SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WAUKE : Th'.B avantag, .85; tO"»ona» morning, 9.66 _.„ _ STJN-SEJ?: ■S&is ewmias, 612 ; BUS-&MB: So tnorrow uiurainta. 6 lif MOON'S AGE: First Quarter, 19th, 1.8 a.m.

ARRIVALS.

Southern Cress, s s , Holmes, from Napier Rowena, s.s , Macgiegor, from Russell Arnss, new top.tail-schooner, from Mahurangi « CJyde, schooner, from Wan; arei rr«v..* Chanti.lcer, brig, 189 tons, Mclntyre, from HODart Town Rio Lrge, brig, firm J yttelton Miranda, cutter, from Wb»Dg*poua Fannie, cutter, from Whargapoua Bob B.py, cutter, from Kennedy's Bay Columbia, schooner, from Napier

DEPARTURES.

Southern Cross, s s., Sellers, for Tauranga Rowena, s.s.for Whantraium •>

For London—Thames, b irque, Saturday 17th i"St. ; Countess ot Kintare, ship. 21st instant; Fern d»)e, barque, City of Auckland, ship, early For Faerators . Islands - Kenilwor.h, schooner,

Saturday _ . For Kaipara and Oamaru-Mera, schooner, Saturday For Dunedi' — v aikatn, ship. *aturday For Newcastle-Glimpse, barque, Fiiday For Lyttelton—East Lothian, barque, early

IMPORTS.

Per Southern Cross, from Napier:—sß head cattle and 240 sheep, Messrs Eisber and Co. Per brig Rio Loge from Lvttelton : 500 sacks wheat, 100 cheese, D. H. McKenzie; 50 i chests tea, 100 sacks malt, 220 sacks flour, 50 sacks grass seed, 41 cases cheese, 388 sacks oats, 34 cases bacon, 364 sacks bran. 29 sacks barley, 15 cases meats, 70 pgs flour. 20 cases cheese, 19 parcels, 1 case, llron chest, 3 iron plates, 160 bags flour, 10 bags biscuits, 74 cheese, order.—D. M. McKenzie,, agent.

THE CUTTER MATAKANA MISSING.

ijrave apprenbiisious aie cApimom "* shipping circles about the safety of the cutter Matakana, about 22 tons register, Charles Hopkins, master, was last heard of as having left the Bay of Islands with a cargo of 32 tons of coal for Mr B. Keane, on Wednesday, the 7th inst., bound for Auckland. The Golden Isle, which left after her arrived on Tuesday, and the cutter Wanderer, which also left subsequently, arrived at the Thames on Sunday. Nothirjg but fair winds have been prevalent during the last week, so that it is difficult to see why she has not put in an appearance. There is one solution which suggests itself apart from the thought of an accident, and which we trust is the correct one. On her way to the Bay the Matakana put in for shelter at Whangamumu, and was there five days. During bis stay it is said that Hopkins agreed to call in for passengers on his return. Even on this supposition it is difficult to account for so locg a delay. The Matakana belongs to Messrs James Dickson and G. W. Clark, and is we believe uninsured. With Hopkins and one other man named Gollopher.

THE BARQUE THAMES.

The following is the manifest of the tarque Thames which is to clear at the .Customs to-morrow, and sail for Lon don at 9 o'clock on Saturnay morning :— 2587 cases kauri gum, ?4 bales bags, 3 cases plants, E. Walker and Co. ; 4 do do, E. Brewin ; 40 bales leather, 6 do bags, Ireland .Bros.; 1 case plants, Dr Berggren ; 25 bales wool, Winter ; 7 do do, 5 do skins, Osborne and Co.—E. Walker and Co., agents. Passengers :—Mr and Mrs F. A. Blaydes, Master Galliehan. 2nd class: William Askhem, J. Vining, Mr and Mrs Vining, Neils, Pctersen, Mrs Gladding, Wm. Eud ling.

The new topsail schooner Agnes, the pro perty ©£ Captain George Short? arrived in harbour from the builder's yard at Mahcrangi early this morning, and was at once laid alongside the Breakwater. She is one of the most compact-looking schooners we have seen for many a day. Her lines are very graceful. She is not so tauntly rigged as tbe Helena, and would not appear to be so capacious a vessel, but; she has a much cleaner run and delivery, with a finer stern. To lnok at her she Bhould sail with any vessel of her class be longing to the po,rt. It is probable that the sohoonar Agnes will make her first trip to the Islands. There is a prospect of her being chartered by Captain Young, well known in the Island trade, who is at present in Auck land, and anxious to secure a vessel. . Her owner is to take command. The brig Chanticleer, 189 tons, Captain Mclntyre, arrived from Hobart Town with a general cargo of Tasmanian produce last evening. It is only five weeks since she left this port, so that her movements have been unusually smart. She lefb Hobarfc Town on the 4th inst, and has thus made the run in 9 days, the fastest passage for some time. She comes consigned to Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane. During her voyage she experienced a series of N.W., W. and S.W. ■winds. Captain Harvey, who was in com mand last trip, has exchanged into the Acacia barque. The s.s. Rowena arrived this morning from Russell. As announced on her departure her trip this time was to that port alone. She left here on Monday evening with, a strong N.W. wind, which increased to a heavy northerly gale off Point Rodney. The vessel making little progress she was -wore round and her head laid for the Xawau. After steaming for an hour in this direction the wind shifted to the west again, and her proper course was resumed, Russell being reached at 2 o'clock. She left Russell at 12 noon yesterday, and after having light W. winds with fine weather and smooth water during the passage, arrived in the Tamaki at half-past four this morning. Thence at eight she came up to the wharf. Passengers—Dr Heale, Messrs Gillies, Harkis, Dixon, Gra ham, and H. Williams ; Miss Blair, and two Bteerage. Cargo—3o head cattle, A. Buck land ; 12 bags gum,- Stone Bros.; 37 do do, It. Walker and Co.; 23 hides, B. Gittos and Sons. We are indebted to Mr Stodart, the purser, for report, &c. The schooner Clyde, Captain Anderson, arrived from Wangarei this morning. She left on JTuesday morning, but did not get beyond the Heads till yesterday. Had a good run down the coast, with fine weather; arrived at Orakei at 10 o'clock last night. Landed cattle and came up to the wharf at 10 o'clock this morning. The Clyde brings 8 passengers, 14 head of cattle for A. Buck land, and 5 tons of gum for Rolph, Sterry and Co. The neatness and cleanliness which always distinguishes this schooner's passen ger accommodation is due in a great measure to" the care of Mr A. Pearson, the steward. The A.S.P. Co's s.s. Southern Cross, Capt. Holmes, arrived this morning from Napier, which port she left on Tuesday KvoraiDg at 7 ' o'clock. Had strong southerly winds off the East Cape; from thence strong, westerly winds. The Southern Cross landed her pas sengers at nine o'clock at the North Shore, and then steamed to Kohimarama to put out her cattle. Passengers : Messrs Hili, Broad bent, Adams, and another in the saloon, and four in the steerage. Mr Malcolm Darrach, who came up by the Agnes, brings with him the model of another 'vessel—a double topsail brigantine—which the firm are building for Mr G. W. Owen. The keel is already laid, and she is to be finished and launched by next February. She will be about 170 tons register. . The s.s. Hero arrived at Sydney on the Ist instant, after a run of six days. H.M.S. Blanche has been very unfortunate in the number of hands she has lost through desertion. One of the officers says, in a letter published by a contemporary :—" if we stay out much longer we sball not have hands enough to take her Home ; there are no end of desertions We have lost thirty hands this time in New Zaaland, and only been here two months. Since the Blanche came out we have lost 120 in all."

The ship Waikato is to sail for Dunedin on Saturday. She would have taken her depar ture before, but has been detained waiting for timber, which has been delayed on the coast, in consequence of the weather. The iron brig JKio Loge arrived from Lyttelton this morning and anchored off the North Head at 11 o'clock, being unable to come up owing to the strong westerly wind i and ebb tide. She brings a cargo of bread stuffs, cheese, bacon, &c, consigned to Mr D. H. Mackenzie. She left Lyttelton on the sth inst, and has had strong West and N.W. winds throughout the passage. Passengers'— Mr and Mrs White. The s.s. Southern Cross, after being de tained to undergo her periodical inspection, left this morning for Tauranga. The s.a. Rowena left this afternoon for Whangaruru with a quantity of general .cargo. . . . When the Southern Cross came in this morning a good many people imagined she had bad her ruizen mast carried away owing to the vessel appearing without it. The fact had been overlooked that she had it removed last time she was in harbour. The old one had its head carried away on the voyage from England, and a new mast is about to be stepped in its place. The whaling barque Hunter Left the Bay of Islands on Saturday for another cruise.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Taxtbanga this day. The schooner Ocean, Captain Rawlings, arrived here this morning with a cargo of timber, .

COMMERCIAL.

COLONIAL PRODVJCE,

Buying Prices, Corrected by -Aucklakd Dealers.

Retail .trices, Farm and Dairy. Phodtjoe..

BREADSTUFF 3. FLOUR. TVHOLKSALE.

BISCCJIT. / Cabin Biscuit, per 1001b .Retail 225. I aDmSj£ Al^ OATS ' > POTATOES, ETC. WHOLESALE, Maize, 6s Piime Sy iiiey Oats, 5s 9d to 6s per bushel Potatoes, £9 to £9 103 American Oats, 5s ETay, £710s to £9 per ton. Straw, £3 to £3 10s per ton. Chaff, £■/ 10s per ton. RETAIL. Maize, per bushel, 63 6d to 7a Oats, 6s per bushel. Potatoes, 10s t9 103 6d per cwt. Hay, cwt., 9s 3traw, 4s to 5s per cwt. Chaff, 8s to 9s per cwt. KAUKI GUM AND FLAX MARKET. The following are the prices in the Auckland market ;—

BUILDING MATERIALS. Timber.—Boards and scantling, 100 ft, 9s to 15a ; at mills, lls 6(1; planed, tongued, and grooved, 11s 6d to 18s New Zealand palings, 6-feet, 10a ; 6-feet, 13s; tl tree rail 3, £210s *,o £3 per 100 ; puriri posts, £5 per 100 ; shingles, 8s to 15s per 1000; Hooart Town palings sft., 17s; Bft., 18s ; Hobartown rails, 75s COaL AND FIREWOOD MARKET. Coal.— Newcastle, on Wharf, 45s ; delivered 60s per ton. Firewood.—Uncut, 183 per ton ; delivered, cut, ISs 6d per ton.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND, Ma res will Closiu as follows :— T"or Thames, to-morrow, at 6.30 p m , and 10.30 a.m. Fnr Coromandel, to-morrow, at 11.30 a m. For ■Wa»RaTei,*c. l p«r Clyde, tc-morrow, at 430 p.to. For Farmer and Gisrome. per Southern Pross For Mauuranei, Mateliana, Mangaxval, "Waipu, &C, per T cdy Bowen. on Saturday next, at 10 a.m. Cor Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Lady bird on Saturday next, at 10 am. For Rur-e", Wangsroa. end Mosgonui, per Rowena, on Mordsy next,, at. 4 p.m. Mails for Australisn. Colonies, India, China MerWerrsnPsn ports. Continent r,f Europe, and Tnited Kingdom, via Southampton and Brindisi wl'l be made up per Ladybird, on Wednesday, 21st instant Should a later opportunity offer, Supplementary Mails wil' be forwarded. A Post-offioe. has bpen opened at Hautapu, situated between Hamilton and Cambridge Mails will be despatched and received on the same days »v the mailß to and from Cambridge. S. B. Bisa, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

At-.dry—On 15th instant, at Spring VilK Ponsonby, the wife of William J W. Addey, of a son.

DEATH.

Palmer—On September U. at Norfolk Island, Sarah Matilda, the beloved wife of the Rev J. Palmer, and only child of Eev B. Y. Ashwe", of Wailiato : acred 33 years

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

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, for the future in the distance, • A>i the sood that we can do.

We trust that the note which we have struck on the difficulties of the Young Men's Christian Association will not be allowed to die away into thin air. In another column will be found a letter bearing the signature of one of the best and most earnest friends of that institution, and his words deserve to be weighed well. We are confident that the course which we have indicated, and which Mr Newman endorses, would be thoroughly and completely success ful if taken uj> in a spirited manner. To any one of the churches, except the very feeblest, the total sum of £1500 would not be a very great burthen if resting solely on the shoulders of its own particular congregation, and what would it be if divided among them all in pro portion to their numbers? And yet for the lack of thia sumtheh'nebuildingwhichhas afforded shelter to so many a good cause in the days of infancy and helplessness may pass away, to be converted perhaps into a grog-shop, for this it would suit most admirably. We assert it is in the power of half-a-dozen of young men of the institution put tiDg their heads and hands together to put in motion a scheme that will enliat the sympathy and practical efforts of the several churches. From the census returns they can find the numbers of every denomi nation within the city and suburbs. Let the £1 500 be apportioned among the various denominations exactly in proportion to the numbers of adherents, and we re-assert that there is not a minister, there is not a con gregation in Auckland that will shirk the duty, or be the one to place a stone in the road. Let the young men take it up, let them Bolicit the co-operation of the young ladies- They willj we are sure, heartily re3nond> and with a monster bazaar which will enlist the syrypathy of all in Auckland who have an in'cerest in ihe Association—and that in a good many—they would be able to welj supplement any deficiency, if deficiency there chance to be. The matter (simply wants a start. Talking will never do it. If half-a -dozen earnest and hopeful meet and organize and set the thing on foot we stake our re putation that success will result unless we wholly misapprehend the feelings entertained in Auckland towards the Young Men's Christian Association.

THE SAN FRANCISCO SERVICE.

The Chief Postmaster received a telegram from Wellington to-day stating that the Government have arranged to continue the San Francisco service. A steamer will call at Auckland about the 30th inst.

A meeting of the Building Commissioners was held this afternoon, when the resigna tion of Mr Philips was received. The election of a successor was deferred. Mr Herapath was present, and explained the plans of the Hospital. It was resolved to call for tenders forthwith, specification to be prepared by Mr Herapath. The cold and continued inclemency of the weather is almost unparalleled, and people are beginingto look extremely gloomy. Their feelings are in no way alleviated by the statements which some savants have promul gated that no fine weather need be expected until Venus has performed the transit of the sun. As this interesting event does not take place till the 9bh of December the prospect is not an encouraging one, especially to drapers, whose spring trade has been completely killed, and who have so far been unable to gather any consolation from the expecta tion of a good summer demand. Trade baa without doubt suffered very seriously already, and we feel assured that the mass of mankind, and especially those in the shop-keeping line, will not regard the transit with the same enthusiasm as astronomers appear to do. Fortunately the planet has sufficient consideration not to try on this kind of thing too often, and perhaps once in a century or so the people of earth will put up with it patiently for the satis faction of knowing exactly how we stand in space. Our telegrams announce snow near Tauranga, rather an extraordinary pheno menon for this time of the year. "E.P.S." writes stating that the persons sent to gaol yesterday for petty theft did not come out in the JRooparell. He thinks that by conveying such au impression to the public many a hard-working man who came by the ship would be kept out of employ ment, and adds :: " I admit there were two or three bad characters on board, but I think it hard that all, or rather a great many, should be tarred with the same brush." We assume that our correspondent was a passen ger, and therefor in a position to speak, but it was certainly stated in Court yesterday that the accused arrived by the ship named. No honest hard-working man, however, need fear that he wiil be debarred from obtaining employment through the misconduct of others. To the Editor: Sir,—With all due deference to the Cross I would state that " appeal" is the proper term to be used by Highway Boards in reference to disputed assessment inasmuch as the ratepayers appeal ;o fcke Board against the assessment of the valuator. I would commend this to the atten tion of " Working Man," who may be a working man, but is notwithstanding the biggest " swell " along Ponsonby Road.—l am, &c., Another Working- Man. An emergency meeting of Lodge Ara will be held in the Masonic Hall, Princes-street, this evening at the usual hour.

A melancholy case of a man who had borne a good character, but who had strayed from the honest path of life through exces sive drinking, Same before the Police Court yesterday. The man had been employed as salesman and collector to a grocer in Queen- Btreet, and was sent by bis employer to the Thames to get in certain accounts. He got over £20 of the money, and was tempted t< drink, and drank so much that h. forgot hi: responsibility and fell. His plea was drunken ness, and this is the plea in nine out of ten I cases iv our criminal courts. The unfortunate man was committed for trial, and will have to lie in Mount Eden gaol until the dawn of ; the new year, and then possibly be sentenced : to a long term of imprisonment, simply be- ! cause he forgot himself and got drunk. ' i The last of the winter course of lectures J will be given to - morrow evening in the Young Men's Christian. Association rooms by Venerable Archdeacon Maunsell. The sub ject will be " The Man." It will be remem bered that Dr. Maunsell in last year's course gave " The Gentleman," in which the true character of the gentleman was set before the audience in an interesting and truthful manner. We feel assured that " The Man" will be presented to-morrow evening with equal truth and honesty. We have been requested to publish the following clause of the Education Act, as the collectors are now making their rounds :— "6. For the purpose of making further provision for raising funds to carry out the provisions of the said Act, and this Act an annual rate to be fixed by the Board not exceeding ten shillings jn any one year, shall be levied upon every male person of the age of twenty-one years and upwards residing within the province who shall not be liable to pay the Household Rate hereinbefore provided. 11. Every man who shall not be liable to the payment of the Household Kate shall when requested thereto by any Collector appointed under this Act state his age correctly, and any person who shall make any false statement to any such Collector in re-ply to any question w7rich such Collector is author ised to ptit to him shall be deemed guilty of a breach of this Act, and shall on conviction thereof forfeit and pay any sum not exceeding ten pounds." What seems a confirmed nuisance at present exists in the vicinity of Union-street and neighbourhood. A cow-keeper of Nelson street has cattle continually wandering about to the no small annoyance of the residents. Up to your very door step will these animals be driven, and after a fall of rain the state of quagmire through which the unfortunate neighbour has to plough is a caution. Surely it' people will keep cows within the city there is no compulsion for a whole neigh bourhood to bear their annoyances. If the sentinels in charge of these animals, who are generally found perched on some elevated fonca, are expostulated with, a tirade of inso lence from the young scamps is the reply. Can tho authorities not abate this intolerable nuisance ? In the colonies we read the accounts of death from starvation which appear in the home papers from time to time with peculiar horror and surprise. One of these cases was disclosed at an inquest held at Bethnal Green, London, on the body of Isabella Poulton, aged 56 years. Tho deceased had, since the death of her husband, who left her with two children, been for some time in receipt of relief from the parish, but, being unwilling to enter the Workhouse, it ceased. On Thursday she proceeded to the house of a woman named Heath, who obtains a liveli hood by weaving, to do half a-day's washing for the sum of 3d. At half-past six o'clock in the evening she was in the act of carrying a pail of water when she suddenly fell help less to the ground. She expired two hours later. A post-mortem examination was made, and death found to be due to apoplexy accelerated by the want of food. One of Mr Vogel'e last pioceedings was of a very extraordinary character, being the grant of a loan of £5000 to Mr Hal combe, the manager of the Emigrant and Colonists' Aid Corporation, and to be ex pended in works on the Feilding block. When the sale of this block was arranged with Colonel Fielding it was agreed that the Corporation should deposit a certain sum of money with the Government as security for the due performance of the conditions under which the land was sold. These conditions have since been very considerably modified in favour of the Company. The transaction altogether has rather an ugly aspect, and ia said to be not the only ques tionable one between the same parties. Some very snug railway contracts in the neigh bourhood are said to have been given to Mr Halcombe by private arrangement, and at an exorbitant rate. Next session a Committee of Enquiry into the history and management of the Yielding settlement would probably bring some singular things to light, and it will, I hope, be moved ior.— Otago Times. We understand that the person who res cued Mrs Smith at the late fire in Hobson street was William Steward, a young man employed in the Auckland Ga3 Works. He it was who entered the house and carried Mrs Smith to the window, where she was •taken charge of by Messrs Harrison, Marks, ami Solomon. Steward's fearlessness and intrepidity deserve the highest commenda tion. We observe in the City Council's advertise ment inviting tenders for the construction of the new waterworks that plans, specifications, &c , may be Eeen, and general conditions learnt, at the City Council Chambers on and after Friday, the 23rd instant. Now the Suez mail is advertised to leave on the 21st inst We should suggest that intending tenderers should be allowed to learn the par ticulars before the mail leaves, for unless letters are sent to their agents in England by this mail there will be no time to receive back answers enabling them to send in the tenders Ly the appointed date, the 22nd February. The adoption of this suggestion seems feas able from the fact that it is generally under stood the specifications and drawings are now ready. We hear indeed that some gentlemen have already seen J;hem, and we know that a brief resume of them has already appeared in the papers. The following valuable suggestion for Good Templars comes to us from a correspondent: —Sir, —Very startling intelligence appeared in your contemporary the Merald yesterday regarding the marvellous effect of the experi ment of injecting the blood of a four-legged billy goat into a consumptive man to rid him of his evil nature. Sir, I would suggest that the surgeons connected with and in favour of Good Templarism should take daily rounds through our city, and when they or the police meet with a person dead drunk they should extract some blood from a staunch Templar—say from Brothers Hanna fprd or Spragg, or others who have an over flow of that bodily element, and inject into the one in drink. This may shew an improve ment ; but if this fails I would recommend the blood of a pure bred Scotchman who never drank whiskey, and I am sure it will have a beneficial effect in our city in cases too numerous to mention.—lam&c, Bbotherly Lovk. Mr Bathgate, R.M., Dunedin, has sen tenced a fraudulent debtor to thirty days' imprisonment. The Dunedin Star suggests that as " the maintenance money paid by creditors for the support of debtors—l 2 per week—isnowabolished, alldebtors committed to gaol should be sentenced to hard labour. The public ought not to be charged with their support." In the middle of the Good Samaritan enter tainment last evening the proceedings were considerably interrupted by the howling of a large black dog, who did not seem to relish the sounds of the new brass band. The dog was unceremoniously tumbled down stairs into the street, but not without causing great confusion. The dog belonged to a brother of the order and a strict member.

We notice that at the present time there is quite a mania for concerts, public tea-parties, and what may be termed sectional amuse ments; and it is no -wonder that these concerts should occasionally fail m drawing to the extent of the wishes of their promoters. We think it is time that something iiKe moderation should come into play and regulate the growing mania, as it cannot, be expected that persons can be continually purchasing tickets for every representative festival »th* every juvenile tea-and-bun spread lacse gatherings occasionally, at reasonable peno'ie. have a good effect upon the community bar we may have too much even of a pood thing. The sweetest music losefc much of its charm by frequent repetition, and the same sweet song, however beautiful, becomes distasteful by continual use. If some of our public concerts do not appear to attract fall houses it is not altogether owing to a want ot appreciation of musical and dramatic talent but owing in a great measure to a want ot time and in consequence of unvarying routine of local entertainments. the concert last night in the Choral Ball in favour of the Artillery Cadets was a com plete failure from a professional point of view, and it was rather a fortunate thing than otherwise that the audience was not so lirge as the founders fondly anticipated. This in some measure may be accounted for by the unavoidable absence of the two lead ing vocalists, Miss Leaf and Mi 4 Harding, the lady being compelled to stay in doors owing to ill-health, and the gentleman unfortunately had met with rather a severe accident in the course of the day on board the Waikafco. Glees were given by Messrs Hull, Osborne and Harker, and the Misses Hales played several selec tions very nicely on the piano. With thece exceptions the performance was simply execrably bad, and the management ought never to have brought such an entertainment before the pubHc. One gentleman with a very weak voice straggled through what was supposed by the audience, judging from his gestures, to be a comic song, but no sound fell upon the listen ing ear of those sitting many seats removed from the platform. A consciousaess of his unfortunate position seemed to confuse the vocalist, who had frequently to refer to the promoter for the "next line." The sword dance waa a decided success, so far as it was viewed as a display of the human leg divine in puris naluralibus, but the disarranging of the sword by tbe point of the toe, and the necessity for stopping in the figure to re-cross them, was rather a draw back, especially as the band failed to take in the position and fired away, at the music, leaving the dancers some bars behind. But of all the skockingly bad attempts at a farce the one by the "gentleman from Howick " was the worat it has been our misfortune to listen to, and the gifted author has evidently made a mistake iv not keeping it for private rehearsal in that rural locality. After standing it with the patience of martyrs for some minutes the audience fully hissed it off the Btage, and the majority of those present rose up and left the hall dis gusted. The band deserves commendation for their efforts, which were the better apprecia ted by the audience on account of the general flatness of the entertainment. Itfrequently happens, when our own mind is unable to furnish ideas of pleasure with which to drive out the impressions of pain, those ideas may bo found in the writings of others, and those writings will pro bably have a more potent interest when utterance is given to them. To a mind rich in the stores of literature and philosophy some thought appropriate to the calming of sorrow, or the brightening of joy, will scarcely fail to present itself, clothed in the attractive language of some writer, and when emphatic expression is given to it its power may be considerably increased. Poetry often lendrc itself to this benignant purpose ; and where sound and sense, truth and har mony, benevolence and eloquence are allied, happy indeed are their influences. The Mount Hobson Cadet Corps tender their most sincere thanks to the A.R.V. band for the kind services at the concert last evening. Of all attempts to commit suicide that made at Launceston, England, lately was surely the queerest. The wife of a small farmer, named Wannacott, having quarrelled with her husband, ran away from homo, and with mysterious threatenings said she should go to Plymouth ; but on arriving at the rail-1 way station she found that the last train had left, and, filled with fear, remorse, or despair she resolved to drown herself in the adjacent river. She seems, however, to have been po33essed with the notion she could not be effi ciently drowned with her clothes on, and accordingly she divested herself of all her raiment, threw her clothes into the water, and then plunged in herself. Although the water is only two feet deep at the spot, she would have gratified her suicidal desires but that Bhe had been observed by a man who, despite her struggles, effected her rescue. A policeman was fetched, but her clothes having floated away she had to be taken to the lock-up in a state much more nearly re sembling that of unfallen Eve than is usually seen in any streets save those of Coventry. Since we couldn't all get to Iceland and celebrate the millennial, let us content our selves by staying at home, and singing the pretty little national air of that distant land to the tune Days of Absence. Here's the firat verse :— Eldgamia Isafold Astkaera fostermold, Fyallonau frid ! Mogum thin muntu kaer, Medan lond girdir saer Og gumar giraast maer j Gijar sol a hlid. Mr J. Blair exhibited yesterday in his provision window a quantity of Columbian salmon of excellent size and colour. It has met with a rapid sale to connoisseurs and restaurant managers since its arrival, who pronounce it to be of a flavour beyond any importation to this place.

THE PAKIRI MURDER.

STATEMENT BY THE DAUGHTER.

(To the Editor of the Evmmwj Stak.) biß,—l do not envy the man, whoever he may be, who wrote that article in the Cross of Saturday last respecting the convict Dyer One would think the sad details of the Pakiri tragedy was sufficiently harrowin* without the writer adding to it a tissue of gross unfounded falsehoods. In the first place Dyer did not compel Eliza Battersea to marry a man 65 years of age ; she married a man aged 40, and after living with him three days went back to Dyer of her own free will preferring him to the man she had married It is^ equally untrne that for years the dwel lers m the di ß triothave been shocked by the cruelties the woman has been subjected to only within the last twelve months. The flogging with nettles and branches of the quince tree, and prickings* with the point of ins knife, are grossly exaggerated. The writer goes on to say that "His own daughter could have testified to all this and more." His daughter who is now in my office sitting f L / ! abl? as * write ' desires me to hurl the dastardly, cowardly lie into his foul throat. In fact this letter is hers, I being merely the mtrument to bring it under your notice, and through you the public. His, own familj did not, as the writer says, hold hmm detestation When not under the"in fluence of the demon drink he was ever kind and indulgent to them; and remember, sir 3 /ongoing ia corroborated by another liZAn^LT ked threS J GarS foAyerrand And noi i Ul 6 I good Parb of the «me.

the convict's execution "will doubtless be pre sent to gloat his eyes on the last struggles of the dying man. That article was evidently prepared to create a sensation. Whose feel- Lgß does the scribe harrow? Not the convict b, (for he is in utter ignorance of it having been written), but his poor unhappy child ren • and knowing some of them personally for years, indeed one of his daughters and her husband have been my highly esteemed neighbours for a lengthened period of time, and if it will afford any satisfaction to the writer I may tell him that that article has" "Made her seriously ill and take to her bod. No excuse can be allowed the writer for this piling agony upon agony on Dyer's poor unfortunate childreii, tor. he must know that one and all would be sure to eagerly scan the papers. lam instructed to say they believe, and ever will believe, the burning was accidental. Eliza Battersea, with her dying breath, aaid.it was ; but the Cross writer, in effect affirms she wentmto the presence of her Maker with the he on her lips The Cross says the judge believed it, the jury believed it, the public believe it but have not judge, jury, and public.in nwjaj ous other occasions believed in the guilt of persons who have eventually been proved innocent, or extenuating circumstances been brought to light which would have caused their lives to have been spared after the last oread sentence of thejaw has.been carried out upon them.-I am, &c, T. B. H^ A" FORD.-TWhile giving publicity to our cctrres pondent}sletter,and fully agreeingwithhimso far as he condemns the uncalled for and savage attack made by our contemporary on the condemned man, we can feel no sympathy whatever with any attempt to palliate, «nd excuse the revolting crime which Charles Dyer has been found guilty of by a jury of his countrymen. As our wise and w™?* 1 Chief Ju3tice remarked, we "fear that the verdict was but too well] deserved. We regard Dyer's case as but another instance of the downward course of sin. Unfortunately there are in isolated parts of the bush, as all who have travelled. through the country know, many cases of women,, sinful and de graded, it is true, bu^ also poor and helpless creatures who are the victims of brutality and ill-usa^e as Eliza Battersea was, even accord ing to°the reluctent testimony of Dyer s own relatives; and it may only be hoped that this melancholy result of a fiendish passion long indulged will save others who are following the same course from the sad end of Charles Dyer—Ed. J7.&'.] —* —

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIA TION.

To the Editor of the Evening Stab. Sir,—No apology was necessary for your leading article in last evening's Stab on the Young Men's Christian Association building. If such subjects are not legitimate subjects for discussion in our newspapers I do not know where you can find better ; it is surely better to write such articles than to fill up newspapers with such trash as we are some times" invited to read. 1 sincerely hope the churches will take the coarse you have so ably suggested. If a commirtee of two or three active young men could be appointed in connection with each church to work in harmony with the present committee of the Young Men's Institution, whose special object should be to collect funda from their own circle, and obtain subscribers to the library (the best of the kind probably in Auckland), the object of the committee would soon be accomplished. It might also forward the object if a large and enthusiastic tea meeting could be held, at which the proposal for a monster bazaar, such as the whole town could join in, might be brought forward, and a committee appointed to carry it out in four monfhs time, that would be prioi to the annual metsting of tha institution, when the committee might find themselves in such a prosperous position as to fulfil more faith fully in the future the claims the public have upon this and such kindred institutions. For I hold it to be a duty incumbent upon oar churches to find counter-attractions for our young people to divert them from the evil courses so often pursued, simply because they have nothing better to employ their time. In making these proposals, or rather suggestions, I feel that I am again calling upon the struggling part of the community to work and subscribe out of very limited means, when it would be so very easy for a few moneyed men to pay off the debt with out taxing the whole community to do what must cost them a great deal of time and labour. Trusting that some liberal impulse will bring such moneyed men to the front, and lead them to sustain the position they ought to take as a privilege,—l am, &c, Joseph Hbwmak.

COPPER TOKENS.

The new Licensed Victuallers penny seems to have placed people in a difficulty whether to accept or refuse the coin. Two or three hotelkeepers have refused to accept the coin otherwise than as a half-penny, and many shopkeepers have followed the exam ple, so that others are forced in self-protec tion todo the same. The President of the Licen sed Victuallers' Society has announced that the Society will guarantee to give a penny for every one of the coins issued, and if two or three of the leading members would enter into a bond to that effect the difficulty would no doubt be removed. We have re ceived the following letters on the subject :— Sir, —Both the state and condition of our Auckland current coinage are bad, disgrace ful, troublesome, and annoying. Three penny bits, and fourpenny pieces, elsewhere worn bare, are posed and puzzled over and disputed about; half-pennies and pennies from different nations, most of them are so much alike that often the former are inno cently paid away for the latter, especially in « aTAR line> and half-crowns are cunningly affirmed or sworn to be florins, to the serious though silent offence of the utterers ; and, now, this week, as a climax (which beina reached I write), the Licensed Victuallers' Association have issueda neat and convenient penny coin ; and a bigoted fanatic has been industriously endeavouring to persuade the people it is only worth a half-penny, and must be so taken, and has thereby frightened a £° od ™f Qy- So, sir, altogether, and upon the whole here is a very pretty mess. Our right honorable law-makers have been long hankering after somethiag fresh to legislate about However did they happen to over looit the real necessity of regulating our cur- General Assembly of legislators and public workers produce and provide a legal tender, an<l moreover accommodate She public with anabundant supply of common/uniform, coin age tor legal value presented? Meanwhile, the associated innkeepers' penny coin will, I think, do for a make-shift, at any rate Mr BarieyV-I am, &c, W.E.S , £amell.- Another correspondent says :-■•" Sir —Per nut me to give a word of caution in reference to the copper tokens now being so generally circulated by the so-called Liclnsed vS allera Aasociataon-an irresponsible body - by which little less than a fraud is be ng 17Z edvf the p?blic- inasmu<* i 32S tokens, while nominally representing one penny, intrinsically are not worth onfhaK Penny in point of copper value. My obiect JJg?^ maS is.no?, hoover, 3£ question of 'value,' but the fact that they persoTf ' nt°^' ~that is > the™ taS personal responsibility assumed on the part holder y nf81Vei1 Publioan> consequently the 2 °* several Pounds' worth would be Rv?««t • reC A °Ver the nominal value in th?J + w Q> i AnOther feature of the case is rinolS f ilargtnumber of tradesmen have refused to take them, consequently loss and inconvenience is entailed on the holders dSSST 1 T 6 af ew d*** back "*^ dared them at a grocery establishment. Your

TELEGRAPHIC.

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ROTORUA.

The Hauhaus are busy remoTiv,? 111 h pegs on the new line of rosf f B'^%t Kiore bo Cambridge. "?* SiX The general aspect of naH™ « East Waikato is unaatisfe^r **» h The weather is stormy.

LATEST THAMES NEWS.

SPLENDID SHOW IN THE GOLD IN THEEXCHANGE. GRAHAMSTOWN, The Nonpareil crushing yieMaS% 10 tons stone. . ? yiewedß9ozi4 The Cure have a splendid aW • bottom of the winze. They awS*?» down specimens, some of which J**?H be worth an ounce to the pound. ■ "*!» The Exchange got a owe shownf the stope above the main level to-dtoß** DrPMl ß on a ndMrKß.L^L tK to-day as a Commission of Inquirvw 3 the alleged mismanagement m tfoT% relative to Maurice Power's case It open to the public. * ■ " M At an extraordinary meeting w, terms of amalgamation between Sri pareil and Italian Companies were fi arranged, the Italian receiving 3000*^ issue shares. - , Sales—Cure, 9s 6d.

TAURANGA.

A heavy fall of enow occurred Si neighbourhood of Greerton on Tntadav S* Hannon, coach proprietor, reports ml. faUing in flakes in the bash, coveri»?i coach. A cold south- westerly?winlt prevailed for the last fortnight. ■

WELLINGTON.

Messrs Vogel and Russell have iaci^j arrangements in Sydney for congj^ji San Francisco service. The steamSl,/ Auckland on the 30th inst. [The wires were here again intempki.i

UNKNOWN

It would appear that the Ema wm snceeit I fully got inside the Spit at Napieryestai; evening. Captain Baker hag thig nmm telegraphed up to Messrs S&me : BroMfo following account of his misfortune: ---" Napter, this day, 10 o'clock, " Got dismasted at 10 o'clock on .jsafa, the 12th, when 30 miles off Cape Taraw^' ship at. the time going 10 knots inta under lower topsail, foresail, a^i* The weather forerigging parted «« the masthead, letting the forenutt down with a tremendous ..crash,? aj: carrying the mainmast with it, lii to cut away everything to dear the sh^; The foremast has gone close off by the dec^ the mainmast 16 feet above the -deck, rTW mizenmast is left standing.' The mizen d gafftopsail, mainsail and gafftopsail^ forety gallantsail, forestaysail, and the spans! are saved, the rest of the sails and theikJt of the rigging are gone," Messrs Stone Bros, have sent itustroctiou by telegram for the captain to rig a jmyißß. mast and take in coals, and come apS Auckland as soon as practicable, v 5 POLICE COURT.-ThesDay. (Before Thomas Beckhatn, Ssq. , 8.M,) TOO MUCH. Peter, a Maori, was fined 10s and coetjfe being drunk last night in Queen-street READY FBR A BIDE. " John Higgins was brought np on i drop I of stealing a horse, saddle and bridle, nlii I £17, on the 14thinat., the propei :%o®* l Crowther, of Chapel-streefe. ■ Mr Inspector Broham asked for a «milß until next Thursday, which was granted ■ tommy's chaeacteb. : ; I Thomas Mulvany was charged ffiitjj breach of the Vagrant Act with toistehs^H himself last evening in Lome-street rifl intent to commit a breach of thepeaa,! _B Prisoner said he was not guilty,^ "hH his Worship if he would grant him a w*M until to-morrow, as he should then beiiw position to clear bis character. Mr Broham stated that prisoner 1* efs was very bad, and he caused a great canm tioh in Lome-street. . Prisoner still requested a remand ie v purpose of establishing the gennmeMS« his character ; he had no objection t« W4B nie;ht in the lock-up. His Worship granted the remand. MOTHERS AND CHILDRKS'. Eliza Cash was brought up M;f»"» charged with neglecting to ;g*"J towards the support of her child, &* inmate of the home for neglected nal children. ... ± «* Prisoner said she would be willag f .•■ tribute, but was unable. Ji j'H It was shown that defendant was, dm»'■ good character, and had been found ffi =*■ reputable houses. yB Mr Broham stated that there eighty children in the home, :%^H support, their parents Med'too*M«» ■ The case was remanded ■.nntil'.MW^B order that the police might f^fM enquiries into the truth of defend^" rm ments, about her recent conduct. Jane Porris was brought up on s "-TM charge, and made a similar excuse. _. JBJ Mr Buliford proved that Va**JM ordered to pay 2s a week towa'ttj a* w and that she was now indebted **?fejßl Defendant said she was "^"f^B and could not pay ; she had no goocts I means of paying. . te^H The Court ordered her to -Vff^M month unless she was prepared.» py,«j ■ ■ ASSAULT- - - --^H Francis Diver was brought up on J^M charing him with.: « U Robert Andrews on the face * U handle, thereby damaging his no» £#m Prisoner pleaded not -Pffc^M he had not been able togf ¥^« together. If the case .could ,H till to-morrow he should shew that it was a -"MB* m^SSS^B The case was accordingly^^ „/■ fendant finding bail, himself »».* ■ two sureties in £5 each.. _^_ ■■..' <■ ■ INCrDENTS John Peace, of Bemuera, .^W to answer to a <^^°\^^m wrong side of Symondsi^ 1 September. rnr i^AP%W r Mr Peace said he only w^ rf^M mons yesterday, and ■■? *...-. ■ he resolved to defend the <**<>. •» Remanded for a week. dfl^H| Thomas Mayler was chggj oJ,J IB a dray and two horses wtjj"*^ 0M 27th of August, I>f nd s a°tP , r> |l and was fined 20s tod eojtj. » I John Whisker, «f r iS, B^'-t<|| similar offence, was !»•**•,,;,, ,« || an airmg m K,f f - f"; ■| was fined 10s .i'U ?f ;,.„ , it ,y.:. '•; ■;, ■■ His wood> fj/^Uii mm endeavour totefld m P/,,« would not then ZluS^Wml that cowkeepexO* 0"} ' ver- •- ■ water to their* 1- >- *■ _ HI careful of their'Cf-'«• tU rf B Mr Smith repfc'■-■;';,., • ■ scended to sucn ; '- •'S r^)lg^ •;•! BVj he did not deal)£ >". . J &M\i W his cow had acM" ;^ <»-nM#

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s. d. s. d. s a. h. a. Butter,perlb. 13-20 Ducks,pair... 00—0 0 Cheese (new) 0 5—0 8$ Geese, each 0 0-0 0 Eggs per doz. 1 0—0 0 Turkey ..00—0 0 Lard, per lb 0 6—0 0 | Canterbury Itacon & Hams Fowls each 1 0—2 0 1 (bare) ... Oil— 0 Good Salt Butter- 1 6 | Do (in c oth): 10-0 0 Canter. Cheese 8—0 9 | Auckland 0 6—0 9 Hams, 9Jd to lOjd per lb.



s. d. s. d. s. d s, d Milk, per 0 0—0 6 Ducks pair 5 0—66 Butter (fresh) 16-19 Geese, each 5 0—6 0 Cheese (new) 0 1C—0 11 Turkeys, each. 4 6-60 Esgs.per doz. 1 3—0 0 Bacon, per lb. 0 9-0 1 Lard perlb. 0 6—0 91 Hams .. .. 0 9-10 Fowls, pair.. 3 6-5 01 Salt Butter.. 1 C-l 8 Butchers' Meat. Beef, per lb. 0 6—0 9 I Pork, per lb. 0 6-07 Second quality 3i 0—0 S|Veal.. .. 0 5-08 Mnttnn .. O 4—0 6 , Ste*ks .. 7 0-0 9



Millers' Price, per ton—1st quality.. Fine Flour—household Adelaide Flour Canterbury Seconds, £12. Sharps, £8 Bakers' Price, per 1b Bran, Is 6d per bushel. Bread, per 21b. loaf, 4d Maize, crushed and whole, 6i 6d ti 6a

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