SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

HIGH WATER! This evening, 8.43 ; tc-_K»K_J morning, 9.4 SU_"-B_T : This evening, 4.54; BUN-RISB: To morrow morning, 6.63 MOON'S AGE: Full Moon, 31st, 6.25 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Rose M., barque, Kiipatric, from Oamaru Serene, barque. Scgerman, from New York, via

Dunedin and Wellington Excelsior, schooner, Joiner, from Lyttelton Gem, schooner, from Wangapoa Start, cutter, from Tairua

DEPARTURES.

WeUington, s s., Carey, for the South

PROJECTED DEPARTURES. For Wanganui—St. Kilda. Thursday, noon For Tauranga, Poverty Bay, Napier, and Wellington

■ —Murray, to-morrow, 3 p.m. For Gisborne and Napier—Pretty Jane, s.s, early For Newcastle—Dorette, ship, early Newcastle—lsabella, brig, early London—Anazi, barque, early ; Hylton Castle,

barque, early Norfolk Islands—Southern Cros3, Mission vessel, shortly

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Hero, s.s., from Sydney, early Southern Cross, s.s., from England' Empreza, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed October 15 Rour.arell, ship, from London. Sailed February 19 Pakeha, brig, from Lyttelton Pretty Jane, s.s., from Napier and Gisborne, early Paterson, p.s., from the South, early Huntley Castle, ship, from London. Sailed Feb 21 Mary King, schooner, from Adelaide, early Augusta, schooner, from Sydney, early Edith, schooner, from South Sea Islands, early Clematis, ketch, from Lyttelton, early Charybdis, schooner, from Lyttelton

The s.s. Wellington left the Manukau for the South yesterday. She took a full general cargo and the following passengers :—Mr D. L. Murdoch, Mr and Mrs Flinney and child, Mr Vanderhausen, Mrs Holdsworthy, Mr C. R. Bayley, Miss Diggins, Mr J. Ogilvie, Mr John McDermott, Mrs Te Aorere, Messrs R. H. Taylor, Thompson, F. L. Webster, Redgrave, Ely, and ten in the steerage.— Combes and Daldy, agents. The schooner Dauntless, Captain Millar, arrived from Lyttelton, via Tauranga, last night, with a cargo of 60 tons wheat to order. She left Lyttelton on the 3rd, and had strong winds from N.E. nearly all the way up. The barque Rose M., 366 tons, Captain Kilpatrick, arrived on Saturday evening from Oamaru with a cargo of grain, _c, consigned to Messrs B. Tonks and Co. She left Oamaru on the sth, and was hove to for 16 hours in a S.E. gale on the 12th off the Ariel Rocks. After discharging she is to proceed to Wangaroa to load timber for Mcl-

bourne.

The American barque Serene, 549 tons, Captain Segerman, arrived from Wellington (her last port) on Saturday night, after a long passage of 10 days. She is originally from New York, and before touching at Welling ton unloaded a portion of her cargo at Dune din. She comes with a cargo of American notions consigned to Messrs Owen and Gra ham. After putting out her stuff Bhe is engaged by Messrs R. Walker and Co. to load with gum for New York. The brig Isabella has cleared out in ballast for Newcastle. She has hauled into the stream, and awaits a favourable opportunity for sailing. The schooner Gem, which brought 23,000 feet of timber from Whangapoua, has cleared out again in ballast for the same port. It will be seen by announcement that the s.s. Murray is to leave to-morrow for Taurangi, Poverty Bay, Napier, and Wel lington. This steamer is now withdrawn for the present from the Northern trade, being required by her proprietors — Messrs Ed wardes and Co.—at Nelson to fill the place of the Kennedy or the Wallace, both of which are under repair. In consequence of the barque Rose M. having to leave Oamaru so abruptly some of her cargo was left behind unshipped. This has caused unavoidable disappointment to several consignees in Auckland. The schooner Swallow, from Mercury Bay, brings 17,400 feet of timber. The barques Rose M. and Annie Lisle, the schooners Excelsior and Dauntless, have all entered inwards at the Customs to-day. The p.s. Golden Crown according to an nouncement did not take her trip to the Thames this morning being laid up for re pairs. She will resume her daily runs to morrow. The schooner Excelsior, Captain Joiner, arrived from Dunedin on Saturday night, having left the port on the 4th inst. En countered an E.S.E. gale off Hawkes Bay, in which the vessel was hove to for 24 hours. She brings a cargo of breadstuff's, &c, con signed to Mr John Reid. The barque Bella Mary has hauled along side the wharf in her old berth. She began unloading this morning. Notwithstanding the fearful weather she has come through every thing appears in splendid condition. The barque Annie Lisle has hauled in to the wharf, where she is putting out her cargo of coals. The ship Jubilee 'having put out her powder came up the harbour this morning and took up the outside bulk at the main T of the wharf.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Onehukga, this day. The Atlanta schooner arrived last night at a quarter to ten.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND

Mails will Close as Under:— For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m. For Russell, &c , per Golden Isle, to-day, at 5 p.m. For Kawau and Matakana, per Lady Bowen, to

moirow, at 1C a.m. For Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier and Wellington, per

Murray, to-moi.ow, at 2 p.m. For Whitiangi, per Swallow, to-morrow, at 5 p.m. For Norfolk Island, per s.s. Southern Cross, to

moirow, at 4 p.m. For Wanganui, per St. Kilda, on Thursday next, at

10 a.m. For Tsranaki and Southern ports, per Taranaki, on Fiiday next, at 10 a.m. (Signed) 8. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTHS.

Lewis-Or May 16. at her residence, Union-street' the wife of H. Lewis, of a son.

MARRIAGE.

Crisp.—Mexlsop—On the 14th instant, at St Brides." Mauku, by the Rev Mr Otway, Mr Hey wood Crispe, of Stanlake, Mauku, to Bessie Allan, youngest daughter of Mr Melsopp, of Knock maroon.

DEATH,

Harlev—On 17th instant, at Cross-street, Karanga hape Road, Patrick Harley ; aged 70 years. The funeral will leave hjs son's residence to morrow, at 3 o'clock. Filends are respectfully invited to attend.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

M. R. O'Regan.—We have already given publicity to complaints against the mode of objecting to persons on the electoral roll. We cannot afford space for the ven tilation of every case separately. An opportunity for appeal will be afforded in due course.

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

MONDAY, MAY 18, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance. For the future in the distance, And tbe good that we can do

The wholesale exportation of paupers from Ireland to this colony at the cost of the Go vernment is a new feature in the history of themal-adminißtration of immigration, which even the bitterest opponents of the Agent- General, andthose'who have throughout main tained Mb utter unfitness for the position he holds, were not prepared for. There has recently been published by various journals in the colony a report of a meeting of the Cork Board of Guardians, from which it appeared that a Mrs Howard, employed as j emigration agent in the South of Ireland, j had threatened the Board with legal proceed

ings unless they delivered over two . hundred paupers and fitted them out at a cost of £3 each as emigrants under tho free passage system to New Zealand. Some members of the Board objected to send these people, as they stated, " not to benefit the paupers themselves nor the ratepayers, but for the personal and private benefit of Mrs Howard and her ship agent." The argument adduced in favour of the economy of the system, however, pre vailed, and it was resolved to supply Mrs Howard with the required complement of paupers. A number of these pauper im migrants arrived at Dunedin by the Golden Age, and we learn by telegram what might have been expected, " That some of the single girls had been sent back to the bar racks because they had been found to be useless as servants and uncivil to employers. It was ascertained that 33 at least of the single girls had been sent out either from a reformatory or workhouse." Estimating that the two hundred Cork paupers cost the colony £14 a head for passage money, we have a total of £2,50. spent in demoralizing our population and increasing the burdens already caused by the dissolute aud •worthless sections of the community. This were evil enough if it ended here, but from other Irish journals we learn that New Zealand has come to be regarded as the receptacle of the super-abundant population from the Irish work-houses, and that the system of exporting paupers is actually becoming popular under the fostering care of the Howards and other dealers in human bodies at a commission per head. In proof of this assertion Aye quote from tho Munster News and Limerick and Clare Advocate of February 28 :—

At tho weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians, held at the Limerick Work house, on the 28th February, 1874, the Mayor drew attention to the facilities which the free emigration forfemale servants to New Zealand afforded them for getting rid of the able-bodied women that they bad in the work-house. The Chairman saidtbat (if they agreed to the Mayor's proposition) they would soon have the house full of wo men who would come in merely for the pur pose of being sent to New Zealand. The Mayer said (in order to prevent that) he would have no one sent out, but women who had spent three years at least in the work house. The master was ordered to prepare a report on tho subject.

How much longer are the best interests of tbe colony to be sacrificed for political ex. pediency, and when shall incompetency cease to guide the policy on which depends the future of New Zealand? In th° name of the colonists we protest against this Hooding of tho colony with tho scum of tho earth. Better far that immigration should cease, and tho land be left for tho enjoyment of its present"pos sessors than that the handful of settlers should be saddled with the cost of maintain" ing in gaol or keeping in order the paupers that have puzzled and alarmed British states men for years past. Wo are assured by a gentleman familiar with tho South of Iro land that from letters he has received he is convinced there would be no difficulty in obtaining 1000 agricultural labourers and domestic servants in every county in the South of Ireland. But it is much easier to swell tho returns and multiply fees by going into the cities and emptying work houses and reformatories than by canvassing country districts for the class of immi grants really required by the colony. In tho rural districts of Ireland, where every girl can milk and make herself use ful in the occupations of a farm, hundreds of useful female immigrants might be ob tained. Yet among the thousands of immi grants landed on our shores we hear of few indeed who have been drawn from the country instead of from large cities. There is a stage in public abuses when the direct interference of the people is de manded, and this stage has we think been reached by the scandalous conduct of the immigration scheme of the colony, which proceeds unchecked by Government or Parliament. The history of immigration during the past three years has been a story of plague-ships, of floating dens of infamy, of asylums for cripples and insane, of French dancers of the lowest type, of Lon don street sweepings, and last of all for the superabundant population of the poor-houses and reformatories of Ireland. From one end of the colony to the other, by petitions and public meetings, should a protest be entered against this shameful business. After the universal condemnation of immigration mismanagement by_the Press without avai^ we fear that the Government will remain inactive until they feel direct pressure from an outraged public.

An official visit was made this forenoon to the Destitute Children's Asylum by His Honor the Superintendent, accompanied by members of the.Executive. Captain Daldy and Mr Rattray, representing the manage ment of the institution, conducted the party over the establishment, pointing out the principal requirements which demand atten tion at the hands of the Provincial Council. The greater proportion of the children having been committed by the Bench, and but a small proportion of the cost of their keeping having been contributed by the Govern ment, it was shewn that undue pressure was thus made on the efforts of the benevolent. Certain alterations in the culinary, appliances were also shown to be urgently necessary, and_ various other suggestions on matters of detail were sub mitted. An examination of the dormitories and. all other apartments shewed that the most perfect cleanliness and order prevailed, while the answering of the pupils reflected the highest credit on the care bestowed on this particular department. There cannot be ■ a doubt that this most valuable as it |is one of the best conducted of our institutions, and a glimpse at the bright and happy faces could not fail to impress on the mind the importance of the rescue of all those young colonists—some eighty or ninety in all—from haunts of vice and schools of criminality. After an inspection of the Destitute Children's Asylum, the Superintendent and members Executive proceeded to the Orphan Home at Parnell. Mr G. P. Pierce and Mr R. Walker con. ducted them over the establishment, explain, ing the position and circumstances of th e

institution. The same cleanliness and order as in the other institution were everywhere apparent, while a certain air of what might be described as one of more " gentility '; hangs around the The countenances and general appearance of the children show that they are drawn generally from a different class from that in which the little waifs and strays of the sister institution are derived. The pupils were Jput .through their {exercises satisfac torily, and the singing of the little people was especially deserving of remark. The whole institution seems admirably conducted, and in every department bears the impress of the mind of the matron. Miss Burns, who ap '. pears to be rarely gifted for the conduct of I such au establishment.

The farewell entertainment at the Prince of Wales Theatre was very well attended on Saturday evening, and the " Ticket-of-Leave Man " was presented_to the audience success fully. The company will perform at the Thames for a short time, and probably re turn again to this city.

The Kennedy concert on Saturday even ing was well attended, and the several domestic, humorous, pathetic, and dialogue songs were given with truth, life, and mer riment. The "Last words of Marmion" were given with telling effect, and the touching ballad " Auld Robin Gray" was sung in true spirit by Miss Helen. The quartette "Roy's Wife of Aldivalloch" was also rendered with fidelity. This evening will be entirely devoted to the songs of Burns, when Mr Kennedy will give an intro ductory sketch of the poet and sing the poet's best songs, such as "John Anderson, my Jo," "A Man's a Man," "Highland Mary," and "Ye Banks and Braes." "Tarn o' Shanter" will also be recited. This even ing therefore will be a thorough "nicht wi' Burn 3."

The Parnell Football Club played their opening game iv the Domain on Saturday afternoon. Thero was a good muster of members, and sides were chosen by Messrs Gore and Evens. After about an hour and a half's play time was called, no goal having been obtained by either side. The game was well kept up, and the players seemed to have learnt the rules very fairly for a start. The new uniform though plain is workmanlike and suitable. A suggestion might be made for members to secure the same shades of colour. Wo understand that several new members have joined, and the Club bids fair to develop rapidly.

The famous Combination Troupe, known throughout Europe and the Australian colonies as Smith's English and Continental Combination, will appear this evening for the first time before the Auckland public in the Prince of Walts Theatre. This troupe brings a high character for varied talent, and includes a list of names of artistes who have won positions in the temple of Fame by their individual and associated abilities. The en tertainment will embrace' aerial gymnics, ventriloquism, songs of sentiment, London dulogues, duets, and other specialties which exclusively belong to Mr Smith's justly celebrated troupe. We cannot doubt the issue of the entertainment so variously framed for different tastes, and so eminently calculated to banish whatever of melancholy may linger among tho light-hearted, mirth loving citizens of Auckland.

Thursday evening next, tho 21st inst., is fixed for the second grand concert in the Lornc-street Hall, by tho members of the Auckland Harmonic Society. The programme is in preparation, and will embrace choice selections of music from the grand old mas ters of harmony.

Mr Brown will read a paper to-morrow evening, at the Newmarket Literary Insti tute, held in the Presbyterian Church, entitled, " Epitome of Science, or Science Simplified." The paper no doubt will be instructive, and a good discussion will follow.

The members of tho Auckland Troop Royal Cavalry will muster this evening for monthly inspection in the Drill-shed at the usual hour undor command of Captain Isaacs. Members are requested to attend in full uniform with swords and carbines.

A new and interesting panorama of coal and coal-fields, with descriptive illustrations of the coal deposits and working of mines, by a competent gentleman, will be given this evening in All Saints' School-room, in aid of tho school harmonium fund. This lecture will bo followed by another entitled " Life in the South Sea Islands," by a gentleman who will speak from his own personal observations in those islands. We understand that the entertainment this even ing will be of a practical nature, and well deserving of public attention.

To the Editor: Sir, —Whilst it is acknow ledged that Good Templars are doing much good in checking the vice of drunkencss, it is much to be regretted that they are not disposed to be content with their work of social regeneration, but must venture on political intrigue They have been busy lately in what they call "purging the political roll ;" and in striving to carry out their un-English views have formed themselves into a secret organisation employing . wily emissaries on the~Napoleonic principle for the performance of their political night-work, and by such means, by hook or by crook, endeavouring to deprive men, who may not be of their order, of the franchise. The Standard of Saturday last even exults in the in the business and saya :—" We have, through our political committee made great efforfcs to have qualified Good Templars registered as voters, and to have the roll purged of unqualified names." They have however done more than this, and unscrupu lously removed the names of -members who are entitled to the vote. Let Good Templars stick to their work of physical regeneration and moral reform, but let them not intrude into the field of politics, and interfere unduly with the liberty of the subject.—B.

In his intolerably long speech at the Dunedin licensing meeting, Mr Bathgate laid down the following as amongst the conditions to be insisted on by the Court : —No license to be granted to an unmarried man unless in exceptional cases. The law assumes that licensed houses are for the benefit of travellers. No house for the use of travellers can be properly conducted un less under the management of a matron. Licenses to be granted to widows only in very exceptional cases. At Port Chalmers next day Mr Bathgate objected that one of the applicants was unmarried, and said, '* Surely he must have read my remarks in Dunedin yesterday." The applicants' solicitor, while admitting that this was proba bly correct, contended that his client had scarcely time to get married since, and that at least six months' notice of the necessity of having wives should be given to the publicans generally. One applicant got a license granted him forthwith on stating that he had just been married, and another is reported to have blushed like a peony on receiving Mr Bathgate's fatherly advice to take unto him self a wife at once. One very amusing scene is reported. The Empire Hotel, one of the best in Dunedin, is well known as a sporting house, and is kept'by MrDodson, who is well known on the turf. In granting his licence Mr Bathgate remarked that " his house had the reputation of being the resort of Calcutta sweeps." Evidently Mr Bathgate thought Calcutta sweeps to be a disreputable class of chimney-cleaners imported from India, Such innocence is refreshing.

The finishers and riveters of the Auckland boot factories will hold a meeting for the purpose of discussing matters pertaining to the trades to-morrow evening inthe_Mechan- ics' Institute.

*___This evening a musical and literary enter tainment will be held in Mr Harrison's school-room, corner of Wellington and Hepburn-streets, —Mr Lusk in the chair. Choice musical selections, and ballads by several ladies, will be given ; recitations by some of the elder children ; and, by request, "The Young Immigrants' Opinions, of Auckland and its People."

We call attention to Mr R. Arthur's ex tensive sale of fruits, ex Bella Mary, from Hobart Town, which will be held on Wed nesday next next in Mr Arthur's Queen-street mart.' The lots will comprise 2,500 cases of apples and pears of various descriptions, 50 cases of well-assorted jams, a quantity of walnuts, and a number of prizepouUry^^^

To the Editor: Sir,—l observe a paragraph in Saturday's Star in which " Typhoid" draws the attention of the Board of Health to the brewery on the New North Road as causing an abominable stench, etc. Now, sir, in justice to the industrious proprietors of the establishment referred to I beg.to state that the basin alluded to is simply a low lying tract of land extending about one hundred yards each way and no outlet what ever except by percolation. And into this so called basin tbe drainage from fifty-two dwelling-houses (all occupied), four cowsheds, five pig-styes, and five stables has been run ning the last nine years, together with the drainage from the breweries, one butcher's shop, and the rain that falls from the clouds, on an area of one square mile. Sir, thero is not a shadow of a doubt but that in time if there is not something done to abate the nuisance a fever will be the result. But if "Typhoid" would humble himself to bury the accumulation of his water-closet, his dead dogs and cats, etc., which he takes down to this basin and deposits (without even pretending to cover them), the abominable stench -would not be so great. And further, sir, the brewery re ferred to is only eight months in operation, and the stench but very little added to by it since. Fortunately for the owners they are able to sell all the produce, and I have never witnessed any waste leaving their premises except water which has been used for washing purposes (and it is con veyed away in ten-inch drain tiles). If "Typhoid" would put his hand in his pocket and contribute a fair share as I heard those enterprising gentlemen referred to saying they would do, viz, give £10 or £20 to cause a main sewer to be made to carry away the nuisance caused by the whole neighbour hood. Bat no, he would rather try to get it away and his property improved at the expense of those who are trying to earn an honest livelihood. Begging pardon for tres passing on your space.—l am, &c, Faip. Play. P.S—The above basin is one of the chief feeders of the Western Springs ; the water from which the people of Auckland are to drink in future.

The healthiest city in Europe is London and the next healthiest city is Paris.

An unusually fine specimen of tho mo hawk lizard is in possession of Mr. Abbot, of the City Club Hotel. It is over six inches long, and is covered with spikes, which form a natural protection. The habitat of this peculiar species is South Australia, and it was brought to Auckland by Captain McArthur on his last trip from Hobart Town.

The Auckland correspondent of tho "Otago Daily Times" writes : " Your readers will not yet have forgotten an old Otago cele brity (Mr James Browne) v once connected with your paper. Mr Browne left Otago for the West Coast, thence to Marlborough, and finally settled in Auckland, whore he is comfortably ensconced in the editorial chair of tho " New Zealand Herald. " Mr. Browne has achieved celebrity in Auckland chiefly by the vein of rich and kindly humour with which nature has en dowed him. As ' Snyder' his sketches have attained great popularity and been repeatedly copied in the New Zealand and Australian papers. In Auckland 'Old Snyder' is an institution. He appears weekly in the "Herald," and his pieces are sometimes re produced in the daily issue of that journal. The " Weekly News," a rival issue from the "Southern Cross" office, has lately fallen foul of Snyder, and indirectly accused him of plagiarising Mark Twain. So, there has been a passage of arms, in which the " Cross " comes off second best. Ihe "Herald" reprinted Mark Twain side by side with Snyder. The subjects were the same—namely, ' Life Insurance,' but there is certainly not the slightest similarity in manner, matter, nor mode of treatment. Put together, one sees hows rich and pleasant the humour of Snyder is, even at the side of a master in the art like Mark Twain, with whom he does not unfavourably compare. I mention this be because I believe it is contemplated by Mr Brown to make a collection of his writings for publication, and it will be exceedingly unfair that they should have a prejudice excited against them by false charges of plagi arism. Mr Browne was on the staff of the first free journal started in Tasmania. He was through the whole of the Australian Gdldfields in their palmiest days, when men nailed up ten-pound notes against the wall, and ordered the landlord to supply free drinks to all comers so long as the notes would pay. I have seen him convulse large audiences with his lectures, and any book published by him ought to be of wide colonial interest, as I am sure it would be." [The writer of the above, had he been aware of it, might also have mentioned the fact that Mr M. L. Browne, son of Mr James Browne, is one who has risen from the ranks of the Otago Daily Times office, in which he some years ago filled the position of " reader boy," to the responsible post of sub-editor of the N.Z. Herald.— Ed. "E.S."]

Some of the reports that have leaked out about an autographic telegraph just patented in Washington, but withheld from publicity until patented in other countries, intimate an improvement that must be very convenient, and sometimes exceed ingly so, and may lead to a radical change in telegraphing. The principle is apparently analogous to that discovered by a Mr Bakewell in England several years ago, and that has been employed with imperfect suocess in France—perhaps elsewhere. At each station a cylinder is attached to the transmitting and receiving instrument. The manuscript to be sent is wrapped around one and instantly duplicated on the other, no matter how distant. The process is almost an equivalent of photo graphy, and is instantaneous. It is per ceptible at a glance that the long dispatches now sent at so much cost could be forwarded by this means as cheaply as the shortest, as they would occupy no more time nor any more labor. It is rather fearful to think what amounts of crude news, with all the*worth less details, may be skurried about when this method is in operation ; but there is an equivalent in the expectation of receiving Presidental messages, royal speeches, official and business reports and statistics in accurate form and without delay. Something like this has been needed. If the American im provement or discovery surmeunts the Euro pean difficulties it will not be long before it will revolutionize the existing state of affairs, i

We learn that a petition intended to be presented to tbe Provincial Council to morrow, and clearly expressive of the Roman Catholic position in relation to the all important question of education, is in rapid course of signature by that body in the city, suburbs, and the country districts, including tbe Thames, Coromandel, frc.

Mr Mackenzie, the new premier of Canada, is Scotch. He has the Jface and form of the old Covenanter, and is a clear-headed, strong minded Presbyterian of the old school: dis approves of the shouting of the Methodists, has no personal respect for the pageantry of the Catholic, nor regard for the forms of the Episcopalian.s?He has no private fortune. A practice of Mendlssohon's "Hymn of Praise," by the Choral Society, will take place in tbe hall to-morrow night. The quality of the stone used in paving our streets does not seem to be very good. The slightest jerk seems sufficient to crack some of the slabs, while others crumble away on the surface within a month of being laid down. Where the fire took place be tween Messrs Vailes' and the Cross office the pavement presents the appearance of being afflicted with skin disease Its surface ap pears to be overrun with a species of lichen which is eating its way slowly but surely. From tbe amount of experience which our councillors must have had by this time they ought to know what kind of stone is of the most service ; and if the paving is worth doing at all it is worth doing well. While on this subject it might not be out of place to suggest that when pieces of the stone get broken out, and a hole is left in the pave ment, it should be filled up without delay. On dark nights the inequalities of the side walks are very unpleasant and sometimes dangerous. We call attention to the advertisement of the Swiss "Lloyd Marine Insurance Com pany, " of which Mr G. S. Graham has been appointed agent. The Company offers special guarantees for the payment of liabili ties incurred under it, and possesses the great advantage of agencies in all parts of the world. To the Editor : Sir,—ln your issue of Saturday last an advertisement appeared signed by Messrs Owen and Graham, as ngents, calling for tenders to discharge cargo from the ship Jubilee, from London. Asthe advertisement did not state any conditions can you inform me if the agents were Eot bound to accept the lowest tender. Captain Ncaring states his tender (£9O) has been accepted. As mine was only £70 I think I have just cause to complain of unfairness.—l am, etc., Henry Elltott.

THE DUNEDIN LIBEL CASE.

HOW MR. MACASSEY FELT

AGGRIEVED,

AND THE SATISFACTION HE OBTAINED.

MANY columns of our Otae-o exchanges by the steamers * Wellington' and ' Cyphrenes ' are occupied with the libel case which has almost monopolised public attention in Dun edin, and has become more or less notorious throughout the colony. The case in its various bearings may serve to point a moral, and thero is much in it that would adorn a tale. Mr Macassey is a lawyer and a politician. He is, no doubt, in his own way, and certainly in his own estimation, a very clever man. On the 21st of Jnne Mr Macassey was en joying himself in Britain, heedless of the surging current of life and thought in Dune din ; but those he had- left behind were not unmindful of him. On that day there ap peared in the columns of the Dunedin ' Star' an article which was destined to disturb Mr Macassey's equanimity and create the great turmoil that has closed to the originators, but has opened up new issues which may exercise an important influence not only in Otago but throughout the colony for years to come. We allude to the question of telegraphic secresy which has sprung from the Supreme Court proceedings instituted by Mr Macassey. The article which caused all this commotion related to a Chinese petition praying for the removal of Mr Richard Beetham from his position of R.M. and Warden in the Wakatip goldfields district. The petition was pre sented to the Council by Mr Macassey, who secured the appointment of a commission to inquire into Mr Beetham's conduct. There were several translations of the petition, dif fering in one or two material points, but the one published by the "Star" stated in substance that the Chinese were very anxious to get Mr Beetham removed from his position, and a clever lawyer from Dunedin has offered to get him removed for £200, said £209 only to be paid in the event of his re moval • that the Chinese approve of this proposal, and that each individual who signs undertakes to pay a certain subscription towards the amount required. Commenting upon the whole matter the " Star' said that during his candidature for the General Assembly Mr Macassey entered a criminal action for libel against the * Wakatip, ' which Mr Beetham most properly dismissed, and, says the 'Star,' " From that time Mr Macassey appears to have become aware of Mr Beetham's shortcomings both as Resident Magistrate and Returning Officer. In the latter capacity he attacked Mr Beetham on the hustings, and failing to make an impres sion there, wrote to the Colonial Secretary stating that he had sundry charges to bring against him—charges, we may re mark, which he never even attempted to substantiate. The Chinese petition represents the results of his labours against Mr Beetham as Resident Magistrate." Speaking of the Chinese charges against Warden Beetham the 'Star' said :—" This statement, in the translation signed by Mr Macassey, and presented by him. to the Council, is transformed by him into a peti tion, _tnd all mention of ' the clever lawyer from Dunedin' and of the guarantee of the £2C3 is judiciously omitted. The case would be sufficiently shady even were this the whole of it; but there are further facts to come- First, the Commissioners appointed by the Council entirely exonerated Mr Beetham from the charges brought against him; secondly, the evidence of an expert proved that the greater number of signatures attached to the petition were written by the same hand : evidence which accounts for the fact that sundry Chinese whose signatures purported to be attached to the petition de clared to the Commissioners thexr total igno rance of the matter; and lastly Mr Macas sey's statement to the Council that he had no hand in getting up this petition has been most distinctly contradicted. Taken alto gether the affair was as discreditable a matter that ever came before the Council." It also spoke of the " pretended petition" being " concocted," and made other remarks which it left open for Mr Macassey to fix to himself or leave alone. This constituted the alleged libel, and as that gentleman's counsel pathetically observed in introducing the case —"No man could enjoy himself at home when things like this were being said of him behind his back," and his client, therefore, on receiving a copy of the paper, set out post-haste for the colony to bring the offenders to book, and, estimating the damage to his feelings and character at £1,000, tried to persuade twelve of bis fellow-countrymen into giving it. It was stated during the trial that Judge Ward was author of the. article,

and efforts were made to indn^f?*^ propnetorjof the 'Star' andSj*.^ give up the writer's name > W _.dan*/' ' chned to do, and manfully k<£ responsibility of the ai .ick. .s*»^ % relied on pleas, maintaining thett_.^ . statements in the article, and C V cf .< ---thoy were justfiable comment __* nSttiat malice, in which the jury s_ B t£^ho«t giving a verdict for thePW""^ This verdict has placed Mr }L ?**«. mostunfortunatedilemma, andbSß^ in » have been had he shewn a v^iae SES^b allowing his absence from t_fm* _* plead his excuse for not renl! _*^ ' Star's' criticism. How Sp *° the MrMacassey's position has _to_7^« judged from the . ue of ration £? ayle in supporting his case. W. m_t y an instance the evidence of tv__:ote *s Stuart, who wi. called by Mr v T * to show the effect the i.^ have on the plaintiff's char act Wo^ rev. gentleman said:—"if all'tu T article contained was true he wonM tte give him pohtical or .ocial co_nte_.n_ n6v. ,he apologised to Mr Beetham^^ Council, and his friends. He *!_. J . very little of a man guilty of w_Sft with respect to the £200. He 3 * have such, a man p<* either a leal _i!r not a friend. If the other comments jT_,°r Mr Macassey should never beretoun ?.' any legislative body" Other testimony much to the same effect N viewing the whole case by the £m _fi£' verdict given by the jury, together with th. refusal of the judge to grant a new trial M Macassey must, we should imagine .__ the upshot as extremely unfortunate a_ sincerely wish he had left, libel m<LZ. alone. * a

But, having glanced at the nature of the offence, and the course pursued in supporting the charge, we must look at one or two poiii brought forward in defence, wMchserveto prove that those who are foremost in ava ii ing themselves of erery quibble of law to wreak vengeance on any journal that date call their acts in question are not always too scrupulously gentle in their attach upon others. Mr Richard Beetham, Resident Magistrate, deposed that, up to the time when he dismissed the libel action brought by. Mr Macassey against the ' Wakatip Mail' "his relations with Mr Macassey were of a friendly char, acter, and Mr Macassey had dined at hia house, but two or three days after the dis missal of the information Mr Macassey met him in the street and cut him dead," * *

'■'' Some days after the libel case Mr Macassey (in connection with _jb Candida ture for the Assembly) addressed the assem bled crowd. In the course -of his address that day he made particular allusion to witness. What he said was a gross insult, Amongst other things he laid that befere he came into the district he was of opinion tkt the Warden should not be removed, but tha. since his arrival he had very materialy altered his opinion. He also said that lie had had occasion to make complaints against two Government -officers, and that these officers were dismissed. He said that no Government officer had ever offended him without having cause to rue it.1 The officers he mentioned were the late Beas_r of the Supreme Court and the Sheriff He did not mention the name of Cap__fra_ to witness's recollection, and say that he had accused him of corrupt conduct .on fi* Bench. Mr Macassey's manner appeared! witness to be exceedingly insulting, and spoke in a very supercilious manner. Grosser charges could scarcely have been made. Witness was a little frightened of Mr Macas sey then, but had since heard" that _ hia bark was a good deal, worse than his bite." Other witnesses tsstdfied to Mr Macassey's attack on Warden Beet ham, on Mr Ross a clergyman, against the schoolmaster, and against the telegrapM correspondents for the press, and also spoke of his boast of having secured the dismissal of two Government officers who had offended him. On this subject Mr Mandersdeposed: —"He said that- he would report Mr Beetham's conduct, and that any compto he had ever made against Government officers they had occasion to rue, and mentioned two Government officers whose dismissal he w caused." The fine manly spirit wW breathes in these expressions of conscious power are worthy of a Provineßl ■cow cillor and one who aspires to .w part in the Government of the coW Notwithstanding the offence given by w Warden Beetham to this magnate he m lives, and does not seem'to "rce"havingo« scientiously discharged his duty, nor <M Bell: but what of Mr Macassey? .WW shall he find balm to heal the fnoMdjJP which £1000 was deemed barely suffieientw cover. _

PAWPERS! PAWPERS!

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THE _STI!!fIN(J tfiAß. MOffDAT. MAY 18,1§T4



"pUSHBROOK & BRIDGMAN Have great pleasure in announcing that they sire NOW OPENING UP THEIR SHIPMENT E_ Norham Castle, Hylton Castle, and Dorette, Consisting of~ 56 CASES AND BALES op NEW WINTER GOODS, And respectfully invite attention to the same. GENTLEMEN'S CLOTHING," BOYS* AND YOUTHS' CLOTHING, HATS AND GAPS, HOSIERY. Children's New Felt Hats, Ladles' Black Straw Hats, Flowers, Feathers, Ribbons &c. FANCY DRESS GOODS, j FRENCH MERINOS, WINCEYS, WOOL PLAIDS, 7 A':.: •■ •■"■'-■: '.„ FLANNELS. LADIES' BLACK CLOTH JACKETS. CHILDREN'S AND LADIES' WATEPRROOF TWEED MANTLES. UMBEELL AS, Etc., Etc., Etc. FURNISHING GOODS, And a complete New Stock in every Department. RUSHBROOK & BRIDGMAN Wholesale and Retail Drapers, Clothiers, &o ■ JUNCTION DRAPERY WAREHOUSE, -J7: (Opposite the Army and Navy Hotel,) |& UPPER QUEEN-BIRBET, AUCKLAND.



Tp H. LEWISSON Begs to inform his numerous frienes 'and; the public at large that having been success ful in disposing of all his old STOCK: at the recent CLEARING-OUT SALE, He has determined to RE-OPEN with an ENTIRELY NEW SELECTION OF EVERY DESCRIPTION OF JEWELLERY, WATCHES, &0., And is resolved to offer to the Public Goods of the best Quality at the LOWEST POSSIBLE PRICE. 4_T Extcnsvo Alterations are about to be made in the Business Premises, which when completed will make them second to none in the Colonies. Ihe Manufacturing Branch of the Business will be carried on as usual, and aU Repairs or Orders for Cutting and Mounting Greenstone and Quartz will be executed with promptness, !F. H. LEWISSON, OPPOSITE UNION BANK, Queen-street, Auckland. /CAUTION. OLSON'S TOMATO SAUCE. Connoisseurs pronounce this Sauce to be the BEST for general use in households, and, in con sequence of its high reputation, som* unprincipled persons have been induced to Co"ect Empty Bottles bearing the manufacturer's name stamped thereon, and pass the same off as "Olson's Universal Tomato Sauce." The proprietor has in consequence caused his TRADE MARK to be Registered under the provisions of the "Trade Marks Act, ISC6," and proceedings will be taken against such persons as may forge or counterfeit such mark. The public aro cautioned to ASK FOR OLSON'S SAUCE, and see that the name is Stamped on Bottle and stopper, aud wrapped round with his well-known label. [Established 1864. J\ STEPHENSON _ CO.'S CELEBRATED COFFEES, "EXHIBITION BRAN D," " EAGLE BRAND," "CROWN BRAN D," Are to be procured at all respectable Grocers and STOitHKEErEits throughout tho Province of Auckland. D. STEPHENSON & CO., WYNDIIAM S T R E E T, Auckland. "OETIRINC FROM THE RETAIL. J. COSGRAVE & CO. Are giving up their Retail Business In Queen-street. • A SALE of the Coods will be hold TO-MORROW, , the 14th of March, and will continuo until the ontiro Stock is disposed of. i We are now landing THIRTY THOUSAND POUNDS WORTH of DRAPERY and MEN'S CLOTHING, purchased by Mr Cosorav_ from the Fuglish and French Manufacturers, which will bo Old at UN PRECEDENTED-Y LOW TRICES. No credt will be given during tho Sale. EOTAL INSURANCE COMPANY. NOTICE OF REMOVAL. The Office of this Company has been REMOVED from No. 15, Shortland-street, to Hobson's Buildings; on tbe opposite side, immediately adjoining the Post office. . GEO. WM. JONES, Agent. Auckland, May 8,1874.