SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

POET OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET' This evening, 4.45 SUN-RISE: To morrow,, morning, 7.14. ■■ *-HW\t . "WaTBB: This evening, 5.35; to-morrow morning,^ 18

ARRIVALS

Olfincoe, barque, Lewis, from Dunedin Smthern Cross, ss., Sellars, from Tauranga Effle Meikle, schooner, Hooper, from Poverty Bay

DEPARTURES.

Ladybird, s.s., Daniels, for Southern ports Prima T)'onna, schooner, Barnes, for Tahiti Cambria, schooner, for Wangarei Flirt, brigautine, fot Timaru

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Tor London: Wcodlark, ship, and Thames, barque,

early For Sydney and Molbourne: Victoria, ss., early For Northern ports: Rowena, s.s., this afternoon

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Hylten Castle, barque, from London. Sailed 28th

February Clanrr-nald, ship, from London. Sailed Endymion, ship, from London. Loading City of Auckland, from London. Loading Zanga, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed 23rd January Thames, barque, from Sydney Akbar, ship, from Boston, via Melbourne Emelie, schooner, from Tahiti Tower Hill, brig, from Clarence River Charybdi.s, schooner, from Levuka Freetrader, barque, from Hobart Town Success, schooner, from Levuka Satellite, cutter, from Levuka TJpolu, schooner, from Samoa Paterson, p.s., from Southern ports Columbia, schooner, from Napier. Sailed 27th May Velocidade, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed 13th May Edith, schooner, from South Sea Islands Clematis, ketch, from Napier Rangatira, s.s., from Southern ports "Wellington, s.s., from Southern ports Strathnaver, schooner, from Dunedin. Sailed, 6th June Union, brig, from LytUAton Elizabeth Curie, schooner, from Dunedin

IMPORTS.

The barque Glencoe has reported at the Customs, from Dunedin, with the following cargo :—930 bags flour, 420 bags, 100 lbs. .do, 480 bags, each 50 lbs. do, 400 bags bran, 100 bags potatoes, G. W. Binney ; 131 bags oats, I^s'do potatoes, 2000 palings, order. H. S. Meyers & Co., agents. The barque brings two passengers —Messrs Spencer and Simmons. She came up harbour this morning. The schooner Excelsior reported this morn ing at the Customs* with the following cargo : —60 bags potatoes, John Reid; 44 do do, G, W. Binney; 50 bags oatmeal, B. Tonks and Co. ; 45 bdls matting, 710 bags flour, 107 do bran, 80 do oatmeal, 8 hhds beer, order ; 1 case snuff, J. Harris ; 1 do do, G. Williamson; 1 do tobacco, J. C. Morrin; 250 sacks flour, J. Roberton & Co., and one passenger— Mr Kerr. The schooner is along side the wharf discharging.

EXPORTS.

Per Ladybird, for the South: For Tara naki—l case, Henderson & Macfarlane ; 1 cask zinc, 1 roll lead, Gallagher; 2 cases, King ; 1 bale, 1 box, Owen & Graham ; 12 pkgs. 79 bars iron, T. & S. Morrin ; 1 case, Xempthome; 10 casks beer, Cruickshank and Co.; 2 cases, Clark & Son ; 1 case, Olson; 2 cases, McArthur, Shera & Co.; 1 case, Mont ague ; 1 parcel. South British Insurance Co. For Nelson—l parcel, Combes & Daldy ; 27 pkgs., Sash and Door Co.; G cases, Tonks and Co.; 1 parcel, South British Insurance Co. • 5 pieces machinery, Louison. For Pjctqn—ll. pkgs., Frazer. For Wellington —1 box, Himmins ; 2 parcels, Peacock; 1 parcel, National Bank ; 90 pipes, Boyd ; 18 coils. rope v J. S. Macfarlane; 1 case, 1 parcel, Bank of New Zealand ; 1 box, Gibbons ; 2 cases, Bonnington ; 1 pkg., Meyers & Co. ; 1 parcel,; South British. Insurance Co.; 200 kits oysters, 6 cases fruit, Light; 1 box silver coin, Bank of New Zealand. For Lyttelton —59 sacks malt, Binney; 21 cases sauce, Olson ; 3 cases pianos, Bonnington ; 1 parcel, 1 box silver coin, Bank of New Zealand; 1 parcel, South British Insurance Co. For Port Chalmers —20 cases sauce, Olson; 12 bales paper, 3 cases, 3 casks, Lusk ; 10 cases sauce, S. Brown ; 9 cases Lusk ; 1 parcel, South British Insurance Co. ; 1 box silver, Bank* of New Zealand. And original cargo for Taranaki, short landed on upward trip. —.Combes & Baldy, agents.

The cutter Bell has cleared for Tauranga, Yia/Wongapoa with the following cargo:—4 tons coal, J. Craig ; 1000 feet timber, D. Goldie; 10 bags maize, 13 do bran, 4 do potatoes, Bell Bros. ; 10 pkgs sundries, 3 bags oats, H. S. Meyers and Co. ; 7000 shingles, J. S. Macfarlane and Co. The cutter Vincent has cleared outwards fojr Tauranga, with a full general cargo. The barque Woodbine has entered out wards for Newcastle.

The schooner Mary Ellen has cleared out wards for Mercury Bay with I ton flour, 1 ton potatoes, 2 casks beer, 12 cases groceries, 8 sheep, and 4 casks beef for Lewis Bros. The fine ship Woodlark opened her^hatches and broke bulk this morning. She is being discharged by means of her own steam winch, and no delay will take place in turning out her cargo, when she. will commence to load for London. Her cargo appears to be in a first rate condition.

The school) er Effie Meikle has reported at thjet Customs, from Mercury Bay, with 16,300 feet timber, for the Mercury Bay Saw-mill Company. The schopner Ruby has cleared outwards for Russell in. ballast.

The barque Woodbine has discharged her coal and is taking in ballast. She is open to freight or charter. ~ The fine new brigantine Rhino is alongside the outer T of the wharf completing her fitting up; When finished Bhe will be one of the smartest crafts in the port.

The cutter Vincent will leave for Tauranga this evening. The ship Edinburgh Castle has hauled away from the wharf, and will take her de parture for Newcastle this evening or early to-morrow- ■ ;;'•) .. .

The ks. Southern Cross arrived yesterday evening from Tauranga with a full cargo and neveraf passengers. She will leave again to morrow.

l,he whaler Adeline, Capt. Marrian, arrived at the Bay of Islands on the 6th inst. from a cruise in the South Seas, with 770 barrels whale, and 400 barrels sperm oil, and 200 lbs ■whale-bone.

The s.s. Ladybird left Onehunga this day at 9.30 a/m. for the South. Passengers:— Mrs and Mies Courtenay, Mrs Light, Mr and Mrs Samuels, Mr Chatfield, Mr Mahoney, Miss Calvert, Mrs Smith, Messrs Ackland, Gait, Sims, Reid, Wiggins, J. H. Smith, Dunckley, Raine, Roskruge, Roger, Bullock, Shera, Harley, Ford, Blake, and Quick.

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs S. Cbchrane and Son sold to-day a farm at Mount (Albert, lot No. GO, containing 84A acres, at £8 10s per acre, purchased by Mr Lees. , Lot .54, containing 62£ acres at Mount 'Albert, fetched £17 10s per acre, pnrchased by Mr Woodward. Two stone shops at Eden Terrace, next the Post-office, fetched £390, the purchaser being Mr Hutson.

MINING. The following are the current call and dividends payable In the companies named below:— L s. d.

JPdAiLs. _ " ~ Key of Tokatea .. 00 2 June 11 .Beo ;. .. .. 0 0 6 June 11 "Scotty'iflill.. .. 00 6 Jnne 11 Gold«n!Eagle ~ 00 2 June 11

Number One.. . ■. Durham Ox .. k . American Eagle ». Eureka Hill.. .. Aurora ~ Missouri Ooromandel Tunnel Golden Calf

Jtine 11 June 11 June 11 June 11 Juno 11 Jure 23 June 23 July 9

0 0 1 0 o a 0 0 9 0 10 0 10 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 0 C MEETINGS. North Devon, Mr F. A. White's office, Shortland Auckland, 3 p.m., 10th June Ameripp^ fiagle, Grahamsto-wn, 13th June M.iry'Ann, Grahani'ito'wn. 17th June Daughters of Freedom. Grahamstown, 17th June Harbour View, Coromandel, 19th June Watchman, Grahamstown -26th June

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Matxs will Close as Under :— For Thames, this day, at 5 p.m., and to-morrow, at

10.30 a.m. ar.d 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, on Wednesday, 11th instant, at

1.30 p.m. For Whitianga, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Southern Cross, to-morrow, at 1 p.m. N.B.—The Post-office hitherto known as Hakaru willi n future be designated Kaiwaka. (Signed) S. B. Bias, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

Bullock.—On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's Koad, Dedwood, Mrs Geo. Bullock of a son.

DEATH.

Hoop.—This morning, at 6 o'clock, John Hoop, late 'a Sergeant in the S9th Regt.. aged 72. The funeral will leave his late residence, Cabbage Tree Swamp Koad, at 3 p.m. to-morrow. Friends are invited to attend.

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

MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1873.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance,

And the,good that we can do.

The Prospectus of the New Zealand Land and Coal Company (Limited) appears in another column. We have already referred at some length to this project, and the state ment in the prospectus will well repay perusal. This we think is perhaps the most attractive enterprise that has been submitted to our local public for a very long timq. It proposes not merely the increase of our in dustrial power by developing that mineral which has in it latent the force that makes manufacture a success, but it will connect ■\Yaikato with an additional centre of popula tion by a valuable adjunct to our railway extension. Good wine needs no bush, and this enterprise is better without puffing ; but, intending subsequently more extended reference to its vast public importance, we cannot refrain from at least directing atten tion to its interesting prospectus.

'We are dbliged to ask the forbearance of ur subscribers at the various settlements between Auckland and Drury. The coach that takes our papers in the evening to those districts having been taken off for a day or two in order to take the Armed Constabulary to Waikato, we have been able to send the Star only on the following mornings. How ever, as we understand the evening coach will be on again to-morrow, we trust that the disappointment will not again •ccur.

The Auckland Institute, perhaps the best and most united of all our institutions, will hold its first monthly meeting this evening in the room by the Museum, Princes-street.

The New Zealand Land and Coal Company have issued their prospectus. This company, if properly and energetically managed, will prove a success.

The Auckland Quoiting Club do not in trude their affairs before the gaze of the public, nevertheless the club is in a prosper ous state, and during the past season many matches have been played, at which there has been some good play. With the approval of tbe Auckland Improvement Commissioners the Club have lately levelled off a piece of ground in the Albert Barracks, where they will in future carry on their game. The annual dinner of the Club will take place on Friday evening next at the Masonic Hotel— the head-quarters of the Club.

A little girl named Ellen Holder had a narrow escape from drowning on Sunday whilst walking on the Wynyard Pier. She fell through a rotten part of the pier into the water, when a gentleman, who observed the mishap, immediately jumped in and caught the child. Mr Strong, the waterman, brought one of his boats round and rescued the girl. The parents of the little girl express their gratitude both to the waterman and their daughter's unknown preserverfortheir timely exertions.

The quarterly communication of the Pro vincial Grand Lodge of New Zealand will be held this evening

Mr (i. M. Eeed will deliver a lecture this evening, at the Otahuhu Hall, on "The Influence of Colonial Life on the Formation and Development of Human Character."

The friends of temperance held a moon light meeting on Saturday evening at the old spot. The speeches were of the usual char acter : anecdotal, funny, and homely, and suited to the majority of the listeners. The speakers were —Messrs Carr, Parker, Hill, Waite, and Pvobinson. One poor fellow, apparently " half-seas over," caused a little merriment among the crowd by holding up a jug of colonial beer in front of the original platform, but it was not strong enough to tempt the speaker to drink.

The Excelsior Star Variety Troupe had a bumper house on Saturday evening, and all went " merry as a marriage-bell." The gym nasts, Mdlle. Laura and the brothers Fran coni went through their wonderful transept flight with singular ability, and, meteor-like, popped through the paper balloon, and awakened showers of applause. The other of the performers were equally successful in their different acts and exciting melodies. Mr Cullimore also conducted the orchestra with his usual well-known ability.

On Saturday the Mount Eden range was gay with volunteers who had assembled chiefly for practice The Premier's Prize will be fired for to-morrow at ranges of 200, 500, and 000 yards, and it will not be neces sary that competitors should appear in uni form. There are seventy entries from the Thames. Intending competitors are requested to meet at the drill-shed this evening at half past 7 o'clock to consider certain matters con nected with the competition.

A firo occurred at Onehunga yesterday which destroyed a haystack, comprising six tons of hay, the property of Mr Jeffrey, dairyman. It is supposed to be the work of an incendiary, although suspicion at present does not point to any particular individual.

We have again much pleasure in calling attention to another of the Monday popular concerts to take place this evening at the Choral Hall. These concerts, under the con ductorship of Mr Joseph Browne, since they were first inaugurated have very much in creased in popular favour. The scats in the hall are now so arranged as to enable the audience to promenade during the interval. Refreshments will be provided in the ante room, under the management of Mr Perkins, of the Occidental hotel, and will consist of tea, coffee, ices, jellies, wines, spirits, maltliquor, etc. The concert this evening will include some very choice selections in the programme, amongst which we may mention the overture " vSemiramide," by over thirty performers. The famous "Rhine Wino " song. Duets, "The Fairy Wand," and "The Singing Lesson," by that popular songstress Mrs Mitchell and a gentleman amateur. Mrs Mitchell will also sing " Dream, Baby, Dream," and "The Danube Itiver." The assistance of this lady is an acquisition to the Monday popular concerts, and will con tribute largely towards their success. In addition to these attractions a new tenor will make hi 3 debut, to-night. His voice is described as something that the Auckland people are not in the habit of listening to. A rich musical treat may be looked forward to to-night. The charge for admission is one shilling.

The journeyman bakers held their quarterly meeting on Saturday evening, at Sceats' British Hotel. Mr Bell occupied the chair. This association is quietly doing its self appointed work, and steadily progressing. The income for the quarter was £7 5s Gd ; tho expenditure, £1 2s 9d; leaving a balance for the quarter in favour of the society of £6 0s 3d.

Owing to an error in connection with the advertisement announcing the meeting at the Newmarket school-room to-night relative to the Waikato railway, the meeting has been postponed for a week.

The Church parade of the gallant Scottish Volunteers took place yesterday morning, and the men attended divine service at St. James Presbyterian Church, where a suitable sermon was preached to them by the Rev. J. MacnicoL The men looked exceedingly well in the " kilt and hose" as they marched into Church under command of Color-Sergeant Furlong, right marker. The scene was picturesque, and the bag-pipes only were wanting to reflect a living memory "o' the bonnie hills o' Scotland."

To the Editor : Sir,—With all due respect and veneration for your comments on my letter of Saturday I beg to differ with you on one subject. You say it would be an injustice to deprive men of the advantages which their own industry and attention have secured them. You surely must be aware that most (if not all) of those men are all in easy circumstances, and can afford the time to practise and make themselves proficient; not like about three-fourths of the Volun teers, who are tradesmen and mechanics, and can not afford to lose a day for practise for fear of somebody else "jumping" their job. This happened a very short time ago. A Volunteer (who neither wears scarlet or grey) when spoken to about his frequent absence from weekly drills, said : "Oh ; I'm not a drill member, I'm a shooting member." I can't conscientiously say all, but some of our first class comprise this class of Volunteers, who care only to have the name of Volunteer for the prizes they may catch, and ignore the very idea of attending their regular drills.— I am, &c, 2nd Class.

Residents on the North Shore ai-e reminded that to-morrow evening Archdeacon Maunsell will lecture for the Devonport Literary Society on the subject " The Gentleman." The meeting will be held in the Church of England school-room of that district, and the hour half-past seven.

John Monaghan, tho Onehunga 'bua-driver, made aci attempt on his life yesterday by cutting his throat. Excessive and heavy drinking indulged in lately caused the com mittal of the rash act. The wounds, three in number, were inflicted with a razor, and are described as serious, although not likely to prove fatal. He resides in Onehunga with his wife and family, and immediately on the occurrence being known to them, J)rs. Pur chas and Zinzan were sent for. These gen tlemen attended and sewed up the wounds. The patient ia progressing favourably. When convalescent he will be charged with an attempt upon his life.

We have to acknowledge further contribu tions in aid of Mrs Bowman. The employees of Gallagerand Paul forward 14s j MrDakin, 10s ; John J. Wilson, 2s Gd.

A paragraph in Saturday's Herald is likely to give a wrong impression of the bravery of the police. It states that a cavalry volunteer, who was evidently "half seas over," had made a fierce lounge at a police officer, which was "too much for the nerves of the police man, and not wishing to be cut to pieces took to his heels and was soon out of sight." It further says that the cavalry man being left master of the situation* after daring others to come on, sheathed his sword and staggered away. In spite of the authority of an eye witness who told the story to our con temporary, we have to state that it is not strictly true. The man was outside his own house nourishing his sword : a police officer attracted to the spot quietly took the weapon away from him, and has since handed it over to Lieut. Isaacs, the commanding officer of the corps. After taking his sword from him the officer con ducted the man to his house and gave him over to the charge of his wife. So much for the story of a policeman running away from a drawn 3word in the hands of a drunken man. .

An old veteran and colonist died this morning at his residence in the New North road, in his 72nd year. John Hoop, after serving for over twenty-four years in the 39th Regiment of Infantry, both in India and other parts of the world, was discharged after good service as sergeant. He was among the pensioners who volunteered to Auckland in the year 1847. The funeral will take place to-morrow aftornoon, and tho deceased will be followed to his last earthly resting place by the members of the order of Freemasons, of which he was an old and respected member.

A purious charge was made at tho Police Court this morning against an apparently respoctable woman, named Sarah Ann Bell, residing at Parnell, and tho wife of a car penter, who is stated to be at present in the Waikato. It appears (and unfortunately for both parties) there are two persons in the province bearing the initials of Sarah A. Bell, and which the prisoner is charged with hav ing received and wrongfully appropriated a letter containing £ 121 ss. 5d., under circum stances detailed in our Police report. One hundred and one pounds odd of the money have been recovered, including tv.elvepounds, which for safe keepiHg she had deposited in Post-office Savings' Bank. She now stands remanded until Friday next, when a conglo meration of charges resulting fromthe alleged unlawful act will be preferred against her.

To the Editor : Sir, —It seems that Mr Sadler has written to the Herald a lettor, in composing which he has " let his angry pas sions rise"—at least one would suppose so from the fact that it was refused insertion because tho "language was too strong." The local paragraph referring to it, however, indicates its general tenor as that of com plaint. He positively complains instead of being grateful to your correspondents for try ing to dispel the illusion under which he suffers —that the reading public wait with bated breath for his wondrous compositions. Tho first complaint appears to be that your correspondents are anonymous, to which the best reply ia that everybody does not derive the same gratification from seeing his name in print, and that should W.E.S. desire it, and will ~put his request in intelligible language, ho can be informed of the authorship. The second complaint would seem to be that the remarks upon his production! were cruel and un feeling. Well, I think Mr Sadler should be the last to urge that plan, considering tho refinement of mental torture to which he has for so long subjected the newspaper reading public And I take it that any writer who persists in inflicting such in coherent nonsense upon hi« readers is a legi timate mark for criticism, and instead of dis playing a petulant spirit should be deeply thankful for any endeavour to mitigate the nuisance, provided ho will only see it in that light himself.—Youra, See, W. ... ( .

DISTRICT COURT.—This Day.

(Before His Honor Judge Beckham.) JOHN KOBERTON AND CO. V. LINDSAY. Claim £48 lGs ; goods supplied. Mr MacCormick appeared for plaintiffs j defendant did not appear. Judgment for plaintiffs. QEODGE A. ADAMS V. THE EMILY GOLD MINING COMPANY. Mr Devore appeared for plaintiff, who Las a claim of £25 12s against the Company, arid stated that the Company, though virtually at an end, was not legally <s6. He' would ask the Court that the late legal manager and two of the directors might be served with notices to appear at a meeting of creditors, to be held on Tuesday, the lat day of July; | next ensuing, at the offices of Messrs Russell and Co., Shortland-street. Granted. THE MURPHY'S HILL AND LUCKY DIGGER GOLD MINING COMPANIES. Mr Devore appeared in these cases, and applied for permission to extend the time in order that creditors might prove their de mands, which was granted in both cases. T. AND 8. MORRIN V. LYNCH tLAT GOLD MINING COMPANY. '' This wasja claim for £48 16a, for goods supplied. Mr McCormick, on behalf of the Lynch Flat Gold Mining Company, made an applica tion for a new trial. It was finally arranged that the case should stand over until next Court, all costs to be paid into Court before that day. \ J. HAMMOND V. V. J. SOMERMELD. Mr Rees appeared for plaintiff, and Mr Hesketh for defendant. This was a claim of £49 13s in respect of a guarantee given by, defendant; .for certain costs and expenses arising out of previoxis suits, Beddoes v Duder and five others, in connection with the building of.the Devon port wharf, North Sbors. James Hammond, the plaintiff, deposed that he resided at the North Shore, and was the person mentioned in the guarantee of Mr Fredrick James Someriield, also that he was one of the defendants in the case of Beddoes y. Duder, and.others, in October,;of last year. Mr Hesketh submitted that plaintiff should be nonsuited, as he had never paid a six pence, and until there was some payment made plaintiff |must fail in establishing his claim.

His Honor thought plaintiff should hare been in a position to say that he had paid the money. Mr Re 63 contended that this was not ne oessary. His client was liable for any claim.

for damage that might be made or sent that might accrue from the whurf contract. Mr Hesketh urged that Mr Hammond was liable for £21 15s, being the sixth of the ±1M 10s, the sum claimed in respect of the con tract ; but he was not responsible for a sixth of the £70 costs, as he did not consent to be one of the defendants in the action. Judgment for plaintiff, £33 without cost 3. This was all the business.

EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN NEWS.

Shocking Disaster on the Mersey-— Twenty-five Lives Lost-

Wreck at Mount's Bay-—Fifteen of Crew Drowned.

Party Riots at Wolverhampton.

Atrocities by the Cure of Santa

Cruz

The Pope on American Liberty

Extraordinary Spread of Horse Dis ease in America-

Daring Burglary m New York.~A \ Man and Wife Robbed while Awake in Bed.

\^b are indebted to Messrs. . Henderson and Macfarlane for* files of American papers which , contain many items of European news, amongst the lengthy telegrams to the American papers which have not been received, in the condensed summaries per Java Cable. We make the following extracts : — * LONDON.

March 28.

John and Andrew Scott, father and son, were arrested on board the 3teamer Malla, at Boston from Liverpool, charged with fraudu-. lently obtaining £10,000. Cl. Three shabby dressed men, who are be lieved to be Americans, were arrested in Cork while attempting to deposit $12,000 in a bank of that city. They are supposed to be the parties who recently committed1 frauds on the Bank of England. The British Government has addressed an official note to the Porte, intimating that it will hold Turkey responsible for the amount which English shipowners will have to pay through the recent increased duties on Suez Canal. Marshall and Sons, cotton spmners of Stockfort, have suspended. Their liabilities are £215,000. The suspension is caused by the bad condition of the trade. ; ... A terrible disaster occurred in the river Mersey, below Liverpool, involving serious' loss of life. The ship Cbaiabuco, from San Francisco, collided with the Dublin steamer Torch', which had just left the port. The vessels struck with great foroe, the Chaia buco sinking almost immediately. Twenty five persons on board the ship ,went down with her, including several seamen who had embarked on board the vessel at San Fran-

cisco.

Intelligence has reached London that the bark Boyne, from Batavia for Falmouth, Was wrecked in Mount's Bay, an inlet off $ie Atlantic on the extreme southwest coast of England. Fifteen of the crew were drowned. The ironclad frigate Raleigh has/been launched at Chatham.

The British manufacturers of agricultural implements have resolved not to take part in the Vienna Exhibition.

Shanghai despatches received in London state that the Emperor of China has con sented to receive foreign Ministers without "Kowtow," namely, prostration by way of salutation, which has always been observed in China on approaching the person of the Emperor. A riot occurred in Wolverhampton between Englishmen and Irishmen employed in the coal mines in the vicinity of that town. The trouble had been brewing some days, and culminated in an open conflict. The authori ties arrested over a hundred men who par ticipated in the riot. The English miners threaten to strike unless the Irish employe's ar discharged. Tho shopkeepers of Wolver hampton, apprehending rioting and depreda tion, closed their places of business, and there was much alarm among the citizens. '.'. / It is reported in well-informed circles that an understanding exists between Great Bri tain and Portugal, wher«by the former power hold itself prepared to assist in crushing any Republican rising in Portugal should it occur. tt is reported that a collision between the ships Tres Marias and Cilaos occurred in the harbour of Cadiz, and that ninety persons were drowned.

George Augustus Sala, the well, known English litterateur, is seriously ill. His re covery is considered doubtful.

SPAIN.

March ?8

An important correspondence has passed between France and Spain, growing out of certain, atrocities perpetrated by a .Carlist ch^ef, the Cure of Santa Crnz. The French GoVernment complained that;the Cure and band had killed four French officials on the Northern Spanish Railway, and carried four others into the mountains. Senor Castelar in reply expressed regret at* these outrages. He remarked,: however, that most of the CarHsts were equipped in France, whence they hare since drawn supplies of money and provisions. The Cure of Santa Cruz himself sojourned in Bayonna before passing into Spain, and was not interfered with. He states that numbers of the Carlists are of the Frenah noblesse; and many Frenchmen of noble rank are serving with the instirgents. He! states in conclusion that the" Government is taking all measures to put a stop to the excesses, and has recently- seized as hostages the mother and sister of the Cure of Santa Cruz;

* The German Ministry view in the new Spanish Republic a future source of Euro pean discord and dissension ; that the topo graphical situation of the Republics at Spain and France may at some distant date threaten to disturb the integrity of the Germans as well as that of her allies. This riew, it'is intimated by Vienna despatches, is partially held by the Austrian and Riissian cabinets.

The bill passed by the Assembly recently, abolishing slavery in the island or Porto Rico, provides thaij ;the abolition shall follow im mediately upon the promulgation of its pas sage. Emancipated slaves will, however, be obliged to serve three years, with their present masters, or other residents of, the,-;iajand. They will enjoy the political rights of, Spanish citizens after these three years have elapsed.

FRANCE.

March 28,,, ; , The French Gevernment has prohibited the exportation of arms into Spain. ••'.■"■' A Court-martial at Versailles has sen tenced the Communist Poards to be ex ecuted.

Countess Guiccioli, who was at one time brought prominently before the public in con nection with the Lord Byron scandal, died March 26, aged 72 years. Teresa Gamba, Countess Guiccioli, was of Italian parentage, and was born in Romagna in 1800. At the •go of sixteen she was married to Count Guiccioli, an Italian nobleman. She owes her celebrity to her alleged liason with Lord

Byron in 1820. She wrote a work called "My Recollections of Byron." Although_ Her own name did not appear as the writer, tnore appears to be no doubt &s to its maternity.

GERMANY.

March 28. ( The German, Russian and Austrian Go vernmenta have jointly refused to recognize the Spanish Eepublic, refusing their sym pathy and support, as desired by a circular from Senor Emillo Casielar, Minister oi Siate. The refusal is based oil the groundß that a Republican form of Government has been imposed on the Spanish Assembly by the pressure of the masses.

ITALY.

March 28.

Several Italian Democrats arrived at Eome in custody of Government officers, and W|^ c placed in confinement in the Castle of bt. Angelo. They are charged with high treason against the Government and His Majesty King Victor Emanuel. It is expected that numerous other arrests of persons implicated in the conspiracy will soon be made. Mr Glover read an address on behalf at a deputation of citizens of the United States to the Pope, to which the Pope replied, say ing that he always prayed for a country_so blessed by God, and would ever pray for in creased blessings, but hoped that the excessive love of riches would not corrupt the hearts of the mass of the people. Serious disturbances are reported at Caserta Medicia, in consequence of an at tempted collection of taxes, the inhabitants having rebelled and resisted the authority of the Government revenue officers. ? s thought stringent measures will have to be enforced to bring tha inhabitants of the town under subjection. Amadeus has been appointed Lieutenant- General of the Italian army.

TURKEY.

March 28.

Advices have been received at Constanti nople from the Principality of Servia of a serious revolt against the government of the Sublime Porte. The Prince of Servia has de clared the Principality to be an independent power, and declined to acknowledge the supremacy of the Porte. The payment to the Sultan oi: the annual tribute of 1,000,000 dols. has been refused by the Prince. The Government is prepared to concentrate a large body of troops in the province of Bosina, near the border of Servia, to be ready in case of emergency.

AMERICAN NEWS

March 29.

The epizootic spread like a prairie fire over the State of Virginia within twenty-four hours'. Every livery stable in the city was compelled to close, not one of them having a sound horse left. Nearly all of the few horses left at work on the street were cough ing. There was but one solitary horse left untouched in the vicinity of Dayton. Local transportationby ordinary means was out of the question. Merchants could not get goods up from the depot, butchers were unable to get meats from the slaughter-houses, and milkmen conld not distribute the lacteal fluid to customers. Business was at a stand still. Ox teams were telegraphed for. Many waggons running in the morning were abandoned in the lower portion of the city, the teams having been suddenly at tacked and so disabled that they could not haul the empty waggons back. A terrible affray occurred in the lager beer saloon of Jacob Schmidt, New York. Three men entered and called for drinks and refused to pay. The proprietor proceeded to argue the matter, when one ruffian drew a knife and stabbed him in the chest and stomach, in flicting wounds which will prove fatal. His wife came to his assistance, when the man attaoked her and stabbed her in the abdo men, arm and side. The doctors say that she cannot recover. The men took flight, and in running down the street were im peded by John Sulley, whom they stabbed in the side, wounding him severely. The men made their escape. They are known as notorious blackguards. Large discoveries of rubies hare been made in Dalaehee district, 'Arizona. The impending trades strike in New York Will, it is claimed, be on even a greater scale than last year. The majority of the organi zations strike ostensibly for the eight hour movemement. Carpenters and joiners ask for an increase of pay of two dollars per day. The President of the Working Men's Union says ten thousand men will strike at once in New York, and theiraefcion will ba followed by Boston, Chicago, St Louis, San Francisco, and Cincinnati. No action will be taken before April. The police made a descent on the gambbng house, 141 Eighth street, and arrested 21 persons, with a stock of gambling implements. Bull's Head Bank has become insolvent, owing to the defalcations of an officer. Many of ithe books have been badly mutilated and are full of glaring errors. The capital of the bank ($200,000) has been mostly swallowed up. The For Venir, Central America, of February 6th, puts its columns ir mourning on account of the Chamber of Deputies having deoided by, a vote of ten against five to allow the Jesuit Fathers to remain in the Republic. - Shocks of earthquake continue to be felt in the City,of Vicente. The greater part of the houses in the valley of Sempa are unia babited.

A daring burglary and robbery has been brdught to light in New York. Three masked burglars entered the residence of James Gardner, a wealthy gentleman, and while two h«ld him and his wife in bed, and threatened them with death in case an out cry was made, the third ransacked the bureaus, searching for valuables. The bur glars escaped, with about $200 and a gold ring from Mrs Gardner's finger. A most horrible double tragedy was enacted at Auburn. A young girl, named Melissa Brown was fonnd dead in her bed, with the evidence of having given birth to a ohild. S«aroh was made, and the body of thei infant found in a well adjacent to the house. The infant was. undoubtedly born aliye. It is supposed the girl took morphine. Five or siz square buildings in the Third District were burned at New Orleans, in volving a loss of about half a million dollars. A motion for a new trial is to be reviewed by theJAppellateJCourt, in the case of Stokes, found guilty of the murder of Mr Jamea Fiak. ' Peter Galvin, a, labourer, Brooklyn, quarrelled with his wife, she being drunk at the time. Galvin seized a pair of scissors and stabbed her in the left breast and escaped. The wound -will probably prove fatal. The Norwegian barqrie Jens Lassen, from London for Philadelphia, went ashore at Indian Inlet. Captain Sorenons, wife, daughter, the first and second mate and two seamen "were drowned in attempting to land.

A rumour prevails at Washington to the effect that a formidable expedition to Cuba is being organised in certain West Indian ports, and that it will be under the direction and control of prominent Confederate officers who have sailed or will sail for said ports. District Attorney Phelps (New York) is making preparations to remove George Fran cis Train to a lunatic Asylum on Ward lulandr

Mrs Woodhull lectured to a crowded andu ence at the Academy of Music, Chicago ; sub ject, " Naked Truth." The Trihune says that her language was so coarse, gross, filthy, and blasphemous that it shocked even the audi ence, who applauded her condemnation of prominent men. Terrible boiler explosion occurred at a saw-" mill at Caboconck, Ontario. Four men atand liig near the boiler were instantly killed, and several others wounded. Portions of the building were uproofed and the walls blown to pieces by the explosion. The origin of the fire on the Erie railroad ■was the explosion of locomotive No. 6. whilel • unde? o:»ie of the sheds at the Long Dock of the Erie Coxnpany, killing Frank Howard, : engineer, and setting fire to the building. The company showed extraordinary vigour in repairing the damage. Two hundred men ware employed on the work night and day.fl| A steam yacht was launched at Green Point, s?ew York, recently, for a well- | known banker of the city. The yacht ia said! to be the largest .pleasure vessel ever built in the United States, and probably in the ■world— certainly if not the largest, for beauty of model and architecture the yacht is re markable. The vessel is named the Aloyca, and is two hundred feet long and two thousand fife hundred (?) tons carpenters measurement. tt The »reat wrestling match between Jnomer Lane, of New York, champion of the United States, and L. Ainsworth, of New Haven, Conn., for §2000 and the championship of America, was won by Lane. Tim* on hour and thirty minutes. A kerosine lamp exploded at the residence of Mr Kraft, Brooklyn. The flames spread rapidly, and the building was soon demo lished, together with two adjoining building*. Total loss $12,000. ■ I Californian papers contain the usual num ber of shooting affairs resulting from the practice of carry weapons. A man named Smith shot his brother-in-law, Copperopolis, over a quarrel about a buggy. Two settlers named Pleasant and Moon, at Pioche, quarrelled over the boundary of their land, when the former shot the latter dead. At Dulugue, lowa, a saloon keeper shot a young man who attempted to re-enter the saloon after being turned out drunk. An extensive fire has occurred at Boston. The fire broke out in the establishment of Geo. A. Sommell, and rapidly communicated to all parts of the building, which was of brick. When the firemen arrived on the scene the flames had reached the upper floor,, where a number of girls were employed work ing. They barely had time to escape with; their lives. A number jumped from the win dows and were badly injured. Among those who received probablyfatal injuries was Mary Moore During the fire, roofs and portions of a building on Hanover-street fell, killing two firemen outright, and injuring another who soon died. The loss will be very heavy. The dry-goods store on the first-floor was deluged with water ; the building was sur rounded by others containing material of a combustible nature, and business in Wit vicinity is suspended.

CUBA; THE INSURRECTION. Havana, March 19.—At a meeting-of the guild of merchants it was decided to appor tion the untaken bonds of the new loan among the merchants of Havana. Bandits are operating in the vicinity of Botabano. Several persons are reported to . have been1 killed by the band. A battery of i artillery and a. squadron of cavalry goes to operate against them. In the vicinity of Tracha on the 13th mst., the insurgents attacked the town of Carojal. Troops fronvHogquin arrived, and the inmir gents were repulsed. Several engagements are reported to have taken place in the Central Department of Havana.

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LATEST FROM WAIKATO.

Mr. Williamson's Candidature.

Scarcity of Natives

Construction of the Frontier Road.

CAMBRIDGE.

This day. Surveyors start this morning to cut a line of road right round the confiscated botu\dary. After this has been done tenders are to be called for clearing the road three chains wide.

After the road is made the cavalry will i patrol the country from redoubt to redoubt, across the frontier. ' Thirty constabulary are expected to-day from New Plymouth. Everything is quiet. A native meeting takes place at Tamahere to-day. , , ,/qj

TAURANGA.

: - This day. Hans Tapsell arrived from Waikato last night. He reports that the Whakatane ."., natives are not going to sow any wheat in consequence of the disturbance at Waikato.

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

GRAHAMSTOWN,

This day. Eureka.—A reef two feet thick, shewing good gold, and supposed to be the Kuraui j. No.' 2 lode has been struck. h - - Moanatira.— The fortnight's yield ia 80 ounces of gold. Volunteer Campbell was the winner of the Scottish gold medal on Saturday. , f™ Unicorn.—The tweny-five tons crushed . yielded 75 ounces gold. New Caledonia.—s6 ounces 8 dwt, gold- ; have been obtained from 35 tons fltone.

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

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Lyttelton Vessels for Auckland.

Charge of, Assault against Pilletfe . Resident Magistrate.

, Resignation of Sir 3>. Munro

Austin the Pedestrian in Dunedin-

NELSON.

. in . This day. : Sir' David Munro.has resigned his' seat in the House of Representatives.

DUNEDIN.

This day. . Austin, the pedestrian, is attempting to walk a thousand milea in a thousand bouts.

Utti imarikg b^ab, mOnday, JtJNE 3, itiiz.



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