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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 5314, 6 April 1878, Page 2

rpHE NEW ZEALAND MAIL X. is PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. By Post or Coach, Cs. Od.: Town delivery. Os. quarterly. CONTENTS FOR SATURDAY, APRIL C. «: ’ y > . page; ADVERTISEMENTS .. . •• 1» 22, 23, 2| Select Poetry—A Broken Lily .. ® Odds and Ends .. .. >• •• ** f Ladies’Column .. .. .. •• -•; **• *. The Novelist —The Golden Butterfly. Prologue I 4 The Sketcher —New Guinea—What must come of Excessive Neutrality—The Newspaper in* a' Chilian Penal Settlement—The Military Power, of - France—The , Bec«very of Franklin Belies—Japanese Fireworks—Journalistic Rivalry-Colonial DeLaw Intelligence— Supreme Court (in Banco) —Supremo Court (Criminal Sittings) .. ■ • 7 Education-Board— Congregational Umrch—The Late Fatal Accident on Board the Hawea 9 Land Sales—Volunteer Fire Police 1 10Chess • • ** ** ** 10 Sporting Jr Shipping Intelligence , JJ The Wellington Markets JJ Commercial News •• JJ Announcements—Births, Marriages, and Deaths 12 Leading Articles .. .. .. ♦ • .•• J* Taxk op the Week .. , “ Jo Teleorathio News .. ... .. .. •• Town News .. .. • • ■•• • •• •• J® Country News.. .. .• . •• J” Extraordinary Crime '• • • • J_ Intercolonial News .. J® Parliamentary Amenities in Sydney .. - - J® News dy the Mail .. • • • • • -• * A ® Correspondence —The Wellington Water Sup* ply—England and Russia—The Sun s Distanc© from:the Earth _.. •• •• Farm and GAiVDF.s-r-Packing Wool—Converting Swamps into Grass Land—Farm Notes—--1 The Hohey-siinger—Phosphates .. •• 20

lEE the “ UNDERGROUND WORLD.’ nPHE FIDELITY AND ACCIDENT GUARANTY X COMPANY OP NEW ZEALAND is prepared ; to issue policies guaranteeing tire fidelity of employes on moderate terms. , - . For rates of premium and forms of proposal, apply at the Company’s Otllce, Lambton-quay. .. S. C Alt ROLL, Secretary. :N l!ff ZEALAND INSURANCE COMPANY. Kstawmriikp'JSSO. CAPITAL, ONIC MILLION - . PAID UP, £200,000 ; UESlflllVJC'. FUND, £IOO,OOO. Local DiuKoroii; Geouoe Humtkii, ISsq., M.K.11. FIKIS AND MAUINK RISKS of every description Accepted at the lowest current rate* MMpsolr> Manager. ‘ Olllces—Corner of Grey-street and Lambton-quay, Wellington ■ ■ • AGRICULTURAL RISKS. THE NATIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY is prepared to Insure against FIRE Agricultural Risks, Grain in Stock or Stack, and Steam Threshing Machines travelling from place to place. LOWEST CURRENT RATES. E. BRUCE WALLACE, -. Manager, Wellington. JJ" N I O N INSURANCE COMPANY. CAPITAL, £2,000,000. FIRE AND MARINE RISKS ACCEPTED AT LOWEST CURRENT RATES. Offices, in Grey-street, immediately opposite the National Bank of New Zealand. J. NANCARROW, JUN., , Agent. Wellington. December 1,1577.....

A T E B SUPPLY. For a temporary supply, make a clay dam 100 feet high about a quarter of a mile up Petone stream. Afterwards, for a great supply, adopt Mr. Travers’ plan to supply from the Hutt River, • Then build a Tweed Factory at Petone. R EAPIES AND BXXDE.BS. REAPERS AND BINDEES. WALTER A. WOODS’ WORLD-RENOWNED SELF-BINDING HARVESTERS. Saving of Time. Saving of Grain. Saving of Money. The Quickest Time and Lightest Draught on record. Best and Easiest Managed REAPER and BINDER made. ‘ Over 3000 of those Machines now in-use. Orders for these Celebrated'Machines are now being taken, 100 of which are to arrive in time for next season. - Apply to ■ : E, W. ’ M I L L S, Sole Agent for the North Island of New Zealand. Particulars and catalogues furnished on application to E. W. MILLS, Wellington. fji KENNEDY MACDONALD AND CO.’S * , NEXT MONTHLY LAND SALE Will be held in Hie E X C H A N G E L A N,D MART, Grey ao Featherston streets, ON MONDAY, 6th MAY, 1878, At 2.30 p.m. . Particulars of Properties intended for this Sale should be supplied as early .as possible, in order to appear in the firm’s Monthly Sale List, which is distributed throughout the Provincial Dis trict of Wellington. LOWER HUTT TOWNSHIP. SALE ON TUESDAY, flth APRIL. THE LAND MART, HUNTER-STREET. Liberal terms. G per cent, for balance, J, H. WALLACE will be In attendance At the HUTT ON SATURDAY, 6th APRIL, to point out the Allotments, which are pegged oft and numbered. IST Railway on Saturday—Single Fare for Return Tickets,