SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATrK: Tbls owning, 4.41 ; to-morrow morning. 5.10 SUN-BST : This evening, 5.52; SUN-RISK: Tc morrow morning, 6.23 MOON'S AGE: New Moon, 17th, 1.31 a.m.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. Mongol, s.s., Flamank, from Southern ports Rover, schooner, from Kast Coast ports Pretty Jane, s.s,, from Gisborne and Napier Ivanhoe, schooner, from Lyttelton Alarm, cutter, fromMangapai

DEPARTURES.

Mongol, s.s., Flamsnk, for Kandavu (JSngUsli man ' via San Francisco) Don Eicardo, barque, for Newcastle Murray, s.s., for Tauranga Gem, schooner, for Napier via Mercury Bay Fannie, cutter, for Wangapoa Taranald, s.s., for Southern ports

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Murray, s.s., for Russell and Wangarei, "Tfednesday," 5 p.m. Pretty Jane, s.s , for Gisborne. and Napier, Wednesday Lyttelton—Magellan Cloud, shortly London—Anazi, barque, early San Francisco—Allahabad!, ship, early

IMPORTS.

Per s.s. Mongol, from Southern ports, shipped ab Dunedin under bond, 3£ chests tea, 6 cases whiskey, order. Free goods : 11 sheep, H. Lee ; 5 dogs, Sir James Fer gusson. For Kandavu : 2 cases, 4 barrels meats, J. C. Ellis. For Honolulu : 1 case jams, order; and part of original cargo short landed in Auckland.—Henderson and Macfarlane, agents. Per schooner Ivanhoe, from Lyttelton: 200 sacks oats, 200 do wheat, 53 do grass seed, 144 do barley, 10 kegs butter, 12 cases cheese. —D. H. McKenzie, agent. Per schooner Rover, from Napier : 207 bags wheat, 40 bags maize, 12 bags fungus, 1 bag wool, 2 bundles skins, 5 kits and 1 bag onions, 24 pigs, 4 cases apples, 60 bags grass seed, \ ton flour, 31. pigs. —M. Niccol, agent.

EXPORTS.

Per schooner Marion Renny : 2 cases and 1 crate drugs, Kempthorne, Prosser, and Co.; 20,000 feet timber, J. S- Macfarlane. Per Mongol for Honolulu : 10Q coils rope, 1 bag grass seed, 1 case plants, 8 cases hair oil, 1 case perfumery, 2 cases perfumed spirits, 1 case woolens, 1 case drapery, Owen aud Tjrrahsm; 15 esses gum, R. Walker and- Co. . The s.s. Mongol took her departure for Kandavu ■with the outward English mail this afternoon at four o'clock. She takes the following passengers : —Mrs Yon Tempsky, Miss Ida ,Yon Tempsky, Mrs and Miss McAusland, John Haigh Stralford, George Owen, Sir William and Lady Martin, Agnes Brown, T. H. Memhertzhagen, 11. S. Tiffen, Mrs Tiffen, James Bennett, Kichard Andove, Ben?amin Casjiimore, Charles Sanders, Mrs Charles Leys and infant, Messrs Ranken and Wontner. The cutter Mercury brings 22,000 feet timber from Mercury Bay. The barque Don Ricardo sailed to-day for Newcastle in ballast. A brig has been signalled during the day. The agents of the s.s. Hero have received a telegram per s.s. Otago at the Bluff stating that the Hero sails from Melbourne for Auckland via Sydney on the 11th April. The barque Don Ricardo and the brig Jane have cleared for Newcastle in ballast. The barque Bella Mary arrived at Hobart Town from Auckland via Newcastle on the 22nd ult. She was after discharging her cargo of coals to load again for this port. The schooner Marion Renny, Captain Hughes, sailed for Levuka yesterday with a cargo of timber and sundries, as per exports. She takes as passengers Messrs Wallace, Wilson, and J. Jason. The s.s. Murray took her depart are for Tauranga on Saturday evening with cargo and several passengers. The p.s. Luna left Tauranga on Saturday evening for the South. The s.s. Mongol, Captain Mamank, ar rived in harbour from the South at half-past live yesterday evening. We are indebted to H. J. Ellis, the purser, for the following report of passag - and for delivery of files, &c. The Mongol left Dune&in on the 7th at 5 p.m.,-after remaining there only 3 hours 45 minutes ; arrived at Lyttelton next day at 10 a.m. and left again at 1 p.m. ; arrived at Wellington at 10.30 a.m. on the 9th, took in coal and sailed again at 11.30 a.m. on. the 10th. Proceeded under easy speed, arriving at Napier at 8 a.m. on the 11th ; sailed at 9 o'clock the same morning, and arrived in harbour at 5.30 pm. on Sunday. Pine weather prevailed from Dunedin to Napier. Thence thick weather and beam sea. Passed White Island at 6 a.m. Sunday, and Pretty Jane at noon, 10 miles South Cape Colville. Passengers : His Excellency Mr Dv Cane, Governor of • Tasmania, : Secretary and servant; Mr, Mrs and Miss .Peacock, Mr and Mrs J. iV7att and servant, the hon. Dr. Pollen, his Honor the Superintendent J. Williamson, Mr To!e,E.C., Mexwell, J. R. Hill, J. T. Wallace, Mr and Mrs Tiffin, Peppercorne, Russell, Dees, Ely, Crawhurst, Henare^Tom.bana>|andmxin the steerage, and forty-eight through passengers. The schooner Ivanhoe, which arrived in harbour yesterday morning after a rough voyage from Lyttelton, brings a cargo of grain as per Imports, consigned to D. H.- McKenzie. The cutter Alarm, from Mangapai, brings three passengers and a cargo of produce. The schooner Rover_ brings cargo of grain, &c, from Napier, consigned to M. NiccoL ,

TELEGEAPHIC SHIPPING.

' BLTTFP, April 12. Arrired, on Sunday, William Davie, with 289 immigrants all well, 85 days from Lon don. Nine infants died on the passage. The s.s. Otago, Captain McLean, arrived to-day at 12.30 p.m. She left Melbourne at 5.45 p.m., making a passage of four days and seventeen hours. She bringa the English mail and 250 tons of cargo, 39 saloon and 50 steeragec%vpassengers. She sails for Dunedin at 6 p.m. this evening. ~ } . Sydney, April 11. * Arrived, on the- 4th, Lauderdale, from Auckland. At Newcastle, on the 2nd, Briton, from Auckland, ittro • . - ■>■■-- Londow, April 4. Arrived :' Afbergriedie "Berian, City of Perth Ethel, J. M. Joshua, Sir Joshua Lawrence, Strathnon, Envoy, St. Leonards. v

COMMERCIAL.

I . GALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. The following aro the current calls and dividends payable in the companies named below S — X Calls. ; _ £ s. d. Date !' Jan .. \; 0 0 6 April 14 Queen of the Thames .. ..010 April 27 National Bank oJ NZ. .. 010 0 July 1 Dividends. • N.Z. lioan and Mercantile OldWhau .. .. .. _ Apr3l 15

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close a.h Under:— For Napier, per Paterson. on Saturday, 18th instant, at 11am, N.B. —The new issue of Postal Guide may now be obtained at ihis office. Price, 6d. (Signed). S. B. Bis.-, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

Craig— On April 9, at her residence, Hobson-street, Mrs Andrew Craig, of a daughter,

DEATH.

Shannon—On April 13, at St. Leonard's House, Parnell, Sydney Bhannon, son ot John Shannon, Esq., Walsall, Staffordshire, England ; aged 32 yearn —Staffordshire papers please copy.

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

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1874.

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

Judging from the influential memorial presented on last Friday to the Provincial Government respecting the purchase of tha Cambellville estate for a public park there will be considerable regret that the move ment has .not resulted in success. It is a pity that the memorialists had not been more prompt in action, as the notification of the intended cutting up of the property had been made some time ago and could easily have been countermanded in time ; and yet so late was the act of bringing the subject before the Government that deliberation upon^it could' only take place the very morning of the sale. The'proposal was brought before his Honor the Superintendent this morning, and a request was at once forwarded to the trustees requesting a postponement of the sale in order that the proa and cons of the business might be weighed, the result of which postponement would not improbably hare been satisfactory to the memori lists. But the auction-room was already crowded, and the first lot up for sals, and for nothing less than an actual offer of a price from the Government would the sale be postponed by the trustees. In the circumstances this can hardly be won dered at; after the expense gone to—which certainly would not have been allowed to the'''trustees by the Judge—the trustees would'not have been acting justly to them, selves' even if justly to the trust in dis missing such a throng of intending pur chasers unless a tangible and bona fide offer had been made. That the Government would havebeen warrantedin making any offer with out valuation and consideration, and on the spur of the moment, will not be argued by anyone. Wa do not know who may have had charge of this movement which evoked so general sympathy, but certainly they have mismanaged the business, aad have only them selves to thank for non-success. One would have thought that a project which received the signatures of such an unusual number of unusually influential citizens should have excited some little agitation ; but the whole thing has been as quiet as if it had been done in a corner. We do not like bluster in the getting up o public movements, but if this matter Lad been surrounded with a little more agitation it would not,have met with such a fate. The method was well meant]. though lacking in judgment. . '

The Right Rev. Dr Cowie held a cbnfirma-. tion service yesterday in the interesting little Church of St. Mark's, Remuetfa. : The church was well attended on the occasion, and a number of young persons of both sexes were confirmed.

The upholsterers and cabinet-makers of Auckland will hold their adjourned meeting this evening, at the Co mmercial Hotel, at half-past seven, when important business in connection with the society will be in troduced.

The Royal Arch Chapter of Freemasons' meeting will be held this evening in the Masonic Hotel, at half past seven o'clock.

The Harbinger of Peace Lodge o£ (xood Templars will hold their first open lodge meeting this evening at the Cook-street Christian's Meeting House. Tea will bo pro vided at half-past six, after which recitations will be given by members and by men of Her Majesty's ship Blanche ; addresses will also be given by several of the leaders of the order.

The members or the. Auckland Shipwright's Protection Society will hold their usual fort nightly meeting this evening in the Albert street Temperance Hall at half-past seven o'clock. The carpenters and joiners will also hold their third quarterly meeting this evening at eight o'clock, at the Young Men's Christian Association, Weliesley-street*

All persons capable of reading, save the dummies of society, set a certain value upon the newspapers, but it is doubtful whether any single individual realises its full value and many uses. People seldom think of the various purposes to which the Evening Star for example is put after they have care fully conned the shipping intelligence, read the sweet paragraphs and Court reports, and extracted all the literary and sustaining marrow out of it. We know one young lady who uses the Star to swell out her dress im prover, which not only aaaists materially in swelling out this feminine appendage, but enables her to carry wifch her a weight of in telligence. The Star, as conducive to domestic happiness, has not we think received its due attention. That it is sometimes a source of strife must be admitted, for so soon as " evening shades prevail " there is often a family scramble as to who shall be first in the reading of it. Again, paterfamilias is apt to become so absorbed in its contents — which is quite natural to an intelligent mind —that he lingers too long over the evening meal, and is negligent, for a time, of those social amenities which lend a charm even to the labourer's home ; and the anxious wife complains that while he has fcho paper there is no getting a word out of him. But if he reads aloud there is no complaining, for the family then can listen to the news of the day. The woman also should not neglect the news paper, but in such leisure moments as she may have in the course of the day she should make herself acquainted with current events, which knowledge will tend to strengthen her intellect, and lead to much cosy chat in intervals between labour and rest. Hence the paper rightly used may become the wife's best friend, and save her from idle gossip, which sometimes leads to quarrels with her neighbours and results in an application to Mr Cunningham, at the High-street Police Court. The Star, moreover, when thoroughly read may serve successfully for meaner pur poses. It may be used in cutting out ladies' patterns of sundry little articles of wearing apparel and unconsidered small things which the thought of the master of the household overlooks, and which indeed "is not his business." We need not enumerate the hun dred after-uses of a newspaper, as tho reader will readily add examples from his or her daily experience, and will see at once that while the community owes muoh to the direct it is equally indebted to tho indirect uses of the daily newspaper.

The Collier Company closed its engagement on Saturday evening at the Prince of Wales Theatre with the steamboat act of tho "Octoroon" and other pieces interspersed with songs. There was a good attendance, and the performances were well received.

To the Editor : Sir, —Having bad occasion to accompany a younj* lady to the opening of Mr Brown's singing class in Cook-street Hall, the stench arising from the west sido was so unbearable that another gentleman and I, who we*fe standing outside, had to remove from the scene, and I take this opportunity, through the medium of your paper to call the attention of the authorities to its existence.—Yours, etc., J. H.

A miner's wife called upon a bookseller in Queen-street recently and asked for a dic tionary for her son, Dick. She wished. for one by the famous Dr Johnson, which was accordingly handed to her. In a few days after she returned with the book, and re marked that it was a poor thing of a book; and full of blunders. She had looked for "roomatics" in vain; neither she nor Dick could find the word. They had also searched for "nat" and "flemmatick," with the same result. The patient bookseller pointed out the words, but she still declined to take the book, as Dr Johnson spelled his words in sich au outlandish way. She took in ex change the ."Surprising adventures of Buffalo Bill," for the purpose of improving Dick's mind.

We understand' that an entertainment will be given by the members of the Wellesley street Mutual Improvement Society to-mor row evening. This society is the oldest one of the class at present existing in Auckland, having been established in 18G8, and we would urge upoD pur readers the advisability of supporting such an institution by attend ing in full force at the Wellesley-street-Bap tist schoolroom, at half-past seven to-morrow evening. The programme" is of a varied character, comprising speeches, readings, re citations, and music, together with refresh ments. The choir, under the leadership of Mr Cooper, will be ably accompanied by Mr Lambert, and will render several gleea, songs, etc. 'jJtIH'TOJ.O v.-'.v'■ ■''■'..

Mr.F. H. Troup intimates his thanks to the supporters of Franklin' district for their support in the late ccintfi.st,,, and hopes at some future time to woo their suffrage's; The position Mr. Troup obtained on the list is very flattering, and doubtless had lie an nounced his candidature earlier would have been returned at the head of the poll.

; The Republic of Ecuador has been pledged by. its Congress, acting upon a recommenda tion Jfrom the President,, to pay to the Pope one-tenth of the entire revenues of the country during the time —expected to be brief—that he is wrongfully deprived, as it is alleged, of the patrimony of St. Peter. The.-sum of ten thousand dollars has been deposited already in the treasury of the Pro vince of Quito, to await the order of the Papal Government, and the full sum per centage will be, forwarded aa soon as. the. amount of the revenues can be ascertained.

Mr Wm. Horace Bent, the very popular lecturer of Batchelder's Panorama, and clever negro delineator, proceeds by the Mongol to America, where he intends to look out for novelties to introduce to the colony.

An offer has been by a. gentleman in Hawke'a Bay to lend a sum of £300 at 7 per cent* towards the fund- required^ f or tne erection of a building for the Episcopalian body in^Gieborne.

A meeting will be held this evening by the residents of the North Shore at the Masonic hotel, for the purpose of taking into con sideration the matter of the Devonport wharf.

Our London correspondent thus writes of Webb's steamers formerly employed on the San Francisco line :—ln turning over a file of the San Francisco Bulletins the other day I came across a paragraph about those old steamers which used to do the mail service under the Webb contract. It is rather a curious one, because it corroborates what many people who had the best right to know and judge always said of those vessels. The Government paper always stuck up for the reputation of Webb's boats, and were dread fully indignant at the irreverent way in which the free journals spoke of them; indeed, if lam not very much mistaken, some of them went very far to wards denying the truth of what appeared in some of the papers about the utter con demnation of these boats for such a service by the American Senate. Well !Of course, the affair being " bust up," tho Yanks have ho longer any motive for keeping up the deception, and this is what the San Francisco paper in question has said—" The company has, however, a nice little elephant on its hands in the shape of the four steamers of the Webb line, purchased by ex-President Stodkwelli for the shvig slim of 800,000 dollars, the Dakotah, Nebraska. California, and Moses Taylor. These vessels are not of tho slightest use to the company, and it is doubtful if they would bring 20,000 dollars a-piece if put upon the market. One of this same lot, the Nevada, is no\y in service, but only after an outlay of 180,4)00 dollars had been incurred to make her seaworthy. As for the others they are past profitable repair, and could not in their present condition obtain a certificate from the United States Inspector of Hulls. The Moses Taylor is fast to her buoy in the bay, the others are safely moored at Mare Island." How Webb must have chuckied over his New Zealand bargain. He must have made a pot oh it.

The cricketing season may be said to have closed in the Domain on Saturday last with the wind-up match between the Brighton and Victoria Cricket Clubs : Brighton, 42 ; Victoria, 48. The Victorians therefore were the winners by six runs. The Auckland cricketers have done exceedingly well this season, and have shewn to the satisfaction of the public that they are worthy, in more re spects than one, of the name and fame of their forefathers.

Sermons were preached yesterday at all the city churches in favour of the home mission, but with what pecuniary success wo have not yet ascertained. The Rev. Dr. Maunsell preached at, All Saints', the Rev Mr Mitchell at St. Paul's, and the Rev. C. M. Nelson at St. Matthew's in the morning. At the close of the morning service at St. Matthew's the Rev. Mr. Nelson pave a succinct and excel lent account of the object of the mission, which is chiefly to supply clergymen with the means of living in thinly populated dis tricts where the settlers (who may be re garded aa the pioneers of our prosperity) find it wholly impossible out of their limited means to provide a sufficiency of incoma for the maintenance of their ministers.

Another narrow escape from poisoning by phosphorous occurred a few days ago. A child 1G months old had obtained possession of a "box of vestas, and when discovered had chewed off .and swallowed about a dozen of them. A strong emetic was administered, and vomiting took place within half an hour from the time that the poison was taken. Doses of magnesia were likewise given every fifteen minutes for an hour and a half, afterwards another emetic producing further vomiting was given. " Abstinence from all substances of a fatty nature for at leayt Vivo days is enjoined. Five days have now elapsed, and the child (a fine healthy boy) is now considered nearly free from danger, but yet such is the insidious deadly nature of this poison that after seven days symptoms may declare themselves which will, in spite of every antidote, have fatal results Imagine the condition of a child's parents under such circumstances. The watching, waiting, and misorablo anxiety suspended for six or sovendays.thechildunconsciously playingand enjoying itseif as usual, perhaps so the thoughts will run to become a lifeless lump of clay in the course of the next twenty-four hours. No one can realise the agony of such a suspense except those who have expe rienced it, and could it be realised parents would nover allow such risks to be -ran in keeping such a deadly poison in their hou3e s in a common match-box.

g&The English mail via Suez arrived at the Bluff at noon yesterday, by the s.s. Otago. It will in all probability be forwarded from Dunedin by the s.s. Wellington, which is advertised to leave that port to-morrow, and to arrive in the Manukau on the 22nd inst., that is on Wednesday week.

It is somewhat of a reflection upon the skill and ingenuity of the craftsmen of this city that no effectual plan has been hit upon for lighting the faces of the town clock in the Insurance Buildings. The City Council some time back incurred the necessary ex pense of laying on the gas for that special purpose, and the task of lighting, apparentlj without success, was undertaken by Mr Jen kins. We believe that the failure lay in the difficulty of procuring sufficient reflective power. • Surely what has been done with ease in Melbourne and Sydney might be done equally well in Auckland, and we feel assured the City Council would readily grant permission to any tradesman who has suf ficient spirit to essay a task which has been abandoned by unskilled hands, and who would thus confer a benefit on the com munity. To the Editor : Sir,—My answer to T. B. Hannpiord's of Saturday is that he again de liberately lies in stating that it is reported in the; Templar's Standard of the 4th instant that he was expelled from the Fraternal Home) Lodge. Such is not in its issue. He can (but he dare not expose his falsehoods) by applying at the Fraternal Home Lodge meeting to-morrow night prove he is skill one ot the order of 1.0. G.T. As to the charge he lays at my door I treat them with the contempt they deserve, being quite will ing to let the public decide how much if any of it is true. —I have, &c, 0. S. Ellis.

An enterprising tradesman, who has made a name and secured a position for an impor tant colonial manufacture, leaves our city to-day, and we are solry for it. With char acteristic Auckland self-satisfaction we flat ter ourseivesffchat Auckland is to become the great manufacturing centre of New Zealand ; yet such- men as Mr F. H. Lewisson find it profitable to leave this, city for Wellington. We wish him. every success notwith standing, and trust he will impress upon the fair dames of the Empire City the truth that there is a beauty in colonial-made jewellery apart from its appearance or it 3 sterling value and durability—a beauty that arises from the thought that every lady who wears it aids in supporting our own workmen, and in; building up a branch of trade which will, we trust, in the future attain important proportions. Mr Lewisson has been liberal in his subscriptions to charities, his gifts of cups to races, and aid to churches, and hag in other ways fulfilled his part aa a useful citizen, and he will be as much missed from the business circle centreing in Queen-street as any other tradesman, we could name.

Mr J. Brown notifies by advertisement that after Friday next new members will not be peimitted to join his singing class. Over eighty persons were present last ± riaay, and the class bids fair to be a great success.

We are indebted to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company for the following copy of a telegram received by above Company, dated London, April 1, 1874:— Wool : Market unchanged, and there is a fair trade demand. Preserved Meats rivals during the past month, have been 30,000 cases. The demand is decreasing ana stocks are accumulating. Wheat : Adelaide is worth 67s per 496 lbs. Market is quiet. The weather is favourable for the crop here. New Zealand Hemp : Market quiet. Kauri Gum : 30,000 casee have arrived during tne past four weeks. Leather: Trade demand quiet. The following are the amounts of tenders sent iv for- the construction of the Mercer portion of the Waikato railway :— Mt ' 5" dg«r. £33,507 17s Gd; Mr Taylor, £33,450 ; Mr Kir by, £31,513 4s 6d; Mr Beetham, £34 300 •Mr E. Marten, £26,500. We understand that Mr W. Kirby is the success ful tenderer. ~ A deserted fair one of the name of bophia, Horsington advertises at the Greymoutn that unless her husband (named Alfred), communicates with her within three months she intends to get married. The last rehearsal but one prior to the the performance of Israel in Egypt by the Choral Society takes place to-morrow night. The concert comes off on Monday next, and will, we believe, be a most complete and finished performance.

Detective Jeffrey has returned from Helens ville, whither he had proceeded to inquire into a row that was reported to be going on at the the Kaipara Hotel. It appears that a party of gam diggers came down and broke m the hotel, creating a drunken disturbance which lasted for two days. Detective Jeffrey arrested one, a man named McGoldricb, on a charge of destroying property belonging to the proprietor of the hotel, and for using obscene language. The man was brought to Auckland fpr trial.

A company of Ethiopian serenaders will open at the JPrince of., Wales Theatre on Wednesday nig ht

DISTRICT COURT.—This Day.

(Before His Honor Thos. Beckham, Esq., R.M., and a special jury.) JUCDMEXTS FOE PLAINTIFFS. Kirby v. Sampson. Goods, £04 7s 10d.— Vaile v. Kirkwood. Commission, £46 ss. (In this case judgment was given for £40 and costs.) H. AND P. GIBBONS V. CITY COUNCIL. _ This was a claim for £50, brought by plain tiffs against the City Council for compensa tion for the death of a horse by falling over the embankment in Cook-street, on 20th December last. The particulars of the acci dent are well known, and the subject has come up several times in the City Council. Mr. Rees and Mr. Joy appeared for the plaintiffs, who are grocera in Wellesley street, and Mr. H. Lusk represented the Corporation. The case was tried before a jury of lour householders empanelled specially. The first witness called was Frank Brodie, Town Clerk, who deposed to know ing the spot where the accident took place. There had been no other, complaints of the place being dangerous. The embankment was made as wide as possible to make it in terms of the contiact. Two letters put in and read were the only correspondence that passed between himself and the plaintiffs' solicitor. Park Gibbons, one of the plaintiffs, was examined and crocs-examined at great length mainly on the items which went to make up the amount claimed. He paid £20 for the horse, which was hired from Mr Quick; £14 waa claimed for loss of time and injury to business through the accident. The rest of the amount was made up veterinary surgeon'B bill, lowyers' fees, &c. The embankment where the accident happened waa only eight feet wide, and in his opinion very unsafe. At the conclusion of this witness's evidence the Court adjourned for an hour.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before P. A. Philips, Esq., R.M.) • DRUNKENNESS. \ James Lycett, James Slode, James, Gold smith, and James Stewart, alias Butterworth, were convicted of this offence and punished in the usual way. THE SOCIAL EVIL. Susan Deneen, a good-looking girl, was charged with a breach of the Vagrant Act by having no visible or lawful means of sub sistence. On j the prisoner promising to get some honest employment she was set at liberty. ANOTHER UNFORTUNATE. Harriett Pierce, who appeared with one eye clothed in deep mourning, appeared to answer a similar charge. - Not being able to do so satisfactorily, and previous convictions having been recorded against her, his Worship sentenced her to one months imprisonment. A LAZY SKULK. • Wm. SkeUy, a dissolute looking but able bodied manf was charged with living in idle ness, and as a.vagrant. Mr Inspector Broham said that prisoner lived upon the proceeds of the last prisoner's prostitution. He was well-known to the police, and he should ask for|a remand. Remanded till to-morrow. This prisoner, with Pierce and Deneen, were all concerned in a disreputable row in Chapel-atreet on Saturday night. A DOUBTFUL CASE. Jane Ryan, an old offender, was charged with living an idle good-for-nothing; life, con trary to law. Defendant pleaded she was in regular work, and was remanded till to-morrow to bring evidence to prove it. This prisoner, with the drunkard Slaie, was taken into custody on Saturday while creating a dis turbance in Freeman s Bay. A NICE YOUNG LADY. Dora Jones, a plump, fashionably-dressed "nymph of the pave," was charged with shying a brick at Harriett Pierce and giving her a black eye. _. The prosecutrix who was the woman sen tenced: to a month's imprisonment, said she didfbot wishtopress the charge. Dora smiled and said she was very glad to hear it, for although she admitted' having thrown the brick, yet really Harriett's eon-, duct was so bad that— \ac His Worship unceremoniously ordered the defendant to shut up, much to her astonish ment and indignation. It was lucky for her that the charge had been withdrawn, and the best thing she could do was to be off. Defendant again smiled in the sweetest manner, and dropping a courtesy to the Bench and passing her hand to Mrs Pierce left the Court. A SAD SPECTACLE. Four lunatics were sent to the Asylum on the recommendation of Drs. Ellis and Lee, who certified to their demented condition. . One poor fellow named Kirk is under the impression that the Maoris are going to murder him, and screams violently at inter vals. It is not yet known what is the cause of madness in this case. In another case one of the doctors reports as follows:—" la answer to all queatioaa he

commenced singing portions of the Roman Catholic service. When spoken to in Eng lish or French the result was the same. A few words in Italian seemed to arrest his attention for a moment. Then he laughed loudly, and re commenced his chants. He speaks Maori, and has expressed a fear that some one is about to kill him. In the third patient's case delirium tremens is unmistakably apparent. The mania^of the fourth is an extraordinary one. He be lieves himself to be the Son of God. He created a great disturbance in St. Paul's Church yesterday evening, and had to be re moved from the church.

SUPREME COURT—CRIMINAL SITTINGS.

This Day. (Before His Honor Sir George A. Amey, Knight, Chief Justice.) His Honor took his seat at ten o'clock. UTTERING WITH INTEKT. Hugh McCormack, a young man, aged 21, ■was arraigned upon an indictment charging him with uttering a medal in the form and color of a sovereign at the Auckland Hotel on the 21st February last with intent to defraud Colin Mclntosh. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Mr. Brookfield opened the case on the part of the Crown, and Mr. Hesketh de fended the prisoner. Colin Mclntosh, a bairnan, deposed that on the night of Saturday, February 21st, the prisoner came into the High-street bar of the Auckland Hotel; it was near eleven o'clock, and he remained there about twenty minutes. Prisoner called for something to drink. He thought as far as he could recollect that he called for a glass of ale, for which he tendered a coin which witness accepted as a sovereign, it being of the form, and color thereof. He gave prisoner as "change sev en half-crowns and a florin. Mr. Boulter col lected the cash a little after eleven o'clock in his absence, and discovered the medal which I had received of prisoner as a sovereign. The coin produced is the one referred to, stamped on one side with the words "Victoria Reginae," and on the other with the figure of a man on horseback and the words "To Hanover," date 1837. He should not possibly have received the coin without detection from a stranger, but witness and prisoner were intimate friends accustomed to take their drops together. _ Cross-examined by Mr Hesketh : He had known the prisoner nearly two years, and never had any reason to suspect that he was other than a respectable young man. He was not in the habit of drinking to excess. He did not know until the following Sunday that he had taken a medal for a sovereign, nor Should he have known that he had done so had Mr Boulter not drawn his attention Clara Boulter, daughter of the landlord of the Auckland Hotel, deposed that she re membered Mclntosh leaving the bar on the niffu* in question, when she went to mind it, bift\in f-'stomers came in; the house was Xir Bha tt' fl not Put any coin under the gksswhere^ -ual to place the gold for did any other P«gf m'?S^Ssffi£> Joseph Boulter, father o. , + laf n!fl deposed that when his dang*™' ,f ia f JJ® counterfeit beside him on the nlgJ™ ,?i T~ 21st he noticed at once that it was fieW™ 118 ---and rolled it up in a piece of paper. Michael Lynch was next examined, anu deposed that he was proprietor of the Clanricarde Hotel, Albert-street, and that on Monday, the 23rd of February, prisoner called at his house, asked for a nobbier of brandy, and tendered a medal as a sovereign in payment for the same. Witness imme diately noticed the supposed coin, and asked prisoner where he got it from, when he replied that he got it in chauge on T;he previous Saturday night. He then pulled out some silver, when witness saw another of the coins among the silver. Witness ob tained the two from him, and handed them to Detective Ternahan. Before he gave in formation to the police prisoner offered witness a pound to hush up the matter, and say nothing about it. Prisoner was not drunk, but appeared as if he had been drinking. Lizzie McKearney, jgmaid of all work, deposed that in February last she was in the service of Mr. Morris Marks in Hobson street, and that on Sunday, the 16th February, she gave to prisoner three coins, which she received with others from Montagu Maxks. Witness and prisoner ware on very intimate terms ; she had known him over three' years ; she did not remember telling him not to pass them, but she told him they were not sovereigns. William Spain, assayer of the Sank of New Zealand, deposed that at the request of Detective Ternahan he tested the coins with acid, and found them composed of base metal, principally copper. Robert Ternahan then gave evidence as to apprehending the prisoner on the charge of uttering base coin, jwhen prisoner replied that he was drunk, "or he should not have done it. He took him to the station and searched his pockets. This being the cace for the prosecution, Messrs. Steele, Waddsll, andßurton(bakers), appeared to testify in favour of prisoner's character, also Mr Caleb Woad, butcher. Mr. Hosketh then addressed the jury, and made a very forcible defence for the prisoner. His Honor then summed up the evidence before the Courts with his usual care, and referred to the respectability of the gentle men who had spoken to the young man's previous good character. The jury then retired to consider their verdict, and found him guilty of uttering but not with intent to defraud. His Honor to the Foreman : You mean, Not guilty ? '. • Yes, your Honor. The prisoner was then discharged, and the Court adjourned until ten o'clock to-morrow morning.

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

BLUFF. Yesterday. The! s.s. Otago, Captain McLean, arrived at thefßluff at 12.30 p.m.* on the 12th. She left Melbourne at 5.45 p.m. on the 7th. She brings the English mail and 250 tons of cargo, 'also 39 saloon and 50 steerage-passen gers. ; . ./]■- Lonflon, April 4.—New Zealand hemp has been sold at from .£l9:to £27.—A baronetcy has bqen conferred dn: General Wolseley, with the additional distinctions of X.C.8., G.C.M.G. A pension has also been granted to him, and .to-night he will receive the 'thanks' of both Houses'of Parliament for his services.-—Two. Erenck, Republican deputies have been returned for the departments of Gironde and Haute Marne — Marshal Serrano has carried and still retains the first Carlist line. An attack on the second line was un successful.—Bismarck threatens to resign un less the .Reichstag vote the army standard at 401,000 inen'.—Theßritishrevenuefortheyear was seventy-six and a-half millions, exceeding the estimate by two millions and three quarters.—Mr Disraeli has promised to con sider the suggestion that the burial of the re mains of Dr. Livingstone be in Westminister Abbey at the public expense. —The Archbishop of Cologne has been arrested. —A great lock out of agricultural labourers in the Eastern odunties has taken place.—The wool market is quiet. Prices continue firm at the Liver pool salea prices,-and Id lower.—Wheat is firmer. The home deliveries are small,

Adelaide wheat is selling at 6S~tTßr' 496 lba. The money market isactrT s**'5**' in demand. The bank rate of AiscoTmt per cent. w%Cn

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

(Per Albion, at the Bluff.) Melbourne, Tuesday.—The second V.n of elections resulted in the unopposed »f of four members, including the Sol;?? 1" General. Hartley Williams, barrister of Judge Williams, opposes the Attorn* General with pros^-icts of success % Treasurer's retura is also doubtfui ny general impression is that the Miristryj: not last, for even if it obtain a majoriw the Constitutional, it will be so small if be worthl-".—The barque Eclipse, Wu! with coals from Newcastle to Melbourne i been totally wrecked on the GippgW Coast. She wrs commanded by Capta; n Eldridge. Nine lives were lost and or'v one lad say- i after being four bouts n the water. Only two bodies were recovered. None of the v eck hr"<» been seen.

Sydney, Ap:"\ 7.—The Randwick Autumn race mcetin" began yesterday. The W. was a SDlencdd race. Tait's Sylva colt and Rose d'amour first and second, M'th Fife, yattenden tr;rd, a head behind the Governor's colt. Kinosboroiigh won the Champa^ Stakes, and Myrtle the DoncasterHandican —An agent of Siemen Brothers has buS-' mitted to the Government an offer to lay a cable to New Zealand.—The representative of the Torres Straits mail line of steamers hrs, it is repo: ted, offered to make Sydney the peiinanent teijnnus if subsidised,-:^ a special meeting of the Chamber of Com merce it was resolved to urge the necessity* of constructing another large dock here.

The escape of Rochefort and others haa ' caused surprise in France, and commotion in New Caledonia. It appears that some of the party were treated at Duer's Peninsula and other^at Noumea. Rochefort and others were allowed to go on a fishing excursion, and went on board the barque P.C.E. They re mained stowed in the lazarette until clear of land, when they discovered themselves. Ko doubt the whole affair was well planned although the captain of the barque denfes all knowledge of the escape. The Communists intend to proceed to England immediately, A correspondence is being carried on between Rechefort, Grousset and the French Consul at Sydney, The latter views them as escaped convicts, and Grousset challenges him to demand their extradition.

Brisbane, April 7.—The Treasurer's budget was submitted. The general tendency of the tariff is protective, ad valorem duties to b« struck out where practicable. Thedutiea on New Zealand flax will* be abolished.— Large numbers of persons are arriving)*?the Endeavour River. Adelaide, April 7. —Boothey's' wheat sta tistics show a yield of 26 bushels and 521bs to the acre. There will probably be an ex port of 95.000 tons.—The revenue for the quarter was £266,000.—Mrs Crocker, the wife of a clerk to Simpson, coal merchant, was killed by a train hist night at Port Ade laide, whilst crossing the line in a wag gonette. Her husband was driving, and the was endeavouring to cross before' the train came up, when the back of the vehicle in which she was sitting was caught by the engine.

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Carthagena has"faW n $ last ', oneofthl most exbmmJT f ■**" ~«f- Spanish history. That • f. ,; escaped convicts and demagogsesJ™,': have been able to have gfixT^f and held against regular forces ™ so many months a fortified town seems almost incredible. But they not only held the place, butield it with credit, and fought an well and as orderly as their country-1 men against whom they were pitted. Amongst • their leaders was one Petei^ an Englishman, and a great ruffian, who was very instru mental in keeping up the fighting blood of the rebels. When the town was taien the1 rebel leaders and their followers made offic the ironclads which they had held during the siege, and with which they had defied the Spanish navy, and in spite .of; the Spanish fleet which pretended, to block ade the place, steamed off to Gran, in Algeria^ ■ where they gave themselves up to theFretich authorities* ■ Everyone is disgusted at tne pusillanimity- exhibited by the Spamsh' sea forces throughout the entire affair. They will never be able to regain their reputation < as a seafaririg.race. The consequence of «to fciking of Carthagena has been *hat *o»™r'0 »™r' additional troops have been sefat hberty, ; t and havebeen marched to the aid of Mononea , against the Carlists. These last have teea making some progress lately, but therei aw now whispers of a compromise and a dmaon of the country between the rivals for tne ■ throne. This is improbable.

THE NOKWICH UNION DIVIDEND. . What an astounding dividend the Nomfe>i Union Company has declared. They mus« be in a wonderfully flourishing condition job now. A twenty pounds dividend^ on eacn share of £30 paid up. It reads '&*«»* those wonderful mines of ypursat thej-name* , in the old days. REMOVAL 0]? NAPOLEON'S KEM-AINS' , At Chiselhursf the" other day the curious and interesting ceremony of the removal^ the remains of the late Emperor Napoleon from their temporary resting place to^ttte . mausoleum, aad the deposit of the coffin a the stone sarcophagus took place- coffin has hitherto rested in a small mortuary chapel, and the mausoleum has been erecwu. by the widowed Empress, and forms » po'' tion of the church. On the-floor ««£ & sarcophagus, which is the gift of the «ueen. It is very massive and handsome, andisw . polished Aberdeen granite, its onlyadonung being a large cross in ~ relief on W^. It was on the anniversary^ day of the deaw of the Third Napoleon that the ceremony took place. There was a large muswi^.,, Bonapartes. Colonel tferomc^ n»C Prince Louis Murat, Prince Charles^ parte, ,Prince Lucien Murat, **tttfkp?* ■ LucieV Bonaparte were all in attendee , upon the Empress Eugenic and;^S of , Imperial. "Then ther<f were a ™fWT ,^ distinguished Imperialists V™ sfl f: r d Francl, and Lord and Lady Sydney, «| Cowley, and other English noblemen *.....• also there. ■' There'was High Mass an^ Requiem Service in the chaPe^j fic ent . coffin being covered" with a purple velvet pall - wiw h Imperial Crown and Bees in g°W,,on - was laid a huge bouquet of violets. thej;6ffin was deposited^-the.sar?ogg the Empress aUd Prince Imperial spruv _ with holy water. The:mausoleum'a.*^ chapel 24 by 12 feet. The interior JMJ^ y with Caen stone, so that the Empero^^ within Pi-ench waUs. The sarcopy to/ identical in design with that » g gnt . receive the remains of the Dnchess^oi fr In its front is ai- amaU brass setting forth that "this sarcoph^ ?f offered to the Empress Eugenic as » 187 3," affectionate sympathy by Victoria^..

IMS WMMW& ifAl, MONDAY Afrßtb IS^M



1150,000 r™™S FOR SALE, AT MY YARDS, GOVERNMENT WHAEP, ONEHTTKK3A. I \ -, >: . ; JAMES W. WALLER, i **.



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