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IMPORTS.

Per Cyphrenes from Sydney: 2 cases sewing machines, 7 cases machine tables, 1 case goods and samples, L. D. Nathan & Co. ; 2 cases glassware, Holland and Butler j 1 case sundries, J. Buchanan; 11| packages sundries, H. M. Jervis ; 3 pkgs" sundries, A. Clark and Son ; 5 do do, Sargood, Son and Co ; 5 do do-, Me Arthur and Co. ; 1 do periodicals, T. Turrell; 2do do, Upton and Co. ; 1 case, E. Waters ; 1 case, E. Hender son ; 155 cases fruit, W. Marshall; 192 do do, G. W. Binney ; 126 do do, R. Arthur.— H. M, Jervis, agent.

Per brig Isabella, from Newcastle: 394 tons coal, Henderson and Macfarlane; 1 ton onions, P. Murdoch.—Henderson and Mac farlane, agent 3.

EXPORTS.

Per Cyphrenes, for Honolulu and San Fran cisco : 39 packages for Honolulu ; 530 pack ages for Saa Francisco. For Honolulu : 1 case plants, 93 boxes soap, 5. cases cottons, J. S. Macfarlane ; 1 case barrels, 1 case oil, 1 case spirits, 2 casos apparel, Owen and Gra ham.—H. M. Jervis, agent.

The R.M. s.s. Cyphrenes came into harbour a few minutes past twelve last night. She left Sydney on Wednesday 23rd instant, and carried strong N. W. and southerly ■winds to 34° 21' S. since which she has had northerly and fresh S E. winds. Bounded theNorthCape at 3 a.m. on the 20fch and down the coast had light variable weather. Pas sengers for Auckland : Mrs W. 0. Warren, Messrs Julian, Sslanions, Charles O'Neill, G. Harrison, J. H. Smith ; and 10 in the steer age. We are indebted to Mr Adams the purser for our files and report. The s.s. Cyphrenes left again at noon to day for San Francisco, via Honolulu, with the English mail. TJhe following is her list of passengers from New Zealand. From Lyt telton: Sir Charle3 Wadderbnrn. From Auckland : Mr and Mrs Charles W. Cham berlin, Mrs Gracie Gonzales, Madame Arabella- Goddard, Mr Charles Williams, and > four in the steerage.

The s.s. Hero is advertised in latest Sydney papers to leave that port for Auckland on 29th. She would thus ba due on the4th inst.

; The final survey of the ship Condcren after her repairs, took place today. Captain Daldy aid Captain Clayton were the sur veyors. The result of the inspection was thoroughly satisfactory, and the ship is now in a fit sbate to proceed to sea. In our notice of the repairs the other day we omitted to mention the. new ironwork by Mr Inglis, and the new boat 3by Mr Carr. The work done by both has given every satisfaction, and Captain Neiglick has expressed himself to that effect.

The s.s. Go-ahead, Captain Dale, arrived in the Manukan at 1.30 to-day, from New Plymouth, which place she left at 4 p.m. on the 29th. She brings the following cargo : — 139 bales wool, 10 bags wool, order ; 3 boxe3 butter, Veale; 9 ditto ditto, Hoskin; 1 package, McAithur and Co.

The brig Isabella arrived from Newcastle this morning with a cargo of coals for Messrs Henderson and Macfarlane. Captain Murdoch reports leaving on the 15th inst. Light winds and fair weather have character ised the passage. Passengers—Mrs Murdoch, Masters, Murdcch (2).

The cutter Coralie bringg 15 tons kauri gum, 1 lot luggage and 1 horse from Tairua.

A new topsail schooner arrived this morn from Tologa Bay where she was built for Captain Trimmer under »his own inspection by a local builder named Thompson. She cannot be said to be a pretty craft but she is reported to be a remarkably fast sailer. She is provided with a centre board and is about GO tons register. Her length is 70 ft; beam 19ft; and depth of hold 7ft. Gin. She is intended for the East; Coast trade and for that purpose has been purchased by Captain Eeed, of Poverty Bay. She is named the Advance.

The s.s. Rowena arrived this morning from Bussell after a quick run. Passengers :— Captain Keane, Mr J, Williams. Cargo: — 2 -tans oil, Gittos; 23 bags gum, Stone Bros. The Rowena left again this afternoon with 400 sheep and as passengers Messrs Wil liams and Kenyon, and one steerage.

The whaleship James Arnold, Captain Thos. Wilson, arrived at the Bay of Islands on December 25, having 250 barrels 3perm oil, the. proceeds of a seven months' cruise. The barques Hunter, Hall, and Othello, of Hobart Town, were spoken on the 22nd December by; the whaler James Arnold. They were boiling at the time. The schooner Christina brings 42,000 feet timber from Tairua for Mr J. W. Waller.

Captain Shepherd, who will be recollected as having brought here the barques Hokulele and Chocola, is a passenger to San Francisco by the Cyphrenes. He was successful in finding a purchaser for the Chocola at a good. price soon after her arrival in Sydney, The Cyphrenes brought word of renewed firmness in the San Francisco grain market, and thus enabled the Captain to dispose of bis cargo at a* much higher rate than he could have -Becured here. The Chocola was sold to Messrs Jones and Crawley, a new Sydney firm. Captain Shepherd is not unlikely to bring another vessel from San Francisco to Auck land. The Mercury leaves the Manukau to-day with a cargo of timber for the Waikato shipped by J. W. Waller. — The p.s. Golden Crown appears to be well thought of in Melbourne. Since her arrival, according to the Argus, she has been given over to all manner of artificers, out of whose hands she has come forth bright and shining. Her trials for speed have quite equalled ex pectation. Mr Wilson, the examining engineer of the Steam Navigation Board has pronounced himself fully satisfied with her performances. The directors of the Sorento and Queenscliff Bteam Navigation Company had lunch on board a few days ago, and drank "Success to the Golden Crown, the People's Boat."

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Moeraki, this day. The Fiery Cross, schooner, arrived to-day from Tairua.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

J. M., Dkdwood.—The passengers' names were left out just before going to press in order to make room for late news. As they had appeared in both morning papers we thought no great inconvenience could arise, but having received other complaints besides your own we see that the omission was an unfortunate one.

BIRTH.

Aiaendeh.—On December 30, at Remuera, Mrs John Allender of a, daughter.

MARRIAGE.

Ket.ly—Minetti.—On the 20th instant, at St Fancis De Sales Church, by the Eev ITathar Walter Mac clonuld, Edward Francis KelJ.y to Julia Minctti, both oi' Auckland.

DEATHS.

RtcHAß.pso'S'— At Wociburn, Murree.Himaliyas, Cap tain Charles Clarke Richardson, of H.M. 70th Regi ment, and A. D C. to Lieutenant General Sir Trevor Chute, and nephew of the late itfajor Speeiy, X.M ; aged 87 jcara.

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

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1874.

Per th* cauve that lack" sssistancs. For t,h? wvonj '-i^t iii'sirts re::iiittsu*i Por ib? fstuxe i?i ihc iistnncr..

Poor Jai S. ! There is not to a sensitive mind a more affecting sight than the frantic efforts of impotent anger. We have seen an aged female, whose teeth had fallen with the decay of years, endeavouring to bite, and our heart bled within us afc the futile efforts of her poor old gums to give the wound her soul yearned so earnestly to in flict. For we could not but reilect on the days gone by when her natural strength was unabated, and on the pain with which she must have gazed on tho profitless pres sure of her toothless gums. And as she writhed her face in the agony of disappointed rage, and could but gratify the burning desire for revenge in venomously spitting at her would -be victim, it was a sight enough, to make man or even angel weep. And we have not had the sensations then experienced re-awakened until we saw the efforts yesterday made in the Harbour Board by poor Jai S. Macfarlane, to vent his passion on the Auckland Evening Stab. He had given us but a few months to live, and is grieved to find that we have the nine lives of a cat. It ought to be comforting indeed to him to know that we have "no circulation ;" that the Star is " not taken by one respectable person in Auckland," and that as an advertising medium it is "Utterly worthless." Yet all this availeth him nothing so long.as he seeth Mordecai the Jew sitting at the King's gate. And Jai S. is not satisfied with the awful ruin he has caused. It is not enough for him that the three or four thousand people of the rton re.tpectalle classes who nightly buy the Star do so only that they may express their abhorence of it by instantly consigning it to the flames, or teaiing it up thab they may stamp, the little pieces under foot ; nor yet that no respectable person,—Mr Jai S. Macfailane being " re spectable,"— ever suffers contamination, by looking into our columns ; but Mr Jai S. Macfarlano demands that public institutions such as the Harbour Board should utterly repudiate onr existence as an advertising medium. And it is deplorable that he can not get others to see it in the same light in fact, to use his favourite remark, " isn't it domnable." How different rnu&t it seem to him from the days when his word was law in Auckland ; the days when none dared to move in commerce or in enterpiise of any kind without sanction of the Omnipotence of which Jai. S. was thu prophet. These were the days to which he points with the quivering fiDger of senility^ and tells how he brought the Daily Southern Cross down to lick the dust before him, and when, as he says in the garrulous babbling of his dotage, the New Zealander dissappeared at his fiat. How different must it seem to him when a journalism hath arisen that tells him he is a humbug ; and bids him retire with the other mementos of the reign of mud; or stow himself away with the moa bones and. other remnants of an extinct fauna. It should be no disparagement to Mi- Jai S. Macfarlane to tell him that the " respect, ability " of which he is the type has had its day. We have no doubt that, judged by the then standard, Mr. JaiS. Macfarlane was an educated man—a cultivated man—even a refined man; and if he would only take our kind advice and retire from obtruding himself at a time when a different standard has been set up, we have no doubt that his memory would be invested with a halo like that which surrounds the heroes of antiquity. But his presence de stroys the illusion, and we are sorry for it. Or if Jai S., taking knowledge of the fact that the world has been going on since the day when he planted himself in the mud of the Waitemata, could be induced to take a trip to England and acquire a know ledge of the fact that there are people living who have never even known of the circumscribed sphere in which he has been moving, we believe it would tend to free him from those absurdities respecting him self and his influence in which he has been wrapping himself up as in a mantle. Poor Jai S., we believe he thinks that we are like unto himself, and that we hate as he does. It is true that we have spoken roughly to him, and sometimes we feel regret for it. Not but-that he had provoked it, but our treatment of him has apparently induced the belief in him that we regard him as worth flagellation. Ever since the day when we refused insertion to that letter rcOecting on the domestic arrangements and moral character of a man of the most unblemished and spotless reputation in New Zealand, and expressed our horror, we have been the object of Jai S.s great ire. But though we laughed him out of the Bay of Islands, and chaffed him out of the Superintendency, and chased him again and again out of Waite mata, we did it only to save the province from making itself ridiculous ; and himself from tarnishing his '• respectability," by possibly being mixed up with those naughty jobs which are said to be always brewing among the wicked people away down in Wellington. We believe we have been better|frienda to him than those pretended friends who, having partaken of his kindnes 4

'n other days, now egg him on to coursed that only reveal his impotence. As for his pre sent efforts and the sacrifices he is making to do that which he calls "crushing the Star," he has already seen his folly. Any newspaper man from the Forth Cape to the Bluff would have told him that be might as well knock his head against the rocks of Gibraltar, and seek to butt them into the Mediterranean, as strive against the inexo rable laws of journalism. Those laws, he should have known, make honesty and fear lessness impregnable, even did the Star not stand, as it does, begirt by an army of sup porters that is the envy and the wonder of journalist. They are not of those whom Mr. J. S. Macfarlane regards as the " respectable " — the standard of " re spectability " being fixed by J. S. Mac farlane. Th^ey are not those of shady antecedents and dangerous projects, those wh OEe deeds in the past and intentions in the future shrink from the light. Our admirers are not those who have the skeleton in the closet, and who live under the terror of an unquiet conscience, and the dread of a pen that fears no man. To these 'respect able" people it bas never been our ro!e to play the panderer ; and in journalism ss in commerce, we find honesty the best policy after al!. However, Mr J. S. Macfarlane having bitten the file should now roll up and go to sleep. As an eminently "respectable" man, he has sufficiently exhibited that angelic disposition which is his glory ; and with this latest exhibition of hia sense of the responsibility of a public man and of his subordination of private feelings to public duty, and with that gentle and amiable and refined dis position which marks his whole deportment and his relations to all mankind, he can afford to repose with dignity. Peace to his slumbers.

On what possible grounds of reason an extra charge is imposed on the railway traffic to Ellertlie we cannot foim any conception. We understand that the outrageous extortion perpetrated on Boxing Day will be modified for New Year's Day, but even yet the charge to Bllera'ie will be larger than to stations farther on, and not less probably than to Onehunga. Why is this ? The thing is outrageous, we care not who is the author of the proposal. We shall not charac terise the arrangement as vindictive, but it looks so liko it, and all other reasons so utterly fail, th:tt really it must be Accepted as a wilful intention on the part of some one to ruin the Ellerslie Gardens. Has Mr. Gra ham, we wonder, ever trodden on the toes of Frank B. Pass more, or offended the dignity of that important personage ? But even had such a catastrophe occurred, we can hardly think that any man in hia senses would promulgate sn order which he must know cannot be tolerated. Mr Graham has expended many thousand pounds in con structing one of the most attractive places of public resort that it is possible to find ; and it cannot be supposedjfor one moment that it will be tolerated for the tariff to be deliber ately and pointedly arranged so as to damage the speculation. We really desire explanation of this, for it seems the most paltry an/l con temptible scandal yet associated with railway management in the colonies. Since tho fore going was put in type, we learn that one shilling has been fixed as the fare for Ellerslie, but it is nineponce for the station moro remote ! Why is this?

The Water Supply Committee of the City Council, accompanied by Mr Errington, engineer, paid a visit this afternoon to the Western .Spring?, for the purpose of examin ing the proposed source of supply during (he present summer weather. The party con sisted of the Mayor, Councillors Buchanan, Hurst, Holdship, Cosgrave, Brett, and Philips.

An inquest was held today at the Wbau Lunatic Asylum on the body of William Newall, before Dr Goldsbro and a jury. The deceased was a young man of thirty, and had been living for some time in the Waikato. Ac was admitted an inmate of the Asylum on the 10th inst., and from that date he gradually sunk until he died. The medical evidence of J)r Aickin Laving being taken, a verdict was found in accordance with such testimony.

A correspondent asks us abont the railway fares on Boxing Day. He says : —" To the Editor : Sir, —Please inform the public, as well as myßdlf, the proper railway charge from Newmarket to Ellerslie return. On Boxiug Day I was charged a shilling each. From the advertisement in your paper lam led to understand that from any station to any station returns will be given at ordinary single fares, which I believe is sixpence.— C. W." - [We believe our correspondent is right. The arrangement of the fares was all a muddle, but by general consent a veil is drawn over it. —Ed. E.S.]

On Saturday morning a firing party, con sisting of Captain fiowe and eleven non commissioned officers and men of the Engineer Volunteer Militia, took advantage of the holiday and marched from their head-quarters Taupiri to the butts near Newcastle, a distance of about seven miles, to fire off a match. The ranges fired at were : 300, 400, and 500 yards ; five shots at each range. The wind was very puffy during the firing, and taking into account that the men had not fired out of their rifles before, the scores were not so lad. The following took prizes, with the exception of the last :—Sapper Baner (late frovincial Champion), 47 ; Captain Howe, 46 ; Sergeaut Gardiner, 34 ; Sapper Lambert, 32 ; Corporal Stidolph, 30.

At the commencement of the Police Court cases this morning, it was noticed as remark able, that not a single lounger was in the spectator's compartment. Whether this can be taken as a good omen or not, we cannot say ; but ifc is to be hoped that the body of loafers who " sweat " together in the morn ing sun in that Court, have found better, because more profitable employment.

Mr. P. Doran and his associates, in pro mulgating the poetry of benevolence, have resolved to s;ive one of their attractive enter tainments for the benefit of the widow and orphans of the late Joseph. Noyer, who died last week. A programme of the entertain ment is in preparation.

We are pleased to see that Mr Alfred Andrews goes as maij agent by the Cyphrenes. . Mr Andrew** has filled the same office two or three timeß before, and always most efficiently.

It is rumoured in Sydney on very good authority that the San Francisco mail service will be carried on for six months longer by the A.S.N. Co.

A meeting of the Diocesan Choral As sociation was held last night in St Paul's school-room, the Right Rev Dr Cowie, in the chair. The report and balance-sheet for the year were adopted several suggestions from St Matthew's congregation were considered, and various alterations to the rules made, the chief one being that the'ininimum sub scription for honorary members shall be 10s. The meeting adjourned to the 26th proximo.

—We are glad to learn that Dr. Wright s collar bone is not broken but was merely dis located. It has been successfully replaced and the worthy doctor ia progressing satis factorily.

On the subject of railway absurdity we have received the following : —Sir, —It is an admitted axiom that to be forewarned is to ■he forearmed. This truism suggests itself to me in conseouence of the narrow escapes of limb and life at the Ellerslie station on Boxing Day. These arose from no careless ness on the part of passengers in imprudently rushing into danger, but from the absurd position in which the station is placed, namely, the west side, by which not only residents but passengers are necessitated to cross both line and sideling to reach either the Eilerslie Gardens or the road to Panmure and flowick. As originally contemplated, the sight marked off for the erection of the station was on the east tide. Why, there fore, ia defiance of common sense, the pre sent position should have been choseu I am at a loss to know. At any rate, I wish to raise my protest against the continuance of the present absurd arrangement, and to -warn the authorities that in the event of an accident they will most assuredly be mulcted in heavy damagc-s. There are other matters in connection with the railway management which suggest themselves, but I reserve them for a future, occasion.—l am, &c, Ax Eye Wit y ess.

A meeting of the Public Buildings' Com mis-ionurs was held yesterday afternoon, at the Provincial Government Buildings. There were present, Messrs O'JKorko, Swanson, and iYTacready ; Mr ifcrapath, architect:, being present with the plans as completed for the new hospital, which were considered in detail Thereafter, the Commissioners drove out to the Lunatic Asylum, and made a com plete inspection, in order to fix upon the alterations and additions to be undertaken. As a preliminary, it was resolved to have the room, which is Bet apart for religious services, at once converted into a dormitory to relieve the over-crowded stale of the establishment, the dining-ball below, which is also used for entertainments, being equally available for church purposes. It was also agreed that one or two cottages for paying patients should be erected as soon 88 possible within the grounds. The inspection of the establishment occupied the whole of the afternoon.

Ifc will be seen by advertisempnt elsewhere that the railway fare to Eilerslie course or Gardens station arid back, on the Ist and 2nd January, is one shilling, and including ad mission to one of these two places of recrea tion has been reduced to two shillings.

To-nigbt's programme for the Christian concert in the City Hall is the best yet issued. There is a little more of Miss Christian in it, the gifted vocalist being put down for three songs.

The fact of all the horses accepting in the FTurdlo Kace at the forthcoming meeting, is significant of an improved state of fee.ing as to racing matters, 'there id evidently some rivalry about the contest and a brilliant race should result.

We are obliged to hold over a communica tion from " Enquirer," on "'i ho Standaid of Respectability."

The Fchool Teachers' .Association broke loose from thoir studi's to-day, and to the number of nearly 100, the members and their friends trapezed away to the Eilerslie Gar dens by the 11 a.m. train from Auckland The party appeared a very happy one, and Mr Worlhington, the dignified secretary, looked as if he fully appreciated the proverb clulce est desipere iii loco. The excursionists left by the 11. 10 and arrived at Eilerslie at 11. 30. At otic o'clock they sat down to a repast, supplied by Mr .Tame? the indefatig able providore. The Bishop was to address the teachcrß this afternoon. Our athletes are reminded that the princi pal entries for tue sports at Eilerslie gardens ciosc to-morrow morning. See advertisement.

WATER-LOGGED SHIP.

The whaler James Arnold, which arrived at the Bay of Islands on Christmas Day, reports boarding a water-logged ship on the Oth December last in lat. 25 N. ; long. 30 W. The ship was 998 tons register, and laden with yellow pine timber. Owing to the fact that the stern was all smashed away, it was impossible to decipher the name of the vessel. The crew had evidently abandoned her some time before, as all boata were missing. The vessel was apparently an EngHsh one.

POLICE COURT.— This Day.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., E.M.) UP AND DOWN.

John MoManus, with a sunburnt face, was charged with drunkenness in Queen street, last night. He meant no harm, he was his own enemy ; he was simply looking upwards at the half moon, and went down wards upon the unfeeling pavement. The constable kindly picked him up, and escorted him to the High-street lodging-house, where he remained in a state of indifference all night. He was fined 103 and costs. MEMORY AT FAULT. Daniel Mills was charged with using in decent language last evening in College Road, within hearing of certain persons who were passing at the time. Mr Brohani informei the Court that pri soner made a great noise last night, and while in a state of intoxication turned his wife and family out of doors. He also made use of indecent expressions, and had been, several times convicted of various offences. Prisoner said he was a house-painter, and could earn a good wage. : If his Worship would forgive him he would never shew his face in Court again. Mr3 Mills did not appear against her hus band ; he was therefore ordered to pay a fine of 20a, or go to prison. GLITTER AKD GOLD. William Wilson was charged with larceny as bailee of a gold watch and chain, value £25, the property of Thomas Gomel, of Cam bridge, on the 15th inst. Mr Brohain asked that the case might be remanded as the prosecutor had not arrived from Cambride.

Remanded until Saturday. "FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW."

Henry Green was charged with a breach of the Naval Training School Act, 1874, by wandering in the fields without proper guardianship. The boy, in a terribly sad plight and without shoes, appeared in Court.

Constable MulvilJe deposed to finding the boy near the market, and to his nocturnal habits of wandering about and sleeping anywhere. He was utterly neglected by his parents. There were other children of the same family who appeared to be better cared for ; but this boy, who was in a filthy condi tion, was utterly neglected.

Mr Broham said he understood that the father of the boy was a lumper ; but he had taken care not to be present in Court.

His "Worship said he scarcely knew what to do with the boy.

Mr Broham said he must go under the tap filßt. His Worship feared it was a love of the tap that had caused the boy to be so neg lected. The age of the boy was thirteen", he was therefore ordered to be sent to the Naval Training Ship until he should reach the age of fifteen, to be hrought up in the professed Protestant religion of his father and mother. CITY HATES. Several cases, where persons had been summoned for non-payment of city, rates, were settled without the intervention of the Court.

This was all the business,

Wanted to know.—When they make an oyster bed, do they use a sea-weed mattress ?

MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF A CHILD.

SHOCKING DEPKAVITY,

For some time past a woman named Susan Wilkinson, the wife of a respectable seaman of Russell, Bay of Islands, has been living in Chancery Lane with a German named Albert Gravnitz, who was a seaman on board a whaler, and to whom Wil kinson had shown many acts of kindness. Some six months ago Gravinitz expressed hia gratitude, and stated that he bad a con siderable atnountof moneyawaitinghisaccept ance in Auckland ; and started for this city in company with Mrs Wilkinson and her father for the purpose of procuring ihe same. Sub sequently, as ifc turned out, the whole affair was a falsehood, anrl the villain's real object Hashed upon the mind of Wilkinson when he learned that Gravnitz and his wife were co habit:n2 together in one of those dens which distinguish Chancery Line from other city localities. A child was born in May last, and ever since that time has been subjected to the most cruel treatment by Gravnitz, while the unhappy partner in guilt has lr ' d on either wiih passive indifference or f-?-»r. The woman's father also, does not seem to have had the courage to prevent '^c monster's cruelhy to the child. In the month of October last, Gravnitz was charged at the Po'ice Court with ill-using the child, and upon the evidence of credible witnesses, was subjected to two month's imprisonment with bard labour. His term expired a few days since, when ha returned to the home of his paramour, who was still living with her father in a wretched habitation in the pnr lieus of Chancery Lane. This morning the child died in its mother's arms under pecu liar and very suspicious circumstances. The police are making every enquiry into the matter, and probably an inquest will be held to-morrow, when it is expected some starfc ling and,, revolting disclosures will be made in connection with this mo3t lamentable case.

HARBOUR BOARD.

(Yesterday's continued.) TENDERS FOR. NEW IRONWORK. Mr. Wooluar's tender for new ironwork was accepted. NEW BY-LAWS. The Chairman moved, "That the by-laws now in existence be rescinded, and the by laws now presented be adopted in place thereof." M> Cosgrave Eeconded the motion, and it was carried. MR J. S. MACFARLANE AND THE "STAR " Iq accordance with notice given at the last mee'ing of the Board, Mr. J. £. Macfarlane moved, " That the advertising and printing of the Board be confined lo the morning papers." On rising to ppeik to his motion, Mr Macfarlane stated that he had framed his notice of motion in the boat of the moment at the List meetinj, and he now found he bad made a mistake v itb regard to the printing, as it was not his wish to exclude Mr Atkin. He begged leave to alter his motion to include the advertising alone. The motion being amended. Mr Cosgrave said : I would request Mr ''Macfarlane to withdraw his motion ; he will think differ ently twelve months hence. Mr Macfarlane declined to withdraw it, and proceeded in a very excited tone, incompliance with his promiee at the last meeting, to give his reasons for his motion. After certain cir cumstances which transpired last year, and the vile abuse which had appeared in the Star, he was qnite confirmed in the idea that the Board would have nothing more to do with such an abominable journal. (Laugh ter.) He had not seen the Star for many \ months, and was not aware up to within a very short time ago, that the advertisements of the Roard were still continued to be in seitcd in it. He would give them a sample of the way in which the Star had spoken of the Harbour Board. (Mr Macfarlane here read two extracts from leading articles from theSTAuonthe subject of the Dry Dock.) If the Board after that continued to advertise in the Star, they were degrading themselves. Ever since the Star had been established its whole stock-in-trado had been nothing but slander. It was not confined to slander of the Harbour Board, but extended to the City Council, the Provincial Council, the Steam Packet Company and every other public body. They were all log-rollers. He brought the motion forward not for the advertisements to go to the Echo, but to keep them from the Star. He hoped that not only the Harbour Board but all the other public bodies would discon tinue their dealings with the Star. His advice to them was to avoid the Star as all respectable persons did. He could assert without fear of contradiction that nine tenths of the citizens never saw it, so that it was of no use whatever as an advertising medium. (Laughter.) What ever it may have been at one time it was fallen away to nothing now, and no member of society with any sense of decency would allow it to come into his house. He was told everywheie that on principle it was not allowed in respectable person's houses. It never came into his. (Laughter.) The Echo had been staited by a few respec table citizens (laughter) to put down the slanderous Star, and that respectable citi zens might nob be obliged to support it. He begged to move the motion standing in his name leaving out the words "andprint ing." Mr Brett suggested that it would be seemly in such a discussion for himself as proprietor of the Star, and Mr Macfarlane proprietor of the Echo, to withdraw.

Mr Macfarlane was understood to deny that he was the proprietor of the 'Echo, and retained his seat.

The motion was seconded by Mr 0. Mays pro forma. He did not do so on the grounds brought forward by Mr Macfarlane, whom he was sorry to see making use of such language, but because he thought the Board were very extravagant over their advertisements, and he thought theyimight be curtailed.

Captaiu Daldy said there was no more advertising than was necessary. The rule had been to give the advertisements in one paper on one day only.

Mr Tonks moved as an amendment that the words " and evening papers" be added to the motion.

Mr Yon der Heyde said that the spirit in which the motion had been brought forward was quite sufficient to. warraut members in rejecting it. If Mr Macfarlane did not introduce it in any spirit of retaliation, and only being virtuously solicitous for the repu tation of the Board, how was it he had allowed the matter to remain at rest for 18 months ? Why should he now revive it, immediately after the Board's advertisements had been refused to the Echo? (Hear, hear,) He Bhould suggest that the matter be left to the Finance Committee. As to Mr Macfarlane saying that no respectable people ever saw the Star, it depended on what was Mr Macfarlane's definition of a respectable man. (Laughter ) Mr Holdship spoke against the motion.

Mr Cosgrave said he thought it would have been better had the advertisements been given to the papers in rotation, as was done by the City Council.

Mr 0. Mays then moved as a further amendment that the matter be referred back to the Finance Committee. .

This wa3 seconded by Mr Yon der Heyde and carried unanimously. This finished the business. !

THE MURDERER SULLIVAN.

(From the W D ecemb A T Police Courfc SLifcviS the Mayor and several J.P 'a^f ayrs% , wish to-^e ihe notorious murS*? Sullivan, «*,„ Thomas Sullivan a£7WB Clark, was charged,on remand f±^l burn, with being i n the colony SfX 8* years of the expiration of a sentence, £>• on him »r felony in another trary to the provisions of the ?„« °°ri' Criminals Prevention Act Hux of Superintendent Winch," who conducts, prosecution, stated that this man wash? up under the 2ud clause of the let T?« ht Bench were satwaeO of the identity i'> individual, they could take one of tLk c courses, vjz., imprison him here k f 66 yeajs, hold him to bail to leave the n 1 within reasonable time, or send'hirn back? the place from whence he came ; and h*iu Wmch) would ask the Bench to take £ I course and send the prisoner back to £ Zealand, where he was sentenced to death f murder the sentence being afterwards con? muted to imprisonment for life The tence, being for life, conld not exDireT efflation of time. p re by Francis Thomas Colvin, senior-constable stationed at Wedderburn, repeated >l evidence he gave at that place. He arrest the prisoner on the 9th instant, at Wedd burn, on a charge of being illegally j a ,?' colony, in the house of a man named Stretrt he said, "You are Tom Sullivan." a,' prisoner said, "No, I am not;" arrested the prisoner, whose wife, off? woman who was his wife, and hia son, L to cry ; the prisoner then said, "My J!f is not Sullivan—l will never answer to tift name, but I am the man you are looking f all the same ;" in the lock-up he talked vere freely about his prison life in New z2 land, and said, " When I was ia pjjgJ in New Zealand I had better times the than the warder 3." He also said he got awa& to London from New Zsaland^with grJ[ difficulty, and that he was recognised onth vessel going home through a portrait of hig wife, that he had the doctors on the vessel fighting as to whether he was Sullivan or not, and that he said he would take an action agaiust one for saying he was SnUiran. Also that some of the passengers landed before he got to London, and telegraphed to London that Sullivan was on board, so that the detectives were ready to meet him when he landed ; that he had been all over Ens land trying to dodge the detectives;,and . that he went 1 b France, and was through a great part of that country. He talked . generally of lu3 life in .New Zealand and at home.

The prisoner : In arresting me in the room —I may remark that it is not to delay or occupy the time of the Court that I wish to put these questions, but because he stated to the beat of his belief, that I made-such assertions, and he is incorrect. I don't wuh it to go to the world that I said things which I did not. Part of what he says I said is true, and part is not—did I not say when you came into the room, "Am I the nun you are looking for ?'

Witness : No, I don't think you did. You did not. Prisoner: ft was most inconsistent forme to say that I was the man he was looking for, and also that my name .was not Sullivan, It is most iinpiobable, and I deny it intoto. Did you caution me before asking me if I was Sullivan ? Witness : No, Prisoner : I flatter myself I know the dnty of even a detective, let alone a comjfiji. constable of Victoria, and it is a rnle'laid down by the Judges in England, as welliia here, that a prisoner should always be cautioned as to any questions, he is.asked. He got into conversation with me in a Bocial: manner, without cautioning me. I did not say that I had better quartets than the warders, but I wanted to correct tke.im pression that I was kept in a cage. _~, , , Bernard O'Eagan, landlord of the Star of the West Hotel, Lonsdale-street;deposed; I WiS in New Zealand in 1866 ; IVaS|jPt4er. in Dunedin gaol; I know the prisoner; he was sentenced at Nelson, and was there I think eighteen months before he came to Dunediu gaol; lie was sentenced, Iteard^for the wilful murder of a whaler I think; whose name I forget; he was there about six years; I saw him for about four or five years; I left New Zealand last; Christmas Day; I last saw him previous to my departure, a few days before I lefb, in 1573; he was a prisoner when I lefb. '

He was cross-examined by the prisoner, who in reaHty admitted his identity. The Beach consulted a short time,-and then the Mayor said : Thomas Sullivan, ai« Joseph Sullivan, alias Frank Clark, the sentence of the Courb is that you betaken in custody to the country whence you.came, and should you be brought here again you will be treated more severely. You will be sentenced to three years imprisonment in heavy irons. The Prisoner: Will you allow the clause of the act under which I am sentenced to ba read ? :. The Mayor :It is too late. Remove him , from the Court. ■ The Prisoner: Perhaps you will allow me— t . Mr Winch: Perhaps you will hear what the prisoner wishes to say. Prisoner : I am remanded and sent oat o! the country now as a man with great,, murders on me. I challenge the world-l have been thirty years in Victoria, and l challenge the world and all police officers connected with all the colonies to prove tW ,■ I ever was charged with any crime, and^m the present case even I was illegally triea, and convicted. I said so in New Zealand and repeat it here, that there was not one tittle of evidence against me to convict me of murder. I should be a cold-blooded nun if I did not return to Victoria, because W family v\oulfl have been deprived of W°i , which I had the Crown gTant if imT returned. That is what brought meW*. because my name having become notoriow in Victoria, I would be gJad to leave it The prisoner was then remsved. | There was a large crowd of persons W»»" ing outside the Court before it opened. The prisoner does not present any °* rlo^ appearances which the populace would $*<r bably attribute to a person of his character. He is a man of about the medium h^ and though not massively built, aPP1 *18,^ be well-knit and sinewy. He wore spectacles at intervals, when taking notes on a P^ cf^ paper. His eyes are dark, small, m's%■*'■■ set, and have a dull "fishy" aPPear*3 pi aud were generally regarded as the w . features in his face, His voice wM.-JJ hoarse and loud, and gave one the "je* * ■; he was a person of evil and impatient tera* and possessed of what is known as ,a " . tongue." He is described as 59years of fe but looked fully ten years younger,] v y. beard, moustache, and hair being _ *jp black, but presenting the appearance ora, ing been dyed. His manner m theaocs. exceedingly self-possessed.. OM \ demeanour gave one the idea «««" ,j ; thoroughly hardened and untroubled .by g feelings of remorse, that he rather loo^ , upon himself as an ill-used ■indmdfflU tn _... than subject of unive.sal f P r°bat'£ wb that he was a determined character J would not hesitate to carry out any* r* however bad, which he had °"» "fj^ j The sentence of the Court is that gj is to be taken in custody to»JKera. here id , which means that ha will be tag 3 gaol till an opportunity offers £■£*£» J New Zealand, when he willb^; o i2 board a ship for that P lac\^ £l 0 tbatk constable, who will accompany^ experienced inobtonrnga ■Vg^ r ,Wm

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