SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET : This evening, 5.40. HIGH "WATER: This afternoon, 2.20.

STEAMER TO THE THAMES. Lady Bowen, 12 o'clock midnight.

ARRIVALS.

(■o-ahcad, s.s., McOillivray, from Southern ports, Tawera, schooner, Kennedy, from Poverty Bay. Mahurangi, schooner, Neil, from Mahurangi.

DEPARTURES Go-ahead, steamer, McGffiivray, for New Plymouth \\ anganui, steamer, Linklater, for Wanganui

ARRIVAL OF THE GO-AHEAD.

Ihes.s. Go-ahead, Captain McOillivray, left Wel lington at 5 p.m. on the 27th; arrived at Manawatu at 11 a.m. on the 18th ; left same day 1.30 p.m., same night at 9p.in. ; left again at 1 a.m. on the 31st ; arrived at New Plymouth at 9 p.m. ; left again at 4 p.m., and arrived here at 4 p.m. yesterday. Experi enced fine weather throughout. Passengers : Messrs. Brewer and Shera. Cargo : 25 head cattle, 412 sheep, 15 pigs, W. Brewer. We are indebted to Mr. Newman for our flies.

ARRIVAL OF THE TAWERA. CAPSIZING OF A BOAT.

The schooner Tawera arrived in harbor yesterday afternoon from Poverty Bay and the East Coast, bringing a cargo of produce," &c. Captain Kennedy informs us that on Friday last, at eleven o'clock; whilst standing in towards Awanru, a boat put off from the shore deeply ladeel with maize, fruit, and pigs, and two passengers. There was a very heavy sea rolling, and just as the boat readied the schooner she filled and broke up, the passengers and crew having barely time to get on board the Tawera, The boat and cargo wag the property Mr. E. Walker, a settler at Awanui, and was valued at about £00 or £70;

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Sydney and Melbourne: City of Melbourne, on arrival of Nevada. For Tahiti: Edith, schooner, to-morrow. For London : Caduceus, ship, early ; Ka Moi, barque, early. For Kaipara : Mary Eliza, to-day. For Levuka : Julia Price, schooner, to-day. / For Napier and the South : Nevada, p.s., to-morrow. For Norfolk Island: Success, schooner, to-day. Southern Cross, mission schooner, April 10. For New Bedford : Naomi, ship, early. For Honolulu : Nevada, mail steamer, April IS. For Levuka: Nuknlau, schooner, to-day. For Tauranga: Tauranga, schooner, to-day. For Hokiangi: Herald, schooner, to-morrow. For Southern ports : Taranaki, s.s., Cth inst. For Wangarei, Clyde, schooner, to-day. For Russell: Comerang, p.s., to-day. For Napier: Star of the South, to-morrow.

VESSELS EXPECTED. Wellington, s.s , from Southern ports. Hero, s.s., from Sydney. Nevada, mail steamer, "from Honolulu, due. Magellan Cloud, schooner, from Chatham Islands Wild Duck, ship, from London, sailed 10th December Jrlulenslee, ship, from London (sailed Jan. 11). Amherst, schooner, from Sydney. Alice Cameron, barque, from Sydney. Cleopatra, schooner, from Lyttelton All ilia, schooner, from Newcastle Belle, schooner, from Newcastle W. C. Wentworth, barque, from Newcastle Stranger, schooner, from Newcastle H.M. S. llosario, from Sydney Stanley, schooner, from Melbourne Amphitrite, schooner, from Sydney Australia, brig, from Sydney Ayr, barque, from Adelaide Taranaki, s.s., from Southern ports Briton, barque, from Newcastle Union, brig, from Newcastle.

The schooner Tawera entered at the Customs this morning with a cargo of general produce, and Mr. Walker and Mrs. Elliott as passengers. The brig Tower Hill entered this morning at the Customs with 2,200 bags potatoes and 12 passengers. The schooner Tauranga entered at the Customs this morning with S tons potatoes consigned to order. The schooner Mahurangi entered at the Customs this morning with 34 tons firewood.

The launch of a schooner took place this morning at Messrs. Niccol & Son's building-yard, North Shore, in presence of a good company assembled to witness the ceremony. The launch was most successfully effected, and the schooner was christened the Jessie Niccol, with the usual formula.

COMMERCIAL.

MIXINO. Tho following aro the current calls and dividend* payable in the companies named below :—

MEETINGS TO COME. Coromandel Beach, Coromandel, April 7. Point Russell, Company* office, Shortland street, 2 p.m. April S City of Dunedin, Grahamstown, April 9 Neptune, Coromandel, April 10 Highland Chief, Grahamstown, April 11 John Bull, Coromandel, April 11 George Stephenson, Grahamstown, April 16 Golden Spur, Grahamstown, A]Dril 16 Laura, Grahamstown, April 17

POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Matxs will Close as Under For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 4.30 p.m. For Tauranga and Opotilci, per Tauranga, this day, at 5 p.m. For Hawaii, AVangarei Heads, Mangapia, etc, per Duke of Edihburgh, this day, at 5 p.m For Ruato, per Sunbeam, this day, at 5 p.m. For Napier and Gisborne, per Star of the South, to morrow, at 2 p. in. For the Australian Colonies, India, China, Mauritius, Continent of Europe, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi and Suez, per City of Melbourne, imme diately after arrival of p.s. Nevada. For Napier and the Southern Provinces, per p.s. Nevada, six hours after her arrival from Honolulu. S. B. Biss, Postmaster.

BIRTH.

Ceomcttc —On the 2nd instant, at 1.40 a m, at Devon port, Mrs J N Crombie of a son.

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

TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1872.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the good that we can do."

There are again no signs of the Nevada this afternoon. Wo have much pleasure in giving publicity to the following. If it is so that a euro for what has been regarded generally as an in curable disease is in the possession of a fellow citizen, it cannot be made too publicly known. "To the Editor of the Evening Stab.—Sir, I wish to draw your attention to the fact that Mr. Oxley, senr., chandler, Queen street wharf, is in possession of a cure for cancer in the most malignant form. Amongst other cases I may mention that I havo been a sufferer for the last four years with cancer in the left eye, and extendod down to the upper lip, and I am now completely cured owing to the invaluable recipe in the possession of Mr. Oxley, when all other medical assis tance failed. I take this opportunity of in forming the public that cancer can be cured in this city without either burning or cutting. This receipe is in the possession cf Mr. Oxley, who will be glad to afford relief to any one suffering from this malignant disease. I take this opportunity of thanking Mr. Ox'ey for his kindness to mo in supplying mo with medicine aacl advice free.—Joseph Claeke, Edward street, April 1, 1572."

We were glad to see so good an attendance at the Theatre Royal last evening on the occasion of Mr. Souths benefit. The per formance was of a very satisfactory nature, and appeared to give great satisfaction, —the only hitch occurring being in Mr. South mis taking a demand for an encore to his song, " Ten Thousand Miles Away," for demonstra" tions of disapproval. He need bo under no mis" apprehension oa that score ; the audience were perfectly satisfied. The Garrick Club and Ethiopian Troupe assisted intho entertainment, and well performed their part 3. Mrs. Joyce, and some gentlemen gave song 3 during the evening and were applauded. A large audience honoured the Prince ox Wales Theatre last evening, and the perfor mance met with rapturous applause. The piece selected, consisting of Caste, or Married for Love, was splendidly performed, Mr. Joyce appearing toimmenseadvantage, andsucceeded in keeping tho audience in a roar of laughter by his inimitable acting. Mrs. Walter Hill also performed her part with great pathos, and was loudly applauded. Mrs. Keegh ably sustained the character of the Mar ;hioness The spectacular burlesque of "Little Bed Riding Hooil," introducing the evolutions on the stage of the Naval Cadets, concluded a good evening's performance. We beg to call attention to the amateur concert to tiko place to-night at the Parnell Hall in aid of St. Mary's Sunday-school library. The programme is of a highly ; interesting nature, some good part-songs and solos being set down for performance. The concert will be under the leadership of Mr. J. Browne, and every one that honours tho hall I with a visit to-night will be sure to be highly delighted with the entertainment. The praiseworthy and benevolent object in view should also assist in attracting a large audience. A ball wai given last night at the Odd. fellows' Hall, Cook street, which building is admirably adapted for the purpose, by the members of the Good Intent Lodge. The bal^ was a most successful affair, over forty couples being present, who enjoyed themselves inten sely. It is intended by the Lodge to hold a similar ball every Easter. Mr. T. Cole acted as M.C., and Mr. West's band provided the dance music. A tea meeting was held last evening in the Parnell Wesleyan Chapel, after which a public meeting was held, and several ministers and other gentlemen addressed the congrega tion; Tho Rev. C. W. Rigg occupied tho chair. An exchange says that " Faith is not dead in England, for the other day someone posted a £5 Bank of England note simply folded in three, with the address written on the outside, and a half-penny stamp on the corner. The authorities dealt with the note as a registered letter." We should rather attribute the action to the miserable stingyness of a person who was so wrapt up in his or her miserly ways as to entirely forget the risks likely to te run by leading a fellow-creature into temptation. The sender ought to have been found out, and sent to Colney Hatch,

A meeting of the City Council was hold this afternoon at the Council Chamber. Pre» sent: —His Worship thr Mayor, in the chair ; Councillors Prime, Bugden, George, Hobbs, and Hampton. Mr. Stannus Jonea, the newly-elected councillor, was introduced to the Council by Councillor Hobbs, and before taking his seat made the usual declarations of office. To morrow (Wednesday) evening a grand Volunteer performance will be given at the Prince of Wales Theatre in aid of the Eoyal Band Fund. It will be under the patronage of the Mayor, Mnjor Gordon and the officers and members of the Volunteer forces. Volun teers are requested to appear in uniform. A good bill will bo provided for the occasion. Complaints have been made to us that the Mechanics' Institute was closed yesterday to its subscribers. We are informed that on this and every other occasion of a holiday, when readers would enjoy a few hours relax ation at the Institute, its doors are shut to them. It does appear remarkable that on a holiday a place of instruction and amusemonfc should be closed at the time it would bo most appreciated and patronised. The annual licensing meeting for the district of Tauranga will tako place on the lGth inst. We learia from Dunedin papers that Mr. J. P. Hydes has assumed the stagfc manage ment of the Dunedin Theatre, and that the company includes some arliates well known in Auckland. The management announces that it is in treaty for a succession of novelties, comprising Mr. Morton Tavares, Mr. Hoskins and Miss Colville, Mrs. Walter Hill, and Professor Haselmayer. Professor Hasolrnayor has been astonishing the people at Wellington, for while on the wharf, according to the Post, at a time when it was crowded with peop'e witnessing the arrival of the Maori prisoners, by apparently finding sovereigns on the rim of Mr. John Martin's white hat and in Mr. Pharazyn's whiskers. The astonishment of the Maoris, in particular, was intense. The return of sick treated at the Provincial Hospital during the week ending Saturday, March 30, 1872 :--Remained last return, 68 ; admitted since, 7 ; discharged, (J; died, 3 ; remaining, 6G ; males, 58 ; females, 8. Arrangement of cases:—Fever, 3; cancer, 2; scrofula, 2 ; syphilis, 2; phthisis, 8 ; rheumatism, 8 ; paralysis, G ; epilepsy, 2 j atnaurosis, 1; bronchitis, 3; pneumonia, 2; heart diseaso, 2 ; aneurism, 1 ; hemorrhoids, 1; bcomatoceli, 1 ; ileiu, 1 ; fistula, 2; fracture, 1; abscess and ulcer, G; wounds and contusions, 4; neuralgia, 1 ; caries necrosis, 3; contraction of knes, 1; purpura, 1 ; debility, 2. Two men died during the week of Bright's disease of the kidneys, and the other of disease of lungs and heart; and one woman of puerpural ferer. Thanks are returned to Mrs. Sadlier and Mrs. Wi'liams (Bay of Islands) for parcels of old l;-ien. Speaking of the immigrants latoly arrived in Canterbury by the Charlotto Gladstone, the Post saya : —"As usual the dornand was much in excess of the suppty, many people being unable to obtain servants. All the single men, single women, and married couples without children -were soon engaged, and out of about 150 immigrants landed only six families remained for engagement laat evening. The following rates of wages were given :~*-Married couples,£6o per annum and found ; single men, farm labourers,£4o to £50 ; ordinary labourers, £35 to £10; single women, domestic servants, cooks, £30 ; nurses, £25 ; housemaids, £20 j nurse girls, £13 to £15."

The Canterbury Government's " bliek elephant," in the shape of the Thomson's road steamer, hns been submitted to public auction by Mr, Charles Clark at Mr. Anderson's foundry, but despite that gentleman's eloquence no sale was effected. The first lot put up was the road steamer and waggons, which only reached £400 by £50 bids. This, however, not reaching the reserve price, the road steamer was put up by itself; but after a series of languid bidding only £350 could be got, and it was ultimately bought in for £375 by the auctioneer for the Government. The TaranaJci Herald states that it is very thankful their Provincial Government did not waste any of their small revenue in the im« portation of one of these useless monsters. Would that we could echo the same prayer.

By the last mail from Auckland we re ceived another copy of the New Zealand Volunteer Oaz'dte. As a publication in. tended for the whole of the colony it is a useless one, for the editor appears to ima gine that Auckland is New Zealand, and New Zealand, Auckland. If ho is desirous of obtaining for it a colonial circulation the sooner he has this notion oblite rated from his mind the better. The copy before us (with the exception of a few ex tracts taken from some old magazine) con tains nothing but the sayings and doings of the members of local Volunteer corps in that city.— HawJces Hay Herald.

A shark about five feet long was washed ashore in White's Bay. It waß one of the shovel-nosed specie?, and the most dangerous kind. On examination, says a Marlborough paper, it was found that a large hole was being oaten into its body by carbuncles, as well as the roof of its mouth. It must have run ashore in its agony.

POLICE COURT. THIS DAY.

Before His Worship the Mayor and Thomas Ritchie, Esq., J.P. DETTNKENNESS. Two men were charged with having been drunk. On their pleading guilty they were fined os each with costs, or the alternative of one day's imprisonment. A DESEKTEE FEOII THE WHALER. Joseph Manger, an able seaman on board the whaling barque Adventurer, was charged on a warrant with having deserted from his vessel. The prisoner, a fine looking fellow, a native of the South Sea Islands, did not appear thoroughly to understand the proceedings, and Captain Piesee was willing that he should go back to his ship without punishment. Under those circumstances the Court ordered his discharge. This concluded the business.

COROMANDEL

[from a correspondent.]

Monday evening. A vee? rich leader has been cut in the Pride of the Hill's claim on the Tiki. The leader is about 4 inches thick, from which some extraordinary rich specimens have been taken, and are now on view at the office of Mr. Douglas. The John Bull has commenced crush ing to-day. A good return is expected. There is not so much enquiry for Bismarck's to-day. Another battery is to be erected near the G-olconda by Messrs. Fraser and Tinne.

THE WAIKATO.

GOLD AT TUHTJA

Alexandra, Monday. The King has just received a bag of gold (alluvial) and rich quartz specimens from Tuhua. TheKingitcs want to go over at once and work the ground, but Tawhioa declines to allow them at present. Eewi has gone to Tuhua. — Herald.

THE VOLUNTEER CHRONICLE.

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A pair of binoculars presented by Captain Featon, a silver star, and several money prizes were competed for this morning at the rifle range by members of the Artillery Eifle Club. In ordor to win the star and glasses it vras necassary to make 45 points. That number baring been made only by one com petitor, tho star stands over until next monthly competition, when, if 45 points are not made, it will bo given to tho highest scorera in tho two competition?. Notwithstanding a good brc?ze the firing was very fair, as wi)l bo seen by the scores below : — TIR3T CLASS.

Tho members of No. 6 Company and Caduts will meet this evening in tho Drill-ahcd for Company drill. .Some pructica took place yesterday at the Riflo Range by members of the Rifle Brigade. We hear that somo of tlio members expressed great indignation that tho marker ehould ao far have forgotten himself as to take a holiday on Easter Monday. A parade of tho Artillery Volunteers, to gether with the band, will tako placo this evening at Fort Britotnart, ■when eevcral mattiirs connected with the corps will bo brought forward. A fall attendance is re quested.

KAURI GUM.

EvElt since 2s ow Zealand was first settled one of the principal articles of native product has been kauri gum. For a long time this was exported in tho hope that some use would be found for it. Exporters lost considerably for many years while experts were endeavouring to utilise the material; but at last it was found in America that an admixture of the gum tended to produce extra brilliancy in composite caudles, and from that time there has been considerable demand for it. But it has always been considered that this gum if properly managed would constitute tho basis of a beautiful varnish, and many have been the experiments made for the purpose of dissolving it. Acids and alkalies of overy description have been tried for this purpose without success, and until now the gum has defied all attempts at solution. But quite by accident the other day the difficulty was got over, and now there is a gentle man in this town who is prepared by an easy process to turn even tho refuse gum into a varnish as. far exceeding copal as that does the most common description. We understand that this gentlemen is about to visit America for the purpose of utilising this discovery, not having recivod sufficient inducement in this colony to make it wortli his while to incur the ex ponse of a patent.

"SPHINX" ON THE AUCKLAND HANDICAP.

The races of yesterday havo given satis faction to a great many, if not to all. I think I may congratulate myself that I have done my best to lay before the public the right horses to bet their money upon, and pride myself that I have been the only one to give them the " straight tip." For the Maiden Plate I named Slim Jim. This horse is as game a horse as ever started on a voyage of discovery, and had all the running. He was lost to first place entirely through the stupidity of his . jockey. A protest was entered against Eclipso on the ground of wrong description of age. The dispute will bo settled to-night, and from what I have heard there is no doubt the race will be awarded to Slim Jim.

In the Handicap Race Echo wa» scratched. I named this horse with Marquis and Numa. The result has proved that Marquis came in first, Eclipse second, and Numa third, thus showing that I " spotted" the right horses. The Hurdle Race I gave to Echo, and he has justified the confidence I had placed in him. Mizen has, however, disappointed me in the Innkeepers' Purse, having been scratched, I have only say for the unfortunate ones who have backed my opinion of him that I am very sorry for them, and hope they will be able to pull through, while to those who have " netted" through my advice I beg to tender my most hearty congratulations, and also take the liberty of reminding them that my weakness is Dunville's Irish whiskey. A case or two would be very acceptable, especially as the cold weather is coming on. I must admit that 1 am not sufficiently a con noisseur to appreciate Perkins's three-star brandy, and as quantity not quality is my motto, the former article will be the most welcome. lam unhappily unacquainted with the intricacies of the custom-house formula of taking out of bond, and would therefore thank my patrons to send their offerings " duty paid." Sphinx.

HARBOUR BOARD ANNUAL PICNIC.

Yesteeday there was inaugurated a cus tom in connection with our harbour which will from year to year be associated with very pleasant memories. It does not necessarily follow that all the successors of the present chairman of the Harbour Board must follow Oapt. Daldy's example, but we venture to say that there will be few of them who will not accept the usage as established, and sec not only a duty but a pleasure in this annual tour of the Harbour Board over their watery domain. Shortly after nine o'clock a large number of people were to be seen moving clown the wharf, each having that air of vif "I'm off" style that invariably charac terises a picnic party in its preliminary stages. Some delay occurred in the arrival of the hampers, but by-and-bye as they appeared under the able and scientific guidance of Mr Macready, thero was a general movement, and soon every goat in the Lalla Rookh was crowded with muslins and streamers, and Dolly Vardens, the baser form of human nature occupying itself variously in looking for a seat, or assisting in stowing the hampers, or lashing on its hat, for the wind was boisterous. Captain Daldy's guests con sisted mainly of the members of the Harbour Board and their lady friends; His Honor the Superintendent and a few others being among the invites. Judging of the enormous quantities of provender we should say that a considerable number more had been invited, but the heavy clouds over head and the rain scudding over the face of Eangitoto, and squally weather gene rally, seemed to have deterred them from the venture. Nothing daunted, however, wore the wives and daughters of the Harbor Board ; for as if impelled by espri-t do corps, and for the honor of the amphi bious corporation to which they stood related, they were there " to a man," and neither by word nor action showed them selves to be affected otherwise than pleasantly by the heaving of the steamer, as if theirs was a life on the ocean wave, and their home was tho rolling deep. Presently to the inspiring strains of Mr. Bandmaster McComish's cornet-a-piston, aided by a violin accompaniment, the Lalla Kookh moved from the Wharf. The first courso taken was up the river in order that a glimpse might be afforded of the limits of the jurisdiction of our host aud his trusty counsellors ; and it was delight ful to see the air of authority with which the Harbor Board paced up and down the deck, each oho gazing complacently on point and headland as if with tho proud consciousness

I am monarch of all I survey. My right there is none to dispute, From the centre all round o'er the sen, I'm lord tho rest of the quotation is inapplicable. After proceeding for about an hour there was " bout ship," and the Lalla llookh turned her bows in the direction of tho islands looming dimly through the hazy distance. On reaching the chops of the channel there was a little more pitching of the steamer, but nothing to affect mentally or physically ladies, who, from their relation to the Harbour Board, were bound in honor to prove themselves true salts. In fact both wind and wave had greatly moderated ; and if Captain Daldy had had the choosing of the weather for such a marine excursion he could not have selected any more appropriate. After crossing the mouth of the channel and coasting along Motutapu, the steamer entered Home Bay, a pretty little semi-circular cove, with woody pro montories closing it in. Two cottages, the residences of Messrs. Reid, propietors of the island, stand in the foreground on a low undulation following the curve of the beach, the view being shut in by rolling hills clothed in fern and grass, presenting a picturesque though somewhat sombre appearance. Presently boat-load after boat-load of excursionists were landed on the rocks under the heights on the right, the Messrs. Reid with their boat assisting the boats of the steamer in discharging tho living cargo. No sooner landed than the greater part of the excursionists turned their attention to the hills, and soon a long line of climbers was seen winding along the heights above, determined to have a good view of old Ocean. Those of more utilitarian and practical turn re mained to bring provisions ashore, and generally to make preparations for the banquet. The view from the hills aboro well repaid the climbers, for it would be difficult to find scenery more picturesque than is contained witbia the limits of our own gulf. After crossing the crown of the hill a most extonsive view of the ocean suddenly bursts on the view. In the far distance could be faintly traced tho out line of Cape Colville frowning over the deep ; here and there dotted over the in tervening sea ars little rocky islets, each with a white circleoffoam fringingits base, while from the rocks away down below at the foot of tho precipice from which the finest prospects were obtained, there was borne up that plaintive murmuring sound —the neverceasing song of " the sad sea waves " —that invests tho lonely sea shore with such fascination. The island of Motutapu itself does not present very striking scenery, brown undulating hills being all that meets the eye ; but here and there are little glens through which one looks clown at little sea pictures fringed with the foliage on either side, while everywhere tho view of sea, and island, and bluff headland, —here gaunt and craggy and bare, there clothed in forest or with indications of clearing and cultivation and human habitation, — presented pictures that for picturesque variety could scarcely be surpassed. Viewed from the heights above, Home Bay espesially presented a most pleasing scene. The gentle curve of the bay fringed with white foam; tho water seemingly so still, with the Lalla Eookh lying quietly at anchor in the centre ;on the beach great casks of provender being rolled up from the water edge; there a knot of politicians engaged in discussing affairs of state, but with their discussions tempered by the cool sea breeze fanning their brows; here a cluster of ladies equally earnestly engaged in discussing some other subject, to them equally mo mentous ; while over the whole scene floated that same never-ending song of tho surging waves; and from an eyrie away up among the rocks, Mr. McComish with his cornet-a-piston waked the echoes with the sorrowful plaint of " Terence's Fare well to Kathleen," or " Molly Astliore,"

mellowed and mingling with the " sough of the "far-resounding sea." All this combined to produce a scene not easily forgotten. But the bugle call to dinner collected all stragglers to the little plain where tablecloths and rows of benches and opened cases, and the rattling of knives and forks, and tho eager move ments of hungry men betokened that the most important event of the occasion was cloth sat the chairman of the Harbour about to occur. At the head of the table Board, supported on the right by His Honor the Superintendent, who was supported by the ladies. The vice chair was occupied by His Worship the Mayor, while on either side were arrayed the representatives of the beauty and tho chivalry of Auckland, the beauty being on the right of the chair and the chivalry on the left. We shall not attempt to describe how the viands disappeared, and how the feast of reason and the flow of soul were promoted by the feasting on roast fowl and the flowing of Moselle. The toasts were the' usual toasts,—the "Queen," the " Governor," the " Superintendent^ and Executive," the " Harbour Board," the "Early Shipping Interest," tho "City Council," the "Ladies," &c, &c. ; and as under the inspiring influence of such an auspicious occasion as the inauguration of the new Harbour Board, the old pioneers of Auckland told their tales of other days we could not help feeling what a whale ! See how it blows! Surely there were giants in tho earth in those days ! How ever it was pleasant to hear them fight their battles o'er again to the fizzing of champagne, amid the tinkliDg of the glasses, and the laughter of the lasses. After dinner, the party divided into two companies, one tripping it on the greensward on the light fantastic toe to the spirit-stirring strains of cornet and violin. Another party consisting of the more staid and serious of the company arranged themselves in a wide open circle on the plain, and it was refreshing to behold pillars of the state, the heads and representatives of corporate bodies, the Sir Oracles of the press, staid matrons, and venerable grandoires engaging earnestly in the prosecution of the noble pursuit of " French Tig." Our readers may smile, but we maintain that for smoothing off the political angles of human character, and for making mankind and womankind feel that people are not ogres, but genial kindly human beings wishing well to their fellow-men, there is infinite potency in " French Tig." Wo maintain that the Harbour Board will no more envy the Provincial Power, nor the Provincial Power vex the Harbour Board, after engaging together in " French Tig." Thus time passed till tea was an nounced, and after tea, as night was show ing signs of gathering over the hills, the boats were once more manned, and the party of excursionists being placed on board, tho Lalla Eookh was speedily under way amid parting cheers to the Messrs. lleid for their atten tions and assistance rendered. A rarious toasts wore given and responded to during the passage up ; among the rest a hearty bumper was drained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Macready to whose judicious care in catering and generally conducting the hospitalities of the occasion the success of the first annual excursion of the Harbor Board was so largely due. Captain Daldy has inaugurated his term of office by a treat which proceeded from first to last without one '" hitch" or unpleasantness to mar the enjoyment and success; and several opportunities were taken by the excursionists during the trip for rendering him three times three and one cheer more in recognition of his hospitality.

THE CLOWN.

I'm not one of the tip-top soi't —that is, I don't act at the West End theatres ; but there's no knowing what I may do soma day. Regular as Christmas comes round I get an engagement at one of the iuburbans, where I'm a bit of a favorite, which is a comfort, you see, as it gives one a settled income. Perhaps some day one of the swell managers may look in in search of talent, and oiler mo an engagement at the Lane or the Garden. That's about the height of my ambition. To see a real fashionable audience shrieking with laughter; perhaps dukes and duchcssoa—l should like to make a lord laugh—calling for "Hot Codlings." Ah ! I've often thoughl; of that scene. A man must have peculiar natural gifts to make a good clown, and he must be a bit of a literary man, too. I'ou're surprised to hoar that ? Why, he always "writes his own part, invents the comic business, and, although there's not much elegance about the Btyle, there's a wonderful lot of mental toil put into it. It's made up of stage directions, you see—"Enter policeman— clown knocks off his hat—police man remonstrates—rally with pantaloon," and so on. Now it requires a deal of imagination to go on writing year after year, and get variety. But the great secret is to keap things going, and that's where bo many fail; they allow the business to flag, and that's fatal. Othors, again, repeat themselves ; they fancy they do certain things well, and they're always doing it. I remember one clown who ruined himself by seeing ghost*. He thought he saw ghosts better than anyone, and the business was always standing still while ha knocked his knees together and looked frightened ; until the people wouldn't have him at any price. He was acting panta loon in the provinces when I last heard of him. Well, I've had some experience. I made my first appearance just b»fore I married, and my wife was Columbine at the i&mo theatre, which was how we got ac quainted. She has given up the Columbine business now, and our oldest daughter has taken to it. She has to attend to the family, you see, and is not quite so light as she was. Our third boy gives very good promise of a pantaloon, which it not the highest walk in life, but each according to his talents is my motto, and th« way ho crooks bis knees is a sight to see. The baby may develop into a harlequin, being slim in make, but he's t«o young yet for anything decisive. Has it ever struck you as a curious thing in human nature that, giva ib any amount of time for preparation, it always puts it off to the last moment? It is so in our profession, and we are never ready, as I may say, for the curtain to riae. I'm not ready with my part even now, and there's my wife still getting up my costume. Ah! that will bear looking at quite close ; no deception there, but firsNrato stitching all round the spots and stripes. Something like work I call that, and none of your spangle stuff. We have two suits, you see, to carry us through the run of a piece, and while we're soiling one tho other's being cleaned, for a dirty clown would never do, oh, dear no ! — The Graphic.

An Irishman expressing his love towards his sweetheart, told her that he had " chewed the stamp from off her letter because he knew she licked it on."

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

(froii our owx corbesposdent.)

Inverness Crushing—Sclio-

field's tribute.

Reef in Queen of May looking well.

GnAHAiiSTOWTN-, April 2, 3 p.m. Schofield's (Inverness) Tribute crushing of 50 tons gave the capital return of 112 ounces. - «■»*-.' The reef in the Queen of May mine is looking well. It is three feet thick, and showing gold freely to-day.

WHAU GOLDMINING COMPANY.

A meeting of shareholders in tho Whau Goldmining Company was notified to take place this afternoon at the hall of the Mechanics' Institute. The number of share holders requisite to form a quorum is somewhere near sixty ; but not so many by half put in an appearance. However, it was determined to proceed as far as possible, further delay being considered dangerous. Mr. J. M. Clark was voted to preside. Tha directors' report wa3 read, detailing what expenses had been incurved in the working of the mine, the difficulties encountered, etc., and recommending to the consideration of shareholders the advisability of winding up and re-forming the companj on a better basis. From the balance-sheet it wa» shown that an overdraft of £2,093 63. 6rf. had to ba met. A few queries were put to the chairman and answered by him. Ultimately it was agreed that the directors should call a fresh meeting in a few days by public advertisement.

CORRESPONDENCE.

it-STWe tlo not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH.

To the Editor of the Evening Stae. g IBj —A s your valuable paper gives the oppor tunity for exposing every wrong, no matter by whom it has bsen done, I feel that I may ask a small space for the following. The 1.1. Hero, on her last trip, brought a very large quantity of potatoes, which ': sweated" during the voyage, and arrived here in state of s putridity. These precious tubers were ca. I to a large warehouse where they were sorieu, and the rejected rotten ones cast into a heap. The difficulty wa3 how to dispose of this fes tering mass. But the owner at once repaired to certain members of the City Council, by whom he was granted permission to hurl them into that celebrated sink—the " iutake." This was accordingly done, and seven or eight lar^e dr*ys conveyed the fetid mass late at night to" the favoured spot, where it now forin3 a pyramid reek ing of danger to all in the neighbourhood. It may be that the residents in Port street and the surrounding locality are used to this kind of thing as the eels are used to skinning, and that tha different stenches arising from that region of dead cata and dogs and other fetid matters fail to make an impression on their olfactory nerves. But the fact remains, that whether these favored individuals fail to appreciate the kindness done thsin or not, rubbish of this kind cannot be shot into a public place with impunity to thair health. The stench is almost unbearable to those who casually visit this " G-arden of roses," and even. the people in Shortland crescent and beyond it suffer from the effects ; aiad if it be true that this has been done with the consent of those who have been appointed the guardians of the people's health, the wrong U infinitely greater. I am, &c, Fiat Jctstitia.

AN ADVENTUROUS GERMAN LADY.

There is a lady of an unusually adventurous spirit providing amusement for the public in G-ermauy. She has gone through a variety of characters iv male co3tumewithemineut success, acting successively as groom, coachman, Talet, &c., to various employers, giving perfect satis faction, and obtaining excellent characters, her masters never suspecting her sex. The late war roused nobler ambitions within her. Prefixing the title " yon "to her name, and donning the blue coat with an iron cross upon it, Miss Bertha Weiss made her debut as a wounded Prussian officer. Passing through various towns she enlisted everywhere the sympathies of the inhabitants, who received her as an honoured guest, and is said to have mado some havoc amongst young ladies' hearts. Unfortunately she was found out just when her success was at it* highest, and, placed before a tribunal, she was sentenced to several months' imprison ment as a punishment for her masculine as pirations. So perfectly had she acted her role however that up to the mom«nt when the verdict was pronounced she found ad vocates in the press to defend her m*n hood. The :mpri3onment has not moderated the lady's ambition, for although only shortly released, she has turned up once mora in manly guise ia the very last place » female would be looked for, viz., in a monastery near Breslau. The prior declares that she came to him with so truly penitential an air, disguising her sex admirably, that nfl , could not find it in his heart to refuse her. She lived among the monka undiscovered, her noviciate beiug a severe one ; yet she under went all the rules of tho order with tae fortitude of an ascetic up to the last moment. Tired, however, at last last of the monotony of conventional life, she gave the monks the slip after a four months' visit, disclosing her sex only after her doparture. — Pall Mall Gazette.

A LOVE LETTER.

Mb. James Fise, -whose murder (was tel«* graphed by last San Francisco 7rnai], wai arrested some time before on au ajplavft, not precisely in the form of a loyeietter, but rather in that of the sort of epistle by which a Berio3 of love-letters too often ii followed The document, however, contains a " reo}^ of an actual love-letter addressed by Mr. Jn«i in comparatively happier days, to the lady who has now indirectly caused his death:-- It is only four years (writes Miss Mansfield Lawler) "since you revealed to me your icheino for stealing the Erie books j how you fled wifcu them to Jersey City; how, when you were buying the legislature, the nuny anxious niga" I passed witk you at the telegraph wire, when you told me it was eithor a Fisk jiaUace m New York, or a stone palaaoe in Sing Sing! and, if the latter would I take a cottage out aide its walls, that my presence would maW your rusty irons garlands of ros«a, and the very «tonei you would hare to hammer ana crack appear softer under my influence.

ME EVENING STAB, TUESDAY, APRIL 2, 1872.

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QLSON'S TOMATO SAUCE. The immense success attending the introduction of this new local industry will alone testify to the high estimation in which it is held. During the last year the proprietor was scarcely able t» supply the large demand, and has in consequence made extensive alterations and additions to his Factory, so as to be enabled to keep the market well supplied. No one who values health and appetite should be without a supply of this really health-restoring and agreeable condiment. Sold everywhere in Bottles with the name of H. OLSON on wrapper and stamped on bottle and stopper. Auckland, 10th February, 1872. RELINQUISHING BUSINESS. |^P° FINAL NOTICE. cJEfI R. ~HOBBS TTTILL offer for the next EIGHT WEEKS * * (unless disposed of during that time), tho ■whole of his very large Stock of GENE RAL and HOUSEHOLD DRAPERY, and MEN'S and BOYS' CLOTHING-, at very low prices. Abo (now opening) ex 'NAOMI,' a Large Assortment of Ladies' and Girls' WATERPROOF TWEED JACKETS and MANTLES from the same House in London as those which R.H. had last season, and which gave Buch universal ' satisfaction. A Large and Choice lot at 12s. 6d. each, and Girls ditto at low prices, as the whole must he cleared out within the next few weeks. French Merinoes, Flannels, Blankets, and all WINTER GOODS at elearing-out prices. Country orders promptly attended to. March 12, 1872. a*



T CATER (late Crombie's) EOYAL el • FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHIC GALLERY, Queen street, Auckland, has much pleasure in inform ing his friends and the public generally that he has purchased the Photographic Business so long carried on by Mr. CromWe ; and having secured the services of M.. C.'s late Manager, lie feels warranted.in stating that'hey will receive every civility and attention, as well i>s first-class and artistic portraits at his hands, and that no pains wi 1! be spared to give entire satis faction. J.C. begs toi'unounce that his arrangements for taking Instantaneous Portraits of Children are now complete. T. COS GRAVE & C O .'S *J MONSTER SALE of DRAPERY and CLOTHING is now on. They have a tremendous lot of Bargains to offer to the public. The Largest Stock in New Zealand to choose from. WANTED KNOWN.—Jus^t opened, ox Naomi, a Choice Selection of Gentle man's Undershirts in Merino, Silk, &o. ; also, New Hats.—S. Cootibes 1 City Clothing Mart, 80, Queen street. NOTICE TO ADVERTISERS. TT is requested that all advertisements, except those of only a few lines, will he sent in not later than 2.30#>.«£., and short advertisements, " Wanteds," §c., not later than Bp.m.