SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

SUN'-STT: This evening, 6.57 BXJN-III8S: To- Sinorrow morntni?, 5.33 HIGH WATER : 11-J3 evening, 2.2$ ; to-morrow morning, 8.31

ARRIVALS JI.M.s. Alacrity, Captain Sander 3, from Levuka

DEPARTURES.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. Mikado, 5.3., for San Francisco, via Kandavu, ICth Chile, ship, for London, early

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Mikado, s.s., from the South, Saturday Alice Cameron, barque, from Sydney Anazi, barque, from London. failed October 31 Empreza, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed October 15 Bylton Castle, barque, from London Tbcclsior, schooner, from Dunedin Queen of the Age, ship, from London Sailed Nov. 15 Queen of the South, bwiue, f'om Dunedin, early Zior, schooner, from Wellington. Sailed Feb 2

The sail in sight signalled last evening turned out, as we contemplated in our yes terday's issue, to be the ship Allahabad from Newcastle to San Francisco, which has put into this port for repairs. She anchored off Rangitoto reef last night, and was off the North Head early this morning. The ship is in a very disabled condition, having only her foremast and the stump of her mainmast standing. Captain Crispin re ports having left Newcastle with 1600 tons of coal for San Francisco on the 11th of January. On Sunday and Mon day, the Ist and 2nd of February, she en countered a heavy S.W. gale, the barometer falling and pointing to still heavier weather. On Tuesday the gale increased to a hurricane, in the course of which the ship was knocked clean on to her beam ends, and the mizen mast and main-topmast had to be cut away before she was righted. Meantime the sea had done great damage to the ship, and ■washed overboard everything movable about the decks and in the cabin. The front of the poop was also smashed, and water flooded the cabin and forecastle, the stores being seriously injured by salt water. At 8 a.m. on Wednesday 5 feet 6 inches of water were found in the hold, and the cargo was dis covered to have shifted, giving the vessel a large, list to starboard. Captain's books, charts, ship's papers and log-books, captain's and mate's certificates, and other valuable documents were washed overboard. At four p.m. set ship's course for Auckland, being nearest port. On Saturday, the 7th, encoun tered another hard gale during which ship laboured heavily, and took on board enormous quantities of water. At eight p.m. weather moderated. On Mon day sighted the Great Barrier. Fell in with s.s. Southern Cross the same day. Captain Sellars kindly supplied charts, &c, and also sent on board his chief officer to pilot the ship into port. Light winds prevailed till arrival.

The Three Brothers, said to be the larg est sailing vessel in the world, sailed from San Francisco recently with a large cargo of wheat for Europe. She is the old steamer Vanderbilt, which was presented to the Go vernment for the Navy, and which, not long ago, the Navy Department sold. As a steamer, the enormous consumption of coal although it produced high speed, made her too costly for mercantile ventures. She was therefore changed-by her purchasers into a sailing ship, and when she went out of San Francisco harbour she spread fifteen thousand yards of canvass in her suit of sails. Pier mainmast measures ninety-nine feet, her mam-yard one hundred feet, and other mea sures in proportion. Her tonnage is 3187.— Ihe Times. /:

The p.s. Comerang, says a Dunedin jour nal, appears to be making a trade between Dnnedin and Lyfctelton and the intermediate ports. She completed another trip when she arrived at the Port with passengers and a cargo of grain, flour, and wool, mostly for transhipment to the vessels loading for Britain. &

The last mail from America brought infor mation that the ship Splendid had left New Bedford m the month of November for Port Chalmers, where she will take up her head quarters as a whaler. The Splendid is a ship-riggerl vessel of 380 tons buivlo.n, and is owned by some miners at the Blue Spur luapeka, and some parties at Port Chalmers On the arrival of the Splendid at this port she will no doubt set at once to work, with the view of securing for her owners the bonus ioOO which is offered by the Government for the nrst cargo of whale oil. _ Mr Henderson's cargo boat, the Dee is m process of being lifted. Another boat, the Harvest Home, is hauled alongside and tack ling is being made fast from one boat to the other. As the stern of the submerged cargo boat is totally knocked out, she will be towed along the bottom into shallow water Messrs Macky, of Otahuhu, are busily engaged trying to raise their cutter Otahuhu which lies sunk against the wharf with her bow projecting over the quarter of the ps Challenger. The crane has succeeded in one end slightly, and as the submerged vessel rises nearer to the surface it is buoyed with clusters of empty casks. +1 TntP^ e Paratior|s for lifting the wreck of tlie Challenger are progressing, though not much can be done in the way of moving the steamer till the Otahuhuis out of her road ±wo cutters viz., the Janet Gray and the iradewmd, both of which show signs of having been well battered by the gale are moored on either side of the vessel, and a huge beam about 50 feet long by a square toot in thickness is being placed in position above and between them. The iob of re covering the steamer is likely to be rather protracted. Captain is superin tending the work himself.

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COMMERCIAL.

PROVISION MARKET,

•{{■■ D COLONIAL PRODUCE ■1,1 ' JiuyiNG Prices, Corrected by Auckland r Dealers. i ffi Buttor.mtlb. 0 t-\ i Ducks, pair.. | J_J j Hams, 9djto lid per lb. aa|| .Retail Prices, pjjiij''' * ami and-Dairy Produce. HI Milk, perqt. 0 bio"" 5 I Ducks each *5 'S-'b ;,; Butter (fresh) 0 0-1 3 Geese, each 5 0-6 0 .;; Cheese (new) 0 8-1 0 Turkeys, per 5 0-7 ? : H*kgs.perdo«L 1 8-0 0 BaconfpeTlb. 0 s4 In :■ Xard.perlb. 0 6-0 0 Hams .. 0 9 l a ..Fowls, pair.. 4 6-0 0 Salt Butter.: 1 0-1 3 ■'"■;'iT! aa f 11 BUTCHBRS' MEAT. ■•ißeef,per lb. 0 4-0 7 I Pork, per lb o 6 ,;; ;Mutton .. o 4-0 5 | Veal n t HI BREADSTUFFS. ' I;],' ri.oim. ■;'H •,.„ , „ . WHOLESALE. 1•, Miners Pnce, per ton—lst quality j> i t ', Fine; Flour-household . 7 f{J . . idelaide Flour ~ ~ " ># " •• £U ■-'.'Canterbury .. .'. " •• •• ■• .. .. £18 :,U;! 5 Seconds, £12. Sharps, £710s " " °£U •• takers' Price, per lb .. „. ■ Ml I Bran, Is Od per bushel. da> "j'iKu Bread, per 21b. loaf, 4d to 4d liiilaize, crushed and whole, 7s ' - , labin Biscuit, per lOOl?, 180. 17111" R . t ~ oo ■■ ~ - ~ MAIZE, OATS, POTATOES 'ETC ' 22" . i;j'.!lai Z e,7 S wholesale. ' " Trf|i|[ at l s ' 4s <>d to 5s per bushel. ;:; |otatoes, £3 to £3 10s per ton. New Potatoes, £ 4 to

TTay, £2 to £4 10s per ton. Straw, £2 10s to £3 per ton. Chaff, £6 10s per ton. RETAIL. Maize, 7s to 7s fid per bushel; crushed, 7s 3d Oats, 5s Cd per biishel. Potatoes, 4s Cd per cwt. ; new, 7s to 8s Hay, cwt., 4s to os. Straw, 4s to 5s per cwt. Chaff, 7s firl to 8s per cwt. KAURI GUM AND FLAX MARKET. The following are the prices in the Auckland market :— Guat—Well scraped, best quality .. ~ £30 to £32 Ordinary sorts £26 to £29 Flax.-Finest quality £15 to £18 Second ditto £io to £14 T°w £7to£S. BUILDING MATERIALS. Timber.—Boards and scantling, 100 ft , 9s to 10s ; at mills, lls 6d ; planed, tongued, and grooved 11s 6d to 17s . ' New Zealand palings, 5-feet, 10s ; G-feet, 12s ; ti tree rails, £215s to £3 per 100 ; puriri post s, £5 per 100 ; shingles, 8s to 15s per 1000 ; HoDart Town palinss sft., 17s; Cft., 10s : Hobartown rails, 755. COAL AND FIREWOOD MARKET. Coal.—Newcastle, on Wharf, nominal; delivered 50s per ton. Firewood:—Uncut, 14s per ton, delivered, cut 15s per ton, delivered.

JAMES W. WALLER.

UHiSi? rusT-OHTUJE, ACJUKLA.N.D,

Maim will Close as Ondeb.:— For Thames, to-morrow, at 10.30 a m, and to-morrow at 5 30 p m For Goromandel, to-day, at 5 p m For Mahurangi, Matakana, Mangawai, Waipu, &c per Lsuiy Bowen on Saturday next, at 10 a m Fur Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Ladybird on Monday next, at 7 am ' For Norfolk Island and New Crledonia, per Clio on Monday next, at 9 am ' For Hie undermentioned places, per s.s. Mikado on Monday, 16th instant, as under : — For Fiji.Sano-wieh Islands.United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and foreign West Indies, . atlO.3'Ja.m. For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe I via San Francisco, at 10.30 a.m. Letters bearing late fee will be received until 11 a m . ior money orders, registered letters, ana news ■ papers, at 9.30 a.m. (Signed) 8. B. Bibs, Chief Postmaster.

DEATH.

, ?r AS?T On FebruaT 11. Emma, the beloved wife of^Mr Dundas3, aged 35 years. _The funer 1 will leave her late residence, Graham street, To-morrow (Friday), at 3 o'clock. Friends pleise accept this invitation

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

R. Waller, (Wakefield-street), Yon have your le^al remedy. If journals were to publish such letter as yours they would become a public nuisance. We decline.

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

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And t-hf. o-ood that we can-do

The Hon. Julius Vogel will arrive in Auck land by the steamer Mikado now expected from the South. The Premier returns to our city heavy laden with honours. He had been engaged during the interval that has elapsed since the close of last session in what may fairly be termed a triumphal tour through the colony. "Applauded at Christ church and feted at Dunedin what more could have been required to fij'l up the mea sure of his happiness but the late unusual and frantic exertions of the quiet folk of Nelson, that place where he was so cruelly twitted two short years ago about one of the long-overdue San Francisco steamers. Now are the times and seasons changed j for lo ! even the Sleepy Hollow has for once aroused itself to shout "Hosau. 1

nah !" What an immensity of power attaches itself to the custody of the key 3 that unlock the public chest, and to the hand that distri butes the gold en shower. Mr Vogel of to-dayis not the Vogel of five or even two years ago. The present is the very climax of his success —with prosperity everywhere abounding, railways progressing, (slowly in many in stance it is true, but still progressing), and with the first large steamer of the

new trans-Pacific service on our coast, the pioneer it is hoped of New Zealand's permanent mail service, who can point the finger of scorn and say, " shew us the fruits of your handiwork ?" We can well con ceive the feeling that prompted Mr Vogel in returning from the Nelson festivities to Wel lington in order to catch the mammoth steamer, and come in her to Auckland. He might have saved several days by taking a passage in the Ladybird, but how much of the effect, the dignity of his return would have been lost. Does he not know that the "substance" of the city will gather at the wharf when the signal at the North Head proclaims that the Mikado is in the offing, and then, "with his blushing honours thick upon him," what a stately landing will he not effect—putting the waverers of City East, whose first choice he Avas, to shame at their little faith. Which will be the

greater arrival of the two —the monster steamer or the heaven-born man. As yet we see no preparations for his reception ; no complimentary baU \ no select spread. What aretheydoingupiuPrinces-streob ? This is no time for hesitation. Is it possible that no one in Auckland has an axe to grind. While the breath of our visitor can decide the fate of Eastern or Western dock, or bless for ever the longings of the Calliope land proprie tors with the consummation of their hopes ; while a 1; a word the Pumping Asso ciations' shaft will sink to unfathomable depths; and even Nihotupu may become au object of solicitude to a parental Govern ment ; is it possiblo wo say that while such things may be, the gracious donor will lack a banquet—a vile dinner which Canning

will supply at half-a-guiuea a piece. Perish the thought. Thedangiir rather lies in thefear that contending factions will tear him limb from limb in the eagerness of their solicitude. With the Albcit-strect dock men palling to the right j the Breakwater people to the left; and the Pumping Association with a linn clutch on his coat tail, we really fear for the Premier's safety. Well may he have paused before tiusting himself among the inhabitants of this enchanting city. But for pity's sake we beseech the people not t° rush at him all at once, but let a proper

programme be drawn up, and toss up for first hearing. "Fair play is bonny play," and it is only fair that all should have an equal chance in their efforts to win the smiles of the coming man.

The first special night train will leave Onehunga on Saturday evening at 7 p.m., calling at all stations, to enable the public to see the last of Mr and Mrs Koskins in their entertainment at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The train will return at tkes close of the performance.

A report of an atwjk on Constable Jaok son by a man named Bourke appears in our Police report of to-day, stud we noticed that the constable had been very roughly handled and much bruised. It also struck us as a re markable fact that there is only one constable to protect the wide and growing district of Parnell, and were the people other than a pleasant, sober, intelligent class one constable for the whole of Parnell would be simply ridiculous. Happily, however, there are but few of the Bourkes in the locality, or certainly more Jacksona would be required.

As was intimated in our Coromandel telegrams yesterday the men employed in cutting a track to Coromandel found the skull of a man lying about three or four chains from the top of the range in a tree, with the face downwards. It is supposed to be the head of Henry Jones (more commonly known as Cocky Jones). About two years ago Jones left Coromandel with a letter fro^n Mr Glover for Maofarlane's mill. He never reached his destination, and nothing more was heard of him. Search was afterwards made by the police and residents, who found only the letters. Thus, after a lapse of time, the only remnant of the wretched man has been unearthed. There is little doubt he lost his way, and after wandering for days perhaps in the bush went to this tree and laid himself down to die. The other portiors of his body have probably been carried away and devoured by wild pigs.

Mr G. E. Ewing, sculptor, lias been com missioned to execute a pedestrian statue of Burns for Glasgow. It is to be about nine feet high, with pedestal and bas-reliefs hi bronze, and will cost £20C3.

A great deal of practical sympathy has been evinced at the Thames on behalf of the widows and children of the unfortunate men who lost their lives by the late boiler acci dent. The Kuranui Compaq have headed the list with the promise of £50.

A Sydney telegram in the Melbourne papers states that a detective from Auckland to Tahiti after the absconding insolvent Treen has been committed by the French autho rities for attempting to shoot Treen.

Mrs. Bugsby has got a nice place on the Sugar Hollow lload, some three miles from Danbury. Bufe the family don't like it be cause it prevents them from getting tc church. They were in to visit the circus to-day and told us all about it.— Danbury News.

_ Mr and Mrs Hoakins (Miss Colville) will give their parting entertainment this even ing in the Prince of Wales Theatre to consist of a scene from the "School for Scandal" — " A Morning Call" — and "Mary, Queen of Scots." The vuiety of the entertainment, the popn 1-inty of the players, and it being probably thfcir last appearance in this city, will have special attractions for the public, and will necessarily be largely patronised. Miss Lizzie has joined the Carandini Company, which, at date of last advices, was giving concerts in Invercargill. The News say.3l :— " Her voice is an excellent contralto, the deep and rich tone of which is surprising as coming from so " youthful a singer. Her debut was a succes in every seD.3e.of the word,"

To the Editor : Sir,—Can you inform me whether Councillor Macrcady was bound over to keep the peace for using abusive and threatening language under one of the City Council by-laws ? If so, here we have the engineer hoisted with his own petard. This is the kind of stuff our City Council is com posed of. No wonder that no action has been taken in the matter of the Stanley street nuisance about which I wrote a few days ago when the whole of their time is consumed in making absurd by-laws to pro secute poor little nursemaids for wheeling a perambulator, and poor little orphan boys for carrying a parcel without a porter's badge. I wish that a Stanley-street resident would stand for member for the City Council, and then I believe we should get justice, but not till then.—l am, &c, Pater.

The vampires of the Empire City, who have bled the colonjr for every conceivable purpose, now want to saddle the cost of im proving their wharf accommodation on the colonial revenue. Auckland has lately spent thousands of pounds in extending the Queen-street wharf, but Wellington has a better way of getting-its work done. The Post argues the matter in thiswise :—"A terminal wharf for the Wairarapa railway is not a mere municipal matter, or even one of purely provincial importance. It is al most, if not quite, as much as the railway itself, a Colonial work. No one at all acquainted with the subject can doubt that with the extension of the railway to Taranaki and Napier this port will become the oullet for the three provinces—in fact, for fully half the North Island. Why, then, should cither the city or province of Wellington have to bear the whole cost of providing wharf accomodation? * * * We should suggest therefore that while making temporary arrangements to lessen the pressure on the Queen's Wharf, the City Council should appoiut a deputation to wait on the Pro vincial Government in reference to the con struction of a railway wharf. The two bodies combined might then make such representations to the General Govern ment as would induce it to undertake, or at least largely assist, in the work." Confound their impudence, the Colonial Government has already been cajoled into working the oracle for Wellington merchants in the matter of the Poverty Bay steam subsidy, and now it is cooJly proposed to saddle the cost of improving "the Welling ton wharf on the colony in order to rob Napier and Now Plymouth of their legitimate trade. Can the force of impudence further go?

Mr Kohn, jeweller, of Queen-street, with his usual liberality, will present a silver medal to be shot for on or about the 21st instant by tho Cadets of the Auckland com panies of Volunteers. The announcement has kindled a considerable amount of enthu siasm among our young shots, and not with out reason, for what can be more stimulat ing than a silver mark of honor to a young m»n ? Hence Mr Kohn may be said, in the words of Thomson, to

Teach the young idea how to shoot

The monthly inspection of the Engineer and Scottish Companies of Volunteers was held last evening in the Drill-shed. The members of the two companies met in full strength and uniform, and the results were satisfautoi v.

Afc a meeting of thodirectors of the Union Pieaoh Company, Coromandel, to-day Mr George Blank was appointed mining manager in place of Mr Pieece (resigued).

Sharks of great size abound in Wellington harbour just now. No fewer than nine were counted disporting themselves round fche s s. Albion on her last arrival in that harbour, and a monster was seen swimming m very shallow water close to the breastwork at Thorndon Quay. The fishermen report that all the fish have been driven out of the bay by these voracious visitors. The bay about Port Chalmers has also at present a number of sharks moving about in it, just large enough to prove troublesome customers if meeting any one in the water. They have been seen about the Railway Pier swimming in a very comfortable and quiet mauuer, and also farther out in the bay.

We are requested to draw attention te the purchase of tho United States dining-rooms by Mr Hales, which will he conducted under the management of Mr -Howard, providore of the Enterprise ami Challenger.

In the town of Zaragoza (a city of Spain, the capital of the kingdom of Aragon} there has been committed one of those crimes at which civilised society trembles with indig nation. "On the 6th of August, says the La Vox Publica of Matamoras, about thirty Protestants of both sexes were en gaged in worship on the streets of San Pedro. Suddenly they were called to the door of their church. The citizen Julian Hernandez went forth and opened the door to those who were calling, when a band of assasins fell upon him with their daggers, leaving him.dead in the act. They mortally wounded the citizens Pablo Apolonio Cortes and Francisco Carvajal. They then beat all the rest and broke up all the furniture there was in the church. They put out the lights and maltreated and violated the women. This iniquitous crime, without example in our religious history, has remained without punishment by the Government of Puebla. The Protestant citizens petitioned for protection from the police, and this was denied, and they were left in the hands of a furious band of fanatics, frantic in their barbarity to add another crime to their actions Many suppose that this crime has been permitted by the Go vernment of Puebla, and the traitors who form its support, because justice has been denied to the citizens who were assualted, while the bandits and red-handed assassins have been lef b free.

An inspection of food is demanded by a correspondent of the Wellington Post who feelingly remarks:-" I have before me at this moment, Sir, a dirty villianous-looking compound, savouring of beeswax and salt petre, and highly suggestive of bilious head ache, which I am informed (by what should be an authority) is a pound of butter. As I have my doubts about this, I weigh it in the balance, and find it wanting 1} ozs of the correct thing -14a instead of Hi. Now Sir show me the cow (with the crumpled horn' or otherwise) that gave the milk, that threw up the cream from which the ' butter was made and I will show you a wormy, de bilitated, worn out animal, on whom to ex periment with the poleaxe for any other ob ject but that of anatomical research would be only time thrown away. I can stand as much wrong uncomplainingly as most people. , Cheat me, I'll not complain, or attempt to poison me and I'll not complain; but there is a limit to human forbearaace, and to combine the cheating and poisoning process, thus rendering them one operation, is I maintain passing that limit, or, as the Yankees say is piling on the agony, and as a citizen I feel justified m wielding my pen in mild ex postulation with the offenders, and pointing out the necessity for energetic and fearlesJ officers in the above capacities

A young lady had coquetted until the vic tim was completely exhausted. He rose to go away. She whispered as she accompanied him to the doo*, "I shall be at home next Sunday evening." "So shall I," he replied, 7

Relating to the lamentable and untimely end of the late Dr Rayner, whose brief his tory was sketched in the issue of Star of the luth ult., I beg to forward you a few more particulars. The doctor called at my house, at Papakura, on Saturday night late, during the awful storm which was raging, and in a rambling way requested a bed from me, which I gave him. In going into his bedroom on Sunday morning I found him lying naked, and the whole of the floor saturated with blood, and running out of the door over the step of his room; and there being no other medical manintlie place but himself. I called iv Constable Walker, who, along with myself, put the doctor in a warm bath, changed his underclothing, and sent him down to the hospital without loss of time. I inferred that he must have burst a blood vessel during the night. He never called for any assistance ; and when I found him he was raving, and seemingly quite out of his m.'tid. I have made enquiries, and find that he arrived here on Friday with the intention of establishing a practice in his profession, and also that he had not been drinking as people fancied, butthink he had taken inover dose of chlorodine, having purchased a bottle from the store on Saturday afternoon, ?nd which I took from him on Saturday night in case he should take any more, and whichbottle I have now in my possession, being nearly half empty, which 1 take to be rather much for an afternoon's dose. By inserting the above you v. 11l oblige—A Papakuka Cor respondent.

The members of the Auckland Harmonic Society will meet for practice this evening in the large room of the Young Men's Chris tian Association, when selections from Mozart's " Twelfth Mass" and Haydn's " Creation" will be performed.

Mr Joseph Bennett, a gentleman who has done more perhaps than an}' other of our citizens in stirring up and keeping alive the old sport-loving spirit of Eng land amongst us in connection with the field and tntf, which, however, some persons may declaim against them, certainly have their advantages. There can be no doubt but that cricket is a fine physical ex ercise, and tends to promote health, good humour, and manliness. As with every other thing, it is the abuse and not the legi timate use of sports and pastimes that de moralises and defaces the impress of nobility in man. A day in the divine presence of nature has an invigorating and genial effect upon the constitution, and goes far in dis pelling the mists of selHshness and preju dice from the eye. The man, therefore, who advocates and aids the progress of physical education is entitled to some token of regard from those who participate in the results This is the kind of training which Mr Thomas Hughes portrays so admirably in that genuine book of his known as "Tom Brown's School Days," and which at once took hold of the Saxon heart, and found for it a place m the libraries of the civilised world. Mr Bennett, we presume, would advance this kind of training, and would lift the people out of mumble dom iato a free breezy state of existence, and so on Monday evening the gentlemen of the committee of the Auckland Turf Club gave him a handsome gold watch and chain in appreciation of his services, more especially in connection with racing! The presentation took place very quietly in Perkins's Occidental Hotel. Only a few persons knew of the matter, even the light of the Evening Star shone not on the proceed ings, or the facts would have radiated the horizon ere this. Major George occu pied the chair, and made the presen tation with an appropriate speech. Mr Thomas Morrin proposed Mr Bennett's health in the happiest manner, and Mr Bennett modestly replied, and did not con sider that he was entitled to all the praise, the committee deserved a share, and par ticularly the Evening Star and New Zealand Herald ; the latter journal never failed to herald forth their doings to the people, while the former illumined the province at even tide, glorious as Hesperus in the azura brow of night. The evening was spent in a plea sant and convivial manner.

A brutal father in Canterbury, who had not only beaten his little daughter with a stick, but allowed her to be tied to a horse's t:iil and dragged through a river, was simply ordered to rind two sureties of £10 each, and bind himself in a security bond of £20 for his conduct hi future, and ordered to pay 21a costs, although the district school master and several neighbours testified that the child had frequently been subjected to scandalous ill-usuage. When suck^a miscar riage of justice occurs it is time the magis terial roll was revised.

It is proposed to wind up the New Zealand Coal Company, which was expected to do great things in the way of developing the coal resources of the Wellington province. The Font, commenting on the failure of this effort, says ;—" Wellingtonians are peculiar and deem nothing good that is started in their own place. Anything from outside, en revanche, at ones meets with the most cordial support from our citizens, the National In surance Company being a notable example." We have been favoured with the perusal of a private letter from Otago anent the Tonic Sol Fa or new notation, now so uni versally adopted at home and in the colonies for teaching music, and from it we learn that Auckland can set the example to the "sweet Edinbro' toou" of the Southern hemi sphere, as it can boast of an associa tion of this description, who-e gratui tous and pleasant performances have often been heralded forth in our general as well as advertising (and ts the latter adjective we say in the language of the natives " kapai!") columns. Dunedm has not got a lonic Sol-Fa Association. " There used to be one, but it "caved in," why the note an question does not say. Once upon a time some poor dominie made an attempt at teaching this system, but the letter unfortu nately says "he left his work without hav ing effected any improvement." By way of apology it states " he was not a certificated teacaer. Weshouldimagiuethislattermeans he had never been to that place of which burns says: " They gang :n stirks an' come oot asses. We also find a statement in this note which surprises us very much namely, " that the Otago schools have no' system of music." We were always under the impression that they had, and that it was the one about which avc write. This is all the more wonderful when we consider what progress this method has made in the Scotch schools, and that Otago must have amongst her population a great number of both teachers and pupils " who to better their fortune, have crossed the big say. ' We remember that in Glasgow ?.S\? reo?Sj£™ 1-arnedit and approved of , W&. ,Wheu the minister asked the auld "Hielan"' wife of his flock what tunes she liked best of those usually sun* in his "kirk," she replied "Stunstee" (tfun dee) "Stunsgeorge" (St. George), Coleshill Martyrs. Those who know Scottish psalmody will understand the force of her statement; but we fear that "worshipping God by machinery" is too much "driving congregational" singing into the back ground now-a-days. The Otago Educational Board keeps a supply of the elementary works for teaching on hand, so that they must have some glimpse of the use of the Tome Sol.Fa method in som» shape or other under their notice. Might not our Boards do lik^m?—{Communicated.)

" Tom Brown, of Apollo's Ketreat, New ton, sends us a parody on the famous '' Hiawatha " of Longfellow, and were it not so full of " vain repetitions " would be a fair invitation, and might be acceptable as it touches upon recent events, but the pla garism is too palpable, and the disorder too confused for the poetical readers of this journal. Tom says, for example :—

And wo sigh to be at anchor, Like the quiet, peaceful river. Whoever heard of a river "being at anchor," and what necessity for the synonymous terms, "quiet, peaceful." Again before the awful poet reaches the Queen-street end of of the wharf the river is in an awful passion,

Boiling up like pots of cabbage,

j Leaping up in furious ms r'r\r—', i This will never do, Tom ! It is too spas ' modic. Sit down, young friend, among the flowers of Parnassus ; take a lesson from the muses and a reasonable draught from the clear stream of Hellicon, and peradven j ture you will be 01'ginal in time. A contri : buiion which appeared a few days ago (the ' " Eoe of the Land"), sent to us v* original 'by Tom, was but a reprint, as we have since ■ found out.

So you see, 'twi'l. not do, Thomas To attempt at imposition. In your modest home, at Newton Wait awhile, and by endeavorr, You may yet become a poet, And turn out your own effusions.

Mr T. J. Thomson, C.E., estimates that Invercargill can be supplied with a water supply conveyed through four-inch bore pipes for £20,944, and eight-inch bore for £38,000.

The recklessness which some people are guilty of in crossing the railway line at Penrose junction will probably not be checked until some one is ki'led. Only the other day a party in a trap observing the train coming along positively whipped bis horse in order to beat the locomotive. The engine driver, less reckless, shut off steam, and but for bis promptness several people would have suffered for the rashness of one. It may be exciting sport to race a loco motive, but the pleasure will probably be dearly bought by some one if this kind of thing goes on. Any amount of care on the part of the railway officials cornot prevent accidents if the people persist in courting danger.

We trust the shipwrights will be able to give a Hat contradiction to the following let ter. Every man is entitled to use bis own judgment, and we trust the intimidation practices of English Trades Unions will never be revived here. Such proceedings can never serve the true interests of the men. We append the letter -.— Sir," —It is reported that at the last meeting of the shipwrights it was resolved to starve one of their number, who had displeased the leaders, by not allowing him to work in the same employ with any of their society, and at the next meeting, to be held on Friday evening, at the Eagle Inn, another one is to be outlawed in the same way. Would you kindly send your reporter and enlighten the public upon this piece of reported tyranny and intimidation. Hoping your Star wil ex pose this dirty business, if true, and its authors.—Yours, &c, Nautical.

Mr. Hoyte has returned from his trip to the West Coast, bringing with him some very excellent sketches of the scenery in the neighbourhood of the Otira gorge. Among.st others we may note a view of Mount Rolleston at the foot of the Otira gorge after the storm of Sunday last. In this sketch the mountain, together with the chain of hills in the distance, are seen covered partially with snow ; a water fall caused by the storm flowing down the rugged sides of the hills, and a clump of rata trees in the foreground, with their beautiful foliage forming a conspicuous ob ject. Mr Hoyte has also obtained excellent sketches of Mount Alexander from the road to Keeley's creek, scenes in the Otira gorge with the rapids, a misty morning on Otira, Cra'gieburn, the entrance to the Otira George, the source of the Otira with glacieis in distance, Otira rapids, and several views about the Bealey. When finished, judging from the excellence of the rough sketches, these pictures of West Coast scenery will be wor hy of the reputation already achieved by Mr Hoyte in his North Island pictures.— Canterbury Ph»i. A lying "Snip" has written a letter to the Wellington Post decrying Auckland as a field for settlement. He says:—"l have been to a good many places, but in none of them have I seen that indelible stamp of Old World Poverty that is to be found mixed up in everything in connection with Auckland and its people. I now read with bitterness their philanthropic propositions with regard to poor law guardians, and some time ago I took a grim pleasure in reading over their " soup kitchen regulations." I naturally in quiied the cause of all their poverty, and from what I could gather I have come to the conclusion that white men never should have settled there.. * * * You may guess my surprise when I went there to find journeymen tailors working piece work for less than London wages. These are a lot of pensioners, men who once belonged to the British army, who take home work, and, with the assistance of their families, manage to do it at a price that a Chinaman would turn up his nose at in San Francisco. The master tailors are not much the better of this state of things. I know for a fact a contract for military clothing was taken while I was in Auckland at 2o per cent less than London prices, and for one-fourth less than I have ever known work to be done in San Francisco. All the young Aucklanders are poor labor famished looking creatures ; they are com pelled to work from their infancy almost • they are far in a way worse in this respect than Americans. The parents are to blame for this. Nine out of every ten of the poor famished looking little fellows you meet will tell you they are or have been engaged in some of the printing offices, and as they grow they are put to something else in order to earn more money. The result is the Auckland nalives do not live long; it may be that it is one of those wise dispensations of Providence, for I have noticed that child ren brought up in the way I have described are always suffering from one complaint or other. At all events 1 think it is the lastplace on earth a man should take his family ---The editor of the Post remarks: "We fear our correspondent has looked at Auckland with a jaundiced eyes, and has, perhaps, consider ably over-rated the disadvantages while al together overlooking the advantages of the Battlement there." " I

AUCKLAND STUCK AND MINING REPORT.

Business bone. South British Insurance, 45s ; sellers, 455. National Insurance, 22a 6d; buyers, 22s 6d sellers, 235. ~ ' Auckland Gas, £10 2s 6d. Sash and Door Company, £8. Alburnia, 5s Gd ; sellers, 5s 6d. Bismarck— Sellers. 28s. Thames G. M. Co.—Sellers, C 6». li ide of Tokatea—Buyers, Is. Coliban—Buyers, 2s Gel. .Ruby—Sellers, 3s 9d. CaleJouian—Buyers, £10 15s ; sellers, £11 ;>s. ' Crown Prince—Buyers, 13s 6d ; sellers, Son.? of Freedom—Buyers, £9,

DR. ROSENTHAL WORKING MIRACLES.

i Being desirous of publishing some of Dr. fioaenthal's mode of treatin T*® i of the eye and the ear we r ™^ j "amateur reporter," slightly deaf t | his consulting rooms as a patient aV^ , clown what he could see and hear i . the result. We have tried to 'Mick Vij ; shape," but utterly failing we give .^ . nt° to our readers, who may judge f or l^ 1 selves :— eai ' "We are not too late to add on, \. ' I testimony to the long catalogue ext^ U?ble ' ! marvellous, yea miraculous cur es i°ftho |by Dr Rosenthal j whose name isnLSCted [ ■ a household word throughout Greatt> • the Australian Colonies! and New 7 Dr. Rosenthal is now landed S^ d' j about two months, and during thi» ,° lty 1 I space of time has won for himself °n > that when he has long passed"^' midst, to new fields of labour-willl V ?Bt bedded in grateful hearts, to breathS ' blessings upon the man who fitted tL T ' enjoy the choice feiffca which Provided? I bestowed. Excepting a short parai' so on this gentleman's arrival, we reflv 5 . to canvass the pretensions of the Doctor ! . peiform cures al most unheard of before W , had at first, no sj mpathy whatever "Jv ' this new addition to our present crowfli medical men, and scientifical manio'ikZ « ! the human frame. In fact—as is our ; torn to do, to guard the public mfcereatX ■ any hazard, or any cost -we watched n, - rowly the movements of this man thaU ; might sound the alarm that a quack Z I cash hunter had come among n 1 ?nd to cry out "Citizens beware!" w have been plainly disappointed, and w • make haste to invite any man, woman or child in our midst who is in any p OS g!u fi way afflicted with diseases of the eye or ear I of any number of yeais' standing, to apriv • to the doctor, who possesses the skill and 1 ability to cure, if possible in this world. We \ have not, as is common in many places to ' go to the man of repute md interview^ and hear, and receive his own choice stafe! 1 ment of facts ; without endeavouring to get corroboratory evidence, that he can do ashe promises. We have on several occasion, visited the doctor's chambers, and we Lavs . sat in wonder, and amazement, as one case s after another of chronic disease, was turnftl s out absolutely cured. We have also eagerly i questioned patients of the doctor's whom we 1 knew were under his care, and we have never I known a bad case yet. We have met i with strange things in lifetime, but iwe must confess, that some of tte" cured men, who have called upon us" have puzzled us. as to their being of sound < mind or not. One man called the other day and the first word he spoke to us was, "Do ; you know any person deaf or blind?" We; looked at the crazed man as we thought, and giving him no answer at first, he put His question the second time, and then without ■ waiting for a reply, he in almost frantic joy, exclaimed that he had got h-s hearing from Dr. Eosenthal. This man was a burden to himself in society for many years, and now he hears as well as ever he did in his life , Scarcely a day passes over our heads, but we hear of somenew case or other, of wonder-'. fill cure. We walked up a day or so ago1 to wards the Doctor's Hospital, and the first thing that eaupht our eye was a row of blind patients being conducted by their friends I for operation. One would have thought that the days of miracles had come again. We rang the bell, and was asked to walk in by a polite porter. In the first room we entered, was a crowd of blind and deaf men, a'l on tiptoe of eagerness to get their turn. Further on, we just peeped into another room, and saw women and children —we were going to say without number. We were at last shown the Doctor's consulting i oom, and .= we quietly stepped in, and sat down. No; questions were asked, but sat as if wanting to be healed. We were astonished at the work, that was silently going on. About six or seven persons were being attended to, and each their case examined. There was one thing we noticed. The Doctor seems to know his business well, and he performs it with an ease and grace, Avhich tell at a glance that the man knows what he is about. It was rather surprising how many were wanting to ,: be cured just at once, and wishing to know • when they would be ready to go home. There on the spot, many were testifying to being jI better after the tirat operation. It would have taken a tear out of a heart of stone, to have seen a poor blind boy,—blind from he was three months old,—undergoing the treatment, and have witnessed his sightless balls move. up and down as the doctor addressed him. We may say of that boy, that he is progressing first-class, and .. may ultimately have perfect sight. Also a poor girl about twelve years,—a gratis patient — who was receiving the doctor's special care, who was totally blind for three years, and who in three times .. coming could discern objects at some distance ■'■■ from her. One gentleman we knew, was. there, who was almost entirely deaf, but seems now to be a new man, and life is now begun afresh. The doctor seems to have a large amount of commisseration and pity, on the poor who apply for relief. He never sends one away because he has no money, ; but treats for payment or without it, as the case may be, and often to our own knowledge, adds to cure, a sovereign to comfort them. The number of patients from town and the . surrounding districts, including the Thames and Coromandel, constantly going and L coming is about 200. Very many persona of means have called upon the doctor for advice, and have gone away astonished that they were told, that near-sightedness could not be cured, but would have gladly paid large sums for a trial. One lady we know, who all I her life was short-sighted attended, and if i if the doctor had cash, and not reputa tion in his eye, he might have fleeced her considerably, but she was simply sold at the ,• 1 usual cost, a pair of first-class spectacles, ami. sent about her business. The whole power of the man lies in curing, aud if he cannot ' cure he will not charge. We might talk and praise him for ever, but if ne cured no one, his tricks would soon appear. The doctor must be a source of trial to our local medical gentlemen and chemists. There are with him no expensive prescriptions made up every day. He trusts no chemist to prepare his medicine. We have been in Auckland now about eleven years, and that we remember, no chronic case or cure, of eye or ear disease has occurred in our midst by our local men. It is only reasonable to suppose that a gentleman who has given his whole (J energies, time, talents, and experience, and who has passed thousands out of his hands cured, must be the man to apply to by those who are affected with these trying disorders. We hope for the benefit of the community at . large, and for many in the country who have ■; not yet heard of him, that the Doctor will

remain some time amongst us, and dispense still further happiness in many family circles, ; , where little or none existed, through the •_ "j. painful affliction of being blind or deaf. We ■ r challenge anyone to an enquiry if what we have stuted be not true. Let the doubtful one's jusc go up to Priuces»street *iA soe i°r ~ himself or herself, if all and tw.M as ®Wf,<}%)\ tyt wt t top at this «?eleferate4 xam\ -

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