street.

Telephone 2456.KHANDALLAH—IiAero and 6 rooms,

built of totura, electric light, groundslaid out and planted, handsomo fern-ory on banks of stream, 2 frontages;good spco for subdivision;handy tostation and well eholtercd;tho pickof Khandallch. £1500 ; owner leav-ing;n'bargain;easy terms.

85ACRES, PARAPARAUMU, ManawatuLino;winters 35 cattlo, 80 sheep, and2 horses;5-roomed house andbuilding.£16 per aero.

CAMBRIDGE-TERRACE— 7 Roomß, 1floor, 45 x 140ft; splendid site forbuilder, carrici, or cab proprietor.£1850; terms.

THOKNDON (closo to Park-street)— Su-bstantial Villa, 6 rooms, hot water andgas service; land 4? x 95ft. £1060;terms.

HOME-STREET— Good 6-roomad Houso;electric light and gaa service;handyand quiet position. £1050.

ARO-STREET— 6 Rooms, new, 1 floor;land 43 x176ft. £800; only £100 cashwanted.

16 ONLY 1GSections loft out of 61 Sites on the Plan

of

BERHAMPORE.

rff\HE advantages of this locality aro pro-A claimed by

45 , PEOPLE, 45who havo backed their good opinions bypurchasing Soctions and building healthy,comfortablehomes on them.

Adelaide-road Frontage. Actual tramdistance from G.P.O. is 15 MINUTES.

Easy terms. Interest 5 per cont.

Send for plan and particulars to

WILLIAM H. TURNBULL AND CO.,3, Panama-street.

W. H. MORRAH & CO.,LAND AGENTS & AUCTIONEERS,

54 AND 66, WDLLIS-STREET.Tclephono No. 10.

CHEAP PROPERTIES NEAR TRAMS.

VICTORIA-TERRACE, Brooklyn— s Sec-tions, oach about 53 -x 150ft. £265each; cheapest soctions in district.

CROFjION (clobb to station)— B2ft x 132.£200; gentle slope.FITCHETT TOWN— S Rooms and corner

Section, 170 x 134ft, cheap. £700.HATAITAIr-Good Building Block, la

3r 19p, double frontago, £2275 ;also,on Tram Line, 64 x 200ft, level, £85s ft.

JOHNSONVILLE— i-acro Section, level,3 minutes from railway station. Cheapnt £160.

KARORI— Main-road)— 2i Acron by thoschool, bargain £800; 1Acre, lovel,Macdonald-stroet, £750; i-acre level,Victoria-strcot, £185 ;i-acro, Parkvalo-road, £200. Cheapest in district.

KELBURNE (Contral-terrace)— 2 lovelSections, porfect views, cheap; £550oach. Grove-road

—42 x 121, good cite,

£280.KARAKA BAY (opp-wharf)— i-Acro Sec-

tions onhill, closo to boach, easy ac-cess. Cheap, £200 each.

KHANDALLAH— lr 13p, good houso site,near station, £350 ;la 2r 23p, £650tho lot; and half-way to Crofton, iAcre, corner section, £105.

KILBIRNIE— 4 Rooms, near tram, 40 x145ft, £500 ;5 Rooms, near tram, 34 x109ft, £595 ;Section,42 x130ft, £305

SEATOUN (opp. wharf, on hill, practi-cally fla^ for building on)

—iAero,

£200; iAero, £200; A Acre, £160;Corner Block, 92 x 117, on boach,£950 ;on flat, opposite) wharf, Soctionsoach 40 x 80;prico £240 each.

Those are only a fow of thopo we havofor galo. Call on us re others.

Bond for our Property List (froo).

"OECOME YOUR OWN LANDLORD.ISLAND BAY (sunny side)— s-roomed

Houso, h. and c. water, gao, wardrobes,linen press, otc.;land 40 x 150;deposit£50, balaneo at £1 week. Prico £750;inspection invitod.

BOXHILL— S Rooms, grand viow. Price£600 ;deposit £50, balance 15» wock.

BROOKLYN— 4 Rooms;land 33 x 165.Prico x£4so;x£4so ;deposit £25, balance 153 wook.

KARORI— 5 Rooms,goodposition. Prico£600 ;deposit £25, balaneo at 15s.

W» also havo Scctioes at Brooklyn andlaland Bay upon which wo will build to■uit clients. Wo will aUo build houses forclionU on their own land

tmid find tho

nccossary monoy. Full particular atF. AND W. FERKINS,

Arohiteots, Builders, and Financiers.GHUZNEE-ST. and VIOTORIA-PLAOE.

Wellington.CHEAP PROPERTIES.

~

TTtOR SALE, aloMs Manawatu line, SnoopX? and Dairy iarmi, Rosidencoi, otcApply

BENNETT AND ATKINS,Land uad Commission Agents, Qlaki'■T-avinebia,

B. QOLDWATER,Watghmaker, Jeweller,

♥and Diamondgetter^ "BEGS to announce that he has REMOVED to

* 37, CUBA STREET,Next Shand's, Bookseller,

with an entirely new stock of Electroplate, Solid Silverware, Goldand Silver Brooches, Bangles,Hatpins,Plain andJewelled Ladies' andGentlemen's Gold and Silver Watches, Chains, Far-rings, and aSuperior lot of Trinkets suitable for

Xma<s Presents.Diamonds, Emeralds, Rubies,and otherprecious stones for rings,

brooches,chains, and bangles.

EVERY LADY WHO LOVES A

BARGAINMUST COME TO OUR. . . .

Goftpulsory Clearance Sale.This week we place on sale a further list of tremendous

bargainswhich should fill ourstore with an army of shoppers.All our ready-to-wearHATS worthup to 7/6

nowclearingat sale pricesBeautiful MUSLIN and CAMBRIC BLOUSES, worthup to 7/6

Now at2/6and3/6 eachDaintywhitelaceand embroideryTRIMMED UNDERSKIRTSA 3/6, 4/6,5/6, 7/6, 10/6 eachSeamless all-woolplainblack CASHMERE HOSE, 1/3 quality

Now 2pair for 1/9Lovely LACE PLASTRONS, in honiton, edelweiss, and point

lace Sale prices 2/6and36eachWorth 3/11 and 5/6

DRAPERY SUPPET ASSOCIATIONCUBA STREET.

\ POLLINARIS, Apollinaris.— ProfessorJr\. Virchow says:—"Its richness in pureC'arbonio Acid favouraWv- distinguwUci itiroOT all o'hn sfincn.l W!»t»rr."

WHITEBAIT, don't wait to cut headsand tails off. 81. George Whitebait

m d&inty, tootlusome, and, fresh. Ask. forit fti lunch*

FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER, 1906,At 2.30 p.m.

EXCEPTIONAL OPPORTUNITY FORINVESTORS, TRUSTEES, ANDOTHERS.

AUCTION SALEOf

VALUABLE CITY FREEHOLD! PROPERTY.

CUBA-STREET. , CUBA-STREET.

IN THE HEART OF THE BESTRETAIL BUSINESS THOROUGH-

FARE.

MESSRS. HARCOURT AND CO. havobeen instructed by tho Executors

under the will of Iho lato Hon. G. Si.Waterhouse, to sell by public auction, attheir Rooms, 46, Lambton-quay, on FRI-DAY, 14th clay of December, 1906, at 2.30Pm.

—THAT SPLENDID FREEHOLD

BUSINESS PROPERTY, situatedin CUBA-STREET,m the City of■Wellington, having a frontage of58 feet 1inch, by a depth of 159fcot 1 inch, containing 34 perches

/ ■ (moro or less), and being part ofTown Acre 178, also the land atrear of and adjacent to tho former,being 37 feet by 117 feet 1 inch,containing 15J porches with 12foot right-of-way to Dison-street,and being part of TownAcre176,together with the three two-storyBrick Shops orected on the landfronting Cuba-street, at presentsubject to leases of seven yearsfrom September, 1906, to Chris-topher Smith and Lancelot Abra-

"ham George, at a gross rental of£576 per annum.

o, 37ft~

15Sfj

J EsSta C.SMITH

X.LINDSAY W

: |2,

TE AEO HOUSE |

DIXON STEEET

■Tho "value of this property cannot wellbo oYor-eatimated. It is situated on thewest side of Cuba-street, which is un-doubtedly,the b,eßt side of this busy thor-oughfare

—{ho main business artery of the

Oily of Wellington. Tho land at tho rearof tho property, which is not included intho leases to Messrs. Smith and Georgeand George, *s approached by a 12-footright-of-way from Dixon-street, and is notlot, although applications to lcaso havebeen received..

This land can bo conveniently dividedinto threo sections as under:

—SECTION I— With a frontage of 24ffc

6in to a 12ft right-of-way by adepth of 71ft Sin. j

SECTION 2— With a frontago of 46ftBin to a'9ft right-of-way Ly adepthof 24ft 6in.

SECTION 3— With A frontage of 12ftto a 12ft right-of-way, and 25ft toa 9ft right-of-way by a depth of85ft ll^in.

411 rights-of-way "with the exception oftho 12ft right-of-way from Dixon-strectfor tho major -part 'of its length will be-come tho absolute property of tho pur-chaser on the expiration of the leases ofMessrs. Smith and Georgo.

Furthor particulars can bo obtainedfromMessrs: bell;gully,bell, and"" " iMYERS,

Panama-street, Wellington,' 'Solicitors to tho Executors:Or,HARCOURT AND CO.,

Auctioneers.FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER, 1906, {

At 2.30 p.m.

SUPERIOR SEVEN-ROOMEDRESIDENCE,MT. VICTORIA. MT. VICTORIA.

MESSRS. HAROOURT AND CO.havo been instructed to offer for sale

by auction at their roomß, as above—ALL THAT PIECE OF LAND,

being part of Town Aero 329, hav-ing a frontago of 30ft Bin toAUSTIN-STREET by depth of129ft Bin, together with theSEVEN-ROOMED RESIDENCEoroctcd thereon, known as No. 56.

This splendid property is situated on thewest sido of AUSTIN-STREET, close totho Pirio-stroet tram route. It occupies asunny and sheltered position, and tho resi-dence is faithfully and substantiallybuilt,roploto with ovcry modern convenience.

MOUNT VICTORIA ia bo greatlysought after as a residential area that itsvalue cannot woll bo over-estimated, andit is not often such a dcsirablo propertyis placod on tho market.

Furthor particulars and cards to viewmay bo obtained on application to

HARCOURT AND CO.,Auctioneers.

THE STRATFORD BACON CURINGCOMPANY, LIMITED.

(In Liquidation.)FOR SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTION.

Without Reserve.ON WEDNESDAY, 12th DECEMBER,

Afc tho Factory Premises.

Sale Commences at 1p.m.

NEWTON KING has recoived instruc-tions to sell as above

—THE WHOLE OF THE ABOVECOM-

PANY'S PROPERTY ANDWORKING PLANT, comprising—

Commodious and fully-equipped Factory,woll built, on nearly throo acras ofland, situate oloso to railway,and inthe centre of tho larga«.t dairying dis-trict in Now Zealand, together withslaughtor house, yards, piggeries, andup-to-dato plant, inoluding 6 ton re-frigerator, otc,, etc.. driven by waterturbino;all in good working order.

Building Sitos, sections 519 and 522,Stratford.

143 Acros Farm Land, with Building,ad-joining the Borough of Stratford, holdunder tho West Coast Sottloment ReservesAct. Lcnso having nearly10 years to run.Rental £11 per annum.

Office Furniture and Sundries, inoludinggausa^o machine, Bcales, pumps, trucks,material, etc., etc.

Full details on application toMALONE, ANDERSON, AJSfD JOHN'SON, Solicitors, Stratford,

fTHE AUCTIONEERS, Stratford. .

WANTED Known— Anyou and Dyson,Auntionuors, Mercer-strco!, nwko ai

speciality of I'uruiUuo Knlci. Tclenhouo2532t

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particularly fine assortment of '11111 i§^lilliiwiPlP^]§S^^^^^^Ladies' Silver& Silver-mounted i^iPurses andthe new HandBags. aSsi sRfiS (fullmake,and are of specialvalue. SpjEßaSwipSelliySilver Mounted Purse? at 10B, 11/6, GaSij. Very Handsome Purse, lengths inches,

12.6.146 166.i76t035- withsilvirmountsand lockHandßagla't 116, 156, 17/6, 2Q/-, Real BrownVelvetCrocoU.leSkin. 25--21/-.25/-. 30/-.and4o/- each S,m,tar (»\^ Green

Illustrationshows safetystrap at back ofpurse.

G3147. RealCrocodile Skin Purse, lengthG3141. Dark Morocco Purse, length S'n.j 5inches, eitherDark Green orBrown, \ trySilverearners,lock andshield, substantial, solid silvermountsand. Special value,11/6 lock,25'-SolidSilverPurses, with chainattached, at20/-, 37/6, and40,'- each

Solid SilverChainBays, at65-,84/-,4/10/-, 5/10/-,7/10, ■ each.Our Large General Catalogue of Jewellery, Silverware,E.P. Ware, Clocks, etc., andOurSpecialWatch Booklet," GoodWatches and How to Take Careof Them," willbosentPostFree onrequest.

STEWART DAWSON & CO.,Jewellers, WELLINGTON.

THE[EVENING POST,^SATURDAY. JDECEMBEB, 8, 1906.8

DWAN BRl>~S., "^~5

AUCTIONEERS,WILL SELL BY PUBLIC AUCTION,

IN THE TOWN HALL, WELLINGTON,58K NEXT WEDNESDAY i?Bf-£

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AUCTION SALE,NEXT WEDNESDAY

;NEXTNEXT W EDNESDAY .NEXTNEXT WEDNESDAY NEXT

8 P.M. AT 8 O'CLOCK. * 8P.M.rTE MOMI ; TE MOMI

OPPOSITE LOWER HUTT RAILWAY STATION.i

ONLY 5 PER CENT. DEPOSIT.

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BEST POSITION INTHC

LOWER HUTT.TE MOMI TE MOMI

DON'T WASTE TIME LOOKINGFOR PLACES THAT ARE GOING TOBECOME LARGE DISTRICTS;BUY AT

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WORKERS' WEEKLY TICKETS, 2s (only 2d per 'ride)..., - ',

nTE MOMI TE MOMIOPPOSITE LOWER HUTT RAILWAY STATIOK

AUCTION SALE, TOWN HALL, WELLINGTON,

NEXT WEDNESDAY NEXTNEXT WEDNESDAY NEXTNEXT WEDNESDAY NEXT8 P.M. 8 P.M. 8 P.M.8 P.M. 8 P.M. 8 P.M.

REMEMBER, TE MOMIIS JUST ACROSS THE ROAD FROM THE

LOWER HUTT RAILWAY STATION.!

■ TERMS ARE EXCEPTIONALLY EASY.-5 per Cent. Deposit, 5 per Cent,in 3 Months, 10 per Cent, in 12 Months, Balance at 5£ per Cont. To Purchaser*erecting anapproved Building within 12 Months 90 per Cent, of Purchase Moneymay remain on Mortgage at 5£ per Cent, for 5 Year*.

Messrs. Wilford andLevi arc tho Solicitor of tho Company, R. J. Thomson,Lower Hult, Secretary. -

DWAN BROS.,AUCTIONEERS.

IMPORTANT LAND SAXjEOF

74 SEASIDE BUILDING 74SECTIONS!

PAEKAKARIKI! .PAEKAKARIKI!

ON !WEDNESDAY, DEC. 12Tir' 1906;

AT «J O/]} O'CLOCK P.M.,

MACDONALD, WILSON AND CO. aro favoured with instructions fromRoland T. itobertsou, Esq., as Secretary, to sell by Public Auction asabove, in tho Exchange Land Mart, Nu.B4, Lamblou-qiiay, Wellington—

SEVENTY-FOUR SECTIONSINTHE SEASIDETOWNSHIP OFPAEKAKARIKI.

PAEKAKARIKI is tho well-known Seaside Resort on the Wellington andManawatu Railway, 27 miles from the City of Wellington and 57 miles fromPalmerston North. Twelve trains pass to and from each day, and tho comfortand convenience of access is very great.

PAEKAKARIKIis tho only Seaside Suburb wfthiu forty miles of the Cityof Wellington that ha3tho advantago and comfort of a First-clas3 LicensedHotel. So much has this faot been appreciated that largo numbers of tho well-to-do classes of hoth tho City of Wellington and tho Manawatu District havemade it their hdmo during the summer months. Year by year tho number ofvisitors has incroased until to-day Paekakariki and its hotel are known as one oftho Most Fashionable of Seaside Resorts.

PAEKAKARIKIhas many advantages. Not only is its Groat Sandy Beaohadmirably safe for children bathing, but it is surrounded by hills covered withbush, in which aro many of the Most Beautiful Variotifc? of New Zealand Tim-ber, Shrubs, and Forns, tho Capo Goosoborry being veryprominent. The Fisher-man will find trout in the surrounding stroams, and deep-sea fishing off thebeach. Tho sportsman in the season will bo gratified at his success, and thoMotorman and the Cyclist can travel en lovel, beautiful roads for a long daywithout a break.

A YEAR AGO wo offered at auotion thirty-nino sections en tho southernside of tho hotel, and sold overy section, several of which havo since been resoldnt largo advances. Somo fine villa residences havo baon orectad, and Paeka-kariki in two or thrco years will bo quito a seaside town.

THE SEVENTY-FOUR SECTIONS to bo offered on this occasion are ontho northern sido of the hotel, and aro admittedly much superior to thoso ontho southern sido. Tho soil is botter; thoro being a fiae sole of grass, tho sandypervious character of tho ground having been well consolidated over a numberof yesM at a cost of many hundreds of pounds sterling. They containfrom nearly ono quarter-aero to over a quarter each, and havo frontages of from40ft to 50ft by depths of from 178ft to 305ft.

THE TERMS OF SALE ARE EASY, and shouldprovq very tempting tothosa anxious to acquira a littlo homo at the seaside for their childron duringtho warm months of tho year.

TEN PER CENT. DEPOSITTENPER CENT. INSIX MONTHSBALANCE INTIIREE YEARSINTEREST 5 PER CENT. PERANNUM ON UNPAID PURCHASE MONEY.

TAKE THE WELLINGTON AND MANAWATU TRAINSON SATURDAYAND SUNDAY.AND INSPECTTHE SECTIONS.

Lithographic plans may bo obtained from the Auctioneers, and conditions ofsalo seen ct their offices.

REMEMBER WEDNESDAY NEXT!

TUESDAY, 11th DECEMBER, 1906.Commencing at 11 o'clock a.m.

IMPORTANT AUCTION SALE OFVERY SUPERIOR HOUSEHOLDFURNITURE,MASSIVEUPRIGHTGRAND PIANO, BILLIARD-DIN-ING TABLE, Etc.

On tho Premises, Claromont-terraco, back.of Talavera-terrace.

! (Tnko Kelburno Tram to Talavera-terracoI 'stopping place.)

MACDONALD, WILSON iAND >CO.havo been favoured with instruc-

tions from A. E. Donne, Esq., who is giv-ing up housekeeping, to sell, at his resi-dence, Claremont-terraco, as above

—Tho whole of his high-class household

furniture and appointments. Includ-ed iv tho Catalogue willbo found

—MAGNIFICENT UPRIGHT GRAND

PIANO, by Joh. Kuhse, Dresden, abeautiful-tor.cd instrument, with all thevery latest improvements. Wo canre-commend this Piano to any person re-quiring afirst-class instrument;cost 90guineas.

VALUABLE MAHOGANY CONVER-TIBLE BILLIARD-DININGTABLE,solid mahogany dining top and legs,fitted with patent elevating apparatusand all accessories;sixe Bft 6inby 4ft6in; made by Riley, Ltd., England;fine set of snooker balls.

ELEGANT, COSTLY, AND UNIQUEAUSTRIAN AFTERNOON TEASET, 14 pieces, richly decorated withgold, andhand-painted by "Kaufmann;abeautiful set.

COSTLY CHIPPENDALE ROSEWOODOCCASIONAL CHAUto-

A VERY SPECIAL, COLLECTION OFWATER COLOURS, OIL PAINT-INGS, ETCHINGS,' and Other Pic-tures.

VERY SUPERIOR GOSSIPINGCHAIR,upholstered in silk tapestry.

VALUABLECOLLECTION of UNIQUE,HAND-PAINTED WEDGEWOOD,DOULTON, BELLEEK, and OTHER jVASESAND ORNAMENTS.

MASSIVEMARBLEPEDESTALS ANDVASES.

COSTLY .AFTERNOON1 TEA 'SET, 15pieces, Turqucpo Blue Handles.

WILTON, PILE,BRUSSELS, AND AX-MINSTER SQUARESof CARPET.

SUPERIOR DININGROOM SUITE, 6pieces, upholstered in Utrecht Velvetand Saddlebags, Walnut Fra-meß.

A LARGE AND VERY FINE COLLEC-TION of STERLINGSILVERWARE,, E.P. Ware, E.P. Forks and Spoons,Cutlery,etc.

HANDSOME AND UNIQUE DRAGONOVERMANTEL, heavily carved.VERY SUPERIOR PEDESTAL WRIT-

ING DESK, 8 drawers.MASSIVE EXTENSION DININGTABLE, 4ft 6inby 10ft, solid WalnutLegs.LOT OF GOOD BOOKS, STANDARD iWORKS, NOVELS, MAGAZINES,

Etc.Costly Ebony and Brass Fender and Setof Tiles, Pair Madsivo Brass Dogs,Wilton,Pile and Axminster Hearthrugs,

Ormulu Clock, Lady's richly-upholster-ed S. Ch?ir, Silk and Satin Cushions,Uniquo Mirror-back Gallery Over-mantel, Moorish Stool, inlaid withmother o' pearl, Dainty Afternoon TeaCups and Saucers,Knotted Totara Oc-casional Table, inlaid with heart ofrimu, Superior Mirror-back Sideboard,Unique Octogan Work Table, VerySuperior Music Stool and Cabinet com-bined, upholstered in Morocco leather,Madras and French Net Curtains, aLargo Collection of up-10-dalo Game?, iGame of Puff Billiards and SolidMahogany Table, a Number of Child-ren's Superior Toys, 4 Bridge Tables,Magio Lantern, Rattan Lotinsro nndCrimson Cushions, Uniquo Oak Mir-ror-back HnlUtand nnd Scat combined,CarvedHall Chair, aLot of Cut Glass-ware, Crockery, Royal Doulton Jugs,Brussels Carpet Runner, Axmins'terHs.ll Carpet, Dessert Service, 18 pieces,,etc., nleo Contents of 4 Bedrooms, allwell fumishod, Kitchen Utensils, Ex-tensionDiningTciblc, Lot of Grcceric?,(Linoleum, Lawn Mower, Garden Tools,'

vEtc., Etc.

As Mr. Donno is givingup housekeep-ing, everything is for ABSOLUTE SALE.Tho Furnitiiro is of a costly defcriptionfrom tho best warehouses in tho cily, andcomo of it specially imported.

Light Rofre:hments provided on day ofsale from 1 to 1.30 o'clock.

Catalogues, containing Full Particulars,may bo had on application to the Auc-tioneers, and will bo posted on request toany nddreßF.

Order of Salo: 11 o'clock to 1o'olcckp.m., Lots 1to 135, nnd 451 to 482. crnn-mencinsr ngnin iv Drawing Room nt 1.30P.m.. following with Dining Room andBrpakfnst Room.

Tho Books will bo sold in tho morning,immediatelynfter the Bedroom.

On view Monday Afternoon from 1 to 5o'clock. '

TUESDAY, 11th DECEMBER,At 2 o'clock.'

HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EF-FECTS.

By Order cf tho Holders of tho Bill ofSalo.

MEBSI.J. W. H. MORRAH AND CO.havo received instructions to sell bypublic auction, in their rooms, Willis-st.,on Tucsdoy next— v

Tho Furnituro end Ccrttcnta of a nine-loomod 1-lciifj, under Bill of Salo.Full particulars Monday's Post.

"O" OIEL3 FOR S AL IS.

:i)WAN~J3ROS.,HOTEL BROKERS, VALUERS, ANDFINANCIERS,

WILLIS-STREET, WELLINGTON(Established 1880). \HOTEL— North tof Napier, 6i years'lcaso ;trado £35 weekly. Prico £11100. 567HOTEL (Tnranaki)— 6 years' lea6o, tp.k-ings avorago £60 weekly. Prico £2400

566HOTEL— Prosperous town, North, 35rooms; tnking3 £150 monthly. Freehold£3700, furniture at valuation. 567FOR SALE— Wo nro instructed by thooxecutora in Iho O3tato of Iho late ownerof a splendid hotel to sell tho freehold,fvrnilurc, nnd goodwill, to closo up thoestate. This property is to bo sacrificed, jOwing to tho death of tho owner, thoItrado of Iho house haa been a little disor-ganised, hut can bo worked up consider-ably, being one of tho loading hotols iniIho district. Prico for freehold £3500;furnituro and stock ct valuation. 530PRIVATK HOTEL— Best part city, 45rooms, brick building; trade about £40per week. Prico £1200; half cash down.

565SUBURBAN— Splondid position, mode-rate rental, fino building. Prico on ap-plication. 565FIRST-CLASS COUNTRY HOTEL—Sound lonso; trado about £70; freehouso. " . 564MARLBOROUGH— Longlcaao;rfht £210s; trade about £35. Prico £1400. 562WAIRARAPA— Long loass, 60 acros ofland in crop. Prieo £1800. 562

TARANAKI— 4 yoars1 leaso; rent £5;takings £80. Pricb £1700. ' 561HOTEL (noar Wellington)— Long leaso;rent £2. "Prico £2200. 558

SPLENDID 1 BUSINESS HOTEL(Manawatu)— Big trade. Prico £4800. 557WEST COAW (South)-Trado £45 ;bil-liard table, 2 pinnoß. Prieo for freeholdand furnituro £1850. 556HOTEL (Otago)— 7 yoars; rent JBS;trado £90. Prioo £2000. 555HOTEL (Wairur.ipa)— Grand opening.Prico £3000. 554HOTEL (Hawkca Bny)— 2o rooms,stablos, loosc-boxe.l, etc., billiard lahlo;to bo sold ns a floing concern;very lowfigure;prosperous district

NEAR WESTPOKT— Trade about £38.Prico £1300 in wnlk in. Gold mining din-trict. Population 2000. 551

AUNCII Motor for Snlo; 0 h.p.;nenrly new;twincylinder;two ftroko;reversing gear, propeller, etc., complcto;

a bargain. J. W. Hoaro Mid Co., Farish-otroct. . ■,

ABSOLUTE SALE OF VILLA RESI-DENCE; ISLAND BAY.

BY ORDER OF.THE MORTGAGEE.In tha EXCHANGE LAND MART,

No. 84, Lambton-quay, Wellington.On TUESDAY*, lIthIDECEMBER, 1906^

At 2.30 o'clock p.m.

MACDONALD,~WILSON AND CO.aro instruotod by tho Mortgageos toSell by auction, as above

—Fino new verandah residence, contain-

ing six rooms, bathroom, largohall, and every convenience, froshfrom tho builder'shands, completednnd ready for occupation, exceptIho pathi and somo boundaryfences, and a few sundries. Thisis a spcoially built, well designed,doublo fronted house, with towernud cricl window, from which isobtained a fino vicvr of CookStraits. It occupies a slightlyelevated position, with very littlehill to climb, and is very wellelicitorcd from all winds. It iserected on n bection of land hav-ing a frontngo to Froeling-strcot(off Ccrmvdlltstrcal) cf 42(t llinby a depth ofi2ooft and 65ft at theroar, containing nn nroa of 39porcho3, beingSection 6,Block V.,Riwho^Estato (Roovce).

This is a really nico hoinr, beautifullysituated, closo to tram, fino Eoetion forgarden, nnd an c.-tpendituro of £20 wouldmnko it all that could bo drsirod for acomfortnblo homo. The houso has beenroofed with anow steel roofing metal.Terms— lo per cent, deposit,- balanco inono month. A ccnsiderablo amount canbo left on mortgago if desirod. .Fullerparticulars from the Auctioneers.

INTHE ESTATE OF THE LATEHANNAH FIELD.

SALE OF BLOCK OF BUSHL\NDNEAR WAIKANAE.

CHANCE FOR SPECULATORS ANDYOUNG FARMERS.

INTHE EXCHANGE LAND MART,No. 84, Lambton-quay, Wellington.

ON TUESDAY, 11th DECEMBER, 1906.'At 2.30 o'olock p.m.

MACDONALD, WILSON, AND CO.aro favoured with instructions bytho Beneficiaries in tho Estnto of tholato Mr*. Hannah Field to offer for aaloby auction, as above

—LOT I.— Fino Block of 526 acros of un-dulating land, vory suitablo for dairy-ing when cloarcd. At presont it isbush covered, but tho miller hasworked through it. Tho land is wollwntored by permanent creeks nnd thoWailcnnae-Upper Hull road passesthrough tho middle of.tho property.Tho land is situatod four milos from

Waikanao Railway Station on a goodmetalled rond, nud is within ono miloand a half of'school nnd oroatnery, bo-ing Seoti-on 17, Block 14,Kaitawa S.D.

LOT 2.— One-half interest in 364 acres ofhilly land, nil virgin bush, situatedjust beyond Lot 1on tho sumo roadjhoing Sootion 21, Block 14, KaitawaS.D.

The vendors aro anxious to nell to closoIho oslatc, and for this reason aro plac-ing ft low rosorvo on tho property. Tormsaro- 10_ por cent, doposit, 10 per cent, in6 and'l2 months, balanco of 70 por cent,ran remain for 5 yoars nt 5 ppr cont. perannum. Olionts mot nt station and drivento tho land.

For further dotails npply at tho Auc-tioneers' Offices, 84, Larabton-quay, Wel-lington.

WEDNESDAY, 12th DECEMBER, 1906.At 11.30 o'clock p.m.

SALE BY PUBLIC AUCTIONof

13-B.H.P. BRITANNIA OIL ENGINE.At tho risk of a former purchaser.

MACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.will coll, at their Rooms, 04, Lamb-tou-quay, nt Iho risk of a- former pur-chaser, (\h above—

13 B.n.P. Britannia Oil EngineQuito now, with nil fittings comploto.

Ono of tho very best mrtikcs in tho market.This cngino had been stored with us for

somo limo on account of a former pur-chaser wl'o has failed to clear it, and it is

.now for nleoluto gale.

1 THETOWl^ OF TAWA.

IMPORTANT NOTICE BE

AUCTION SALE.

CHANGE OE PLACE OP

SALE. .

THE TOWN HALL

INSTEAD OFTHE EXCHANGE LAND MART.

GREAT CRUSHOF INTENDING BUYERS,

Necessitates Chango to tho Town Hail.

"ji/STESSRS. MACDONALD, WILSON &CO. beg to auncuueo that in conse-

quence of tho largo number of ladies andgentlemen who hava stated their intentioncf being present nt the First Sale of the

1TOWN OP TAWA.

And tho necessity of providing ample ac-

commodation for tho many hundreds whowill bo present, they have, i:i Ihohost in-terests of intending purchasers, decided atthe last moment to hold tho Sale in the

TOWN HALL CONCERT,ROOMAt tho Previously Advertised Hour

—7.30 O'CLOCK P.M.

They trust that intending Buyeis willmako a SpecialPoint cf attending Eirly.

Tho CONDITIONS OF SALE will baRead Punctually at 'Half-past Seveno'clock.

MACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.

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In the EXCHANGE AUCTION ROOMS,-34, LAMBTQN-CJUAV,

On FRIDAY, 14th DECEMBER, 1905,^commencing at 1 o'clook p.m.

AUCTION SALE OF COSTLY HOUSE-HOLD FURNITURE AND AP-'

POINTMENTS.Removed from tho Residonco of Dr.

Fitchett, Woolcombe-street, to ourRooms.

Entiro Contents of Ten Well-fu:a she.Rooms.

MACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.have been favoured with instructions

from Dr. Fitchett, v/ho is giving uphousekeeping, to Sell at their Rooms, asabove, the wholo of hisCOSTLY HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE.

Billiard, Dining Table, etc., removedto our Rooms.

Catalogues are now being prepared,land will bo ready in a few days.

Full particulars on Wednesday.

MAODONALD, WILSON AND CO.will not hold their usual weekly

Ifurnituro sale this week, owing to thoRoom being occupied with the whole ofDr. Fitehett's Household Furnituro, whichis to bo held on Friday.

Owing to tho houso having boon sold,wo were unablo to hold tho ealo there

No other furniture will bo received forthis sale. Intending1 sellers are requestedto note this.AUCTIONEERING, LAND, ESTATE,

AND INSURANCE AGENOY."OOR SALE, Auctioneering Business,-F and Land, Estate, nnd InsuranceAgency, iiv ono of tho best inland townsin colony. Room and Outside ClearingSales; Privato Sales of Boom Stock.Show good turnover. Land Agoncy dis-tinctly profitable. Good lcaso of pre- .misea. Exceptional cbanco of securing 'going concern. Frige for goodwill and '

■stock, only £700. For further particulars 'apply by letter to ,AUCTIONEER, cars Evening Post,

'Wellington. [

XpOR SALE, up to 100 TONS 601bRAILS, in good condition. '

Apply, stating quantity required, to iG.P.O. BOX 86.

JQRISCOI,L AND CO.,No. 10, Stewart JDaweon's Buildings.

HAVE FOR SA£E—Three COUNTRY HOTELS, Freehold ■

and Leasehold, all sound investments. As-sistance given to Buyors if nccosunry. Full jparticulars givon on application.

FOR SALE, Johhsonyillc, 10 minutesfrom ittatiofi, almost new 6-roomcd ]Villa Rcaidonco and outbuildingn; 13 iacros ot good pastoral land, L.1.P., sub-stantially foricod, subdivided, and well ]watorod. Prico for iminodiato aalo £650.'£150 cash, balanco arranged.

HARCOURT AND CO., :Bole Ajonts.

WANTED, intending purchasers of (Motor Cam to inspect tho 7-9 h.p, ltwin cylinder 4.iented "Stuart" Car. iI'rico reduced to £325 during December. "

. Injtliß Bros.' furjpiio side,

TOWN OE TAWA.

FREERAILWAY TICKETS.

■jiOR tho convonieneo of intending■*- buyers desirous of inspecting the173 sections in tho abovo new- township,our Offices will bo open TO-NIGHT from7.30 o'olook to 9 o'clook for the purposeof issuing Free Return Tickots to TawaFlat.

Tea and other Light Refreshments willbo provided at Central Homestead on theground during Sunday Aftornon.

MACDONALD; WILSON AND CO.,Auctioneers,

84, Lambtou-quay.

GREAT SALE OF CITY AND KARORIPROPERTIES.

BY ORDER OF THE~ EXECUTORS OFTHE LANCASTER ESTATE,To Wind up and Closo Accounts.SECTIONS, HOUSES, RESIDENCES

AND FARM.IN THE EXCHANGE LAND MART,

No. 84, Lambton-quay, Wellington.ON TUESDAY, 11th DECEMBER, 1906,

At 2,30 o'clock p.m."a/TACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.XTJL nro favoured with instructions fromtho Executor* of tho estate of the lato£>tophen and Sarah Lancaster, in order tocloso up tho estate, to offer for salo bypublic auction, as above—

LOT I.— BUILDING SECTION.(Splendid Building Site, Section 6,

having a frontago of 60ft lin toEagle-street, Karori, by an irregu-lar depth of from 187ft 6in to 196ftBin. Tho land is quito Hat, fenced,and ready to build upon, is in a(food position, avid handy to theMain-road, adjoining tho residenceof Mr. Geci-go Eagle.

LOT 2.— BUILDING SECTION.Fine Building Allotment, being No.24, part of Section S4 on Plan ofICarori, havinga frontage to Amy-

ftreet, Beautiful Karon, of 60ft9in by a depth of 153ft, adjoiningMrs. Edwards. Titls, Land Trans-fer.

LOT 3.— BUILDING SECTION.Magnificent Building Section, situated

between the residences dccupicul by. i Messrs. Gavinand Edwards. Theland has a frontage to Amy-slrcot"of 60ft flin by n depth of 198ft,being Lot 25, part Section 34 enPlan of Karon. This is a vu-yfino section.

LOT 4.— BUILDING SECTION.Really good Building Allotment, No.2i, part of Section 34, BeautifulKarori, having a frontage to Wal-

laca-3trcet of 60ft Oin by a depthof 198ft. Thia is a piece of beau-tiful laud lying well to tho sun,lovol and ready for building on.

LOT S— TEN-ROOMED RESIDENCE.Finoi SuburbanResidcncs of ten rqnmr,bathroom, pantries, and all usualconveniences, well built, well fin-ished, and in fir-'t-clasa condition.

Tho rooms aro largo and lofty,nnd there is a fine conservatorytho whole length of tho house.This hous3 lies Ions; been -n thooccupation of J. C. Garvin, Ufq.Tho land has a frontage of 66ft toLancaster !*cd Amy streets by adepth of 165ft, being Lot 26, part

"of Section 34, on tho Phu ofKarori.

LOT 6.— SKVEN-ROOMEDRESIDENCEGood Residence of seven rooms and

all usual conveniences, good gar-den, concreto paths, etc. Erectedon a cccticn of land having afrontn^o to tho Main Karori-roadof 49ft 6in by a depth of 217ft. sin, being Lot 19, part of Section37, on tlio Plan of Karori. Thohouse is vow in tho occupation of'Mr. Atkins, and adjoins that ofMr. Cox (lately Mr. Smallboug's;.

LOT 7.— SEVEN-ROOMEDRESIDENCEGood-class Residcnco of coven rooms

and bathroom, pantry nnd ovt-iyconvenience, and a good well-cul-tivated, garden. Tho lend has :ifrontago of 60ft 9in to Amy-street,Karcri, by a dopth of 198ft, beingLot 23, part of Section 34. Th-ihouse is now lot on a monthlytenancy to Mrs. Edwards.

LOT B.— TWO CITY COTTAGES,BARKER-STREET.

Two good City Cottages, each con-taining fivo rooms with tho usualconveniences, crocted on a erclionof lnnd havinga frontage of 56ftto Barker-street (Cambridge-ter-race) by adepth of 61ft, and nowlot nt .1 total rental of 29a perweek. Tho homes ara in nn ex-cellent state of ropair. and pro-vided with p.w.c. nnd tho nowdrainage.

LOT 9.— FARM,|272 ACRES.All that fino conveniont Farm Prc-miso3, situated close to tho Bor-, ough of Karori, consisting of Sec-

tions Nos. 47 nnd 48, Makara, andsection 53, Karori, and containingin tho aggregato 272 acres 3 roods.Tho land is ring-fenced and wollwatered, and is vory suitnblo forcither slieop or eattlo. VJi acresaro in good grass and 100 acresbush. This is a very convenientplaco for milking on for tlio cily,and possession can bo had by thoIst of February noxt. Terras are10 per cent, doposit, balanco in 3months. Thero is an existingmort-gago of £700 at 5 per cont.

Terms of ealo of Lots1to 8 aro 10 porbent, deposit, balanco in ono month;buta considerable amount of tho purchasemonoy can bo arranged for.

Fuller particulars and cards to viewtrom tho Auctioneers. Salo, boards arocroctod.

THORNDON.WE havo four splendid Building Sec-

tions at Tinakori-road tram termi-nus, on which wo are prepared to build tosuit purchasers. Our terms nro excep-tionally easy. Apply,

0. and A. ODLIN,Timber Morchanta, Jervois-quay.

LEVIEN. SHALLCRASS AND CO.,Fruit. Produce, and Goneral

Merchants.TF.MPORARY PREMISES.

DURING Rebuilding wo can bo foundat tho Back of our old location,

CORNER OHKWS-LANE AND VIC-TOIUA-STREET.

LOWEST PRICES. PROMPT DE-LIVERY for all kinds of produco andgeneral merchandise.Oats, Brnn, Chuff, Hoy, Straw, Maizo,Pollard, Barley, etc., etc.

HIKG TELEPHONE 1244.1?.OR HALE, now 5-roomed verandah

Cottage; bnthroom, pantry, wash-house, etc., artesian water, largo section(40 x 210), cloto to Ballcvuu Gardens;prico £500; small deposit j vory canytormn. For further particulars apply H.V. Wostbury, DriMod Cycling Schoc),Wolliflittou.

.J. I'ANNING & CO.,HOUSE, LAND, AND ESTATEAGENTS,KOYALEXCHANGE, OPERA HOUSE,

f. Wellington.Closo to BASIN RESERVE— Up-to-dato

Houso of 5 rooms, bathroom, hotand cold water, copper, and tubs, ■ver-andah nnd Elororcom, gas cooker:land 33 x 100ft, laid out in garden andlawn; everything in splendid order.IPrico £875; bargain. 327RIDDIFORD-STREiiT (off)— Houso of 5rooms and overy convenience; land36 x 106ft, perfectly level. Prico forquick snlo £650. 672

TRAM TERMINUS, NKWTOWN-Twb5-roomed Houses, each having bath-room, copper, and tubs; insuranco£600 ;land 55i x Sift ;Lnnd Transfertitle; rentals £1 lbs week Vt'.co£950 ;tennu £200 cash, balcnco ar-ranged. 647

CAMBRIDGE-TERRACE (off)— One s-roomed Houbo and ono 3-rooinedHouso: land 24 x 112fi; rentals 32s6d week. Price £900 ; good spec. 675

ORIENTAL BAY— Woll-bwill Houso of7 rooms, bathroom, hot water, etc.,balcony, grand view: situated on thoflat. Prico £1400. 1963

MOUNT VICTORIA— Houso of 6 room?,bathroom, copper,,and tubs; land 20 x125ft. Prico £675 ;easy terms arrang-ed. " " 1?53CENTRAL— Two 7-roomod Houses, havingovcry modern cotvvcnieucoj woll builtand in Rood order;.let at £3 week.I'rico £1900; terms £400 cash; bal-anco can remain on mortgago at sjrper cent. 1900

WHY~NOT ■"TiVEA HOME OF YOUII, OWN?

WE have for Salo several Cottages offour and five rooms for you to

xhooso from. You can mako your owntorms, and wo assure you that no reason-able offer will bo refused.If you havo a section of land on which

you wish to erect » dwelling, como nudbco uo. Estimates free.

Apply Io

PARSONS AND BROWN,Tel. 991. 20, Brandon-sb.

TJIXCELLENT BUILDING SlTlilit On thoMAIN NEWTOWN THOROUGHFARE

FOR SALE.Facing Riddiford-slreot and Gordon-street.

Particulars regarding same can bo se-cured fromH. CRUMP, Contractor,

>. Brouaham-eUeot, Wellington.

ON MONDAY,TOWN BELT LEASES.

INTHE EXCHANGE LAND MART,No. £4, Lambton-quay.

ON MONDAY, lClh DECEMBER,'1906,'|At 2.30 o'clock p.m.

MACDONALD, WILSON AND QO.nro favoured with instructions fromtho WellingtonCity Corporation to sell bypublic auction, us above— '

LOT 1.Town Belt RoEeryo, adjoiningNowlownPark, containing 82 acres, known as

at present in tho occupation of Mr.A. Russell. Tho lenso will bo for aterm of 14 years from tho Ist day ofJanuary,1907. No rights to existingbuilding;, which aro to bo removed".

LOT 2.Town Belt Reserve, being Section No.17, Southern District, containing 25

acrea 0 roods 15 jierchoe, siluato offLeraud-street raid liussell-tcrraco, andlately in thu occupation of Mrs. E.Daly. Tho leaso will ho for a termof 14 years from Ist Jaiiuary, 1907.

For further dotails and conditions oflor.se, apply to thoTOWN CLERK.

Town Hall,Or to

THE AUCTIONEERS.SALE OF SPLEXDIDBUILDING SITEFOR A GENTLEMAN'S RESIDENCE.IN THE EXCHANGE LAND MART,

No. 84, Lambton-quay, Wellington.ON TUESDAY, 11th DECEMBER, 10C6,

At 2.30 o'clock p.m.

MACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.are instructed to offer for eblo by

auction, as above—That really magnificent Building Sec-

tion in Beautiful Karori, having afrontago to Mucdonald-slrect of142ft by a dopth ranging from418ft to 475ft, and containing annroa of 3 roods 21 perches, beingAllotment 114, part Section 34.

This is a sito .hold for years by thovendor with tho intention of erectingthereon a family icaidcnco, but having nowloft tho district ho docs not requireit Thoro has been erected a fino picketfonco with carriago ontrancoj. Terms aro

10 por cent, deposit,balanco in onomonth.A largo portion of tho purchase monoy|can bo arranged for.

KILBIRNIE1 KILBIRNIE!KILBIRNIE1 KILBIRNIE!I

HATAITAllHATAITAI!

FRONTING THE NEW TRAM ROUTETO KILBIRNIE.

INTHE EXCHANGE LAND MART,No. 84, Lambton-quay, Wellington.

On TUESDAY NEXT., 11th DEC,1906,At 2.30 o'clock p.m.

■jl/TACDONALD, WILSON AND CO.""-*-1 aro instructed to sell by auction,as above

—TWO SPLENDID BUILDING SEC-

TIONS, noar, to tho tunnel, Hatai-tai, fronting Wnitotoa-road.

Section12 has a frontago of 69ft 3in bya depth of 160ft to 209ft,nnd contains anarea of 33 pei'ehoe. Sontion,13 hns a frtmt-ago of 56ft Bin by a depth of from 134ftto 160ft, and Rontainti an oroa of 26perches. Titlo, Land Transfer.

Thoso nro two of tho bost and most do-sirablo Sections in this locality, suitable foreither business promisos or first-class rosi-doncos. They nro open and tunny, andthero is a viow from them (hat cannot boobstructed. Prices about hero ?jto veryrapidly ricing, and thoeo sections possessgreat prospective valuo in tho iinmediatofuture.

Term): 10 por cunt, deposit. Bulaneoarranged.

Snlo boards aro eroolod.

FOR SALE, Kolburno Parade, splondidSection, fino view, £500 ;also, heart

Tliorndon, 9-roomed House, viow, etc.,£6W cash, balanoo S£ per cont. Lingard,LftmbtoA-auay.

IN THE TOWN HALL.MONI>AY NIGHT!

THE TOWN OF TAWA!

THE GREATEST LAND AUCTION SALE EVERHELD IN THE CITY OF WELLINGTON.

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO THE MEN OF FINANCE.IMPORTANT TO THE BUSINESS MANSPECIAXLY IMPORTANT TO THE SMALLINVESTORS&HOME SEEKERS

THE TOWN OE TAWA!THE TOWN OF TAWA!

THE NEW BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL SUBURB OF THE CITY OFWELLINGTON.

FIVE HUNDRED AND TWENTY- T.lili ACRES, SUBDIVIDEDINTOBUILDING SECTIONS.

THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITY EVER OFFERED TO THE MEN ANDWOMEN OF WELLINGTON TO EUY THE FOUNDATION OF AFORTUNE.

AN ALTOGETHER EXTRAORDINARYANDEXCEPTIONAL INVESTMENT.The First: Salo_"of

"One. Hundred and Sevcntr-thrcc 'Building Blocks in the

\ „_ TOWN OF TAWA.'

ON MONDAY EVENING,10m DAY OF DECEMBER,AT 7.30 O'CLOCK.

"■;~ " ZvTACDONALD, WILSON & CO. |

rA RE favciared with instructions from tho Directorsof theTawa LandCompany, ILt3L Ltd., to sell by Public Auction, ac r&ovc—■ IN THE TOWN HALL, ■

WELLINGTON :-X :.' ONE HUNDRED /AND SEVENTY-THREE_ ONE HUNDRED AND SKVENTY-TBREE

" —BUSINESS AND RESIDENTIAL BUILDING BLOCKS IN THE- THE TOWIv 01? TAWA !

Tha City of Welb'cgton ia known to every cno ts cot only Iho greatestprogressive industrial and business centra in thecolony, butas thu chief harbourand csariue port in thc;e seas. Tho extraordinary end rapid growth of Wel-lingtonhas becorao ahousehold word throughout Now Zealand r.nd Australia.In tho year 1696 it had a populationof 3'i )441. To-day its peculation is 60,000.Its'shipping trade iawards and outwards in 1E96 cniotralss to 1,031.810 tcn3register. Last year it waa 2,461,437 tens. Its imports end cxnort3 in 1896 Iamounted to £2,878.455. Last year they had increased to tho ?uin*of £7,379,056—

an increase cf four and a half millions sterling, that increase iilono beingnearly double tho whole of tho imports and exports ten yc-ars ago. Thovalues of its freehold c.ty lands have grown enormously each year. Lambtou-~ " quayin1887 was -.alucd at from £40 to £ISS per foot. To-d^y it io wcrthfrom £200 to £400 per foot. Willis-street in 1G97 was valued at from £80 to£100 per foot: to-day it is worth from £250 to £300 per foot. Manners-streetwas valw.d in 1897 at from £60 to £80 ncr foot: to-day it is vrcrth from £130to £250 per -foot. And Ccba-street in 1897 was wcrth £60 per foot: whilein October, 1906, it was sold by usunder tho hammer for cash at £200 per foot.The value of tho real estate in tho city of Wellington' five years a^o was£5,865,778: to-day it is117,629,065, or an advance in fivo ya<:rs of 'oiric twelvemillions sterling. These fects show that cvcrytliing in and about Wcll.ngtcn isprogressing.in a marvellous fashion, and that freehold lands contiguous to it,abutting on a great railway line and adapted by naturo for ieciilentir.l andbusiness purposes, must share in that progress and 'development. Every dayshows us that the City cf Wellington hn» now outgrown its boundaries, and itsoverflow population has invaded the suburbs surrounding it. The result of this 'is that to-day land in tho Lower Hutt is selling at £10 por foot— £2soo peracre;in IslandBay £3 per foot— £2ooo per acre;in KhautV.lkh and Crofton£2 per foot— £600 and £700 per acre; and the universal cry is, where canland fit for & hosac and easily accessible be got at a decently low price?

Tho answer is clear and simple: Tho only land that fills tho bill in itscomplete sense h to be found in tho TOWN OF TAWA, tho newest, thehealth-iest, and tho beat of Wellington's Suburbs.

For years the beautiful flat valley that lies between Jo'-insonvlllo andPorirua, between six and twelvo miles from ths City of Wellington, has beenlooked at with longingeyes. Tho Wellington and Manawrtu Railway runsthrougE the valley, but the conservative owners would not sell, and it lay.year

-after year, like Naboth,'s vineyard, envied but unpurchasoblo, until the TawaLand Company came upon the tcenc,pointed out that tho land wa3 too vahmblofor cattle-grazing and sheep-breeding, and"w«ro fortunato in bringing Iho ownerstogether and securing tho cream of the valley.

As a result of theirenterprise the Company is now creating a now suburb—

tho TOWN OF TAWA—a town destined within a brief period to be ono of

the great business and residential suburbs of the City of Wellington. Alreadythe attention of manufacturers and business men ia being drawn to tho TOWN

.'." OF TAWA as affording high-class and eligible business blocks at a twentieth_'.r.part of"the co.it ia tho City of Wellington. With daily railway communication— "ajong'tlie Main Trunk.Line to Auckland, and abundant railway sidings in and'" abejit the Hew railway station in the TOWN OF TAWA, r.nd cheap land for

their industries, manufacturers in tho TOWN OF TAWA will practically defyZ\ competition.

The Town of Tawai3situated on tho Wellington and Manawatu Railway-ten miles from the City of Wellington. It ccnsU'ti of 523 acres of beautiful.. -grass lands, about100 acres of dead flat, and tho remainder low, undulatinghills, ,■>n.scries of suniiy slopes which stand out cs natural residential Fitos commanding/beautiful views of the surrounding country. It U situated from 12ft to 150ft j-„_ above-sea level. Tho air is pure and invigorating, and already there is a pro-""" "ject on. foot for the erection of a great privato hotel and a Sanatorium of fifty-rooms. It is anundisputed fact that there is a greater number of ideal building'- -seclions in the Town of Tawa than in any other suburb in New Zealand.

The Town of Tawa hag reserves for churches, public cchool, Telegraph andPost Office, bank*, and other public buildings, and in five years will bo a hivoof industry and business activity.

Some eight acres of land havebeen set asidein Tawa onwhich it is proposedto orect at an early" date a new railwaystation and tho necessary sidings, givingepecial facilities to passengers and the business quarter, and within abrief periodadditional railway traina will run right through from Wellington to the Town ofTawa and Pcrirua. Tho purchase of the Wellington and Manawatu Company^railway by tho Government has long sines been determined upon, and the-" -recent utterance on the subject at JDunqdin by the Hon. tho Premier, SitJoseph Ward, E.C.M.G., ihows that the Government realises tho necessity forimmediate action in this matter. Few people havo grasped thoenormous import-ance of the fact that the MainNorth Trunk Line of railway from Wellington toAuckland will be in operation in a few months, and that tho advantages forbusiness and residence within'ten miles of the City of Wellington on the chief*railway line of the colony will be so enormous that they can hardly bo exag-gerated.

With a viewl torencouraging immediate settlement in the Town of Tawa everypurchaser, as soon as he has intimated hig intention to build business premisesor a dwelling-house to the value of £300 within twelve months will havo grantedto him a free railway pass, for three years, between the Town of Tawa and thoCity of Welliifffton.

*~' 'Thedeposit at the sale will be £10 for each section purchared, and £10every six months afterward* until purchase money is paid. Every purchasercanreceive an immediate title onpayment of his purchase money.

No" interest on the purchase money will bo charged for tho first year. Afterthen the rate will be Fivo per cent, per annum.

The Plans and Specifications for tho construction of the Roads and Streets aronow beingprepared, and will bo put in band forthwith.

The conditions of 6ale and fuller details maybe eocn at tho offices of Messrs.Findlay Dalzioll, and Co., Solicitors, Lambton-quay, and at the auctioneer's of-fices, No. 84,Lambtonrquay.

Ithas been asked, why-will-tho people rush for tho Town of Tawa, as theyintend doing? \

1. Because it is the mo3t healthful arid picturesque quarter of the Suburbanareas of the City of Wellington.

2. Because every section in tko Town of Ttwa will be sold at a mere frac-tion of the cost of sections in any other suburban area.

3. Because the shrewd investor sees a great future in tho Town of Tawa.4-. Because tho ternra bring the purchase of a section within tho pocket ofevery man and woman in the community.5. Because every wise manand woman makes a start in saving by paying adeposit oa a building section.6. Because tho Government baying tho Wellington and Manawatu Railway

next year will treble the valuo of every section in the Town of Tawa.7. Because everybuyer in' tho Town of Tawa will mako £100 out of an in-'/estmont of £10.8. Because every purchaser who builds ahouse or shop in tho Town of Tawa)

will have a free railway tickot for three years and no interest to pay for thofirrt year.

9. Bicaoso' a wise invertment in tho Town of Tawa will, in ten years, makeyou independent for life.Lithographic plans aro available, andmay bo obtained from Iho Auctioneer* ,

and Solicitors .of the Company.'Pcrsonß wishing to inspect tho Town of Tawa should call at the Auctioneers'oflkB;: when tbe-y will receive FREE a Special Return Railway Tickot between

Wellington and Tawa Flat and the services of a guide, who willpoint out eachMotion.

NOTE THIS IMPORTANT FACT— Tho wholo of tho Suburban Saleshitherto advertised in tho City of Wellington aro for moro or less isolatedblock* of land subdivided into sections. Tho saleof tho Town of Tawa is thoFirst Salo of an entirely new suburb—

a new creation—

and it ia in sales of thincharacter that tho buyerw can never make a mistake. They aro the gilt-edgedinvestments in.land at all times.

THE TOWN OP TAWA— lOth DECEMBER.

SALE IN THE TOWN HALL!

Q U DURBAN EfOMES..KlLßlßNlE— Handsomely finished now 6-

roomed House, bathroom, h. and c.4and all conveniences. Prico £650

NORTHLAND— Good5-roomedHouse", h.and ci, bathroom, nicely finished andwell fitted throughout;detached wash-house; large lovel section: gramdvic\r. Price £570. 647KELBURNE— S-roomed Residence, bath-room, teullery, clee. light, wardrobes,dre:scr, linen press, etc. Prico £825.395ROSKNEATH (sur.ny side)— 6-roomcdHomo, bathroom, scullery, washhouse,

h. and c, elec. light, pantry, andevery possibio conveniencejland 38ftOin by 130;commands an extensiveview of cily and,harbour: Prico' £Bso.

BROOKLYN— New House of 5 rooms,bathrobm, copper, tubs, and all usualconveniences; verandah. Prico £390. !

ISLAND BAY— New 4-roomcd House,fuillery, bathroom, cupboards, 'etc,copper, tuba;land 33 by 165. PricoJibSO. 55SBERHAMPORE— C-roomed Houso, h. andc, gas, well fitted throughout; land,66ft by 45 to 182.. Prico £600. 66T

ivEWTOWN— New 7-rcomed House, bath,-room, h. and' c, gas, pantry, side,boards:, linen pres*, etc. Prico £775.

666

M'KEE ANS CO.. Ltd., .'PHONE 2175. 1, PANAMA-STREET.

ALUABUr"OORNER SITE ANDHOME.TRAM LINE, RINTOUL-STREET,

NEWTOWN— 4-roomed Houso withtwo frontages, 35 x G3£ ;room for adaily shop in fvout; built heart oftotera and mntai fcr dwKer. Pric«"-C775.

SPECIALS IN SECTIONS.KELBURNE EXTENDED— 72ft x 130ft,

nros, 36perches; frontingroad toHigh-bury:Bhollered from north and southwinds;superb views. £325. Special

WKLLINGTON-TERRACE. (off)-3 fin*Sections nt £X per foot.;HIGHBURY (near Kolburne)r-A forchoico Gcoliona from £3 a foot.

'MIRAMAX (Golf-terrace)— Half-acres from£2 10r a foot.DAY'S BAY (near wh.arf)

—Choico i-acraSections, from £3 10s a foot.

J. il. FINLAY,HuriCor-strcct, opposilo Now Bank otAustralasia.

Tolephono 2501.

CITIZENS1 WELCOME ATAUCKLAND.

IMPRESSIONS"oFtHE COLONY."AFTER FORTY SEARS."

fPKJCSS ASSOCIATION.]AUCKLAND, 7thDecember.

In tho course of hia reply afc a citizens'welcome to-night, Sir John. Gorst said6ince he had returned to the colony heoften found himself wondering "Why didIever go away?" If it Vere possible,with the roots he had struck in theHomeland, he1 felt as if now, at theeleventhhour,he wouldlike to comebackto end his days in this colony. He need1

hardly say that he was astonished at thechanges and the progress made duringthe last forty yeare. What astonishedhim most was not so much the develop-mentof the country as the developmentof tho people. There seemed to be nodesire to separate from the Old Country,but to make New Zealand into somethingoriginal and quite unlike anything to bsseen at Home, while at the same timestill retaining the connection with theOld Country. He thought such aspira-tions were not unreasonable, and werealso likely to be realised. He had beenmuch struck withthe fine physique of thechildren. Nowhere else had he seen sucha fine set. of boys and girls as in thoNew Zealand schools. Of course, thatmerely pointed to them being healthyyoung animals; still that was a neces-sary foundation -upon which to build,and with proper training and educationthese healthy young animals would growinto extremely fine specimens of men andwomen. They also had in this colonythe peculiar advantage of the Maori race.He left New Zealand just befote the. warbroke out and he thought then that theMaoris to whom ho was greatly attached,were doomed to extinction.i Now hecame back again after foTty years, andfound most generous sympathy on thepart of tho pakeha. population to theMaori. There was no trace of that ill-feeling which existed before the war.Amongst tho Maoris themselves therewas much more confidence and good feel-ing towards the pakchas. There wasnothing like what existed now in thiscolony to be seen anywhere else in theworld

—a, semi-civilisod race growing up

side by side, and on equal terms withEuropeans. Itwas very greatly to thecredit of Now Zealand and its peoplethat such was the case, and they werein this respect settingan example to theworld.

Sir John, in conclusion, thanked theMayor for the present of a bound volume,saying he accepted it with very greatgTatitude, as there wasnothing the citi-zens could have given him which he bomuch appreciated as that memento ofthe timo he spent in the Waikato yearsago. He regretted that he must leaveAuckland onMonday, for he would liketo watch on the spot the development ofa new nation, which was going onin thiscolony. Ho could assure them when atHomehe wouldstill watchNew Zealand'saffairs with keeninterest, and rejoice atthe progress of the colony and the happi-ness of the people.

Three hearty cheers were given forSir John, and three more for Miss Gorst,before the gathering dispersed.

At the Lismore Circuit Court on the22nd November the trial of Zarat Khan,an Afghan, for the murder of a country-man at Woodlawn severalyears ago wasconcluded. The jury, after four hours'deliberation, found the prisoner guilty,and sentence of d-eath was passed.Zarat ivhan was tried for this crimeseme years ago, but the jury failed toagree on that occasion.

Thomas Taylor and his wife, whosued the Railway Commissioners for£1000, as compensation for injuries sus-tained by tho latter in nofc being givensufficient time to alight from a tram atForest Lodge, havebeen awarded £600.

The Premier (says the Sydney Tele-graph) made an'important Ministerialstatement when the Assembly met on27th November as to what the Govern-ment programme was for the remainderof the session. Among the Bills to beabandoned, temporarily at all events,aro the Industrial Arbitration ActAmendment, Closer Settlement Amend-1ment, Crown Lands Act Amendment,and tho Crown Lands Administration(Commissioners). Mr. Curruthers inti-mated that the Government hoped, inaddition to the Gobbagombahn andMarrar estates closer settlement scheme,to submit the PeelRiver cstafoproposal,which will be one of the biggest thingsof its kind brought forward. ThePremier informed the House that theifinances wero in^a flourishing stato, therevenue already having exceeded theestimate,by £7Qo^opo,, arid he expected|that at the-end of the year tho sur-plus would exceed £2,000,000. TheTreasurer, no doubt, includes last year'ssurplus of something like £800,000 inthis two milliqns. The Bellevue-hillTramway was returned from the Councilwithout amendment. The Judges Pen-sions Bill was read a second time andcarried through Committee without al-teration. IfcjEeduces the pensions to one-half the salaries, and provides thatnopension can bo paid on the ground ofinfirmity except five years' service hasbeenrendered. The amendments of theCouncil in the Mining 'Bill were con-sidered. In tho Legislative Council theLocal Government Extension Bill wasfurther 'discussed in Committee, andseveral amendments made.

VICTORIA.

WEST AUSTRALIA.In the Legislative Council on the 28thNovember the Land Tax Assessment Billwas thrown out by a majority of one,

in a small House, by a snap vote. TheColonial Secretary moved that the Coun-cil's amendments abolishing exemptions,which were disagreed from by theLegislative Assembly, be not insistedupon. The motion was defeated andprogress was reported. The ColonialSecretary moved that the report beadopted. j\lr. Maley moved an amend-ment that the report be adopted sixmonths hence. The amendment was car-ried, arid the Bill was thereby shelved.On the following day the Premier (Mr.Moore) made a brief statement. Hesaid, in view of the action taken by theLgislativo Council in rejecting the mea-sure, which was submitted by the As-sembly with a view to raising certainrevenue by taxation, he deemed it tobo his duty to indicate, to the Chamberthe intention of the Government in re-gard to those measures which might beaffected by the action of the Council.Ho was cognisant of the fact that therejection of the Land Tax Bill wasbrought about in a small House, underpeculiar circumstances, the decision be-ing contrary to that previously express-ed by the whole House in legard tothe measure, and one which did nottruly represent the' mature decision ofthe Council. The -Government proposedto deal with the Loan Bill, the LoanEstimates, and Railway Bill, which hadalready«been decided upon, and to con-tinue preparations for 'carrying outworks. ■ They realised that it was ab-solutely necessary that additional taxa-tion should be raised, and the Govern-ment intended to recommend the Gov-ernor to call a special session of theHouse in February, when certain taxa-tion measures would be omitted.

The breach of the agreement betweenthe insurance companies and the wildcutting in rates that has ensued, is theleading topic inPerth. The various of-fices are working athigh tension to copewith tho volume of business. On the22nd November an amount of businessestimated at £2,000,000 was written,.and on the 23rd in one lump £1,500,000worth.of Government property was cov-ered, the Royal Insurance Company se-curing the Public Works buildings forthat amount at Is per cent., a tremen-dous decrease on the tariff rates for-merly Tho buildings includeParliament 'House, £80,000, the lawcourts, police courts, and barracks, andsimilar institutions. It is understoodthat the railway buildings, representinga value of over £1,000,000, will be cov-ered, and presumably about the samerate oi premium will be paid. Govern-ment property is not usually insured inWest Australia, and had it not beenfor the abnormally low rates these poli-cies would not have been taken out to-day. Large risks were subsequentlytaken as low as fivepence; and as a fur-ther inducement, many of the pro-visions safeguarding the companiesagainst possible contingencies are beingstruck out of the policies A day oi|repentance may be expected later on.

COMMONWEALTH.Ii; is reported that the Federal Gov-

ernment will order a survey'of the Can-berra, site for the Federal capital. Con-siderable interest was taken in thelocality by the members and senatorswho last visited it, and it is desired toget as much independent informationaspossible.

Youhave noticed, said an interviewerto Mr. Ramsay Macdonald, "that Mr.Deakin objects to your interfering iiAustralian politics?" "Yes," was hisreply; "and ia ordinary circumstances1 thing his objection a sound one, butIwish he had refrained from interfer-ing in our politics when wo were in themidst of an election. Iplead guilty,but my sin lies in giving an impropertit for Mr. Deakin's improper tat."

A proclamation has been issued pro-hibiting the exportation to the NewHebrides of arms, explosives, and mili-tary and naval stores unless under aspecial permit from the Comptroller-General of Customs. Mr. Deakin saysthatho is told that naval stores includetrade gin, which has proved more de-structive to the natives than all thearms and ammunition ever sent.

The Victorian Government has con-curred in tho resolutions adopted at thelast conference of officers on the trans-ferred properties. -The Governmentsoutstanding are the West Australian andSouth Australian. As soon as they fallinto lino effect will be given to theresolutions. It is expected that thevaluations will be completed within sixmonths of tho last concurrence.

Correspondence has passed betweenthe Prime Minister and tho Premier ofSouth Australia in reference to theencouragement of immigration, and Mr.Prico was asked in the event of theCommonwealth establishing a bureau inLondon if the Stato would appointofficers to attend and give information.At the Premiers' Conference tho repre-sentatives of Queensland intimated thatthey preferred to act separately. TheSouth Australian Government, while it'is in favour of having all the Australianoffices under one head and of SouthAustralia working with the other States,has not come to a final decision on thesubject.

Dalgety's Review, after stating thatfrom one end of the Commonwealth tothe other the ffarmers' organisations havocondemned the Federal land policy ofthe Political Labour League, remarksstrongly on the coincidence that polling-day for the Federal elections has beenfixed for 12th December, the middle ofthe harvest season. "It is deplorable,"it says, "that those who have the regu-lation of such matters have deliberatelyfixed 12th December as the date of theFederal elections, knowing full wellthaton that data every farmer throughoutthe Commonwealth will be busily en-gaged in farming operations. No\y^',tne'"question for die farmer to decido iswhether he will quietly submit to",thisattempt to deprivohim of his franchise,and thus play into the hands of thosewho have made that attempt ? Whatever the farmer may have to do on the12th December in connection wih hiscalling, tha appeal is made to.him tolay it aside for a ie.w hours ,on thatday. No elections that have takenplace in Australia in the past have,beenfraught withgreater significance, eitherto him or his children, than the ap-proaching Federal elections."

On the 23rd November, a deputationfrom tho Presbyterian Church of Vic-,toria waited upon the Primo Ministerrespecting the Anglo-French, conventionfor the control of the New Hobrides.<ltwas stated that tho assembly felt deepregret that tho Cominonwelath! had notibeen consulted before the convention'was signed. The deputation suggestedthat the flbvernor-General should beappointedHigh Commissioner. If thiswore not done tho next best thingwould tbo ,that copies of all officialcorrespondence between officers of theNew Hebrides and the High Commis-sioner and between the Imperial Gov-ernment and these authorities shouldGovernment and these authorities shouldbe sent to the Australian Government.It was also considered that recruitingshould not be allowed from any placeoutside the New Hebrides, includingtho Sir Joseph Banks and Torres Is-lands. Ticket-of-leave convicts fromNew Caledonia should not be allowedto enter the group. Mr. Deakin, in re-ply, said the suggestion that tho Go-vernor-General should bo High Com-missioner! for tho New Hebrides wasworthyof tho most favourable conside-ration of tho British Government, anditwould havo the hearty support of theFederal Government. Tho Governor-General would bo able to keep themin touch with all those questions whichdirectly concerned Australia, and therewore few questions which did not affectAustralia. The suggestions made bytho deputation would receive full con-sideration.

The land ordinancepassed by the Legis-lativo Council of New Guniea, and nowformally assented to, provides that nonative shall have power to deal in anybut alienated land, acquired under awill or an intestatry. In tho lattercase, no contract will be valjld unlessapproved by the Curator of IntestateEstates. Tho Lieutenant-Governor maypurchase or lease land if native own-ers are willing to dispose of it. Allland obtained from tho Crown must beacquired ona lease of not more than99years. Mines and minerals, other thancoal, are reserved. Provision is madofor appointing a land board which mustreport on' applications' for leases. Anassessment is to bo made of the unim-proved value of all Crown lands. Tholand is to be classified into (a) suitablefor agricultural purposes, and (b) as notsuitable. Tho leases uro to bo subjectto improvement conditions. Rem, fortownullotmonts is to bo 10 per cent, onthe unimproved value, but is not tobe loss than £1 a year for a quarterof an aero block. Appraisement is tob0 oflected ovory 20 years, and rent de-termined accordingly. Leases up to10 auies may bo granted for businesspurposes at riot less than 10s per acre.Froo leases may bo allowed to missions.A, veaidont magistratemay grant annualliconaeo for tradingpurposes up to threeuci-6.1. Tlio licenses must bo renewedannually. Compensation is to bo givenfov improvements on all leases.

Tho fact disclosed in evidence in thocftßo Soppet v. Wilkinson, that" the de-fondant recoivod tho sum of .0610 fortransacting cortain business vith thoCustoms Dopartmont on bohalf of hisprincipals, a firm in Fremantlo, has in-ducod tho State Chiof Justice to makoduring tho trial of the action, cortainobservations aa to tho legislation whichpermits a syatom to exist under which apublic department is approached byagents. In his aumming-up in thiscoao, Sir Frederick Darley said thatwhat thoy had scon in tho Lands De-portment was tho fault of defectivelegislation,- and ho was afraid that ifagents hud to approach tho Customs De-partment,and were able to domandlargoreea from tho public, such as £600, sim-ply in order that merchants should as-,certain what their rights wero, and

j what duty they Bhould have to pay,!there must be eomothing very defectivoindeed in tho legislation which permit-'ed that, Ono would fiiacy th«l uay

A largo nugget was discovered a fewdays ago near the junctionoftheMooker-.awa and Macquarie Rivers, in theOrange district, by a miner named Wil-liams. It weighed 150oz. after beingcleaned up. Itwas got two feet fromthe surface. Williams states that hesaw smaller nuggets in the hole, butwas two excited to wait to secure them.

The anual report of the inspector ofcharitable,.institutions presented to theLegislative Assembly,' shows that thetotal maintenance; revenue of all sub-sidised charities was £301,875, and theexpenditure £273,216. The totalamountof overdraft was £13,740, a reduction of!£4545 having been effected in the year.The total amount of endowment moneyswas £246,424, and the total public sup-/port of charities last year was £106,000.

Ai/ Flemingtou on one of the recentrace days (writes an Argus contributor)a young and unsophisticated damsel,who had never been on a race trackbefore, was completely fascinated bythe scone. She speedily developed thospoiting spirit, and declared that shemust mako a wager with a bookmakerall by herself. Her friends instructedher as io how tho thing \vas Hone, andstood afar off, watching, *vhile she pick-ed her way through tho crowd to thobookmakers. When she returned tothem she said, "Ithink Idid it quiteproperly, but why did ho seem so verysurprised whenIhanded him my half-a-orown? Ho hesitated, and then said,'Not had much experience in this line,Ithink, Miss?' 'My very first bet,' 1said. 'Thought so," he said; 'I havegiven you eights, though they are onlylaying sixes.' Here's his card. Ihopehe is honest." When her friends sawthe name of thebookmaker on that cardthey realised that the fair damsel hadbaa the temerity to make a half-crownbet withone of tho biggest men in thering. Needless to say, that girl wasmore than ordinarily good-looking.

QUEENSLAND.

TO TEE EDITOR.Sir,— Along with a great many other

drapers and mercers, wo were fined onTuesday last the sum of £5 and costs forcommittinga breach of the liilors' award',viz. (copy of summons), "All bespoke workshall bo done in the shop of the employerfor whom, the sr-mo is jierformed and fopwhom tho order is taken. And whereas abreach of tho award has been committedby tho said Warnock and Adlrin, they bo-ing a.party upon, whom the said award isbinding, in that they did, on 26th April,1906, take anorder from W P fora suit of clothes, and did have tho said '

suit made up as bespoke work at the fac-tory of A. 8..Johnstpn, % place otherthamtheir own shop." «

Wo pleaded guilty to tho charge, andgave the following reasons fqr our actionin tho matter. Mr.Lo Cren called on us"and informed us that wo could not legallytake orders for suits as "tailor made," orhave any garment fitted on, except such,garment was made on our own premises,at the same time askingus if we had made "a suit for the customer in question and'fitted-it on.l We said that we had, as wohad not received any intimation that weshould not do so. We gave instructionsthat nomore garments were to be fittedon. ,that were not made on the premises.However, wo immediately purchased abook of awards, and found that clauseseven in, the tailors' award absolutelypro-hibited us from taking any order to bemade outside our own premises,,whetherfitted onor not-

We called at the Labour Departmentand informed the officer in charge of ourdiscovery. He admitted that this was cor-rect, and asked why we would not ac-cept the concession— viz., to keep half thaaward and break tha other half, as ox-plainod b.y Mr. Le Cren.

'Wo explainedthat this did not suit us, as if the wholeaward was enforced wo could again,employ

tailors on the premises as ww- had former-ly done, but wocould not now do so andcompete with factory work. A promisewas given us that some one would calland see us and arrange matters. Wo toldhim distinctly that wo would not accepthalf the award, and also -questioned theright of tho Labour Department to makoany such agreement.. The promised visitwas made, and accompanied by a sum-mons. Wo pleaded guilty to havingbroken the award.In order that it may be made quite

clear that the court was made acquaintedwith the facts, Iquote anextract from thoproceedings:— "T. Warnock, on. behalf ofWarnock and Adkin, also admitted abroach of this section,but pleaded that hewas justified in his action. The late In-speotor of Awards, Mr.Le Cren, had cometo his shop and warned him that he wasnot permitted to fit ongarments ruado inafactory, but that he was allowed to takeordera for suits to be made at the fac-tories, provided that he did not fit them,on. He (Mr. Warnock) then obtained acopy of the award, and found that theaward prohibited him from taking orderaat all. Officers of the Labour Departmenthad confirmed him in this interpretation,of the section. He then asked the'depart-ment to enforce the whole of the section,iby preventing clothiers from getting any"orders mado up at the factories. If thedepartment had dono this, he would havebeen able to employ a staff of tailors, aahe had dono before. It was impossible,-however, to employ tailors and competeagainst tho firms who had their suits toorder made up cheaplyat the factory. Haquite willingto obey the whole awardprovidedit should be enforced;but ho ob-jected to having onlyhalf of it enforced^The president said tho court could makono -distinction between this and other cases.He imposed a fine of £5."

Does it not seem ai strange thing that;not one of the firms among- the whole lotsummonedwas convicted forbreaches- of thapart of the award mentk>ned-^in the sum-mons? ..Every one.was fined for "fittinsnon the coat, not for where the garmentwasmade. If yourefer to Mr. O.Smith*case you will see that a big fight waamade as to what constituteda "fit on," al-though it was admitted that the suit inquestion, wasmade ina factory, which wasthe real breach. The fine was distinctlymade for it having been fibbed on, whioh,is not at all mentioned in the summons.For some reason or othor'lhe Labour De-partment has all along tried to ignore thamain issue in court and convict on thefitting on alone. The only convictionwhere we can find tho main issue men-tioned by the Judge was when giving histdecision, in our own.-case, when ho said/(and it is about all he did sayj that if wohad read the contents of the Buminons wawould not have any occasion to have takenadv,ico on the matter. It makes no dif-ference that the advice was taken ai longwhile before we received the summons.'

And now, sir, the curious part is thatwe do not know a single firm that haastopped taking orders. They have stopped!"fitting on." This is unquestionable, and!wo have endeavoured to get 'the LabourDepartment to haare this award enforced,as we told tho bench during the heaxinsrof our case. The Labour Department of-ficers ought to bo the defendants in placeof ourselves. Itis wej and not they, wfeoare trying to have the law kept, and yetwe were fined £5 and costs.Sir, is it too much, to ask, Why won'titho Labour Department have this awardenforced? The fix we are in is that wacannot take an order for any garmentnotmade up on our own premises, nor can woagaincommence tailoring on the promisesandmako it pay until the o£her firms «r»stopped from sending suits to tho factoriesto be made. It is a fact that since thefitting onhas been stopped it has made no.perceptible difference to the number oCorders sent to the factories. On page 156,Book of Awards, will be found the raaaoagiven for the making of this award, viz.,"Complaint has been made that tailors,are subject to unfair competition of per-sons who profess to bo tailors and really,h»d no tailoring establishment. Wo haveiendeavoured to make- provision to meet;this class of wise."

Wo ask again, Why doesn't the LabourDepartment stop this unfair competition.Stopping the fitting on has hadno effect.Another matter: In giving evidenceagainst tho D.I.C. it was mentioned thatthis firm had been, warned and still per-sisted, hence the prosecution. What hava\re done, or not dono tha^ we should notbe _ warned, but summoned on the firstvisit, which was our only warning?

Since writing tho above we notice "thattho award under which, those who werefined for "fitting on" has been ruled* by*tho Judge to come under tho taOorcsse&''-award, and that ho has no jurisdiction.Aro those fines nil or wrongly given? Ifnot, it clearly proves that the fines werefor the first part of tho clause, viz., tak-ing orders for bespoke goodsnot mode on»the owners' premises, Whether fitted onorsnot, and the award must be enforced.-^We aro, etc.,

WARNOCK AND ADKIN.,Wellington, 6th December, 1906. '

"THE LOST BAND."

MAY A SON HELP HIS FATHER?AN ARBITRATION COURT POINT.

"The employment of casual boylabour by either employers or em-ployees shall not bo allowed, andomployees shall not bo permitted tohave tho assistance of boy labourat any time."/So run 3clause in the award af-fecting the «butchers trade, and it was

responsible for the raising in tho Arbi-tration Court yesterday of a point of■wide-reaching, effects: tho extent to"which the relationship of father andson is affected in so far as the son mayhelp occasionally in his father's business.

Two retail butchers, F. Webb andH.J. Rod were charged with breaking tho jclause abovequoted. Inspector Hally,representing the Labour Department,said that in each instance it was thodefendant's son that was employed toassist. That fact might be pleaded asa defence, buthe urged that tho clausefully covered any casual boy labourand if itcould be evaded by a man em-ploying his son it would be a seriousthing. The clause had been insertedby mutual consent.

The president of the court remarkedthat the Wellington Education Boardhad taken up this matter.

Mr. E. B. -Brown, for the defend-ants, -said that in these ca^es therewasno question of the,boys' attendanceat school being interfered with for hshad certificates from their teachersshowing that they were good attendants.He emphasised that this matter was avery serious one indeed to many peopleand involved issues thai) were probablyof as great importance as any the courthad yet dealt with, neither of theparties had a gaiden in which tho boyscould bo given anything to do, so thattheir only alternative was Lo loaf aboutthe house or play in the street, whichwas surely not desirable. Tho boywould get tired of playing about afterschool, and would ask his father if hecould help him— go some messages, ordrive on the cart with him, sweep upor carry buckets of water to his fatherwhile the latter was washing tho de-livery cart. Surely it would not besaid the boy had to stand by and lookon and not be able to help! Suchthings as he had suggested were not employing boy labour. There was norelationship of employer and employeebut merely of fathecand son. Adaughter could do these things. Thatcould not be presented. She couldbe sent messages.

Inspector Hally:There is nothine toprevent that.Mr. Brown urged that the court mustconsider tho whole object of tho Act.It was not an Act to regulate domesticrelations;to. limit the authority ofparents over their children and to pre-vent parents from imposing any duty

or work upon children which mightresult in a benefit to either parent orchild or aid tho parent inproviding forhis own or her own or the childVsup-port and maintenance or which mighthelp a sick suffering, weary, or needyparent. Nor was it d,u Act to con-ciliate children and to discourage, stifleand destroy all impulse, desire, or in-clination on the part of the child toperform any act of kindness as towork for or assist their parents in" theirbusiness and to make children selfish,idle or self-indulgent. The. Act didnot say that. The jurisdiction of thecourt was to deal with industrial dis-,putes, which occurred between employ-ers and workers inrelation to industrialmatters. An industry was a businessin which "workers" were" "employed."Work was carefully defined' as some-thing which had got to be paid for.Here there was nothing of the kind.His Honour: If a boy loafs at hom<»in return for assistance it is fairly goodevidence of employment. Of coursethat arises in- the case of little boys.

Mr. Brown said it was a very seriousmatter to limit a parent's authority.He submitted with deference and withgreat confidence it was not within thGjurisdiction of the coun; to do s>o. Itwas such an important question that hohoped if the court had tne slightestdoubt it would lefer the rnattei to th*Supreme Court.

Tho President:Have the boys re-ceived any remuneration?Mr. Brown:None whatever.The President: The casual boy lab-

our referred to means taking up a boyto help occasionally when a man is ina hurry and giving him a shilling or sofor it.Mr. Brown: The court has jurisdic-tion to deal with that. This is atotally different case.Inspector Hally sairt that as he hadno evidence to call at the moment be-yond his own he would have to asktor an adjournment if the courtwished to hear further evidence.The President:That means an in-definite adjournment.The Inspector:Tho matter is too im-portant to risk a dismissal. He addedthat it was not merely a question ofsweeping out the shop or carrying.buckets of water. Had itbeen so hewould have considered it too trival to

come before tho court. But so far ashe could learn Mr. Rod had remune-rated his son, and actually kept a smallpony for the convenience of sendingthe boy out delivering and helpinggenerally. r

After deliberation, the president in-timated that as the matter might turnout to be an important one, what thocourt proposed to do was to allow theinspector to withdraw the cases,givinghim liberty to bring them on again ifafter making further investigations befound it was desirable to do so.- Ifthe facts -were as stated by Mr. Brown,the court did not think a case hadbeenmade out. There must bo somethingin the nature of employment. If itwas an employee who got th0 assistanceit would bo abreach. If the relation-ship existing in tht present cases wasnot one of employer and employee thecourt did not think thero was abroach.The inspector had better investigatefurther and see if, after the lines laiddownby the court lie should go furtherwith it.

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ELECTRICAL SYNDICATE v. COUN-CIL.

A 'caucus of the Liberal party hasbeen called. It is not _expected thatanything important will transpire, as itis believed that matters discussed withthe Premier last week will bo allowedto dr'qp, and that no further action willbe taken before the session closes.

A. picture entitled Baron Falls, whichwas recently offered to the Governmentfor £500, has been sold by auction for£29. V

Tho tender of the Bryce Parcel De-livery Company of £1225 per annumhas been accepted by the Postal Depart-ment for the conveyance of mails fromtho G.P.O. to wharves, railway stations,and post offices in the city. Hithertothis work was done by the servants andconveyances belonging to tho depart-ment at a cost of £1700 per annum.Tho contract is for two years.

PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TOANIMALS.

SOCIETY'S ANNUAL MEETING.The Society for the Prevention ofCruelty to Animals held its annual meet-ing in oneof the committee- rooms at the

Town Hall yesterday afternoon Mr.J. G. W. Aitken.,' M.ltlt.,presiding.The annual report and balance-sheetwere adopted. It was stated that thenumber of cases dealt with during thoyear was 470, particulars of which wereas follows:— Working horses with soreshoulders and backs, 8; horse« injuredby bad shoeing, 39; overloading, 98;horses injured by nails from packingcases opened in tho streets of the city,'6;working horsea whenlamo and euffer-from corns, etc., 33;horses ordered offthe streets suffering from 'various dis-eases and injuries, 145,; horses nnd otheranimal's dostroyed, 10;cautions adminis-tered to owners and drivers, 80;crueltyto cattlo and poultry, 3; investigafciohinto various complaints of cruelty toanimaio, 26. Court proceedings weretalcen in 12 cases, in only one of whichthe society, through insuracisnt evidence,was unsuccessful in obtaining a convic-tion. Ifc vraa a matter for Tegret thatthe Farriers' Bill, introduced by Mr.Major at the last session of Parliament,was thrown out by the Upper House,though the- support and sympathy themeasure received^ from both sides of theHouse encourages the hope that anotherattempt to put the Bill through mightbe more successful. An application hadbeen made to the City Council to passaby-law making it compulsory for ownersof drays to fit brakes on same in orderto lighten the loads upon horses in thbhilly parts of tho town. During the yearthe work of the society had been carriedon efficiently and unobtrusively, and theinspector had discharced his duties to thesatisfaction of the committee. The tre'a-uurer'a statement showed the revenue(in-cluding balancebrought forward) for theyear to have been £169 18s lid, and theexpenditure- £145 13s 6d, leaving a bal-ance in hand of £24 5s sd, against whichthere were liabilities amounting to £84s 6J. " The thanks of tho society areduo to the police for their active co-operation; the Chief Veterinarian; Mr.Milligan, veterinary surgeon;Mr. C. D.MoTpeth, hon. auditor; representativesof the Times and the Post; the Councilof the Chamber of Commerco for the useof tho chamber for committee meetings.

Mt. J. Ilott, one of the oldest members',was appointed president of the society.In returning thanks, Mr. Ilotfc pointedout the good work the society wasdoing,and said it was not recognised by thftpublic at,it should be, Ifanything hap-pened to tho society, lio said, ifc wouldbe apoor look-out for the dumb animala.

Other officers were appointed us fol-low:

—Vice-presidentn, Sir Robert Stout,

K.C.M.G., C.J., Ids Worship th&Mayor(Hon. T. W. Hkilop), Mcrars. J. G. W.Aitkon, M.H.R., W. Watson, and J. 8.Jameson; hon. auditor, Mr, C. D. Mor»peth;hon. veterinary surgeon Mr. J. A.Gilruch, M.R.CV.S.; committee, Mcs-dames Adams, J. P. Campbell, Cooper,M. Macpherson, Kornot, fiawoon, andC. Christie, Messrs. P. Seed, J. M.Richardson, and MLss Bowo; hon. oolld-tors, Messrs. A,R. Atkinson, IS, Tj, Bur-gess. A. L. Eordman, 11. li. Williams,T. Young, W. G. Board, Master-ion, andR. W. Tait, Groytown; iuapeclor,Mr. Alfred Williams j collector,Mrs. England; hon. sccretury and trea-surer, Mr. Louis W. Ward.

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

PROPOSED TECHNICALCLASSES.

THE DIRECTOR'S EEPORT.The suggestion put forward by Mr.R. Hannah in reference to the forma-tion of a bootrnaking class in connec-

tion with the Technical School was un-der tho notico of the Technical Educa-tion Board again last night, and areport was placed before the meetingby Mr. La Trobe, director oi theschool. Mr. La Trobe stated that hehad carefully examined the machineryused and tho conditions and methodsof work in a large factory in the town,and had interviewedMr. Hannah, whooriginally drew tho attention of theboard to the matter. He had also con-ferred with the executive of the Boot-makers' Union. The results of his en-'< quirics were.— (l) It did

"not seem ad-visable that the school should at onceundertake the teaching of the machinesused to "green" help aa a preliminary

|to entering the trade, for various rca-|sons, among which might be mentionedJ (a) the prohibitive cost of raw material[and the impossibility of tho school sell-ing any product in competition with thework of wago earners;(b) the prohibit-|Iivo cost of a complete plant, withoutwhich such trade training would be!scrappy, and rather of the nature ofrestricted workshop practice than tech-nical training;(c) the impossibility ofproviding the necessary room for ma-chines and accessories. (2) The train-ing offered by tho school should bo sup-plementary to, and explanatory of, tho!training obtained by tho apprentice inthe factory. It should be training inunderlying principles, rather than thedevelopment of manual dexterity andjudgment through practice. (3) 'matmachinery should be obtained from timeto time, as soon as room is available,for demonstration purposes, so that ap-prentices and young workmen mightintake themselves familiar by actualexperiment, with tho principles involv-ed, and learn tho construction and ad-justment of a range of machines. (4)That a class might bo started for ap-prentices and journeymen in tho prin-ciplesof pattern cutting, and allied sub-jects (without any largo expenditure onapparatus and materials, and in a roomcapable o.f being used at other timesfor other purposes) with some prospectof success. Courses might also be ar-ranged to prepare students for,,the Cityand Guilds of London examination inboot and shoo manufacture. The fol-lowing subjects could, as time goes on,be included:

—Elementary geometry,areas, etc;elementary chemistry and

physics of bootmakmg, materials, tan-ning, and dressing of hides; anatomyof foot, physiological points to bo con-sidered, growth and development of thofoot, types, methods of measurement,etc., measurements required for varioustypes of boots, shoes, etc; elementarymechanics and mechanism, with specialreference to

'bootmaking machinery.Special— Last-making, woods, variousformsandmethods of manufacture;pat-tern-cutting, clicking, general principles,closing, rough stuff cutting, lasting, fin-ishing, commercial and management.

The director thought a class might bostarted on tho lines indicated, if suf-ficient pupils could bo obtained. Hohadnot gone into tho question of an in-structor.

"Mr. W. Allan remarked that, as faras he could sco, tho main points ap-peared to bo accommodation, an instruc-tor, and machinery. There were morecomplications in starting a class of thiskind than was experienced in mostcases. The boot trado had peculiari-ties which would make it difficult to6t»rt classes which would prove of thobest value. However, tho three pointshe had enumerated seemed to bo thomain points.

Mr. D. Robertson thought tnero vvert>no insurmountable difficulties in tho wayof starting an elementary class. Hewas not in favour of starting a bootfactory.

Mr. Carmichacl proposed that Mr.1Hannah's- wishe3 should bo met by thostarting of pattern making classes etc.Mr. D. ATLaren remarked that twhad gone into tho question with sovcralbootmakers, and his opinion was thatpattern making was the branch theboard should start. It moro attentionwas paid to tlm class of work it wouldbe ot immensq advantage to tho trade.At proscnt one pattern gets on tho mar-ket and stays there until it.is thorough-ly worked out. He considered tho di-roctor had advised thorn very wisely inhis report, and ho accordingly movedits adoption.

This was seconded by Mr. Luke, whothought tho director should bo instruct-ed to give effect to so much of tho re-port as ho thought desirable.

Mr. M'Larcn accopted this addition.The motion was earned, and it was'

resolved to thank Mr. Hannah for hisloiter on tho matter.

TO THE EDITOR.Sir—lhavo expended some honest effor*on the task of elucidating, from ColonelLoveday's remarks ro the CadetBand, thoprecise nature of thecircumstances inwhich,this "institution lives and moves and hasits being; andIhave not succeeded.The colonel denies the bazaar: "Bazaar"and "hobbyshow" are certainly apt intor-

idiangeafclo twms, tut this trifling <Jis«-op-"ncy is beside the auostion as to whetherthe schools did or did not interest them-selves in the equipment of the band. Thoymost cortainly did, by contributing to thohobby show." Had they foreseen thattho body in whoso creation they had in-terested thomselvos was eventually to ex-pand to such aspiring proportions as torcquiro anannual oxpondituro of £100 forits upkoap, would thoy havo approved oftho scheme! Ithink not. Such » band isfar boyond the nooossity or tho dignity ofa school cadet battalion. Ha very titloia a misnomer. Apart from tho injusticeof tho proceeding, tho propor place forthis bond is at tho head of some adultbattalion, where, thcro is every reason toboliovo, it \ri)3 ultimately ba found.Iwill conoludo witli a pertinentenquirysjWhat sUtua has tho band boon given;whereby it is enabled to earn capitationfrom tho Government t—lam, etc.,

INQUISITOR.Wellington, sth December.

TO THE BDITOBSir,— Would the members of the City

Council who mado tho brilliant deal withtho Electrical Syndicate point out to mowhero the advantage is in buying out thocompany at £150,000 when their plant isnot worth £100,000, nnd not up to date,and it takes over 400 por cent, moro toproduco tho current than a new plant?Where is thero going to bo any gain inhaving amonopoly, when, the council willhave to run two staffs? If it reduces theprico to tho consumer, how is it going toprovide a. sinking fund to liquida/to tho£150,000, the purchase prico of plant andgoodwill? The plant would be practicallyuseless in another five years, and then thocouncil will want another bigr loan for nowplant. Ithink that if wo aro going to bosupplied with light by tho City Councilit should start with ran up-to-date plant,and let tho company keep the good thirgto itself.

—Iam, etc.,

RATEPAYER.Wellington, sth December.

ODD SYMPTOMS.(By Dr. F. H. Charity.)

SENSATIONS."Momohaki, Bth December.— Quite a

BensatioD -was caused here to-day by theunexpected news of Miss Smith's engage-ment to Mr. Brown. For quit* a time;t had been persistently rumoured thatshe had promised her hand and heart toMr. Thomson, and his friends hadeven gone the length of congratulatingihim; but now comes a. surpriss for all.Mr. Brown- its a dark horse completely.Yesterday the most sporting man in thecommunity would not take100 to1about

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him, and to-day ho is the right bower.The sensation started at the villagoforge, and soon spread "to the butcher'sshop, -whence it passed to the pump, andso through town. Itis quite the sensa-tionalest sensation since the ■widow mar-ried the widower, and, as you know,

'the whole colony went wild about that." I

That is a typical "sensational" itemiof news. Everything almost is "sensa- Itional" nowadays, and if it is not' sensa- jtional, it is "interesting." Inthe villagesthe least thing in or out of the common,a birth, a marriage, a death, is a sensa-tion, pleasant or painful. Sometimes,in the case of a death, a writer will statethat "quite a gloom was cast," but theidea is the same. Your country cor-respondent does not want his duck toloo^ as big as a swan,'but as large as alooa. Therefore he gets as much Latinas possible inco his jargon English. AtOne Horse Hill, where there is a manand a dog to the square mile, a personleaving the land never gets a gift, butis '"made the recipient of a presenta-tion. Recipienting is much,more "sensa-tional" than giving. Then -the recipientusually "suitably responds in a few well-chosen words." Those good 'old '"fewwell-chosen words"

—Isee ye in my

dreamings. Your glory will never fade.You are as immortal as death.

The younger brother of the sensationis "great excitement," and Ihe 'baby ofthe family is "mild excitement." Whatmust a man do to be "mildly excited?"Where does he feel it most? Do his earsbecome red? Does he get pins andneedles in the feet? Does his pulse for-sake its Tegular rhythm? How many asad time does the eye meet such a para-graph as this in a journal which hasmore names than news, auch a thing as"ThePumptownChronicle andTelegraph-Post Advocate, with which is incor-porated the Cross-Roads Guardian andthe Tin-Pot Advertiser,' circulating atJones's, Smith's, and Robertson's.'"

—"Jones's, BthDecember, by our ResidentReporter. Some mild excitement wascreated here to-day byawager between vwell-known local 'sport,* Bill Spanker,and a similar-spirited gentleman, TomChurner, from Smith's. Bill bet apoundof tobacco against abottle of whisky thathis cow Blossom would yield more milkat one stripping than Tom's well-knownDaisy. The contest took place oppositethe local schoolroom, in default of a townhall, for which there has been an agita-tion for some time, and all the notablepeople of the district were present, in-cluding the chairman of the Koad Boardand Mrs. Road Board, the village pastor,and the schoolmaster. Flags new fromthe post office, and everybody was in astats of excitement. Blossom had aslight call in the betting, but Daisy hadmany confident backers, who reckonedthat Bill's tobacco was as good asunoked. Everything was going offsmoothly, when- an untoward event oc-curred. .The vessels were nearly full,■when Daisy's milker inadvertently kick-edhis bucket, and away went the milk.The- match was declared off, likewise thebets/ It was disappointing, but thespectators felt that they had enjoyedaome excitement." By such narrationsand others it would seem that the heart's,and brains of New Zealanders are in aperpetual whirl. There is a dog fight,and at once every one is said to be suf-fused with "excitement"; a train is acouple of minutes behind time, and im-mediately everybody has '"gloomy fore-bodings."

Onpaper it looks as if the inhabitantsof this country are interested only in"sensations," love them for breakfast,dinner and tea, and would simply diewithout them. In reality the appetite isnot as great as it is painted. It is themerest trifle compared with the American,hunger, and yet the joy in the morbid islarge enough here to make a quiet-goingperson long to see the bacillus of Turkishstoicism cultivated among the populace.Have you ever seen on accident in astreet? The other day aman was knocked down, clear of the rails, by a tram-car. His Head was dashc3 against thepavement, and he was, naturally, dazedFroman unsightly wound onhis face theblood dozed horribly, but it called likemyrrh and frankincense

' to the multi-tude. There was a rush to the gore;even tender young girls feasted their eyesupon the blood. The morbidly curiouspressed around tho unfortunate man,shutting out the air which he sorelyneeded. He was carried into a chemist'sshop, and the unemployed surged inafter him, vitiating the atmosphere andhampering these who had knowledgeenough to relieve the sufferer. Anyonewho witnessed this horrifying spectaclecould not help reflecting that idle curi-osity ia a revolting disease, ono of thosigns of the non-lady andnon-gentlcinanin an age in which the plain, simplewords "man" and "woman" are con-fidered vulgar and out-of-date, fit onlyto be applied to persons in the deck att"ue criminal courts.

Closely allied with the "sensational"comes the nearly sensational. When thechronicler, by hook or by crook, cannotgivo a sensation, he give3iv,next-doorneighbour. Hence we read: "Whatmight have been a serious accident hap-pened onboard a Home liner last night.Steam was heard rushing at a furiousrate from the boilers, and the hissingwas like the sibilation of ten millionsnakes. It was a blood-curdling sound,an uproar fearsome enough to make thectoutest heart quail. Fortunately,no onewas killed. The vapour had safe egressthrough a valve, but it i» horrible tothinlc what might have happened in casetKerehad been no valveor the mechanismhad not been equal to its task. Thinkof that vast force pent up without anoutlet; meditate upon the awful explo-81OH, «kHcl tbe fragments of iron flyij»zthrough the air, -dealing death to manyof the artificers, some of whom wouldprobably have wives and families de-pending on them. It wa» indeed a nar-row escape from what might have beena Serious accident." How long, howlong will that "what might have been"oppress us. It was an evil day whenthat ugly phrase was invented, and itssurvival is a sad commentary on thetroodenneso of some modern writers. Why4o they not, for once, allow the narrow

-Mil to explain itself in the narrative? Itit some time since oneof these dreadful"what mights" appeared in one of theWellington papers, but it is not an age■snee it flashed in oneof tho other metro-politan journals, and, of course, it rm;sjiot in some of the country prints.

Inseparable from sensationalism is"the quiet but pretty -wedding," V/usthere ever a wedding that was not"quiet but pretty." The problem is:What 5s quietness and what is pretti-new? Is it quiet because the bride wastoo excited to remember the responses,and iiretty because the bridegroom lookedresplendent ia his frock coat?

Tlip digijovciy has bacn made by thelocal municipal authorities that a portionof Hie Nelson Convent is standing on amibUc road.

It appears' that those nine men whowere swept off iho Dofonco ateamorVulcan in Port Phillip Bay wore alllying dog-sick astern when the biu seascame. Tho vessel, says the Bulletin,which is as shallow aa a dish, dippedright under water, and Ihouoit-sick men,wrapped in their heavy overcoute andfooling too miserable to live, simplyfloated off. It was mighty good luckthat all nine wore not drowned. Amilitary enquiry was held

—with dooro

closed to the press? Tho decision isthat nobody was to blame. The arro-gant Department that refuses publicityto the evidence when it drowns itssoldiers is quite likely to put tho blameon the mun who was insubordinateenough to get (kovinnd [Iv was, flbflontfrom tlif VMsml .hh.Viut hive.

Diphtheria having appeared "in^tSeState schools in Brisbane, it ha3beendecided to close nil metropolitan Statoschools for seven wcoks. Children willthuD have seven weeks' holiday insteadof five.

CHAMPIONS OF LABOUR.

WORKINGMEN INTHE HOUSE OF.COMMONS.

THEIR LjtfES AND WORK.■ (Wo have secured the rights of pub-lication of a series of appreciations ofsome of the Parliamentary leadors ofthe Labour Party in Britain. The ar-ticles' are eight in number, and include,among otheis, biographical sketches ofKeir Bardic, Eamsay Macdonald, Have-lock Wilson, 'and John Wilson. Thearticles will appear week by week tillthe series' is completed. All rights arereserved.)

'.V.— <t#TJS DOGGED DOES IT."

J. RAMSAY MACDONALD.The difficulty which one immediately

has to face in commencing to detail thelife story of tie' secretary of the LabourRepresentation" Committee is the fact,

that in the coarse of his career ho hashad no failures.

From th.2 momentof his birth itwouldseem that his face has been ever to thelight. Like a strong young plant hehas forcedhis way upwards through alloarthly obstructions he came tothe surface, to glory in tho fresh airand freedom— both for himself andothers

—which are still, however,beyond

his grasp, but well within sight.An inherent vitality, a restless energy

and an indomitable determination neverto bo beaten', together1 with a largs mea-sure of self-reliance have helped him totransform what to other men wouldhavo been faihnes into stepping stonesto success.

His experience when, at eighteen, heleft his homo in tho far north to joinin the spread of a Socialist propagandain Bristol, only to find disappointmentand disillusionment in the personalityof the "social reformer" under whomho was to have served, wonld havecaused many a man to have withdrawndisgusted from a cause which reckonedamongst its disciples such aman as this.Not so withMacdonald. J.he principlesof the cause were already in his eyestoo noble, too sound and too desirabloto be so much as smirched by the un-worthinoss of a professed dibciple.No, Ramsay Macdonald is mado ofsterner stuff than that which cries 'en-ough" at the first defeat.

THE FATHER OF THE MAN.The land of his birth and the nature

of his upbringing have had their in-fluence upon his personality. Born «itLoissiemouth in 1H66, he is tha son ofScotch parents, whose forebears, forgenerations back, havo been peasantsand blacksmiths, and sturdynorthernerswhose common senso and shrewdnesshave crystalised in the youngest andperhaps the most distinguished of theirname.

.As onn of his biographers has said:"Always he carries with him in his ownperson a part of. the elements withwhich they lived and died— the freedomand freshness of the sea, the sturdinessof the moor, the vigour of the forge."Not a bad equipment with which tofight the traditional wrongs of antiquity

-Noi was* his personal endowment re-

stricted to sturdiness and strength ofaphysical order. His mind was equallyalert and ready. From his earliestyears Macdonald showed that he waspossessed of no mean intellect,, andhaving learnt all that the village school-master could teach him, was soon pro-moted to bo a pupil teacher.

At this time his great ambition wasto be enabled to achieve a college career.As at thatperiod,however,theestablish-ment of the Carnegie Trust had notmade it so easy as is now the Case for apenniless lad to complete his educa-tion at .1university, this part of Mac-donald'3 ambition remained unsatisfied.

Tho amount of study and hard workwhich be went through with this ob-ject in view, however, haa stood him ingood stead since, and to-day no officewhich he hold3, noposition to which hehas attained, gives him more pleasurethan does his life-governorship of Uni-versity College.

A WIDENING HORIZON.But the activities of his native village

as representedby teaching and studyingfor the university were not sufficientto satisfy Macdonald's restless energy,and we find him, even before hi3dis-appointingexperience at Bristol in 1884,acting as president to tho LossicmoutbDemocratic Association, and taking anactive part in tho General Election of1885, in which he worked hard for aMr. Henderson, who was contesting aseat under the auspices of Mr. Chamber-lain.

Having thus attained some insightinto the excitements and allurements ofa public life, Mr. Macdonald found,shortly after this date, that Lossiemoutbno longer gave sufficient scope for hisambitions, and that London called himwithirresistible force. Hero he came asnear to failuic as he has ever been.Here ho learnt what it meant to behungry, to bo on the point of starva-tion, from which 'he was saved by tholast resort of the educated destitute,the addressing of envelopes

—in the

Cyclists' Touring Club office, as amatter of detail— which for a time pro-vided him with enough to keep bodyand soul together.

Throughout these hard time3his de-termination never failed him, and hi»energy and enterprise presently resultedin his bettering his position by obtain-ing a clerkship in a warehouse, whomhe had not only more money to spend,but also more time to devote to study.

AH day he worked at his office,and at night attendedclasses in NaturalScience in various branches of whichhe had already especially distinguishedhimself. A friend gave him the freorun of hie laboratory, and noting hisability obtained for .him some re-munerative work in the shape of coalanalysis. At the samo time ho wasstudying hard to obtain one of thoQueen's Scholarships at Kensington.Frequently this meant going to bed attwo or thres in tho morning,and gettingup at cix or seven o'clock for anotherday's work. For this kind of thingthere is only ono remedy;and naturefound it, put a stop to his exertions.He hadabadbreak-downinhealth,whichprevented him from doing any morowork for some time.

TAKEN AT THE FLOOD.Then come Macdonold's first realopportunity, for- whichho had, however,

bean preparing himself unconsciouslyby years of hard work. He obtainedthe position of private secretary toThomas Lough M.P., with whom heremained for Jour years. This was aposition ho filled with extreme efficiency,and which again prepared him foranother forward stop in his career,giving him at tho same time an invalu-able insight into the inner circle ofpublic life. j

Towards tho end of 1891 RamsayMacdonald found his true profession inthat of journalism. Ho was ono of thofounders of tho organ of the ScottishUnion. Hia contributions to the "So-cialist" were, however, a labour of love,and he made his living by work on thoWeekly Dispatch, the Echo, and manyother papers.

Ono might have thought that hiswork as a social reformer and tho taskof earning his daily bread would havoprovided a sufficient outlet for Macdon-ald's energies, but such was not thecase. He is a man who is always ableto get through all his work and havotime to spare for something else, and

Westralia has had a row over thobribing of football players engaged ina senior match, says the Bulletin. EastFremantle, this yeau's premiers, had toplay West Perth for the- final. HadEast gone under, another team, SouthFresmantlc, would have had the right tochallenge West Perth, and another biggate would havo been assured, and thebookmakers would have had anotherday out. Three of the East playerswere, therefore, boldly approached bytwo bookmakers, find a tenner apiecewas given them to play stiff. Thementook the money and told their captain;and (lie money was retained till aftertho match, in which Ihoy .apparentlyplayed honestly enough, as their teamwon easily. At a subsequent enquiryoneof the bookies unblushmgly told thowhole story, and added that the £30had been invested iv bets by the threeplayors concerned. The Association waspuzzled, but disqualified the trio forthree years.

Mr. R. F. Griffiths (says the AdelaideObserver) has been the Assistant Govern-ment Asfcrondmer and Meteorologist fora long period. He was born on 30thApril, 1857, and has been at tho Obser-vatory since 12th July,1880. Itis gener-ally understood that he will be appoint-ed State Meteorologist in the place ofSir C. Todd, whose resignation has beenaccepted, and who is to retire at theend of the year.

Tho Bishop of North Queensland, Dr.Frodsham, had an interview lately withthe Minister controlling Northern Terri-tory, Mr. O'Loughlin, in reference to!the estnDl)shment of nn ntoongincs "mis-sion station on the Roper River. 'TheBishop asked that he should be grantedabout a hundred miles of country onthe river, and he gave an outline ofhis proposals. The Minister asked thatthe request should be put in writing,and promised to forward an official re-ply-

The latepMr. J. H. Angas, of Adelaide,added a codicil to his will expressing a."desire" that his estate should be carriedon for ten years after his death, andhis trustees are now applying to the courtfor a determination whether the word"desire" is an imperative direction tothem tocontinue ,the estate for the periodmentioned. During the course of his argu-ment Sir John-Downer, K.C., who repre-sents two of the beneficiaries, stated thatif the land taxation proposals of theGovernment last year had been carriedthey would have absorbed one-half of theincome from the Angaa properties.Kqiully drastic legislation was again ini tko Mr ttiia jtttr. Mr. Jrreijco Cforilon!nuwati ta*i lit Iwl uo F>att»ial W-are

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER B.19061SIR JOHN GORST'S TOUR. AUSTRALIAN NEWS."LIFE'S FITFUL FEVER." BOY LABOUR. ENFORCEMENT OF AWARDS.member of the public would have the

right to walk into a public departmentand say, "Ihave imported such-and-such goods," and tender the duty, andif -it were said in reply, "That is not

'the duty under the Act," there ought tobe some means by which merchantsshould be able to ascertain beyond allquestion, without paying these enor-mous fees, what duty they had to pay.It struck one that there must be a verygreat defect somewhere, and he sus-pected this defect was in the legislation,which rendered it impossible for mer-chants to ascertain what the positionwas, so that they had to employ per-sons in the position of Mr. Wilkinsonto make representations which theythemselves were much more likely tomake better than any one else.

Tho Comptroller-General of Customshas stated in regard to the recentcases in Sydney that anybody has theutmost access to the department. Mer-chants were.not obliged to pay largefees if they desired to ascertain what jtheir rights were, or to enforce anyclaim. They could walk into the de-partment, and tender duty for goods,and if there was a dispute the Actlaid down- the means of settling it. jA large proportion of his time wastakenup daily with interviews oneveryconceivable subject relating to the tariffwith merchants, solicitors, agents, and]other persons interested. The Ministerwas also constantly receiving deputa-!tions of all kinds relating to tariff in-terpretation and administration.

NEW SOUTH WALES.

now ho found congenial employment inthe organisation and founding of Boys'Clubs;he becamo Secretary of the NewFellowship, and a moving spirit in theWomen s Industrial Council,By this time he had made his debut

in National politics, having contestedSouthampton m 1895, when he came outat the bottom of the poll, a positionwinch had not tho slightest effect inlessening his determinationor diminish-inghis ambitions, and in whichho foundconsolation in tho fact" that owing to hishaving contested this scat ho met MissMargaret Gladstone, foreign secretaryto the Women's Industrial, Council, towhom he was married in 1896.In1900 ho contested Leicester wherehe again foundhimself at the bottom oftho poll, a position to which the factsthat he split the Liberal vote, andheldpronounced pro-Boer views no doubtlargely contributed.

SUCCESS.Nowadays, however, ho has resignedthe position at the bottom of the pollto candidates for parliamentaryhonourswho differ from him in their political

convictions.From 1900 onwards. Ramsay Macdon-ald's chief and most distinguished work

was the organisation of the Labour!Representation Committee. That his jwork in this direction was not lookedupon with the complacency by otherLabour leaders cannot be denied, norpan it be denied that the splendid re-sults of his organisation, which boresuch plentiful fruit at tho last election,have altogether eliminated any feelingof petty jealousy, which must alwaysbe aroused in a greater or less degreeby success, a quality which has, sooneror later, invariably crowned his efforts,in whichever direction he may havechosen to exort them.

He has now before him anew career,for which he is admirably fitted by theexperiences of his life, and in which wocan with the utmost confidence predictthat he will distinguish himself, withbenefit both to tho nation at largo andIto that section of the community towhich he has over given the best andmost earnest part of his endeavours theLabouring man.

i(The next sketch of this series will be:

"From Pit-boy to Parliament— Alder-man John Wilson, M.P.")

BOOTMAKING TRADE.

him!"to assist him in that way. The casehad not been concluded when the courtadjourned. ' ,

After over half a century's associationwith the public service of South Austra-lia Sir Charles Todd has decided to laydown the last of the burdens which hehas borne with such conspicuous abilityand eminent advantage to the State. Afew days ago (writes the Observer) thePremier (Hon. T. Price) received fromthe grand old officer a letter enclosinghis resignation of the position of Go-vernment Astronomer and Meteorologist,]and requesting that it should take effectat the end of December Probably no'other servant of the public has had a-more honoured or useful career than SirCharles, and none better deserves thereward of peaceful rest and quietude|than he. On his retirement from theoffice of Deputy Postmaster-General lastyear the veteran knight, wedded to hiswork at the Observatory, continued toperform the meteorological and astrono-mical duties in an honorary/ capacityFor some time Sir Charles, who cele-brated his eightieth anniversary of hisbirthday in July, has not enjoyed goodhealth; but South Australians through-out the btate join in the hope that feewill soon.be restored to his wonted&tiength and vigour.

Colonel Light, in bronze (says theAdelaide Observer) poised onan imposingpolished granite pedestal, now stands inthe centre of the city which he founded,and in the resolute performance of whichduty he died of a broken heart. Thestatue was unveiled by his Excellencythe Governor on 29th November, andimmediately the drapery fell away fromthe figure every one was struck by thedistincl, suggestion of animation andmovement in the effigy of the romantic,gallant, and brilliant sailor, soldier, andcivil servant. ,The extended right armand the pointing fingers, espeeiaUy whenthe TesoJute expression on the face isstudied, conveys the impression thatColonel Light might be declaring ''Thisis the site!" Lord Rosebery said "Thediearns of life are the promises of thefuture." Colonel Light's dream of themost beautiful city under the SouthernCross has been realised, and he was a,dull clod whose emotional feelings werenot aroused on Tuesday when the bronzefigure stood revealed, "outlined against aperfect blue sky. The statue is a workof art, and an inspiration to young mento emulate the life and deeds of him wholeft the people of South Australia tuch aprincely heritage.

9

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Scotsmen, the wide world over, know"Sandy M'Nab," of ThePeople's Journal,and his "Kronickles." They will be sorryto learn that the book is closed, and thoChronicler gone. Hero is I'he last"Kronickle"— a fragment only :—:

—THE HOLIDAYS.

It has often been said that wo ayehas something '"on the bTuin." On thotap stoiy o' the inside o' oor pows isaye the heid pynt that's makin' us loseour bleep, add to oor gioy hairs, orwrinkle 00? broo's. It's maybe thewant o' siller, or the wait o' health,or the want o' wark, but there it is—f."s'e the something that's at the tup o1o1

cor thochte) an' will keep there till the-*>worry is clearly awa.' or till somethingwaur tak's its place.

Something on the brain, hooever,needna aye bo a worry. Tho love-sickchiel wha lies wauken hauf the nichtdreamin' o' Iho timo whan his darlin'doo ''11 como hams- to his dookit hassomething on the brain cure enough, butyecanna doot that he is happy, an' we'lla' say lang may ho keep thau wey

Noo that the rent has been peyed an'the stUinmcr gce-gaws bocht, the thingthat'a expeokit to be heicheet noo in oorthechts is "the holidays." A' wark an'nae play maks Jack a gey dull laddiewe're telt, an* Ican bslieve ifc. Ane o'the biggest things that rau-es glumehin'i' this wail' is no that we are gettin'on sao slow oorsel's, but-'rather thatitherc are gettin' on faster. We haosympathy wi' them wha hae' to. keepth-eir nose«, to the grindstanc, whanithere aro awa' fishin' or dookin' orgoviin', bub we hbpo tho time will sunfecome whan they'llhaa their turn_too.

Ihe grand tummer weather has turn-ed oor thochts deid strong noo on oc-rholidays an' whar we'va- settled taegang. Tho landladies wha get etc-ot ailthe summer lodger are noo Teady to wel-come them wi' open airms. The hen-hooses ha.3- been cleaned oot, an' thowashin'-hoesee aro ready to tak' sqrue-body if needit, an' the counhy grocerhas made up his mind that noo is thetimo to put tuppence on his eggs an'bo nippit wi 'his ham. Yc'll :i' be eeein',too, there aro fancy,adverteesements iva' tho pajers tellin' o' the hotels an'hydropathioks a' ower the.country wha.are waitin' to fill yer hert wi' pleasure,

1an' mair than likely empty yer pooch nsweol

—tho', of course, they keep tbat

bittie till tike flee walks into the parlouT.I've been takin' a look roond oor stai-

shon, too, an' Bsein' whatIinicht ha'dune had [ haon the purse o' a Juke.What ft grand pick Icould ha'.huenlA trip to tho Holy Land!Whoo!Just

1 think hoo I'd hae feelt trampin' roondthe land vrhar Dauvit ruled and Solo-mon laid d&on tho an' no sayin'onything aboob the ither sacred placeswe learnt first aboot i' tho Sabbathschule.

"Roond the wotP in eighty days!"Whoo again! Sick a lot 0' places I'dcomo against, an' then whan I'd gal-loped roond tho ma'

—an' it wad bo ft

gallop— I'd come hnme maybe thankfu'enough to my paritch, wi' my hoidchockful o' tho wonders I'd seen, an'that I'd lav afore ye in boo mony lime-liohfc leokturs.

Whan y« add to that the joys o'Pairis, a,nd* tho hills o' Sweetzerlancl,an' the diuzen on', twa waya the forrinbillies invite us to spend oor siller,thero's na misdootin' that if ane hasthe time un the siller an' the will,thero aTO a gey lot o' .woys o' ependin.'the holidays-

A lot 0' yo'll be sayin', "But whatneod yo gang eaft far awa', Sandy?"

And novr (adds the- editor) Sandy hasgono far awa'. H(s last "Kronickle" re-mains unfinished, his fingeis bio closed indeath, his once busy brain w still. Hohas gono on hislong, longholiday.

There ill something peculiarly pro-photic about the last words ho everpenned

—"What need yo gang sac far

awa', Sandy?" When he wrote thesewords the. shadow of the valley of deathwas upou him. "What need ye gangsac far awa', Sandy," he- wrote

—and

then he hud down his cheery pen, nnd.laid it down for ever. His young lifehas been bioken off just og his lastKronickle has been 5 but he will not boforgotten. Thousands will mourn hisloss. To Scotsmon tho worldover SandyM'Nab was looked on na a personalfriend. His "Kronicklea" havebeen rendby Scotsmen everywhere

—by tbo blazing

camp-fire, in the backwoods of Canada,■in tlio Aiw,tralinn bush, and in the gold-fields of Yukon

—wherever, in fact, Scots-

men havo penetrated. And now he hasbeen takenaway. Ho has gone to do thebidding of the Master, and there is joyinHeaven, and grief in Thummie Raw.

OBLIGED TO COME BACK.

The importunities "of tho autograph-hunter aro one of the penalties of beingfamous, andmany of our leading men andwomennow charge a charity fee for theirsignature.

When Ruclyard Kipling ws*recoveringfrom hisdangerous illnoss in New York,a young lady in the samehouse, covetingthe great writer's autograph, but nofcquite daring to ask for it in person,WToto a not? to Mr Kipling requestinghis pr-ocious signature. wuich_ she askeda chambermaid to deliver, slipping six-penco into the hand of her messenger.

The maid entered Mr. Kipling's apart,ments with the note. The young lady,hovering near, heard a roar of laughter,butpresently the maid returned with theautograph.

'" -/''

"What did he say when he read mynote?" asked the delighted nutograph-hunter.

"Ho didn't swm to mind, ma'am," an-swered tho maid, 'but ho laughed andisaid he didn't just understand what thesixpence wa.s for.'

Another slory is told of a jocularAmerican wlio wrote to Mr. Kipling athis homo in RottingJcan. Isnc^lnnd."Hearing that you are retailing litera-ture at ono dollar a word,Ienclose onedollar for a sample." "

To which Mt. Kipling replied with thasingle word, "Thanks"nudkept the dollar.—

Good Words.

cooked us a most delicious meal, andbread "of which any town baker mighthave been proud, and, only made ia- acamp-oven— the best meal we had, tillwe returned to this same place. Ihadthe woman's hut all to myself. It was,a.bit eerie ulone there ia the dark night,with the roaring of cataracts outside likethe distant roll of tke sea. Night birds,owls, krtJris even, and plenty of wood-hens were to be heard. There weremjicerunning about the floor, soIchose a fopbunk, and with plenty of large greywoolly blankets' (no sheets) was,soon, be-3and the reach of outside noises.

OVER M'KINNON'SPASS.Breakfast afr 7 sharp. "Sam" prides

himself on his punctuality, and was upafc 5.30 to bo Teddy by the hour we hadnamed, so we felt impelled to do ourpart. No sundown at this depth, norevidently due for many hqurs to come,but ifc was already shiningbrilliantly onthe great snow which capped tho moun-tain opposite— a, wonderful effect as fromdeep-rose it paled to soft pink and thenremained dazzling white. We had along day before us, andIsoon found,■asthe track grew rougher, that to do theprescribed three mues an hour left noroom for loitering, and my stern com-panion kept me going. We began to beconscious that we were steadily ascend-ing. The river narrowed and becamemore brawling, and(even r^oreprecipitousgrew the great towering walls on eitherside. We crossed the rough deep bedtiof streams, which on occasion becomeraging torrents in half an hour, andquite impassable, and wehoped the Fateswould not bail us up between two ofthem. Just as our inner'economies werobeginning to cry out we reached th«MintaraHuts, alias "Bill's," and asusualdid hearty justice to what was set be-fore us. 'A briefrest, and then on again,skirting the dark bottle-green MintaraLake, the home of many duck and teal.At this point we werenot more thanhalfa mile from the head of the valley

—a

regular giant's half-cup with lining .ofice and snow, the birthplace of the riverwe hadbeen following up iv all its vari-ous stages. Our track took a bend atright angles from the left to the rightside of the valley, and we found wewere to begin the zig-zag ascent, whichtook us up the absolutely wall-like faceof what is known as M'Kinnon's Pass,3500ft above sea level, and 2300ft fromthis starting-point. Like the youth insong: "We kept getting up,and wekeptgetting upper," and, alas! as we did so,the mist kept getting down, and it keptgetting downer, and not long after wehadleft the bush behind wo were wraptin a driving white impenetrable "Scotchmist"— hard luck, when we knew thatall around us was one of the finest views

in the world. It felt as if we were alonein a beleaguered world, all was so dim-and silent, and this feeling was accentu-ated when for a moment the mist brokeabove us, showing the great bare grizzlysides and top of Mount Balloon almostoverhanging us, and in. the distance weheard the crash of some mighty ava-lanche, and there seemed no reason whya nearer ono should not sweep two suchtiny atoms away altogether,

i We were, of course, too late in the!season for the far-famed "mountain lily;"

graves of. their cup-like leaves were tobe saen, and many other quaint' little

Ihardy plants still in bloom. "Ye liyingI flowers that skirt the eternal frost !" forImany of them were bedded vm snow,

which lay.about in patches. Th» de-l scciption of the vegetation applies moreIto the" Clinton side of the Pas?. As we! descended to the other side we found it'much barer— and oh, it wag a longweary four and a half miles. Ithinkevery one finds the. descent to the ArthurValley hrrder than the ascent from theClinton, andIknow, w.e were a tiredpair that arrived at the Bsoch Huts-very wet, and hungry as hunters Great,however, are tha reviving powers of agood wash and a "square"' meal. Wospen/'a pleasant evening oxer cards andtalk with some people who wereon theiriway back from Milford. It is curioushow friendly all bscome under these un-common circumstances.

'These huts are the busiest on the track,

and in the height of the season areoften taxedforroom, asnearly1everybodystops here both coming o.nd going. Aman and his wife were in chMge, butthe place was dirty, and tho food notgood

—the bread grey and heavy

—a great

contrast to "Sam's," although the con-ditions for making were the same.

THE SUTHERLAND FALLS.It was much harder to make an early

staxu from here, and though we'had beenwarned to ask for breakfast a goodhourearlier than we wanted it,it was after 8before, we got away to the SutherlandFalls. They are a mile .and a half off,up a side valley

—another deep, narrow

canon. Everything sonking wetafter yesterday's rain, but the good suncame out— and let mo advise all whointend visiting these mighty falls (thehighest in the world, 1960it) to do so inthe morning, with the sun on them, andthus ba rewarded, as we were, by themost marvellous rainbow effect possibly|imaginable. The water comesIDown fuose- precpitoua, biacl. jagged roeli*i'or eycr ahattered and the same for ever,taking three leaps of over six hundredfeefc each, at the bottom making a greatdeep chasm for itself and then flowingaway in a river s.bont the size of theMaitai. We asked with Coleridge:*Who gave you your invulnerable life,

1 Your rtteagth, your speed, your fury, andjoui-Joy,

fnceaaing thunder and eternal foam?But to return to the rainbow, though it

j seems presumptuous to think any poorj words of mine could descrilw it. Theeffect was on the last leap of the fall,and tho curious part is that owing to

I the angle of vision it was not a bow,[ but a complete circle of intense and vividI colours in which one stood

—the colours

actually falling on one's feirt and, wetoilskin. Icould not but think of HansAndersen's beautiful fairy siory of thelittle boy v/ho started out to find thepot of gold at the foot of the rainbow.Ifollowed his example and locked fotone, but came to the conclusion Imustba content with golden memories— andthese that Ibrought away i hopo maynever fade. We tore ourselves awayAlltoo sogh, as thirteen miles lay beforeus, in addition to these three extra.

THE ABTHUR VALLEY.The Arthur Valley is perhaps more

beautiful than tho Clinton, though notbo grand and awe-inspiring. The buahis moie varied;great stretches of theintensely green todia or Prince of Wales'feather f«rn, much larger than Ihaveever seen it before, kidney ferns, and th,efeathery little

'hymenophylla. Of birds,all along the track there in a greatvariety) andIam glad to say the TouristDepartment is rigidly preserving them.We saw many

—from the. great keas arfd

kakaa to the tiny, dainty native wren,running up the boles of the great foresttrees. The chief excitement on this day'smarch was the "cage" across the Arthur.The guide-books give a choice of a boat,but we were not tempted by the water-logged punt to cross the iiwifti-flowjngcurrent, preferring to swing across inmid-air. *

THE MACKAY,FALLS AND LAKEADA.

Shortly after leaving this, an increas-ing roar announced another of the greatfalls, called after Mackay, one of, thefirst explorers of thia district. He andSutherland came up from Milford to-gether, and agreed to take turns innam-ing the various points of interest

—thus

it was that though Mackay's turn camofirrt, the biggest falls fell to Sutherland'sshare. About two miles further on thetrack skirts Lake Ada, and in parts iscut out of the rock-face overhanging tho

Among the Fjords.♥—

i

—-FBOit A LADY'S DIARY, ISO6.

4 \ '(For the Post.)

from an account of a trip to£ Milford Sound via Manawapouri tmdr Te' Anau.\ ■ February, 1906.

1 W© awoke at Lurnsden to find abitter\"«vind blowing-and heavy clouds low down,

the distant bills, which occasionally.'liftedsufficiently to show thick snow be-'rJow the ordinary winter line, though itvirasstill February, and wehadleft Xel-teon three >days before in- high summer!Z&- cheerful' prospect

'for our fifty-mile

;drive towards these same hills, and in-;the face of this icy wind. However, we.made what preparations we could to\keep out the coid, and, to the surprise-of the inside passengers on the coach,Miept our box seats all day. It is a long,/tedious

—orio might almost say ugly

—idrive, reminding one of- Bret Hurte's

rock, and,alkali"; butwithbrilliant sunshine one might

"think- otherwise.I MANAWAPOURI-LAKE.-

We "readied Manawapouri about 8

f.m.— pitch, dark, and pouring with rain,t seemed,like the end of,the earth, so

■desolate aad mysterious, but these ideas■wer&soon<:hanged -when we got into the""rwarta, friendly atmosphere^ of the com-■fortafcie^ accommodation ■ house. Next."morning- X awoke,about 6 .a.m. to findCblue sky 'and pink cloudsj a contrast to.yesterday. Iwas soon out exploring.sMisiy clouds were lying low, but won-derful snowy peaks werepeeping through,"and the great soft grey lake lapping inbo gently at one's feet, thus announcingat once that, though so large an expanse'of water, it was not the sea. Thia end,of the lake seemed extraordinarily beau--tiful, but was nothing to the glories re-pealed when wo went off in the steam.launch provided by the Tourist Depart--ment.. The lake has been sounded to a depthof 1468 ieet, which means that its bot-tom is 800 feet below sea leveL Inplaces the shores ara absolutely pre-cipitous, ■rfeing'slieer up out of the lakefor many thousands of feet, often toosteep for anything but ferns and scrub,luxuriantly green,and,wherenotso steep,fine bush, though not very varied; butwe saw some rata high up in full crim-son bloom. We- passed two considerable■waterfalls, and innumerable small ones.In fact, a little six-year-old girl andItried to count them, but soon wearied ofthe almost impossible feat, as the alreadymelting snow and recent rain filled everycrack and crevice of the jagged moun-tain sides with, threads of white, remind-ing oneof Tennyson'soft-*juoted lines:A laud of (streams! some like a. downward

■smoke,Slow dropping reelsof thinnest lawn,did go. .Quaint little wooded islets,narrow passesfor us to run through, but always such

1 deep water that from our little craft wetcould have thrown a biscuit on to either,

shore. On the return journey in the jafternoon a strong windgot up, bringing- jdriving showers, with a very keen edge, jand quite arough sea. Our captain com- jplained that the launch is too light and iefc;Jlow for the work, and so we found-when she bobbed and jumped about like Ist cork, her Email screw flyingout of the jwater and racingmost uncomfortably. j

TO TE ANAU. !We leftManawapouriatsp.m. for our j

twelve-mile drive to Te Anau. The same.dreary" tussocky country as yesterday—

(Baid to be the bed of ait old lake, and itmight as well still be covered with water,which, would be a deal more beautiful,fur there seemed to be nothingbat a fewhalf-starved sheep and a good manyrabbits toprofit by the withdrawal of thewaters. Another very comfortable accom-modation house, kept by ilrs. Fraser andher daughters, received vs

—a good maal

and largs fires, bothmost welcome, andwe were soon in bed tobo ready for ourearly start up to La'se Te Anauat 7 a.m.next day. The morning broke gloriouslyfine, ancl wa had an ideal trip of fiveaours'.duration ,to the head of the lake.It is not;so preeip'-tom asManawapouri.la fac&j- one-side -is-low-lying, down-likecountry, carrying sheep; on the other,Una ranges of moaatains deeply outlined"with sno«r, xhbngij fast melting, a3 itonly'remjpned oa_ the>-hash,bow in shadyplaces'. As we -backeSon the deck of thaut£le' steamer we's«*med indeed to havegot to the lancL pfjthe lotos-eaters after!ins bustle and cold of the last day's itravel.-

-. Wo.could.dttiy- peep down the jgreat.deep side-arms u£ fiords of this bigIlake;-and- long to be able to order ths [cteameVs-.prow..to.be? -turned that we 'might go' and .esploije their invitingdepths, but other lands of enchantmentawaited us. As we ncared the head of-the lake wo turned oar attention to theincreasingly berrafr'iful view in front, ando» -more-and more great mountains and jdwply-wooded valleys showed up webegan to wonder whfch way lay thiatrack,of -which^ wehad heaid and dream-ed so much.-

"

From the littlo jeSty we had a. prettytrs3k of half a milts or so along a, goodhwh path to the -well-named Glade iHouse, where we -were to lunch and

'change into walking toggery, and pack

'our swags for the walkof six miles, there iandback. The little house

—anew larger

one is being uuiit—

was suffocatingly (hoi,- anall the open windows are covered (

■withbutter-muslin to ksep out the sand- jflies, which were raging outside. This Ibeat? made it tempting to dispense withthe- warm clothinc. oi which vo 1Bad been so glad till now,, and thus jlighten ourselves and our. swags, butwiser counsel prevailed, as vo knew wemight have snow before our return. Theentrance of the track is well: guarded forthe Tourist Department by the deepflowing Clinton, and thus the Depart-ment is able to exact a ferry fee andtrack toll at the outset.'The first stageof 6$ miles seemed like nothing— a beau-tiful glade-like bush track, through giantbirches, withever and anonpeeps at the(river;it3water quite impossible to de-iscribe in it* limpid beauty

—the most

dear birds' egg blue imagin-able, brown rocks and pebbles withEplasb.es of yellow ochre, and numberlesslarge, lazy trout lying out in full sun-shine glare. Iwanted at this stage totry* "0, rest ye, brother mariners, we"will not wander more!'

—but my brother

mariner teas pitiless and prosaic, anddrove me ort.- -which, vaa well, for the■un early left this deep valley, whichnarrowed fast as we went, and soon wasnot more than half a nnJe wide, withgreat mountain precipices rising sheervp-on either »ide, so that to see to theCop we had to bend our beads almost toa right angle with our shoulders. Morewaterfalls and cataracts opened up, and»'« found those ye bad seen at Mana,-wapoirriweresoon dwarfed by these 'won-ders.

At the Clinton Huts, or Mid-Camp—

or, an we foundlater it wasmore usuallycalled, just "Sams," we were welcomedby mine host of that fame. A fine oldwulon&xn,Iam sure

—for none but tha.t

admirable type could have cooked so welland kept the three huts*so clean, andbeen so courteously considerate in h'mcongh direct way. When next morn-ing we heard him rouse one of the trackmen with the seaman's phraseof H,Now,then, chow a leg, show * leg!'* we ankedhim if he bad not "followed the sea,"and he did not deny the impeachment.There are three huts here, ore for men,©no fer women, and a general dining-room and kitchen combined

—huge fire-

jplacea, and firea in proportion,. "Sam"

The South-East Wind brought up thesnow, and wrapped the common in adazzling shroud, and then the mild sea-damp that is never long absent fromsea-bound Somerset, rolled up^ too anddulled- tho glitter of the frozen snowwith a faint changing mist/,"chilly andtremulous, and as silent a3 death. Alltho furzo was hidden under a shapelessfall of snow, but the two ancient bar-rows on tho crest of the common stoodup dark above the prevailing whitenessbecause tho wind had blown'the snowoff their exposed tops, although it lay.drifted deep on life windward side be-low. Dense plumps of evergreen in thehedges skirting tho bpen, holly and yewand great ivy-bushes, roso in suilenmasses above tho soft melancholy white-ness roundlike a sturdy protestagainstthe illnsion of death that Was hiding' allthe world. Youcould not feeo more thantwo hundred yards ahead through thomist, though it was light witha kind ofluminous deadness. Itjwas -Mrs. Patch'shundredth birthday 'on that mistymorning, and although, after ninety-nine birthdays, it could hardly be sup-posed that another one would makemuch difference, especially as birthdaysdo not arrive suddenly, still, the com-pletion of a century of such anniver-saries seemed to rcquiro a visit of cere-mony.

There were other creatures that hadnot yet kept an anniversary of theirbirthdays on the common on that mistymorning. A few cottagers keep-one ortwo shoep who graze by the common,and there in the snow were some woollylambs standing up on tottering blacklegs, and gazingat the passer-by in thomist with the amazed eyes of the newlyborn. The severity of tho elementsseems kind to these tender creatures,who suffer loss from snow than rain,and the panting ewe-mother in the leeof tho hedge gives all they need ofshelter and warmth and food. Andthere were other things shyer than thelambs, who have ah inherited toleranceof human beings, fascinating strangethings thathid and- nestled and avoidedhuman inquisitiveness as if they hadbo-longed to another planet. Beneath thefurze andbushes there was amysteriousrustling of unseen life under frozenboughs;tiny hidden feet pattering ondead leaves as some soft feathery thingedged further away from tho passingstranger, rustling tnings, stirring invis-ible somewhere, everywhere a bewitch-ing senso of hidden presences, softfurred or feathered creatures unseenwatching out of the speechless worldthat borders ours, with anxious brighteyes. The path winds down the com-monand thd steep street, and up againto the sheltered row of cottages whereMrs. Patch lives, quite out of tho do-main of these sweet wild creatures,whose happy lives arc crowded into aspan beside which her long hundredyearsmust seem nearly an eternity.

"In view of the fact that a hundredyears of life must deepen a hundredfoldone's experience of lilo's limitations, ivseems an indecorum, in the face ofnature, for Mrs. Patch to be so proudof her age. But then that passing offour genorations, which has-so greatlychanged the face of the world andthe history of nations, has done littlemore to Mrs. Patch than to multiply ahundredfold the wrinkles in her with-ered old face. What aro wars andompires, tho wreck of kingdoms and thecommerce of nations, to .Mrs, Patch onIhs edge of a Somerset common!"When Iwer' a maid," says she^ "fcy>ther a, did hey' ekjht shillin* weeklyan' nine o' wo to food, an' tea wer'eight shillin' apound, 'lis less nor thatnow, look." And she can tell you whata "long" family old Parson had; andwhen "Passon's maid" visits her,' Mrs.Patch, blinking at her with suspiciouseyes, like an old animal who dreadsjdisturbance, until sho realises her visi-tor, collects her poor old faculties foran appropriate remark. "Aw theer,"says she, "Ido say my prayers reglar,Ido, and thank the Lard every mornin'vur bnngin' 1to another;day;" and atthis point her attention generally wan-ders to. her.visitor's ,basket, whence iftho leg'ol a duck or such small dainty!should be forthcoming, Mrs. willbecome more oxpansivc. She has a let-ter which came clanc from Australy, agirt ways off, they do tell I," for shehas kindred there,; but* she is more in-terested in the different Patches de-parted andburied in W churchyard,because that presents a more definiteidea to her mind. And then she willtell you that she was "drafted" lastyear, and show you her photographwith a childish pleasure in the likeness.| If wo were all wise in proportion to

jour experience, and virtuous m propor-tion to our blessings, hoy* many moral-ists would bo out of work. Now JohnAndrews says Mrs. Patch is worldly,and if you dared you would laugh tohear such a ponderous word applied tosuch a littlo, helpless, withered oldwoman, a century old. Only nobodydares contradictJohn, becauoo he is con-science, oracle,"and director' to the vil-lage, and knows everybody's businessmuch better than they do themselves.John is still a young man, but he hadrheumatic fever very badly some yearsago, and over since he has been slowlywasting inch by inch. His limbs archelpless and terribly twisted, and hisj faculties aro going by degrees, for hoIhas lately beconio blind, which is aterrible deprivation to poor John, whosointellect is his idol. Now, with "Wis-dom at ono entrance quito shut out,"ho has to depend en charity for hisreading, because Mary, his mother, isno scholar, and can just ■ stumblethrough a newspaper with John's help.But though John's thread of life is sopitifully frail, he has a mounting spiriothat refuses to be held within four wallslike poor old Mrs. Patch. In tho daysof his youth b<s nspired to bo a Labourmember, and the habit of reformationseems to become stronger as his bodygets weaker. Nothing, not even localcustom and the parson, is safo fromJohn's criticism. Whatever you do orthink, John will always toll you how itcan bo dono and thought better. Andin addition to his habit of reform, hohas another habit of omniscience,against which argument is unavailing,because if facts do not happen to agreewith his ideas, ho adopts the simple andeffectual process of not bolicving them.John has a solution to every problem,and is always roady to show tho vil-lago tho right way to walk in. Ho isalways suffering, arid very seldom com-plains. He lies in the dark and thinks,because that is the only escape from hisprison. One or two visitors como regu-larly and read to him, and ho alwayswantsbooks of a solid order, that givehim "something to feed on," as he says.At present he is absorbed in a work onearly Christianity, of a harrowing' de-soription, vory dull and. very learned;but John like 3it the better for thohard words that stimulato his curiosity,and tho utmost discretion roust bo exer-cised in skipping passages of peculiargrucsomeness, bocauso John is voryquick to rosent tho remotest suggestionthat anything is beyond him. -And llkomany self-taught people,,ho is rather in-tolerant of thoso who slide along theeasy and delusive ways of ignoranceHe, is moro ready with blaino thanpraise, nnd never spares the lash; butall, tho same,.the village regards himwith a chastened admiration becausd; heis a'sovt of vicarious conscience

'to 'it.John has no opinion of Mrs. Patch."Her thoughts," sayG ho, "is not fixedas whore thoy'should. Sho don't thinkwhere she's going to,"— which baldstatement of fict conies with a shod:

"The odd thing," &aid tho Ghost, "isthat you never quite believed in us be-ifore."

'"I don't believe in you now," eaid thoBroker. "I don't want to appeaT dis-courteous, but after all you may bemerely a subjective hallucination. Howcan Ibe certain that you are not theoutcome of indigestion 1"

"Yet you'Te a spiiit yourself," eaid theGhost. "You don't mean seriously tocontend that tho twelve or fourteenstones of carbon, phosphate of lime, andso on, which you chance to carry aboutwith you can run a complicated businesslike yours? It doesn't seem conimon-senss to me."

The Broker reflected."If you talk about common-sense,

where do you come in? At this momentIcan see the pattern of the wall-p.iperright through you. I'm by no means amaterialist in the ordinary msaning ofthe word, but for all the natural pur-poses of life— pleasure, business, love

—you seem to me to be literally nowhere."

"If you're n6t too busy," said, thoGho3t, "Iwouldlike to argue this matterout with you. May Ieit <lown?"

N "Certainly," said the Broker; "if youcan."

"In tho first place, then, you doubtmy existoncp even although you havethe rare priv*ego of seeing me?""Ido My senses are not to be im-

plicitly relied' on. Auditory and visualdelusions are a commonsymptom of men-tal derangement. You nwy be a- vanespremonition of approaching insanity.""I am glad," said the Ghost, "that yon

do not pin youT faith too exclusively totho evidence of your five senses. Mastpcoplo do. Indeedj curiously, they iden-tify the senses with themselves. The fivesenses are merely the channels throughwhichall outsideintelligence reaches you.Sometimes they act imperfectly; thenyou are, deceived. Sometimes they failyou altogether; then you aro in thedark. What does this prove?"

"That Imust take you with severalgrains of salt, Iimagine," said theBroker.

"By all means.Iam not at all con-cerned toestablish my own leality. WhatIwish to make perfectly clear is the■reality t>f you."

"The reality ox me?" said the Broker."Surely that goes without saying.

'

"In that case you should realise thatKb are fellow-spirits— that you,'in fact,are a ghost just as much asIam.

'

The Broker paused."Pardon me, he said; "but thero 1

think you are illogical. My reality restson a, very different footing from yours.My existence is a fact known tohundredsbesides myself. My signature commandsconsiderable capital. My identity canbeproved by a crowd of quite reliablewitnesses. But yours? HowdoIknowthat you are not merely a, new andsomev.lmt serious form of biliousness."

"I wish," said tho Ghost, "you wouldnot waste time upon me. My objectivereality can take cave of itself. The realquestion in hand is the reality of 4you.Let us see exactly how the matterstands. In the first place, your friendsknow you largely by your dress. Dis-guised as a sweep or a convict, youmightpass through tho city uniecogntead.The next outwaTd and visible sign ofyour identity, you would say, is youri'iesh, a sort of chemically prepared outergarment, which on analysis would not befound to differ fiom tuoeo of the manythousands who throng tho Ciiy. Bufcwhat is thero in these,Iask, by right ofwhich this stockbroker, clad by the Gametailor, coated by the samo chemicals,stands distinct from his iellows? Is itby some marked peculiarity in the exer-cise of his senses? Doss he ccc or hoarmore or less clearly ? Does he think moroor loss acutely? 'No; these differenceswould never amount to identity It istho spirit which4s himself, and which isalways a thing apart, wherein the differ-enco lice. And itis with the spirit, dis-poacossed of all extraneous matter, that Iclaim kinship."

"You se-3," said the Broker, after apause, "you talk so volubly thatIfindmyself assenting bsfore Iget quite thbhang of the thing. I'll call my inmostself a spirit with pleasure, if you like.I'll agree, if you wish, that my fiveeenß3s do not represent my identity. Butctop my brain, tho organ whereby I(think, and know whatIthink, and wheream Ithen?"

The Ghost smiled."I'm always a littlo amused whenIhear «n intelligent porson talk of hisbrain. The amount of vensration which

tho average incarnate spirit bestowsuponthese obviously material convolutions isreally funny to a ghost. However, lotus denl with the less complicated orgnii6first. You say you see by means of theeye. Quito true. Now we will bretk'the instrument

—dostroy with a touchthe arrangement of lenses whereby thospirit discerned nil outward materialthings. Wo have blocked the loop-hole,

but gurely the seer remains, longing forsight, praying that the closed windowmay bo opened again. So with thoremaining senses. Surely it is conceivablethat all these may be destroyed, and stillthe thing which once saw, heard, felt,and sq on, may yet remain

—imprisoned

in the gloom of its earthly tabernacle,it majr be, cut. off from all communica-tion with ths outer world, but still alive.""That is, of course, conceivable,'saidthe- Broker "But as yet the vital prin-cijr.o kna bsen leftuntouched. Youspenkglibly enough of the body as a merecovering. But stop the heart or thebrain:What becomes of your seer andhearer and thinker then? The consciousEgo, you cay, has departed ekewhere.You havonot given on<^ atom' of proof ofthis. What is obvious is that life, what-ever it may be, has meTely censed to be.When you blow out n. candle, you <lonob profess that tho fiamo has gone toillumine come other room."

The Qhest paused."Lot us como back to the senses," it

said. "We ngreo that theTuin of the eyedoes not destroy the seer. By what pro-cess of reasoning, then, do- you assumethat the ruin of tho brain

—itself meroly

a physical organ—

must destroy the! thinWr? Again, you speak of touchingthe vital principle. Have you the re-motest idea what the vital principle is?In what way does it resemble tho flameof n.candle, which can be snuffed out forgood and oil? Mon who study death care-fully will tell you that sometimes theorganism is nearly wrecked before deathappears; at other times it is barelytouched. Or, again, they will tell youthat the will to llvo will rotaTd death,and the readiness to- die accelerate it.What is this vital principle, then? Acandle's flamo or a livintj thing, some-times cleaving to its prison-house andfearing the outer nir?"

Tho Broker lighted a- cigarette."I really don't know. Ienn form no

conception of the outer air,nor of myself,apart from tho body to which Iam ac-customed. IfImny hay so without dis-courtesy, theTo is something unpleasantlydreamlike about you, and Ionly hopeyou are not the precursor of come indis-position. Furthermore, the telephone bellhas been ringing for some time in thoouter office, soImust ask you to excuseme."

"DcaT me," thought the Ghost, ns itpassed into invisibility and went home,'"what dull hide-bound dogs these incar-nate spirits jito:nnrt thon they blumcub for not making the fact of our exist-ence cleaier to them I'"

—H.Knight 'Hdis-'field, iv the DnilyMail.

"The greit thing about London," saidHawkins, '% that you c;m get out of itinto the country co quickly. Half anhour's ride in a motor-car, or half anhour by train, and you can go ridin'through a forest, or fishin', or evenshootin'

"Hawkins is a. G-less aristocrat

who borrows other people's mounts andunwittingly shows his horsclossness in hisconveration

—"andimagine yourself in tho

verjr heart of the- country. Now, inParis you can't do that."

Hawkins knows Paris very well Heusually stays at tho Ritz, spends hismorning in the Champs Elysece or takesa stroll up and down the Ruo d© Rivoli,looks in at Henry's bar dr the Chathamfor an appetiser befdre his lunch, at theCafo de Paris, goes out for a spin in amotor, andhas tea at the Pre Catelan onhis way back, dines at Durand's, and,after an evening at the Folies Bergere,winds up at Maxim's, without, if he sowishes it, having spoken a word ofFrench all day. As Icay, HawkinaknowsParis woll;soIdidn'targue. ButItook him into the Metro, where he hadnever been in his life before, and a fewminutes afterwards we got out at thePorte Dauphine.

"Why, tins is tho Bawder Boolong,"GaidHawkins, as wegot out of the- Metrostation opposite the gilded gates. "Wherewo we goin'? Jt's half-past six, youknow."

"We are going to the country,""!s.aid."What's the good of pulljfn' my leg?"

said Hawkins "Pm not a seventeen-shilling tripper. When'Isaid country,Imeant country, and we can't dine atAt-menonville or the Pre Catelan withoutdress kit. Besides, there are-carpets atthe Pre Catelan, and top much petrol atArmenonville formy taste. And it's hot,

|and— "'

i "We're not going to either.," Isaid,"Come on,and<lon't talk."

One has to^be rude to Hawkins some-Itimes. He murmured something about"walkin' bein' a beastly fag," but Ididn't pay any attention tohim, and westrolled down a little by-path, across arustic bridge, and apparently into the|heart of the Bois dc Boulogne. Isay;apparently, because inreality the Bois is,like Cleopatra, quite heartless. This tiny,carefully cultivated, boundless little wil-derness is really small, but it io. cocleverly kidout that three,minutes' walkfrom a motor-racked road will take youinto what seem to bo the depths of avirgin forest, and you appear to be milesaway frpm anywhere. In reality, witha Jittle imagination, you canstretch yourarms oat and touchParis with one finger-tip and Neuilly with the other.

We strolled on. only stopping now andthen when Fossette had' an argumentwith some water-fowl in the ridiculouslittlestream across' which we conld havestepped with ease if we had no.t been'afraid of hurting its feelings, aud a shortquarter of an hour took us to the rim ofthe lake. A pretty little ferry-boat waswaiting for as, but it looked so spotlesslyclean that 1 made- Fossett-e roll in the

ilong grass before sho wont on board. Ittakes a long time fora French poodle toshakethe mud and water out of her coat,andit wouldhave been nsluime to spoilthat boat. It was as clean aa aDutchkitchen.

"Gecwillikins!" said HawldnaSilence answered him best, for theboat, in which we sat with our backs to

the ferryman, was app.-ucntly floatingwitn us to one of those enchantedislands in tho fairy tales where, afterconquering tho dragon, you eat of thepipless fruit, and, eating, £et the princessfree. Thero wasn't any piincess, but agrey-haired littlaintin stepped out of thechalet which once belonged to the Em-pre.«B Eugenic, and, with its mosaic ofmany polished .woods, was one -of thewonders of the 1857 exhibition, and flick-ing o3 imaginary dust from the surface ofthe lako with a whitenapkin, said thathe was glad to see us.

Velvety green, turf ran up from thewater's edge on both hides of us, dottedhere and there with jewel-beds of rareflowers, not; of everycolourof the rainbowmerely, but of every colour in live rain-bows quarrelling to see which conld pro-duce tho most gorgeous effect. Under ahigh tent-roof were little tables laid fordinner, with big basket armchairs to situpon.

"Shall we go and vsash?" Isaid"Ob, it doesn't matter in the country,"

said Hawkins. ' And thenhe laughed— alittle sheepishly Ho had just remem-bered how near the to,wn was. But Ididn't rub.it in. Dinner was excellent,for M. J.oly, the enchanter, as Hawkinawouldinsist oncallinghim, has not spentthirty years in the big restaurants ofParis withoutlearning something. ' And,as we lay bnck in our baakct-chairu,smoking our big cigars and watching thonight clone inupon thelake, and try, butfail, toblot' the moonoat, we feltat per-fect peace with all the world, at peaceon you caD rarely feel, excepting after along day with nature. Right away inthe dlstance-^-q.uite five minutes off— wasArmenonville, and every now and then,when the wind blew in our direction, wocould hear slight sounds of music. Butthey werenot tho music of Armenonvifte,red-coated tzigane music, and the lightswe saw ■were not garish poudro de rialights'. '

This was tho country. Wewere out and away on a Swiss lake, andwe dr.eamedthat the music weheard wasfrom a" steamer several miles off. Nowandngaiu amotor-car hooted on the roadopposite, but even that helped to keepup the illusion, for we could neither seethe dust nor smell the fumes. A gravepriest-like waiter came up with the bill,wepaidhim, got onboardour fairybargeagain, and werewaftedacross tothe Boi/J."Parie," said Hawkingto tho chauffeurof tho motor-car for which.M. Jolly badtelephoned. "Itwill be time to tell himto drive to the hotel when wo get out offairyland again," he said to me iv Eng-.lisb.

Hnv/kin* ban more imagination that Ithought be- had.— John M. Raphael, inSt. James's Budget,,

"Of comso, it's an awful bore," saidjSella despondently; "not that Ireallycaro if only it does Jack good."

"It will," Isaid; "ho looks betteralready."

Her face brightened. "Do youreallythink so; lam so glad."-Nella Worthington's husband had

broken dov/n in health— or, rather, he

had never recovered from a huntingaccident, aiad had been ordered now tospeDd at loAst a year, if not.moro, atthe quasi-fashioocelo and wholly clique-ridden seaside totin of Pcarlgate. Ofall places »vhere cliques abound, Pearl-gate is, pelhaps, the worst, or, rather,"the most, solect," and^unless Pearlgatoknows something of th6connections andorigin of the newcomers, Pcarlgate doesnot "call."

However, NeUa Worthington did notgive the "calling" side of her oxilo asecond thought. She took it for grantedthat, having beeli popular in Warwick-shire, she would' be equally popular atPearJgate, and she assumed that Pearl-gate "society" would call as soon as showas settled.

"Is Lady^ilounkion at homo?" Iask-ed.She shook her head. "Xo, Ihad a

letter' from her yesterday. They'restill abroad

—they won't bB back at the

Castle for nearly three months; I'msorry," she added, "because Marian isalways in auch excellent spirits;but Idaresay the other people here are verynice."

Nella is one of those sunny-heartedwomen who always assume people arenice un&il she finds they aro not.

"There will be a few gaieties evenhere,"Isaid."I daresay," she answered brightly,

"and Imwst give some little partiestoo, as soon as Iknow a few people.The doctor said Jack is on no accountto bo bored or dull"— she smiled acrossat her husbuvid—

"so i must find somepretty girls 'to walk uesklc his chair."It wasnearly 'three months later whenIwent down to stay with Nella at

Pearlgate again.Ithought she seemed- a littlo bored,

and looked a trifle discontented."How are yougetting on?"Iasked.She shrugged her shoulders. V'Jt's

much worse thanIthought, Marjorio;the place is horribly, caM and windyand Jack is finding it very dull. Yousee, he is not well enough to have anyone staying in tho house excepting youor anyone with whom he's quite athome.

"How do you like tho people?"Iask-ed.She raised h,er eyebrows. "My dear

girf, I,really don't know. Not a singlesoul has called on mo."

"What?" Iasked, in astonishment,"why ever not?"

Sho shrugged her shoulders again. "Idon't know, but no one has been, andthe other day when 1* went to tea withthe doctor'r, wife— ho is a dear, andh,as been so kind to Jack— one or two

♥peoplecame in;but Iwas not intro-duced."'"That iB hardly required nowadays, is

it?""Np, but it evidently is down hero,

for Imade a remark to an old la/y, aMiss Eliza Parkinson, and sho answer-ed me so coldly and so evidently didnot wish to know mo that Ihastilycame away."Istared at Nella."Itmust have been your fancy ''"No," said Nella, "sho obviously dis-

approved of mo for some reason orother, because Ispoke to tho doctor'swife about it when Fmet hor next dayin one of the shops. She was charm-ing, but she looked desperately uncom-fortable,, and said something about peo-ple being very cliquey down here, and jIwasn't to mind. Now, why did shosay that, Marjorie, is whatIwant toknow?" and Nella raised her eyebrov/cand looked at mo witha quizzical stniloin her lovely brown eyes.

'"They aro jealous of your beauty."Sho shook her head. "No, it's not

that.""They havo heard you smoke cigar-

ettes.""ButIdon't," she argued.'Then it's fancy, and they're only

waiting until you are moro settled.""I was sottled in a week." Suddenly

she leant towards me. "There's some-thing, Marjorio— I'm sure there is— doyou know, even the curate's wiilePatronises me, and somehow makes me

eel sho thinks she has done me afavour to call

—only she is a trueChristian," added Nella demurely, "and

so she came. She and Dr. Bennett'swife aro tho only people here weknow."

"It's preposterous!"Isaid. "Not thatyou miss much; the place is full ofcats and superannuated soldiers andtheir wives— but it's so impertinent ofthem, and it must bo only becausethey're jealous," and for the moment Idismissed the subject from my mind.

While wo wore dining that evening anote Was brought in by tho maid toNella. It was from Lady Moundon tosay sho was back at tho castle, andwould Nella go over to luncheon thenext day. "Do como, dearest," shewrote;"I'll send tho motor for you.Iam giving a tea-party, and youcan helpmo out with some of the natives, sobo sure and como, thero's a dear."

"Are you- going?"Nella nodded. "Yes. Do you mindbeing left, Jack?""No, of course not.""I'll stay with him," Isaid."No," said Nella, "you must comotoo, Marjorio;Iwant you to knowMarian, and the castle is well 'worth

seeing;besides, you may discover whyI've been tabooed.

I" was having tea and talking to oneof the "cats"

—the old lady called Miss-Eliza Parkinson, who had been so coldin her manner to Nella. She was ap-parently satisfied of my respectability

by the fact of my being up at thocastle. Tho Alpha and Omega 'ofPearlgate's social ambition was to boseen at the castle. Wo were discuss-ing the cold weather and tne Govern-ment and tho time of year when sud-denly Isaw a look of intense amaze-ment pass over tho old lady's face.'vVcll,Iam surprised*," she ejaculat-ed inan acid undertone, followed by avinegary Inugh.

"Really !" Isaid, "and what has sogreatly astontshod you?"Ifollowed her glanco to whero Nella

stood talking to Lord Mounden, andthenIturned to her again.

"And what has astonished you?"Iasked."Do you know Mrs. Worthincton?"

she said in a tone that cloarly showedshe was perfectly sureIdid not; "butyou wouldn't— she is over there, thattall, fair woman, talking to our host"sho said our host with some slight "re-lish," and continued sharply, "Howovordid she get in here, and whatever willLady Mounden think? Iwonder whocan have brought her here— surely notMrs. Bennett? and she turned to lookfor the, doctor's wife.

"Why, aro you so astonished at see-ing her hero?" Iasked gontly.

Tho old lady stare" at me. "Why,don't you know who sho is?"

And beforeIcould answer sho wenton

"She was matron, or oven under-mat-ron, 1believe, to some convatascenthome near Londori

—Iforgot where it

was;but it was quite a common place,Iunderstand, aud she is quito a no-

Sir William Wightraan held offico inthe old court of Queen's Bench far be-yond tho prescribed timo, and at lastho tqok a isort of farewell of his brotherjudges. However, lie turned up smilingagain at Westminster Hall. "Why,Brothor Wightmnn," said Sir AlexanderCockburn, ''you told us that you in-tended to send in your resignation."So Idid," said Sir Willinm, "butwhen 1went homo and told my wifoshosaid:'Why, Willinm, what on earth doyou think thatwo cando with you mess-ing übout tho house all day?r So yousco, Iwas obligod to corao down tocourt again."-

THE EVENING'

POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. .1906."An Undesirable." A Questionof Reality. A Century Old.THE STORY-TELLER. water. This "beautiful 'lake is a long

narrow expanse caused by hugo landslips.damming the narrow valley and backingup the waters of the Arthur, tke tonsoi the submerged forest showing still

Iabove the surface of the lake as inmuner-Iable, fantastic snags, and the lower limbsof the trees like uncanny prehistoricmonsters lying caught in the greendepths.i.must own to rather a hazy recollec-

[ tion of the latter part of this, day'sjourney, aching feet and limbs ratherforcibly predominating, but out of this|mist one jewelled picture remains, name-ly, tke Giant's Gate Fails. Three hugeones we had seen that day, and yet on-other— the Lady Bowen Falls to comeat Milford

—but of all, Ithink

these the most Beautiful, in theirexmiisjto setting of bush androck,i and. the marvellous colours ofthe tfater as it flowed away from thedeep basin at the foot of the falls. Wedid not see this wonder on our returnjourney, as we boated back over LakoAda

—thus saving five miles' walk. The

track ends at tjandfly Pomt— most ap-propriately named, for there were thickclouds of these little pests soon uponus, but the friendly trackmen invitedusinto their hut whilst we thecoming of Mr. Sutherland and his boatto take us the remaining two miles acrossthe head of Milford Sound to the com-fortable boardinghouse kept by Mrs.Sutherland. Two days we stayed,doing littla but "loaf," looking forthfrom the verandah on the unrivalledprospect. Ihad suspected artists ofexaggerating its beauties— l found ex-aggeration impossible.

M.

The "Chalet dcs Iles."

body, and hor father kept a smallshop,Ibelieve. Of course, we have to bovery particular in a place like this, forsuch funny people come here," addedthe^ old lady, pursing up her lips.

For a moment Iwas actually speech-less before this torrent of explanation,and before Ihad time to recover my-self Lady Mounden and Nella were atour side.

"Well, and how have you been, Mj5SEliza?" said Lady Moundon, smilingkindly at the acid old lady, "and howis your brothor— pretty well again.Ihope?— you know Mrs. Worthington,"she continued, and then, seeing no lookof responsive recognition, sho addedlightly, "but Isuppose she has beenhardly settled enough for callers yet;let me introduce you

—Miss Parkinson—

my cousin, Mrs. Worthington," and amoment later Lady Moundenhadrustledaway, and Nolla, without a word totho old lady, had smiled at mo andstrolled to the other side of the room.

Miss Parkinson gavo a gasp,/ andlooked almost as though sho disbelievedher aged eyes

—and 1broke gently on

her meditations:"Will you tell mo who told you that

Mrs. Worthington was the—

cr—

under-matron of a home?"

The old lady had the grace to lookashamod. "I really don't know," shosaid, faintly, "but— but every ono herethought so too—it's really dreadful howthese scandals get about1

—but, of

course, wo must go and see her nowand make up for our stupidity. Sucha sweet-looking woman, too, don't youthink so?" she added— "do tell mowhich is her day at home?""Idon't think she has one,"Ireplied,

amiably, as Ilooked at the poise ofNella's head as a second woman madea vain attempt to enter into conversa-tion— "I am afraid you'll find she'snot 'at home,'" and Ismiled a gooa-byo and sauntered a,way.

—Mrs. Ncish,

in tho Daily Mail.

"Sandy M'Nab."

upon those accustomed to hear certainelementary truths expressed with morereserve. But the.directness of speechand thought natural to the poor ap-peals to their own class as more polished 'phrasing never could. Once when agreat, 6trong, young man, with a clumsyattempt at sympathy, compared his ownbig, healthy frame with John's wastedbody— "Young man," said John, rollingsightless eyes at him, "are youpreparedfor eternity?" John knows quite wellthat, however small the house of lifemay be, it is always possible .to look outof the window, because 'his mother,\vho_ lives with him and nurses him un-ceasingly, belongs to the order of thosewho possess all things when they havenothing. '

Mary Andrews is a great sufferer,thoughmost uncomplaining, 'and the onedread of the two poor things is thatMary, upon whomJohn is absolutely de-pendent, should be taken first. Butthough Mary herself is so frail, her cot-tage'i§ as neat as a new acorn-cup, andshe is always so busy with her houseand her invalid that she has only timefor the briofest excursion, in clogs, toa sick neighbour's or the .village shop.Constant anxiety and paiii and weari-ness have seamed her face with longsad linos; but they have also made itbeautiful, and she is the very model ofSaint Anne. For all her care, Mary isnever out of humour, bub has always thesame grave, cheerful tranquillity j andthough she reveres John as the wisestand best of men, yet she has beenknown to robuko him when ho becamemore than usually censorious. "Jan,vJan, thee Bhouldst not say 'en;" andr

though John protested "But 'tis true,mother," yet he dropped the subject.

Mary says:"Us do make our ownjoys, Ireckon,1' and some people thinkthat the uncomfortable parts of life are

.exactly those which make it best worthliving. However that may be, Mrs.Patch's experience of the "aching joys"of life cannot bo very large, or shewould never have been so unconscion-able as to go on lasting a hundred yearsin the face of it. Bu,t perhaps Mary isright about the joys wo make our-selves. For though she and John aro toall appearance much less comfortablethanMrs. Patch, they do not think herlot enviable. The grievousness of po-verty is when it cramps growth, andthere are certain ways of growthequallyaccessible to poor and rich,

—labour and

anxiety for children and_ kindred, thebelovedand the dependent. Mrs. Patchmissed that way, because she had nochildren; and, though, like everyoneelse in W , where husbands andwives sometimes are related fourfold,she has countless kinsfolk, she "has notchosen the voluntary burden of otherpeople's troubles as some generous soulsinevery rank of life seem driven to do.And so her small devotions to her poorlittle comforts call down John's cen-sures on her head. John does not con-sider that being a hundred years oldis any excuse, because"The soul's dark cottage, battered and de-

cayed,Leta in new light through chinks that Time

hath made;"and in view of the fact that neither henor Mary has chosen- to be imprisonedwithin the narrowness entailed by pov-erty of all things, he may ba excusedfor reflecting that a hundred chinkshave let very little light into the par-ticular dark cottage which Mrs. Patch'ssoul inhabits. The truthis that most ofus choose a prison and stop inside itof our own accord. The cell may bewide or narrow according to conditions,but is nevertheless a prison. It seemsas if there were a deep-rooted instinctthat drives civilised man to shut him-self (up close.jpside any,protection ,thatcan part"him from the greater elementsoutside. So that the crealures whichare born destitute, as we reckon desti-tution, have a wider inheritance not oftheir ownchoosing. Those who are verypoor, or very wise,may find out the en-chanted place where poverty is a deedof possession, admitting the owner toa share in the Avido inheritance of the.wild things born on thev common toshort lives and poverty. The lambsthat' gaze out on the snowbound heathwith tho amazed, eyes of thisgs newlypast the threshold of a world of un-imagined limitations are not in much

.poorer case than Mrs. Patch shut up inside the shell of a'hundred years' har-dening. For although Mrs. Patch docsnot share the intellectual privileges thatpoor John Andrews values so* highly,there are sti|l other possessions to whichthe pooresthave a right, in the,univer-sal brotherhood of simple creatures,furred, feathered, or human. "There'snight and day, brother, both sweetthings;there's sun and moon and stars,brother, all sweet things. There's like-wise a wind on the heath." But whilethe wind blows on the heath those whohave houses stay inside them.

Thereis (or was) a brown donkey whodraws Up water from the Well at Caris-brook by trotting an unending courseinside a. great wheel. And whetherbuckets go up or down, and whetherkings or trippers stand by to watch,the meek involuntary moralist goes ontrotting > inside his enclosing wheel,novcr, getting any further on and neverlooking away from 1113 own patientbrown legs. Thfc brown donkey did notchooso his wheel; but most of hishuman prototypes from sheer force ofhabit endure a voluntary servitude in-side a different wheel which turns per-petually one way, and dulls tho sensesthat might have been listening to thewind on tho heath. Sometimes thereare a few desperate struggles to getaway fromtho ceaseless turning, but thefatal circle closes in, until anotherwheel is broken at tho cistern and woturn no more.

—Spectator.

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THEATRE JtOTAI*.Fuller's Vaudeville Company.

town HAi.r..West's Pictures, 22nd December to 22ndJanuary.Organ Recital (Dr. Bradshaw), 24th January.

The famous "Besses o' th'Barn" Bandwill shortly leave from Vancouver forNew Zealand and Australia, after ahighly successful tour of America. Thobaud manager, Mr. J. Henry lies, hascabled the Messrs. Tait that he willreach Auckland from America ina fewdays. The band will play in Welling-ton in February.,- The scenes for "Parsifal," to,be donein Sydney for Christmas by Miss TittellBrune and tho Williamson DramaticCompany, havo been set at Her Ma-jesty's, Melbourne, and created a, sen-sation. Mr. J. C. Williamson declaresthe work tobe tha finest yet turned outfor his theatres. One, a road oa theway to the .Holy Grail showing a river,is exquisite (says a Melbourne paper),and another, the Castle, is impressiveto a degree, and as an illusion perfect.Mr. W. E. Coleman is the responsible" party.

A story is going the rounds of an in-teresting wager made by the well-knownviolinist, Herr Willy Burmester. A

Jaet was made, relates the London Star,"that-a party of experts could tell atonce whether he was playing on hisownStrad, or ona new violin valuedat£2. He took both instruments behinda screen, and played the two alternate-ly for half-an-hour, and deceived theexperts every time. If the story istrue as it stands, j.e., if the judgeswerereally competent, it is not a little Isurprising, 'and may give the possessorof expensive violins food for serious

Miss Genevieve Wa:-d, now describedas a charming and genial old lady, re-turned to the stage London theother day to play the part of the blindQueen Mother in a new play securedby Mr. Otho Stuart and Mr. OscarAscae for the Adelphi, London, en-titled "The Virgin Goddess." MissWard was asked by a Daily Chronicle/epreseatative if her appearance in '"TheVirgin Goddess" might,possibly heralda more prolonged return to the stage.She shook her head. "Why," she ex-claimed light-heartedly, "you don'tseem to remember that I'm just upon70!" The critics agree in their praiseof -Miss Ward's performance of theblyid Cleito as a memorable piece ofwork. She acted "with magnificentpower," says one writer, "and a dignityand pathos.that seized alike upon theheart and the imagination."

The arrival of the members of J. C.Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Com-pany is being awaited with interest,andits Wellington season,which commencesonBoxing Night, should be a most suc-cessful one. A strong repertoire ofcomic operas andmusical plays has beenacquired by this combination since itsvisit to Wellington some years ago,and of this Wellington playgoers wiltsee the best of them besides some in-teresting revivals. The company ar-

s,rives here by special boat from Mcl--bourne on Christinas Day.

To-day sees the departure from Syd- :ney of "The Squaw Man Company," :for New Zealand, its tour opening in ]

"'Dunedin,' whilst "The Little Stranger 'Company" also leaves that port for :Wellington to-day. :

Mr. Bernard Shaw's plays have not 'paid in New York; for the man who ■

produced them there, Mr. Arnold Daly,lias, according to a telegram in a Lon-don paper, been made bankrupt. His

solo assets aro given at £40 in cash,clothes valued at £40, and his theatri-cal wardrobe. His liabilities total over£2000. He explains that his failurewas due to the expense of producing"Mrs. Warren's Profession" and thelegal expenses consequent upon his ar-'rest for producing thoplay.. One paper, heads its report of Mr. Daly's failure,"Oh! Shaw." It is reported that Mr.Shaw urged Mr.-Daly not to produce, his plays, asho was convinced hecouldnot mako them pay.

The clever boy, Willie Parke, who hasmade such a success of the title roloof "The Little Stranger," which opensat the Opera House on Wednesday next,is able to claim quite an experience onthe stage already, though he is only

[ nine years old. He first appeared at. the mature age of three in a perfor-mance of "Madame Butterfly;" lateron he was at the Adelphi in "Midsum-

1 mor Night's Dream," and then playedj "Millie's Baby" at the Granville Thea-

tre. Tho original "Littlo Stranger" inr London was Edward Garratt, anotherboy, whoso performance was mainly' responsible for the great success of the

comedy in England and America. Willie., Parke was Garratt's understudy, and[ acted so cleverly in tho capacity that, Mr. Michael Morton, thb author of

the play, selected him for the part inthe Australasian tour ofMeynell, Gunn,and Varna's new company. The newnine-year-old star, who was born inWestminster, and educated in Cam-berwell

—andtherefore proudly claims to

be ''an Englishman"—

enters fully intothe humour of the comedy, and rompsabout the stage with all the healthy,happy spirit of an irresponsible child,who is delighting in the rolo of a spiritof mischief.

Miss Nellie Stewar^ writing to afriend in Sydney on October 15, statedthat she was then in Paris, getting allher gowns, wigs, etc., for her Americantour, which is to begin in January. Itis possible that during the vacation inthe hot weather she may pay a flyingvisit to Australia, returning to theUnited States tot the autumn. MissStewart tells that shs has alreadysecured two great novelities for Aus-f'-Min in new plays Whilst in Lon-don she heard Madame Melba at theopeia, and declares that she sang, ifpossible, more beautifully than ever.She also heard Miss Amy Castles, whois, she says, a very great favourite inLondon, receiving a great welcomewhenever she sinsrs.Mark Twain once observed that "themusic of Wagner isn't half as bad as it

sounds." And it is' permitted to me tosay iD the same cheerful spirit that thenew play at the Criterion isn't half asbad as one would take it to be by thetitle, writes the Sydney correspondent ofMe-bourne Punch. "The Midnight Wed-ding" on the bills suggested possibilitiesof a second and worse edition of "TheFatal Wedding." Imagine then the "de-lightful disappointment" when WalterHoward's play on Saturday turned outto be a well-ronstructed melodrama, onthe lines of "Dorothy Vernon," whichit resembles not a little. Ihe story ofthe play is Austrian, but in character itis decidedly French. The action is brisk,and the situations are plentiful. Thethird scsne of the first act— the privatechapel of thfe Strelsburgs— would seemto have been "scientifically annexed"'"fiom "Maritana."

Mr. George Musgrove, who is now inGermany searching for operatic talent,told a representative of the British Aus-tralasian during a flying visit to Londonthat it is no easy matter to get first-rate singers in Germany. Times liuvechanged considerably on the Continent ofEurope since the days when tho best ofsingers could bo picked up at lowsalaries. Theatrical managers in Ger-many and Austria now pay fabulousprices for talent, and even belter salariesthan are paid in Germany ure not anyinducement to many German artists tomake a long voyage to Australia. JHow-ever, Mr. Musgrove is not despairing,and feels sure by dint of much labourand travel he will be able to take toAustralia the best English-German operacompany ever heard ir Sydney and Mel-

bourne. There is also, it is stated, aprobability of Madame Jansen, who isnow teacher of singing at the MelbournoUniversity Conservatorium, heing en-listed under the Musgrove banner for thecoming grand opera season.

The course of the musical- year isgenerally planned out twelve months Juadvance, and in this way it is alreadyknown, in regard to 1907, that Mme.Clara Butt is to arrive here in Septem-ber, artd Miss Maud Powell, the Ameri-can violinist, somewhere about Easter,says Sydney Morning Herald. Now, bya letter from Mr. Ernest Gye, dated Oc-tober 25, we learn, at short notice forsuch an important event, that Mme. Al-bani will pay a farewell visit to Austra-lia, opening here next June. Mr. Gye,"having almost completed his arrange-ments," has already engaged Miss AdelaVerne, probably tne most popular ladypianist who has toured the country, tosupport the star, as well as Mr. HaydnWood, a violinist as yet unknown onthis side, but favourably spoken of onthe other. The Australian tour will con-sist of 30 concerts.

Mr. O. P. Heggie, a young Australianactor who succeeded Mr. H. Stephensonas the Messenger in W. H. Hawtrey'slater Australian revivals of "A Messagafrom Mars," a part created in Londonwith Charles Hawtrey by G. S. Tither-adge, has been doing well in Englandduring the past year or two. He writesto a friend that the stage in'London isin a fairly bad state, and that it is ab-solutely useless for any one to go therefrom Australia unless well provided withmoney and prepared to wait out. Hewas himself one of the lucky ones, get-ting splendid parts in the provinces, andthenhappening by pure luck tohavehiswork seen by managers. Tho result Lasteen that on13th October last he openedat the London Crjterion under GrantALens management with the principalpart m the curtain-raiser, "The Lemon-ade Boy." This is being played beforethe principal piece, "The AmateurSocialist." The curtain-raiser dealt withlove affairs on Eastbourne Beach betweena boy at a lemonade stall, a batchingmachine man, a Christy minstrel "vil-lain," a sweet stall girl, and a nurse-maid. The Pall Mall Gazette remarksthat Mr. Heggio "played with a bright-eyed alertness as the lemonade boy that"was very taking."

Thero never was requited much, of apeg on which to hang the plot of farce-comedy, says a writer in the SydneyDaily Telegraph, commenting on "TheLittle Stranger," which commences itsKew Zealand tour in Wellington onWednesday. If those who foiegatheredat the Palaco Theatre were catechisedas to why they laughed, the probabilitiesare that they would reply: "Oh! thatfunny baby!" And it really was thebaby who was responsible for all the mernment. It was nothing more than anight's romp with the bab>— a nurserypantomime, with a precocious child lead-ing the revels The author of "TheLittle Stranger," thus welcomed, h<i3 con-ceived another idea in the romance oftopsy-turveydom, already exploited sofrequently and eccentrically by Mr W. S.Gilbert. All natural laws are waived,and he asks us to look at the nursery,as it were, through the wrong end of atelescope "Out of the mouths nf babeaand sucklings" he essays to teach wis-dom, by indicating a state of affairswhich might be biought <xbout weie lueyoung idea in "shorts" to become irrcar-

tnated with the soul of % giown-up, andbehave accordingly. The hero here, in-troduced as a cooing babe in the armsof his nurse, is desigued to become aholy terror in the household to whichhe belongs, in oz'der to read his mothera salutary lesson. Mra ])ick Allenbyhas become infatuated with the teachings!of a neurotic spiritualistic humbug, PaulYrousky, head of a sect known as the!"Soul-hunters " To effm a cure, heihusband is persuaded by his fiiend,Alec. Howard, who has previously dis-tinguished himself by the exposure ofIfrauds, topretend to havebeen drowned,and permit* the place of the real baby tobe takenby a precocious mannikiu, whois supposed to possess the soul of thepresumably deceased Dick Allenby. Theresemblance between the children is

HATS AND FEATHERS.Our fashion correspondent writes

from London:— lt is of importance tonote that hats, and millinery of allIdescriptions, must be of the same col-our as the chess or costume; the re-sult is that all millinery details havebeen produced .in all the long ranges ofcolours and shades of those colourswhich characterise the latest dressmaterials. In magnificent and costlyfeatheis, velvet and silk flowers, rib-bons, velvets, wings, and felts, andmillma,ry draping felts, wo thereforehave the latest wine shades and mul-borry tones, the deep purples, thepome-granates, the greens, and the browns.ISo there aie to be no more black hatsworn with, coloured dresses, andnomorehats of contrasting colour. Everythingmust be ensuite, whether formorningorafternoon occasions. The hat is notinfrequently made ot the same materialas the dress;for instance, of velvet ortaffetas or soft draping cloth, for yetanother great novelty is the taffetas hatmade in the shape of the Louis XVI.bonnet— somewhat like amob-cap, madeof sol'tly and fully draped silk set onto a Harrow stiff brim ot the same mate-rial or of velvet;the full puffy crownIis usually higher at the back than it isin front. It is wonderful to whav ex-tent this shape has caught the popularfancy,especially in Paris, and the moreso,that it is in direct opposition to theprevailingmodes of the recent summer.This ,latest shape is worn well on tothe Head without any kind of baretteor bandeau Just, now all the leadingmillmers seem to bo trying to persuadetheir customers to do away with thehigh bandeaux which for a long timohave been carried to great extremesJust now there ate large shapes andsmall shapes 5 there are fairly widebrims and also nobrims at all;some ofthe Khapes have .very big round crownsfitting right on to the head, no brim atall ia front, but just an edging, whichwidens out slightly toward the back.And it is the hats of this last descrip-tion that aro the most overloaded inthe way ot trimming.

JS'ovor before have ostrich feathersreached such a state of perfection asthey now have attained. This appliesequally as regards the- colours, thelength, the fulness, and the conditiongenerally And these graceful trimmings are used without discriminationon the large picture snapes, on thesmart and cranky French models, andon the tiny fur toques. Ostrich fea-theis of course, vary greatly in price;a longone cannot be purchased for lessthan a guinea, and then it may be acomparatively poor specimen, for fea-thers of great length andperfect forma-tion may cost asmuch as seven guineasapiece. The colourings, as Ihave al-leady noted, aro in accordance with thelatest decrees of fashion, and the fea- jther, almost without exception,isused |on a hat, whether or velvet or silk orfelt, which is exactly the same tono asitself. Ombro feathers aro quite artis-1tic, including mole shading to blue ;brown, through all the tints of flameand orango to the palest lemon; andold rose to pale pink and cream. Thesearo among the favourites,butthere aremany others also;and in the majoritythe same colour is used throughout,lioyond a doubt, ostrich feathers arethe most popular form of hat decora-tion at the present time, they alsothe most beautiful, and thereforeit makes one vexed to come across somewhich have been subjected to very un-kind treatment, perhaps in the way ofabackward curl at the tips, the quill oftho feather being almost flat and mostshitrply defined, whilo the fronds, al-though tightly waved underneath, arocurled over at the cxtremopoint; thesefeathers are used to drapo tho back ofth' 3 nat. Ostrich feathers in mole-shade are useful for London wear a3they do not show any grime from fogsor cmuts; the light leathers of coursearc extravagant wear, bnt the richwine-shades and deep purples will lasta long while without showing any at-mospheric ravages.

HAT-BAGS.

HOME HINTS.The Cycle Pump as a Duster.— Owners ',

of carved furniture, statuary, plaster casts,and other objects in which dust is proneto collect will welcomo this hint gladly.To remove dust from crannies and crevicesthere is nothing more simple than thouso of the ordinary cycle pump. Thisclears the dust, leaving the- object brightand clean.

Weak Ankles.— Weak ankles will bomuch strengthened if bathed regularly jisea-salt and water. If your feet bcco*uetender, and blister easily when walking,try wearing thick woollen stockings. Be-fore pulling them on. dust the feet wellover with starch powder..

Remedy for Damp 'Walls.— Cover thodamp, part with a varnish formed ofnaphtha and shellac, in tho proportion ofa quarter of a pound of tho latter to aquart of the former The smelL of Lhomixture ib unpleasant, but it wears offin a short time, and the wall is coveredwith a hard coating utterly impervious todamp, and ro which the wallpaper can beattached in the usual way.

A Dirty Wick.— A dirty wick is oftentho cause of a smoking lamp. To remedythis place the burner ina strong solutionof soda and hot water, and let it soak inthis for a time. Dry tho wick thoroughly,and replaco it in the lamp

Preserves.— To oxcludo the light frompreserve-jars, empty breakfast-food boxesare useful, especially if the housekeeperhas no dark storeroom. The boxes aremerely slipped over tho jars.

A. Kack for Brooms.—

This will be appreeialed by any tidy housekeeper. Apiece of narrow board is used, sawed tothe length where the rack is to be placed.Bore as many holes in tho board as need-ed, about an inch or an inch and a quar-toi in diamctei, placing the holes farenough apart to keep the brooms fromtouching. They aro to bo put m upsidedown. Supports for tho rack may bemade fronj triangular pieces of woodscrewed to the wall about chree feet fromthe floor -Hookß for dust-pans and duet-brushes jnay bo placed under tho rack ontho wall, between the broom-handles.Shoo Buttons.

—These may bo prevented

from ;oming off by making a hole in the|leather large enough for tho shank of oachbutton and then passing a round shoe-string through eveiy shank, fastening thosiring at both ends.

DAINTY RECIPES.Angel Cake.

—The whites of eleven eggs,

a cupful of Vienna flour, a cupful and ahalf of castor sugar, a teaspoonful ofcream of tartar, and tho same quantityof oisenca of vanilla Beat tho eggwhitestill very stiff; sift the flour and sugar andcream of tartar together, putting themthrough tho sieve four times; then lightlyand gradually shako them into the whites;add the vanilla Pour into an ungreasedtin—

one with a tube in the centre beingpreferable— and bake for forty minutes ina very moderate oven, leaving it in tho tintill cold. For tho icing put a. cup ofgranulated sugar into a saucepan;moistenit with four tablespoonfuls of water, putit over tho fire, and stir only until thosugar has molted; then let it boil, with-out stirring, until the syrup forms finethreads when a little is lifted on a fork.Have ready tho wcll-beaton white of anegg, to which has beea addod a goodpinch of cream of tartar— say, as much aamay be lifted on a threepenny piece—

anda teaspoonful of essence of vanilla. Pourtho syrup in a thin stream over this -ogu,beating steadily tho while. Continue beat-ing until tho icing is thick enough to pourover the cake without running.

Souffle aus Pommos.—

Pare, core, andrut up oight medium-sized apples; stewthem with a veryKttlo water until of theconsistency of marmalade, and sweeten totnsto. When smooth and well cookodlightly whifk in the stiffly-beaten whites ofsix eggs. Turn into a souffle dish, andcook thirty minutes inanot too fieryoven.To gain variety in serving this souffle itmay bo baked in a case made of rice.To mako tho case (which is useful, too,for other purposes), boil 3oz of rice inwater for ten minutes .Strain, and pourover it a pint of milk;sweeten to taste.Lot the rico gradually s^ell over a mode-rate heat until it has absorbed all the!milk and forms a stiff mass. Pour it intoa plain round tin, and in tho centro pressia jampot, \ising ono only an inch or so|smaller than tho tin. This will leave athin wall of rice, which when cold will boquite firm. Tho jampot can then be re-moved, taking care, howover, not to breakthe wall of rice, which can now be turnodfrom tho 'tin. Turn tho soufflo mixturointo this case and bako as usual.

Marguerites.— B">at together till creamy2oz butter and 6oz castei sugar. Addhalf a teaspoonful of milk, 6oz siftedVienna flour, and two tcaspoonfulsof bak-infr powder Last of nil beat in lightlytho stiffly whipped whites of three eggß,and flavour with almond. Bake for thirtyminutes in a largo shallow tin. WhenIdono cut out in rounds, and ice each oneIwith icing made by moltingconfectioner's

sugar till just thin enough to run. Orna-ment tho tops with slices of almonds pre-viously blanched andbrowned in tho ovon,and arranged to represent the potalsof amarguerite. For tho centres of the flowersuso somo of tho almond very fiuolychopped.— The Queen.

"HOW TO BE POPULAR IN 1906."

Among the indispensables of a ladywho travels a great deal by rail (writes"Winifred" in the Australasian) is aha.t-bag. It should be made of somesoft dark material, such as alpaca orsateen,andis closed with a draw-string.When on a long-distance journey sheslips her hat into the bag, draws ittightly together, and puts it up on therack provided for light packages. In-stead of having her hat dusty and dila-pidated at the end of the journey, as isso often the case, sho will find that thehat-bag has kept it fresh and clean.Its ribbons are as they wcro when shestarted, and neither battered nor crush-ed from being worn 'while she loungesnor grimy with engine soot and smuts.Ihave seen women carefully pinning uptheir hats in paper to save their fresh-ness from being tarnished, but the hat-bag is a hotter idea. It does not rusticor crack us the paper does, it is alwaysready, and it can bo tucked away whenit has fulfilled its mission in a handsatchel, for it practically takes up no100mat all.

Arecipe for girls, "How to be popularin 1906," just reverses tho ideas of theearly Victorian period, whenit was con-sidered ladylike to be observed andrarely heard. "Moaesty and seemliness"wore the watchwords of the girlhoodof our grandmothers and greatgrand-mothors, who aro credited with limitingtheir replies to "No, thank you," and"If you would be so very kind," and soforth, and who if they mado anoriginalspeech were "all of a flutter." Thogirl of to-day is told that to make her-self agreeable and indispensable to bothhostess and guests she must be bright,up to date, and intelligent.If she, can-not bo good-looking, she must be smartboth in mind and appearance, and tholatter (according to Molbourno Argus)goes in many cases much further thanmere prettiness of feature. The cleverconversationalist is the successful girlof the hour, who must never bo didac-tic or given to too much reminiscenc-ing. Gossip is out of date in mixedcompany, and, though one's fellow crea-tures may be talked over, it must al-ways bo in a kindly vein. The wisegirl stores her mind with much topicalknowledge, and studios the passingcrazes of the day with tho praiseworthyviow of discussing them intelligently, sothat she need hardly ever bo at a loss,no matter what the subject. Of course,much depends on the type of girl whomakes a business of these methods ofgaining favour with tho worldsho comesin contact with, and tho adviser whorecommends the different ways of "Howto be liked" wisely warns the statuesqueand classic style of young woman fromindulging in the gay chatter and free-dom of action which is eminently s»uit-abie to the small and irregularly-featur-ed ono.

sufficient for all practical purposes, andas soon as the exchange is effected thefun begins. Baby no longer submits tobeing petted and played with, but pie-fers "to blow his own nose," ard tosatisfy his thirst with bottled "Scotch"rather than with bottled milk. In facthe develops all the vices of the adultmale, as a result of which the nurse isdriven mto hysterics, the butler thanksthere is a refuge downstairs, andthe fumi.y and visitors generally are dis-tracted until such time as the motherscared out of her wits with such a re-sponsibihty, comes to her senses foi-swears spiritualism, and all is explained."1he biggest undertaking of its kindover attempted in the Southern Hemi-sphere, sir; and the most likely to de-velopinto a permanent boom!" Havingprefaced his general lemarks with thisobservation, a vell-kno-.vn. theatrical ex-port proceeded to a favourable commentcm the gigantic epeculation undertakenby Mr. William Andersonat Bondi (saystho Jelegraph of a recent date). AndWonderland City, as tne newly-organisedpleasure resort, formerly known asBondi Aquarium, is cahed, appears likelyto justify the favourable comment. Whatanarmy of tradesmen, scenic artists, andmechanicians, directed by the stao-e-craftiness of an old general like Mr.Anderson can do, liasbeen done to trans-form the buildings, to erect others, andlay out 20 acres of land in the mostattractive style. From a lengthy des-criptive article it is gathered that Won-derland contains "The King's Theatre," inwhich seating accommodation has beenprovided for 800 people. A mammothstage- has been erected,and it is proposedto give regular vaudevilleentertainments.A feature, too, will be the ladies' orches-tra. Running round tho southern andeastern sides of the theatre is an exten-civo promenade. At the western endtwo-storied tearooms have been con-structed, tho basement of the theatrebeing set apart for an aquariumand wax-works. Thi6 portion of the entertain-ment will bo thrown open free of chargeto the general public. Near by therehas b&en laid down an open-aii- skatingrink. Among the many attractions whichdot the gTounds is a novelty in the shapeof amaze, constructed of cylinders, whichrevolve in such a way ac'to utterly be-wLder the visitor who has the temerityto attempt his way through the building.Adjacent to it is what is fittingly des-cribed as a "Fun Factoiy," a combinationof glasses that give fearsome representa-tions of the human frame ; and in linewith this, that papular illusion, '

lueHaunted Swing." A miniature rifle rangehas been erected, and there is also a"Helter Skelter." The switch-back shouldcommand considerable patronage, if forno other reason thun that the passenger-car is tho ono in which King EdwardVII.mado what .to him ivua v, perilousjcurney at Earl's Court. On the oppo-sito ridge to- tho theatre, a miniaturerailway— the engine a perfect pattern ofthe "Baldwin breed,"— runs a quarteT ofa mile excursions at,intervals, and etopsto pick up and oet down passengers atvarious stations on the route Therois tho usual cutting, viaduct, and tunnelcommon to most railway lines, and thisshould b3 the greatest draw of all for theyoungsters, katzmajauu,Castle, a quaintold building, is said to contain enoughmystery to sutiefy the hungerer aftersensation. A spacious lawn, surioundedby a substantially-constructed sea-wall,has been formed, thousands of tons ofmaterial having been spread between thohLlu. At the southern side an open-airstage has been constructed aad perform-ances will be given at frequent intervals.A double-decked merry-go-round, said tobe the only one 01 its kind in the Com-monwealth, and driven by a electricmotor, has been "erected in the centreof the lawn An aerial flight is also incourse of construction. Cose by thobeach several bathing boxca for vise byladies have been placed in a Fafe posi-tion. The western portion of the groundhas beer beautifully laid out by com-petent gardeners. What piomisi-s to beone of the first features of the wholeundertakingi3the lighting; of the groundsand buildings. In nil there will be dis-tributed over tho place 7500 smaller elec-tric Ughts, besides 60 arc lamps, theentire area being literally festooned withelectric lamps.

Theatrical clips :— Leslie Harris did

not return to England, as reported.Mr. \V. J. Lincoln is making arrange-ments for another tour of Australia Dytho humourist. .. .Mr. E. T. Cole,whose tent theatre in Sydney hasEroved such a big success, opens a

ranch in Melbourne shortly. ...Messrs. Meynoll and Gunn are said tobe booking dates throughout this colonyfor tho whole of next year. ...Mr.Charles Warner is said to be receiv-ing £300 per week as a vaudeville starin America. ...Seats for the openingnight of "Tho New Aladdin" at thoLondon Gaiety sold for £10. ...Ed-ward Lauri, now in England,is referredto as "the Australian actor." .. . Wil-liam Anderson is reviving "Tho Face atthe Window" in Melbourne this week... Mr. Harry Rickards is engaginga number of Australians for his newdramatic company. .. ."Tho Girl whotook the Wrong Turning" is the title offa, melodrama Being played in Londonsuburbs. ... In a travesty in "TheSpring Shicken" on "The Little Strang-er," Mr. Claude Bantock plays the"stranger !".. .Mr, G. R. Sims, aftera long silence, from a theatrical pointofview, is busy on two melodramas. ...Mr. Leslie Victor, who visited NewZealand with the Broughs some yearsago, has been engaged in London asono of the members of tho JuliusKnight Company. . . . Mr. ArthurCrano is now principalbaritone with theRoyal Comics. This great company isstill playing in Melbourne. Tho Wel-lington season commences'on Boxing.light. ...Says Sydney Newsletter:—I"A little stranger called in (by earlydoors, of course) at the residence ofMr. Michael Joseph, at 5.30 on themorning of tho 13th November— an-other boy." . . .Miss Roland Watts-Phillips is giving lessons in elocutionin Sydney. ...Mr. Gus Neville, writ-Ing from Childers, Queensland, statesthat he is now with the Lillian MeyersCompany. Mr. Neville is married, andthe father of a daughter....Mr. Mar-shall-Hall has had to submit to an oper-ation upon his eyes in Berlin, whichmay detain tho Melbourne professorlonger than expected in Europe. ...There aro to bo four new operas thisseason at Berlin. These aro Tschaikow-sky's "Pique Dame," Smetona's "Dali-bor," Alexander Ritter'3 "Dcs FauleHans," and another work not, yet de-cided upon. . .. Mr. Ernest Ttiy isprospering in England. The Australianviolinist lias been playing with invari-able success in the large provincialcities, and has also apparcd in Lon-don and the Sunday League concerts.His engagements oxtend well into nextyear. . . .All sorts of rumours aroaround re the Bland Holts, says Punch,They don't disband, they don't go toEngland— 'for tho present. They comoto the Royal, Melbourne, for Easter,and play out Mr. Holt's tenancy ofthat popular theatre...Again, talk ofa new theatre in Mclbourno;fortmelo-drama. ...'Tis said "Wonderland City"to date has cost William Anderson juston £20,000. ... Miss Addio Hines,Miss Jennie Brcnan's star pupil, hasat last accepted an engagement

—as star

dancer in >lr. J. C. Williamson's panto.... Mr. Julius Knight leaves Londonfor Australia early in January. . ,.Mis 3Celia Glnloni talks of going toEngland fairly early next year.. . ,Professor Duggan, abig man in tho uni-versities of America, and a brother ofMiss Eugenio Duggan, is coming to Aus-tralia next year on a starring tour

—Shakespeare.

The imitation of ostrich and quillfeathers in chiffon for trimming hatsis said to have appeared owing toQueon Alexandra's plea for the birds ofparadise. Another fashion will soon beseen, that of flower-petal feathors. Thesedecorations will bo charming, composedof rose, violet, or pansy potals, and ar-ranged to droop lightly over the hair.

The Kaiser once said that of all thostories his brother, Princo Henry,,brought bade from America, noneamused him more heartily than this:As the Gorman boat bearing the princecame up New York harbour hundredsof boats crowded close, and from thedeck of ono unpretentious river boatcamo a hail in megaphone tones:"Hey,Henry, how's BillY"

For children's hacking cough at night,Woodi' Great Poppermint Cure, li Od,«&d 2* 6d per bottlo.— Advt.

"BREAKFAST."

Not long ago (writes "Emile" to anAustralian paper) there was a local dis-cussion, excitinga mild interest, on thosubject of "breakfast"

—to have or not

to have it, ono party maintaining thatbreakfast is an unnecessary meal, andthat men worked with a clearer brainwithout ii. That half of our city youthsdo go to work without this first mealof th© day, not of necessity, but fromhabits of late rising, is a grievance ofmany families. To allow two minutesin the morning for breakfast, and tholowest possible record to catch a train,is the average youth's daily perform-mance, and he either carries his break-fast with him, to eat on tho way to thostation, or does without it. A cityemployees pooh-poohs tho idea of fast-man, who takes a keen interest in fast-ing for a clear brain. "I always tellmypcoplo to oat a dish of oatmeal andeggs and bacon beforo they come tobusiness, so that they may have some-thing to go upon."

It has been decided already that thewoll-dressed woman must present a por-fect harmony of colour. To be instrict accord with tho latest dictatesof fashion, it is essential that onocolour should be used throughout, fiats,coats, skirts, blouses, belts, underskirt,ribbon,embroideries, and flowers shouldall bo carried out in the one chosenshade. The colours in which this ideacan be most artistically carried outare mulborry, smoke grey, and inaidcn-hair-fern-grecn.

Women who prefer the picturesquestyle of dress should be glad to hearof the return of tho chiffon fichu,which proved such a loss vjhen itsplace in evening dress Was taken bysquare-cut effects and scvore styles intrimming. Even black gowns are to boadorned with fichus in colours. Thefichus will hang in long ends almost tothe hem of the skirt.

THE EXHIBITION.("Excelsior" up to date.)

The shades of night wore falling pastAs swifty down tho Queen's Wharf passedA youth who bore, with balance nice,A handbag with tho plain device,

Tho Exhibition! ]His collar high, his pin beneathFlashed like a faulchion from its sheath,And from his coat lapol there hungA motto in his mother tongue,

Tho Exhibition!Inhappy homes he saw tho lightOf household fires gleamwarm andbright;Around the smoky flare-lamps shone,And from his lips escaped a groan,

The Exhibition!"Try not to "pass!" a steward cried,i"Another bed wo can't provide."Tho youth heaped curses onhis head,"Another bed, be hanged!1'he said,I Tho Exhibition!"Oh stay," a maiden said, "and restThy weary head upon this breast!"1 "Not much!" he rudely mado reply,And winked at her with bright blue eye,

The Exhibition!"Beware the wobble in the Strait,Bewaro your dinner, oaten late."This was the maiden's last good-night.The youth replied, though out of sight,

The Exhibition!At break of day in LytteltonThe porters crowd tho youth upon,Uttering their oft-repeated cry.A voice rang out in accents high,

The Exhibition!A traveller was seen to landHalf-buried by that faithful band,Still grasping, as if in a vice,That handbag with the plaindevice,

The Exhibition!There in the twilight cold and grayAdown .the wharf ho made his way;Then from the tradn, serene and fair,A voico fell, like a falling star,

Tho Exhibition1 —B.J.P.

THE ENLIVENER.How stupid day by day it wera

And dead.An there were not some daily stir

From Ted—Somo big or littlo thing begun,Some adversary on the run,Somo doings by the doughtyone.How potent were the days to boreAnd tire,Anit were not for Theodore,

Esquire—Somo heated solecism said,Some evil whacked upon tho head,Somo doings typical* of Ted.How wags tho merry world with usAnd. glad,With Theodore the Strenuous, ,

Egad!Somo emoko upon each setting fern.Somo falsifier branded one,Some shindeo endedor begun.Alas! how Bhall -wo stand the blowOf Fate,When Theodore shall usnomoreElate?.All eventful days and still!JNo daily grist from Teddy's mill!No news from Rough-and-Ready-ville!

—■St. Louis Post Dispatch.SCARED AWAY.

"Mary," said th© cook to the house-maid, "they toll me it's all over betweenyou and the policeman. Oh,Ido hope itisn t true, dearie!He's such a nice younjman! "It's true, every word of it,"saidMary, stiflinga sob. "And I've only gotmyself to blame for it. Imado myself aomd guy, and scared him away." "I'msure you couldn't make yourself a guy, nomatter how you tried," the cook remarkedsoothingly. "ButIdid,Itell you," re-plied Mary, no longer trying to stem hergrief. Ono day last week Iwent out tosweep tho steps, and put the missus'motor cap and goggles on to "keep thedust out of my hair and eyes. And justas Iwas finishin' sweepin', who shouldcome along but Robert hisself! Itried tohido behind tho stone lion, but it wasn.° uso'r , cauKht sight of me, gzuve onestart of orror, and fled, andIain't seteyes on him since!"

THE HEIRLOOM.When old Podgers left the house inwhich ho had lived for over forty yearsand arrived with all his household goods

and treasures at the home of his son, therewas trouble. Ono of his most treasurediamilv heirlooms was missing— a bigfamily album bound in full calf. Podgerswas inconsolable"I've used it regular for years," he6aid,',\?nd * wouldn't 'aye lost it forworlds. 1"Never mind," said his son, "we'll seewhat can bo done aboutit," and from thatday ho commenced saving up his money

until he had eufficiont to buy a now al-bum, beautifullly bound in crimson plushwith, groat brass clasps, which ho pre-sented to his sire, naturally expecting anoutburst of thanks But no. On seeingit, tho old man's jaw fell to an alarmingdegree. Then ho banged his withered fiston to the* table with a force that simplystaggered youngPodgers."In, tho name of goodness, man," heroared, '

who could strop a razor onthat?"

HIS STRAIGHTFORWARD ANSWER.At tho general election a candidate wasunexpectedly asked to what religious do-monination ho belonged. There was noopportunity to prompt him, so the candi-date had to do the beet he could on hisown. "Well," said tho candidate, "youask mo anhonost question, andIwill give

you «v straightforward answer. My grand-mother was a Scotchwoman

—a rigid Pres-byterian." A perceptible chill promptlyfell over the company. "My grandfather

was English, and naturally an Episcopa-lian,' ho added, quickly. A frown ap-peared on the forehead of the chill. "Myfather bolieved in immersions, and was agood Baptist," ho continued, lookinganxiously for the vordict, only to see inshaking heads an indication that he hadnot struck it yet. It was growing despe-rate. Ho squared his shoulders, and wenton solemnly

—"My dear old mother, whom

1lo\ed andhonoured with my whole soul,w&& Methodist." Instantly every facewas ajorncd with a luminant smile, and inaburst of enthusiasm ho concluded— "And,gentlemen,Ifollowed the precepts of mydear old mother. Iam a Methodist, andIdon't care who knows it!" Tho candi-date was elected.

BUILT IN SECTIONS.Before tho erection of the new pier at

tho Castle Rock passengers from Dumbar-ton had to bo conveyed down tho Levento tho Clydo steamers by a ferry boat,rowod by two sturdy and generallyelderlyferrymen. On ono occasion an Englishcommercial traveller had seated himself onthe gunwalo at the stern. One of the oldf'errymeun,awaro of tho danger of any one

"so placed when tho rope of the steamershould bo attached to tho bow of the boat,took occasion to warn the manof his dan-ger. "Noo, ma man, com' doon aff that,or yo'll coup ower1." The baigman only re-plied by tollinghim to mind his own busi-ness, and trust him to take care of him-self. "Wcel," said tho forryman, "mind,I'vo tolt ycj as suro as yo'ro sittin' theroyo'll coup ower." No sooner had therope been attached, and tho boat got thoinevitable tug from tho steamer, than thefollow went heels up over tho stern."Gowk! Itolt him that." However, be-ingin tho water, it bohoved that overy ef-fort should bo made torescue him. So'thcferryman made a. grab at what seemed thohair of his head, when a wig camo away.Throwing this impatiently into the boat,ho mnde a socond grip at the collar ofhis shirt, when a> front camo away. Cast-ing this from him with still greater scorn,he shouted to his companion, "Tummas.como hero, and help to save asinucklo o ithis man as yo oan, for hn's comin' &' awa'in bits."

"Why don't you get up and givo thatseat to your father, Bobbyt" reprimandedtholady. "Doesn't it pain you tcr soohimroaching for a strap?" "Not on a tram,"chuckled Bobby.

"Thero's si quare thing about a cousina' mine," said Barnoy O'Flynn. "He's »great habit o' walkin' in his sleep.""Can't he bo curod ay it at all?" "Cureday it? Sure 'tis tho makiu' »v him. He'fin the polico force."

THE EVENING POST. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1906.

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1 f'O our list of "Wise Buyers" who are taking advantage 1§ of our low prices. You only need to compare our prices g{ and qualities with others, and you will be convinced it pays 8ito deal with us. §

I The following Merit Special Attention:— II Japanese Crepe Cloth. Scotch Zephyrs. |« Unequalled for Children's wear, ,For painty washing dresses we can SJ thoroughly fast incolour,and practically thoroughly recommend this fabric. ftI untearable,doesnot require ironing. SCOTCH ZEPHYRS, in a splendid wIr range of thoroughlyfast shades, also &j[ In stripes— whiteon blue, red on white, inchecks of various sizes; 31in wide «

!w!w white on turquoise, pink on white, fOi per yard 5

blue on white, fine pink and blue SCOTCH ZEPHYRS, in several «stripe; 30m wide 1/- peryard shades of butcher and navy blue, ft

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pg j |!i Also in floraldesigns, inquaintJapanese A splendid assortmentof French Cam- ftj| designs and exquisite colour effects: brics in smart stripe,spot, check, and

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I ALL "PIHLE FiNISH" CLOTH SKIRTS. ALL I* OMF Just tohand,a Special Purchase of 100 Black ONE SJ UNt and Navy "Pirle Finish'1 CLOTH SKIRTS, fS DDIPC seven &ores, stitched seams, and 15 rows of PRICE »m rKIUt stitching at foot. These Skirts are particularly rrkn-n- j,4 *e*te* «^,«U smart, well-made-'-and"Pirle Finish" goods are *Ct t^ «aru »m 10/6 e«Cn tOQ WBu known to need further recommendation. 10/ D ccu'11 »m Great value. Xk

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SPA i\»

Can You affordBLL* HEALTH?

If tiol, a Cure is cheap at anyPrice, and ce>tain ifyouuse

EVREM NERVE & BRAIN TABLETSOnly the wealthy can afford to be

invalids. They alone are able to bearthe expense of constantmedical atten-dance and trained nursing.

Your time is your Capital, andwhether your daily task is in thehome, office, shop, factory, or abroad,you must make every day profitable,or become aburden to yourself andfriends.

Weakness is the greatest sourceofill health— weaknessof the Nerves,defection or weakened action of theBrain, Heart, Lungs, Kidneys, Liver,and Digestive Organs.

Evren Nerve & Brain Tabletsare well suited to the needs andrequirements of amultitude of people,because they overcome all weakness

—first, weakness of the Nerves, and,through them, weakness of all theorgans of the body.

You may require ahalf-dozen ormore boxes ofEvren Nerve & Brain Tablets

to make your Nerves strong andwell, and send the tluill of Healthand Strength through your wastedNerves and Shrivelled Aueries, butthey will do itI

BecauseEvren Nerve & Brain Tablets

are Creators of new Nerve Force,Pure Blood, Healthy and NormalAction of all the Bodily Functions.

You can be positive that eachbox is doing you genuine good-prove thii by noting your increase inweight as your Nerves are madestrong, and new firm flesh and tissueis being added to your body.

ALL CHEMISTS AND STOREKEEPERSSELL THEM.

PRICE— .2/- PER BOX,Or willbe sent Post Free onreceiptj of price by

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A MODERNMIRACLE.

♥

The Lame Walk. Over twelveMonths in Bed. Doctorssaid Amputation or Death.

Case ofMiss EiienUnvin causesprofound sensation.

Miss Urwin, 21 years of nge, resUdent of 56,Hopper Street, Wellington,.relates her wonderful story:

— "About

the 16th of July, 1902, I was takenill with RHEUMATIC FEVER.

At the end of four weeks,Dr. vordered my removal to the Hospital.The swelling of my limbs was causing;greatanxiety,especially my leg, wherea large ebsccss had formed at theknee.Ientered tl.e Wellington Hospital

on the 20th August; the doctorsoperated the day following, succeededby two more operations beforeChristmas.

The Wednesday before 'Xmas Daymy people were informed that it wasabsolutely necessary to AMPUTATETHE LEG, the bone was diseased,and would not heal. Dr. came tomybedside,andkindly as possible toldme their decision, stating that it wastheonly thing to save my life, and theoperationwould need to takeplace asquickly as possible.

On Good Friday Iwas conveyedhome in the ambulance, very wealc,and could notmove withoutassistance.The leg was so swollen the KNEEWAS NOT DISCERNABLE, andhard as a board. On Easter SundayIcommenced taking- PLANTEKOA.Itwould weary you to give details ofmy progress, from thebed to the fire-side, then ahobble round the table, aperiod on crutches, from thit to Jiwalkingstick, to mypresent condition,being able to walk anywh'.rewithoutassistance. Ishall never .orget Sun-day, October 9th, 1903, *he first dayIwent any distance with the crutches,and attended the Wesleyan SundaySchoolAnniversary, inTaranaki-street,The astonishment of my friends wasintense, as very few expected to seeme outagain."- "

4Miss Unvinis>reeping in the best ofhealth, and thecure is permanent.

ANOTHEB, CURE FROMRHEUMATIC GOUT.

RHEUMO has ngain proved its effioacy.Mr. Gco. Collcdgo, the well-knownWellington Master Mariner, writes:— "I■was attacked with rheumatic gout. My

feet were much swollen and co very pain-ful that Ihad to keep in bed. Hewingof your euro for gout,Isent for & bottleof KHEUMO, and after taking a few .dosos the effect was.magical— tho severepain left and tho swelling disappeared; Iwas soon on my feet again and able tago to' work." RHEUMO is gold every,where at 2s 6d and 4s 6d« hottilt

To soothe ptUMliinilfll1roroovo tho effects of perspiration.

CALVERT'SPrickly-heat Soap

Is specially adupted. Though indispensablein cn«e» of Priokly-hoat Iwhenco its name)

nnd other imtntion of tho skin, it is alaopapularfor generalbath nnd toilet uso, beingpure,antiseptic,and refreshing.S3"Sold-by all local Chemists and Storts,

F. C. Caivkutft Co.Manchester,Enij.

LEATHER GOODS. "

tional qualiLy,but the pricesareevenmore exceptional.

Jn& The New "Vanity" Bagsjjv j*3 wehaveinallprices,

§6 w from1/6 to 20/-

We are also openingthis week large shipments of Noveltiesfor Christmas trade, whichwere personally chosen by our-selves inLondon and the Continent.

Pressure of work prevents fuller details, but we willwelcomeapersonalvisit, ariddo not think it will disappointeither the visitoror ourselves.

Nowhere else can you find assortments and prices sodistinctly favourable as at

PEftߣ^lGaLE 9S9 149 LAMBTON QUAY.PLEASEWOTE.-Close Wednesdays at Ip.m.

Open Saturdays till9 p.m.. during December.

THE .NEW HOUSE -

XMAS BARGAIN FAIR!ALL tho week the Store has been thronged with wideawake shoppers, clearly

proving that THE NEW HOUSE BARGAINS aro good. Next week thoschools will be breaking up for the holidays, and it is time to think of holidaythings for the young folk. In. Children's Millinery we aro offering the most mag-nificent bargains.

Whito Musiin Sun Bonnets, worth 2b 6d to 9s 6d; now Is 3d, Is 6d, la lid. 2s3d, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 3d to 4s 6d eachWhito Muslin andEmbroidery Sun Hats, worth 3s to lls 6d; now Is6d, 1b 9d_

2s 3d, 2s 6d, 2s lid, 3s 6d, 33 lid, "s 6d, 4s lid, 5s &d, 5s lid, 6s 6dSmart S.lk Bonnets, usually 4s 6d to 22s 6d each;now Is lid, 2b 3d, 2s 9d, 3a3d, 3s 6d, 3s lid, 4s 6d, 4s lid, 5s 6d, 5s lid, 6s 6d to lls 6dWhito and Coloured Muslin Eiver Hats'; now2s 9d, 356d, 3s lid, is 6d, 4s lid,

5s lid each.

JAMES SMITH & SONS.

OneGood TurnDESERVES ANOTKEB.

TheCage ofIVfrs. M, TURNER.(BY A LOCAL P.EPOKTER.)

Calling*t 120 Cuba-street, Wellington, %reporter had an interview with Airs.M«ryTurner, whichis deemedof sufficient impor-tanco to engage tho attention of moitir*wlers. In answer to the pressman Mrs.Turnersaid:—"Ihare not the least objection to being

interviewed in-regard to tho illuess Ihad■nhoa livingin Wauganui sevenyears ago.Qiite tha reverse, in fact, became Ithinkit is due to other sufferers thai they shouldknow of that wonderful medicine whichIam indebted to far helpingmo out of myphysicaldifficulties."'"

From whatIhave been told," said thescribe,"1amunder theimpression that you■»»cr« thtnina state »f debility." «ta "Youhavebeen told the truth, then, forIwas completelyrtiudawn. Youknow thoworryof bringingup a familyof children isa croab tax upon a woman,and,besideo,Ihad nob had aholiday for a long timeFrom commencing to leel tired before myw»rk wasfiuinhe.llgot to such anenfeebledcondition th*tIused to feel exhaustedbefore it wm begun. All day long Ifeltweary anddepressed, andcould nob eugagemy attention upon any mortal thing thatmight have helped mo to passa few of thedull hours away. Another of my troublesww thatIeatild not eat. Even the look "/food was enough for me,Ifelt sosick at thesight ofit,andIoften used to think that ifIcould oaiy eat a littlo how much good itmight do mt. A totalabsence of e>i«rgy,Hidaching sensations inmy limbs, were thetilings that were bothering me greatly,s>nd itcame tosuch a pass atlength thatIVouldnot do any work,andhadto get agirlin tho home to doit f«r me. ThenIcouldget up whatever time Iliked in the morn-ings,and spend the days justasIfancied,%ut even then Iwns nothappy. Iseemedto bo too frightfully low-spirited for any-thing to make mo cheerful, and at lnstI(rent to adoctor to see whath* coulddo forJrtc.

""Ihope you progressed well under bit j

"Jreatment ?""

Iused to hopeIwatild, but,alas!myhopes wereall in vain. The medicines hegavemo hadno better effect than ifIbadnot taken them at all, ferIcontinued to berestless at nighti, and have such horribledreams thatIfelt quite \rcaiy whenI\vek«up again. And talk about nervousness!Triat wasnonamefor it,asIwas too timidto goent&t night,asd whenmy folks werecoming home in the daytime even thoy'irooldbaro tomvke some familiar sound, cojls to preventcoming upenmo-suddenly nndgirineme a fright.""Ifyou did get a shock what was the

tunal result1"

"I fell dewn in a faint if anythingfrightened me. Really, Iwas awfullyiaervons, and wonld wako up with a startsometimes,and often covered withperspire-lion. Iwas a initcry to myself andOT«ry-body else around me. At night Iburnedalight inmy roomasIwas actually*fr_id to-baiathe dark inmy own house;so you may imagine the mental terturi Ianslurod, andwould probably stilthe«_dnr-fng, ealy for the wonderfulmedicine theycall Clements Tonic. My husband was■

advised to getme seme, but after myotherexperiences with medicine,Isai4:'Whatis tho good of taking that stuff?' I.wasthen ignorant of the virtues of ClementsTeaic, amd. coold net give credence to thoybatiliility of it deing any good after teranch physic t-kisghasl proredfutile; butI"ansincerely assare yon thatbefore Ihadtakenmuch Clements Tonicmy opinions inIregard to that medicine were decidedlyaltered, for it made an entirely healthy |woman of mi. Iused te suffer with ex-crnciatdngpainsin myright side,headaches*mcc childhood, flatulence and oppressionin tho chest, but Clements Tonic releasedSio fr*m all those torments, besides toeffectively enriagme of nervousness that itnever troubles me now. The influence efClements Tonic upom me was magical, and.from the bottom of myheartIrecommendthose similarly afflicted to resort to themedicine thatcuredme."

"Would yen like to publish this inter-view?"

"Do so fer the sakeof those who suffer jJikeIdid, andpublish my story in any way'you thinkbeat."-

STATUTORy DECLARATION.r,llAtr Tumirn,ofN». 120 Cuba-street, Welling"ten, in tbsColsny of New Zealand, do lelemnly

4»d siac*rely declare that Ihare carefullyread theannexed decdntent, con*istin<r of two folios, andconsecutively lumbered from one to two, and"haf >* eo— taias and Is atrueaaa faithfulaccaantofmy Hfitess z-d care by Clemevts Tonio; and alsocontains my fall permission t*publish ia any waytny stitsiMente

—whichItire voluntarily, withoutreeeivins;' any paymesrt;and Imaia this solemn

declaration conscientiously believingthe same tobeIrne,sndby virtue«f the arcvisioos«f anAct oftheGeneral Anemcly of Kevr Zealand,intituled "ThojiaifieesofPeace Act,1882."

/7fc<2AyDfdaied at Weliington, this seventh day of May,

.linethousandnine hundredandthree,beforemt,JOSEPH KITCHEN, J.P.

[The matter for this column is sup-plied by a representative of the localtemperance bodies, who alone is re-sponsible for the opinions expressedmit.]

A SOBER KING COUNTRY.Mr. Black, tho evangelist in charge of

the Central Mission, Auckland, on his ro-turn from a missionary tour throughthe King Country, said in tho Theatre nta Sunday night service:—"I have justcompleted visitingevery camp in the KingCountry, and Ican testify, without fearof contradiction, that the law is doing it?work there. The whole timoIwas away 1nover saw adrunken man, and that cannotbo said of Auckland. Thank God forprohibition."

Mr. Seymour, who assists ia the MaoriMission work, also reports that fAmerlyit was a common thing for him to bob sly-groggingrampant,but now, under the newregime, it is practically stamped out. Jusf;over tho border a bottle of whisky costs£5, and tho price increases considerablyfurther back from the border.

SLY GBOG-SSLLING IN ASH-BURTON.

During the Premier's recent visit to Ash-murton, adeputation from the Aehburton,Branch of tho Women's Christian Tem-perance Union and tho Ashburton No-License Council waitedonhim with a peti-tion signed by^643 persons asking for thetransfer of Mr. Wray, S.M. The Presi-dent of tho W.C.T.U. said that for somoyears paßt there had been a growing feel-ing in Ashburton. in connection with slygrog-selling, that pase after ease wasbrought before the Magistrate only to bepub down. Tho speaker quoted articlesm the AshburtonGuardian and the OamaruMail in support of th'o allegation that Mr.Wray was lenient to offenders against tholiquor law. She said that if Mr. Wraywere going to continue to act as anapolo-gist for the offenders, something must bodone to get a more equitable administra-tion of the law. The petition set forth,inter alia, that, though No-license hadbeen duly carried in that district, yet sun-dry lawless persons have, in a stealthymanner, engaged in such illegal traffic;that being brought before the AehburtonStipendiary Magistrate, such persons havobeen treated with greater leniency thansimilar law-breakers havo received in otheiparts of the colony; that the result of(such conjtinuod leniency on the part oftho Magistrate is to bring the law intocontempt, causing much anxiety and painto a law-abiding community, and thatthose whose signatures were attachedtherefore asked that the Cabinet wouldcause some other Magistrate, and one whois resolved to suppress the illegal trafficin'liquor, to be appointed to the court atAshburton

Bir .To3eph Ward, in reply, stated thathe would ask the Minister of Justice to in-vestigate the whole matter. One had tobe very careful in matters of the kind,nnd theMagistrate must not bo prejudicedeven when a complaint was made. WhereNo-licenge had been carried it was theduty of tho police and all officers of thelaw to see that tho law was carried outWhero a district had declared itself forIso-license sly-grog felling was not to betolerated. The Magistrate would bo givenan opportunity to make a report, and thowhole thing would be properly deailt with.

INFANTILE MORTALITY ANDDRINK.

The alarming increase of infantile morta-lity m Birmingham libb caused careful en-quiries to be mado as to the causes, and.onco again drink is considered responsiblefor a large share of this slaughtering ofinnocents. Tho deaths among childrenfrom diarrhoea were at the rate of nearlyono hundred a week for five weeks. Aconsiderable number of deaths were trace-able to careless parents allowing youngchildren to eat fruit-refuse, and the visi-tors found that the system of feedingpractised in gome of tho courts waslamentable. A caso came before thecoronerin which a parent admitted givinga baby of twelve months sardines andbottled stout. It is a common practice inthe Elnms to givo babies beer and stout.Tho health authorities .have issued manycirculars, which have been distributed byvho visitors, but these havo been disre-SaF"cd. If mothers were only sober, thechildren would havo little need to scourthe gutters for fruit-refuse, and the moneycould be spent on wholesome fruit andmilk instead of battled stout.

AN ARCHBISHOP ON TEMPERANCE.Archbishop Bruchesi (Roman Catholic),of Montreal, after an extended tourthroughout tho thirty parishes comprised

m his diocese, declares that the Temper-ance movement is meeting with great suc-cess. Tho Archbishop believes that thohope of tho movement is not so muchinmaking temperance men out of habitualdrunkards, as in educating tho rising gene-ration. Ho snys that hitherto tho chil-dren have been taught not to lie, steal,or ohcatj but hereafter "Thou shalt notdrink whisky" will be added to tho formercommands. A reporter of tho MontrealWitness interviewing the Archbishop, paid:"Will you permit me to ask if you everdrink strong liquor?" "Ido not," quicklyrepliedhis Grace, "and no liquor has beenused at our table since December last.You aro aware that it was the custom for-merly to serve a littlo brandy, especiallywhen visitors were present, but since thotimeIhave mentioned, bo my guests car-dinnls, bishops, or others, thero is now nostrong liquor need at my' table, ot1 else-where by my household. Ihavo also or-dered that the same rule be applied totho parish priests in my dioceso, for, al-thdughIhavo no right to go into thohouses of tho faithful and command themto abstain nt their table, yetIhavo thoright to do so with my clergy, anc!Iexer-cise this right."

NOTES AND OPINIONS.As an illustration of tho chango of ideas

in thomedical world concerning tho utilityof alcohol, tho Royal Infirmary nt Salis-bury furnishes a good example. Twenty-fivo yoara ago that institution expended£33 per annum onalcohol; last year thiaitem of expense was reduced to £7. Hos-pitals everywhere are reducing their winoand spirit bills and increasiuir their milkbills.

An account is given by tho CologneGazette of an "Alcohol Consultation Bu-reau" which has boon established in Dovt-mund by Horr Rath, v, momber of thetown council. It is his opinion that in thopublio interest tho authorities should paycloser and more personal attention to per-sona addicted to tho liquor habit, andaccordingly every Wednesday and Satur-day ho receives such persons or their rela-tives nnd assists them with his ndvico.Drinkers nro not reproached, but aro re-garded as suffering from a disease nndcounselled accordingly, and tho practicalresults of tho experiment aro said to bocxcollont.

Professor G. Sims Woodhead, M.D., nttho Sweated Industries Exhibition, nt thoQueen's Hull, London, the other Wednes-day, whilst lecturing to n largo audiencoon "Nutrition nnd Sweating, was askedby a lady mpinbor of the audience if boerwns nourishing. "Well," Iho Professorreplied, "ns somo of you know, 1havovery strong opinions on thnt subject. Iwill simply quoto Mr.Hiitchimon, who isn recognised authority. Ho mnintnins thatthero is asmuchnutriment innpennyworthof broad ns there is in eighty pennyworthof boei,"

Canon Hor.slcy^ well-known in connec-tion with prison work m Englnnd> ina rocont lecture, said that "about 10 percont. of insanity in England may boascribed to intemperance, and 75 percent, of crime is drink-caused. To onoprison in ono year 500 women werobrought for robbing drunken men."

Trusts and combines (says the Gentle-woman) do not enter the field withphilanthropicintentions. If theyreduceprices for a timo they hope thereby toattract all tho trade away from

"the

independent manufacturers,, nnd whenthey havo gained it, rs business mennaturally they will demandas highpricesat tho public will pay.

Dealing with the scarcity of juniorofficers, the annual report of the Bri-tish Shipmasters' Society attributes itin part to the fact that many ownersnow refuse to engage men over 45years of age for command. This sortof thing, the society argues, discouragesyoung officers, and leads them to forsakethe sea at the first favourable opportu-nity. Naturally so, comments an Eng-lish paper, and we have nohesitation insaying that the owner who draws sucha hard and fast line is guilty of verysilly and unreasonable conduct. Wecan understand a big passenger lineadopting such a course, because theliner skipper who is looking for a shipat tho age of 45 is probably in pos-sessioD of a "past;" but in the lowerbranches of the profession, where therearocontinual choppings and changing?,amaster may easily be out of employment,without the least blame attaching tohim. To refuse to look at such a mansimply because ho has seen45 summersiG absurd. We have met many askipper who could add another 15 yearson to this total, yet who could keeptheir end up with the youngster onwhoso master's ticket the ink was hardlydry.

There is no breathless haste on any-body's part to order new tramp steam-ers, if the current dearth of contractsis any indication of the state of theshipping industry, says a recent Englishpaper. Of better class regular boats,however, a few continue to be placed,not only in quarters where berths liter-ally gape for them, but in quarters |where the notice "Full" is, so to speak,still up. Tho Union Company of NewZealand have placed two vessels withMessrs. Swan, Hunter and WighamRichardson, Limited, Wallsend-on-Tyne—ono of 5000 tons deadweight capacity iand one of 3000 tons deadweight capa-city. A twin-screw tug, has also beenordered by the company from Messrs.Ferguson Bros., of Port Glasgow. Twolarger vessels for this service are at pre-sent building on the Clyde—a twin-screw steamerof 430ftat Messrs Caird's,Greenock, and a turbine steamer of360ft at Messrs. Denny's, Dumbarton.It would be interesting to knovv exactly»vhat the total value of'the shipping iswhich is under construction or contem-

Iplated at the moment for Australasian|interests.i There has evidently been some very|heavy weather out in the Atlantic(writes Syren and Shipping of 17thOctober). The foundering of the s.s.Manningtry was one evidence of this,and the putting back of tho barqueGladys (well-knownin New Zealand) toPalmouth, after having made 401)milesof her westward voyage, is confirmation.The foundering of the Manningtry is avery serious affair, and upon the findingof tho Board of Trade Court of Enquirya good deal may depend. It appearsthat under the new regulations she wasallowed to put to sea with much lessfreeboard thanused to bo insisted upon,and the question as to whether this wasthe cause of the loss will doubtless bethe chief BUbject of the enquiry.

Cases of shaft fracture and loss ofpropeller havobeen less frequent oflateyears but two serious recent instancesare reported in a London paper. Asteamer, name unknown, signalled theFalkland Islands that she had spokentho B.s. Hyndford, near Cape Horn, ina helples3 condition through the loss ofher propeller. The position of asteamer lying helpless at the mercy ofthose uiountainovs seas is perilous inthe extreme, and it is not surprisingthat underwriters should pay 35 guineasto reinsure A boat's crew left heron 11th September to seek assistance,but as nothing has since been heard ofthem it is feared that the poor>followsmust have perished. The other instanceis that of tho s.b. Port Stephens, whichlost her propeller and was abandonedbetween New Zealand and Australia.There is just a bare possibility thatshe may bo pickedup, and on this faintchance underwriters are writing hei at90 guineas per cent. She is one ofMessrs, W. Milburnand'Co.'s steamers,of 3554 tons., and is insured at Lloyd'sfor £28,000. v

The advantages which would followthe substitution of oil for coal as fuelformarine boilers are soobvious that wedo not think it necessary to enumeratethem (says an English paper). Givena good burner there is no earthly reasonwhy oil should not be burned as gene-rally and as successfully on British mer-chant ships as it is on British warships.That good burners are not easily foundis indicated by the recent failure of onoof the now cruisers. But good burnersare on the market, and ono of the bestof them is, we think, that ot the LucalLight and Heating Company, Limited.Tho combustion it gives is complete,and there is, therefore,no smoke. "Thecombustion appeared to bo practicallyperfect and almost smokeless," says Pro-fessor Watkinson, of Liverpool, formerlyof the Technical College, Glasgow,"with 75 per cent, to 84 per cent, effec-tive steaming, which must bo admittedto be veryhigh." When the efficiencyof tho boiler, the heat passing up thechimney, and the radiation from theboilor aro taken into account ProfessoriVatkinson got, thnt Js to say, practl.cally, 100 per cent, out of tho oil. Ifthe oil is turned off after sterj^ has|been raised all that is necessary torestart the flame is to turn on thostream again and apply a light. Asingle attendant, thoroforo, suffices.Thcro aio no fire bars, no ashes, noextra brick work in tho furnace. Solittlo change, in fact, is it necessary tomako in the ordinary furnace that coalor oil may be burned in it alternatelyor together. Steam is tho pulverisingagent In the Lucnl, and because of theloss ot water tho use of steam entails,sea-going engineers, as a' rule, lookunfavourably on it. They prefer com-pressed air. Quite clearly, though,they magnify this loss of water, and,in any caso, they canhardly claim thatthey get tho other compressor for no-thing Tho Lucal people, however,haveforseen this objection, and they havemet It. The water used for the pur-pose of ejection irt their system is solow" ns to upset all previous calcula-tions. Not only doos thoLucal burnerromovo the ground of the objection al-most entirely, but it gives an efficiencythat would tar outweigh tho reasons fortho objoction if they were good. Butboing composed of business pcoplo, thocompany has made tho system easilyndaptablo to compressed air as well assteam. It works equally well, theysny, tho one way as tho other, althoughsteam is in many ca3cs, they arc care-ful to explain, tho most economical.Wo learn a test has just been madedealing with tho question of evapora-tion given by tho Lucal burner, snow-ing Uio evaporation per square footof heating surface per hour from 212dog. tFuhr. to be 43.5, and this withoutsnioko, which is beyond anything, webelieve, over attained to.

Ii

"Vigilans" in tho Bulletin says a dis-ooso (plain distemper, probably) hasbrokon out amongst dingoes in tho Nor-thern Territory, and ia carrying themoff wholesalo and retail. On the Vic-toria, whero, a few years ago, tho dogawore in mobs, you will not find ono ina week's ride. The canino becomesparalysed in tho hind quarters, and hasa continuous chattering of the teeth,which symptoms last until death. Do-mestiu dogs aro also attacked,

To give members a more direct inter-est in the funds of the union, the Auck-land Furniture Trades Union is formu-lating rules to provide for the institu-tion of a tool benefit for the members.

A baker who was dismissed becausehe "answered back" a grumbling em-ployer, unsuccessfully sued the latter inthe Lambeth County Court. "An em-ployer," said Judge Emden, "is en-titled to grumble—that is his privilege."

The Independent Labour League inAuckland is endeavouring to secure theco-operation of the Trades and LabourCouncil in running a combined Labourticket for tho municipal elections nextApril. Tho league is hopeful of re-turning tii majority of its nominees.In tho Queensland Legislative Assem-

bly on 21st November the Trade Dis-putes Bill was read a third time bythirty votes to twenty-five. The Liberalmembers, ,vith tho exception of thefour Liberal Ministers, again votedagainst fhe Bill.

The Sydney Worker appeals to La-bourites for_ copies of tho anti-socialistliterature with which the country dis-tricts aro being "secretly" flooded!

Tho slaughtermen employed atCowan-dillai South Australia, assembled atthese works on tho 21sl ult., andmado a formal demanfl for 25s per 100,the rate of pay prevailing in Victoria,and which has also been granted themen at tho Government depot at DryCreek. The request was granted im-mediately. There was not the slightesthitch, and the men resumed work atonce. ■>

The Auckland Star reports:—Carpen-ters, brisk; all union men fully employ-ed;ironmoulders, very busy; furnituretrades, fairly busy; coachbuilders,brisk; some shops working overtime;sawmillers, fairly busy; painters, verybusy; plumbers, busy; labourers, verybusy; several good men wanted at theUnion Office; quarrymenespecially wan-ted, at top wages; wharf labourers,very busy j tailors and tniloresses, verybusy.

Twenty-eight employees of tho HettonColliery appeared before tho NewcastlePolice Court on the 21st ult., chargedwith having absented themselves fromtheir employment without leave or|reasonable cause. They are youths whoiaro principally employed as screeners attho pit's mouth. They made a peremp-tory demand'for increased wages a weekbefore, and their demand not beingcomplied with they laid the pit idle.They subsequently offered to resumework on the old conditions, but theoffer was refused. Twenty-five of theaccused pleaded guilty, and were eachfined^ £3 and costs, or fourteen days'imprisonment. One month was allowedfor payment,but fourteen of tho youthselected to go to gaol.

Unionism at Napier, according to aletter quoted in the Auckland Star, vat a low ebb. Tho Trades and LabourCouncil is nearly defunct its meetingbeing allowed to lapse. "It is largelya matter of bread and butter. To bea unionist is a verybad thing inNapier;to be on tho Trades Council is stillworse; to be an officer is anathema."

Messrs. Rowntree and Co., Limited,an English firm, have prepared pensionschemes for the workpeople, both menand womenand their works. Thesynopsisgiven by the Morning Post shows thatall male and female employees overtwenty and twenty-five years of agorespectively aro eligible, but not com-pelled to participate in the benefits ofthe pension fund. When tho scheme isin force male employees will be retiredat sixty-five years of ago and femaleemployees at fifty-five. The pensionswill bo derived in part from subscrip-tions paid by the employees anc' in partfrom contributions made by tho com-pany. The amount of pension which amember of tho fund elects to subscribefor may be determined by himself, andmay be increased or reduced on IstNovember in any year, subject to cer-tain conditions. To all contributionsmade by employees the company willcontribute amounts which will morethan treble tho pension derivable fromthe subscribers' contributions alone.

Independent Labour (says tho Stand-ard) has drawn first blood, and LabourLiberalism has to acknowledge thescratch. At Cardiff recently, at thoconference of the Amalgamated Societyof Railway Servants, the resolution wascarried which requires its Parliamen-tary candidates to "sign and accept theconditions of the Labour (i.e., In-deponderit Labour) party and obey itswhips." No concealment has beenprac-tised as to the Socialist tactics. Thegeneral secretary of the society is Mr.Bell, M.P., who has definitely andsteadily refused to accept the leadershipof Mr. Keir Hardie. " Although onLabour questions ho owns allegianceneither to Conservatives nor Liberals,he has been, in other matters, a con-sistent supporter' of the present Ad-ministration, and his seat at Derby waslargely secured by Liberal votes. Hehas always insisted, and still means toinsist, on his right to govern his actionat Westminster recording to his poli-tical opinions, and resents tho attemptto drag him into tho Socialist camp.Probably he is justified in believing thathis unflinching attitude will be approvedby his constituents. But, whenthe timocomes for him to solicit a renewal oftheir confidence, not only will he losethe assistanpe of tho Amalgamated So-ciety, but ho will have to contendiagainst tho Socialist propaganda.

Interviewed on tho subject of tho do-cision of the Amalgamated Society ofRailway Servants that Parliamentarycandidates approved by tho societyshould sign a pledge accepting the con-ditions of tho Independent LabourPartyand bo subject to its whip, Mr. Bell,M.P. (who refused to submit to theterms) said:—"Regarded from thojstandpoint of tho unifying and solidify-ingof tho ranks of railwaymen, it isoneof tho biggest mistakes tho delegatesof fhe society havo committed for somoconsiderable timo. "There are thousandsof our members who havo been passive,wsisters, and who rofusod to pay thoParliamentary levy (that is tho separatecontribution of tho Trades Union mem-bers towards the expenses of tho LabourRepresentation Oonimitteo}untiltho lantannual inocting when, alter a similarfight to that of Tuesday, it was deci-ded that Ishould bo permitted to con-tinue my Parliamentary work on thelines along which Istarted It in 1900,andhavo subsequently adhered to. ThecongrosH decision on that-occasion prottywell settled tho matter, and thoso whoup to that timo had been passive re-sistors accepted tho position. Wo havoInot hud much difficulty in that sensosince. Now, however,Iam afraid thatthe old soro will be opened again,and that there will bo a greater numberthan over who will rofuso to pay tholov^yr. There aro thousands who stoutlyobject to paying for tho maintenanceof tho Independent Labour Party; andwhat Isay in regard to tho memborsof my union applies in very muchthe same way to tho members of otherunions."

The Btatemont that, unless somethingis dondby Great Britain for her Colon-ies, tho Empire will bo broken up (sayßtho Vnncouvor Guardian) is an asser-tion which is an integral part of thoChamberlain programme-. So fay asCanada is concerned, this statement hasno foundation wbr^taver in fact.

A fire which occurred in the basementof some premises in Scarborough wasattributed to the firing of a rocketthrough the drain during testing opera-tions by the sanitary inspector.

The Beckenham Council recently es-tablished baths at its electric light worksfor the Stokers at the dust destructor,who had a very dirty and unpleasantjob in stoking tho town's refuse intothe furnaces. The baths proved agreat boon, and now they are to beextended for the use of the dustmen.

To show their thankfulness to Pro-vidence for a great catch of pilchards inGerran's Bay, amounting to 2,500,000fish, the fisherman of Portscatho (Corn-wall) devoted a proportion of the pro-ceeds towards various local charities.The owner of the seine, Mr. E. Peters,also subscribed.

Now that the forests of the worldare melting away to supply the insati-able demand of the dailypress for paper(so called by courtesy) it isgratifying tofind that another raw material has justbeen turned to account. This is noother than a hitherto "waste product,refuse cottdn-stalks, of which twelvemillion tons havohitherto been annually"cast into the oven." It is not appar-ently suited for high-g>ade paper, butshould produce a better article thanfibreless sawdust-pulp. Why did noone think of it sooner?

During a recent run with the Graftonhounds a fox turned out of tho covertsnear to Gayhurst, Newport Pagnell, theresidence of Mr. W. W, Carlile, dashedacrosa the lawn, and jumped into thodining-room through an open window.Tho hounds al) followed and killed inthe roon. (The gentleman named inthis item is presumably Mr. WilliamWarrand Carlile, well known inHawket. Bay, and for some years editorof the Hawkes Bay Herald.)

Concerning The Times book ring, thojDaily News says :— "One thing, at anyjrate, is certain:that at the present timethe publisher leads amuch more precari-ous existence than ho did sixty yearsago:and on the other hand the aver-Iage author is much better off than heused tobe. But if tho sellingandpublish-ing of books fell into the hands of aTrust, the rank and file of authorswould return to a Grub-street more dis-mal than that of an earlier era. And,what is more, books would be dearer.

Absinthe, a tincture of wormwood(Artemisia absinthium)

—one of thedeadliest and most demoralising of al-

coholic compounds— is coming into greatfavour in London. Its sale is increas-ing to an alarming extent, and the Go-vernment is urged to follow the ex-ample of Belgium, where it is abso-I lutely prohibited. Otherwise. Dr.Forbes Winslow's gloomy forecast willhave a prospect of speedy fulfilment.The Belgian law was passed last Decem-ber. Ten months' grace was given toholders of stock, and the law came intoforce in October. Tn France, the vestedinterest and the habit are so strongthat attempts at suppression or evenrestriction by special taxation haveproved futile. In 1880 the special taxwasunwiselyrevoked, and agreat impe-tusgivento the manufacture of the drug.InRussia the manufacture is practicallytaxed out of existence. A.bsinthe wasfirst concocted for the French troops inAfrica, with the idea ,of "purifying"stagnant drinking water!

The long organic connection of theEnglish Church with the English nation(said the Bishop of Carlisle at the recentChurch Congress) is a priceless birthrightnot to be sold for any mess of pottage,however tempting. Churchmen shouldthemselves ever Temember, and never letothers forget, that there was pn EnglishChurch before there was an English na-tion. It was the Church which led theway to the making of the nation. Ihaveno aesire to overlook the failures or con-done the faults'of the English Church,yet, in spite of all, Iam well withir thetruth whenIsay that but for the Eng-lish Church there would not have been,as we have them now, either Englishpeople, or English Parliament, or Eng-lish liberty, or English literature, or Ieven, when we remember the two Bacons,the philosophy and the science of whichwe are justly proud. And, whatever partwe may take in the edncalioD contro-versy of the hour, these facts, at least,are incontrovertible. It was the Churchwhich created the universities, it waschurchmen like C'olet who prepared theway for secondary education, and it wasthe Church which conceived the idea ofthe national school longbefore the nationwoke up to the wisdom of adopting it.

Mr. Rolls, the hero of a sensationaladventure in the recent ballooning com- |petition

—he travelled four hundredmiles in 26i hours, and was supposed

to be lost—

has been interviewed. Hesaid:

—"I see that a paper says that

cries for help were heard from a bal-loon with an electric light burning atEvereau. As amatter of fact that wasonly .ourselves asking our way in ourexecrable French. We shouted out,'Qucl est le norn de cette village V anaIsuppose the peasants couldn't under-stand us, and thought wo were introuble." The Chronicle comments onthe race thus:What the ascent fromParis of the sixteen balloonists has de-monstrated— pathetically enough— is theslow progress of aerostatics. There islittle that distinguishes the machinoused by M. Pilatre de Rozier in Octo-ber, 1783, the first man to trust himselfin a balloon, except the method of in-flation. Ons of his great triumphs wasto hover over Paris at the height ofthree hundred feet for a space of nineminutes. When one remembers that M.Pilatre achieved all his effects by meansof hot air produced by a firo which hecarried in the balloon itself, one is in-clined to think that tho pioneers inballooning were almost as daring as thatphilosopher of Italy who took flight onapair of wings of his own constructionfrom the summit of the Castle of Stir-ling in the presence of King James IV.of Scotland.

In connection with the opening of tnenew asylum at Bangour, Dr. ForbesIWinslow, the eminent specialist, hasmade a most pessimistic deliverance onthe subject ox insanity. He was stillfurther confirmed, he said, in thoopinion expressed by him so frequently,!though often challenged, that not onlyis there an actual increase of insanity,but that the chief causes arc drink andheredity. "According to the statisticalfigures on the progressive increase of in-sanity year by year," he continued, "itcan bo shown thi1 before very longthere will bo actually more lunatics inthe world than sane peaplc. The burn-ing problem of the day, in my opinion,is how to prevent this increase of in-sanity— how to nip it in tho bud beforeit shows its mark on posterity. Whatis the use of an Education Bill to teacha race, tho majority of which will soonbe lunatics ? Ibase my opinion on theprogressive increase of insanity, as LordRosebery puti it, upon this

—whilst tho

population hM been increasing 75 percent., the lunacy has been increasing231 per cent. Ihold a very strongopinion with regard to tho, 'villa' or'segregate' system for the individualcare of alleged lunatics. Ihave alwaysadvocated this in England, and1wouldallow them an opportunityof co recover-ing without being branded as lunaticsand certified as such in private housedor in ai.ylumit"

Judicious sympathisers with thecauseof woman's franchise (writes "A.8.C."in the last number of Public Opinion)cannot nave two opinions as to the in-advisability of this week's tactics.Meanwhile, to provide sinews of warfor tho "terrible and determinedstruggle," the husband of one of theimprisoned ladies has "intimated hisintention to contribute £10 each daythat his wife remained in prison." Onemay guess what the sympathetic hus-band really means;but as a complimentfiom a husband to an absent wife it is,as tho Chronicle says, one of thosethings which might have been put dif-ferently.

A laconic telegram from the TimesBrussels correspondent (says the Globe)'states that tho hearing at Boma of Mr.Stannard's appeal has been postponedfor a year. So unblushing and arbi-trary an act could not be conceivedoutside the territories controlled by theKing of the Belgians. It is clearlythe intention of the Congo authoritiesto ruin Mr. Stannnrd by continual pro-crastination, and then to refuse a trialat all. From what we know of themethods of justice in the Congo State,the trial would not in any event a fairone;but it is a question whether theBritish Foroign Offico can any longerrefrain froni interference if it intends tofulfil its historic duty of protecting ourcitizens abroad.

The Church (says the Daily News)may have gone back to the middle ages,by a rebound from tho materialism ofour times, but she will not stay there,for she too feels tho irrcsistiblo move-ment of events, and is filled, thoughvaguely and half consciously, with thedesire to share and influenco the life ofher times. And she can only Influenceit by moving with it, by abandoningwhat no longer belongs to ihe regionwhere man can tread with some assur-ance that solid ground is beneath hisfeet. Denominationalism, a Church wellfenced round with dogma and tradi-tion, is still, if we may judge from thetone of the Church Congress, the dorninant note of Anglican Churehmanship,certainly on tho clerical side of itWhether the laymen aro prepared to fol-low is doubtful. But there is a newspirit abroad, which finds fairly deSnitoexpression in tho address of thoBishop of Carlisle, an appeal to theworld, which always needs religion, butis not to bo drawn to a kind of religionthat demands of it surrender of its in-tellectual life. The same spirit stirs mDissent, for it is the breath of manto belong to the ago in which he lives,|even if he rejects its superficialfashions.

On the situation in Russia, the DailyNews writes :— M. Stolypin is honest,but ho makes no progress. M Witto jsdiscredited. The Financo Minister iscriticised by friends of tho autocracy,like Dr. Dillon, for the slackness andhelplessness of his doings. The only cal-culation that appears to underlie boththe action ana the inaction of the Govcrnment would seem to be that anarchymay be allowed to go on checked onlyby the Government's own pet anar-chists, "The Union or Russian Men"

—until people are tired of it, and areIwilling

-to see tho autocracy wade

through blood to something like its oldposition. This notion is sinister enough,ana yet it might succeed if the econo-mic and social situation werenot so des-perate. People will not starve, especially when they are told dayby day "thatfood and land can be had for tho taking. Unfortunately, the weakness ofboth parties to tho great strife in Rus-sia prolongs the period of anarchy, inwhich devoted and capable men perish,nabits of orderly and peaceful life areforgotten, and bad -characters come tothe top and exact their price. It is apity that there is no sign at this stageot the revolution even of a RussianMirabcau.

Conservatives (says the Standard) haveno reason to feel tendorness towardspohticians of the stamp of Air. Bell orMr. Burns. As a rule, they representthe crudest extravagance of irresponsibleRadicalism. But, whatever may be aman's opinions, he is entitled to main-tain them. If he fails to do so in Par-liament he is untrue to the confidencereposed in him by his constituents. Itis natural, though not altogether expo-dicnt from the national point of view,that the Trade Unions should desiretheir special interests to be representedby men who on labour questions willcarry out a, definite mandate from thebodies which pay their expenses andwork for their return. Even this is aderogation from the pioper functions ofa member of Parliament. He is protanto reduced from tho status of areasoning and responsible being to avoting automaton. Nevertheless, wemust faco the fact that the tradbunions aro able and determined to borepresented, on labour questions, by asmany delegates as they can send toWestminster. Tho position becomes in-tolerable if such members are to bo de-legates on every point on which theLaboui Representation Committeechoosoa to send out a whip. Mattersarc brought to a yet graver pass whenthe working class representatives arecompelled to sign the articles of a poli-tical creed in which they do not believeand which is not accepted by anythinglike a majority ot their constituents.The 'Socialists have captured the Trade jUnion Congress;captured tho Labour jRepresentation Committee; capturedthe party funds. They now propose toexcommunicate all labour members andcandidates who will not submit to their!dictation. From tho party point ofviewit 16 difficult forconservatives not to re-joice over a foud which must ultimatelytend to weaken and eventually destroythe Government majority. But such anadvantage will be dearly purchased if itsaps that independent and manly spiritwhich has been the salt of public life inEngland.

It is now confidently expected—

andindeed it seems inevitable (says St.James's Budget)— that the United StatosGovernment will not much longer delaytho annexation which eeeme now thoonly possiblo solution of the intolerablecondition of Cuba. Tho attempt toestablish the island on a froc and self-governing basis under the aogis of theStates has been a final and disastrousfailure. There- is only one stop left

—annexation. But it in a very seriousstep. It will bo vigorously opposed bythe considerable body of opinion in thoStates which is opposed with goodenough reason to any policy which hasan air of Imperialism and Welt-pblitik.It will be opposed, too fanaticallyonuugh, in tho island itsolf,and Americaimust entor on a campaign in whichfinal sucucbs, if not doubtful, must bodifficult, dangerous, and costly. Ofcourse, amero glimco at tho map showsthe very great and obvious advantageswhich America will gaih when annex-ation is successfully accomplished, andwe, with little Jamaica standing whereit docs, cannot bo indifforont to n mark- jed change in the politicial situation inthat part of tho world. It is difficult,,however, to see what other remedy therocan bo for Cuban poverty and convul-sion. And, while it would bo going toofar to imagine that tho present revolu-tion owes its virulence to Washington,it ia not an unnatural supposition thatfinancial interests in the States aro notsorry that tho opportunity hat boenthruit upon the Government.

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A uxiiquo scene was,witnessed atHulllatelyj when a bridal party and the in-vited guests were conveyed from thechurch irr corporation tramcars to St.George's Hall, where a reception washeld. " Application was made for thecars to the tramways manager, whoread\ly agreed to lend them on reason-albe terniji. Peoplein tho streets watch-ed tho strange wedding conveyanceswith curiosity.

Occultists, apparently, have queer ex-periences. A lady writing in the Oc-cult Magazine declares that evil smellspersist hundreds of years after thosewho caused them have passed away."'The smell of.stables and tobacco on aspot 'where Queen Elizabeth huntedoverthree hundred years ago is still there,"she says. It is well that the olfactorysense 'of the ordinary man is not keenenough to perceive occult odours. Lifein such a case would be a doubtfulboon!!

The following from the Paris paperTEclair describes a state of tilingswhich can only bo avoided by "eternalvigilance":"The common people fearabove everything the hospital. They arebadly received, and questions are put tothem in a loud voico in the presence ofpatients, students, and visitors. Themodesty of women is not respected,Tho poor'have the right to demandwhen they are under examination theobservation of the elementary laws ofmodesty. They have also the right todemand 6f doctors professiona! secrecy."

The biggest catch of herrings this sea-son on the 'English coast was landed onSaturday, 29th September, at Yarmouthby the steam-drifter Waveney, whichhad taken 264,000 fish. The catch re-alised considerably over £200. AnotherYarmouth boat, tho Maud, had her netsstruck by such an enormous shoal ofherrings that they sank and were lost.Over two huiidred boats from the Scot-tish coast arrived at Yarmouth to takepart in the herring voyage.

The Berlin disclosures give specialpoint to a hint which Mr. John Morleygave in his "Life of Gladstone" as toBismarck's feelings towards the EnglishCourt. "Bismarck," says Mr. Morley,"was out of humour with England, part-ly because of certain exalted Englishpersonages, and influences at his owncourt; partly because it suited him thatEngland and .France should be badfriends;and partly because, as he com-plained, whonover he tried to found acolony, we closed in upon him.

The:most magnificent and costlypearl necklace in the world is now fheproperty of the Countess Henckel. Itis made of three historical necklaces,each of which enjoyed considerable cel-ebrity in former times. One of them,valued at £12,000. was sold to thecountess by a grandee of Spain, and itis known as the1 "necklace of the Vir-gin of Atokha";the second belonged totho ex-Queen of Naples;and the thirdwas the famous necklace belonging tothe Empress Eugenic, and by her latelysold to a London jeweller for £20,000.

The Bulletin of the Botanical Estab-lishment at Kew, an uuhnpeachable au-thority, has an interesting account of afruit found in the hinterland of rthe Gulfof Guinea, which has the powe* to'"change the flavour of the most acidsubstance into a delicious sweetness." AGold Coast official has found it effectiveaftet a dose of quinine, and adds that"if a lemon be sucked within tM

-o or three

huurs of eating one of the fruits its* acidflavour is entirely counteracted." This isa matter of interest even to the house-hold nursery..

The members of the Kyndwr Club,who are now engaged in investigatingthe West Derbyshire swallots, have justconcluded an exploration of the JugHole on the northern slope of .Masson,above Snitterlon

—a remarkable chasm

in the limestone, which contains cav-erns, lead mines, and a water swallow.The explorers came to a grand cave, theroof of which was about a hundred feetin height, and from this passed into along disused lead mine, where remainsof extensive operations weto still visible. IThe party eventually found themselvesin a shallow chamber containing anabundance of lovely stalactites and stal-agmites in splendid condition.

The numerous admirers of Prince Ran-jitsinhji will be interested in a letter hehas written to Mr Newton Digby, ofCambridge, on his claim to a throne inIndia. He is now awaiting the final de-cision of the Government of India. "Asalways happens in such cases," he says,'"there are several claimants, some posses-sing some shadow of right, others noneat all. Ihonestly believe my claim to bejust and right. In case of successIfearmy yearly connection with English lifewill come to an end, out in any case,beforeIsever the tie which has been asource hitherto of the greatest pleasure,happiness, and contentment to me,Iwill,with the sanction of the Government ofIndia and the Secretary of State, come"and bid good-bye to all my very dearfriends in England and the British pub-lic."

Countess Scliimmeimann, tlie charitableGerman lady who occupies the dual posi-tion of being the friend of the King andalso of the poorandunfortunate in Eng-land, Germany, ,and elsewhere, is nowcarrying out some of her pet philan-thropic schemesinLondon. The Countessis an elderly lady of benevolent aspect,with grey-sprinkled hair, and uppaientlya boundless fund of sympathy with thesubmerged tenth in all countries. Shehas worked in London periodically fortwo years past, and King Edward hastaken a special interest in her self-sacri-ficing efforts in the East End. It wasto the Empress Augusta that the com-mencement of Countess Schimmel-mann's beneficent deeds was due.As Her Majesty's lady-in-waiting,the Countess was one day requestedto makea sort of informal visit of inspec-tion to the prisons in Berlin, and thesad sights she saw in this connection soroused her sympathies that she devotedher life thencelorth to the poor andneedy.

From Czernowitz comes the news ofthe death of "Miracle Rabbi," IsraelFriedmann, of Sodugora, one of the so-called "Chassidim" family, which fromthe middle of the eighteenth century hasgiven successive rabbis, all regarded withspecial affection and veneration. Thefirst Rabbi emigrated from Russia toSadagora. At present six places in Rus-sia, and one in Rumania, possess Rabbisfrom this celebrated family. Their Meccais Horveved, Kadagora, near Czncrno-witz, to which for a hundred years ortho-dox Jews have travelled. Muny Germanwriters havo described this place. Afamily doath or festival there becomes vtime of mourning or rojoiciug for all or-thodox Jews in the Ernst. The commandsof this Rabbi are implicitly obeyed, midIns demands for money ure immediatelygranted, Thousands of pilgrims whotravel to Sndngora are hospitably enter-tained by him during tho great Jewishholidays. During the lnst hours of {hisrabbis last illness thousands of Jewsquartered themselves round his cantlc,weepihgand wailing,and when his deathwas announced at ten in the evening tholamentations tonld be heard at a greatdistance. These cries lasted all night.Jows from Russia, Rumania, Galicia andBukowina, with all Sadugora, congre-gated lound the pluce. Immense crowdsattended- hm burial in mourning proces-sion, led by the nix sons of the deceased.Over fivo thousand telegrams frujh iillparts of the world reached Sadagora dur-ing his lost days. He is succsedfd inhiit office by on© of !tU son*.

The crops in t.he Pukeran districthavesuffered severely from asudden andsharp frost.

An experiment was made last week atthe Addington saleyards of selling fatcattle by weight. Three bead vere putup, and were sold at 21s 6d per 1001bdressed weight. As the buyer gets theskin and offal the beef would cost himless than ZOs per 1001b, whereas theordinary rate in the yards was 20s to245, according to quality. Most of thebutchers refrained from bidding, pre-ferring evidently to use their own judg-ment in estimating the weight of cattlethey buy.

An Oamaru resident at present on avisit to Gore (writes the Mataura En-sign) says that the exceptionally dryweather experienced in the North Otagodistrict for some considerable time pasthas had a most disastrous effect. Feedis so scarce in several instances thatwheaten straw is being carted on to thepaddocks to provide fodder for thestock, whilst in many cases stock havebeen turned on to this season's crop.This is a result of the shortage offeed and also of the very poor prospectof the crops turning out satisfactorily.

How the Australian farmer is affectedby the harvester duty is thus briefly put|by the Sydney Telegraph:

—From fate

in last year, when the combine had beenbroken up, the American' company wasselling at £70, consequently the effectof the prohibitive duty and the semi-voluntary reductions of the local makersis to fix the price at £5 more than theAmericans were- charging, which musthaw become general had competitionremained even as free as it was undera 12£ «per cent, duty, and at from £10to £12 higher than Australian makerswere selling for a year or two ago.

After the recent wool sale, accordingto the Timaru Post, jt was calculatedthat the rise in the price of woolmeansan addition in the spending power ofthe South Canterbury district amount-ing to between £40,000 and£50,000 overand above the amunt reemved by far-mers for their wool last season. Onewell-known pastoralist says that for hisbest class wool this year he received2£d per 1b more than excatly the samewool realised at the best sale last year,while for second class woolhe made l|dper lb in excess of last year's values.

As a set-off to the rather gloomy re-ports which are generally received aboutthe condition of ths crops (says theNorth Otago Times) v,e maymention anarea of about eighty acres near Windsorwhich at present promises toyield aboutforty bushels to the acre. The landhad been thoroughlycultivated,and thatin a dry season, isinvaluable. A settleron the Tables also informs us that hiscrop still promises thirty-five bushels,and his rape is doing well. While re-ports in a measure differ as to whichcrops are suffering most, it would ap-pear that the wheat sown last autumnis doing fairly well, but a great deal ofwinter and spring wheat, forced on bythe heat, has prematurely shot into theear, and for this rain would now dolittle good. Stock has been turned onto a number of such crops. Generallyspeaking reports point to the PapakaioPlain as the locality where things lookbest, though it should be added thatwherever wheat was sown in the autumnthe prospect is more cheerful than inlocalities where spring wheat is inlargerproportion..Jfrpduea merphaflits in,D.unedin hav-ing dbmpl&infea of* 'the quality of some

of the Southland potatoes, the OtagoDaily Times sent a representative on avisit of inspection, and this was whathe saw:— "Twenty sacks of- potatoeshad been received from an agent intown, out of which the merchant hadtaken lewt. of soil, 4£ cwt of small po- jtatoes, and 2? cwt. of rotten potatoes.Out of one bag, ■weighing 2001b, wetook 381b of rotten and small potatoeswhich are unfit for sale. Very often wefind good potatoes top and bottom of abag, and rubbish in the middle— smalland rotten potatoes or soil." Nearlyevery dealer had a like grievance. "Itis not," says the Times, "aeojnplaint ofthis year alone

—the practice* has beenfollowed for years," and "the agentsgive little satisfaction. The loss,

which is serious, falls onthe merchant."It is not possible for them to examineevery bag of potatoes at an auction sale,but, as onemerchant remarked, 'We areentitled to find out from the agent the!name of the farmer who sends in suchIstuff, and we can refuse to buy his \potatoes.' This would certainly be an jeffective check, and its adoption would jbring home very forcibly 10 any farmer jpractising these tricks the advisablenessof changing his ways." i

Like the rabbit, the weaselhas thrivenonly too well in New Zealand, and isIeverywhere execratedas a pest. Passen- jgers by train to Fairlio (says the Tim-Iam Herald) sw near Coal Creek asight that surprised and angered them.Ina paddock beside1the line a flock ofowes and lambs were grazing, and theysaw ahealthy looking lamb beinghuntedby a weasel in a manner that suggestedthe weasel had selected that particularlamb, and was following it as it ran toand fro among the others. The huntedlamb appeared to be half dazed—"mes-merised" was our informant's wofd

—and unable to run cither fast or far,and those who watched the chaso for afew moments as the train passed thefield, had very little doubt that in ashort timo there would bo a dead lamband a contented weasel there. Iheowner, finding tho dead lamb, mightsuppose it had been killed by a dog,or had died from any causo "but thatwhich seemed imminent to thepassers-byin the train. The little hunter wasquite plainly seen, and it toolc no notice\rfiatever of the passing train.

The increased duty on harvesters inAustralia is deeply resented by theagricultural community, who regard itas tho triumph .of a local manufactur-ers "trust" at their expense. Mr.McKay, tho spokesman of the "ring,"having written to the Sydney Telrgraphcomplaining of misrepresentation, thatpaper says:— "The reason Mr. M'Kny'sname crops up co often in thisdiscussionis tho obvious one that ue is apparentlythe leader of the imitation for increasedduties. It is well inside the truth, also,to sny that but fo* him tho iluty wouldnot'have been raised during last Prrlia-mont. Still, whatever gratification itmay give the association to havo thepublic informed that there aro a numberof other manufacturers, it is cordiallywelcome to. The names of many ofthe firms mentioned by it will be re-called by all who have read tho litera-ture of*the question- as having signedtho famous agreement of March lastyear .with the importers to fix prices.Under that combine it was agreed thattho lowest price to be charged shouldbe £81, while on terms-payment thefigure went up as high as £99. Whatthey agreed to uns to not soil for lessthan £81 a machine which Martin andCo., of South Australia, had been sel-ling for £66 10s, and in some cases £65.Theso gentleman glndly co-operatedwiththo American and Canadian makers tomake tho farmer pny £81 or v machinewhich costs £41 to build, and had beennelling nt £63. Now they claim creditfor having 'voluntarily' reduced theprice from £8l by £5 or £6! It wasnot really a voluntary reduction, becausethere was a proposal before Parliamentto mako tho increased duly contingenton the price being lowered!"-

SHIPS AND THE SEA.THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1906.

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NEW BOOKS AND NEW EDITIONS."Th% of Cloud." By FrancisGnbble, author of "Tho Dream ofPeace, "The Lower Life," etc. Lon-don: George Bell and Sons.A long story narrated with much skilland painstaking care, but one whichseems curiously purposeless. The heio-ine, Bella. Lestrange, tho daughter of adissipated country solicitor, has had thaeducation of "a ludy"— which means thatwhenher father'sdeathleaves her undertho necessity of supporting herself, her

one talent, music, is so Undeveloped thatit is of little if any marketable value.She lodges in a shabby "guaM-philanthro-pic" establishment for working girla inLondon, and finds the life "drab." Sodo her fallow-lodgers, and they form a."Way Oufc Club." One who has avivid if _ ill-regulated imagination, findsher mission in sensational stories and be-comes n successful writer;another

—tho

most atractive character in tho book isemancipated by marriage, not by anymeans of the ideal kind ;andBella, whothinks that well-to-do relatives ought tosupport her, and makes it a grievancethat they do not, exchanges the "drab"for "purple." Envious, self-pitying, withno fixed principles or well-defined moralsense, she refuses openings merely be-enwe they soem unattractive, and at lustdeliberately places hetself in tlio -way oftemptation. Disillusionment follows,loss of self-respect, and further steps onthe downward path. She does not fallto the lowest depths, though she isAvith-in an nee of so doing, and in the end wefind her gaining an honest if humbleliving, in as ''drab" surroundings as at;first. She has had no experience of re-pentance;she has gained knowledge, butlittle^ wisdom;and' the only definite in-fluence brought to bear upon her hasbeen that of another girl who hadpassedthrough trials even severer than her own,but morally unscathed;and had takenup a fantastic and tringularly profitlessform of mysticism. She dies of con-sumption, and on the whole the authormakes things turn out rather worse, sofar as the world's good things are con-cerned, for those who strenuously over-come their lower nature than for thosewho make no attempt to do so.' Thereare careful studies of certain aspects ofmodem life;and the outlines of tho girlnovelist'^ plots are quietly humorous, as,for instance, the man Avho is murderedlo obtain possession of tho "valuable af-fidavits" he always carries on his per-son, and tho boa constrictor "with hisfangs extractpd" that is kept in a strongroom at the War Office as an additionalprotection .to tho archives of the de-partment. But the book is dreary;onlyono person in the story seems to havemore than a rudimentary conscience;there are no indications either of defi-nite guidance or inexorable fate; the"'Pillar of Cloud" is as erratic a guideas any ignis fatuus;and life is

-made

to appear ao questionableaboon thatonewonders how "Effie's" dream of a prac-tically endless cycle, each of anew shadeof "drab;" failed to reduce her to ut-ter despair. There is sound excuse fora cheerless book when it is a terribleand merciless exposure of remediableevils, with somo indication of the re-medy;but iri the present instanco thisjustification is not apparent.

"Fair Girls and Gray Horses." By WillH. Ogilvie. Sydney: Angus andEobertEon.

The Australian public is^ertainly ap-preciative of its local poets', and 'littleneed bo said in recommendation of abookwhich has been eight years before, theworld, has passed through several edi-tions, and is now in its eleventh thous-and. Since its original appearance tho"author has published a second collection,'whichpromises to be as successful as thefirst. Mr. Ogilvie's special Siibjects arealways popular with the Australianreader;ho writes with vigour and oftenwith the true lyric tone. He is not byany means piofound, but one of hispieces, "The World Beyond," in whichthe poet, the painter, and the lover aresuccessively lepresented as 6eeing in allaTound them the vesture and symbol ofsomething higher than bodily vision ro-veals, and as endeavouring in their im-perfect efforts to realise an inward ideal,strikes the deeper notei

—And to for tho wiilo woild never in vain

nios3oms ii day-d.iwn, a noon, or a night.For somewhere out 'further than these agiliuThcro reddens tho gleam of a lionc-bornURht;And the meanest man on tho round world's

rim—

Poet or pa nter though never, he be-Hns seen for a moment with eyes (frown dim

The light, that wa3 never on land or sealTho book iS printed and finished in theattractive style which is characteristicof Messrs. Angus andRobertson's publica-tions.

KIPLING'S NEW BOOK.

VARIOUS VERSE.'

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THEPOET.With hands that/never tire,

With heart that never pines.Ho tends tho holy firo

Of world-forsaken fhrines,Alone within tho night *

Of solitary places,Whore onco tho leaping light

Illumed tho thronging facesWith worship burning white.Upon tho Etono he lays

His hopes and joys and fears;Ha strews his floworinff days;

Ho strews his fruitful years;Yrt ever flickers low

The flame, and falters dying,Till Bomo tempestuous woo

That shakos his heart with sighingHevives the sacred glow.Through all ho freely brings

That "he, in vigil-dreamsMay hear a voice that singsBy far, eternal streams—Where darkling terror loomsKesido tho shadowed portal,

His life, which firo consumes,_ For us with flamo immortalShall light ths threshold glooms.—Wilfrid Wilson GibEon.Spectator.

LOVE ANDDEATH.Death camo to Love and said,vivo mo your roses red.

nlino is tho victory;Owning my sov'reigntyYour roses die."

I.ovo answer'd Death and said,Yours are tho rosos red.Yet Love once conquor'd thee:Love shall immortal bo,

Tho' roses die.""ctr i " -^E.D.A.Westminister Gazette

THE WITHERED ROSE.Y°ur P°tals once, O withered roso,a it.fraSrance which thoy claim nomoro,And she who wore you,Isuppose,Mas lost tho bloom sho had of yore.How many years havo passed since sheKeniovcd you from her gentlo breast,And, eighing, handed you to melo bo concealed beneath my vestIO withered rose, tome you bringA thousand thoughts of bygone days}Around your faded petals cfingbweet memories of windingways!Bnt was it Isabel or GraceOr blushing Juliet or MarioWho, trembling, look you from your placeupon her gentle breast— for me?

Chicago Record Herald.

SILENCE.Vast tilence seems some twilight skyThat leans as with her weight of starsTo rest, to rest, no moro to roam,But rest and rest eternally.She loosens and lets down tho barsSho brings the kind-eyed cattle home,Sane breathes the fragrant field of hayAnd heaven is npt fnr away.The deeps of soul are still the deepsWhere stately silence ever keepsHigh court with calm Nirvana, whereNo shallows break tho noisy shore,Or beat with sad, ineeEsaut roar,The fettered, fevered world of caro,As noisome vultures fret tho air.The star-sown seas of thought aro still,As when Gcd's ploughmen scatter 'comAlong tho mellow grooves at morn,In patient trust to wait His will.The star-sown seas of thought aro wide,But voiceless, noiseless, deep as night "Disturb not these, the- silent seasAre Eacred unto souls alliedAs golden poppie3 unto bees.Hero, from, the first, rude gisints wrought,Hero delved, hero tccttered stars ofthoughtTo grow, to bloom in years unborn,As grows tho gold-horned yellow corn.—

Joaquin Miller.KIPLING'S SMUGGLERS' SONG.

Curiously irrelevant, but altogether de-lightful, is tho Smugglers' Song in Kip-lings now book, "Puck of Pooka Hill,".a fanciful story in which is fomo of thobest work he has ever accomplished. Hereis the Eong:

—If you wake at midnight, and hear ahorso's feet,Don't go drawingback tho blind, or look-ing in the street,Them that asks no questions isn't told alie.Watch tho wall, my darling, while thoGentlemen go by!Five and twenty ponies, trotting through

tho dark—Brandy for the Parson, 'baccy for the

Clerk;Laces for a lady;letters for a epy;And watch the wall, my darling, while theGentlemen, go by!Running round tho woodlump if you

chance to findLittle barrels, roped and tarred, all full of

brandy-wine,Don't you shout to come and look, nor

take 'em for your play;Put tho brishwood back again,

—and they'll

bo gone next day!If you ees the etableyard setting open

wide;If you see a tired horse- lyingdown inside;If your mother mends a coat cut about

and tore;If tho lining* wet and warm

—don't you

ask no more!If you meet King George's men, dressed

in blue and red,You bo careful what you say, and mindful

what is taiiIf they call you 'pretty maid,' and chuck

you 'neath tho chin,Don t you tell where no one iB, nor yet

where no one's boon!Knocks and footsteps round the house—

whistles after dark—

You'vo no call for running out till thohouse-dogs bark.

'Trusty's' hero, and 'PincherY here, andboo our dumb they lie—

They don't fret to follow when thoGentlemen go by!

If you do as you'vo been told, 'likelythere's a chance,

You'll ho givo a dainty doll, all tho wayfrom lrrance,

With a cap of Valenciennes, and a velvothood—

A present from the Gentlemen, along o'being good!

Fivo and twenty ponies, trotting throughtho dark—

Brandy for tho Parson, 'baccy for thoClerk.

Them that asks no questions isn't told a,lie-

Watch the wall, my darling, while thoGentlemen go byI

Gradually tho San Francisco Argo-naut has resumed its old shape. Neveran issue wus missed, though tho firstafter tho firo was only four pages, andobviously make-shift as regards sizo,paper, and style. The old quality ofpaper and form of page has boon re-stored, and certain changes made. Thoold headings were disproportionatelysmall, and this has been remedied. Butwo regret tho disappearance of the oldbody-type. Tho "new dress," wo re-pet to say, is a "freak" lotter, painfulto the eye in any size,andin the smallersizes almost illegible.

Mr. W. T. Stead (says a contempor-ary) is obviously not of the number ofthose over-partial parents whose fond-ness for their offspring blinds them tofaults which aro all too palpablo in thiseyes of the rest of tho world. nohas been levelling Spartan and slashingcriticism at anarticle in tho FortnightlyReview on "Pan-Islamism," from thopen of his son, Mr. Alfred Stead. Thisunbiased paternal reviewer says thathoread tho article "with concern and sur-prise," and that "it is difficult to finda word to oxpress its extreme lack ofpolitical commongensc." Other choiceflowors of disparagement of the ideasput forth by Stead fils ftro "the verydelirium of political heroics" and"midsummer madness"

—these being ap-

plied to soino suggestions of tho writerof tho article regarding British policy.in the matter of remedies for tho grow-ing danger of Pan-lalamisru.

Kipling is in a certain meaning a classic—should- be guilty of publishing suchdoggerel as this :

We are the Little Folk—

we!Too little to love or to hate.Leaveus alone and you'll see

How we can drag down the gTeat!We are the woim in the wood!We are the rot at the root!We are tho germ in the blood!Wo are the thorn in the foot1Now, anybody guilty of the caco-

phanies in this stanza ought to be takenout and punishsd with the utmostseverity of the law. A lesser personthan Kipling would not have dared toproduce such verses to the criticism ofthe most indulgent editor. Why shouldMr Kipling presume to pass off Fisnothingness ior sterling verse? But"Puck of Pook's Hill" is a delightfulbook, full of, quaint renderings of oldwisdom.

Tho Pall Mall Magazine for Novemberhas a delightful figure-study in coloursby Hal Hurst on its cover, and openswith some very interesting leininiscencesof Whistler's Academy in Paris, -writtenand. illustrated by Cyras Ouneo. EmmaIvsddellgives an account of Mt.and Mrs.Herbert Gladstone at home, and a bankclerk traces the life of a bank-note fromits cradle in the paper-mill to its disso-lution in the furnace. Mr. H. C. Baileyconducts Raoul through fuither adven-tuies, and the contributor* of fiction in-clude Violeh Jacobs, "Fiona M'Leod"(the late William Sharp), Jack London,and others. There is some varied'verse,and the illustrations, as usual, mark thehighest levelof magazine illustration.

The Young Man's Magazine for No-vember continues Mr. T. Pringle's "Im-pressions of Japan." The Rev. P. W.Fairclough contributes an appreciation olSir Thomas More. Mr. Armit,on "ThoThree Men who have done mo&t for theUpliftingof the British Race," admits theimpossibility of giving a satisfactoryanswer, but selects Alfred. Knox, andBunyan. Dr. Gibb, inhis "Friendly Let-ters to Young Men," puts in a neededplea for tho King's English

—buthow few

will heed. Theman whois furious at thedropping of "v" from "neighbour," whereit has no etymologic warrant, will pro-nounce "floor" like "flaw" or say "euah"for "sure" like a negro, orconversely, to

quote one of Dr. Gibbe's examples, ex-claim "Theidear !" as did acertain school-teacher, indignantly iepudkting thechargethat some of the children inher class said"Australian

"There is a good essay on

"me Culture of tho Ideal." Mr. 11. A.Adams writes on a little-known wonder-spot

— the "Bubu Spring," or the Waikura-mumu. "Bubu" is certainly not Maori;it is probably one of those local corrup-tions, like "Kartigi," too common in theSouth Island, and not unknown— "Munga-roa," for example, in the North. "It isthe Master's voice, he speaks again!"writes E:M. Dunlop Parnejl, in a shortpoemon the celebrated "Logia,"or Wordsof Christ, discoveredin1896, and acceptedby many as genuine. Altogether, a goodnumber.

We have received from Christchurchthe first number of tho Physical Culttrrist,edited and published by Mr. F. A.Hornibrook. It is an illustrated maga-zine of a type whichis becoming familiar,devoted to health reforms, and advocat-ing the fullest use of natural agencies—fresh air,pure water,and rightly-oTderedexercise. "In its pages no advertisementswill be found of corsets, whisky, patentmedicines, etectric belts, or other foolishfakes." Some .of the photographicillustrations show wonderful results fromdeep-breathing and appropriate, exercisein cases of narrow chests, undue obesity,and. even spinal curvature. There areseveral articles by scientific specialists,includingoneby Dr. Mason, Chief HealthOfficer,on quacks and impostors.

Tho Rev. E. P. Blamires, well knownin this city, who is now taking a year'srest in England, notes an interestingfact in a recent lottor to the DunedinOutlook. Ho was present at the cen-tenary gathering of the Torquay Wes-loyan Sunday School, which his motherattended when a girl, and a feature oftho service was the singing of the popu-lar hymn, "Children of Jerusalem.""Both tho music and tho words of thathymn." ho says, "wero composed by mymother's'uncle, tho Roy. John Henley,ovor seventy years ago, specially fortho Torquay Sunday School anniver-|sary, and it has been repeated at everyanniversary since."

Mr. and Mrs. Israel Zangwill arc bo-ing congratulated on the advent of ason. Mrs. Zangwill was formerlyMiss Edith Ayrtoun, and is>a -daughterof Professor W. E. Ayrtoun, an Eng-lish electrical engincor and inventor.She is herself a magazine writer.

Mr. W. H. Flood has surprised manypeople by jpointing out in tho Atheneumthat tho famous song of "The WidowMalone" was not written by Lover.He has a copy of tho song as printedin 1809, when Lover was in his thirdyear; the author's name, being givenas Daniel O'Mara, a Dublin playwright.

Is George Eliot still apopular author?(a contemporary asks). One hears thoquestion put, sometimes by people whoshould know better. The very bestauthorities on the subject aro GeorgeEliot's old publishers, Messrs. Black-wood, and their answer in contained inan autumn announcement. They be-gan last month to publish a new popu-lar edition of her works in ten volumesat 3a 6d net each.

Speaking at a,dinner, Mr. S. R.Crockett, tho novelist, said:

—."I had, a

conversation not long ago inconnectionwith my literary labours with an oldgoodwife among tho hills. 'Aye,1 shesaid, 'and hoo do yq like it

—as far as

ye ha gotten?' Iinformed my ques-tioner that up to tho present timo ofaskingIlike it fairly well. 'An' dae yolccvc on buicks?' Iintimated that sofurIhad not had to take advantage ofthe Bankruptcy Acts. 'Aweel, aweel,'saidMary, 'there's mony a shift in thiswarl.'

"For many years tho Biblo has been

printed by tho Biblo Society in thoIrish languago and circulated in Iro-lancl, "without noto or comment," inaccordance with that society's standingrule. It has boon resorvod for thatsingularly sensitivo body, tho DublinCorporation, to raiso anobjection. Fromtho last report of tho Library Committooit appeared that a copy had been pre-

sontcd by tho Hibernian Biblo Societyto tho library and boon accepted. Dr.M'Walter objected to tfio report beingreceived. Tho book, ho said, was a"bogus" Bible, Mr. Harrington, M.P.,said tho acceptance of tho book was"very discreditable to the committee,"

.and declared that "the existence of thoHibernian Biblo Sorioty was an insultto the intolligenco of tho Irish people."Alderman Irwin defended tho com-mittee. Dr. M'Walter mado a mistakein being too definite in his assertions.He failed to have the nction of thecommittee reversed;but tho clause was"referred back to tho committee forthem to report whether tho copy of thoBible accepted was correct."

THE TURKISH SUCCESSION.The correspondent of The Times in

Paris states in Thursday's issue thatthe French press is just now devotinga good deal of atention to the possibilityof a vacancy in the Turkish Throne,and to canvassing the chances of thepossible successors of Abd-ul-Hamid.Germany, it is stated, was until re-cently favourable to Prince Burhan-Ed-Din, the younger son of the Sultan,who was educated by German tutors andimbued with German ideas. Britainand France, on the contrary, are saidto desire that the legitimate heir— thatis, the eldest male of the house of Oth-man—Prince Rechad, should succeed,or,if he should predecease Abd-ul-Hamid,that the next in the strict line ofsuccession— viz., Prince Yu3suf Izzeddin— should mount the throne. The Timescorrespondent goes on to state, however,that, according to his information, bothGermany and the Sultan have begun torealise that the project for placingBurhan-Ed Din on the throne has littlechance of success, and, accordingly, thatGermanyis looking out foranother stringto her bow, and is now inclined to fav-our,not the candidate of the Arab andKurd clique at Yildiz Kiosk, but thatof their opponents, men for the mostpart now in exile in different parts ofthe Continent. The Times correspon-dent also hints that Germany's policyis largely influenced by her desire loprosecute the project of the BaghdadRailway, whoever may be the rulingpower in Turkey.THE NEWFOUNDLAND DISPUTE.

The modus vivendi arranged betweenthe Foreign Office and the AmericanGovernment in regardto theoutstandingdisputes over the terms of the Conven-tion of 1818, which secures certainAmerican fishery rights on the coastof Newfoundland, is being violentlyattacked in the colony. We, on ourpart, agree that for the present seasonwe will not put into force the New-foundland Foreign Fishing Vessels Act,1906, and also the provision of thefirst and third sections of the Act of1905 as to boarding and bringing intoport. We also agree to the use of purseseines by the American fishermen. Inreturn the United States Gvernmentwill direct tho masters of Americantishing-vesels to conform, when phy-sically possible, with the ColonialCustoms Law as to reporting at aCustom-house on arrival and departurefrom colonial waters, topay light dues,and to abstain from Sunday fishing.The United States Government further,while retaining their right to recruitNewfoundlanders for the fishery outsidesuch territorial waters, assure his Ma-jesty's Government that such shipments,if foundnecessary, will be at asufficientdistance to meet the three-mile-limitrule.

NEEDLESS INDIGNATION.The Roman Catholic Archbishop of

St. John's calls the modus vivendi ashameful betrayal of the interests of"Newfoundland,'and urges that protestsshould be laid at the foot of the Throneand delegates despatched to Englandand Canada, and that an appeal shallbe made to the autonomous colonies tojoin in resisting an invasion of colonialrights. The press of the colony isequally indignant. We are the lastpeople to desire that the legitimaterights of any colony should be in-fringed, but it seems to us that in thepresent case the Government were quiteright to arrange a modus vivendi. Itwould be impossible for the whole Em-pire to go to war with the United Statesover a small fishery dispute. But ifthis is so, and if, as we understand isthe case, the colony is opposed to arbi-tration, nothing remains butnegotiation.If the Newfoundland colonists will re-flect, they will see the impossibility offorcing matters to war. Curiously

.enough, the miseries of a war thus pro-voked would fall neither upon us northo Newfoundlanders, owing to our im-mense preponderance at sea, but uponthe Canadians. They would be thospecial sufferers in a quarrel with whichthey have very little to do. Wo by nomeans imagine that the Americanscould conquer Canada if the Canadianswere determined to resist, as we aresure they wonld be;but even an at-tempt at the invasion of Canada wouldcause immense loss and misery to theDominion. In the circumstances webelieve that Sir Edward Grey shouldreceive the support of all true Imperial-

jists in the difficult work ho has under-taken of finding through negotiation asolution acceptable and fair to bothparties to tho dispute. We must notforget that the Newfoundlanders havein _past years often accused us of sacri-ficing them to France, and yet New-foundland has managed tohold her ownin the cod fisheries. ,

LIBERALISM AND SOCIALISM.The annual Conference of the Scottish

Liberal Association was concluded atPeebles on Friday week, and signaliseditself by a formal repudiation of Social-ism. The last resolution moved ran asfollows: "That, while expressing thedeepest sympathy with the genuine as-pirations of Labour, the meeting de-clares its belief that it is a primaryduty of tho Liberal Party to presentstrenuous opposition to all candidateswho are not prepared to dissociate them-selves from tho Socialist Party, theavowed object of which is the com-plete destruction of those principles ofindividual liberty for which Liberalismhas always contended." An amendmentexpressing regret at the attitudo of somerepresentatives of Labour, but declaringthat the proper reply of Liberalism wasto proceed strenuously with its workof social amelioration, havingbeennega-tived, the resolution was carried by55 votes to 34. At a luncheon subse-quently held tho Master of Elibankdeclared that he in no way regrettedhis previous attack on the wreckingSolicy of tho Labour Party, whileIr.J. A. Pease, another Liberal Whip,

stated that if the tactics adopted atCockermouth by tho Socialist sectionwere to bo repeated, "he, as LiberalWhip, was quitu suro that the LiberalParty in England, as well us in Scot-land, intended to give that particularsection of the Labour RepresentationCommittee very little quarter."MAJORITY REPRESENTATION.Mr. Winston Churchill, speaking at

Glasgow on Thursday night, carried onthe war begunby the Master of Elibankagainst that section of thoLabour mem-bers

—a small minority of them, he de-clared— who wero animated by a pur-poselessand recklesshostility to Liberal-

ism. Tho proper and indispensableremedy was the institution of a secondballot, andhe had everyreason to hopothat thsit reform would bo effected be-fore Parliament had comploted its \vor]f.We aro exceedingly glad to hear thisannouncement, as we feel very stronglythat if tho group system is to Do devel-oped, wo must take care that thosewho are elected for a constituency re-present a majority of the voters. Atthe same time, wo fee' bound to warntho Liberal pnrty that this electoralmeasure, like that dealing with pluralvoting, will not be, and ought not tobo, assented to by the House of Lordsunless it is accompanied by the stillmore urgent and more essentially demo-cratic reform involved in the carryingout of tho principle of "One voto omsvalue," tho reduction of tho monstrouslyunjust over-representation of Ireland,and tho romodying of the present grossundor-repiesentationof England. TheLiberal Party cannot bo allowed tohaveonly that portion of electoral reformwhich they think useful to themselves,and to leave untouched v huge injusticeand anomaly whichhelpsthouipoliticallyand is injurioui to their opponents..

SPECTATOR SUMMARY(For week ending, Saturday, 13th Oct.)

THE ACTRESS TO THE DUMA.We are extremely glad to be able to

record that the Committee which organ-ised the Address to the Duma have deci-ded not to send tho proposed deputationto St. Petersburg, The evidence whichhas been accumulating during the courseof the past week indicated in the mostunmistakable way that this step wouldhave prejudiced the cause of Russianfreedom, and also that good understand-ing between Russia and Britain whichall thoughtful men so earnestly desire.Tho special correspondents ot severalof tho most important newspapers warn-ed British readers as to the evil effectsthat were likely to flow from the depu-tation, and we hear from other trust-worthy sources that some of the bestand most enlightened friends of liberalinstitutions in Russia looked with graveanxiety upon the advent of the deputa-tion. Though grateful and appreciativeof the intentions of the signatories tothe Address, they felt that the publicpresentation might givo an opportunityto the worst section of the reactionarieswhich would have been eagerly seizedupon. Again, responsible Russians whodesire a better understanding betweentheir country and our own showed agreat deal of anxiety as to what mighthappen if tho deputation insisted onvisiting Russia. M. Stolypin, the Rus-sian Promier, in an interview with thecorresppndentof the Daily Mail,strong-ly insisted upon the view that thedeputation would have an unfavourableinlluence upon tho relations of the twoEmpires, "lately grown cordial afterlong years of misunderstanding and dis-trust."

THE HOHENLOHE MEMOIRS.The publication of the Hohenlohe

Memoirs has been the Gensation of theweek in Germany. At first it wascontended, plausibly enough, that theywere issued with the approval and atthe desire of the Kaiser to vindicate, hisaction indismissing PrinceBismarck, andalso to remind Austria, on the eveof therenewal of tho Triple Alliance, ofhis good services to the DualEm-pire. This theory, we may note,oven survived the Kaiser's indig-nant telegram to Prince* Philip Hohen>lohe. The opportuneness of the in-discretion has naturally enough givenrise to a good deal of scepticism, andtha complicity of the Kaiser has beenbroadly hinted at in unofficial, journalsof Austria-Hungary,— a view which thepublication of tho Memoirs in bookform has now rendered quite untenable.The Kaiser's annoyance, as we pointout olsewhero, seems excessive;but heis fully entitled to claim for Royaltythe right to be consulted before suchintimate revelations are made,— a rightwhich is seldom denied in ths case ofordinary individuals.THE BRUNSWICK SUCCESSION.

The Brunswick Succession question,recently raised by the Diet of theduchy, has led to an interesting cor-respondence between the Duke of Cum-berland and the German Emperor. TheDuke proposes an arrangement underwhich his rights and those of hiseldest son should be transferred to hisyoungest son, Ernest Augustus. Heandhis eldest son would then formally re-nounce their claims to the throne ofBrunswick as soon as it was made clearthat no obstacles stood in the way oftho assumption of the 'government ofthe duchy by his youngest son. But hefurther stipulates that the succession inBrunswick should remain open to himand his eldest son and to their descend-ants in the event of tho extinction ofhis youngest son's lino. To this ■pro-posal the Kaisor'hds replied declining tolend hijtfself to it fresh arrangement solong as the acttfal end legal situationwhich led to the action of the FederalCouncil in 1885 remains unchanged.Prince Bulow has also writtenregrettinghis inability to support the Duke'sproposal. It will, of course, be notedthat the puke of Cumberland omits tosay anything about renouncing his claimto tho throne of Hanover. Tb.B mutualattitude 'of tho Duko and the Kaiser iscuriously illustrated by their method ofaddressing each othor, the Duke /stylingtho Kaiser his "well-beloved cousin andbrother"— brother is the word alwaysused by Kings in addressing each otner—

while tho Kaiser omits the last twowords.

THE MARCONI MONOPOLY.There has been' a great deal of talk

during the week as to the progress oftho Wireless Telegraphy Conferencewhich is being held at Berlin. Theclash of interests seems to bo extremelybitter, and at ona time it was statedthat thero was a strong difference ofopinion between tho British delegates,those nominated by the Admiralty tak-ing one yiow, and those by the BritishPost Office another. Wo arc glad tonote, however, mat this is now denied,and that tho British delegates are actingin harmony. The chiof point at issuo isinvolved in tho question of the mono-poly of the Marconi Company in GreatBritain. The Admiralty, it is assorted,hold that by the employment of thatsystem we obtain an imenso advantageover all other users of wircleßs tele-system wo obtain an immense advantageshould not bo 'foregone at tho requestof"^oermany. Japan is supportingBritain, as also are Portugal, Italy, andFrance. Wo sincerely trust that ourGovernment, however great tho pressureupon them in Berlin, will maintain theAdmiralty view, and that publicopinionhere will also strongly supportit. If,aswo understandis thocase, theAdmiralty,after a careful and deliberate study ofthe facts, and from their experienceof the present system, believe that itiB an essential clement in tho main-tenance of our sea power, it would bemadness for us to forego our advantagebecause that advantago gives umbrageto tho Germans. We may bo perfectlysure that had tho Germans obtained thebest wireless system, they would notbe so foolish as to givo it up becausewe represented that its possession bythem was disagreeable to oursolvcs.

RUSSIAN FINANCE.A confidential Memorandum from M.Kokovtsoff, tho Russian Minister ofFinance, to M. Stolypin, tho Promier,

was printed in tho Temps last week,and reproduced in Tho Times of Fridayweek. An official dementi followed, butM. Kokovtsoff has sinco confirmed theauthenticity of tho document, which hesays was stolen from the Ministry ofFinance, while demurring to the con-struction which has been put upon itby public opinion. M. Kokovtsoff s con-fldontial rcpoH amounted to nn appealto tho Premier to control extra-Bud-getary expenditure by resisting thefresh demands od tho spending depart-ments;otherwisea deficit of £15,000,000would havo to bo faced. Tho ImperialRussian Financial Agencyissued a state-mont, published in Alonday's Times,with v vjow of reassuringBritishholdorsof Russian securities. According tothis statement, tho gold reserve is nowmuch larger than itwas at thobeginningof tho year, while the rovonuo roturnsai:o alroady ono hundred millions ofroubles bettor than tho estimates. Thereaj point is, Do Russianofficial balonco-Bheotß rovoal tho full extent of theirfinancial difficulties? In any case, itis hard to reconcile tho optimism of theImperial Russian Financial Agency withM. Kokovtsoff's admission that thofinan-cial situutics is ."unquestionably, eoi'i-qua.''- ,

Concerning Kipling's latest book,"Puck of Pook's Hill" "(Maemillan), theSydney Herald writes:— "It is a charm-ing fairy-tale. Itmay be more. Itmaycontain anumber of excellent admonitionsto patriotism, or a number of eloquentwarnings against carelessness in the mat-ters which concern tho regulating of Im-perial affairs. But, first and foremost,it is a fairy-tale for boys and girls. Danand Una are two children who havewisely been imbued by their father witha love of literature as personified byShakespeare. These two children are re-hearsing to themselves— an appreciativeaudience

—some of the scenes of "A Mid-

summer Night's Dream." Through someweird and desirable interposition of theFates, they repeat some of the verses,the incantation, three times;and lo! thePuck whom, we all know through Shake-speare appears to them. It is a beauti-ful conception, this of two modernchildren led into wonderlandby that mis-chievous sprite who has lived to see theworld encircled within tho limit henamed. Butpoor Puck is alone. All hisgood friends have gone. The fairies—no hated the name— have flown awayfrom the work-weary Britain of tho newdays, and he alone reinnins to maintaintho honour of the aerial tribe. ButPuck!How is ho translated!No longerthe mischievous elf whom children andall lovers of Shakespeare adore, Puck isnow the revealer of ancient history.Puck, however, has not lost his oldchaTucteristica. His is a merry soul, op-pressed by servitude to the great .Giantwho has 1tiled the world since thosemerry days when a. weaver with the headof an ass commanded tho affections oftho Queen of tho Fairies. He alone re-mains of all the good little folk whomanned every hill und dale in England,beloved of the fairies;and he— well, hohas lost his power. Only when ho is in-vokedby children such as Una and Dandoes he appear ona scene which was oncehis own. Through his means the dcligfit-ful children of tho story shako by thehand noble heroes, dead and gone longsince. Tho old spirit breathes uponthem, and the great old fights for coun-try und honour become real.

A fairy-tale which will he read byyoung and old, Mr Kipling has broughtto bear upon its telling some at least oftho powers which have made himfamous."Puck, of Pook's Hill," is distinctlyhigher in point of literary execution thnii"Kirn," though tho dramatic effect is less.Mr Kipling tells a charming tale, whichwill bo appreciated thioughout tho Em-pire. But why did he accompany it withpoetry/ It it voritubly painful to findthat a'man of Mr Kiclius'fl iutnc— for

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'me no good, so 1started to try the effect of Warner's Safe Cure. Soon after com-mencing to take this medicineIobtained relief, and gradually bega-n to mend, untilall painhad left me and 1 could cat and sleep without distress. Iam now in ihobest of health."From Miss ElizabethNewbory, Bangor. S.A., 3rd August. 1905." In hope that others mav^ benefit by my experience.Imisb to testify to whafcWarner's Safe Cure has done for me in saving my life. In October, 1903, Iwantaken ill with dropsy whilst away from home. Idid not take ruucb notice of it itfirst, but soon became so ill that 1had to be removed to the hospital. For tenweeks two doctors attended to me, and at last had to confess that they could donothing for mo, and that the best thingIcould do was to go home to my parents.They fully expected thatIshould die, andIthought the same. Idecided to gohome. Before leaving, a minister advisedme to try Warner's Safo Gure, skying lhata like case, to his knowledge,had been curcd'by that inedicino. For seven months,after arrivingat home, my life washanging by a thread, and everyone thought thatIshould die. OftenIhad such difficulty in breathing that a rope had to bo passedthrough a beam in the roof, and Ihad to be raised by that, so that, whilst holdingon,Icould got my breath. At one period of my illness Imeasured forty-four (44)inches round the waist. Ithen procured a bottle of Warner's Safe Cure, and finding-that it did me a little good,Icontinued tc tako it, talcing also Warner's Safe Pills.Allogether,Itook thirteen bottles of the medicine (witb the pills), and. marvollouito say, since thenIhave been stronger and have enjoyed better health than everbefore. Warner's Safe Cure undoubtedlysavedmy life after the doctors paid thatIwas incurable."From Mr. J. W. Jackson, Storekeeper, 87, Inkerman Street, St. Kilda. Vie, 25th

January, 1906."For a number of yearsIsuffered from disease of tho kidney?, which gradually

undermined myhealth. As the disease advanced Ibecame -weakfr. Ilost all appe-tite and experienced extreme wakefulness and nervousness. Ihad a sinking feelingwhich increased day by day, unfittingmo for exercise of any Uind. When at theworst Icommenced to tako Wnrner's Safe Cure. Irapidly recovered, and was soononce again in the enjoyment of goodhealth and sfrength."

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Miss Rohloff, Timaru. Too Weak to WalkSlipping Into a DeclinaHealth Perfect To-day

Dr. Williams' Pink Pills.'WhenIentered my 'teens, it wouldhave been hard to find a stronger girlanywhere," said Miss Stella Rohloff, LeCren's Terrace, Le Cren St., Timaru.'Soon afterIturned fifteen,Istartedto fade away, and the only thing thatsaved me from the grave was Dr Wil-liams' Pink fills for Pale People Itook them for six months, and it isjust wonderful the way they built moup. When Istarted them Iwas askeleton— but Iweighed list. 41b whenIknocked them off."My blood must have been over-

IS? '40?40?,16rew P^c and weak," addedMiss Rohloff. "I had no life, and justwent about the house in a half-dazedway. Mother never dreamed Iwas sobad. She used to get annoyed, and.,me,that Igave way too much. Iwouldn t let her know that there weretimes whenIhad hardly the strengthto put one foot before the other. Iwould noWgive in till ono day, when Iwas helping her, Istaggered to thesofa and fell back in T dead faintThat was a terrible shock to them allThe doctor was sent for, and he said Ifainted from sheer weakness and wantof blood."'She will need every care,' MrsRohloff, werehis last words to motherThe least chill might end in herDeath. She has hardly enough bloodinher body to keepher alive as it is.'."Ididn't look as if Ihad any blood,

for Iwas the colour of Death," MissRohloff went on. "My lips and gumswere almost purple. My cheeks fell in,andmyeyessank awaybackinmyhead.Iwas a ghastly sight. Every few week*dark circles came under my eyes, show-ing what a terrible state my health wasin. The doctor sent me medicine andmother did her best to build me upwith_good food and no end of carebut,in spite of everything,Ikept goingdown, down, down.

"SoonIwas nothing but an invalid.Ihad not the energy to do a hand'sturn. In fact. 1had not the strength.My back was never- done aching, andmy head felt as if it would burst.When these headaches came onIcouldnot lie still for two minutes. Igrewrestless, and could not get rid of thefeeling that something dreadful wasgoing to happen. Then suddenly myhead started to swim, and all the bloodin my body rushed to my face. Thenext minute Iwas stretched on thefloor in a dead faint, as lifeless as acorpse.

"These fainting fits cameoftenereverymonth. Sometimes Ihad as many asthree in a week. When 1came roundeach time Iwas ail of a shake. Myhands were stone-cold, and Iwas soweak that Icould hardly move. A ter-rible weight seemed to be lying at myheart,andIcould get norelief tillIhada good cry. Next day, Iwas fit fornothing. All my nerves wero on edge,and Iwas too down-hearted for words.The least thing startled me,and set myheart beating like mad. Ialways feltthat the next fainting fit would carryme off.

"After doctoring for years, Igavoup all hope of ever getting well," addedMiss Rohloff. "As the Sundays wentbyIused to wonder if Iwould be alivathat day week. Iwas so thin andweak that it was plain Icould not lastmore than a few months longer. Icouldn't bear the thought of dying andleaving all at home behind me

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but everyoneat home said thatImust havepatience,and not expect wonders in a few days.So Ikept on. Itwas a month beforeIfelt them doing me good in otherways. Then Ihad to own up that I,was ever so much better. Every day,Ikept gaining in weight and strength.'Some times a whole fortnight passedand Ididn't faint once. The colourcame back to my face, and my cheeksfilled out. Ihad no more headaches orbachaches, and Ialways wanted to behelping about the house. After IhadtaKenDr. Williams' Pink Pills for fourmonths, Ihad not had a fainting fitfor weeks— and Ihave never had onesince. " Still Ikept on taking the pillsfor six months, till Iwas just brimfulof life andhealth. Iweighed over list,then, and haven't had a day's illnesssince. Mother and father and all theneighbours, will tell you that Iwouldbe m my grave to-day but for Dr. Wil-liams' Pink Pills for Pale People.

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LONDON'S DEBT.

SUNDAY COURSING.

Attempts are boing made by proceed-ings in court to put a stop to the Sun-day "coursing" which is becoming anintolerable nuisance to dwellers on thooutskirts of London. Writing froir>London on tho cruelty of fasliionablolife as displayed in tho indifference tobird-suffering, "Rose do Boheme," intho Sydney Telegraph, passes' on to thomanifestions of tho samo vico inreference to coursing. She says:

—Last Sunday

—a lovoly , last-rose-

of-aummer kind of day— motoring downEpping Forest way,Inoticed a beauti-ful greyhound, almost small enough foran Italian, on the leash, carefully coat-ed, with frilled collar and wire muzzlo.Tho day did not seem to account fortheso precautions. Further onInoticodmoro greyhounds similarly attired. Atv, crossroad, whence wagonettes werestarting, thore was a considerable collec-tion of dainty loashed greyhounds, allcoated and muzzled, all held in byrough-looking men. Suddenly tho truthflashed uponmo, andIturned very sick.It was coursing day! Tho brutalitiesof these Sunday coursing matches havobeconio ouch a scandal that at this mom-ent v prosecution is on foot in conse-quence, and in tho pure sweet air andlovely Sabbathsunshino coarse mananddolicate dog werobound for fields whereinconceivable lelincmcnt of cruelty isperpetrated in tho name of sport 1 Withhuch tendencies among us, wo canscarceuffoi'd to throw stones at tho Spanishbull-lighter, who at least risks life andlimb attacking a beast worthy of hisiJi'oweßS.

SOLOMON IN MAINE.

Secretaries of volunteer corps and of rifleclubs are invited to forward anyitems of interest regarding parades,shooting,.or generai company news.

The Government is deserving of praisefor the steadiness with which improve-

ments to Trentham rifle range are beingcarried out year after year. It is truethat such essential matters as the brick-ing of the trenches and the sowing ofgrass seed on the new mounds havebeenneglected, but looking at the matter onbroad grounds, it must be said that ex-cellent progress is being made towardsperfection of the Tange. A gang of menia now clearing the land to southwardof tho Seddon range, and on completion-of this work a dozen or so extra targetswill be erected. Alterations are to bemade to the Sommerviile range also, anda few targets are to be removed fromthat locality to the Collins range, with aview to equalising the number of targetsor each range, and thus making easierthe squadding of men and their transferfrom one range to another. It is esti-mated that the works now in progresswill cost some £700. >-

Tho programme for the sixth annualmeeting ot the Wellington District De-fence Rifle Clubs' Association, to be heldat Trentham on 31st December, providesfor six matches. They are as follows :—No. I.— Karori match, 200, 500, and 600yards, seven shots; 23 prizes, totalling£20. No. 2.

—Wairarapa. match, 500

and 700 yards, seven snots;20 prizes,£17 10s. No. 3.— Upper Hutt match,500 and 600 yards, seven shots; 20prizes, £17 10s. No. 4.

—Opaki match,

000. yards, ten shots; 15 prizes, £15.jfo. s.— Petonematch, 800, 900, and 1000yards, seven shots;23 prizes, £20. No.6.— Grand Aggregate, counting scores inmatches, 1,2, 3, 4, and 5;nine prizes,the first being a champion gold medalvalued at £3 3s, presentedby Mr. W. H.Field, M.H.R., and £o. In additionthere will be a Teams' Match, five mena-side, and a Continuous Match. Duringthe meeting the second competition willalso be held for the Licensed Victuallers'Association's silver cup, valued at £50.Arrangements have been made for thsissue of railway passes to competitors.

The Masterton MountedRifles will holda military sports meeting on 10th Janu-ary next.

Referring t# the successes of theDreadnought trials, Engineering, whichis absfilucely up-to-date on questions ofNaval construction, points out thatwhereas no Continental nation can pos-sess 'a, single ship that can outclass theDreadnought by 1909, the British Navymay include a complete squadron com-posed of six of these battleships. A.squadron of six Dreadnoughts, possess-ing sixty 12-inoh tuus> would contributeenormously to promote universal respectfor Great Britain's diplomatic relations;but, in addition to this first Naval line,the Adiniialty will possess a second jsquadron by190Dconsisting of twobattle-ships of the Lord Nelson class and eightof the King Edward VII. class. This

'second squadron will be armed with forty12-inch and fifty-two 9.2-inch guns, andit will piobably be vastly superior toany similar combination of an equalnumber of battleships which any Con-tinental Power will be able to command.It ■would thus appear that the politicalwar-cry raised by the Opposition regaTd-ing ihe Naval policy of the Governmentwas premature.

As a lesult of the protest made bythe Merchant Service Guild regardingthe suspension of granting commissionsin the lloyal Naval Reserve, the Ad-miralty have replied that they "regretthey do not consider it practicable nor'desirable to relax the regulations." Asa matter of fact, the number of candi-dates for commissions in the R.N.R. has

(been greatly in excess of the appoinc-ineptsavailable. At present thenumbersof.R.N.R. officers aie in excess of Ad-miralty requuements, and, us a reductionis therefoie necessary, the number ofcandidates removed on reaching the ageliuiib has been hugcr than in formeryears. It is announced that in futuTethe Admiralty piopose to givepreference,in connection with the limited number ofappointments available, to those pos-sessing masters' ceitificates who havealso passed the Board of Trade examina-tions in steam. "

The proposed withdrawal of the St.Helena garrison of 150 gunners and. 30Royal Engineers, though strictly in ac-cordance with the policy of the BlueWater school, has leccntly caused theinhabitants of the island much concern.The St.' Helena committee has been ac-tive of late ia denouncing the intentionof the Government, on the ground thatthe island constitutes an importantstrategical position, and that, shor'd theSuez canal be closed at any time >o ourwar vessels, it is practically the Ley toour oceaji route to ludia- Naturally, thewithdrawal of 180 oflicers and b^ldieisfrom St. Helena will affect the pro-sperity of the island somewhat seriously,and the Blue Water school are not sup-ported by Admirals the Hon. Sir E.Fremantle, Sir E. Seymour, and Sir JohnColomb in this proposal, which it is yetpossiblemaybe reconsidered.

The crusade carried on by Lieutenant-Colonel Davis, late R.A.M.C., for veiymany years against the custom of chest-swelling, which obtains in tna pitsentphysical training of the recruit, bids fairto Tesult in a cessation of this unnaturalprocess of development. It ia a note-worthy fact that, in the case of theSpectator ExperimentalCompany, ColonelPollock omitted this practice with excel-lent results. Lieutenant-Colonel Davis'scontention is that the practice producesincapacitating exhaustion under prolong-ed exertion, and he has ceitainly suc-ceeded in showing that ho has reasonand practical experience on his side. Thomen of the Spectator Experimental Com-pany were fit for iinniedialo work afterdoubling amile and a half without cessa-tion, and if this degree of "fitness" re-sults from purely naturul physical train-ing there can bo 'no necessity for forc-ing painful und questionable conditionson the young recruit. The question i&now being considered by un ouicml com-mittee of speciuli3lo.It is also gratifying to record that, in

spito of certain rumours to the contrary,tho Hibernia has satisfactorily concludedher speed trials, which demonstrate hermobile capacity a3 exceeding the contractrequirements. Tho Hiberuia is destinedfor commissioning caily in 1907, us theflagship of the KcaT-Admiral, second incommand of tho Atlantic licet. Devon-port appears, to be peculiarly fortunatein possessing local facilities for tho con-struction nnd trial of battleships. Thogreat intorcat evinced by Plymothiansin the Hibernia during the week was noteven overshadowed, to any appreciableextent, by the" airival of tho Dread-nought, though the huge size and uniqueappearance of the latter drew unusualnumbers to view her from afar, The newDreadnought, which is to be constructedat Dcvonport,i3being laid off on the loftfloor, and her plans will be completedforthwith.

[Contributions to this column, addressed"Field Sport," will be welcomed. Theyshould be concise, and must be signedwith the writer's full name and ad-dress, not for publication, bub as aguarantee of authenticity.]

Some good sport has been obtained byanglers in the King Country streamsduring tho past week or two, remarksthe Auckland Herald, but the fish con-tinue small. At Taumarunui, it issaid, there has 'been good fishing, someof the trout reaching from 41b to 61b.In some instances the fish were foundto be in .poor condition. Some goodtrout-fishing can bo obtained in thePuniu stream (writes the same paper'sKihikihi correspondent), and the localanglers have been very successful sincethe opening of the season. Mr. Fitz-Gerald landed one weighing 41b lOoz;Mr. T. Wilson another nearly 4ilb,yhilst Mr. J Gardiner obtained six dur-ing one afternoon, and five on anotheroccasion.

An angler fishing in the Mungataririon Sunday grassed a monster eel. Itslength was 6ft, girth 10in, and weight181b 6oz. Itwas secured with a smallhook,and it was found necessary for anenthusiastic spectator to wade into thestream to secure the prize. The eelwas smoked and should figure on thomenu at many meals.

Messrs T. D. Thomas and J. H.Stephens, fishing in the Rangitata rivercaught 16 fish, aggregating 721bs. Thethree largest fish weighed 9^lbs each.

The elements are treating the weekend anglers near Wellington rathershab-bily this season. On last Saturday andSunday fishing was almost impossible;though many enthusiasts were out noreports of bags of any importance havecome to hand. 'The fishing generally sofar has been exceptionally good and asthe season advances and the trout im-prove in condition, still better sportmay be looked for. There seems to bono falling off in the number of fishand tho society is to be congratulatedon keeping our streams so thoroughlystocked.

On a recent evening fishing in theHutt river near Belmont anangler land-ed with fly 16 small fish, sevenof whichwere returned as they were too small.

A Wellington angler who paid a visitto the Waikanae last Monday had avery good day with fly. The largestfish out of a total of 19 was l^lbs andthe remainder consisted principally ofi-poundors. The fish were rising veryfrnely and those taken were in thepink of condition. Another enthusiastwho journeyed as far as Levin lastSaturday had the misfortune to forgethis reel. However, the requiredtackle was borrowed and ho set forthfor tho Makohiki stream a tributaryof the Ohau river, and wsa amply re-warded by creeling 10 fish scaling ISlbswith fly. Theupper reachesof the Ohauwero also tried but resulted in a blankas no trout wore seen in the largerstroam. There are soveral very likelylooking streams in that district, andanyangler who has the opportunity would,Ifeel sure, do well by paying a visitto some of them, as in most cases theyaro seldom fished.

Last week at Wainui-o-mata with flynice bag of 46 trout was landed, 20 ofwhich weighing 191bs wero kept. Thissuccessful fisherman reports that thesteram is literally teeming with smallfish which wero taKing tho fly veryreadily.

Tho Kahuwai are boing takendaily invery largo numbers from the HuttRiver, and some almost incredible bagshavo been reported. It is a commonoccurrence to secure 100 ■ kahuwai forono rod and frequently the takes exceedthat, as in tho case of a Petone resi-dent, who last Saturday afternooncaught 106, largest about 71bs, on min-now.

Fish > are very plentifulat present intho Ashburton River near the mouth,and six anglers recently landed 41 troutmostly 10 and 12 pounders. Includedin tho catch was one weighing 181bs5ozswhich w.is got by Mr. W. Pollock, oneof tho party.

The Porirua is an excellent streamwhen there is a good flow of water andan angler has a portionof it tohimself.But to attain this desirable positionit is necessary to get out ona week day.An enthusiast who tried this stream lastTuesday landed 5 very fine fish on fly,the largestweighing 2£lbs andthe othersover lib each.

As the season advances at tho HotLukes district, anglers continue to in-crease, -and in every case good spoyt isbeing found. Among those who havoboon fairly successful during the pastfow days, reports tho Auckland Herald,aro Mr. Morison and friend, who so-cured a backet of 10 nice trout;Dr.Reid and friend, 9, nnd Dr. and Mrs.Reid filled their basket with 22 fish.Atr. Crawloy and party, trollingin Lako-Rotoiti, caught 20, while the managersof the Rotorua hotels, out in onoof thelaunches for a short timo on Monday,caught 11 good trout. Mrs. lies andMiss Bern landed 8, and Mrs. Fraserand Mrs. Omrod placed 17 in theirbasket aggregating 481b. Mr. Carr andfriend secured' 12, all good fish, whileMr. Gibbs placed 9 to his credit, ag-gregating 301b. Mr. W. H. Corbettand party secured 8;Messrs Seeley andGillespio, 10;Mr- Maxwell and party,10; Mr. W. A. Thomson, 9; MissBock 7;Mr. J. Munro 5;and Mr.

■Ellis and party, 3. At Atiamuri, thefishing seems to be very good. MessrsShilson and Scabill having secured in aweek 85 nice fish, not large, certainly,but in good condition and affording finesport. The fish averaged 2^lb.

Among a few of the angler3at Roto-rua on Saturday last it was arrangedthat whatever trout \va3 secured on Sun-day by them should be given tp thehospitals and sanatoriums in the dis-trict, particularly those adjacent. Astho result of this understanding, 52trout wero distributed as follows:—Cambridge Sanatorium, 22; HamiltonHospital,15; Thames Hospital,10; andtho Rotorun Sanatorium, 5.

Thero havo been Bomo good basketssecured in Rotorua lately. Mr. andMrs. Blomfield on Thursday, in LakeRotoiti, caught nine very good fish ontho fly, the heaviestboing ojlb, abeau-tiful trout. Tho average was almost31b. Mr. Jas. Smith, who is locatedat tho Lako House tlotcl, as tho resultof three days' angling in Lako Roto-rua, almost in front of tho hotel,caughtfourtoen fish, all boing in fairly goodcondition. Another gentleman, Mr.Whifcehoad, also staying at Lako HouseHotel, as tho result of three days' ang-ling in Lako Rotorua, caught nine fish,tho heaviest boing541b. At the mouthof Hamurana stroam on Sunday last,Mr. B. Harp nnd his father secured tennice trout and probably would havo hadbetter luck, but wero driven home bytho heavy'rain. On -Wednesday, Dr. S.and Mrs. Reid caught seventeen nicetrout weighing 601b, and on Thursday,27 fish, tho agftrogate weight of whichwns 341bs. On Iho same dny, Mrs.Ileß and Miss Dickson secured thirtcon,tho weight of which was 221bs.

An Italian labourer was killed whileat work on a dam' at tho pulp-mills,Millinocket, Maine. At the hearing bo-forc tho local justice there was foundin a pocket a roll of bills containing 25dollars, and hidden in one of tho boot-legs was found a dirk knife. As therewas noprobate court within many milesof tho town, the judge was at a lossto know what disposal should bo madeof the money. Finally ho hit upon thosolution. Tho court look charge of themoney, und lined the corpse 25 dollarsfor unifying concoulcd woapons.

RACING FIXTURES.'SEASON~I9O6-7.

Dec. 14 and 15— Lake County J. C. An-nual.

Doc. 15 and17— Christchurch R.C. Sum-mer Meeting.

J)ee. 17—

Lauriston and LyndhurstSports Meeting.

Dec. 20—

Greytown Metropolitan Hack.'. _ jß'.C.'s Annual.Dec. 21— Alexandra J.C. Annual.Dec.' 26— Porangahau R.C. Annual.Dec. 26— Hurunui T.C. Annual.Dec 26

—Kaikoura R.C. Annual.

Dec. 26 and 27— Reefton J.C. Midsum-mer.

Dec. "26 and 27— Dunedin J.C. Sum-mer.

Dec. 25 and 27— Thames J.C. Summer.Dec. 26 and 29, Jai. 1and 2— Auckland

R.C. Summer Meeting.Dec. 26— Rakaia R.C. Annual.Dec. 26 and 27— Northern VVairoa R.C.

Summer.Dec. 26 and 27— Lower Valley J.C. An-—

nnal. - - -Dec." 26, Z7, and 29— Manawatu R.C.

Summer.Dec. 26 and 27— Cromwell J.C. Annual.Dec. 26 and 27— Taranaki J.C. Christ-

mas.Dec 28— Ashhurst-Pohangina R.C. An-

nual.Dec. 31— Tokikino Hack R.C. Annual.Dec. 31 and Jan. I—Greymouth1

—Greymouth J.C.s

Midsummer Meeting.

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AUCKLAND CUP PROSPECTS.Recent developments justify me in

staunchly, recommending Apologue asthe best of the Ellerslie trained divi-sion in the Auckland Cup, and thisgood looking son of Phoebus Apollowill, unless Iam much mistaken, showthat a lot of his past inferior perform-ances were evidently the result of wantof condition, and not from any lack ofinherent galloping ability. His sire, agreat' stayer, won the Chesterfield Cup,"which, Ithink, is run over <i two milecoarse, and the colt has inherited hissire's stoutness and stamina. A candi-date who was well fancied in manyquarters, Gladsome, is now sunder acloud having strained a ligament in hishind leg. It is doubtful if he will seethe post. Paritutu is thriving on the"public galloping he is getting, and iffee- continues to progress will strip infine condition. Grenade has been wellbacked,' and is now quoted at the com-paratively cramped price of fifteens.

WOODVDLLE SUMMER MEETING.This meeting, like others in the NorthIsland, reflects the general prosperity,

and the club is assuming an importancelittle dreamt of a few years back. Fromits convenient and central position,-Woodville is able to attract the own-ers of four provinces, and some verygood horses sported silk. The chiefevent on the opening day, the Wood-villa Handicap, feJ to the consistentfinbmarine, who cut out the mile and aquarter in good time, considering therather- heavy track, of 2min 11 3-5sec. Operetta was the medium ofstrong support,but onher previous run-ning aganst the big Torpedo- colt, hadno chance of reversing positions, as shewas meeting him on no less than 111bworse terms than at Masterton, whereSubmarine finished in front. Paritntuwas striding along as the winning postwas reached, and shaped encouragingly.On the second day, dropped a couple ofpounds, he showed a further improve-ment by getting second berth, a lengthto the rear of Polyanthus. This latteris a particularly good mare over a mileor- so, and was evidently sharpened upby her gallop in the Woodville Handi-cap." 'A fair sized commission was exe-cuted on behalf of Glenullin, but thiscolt is not ready yet, as, like most ofLochiel's stock, he thrives on plenty ofracing. He will be in tip-top racingcondition by the end of the year, anashould pick up a handicap. KingsLynnwho was third in the same race, theSummer Handicap, is a three year oldby Seaton Delaval— St. Amy. Thishorse, like many others- of second rategalloping ability, is disadvantaged bythe paucity of hack races of a mile andnpwards. . It is really time that thevarious executives pruned down a fewof the five, six, and seven furlong han-dicaps, which are available for hacks,and catered more intelligently for thes&imals of this class which can get adistance. An occasional event of a mileand a quarter would agreeably varythe everlasting monotony of Telegraphs,Railways, and Flyings, and would helpowners to discover staying virtue inmany steeds who at present figure withed" category.Tb hark back to the racing, in mylast week's notes Imentioned Assayerand JRookby as a pair of hurdlers whowould surely earn further winning brac-kets before the close of the season. Thiswas in part confirmed at Woodville,where, in the First Hurdles, with As-sayer out of the way, Rookby woneeasily, carving the distance out in 3min28sec. This gelding, who is by the St.Legor horse, Brookby, and therefore notbaity bred, has repeatedly downed Apitiin their private work,and after the lat-ter't success at Feilding it looked goodfor Rookby whenever he was in commis-sion. Despite the very substantial riseof 201b he was made favourite on thesecond day, but found Aasayer, with81b the pull in the weights, on the(Feilding running, his master, and itwill not be long before this Gold Reefgelding is winning in open company.'He is seen to much advantage over amile and a half course, but will staybetter whenmore experienced. The con-nections at Gold Seal lost the substancefor the shadow when they scratchedthis horse for the Borough Welter,which he could scarce.lv have lost. Ap-parently they preferred amore extendedmarket, and slipped him the second dayin the Kailway Handicap, but the Gis-borne owned Pink 'Un conceded the bigblack Gold Reef gelding 131b and ahead. Iam afraid Percy Johnson willhave to give this monopolistic place.gat-ter another trial over the battens.' An-other Gisborne representative in Lady-like

-prevented a heavy commission en-trusted to Aeolus materialising in the'High Weight Handicap, and the winner,who is by Pink 'Uns sire, Strowttß,most be fairly useful.

Aiter a lot otfinessing recently Mataariwas flipped by ilia afituto cQanectionK,only to find that the task of concedingaimoft two atoao to Te Uira beyond theability of fcb«jr horse. He may recoupthem before long by winning v decenthandicap in open, company, a» lie cangallop, lost enough. The GrandstandHack, seven furlongs, contested on theopening day. fell to the attractively-bredMecca, by Pilgrim's Progress— Espaniola, jwho wa« imported with his dam fromAustralia. Thi« colt is a half-brother toMacdonovan, who was well backed intine Caulfield Cap in Sweet Nell's year.Macdonovanput up «ome sterling gajlopiat Caulfleld, and in his relative, Mecca,Mi. W. J. Douglan has got hold of *rare stayftr, who ghould wina good handi-cap v/hen thoroughly seasoned. Marseil-laise, tuo full-deter to Lord Soult, haanot been up very long, yet credited tierowner with the Telegraph Handicap onthe *econd.day, ami bred m »he it

should be capable of much better things.Lord Soult, suited by the soft going, putdaylight betweenhimself and his field inthe Electric Handicap, and it is a pitythis remarkably fast horse is so difficultto train.

ABOUT HANDICAPPERS.Of all the officials who take part in

racing matteTS, perhaps none can claimto fulfil such a responsible task as thehandicapper. The evolution of horse-racing, particularly during the past fewyears, has witnessed the invasion of thosport by a numerous body of small own-ers, whose struggles for victory are notalways dissociated from worldly con-sideration. Dust is thrown in the eyes"if the handicapper by all manners ofsubterfuge, and that official, if he is tohold his own successfully with this sec-tion,' must cultivate qualities not re-_quired in the days of Admiral Rous. An'able handicapper may be said, like apool, to be born, not made, and this isproved by the experience ot the EnglishJockey Club, which has dunng the pastfew years failed to discover any royalroad in the production of hs: Icappers.One of the plane was xo have separatohandicaps framed lot some of the chiefevents at Newmarket by as many as fourdifferent handicappers, and adopting thsadjustment which attracted the greatestacceptance. This method wasmanifestlyunjust, as it promoted the framing of"flattering" handicaps, which meant thecrushing of a few really good horses forthe sake of a loi of moderates. Thepresent seasun in England has been dis-tinctly unfavourable to the handicappers,as practically every event of importancehas been won with ease by well-backedhorses, whose improvement was notgauged with acumen. Here in NewZealand, however, the sport is singularlyfavoured by tho grip and know-ledge of the handicappers whose■work is invariably 'turned outin a manner worthy of all praise, for itmust be borne in mind that very littletime is allowed the weight adjuster inAvnich to frame the second day*6 handi-caps. It is therefore the more remark-able how free from error the adjustmentsare, and as a matter of fact it is an ex-ceptional case where a slip can be de-tected in the most hurried work. A littlereflection explains why so few followersof the sport are capable of handicapping.The handicapper, like a judge, occupiesa position beyond reach of praise orblame, fear or favour. He must be askeen a student of men aa he is of form.He has to 6eek for motives, and has toproject his view into the future to anti-pate profoundly planned coups. He hasto acquire by keenobservationthe facultyof discrimination so as not to be carriedaway by the equine idol of the moment.He has togauge what allowance cansafe-ly be made to good horses temporarilyout of form, and he must learn to ac-iquite perceptions almost amounting to asixth sense. Moreover, he must be me-thodical, exact, painstaking, untiring,cheerful — when experiencing a run ofwell-backed ones rolling home, and notundaly exultant when the despised out-eiders are upsetting the judgment of thewisest of turfites. He must have -thecourage of his convictions, equanimityunder criticism, andmust absolutely elim-inate any personal ptedilections. Such area few of the qualifications requiredby the jman who would set the problems whichthe racing enthusiast lias to solve; andit appears to me opportune to record theconspicuous skill and ability with whichthe principal New Zealand handicappersdischarge their onerous duties.

NOTES.It is reported that a Sydney buyer

is on his way to New Zealand in qui;stof horses, and that he has his eye onthe Canterbury Cup winner, Multifid.It is understood that as a two-year-

old, Poseidon wasunder offer to a NewZealand racing man who neglected theopportunity that was oCered of pickingup a small fortune.

The death of the thoroughbred sireRoyal Hampton is reported from Eng-land. Royal Hampton, who had attain-ed his 24th year, ran third to Meltonand Paradox in the Derby of his year,and the following season secured theCity and Suburban Handicap. At thestud Royal Hampton begat Kirkconnell(Two Thousand, 1895), Forfarshire, Pen-sioner, Unicorn, and other good per-formers.

At the Gatwick meeting last monthBill of Portland was credited with threewins, by tho filly Hardmgstone in thoTwo-year-old Selling Plate; FairyStory, a three-year-old filly, in theCharlwood Handicap; and PortlandLass in the Montefioro Plate.

Grafton's half-brother Polymelus,whostarted favourite-for the CambridgeshireStakes at 11 to 8 on in a fiold of 29,won easily fay three lengths. Theshortness of the odds against the souof Cyllene wasmainly due to the strongsupport accorded Mr. J. B. Joel's horseby South African sportsmen, who wagerheavily on important English races.

When the last mail to hand left Eng-land Ladaa still held his place at thebead of the list of winning stallions,with a grand total of 25£ wins, worth£18,773 5s;Carbine, 'io had two winsat Newmarket, changed places withAyr-shire, tho former with 17 wins worth£15,203, and the latter 30 wins worth£15,530. Gallinule comes next with23 wins for £14,400, followed by Per-simmon, 24 for £14,302, Isinglass, ?9ifor £13,196; Maro, 20J for £12,968;Dinna Forget, 10 for £12,246; LoveWisely, 27* for £10,337 15s; Wild-flower (half-brother to Hon. J. D. Or-mond's Birkenhead), six for £9921.

An important item of sporting newsby the English mai] is the fact thatMaster Frank Wootton, who has beenriding thi3 season with 6uch markedsuccess, was suspended at Newmarketon 26th October. After' the race forthe Criterion Nursery Handicap Woot-ton was called before the stewards*andsuspendeduntil November 5 for havingused his whip too freely upon the Dukeof Devonshire's Word of Honour colt.On a previous occasion Wootton wasadmonished for a similar thing on theaamo horse. Young Wootton had beenengagod to ride another horse later intho afternoon,and waspermitted to ful-fil hia contract.

Tho greatest pleasure experienced bydevout lovers of the "great game" isderived from the examination of theequine contestants prior to a race. Aatroll round the saddling paddock, if onehas oven only a superficial acquaintancewiththe essentials required in tne confor-mation of a successful racehorse, can benmdo very interesting. For many yearsanatomiflta have been busily engaged infinding the pnncipalpoints which enablethe modern racehoree to attain themaxi-mum rat© of speed. Their researches goto allow that every notable horse pos-»o»ed at least three necessary "points."Tho etiflo joint was low and powerful,which gavo propelling power; the hu-merus, which connects the shoulder tothe foreleg, was almost vertical, thus al-lowing greater play to tho stride; andthe straightnees of the bind leg, asopposed to the bowed or sickleshape, wag conspicuous. The abovethree important characteristics aro wellexemplified in the New Zealand horsesAchilles, Glenculloch, and King Billy.

Great interest was centred in the meet-ing, in the Criterion Stakes recently runat Newmarket, between the Middle ParkPlato winner, Major Loder's Galvani, andMr. W. Hall Walker's Polar Star, for thelatter, who had hitherto won all theraces which he had contested with theutmost euso, won, for almost the firsttime, asked to 'measure strides with anopponentof the highest class. Galvani'sdefeatof Slieve Gaflion afortnight earlier

Lord Welby, tho chairman of tho FinanceCommittee of the London County Council,hh

LSLS FJv^a Jt as Ilis °Pn:iou that.a stopshould bo made to borrowing when thodebt of a borough is twice the ratablevalue.Tiio following roturn which has justbeen preparod from tho latost availablyofficial statistics shows that thero is not asingle borough in tho uictropoliß whichhas kept its debt within its limit. Thefirst figure in each case shows tho ratablevalue; the second tho debt:—Battorsea— £l,o2l,lls ; £2,9*2,160Bermondsey— £92s,ooo ; £2,661,855.Bcthnal Green— £s27,94l , £1,446,Y18Camberwell— £29s,9os ; £3,520,941Chelsea— £B22,293 ;£x,991,416.Doptford (Greenwich part)— £6oß,96s ;Finsbury

'(Holborn part)— £9S(U2B;

£2,278,647.*

Fulham— £B23,s4l; £2,352,765Greenwich— £s93,oo2 ;£1,509,95*.Hacknoy— £l,lßs,9ol ; £3,273,979.Hammersmith— £7l7,664 ; £2,033,796liumpstead— £997,43B ; £2,678,506.Holborn— £9sl,2Bl ;£2,211,651.Islington— £l,93o,o2s ; £5,002,543.Kensington— £2.27l,ss7 ; £5,163,574.Lambeth— £l,9ol,ol6 ;£4,417,670.Lowisham— £9s2,Bs2 ; £S,2J ,418Paddington— £l,473,o43 ,i329,221.Poplar— £Bls,s29 ;£2,*72.<St. Marylcbonc— £l,737,l4 £5,536,74»St. Pancran— £l,Boo,2ol ; t,821,712Shoreditch— £7B2,oo3 ;£2,465,321Southwark— £l,2sß,B24 ; £3,127,583Stepney— £l,433,439;£3,839,824.Stoko Nowington '

(Hackney part)—£344,155 ;£823,222. P

Wandsworth— £l,7l3,723 ;£4,067,201Wostmiustor— £s,sl6,4lo ; £12,556,589.AVoolwich— £6B9,2l2 j £1,985,618Cityof L0nd0n— £5,019,371, £10,841,211.Tho totals for the cox.nly aro £41,086,974

ratable value aud £103,257,454 debt,

[By Side-stkoke.]

The Swifts Club started racing lastTuesday evening with a 50 yards clubhandicap. The water was very roughand to some extent interfered with theswimming. Of the 31 entries only 20started. C. Aston with 14sec handi-cap won the first heat rather easily, andjust came first in the final in 41 l-ssec.The second and third heats resulted inclose finishes. F. Walton (7sec) camefirst, and C. Moore (7scc), and E.M'Pherson (6sec), tied for second placein the- second heat. Wilton's time was34 3-ssec. The third heat was won bya coming sprinter, C. Fordham, in33sec,L. Bridge (3sec) was second, and B. C.Freyberg (scr) 3. The result of thefinal was

— Aston 1, M'Pherson 2, andF. Wilton 3.

E. M'Pherson has improved a greatdeal of late, but he shows to more ad-vantage in long distance swimming. Hehas a good style and it seems easy andfree.

In last Saturday's supplement, quot-ing from the Christchurch Press, it wasstated that J. M. Hamilton held theN.Z. record for the 220 in2min 48sec.This is not now the case, as Freybergbeat that time easily last season. TheN.Z.A.S.A. haveonly allottedthree N.Z.records, and they are held as follows:—k&Oyds, B. C. Freyberg in 2min 43sec;880yds, G. L. Bull in 13min 26 l-ssec;1mile, B. C. Freyberg in 28min 56sec.

There is every prospect of the Wel-lington Swimming Club holding sl suc-cessful carnival at To Aro Baths onSaturday next, a very large number ofcompetitors having gone into trainingduring the last weeli or two in viewof the fixture. There has been a largeinflux of "new blood" at the bathsthis year, and this will greatly swellthe number of entrants for the variousevents. The arrangements for thecarnival aro well forward, and the offi-cials of the club are still working ener-getically to ensure tho success of thegathering. Perhaps the most in-teresting feature of tho carnival willbo the competition for the Duthie Chal-lenge Cup amongst primary schools.This cup was presented to tho club lastseason by Mr. John Duthie for com-petition amongst the schooh of thecity and suburbs, and the club looksuponitas a most valuable asset in thatit should tend to stimulate swimmingamongst the youngsters-to a great de-gree.

A correspondent who has been watch-ing the new swimmers whohave app-saTedat Te Aro Baths thi3 seitson, and whoare in, training for the coming carnivaltobe heldby the Wellington Club, says:

—H. Price, who won the Wellington Club'sj50 yards handicap on Wednesday, wasthe schoolboy -champion for 1905. Tholad is showing great improvement, andshould give anexcellent account of him-self in future short-distance contests. G.Crawford, who finished second in theabove handicap, is a new swimmer, whohas only recently adopted tho doubleoverarm method. He should show t.oadvantage in some of the longer distanceevents, as he seems tobe built more forstaying than sprinting. S. Eeans, whohas lately arrived from Auckland, comeswith a good reputation, but his effortsin the handicap referred to above werodisappointing;he apparently was out ofform. D. Pilkington, another starter inthe Wellington Club's 50yds, is a nowswimmer. Hefinished second in his heat,but was unplaced in the final. C. Day,a lad recently from Melbourne, who ha3a very even stroke, did not seem toget properly warmed up to his work inhis heat, but will no doubt show to bet-ter advantage in future. He makes anexcellent starting plunge, and shouldgive other competitors some trouble inthe diving competition to be held by theWellington Club. Tho Hegglur brothers,■whohave recently gone to reside in Blen-heim, will pTobably compete at the car-nival. N. L. Pownall, for some yearssecretary to the Wanganui Club, will alsobe a competitor. Fred. Roberts, of "AllBlack" fame, is in good sprinting formthis season, and should give a lot oftrouble to the man who elects to try andtake the 50yds championship from him.L. Bridge, although not yet in form,showed come dash in this week's fix-tures. C. Moore, a consistent place-getter in 50yds races, finished third inthe final of the Wellington Club's 50ydshandicapon Wednesday. He is, however,generally affected to an unusual degreeby rough water.

A. M'Millan, erstwhite a Scottishchampion swimmer, but now a resident jof Dunedin, will most likely representthe Otago Swimming Club at the NewZealand championship meeting at Christ-chuTch next February.

At the carnival of the Big Block Club,Brisbane, on 14th November, Miss Liddlewon a 440yds race in Bmin J.l l-ssec,which\is claimed as a ladies' world's re-cord.

D. Corrio (holder) won the 100ydscnampionship of Queensland ,in lmin4 2-ssec, 2bcc slower than he took inhis preliminary heat.It is expected that Billington, the

English professional champion, will visitAustralia during the present season. Re-ferring to hyn, the London Sportsman,of a recent dale says:

—David Billington

has, during the paat few months, provedthat he is the fastest professional swim-mer living. How he wil! rank withNuttall when these two caTeers have tobe compared, it in impossible to say, butwhether the Bacup mar prove* himselfto be a betteT manor not, it wilL olwayßhave to be Tomombcred that in Nuttall'sdays opportunities for professionals were'far greater than at. the present time.This season Billington has swum 200ydsin 2min 18 l-ssec, 300yds in 3min 35sec,500yd» in6min 22 l-ssec, 880yds in llmin37«c, and 1000yds in 13min 52 l-ssec,all o£ which beat Nuttall's times. AtBlackpool) too, he gave GTeaslcy twominutes' start in amile, andbeat him by180ydi in 28min 35sec. Fora first leaeon,this i* fippd work. . j

[By Htjka.]Wellington met Newtown last Satur-

day in the Shield contest, and scored awin by 11 sets to 2—992— 99 games to 60.Fisher led F. P. Wilson 4 love, but thelatter's turn came, and, he took threegames in succession. Fisher did likewise,and led 7—3. Then each won on hisservice, which gave Fisher the match at9—6.9

—6. "Wikon made desperate efforts to

capture the twelfyh and fourteenthgames off Fisher's service, and had "van-tage in" oneach, butcould not pull themoff. Four vantage games were played,Fisher scored 49 strokes to 36. Brownled 2 love from Redward, and then lo6ta game, but ran the score up to 6—l6

—1

before the Newtown player got anothergame. The ninth and tenth games werekeenly contested, though Brown tookboth, and led B—2.8 — 2. The eleventh gamesaw Redward win, game

— 15, but hisopponent took the next

—a love game,

and match 9—3.9—

3. Three vantage- gomeswore played!, and the winner scored45 points to 28. Nagle took the firstgame from!J. S. Wileon, only to see thelatter put the next six to his credit.Each then won on theirservice untilthescore stood B—4,8

—4, Wilson leading. Wilson

lost the thirteenth game on his service,and Nagle, winning his, mode the scoreB—6,8 — 6, Wilson still leading. On whatproved to be the final game Wilson led,40

—15, but his opponent gamely evened,

and had vantage in, but Jost his chanceand match, 9—6, and four vantagegames played; points 53 to 49.Naglei6an improved player, and withgood practice should do even better be-fore the end of the season. Green wasaggressive against BTailsford from thestart, but was somewhat erratic. Bothhit hard, and generally took advantageof the openings offered. Green won,9—59—

5 Fisher and Brown beat WilsonandRedward, 9—6,9 — 6,52point6to 46. Fivevantage games were played. Wellingtonopened with the first gtime off Wilson'sservice, but Brown failing with his ser-vice the scoto was evened. Tho formerpair then went ahead, and led 4-^-1, butafter being40

—15in the sixth game, the

Newtown paircame with a rushand won.Redward oa liis service took the nextgame, 15

—Wellington leading 4r-3.

Each won the service games, buu thetenth game went to Newtown off Brown'sservice— a- love game. Scoto 5 all. Aftera long vantago game Redward won hisservice, and led 6—5.6 — 5. Fisher evenedjaffairs again. ,Wilson lost his service,jand Wellington led 7—6. The next twogames, both long vantage ones, wont toFisher and Blown, and the match waswon. It was a very even go, and thewinners had to play all they knew towin. Bsailsiord and Nagle took the firstgamo from Green, and M'Lean; thenWellington evened. Newfown led 3—l,3 — 1,but GTeen wonhis service, and ako tookBrailsford's service game, 3 all beingcalled. Both M'Lean and Nagle lost onservice, making the scoto 4 all. Weiling-

1ton on Green's service lqd 5—4;5— 4; then|their opponents took throo games insuccession, and led, 7—5.7 — 5. Welling-ton followed suit, and the score was B—78— 7iin, their favour. Nagle evened on hisservice, with gamo to 15, and Greenlost his service, the love game going toNewtown, and with it match, 9—B.9 — 8.The losers scored ono more stroke thantheir opponents— 49 to 48;three vantagegames were played. Thosteadinessandaccuracy of the winners was a. decidedcontrast to tho unnecessary wild hittingof their opponents. Wilson and Wardbeat Grady and Low, 9—9— 6—486

— 48 points to41. One vantage gams wasplayed. New-town took first game, only to see theiropponents lead, 4—l.4

—1. Both lost services,

and the score was 5—2.5—

2. Wilson lost onhis "service, and Grady won his, andNewtown was just a game behind, 4—5.4

—5.

A long vantage game saw Ward get hisservice home; then Low lost his, andWellington led, 7—4. Wilson, strangeto say, again lost his service; so didGrady, and the score was B—s.8— 5. Even-tually Wellington went out winners 9—6.Wellington lost four out of seven servicegames;Newtown lost six out pf eight.Grady won his first and third.

Miss Glasgow led 40—

15 in the firstgame with Miss A. Ward. The latterevened, and had vantage in, but after n.struggle the former lady -won. , MissWard then took game after game, andled s—l.5 — 1. The lourth was a longstruggle, Miss Glasgow having vantagein, 'only to lose it. The seventh gamo,another long vantage one, wont to New-town, and also the next two, both ofwhich were love games. Miss Ward wasthen leading 5—4,5

—4, andd Miss Glasgow

lost her service, her opponent leading6—4,6—

4, and with 40 love on her aeivicethe match looked over, but she losl it,though she still led, 6—5.6

—5. The twelfth

then leading 5—4,5—

4, and Miss Glasgowhad vantage in, but the holder of thoWellington provincial championshipevened, won the game, and maton 7—57

—5;

43 points to 38. Five vantage gameswere played. Miss Ward lost four oatof six service games;Mm Glasgow fiveout of six. Miss Travers beat MrsNaglo 7—3.

A surprise came with the first ladies'double— Misses Glasgow and Robiii3onbeating the intercolonial match pair,Misses Ward and Travera, by sevengames to six. Wellington led 2 love;then the score evened. Newtown led3—2, but Miss Ward's service evened.Miss Glasgow took a love guinc and led4—3;4—

3; Miss Travers evened. On MissRobinson's service Newtown again led5—4,5—

4, but Miss Ward evened. It was acase of winning on services, as MibaRobinson made it 6—5.6

—5. Miss Traversevened, and then Miss Glasgow won onher service, which gave match 7—6.Tho losers scored 42 btrokes to 40. Ihosecond and seventh games were vantageones.

Misses Williams and M. Ward led 3love from Mesdames Grady and Nagle,when the latter injured her arm, and thematch was defaulted. Miss Williumsand M'Lean beat Miss Robinson andGrady 7—5, 38 points to 27; only onovantage game. Newtown won the firstgame, and the score was even up to 6-all. Wellington won three games insuccession, and led 6—3. Newtown withan effort took the tenth and eleventhgames, but the match went against themat the twelfth. Miss M. Ward and Wuidbeat Mrs. Grady and Loe 7 love— 32points to 14. Tho first and third gameswere vantage ones.The Wellington Second won from theNewtown Second in the cup competi-tion at Day's Bay by 8 sets to 6—76games to 74. Wellington defaulted twoladies singles and a ladies' double. Cooliejust won from Thwaites by two gameu

Brailsford held M'Lean safe, and Witten-hall also had aneasy win from Sheppard.Murry gave Shand a- lively time, althoughthe latter was just on top right through.Cooke and Shand were all but beaten inthe doubles by Thwaites ond Brailsford,both of whom played a fine game. Thoonly other game that was of an excit-ing nature was the combined betweenMiss Francis and Lawson and Miss Chris-tie and Lewis. The latter pair hud agood win 7—6.7 — 6.

The New Zealand Association has re-ceived official information from the NewSouth Wales secretary that the MissesBaker, Baird, Lindeman, aud Fitzhar-dinge will represent Now South Walesagainst New Zealand in tho ludics' inter-state match Miss liaiid in already inChristchurch, Milss Liudcnunu arrivaunext week) and the other* leuvo Sydn6yon the15lh. Miss D. FitasbaiJingo playsfor the Birchgrove Club. She hu» uulyrecently appeared in open tournaments,

1and i» a very promising ulayer, ' Xho

Generous Undo: Iwill make you amonthly allowance, but, understand mo,,Iwill pay no dobtel Nephew: All right,uuclu, Neither will I.

Mrs. Hornbenk (in tho midst of herreading)— Mercy sakes nlive. Hero isan itom about a surgeon, over at Bigger-ville, romovin' an epithclioma from nman's lip. Farmor Hornbcak—

"Woll, I,sh'u'd judge it was about timo forpeople to .quit using such long wordswhen it required a doctor to git- '«*out.

In bis praiseworthy desire to provehimself abreast of the age, the Bishopof Carlislo perhaps overrated the spreadof knowledge among the masses, which,ho thinks, has "amazingly diminishedtho orbit of ecclesiastical authority." Itis true, of course, that "the clergy areno longer the chief depositories of secu-lar, and the sole depositories of sacred,learning." Tho printing press, thocheapening of books>vand newspapers,and tho diffusion of elementary teach-ing havo, no doubt, widened the circleof mon and women who think, try tothink, or pretend to think. But havethe facilities for forming an independ-ont and rational judgment been simul-taneously increased ? The bishop hasfailed to make allowance for the enor-mous growth in tho amount of ascer-tained facts, which, in each departmentof study, ahould bo mastered before aman ventures to pronounce a verdict oroven to air a theory. The rapid andcontinuous tendency towarus specialisa-tion in research and thought taxes thebrain of tho individual beyond its cap-aeiLy. Thero is no room in the modernworld for an Aristotle, a Bacon, or aCointe. MrT Herbert Spencer attemptedto construct an encyclopaedic system.It wiia out of dato boforo ho died.More and rnoro arc patient studentscompelled to take on trust tho conclu-sions roached by colleague.} whoso me-thods they cannot criticise, nor can theyoxamiue tho cvidouco that purports tobo the basis of their grandiose hypo-theses. Thero aro Popes in scienco -a3there are Popos at Home, and the claimof infallibility is urged in tho ono casewith no loss conuaonco than in theother, The very men who net them-selves in rebellion against authority arethemselves asking to bo taken for arbit-ers of thought and accioditod guides ofopinion. As for tho multitude, whetherthey are lifted stup by stop from thoelementary school to a degrco in sciencoat a modern university, or whother theyare turned into tho world with tho smattering provided by the Stato, they arealmost uniformly incapable of testingand verifying the doctrines of tho nowgospel. Nevertheless, it is incumbenton all wise churchmen to recogniso, withthe Bishop of Carlisle, the scientificspirit of the ago, and its just demandthat the establishment which insistsupon its right to remain part of thenational existence shall show itself, oneveryside of its activity, whether prac-tical, intellectual, or spiritual, in sym-pathy with the genius und in harmonywith the movement of these changingtuupfl.— Standard.

Joncn:"Yea, sir, that boy of mine isa wonderfulpiu.no player. Why he canpluy with his toes." Brown: *fHowold in ho?" Jones: "Fifteen." Brown:"I've got a boy at home who can playwith hia toes, and lid is only one yearold."

"Fftther," enquired & boy, "what ara"mJtlo*? "JTrntwark, my son, fretwork,"rj,-ihou jrtto^U^Juiiw,tofiftUu-aiiy,

ROD and Gun.

[ByField Sport.]

SERVICE NOTES.(By "Scout.")

THE EVENING POST, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1906.Lawn Tennis. COASTAL STEAMSHIP OFFICERS.SPORT AND PASTIME.

The Turf.

WASTING AWAY.

Swimming.

had, of course, stamped him as a greatperformer,but public opinion was slightlyin favour of Polar Star, and odds of 11to 8 were laid on the latter, who lookedin perfect trim. Galvani, who wass-neating pTofusely in the paddock befoiethe race, did not look so well as he haddone at thelast meeting, but foundplentyof support at 6 to 4, whilst the othertwo competitors— tho Duke of Westmin-ster's Dusty Miller and Mr. L. Roths-child's Sequin— were naturally enoughquite neglected in the betting. The raceitself proved anything but a sensationalone, for Galvani never seemed to bo tra-velling smoothly, and at nopart of thecontest looked like troubling tho favour-ite. Polar Star, indeed, had the race inhand from start to finish, and won veryeasily by a couple of lengths, Galvanibeating Dusty Mdler by the same distancefor second place. The result of the Tace,of course, proved Polar Star to be anexceptionallybrilliant colt, and he is cer-tainly entitled to bo considered far andaway the best two-year-old of the season.It is doubtful, perhaps, whether SlieveGallion was quits at his best whenbeatenin the MiddlePark Plateby Galvani,butPolar Star's victory over the latter wasso easily gained that his great superioritycannot be questioned- It is indeed agTeat pity that Mr. Hall Walker's colt isnot engaged, in any of the classic races.The colt, who was bred by his owner,is trainedby Robinson, and has wonnofewer than twelve races this season with-out one defeat.

The AustralianArbitration Court,saysthe Bulletin, is still busyon the case ofthe steamship officers, and is learningsome astounding facts in the course ofthe heaving. Cases of coastal steamshipofficers being on duty 30 and 40 hoursat a stretch seem quite common, and acase of 41 consecutive hours was swornto

—only three hours less than the Mel-

bourno bricklayers want to fix asweek's work. And the'marine officer'spay is less than that of a bricklayer— much less in many cases. Also helives with Car© for his threshold andPrecipice for his bed, always consider-ing the possibility of a charge of man-slaughter, and almost the certainty ofthe Idss of his certificate and his meansof livelihood, if the vessel dances gailyto destruction when he has fallen asleepstanding during his 4Oith consecutivehour on duty. This atrocious sweatingof officers is one of the ways in whichsea carriage is made cheap, so that itmay underbid railway carriage andmakethe people's railways unprofitable. An-other of the ghosts of the sea whichkeep cropping up in this case is that ofthe officer with apilot'scertificate. Thecaptain or mate whopossesses this docu-ment often saveshis owners many timeshis pay in pilotage fees. He gets noextra salary, as a rule, from the grasp-ing owners, and yet he saves them allthis money at huge risk tohimself. Anofficer's certificate is more slippery thantho small pair you bluff on at poker.It is gained by years of ill-paid anddangerous toil,andthen itmay be blownout ina moment, like acandle ina gale,through any of a dozen different formsof accident. It isn't so very slipperyat sea, except in bad ships on badcoasts, but struggling in and out ofwretched bar harbours the documentis likely to dry up and vanish any mo-ment. The small coastal captain whois his own pilot takes his official exist-ence inhis hands three or four times aweek without a penny of extra re-muneration, merely to save money forhis owners. And all the thanks hegets is an indignant query as to whyhe burnt so much coal last trip.

THE GUM-DIGGER AND HIS GUM.

One of the marvels of Maoriland istho maintenance of tb.3 output of kaurigum. Last year, though they have beenrooting the stuff up for 60 years, 10,883tons, worth £561,444, was exported, andthat constitutes almost a record; any-how, it has only beenbeaten about fourtimes. And yet for at tleast 30 yearspast it has been referred to as a "de-clining industry," and one which onthat account was not worth much helpor encouragement. From first to last,as far as the records run, £12,920,531worth has been produced;' and£7,5,25,854 of that has come out in thelast 15 years

— which is a pretty goodrecord for a "declining industry." Stillthe business must end some day; andprobably there isn't much gum left inthe hilly ground now. That was alwaysthe easiest to get at;from such groundthe gum rarely had to be forked outfrom a depth of more than 18in. Inthe swamps, however, there is gum20ft. deep, and the gum hook can workat times to that depth. There are stillmany swamps which, afterbeingdrainedmay be expected to give good results;but the Government won't evenconsiderthe drainage question yet. Tho gum-digger is a man of very few friends;there is no capital behind him to talkin a loud voice; often he is an alien,and rarely will he enter into any sortof combination. So, one way and an-other, he gets little consideration. Andyet his £13,000,000 is a lot of money.

At one time Maoriland prepared thekauri gum for the marked andgrading it. It was never a verybigbusiness, this preparation for market,but still it employed 500 or 600 people.Now very little of this work is done inMaoriland. It is said that labour wasfound to be cheaper in Europe;and soto Europe the stuff went, dirt and all.Yet all the while Maorilandhad amono-poly of the market," and could havecommanded for the gum a price suffi-cient to pay decent wages in the countryout of which the gum was rooted.There arc an almost infinite number ofgrades of gum

— for commercial pur-poses, as many as 40 or 50— and whenthe grading is done in Europe, the dig-ger, says the Bulletin from which wequote, doesn't know whether his stuffis really fifth-j»rade or 45th. Mostly itsSwns to be about 45th when it isn't49th. The diggers have been grumb-ling to themselves about the need forState-grading for as many years asthoy havo been gum-digging, 'but theyget no forrardcr. When they grow un-usually angry and want to know whythey are only offered about half of thecabled price, the i?um-buyer alwaysmen-tions tho vast difference between first-Rrndo und the 41st;and so they get nofomirdcr m that direction either.

team as a whole does not quite representNew South Wales's full strength, butit is considered to have a very fairchance of winning.

Victoria beat New South Wales in thefinal for the "Mais-Buckley" Cup. Theweather was good, and the courts ingood playing order. The details of theplay are as follow:

—Singles.

—Brookes (V.) beat Pockley

(N.S.W.), 6—o, 6—3. Wright (N.S.W.)beat Blair (V.), 6—4, 6—B, 6—3. Heath(V.) beat Galbraith (N.S.W.), 6—2,6—2.Rice (N.S.W.) beat Dunlop (V.), 10—8,6—4. Galbraith (N.S.W.) beat Blair(V.), 6—4, 6—l. Heath (V.) beatWright (N.S.W.),6—2, 6—l. Dunlop (V).beat Pockley (N.S.W.), 6—l, 5—7, 6—l.Brookes (V.) beat Rice (N.S.\V.), 6—4,

6—o.6— 0. Totals.—

Victoria, 5 rubbers, 11sets, 95 games; New South Wales, '6rubbers, 7 sets, 67 games.

Doubles.— Brookes and Blair (V.) beatRice and Wright (N.S.W.), 6—4, 6—4,4—6, 7—5. Dunlop and Heath (V.)beat Pockley and.Galbraith (N.S.W.),6—3, 6—l, 6—4.6— 4. Dunlop and Heath(V.) beat Rice and Wright (N.S.W.),6—o, 6—2, 7—5. Brookes and Blair(V.)beat Pockley and Galbraitn(N.S- \\l.)6—4, 6—4, 3—6, 6—3. Totals.— Doubles-Victoria, 4 rubbers, 12 sets, 81 games;New South Wales, 2 eets, 51 games.Grand totals.— Victoria, 9 rubbers, k6sets 176 games; New South Wales, 3rubbers 9 sets 118 games.

Inter-State Match.—

Singles.— Spence(V.) beat Anderson (N.S.W.), 6—o, 6—l.Campbell (V.) beat Monahan (N.S.W.),6—3,6—

3, 6—l.6 — 1. Spence (V\) beat Monahan{N.S.W.), 6—l, 6—3. Campbell (V.)beat Anderson (N.S.W.) 6—3, 6—4. To-tals.—Victoria, 9 rubbers, 19 sets, 143games; New South Wales, 3 rubbers,7 eets, 83 games.

Doubles.—

Spenco and Campbell (V.)beat Anderson and Monahan (N.S.W.),9—7, 6—3, 6—2. Spence and Campbell(V.) bsat Anderson and Monahan(N.S.W.), 4—6, 6—l, 6—4, 6—4. Grandtotals.— Victoria, 15 rubbers, 37 sets, 26/games; New South Wales, 3 rubbers,10 sets, 161 games.

New South Wales expected to win i»e"Mars Buckley" cup, as the team chosento represent the State was a good one."The chances," so says an Australianpaper, "of the visiting State were, how-ever, reduced to zero by what at present,and until some explanation comes fromthe delinquent, can only be characterisedas gioss disloyalty on the part of Parker,whose name has been included in thepublished lists of the New SouthWalesteam for some weeksback. The remain-ing members of the team expected tomeet him on their arrival in Melbourne,but learnt to their dismay that ho wasat Adelaide, and had no intention ofplaying in the inter-State match in Mel-bourne. It was too late for the NewSouth Wales Association to send anotherman to fill his place, and Galbraith, whowas selected to make up the six in theinter-State match, had to be promotedto the cup ouartct. With Parker in thoNew South Wales team the issue of hematch would have been very open, espe-cially as the Victorian Selection Com-mitteo had taken care that Rod. Heath,who on present form would have beatenboth Parker and Rice in the singles,rhoujdnot meot them, but that Dunlop,who is in no condition to beat either ofthem, should, be bracketed with Brookesin bearing the brunt of the attack ofSydney's first line.' Parker, it &eems,says that he did not know that he waschosen as one of the representatives ofNew South Wales. The case was to bogone into by the New South Wales As-sociation last Tuesday.

Victoria beat South Australia in thelaches' match by 12 rubbers, 24 sets,149 games, to>l set, 51 games. TheVictorian ladies were in great form.

Miss Wyatt (South Australia) and A.F. Wilding weie beaten in the mixeddoubles championship by Mies Lc Ncvueand Dunlop (Victoria), 7—5,7

—5, 6—3.6 — 3.

Brookes and Wilding beat Tat6hell andLycett (holders) in doubles championships6-^-1, 7—5, 6—3.6

—3. The loser* led s—l5

—1m

the second set, yet lo.wt, 7—

b. Brookesbeat Pockley in the singles, 6—l,6

—1, 6—3,

6—3.6 — 3. and then Dunlop 6—2,6—

2, 6—o,6—

0, 6—o.Heath beat Spence, 7—5, 2—6, 11—9,6—4. ,Willing beat Heath, 6—4, 6—l,6—3.6

—3. Ueuth is the holder of the Aus-

tralasian championship. Then. Brookesbeat Wilding, 6—o, 6—4,6

—4, 9—7. Brookes

and Wilding beat Poekley and Galbraith,6—o, 6—2, 6—l. Dunlop and Heathput out Addison and Blair, 6—2, 6—4,6—36—

3;and also Barnard and Spence, 6—2,6— 2,4—6,4— 6, 6—l,6

—1, 6—B, 6—4,6

—4, but were beaten

by Brookes and WildingIt would seem that Brookes is the

beat single player in Australasia, butWilding is not far behind him, andhadthe New Zeultinder taken the third set,it is hard to say what would havebeentheresult. One thing is certain: Wild-ing should be ablo to improve his formby Christmas, Brookes and Wildingshould be conspicuous for tho Davis Cupnext year.

Miss N. Douslin, who won the NewZealand ladies' championship singles atthe New Zealand meetingheld at Napierin 1891, was in Wellington this week.Miss Douslin is as keen as ever, andalthough, she lias had. little practice oflute, hopes to play at some of the pro-vincial tournaments this season.

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[By "The Blade."]

Tho now,'or revival of tho old,practiceof making legacies to servants (says St.JaVies's BudgotJ ia distinguishing manywills. Faithful employees in various capa-cities are now often, ''remembered." Onesignal omission, however, is pointed outby a correspondent of The Times. Ho hasboon in the, habit for many years of study-ing the' reports of wills and bequests withthe object of seeing whether any ono hasthoughtof leavingmoney to a governess,daily or resident, whomhe has at any timeemployed. Onlyonco has the search beenrewarded. To one' man it occurred toleave £50 to a governess. Yot, as the in-defatigable searcher remarks, governessesare as a olass"conscientious, self-denyingwo-men, who art paid a mero pittance fortheir work, and whorl old ago oomos oftensuffer pitiably! Sotno explanation may bofound in the fact that governesses do notremain in a household for any long termof yoara. When the children aro oldenough to go to school their work ceases.But this does not exonerate tho wealthywill-maker. The governess has probablydone more for his children, in instructingand building up character in the most im-pressionable yeara, than any succeedingpreceptor could possibly accomplish. Forsuch invaluable service a reward is justlydue. Can it be that, whon wo moke ourwills, wo fix our riiinds on tho3o who havoministered to physical comfort, to thoexclusion of higher mental and moral Eer-vice?

ARCHDEACON COLLEY'S DILEMMA

Mr. J. M. Maekelyne essayed at St.George's Hall yeaterday (soya tho DailyMail of 9th October) by a conjuringtrickto get the same effect as Archdeacon Cc-1-ley, rector of Stockton, Warwickshire,claims to have seen accomplished by aspiritualistic medium some years age—namely, to bring .from tho region of the

Iheart a vapour which should, in tho pre-sence of witnesses, muterialiso into an ap-parently human spirit."Ihaveno belief in spiritual manifesta-tions, 'said Mr. Maskclyne yesterday, byway of preface, "but asIam now nearingtho allotted span of throc-scc-ro and ten,

thi3 ia the last challenge of tho kindIwillaccept." Tho magiciau looked strangelyyoung for nearly seventy, and tho crowdedaudience quickly bhowed that they hoped!his day as a wizard and a challenger ofspiritualists were still far from their end.

Treating tho matter in ahumorous wayMr. Maskclyne, with an, assistant whoenacted the part of a clergyman,undertookto bo the medium, and in an assumed.trance brought hbm. hisside—

to thoaccom-panimentpi slow^usic— first the handandthen tho body of a verymuch aLvo youngwoman dressed in while- flowing garments;neither the mysterious red glow on thostage nor the intense rays of tho limoh'ghton tho epirit'e face 'and golden hair worewanting to complete tho success of thismost modern ghost-raising.As Arcndeacon Colloy promised to payMr. Maskelyne £1000 if ho could producosuch a manifestation as ho put into hisattractive programme yesterday, theWizardof St. George'^ Hall will, if tho money isnot paid within a week, endeavour to re-cover it through tho medium of tho law—anduot through aloight of hand or any ofthoso otiior moans iv which his challengerhas apparently veryhttlo confidence.

ENGLAND'S "SLEEPING SICKNESS."

Major Arthur Glyn Leonard, ina strong,ly-expresscd .article in tho Imperial andAsiatio Quarterly Review for October,maintains that modern civilisation ia be-coming effete. He says:— Europe, thocentre and stronghold ot civilisation, hasgrown,indifferent; , ago and luiury liai>anourished tho fungus of apathy among itspeople, and apathyhas made tuem callous.Civilisation appears now to be no morecompatible with humanitarianiEm;an cx-ceofi of dogmatism, added to the limitationsof sectarianism, have choked those sym-pathies which eprinj frem the germ of acommon origin. All that is highest inthem, the humanity wluch c&n soar abovolifo'a sordid inhumanities, until it reachesalmost to the JUiviuc, has been clogged bythe lower and incro material insunts of«clf-interest3, those interests which, asRuskin bays, warp a man's mind. JKvcuEngland, onco tho champion of liberty,has fallen from her high estate into thocoma and eilonce of a mental Bleepingsickucaa. Indeed,although eiio has anIm-perialEmpireat her buck,\Dho is no longerdisinterested, and tho onco glorious termLiberal ia now merely the label on a glue-pot that sticks f_l. Sympathy, that, truersign of brooding than moro kindness, hasatrophied. So Jewa mo uinisscrcd in Rus-eia by the hundreds and thoutuude, and thonatives of the Congo uru not only slain,but mutilated mercilessly and without re-straint;and Europe look* 011 and cloos no-thing. Ytt it ia tho Groat Powers ofiiuropo which aro rcsponaiblo for a condi-tion co truly deplorable, uml of all tliosoPowers, England, wluch look tho initia-tive in tho matter, is most of all rcfpor.-eiblo, if not culpable If, then, thehumanity which wait qnco hbr proud boastis not cfcad, if die will only, an hor ownimmortal bard said of her, rumain true toliereelf, this gravo roHponaibility which ison her ehouldcra will prick her to thoquick, and ai'o_o all her moral and spiri-tual energies to action. But for Heaven'stalco let il bo a whoje-heartod and un-stinted (vctiou, for thiti alono will eavaihoro millions in ditflrbis, whoso voiced tirouplifted in eileut agony;thin alono willf.hotv the world that tho now sluinboring-humanity of England in etill capablo ofrising to the sublime heights of equity anddiiiiutorcatcdneae.

Marton, Lave been, in town- this week,on trousseau matters intent. Miss Mol-lie Gibson's marriage to Mf. Simp-son, of Heaton Park, takes place inFebruary. Miss Gibson went to Christ-clmrch on Thursday evening on a visitto Mrs. Anderso'ii. Miss Speed, fromPicton, and Mr. and Mrs. Coleman,from Napier, have been in Wellingtonthis week. Mr.T.C. Williams and Mrs.Fitzroy are guests of Mrs. Elworthy,Cbristchurch.

—Iam, yours,

PRISCILLA.VALEDICTORY TEA TO MRS.

NEILL.AN APPRECIATIVE GATHERING.

When Mrs. Grace Neill's retirementfrom her position as Assistant-Inspectorof Hospitals was made public, the wo-men of the Civil Service, for whom shehad done so much, desired to make.her apresentation. But the only form of ap-preciation which Mrs. Neill would agreeto was an afternoon tea, to which nomen were to be asked. And after thepromionced success of the purely femininefunction on Mondayafternoon,menneedno longer consider themselves indispen-sable. All the preparations went withthe utmost smoothness and good feeling.Indeed the only little crumpled roseleafwas caused by masculine influence, inso-much as the solo department not repre-sented was tb.« Education Department,and the girls who desired to attend werenot allowed to get away,and consequent-ly only arrived after office hours, missingmuch of the proceedings. Mrs. Neiflhas been a good friend to the girls ofthe Civil Service, and in many ways hasimproved their position. One thing,among others, they owe toher persistentefforts is a comfortable diningroom inthe Government Buildings, where theycan cat their lunch and rest during thedinnor hour. But besides general in-fluence for good, she has mothered manygirls individually, and has gained muchrespectand affection. As shesaid inherlittle speech, she liad no idea how manyfriends she- had made, and felt quite sor-rowful at saying good-bye.

The pleasant tea-room at Freeman'swas prettily decorated for the occasion,and the many tables were arranged -withflowers and set out with good things,iue guest of the afternoon took the placeof honour, Miss Madge Macgregor,daughter of Dr. Macgregor, on her righthand, and Miss Hester Maclean, Mrs.Neill's successor, on her left. The ad-dress was read byJVlissDimiint, and wasas follows— "To Mrs GraceNeill, Assist-ant-Inspector of Hospitals,New Zealand.—Dear Mrs. Neill— We, your womenfriends of the Public Service in.Welling-ton, desire to place on record tho esteemwiiu which we regard you. Holding,as you aiavedone, for many years oneofthe mo* responsible positions a womancanin tne service, discharging your nianyonerous with such signal ability,we desire on the eve of your leavingusto say how much wehonour you,and re-gret your departure. We are glad tohave this opportunity of acknowledgingthe great interest youhavealways takenin the welfare of the women in the ser-vice. We sincerely trust that all goodthings may attend you in your newhome. On behalf of our friends webeg to subscribe ourselves.— Yours mostsincerely, S. Dimant, Eose Jenkins, N.Lambert, M.F. Webb, L. M'lntosh, F.E. Woodhouse, Ruby B. Orr, E. A.Smvthe.

The following telegrams were read:—

From Nelson Lady Ward expressedre-gret at not being able to be present.Lady Ward stated that GraceNeil! had been such a useful woman,and had done such valuable work, thatit would have been a pleasure to haveattended with the girls of the civil ser-vice to do her honour. The Minister for'Education, telegraphing from Auckland,on behalf of his wife, said the latterrecognised the'" valuable seirvices .matMrs. 'Ncill had rendered to the colony,and wished her every success in thefuture. Mrs. Neill, ina few well-chosenwords, thanked the women of tho civilservice for the address and the kindlyfeeling that had prompted it. Shehoped in .two years to return and seethem all again. She took advantage tointroduce her successor, Miss HesterMaclean. A 'pleasant programme of mu-sic was interspersed between the talkand the tea. -Mrs. Hobson played twosolos, Miss Lambert sang "MarchWinds," and "When the Birds go

North" (Wilicby), and Miss Mills "Sum-mer Rain" and "Dawn." It was nearlysix o'clock before all had said goou-bye_ to Mrs Neill, and the affair

—the

first of its kind organised in New Zea-land

—was over.

At Webb-s*^et Primitive MethodistChurch on Wednesday, 28th November,Mr. Henry Coleman Franklin, eldestsonof Mr. ElijahFranklin, wasmarriaito Miss Mando Alice Baker, fourthdaughter of the late Mr. Georgo Baker,of this city. The officiating ministerwas the Rev. J. Dawson. The bride,who was given away by her eldestbrother, Mr. William Baker, wore a veilandorangeblossoms, and was dressed inivory-white silk, trimmed with silk netlace. The bridesmaids were Mis3NellieBaker and Miss Franklin, in cream de-laine, with lace trimming, Misa WinnieBaker, in creme silk, and Miss R.Franklin, in cremo delaine, trimmedwith lace. Mr. Ernest Franklin waabest man. The service was choral, Mr.Ernest Dawson presiding at the organ.After the ceremony a reception washeld at Godber's rooms.

THE RUSSIAN PROBLEM."TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER."M. Stolypin'sprogrammo (eaya tho West-

minster Gazette) liJoks like a last attemptto combine progress with order. Unhap-pily, tho measures taken to rostoro orderaro both predominant and perverted. Mar-tial law, to bo executed by drumheadcourts-inartia.l, is proclaimedall over Euro-pean. Russia, excopt iv four governmentsm the extremenorth, and the ordinary lawis cut aside

—a circumstance likely to act

as a fresh stimulus to the Terrorists. Thoas a fresh stimulus to the Torroritls. Thoreforms aro longin coming;a beginning isapparently being mado in tho transfer ofland to tho peasants, but it can hardlytake placo with thn rapidity neccaeary toproduce the desired offects. M. SLolypinproposes to recast tho Administration;nuthe cannot control hi» subordinated. Thomassacre at Siedlco wan a repetition ofthat at Biolostok on a smaller scale;evi-dence is accumulating: that it was plannedby the officials, and a similar massacre isfearod in Warsaw, Tho reactionaries andtho revolutionaries aroreported to havo re-spectively oioiicd up their ranks;tho Dumais apparently to bo convoked as promised;but tho Constitutional Democrats, tho onlyparty likely to make it work effectively,aro divided among themselves and dis-couraged by tho Govornmont. Tho gene-ral demoralisation ia shown, amongst othersigns, /by tho inoroMo of tho revonuo fromalcohol for tho yoar ended 20th Augustby51,500,000 roubles (pnoro than 15 percent.), as compared with 1905. This is thopeasants' rcsponeo to tho appeal to "payno taxes."

Miss ElizabethMagic, a Chicago girl,who has had a £2000 education, and whohas been obliged to accept £2 a week ina typewritingposition, has (aays a NewYork cable message) broken loose fromthe social powers that be, and in thelocal newspapers advertises herself forsale to the highest bidder. The cableruns:

—It is a remarkable 'agony' ad-vertisement, and breathes a bitter spirit

of rebellion against the modern condi-tions which often make her sex thoslave of commercial greed.

The frank and daring documont readsas follows:

—'For sale to the highest

bidder, a young woman American slave,refined, honest, poetdcal, big-soulcd;splendid teeth, not beautiful, but ardentand artistic; Sometimes bubbling overwith merriment, sometimes sedato andstudious, oppressedby the wrongs ofher fellow-creatures. Can appreciatea good story and can tell a better;is deeply religious, but not pious;hasa vivid imagination;possesses psychicpowers;cannot sew a little bit, but danplan a dashing costume;doesn't knowplank steak from a porter-house, butcan get up a swell dinner; can't makea loaf of bread, but can give characterimpersonations that can't be beat}doesn't go to church, but obeys everydivine law. She's a lovely typewriter,but typewriting is hell;has Axminstertastes, but ragcarpct opportunities.With versatile talents sho longs for silkclothing, and buys cotton, while shal-low-patcd women laden with diamondsair themselves and lap-dogs in SOOOdol.automobiles; her brain is burning withprojects to benefit mankind, but herbody is bound, with galling iron^chains,to tho rack of mechanical toil. Insteadof offering herself for sale privately sheprefers a public auction; is not veryold, but wasn't born yesterday."

Arrayed in a baby blue tea-gownand diamond brooch, ahc received thoChicago journalists. "I'm offoring myintellect and genius," sho explained. "Idon'lsuppose Ishall be respected by

Girls'Gossip.(Contributions to this column addressed"Priscilla" will be welcomed. Thej

should be concise, andmust be signedwith the writer's full name and address,not for publication, but as a guaranteeof authenticity,j

Mr Beab Kkzia—The Wellington College se^ms to bs

tinder the special protection oi that func-tionary who 6ervcs out to us our variousweather samples. A fortnight ago theboys held their sports ia wondious sun-shine and calm;indeed, so potent wasthe sun that a lady watcheda large pinkrose in a friend's hab paling to white,and those who came without parasolsresented bitterly. Last Friday, whenthe girls had their sports, was quite ascharming a- day, with the acceptableaddition of a cool breeze- that made thamast of the gay flags and the prettymuslins and chiffons. The college groundswere bright with many smartly-dressedpeople, and masses of vivid scarlet gera-nium that pat the,paler tints of thefrocks to shame. Miss Maclean, the ladyprincipal, looked handsome in a softwhjte silk, with lace insertions, and *most becoming sapphire blue straw hatwith large Ted roses. Inoticed a smartwhite serge with gold braid, an emeraldgreen bolt, and a twisted Tuscan hatwith a black feather and tulle. A girlIn a grey and white voilo, with a high-crowned sailor ewathed with black andwhiteribbon, roses forming the 'bandeau,lookedmost attractive. A pretty whitemuslin and lace, and a wide picturesquehat with an enormous wreath of fieldflowers, was wornby agirlrecently comaback from London. A Palmerston Northvisitor wore a smart red linen, and an-other,notable gown was. of green silk,made with old-fashioned puffings onbodice and skirt A number of longwhite and cream lustre coats were to beseen, and a particularly charming paleWuq one showed to great advantage ona tall, slight woman. The sports wentwitha will, and with no dreary pauses,and ifc was delightful to see with whatenergy the girls entered into the variouscompetitions. Good-nature reigned su-preme, even when the conquered werereceived with unsympathetic advice andremonstrance. Itis questionable whetherthe animals appreciated the humour oftheir particular race, but the onlookersdid. The gloomy fowl in white pyjamastook his success resignedly, and did notcrow over it. He had the air of beingbutchered to make a.Komanholiday, andprobably rejoiced greatly when he wasback"again inhis own.domain. The trioof pugs and the cocker" spaniel wereimmensely admirod. A visitor ib struckwith the blooming health and vigorousgrape of the college girls. They* lookedparticularly well in their neat and sen-siblegymnastic dresses.

The YoungMen's Christian Associationcarnival was interesting and well-attend-ed, thougha keenwindmade shelter andsunshine desirable. The Basin Reserveis an inclement place when there is abreeze, and! it requires a most excitingrace tomake one forget how uncomfort-able the seats are. The Maypole dancewaspretty, but why was the wild, weirdbagpipes chosen to accompany the'prettyprancings of the children? Certainly thepipers looked fine as they strutted round,bat it was a little sad to see the smallfeet trying gallantly to keep time tothenr music.

The farewell tea to Mrs. Neill— apure-ly feminins;affair, by the.guest's ownrßqnest— wasa verypleasant function. Itwas organised by the womenof the CivilService, four whom Mrs. Neill has done» great deal, and who wished to showher4^ gome way their regard: and apprecia-tion,as she refused to entertain the ideaof a presentation. Flowers made Free-man's verypleasant; tea-room bright, andall the tabke were filled, Miss MadgeMacgregor, daughter of Dr. Macgregor,and Miss Hester Maclean, Mrs." Neffi'ssuccessor, supporting the guest of theafternoon. Music interspersed the talkand the tea, Mrs. Hobson playing- andMiss Mills and Miss Lambert *inging, tothe great appreciation of their audience,A teature of the affair was Mrs. NeilL'slittle speech

—humorous and to the point—

in answer to the address. She tookthe opportunity of introducing her suo1cessor. The whole function

—the first ofits kindin New Zealand

—from its-initia-.tion was without hitch ot any kind, andcharacterised by the utmost enthusiasm.Mrs. Neill leaves our commonplace Wel-lington for the romantic regions of Bret

Harte and Montezuma, where a revolveris. understood tobe a more essential partof a "man's toilet than a coat or waist-coat.

A charming idea waaxarried into effectrecently by Kate Douglas Wiggin, theAmerican authoress. She gave a NewEngland luncheon, receiving her guestsin a Puritan dress, withcap, apron, andcollar of white muslin, and read a paper—

writteninher happiest vein—

on "EarlyNew England Simplicity." The guestswere all New England ladies. The lun-cheon that followed was served in oldstyle, and consisted of old-time dishes,dam broth, beans and brown bread,pumpkin pie's, and doughnuts. Thecentre-piece wag a huge pumpkin filledwith fruit, the handle festooned withcranberries and Indian corn. By the■way,no oneherehas utilised this idea ofhollowedpumpkins or melons as centredecorations for a table. The green rind"f a melon is itself most effective, and■wreathed with leaves or flowers wouldmake a charming1 fruit bowl. An Ameri-can idea for an impromptupunch-bowl isto set a white basin in a hollowed-outpumpkin, and wreath the edge withgrapes and their leaves. A quaint notionwas carried into effect afc a Tecent Aus-tralian dinner party, where a gold skele-ton umbrella, trellised with La. Franceroees, green tulle and asparagus fern,rose from the centre of the table.The delightful music of "Paradise andthe Peri'1 was much appreciated onMonday evening by a large audience,despite the inclement weather. MissMurphy, who looked charming in paloblue veiled with sequins, sang withgreat feeling and sweetness; Miss Cal-dow, who sang tha contralto solos effec-tively, wore red silk.

Colonel and Mrs. Chaytor and theirfamily, and Mrs. Collins, from Blenheim—Mrs. Chaytor's mother

—left by the

Athenic on Thursday. By the same boatwent Lady Plunket's four children— withMiss Almond and their nurse

— and Mr.and Mis. Sillem, who leave the boat atBuenos Aires, and intend to climb Acon-cagua. Mrs. Prendergast Knight andMrs. Briston both gave small teas forMrs. Sillem.

This month two Wellington girls get■tarried

—Miss Ena Stuart, on the 18th,

'to Mr, Fred. Harvey, and Miss JessieCampbell to Mr. Oliver Bunny, on the21st. Miss Webb's marriage is to takeplace early in January Miss Bell, sisterof Dr. Bell, was married at Nelson lastweek to Mr. Low. They leave shortlyfor Scotland, where they are to live,Mr. and Mrs. Dalziell are at present stay-ing with Mrs. Qrace. They have takenMr. Waldegrave's house in Pipitea-street.Mr. Hamilton is moving into one of thenew houses near. The Misses SkerrettAre staying at Paekakariki with Mrs.Wyllie. Miss Massey, who has been inChristcuurch, arrived in Wellington onThursday, and is a guest of Mrs. MalcolmBoss. Major and Mrs. Johnston haveburn visiting Christchurch, and Mrs.Elliott ia in Gisborne with Mts. Geo.Elliott. The two Miss Gibson^ from

THiC JKVTfijynra- POST. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1900.LADIES' COLUMN. tho conventional * world, but Iam

through with drudgery" and toil. Theman who buys mo will get a poor cook,but a good entertainer." Though thisunconventional young lady

— apparentlythe embodiment of useless mediocrity,is the antithesis of the ordinary man'sideal of a life companion, oho is report-ed to havereceived several "bids."

THE UNREMEMBERED GOVERNESS.

15

within every Woman's Reach."/m: desire for Beauty isuaturat to woman.Beauty is lies by r.ght. There isnothingmore bad than to see a woman letting gounchecked tlic ravages Hint aCe or worn-workupon her, \vlien the virtues of Valazeplaceameans within her rencli, notonlyofpteseiving,but producinglovelinessof faceand feature. Vnla/e, that delightful skinfood, prepared in Kussia by Dr. T,ykuski,from balsamic herbs, giowiugonlyiv theCarpathian Mountains, ensures for everywomati the transparent peach bloom com-plexion ofaliltlechild. Wrinkles,crowsfeet,snllowness, frecklts, tan and allsuchblem-ishesdisappearlikemagicbefore it. Valsizeasa beauty builder is beyond compare. 4i-aud 6/9a jar,postage 3d.TosupplementAblaze Mile.Rubinstein hasbroughtseveralnewbeauty recipeswith herfrom Pans, Vienna and Berlin. AmouEfattheni-nre ValrvzoBlackheadandOpenPores Cure,ncertain remedyfor these un-sightlyetiects— clearsthecoarsestskin.Com-poundedby Dr.J,yfcuski,the famousRussianSkin Specialist. 2/9, posted 3/-s

Valaze Herbal Soap,as used by theViennese and Russian Court Beauties, 2/3.

RusmoHair Killer is guaranteed toinstantly removesuperfluoushair from facenerk,and arms,without injury to the juoStdelicate bktu. Price5/6, postage 3d.

HELENA RUBINSTEIN & CO.,274 Collins Street, Melbourne.and 158 Pitt Street, Sydney."

Gultio toBeauty"— a little Brochureouthe caie of the Skin and Complexion,sent 1-rce with any purchase, or for 3d.tocover postage. ©

W. SALEIC, Sydney Chemist, 17, Willis-st.npHE medical profession is unanimous inJL acknowledging that Massago, if ap-plied scientifically, is one of tho safest,simplest, yet most effective methods oftreating diseases of an obstinate character.Ihavo made a careful study of Medica}Massage, andIcan produio abundant tes-timony of my success with Wellington pa-trons in cases of Paralysis, Bhoumatism,Sciatica, Neuralgia, Nervous Ditordcrs,Epilepsy, Chronic Dyspepsia, Indigestion,Constipat on, and other complaints. Infact, there aro fo'v ailments that properly-appliedManage will not euro or relieve.—CHAS. A. TUENER, Medical MassnifoSpecialist, Rawson's Buildings, Welliug-lon-terrace. 1"Tft/jTISS MILSOM, Han- Physician andItA Face Specialist, is a Hoir Doctorand an Expert in the treatment of the'Face. Miss Milsora teaches ladies andgentlemen the treatment and care of theirown hair and skin. Shampooing a spe-cialty. Dandruff and Irritation of thescalp cured permanently. Special treat-ment for baldness. King'sChambers (nextEmpiro Hotel). Tolophono814. \

mOILET SALOON— Mra. Haybittlo andX Miss Begg, 61, Lambton-quay. Tel.

1594- Hair treatment by electricity, FacoMassage, Shampooing, Municuro andPedi-cure. Electrolysis. Ornamental Hairwork.1

MRS. ROLLESTON, Hair Physician,Faco Specialist, Maoseuso (cortifl-^,

catcd), and Manicurist; lato of Sydney/and Melbourne. _Skin foods, maesage cups,hair tonics, Liquist face powders andshampoo powders obtainable 3, Willis-etrcet. over Carroll's. 'Phono 1599. 1

HOBSON'S Brooklyn and Willis-strcot'

Pharmacies aro thoroughly equippedfor tho dispensing of Prescriptions. Woetock the most recently recognised Drugsand Patent Medicines. Our charges aroreasonable. Eno's Fruit Salt 2s 9d, Beech-nm's Pilb Is, Is 3d, Bile Beans 1b 3d,"In-dian Koot Pills 1b 3d, Doan's Pills 2s 9d,Cuticura Soap Is2d, Ointment 2s 6d, PinkPills 2a 6d, Winslow's Syrup Is 3d, Clo-ment'a Tonic 23 9d.

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BOOTS! BOOTS!

T SAY!Don't Forget it! Tho Boot Em-JL porium, 79, Willis-street, nfext Albert .Hotel, gives tho BEST "VAIVCnE in Town. ■

QUALITY, COMFORT, ELEGANCE.Evorlastiug Footwear at Everlasting Bed-

rock Prices. Givo mo a call.F. LECOE.

ASK your Grocer forPUMIOINE SAND SOAPJ

I PUMICINE SAND SOAP does notcrumblo away when wet. Try it.

THE FIRTH PUMICE CO., LTD.,Auckland.

ELLIS AND MANTON,Solo Agents for Wellington.

TEN DAYS' FREE TRIALInallowed on every cycle licnrbtof vi.Your IBoaayInfull refunded with*ovtmicstioDifnotperfectly utisfftctonr.i fcfe!"il^oaTc>^faS3an£ea ■k| &2.W to £6iEadioorNdwDepartureCosntcrHubs,IDunloporClincher A Won Tyren,In-3 M-ttolLeverRimBrikci,Two Speed

J Packed and Delivered Freaj toanyportInthoworld. Wo guarnn-

Qjf]nßacond HandCycloa(joodainow,

*'*° ***mlvGre»t factory clearancelalo»thal/fiicton,jrrica.

rnnii n nV/nl r* t-klnn order« from umpiaEftnN A UYbLC machine. Active Agont*Tr.ntcdIneach district. I-amoproflU cullymade. Writoat nnce(orIrane&talogaonandour tpcctnloffer,usingkaOlclnnt pottage. Tyrci, Snndrlca, tewing Machine*,l'hnno*rM>li», fto, halfmuni vncrt.MEAD CYCLE CO. D«nt T65

LIVERPOOL. LONDON AND CHICAGO.

ttTVWE DAWN OF LOVE,"And

"THE CROWN OF LOVE,"Engravings Mounted on Beautiful Green.

Mohair Boards,

MAKE THEBEST XMAS PRESENTINTHE PICTURE LINE TO BEHAD.

3s Each or 5s a Pair Unframed.lls Each or 20s a Pair Framed.

THESE PICTURES ARE TO BE AP-PRECIATED. ONLY A TEW LEFT.

R. AND E. TINGEY AND CO., LTD.,WELLINGTON.

TO AMATEURS.

Fyou roquiro fresh PHOTOGRAPHICMATERIAL and UP-'J'O-D/VL X

APPARATUS at' LOWEST PRICESyou aro invited to inspect our largo andcomplete etock beforo purchasing olbc-where. S

KEMPTHORNE, PROSSER AND CO.,LTD.,

VICTORIA-STREET. 1

(SUBURBAN HOMES,

KlLßlßNlE— Handsomely finished new 6-roomed House, bathroom, h. and c,and all conveniences. Prieo £650.

"NORTHLAND— Good 5-roomcd Houec, h.and c, bathroom, nicely finished andwoll-fitted throughout;detached wash-house; largo lovel Eeetion; grandview. Price £570. 647

KELBURNE— S-roomed Residence, bath-room, scullery, dec. light, wardrobes," dresser, linen press, etc. Prico £825.

293ROSENEATH (sunny side)— 6-roomedHouse, bathroom, Ecullery, washhouso,h. and c, elec. light, pantry, anaevery possible convenience;land 38ft6in by 130; commands an cxtennivoview of city and harbour. Prici> £850.

639BROOKLYN— New House of 5 rooms,bathroom, copper, tubs, and all usualconveniences; verandah, Price £380.

648ISLAND BAY— New 4-roomed House,scullery, bathroom, cupboards, etc,copper, tubs; land 33 by 165. Price£550. 655BERHAMPORE—6-roomed House, h. andc, gas, well fitted throughout; land,

66ft by 43 to 182. Prico £600. 667NEWTOWN— New 7-roomed House, bath-room, h. and c, gas, pantry, side-boards, linen press, etc. PWcc £775666

M'KEE AND CO., _Ltd.,'PHONE 2173. 1,PANAMA-STREET.

"W X aislajbi-e;LAND AND ESTATE AGENT,

34a., MANNERS-STREET,WELLINGTON.

100 ACRES; Upper Hutt; nearly halfvery rich flat; fino homestead; wellsubdivided Prico £30 per acre. £600cash required.350 ACRES, Urenui;250 acres in' grass,balance bush;100 acres rich flat;4-roomed house, outbuildings; con-

veniently subdivided; in thorough re-pair. Prico £7 10s per aero; easyterms; stock at valuation.

254 ACRES rich AgriculturalLand, prac-tically lovel, near Feilding; 8-roomedhouse, numerous outbuildings, orchard,etc. Prica £18 10s per aero. £3000can remain. Owner will exchange.

17Q ACRES, 2£ miles from .Upper Hutt;7-roomed house, outbuildings ;,2 acresorchard and garden. Price £1200.Will exchange for larger farm.

2£ ACRES, Roseneath, having thereon 5dwellings well let. Price 3_600; noencumbrance;owner will exchange forgood farm -property.ALSO HOUSES AND SHOPS in Cityand all Suburbs for sale or exchange.

RIOHD.I'^

[BOBT

W V LI3811, FEATHERBTON-ST., Wellington.

Telephono No. 452.WORDSWORTH-STREET (near)— Land

94 x 60 feet, two good Dwellings, 6and 4 rooms;rentals 40s per week.Prico £1100; sound investment.

THORNDON (main street)— Land 30 x90 feet, two 5-roomed Dwellings;rent-als £2 2s 6d per week. Price £1050.

TARANAKI-STREET (just off)— Land 46x70 .fdet," with' good eix-roOmed Dwell-ings one floor, all conveniences; roomto build stable 'Or workshop. Bargainat £750. "

CORUNNA-AVENUE— Land 35 x 101fectj snug 5-roomed Dwelling,all con-yeniencos, nice garden, etc. Price£625 ;a cheap homo.

KILBIRNIE (Baden-road)— Land 40 x 145feet, new '4-roomed Dwelling, twobays, all modern conveniences. Prico£500.

" -BROOKLYN— Land 40 x 160 feet, with

new 4-roomed Cottage, all conveni-ences. Prico £380 ;'easy torms.

WADESTOWN— Land 66 x187 feet, levelsite, 5-roomcd Dwelling, conveniences,Well sheltered, good view. Prico£575 ;a chance.

THORXDON— Fino Building Site, 53 x104 feet. Price £553.

RONA BAY (County-road)— Level Sec-tion, 100 _ 165 feat. Prico £3 15s perfoot.

WYLIE BROS.,Estate Agents, IT, Fcatherston-stroet.

SPECIAL OFFER!TO CLQSE AN ESTATE.

MAGNIFICENT SECTION, top of Bid-wcH-strcot, adjoining tho fine resi-dence of, J. H.Barker, Esq., land 77ft 6infrontago,to ,Town. Belt, depth 112ft lOin;also

"frontage to Rclkston-street;Low

Rates: Low Btieo for Cash. If Terms de-sired Small Deposit Only.

WELLINGTON-TERRACE (off)— TWO#*Nl3 SECTIONS, as follows :— 46ft bylibft Bin;39ftby 305ft 3in. The other Sec-tions in this piece of land have been soldand first-class residences erected thereon.WILL BE SOLD AT A SACRIFICE ON

SPECIALLY EASY TERMS.Apply

J. B. FINLAY,Tolephone'2501. Hunter-street.

WHY NOTHAVE A HOME OF YOUR,OWN?

\ ■——

WE have for Salo 'several Cottages offour and five room3for you to

choose from. You can make your ownterms, and wo assure you that no reason-ablo offer will bo refused.If you havo a section of land on which

you wish to erect a dwelling, como andsco us. Estimates freo.

Apply to

PARSONS ANDBROWN,'

Tel. 991. 20, Brandon-st.FOR SALE.

MELROSE HOUSE, Quoon's Drive. A> visit will provo this to bo tho very-

best residential sita in Greater Wolling-ton, and for tho sizo of land attached thocheapest available;well-planted and shel-tered, splendid water supply, good gar-dens, lawns, and outbuildings. Aleo somesplendidbuilding sites from £1 per foot.liuy boforo the Kilbirnio and Lyoll Baytrams aro running, as values iv this dis-trict must increase rapidly. Plans andparticulars from tho owner, H. M. Hay-ward, Queen's Drive,or corner Farish andOld Cmtoms streets.XT O T EL S FOR SALE.

HOTEL, Wnngamii, spocial opportunity;capital required £1000.

HOTEL, City (brick); takings average£150 weokly; 30 hogshoads monthly.Full particulars on applying.

HOTEL, Auckland; takings average £250weekly;good loaso. , Full particularson,applying.

Wo havo numerous Hotels on our booksfor Sale, and will be glad to givo intend-ing buyers full particulars on applying.

JOHN BRODIE AND CO.,7, King's Chambers.

LEVIEN. SHALLGRASS AND CO.,Fruit, Produce,'and GeneralMorehautß.TEMPORARY~PREMISES.

DURING Rebuilding wo can be foundat tho Back ot our old location,

CORNER CHEWS-LANE AND VIC-TORIA-STREET.

LOWEST'PRICES. PROMPT DE-

LIVERY for all _ kinds of produce andgeneral merchandiseOats, Bran, Chaff, Hay, Straw, Maize,Pollaia, Barley, etc., etc.

RING TELEPHONE 1244.

FOR SALE, now 5-roomed verandahCottago; bathroom, pantry, wash-house, etc., artesian water, large section

(40 x 210), closo to Bollovuo Gardens;prico £500; small doposit; very cosyterms. For further particulars apply — "V. Westbury, Drillshed Cycling School,

..Wellington.

EXHIBITION!A FKEE TRIP AND £5

POCKET MONEY.

jpHEN.Z. AGENCY OF PEARSON'S

PEPTO-CHLOR CO.Will give tho above to the Lady andGentleman whoso HANDWRITING de-notes tho most STRENGTH OF CHAR-ACTER.

Full instructions onCompetition Paper3,tobe had onapplication from all Cbomustßand Grocers FREE OF CHARGE.

Write your usual style, as the illegiblewriter has the samo chance as the personwho can writo coppw-plato.

An Expert in Handwriting has been re-tained as Judge.

Competition closes 22nd December,iPvesult advertised 27th.

Any person failing to obtain Competi-tionPaper apply to P.O. Box 712.

PEARSON'SPEPTO-CHLOB,

CURES INDIGESTION.

By Special _>9fIP,J& HisExcollencyAppointment the

to £^2ai__t2t Governor,

PRANK GRADY,WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER,

WILLIS-STREET.Old-established, but Up-to-dato.CHRISTMAS NOVELTIES!CHRISTMAS NOVEX/riES!

FRANK GRADY'S for WATCHESFRANK GRADY'S for CLOCKSFRANK GRADY'S for JEWELLERYFRANK GRADY for Sterling Silver

IFRANK <SRADY'S for Electro-platejFRANK GRADY'S for Leather GoodsSIGHT-TESTING ROOM.

Eyes Tested Freo of Charge.MANUFACTURING and REPAIRING.|

Open till 0 o-'clock During December.TOE QIHOP T^OR "ORESENTS.

Established 1880. Telephone 1138.

THEROUSE AND HURRELL CAR-RIAGE BUILDING CO., LTD.,

Courtcnay-place, Wellington, havo onhand a well-assorted selection of Buggies,Dogcarts, Gigs, and are now landinglarge shipments First-clas3 Materials, in-cluding tho Finest Rubber Tyres mado,"Tho Clincher," for which we aro SoloAgents in New Zealand, Rubber Mat-, tings, Lamps, Rugs, High-grade WheelMaterial (Elm and Hickory),. Axles,Loathcrs, and Varnishes.

This old-establishcc and well-equippedFactory is now UNDER NEW MAN-AGEMENT.! For REPAIRS AND ESTIMATESRING UP 212. Prompt Attention andSatisfaction Guaranteed.

sVrito for our New Catalogue,

C ADAMS, 35, Cuba-street, is showingo a magnificent assortment of

HIGH-CLASS MILLINERY

At temptingprices, ranging from 15s up-wards. On view in both Showrooms.

C. ADAMS, 35, Cuba-street.PHOTOGRAPHS FOR COLOURING

PURPOSES.

WE havo just landed a largo assort-ment of theso Photos, which com

prise all tbp best subjects obtainable.T. BEADNALL AND SON,

62a, Willis-street, opposite Evening Post.. Tel. 1508.

ALTER GEE AND COMPANY,

SPECIALISTS INWINDOW BLINDS,Holders of International

GOLD MEDAL and CERTIFICATES. "Inspection of our Factory Showroonu

cordially invited.Address:

QUIN-STREET (OFF DIXON-STREET).ToWnono 2118.

FOUND—

Spring Blossom Ointment, 6dandIs; Spring Blossom Pills, 6d andIs; Bloomino Corn Curo, 6d, MandarinLaundry Glaze, 6d and It. J^pld every-where. Agents, wholesalo druggists.

Consult Mra. Louisa Hawkins, 106,George-street, Dunedin. Advico freo. Pills,3s 6d and ss. Sole agent for Dr Bloom'sOrango Blossom. Ono month's treatment,10s. Poat frea.

TO LENDIN BUMS OF

£100 to £10,000

On COUNTRY, CITY, andSUBURBAN FREEHOLDS

_T EXOItrTIONAIXY.LOW RATESOr IKTKIIEBT.

LIBERAL TERMS FOR REPAY-MENT OF THE WHOLE OR PART OFTHE LOAN.

AEt'liV 10 ANY AQEXOY OP THE

Government, InsuranceDepartment.

j,H. RICHARDSON,GoTiminint InmrtjicnCnmmlulounr.

SUNDERLAND HOUSE.GEO. A. MAWSON, Practical Pastry

Cook and Caterer.—

Having onlargodour olectric cakoinaking plnnt, bringing itrightup-to-date, wo are enabled to supplytho publiowith Cako by tho ton at 9d pj»rlb. Light mid-day Lunch ns usual, 6d,from 12 till 2. Brides' Cakes, richlyabnon-ed iced, from 20b to £20; quality guaran-toed.

J. BANNING & CO!, "

HOUSE, LAND, AND ESTATEAGENTS,ROYALEXCHANGE, OPERA HOUSE,|Wellington.Closo to BASIN RESERVE— Up-to-date"

Hpueo of 5 rooms, bathroom, hotand cold water, copper, and tubs, ver-andah and stororoom, gas cooker;land 33 x100ft, laid out in gardenandlawn; everything in splendid order.Prico £875; bargain. 327

RIDDIFORD-STKEET (off)— House of 5rooms and every convenience; land36 x 106ft, perfectly level. Price forquick sale £650. 672

TRAM TERMINUS, NEWTOWN— Two.5-roomod Houses, -each having bath-room, copper, and tubs; insurance£600 ;land 35& x 91ft;Land Transfertitle; rentals £1 16s week. Prico£950 ;termß £200 , cash, balance ar-;ranged. 647

CAMBRIDGE-TERRACE (off)— One s-roomed Houyo and ono 3-roomedHouso:land 24 x 112f t; rentals 32s6d week. Prico £900 ;good spec. 675

ORHiNTAL BAT— Woll-built House of7 rooms, bathroom, hot water, etc.,balcony, grand view;situated on thoflat. Prico £1400. 1968!MOUNT VICTORIA— Houso of 6 rooms,bathroom, copper,and tubs; land 20 x123ft. Prico £675 ;easy terms arrang-ed. 1958

.CENTRAL—Two 7-roomed Houbos, having

every modern convenience; well builtand in good order; let at £3 week.Prico £1900 ;torms £40& cash; bal-anco can remain on mortgage at 5^per cent. 1900

"^7ALtJABLE CORNER SITE ANDV HOME.TRAM LINE, RINTOUL-STREET,

NEWTOWN—

4-roomed Houso withtwo frontages, 35 x 63£ ;room for adairy shop in front; built heart oftotara and matai for owner. Price£775.

SPECIALS IN SECTIONS.KELBURNE EXTENDED— 72ft x 130ft,

area 36perches;frontingroad to High-bury;sheltered from north and southwinds;superb viow3. £325. Specialterms

WELLINGTON-TERRACE (off)— 3 fineSections at £14 per foot.

HIGHBURY (near Kolburne)— A fewchoice Sections from £3 a foot.

MIRAMAR (Golf-terrace)—Half-acres from£2 10s a foot.

DAY'S BAY (near wharf)—Choice i-acroSections, from £3 10s a foot.

J. B. FINLAY,Hunter-street, opposite New Bank of

Australasia.Telephone 2501.

W. B.CHENNELLS & CO.,A UCTIONEERS AND ESTATE

-O- AGENTS, MASTERTON.b'OR SALE—

586£ ACRES L.1.P., rent 4s 6d p.a.; re-bate of 3d p.a. for prompt payment;fully half the land is ploughableandfreo from £tump3; all nice, low easyhills and flat?, lying well to tho sun;50 acres ploughed September, 1906, 30acres sown with English grasses, and20 acres aro now in crops. There isalso a good houso, stable, cowshed,shearingaliod, buggyshed, chaff-house,etc.;15 chains from school to houso;nearly 900 sheep (including about 360lambs), 6 cows and 10 horses (includ-ing 5 good draughts), new drill (cpst£40), d-furrow plough, hillside plough,dieo harrow,chain harrow, harness andsundries all given in at £7 10s p.a.This isamodellittle farm returningover£500 a year;percentage of lambs lastyear 130, and about the samo this sea-son;bound to buy if you look at it.Telephono connected. 2172

3865 ACRES goodpastoral Landsituate 22miles from Masterton, 3100 acres grass-ed, balanco bush, of which 100 acros.isbeing felled;16 paddocks, well water-ed;good 6-r. houso, woolrtied, yard3,dips, stable, dairy, etc. J wintered ongrass land 4500 sheep besides 170cattle; clipped 94 balo^jvool last sea-son; considerable area good fatteningcountry; £5 15s p.a.;owner will ex-change forgoodcity or town property;would take £3000 worth free of mort-gago and arrange balanco;stock atvaluation; possession Ist March, 1907.

2095H. ERNEST LEIGHTON,A UCTIONEER, LAND AND ESTATEA AGENT,

9, FEATHERSTON-STREET,WELLINGTON.

UPPER HUTT AND LOWER HUTT.UPPER HUTT AND LOWER HUTT.

FOR SALE.KILBIRNIE SOUTH— S-roomed House

and conveniences;good section. Prico£700.

KILBIRNIE SOUTH (Esplanade), W,©ll-built 6-roomed House, ecullory, wash-houso, and conveniences; largo sec-tion. Prico £800 :£200 cash required.

HATAITAI— Good Section having 49£(,6in frontage to Waipapa-road. Prico£290.

HATAITAI— Two good Sections, close totunnel; splendid value. Prico £8

ROXBURGH-STREET (off)— 6-roomed

House, partly furnished. Price £700for quick sale.

SHANNON-STREET — 4-roomed Houso,scullery, and conveniences. Prico only£600 ;terms arranged.

GOOD 6-ROOMED HOUSE and everyconvenience, garden, view, largo soc-tion, within 2 minutes Wallace-streettram. Prico £850; terms.

THORNDON— Cosy 5-roomed House, ecul-lery and conveniences. Prico £620.

LOWER HUTT.Beautiful 7-roomed Houso, every'possible

convenience, largo garden, charmingBurrouiidinga. Prico £1500.

Gentleman's Rosidonco,containing 9 rooms,plastered throughout, overy possibleconvenience;3 acre of well laid outgrounds. Prico £2100.

New 5-roomed House, overy convonienoo,conservatory, etc. Prico £750; 66ftfrontago to fj°°d road.

Cosy 6-roomod Houso, bathroom, wash-house, etc.;also stable, trapshed, iacre section, good garden. Price£700; terms arranged.

Grand Cornor Business Site, Hutt Main-road. Prieo £15 por foot.

Choioo Aero Section, largo frontago toMiddlo Waiwotu-road. Prico £465.

UPPER HUTT.25 Acres, noar station, good 6-roomed

Houso and conveniences; highly ad-aptable for subdivision. Prico £3250.

Now 6-roomod House and conveniences,nico garden, orchard, etc. Price £650.£250 cash required.

5-roomed Houso, every convenience, _-acre section. Prico £520; termß ar-ranged.

11 Acres, township site;, having 330ftfrontago. Prioo only £900 for quicksalu.

'6-roomed House, ovory convenience; land66ft x 165ft. Prico £425; terms ar-ranged. ,

2i Acros, near Wallacovillo Station. Price£350..

90 Aci-os flat Land, with now 7-roomodHouso;highly ndaptablo for subdi-vision. Prico £10,000; terms.

Full particulars of the abovo and otherproperties on application to

H.ERNEST LEIGHTON,7, FEATHERSTON-STREET,Wellington,

OrUPPER HUTT AND LOWER HUTT.

EXCELLENT BUILDING SITEOn thoMAIN NEWTOWN THOROUGHFARE

FOR SALE,Facing Riddiford-streot and Gordpn-utreet.

Particulars regarding same can bo se-cured from

H. CRUMP, Contractor,Broucham-atreot. Wellington.

WF. EGGERS," 97, LAMBTON-QUAY.'Phono 563.

Look at This! piuminond-strcot— Four-roomed House and scullory, detachedwash-houso, bath, copper, tubs;land 33ft x 95ft,,now drainago complete. Prioe only £400,

and a bargain at this; £70 will socurothis property.

Borhntnporo (main 66ft etreot)— Braucl-now Bix-roomod House, bath, li. and c.water, copper, tubs, pat. w.c, gas through-out, good section land, fine yicw of.Boa.Can-bo purchased £660.

(ItF -STERED.)For the PRESERVATION 01? GALVANISED IHON ROOFS, and allpurposes where a Paint of wearing

power is required.

TFTS PAINT has "Wonderful "Weather Kesisting Properties, and haa been proved to la,ut THREE TOFOUR TIMES LONGER than any other Paint.

NON-POISONOUS.

WELLINGTON, DUNJSIUN. AND CHUISTOHUROH.

GET ON THE SOIL,' YOUNG MAN,GET ON THE SOIL!

LTJNDON & LEONARDLAND AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS,

4,FEATHERSTON-STREET,(Opposite Union Bank.)

FOR SALE.15 ACRES, a choice spot, close to,cilyj

a bargain.

1400 ACRES, Taranaki district, snbdmd.Ed, lovel and undulating; suitable fordairyingorsheop. £4 per aero;£1003down, 'balance 's per' cent. V -*\i_li&iifrom town. ■ ;"' "■ " ' '\ '"]'~

A Charming Homo at Khandallah;vownefleavingdistrict.. " ■ ■--;

A sound and profitable Drapery Businessin city. ,i.

The beet suburban Coal and Firewood"Business near Wellington. , ,;

Best Millinery Business in city, Tobaccon-ist Business, Butchery.

jm H BETRTJJSTE & CO.;,AUCTIONEERS AND LAND AGENTS,

33, Fe&tharston-street. .Telephone 64. .SPECIAL PROPERTIES.

ELIZABETH-STREET —Investment; 2

Cottages rently built, let at £88 perannum; £1075. "" L 5560NEAR. ST. JOHN'SCHURCH— Charming9-rd Residence,, splendidly fitted, fineview, and large garden;a pocfecthome. Prico £1950. 5557HAWKER-STREET— 7 Booms, in goodrepair, 20ft frontago, hot water andfine view. Cheap at £650. 5566'

DANIEL-STREET — Well-built 5-roomedDwelling,on fulliacre, best position;£825. 557T

KILBIRNIE— SpeciaI7-roomed Residence,40ft frontage, view, sheltered garden,£1235. , 5576

MELROSE— Choice Residence Sites, cjoseto tram, splendid views, £2 to £3 IDsfoot. ■

-369S

BROOKLYN— 33 by 231ft,and well finish-ed 5-rd Villa, Lincoln-st. £425. 340*

NORTHLAND— Section'217, HarbourView-road, double frontage, splendid:

level site, good view, for £200. 35^5HATAITAI (Close to Tunnel)—Beaut-tutviewSites for 3 houses at£& foot. 3694-

KARAKA BAY— Nearly X Acre near tobeach, and comfortable 4-rd house.£850 lot. 3656

KILBIRNIE(Overton-terraoe), Levelview,Section, fenced and ready for build-ing, £6 foot. 3657

UPPER HUTT— _-acre Block, would sub^divide well, close to Main-road awlrailway station; £62 10s"«ere. 360T.

HARCOURT <£ CO., *

A UCTIONEERS SHAREBROKEKS*_£L HOUSEAND LAND AGENTS,

Corner Panama-street and Lambton-quay,

SPECIAL PROPERTIES.TE ARO (close,Id tram)

—Comtpaot new

four-romed Villa (easily convertible,into 5 rooms), having bay window, 'balcony, largo diningroom, bathroom,scullery, and washhouse, sideboard,wardrobes, cupboards, gas, h. and c\water, splendidview, land 30 by70ft;price £550, £25 deposit, balance asrent. 7304.

EPUNI-STREET— Now six-roomed Dwel-ling,bay window, bathroom,h. and c.water, gas, scullery, and- washfeouse,tiled grates, etc, land 21 by l-Offr;price £675; £75 doposit. 7005

OWEN-STREET—Oomfortable 5-roomedVilla, one floor, verandah, bay-window,bathroom, £culle>y, waehhouse,.wdrkshop, sheds, etc.;"land 30 by100ft,; price £650; cheap. 7234

ADELAIDE-ROAD (off)— New 6-roomedVilla (nearing completion), having allpossible conveniences, land 33 by 88ft *prico £700; £75 cash.

GLENCOE-STREET— Five-roomed Villa,ono floor, scullery, bathroom, all usualconveniences,nice section; price- £450;bargain, 7301

CHOICE'RESIDENTIAL SITES.NORTHLAND— Harbour view, superb

villa Site, 50 by150ft, perfectly level;" > beEt section in locality;price £6 foot.TINAKORI-ROAD (tram terminus)—Bea-utiful view, 45 by 150ft, from £5 -s_.

per foot.'* , '..-., .»„

KHANDALLAH (Main-road, close to-«U>tion)— Over^half anacre; £365.; cheap.KARORI. (Btanden Est«tc)^-Sp3^ndids

sunny Sites, ready for buiHiag,-from£2 per foot. ..__ _ ,;

200 ACRES,all gra_ed, «xcept"p_ch't_beUter bush, 5 paddocks, well.watered)buildings, 8-roomed house. cmrhniW,bay and trap ehed, etc.; lease has>2|years to run;Tent £70 per acre, with,pj.c. at £7 68 per acre;jschool' a_£creamery '1J miles; metal roadsiprice £340 "goodwill. ' '

6531100 ACRES, exceptionally fin© __rryFarm, good .house,

concrete yards,' stables, 'Hrapsned/ acUjoins creamery, school, 2 mile?,' rjjUsway and town quite-close;-prico-£29-

--per acre?--terms, £500 cash-."'" 653950' ACRES choico " Baity __n_r'He— <7i

roomedhouse, 'dowbails, cartshed, everjrconvenience,Tailway, school, creamiry^town all within walking distance;pries£29 per acre; terms, £45,0 C&ah. ,.6527

600 ACRES, fattening Farm,- all flat andploughable, 20 paddocks,.liob.- allwfolcoil, will fatten. 1bullock ncr acittxstock,,6o.head catfcte, ♥Ohbl-eß,#(&ewes and lambs, 'and anumber oi.djjg, sheep;schoblf P- *nd. t.0.,' 24. miles,railway4-milw, creamery1- ttam t'pou*vohieitt" toT t&e beft etock" markets 'in

■ tho North. Island; price; iBSi-jOs-pe.1acre.. _.' .- .. -\ .~

6S_lTOBACCONIST'and HAIRDEESSER'S,good countiy town, 'chop and saloon,

rout 155,. lease 5" years, trade £73monthly; ft splendid business; price.£150. " ■ ttd

"COIJFECTIONERY AND TEAROOMSANDx

CATERER, large town, shop,tearoom (seattJ&O), bakehouse and port./able- baker's oven, rent £3, ,lease 3_

"'years witß" J*'6.l... for lurthef '7_ yoars,turnover £50 ncr week and increasingno.br'end is'baked;price, £60&; "terms,£400 cash; a splendid business forsmall goods' man and 'wife. 432

R, J. THOMPSON, :jMAND AND ESTATE ' AGENT,'

Authorised Agont Slate Fife In»"

surance, " "LOWER HUTT, UPPER HUTT; AND

4J Acreb, planted with ornamental tra&i;several fern gullies onproperty; excel-lent vietar of the Hutt Valley'and Wel-lington harbour; idesl position forRontlemaa'a home; 10 minutes fromHutt Railway Statioa; -bargain. T

13-roomed and two7-roomcd Houses;M_d156 x120;corner block. This propertyshows 11^ per oont. net.'

13 Acres first-class land, best block ind_Ktrict for subdivision; a cbtnee torspeculators.

50 Acres, near Upper Hutt Railway Sta-tion, suit-able for subdivision.Six Sections, do«o toUpper HuttRailway

Station.2i Acres, clobo Wallae«villo Railway Sta-tion. ..Goodwill, Stock, and Fittings of BikoryBusiness; 500 loaves daily. " ' '"

Sections in Jackson-street, Petone, nearPost-Office,, from £16 per foot. *

Sections Lynch* Copley's. EUnwood. Es.1 'tattfe . '"

*|jj"_' A. BLUNDELL,* . 32a, LAMBTON-QUAY.Telephono 2365

WANTED to Sell, Section, 37ft 9inby92ft 6in in Mein-strcet:drainageand gas connections;asphalt yard; £12foot.

WANTED to Sell, 7-roomed House inOwen-street; section 41ft by 92ft;

insured £650.' Price £950.

WANTED Known, anup-to-dateHouseof 8 rooms for Sale in. Bidwell-

street 5 kitchen and flower garden;splen-did view of city and harbour; £14-00.

WANTED Known— For Sale, 4J Acresat Beautiful Karori, with 400 feet

frontago to Macdo-nald-street;planted andfenced;splendid view1 of city and har-bour; prico £1550.'

WANTED to SelL 6-roomod" House,No. 41, Queen-street, Pelone, two

minutes from G.P.0.; section 40 x 99;■verandah cottage. £520.

WANTED, £1600 for nine-roomedHouse

'in Thorndon;good'residen-

tial locality.

WANTED Known— For Sale, a goodBusiness Sito in Jackson-street,

Petono. £16 10s foot.

WANTED, Austin-street Property in-epacted, 7 rooms; section 28 x 90.

£1000.

BAKER BROS.HAVE FOR SALE—

ISLAND BAY— 6-roomed House, ononefloor, with washhouse, copper, tubs, bath-room, h.p,boiler, workshop, etc.;land 30x 150. £650. A bargain. 6573

BROOKLYN— S-roomed House, withwashhouso, copper, tube, spring of water;land 2? acres, within 7 minutes' walk oftram. £650. Dopofsit £100. 6570

KILBIRNIE (corner section)— Well-builtShop and 6-roomed House, with copper,tubs, hot water, tiled hearths, etc.;land30 x 135. £925. 6563

DERWENT - STREET (Island Bay)—Splendid Building Site, 491t 6in by 167ft.£6 5s per foot. 6562

TORY-STREET (off)— Two small Cot-1tages on land 35 x 61; yearly rental £40.Prico £420. 6555

HANSON-STREET— Two. Acres, lease-hold, also Cottage erected thereon. Pricefor lease, £125.

' '6554

EDINBURGH-TERRACE— Two 4-room-ed Cottages, on land 66 x 100. £620 thetwo. 6551

MEIN-STREET— SplendidBuildingSite,having drainago laid on and concreto wallerected; land 37ft 9Ln x 92ft. 6552'

BAKER BROS.

JJJOORE & VARLOW,HOUSE AND LAND AGENTS,

20. Customhouse-quay.

ROSENEATH, on wafer's edge, sunnyside, no hills to climb, splendid view andpleasantly situated 5-ioomed Cottage;12minutes' walk from Oriental Bay car;land99 x 70; level. Prico £570. Tho landalone is worth the money.

BROOKLYN— Comfortable 4 rooms,scullery, bathroom, verandah, waEhhouse,tubs, copper, sink, tiled grates;largo sec-tion. £425 ; terms arranged.

CORUNNA-AVENUE—

5 nice largorooms, bathroom, gas and good back-yard,Venetian blinds;land 35 x 102;a real bar-gain at £625.

WARIPORI-STREET— Superior 6 large-roomed Residence, bathroom, washhouse,scullery; built only 8 months, hot water,gas, good view; land 33 x 132. Insuredfor £650. To bo sold at a gift, £850.

BROADWAY TERRACE— S rooms, andnow drainage, built about 10 years; cen-tral and cheap. £515.

OWEN STREET— Splendid lovel sec-tion, over i-acre, -with -5-roomcd House,suitable for gentleman's residence,builderor carrier. (£1135 Government valuation.)

SEASIDE PROPERTY.

FOR SALE, SECTIONS ANDHOUSES at EASTBOURNE (Rona

Bay and Muritai).

J. D. AVERY,Accountant and Agent,

BROWN'S BUILDINGS.'Johnston-st.

Telephone 2590.

HUTT LAND! HUTT LAND!HUTT LAND! HUTT LANDI

SECTIONS ia tha J. A. MASONESTATE, situate in the heart of the

township, on the Main-road, aro open forPRIVATE SALE, from £♥ per foot oneasy terms. A 66ft road runs through-theproperty.

The above is the-PICK OF THE HUTT"VALLEY.For particulars apply to J. A. MASON,

on tho Estate, or to C. ~W. NIELSES;Solicitor, corner Featherston and Brandonstreets, Wellington.

FOR SALE,BY PRIVATE.TBEATT.

THE CENTRAL HOTEL,NELSON.

mmS HOTEL stands at tho Corner of■*" Trafalgar and Bridge streets, oppositetho Bank of New South Wales, and closeto the Now Post Office.- The sito is onoof the "very best m Nelson, and has afronfago of 158ft fo. Trafalgar-street and65ift to Bridge-street, giving ample roomfor a -first-class Houso,' which ' jkesorittrado and prospects fully Warrant.

For fuller particulars, apply toFELL AND ATKINSON,

" Solicitors,"'

W.- ROUT AND SONS,Land Agents, Nelson,

PAEKAKARIKI HOTEL.JPOR ABSOLUTE

' "SALE.

This Hotel, together with the adjoiningland, hag latoly been acquiredby a syn-dicate, who aro desirous of quitting thehotel and two acres of land at once. Tholand adjoining will bo cut np into build-ing sections and placed orf the market at

'an early date.The hotel contains 32 rooms, which aro

always full during tho summer months. 'A sure fortune for a good man. (Full particulars regarding price,-etc., onapplication to"

ROLAND T. ROBERTSON,8, Grey-street. Wellington.

tETcTr hale, cheap—

Ono 6-horsc power Portable Engine

One 12-horso power Electric Motor .andfittings, in good order

Having installed gas produoing plant-of.more power, we havo nouso for above.

Also,Lot second-hand Grates, Mantelpieces,etc.

ApplyHUMPHRIES BROS.,

Builders, Contractors,,and Valuators,148, ADELAIDE-ROAD.

WANTED, Buyer for o Rooms, Wai-lace-street:every convenience;

balh,, etc., etc.:land 38 x 105 ;prico£1000; bargain. W. F. Shortt,.Ltd., Es-

.tato.AjusuU, Willie-street, .

_ __I.THB EVENING-POST. SATURBAY, DECEMBER 8,*1906.

Frinled and published forBLUXDELLBeos.,LisiiTKb. by John Blukdku, ol Nairn-hlroot, Wellington,priulor and pub-lisher, and Louis Phoctor Bujjumu..,of Woolcombc-stroet, Wolliuglon, printer.tiid publisher,at tho rogislofcd office ofthe Company, WilliE-atroot, Wellington,

Saturday, Dec>.Mub«r 8, 1006.

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BGBjffftnLr _ „ v want a good article at areasonable figure. Wegive you this, because we have places all over NewZealand, andsoimport ourraw material

—abig saving.

TB" BEBJU9 Eecause wehave alarge staff of skilled workers,eachff* F* B BnJ manbecomes good in his own line, and we put just

that man on to just your case. He does it well and-»^»_—^_^^ quickly

—economy there,because ourhuge trade en-

ables usto take small profits and still do all right. Inour guaranteed work you canbe sure of satisfaction. We use the best materialand the best skill. Avail yourself of them. You will save enough to pay yourfare to town, and can get all the latest improvements. For taking out teeth...wa use...Wo D. Pittar's Paaniess SystemAnd can take out all the teeth at one sitting absolutely without pain. Thatsounds all right,and we back our claim with Five Pounds, which we will giveto you if you feel a single twinge.

.y A Single Set, 3 guineas.A Complete Set from 8 to6 guineas. H

The latter is guaranteed'to be equal to any- BL UMXV'%W Bything you will pay 10 guineas for.'

Corner WILU3 a MANNERS STS. flP'&lT'l&i

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HALE-HOLIDAY~WEDNESDAY,

INSTEAD of SATURDAY.DURING the past two years we 1aye

strongly supported the UniversalSaturday Ualf-holKlay Movement, and inorder to show our sympathy, with tinsmoveaiPtit wo have, during that time,"jiobud ouv premises ou that day. Owingto the fact, however, that our FurnishingBusiness (i.e., private sale of Now Furni-tuve) U increasing by leaps and brinds,and tho inconvenience caused to many ofour customers through our being uwscdon Saturday afternoons and evenings, nndaUo (hat there is very little prospect otour legislators proclaiming Saturday a:>tho /statutory Universal Half-holiday, \\Qhxvo decided to reyert to our former rule,and in fuiure our establishment wjUoeClosed on WEDNESDAY AFTER-NOONS aud REMAINOPEN ALL DAYSATURDAY UP TILL 9.30 j>.m.

WILLLuV FRASER SHORTT,LTD.,Auctioneers, Complote House Furnishers,

,Land and Estate Agents, etc., etc,WILLIS-STREET, WELLINGTON.~NEW PIER HOTEL,

WELLINGTON.

rnHE abovehotel baß now beenfurnishedA throughout in a manner that should

appeal to the travellingpublio as first-classin every respect, and the Proprietorsguilrantco accoffimodfttion E£CGnd to nonein theciU'.

A specialty will be THE SHILLINGLUNCHEON every day between12 and 2.Commercial men will find this Luuch afeaturo of tho New Pier Hotel quite inkeeping with its general comfort through-out, a really first-rato chef being incharge of this important department, thodiningroom (upstairs) being unequalled inthe colony.

Visitors by rail or steamer will find thePIERHOTEL an idoal one to Btay at.

Tariff from 7g.

WHITWORTH BROS.. Proprietors.Telegraphic Address— "Pier." Wellington

TSLAND BAY" HOTEL.A D. BLICK, Proprietor

(Lateof theLands and SurveyDepartment)This hotel has now been thoroughly re-

novated, and special efforts aro beingmadeto prepare for the large influx of visitorsexpected during tho ensuing summer.Boating and Fishing will bo features of thoestablishment, and all liquors supplied thebest procurable.

Tho table will be first-class, and cleanli-ness will bo strictly observed.

City visitors will also find an excellentluncheon provided, and private rooms forladies, where light refreshments may boobtained.Tl/riiTROPOLITAIM HOTEL,MOLESWORTH-ST.. WELLINGTON

(Under Entirely New Management).This well-known hostelry has been leasedby Mrs. JANE ORMSBEE, lato of the

Clyde-quay Hotel. Only a few minutes'walk from both tho Manawatu Company'sand GovernmentRailway Stations. Eleetriotramcars stop at the door. Boarders ac-commodated in first-class stylo. Reason-ablo charges aud every home comfort.Good table kept.

ONLY THE BEST BRANDS OFLIQUOR KEPT INSTOCK.

Billiard Table Teleahone No. 1036.fi.KOSVESOE HOTEL.

THE BEST FAMILY HOUSE INWELLINGTON.This old-established and weM-knownHostelry is situated at the junction of

Wallace and Hankey streets, overlookingthe town and harbour and nestling snuglyunder tho hillside; is free from the coldsoutherly winds, making it an idoal housefor country visitors and others who mayrcquiic comfort and health as a first cou-Bideiatiou. Tariff 6s per day.

Trains ixus door every 10 minutes.LEWIS SWEET, Proprietor

(Lato of West Coast aud Tasmania).

THE METROPOLITAN PERMANENTBUILDIXG AKD INVESTMENTSOCIETY.

npHE business of the above Society willbo carried ou in the N.Z. Insurance

Company's Temporary Offices,NATIONALCHAMBERS, CORNER OF GREY ANDFEATHERSTON STREETS (Messrs.

Young and Tripos Buildings).

NOTICE.

NEW ZEALAND INSURANCE COM-PANY, LIMITED.

FIRE, MARINE, AND ACCIDENT.

Capital £1,500,000

fipHE Firo and Marino Business oij theCompany will bo carried on in Tem-

porary Omco3, situated in NATIONALCHAMBERS (Messrs. Young and Tripe'sBuildings), CORNER OF GREY ANDFEATHERSTON STREETS.

C. A. EWEN,Manager. l

Wellington.. 22nd October, 1906.

"PHOENIX THICK PEEL!JT HOENIX THICK PEEL!

THE BEST PEEL IN THEWORLD.

Sold Only in Packets and Tins Branded"Phoenix."

If you lake any other you are putting upwith a Bccond-clr.ss arliolo.

Wellington,

By Appointment to His Excellency LordPlunkot.

S/ROWE AND SONS," LOWER CUBA.STREET,HAVE FOR SALE— Split Peas, I'oariBarley, Barley Meul, Whoat Meal, Maiz«Meal. Crushed U*U. Mn^n. 'Tnr. IIliari.

PH. G O S S E," GENERAL CARRIER,LOWER HUTT.Furnituro removed by careful workmen.AH'kinds of Carting done.

Orders left with tho Colonial CarryingCompany or tho New Zealand ExpressCompany, Customhouse-quay, Wollingtou,will bo promptly attended to.Cement, Lime, Pipes, Coal, Firewood,etc., suppliedat cheapen ratei.

gALE. SALE. SALE.." GREAT XMAS. SALEI

SBECMLLY REDUCED PRICES.fiematitcbedHandkerchiefs, 9d, Is, Is 3d,

Is 6d, Is 9d, Is lid tho half-dozenGloybs, 6d, 9d, Is,Is3d, Is 6d,Is lidpairCooking Aprons,Is, Is 3d, IsodMuslin. Aprons, all reducodTinsel Drape, 3£d, 41d, 6d, Bid, laLacj Curtains, all reducedSheetings, all reducedTablolinens, all reducedPrinted Muslins, 2s lid, 3s lid the dress.Delaines, as lid full dress6yds White Fancy Muslin for la lid, 2s

3d, 2s 6d. 2s lidSpotted Muslin, 2s lid, 3s lid tho dressGrkLnHolland, 3£d, *£d, sd, sid, 7*d,BidNain-ook. 3id, *d,*4d, sd, s£d, 6dBed Quilts, all reducedEmbroideries, from IdLadies Underclothing, reducedKates, Id yd; 6id, Bid, Sid, 10£ ddozsn

EVERYTHING REDUCED.Hundreds of Lives Cheaper Still.

WE GIVE STAMPS* OR DISCOUNT.

Call All! Call Early! Call Often!■Yon will Save Money at

{ CUBA.STREET. .Saturday we Close 9 p.m.

A.H.WINCHESTER & CO.. 21, 25, VIVIAN-STREET,

£A RE now showing their SPRINGXV MDLLINERY and NOVELTIES.

Great Variety in MUSLINS, PONGEEPRINTS, etc

Cheapest and Best Value in Town,"

Inspection invited.DRESSMAKING by MISS *ETER-

BON.and MISS MOOHE.TelTNb. 2513. Open till 9.

YOURXMAS SUIT !

rriHERE'S still tima for it, but come"JL' along NOW, and we'll mako it foryou all right. We have just got in somesplendid, new, fashionable gentlemanlyTweeds, and as our cut and finish arealways so up to dato and neat, we GUA-RANTEE yon THE UTMOST SATIS-FACTION and prompt execution at aReasonable Price.

OSBORNE & CO.,93, CUBA-STREET.~

LENGTHS CUT AT WHOLESALEPRICES.

MACDOUGALL & CO.ffA RE Showing this week the Following'■**" SPECIAL LINES:—Plain and Check Zephyrs, in new shades,

7id, S^d, 9idper jariFinlay'sSheeting, 72in, SOin wide, Is 4£d,

Is 9d, Is lid, 2s 3d per yard.Ladies' Plain andLace Lisle Hose, Is 6d,

Is 9d, Is lid, 2s 3dper pair.Larg« White Turkish Toweh, 10id, Is, Is

3d each.A Complete Range of Laca and MuslinCurtains, 4s 6d, 63 6d, 3a 6d, 10s 6d,

to 25s per pair.Men'3Strong Grandrill Shirts, 2s 9d, 5s

6d. 3s lid each.

MACDOUGALL & cd.,HOUSEHOLD DRAPERS,

22,WELLIS-STREET. k

(Opposite Grand Hotel.)

WHEN YOU'RETIRED

OF the ordinary suits, -when you'vetried toget your tailor toput your

ideas into your Euit and failed, whenyouwant the best fabrics, bact; cutting,best stylo, andbest finish at ft noUrigher price than you've paid before,ORDER YOUR NEXT SUIT ATBRADFORD "WOOLLEN CO.

We-have afine assortment of fabricsfor Xmas wear. Call andsee them.

OUR SPECIALTY SUIT FOB XMAS,

■ , 70s T0 9OSI

BRADFORD WOOLLEN COMPANY,

I,LAMBTON-'QUAY, WELLINGTON.

SPECIAL VALUE THIS WEEKAt

mENNET'S RIGHT HOUSE, CUBA-X. STREET.Grand line Black Voilo Skirts, worth se-

curingLowely assortment of Ladies' and Chil-

dren's Millinery, all at Special PricesiJSmHew ■wariety of Laces, Belts, Gloves,

BSouaiagg and Underclothing

BFECTAT. NOVEMBER PRICES!jJEIOR the month of November Ihave-E marked all Trimmed Millinery at*Special prices. A lovely lot of the verynetrett styles in Chiffon, Tulle, and FancyStraw Hats, in all shades, from 17s od,lflß od, 218, and 25s each. For Novemberonly. At MRS. MATTHEWSON'S, Mil-liner and Ladies' Oatfitter, Melbourne,'House, Lambton-quay.

MESSAGETO LADIESIjTF -you are not wearing- & Messenger's'JL Patent Corset, place ycrar order with-«xt delay. MESSENGEBVS CORSET isxaade to measure and specially made tosuit rtont figures. Correct proportions arepermanently regained by wearing MES.-SENGEB'SPA.T£NT CORSET.

Sole Agent—

C. ADAMS, Designer andMinniactnter of High-class Millinery, 35,Oaha-«treet.

.!; SILVER-MOUNTED]'■' Toilet table

"^

ornaments 1V'I '

I

WE ask your particular attention toour New Stock of SILVER-

MOUNTED BRUSHES, MIRRORS, PINand COMB TRAYS and BOXES.The articles are beautiful specimens of

thr Silversmith's tirt. The die work isbold and clear. Some of the pieces are,however, quitoplain.

Velvet-lined Cases, containing 2 HairBrushes, 2 Cloth Brushes, Mirror, andComb, in tho Cupid, Iris, and otherfavourite designs, from

£7 6S!

Velvet-lined Cases, containing 2 HairBrushes and Comb, plain and fancy

| patterns, from

! £2 T 6DI6D1

Silver-mounted Jewel Cases, BiUc-lmcd andfitted to hold rings (aro well worthinspection), from 17s od.

Silver-mounted Cut-glass Boxes, for hair-pins (are most moderate in price),from a'few shillings.

G. & T. YOUNG,JEWELLERS,

75, LAMBTON-QUAY, Wellington.

By Speoial R»3§?J!i) -*^8Appointment tjffigmtgfy Excellency

to £>sri»i2iS'* fck° Governor.

\tfm LITTLEJOHN& SON,WATCHMAKERS. JEWELLERS,

AND OPTICIAN'S.65, LAMBTON-QUAY, WELLINGTON

We invito 6pecial attention to our stockof GEM RINGS. Important additionshavo boen made lately,and further addi-tions aro now being prepared, altogetherforming a valuable and very attractiveexhibit in Diamonds, Pearls, Emeralds,Rubies, Sapphires, Opals, Olivines, etc.

Uorns, when in parcels unmounted, arenot liable to Customs duty, and wo arothereforo ablo to offer them at prices thatcompare favourably with English prices forsimilar quality.

GEO. T. WHITE,WATCHMAKER AND JEWELLER, j

59, LAMBTON-QUAY, !WELLINGTON,

And at CHRISTCHURCH.

NIJvV, Greonslono Tikis, Piri3, Pendants,Eariglcs, Charme, Paper Knives,

Spooii3, Button nooks, and other Novel-ties too numerous to mention.

Our Engagement and DreS3 Rings aroour own manufacture, thercforo saving thoduly, which allows us to sell much cheap-er Pearl Half-Hoops, Diamond, Emerald,Sapphire, and Rubles.

INSPECTIONINVITED.I A. LAURENSON,

Manager.

"WHEN YOU GETMARRIED."

SEE that the RING you ask your bridolo wear for you all nor life is tho

best procurable.Best in Quality.

Best in Colour.Bast in Form.

My 18-carat WEDDING RINGS, beingEnglishHALL-MARKED, fulCl all thesercciuircnieuU.

L. W. LUDWIG,103, LAMBTON-QUAY.

ALERED~ LEVI,/CONSULTING OPTICIAN,

(Lato 39, Lambton-quay),Has s ecurod Temporary Premises in

ALDOUS' BUILDINGS(Opposite Kirkcaldio's),'

And will resume business at once. All re-cords saved from tho Firo except October,1906. "

ALFRED IiEVI,107, LAMBTON-QUAY, Wellington.

T. H. MORRISON,Consulting Optician, Manager,

107, LAMBTON-QUAY, Wellington."1Telephone 1082.

PRESTON'SCHRISTMASHAMPERS!

SECURELY Pa"cKED AND FOR-WARDED FREE.

1bottlo Brandy or Geneva1boltlo Whisky or Schnapps1bottlo Port or Sherry9 bottlos Stout or Alo (quarts)

Quality Guaranteed.. PRICFi OQS

PRESTON & CO.,'Tel. 114. 110, LAMBTON-QUAY.Solo Bottlers in Wellington for Ward and

Co.'a Champagno Ales and otherassortments.

"ttr CRABTREE AND SONS,CITY FOUNDRY,

Engineers, Iron and Brass Founders,Boilermakers, clo.

Manufacturers of High-oluss Log-haulera

Specialists iv Sawmill,' Briekinaking,aud Laundry Maohiuery.

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OFCRUELTY TO ANIMALS.

fTTEIK publio aro earnestly requeitod toA kindly communicato any not ofcruelty to anisaalo that max como underthoir noiico to tho lusiioctor, Box. 193,(4.P.0. Wellintrtou.

ATHIRSTY, EH?T such a time the Good Health Ttran.l

Raspberry, Sarsap Wine, Lemon, Elder,berry Wino, Lemon Sqi.ash, Cherry Wine.Pineapple, Ginger Wine, Herbal BeerBUick Currant Wine.Is PER BOTTLE.Caution— See abovp Trade Mark is oflevery bottle.All Stores, and at

"

GARDINER AND BARDIE'S50. CUBA-STREET.'

-*\U is"As Goodfor Women Gfofor Men."

There is no other'Stimulant likeit *

a«KtfßHdfaßa»iaaMßE»i

RemainingarenowoSered,aiunderooatpuoe,Iwant at thisAnnualClearing

SALE now onTocleareveryline,and shall doso ifbnyeraknow agood thing1when thoysee it.Warwick and other makes,chain, chain-less. Two-speed pear and spring framoCycles at .£9 to £I' 2,being the beat obtain-able, _ new and complete; second" handmachines cannot be compared with them.Also,Lamps,&o.,bestaeßorhnentand cheap-est. Buyers, be wise. Cal at FEAR'SCycle Depot, 88, Willis-st. Repairs fikilfußydone. Established 1880.— , .

SOLD BY

ALL IRONMONGERS.~/8* HPHE AMERICA!?&& JL LADIKS1

%&*U TAILORINGJmL- ESTABLISHMENT.h%rm\. 51,ManneES-st.Tell6l3.

£*fi i«Ul )'as ivi vst> opened theirTNt Ife-^SJ SUMMER TWEEDS,

|| \&r^ which are the newest1 \i^ designs and colours;

J\n also Speoial Tweeds for\'\ the Exhibition..\3k Ladies can rely onijv& havingthe latest styles,|\m in Costumes from 4||i\ guineas; Skirts, from

Ladies' ownmaterialUtira/w made up at reasonable

"A R'i1 FUfiNITDKEJ\. MANtTFACTURERIEDWARD COLLIE,41, RIDDIFORD-STREET.

Snd for Illustrated Catalogue.Branches: *

PETONE, LEVIN, MASTERTON.Have you a | ll\

*

Luke's Cooking '■»

Bangs? jf^If not, why not? y^y,

y&f^fcSr£^cgjgjglSf ?*"<*ac J

*v-_""'

Sols Makers of theGLOBE, PREMIER, NAPIERS, KTWL-AND COTTAGERS.Every Attention given to Repairs.

To bo had from ail Ironmongers orS. LUKE & CO., Ltd., >ALLEN-STREET. WELLINGTON.:.

SCHOLEFIELD'S Spectaclesat Peopia'aPrices— ls, 3s 6d, ss, 7s 6d, 15i.Sight tested, leases ground, tpectaolos r«<paired, artificial eyes (all oolourct iestock,

and old gold bought for ro-manufacluriujj.Note Address— W. R. SCHOLEKIIiLD,Watchmaker, Jeweller, and Optician, 36a,Mannnrs-ttroet. next to Fielder's.

SOCHSTY FOR PROTECTION OFWOMEN AND CHILDREN.THE Sccrotary will be in attendance at

tho Rooms, Bridge's Buildings, 102,'WilHs-stieet. on TUESDAYaud FRIDAYMORNINGS, from 10 to 12.30. All oom-municatious will receive immediate atton- 'ticil.

___ BOVO-EERRUM(REGISTERED).

"~~*

rpHE NATURAL TONIC FOR BOTH■*" SEXES, young and old. Quite

■harmless and very effectivo. It Enrichestho Blood and bo prevents and cures manyailments. The very best Tonic to takoAFTER INFLUENZA. It is sold by airChemists at half a crown, and tho bottlecontains32 doses.

THE.(3-REAT ASTHMA CURE-As prepared by H. Brittain, Chemist, ia

having a big sale. Its effects areTRULY MARVELLOUS,

and tho united testimony of cratefulI>atiouts Dronounces it to boA MIRACULOUS CURE.

Prioe, 2s 6dper bottle; post free, 3«.H.,BRITTAIN,

Chemist, 35, Manners-atroet.N.B.

—If no benefit derived money wil-licsrbr returned.

TO HORSE OWNERS.

T'

M'Kffi, M.R.C.V.S., VETERI-tw "NARY SURGEON. Surgery:Lyons,

Ltd., Livery Slables, Stout-street.

SPECIALIST IN COLIC CASES ANDHORSE DENTISTRY.

TN tho prescription from my DoctorIWANT FRESH DRUGS.

That is whyIgo to

PALLISER'S PHARMACY,30. KENT-TERRACE.

THE PRESCRIPTION"

fTHHAT your doctor Rives you will bo-A. faithfuliy, oxpeditiously, and properlycompoundedif tckon toIHOMAS JOHNSTONE,I Pharmaceutical Chemist,

Corner of Manners and Willis streets,i Wellington.

All Trains stop at the door.'Phono 484.

\— — —

ThEVELOP your Plates, Gaslight Papers"^and Postcards,Bromides, Velos, etc.,

with Cables'- Developer. A Is Bottle willdevelop50 ± plates. Sold in Isand Is 6dBottles at

CASTLES' PHARMACIES,3, Cuba-street and 37, Vivian-street.

XMAS NOVELTIES— The Best Dis-play of Toys, Dolls, Fancy Goods,and Novelties or e-.ery description evershown in Wellington havonow been onen-cd byW. G. SCU'IT, 88a,Cuba-street/andare now being cold at Specially ReducedPrico3 for Xmas. Just, tho plMo for anica present at a reasonable pr.ee.

GENTLEMEN!T AM THE GREAT IAM.

VOT Ail I?Iam

AISLABIE, THE GENT'S MERCER,16, VIVIAN-STREET,

Onp. Army Citadel.

REMOVAL NOTICE.

TA. WELLS begs to notify old cus-" toraers and the publio generally thathe has Removed to larger and more com-modious premises, No. 22, HANKEY-STREET, where a now, varied, and up-to-date assortment of Paperhaneings, etc.,will be stocked. Customers, old and new,can rely upon the same considerationwhich has marked tho past reputation ofthe firm.

TELEPHONE 2043.

CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION.TUIE CAFE CONTINENTAL, Sumnor,overlooking tho famous Cave Rockand Sumner Beach, ha 3just been com-pleted,and contains 40 bedrooms, besideslounge, smoking r.nd other rooms. TheTariff is moderate, and,No extra charge

made during tho Exhibition. Letters andtelegrams to tho Secretary, Cafo Continen-tal, Sumnor. Chrietchurch. Telephone 891.

VTHERE TO STAY.

WAVERLEY PRIVATE HOTEL,MARIOX-STREET

(Off Ghuzneo-street), Wellington.Tho most central, commodious, and

home-like and up-to-date new Hotel Antho city.

Tariff, 6s per day— 30a cer week.A. M. WILSON, Proprietor.

CHRISTCHURCH EXHIBITION.First-class Central Accommodation.

■t^ew criterion hotel.Tariff— los por day.J. G. GREEN", Proprietor.

DOUGLAS (PATENTJLOOSE-LEAF LEDGERSI

The Book that Gives Satisfaction.

Factory Address— 4y, WILLIS-STREET.Telephone 1933.

W CABLE AND CO.," Waterloo-quay,WELLINGTON, N.Z.,

Manufacturers of MARINE and LANDENGINES and BOILERS, MINING,HYDRAULIC, DREDGING, andwOOL - DRYING MACHINERY.MANURE MANUFACTURING and" FLAX-DRESSING PLANTS.

MACHINERY AND SHIPS' REPAERSA Speciality.

Agents for ZYNKARA, tho Best BoilerPreservative and Cloanser.

CAMERON'S STEAM PUMPS.

BUCHANAN'^ WHISKY.

BLACK AND WHITEAud>

RED 'SEAI!(Houeo of Commons).

ij THRESH SUPPLEES of theso

Favourite Brands havo nowcomo to hand lo replenish theStocks destroyed by tho recentFire.

'

CASTENDYK & EOCKE.7, HARRIS-STREET.'

Telephone 193.

7 LA LITTLE EIRETSTILL MAKE YOUR HOME WARM* V AND COMFORTABLE, if it isOUR COAL. When next roquiring ringus. All Coals. 'Phones— Bß, 12*, 16+,805,942. Offices, Johnston-street.

.; SAMUEL BROWN.

CLOTHING TRADE.A DVERTISER, having a Largo Shop,

£-&- "and bfeing!l2 yecars in same, with bigconnection, in his own business, is willingto Sell Men's and Children's Clothing onCommission, as both trades would runwell together; send returns overy week.

Apply, iv first place, to )CLOTHING,

Evening Poet.

'■izQ!RESIDENTS OF NEWTOWN.

A PENNY SAVED IS A PENNYGAINED! Suvo your Tram Fares

by buying your Ironmongery at H. B.COOPER AND CO.'y up-to-date Iron-mongery Store, 47, Riddiford-strcct (latoHigginbotlom and Co.). Wo carry com-ploto stocks cf Building nnd FurnishingIronmongery, Gardening Tools, etc.;etc.Cultery a (speciality. See our WindowDisplay, which will convince you OURPRICES ARE RIGHT.

i"VTTHITE STANDARD"'

V*JELLY CRYSTALS

Surpass all others for excellence ofquality and flavonr.

Ladies aro specially requestod to aeothat packets bear flio name of White andSon, Ltd., Hull. . 1

BICYCLES.=:

T3EST VALUE in Bicycles inN.Z. Just-■-" landed, a shipment of English Van-guard Bicycles, fitted with Eadio coasterfroewheel and brake,prico £11;12 months'guarantee; easy terms arranged; tiresfrom 10s 6d; tubes 4s 6d. Cheapest shopfor Repairs. Bicycles for Hire.

R.E. SAVILLE,Cycle Works,Opp. Basin Reserve.

i

"JO|T'GREGOR WRIGHT AND CO.,

NEW PICTURES by Butlor, Ryles,Christmas, Worsley, and Ncrli.

I NOW ON VIEW IN GALLERY.

PAISLEY TEA MART(KILPATRICK'S).

15 .COUJtTENAY PLACE, "Phone 523OppobitoKouso &Hnrre.ll.

THE TEAS THAT TRIUMPH-FANNING'S TISA,at Is lb.TRY" COT. TEAnt la8d lb.

Aro undoubtedly tlio best value In good,v\holesouie,palatable Teaon thomarket.

TASTY BACONAnd

FRESH KGGSFor Urcakfast aro unsurpassed—

but theymost bo good. Wo havo justgot souioox-oeptionally nice, tasty, mild-rmed Miiuou,nnd havo always h supply of Kuarantcedthorough Fresh Eggs, at Btuudard marketpiico.

CAMPBELL'SORIENTAL TEA MART,

21, MANNERS-STREET,And Corner

WILSON AND RIDDIFORD STREETS,NEWTOWS.

EAT FRUITsIfOR HEALTH.A LL TIME is the time io eat fruit.cjL Unlortunatoly good fresh fruit ia'uot

always obtainable PURE TINNEDFRUIT solves, the difficulty. We guaran-tea our's all absolutely lityre—jthe pick ofIho fruit-growing canvas." ',Tor Household<ir Picnic Uso they aro Unsurpassed

—al-

ways handy aud ready, always -tasty,

palatable, and in good condition.For Healthy, Pure, Unadulterated Goods

CROSSE' AND BLACKWELL'SDELICACIES

aro unrivalled. Th'cro nro "iio puror ornioro reliable on tho market. One Trialwill prove. Won't yon try them now?

SouTn British xnra aniiMARINE INSURANCE CO.Capitol ... £1,900,00 CAccumulated funds exceed ... *70,000Firo, Marine, and Accident Insurances olevery kind at very lowost rales.

E.E. HAMMOND Manager.Office—

27. Lambton-quaar. .Wellington.

nnHE vicxoHLa . i^statANciiA COMPANY. LTD.Fire, Marine, and Fidelity GuaranteeEstablished 1843.Fire, Marine, nnd Fidelity GuaranteeIliska accepted at LowesPCurrent Rate*.

LEVIN AND CO., LTD.,Ascnfo

mHE NORTn BRITISH,AND>iIER-A CANTIf.E INSURANCE-

COMPANY,' ' " r

LONDON AND EDINBURGH.Subscribed Capital .' £2,750,00tlPaid up '„. 607,500Firo Reserve 2,135,374

MURRAY, ROBERTS AND CO.,Agents.

SLUKE ANT) CO~ LTD.," Alien-street) Wellington,ENGINEERS, 8011/ERMAKERS, IRONAND BRASSFOUNDERS.FOR SALE

—Just arrived, ono 50 b.h.p.

Gas Producer Planr, from the woll-knownmakers Jones, Burton and Co., tho mosteconomical on tlio market. In Stock

—Log-hauling Plants, Eugine3 and Boilers,Shafting, Pullios, Bearings, and all clastesof Machinery for Sawmills, Brickmakins;,etc. Machinery of any description madeor indented. Manufacturers1 of Builders'Material, Ornamental Castings, Cast andWrought Iron Railings, and Gates of anydescription.

AND E. TOWERSEY, 79, Willia" street, and 51, Riddiiord-?treot;istho place to get your Xmas Cakes, MincePics, and Iced Shortbreads. BormalinoBread, Scones, Bun?, and Pastricß freshdaily. Wedding Cakes a speciality.Strawberries and Cream and Ico Creamsin season. Catering of overy descriptionat moderate prices. Satisfaction guaran-teed. A trial will convince.

NOTICE OF REMOVAL.

TT PRICE AND CO., LTD.,Have RE-

MOVED to their New Warehouse,near To Aro Railway Station.

WANTED, ladies' to bring us thoirtsecond-hand Bicycles, and get good

prices, in part payment for now machines.Adams, Limited, M>,!rccr,-slrcet.

HOTEL.

EIRE ! EIRE 1 EIRE!PROTECT YOUrIy'INDOWS ANDDOORS,

i

ARMOUREDFIRE-RESISTING DOORSAND SHUTTERS.

WORMALD'S PATENT WIRE GAUZEFIRE-RESISTING SHUTTER!'.FIRE-RESISTING SHUTTER!

" Officially endorsed by the Firo InsuranceI Companies.

nf\HESE can bo fitted, if desired, withJL Patent Automatic Self-closing Attach-

ment.The Gsxna Shutters very slightly inter-

fere withthe light,but give freo access tofresh air. Theso havo stood tho severetest of big fires.

Wo also make Steel Frames fitted withWired Plate-glass.

Tho "Grinnell" AUTOMATIC SPRINK-LERS and FIRE ALARMS.

20 Per Cent. Reduction on InsurancePremiums.

Models can be seen and full particularsobtained from

THOMAS BALLINGERAND CO., Ltd.,32, VICTORIA-STREET,

Agents for Wormold Bros.. Sydney.FREEZING SHEEP AND LAMBS.

mHE WELLINGTON MEAT EXPORTCOMPANY,LTD., ia prepared to PUR-CHASE FAT SHEEP and LAMBS byweight or at per head.

Tho Company also offers clients every

facility for freezingon their own account.

Prices can. be obtained on applicationat the Company's Offices or from any of

the Buyers in the country.

W. G. FOSTER,Managing Director.

mHE GREYMOUTH-POINT ELIZA-J- BETHRAILWAY AND COAL CO., LTD.,

VICTORIA-STREET(Opposite Publio Library).

Telephone 2102.

BEST HOUSEHOLDCOALDelivered at customer'^ residence inany quantity,at lowest current rates.

ERUNNER SMITHY NUTS, FEREBRICKS,TILES, and ITRECLAY

GOODSOf all Descriptions. \

OVEN COKE for Smelting, and GASCOKE for Domestic use.

THE WELLINGTON TRUST, LOAN, &INVESTMENT COMPANY, LTD.

REMOVED TO OFFICES, COMMER-CIALBUILDINGS,3, HUNTER-ST.

TVEPOSITS RECEIVED AT CUR-RENT RATES.

ADVANCES MADE ON APPROVEDFREEHOLD SECURITIES.

R. E." RAWNSLEY,Secretary.

MONEY TO LENDf\B APPROVED FREEHOLD SECU-

RITY,at from 4£ per cent, interest,according to margin, of value. On LocalBody Debentures at *iper cent.

KIRK AND WILSON,/ Solicitors,

Panama-street, Wellington, andPetone.

1 MONEY TO LEND.

WEhave TRUST MONEYSTO LENDat LOWEST CURRENT RATES.

CHAPMANAND TRIPP,Solicitors. Wellington.

MONEY TO LEND ONFREEHOLD, SECURITIES.

TMTARTIN AND ATKINSON,Solicitors,

27. FEATHERSTON-ST.. WelUnston.BOLTON AKT) ORGAN, jBarristers and Solicitors, and Patent

Agents,37, Feaiherston-street Wellington, «ndJackton-streot, Petone.

MONEY to Lend onapprovedFreeholdSecurities at Lowest Current Rates,Also en Chattel Security Conditions forrepaymentdurinjz term can be arranged.

THE WELLINGTON DEPOSIT. MORT-GAGE, AND BUILDING ASSOCIA-TION, LIMITED.

MONEY Advanced on approved freo-hold security. Deposits received.

JAMES W. JACK,Secretary.

Bank Chambers. 29. Lambton-auav.

MONEY TO LiEND in any sums onapprovedFreehold City and Country

Seccritieg \nt LOWEST CURRENTRATiib.

Powor for bo.Tower to repay any portions of tha loan during term.

KENNETH DOUGLAS,Solicitor,

Commercial Chambers, Hunter-stroot(osipnsito A.M.P. Buildings).

MONEY TO LENI/.ON Mortgago over Freehold Propertiei,

Apply toHALL AND KNIGHT,Solicitors, 1, Panama-street,

Tel. No. 2352. Wellington.

HAMERTON, ANDREWAND WEBB,Barristers aud Solicitors,

Whoso offices were destroyed bv^tho latofiro, havo taken offices in THE WEL-LINCJTON BUILDING AND INVEST-MENT CO.'S BUILDING, LAMBTON-QUAY, nearly opposito former offices.

Money to Lend on Freehold Security.Mr. Webb visits Upper Hutt overy

THURSDAY."All who wobW aonieve suoce«B should

/ endeavour to morit it"

WE havo during tho past year sparedno expenso in endeavouring to

raako our Beer second to none in NowZealand, and can now confidently assert wehave succeeded iv doing so.

We invito all who enjoyA GOOD GLASS OF BEER

To ask for'STAPLES' BEST,OnDraught at almost all Hotels in iho

City ntid surrounding districts,And confidently anticipate their verdictwill be that Staples' ami Co. havo euccces-fully romoved tho reproach that good Boer jicould not bo brcved 'v Wellington. I

J. STAPLES AND CO., 3.TD., !I MoJcswottL aud Muumx vrcclt. , ]

GIRTON COLLEGE,22a. Mein-sl., and 4, Owen-st.,

BOARDING AND D4Y SCHOOL FORGIKLS.

Principal, MRS. BATES, B.A.TUT R. 7. £ TUR N E It,■WJL Teacher ofBanjo, Mandolin, Violin, and Guitar,,

56, KENT-TERRACE.The latest Music, Instrument^ Strings,

etc,always iv stock.Trams stop at tho door. Term begins1

with uujjil.

ISS E. CARR^ (SCHOOL OFSHORTHAND AND TYPEWRIT-ING.TYPEWRITING OFFICE:Stewart Dawson's Buildings, opposite

Bank of Now Zealand.Pitman's Australian Record, 220 wordsper minute. Highest speeds in the short-est time.COMPETENT '

OrINCOMPETENT.

mHE little prefix to the latter word-*- makes all tho difference.Thero aro DOZENS of INcompetent-

Typistos looking for positions, and therearo DOZENS of Employers seeking invain for COMPETENT Typietes.If you wish to qualify yourself as aStenographer and Typisto and becomeelidible for tho opportunities offering,tako up a course iv

TOUCH TYPEWRITINGAud SHORTHANDwith

BANKS'S COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,4. Cuba-street Extension.

Prospectus supplied on application.WELLINGTON SCHOOL OF PHYSI-

CAL CULTURE.THE

SOLABIUM,FOR

SUN BATHING AND OPEN AIREXERCISE

"On tho Roof."

MR. ROYD GARLICK begs to an-nounco to his numerous pupils,

past and present, that tho EARLYMORING CLASSES for "Early Birds"will begin on Wednesday, the 14th Novem.ber, and continuo daily through tho Sum-mer months.

Particulars on application.SUSSEX CHAMBERS,

Tel. No. 2199. Panama-street. .Consultins Hours: 12 to 2 daily.TAKE THEELEVATOR.

DRESSCUTTING.

A SCHOOL for Teaching the ImperialSystem of DresEcutting is now open at

IC7, LAMBTON-QUAY(Opposito Kirkcaldie and Stains's).

This new system is understood in a fewlessons;its simplicityand accuracy are itapiomincnt features

For terms nnd particulars apply at theSchool, 107, Lambton-quay.Forty garments and thirteen trimmings

can be cut from tho charts.Practical Dressmaking thoroughlytaught

by experienced teachers.

THI'J LANGEIi SCHOOL OF DltliSSCUTTING,BARNMTT'S BOiLDISGB,

61. Williß-slreut.Prineipul ... MISS KAXE STEWART.r|lHl<! r.ANOJiJt SYSTEM IS WIE-X I4JIINI'JNTLY thoLADIE.V SYSTHM.Itavcidu all unnecessary technicalities, bo iseasily iicquirod. Kntire üb.sonue of calcula-tions. Simploin working. Perfect Fit.

DRRSHIte may ho MADEiv tlio MOSTFA.SFITONABLE STYU'.S by LADlKfci ivTMKIB OWN HOMKS.

Smliiblo fur nverylhiiu\ from a Child'sFrock loa liisueption Gown. .

Clashes Paily— 10 tol2u.ui.,and2 Lolp.in.Kvouini; Classes, Tuesdays, Thursdays,

luut Fridays,7 to0piv.Prospectus on application. Patterns cut

to iDcnsuromont. Vacancios for Agents ivafew country towns.

SCHOOL OF DRESSCUTTING.MRS. MACLEOD, Teacher of Worth'sSystem of Dressmaking in all itslatest Improvements. Clapso3 from 2 to4;Evening Classes Tueedays and I'ridays,7 to 0

Privato Dressmaking also at tho above.Newest stylo and perfect fit guaranteed.Patterns cut to measurement. Noto ad-dress— Over J. W. Bridge, dentist, 10<i,'Upper Willis-street.

NEW SHIPMENTSOF

CHOICE

ENGLISHEURNITUEE

NOW ON VIEW

AT

H. FIELDER & CO.'S,

MANNERS-STREET.

VISITORS

Are Specially Invited to Inspect our

Showrooms whenin Town.

CATALOGUES andESTIMATES FREE.

TO BUSINESS MEITrTUMB is money. That aphorism is asA old as tho hills, and is truer to-daythan ovor. Ifyou want your shop, office,or warehouse, Fitted in tho shortest pos-siblo time nt tho shortest possiblo price,ring up 891, and wo will ploußo you.LOW AND PEARCE, Builders andfthopfittort. 7a. Hopfler-gtreot.AIR.TIGIIT SHOWCASES, SHOPFITTING,

AND SHOP-FRONT BUILDING.TJjIVERYTHING tho latest. Solo Maim-JL-^ fncturor of tho well-known IcoChests. Please n^k for quotnlions.

Factory and Showroom, 28 and 30,Little Taranaki-Etrect.

MAX KREISSIG.'Phono No. 2489.ItATT1S POULTRY FOOD is wallnnd

favourably known amongft PoultryFanciers, and its Falo ia constantly incrcas-jnjj. Try it if you aro not already usingit. It cures Chicken Cholera, Croup,Gape?, Worms, Rheumatism, and otherDiseases. It produces bona, musclo, andfeathers. Itmakes tho comb red, featherslny smoothly, egg fertile, and largo fowl.It prevents log-weary, egg-oating, and un-nntural habits. Splendid for moultingfowls, young cliickß, turkoys, ducks, gooiip,and pigeons. Packet of 26 ounces for Is3d, post free for Is lOd. H. O. Gibbonsand Co., 131, Lambton-quay, Wellington.

J. FLYCiISR AND COT"SANITARY UNDERTAKERS,

20, CUBA.STREETA largo assortment of Funeral Furniflh-

ings now iv stock.Funerals arranged,nt reasonable pricet.

EMBALMING A SPECIALTY.Talealionn 1075

LEFT-OFF CLOTHINO.~

LADIES' and Gentlemen's superior Mis-fit and Lcft-off OloCliiug bought;

/ugliest prico givou;letters attended to.Mrs. Bottoiill, 16, In^OEtro-strcot. Tele-chouo -279.

*Plx© Famous Remedy fox*COUGHS, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA,& CONSUMPTION,

Has the Largest Sale of any Chest Medicine in the World.Those whohave takenthUmedicine areamazed-atits wonderful influence. Itshealingpower is marvellous. Sufferers from any form ofBronchicis, Cough,Difficulty o(

B«4tbinp, Hoarseness,Pain or Soreness in theChest, experience delightful and immediate relief; andto those who aro subject to Colds on tlio Chestit is invaluable, as iteffects a. Complete Cure. It is most comfortinginallaying irritation in tho throat and giving strength to tho voice,anditneither allows'n Co't»h or Asthma to becomechronic, nor Consumption todevelop. Consumption has never been known to exist where "Coughs" have been properly treated with this medisine. No houseJkould -be-without it, as, taken>at'the beginning a dose is generally sufficient, aud a Complete Cure is certain.

Beware Of Xm.i'fcatiion.S 2 The greatsuccess ofHEARNE'S BRONOHITIS CURE, has Induceda numberof unprincipled persons to make Imitations, each calling; his medicine "Bronchitis Cure," with tho object ofdeceiving; the simple-minded,and so getting a sale for an imitation which has noneof the beneficial effects thatHEARNE'S BRONCHITIS CURE has. Consequently it has, become necessary to draw your attention to this fact,and to request yeu in your own Interests to be particular to ask for HEARNE'S and to see,that you get it.

HEARKE'S BRONCHITIS OU«E, Small Size, 3/8;. Large Size, 4/8. Sold by Chemists and Modicino Vendors, and toy theProprietor,W. Q. HEARNE,Chemist, Geolong, Victoria. Forwarded to any Addrosc, whonnot obtainable locally.

WOTlCE.—Hearne's Bronchitis Cure No. Ia does NOT contain any poison within Iho moaning of the Act.It iß,equal!y.beneficial for the youngest child and the most aged person.