SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS.

Ovnerana, p.s., Chrlsp, from Bay of Islands. Duke of Eclinbnrsh, p,s., Farquhar, from Wangarei iiunboam, schooner, Lane, from "Wangaroa. /

CLEARANCES.

Frowning Beauty, barque, 3C5 ton 3, Harrison, for Newcastle, in liallast. Excelsior, schooner, 82 tons, Kean, for Tonga. SUNSET.—This evening, 4.59. HIGH! WATER.—This evening, 8.5.

STEAMERS FOR THE THAMES THIS EVENING.

Kojal Alfivd, 5 o'clock. Enterprise, 9.30 .o'clock. PROJECTED DEPARTURES. London.—Wild Duck and Alexandrina, early. Honolulu —Nebraska, August 10. Southebn Ports—Taranaki, early. Sydney—James Paterson, early. Nimib-Nebraska, early.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Nebraafca, p.s., from Honolulu James Peterson, s.s., from Sydney. Oounteas of Kintore, ship, from London. East Lothian, barque, from New York via Sydney. ■ Alice, barque, from London. Kate, barque, from Sydney G-o-ahead, s.b., from Taranaki. Napier, s.s., from Napier. Novelty, barque, from Sydney. Saucy Lass, schooner, from Lyttelton. Fairy, schooner, from Kaiapoi.^ Colonist, schooner, from Kaipara. Lord Ashley, s.s., from Napier.

VESSELS IN HARBOUR.

Keera. s.s., laid-up. Samson, p.s., laid-up. Alexandri.ua, ship, from London, L. ~D Nulhan & Co., agents. Excelsior, ship, from London.—Brown, Campbell it Co , agents. Wild Duck, ship, from Timaru, Henderson and Maefarlane, agents. Albion, barque, from Kussell, L. D. Nathan and Co , agents. - Briton, barquo, from Newcastle.—Hender son and Macfarlane, agents. Excelsior, schooner, from Samoa, Combes and Daldy, agents. Na Noba, schooner, from lijis.—J. S. Mac furlane, agent. Frowning Beautj, barque, from Newcastle. Henderson & Macfarlane, agents. Moa, brig, from Sydney. J. 8. Macfarlane, agent. , Tawera, schoonor, - from Porerty Bay.—J. S. Macfarlane, agent. Meteor, schooner, from Napier.—M. Niccol^, agent. Conietang, p.s., from Euasell. —W. J. Hurst, agent. ,

EXPORTS.

Per schooner. Excelsior, for Tonga :—2 cases brandy, 20 dozen wine, 11 empty chests, 2 cases drapery, 20 lbs. coffee, 50 lbs. tobaoco, 20 lbs. aiifjur, 10 casks bottled beer, 20 casks, 30 costs alt', 1 case cottons, 4 cases tobacco, 'li kegs sugar, 150 cases geneva, 5 cases drapery, 2 trusses drapery, 2 packages iron mongery, 5 drums oil, 12 tins paint, 14,000 feet timber, 10,000 shingles, 23 cheese, 12 cases onions, 38 sacks potatoes, 30 cases bis cuits, 20 bags flour, 10 boxes soap.—Combes and biddy.

THE MAILS.

Mails will close as under :— - . For Thames, this day, at 4.30 and 5.30 p.m., and to morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 and 5.30 p.m. • For Wanganui, per s.s. St. KiMa, this day, at 5 p.m. For London (direct), per Wild Duck, this'day, at 5 p.m. For Tonga and Friendly Islands, per Excelsior, to morrow,- at 10 a.m. For Kapanga, etc., per Lalla Kookli, to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. For Russell etc., per Duke of Edinburgh, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. For- Ruusellr Kawakawa, etc., per Comerang, on Friday, 2lst inst., at 3 p.m. For Taranaki and Southern Provinces, per s.s. Tara naki, immediately after arrival of p.s. Nebraska from Honolulu. For Napier and Sonthern Provinces, per p.a. Nebraska, six hours after her arrival from Honolulu. A Poat-offlco has been opened at Dedwood. Mails leave chief office at 9 a.m., and arrive at 3 p.m., daily S. B. Bisa. Chief Postmaster.

CLEARANCE, OF THE WILD DUCK.

This Tessel cleared at the Customs this morning for London with a cargo valued at £81,145. The passengers' names and manifest hare appeared before. The following giyea .the quantity and value of her cargo : — Gum, 4307 cases, 452J tons, £16,097; tallow, 71 casks, 27 tons 16 cwt., £866 2s. j wool, 122 bales, 48,432 lbs , £3378 17s. Bd.; cobra, 520 bags, 32 tons, £340; gold, 11 boxes, 17,387 OZ3. 6 dwts. 13 grs., £62,100; oil (sperm), 10 casks, 6 tuns, £450; ditto (candlenut), 70 tuns, £420 ; cotton, 5 bales, 1288 lbs., £69 ; leather, 44 bales, 31,512 lbs., £1215; tow, 39 bales, 4 tons 7 cwt., £21 10s.; hides and cuttings, -5 casks, -2 tons, £50; flax, 9 bales, 32 cwt., £32 ; cheese, 41 tons, 1422 lbs., £42 ; bark, 7\ tons, £29. Sundries : 1 box seed, £10 ; 3 cases pictures, i 40 ; 1 case plate, £60 ; 3 cases apparel, £25. The schooners William andiilia, Huntress, Mary Thompson, and IsabeDK hare left the Bay of Islans for the Thames, with coals. lip. The p.s. Duke of Edinburgh arrired from "WBngnrei this morning. Passenrars : —Mr. and Mrs. Buller, Master Bailer, Mr/Whitelaw, Mr. Brown, Miss Dent, and five otheri. Cargo : —6 tons gum, 3 tons butter, half-ton bacon, and a quantity of sundries.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Stab Office, ! "TOW)n<»«rln.v nftfirnnrvn. •

AMUSEMENTS, MEETINGS, &c.

This Evening. Volunteer Artillery muster, 7. PiinceofWales Theatre, 8. Theatre Royal, 8. Circus, Queen-street, 8.

The Evening Star.

" For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future In the distance, And the good that vra can do."

WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1871.

"We think there are few who will not commend the common sense resolution of Mr. Councillor Tonka respecting the proposals of the Fire Insurance Companies. These institutions had the-coolness to propose that the City Council should reimburse those whose houses were pulled down to save the spread of fires. "We question if there has been a suggestion made publicly in this city for a good many years that surpasses this for simple cheeki nesß. Our curiosity is great to know on what grounds the proposal was based, and we think we are right in supposing that they were merely the assumed verdancy of the City Council. Most buildings in the city are insured in all probability. Those that are not should be, and un questionably it is the duty of those wealthy institutions, the Insurance Companies, which are fattening on very heavy rates of insurance, to look to their own interests, and provide for contingencies arisiug from the occur rence of fires. By the pulling down of a bu-lding, it is assumed that the adjoining property is saved. If that adjoining building has been in sured, then should the Insurance Com pany pay for the benefit conferred on its interests. If it has not been in sured, the owner should. The inter vention of the City Council is wholly uncalled for. It would no doubt be highly convenient if, th© Council would act as a sort of go-between, or rather buffer, to prevent the rude collision between the person whose house has been demolished, and the Company, whose in terests have been benefitted by the saving of their property. The Council would unquestionably in most cases be involved in litigation on both hands, and the Council has acted perfectly correctly in not allowing the funds of ratepayers to be frittered away in any such manner. The sub ject of fires is indeed a thing in which everyone is interested, so far as human life is concerned; but pecuniarily none to the extent of the Insurance Companies. And, see ing that they have the largest stpl the city, it is their duty *

Our attention has keen directed to a para' graph in our little contemporary the Morning ■ News, of this morning, giving an extract . from a private letter received in Aucklanc from a gentleman in San Francisco, comment i ing on New Zealand affairs in general, anc "the mail service in particular. Our contem porary appears to have taken to looking u{ i the old dates of the local contemporaries which lie so dislikes, inasmuch as his extraci is lifted from the Cross (June 29th), to whicl paper, it appears, the original recipient handec tho letter. The Christian Times, published to-day sustains its previous reputation. News o the churches, both, local and general, an given -with considerable detail. There is at exhaustive article on the various organization: and efforts for tlio benefit of Neglected anc Destitute Children in Auckland, togethei , with various articles on other subjects of gene ral interest. The publication is deserving o the Bupport of all those who feel an interest n the great questions with which it deals. A meeting of the creditors of Henry Berg will be held on. the 21st inst. The monthly muster, of the Auckland Artil' lery Volunteers will be held at the Drill-ehed Princes-street, at half-pest seven o'clock thii evening. A meeting of the shareholders of the Eureka: Hill Gold Mining Company is convened foi , the 7th proximo. The public are cautioned against receiving a cheque on the Bank of New South Wales. Grahamstown, for £105, signed by S. G-ribbte payable to 3?. 0. Meteher, the game having , been lost. Payment is stopped. The first general meeting of the share holders of the Albion Gold Mining Company will be held on the 24th instant, at the Me chanics' Institute.—Ail accounts against the Poverty and Charleston must be lodged on or before the 24th instant, or they will not be recognised. At the inquest on the body of the unfortu nate man Hall, found dead in Tookey's shaft on Monday morning, the following verdict was recorded :—" That deceased was found in the shaft dead, and that there was no evidence to show how he came there, but we come to the conclusion that his death was acci dental." The proprietor of the Occidental Hotel wishes to inform the public that there are a few more opportunities left for any person to add their name to the charitable Dime and Pin List, prior to the exhibition of that great curiosity—the two-headed calf with two tails. —[Adtt.]

POSTAL PLAN.

We hare seen the outline of a very ele gant map and postal plan about to be issued in this city. The work exhibits a map of the colony in the centre, with all the telegraphic lines and postal routes, giving distances from Auckland, and a mass of general information. Around this map is grouped a list and time-table of the departure of mails from and to every place in the province, the informa tion being authoritative. And around all are little squares of advertisements which are expected to defray the cost of the publication, as the issue is to be gratuitous. As the plan is of a very large size, got up in the best style of mounting, on ca 1;co, with varnished surface rollers, &c, and will really be a most ornamental piece of office furniture, the undertaking is a very spirited one. The issue is guaranteed to be 300, two being given to each adver tiser, and some 150 to be presented gratuitously to the Post-office authorities, to be hung up in the post offices over the whole province. The map cum Jpostal plan issues from the press of Messrs. Jones and Tombs, and we have no doubt will attain great popularity.

DEDWOOD HIGHWAY BOARD. ANNUAL MEETING.

.„ Last evening the annual meeting of the 3 Dedwood Highway Board was held at the { . Suffolk Hotel, College-street, p Mr. Stanaus Jones occupied the chair. i, The report for the past year was read )fc by Mr. Boardman, from which it ap b peared that the total sum received by the & trustees duri»g their term of office amounted to £824 16s. 10d'., viz.:—From r> rates, £458 6s. lOd.; from General Go >f vernment, £274; subscriptions in aid, £74 c 10s ; Provincial Government, £10; dog a collars, £8 j—which had been paid as fol s loirs :—Format'on of roads, £4107 17s. d sd. ; channelling and metalling, £344 T 3s. 9d. ; culverts, £10 ; sundries, !; £25 7s. lid'; advertising, £5 10s. * 3d.; commission, £28 17s. 6d. ; total, 11 £824 16s. 10d.—The report recom mended the forming and metalling => (16 feet wide) Cox's Bay ■; Road, also the Shelly Beach Road, Mount St. Mary's road, making a junction with College l. street. There was reason to expect, by 8 judicious action, economipal expenditure, the personal inspection and superinten a dence of the trustees, they would have r excellent roads throughout the district. In answer to a question from Mr. J. S McLeod, the Chaibmamt ruled that no '> person who had not paid his rates was '« entitled to take part in the meeting. 5 Mr. Keesing suggested that Mr. McLeod should pay his rates. ' 7 After some further discussion, the . Chaieman called upon Mr. Boardman to 9 read the statement ot accounts, which j was done, and gave satisfaction to th« t majority of the meeting. A three-halfpenny rate was then struck, and the following gentlemen were elected t trustees for the ensuing year : —Messrs. t 8. Jones, Tole, Boardman, McKinstry, i Mason. ) It was resolved to sue the ratepayers 3 whose names were on the defaulters' list ■ —the list to be hung in a conspicuous place,—a month to be given to the rate -1 payers to bring in the money. i It was also resolved that the list of ) defaulters should be advertised in the i two leading newspapers. t A vote of thanks was passed to the out ■ going trustees and the chairman.

"THE STRAND! THE STEA.ND!" It has been truly amusing of late to note the daily recurrence of paragraphs in our contemporaries, the Morning and Evening Neios, touching the condition of this un fortunate thoroughfare, and which cul minated, the other' day, in a pat hot ie leader, commeucing, " We wonder if tho Borough Council is aware there is such a thoroughfare as the Strand in the city? If not, we can tell them that thero # is," &c, &c. The City Council, in spite of all the warnings given, appear to be ob livious to the fact that-tho high and mighty editor and sub-editor (rolled into one) of our contemporary has to cross the Strand every day, on his way to the office, and backwards. It is imperative, therefore, that this should be seen to at once. How do the City Council p»" ---that a man who cannot travel <*•»■ his work-seeing thaf^ ' tronising the car< derous l*>° '

EXPOET OF GOLD.

Thb ship "Wild Dunk will sail for London, to morrow. Sho takes over 17,000 ozs. of gold, as follow* :— Quantity. "Value. Duty. Ozs. dwta. BankN.Z. .. 9,843 5 .. 40,800 .. 1,230 3 2 Bank of Austra lasia .. .. 7,544 1 .. 21,300 .. 060 2 2 17,387 6 £62,100 £1,890 10 4

THE SHARE MAEEET.

\ MS. J. M. LENNOX'S BEPOBT. There lias not been much business done in the share market to-day. My sales comprise: Cnledonian, £110; Thames, £23; M iddle Star, old issue, £5 10s; new issue, 30s. Buyers of Caledonian and Thames. No enquiries for other stock. mb. /. newman's bepobt. There has not been much business doing in tlie share market this morning. Cale donians rather lower; Thames maintains yesterday's prices. My sales comprise: Caledonian, £112 10s to £110; Thames, £23 ; Nonpareil, £4; Tookey, £22 10s.

POLICE CO UltT,— Wednesday. [Before T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.] Dkunkennk39.—L. Watts, for a first offence, was fined 10s and costs; and Mar garet Condron wa?, for a third offence, sent to guol for soren days. I>ahceny.— W. Hanson was charged byM. t Corcoran witli" stealing a shawl, value 10a.— J. Oilliiiuler, barman nt the Greyhound, de posed to the sliawl liaving been missed from its place before the fire, drying, on the 11th instunt.—Catherine Townsend, a doaler in Chancery-street, deposed that she purchased the shawl from prisoner, for 2s 6d, on Wed nesday, the 12th instant—Gh Jeffrey deposed 1,0 the arrest of prisoner.—Sentenced to throe months' imprisonment. Assault.— F. Hork was charged by P. Bartley with having assaulted '"'•" Bartley deposed that on th<» " " Freeman's Bay, defend his own yard anr 1 For the <" c~

SPECIAL TELEGRAPMS

[PEOM OtJB OWK COBEESPONDEIjTT.] EVENING STAR CRUSHING. SOUTHEEN PACIFIC SOLD FO] £110 NON-DELIVERY OP MAILS. JUDGMENT FOR DEFEND ANTS. THE NONPAREIL—MORE SPE CIMENS. PRINCE IMPERIAL—SPECI MENS.; Gbahamstown, 3 p.m. The Nonpareil is looking splendid All parts of the mine is producinj good stone. The Prince Imperial have taken ou some good ston from the winze nov being sunk. - The charges against Captain Elli of the Golden Crown, and Captaii Adams of the Lady Bowen, brough by Mr. Eitzgibbon, Chief Postmaste at the Thames, were again heard thi morning, and judgment giyen for de fendants, with costs. The Evening Star Company hav< crushed 25 tons, from which they ob tamed. 27 ounces. The Southern Pacific was sold thi morning for £110.

THE ADVANTAGES OF " MISCEG ENATION."

THIS DAT.

"J. H." writing in an Australian exchang under the head of " Notes upon New Zealam Travel," goes into ecstasies over the appearanc of a couple of half-castes whom he mot on boari a steamer between Nelson and Tararmki, am thus dilates upon the advantages of mixei blood : —" Fine fruit indeed is the produce c the grafting of the white upon the aboriginal We wishad that our father had been an English man and our mother a Maori. What trouble we should have escaped then ? We shouli have been good looking to begin with. Ou complexion would have been clear brown ; ou oyoß large and dark—and dangerous. Ou hair had been glossy, curly, dark, and as fo quartitj saleable every two months or bo fo chignons and back hair. Our mouths ha been shaped like to Cupid's bow and our lip —had served all purposes of lips. We canno encumber our pages with an enumeration c the uses of a mouth, and the mouth of a hall caste is all that a mouth should be. W should have had the strength of an athlete a a gift of nature—the stomash of a Scotchmai and German combined, and been strangers t (I jßpcpaia for the longest lifetime. We shoul< have known nothing of nerves or of hcadaoh or toothache—and may be nothing of heart ache either. We should never have caugh cold, never wanted our head wrapped up, o: our throat swathed in bandages, nor hot watei to our feet and tallow to our nose at night A chemist's shop would have been a curiosity to us, and the doctor but a dim imaginatir"- We ne'er had wanted ear trumpets, — and wigs. We should r blood, the Enr': ' rßnewo'' -

FIVE NEW TRADES.

[FBOM THE " CHICAGO TBIBPMB."] I?r certain troubled English days, when it became necessary to arrest and convict a man, there waß always one certain accusa tion. That was treason, in one of its , many forms/ Here, if a man has to be arrested, and it is humanly impossible! to show him to" be guilty of larceny, murder, - drunkenness, arson, disorderly conduct, burglary, tying a horse to a lamp-post, or mayhem, he can be shown to be a vagrant. In the eye of the Chicago law, every man is a vagrant until he has proved the * reverse, and, as the law decides as to what constitutes proof, it often happens that the culprit and the justice take a very different view of the matter. Doubtless the opinion of the latter, who is the most disinterested, is the best. It was only yesterday that a case of this sort came up, where five individuals, all declaring that they had occupations, and were earning their bread by the sweat of their brows, were sent to ,the Bridewell. These five people, on whom the police have for some time had an eye. were arrested in a Clark- I- street: saloon, where they were quietly drinking beer and eating bread and mustard. They gave names which were probably not their own, and which, hence need not be stated. There was nothing, in their looks suggestive of crime. Their clothes were not quite the best as to condition or texture, and their mustaches were a little dingy, as if from dye; but such things have oeen observed in others I than vagrants. The policemen swore that thay had noticed this quintette for g some time. None of them had any business. They were mere idlers —and perhaps worse. The justice was about to fc fine them, when they requested permis sion to deny the charge and to make their statement. He replied, with great pro priety, that it seemed to him that the s matter was closed. The policemen, honest and disinterested people, had sworn to 1 certain facts. The prisoners would, doubt £ less, be biased in any assertion they might make; and their statements could, of r course, have no weight with him. Still if s they would be amusing, he would hear. THB FIBST VAGBANT. The first one spoke up and said : " I regret that Ihave nothing amusing to say. 3 I can only mention a life of toil and drudgery. The occupation into which 'i fate has forced me, is a poetical one. I write the original poetry in the Sunday papers, and also, when time permite, the s rhymed advertisements you sometimes see. I cannot say that it is very profitable or very improving to the mind. Still I have systemised it. On Mondays and Tuesdays, while a little money still - remains in my purse, I devote myself to the praise of love and gaietj. By Friday c lam plunged in poverty and gloom, and <j write verses dripping with woe, and rank c with despondency. Any lines, sir, relative d to blighted love, suiciut, .m anappreci i ative world, or faded roses, which you d may see in the. papers, wore written >f between Wednesday and Saturday. 1. During the early part of October I was so '- fortunate as to write a few sonnets, which iS I sold to the youth who cannot rhyme. ■* They were partly original and partly r selected. One young man came to me •* early in the week, and requested a mourn 'r ful poem to be sent .to a young lady. r Being incapable of woe so soon after d Saturday, 1 was reduced to pilfer a mild , 8 hymn of Miss Barbauld's. I mnde a few ,t alterations, but not enough, so that this >f young man informed this devout young f- woman that' though age has reft, her of c each charm, I "love thee still.' He dc s clined to pay me for that poem. By a these devices, Mr. Justice, I continue to 0 earn an honest living, and if there were 1 only three days in the week, I think I 0 should be perfectly conteated." b TH6 SECOICD VAQBANT. r The second vagrant said :"lam an f educator of youth—the friend ~c '• men—the >»"*"ir«*' f y e ».'

would be frowns at the table, There would be inuendoes. The landlady comes and requests me to cease. I hug my pipes to toy breast. I iay: 'I am an artist. My soul is attuned to melody. Abandon my instrument! Never.' I strike up a tune, and she puts her fingers to her ears, and cries out to me to stop. Finally, she desires me to leave the house. I protest. I say: ' Madam! I have lodgings here for a month. I like this ■ place. It is quiet, and quiet pleases an artist. I shall remain.' She becomes . distracted, and makes outers. I refuse at first, haughtily, as becomes a musician, ; I accept at las.t, mildly as becomes a man ; of business., I do not pay for my board. I receive a slight gratification, and I leave* packing my wardrobe in my pocket, and with my pipes I go elsewhere, I can find fellow-boarders and landladies who are willing to compromise *. As for myself, I write symphonies i I have them at my room. Thus I live." THE rOTTETH VAGEijfT. The fourth vagrant, a sallow-looking Eerson, doubtless of foreign birth, when is turn .came, spoke as follows t •' The gentleman who spoke last is a musican, I am a painter, a colorist. I do not, how* ever, work in the ordinary way. Clay is my canvas, and tobacco serves for colors. As a master in the art should do, 1 work only with the finer materials'; I do not use clay, but meerschaum. To ipeat more plainly, sir, I am a colowf of meerschaum pipes. I deny Hut there is any tra.de that can be mora ai'efhl to the republic than mine. It is necessary r for every man who respects himself to have a meerschaum pipe which is satisfactorily colored. But to do the latter part of the business'requires much smoking and much time. Eminent doctors say that smoking is an evil. It is not for me to deny it; all I know is that when a young man comes to me with tears in his eyes and money in his purse, and wants me to color his pipe, and save his nervous system, I do it. Heedless, of my own nervous . • system I do the job—he of course, fur. > milling the materials. I have on one or two occasions, and for an extra sum, colored the ordinary clay pipes, but it » laborious, and I am not partial to it This occupation thus saves many an idol of his .< • parents from softening of the brain, apo- ?) plexy, paralysis, weakness of the spin*!'■■<. marrow, dyspepsia, headache, nervousness, , idiotcy, palsy, &c, &c, and keeps me in , bread and butter. I hope you will not call it bribery if I offer to do up a pipe for you." * THB FIFTH VAGBAKT. The fifth and last vagrant, with great show of confidenco, then said : "If I can not pretend to pursue music and painting as a business, yet I think my trade is at least as potent for the salvation of young men as that of meerschaum colorer. I, sir, am a philanthropist, a humanitarian, devoted to the welfare of young men it the country. My idea was an inspiration. It is just getting into working order, and sence it is not well known. I will briefly tate it. There come to this city every day young men from the country. They.-,, have been reared by excellent parents,^ and have been well drilled in hymns and catechisms. They bring with them only sound constitution?, red cheeks, a mother's blessing, and pocket testaments. They settle down in this great, and, may I add, wiokefl' city. They are far from home ' pleasures and home society. There they were wont to associate with young ladies with decided convictions, plump cheeks, and a love for lozenges. They escorted these maidens to hear the Hutehinson family sing and the Peak family play. They took them to the circus, the sewing circle, and the ball. They roamed with them through moonlit dells, by sofly pulsing brooks, or over breezy uplands. Pardon me if I grow enthusiastic f— feel deeply on this subject. raked the hay, p"**

THE EVENING STAB, AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1871.



A TJOTIJON BUSINESS. The subscriber, in addition to his usual.Sales atjthe CORNER |M ART, QUEEN-STREET, Is now prepared to CONDUCT OUT-DOOR SALES of GENERAL MERCHANDISE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, Ac. Commission advantageous] 5/to Vendors, and prompt settlement. GEORGE SIBBIN, Auctioneer.