SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

AEEIVALS.

Tauvangn, s.s., G7 tons, Cellem, from Bay of Islands.

Meteor, schooner, 43. tons, Anderson, from Wangurei, with produce. Mary Ellen, schooner, 30 tons, Enwlings, from Mercury Bay, with timber.

DEPARTURE.

City of Melbourne, s.s., B. Paddle, for Sydney.

EXPORTS.

Per s s. City of Melbourne : —For Sydney : Ex warehouse under bond —18 cases arrow root, E. Lusk and Co. Ex Mallard, from London —3 cases, l>. Y>. Nathan and Co.; 4 hhds. oil, R. B. Lusk ; 2 boxes gold, Bank N. S. Wales.—ll. M. Jervi?, agent.

Pei* s.s. Airedale :—For Taranaki: 20 sacks flour, Low and Motion ; 1 roll leather, Ireland Bros. For Nelson : 8 trunks boots, E. &H. Isaacs ; 1 parcel, Bank N. Z.; 1 roll leather, Ireland Bros.; 2 drays, 50 cedar boards (ex Kate from Sydney}, 1 case (ex City of Mel bourne). ForPicton: lease, Keesing. For Wellington : 40 bags flour, 2 bales paper bags, 7 bales paper, 17 qr.-easks brandy, 20,000 feet timber, 5 bundles bags, Henderson & Macfar lone. For Lyttelton : 1 parcel, Bank N. Z.; 25 boxes tin plates (ex Kate from Sydney). For Otago: 4 cases (ex Kate).—Henderson and Macfavlane, agents.

The schooner Ai.ne Brown was loaded and ready to sail from Lyttelton for thi3 port on the 31st instant.

The cutter Woodstock arrived from Opotiki yesterday afternoon, bringing ten tons pota toes. She has had a good passage of 48 hours. Passengers : Mr. John Thompson, Mrs. Finnigan. The ketch Eagle, and schooners Kauri and Success, are expected hero shortly from Napier. Anne Main. —This fine barque is rapidly completing her loading for London ; yesterday she was busy taking in wool and tallow, from the s.s. Rangatia, which had arrived from Napier, in addition to a quantity of kauri gum from the wharf. Three other vessels are expected here during the ensuing week, from Napier, with cargo for this vessel, namely, the ketch Eagle, with 100 bales wool, schooner Kauri, with 100 bales flax, and J-'uccess, with 200 bales flax, this with the amount of cargo already on board, will be sufficient to fill the Anne Main, and she will be able to leave here a full ship, abotit the 15th instant. The Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce and family are proceed ing home by this vessel.

ARRIVAL OF THE TAURANGA.

The regular trader Tauranga returned from her weekly trip to the North to-day. She left Russell on Tuesday, at 4 p.m., and arrived in harbor at daybreak. Passengers : —Mr. and Mrs. Ireland, Mrs. Morgan, Miss King, Miss Waymouth, Mr. Cleveland, Mr. Hickton, Mr. McGregor, and four others. Cargo :—270 sheep, A. Buckland ; 45 bags gum, W. J. Hurst and Co.; 42 bags gum, Edmonds ; 5 bags fruit, Arthur; 3 bags fruit, Wearing; 30 bags fruit, Eaton and Dewolf ; 3 boxes, Mrs. Martin.

The cutter Wangarei sailed from Russell, for Auckland, on Tuesday, with 52 tons coals.

DEPARTURE OF THE AIREDALE.

The Circular Saw s. s. Airedale, Captain A. Kennedy, took her departure from Onehunga this afternoon, for the Southern Ports. Passengees.—Saloon—Misses Marsden (2), Mrs. Heaphy, Mr. and Mrs. J. Smart, Mr. and Mrs. Fisher, Capt. McKellar, Rev. J. B. Colombi, Messrs. D. C. Gordon, E. A. Chap man, Moore, D. Cumming3, Ledger, Porter, P. Hall, Chaytor. Steerage—Messrs. Allen, Toby, Foulkes, Mahon, Oldacre, Mr. and Mrs. Hulks, Mr. R. Hulks, Messrs. J. Ritchie, J. Kessal, J. Foster, P. Philips, W. Oylan, and 10 other 3.

The Airedale is expected to return here about the 25th instant.

DEPARTURE OF THE CITY OF MELBOURNE.

The s.s. City of Melbourne, Capt. B. Paddle, took her departure for Sydney at 12 o'clock to-day. Passengers :—Saloon—Mr. and Mrs. Obeighan, Mr. T. G. Tanton, Mr. P. Pratt, Mr. and Mrs. Asher, Mr. and Mrs. Stewart, and family. Steerage—Messrs. McCafferty, Q-ibbon, Symonds, Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Flahire, and family (5), Messrs. Maroney and Fowler.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

DEPARTURE. .A pun 6. Airedale, s.s., A. Kennedy, forTaranaki and Southern Ports.

COMMERCIAL.

EVENING STAR OFFICE, Wednesday Afternoon,

Mr. B. Tonka held a sale of land at his auction mart, Queen-street, to-day, and dis posed of the following properties:—lo acres at Muddy Creek, for £185 ; 6 allotments in the parish of Takapuua, for £3 ; and 99 acres at Elliott's Creek, at 2s 3d per aero. Some other properties were offered, hut were- with drawn. Messrs. Lewis Bros, sold by auction, to-day, 300 cases apples and pears, being a portion of the cargo of the Eucalyptus from Ilobart Town. There was a good attendance, and for the best samples 3d per lb. was realised. The greatest portion, however, was disposed of at from 2d to 2Jd. Mr. L. W. Eaton held a sale of fruit, ex Eucalyptus, to-day, at his auction mart, and obtained the following prices : —Apples, from 2id to 3d per lb.; jams (in lib. tins), 7s per dozen ; onioms, lid per lb.; butter, 8d to lOd per lb.; pears, 2d per lb. ; cheese, 7d per lb. Mesrss. S. Cochrane and Son sold by auction, at their mart, to-day, the engine and battery, consisting of five stampers, together with-the site and water-right of the Fearnaught Gold Mining Company, for ,£l3O. Two hundred tons of firewood, belonging to the . ame com pany, were disposed of at 4s. per ton.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

SnORTIiAND-STREET.

Mails will close as under

For the Thames and Corooiandel, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, 7th instant, at 8 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Poverty Bay, Napier, and Wellington, per s.s. Ahuriri, to-morrow, 7th instant, at 11 a. m. Late letters and telegrams for transmission for the Soathern Pro vinces from the Napier station, will be received till H'3o a.m. Mails fer s.s. Wellington will close on Fri day next, Bth instant, as follows : For India, China, Mediterranean Ports, Continent of Europe, &c , at 12, noon. For Australian Colonies, at 12-30 p.m. For Southern Provinces of New Zealand and United Kingdom, via Suez, (for letters specially so addressed) at 1 p.m. — For Money Orders, Eegistered Letters, and Newspapers, at 11 a.m. Late letters for the Southern Provinces 'of New Zealand, the Australian Colonies, and United Kingdom, and telegrams for transmission from the Napier station, will be received till 1.30 p.m. S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

DEATH.

McKay.—On the sth insfc., at the residence of his father, Parnell, Alexander Angus, infant son of Mr. E. McKay, aged 13 months.

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 6, 1870.

Although we may feel the deepest interest in the success of our San Francisco mail route, we cannot be indifferent to the interest attaching to the opening up of any other means that may shorten the distance and facilitate communication between these "isles of the Pacific " and the great centre of the world's commerce. The projected line of mail steamers, in tended to connect Otago and England via the Straits of Magellan, if estab lished, may be pregnant with results second only to those of the San Francisco route. It is estimated that with powerful steamers the passage from New Zealand to the Straits can be performed in fifteen days ; while it is known that from the coaling station there, the passage to England can be made in twenty-five days, thus completing the journey from these islands to Europe in forty days. At the present time some of the finest and most powerful steamers in the world, averaging each 3000 tons re gister, trade between Valparaiso and Liverpool, taking this coaling station on the way ; so that all that is neces sary is a line of steamers connecting New Zealand with the Valparaiso line at the (Straits, a distance of fifteen days' steaming, or about the same time allotted to the voyage to Honolulu, when a very formidable rival will exist to the San Francisco route. It is true there are causes of objection in the voyage round the southern point of the American Continent. The rigours of the climate in these far southern seas will deter many a voyager ; but the great terrors of the route—the pas sage of the Horn—will be removed by the steamers being able to navigate the somewhat intricate but comparatively calm waters of Magellan Straits. There are those, again, who, when the novelty of the trans-American railway rubs off, will hesitate in trusting themselves for seven days and nights to the vicissitudes of an American railway car. And perhaps there

might be as many attractions in the contrasts of the wild, bleak cliffs of Ticrra del Fuego, where nature appears in her most sombre and gloomy aspect; the beauties of Buenos Ayres or Monte Video, and the unrivalled scenery of Rio Janeiro, with its rich tropical vegetation, as in the backwoods and mountain gorges of California ; while for commercial pur poses, the growing Australasian inter course with Valparaiso and the flour ports of South America, fostered for a time by the Panama route, would be developed to its fullest extent by such a connection formed with the great ocean line passing through Magellan Straits. The San Francisco route can never become a cargo line ; while the steamers on the Magellan route, conveying the mails and passengers in little longer time, would afford the fullest scope for the ex tension of the carrying trade. It is well known that Victoria will not rest long with only speedy transit for her mails; and her connection with England by a powerful line of steamers via the Cape of Good Hope has become a commercial necessity. As the San Prancisco line is to the Suez route, so will the line via Magellan be but the complement to that by the Cape of Good Hope. Thero are obstacles to the route round the South American as there are to those round the South African Conti nent, The prevailing winds will check the easterly course of steamers in the one, as the westerly course in the other; and among the possibilities of the future may we not reckon that the time will come when the two routes may be worked in conjunction ; and a line of powerful steamers from Eng land via the Cape of Good Hope, will carry in return the mails and passen gers and merchandise of Victoria and New Zealand, back to England via the Straits of Magellan. "We have every reason to rejofce in the project of the people ofOtago. Directly benefitting that province, it will be productive indirectly of incalculable benefits to the whole of New Zealand.

All Nations. —A dividend of os. per share has been declared by tlie directors of the All Nations Gold Mining Com pany. We learn that the Defence Minister, Mr. McLean, leaves this afternoon, by the Sturt, for Tauranga and the Jtast Coast.

The steamer City of Melbourne left the harbour at noon to-day for Sydney with about 30 passengers and a few packages of cargo. She was also the bearer of 10,000 sovereigns shipped by the Bank of New South Wales.

Lbttebs on public service can be franked on application to the clerk of branch office, Native and Defence De partments, in Auckland, and the clerk of the District Court, Auckland.

"VVe are informed that the Auckland Minstrel Troupe has received in its initia tory formation a temporary check, through the departure of two gentlemen eminent tenor vocalists for the South. The society which has for its main object charitable pur poses in view, by this means is deprived of a highly necessary feature in its vocal de partment. We learn, however, that any two gentlemen desiring to join the troupe, and who are possessed of qualifications similar to those referred to, will meet with all information by applying by letter to Mr. Fox, Hon. Secretary, Cucksey's Music Saloon, Queen-street.

We are pleased, in the interests of the Auckland Gavrick Club, and the chari table purpose of their entertainment to morrow night, to learn that his Excel lency has deferred till next week his in tended visit to the Bay of Islands. A s tie has promised not only his patronage, but the presence of the vice-regal party to the entertainment, we trust that the interest thus shown will have the effect of influencing others, and that the amateurs will have the deserved satisfac tion of handing over a noble offering to the funds of the Hospital library. Those looking forward with Jhope to the establishment of a corporation for the city of Auckland, will be interested in knowing that the drafting of the intended bill is instrusted to the hands of Mr. Rochfort, subject to the approval of the Superintendent ; and that it will be sub mitted to the General Assembly in the coming session. At the meeting of the City Board on Monday lajt, Mr. George gave notice that at next meetiue he would move " that tenders be invited to sink the well at the junction of H obson and Victoria streets to increase the supply of water."

Thehe lias been so much expression of feeling relative to the state of Wellington street, it will, doubtless, be interesting to many of the residents to know that at the last meeting of the City Board, a resolution, not reported hitherto, was carried, sanctioning the action of the Streets Committee, that Wellington-street be forthwith repaired, and that tenders be invi*.ed for the same, subject to speci fications to be proposed by the foreman of works.

We have to acknowledge the receipt from the publishers of the new " Auck land Commercial Directory, 1870." It is got up in pamphlet form, containing twenty-four pages of names and addresses, and rather more of advertisements. Ihe names are catalogued not according to streets, but alphabetically, so that at a glance the address of a resident in the city can at once be seen. Suck a publica

tion is generally regarded as a commer cil necessity in cities of the pretensions of Auckland; and from the apparent care fulness and correctness of this compila tion, the little work, at the low price ot eighteenpence will, we have no doubt, be found in every house. It is from the press of Messrs. Jones and Tombs, and is as neat in appearance as it is useful in its purposes. A scene partaking of the serio-comic occurred to-day on the departure of the City of Melbourne. A gentleman, in fact the inevitably too-late pnssenger, made his way through the throng just as the springs, fore and aft, were about to be cast off, seizing hold oi the stern warp, he Blondin-like endeavoured to reach the boat by this means ; the inexorable officers, however, ordered tJie warp to be let go, and let go it was smart, along with the unlucky wight—souse overhead he went, manfully clinging to his rope, and hand-over-hnnding himself on to the deck, when be was hauled on board minus his hat, but plus his pas sage-money, no doubt, amidst the loud cheers of.all spectators. In the Police Court to-day there was the usual array of victims to the "temp tation," who paid their morning tirbute of a crown. The Customs cases were adjourned till Friday. An unfortunate cook was sent to gaol for disobedience caused by habitual drunkenness : and a man on his journey from Waikato to Tauranga, for having mistaken a neigh bour's horse for his own, called in on the way to make a bow to Mr. Beckham. A drunken looking man, bearing passion in his countenance, and of Herculean pro portions, was brought up for having abused his wife and threatened her life. The wife, a slight, delicate-looking woman pleaded for her husband, and expressed herself as satisfied with his promise, to leave her to herself. 'I he husband said he would go off to Dunedin forthwith, and was 'released on the pay ment of costs. The incident gave occasion for one of those little speeches from the Resident Magistrate which he sheets home so well:—"A great, enor mous creature like you to abuse a weak, delicate woman. You must be a mon ster, sir ! Look at the difference ! look at his face ! I would not believe a word he says. You may thank your wife that you have not got six months in Mount Eden —the proper place for monsters like 3 routhat abuse their wives* (Prisoner whispers to wife.) Now, then, look at that! You ask your wife to pay the costs for you, &c," The wife paid the costs, and the man was released.

An accident occurred on the wharf between 5 and 6 o'clock yesterday even ing. An express driver, named John Cooper, was carrying a case of lemonade on board the Lady Eowen, when by some means his foot slipped whilst on the gangway, and hu fell between the wharf and the vessel. Fortunately Cooper was a good swimmer, and through the prompt action of the Lady Eowen's people he was speedily extricated with the loss of the lemonade. Cooper has called on us, and desired to express his thanks to those who exerted themselves to rescue him from his perilous position. A TALE of mingled ghastliness and absurdity is reported in a German news paper from a district of Prussian Poland. A. girl, who had received a large sum of money, was entertained on her journey home by a village magistrate, who put her to sleep with his wife. During the night the notion of the money he had seen with his guest so tormented the mind of the host that at last he resolved to possess himself of the gold by murder, lie laid his plan carefully, he noted the position of the sleeping girl who lay in bed beside his wife. He then betook himself to the garden, where he dug a grave, returned to the house with a sharp knife, and cut the throat of the woman who lay furthest from the wall. He carried out the corpse and buried it, but on his return he found that the other sleeper had fled. His wife and his guest had changed places in the Light; he had murdered the former, and the latter had taken the opportunity to escape while he was burying the body. This story is nearly as horrible as that of the covetous old couple who murdered a guest during the night, only to discover in the morning that the victim was their long-lost son, returned enriched from a life of adventure. No conceivablepunish ment could be more fiightful than the self-inflicted retribution in either case.

Happening to pass by Forfcßritoniart, yesterday morning, and seeing the sheen of a sword-bayonet scabbard, we were induced to look inside, and see what was going on. We found Captain Guilding and his Blue Jackets hard at it again, preparing for the annual inspection, de termined, as far as in them lay, to retain the pre-eminence the corps has already attained. The muster was again a good one.

AUCKLAND PRESBYTERY.

THIS DAY

A meeting- of the members of the Auckland Presbytery was held this morning at St. Andrew's Church. Present: CChe Revs. J. MacNicol (Moderator), D. Bruce (Clerk), J. Macky, T. Nome, B. McKenney, and A. Seuter; Elders —Mr. Thompson, and Mr. Win. Hay (of Papakura). The proceedings commenced with the usual devotional exercises. With reference to the intended departure of the Key. Mr. Bruce for England, the brethren expresses their regret at the eircu*nstances depriving them for a time of the counsel and aid of the reverend gentleman, and their sincere sympathy Avith him, and trusting tli tt he wouklreturn to this country thoroughly restored to health. ThoJJev. gentleman returned thanks and resigned his appointment of clerk, to which Mr. Seuter was elected. A report was read by Mr. Nome relative to the state of the various schools connectad with the Presbyterian Church. Some other business was transacted, after which the Presbytery adjourned.

SUPREME COURT.—In Banco.

WEDNESDAY APRIL G

(Before His Honor Sir G. A. Arney, Knight Chief Justice.) His Honor took his seat on the Bench at 11 o'clock. Jl'iEOD V. LACOX. (AVHIT OF PROHIBITION.) His Honor gave judgment in this case to clay, and made the rule absolute for a writ of prohibition. His Honor in giving judgment, recited the various Goldfields Acts from 1858 clown to 1868 inclusive, and observed that they raised questions of gredt diffi culty. He also cited and compared the several sections which defined, the jurisdiction of wardens. In the present case the parties who moved for the writ (McLeod and others) did so on the ground that Mr. War.I. en Davy, the Judge of the Wardens Court at Shortland, had no jurirdietion over the Coromandel goldfield. It therefore became a matter of echne moment to ascertain what was the legal position of the Coromandel goldfield, as well as the dates when the several Acts, and the proclamations under them took effect. It appeared that the Coromandel goldfields was first pro claimed by Sir George Grey, and a War den's Court was constituted a second time under an Act (the Act of 1858), which had been repealed. This and other circumstances connected with the administration of goldfields under these several Acts made it so difficult to determine what was the legal position of persons or localities affected by them. It was said that Mr. Warden Davy, having been appointed Warden for the Hauraki Goldfield, the term being meant to include all the goldfields that might be proclaimed in that district, which, as itincluded Coromandel, therefore the Warden of the Court at Short land had jurisdiction. It was further con tended that, under the provisions of the Act of 1866, the jurisdiction of the Warden had been extended, and would have effect through out the colony. But the intention of the Legislature appeared, by the construction of the various sections, to be to localise the administration of Wardens to goldfields, and they were to have concurrent juris* diction with the District Judge, but only for the particular district in which his Court was situated. A decision by Mr. Justice Moore appeared to hold that an extension of a Warden extended to cases brought into his own Court from whatever policy. If that judgment had really affirmed what the law was, the Court would be bound by it; but it rather suggested that such may hare been the inten tion of the Legislature. No decision under which a Warden of one Court wou'd sit in a Court outside his own district had been made. That was not the point in the present case. By the various Acts the powers given to the Governor by Order in Council to proclaim goldfields to constitute Wardens' Courts, to appoint the Wardens thereto, to make regu lations, &c., were in each case pretty much the same. It was not until the 16th of May that the Warden's Court for Coromandel was legally constituted. Therefore, having regard to the policy of the legislature towards localising the administration of Wardens, Mr. Davy could rot have acted as Judge of the Court in Shortland in a Court legally constituted in Coromandel to which a Warden had been appointed ; nor could he have acted as a Judge in Coromandel before it was proclaimed a goldfieid; a goldfield if it were outside the limits of the goldfields of which he was appointed Warden. Looking through the whole of these Acts, and after careful consideration how then' language should be construed, I am of opinion this rule must be made absolute.

Mr. Whitaker applied for costs. Mr. Eecs opposed the application, as the Judges had laid down in several cases that costs would not be given upon a writ of propo sitions where there were no pleadings.

Mr. Whitaker said the question of costs -was entirely within the discretion of the Court. His Honor: rl he rule is made absolute ; nothing is said as to costs. liACON V M'LEOD (APPEAL.)

In this case his Honor said the judgment of the Warden had been given wholly on the facts, and he saw no ground for disturbing the Warden's judgment.

THE QUEEN (ON THE PEOSECUTION OE EOBEBT GBA.HAM AND ALEXANDEE HOGG) ' AGAINST PINEHA AND OTHEES, GEANTEBS OF THE PABAEEKA BLOCK.

The argument in this casa was resumed. Mr. MacOormick was heard in support of the declaration. He admitted that the de claration was imperfect, but the case was whether declaration supported the justice of the plaintiff's case. The Court would not construe the declaration as a special pleader, but would look at it as a whole to see if it contained sufficient upon which to base the judgment of the Court. The declaration had been framed in accordance with precedents. It set forth first the facts, shortly and perhaps imperfectly, but sufficient to enable the Judge to decide. The declaration stated shat the letters patent did operate to the prejndice and inconvenience, and Graham and Hogg must be taken to be connected with the " divers other persons" in respect to whose rights the Crown had been imposed upon. The declaration set out that an imposition was practised, the effect of which was that divers persons were prejudiced and inconvenienced, that amongst these were Graham and Hogg ; and that would be enough to sustain the writ which was set out in the declaration. This was enough to induce the Court to do justice. Taking the declaration as a whole, would the Judge be in a position to give judgment ? In the first place the declaration set out that this grant bore an erroneous date ; the consequence of this wrong date was that several per sons were deprived of their estates; that the prosecutors were persons Avho suf fered by this error ; that was sufficient foundation for the judgment of the Court. He must contend that there was sufficient title shown. There had been no authority shown that a prosecutor need to have any connection with the letters patent, and that no other person, but anyone interested might proceed under writ of sciori facias. In respect to letters patent for inventions, any person could prosecute under the writ, and he contended that the principle applied to letters patent granted in other matters of prerogative, for the writs of the Sovereign wera placed in the hands of the subject to enforce public right and justice.

W. F. Lodgme, Esq., is appointed clerk at Auckland; and J. B. Stoney, Esq., at Shortland, of the District Court of Auckland.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.) DRUNKENNESS. John Campbell, Myles Nicholson, Jq^ Brown,.and Frank Lee, were fined 5s aud costj or 24 hours' itrprisonment, and John Sergeant was fined 10s aud costs or 48 hours' imprison, inent. George Munro was charged -with being drunk and disorderly, and was fined 40s and costs, or 48 hours' imprisonment BBEACH OF SHIPPING ACT. Charles Hamilton was charged by the cap. tain of the Crest of the Wave with Tvilfui disobedience of orders on the high sew, Prisoner pleaded not guilty, saying he only refused to work because he was not able, through illness. Mr. Sheehan appeared for Captain (Win, and called

John Gornii who deposed : Defendant wai employed as cdok and steward on board, and first disobeyed on the 25th February. Was in Levuka, Fiji. Told him to make paste f or meat, he was drunk and did not do so ; next morning he was again drunk and did not make it ; told him to take off coals, he told me l 0 do it myself and laughed at me ; found him subsequently drunk, and with a bottle of gj n in his pocket ; he subsequently declined to do anything. By prisoner : Did strike you on the occa sion with vny two fingers on the mouth. James Grant deposed : I am mate of thj vessel. Defendant was cook and steward on board. Recollect 25th February last. De fendant was drunk that day. He was asked by the Captain to make paste ; he got drunk and would not prepare dinner. His behaviour haa been bad since we left Otago. By Prisoner : Saw the Captain shove you aside. Sentence 1 to fourteen days' hard labour. STEALING. J. W. Arnold was charged with stealing a chamois bag containing gold to the value of £185, from Luke Kenny, of Albert street* Mr* Brookfield appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Bennett for the defence. On the application of Mr. Brookfield, who stated he had very material evidence to bring, the case was remanded till to-morrow after, noon at two. THBEATEXIKG IIANGUAGE. ' David Young was charged with abusing his wife, Cecelia Young, and threatening to take her life. The prosecutrii, a small delicate looking woman, pleaded that she should not be compelled to prosecute, and wished the pri. soner to be released on his promising to leave her alone. The prisoner, a large powerful man, said he would go away to Dunedin by the first boat, and the Resident Magisti'ate in releasing bun, addressed him in terms becoming the position.j PALSE PBETENCES. James Campbell, remanded from Waikato, charged with obtaining money by false pre tences, by unlawfully selling a horse, was fur ther remanded to Tauranga. nuEAcn of the customs' eeguxations. The charges against Mr. Lazard in connection with passing entries and payiue; insufficient duties, was adjourned till Friday, defendant finding security in his own bond for £100, and two securities in £50 each. The Court then rpso.

LATEST FROM THE EAST COAST.

PAIiTICULABS ;OF THE LATE ENGAGEMENT.

The cutter Woodstock arrived in harbour from Opotiki yesterdaj afternoon, baring left there on Sunday last. The master of the cutter confirms the intelligence pre viously received of the engagement between Kemp and Te Kooti. When the Woodstock jleft the whole of the prisoners were in the redoubt, with a strict guard over them. Provisions were be coming scarce, owing to the non-arrival of a steamer. The following letter is from our own correspondent:—

Opotiki, April 2. Events have been rather stirring since my last letter, and Opotiki has become almost a- Maori prison. We have 1300 moutlis to feed in the place, and provisions, I am sorry to say, arc very scarce. A steamer with supplies is looked for rather anxiously, and at present all the available cattle are being killed for provisions.

Some days ago Major Kemp started off on an expedition against the rebels with the wholo of his force, and went up the Opotiki Gorge. There he found two pas, which lie surrounded and captured with their defenders (not very numerous). Shortly afterwards Hopata made a foray with his following, being unaware of the whereabouts of Kemp. He went up the Waiaweka Gorge and came upon a pa held by Te Kooti. An action ensued, in which two or three rebels were killed, and the rest bolted, followed by Ropata. Their retreat was, however, cut off by the positian of Kemp, into whose hands they fell. Te Kooti was recognised and fired at, but escaped into the bush. Kereopa was also seeiii but not recognised until too late. All who laid down their arms were made prisoners and secured, and those who refused to submit were tomahawked. Amongst the latter was the vagabond Hakaraia, who was cut down by some of the Wanganui natives. Some of the natives cut off his head, and wished to bring it into camp, but this Kemp would not allow. In consequence of this large capture, we have now 303 prisoners in the settlement, a largo proportion of whom are women and children ; but amongst the lot are 32 young fighting men, and two men whom I recognise as former Chatham Island convicts. The fifty men captured by Ropata some time since are also in durance vile, and ull the fricndlies in the neighbourhood are hillected in the township. Te Kooti is believeSFw b° still in the neighbourhood of the spbft where the action took place. I write in haste, having been uuablo to fijid time for n detailed narrative.

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

There was a very fuir attendance at the the atre last evening, when the drama of " The Pilot." was produced, and passed very successj fully. The drama was followed by "Aladdin." To-night we arc promised a treat in the pro duction of " The Pledge," and we hope to see a good hous:\ With new productions placed before Ihe public night after night, it is strange the theatre is not better patronised.

THE EVENING STAK, APRIL 6, 1870.



ONEHUNGA. MR. H. H. WRIGHT, Grocer, Princes street, Onehunga, has been appointed Agent for the Eveking Stab. —Advertise- ments forwarded through him will be imme diately attended to. NEWMARKET. MR. A. CUNNINGHAM, Newmarket Hotel, has been appointed Agent for this Paper. MFFFINS ! MUFFJNS !! MUFFINS !!! E. IT. PERCY, WHOLESALE AND RETAIL PASTRY COOK, CONFECTIONER AND MUFFIN BAKER, UPPEE HlGn-STREET, Between Victoria and Wellesley-Streets. EH. P. begs to inform his many Custo • mers and the Public generally, that the Muffin Season having commenced, he is pre pared to execute all orders enl rusted to him. The only ENGLISH-MADE MUFFIN or CRUMPET in Auckland is to be had at the i above Address ; or at Mr. Waters', or Mr. Bowen's, Confectioners, Queen-street. WANTED—SIX ACTIVE BOYS.



NOTICE OF REMOVAL. A. E. COHEN HAS REMOVED from his late Auction Rooms to OFFICES ADJOINING-. March 31, 1870. LOST— A POCKET-BOOK, with Papers of no use to anyone save the Owner.— The Finder will be Rewarded on returning same to the Army and Navy Hotel.