SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET : This evening, 4.45 SUN-RISE : To niorrowjmorning, 7.12, r.i'iri WATBRj This afternoon, 4.20; to-morrow morning, 4.45

ARRIVALS.

■Excelsior, schooner, from Dunedin Fairy, schooner, from Wansraroa Rowena. s.s., McGregor, from Northern ports Mary Ellen, schooner, from Mercury Bay Sovereign of the Seas, cutter, from "Wangarei Luna, Government steamer, Falrehild, from Welling ton

DEPARTURES.

Parsee, ship, for Newcastle Star of the South, s.s., Andrew, for Levuka Lady 80-wen, p.s., for Mahurangi and the Hot

Spiings Jane, s.s., forMahurangl Isabella, ketch, for OpotiH Clyde, schooner, for Wangarei Luna, Government steamer, Fairchild, for Wellington

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Wangarei and iMangapai: Cambria, schooner' to-day For Tahiti and Rorotonga : Prima Donna, schooner, to-day For Southern ports : Ladybird, s.s., Monday For Timaru : Flirt, brigantine, to-day For London : Wcodlark, ship, and Thames, barque,

early For Sydney and Melbourne: Victoria, s.s., early For Northern ports: Rowena, s.s., Monday next

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Hylton Castle, barque, from London. Sa 51ed 28th

February Clanranald, ship, from London. Sailed Endymion. ship, from London. Loading City of Auckland, from Lordon. Loading' Zanga, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed 23rd January Thames, barque, from Sydney Akbar, ship, from Boston, via Melbourne Emelie, schooner, from Tahiti Tower Hill, brig, from Clarence River Charybrlis, schooner, fromLevuka Freetrader, barque, from Hobart Town Success, schooner, from Levuka Satellite, cutter, from Levuka UpoTu, schooner, from Samoa Paterson, p.s., from Southern ports

EXPORTS.

Per Prima Donna, for Tahiti : 4 casks buscuits, 2 do coal tar, 5 drums oil, 4 tins paint, 1 do hinges, 3G doors, 7 bundles sashes, 9 bags potatoes, 1,681 pieces timber, 1 pel tlrapery, 5 tanks, 1 Ccise, Combes ; 2 do drapery, 2 do cottons; 2 trunks, 1 case boots, 1 bale drapery, 400 bags rice, 10 bales and 4 cases cuttons, 2 bales shirts, 1 case apparel. Owen and Graham ; 20 boxes tobacco; 55 do brandy, 53 do beer, 2 boxes tobacco, 1 pkg do, 2 cases cigars, 10 cases kerosine, H. S. Meyers and Co.—-Stone Bros., agents.

A barque has been signalled all the day, but tad not made the harbour when we went to press. The brig Fawn reported at the Customs to-day with the following cargo—ll bags grass seed, order ; 50 sacks flour, R. Arthur; 183 sacks wheat, 30 do oats, D. H. McKen zie ; 33 sacks peas, 25 do bran, 80 do grass seed, 440 do wheat, order ; 350 sacks pota ioes, T. H. Hall & Co ; 804 sacks potatoes, 70 do wheat, order ; 13 do potatoes, W. H. Churton ; 510 do, Henderson & Macfarlane ; 195 sacks potatoes, G. W. Binney ; 69 sacks malt, 508 pgs flour, order.—Master, agent. The s.s. Eowena arrived at an early hour this morning, from Russell and put into Kohimarama to land cattle. She brings the following passengers :—Mrs Watlmg, Mrs Lang, Mrs Tautari, Miss Harkess, Mrs Stewart, Mrs Hargrove, Messrs Lundon, Harkess, Farrell, Stewart, Cooper, Hargrave, Baker, and eight in the steerage ; cargo, 19 head cattle, A. Buckland; 80 bags gum, Stone Bros; 3 tuns oil, Henderson and Macfarlane ; 10 tuns oil, Auckland Whaling Company. The ship Parsee took her departure for Newcastle this morning. The schooner Mary Ellen, from Mercury Bay, brings 10 tons gum, J. E. Banks, and 12,000 feet timber, Schapp and Ansenne. The schooner Prima Donna has cleared for Tahiti with a full general cargo and the following passengers:—John Miller and Henry Stebbing. The ship Edinburgh Castle has cleared in ballast for Newcastle, with the following pas sengers :—Mr and Mrs Houghton. The cutter Undine will leave for Hokianga on Tuesday next. The Government steamer Luna, Captain Pairchild, arrived in the Manukau yesterday afternoon from Wellington, with a number of the Armed Constabulary. She left again for Wellington this morning. _ The barque Woodbine is open for freight or charter. The cutter Sovereign of the Seas will leave for Wangarei and Mangapai on Monday afternoon. The cutter Vincent will leave on Monday evening for Tauranga. Thtirsday next is the day appointed for the sale of the ship Polar Star by auction. The disposal of Webb's steamers is thus referred to by the San Francisco News Letter of March 29 :—" Instructions have been sent to Honolulu for the steamers of the Webb Australian line to return to this port with out delay. The Nevada, now here un dergoing extensive repairs, has been turned over to the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and we take it that the Dakota and Nebraska are also to be transferred to the Panama line. The Moses Taylor, of the same line, is now due from Honolulu. It is yet a mooted question in regard to the continuation of the Island branch of this mail line, but we are well "convinced that the Government sub sidy of $75,000 will insure us a continuation of monthly mail and steam communication with Honolulu. The ship Edinburgh Castle will leave for Newcastle on Monday next. The vessel has been discharged with great dispatch by Mr Ebbon, wharfinger, the time occupied being under ten working days. Her cargo was turned out in good condition. In conse quence of the dispatch used in discharging the vessel she was ready for sea again three weeks from her arrival in port. She will be hauled away from the wharf this evening. The steamers Lady Bowen and Jane left for Mahurangi this morning. , The schooner Merlin will leave for Napier this afternoon. The brigantine Flirt will leave forTimaru this evening. . „ The process of cutting the steamer St. Kilda in half has been performed, and she is now beins- lengthened about twenty feet. The operation will necessarily take some W The fine ship Woodlark was hauled along side the wharf this morning, and will com mence to discharge cargo on. Monday. The new schooner building by Messrs Henderson and Spraggon wiU be launched from their yard, at Smaile's Point, en Satur day next. She will be fore-and-aft rigged and of about 30 tons register. , The schooner Saucy Lass has been beached at Smaile's Point, is being re-coppered and repaired by Messrs Henderson and Spraggon. The brig Fawn was brought alongside the wharf this morning to discharge her cargo. The launching of the steamer Manawatu from Messrs Niccols' yard, North bhore will take place on Wednesday or Thursday next. 2The work of forming silt basins for the town sewerage is about to be commenced. The two corners of the entrance to the wharf have been boarded off to facilitate the job. (gLThe cutter Mercury has cleared for Mcr •ury Bay in ballast.

The mail steamer Star of the South, Capt. Andrews, did not take her departure for Fiji last evening, having been detained at the request of the Fijian Minister —Dr Clark son. She left at noon to-day, with the fol lowing passengers : —Miss Whittard, Mrs Gough, Capt. Thompson, Messrs W. Brewer, M. Niccol, E. Perkins, Phillips, Mcßeady, Hill, Anderson and Robinson. Steerage— Andreson, Smith, and Moss.

The schooner Cambria has cleared for Wangarei with the following cargo:—l^ tons flour, 1 ton bonedust, 1 ton maize, D. H. McKenzie ; 5 sacks oats, 1 ton sundries; and four passengers.

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 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 meeting at Parnell laßt - night affords another testimony as to the strong and general feeling in this community in favour of the extension of the Waikato railway to the confisca tion boundary; and the good example set by Mr W. H. Kissling, the Chair man of the Parnell district, in spon taneously inviting the people to pro nounce on the question is, we find, being followed elsewhere. We observe that on "Wednesday next the residents at Onehunga are to convene for the purpose of uniting their voices in the general demand for that, the importance and even necessity, of which have been forced on us by recent events in the i "Waikato. We feel confident that our representatives in Parliament will not require this stimulus in a matter on which we believe they feel as keenly as any others; but the earnestness felt on the subject by their constituents, and the rather unusual circumstance of Auckland people manifesting a spark of public opinion and public feeling, should influence our local members to act in whatever manner may be most judicious and most effective for obtain ing the intended object. We observe during all this agitation that there is considerable oblivion of one of the most important points in connection with the Waikato railway. Those

whose memory can go back a couple of years must remember that when the whole world of the colony stood aghast at the magnitude of Mr Vogel's pro posals, the principal calming influence was exercised by this one feature in the scheme, that railways penetrating the native territory would promptly settle the native question for ever. We believe that it was this one argument that made the colonization scheme possible, and that had it not been for this idea uppermost in men's minds the proposal would never have been accepted. Such an embroglio as that now pending was not contemp lated, it being confidently believed that Maori eiclusiveness and isolation and hostility to civilization would be promptly scared away by the snort of the iron horse. But the iron horse which was to have been doing these wonders has not yet gone beyond earshot of Auckland, and the danger which now as well as then would be embarrassing if not destructive for years to come to our scheme of progress is left precisely as it was. It may seem selfish, but it is common sense to say that not one other railway in the colony should have taken precedence of the Waikato rail way if the colonization policy, as originally submitted and accepted, had been carried out in its integrity ; and the bringing of this national railway, intended for great national, civilizing and conciliatory objects down to the level of the paltry lines beginning no where and ending nowhere, and palpably intended merely to purchase political supportconstitutesthe gravest of those sins of maladministration in connection with the carrying out of the original and magnificent policy that can be laid on the heads of the Government. It is quite unnecessary for us to say also that it was the prin ciple embodied in the "Waikato rail way that gave New Zealand credit on the Stock Exchange, and that had the colonfzation policy not been there recognised as primarily one intended to settle promptly and for ever the difficulty that had theretofore been so ruinous to New Zealand the loan would never have been raised. It was the "Waikato Railway and native roads that carried the policy at first for the Government, and then, having effected its purpose, the rail way has been thrust away and for gotten in favour of a multitude of other little railways which in their turn are made useful in bolstering up the Ministry. The murder in the Waikato has now awaked attention afresh to the importance of the railway, but if a native war thence arising shattered the coloniza tion policy, and made the utarof McLean and Yogel and 3Tox to sink in everlasting night, it could tie re garded as but a natural requital for the double part that has been played. The original importance of this rail way, as an element in the colonization scheme will not, we trust, be forgotten by those now agitating for a line to the King country —a circumstance which affords an incomparably more forcible argument than any paltry gain to the trade and commerce of Auckland.

A very narrow escape from a destructive fire occurred at the Swan Hotel, Mechanics' Bay, last evening about seven o'clock. Several children were playing in one of the upstairs rooms of the hotel when they acci dently set fire—it is believed with a match —to some dresses hanging on the wall. The flame extended to the skirting boards, and the wall caught fire. The children, alarmed at the consequences of their ca; slessness, rushed down stairs and out into the street without mentioning the occurrence. Several minutes elapsed before the glare of light through the bedroom window and the smoke attracted attention. When discovered buckets of water were promptly procured and served so vigorously that the flames were soon extinguished without having done any very serious damage. The escape of the building from burning was a very narrow one, how ever, and as it adjoins other wooden tene ments it would have been almost impossible to have saved any of the block if the fire had been left undiscovered for five minutes longer.

The Provincial Government Gazette was published to-day, and contained the follow ing acceptances of tenders : — Bridge over Wharehine Creek—John Becroft and Son, Port Albert, £580. Bridges in Matakana dis trict —Contract No. 1, £65 15s; contract No. 2, £95 5s ; David J. Cruickshank, Auck land. Widening and clearing bush road between Matakana and Omaha —Kenneth McKenzie, Waipu, 4s lid per chain. Bridge for Henry's Crossing. Mangawi .River. —John Munro, Waipu, £180. Bridge over Waiuku Kiver —Thomas J. Sedgwick, Waiuku, £196. The Highways Act is brought into operation in the Puhoi district, and the amended boundaries are published. Constable M. Grace is appointed Inspector of Slaughter-houses and Nuisances at Gra-. hamstown.

The following boundaries of the Me chanics' Bay wharf were proclaimed by his Honor the Superintendent, under the Marine Act, in to-day's Government Gazette: — "Bounded on the north-east by the break water at St. Barnabas Point ; on the north west by land between high and low water mark and the waters of Auckland harbour ; and on the south and east by that portion of the Wharf-road situate between the I before-mentioned breakwater on the north, ! and the Mill culvert on the south.

"We regret to learn that Mrs Bowman, whoso husband has so suddenly died, is left in very destitute circumstances, and her case is one that appeals to the kindness and sympathy c*f the city. The following donations have been kindly handed to us as the nucleus of a fund for the benefit of Mrs Bowman, and y? c shall be happy to receive and acknowledge any other sums entrusted to us for the same pur pose — Evening Star, £1; G. £1; G. 10s j J H 2s Gd; A Friend, £1 jF.G.E.2s 6d ; John S, 2s 6d ; A Friend, 2s ; D. S, 2s 6d ; Mrs J.,256d.

The members of the Auokland Institute will hold their first monthly meeting on Monday next, in the Museum Buildings, Princea-atreet.

The members of >the Naval Brigade, under the command of Capt. Emilius Leßoy, met last evening in the Drill-shed. They mus tered strongly and went through their evo lutions with satisfaction This brigade has shown considerable attention at drill, and Capt. Leßoy is unremitting in his endea vours to make the corps as efficient as possible. Ihe settlers in country districts are greatly in favor of the new Auckland market, and a number of them have resolved to hold a public meeting on Tuesday next at the Cilterion hotel, Otahuhu, for the purpose of devising means for making the market a success.

Mrßloomfield delivered anexceUent lecture last evening in the Edwardes-street school room on the Tonic Sol-fa system of singing. There was a good attendance. Mr French occupied the chair, and spoke at lenj,jh on the advantages of the method, and the social delight in thousands of circles wb;ch hai been the result. At the close of Mr Bloom field's explanatory lecture about forty persons took tickets of membership for the coming haJf year.

The concluding concert of the Carandinis was most successful last evening,' and the City Hall in every part crowded. The entertainment wrs for the special benefit of Mr Sherwin, the manager of the company. The ballads of Misses Rosina and Fannie were loudly re-demanded. The old favorite song " Sweet Home" literally thrilled the hearts of the audience, and Madame Carandini was enthusiastically cheered* Mr Henry Gordon wrs also the subject of immense cheering. We would specially notice the exquisite instrumentation of Mons. De Lias on the violin of several popular American airs, which elicited a general and spontaneous encore.' Mr De Lias is a master of the violin, and we congratulate him on the unquestion able success which has crowned his musical effoits in Auckland places of public amuse ment. We understand it is Mons. De Lias' intention to give instruction as a professor of the art, for which he is eminently qualified. Madame Winter and Mr Stubbing gave a solo on the pianoforte, the former being encored.

The man who cannot be happy unless his mother-in-law lives in the same house with him is not a resident of New York. Ho lives in New Jersey city. He says she is tho only woman who can tackle his wife success fully. They take up so much time in " jawing" each other that he has a peaceful life.

There was a good attendance last night at the Prince of Wales Theatre to wit ness the performance of the Excelsior Star Variety Troupe of gymnnsts and B'njrora, whose varied talents are becoming more and more appreciated as they becomo better kno-Ra. The programme opened with an everture by the orchestra, fo'Towed by a horizontal bar feat, which w<n exceedingly clever, md duly appreciated. A witty Irish character song by Mr W. H. Eeed (the Australian Mackney) succeeded, and was loudly encored. A local comic song came next by Mr Ben Heath, who, like th« author of "Irish Melodies," writes his owa and sings them with much gusto and satisfac tion. Mr McLiyer's " Blooming Morning Glory" was also much applauded. The negro delineation by Mr Eeed was excessively amusing, and was a fine example of the darkie melodist. Mdlle. Laura and Fred Franconi, if wo mistake not, have a brilliant future before them, and will take high rank in the gymnastic line. Their style, perhaps slightly unfinished, is rapidly improving, and leaves but little for the most fastidious to desire. The second part of the entertainment was .introduced by an overture by the orchestra, and a very graceful gymnastic performance on the flying rings by the brothers Frank, Fred, and Walter. A banjo solo by Mr Eeed, and comic songs by Messrs McLiver and Heath, kept the audience in excellent humour until the close of the evening. Some new ballads and other fresh features ■will ba introduced this evening.

Oddfellowship is making extraordinary progress in Victoria. The last statistics furnished to the brethren show that there are 13 districts iv the colony, in which districts there are 152 lodges. The total number of members on the roll is 12,412, of whom 11,727 are down as "good on the books." During 1872 the nnmber increased by GO3. The receipts from all sources during the year amounted* to £47,600 Gs, and the expenditure to £39.826 15s 6d, leavir j a profit on the year's transactions of £7,773 10s 7d.

Dr Goldsbro' held an inquest yesterday at the Whau Lunatic Ayslura on the body of Francis Smith, formerly a digger, but who had for three years been an inmate of this institution. The jury returned a verdict of "Death from natural causes."

Several mottled kauri logs have been stolen from the yard of the Kopuru Sawmill Com pany, on the breakwater. road. Mr Walter Grahame, the agent of the company, offers a reward of £10 to be paid on conviction of, the thief or thieves.

On Thursday morning last a seaman, named John Greig, lately belonging to the Edinburgh Castle, assaulted the captam of the ship in a most dastardly manner. A reward of £5 is offered for any information that will lead ,to his apprehension, for which a warrant has been granted.

At the criminal sittings just concluded at Launceston, Tasmania, a brother and sister named Leatherland were each convicted of burglary. The girl was only fourteen years of age, and both had been previously con victed. The boy was sentenced to four years' imprisonment, and the girl to two ; years. Discourses will be delivered to-morrow at Newton Kirk. Morning, " The Supreme Allegiance;" evening, "Co-worker with God." At City Hall ; morning, "The Cul tivation of the Heart." Evening, "Degrees of the Future." Cook-street Christian Meet ing House ; morning, " Communion ;',' even ing, "The Gospel of the Grace of God." Newton Hall; evening, "A sermon by Mr Ewington." Wellesley-street Baptist Church; : morning and evening, discourse by Rev. Wm. Jones, of the Thames ; and at the United Free Methodist Church by the Rev. G. H. Turner. The Bishop will preach at St. John's College to-morrow morning, and at Epsom in the afternoon. The Rev. R. H. Codrington, head of the Melanesian Mission, will preach at Trinity Church, North Shore, to-morrow morning. The Rev. J. Still, 6f the Mela nesian Mission, will preach at St. Sepulchre's Church to-morrow morning and evening, and in the afternoon at St. Luke's, Mount Albert. Divine service will be held in the Newton Hall morning and evening. The Rev. Dr. Hobbs will preach in the Mount Eden school room on Sunday morning.

We call particular attention to the sale of unredeemed and overtime pledges on' Mon day next, by Messrs B. Tonka & Co., at the Brunswick Mart. The sale will include a large number of gold watches, diamond rings, pins, brqoches, lockets, ear-rings, pencil cases, silver spoons, gold studs, a variety of mechanical tools, clothing, and domestic materials. This elaborate sale will afford an excellent opportunity to young men in want of a good watch of procuring one on easy terms, and especially to young couples about to marry.

Rumour has it that there is a probability that a certain noisy Hokitika Borough poUn cillor will be called" upon to answer a criminal charge for certain slanderous expressions made use of by him in the Council respect ing a citizen of their town.

A crowded meeting was held last evening in the Parnell Hall, W. H. Kißslmg, Esq., in the chair, for the purpose of considering the question of extending the Waikato rail way into the interior. Mr Reader Wood, proposed, and Mr Tonks seconded, the following resolution, which was carried :— "That in the opinion of this meeting it is the imperative duty of the General Govern ment to proceed as rapidly as possible to ex tend the Waikato railway from its present proposed terminus — Mercer — to the boundary of the confiscated lands." The next resolution was proposed by Mr Ireland, seconded by Mr Kempthome, sup ported by Mr Sheehan, and carried —" That Mr Reader Wood, the member for the Elec toral District of Parnell, be requested to unite with the other members of the North Island in urging upon the Government and General Assembly the necessity of construct ing railways through the North Island, in order to secure the permanent settlement of the native difficulty, the maintenance of law and order, and the development of the resources of this part ,of the colony." The last resolution was proposed by Mr Moss, seconded by Mr Roskruge, and carried, viz :—"That Messrs Tonks, Ireland, Waters, Allender, and the Chairman be appointed a committee, -with power to add to their number, and be requested to prepare a memorial to the General Government em bracing the foregoing resolutions, to be signed by the chairman on behalf of this meeting; also a petition to the General Assembly praying they will make the neces sary provision to enable the General Go vernment to rapidly extend railways in the North Island." Messra Barnslcy, Eastwood, and other speakers took part in the proceed ings, which were of a unanimous character, and the meeting closed with a vote of thanks to the chairman.

M. Dubourg's theories, which have been advocated by M. Alexandre Dumas in the " Femmes de Claude," are becoming all the rage. The ladies are alarmed, and are talk ing amongst themselves of fouling a league against their horrid husbands, who are en couraged to murder them when they go amiss. A horrible conflict, ceased by jealousy and conjugal infidelity, was fought out with fatal results at the Rua Carteaux. A crowd assembled round No. II in the street, where a lady was teen clinging convulsively to the railings on the balcony of tho fourth story. Some of the crowd rushed up the staircase to save the poor lady, but ere they could reach the door a, man was seen to climb over the balcony, to tear the woman's hands from her grasp, and both fell into the street with a terrible crash, followed by the hideous splashing of brains and blood. The miserable pair were husband and 'wife. The former had detected his wife's infidelity, and resolved to dash her into the street. Subse quently he seems to have decided to share her fate. The husband was taken up smashed to pulp, stone dead ; the wife was still living, but life carnot long linger in her mutilated frame.

About nine o'clock last night Dr Dawson was called to attend upon Mr Henry Bowman, a plumber, of Albert-street, who was seized with a lit of apoplexy. Dr Dawson rendered immediate service, and applied such remedies as the case demanded ; the unfortunate man, however, did not rally, but expired within an hour of the attack. As Dr Dawson gave a certificate as to the cause of death it was not considered necessary to hold an inquest on the body. Mr Bowman had previously been suffering |from heart disease. He has left a wife and child to lament his loss.

With that desire which we always evince to assail " the wrong that needs resistance," we have much pleasure in exposing the fol loging case of hardship and wrong inflicted on an inoffensive immigrant who has been cruelly deluded to this country. He has to-day called on us, and stated his case, which we publish as given us. He and his wife and seven children arrived last week in the Wood lark, having been conveyed here free at the cost of the colony ; since their arrival four of his seven children have obtained emploj - ment; wages good. The other three are too young to|work. |He and hi» wife have also obtained employment—also at good wages ; and go to their situation on Monday. They have been lodged in the barracks since their arrival, bed and board being found them ; the rations he tells us being "very good indeed." But while lodgings is continued the. rations have been stopped to-day. Now he complains of this as an "injustice." Now that word but feebly represents the case. It is in fact a monstrous wrong ; and how a country can be expected to prosper that can be guilty of such cruel treatment to any man and his family as has Veen endured by this poor fellow at the hands of New Zealand iB more than we can make out. We would re commend him to write to the home papers.

The San Francisco Chronicle speaks of the sheep as a public enemy on the Pacific Slope, and in explanation says :—lt is a crime against humanity for one man to own 30,003 acres of land which he cannot cultivate, and which he uitlises only by allowing sheep to roam over it, which he is holding for spec ulation, in the hope that somebody, else's industry and toil will make it valuable. It is neither right nor politic for a small farmer to be taxed at the rate of $40 per acre for the land made valuable by his labour, while the great land owner escapes taxation because he prefers to raise sheep. These lands, great and small, should be taxed at the real value of their acreage, that value to be estimated at what they would be worth if subdivided and sold to emigrants in small lots. This policy would soon depopulate Colifornia of skeep and populate it with the more profitable animal—man.

We are requested to direot attention to the alteration in respect of "horses" in the advertisement of the ferry-steamer Takapuna. " Horses at the lowest fares'' is to be under stood as stating that they wiU be carried by that boat in future at any price at which they can be brought across water by any other means of conveyance, even though it should be gratis, with a feed of corn. The Takapuna runs the night trips to-night, leaving Devonport wharf at 7.10 p.m., .Flag- staff at 7.20, and Queen-street wharf at ten minutes before eleven.

To the Editor : Sir,—Your decision on the whist question last evening is. wrong. A and B have seven tricks, C and D have six { B has made a revoke; C and D take three tricks from A and B, leaving them four, while they have nine ; consequently they scdre three, leaving the number above six, which are to be scored by the party' holding them after all penalties have been enforcetL The penalty for a revoke may be taken in three different ways : first, take three tricks from and your opponents add them to your own; second, second take three from his score; third, add three to your own score.fßut only one penalty can be enforced, although there is & fourth which sometimes ensues as a consequence of a revoke. The revoking party cannot win the game that hand, but must remain at nine, whatever number they may have made [above nine neverthelesß.--AN Old Whist-Pi<aier,

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We have much pleasure in acknowleding from Dr Kenderdine the receipt of two pounds 111 Aid of tte funds for the relief of the sufferers from the recent floods on the West Coast. . n A meeting of creditors in the estate ot v^ Hogan was held at the provisional trdstees office at noon to-day. The meeting was adjourned for a week

The cavalry volunteer who misconducted himself in Hobson-street a few nights ago has been dismissed from the corps.

The programme of the popular concert to be given in the Choral Hall on Monday apears in our advertising columns. It comprises ot many choice selections.

The Eowena brought Up from RusscJl 10 tuns of o;i for the Auckland Wha?;ng Com pany, the product of the catch of the whaling barque Albion, now lying at the Bay of Islands.

We are glad to notice by announcement that the Ptemuera, Nenaiarket, rid Mount Eden districts have united| in calling a pub. xc meeting to urge the extension of the Waikato Railway.

The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of the Golden Eagle Gold Mining Comppuy (Registered), called for to-day in the Comprny's offices, Vaile s buildings, lapsed for want of a quorum.

In our report of Distri«t Court cases in yesterdays' edition, the name of Mr. G. W. Owen was inadvertently inserted among judgments for plaintiff. No c-se against Mr Owen having been brought into any court.

The steamer Star of the South was detained until to-day at the request of Dr. Clarkson, Minister of Finance, Fiji, in order that he might consult with Mr Murdoch, Inspector of the Bank of New Zealand, relative to the establishment of a bank at Levuka. Mr Murdoch arrived from the South by the Luna last night. We believe the chaiLers of Eng lish and colonial banks preclude them from establishing branches in any country not under British, rule. This would of course prevent the establishment of a branch of the Bank of New Zealand at Fiji. Dr. Clarkson remains in Auckland for some time, and will probably make arrangements for the estab lishment of a Fiji national bank.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

mails will Close as Ukder :— For Thames, on Monday next, at 10.30 a.m. and

5 30 p.m. For Coromandel, on Monday next, at 1.30 p.m. For Taranaki, Southern provinces, and Aiistralian Colonies, per Ladybird, on Monday, 9th inst., at 7 a.m. For Russell, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, per Rowena, on Monday, 9th inst., at 3p.m. For Whitianga, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Southern Cross, on Tuesday, 10th inst., at 1 p.m. For Tauranga, per Vincent, on Monday next, at 4.30 p.m. N.B.—The Post-office hitherto known as Hakaru will in future be designated Kaiwaka. (Signed) S. B. Bias, Chief Postmaster.

DEATH.

Bowman. —On the 6th June, suddenly, at Albert street, Mr Henry Bowman, aged 41. The funeral will leave his late residence To morrow (Sunday), at half-past 3 o'clock p.m. Friends will please accept this invitation.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A Shareholder. —Your letter on the Green Harp Company is not of sufficient public interest to justify its insertion otherwise than as an advertisement.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Betore Thomas Beckham, Esq., Pt.M.) DBINK AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

William McElwaine was called to answer for being dunk last night, but did not appear. Serjeant-Major Pardy informed the Court that the accused whi'e in a state of intoxica tion had fallen fr~m a hayloft and broken several of his ribs, and consequently had been sent to the Provincial Hospital. LARCENY. Catherine Douglr.s, who had been con victed for vailous offences* sixteen times, was charged with stealing a jacket, value 6s, the propeifcy of Elizabeth Nicholson of this city, last night. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to Mount Eden gaol for three months' with hard labour.

"publicans and sinners."

Laurence Robertson, said to be the land lord of the Flying Squadron Hotel, Karanga hape road, was called ot answer to a trio of charges under the Licensing Act; first, with supplying alcoholic liquors to one of his neighbours, viz., Abel Fletcher, a contractor, on Sunday, June let; second, with allowing a youth, named Thomas Lodge to drink certain draughts of beer on his premises, during the same day ; and third, by neglect ing to produce his license on the morning of the 4th inst., when requested to do so by Constable Clarke. Mr Rees appeared for the defendant, and said that Mr Robartson was not in a proper state to appear. Sergeant-Major Pardy stated that the ac cused was well enough a day or two ago to abuse Constable Clarke, and yesterday his intellect was sufficiently luminous to write a letter to the Evening Star. Mr Rees considered that Mr Robinson's letter, advertised in last night's Star, shewed pretty clearly that the author was not in a fit state to make his appearance in Court. His Worship : Let Mr Robertson be called. He must make an appearance or be brought here.

The defendant not having responded ot the Court call, the Court decided that two securities of £20 ea3h must be found to se cure the pretence of Mr Robertson on Mon day next

This was all the business

CLIPPINGS FROM LATE CALIFOR NIAN PAPERS.

We have later files from San Francisco per Stormy Petrel at Lyttelton. We take the fol lowing Californian dottiugs from the News L(ster: —Drunken rowdy entered Mission street car; indiscriminately insulting; venge ance, in the shape of two young gentlemen ; struggle ; ablution* of rowdy in a blood stained horse-trough.—There are 334 inmates in the ahnshouse. —Celestials are at least remarkable for impenetrable aliases; Ah Ch;ow, for instance, has long eluded justice under the remarkably deceiving one of Ah. Gqw.—Eldorado is now said to be along the gold«m tanda of Klamath county.—The steamer Coquille has sailed thitherward with adventurers and pumps. —The Serehaders are practising in full blast. "If ye have tears, prepare," &c—Eight thousand dollars' worth of music is en route for Dr. Scott's church. .This is "facing" it pretty well. — Stocks are low, but the wind is high ; ergo, brokers are blue, but hatmakera sing paeans to JEolus.—Only 158,236 dols. in gold shipped to New York last week.

Mrs Jordon has been trying to cure the 11 horrors" with gentle laudanum. Stomach pump has disgusted her.—The Episcopal Church Union collections in the boxes placed in aU the principal hotols have been most un satisfactory ; during the month of February there was collected a total of eight dollars and ten cents.—A terrible discovery has been made on Stenier-street. The skeletons of some few score doggies were hauled into light by some workmen, and a Bologna sausage manufacturer used to reside in the vicinity.— Six false fire alarms this week.—Seven ships are lying in the stream awaiting crews.— Three sea lions are en route for Barnum's, and Woodward's mernagerie is plus four blabk-tailed fawns.—James D. Page, charged wiljh abstracting a letter from the Vallejo Post-office, .addressed to Warren Haley by Charles A. Russell (now under sentence of death for Crotty's murder), has made* a sen sation in Vallejo by shooting his wife through the neck and himself through the head. He will shoot no more, being dead, but Mrs Page may—she is still mortal. , The Geroge S. Wright, steamer, foundered at sea, and the crew and a large number of passengers perished. A steamer was sent out in search, and found many remains of the wreck.

A destructive fire occurred on the Erie railway at Jersey city. The damage is esti mated at 278,000 dollars.

In New York a maiden, lady has left all her property for the purpose of building a church, on condition that her body and bones shall be made into mortar in which to lay the corner stono.

The directors of the Pacific Mail Company met in New York with a view to placing the affairs of the Company on a more favor able ba^is. The meeting was private, but if is stated that one of the resnlts has been a negotiation for the purchase of the steamers of the California, New Zealand and Australian.., Steamship Company, viz.. the Nevada, Nebraska, Dakota, and Mo-jes Taylor, at an expenditure of about a million dollars. New YoeK, March 20.—Geo. McDonald (supposed to be Warren, the Bank of Eng. land forger), was arrested tins morning, on the Thuilngia's arrival in the Lower Bay, from Havre. The officials, on searching"his baggage on board the steamer, found £2,000 in gold and a quantity of jewellery, dia monds and other property, va Tued at $35,000. It was seized on behalf of the Bank of Eng laud. ,' ', _, Yellow fever is very prevalent at Rio Janiero. An amateur joarnalist of Indianopohs has made a fortune by his pen. This was how it came to pass. His father-in-law died of grief after reading one of bia editorials, and left him $130,C00. The goat teems of Chicago are a snecess, and as they eat newspapers it dosn't cost much to feed them. A single copy of the Chicago Times satisfies an average William goat for twenty-four hours. A boy of tender years and heart has drowned seventeen kittens, tied tin pans to the tails of all the neighbours dogs, orna mented his chamber by pinning flies to the ' wall, cut bricks with his uncle's razor, blown up a pet canary with a fire cracker, pulled the tail feathers out of two roosters, been thrown intop the top of an apple-tree by a cow that he was teasing, brushed his father's ' hat against the grain, told his sisters lover about her false teeth, and still his fond mother- ; intends him for the pulpit. Canada is following the example of the , United States in providing for future Parlia mentary investigation by granting fifty million acres of land and thirty million dollars in gold to her projected Pacific Rail- ~ •way. The company is required to deposit . ten per cent, of the capital with the Govern- S ment, to be retained subject to the disposi tion of the Dominion .Parliament. The entire capital stock is ten million dollara. The work must be finished within ten years, but ceitain sections must be completed within a less time.

A. little boynam'ed Shepardson, in Lenor, Mass., hasdiscc7ered a new method of.mak ing himself useful. The little boy had a toy gun, which, in his play, he would sometimes hold toward his mother and say, " Now, mother, lam going to shoot you." One day he took a loaded pistol from a drawer with out his mother's knowledge, and holding it close to her head, he said, "Now, mother, lam going to shoot you." The mother sup posed he had his toy gun and took no notice of him, and the charge entered her head and she fell. It is hardly probable that she can recover.

PITSBPRG JEALOUSY. —HORRIBLE ACT BY A

JEALOUB WIFE. A disagreeable sensation seems to have been excited in society at Pitt3burg,

Pennsylyvania, owing to the thoughtless conduct of a married lady in that neighbor-

hood, who has been led by jealousy to com-

Mit ru indiscretion she must on reflection deplore. The Pittsburg Commercial gives full particulars of the distressing affair, J kindly suppressing the names of those con cerned : Mrs X., as she is termed, has lately

become jealous of the undue attentions bestowed, as she fancied, by her hua-

band on a young lady designated as Ida G-. The other day Ida received an invitation from Mrs X. to call at her house, as she had a letter from the country for her. Ida accordingly paid Mrs X. a visit, and was received with the utmost affability and kindness—her hostess placing her in the most comfortable chair in the room, " an armed rocking chair," and offering her luncheon, which the young lady declined. Shortly afterward, while smiling and talking pleasantly to her visitor, Mrs X. stepped behind the chair and suddenly dropped a strong cord, arranged in the form of a noose, over Ida's head and arms, at the same time by a sudden jeark binding the girl to chair. '•Now, said Mrs X., "You shall see how I will, avenge myself, and forthwith, taking r from a table drawer a pair of shears, a large knife and a revolver, she spread these im plements on a table before Ida, who by this " time was ready to faint with terror. Mrs X.'s next step was to cut all the hair off Ida's head with the shears excepting one single handful, which she left, as she kindly ex plained, to f aciliate the operation of scalping, j§ which she intended to perform. She then "brought a looking-glass to enable Ida to see. »™ the|changeeffectedinher appearance. Ida, who , had by this time screamed herself hoarse in vain, in complained bitterly that she was freez ing and begged tobereleased. Mrs X.metthi» •' request by putting the poker into the stove, with the intention, as she stated, of tho- . roughly warming her guest by burning her >' eyes out. She was about to redeem this promise, when Ida, by ."a superhuman - effort," succoeded in releasing one of her » hands, with r which she grasped tho gld'wing '> poker, and during the struggle that ensued Mr X. fortunately made his appearance, and ; released Ida.

TELEGRAPHIC.

LATEST FROM WAIKATO.

Mr. Williamson's Candidature.

Scarcity of Natives

ALEXANDRA,

This day.

Mr Williamson addressed the electors here last night. There was ■] a good attendance considering the short notice, and the speaker was very favourably received. He goes to meet the Te Awamutu electors to-day.

There is no native news down to-day. There is not a native in the township. They all clear out directly they have sold their

produce.

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

Toofcey Mine Dry.

Crushing Returns.

GRAHAMSTOWN.

This day. The Pumping Association works drained , Tookey's mine quite "dry this morning. Golden Crown.—A crushing of 85 tons of stone for the Company yielded 176 ozs. gold. The tribute crushed 85 tons, with a yield of 114 ozs. gold. ; .' v Kuranui.—The fortnight's yield is 155 , OZS. gold. " : '" Unicorn Tribute.—Twenty-five tons of stone yielded 78 oza. 15 dwts. of gold. Caufornian Tribute.—Cleaning up from :l i a crushing of 30 tons of stuff from the new■■<-'s! lode gave the satisfactory yirfd of 250».'8'; ■■..; dwts., valued at £3 ss, 6d. per oz.

MB BVEKiyG STAR, SATITftDAY, JXTNE ?, l&fo



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