SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

POET OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening, 5.50 SUN-RISE: To morrow morning, 6.30 HIGH WATER: This evening, 3.27; to-morrow morning, 8.46

ARRIVALS.

Kuby, schooner, from Russell Clyde, schooner, Anderson, from Wangarei -

DEPARTURES.

w. C. Wentworth, barque, for Hoklanga Heather Bell, schooner, for Newcastle Kowena, s.s., for Northern ports Derwent, brig, for Hokianga , ; y. Eagle, ketch, for New Caledonia Hercnles, schooner, for Wangaroa ' Telocidade, barque, for Newcastle1

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Tor "Wangarei and Mangapai: Clyde, schooner, to-morrow For Honolulu : Nebraska, p.s., 19th inst. For Northern ports : Rowena, s.s., Monday next For Sydney and Melbourne: Hero, s.s., about 21st instant For England : Moss Glen, barque, early For Levuka: Marion Renny, schooner, to-day For Kaipara : Tauranga, schooner, to-morrow

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Edinburgh Castle, ship, from London. Sailed. 29th December .. Parsee, ship, from London.. Sailed 12tr_ January Agra, ship, from London. Saile^ Courtess of Kintore, ship, fr; om London. Sailed "Woodlark, ship, from Lo' a( j on . Sailed Hylton Castle, baro^ from London. Sailed City of Auckland from London. Loading Hero, s s.. from Sydney Zanga, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed 17th January Thames, barejue, from New York, via Sydney. Loading -A.kbar, ship, from Boston, via Melbourne" Satellite, cutter, from Levuka Mary "Webster, schooner, from Adelaide: Sailed 21st March (for the Marrakau) Alice Cameron, barque, from Newcastle. Sailed 29th March Zior, schooner, from Lyttelton. Sailed 12th April Prince Alfred, baTque, from Adelaide Pakeha, brig, from Adelaide ' Success, srtfiooser, from Levuka Emelie, schooner, from Tahiti Energy, schooner, from the Islands Frima Donna, schooner, from Levuka ■ : . Ivanhoe, schooner, from New Caledonia Margaret Campbell, schooner, from Dunedin Tauranga, schooner, from Dunedin. Sailed 4th April Hangatira, as., from Southern ports Amateur, barque, from Adelaide Upolu, schooner, from Samoa Dauntless, schooner, from Samoa Esther, brig, from Newcastle. Sailed Both March

The schooners Tawera and Tauranga are alongside the wharf discharging cargo. The barque Velocidade and the schooner Hercules left for Newcastlethis morning. The barque Mary Millar having completed her discharge of breadstuff's is taking in ballast and will leave for Newcastle to morrow. ! The brig Wave and the barque Joliba aie discharging their cargoes of breadstuff's along side the wharf. The cargoes are being turned out in good condition; ■ The schooner yacht Jessie Niccol has hauled alongside the wharf to take in her cargo for the Fiji Islands. She will leave in course of a tide. The schooner Ruby has reported at the Customs with 57 tons coal.

COMMERCIAL.

MINING, FThe following are the current call and dividends payable in the companies named below: £ s. di

MEETINGS. Moore's Coromandel, 18th April Nolan's Candlelight, 41, Insurance Buildings, Auck land. 3p.m.. 21st April Flagship, Shortland, 22nd April Margaretta, Mr A. A. Browne's office, Wyndham street, Auckland 3 p.m., 23rd April Black Angel, Ornhamstown, 23rd April Sank of New Zealand. Bank, noon, 24th April Alburnia. Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 3 p.m. Me Plus Ultra, 41, Insuranoe Buildings, Auckland 11a.m., 28th April Otago, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, ?Bth Apiil, 2 p.m. .Long Drive, Mr Tothill's office, Auckland, 3 p.m., TthMay All Nations, Mr TothilT* office, Auckland, 2 p.m., 7th May

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Matxp wtlx Close as Under :— For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 1080 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, to morrow/at 1.30 p.m. For Wangarei Heads, Wangarei, Mangapai, Waipu, &c. to-morrow, at 1,1 a.m.-. For the undermentioned places, perp.s. Nebraska, on Saturdayfl9th inst., as under :— For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, United States of America, British' and Foreign "West Indies, and Continent of Europe via England, at 12.30 p.m. ■•- - J ■ For Money Orders, Registered Letters, and News papers, at 11 a.m. For United Kingdon, via San Francisco, at 12.30 p.m. .• ; :' ■ : j ■■;. *»* Late letters for United States of America and United Kingdom, bearing a late fee pf 6d-in addition to the postage will be received at this office Until 1 p.m. (Signed) S. B. Bis's, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

Smith.—On April 14. at her residence, Albert street, the wife ot T. H. Smith, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

Taylor— Lambent.— On Tuesday, Aprils, by the liev. W. Tiiylor, father of the bridegroom, Mr W. W. Taylor, of Kawakawa, Bay of Islands, to Miss Hannah Maria Lambert, daughter of Mr John. Lambert of Wangarei. c

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

TUESDAY, APRIL 15, 1873.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the ■n rongs that need resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do

Some days since c tinted at the benefits that fciight arise from our local pliSbn discipline being brought uncler the searching review of Mr Justice Johnston. In another column ■will be found a letter placed in our hands by a mail who, as a prisoner awaiting trial, has had experience of gaol life, but has recently been set at liberty, the charge having been declared to be a wrongful one. We make every allowance for ex asperated feelings, but in the one cir cumstance of the huddling together Of the innocent and guilty, and in the indignities to which men untried and presumed to be innocent are sub jected we have facts that cry for reform. We do Hot say to whom or to what is attributable the blame for this, for we enjoy the happy condition of exemption from responsi bility owing to the beautiful complexity of our forms of government, and the extreme facility with which every one can throw the burthen of censure over on the backs of half-a-dozen others, On the first impulse every one will ieel inclined to blame the gaoler, just the very person that, as it seems to us, should be right fully exempt from blame. In most difficult circumstances his ingenuity is tasked to make the most of his limited appliances. If he enforces severe restraint he will be regarded as tyranni cal; if impelled by dictates of humanity he affords a little latitude, and mischief occurs, he will be regarded as failing in the first duty of a gaoler —the safe custody of his wards. It is not to the gaoler but to the system, and not alone to the system, but to the political state of things that has compelled that system, we must turn for the reform of our penal discipline ; and it is probable that no province in the colony presents so clamant evidences as Auckland of the necessity for the unification of our penal machinery if penal discipline is really to result in purifying our social system. The often recommended and long promised central penal establish ment would, if realised, at once relieve the provincial gaols of their most diffi cult duties, and so enable them to deal temporarily with local crime as it arose, to keep the innocent accused from contamination, and to check, instead of promoting as at present, the " gradua tion" ofthosewho have " matriculated " in crime. More deplorable even than the escape of the guilty is the degradation of the untried and the innocent, which our present sys tem makes it impossible to avoid; and when we consider the tendency of this to break down the barriers that keep so many within the lines of respectability, and when we reflect on the influence exercised by the indis criminate herding of the convicted, in engendering and maturing criminal tendencies, the wonder is that we have not manifold greater crime than is revealed in our quarterly calendars. It cannot be but that there must be to some extent a similar absence of classification and discrimination of prisoners in the other provincial gaols of the colony, but as ours is the most beggarly treasury of all, our position, bad enough at present, must become yearly' worse; and however our wealthier neighbours may fold them selves ,in the comfortable mantle of security and indifference, the pupils of our training must even tually spread themselves over the colony in quest of new fields for criminal enterprise. It is certainly a remarkable thing that with all our boasted enterprise this one necessity ,to an efficient dealing with our crimi jnals, ,a. central penal establishment ' conducted on modern and improved : principles, should have been so long neglected. Of course it is the inheri tance of our accursed provincialism. ; Yefc we cannot but think that if the Judges of the colony gave to this sub ject the attention it deserves, and used that powerful influence which their i character, their position, and their •experience commands, this best adjunct ■to their- labours for the welfare of (Society would-be provided.

As will be seen by telegram Mr "Webb .will not go scot-free, and the Govern ment have selected Mr Thomas Jiussell jas the best to cope with Yankee craft. jWe do not hesitate to say that both ithe ; one circumstance and the other 'afford grounds for congratulation. The |" eminent shipowner" has been playing jfast and loose, and his cavalier conduct ■at the close has shut up our bowels of compassion. If he hoodwinks Mr [Russell we shall regard him as deserving of success. We feel half inclined to think that "tie threw the "glamour" over Mr Vogel, in whom perhaps energy predominates over shrewdness. He will now have it hand to hand with ;the owner of perhaps the clearest brain jn the colony.

To the JMitor : air,—•• a visitor tor .Eight I Years " has greatly mistaken my motive in I sending you a few remarks in reference to the ! Provincial Hospital, which you kindly pub- j lished in your paper of the Bth inst. I do not bear Mr Brown any personal animosity. I merely stated facts which defy contradic tion. I condemn the system carried on tkp" , which is rotten from, top to b^ A' '£ £ Visitor for Eight Years" ; ayi^ Auckland Provincial Hospit^ wi H bear a favourable comparison any similar institution in Australia. I deny it, putting aside Sydney and Melbourne. Let him visit any of the Southern provinces : there they have three of four visitors (doctors) to each place, A com mittee is appointed who visits the place monthly, examining every department, inquir ing of the.patients personally how they are in Ca i aYe- Vy'any complaint to make, 0 , xiat medical comforts they receive. xney_ are treated there like Christians, and not like irrational animals, the same as they are here. We all know that dead men cannot speak, but there are still living those who can certify to the disgraceful drama which has been too often played in the Provincial Hospital. If the unfortunate A. Chisholm had arrived in a cab with a good coat on his back, and a few coins in his pocket, he would have been received with open arms, and that would have cancelled all the instructions that ever came from the Superintendent's office. I am very much deceived if those cruel acts will not bear witness against some of them come day when their ill-gotten wealth will burn a hole in their pockets.—l am, &c, Correspondent, The first of Mr Browne's popular concerts was performed last evening in the Choral Hall in the presence of a highly respectable audience. The concert commenced with Rossini's " Cenerentola," followed by " Thou art come, sweet Spring," the reality of which can scarcely be realised in this country. The ballad was charmingly rendered by Mrs Mitchell in her chaste and finished style. Several other songs were sung by Mrs Mitchell, such as "The Ship-boy's letter," and "Happy be thy dreams." A gentleman amateur was very happy in his rendering of " Hear me, gentle Maritana," from Wallace's famous opera. The song was encored.' The pianoforte solo, "The Cascade," by a lady amateur, was magnificently rendered, and elicited warm applause. The fine stringed band of the Choral Society contributed much to the marked success of the concert. We were much pleased with the selections from Ging'l, which were extremely acceptable to the majority of persons present. The second part of the concert was fully equal to the first, and we hope for the sake of the pro jector and the music-loving portion of the people that this may be but the first of a long series of musical entertainments, as we feel sure that they will tend to the good and gratification of the community at large.

Nigger entertainments are fast becoming the order of the day, and afford amusement to thousands who take a boisterous pleasure in witnessing such performances and seek no higher minstrelsy. There is a laughter-prO voking charm in a black face, and a moving appeal to a sense of the ludicrous in the tamborine of Squire Bones, and the sharp rebuff of the veritable Mr Johnson. We cannot even discover our next door neighbour, and see him blush behind the garb and color of niggerism. Our companion in the City Hall wears a wig, and we do not recognize him rattling awciy before hundreds of open mouths and upturned faces. We can enjoy with a keen relish the moving strains of Handel, Mendelssohn, and Mozart, when we go to the Choral Hall. But there are times when we can listen to the Diamond Troupe of sable harmonists with pleasurable interest, as we did last night, on which occasion the hall was completely filled with ardent listeners. The entertainment in every respect, in point of numbers, and in point of merit, must be pronounced decidedly successful. The first part of the programme was completely rendered, and the songs and choruses loudly encored. The company, Messrs Street, Doran, Forbes, Cameron, Norman and O'Hare, did their best to deserve the plaudits that followed their songs. The " marble pedestal dance," by Messrs Cameron and Fox. was admirably executed, and the "Two Idle Boys," characterised by Mr P. Doran and Mr J. Flanagan in presence of the Traveller Mr H. Street, may be considered a perfect piece of amateur acting. The parts and songs sustained by Mr P. Doran, were ex cellent in their way, and especially good was his double song and dance, " I really shall expire," in connection with Mr O'Hare. The entertainment closed with the "Mischievous Monkey," to the gratification of all present.

An anniversary tea party will assemble this evening in the Sheridan-street Chapel, to be followed by a musical entertainment. The proceedings will be of the usual character, recitations, hymns, and selections of music. " The Bapteesment o' the Bairn " will be given among other interesting pieces.

A vocal and instrumental concert will be given this evening in the Parnell Hall for the benefit of the schools of the Sisters of Mercy. Dr Croke, Roman Catholic Bishop of Auckland, will preside.

This is a story which '' The Loafer in the Street" tells to the readers of the Canterbury Press: —"l was reminded lately that the march of civilisation is progressing favorably here by one of the saddest sells I have ever experienced. The circumstances are as fol lows :—I lent old Bags a "bob" about six months ago. He came to me the other day and paid me. He gave me a florin and J handed him a shilling change. I afterwards ascertained the florin was a bad one. I felt humbled and low for some hours. Subse quently I wenttotheboatingbazaarand passed the florin to one of the most affable young ladies I ever met in my life. She smole, ana gave me a shilling change, and though I did not wait for my chance in the raffle, I felt more contented and happy after this—l felt I had given my countenance and support to ac quatics."

A very valuable city property will be offered at auction by Mr R. Arthur on Thursday next. It consists of that large original allotment at the corner of Upper Queen-street and Karanghape Road having 150 links frontage to Queen-street and 250 links to Karagahape road. Situated at the junction of two of the most thickly thronged business streets in the city it offers an unrivalled investment to speculators. "We chronicle the cheering fact that not a single case of drunkenness was heard before the Court this morning. The reason assigned is that both people and constables went to Ellerslie races, and the trip acted beneficially upon their physical system. We have much pleasure in alluding to the prompt delivery of messages since the ap pointment of Mr Morrison as head messenger in the Telegraph Office. The recent visit of Mr Lemon has done a considerable amount of good, and when the additional wire to Wellington is completed the Telegraph de partment will be placed on a thoroughly satisfactory footing. The annuargeneral meeting of the share holders of Scotty's Hill Gold Mining Company was held yesterday, Mr Berrington in the chair. The annual report was read and adopted. The balance-sheet shewed cash in hand, £16 Is ; liabilities, £13 9s. Messrs Marsden and Chester were elected directors. The meeting then closed. i

We have been waited upon by our staff of runners, men and boys, who in the most indignant manner demand our aid to purge their fair fame from the charge of violent assault, said to have been yOrafi i{tt e d by one °Jt then Our contemporary the uaerald this morning, in speaking of the fracas at this office yesterday evening, fell into the error of saying that the assailant " John Murray is also engaged in the delivery of the Evening Star." As the assailant is a total stranger, and rushed into the domains of the ruxinera to commit the assault, the runners repudiate connection with him, and Considering themselves altogether above that style of thing are virtuously angry with our contemporary for even supposing one in their ranks capable of any infraction of the law. In order to save our contemporary from the risk of violence from the sanguinary threats indulged, and to heal the wounded feelings of the runners, we beg to say that they utterly repudiate John Murray. He was not of them, and they know him not; and they beg us to assure the public that they would not hurt a child. A correspondent asks what is the heraldic device over the facade of the office of our contemporary, the Herald, and what is it sup posed to symbolise. We have been told that it is a representation of the first ship that en tered the port of Auckland, and it is not exactly known where she was built, or how she should be classed. It will be noticed that the cordage in the rigging is unusually large, being made from the phormium tenax before the means of oleauing the fibre had been properly understood. The proportions of the stem and stern were, we are told, in tended to adapt her for lying on the shoals, before the wharf was built, the deep stern lying in mid:channel, and the shallow bow extending over the flats towards the shore. The masts were fixed in that peculiar position to facilitate a gyratory/ motion on the stern, as a pivot. The object on the right is not a, lighthouse, as supposed by our correspondent, but a sheaf of corn. It' is true it is as high as the masts of the ship, but that was intended by the artist to symbolise the paramount im portance of agriculture in the future, while its base resting among the waves illustrates how intimately production and commerce are to be blended. As a work of art, this group is rather peculiar. The members of the Naval Volunteer Corps had a very successful practice yester day at the North Head, under the direction of Lieutenant Le Roy. The range was 4,000 yards. Taking a scale of points by which a direct hit would count 36 points, and making an allowance of points according to the distance the projectile struck from the target right or left, short or over, the following was the score of yesterday's firing by the three gun companies, six shots by each gun : — No. 1. Gun. No. 2 Gun. No. 3 Gun.

The monthly meeting of the Pitt-street Wesleyan Band of Hope was held last even ing in the Pitt-street school-room. There was a very large attendance of young and old, who appeared deeply interested in the evening. The chair was occupied by Mr. Goldie, secretary of the Auckland Band of Hope Union. Addresses were delivered by Messrs Rosser, Hemus, and Mynot,. Recita tions were very ably delivered by Mr. R. Bond, Master Edson, and Miss Frude and several members of the Auckland Tonic Sol Fa Union, under the able leadership of Mr J. Bloomfield, rendered very valuable assist ance in the musical department. Altogether a very interesting and profitable meeting was brought to a close at 9 o'clock by the chair man pronouncing the benediction.

The kerosine springs alluded to in the letter of our Waiapu correspondent, pub lished yesterday, furnishes another instance of the neglect of our known resources. Seven years ago negotiations for purchasing these springs were opened up by Auckland specu ulators, but were afterwards permitted to fall through, although there was then a good prospect of a bargain with the natives being concluded. At the present time there are we believe no difficulties in the way of effecting a purchase or lease beyond the usual native tribal claims to proprietorship. So far as we can learn the existence of oil there is a well ascertained fact. A native chief of the district states that from one of the springs oil flows down into a pool, which may be ignited and will burn freely. Boring in the neighbourhood of the> spring would no doubt soon result in the oil reservoir being reached. It is a curious thing that while oil wells in America and various parts of Europe have caused as much excitement and made as splendid fortunes as goldfields, yet in New Zealand the existence of springs which promise a magnificent yield is regarded with the greasiest indifference.

A cricket match came off yesterday in the pleasant little settlement of Onehunga be tween the Onehunga and Auckland clubs. The weather was favourable, and the Auck land lads proved the victors with eight wick ets to spare. Mowiey proved the best bats man in the OnehYtnga scoring party, with the exception of Crew, who scored ten, the Onehunga lads were nowhere. The batting of Garland and Rice on the Auckland side was excellent. Messrs Yates, Mumford, and Rees, our crack players, were absent, but Cot ton and Davies were there with their dex terous bats, but they added nothing to the glory of the day. Cotton seems to have lost his old Cornish swing, and scored but one, while anxious Da vies honoured the club with an additional duck's-egg.

All Rale Macbeth ! The lovers of fun in the quiet village of Waiuku were regaled during two evening's last week by the Parr Knell Lunatic Company, consisting of Hale, Fellows, Wellmet, and several local amateurs. lln their favorite piece, "clear the streets," they were most successful, casks and cases vaulting as if by magic over fences into paddocks and cabbage gardens. A store keeper's notice-board with the announcement "grass and clover seed," glided from its . accustomed nail, and was found the morning after hanging at the lock-up. The performers are in the seed line themselves and have a large and unsaleable stock of wild oats on hand. Their "transformations" were good. During that piece it was surprising how, with a single pass of the hand, faces changed from their natural color to black, and another pass and ' • 10, 'twas white." Both nights; '' Turn ing the Hotel,out at the Windows," a roaring farce, concluded the entertainments, which were in every sense of the word free.

Three tenders were received to-day by Mr Stewart, Resident Engineer Public Works Office, for the building of certain carriages and waggons for the Waikato Railway, but the decision will not be kuowu until about Thursday, ;

Complaints have beeen made of the con* duct of a party of fellows of the " larnkm species who congregate round the entrance to the oeraetery in Symonds-street, on bun day afternoons, and annoy and insult repectable people who chance to pass by. v a police officer could be spared for one bun day to pay a visit to the spot, and should be successful in detecting one or two of these " hobble-de-hoys" in their unlawful pursuits, and would make an example of them, it might be the means of purging the city irom these pests to society. j Our Onehunga correspondent writes :—The muddle in Volunteer matters being practically over they have begun one in the Koad Board. Two of the members of the Highway Board have resigned, and there appears to be some difficulty with the chairman. The useless works about which the meeting was held a. short time ago have been finished, but not paid for ; and streets requiring repairs and fixing up are not attended to.

ANNUAL LICENSING MEETING.

The usual annual meeting for the granting i of publicans and other licenses was held at noon at the Court House, High street. There were present on the bench, Thos. Beckbam, Esq. R.M., chairman ; Messrs. P. A. Philips, (Mayor), A. Young, H. H. Turton, .T. Cheese man, J. May, Dr. Home, and Dr. Nicholson. The Inspector of Police attended to watch the proceedings. ! Mr. Beveridge attended to support the ap plications on behalf of the Lioensed Vio- i tuallers' Society. ' The following licenses were granted unop posed : — Henry Nathaniel Abbott, City Club hotel. ; Shortland-street. To close at twelve o clock, j John Adams, Crown hotel, Grey-street. Twelve o'clock. i William Adams, Queen's Head hotel, Queen-street. Twelve o'clock. George Akers, Red Lion hotel, Drake and Hardinge-streets. Ten o'clock. George Augustus Avey, MasoDic hotel, Princes-street. Twelve o'clock. Alexandar Barr, Globe hotel, Wakefield ; arid Mount-streets. Twelve o'clock. Joseph Boulter, Auckland hotel, Queen and High-streets. Twelve o'clock. (Great improvement in the house under the present management.) J. Clayton Brown, Albion Inn, Hobson ana Wellesley-streets. Twelve o'clock. Mary Brown, Masonic Hotel, North Shore. Ten o'clock. . Charles Burton, Victoria hotel, Victoria street. Twelve o'clock. Grace Chapman, Prince of Wales hotel, Hobson-street. Ten o'clock. William Amos Clarke, Cottage of Content, Victoria-street. Twelve o'clock. James David Clark, Prince Arthur hotel, Hobson and Wellesley-streets. Ten o'clock. Henry Clark. Duke of Marlboreugh hotel, Queen and High-streets. Twelve o'clock. Malcolm Clow, Carpenters' Arms, Grey. street. Ten o'clock. James J. Conway, Crown hotel, West Queen-street. Ten o'clock. Michael Corcoran, Greyhound hotel, Queen and Victoria-streets. Twelve o'clock. John Copland, Thames hotel, Queen and Custom-house-streets. Twelve o'clock. Andrew Cunningham, Newmarket hotel, Newmarket. Ten o'clock. John Darby, Commercial hotel, Shorfcland and High-streets. Twelve o'clock. Patrick Darby, Thistle hotel, Queen-street. Twelve o'clock. George Davies, Bricklayers' Arms, Chapel street. Twelve o'clock. Michael Dervan, Nevada hotel, Queen street. Twelve o'clock. Michael Dinnin, Army and Nary hotel, Upper Queen-street. Ten o'clock. William Drew, Flagstaff hotel, North Shore. Ten o'clock. David Dunningham, Governor Browne hotel, Hobson-street. Twelve o'clock, William Edgecombe, Northern hotel, Great North road. (Application to reduce license fee to £20 refused.) Charles Burgess Edwards, Waitemata hotel, Queen and Custom-house streets. Twelve o'clock. Samuel Evinson, New Caledonia hotel, Symonds-street and Karungahape road. Twelve o'clock. Andrew Fernandez, Railway Terminus hotel, Jermyn and Short-streets. Twelve i o'clock. Robert Gallagher, Shakespeare hotel, Wyndham street. Ten o'clock. Patrick 'James Gleeson, Aurora tavern, Chapel and Victoria street. Twelve o'clock. I Patrick Gorman, Alexandra hotel, Parnell. j Twelve o'clock. Albert Griffiths, Royal Mail hotel, Vic toria and Elliott streets. Twelve o'clock. John Guilding, Custom-house hotel, Short land and Fort-streets. Ten o'clock. i Richard Gwynne, Junction hotel, Epsom and Otahuhu roads. Ten o'clock. Philip Henry Hackett, Market hotel, Grey and Cook-streets. Twelve o'clock. William Hale, Exchange hotel, Parnell. \ Ten o'clock. Charles Hameyer, Star hotel, Karangahape Road. Twelve o'clock. William Hamley, Wynyard hotel, Aber crombie-street. Ten o'clock. John Hancock, United Service hotel, Queen and Wellesley-streets. Twelve o'clock. (The 1 Inspector's report described the house as the cleanest and best conducted hotel in the town, and a model to the rest of the hotels ■ in the oity.) John Higgins, Wellington hotel, Welling ton-street. Twelve o'clock. •

Edward Swanston Hill, Scotia hotel, Hobson-street. Twelve o'clock.

Emanuel Holloway, Suffolk hotel, College road. Ten o'clock. . . •

James Jackman, Sailors' Home, Custom house-street. Ten o'clock.

Samuel Jaggar, Freeman's hotel, Drake - street. Twelve o'clock.

i Thomas Johnson, Windsor Castle hotel, Parnell. Ten o'clock.

j John H. Jouning, Newton hotel, Newton and Karangahape road. Twelve o'clock. John Kan«i Hob Roy hotel, Drake-street. Ten o'clock.

Henry Keane, Captain Cook hotel, Kyber Pass road. Twelve o'clock.

Richard Kelly, Empire hotel, Nelson and Drake-streets. Twelve o'clock.

Thomas D. Leslie, Old House atf Home, Hobson and Victoria-streets. Twelve, o'clock.

Michael Lynch, Clanricarde hotel, Wynd ham and Albert-streets. Twelve o'clock.

Thomas Macready, Star hotel, Albert street. Twelve o'clock. Francis McMahon, Nottingham Castle hotel, Abercrombie-street. Ten o'clock. [ Dennis Markham, Naval hotel, Karanga hape road and Pitt-street. Twelve o'clock. Bedelia Marsh, Royal hotel, Eden Crescent. Twelve o'clock. George Miller, Robert Burns hotel, Union street. Ten o'clock. ... W. B. Montgomery, Swan hotel, Strand. Ten o'clock. E. W. Morrison, Q.C.E., Shortland-street. Twelve o'clock. , . , John Nicholson, Black Bull hotel, Albert street. Ten o'clock. William Oliver, Queen's hotel, Karangahape road. Ten o'clock. - Maurice O'Sullivan, Exchange hotel, Queen and Durham-streets. Twelve p'plock.

Daniel Page, Criterion hotel, Hobaon »nd which was granted.) Ten o clock •wiiii'om Parker British hotel, JNorwx aS^ lha¥en P oa'So e ck. . Applicant cautioned James Patterson, F^oy hote , Wakefaeld and Lyndoch-streets. Twelve o«>ook. Edward Perkins, Occidental hotel, Vulcan J^?tß££%^ Castle, Sy monds-street. Twelve o'olook. James Poppleton, Eden Vine hotel Mount Eden and New North road .Ten o, look John Robertson, Queen's Ferry Hotel, VSSiTBo£S^W S^adron °'W? kLecister Rogers, Eagle Inn, Albert and Durham-streets. Twelve o'clock. , Joseph Rose, Queen's hotel, Symonds street and Kyber Pass road. Twe ye o'clock^ Ellen Byrie. Metropolitan hotel, »^ueen and Fort-streets.. Twelve ofclock. ■ -> John Sceats, British hotel, Queen and Durham-streets. Twelve o'clock Michael Sheehy, Alexandra hotel, Chapel and Durham-streets. Ten o clock. j George Smith, York hotel, East Queen streets, Newton. Twelve o'clock, H. W. Stebbing, Coach aad Horses hotel, Quoen-street. Twelve o'clock. James Stewart, Provincial hotel, Princes street. Twelve o'clock. -■ James Sullivan, Victoria hotel, West. Queen-street. Twelve o'clock. Maria Sullivan, Paoific hotel, Queen-street. Twelve o'clock. ' Edward Thornton, Royal George hotel, Newmarket. Twelve o'clock. ' Louisa Wadham, Coachmakers' Arms, Albert and Wellesley-streets. Ten o'clock. Frederick Wallis, Charlemont hotel, Wake field-street. Twelve o'olook. Frederick Williams, Anohor hotel, Queen street and Market Place. Twelve o'clock. Samuel Young, Waverley hotel, Queen - Btreet. Twelve o'clock. APPLICATIONS tfOR NEW LICENSES. William Bacon, Oddfellows' Arms, Chan cery-street. .. Mr W. L. Rees supported the application, and handed in a memorial, signed by 382 inhabitants of the district, out of 562 .is representing two-thirds of the names con tained in the Electoral Roll. He explained that it was impossible to obtain the necessary majority of signatures of persons qualified on the Electoral Roll in consequence of a number being dead, a good many absent, and several not qualified to sign as being licensed victuallers themselves. The Bench said that the argument did not apply, as the Licensing Act required two thirds of the resident population to sign. Mr Rees replied that these had been ob tained as far as the male population was con-

cerned.

The Bench replied that both, male and female were necessary. The Chairman thought that Chaacery street had a taint about it.

Mr Rees replied that no single licensed house was situated in. the nine streets abutting it. He urged that during nearly twenty years the applicant had formerly held a license, although in a questionable neigh bourhood, only two complaints had been made against him, namely, for allowing his light to go out and for supplying on one occa sion liquor after hours. The application was opposed by the In spector of Police. The application was refused by the Bench. Edward Barry, Takapuna hotel, Shoal Bay. Refused. Henry Beedell, Ferry hotel, Stokes' Point, North Shore.

Mr Mackenzie supported the application, and submitted the plans of the building for the inspection of the Bench. The Chairman on looking at the front elevation suggested that the house should be called the •'Fairy" hotel, instead of the Ferry hotel. The Inspector of Police recommended the granting of the license. The Bench stated that they had no power to grant the certificate, as the Act required that the Inspector must report the house to have sufficient accommodation, whereas, in this instance, the house was not yet built. Mr Beveridge suggested that the matter be adjourned. The Chairman stated that he should do his utmost to oppose any adjournment. He had seen how pernicious the adjournment had been last year, and he should strongly endeavour to influence his brother magis trates not to grant any adjournment this time.

'' Mr Beveridge supported his suit by argu ment, and suggested that the certificate be granted conditionally that Mr Broham report the house when finished has sufficient ac commodation.

After some discussion the license was granted conditionally to Mr Broham's report being favourable on the completion of the house. . . • .

Charles Dundass, United States hotel, Queen-street.

Mr Hesketh appeared for the applicant, and stated that the house was now used as a restaurant, and well adapted for an hotel. Mr Beveridge and Mr W. H. Kissling opposed on behalf of licensed victuallers in the neighbourhood. The Inspector also op posed. . Mr Hesketh objected to the two learned, i gentlemen opposing as they had no locus standi, not having given notice of opposition. ; The application was refused. Samuel Furley, Sportman's Arms, 1 Waitakere West.

Mr Beveridge supported the application, I which the Inspector opposed. This house had formerly been licensed, but the applicant failed last year to pay the license fee, consequently the license lapsed, and the house was shut up. j The license was not granted. Henry Grattan, Farmer's hotel, Queen street.

Mr W. H. Kissling supported the applica tion, and Mr Beveridge opposed on behalf of nighbouring publicans. The Inspector also opposed the license being granted as unnecessary. The application was refused. Peter McArthur, Mechanics' House of Call, Chancery-street. The applicant urged in support of his application that he had laid out £250 on the property.

The Inspector opposed the application, and it was unaminously refused. John McLtod, McLeod's hotel, Hender son's Mill. .

Mr Beveridge appeared for the applicant, and produced a numerously and influentially signed memorial. The Chairman asked if Mr John Lamb had signed it. Mr Beveridge replied that if His Worship ; was to ask whether Mr Lamb had taken a j dose of arsenic he should not have been more I surprised. j His Worship remarked that he asked the

question in all sincerity. He was not I aware of the geography of the place. The Inspector did not oppose the applica , lion, which was entertained by the Bench,

The license fee was was fixed at twenty pounds per annum. William Matthew Moyle, Wharf Dining Rooms hotel, Queen-street.- ■-• —■ Mr Hesketh supported this application, and stated that the house was largely used as a, dining room and lodging houses, and from its locality on the east side of Queen-street a license to it was absolutely necessary. Mr Kissling rose to oppose, but the Bench thought that due notice of opposition in suoh cases should be given. ,TKe JBench, however, refused the application. William Stevenson; "-Bridge Inn, Lucaa' Creek...„■,:.. • ■;■ ■".,'.'■ VO / The Inspector supported. the application, which was granted, the license fee being fixed at £10 per annum. : ■-[ OPPOSED APPLICATIONS "JOT,, RENEWALS LICENSES. Philip Callan, Traveller's Rest, North Shore. The renewal of license was not granted. James Jahnstone, Waikomiti hotel, Wai komiti. '■' ,-, Mr W. L. Rees appeared for the applicant. The Inspector opposed on the grounds that the house was not in a good condition ; also that the applicant, had been ppnvictedof drunkenness. •■■ . , , Mr Rees urged that that was not.a breach of the Licensing Act.' , . The Bench showed that the 63rd clause of the Licensing Act provided for this, and a, man convicted three times of drunkenness was not eligible for a publican's license. The license -was not granted. „ >. Henry Peckham, Foresters' Arms, Albert street. , The Inspector opposed in this case on the ground that the house was in a delapidatea condition, and the drainage defective. ' Mr Beveridge on behalf of the application, stated that his client was in a bad state of health; and unable t(> appear. ,^ The license was granted' on condition that certain alterations be made i 6 tW houae by the 16th June next. "# " 'z% V& WHOLESALE LIOENSEKt, ':■ The following wholesale .'koeiHKa^were granted :— -■ " ~ ■,' , ' «>aa Brown & Campbell, Shortland-street, , Bucholz & Co., Fort-street. Combes & Daldy, Queen^wee*-,^ *>' !?* Cruickshank Sraart HigU-street. Lewis Bros. Qiieeri-street. r , ~, f -J. 3. Macfarlanej Queen-street; ;;; Richard Moore, Queen-street. .r : -,;.-. '"■■ John Morrin, Queen r street. sUiw : ". Must!& Co., Shortland-street. Henry Meyers, Queen-street. _ L. D. Nathan, Shortland-street. James Oldham, Highystt'eet. * ;.£* m> Owen'and Graham. Queenrßtreet. <&£: Ryan and Bell, Vulcan Lane. - ' : . John Roberton, Durham-street. " Robert Hale, Parnell. BPvEWEKS' LICENSES. The following brewers' licenses -, were granted :— Henry Bedell, New North load,. :*M oq"1 Edwin Hooper &r Co., Wellesley-street. Thomas Hancock, Kyber Pass roa<i.. ~ r ,. R. Seccombe& Sons, Kyber Pass • road." , R. Whitson & Co., Queen-street. !i ! • DISTILLERY LICENSES. ', W. J. Cawkwell, High-street and Vulcan Lane, was granted a distiller's license, '.

HOW PERSONS AWAITING TRIAL ARE TREATED.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Sib, —I confidently claim the exercise^of-ybur vigorous pen in exposing the> treatment to which those in Mount Eden.,- waiting trial are subjected, said, by what is received as an axiom, to be presumedly innocent until proved guilty. I shall endeavour to show you as succinctly as possible that they are in every way worse off than those expiating crimes, and that a course is taken with them suc cessfully, if not actually,: jdesigmjd to render them unfit physically and mentally to Help themselves in their precarious position, and also to prevent their using the interposition of their friends. After vigorous search, even to nakedness, the prisoner takes his place indis criminately amongst those in the same, posi tion for crimes of every hue. If renewing his visits he is congratulated ; if new to the position he is peacefully allowed to come round before he receives his first lesson |n necessary gaol-birdism. An efficient arrange ment is made for the facility of indoctrination by the herding as above without the presence of any one in authority during six hours each day, and pigging together fivein a cell during the remainder of the twenty-four j which in prison is caUed night. No one who has not experienced it can imagine the blasphemy ( and obscenity loud and rampant. The out spoken boasting of the nastiest minutiae of human crimes, which are the constant and sole source of recreation to the most culpable, and invariably the most noisy and persistent. The routine of each day is this ; : you can judge for yourself of its effect on the | mind and health of those accustomed to out -1 door occupation or healthy exercises, with ■ regular diet, &c. : — Up at eight o'clock, '. breakfast consisting of a pint of water-gruel, flavoured with what must be a mixture of ; black pitch and the sweepings of sugar bags, and half-a-pound of bread at half-past eight Ito nine o'clock. Dinner—dragged and torn, ias one best can .with hands j anjJ teeth,! no ;! knife "and fort being allowed, —consisting'-of- under three and a-half ounces, most inferior both as to position and quality, of beef, shins land hocks ; varied on Monday by the cast-off f at.portionsjof unsaleable mutton of Saturday; I four ounces bread, one- pound potatoes, iand one pint of stuff called soup, at i half -past ten o'clock aim. Sapper, same as }breakfas,t, at, <half-past -two o'clock p^ni. I make ho reference to the thing called tea i supplied to those whq. provide it £or theiß . own use, as that involves a' more personal ;and,seri6us charge,: the subject will, be -re sumed with others. 1 have never seen or ; heard of the doctor or-governor inspecting the quality or quantity of the food, though as tp the former amply sufficient room exists for the prevention of dyspepsia, indigestion, : headache, and lassitude, ana the latter might ; easily hop to some curious conclusions as to jthe destination of such" of the supplies and | their mode of particulars will ahwy , be forthcoming if a remedy is . sought.. ft 5 ' the interval of so-called recreation all innTP - \ cent amusements are studiously forbidden, no literary, no enticing exercise, monotonous tramping.up and, down on rough scoria, or the recourse of chewing the cud of bitter thought, or assisting at the scenes, hinted at i above. The visit of a friend is much more conducive to.punishment than use or relief. He can be seen only through a six-inch hole closely barred, and side J by side with a turnkey whose duty it is to take notice of ■alluttered, and use it if necessary in evidence. ! A prisoner's mouth is shut either in his ! private affairs or those relating to his case. 'Eighteen hours thus spent, locked up in a cell, .10 x 14, with five occupants, badly ventilated, pacing up and down, lounging on blankets reeking with exuviae, because kept packed ..tight for nicety of appearance, with an accumulation of abominations to all the senses. Try to realize the effects., of weeks of such treatment, of which the above uj a faint and hurried picture, on a person|whpse mind is necessarily tortured, and feel with j him the disgraceful exposure of being marched handcuffed through a public throughfare for* ;j a mile or two, thrust into stone den 10 xls^. .1 wijft se yen or eight others y th? cell 4».rfeene<f,

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