SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATKB : This evening, 12 s to-numro** momhi«. 0 29 STTtf-SEi?: This eveninsr, 5.49; BTJW-RISB: To morrow raornlug, 5./S7 MoO_K*B AGE i First Quarter, 19th, 10.44 am.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. Glimpse, barque, 353 tons, Alfred Hornsby, "em Newcastle • Bella Mary, barque, McArthur, from Hobart Town Rowena, s.s., McGregor, from the Bay of Islands Pacific, schoc nor, Chrisp, from Samoa Alarm, cutter, from Mangawai Fannie, cutter, from Wangapoa - Wellington, s.s., for the South (from the Manukau)

DEPARTURES.

Wave, brig, for Newcastle Fleur de Maurice, barque, for Wangaroa Mary Melville, schooner, for Napier, via Mercury Bay

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For Samoa—Suzanne, brig, at once ..„«„_. For Sydney-Helen Malcolm, and Harriet Armitage, barques, early ~. For Melbourne, via Coast—Lady Franklin, barque, For Newcastle—Montana, barque, and Isabella, brig, early . _ ~ For Norfolk Island and New Caledonia—Dauntless. topsail schooner, early For London—Countess of Kintore. ship, to-morrow ; Thames, and Ferndile, barques, early For San Francisco—Loch Urr, barque, early For Dunedin— Waikato, ship, early For Sydney and Melbourne—Victoria, and Hero, s.s., three days after their arrival

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Hero, S.S., from Sydney, about 20th Victoria, s.s., from Sydney, uncertain Jackson, ship, from London ; sailed Zealandia, ship, from London ; sa'led 9th July Stanley Castle, barque, from London ; sailed Oth July Hydaspes, ship, from London ; sailed August Assaye, ship, from London ; sailed August Star of the South, from Levuka, 21st instant Waiting!, ship, from London ; loading Tien Tsin, barque, from Launceston, daily Magellan Cloud, from Chatham Islands, early Pearl, ketch, from South So* Islands, early Emu, auxiliary screw schooner, from Lyttelton, early Kenilworth, schooner, from the Islands Belle Brandon, schooner, from Levuka, early Dauntless (Hawaiian schooner), from New Caledonia, early Vision, brig, from Dunedin, early

IMPORTS.

Per Pacific, schooner, from Samoa : 6 cases brandy, 1 keg tobacco, 2 cases, 3 casks oil, and 51 tons copra.—Owen & Graham, agents. Per barque Glimpse from Newcastle : — 540 tons coal, 10 tons bone.—Henderson and Macfarlane, agents.

The s s. Rowena arrived this morning from Russell. She left at noon yesterday with N.W. winds; arrived in Tamaki at 3 a.m. this morning, and landed 25 head cattle, 53 sheep, after which she came up to the wharf at 8 o'clock. Cargo :—25 head cattle, 53 sheep, A. Buckland ; 16 bags gum, Rolpb, Sterry and Co. ;_. 15 do do, R. Walker and Co. ; 10 do do, Arnold, Hines and Co.; 9 do, Stone Bros. ; 8 do, Owen and Graham. Passengers:—Messrs He wson, Collins, Vercoe, Hewson, Brissenden, McLellan, Mandeno, Kydd, Newman, Broadgage, Bryers, Longan ; Mr and Mrs Cochrane, Miss Prosser, Mrs Palmer, Mrs Middleton, and 14 steerage. We are indebted to W. H. Stodart, purser, fcr report and other favours. The fine fore-and-aft schooner Pacific, Captain Chrisp, arrived this morning from the Navigators' Group, South Sea Islands, with a cargo of copra, &c. We have been furnished with the following report :— The Pacific left Auckland on Sunday morning, 19th July, at 7.30 a.m. with the wind S.W., and by midnight was off the PoorKnight3. On Tuesday, the 21st, the wind freshened by noon into a strong gale with heavy sea; hove the vessel too till noon of the 22nd. Sighted Macauley Island at daylight on the 24th, and Sunday Island at 11a.m. lujlatitude 24° S. .got the S.E. trades light, and arrived at Eva on Tuesday, the 28th. On Friday morning at 2 a.m. the wind shifted to S.S.W., blowing hard with frequent squalls, and at 4 a.m. had to trip anchor and proceeded to Tongatabu, where she arrived at noon. Left Tonga on Satur day, August 8, and arrived at Hapia on Tues day, the 11th, at noon; left Hapia on Wednesday, the 12th, experiencing strong N.E. winds to Samoa, where she anchored on Wednesday, the 19th. Left Samoa on Saturday, the 29th, and made Varau on Monday at noon, making the passage in 44 hours ; arrived at Hapia on Tuesday morn ing. On Friday morning the wind shifted to S.S.W., blowing hard with frequent squalls accompanied by thunder and light ning. Left Hupia on Monday morning, and arrived at Eva on Tuesday morning ; left Eva same night, and experienced light N. winds to latitude 23 ° S., afterwards W. and S.W. winds, increasing to a gale till Monday night, when wind shifted to N.W. Sighted Poor Knights at 4.30 p.m. on Friday, the 18th, and arrived at Auckland as above. Passengers—Mr Kirchener and Mr James Gilfillan. _, The brig Wave and the barque Fleur. de Maurice left this morning for their destina tions with a stiff westerly breeze, > The schooner Mary Melville left in ballast this morning for Napier via Mercury Bay. The Wellington left this afternoon for the South with cargo and several passengers. The barque Glimpse arrived from New castle this day, soon after noon. Captain Hornsby reports having left on the 7th inst., with a strong S.W. wind, which during the night increased to a gale with a heavy sea, ship taking on board considerable quantities of water; barometer, 30.20. On 9th and 10th September, strong S.W. winds ; on Friday 11th a gale commenced from the eastward, with the barometer at 29,40. It gradually hauled round to the southward, settling in the S.S.E.; barometer 28.50; wind blow ing heaviest from noon to midnight. On Saturday, the 12th, at 8 p.m., took on board two heavy seas, washing away the after batch-house, starting the fore-mast house, slaving the bulwarks. An A.8., Peter Gargent, was thrown with great violence against the lee bulwarks, sustaining severe injury to his right leg. Moderate winds and variable from Sunday, 13 th inst., to Thursday 17th, on which date sighted Three Kings at half-past six in the evening. Here passed a large four-masted steamer bound west, supposed to be the Macgregor. Down the coast fresh N.W. and'W.N.W winds till this morning, when it settled into the S. W.' with rain squalls, and arrived as above. The Glimpse brings a cargo of coal for Henderson and Macfarlane. She has been recaulked and coppered since her arrival at Newcastle from this port on the 26th-ulfe; Mr McQuarry, of Sydney and Newcastle, is the successful tenderer for repairing the dismasted ship Rooparell. The work was to ba begun immediately after the leaving of the Glimpse. . The American ship Canada, bound from Puget Sound to Adelaide, has put into Sydney in distress. She met with the same gale as the Chrysome and the Rooparell, and was leaking badly, and had lost her deck load.

One of the barques .at anchor in the stream dragged very much yesterday owing to the strong westerly gale. Another vessel was obliged to pay out over 90 fathoms of chain to avoid a clash between the two. After full time had been allowed for much mis chief to be done the barque's second anchor was let go, and she was brought up. This is an illustration of the necessity that exists for some signal to tell captains when it is necessary to take extra precau tion ~.:.. :

The barque Bella Mary, in command of her well-known skipper, Captain McArthur, I arrived off the North Head from Hobart j Town at eleven o'clock this morning. Having ; lost the tide, and the wind being very strong | from the west, she anchored till the turn of j the tide. She brings her regular cargo of . produce consigned to Mr G. W. Binney. A heavy westerly breeze has been blowing | all day in the harbour, which has prevented several vessels from hauling off and coming alongside the wharf The brig Susanne hauled off from the wharf this morning, and is now ready to sail for Samoa.

PORT OF RUSSELL.

Outwakds Coastwise. September 12 — Golden Islb, 78 tons, Matzen, for Auckland, with 118 tons coal. September 14-Vixen, 20 tons, Possi, for Mangonui, in ballast, September 15—Queen, 46 tons, Beale, for Auckland, with 70 tons coal; Ebenezer, 24 tons, Skinner, for Thames, -with 42 tons coal. September 17—Julia Price, 41 tons. Queen, for Thames, with 70 tons coal; Policeman, 62 tons, Evanson, for Thames, with 81 tons coal. September 18—Pawn, 28 tons, Dam, for Auckland, with 43 tons coal.

The barque Corrido arrived at Whangaroa from Lyttleton on Wednesday. The brigantine Resolution and schooner Helena are loading at Whangaroa.

ISLAND SHIPPING.

By the arrival of the Pacific, and through thecourtesy of Mr J. Gillfillan, we are enabled to present our readers with the following in teresing items of news from the South Sea Islands :—

At Tongatabu the whalers Coral, Callao, and Abraham Barker, mated, each with about 300 barrels humpback ; at Hapai the Alascar and Mary Fraser, mated, each with 200 barrels ; and at Varan the Martha and John Howland. The second mate (Mr Woods) of the Abraham Barker, died of heart disease, accelerated by excitement while fast to a whale.

The Auckland whaler Albion was lying off Forioifua with about 160 barrels in.

On arrival at Samoa found the Auckland ketch Pearl with about 3 tons shell and a cargo of pigs, with a portion of which she proceeded to Fiji en route for Auckland, having abandoned the expedition. Some anxiety is expressed for the safety of the schooner Kenilworth, which left Auck land about two months ago. She arrived at Apia safely and left for Keppel Island to load. She was seven or eight days overdue back when the Pacific left.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Lyttelton, this day. The Phoebe with the San Francisco mail left for Dunedin at ten minutes to five yes terday evening. Napikr, this day. The s.s. Southern Cross left for Auckland at 11 o'clock this morning.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as .follows :— For Thames, on Monday next, at 10.30 am. and 530 p.m. For Coromandel, per Hauraki. on Tuesday next, ' at 5.30 p.m. For Samoa, Navigator's Island, this day, at 5 p.m. For Eussell, Wangaroa, and Mongonui, per*Eowena, on Monday next, at 4 p.m. For Kawau and Matakana, per Lady Bowen, on Tuesday next, at 10 a m For the undermentioned place 3, per Taranaki, on Friday 25th instant, as under:— For India, Chini, Mediterranean ports, Continent of Europe, Southern provinces, Australian' Colonies, and the United Kingdom, via Suez, I Southampton, and Brindisi. S, B. Biss, Chief Postmaater.

BIRTH.

Walsh—On 19th inst, the wife of Thomas Walsh of at daughter. .•'.

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

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance ' For the wrong that needs resistance, < For the fmture in the distance. Ami the food that we can de.

Thfre appears to be some singular misap prehension with respect to the utilization of th§ old Supreme Court (site. Somebody has seen in the Cross a few weeks ago, we believe, a kind of chuckle at the failure of the intention to erect a pile of public buildings thereon calculated to do credit to the city. That journal, which delights to malign our institutions and draw a cold wet blanket over everything, took to itself the melancholy pleasure of stating that through the disallowance by the Governor the recent Acts of the Provincial Council to that end made and provided had fallen to the ground, and the City Council, with that vigilant zeal which does them infinite credit, promptly applied by deputation yesterday to the Superintendent to have this unhappy and storm-tossed piece of property given over to them for city purposes. We are told the object was a central depot for nightsoil in lieu of that abolished at Arch Hill; but we believe this statement is a device of the enemy. However, the Council or its inde fatigable Clerk appears to havegivon credence to the Cross, although we had thought that a paragraph in that veracious periodical was not likely to mislead many. However the inter est of the corporate authorities was aroused, and if the prospect of acquiring such a valu able site for utilitarian purposes gave them a momentary throb of pleasure we are glad. However, for the interests of the whole peo ple, we are still more glad to say that the jubilation of our anti-Auckland contem porary is unfounded, andnothing has occurred to prevent the realization of the desire of the Provincial Council to have a noble pile of buildings erected on the old Supreme Court site worthy of the pretensions of the Corinth of the South. It is true that one Act, the Supreme Court Site Grant Em powering Act, has been disallowed, but that had only reference to the purposes to which tho proceeds of the buildings would be de voted. That short measure provided that the reserve should be an education reserve, and that the surplus revenues arising from the public buildings should be applied to purposesi of common school education. This has been disallowed because the Attorney- General thought the nature of the trust too complicated. But it is the Public Buildings Act, that having reference to the erection as well of this pile of buildings as a new Hospital and Lunatic Asylum, that is of real importance, and a certain guarantee as to a technical matter relative to some of the en dowments of those two institutions being given, the Act will be left to its operation. This Act empowers the raising of £40,000 for erecting the Queen - street buildings, and though we are sorry to give pain to the Cross and others to whom the spirit of progress is an irritation and pain, we have the pleasure of saying that with all the expedition that i 3 possible these works will be pushed forward. Instructions as to the style and accommodation requisite have been all completed, and Monday's meet ing of the Public Buildings Commissioners will probably result in the immediate call for plans. It is sad, very. 'Our institutions being all a "disgrace" it will be very melancholy if our pleasant dreams should be rudely disturbed by a new hospital and lunatic asylum, and by a free public library and museum, and other public buildings in Queen-street. We feel sad, we do.

The strong desire felt by many that Mr W. L. Rees should enter public life, has v* c learn induced that gentleman to consent to solicit the suffrages of the electors of Eden for the seat rendered vacant by the lamented death of Mr B.eyeridge. Mr Rees, as we see by advertisement, will take steps promptly to bring his views before the electors, and we think the feeling will be general that he should have an opportunity of making him self acquainted with the nature and working of Provincial institutions, and of exercising those qualifications for public life which he unquestionably possesses in a very high degree. To the Editor :3 Sir, —In reading your valuable paper of Thursday evening last wherein you suggest that the troupe of amateurs, who lately gave a benefit for Mrs Gribble with such successful results should exert themselves on behalf the poor widow Mrs Ryan, I am sure every one who took part in that performance will again come forward "for the cause that lacks assistance." Would it be asking too much ,of the proprietor of the City Hall to give the free use:of it on the occasion, as the hire of such and the heavy cost for music; etc., make a considerable hole in the proceeds of these charitable benefits. And the Prince of Wales Theatre being engaged just now by the Minstrels, who, by-the-bye might give a night's performance in aid of so charitable an object, which would, I am sure, only tend to increase the popularity of these excellent performers. The City Hall being the only available building, if given free would considerably reduce the expenses. I hope all the amateurs who took part in the late performance,.and who are ever ready to assist the distressed, will again .come forward in aid of this equally deservirg —though perhaps not so publicly known—case. And in conclusion I hope they will be^ as, successful in thiß as they were for Mrs Gribble's benefit. Trusting the generous, public will respond when called upon, bear ing in mind that " Many can help one where one cannot help many."—l am, Ac, One Who Took Part in the late Perform ance.—[We commend our correspondent's suggestions. — TZd. E.S:] ■ _. . , It will be seen by the news jfrom] the Is lands, received perPacifie, that the Albion, whaler, was at Samoa a fortnight ago, with 160 barrels of oil on board. This itfan im provemenfc/cbnsidering that she has only|been out about thirteen weeks, j having left here on tfce "22nd of June I^st, .;. )

1 An account of the spread of Good Templary amOng the East Coast natives appears; in the Tauranga Times. At a mfeet ing in the Lake district Mr C. 0. Davis and others advocated the cause. Mr Warbrick, ione of the fathers oi^Europesn settlement in the Bay. of Plenty, stated that upwards of seventy, including• - the leading Arawa chiefs of the Bay of Plenty, had joined the order. At the close of the meeting several leading chiefs signified their approval of the principles enunciated and gave partial proof of their sincerity by be coming Good Templars.

A Good Templar vindicates the cause against the letter of a Good Templar's wife in the following Qrms :—Sir,— A correspon dent in last night's issue of the Stab warns parentsagainstallowingtheirchildrentoattend Temperance lodges. She dreads the evil effects those places will have on the rising generation. Now I am persuaded if we could only call on all the wives of Good Templars they would not have one word of complaint to make against their husbands for being Good Templars. Each would sign her name to her own statement of gratitude to the Order as a means in the hands of Provi dence in turning husbands from drunken ness to sobriety. We are warned in the Bible to train our children in the way % they should go. How can we have our children when grown to man and womanhood sober if we do not train them to it when young. The Spartans trained their children to sobriety by making their slaves drunk, thus showing them the frightful effects of drunk enness. We want to show our children the beauti .s of sobriety by bringing them to the lodges, where all is happiness every member there is well dressed, and has a healthy rosy complexion. On my children's account, and the good it has done me, I am a member of the Order. My lodge is open once a week every Thursday. I have never known it open later than ten o'clock. The Newgate Calendar will inform us, and many convicts could tell us, that they begun their downward course by attending theatres, billiard-rooms, and music saloons. To gratify their passion for these places in after life they resorted to their masters' tills, &c, &c, and so were transported. Now search all the lunatic asylums, gaols, penal settlements, not one poor wretch will tell you that he dates his misery from the time he became a Good Templar. Who knows but good will come out of your correspondent's letter ; perhaps the wives of sober husbands will be induced to come forward and protest publicly in our lodges against your correspondent's letter, and to thank God that their husbands are Good Templars. Thousands of children will assist their mothers in coraiug forward also to say they bless the day their fathers joined the lodge. But will your correspondent be at the meeting of those good and grateful wives. I rather think not. No wife or mother wrote that letter. I have the happiness of being a member of the Order. Yours, &c, A Parent. [We have another letter upon the subject, in which the writer makes such unwarrantable and scandalous charges against our correspondent "Good Templar's Wife," that we decline to insert his communication.]

An important notice of motion affecting the North Shore has been given by Mr 0. Mays, and will be moved at the meeting of the Harbour Board on Tuesday. It is to the effect that the foreshore at Devonport, between tho Naval store, Devonport, and the point latelj leased to Mr Henry Niccol, be made available for Bhip building by leasing it in suitable allotments for 21 years.

The. route of the telegraph wires from Parnell to Auckland is being altered uuder the directorship of Mr Sheath. The wires will now be carried on much stronger posts, and in a more direct reute. The work will be completed in about a week, meantime the communication will only be interrupted for a few minutes at a time.

The California minstrels were again suc cessful |last evening at the Prince .of Wales Theatre in their very excellent entertain ment. It will be unnecessary to go into par ticulars as the public are fully aware of tho various musical and vocal excellencies of this leading colonial company. We notice that a new programme will be presented this evening, when Mr Kelly will appear as the "Charcoal Man." Several burlesques will also be introduced, such as "First Pound for John," j' Obeying Orders," and'"Under the Gaslight." The feast to-night, there fore, is of ah1 elaborate and choice character, which the public will appreciate.

i Pope talks of the trifles that mafoft up the sqm of human things, yet the little manias himself continually worried with matters of little or no moment. As small,insects aDnoy powerful animals, bo do the trifles of human life irritate great minds. M.de Tocqueville affirmed in one of his letters that in moments of great excitement he preserved his compo sure, but was easily disturbed by daily worries. Hazlitt considered that the two things which interrupt the even course of most lives are of the greatest and smallest consequences. Friends in fact, and relations, not unfrequently fall out and never meet again through some trifling misunderstanding which five minutes reasoning might put right. Theodore Hook, a clever novelist, but not by any means a wise and prudent man, asserted, truthfully that the strongest feelings are excited and the bitter est* pangs inflicted by a sudden change in the ordinary, the most common and the most trifling incidents in our lives. He wrote in one of his novels, " To great evils the elastic mind of man expands; it knits itself for immi neht dangers; it withstands great calamities ; bu^ in the more minute changes, intimately connected with its habits and feelings it fails." A very old author of whom every body that reads has heard, namely Plutarch, was of opinion f that men usually repudiate their wives, for great and visible faults, whjle at the same time a prodigious amount of marriage infelicity is due to {petty points of temper, a»d those discordances of taste and manner whichfretthe tenor of daily life. The writers ,andj novelists have constantly met with little worries, and what ever novel you take up, whether Marryat's or Bulwer's, or Mrs. Wobds, (so much sought after by young A uckland'girls at the Young Men's Christian Association,) or of any modern author, you meet with evidences that the authors have been sensibly afflicted with the small stinging cares associated with human existence.

The small social body of Christian people worshipping in the little chapel in Sheridan street, denominated Primitive Methodists, after a long^atruggle have at length secured a good harmonium,, for which they have paid a sum of £33, and whioh will bs of great advantage in assisting the choir. The Sheridan - street people work in the most logical way according to the undeviating laws of nature, committee of this con gregation resQlyea^xjn starting never to be in debt, and so thfy have gone on, adding particle to particle, so to speak, until they have acquired by united effort a very neat and comfortable chapel, a flourishing Sunday schopl, a nice piece of land, a well-filled libr4ry, %P<l at last the harmonium, which much more in harmony with their religious proceedings than the fiddles of other days.

* The vocal and dramatic entertainment ia connection with the Auckland Catholic Literary Institute will take place on Monday evening next,

We notice that Messrs F. Hewen and Brother have opened their new corner tea and grocery establishment to-day under the sign of the Golden Tea Pot. The premises are fitted up in London style, and give a splendid appearance to that part of Queen and Wellesley-streeta. The decorations and handsome lettering are by Messrs Holland and Butler, whose artistic work may be seen in so many parts of the city. Adjoining the Pantheon Clothing Mart, which will be opened this evening with a large and valuable stock adapted to the tastes of all classes of the people. Like its nighbour, Messrs Ford, Potter and Co.'s premises are fitted up in the very best style. We shall take another opportunity for referring to this handsome block of build* ings which adds another to the many im provements of late in our cityfarchitecture. In the case before his Worship yesterday at the Rfsident Magistrate's Court, viz., Davies v. Maddox, in which it was alleged that plaintiff's cows had been wrongfully impounded by defendant, his Worship re served judgment until Friday next. As tins case occupied nearly the whole of the day several other cases were adjourned until next Court day.

?|We have received a long letter signed " Frank," vindicating the treatment accorded to M'Cullough, the man whom we believe to be now most unjustly incarcerated in Mount Eden Gaol. The writer does not even allege that he was present on the occasion, but having had " reason to investi gate the matter thoroughly," directly con tradicts the statements of eye witnesses. It does not require our correspondent to preach to us about " our very excellent and intelligent local police force." We have the very best opinion of them, officers and men, and we are many a time their self elected champion against frivolous charges ; but in this case we believe M'Cullough to be a wronged man, and most respectable men express to us their readiness to prove it; and we value the letter of our correspondent on the subject exactly at the value of a glass of grog. The following is the rota of attendance of Petty Sessions for Tuesday, September 22 :— Messrs David Hean, G. Yon der Heyde, J. Herbert Home, W.J. Hurst, T. M. Haultain, Edward Isaacs, Thomas Brutton Kenderdine, Henry Mahon Jervis, Colonel William Henry Kenny, D. M. Luckie, Thomas Macffarlane, Joseph May, George Manners Mitford, Henry Douglas Morpeth.

Divine services to-morrow (Sunday) at the usual hours at the following places of worship -. — Newton Kirk, by Rev Dr. Wallis. Morning, " Daniel finding the lost dream ;" evening, " The new science of comparative religion."—St. Matthew's Church, services in aid of the Sunday-school—morning, by Right Rev Dr. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland ; afternoon and evening, by Rev R.. S. Has sard. —Beresford Congregational Church, by Rev Warlow Davies—morning and!evening. The subject of the evening's discussion Will be " The life of Jacob."—United Methodist Free Church, sermons by Rev G. B. Turner. —Wellesley-street Baptist Church, by Rev. P. H. Cornford. —Edwardes street by Rev W. Tinsley. — Cook- street, services as -usual. —Sheridan-street, Mr Booth.

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT). London, July 28

COLONISTS AT HOME.

A most powerful article, which should be in the bands of all persons interested in the future of the colonies, has appeared in this month's number of the St. James' Magazine. Its object is to show how inadequately the colonies are represented in the Councils of the Home Government, and under the title of " The Pariahs of tho Empire," it en deavours, and very successfully, to -prove that in proportion to their importance as an integral portion of the Greatest Empire in the World our outlying possessions and their interests are grossly overlooked ; and, indeed, to use a slang expression, "sat upon." The title of the paper is derived from a passage in one of Sam Slick's books, in which, after referring to the absence of any social position in home circles conceded to colonists, he refers to English colonists thus:—" They are a mixed race ; they have no blood. They are like our free niggers ; they are emancipated, but; they have not the same social position as the whites. The fetters are off, but the caste, as they call it in India, remains. Colonists are Pariahs of the Empire." Now although these lines were the result of Judge Haliburton's English observations twenty years ago they are just as true now as they were then. Colonists at home have no position whatever. The very fact of a man being a returned colonist seems to militate against him, and as for a " born colonial" he is looked upon as a kind of strange animal, a sort of Hritish orang-outang. It is true that Borne few returned colonists appear in society, but only in cases where they have powerful friends at home, or are exceedingly well connected. In most cases they make a dismal failure of it, and through no fault of their own. Bobbin, the cotton spinner from Bradford, who has bought a noble castle and park from a hard up nobleman, is presented at Court; he is at once taken by the hand, and you run up against Bobbin and the Bobbinses every where^ at all the garden parties and fStes of xhe season. On the other hand poor Apteryx and his wife, who are really a vast deal more presentable than Bobbin and his party, are introduced by 'the Colonial Secretary and there's an end on't. Perhaps the Duke of Edinburgh who has a good memory for faces may say, " Isn't that the man who gave us a lunch and some pigeon shooting at Auckland; if it is,send him an invitation to the next State Ball." And so Apteryx gets a help that way, but even then people say who is Apteryx ? Now this kind of thing should not be, because colo nists are as much citizens of the Empire as West Riding manufacturers, and have every, bit as much right to considerations and decent treatment. Why are not some appointments in the Colonial Office for instance made from the ranks of colonists themselves ? .It is true that Lord Carnarvon is doing his best to acquaint himself with the wants and wishes of the colonies, and with that view gives breakfasts, to which are invited' his Under- Secretaries and any leading colonists whom he may think intelligent and likely persons. This is more than any previous Secretary has done, and it is a step in a practical direction. Again, why is there never a Governor jof colonial birth or standing appointed ?. And in the matter of decorative orders, it seems to have been thought that the order of St. Michael and St. George, having been created for Greeks and Maltese, was good enough for colonists, and the high grade of even this lowest rate honour have been reserved for Englishmen, and only the lbwest rank ac corded to colonials. Everything that can be done to degrade the condition of the colonies in the eyes of the Empire seems to find Savour with the British Statesman. The writer of the paper in the St James' Magazine most ably and exhaustively" reviews the at tempt made under Lord Granville (especially) to dismember* the Empire,' happily in vain. " A greater blot on English statesmen, and on English rule, can scarcely be found than that which will Burvive in the history of the nation in connection with this formidable, and audacious attempt to dismember the Empire," Attd the writer is unhappily of

opinion that "the snake is scotched, Jiot | ] killed." He anticipates a renewal of these ] dastardly attempts, of a re-organization ot j the dismemberment party. His hope rests, \ however, on the Conservative, whose policy < regarding the colonies has been distinctly ] enunciated by Mr Disraeli. ■ THE ANNEXATION OF FIJI. _ J Commodore Goodenough's voluminous re port on Fiji has just been published, and . there can be no doubt as to the annexation of those islands by the British Government. The report speaks of them in the highest terms as a field for settlement for enter prising Englishmen \ extols their fertility, their fine harbours, and their central position as a Pacific station. The report also states the conviction of the commissioners that . the future of the present settlers entirely depends upon the present action of the Government, since the result of their refusal to annex would simply be anarchy and utter ruin. Under the circumstances there is nothing left for the Government but to consent, and indeed the present temper of the country and the House is strongly m I favour of this small addition to the Empir*. THE EARL OF PEMBROKE'S CONTEMPLATED MARRIAGE. Your old friend and co-operative book maker, the Earl of Pembroke, who by the • way makes a capital minister, is going to marry a lady ten years older than himself. Lady Gertrude Talbot is his fiance.?., and she was born in 1840, whilst the Earl was born in 1850. The future Countess's younger sister is the Countess of Brownlow, and her elder sister is Marchioness of Lothian. ROCHEFO3T ACIIVE AGAIN. Rochefort is opening the ball, and has already published the first number of his Lanterne. It is a curious little book, full of caustic jokes, all at the expense of the French Government, and orbited both in French and English. Marshal McMahon catches it terribly. He is reminded of all his little failures, not omitting Sedan, bat he is not alone in his misery. Not a member of the Cabinet escapes, and the Lanterne is cal culated to do a deal of mischief. Of course the French authorities have taken sum mary steps to prevent the importation of thej concern into France, but Rochefort has set his wits to work to circumvent them, and is getting them over the frontiers by means of pigeons. The book is photographed on thin paper, so that the birds can carry a quantity of the light material. PRICE OF LAND. The price of land promises shortly to be i come almost fabulous in amount, and very : soon only the wealthiest persons will be able to hold or at any rate purchase what is already ' looked upon as a great luxury. Many of the ' trading and manufacturing classes who make i collossal fortunes imagine that their gentility ' is not complete until they are land-owners ; ; but they think that as soon as they possess • an.estate they are "men of family." The ' consequence ofythis is that estates of any size are at a premium, and likely to become I much more valuable. The wealthier of the ' nobility, who also have a mania for land, vie • with each otherjin the acquisition of territory. . The other day Lord Clifford gave the Earl of ' Dunmore £100,000 for the Island of Harris, . in the Hebrides, a wild desolate tract, the entire rental of which only amounts to £2,500. Forty years' purchase. SCARCITY OF SERVANTS. The servant grievance remains as great a nuisance as ever. In London it is all but impossible to get servants at all, and when Obtained they ara generally useless. The other day, in reply to an advertisement from -1 a servant wanting a situation, there came no 3 less than 120 letters, most of them from 3 ladies of quality anxious to engage the • advertiser. The register office keepers must 3 be making fortunes. Their doors are beseiged f the day long by strings of carriages. It is 2 not long since an instance occurred of a cook • who had been engaged to go to a family out s of town threw up her situation upon her 1 arrival for no other reason than that a dog- J cart, instead of the family carriage, had been 1 sent to meet her at the station. She felt her > dignity deeply insulted thereby. J GENTLEMANLY CARD-PLAYERS 1 One of thefWestEnd Clubs is just now » engaged in an interesting investigation which J is exciting a good deal of attention in fashion- V able circles. A young man well known in J society played ecarte with his " friends " at 1 this club for £100 a game, and by midnight i had won £800. By that time, however, fc he was so drunk that the waiters of the 3 jclub advised him to go home, and 3 in fact asked him to leave the club. To this. a, h6 assehtbd, but his "friends" persuaded & :him to go to their chambers and finish the 9 night there. He did so, and says that next morning when he woke he found a metno • randum to say that in addition to the £800 : which he had first won and then lost, he j owed to various persons £2,400, for which • he had given 1.0.U.'s He has no recollection ? of anything of the kind, and so a committee 1 is now investigating the affair privately.

INTERESTING MEETING OF NATIVES AT THE THAMES.

AT three o'clock on Saturday afternoon last -his Honor the Superintendent held a meeting with the natives at Shortland, ths principal purpose of which was to introduce Mr Holloway to them, and to afford him an opportunity of seeing the Maoris. The meeting was held in front of Taipari's house, arid as the Native Lands Court is now sitting at Shortland there was a larger attendance than there otherwise would have been. Amongst those present were Tukukino and Hohepa te Rauhihi, two of the principal obstructives to the opening of Ohinemuri. Mr Sheehan, Mr Puckey, Mr Mackay, and a number of Europeans were present. Mr Mackay acted as interpreter throughout. His Honor said : Taipari, chiefs and people here assembled, I wish to introduce to you a gentleman who has come all the] way from England to see New Zealand. New Zealand is very much spoken of at home now, and he is desirous on j behalf of a number of his fellow countrymen in England to see this country, and to see the people of it. He has riot come out on behalf of great men, but; he has come out on behalf of those who till the soil and earn their bread by hard labour.. They have read a good deal at home about New Zealand, and have heard many stories about it, and they have sent out a gentleman on whom they can rely to look at the land and bring them home a faithful report of the country and the people. There are many people at home who have a fear of the Maoris, and they are very reluctant to come here and dwell amongst you lest they should be placed in danger. 'Ihis is owing to reports which have reached them re garding your character I am anxious that this gentleman, Mr Holloway, should see you himself, and converse with you, and be enabled to report to his people at home that you are as good and as peaceable as their own neigh bours there. And I have promised Mr Holloway that in this province he shall re ceive a warm and hospitable reception wher ever- he travels among the native people. Mr Holloway has already been in Otago and Canterbury ; he has been in Nelson, in Wel lington and in Taranaki; and now he his come to' Auckland to see you for himself and converse with, you. He is writing down what he does see, that he may be able to tell the people at home, from his own obser vation, the tyuth and facts <>f the matter.

He has already receivi- TyTZT"" fi impression of New ZeaJ„_ ka^J! DNilft 1 gone. He proceeds from." . T?s "* ha |, gonui, the Bay of Islands, ~' %*i^»t.« other settlements, and on bis i*tu^ \'«^ I proceed to Hawke's Bay and to w5%t3 and from thence return home, and -^Iffi]!^ m he will not be away more than W*iv* ' m He will then report what he has >£_*?s 1 country. I will be glad if you S_ * «& 1 Mr Holloway as you have -welcomed^r I European before, lam sure he Trill v"?" B to hear those expressions, and I s_[ jJJI-fM w wherever he travels in thiscotmttyh^la- B received with welcome by the Mwrii—P- § Rapana, as one of the principal dimi' t I the district, was the first to speat w I aaid : Welcome, the Superintendent »„j x? visitor. {To Mr Holloway.) "VfaSL^ 1 see the people and the land. It jgrreTc * & to judge. So many Europeans h a7B 2_* I that I (meaning the Maori people) wifln! t nobody soon. Nevertheless, welcome J* \ you and your Europeans to come to Han'J? ' I shall be inthe wrong in the WWw fi the number of Europeans that come .5 they will perhaps abuse me. If they ootid v i as one people with the Maoris it is^u; 55? a the Europeans do justice to the natives' an* H they are as one people, it is all'right ' .Ngakapa te Whanaunga said : WeUy, « Mr Holloway, the man from England--t£, 1 stranger from lihat land we have aUhetifty! il so often, but have not seen. Come tad mth 1 people of this country. Comeandseeug whoi! 1 troubled by these Europeans whohavealieadv II come,.and by the Governors who have co»Z II Who knows whether, when you eome^w I you will behave yourself well tons?S^l ; § knows whether you will be as favourably di* !§ posed to us when you arrive in Jmmberiasat I present We are gratified that j^bu have conn f heretoseeus. Ifwhatyousayisasgobdas^ I'/-.'»1'/-.'» the Superintendent has said, we are satigGed! I What often causes trouble between ns^sal 'I new men is that they do not understand the m customs we have derived from our uceitora ■ to go freely into any house, and they j tell us to get away. You are welcome to \ come here and to bring with , jon, the ■ laws of the Queen, which have heea set |$ up for the good of the whole of us, ttoli^- f peans and the Maoris. We natives'aiJelookt • 1 ing anxiously as to the conduct of the Euro- jj peans. This town of Shortland is the thufl 1 in position of the great towns, and we wait I to know what will be. our position as^especta | ourselves and the Europeans. The Queen'g r son came here, anct he did nothing for uj, I Governor Bowen did'something, butasforthe ! Queen's son he did nothing. If you coihe I and give us plenty of money for our .land j| we will be well pleased for it. '■&£?■< I Parakaia, of Coromandel, also spoke "in I terms of welcome, and then several nitnes ! had a hot dispute amongst themselves, which Mr Mackay and Mr Puckey had some cliffi- I culty in allaying. H Mr Mackay told the disputynte ,tha| they I ought to be ashamed of themselves io behave If so before a stranger. j[; Mokena said : Greetings to you, 1^ jj Holloway. You will go back to youj place 1 ,in England. You have a favourable imprei- j sion of us now, but when you get back to I your place in England yon may hear that;' | disturbance has arisen. Ido do not know | whetherthat will be so or not; ; * ?■■■■: |. Riwai to Kiore : 1 must welcome Jtn; 1 therefore I say greetings to you., I did not i know you were a new European when I went ' to see the Superintendent, or I sheidd hive spoken to you then. You have come in precisely the same way as the G6vemos ;; ' before this, who talked with us in the same* , HI 1 way as we are now talking. The Governor | has said that the natives and the Europeani ! should be as one people.. You find us - |- ' living together as one people. There is no fence between the pakehas and myself. If the j . -1 1 European behaves well to me, I, his servant, Vv § • will behave well to him, and will shot turaj'? | [ against him. I have arranged with; tbe|-;^I Europeans ; I have given them a portion of v I the land and I hold a portion myself. The -. I greater portion is inthe hands of the Eu»-^ 1 peaiiSj the smaller portion is in my hands,! k You-Can 1 take these words to the Queen: It,s is .for the Europeans to : commence .any. \ aggressive movement; I shall begin no sach' I action. If lamto be taken and seized I will be -taken without giving any offence. What I j 1 wish is, that there shallbe no encroachment by ; ; the Europeans and myself, and that is wh^fe: ' I want you to tell the Queen. I am now y waiting the arrival of the Governor. He has.,,: "■ said tha,t the natives and the Europeans. :M««|; ' to be as one skin, and I am waiting that he 5" ' may confirm thafy and fiiSd' us living peaceably^ L together., As far as lam concerned 'I with '" to live in peace with the Europeans. = Hotereni Taipara and Tamati Waka also ' welcomed Mr Holloway. • . ' Reha Aperahama said: If you had come i here to set up any new thing, or to make a 1 * 'ni~ arrangement, I should have much toaay 1■ to you, but as it is I have not much. You have simply come to look at the country, and I say come and look at it. During the speeches of the. na'tiyes they j showed a disposition to slide into the dis cussion rbf political questions, concerning , roads through the country, and SO forth. .:... |. Mr Holloway then through Mr Mackay I thanked the natives for the hearty welcome , they had given him. He said he was pleased 3 to find the Europeans and natives living on j friendly terms with one another^ and he 3 hoped good feelings would be maintained, f The men he would bring out were f men who -,»; 3 would *ettfe downy and cultivate the land, 3 . and live peaceably among them. There s wohld be no connection between these men t and fighting men.,' He ;would represent at j home the feelings they had expressed. y His Honor thanked the natives for the * hearty welcome they had given Mr Holloway. \ He .was not a messenger from the Queen, but p he came from the Queen's people in England. He came from the Queen's loyal subjects, 1 and wa3 glad to find that they were loyal to 3 the Queen. Mr Holloway would be glad to ;;g \ tell this people at home the kind reception he m T had received, and if any of them canwcut | , here it would not be to take away the Una m . of the Maoris, but to reside upon lands wwcn Mr Mackay and others had purchased from " them. ■ . - -fj- The meeting concluded with -three mms l for the Queen, and three for M^ Holloway. ' — Tliames Advertiser.

THE REV. JOHN CRUMP ON MUSIC.

A large number of persons attended at the Christian Young Men's Rooms last evening to hear a-discpnrsej;by the Rev John Crump, Wesleyan Minister, on "Music : its System of Notation and Methods of Music." Colonel Haultaiu occupied the chair, and the Be* Alex. Reid offered prayer. The chairman in introducing the lecturer said that as he knety bo little about music he would not detain the audience with any remarks of his own on-. ■*^subject upon whioE he was but illqualifiedtofspeak.'butwouldcallatonceupon Mr Crump for his lecture. The lecturer °n rising was welcomed by applauße, and after paying a high compliment to Mr Bloomfield * for his indefatigable exertions in endeaVO^rv ~ ing to popularize the Tonic Sol-fa system of^: teaching, called upon the choir to os sing: " The hills rejoice," "" which was ■:-« rendered in a highly efficient manner. ||| Mr Crump then proceeded with his lecture; IM quoting largely from Dr. Burney, Hawkins, K MM Hersphell, Oliphant,fMorley, Hullah, JSatham^m-, and numerous writers on music in encyclo pedias and magazines, Indeed waWMNttl

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