SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH "*\ATER—This afternoon, 0.44; to-morrow morning, IJ3 SITN KlT—This evening, 5.53. SUN RlSE—To morrow mraing, 5.50 MOON'f AGE—Last quarter, 22nd, 6.39 pm

ARRIVALS.

Advanee,schooner, from Oisborne Go-Aheai, s s, from Wanganui Rowena,B s, from Tauranßa Southeri Cross, ss, from Kaipara (in the Manukau)

DEPARTURES.

Hawea,HS, Wheeler, for the South Phoebe s s, for the South Quean/schooner, J ines. for Hokianga Southffn Cross, s s, for Waikato and Raglan (from the Marukan) Krienhilda, schooner, for Napier

B^* A special charge is made for consignees' or shippers' names inserted in this column.

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

Foi J^eTcas'le— Dover Castle, barqtie, early For Chatham Islands—Agnes, schooner, early For San Francisco—Macgregor, s s, Ist Oct For Sydney—Cyphrenes, ss, 6 hours after arrival from 'Frisco oi London— Robtna Dunlop, barque, early ; Fle chero, ship, early For Rarotonga—Blanche schooner, early

VESSELS EXPECTED

Hero, s.s., from Sydney, 27th instant Razelle, German man-of-war, from a cruise British Empire, ship, from London City of Auckland, ship, KMTE, from London;sailed 15th June White Eagle, ship. QSGV, from London Ocean Matl, ship. W R Q F, from London Jessica, barque, from J^ew Yotk ; sailed 2nd Jnne Victor, barque, from Port Gamble ; sailed 14th May Forget-Me-Not, burque, from Sydney, early Lizzie Kox, from New York; sailed 3rd July Coronet, from Tahiti, early. Marmian. rchoomr, from Lyttelton ; sailed 14th inst Edilh, schooner, from Rarotonga, early

The s s Flcwea left Onehnnga for the South at three o'clock this afternoon.

The schooner A dvance anived from the East Coast this morning. Slip put into Kohimarama to unload her cittle.

The s s Phrebe left the Manukau in company with the Hawea this afternoon.

The schooner Queen has sailed for Hokianga with a general cargo. It will be.seen by the English telegrams to hard from the Bluff that the ship Cambridgeshire, which was di>mas cd last year on her voyage t'i Australia, has now been totally wrecked near Preservation: Island Bass "-traits

At the sale of the fittings of the Carisbrooke Castle yesterday, the large house on deck justfor'ard of the after hatch was purchased bj' the captain of the veesel.

Captain Menzies late chief officer of the barque Dover Castle, and also wel-known as once chief officer of the Countess of Kintore, has been appointed to the command of the smart brigantine Ryno, vice Captain Millar, who {joes South to join the Estelle, in which he hns an interest. Wear« glad to welcome Captain Menzies bs an .Auckland skipper, and have little doubt that his well-known proficiency as a navigator and business capabilities will enable him to advance the interests of the. old " Circular Saw" flag, and so secure his own promotion. The Ryno has been placed upon the gridiron for a thorough over haul before commencing to load again for the Islands.

The baTque Columbus was berthed at the wharf last evening, room beinsrmade for her by the removal of the John Rennie into the stream where she will finish her ballastinsr. The ship Flechero and the barque "William Gifford also came alongside the new western T, in the course of yesterday, so that Captain Ellis had a busy day of it.

The barque Columlras opened her hatches this morning;. She is a smart tifjht little vessel, and her cargo may be expected to turn out in capital condi tion.

The destinations of the ships Carisbrooke Castle and Jno Rennie are not yet determined. The batque Robina Dunlop is to cast off from the wharf tMs afternoon, arid sail for. London either to-morrow or Saturday. She-is to clear at the Cus toms tomorrow morning.' Her cargo consists of kauri gum, flax, hides, leather, and island produce.

The schooner Christina cleared to-day for JSussell in ballast. 3

The cutter Leo cleared for Russell to-day with a cargo of stone and the ketch Prince cleared for the Same port with five tons potatoes.

TELEGRAPHIC.

Gisbobne,. this day. The Pretty Jane left for Auckland at half p.ist ten last night. : ■ * Wangantji, this day. The St Kilda arrived from Onehunga yesterday.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails wjll Close as i poiaows : — ■ ■ For Thames, to-morrow at 5 30 p m For Coromandel on,, Friday next at 11.30 am For Wanganui, per Go-ahead, on Friday at 10 am For Whitianga, Tairua, Opotiki, Napier via Tauranga per Rowena, on Frit ay at Ap ra , ■• : • For Napier and Gisborne, per Southern Cross, oh Saturday, at 11 am '•■■' -, ~ . - : . For Chatham Islands, per Agnes, on Satuiday1 next at 3 pm ....,-. ~ Per Macvretror, on Friday, Ist October, as under.* For Sandwich Islands,.';- United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South' A meric&, arid British and Foreign West Indies at 10 30 a m ' For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe,' «t 10 30am •'' r .. r , For money orders, registered letters, and newspaper* at. r 9 30 ; a m... Late letters bearing an extra fee ol6d in addition to the postage, will, be received on board by the Mail Agent up to time of sailing. The steamer Omea is expected to leave TTpkitika at 2p.m.f08 Thursday,' the 23rd instant. Telegrams for the Aust):ili*nColonies or (Europe via' Java Cable will be received at this office for transmission to Hokitika up till 12 o'clock noon, of the 23rd inst. P'vy i ■■■■ 0 '• ?• r.B' ?SPS.-Chief Ppatmaßter.'-' •■

Business Cares and Overwork are apt to react disadvantageously upon mind and body, pro ducing lassitude, depression, and loss of flesh. Under such circumstances the system requires to be reim bursed i'or the excessive wear and tear of brain and physique. The safest, surest, and pleasantcst com pensating agent that can possibly be used is Udolpuo Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps.

BIRTH.

LEGGETT. —On the 22nd instant, at her residence, Nelson-fctreet, Mrs. P. W. Leg-gcit of a daughter.

DEATH.

BRAKE.—On the 23rd September, Emma, youngest daughter of George and Jane Brake. The funeral will leave her parents' residence, Gundrey-fitreet, Newton, to-morrow (Friday), at 3 o'clock p.m. Friends are invited to attend,

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

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1875

Vat th* cause that lacks assiitsmc*. For the irranj that uteda reiisis-csk #«r the future in the distance AmA tii* csod «ut we ur:i i!>

The " Needy, Seedy Members of the As sembly " is the heading of a very long and very vigorous letter which we have received; too long and rather vigorous for exhibition ia our columns. But our correspondent expresses the view that it ia the honorarium that has attracted the clas3 which he denounces as the vermin on the body politic, and from this argues that the abolition of honorarium would be the purification of the Assembly. From this conclusion we differ, about as far as we can possibly get away, being firmly convinced that there is more villainy perpetrated, and more genuine and unmitigated self-seeking in the proceed ings of the wealthy members of the Assembly than there is among the ° needy, seedy members" who are the objects of our correspondent's aversion. And this is not theory, but the result of actual observation. It is an acknowledged fact, admitted with sorrow by the supporters of the Ministry themselves, that the needy, seedy members who entered the House four years ago are needy, seedy still; that they have been bouyed by promises that have proved as delusive as the mirage, and that they will retire from the halls of the Legisla ture, cursing the Ministry they have served, and full of an implicit faith in the spirit of the injunction, "Put not your faith in princes." A glance around the Assembly, a conversation with members of the Minis terial party places, this fact beyond gain saying. The "needy seedy" members have not much shared in the public , plunder. But it is very different with the Wealthy.. There is we believe not one Wealthy member of either House of the Legislature, who is not understood to have largely benefitted by public life during tjie past lustrum; not one. Either they have been interested in large land specula tions connived at by the Government: their properties have been treated to exceptional favours in the extension ef railways and the formation of public works ; or in some form oi another they have made hay while the sun shone. This is very well known, and it is! "entirely natural that it should be so. The "needy seedy" could hardly accept m,uch of value, save in connection with place id the CiviJ. Service, and this would have been|the removal of themselves, andtheloss of noses when the division bell rang. Pro mises therefore they have had to live upon, and fruition could only come on dissolution of the Assembly. Had Abolition been immediate, no'doubt these promises would have been to a large extent fulfilled. As it now is their yqars of service and of waiting have been lost. Not so with their wealthier fellow legislatorsl They have been enabled to put their money injto places where the Government sun shine and shower could fall upon it and and fertilise and fructify it, while thjeir owners could sit in Assembly^ arid .render "disinterested service" in the eye's" iof jail men. There is an impression pretty general' and our correspondent seemingly shares it, ; that a wealthy man is necessarily thk right man to send to Parliament, because he is' not needy and therefore not likely to be mercenary. But apart from the fact that a wealthy man's wants, if any, are more difficult to sate, we deny that wealth, ia | these colonies at least, is not mercenary. We can understand how men of high principle as "well as. hereditary riches in! the old country, are the men to be, actuated only by,high and noble public principles. But We know that with few ex ceptions the wealthy men of the colonies have raised themselves by close attention to the interests of self; and by the exercise of the. virtues pf and [acquisitiveness de

veloping habits that become second nature and never can be departed from. We do not say that we could :? not point to noble exceptions to this'rule; but it is a rule that men who have raised themselves to wealth by grubbing and saving, do not develop in these colonies generally those disinterested virtues which are required for the right discharge of the duties of public life. Our experience of the present Assembly confirms this view; for those who have made most by the public plunder- during the regime of reck less extravagarice and land swindling, have been wealthy men. Our correspondent then is wrongly severe on the " needy seedy members" of the House. And when through the abolition of honorarium, or the prolonga tion of the session to undue length, less wealthy members cease to stand for election, and when legislation falls exclusively into the hands of the wealthy, may Heaven look down in pity on New Zealand.

In our Australian telegrams it is stated that the mail steamer Cyphrenes was a day overdue in arriving at San Francisco. There seems to be some mistake in this. The Cyphrenes left here on the afternoon of the 6th of Augußt, and if she arrived at San Brancisco on the Ist of September, as stated in telegrams, she made the voyage in 26 days, or one day under contract time, the due date being the 2nd of September.

A grand Masonic ball is to take place in November at Christchurcb, and the proceeds are to be devoted to the Masonic Scholarship Endowment Fund. A large sum of money is expected to be raised by this means for this highly praiseworthy object, and the list of stewards is almost enough cateris paribus, to ensure the success of the undertaking.

How the of young New Zealand are developed was well illustrated on Queen street "wharf to-day. A respected fellow citizen was ear-witness and our informant. Two boys were hanging around the window of an establishment on the wharf tbat deals in lolly-pops. They were the happy possess ors of one penny, which was their only capital ; but how to judiciously invest it was to them as deep a subject of absorbing interest, and of the same nature if not degree, as that which racks the mind of the millionaire. .Apples had their attrac tions, and buns spread out temptingly to the eye. Licorice and , sugar - candy and toffy exhibited their sweets, and at last after anxious consultation, confectionery carried tle day. It was unanimously resolved to invest the entire capital in confectionery in the form of a rabbit, and while Jim still hung lovingly around the window, Jack was despatched within to get the rabbit. But a sudden thought struck Jim, and popping his head into the door-way he called out, " Jack ! I say Jack ! get a buck one, Jack, they're always the biggest."

At Woodend the other day a Maori minister officiated at the baptism of scions of two English families, and he read the entire service in a very creditable mannar in the English language. The Lyttelton Times thiuks that this is the first instance recorded in this island, and probably in New Zealand, of an ordained Maori minister baptising in his own church the children of the Pakeha, brought to him for open admission into the church.

Among the most singular sources of industrial production in the world are the leech-ponds of Holland. A good fat leech, of powerful suction, is not a thing to be con demned. Brocklein is the town, most in terested in this strange trade, and owns stock in the company mentioned above, to the amount of one million florins, and an im mense reservoir has been constructed in which to breed millions of various leeches, fine brown-black fellows, warranted to hold on like aquatic bulldogs. What will make the experiment a profitable one, is the facb that the demand for leeches has of late years exceeded the supply. It is thought that as so large a demand comes from Paris, they must bo used otherwise than for medical purposes, most probably for sonio fine gastro nomic dishes.

We are glad to observe that good progress ie being made with the foundations of the new museum. People had almost begun to look upon this proposed building as a myth, and the sight of the solid scoria masonry is very refreshing. We'll have that moa skeleton standing upright yet without a hole in the roof.

The new boiler builb by Mr. Yeoman for the s.s. Wellington was this morning started from the fonndry on its way to the vessel. The ponderous piece of] iron weighs over 30 tons, and, as may be imagined, its progress to ita destination was not at railroad speed. By mid-day it had reached the corner of Custom House-street ; by two o'clook it was opposite the Waite mata Hotel, and it was estimated that if no obstacle to^its progress arose the vessel's side would "be reached about five o'clock this afternoon. It will take two or three days to fix it in its place.

The fine young pedigree bull, " Pride of Ohinerau," purchased last week by Mr J. C. King from Messrs T. and S. Morrin, was this morning shipped for Mahurangi, his future home, on board the steamer Minnie Casey. A large number of persons interested in the district were present at the departure of the boat, and general admiration was ex pressed at the animaVs splendid symmetry. The.slinging on board was effected without accident, and the bull was quietly munching his hay five.minutes afterwards. He was gaily decorated with ribbons for the occasion. We may mention that the pure bred cows at Messrs; Morrin's farm, afc::Ohinerau, are just calving, and in abont six months' time- there will be; a'fine opportunity for other' enter prising Tip-country settlers to secure excellent breeding stock for their districts.

The following justices will attend, accord ing to rota, at the Court of Petty Sessions on Thursday next. Messrs Baber, Beetham, Cheeseman, Clark, Daldy, Dargaville, Dii worth, Dignan, George, Gilfillan, Graham, and Goldsbro', —Robert Graham, chairman.

The football season in Auckland is now nearly at an end, and the match to be played on Saturday will .probably be the final game this year. The banks and ware housemen play on that day, and as both clubs will bring-strong teams into the field, a very good match may be expected.: r tiii

: On the 23rd September, 1680, died Samuel Buttery author of that remarkably satirical book which still lives, though but little read, called "Hudibrasv' without a knowledge of the time and notable individuals of Butler's age, the book loses much of its interest. Butler was the' son of a farmer at Strens ham in Worcestershire, received a good edu cation, and was associated with the aristoc racy, especially with the Countess of Kent and Earl of Carbury. He married Mrs. Herbert,, a lady of fortune, and lost, that fortune in foolish speculations. On the death of his wife, he retired from the busy world to lead a secluded literary life, in which he suffered much poverty. He died in a small street,1 ka©wn as Rose-street, Covent Garden, which has since been rebuilt, and when dying; 0 heard :the cries 6i Dryden who was waylaid and beaten for a satire on a countess of doubtful character, supposed to be .written by the veritable author of the " Hind1 and Panther." Butler was buried1 in obscurity in St. Paul's churchyard, Covent Garden, at the expense of a friend, and for many years his grave was unknown. In 1721, John Barber, who had risen from the posi tion of a printer's boy to that, of Lord Mayor of London, entirely by his honesty, thrift, and personal virtues, raised a cenotaph in Westminster Abbey over the unfortunate satirist and unworldly poet, Samuel Butler, t •XQi-AK-'iViiWOr-U J* • J:,:- "■wi-< '■ '

The Turkish Baths, in Upper Queen-st re c opposite Mr Hemus' shoe-factory, are now fairly open and in operation. All persons therefore of either«sex can now en joy a per fect health-giving ablution by undergoing the refreshing ordeal, provided by the enter prising proprietor, in the shortest possible space of time. Thursday in especially Bet apart for the ladies, who will receive every attention and convenience by female attend ants on that day. The weather is now get ting warmer, so that ladies and gentlemen will avail themselves of the reviving and in vigorating boon afforded by the newly-insti tuted Turkish Baths. The process is easy and pleasant, and deserves the patronage of citizens.

A meeting of the Ponsonby Football Club is called for this evening, at eight o'clock, at St. Matthew's school-room.

A young man of Eochester, who was in jured severely by jumping from a train, was so annoyed by questions as to how he was hurt, that he had a large number of cards printed, which he gave out to every one who looked enquiringly at his face, or said a word about it. The card read as follows—"Busted this nose in jumping from a train of cars near Fair port, Thursday, April 29."

From the excellent Auckland correspond ence which appears in the Otago Daily Times we clip the following extract: —" In political news I h3ve nothing new. There is* how ever, a wide and stern determination to back Sir George in refusing to recognise the right of the Assembly to override an Act of the Imperial Parliament. The determination to pass an Act in defiance is looked on as an insult even by anti-Provincialists, and I feel perfectly sure the General Government v ill have to resort to the law courts to bring it into operation, even if passed. Of course they can use or display force if they make up their minds to do so,, but I am persuaded that it would end badly, even if they weroso ill-advised as to try. On all sides I hear men declare that they will not suffer the road to preferment and public life to be narrowed for their children, more than it is fbr them selves. That is the view they take of the matter ; and it is the view they will, I firmly believe, stick to at all hazards, until at least the Assembly be reformed so as to make it as easy of access as the Provincial Councils and Governments have hitherto been."

At the usual fortnightly meeting last night of the Auckland branch of the Hiber nian Catholic Benefit Society, the important office of Secretary was rendered vacant by the resignation of Mr. Benjamin Hammil, owing to his projected departure for the Thames, having obtained a lucrative ap pointment as teacher of the Thames school, a deputation from that district having re cently waited on him for that purpose. By his departure the Society loses a most zealous and efficient Secretary, as previous to his accession to office the accounts were in a very complicated state, but with close appli cation to his duties he succeeded in unravel ling them, which was testified to by a unani mous vote of confidence being passed, as also a letter of recommendation to the Thames Branch. A straDge coincidence oc curred in the election of a successor, from the fact of there being two Connolly's nomi nated for the office (Press v. chips), namely, Mr. Michael Connolly, and Mr. W. G. Connolly, but the latter gentleman retired from the contest. Mr. M. Connolly was, therefore, declared elected, after which the usual installation took place. .

The cricketing season commences on the Ist October, and the Auckland Cricket Club has already its circulars out warning members. We hope soon to see the five old English game once more under weigh.

To the Editor: Sir,—-Can you inform me how often the stipulations for the competi tion for Mr Deune3' sewing machines are to be altered? Are the alterations made done for the purpose of enabling some known party and friend of the promoters certain of winning the same or what. Surely we have had enough favoritism in the Spelling Bee arrangements already. Let ua not degrade the noble a.-t of music by Hhe same plotting. Why are those girls of the ages of eleven and twelve, who have by their supe rior attainments gratified the public gratui tously, be compelled to enter the list with those so many years their seniors ? If this prize is given as a merit to their cap ability, the conditions named in Saturday's papers, that is all under 15, should be strictly adhered to.—l am, &c, T. B. Hull.— [We believe Mr. Denne3'a sole desire has been to make the competition the greatest possible success. We believe the conditions as originally issued were found objectionable to the many who desired to compete.—Ed.]

To the Editor : Sir, —Your correspondent who this week so humorously described the sweet savour emanating from that highly "picturesque" spot lying between Custom House and Fort-streeta,■would doubtless be in vigorated by a country walk from Newmarket to Epsom wherehe would have an opportunity of inhaling the health improving (?) odour of a large quantity of slaughter-house offal andrefuse,delightfully distributed over a pad dock between the Station and the Junction Hotel. The soooner this pestilential mass, which has been poisoning the atmosphere arouad for two entire days, is put under the deodorising influence of the sod, the better it will be for the health of the whole neigh bourhood, including the owner of the paddock himself.—Your's&c, A Passer-by.

We would give a special reminder of the grand fashionable night at the Prince of Wales Theatre to-morrow, on the occasion of the production of the comedy of " School" and the inimitable farce "PJaying with Fire." The bill is, beyond'all comparison, the best of the season, and we can honestly recommend everyone to go.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before James Baber and John Lambert Tole, Esquires, Justices of the Peace.) THE RUBI^OSE FAMILY.

William Smith (a respectable-looking man), Gustave Graball (a foreigner), John Pepper (an old offender for the forty-seventh time), John Smith, and Joseph Davies were fined 53 each for being drunk last night. William Johnstone, for being drnnk, and striking Constable O'Rielly on the nose, and pulling a large portion of his whiskers out, was fined £5 and costs, or one month's im prisonment. " LOVELY* LUCY NEAL."

young lady, educated and intelligent, a member of the dusky tribes of Africa, was brought up under the Vagrant Act with being drunk,, an incorrigible rogue and vagabond, and without lawful means of gaining a liveli hood.

Lucy pleaded guilty. ;Mr.: Inspector Broham stated that the . woman bore a very bad character ; she was 'found at midnight in Chancery-lane, lying in a I gutter quite drunk. Some benevolent ladies had exerted themselves for her refor mation'but without effect; she was incor rigible and past hope. The Bench sentenoed the woman to six months' imprisonment with hard labour. STEALING ATUMBLER. William Gallic aDd William Daniels were charged'with stealing a tumbler, value Bd. the property of William Evans, of the Pacific Hotel, last evening. ,-■ The prisoners were sailors on board the Columbus, and pleaded guilty to taking the tumbler, but with the full intention of re turning it; it was done for a lark. The Bench said that sailors must' not ' indulge in such larks, and they must take warning by their narrow escape of a month's imprisonment. Discharged. SPORTIVE JXTVEKILES. ... John Ryan was charged with absconding from the Naval Training School, and Peter, Penoche was charged with unlawfully har bouring the lively boy. .George Kelly, another boyi was charged

with, the same offence, and John Casey with, harbouring him. - . . Captain Breton stated the particulars of the cases, and spoke in favor of the boys generally. The Bench, fined Penoche 403 and costs, and ordered the boy Ryan to be sent back to the school and kept one week on bread and water. Casey, an old man, said he merely took the boy, in purely from Christian motives : the boy was hungry, and lie fed him : he was thirsty, and he gave him water, to drink. He said he had been in prison, and he offered him liberty in the bush ; he would not har bour boys again. The Bench discharged the accused on account of his promise and great age, 91; and the boy was ordered back to to the training ship. FRISKY THOMAS. Thomas Hopkins was charged with quit ting the barque Columbus without leave and disporting himself on the shore. The prisoner, a little man bounded into Court, and bowed in a theatrical manner to the bench, which caused laughter among the spectators. Constable McGrath: Silence, silence m Court. The captain described the offence; the prisoner was cook, and a good cook he was. He had no wish to punish him if he would return to his duty and obey orders. Hopkins said he was willing to obey orders. He had no desire to be shut up in Mount Eden for a month. The Bench said that he must return to the ship, and as the captain did not wish to press the charge he might go. The cook bounded out of Court with a • smile of satisfaction. CHARGE 01? STEALING Joseph White was charged with stealing the sum of £1 19s 9d, the property of William Murray, on the 20th instant. Mr Laishley pleaded guilty on behalf of the prisoner. Mr Broham asked for a remand, as he was not prepared to go on with the case. .Remanded until to-morrow. A FORGIVING WIFE. Stephen Home was again brought up on a charge of beating his lawful wife on Sep tember 21. . Mr Laishley appeared for the wife, and stated that Home, when sober, was a kind and faithful husband, but when drunk his arms and fists were invariably busy on his wife's head. She wished the case withdrawn, if Stephen would promise the Bench that he would keep sober and not attack her as he had previously done, or, if he was punished she and her family would be deprived of the means of support. The man vowed he would be a " gude " man in fnture and join the Templar Lodge, if the Bench would ba merciful. The Bench gave him a severe lesson, and discharged him, and the pair tripped out of court together. ""THE CHARGE OF ATTEMPTING SUICIDE. Michael Costello was again brought up on a charge of attempting, with malice afore thought, to kill and murder himself on the 29th of August, Mr Laishley pleaded not guilty. Thomas Graham, constable, remembered prisoner's wife coming to him on the even ing of Sunday, the 29th August, and told him that her husband had cut his throat; he proceeded to the house at once, and found him in the bedroom in a stooping position over the chamber utensil; the blood was dropping into it from the gash in his throat. He asked him what wa3 the matter, when he said that his wife had driven him to it; he pointed to a table where an old razor was lying, and said, " I did it with that. He got a towel and some flannel and bound up the wound ; he then lifted him on to the bed. Ho desired him to undo the bandage, and allow him to bleed to death. He wished not to see the doctor who would prevent his escape from life; he would then have no chance. He appeared sober and sensible. (Razor produced). He had known prisoner about then months. To Mr Laishley : The piisoner had drank heavily. He told him if he continued, serious consequences would follow. He advised Mrs Costello to apply for a protec tion order, which was granted. Dr. Bayntnn, a duly qualified medisal prac titioner, of Wellington-street, deposed that he was called to attend at prisoner's house. He was at church at the time, but went at once, il saw the prisoner lying on the bed. He examined him, and found a Bide wound in the throat five inches in length, but not deep enough to prove fatal, although danger ous. He dressed the wound, assisted by Dr. Hooper, and ordered his removal to the hospital. He considered him quite sane. Mr Laishley said there was strong evidence that the man had been heavily drinking, that the man was partially insane, or in a morbid, low state of mind, hence he con sidered the prosecution must fail. The Bench having considered the matter for twenty minutes, discharged the prisoner.

BREACH OF PAWNBROKER'S ACT.

Andrew Heavy was charged with a breach of the Pawnbroker's Act by failing to deliver up to Elizabeth Wilkinson, on the presenta tion of the pawn-ticket, a gold ring, pawned by her on the 15th June. The defendant was also charged under the provisions of the said Act, with failing to give information of his reasons for such con duct either to a Justice of the Peace or to a constable.

Defendant pleaded not guilty. Mr Rees appeared for the defence. Mr Broham conducted the inquiry on the part of the police. Elizabeth Wilkinson, wife of Samuel Wilkinson, of Durham-street, received a gold ring from Isabella Campbell to pawn for her. Mr Heavey lent 3s upon it and gave her a ticket, which she gave to Miss Campbell. She produced the ticket to Mr Heavey, who asked her to call again, as his daughter might have mislaid the ring. He showed several rings to Miss Campbell, but her's was not amongst them. She preferred her own ring, and did not select one.

To Mr Broham : She could not swear posi tively that the ring which Mr Heavey pro duced was not Misa Campbell's ring. It might have been hers. Mr Broham informed the Bench that a great noise had been made about the ring, and the matter depended almost upon the woman's evidence, and it was useless pursuing the case further.

Mr Roes said that Heavey had done all he could in the matter, and never refused to give up the ring. The police had no right to bring these charges, and if the case was withdrawn he should press for costs. The second charge was then preferred, in which the woman Wilkinson repeated her testimony. . Isabella Campbell, deposed that she was a single young woman, and she had called frequently for the ring, which Mrs. Wilkin son pawned, it was a gold keeper, but Mr. Heavey had put her off from day to day, not being able to produce the right ring. ! ( , Detective Grace deposed that he ap plied for the ring, and presented the ticket, when Mr. Heavey informed him that he had. let a person of the name of Burten shaw, have the ring by mistake, and that he had offered the young person any' other ring in his house for the other which had been misgiven. Mr. Rees addressed the Court for the defence and considered that in the interest of public justice, these cases should never have been brought forward by the police. . The cases were dismissed, costs to be considered. CITY BATES. A large number of city rate-defaulters were summoned for non-payment of city claims, but on the application of Mr. Alex- i ander, solicitor, they' were"postponed until a -future day. •■-t^^ ."f JC^/ , : ... { \" . This was^all_ l the]business.

SUBSCRIPTIONS TOWARDS MRS DOBLE.

(To the Editor of the Evening Stab.) Dear Sir,—Will you be kind enough to allow me through the Star, to tender my sincere thanks and heartfelt gratitude to the follow ing gentlemen who so kindly opened lists in my behalf, and to the many kind friends who so generously subscribed to the same to assist me and my orphan children in our deep dis tress w"hich amount Mr Coombe has paid over to me.-Yours repectfully, Mrs Doble. By Combes and Daldy, £8 15s; D H. McKenzie, £3; Anderson and Co £6 Is 3d ; s s Phoebe, £5 14s ; fl.s. Taranaki, £10 2s ; M.Niccol, £2 10s 6d. Total, £36 2s 9r1. ---['Mrs Doble will oblige by callirg at the Star office, to settle up the subscription now lying to her credit, amounting^ £50 19s 6d]

ENGLISH TELEGRAMS.

[PER S.S. ' ALBION ' AT THE BLUFF.]

COLLISION BETWEEN TWO IRON CLADS.

SENSATION IN FRANCE,

COLONIZATION OF NEW GUINEA,

LONDON.

September 3.—The ironclads Iron Duke and Vanguard came into collision off VVick low in a dense fog. The latter sank in nine teen fathoms. 4 All hands saved.-The Turks have violated Servian territory, burned a village, and killed pome of the inhabitants, and also seized a quantity of cattle. The popular feeling in Servia is very excited against Turkey. ~ _, September 6.—W00l sales languid. There have been further declines on medium and inferior sorts at 2d under June rates, and better class wools are Id lower.—The Servia Pacha has telegraphed to the Porte that the insurrectionary agitation is greatly allayed in consequence of pressure by European Powers, and that the Servians are not likely to be aggressive. The insurgents refuse to assent to a conference at Moskar, and demands that Bosnia and Hertzegovina be marie European principalities, as a tributary of the Porte. September 8 —Further fighting has taken place in Turkey, but Servia promises neu trality. A sensation has been caused in Paris by the letter of Admiral Laroniez, commanding the Mediterranean squadron, declaring he will ODly support MacMahon while he keeps aloof from the party of the September Itevo.ution.—Captain Anthony Hoakins succeeds the late Commodore Good enough in the Australian command. — Wholesale desertion has taken place from the Carlist forces, and a collapse of the cause is believed to be imminent. —A Chinese Embassy proceeds to England in connection with the Margary murder. September 13.—At a conference respecting the colonisation of New Guinea, Lieutenant Armitrin gave the result of observation made during a survey on the coast, and after a pro longed discussion it was resolved to form a Colonisation Society, and to organise an ex pedition of 200 volunteers under the Govern ment co-operation.—The Australian mails via Brindisi and Queensland have been de livered. — Arrived : W. W. Smith, from Auckland. September 16.—The Servian Parliament is divided on the question of the address to the Throne. There is a strong minority favour able to a declaration of war.—The Empress of Austria was thrown from her horse and sustained a slight concussion, from the effects of which she has since recovered.

Suez Mail.

(PER RINGAROOMA, AT THE BLTJFF.)

The Ringarooma, Captain McLean, left Melbourne at 5.10 p.m. on the 18th, made the run in 3 days 20 hours, the quickest on record. GENERAL SUMMARY. The Queen is at Osborne. —The Emperor of Morocco is expected to visit England shortly. —Miss Agnes Livingstone has mar ried Mr Alex. Bruce, of Hamilton, Liver pool.—Kuffiianism is still rampant. .A number of persons have been charged with brutal assaults with divers weapons.—Mr Kindall. tourist, perished in Snowdon. — Two ship-brokers have been fined and im prisoned for sending a rotten vessel to sea for the sake of the insurance.—Frank Scudda more, of the General Post-officp, has accepted an appointment under the Turkish postal service. The Good Templars have resolved to raise the sum of one thousand pounds for propagandist purposes among them. —A I youDg lady, Nora Hastings, cousin to the Marquis of Bute, has joined the Romish Church.—The Eev. Gervase Smith has been elected president of the Wesleyan Conference. —Mr Ball, a Liberal, has been elected for Hartlepool, by a large majority over Kenealy's son. —The Queen was among the prize-takers at tbe Eoyal Agricultural Society's meeting. The weather was cruelly unfavourable to the exhibition. —There is a general lock-out of cotton operatives through out Lancashire, owing to a further reductien of wages.—The town of Lefke, in Asiatic Turkey, has been nearly consumed by fire. —Twenty houses have been destroyed by fire in Constantinople.—Grant's six-storied cotton mills in Glasgow, and Broadwood's wearing factory in Belfast have also been con sumed by fire.—Obituary: Commander Charles Jeffries, aged 86, last surviving Copenhagen. Sir Charles Pocock, physician ; Bishop Thirl wall; Mr Singer, [sewing machine manufacturer ; Christian Anderson, author. —The Lord Mayor's banquet cost £180,000. Ie was a grand idea to entertain the Mayors of the World.—A vote of £40,000 passed for the administration of affairs in in Fiji.—Some good purchases of first-class horses have been made by Colonists. King Cole has also been purchased for Victoria; he is brother to King Lud sold at 6000 guineas.

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

[Per s.s. Albion at Hokitika].

LOSS OF AN ENGLISH VESSEL.

LATER PROM COOKTOWN,

Melbourne, September 17. The Chief Secretary made his financial statement. He stretched the deficit from £200,000 to nearly £300,000, and proposed to raise new revenue to the extent of £185,000, of which £150,000 is to come from a land tax, and the remainder from a tax on bank notes and successive duties. Sir James Mc- Cullough moved, " That while affirming the principle of a property-tax, this House considers it should be general, and therefore disapproves of the Government proposal." Thus the matter stands so far, but the Opposition can count upon a majority, and the end of next week will probably see thela^ of the Berry Ministry.—The ship Cambridgeshire, from London to Sydney, was wrecked on the 7th instant, on the Night Island Rock, near Preservation Island, in Bass's Straits. The vessel has gone to pieces, but the captain and crew were all saved. She had no passengers.—The Bank of Victoria robbery mystery has been cleared up. Grim, the exchange clerk, from whose custody they were lost, is the thief," and £1,600 of the stolen notes have been found in his possession. He now frankly confesses to hare abstracted the notes from the counter, and pocketed them. Sawyers, the receiving teller, pleaded guilty at his trial to embezzling.— *. fire at Belfast on Wednesday night destroyed a large amount of property, insured at £9,700 — The ship Cabridgeshire was insured for £17,000, including the New Zealand offices to the amount of £2.400. — Gold has been seen in the Magdala Keef at the depth of 1,681 feet. -A. lamp-trimmer, named Olaen, fell overboard from the Albion last voyage.—The Com missioners passed a resolution in favour of opening the Exhibition during certain hours on Sundays.— The Cyphrenes arrived at San Francisco on Septem ber 1,- three days after contract time.—Renton, who was rescued from the natives on Malaya Island, deserted from his ship nine years ago with four other men, and, after being at sea thirty days in an open boat, suffering great privations, they reached Malaya, when the natives destroyed their boat, and his com panions died. Benten alone survived, and a chief, esteeming his usefulness, kept him from being eaten. —Very satisfactory news comes from Cooktown. Gold is coming in from the Palmer, and the reefs are looking well. The Chinese are doing well, and the Chinese merchants say that in six months there will be 10,000 more Chinese.—The expedition lately seat out from Fort Dawin to search for the murderer of

Joh nston, on the Ifoper, arrested thTeeßatiT^ shot two chiefs. The paity has beenTre-cSS? w«ip the Divorce Court yesterday, sepsratiors wei» * - B* in Biown v. Brown and Benlow and 'Widbot« °^ V ' both cases the parties were married in Uew 7^, ** f 1 —The exchange clerk Grim has been commmt^4 fr trial. ""uecifoi r In White's case ?or bribe^r^he^kSoL 18' I quashed.-A miners' strike is about to take pS^* If Adila ide,,September f> 9 ' The Intercolonial Free Trade Bill hag been tTa eoondtime. v-..-* —**v a; I-

Arthur Orton in New Zealand.

[FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT.]-' Yott know that the blessed "Tichbbrne Case" is for ever cropping up and disturbing our serenity. Sometimes it is an Australia! witnc-83 who airs his knowledge in an EngflaW paper. Sometimes it is our friend WhalW who opens his mouth in the House, and very oftenitis that hypocritical scoundrelKenealy who makes money wholesale out of the idiotic working maß, whose sympathies are for everybody but himself, and who would be much better putting his half-crowns into the Savings' Bank than dropping them into th* Kenealy hat, if he only could be brought foj to see it. Mr. Bright, who is still greatly believed in by the working men, in gpjte 0 | his abjuration of republicanism and his lean*, ing to common sense, has earned a large lump, of gratitude by a letter which he has written to a certain fool in Sheffield who had written asking him to use his support in aiding Mr. Whalley in an attempt-to obtain a free pardon or protection for a man in New Zealand who claims to be Arthur Orton. Mr Bright says :-" Sir,—You may rely upon it that Arthur Orton will not come from New Zealand. During the trials £1000 was offered for him, and nobody could pro duce him. It was a large bribe, and I enly wonder it did not bring over a score of Orfcons. The Arthur Orton is in Dartmoor, and nobody, I suspect, knows this better than some of those who are pretending to expect him from New Zealand. I have read all the evidence and all the speeches of both trials, a«*d the summing up of the Lord Chief Ju ctic3—this last I have read again during the last month—and I have read more than oace the evidence taken before the Chili Commission. I know, therefore, as mock about the matter as you can know, and much more than is known by nine out of tea of those who areclamouring for the release of the convict »t Dartmoor. I have before me now

the handwriting of the real Roger Tichborrie, of the real Arthur Orton, and of the convict, and this alone is sufficient to convince any, man of common sense and observation what is the truth in the case. If you could see the handwriting, and if you couldexamine the evidence of the Chili Commission, the evidence of the convict's own friends, to whom he referred for proof that he waß what he pretended to be, you could hardly fail% be convinced that your belief in the convict" is wrong, and yonr sympathy with him' wholly misplaced. I mention these two points as conclusive against him—there are many other points in the evidence on the two triala which are fatal to his claims. He

seemed to know the names of two dogs, bat he did not know the name of his own mother.

Mr. Turville, in Australia, asks him a test, question—whether his mother was stouter; thin? He said, 'stoat, a tall, large woman/ It is not denied that Lady Tichborne was leanness itself. Miss Nangle said she was more like a skeleton than anything else, and this was not contradicted by anyone. If you can believe in a man who did not know his own mother's name, and who stated that his mother, v?ho is admitted to have been lean ness itself, was * stout, a tall, large woman,' when he first came forward in Australia, and when he had no opportunity of picking; up information and facts to support his case, I fear your are of that credulous natnre that it must be useless to reason with yon. I can take no part in the proceedings of Mr Whalley and his friends. Tome the convict in Dartmoor is the greatest criminal of our time; his crime has extended over many years ; it is most base in character, and includes in it almost every crimefor which evil men are brought to punish-* nont. You are much impressed, I daresay, by the declarations of those who traverse the country creating agitation on this qnes tion. I must ask to be permitted to value my own judgment at least as highly as that of these persons. One of them is believed to have invested money largely in the case, and pecuniary interest is not favourable, to an impartial decision ; another suffers from a* complaint which I call ' Jesuit on the brain,' I and this seems grievously to distort almost everything he looks at; and the lawyer who failed, after a trial which 188 days, to con vince three judges and twelve jurymen, or any one of the judges or jurymen, that his client was anything but an impoßtor, and. al * man most odious from his cbaract.er and his ■ crimes. I shall be glad if you, and such ,88., believe with you, will not ask to correspond furttfer on a question about which only honest men who are in enure ignorance of the facts can, in my view differ in opinion." Mr Whalley has asked the Home Secretary whether communications had been sent to him purporting to prove that Arthur Orton, now supposed to be a convict at Dartmoor, was in fact in New Zealand, and prepared to prove his identity, if protected from arrest on charges alleged against him, and if-so, whether he would lay them on the tabUj, or allow them to be inspected at the Home- Office, and whether he would state, thej , objections to grant to such a freedom from ' arrest for the said purpose.—Mr Cross said that as he had no reason to suppose that Arthur Orton, who was now in prison in this country, could be in New Zealand, he must entirely refuse to grant any freedom from arrest to any person in that colony. Ihis everlasting case seems to have no end to it, but the fact is it is really kept up byJ|&: creature Kenealy. who is rapidly -making* fortune out of •• the unfortunate nobleman m Dartmoor prison." Probably the Doctor blesses the day when he met with that hugely and monstrously fat man. At the present moment it is by men cunning in thefti? ot printing that the Doctor is making four hun dred pounds a week by his lectures and1 by the publication of his scurrilous little, rag,: the Englishman. At this time of writing he is putting up his son Ahmed Kenealy, the r poor boy who was mercilessly thrashed by his father a few years ago, as a candidate for Hartlepool in place of Mr. Bichardson resigned—He will not get him in, which IS I an unspeakable comfort. Kenealy 1S * blasphemous brute, comparing himself to the Saviour of mankind and altogether behaving in a way which nothing but a fathom of good New Zealand rope could repay. —A? , Birmingham, the other'clay, he ggve out m« programme; something after the following manner :—He had looked upon Mr. Bright.;) to call upon Government to see that justice ; was done in this case. Mr. Bright coultt not have read his. speech, or the reports P? the trial, or he would have come to a-difler ent conclusion. He hated despotism ao<J tyranny with all his heart. He was himseu a living, bleeding victim of despotismi and. tyranny. (Applause.) The House of Com mons had been the centre of all corruption. -and the House of Lords had been. reß^-J powerless except to register the voice of, t& I House of Commons. The lords and baronsw had always been the guardians of line liberties of the people, and $: w^ time their ancient power should be rev stored to them. He also wanted to remove ; from the shoulders of the people that norrib» y, thing called the National Debt, by m^WM the great families and the Church pay gS| the wars into which they had dragged w° i{ country. He- likewise wanted to get riapi that abomination of abominations, the-roo"*; Law system, by sending our worn-outcit^ to Australia instead of to the or jpfc*i and he did not see why industrious fc-^' should not be pensioned off as weUj»;i soldiers and sailors. (Cheers.) At preeef"



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