SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening, 4.50. HIGH WATER : This evening, 8.47,

STEAM TO THE THAMES THIS EVENING.

JJune of Edinburgh, r, o'clock.

ARRIVALS.

t,eiestia, barque, for Newcastle: S Utmbria, schooner, McKenrie, from Wangarei.

DEPARTURES.

i."1""" 11'1" =.s., vvjieeler, for Southern ports. Hero, s.s., Logan, for Sydney.

DEPARTURE OF THE HERO.

+Ti?V™ • °> CaPtain Lo?an, took her departure *rl ™orn »g for Sydney and Melbourne, precisely at iier advertised time. She takes the following passen gers :—-Saloon—Messrs W Keven.Hinshaw, WGilbert, ■p^'iT w- D Shepherd. Mrs M Shepherd. Miss M Jewell Messrs W H Cooke. A Duncan, W Cameron, Mrs W Cameron, Messrs J McCosh Clark, W Nelson, ™J\ Nelson. Colonel A Morland, Messrs C .Tones, W Pole L Permin, W Drysdale. C Gerschel, W Gerschel, E Glehardt, Buchart, G Thorne, JSherrard Mrs Sherrard, Master Sherrard. Steerage-Messrs Graves, G Mackic, A Mackie, W Rogers and R Rogers' H Groves, W Dent, and the following cargo :—224 bales flax J R Roberts ; 140 cases gum, G Thorne )un., and Co ; 10 bales flax, Bucholz and Co • 20 bass grass seed H Lipscombe ;48 cases sauces, S Brown ; 3 boxes gold, Union Bank of Australia ; 26 sacks gum, nnnWfltV he? ts c °PPer. E porter and Co, and a quantity of goods transhipped from the Nebraska.- Cruiokshank, Smart and Co, agents

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

*or southern ports : Phcebe, early' For Sydney and Melbourne: City of Melbourne, early. JTor Honolulu : Nebraska, mail steamer, early. For Wangarei: Clyde, Monday.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Coromlla, ship, from London. Sailed March 22 Rita, brig, from Melbourne Hercules, schooner, from Newcastle City of Melbourne, s.s., from Sydney Frowning Beauty, barque, from Newcastle Briton, barque, from Newcastle Charybdis, schooner, from Lyttelton Sea Gull, schooner, from Levuka Frima Donna, schooner, from Levuka Lapwing, cutter, from Lyttelton Pakeha, brig, from Dunedin Hercules, schooner, from Newcastle P.C.E., barque, from Newcastle Ellen Grove, from Lyttelton Drover, brig, from Lyttelton. Bulwark, ship, from London. Sailed March 2 schooner, from Wellington Coronet, schooner, from Dunedin East Lothian, barque, from Adelaide ■Helenslee, ship, from London (sailed Jan. 11). Ueopatra, schooner, from Lyttelton Alpha, schooner, from Newcastle Amphitrite, schooner, from Sydney

LAUNCH OF A NEW SCHOONER.

The launch of a schooner toot place this morning at Messrs. Sims and Brown's ship buildingyard,Cu9tom-housestreet. The launch was very successfully performed, the vessel gliding smoothly off the stocks into her future element directly the shoreswere knocked away. She was christened the Amaranthe, with the usual ceremony. She has the appearance of being a staunch and well-built little craft, and was built to the order of M>. Shepherd. She will be commanded by Captain H. Marks,and is destined for the Southern trade.

The barque Celestia arrived in harbour from New castle this morning with a cargo consisting of 243 tons coal and 50 tons kerosi le shale consigned to the Auckland Gas Company : and 99 bags bonedust, order. She left Newcastle on the 10th instant.

The schooner Cambria entered at the Customs this morning from Wangarei with 35 tons firewood, 22 bags gum, 20 boxes eggs. The s.s. Taranaki took her departure this morning for Southern ports with the following passengers:— Messrs. Kingston and Bunning in the saloon, and Mrs. Cobb and 2 children in the steerage. A br'g supposed to be the Drover, from Lyttelton, is coming up harbour.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Stab Office, Saturday afternoon

Mr. E. Arthur reports having held his market day sale on Thursday, in consequence of Friday being the Queen's birthday, and the following prices were realised :—Fowls, lid to 2s 4d ; turkeys, 2s 3d to 2s fid; Brahma fowls, 4s to Cs : no ducks or geese in ; apples, 2£d to 2Jd ; Auckland potatoes, Bspercwfc ; onions, id to Id per pound ; damaged maize, 3s 3d per bushel: "Wairoa cheese 5d ; bacon, B.|d to 9d ; pork, 2}d ; spiced beef, 3Jd ; tea, Is 7d to Is lOd; household'furniture, &c, sold at fair prices.

Mr. K. Arthur's fruit sale to-day was well attended. The bidding was good. The following prices were obtained :—Apples, 3Jd to 4d per pound : oranges, 8s 9d per case ; Hobart Town onions, Jd per pound ; Canterbury cheese, 6d per pound : do flour, £13 per ton.

MINING.

The following are the current calls and dividends payable In the companies named below :—

Pauline, 7, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 3 p.m.,

May 27 Carnatic, Coromandel. May 27 Venus, Queensferry Hotel, Auckland, 4 p.m. May 27 Robert Emmet, 5, Insurance Buildings, Auckland,

3 p.m. May 29 Black Angel, Grahamstown, May 30 Xooringa, Grahamstown, May 30 Bay of Islands Coal Company, Company's office, Auck land, 3 o'clock May 31 Tatnbaroora, "West Queen street, 2pm June 1 Virginia City, Grahamstown, June 3 Burra Burra, G. S. O'Halloran's office, Insurance Buildings. Auckland, C p m., June 3 Guildhall, Grahamstown, June 4 Conquering Hero, Insurance Buildings, Auckland

June 7 Foster's, Coromandel, June 7 Golden Spur, Company's office, West Queen street, 3

p m June 10 Number One, Grahamstown, June 10 Taumatawahine, Company's office.Queen street, 4 p.m. June 10 New Kakaia, Coromandel, June 11

POST OFFICE, SHORTLAND-STREET.

Mails will Close as Under

For Thames, this day, at 4.30 p.m. ; ar:.l on Monday, 27th instant, at 5:30 p.m. For Kapanga, per Southern Cross*, on Monday, 27th instant, at 11.30 a.m. For Kussell, Wangaroa.and Mongonui, per Comerang, on Friday, 31st instant, at 3 p.m. The Post Office hitherto known as Mahurangi will in future be called Te Kapo.

S. B. Biss. Postmaster.

BIRTH.

Leiohton.—On the 23rd May, at Islington Villa Ponsonby Road, the wife of J F Leighton, of a son'

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

SATURDAY, MAY 25, 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.

A few days since a local appeared in our contemporary the Cross with refer ence to asphalt. The local savoured of the City Council, in fact if not wholly supplied by Mr. Brodie, the Town Clerk, he must have furnished the extracts from the letters received by him from his brethren the town clerks in Melbourne, Sydney, and Brisbane. These extracts are intended to show that asphalt is a failure in those cities, and they are clearly a counter-blast to our advocacy of asphalt two days before. Prom Melbourne the town clerk states that asphalt " has not answered the purpose so well or been so serviceable as flagging." The objections raised are, first, "the relative durability if undisturbed," and second, "it is liable to the objec tion that to lay gas or waterpipes across footways made with it involves the breaking up of the surface which can not be replaced as it might be if the surface were nagged." With reference to the first objection and to the Mel bourne testimony generally it should be remembered that that city has within its own suburbs some of the finest stone to be found in the world. For hardness and durability the Melbourne blue stone is not surpassed by granite, and if from the Brunswick quarries, within twenty minutes' cartage dis tance, that city cannot obtain and lay stone of the first character at a lower price than asphalt, it would indeed be extraordinary. And when we .discover that in Parnell or Newton we have almost boundless quarries of the hardest stone in the world, we shall be the first to decry asphalt and urge that our footpaths uhould be laid with Parnell granite, or Newton blue stone. As regards the breaking of the surface for the laying of a pipe we are as capable of forming an opinion as the town clerk of Melbourne. Of course it is easier lifting paving stones and replacing them than breaking asphalt and repairing it; but when the difference of cost would be a few shillings, and the breaking up of a footpath is not an every day occurrence, and the formation of a joint is as easily effected in asphalt as it is in window putty, the Melbourne town clerk's difficulty may be waived. The Sydney town clerk speaks with a gushing empressement that betokens a personal bias, so that we have no reserve in throwing back to him a direct and posi tive contradiction. He says, " Several experiments have been made in this city for the purpose of ascertaining whether asphalt could be used for the formation of the footpaths, and in every case the material has been found unavailable for the purpose." This is simply a false hood. Last week we gave an extract from the Sydney Morning Herald, quite as good an authority as any quill sucker in any municipal office in the colonies, and that journal most posi tively assures us that a piece of asphalt laid in Greorge street in Sydney in its most crowded portion succeeded excellently. That journal says "it presents a surface as hard and even as could be desired by the pedestrian." It also tells of a piece of pathway in Sydney as being "as hard as granite on the hottest day being much more impervious to the pick than ordinary Sydney stone." And the same journal tells of a piece of asphalt roadway that has borne the traffic of the heaviest drays for years. The fact is the Sydney quarries are one of the most powerful of Sydney interests; and probably the town clerk would no more show a predilec tion in favour of a rival material than would our Town Clerk or local Clerk of Works dare to pronounce in favour of asphalt. Messrs. Hobbs, Jones, Hampton, and George, and wo

do not know what other councillors have the pathways flagged long ago at their own premises, and lil<e the fox with his tail cut off in the trap, do not wish their premises to be odd ; and our worthy Mayor has an interest in a fine quarry, which, though not at present used for our city flagging, a sense of propriety preventing, still has a reversionary interest in the progress of our city improvements. In such circumstances we venture to say that every em ploye of our City Council is bound by a very proper sense of justice to himself to see on Avhich side his "bread is buttered, and would no more advocate asphalt than would the minion of the great quarry interests of Sydney. 4s for the Brisbane testimony it is given with proper modesty as becomes a city that is innocent of asphalt, or almost any other kind of paving save in scattered patches. The " general impression " as to what it would be does not go for much; but were it otherwise the splendid quarry at Woogaroo, on the face of a precipice overhanging the Brisbane river, should also tend to make stone more service able than asphalt in that northern capital. Our circumstances are in

many respects different from more

favoured cities, and we do not hesitate

to say that, it shows a most despicable absence of public pluck on the part of our citizens to allow the City Council to force their paving stonea down the throats of the people.

THE CITY OF MELBOURNE.

We are very glad to hear that at least some effort will be made to discover the wherabouts of the City of Melbourne, if she has nob found her way back to Port Jackson. Mr. Jervis, the local manager of the A.S.N. Co., has been indefatigable in his efforts to provide against the worst, although not doubting himself that she has been safely moored in Sydney harbour. He first tried to have the Rosario sent to coast along our northern shores, and applied to the representative of the Government, Dr. Pollen, to do what is usually done, and what by the rules of the Imperial Navy is necessary in such cases to be done, namely, to provide supplies of coal, &c, for the trip. But Dr. Pollen, in the exercise of discretion not very creditable to his humanity, or that of the Govern ment of which he is the representative, declined to do anything of the sort. So far as he and his Government are concerned, the City of Melbourne and all on board may go to Davey Jones' locker, or be clinging to the rocks of Cape Maria Van Diemen—the coals would not be given. The Rosario, therefore, has remained in port. The Government has done nothing whatever in. the case ; but Mr. Jervis has had rockets, blue lights, &c., in quantity .placed on board the Hero, and it is arranged that the coast to the north will be closely scanned for any signs of the City of Melbourne; and a man will be kept at the mr.st head night and day, pnd rockets will be fired at night, and every means taken to indicate the presence of the steamer, and her readiness to succour. Addi tional provisions, «fee, have also been put aboard, so that in case of falling in with castaways every assistance can be rendered. All this may be totally unnecessary. Any fool can know this ; and to assert and reassert it ?s no evi dence of wisdom. But so long as a doubt remains, and there is a possibility of the passengers and crew being in a position of suffering, it is a duty that would be recognised in any port to use eveiy effort to bring relief.

A seaman named Hawthorn was paid a £10 note in mistake for a £1 by the purser of the Wellington just bafore leaving Onehunga. The loss was discovered after the Wellington had sailed, and the facts telegraphed from Nelson. The result is that Hawthorn, who denies having received the money, has been taken into custody by constable Greene and stands remanded until Monday.

Some short time ago we asked the attention of the City Council or its Clerk of Works to the condition of Cook street, between Hobson and Nelson streets. It was literally impassable for pedestriann. Since then one footpath has been laid with scoria ash, to the great comfort of the residents. The other footpath is now in a deplorable state. We do hope that the sufferings of the inhabitants will be considered, and that the weather being so exceedingly variable, and new cuttings so liable to be turned into liquid glue, a few cartloads of scoria ash will be kindly given to the residents on the north Bide of the street in question.

The anniversary tea meeting in connection with the Grafton«road Sunday-school was held last evening. There was a large attendance of both children, parents and friends. Addresses were delivered by Revs. 0. W. Rigfi, J. J- Lewis, 0. W. Oliver, and Mr. 0. J. Stone.

The General Assembly will be convened for the despatch of business in Wellington on the 15th July.

This evening the City Hall will be opened by the great combination company, namely the Simonsens and American Minstrels and Barry O'Niel. Such an array of talent is likely to draw crowded houses. The pro gramme will consist of classical and operatic music, ballads, duets, comic sketches, Ethiopian acts, songs and dances j together with piano, violin, and harp solos.

An entertainment given at the Catholic Institute last night was well attended, the hall being crowded. .The performance wai given by the Ward Minßtrels in aid of the No. 1 Hoyal Company's band. The pro gramme submitted to the audience was highly amusing.

I caught her softly by the arm, my gentle blue-eyed Kate, she squealed, "Let go, you pesty fool, you hurt my vaccinate."

The transfer books of the Moanatairi Q-old Mining Company will be closed from noon on Tuesday next until Friday, when a dividend of fire ihillings will be payable.

We understand that aia amateur concert, under the patronago of the Bishop and Mrs. Cowie, in aid of the organ fund of St. Mary's, will take place on the evening of Tuesday, June 18. There was a good attendance at the Prince of Wales Theatre last evening, when the "Relief of Lucknow" was performed with considerable success. Miss Aitken as the heroine played her part with great power j and effect. The piece was loudly applauded | throughout. " God Bare the Queen" waa ■ played by the orchestra, the audience stand -1 ing ; after which Miss Aitken read one of Mrs Caudle's famous lectures. This was succeeded by a recitation of Farmer's Lanca shire poem, "Come whoam to thy childer and me." The amusing farce of "Raising the Wind" brought the entertainment to a close. In our report of the Review yesterday we were somewhat in error in stating that His Excellency was escorted to the field by the Prince Alfred Troop ; the guard of honor was given by the Auckland Troop of Royal Cavalry. An accident, although of a trifling nature, happened at the review yesterday, at the Epsom ra<?e course. A gunner in the Volunteer Artillery, named Broadbent, was riding on a gun carriage, when by some means or other his foot caught in the off wheel, by which he received a very severe sprain. He was conveyed to his home in a cab.

POLICE COURT.

THIS DAY. Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M

DBUNKENNESS

A woman, charged with drunkenness, ploaded "guilty," but alleged in extenuation of her offence that she was about to leave the colony of New Zealand for the colonies of Australia by the Hero, now about to depart. She hoped that the Court would act leniently, and allow her to carry out her original plan.

The Court, wishing in every way to oblige the fair prisoner, felt constrained to detain her until immediately before the departure of the steamer. The necessary instructions were therefore given tho polico to see that the old lady did not miss her passage. VIOLENT ASSATTLT. Joseph Couzins, late proprietor of. the Temperance hotel, was charged with violently assaulting tho wife of his bosom.

On the application of Sergeant Pardy the case was remanded until Monday, tho serious injuries the woman had received precluding her from giving evidence. The prisoner, who appeared to be buffering from the effects of recent heavy drinking, put the following question to tho Court: "Ah ! who done it ?"

Ho was remanded until Monday, This finished the business.

CORRESPONDENCE.

gSTWe do not hold ourselves responsible for the opinions expressed by our correspondents.

FURIOUS DRIVING.

To the Editor of the Evening Stab,

Sib, —On the afternoon of the 15th inst., I was going on the Oaohunga 'b&i in Queen street, Auckland, when tv?o lads on horse back, named Hamiltons, galloping down the street, knocked me down, cutting my face and injuring my shoulder. I laid the necessary information to the police, and the Commis sioner of Police brought the case before the court in the legal form, and to my great sur« prise the Justice Philips, as I can give him no bighor title, dismissed the case. The case was clearly proved against the lads, and I have no blame to attach to the Commissioner, or those under him ; it is'impossible for them to do their duty if the justices will not assist them in inflicting a fine upon the offenders. My trade is a carpenter. Now, I was detained a whole week from my business at Coromandel to attend to this case as well as getting my bones bruised, and the case being dismiased was all the redress I got.—l am, &c., GeOEGE Bboadfoot, Onehunga.

P. S.—From J. B. Eussell's statement in his remarks to the Justice Phillips it would puzzle any one to know what is furious rid ing. From what I could judge of what he said he could not tell himself what it was.

STONING OUR RUNNERS.

To the Editor of the Evening Stab.

Sib, —I hare to call your attention to a state ment which appeared in your issue of the 22nd inst., in which a boy named McNarmara is accused of throwing stones and brickbat! at one of your runners. I being tho father of the boy hare to denj this, and can produce very conclusive evidence to show that it was Hot so, and as I do not care about being included amongst the parents of rowdy boys mentioned in your issue, >I must beg of you to give publicity to this denial. Of course boys who misbehave in the manner mentioned by you deserve panishment, but I think more caution should be used in naming one who is guiltless. —I am, &0., J. S. McNamaba, the Strand.

[We have much pleasure in giving publicity to the denial, and at the same time re-asserting our previous statement.—Ed. E.S.]

THE ATHLETIC SPORTS.

.As the day wore on the number of people on the ground increased, so that at 4 o'clock over 2000 were reckoned to be present. Un fortunately owing to the ground being so soft with recent rains the pressure of the crowd became too great for the stakes, and they gave way. The consequence was that the last three races had to be run through the crowd, -who could with difficulty be per suaded to give the competitors room. In the Hurdle Eace, the foremost men knocked down five out of the eight hurdles, and Ellis came in an easy winner, the way being prepared for him. The One-mile Walking Match, resolved itself into two matches; namely, a walking match between Ellis and Mahon, and a running match between G-wynne and Lowe. Under these circumstances G-wynne of courpe oame in first amidst a storm of hisses ; and Ellis s«cond, with Mahon third, were loudly cheered as they passed the goal. Pro tests hare been lodged against Q-wynne by both Ellis and Mahon, and the committee will decide on their merits this evening. Collins won the 440 yards race, and Duder came in second. This race brought a very good day's sport to a close. The giving away of the ropes cannot be blamed on the com mittee of management, but it shows that a spot should be set aside for these manly sports and properly railed in all round. There is no doubt that when the barracks are handed over to the City Oounoil an enter prising person will be found to lease a portion of the ground, and willing to build a perma nent grand stand and rail off a course. With regard to the sports yesterday we are glad to see that the assurance made to the Govern ment that the amusements would be conducted in a respectable and proper manner were faithfully and efficiently carried out under the superintendence of Mr. J. Sullivan. The prizes will b« paid on Monday evening. between 8 and 10 o'clock, at Sulliran's hotel

TELEGRAPHIC.

(from ottk. own coebespondent.)

Grahamstowit, 2.33 p.m. The Junction tribute No. 2 has crushed 100 tons for 12G ounces. The Caledonian has lodged 244; ounces for the week. The total amount of n:?!ted gold for the month is 2,134 ounces. California!!, tribute—3oo tons gave 111 ounces. Golden Spur, No. 2 tribute, has lodged 7 ounces. The Moanataivi has had another splendid crushing. They have lodged 779 ounces for the fortnight. The City of London has crushed 97 tons, and the return is 86 ounces. , Manukau tribute —15 tons gave 10 ounces. Kunviri—3oo tons yielded 158 ounces. Golden Crown—loo tons gave 49 ozs. 13 dwts. Tribute—so tons gave 43 ozs.

[Pee G-reville's Telegeam Company.

NAPIER This day, 11 a.m

After the military display yesterday Henare Tokomano was presented wibh a splendid sword, the gift of Her Ma jesty, for the bravery he displayed in 1859. The presentation was made by Major "Withers. Henare, in returning thanks, held up the sword in the air, and said, "You see how bright and clear this blade is. My loyalty to Queen Victoria will always be as bright and clear as it."

In the afternoon somo four hundred natives sat down to a feast given them by Europeans, and enjoyed themselves heartily.

The Star of the South has arrived from Auckland.

The Nebraska arrived at 9.30 a.m. this morning from Auckland, and left again for "Wellington at 10 o'clock.

PORTRAITS OF THE PEOPLE.

II. —THE TEMPEHAXCE OKATOE.

Neaelt half a century of years has passed since seven poor men of Preston, in Lancashire, formed themselves into an adult band of hope and commenced a rigid course of self-denial by abstaining altogether from the use of intoxicating drinks. Hard times were in the old land then, consequent upon a series of dis astrous continental and others wars. There had previously been temperance societies; but these failed in their moderate efforts to stay the progress of drunkenness. These seven Preston men, knowing this fact, and feeling the pressure of the times, resolved upon a determined stand in opposition to the tavern and its melancholy influences, and they drank no more. They were emphatically what brother Speight facetiously calls clenchers. One of this self-denying seven had an impedi ment in his speech, and in his opening oration stammered out, " I'll be an out and-out Te-te-tote'ler, meaning to infer that he would totally abstain from pernicious beverages, and stick to iea and similar inoffensive drinks. Hence the signification of the pet term of the water-drinker, and from that period society has been gradually sobering under the awakening principles of the teetotal orator. This busy, pale-faced man is the same kind of individual in both hemi spheres—a man of one idea—his cherished thought has grown into the belief that his views, if universally adopted, would of necessity revolutionize the world and change the constitution of man ; he is frequently dogmatic in his opinions, allowing no quarter to his opponents, and his style of address is much the same, whether he speaks in London or in Auckland; it i 3 often loose, disconnected, illogical, and ungrammatical, for the teetotal orator bends neither to the teach ings of Lindlay Murray, nor to the plain spoken rules of Cobbett. You cannot mistake this half-polished working man, who comes forth at eventide from the smithy and daily workshop to preach the endless blessings of temperance; he patiently sits by the chairman, awaiting his call to the front of the platform; his hair has evidently been brushed up for the occasion, with the aid apparently of a small drop of the best olive oil; his Sunday coat, also, is out for an airing. Herisestospeak withja look of consummate confidence, and with that happy faith in his own elocutionary abilities which orators of his calibre invariably assume at public meetings. Well, he is engaged in a good work ; no reasonable person can possibly deny that —at least no person who is familiar with the columns of the Evening Star, and toJio is not acquainted with them ? The teetotal orator, there fore, though not in the most refined language, may be aiding a benevolent cause. Drunkenness, unquestionably, is a lamentable evil; still this quaint orator, pale enough, but not possibly with the " pale cast of thought," requires a cor recting nudge. In his funny rollicking advocacy of his cause he frequently, in his frenzied, enthusiastic outbursts of feeling, becomes intemperate in speech, and some times exhibits a lack of that benign charity which is not " puffed up." He is rudely eloquent in praise of the mountain stream, and rarely touches upon other of the beautiful streams of life and nature. He would, of course, have perfect liberty of action, but others must submissively bow to his sweeping opinions in the matter of the " Permissive Bill" which his crude and somewhat narrow judgment may dictate. He warms as he proceeds with his solitary subject; illustrating his matter with all sorts of homely anecdotes in imitation of that prince of teetotal orators, John B. G-ough, of whom by-the-bye we have not heard since he furnished his neat little trans atlantic farm at the people's expense. The teetotal orator endeavours to show, but seldom to convince, that all, or nearly, the evils of human existence spring from the one over-flooding source of intemper ance ; he denounces, in no stinted terms, the moderate drinker, and expatiates very

learnedly on the pure nature of the wine at the marriage feast, and knows all about the grapes and wine-presses of ancient Palestine. Pardon his enthusiasm ; see, he wipes his heated brow, partly to prove his earnestness and the geniality of this New Zealand clime, and partly that he may exhibit his white pocket-handker chief. The teetotal orator is a respect able man; he once wheeled a bar row, carried a hod, and occasionally sold small wares ; but now, to his credit, he keeps a small store in yonder by street, and expects soon to be a boss of larger dimensions in one of the leading thoroughfares. He is fond of contrast, and it is with a considerable degree of pride that he compares his old out-of elbows drinking coat and greasy cap with his b'.ooming surtout and glossy " bell topper" of to-night. He is, moreover, saving a few notes, and does a little in the fashionable scrp line ; he has to learn however, that intemperance in drinks, although a great moral and physical evil, is but one among the many evils that afflict our common humanity

Sketches.

THE SHARE MARKET.

HAGTXE SMITH AND WAXKEB'S BEPOBT.

The sharemarkefc has been moderately active to-day, general stocks in limited demand. Our Bales hare been: Caledonian, £18; Inverness, 12s ; West Coast, lls; Siege of Paris, 15s. Buyers: Pride of Tokatea, 9s 5 West Coast, 11» 6d j North Devon, 10s. ME. NEWMAN'S BEPOBT. Market commenced with a good demand for Pride of Tokatea shares at a slight advance. Other stocks sold at previous rates. My sales comprise : —Moanatairi, £5 ; Thames, £5 10s; Pride of Tokatea, 9s to 10s; Siege of Paris, 15s. MB. JAMES FEBGHTSON'S BEPOBT. Business to-day was rather quiet. My sales comprise : Green Harp, £7; Pride of Tokatea, 9s 6d; Oriana, 43 6d; Working Miners, 6s and 6s 6d. There is still a demand for Green Harps, Pride of Tokateas. and Working Miners. MB. J. m. Lennox's bepoet. There was a fair amount of business done at the Exchange. My sales comprise:— Caledonian, £18 10s; Thames, £5 7s 6d; Waitemata, 10s; Siege of Paris, 12s 6d; Pride of Tokatea, 10s. Closing sellers : Cale» donian, £18 10s; Thames, £5 10s ; Pride of Tokatea, 9s. Buyers : Caledonian, £18 ; Thames, £5 7s Gd ; Tookey, (double issue) £6.

THE TICHBORNE CLAIMANT IN NEWGATE.

From the London Dispatch. The claimant, it seems, has allowed himself to be "interviewed" since his incarceration in Newgate. Referring to the mode in which the Attorney-General had conducted the ease against him he expressed his indignation that the learned gentleman had not cross* examined him upon the tattoo marks, but had kept that part of the defence in reserve, in the hope that it would, as it certainly did, deal a successful blow against him. "If he had ventured to examine me on this matter," re marked the prisoner, "it would hare given me the opportunity which I ought to have had, of denying that I was so marked, and of bringing forward good witnesses who could have sufficiently proved it. And what I particularly complain of is, that Mr. Alfred Seymour, M.P., who says he knew all along I was tattooed, did not once state it. Can we consider it a proper thing if he allowed me to impose myself as Sir Roger Tichborne upon my mother and sisters ? Then, again, there are the letters of Mrs. Pattendreigh. The Attorney-Q-eneral tried to win his cas.e with them, but failed, and he had to acknowledge he could not rely upon them. If I had done this, I wonder what would have been said ? I should not have been surprised in that case to have found myself where lam now." In replying to a question about the general conduct of the trial, he criticised the speedy decision which the jury gave when they had only heard a few witnesses for the defence. Could it be that the jury were frightened at the prospect of two hundred witnesses being placed in the box by the Attorney-Q-eneral ? "The Attorney-General," he said, "knew that such an idea was enough to terrify any juryman in the world." Nor did the claimant seem satisfied with the perfect impartiality of the judge—in fact, he ex pressed himself in a very opposite sense. He al»o spoke in angry tones about the publica tion of the ''Martin Guerre "case in "The Month," a periodical, he said, which was edited by the brother of the Attorney-General. He stated in a very clear manner what the story was, and said that, as published in the periodical mentioned, it was materially altered from the book in which it originally appeared. " There can be no doubt," said the claimant, " that it did prejudice public opinion against me." When asked what he thought was the cause of his case breaking down, and what won the decision for the defendant, he answered " Money; and money is all that I want to free myself from this place, and prove my innocence of the charge upon which I am committed, and win my estates." With respect to the bail, he said, "I want to know why I should be treated differently, to other people? Why should they re quire me to give them sureties in a manner which they do not require of other defend ants who are placed in a like position to myself. See what else they have done. By a most unfair proceeding I was made a bank rupt, and altogether they have left me bound hand and foot. They have seized everything —absolutely left me nothing. All my papers have been taken, and they have appropriated my last change of linen. All I now posses i« the suit of clothes I now wear. How can it be expected that I can meet the charges against when I am thus treated" With reference to his committal, he said :" I con tend that it was not fair my 88 witnesses (I forget the exact number), who so distinctly swore in my favour should go for nothing, and that the jury should have ao readily believed tho few on the other side, and par ticularly those who swore about the tatoo marks, none of whom agreed as to what the marks actually were. Some said one thing and some another. "Upon evidence which did not agree.and which I and my witne9ses,and more still could have denied, the defendant won. It the jury had given me the chance I'd proved everything I said." When asked whether he had any confidence that the result of his trial for perjury would be in his favor, he replied, " Why, of course ; of what per jury have I been guilty? I have proof of everything I said, But"I will not consent that the trialgshall take place at Westminster. I shall demand to be tried at the Central Criminal Court. There I shall expect to get a fairer trial." He then went on to say that when he is acquitted he intended to go on with the action for the restoration of his pro perty, and that he shall prosecute the Doughtj case. After a few further observations, in which the claimant again repudiated with gestures of contempt the charge of perjury, positively asserted his innocence, and reasserted his determination to prosecute another action for the recovery of his title and estates, the , interview cAme to and end.

SERVE HIM RI GHT.

The Manchester (England) v responsible for the following • a??» litzmelon was a " smart young SI was his firm conviction thA v?£ I opposite sex he was ir-^Au W evening Fitzmelon was a£*/|' o I c' <m in an adjoining box he es fl a ura>'■«■ young lady without a male' nodded to his companions, and r H that he must make a conquest 8 *tI adjoining box he made his Ly? M ceremoniously seated himself' J,4 young lady's side. She looked Li surprise. Adolphus smiled sweetly J begged pardon. He must hare vl mistaken. He had thought he recJS m her an acquaintance. She inQ him he had been mistaken «q3| ventured Adolphus, "I w' T °^l intrude." The lady m a d e P no Z but turned her attention to I stage where a scene was transpi in which she was much interest! At length Adolphus addresged I again. Turning quickly she' J? " You annoy me, sir ;" and her bS eyes flashed. " Bless me !" cried 111 phus, drawing back in mock tnU. " Don't eat me." The lady smiled a 2 beaming smile as she replied, "Ben alarmed, sir; I am a Jewess, and J religion forbids me to eat pork." Unforh nately for Adolphus, his friends heard % rejoinder, and he is not likely soont hear the last of his passage with ft beautiful Jewess.

AN ENOCH ARDEN OF REAL LIFE.

The general feeling of uneasiness excited W %. the number of Enoch Ardens who ha/c ' recently turned up will not. be lessened by aa event which has just happened in MjjiourL I and is thus related by the Cincinnati Enquirer, P A one-armed horseman, lately travellini f through Missouri, stopped at a blacksmith^ I shop in Cedar City to have his horse shod, i The smith noticed his empty sleeve, and ■- asked him if he had lost his arm in the war.■■■ He replied with a sigh that he had, and added with much emotioD, that on going back to his home at the close of the war he found that his •wife, who thought he was; dead, had moved away, and he had since been unable to obtain a trace of her. "Whatij your name?" asked the blacksmith. "J, M. Waldrup," was the, reply. The smith suddenly released the hoof of the horse over which he was bending, and without looking at the ex soldier, cried, "Follow me into the house," and hurriedly led the way. Waldrup mechanically obeyed the unexpected bidding, and was ushered into the presence of a comely matron, about whose sewing chair three happy children were playing. She was the blacksmith's wife, the mother of his little ones, and rose to greet the stranger on his appearance with hit husband at the door. No sooner, however, , did she catch sight of his face, than she uttered a heart-rending shriek and fainted. In Waldrup she recognised her husband. In the firm belief that he had been killed in the war she had married the blacksmith of Cedar City, and was already the mother of three . fine children. After the first agitation of the assembled group had subsided, Waldrup and the smith retired to the smithy to talk the matter over. Devotedly as the smith loved his wife, he fully admitted Waldrup's superior claims, aad it was in the end decided that she herself should decide between them. They accordingly re turned to the sitting room, where, after s torrent of tears and self-reproaches, the wife came to the conclusion that she ought to return to her first husband. Saddenly dropping her head on the blacksmith 1! shoulder, she declared with bitter lament ations that she could not leave her children. The smith "eyed her wistfully" for a moment, and then ha said in a husky voice, "You shall take them, my dear." Some hours later, when the steamboat St. Luke stopped at the landing, Waldrup went on board with his "thickly veiled and still weeping wife," the blacksmith followed lead ing the children. The boat's bell rang for tne starting. The dread moment of separation was at hand. The captain, the crew and the passengers were affected to tears by the touchiug scene, "With great drops rolling down his tawny cheeks" the smith kissed tke children one after the other, and bade the mother an etornal good-bye. He then shook hands long and earnestly with Waldrup, and walked quietly to the shore. He never turned his fane towards the boat, which sooa passed out of sight, but strode on with head bowed down to the home where the voice of his wife and children would welcome him no more. Let us hope that his grief was sincere.

ftHE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1872.



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THIS DAT PUBLISHED The Mat number of the NEW ZEALAND PRESBYTERIAN MAGAZINE. To be had from B. Watte, Publisher, Queen street. QLSON'S TOMATO SAUCE The mmense 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 to 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 bottlo and aper. Auckland, 10th February. 1872,



MR. R. J. CAETER, Stationer Brown street, Grahamstown, is authorised to ' receive advertisements and subscribers' names for the Auckland Evening Star. REED & BRETT Auckland, May 15,187'A TfiINAL NOTIC E RELINQUISHING- BUSINESS. R. HOB B S Has still on hand between SIX and SEVEN THOU SAND POUNDS' WORTH of the VERY PICK of the STOCK, consisting of FLANNELS, BLANKETS, FRENCH MERINOES, WINCEYS, Calicoes and Sheeting, Dimity and Toilet Quilts, Woollen Hosiery, Waterproof Jackets and Mantles for Ladies, Girls, and Children ; and other new Winter Goods, in great variety, which are now being CLEARED OUT AT VERY LOW PRICES. Ladies' and Children's New Black Straw Hats at about Half Value. The Stock MUST and WILL BE SOLD asR.H. has no intention whatever of remaining in the trade. Country customers, wholesale buyers, and small dealers, and buyers of job lots liberally dealt with. MEN'S AND BOYS' CLOTHING of the newest description, and Belts, Braces, Collars, Shirts, and Under Flannels, and all kind of Hosiery and Felt Hats, and Men's and Boys' Caps at a great reduction from regular prices. N. B.—THE SALE WILL CONTINUE FO A FEW WEEKS LONGER ONLY. R. HOBBS, JUNCTION DRAPERY WARE HOUSE, Upper Queen and Wakefield streets.



[advt.] ATHLETIC SPORTS. To the Editor of the Evening Stab. Sic, —I came over here from Melbourne, and have been at considerable expense to train for the races that came off on the Queen's Birth day. I ran the 200 yards race yesterday, giving Ellis 6 yards start, and wlien I caught up to him he passed each side in front of me, and knocked me against the bystanders, I now appeal to the Stewards, or the gentle men that have allowed their names to be made use of, for the money, or to give my protest a fair and impartial trial; or I will run Ellis the same race over, and add more money to it for the aforesaid prize. I have at least one dozen witnesses to prove that I was jostled, and on applying to the Secretary of the sports, Mr Newstead, after having paid the sum of ten shillings upon handing in my protest, I was informed I ought to have been at Mr Sullivan's hotel last night, without any such notice given to me. A number of my witnesses came at 1 o'clock to-day to Mr Sullivan's hotel, and there was no one there to either take their names or evidence; and should the stewards not notice this appeal to them I shall be com pelled to take another course. —I am, &c, J. W. Collins. .^a



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