SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKALND.

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ARRIVAL.

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DEPARTURES.

c __. _~ g^aoiser. for TVallhrfoa- r" i MarCTrr Bay. ■vrhlie WicMe. rntsr, :-:r Port Waitata.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For sc*Etbera T--*rts: Taranald &Z.& Fhfsbe, earlj : ■ WeffiasrTGii, »>-3eoiTO"«r- For Hor tf-ila: >"r':rs.?>v rr.v'l steamer, Jtoe 13. Fc-r Aiipaia a=*l E-jkianra : T*oisb§3, seiwKHstr, j For w£ srsra : 5.:-T£rr:-n: of li? Seas, ihas di-. For Lras&css : TttoL iargue, esrlr

VESSELS EXPECTED.

H^o. S.S., from Srdßer \.rai 3 i^sil sJaisser (*» -T^=? 17^ Oeopasr*. schooner, &n Lvv:dM= Alia seboGiis'. from jr«*e»s4le I^T^r:-. rntt«r. frcea Lm«3i->a P.C-E basone, from >«»iasae B^r&ri, s^=, rrcm Los>daa. a&a«i iti^th 2 lie b^? Ep his snared rrsi Vi2»--r--e. lad has ; the £aj of Isiiak. Tr-e seaoMMsr Ssmosss fwas it^s^ll iu»s en«^ « the Cassceas -^-Ji ST toes coal, wasfeoaa so J. =t :

COMMERCIAL.

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POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

v>T-.a wnx Cioste as- Ts-dtz For Ihsmea, this day, si 5.80 p.ni., sad ttMnotPOW. r«KTOasff»-"t't'>^«-lir- *i?-K»^=- and 3L»pLm For T&r&niki sod SogthgeaPnmßcas, per Wriifnrmn, For Xsp»r and Gisbaase, t-kt aar a* the Sooth, to xno-TTO'ar, SI 1 p.m. Far liassfcil Baalo. said Msßsgaatd, x-sr Cmaasoos, oo Fri'isv. tie ZiiL i^sx. it 3 p.m. Fo-"sind-sriKi Islands. Bri-dsh Cohnnbe*. United of America, Brid^i. Oentt*', aad Sooth AmaneL B-'tisi ard F.^reizn "Wen laffics, and Coariaem of Eciwe, r,'-i Eniiand. si 30.30 s=a For U=::c=i Kin-doii- t,Vi San T-s^sseo. ai 10-SJ am For maner orders, resistered le"«r*, aad ~L&-? lerier= far the Usitsd s£&te3 or Amerj'ps a=d t"ni-ad Kinedom, bearing a Ui* fee of Sd_ in ad'iiti-s to the xicstare. "»ill be reoaiTod a.* the c 5« till 11 anf. a^d bj the mill s^eat on bond NV,:i.'_A P.-sr-oSse has b*eri oj«=n*d ii Taandzi, \TaDoto Malls tL<js& it tias o£<s eTerr T-a=»a&T, TLu:d»-, "tvj Sainrdar. *t 7.3"J p-ra. S B. Biss. Posaaister.

DEATHS.

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The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News and The Morning News.

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 1872.

far ihe c&tise ihi.; ;»rr' s-sirisj-3?, F~ the ■BTcrx T&sait seeds Te^"A~sa, Xsd the sC»i thii w» csz. do.

Thpkv no longe^ remains a doubt of the successful establishment of the Freight Company. Few if any public movements in Auckland have been so me: by spontaneous favour at the very moment of initiation. and so * speedily attained to the assured promise" of success. On looking back to the past it does seem inexplicable that our large commerce should have been so long allowed to suffer under the disabilities imposed by a foreign firm of shipping agents ; but the length of time during which the evils have been borne, and the magnitude of the wrong done to our importers and exporters appear to have so intensified public feeling that there is now bo longer a fear of our ' merchants putting their hands to the j plough and looking back. Every step I in the movement for the establishment !of this company has been onward. 1 Dispiriting counsels have not been offered, much less entertained, and we ; Tenrure to say that there is scarcely i one either of those taking part in the | movement, or of those outside who I have given the subject a thought that I ever feared for the ultimate success. iAt the meeting of shareholders held '' on Friday last the statement sub mitted was of the most encouraging : character. The main object as is understood was not the subscribing of a certain amount of capital, but the | inclusion in the Company of every I importer and exporter in the city. Had mere money been wanting it ■ would have been forthcoming to i manifold the amount required as \ capital of the Company. But to ! secure all the import and export trade by including all the import and export traders —that was the object aimed at. and that has been virtually attained. i With, we understand, two solitary ' exceptions —and even these will probably soon give in their adhesion — the Company "now comprises every ; merchant" and importer in Auckland whose trade parcels are of the least moment as affecting cargoes ; so that unless there is the most traitorous defection, the battle may be already regarded as fought and won. The limit of shares and capital originally 1 proposed has been already reached; ! but from the spirit manifested, and . also ia order to establish the Company !on a broader and securer basis, |it was resolved to increase the ! camtal by fifty per cent A ! proportion of shares is reserved for ' English capital, and provisional i directors were appointed consisting of i all the principal merchants of the city. f The outgoing mail will convey instruc tions to [London appointing an agent. ! and enclosing the funds requisite for commencing operations; so that a ' vessel will be forthwith despatched for Auckland —the pioneer of the trade. The arrival of the Hellenslee after such a passage., and with her cargo fearfully damaged, the appearance in ; our waters of the Tyrol so deserving '■ of respect for her years and apparent infirmities, have been very opportune !to give a fillip to the movement; and 'we are safe in saying that the nag of I Shaw, Saville and Co., floating from 1 the masts of so many decayed old ! tubs will soon disappear from the I Waite— ala. "We do not hesitate to i sax that the merchants of Auckland 1 have done themselves honor in the i manly and thoroughly harmonious I spirit with which they have determined I to help themselves : and notwithstand '> ing the apathy of the past they have ' shown themselve? to be not unworthy pioneers of a commerce that is destined to yet make Auckland the commercial capital of the South Pacific.

The Timanx Building Society, after a career of about seren and a-half years, has been closed. Daring its existence a sum of £"21,003 passed tnrousrh. its hands ; and investors who remained till the termination of the society receired. fifteen per cent for their money. This is encouraging news for oar local Building Socieiy. A sale was made in Melbourne on the 9th of Pichborne mortgage bonds (£100), at the small figure of Ss 4d. This sale must surely be more as a curiosity speculation than a market inTestmeni.

The scene in the Licensing Court to-day was of the most extraordinary character. "We do no hesitate to ssy thai the truest friends of temperance will be the most grieved at anything savouring of t^raßnv towards publicans or any other class in the community. There I can be little doubt that the proceedings of to-day will tend enlist svmpailiy on the side of me licensed* victuallers, and deal a heavy I blow to the cause of the U.-k-.A. in Auek | land. We shall reserve further comment ] till to-morrow. A meeting; of the City Bind o: Hor-e^ t will be helJ this evening at the rooms o: ] the Toons Men's Christian Association. Mi>s Stothard delivered one of her i lecture? to ladies yesterday afternoon, in the Provincial Council Chambers. An entertainment will be given this ! evening at the Theatre Bora] by the I Featie troupe 01 gymnasts, assisted by \\ ard's minstrels. A most amusing I programme is pronsi>e3. and the perfor ■ manee is likelj to be a .great success. Signor Yiconzo Fusconi will exhibit his fantocini this evening, at the Paraell S Hall. The marionettes are well worth a j risit. The first of a series of six emertain j menxs was given last evening at the • Auckland Western Academy, and, not withstanding' the unfavorable state of the j weather was well attended. The musical i selections, songs, and recitations by amateurs were of a veiled and interesting i character, and evidently gave satisfaction t to the audience. ) We understand that ilejsrs. Henderson I and sprs££on are the successful tenderers j for the repairs t-o the cutter Mautilus. ; Tnder the superintendence and skill of j this firm, this smart coaster will soon re-appear in her former trade. The friends of the Eev. E. F. ilacnicol ;. will observe with sincere regret the ■ announcement of the death of his only i daughter, which took place this forenoon I The funeral will leave at 3 o'clock to , morrow afternoon. With reference to our F:j;an files of : papers, which were delayed in reaehinj us. we are informed by Mr Ellis, the . shipping reporter of the Cro*4, that he had , left them to be forwarded to us, but j through the neglect of the messenger they I were not placed in our hands. We had co idea that our reference to : the kidnapping of the two lads for the Eaglan mills would hare created so much sensation as it has done. "^ c have received a large number of letters on the j subject, most of them too late for our i hour of publication. We are greatly j gratified to observe the generous instincts j of the public when the feelings are i touched by the sight of wrong done to | the helpless. We believe that any ! amount would at present be forthcoming I to defend the lads. We think i: will not j be required. There is no cnence charge able against the boys, and we are | j confident they will be discharged on | being again brought before the bench. -

HARBOUR BOARD.—SPECIAL MEETING.

A spzcial meeting of the Harbour Board wa« held yesterday afternoon, to consider letters from the lion. Julias Yogel and his Honor the Superintendent. The following gentlemen were present:—The chairman (IV. C. Daldy). and Messrs Casey, Bargaviile, Heather. Yon der Heyie. Boylan, and Maereadv. Correspondence was submitted to the meeting, rzz. : the reply of the Superin tendent to the Chairman of the Harbour B^ard with, reference to the opinion of the Attorney-General as to the payment of £5,000 to the province. The "letter urged that the Board is bound in honor to see the stipulation in some form carried out. The letter coyered copy of telegram forwarded by the Superintendent to the Colonial Secretary and his reply on the subject. The following was the telegram from the Colonial Secretary :— To the Superintendent, Auckland. —Be £-5,00 j. Harbour Board. —Attorney - General's opinion that the two Acts must be read together, and therefore that Governor's approval of works necessary. He also thinks that expenditure should be on new works and extensioni rather than on repairs ; still a3 you understood the arrangement with Air Ormond to be as you state, and on iaita of it paid the money, we agree to as your Honor Your self to decide the work" up to £-5,0d0 in respect of which the expenditure shall be authorised. We will obtain the Governor's approval to your recommendation ; the rest will be between you and the Board. I hope this proposal will be agreeable to your Honor. Get Air Stewart's assistance if yon require it.— (Signed) .Jrurs Yogel. After consideration of the correspon dence, The Chairman. Mr Heather, and Mr ! Boylan were appointed a committee to I wait on his Honor the Superintendent | respecting the payment of £5000, with | full power definite!}* to arrange the s-ame. The Hon. Yogel's letter with reference to the extension of the Breakwater was then taken into consideration and w*s referred to the Engineer Committee, to confer with Mr Higginson (Government Engineer), afid report on the hest means of i carrying out the suggestions contained 1 therein with as little delay as possible.

CITY HALL.

TH2 City Hail Tra= crowded last night on the j occasion of a farewell b*sefh to Mr and ■ Madame Simons-en. The prozmnme ws« I one of the best; and ibe entertainment esre ! great delight. Mr B. Clarke was in excellent : Toiee, and sang f; Star of Love," and " Put ■me in my littla bed." Madame Simons-en's i rich and powerful voice was heard to perfee | tion in l' Conic back to Erin," " The Carrara! of Venice," and in the hjmn, "Prai*e tj the Tjot&," aoeompsnyed by Mr Simonsen on the -riolin. Madame Moller was loudly applauded for her singing " JSLa-thJeen MaToarreea." jMr Barry O'KeD and Mr Ke!]j both greatly | ajnns©d their auditor*. Madame Simonsen, ■in thanking the andien;* for their lind j patronage bestowed on the company during I its sfcav in Aaeklssd, announced tkat agreeably !to a request from Mr B. S. Janes' of the j Prince of Wales Theatre, the company had j consented to gire their s^rrices gnfzrifoosij j to-morrow eTening at that Theatre oh the 1 c-c-»^:on of s beaefir penbrsia.noe in aid of the Persian Belief Fund, acd she misted for so deferring an object there would be a crowded boos*.

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

: ] J Thkss was a cacitsl performance last night at this theatre/ Two excellently got up pieces -were prodceed. entitled " the Brother's Duel," and s grand fairy barlesque of " Three B?»r5," peno:mei for the first time in^ew Zeilsr^i. Xhs plaj is a most amusing one from begismag to esd, a^i is well placed upon the staee. The same programme wiii be rep-eated this eTening. To-morrow ereni::g ilr -loses, In a-c-eordsne-e -»-irb his promise to the MaTor, ■will tender a benefit towards the Persiari's Ee'.iet Fani. The whale of the City Hid! eompariv hare kicdlj giren their Taloahie service-i-

GOLDEN SPUR GOLD MINING COMPANY (Registered).

Ay extraordinary meeting of shareholders in iMs Company was held yesterday afttraoon a: the oSce of the Company, West Queen street. Mr. Thomas Sail in the chair. The business of the meeting consisted of passing the rales of the Company &nd the election of directors. The following direeiors were elected :—Messrs. James Walker, Arc-hihald Clem&ots, Taomst§ Silt, Joha Haas-DD, aai Jsmes Bound.

THE THAMES GOLDFIELD.

(iraoii ocs ow>~ odh2ssposT)kst:,) I MET a man who stop* in the farce bouse with me in the street on Saturday. He said, ''Come on old man, there's a drink on!'1 As he said thi» he beamed with senile*. Presently I was standing in front of an hot?] bar, with my lodging house friend and another man, whose face also beamed. "Mr Xeut chum, l£r Olecodger," and I was introduced. I drank mechanically, and presently asked my friend, in a whimper, what this sudden display of hospitality meant. " What, said he. don't yon know ■" I pleaded ignorance, he whispered. Ji Tookeys are right, Oleeodger. sot a lot of 'cm —they're struck it in the Caledonian, and its running into Tookeys.' Of course I did not leave any of my drin's behind, bat beyond gua-ding against that 1 made no unnecessary delay in milling straigh: to the Caledonian. In my eagerness, as 1 apDroached the mouth of the shaft, I did no: obferre the worthy, estimable, and highiT respected manager, (one of the newspapei fellows he-re told me always tD write like thii about mine managers because they like it, and it is the correct thing), and I ran mj bead into the pit of his stomach. i: Ah then, they're struck it at hit, hare the??" I cried. •'lonlj know one confounded idiot a* is s striking anything at present," replied the worthy, estimab'e, and highly respr-c-e-d maraoer ; " but i: he doesn't died what he's about there will be two striking before long." Ob*erTicg a sirc&stis smile on the face? of three gentlemen of the press who were standing netr, I strsightcnei myself up, and presenting the worthy, estimable, ana res peeled manager with a penny, said :n tones in which pity strove lo hide contempt, i; Bay 1 yo-jr«eif a "copy of the Auckland Ktssesg StAS, sir, and learn from its leader what mild and gentle sarcasm mtMB?-" After this we newspaper people held a dis cussion ss to" their hvring tticck it-" They had all three been below, and as if I had gone below I should not hare become much wiser, I thought it best to stay where I was and pick cp ail I could. So far as I could learn from the nature of the discussion, which was mineraiogiretl and mixed, the foot wai! of the hanging loie had got iato a coprolite country of a Tcry hard and tertiary formation, and there iniic-ations had been taken for some time as a presage that as s-^on as the pliocene strata should commence overlapping the main lead in the shaft recently soak to connect with No. 3 level by & winze. At this point I interrupted, and saii, " Whinze the gold comes. I su^pos* ;" but, beisg glared dawn, laughed feebly at toy enra airetrip-t at a joke and rave it up, and if you expect me to tell you anything further about *• their baring ttruck it in the Caledonian, and its running into Tookey's," you must gire it up too- Indeed, I cm plainly see that anles; you give me a letter of introduction to some chap up to a thine or two in the way of mining, all tha mining you will ever get out of me will be harmless. Tne Coroner sat upon tae body of maa named Quina, on Saturday. The Coroner al*o lit upon a juror and a doctor whose opicions did not coincide with his own. The verdict was that the man had died of serous apoplexy, which is a medical euphuism, for drink, but that scarcely entitled the poor body to be left all night, after the inquest, nailed op in a wooden box at the back of the P&ciSc hotel. However, it was not to complain of this that I wrote ; I don't -want to interfere about dead bodies, they're nasty things ; but to tell you that I heard a newspaper nun, who was not at the inquest, stick up another newspaper man, who wss in the street some time after, and say : — " Well, what Vas the verdict, drowned, ; Eh :" "No, serous apoplexy." "Ah !" scornfully ; " serious apoplexy, so it was, s-o it was ; a Terr serious tiling-" " Serous I tell you ; mind whst you are at when you are writing, or you'll be making » mistake. Seros4, not sertotts. 7' a Oh, ay ! all right- Serous and sarion* ; all the same you know." Things are Terr dali here just now. there is little or to moneT stirring, and we all expect t"» s«e a regular smash up soon. I write this because this i= what I bear every body say, and of coarse it mast be the case ; but* if "it be the ca.se, it is a puzzle to me to know why all the shops and hotels wsre full of r>eople baying and drinking on Saturday night; why the exhibition of a diorama has been crowded all the week ; why to many new houses are goiag up ererywhere; why most people eat three good meals a day ; why no one beg 3 ; and not rery many steal, and why the women turn out on Sunday's and state holidays with purple and fine linen- Its a puzzle to me, as I have said. Since I came here I hare asked once or twice of people for what purpose a long building kaown as the Home Institute was erected. I hare been told that it was buOt br the Her. Gideon Sinales, originally as a kind of monster boarding house; but failed in this, it was then let out in legal managers and sharebrokers oSces, but gave out on this speculation also ; subsequently it ws3 Jet to I tenants who did not par rent, and now it- i? let to a tenant who makes what he can out of it by sub-letting it to others by rooms or sets of "room*. Bat the fier. "Gideon Smales has still a use for it as will be seen by the following extract taken from the Sonth cor respondence of the Liricola, Stamford and Bviland Mercury :—" A lecture was delirered in the large room of the Town-hall, on Tues day, by the Her Gideon Smales : Snbject, I ' Sew Zealand and the Sooiliern Pacific,' with ; special reference to the slave trade carried on I amongst some of the islands, ard to the deaths of Bishop Patteson and other missionaries. jT. F. Allison, Esq., presided. The lecturer, who bad labored for more than a quarter of a century in the mission field, was well up to the mark in his descriptioDi of the kid napping system and of the retaliations resalt- I ing therefrom. At the close of a highly in- I teresting lecture a collection was made on behalf of ike Home Institute erected at the

'' Thames. New Zealand, for the ?x-ial, moral | and religious improvement of the miners." j Several persons to -whom I have shown the above want to know where the money thus collected for " the Home Institute erected at the Thames for the social, moral, ani relig'-ous improvement of the miners" is to go. I do nor know I am certain, bur judging from what j I have heard here I should be inclined to say into the reverend Gi3eon Smales' pocket?. I have been introduced to a highly intel lectnalelub here of a political and social nstare- I do not propose to say ranch about it at present, being ?o young a member, bat this I mar say that I am now convinced that that the colony is rushing headlong to its destruction, and can only be sari- i by bursting up the Bank of Xew Zealand, and entrusting the G-oTerEtnent of New Zealand to a committee of the club. There are serers' ! minor points necessary for the salvation of the country, but in the above I think I have indicated the main features. The meet ing, of the club have about them all the chirm of uncertainty, being held wherever s member • is rs=h enough to admir that he has coin , enough for "drinks ronnd," or whenever a i landlord with scSc-ient zaith in humanity to gire credit for the same can be found. I assure you that a report of the proceedings at one of the meetings of tie club would be a ' fai»h moral and intellectual twsat, and I shall therefore take the earliest opportunity of letting you hare one. Bt the way, the One of the club at its last meeting made a i: 2nd," better than that one that I%hall have to make tome day. He dropped a sovereign—and found it again. But 'as none of the meiabers saw him do it the circumstance was less remarkable.

OHINEMURI.

[fBOM A COBEESPO:S~DEST.j Jane 8,1572. This district is apparently lapsing into a 1 terra i*cognii<t -with the general public A. \ few fact; relating to the progress that has been \ made of lste~ to the probable opening | of the country to the gold digger may not be I without interest to jour readers, being well ! posted np in matter? Ohinemuri I can I writs witt some shew of authority. Mr James ifackay, Jan., has been m&king \ periodical visits here within the last few i inoiths in connection with his ofßce of j Government Agent for the purchase of native j lands. He has made a good beginning, I havinj purchased somewhere about 150,000 j acres from Oh'.nemuri natives. Although the j laad is not in this district. the tapu or t birHf r agains* wiling land to Kur-Dpeans har | ins been broken down, and the maoris made to ; see that it is better for them to mite use in i this manner of what otherwise was dead } stock to them. Toa need not be astonished . j should Tea shorriy hear of Mr Mackay having ■ parchaied the sp-eater part of this district- If I not interfere-d with I am certain hs will haTe j the ne^e-s-ary preliminary arrangements com pleted wi-hin a very short tise. When we find the notorious Mere Kuru appending her I X to a deed of sale I think the inSnenc* i that broagLt her to do that i* potent enough . to jpen the country. Two digeers have just returned from the ranges with a splendid lot of specimens.

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. (Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., K-M-) Three persons were punished for having \ become intoxicated, and a man for having been drank and disorderly was fi^rd twenty i shillings and casts, or to suffer 4S hours hard j labor. = DrsTßDTryo the co'stabl^'s clothes. Tae sine prisoner (Linie) wa.s then 1 charged -with wtifolly and maliciously destrov i inT the oonstsblsi hat. rained at 11* 3d; alsoa . I great coat rained at *3s, the propfrty of the : Provincial Gorernmsnt. The prisoner hebnged to the barque East i Lothian, and was going on hoard his Tesse ' the worse for liquor when he fell into the] !' haais of the ■police. The Court ordered him to paj for the i d&inase, and Seed him in addition ia the ' sum of se'en and *:ipsrjfsand costs. Edwira Moraev was charged with assaulting j Constable ITeMlle whilst in the exe^otioa of his dotj. This pris-Drser had succeeded in reioaing the pre-c^iina prisoner who si the eonst-ible iras conrevisH to the station. The dse was proved, and the Inspector j complained that thtae assaults h&d become i Tery frequent of late. The Court stigmatised the condact of the prisoner aj ■wanton and brutal, and sentenced him to one month's imprisonment with hard labor without tie option of paving a fine. Wm. Eddis was then charged with assault ing Constable Brennan. 1 his prisoner belonged to the barque Eart Lothian, and interfered to pre Tent his mate i from being taien to the station. Inspector Broham informed the Court that i the constable had been laid up for one month S through a iimilar assault. The Court ordered tae prisoner to pay a ! Sne of £5, or to suffer one month's imprison ment with hard labour. THS CATTLE STTSAyOJ. Samuel Harris was charged with pfrmitting ; four head of cattle to stray in Frsnklrn road. Mr Jot appeared on behalf of Mr Sheehan for the" defendant, and applied for an I adionmment until to-morrow. "William Charles Campbell wis cbarsed with j allowing twenty head of cattle to stray in ; Wellingten street. This case was also adjourned till to-morrow. William Jennin/rs wa? also charged with permitting three head of cattle to wander in I Is elson street. Mr Joy, instructed by Mr Sheehan, also j appeared "on behalf of this and the preceding ) defendant. The ea.se was adjourned with the others ', until to-morrow, the Court being occupied ] in disposing of the licensing cases. On the question of cost 3Mr Joy intimated that no costs would cc applied for under the circumstances on either ride. His Worship could not understand whr costs should be allowed at all in such cases. The Ceart adjourned until 12 o'clock.

CORRESPONDENCE.

£3?"We do not hold ourselves responsible for th. j opinions expressed by oar ccrrespoadeDis.

A SUSPECTED THIEF.

To the Editor of the Etesisg Stia. Sib.—Would you have the goodness to state in your issue of this eTeniug that the James Brown -who -was charged at the Poiice Conrt on .Saturday morning last—who was found on tiie Queen-street wharf after m»ht, and sos p&^ted of committing a felony, and who was discharged at the court as he was not known to the police—is not James Brown late of H.M. 2-13 Boyal Irish regiment, and jou will confer a favour on me.—l am, kc~, James Bbowk, late H.i£. 2-18 Bojal Irish. Waiefield street, June 11,1572.

KIDNAPPING.

To the Editor of the Evsyiss Stau. Srß,—Thebes: thanks of this community are due' to you for the manly and straightforward j manner in which yon. hare came to the rescue ] of the boys whom the police and that iind i hearted lady from the Raglan flsx mills seem? ] anxious to transfer from the liberty of their I off" honest thoush humble calling to the ! drudgery of bush life, and that to be forced i uryon rh'etn, not left to their own free choice. I You may rest assured, ilr Editor, that in the whole course of your life you never more folly and completely expressed the public mind and feelinz than you hare done in this case. Bom bers besides injself are burning with indigna tion fit the conduct of the police wno wouia dare to interfere with the liberty of two little boys, bat it is only 3fkfl the rest of Auc*i»rd officialism ; instead of being the serr»nfcs they nave become public masters, dictating to the «me what shall and what shall not be dor.c, aad it is time that X&B the question, once and for ever, whether the-* Government officials, from the highest to the lowest, are to be the masters of those they serve, or serving, are they to be tenant* ? We ought either to see to this or for ever cease to •peak and boast of our liberty *s free borr Englishmen. I know we are governed just a» •well as we deserre to be, for of course we oorem ourselves, or if we don't it i* our own fsnk. We have the trskinz of oar own law?, and we can if we lite to see to it hare tne&e laws both -well made and wisely administered, snd if we don't care to see these things bat rebmit to every form of orer-riding omcial tyranny, why then serve us rishr, we deserve it all.—l am", &<?.. A- Brrrisr.

POLICE JUSTICE.

To the Editor of the Etksi~& Stab. Sir, —I am very thankful that the too often hasty and inconsiderate conduct of the police towards the poor, the helpless, and the ! friendless has at last come under the personal I notice of the Editor of the Star. Thai end once raised, fearless ou-spjken remonstrance •sra* certain. The time is come, and as I say, lam gratefuL lam 52-atef-.il because I I know how It is. So matter what the merits j of the case the prisoner i« cot heard, there ! are no reliable witnesses ; and ■with respect to ; unfortunate gir-s at any rite, the Ben?h pre i judges the cs*e very often without a hearing, \ and beds* to 5?31d the moment the wretched I creatures stand up in the dock, before the ! nature of the charge is heard. Is that justice r j I haTe no desire to wink at sin. I desire ' most earnestly to reclaim tbes-e poor creatures ; I but still, sir. wretched and 3o:»t though they !be it is not fkir that the police should ; tyrannize over them, and be adjust to them. ! They hare sworn that they hare been ! dragged from bed when do one was in the \ hou?e, taken up in the streets when -walking i quietly along, told " they would h^ar the ] nature of the charge ajainst them next i moraine." and to on, when they were neither i drunk nor disorderly, and harming lo one. j All this I kn?w for a fact from witn^s-s-?* j whose veracity I haTe tested, and whose < honesty has never been questioned. I tmi! 1 give as briefly as I can one case, suppressing S name?, beeansa some of the parties concerned will, I sincerely hope, never enter a Polise Court again. A young girl whose father died when she was quite a child, and whose mother was too good-naturedly soft and Yielding, fell into bad ways and went to live with a voun? man away from Auckland. I am sure he was cruel to her., and she, a high-spirited girl, at length left Ma and returned to her mother. That mother had been twenty years in Auckland without a single charge beic£ brought against her. The vocn2 man followed the girl to her mother s, msd with drink and jealousy. In the house he faucd the girl and her mother, and a young giri also of light character. He began "to thra«h his late companion j the other fwo women screamed and strove to interfere., and I the noise brousht the landlord to the house. The young fellow turned his fary on him. and he sent for the police. They were ail Socked up. What do joa think was the measure of punishment meted oat ? Xexr morning the thrre wretched w>men were seat to gaol for fteo months, though in e^ch case it wss a first conviction, ana the eomse of all this trouble, the vonng man. 2Ot comfortably on" with a fine of 10s. Sin.cs then one of the p>or creatures has never been out of gaol for many weeks. She is utterly csrel^sT and reckless. Ji Eefore the? put me here I did care, but since then I don't care a bit," says she. Tae poor mother is a broken-spirited ereanire. She fass never been in since, bat that once lost her all heart, all self-respect. The daughter has once again been in, with quite as little show of justice as the nrst time. Both she and her mother will, I hope, never trouble the police again. But, indeed, these are only two oat of too many cases where wemen are cha-ged with being rogues and vagabonds who have never stolen a farthing, and punished for vagrancy when they have never broken the peace. If you c*n, in the cause of the down-trodden women -who are often less guilty than their c_ptors and their judges, find room for this, you wi 1 help Tie cause that lacks assistance, and expose The trroiLS zhsx needs resistaaee, and great will be The good that jtra can da. I My own opinion is that the leaving the [ punishment of women to men proves a Terr inadequate " protection" to the sex, and that so long as our police are the sole arbitrators of these women's destiny the force should at least be composed of steady, respectable married men of good character. Then, poor little boys and hapless girls might hope for some pity and some compunction, and that they would not be made criminals in tbe reckless, unfair way that is now the Toque. — I am, &c, ifißT A. Coici/ocgh.

TELEGRAPHIC.

[rßOi£ OrE OWy COXBKSmivDEST.] This day, 2.30 p.m. The yield of the gold&elds from 16th May to 11th Jane is $925 ounces from 6.117 tons, being a decrease of 7007 ounces from last month. The dividends shovr a similar decrease, being £12.31 L The annual meeting of the City of London was held this Eiorning. The j directors' report and balance sheet ; were adopted. Messrs. Morrin and Weston were elected directors for the I ensuing year. A resolution was passed : removing the Company's office to Auckland.

NELSON.

, The Phcebe left at 10 o'clock last | night for the 2s orth.

NAPIER

> The Nebraska arrived at 2.-JW yester day afternoon from Wellington,

THE SHARE MARKET.

3£2 X. WZSDKX'3 SSP32TT. Market quiet. Bani of 3e» Zeal^d, £13 10s; Caledonian, £17 10s to £17 15;; Green Harp. £6 15s; Moanatairi, £-5 2= Gi j Cures. 25;; Eeacb, 13s Sd ; AE s"atkms, £3 5= ; Bismarc-lr. £5 5- to £-5 7? 6d : Pride of j Tokatea. Ifts 6j ; Solcsnia, £1 1& 6i :o £1 15s.

ADJOURNED LICENSING MEETING.

j The adjourned licencing meeting of I Justices of the Peace vras held at noon to-day in the Court-Hotise, High-street, i for the purpose of hearing adjourned ! applications for renewal of licenses, new^,Jjj-"-' applications, transfers, and rehearing 3rit£3il eaies in which the iieens^, J^-_bee^ dk refused on the last Heensai^_ sriere^j^ wer* 1 present on the Bent . -. —Thomas'"~~\s Beckham. Esq.. E.M., chairman : Dr. J. /- v E. Nicbobon, Messrs. G. M. O*Eorke~% T. Cheeseman. J. Baber. K. B. Lusk. A. Clark, P. A. Philips, — Home, J. Maj, T. Eitehie. The court was crowded. _U>JOF£SED APPUCAIIOys. The first ease consisted of an aajonmed applieadon for a renewal of iisense to Alexander Barr, of the Globe totel, Wakeneld street. This was granted n ithoct opposition- TTilliam flail, Esehanee hotel, ParnelL Granted. without opposition. Edward N. I^ird, Brlrlth hotel, yorfi Shore. License renewed "without opposi tion. William Miller, Empire fcoteL Brake and kelson streets. Application granted without opposition- E. Nicholson, Eoyal hcsel, Eden Cresent. license renewed wirac^it oppo iirion. George Smith, Tort hoteL East street, Newton. License renewed without oppo j aition. The whole of the foregoing appbeatzon3 had been adjourned in consequence of the honses reqairinz repairs. The necessary repairs haring been cone to the saxiif ac tion of the police auth-oritie* the licenses were renewed. The following transfers were made, the same being- to the satisfseiion of the Inspector of the Police :— Thomas Eeliy to G. H. legg, Sunolk hotel. CoUegerToaJL W. Xiceol to J. Street, Exchange hotel, Queen-sir eet. Joseph P^Tmir, arson to W. 3. C. Adrian, Prince Ardiur hotel, Hobson and I WellesleT-streets. W. S". G. Adrian to A- Seknsuer, I Eorester's Arms hotel. Albert-street. E. W. Morrison to T. D. Leslie, Old I Honse at Heme hotel. Hobson and ! Victoria srreets. Alfred Hoaghtc-iu linperisl hotel, Queen-street- Tjeft sitting.J

COUNTING TWENTY-FIVE.

! HOW THE WIFE O? J. mCA VtX CT2233 HIS r^GOTESKAErE TE!C?H2. o^tie Uia (SIT.) SVtmL i I ?or2TD the cherished face of Maria Ass : wreathed in smiles the other evening *rh£-~i j I returned train my arduous daily $ehL j(I am c-n jggpd as sis_ndiß£ m»u at a | saloon. So many candidates are Treating, j thai the saloon keeper hires six of as to jbe treated. We ail drink with every j candidate who comes in, and it rnsVes I business pretty brisk.) Said ray chosen one, " Joshua, I as j afraid yon do not always find me an i angel in disposition." Said I, " That's so —hie^-iny dear, I I don't seMora nud you n sugel is—in anything." " Acd," she added." you are not always the most pleas-an: man is the world." I did not feel called on to reply. " said sh*\. " read that.** She had cur an item from the columns of some paper wherein a demented writer told about some impossible woman who. being troubled with a bad temper, counted twenty-fiVe every time she got provoked, and thas became a sweet, amiable, and dearly loved ornament of the house of her delighted husband. I read the article as well as the condition of mv head would allow, and remarked, " Bosh." Maria Ann paid no attention to me, bat unfolded her plan. She said that every time I got mad I should count twenty fire, and that every time she got mad she would count twenty-five. I asked her who she thought would pay our rent while we sat and counted twenty-five, over and over aH day long. Then she said I was always raising objections to her plans for oar mutual improvement, and I said I was not. and she said I was enough to try the patience of a saint, and I said she was 100, and she came for me, and I told her to count twenty-five ; bat she forgot all that, and just tallied one in my left eye. Then I was going to remonstrate with, the poker, and she told me to count twenty-five, and I said I would not; bat I I did before she had pulled more than j half my hair out. Then she made me | count twenty-five, over and over, until I was out of breath and felt rather pleasant and good-natured. So we went to supper. the cat was curled up in my chair, but I did not see it until I sa» down; sad I did not see it then ; but I was pretty sure it was there : in ta.cz I knew it was there as well as I wanted to, asd more too. I felt inclined to rise ut> suddenly, but as I gathered to spring she brandished. the tea-pot and murmured: " Joshua, your temper is rising: count tweniy-Sve or I'll break your- head." and that cat was drawing a rasp of the Tenth Ward with her claws sround' behind me with the street and boundaries marked in my blood. I lose to explain, and said_. uMy j dear—I —" but she caromed on my head I with a well-shot tea cup, and sprinkled, my jace with a quart of hot tstin-<ijjs«* sat down and counted i*enzx-i.-^ T'Yft, it tilled the cat. The old VeU^ er>]" 4$ hard though. I could feel birr J^^>^g his nine lives weni oat one by o *» A few days' practice ot this na if^ ' „£*• the loving instruction 01 a*ori^\s&- *- enabled me to ooatqae? my tei^per com pletely. Nobody can get me msd sow. I am in a stale of perpetual ealza, sad I want to see the siaa that wrote that story- I want to £1 Lira for the bands of the undertaker, and make a demand fer mourning goods amtsig his friends. Then I can die hapt>y —co*B*tiag twenir five.

THE EVENIK& STAJfc, TUESDAY, JT7NE 11, 1872.

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TjiIXAL NOTICE BErjyQUISHrS'G BrSDTBSS. R. HOBBS Has still an huL& bets-eon SIX and SKVILJf THOU SAXD POUNDS' TTOBTH o: lie VERY PICK of lie ST'VK epnasrin? of FLA>~>TXS, BL.OfKET?, F^ESXH MBBEfOBS, WTXCETS. Calicoes &ad Sheeting Dimity and Toflei Quilts. Woollen Hosiery, ■Vfaterprotrf Js-ckets snd Mantles for Indies. Giiis, »-~* Children - a=d otier =e^r "WTnitfr G«*is, i= ereftt Tsrietr irhich are now cerag CLEANED OCT AT VEEY LOW PEICES. Lidi«* ana ChUdra's X==r BUck Srra-w Hits ii ai»K Half Value. The StodE ITUST asd TTILL BE SOLD *5 B.H hi= 23 whatever of remaining in tha trade Coiibt csstorcers. irholesale bu;=--=, and «^nsTl dealers, iad birrers of job k>«3 EberaCj deth -aiti. STEITS A2TD BOYS' CLOTHTS'G of the nevesi discriDdoa. »rd Belvs. Brakes. C<.lli.is, Shirts, and Under Fiastsls. and all lend of Hodeir aaai Fell Hals, aud M-a's and Boys' Cspj ala great rednctiaa ; fctm regrT-i".* prices. V. B.— THE SALE COyTDTUE FOE A. FEW WEEKS LOyGEB O>T.Y. B. HOEBS, JITNCTION DEAPEEY WARE HOUSE, .UfFES'Q'TXXS JtJTD WjLKEFLEU) ST2XE3S. T CATER date Cromtte's) EOTAL fJ • FTXE -VET PHOTOGRAPHIC GALIXBY, Queen street. Auckland, has mnch pleasar* is isfc-rE i*g his friends and the pailio ireaerallT thai he his purchased the PhctosrrapMc Bcsisess so losg- tarried on by Mr. Grombfe : and hsrvzz f^csred tie 9»rrie« of Mr. C.'s late Manager he feels in statseg that they will receive every civiH— acd jusgooi, as well hs first-rl.iss snd artistic portraits sJ Ms "r^riCJ, anil Umt no iwins will be spared to rfve tnsSrs safefi* tlon. J.O. bofis to announce tiiaj hi»«ngggriariitii for . UUliie JnaUutAnoous Portraits of Children are cot ! complete^ TOMATO SAUCE 'J'Jia Immensa anooeas nttemllni; Uie introduction j of Hiisiiuw lopftl iinlustry will alone testify to tie volrDiu iHOltrlot'ir was arnroaly able to supply the Lii/u ilmiiauil, uiiiJ Ima in uonsiimienpa made extensive mXmmft wMWimJ« liis '^'• tor.v' l1 so," ta wi," v»liioßl>t'fllili»iia»piwt.»a pUoulil Iw without a mm "I lllls W»# limUlh-vusloring wnl agreeAhle mWvikrs)\m J» »ottlaa wili l Uia Wi of Hi 0T,60N on wrappiir anil slainpw <>» DQIWB and 10th Fobniavy IS7A



O FO?, FXKOPE AXD AMEEICA, FES SEBSasSA. THE NEW ST-ALAInQ >XoiiTlil^ 3Xail. WSH be Pctlisi-ri oa TEI>yE3DAI XZXT. a^Z 12. All ciders left at «n o3oe or pr=2 ::• czr naners ■sill be p-onp-ilr at:«aded :o. Price Tlireepeiice-