SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening, 7.0 SUN -RISE: To morrow morning, J>.Bo FITGH WATER : This afternoon, 8.58 ; to-morrow morning, O.IC.

Forest Queen, ketch, Dam, from Rxissell ARRIVALS Warwick, ship, Skinner, from London Rowena, s s., McGregor, from Southern ports Southern Cross, s.s., Sellars, from Tauranga Challenger, p.s., Edwards, from Wangarei Taranaki, s.s., Wheeler, from Southern ports Lily, s.s., from Mahurangi

DEPARTURES.

Charybdis, schooner, for RusseU Clematis, ketch, for East Coast Lilly, s.s., 4 ior Mahurangi

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Southern ports, via Napier : Paterson. p.s., early For Norfolk Island: Ivanhoe, schooner, early For Napier: Esther, schooner, to-day For Honolulu and San Francisco: Nebraska, mail

steamer, 20th inst. For Boston, Mass. : Ayr, barque, early For Cork : Polar Star, ship, early Foi Northern ports: Bowena, s.s., this afternoon For London: Glenhuntly, barque, early For Sydney and Melbourne: Wonga Wonga, s.s., early ; Hero, s.s., about 28th inst.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Durham, ship, from London. SaUed 29th November Edinburgh Castle, ship, from London. Loading Parsee, ship, from London. Loading Langa, barque, from Liverpool. Loading East Lothian, barque, from New York. Sailed 20th December Thames, barque, from New York, via Sydney, loading Briton, barque, from Newcastle Sea Gull, schooner, from Levuka Southern Cross, schooner, from Sydney Prosperity, schooner, from Melbourne Rita, brig, from Sydney. Sailed 29th Jatmry ; Wonga Wonga, s.s., from Sydney . Harriet Armytage, barque, from Dunedin Paterson, p.s., from Sydney Success, schooner, from Levuka Albion, brig, from Newcastle Nile, barque, from Adelaide Coronet, brigantine, from Wellington

IMPORTS.

Per ship Warwick :—lO cases, R. Cooley ; 27 pgs., Kempthorne, Prosser and Co.; 2 do, G. W. Jones ; 3 do, R. C. Cyrus ; 5 do, Upton and Co. ; 50 casks, J. S. Macfarlane and Co. ; 6 pgs., T. Hood; 8 cases, E. Wayte; 25 go.-casks, Must and Co,; 51 pgs., Brown, Campbell and Co. ; 1 case, A. Dornwell; 1 do, F. D. Fenton; 1 do, J. C Hoyte ; 51 cases, Brown, Campbell and Co. ; 3 pgs., C. Shepherd and Co.; 81 do, J. Thomas ; 4 casks, W. J. CawkweU ; 3 cases, J. Rout; 100 cases, "5 casks, Cruickshank and Co. ; ldo, F. Pierce ; 1 do, D. Gardiner ; 3 do, Ttirrell.; 4 pgs., W. Wilson and Co. ; 8 cases, Upton and Co. ; 1 case, 14 trunks, Brown, Campbell and Co. ; 1 case, Jackson and RusseU ; 3 db, W. Phillips and Co. ; 1 do, R. Parker ; 1 do, M. Edmond; 1 do, C. Tothill; 1 do, T. Peacock ; 1 do, T. Marsh ; 1 do, C. M. Taylor ; 2 do, Moss Levy; 1 do, J. Edson; 2 cases, R. Walker; 151 pgs, Brown Camp bell and Co,; 12 cases, 3 bales, 27 pgs, E. and H. Isaacs ; 348 pgs, 10 cases, Cruickshank and Co. ; 337 pgs, Phillips & Son; 1053 do, T. and S. Morrin ;65 do, Must and Co. ; 20 do, H. Fendelow; 12 cases, W. Rattray ; 37 pgs, R. Lusk ; lease, J. A. Barber ;11 do, C. F. Wood ; 79j)gs, J. S. Macfarlane ; 62 do, J. Cosgrave and Cj>. ; 23 do, Ireland and Bros. ; 56 do, 2000 rail joints, Min ister of Public Works ; 190 do, Henderson and Macfarlane, 482 pgs and pieces, E Porter and Co.; 21 cases, 15 bales, Winks and Hall; 2 do, Kempthorne, Prosser and Co. ; 274 pgs:, Stone Bros. ; 221 pgs, 8 kegs, L. D. Nathan and Co. ; 109 pgs, J. and J. Dickey ; ,14 cases, 7 pgs, A. Clark and Sons; 15 do, T. Short; 1 case, S. and J. R: Vaile ; 120 pgs, Sargood, Son, and Ewen ; 4 do, J. S. Macfarlane and Co. ; 1 box, Brogden and Son ; 1 do, L. Rye ; 1 do, R. S. Ledger ; 96 pgs, Lewis Bros. ; 3 cases, T. Pennell ; 1 do, Wiley; 5 pgs, 1 screw, L. D. Nathan and Co. ; 1 case, W. Jones ; 8 pgs, J. Edson ; 3 do, S. H. Burmingham ; 1 case, A. Smith ; 4 cases, Ireland Bros. ; 26 tanks, 8 life-belts, Brown, Campbell and Co.; 4 bales, Wilkinson and Horton, Thames Advertiser ; 20 cases, F. Winter; 17 trunks, 111 pgs,McArthur, Shera and Co.; 1 case, W. J. Pond; 4cases, J. Gree thatn; 6 do, Couldrey ; 8 do, Lewis ; 1 case, J. Watson ; 5 pgs, Watt Bros.J; 63 do, A. Clark and Sons; 39 casks, 2,794 pgs, 395 cases, 400 boxes, 22 bales, 15 bdls, 15 crates, order. For Napier : 1 cask, C. A. Brown ; 2 bales, W. Couper ; 13 pgs, J. Chambers ; 43 do, H. R. Russell; 1 case, Capt. Russell ; 2000 rail joints, 1412 pgs, 560 rails, Minister of Public Works ; 2 casks, 18 pgs, order ; 31 do, Stuart and Co. For New Plymouth : 3 pgs, J. Dumbell j I bdl, E. Hapkinson. To be delivered in London : 1 distiller, 1 hearth, Shaw, Sayille and Co.—Brown, Campbell and Co., agents.

ARRIVAL OF THE SHIP WARWICK, FROM LONDON.

The fine large iron-built ship Warwick, Captain J. Skinner, arrived in harbour this afternoon from London, after agood passage of 96 days. The vessel is of 1005 tons register and about 2000 tons burthen, and is in every respect a fine vess el. She is eight years old, is built of iron, and contains two decks, the lower one on this occasion being occupied by Government immigrants. The Warwick belongs to Messrs Teruperley and Co.'s fleet, and is classed AAI at Lloyd's. She comes consigned to Messrs Brown, Campbell and Co., and brings a valuable cargo of merchandize, particulars of which will be found under the head of imports. The Warwick left London on the 31st October, and the Downs on the 4th Novem ber. She experienced fine weather through out the passage. During the passage one Of the intermediate passengers and the second steward died. Two births occurred on the voyage. OnFriday last thevessel encountered the full force of the N.E. gale off the Coast. She anchored a mile and a-half inside of Tiri Tiri yesterday, and came up harbour to-day, arriving off the North Head shortly before we went to press. The Health Officer proceeded down to the ship early in the day for the purpose of inspecting the passengers. Captain Skinner is an old ' friend, having been in Auckland with the Warwick about seven years ago. The following are her saloon passengers ,:— Mr Fairburne and family, Rev. — Carr, Rev. . Bond, Miss Joel, Miss Noble, Rev. Mr and Mrs Rook, Messrs White, Mather, Payne, Simmonds, English, Mrs Lewis and family. The Warwick also brings 163 Go vernment immigrants, of which the following Is a list : —Married : Edmond and Annie Connell and three children, John and Ellen Condron and two children, William and Martha Athol, Edward and Margaret Shan non, George and Fanny Howell, William and Grace Dunstone and 2 children, James and Bridget Beal and three children, Jonathan and Agnes Greetham and one child, William and Elizabeth Clegg, James and Sarah Birt led, Thomas Henry and Margaret Elliott and three children, E. J. and Frances Kirk, William and Harriet Hatfield, Robert and Jacob Davis and two children, William and Mary Harknett, Thomas Joseph and Sarah Ann Smith, Charles and Anne Whiting and three children, Thomas and Charlotte Mc- Loughlin, William and Mary Taylor and one child, Richard and Jane Cantell and three children, Thomas and Sarah Rowe and two children, Charles and Ellen Harding and one ichild, Joseph apd Elizabeth Glanville and , four children, James and Caroline Taylor aiid '

I>ne child Charles R. and Margaret Costar and one child, Robert and Sophia Couldrey and one child, John and Jane Lee and five children—92. Single men : Thomas Elliott, Harry Jones, Jolm Gibson, George White, : James William Wood, Stephen Burgess, Charles Bradford, Hugh Johnstone, David Anderson, John and Charles Williams, John Treddinnick, John Grogan, Henry Clinker, George Balme, John Egan, John Taylor, William and James McCallum, Thomas Johnstone—22. Women :—Elizabeth and Charlotte Elliott, Sarah Newman, Ann Lough - lin, Mary Donnelly, Anne Delaney, Louisa McKee, Ann, Jane and Sarah Hall, Mary A. Gordon, Philippa Cook, Ellen Otway, Julia M. Bedford, Eliza, Elizabeth, Flora, Mary and Eva Jackson, Sara A. Howes, R. J. Foskett, Lucy McNeal, Elizabeth Allen, Ellen Blackburn, Mary A. Lloyd, Ann Galbraith, Elizabeth Hall, Elizabeth Walker, Elizabeth Cox, Caroline and Kate Taylor, Susan and Elizabeth Pennal, Jane Cunningham and child, Mary Ann Johnson, Jane James, Elizabeth Hart, Mary, Grace, Emma Nasefield, and three children, Christina Hendry and two children, Mary and Jane Lynch, Elizabeth Field, Sarah Rowe, Elizabeth A. Glanville, 51. Total, 163.

The s.s. Southern Cross arrived on Saturday evening from Tauranga. Her list of passengers has already been published. The ketch Clematis left on Saturday even ing for the East Coast. The p. s. Challenger arrived yesterday morning from Wangarei with several pas. sengers and a oargo of settlers' produce. The s.s. Rowena arrived in harbour on Saturday night from the North. She reports that the gale was severely felt in that quarter, but no serious damage has been done to the shipping. From Napier we learn that the Star of the South has been laying in the roadstead since her arrival, and owing to the gale has been unable to communicate with the shore.

Our Napier telegram states that during the heavy N.E. gale the ketoh Mary Ann Hudson parted her anchor and went ashore. She was laden with wool.

We learn by telegram from the Bluff that the s.s. Wonga Wonga left Melbourne for Auckland, via Sydney, on the 29th January. The s.s. Lily left yesterday morning for Mahurangi and the Hot Springs. The p.s. Challenger will leave the wharf at six o'clock this evening for Wangarei and Mangapai. The s.s. Taranaki arrived in the Manukau at eight o'clock yesterday morning from the Southern ports with the following passengers: Saloon—Messrs Aldrich, Maxwell, Wallace, Binney, Bead, Morpeth, Benzoni, Bell, Chambers, Buddie, Manners, Binnie, Shaw, Young, Humphries, Sampson, Weston ; Misses Williams, Temple ; Mesdames Cham bers, Buddie, Sampson, Adnam, Bland, Petrei, and Badley ; and 15 in the steerage.

The barque Glenhuntly is filling up with cargo for Loudon. She will be unable to take passengers as her saloon will be occupied with cargo

The s.s. Taranaki is announced to leave the Manukau for Southern ports on Saturday next.

The s.s. Rowena reported at the Customs this morning for Port Russell, with 5 tons flax, 4 ditto gum, and 30 cases fruit. Her passengers were 30 in number. The ship Polar Star will have completed her loading by to-morrow or Wednesday, and will leave in course of a few days for Cork. She has not yet succeeded in obtain ing her full complement of crew. The ship Harvest Home, Capt. Hill, has since her stay in port been thoroughly over hauled, and presents a smart appearance. She offers good accommodation to home ward-bound passengers.

The schooner Charybdis has left for Russell. The ketch Forest Queen arrived this after noon from Russell with coal.

COMMERCIAL.

MINING. The following are the current calls and dividends payable In the companies named below :—

MEETINGS. New Golden Pa, MrR. Home's office, Shortland street, Auckland, noon 12th February Bonshaw, Mr Baber's office, Insurance Buildings, Auckland; 2 p.m., 13th lebruary Coromandel Excelsior. Mr Browne's office, Wyndham street, 13th February Masonic, Coromandel, 15tb February Shotover, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 2 p. m. 17th February Coromandel Tunnel, Mr Tothill's office, Auckland, 10 a.m., 18th February Bismarck and French Republic, Insurance Buildings Auckland, 2 p.m., 21st Febraary Tokatea, Coromandel, 21st February Watchman, Grahamstown, 21st February Central Italy, Grahamstown, 27th February

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as Unuer :— For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m.; and to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Kapanga, on Wednesday, 12th inst., at 2.30 p.m. For the undermentioned places, per s.s. Nebraska, on Thursday, 20th 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. For United Kingdon via San Francisco, at 12.30 p.m. Late letters for the United States of America and United Kingdom, bearing a late fee of Od in addition to the postage will be received at this oflice until 1 p.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up to time of sailing. (Signed) S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

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

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 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

That any transaction of the authorities with the natives should be carried out with strict correctness is not to be ex pected, nor do we grumble when a little of the profits stick to the fingers of the transactors. ButthecaseoftheHikutaia , township is one that really exceeds all 1 bounds of decency, and we should be neglecting our duty if we failed to speak of it in plain and intelligible terms. Mr James Mackay was appointed to nego tiate in this rather delicate transaction; and as it is very well known that grave political questions aro involved in any approach towards that land of dread mystery—Ohinemuri,—it would have been pregnant with danger had any publicity or any ex ternal influence been allowed to intrude into the more than Eleusinian mysteries of negotiations with the natives. In such circumstances we could only reverently standafar off with our shoes under our arm, and then when the work is done we can but wonder and admire the result. In this case the result has been the purchase of the two great blocks of country in their entirety, except—and here comes the rub —except one little piece of 1,200 acres lying along the river bank most admirably adapted for the river-port, and township of the district. Whether it was that somebody's great grandfather's bones had been buried there, or the natives had grown pump kins there, or by some process of dia blerie it had been otherwise made tapu, but so it is that by some reverend and infrangible rule, to question which would be treason, this township site could not be alienated but only leased, and that not to the Government for the people, but to a few dodgers for themselves. To this we can not and we do not object. Native affairs are to us invested with awe, and the danger of involving the natve office in hostilities with Mary Kuru are sufficient to make the strongest heart quail . But by what mystery of native legendary lore, or what trick of political legerdemain this parti cular portion of river frontage should be selected now by the autho rities as the only suitable site for the township, this is one of those things that pass all understanding. It is now advertised for lease as building sites in the name of a Mr Roe, a surveyor, who is understood to be but an agent, or perhaps a partner in the busi ness. We do not hesitate to characterise this job as one of the most rascally that has come under the public notice in connection with our public transactions with the natives, and it is one that ought and must be searched to the very bottom.

The February number of the JPresli/terian News was published to-day, and contains the usual amount of interesting reading matter. Amongst the contents are articles on the recent meeting of the General Assembly of the Church at Christchurch, Historical Sketch of Presbyterianism No. 6, News of the Churches, and a great variety of well - selected extract readings. The mechanical part of the work is well executed, and the number altogether reflects credit upon Auckland. We are glad to learn that the circulation of the News through the Southern provinces is increasing, and the Editor's endeavour to make it a journal not for this province only, but for the whole colony, is likely to meet with considerable uccess.

The firing of the Thames Scottish Volun teers in the first set for the champion belt, competed for annually, took place on Satur day, The firing was at 200 yards, 500 yards, 600 yards. The highest scores were : Little ohn, 59 ; Murray, 57 ; McLean, 56. The .econd stage will be fired on Saturday next.

We observe that our two morning contem- } poraries have been laid under contribution by the disappointed intriguers ih the matter of the North Shore school meeting. The Cross has lent itself so far as to come out with a leader on what it knows nothing about, or rather it has permitted the inser tion of an article from without from a pen that knows very well what it is about; That journal says- that "A strong feeling existß l among the householders of the education (sic) district of Devoiipctft, North Shore, respecting the appointment of the local com mittee of management for that district." On the contrary there is general and extreme satisfaction that Mr Oliver Mays has been outwitted, and that the reign of dodging in school affairs in that district has been cut short. The fact is, it became known that a well-organised plan had been formed for the election of a school committee consisting of Mr Oliver Mays and his creatures, and that the first line in the pro gramme was to be the removal of Mr Worthington, the teacher, than whom there is certainly not in the province a more thoroughly trained and efficient teachet. For many months past disgust was caused among parents of the district by the persistent efforts of the then committee to get rid of the teacher, who, being'an educated man,[felt un able to toady to a committee, the majority of which to say the least were not in all respects suited for guiding the educational machinery of the district. In order to effect this pur pose a secret canvass had been made, and a packed meeting was intended. Shortly before the hour announced for the meeting this state of things became known to some residents who felt indignant at this con temptible attempt to prostitute the cause of education to ends of private spleen and per sonal aggrandisement. They accordingly attended at the gazetted and advertised hour—seven o'clock, resolved to resist the attempt, waited for some time, and a dozen or so being present, the meeting proceeded to business. A very suitable list of names was proposed and duly elected, and the meeting was closed in proper order. Three quarters of an hour after the proper time —as we are informed by those present, who are prepared to substantiate the fact on oath—the second meeting commenced, and five other names were selected, this meeting being held in assumed ignorance of the previous one. The Cross delivers a homily as to the duty of taking care " that no cause of dis sension traceable to the administration of the Act should arise." This is exactly what has been done. Had the orignal intrigue been successful an excellent teacher would have been sacrificed through the power conferred by the Act, and petty spite would have carried the day against the earnest wishes of the great body of parents. The committee elect has the power of appointing the new teacher, and had the intrieue gone right, it is pretty well known what would have occurred. The first meeting was held and conducted strictly according to law. The hour, as fixed by the Gazette and advertised in the Star of that and the previous day, and in the Herald and Cross of that morning, had passed. Mr Oliver Mays, who was pulling the strings of the intriguers, had himself received a Gazette at the office of the Board of Education, and, as we learn, had himself originally got seven fixed as the hour, and if he blundered by three-quarters of an hour it only shows how the smartest men may be caught in their own nets. Our contemporary the Cress counsels " action with aviewto up set all the proceedings of Friday, to obtain the nullification of the elections, and hold another meeting." Will our contemporary inform us how ? Through the Board of Education S The Board itself must keep the law. Through the Supreme Court ? Sir George Arney but interprets the law. Through the Provincial Council ? Well, yes ; and our contemporary should urge a special meeting to amend the Education Act, so as to enable it to be made an engine of oppression. We would recom mend our contemporary, instead of talking nonsense, to simply read the Education Act, of which he can get a copy by applying to the Provincial authorities or the Board of Education. As for the people of Devonport ' meeting to be "indignant" the wish of the Cross's informant is father to the thought. So far from being indignant the people are both amused and pleased. Sharp diseases require sharp remedies. The Gordian knot of cliquism was difficult to rapidly untie, and it was cut with the sword. As for our contemporary the Herald, his report is all at sea. The Herald candidly admits that it was " furnished by our North Shore corres pondent," that is, Mr Oliver Mays, who does the correspondence for both of our con temporaries. It begins: "A meeting of householders in the Devonport district was held in the district school-house, at seven o'clock on Friday evening," and pro ceeds to detail the proceedings as conducted at the second meeting, namely, at a quarter to eight, while not a word is stated of the meeting which had been actually held at seven. Such an attempt to mislead the con ductors of a journal by an employe should be followed by a | smart rap over the knuckles. If those making a fuss about this matter would take our advice they would quietly let the thing slide and not make fools of themselves. Those having the law on their side will seek, if requisite, the pro tection of the law, and no power short of an Act of Council will remove them by force from a position which they believe they oc cupy to the satisfaction of the great body of the residents in the district. A case of what is believed to be in cendiarism occurred at the Thames, at one o'clock on Sunday morning, resulting in the destruction of a house occupied by Mr Dunlop, a tributer ot the Golden Crown mine. Mr Dunlop had only recently been married, and the furniture in the house was new and valued at about £250. Nearly the whole of it was destroyed, the flames spreading very rapidly. The total loss is estimated at £400. A - compromise has been arranged (the Times says) between Sir George Hamilton Seymour and Sir Richard 'Wallace on the much litigated question, now pending before the House of Lords, as to the succession of the late Lord Hertford's Irish estates. The terms of the compromise, we understand to be, that the estates are to become the property of Sir Richard, who is to pay £400,000 to Sir Hamilton Seymour, £200,000 immediately and £200,000 at the end of two years, with an annuity of £8000 in the interval before payment of the second £200,000. The following contributory schedules are set down for hearing at the District Court to-morrow :—Warrior v. J. Craig and R. Home ; Otunui v. J. L. Derrom ; Hazeldel v. W. S. Laurie ; Mexican v. J. L. Derrom; Peruvian v. E. F. Tole ; Tararu G. M Co. ; Brighton v. Richards and other objectors ; Wynyard v. W. Lee and other objectors ; Golden Pah and Little Wonder. Boring operations are being conducted by Messrs Farley and Clarke, under the direction of the Harbour Board, upon the harbour endowment occupied by Mr Holdship. The rods are down about 36 feet. Rock was struck at a depth of 30 feet, arid driving is now very tedious, not being at the rate of more than one inch to every fifty blows with the 1601b hammer. The rods are being made by Messrs Masefield and Co., of Albert and Chapel streets,

: Messrs Archard and Brown having pro | cured the contract for the erection of tele- ; graph poles between Drury and the Manukau Heads, have at once commenced work on the job. Tenders are required by the Provincial Secretary for the widening and raising of causeways on the Great South Road, beyond Ann's bridge. A general meeting of the members of the Seamen's Mutual Benefit Society will be held this evening, at the Thames Hotel, on busi ness of importance. Tenders for the extension of Wellesley street to Symonds-street will be received by the Auckland Improvement Commission until to-morrow at noon. The meeting for the election of a District School Committee, for Auckland East, will be held at half=past seten oj elock this evening, at the Mechanics' Institute. Another good audience greeted the Magnet Troupe on Saturday night at the Prince of Wales Theatre, and it is hardly necessary to say more of the performance than that from beginning to end it was as close to per fection as it is possible to be, and that the items on the programme were most keenly appreciated by the audience. The company has held its own so well that they have determined to prolong their stay during this week, after which they will proceed South. A meeting of the Royal Arch Chapter, No" 348, LC.', will be held this evening at half" seven o'clock, A musical, literary, and dramatic entertain^ ment in aid of the funds will be given this evening at the Catholic Institute. The programme is an entertaining one, and a good evening's amusement may be expected. The men of Warwickshire are invited to a meeting at Sceats' hotel on Wednesday evening next, to consider the domestic and political arrangements of the province of Auckland, and to make suggestions for the speoial benefit of political economists and house-wives. The prisoner Carroll, since his committal to prison, has entirely abandoned his mad tricks as hopeless, and resumed his wonted manners, but not his vocation. The coal workers of South Wales and the Forest of Dean are endeavouring to establish an association with a minimum capital of £200,000 for their protection against the re peated claims of workmen. The operatives of South-Lancashire con tributed in small amounts the sum of £3,082 towards the Derby memorial, which has been handed over to the convocation of the Univer sity of Oxford for Derby scholarships there. We shall save something in type metal and printers' ink by the consideration of the Colonial Minister in sending us a Governor without many titles. In Queensland they are (in this respect) less fortunate. In a late number of the Government Gazette of that colony I read the following heading of an official notification : —"Proclamation by the Most Honorable George Augustus Con stantine, Marquis of Normanby, Earl of Mul grave, Viscount Normanby, and Baron Mul grave of Mulgrave, all in the county of York in the Peerage of the United .Kingdom, and Baron Mulgrave, of New Ross, in the county of Wexford, in the Peerage of Ireland, a member of Her Majesty's Most Honorable Privy Council, Governor-in-Chief of the Colony of Queensland and its dependencies." In seven columns this detail of titular dis tinctions is repeated eight times, and fills, by measurement, fully two out of the said seven columns. It looks like a waste of force to discover so imposing a preface to the announcement that J. Smith's license to occupy 40 acres of land is forfeited, and to find it all repeated a little lower down in a notice that the same 40 acres are again open for selection. !. The Waikato Times says :—" We trust that our House of Representatives will ere long be composed of men with sufficient— honesty we were going to say, but the term, however, being rather strong we will substi tute self-abnegation—to pass an income-tax. Our taxation is yearly increasing, our re sources are perhaps keeping pace ; but we feel confident that the latter would soon exceed the former were taxation equally distributed." We learn that it is proposed by His Excellency the Governor to visit Ngaruawahia before his departure from the colony. The visit is for the purpose of meeting the natives before he leaves. We have been unable to ascertain the date settled upon for the meeting, but believe it will take place shortly, as the natives have been warned that the meeting will be held.— Waikato Times. From a report published in England it appears that the Good Templars are a nominally secret society, the members of which take a " life-long pledge." It is stated to have 58,924 members—namely, 42,147 "brothers" and 16,777 "sisters." The number of violations of pledges was stated to be 5 per cent, of the members, so says the report. However well the members hold together as pledged teetotallers they do not seem skilled in the art of successful govern ment financially, for the statement of assets and liabilities made by the Grand Worthy Treasurer shows a balance against tbe order of £476 17s 9d. Ritualistic worship is seen in perfection in Advent Church (Episcopal) Boston. There are a large gilded cross, a flaming altar and super altar, two candelabras, with seven candles each, and two immense candles, in true Catholic style. The Jews of New York City are said to be seriously considering the expediency of trans ferring their weekly religious services from Saturday to Sunday. Several of their synagogues throughout the country are now open both days. The Prince of Wales recently reviewed the drill of a large number of industrial and other schools in the Horticultural-gardens, London. No fewer than 4,000 boys were present. At the Salf ord town-hall, Mark Young, a house cleaner in the employ of the Manchester Carriage Company, was charged with having wilfully set fire to his wife. The woman was found lying on the sofa severely burned, and she stated that it was husband who had set fire to her in consequence of a quarrel they had had. The woman was fremoved to the Salf ord dispensary, and very little hopes are entertained of her recovery. The dearest object to a man should be his wife, but it is not unfrequently her clothes. An Auckland bridegroom the other day wanted to borrow money from the officiating clergyman to pay for the license, in addition to the remission of the usual clergyman's fee. The minister couldn't see it. Some one who has been writing about royalty, lately, says that Queen Victoria's horses were worth LIO.OOO ; Kaiser Wil liam's L 13,000, the Austrian Emperor's nearly L 30.000; King Leopold's LIB.OOO and the Sultan's LIOO.OOO. George A.. Smith, one of the Mormon presidents, also prophet, seer and revelator of the Latter Day Saints, with a party, has started on a religious pilgrimage to Palestine and the Holy City, to prove the conneetioi. of the Mormons with the krat tribes,

To the Editor : Sir,—l see the Thames Debating Society is going to enlighten us how the world was made. Well, let us make knowledge welcome ; but I suppose as yet that their knowledge, like mine, is a specula tion, as you very properly say. Now, my instinct leads me to fancy that the sun is the producer of our earth. I think that the earth and the rest of the planets have been blown out of volcanoes on the sun s surface ; that they assume the appearance of comets, and return to the sun, as our world and Venus before us is doing now. I thin*, however, that the sun has done manufacturing big comets long since ; that its productions now are more gaseous, forming large tails with but little weight in the heads of them— forming a kind of celestial will-o -the-Wisp. i With regard to our earth, however, I suppose it is feasible that a lump of the sun's sub tance would be blown off with it. In their j eariy career comets take immense elongated SpL orbits-so the books say-^£ my ; fancy leads me to think that every revolutaon in the orbit becomes less elongated, and tne nearer they approach the sun the ™«»de. r "£ orbit gets, until at length they work their passage into the sun, which, I suppose, might be compared to putting on fresh coals but these are all fancies, like a good deal more astronomy, perhaps. I suppose it j is feasible, as the comet assumes a slower .-notion, that the tail or light gaseous atmos phere would condense and encircle its hem, the same as our atmosphere does this earth I saw a paragraph in your paper of January 11th, that a Professor Fisk, of America, says that tidal waves in the distant future are going to obstruct the rotation of the earth fo much that thefe WiU be 485 hours elapse between sun-rise and sun-Set {I fSg^ff can hardly expect the privilege of the eight hour system then), and that the earth will ultimately be attracted into the sun. JNOW, I fancy there is some mistake about that wobbling motion, but never studying as tronomy, am perhaps not entitled to an idea. One thing seems to me pretty certain, and that is, if the spit don't turn any faster than that, why the meat Will burn, But the Thames philosopher, I think has, oris going to tackle the origin of the universe; that means the firmament, I suppose, con taining all the stars, &c, &c. Well, we shall see what their ideas are on the subject, i suppose. The stars, I fancy, drift along in a kind of tide, but where it begins or ends bothers me. I'll give it up. IH P»j « f to consider about, as the magistrate did tne Onehunga'bus case, because it concerns a good may people.—l am, &c, Old Un. A rural contemporary poetically remarks : "The yellow pumpkin lies golden on the hillsides in the country."

In compliance with a resolution moved by Mr Sheehan at the last session of the General Assembly, a nominal return of the officers appointed for the purpose of carrying into effect the immigration and public works policy, since the inauguration of that policy, has been published. The return contains the names of 183 persons, from the Agent- General, with a salary of £1,500 a-year, to the Immigration Officer at Oamaru, who must perforce rest contented with the modest sum of £25 per annum from the department.

The San Francisco Baptist Association report a total membership of 2,098 in the churches, and 2,078 in the Sunday Schools. In noticing the capture of the defaulter Warren, the Dunedin Star says :—On Thurs day evening Detective Farrell, as he was returning to town overland after having gone to Port;in search of Warren, the defaulting Sydney bank manager, was agreeably sur prised to come upon his quarry near the, Junction Hotel, the object of his search being on his way to Port. The officer arrested him, brought him to the police station, where he was searched, only three shillings and ninepence being found upon him, and locked him up on a charge of stealing two cheques valued at £1050, the property of the City Bank of Sydney. Yesterday he was brought before the Mayor, and remanded for a month, to allow of the production of the necessary evidence from Sydney, where according to late telegrams he was thought to have gone to Auckland with £1000 in notes, the proceeds of,the cheques. Itjtranspires that that he did go to Auckland, and proceeded thence by easy travelling to Dunedin, arriving here per Phoebe. Warren, for there is no doubt of his identity, as he answers exactly to the description furnished to the police, is a rather good-looking young man, of about 22 years of age, of medium height and fair com plexion. Like most novices in crime, he appears to have acted foolishly since he arrived in the colony ; living rather fast, and conducting his business at the different parts of at which he called in such a manner that the police had no difficulty in tracing him right along the coast. The police, it is said, are in possession of some £800 which was banked to Warren's credit here.

Amongst the reforms in Japan is the establishment of a patent law. Women have been granted the same rights as men as regards visiting the temples, &c. ; all inde cent pictures and exhibitions are henceforth prohibited ; gas will shortly be laid at Yoko hama ; a fine suspension brige is being erected at Yedo ; and the burnt-down part of that city is being laid out in the streets 90, 60, and 4S feet wide.

At a recent temperance fete at the Crystal Palace there were tens of thousands of people who had journeyed, some of them hundreds of miles, to attend the f6te. The chief feature in the day's proceedings was a concert of 5,000 voices in the grand orchestra. The voices were chiefly those of children who had been selected from provincial "Bands of Hope," and trained by the Band of Hope Union, and the singing was peculiarly touch ing. _ The sight of the children, ranged in sections, rank above rank, most of them well dressed, and all of them highly decorated, was of itself a treat. One remarkable feature of the festival was that by arrangement no intoxicating liquor wa3 sold within the palace or grounds during the day. The rule was adhered to, much to the heartily-expressed disgust of the non-teetotal visitors. The numbers present were : By season tickets, 13,187 ;on payment, 49,093. Total visitors, 62,280.

The Wangarei Agricultural Show was held to-day, 28th January, at Mr Rust's sale yards. Mr Rust's arrangements to meet the requirements of the exhibitors were first-rate, and were highly spoken of by the committee. From an early hour visitors from all parts were coming to the show. The roads were crowded with horses, cattle, sheep, &c, besides carts conveying agricultural produce of all sorts. Wangarei appeared once more alive. The show was a great success. The stock exhibited was first-rate, and the decisions of the judges afforded general satisfaction.

We understand that Mr Cucksey, music seller, of Queen-street, has succeded after many years patient attention and careful ex perimenting in perfecting an entirely new plan for the treatment of tailings, whereby a large quantity of gold can be extracted which is at present lost. Mr Cucksey is about to patent his invention in each country where the law of patent is recognised, and we are informed that he is prepared to expend ten thousand pounds in utilizing the invention, which has taken him over fifteen years to bring to its present state. The inventor's plan whichis at present a secret, bids fair to revolu tiom;.e the old system.

. p.; We' have received a letter from Mr Moran,. of Freeman's Bay, requesting us to state; that he is not the person that has run away with another man's wife. We feel much pleasure in makingtheintimationaccordingly. The following is the return of sick treated during the week ending Satumay, February 5 1 573 - Remained last return, 67; admitted since, 9 ; discharged, 9; died, 1 ; remaining, 66 (males, 58 ; females, 8). Arrangement of cases : Fever (typhoid), 1 ; rheumatism 8 - syphilis, &c, 5; psora, 1; scrofula, 1; phthisis, pulmonalis, 6 ; paralysis, 4; melancholy, 1 • epilepsy, 1 ; hysteria, 1 ; ophthalmia 1 ; aneurism, 1 ; bronchitis, 1 ; fistula, 1 ; dys pepsia, 1 ; albuminuria, 1 ; cystitis, 1 ; ne crosis 7 ; ulcers, 2 ; uterine disease, A all ■■> fracture, 5 ; delirium tremens, 1; amputation, 1 • resection, 1 ; debility, 2. A man died on the 2nd inst. of disease of the brain. Thanks are returned to Mrs Henderson for a parcel of old linen.

At the Police Court vhis morning a transfer of license of the Exchange- Hotel Queen street, was granted from J«?hn btreet to Maurice Sullivan.

VOLUNTEER INTELLIGENCE.

The district prize firing for the first set of prizes commenced this morning at nine o'clock, at the Mount Eden range. The morning was exceedingly favourable for the contest, and there was a good muster of Volunteers, and a considerable number of spectators. The men appeared in high spirits. The following are the scores of the Ist range firing of 200 yards for which we aie indebted to Major Gordon :— '

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before P. A. Philips, Esq., Mayor. J

DRUNKENNESS,

Two drunkards were fined 10s. each; and another was fined ss. and costs.

NOISY WOMEN,

Eliza Taylor was charged with making use of obscene language inside of a house in Albert-street yesterday afternoon within the: hearing of a constable who was outside. The police officer's statement was corro borated by two witnesses, one of whom, rent his coat getting into the witness-box, and was sworn on the old testament, the usher of the Court mistaking him for a Hebrew. The accused was fined 40s. and costs, or in default thirty days' incarceration at Mount Eden. Bridget Hennessy was placed in the dock on a like charge. The same process was gone into in this case, with the exception of the coat tearing by the witness, who was more cautious in entering the box. This woman was fined £5 and costs, with the option of 30 days' imprisonment. Catherine Townsend pleaded guilty to using obscene language on the 2nd inst. ' Fined 40s and costs. Mrs Fletcher appeared in the person of her husband to plead guilty to a charge of threatening to slap one Lydia Robertson's face. The Court ordered him to be bound over to prevent his wife from repeating the threat. He was detained until the bond was pre pared. LARCENY. , Richard Sarsefield, otherwise acknowledged as the " bold American," and Michael Burns, were charged on remand with thieving a case of Swaine, Boord, and Co.'s old torn gin, from landlord Jagger, of Freeman's Bay hotel, who valued the same at 40s. Sergeant-Major Pardy applied to withdraw the charge against Sarsefield, which was al lowed,! and he was discharged, and subse quently admitted as Queen's evidence against the other prisoner. The Court sentenced the prisoner to three months' imprisonment with hard labour. This concluded the business.

DISTRICT COURT.—This Day.

(Before His Honor Judge Beckham.) LUNDON V. M'QUARRIE. Mr Sheehan said Mr J. Russell had not accepted service of the summons in this case on a technical ground. He applied that execution be not issued until after next Court-day, when the counter claim would be heard. It was ultimately agreed that notice should be given to Mr Sheehan if application were made for an execution, so that Mr Sheehan might appear to oppose its issue. H. AND A. ASHTON v. JAMES WILLIAMSON. —

JUDGMENT. This was a claim for £100, highway rates alleged to be due on the Surrey Hill's estate. The c*L e was heard last Court day, when * r £t eßkS*k appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Whitaker for the defendant. The defence was on technical points, the real ground of objeotion being that the as sessment was exoessive,

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CAN THE BEST MOLESKIN TROUSERS IN NEW ZEALAND BE SOLD FOR 6s. lli>.? NO! DRAPEEB AND OTHEES outside the Clothing Trade may offer such baits to the public, but as THE CLOTHIER OF THE PROVINCE, and the only one whose business is exclusively confined to the manufacture and sale of Men's Clothing, I maintain that it cannot be done. I can, however, offer to the Working Men GENUINE BARGAINS, being prepared to sell a pair of Moleskin Trousers equal in every respect to the Os. lid. article, FOR ss. 11d. And a pair of GENUINE Crown Moles, FOR 6s. 11d. And the best in New Zealand, FOR Bs. 11d. SAMUEL COOMB ES, MANUFACTURER & CLOTHIEU, 80 St, 180, QVEEN-STREET,



PANAMA HAT S!| panama hats!! j Just Eeceived, 72 SUPERIOR REAL PANAMA HATS, j Will be sold at 10s 6d each. SAMUEL COOMBES, CITY CLOTHING MART, No. 80, QUEEN STREET, T COSGRAVE & C O.'S SALE OF DRAPERY & CLOTHING COMMENCED ON SATURDAY, FEB. 1. The Public are requested to inspect the Goods as the Reductions are Genuine. rpHE FEBRUARY NUMBER OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWS Is Now Published, and may be had of MESSRS. UPTON & CO. Peice : 3d.