SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH W i ., ra i. TH* evening- 7.21; tc-aasfso* ■noi-iiug. . 73 SUN■.*__.__': Tb.» evening. 6.56; BUN»MB__._ lo rn orr. -■; morning, 6.45 KGO3J*B AGE: Full Moon, 261h, 9.46 a.m_

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARR.VALS. Vivid, barque, Jones, from Circular Head, Tasmania

DEPARTURES.

By no, brigantine, Matleson, for Lyttelton

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Sydney and Melbourne—Victoria, s,s., Wed-

nesday For Newcastle—lsabella, brig For Sydney—Harriet Armitage, barque, early For Timaru—Flirt, brigantine, parly For the South-Ladybird, s.s , Wednesday, neon For Hobart Town—Bella Mary, barque, Wednesday

next "■ ,_._.,_ For Lytteiton-Ryno, brigantine, and East Lothian, barque, early For London—Countess »_ Kintore. ship, Thames.

and Kernd Je, barques, early For San FrancUco—Lo< h Urr, barque, early For Dnnedia—Waikato, ship, eaily

VESSELS EXPECTED.

ladybird, s.s, from the South. Mor.day Tien Tsin, barque, from Launcaston, daily Jackson, ship, from London ; sailed Zeilandia, ship, from London ; sa led 9th July Stanley Castle, barquo, from London ; s<ri . d 9th July Hydaspes, ship, from London ; sailed August Assaye, ship, from London ; sailed August Waitmgi, ship, from London ; loading Dauntless (Hawaiian schooner), from New Caledonia,

early Vision, brig, from Dunedin, early PahehI*, brig, from Oamaru. early Magellan Cloud, from Chatham Islands, early Pearl, ketch, from South Sei Islands, early Emu, auxiliary screw schooner, from Lyttelton, early Belle Brandon, schooner, from Levuka, early

IMPORTS.

Per Vivid, from Circular Head, Tasmania : 1417 bags potatoes (100 tons), Jakins and Wilcox; 2283 do do (170 tons), order.— Stone Bros., agents.

EXPORTS.

Perßyno, brigantine, for Lyttelton :—339 drain pipes, 15,000 feet timber, D. H. McKenzie ; 56 ; } tons diors and sashes, Union Sash and Door Company ; 9000 feet timber, G. Holdship and Co. ; 1 piano, Rayner; 10 packages luggage, D. H. McKenzie (agents).

The barque Vivid, 238 tons, Captain G Jones, arrived early this morning from Circular Head, Tasmania, bringing a cargo of potatoes. Captain Jones reports leaving on the 10th inst. Had light northerly wind at starting, which hauled round to the east ward. Carried easterly winds to within GO miles of the Three Kings. Encountered a heavy N.N.W. gale on Tuesday, which lasted till Wednesday night. Heal reached under two lower topsails. Made the Three Kings on Thursday morning. Down the Coast had light north and N. W. winds. Passengers : Mr and Mrs H. Smith, Mi J. Rosvier. Messrs Stone Bros, are agents for the vessel, which belongs to Messrs Pickett and Co., of Melbourne. The Vi-id is to clear out for Newcastle as soon as the has discharged her cargo, a work whioh owing to the perishable nature of the goods, Will be performed at once and quickly. Captain Jones, of the barque Vivid, reports sighting a barque rigged without any square mainsail on the 11th instant, about 30 miles from Launceston, heading^ to the eastward This was ho doubt the Tein Tsin, which left Launceston for this port on the Bth instant, and may be now expected daily. The s.s. Go-ahead was detained in the Manukau last night, and left at eight o'clock this morning. The schooner Dauntless is to be lightened and placed on the gridiron on Monday for the purpose of having her bottom surveyed, and if necessary replaced, after her late accident.

The s. s. Ladybird having been detained at Otago will not reach the Manukau till Moll day morning. She left Nelson to-day.

The Vivid spoke the barque Fleur de Maurice 20 miles north of the Hen and Chickens early yesterday morning, and sighted the Montana and Gem towards mid day 10 miles north of Point Rodney.

The A lice Cameron was primarily insu red in the Victorian office, but the National, the South British, New Zealand, National Marine of South Australia, and the Stand: rd are participators in the risk to the extent of £500 each. 7.

The schooner Mera has been laid alongside the wood wharf for the purpose of havi g the damage repaired which she received at the wharf on Tuesday night. While in the stream yesterday she fell athwart the bows of the Countess of Kintore, but the two vessels got clear without doing any damage to one another.

Messrs Arnold, Hines and Co. have char tered the barque Glimpse to load kauri gum for New York.

Messrs Henderson, Macfarlane and Co, the owners of the barque Alice Cameron, have sent in a claim to the underwriters of the vessel for £3000, the amount for which she was insured. Should the barque not be heard of within three months of the date of the claim the money will b|? paid, the owners giving their bond to refund it in the evesit of the ship arriving afterwards. £4500 was offered for the Alice Cameron some six months ago

The barque Harriet Armitage takes two passengers for Sydney : Mrs Jambre and Mr Wilson. - .

The brigantine Ryno is lying in the stream ready to sail for Lyttelton. She has cleared at the Customs with a cargo of timber, drain pipes etc. Passengers : Mr and Mrs Sharp Misses Sharp (2). , The ship Oxford has entered outwards for "Guam." This term is employed in refer ence to the shipping in a manner somewh it similar to that in which -"the Cbiltern Hundreds " is used in parliamentary language in Englahd. It really means nowhere io particular. A Series of Misfortunes.—The Ma y borough Chronicle of the Bth instant says : -

This is the third time that Captain Strachan, of the schooner Alice Maud, has visit- d Queensland, and on each occasion under extraordinay circumstances. Last year, whilst in an open boat off Bird Island, in company with a boy, the boat Wis blown <ff the land, and, after being five days at sea without food or water, compass or chart, he made Gladstone in safety. About five months back he came to Brisbane, having in his possession the mutilated remains of a man, aud charging one of- his seamen its the murderer. The seaman was trie I but acquitted on some legal technicality. Oa his trip from Launceston to Bird Island he encountered a storm between Sydney and Smoky Cape, 220 miles from the land. Lost the boat, the cookhouse, the spars; the vesseljjwas thrown on|her beam end, the top of cabin stove in, cabin filled with water to a depth of four feet, and chronometer and charts destroyed. The Victoria (s), was caught in the same storm, and with difficulty j weathersd the gale. The Alice Maud struggled through, and made Wide Bay bar in 64 hours. She is now undergoing repairs, I and the captain hopes to put to sea once | more within the week. I

CHIEF POST-OFFICE AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as follows :—

For Thames, on MoncUy next, at 10.30 a m. and 5.30 p.rn Por Napier and Gisborne, per Southern Cross, on Monday n* xt, at 11 a m. For Taranaki, vi* \Vai fara, per Go-ahead, on Monday next, at 10 a.m. For Australian Colonies, per Victoria, on "Wednesday next, At 11a m For Taranaki and Southern provinces, per Ladybird, on Wednesday next, at 10 a. m.

S. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

The letters of Mr William Payne aud "P^atepayer " will appear on Monday.

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

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrong that needs resistance, For the fiture in the distance. Ami th* rood that we can do.

For some time we have been expecting to see Mr Hughes, the new superintendent of the City Fire Brigade, "sat upon." In fact we have been somewhat surprised that this operation has not been put in force before. Mr Hughes comes from another place, and as such is an intruder. Interfering therefore with v.^aLed interests he must be put dpwn. Hitherto, 'we presume, the time has not been opportune; arrangements however are now complete, and Mr Hughes will now be badgered into resignation. "Mistake No 1" has been carefully noted and cata logued, ;«nd On it the changes have been rung. We venture to say that we could spot the writer, or at least the diotater, of a letter which appeared in : a contemporary yesterday under the heading of "Mistake No 1," and with equal certainty we could describe the nature of the pressure that is being used to enlist newspaper advocacy in the effort to gratify the feelings of pique and jealousy which the presence in Auckland of .he new fire king has inspired. The occa sion first seized has been the fire which occurred in. Parnell. The circumstances of that fire and the explanation of the action of Mr Hughes are now fully enough known, and we fearlessly assert that Mr Hughes did exactly what he should have done. We do not discuss the question whether a fire brigade should or should not hasten to render r .lief at any conflagration wherever situated, any more than we feel disposed to discuss the question whether a medical man should or should not rush out by night or by day to relieva every case of suffering. There are those who fed that the instincts of humanity should impel a doctor to hie away and give his skill and labour and time gratuitously to ( every case of human suffering merely because it is suffering, and he has the power to soothe; and there , are those no doubt who think that a fireman's instincts should impel him to rush where ver the glare of blazing timber tells hun that water is wanted. But. in the I one case and the other there will be limits admitted by all sensible people. Mr Hughes has, it appears simply done the duty pre scribed to him by his employers, and as a stranger he has declined the responsibility of | exceeding those instructions. Had he been ' , sept for, employed and instructed to quench i

every fire within a radius of five milei of the Post-office, then any conflagration within that area from which he and his force were absent would justly be a reproach to him and his brigade. But if he is employed to watah and save the buildings within the limits of the city boundary, within those limits is his sphere of duty. If Parnell requires protec tion let its Highway Board contribute to the cost of the brigade and engage its services, or let Parnell organise a brigade of its own, so that there may be an understanding as to mutual assistance. But whatever may be the course advisable in this respect, whatever may be the unsatisfactory nature of present arrangements, in this particular case Mr Hughes has simply done his duty. And it is with this we have now to do. We waive the question of this particular case of Par nell. Its merits and demerits are but the pretext for this attack on the new superin tendent, and it is because such evidently organized attack is likely to impair the efficiency of the new brigade that wo enter the fray. We do not know Mr Hughes ; we n.ver saw him. He may be a black man, or a white man, or a green one for all we know'br for all we care. He may be tall or short, bearded like the pard or beardless as a girl; we only know that in a manner likely to excite local bile ha has been brought from afar to purge Auckland from the disgrace of b.ing a burning city. The memory of the burning of the magnificent piles of buildings in Foit-street, while our firemenwwe e wrangling in the street below, is too fresh in the minds of citizens for us to tolerate for an imtant the pique and the envy of those who wince at the new regime. We want efficiency in a fire brigade, and not that any longer Auckland's fires should bo ths byword and the scorn of New Zealand. To this end we must have no needless ob structions thrown in the path, and we warn these anonymous detractors who have simply their own envious purposes to serve that if there is any more of this we shall drag off their masks.

The s.s. Albion arrived at the Bluff to-day with the English mail via Suez, which is again three days under contract time. The mail brings London dates via Brindisi to the 7th of August. In another part of to-day's is3ue will be found late English and Aus'ralian telegrams.

We are iudebted to the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (Limited) for the following copy of a telegram dated London, 17th September 1574 : — Wool: Market unchanged. Fp to date 174,000 bales have been sold. Home buyers are purchasing freely, but Continental demand is limited. The sales will close on first proximo.—Tallow: Market quiet. Mutton, 425; beef, 40s per cwt. —Leather : 13,000 sides Australasian have been sold since last rerorb. —Wheat : Adelaide is worth oos per 42G lbs. ; New Zealand, 50s per 42(5 lbs. —Copper : Wallaroo worth LBS per ton ; Burra, LB7 per ton.

The English telegrams per Albion at the Bluff announce the floating of a Turkish loan of sixteen million1, at £43 10s. This, we are told, is considered a great success, an announcement which does not speak much For the estimate in whioh Turkish solvency and credit are held in the money markets of Europe. When feeble colonies, having only a few hundred thousand inhabitants can place loans at a premium the Turks may well jjo and hide their diminished heads and moral ize on tho blessings of onlightmenb.

Our readers will have noticed that during the past two days the pages of the Star have been much larger than hitherto. By measuring the length of the columns it will be seen that they are only a few lines shorter, and are the same width as those of our morning contemporaries. The size of the sheet shows a greater disparity owing to the large margin in the morning journals, but the actual room in the paper is, as a careful comparison will show, very little less. We challenge a comparison of the amount of reading matter in our columns daily with that of any other evening paper in the col ony. The alteration just made, by lengthen ing the columns, gives half a column per page more space than before, or two clear columns of the old size of additional matter. We have always recognised the principle that it is as much to the iuterests of advertisers as of ourselves to maintain the standard and quantity of reading matter in each issue, as otherwise we could not have hoped to keep up the enormous circulation which the public have accorded us, and which has secured for those who use the Star as a medium for obtaining publicity by far the widest circle of readers offered by any journal in the colony.

At the Onehunga R. M. Court to-day a man named John Lawry was committed to the Luuatie Asylum.

A meeting of the committee of the New market Literary Institute was held last even ing, the Yen. Archdeacon Pritt, president of the Association, occupying the chair. It was resolved to place the library in the building which stands on the site granted to the public, and now being thoroughly re novated and fitted up for use as a public library and reading-room. The committee further decided to blend the old Literary Institute with the new one, to be in future under the management of the trustees appointed in terms of the Act. The com mittee, in meeting for the last time, took the opportunity of thanking Mr J. H. Withe ford for his active exertions on behalf of the Institute, and expressed their great satis faction with the way in which the affairs of the institution had been managed by him, considering the success of the same due almost entirely to his exertions. Mr Withe ford acknowledged the compliment. A cordial vote of thanks was then tendered to the venerable chairman, who had with great patience and regularity presided over all the meetings, and won the esteem and respect of *he Association.

It will be seen by a reference to our shipping columns that the barque Vivid, which arrived this morning, has brought a large cargo (270 tons) of potatoes consigned to Messrs Jakins and Wilcox and order. They come to a good market—potatoes be ing now in great demand, and the supply from the South having been stopped. The Vivid passed the barque Tien Tain, also loaded with potatoes -for this port, on the passage.

I " Fire-fiy" thinks that " the writer in the 1 " Cross" must be either very verdant or very facetious when he supposes there is no doubt one or the other would recoup any out lay for the services of the Fire Brigade out side the city. The past certainly does not warrant any such supposition. There are .a number of tradesmen in Auckland who have a lively recollection of fires to which in emergency they have willingly supplied new goods on the promises of payment for them, and they have been considerable losers by I relying on.such promises. If the superin tendent is wise he will incur no outlay with out fully understanding who pays, or he is [ likely to be left to pay himself. The city ratepayers, contributing the largest amount of support, would hardly profess to attend to ] all the risks of the Insurance Companies. Jf the Highway districts cannot raise a brigade in the own district, they can contribute. Let them come forward at once and offer to do so, and not ask for such services at the expense of the heavily burthened ratepayers of the city."

The contract tot th® first portion of Mr William Payne's new premises, opposite the three lamps, Ponsonby road, has been let to Mr Thomas Payne according to the plans and specifications of Mr W. P. Hammond, architeot and surveyor, of Shortland-street. Mr Payne will open the Bhop in the baking and confectionary line as soon as the build ing is completed. A line of new'shops is projeoted on this spot, whioh will add to the interest of this improving locality. To the Editor _ Sir,—ln noticing an article in your issue of yesterday re Miranda Coal Company, I beg to state that all necessary information will be given at the Company s office, or at the agents, but must decline to recognise the right, either of disappointed persons, schemers, or professional loafers, *to ask impertinent questions.— Yours, &c , A. F. Fklend, sec. pro tern.

Mrs Mooney, of We3fc Queen-street, com plains that she lost her child, about two years old, yesterday, and made repeated applica tions to the police about it, but could gain no tidings, although she subsequently found that Miss Murphy, who had found the little wanderer, had reported the matter at the station by six o'clock at night. She thinks the police greatly to blame for the distress of mind she suffered.

Mrs Colcou£h, better known by her literary norn de plume of "Polly Plum whose lay sermons and moral i_tor.es once graced the pages of a contemporary, has taken her departure with her little family by the Hero for Melbourne. Mrs Colclough has.had enough of New Zealand, and hopes by mental energy to win a pleasanter livelihood than she did at the Thames, and breathe un molested in the free atmosphere of Australia.

The California Minstrels terminated their series of entertainments last evening in the Prince of Wales. The house wa3 well-filled on the occasion, and the representation passed off with the usual eclat. This talented company of musicians and Vocalists proceed to the Thames for a few days previous to their departure from the colony.

This evening Miss Adelaide Stoneham, accompanied by Mr H. Stoneham and Mr Verner, will make her first appearance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in the "Arabian Box Mystery."

Mr F. Battlc-y repeated his interesting lecture on recent "Archteological Discoveries" last evening in the Primitive Methodist Chapel, Sheridan-street. The lecture was illustrated with diagrams and well attended.

At the fifty-fifth annual conference of Primitive Methodists recently held at Hull, there were 120 delegates present from Britain and the colonies. The repoit showed that eluring the year there had been an increase of 4,002 members, 15 ministers, 87 local preach ers, 914 teachers, and 9,821 scholars. There had also been 90 new ejections costing £87.290, and giving 21,542 sittings. The total number of chapels is 3,828, which cost £1,490,809, on which there is a debt of £023.291, and the value of which is estimated at £1,597,174. During 1873 debts had been paid off to the extent of £42,290. The income of the chapels was during that time £195,554; outlay, £190,550. There are 715.289 sittings, and 550,943 hearers, 104,000 members, 1,020 ministers, 18,830 local preachers, and 50U,333 Sunday scholars. There are also conferences in the United States not included in these figures. A monster camp-meeting was held on the Sunday in a large field adjoining Spring Bank Chapel, where the number of people in the afternoon must have exceeded 20,000. From eight in the morning till four in the afternoon there had been fifty sermons, fifty hymns, and fifty prayers, aud that without any breakdown. This was, perhaps, the largest field-meeting among the Primitives since the one held on Mow-hill in 1807, at the com mencement of Primitive Methodism.

Mr Bright, at the yearly meeting of the Society of Friends, complained that the advocates of temperance were always crying to Parliament for the cure of the great evil, and asking for things which were impossible to be done. Their demand for the things desired, he said, " revealed an amount of simplicity which he could not understand."

The people of Cook-street are greatly puzzled about the fencing which was vigor ously commenced about a month ago on each side of the dangerous cutting, and as suddenly stopped. The timber was brought to the spot, and still lies there unhondled. It is said that there is a story in connection with the job.

Wo notice that Dr Cowie, Bishop of Auck land, will preach to-morrow morning at West; Pukckohe, and in the afternoon at the little chinch of Drury.

A Nelson writer complains that the farmers cannot get a remunerative market for their hops, although they are producing first-class samples. He says:—"Here are men with many hundreds of pounds' worth of hops lying on their hands who could and would, did they meet with a little encouragement, very speedily be producers of the article to the value of thousands instead of hundreds sterling, and yet they are compelled to aban don an industry ths pursuit of which would be remunerative to them as well as profitable to the colony, because they cannot find business men to assist them by pushing their produce into the world's markets."

The heat in the lower levels of the Con solidated Virginia mine is so great that many of the men faint upon reaching the surface, and an attendant is often sent up with them to prevent accidents. The same is' the case in the Belcher mine. A combined effort is being made to connect the leading mines of the Virginian section of the Comstock by a large tunnel, which will extend along the ledge from the Ophir to the Choliar,. at a depth of 2000 feet. This drift is being worked north and south from the Savage, and the Gould and Curry will soon be down to the same level. When completed it will secure better ventilation and offer a means of escape for the miners in case of fire.

"Dad,""if I were to see a duck on the wing, and were to shoot at it, would you lick me ?" "Oh no, my son ; it would show that you were a good marksman, and I would feel proud of you." "Well, then, dad, I peppered your old muscovy duck as he was flying over the fence to-day, and it would have done you good to see him drop."

A London detective recently found an absconding defaulter by using his opera-glass on the 4,000 singers at the Handel festival in the Crystal Palace.

Arkansas judges now order jurors to be searched for pistols before retiring to make up a verdict, and, when anxious to procure an agreement, only leave a weapon in the pocket of the foreman,

The historical town of Jaffa, made famous by the wars of the crusaders, is under process of demolition. The walls and turrets of the town have been sold to builders, and work men are now engaged in taking away the stones.

Divine service tomorrow (Sunday) at Newton Kirk by Rev Dr. Wallis. Morning, "The Fiery Furnace ;■' evening, "Heresies, and freedom of opinion."—Beresford Con gregational Church; by Rev Warlow Davies, M.A. —morning; M special sermon for child ren ; evening, '' The .(Character of Joseph."— United Methodist Free Church, by Rev G, H. Turner, services at usual • also at Cook-street, Newton Hall, Edwardes and Sheridan-streets. Baptist Church, morning, "Perpetual Revival;" evening, "Good Warfare."

"Oh, gracious! no," exclaimed Mrs. Marrowfat to Mrs. Quoggs, raising her hands and speaking in a very excited tone. " She was so very ill when her new bonnet earn* home that she couldn't get up, but, dear sakes I Jane, that didn't matte* nothing, for she just put the hat on and lay with head on the front window the whole afternoon." . j

meiiMrMoriatty, €.2, was m A^kland he pressed npon the attention of the Harhoor Board his design for carrying sewage to low- Smark in'place of conducting for * absorption costly silt basins. neStad^fuad^^werad^aUj in Sydney. It is as well that the city and harbour authorities should . know that Son differs very much on thi. subject in , jj^npv According to the description given gte yoorfe Csponde fent of a Melbom*j con temporary the oldest coloraal city Sydney, is i/deed a " shocking example o baddram age." "Every year," belays, _maKes i cfearthat we have S money to do a great deal of damage. discharge from the sew^sis not only^ilun Up the harbour, but an od^ur f om the foreshore at low water as P^ous^ t_ to health as disagreeable to tho seuse3; i d^b line harbour is almost wholly occupieu uy p^Tharves, the evil in two ways F *°" /■"* P^le their .round is continnallr.aoahng < W^ wharves; and, secondly, n. m «w to be on the premises ao low tide expected from such a journey. Gold and specimen stealing is becoming recognised as one of the causes of the de struction of mining industry in Jictona no ] e *s than in this province —The BenAtgo Advertiser reports tbat "a fact came to light en the 31st July in connection with gold robberies which more clearly shows that this crime is very rife in the district. A man re.-ently working at a crushing machine on the Bird's Reef died intestate a few days ago, and on the authorised persons taking posses sion of his effects they found a parcel ot amalgam weighing some eight or ten pounds. Subsequent enquiries showed that the man, although not very long in the service of the company, had placed about £200 to his credit in one of the Sandhurst banks. lhe finding of the amalgam itself, irrespective of the fact of his having been able to amass so much money in a short peiiod, points very suspiciously at least to the conclusion that the gains were ill-gotten We may add that the man was one of the last on whom sus picion would fall, and, in fact, had been selected for his honesty and integrity.

The Parnell approaches, now that fine weather looks like setting in, demand the attention of our City Councillors. They have been left in a filthy condition all the wiuter, and entirely owingto tbe bad faithkept by this august body, who undertook to repair them in conjunction with the Parnell Board a long while ago. Besides filling in the gaping chasm whioh adjoins the railway viaduct, and mending the road-way and side-path at this spot—we do not see by-the-bye the reason why these two latter works could not have been performed even in wet weather — there in another much needed improvement, which it behoves the Council to see carried out, and that is a crossing at the corner by the Swan Hotel. In dirty weather this is the worst part of the road, and pedestrians are now obliged to wade through mud up to the ankles to get across. If this is thrown in by way of interest for keeping the other works so long undone the Parnell people with be more inclined to overlook the dil atoriness whioh has been displayed.

Henry Minstrel, of Savannah, is reported to hare walked into a court-room with his pistol in hi-, hand, and with the intention in his heart of shooting the whole dozen of jurymen. Unfortunately, twelve revolvers got ahead of the Minstrel, and his last lay was in the cold and silent tomb.

The new beach road in Mechanics' Bay is being steadily pushed od. We now have the filling in at the Parnell end carried to the limit iequired. The inhabitants of our eastern suburbs are looking anxiously for ward to the time when the road will be opened, and they will be saved the pipe opening ascents of Constitutional Hill and Shortland-street. Now that the Harbour Board have the necessary powers to fill in the space between the road and the railway, might not a final effort be made to secure a more direct route for the road ? Completing it on its present circuitous projection seems like spoiling a good woik for a hap'orth of common sense.

I wud knott dye in Summer, and leave the garden sass, the roasted lamb, and butter milk, the cool place on the grass. I wud knott dye in Summer, when everything is hot, and leave the whiskey jewlip3 ; owe know, I'do ruther knott.

A meeting of those interested in athletic sports at Newmarket was to have taken place last evening but owing to the paucity of attendance it was adjourned.

Sweeps on the Melbourne Cup will take place at the Occidental this evening.

POLICE COURT.—This. Day.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R. M.)

INEBRIATION. John Shiers was brought up for the thirty third time on a charge of drunkenness, and sentenced to seven days' imprisonment; and Geo. Barnacle Hild rew, for the same offence, was fined 10s, or 48 hours in Mount Eden.

the wrong way. Thomas Kennedy, a young man, was brought up under the Vagrancy Act, with being drunk and disorderly, and using obscene language in Queen-street last night. Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was sentenced to seven days durance vile.

MISERY AND THEFT. Margaret Harris, a wretchedly clad woman, with a young baby in her arms, was charged with stealing one dozen of Crimean shirts, the property of Samuel Coombeß, out fitter, of Queen-street, value 235, on the 20th instant.

Prisoner burst into a fit of crying, and said she picked up the shirts without any in tention ofi stealing them. She had taken two nips! of brandy, which affected her head. Her husband had gone away in search of work, and left her and her three children destitute. They came out by the Rooparell. She stated further that, her husband had been idle for six weeks, and that to avoid starvation she had pawned all her wearing apparel. His Worship considered that there was work to be got if men only chose to work at a reasonable wage. Prisoner was also charged with stealing a cloak, value 9s, the property of Mr Liuabury. She said she had no recollectionjof stealing the cloak.

His Worship told prisoner there was no necessity to steal; she should have applied to the Relieving Officer. Prisoner said she was very sorry : she would not do it again. The Court then sentenced the unfortunate woman to three months' imprisonment for the first offence, and one month for the second. ™F h£P™ oaOT'" two-little, girls, |Mary and h/llzabeth, aged respectively twelve and nine years, were then charged with being nee leoW children. 1 othei" said she was from Dublin, and tht|jhildren had been baptised in the Catho lic <hurch ; her husband, James Harris, wan a 1 rotestant from London. He went away with the intention of going to the Bay of *•__ She w«a utterly destitute. His Worship said this was a shocking' case, and ordered the children to St Mary's.. orphanage for three and five years, to be brought up m the Roman Catholic faith. LUNACY. . jVP°°r,?ian °f unsound min4, who reques ted that his name might not "go into the papers, was, on the medical testimony of Drs. Kenderdine and Ellis, committed to the Whau Asylum. '"7 , , s -«j..j7'*'yj.!il; ■■:■..:., ft y...'j_rfl

THE raTORTTTKATE STOWAWAY. Walter Stewart, in a half naked «**££■•. | seam presented to tbe Court on a charge of , bS»g ! stowaway on tbe Harriet Arlmtage , T&s boy had got on the a vessel from , Dunlin, Ind on reaching Auckland the captain, not knowing what to do with him, Btim adrift; the constable subse nuently found him in a miserable condition £ the! wharf and took him to the station The cVnrge of vagrancy was then with er, and the boy underwent * medical examination before Drs Kenderdme and Elhs who pronounced him insane. He was com mitted to the asylnm.

ARRIVAL OF ALBION AT BLUFF WITH THE SUEZ MAIL.

LONDON TELEGRAMS TO 18 th.

VALUE OF A TURKISH LOAN.

BAZAINE'S ACCOMPLICES TRIED.

DISTURBANCE IN NEW ORLEANS

[Reittek's Special Teleobams.]

LONDON.

September 16. George Frederick, the Derby winner, was scratched for the Great Yorkshire Handicap. Mr Eru's Louise was first ; A. C. Barclay s Bertan second; Mr C. Alexanders Thun derer third.

NEW YORK.

September 16. A sanguinary disturbance occurred at New Orleans where the white populaton ousted Governor Kellog and installed a new Go vernor. President Grant is upholding Kellog, and ordered the rioters to disperse.

LONDON.

September 18. Mr Berkley's appointment as Governor of Western Australia is contradicted. September 19. The Queensland mail was delivered on the 17th. and the San Francisco (Mikado) yes terday. The Turkish loan of L 16,000,000 was subscribed at L43-J. It is considered a great success. At the wool sales prices continue firm. The corn market is languid. Home deliveries large. - Arrived—Carlisle Castle, from Melbourne, Inverness, Anazi, South Australia.

PARIS.

September 18

The irial of the accomplices in the escape of Bazaine has terminated. The governor of the fortress has been acquitted. Vilb-tte and Plantin were sentenced to six months' impugnment, and two others received slight sentences

September 19

President McMohon has retnrned to Paris. His reception in the Northern Department was cordial.

MADRID.

September 19

The Carlists allege that the Czar of Russia has wiitten to Don Carlos an expression of sympathy.

BERLIN.

September 19. The Germans have expelled the Danes from Schleswig.

NEW YORK.

September IS

The insureents at New Orleans submitted on the I9th September, and Governor Killog has been reinstalled in New Orleans.

BLUFF.

This day. The s.s. Albion with English mail left six p.m. 21st, and arrived at Bluff at 8 a m. on the 20th. after a quick run of 4 days 12 hours. She brines 37 saloon and 29 steerage passengers, and 300 tons cargo for all ports. She sails for Dunedin at 4 p.m.

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

THE LARRIKIN NUISANCE

THE GERMAN ASTRONOMICAL

PART if

MELBOURNE.

' September 21. The Tariff was finally disposed of in committee of the Assembly. Notice has been given of the Government measure to deal with the larrikin nuisance, and provide private whippings in certain cases.

Mr Williams' new steamship Durham has arrived in 53 days from London. The members of the German astronomical party for the Auckland Islands arrived by her. J

The trial of George Buchard for forgery is proceeding at the Criminal Court. Shannon has been committed for trial for the murder of Moriarty at Mornington.

SYDNEY.

' ' Sent 21 Tho Hunt Club races passed off Ltis factonly on Saturday. Admiral Richart deposed several officers FrancT Caledoma ' aad sent back to

ADELADE.

~!■ A no-confidence motion has been nega tived by a large majority. S

HOBARTOWN.

15SrApSr trhaS beeU P^g^to'the

WESTERN AUSTRALIA.

PnnoJS v read, a seco«d time for a new place itornv-r^ 4 dit solu I tion *■ *X foJunS-? W d6B *W? c T hambers > » nominate ZmhZ ?. H°UBe L°Wer House °* 25 iJif* feß^y demand at 5s 6d ; - wheat 5s 9d. Deals lower. Brandies sold lower'

CITY IMPROVEMENTS.

It is with a great deal of pleasure that we allude to any improvements^ in the archive tural features of the c\tv T. 7 „ afcnitec ; recollects the tuibTedtwn r^wTwt7 h° ! which siood on tbe weat s?d_f n 7 n bmL*me8 i between WelleslevXit Hi u^-*treet ! market beforethe fire of ?ast year the ba^T :H 6 b? °Ck W^ Ch nOW fills thesit; will afford ; a pleasing and a striking contrast W? then we had nothing buf weathetboa^ 2! have now substantial brick erection^ss. W® amount of architectural d2v 1 A** fronts jhich is positively *fe whole block is taken im iL « lcs"me?- *he ! WdlMky-street corner Hewin X™ i. off the cornerttin 8T n 8 J>? emi«* sot .*■* Co. 8 £*

j again there is every appearahceldV^ B I Higher up we come to Ward.'a D AJy*N> I warehouse, and th. n we see M* B l^& fl ; and Son s music and pianoforteeatltv Br°4 1 j These gentlemen are so well k& o^^4 II I land in connection with ny^H H I tbeyjneed little recommendation*^ H I 1 Their depot in the complettil^N fc stock supplies a want ]lo{1 o{ \ 1 Still, going up the street we u^? 8 H\» I three shops unlet. Passing on wi> Williams', the chemist, and Mr tailor. Both occupy good substan^^' I edifices designed by Mr Keala a Jk*'&» 1 Mr Watson.- Next to these M^S Lambert have bad an excellent* 11* built for them by Mr Andrews perhaps as fine a show of bacon "at,,.1 ci* * ies as is to be seen in AuckW A^ the further corner is the a ** Hotel, kept by Mr Williams hotel is one of the very best in 1^ land. Externally its appearance to Mrßerepath (who was the arc??^ these and Blair andLambert'sDremi«^ Cl Mr Dixon the builder InternallySS^ ments are next to perfection. EvervtV the business is conducted quietly an3 gi" I a feature which does not distintruaV. I fl?i I the hotels-andthefittiDgsanddecwaSP** I in good taste. The quickness witlr i?* 1 this row of buildings gas been r^Ni 1 turned to account speaks well fo? 81^ I commercial enterprise of our citizpn I men. . n ■*%'* I

AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING ASSOCIATION.

Business done —:,.. Bank of New Zealand—Buyers, £1715, South British Insurance- Buvew w_ stl.ers, 525. National Insurance—Sellers 29a, Fiji Bank—Sellers, 555. Auckland Steam Packet, 755. Thames Gas Co.— Sellers, 4.35. _ Long Drive - sellers, £G. «■' City, of London, 23s 3d. Caledonian—Sellers, £8. Golden Calf (double) Buyers, & 6d, Crown Prince Buyers, 12s Gd. "Moanatairi- Sellers, 40s. All Nations—Sellers, Bs. Union Beach—Buyers, 10s. Royal Oak—Buyers, 2a 9d.

EXPLORING AT THE PALMER.

THE STORY OF A PROSPECTING^ PARTY. '^

As the Palmer River goldfield isnowattrict. ing-.a very large amount of attention .aa! parts of New Zealand the following _a. teresting account of the proceedings of« prospecting party, abridged from the Brig bane Courier, will no doubt be pernwd atisa. tively. It must be remembered that Brij. bane, as the capital of the colony of Qneeni. land, is interested in promoting a ruth 61 ! population, and it may naturally be sap. _ ; | posed that the report is not one dehberafefe ! j unfavourable. Tbe letter bears a very ht. j date—the beginning of Augnst-ahd ia j beaded "Limestone Creek, Palmer Evet." I We make the following extract from it £ j After proceeding down the Palmer a coßple ,j of days we had an engagement-with th. ' blacks.- The country lying between the left hand and main branches of the Palmer does not promise very well for gold, thert being too much of the light slaty formatioaf The eastern side of the Palmer will ew_. ! ! tually pay for working, bnt at present it it , too far from supplies. Ihree ofnggot ■ marked by the blacks, but only one seriously hurt, so we thought it prudent'to come in side lest medical assistance might be __• quired, thouah our medicine chestwasactially ' i provided with embrocation is case of poisoned spear wounds or other emergencies.7 This, however, made us put in an appearance on the Palmer sooner than we otherwise woold '• have done. Memorandum taken from 1 j pocket-book : May 1, 1874.—Left the Four ' j mile Camp, Cooktown, for the Palmer; ! Proceeded up Douglas' track, and prospected I some of the tributaries of the Kennedy, I when we got gold as coarse as |dwfc., bnt '•■'. no payable prospects any where. /.May 23.— " Left the left-hand br?nch after stopping I _ J fewdfiystospellourhorsesatauold;andhighest ' up prospecting camp of ours oh this branch 5 j above the road. Crossed some-promisin_f ■ i and auriferous-looking gullies; prospected, and got gold ; not enough to pay us, how ever. May 25.—Crossed a light slaty formation, extiemely rough and broken country—worse by far than it looks from» distance. No gold to-day. Cut the Palmer' about twenty miles above the Punch range. With some difficulty got all the horses dom to the river after a few capsizes andcampei May 27. —After two days' prospecting downwards were attacked by the blacks. After being three times repulsed they made t a furious rush at us as we were leaving ft. camp. I never saw blacks so determined. . The long grass, scrub, and high ridges wew greatly in their favour. Three of us go* ' marked by them. They will, however, for | the future know the effect of the rifle in j ' that locality. June 6.—Cot payable prospect! | on branches on Sandy Creek. We"want better,. : and so .proceeded 'up west " side of Sandy . Creek, prospecting creeks and gullies. I There are numerous good-looking reefs to , ! gold right opposite Oakey Creek. ..We arc only disappointed at finding any one haring . preceded us so far in this ' direction.; HW; We are forced to remain, on account of ft. _ weakness of our horses, being hitherto over loaded and overworked. We are, however, getting good gold here. We may ' prospWt for gold, but when on it will not work for less than loz per man.per day ; lesswill not pay us for our expense and loss of time; sm though a day's work may result in *°?7v five times that, yet it must be considered exceptional. Up to how only a few a"1 have been here, but this last few days men., are coming in in crowds, so we Will B*^ our horses and leave to-day. July?-" 1 Tought, of Ravenswood ani the Towers, stopped atom} camp last:, night:. He;*£■ brought 500 head of fat cattle; they »renor on the Mitchell. He wants to find>re»a across to Sandy Creek., Prom him *wfJjS. others I learned that there are about miners lined along the branches and^go'J"", of Sandy Creek. T0... f0110w,., UJ/-< windings of Sandy Creek from the "«» of Pine-tree a person would travel aborts' miles before he would reach its l^T. with the Palmer. The lower part of■'baw ~, has been worked for months andiCobsio*^ 1 poor ;_the people are now making thetf* J ; ; upwards. We are now under weigb» *? proceed in a westerly direction pr08?/^'' occasionally. The country looks ,^^7 and there is a little gold in many oj* y creeks and gullies, but the iormationo^^ a light clay slate the washis ligW*BdoJ2!;; -in the dish. The fine gold in theW P**^ must have been carried here, or,°w^ over the divide. Some %of these Jf^ will be worked eventually, especial^ . heads of them, but nothing gwhßf^i ... expected. We turn bur course *w%jjg:j after a few days' very rough _ y* ~ we cut' a large river, SODl?fT^ w «t. L the Palmer, running from east* *"._ r jy fl r We return, and purpose run?,nf,S^ c liell ) down to its junction with *^f-^j e Wy which we do in two or, three.]°>|?*|l '0; . ■ mined still th prosecute'oilrs^Hj^e. precious metal. Two of bur JWSJKdC* v. us, proceeding back- by S»BdyrWf eCaD ie j for knocked-up horses. Td_a»y J' „- $i -.7 upon a party camped »ti*J?fi'sj 2s *e® camps. They confessed they he«? * ;^B p ;.. on good gold, and had been . ffico ]t. ■ for a few days, and had a rough ««*£--jrff job of it! When they heard of nB H prospecting thevI returned, well as many others it is *jW3-y&''. game prospeetmg. Dowh7thtf-«* I the same results are: obtainftP^^Sg^^! I grains oan be got in favouriti f»* v I

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