SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

mornP* WATEK: This evening, 4.35 ; to-morrc* SUK-SKT: This evening, 6.35; BUN-BISE: To morrow mornlnsr, 5.49 MOON'S AGE : Fifth day of first quarter

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS

DEPARTURES.

opeeuweu, Keicn, ior itussen

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Hindoston, ship, loading Tartar, for Southern ports, about Ist proximo Moncnl. s s, for Sydney sth instant Mary Melville, schooner, for Mongonui, shortly

VESSELS EXPECTED.

-.«., &u », o a, Hum uuuiuci ii jjui ljs, oiu iuai>aui victoria, ss, from Sydney, early Tartar, s.s., from Kandavu, with Pacific Mail, early Star of the South, s s., from Fiji, early Albion, bri?, from Newcastle, early Anazi, barque, from London. Sailed October 31 Empreza, barque, from Liverpool. Sailed October 15 Hylton Castle, barque, from London Cjuecn of the Age, ship, from London Sailed Nov. 1

The schooner Mary Webster from the Mamikau arrived at Te Kopuru on Wednes day last. The barques Margarita and Amateur are both loading timber at Te Kopuru. The schooner Fiery Cross is discharging coals at Kaihu wharf. ° ° The ( barque Bella Mary, which has been lying in Eangitoto Channel nearly a week, took her final departure for Newcastle with the change of wind yesterday. The schooner Effie Meik'le has been pur chased by Dr Wright, of Parnell Captain Kennedy, of the Julius Vogel, will take command, and the vessel will be run in the East Coast trade. The repairs to the schooner Dauntless are now nearly completed. Mr. Niccol informs that the vessel will be able to resume her sea trips in a few days. The main T of the wharf is being overlaid with coal tar and sand. This will give the horses employed on the wharf a firm footing, and will be instrumental in preserving the timber. "" The schooner Excelsior, Captain Joiner, has cleared out in ballast for Kaipara. _ The schooner G-olden Isle has had her in juries repaired. She cleared out this after noon for ■•Russell. . T£ e schooner Mary Melville has cleared at the Customs for Mongonui in ballast. #?The barque Tien Tsin hauled alongside the wharf this morning to discharge her cargo.

COMMERCIAL.

At Mr E,. Arthur's poultry sale in the market to-dsy there was a good supply of fowls and ducks, which were sold at fair P™es-, Fowls; Is Sd to 2s 6d ; ducks, Is 3d to2s 3d; geese, 2s 9d to 3s 3d • turkeys, 2s <ul to 3s Gd. Two goats were sold at 10s each, and two retriever dogs at 2s 6d.

CALL AND DIVIDEND LIST. Calls.

SSKiSSSi ::SS« .■ jg? 1 Dividends. Sons of Freedom .. ..100 Feb 18

BIRTHS.

Ireland—On Februaiy 27, at St. Stephen's Road, Mrs Barton Ireland, of a s->n WooLLER-On the 2Cth instant, at York-street, Newton, the wife of George "VVooller, of a son Flood—On the 24th instant, at Brighton, Parnell, the wife of W. Flood, Esq., H.N., of a son.

DEATH.

Flood—On the 2Gth instant, of convulsions, at Brighten, Parnell, Calvert, infant son of William and Jane Flood.

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

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1874.

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

The compliment paid to the Honorable the Premier last night was a success. The large assemblage well represented the various in terests in the city and every shade of poli tical opinion. That such a cordial reception of Mr Vogel was the endorsement of his entire principles and policy will not be as serted. There were those there who do not approve of his policy, and more still who do not approve of the manner in which that policy has been applied to this province. But we think there were none there who did not cordially unite in rendering tribute to the bold, compre hensive and progressive views and the sterling ability of one who is un questionably the foremost man in New Zealand. There may be something selfish in such banquettings, and they may, to a large extent owe their origin to that form of gratitude which has been well described as "a lively sense of favors to come;" neverthe less such honor has been well won by Mr Vogel, and no one but a churl need experience any humiliation in takingpavt insuchatribute to a man who stands the head and shoulders above his fellows. To Mr Vogel the colony owes theconception of a scheme for advancing the country the most daring, the most statesmanlike, and the most symmetrical that has ever been presented in this hemisphere. That in our experience of its application it has lost its symmetry and consequent strength, is not the fault of the original conception, but is owing perhaps to those evil influences and tendencies which appear inseparable from free institutions. That after all it may effect the great objects ori ginally intended we are inclined to be lieve ; and right cordially do we unite in rendering honor to its author, and in express ing; 'the wish that in its ultimate results of good the great colonization policy may be to Mr Vogel a " monumentum cereperennins."

While defending the administration of the scheme of colonization last night Mr Vogel perhaps unwittingly but certainly very can didly revealed thevery secret of its weakness. He excused the delay in the progress of public works by the inadequate supply of labour, and the danger of deranging the labour market. But why has there been an inade quate supply of labour ? why has there been any danger of deranging the relations of labor and. its employer ? It is because there has been a divorce between the two great elements in the original policy which should have been indissolubly united. It is because expenditure on public works has been pro ceeding which, without the influx of addi tional colonists to share the burthen, mv , result in disastrous consequences. Ie is because the immigration portioa of the scheme has been wholly mismanaged. It is because a man has been kept at his post in London who is wholly nn. fitted for the active duties of an immigration agent. It is because, as rumour hath it, Ministers have, been afraid to grapple with the difficulty which would be caused by the recall of Dr. Featherston and his resumption of a seat in the House of Representatives. It is because of this great dread that the immigration policy of the Government has been suffered to remain a gigantic failure. It is because of this that immigrants have been coming to our shores in driblets, and of such a kind, so far as Auckland is concerned, that with some exceptions their absence would be better than their presence. It is because of this that the dangeris, if danger there may be, of the labour market being deranged by the active prose cution of the public works scheme. Mr. Vogel may effectively excuse the failure of public works by the failure of immigration, but it appears to us that,in so far as the defence of his administration of the coloni zation policy' is concerned he is tearing down with the one hand what he is building up with the other.

Mr. Vogel has deservedly the reputation of being an. astute politician and an able tactician. And he makes admissions at times that at first sight seem unwise, but which really disarm hostility. Of such sort were his statements last night re specting his having misunderstood public feeling in Auckland on several questions of ' local but very great interest. He enumerated several instances, and we could enumerate many more in which, to his surprise, he found himself in direct antagonism with almost all our local representatives. In the various efforts after a Waterworks enactment he encountered an opposition which he does not even yet appear to understand. Every

Auckland man opposed him, and yet Auckland wants water. So it was in the case of the Auckland Improvement Commissioners' Acfc. He admits that he stood almost alone in his opposition to this; and when last night he defended his action the indications afforded (to which weneed not further refer) were such as to show on how dangerous ground he was treading, and in what direction local feeling lay. And so it was in relation to the Timber Floatage Act. Mr Vogel spoke of the exceeding virulence of the opposition to this measure iv Parlia ment, but he very prudently took prompt knowledge of the rising feelings last night, and in a very few sentences dismissed the subject. We mean all respect to Mr Vogel; but may he not learn from this that he has been advised by those who have simply mis led him as to local opinions. The fact is—

and we say it with all respect, but with en tire fearlessness—that Mr Vogel (and every one knows this and speaks of it) has listened too much to the gang that frequent the gambling-hell in Princes-street. They tell him such and such is public opinion, and such and such is sure to meet with popular approval. Men they are who have no sympathies in common with the people, and whose espousal of any cause damns that cause in as far as it h capable of being damned. We are sorry to write so plainly ; but we are in the place where we are com

manded of conscience to speak the truth. The mind of Mr Vogel is

essentially a mind of popular sym pathies. Corning directly in contact with the people Mr Vogel would bo esteemed and liked as his ability is reverenced ; and he could build for himself a position in the per sonal sympzithies of the people of Auckland East, and Auckland entire, from which noth ing could dislodge him. As it is he is surrounded when he visit 3 the province by a ring of men of unbounded assurance and pretence, but of no influence whatever over ■ the public opinion of the place ; men who assure him that they guide the course of events, that they are puissant as they are sapient, but who neither know popular feel ing nor would correctly interpret it if they did, except in so far as that would promote the selfish ends they mean to servo. This is the secret of MrVogel's having found him self so often in direct antagonism with his fellow representatives from Auckland on questions of local concern ; and this will be the secret of any difficulty that he may be ever callsd to encounter in relation to his seat as representative of an Auckland electo rate. Mr Vogel has served Auckland well, and he would serve her better if he refrained from learning her wants from the hands of those who share neither the sympathies nor the confidence of the people.' ri ' ! i<r UIB

Mr Vogel was a Ivave man in touching the question of the seat of Government last night, and in speaking honest truth on the subject. There is a lingering hope, and possibly a lingering faith, in the minds of most Aucklanders that the day may yet come when Parliamenfwill sit again on the banks of the Waitemata. It is a pleasant thought that serves to warm up a public meeting, exceedingly useful to claptrap politicians, and its being rudely dispelled by one accustomed to look questions straight in the teeth was, to say the least, unpleasant; but it was none the "less wholesome. It is time that this ridiculous unit was removed from the list of Auckland' 3 grievances. Whether it was right or wrong, the seat of Government is fixed at Wellington, and there it will remain unless Wellington is swallowed up by an earthquake. And what is the meaning of this childish wail about the seat of Government ? We can understand that the act of removal must have struck a blow at trade ; but the inconvenience has long ago passed away, and the restoration would afford no palliative. For what would be the result of the restoration, and of the fixing again of Auckland as the centre of barnacle dom? It would bring to us a swarm of men that never pay their tailor's bills, and whose wives would be perambu lating exhibitors of unpaid-for millinery. It would necessitate an increase in the number of our traders subject to the con ditions of unlimited tick. So far' from benefiting our present traders it would simply bring them into competition with business men who live by faith and not by sight, and compel them, by increased charges, to make the honest pay for the defaulter. It would demoralise our sons, inducing them to flunkey after ministers in the hope of finding an entrance into that haven of rest, the civil service; and would perpetuate for ever such degrading exhibitions of toadyism as we see from time to time on the casual visit of a couple of ministers. No ! no ! Let the evils arising from the constant pressure of Wellington's provincial wants on the colonial legislature be obviated, a suggested by the Premier, by separating the " City of Shakes" from its province, and making it an independent federal city. But let no man of Auckland ever sigh to see our streets * swarming with duns and debtors with miserable men and women struggling bravely with their shopkeepers to live beyond their means ; and to see our rising generation growing up to learn that there is heaven on earth in a minister's smile, and that syco phancy is a surer passport to position and respect than honest industry.

A Provincial Government Gazette was pub lished this afternoon containing the delega tion of the Governor's powers under the Public Health Act to the Superintendent. It also defines the boundaries of the Free man's bay wharf (the new reclamations), to gether with various mining and highway notifications.

A cricket match will be played in the Domain to-morrow afternoon at half-past two o'clock between an eleven of the Standard under Mr Alderton and a similar number of the North Shore Stay-at-homes under Mr R. Braithwaite. We anticipate seeing a" closely contested game. Players are reminded to be on the ground punctual. The names of the North Shore team will consist of Braithwaite, R. Nolan, E. Bur gess, Gerrard, Ward. R. Niccol, Brassey Webb, Wells, Cochrane, W. Niccol, (Holmes, twelfth man) j Standard : Aider ton, J. Woon, A. Woon, W. Woon, Mears, Snodgrass, Coupland, Tugdale, Beal, Oas telli, Ewen, (Brown, twelfth man).

The full North Shore cricketing team left for Coromandel by the Lalla Eookh this afternoon.

The adjourned meeting of the brothers of the Orange Institution, for the purpose of receiving the report of the House Committee and other business, will be held this evening in the Wellesley-street lodge-room.

The youthful members of the juvenile order of Rechabites will hold a meeting this evening in the Temperance Hall, Albert street, for important business.

The Prince of Wales Theatre was well attended last night, and Mr Vivian's comic songs were received with much applause. " Nothing to Wear " was repeated with satis faction,^ and Mr Mason's negro delineations were highly amusing. To-night there will be an entire change of programme. A new debutante will appear this evening in the person of Miss Harrington, who has won considerable reputation as a charming ballad singer.

A very exciting cricket match between eleven ef the West End Club and eleven of the Manukau Club will be played to-morrow afternoon in the hollow of the Domain. Wickets will be pitched at two o'clock. The proposed rifle match between six of the Engineer Company Cadeta and six of the Sir George Greys will be fired to-morrow morning at the Mount Eden range, the losei-3 to pay for a keg of ammunition and all ex penses.

The New Zealand .Agricultural Society will hold their next meeting at the Otahuhu Public Hall on the 3rd March.

According to the Belfast, News Letter, for a long time after the death of the Prince Consort Her Majesty could not bear to touch a piano, nor did she even allow one to be opened in her presence. Now she has re sumed her old accomplishment, and plays duets with the Princess Beatrice. By royal command M. Gounod has arranged some of the music of "Jeanne D'Arc"as a duet for two performers on one piano, for the Queen and her daughter.

The (Jood Templars of Auckland announce an anniversary tea and public meeting on Thursday evening next, the sth proximo, in memory of the opening of the first lodge. Great jjreparations are being made for the occasion, particulars of which will be duly advertised in the filar and other journals. The members of the Auckland Naval Brigade will assemble this evening on the Queen-street wharf to proceed by the half p-ist six o'clock boat to the North Head for practice at the Armstrong guns. The annual church meeting and soiree in connection with thf Primitive Methodist were held last evening in the Sheridan-street Chapel. An excellent tea was furnished by the ladies associated with the delicacies of the season, adorned with vases of flowers. Mr 1 remain presided at the meeting, and in a charaeterestic speech referred to the many pleasant hours lie had passed with the friends of Sheridan-street, and illustrated his speech with a few Cornish anecdotes. Mr Smith, the Secretary, then read the Trustees' report and balance-sheet, whiclr., in spite of one or two discouraging circumitances, was not unfavorable. The balance-sheet showed that the income for the past year was £53 5s (Hd, and the expenditure, chapel lining -md £10 for land, £40 ISs Id, leaving a balance of £,:] Gs lUd in favour of the chnpfil funds. The report recommended the aban'doment of spat rents, and the substitu tion of regular collections at the close of each service. Several interesting speeches were subsequently marie by Messrs. Hemus, sen., and jurj., Rev. W. Tinsley, and Mr Booth. The Rev. Mr Turner was not able to be pre sent owing to ill health. The choir sang several hymns < tinting the-evening in a.very effective manner, accompanied by instru mental music, and a pleasant evening was the result.

Another fire was prevented last evening from bursting out in the city by the vigilant eye of the constable on duty and the prompt action of Mr Asher, Inspector of Fire Brigades. The alarm was given that the bakehouse of Mr Waters was on fire, when an entrance was effected through the back window, and the dry wood was found to be on fire, but was extinguished with a few buckets of water. This is the second time that a fire has been averted by similur means on the premises of Mr Waters. We hope for the sake of public safety that greater care will be exercised by the servants of this establishment. Mr Asher is indefatigable in his efforts to extinguish fires in the city, and is always among the first to arrive on the spot, when an alarm is raised. It is time that some public acknowledgment was made of this gentleman's services. Dr. Erindley, the well-known lecturer against infidelity, has died suddenly in New York. He went out to America to deliver addresses in opposition to those of Mr Brad laugh.

At a meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Malcolm M'Donald and Co., merchants, Glasgow, a statement of accounts was pre sented showing liabilities of about £28,000, with assets £33,000. An offer to pay 20s in the £ by instalments was accepted.

Interesting meetings were held in connec tion with the Good Templars at Coromandel on Tuesday evening. The Mail says :—" The Second Degree Temple was opened by the L.D., and degrees conferred upon several of the brethren. In accordance with arrange ments previously made the Charter and several Second Degree members then assembled, when the Third Degree Temple was formally opened, and the honors of this degree were conferred upon a goodly number of the brethren. These are evidences of growing vitality in the local branch of the order."

Alluding to the intended visit of his Honor the Superintendent to Coromandel, yester day's Mail says : " The Siiperintendent and Executive might spend a day very usefully here. An examination of the plans of the district would show the benefit which might be derived from the opening of tracks in various directions. There are still many men here imbued with the adventurous spirit of prospectors, and whose endeavours to find payable reefs would be greatly aided by the cutting of tracks through different parts of tke bush. The state of the road to the wharf might be brought under the Super intendent's notice. The sharp curves in it render it dangerous, and at those very places the tide is washing away the roadway itself. Doubtless many other subjects of appeal to the Supefintendent and Executive will occur to the minds of our readers."

A concert, the proceeds of which are to be devoted to the funds of St. Matthew's Sun day School, was given last night at the City Hall. Considering the variety of attractive performances going on elsewhere at the same time there was an extreinly good house. Mr Joseph Brown conducted in his usually able manner, and the performers, who consisted of ' the parish choir, supplemented by Mrs Mitchell and several talented amateurs, executed the vocal selections in a highly creditable fashion. A lengthy programme was gone through, and the audience departed after spending a very pleasanttwoUiours. Mrs .Mitchell's "Ruby" (not "Baby") was the attraction of the evening, and called down loud applause. The funds of the school will receive a satis factory increase from the proceeds of the performance.

A sale of fruit ex Tien Tsin will take place at Arthur's auction mart to-morrow.

The arbitration case of the Improvement Commissioners and Messrs. Winks and Hall, which was to have bpen decided before the Sheriff this morning, has been again adjourned for a week.

In his speech last evening on the power of prayer, in the Sheridan-street Chapel, the l»ev. Mr Tinsley illustrated his subject by a circumstance which had come under his own observation : He remembered three brothers, one of whom went away to a dis tance of several hundred miles, and during his absence, the remaining two were converted. George, the absent brother, wrote to say that he was unemployed and in deep distress. The brothers considered the matter, and be gan to pray long and earnestly, when home came George to the joy of their hearts, but George wanted employment, and the brothers again went on their knees, and prayed George into work, and by prayer the brothers con tinued to get on well in the world and pros pered.

The anniversary ball of the Ancient Order of Foresters, Court Zealandia, No. 4741, took place last night in the Oddfellows' Hall. Over a hundred were present, and the affair went oil' very satisfactorily. Mr. McKwan, D.C.It., provided, supported by Mr. G-illespie, the retiring C.R. The City Band provided the music, so it may be in ferred that this was of the best description. Mr. Burbon, of Parnell, provided the re freshments, which were excellent. The dancing was kept up to a late hour. The hall was tastefully decorated and brilliantly illuminated for the occasion.

It is perhaps not generally known, even to naturalists, that rats occasionally weep. Their tears are not idle tears of sentiment, of which neither they nor anyone else know the meaning, but spring from the depth of a divine despair when they are pursued by a dog or a ferret and find escape impossible. An interesting account of a rat thus overcome by grief was given the other day to a reporter of the Baltimore American, who interviewed a famous ratcatcher of that ciby, named Eeedy, with the view of obtaining from him some infor mation respecting the experiences of his pro fession. Among many other curious circum stances mentioned by Reedy, he re lated that a short time ago, when visiting a house on Madison Avenue, his ferret started a large rat. which ran the whole length of the dwell ing between the floors until it came to the only hole lieedy had left unstopped, where its progress was arrested by a net, After making frantic and fruitless attempts to escape, the rat, when it saw the ferret approaching it at a rapid rate, gave way to despair, and finally burst into tears, lieedy, who was standing by, and was a spectator of the scene, counted no fewer than seven large tears trickle down the rat's cheeks and roll over its nose. The story is also corroborated by a boy who was present on the occasion, and vouches for the sincerity of the rat's emotion. It may further interest house holders to hear that Reedy states there are never so many rats in a house as people suppose, and that it is very seldom he finds more than twenty-five rats under one roof. In the present days, however, of high prices, a man should have a tolerable income to support twenty-five rats, in addition to mice, besides his own family."

In November the Firth of Forth was al most choked up by an enormous shoal of sprats, which were vended at a shilling a barrel.

A curious incident took place yesterday evening, and was witnessed by a number of people from the Queen-street wharf. ■ The tide being well in at five o'clock an immense shoal of small fish had congregated in. the neighbourhood of the new silt-basin, the water at one time being completely black with them. Suddenly it became apparent that some bigger fish, scenting the small fry, had appealed among the com pany unasked, and their advent was the signal for a succession of stampedes in which the sprats and herrings did their best to fly. In one of these rushes a shoal of sprats jumped clean out of the water, and many of them landed on a piece of planking about 6 feet square, which was floating about close by. Unhappy fish! . they had but escaped Scylla to fall upon Charybdis. A small boy on the wharf aaw the occurrence, and undismayed by the water being nearly 3 feet deep, waded in and filled his cap with the finny tribe in no time. There were plenty to have filled his pockets too, but at this moment the wharf constable made hia appearance and the younster beat a hasty retreat.

Mr Gouk is the successful tenderer for the contract for repairing the barque Lauderdale. He has already commenced the work. It has been satisfactorily ascertained that the re pairs will not necessitate putting the vessel into dock. The amount of the contract has not transpired.

An inquest was held at the Asylum yes terday on the body of John Bresling, aged 48, an inmate of the institution. Deceased had been in the Asylum since September, 1565. Up to December, 1873, he enjoyed good health • from that time he had been gradually failing. Dr Aicken held a post mortem examination, and pronounced the cause of death to be phthisis pulmonalis or consumption. The jury after hearing evi dence returned a verdict to this effect.

The time of the District Court was taken up to day with a series of trivial cases of the most absurd character. One was an error of 14s in a cigar account j another arose out of some discrepancies in a tradesman's bill where defendant stated that a vinegar cask had not been allowed for ; another for mutton chops supplied to a lively bachelor, who considered his bill was over weight and a fourth was an 1.0. U. on the score of friendship.

The Municipal bodies in the sister colonies are voting addresses of congratulation to the Queen on the marriage of H. R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh. Is the Corporation of Auck land going to wait until every other Muni cipality has forwarded an address before it does likewise ?

A very amusing case waa heard before the Mayor and borough magistrates of Notting ham] at the Town Hall recently, when "a man named Edward Brown was charged with being drunk under the following circum stances :—A young man named Cox, an assistant in the shop of Mr Samuels, a pawn broker of the town, stated that at 6 o'clock on the previous evening two men entered the shop and placed upon the counter a large bundle securely sewn up. They immediately left without speaking. Witness felt the bundle to discover if possible what it con tained, and it then rolled off the counter on to the floor, and witness was very much start led at hearing a moan come from it. The bag was then cut open, and was found to contain the prisoner, who was intoxicated lie could give no account of himself and was given into the custody of a police officer who conveyed him to the police station, ihe Mayor (to witness) : Did the men ask you how much they wanted on the bundle ? Witness: No sir, we don't take in live stock' (Laughter.) The prisoner said he had some drink, and could noc tell who had sewn him up as he was asleep at the time. Be was fined 10s for drunkenness. The case created considerable amusement.

A new Wesleyan Church is being built at Lancaster (Lancashire) at a cost of £6000.

A manjfnamed Harper, who lives in Missouri writes to the St. Louis Caucasian to say that he will bet 5000 dollars that President Grant, " unless he dies from natural or other causes, will be assassinated on or before the 10th day of April, 1874."

The Bishop of Peterborough, in reply to a memorial praying him and other Prelate 3 to use their power to repress the practice of confession, stated that the powers of the bishops in that respect are very limited, and he doubted whether the petitioners them selves would be disposed to extend them.

The first issue of the first volume of the life of Dr Guthrie comprised three thousand copies, all of which were subscribed for by the trade on the day of publication.

A fire broke out on December 10th in Messrs. Hornby's cotton mill at Blackburn, and part of the building was destroyed. The loss is estimated at £19,000.

Sanguine people who have been congratu lating themselves that in about a week's time they would be able to travel to and from Auckland from Otahuhu by railway are likely to be disappointed. We learn on fully good authority that the timber bridge near the Otahuhu station has been condemned by the District Engineer, and will have to be greatly strengthened if not almost rebuilt. It appeals that a trial of its capabilities has been made by an engine and pair of ballast waggons being run backwards and forwards over it, and that the structure proved very shaky. Other portions of the works to the southward are also reported to be in an unsatisfactory state, and unlikely to be passed without considerable altera tion and improvement. It has been pub licly announced from the Hon. the Premier and other of our colonial magnates that part of the Kaipara line from Eiverhead to Helensville will have to be re-made, and the same we believe may be said of a section of the Auckland and Mercer line. We under stand that the District Engineer is well satisfied with the manner in which the late firm of O'Neill and Thomas carried out their contracts, but with regard to some of the sub-contracts so favorable a verdict can hardly be pronounced.

A cricket match will be playedjto-morrow afternoon in the Barrack-field between eleven members of the Ponsonby Club and eleven of the employes of the Daily Southern Cross, wickets to be pitched at two o'clock pre cisely. We understand that informations have been laid against the landlords of the Wel lington Hotel and the Robert Burns Hotel, for breaches of the Licensing Act in selling alcoholic liquor on Sunday to persons not being lodgers or bonafide travellers, and also against the landlord of the United Service Hotel for the lesser offence of not keeping his lamp burning at night.

Dr. Kosenthal is still using his skill in curing the numerous cases which hourly pre sent themselves. Our reporter happening to call into a shop this morning in course of conversation the cure performed upon her daughter's eyes was mentioned. The lady's name could be given, but it is sufficient to say that her eyes—and one in particular—which have been discharging matter for many years were perfectly cured in a few days. In fact the parents had a few weeks ago agreed to allow their daughter to undergo an operation, which they now express their gratitude was not done, § and which might have caused death. Medical men had agreed that a silver tube would of necessity be required, but there is no need now as an absolute cure is performed, and in so short a space of time that all who knew the case have expressed surprise at the cure.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATES' COURT.— Friday.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq ,*R,M.) JUDGMENTS FOE. TLAINTIFFS.

Dr Lee v. John Brownlee ; claim £G 13s 6d; professional services Pntchard and Co. v. J. Halliday (Mr Laishley for piaintiff), 4s weekly. Assignees of John Moore v. J. S. Symonds (Mr Thome for plaintiff, Mr Joy for defendant) ; claim £4 Is 7d. John Tier nay v. Fred Karford ; claim £1 15s, 1.0. U.; Ss weekly. Moss Isaacs v. W. A. Clarke ; claim £2 12s, cigars (Mr Eees for plaintiff). Angus McKay v. James Kelly ; claim £20, rent; provisionally. ADJOURNED CASES. A. Dornwell v. John Conn; claim £ 17s Bd, goods. Edward Plumley v, George Crummer ■ claim, goods £4. '

Mr Lusk for the plaintiff, and Mr Kissling for the defendant.

This was a claim for some new teeth sup plied to defendant's wife by plaintiff, which defendant refused to pay for, as he con sidered that she had sufficient for thepurposea of mastication, and they were ordered without his authority. IJMr Plumley deposed that he was a surgeon dentist in Hobson-street, and Mr Crummer brought his wife on a previous occasion for artificial teeth, for which he duly paid. That was seven years ago ; but those for which he now claimed were ordered by Mrs Crummer. He was not aware that the lady was then living apart from her husband. He rendered the account to Mr Crummer; but Mr Crummer had not settled the bill. Mrs Mary Jane Crummer deposed that she was the wife of |George Crummer, and that in January of the present year she applied to Mr Plumley, by consent of her husband, for some new teeth ; her old ones were worn out She had the teeth.

Mr Joy was then sworn, and deposed that he was acquainted with defendant and his wife, and drew up a deed of separation be tween them ; there were several debts owing at this time, which, by request, he took down, but he was not sure whether the teeth were put down or not. Mr Crummer had no objection to pay any debt that Mrs Crummer had previously contracted in reason. Mr Kissling argued that the teeth could not be considered necessaries. Mrs Crum mer could have lived without the teeth. She was apart from her husband, had not his authority, and he was not responsible. Mr Plumley was therefore unfortunate in bringing this action. It the lady was abso lutely in want of the teeth for mastication she had an allowance of £2 a week from her husband, and she alone was responsible; and he hoped the Court would enter a non suit or give judgment for defendant. Mr Lusk then addressed the Court for plaintiff.

His Worship remarked, after quoting several authorities, that if a woman is turned out of doors by her husband's cruelty her dignity and style of living are not altered thereby, and taking a view ot the whole case, he must give judgment for plaintiff Costs £3 16s 6d.

POLICE COURT.—Friday.

(Before P. A. Philips, Esq., E.M.) DRUNKENNESS. Alice Mills was fined 20s and costs, with the.alternative of 48 hours' imprisonment for being drunk and disorderly last night. Patrick Dunn for being simply very drunk was more leniently dealt with, being fined 10s and costs. BREACH OF CITY BY-LAW NO. 6. Philip Brady was charged with driving his horse on the asphalted footpath in Wakefield street yesterday.

Mr Inspector Goldie appea^dlT^ secute. c*rea to p rOi Defendant said his horse "slewed, and got on the footpath before he coniX^ him back. The animal only put h fe £? S on the path. * v nia fo«leg 3 His Worship said defendant mnafc v careful m future. He thought the ! j be justice would be satisfied in the Stt*k by defendant paying the co3ts Case The case was dismiaaed on this conaitiof

BANQUET TO THE HON. J. VOGEL.

Thb banquet on Thursday gireii in W H *he + Hon Julius Vogel wL^ry^f Nothing had been omitted by the corn S in maWthe preliminary preparation?^ general satisfaction was expressed win, ~ the arrangements. His Honor the S- 1 tendent occupied the chair, and hia W&' the Mayor and G. Yon der Heyde ]KP vice-chairs The City Band wis p^Jg A ! rendered the various musical selections^ ,' during the evening with its customary & \ Glv h^ S. ual lQyal fcGasts had beenZ posed, the Chairman rose to propose the £ of the evening, "the Hon. J. Voeel Pw*-; of New Zealand." In doing so he' cfe recollection the time when Mr Vogel enL* Parliament a stranger to them, known It by his writings and as the conductors one of the greatest journals in jfcf ' Zealand. Prom their knowledge of him? :> that capacity they were aware that he vL > rnanofabilityandalthoughprejudicesexisK between the North and South Islands fon3 at the time impediments to his usefulness Z there were those in the House, amon<rstwW was the speaker, who discerned that fell a man not only of ability in the editoS' chairofa large and influential paper bnf that he was calculated to become in aVery5 short time an influential man in the Parlia ment of the colony. They were assembled" that night to confess that the bold step Z had taken had commended him to the public esteem of the colonists, and hadr led them to see in him the personifi cation of a great policy which they believed to be calulated ;'to do immense good to the colony of New Zealand Although they sometimes read and admired - the grand speeches of English statesmen yet they had, most of them, ceased to take an ' interest in English politics. They required men to adapt themselves to the circum stances of the colony, and such an one was - his friend—the guest of that evening. He believed they had found in their friend s man who was able to devise, if he could not himself carry out those things which heiad devised. An able architect might and design a noble edifice, buf; he must hand ■; over to others the carrying out of those designs. None would deny that if tbegreat ■ colonizing scheme were carried out faithfelly. i and well, New Zealand would be benefited;: He referred to the over-crowded state of the. . home country. Some of the great buildings there almost reminded him of that towef which was once commenced to be erected to 1 reach to Heaven. There they found families piled on the top of families,' and living in an unnatural state of destitution, the occupants of one storey or one floor not knowing who are the occupants above or below.. And yet1" • whenhetravelled through the earth he look&j.j around and sa^ rooai enough for myriads'of of such poor creatures. The designs of the Almghty had not been carried oat; and he r who did aid in carrying out those designs in g multiplying and replenishing the earth ;; deserved not merely an ephemeral tribute of* respect given to him by a number of his fellow-men, but . that there' should be erected to him a .monument whtoli would last long enough to bear his memory in', the recollection of the children of'■ the people who had benefited by : his measures. For those who had been brought to this countrylroin want and penury- - in the mother State there was room enough. There was land enough, and land to spare;: they only wanted the means devised where by their fellow-men might be directed out ,r to this glorious part of God's earth. He was % proud to say that he had himself been im- | bued with these thoughts from the day he' entered this colony to the present time. He had witnessed at.home want and destitution, yet here on looking round they found not only great prosperity but room enough for " many thousands of fellow creatures who were .-.. living at home in. straitened circumstances. It was because he felt that .one man had risen amongst them them to carry ont theae | great designs and great objects that he 'i desired that night to take part with those ; assembled in doing honor to that man. (Load" cheers.)

The toast was drunk with enthusiasm. Mr Vogel on rising to respond was received with warm applause. He T said when he first took his seat in'j Parliament — then held in Auckland— '" there was a feeling existing that; it. <~ was presumptuous for any one who had only been two or three years in the colony to take parfa in the conduct of its affairs. H? ] had now been eleven years in the House, : which might be considered a very; good ■ apprenticeship. It was a matter which affords him great satisfaction that, with the exception of one period of a very few weeks duration, Mr Williamson and himself had uni formly acted together in Ear!lament.; He ';■ deprecated the idea that colonists had ceased | to take an interest in home politics. , I»> would be to him a very great discourage ment—in fact, public life would be robbed of all its charms—if he thought there existed throughout the colony any desire to weaken the ties which bind New Zealand to the r mother country. (Loud applause.). He had for years, and did even now, in spite of much,. discouragement, cherish the idea that the ;j British Empire—so great as" it is in the vast' , ness of its component parts—mayyefcbecon-' solidated into an Empire which, as far as it is possible for human foresight to Peroe^ e{ will be indestructible, and more powerful - than any Empire has been or than any • Empire could be on this earth. He believed | the time will come when it will be recog- .'. nised that science has practically brought |j say this colony, which is one of themoat ■ distant of the Empire] more within the reacn of the machinery of Government by the mother-country than a few centuries ag° k Scotland was. Then, instead of these cOio-; | : nies being associated with the Empire M'*nft,v t are at present by very slender ties, they sn^ 1 become absolute'counties of the United lung'" dom. The movement in England to obtain tne right to invest trust funds in colonial seen' rities would, when conceded, do much■.-»>: r wards this end. He was one of those wo« | believed that not only will it be P o3flJ ; unite the dependencies of the present -Ji» ■;.--• pire, but that there may in course °f S:» arise an Empire which will unite all -NF^ speaking countries." He proceeded to si» . that as his acceptance of that banquet W^i ; preclude the possibility of his addressing^ i City East constituents, he would we« • fore,, with their indulgence, address *&?Lp to the subjects which he would tow*!"*/; $ upon if he had before him a *hou^a- / or more of his constituents. »6^ ff . I fessed that from want of local' m^ v I ledge and of local opinionlie had e*2fifU-'-'" I some, difficulty in deciding what w° eJ^,; . I stituents wished. Sometimes wheiriw. ~ ■ taken up local matters with great ,«* c ., '| ness, and carried them • to a successtm ■-_ i | he had found that, they: did not ,occU& ■ f, j place in public estimation he had W^ I The first matter he would- refer to wi» . ; § dogk question. He really fw [V% j .Jjj I ■ f, ■■> ■■- ■■ ~, ~' ~, . j . ■■;..; '•'v ";V" ---. ■'■• j§

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