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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5426, 17 August 1878, Page 2

rpHE NEW ZEALAND MAIL i. is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. By Post or Coach, 6s. Cd.; Town delivery. (ss. quarterly, CONTENTS FOR SATURDAY, AUGUST 17. PAGE. Advertisements 1,2, 25, 26. 27, 28 Select Poetry—The Closing Scene .. •• f Odds and Ends Ladies'Column—Fashi m Freaks—Recipes .. o Tub Novelist—The Golden Butterfly. Chapters XXIX. and XXX •• 5 The Sketched— I The Albion Assurance 1< rands— The Papal Tiaras & Colonization— Why New Guinea should be annexed . •• *• c Scientific —The Harvest of the Sea—How the Phonograph came to be Invented .. .. G Social Topics—Turkish. Wiv.s-The Existence of a Class-Hatred .. . G Clippings—Turkish Street Types—A Restored Keepsake—Canoes 7 Parliament 7 Parliamentary Papers 11 Chess .. •• •• •• •• ..12 Shipping Intelligence 13 The Wellington Markets . .. ..13 Commercial News 13 Postal Notices 11 Announcements —Births, Marriages, and Deaths 14 Weekly Bulletin 11 Talk of the Week .. .. 15 Telegraphic News .. 15 News by Cable .. .. .. .. .. 10 Town News .. .. .. .. .. ..16 Working Men’s Club Dinner—Resident Magistrate’s Court—'Trials of the Tramway., .» 17 Country News .. •• 18 INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS 18 County Conference .. .. .. ..16 The Mode of Laying-off Government Roads in the Wairarapa District .. .. .. ..20 Correspondence— I The Tariff—Tim Feathcrston Railway—The P b’ic Working Man —The Poor Man’s Friend—The Maintenance of Hospitals and Charitable Institutions—Purity of Elections—The Revision Court at the Bay of Islands—A Few Reflections on the “ Gurr Business—. The Wellington College .. •• -1 The Politician—Sir Julius Vogel—Government Advertising—Alarming Attitude of a Minister—Negotiation of the £3,500,000 .. - 21 Items Ijy tub Mail 2 - Alfairs at the*p.»pe—Mr. T. Brassey and Colonial Federation —The Freemasons and the German Emperor—The Introduction of Now Fish into Eu ope • • • • Intercolonial News •• The Revolt in New Caledonia—Fiji News—Australian Trade with the United States —Australian and New Zealand Loans .. • • -3 Cricket —The Australian Team in England •• 24 Farm and Garden—Agricultural Exhibitions— The Food Supply of England—Animal AUrnents— Chemistry in Relation to Agriculture —Cost of Agricultural Tools mid Machinery in California—Anti-Insect Plant 2o

rjl KENNEDY MACDONALD AND CO.'S NEXT FORTNIGHTLY LAND SALE ■Will be held in the EXCHANGE LAND MART Grey ami Featherston streets, ON MONDAY, 2Cth AUGUST, 1878, At 2 o’clock p.m. Particulars of Properties intended for this Sale should bo supplied as early as possible, in order to appear in the Arm’s Monthly Sale List, which is distributed throughout the Provincial Dis trict of Wellington. THE FIDELITY AND ACCIDENT GUARANTY COMPANY OF NEW ZEALAND is prepared to issue policies guaranteeing the fidelity of employe! on moderate terms. For rates of premium ami forms of proposal, apply at the Company’s Office, Lambton-qnay. S, CARROLL, Secretary