SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening. 7.2 SUN-RISE: To morrow morning, b.28 HTOH WATER: This afternoon, 4.24 ; to-morrow morning, 4.50.

ARRIVALS Nil.

DEPARTURE. Wanganni, e.s., Linklater, for Southern ports

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

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

steamer, 20th inst.. For Boston, Mass. : Ayr. barque, early For Cork : Polar Star, ship, early For Northern ports: Rowena, s.s., Monday next For London : Glenhuntly, barque, about early For Sydney and Melbourne: Wonga Wonga, s.s., early ...Hero, s.s., about 28th inst.

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Warwick, ship, from London. Sailed 31st October Durham, ship, from London. Sailed 20th November Edinburgh Castle, ship, from London. Loading Parsee, ship, from London. Loading Lanca, 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 Cull, schooner, from Levuka Southern Cross, schooner, from Sydney Prosperity, schooner, from Melbourne Rita, brig, from Sydney. Sailed 20th Janury Wonga Wonga, s.s., from Sydney Harriet Armytage, barque, from Dunedin Paterson, p.s., from Sydney Success, schooner, from Levuka Albion, brig, from Newcastle Xile, barque, from Adelaide Coronet, brigantine, from Wellington

The schooner Ivanhoe will leave in a few days for Norfolk Island.

The ketch Clematis, bound for the East Coast, put back to harbour yesterday even ins? on account of the boisterous weather.

The s.s Wanganui left the Manukau yes terday afternoon for Wanganui with the following passengers :—Mrs Linklater, Mrs Winter, Messrs Brewer, Isaacs, Currie, Samuels, McGee, and Earle. The cutter Flora McDonald arrived yes terday in the Manukau with a cargo of flax, &c. and six passengers. The p.s. Paterson, lately purchased by Messrs J. Brogden and Son, may be ex pected to arrive from Sydney on or about the 12th inst. The,steamer has been expressly fitted up for the New Zealand coasting trade by Captain Kennedy, who will command her. We are glad to observe that Mr Morton Jones, of No. ,7j Queen-street, has been ap pointed agent for the vessel.

As the storm season comes on in the British. Isles the Board of Trade publish their annual wreck statement. In 1871 there were 1,575 wrecks out of 1,927 vessels that suffered on the coast of Great Britain. Tn 398 cases the vessels were total losses. The life-boat system, however, is so perfect that but one-half of the wrecks resulted in loss of life. Al together 02C> sailors were lost. The life-boats saved- 4,336 shipwrecked persons. There were many losses from collision, of which 351 occurred, and 40 from unseaworthy vessels, swelled tbe catalogue of disaster. Twenty five vessels foundered. Trinity House lines the coast with lights, and the Life-boat Institution man a fleet of 233 boats, mostly manned by volunteers. Harbour authorities supply 34 more. The Board of Trade pro vides 281 sets of rocket and mortar appa ratus, while nine Volunteer Life Brigades and 120 Volunteer Life Companies have been formed by persons residing on the coast. These volunteers are practiced in the use of tbe rocket apparatus, and co-operate with the coast guard.

COMMERCIAL.

Caofoenta. — Messrs Macfarlane, Blair and Co., of San Francisco, report on Jan. 8 as follows :—Wheat is firm with the ad vance in Liverpool, and wheats lie here at £3 1 s., cost and freight for Liverpool. One cargo has been sold at £3 2s, cost of freight per oOOlbs. Freights remain depressing ; £3 10s is the nominal rate for Liverpool direct. Wool.—We understand the Spring clip with us will be unusually large. Wheat. —Prospects of a large crop, are excellent, and We look for an early one. The new crop is coming in for June loading, and business generally looks remarkably healthy.

MINING. The following are the current calls and dividends payable in the companies named below :— & a. d. ■ETVIDLND.

Green Harp, Insurance Buildings, Auckland, 3 p.m., 10th February 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 February Coromandel Excelsior, Mr J^rowne's office, Wyndham street, 13th February Masonic, Coromandel, 15th February Tokatea, Coromandel, 21st February Shotover. Insurance Buildings; Auckland, 2 p.m.

17th February Bismarck and French Republic, Insurance Buildings

Auckland, 2 p m., 21st February Tokatea. Coromandel, 21st February Watchman, firaliamstown, 21st February Central Ttaly, Orahamstown. 27th February South British Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Company's oflice, Cjueen street, Auckland, 3 p.m., 24th March

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as Under :—

For Thames, thia day, at 5.30 p.m., and on Monday,

10th inst., at 10.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, on Monday, 10th inst., at 1.30 p.m._ For Great Barrier, Whitianga, Tauranga, ancl Opotiki, per Southern Cross, on Monday, 10th instant, at 3 p.m. For Russell, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, on Monday,

10th inst., at 3 p.m. For Wangarei, AVaipu, &c, per Challenger, on Mon day, 10th inst., at 3p. 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. in. 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 6d in addition to the postage will be received at this office until 1 p.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up to time of sailing. (Signed) S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

DEATHS.

Stewart.—On February 8, Allen Walter, infant son of Mr John Stewart; aged 14 months.

The funeral will leave his father's residence, Victoria street East, To-morrow (Sunday), at 9 a.m. Friends please accept this invitation. Sutherland.—On February 8, at his father's resi dence, Beresford street, Murdoch, eldest son of M. D. Sutherland.

The funeral will leave on Monday, 10th inst., at 3 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation.

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

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

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1873.

There is perhaps but one feeling in this city and district with reference to

the injustice done in the conduct of

our immigration. It may perhaps be difficult to discover on whom the bur-

then of the blame should rest, or what

in fact is the cause of this, but no one

can fail being struck with the numbers of evidently desirable immigrants streaming into tbe Southern provinces, while with the exception of a small

number of navvies this province ap pears to be regarded as deserving or requiring none. That formerly there was culpable indifference shown in provincial head-quarters on this sub ject as well as on that of public works is beyond a doubt, and it is possible that the effects of that are still felt but that indifference is not now felt, and we must go higher to seek the sources of this indifference to our interests. That Dr. Featherstone has Southern proclivities is very evident, but, while not even Southern residents can regard him as a very efficient emigration agent, we,in "our province," have decidedly cause for wishing that his work was placed in other hands. A proper immigration is the very life-blood of a colony, and of a province, and this province would have been quite as well off in relation to immigration if Dr. Featherstone had been still vegetating at "Welling ton. By the import of ordinary immi grants the settlement of our rural districts could not fail to have been promoted, but the ill results of this j

neglect have not been all of a negative ( character, and in the utter neglect of female immigration multitudes of our householders are compelled to face **

positive evil in the form of servant galism rampant. On the necessity for the importation of single women there is little variance of opinion—save, perhaps, among the class themselves. The disparity of the sexes shows the necessity of such immigration from a social and moral point of view, while the introduction of a fresh race of " do mestic helps" would not only prove of incalculable comfort to families, but have a beneficial influence on the minds of the single females already resident and engaged in domestic ser vice. That there cannot be insuper able difficulties in obtaining such emigrants at home is shown by the numbers that are being im ported into other parts of the colony, but why Auckland should be neglected in this matter is among the mysteries of the immigra tion department. The continuance of immigration, and almost the existence of the colony having been pronounced by Dr Eeatherstone to be dependent on the continuance of the monopoly of Shaw, Saville and Company, it is just possible that it would interfere with such momentous interests as those of the (company if any emigrants were sent to Auckland.

The telegraph wire, somewhere between Grahamstown and Katikati, was blown down yesterday afternoon, and the break has not yet been repaired. Linemen have been sent along the track, but the rivers are so much swollen as to render travelling The damage will probably be remedied before Monday. Auckland managed to get along for years without telegraphic connection with the South, and did not feel the inconvenience very severely, but having once enjoyed the benefits conferred by the " talking wire," any stoppage is felt not only as a great incon venience but .sometimes causes considerable pecuniary loss.

We understand that an Autumn race meeting will be held under the auspices of the new Jockey Club on Easter Monday and Tuesday. The club has now been placed on a sound basis, and we may hope to witness many successful meetings held under its direction.

We have just been shown a fly-sheet, which has been published without name of printer or anyone else, by a private printing-press in Newton. We have made enquiry, and satis fied ourselves that it was so printed and thence circulated. It is a very unmanly attack on a lady engaged in teaching a school in that district, and worded in a manner that seems safe to a person unacquainted with law of libel. Among other thing the document says " AYe are not exempt from the public cal amity of such an one (a viper) dwelling in our midst in the person of Mrs A. Parents can not be too careful with regard to the moral training of their children, &c, &c." We have no desire to enter into the merits of of any dispute or neighbour's quarrels that may have given origin to such an attack, but we need scarcely point to the mischievous practice of so lampooning in secret, and the danger which it may prove to domestic and social peace. The Printers' and Newspapers' Registration Act very properly enjoins under heavy penalties that tlie name of the printer shall be appended to all such printed matter, so that the responsibility of libellous matter may at once be fixed. The printer of this fly-sheet, if he has issued twenty-five copies, is liable to a fine of not less than £125, nor more than £f>oo, the half of which goes to the informer ; while the matter is so exceedingly defamatory, that if criminally prosecuted, he would in addition most certainly be sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. We need not say anything of the conduct of a man, with any profession of manliness, attacking a woman in this way. It is so repugnant to all generous and right feeling that we can hardly conceive it possible. We trust that on the matter being thus delicately brought before the public eye such conduct will cease, and that we shall not lie under the necessity of further and more definite treatment.

Very serious damage Was done by yester day's gale to the railway works extending from Britomart Point to Mechanics' Bay? Of Mr Owen Jones' contract between seven aud eight hundred cubic yards of earth have been swept into the harbour, leaving the rails suspended over the beach. That portion of the work protected by stor.e, and forming a sea wall, has escaped the fury of the gale, but a large portion of the embankment to wards Wynyard pier has entirely disappeared. The railway embankment extending from Mechanics' Bay bridge to within a few yards of the Pier has also suffered considerably notwithstanding the wooden protecting wail erected along its length, fortius, in some parts, has been demolished by the sea. Many hundred yards of earth have been washed into the harbour from here, and a great deal of labour destroyed. The unfortunate occurrence will seriously impede the progress of the work, as the whole of the damage will have to be repaired. The harbour improvement works at St. Barnabas Point have suffered severely ; stone facing, piles and earthwork being all displaced, leaving the works in absolute confusion. The quantity of earth that has been washed out into the harbour is sufficient to cause serious appre hension with regard to the silting up of the harbour, and protective measures should be at once taken to prevent further destruction of the breakwater.

Yesterday a presentation consisting of a gold locket was made to Capt. J. McCosh Clark by members of No. 3 Company Auck land Rifie Brigade, of which he is captain, previous to his departure for England. The gift has been made as a slight token ol the re gard and esteem in which Captain Clark is held by the corps, and as such will no doubt be highly prized. Apart from this the present is a valuable one. The locket haa been manufactured by Mr H. Kohn, jeweller, of Queen-street, tt is a heavy massive article, designed with exquisite taste and judgment, and manufactured with great skill. On one side is engraved the monogram "J. M. C.," being Captain Clark's initials. On the oppo site side are the arms of the Auckland Rifle Brigade, consisting of a bugle, sur mounted by a crown set in diamonds and rubies, and enclosed in a garter. It is an article of bijouterie of which the wearer may justly feel proud. The pre sentation was made by Mr W. Thorne, secretary, on behalf of the company. In doing so he wished Capt. Clark a prosperous voyage and a speedy return. Capt. Clarke returned thanks and expressed a hope that the company would attend to rifle practice and drill. He would always feel an interest in the company, and would be glad to see the names of its members recorded as the best shots in any rifle competition. The pro ceedings then terminated.

The ladies of Waiuku offered a number of of prizes for competition by the Waiuku Volunteers. The prize for the lowest score was a goose, and Sergeant Barribal was the happy winner.

We have received a letter signed '' Thomas P. Smith," requesting us to print in full the letter of "Not a Shareholder," with reference bo the Iron and Steel Company, from which we made extracts. We are unable to do^ so, the letter being destroyed, besides the "gist " of it has been already given. We have also received a letter signed '' One who would like to know," questioning the power of the company to produce iron at £lG per ton, but although we have an innocent and a harmless appear ance we are not so stupid as to fail to see that all these attacks on the company in different hand writing are from the same source. This style of thing does not go down. The company is engaged in a com mendable and a most promising effort to develop one of our most valuable resources, and for this we have put it down in our book as "A cause that lacks assistance." Nor shall we lend our columns to the covert attacks of persons who cannot conceal cither their disappointment or hostility; Fair and open criticism of this, as of any other public com pany, we court; but half a dozen letters bearing internal evidence of. the identity ,of their authorship are not a fair way of attack ing a young company.

Silver wedding—charming. Golden wed ding—affecting. But diamond wedding, no, come. When it gets to that I should think people may have had enough of one another, and that diamond might cut diamond. Oil second thoughts that sentiment is worthier of you, Toby, than of myself.— Punch.

It is suggested thab when babies are taken to theatres tliey should be checked and left at the door, the same as umbrellas.

The New York roughs use poisoned bullets so as to make sure of their victims, even if a vital part is missed.

The historian Froude is now making a lecturing tour through America. Referring in a recent speech to the subject of Ireland, he said :—" America had special interest in it, and especial right to express an opinion owing to the peculiar relations between Ireland and America, which are the out growth of more than one hundred years of immigration to America of all classes of Irish people. For more than three and a-half centuries Englishmen had sought in vain for the cause and remedy of: Irish discontent. Wise men had said : ' The plant has never grown that can heal the wound,' but though undiscovered (?) in the old hemisphere, he believed it might be found in the new, It is that plant which I have come in search of. I believe it to be American opinions. We are at our wit's end. America Will counsel Eng land what to do that she has left undone. What wrong she can yet redress that.-Ireland may justly complain of, England, I am cer tain, will listen respectfully, cordially, grate fully. If, on the other hand, a time is ever to come when political agitation is to end in Ireland, when Celt and Saxon, Protestant and Catholic, are to live side by side in peace and quietness, it will be when America tells the Irish that they have no longer a grievance which legislation can redress, and that they must depend for their future prosperity on their own industry."

We observe that the members of the Thames Debating Society have commenced vigorously to work, and are ahead of our Wellesley-street politicians by two months. Owing to the introduction of other business on Thursday evening, the elaborate essay by Mr Smith, " On the Origin of the Universe," was held over until the next meeting. The subject—a purely speculative one—will, it is expected, attract a large audience, and occupy several evenings. When tho class has decided how this terrestrial globe origi nated they will oblige by letting us know. We are glad to learn that there is now a prospect of this long debated question being once and forever settled. Thames Debating Society Icrtptii.

I At a gathering of Poles in the little village of Kernst, Alexandrina Kossowitz, a young lady whose father, the youngest son of a formerly noble Polish family, was killed in tlie recent troubles in Warsaw, expressed in passionate words her sympathy with the unfortunates whom Russian severity had murdered or sent into exde, and her detesta tion of the oppressors of her race. The meeting was a purely social one, and none dreamed that anything said there would reach the ears of the Russian spies, for all present were known to be Poles, and firm haters of the harsh rule under which they then lived. The young lady was, however, be trayed by a woman whom she had replaced in the affections of a Polish doctor, and she was brought before a Russian judge and con demned to receive thirty live lashes of the knout, Almost benumbed with shame and terror the girl was led away to be prepared for punishment. In half an hour after the sen tence had been given two hundred troops had been formed into a hollow square, in the centre of which had been placed a scaffold, standing on four legs, the top of which was an inclined plane. Beside this stood tbe exe cutioner, having in his muscular hand the knout. This weapon consists of a stick or a handle, two feet long, with a lash four feet long, of soft leather, to the end of which is attached by a loop a piece of raw hide, two inches wide and two feet long. In the hands of an experienced man the piece of raw hide can be made to cut like a knife. As the executioner stood facing the scaffold, Alexandrina Kossowitz was brought to him by her guard, and in a few moments her clothing was removed to her waist, despite her almost mute appeals to be saved tho shame. As she pleaded she was bent on the plane, her hands strapped to the two upper corners and her ancles secured at the foot of the structure. One of the executioner's assistants held her head, and the petty judge gave the order for the whipping to commence. Twirling the long lash in the air the execu tioner stepped suddenly backward, and with a sharp crack the thong fell on the back of the sobbing girl, cutting a livid streak from her right shoulder to her waist. A terrible tremor passed over her, and a quick low cry escaped her lips, but it was the only sound she uttered, and were it not for the blood which soon commenced to flow it might have seemed that the whip ping was being done on the naked back of a corpse. When the last lash had been given, the young lady -was unfastened, and with her clothing rudely thrown over her she was taken to prison, and there, after thanking the Judge for his mercy according to the necessary formula, she was delivered over to her friends. Five days afterwards the Gazelle of Wilne contained this announce men : —"The Polish criminal, Alexandrina Kossowitz, daughter of the rebel Peter Kossowitz, who was knouted for seditious utterances on the 29th of July, at Kernst, while submitting her lacerations to medical treatment, in the house of the physician, g tole a vial of prussic acid, with which she e iided her days."

"Man has sought out many inventions" continues to be verified in a thousand differ ent ways, and especially in modes of adver tising. The following from an American cemetery is, we believe, the latest out, and comes from a widowed heart:—"Here lies Jane Smith, wife of Thomas Smith, marble cutter. This monument was erected by her husband as a tribute to her memory, and as a specimen of his work. Monuments of the same style, ,$250."

The district prize-firing for first set of prizes Avill take place on Monday ancl Tues day mornings, commencing at nine o'clock,

Twelve Indians Were, hung in a row m Texas, recently, for driving off surreptitious beef. After having their faces washed eleven turned out to be white men.

Damages of £130 have been awarded in the English Court of Common Pleas to an architect named Ward for injuries to the eye from the whip of an omnibus-driver.

The sharpest, so far, this month, is the Troy girl who makes her unsuspecting father the daily bearer of sweet missives' to a clerk in his office who has been forbidden to visit his employer's house.. She.pins the letter in old man's cloak, and when he reaches the office and throws off the garment, clerk gets it, and responds by the same carrier. .

There was a very fair attendance last night at the Union-street Schoolroom, but not so large as was expected in consequemce of the rain. Some disappointment was felt that the expected musicians from the Blanche did not appear, still the evening was plea santly passed. Tbe Bey. Mr Turner pre sided, and Mr E. Wood conducted the musical department. The monthly meeting of the Band of Hope will be held on the 21st inst.

The unfavourable state of the weather last night did not prevent the many pleasure seekers from attending at the Prince of Wales Theatre to witness the pefforhiattc.eS of the star artistes. The entertainment was under the patronage; of the captain and officers of H.M.S. Blanche. The programme was but slightly varied from that of the previdiis evenino', and comprised the several excellent comic and sentimental songs by Miss Fanny Sara and Mr Fred Clifton; the much admired dances of Messrs Buckley and Holly, and the extraordinary gymnastic exerch_e_f of Lottie and her brothers. The musical ar rangements, under the leadership of Mr Herman, assisted by Mr J. Munyard, was all that could be desired, while the accompani ments on the pianoforte by Mr Frank Richard son evidenced the hand of a master of iilusic. Notice of application of transfer of licensei of the Point Russell Hotel, Papakura, front Jamef Innes to Roland Robert Campion, has been given.

The first meeting for the election of dis trict school committee for the Auckland East Education District will be held on Monday evening next, at half-past seven o'clock, at the Mechanics' Institute. The district com prises all that portion of the city of Auckland lying to the.: east of Hobsoii-street and Pitt-street.

At Grass Valley, lately, upon the conclu sion of a phrenological lecture, "five beautiful young ladies" were appointed a committee to award a prize to the handsomest yottth present. That ambrosial being stepped gracefully forward to receive it. Blushing sweetly to the roots of his sun-burnt hair, which parted in elfin locks upon a mahogany brow, and twined in wild entanglement upon the collar of his scarlet flannel blouse, he sprang lightly over the benches to the lecturer's table. His limbs encased in pilot duck trowsers, and ponderous cowskin boots, displayed a mass of calf' unknown to the mannikins of an effete Eastern civilization. His massy neck, columnar and corded, sup ported a head of spheric symmetry, in the front of which flamed a feature, marked with the crimson scars of confluent California small-pox — reminding the beholder of the ripe wild raspberry of our Yosemite Valley. A prolonged and vacant snigger bespoke the pride and pleasure of the moment more forcibly than the showy but meritricious rhetoric of the East. The five beautiful young ladies bent upon him looks of appre ciation, blended, we were proud to remark, with dark malignity and ferocious hate for each other. Michael Tremayne, the declared Adonis of Grass Valley, no longer to be known by the soubriquet of Big-Foot Mike, is the principal owner in the Jovial J ay-Hawk hydraulic claim, and accounted the wealthiest bachelor in Nevada country.— San Francisco A'ews Letter.

A meeting of the resident shareholders of City West, No, 2, was held last evening in the Catholic Institute, Wellesly-street (Mr Shanaghan in the chair), when the following gentlemen were nominated for the school committee, viz. : Messrs Morrin, Bayntun, Upton, Shanaghan, and Mahony, and de clared duly elected.

The Rev, David Jones, incumbent of St. Matthew's, is still suffering from protracted ill-health. He is at present sojourning at Onehunga, where it is hoped the quiet and change of air may be the means of restoring him back to health. His pulpit to-morrow will be filled by the Rev. William Martin, of Steeple Harden.

The subjects of discourse to-morrow, at the Newton Kirk, by the Rev. Dr Wallis, will be—morning, " The Evolution of Christ ian Hope ;" evening, " Christ in us the Hope of Glory." At the Primitive Methodist Free Church' the Rev. G. H. Turner will preach on the following subjects : —Morning, "The Yoke of Christ ;" evening, "Rest."

Tlie French Minister of war has forbid den Sunday review of troops.

The Marquis of Waterford follows the ex ample of his wife, and joins the Roman Catholic Church.

Nearly three thousand English clergy men have petitioned Archbishop Tape for permission to omit the Athanasian creed from their services.

The Mankato, Minn., barbers having be come pious all of a sudden, will not shave on Sunday unless they receive ten cents additional pay.

■At Muscatine, lowa, recently, some naughty boys locked up a church during service, and obliged the congregation to climb out of the windows.

A new Hampshire clergyman tried to kill himself by swallowing a tallow candle, and all because his hand had been refused three times, by as many ladies, within three weeks.

A Louisville man who had only been ac quainted with his girl two nights attempted to kiss her at the gate. In his dying depo sition he told the doctors that just as he "kissed her the earth slid from under his feet and his soul went out of his month, while his head touched the stars." Later dispatches show that what ailed him was the old man's boot.

At the great Boston fire. some acts of fire heroism were performed ; in one instance two men rushed forward to rescue another caught among the ruins and crying for help when a wall fell and crushed them both. In some instances clerks laboured to save the property of their employers while their own dwellings were being destroyed. In contrast with such deeds there were many acts of meanness and villany that put human nature to the blush. Upon the first intelligence of the calamity an army of thieves gathered like vultures to a carcass. Seven hundred are said to have hastened from New York. The most shameless plundering of rescued property took place. Attempts were made to start the fire in new places. The Tremont House had been made the depository of many valuables, and in consequence several incendiary attempts were made against it, one of tho villians having been seen to enter a basement window and to come out simultaneously with an outburst of smok^, was shot dead on the spot by the marine o ' guard,

The Honolulu correspondent of a Cali fornian paper writes :— The contrast between the half-caste females, and the males is very conspicuous. The former, upon the average, are inclined to be handsome and are sociable and unassuming, and appear to have a fair amount of education, while the latter, with few exceptions, are coarse and ignorant, and unfitted for any capacity than that ot vaqueros or sailors, which employment they generally follow, if any at all. While visit ing at a place of amusement recently, an acquaintance called my [attention to a conspicuous-looking female, {of the nan breed persuasion, who was attracting con siderable notice from the male portion ot the audience. Although evidently "got vp ;j forthe occasion "regardless of expense, her apparent disregard of any pretence to modesty made her prominent subject of com ment, particularly among the ladies. I learned that she was known by the soubriquet ot the Duke's favourite, owing to the Duke ot Edinburgh, during his visit a few years since, having honored her with considerable notice at a native feast where he first met her, and alttioiigli her education or antece dents did not warrant the attention bestowea upon her by her noble admirer, it was tne means of the lady and her husband (a pom pous little individual with extravagant ideas, holding a petty government position), gain ing access to a grand ball given by the King in honor of his f oyal visitor, since when they have been tolerated ifl certain circles by those who were anything but flattered by their acquaintance. Of late, however, the moral sensitiveness Of the husband has un dergone a change, and being anxious to forget the cause which brought his domestic affairs into notoriety, occasionally becomes so furious over a piece of gossip regarding the Duke that the lady has more than once been the recipient of a co^hiding in conse quence, and, as the result of his conjugal demonstrations, has several times been a prominent guest at the Police Court. The Patriotic Club has made a demonstra tion of its professions lately in Hyde Park and on Clerkenwell Green, where a blade of green grass Is not to be found. This club is an offshoot of thei lief otm League, which was presided over by Mr Edmoiid Beatles.-_. The popular orator, Charles Bradlaugbi, is the prominent spirit of these dingy-coated patriot*, who would send the Queen to Kew Palace or Claremont on a small pension, and place the inimitable Bradlaugh in the presidential chair, with George Odger, the shoemaker, as his right-hand supporter. Charles Bradlaugh was formerly ft private soldier, subsequently, by his fierce denunciations oi tings and aristocracies, and orthodox teachers, he bocame the pet leader of the shadowy portion of the people. He dabbled too in literature, and established a small secular weekly. periodical. He is now a commission agent, and has an office it St. Helen's, in the city of London, employs four clerks, and occupies a neat residence m the classical neighbourhood of Edmonton. Brad laugh is a liberal man withal; and when the Reform League was on its beams-ends this patriotic orator found supplies, and continued its existence to its close.

The South Pole, which seems latterly to have been quite forgotten in the abortive search for the North one, is honoured with a book at last by a learned German doctor named Neumayer. It is twenty-seven years since the last attempt at Antartic exploration, under Captain Moore. Dr Neumayer recom mends the Cape of Good Hope as a starting point, and gives a full bibliography. of ail voyages and memoirs relating to the South Pole.

If the police report may be accepted as a criterion of the moral condition of the masses then surely the people of Auckland are im proving, for there was not a single case of drunkenness before the Court this'morning, a fact which will be gratifying to the advocates of the temperance cause.

We beg to call the attention of the mu sical portion of our readers to the varied assortment of music specially selected by Mr Alfred Anderson, the celebrated pianist, while in England, for sale by public auction, on Monday next, 10th instant, by Messrs Samuel Cochrane and Son, at their rooms, Fort-street.

A Cleveland paper makes a gentle insinua tion about street names on the city lamps in the following paragraph: "While we are paying out $75,000 for a lighthouse to guide the bold mariner into port, can't a few dollars be expended in giving bewildered 'land lubbers ' something to steer by ? "

Roller skatiug has now been tried for two years in San Francisco, and it has main tained itself so well that it may be regarded as one of our permanent popular amusements. In many respects it is preferable to dancing, to which it would probably offer more competition than it does if the skates were not held subject to the monopoly of a patent. As only one kind of step is necesssary in the ordinary movement skating can be learned with less labor than dancing, and it can be practiced with less exertion, it is also more indepen dent, for neither a partner nor music is necessary to its enjoyment, although both may be preferable. The motion is more rapid and therefore more exhilirating, and at the same time there is less consciousness of effort than in dancing.— Alia California.

A young man from Kentucky, who under took to open a country store in the mountains of East Tennessee, came to speedy ruin because he was " too nippy "for that region. He wore a stove-pipe hat, had his boots blacked every day, and mounted a fresh paper collar every morning, all of which served to disgust the natives, who said he put on too much Kentucky blue-grass society style for them.

Statistics are dry reading, but they are suggestive. For instance :In six months Boston has sent 6,000,000 gallons of rum to Africa. The • question is suggested—how many Bibles and missionaries should be sent to balance things ?

I; A singular example of the effect of | devotional habits over an ignorant mind was recorded in the newspapers some years ago. A domestic servant at Canterbury was charged with stealing five pounds from her master's till. The sum was missed immediately after she had left off from her master's house, and when taken into custody a piece of paper was found in her possession on which she had recently written a prayer suited to her circumstances. Here is a copy of the strange document : "0, Lord, I pray thee look down on me, one who is now bowed down with grief ; in pity, Lord, send me all the things I may require. Heal I pray you, the broken hearted woman. Things that I require—l sack of flour, 1 score of salt pork, i ditto salt beef, 6 pounds of sugar, 1 ditto tea, 1 ditto butter, 6 ditto cheese, 4 ditto candles, i ditto coffee, 5 sacks of pattatas, 1 ton of coles, 1 hundred of wood, and 2 sovereigns to pay Mrs Vindall for her kind ness." Mrs Vindall was the woman to whose house she had gone when running away from her situation. I may add that this pious young person, who apparently made sure of a favorable answer to her petition by helping herself to the means of purchasing what she needed, escaped scot free, because it could not be shown that the money she was known to have expended on herself after running away, was actually the same money her master had loat.— Jßelgravia for Octolc-i',

Bangor street Arabs swindle unsuspecting upper-ten women by leaving bundles at their residences marked " Pay tne boy 10 cents," which are found to contain chesnut burs, or other equally valuable property.

" In proportion to its population," says the Alta California, "San Francisco contains a o-reater number of persons who make a living by landing around waiting for something to tnrnupthanany othercity." Avastthere, Alta.. We may not be able to conflagrate equal to, the States; but for "standing around'» Auckland whips all creation.

The Duke of Edinburgh (says the Weste-,-^ Atorning News) has been strongly pressed to> become an admiral, but he firmly declines tof--'. take a flag until he has had some experience as captain in an ironclad ship, and the Sultan is designated as the vessel he is desirous to command.

The official report of Rear-Admiral Sands, of the United States Naval Observatory, gives a circumstantial account of a meteoric shower which occurred on the night of November 28th. 0v er seven hundred meteors were observed in less than seven hours, and Admiral Sands characterizes the display as remarkable. At Alexandria, Egypt, the number of fallen meteors was computed at 200 per minute. Admiral Sands says the radient points seemed to indicate +-hat the meteors were moving *» the orbit of Jiiel as? a comet. A tad accident happened in the hop grounds of East Sussex, at Bickley, A temporary straw hut, used by hoppiekersfor sleeping. caught fire. Six children, aged from four to seventeen, named Sullivan, belonging to an Irish family, were burned to death, as they could not be extricated from the flames,

There are very many curious facts related with regard to the Jewish race ; many, no> doubt, are true, and some equally certainly have no other foundation than fancy. Pro fessor Stowe, in his remarkably interesting course of lectures on tbe subject, delivered some years ago, gave as careful a summary of the truth with regard to this peculiar people, as has ever been made, and a statistician in London has recently published some quite remarkable statements about their physical condition, based upon carefiilly-Qollected'records. . From these it ap pears that Jewish blood contains little or no scrofula. The ftterage life of the Jew in Lon don is forty-nine years, while of the Christian it is only thirty-seven years. Of a given num ber of Christians only one quarter will, as a general rule, live to be sixty years, while among Jews one-quarter lived to be at least seventy-one. Among children, fourteen per cent, of the Christian population die be tween one year and five years of age, while only ten per cent, of the Jewish children. Finally, in Prussia it requires fifty-one years for the Christian population to double itself, and only forty-one years for the Jew ish. If we are not mistaken Professor Stowe declared that the Jews had remained of about the same total number ever since they became historic. This proof of their greater average longevity and greater rela tive increase would seem to furnish material for a contradiction.

The distribution of prizes to the children', of St. Matthew's Sunday-school took place last evening in the presence of a large num ber of visitors and friends. In the un avoidable absence of the incumbent of the parish, Dr. Hooper occupied the chair. About sixty prizes were distributed among the children. The remaining portion of the evening was devoted to music and recita tions, the whole concluding with the National Anthem.

The brethren of the Ancient Order of Foresters of the Thames lodges have resolved to celebrate their anniversary on Thursday next by a steamboat excursion on the Upper Thames River.

A Provincial Government Gazette waa published to-day, and contains the amended boundaries of the Waiuku and Waipipi Highway districts. Also the boundaries of the Parawai, Coromandel, Panmure and Otahuhu Educational districts, and the times for holding the meetings of householders for the election of school committees. The Gazelle also contains the statements of the affairs of the Watchman and Ruby Gold Mining Companies.

There are said to be 1,200 distinct fire department organizations in the United States. These are formed of from Ito 50 companies each, and comprise an aggregate force of 250,000 members, supported at a total cost of probably £500,000 per annum to the authorities, independently of large sums expended upon themselves by volunteer

members

TELEGRAPHIC.

'FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

LATEST THAMES NEWS

GRAHAMSTOWN,

This day.

Black Axgel.—The cleaning-up has been finished. It is estimated that 850 tons of stone have been put through, and the return is 1,469 ounces melted gold. A dividend of 12s. 6d. per share is expected. There is still a good show in the mine.

Whau.—During last week 12^ cwt. o rich specimens Avere taken out of the mine There are now 9£ cwt. on hand besides rich general stuff. A crushing will take place next week.

Windsor Castle.—Forty tons of stone from the specimen lode yielded 111 ounces of gold.

Una.—A crushing of 62 tons of stone has yielded 91 ounces of gold.

British.—A crushing of five tons of stone has yielded 2 ozs. 13 dwts. of gold.

Golden Spue, —The crushing of 26 tons of stone has yielded IS ounces of gold.

Red Queex.—Work at the mine has been stopped owing to shortness of funds.

AUCKLAND STOCK AND SHARE REPORT.

The following are the quotations of the Auckland Stock and Sharebrokers' Associa tion for February 8 : Black Angels, 545, 55s ; buyers, 555. Bright Smiles—buyers, 375. Caledonian, £11 15s, £11 17s Gd; buyers, £12 : sellers, £12 ss. Shotover, Is 6d ; buyers, ls 6d. Nil Desperandum— buyers, ls. Bismarck— buyers, 22s 6d. Albion, £5. Tokatea__sellers, 345. Tookey (paid-up, and third)—sellers £7. D. B. Orchard. Secretary.

THI EVENING STAH, SaTPRDAY. PEflfttfAßY 8, 1878.



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To gentlemen requiring first-class tobacco and cigars, if they would only visit Mrs Sharpe's neat little American Tobacco and Cigar Divan (next Bank New Zealand) they may purchase the same cheaper than in any other house in the city. No inferior goods kept in stock ; would not purchase such for the public at any price. One trial is suffi cient to guarantee a continuance of custom. Give a call.—Advt. Dr. BRioiiT'sPnospnoDYNE. —Multitudesof People are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failuro of Hearing, , Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want cf Power, &c., whose cases ndmit of a permanent cure by tho new remedy PiiosrironYNE (Oxonie Oxygen), which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to the enfeebled constitution, and rapidly cures every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all Chemists and Storekeepers throughout the Colonies, from whom Pamphlets containing testimonials may be obtained. : : I «%" Caution.—Be particular to ask for Dr, Bright's i, j Phosphodyne as Imitations are abroad; and avoid 1 purchasing single bottles, the genuine article being « sold m cases only,



PANAMA HATS! Panama hats!! Just Eeceived, 72 SUPERIOR REAL PANAMA HATS, Will be sold at 16s 6d each. SAMUEL COOMBES, CITY CLOTHING MART, No. 80, QUEEN STREET, CAN THE BEST MOLESKIN TROUSERS IN NEW ZEALAND BE SOLD FOR 6s. 11d.? NO ! DEAPEES 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 clone. 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. lit). SAMUEL COOMBES, MANUFACTURER & CLOTHIER, 80 & 180, Quekn-stPvEet. T COSGEAVE & CO.'S SALE OF DRAPERY & CLOTHING COMMENCED ON SATURDAY, FEB. 1. The Public are requested to inspect the Goods as the Reductions are Genuine. rriHE EEBEUAEY NEMBEE OP THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NEWS Will be Published on MONDAY, and may be had of MESSRS. UPTON & CO. Price : 3d.