SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

BUN-SET; This evening, 6.20. SUN-RISE: To morrow morning, 6.48 . HIGH WATER: This evening, 10.18 ; to-morrow, morning, 10.40

ARRIVALS.

Fairy, schooner, from Kuaseii Mary, schooner, from Port Charles

DEPARTURES.

Edith, schooner, Trayte, from Tahiti from Tahiti an Raro'ontja Queen, schooner, from Russell

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Por San Francisco : AKDar, snip, latn vnm. For New Caledonia : Clio, ketch, to-morrow For Opotiki: Isabella, ketch, to-morrow For Tahiti: Coronet, schooaer, on Friday For Southern ports : Wellington, s.s., Taranaki, s.s. (from the Manukau), early JTorjLevulia: Cluirybdis, schooner, from the Mauukau

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Countess of Kintore, ship, from London Sailed Ist

May Berar, ship, from London. Sailed 15th May Fontenaye, ship, from London. Sailed l' City of Auokland, from London. Sailed 4th June Lady Franklyn; barque, from Sydney and Newcastle. Sailed 17th July Emelie, schooner, from Tahiti Briton, barque, from Newcastle Elizabeth Curie, schooner, from Dunedin Upolu, schooner, from Samoa Southern Belle, brigantine, from Adelaide Resolution, brig, from Clarence River. Sailed about 24th July Xalla Rookh, brig, from Clarence River. Sailed about 22ad July Fairy Queen, brig, from Timaru Atalanta, French man-o'-war. from Sydney Albion, brig, from Newcastle Naiad, barque, from Newcastle, early

IMPORTS.

Per schooner Edith, from Tahiti, via Aitutake and Rarotonga :—ls ftales cotton, 800 gallons cocoanut oil, 4 logs tamana wood, 1,000 gallons lime jnice,4o,ooooranges, 1,400, cocoanufs, 6 bunches bananas, 3 dozen pine apples. L. D. Nathan & Co.

The schooner Queen, from Russell, bringa 70 tons coal.

The steamer Wellington ia due in the Manukau to-morrow.

The fine schooner Prima Donna is open for freight or charter. The ketch Clio entered outwards at the Customs yesterday for New Caledonia.

The schooner Kenilworth cleared out yes terday at the Customs with a full cargo for Samoa.

The s.s. Southern Cross left last night for Tauranga with a fuil cargo and about thirty passengers. The Edith sohooner, from Tahiti and Eoro tonga, arrived in harbour last night with a cargo of cecoanut oil, fruit, &c. Her voyage occupied nineteen days, and she encountered strong S.E. and S.W. winds. The brig Surprise made the passage from Bangitoto Reef to Kaipara < Heads in forfcy eight hours.

The Fairy schooner, from Russell, brings 50 tons coal.

The Mary, schooner, from Port Charles, brings 40 tons firewood.

The schooner Merlin has cloaredfoutirards for Napier via Mercury Bay with 100,000 shingles.

The schooner Ocean has entered inwards from Russell with 42 tons coal. Sh» has Bince cleared outwards in ballast.

The schooner Clyde, which left yesterday for Wangarei, put back this morning to avoid the heavy sea and head-wind that prevailed outside.

COMMERCIAL.

MINING. Tho following are the current calls and dividends payable In the companies named below:— L s. d. . CALLS. Windfall .... 0 0 8, Aug ,13 Yon Tempsky .. 0 0 3 Aug 13 Queen of the May .. 0 0 6 Aug 13 Lincoln Castle .. 0 16 Aug 13 Central Italy.. ..>, 0 10,, Aug. IS.' •

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as Under :— For Thame3, this day, at 6.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel. on Friday, at 1.30 p.m. For Tahiti, per Coronet, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. For New Caledonia., per Clio, to-morrow, at 10 a.m. For Wanganui and "Wollington, per Rangatira, to morrow, at 10 a.m. For Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Wellington, on Monday next, at 10 a.aa. Mails for Australia, via Melbourne, close at Hokitika, to-morrow, at 4 p.m. (Signed) S. B. Bibs, Chief Pontmaster.

DEATH.

Reynolds.—On March 11, on board ship Hydaspes, lat. 31-25 S., long. 4515 8., Captain Wm. Reynolds, of the ship Countess of Kintore, second son of Charles EeyroMs, Esq., of Carshalton, Surrey, aged 30, beloved and lamented.

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

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1878.

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

And the good that we can do.

The general agitation against the Colonial Treasurer's tariff proposals has resulted in a considerable modifi cation of the scale of duties as originally framed. Mr Yogel's proposals em bodied in the financial statement were for ad valorem duties of 10 per cent., 12£ per cent., and 15 per cent., or about an average of 12£ per cent. llTnder the pressure of public opinion, however, the Treasurer yesterday Opened the debate on the tariff by pro posing to modify his proposals so as to make a uniform duty of ten per cent. This represents a reduction of 2\ per cent., but is still a large increase on the measurement duties previously in force. MrKevnolds estimates this in crease at £12,000, but in all probabi lity' £100,000 will be found much nearer the mark. The proposals of the Government are altogether crude and ill-considered, and we are con vinced that any abrupt change from measurement to unclassified homo genous dufies levied on the value of good? of the most * diverse character must result in evil. A thorough reform in the tariff if properly guided might have conferred a benefit upon the community by encouraging manu factures. The new tariff, hovrever, attempts nothing of this kind, but by introducing uniformity abolishes those beneficial distinctions which existed under the classified system of measure ment, and falls "with intolerable pressure upon special classes of goods. In reading our report of yesterday's debate the question at once suggests itself, whatrhas become of Mr Vogel's repeated assurances that the new tariff did not represent any increase? Upon that gentleman's own shewing he stands convicted either of inexcusable ignor ance of the effect of his own measure, or of wilfully attempting to mislead the House. From a spirit of charity we prefer to suppose that Mr Vogel was himself misled regarding the amount of revenue likely to be realised under the altered tariff, and that he has endeavoured to atone in a measure by conceding without debate the 2£ per cent;already noticed; but we cannot regard his revised proposals without feeling that his professions of zeal in the cause of protection are a sham. Except in the imposition of a duty on breadstuff's — where he began at the wrong end —the Trea surer has shewn no disposition to aid pur struggling industries. No opportunity could have been more favourable for introducing an enlight ened and.advantageous tariff than the present, when changing the form of taxation; yet the tariff proposed by ■the Government indicates not merely a disregard of the principles of protec tion, but an utter ignorance of com inbrcial matters.

Mr, Gillies's opposition to the Auckland In^irovement Bill would appear from our telegrams to be abating in ardour. : On what ground it was ever offered does not seem at allj clear; but ho'doubt his Honor pos sesses some reason of his own for the course iej has pursued in relation to this bill. Any opposition to a measure like that intro duced by the Improvement Commissioners should emanate . from proper by-holders affected.'' But in the' present instance nearly alljtheowxiers of property have already given th^ir .consent to the bill, which, but for the extraordinary action of Messrs Gillies and Vogel might have passed through the House unopposed. It ia of the utmost importance that the extensive im provements made by the Commissioners shall be; connected with the existing business thoroughfares,- and through them with the harbour and shipping, but from some unex plained jealousy and spirit of obstructiveneas, these .improvements,, , which would benefit the whole city, are being resisted step' by »teb by one or two of out own members. Pos-

sibjy the resolution passed by the, Board of Education has exercised some influence in briiiging about the decrease of zeal on the part, of Mr Gillies, announced in the tele grand published to day; and the evidence of S those gentlemen who appear in support of the bill will no doubt be more than sufficient to convince the Committee and the House that the activity and energy of the Improvement Commißsioners is ap proved of by the citizens of Auckland, how ever much it may be deprecated by our representatives,

Our readers will recollect that some weeks ago a meeting of cricketers was held to take into consideration the best means to be adopted for the advancement of thte interests of their favorite game, and among other things to discuss the practicability of sending an eleven to the South during next season to play teams representing some of the Southern provinces. It was generally agreed at the meeting that something ought to be done, but beyond the passing of some resolutions, in which the. high sounding but empty phrases "proper basis," "liberal basis," were con spicuous, nothing really definite was arrived at. This was owing mainly to the opposition which emanated from some gentlemen, who, with a surprisingly sudden fit of conscien tiousness, threw cold water on the original scheme of the conveners *f the meeting, on the ground that under present circumstances it would not be right to entertain the idea of soliciting subscriptions towards the expense of a trip down South this next season. Subse quent events have shewn that the programme (as originally proposed) was perfectly practi cable. A gentleman, who is himself an ex cellent player, and who is most energetic in what he does as well as in what he says in support ot cricket, has since placed himself in communication with the committee of the Christchurch Cricket Club, and the last mail brought a reply which makes it more than probable that in a few months an Auck land eleven will be trying their metal against the picked men of the metropolitan cities of the South. The Christchurch cricketers express an earnest desire to receive a visit from the playera of Auckland, and prornisG them a hearty welcome, and, what is more substantial, an indemnity for a share of the expense. We hear that very liberal terms have been also offered by the South-going steamer proprietors for convey ing the eleven to their destination and back. The trip it is estimated need not extend over more than a fortnight. We are sincerely glad to hear that the gentleman we have referred to has succeeded so well in his negotiations. Auckland should undoubtedly stand on as good a footing in regard to cricket as any province in New Zealand. She has plenty of talent, but her fault has been in want of organ isation. Whether the team, which is likely to result from the efforts of one indivi dual, can be called a representative team is a question which we should be in clined to answer in the negative, but if the arrangements are carried through as well as they have been begun, and the eleven only make a fair show, we are confident that an impetus in the right direction will be given to cricket, which will be of great benelit to the future prospects of the national game in Auckland.

The members of the scholastic profession will loam with pleasure that Mr Fraser, master of the High School, Symonda-street, will read an original essay on "The Qualifications, natural and acquired, neces sary to form a good Teachor at the next meeting of the School Teachers' association, to be held on Saturday next. From the well-known ability of Mr Fraser we antici pate a very excellent paper, and trust he will be favoured with a good audience. Mr Worthington, the secretary of the Association, iniionms us that he has received some highly interesting educational reports, copies of examination papers, he, as well as copies of the new "Education Act" just introduced into the New Zealand Parliament by the Hon. Mr Vogel, and that for the con venience and benefit of toachers he will place them on the table at the Mechanics' Institute on Saturday morning next for a couple of hours, where members can ptnuo them at their leisure. The TeacLers' Association is rapidly progressing. 'Jhe Thames teachers havo formed a branch society, which they desire to affiliate upon the parent Association.

The following letter is a fair sample of the reasoning that opposed the introduction of machiney to supersede hand labour, and which still , endeavors to obstruct all re forms. Our correspondent must surely know that increased population means increased wants to supply, Necessitates in creased trade and groator employment for labour. The resources of New Zealand are sufficient to support a population a hundred times larger than that now settled here. Our correspondent makes tho great mistake that there is no capital to employ labour, while in reality there is an immense amount of capital lying unproduc tive owing to the absence of fields for its pro fitable employment. Any industry set on foot here with, a fair prospect of success would find plenty of capitalists ready to make advances to support it. We shall let our correspondent plead his own case :— "Sir, —I have read a letter signed 'J. Max well,' and as you ia Saturday's issue seem to consider the working classes worthy of con sideration (although another letter which ap pears in the same issue might lead one to a contrary opinion) I trust you will allow me to give my views. Mr Maxwell wishes for a better system of emigration. Ido not wish for any under present circumstances while the money comes out of the taxpayers' pockets. People object to pay an education rate which will do our children good and save parents besides some pounds ; but no objection seems to be raised against being taxed to bring a lot of strangers into the country to take that bread from our mouths and impoverish ub still more. Even were we all in full work, and well off, I do not be lieve it is good for the country to spend bor rowed money in introducing immigrants, for the capital is too small, or rather there is too little money in the country in proportion to the population. In fact I beh'eve the people are now increasing beyond the means of subsistence, and if we willingly goon increasing our population without an increase of money, how are those who have spent their money going to live when we give the work which is not sufficient to support ourselves away to those we have no right to bring here ? Increase of taxation won't enable me to live any better j neither will an increase of population (will it you, or any other man ?) paid for out of the taxes or bor rowed money. There are not many rich men here who will speculate in failures, &c, and every halfpenny of the money we are sending out of the country for immigrants ought to be spent here, for it seems to me as our immigrants increase so does our taxation, instead of decreasing, and you will find that those countries that spend the most money in immigration are the heaviest in debt. Were there a scarcity of men for the money to be spent we might lay it out in immigration without harm to any onejaut it seems madness to me to borrow money to bring out immi grants here; (the North Island), where thefe are too many already for the money so spent. There seems to be any amount of joiners, merchants, doctors, bakers, newspapers, &c, for our wants, as there also seems to be so many men here that one-half these can't live. In fact it is because there are so many that so much difficulty exists in their getting a comfortable livelihood. Then why on earth cant we spend our borrowed money here, and as those here succeeded so would plenty of people come and share oar success with out squandering the money on men who when they arrive are quite disappointed and consider that*they have been deceived, and do n#t thank the Government for bringing them here. Besides, according to the papers, they won't work when they come; then it is only throwing money away. —l am, Ice., S. H. Rae,

We regret to hear oi the death of Captain William Reynolds, who succeeded Captain Petherbridge in the command of the Countess of Kintore, now on her passage to this city. Captain Reynolds was a young man thirty years of age, and was held in great esteem by all who knew him. He was the son of William Reynolds, Esq., of Carahalton, about four miles from Epsom, in Surrey. About eighteen months ago Captain Rey nolds married a daughter of Mr Fitzgibbon, Postmaster of the Thames. **?

A first-rate dramatic entertainment is announced to take place to-morrow evening, under distinguished patronage at the Prince of Wales Theatre, by the talented members of the Garrick Club. The chief attraction of the evening will be Morton's celebrated three-act melodram of "Writing on the Wall, which had a long run ia several of the London theatres. The play embraces eight een characters, and in its entirety exhibits a pleasurable phase of English rural life. Stirling Coyne's brief, but laughter-pro voking farce, " Box and Cox," or the " Night and day Lodgers," will complete the per formances. . The orchestra will be under the management of Mons. DeLias, the eminent violinist and lessee of the theatre. Other particulars may be gathered from the adver tisement in another column.

We notice by advertisement in another column that the monthly inspection parade of the Engineer Volunteers is unavoidably postponed until Wednesday, the 27th instant.

The Band of Hope Union soiree was a great success last evening in the Cook-street Hall. About 150 children and their friends sat down to a good tea, and the little ones were observed to smack their lips very frequently over the spiced buns. Captain Leßoy pre sided over his little corpa of water-drinkers, and amused them in his own way. Mr Goldie read an encouraging report for the year, which was enthusiastically received. Excellent speeches were made by Rev. Messrs Edger, Waters and Mr Hemus. Songs, re citations and a witty dialogues closed the proceedings of a pleasant juvenile soiree. Mrs Anderson presided at the piano with her wonted ability, and her perform ances added greatly to the entertainment.

The Original Serenaders who gave an entertainment at the City Hall for the bene fit of S. Dryden, a lineal descendant of tho poet of that name, express a wish that we will present their miniature balance-sheet to the public who kindly patronised their efforts, and the wandering minstrels outside their select circle. Receipts : Caah at door, £15 11s; tickets sold, £f> \Ua ; total, £22 10s. Expenses: Printing, £3 10a; hall, £4 12a 6d ; music, £2 5s ; gas, £1 ; piano, 7s Gd ; sundries, 18a ; total, £12 13a. Balance, £9 17a. Mr Urydcn has ahu requostml us to thank those young gentlemen who kindly assisted at tho performance.

A largely attendod meeting was heM last eveuing at tho Young Men's rooms, Wel lesley-etreot, with the view of establishing a juvenile reformatory in Auckland. P. A. Philips, Esq., Mayor (chairman), intro duced the object for which they had mot; and speeches were delivered by Messrs Firtb, LMrgaTille, May, Macfarlane, Broham, Board van, Colonel Haultain, and others ; also by Rev. Dr Maunsell; Re vs. C. M. Nelson, and P. H. Cornford. The speech of Mr Broham was mostly of a statistical character, which showed that the movement in favor of a jevenile reformatory was not without reason ; in truth it is a necessity. He shewed that in 1872, in the district of Auckland, 2,700 persons had been charged with drunkenness ; 1,891 for petty offences ; 182 with vagrancy ; 127 with larceny ; and 2) neglected children had been brought before the Court. There was also at large in our midst 116 notorious criminals, and 129 young personß living a disreputable life. Tho following resolutions wero unanimously carried :—l. "That this meeting, recognising the urgent necossity for the establishment of a Juvenile Reformatory for tho province, earnestly desires that such an institution be commenced atonco." 2. "That this meet ing, whilst moßt desirous that the Provincial Government should still more fully acknow ledge and with promptness discharge its obligations in establishing and fostering a juvenile reformatory, requests the centre community to show by liberal contribu tions its appreciation of the1 institution, and on© that is indispensable for re pressing the growth of vice and crime." "That the affairs of the Institution be managed acording to the provisions of the Neglected and Criminal Children Act 1867, by committes of ladies and gentlemen to be elected annually, and that the following per sons, with power to add to their number, be requested to act on such committee for the ensuing year :—Mesdames Cowie, Burrows, Cornford, MacNicol, H. Ellis. Phillips, Vaile, Walliß, J. B. Russell, * John Wil liamson, Noland, H. Arthur, H. Lawry, B. Tonka, Prime, Wallia, Waters; Presi dent his Honor the Superintendent; the Right Rev. Bishop of Auckland, Yen. Arch deacon Maunsell ; Rer. Messrs. Bree, Mac- Nicol, Cornford, Bruce, Oliver, the Mayor, Deputy-Superintendent, T. Beckham, Esq., R.M.; Colonel Haultain; Messrs W.Earl, T. Macffarlane, T. L. White, T. Kempthorne, T. Kempthorno, T. Broham, F. L Prime, W. C. Daldy, H. H. Lusk, P. Herapath, D. D. Nolan, H. Ellis, "<J. J. Stone, and E. Hesketh." His Worship the Mayor con sented to act as secretary, and Mr H. Ellis as treasurer. A rote of thanks to the Chair man brought tho meeting to a close.

Mr Dargaville will address the electors of Newton to-morrow evening in the Newton Acadorny at eight o'clock.

Writing with reference to the widow Green a correspondent writes :—Sir, —As I am very well acquainted with the above for the last seven or eight years, both in the Emerald tale and in the Antipodes, I was very sorry to learn through your valuable paper that she was confined to a bed of sick ness. I made it my business yesterday evening (Monday), to go and see her. She told me that kind-hearted Dr Kenderdine was attending to her, who is the friend of the' poor. She speaks very kindly indeed of him, especially as she has had her two youngest children ill with tho whooping cough for, the last four months, for his regular attendance, See. She also told me that Mr Graham, the relieving officer, has been and is very kind to her, and promises to do all in his power for her. 1 understand that he is never absent when called on to assist the poor when in distress. "R. 0.," in Saturday's Star, seems to think that she is in no want. But whoever he or ghe may be must know that she has five children to toil for. She has, to my know ledge, toilad since the death of her husband at the washtub and mangle, late and early, to bring her. family up. I must say that the kind-hearted people who assisted Mrs Ryan and her cows, Mrs Mann, her children, and her cows, did a charity;; but Widow Green has no husband alive, nor has she cows. She has a mangle, three wash-tubs, and five child ren (I must say, bare-backed and bare-footed). Kind-hearted and benevolent friends know that there is a something required as well as Mr Graham's friendship. I hope your numer ous readers will maditate, and say as I do, she and her five fatherless children require a something.—l Am, fro., J. 8., who knows BXJt.

At a time when the subject of water sup ply is in almost everybody's mouth it may , be interesting to give a few particulars of a system lately successfully carried out at dunes, in Victoria. The water for the town and various mines in the vicinity had for merly to be pumped up from a creek and carried some distance in pipes.' A very small quantity however could be made available in this way, and what was brought in Was very inferior in point of quality. It was then found that a good and sufficient supply could be obtained from the' Bullarook or Birches Creek, about seven and a half miles from Clunes. In default of a Government subsidy the North Clunes Gold Mining' Co. set apart £40,000 out, of their own funds, and determined to carry out the scheme on their own responsibility. On this'the Go vernment promised to assist provided the town were reticulated. ■ A commission for the control of the works was appointed, and on the 9th March, 1872, the first section was completed. By this the whole of the mines are plentifully supplied with pure water. The details of the plan are briefly as follow :— The works consist of a storage reservoir, a weir or dam, filter beds, and a pipe-head reservoir. The storage reservoir is 27ft. 10in. deep at high water mark, and its; areais 140 acres. It is estimated to contain 525,000,000 gallons. The weir measures fifteen chains by two chains, with an average depth of sft. and holds five million gallons. The dam is built of ashlar masonry^set in cement, the foundation being on solid ba salt. The up and down stream slopes of the dam are pitched with large stones, ihe walls are carried down below the bed of the stream to the depth of Bft., to prevent the masonry being undermined by the water, where is a compensating sluice for the benefit of the neighbouring landowners. From the dam the water is carried in an open aque duct, along the side of the creek, for a mile and a-half to the pipe-head reservoir. The aqueduct or race consists merely of a wood lined trench, but answers its purpose well. It has a fall of Bft. to the mile. At the termination of the aqueduct is the filter. The water flows into'this from an outer circle through a number of small apertures and a filtering stratum, consisting of fine sand, gravel, and metal. The water so purified passes-by a valve into the reservoir, from which it is conveyd by cast iron pipes to its destination. The pipe-head reservoir is circular in form, 87 feet in diameter at topi 45 feet at the bottom, and 6 feet deep, and its only object is to act as a storage basin io give sufficient initial velocity to the water passing hence to |ho town through the pipes, Those are 15ft. in diameter, and carry the water noarly G] miles. The fall varies in different parts of the town from 175 ft. to 250 ft. At intervals along the pipes are «cour and air valves. The consumption of water when the town is reticulated ia anticipated to bo 2,750,000 gallons per diem. The pre- H<!Tit valuo of the works is estimated to be £50 000, and it is calculated that the ex pendituro of another £10,000 would suffice to complete tho reticulation of the town. Some idea may be formed from these particu lars how far the estimates of the different Auckland schemes are likely to be veri fied by practical tests. If it is proved that the surface of the land, adjacent to the'Waitakerei source.would admit of the open race or aqueduct for the first few miles, the conditions for that means of supply would ba somewhat similar to those pf tho Clunes system. The fact is here patent that a pumping scheme has been abandoned as worthless, and a gravitation scheme adopted in preference at a large expense. It would be as well before even a small sum is spent in Auckland on the former method, that it should. bo clearly shewn, that both quality, and quantity will bo ensured, or else we may have to go to tho greater expense in addition.

Mr John Arthur has called to say that h« is not the Arthur alluded to yesterday as one of the disturbers of the Choral Hall concert.

The brethren of the Mark Master Masons' Lodge will hold their regular monthly meet ing this evening at half-past soven.

" A Sufferer" writes :—About two monthß ago Mr Mackay—Messrs Brogdon's foreman over the masons and labourers on the Auck land railway works—enquired for nine good quarrymen who could rise the spring jumper, and had no objection to proceed to Welling ton. He succeeded in getting the nine picked men, and promised them 9a a-day wages, to commence on the day of lauding. The men went, but found upon reaching Wellington that Mr Brogdenhadnoimmediate work for men as quarrymen, and they were sent to sub-contractors, who employed them in stone-breaking, and gave them but 6s. a day. i The matter has caused much dissatis faction among the men thus deceived, who express a desire that the facts may be made known in order that others may not leave their wives and families in Auckland, as they have done, and find upon reaching Welling ton that they have followed a will-o -the-wisp.

Last night, about half-past ten, a heavy storm of wind, rain, and thunder and lightning passed over the town and harbour. At an earlier hour indications were plentiful of a dirty night. Thick masses of cfo'ud rolled up in volumes from the S.W., wjiile the wind, which kept increasing in violence, was blowing from the N.B. Several crafts which had taken advantage of the change of wind to stand in for the harbour found them-' selves overtaken by the storm. The master of the schooner Mary, which arrived in har bour at an early hour this morning, reports that for nearly an hour in Rangitoto Channel the sea was breaking over his vessel fore and aftj while the lightaing was,so vivid as -to completely blind him for some time. Towards midnight the gale decreased and the heavy sea subsided. The weather afterwards settled down into a drizzling rain with light wind from S.W.

A Liverpool philanthropist (says th«^Zfl»o»), Mr Simpson, who takes a keen interest in the labouring poor, has lately instituted' aome inquiries amongst the seamstresses, and the result is startling. The beßt paid among them are the cloak-makers, and yet the wages of such a one for a day's work of twelve hours, is only twelve shillings per week. For plain machine-sewing the pay is bulf seven shillings per ■week fora days''work of eleven hours. A seamstress making boys' jackets receives fivepence for four of themj which is a good half-day's work. One old woman, after' years' /practice,: earhs one shilling and sixpence ■in \ five days. And there are others still more wretchedly remunerated. The price, for. making three dozen of',,men's pants js! three shillings. By working steadily for eighteen hours half-a- dozen may be finished ia.' one day. In reply to Mr Simpson,' 6neif/ these unfortunate pantaloon-makers' stated that she had to furnish the silk and thread herself. Another seamstress, who !sews linen cuffs and collars, earns fiv.epence per day in ten hours' work. A correspondent of the Liverpool Albion confirms ; ivbva. personal investigation, these statements, anii adds a discription of the places in which many of these working women labour. In a cellar eighteen feet long and fifteen wide, nine' feet under ground, he found five machines and eleven people at work. This is the way in which many feeble women • live' in Liver pool, : >i f JTj

" L J M " writes with reference to a leader in this morning's Herald relative to the Supermundane* election :-" The remarks upon Mr Dargaville's proposals are unfair and one sided, and in some instances baaed on actual perversions of the truth. The total coat of the provincial de partments, according to Mr Dargaville's esti mate, was'only some £13,700 and xt won be an absurdity to suppose that he would promise to save £13,000 out of that amount The object of the article in question is of course well underatood, but it is only reason able to expect that however warmly the Kerald may choose to advocate the cause of another candidate it will do so in a fair and open way, and not attempt to bolster up one I man bymiarepresenting another. iteHerald, by referring to the published reports of Mr Dargaville's addresses, might easily have as certained what that gentleman did say and they would thus have avoided all mistakes. The essay and class at the Young Men's Christian Association was well attended last night. Several strangers made their appearance, also a few old faces from Upper Queen-street, whose interest in the class we had thought had passed into the realm of fashion. The chair was taken by Mr Robinson, and the essay of the evening by Mr Gi M. Main on the " Second Empire " was read. The essay was fairly constructed, but too long, consequently some of the speeches which followed were too short. The subject will be elaborated into a lecture and given shortly at the Mount Eden Literary Institute.

From what transpired at the Harbour Board meeting yesterday, it appears that the telegram sent to Wellington respecting the exposed state of the unfinished outer embank ment in Mechanics' Bay has not been answered, and consequently nothing has been done. The matter is one which requires immediate attention. Already the result of some days' labour has been washed away from the end of the embank ment, and this is no* the only harm done. The washings are gradually silting up the little' harbour inside: Double damage is thus caused. We trust that the second tele gram has been so worded that it will not admit of being disregarded, as the other ap pears to have been.

We are informed that the City Band concert has been unavoidably postponed till Thursday, the 21st inst.

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST;

Ob, Home Jottings by our Londok

CORRESPONDENT.

Slmul et jucunda et idonea dicere vita}. Aliena ncgotia centum Per caput et circumsallunt latun.

PAUPERISM IN ENGLAND,

Ihe numerous efforts which for many years have been made in England for the relief of pauperism would seem to be making •themselves felt if we may depend at all on statistics in the investigation of such a question. According to a return just issued a considerable diminution in the pauperism of the country has recently occurred. At the close of the last parochial year there were 852,915 paupers in receipt of,relief in the several workhouses of England, and at the corres ponding period of the previous year there were 907,047, plowing a decrease in 1873 of 54,132, or 6 per cent. But compared with the last week of March, 1871, there was a decrease of 146,170, or 14.6 per cent., the number in receipt of relief at the last men tioned period being 990,035. This decrease is confined to the out-door paupers. About 4,000 more persons were relieved in the workhouses. THE SHAH. O? PERSIA AND HIS WIVES. The fear which for some time existed in the minds of the people o£ this country that the reception of the Shah of Persia would bo as mean as those previously afforded to Eastern potentates has been somewhat allayed by the announcement that this oriental swell is to be the guest of the Queen at Buckingham Palace, that there will be a grand naval review on his arrival, and that in fact the purse strings of the nation are to be opened for once in a way to show what we can do when We try. It will certainly never do for this highly intelligent and appreciative man to'take home the impression that Great Britain plays an inferior part in the balance of European power. The three ladies of the .harem which the Shah: brought with him as far as Russia have been sent back it is said to rejoin their friends in the seraglio. Probably their husband finds that the con ventionalities of European society would interfere somewhat with the simultaneous introduction of thrae wives into any court drawing-room. ANNEXATION OF FIJI. Jt is generally supposed now that the annexation of Fiji is merely a matter of a little time. Lord Kimberley, when last spoken to on the subject, left it to be under stood that the Imperial Government had the matter under its serious consideration, and that the leaning was in favour of: annexation. Those who are interested in colonial questions are pleased to hear this, since they believe that such a step on the part of the British Government would be at tended with substantially beneficial results. Hfi THOMAS RUSSELL AND HON. J. WILLIAMSON. Messrs T; Russell and J. Williamson are atjpresentin New York, as you are doubt leas aware, and their business, as it is stated, i« concerning the mail contract and the broken contract of your friond Mr Webb, of whom so; much was made. jOf course I have no opportunities at present of judging as to how ; your emissaries are progressing, but I should .think that they are likely to find the game of •Yankee grab as awkward as others,who have preceded them. ! | ,THB LATEST TIOHBORNIA. ■jThe evidence against the Tichborne man is so damning that the popular mind has at last begun to turn against him, and follow ing the. public bent the cheap, dirty pub lishers have begun to- publish cartoons in mockery of him. The Court has had to in terfere in consequence, and put a stop to the publication of prints which ate calculated to thriow the claimant—or rather defendant — intb contempt. • c I THB KAPANGA COMPANY. ' I hear that the Kapanga Gold Mining 'Companiy.iai a reality, threeTfourths of the capital having been subscribed, i It is to be hoped that under new management some thing more will be got out of tho ground than has heretofore been. .'.- » ! '„". ■".'. '•■' Greenstonb.

"I HOPE I DON'T INTRUDE?"

■The telegrams from Wellington informs us that the most cogent argument used againsb the National Bank of New Zealand Bill was lMthat a drunken person had mistaken one bank for the other !" Now considering that Mr Pox, the father of temperance in this colony, forms one of the select committee to report upon the Bill, the ingenuity of Mr Ooater in putting this forward as a sufficient reason for changing the name is really worthy of all praise. My only fear is that the zealous Christchurch manager may have yet to return to the city of the plain extlaiming, " 'TU not in mortals to command success, but I did more, deserred it".—All the world; (aid bi« wife), including the em

ployea of the Gas Company, amie** v have attended the Monday Popular cZ IT in the Choral Hall on Monday evening Jj much as we may admit the force of the ada " music hath charms," &c, I appeal to «f city lamplighters, as men and brethren t ' arrange next time so that when-they*'-«*• going out to spend the evening some oth lamplighter may be told off to attend totlT lamps, say between the Club and tho QhoM Hall. Last evening it was a darkness tntf could positively be felt, especially B ft« coming into collision with somebody eke' favourite corn, and as for myself I on i managed to reach the Hall by keeping cine behind a couple of ladies enveloped in shawls. Does not red mean danger on the rail way ? I forget now, it is so long since IW» * seen a railway, and I begin to fear it will t! longer still before I behold another here, A« to the concert it was, on the whole, a great success barring certain slight symptoms 0 « asthma on the part of the wind instrnmenti (the damp evening, perhaps?), and absence of resin (the new tariff, probably ?1 on the heart's strings of the violins. TW young lady who so happily rendered the now hackneyed "Happy be thy dreanu1' possesses a really magnificent voice, why, in time and with further cultivation (I gpejV disinterestedly, being in my eighty^fjj, year !) will be the unconscious means of rendering many of her audience ex ceedingly unhappy in their dreams. Who is responsible for the disgraceful condi. tion of Waterloo Quadrant. Mr Isaacs as" a man of progress and friend of the people T • invoke thee to cause this main thoroughfare* to be kcrbed, channelled, paved and metalled/, before the advent of our new Governor Remember first impressions of a place or* person are generally the most lasting, if n^j the most correct. . Here is an incident in'! connection with the concert last evening:: which oame under my notice, and which de- ' serves repeating, if only to point a moral" concerning jthe precocity of our colonial youngsters. During the interval between ' the first and second parts a youth of some eighteen summers, and judging from his coui tenance worth at the very outside £50 ayett?" to one of our financialinstitutions or legalfirmtii* strolled up the aisle and, addressing a kdv v in one of the seats, said "that he happened to be passing, saw the lights, knew nothing of the concert, heard the music, and looked in just to see what what was going on!" " Would my young friend have strolled in^at at " half-time " had Signora Coy been sink ing, and the tickets half-a-guinea a-piece ? Let him answer this Question to the lady hi 4 was endeavouring to "stuff "last evening , Paul Pby ; .„„

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COROMANDEL.

This day. ' The Union Beach crushing has given the splendid yield of 207 ozs.^ dwts. 6 grs. frtqiL IC9.lbs of specimens. .'..'.,-I >i

TAURANGA.

The Beach-road extension nas1" t)een coin> I menced

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

NELSON. '

This day. T The steamer Wellington1 left at ten o'clock last night for Taranaki and the Manuka^ -^

Auckland Improvement Bill.

(from our own cohrespondent.) ■'

WELLINGTON,

This day. The'"<Jommitteeon th^ Auckland ImproVe-M ment Bill met on Saturday. Gillies opened^-* ---the case in a very weak!speech. !Nd witnesßel' were called, and the committee adjourned till, yesterday (Tuesday), They met and adjourned again till Thursday, as some of the committee were at another meeting. : ';' Mr Gillies did not attend, which looks a if he meant to abandon opposition to the Bill. The witnesses for the Bill are Messrs Ai Clarke, W. Swanson, John Williamson,"IGr.j1Gr.j M. Reed, Auckland Star, and G. M. Q'Kbrkei:

PARLIAMENTARY.

[by telegraph.]

(From Our Special Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON.

This day. ';.lJ r The Confiscated Lands. i<u Mr Tairoa yesterday opened the question. ,^ of confiscated lands by giving notice of a""■' question to-morrow, "What steps should btl^ taken by British subjects attainted of treason ■ in New" Zealand entailing by such attaint forfeiture of estate to obtain, either forJiim- ">;'• gelf or hia heirs, reversal of attainder ?":' '•' Vj'jJ Immigrants for Tauranga. J! ■■s In reply to Mr Kelly, the Government s|id it is the intention of the Government to locate immigrants at Tauranga as promised. ' Srii^.^ yeys of their location are a$ present being ,; made,, !"'•" .'."" ' , "n-tmi i»« i»iu:vi.wai.« .•how* I Powder Supplied to Natives. A return of the permits issued-to native* for !v the purchase of powder/and :— In; the! province of Audklarid )al6ne^ 2041bjQ \& powder, 1 ? 4791bs shot, and 24,400 'gun'ca,ps g were authorised. ' ( ';,, l r ,.'. /■;'.;.'. ...J;' : , \] i.'hnk ' Inspeotor of Lunatic Asylums- A long discussion took place upon a motion J-y by Mr Fraser for the appQiutdient 6f, an 'l^ulai apector of Lunatic AsylunWl , The n^otiWijjwfi m was carried. /i| , . Censure of Dr Menzies. Dr Menzies, in not attending the- call of the Council, was adjudged' guilty of con- • tempt, abid' was ordered to be censured by 1 * the' Speaker. :i ■ , ;■ a ; /.; dYk jStt: 1 The New TariflF. v ' »""' Mr Vogelfyesterday ; afternp6n, moved'the second relding'of^the Tarifi£ Bill)' B6 sals' that underl the new tariff it * was believed there would be raised additional revenue,of-|-jr £50,000. The Government did not propose/^ to interfere with steel or iron. The diity; op^g carts and carriages would be :incinßa^ed,;4oii« from 5 to 10 per cent., to secure unifbrmity"'""| of tariflf. The Government would ask the lisi" House to sanction a uniform ad valorem tariff of .10 per cent.7 and pass\a, bill' with that object.to-night v The' Government pro- ■]■ posed to exempt certain ai^ticles which anect M local industries—such as lead, copper, brwffl, iron iv pigs and bars, sheet-iron, writing paper (not less than demy size), in original E wrappers, and uncut. It was proposed to w| tax boiled sugar and sugarncandy twopence '^>r per pound j ofctwr esorfcs of cq^feQtionery, IQ pwcent. j t. . i hna H'[ V. 'A k a '! T :-r M V i A

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HATS! HATS EUSHBEOOK & BEIDGMAN ARE CLEAEING OUT BALANCE OF -~ ,-, ~.„, :• : .. GIRLS' AND WOMEN'S BLACK STRAW HATS, PROM 13. EACfH. ,-..,.,, Also, a Lot of CHILDREN'S WINTER JACKETS, WATERPROO B1 CLOAKS, FEATHERS, TRIMMINGS, ETC. VEEY CHEAP. B'USHBROOK & BRIDGMANI JUNCTION DRAPERY 'WAREHOUSE, (Opposite Abmst and Navy Hotel), UPPER QUEEN STREET, AUCKLAND, . . . _^ ( [Established 1864.] T\ BTEPHENSON & CO.'s Celebrated coffees, ' "EXHIBITION BRAND" , . i "EAGLE BRAJST>" . "CROWN BRAND." Are to be procured at all respectable Grocers and Storekeepers throughout the Province of Auok- i and. ■'■ i D. STEPHENSOF& CO., .". : WYNDHAM-STRE E T, ; ' AUCKLAND. .. m ■ ' GREAT REDUCTIONS TOB THEEB MONTHSONLY AT THE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPANY, 194, QUEEN STREET, Nsxt Doob io Savings' Baitk. Carta-de-visite reduced from 16s per down to I 8« B&. ■Maori Celebrities (latest stack in New Zealand to select from), reduced from 12a per dozen to 6s. Yiewa from all parts of New Zealand reduced from 12s per dozen to 6s. ' « ; j Enlargements from Gartes-de-wisite to Life-size, plain or beautifully finished in Oil or Water Colors, also reduced in price. Stock of Photographic Goods and Apparent M Lantern Slides, Stereoscopic Slides, ftc., ■ greatly reduced; J MoGARRIGLB, Manaper. P A U T 10 N OLSON'S TOMATO SAUCE. Connoisseurs pronounce this Sauce to, ba : the.', BEST for general use in households, and,- in con-, sequence of its high reputation, some unprincipled , persons have been induced to Collect Empty Bottles bearing the manufacturer's name stamped thereon, and pals the same off as " Olson's Universal Tomato Sauce " The proprietor has in consequence caused ; his TRADE MARK to be Registered under the provisions of the "Trade Marks Act, 1866; and proceedings will be taken against such persons as may forge or counterfeit such mark. The public are cautioned to , ■ < • . ■ ASK FOR OLSON'S SAUCE, I and see that the name is Stamped on Bottle and Stopper, and wrapped round with hia well-known ftlxl, .



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