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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 5017, 14 December 1877, Page 2

Advertisements addressed to stonemason. s , asphalteia, and fencers appear in this issue. Bankruptcy notices rc Louis Fournier and "\Y. H. Sykea are published. Mr. Dornwell lias an attractive advertisement CDncerning his business in the front page of this impression. The value of coke as a fuel, and as a means of cconomi/ of coal, is not appreciated sufficiently. A mixed fuel of coal and coke is invaluable for the ordinary purposes of heating, and still more f«n* those of cooking and raising steam, us it absorbs the smoke or inflammable gases given off by coal during combustion, and renders the lire cliarer, and hotter. This is much more apparent where our local coals are used; indeed, owing to the vapidity of burning, some of these threaten to go out of consumption altogether. Coke supplies exactly that which these coals lack —body and resistance. Every householder should buy coals and coke at the same time, and, if convenient, mix them; smaller bills and satisfaction will be the result. The price of coke is advertised else where.—l*Advt.]

JIR. CONNELLY AND lUE MAORig The Hauhau* of ICotoaira, a small a' j beautifal lake at the foot of Tongariro d not seem to have any marked appreciate, 0 of the Fine Arte, or of the benefit* which ma" result to their district from the labour, of an accomplished artist. Mr. I', f (j on nelly, of Florence, who has been for so m » months in Auckland, ami several of whos» works adorned the late Artists' Fxhibi tion, lia3 been plundered by h, Maoris of the district in which he h 6 lately been sketching. From what rp a *™ or superstition they may have acted k cannot guess, but they have, it seized Mr Connelly's horse.-., ' baggage, &c., including no doubt the sketches he has made of the splendid lake and mountain scenery of th«di»trict, andnf the rock caves of Tauhara. Perhaps the Maori, conceived that by taking awav pictures of their sacred places he had off.-nded « om * deity, and adopted the n-xe i lea (and a verv handy one it is) tint always occuri to the Maori, namely, to rob the uerpetrator of a sacrilege of all the "portable prop.;,t v " he possesses. It would be a serious matter for Mr. Connelly if he were to be deprived a lto gether of his equipments and the sketches he has made, but we have little doubt that the Maoris will be persuaded t. deliver them uo again safe and sound. The incident magnet be so calamitous to Mr. Connelly after all, seeing that it will enable him to paint for our next Artists' Exhibition, a historical picture of the scene, with himself as the central figure, surrounded by the Maori Teivers, and amidst the romantic scenery of Eotoa ra. r,, The Upo corr espo n dent of the Bay of Flinty Tim*B of the 12th instant says :— Mr. Connelly, the great sculptor and landscape painte.-. has been on the top of l'auhara Mountain (for five days and nights sketching some of the gems of Taupo scenery, now for th« tirst time on canvas He left this week for Tukano, intending to sketch Tongariro, Ituapehu, and the other grand Bights on the southern side of the lake and no doubt he will liud plenty of scenes worthy of his pencil."