SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATER : This evening, 4AG : tomotto* morning, 6.11

dUN-B.gr : ThU avenlnr, 5.40 ; BUN-RISE: To morrow morning, 6.15 MOON'S AGS: New Moon, 11th, 549 a.m.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. Dauntless, topsaiFsch'-oner, Millar, from Dunedin Speedwell, ketch, from Wangarei Queen, schooner, from Russell Panny Kelly, ketch, from Opotiki Fannie, cutter, from Wangapoa Sunbeam, schooner, from Waipu

DEPARTURES.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

For New Caledonia aud Norfolk Island—Dauntless,

schooner For London—-Countess of Kintore. ship, and Thames,

barque, early For San Francisco, via Honolulu—City of Melbourne, doubtfnl For SydneyW Melbourne-Victoria, s.s., three days after arrival

VESSELS EXPECTED

City of Melbourne, s s„ from Sydney, about 4th Sept. Macgregor, s.s., from San Francisco and Honolulu.

abmt 10th prox . Victoiia, s.s , from Sydney, about 4th September Magellan Cloud, from Chatham Islands, early- Loch Urr barque, from London ; sailed 3rd June Ferndale,'barque, from London ; sailed May 6 Oxford, ship, from London : sailed 7th June Pearl, ketch, from Soulh Se_ Islands, early Pacific, scho. ner, from South Sea Islands Dauntless, schooner, from the South Wait»ngi, ship, from London ; loading Stanley Castle, barque, from London ; sailed .lien Tsin, barque, from T_aunceston Glimpse, barque, from Newcastle ■ Harriet Armitage, barque, from Dunedin Prince Alfred, barquentine, from Lyttelton Jackson, ship, from London ; sailed Zealandia, ship, from London ; sa'led Kenitworth, schooner, from the Islands Flirt, brigantine, from Oamaru Mera, three-masted schooner, from Oamaru, early Elm Grove, barque, from Lyttelton, early Moneynick, barque, from Newcastle, early Belle Brandon, schooner, from Levuka, early Eyno, brigantine, from Lyttelton; sailed 28th August East Lothian, barque, from Lyttelton; sailed 28th August

IMPORTS.

Per Dann'le-S from Dunedin: —170 boxes, 35 chests tea, 8 qr-casks rum, 4 do. sherry, 8 do whiskey, 157 mats sugar, 10 boxes, IGI packages, 50 hhds, 150 packages, 174 do, 250 bags.—M. Niccol, agent.

The topsail schooner Dauntless arrived this afternoon from Dunedin, which port she left on the 28th ultimo. She brings a cargo of Sauthern produce consigned to M. Niccol.

The ship City of Auckland was brought alongside the wharf to-day, and taken into the berth lately occupied by the Miltiades. The brig Wave was brought in out of the stream this afternoon, and took up a position alongside one of the eastern tees of the wharf.

The barquentine Prince Alfred and the barque Elm Grove are both advertised in latest Lyttelton papers as loading for Auck land.

The three-masted schooner Elderslie ar rived at Port Chalmers, from Kaipara, on the 23rd ultimo.

According to the Southern papers the wreck of the Snrat at < 'atlin's river is fast being engnlphecl by the sand. At low water only her figure-head is visible, besides the foremast and foreyard. The brigantine Helena and the schooner Fiery Cross were to came oil the gridiron this afternoon.

The, schooner .Jessie Henderson has nearly completed her loading for Dunedin. She will sail in a few days. The ketch Speedwell which was capsized during a squall last Tuesday while lying at anchor under Wangarei, arrived in harbour early this morning. She appears very little the worse for her temporary immersion.

The brig Tower Hill arrived at Lyttelton from Wangapoa on the 26th ult., after an excellent run of six days. The brig Craig Ellachie, from Kaipara to Lyttelton, arrived at the latter port on the 27th nit., after a run of only 4^ days. In a gale at Lyttelton on the 26_h ultimo the barquentine Prince Alfred had her stern slightly injured against the No 3 wharf, where she lay at the time. The. barque Eleanor, from Newcastle to Lyttelton, had been 31 days on the 29th ult, and her arrival was aaxiously looked for We have noticed more than once in Lyttel ton papers shipping paragraphs stating that on certain days the signal was run up for all vessels in harbour to let go their second anchors. This is a precaution which it is somewhat strange is not taken by the harbour authorities here. We are well aware that our favored harbour is not subject to the rude bursts to which Port Cooper is liable, but for all that there are plenty of occasions on which it would be as well for a regulation of the kind to be in force. Another want in Auckland to which allusion is sometimes made by ship captains visiting our port is that of a noon signal ball to enable them to correct their chronometers. We believe that asignal of this kind does exist in Wellington, though it is not proerly looked after. Now that code storm signals are talked of, and meteoro logical telegrams are already instituted, it would not be going much out of the way to introduce such a simple meridianal record as that referred to. *?

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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1874.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For thef«tur» In the distance, ifl th. ioo4 that we can do.

To-morrow the electorate of Waitemata will be called upon to ratify its former choice of a representative in Parliamwit, or- a contin gency which may the gods avert, to place Mr J. S. Macfarlane in a position from which he can work his purposes to some effect. The prizes in view must be something un usual, and much beyond what had been generally supposed, or this persistency to gain admission to Parliament by hook or by crook would not have been shown. We have not a doubt that the electors of Waitemata will not place themselves in a position which will make them a byword in the colony. It would be amusing, if the sight werenot contemptible, to calmly view some of the ruses and dodges proceeding, and the changes that have been wrought in some since the struggle in the same place a few weeks ago. The simple oversight on the part of Mr Vofn der Heyde which has caused this present election would not have been pressed by any' one of generous instincts ; and yet we have been told that even this election will not fix the seat, but that another petition will be presented on the grounds that Mr Yon der Heyde was an alien when his name was first placed on the e lectoral roll. The Attorney-General's opinion has perhaps stifled this idle threat, but the intention was there, and it is very dirty. The whole thing is indeed so dirty that we should not wonder at the means em. ployed any more than we might at the prodigious log-rolling intended. has been circulated that Mr Yon der Heyde is an Orangeman. By this it is intended to presnt him to the Catholics as a red rag to a bull. Whether it may be to that gentleman's disgrace or honour, hisjluck or his misfortune, at any rate it is a fact that he has never, either here or anywhere else, been a member of the Orange institution. We have also heard that it has been alleged that he is a "Papist" in disguise, this being understood as something very bad indeed. By this doubtless it is intended to prejudice against him the Protestant vote. We woulc. suggest for short that -he is the devil incarnate, that individual being generally regarded as .objectionable to all parties. But; really this is very low. Fair, honourable, and manly play is bonny' play, in politics as in everything else. Mr Yon der Heyde is the same to-day, the same in declarations, in principles, and in party that ,he was when he stood before the electors a few weeks ago. He is a supporter of |Mr Vogel, as he always was, but he will not be dragged through the mire if others will He supports the, abolition of the provinces i root and branch, but he will not sell Auckland if others will. Money, which is freely flowing, may produce changes in electoi s and prominent supporters of Mr. Yon der Heyde before may by change of front show how they have touched the accuwed thing. But Waitemata has too much self-respect to do qther thau endorse its former choice,

Should it be otherwise, Mr. J. S. Macfarlan will not sit in Parliament. It is well 6 known that his entrance into the Chamber would raise a question of ''privilege,' and that so intensely do members feel the slight put upon Parliament by his boast of bis conduct towards Mr John Mcleod that it is firmly bf lieved his appear ance would be challenged and his place vacated by a vote of the House. We call on Waitemata to save itself from such affront. This is to be done it the ballot-box to-

morrow

The vote of confidence carried at Mr Reacle,. Wood's meeting on Friday night most certainly did not express the feelings of the majority of people present. Only a very few out of the large assemblage of electors voted, and it was evident from the cordial reception which Mr Sheehan received that he, far more than their own member, carried the sympa thies of the meeting. We have only space to refer to one or two points of the address. Mr Wood told his constituents that the two last of the three clauses of the resolutions were mere bogus additions, and that Mr Vogel's latest utterances showed that he did not intend them in earnest. To prove thi g he quoted Mr Vogel's amendment on Mr Fitzherbert's resolutions as " the latest of that gentleman's utterances on the subject," and as the " foundation on which any Bill must rest." Mr Wood was proved by Mr Sheehan to have suppressed the truth in one case, and we charge him with having done so in another. Iv the very speech in which Mr Vogel moved his amendment we find him saying, in addition to what Mr Wood quoted, «'Supposing there had been no compact of 1856 he believed the House could not do better now than make one, and establish the localisation of the land revenue." Yet Mr Wood tells us, and would have us believe, that Mr Vogel's "latest utterances " indicate that the localisation of the land revenue will be abolished. The fact is that Mr Vogel him self evidently does not know clearly what he means. He shifts from day to day and trims his sails to catch the passing breeze. His object ia to keep in office. To do that he must have a majority ; and to have the majority he must be ready to unsay to day what he solemnly averred a3 right, wise, and honest yesterday. Mr Wood must know that Mr Vogel, in the debate in ques tion, loudly denounced as "dishonest" any attempt to alter the land compact of 185(5. People may differ as to what is wise or un wise ; but there can be no difference as to what is honest and dishonest, even when Mr Wood find Mr Vogel are the expounders on the respective «ides. But Mr Wood and our other members have to learn that the public are getting sick of this one-man-power. They are sick of hearing what Mr Vogel in tends and docs not intend in the inner recesses of his own mind. They want to have a voice in their own affairs, and want to base their opinions on the honest merit- of the casa, and not on trickery better suited td despotic rule than to the free Govern ment of a free people. Mr Wood says the Government intend cheating the South. Mr O'Rorke, as good a judge, says they are cheating Mr Wood and the North. Ml* Macandrew and other lead ing members say that the Government in tend t» make themselves mas*ers of the position by having both parties at their meicy, and that they will then do aa they like with the] colony, and act simply with a view to renewing their own lease of office. Other Southern members of equal weight believe on the contrary, that the re-confirma tion of their land monopoly, solemnly pro mised to them by the Hon. Mr Rejnolds in the name of the Ministers, will be enacted. Who and what are simple electors to believe amidst these contradictions, and surrounded as they a;e by all this mystification aud trick-try. The only safe conrse is the one which their own sound instincts have already dictated. Let them throw aside as un worthy of notice all these underhanded, dark, and devious ways. Let them take no heed of the proceedings of caucuses in a ministerial dining-room, or of the opposite inferences, which their members may draw from scanty hints or sage shakes of Minis terial heads. Let them judge by what th ey have officially on record before them, and by that alone. If not prepared to do this there is but one alternative. Abolish not only the provincas, but the constitution altogether. Make Mr Vogel dictator for three years, and leave h*im unfettered by the conflicting interests of the 120 members around him.

An old man named Joshua Storks writes from Newmarket detailing the difficulty he has in earning a living ; also, furnishing an account of the way ho was compelled to leave his farm on the Kopuru block, Wairoa. His story is not an uncommon one of the distresses which old age and feebleness suffer in the struggle for existence, but we do not see that any good purpose would be attained by the publication of the letter. w

We learn by telegram from our Hokitika correspondent that the steamer Hero was the only steamer advertised as on berth for this port in the Melbourne papers, per Alhambra. She was to leave Melbourne on the Bth inst.

With reference to the sick benefit society in connection with the Phoenix foundry, " One of Them " writes that the apprentices in that establishment first set the example to older hands. The apprentices have a society of their own which was in existence long be fore the journeymen's society, and from which members receive 7s Gd per week in case of sickness. We have not space for our corres pondent's letter in exteuso, but the above gives its substance.

The telegram from our Wellington corres pondent respecting the Attorney-General's opinion of Mr Yon der Heyde's jjualification as a candidate for Waitemata is fully con firmed by the written opinion of the At torney-General, which has been received by Mr Yon der Heyde That gentleman in the first instance submitted the question to Mr Gillies, who was fully satisfied of his right to represent the district, but in order to make assurance idohbly certain the case was stated by M.v Gillies for the Attorney-General, who has ! forwarded the following opinion : — Wellington, sth Sept., 1874. To T.B. Gillies Esq;, Barrister, Auckland. I think that he being..registered would-be entitled to vote. The'roll is deemed conclusive as to the.right to vpte. 1 think that he would be deemed to be duly registered, though, if the objection , had jbeeu made, he might have been struck 1 -off by the revising officer. I therefore think that as he is not now disqualified, and is en titled to ~vote„ Mis in all respects a qualified candidate.— (Signed) James Prendergast. From the foregoing it will be seen that there is not the slightest foundation for tip report so unwarrantably raised against Mr Yon der Heyde, \ /

We -learn that Mr Tonks and Captan? Casey are candidates for the seat at the Mar bour Board vacated by Mr Fraser. I lie election takes place to-morrow.

Professor Ewald, the accomplished Hebrew scholar, has been sentenced to imprisonment for three months because he wrote an article in which Prince Bismarck was compared to Frederick 11. and Napoleon Hl.—with the former in " his unrighteous war with Austria and his ruination of religion and morality,' and with the latter in "picking out the best time possible for robbery and plunder. Professor Ewald has always been a strenuous opponent of the unification of Germany.

It is a remarkable faot that on the night of the debate on Mr Vogel's Licensing Act Amendment Bill (says the Tribune) that there were more drinks sold at Bellamy's than on any other night of the session. The receipts were £9 higher than they had been previously —a practical protest, we presume, by certain members against the views propounded to the House by the eloquent and earnest advo cate of total abstinence.

Apropos to some of the members being burned in effigy in Auckland, the following conversation was overheard in the lobby yes terday. A wag was chaffing a certain mom btr from Auckland about his effigy being stuffed with kauri gum. The hon. member laughing, said "Kahore, I don't care a F.I.G. for them." The wag gave the retort by say ing "No, but you're Lucky that you were not in Auckland at the time." — Tribune.

The Vivian Troupe gave a very good entertainment at the Theatre on Saturday evening. The proceedings opened with the "Silent Woman," a simple farce with one incident, which was very well represented. Mr Vivian gave some half dozen comic songs with much success. His "Happy old man," was a fine impersonation. Miss Blanche gave a single trapeze performance, and Mr Booth sang an original song, which hit at the noisy market show, and "Old Boots." Mr Ned Mason was as frolicksome as ever, snd Miss Melville sang the " Pose Shamrock, and Thistle ;" or the " Auckland Flower Girl," which was encored.

If ever there was a time when members of the House of Representatives ought to be satisfied with their £105 it is this year 1874. For the session just ending will have been the shortest on record. If the Assembly is prorogued to-morrow it will have sat exactly 50 days. Yet this very session, when the number of days members have had to spend in Wellington has fallen from 92 to 50, is the time they have selected for increasing their honorarium by fifty per cent. For eight weeks' work they are coolly voting themselves £157 10s. In other words they are paying themselves for their services to the country at the rate of nearly £20 a week, or of upwards of £1000 a year. The belf-interest displayed by such an appropriation is really somewhat scandalous. We are curious to see the division list, and to learn who they were that voted with the ayes. There are men in the present House who are known to lie in needy circumstances, of whom it has been publicly said that they dare not pass an Insolvency Act for fear of becoming its first victims. Their votes and influence must surely havo carried great weight. It must have been a happy moment for them when the House conceived the extraordinary notion of increasing their pay by one-half at the very time that, thauks to the unwonted brevity of the session, their expenses had been diminished by three-fifths.— Canterbury Press.

On general principles everything that par takes of revenge should be frowned down. A crowd of fanatics have brokod loose in Wis consin, and are crusading the milliners'pray ing and begying them not to deal out to their wives and daughters, the intoxicating Spring bonnet and tho ravishing pork-pie hat with ribbons on a side dish."

In connection with its report of the late fire in Dunedin the Daily Times suggests the advisability of introducing " peg-clocks," being a cheap and useful description of tell tale clocks. These clocks will show whether the watchman does his duty of going his rouudß, being not only a protection to the employer, but to the watchman who can, in case of misadventure, in so far as showing proof of going his rounds is concerned, be acquitted of blame. If the watchman does not pull down the peg every quarter of an hour, or any particular time to which the clock is sot, the clock records show the fact. These clocks are used in model gaols, factories, and all large establishments where night watchmen are employed in Great Britain and Ireland.

Sir George Bowen is very affable and con descending writes the Melbourne correspond ent of a. Southern paper. He has none of that starched, prim exclusiveness which is too! often a salient feature of colonial magnates. The only doubt is whether he is not a little bit too affable. His excessive sociability reminds one of the Yankee's des cription of Judge Slickson. ' Yes, you are quite right : Judge Slickson is very sociable. When I travelled with him last fall on a Mississippi steamboat he begged my tobacco, borrowed my knife, put -Ms feet up in my lap, and spat all over me. \ Sociable ? yes, he's a darned sight too sociable fori my taste.' Aud really his Excellency's sociability tends to become rather too sociable at times. The other day when attending the meet of the Melbourne hounds he went up to see the sight from the tower of a house, and afterwards accepted the hospitality of its owner, the latter being a man who was lately sent to gaol for a dis graceful cowardly piece of rowdyism, and whoße wealth had been scraped together by public-house keeping in the early days pf the colony. Certainly it cannot be said that our estimable Governor is over particular as to his company, and such incidents as this tend to explain the very ' mixed ' character of the gatherings which enjoy his hospitality on festive occasions."

A correspondent writes :—Sir,—Can you tell :me what' religious denomination our newly-appointed (Governor belongs to, and oblige, yours truly, G. A. Douglas.—[We have no information regarding the religious belief of the' present holder of the title, but we understand;that the family is 4 Catholic one.-—Ed. E.S.]

The disbanded Members of the late Volun teer Fire Brigade-met on .Saturday evening, at Mr Robertson's, Hotel; Vulcan Lane, and resolved to present to Mr Asher, their late indefatigable superintendent, with a silver salver bearing a suitable inscription. A com mittee was then appointed for carrying out the project.

I The bakers of Auckland held a meeting on Saturday evening at the British hotel. Mi- Bell in the chair. A very large nuiriber of bread-moulders were present, and took much interest in the proceedings. It was an nounced that the Bakers' ball will take place .on the 9th instant. The secretary stated that ten new members had joined the asso ciation, and the sick fund was well-supported. The statement of accounts shewed for the last three months, receipts, £8 12s 10d ; expendi ture, 4s 7d. There was a balance of £58 7s in the bank to the credit of the society, and the amount of sick fund in hand was £2 Bs. The business was of a practical character, and throughout was conducted in a proper spirit. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the Dieting, ',

A melancholy occurrence took place m connection with a bullock hunt near the Matarav a Valley, Wanganui. A party ot young men had gone after a mob of wild cattle, and overtaking one of the number several shots were fired, which it seems were well directed, as the animal became infuria ted and began charging in every direction. This of course made the hunt mfc -xcitmg and a good many shots wee rapidly fired and the bullock was finally killed Mr J. Macgregor, one of the party, took an active part in the hunt and fired several times at the bullock. As soon as the bullock fell there was a general muster of the huntsmen all ready to convey a share of the spoil to their homes, when Mr Macgregor was missed and a search was immediately made by several of the men, and the unfortunate man was found lying dead upon his back, having received a bullet wound on the right cheek bone. When found his rifle was lying acrot-s his chest, loaded and capped, so the fatal shot must have been received from one or other of the huntsmen. The deceased was about twenty four years of age, and was pronounced to be a most daring huntsman, as well as a general favourite with a large circle of friends.

The flattering testimonial received by Mr Bradshaw, M.H.R., from the work women of Dunedin, has stimulated that gentleman to increased exertion on their behalf. The amending Act passed last session adds one very important provision to the Employment of Females Act, 1873, which employers of that description of labour should take note of. The 3rd section of the amending Act is as follows :—" No person shall employ any female at any time between the hours of six in the afternoon and eight in the morning, or for more than eight hours in any one day. Every person employing any female in any workroom shall from time to time cause a statement in writing, signed by him, specify ing the hours during which females in his employ ara employed in their employment, to be filed in the Resident Magistrates Court in the city, town, or place where such workroom is situated, and true copies cf such statement shaU be posted up in some cons-pi cuous place in every such workroom, and a copy of such statement shall be forwarded to the officer of police in charge of the district where such workroom is situated. The 4th clause provides—"ln the construction of this Act and the said Act the following terms shall, if not incon sistent with the or subject matter, have the meanings hereby respectively assigned to them ; that is to say, ' employ shall apply to any manual labor exercised by way of trade, or for purposes of gain in or incidental to the altering, repairing, orna menting, finishing, or otherwise adapting by way of trade, or for purposes of gain, or for sale, any article ; ' female' means any woman or female child so employed ; ' workroom ' includes any place in which females are so em ployed." It will be observed that these pro visions prohibit the employment of women after six o'clock at night, and thus place a serious obstruction in the way of the exclu sive employment of women in shops, a re form which is being extended in some drapery establishment in the colony with beneficial results. The new Act is far too sweeping in its terms, and so far from benefiting the classes for whom it was formed will place further difficulties in the way of girls and women who are thrown on their own re sources for support, and whoso already limited spheres of labour will be still further prescribed by the restraints placed on employers who are treated by the Act much more as natural enemies of the sex than as benefactors. We wonder whether Mr Fox could not make tho Act as it exists serve the purpose of his pro posed barmaid clause in the Licensing Act by proving that the barmaids come within the new provisions which have passed both branches of the legislature, and are now in o peratioc.

To the Editor: Sir—ln your issue of Satur day in reference to a nuisance in Chancery Lane it is called Bacon-street, which i 8 a great mistake, as I am the owner of the property, aud the reason of Mr Goldie, Inspector of Nuisance, calling it by my name I am at a loss to understand. My property is situated in Chancery-street, and 1 occupied it for many years witheut any complaint, and I think it is only justice that the statement calling it Bacon-Btreet should be contradicted, other wise the public will take it for granted that I am the owner and allow the property in question to be in the disgraceful state re ported by the Inspector of Nuisances.—l am, yours, Ac , Willi am Bacon. . .' .,

Mr Moriarty's report on the Greymouth harbour recommends works at a cost of £94,998, which he considers will, in a few years, give a depth of sixteen feet of water on the bar, sufficient for the requirements of a very large coal trade. A deputation has proceeded from Greymouth to Wellington for the purpose of urging the subject on the attention of the General Government.

We are happy to state that owing to the success of the late concert in aid of the St. Mary's organ fund the whole of the purchase money has now been made good. Full parti culars will be published by the trustees in a few days.

Under the heading " The Tables Turned," a correspondent writes " Sir, —At the Devon port Hall the other night, Mr John. Leek, than whom there is no better authority, positively stated that Mr J. S. Macfarlane hadj two years ago, disposed of the Riv^rhead Hotel, the only qualification he possesses as an elector of Waitemata. Now as this fact must have been well known to Mr John Lamb, will that gentleman kindly explain why in his enthusiasm to purge the roll he did not object to Mr J. S. Macfarlane ? It is even now a grave question whether, if elected, Mr Macfarlane will j not be disqualified on the ground that his name is wrongfully on the electoral roll. It may be asserted that the Attorney- General's opinion determining Mr Yon der Heyfle's right to represent the district will be equajlly applicable in Mr Macfarlane's case, but it must be remembered that there is this material difference between the two cases—it was not objected that Mr Yon der Heyde is now ineligible to become an elector, having legally become an elector, having legally become so by his letters of naturalization, but in Mr Macfarlane's case neither now nor at the time when he was placed on the roll had he any claim to participate in the franchise for the district of Waitemata. This is not merely my own opinion but that of high legal authoiibies whom I have consulted.—l am, etc., Lex.

During the sitting of the Police Court, Wellington, on a recent occasion, the magistrate was all absorbed in hearing a case when a young woman walked into Court and went straightway, for the place of honour, which she ascended, and seated herself behind the worthy mag&trate unper ceived by him. Presently his Worship turns around, and much to his surprise discovers his strange associate, who accosts him in the following manner — "If yer plase, sir, I belave yer want a sarvant ?" . Whether, 3 thi^ magistrate Mas too confused, or whether he admired the unconscious impertinence,of ■ the person, we. cannot say ; but she remained on the Bench till the business of the Court' was concluded, |and then," we believe, l*qr business j was jjatisfaoterily settled.

Informers do not seem to be appreciated m Melbourne. The Herald mentions the case ot Mr John Connor, a Good Templar, of Hotham, who obtained a glass of ale from a publican on Sunday, and then informed against him. The publican was fined, but Mr Connor was mulcted in the penlty of £3 Bs. for having aided and abetted in the offence.

We are told that by a single bet on the result of the Oaks, Lord Dudley has pocketed £12, WO, having staked £4,000 against that sum th-;t * r.. ' v would win the race. The Irince of Wales' won a large sum by the winner of ih. Derby (George Frederick)- Rumour a-serts that the Prince is the owner

of the horse. I Mrs Gribble begs U acknowledge the sum of £14, the prncieds of the entertainment ! given for the benefit- »f herself and family on Friday last at the Piince of Wales Theatre and at the same time to tender her sincere thanks to Messrs Vivian, Booth, and tne ladies and gentlemen of the Vivian Comique Company for their gratuitous services on I that occasion.

In the immigration estimate recently passed the Immigration Officer at Auckland is set down at £300, and it is proposed to vote £8000 for country depots in that pro vince, and £9000 for advances for works in connection with the location of settlers in cluding advances for cottages, £9000-total for Auckland, £17,858. g?A large meeting of Auckland compositors was held on Saturday evening »**»e- Uanrr. carde hotel, Wyndham-street. Mr Whelan in the chair. Mr Whelan in an apt speecli explained the object of the meeting, which was to institute a Typographical Association. A code of rules was submitted to trie meeting and carried, and officers appointee. An inquest was commenced this afternoon in the Wellington Hotel on the body 01 -Mum Wright who died under circumstanceS repor ted on Saturday. The enquiry however w,s postponed in order to secure the attendance of Mr or Dr Cosgrave who had sent i» ™ plea of illness. The jury then proc^e" to view the body of a woman of diss 0"41*3 habits, named Elizabeth Macfarlane, !" died in the " Noahs Ark," Baker-street iast night, from the effects of long protacted d sipation. The inquest was proceeding wh we went to press. The report of Mr Vogel's intention to go lo England is given further currency to in our telegrams which states that Sir Donald McLean' will hold the reins of Government during his absence. As the news comes from a Hawke's Bay source, the province which Sir Donald represents, it is not improbable based on good authority. Whether the criticism which the announced intention ha 3 drawn forth will alterthe Premier's intention remains to be seen. We learn that three hundred logs were washed away from Capt Daldy's mill booms by the heavy fresh caused by recent rains. This represents a loss of about £200. The following is the return of tick treated in the Provincial Hospifal during the week ending Saturday, Scrtember 5, 1874:—Pte mained last return, 72 ; admitted, 1.3 ; dis charged, 15 ; died, 1 ; remaining at present, 09 ; males, 59 ; females, 10. Classification-- Zymotic disease, 17 ; constitutional, 7 ; local, 25 ; violent, 15 ; developmental, 5. On Sep tember Ist, CF. (female), aged 40 years, died of cancer. Thanks are returned to Mrj Sloane for "illustrated papers," and to an anonymous contributor for a parcel of old linen. g?Mr W. B. Cartwright won the second prize for rabbits at the show. The name was erroneously given in our report, and our morning contemporaries of course followed suit. Miss Maggie Knight, who has won laurels in the United States as a serio-comic actress, will make her debut to-morrow evening at the Prince of Wales Theatre in conjunction with the Royal Vivian Comique Company. Miss Knight's role of characters is most diversified, including singing and dancing, and the pro j ceedings will open with a very attractive pro gramme.

Mrs Tomes' concert is unavoidably post poned till next week, as per future notice and programme. Tho fifth session of the Wesleyan Mutual Imp-ovement Association will be opened this c-:iing in the Pitt street schoolroom. The members of the Auckland United Cricket Club will hold their thirteenth annual meeting in the club room, Thames Hotel, on Wednesday evening next. The monthly communication of Lodge Ara, 348, 1.C., will be held this evening at the usual hour* in the Masonic Hotel, Princes street.

The Good Templars of the Harbinger of Peace Lodge will hold their second tea meet ing and soiree this evening in the Cook street Christians' Meeting House. The ch_urwillbe taken by a well-known gentleman in Connection with Templary. The musical and literary selections are of a high-class character. An original piece will be given, entitled " The First Baby."

A musical and literary entertainment will be held this evening at the Whau Asylum for the amusement of the inmates. A capital programme has been prepared for the oc casion.

The drawing in connection with Mr Hes lop's art union of sewing machines will take place in the course of a few days, of which .due notice will be given. The list is-nearly filled up.

THE WAITEMATA ELECTION.

(To the Editor of the Evening Ssar.)

Sir, —Dr. Johnson well.said that " Patriot ism i was the last resource of a thorough scoundrel,"—we have a rare specimen;of the genus living in our midst. The party I allude to at the last election went in for one of the candidates, and displayed such apparent zeal that be was appointed agent for the candidate in question at a polling station some distance from Auckland, £10 being handed him for expenses, those expenses being clearly under stood to include the dispensing the candidate's hospitality to the electors after the poiling was over. Now I will tell you what the fellow did, andmindyou 1 can substantiate it on oath. He purchased two bottles of brandy—one he consumed himself (and be it remembered he is a member of a Good Templar lodge), the other he magnanimously distributed to the voters, keeping the balance of the money to himself. His "figure" having been ascer tained by the other candidates, things have been made "pleasant," and he is now un blushingly touting for votes up and down Queen-street for the candidate who has bribed him. Now, Mr. Editor, would it really be murder to throw "such a miscreant as that into the harbour?— Yours truly, Caustic).

NARROW ESCAPE OF THE SCHOONER PEARL.

The ; schooner Pearl which arrived at the Waikato Heads from Lyttelton on Thursday last with a cargo of grain and potatoes for Mr Ilahlb, of the Ngaruawahia flour mills, had jk-Xety tempestuous passage She left on the SO ult. • and meeting a strong N.E. gale off Gape Campbell had to turn and run before it back to Lyttelton. She started again on the 28 th but met with no better weather, a succession of gales from all quarters beginning from, tUe §•!.. j^d end

■■Mini 11 ii r HMimiinwiiai ■ mmmi^j- M ing in the N.W. bein^en^Tr^; On September 3rd a heavy westerfv r i blowing the schooner was »«ft*^S?r mountain, which bore E. about 10 mife* a.m. Wore the ship three times to keent 7 off the land unsuccessfully; she would fetch off on any tack. Pitfall^ resource, Captain Urquhart determined * ■_! run the Waikato bar, although it wiisK-^ swept by a tremendous sea at the M$ ! While on the bar the schooner wash, £*c' peril. Three seas washed over her in gip^ « sion. The captain, who was at the J^ was knocked down by one and severely?' jured. On the deck everything mov^fe J 1" swept clean away. Both companionhatck 8 I were smashed ; the companion itself was Jp much strained ; two dead lights were Bmashrf > in letting a lot of water into the hold* btiF I warks were carried away, and finally ft" . mate, Mr D. Sutherland, was washed ova" 1 board. Being a powerful swimmer he tm£ I ceeded in reaching the shore, At half.-rwgt eleven the bar was crossed, and at 12 I the anchor was let go off the Waikato wharf ■ |

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq.', B.M)"*

BEYOND THE LINE. ; ,- . t, ...^j^,, Happy John, a man of color, was charged with being drunk on Saturday in;Qq^J street and fined 10s and costs ; and Jolin Bruce, for the same offence, 20s, as he was drunk on Sunday. --»-~-«

A WAITER OVER-COME. .^.r'y. Thomas Beat was charged with nig. behaving himself at the bar of the Army __aa Navy Hotel on Saturday evening. - ••- -'"'-^u. . Prisoner said he was guilty.-.,-..,**) : Mr Clark stated that prisoner had been, in his employ two'months, and; had condticted. himself properly fUntil Saturday; .wening when he got drunk and madeadistui-bah^; If prisoner would promise to. do, better future he was willing to take iKid back again. His Worship enquired if prisonerwas »7 married man, and•_ was answered je JHwj, affirmative. He had a family also. /J;4__7i Sergt.-Major Pardy said as praonpr^^* been locked up since Saturday night7hlTw___.;_' willing to withdra\v the charge,*

His Worship gave prisoner ra severe re primand, hoped he would .ke«p "SpWin future, and discharged him. y ■ ' i!

A FORGIVING WIEE. .. .,■ _~ ~tf William S. Robinson, a stalwart'carpenteni was charged with assaulting EUeii^his. jaw-' ful wife, by striking her in.the.face,youthsT. sth inst. —

Prisoner said if he committed'theoffiii^ he did it under severe provocation. f Be li_^ l! recently come from Victoria by the Hem, 1 and as he was comparatively a stranger-in- Auckland he hoped his Worship wouldjclig,, charge him. ' V-| /.' .'-,'.; His Worship : How came you/to get drank. ( s Prisoner : Well.your Worship I &p£|j{&-g. five shillings from my wife, and went out to get some tobacco, and unfortunately got drunk with the money. * ",, .*",, ■ t na Mi | His Worship : There you made a mistake, you should have given the'money to your ; wife.

Mrs Robinson said she was willing to for-" give her husband if he would -keep,.iioblf,S' and keep his hands off her. - She,had four y little.children to support, and if he was sent 7 to prison she and her family would suffer.™** 5*

Piisoner said he would plead.guilty, bnt_it. was the drink that did the mischief. Sergeant-Major Pardy informed the jConrti: that prisoner had been charged several times H for similar offences, and it .was necessary i;Hat7 he should be bound over to keep the peace.

Prisoner, was ordered to iind putjetiesito i keep the peace for three months, hmM'elf iftfi £20, and two others" in £10 each. -

SERIOUS BUSH ACCIDENT.

On Friday morning last a bushman named Thomas Vincent met with an accident which it is feared will prove fatal, in the Manakau'' ■'[ bush, by the falling of a tree. .He was '* employed at .Mr Pobert;Gibbon's -tqilbaifc the. : Heads, and had just gone up the creek some three miles packing stores, to where, a number of men were employed- in construct-" ing a dam for driving logs down to the milL: 'The men were employed at- the time 1 in 1 digging out' a T large rata tree that . • was in the way, when it unexpectedly, gave way, falling in the direction..they least expected it. to come, and. knocking j down with its branches Vincent and 11 Mr Thomas Gibbons, who had not time to get out of the way. 7 Mr Gibbons escaped with some slight injury to his leg, but ' Vincent it is feared sustained concussion of ; the brain as well as a fracture of the left - arm. He was brought up to Onehunga on Saturday by Mr N. Gibbons in a boat, and /-y conveyed to the Provincial- Hospital. 1 The q poor fellow remained .in a. state of insensi bility from the time he received the injuries.

TO THE PERSON WHO SIGNED HIM SELF LANCELOT GOBO.

O ibiot ! O ass ! whoever you are ' is ;-._•-•..'.WW Who filled up a space in Friday night's Stae_, .. You;are very ill-breri, and that's what you are. You; cannot write verse, I never saw worse ; But as for your insult I don't care a curse. Such personal trash ! contemptible hush ! The jmost brazen monkey 't»ould surely abash. Ignqrance. folly, profound you display; Your marks of quotation—each one I gainsay— Ynujsure represent the Shakesperian fool Whose name you've attached to your lines—what a j mule. You have mide of t^at name—Can't you spell it my friend? There's a 11 and a b you've omitted you see ; Laimcelet Gobfto wasn't the donkey that you seem to be. | Go a.ud see Cameo, who never saw sails, Flap unless wind was blowing in gales. Better still! Come to me whenever it suits, I'll show you the latest use made of my boots. They're n t very light, and are shod at the toe : You'd be struck by t'ae marvellous force of a blow Given with »rt on your most tender part. ( <% ~.,. -. y- I'm ijot in a rage my temper is Smooth.' ■_ .! .''■ \i But I think you'd remember I- ThNrnonth of Ssptember . . , ~ Ami 'whatyou owed to the boots of Your friend, " Lancelot Booth.

LONG DRIVE GOLDMINING COM- PANY.

The annual general meeting.of the Long Drive Goldmining,,Company was held,this afternoon at Mr Tothill's office; Captain Daldy filled the chair. The Directors' report, which was adopted, stated that the opera tions of the mine fpr the past year had been confined to works above the level of the Kuranui Hill tunnel.1 The profits1 under the arrangement jof the Imperial Crown Company had amounted to £800. To work the lower levels with the best possible chance of success efforts would be again made to effect amalgamation with the companies owning adjacent ground. The mine manager's report stated that during the past year 2,523 tons of quartz had been raised from the upper levels, and had produced 3,0490z5. 6dwts. of gold. The balance-sheet, which was also adopted, sho wed receipts— £ s. d. , Balance Bank of New Zealand ._. 64 3 £ Gold, 170 ozs. 16 dwts. ... ... 446 18 6^ Dividend, Long Drive tribute ... 350 0 0 Specimen sold ... ... ... 110 O^y Kuranui Company, Wakatip pur- JS chase ... 86JW'" Interest Long Drive tribute ... 27 "V^/- Smithy accounts received ... 566 10 il Timber sold ... 568 4 11 Interest on fixed deposit 51 5 0'

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