SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUNSET: This evening, 5.1. SUN-BISK': To morrow rpornine, 7.11 HTrtH WATHE : This afternoon, 5.38; to-morrow, morning, 5 SS

ARRIVALS.

DEPARTURES. Thames. barque, for London Arthur WakeieM, schooner, for Nelson

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Hokianga : Elderslie, sohooner, to-morrow For Kaipara : Florence, schooner, to-morrow For Poyerty Bay, Napier, and Wellington : Mana watu, p.s.. Wednesday For Sydney and Melbourne : Wonga Wonga, s.s., about9fith inst. ; ITero, s.s., about Ist August For r.nmlon : Woodiark. ship, 20th inst. ; Hylton Castla. barque early For Southern ports : Phoebe, s.s., to-morrow, 8 a.m. For New York : Lyttelton, barque, early

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Countess of Kintore. ship, from London Sailed 28th April City of Auckland, from London. Loading Berar, ship, from London. Sailed lfith May Fontenave, ship, from London. Loading Won/fa Wonga, s s.. Brown, from Sydney Hero, s.s., Logan, from Sydney Akhar, ship, from Boston, via Melbourne Star of the South, s.s., from Ler ika Belle Urandon, schooner, from Dunedin Briton, barque, from Newcastle Upolu, schooner, from Samoa Edith, schooner, from South Sea Islands Satellite, cutter, from Levuka Natal Queen, barque, from Lyttelton Surprise, schooner, from Lyttelton Coronot, schooner, from Dunedin

THE LADYBIRD AGROUND.

The s.s. Ladybird at dark last night ran aground at Poponga,rinsideManukau Heads. She was going dead slow, but came off in half-an-hour; returned to the Bluff this morning, having suffered no damage, and proceeds on her voyage this afternoon.

The Golden Isle has cleared for Russell on ballast. ■ "

The schooner Elderslio cleared outwards to-day for Hokianga.

,The<brigantine Hercules has cleared out wards' for Aratapu, Kaipara, where she will load timber for the South. The steamer building for Mr Scberff, at Onehunga, for the Waikato trade, is nearly planked. Mr Simms has another cutter on the stocks.

The s.s. Phoebe leaves the Manukau to morrow for Southern ports, at eight a. m..

The following particulars of the French ironclad .Atalante, expected here in a few days, are from the Sydney herald of the 12fch instnnt :—The French war-steamer Atalante, which arrived on Oth instant, is a powerful looking ironclad of 2000 tons. She is under the command of Admiral Roussin, and will, dufing'her stay here, be docked and over hauled. She is on a cruise, and is last from Tahiti via New Caledonia, and will proceed hence to Auckland, and from thence to America. She is five years old, having been built at Cherbourg in 1808. Her bottom is wood, with iron topsides, and she has a ram bow of most formidable appearance. Tech nically speaking she has a great amount of freeboard, and her sides tumble home t.O a very iarge degree. She is fitted with hori zontal engines of 450 horse-^ower, which dilve her at the rate of 12 knots easily. 'She is fully manned, her crew comprising 360 men and 25 officers ; she has 12 rguns. The Atalante left Noumea after a stay of two months on the 2Sth June, and ex perienced very fine weather during the passage across. On arriving here yesterday morning she was morred in Spring Cove, as there was not sufficient water on the bar for her to cross safely, her draught being over twenty feet. At high water yesterday after noon, however, the pilot again boarded her, and brought her up to EarmvCovej Imme diately after anchoring the officers of H.M. ships nowi in port paid an, official visit to the Atalante, and exchanged courtesies with Ad miral Roussin and his officers. The Atalante is the first armour-plated ship that has 'entered the hanbour'of Port Jackson. : J() <* t The barque Thames, which cleared out'for London a few days-ago, sailed this morning with cargo and passengers, as already pub lished.

The steamer Ladybird did not leave for Wellington yesterday, as announced. It is stated that her detention was caused by the roughness-of the bar. -' > / !

COMMERCIAL.

MININO. . !. , ~ •■ i| ' The following are the current calls and dividend! payable in the companies named below:— , i [on L b. d, : ,!• .. Bright Smile.. .. — Joly «;., ;, Windfall .. .. 0 0 6 Aug IS; ; VonTempsky .. 00 8 Aug 13 : .-,. Quean of the May ... 00 6 Aug IS/. ;. ,BY I fill I*l II .^MEETINGS. Nil Desperandum, E. Home's ofSce, Shortland street, , noon. 23rd July . ~ ciiiTH ' : Unibn Beach, Insurance Buildmga, Auckland, 3 p.mi. Inverness. Mr T. L. White's office, Canada Buildings, Queen street, Aucldftiid,' noon, 25tH July Eoyal Standard, Mr A. A. Browne's omce, Wyndham street,'; Auckland, 2p.rfl.. 28th,July,/, [0 WOVL El Dorado, Mr P. A. White's office, Shortland street, Auckland, 2 p.m.,J2Bth July ~ i :„.■■ J, t . , , All Nations, F. A. White's office, Shortland street, Auckland, noon, 28th July Whaling, Company, 49, Insurance Buildings, 3,p,m., 28th JuTy^- • ' '"!- '■ ' : 1 , „'„ Thames Goldmining Company., Exchange Hall, noon, 28th July „ ~ AuOviand vOas Company,' Companrs. «fficef,. z p.m.,' 28t,1i July . -iv Mifldle Star/Mechanics' Institute, 3 p.m., 29th July > Tew Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, f!<imr»any's office, Auckland, noon, 2&tHJuly ■\Vaitemnta, Governor Bowen Hotel, Grahamstown, 3 p.m., 30th July , j •„'«•'• 1 , Durham Ox, anvhamstowri; 30th ahily ■ • Bed Queen, Mr Garland's office, Vaile's Buildings, Wvndham; street, 2.80 p.m., 30th July :i. •. (.' Una Quartz, Grahamstown, 31st July Mary Ann, Grahamstown, 31st July . , 1, t , Morning Star, fJrahamstown; 7th August tl>)K

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails willi Close as Under :— , r j r-i ,i ~ For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, at 10.30 a,m. and 5.80 p.m. For Cbromandel, tomorrow, at ; 12.30 p. m, _ For'Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Phosta, this day, at 5 p.m. For Samoa, N. 1., per Dauntless, to-morrow, at ForVftitianga, Tauranga, and Opotiki, prir Soutlleni Cross, to-morrow, at 1 p.m. JUailS for Australian Colonies, India, &c, and United; Kingdom, via-Suez and Brindisl, will be made top at this offlcev on Saturday, 2nd August. , i: (Signed) ■ S. Bi Biss, Chief Postmaster. ,

BIRTH.

Ashby—On July 12, at the Thames, the wfe of W. ~ Ashby ol twins, soi and daujhter. Both doing wel 1.

DEATH.

BuiivTSTT.— At his1- father's residence,l Tipper "West Queen street, suddenly, John Burnett; aged nine years. ' '''' '■' l!l "

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

TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1873.

for the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong? that need resistance, For the future in the distance, : ; And, the good that we can do, |

I|eehaps in all the history of colonial officialism there would not be a parallel [f<j>urid to IJr "Peatherstoh in his conduct of the Immigration Agency of New Zealand. <Nor 'do we know whether niore to admire his infinite impudence ok the extreme coolness with which the Government tolerate his con tinuance in office and his astounding efrontery,/, jWe yesterday .published a telegram received by the Provincial government from'Mr IFarnalJ, who has been.apppirited to carry ou1; (^n Ji^land a) branch of the' Emigration depart ment, and who appears to have been summarily dismissed by this man for obedience to the instructions of his superiors, and for exhibiting something of a zeal and push that would have placed in" unfavorable contrast the indolenqe and inaction of the Agent- General. We might have felt impelled id wait until the other side of the ajiestion was shown by |Dr Featherston, bpt this conduct is so characteristic of the ; man that |here .can remaii^ittle idoubt in the mind or any one that the jjoctor has momentarily.ppt/aside his i habitual laziness and his Turkish smoking cup, anif Mfced^ himself ioff his luxurious couch in his gorgeous West End suite of am bassadorial offices in order to snuff put this impudent busy-body that has been troubling his repose by organizing a isystematic emigration of Hibernians. Mr. ; Parnall evidently does not chew opium, nor pass hia days in the indul -1 g^nce of the sublime' visions that are engendered of the Oriental drug, and hks evidently'exhibited that activity of ,niind anaI'love of the practical and the 'r^al that are as rebellion in the realm of narcotism* Mr Farnall, therefore, is a bore, and hia Celts are an abomi nation, and lie and they being squelched we must return.to the spirit of peace that has hitherto dwelt in the Immigration department, and to the

comfortable understandings made with Shaw, Savill and Company. We are not sufficiently in possession of the details as to the points of Mr Farnall's transgression. It is not im probable that his movements con templated the despatch of ships from Cork, Dublin, or Belfast, and as these arrangements might not " tally" with the little understandings existing be tween the New Zealand Mandarin and his shipping friends, the simplest way to close the ' matter was of course to give the obstreperous Irish agent the conge. We can hardly find words to express the feelings with which colonists should regai d this insufferable incubus sitting astride of the immigra tion of the colony. Here we are with our public works proceeding, and only in want of a judiciously - conducted stream of immigrants to turn our barren wastes into smiling homesteads, and prevent the present coloni&ts being overwhelmed with a debt that seems likely to grind them to the dust; and yet an indolent man, having won a certain prestige by familiarity with years of political intrigue, is sent away by his political opponents really to keep him out of the way, but osten sibly to conduct the fertilising stream to pur shores, and the consequence is that the Colony is left to languish while he does nabob in London. It is irritating in the extreme to glance back for a few months at this man's con duct. Every one recollects how, when exorbitant charges were permitted to the friendly shippers for the conveyance of immigrants to New Zealand, on an outcry being raised tenders were called for, and only one was received by Peatherston, and that one from his friends Shaw, Savill and Co.; and even that was at a higher rate than the fares previously existing in their secret arrangements. And again, but re cently when the New Zealand Ship ping Company offered and obtained an arrangement for carrying immigrants at a lower rate, suddenly the friends of Dr Peatherston discovered that they could convey immigrants even lower still, or at a rate exactly twenty per cent, less than the rate which they and Dr JFeatherston had assured the colonists was the very lowest rate at which such immigrants could be con veyed, lhat a man capable of com plicity in such intrigue should be tolerated for one month in control of such a responsible position is one of those things the wherofore of which is past finding out on ordinary principles, and the mind is forcibly impelled to give credence to the dark rumours that were once afloat about the sudden consent, obtained after a few moments private conference with a recalcitrant colleague, anent the commissionHg of Dr Teatherston. The scheme with which Mr Parnall was indentified was one for a special S3ttlement of a community of friends and neighbours to be transferred from the Green Isle of the North to this Bunny Southern land, and it had re ceived the approval of Mr Vogel and Mr Gillies. But our London nabob taking action on a memorandum which was intended to snub himself, and feel ing that blood must be drawn some where, hoped apparently to make a scapegoat of Mr Parnall and his Irish Immigration scheme. What will be the upshot of this coup de main we know not, but the misconduct of the Immi gration department, and the cowardly condoning of native outrage, would for ever damn any Ministry that was not defended by some supernatural, even if infernal, power.

Tne ca^e of Mrs Mr-% fined to-day ; *i the Pol'ce Courb for sLrajJn^; c~-tle,,js one of ex treme hprdsHp. Obta•:" Ing orr 'Vor-nafon from a gentleman of undoubted nd tiutbful character, who •'<< fanr'"ar v. .th a'l the c'r cdmst-iticas!, we do not hsitate to 'ay the cisc before asympathising pub 1 :c. Mrs Mann hks been honestly and respectably supporfi^ aifamily of.five.ch-ldren by the three cows of wjhich she is possessed. She has been paymg two sh'v;ngs a week each for their grassing i*i a;paddock in the outskirts of the city. The gate of the paddock wrs opened by come person, and the cowß-suffercd to escape. Mrs Mann is a married woman, her husband (who isi given to diink) beiDg absent for the past tliree months at Mahurangi, looking for work; but jio one, un'.pss the poHce,.even insmuaue thai she is other than a ro3pectable aud .well-conducted woman,, and the^ gentleman from whom we received . our information assures us that she is we'll known to lead a-respectable life. : Yet the policeman who served the summons took advantage oi her absence and put the most (filthy questions to her daughter, a child of eleven years old, and to her little boy, aged eight, in^r^er to elicit if "another iman ,is living with mamma?", Mrs Mann's.three youngest children are at present dangerously ill, 'bne of them with fever, and two with bronchitis, the dregs of fever, and one of t£ese is not expected to be alive in the morn ing. •' Thd mother was to-day fined five shil lings, which with coats mounts up to 'nihe ite^n shillings, and she has not sixpence with which even to get necessary nourishment for hir sick children. She had intended pleading guilty to save costs had not a gentleman of the bar generously undertaken her defence, which unfortunately only resulted in increas ing the costs. Her position is truly to ba pitied, and with, a house of sickness -and poverty she is; Wally deserving of practical sympathy. Truly, one-half of the world does not know how the other half lives., 4 s s is a genuine case of helpless distress! it will afford us much satisfaction to be the medium of any assistance—howeversmall—which may be kindly volunteered.

Aa will be Been from our police report, the perambulator cace was brought up to-day, and a fine imposed. To the honour of the magistrates it was the very smallest fine that could be imposed, but the sixpence to be paid by little Annie Dowsing became twelve shillings from costs, the penalty for having taken her little baby brother out for an airing on th^e footpath of Victoria-street. We trust that this h the very last we shall hear of this ridiculous abuse of authority'and impertinent interference with the harailesa privileges of citizens; That it was a a training

of the' law was generally known, and is very apparent from a perusal of the clause under which these charges have been made. . It is the second clause of By-law No. 6 of the city of Auckland, and describee offence as follows : "h eading or riding any hor^e or other animal, or drawing, wheel'.n^, or driving any cart, carriage, sledge, truck, barrow, or oilier thing, upon or along any footpath, without permission from the City Council so to do." This is accepted as including a, perambulator, but by a parity of reason it may include a man's walking-stick, for drawing which after him a man may be fined five pounds. For a walking - stick is a " thing;" quite as much as a perambulator or a police man. However, whether a perambulator is a "thing" or not, we trust that bobby will leave it alone in future, or he will find it a very dangerous "thing," and although a little girl of eleven, or a baby in arms, cannot resent a policeman's impertinence, they have sometimes big brothers or fathers that could punch a policeman's head, and we should certainly rejoice to hear that the next police man doing such a thing got a good hammering. Since the foregoing was in type we are glad to hear that His Worship the Mayor has intimited to the police that the by-law did not contemplate the-e "wheeled nursei," and that, urTess in crowded thoroughfares, they should not be interfered with. Aa tha by-law piwides for such interpretation in the words " peimission of the City Council," we may accept it that in future a perambulator is not a "thing," and our pathways will be jocund with the crowing of the little urchins exult ing over the discomfited bobbies.

The Government, although in an impe cunious state, is much too dignified to take advantage of the minor sources of revenue at its disposal. In Hobt;on Park, Parnell, ther* ik a large dwelling-houLe owned by the Go vernment which might readily be let fo« twelve or fourteen shillings per week, but the tenement having become vacant, instead of re-letting it—whoever it is that should look after it—is permitting the building to fall into complete ruin, the windows to be broken, and the whole edifice to be wilfully destroyed. Any o ie Who w."shrs to Jive at a low'rental mioht go and occupy the houte without per mission, and some months would probably elapse before tbe correspondence between the vav'ous departments and with Wel'mgton would have suffic;ently advanced to deter mine who had the right or power, or whone business it wrs to give the unwelcome tenant notice to quit. Tf all Government properties are managed with tbe same care and economy as tho one in Hobson Park the revenues derived therefrom must be very large in deed.

Amongst our Southern telegrams will be found a summary of the correspondence pub lished in C mstchurch relative to the scratching of Pcerc-is. The Canterbury Jockey Club give substantial reasons for the course they have pursued in relation to the mare. A young lad named John Burnett died suddenly at his father's residence, West Queen-street, this morning, between five and six o'clock. The deceased had been sickly and delicate almost from his birth, but his sudden demice was not anticipated. Dr Dawson was tent for as soon as the occurrence was known, but the boy had passed beyond the reach of medical skill. We are informed that an inquest on the body will be held to morrow, i

The Presbyterians of Onehunga have been cleaning and painting the interior and exterior of their church. When the neat paling fence has been finished the building will look very respectable. New lamps, carpets, &c, are to bo provided, and, what is rather unusual with churches, the church is free from debt, and the money forthcoming for payment of the present improvements. .

The Auckland Troop of Royal Company Volunteers underwent their "monthly inspec tion l?st evening in the DriJl-shed with much credit under the supervision of Major Gor don.

We have received samples of preserved milk, manufactured by Mr J. E. Stratford, of the Whau. The milk is preserved with out the use of chemicals, and is a much superior article to the condensed milk com monly used on board ship. The sample forwarded—which we are informed is a week old—is as fresh as when taken from the cow. It is in fluid form, and has all the appear ance of new milk. The manufacturer informs us that it has been put to tests, and he warrants it to keep in any climate. Such an article, it is needless to say, will be in valuable on long voyages.

A musical and literary entorta'nmcnt will be given at 7.30 p.m. this evening in the sshool-room adjoining the Wssleyan Church, Grafton-road.

Wo again remind our many readers of the tea and public meeting to be held this even ing.in the City Hall, in aid of the Sunday school in connection with the Unitad Free Methodist Church, Pitt-atreet, under the presidency of the Rev. G. H. Turnsr. The meeting wilLbe'an interesting one, and ad dresses will be delivered by ministers of various denominations and gentlemen at tached to the cause of religious educational prpgres's: •■•'■'< ... .:

The Otahuhn ratepayers held their annual meeting yesterday afternoon in the Criterion hotel, when the report and financial state-, merit were passed, and a tia'f-penny rate' agreed to. Messrs Sturgess, Thompsor>, .Stiiiger,' Plumley, and Markham were ap pointed trustees for the current year, and Messrs Bowden and Luke as auditors.

Rev. Dr. Kidd will deliver a lecture this evening at the Devonport Literary Society, North Shore, entitled "A Popular Aspect of the Science of Reasoning." The subject is onei of peculiar interest, and no doubt will bo forcibly i'Tustrated by the talented lecturer.

~ On the 22rid day of July, 1796, died the jioet Burns, seventy-seven years ago. The poetry of the Scottish peasant i 3 too well known to need one Word of eulogy in a southern clime. His poems were mostly the outpourings of the moment, the response ofi the feelings to the immediate circum stances of life, and their charm and power lie in the freshness- of the feelings expressed, and in the trustfulness and freshness which they derive direct from life and nature. The poems of Robert Burns awakened the spirit of tine poetry in Great Brita'i, a spirit which had slumbered for a century, arid by these means he stirred the people to an, ex pression of .their loves and aspirations.

Mr Durbridge, for many years clerk to the K.M. Court, Onehunga, has retired on a pension, and Mr South appointed. The resi dents hope he will be as obliging as Mr Diirbridge. There is also to be a change in the Onehunga Post-office shortly.

; Complaints are made by residents in Par neli regarding the state'of the road between the Parnell Grammar cchool and the'stone quarry. J,The road has been cut.up by con tractors' carts, and as it is unreasonable to expect the Ideal Highway Board to put it in order under such circumstances, proper re presentation should, be made to secure the mending of the road, or at any rate some as sistance towards its repair by those who have destroyed it, , . :.!

We have seen the prospectus of the Manu kau Steam Navigation Company, and hope that the project will receive support from townsmen and settlers around the Manukau harbour. A smart steamer of moderate size and light draught of water cannot fail to pay well if properly worked. To-morrow evening the lady and gentle men amateurs of Auckland will give a grand benefit entertainment in the' Choral Hall, Symonds-street, for a lady in distressed cir cumstances. The object is worthy of support, and the programme is sufficiently varied to gratify the most fastidious of pleasure-seekers. The proceedings will open with aa overture by the band, after which a very laughable comedietta, entitled "Beautiful for Ever," will be performed. The author's name is not siibmitted, but we understand the piece was written by one who has passed the reno vating ordeal of Madame Eachel, of Bond street, London. But whether it be so or not the performance ia reputed to be of the first water. .Several excellent ballads will be sung in the course of the evening by ladies and gentlemen, and recitations' given by others. The third part will en tirely consist of the farce "Taming a Tiger," which never fails to win the good-humoured attention of the audience. The promoters of the entei l-amment, considering that a little dancing will prove agreeable after the body has been in a passive position for a couple of hours, have wisely proposed a set of quad rilles and waltzes as a fitting conclusion, so that after the intellect has been sharpened, the senses gratified, pnd the heart made merry, the legs should not falter for want of due exercise. The entertainment ought to be successful.

Readers of the Thames journals may have noticed during the last two or three years, occasional short poems with the name of Mrs Williamson attached to them. These lyrics, though simple itf: their character and wanting that polish which experience in the art alone can give, evidenced the possession of the poetic faculty. The writer was a Scotch lady, and wife of Mr Charles Williamson, of the Thames. We learn from a meagre notice that Mrs Williamson was not only a poetess, but associat'd with a society of singers called the "Thames Hpvmonial Progres sionists ;" or what Mr S. R. Clark, the cecretaiy, terms the " Aurelian Choir ;" and that, af tar a short illness, she passed on the sth inst. to her "Spirit Home," which constitutes the title of her last production. Many will remember her verses on " Hot- Cross Buns," one of the best of her com positions, and several otherj from her pen, but a 1! lacking that finisk and perfection which are so necessary in poetic composition. Had this lady lived, it is possible that by culture she would have remedied these defects, and shaped the form in a manner woifchy the thought, often beautiful and chfte, pnd thereby rendered her meaning clearer and more perceptible to her few local readers. But she did what phe could, and now beneath the green turf she rests peacefully from her labours.

The members of the Auckland Debating Class will meet this evening in the lower room of the Young Men's Christian Associ ation, Wellesley-atreet, at half-past seven, when, after the usual preliminary business, an essay will be read by Mr Blackman on "Thackeray ag a Writer and Humourist." This little circle of thinkers and critics is increasing in numbers/ and consequently widening in. influence.

Tenders will be received until twelve o'clock on Tuesday next by Mr Green, the Government agent, for the supply of rat^ODJ to immigrants.

We would again call attention to the peti tion now be;ng circulated in favour of Mrs S. A. Bell, sentenced to three years' impri sonment for stealing a post letter. The cir cumstances attending this case are well known to the public. A copy of the petition lie 3at the Star office for signature, and others have been distiibutcd through the town and sent to the Thames. This caie is on* that should elicit general sympathy, and calls for the exercise of a mercy that the law upon which the sentence wrs based did not permit the judge to exercise. It is, there fore, a very proper subject for an appeal to the Governor, and we feel sure his Honor the Chief Justice will support the prayer of the petitioners.

The Ponsonby-roai ratepayers will hold their annual meeting this evening, in the District school-house, for the purpose of fixing a rate, electing trusted, and faying a special lighting rate under the Highway Act of 1871. At its close another meeting will be held in the same place to take into consideration the position and prospects of the district-school.

Messrs Price, the contractors for the railway cars and waggons, are making satisfactory prbgx'esß towards turning out some of their waggons at an early date.

PERAMBULATORS, BY-LAWS, ETC.

To the Editor of the Evectcno Stak. Sir,—ln reading your very amusing j article last evening about perambulators, and by laws, etc., induced me to seek a little infor mation, but I cannot find any by-law where these articles aro specially named, however dcpirable it may be-not to have them in very crowded thoroughfares,' both for pedestrians and for the little ones inside. There certainly cap be no harm in. allowing them in other plices, andl have no doubt the Mayor or Council will give instructions accordingly. I learn on inquiry that most of the so-called by-laws existed before we had any corporation under the name of Muncipal police laws, but that in; those days, when the, police depended on the Provincial votes for their salaries, it was hardly judicious to enforce' any unpleasant laws against anyone because you might be annoying some forty-fourth con nexion or friend of a Provincial Councillor, arid find yourself unpleasantly remembered when the estimates were considered. While it jia the thing to joke City Com cite and their doinga, we should recollect by the transfer of these hwß into city by r laws the penalties are lesi thaa one-half the Municipal Police Act enjoins, and that a sum of nearly £120, linc3, : &c, has b%en paid into the Borough Fund instead of to the General Go vern tnent Fund, and this in reality was the intention and desire of the originators, and by a trick the City is in many ways the gainer.—Youra, &c, Pko Bono Publico.

INQUEST ON MRS. BOYLAN.—THIS DAY.

Air inquest wm held this :day at the Ter minus.,) hofcol before T. M. PhiLon, Euq., M.D., coroner, md a sebel; jury, on the body of Mai ia Louisa Boylan.: .<-. ' Mr Joy appeared to watch the case on the pait of the prisoner. • ElizaVeth E3lia deposed that ahe, wasthe wife of Harry J. Ellis, and resided in Eden Crc;.cent. She was not acquainted with the deceased, but Kvra£ opposite to the Itoyal hotel was fam'liar -with her appearance. Remembered seeing deceased and her hus bpnd on Tuesday, July 15th, in the road. Her husband called after her, but as ahe would not retuva he dwgged her in doors. She clung to the po :t in front of the hotel. At length he got her in, and tfose 1 the doors. Thia occurred about noon, Witnega did not

see any blows struck, but heard screams after the door was shut. Subsequently she saw deceased walking towards the Supreme Court. She saw no more. ... Jeremiah Casey wm sworn, and stated that he was a retired master manner, rending in Hobson-street. He was paring the Royal Hotel about noon on Tuesday last and saw a man and woman, who appeared to be silly. The woman was hanging on to a pump or a post. The man was endeavourm; to pull the Sm into the house, but she dfdnot appear to be inclined to go; she was renting, but he succeeded in getting her in. After he had cot her in the screaming commenced, as though prisoner had thrown her down He objected to interfering in family squabbles.. It was a woman's voice he heard. He was sure, from the rounds, that they were on the floor. He gave information of what he hp.d seen and heard to the police. He had seen the body, and recognised it as the body of the person he had seen struggling with the man. . j ; Susan Conley was next examined. (LefS silting.)

THE MISSING KETCH MARY ANN.

Extraordinary Story. —The Captain

Insane

It will be remembered that a short time ago the Mary Ann, Captain Stewart, was re ported as missing, and it was generally tolieved she had teen wrecked. Nothing further has been heard of the vessel, and her fate is uncertain. Captain Ohlson, of the cutter Dido, now ?n port, has furnished us with ceilain facts which reveal an extraor dinary stateof matters, and throw an entirely new light upon the story of the Mary Ann. On the 18th of May the Dido and Atlanta were lying in Hicks's Bay—wlndbound. While there the Mary Ann came in and an chored. Shortly afte-wards, while Captain Oblson was pulling past the Mary Ann in a boat, Capt-in Stewai i told him t> come on board. This he ciid, when St2wart a3ked whether he had heard anything, about him in Auckland, and said, "You know what I mean. Somebody is after me to take the vessel." It may be mentioned that Stewart did not owe anything in Auckland, and the vessel was his own. Captain Ohlson knew this to be the case, and was convinced tint Stewart was labouring under tome menril delusion. After some conversation, during which Ohlson endeavoured to convince Stewart that no one was seeking to take his vessel, the latter said he was short of meat, and Ohlson having some sheep on board the Dido, which, were dying owing to the protracted pr'.aage, offered to sell Stewart one. This offer was accepted, and the sheep was sent on board the Mary Ann, Subsequent to this Stewart went on board the Dido, and infoi axed Ohlson that he could not take the animal as ha (Ohlson) "might get into a row" in conse quence. He said he would take part of a sheep which Ohlson had killed for the use of himself and crew, but Ohlson urged him to keep the animal, and refused to give him any portion of the one killed on the ground that they needed it all for themselves. How ever Stewart persisted in his determination not to keep the sheep, and sent it back. He informed Ohlson that he had half a lor.i of firewood on board, J>nd was bound for Napier. The Mary Ann sailed out of Hicks' Bay on the following night at 12 o'clock, and has not since been heard of. Capta;n Stewart was concerned in the salvage of the Oantero, and shortly after saving that vessel he appears,to have laboured under the spme delusion as that which Captain OH sou found him Buffering from at Hicks' Bay, namely, that some one was after him. He at that time was missing with his vessel for about three months, when he turned up un expectedly. During the interim he had gone round the Southern Island to the West Coast in order to be out of the way of his imaginary pursuers. Capt. Ohlson states that before the Mary I mi sailed pn her last voyage he informed the agent in Auckland of his suspicion that Stewart was sufferng from a monomnma, and was not in a fit statD of mind to command a vessel. The ketch, however, wrs Stewart's own property ; and rs ha did not exhibit any marked symptoms of insanity his escentricity of manner w?s not regarded as sufficient reason for inter ference. It is quite possible that Stewart, impelled by the belief that he was being pursued has gone South with his vessel, and is still cruising off the coast of the Middle Island. There is, however, on the contrary, pood ground for fearing that, in flying from his imaginary enemies, he has exposed his vessel to great dangers, which have resulted in her destruction, and that she has foundered in the open ocean, or been battered to pieces on some unfrequented shore.

THE SENTENCE OF DEATH UPON EPPWRIGHT.

Vfrx have an immense accumulation of corres pondence relative to the petition transmitted td the Government in favour of a commuta tion of.the death sentence passed upon Epp wright. A correspondent- under the signa ture of-MJ. Cartwright"' of the reljnarks made by Mr Woodward, and says :— I'lAs a further reason for delaying the execution of the extreme sentence of the, law ; itUmight' be well perhaps if some official enquiry were made into all the cir cumstances immediately succeeding the per petration of the1 act itself ; for if it be true that with ordinary efficient surgical skill Garrity's life might have been spared, then good ground, even here, exists in favour of a mitigation of the sentence. If, indeed, it can be shown there was an absence of proper medical skill on the spot (from whatever ca|use or causes arising), and that the authori ties failed to use that diligence in procuring the skill so urgently needed, might not this ateo be urged in extenuation of the charges of wilful and deliberate murder on the part of the condemned criminal ? This, Sir, is a cause that lacks some assist ance, and aa your columns are always open to the cry of h:m that has no helper, if there be a doubt anywhere that doubt will, in the sacred interests of hu manity, and as an attribute of Heaven, attach itself to the prerogative of mercy." i "A Sympathiser," writing upon the same subject, compares the murder with cases where long periods of time have elapsed during which the murderers meditated on their contemplated crimes. He thinks there is such a d'fference between the killing of Garrity and those murders as should cause a commutation of the sentence passed upon Uppwiight. ; "Veritas" contradicts the statement made in the Serald that the majority of the signa tures to the market petition were those of boys.

The writer of the following letter appears, however, to have inquired very carefully into the facts connected with the case, and we commend his communication to the thinking public. The nature of the clerical reaLoning upon which the prayer for Eppwright's re lease is based requires no comment to show its absolute absurdity. Our correspondent, "ITiat Justitia," says: —"Sir, —In common with _»any others I was solicited to sie;n the petition, now in circulation, for the commu tation of the sentence lately passed upon the above men for the crime of murder. Before doing so I was naturally anxious to ascertain

the reasons why SHch a petition should D 6 framed and signed, and 1 subjoin the result of my experience in that direction. On Friday evening last, at the Young Men s Rooms, tb f§ Rev. J. J. Lewis invited the audience ( Ol whom I happened to be one) to sign the ! petition on the ground ' that facts had come ' out since the trial which seemed to favour a more merciful vLw of the case, and in the view of high legal authority warranted i i the effort they were now making. The man Garrifcy, it now appeared, was not stabbed with Fisher's knife,' The Rev. B. Y. Ashwell rose and corroborated Mr Lewis's statements in a lucid speech, adding as a further cogent reason for their action that ' the men were now very sorry for what they had done.' On the strength of Mr Lewis* 'new facts' (which he quite omitted to detail), and Mr'1: Ashwell's satisfactory assurances'of the con victs' penitence, a large portion of the audience, including a number of young ladies and lad*—went straightway' down stairs and signed the petition ! On Sun day the Rev. P. H. Cornford, at the ' morning service, in the Wellesley-street chapel, invited his congregation to sign. He supplemented the 'new facts' already given by a statement which is certainly the most remarkable of the whole series :— ' Epp. wright,' said the rev. gentleman, 'had been , a Baptist Sunday-school scholar in Phila delphia, and bis mother a member of the church. He had meant to use the knife simply as Americans were wont to use it in their ordinary brawls.' As to Fisher, he spoke of 'obtaining his release,' evidently, as I understood, on the ground of being subjected to fa,he imprisonment.^ Now, what are we to gather as the outcome A of this mental and moral confusion of ideas ! Are we to understand that a man who is an , ex-Sunday-school scholar, and whose mother ; , is a member of a church should not suffer the death penalty ; or are we to underatfnd '... negatively, that he should be left to the operation of the law where he may not be able to plead these circumstances in his favour ? The ' new fac*V I have reason to believe, are simply the ex parte state ments of the condemned men to the clergy men who have visit id fhem. It was tha duty of their councel, i £ such new facts really existed, to have used them at , the tripl m their defence, or stated by themselves when called upon by the Chief. Justice to shew cauc;e 'why Lenfcence of death should not be pacr:ed.' If additional ;' facts have been d' v:covercd, "by ?ll means let.; them be1 pressed upon the authorities to thai reprieve of both men ; but assuredly they ' should include much more th?i 'the , penitence of the . culprit, that he has, been a Sunday-school scholar, and his ;' mother a member of a church.' Mpnyf well - meaning men who signed that petition are consoling themselves with the idea, that while life may be spared the criminal will be removed from i ociety for the term of his natural existence. -' Imprison ment for life' is, I need hardly say, a 4l" fiction ; it does not exist in this colony or- v anywhere else. In America the average of ' life sentences 'is seven yeara six months, and at Mount Eden ten years as a maximum; in one case four being the minimum." . The Rev. P. H. Cornford writes: —"Sir,— I have no sympathy to set' between amur- . derer and the law which dooms him to death, nor did I take any part on behalf of Epp- ; wright and Fisher so long as I could rely on the testimony offered against them. But when after- ,the trial this- evidence wa3 shown to be faulty, Eppwright's own knife being found in Garrity's boot, it seemed not only that Fisher was condemned through a mis-_ take; but also that tha fcrast>6rthy character" of the evidence against Eppwright was, shaken. The potability',5 at lerst, wra;' afforded for be'ieyingthatEppwright followed; " Garrity, as,he asserts, '.' only to make peace," , and that both being partiaUy intoxicated, Garrity mistook his intention, from which, sprang that fur.'ous. reception, which so ex cited him that on t^e instant he struck the blow, scarce'Vnowirigwhathe did, and without athought that it would occa" ion death. Under such circumstances, however open to question, my opinion is that theaisusVve./dict would be., simply "guilty of, manslaughter." Let me i add, the trade in intoxicating liquor 3is the ever active occasion of aU this awful violence arid blood-shedding^ »tid': fliat in my heart, 'whenever'such things racut; Irecalthe words of the-,Prophet as T addressed 'to all who up hold bur present licensing system—"Your hands are t full^f blood !"—" A Citizen" write 3nr answer) *to the Jotter, of Mr W*., Edwards ?« the E&rdld. He cays :—" To my mind a pariof Mr,W. Edward's leUer is an i isult to most thinking people, an insults to our Supreme Court of justice, and an insult to that w '-c and good man who preside.*) over I it." „■ -.

[This mus,t olob* the correspondenca.—Ed. U.S.] .iri «W.-j ■'

PETTY SESSIONS.—This Day.

(Before Dr. Nicholson, Messrs Cheeseinan, May and Macfarlane, J.F.s)

THE PER^BULftTOK

Anne Paltridge was-.charged, under by la^- No. 6,>with allowing |«[ perambulator, «"?' containing aiull-grown;bjtpy£ fe.b.3 drawn by f hejr daughter, in Victoria-street, thereby'•■''"" rendering herseKUable to a of fire'l'"^ pounds.'^ ;" \^rX'^-rt ■ ■■"■■''•• Mr Broham conducted the c4ie on the parb . of the police, .and,. Mjr. Lai?hley. atf 3idc4 r Oil- r behalf of the prisoner. 1.»-* Mr Laishley pleaded-rppir guilty, contend-' ■■ ing that a perambulator'did not come within, the meaning of the Act. r ~.-;. ~ ;. ' Mr Broham, on the other side, urged that a perambulator was as much an inconvenience asa grocer'sitra^.'' J,; The Bench wished to know whether or not a perambulator was really a .public nuisance: • Sergt. Sanderson Was ( called, and deposed thit on the 10th. day'of jthe present month, while on duty in Viotoria-streat, he distinctly saw with his own eyes Anne Paltridge, the younger,,on the footpath, in the act of draw ing a perambulator./ , Etp, in accordance with.1 m; a stem sense of duty, and as a guardian of the public peace, duly pulled frbni his inner side- ': pocket a leather pOcke&book, and in legiblej i,l characters he inserted j therein the name ' of Anne Paltridge. The constable further //, stated that he considered a. perambulator on ; J,j the public path a great public obstruction^ but he would not affirm that it was equal in ' :' size, or equally dangerous, to a horse aai " dray. \/ n ; ■ \.. ~ -,'?!. . To the BeoJ2h,: iThere were not many persons in the street at the time, but had a' !jr crowd been there their toes must have been, yi injured.

Sergt.-Major. Pardy was of opinion, from f. various sources, that perambulators wore a J public nuisance. .v Mr Laishley objected to opinions bejug . ' expressed on such useful things as perambu lators ; they must be driven somewhere as long as babes were iv existence. He re- i spectfuUy submitted to the Bench that it '; should acquit his.client of the motherly 'T'. offence of senii'ng her baby out m a peram- ;n>. bulator by her daughter. Anr>f>. The Bench took a merciful view of the case, and fmed defendant (id and costs. HOjR^KS, ,€OWS, DRAYS; .CHIMNEYS, AND OTHER^ >£* .': MATTBHS. ■ ' ' X? WilliSm- FarcjuMr,'' for flowing MfSi chimney to te^e fire ou the 4th inst., wm'^ fined 5s and costs, j John. Russell, for allowing <W9 oowb M' tl i)

rai Breamra gf a% toiesday, htly as, ists.



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