SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUN-SET: This evening, 5.18. SUN-KIBE: To morrow morning, C.50 HIGH WATER: This evening, 8.58: to-morrow, morning, 9.21

ARRIVALS

Ocean, schooner, from Kussell Prince Rupert, ketch, from Kussell Prima Donna, schooner, Norris, from Tahiti and

Korotonga Akbar, ship, from 'Boston, and Melbourne Eowen'a, s.s, from Russell

DEPARTURES.

Phcebe, s s. (from the Muiiukau), for Southern port nf the SohUi, s s., for Levuka Hylton Castle, barque, for London Rowena. s.s,, for Russell

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Newcastle : Endymion, ship, early For AVMtianga, Tauranga, &o. : Southern Cross, s.a., to-morrow For Levuka: Charybdis, schooner, from the Mauukau

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Countess of Kintore, ship, from London Sailed Ist

May Berar, ship, from London. Sailed 15th May Fontenaye, ship, from London. Sailed City of Auckland, from London. Sailed 4th June Lady Franklyn, barque, from Sydney and Newcastle

Sailed 17th July Emelie, schooner, from Tahiti Briton, barque, from Newcastle Elizabeth Curie, schooner, from Dunedin Upolu, schooner, from Samoa Edith, schooner, from South Sea Islands Southern' Belle, brigantine, from Adelaide Resolution, brig, from Clarence River, Sailed about

24th July Lalla Rnokh, brig, from Clarence River, Sailed about

22nd July Fairy Queen, brig, from Timaru Atalanta, French man-o'-war, from Sydney Albion, brig, from Newcastle Naiad, barque, from Newcastle, early

IMPORTS.

Per Prima Donna, from Tahiti and Raro tonga : 10 crates oranges, 70 bales cotton, 6 casks limejuice, 29 bags maize, 5 pieces tim ber, 1 case fruit, order,; 2 bagß coffee, 1 bag green fruit, G. S. Norris.

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Phcebe, for the South : 1 case, Owen" and Graham ; 24 trunks boots, Bu cholz & Co.; 8 bales, Brown, Campbell and Co.; 1 case, Lewis ; 1 case, 1 bale, R. Lusk ; 1 bag iron, F. Turie ; 1 parcel cane, A. G. Kew ; 24 cases drugs, 5 half-chests tea, 10 boxes tea, 1 case cigars, 2 do drapery, 2 do Fish, 1 keg fish, Soloman ; lljjpackage, Rout; 9 wheels,*! Smith ; 2 cases glassware, Solo mon ; 1 parcel clothing, Possineskie ; 1 case glassware, Wilthew ; 7 do apples, Tounsend ; 1 bale, Me Arthur; 2 cases, Brown & Co. ; 2 pgs sashes, 12 doors, Sash and Coor Co.; 1 case, Busby; 8 bundles iron, 1 bag nails, 12 bars iron, 2 bundles do, 5 kegs nails, 2 bags do, 3 drums oil, 8 tins paint, 4 cases, 3 colonial ovens, 2 bars iron, 1 package bolting, 2 drums oil, 1 drum turps, 4 tins paint, 1 keg sundries, Morrin; 2 cases, Brown and Co.; 1 case drapery, Clark; 9 bars iron Morrin ; 1 case, Kohn; 1 canvas bale, Ireland; 1 parcel, L. Bucholz and Co.; 3 pgs sashes, 12 door 3, 14 bales mouldings, 98 pieces architraves, 3 bundles mouldings, 10 pieces architraves, Sash and Door Company ; 1 case, Baines; 6 bales oakum, 2 cases metal, Morrin; G cases sta tionery, Lusk; 1 case do., Scherff; I pkg cane, A. L. Kew ; 2 case 3 fruit, Binney ; 1 box, National Bank of New Zealand ; 1 trunk boots, Bucholz ; 1 box, National Bank ; 2 cases glassware, Wilthew and Co.; 2 cases books, Gilfillan; 1 parcel, Sunday School Union ; 3 pks trees, C. T. Wren ; 5 hhds oil, Reid ; 7 pga tobacco-cutting machine, Harris; 1 parcel, South British Insurance Company ; 2 parcels, 1 case, Lewis ; 4 empty hhds, J. Reid; 1 case stationery, Lusk; 12 tanks, Sargood; 2 cases, Kempthorne ; 3 pgs, Quick ; 1 case, Bank of Nerr Zealand; 1 hhd, T. H. Hall.

THE STEAMER JANE ASHORE.

The master of the cutter Australia brings word that the s.s. Jane ran ashore at the Hot Springs while steaming out of the bay on Friday last. She had not been got off on Sunday. Fears are entertained that if sho does not soon float the heavy seas at present running will do her consider able damage.

The Government p.s. Luna will leave the Onehunga wharf at noon to-morrow for Taranaki and Wellington. The s.s. 'Star of the South took in coal this .morning,! and afterwards steamed to Ko himarmara, where she took in 33 head of cattle and 150 sheep, shipped for Levuka by Mr Brewer. She sails for Levuka thia even-

ing. r: .: The schooner Kenilworth and Clyde are appointed to sail to-morrow morning for Samoa and Wangarei respectively. The s.s. Phcebe sailed South, to-day with the following passengers :—Mr Polglace, Mr Saino, Mr and Mrs Harris, Mr J. H. Smith, Miss F. Johnson, Mr S. Ensor, Mr M. Ensor, Mr T. Vincent, Mr A. Newbury, Mr Coone, Mr Tungess, Mr Fill, Mr Hercus, Mr W. Morse; Mr W. Laird, Mr P. Medder, Mr S. Morgerairs, Mr S. Buckland. The following is a list of the passengers per ship City of Auckland, for this port :— Chief cabin: Miss Atkins, Miss Millais, Mary S. Hills, John Simpson, wife and five children, four second cabin, and twenty steerage. The barque Gemsbok was loading at New York for Auckland, Dunedin, and Welling ton when the mail left. She was to sail on the 14th June. . The Hylton Castle barque, Captain Scott, sailed out of the harbour yesterday morning. She anchored off Rangitoto reef, and was still there this morning waiting for a change of wind. Captain Norris reports that the schooner Colonist was loading with coals for this port at Eussell on Saturday. A new mission schooner has been com menced in the yard of Messrs Niccol at the North Shore. The schooner Colonist wasdnvenby adverse winds to take shelter in the Bay of Islands on the 7th inst. Messrs Sims and Brown launched a cutter on Saturday, which they have built for Mr Bodgers, of the Thames. /.,'., The schooner - yacht Lurlme, which the Messrs Niccol have been building for Levuka, is shortly to be launched.. • The splendid ship Hydaspes, 3000 tons register, was on the berth for Auckland at the 'leaving of the mail. She will bring a lar<»e number of emigrants, and will come consigned to Messrs L. D. Nathan & Co. The brigantine Coronet has, it is stated, been purchased "by Owen & Graham from Captain Yatos for £1,700. J £ _ ■ . The schooner Charybdis, to sail shortly for Levuka from Onohunga, will take" 73,000 feet of timber and.20,000 shingles, shipped by Messrs J. S. Macfarlane & Co. The schooner PrimaDonna, from Earotonga and Tahiti for Auckland, was obliged to put into the Bay of Islands by stress of weather. Capt. Norris has given one of the crew into custody at Eussell for attempting to stab him. ___________

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Maim -vctxi. Close as Under : — For Thames, thig day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, cm Wednesday, at 12.30 p.m. For Tavanaki, Wellington, Canterbury, Otago, and Australian. Colonies, per Luna, to-morrow, at 10 a.m. For Kussell, per Wangarei, to-morrow, at 9 a.m. For-Whitiangi, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per. Southern * Cross, to-morrow, at 3 p.m. . (Signed) S, B, 13183, OUef FORtmMttt,

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

MONDAY. AUGUST 11. 1873.

p. For tho cause that lacks assistanco, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance. And the good that we can do.

The Opposition has at length organised for an attack. It will be seen by the telegrams from our special correspondent thatan amend ment will be moved upon the budget to morrow, and no doubt a warm debate wity ensue. We scarcely anticipated the choice of Mr Fitzherbert for the leadership, and his selection will not be regarded with much favour in Auckland, There is a strong feel ing that our interests have been sacrificed too much already to support Wellington, and there can be no doubt that it is mainly through the exertions of Mr Fitzherbert that such large concessions have been secured in favour of the province over which he presides as Superintendent. We shall, however, be better able to judge of the Opposition pro. gramme after it has been ventilated in the debate to-morrow. The country is no doubt ripe for a change of administration, and there is such a general absence of confidence in the present Government that many people would be glad to welcome any successors. We are not of that class. Unless we see that the coun try would be materially benefited by a change we would prefer "to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of." The Government will have their work before them to preserve their seats in the face of a vigorous concerted attack by the Opposition. The news from Wellington during the next few days will be looked forward to with considerable interest. The friends of our young townsman, Mr Lewis O'Neill, of the Middle Temple, will be glad to hear that this promising young gentleman has successfully passed his linal examination for call to the Bar. He will probably be crJled during the next'year, and return to Auckland, when a star will no doubt be added to the honorable profession. i^'The Monday evening concert, to which we referred in Saturday's issue at some length, will take place this evening in the Choral Hall. The music, ballads, duets and solos are selected with great care, and should com mand a large audience. The performance of the beautiful opera of Offenbach's "Blind Beggars," chiefly sustained by Messrs Isaacs and Yates, will sufficiently repay every ad mirer of a work of true musical genius who may attend the hall this evening. Mr E. Perkins will provide refroshmenta at the oucerfc.

The unfavorable state of the weather was not without its effect upon the business of the Market on Saturday evening, still there was a fair trade done. The butchers made a fine show of meat, and the poulterers presented a goodly supply of fowls, and sold out at an early hour. The Market as yet, however, is not in as flourishing a condition as its traders coukl wish ; it takes time to get people out of old habits into new associations. The man Friday had not a single joke for his customers on Saturday, and no wonder, for the rain was pouring down in torrents upon the Market roofing, and rain invariably induces silence. The busiest person that we observed was the little lady at the baby - linen stalJ, but although she ex changed many words with the passers by, , she did not receive the reward in current j coin which her diligence seemed to merit. I She was evidently a keen observer of I character, for although she gave us a knowing i look while pausing before a white baby frock i she felt instinctively that we wore not buyers. ! With a peculiar regard for the productions of the vegetable world we noticed Mrs Smith's wonderful cabbages with intense interest; they were like Major Tisdall's stick, re i markably fine, and no doubt, as Mrs Smith, j with her undoubted voracity declared, they i were the finest in Auckland. Mr Brown's I stock of lollies looked extremely tempting in his little corner store, and his Brighton bouquets and camellias had a very pretty effect among his glasses; but perhaps the showiest of the Market fruit-stores was that of Mr Messenger, whose colonial fruits and sober beverages of various kinds were truly refreshing. His golden russets, and ripstonepippins, and innumerable other sorts of apples were displayed with consummate taste, and dealt out to pur chasers with those courtesies and smiles which are always acceptable. Mr Isaacs has, what he terms, a working-man's store, which in one sense is co-operative, and well supplied with those small necessaries which are ever in request in domestic circles. Opposite were a trio of drapers' stores, where things of different hues and textures were favorably exhibited, with the names of Williams, Eyre, and Green, legibly written over them. Mr Eyre, with pleasant memories, has named his store —although it has no chimney— Enniskillen House, which contained a large supply of blankets, sheeting, flannels, shirt ing, and ladies' boots. Mrs Green was as cheery as ever; endeavoring to do her best for the public in the way of business. We reciprocated her kindly nod. The inviting window of Mr Evaus was gay with green plants, which reminded us of a miniature Eden while our dirt/ friend Drummond was dancing a jig on the pavement in front of his Staines-like repository of second-hand goods, probably with the view of warming his toes. We noticed a fine supply of coun try butter in the shop of Mr Fenton, which, nestling in a fancy basket, looked like a cluster of spring prim roses in an English wood. The natty coffee and pie house was open, with its agree able viands smoking hot, made in Mrs Wood ward's happiest style. We intended to have glanced at the market literature, but a poor muffin boy, crouched beneath, sheltering himself from the outside weather, looked up imploringly with his earnest eyes, which silently seemed to say, "Wont you buy?" in such a manner that the appeal was irre sistible. Wo bought a shilling's worth of Caley's crumpets of the boy, and hurried homo to Hesperian Cottage to enjoy the lux ury over a cup of French's " tea for the mil lion," and make a record of our walk through the market for the benefit of present and future generations. Members who were so unfortunate as to miss hearing the last performance by the Choral Society have a great treat in prospect as the second part of Mendelssohn's oratorio " Elijah" is to be taken into practico at once, and the concert will bo given at an early date. Wo are requested by the Inspector of Nuisances to draw attention to the notice by Mr Faulder, nightman, which appoars in our advertising columns, and to intimate that no excuse will be taken for a neglect of cleanli ness in back yards. r^r.. "'' There are concerts fourfold this evening in various parts of the city, and even the peo ple of Dedwood are not forgotten. The opening entertainment of All Saints' new school-room, Ponsonby-road, will be held this evening, the Key. E. N. Bree in the chair. The performers aro selected chiefly from the scholars, who will give recitations and lyrics from the poots. Several gentle men will deliver suitable addresses. The Royal Company A.R.V.'s band will be in at tendance, and the choir will sing several anthems which will bo gratifying to list eners and aid the progress of the long-needed Sunday-school. The following scores were made by three of the Sir George Grey Cadets on Saturday last, at the Mount Eden rifle range. Tar gets, G x 4; ranges, 100, 200, and 300 yards; five shots at each range:—Pratt, 51; Hanna, 46; Ilardwick, 45. Tho Engineer Cadets have for the second time declined the chal lenge of the Sir George Grey Cadets, which looks like showing the " white feather." "A Lover of Justice" writes: "Sir, —I beg leave to call the attention of the public, through the medium of your paper, to the present disgraceful state of the lock-up at Point Russell, and I think that a portion of the Government funds could be put to a good use in erecting a gaol and police office here, as the present makeshift would bear comparison with the black hole, and is totally unadapted for the purpose to which it is put, being neither safe as a gaol for criminals nor fit for human habitation. This lock-up is one of the iron turrets formerly used during the war in the Waikato on board the Pioneer, steamer, to protect the soldiers from the fire of the natives, and is now erected on private property, in the midst of a sea of mud, and is all but inacces sible, and is, of course too small, being about twelve feet in diameter ; consequently pri soners are herded together like so many pigs in a stye, and being built of iron plates, must be intensely cold at night and the reverse in the day time." The state of the Dedwood roads are in an alarming condition, and yet no murmurs roach the press from the unobtrusive inhab itants of that locality. Yesterday afternoon a ludicrous scene occurred off Ponsonby road. A respectable-looking man was picking his way with difficulty between the mud holes and clay-ruts towards Cobb-cottage, when a sudden gust of wind lifted his bell topper from his head, and sent it spinning like a Catherine-wheel across the terrible slush to a distance of at least one hundred yards. The owner strided after it as though, like Gilpin, he was running a race, and caught the refractory head-piece in the embraces of the friendly hedge.

The old market-square looked very dreary on Saturday evening, owing probably to the wet weather. We are so accustomed to look for the grotesque platform, and the pair of gig-lamps, and the primitive natural orators of the good cause of temperance, that their absence by the side of the thoroughfare at the close of the week causes a blank in the living panorama of Queen-street. We understand that the term "teetotaller" is about to be numbered with pig-tails and top-boots, and the things of the past, and that "Good Templar" in the future will swallow up all meaner appellations. This fact alone shows that the friends of the Abstinence cause we ( improving in taste,

V The members of the Auckland Catholic Literary Society will hold a musical and dramatic entertainment this evening in their Institute, Wellington-street, for the purpose of celebrating their thirteenth anniversary. An excellent programme is provided, and doubtless a very pleasant evening will be passed by the united members of this, the oldest of our Auckland Institutes.

In our remarks on the Public Works state ment on Saturday a typographical error occurred which seriously altered the sense. Speaking of the cost of roads and tracks con structed by the Government, it was stated that tho average price was something orer £1830 per mile. It should have read £18:5 per mile. The additi6n of the "0" in this oa3e makes a material difference.

The entertainment announced for this evening in the City Hall by the Auckland Rerenaders is for a charitable purpose, the temporary relief of a destitute family, and is not, as a' disaffected minstrel ungenerously insinuates, "a swindle." It is much to be deplored that ill-feeling should exist among young men who profess to be lovers of harmony, and that the serpent of discord should have crept into the midst of the minstrel circle with its whispers of suspicion. We can affirm that the entertainment was projected for the ptirpose named, of which fact the public will be fully apprised. The minstrels have been the means of doing much good in several cases, and although in one or two instances there might have been extra vagance and some mismanagement, it seems a pity that the breath of envy should hinder the flow of charitable feelings towards those whose necessities may receive some genial aliment from the proceeds of innocent amuse ments. The entertainment this evening promises to be in its varied provisions a success, and much credit is due to the spirit that prompted it. Mr Chas. Verner (the great comique), and Mr H. Ford (character delineator), will appear on this occasion. Some really good amateurs will take part in tho proceedings, such as Messrs Wm. F. Armstrong, Singer, Walker. McEwen, and a number of other local celebrities, and ample pleasure will be given to those who feel an interest in music, witticism, ballad, and farce. " Vir Honus est Quiz" ought to have put his questions to Mr Dargaville at the Paracll meeting. Our space is too limited to permit of the insertion of queries regarding the views of the various candidates for the Superinten dericy, and as ample opportunity is afforded electors for obtaining information by direct questions to the candidate, we cannot under take to hamper our columns with questions and replies which should be dealt with in the way we have indicated.

What a study for the philosopher has been .afforded by the native gathering in Wanga nui, Rayß ne Wanganui Herald. Grey headed and tatooed old men, withered bel dams "auld and droll." lusty young lads and lassies, and mothers with- little queer faced black-eyed specimens of humanity clinging to them, have harangued, squabbled, made love, and played the Jew's harp until the atmosphere has become impregnated with Maoridom. and the very streets have had a drunken dissipated look, utterly at variance with their usually quiet and orderly aspect. The judges of the Native Lands Court must be lineally descended from Job to enable them to sit and wado through the mass of conflict ing statements of opposing claimants. Day after day have the walls of the runanga house echoed to the pleadings of garrulous natives, who, on the strength of having had a great-grandfather killed and eaten on some particular spot, and whose sister's aunt's uncle'smother'scousin, fished/planted, orcom mitted some frightful atrocity, laid claim to tracts of country that in the hands of the Government would support in comfort hun dreds and thousands of industrious settlers who are only waiting for an opportunity to cast in their lot with us.

The business of the Police Court before His Worship the Mayor, this morning, con sisted in disposing of four inebriates, viz., William Inkester, apparently a working man, who was fined 10s. and cost; James Brown, who, as this was his first offence, and as he was suffering with a damaged nose, ss. and costs ; Thomas Manock, 5s and costs, and Harcourt Carter, a respectable-looking man for being drunk last night, 20s. and costs. Defendant said, in answer to his Worship, that he was unfortunately a lodger at a public-house, and not being strong, he sup posed it was the potent-smell of tho liquor that passed over his senses, as he had no distinct recollection of having taken any.

We advise all ratepayers who are eligible to see that their names are on tho Burgess roll befdre Thursday next, or the opportunity will be lost for the year. Every one who has the privilege within his reach should em brace it in the light of a public duty.

An accident, attended with no serious re sults, occurred on Saturday to a lad in the employ of Mr Young, butcher, of Queen street. As the lad was riding with a basket of meat along Wellington-street tho horse stepped on to apparently solid ground, but which proved to be deceptive. The animal stumbled, and the lad fell over the horse's head, and caused a considerable fall in meat. Fortunately the boy was more frightened than hurt.

A public meeting will be held to-morrow evening at the Young Men's Christian As sociation Rooms, Wellesley - street, for the purpose of taking preliminary steps towards the establishment of a reformatory for juveniles. His Worship the Mayor will take the chair, and the meeting will be addressed by Messrs Firth, Haultain, Dargaville, May, Broham, Ellis, and Revs. Messrs Mamnsell, Nelson, and Macnico. The efforts put forth by a few gentlemen to secure the establish ment of a Juvenile Reformatory are deserv ing of cordial support. Thoae who are ac quainted with the difficulties experienced by magistrates in dealing with young offenders must feel the importance of a work having for its object the reclamation of youths who have just entered on paths of vice. A well conducted reformatory, would materially lessen the number of our confirmed criminals, and would in this way return with interest the money expended upon the _ work. We hope the public will evince their sympathy in the movement by crowding the hall to morrow night. The Tiki, a district of Coromandel, has attracted the eyes bf almost innumerable pros pectors. For years past little groups of men. have penetrated the earth for the hidden prize, but not finding It have passed dis heartened from'the scene which tempted them to explore its depth 3. Hundreds have visited the Tiki,with like views and like disappoint ments, but now we learn that mining matters are going ahead there. Progress is being made, and the "Native Chief" glitters with promise.

We have received a number of doggerel rhymes descriptive of the voyage of the Endymion. We give three verses :— ; When in the Bay of Biscay We had it rather rough ; The passengers they all turned in, And said they'd had enough. There was a passenger on board, And Ansell was his name ; For songs and mirth you couldn't match; From Bristol town he came. Also, another named J.W., Who in London town was bred; While slnßing a song call'd " My Pretty Jftno " A bucket o( water <jaino W his head,

DISTURBANCE ON BOARD THE PRIMA DONNA.

By the arrival of the schooner Prima Donna from Rarotonga, via Russell, we are placed in possession of the particulars of a serious assault committed upon Captain Norris by one of the seamen. A. man named Marshall, formerly boatswain of the Reconnoissance, was shipped by Captain Norris at Tahiti. When the Prima Donna was lying at Rarotonga this man refused to work. In reply to an order from the captain he stated that he had shipped for the purpose of going to Raro tonga, and he did not intend to go any further. He Avanted to go on Bhore, but Captain Norris refused to allow him, and some words ensued. Marshall then went below and brought up his clothes and other things preparatory to proceeding on shore. The captain again told him he would not allow him to leave the vessel. Marshall then aimed a blow at Captain Norris with a knife, but the latter managed to avoid it, and only sustained a slight wound. Marshall was at once seized and placed in irons. The manacles, however, were too large, and he managed to free himself. He then rushed at the captain and struck him several times with his fist. He was again secured^ and brought up to the Bay of Islands, where charges of assault and disobedience were preferred against him before Mr Williams, X, M. After hearing the evidence, the Court sentenced him to two months' imprisonment for the assault, and one month's imprison ment for disobedience of lawful commands.

INITIATING A CANDIDATE INTO THE GOOD TEMPLARS.

The method of initiating a candidate into a lodge of Good Templars is but a slight im provement upon the same programme so long in vogue by the ancient and honourable fra ternity of the " Sons of Malta." A " chap" who w?s taken from a lager beer _ saloon, where he got " tight" without knowing that lager would intoxicate, was put through a cold water treatment by the Good Templars a few evenings since. He " peaches" on the Templars, and gives the following expose of theirinitiation ceremony, forwhich, no doubt, he will be put through another course of cold water " sprouts " at the next meeting of the lodge :—ln the first place the victim for initia tion is blindfolded, bound hand and foot, and thrown into a cider press and pressed for five minutes. This is done for the purpose of clearing his system of " old drunks." He ia then taken out of the cider press, and, by means of a force pump, gorged with cistern water, after which a sealing plaster is placed over his mouth, and he is rolled in a barrel four or five times across the room, the choir at the same time singing the cold water song. He is now taken out of the barrel and hung up by the heels till the water runs through/ his ears. He is then cut down, and a beauti ful young lady hands him a glass of cistern water. A cold water bath is then furnished him, after which he is showered with cistern water. He is then made to read the Water Work 3 Act ten minutes, drinking a glass of cistern water between each reading, after which the old oaken bucket is hung around his neck, and fifteen sisters, with squirtguns, deluge him with cistern water. He is then forced to cat a peck of snow, while the brothers stick his ears full of icicles. Heis then run through a clothes-wringer, after which he is handed a glass of cistern water by a young lady. He is again gorged with cistern water, and his boots filled with the same, and laid in a refrigerator. The initation ia now almost concluded. After remaining in the refrigerator for the space of half an hour he is again taken out and given a glass of cistern water, run through a clotheß-wringer, and becomes a Good Templar.— American Paper.

DISTRICT COURT.—This Day.

(Before Thos. Beckham, Esq., R.M.)

MARTHA. K. TURNER V. JOHN C. ECCLES.

Mr Joy appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr Thome for tho defendant.

This was a suit to recover the sum of £50 obtained by fraud from the curators of tho estate of plaintiff's husband. The plaintiff sued as administratrix of J. Turner, deceased, intestate. Mr Joy applied to have the case deferred, but Mr Thorns objected, alleging that the plaintiff had given his client great annoyance by writing to the papers. His Honor said that was only affording amusement to the defendant. Tho plaintiff was sworn, and was proceed ing to give evidence when Mr Thome objected unless tho letters of administration were pro duced. These were not forthcoming, and Mr Joy submitted it would be sufficient if it were shewn that the plaintiff had aoted as admin istratrix. His Honor ruled otherwise, and Mr Joy said? that being so he must with draw the case for the present. Case withdrawn, plaintiff having to pay the costs. WPIITSON AND SON V. ROBT. JONES. Mr Hesketh for the plaintiff, and Mr W. H. Kissling for defendant. This was an action for a disputed 'account for goods, £74 19s. The evidence of Mr Crawford, cashier of Messrs Whitson and Sons, and of the defen dant, was taken, the first-named witness producing his books to show that certain hogsheads of beer had not been paid for, and certain cheques given by Mr Jones had not been honoured, and the defendant, although admitting the non-payment of the cheques at the time of presentation, maintain ing that several small sums had since been tendered and received in liquidation. 4 A long and tedious investigation of the precise dates of certain payments was gone through. At the conclusion of thi« his Honor gave judgment for the plaintiff. F. G. HV.NNINGS V. H. SHJSPHBRD. Claim, £58 10s. Mr Hesketh, for the defendant, said the case was adjourned a month ago in conse quence of the plaintiff's absence at Levnka. They had since received intelligence that; the action was abandoned, but no time was afforded to apprisedefendanfc of the fact, as he was residing at Mangawai. He would ask, therefore, that the same costs which hacT been before allowed, viz., £8 4s, might be again allowedjin favour of the defendant, who had come up to town on purpose to answer the action. ■ - The application was granted' *by his Honor and the case Btruck out. SAMUEL WORMS V JOSEPH WARREN. .This action was brought for the recovery of £50 damages for . injuries suffered by defendant through falling over a heap of stones said to have been left by a contractor in the employ of the Karangahape Highway Board, of which defendant is chairman. The case was adjourned for a fortnight, in order that the whole of the trustees may h* sued jointly. The other cases on the list will be heard to-morrow. The Court rose at three o'clock.

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST;

Or, Home Jottings by our London Correspondent. Slmul et jucunda et idonea dlcew vit*. Aliena negotia centum Per caput et circumsaliunt latus. London, June 4. NEW ZEALAND SHIPPING COMPANY AND AUCKLAND FREIGHT COMPANY. By the way I suppose you Auckland people hare grTen Messrs 1 Russell and Wiliamson pWefto do business for you with the New Sand Freight Company If you have not done so you ought; the colony shouldJo aa one in the matter. It would be greatly to Jh. advantage of all. The Now Zealand Snipping Company will, in a few months, run Sba Pw, Savill & Co. off the line. Some of the finest ships here have recently been chartered by the Shipping Company to load for New Zealand. You have now another addition, a real beauty, for your colonial trade. Yesterday afternoon Mr C. W. Turner, of Canterbury, and general manager of this company m London, completed the purchase of the fine iron barque AAI Medora, 354 tons. She will take from Cardiff 400 tons of coals for the Mauritius, then load with a cargo of sugar for New Zealand. I will write you more fully about this vessel in my next. When you see her you will say she is ono of the handsomest vessels you have had m port tor some time.

EMIGRATION TO NEW ZEALAND The letters of the Wellington correspondent of the Times have always been tinged with a highly patriotic colour, and now are like to accomplish what the efforts of the Agent- General and his people have turned out quite unequal to perform. A letter of his, chiefly on the subject of the province of Canterbury and its adaptability for all classes of immigrants, appeared in the Times of the 21st May, and that journal of the following day flung its energies into a column and a half leader on the question of New Zealand in general, and the prospects which it holds out as a whole to the over-crowded population of England. Of course the fact that in the colony you have room for none but either capitalists, or the horny-handed son of toil, is sufficiently well-known to all but the Colonies' Emigration Agents and some few of their victims ; and the Times, after repeating for the hundredth time this statement, asks somewhat pertinently whether we are not educating too highly, or at least whether we are not "insensing" our youth with a smattering of mathematics, history, and the classics, giving them in fact what is usually known as a high - class education, and im parting tastes for good society, fine houses, and elegant wives without at the same time supplying the means by which alone, these in themselves, very desirable things may be attained or acquired. The oft-quoted speech of some one, I forget who, once made on the occasion of the departure of a batch of emi grants for New Zealand, that the colony re quired men who could not only write a Greek epigram, but bleed a cow, is again brought into requisition, the Times suggesting that as a rule Greek epigrammatists have not the op portunity, even if the inclination were pre sent, to acquire the art of vaccine phlebotomy, and asking whether the antique but no less practical and excellent system of compelling every university student to learn some handi craft should not again be brought into vogue. Had such a system been invariably enforced, how much suffering, crime and shame, both to individuals and families might have been spared. only those who have seen and lived in colonial society can know. How ever, the London writer urges the departure for the land of promise and the plains of Canterbury of all those of the labouring classes who wish to better themselves. For my own part I am not by any means sure that peoplo of this class are so much better off in the colony than they are in England. It is true that provisions of some kind are cheaper in New Zealand, but on the other hand rents and clothing are very high and employment is rather uncertain. There is, it true, also an enormous pauper population in Great Britain, but this is made up of a class of peoplo whose presence would be a decided curse to the colony. Within the last few years artizans' wages have risen enormously in England, and yearly they continue to rise; and when it is considered that the amount of comfort to be obtained for 2Cs in England is at leatst double that to be obtained for the same amount in New Zealand, it is scarcely to be wondered at that, when the fact of the inconvenient distance be added, the in dustrious and prosperous (and to be indus trious in these days is to be prosperous in England) are scarcely to be persuaded to break up their homes and sail for the anti podes. There are plenty of small shop keepers, clerks on starvation salaries, and people of that kind who are willing to come, but they are not the people who are wanted, and should not be persuaded to go. Con versing with a well-to-do farmer the other day he told me that he was giving his men eighteen shilling a week and board, and that they had objected to having bacon given them for breakfast and supper, and had demanded beefsteaks and mutton chops morning and evening, and fresh beef at dinner. This, with beef at tenpence per pound in the country, is rather expensive, and in fact this man said that the present high wages wore destroying all the profits, and that a single bad year with crops was in these days almost enough to break any farmer.

TEE DIFFICULTIES OF MR FEATHERSTONE. The Agent-General has no easy job I believe, and for niy part 1 am not surprised at his finding such difficulties in the way of obtaining English emigrants as drive him over the water. He feels that he is bound to deliver his tale of bricks. Colonists are somewhat hard taskmasters, and probably through thoughtlessness are unintentionally hard upon the Doctor, of whose difficulties the really know nothing. To add to his troubles, moreover, such pretty little stories came home occasionally about the injustice of the Government in small matters, and the obstacles instead of encouragement thrown in the way of enterprising and struggling colonists. That little scandal about Munro (M.H.R.,), and Peace, the fish-preserving TBan, has been all read here and commented on, and when people of small capital and lots of enterprise who could willingly attempt something in your country hear that your leading statesmen spend all their time in feasting and touring, and all their energies for the acquisition of Colonial Brummagen titles, and .permit their toadies iv their abaence'to oppress andjehoke honest industry, their ambitions are naturally somewhat chilled thereby. Perhaps now that Imperial •permission has been at last obtained for some of your great people to air their titled names within the limits of the colony only, those " honourable" ones may find time to attend to the wants of those who so meekly and regularly pay for their support. A MASONIC ITEM. I think I mentioned in my last letter the sudden death of the Earl of Zetland, who for over a quarter of a century had held the exalted position of Grand Master of English Freemasons. His funeral was conducted quite privately by his especial d,esire. Still there "were several high masons present on the occasion, and all- the English lodges showed the usual marks of respect. On the 21itMay ft special Grand Lodge «£ F*gc»

masons of England was held in the temple at Freemason's Hall. The Marquis o{ Ttipon, who succeeded Lord Zetland some years ago as Grand Master, presided, sup, ported on his right by the Earl of Carnarvon, D.G.M-rand by Mr Fawcett, P. G.M. of" Durham, as P.G.M., on his left. Lordßal four, ofßurleigh, occupied his seat asS.G.W., and Captain Platt as J.P.G.W. Lord Leighf« SirW. Beach, Sir Albert Woods (Garter), Mr A. Dobie, Mr J. B. Monckton, Mr J, Havers, Mr S. Rawson, Mr Clabon, Mr S. Tomkins, and a great number of;distinguished brethren were present, all being clad in Masonic mourning. Mr Wilhelm Ganz, G.Q., nlayod the "Dead March in Saul" on the' entry of the G.M., who, contrary to the usual custom, was received in silence. Aa soon as the Grand Officers had assumed their places, the Grand Lodge was opened in due form, and Mr John Hervey, Grand Secretary,., announced that he had received letters from 4 Lord Tenterrlen and other Past Grand Officers expressing regret at their not being able to 6 attend. The G.M. then rose, and said that in directing this especial Grand Lodge to b« held he knew that he rightly interpreted the feelings of the craft at large, for knowing, well as he did the very high estimation in which the late Lord Zetland was held, and,.. the affectionate regard which was entertained | for him throughout the country, he was surevi he would be following a course consonant with their feelings if he afforded Freemasons an opportunity of expressing their feelings by placing on the records of the Grand Lodge a testimony of their deep sense of the loss they all sustained by the death of their P.G.M. He need not remind them of the services hij, Lordship had rendered the craft during his long Masonic career ;'they would all remember * how for 25 years he occupied the throne in the Grand Lodge, and with what zeal, i m . partiality, and high and honourable feelings he had discharged the important functions | of the office of G.M. of E.F. Since Lord ; Zetland resigned his post the Brethren had on so many occasions marked, both in brand Lodge and in other assemblages of the craft, ' the feelings they entertained towards him..,., end their grateful recollection of his long.; career as G.M. that he could not doubt there* was not a brother in the Lodge who did not,,, feel sincere grief at his loss, which was almost like that of a personal friend. For many years he had had the high honour of being closely associated with Lord Zetland, and he knew well the spirit with which he laboured for the interests of Freemasonry. _ He was a man of high honour, and utterly incapable of 1 acting on any occasion from personal or pri- o vate motives'. Having had the interest of the craft so much at heart it would indeed be sur prising if they had not met together on this melancholy occasion to associate themselves with the many hearts—the hearts of hia ' family, and friends, and neighbours in their.;. grief. Lord Zetland indeed lived to a ripe old age to enjoy the honours which were justly showered on him by his Sovereign, his j countrymen, and his brethren of the craft;,, but among all his honours there was none in heart which he appreciated more highly than those which were the result of the confidence which for a quarter of a century his Masonic brethren reposed in him. He therefore would propose that a formal resolution should be placed on the records of the Grand Lodge in the same form as was observed when the late Duxe of Sussex died, expressing the grief of the craft at the loss they had sustained, and their affectionate recollection of his past s&t-i vices. The D.G.M. seconded the motion in an able speech, and it was put and clrried. The Grand Lodge was then closed in the usual manner, and the G.O. again played the Dead March, whilst the G.M., the grand officers, and the brethren left the temple. The next day the following circular was issued under the authority of the "United Grand Lodge of Ancient Free and Accepted Masons of England :"—" In consequence of the much-lamented death of the Eight Hon orable the Earl of Zetland, K.G., M.W.P. G.M. an event which has filled the breast of every mason with the most poignant grief —it i& ordered that the Grand Lodge, and all subordinate lodges, be placed in masonic mourning for the space of six months from this date. The mourning to be worn by brethren individually to be asfollows:—Grand* officers, present and past, three rosettes of black * crape on the badges and one at the point of the chain or collar, just abovtf the jewel; masters, past masters, and master masons, three black crape rosettes on badge; fellow crafts and entered apprentices, two black crape rosettes at the lower part of the badge, white gloves. By command of the M.W.G.M.—John Harvey, G.S." THE OLD 65tH REGIMENT. I chanced to be present the other day at rather an interesting ceremony, no less than the formal depositing of the old colours of the 65th Regiment, second North Riding of Yorkshire Regiment, in York Cathedral. The regiment is at present stationed at the Curragh of Kildare, and the officers who presented the colours to the Dean and Chap ter of the Cathedral were Captain Bryan and Lieut. Thornhill, who were on the occa sion attired in full uniform. The spectacle of those somewhat dilapidated but glorious old flags recalled to the memory the days of '■; old New Zealand, and one could almost im agine, as he saw them supported by their gallant defenders, that he again could see the wild, broken, and picturesque hills of Te^ Ika c Maui and her glorious skies of Italian blue. These colours, which are now suspended over the vestry door, are those under which the regiment fought in New Zealand from 1845 to 1865. They were brought back to England in 186Q, and taken out to India in 1871, when new colours of another pattern were presented to the Regiment by Lady Mayo, and then tho old colours were put on one side. A DISTINGUISHED HISTORIAN ON THE PRBSB. Mr Froude has been presiding at the annual dinner of the Newspaper Press Fund, and in his speech made rather a sly hit at the Roman Catholics, at the same time compli menting highly the members of the English Press generally. The Press in the present day, he said, occupied the proud poiition once maintained by the Roman Church. The Press dictated to sovereigns, commented fearlessly on public and private matters, and had proved itself a literary censor of the most merciless kind. At the same time he added that he must say that it was always anxious for the truth and the defeat of error, and was pitiless only upon stupidity.. The position which the Press is at present taking both at home and abroad points to a great future for journalists and journalism, and already the establishment of chairs for Pro fessors of Journalism is talked ot at the American Universities. THE NEWSPAPER WORLD. And talking of American journalism sug gests the item that a daily penny paper on American principles, and in the New YorTc Herald style of sensation, is shortly to be started in London. At present the Telegraph comes nearest that style, but not; near enough for thorough-going sensationalists, although most of its leaders could hardly be surpassed for " high-falutin' " even in New York city. It has an extraordinarily large circulation. Ittasthe ear of the multitude, doubtless, and must be a magnificent property, judging from its show of advertisements and high tariff of charges. To my mind, and I believe to the minds of most steady going people, the Daily News ia the moat satisfactory of the peonies Its news is always most mimMa

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