COUNTIES. Bay of Islands ... 2,702—An increase of 140 Hokianga ... ... 1,897 „ „ 403 Waipu ... 4*!l „ „ 82 Cook ... 5,301 „ ,,1,358



[FOR WINTER, 1896. IMMENSE STOCK.] MEN'S *om 1 WATERPROOF COATS 1 Sewn WATERPROOF COATS Taped to 75a WATERPROOF COATS Ventilated Z. CLOTHING FAC'IORY, OCTAGON. »\ HIGH AUTHORITY ON T*?AI. RONGOA MINERAL WATER. Tho ' New Zealand Medical Journal says :■ " fa regard to the Water itself, as & table beve rage it can be confidently recommended. Beau tifully cool, clear, and effervescing, the taste clean, with just sufficient chalybeate astrin gency to remind one that there are healing virtues as veil s pimple refreshment in the I quid, this Minoial Water ought soon to become popular amongst all who can afford the very •light cast entailed." We supply the Dunedln and Wellington Hospitals, the Union Company's entire fleet, sad Bellamy's with our Pure Mineral Water. nyeoUlly-made Soda Water for Invalids. For Permit to visit Springs apply Dunedin Office. 4 THOMSON'AND CO. Office: Dunedin. DIS'JOVERY OF A MAN'S BODY. Under wat.»r for twelve hours. HORTLY after noon yesterday a man J named Joseph Reeves, a resident of North Sydney, reported to the North Sydney police that the body of a man wa3 floating off Ball's Head, at Kerosene Bav. The body was re moved to the North Sydney morguo by tho ■water police. The man appeared to have been in the water for about 12 HOURS. An elector's right for the electorate of Willoughby was found in his pocket. The right was in tho name of Michael Sullivan. A WATERBURY WATCH, that was STILL GOING, and £2 Is 4d in money were also found in the man'B pockets.—' Sydney Morning Herald.' Under water for twelve hours and still going correctly. SELECT EXHIBITION OF EVEN ING DRESS NOVELTIES. D.I.C. TO-MORROW AND FOLLOWING DAYS The Company v ill Display in their Upstairs Show Rooms a Magnificent Choice of EVENING SILKS, VELVETS, AND FANCY MATERIALS, Etc., In New Chameleon, Poult-de-Soie, rich Brocades, twenty-five newest shades in Bengalines and Surahs, very effective Striped and Brocaded Velvets, a real novelty (the Trilby Velvet) in a variety of new shades, which are exquisitely pretty for evening wear. In Champion Velvets, noted for richness of colorings, are shown all the leading shades. TRIMMINGS. 