Prospectus.

UNKNOWN

SUNSET This evening, 4.53. Hluli WATER : This evening, 9.20

STEAM TO THE THAMES THIS EVENING.

Lady Bowen 11 o'clock

ARRIVALS.

Sovereign of the Seas, cutter, from Matauana Success, schooner, Short, from Bay of Islands

DEPARTURES.

Helen, schooner, for Hokianga

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Russell: Comerang, steamer, on Friday For Hobart Town : Bella Mary, barque, to-day For Napier: Star of the South, steamer, early For Southern ports : Wellington, steamer, 11th inst For London : Tyrol, barqtte, early For Mauritius : Ayr, barque, via Lyttelton, early For Whitiangi, T uiranga, ancl Opotiki: Southern

Cross, steamer, to-day For Honolulu : Nevada, mail steamer, 11th inst For Sydney and Melbourne : City of Melbourne, on arrival of Nebraska For Waitara ; Go-ahead, steamer, early

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Lady Emma, barque, from Lyttelton Nevada, mail .steamer, from the South Hercules, schooner.-tfrom Newcastle** City of Melbourne, steamer, from Sydney Countess of Kintore, ship, from London " Camille, barque, from Newcastle Saucy Lass, schooner, from Napier Surprise, schooner, from Sydney Coronilla, ship, from London. Sailed March 22 Briton, barque, from Newcastle Bulwark, ship, from London. Sailed Maroh 2 X Celestial Queen, ship, from London. Sailed April 2o .Nebraska, mail steamer, from Honolulu. Due s July 15 Mary Grant, brig, from Warrnambool Strathnaver, schooner, from Dunedin Queen, schooner, from Rorotonga Jessie, schooner, from Rorotonga Julia Price, schooner, from Levuka

' The paddle steamer Duke of Edinburgh was Chartered yesterday by the New Zealand Insurance Oompany, and proceeded in the evening to the scene of the wreck of the Harriett King to assist the steamer Southern Cross in bringing the cargo to Auckland. She will consequently not make her usual trip to the Thames this evening. The schooner Success has arrived from Russell with a cargo of coal The schooner Onward is discharging her cargo of gu no into the barque Tyrol. The barque Ayr has cleared outwards for Lyttelton with the following cargo :— , r>o casks cement, 1 case, 40 cases iron bolts, 31 railway chairs, 1048 iron rails, 2,77s'fish plates, Ibdl plates, 4SSbagssalt, Cruickshank and Co; 42,:.00 feet timber, J S Macfarlane ; and 2 boxes toys.—J S Macfarlane and Co, agents.

COMMERCIAL.

i I, , MINING, The following are the current calls and dividends payable in thfe companies named below :—

MEETINGS TO COME. Crown Prince, Queensferry hotel, Auckland, 2 p.m., July 11 Ballynock, Governor Browne hotel, Auckland, 8 p.m., Julyl2 ' a ~ , Bank of Tokatea, Insurance BuUillngs, Auckland, 11 a.m., July 13 Neptune, Coromandel, July 16 White Rose, Grahamstown, July 17 Calypso, Grahamstown, July 17 Shotover No 1. Insurance Building 3, Auckland, 3 p.m., July 17 Green Harp, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 2 pm, July IS Coromandel Mint, 49 Queen street, Auckland, July 19 Watchman, Grahamstown, July 22 Guildhall, Grahams.own, July 23 Fanny, Queensferry Hotel, Auckland, July 23, 3 p.m. Celt, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 2 p.m., July 24 Number One, Grahamstown, July 24 Californian, Grahamstown, July 20 Golden Calf, Grahamstown, July 26 Bed, AVhite, and Blue, Grahamstown, July 20 Lion, Grahamstown, July 2G Coliban, Grahamstown, July 20 American Eagle, Grahamstown, July 31

POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Mails will Close as Under For Thames, this day. at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Kapanga, &c, to-morrow, at 1 p.m. and 4.30 p.m. For Russell, Whangaroa, and Mongonui, per Gome rang, on Saturday, 13th instant, at noon For Taranaki and Southern provinces, Chatham Islands, via Lyttelton, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia, per Wellington, on Thursday, 11th inst., at 10 am. Per p.s. Nevada, on Thursday, 11th July, as under:— For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, United States of America, British, Central, and South America, British and Foreign West Indies and Continent of Europe, via England, at 10.30 a.m. For United Kingdom, via Sau Francisco, at 10.30 a.m For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers at 9. a.m. Late letters for United States of America and United Kingdom, bearing a late fee of sixpence in ttddition to he postage will be received till 11 a.m., and by the mail agent on board the mail steamer up to time of sailing. S. B. Biss. Postmaster.

DEATHS.

BUSCKE-On July 7, at Sands street Thames, Aue- Pide Bertha, aged four months, daughter of Mi GamotS July 8, at the Thames Dining Rooms, Ssirnh A Gardiner, aged 45 years SVKES-On July 8, at Auckland, Mr William Sykes, late Of Coromandel, arjed 4a years.

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

TUESDAY, JULY 9, 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.

We are sincerely glad to see that at least some among us have the moral courage to take a stand for the suppression of villainy. At a meeting held to-day it was deter mined coitte gui coute to have arrested the whole crowd of the swindlers of the Green Harp. As there can be no doubt there would have been a wholesale bolt of the plunderers, we trust that the work will be promptly done. There are times of emergency when people should first act and then consider. This is one of them. Such a wholesaleandsystematisedrobbery has never before been attempted in this colony, and we trustthatthe example made willbe such as to deter any from ever engag ing in organised swindling in thisprovince, at least for a generation" to come, The arrest of rt"» sau& will meet with the ap proval of every honest man in the place, and funds from the public will not be wanting to aid in giving the rogues thei due.

It is not often that we have to record a more popular reception to a projected enterprise than that which has been ac corded to the South British Insurance Company. Launched only a few weeks, thfe applications for shares locally made is already almost double the number to be allotted to Auckland, while from every other portion of New Zealand similar popularity appears to have attended the agents of the projected company. The North British Insurance Company is in tended to be a local institution, modelled on the New Zealand Insurance Company, to which it cannot be regarded as other than a rival, and as we believe it will prove, a Tery formidable rival. Great pains have been taken by the projectors to show that it will be but a " sister insti tution," whatever that may mean, and that they can be mutually beneficial to one another. Of course that is all bunkum ; still it does very well always to show a kind and conciliatory spirit and to avoid as far as possible any overt act of hostility; but every one knows that two drapers or two iron i mongers getting side by side in a street would " mutually assist one another into the Insolvent Court if they could, and such we have no doubt will be the genuine feelings of the friendß of the two local Insurance Companies. That there is abundant room and work for both is very certain, but to say that the one will benefit the other exceeds all the bounds of equivocation permitted in the laws of courtesy. Nay, more than this, it is only honest to say that it i» dissatisfaction with the conduct of the INew Zealand Insurance Company that has made room for the rival institution, and that if there had been less discourtesy in the office business of tbe old institution, the young one would have felt greater difficulties in parturition. We do not see why all this which every body knows should not be brought above board ; and we trust we shall not have given offence by thus publishing what every one says in private on the subject. We cannot give much credit to the pro jectors of the new enterprise for the judgment shown in the choice of a name. " South British" is of course intended to mean New Zealand, the " Britain of the South," But then every one knows that " North Britain" means Scotland, and that consequently "South Britain," a term not so usual, means England. Our local J enterprise therefore has assumed a foreign title throughintending its essential element to be its local character. However, the misnomer will do no further injury than provoke a smile, and, notwithstanding its absurdity, we do not hesitate to say, "Tn hoc signo vinces." That the new insti tution will have its difficulties to encounter there can be little doubt, but the rocks on which other institutions have split should serve as beacons of safety. The Otago Insurance Company began with paying its manager £800 a year, and at the close of one year gave him a gift of a hundred shares, while everything was paid away in dividends. If the new company desire a similar fate they should go and do likewise. But if they lay the basis broad enough by including a,, far as

I almost every possible insurer, and if they keep sufficient reserve to meet contingencies, the enterprise will be an inevitable success, We do not know if any attempt will be made by directors or others to swallow up shares, If: the promoters would act wisely they would in the first instance, by an amicable arrange ment, limit the number of shares to bo held by individuals, and preclude the possi bility of all the voting power falling into the hands of a few, We do not desire to express an unfriendly thought respecting the Bank of New Zealand or the New Zea land Insurance Company, but any one with eyes in his head must see that a good deal of unpopularity attaches to them from the circumstance that these institutions are neck and heels in the hands of what is regarded as the " bloated plutocracy" of the place. We do not say that this condition of things is a disadvantage to those institutions, neither do we say it is an advantage ; in fact we do not say any thing at all on the subject ; but for the welfare of the young institution we would recommend its friends to avoid that great stone of stumbling and rock of offence, and so to arrange pre liminaries that the shareholders may feel they are living entities, and not mutes in the control of affairs. We believe the "South British" will be a very great success, and we heartily wish that it may; and sincerely too do wc wish success to the New Zealand Insurance Company, which, if purged fr m certain blemishes, would be a popular, as it has been a useful, institution. But to say that they are not rival, and even opposing institu tions, would require an amount of equivo cation that is not pleasant. It is enough to say that there is abundant room for both; that the growth and prospects of the colony necessitate the springing into existence of new institutions, and that es tablished institutions instead of viewing their young and vigorous rivals with jealousy ;.hould reach them the hand of friendship, and taking fresh vigour and energy from the advance of the colony, engage cheerfully in honourable and generous rivalry.

We have been called upon by the Grand Master and the Deputy-Grand Master of the Orange Institution of New Zealand with reference to an unwarranted rumour to the effect that it was in contemplation to hold an Orange pro cession at the Thames on the 12th of July. Much as we should deprecate any such occurrence as tending to embitter tho feelings of fellow-colonists towards each other, we do not hesitate to say that little less culpable appears to be the starting of a rumour that such a thing was intended. It appears that a deputation has waited on the Superintendent, request ing him to have forwarded a posse of police to the Thames to prevent the im , pondinpj collision, and in a contemporary of yesterday's date we observe that a correspondent knows " several who are preparing for it." Really this is very mischievous. There »»•/» oona© people pvlAcntlj dragging their coats behind them wishing somebody to trample on them. We are assured that no such in tention was ever entertained as the holding of an Orange procession, and had such a thing been contemplated we would have had no hesitation in de nouncing it vigorously as utterly opposed to the spirit of the colony ; but it is not right again for rumours to be circulated that are equal!/ opposed to the spirit of forbearance and good feeling that prevails generally among the different religious denominations in colonial life. Many kinds of quarrels are like electricity and purify the social atmosphere. But party religious strife is doubly cursed, cursing him that cherishes it, and blighting as with a curse the welfare and progress of the whole community. It is understood that in soirees and the other private enjoy ments that have been customary for years the Orange lodges are to harmlessly and among themselves celebrate their anni versary, but we are glad to be able to state that nothing will be done to offend the feelings in any way of their Catholic fellow-colonists.

The usual monthly inspection of the Volunteer Artillery will take place this evening at. Port Britomart, at half-past seven. The band will be in attendance. Notice is given that fines will be enforced for non-attendance.

U'aptain Casey has given notice at a meeting of the Harbour Board held yester day that at next sitting of the Board he will move that the Clerk of Works be instructed to draw up a plan of a graving dock to be cut out of the solid rock near Smales' Point.

Last night a cart belonging to Mr Close, the grocer, toppled over the embankment in Upper Symonds street, just beyond the Church of St. Sepulchre. A lad was in the cart at the time, but escaped uninjured. No damage was done, but great difficulty was experienced in getting the horse and cart on the road again.

We extract the following from a letter signed " Censor :•"—" I refer to the case of Seymour, now suffering from small pox. I just ask Dr Wright did no suspicion strike him when Seymour (a waiter at a suspected infected house) called upon him with grave premonitory febrile symptoms, as shown by the pulse being up to 120, that these symptoms were the beginning of variola, as it is now evident it was. Will Dr Wright explain his apparent want of foresight in permitting this man to go about his usual business until the pustules were developed and consequent spread of virulent con tagion by almost certain contact P"— " Censor " will excuse us for withholding the latter portion of his letter. The public are engaged in a good work, getting vaccinated, and our correspondent will agree with us in feeling that they ought to be encouraged.

We have received the following to-day: —" To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —I beg to tender my sincere thanks to you and my kind friends for their kindness to my wife and myself during my incarceration in Mount Eden. —I am, dear sir, yours obediently, S. Alexandee. —Debtor's Department, July 6th, 1872."

At a special meeting of the Harbor Board held yesterday the resolution adopted by the Board at a previous meet ing relative to quarantine regulations with vessels from Wellington was rescinded, it having been found impracticable to carry it into effect.

An emergency meeting of the Lodge Ara, No. 34,8, 1.0., will be lield tliis even ing at the Masonic hotel.

An adjourned meeting of the master blacksmiths will be held at the British hotel this, evening, at half-past seven o'clock. The adjourned meeting of goat proprie tors will be held at the Carlton Academy this evening at half-past seven. At the inquest held yesterday at the Provincial Hospital on tho body of James Brown, the seaman wjio expired in a cab on Sunday morning whilst being conveyed to the Hospital, the jury .returned a verdict that death had been caused by slow asphyxia, the result -$ deceased having been submerged in water -whilst in a state of intoxication, We observe that the city authorities have repaired the road' leading from Durham street to Albert" street past Mr. Williams' fire kindlers manufactory. The increased traffic to this establishment has rendered the work nejbessary. The civil sittings of the Supremo Court are fixed for Monday next, the 15th inst- There are six cases on the cause list, viz. : —(1.) Manners v. Caledonian Company. Solicitor for plaintiff, Mr Richmond ; for defendant, Mr Buddie; (2.) Wardrop v Cooper (by special jury); Mr Richmond solicitor for plaintiff, Mr Bogan tor. defendant. (3.) Williams v. Messenger; Mr Biehmond solicitor for plamtili, Mi- Brock for defendant. (4.) Anderson v. Houghton and others; Mr Bees for plaintiff, Mr Bogan for defendant. (5.) Overton v. Overton (divorce); Mr Brock solicitor for petitioner.

Tho anniversary ball of the Good Intent Lodge 1.0.0. E., will take place on Wed nesday, the 17th inst., in the Oddfellows' hall, Cook street. Great preparations are in course of being made by the stewards to make the ball a success.

It is our painful duty to announce the death of Mrs. Gardiner, at Gardiner s dining-rooms, last evening, at a quarter past nine o'clock, from suppressed small pox. The deceased was taken ill on the day that Seymour was conveyed to the Hospital, and had been attended by Dr. Lee. The symptons of variola were pro nounced .by him not to be unfavourable until last evening a change was noticed, and Dr~J- B. Nicholson was sent for in consultation, but the patient had breathed her last before his arrival. The deceased was buried this afternoon.

As will be seen from our police report the several charges against the owners of goats kept on private property have been adjourned till Thursday. We learn that his Worship the Mayor has determined to take his seat on the bench, which wojuld seem to lend colour to the statement that the fees are an element in the conduct pf thflsfi proat prosecutions. Sowever, as Mr Beckham is expected to ha present, others present on the bench will sing small, Mr Beckham not being accuscomqd to yaj uuixolx attention to those who think they can advise him -how lie ought to con duct himself on the Bench. We observe from our police report that another per son was brought up to-day before the Mayor for driving across tho footpath. He was discharged. We may incidentally mention, though not at all as having any bearing whatever on the case, that the discharged offender is in the employ of the City Council.

The Chairman of the Harbour Board has applied to the Colonial Secretary for instructions relative to prosecuting the captain of the Nebraska for false repre sentations made by him to the Harbour master on her last visit at this port. The accident to Mr Sykes, at Coro mandel on Thursday last, has unhappily terminated fatally. It will be re membered that he was brought up to Auckland oh. Saturday last and conveyed to the Hospital, where in spite of every care and attention mortification set in and he died yesterday morning. The deceased gentleman was forty-eight years of age, and leaves a widow to mourn his loss.

We are requested to state that Mr J. Cosgrave, who was elected yesterday a director of the Green Harp G.M. Co. was not eligible, as his name has never been on the registry, and has requested the directors to erase his name from the directory, As will be seen from another column there is to be another meeting of goat owners to-night. The object is to take steps to provent the City Council from destroying goats kept on private pro perty. It has been attempted to be shown that because this law exists elsewhere, therefore it is good. We assert it is a barbarous law wherever it exists, and that it is nothing less than class legislation. A rich man can afford to keep a cow and save his children from being poisoned the villainous concoctions that are sold by milkmen under the name of milk. A poor man who loves his offspring just as tenderly may see his children die before his eyes, and whatever guarantees he may give that the goat shall be confined within his own yard he must resign the Salvation of his children's lives in deference to an unjust dictum of the City Council. It -has been said that those who wish to • keep goats can go beyond the city bounds and live there. But who will dare to dictate to any class where they must live? Far more naturally might it, be said to those who wish to keep "gardens, go and garden in the suburbs. Goats are no more a nuisance than horses if properly kept, and we trust the meeting to-night will initiate a vigorous effort against a cruel wrong.

THE SHARE MARKET.

ME J. M. LENNOX'S BEPOBT.

The excitement upon the Exchange in con sequence of tho Green Harp's crushing continues. Theraare very few buyers of any stocks. Caledonian shares were sold at £15 10s. ; Moanatairi, £4 17s. 6d.; Bismarck, £2 155., £2 17st 6d.; Green Harp, 10s. Closing sellers—Caledonian, £16 j Thames, £5 7s. 6d. ; Bismarck, £3; Green Harp, 10s. Buyers—Caledonian, £15 ; Bismarck, £2 15s.j Moanatairi, £4 155.; Thames, £5 ss. MB. J. HENDBY'S BEPOBT. Business still depressed. Sales—Cale donian, £16; Thames, £5 7s. 6d. ; Green Harp, 10s. 6d. and 12s. ; Moanatairi £4 17s. 6d. Buyers—Caledonian, £15 10s. \ Moanatairi, £4 15s ; Green Harp, 10s. ' Bismarck, 60s j Beach, 3b, »

PORTRAITS OF THE PEOPLE.

VII.-—OUB SHOEMAKEB,

The trade of a shoem-iker, winch enshrines such tnemoried names as Sir Cloudesley Shovel, Gifford, Carey, Bloomfield, and a host of other literary and scientific celoorities, is not to be despised; even the philosophical Cole ridge bad a narrow escape from the cobbler s awl and last. He used to say to h« friends I lost the opportunity of supplying safeguards to the understandings of those who perhaps will never thank me for what I am aiming to do in exercising their reason. In walk.ng along our Queen street, aud other of the out stretching thoroughfares, one is struck on seeing the number 'of boot and shoe stores and workshops, and is led to suppose that the shoe-trade in Auckland must be a thriving as well bb a useful trade. This trade or profession, as it is now dubbed, was once poeticHly designated the « gentle craft," but why it was termed gentle with its everlasting rat tat is not explained in the calendar of saints^ where we find the memorable name of St. Crispin. Possibly, in days of yore, the shoemaker like the exciseman and village peda gogue was really a gentleman, at least in education and manners, ere ho degenerated from one extreme to the other—from a gentleman to a snob! The curious reader of the Evening Stab who may be dis posed to enquire into causes and effects would do well to con-mlt that sagacious tmtiquarian —the editor of " Notes and Quer'u s," or he mi.-'ht with practical advantage read Thack eray's " Book of Snobs," where he will find that a wild shoemaker is not alone in the menagerie of animal types. Our city bootmaker is a respectable man, who takes a felicitous pride in his business, who does not trouble himself much about the fitness or unfitness of certain members of the Legislative Assembly, so long as his artistically shaped boots and shoes fit the feet of his colonial customers. He has implicit faith in the antiquated adage, "nothing like leather,"' being anxiou3 to please, and happily ignorant as to where the shoe pinches or the corns grow. He exhibits to the gazers of outsiders his glossy goods, duly ticketed in letters of green and gold, his famous Wellingtons, serviceable bluchers, admirable clumps, settlers' watertights, double-soled and high-he3led ladies' boots, balmorals, levants, French', and a variety of other sorts and shapes ; all in the most fashion able style, and, of course, cheaper than any other city house. The shoemaker of other days was a theologian, a politician, a poet, and heaven knows what besides } but fortunately, both for maories and settlers, i the intellectual shoemaker has not ap peared in this colonial city; our. shoemaker's store is not an archive of literature, but evidently the seat of art. None ever dream of speaking of our polished shoemaker as the waxy, or the snob, except of some unrejjenerate waif of the trade who still sticks to the black pipe of his ancestors, and talks politics over his beer in some obscure corner of a by i street. We sounded our shoemaker the other day whilst waiting for our new boots upon his political views, when he plainly told us that he did not trouble his head about polities but one thing he knew, "we are rery much over-governed, and have to pay the cost." He also quoted the Superintendent's remarks upon " our laws," and said A&r Gillies is a shrewd, tip-top lawyer. " Very good," we replied, " but how about tbe boots t" rTUoj are not done," he answered, "my man has been oufc*on tho Bprea $ you will get th«_n to-morrow." Hence we learnt the old story that the Auckland journeyman, like many a brother of the Crispin fraternity, is fond of his beer and tobacco. He too keeps Saint Monday, neglects, and then sticks to his last regardless of the moral teachings of bin tutelary saint, the martyred Crispin. Saint Monday being over, and Tuesday irrecoverably lost, our journey man, with forced humility, once more gets upon his seat, blows forth the final vestige of his stick of tobacco, and, as no coppers jingle in his pocket, hammers away like a man in earnest, aud completes his work upon the strength of the pure clement. He hurries over his work, soles and uppers are attached in the " twinkling of an eye," and the result frequently is, a misfit. Our shoe maker thon blames the journeyman for not making acoording to measure, while the journeyman finds fault with his master's measurement, and we have to wait another week for our new boots. Our shoemakers complains as every tradesman complains, of the badness of the times, and yet since he started in Queen Btreet he has fitted up another store with a proh'Gc show of home and colonial goods, and lives in his own house a little way out of town where the dreaded small-pox may be evaded. Our shoemaker is courteous and obliging 5 his motto is " leather, not literature" while that of his workmen, too often is " potations not poetry," which latter motto.we trust will be soon changed into words of nobler meaning. Let the shoemaker " stick to his last," let him rise in logioal order to the dignity of a man, as be rose by a series of gradations to the mastery of a shoe ; first, in the making of threads, ♦■•hen in sewing, then in cutting and completing his work ; hence the studious journeyman may be transformed from the grub into the boss, and sing while bending over his work: —

The Suoemakeb's Happies Song. No dingy shoemaker now am I, With my pint and my short black pipe ; But a free man —free as the earth and sky, With a heart of the higher type. I labour on, and I feel a pride In the making of boots and shoes, Then cast my'awl-and my last aside, And wander wherever I choose. My little ones, five, are neatly drest, And daily thoy go to sohool ; No more by a tyrannous custom pressed— As a father I've learnt to rule. And now, quite A swell, in Sabbath hours' 'Iween showers, in sun and shade, I may often bo seen among the flowers, Like a man who has done with trade. The precoplouß. youth, and the Auckland lass,. And council-men know me now ! And never their shoemaker they pass Without a colonial bow. Then why should the men who might be .. free. . Their natural rights abuse ; Saint Monday keep, go out "on tho spree," And neglect their boots and ehoeß ? Sketches.

DISTRICT COURT.

THIS DAY

Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., District Court Judge. The adjourned sitting of the District Court took place this morning. CUTLEB V. TAYLOB. Claim £100, damages for trespass. Mr W. H. Kissling for plaintiff. Mr James Eussell and Mr W. L. Reel for the defence. .. j The case was fully gone into yesteyctefc, and judgment was reserved until toidiyU His Honor said after giving the;' dasjer' due consideration he was of opinion that i there was full acquiescence on the ]>*&

of plaintiff both before and after the alleged trespass was committed. A nonsuit was accepted. SCHEDULES OF CONTBIBUTOEIES. The following companies schedules were then called up :-— THEIEVE CASTLE: _ By application of Mr Hesketh it war agreed to adjourn the case tiU Thursday. No objection was offered by Mr Rees. , JOHN O* GEOATS EXTENSION. Mr Bees obtained an adjournment till Thursday. SEA LION. Adjourned till Thursday. INKEEMANN AND DUBHAM. Mr Rees for Mr Walter Sully, who had a claim against the company for forty-four weeks' salary as legal manager «t the company, namely from October y, lbby, until August 13, 1870, the amount being Mr Hesketh cross-examined. The last meeting was held on December 17 ; others were called but none held ; directors were never appointed ; between the last-named date and August one half-yearly statement was furnished and transfers were regis- Judgment had previously been obtained by Mr Sully at the Thames Court; and considering the circumstances his Honor did not feel justified in upsetting that judgment. TIDAL WAVE. Mr Rees for the Official Agent. The necessary evidence in accordance the provisions of the Act being produced, and there being no objectors, the schedule was ordered to be confirmed. SYLVIA. Mr Rees for the Official Agent. Schedule confirmed. WAKATIP. Mr Bees, for the Official Agent, stated that all objection had been removed. Schedule confirmed. GOLDEN GATE. By application of Mr Bees the matters in tais company were adjourned till the 13th of August. The Court was then adjourned till Thursday.

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY.

[Before P. A. Philips, Esq, Mayor, B.M.] DBUNKENNES3. Three drunkards were punished as usual, and one seat to gaol for seven days for his third offence. DISOBDEBLT PEOPLE. Robert Pennell, charged with behaviour in Queen street liable to provoke a breach of the peace, was fined twenty shillings and costs or forty-eight hours. Jane Murray for having been drunk and disorderly was fined iv a similar penalty. UNLICENSED LDOO3. A.-Buckland, for permitting his dog to be at large without'a registered collar affixed, failed to appear, and was fined fi^p shillings and <!08t8. iJotm Seabrook, for a similar offence, was ned one smiling and oo_>oo. DBIVXNG ACROSS THB FOOTPATH. John McOrory was charged with driving his cart on the public footpath in Vincent street. The defendant stated that he was a carter to the City Board, and in consideration of his being a stranger in Auckland the case was dismissed. THE BAID OS GOATS. Thomas Hamilton was charged under by law No. 6, sec. 7 of the Auckland City Council, with keeping two goats within the limits of the city. Mr John Sheehan appeared for this and other defendants, and asked for an adjourn ment until Thursday next. He was instructed to appear in conjunction with Mr Hesketh ; but as that gentleman was engaged at the District Court, and he himself would also be engaged there this morning, he requested that the whole of the cases might be aHjourned until that day. The request was granted, the Court stating that it had no wish to throw any obstacles in the way of the goat owners. The other defendants (M. Duff, P. Small, and S. Grey) were then charged, and the cases were all adjourned until Thursday.

Mr. Sheehan intimated that one of the points that would bo submitted for the defence was that the City Council had no power to make the by-law. He gave this notice in order that his Worship might know, as should he sit on the Bench on Thursday he would be placed in an anomalous position. He would therefore suggest that his Worship did not sit on that occasion. His Worship expressed his intention of presiding on Thursday next notwithstanding tho remarks of counsel. CHARGE OF ILLTTSING A SAILOB BOY. Randolph Limdeman, mate, was charged by Robert Muirhead, with unlawfully and violently assaulting him on board the brig Edith Haviland, on the 2nd and 3rd inst. Mr. Joy, L.L.B, appeared for the oomplainant; Mr. Bennett for the defendant. Mr. Joy explained that the assaults were of an aggravated nature, and consisted of part of along term of illusage to the boy, who was suffering from bodily ailmeut, being almost blind. ■ a The complainant deposed that he was a cabin boy on board the brig Edith Haviland,. of which the defendant was mate. He then gave details of the assault alleged to have been committed. In cross-examination the boy admitted that he had previous to the assault sold his bed and " got drunk" with the money. A number of witnesses were examined. The Court inflicted a penalty of twenty shillings and coses.

DE. CARR'S SEANCES.

Thebe was another good attendance at the Prince of Wales Theatre last evening. Dri Carr repeated his lectures on phrenology, electro biology, mesmerism, and laughing gas, followed by illustrations. The entertain ment caused, as usual, considerable amuse ment.

We understand from a Southern ex change that a son of Mr Gould, farmer. near Pleasant Point, in the Timaru district, whilst employed digging in the garden, which is a swampy soil, turned up a very large and perfect moa's egg, buj unfortunately, from an ignorance of its value, broke it. The egg was the largest ever found, and quite perfect, and the loss to science is very great, as may be gathered from the fact that there is only one real egg known to be in existence, and that is in a European museum, for which; although partly broken, it was purchased 4t a cost of £115. Dr Haast has written Ijo Mr Gould with a view to procuring the Siieces of the broken egg and re-uniting hem. It is to be hoped that he will be uccessful.

TELEGRAPHIC.

[EBOM OUB OWN COBBESPONDENT.] GKRAHAMSTOWN, Tuesday, 3 p.m. An inquest w<-.s held this mo:niug on William Evans, killed yesterday in the na mine, and a verdict of "Aco iclental death" recorded, attaching no blame to anyone. The Multum-in-Paivo crushing of 105 tons gave 124 ounces. The Belfast tribute have got 8 ounces from 13 tons. At the Police Court James Manley was charged with stealing from a dwell ing a watch and chain valued at £10. He has been remanded in consequence of the absence of James Connor, a witness, for whom a warrant has been issued. The same peruon is accused of stealing £5, the property of Joseph Hannon. The case is proceeding. The plaintiff and defendant were drinking together. .....:.... f._ff

COROMANDEL.

Tuesday, 2.30. : p. m. The Green Harp has only 576 ounces amalgam. It is very dirty. The o-reatest indignation is felt at the" swindle. The Coromandel Mail hopes the affair will be strictly investigated in a Court of law. The prospects of the Golconda are much improved. The Bismarck crushing is completed,. and the result is 976 ounces retorted gold. .■■■:■:,; i

[fbom gbbville's telegbam COMPANJT.]

TAUEANGA.

Tuesday, 3 p.m.

The Dauntless sailed for Auckland at 2.40 p.m. Passengers—Messrs. Peany, Langbridge, Bvown, Cher y, Asher. Misses McGa-.*vey aud Wood, also two for Mercury Island.

WELLINGTON.

The barque Schiehalhon arrived this morning from London with workmen; for Brogden. They are all well. .';•; The ship Excelsior also arrived this , morning from London after a good passage. r 2.30 p.m. The Schiehallion brings ninety-eight men, fourteen women, and twenty-six,* children for Brogden all well; also a large quantity of Railway plant. # The Excelsior has a quantity of blasting powder for railway purposes.

NELSON.

2 p.m. The s.s. Taranaki sailed for the Manukau late las- evening.

LYTTELTON.

The Pet sailed for Hobari Town this morning, and the John Knox for Sydney. The Emma (?) has arrived from Auckland.

DUNEDIN.

12.15 p.m,

The Times this morning publishes a series of complaints re Eeatherstone bungling of Immigration matters. The Superintendent has written to the Provincial Agent empowering him to despatch a ship monthly from Glasgow with immigrants for Otago under certain conditions.

THE ASSAULT ON AH KEW.

To the Editor of the Evenikg Stab. V Sib, —To you the thanks of the public are very much due, for you alone of your com peers appear to have noticed the decision in , a shameful case of assault on that inoffensive, citizen T. Ah Kew. Doubtless it would have been better for him could he have borne the ' insult of bone pelting as he did the verbal in sults from the other men during the three minutes he was in the room ; and, personally, much better (as it now appears) had he taken their money when they came to him to buy «ff their crimes, instead of seeking re* dress at our Court of justice—so called-—, where he gained disgrace, as far as it was in„ the power of the court to dispense it, rather than consolation. For by tbe assumptions of tho opposing lawyer he was made to appear untruthful in the statement of his case—in sulting to the men who assaulted himj.iujA thus drawii himself into » free ''fight," MJa hah! merely come off second best, every woii; of which is an unmitigated falsehood. Bat the judges appeared in some measure to be lieve it, as they decided it was not an extreme.^ case, and could be settled with a fine. Wbjii Mr Editor, what could be more extreme tbatt'l the gratuitous violence of these men ? Shey had not even the motive of getting his moijey. But hate inspired them ; only hate—-a 'devilish hate. What can be worse, or what motl*^ jnore destructive of civilised peace ? y, ' There must bo something radically wrong^ either in the laws or the lawyers when con-* stantly it is to be seen how little cimncs the peaceable have when pitched against t.te^ r 1 lent or unscrupulous in a law court 5 in »°*»f none at all, when the violent has his few lawyer, who in his conscience (save the ma«l believes it right to make black appear white. But we are supposed, too, to be better off here, have a public prosecutor to defend thel wew.- > against the strong, fetch up the truth, / pfevett this very evil. But, MrEd.to*,* r~* ,< me is it if by negligence it £> b™« ** honest to a fair issue,' oris incapable^of show ing up such scoundrels ss these in their in* colours. I hope yet you will be able to dgf this case to the light, and if cost w lu'_J am anxious to leave my mite *«*/* L that purpose.—Yours truly, A L«0KB8 o*. ,

THE GREEN HARP.

i --i To the Editor of the Evening Stab. \ , Sib,—Permit me to say a *?""*%#& reference to the shareholders .in the ww Harp mine upon whom so much oMojWjJg being thrown by disappointed iPjJgf and others. It is much to.be WR»sg' the yield from the mine is not M»tf u •• .what was expected, in the n**fe£jfy concerned, but that affords PoJggS* pretext for stamping theGreenWJP _~ holders as the authors of a swindle, *PJ

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