SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATER: This evening, 11.16 ; to-morrow morning, 11.35 »U»,-SKT: This evening, 0.23; BUN-RISF : To morrow momtng, 5.59 MOON'S AGE : Last quarter, llth, 9.13 p.m.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS.

DEPARTURES.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES Pretty Jane, s,s., for Gisborne and Napier, to-morrow Star of the South, s s., for Napier. Thursday Murray, s.s., for Tauranga, Thursday Wentworth, s s.. for Sydney, three days after arrival Mongol, s.s., for Kandavu (San Francisco Mail), I6th instant Hindostan, ship, loading Wave Queen, ship, for Lyttelton

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Wentworth, ss, from Sydney, early Murray, s s. from Nap'er Mongol, s s, from the South East Lothian, barque, from Dunedin W C. Wentworth, barque, from Sydney Empreza, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed October 15 Hylton Castle, barque, from London Magellan Cloud, schooner, from Lyttelton lone, ship, from London. Sailed Dec 20 Carl, brig, from Dunedin, early Nightingale, brigantine, from Newcastle. Sailed February 25 Thomas Henry, from Lyttelton. Sailed March 7 Dorette, ship, from London. Sailed January 14

The s.s. Rowena, which took her departure for the North last evening, conveyed a large number of passengers, and several tons of cargo for Russell and other ports. The s.s. Murray will sail for Tauranga at noon to-morrow. This steamer will in future run regularly between that port and Auck land, making a trip each way once a week. The barque Hylton Castle may be ex pected in harbour during the present week. She left the Downs on December 5, and is now 94 days at sea. The cutter Rose has entered inwards from Wangaro with 20,000 feet of timber. The schooner Dauntless has cleared for Kaipara with the following cargo :—39 pgs merchandise, Union Sash and Door Com pany ; 3 kegs nails, G. W. Binney ; 2 cases kerosene, 1 cask sundries, 1 cask tinware, 1 bundle brooms, Porter and Co.; 1 case drapery, A. Clark; 2 bags maize, 2 do. oats, 2 do. bran, G. W. Binney; 1 bundle steel, Borter and Co.; 10,000 bricks, Must and Co. —G. W. Binney, agent.

COMMERCIAL.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Calls. v. ~ £ s. d. Date w3ff*3 010 March 11 Middle Star 010 0 March 11 National Bank of N. Z. ~ 010 0 April 1 National Bank of N.Z. .. 010 0 July 1 Dividends. Sons of Freedom .. ..100 Feb 18

The English alphabet has 26 letters ; the French, 25 ; the Italian, 20 j the Spanish, 25 ; the German, 26 ; the Slavonic 45 • the Russian 35; the Latin, 23; the Greek, 16 (until 403 8.0., when the 24 lonic characters were introduced) ; the Hebrew 22 • the Arabic, 28 ; the Persian, 22; the Turkish 28 j and the Sanscritt, 44, J-«^ish,

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as Under :— For Thames, to-morrow, at 10.30 a m For Coromandel, to-morrow, at 12 30 p m For Wangaroa. per Ruby, this day, at 5 p m bor lauronga, per Wangarei, to-morrow, at 9.30 a m bor Kussell, per Queen, to. morrow, at 3 p m bor Gistome and Napier, per Pretty Jane, to morrow, at 3 p m For Waiwcra and Warkworth, per Lady Bowen, on Thursday next, at 10 am For the undermentioned places, per s.s. Phoebe, on Thursday next, the 12th instant, asunder :— For India, China, Mediterranean Ports, and Contmcnt'of Europe, at 12 noon For Southern Provinces and Australian Colonies at 1 p m For the United Kingdom, via Suez (for letters specially addressed), at 1 p m For the United Kingdom, via Brindisi, and late letters for Sydney and Melbourne, and Southern provinces, at 1.30 pm For money orders, and registered letters, and newspapers, at 10.30 a m For Napier, per Star of the South, on Thursday at 4 pm J For the undermentioned places, per Mongol, on Monday, 16th March, as under : — For Fiji Sandwich Islands.United States of America Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies at 10.30 a.m. ' For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe via San Francisco, at 10.30 a.m Letters bearing late fee will be received until 11 a m lor money orders, registered letters, and news papers, at 9.30 a m N.B.—Notice is hereby given that new offices are now open at btokes' Point and Upper Waiwera and mans mM be despatched ?to the above places respec tively on 14th and 18th instant. (Hgned) 8. B. Biss Chief Postmaster.

MARRIAGE.

x»«ih— -uuxoN— un jjeDmary s, at Svrlney, by the Rev Dr Fullerton, Andrew Irwin, third son of Williaai Irwin, of this city, late of Belfast, North Ireland, to Alice Elizabeth Norton, eldest daughter of Joseph Norton, of Leicester, England.

DEATH.

« . T, -"AH."-"" j.u. at unenunga, 01 serou3 effusion, Mary Wayland ; aged, 18 years.

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

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And thft ffnod that we can do

TUESDAY, MARCH 10, 1874^

New Zealand will find it hard to shake off the "old man of the sea" in the form of " Shaw, Savill and Company." We were prepared for much of an unscrupulous kind in the efforts to maintain the old monopoly, but our communitj. has been hardly prepared for anything of the nature of treason on the part of those guiding the assault. Yet little less than treason to New Zealand appears in the tactics pursued in London in the conduct of the enterprise of the New Zealand Shipping Company. We have already announced in our tele graphic columns that an unholy compact has been formed between the opponents to bleed New Zealand commerce, and thab a considerable increase in the rate of freight had been the result, but we are aware of other circumstances of even a graver character that evince either in famous collusion or gross incapacity in the management of the interests of the New Zealand Shipping Company at home. It is satisfactory to know that by this time the new general manager sent express from the colony must have taken the control, and from what we learn from those who know, it ap pears that he is not so likely to be won over or to be made subservient by his wily opponents. The future independence and the prosperity of New Zealand's com merce will largely depend on the effort now being made to break the mono poly ; and we do not hesitate to say that unless there is treason in the camp the colo nial enterprise, backed up as it is by public and general sympathy, cannot fail to effect the great object contemplated by its pro jectors, j

One of the most striking illustrations of the expression " adding insult to injury," of which we have ever heard, has just come to our knowledge respecting two hostel ries in a country district. The one pays license, the other, some couple of hundred yards away, is a "Temperance Hotel." The former feels the wrong of having to pay for a license, when, as he says, the other sells more grog than he. But this is not all, for said the Licensed Victualler in a recent re lation of his wrongs : " They drink away above until they can get no more, and then they come down and lay on my verandah and vomit."

The enquiry into the stranding of the Anazi will be resumed before Mr Beckham to morrow morning at half-past ten o'clock.

The people of Freeman's Bay are in great hopes of having ere long a promenade around a portion of the bay. The Ponsonby High way Board, in conjunction with the City Council, have consented to pay the expense of making a path by the bay, so that the in habitants of the district will ere long have a promenade '' o'ershadowed by trees, where they walk forth at eve and inhale the sweet breeze."

The Rev B. C. Butland. of the Thames, will deliver a lecture this evening in the large room of the Young Men's Christian Associa tion on the " Bible in manuscript," illus trated with diagrams, etc. The chair will be taken by Dr Maunsell, and the choir will sing at intervals. The subject is one of in terest, especially to Biblical students. The proceeds of the lecture will be given to the funds of the High-street Sunday-school. The members of the Newmarket Literary Association will hold an entertainment in the Presbyterian school-room this evening, when a number of glees will be performed by the choir, and readings in prose and verse by the members. We are glad to know that this Association holds its ground, and is self-sustaining. In these respects the people of Newmarket are in advance of the people of Auckland. jUThe Royal Company of Rifles No. 1 met for drill last evening under Captain J. H. .Bums, and practised very successfully ; but it must be remembered that some of them are very old soldiers, and have gathered ex perience by flood and field, and had their "hair-breadth 'scapes."

The early-closing movement would appear to be fairly established, and if the assistants and employers continue their subscriptions as heretofore it is not likely to collapse. The socif-ty purpose ere long having one or two musical entertainments in aid of the funds. Mr Hayes, of the American Photo graphic Company, 194, Queen-street, will continue to act in the capacity of secretary to the association, while Mr Stanwix will retain the chairmanship.

In the case Wright v. Ryan, heard in the ] District Court yesterday, in which plaintiff I claimed £55 for work, ftc., His Honor re served judgment until Monday next. The milkmen of Auckland held a meeting last evening in the Eden Vine Hotel. About twenty purveyors of pure milk were present, and Mr J. R. Walter was unanimously voted to the chair. The Chairman in his opening speech referred at some length to the milkman's position in the midst of drought, and a scarcity of food for dairy cattle, and said he considered that the generous people of Auckland under such circumstances would not object to a gentle rise in the price of their milk." They would feel that milk, unlike alcoholic liquors, was a necessity, and among the most nourishing fluids that could be taken into the human system. If persons spoke of kind actions they would say the milk of human kindness and the ancient prophet, in speaking of the people's hopes, pictured it as a Canaan—a land flowing with milk and honey. Seasons of dearth and scarcity of grass, however, were beyond their control, especially in sultry climates like this ; and he thought a small addition inthe price of milkwould not be of great. importance. Mr Jones entirely agreed with the remarks of the Chairman", and he would propose " That the price of milk be raised to Gd a quart on and after the 10!,h inst." Mr Scott, of Dedwood, did not feel that was any necessity for adding any remarks of his own to what had already been said. They were all acquainted with the circumstances that had called them together. He would with much pleasure second the resolution. A vote of thanks to the chair man closed the meeting. Lovers of books are informed that a sale of 400 volumes of miscellaneous literature will take place to-morrow at Messrs Cochrane and Sod's Fort-street auction mart.

A writ of the Royal Commission for the inspection of boilers has been issued, and the following gentlemen have been appointed to form the committee of investigation, and to report thereon, viz., Mr O'Neill, C.E., Chairman; Mr Nancarrow, Inspector of steamers; and Mr Stewart, C.E. Wc understand that a vigorous enquiry will bo instituted at the Thames, and that a sub inspector will shortly be appointed.1!

The diorama of the Franco-Prussian War and scenes of the Nile attracted a large audience last night, and the lecture by Mr Collier was as usual both instructive and amusing. At the conclusion considerable merriment was caused by the distribution of a large number of valuable gifts. Tho enter tainment will be repeated to-night, and positively for the last time.

The City Band will play on Government House lawn to-morrow evening at six o'clock. Programme : March from " William Tell," arranged by S. Jones; overture, " Crown Diamonds," Auber ; quadrilles, " Rossini," C. Godfrey; selection, "Rigoletto," Verdi waltz, "Whisper of Love," Montgomery'; galop, "The Tiger Hunt," F. C. God save the Queen !

There are numbers of men in Auckland who will not work, but who prefer a life of indolence to one of healthful activity. We see them continually lounging about the Police Court, wharf, and other places. Occasionally they take a turn per force in Mount Eden at stone-breaking, and on being liberated return to their old habits ; and yet, it is a remarkable fact that for a month past Messrs Owen Jones and Co. have been advertising for a hundred men to work on the Auckland and Waikato Railway without success.

We notice that there are ninety applica tions from publicans for renewals of their licenses, six for bush licences, six for brewers' licenses, and sixteen for wholesale wine and spirit licences; and two new applications, one from Richard Ellis, of Akbar House, Wellington-street; and one from William F. Moyle, of the Wharf Dining Rooms, numbering together 120 applica tions.

The members of the Victoria Company of Auckland Rifle Volunteers will undergo their monthly inspection parad* this evening in the Drill-shed, under Captain Derrom. The Artillery Volunteers will muster at the same time under Captain Featon. To the Editor : Sir,- I saw by last night's Star that a person (who must have escaped from the Whau) had favoured the public with another of his effusions relative to the Ponsonby Cricket Club. Now, sir, you will confer a great favor on the Club if you re fuse to publish any more of this rubbish, as the " lads " belonging to it are quite able to take care of themselves and practice without any of " One of the Lads " interference.—l am, &c, T. Jones, Captain.

KAWA KAWA COAL MINES.

To the Editor of the Star.

Sir,—The question of an adequate supply of coal at a reasonable price is a very im portant one, and is evidently creating con siderable anxiety at the Thames as well as almost everywhere at the present time. It is in fact one of the questions of the day. As a practical miner I wish to bring under the notice of the public, through your columns, the fact that the Kawa Kawa mines, at the Bay of Islands, have not been made the most of up to the present time, but might be made far more productive under a different system. I will guarantee to fetch out coal at the rate of 12i s ]iip ( 2 i skip to the ton) per man for as many men as the company can put on at the rate of 2s Cd per ton, the company finding plant, material, aud everything but labour. There are millions of tons of first-rate coal to be got, and there would have been no scarcity of first-class coal in this province had the Kawa Kawa mine been properly worked up to the present time. There has been a new manager lately appointed, and it is to be hoped he will be more successful than the late one. Under the late management a large body of coal is left standing in pillars from 12 feet to 15 feet high, more or less, and nearly as broad. This I guarantee to get out at the above-named price if the company will give me a contract. I believe many of the share holders are dissatisfied with the results of the mine. I know from personal knowledge that some of the smaller shareholders com plain very much, and I am sure not without reason. The Thames goldfield has been already greatly benefited by the supply, inadequate although it has been, from the Kawa Kawa mines. The share holders in many of the leading claims have had good coal at a far cheaper rate than they would have had to pay for supplies from Newcastle and elsewhere. Just now only about 50 tons per day at the utmost is coming from Kawa Kawa, which causes boats to be kept waiting for freight, and raises the price to about 14s per ton when it ought not to be more than Ss. I think the public— especially those connected with the Thames— have a right to know how the interests of this field, as a large coal-consuming centre, have been injured by the most hot having been made of the Kawa Kawa mines, where there is an almost inexhaustible supply of excellent coal. I have made an offer to the company's agent in Auckland, who tells me the work is already let on contract. At a meeting held at Kawa Kawa, about a fortnight ago, I under stood from Mr Williams that such was not the case, and that all the men employed were

company's men, and not working for any contractor. This Mr Williams publicly stated at the meeting, and as he had up to that time apparently the power to take men on and have them discharged, it would seem as if there was then no contract. At all events I am open to an engagement to get out any quantity of firsfc-iate coal at the price stated. I have been working in the mine for five months, and speak from practi cal experience.—l am, sir, your obedient servant, Alexander Lynch, Miner.

To the Editor of the Star.

Sir, What is the matter with your corres pondent " Greenstone ?" The general elec tion in England has, doubtless, caused the ancient party cry, "No Popery," to be raised at home. But have you no discre tionary power to omit from your columns items unsuitable for this colony ? Why are you using the well-nigh used-up cry here ? Your correspondent " Loyalty, " you see, takes the opportunity to air his bigotry. Would you not have" done better had you consigned his effusion to the waste-paper basket instead of printing it? "Green stone seems to consider " Ultramontanist," "' Jesuit," and " Irishman" as synonymous terms. Their meanings are prebty distinct from each other, but I fancy no one privi leged to beat- one title will object to receive the other two. But what is this danger that is to be so dreaded for England ? It seems that a society of trained men (backed by the power of the devil) arc supporting the cause of a feeble old man against kings, statesmen, and nations (backed by the power of God), who are contending for liherty and indepen dence ! In such a struggle on which side is victory secure ? Where the danger ? Then, Mr. Editor, what about this terrible scandal of the Carmelite Monk and the Nun ? Are we to believe it ? It is said to be " almost incredible." As far as " Greenstone" ven tures his credit on it, "it is a story." It may be true, I grant. Martin Luther was a Monk and his wife a Nun. But need your readers be-assured that it is not because people are Monks and Nuns that they are guilty of such crimes, but in spite of their being so? As to the clergymen of the Church of England, who practise and re commend auricular confession, are they not men remarkable for their learning and piety, who have devoted themselves, and, in many instances, their substance, to what they think is the service of God ? For the dis gusting insinuation that the " practice of confession is immoral," as a son, brother, husband, and father, I repel it with loathing, and tell the dastard who thus insults every Catholic female who practices her religion, that lie is a cowardly slanderer. —I am/&c, Catholic. Auckland, March 9, 1874.

To the Editor of the Star.

Sir, —It is laughable to see how people who live in the glassiest of houses will throw stones. In looking thronch some back num bers of the Cross I yesterday came across the following righteously indignant passage by " Cameo," in one of his characterless pro ductions entitled " Under the Verandah" :—

" There is another continual misquotation that vexes my righteous soul. I have heard it on the stage, from the pulpi., at the bar, on the platform, and, oh, ye highflying gentry of the press gang ! I have seen it ad nauseam in°the columns of newspapers-and almost invariably wronj;—in this fashion : —

To-morrow to fresh fields and pastures new. The poet wrote fresh woods, not fields. " Woods and pastuies" imply diversity of wanderings, while " fields and pastures" are synonymous."

Very good, indeed. Mr Pharisee, and shows how much better you have been trained lhan the majority of the literary publicans who daily offend your delicately sensitive eyes and ears. But what is this ? Here is a little article by Cameo about a number of couples fiom the ill-fated ship Surat being married, and, inter alia, a line from Ingoldsby is quoted : —

" Htiort is Hie wooing that's not long a-doing." The poet wrote no such truism as this. Was is not "happy " instead of "short." At any rate " happy" and "short" imply diversity of ideas, while "short," "notlong,'" is a very small school-boy's favorite defini tion of tho same attribute.—l am, etc., Critic.

THOUGHTS ON A NEWSPAPER.

Every intelligent person regards the cheap newspaper as one of the privileges of the age. Like Heaven's best gifts to man, light, air, sunshine, and water, the newspaper in some form or other is accessible unto all men. Could we by some supernatural power behold all the newspaper readers of the day, with all the difference of mood, circumstance, and scene surrounding them, our view would be almost as extensive as the world, and as varied as the human race. There were ages, however, long passed, when men were happy in their ignorance, and did without the newspaper. But now the poorest man amongst us, the labourer, the humble politician, and the village dame can enjoy all the advantages of the cheap press, which have come to us unfettered through the struggles of Milton and other master minds of subsequent ages. What a charm, what a wondrous power for good or evil lies in those straight lines of type which find their way at morning and evening into nearly every home, and stir peculiar interest in every heart. The newspaper is the record of the life and doings of the human race, illustrated with photographs of the varying phases of the.human character under every form of trial or success. The newspaper, moreover, is a great educational power, and tends to make politicians, if not poets, of thinking men. It supplies fact and fiction, and presents problems which are not always solid ; hence it leaves us to pursue threads of probabilities until we find ourselves in a boundless maze of conjecture. The particu lars of some scheme are laid before us, or some terrible catastrophe, which set our faculties immediately at work in endeavour ing to trace hidden motives, unravel com plications, and unfold the secret cause of the outer surprise. The newspaper seeks to oblige all men ; it supplies the politician and social reformer with the leading article ; it gratifies the searcher for clippings from foreign news ; it furnishes the morbidly curious with daily doings at the police and law courts; it reflects to the merchant and trader the state of the markets ; it sheds glimmerings of hope on the mind of the maid of all-work and the sturdy new-chum ; it is the ceaseless chronicle of births, deaths' and marriages ; it pleases the embryo poet in circulating his darling verses ; it serves the draper, tailor, dress-maker, and a score of other trades-people in voicing forth their wares to the wide world. The feeling of power evoked by the newspaper is an element of attraction; by it we seem to sit in the councils of kings; by it we stand in the assemblies of legislators, and listen to their solemn debates; by it we become students of art, science, and literature, explore new fields of knowledge, and become cognizant of the undeveloped resources of nature, and t V-\ °f new gold and coal districts, which energy, skill, and ingenuity have shadowed upon the stream of time. 'By the newspaper we may know how many drunk ards have been fined by his Worship, and how many cows have strayed beyond their legitimate enclosures in the course of the year. In fancy we sit beside the Mayor, I

and feel the force and perfectability of the city by-laws. We read brief pithy speeches of councillors on city endowments, roads, and lamps. Again, we get glimpses of the Har bour Board, and of its inner life. Again, we watch the jovial faces of the happy members of the Domain Board and City Commission — about as cosey a cluster of gentlemen as a scribe can hope to meet with in New Zealand. Again, we have intelligence of the Education Board, and their countless appli cations for money and appointments. All these matters, as well as accidents and offences, arc chronicled in our daily news paper for our daily use and edification. Then wo h-ive the telegraphic department, with news from cities and towns which have come to us in rui almost incredibly short space of time, making us acquainted with the shifting life of islands and continents under other skies, with accounts of the distant storm and the avalanche peeling and rushing from Alpine heights; of the earthquake, Hood, eclipse, and the comet that wheels its mys terious way in the pathless realms of space. The newspaper, moreover, is the medium of local complaints. If the Highway Board neglect the thoroughfare or the way to your suburban cottage, you immediately write to the newspaper, and the path is put into order. The newspaper reflects the thought of the people, and often proves, as it should ever prove (unless its heart be corroded with toadyism) a rebuke to petty tyrants aud wrong-doers, while it gives colour aud strength to the hopes and aspirations of the many. Through the newspaper the dream of to-day becomes the reality of to morrow. Ie may be true that columns of silcntthoughtpass with the newspaper into pipe-lights aud wrappers for new shoes ; that paragraphs of worldly knowledge go to the butter store; but those living thoughts die not, but pass through the wonderful instrumentality of the press into a thousand homes, and like the shining circles in the pond caused by the falling of a pebble, widen and widen until they reach the boundaries of civilisation. Time weighs the deficiencies of the news paper, and whatsover is worthless will perish, and whatsover is true will live for ever. The character of the newspaper is determined by the wants of the community, and that it is a welcome guest to thousands in and about this city may be known by the fact that if the runner of the TEoeiiing Star is behind his usual hour the anxious thought finds utter ance in the olden strain :—" Pretty little Evening Star, how I wonder where you are ?" B.

SUDDEN DEATH AT WARKWORTH.

EXTRAORDINARY CONDUCT OF A DOCTOR.

We have this morning received from corres pondents at Warkworth, Mahurangi, full particulars of the death of Mrs Southgate, wife of the proprietor of Southgate's Hotel and of the lower lime kilns, at Wark worth. Death took place last Thurs day evening, the sth instant. under the following circumstances. We quote the words of one of our correspondents :— " Mrs Southgate was about to be confined on Thursday afternoon last, and at four p.m. a messenger was despatched to ask Dr. Cruickskank, of Matakana, to come and attend her ; he proved a fleet courier, for although the distance was six miles, he re turned in an hour to say that he found Dr. Cruickshank at home, but he declined to come to Mrs Southgate. Mrs Southgate had not progressed favourably since Dr. Cruick shank had been sent for, and on the messenger's return was very ill, and medical skill in her case was much required. Mr Palmer volunteered to go and press Dr Cruickshaiik again, which he, did using the utmost speed. He implored Dr ( ruick shank to come to Mrs Southgate, but in vain did be ask him, aud in the coolest manner the doctor lighted his pipe and sat down, saying he would not move. Mr Palmer re turned to Mahurangi, and found that Mrs Southgate was now alarmingly ill, sur rounded by many willing to do the very ut most in serving her, but who, of course, were not competent to act as a medical man could. At this stage Dr Smith, of the Wade, was sent for by a boat dispatched down the river, with oiders to turn the steamer Lady Bowen, then expected from Auckland. The steamer did return, found Dr Smith at Ma hurangi heads, and with all speed brou»hthiin to Warkworth. In half an° hour after his arrival Mrs. Southgate was delivered of a child, and shortly afterwards died. The child did not survive its birth. Dr. Smith mentions that had' skill been got an hour or two sooner Mrs. Southgate's life would in all probability have been saved." The sad event has caused considerable ex citement in this district, and tho funeral of the poor lady (which took place on Friday, the 6th inst.) was largely attended by the inhabitants. Dr. Cruickshank's conduct is severely criticised, and we understand that the settlers have resolved to bring the matter under the notice of the Government, from whom Dr Cruickshank is in receipt of a salary. We have every reason to believe in the accu racy of our correspondents' facts, and taking these for eranted it is a -frightful thing to contemplate that a fellow creature's life should be ab the mercy of anyone who could so lightly concern himself about it. More than one letter on this subject has reached us, and the tenorof them indicates hot indignation against Dr Cruickshank. One correspondent gives us the supposed reason of the Doctor's refusal to attend Mrs Southgate : "It was " he says, " because Dr. Smith had lately been called in by some of Dr. Cruickshank's patients. It would seem by this that the poor woman has fallen a victim to profes sional etiquette. We hear complaints made of this mother quarters. This is a subject which stands in great need of legislative in terference. The circumstances connected with the death of Mrs. Southgate ought certainly to be made the basis of an official investigation, and blame and even punish ment meted out if they are deserved

THE SABBATH QUESTION.

Archdeacon Maunsell on Sunday delivered an impressive sermon at St. Marys, Parnell on the Sunday observance question. The venerable doctor took as his text the words "There remaineth therefore a rest for the people of God." He commenced by obser ving that in the text the Apostle Paul used a different Greek word for rest to what had been employed previously. The word was babbasis, winch had a deeper meaning than any word which could be used. The rever end preacher then referred to the antiouitv of the institution of the Sabbath, and to its general character. It was ordained by God at the creation of the world. It was not part of the Mosaic law. That l aw only re cognised and had reference to esnecial mercies bestowed on the Jews. When He of whom the Jewish ritual was emblematic came the ceremonial law was abolished • but the observance of the Sabbath was enioined on all Throughout the PentateuchTere was frequent mention of seven da Y s Before the children of Israel came to Sinai the regulations as to gathering the manna were issued. They werl told not to llw^K he""s eventh day, which is the Sabbath, the words implying the well-known sanctity of the day. Again, while all the other commandments were simple statements of a rule to be observed or a sin to be avoided, the fourth commandment began with a word of

reminder, viz., "Remember," thereby plainly showing that the ordinance was no new one. There was no necessity to suppose that the proper observation of the Sabbath implied sticking about trifles. The apostle Paul himself told them to let no man judge them concerning feasts, holy days. etc. A leading man in Auckland had lately said that Jesus himself had broken the Sabbath by allowing his disciples to rub a few grains of wheat in their hands, and by healing on the Sabbath day. The very thought of such an accusa tion almost made one shudder, and showed that the accuser had quite for gotten what our Lord called attention to, that "the Sabbath was made for man and not man for the Sabbath." Some people urged that the Sabbath was repealed when the Christian dispensation began. It was not so. All special laws referring to the Jews were repealed, but general ordinances stood. As an instance of this Dr Maunsell referred to the strong expressions of the Apostle Paul on the subject of marriage within the prohibited degree of affinity. The apostle evidently took it as a matter of course that those laws were in force among the Corin thians They had ample evidence that the early Christians observed the seventh day. St. John, in the Revelations, spake of being in the spirit on the Lord's Day. Ignatius, a contemporary of Peter and John, enjoins not to "Sabbatise," but to lead a life agree able to the spirit of the Lord's Day. Oiement, of Alexandria, explained this. Even heathen testimony could be adduced. Pliny, of whose works they had, most of them, heard, in writing to the Emperor Trajan, spoke of the early Christians as a sect whose custom was to meet earJy in the week and sing hymns and to bind themselves by a sacramentum or oath, not to do any wrong. To live the Lord's Day was a common phrase in early Church history, and meant to live in accordance with the spirit of the day. The rest of the discourse, which was very attentively listened to, was devoted to an application of the text to the subject of Sunday observance

COLONIAL PRIZE-FIRING.

LANDING OF THE REPRESEN TATIVES.

BUSINESS SUSPENDED. BETTING IN FAVOUR OF THAMES MEN. [BY TiCLEGRAPjff.] [J?rom our fecial Correspondent. ~\

NAPIER,

10 a.m

The Taranaki, with the representatives from Auckland, and other ports, are ex pected to arrive here to-day about noon. The Rifles and- Artillery will meet them on landing, and march them to the firing ground. A luncheon will be given on the road. A half-holiday will be given to the re presentatives on the 13 th, in order to permit them to attend the first days races.' Betting here is in favor of the Thames representatives for the championship. 11.40 a.m. Tho Taranaki is coming up the bay. The Volunteers are parading to give the repre sentatives a reception. 2 p.m. Business is entirely suspended, and all the town people are at the port to witness the landing of the representatives.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before Messrs Dargaville and Graham, Esqs, Justices of the Peace.) UTS AND DOWNS OF LIFE.

A number of persons, namely, William J. Bankhead, Robert Stevens, Thomas Jones, Julius Coasar Scotter, George McGuffie, William Evans, John Flood, and Edward Lodge were severally charged with being drunk in the course of yesterday, and were fined 5s and costs, excepting Flood, who was fined 10s and costs, this being his second offence.

MIKE IN ECSTACIES.

Michael Mullens was charged with being drunk and very disorderly in Queen-street, also with unlawfully and maliciously damaging Constable MulviUe's jumper, value £2 10s, on the 9th inst, much to the annoy ance of that officer.

The prisoner, a rough looking character, pleaded guilty. He was in ecstacies at the time, having drank several p; nts of the best colonial.

The Bench fined him 20s and costs, and to pay the damage of the jumper, or go to prison for seven days. Christopher's trousers. Richard Taylor was brought up on a charge of stealing his mate's trousers from a barque on the 28th, also with stealing his friend Antonio's shirt, value 4s, on the sth March. Mr Brohani stated that prisoner was essentially a loafer in the fullest meaning of that suggestive term. He had stolen a pair of trousers from Christopher Lanker, also a shirt from Antonio Nicholson, and sold them in the town.

Prisoner said he had not been long in the colony ; he would plead guilty. Two months' imprisonment with hard labour.

somebody's COUSIN. Walter James Bardsley, a serious looking man, was charged with attempting to obtain money from Mr Edward Owen, of Dedwood, on the 13th February, by representing himself as Cousin Owen, from Glamorganshire. A number of witnesses were ready to appear against the prisoner, and to shorten the case he thought it best to plead guilty, although he was of opinion that he was not very wrong in stating himself a somebody's cousin.

Mr Broham stated that prisoner had been in Court before on a similar charge, of which he was acquitted. He had also been cautioned by the police. It appeared that prisoner, with health and strength on his side, had preferred a life of idleness to one of useful employment. He had been in the habit of strolling in outlying districts, finding out the names of well to-do settlers and the parts they came from in England, Wales, or Scotland, when he would go with a bold face and ask to see Mr So-and-so, and upon obtaining an interview would introduce himself as a person of the same name from the same part of the country ; that he was of the same respectable family, and had come to this country with a view of adding to his wealth, but unfortunately he had ventured to dabble in shares and sunk his thousands. He had certain prospects before him, a large sum on the way out from England, or Scotland, and if he could only get temporary assistance, just a pound or two, he would amply repay such cousinly kinlness in the dawn of the golden age. He had carried on his fiddling game for nearly two years until he called upon his cousin Owen of Dedwood, who referred him to Mr. Ewington for a little cash, who recognised him as cousin Ewington, and who had visited him some time previously ■d Mount Albert. J

The Bench gave him a severe lecture, and irdered his immediate removal to Mount lOden Gaol for six months with hard labour hoping that after six months' reflection and

solitary exercise he wouldbTinrl^ pursue a course of honest industry. dt» AN ABSCONDER Frederick Vesey, a young " raan in answer to a summons charging J7 peate4 deserting from the service of his miTl^ W, Hartshorn, on the 3rd'instant * As the prosecutor in this case f l..i appear the case was ordered to hiT . m out. De struck The case of Rupert Griffin, summoned a charge of obtaining money under fak n tences of Thomas Hunter on the23rdPi? 6' ary, was, on the application of Mr TMM adjourned uutil Monday next w%,

DESCRIPTION OF AUCKLAND.

A correspondent of the Lyttelton «3 writing under the norn de pl ume o{ S Loafer in the Street," gives the foUoJL 6 description of his visit to this city^-. 8 "I left off last time on my wav t« «L Occidental Hotel, Auckland. I goUher ,t right. It is a perfect museum. While dri i : ing an iced drink (they have ice in AucS you can see curios of all sorts, fromT weapons to what has so lately shocked v so much m our museum, a double-breast!! calf m a glass case and as gay a monstroS as could be wished. The Occidental i*7 sporting-house, and your S.P. was as r^Z » ful and happy there as could J* Auckland is a fine town. It is so Tk' main street contains no end of three stow heuses and fine houses at that. We ha not a show with them in buildings buUl humbly take leave to say that the North, capital is a trying old shop to walk about in to any extent. The minute you leave Queer street you become a gay mountaineer Yon have necessarily to go up a mountain If the general run of the Auckland public walked about town as we do, they would be in perpetual state of training, but the old citizen! keep to the flat. I imitated them as far as I could. The club, which is a very jolly (J is on a high old eminence. In consequent of this the clubbists are as a rule "veryfit" indeed. There are two views in Auckland One is in Queen-street. This ia a sort' of Ludgate Hill view. People flying along in a business-like way, and lots - of people too. Good shops aud plenty of customers. In this street the busy hum of men is heard very distinctly—far more than in Colombo-street here. I never heard them hum much, but you know what I mean. At the end of Queen-street is the wharf' which is a good one. I can, after living ii Christchurch for some years, conceive it to: be a convedience to have an Engb'sh shin come alongside and discharge, so to speak at your own door. The natural features of our Christchurch capital preclude this but we do our best to make things handyfor merchants and them sort by having the Custom-house at one end of the railway and the ship at the other. The other Auck-' land view is more or less easily attainabie by mounting out of Queen-streetL You then leave the busy hum of men, and don't feel like being in a town at all. Who once yon' leave Queen-street, you might as well be iii. one of the largest streets iv Summer town ship, |but|you get a view of a beautiful har' bour, dotted with craft of all kinds, and . plenty of pretty background to set off the water scenery. I don't feel like describing this view more minutely, because I sketched a draw or two while there, and it might spoil their sale. Anyone who is a judge of dram can have my sketches cheap by apply for them. The Auckland boys are very good to us—N.B. We can't teach them much. You ' can bet on this. lam asked to go up to Mount Eden. I'm told no fellow ever comes here who dont go there. I go. I walk. It appears to be about twenty miles to the top, We arrive there before breakfast to see the " exquisite tints thrown by the rising sun over the distant hills, and to see the golden glow upon the blue waves which lave each side of the North Island. We don't see them toany extent. We see a heavy misb. I recognise in the mist a dear friend —a friend far more • constant than those of my bosem, becansel never went to some trouble to shut a mhi without getting disappointed, and one can sell a dear friend sometimes, and feel better' after it. I don't care about Mount Eden My friend says we -will go again, and we will also visit the summit of Rangitoto, which is a played out volcano. But I don't go. I go, however, to have oysters with another friend —who pays for them. " Rocks "iv Anck- v lanb are to be devoured at the rate of twenty-/ four ior one shilling. This, in itself, is a strong point in favor of the Northern "•-'■ capital, but the proprietor insists on cash, which slightly detracts from their cheapness; but this mercenary feeling is getting very prevalent even in Canterbury. They have no ' first f oHr' ships in Auckland —but they have a Stock Exchange, and , what a boon this is. In Christchurch if a man wants to speculate boldly there are so1 very few ways of going about it; but bless yon in this Stock Exchange you can drops £1000 or a crown in a few minutes as easily . as you would drink a quart of beer, }ff as nice a fellow here as you would wish to see anywhere. He was different from most of the Auckland boys I met. He was es cutting a cove in his remarks as lever heard. He was always chaffing me abow Canterbury. He seemed to fancy Auckland muchly. It was no good my agreeing with him ; he would have it that l thought Canterbury was the best pIaCJ in the universe, and cutting me up. « grew monotonous, so one day I said ■ W him, "My respected friend, whjr is this eternal nonsense about your province ana, ours? Supposing we were to insert *» advertisement in your admirable T^l stating that we were going to scramble two half-crowns in front of the Exchange. w morrow, there would be a big muster tuere of your leading merchants, my ,05 r» k° those ' only ones that stopped away would be tno y who thought your name wasn't good enonE for the money." This was only a liveij, remark on my part, but he closed up, ana only mention the fact to show what bos&i of a cove fancying his own province his best, and jumping down other PeoPi r throats who don't think the same. J my own part I think there are j"B*B.^ sweet youth in Canterbury who wouW. "^ the change for a five pound note in f xc»a g . for a one, without expostnWJ as in other places. Our commerc morality is first-class but, as the.st«L,: said to, the owner of the Jumping-^|- I can't see much difference between ... and any other commenced morahty- y. Jy to the Gardens in Auckland. A kind 1".., takes me there. We go every ™l nW week, and finding I havn't seen halt oi by that time, I treat them as a c°nnn r6 ; and give them up. The Gardens tM» #> better than ours in a physical P™. *£ nOI1 g There is more hill and dale and ttWF . ._ timber about them, but they water. They have no river flowing^ w at least I never saw one. I www»» . . s as I could judge, fifty miles f o*)^ and saw no water except a lew . -, E ponds ; but not having seen the ' *a™ 1 I won't positively commit myse*J'.,.: tI L iM v 1 go in and see the wild beasts andj ha dno*,; 1 hesitate to this moment whether i - | better have spent the money man*. • / ( „ are Good Templars in A^ck^% l ifsaS-m}§ one giving his experiences in the c bntS 1 came very nigh being a Templar on » iD | jibbed chiefly owing to my ineJ py s9 meii' 9 ; kissing. I understand thougn ,^» m don't need much rehearsing, * ~ ■

fttl lYßfffirft jfA.lt, TUESDAY. MABCH 10 1374



THE AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHIC C-jMPANY, Photographers to the AMERICAN, MEXICAN, AND NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENTS, In consequence of increase of business have REMOVED to more EXTENSIVE PREMISES (Corner Queen and Wellesley-street), Where Photography in all its Branches will be carried on as usual, JOHN McGARRIGLE, MANAGER. JJATS! HATS! SUMMER H A TJS AT REDUCED PRICES. ' IN ORDER TO EFFECT A CLEARANCE RUSHBROOK & BRIDGMAN have decided to Sell the Balance of their Summer Stock of Children's and Ladies' Straw Hats at COST PRICE. AJGreat Variety to select from. 2 RUSHBROOK & BRIDGMAN (LATE R. HOBBS), Wholesale and Retail Drapers, Clothiers, &o JUNCTION DRAPERY WAREHOUSE, (Opposite the Army and Navy Hotel,) Upper Queen-street, Auckland. T COSGRAVE & CO HAVE JUST RECEIVED PER SUEZ MAIL: l case Self-coloured Gros Grain 3 1 „ Black „ „ 1 „ Best Paris Kid Gloveg 1 „ Best Assorted Colors. C A U T t ON. OLSON'S TOMATO SAUCE. -R^ n *oisseurs P, ronouncc this Sauce to be the BEbT for general use in households, and. in con sequence of its high reputation, som« unprincipled persons have been induced to Collect Empty Bottles bearing the manufacturer's name stamped thereon and pass the same off as "Olson's Universal Tomato ?? UC mT> .££? proprietor has in consequence caused his TRADE MARK to be Registered under the provisions of the "Trade Marks Act, 1866," and proceedings will be taken against such persons as may forge or counterfeit such mark. The public are cautioned to v ASK FOR OLSON'S SAUCE, and see that the name is Stamped on Bottle and popper, aud wrapped round with his well-known 150 000 EEET TIMBEE ,FOR SALE. AT MY YARDS, GOVERNMENT WHARF, ONEHUNGA. JAMES W. WALLER.