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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 151, 27 June 1888, Page 7

"ROUGH ON RATS." Clears out rats; mi 1^ roache flies, ants-bed-bugs, beetles, insects,skunks, japk-r^bbits' sparrows, gdphers. At chenu'sts* and driigeists; "Mr. Barries of New York," is the title q{ a novel that .hft3 not a very romantic sound, but readers of it will discover that Mi- Barnes of New York has a very eventful arid far from urirbmantic career. The plot turns on a, Corsican vendeftq. In the opening chapters we have; tho narrative of a duel between ah.English naval officer and a youno- Corsican, in which tho latter is mortally wounded. His sister Marina, who ha& been expecting him home, after a longabsence, arrives all too late to see him alive, and vows a venditta against his slayer, who lias already hurried offtojoin Iris ship on its way to Egypt. Thenceforward she devotes her life to the pursuit of this unknown murderer, as she holds hinj, of her brother. !By a curious and well-told chain of events i she falls in with a Miss Anstruther and her ' brother, who turns out to be an English officer whom she bad, nursed in an Alexandrian hospital, whither the pursuit of her vow had led her. They had there mutually fallen in love, and their love is now renewed. Simultaneously Mr Barnes, who has been present at the duel, having made the acquaintance of Miss Anstrucher, after an exceedingly laughable episode, has won her love arid been accepted. Meanwhile Marina's Corsican guardian and would-be husband has discovered evidence to prove that Lieutenant Anstruther is the longsou °-ht murderer of her brother : but before he has told her this she hns, by a great effort, put away her wicked vow and aci cepted her suitor's love. Count Danolla, resolved that the vengeance shall be accomplished* and Marina fearfully, punished, procures that the wedding shall take place in Corsica.:'. Here the crisis is reached. Marina has not yet been undeceived, and it is uncertain whether her better nature will triumph over her Corsican habits ot thought; tiie English people.suspect nobbing ; and Mr Barnes, who has reason to sus pect the truth, is far away in England, it would be unfair to the reader and the novelist alike to relate the result. It us at once exciting and unexpected, and it is worth while to read the. bdok in order to discover it. The strength of the book lies mainly in the plot, bub"the characters are ! fa? from being ill-described, and the interest is well maintained to the end. j "Mr Barnes of New York ,» now published in book form, and may be had at the Star Office, Auckland, t or from any bookseller in the colony. Price, Is. Much annoyance.lmvingbeen experienced by many of Smith and Canghoy's cua-■ tomer^Mv-ho have mistaken the clothmg Sop without name appearing) recently oSed next door to. W Queen-street eSWentasbeJ^g^then^^ iustice to their customers and themselves Ihey are compelled to draw public at enSto the feet that fcWro is nb countebion SatS-cr, and that they have only one entrance in Queen.street.-(AmT,)