SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSST : This eresins, 8.27. HIGH "WATER: This evening, 5.53,

STBAMBR FOB THE THAMES. Lady Bowen, 7 o'clock this tvening.

ARVIVALS.

ZS'iomi, ship Robertson, from London. Dauntless, schooner, Moller, from Taurtnga. i'airy, schooner, from "Wangaroa. Eagle, ketch, from Russell. Wild Duck, ketch, from Russell. Swallow, schooner, Bushel, from Mercury Bay. Mary Eliza, cutter, Mann, from Hokianga. Fortune, schooner, Parker, from East Coast. Speedwell, ketch, from Wangaroa.

DEPARTURES

Comerang, p.s., Chrisp, for Russell. Sea Cull, brigantine, Jones, for Russell Clyde, schooner, Anderson, for Wangarei. Tauranga, schooner, Sellars, for Tauranga

ARRIVAL OF THE NAOMI

The fine ship Naomi, 700 tons, Captain J. Robert son, arrived in harbor last night from London, after a passage of 110 days. She left London on the ICth November, and took her final departure from the Lizard on the 20th; light baffling winds prevailed nntil passing the island of Madeira on the 23th, when :•- strong westerly gale wa3 encountered, during which the galley started, two of the boats were stove in, and several of the 3ails split to ribbons. The gale, how ever, only lasted six hours. Rounded the Cape of Oood Hope on January 20 ; Van Dieman's Land, on February 22 ; jSTorth Cape, on the 2nd inst. Captain Robertson reports the passage to have bsen one of unusual fineness, being enabled to keep his stu'n'-sail booms out the whole of the passage, A passenger, named Septimus Mace, died on the 14th February from general debility. He had been ailing for some time before leaving England. Ha was buried on the followins day, Captain Anderson reading the burial service. " The following is a list of the passengers by the Xaomi :—

First cabin: Mr- David Clarkson, Miss Mary S. Russell, Mr. A. L. Sutton, Mrs. Kemp, Miss R. Kemp. Miss I". Kemp, Master Kemp, Mr. H. Triffry. Second cabin: Mr. R, "\Voodcock, Mr. W. Cqlenso. Intermediate : Elizabeth Norton. Sarah and Richard Malcolm. C. -T. Fox, Fanny Edwards and sinfant, Gordon Todd, Septimus and Martha Mace, Caroline, Elizabeth, William George, Martha, and Louisa Mace ; "VV. E., Eiizabeth, Ernest, G. S., and Rachel Basten: Anne Gower, • Edward Derby.—Brown, Campbell, and Co., agents.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Sydney and Melbourne : Hero, s.s., J3rd inst. For Tahiti: Edith, schooner, early. For London : Caduceus, ship, early ; Ka Moi, barque

early. For Southern ports: Phoebe, 9th tost. For >Tapier, Wellington, lyttelton, and Otag«

TCa»ra. early. For Honolulu : Nebraska, mail steamer, 21st March. For Newcastle: Kalahome, barque, to-morrow. For Tauranga: Dauntless, schooner, to-morrow.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Hero, s.s., from Sydney. Magellan Cloud, schooner, from Chatham Islands "Wild Duck, ship, from London, sailed 10th December Moa, brig, from Melbourne. (Sailed Feb. 4.) iMenjlee. ship, from London (sailed Jan. 11). Frowning Beauty, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed

February 14 Bella MarT-, barque, from Hobart Town. Cvrene, barque, from Lyttelton Byron, Brig, from Sydney Taranakl, s.s., from the South. England, ship, from London. Ella Gladstone, brij, from Adelaide. Maggie, brig, from Adelaide. Amherst, schooner, from Sydney. Janet Grey, schooner, from Fiji. Alice Cameron, barque, from Sydney. Ka Moi, barque, for Honolulu

The schooner Fortune arrived this morning from the East Coast with 900 bushels "wheat and 10 pigs. .

Tho ketch Speedwell arriverl for Wangaroa to-day, with 12000 feet baulk timber, 30,000 shingles, and 50 gheep. The Golden Crown will leave for the Thames at 10 o'clock sharp to-morrow morning. The schooner Swallow arrived this morning from Mercury Bay, with 17,500 feet timber. The Mary Eliza, cutter, 'arrived from Hokianga this morn:n<r, with the following cargo :—3 tons bark, Must and Co. ; 3 tons gum, Kelly ; 8 tons gum, Mtist and Co. —M. Niccol, agent.

COMMERCIAL.

MIXISG.

The follo-vring ar« the current calls and dividends payablß in the companies named below : — DIVIDENDS. Cock-a-Doodl« .. .. 0 3 0j Mar SS CALLS Christchurch .. ...: 0 0 3 Mar 7 Coronet- --' .. ..-'0 1 0 Mar 7 Geelon? .. ..010 Mar 7 Sons of Freedom ..026 Max T. Pickwick .. .. 0> 0 3 •' Mar 11 Neptune .. ..006 Mar 15 Sunbeam .. ..010 -Mar 18 ■ Queen of May .. ..0 0 4 Mar 20 Orients! 0 0 3 Mar 20 "VV&itsmata ■ .. ..010 Mar !0 Murphy's Hill .. .. 0 0 3 Mar 20 North Devon .. ..010 Mar SI

JtMTIWOS TO COME. ■ - • : r

Pride of Tokatea, Mechanics', 12 noon March ll ) Mutual Mining Investment, Young Men's Christian

Association, 8 p.m.March 12 . . gons of Freedom, Canada Buildings, 3 p.m. March 16 "West Coast, Grahamitown, March IS. ■ Commercial, Grahamstbwn. Ma-rch 20 "• Multum-in-Parvo, British Hotel, 3 p.m. March 20. Oriental, Grahxmitown, March 21. '~.-■. i Flagship Anchor, Shortland, March 26.

POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND STREET.

Mails -will Clou as TTnder : For Thames, this day; «,t 5.80. p.m., and to-morroir,

at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Bussell, Kawa Kawa, etc, .per Duke of Edin '« burgh, this day,:at 4 p.m; '„"-• For Kapanga, etc., per Koyal Alfred, to-morrow at

11.30 a.m. For Tauranga and Opotiki, per Dauntless, to-morroir,

at 3 p.m. Per s.s. Phcebe, on Friday, Bth inst., as follows >-r For India, China, Mauritius, Mediterranean -' Port?,

and Continent of Europe, at 5 p.m. For Australian Colonies, at 5 p.m. For CTnited Kingdom, via Suez and Southampton (for

letters specially so addressed), at 5 p.m. For United Kingdom, via Brindisi, at 6 p.m. For Tavanaki and Southern provinces of New Zea-

land, at 5 p.m. For Jfahurangi, Matakana, Mangawai, eta, per L»dy

Bowen, on Saturday, 9th instant, at 10 a.m. For Russell, per Eagle, on Saturday, 9th instant, at

9 a.m. For "Ruato, per Speedwell, on Saturday, 9th instant, at 5 p.m.

S. B. Biss, Postmaster.

DIED.

CLARKE.—On the Gth March, at the residence of her father. Karangahape Road, Annie, infant daughter of Jli\ Charles and Marion Clarke, aged 7 months.

The Evening Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, and the Morning News

THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 1872.

Fnr the causa that lacks assistance,

For tho wrong fchs.t needs resistance, For tho future in the distance, And tho good that wo cau do."

In another column we submit the evidence taken in the Police Conrt in the charge laid by the Bank of New Zealand ag-ainsfc Boyle. We do so without rote or comment; the deposi tions being1 quite int illigible, and speak ing, for themselves Perhaps two more impartial ond intelligent li'ug'istrafces could not have been found iv the district to unravel an intricate case than Messrs. Margaville and Ritchie; and their conduct of the case vhrouo-hout was characterised oy scrupulous fair-

We shaH " sleep over ' what we ave inclined to say oq the subject, feeling that we shaH be aWe to wi'ifa more temperately, if not more wisely.

ness.

We were somewhat astonished at observing in the columns of our contemporary the Herald of this morning, that Uio now ocra mittc3 of the Mechanic' Institute is proceed ing about the expenditure of tho Provincial Council grant,:for the purpose of patching up the disreputably located building, in whiih the Institute is at present housed. This \i totally contrary to the understanding on which the committoe accepted office. They were simply to occupy the position, and carry on the affairs of the Institute until the general meeting, at which, the constitution of the institution is to be totally remodelled, and the public are enabled to have a voice in the future "■ proceedings of thi3 hitherto mis managed establishment. It appears from our contemporary that men have actually been eet to work, and that" two additional rooms are to bo built on the east side of the present reading rooms." It is Btatod that "at the committee meeting on Tuesday this work was ordered." This is unquestionably an error, unless we have been misinformed ; and it is more probable that it is a remnant of tho "highandednes'g that has characterised the past of this institution. There is no necessity for thi9 sudden accession of enthusiaaii, developing itself in the form of permanent additions to a buildiug that will cer tainly cease being used for the purposes of the Mechanics' Institute, so soon as public influence can penetrate into the arcana of it 3 control. .. There is a large addition to the list of members. When their membership matures, they wi)l bo called upon to take^ a part in the guidance of tho Institute ; and .forA&Q committee to thU3 initiato extensions of the buildings of such a character, is too much like one of the jobs that used to be carried on sub rosa. But we do not believe the committee have sanctioned this. There is a large numbsr of thoroughly good members in tha present committee ; and we venture to say they will not allow irregular proceedings. , Tho officers and committee are only tem porarily holding office, and they should remember this, or

We have just had furnished to us a piece of information, which, from our confidence in the reliability of our informant, we desire to convey to the public. As we may almost regard diarrhoea as being an endemic in Auckland, manifesting itself with greatest virulence during the summer months, any specific that can be accepted as a reliable remedy,:would be accepted as'au invaluable boo/i,., Our informant has shown us a weed; to which, whether rightly or wrongly, the term " Flea-bane" is applied. He has assured 113 that, to his own knowledge, it ha 3 cured hundreds'-at the Thames, and it is regarded by him as being an unfailing cure even in obstinate and confirmed case?. The eating of a few sprigs of it, wo aro assured, is q-iite sufficient to curs in general cases, and a ■lecjction, more or less strong, can be given to either adults or infants. The plar.t is quite harmless, as we can personally testify. For being prepared to make ourselres a martyr for the canso of science, and for tho benefit of the sick and afflicted among our readers, wo havo

eaten a considorallo quantity of the plant, and we are living still. It has a pungent but a pleasant taste, and as the weed is exceedingly common about the city, anyjperson so desiring, can see a specimen at our Wyndham street office. It is, of course, an "old" woman's cure," but old wives are not to bo di*pissd in th« economy of nature, for often " the sunset of life gives them mystical lore."

The specimen* of Asphalt, pavement recently laid in Wyndhain Street, past the door of tho Star office is now to be seen in its finished state^ and we believe it lies afforded general satisfaction. From tho doplh and quantity laid, it has not yet attained to the perfect hardness which a few mantha setting will give it j but from the pains (alien, there there can be no doubt that & few months will give it that setting which will make it, for all time, proof against our hottest summer suns. We understand that it has been favorably reported to the City Council* so Ihat any person desirous of having such material laid, in preference to going to the excessive expense of stone flagging, will pro bably find iio difficulty with the Citj Council. We think that this is a matter worthy of tho prompt attention of citizens. The footpaths now must bo made, and it rests with citizens to selfct between a material reesonably cheap, equally durable with stone, much pleasanter to eye and foot, and on the other hand stone flagging, tho cost of which would go far to wards putting up respectable shops in place of the tumble down buildings that constitute a largo proportion of the edifices in the; prin cipal streets. An advertisement will be found in another column, in which the Aspbalfcer, Mr. Momson, who has laid the pavement in Wyndham street offers his

8 Tvier-s !o citizens

A real Italian imiige-man has found his way to Auckland, and is tj be eeen perambulating tho streets selling hia wares. Tho Madonna and Child; tho TL>ly Virgin; the King of Italy; Cavour; Tlis LToliness Pops Pius IX j Etnporcr of Austria; Empe»"Orof Germany j *nd other notables', p:ist ftnd present, form his stock-in-tvadp. We believe *l.h enterprising rtilian is CApnble of moulding the isnriges he sell?, nnd «houl:l pxifficiout inducement offer, we sty II probably ?<"an have hawking in oik street?, effigies of tho Hon. Julius Vogol; His Wo"ship tho Mayor ; Judge Beckliam, and other locul celebrities.

Great in(ero3t appeared to bo taken this morning, in hearing the charge preferred by a slerk in the Bank of New Zealand against Boyle, in relation to tho over-payment cf a cheque, tho Court being crowded during the proceedings. During the examination io chief the prosecuting counsel was guilty of a boll, iy-i-he following manner. After the witness had 'Tt'scribed how he paid the cheque, Mr Brook ficld asked — "Did you make that mistake intentionally ?" Mr. Eee3 :" I object to that question. How c;uld the witness make a mib'uke intentionally ? Ts my lrarncd friend making any mistake intentionally, by asking such'a question;.?" After due consideration the Bench ruled that the question could not be put in that form. The incident caused great laughter, in which the Court, co fir as its dignity would permit, joined.

A committee meeting of the Auckland Alliance for the Suppression of the Liquor Traffic was held last evening at the Young Men's Christian Association Rooms. It was decided to take no further steps in the matter of an amalgamation with the Prury Alliance, a letter having been received from the latter stating that (hey had resolved to defer the discussion. The meeting was adjourned until next Tuesday, to consider the action to be taken prior to next licensing day.

We have received a sample of Mr. Robert Neal's New Zealand Sauce. It is of an exquisite flavour, and imparts a zest to chop* or steaks, fish, soup, or any other dish, fancy may dictate/ The sauce is similar in flavor to the famed Worcester sauce, and for its general usefulness should be well patronised, especially as it is tho produce of a " loca] industry."

We are informed that Cyrus Haley intends to move the Supreme Court to change the venue of his trial down to Wellington. If he should succeed on his application, the cost of witnesses expenses will 1 c something enor. mous, to say nothing of the personal incon. venience they will be put to.

The following notice hn.s been posted up at the Tologrflph Office:—"Arrangements hav ing been made for a tri-weekly telegraph mail to the South, messages will be received here : On Sundays till 5.30 p.m. (double fee); Tuesdays, 9 p.m..; Thursday, 9 p.m."

Yesterday evening tho Rev. C. W. Rrigg giive an account of the proceedings of the general Wesleyan Conference of Australia held in Melbourne, at which he had attended. The address was delivered in Pitt-street Chapel.

The twenty-ninth anniversary of the Loya^ Fountain of Friendship Lodge, Odd Fellows, will be celebrated by a soiree and ball on Wednesday neit, at the Odd Fellows' Hall (Theatre Royal). '

The barometer stood an extraordinary height this- '.morning, registering an atmospheric pressure sufficient to balance 30.56 inches of

mercury;

Strange to say, no drunkards put in an appearance at the Police Court this morning.

The two assault cases preferred against Lewis Ke}\j, and a cross action, were amicably

settled

Sir George L. Arney returned to town last evening, " from Tauranga, in the schooner Dauntless.

The well sunk for the City Council, at tho corner of Barrack street, has been finished for some time, and has been securely covered over, but for1 what purpose it is difficult to con-

jecture.

A young lady, with a very pretty foot, but •' rather largo ancle, went into a San .Francisco shoe Store tobe moasured. Theadmiring clerk, who is of Gallic'extraction, complimented her in the following queer way:—Madame you have one bootifulfoofc, but ziieg com aon cos. too immediately.'

What n tall' ca,fc,;pu33- would bain bsofd She would bo four, foefc.

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. Before J. M. Bargaville and Thomas Bitchie,

Esqs., Justices,

The Alleged Eobbery of £100 feom the

Bane op New Zealand.

Edward Boyle, on bail, appeared to answer a charge preferred against him by -E. T. J. Parfltt, of feloniously stealing and carrying array moneys to the value of £100, the property of the Bank of New Zealand.

Mr. <for and Mr. Refs appeared for de fendant ; and the prosecution Was conducted by Mr. Brobkfield.

Mr. Brookfield, in opening the case, said there were peculiar features in it. It arose in this way : Prisoner had a cheque for £116 133 6d., drawn by J. S. llacfarlane. He presented the cheque, and proseoutor, a teller ir. the Bank of New Zealand, observed a discrepancy between the amount in figures and that in words. He sent him back and got it corrected. Mr. Parfitt seemed to have mistaken the amount, and somehow got £200 instead of £100 in his head. He threw this amount and the small balance over the counter to prisoner, who examined it, counted the notes, and put them into his breast-pocket. On balancing at the close of the day, the error was found out by observing on the back of the cheque the manner in which it had been liquidated

The learned gentleman went on to shew how it wa3 thi3 could be construed into larceny, although the money had actually been handed oTer to prisoner ; and quoted cases in point from the Law Reports; In one of thdse a bureau had been sold by auction as being empty, but the defendant found afterwards a purse of money in a secret drawer. This he appropriated. Yet, nlfchough he had actually purchased the article, he was, after much argument, found guilty of larceny. Mr. Brookfie'd quoted various legal opinions at some length as to what constitutes larceny. Prisoner, moreover, had subsequently denied all knowledge of having received anything more than the £116. There was also some oircum3tances which tended to show a guilty knowledge, and conversion of the property of ths "Rank to his own use.

Mr. Peter Thomas Jones Piirfitt deposed : lam a teller in the Bank of New Zealand. It is part, of my duty to cash cheques. On the 28th February prisoner came to the Bank. He presented a cheque of J. S. Maefarlane's for payment. I produce the cheque. It is for £116 13a. Gel . It was not iv the same state when flrst presented. The figures rend £113 13s. 6d , and the words £116 13a. 6d. He went back and had it altered and initialed. I asked him how he would reef ire the money. Ho said ho would take about £50 in sovereign?, and have tho rest plur-ed at the credit of his account. After & moments' hesitation, he said ho would tako it all. I marked the cheque seven twenties?, two tens, forty-six sovereigns, which I pnid him. First of all, I took a buurlle of notes out of the drawer, containing five twenty pound notes. I then took two loose £20 notes and two £10 notes, and handed them to him lying faces upwards, and the two £20 rotes on the top. I took off my tray, two rouleaux of soverigns containing twenty each, and gave him them with sixteen looae ones, and the odd money, 13?. 6d. He endorsed the cheque. I cannot say for certain whether he counted the notes. I paid him £216 13s. fid. instead of £116 13s. 6d. He took the money and loft the Bank. There i« a colored mark on tho back of tho £20 notfa by which I can distinguish them from othere. 10's, s's, and l'§ have also distinguishing marks of different colors. On examining my cash book and counting the cash after the bank closed, I found a deficiency of £100. I looked over my vouchers and found that Mr. Macfiirlnne's cheque for £116 13s. 6d. had been paid as £216 13s. 6d. I then want out to look for Boyle. I did nol find him till the following morning, when I mot him in the stroet. I told him I had paid him £100 too much on the previous day, and asked him to look into his pocket and count the notes kgain. Before he took any note 3 from his pocket he denied having received £100 t»0 much, or more than he was entitled to. He then pro duced some notes and showed them. I noticed one £20 and eoveral £I*, but I did not count them. Mr. Robertshaw, Mr. Tonka, and others were standing by the counter when I cashed the cheque. By Mr. Joy : I signed the information about 11 o'clock on the morning of the 29th. This was about an hour and a half after I hud seen him. I had not had any conversation up to that time with any of those who had been standing by the counter. I felt satisfied both from recollection and from my figures on the cheque, that I had paid hia £100 too much I never had any doubt on the subject. I knew what Eum I wus uaying him, and that was the sum running in my mind at the amount of tho cheque and I paid it inten* tionally. I paid jit! from my own endorse* ment on the the cheque, which I made before handing over the money. When I went to him the following morning I had a clear re collection of the manner in which I had paid him. When I had the conversation I did not deny having givon him any £10 notes. I did not oxplain to him how I had made the over* payment. I did not confer with the people who had been at the counter, but acted on the advice of the bank solicitor, and laid tho information. I believe prisoner counted tho notes because when people do not, I invariably notice the omission. Prisoner's endonement was on the cheque whon it was first presented to me, and before he was paid anything.

Re-examined by Mr. Brookfield: At tho time I paid tho £216 13s. 6d., it was not my intention to pay more than tho value of the cheque.

Mr. Keos submitted that the ovidence of prosecutor was altogether insufficient to war rant a charge of larceny against prisoner. The teller had admitted that he had delibe^ atoly handed over the larger sum. Not even an'action for trespass would lie in any Court.

The Court were of opinion that so far no case had been made out to warrant them in sending prisoner to tako his trial. Othor evidence, however, might be forthcoming. They decided therefore, in going on wifh the matter.

Mr. George M. Eobertshaw, a dealer in shares, deposed : Last Saturday week I was in the Bank of New Zealand. I saw prisoner there. Tie presented a cheque to the teller for payment. Pariitt asked how he would take it. lie said £50 in gold, and leave the rest in the Bank. He subsequently changed his mind, and said he would take it all out in notes. The taller then threw him a small packet of notes. They were notes with a blue band at the back —similar to tho»e produced. Prisoner took them up, and without opening them wide, counted the number. He either put them in his breast pocket or his haversack. On turning round, I saw two £20 notes and some others under neath, lying on the connter; and th« teller was just putting down a pile of eoverignp, which. I presume contained twenty. He then put down another pile, which I supposed contained the same number. He then took another pile of similar appearance and put them immediately in front of him self. He counted thorn over, and there were twenty of them. He re-counted them, and took four away, and put ibera into a drawer.

He then added some other money to the rest, and took the shovel and passed them over to prisoner, who took them up. The teller then attended to top, and I took no further notice. By Mv Rees: I am not a detective. 1 was told oq Friday that Mr Parfitt' wanted to see nu1, I waited on him and told him and the manager what money I had seen handed over. At that time I was under the impressioii that the cheque was for £500 or £600. When I saw the bundle of notes handed over I thought they were £100 notes. I know now that there must have been handed over fiv« £20 note?, £56 in gold, two other £20 notes besides some others ly nx* underneath. 1 did not see the prisoner count the notes • but if I had been on the other side of him I should have seen him. Detective Ternahan deposed : I apprehended the accused on a warrant on Thursday, the 29th ult. I told him the charge was for stealing £100 from the Bank of New Zealand. He said "Yes, was charged with this before.' He then Baid he had no money but what he was entitled to get. He said he had drawn two £20 notes, two £10 notes, fitty six sovereigns. He said he had spent about £80 of the money, lie was short of the £11613s 64. I found on him one £20 note, eleven £1 notes, fortj-eieht sovereigns five half-ioTereigns, £3 10s 3d in silver, and five pence in coppers. He accounted for greater balence of what he was short. He said he had changed one £20 note at Owen and Graham's. He said that afte:- he received the money he had tnken a horse and ridden out to Onehunga to see his father. He said he did see him, and he rode into town in a coach, while prisoner rodo. He told me he had no bout at^Onelumga

This completed the case for the prosecution The Bench said there was no evidence be fore them as to whose property the money

was. • Mr Brookfield, therefore, sent for Mr Par fitt, who, being recalled to the witness box, deposed : The money which I paid to the prisoner was the property of tho Hank of Now Zealand. Mr. E,ees for the defence, sited cases reported in "Koscoe," and other law reports, showing that there was a distinction between things "being taken in mistake and things being delivered iv miitake. Under no cir cumstances, coul-1 the present case be con strued as one of larceny, iriuaniuch as there is stated te have been actual delivery of the money to the prisoner. Even if prisoner had actually obtained possession by fraud or misrepresentation, it could not amount to larceny, as possession of the money had in guch case been handed over. Goods must actually bo taken anhno furandi before a charge of larceny enuld be sustained. No miiappropriation of tho money after it had been deliberately handed over by the bank elrrk, could constitute larceny. There must be a taking of articles against the will of the owner, to warrant a charge of larceny: The Bank had adduced evidence to prove that it paid too much nion^y to prisoner. If so they ha 1 their remedy by civil- process, but then prisoner's mouth would be; opened, and he would be able to give evidence, which might give a very different aspect to the case. He thought it utterly preposterous that even if the bank clerk had made a mistake, and handed over too much money, the recipient al ould be proceeded against criminally. Mr. BrookPield replied. He urged that the fnct of prisoner's luring denied lvceivin^r the noney,wasin reality the fraudulenteonversion. After he had done so, Mr. Parfitt bad no other alternative than to ae1-. as he had done, without compounding a feloay. He main* tame 1 that actual larceny had been committed.

The Court then adjourned till a quarter-past 2, to give the Bench time to deliberate. On resuming, the chairman, J. M. Darga ville, Esq., said that the Bunch liad considered nil the authorities quoted on both sides, and decided to dismiss the case;; This announce ment wa» received with cueem, which weire speedily suppressed. Mr Kees applied for an ordento daliveriup to prisoner all the moneys found upon him. i Mr. Brookfield objected to this course, and The Bench declined to grant the "order, stating that they preferred to allow the law to take its usual course.

This concluded ths business

CROWN PRINCE GOLD MINING COMPANY.

An extraordinary meeting of the share holders in this company was held this afternoon at the Queen's Ferry Hotel, Vulcan Lane. Theye was a-fuil attendance, and Mr. G. S. Graham was Voted to the chair. The business was simply the con firming of the minutes- of last meeting, which having been done the [proceedings terminated in the usual manner. , .

PROFESSOR HAYELMAYER AT ONEHUNGA.

This, evening the Onehungans will have a treat in the shape of an entertainment, to be given in the Mechanics' Imstitute, and there is no doubt that from Professor Haselmayer's celebrity the population will turn out en masse, to witness for them selves the wonderful tricks. To-morrow evening an entertainment will be given by him at Otahuhu Public Hall, for.)which the Otahuhuites ought to feel';deeply grateful to the Professor for the.'.trouble taken by him to gratify their wishes.

RIDING A BICYCLE ON A TIGHT ROPE AT THE CITY HALL.

Feank Baery performed this difficult feat last evening at the City Hal], as An nounced, and for his intrepidity- ahd daring is deserving of the highest en coniums, coupled with public favour. Doubts were expressed as to the geriu inenes of this feat, but to all •who saw it, and there was a large audience, it was decidedly carried out. In as unassuming a manner as Frank Barry arrived in Auckland, so he mounted the scaffold last night, and as plain Frank Barry, he per formed this extraordinary feat —a feat that Blondin with his world—renowned popularity never attempted to do— and to Frank Barry, is deserving of all-praise and patronage. Scarcely less daring is the intrepid, Mdlle. Victoire, who last evening performed on the tight rope, and would also have performed on the trapeze sus pended from the bicycle, but for a little untoward accident namely, the cutting of her hand yesterday afternoon. This trifling event, however, prevented her from carrying out the full programme. The audience were quite prepared to accept this apology, knowing that; from jvhat they saw of her, she was quite capable 'of doing more. As it is now an.established fact that Frank Barry and Mdlle. Victoire can and will do, all'they have professed, they will be sure, to have a crowded house this evening to Tritness their prodigious and perilous feats.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Cure Crushing.

Bright Smile Splendid Crush-

ing

Kelly's Tribute.

Water in the Caledonian Shaft.

The Colibian Case. Judgment for Defendants

The Cure crushing is looking well

The Bright Smile crushing of 70 tons yielded the good return of 120 ounces.

Kelly's tribute have crushed 20 tons. The result is 28 ounces. The Caledonian shaft has 16 feet of water in it.

-At the Warden Court this morning the case of Davidson v. Colibian Com pany came on. The plaintiff sued for three eights share owned by him in the Providence claim. Judgment was given for the defendant with costs.

WELLINGTON.

(via kati kati.)

March 5. The Tarnnaki will leave to-day for the North.

AN INTERVIEW WITH ADMIRAL SEMMES.

SOME INTEBES'CING FACTS ABOUT THE

" ALABAMA."

(By David Macrae.)

My first sight of the once famed com mander of the Alabama wr.s at Mobile. I had notes to him from various Southern officers, and being in quest of information which Captain Semmes was the moat likely to have, I deemed it of importance to find him out. This turned out to be no easy matter ; and as the case illustrates two very curious features of American and specially (at present) of Southern life— namely, the unsettled condition of the people both as regards home and occupa tion —I had better tell the whole story.

A FKITITLESS SEARCH

It was reported at the North that Capt. Semmes on his return to the States hacl become a professor of moral philosophy, but had failed. Ie was conjectured that the Alabama had furnished an indifferent training for a moral philosophy chair. At any rate he- had, according to report, given it up, and gone upon the staff of a Mobile newspaper. On reaching Mobile I asked the clerk at the hotel if he knew where Captain Semmes lived.

No; he didn't

" What paper docs he edit ?"■ "No paper," said the clerk. "He did edit a paper once, but he gave that up." .ii" What is he doing now ?"

" God kuows," said the clerk

"I reckon they'll be able to tell you at the Tribune office," said a tall gentleman who was lounging against the rails.

Away to the Tribune office I accordingly went : glad, when I reached it. to escape from the glare and furnace-like heat of the Southern sun. I made my way up to the editor's room, but was taken aback by the following intimation on the door: —" Posi tively no admittance until after two o'clock, except to whip the editors." A conflict with a fighting editor struck me as an unhappy and precarious way of ad vancing my enquiries ; however, I made bold to knock. The door was opened by a pale young gentleman with a quid of tobacco in his cheek, who told me that the editor wag notin. I said that was a pity, as it prevented the possibility of whipping him. At this mild joke the pale young gentleman condescended (after ejecting a mouthful'of tobacco juice) to smile. He said, in answer to my inquiries, that he could not tell where Semmes was to be found ; though he lived out in the country somewhere ; but was certain they could inform me definitely in the office below. .

JSTo more knowledge on the subject seemed to exist in the office below than I had found in the office above. It occurred, however, to one gentleman that Captain Semmes was now a lawyer, arid that his address might be found in the Directory. He obligingly went for the Directory—the Americans are generally very polite—and turned up the name. There it was. sure enough, " Semmes, 8., attorney, 4, Dau phin street."

"Ah, 4, Dauphin street," said the gentleman, sending, a squirt under the ;c©unCer. ■ "He ain't there now; that's certain."

Here let me remark that the principal use of some directories in America seems to be, to let you know where not to go. " But here is his son, said the gentle man, who was still looking at the book, " Semmes, jr., at Caleb Price's, corner of Water and Conter streets."

I thanked my polite friend, thought my search was to be crowned with success at last, and set off through the oppressive heat to Conter-street. . 1 reached Price's, which tarried out to be a hardware store, went in, and asked for Mr. Semmes.

"Ah, he aint here now," said the man behind the counter. "He was here, but he is gone to Memphis."

'"Is' his father, the Admiral, at Mo bile?"

'• I reckon he is. Lives in the country somewhere." V

" Do you know where I could find the exact address ?"

" No, sir."

I beean to think there was to be as much ■difficulty m capturing the Admiral as there had been in capturing 3iis ship. This last straw fr-oke the camel's back. I was already like to drop from sheer fatigue, and the thought of setting out on further search with no clue to success was too trying to be thought of. Half melterl with the heat—Southern heat is something tearful—l got back to Battle House, ami refreshed myself with such a dinner anfi such dolicious iced water as can only be' got in an American hotel.

Fortunately further search became un necessary. In the afternoon I met Major E , a personal friend of Captain Serames, who told me that the Admiral V7a.s now a public lecturer; that he was to deliver a lecture in Mobile that very night; and that be would |v'e pleasure in going with me and intfj pcing me. My only fear was that the v Wsatile Ad miral might change his profession again before the hour of meeting and not make his appearance. According to arrangement the Major accompanied me to the theatre, and took me round to tho green room that we might meet the Admiral before the lecture began. MY FIBST SIGHT OF THE ADMIEAI. We had not been many minutes waiting when Semmes appeared. He is a small, dark-looking man, thin, wiry, weather beaten in face, with a fierce-looking mous tache, twisted outwards at the ends, and a dangerous look abont his black, restless eyes. .One can see at a glance that Semmes is no ordinary man.

He was dressed for the occaFion in what a Scotchman would call his Sunday clothes —a sleek and most unpiratical suit of black, including dress coat, large white shirt-cuffs, and black tie hanging in front of his turn-down collar. He lookedkeenly and warily into my eyes, as we shook hands, took a seat and entered into -con versation, but was evidently a little troubled about his" lecture, and would every now and then twist his moustache with an abstracted air. Two or three gentlemen came in, each of whom he pressed to take the chair at the meeting. One of them said his friend Mr would be a much move suitable man. Mr —— said he could not think of it, and suggested, that it would be far better for the Admiral to have no chairman at all—that it was quite the custom now for lecturers just to go in and begin without ceremony. It Was true, and yet I could not but think that I detected an unexpressed reluctance to bo associated with the Admiral in so public a manner, when he was going to lecture on the very subject about which the party now in power felt so sore. Per haps I was mistaken, but even if I was right, this feeling, in the present painful circumstances of the South, is not to' be wondered at.

The few minutes conversation I now had with the Admiral related to the Ala bama. When the difficulty she had given rise to between Great Britain and America was mentioned, Semmes said— "Great Britain had nothing to do with the Alabama in her capacity as a Confe derate war-ship. The Yankee papers say she was equipped in a British port. It was not so. She left Liverpool like'any merchant ship, without a gun or a single firmed man aboard of her. I reached Liverpool three days after and found that she had gone to the Azores. I followed her; and there a transport met us with guns. If any nation is responsible, it is Portugal. But Portugal is not responsible neither, for she had no force there to prevent me. I was three days at the Azores, and then steamed out upon the high seas, and put the Alabama formally upon commission. He also said—" Wot one penny of the cost was contributed in England. She was paid for out of the treasury of the Confederates States ; and she was Used for Confederate purposes, just as the rifles and ammunition bought by the North in England were used for Federal purposes."

He said that though the North laid so much stress on the Alabama having been built in England, he could prove to me, from documents in his possession, that the Federal Government were at one time negotiating with Laird of Liverpool to build war- hips for them. A copy of these proofs he afterwards forwarded. j Speaking of life on board the Alabama, he said he had no chaplain on board, but Sunday was observed as a day of rest. Describing the routine of capture, he said—" I hud a man at the masthead in I all weathers. 'Sail.ho!' from him an nounced a ship in sight. The officer on deck would then cry up to him through the trumpet. ' Where away ? ' WhatMoes (she look like ?' and so forth. If she turned out to be a merchantman ..we hoisted the flag most likely to lull any suspicions, stood, for her, and sent off a boat. As soon as our officer stepped aboard I of heivwehoiste'd the Confederate flag, and j the officer pointed to it as the one under which the capture was made. When she was an American ship we took off her I crew and burnt her. We had no resource; I there, was no port open to take her to.T If I she had English property aboard I took a j ransom bond and let her go." j He had still some of these bonds j " stowed away," he said, " where even j Sen Butler in s arch of spoons cculd not ] find th,em." I asked him for one as a | curiosity, seeing they were waste paper 'now; (but the Admiral did; not know what, in the course" of Providence, might turn up yet, and thought it best to keep I them. '

SEMITES AS A LECTITBEE

It was now time for the lecture, so the Major and I went into the theatre and took our seats. There was a somewhat thin audience ; but most of the Southern people of the lecture-attending kind had been .almost beggared since the war, and the charge that night was, I think, a dollar.

It was some time after the hour before Semmes made his appearance. At last he .came stepping quietly upon the.ftage alone,:fe? hat in one haud, his mariitfecript in the other. The audience, as is cus tomary at such meetings in America,,re ceived him in silence.

Tho Admiral, with his dark, weather beaten face and corsair look, seeme^o find himself out of his element standing 'j?i black clothes behind a reading desk. j> (™ black eyes, tvith a cast of sadness in thoiu? glanced restlessly to different parts of the building; and once or twice he smacked his lips as if his mouth \rere too dry. 'His voice M-as somewhat weak, but he spoke distinctly, and gave us an exceedingly graphic and interesting lecture, with abun dant evidence in it of thought, culture, and literary power. There was even a touch here andthere of the moral philoso pher. In describing his war upon the whale ships, he was led, by an unloaded for association of ideas, into a dissertation ou the natural history of the whale; and the_ beautiful providential arrangement by which; God provides that animai with food and prepares it for the use of man. " The same beneficent hand that feeds the ratfen, said, the Admiral piously, "feeds the

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