SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET : This evening, 7.0 HIGH WATER: This evening, B.C; to-morrow, 8.2S "■'..•. ■ !

STEAM TO THE THAMES

This evening. Enterprise No 2, ten o'clock; to morrow morning, Golden Crown; at eleven o'clock

ARRIVAL.

Lsetitia, schooner, from Lyttelton , Golden Isle, schooner, from Russell Rangatira, s.s., Hepburn, from Southern ports Queen, schooner, Veale, from Russell Flora McDonald, cutter, from Eaglan Hero, cutter, from Kaipara Success, schooner, 58 tons, McDonald, from Fjjis Magellan Cloud, schooner, from Russell PvOj-al Alfred, p.s , from Hot Springs

DEPARTURE.

Glenhuntley, barque, for Newcastle Herald, schooner, for Pieton Sunbeam, schooner, for Wangaroa Colonist, schooner, for Tologa Bay

PROJECTED DEPARTURES

For Napier : Star of the South, s.s., to-morrow after

noon ' " For Melbourne, Sydney, and Queensland : Keera, s.s.

noon to-morrow . For Southern porls: Wellington, s.s., on or about

Tuesday next For Levuka : Merlin, schooner, to-morrow For Northern ports : Rowena, s.s., this afternoon For Whitianga, Mercury Bay, and Tauranga Southern Cross, s.s., this afternoon For London: City of Auckland, ship, 7th Dec.

Queen Bee, ship, in December .. .'■. -. For Sydney Hind Melbourne: Wonga Wonga, s.s., Oth December : Hero, s.s., 10tli December For New York: Coronilla, barque, early For Southern ports, yia^ Nauier: Dakotah, mail steamer, about Ist prox

The s.s. Rangatira has cleared outwards fo> Southern ports with the following cargo : — 2 qr.-casks brandy, Srown, Compbell and Co.; 1 parcel, Fendelow • I bale, Gittos ; 2 crates,' 1 case, E. and H. Isaacs ; 5 packages, Combes and Daldy ; 5 cases, ! Lewis Bros. ; 3 cases, 1 truss, H. S. Meyers ; 1 bag, Harrison; 1 piano, J. Browne ; 1 box coin, Bank of New Zealand; 11 tons biscuits, Ellingham; 3 packages, A. Griffiths ; 4"parcels, R. Lusk ; 3 ditto, Close Bros. ; 2 bales, Ireland Bros. ; 20 plates iron, T. ; and S. Morrin.; 450 feet timber, W. Rattray ; 4 coils rope, J.. S. Macfarlane ; 9 packages, Keinpthorue. Pas sengers : Messrs W. Searancke, Neal, J. H. Harrison. —Combes and Daldy, agents.

The p.s. Royal Alfred returned this afternoon from her excursion trip" to the Hot Springs. The s'.s. Keera will'take her" departure for Sydney to-morrow at noon. She will tran ship passengers to other jaistralian ports. The s.s. llangatira arrived in harbor from Southern ports on Saturday night. She left Wellington on the 25th ultimo, and experi enced variable winds up Jthe._ coast. Pas sengers —Messrs Dugel,, Mountford, Bunton, Touks. Mrs Wrigley and imrse'. The Ranga tira will leave again for.the .South this after noon^"t- .-■■•'■ :■ ■■:• The s.s. Star of ohe South-came up harbor from the Thames yesterday morning, whe.ie she had landed. ;herj cargo of sheep./ She will leave again for Napier to-morrow after noon at one o'clock. "

The cutter.Flbfa MacDoiiald arrived yes terday in the Manukaji from Raglan with 13 bales tow, 3 bales, '2 bag 3 wool,' 3 cases, 2 boxes bacon, Jl, J>igs, : and 80 sacks flour, ,A. Barnes. The cutter Hero has,arrived in the Manu kau from Kaipara with 11,378 feet timber, W. iS. Graham1; jiß bags gum, E. Walker and Co. ; 17 hides, Ireland Brothers. EThe schooner Sea Gull left Levuka in com pany with the. Success for Auckland, via Bay of Islands. The Julia Price left Levuka for Auckland, via Samoa oh the lOth.ult. The schooner Success, Captain McDonald, arrived in harbour from Fijis this afternoon. She left Levuka ori the 23rd instant, and experienced strong easterly winds to the Barrier, sighted on Saturday last. Since then light. airs. , She brings 70 bunches bannanas, and the following 'passengers :— Messrs Pearman, Anderson, Fitzgibbon, and Brindle. ||The s.«. Rowena has cleared outwards for Port Ptiissell with the following cargo :—6, cases schnapps, 20 pels grocery, Owen and Graham ; 80 Bags flour, 13 pkgs, Stone Bros.; 1 pkgs, J. Halyday ; 20 bags, flour, 2 do bran, Thornton, Smith, and Firth ; 28 pkgs, Mase fleld and Co.; and fourteen passengers., The schooner Lsetitia brings from Lyttelton 390 sacks wheat, 50 sacks;' 80 bags, 40: half^ bags, 200 qr.-sackSjflour, consigned to order. The schooner Queen * brings 74 tons coal, and the schooner Golden Isle 11C tons. The s.s. Star of the South, Capt. Harris, has cleared outward^ for Napier with a large general cargo. She will leave at eight o'clock this evening. ':j

COMMERCIAL.

MEETINGS.

Mutual Mining Investment -Company,' Young Men's . Christian Association Booms, 8 p.m., sth December Pride of Tiki, .Company's office,-. Insurance

Auckland, 3 p.m., 9th December Thames Gas, • Company's office,, Insurance-. Buildings, Auckland, i)th December, 5 p.m. Golden Eagle, Star Hotel, Newton, 3 p.m., 10th Dec. Paul's Creek, Company's office, 44, Queen street, 3 p.m., 10th December ~{„... ~ ~.-..;, „*■-, City of Dunedin, CffaliamsEov/n, 11th December

Mary Ann, Grahamstown, 12th December

VonTempsky, Insurance Buildings,, A,ucklaqd, 12th December j Ufca^lC /-'I. I<y pal Auckland Permanent Co-operative Building Society, Society's office; ;Wyndhaiastreet^ 7;83*p.m., i7th December

CHIEF POSTtOFBiCfi, AUCKLAND ; I Mails will Close as Under:—

For Thames, this day, at 6.15 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.15 a.m. and 5 15 p.m.*" For Coromandel, on Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 1.15 p.m. For Napier, and (xiabotne^ per Star of the South; to-

morrow, at 12.15 p.m. For Sydney and Australian Colonies, per, Keera, }tpt morrow, at 3 p.m. . For Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Wellington, • Immediately after ariival os p.s. Dakotah, from

Honolulu. For Napier and Southern provinces, per Dakqtah, ,cix hours after her arrival,-'-' ■l^l ■' Liliii',

N.B.— The Chiefi-.Post-foffice has been .removed temporarily to Fort Britomart.

Posting-boxes f<Jr the receipt of letters' atiti papers have been erected at Mr. Sharland's, Chemist, Short land-street ; and at the .Southern Cross pfljee, where letters, etc., may "be posted liri til permanent arrange ments are made for the accommodation of the depart ment.

(Signed) S. B. Bissj Chief Postmaster

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NARROW ESCAPE.

On Saturday afternoon an accident occitrred to Mrs Matthew Edgar, at Tararu.| It appears that Mrs Edgar and her children were return in#to shorealongthe Tararu wharf after meet ing with Mr Edgar, who had just arrived.by the Golden Crown, who was also• in. their company, and that while stepping aside to allow a person to pass her fbot caught/ in one of the cleats of the tramway, when sn'& !fell under the handrail of the wharf, and, with a loud scream, disappeared in the water: At this moment two men—one was Mr (4eddes, of the firm of Messrs. Brown, Barrett and Co., .and the other, a miner, whose name we have not ascertained—im mediately pulled off their coats, plunged into the water, and succeeded •in catch ing hold of Mrs Edgar,: who 'had drifted by. the time to. some distance from the wharf. The men succeeded in keeping Mm Edgar up a while,. and then the- miner swam for a hferbuoy which had been thrown from the steamet'.' Mrt Edgar aahk°a ijecond; time, and was again brought to the surface by Mr Geddes. Presently the miner returned with- the life-buoy, to which the three clung until they were picked up By a boat "sent to the rescue by the p.s; iGroldefl:Grown. Mrs Edgar, who was very much exhausted, was taken to the Imperial Crown Hotel, and received the medical attention of Dr. Croft, who pronounced hereto''be suffering ffoin slight congestion of the lungs in consequence of jttf Pih^ving, 7 BWflllowed soinuch.saltwater.^

CORRESPONDENCE.

WATER SUPPLY.

To the Editor of the Evkntng Star. Sir, —-I hope citizens.will, pause, ere they sign any petition iontaiining so many faUaoies and untruths aa |he proposed petition sub mitted to last Friday night's meeting by a gentleman who is very-fond of stirring up a Tittle inisehief, regardless of consequences or iwsiJv an(i should be the last to'tallfc'of " tamm*&j^£!3figs '*,; and-, "Bkedaddling.**', ,1 give you"a para^^^Hl^nLa letter;l saw feoin a medical geiatleman of stimcßi^ißJ^iisicity: —" There can: therefore be- ,no that water so far ' removed frpin | abswV.t£L punity as that supplied to the city from the Domain, contaTOinated with animal and vege table organic 'matter** in a state of decay, colored brown and tasting of eartlijiis a most unsuitable and unhealthy •■water swpply for the< t cuJjf." ; Sc> much for that supply. .'Mora about the(proposed Bill, which(these fellows are so anxious to miseon^tfue, in my next.—

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sib,—The space left for traffic at the New market toll-bar requires the immediate con sideration of the Government. On Satur day a buggy and tspring cart got locked in the narrow passage, and had it not been for the tmiely assistance of some bystanders a serious accident would have happened. This passage is by far too narrow for the increased traffic on the road ; but I suppose, like every thing else, nothing will be done until a seri ous accident really happens. —I am, &c, TRAVKLiER.

ROMAN CATHOLICISM AND FREE MASONRY.

We publish another letter from " Veritas " with our reply appended : —"Sir, —l must thank you for the full consideration which has been accorded to my last letter in your issue of Tuesday, and I am glad you agree with me in so many points. You evidently f6el that to Roman Catholics the voice of their Church is infallible, and consequently imperative both as to what they must believe, and how they must act in obedience to this belief. I have asserted, and I feel I have also proved, that the Church —the infallible guide of; Roman Catholics—]*ap never condemned Masonry, and therefore a Roman Catholic is not bound to abstain from becoming a Mason. I have acknowledged that Masonry was con \ 'derailed by a " Bull " of the present Pope, and I will acknowledge it has been con demned by ' 'Bulls " of former Popes, bat I again repeat a '' Bull " is not the infallible voice of the Church to which a Roman Catholic is obliged to submit*. I proved this in my last letter by referring to the fact! that Pope Clement XIV, condemned the Jesuit order by a Bull in a.m. 1773, t and that this was so little regarded as of infallible authority • that. Pope Pius VII. issued a contradictory Bull ;to this, re^ establishing the order. You seem to agree i with me that if the instrument by which tlie' Jesuits were condemned were a Bull,. X have established my point j but you allege I am' mistaken in this particular, and that the. instrument of suppression was only a Brief. Now, sir; Ido not usually make such ..Mpertions without ample means of'proving what; I say ; and as the present is "no ex ception to this rule I would refer you to a Roman Catholic work of acknowledged authority +. I mean a work entitled " A Short View of the History of the Christian Church, by Rev. Joseph Reeve;' edition published; :by 'Richard Grace, Catholic bookseller,' Dublin, 1837. In page 543 of this book, the following passage occurs :— 'On the 21st of July, 1773 he (Clement XIV.,) signed a Hull, by which he suppressed the religious order of the Society :bf'Jesus.)' § As suppression of the Jesuits does not to your;mind involve their condemnation I would refer yoii: to the Bull itself,' where you will find ample proof that they were con demned on strong grounds at the time of their suppression; Yon will there find they' were accused of receiving maxims proscribed as scandalous and manifestly contrary to good morals."-H-t—Vkritas. ■■•' '■-■■' ■' i ■■-■■'' •►<

■■. *We challenge oiir correspondent to'give the shadow of a shade of proof of this as sertion,' - Aißull is universally acknowledged among'CathOliefe as the authoritative Voice of the Church, to which a Catholic is bound ,to • submit. '' V.eriiias 8 lias* descended "now from! logic to mere reiteration of baseless assertion.

, t Really this, ia . very unfair. This state ment is distinctly untruthful. JThe evidence being so introduced, we demand that: " Veritas " and we be bound by the balance of testimony to be adduced^ § ThY Reverend Joseph Reeves, to whom ''Veritas'" refers'as a man of "acknow ledged authority," is an obscure writer who, early in this century, pub lished two miserable duodecimo volumes entitled respectively "A History of the Christian Church,"and "A History of the Bible." Neither' of these tomes has ever yet (until now) been quoted in any controversy on ecclesiastical'matters. Possibly Reeves! did ;not know the difference between a " Brief « arid a " Bull;" but Reeves's ignqr • aijce of the fact is no proof that such a differ ence does riot exist. The Abbd Rohrbacher in his '' Universal history of the Church," one of .the completest ecclesiastical compilation that have ever appeared, gives the full history of the suppression of the Jesuits by Clement XIV. ; and. referring to it page 322, vol. 27, Paris edition, 1847, he says:—" Cc f«t seule, ment le vingt uri Juillet, 1773, que Clement 14fpublia le bref par lequel il abolissait, cet ordre, non en punition d'aucun mefait, mais comme mesrire pblitique et ponrja paix de la Chretiente." Now Rohrbacher it an "ack nowledged authority." But, what puts this i matter beyond the possibility of doubt is the fact; that Pius VII. in Ms " Bull."' of the 7th ©f August, 1814, by which he re-established the. order of the "Jesuits, refers to the document issued by Clement XIV. suppressing them, and calls it a Bpef; His 'words are : "We. ordain .that the 'iprel sent letters be inviolably observed in all time coming ; that they shall never be submitted to the judgment of any judge with whatever power he may be clothed; and this not ! withstanding any Apostolic Constitutions;" especially the Brief of Clement XIVI of happy memory, beginning with the woirds ; ac Redemptor Noster,': which we expressly abrogate." This ought to satisfy " Veritas ".as to the " authority "of Reeves.. The, fact is that Clement XIV issued this Brief in exactly the same way as King John signed the Magna Charta ; Charles' I.'-'"the death warrant of Stfafford; or George IV. the jAct of Catholic Emancipation. " Com pula'us feci," was his own significant •com mentary on the transaction. .;' || This controversy has now gone suf ncieritly far. Any candid reader must ad mit .that the suppression of the Jesuits by. a "Brief" for political reiisoiis, and their subsequent restoration, bears in no way on the: condemnation for all time of the Free masons by a "Bull." If "Veritas " does not appreciate the difference between the force" of a "Brief "and a "Bull," and does not care for the testjmpny of a Pope by .the side of an obscure/and careless writer, who either from ignorance or calamo currente bl^dered "Bull" for "B^fef," jfcat is his own affair. In the strongest and most au* tboritative form in which the Head of.the. Chi^ph, and apeaking with the voice of tha^ Dhijrcihy can atddreas faithful Catholics, Free masjonl'y has been , condemned again, and again, and agamy arid again under pain'of ex com'municailoli: This is quite sufficient: to warrant us in aaying.as we -said:*t.first, ;that no true Roman Catholic can be a FreeiriaaoH, We think this controversy had now better close.- *• If Catholics wish!tofly inthe face'of the highest authority of the Church' they are Kriectly td do'so. If they do they dj better formally renounce Catholicism. Bu^ if while professing and claiming to b, b CatnOlibs tliey defy Jand insult their Chtircli, then they deserveno sympathyjif that Church disowns them, ; We lreirerence Ma^onryj. but ( Roman Catholics should not be Masons. . :

In: oui? last issue we omitted to mention i B|b. J Me Gaughsy as J.W. of Lodge tTnited ! r .1.C... . The adjourned charge against Mr.Gfreen amdy for common niiisanco will-be proceeded with to-morrow. Legal technicalities should ttot rbe allowed to interfere with justice. Ji s,^nmsahce is or has Baen committed justice slyouldybo jxieted ; if not, let the c;se bedia*

DEATH.

Coomee.-Oh December 1/ at his residence, Graf ton road, Joseph Coombe, accountant of the Auckland Savings' Bank, in the 42nd year of his age. ■ The funeral will take place To-morrow (Tuesday), at 3 p.m. Friends will please accept this notice.

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

MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1872.

, For the cause that lacks assistance, , For the wrongs that need resistance, I Ft* the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

We have received the following howl about' the wrongs of the poor, and to it for its un.

reasonableness, and because it gives utterance to very current cant we give the prominence of insertion in our principal columns. The writer treats of the new Education Bill, and the of its proposed taxation, and ;asking, by way of heading, "la it True?'' he thus descants :— ■ ~ •} To the Editor of the Evening- Star. , , "jSir,—Whatever benefit may- accrue to 'society through .the Government schools tne poor will have an extra burden and the richer an extra gain, The high-sounding pro mise: is a '/ra? school' for thosewho cannot pay for themselves," but as long as taxes are laid as they are laid that is quite an impos sibility. Take one example : Here is a man whose dealings brings him in £2,000 a year pays a yearly tax to Government of six shillings for the tea he consumes. His neigh bour, wh&se\ <jfaft;brings.him, in £100 a year, pays the same amount. Now, as it takes twenty such men to make a profit of £2,000, it is clear they pay twenty times as much as t'Keir rich neighbour, or £6 in taxes instead of 6s, and so on through the whole of the duties. The smaller a man's income is the greater is the percentage of it that he pays in taxation ; and if a poor maneets one penny worth of A B 0 he may remember that he has a pound or more to pay for it, so that riot only is it no 'free school' to him, but that it would take a large bounty to make it so; andlthis is not the limit'of the evil of any Government school, for the poor who pay the greatest per cent, of their incomes in taxes never can take the full benefit such schools can give jp,but the richer, who pay a smaller per ; ceht.y' can, and will take the i whole benefit. In fact is it not: the knowledge" of this that in a great measure has helped the scheme /to its-present position; Are there* not somej »many, hoping and expecting to get their schooling done for a tenth, university honors and all. I have confidence my reason ing is just; but, if wrong I hope some of your correspondent, can show it.— I am, <fee, ( , ■:

Our"correspondent speaks on two subjects, We. ; shall talk to him like a father on both

Orieiof the most contemptible pieces of cant we know is often used in relation to taxa tion. It is that of rigid the rich should mainly j)ay the taxes, and the poor should enjoy equal privileges. We take the case of the £2,000 a-year man. By industry of some kind quite as honest as the delving of the soil he makes his ■ income. What justice is there, in his being asked to pay twenty times' as much as the man that makes a hundred a-year ? He receives only equal protection from the police—equal amount of legislation —equal privileges of every kind ; why then should he be compelled to pay more for these privileges. The twenty men above referred to get twenty times as much

of civil rights and privileges, and by all the rules of right and equity they should pay for them. Let us inform people who call themselves "])oor men," and especially that most contemptible class of skunks called "Poor Man's Friends," that this cant about the "rights of the poor man" has only been developed by the cowardly way in which people pander to the ignorant passions of the mob because that mob has a preponderance of voting power. We do not say that an income tax is not a wise tax ; we do not say that the rich should not pay more taxes than the poor; but we do say that when a " poor man's friend " presumes to demand this as a right to the poor man he simply talks nonsense. At the present hour the taxes are unequally distributed, and the rich in proportion to their numbers pay far more than the poor. It is not tea alone that pays taxes, but the great bulk of the Customs revenue is from luxuries, wines, spirits, Sec, which if a man is poor he will not use, and which the rich man uses because he can pay for them. It is difficult to have patience when we hear people talking about the rights of the poor man, and demanding what is simply the robbery of the rich. A wise political economy adjudges that the incidence of taxation should be such as to relieve the necessaries of the poor, and press on the luxuries of the rich; but this is mainly because the rich can better afford it, anil to talk of it as a right of the poor is simple folly. But, coming to this second question of education. Our correspondent essays to show that the proposed education scheme is a rich man's measure. He would evidently insist that the rich should pay more, and the poor less. On what grounds ? Rich men don't have more children than poor men. Then why pay more for education ? What right has a poor man to insist that his children should be educated at the expense of his rich neighbour ? He has got his own children ; then let him teach them. He feeds them; he clothes them ; then why not teach them too ? This is the language of reason and sound sense. But coming to the proposed Education Bill. While the poor household is charged 10s a year ; the rich one pays 40s. On what grounds? of right? of justice? Becatise it has more children ? Because it wants better education ? Nothing of the sort; but only because it can pay better. And yet our writer says, " Whatever benefit may accrue to society through the Government schools the poor will have an extra bur den, and the richer an exti-a gain." The directly contrary to this will be the fact. The rich will have to pay four times as much and will receive no direct advantages what ever in return. The rich won't send their children to the public school. Whether they ought or ought not, they won't. They wiU pay the household tax, and they will em ploy tutors or send their children to select schools. If there are any to raise an outcry against the proposed form of the education rate it should not be the poor. They will have the least to pay, and they will have every one of the direct advantages. But the complaint of our correspondent, whose letter shows him to be a man of intelligence and

ability, is only an evidence of how the public mind is demoralized by this forever pander ing to the humours of the mob. Every thing seems to resolve itself in what is "good for.the poor man," as if the poor man was some sort of divinity that must be propitiated, or the whole fabric of the constitution must go to destruction. No true friend of the poor man will ever talk in that style. No'one prepared to stand in the breach when the struggle is between might

and right will ever in this cowardly way seek to toady to mob sentiment; but on the contrary .will tell the poor man when,he makes, himself a nuisance that he is..a humbug and a fool. In hearing some people Bpeak one would think it an honour and a most desirable thing to be a poor man ; whereas every citizen should look on poverty as a disability, and to be avoided'by "all the powers within him* Poverty is often, no disgrace, but; it very often is, and the man who feels so contented with his position as to be proud of being a poor man is contemptible beyond all expres sion;. We, say. this, for the benefit, of those who, like our corespondent, ap peal1 to have their minds so imbued with the .conventional cant.■,■ as to be ever on the look-out for some: wrongrbeing perpetrated on this enfant gate of the public,. the! poor man. The poor man has been so fostered and pampered that he has come to regard himself as an institution— the institu tion of the country, and it is #IJB. hujnbutijig

I that'has laid the basis of all those Jaftour combinations that have worked and will con tinue to work so much disaster [to labour itself as well as to capital. The principle of taxation in this Education Bill, as in all other measures, is based-on indulgence to those of limited means, but it is just as well that no false ideas should be fostered by any mis apprehension of the intentions of this. The poor are favoured in it, not because they are better, or have paramount rights as pared with the rich, but simply^because they are poor, deserving of compassion and less able to bear taxation. If these are qualities of which they feel proud they are welcome to the enjoyment. But we defy our corres pondent, or any other " Poor Man's Friend," to rear on such a basis a rightful demand for

exemption from taxation. The Provincial Government offices were removed on Saturday to the building in Shoi'tland-street, lately occupied by Mr Posseniskie. The Post-office will be re' ■moved during the present week to Mr Rattray's old shop in the same street. A large number of persons were attracted to the wharf last evening by the sweet voices of the opera singers as they were taking an airing in a waterman's boat on the water. The singing in the stillness of the evening was very effective. About 300 persons visited the strawberry gardens of Mason Brothers, at Ponsonby road, overlooking Cox's creek, yesterday, in the early morning, and in the afternoon between the services of the churches ; and a larger number still attended the Parnell N\irsery grounds. The members of the Auckland Quoit Club met in the Albert Barracks on Saturday afternoon in order to compete for the silver medal. The play will be resumed on Satur day next, at four o'clock, and continued oh each succeeding Saturday until finished. The hearing of the case of the school master Henshaw, of Onehunga, remanded on a charge of assaxilting a child, occupied the whole of Friday and Saturday. At its close the magistrate announced that he would give judgment on Tuesday (to-morrow) upon this painful oase.

A social meeting will he passed to-mor row eveuin<» at the City Hall, consisting of music, speeches, and recitations.

The wharf at Mangonui is rapidly ap proaching completion — the contractor is doing his utmost to bring the work to a sat isfactory close.

There is on view in the window of Messrs Penholz and Teutenberg's jewellery shop, 09, Queen-street, a pipe of exquisite workman ship.. It represents the head of a Maori chief, and is beautifully and faithfully carved, ereii to the long gr^gjistone earring ami ribbon attached. Cut out of hin.au wood, it is the natural colour of the Maori, and is- a truthful representation of a " Rangatirft." The top is formed of a small slab of green stone set in gold, and serves for a cap. At the back of the pipe there is a fine piece of carving, being the model of a war canoe's prow. Fern leaves are carved down the stem. This pipe was carved by Mr Teuten berg, and shows that considerable labour and pains have been expended over it. The object has already become an attraction, and numbers have called to inspect it. Messrs Penzholz and Teutenberg have also on view some excellent specimens of very pretty jewellery, consisting of quartz, greenstone, pearls, and Fijian shells, set in yellow gold, that are rather out of the common.

At the opening of the Ladies' Benevolent Society at the Thames, on Friday, the Eev.

James Biiller, Wesleyan minister, paid the following happy compliment to woman : — " We have been treading in the flowering paths of ParaHise to-day, for we have been surrounded with things ' pleasant to the eye, and good for food. Such a scene car ries the thoughts back to that blissfui Eden, ' before sin brought death with all its woes into our world.' Is it to woman man owes his ruin ? Let him,not forget it is to woman he owes his restoration too. I will not use the words of the flatterer. I shall cany with me the judgment of all when I say that woman is the corner-stone of the social fabric. Her influence on society is all but omnipotent; and in the walks of benevolence she shines with the moral lustre of a minis tering angel."

Mr. Creighton will address the electors of Eden this evening, at the Newmarket school room, at 7.30.

The regular monthly meeting of the Ara Lodge of Freemasons will be opened this evening, at the Masonic hotel, when the attendance of brethren is requested.

Mr. George Keogh has been appointed collector of rates for the Mount Wellington road district.

Tenders will be received till to-morrow for quarrying pitching stone at Rangitoto, to be delivered at the breakwater.

The Eev. 'Mr-Brace, at the close of the morning service, yesterday, in St. Andrew's Church, said that he had received a commu nication from the Eev. Mr Barclay, of Napier, who is now in the old country in the capacity of Emigration Agent, that a num ber ;of benevolent ladies had agreed to send out contributions to the value ot £300 in aid of poor country congregations for the erection and repair of manses. A circular was also distributed among the congregation intimat ing that a bazaar would shortly be held in ,aid of the Auckland Home Mission Fund.

The members for Franklyn, Messrs Olark and Buckland, met their constituents on Saturday afternoon at the Papakiira Hotel, and gave an account of their political stew ardship, which appeared to have been satis factory. The captain of the schooner Sea Gull has supplied one of our, morning contemporaries with an account of , the n^ssage of the vessel from Auckland to Levuka. .He says, "we sailed from Auckland on the afterlsooa of (the ; 2nd , November ; were almost becalmed after passing Rangitoto ; ship could hardly stem the'tide. The p.s. Nevada passed ua between, Rangitoto and Tiri'Tiri at about jialf -past four p.m. We passed the Barrier Island at four a.m. on the morning of the 3rd ult. (which was Sunday), it nme a.m. Picked up a strong breeze fromthe E. 5.8." If Captain Oakes had added "also, Mr Green and the Green Harp men from the westward," he would only have been telling the truth. ;^The monthly parades for December (1872) l6i the various Volunteer i Corps "wiJ^.J^ake jplace as follows r-f-^Wednesday, 4th, 7-30p.m!^ - Engineer Co. and Cadets, DjiU-shed^ Thy i« day, sth, 6 a.m., Sir George Grey Cadets, Albert Barracks; do do, 7.50 p.m., ArtiUejy Co.; and Rifle Brigade and Cadets, Drill-shed - Tuesday, 10th, .7.30 p.m., No. 1 A.R.Y.iind Scottish Co., Drill-shed ; Wednesday, 11th, 4p. m., Auckland Troop Govti Domain; do do, 7.30 p.m., No. 1 Naval Co..and Cadets, Fort Britomart ; Thursday, jlSth, l>3o p.m., Grammar School Cadets, Albert Barracks ; Tuesday, I7th^ 7.30 p.m., Victoria Co. and Cadets and Hobson Co., Drili*Bhed ; Wednes day, lßtb, 7.30 p.m., Otahuliu Co., Otahuh«i Thursday, 19th, 7-30 p.m., ; Onehunga Cadete,

The trial of mowing niaehin es took place on Saturday in a forty-acre meadow belong ing to Mr Macky, behind the Presbyterian Church, Otahuhu, at eleven o'clodk. There were seven machines in the field by different makers, and. the prizes were awarded as fol lows : —lst. Buckeye's machine, owned by Mr James Wallace; 2nd. Howard's ma chine, owned by Mr S. ' Macky; 3rd. Hornsby's machine, owned by Mr Good fellow.

Utah, like other places, has its school sys tem. With a population of 87,000, it has 277 schools, and 375 teachers, male and female.. It has 25,000 children from 4to 16 years of age, of whom 16,000 are on the school rolls, and 11,400 in actual attendance, being 45 per cent, of the whole. The schools are open for about seven month's in the year.

A poor man named Duncan Matheson was killed on Friday, at Mercury Bay, by the limb of a tree, which fell upon him and frad-' tured! his skull. He was a man of steady habits and bore a good character. At the inquest at the Mercury Bay Hotel before Dr, Agassiz, .T.l'., on Saturday, the jury re turned a verdict of accidental death. ■

The same excessive love.of flowers prevails at Hamilton as in Auckland,- as we gather from the WaikaU) Times, which.sta.tes that some person or persons in the neighbourhood of Hamilton have adopted the low trick of stealing flowers out of other people's gardens. If a man is too lazy to grow flowers himself, the least he can do is to allow his neigh bours to enjoy unmolested the fruits of his own lab'oui'. Laziness and rascality, how ever, are generally to be found characteristics of the same people.

The Walkato Times says that W. N, Searancke, Esq.,R.M., has proceeded to Wellington on Government service. We understand that Major Mair will perform the functions of Resident Magistrate during his absence. • : :•.« • :- .

The brethren of St. Andrew's Lodge, No; 418, S.C., took the opportunity of enjoying themselves on Saturday last, in honour of their patron saint. They and their wives and children had a pleasant water excursion on board the p.e. Devpnport as far as Motutapu, the scene of their picnic.. Thea weather was most propitious for the occasion-*;' and Brother Macready, who catered for the company, provided strawberries and other reasonable dainties which, added to? the surrounding pleasures of the trip, tended to keep alive the true masonic spirit which permeates the brotherhood. Arriving at their destination the parties began to enjoy themselves in real earnest, climbing hills, sitting on green slopes, or walking in the shade of trees. ..At half-past one a cloth was spread beneath some trees, and a boun teous repast spread for the satisfaction of taste and appetite. Brother Anderson took the chair, and Brother Home officiated as croupier. The company, after thoroughly enjoying the picnic and ramble, re-embarked at half-past four; and under the influence of music danced their way home on the after part of the deck, and reached Auckland'at seven o'clock. ; .

St. Patrick's Cathedral was crowded to excess at both service yesterday, it having been announced that the Opera singers would assist in the choral portion of the service. In the morning the Rev. Father/ I'Norris preached an able and impressive sermon to a large and attentive congregation. The 11 Missa Cantata," and afterwards Gounod's solemn mass were performed, in which the £>rincipal singers of the Italian Opera Com pany lent their valuable aid. Such sweet and solemn melody have seldom been heard in an Auckland place of worship. The Right Rev. Bishop Croke in the evening gave an eloquent discourse on future rewards, and punishments, and was attentively listened to by a congregation much larger than had' .assembled in the morning. In consequence of yesterday being Advent Sunday full choral service was dispensed with. The "Aye Maria" was sung with solemn grandeur, Signor Coliva taking -the solo part. The benediction followed. The music was magnificent.

We observe in Saturday's Waikato Times that several local industries are springing up in the localities of the Waikato, We have received, says thij||journal, from Mr Tickle penny, the celebrated cheese manufacturer, one of the finest colonial cheeses it has ever come to our lot to taste. It was exceedingly rich and well flavoured, and only required age to compare it very favourably with the best home brands. We are sorry that the cheese was not shown at the cattle show, as it would have gone far to maintain the repu tation of our cheese-makers. .

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.

IL TROVATbRE. . , ' Thk Choral Hall was crowded on Saturday evening by persons anxious-.to. witness the production of that ever popular1 opera of Verdi's, "II Trovatore." The applause bestowed on the performance evidenced un qualified satisfaction ; in fact the audience were far more demonstrative than usual, for applause came in volleys, and by no means in a partial,' listless, and comparatively apethetic manner. Gentility itt the dress circle" was for the time being stimulated into something like a hearty expression of its delicate feel j ings by the out spoken crowd in the stalls, & , and Signora Bosisio, the chief attraction of-*1 s the evening, was feted to her heart's content. !It is fair to suppose that a prima donna :is not insensible to applause, and that with her, as .with most operatic stars, the ve hemently expressed approbation of the public is, to make use of a common expres sion, an incentive to" " renewed exertions."- Such seemed to be the case on Saturday night, when Signora Bosiso appeared as Leonora in this romantic opera, for her per formance may be desc7-ibed as remarkable for intensity of'feeling and romantic beauty rarely equalled. She has already become popular in the assumption of lighter parts, such as Margherita, Amelia, and Violetta, but her Leonora is in every particular a per formance of surpassing,.merit. She has the vocal strength, necessary for the proper execution of the music, and her qualities as an actress enable her to delineate the grief with a force almost out of the common order of things. Her pathos in the-famous scene of the "Miserere " is of the genuine kind, and it is no wonder that the audience on Saturday night should hay.c given way to an excess of enthusiasm. Bouquets fell on the stage nice hailstones j they were thrown before her, around her, and' over her. T 4 he fair artiste endeavoured 46 gather them up-^-it was a work of time,* —and Manrico courteously i rushed-,-to; the rescue, but the flowers fell faster than ever, burden after burden was carried behind the scenes, but still more remained to be; gathered. It is no exaggeration; to that over a wheel-barrow full of bouquets found their way on to the stage orif this occasion. Her opening cavatina, '' TaSea la notte," was very sweetly rendered, and the allegro, "Di tale amor," which follows, was given with great purity of intonation. Of the " D'Amor? sull' ali rossee" sub- v sequent passages we have already spoken,,,.,, and "will only add that these specimens of the, management of her voice proved her at once a thorough artist, and she richly deserved the applause what was sp plentifully .bestowed ; upon her.' 'Aiucena was taken by Signora Riboldi. Her fine mezzo-soprano voice showed to advantage in "Stride la vampa." The ;s%cceeding duet with Manrico, however, was the most noticeable feature, of her portion of the work. She was vigorous in her acting, and went thrbngh the vocalization' with artistic merit. In the duet ''■ Ai nostri mpnti," in^the second scene of the last act, the1* applause, which jjreeted- her, and the 1 showers of bouquets, showed that _ the audience recognised her powder. Signor ftosnati was, of course, Manrico: The music of the part; is peculiarly exacting, 'as all, fenors know' W tneir cost. r- Strength.?:\ and volume afeiiriperatively demanded,. a!ai' Signor Rosnati is at no. loss, in this parti- ■ v j cular. The/sympathetic quality of his voice" was also apparent in the -less tempestuous solos of Manrico--" Ah si ben. miof' * "Deserto sulla .terra "and the celebrated "Ah, phe'la morte " fo* instance. The i'^iserere " was tumultuously encored, and - tKis wasna'a great measure diievto the superb Acting and singing .of Signora Bosisio. Signor Rosnati reserved himself for the two j airs " Mai reggendo " and "Di quella pira," and gave them b'oth-with^ splendid energy. In'the latter his powerful voice rang through the hall with electrical effect, and a stOtmpf ,^ applause followed. Signor Coliva, WhosaV.".;. admirable singing we have more than once , : sp_oken of, performed .the revengeful Count di Lunna. He is a genuine artist and a very important acquisition to Mr. Cagli's company. He received enthusiastic .'and deserved applause for his singing of the re nowned; "II rbalen'," and.'of cquj^e had to* repeat it, when he was a recipient jbf many1 floral offerings, 'thrown by fair ' haads. Signor Dondi played-the .part of Fewando remarkably well, and sangthe aria " Abbietta :■■' zingara" with fire and expressionv I His part however was"' not an arduous one. Inez found, an able exponent in jSignora,7 Tqurnerie ; and Signor Benso made a good Ruiz. The' chorusea were all well given, particularly the famous anvil chorus at the commencement of the second act, and the " Miserere." The principal artistes were tcalled'before the curtain at the end of each' act. On the whole the opera was a rich treat, and theonly regret isthatitcannotberepeated. "II: .Trovatore" from abounds beginning to,end in melody of a broad and clearly der T \ fined character. :- It is full of what people ordinarily call "tune," and the music is v perfectly'easy of comprehension. The popu larity of this opera of, Verdi's }&' easily accounted for in the exceptionally strong ' dramatic interest in the story, and the equally dramatic nature of the music. This. • .evening the magnificent opera of " L'Afri 'caine" will "be reprpdu'eed. with the same powerful cast as before, • To-morrow evening^ : : the ppera company will again, appear at, the ;j Choral Hall—should the; steamer not have taken her departure—and the opera of "La Traviata," will be submitted/ Again on Wednesdayi should similar circumstances ~® permit, Verdi's grand opera of "Macbeth" ;; will b,e,:prQducedfor, the, rfirst time ; in .New; Zealand. The general wish ia that the '■:■. steamer Wellington will not take her de parture for at least a fortnight to come, that we may be enchanted "with freah produc tions. -VA ■'.'i./.'Ji r I3H:T JIOT3

We have been requested to call the atten tion; of the Parne}l, v Highway .*Boar<L to the present neglected and xuo§sM&p\ : condition,,,. of tjie back streets in. the Pajrnell,district. '^ The| water V.£re chopU ,Vup; 'witli '• ■ wefis, which 'ate.n growing in, rank luxnri-1 ance, and the'filth'from ' the back premises >.. of many of thfe" 1 houses, owing to the defec-A tive drainage, finds a lodgment in the publie^R thoroughfare. jlnrinany places; there is to be- ~ i&en *Vtjie green, mantle p£, the; standing^ pool," which, especially.afteßa.heavy: showery of rain, emits the—most offensive odour." j 4 Pufing the hot weather these deposits 'of*" offensive matter will be.Ja?.ffruitful source of tlistiase unless something-be done to remove: A thejnuisancet^ The footpatlis areaimost.im' C)-,' passable. We thinkftlie ratepayers 1 iri those.',", ]'. strcjets have a right at l^ast to be. protected - agajnst such a fearful [contingency l)y those wh<^se duty it is to look after the sanitary condition of the district. We" ■understand" ihej pqs^rd has aslarge amountf- obtained froniir^ites— to .their ci-edit- at the banfesome of which might be beneficially expended in ; ; Ojjie] direction indicated | There ought tQi>be»a separate, ; ;room at> : tached. to the Polipe Court for t|ie^cpnveni-.,,, enc« of witixesses, whQ now haveyfe*^ lbitej;., '.■ about the street opposite?' The temptation ■ ; is to 6 great :fdr them to resist listening at ,_ the window to what is going on, "thus defeat- - ing the object -of the.BenQh ia, ordering « witnesses 'out of* Court. • :Such wafs the case:| again to-day in the -charge of assault against Mr Heavy, and it was time the practice was put a stop to ; .

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