AN ADJUSTABLE PICTURE HANGER. I give the orders. The higher appoiutments are gov-I The Basking Shark. The device shown in the illustration can be readily erned by the War Office rules. After descri bing the '}lhe " basking shark" (Selache maxima, L.l is appaattached to any picture frame, and renders the task of method of correspondence, the form of orders, and the rently no very uncommon visitor iu New Zealand wa hanging and adjustil'lg pictures to the proper hei�ht a preparation of estimates,

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... he author stated that the tel·s. In the new volume of the Transactions and comparatively easy one. The hanger is permanently capital account stood at £557,945 for buildings and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute, Mr. T. F. attached to the frame by a screw, and the adjustmeut £718,949 for machinery. The larger part of the work Cheeseman, Curator of the Auckland Museum. de for height of picture is then effected by simply turniug is doue by the piece, but snb-letting is not permitted. scribes a specimen, over thirty·four feet long, which the hanger to the right or left, the picture wire being The wages of the work people is in accord with out-was stranded near the mouth of the Wade River. Mr. attached to the hanger, and being wOllnd up or un-side trade prices. No special charge is made for R. H. Shakspere, of Whangaparaoa , who saw the spe wound as desired. To hang heavy pictures, where a machines and tools. The stores >J.re kept with a care cimen very shortly after it was stranded, has informed separate wire is required on each side, two of these and accuracy not found in private e , ta b lish m ents. Mr. Cheeseman that every spring several individuals hangers are preferably used, and the leveling of the The number of hands employed in the Or<illance Facof the same species can be seen near the entrance ot BILLINGS' PICTURE HANGER. picture is then easily effected. This improved hangel' is manufactured by H. E. Billings, of Hartford, Conn. ••••• Varnishing Oil Paintings.