SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

POST OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening, G. 47 SUN-RISE: To morrow morning, b.<tt HIGH WATER ; This afternoon, 1.14 ; to-morrow morning, 2.7

ARRIVALS.

•Luna, Government steamer, p.s., from Wellington (in the Manuk.au)

DEPARTURES.

Nile, brig, for Russell

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Honolulu and San Francisco: Dakota, mail steamer, 20th March For Cork : Polar Star, ship, to-day For Northern ports: Rowena, s.s., Monday next For London: Harvest Home, ship, early ; Glenhuntly, barque, to-day For Sydney and Melbourne: Hero, s.s., about 28th inste.nt; Wonga Wonga, s.s., about 19th March

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Durham, ship, from London. Sailed 29th November Edinburgh Castle, ship, from London. Loading Parsee, ship, from London. Loading Langa, barque, from Liverpool. Loading Thames, barque, from New Yovk, via Sydney, loadir £ Prosperity, schooner, from Corredo, barque, from P.ydney Drover, brig, from Sydney East Lothian, barf; U e, from New York. Sailed 20th December Emulous, sooner, from Dunedin. Sailed 13th February Dauntlr; SS) schooner, from South Islands Harriet Armytnge, barque, from Dunedin Pat'erson, p.s., from Sydney Coronet, brigantine, from Wellington Satellite, cutter, from Levuka Florence, schooner, from Dunedin Sailed 18th February Mary Millar, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed 11th February Success, schooner, from Levuka Albion, brig, from Newcastle

The Yacht Race.—We learn that a pro test has been entered against the yacht Spray by the owners of the Fleetwing, on the ground that she carried too many men. The ship Ironside left the Bluff, for Lon don, on Feb. 3rd. The following is her cargo.jvhich is valued at £103,898 7s lOd : —4335 bales wool, 6 bales skins, 137 cask tallow, 3652 cases preserved meats, 3 casks tongues, 1 cask lard, 1 cask hides, 1 box, and a quantity of bones and horns.

All hope of the ship Glenmark has been given up by the friends and relatives of the crew and passengers, as, in the columns of a recent Lyttelton Times appear obituary notices of Captain Wrankmore, Messrs Saunders, Gordon, and DrDry, " lost at sea in the ship Glenmark, which is supposed to have foundered with all hands on board, in a hurricane, about the lGth February last, within a week after leaving Lyttel ton."

The American. <&jp Fearless is an extreme clipper, built for the San Francisco trade about ten years ago, and is what is termed a regular healer, being able to log her eleven and twelve knots easily when close hauled. Captain Cromwell states as an instance of her sailing qualities that during the last twenty one clays of her passage she almost beat dead to windward nine hundred miles, he himself being the greater portion of the time on deck consequent on the severe indispo sition of his chief officer. The vessel made the passage from New York in eighty days.—Melbourne Age, 24th January. The S.S. Go-Ahead. — T' n e Taranahi Herald thus notices the. Improvements to the s.s. Go-Ahead :—'< While in Sydney her old engines have been taken out and dis posed of, and "the vessel has been fitted with new ones., which.had been manufactured there previous to her going up. They em brace all the latest principles of obtaining great power on a small consumption of fuel° each propellor is driven by a single cylinder sixteen inches in diameter, twelve inches stroke, steam jacked, top, bottom, and sides ; they are furnished with expansion valves capable of cutting off the steam in the most perfect manner, from one to nine inches of the stroke ; the link motion is of a kind known as Morrisson's patent; the cranks are balanced, and the air pumps work by levers. The surface condenser contains 2,400 feet of three-quarter inch brass tubing, and the cir culation of water is maintained by a separate double acting steam jacketed donkey. The engines, when driven, are capable of working up to 160 indicated horse power. The stern brackets have been lengthened, and new four - bladed propellors fitted, of five feet _ two inches in diameter. The shafting has been renewed of a larger diameter. The result of these may be judged by the consumption of coal from Newcastle averaging a little under three and a half tons per day. These engines may be considered the most perfect of the modern type on the New Zealand coast, it still being an open question whether as good or better results cannot be obtained from expansion in the one cylinder than from engines on the compound principle. The boiler has been taken out and thoroughly overhauled; the whole of the tubes, which were 37 inches, have been replaced by 3J inch tubes. Her rig has been entirely changed, being now a three-masted schooner, and she spreads more than double the canvass ; the deck arrangements have also been considerably altered and improved, which not only adds to her appearance, but also makes her a through sea-going craft. At the official trip at Sydney, on the 1 st February the measured knot was run in six minutes and twenty-six seconds, which any thing but proved her capabilities , the engines having several times to be eased on account of the boiler" priming. The engines were manufactured at Mort's Dock and Engineering Co., Sydney to the design of Mr H. Selfe. the Company's engineer, and the whole of the ironwork was carried out under his supervision ; the deck arrangements and rigging being under the direction of Captain McGillvray.

COMMERCIAL.

MTNIXG. The following are the current calls and dividends payable in the companies named below :— £ s. d. CALLS Missouri .. .. 0 5 0 Mrch 3 Coromandel Tunnel 0 10 0 Mrch 10 Bismarck .. .. 0 10 Mrch 12 Otago 0 10 Mrch 12 American Eagle .. 0 10 Mrch 12 Inverness .. .. 0 0 3 Mrch 12 Eoyal Standard .. 00 6 Mrch 12 MEETINGS. Central Italy, Grahamstown, 27th February Argo. Mr A. A. Browne's office, Wyndham street, Auckland, 2 p.m., 28th February Thames Gas Company, Insurance Buildings, Auck land, 3 p. m 28th February Pride of Tokatea, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 12.30 p.m., 3rd March

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails vni Close as TJnijek :— For Thames, this day, at 5 p.m., and to-morrow,

at 10.30 a.m. For "WelMngton and Southern ports, this day, at 5 p.m. For Mahurangi, Matakana, Wpipu, &c, per Lady Bowen, to-morrow, atlOa.m For Tahiti, per Prima Donna, on Saturday next, at

11 a.m. For Gisborne, per Comerang, on Saturday, 22nd inst.,

at 2 p.m. For Napier, per s.s. Star of the South, on Saturday

next, at 2 p.m. For Tavanaki and Southern ports, per s.s. Wellington, immediately on the arrival of the p.s. Dakota from Honolulu. For Napier and Southern ports, per p.s. Dakota, six

hours after arrival. For En. sell, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, per Rowena,

on Monday next, at 3 p. m. For Great Barriel-, Whitiangi, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Southern Cross, on Tuesday next, at 'A p.m. N.B.—A Post-ofiice will be opened at Titirangi on the Ist March. (Signed) S. B. Bisa, Chief Postmaster.

DEATH

Low.—On the 20th Instant, George L. Low; aged 33 years. The funeral will leave the residence of Mr P. W. Cleave, Onehiinga, at three p.m. on Sunday next. Friends will please accept this invitation.

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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 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 Harbour Board having invited tenders for the £100,000 loan which they are empowered by the Harbour Docks Act, 1871, to borrow for the construction of docks, we may expect that this most important work will soon be undertaken. The security offered by the Board is so good that the loan will no doubt be negotiated on favourable terms. No determina tion has yet been arrived at regarding the class of dock upon which the money shall be spent, but after the strong expression of public opinion in favour of a dock capable of taking in large vessels, and such as will place our port more on an equality with Dunedin and Australian ports, the Board will no doubt decide on the expenditure of the money in con structing one commodious dock in preference to two or three small ones. The importance of small docks must not, however, be overlooked. There are numbers of vessels locally owned, and trading to the port that fre quently require repair, and at present these repairs are only effected with great difficulty and under most disad vantageous circumstances. One or more small docks capable of taking in such craft at a low cost would confer immense advantages upon owners of vessels, and would operate beneficially upon our port by increasing its con veniences. The forests of the province yield material for shipbuilding superior to anything that can be found in either the Southern provinces or the Australian colonies, and with harbour facilities equal to its natural advantages Auckland need not fear competition from any other seaport in the South Pacific. The work of con structing a large dock involves the ex penditure of such an amount of money as would preclude its being undertaken by private enterprise for many years to come. It is, therefore, peculiarly the work of the Board which is specially charged with the interests of our port; but these smaller docks are works that might, and probably would be undertaken by private individuals or companies if sufficient inducement were held out by the Harbour Board. We would suggest that a portion of the Harbour endow ments suitable for the construction of a small dock be offered for lease on a long term at a nominal rental condi tionally upon a dock of a certain capacity, to be defined by the Harbour Board, being constructed within a limited period. The amount of rental for the site might be fixed by public tender, and could be made leviable in the form of a per centage upon the profits accruing from the do«k over and above a reasonable interest on the capital laid out. The length of lease must be sufficient to justify the expenditure of the money necessary to make the dock perfect; and the Board should, by not stipulating for a work of too expensive a character, and in other waya, make the terms aa !

liberal for tenderers as possible, with the view not so much to direct gain from the endowment as to the advance ment of our port. We feel convinced that the construction of small docks could be secured on such terms, and that the Harbour Board would not only be relieved of the cost of con structing these necessary works, but would soon derive a very considerable revenue from them, as the docks could not fail to pay a large interest upon the capital invested. We trust the Board will take the limit©* into their consideration, ancl test it by offering °Zc of their endowments in the way I we have indicated.

His Worship the Mayor, at a recent meet ing of the Domain Board, secured the passing of a resolution in favoiir of opening the Acclimatization gardens free to the public on certain days of the week. We are sure the proposition will carry with it the sympathy of residents in the city who have at present few places of resort. But the gardens have been laid out wholly at the expense of a number of gentlemen who formed themselves into an Acclimatization Hociety, which has conferred gfeafc benefit upon the province by the intro duction of English small birds. The society derives its chief revenue, apart from private subscriptions, from the charge made for admission to the garden, and to throw the grounds open to the public free would simply mean that those gentlemen who form the society shall either permit the garden to fall back into its natural state, or put their hands into their pockets and make up the amount in a lump sum which visitors pay in sixpences. The terms upon which the society obtained the ground from the Domain Board are, we believe, such that the Board could insist upon the opening of the garden free on certain days, but it would be manifestly unfair to punish the gentlemen who form the society in such a way for their public spirit. The Domain Board, who are only the trustees for the public, have shewn how far they study the interests and gratification of the community by leasing the Domain garden as a place for growing cabbages, and the open park as a cattle run, and they now wish to come down upon the Acclimatization Society to make good their neglect. AYe do not blame the Mayor for the action lie has taken in the matter, but warmly approve of his zeal in the interests of the citizens. His motion may, if properly directed, result in the public benefit. It is the duty of the authorities—not of private gentlemen—to provide parks and places of healthful recreation for the people, but as it would be impossible to bring an un cultivated piece of ground to the state of perfection now attained by the Acclimatiza tion Gardens, we would suggest that such arrangements be made with the society as would result in the garden becoming available for the public use. We have no doubt the society would willingly accept as a subsidy a sum equal to the entrance fee now taken at the gates on two days in the week, and would in return give free admission to the public on those days. It would be a matter of indifference to them whether the money were paid by the Provincial Government, City Council, or even the Domain Board ; but until some con tribution towards the cost of keeping the garden in order is made the society is justified in resisting the proposed opening of the grounds gratuitously. In almost every other city of this colony and Australia large money grants have been made towards botanical gardens, and until similar liberality is displayed by our local authorities the people must be satisfied to pay for admission to private grounds or do without.

The public have not yet heard the last of the abortive attempt to send a crew to the Canterbury interproviucial gig race last year. In our advertising columns appears a bill of particulars furnished with summons to two members of the Rowing Club by Mr .lohn Copland. The case is to be heard in the District Court.

We are glnd to notice the prompt action taken by the various school committees elected under the Education Act to give cti'ect to the provisions of that measure. The committee of City East advertise in our columns for one male and three female teachers.

There is on view at the reading-room of the Custom-house Hotel a very good and accurate portrait in water colours of the new ferry steamer Takapuna.

The adjourned meeting of the Auckland Dispensary, owing to the absence of the secretary, is postponed from this afternoon to Friday, the 7th March.

The first monthly meeting of the Lumpers' Accident .Relief Association will be held this evening, at the Thames Hotel.

The following is the cause list of the Dis trict Court for the sitting on Monday next, the 24th inst: —Bank of Australasia v. Moore; same v. Mount ; Macfarlane v. Cook ; I.un don v. Kakati ; and Hill Bros. v. Layers. The scheduler* of contributories in the follow ing Gold Mining companies will be brought forward on the following day (Tuesday) : Warrior, Otumei, Mexican, Wynyard, Daisy Hill, Southern Interest, Port Phillip, Golden Harp, Trafalgar, Collarbone, Ballarat Star, and Gladstone.

The annual meeting of the Sunday School Union will take place this evening at the Young Men's rooms, Wellesley-street.

The regular monthly meeting of the Royal Albert Loyal Orange Lodge will be held in the Newton Lodge-room, this evening at eight o'clock.

Seven persons appeared at the Police Court to-day charged with offences against the city by-laws by allowing horses to wander and cows to stray without sensible attendants.

For many years the Province of Taranaki has been the hotbed of disaffection among the native race, and has furnished leaders of note and warriors in numbers in opposition to European domination. We may say that the chief difficulties attendant on the thorough settlement of this part of the West Coast since 1840 has been the native element introduced into the question, and the un satisfactory state of the land tenure. Not only have the settlers had to contend with a thickly wooded country which required a large amount of capital and labour, but they also had to struggle against a brave race inhabiting the recesses of the forest, and have been compelled often enough to abandon their homes and substitute the rifle for the plough handle. We allude to these well known facts chieiiy because we think we can forsee the advent of a very different state of things, and the prospect of a definite arrangement on all the difficult questions which act as clogs upon the progress of Taranaki. Mr McLean's speech on Saturday last, to the assembled tribes, shows the earnest wish of the Govern ment to act in an equitable spirit. Its tone is firm and decided, but at the same time inclines to the side of mercy, and while the hearers are strongly warned against a repetition of past offences they are in formed they will be treated in a lenient manner.— Taranaki Herald.

The Hon. D. McLean1, Native arid Defence Minister, accompanied by Lieut.-Colonel St. John, private secretary, was a passenger by the Government p.s. Luna, which arrived in in the Manukau last night.

In the case of H. P. Cohen a deed of assignment for the benefit of his creditors was yesterday declared duly executed by the Registrar at the ordinary sitting in bank ruptcy. The liabilities amount to £2, 100 ; assets £1,700. Messrs Morton Jones and B. Tonics have been appointed trustees in the estate.

i The Hon. D. McLean states that where tine strikes have been in Great Britain the Agent-General has found great difficulty in getting the quantity of immigrants to come out that was required ; not only in con sequence of the high price of labour, but also because Canada and America were offering great inducement for people to settle there.

There passed through Paris the other day a magnificent piano, on its way to Peking, which is a wedding gift to the young lady who is to be future Empress of China. This splendid instrument is covered all over with gold and lacquer, while the keys are of mother of pearl. There will not be much use for these keys, for the bride has never acquired the accomplishment of playing the piano. To compensate for this omission an arrangement exists, where, by turning a wheel, after tlie fashion of a hand-organ, there will be ground out such tunes as " God Save the Queen," the '' Miserere," from "Trovatore," the " Hose Waltz," and a martial Chinese air, which strongly resembles the "Marseillaise."

When Barnum's fire took place he was away, but the following telegram passed between him and his manager:—"New York, December 24.—T0 P. T. Barnum, New Orleans :—About 4 a.m. fire discovered in boiler-room of circus building ; everything destroyed except 2 elephants, 1 camel. S. H. Hviid." At 3 p.m. Mr Hurd received the following reply : —"New Orleans, December 24.—T0 S. H. Hurd, New York:—Tell editors I have cabled European agents to expend half million dollars for extra attrac tions ; will have new and more attractive travelling show than ever in April. P. T. Bahxu.m." Mr Barnum is evidently not to " counted out" of the show business in sj)ite of his misfortunes.

Tho army of Japan in 1871 consisted of well-disciplined troops, 34 regiments; the Navy of 13 war steamers, including two iron-clads, carrying 1,045 men; also two transports, carrying 197 men.

A woman who was recently brought before a London Police Court for assaulting her husband urged in self-defence that, on coming home from a carnival party, the night of the assault, she found that her husband, had retired and had wrapped all the bed-clothes around him, and lay, looking like a huge cocoon, in the middle of the bed. She tried to secure her lawful share of the clothes, when he, irritated at the disturbance, struck her, and she took up a bar of iron and heavily belaboured him The Judge bound her over not to do so any more.

The population of Japan in 1871 was esti mated and believed to be 34,755,221, in cluding 450,695 Yetuts (outcasts), tanners of leather, forced executioners, etc. The city of Yeddo in 1871 contained 154,902 houses of the people, and its population was estimated and believed to be ()74,29(> ; Kiota contained 393,704 people ; Osaca contained 427,395 people.

Two females had a fair stand up fight, in Lyttelton-street, Wesfcport, one of the com batants in her excitement peeling to the waist (says the Times-), the better to " let out " at her adversary. A crowd collected and the pair fought until they were tired, while the police, in blissful ignorance, were zealously engaged in guarding the police barracks and Government offices in the bush.

A friendly match has been arranged between the Blue Jackets and the Marines belonging to H.M. ship Blanche, and the Volunteers, and is expected to come off in a few days.

That now venerable and patriarchal parent of a numerous offspring—Brighain Young— is evidently both physically and intellectually on the decline of life. He is becoming as foolish as a vain spinster, and is actually endeavouring to trifle with the fingers of time by dying his gray hairs and whitening his beard. Foolish man ! thy Salt Lake kingship is almosAnded ; thy Mormon reign is nearly o'er !

Thomas Miller, the "Basket-maker Poet," as he is termed, but who abandoned that calling twenty years ago, is now in his sixty-eighth year, and has recently given readings from his own works in the Assembly room of the Horn's Tavern, Kennington Park. Miller is a native of Gainsborough, and occupies a humble home between the Kennington roads, which he christened in his poetic way, " Rose Cottage." His chief works are "Godfrey Malvern," " The Old Town," Country Sketches," and poems. The Gainsborough poet might often be seen selling baskets by the pavement in West minister Bridge road ; and he was thus occupied when the Countess of Blessington admired his workmanship, and gave him an order for several baskets, in one of which he enclosed the sonnet to the Countess, which, indirectly, was the means of winning the friendship of Samuel Rogers, who placed Miller in business as a bookseller in Newgate-street. In this congenial business he did not succeed, and from that time to the present Miller, the pleasing writer of forty volumes of rustic pror:e, has lingered in the shadows of South Louden.

The Government have given intimation of their intention to introduce an Educational Bill next session. It will resemble minutely that introduced by Mr Fox last session ; his bill was a good one, and excepting one or two clauses should have passed through Parlia ment untouched. It is impossible that any bill not embodying the principles of his could pass.— WaiJcato Times.

Josh Billings says that "tricing tew define love is like tricing tew tell how you kum tew brake thru the ice ; all yu kno about it iz,|yu fell in and got ' ducked.' "

A curious case was brought before the court of Queen's Bench a short time ago. It appears that Canon Selwyn entertains strong opinions with respect to the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, and he drew up a petition to Her Majesty, in which he en treated her to consider whether she had not by her assent to that Act forfeited her title to the throne. This petition he sent to the Marquis of Papon, as head of Her Majesty's Privy Council, to be presented to the Queen, but that nobleman refused to iindertake that task. The Canon next applied to one of the officers of Her Majesty's household, biit was referred to the Queen's con stitutional advisers. Foiled thus in all points, and bethinking himself deprived of what is believed to be the right of every Englishman, to see his Sovereign, he brought an action in the Court of Queen's Bench for an order to compel the Marquis of Ripon to present his petition. The judges met in high debate to consider this novel point in con stitutional law, and they came to the unanimous conclusion that there was no power to compel the Marquis of Ripon, or any other officer of State, to present a peti tion against his will.

The feazaar in aid of the Sir George Grey Csdet Cdrp's will re-open this evening in the shop lately occupied by Mr Byson, at the corner of Queen and Wellesley-streefe. The sale will commence cat six o'clock. The bazaar will also be open to-morrow.

Mr Tom Margetts will take a benefit this evening at the Prince of Wales Theatre, but as the programme is not issued we are unable to speak of the nature of the entertainment.

The Melbourne auctioneer who is reported to have married a lady of indifferent repute to a clergyman's son, license or no license, was clearly ih<2 right man for the job. He had at any rate, we presume, an auctioneer's license to sell, and if the lady wasn't sold it is more than probable that the gentleman was. Who, indeed, so fit for such a business transaction as a mercenary marriage of any kind as a Knight of the Hammer, accustomed to dispose of goods of all sorts, damaged or otherwise, to the highest bidder ! A change in the marriage law permitting auctioneers to add to their other "lines" the latest things in heiresses, or a fine consign'ttJent of beauty, slightly damaged, or with or without paint, would give a decided fillip to the mar riage market, just now we believe somewhat dull. There would be sure to be plenty of competition, at least for the first lot, and then the ceremony might be so simple. ' The third and last time gentleman ! Going, going, gone !" and it would be all over, with out any sickly sentiment, or blasphemous invoking of blessings over a barren union of pockets. Young ladies who " give the hand where the heart can never be" for cash on delivery, or so much a year, might very well be disposed of in this way, and find it to their profit; while ladies who had already dis counted their charms might at least hope to negotiate them over again, if not too far past maturity. A marriage law of this kind, with a liberal Divorce Act, would seem to be all that is necessary to make a good many people happy, or otherwise -Sydney Empire.

The long-delayed return cricket match between the I. Zingari and the eighteen Colts will be played to-morrow (weather per mitting) on the U.C.C. ground, Albert Bar racks, commencing at 10 o'clock. Owing to the time which this match has been on the tapis great interest is manifested as to the result, and a closely contested game may be anticipated. The following will represent the I. Zingari eleven -.—Messrs Mumford, Brookes, Bowen, Putman, Cotton, Alderton, Gleeson, Aitken, Swanson, Bellers, and Buck land. "Competition is the soul of business. Mr Williams, of fire-kindler notoriety, it appears, is to have opposition. Opposition in most trades or professions does good, especially if the opposition can produce a better and a cheaper article ; in thatcase he deserves success. At the same time we cannot help thinking that it would have been more straightforward for Mr Williams' opponent to have adopted some other form of kiudler than that selected by Mr Williams, which is his own invention, and peculiar in construction—being in the form of an arch, by which means a good current of air is secured, which causes it to burn freely. The more opposition, however, the better, for they are really indispensable ; and the best article will ultimately have the pre ference. An advertisement upon the subject appeara elsewhere.

We are requested to remind the shareholders of the Bismarck and French Itepublic Gold Mining Company that the extraordinary meeting takes place on Tuesday next, the 25th inst. ; and as the business is of im portance shareholders should attend, or sign proxies, atjthe oifice of the company, Hobson's Buildings, Shortland-street.

Sir Bartle Frere who, has proceeded to South Africa as head of of the Livingstone expedition organised in consequence of Mr Stanley's discoveries, in one of his speeches gave utterance to the following remarks : — " Christianity has now been preached to the devil-worshipping tribes in every stage of civilization, from naked savages of the wildest forests to the semi-civilised devil worshippers who are mixed up with the settled inhabitants of the cultivated country and the invariable result has been to show that Christianty has power to prevail against Fetish worship, aiid that the results of the acceptance of Christianity by the Fetish wor shipper are invariably to raise him in the moral and social scale, and to make him a civi lised being.gl believe there is no part of India in which the power of preaching to attract the attention of Fetish worshippers, to win them from the worship of evil and impure deities, to the pure religion of Christ, and to raise them in the scale of humanity, has not been thus abundantly manifested. Most prominently are these results visible among the Shanares, and other devil worshipping races of Southern India ; the Kols and Goands of Central India ; the Bhils and Koolies, Mars, Mangs, and Chumars of Western and Central India. Of all these races it may be truly said that Christianity, as far as its effects have been tried, has proved its pos session of the promises of this life as well as of the next. In some parts of the country, as in Tinnevelly and Ohoia Nagpore, the number of acliua'ly baptised conveits^rnay be reckoned by tens of thousands, and all exhibit a marked improvement in the habits of social life. They are, as a rule, more temperate and chaste, more cleanly, more honest, and move industrious than they were before conversion. I would ask whether the same evidence of the power and of Christianity is not to be found in all we read regarding other parts of Asia, of America, of Africa, and of Polynesia—ay, in all we;see around us of the effects of simple, earnest, Christian teaching on Lon don Arab life. Of course, we shall hear of the ineffectual efforts of worldly and self seeking preachers and missionaries, who, we are told, leave their converts no better, and sometimes worse than they were ; but, I ask, are these men preaching Christianity!"

FATAL ACCIDENT AT PANMURE.

A fatal accident happened last evening on the road from the Harp of Erin to Panmure, within about a quarter of a mile from the village. Between rive and six o'clock, the deceased George S. Low, aged 33, a carnian in the employ of Messrs Ireland Bros., was driving a loaded waggon and team to Panmure, when by some means impossible to ascertain he fell oft' the waggon on to the road, and the team proceeded on its way towards Panmure. Shortly after one of Mr Buckland's men was passing, and found the deceased lying on the side of the road with a severe wound in his skull. Life was extinct. The deceased was lifted up and carried to Dr. Fitzgerald's, at Panmure, who upon examination declared that death must have been instantaneous. It is supposed that the poor fellow was sitting on an empty barrel on the dray, and that either the horses started or else the waggon swayed with the unevenness of the road, and that he was precipitated from the waggon, his head striking a large stone in his fall. The whole of the casks of oil with which the trolley was loaded when they left Auckland ••-■^'re believed to be most securely fastened, with stout rope, but the exceeeding roughness of this road might have caused them to shift their position and upset the empty tallow cask in front, on which the deceased was sitting. The deceased was a steady man and married but without family. He leaves a widow to mourn his loss. An inquest is being held J at Panmure this afternoon.

TELEGRAPHIC.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LATEST PROM THE THAMES.

CRUSHING FOR MESSENGER'S

TRIBUTE,

fIEWS FKOM HIKUTAIA

GRAHAMSTOWN,

This day.

Messengers Ttibutk.—A crushing of 18 tons w stone yielded 39 ounces of gold. Gpjw's Ttaßtr-BB of Tookky Mine.—A crushing of£4o tons of stofte hw» yielded G3 ounces of gold. WHAt?.-—The retorting has not yet been fi lished. The company will have the splendid yield of over 1000 ounces of gold from 15 tons of stone. F'vtoti&G Association. —The cistern is now complete. They are preparing to-day for placing a column in it. Russell.—The cleaning up yesterday yielded 57 ounces of melted gold. WINPSQR Castle.™ The company will resume crushing on Monday. The opening of the Hikutaia block has not created much interest. The weather is wretched. There iis no definite news from the locality. It is stated that Brogan and McGee are on the ground, looking after the golden reef, and they have disappeared into the bush.

Shambock.—A crushing of 5 tons of stone from the Peep-o'-Day tribute yielded 11 ozs. 5 dwts. of gold.

Bendigo Independent.—A crushing of 130 tons stone yielded 92 ozs. 15 dwts. gold.

DIGGERS FROM WHANGAMATA.

NO SIGN OF GOLD,

TAURANGA,

This day

The Southern Cross sailed for Auckland at 11a.m. Passengers: Mr Campney, Mrs Ellis, Misses Mills, Mr Brock. For Mercury Bay, Mr Masters.

Two men arrived from Whangamata yes terday. They bring dismal reports, having been unable to obtain even the colour o gold. They are looking for work here.

The settlers here are unable to obtain white labour to get in the potatoe crop at a price that will pay. They have sent t° Rotorua to get plenty of Maoris.

LATEST SOUTHERN NEWS.

(PER ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAPH

COMPANY.)

IMMENSE COAL DEPOSITS AT NGAKAWHAU.

MEDICAL AND LAW CLASSES AT THE OTAGO UNIVERSITY.

IMPORTANT TELEGRAM RESPECTING

SIR JAMES FERGUSON

PARLIAMSNT TO BE OPENED

FAREWELL BALL TO THE GOVERNOR.

NAPIER

Ihis day.

The Provincial Gazette last night contained thirty-two more complaints by Maoris against Europeans for inquiry by the Commission. The Telegraph complains of the cost to the country by the hearing of frivolous and vexatious complaints, which are only mere attempts to recover lands adequately paid for.

Mr Hoskins and Miss Colville opened the short season last night with a good house.

WELLINGTON

This day.

A General Government Gazette has Jbeen issued containing a notice which provides for ! the importation of animals infected with the i foot and month disease. The Post last night accuses the Press 1 Association of giving undue prominence to the Independent in iis lielgrams. It says it is quite natural that the Independent should uphold an association which does so much for its benefit. The contract for the waterworks distribu tion reservoir has been let to Saunders and O'Malley for £3,749. The capacity of the basin is a million gallons. It will be finished by the end of June. Typhoid fever in a bad form has appeared at Turakina. The Hon. J. Vogel writes that the Agent- I General has telegraphed to the effect that ; Sir James Fergusson wishes to know when Parliament meets, as he could not leave England until June. Mr Vogel replied that Parliament would meet at the end of June. Sir George Arney will probably have to open Parliament. The prospectus of the Taranaki Iron-sand Company is published. The capital is £50,000, in £10 shares. The estimated profit is 26J per cent. The farewell ball to his Excellency the Governor and Lady Bowen last night was very successful. There were 150 persons present. His Honor: the Superintendent, in proposing the health of the Governor and Lady Bowen, referred to the visits made by his Excellency to various parts of the colony. The Governor, in reply, said he left the colony without having made an enemy. The Rangatira has sailed for Greymouth to load coal. A Civil Service Club has been initiated.

PORT CHALMERS

This day. The 8.8. Albiou sailed South to-day.

The barque Waratah has sailed for Hotels Towri.

LYTTELTON.

This day. The s.s. Taranaki sail*-* at at 4.30 p.m. yesterday for the South.

DUNEDIN.

This day.

The Council of the Otago University has resolved to obtain more complete medical and mathematical apparatus, and classes for the study of law will be instituted. Members of the legal profession are to be asked to. give, lectures. Over 8,000 shares in the National Bank Have been applied for in Dunedin. Severe comment is made on the non-pro gressive state of the High School. The Times stabes that many Grammar schools through out the colony are in a state almost unbear able. Mour, £13 10s; wheat, 4s 9d; barky,, 5s 6d to 6s; oats, 2s to 2s \2& ; oatmeal, £ 12 10s ; pearl barley, £24. At the Tuapeka races, yesterday, Wild Boy won the Lawrence handicap. In the hurdle-race for £M only Tambourine and Medora started, and the race was won by Tambourine. In the Handicap Hurdle race ofTOsovs., Malice baulked at the first hurdle, and Medora declined the second one and threw its rider, who remounted and walked over the course coming in fnrdst |groans and hkses. The race was considered a palpable sell.

WESTPORT.

This day.

Mr Babson, Provincial Engineer, has again inspected . the Ngakawhau mine, also numerous newly-discovered seams in the immediate neighbourhood, and expressed astonishment at the extent of the discovery. He calculates that one plateau alone at an altitude of 1,500 feet will yield twenty million tons. In the Ngakawhau mine the seam is 19 feet 10 inches of splendid coal. The lessee is anxious to float a company. Mr Hartmann, from Wellington, is expected to-day to negotiate for working the seams. _ Failing any arrangement being come to with him, Mr Chambers, mining manager, will visit Wellington to interview speculators there. The shallowness of Ngakawhau bar will ne cessitate the service of eight feet draught steamers and barges bringing coal to Westport, where craft of all sizes can sail in or out at any time. The Government has been memorialised to push on the railway between Westport and Ngakawhau with the money voted last session. The Superintendent of Nelson visited Ngakawhau yesterday, and was favourably impressed with the field, and will recommend the General Government to proceed with the railway. Extensive coal deposits are reported at the Cascade, nine miles from Westport, up the Buller river. A survey of the road there has been commenced prior to the expenditure of the £600 Government vote.

Three or four of the Lyell reefing com panies have amalgamated for the purpose of erecting crushing machinery. Stone in all the claims is good. A reef has been discovered at Waiman garoa river, nine miles north of Westporfc. It is six feet thick, and the out-crop has been traced for two miles. Application has been made by the prospectors, Martin Perotti and others, for a lease of the ground.

MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF SHOOT ING STARS OR METEORS.

On Wednesday night, 2Sth November, a grand display of shooting stars was observed from the deck of the ship Warwick. We counted, in less than half-an-hour, no fewer than 500 of these interesting phenomena ; indeed they were at times so numerous that it was almost impossible to count them. They continued to shoot throughout the night, but the greatest display occurred between six and nine p.m. Many of them were remarkably luminous, leaving a long train of white light behind them. One in particular, the most brilliant and apparently th c nearest of all, shewed a bright red colour, leaving a long train of that colour in its rear, and remaining visible for a minute or two. As it may be interesting to some of the numerous readers of the War wick Weelcly Times to know something of those wonderful little luminaries I have culled from Orr's Circle of the Sciences, the following generally received opinions respecting them : —" The beautiful pheno menon of shooting stars is common enough, but at certain periods it is peculiarly re markable, the whole sky being filled with these fleeting meteors. The beginning of August and the beginning of November are noticeable for their connection with shooting stars ; more especially have they been re corded between the 9th and 14th of August. Some times a luminous meteor, termed a shooting star, attains a large magnitude; observers then speak of it as a 'fireball.' The identity of shooting stars and fire balls is now well established, though formerly they were treated as distinct. Their velocity through the heavens or rather the upper layers of our atmosphere, is various; but it generally exceeds that of the earth, which is6,SOO miles an hour, or 19 miles in a second. Various opinions have been ad vanced to account for these bodies. One $jt the earliest of these hypotheses original «A in 1660, and assumed fallen aeroli> \ to be mineral masses originally pro* } jected from lunar volcanoes. Umor- \ tunately for the probability of this theory the moon's surface appears to be altogether devoid of active volcanoes. Then followed the chemical hypothesis, according to which it was assumed that aerolites were nothing more than aggregations of metallic vapours, which had risen to the upper region of the atmosphere, aggregated there, and fallen. The opinion of Chladni is now, however, generally received; he regards aerolites to be of cosmical origin-—to be so many planets or planetary frag ments, which revolve in orbits of their own. I variously inclined to the orbits of the earth ; that oiir planet encounters periodic shoals of these little worlds, some of which, becoming entangled in the earth's gravitating system, pass into our atmosphere, become heated by friction against its particles, and ultimately fall to the ground. J. Faibbubn. [The meteoric shower witnessed by the passenger of the ship Warwick was officially reported upon by Kear-Admiral Sands, of the United States Naval Observatory, who snys the radiant points seemed to indicate that the meieers were moving in the orbit of Biel as a comet. It is estimated that on the night in question 200 meteors per minute fell at Alexandria, Egypt.—Ed. e.s.l

WB -&rsßffil& fttAß» EMBAY, SI. 1893



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