SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

iji HIGH WATER: Tbls eveningl 11.6 !' I lorrow morning. 12 47- ' J*rfß. tn. I P ■ SUN SET : This enrenrog, 4.47 ; SUN-^™ ' . 1 i iorrow mornine, 7JB. -9 is am / J L_| MOON'S AGE : Last quarter, ? erf' 2" 18 a m Hit, ATIBIY^- I } ss, Farquhar, from,.^! 'jI p j parPARTTTRES. / / jS Piily McLaren, Wirque, for Napier j;I Irgaranaki, s s T«>yfi» *or tbe Stmth . .an roa . 1 ". j ook Oat, bn'gantine. for Sydney via !; [ outhorn Cross, ss, for Kaipara ■ J'l 1} ;owen», a3, for Taurangs. ■ U S I "-TRTTTKES. ' il! t PROJECTED DR^y I Ji| I /or Wellingfcqa-Dido. H >k. M . s . Sif 9th July iji i T?or San Francisco— Mik^Q oll d a y S !s j the North—lona, s£i p> early HI I °or London—Fernglergtar, barque, car y (ji jl £or the Cape- Shoq^ y brig, early J m| j £or Newcastle- V , .4SELS BXPECTKB from the South. 28th instant ffl iVeUingtbn, 6' m Sydney, Bth July i :*'(!, Jlikado, sjher, from Dunedin |;ij|! \gnes, scij U entine, from PortOamble, early j]'ji '"ictor v s C n O o n er, from Dunedin, early I :!jj losebj' aI .q ÜBi from Circular Head, early ;!..||; from Kotumah, early j I ! .*Ha, schooner, from Rarotonga, early I i| I ifen, brig, from Sydney, early .-farina, barque, from ihe Islands, early ;Siiith, schooner, from the Islands, early 11;iforfarshire, HNftP, ship, from London; sailed .{I March 19 ;Cj "lechero, ship, from London ; sailed 13th April jt- Lntter worth, ship, from London : sailed 10th April ill' ' carl, schooner, from Timaru : sailed 11th inst \ , sella Mary, barque, from Hobart Town. p|| 'rince Alfred, barqnentine, from Lyttelton p|i { rision, brig, from .^arno* j j 1 arah, hrig. from Moeraki, early Si; iLlumbagh, ship, from London : ijj arisbrook Castle ship, from Liverpool; sailed f |'[: olumbus. ship, from London jyljityof Auckland, shio, fro"m London a|i]] harybdi-*, schooner, from the Navigators * airl'e. schoon»r. from Lyttelton, early pi'ijt "enilworth, Frhooner from Noumea, early fjfi ■, ueen of the South barque, from LytteltOD, early t' ti Cero, ss, fn-m Sydney, 2nd July •lewellvn, s.s., from Sydney [il'lobina Dutilop, barque, from London ; sailed 29th -H| ) March I l[ ] IKOI special charge of one shilling in made for onsignees' or shippers' names inserted in this column. I! j The s.s. lona left Russell at 12 45 p.m. yesterday II Ith strong South wind, and arrived at Wangarei at I ,30, and arrived ia Auckland at 5 this morning. She ! assed tfte Krou off the Kawau. Mr Stodart, the S'l uraer, his supplied us with the following list of > wseneers and careo. Passengers—Mcsrs Major leddell, Inspector Thompson, A.C, p. S Kemp. S B S(i udbrook, J. B Clark Waridinghara, Captain Frater, arrett, Jackson, Hatner George Wynyard S.Tracy Sjj ;mith, Mr and Mrs Clarke, Mrs Colenso. Mrs iuchnnan, Mrs Hickson, and 7 in the steerage. arßO—32 head cattle, 47 bag 3 gam, 8 bags gum, 15 ! iga gum. and 4 casks oil. i ; The three-masted sclnoner Estelle cleared out to \%f in bnllast. for Wanpcaroa, where she i 3 to load '; >,OOOft. of timber fir Melbourne ; ; The brg Derwent has cleared in ballast for Mon j Bnui where she will load timber for one of the ■{&! nstralian ports. ■«;; ; The cutter Coralie is about to sail for OpDtiki with f) j general cargo. $ I The brig Victor/ left for Newcastle with a fine P I W. breeze at noon.to-day. f [ The brig*nti!ie Loos Out sai'ed for Wangaroa .ej ssterday. ahe will there loal for Sydney. Mr Donald's new sch oner, just built by Mr Bailey the North Shoe, w.ll be ready for launching "n or j iouiM ndiy-weik It i 3 not imorobvble fiat Cant \ assy's new steamer w;ll be launched from Sims and ; arown's yavds clone by at the same time. i By an error we yesterday stated that the Star of the . . :i i rath had cleared for Levuka with general cargo. The '; |ii3toms' manifest of her cargo from the South had j sen mistaken in the hurry of business for tbe out iirds clearancs. A number of gentlemen were given :, fejj il pas7ens;ers. We trmt Ui.^t our inadvertency has 't i ])t ent*iled upon th^m any inconvenience. ! The brig Kio Loge is taking in ballast for her j ;)ya*eio Paget'a S ,uod I '■ The briir we» Spiay whose arrival wo announced jisterday afternoon, left Lvttelton on the 17th ins. p9 experienced * heivy S R vale ltat Sunday, which pered to WS"7, and cimpe led the captain to ■ Save to off thi E»st Cape She brings a cargo of ! iputhern produ'c, and is consigned to D, H. :i jtcKenzie 5 The s s Taranaki left the wharf at Onehunpa. this i'temoon for She Souih. Passengers—The Misae? kllighan {i) Mr C. L. ■ ation, Mr and Mrs Lamb id family, Mr Hasl tt, and others booked at One lnga, besides six original oassengers who were liable tp land at Tar-mkipn the voyage up. The uracaki takss an average cargo. I -Th« schooner Kate McGregor arrived at Kussell om Napier yesterday. 31 he barque Emily McLaren left last night fOl aDier. ; j The brig Ssa Sprsy was berthed at the outer astern T. this morning. She will start discharging ; i Monday. , The schooner Tnrea was last heard of as loading in le Wiiitara for the Manukau. She is expected at nehungn every day. '. The ship Culler On ia taking in ballast at the same me. as she is putting out the last of h»r cargo. She -I ill leave for Newcastle in course of a few days.

AUSTRALIAN SHIPPING NEWS.

THE DEPARTURE OF THE HERO. Wellington, this day. According to papers received by the s.s. JJasby, the ■ig Syren sailed for Auckland, from Sydney, on 16 16th. and ths Hero sails for Auckland to-day.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails "wii/l Close as follows . — For Thames, on Monday next, at — 'For Corimandel, on Monday next, at 11.30 am for Levuk*, per Star of the. South, on .Monday, 23th inst. at 11 a m For Wangarei. etc, Russell, Wangaroa, and Mon gonui, per lona, on Monrtiy next, at 4p m For Tairu*, per Mercury on Monday next, at 4 p m For Kawau ai>d M-iUkana, per lady Boweu, on Taesday next, at 9 am Per s.s. Mikado, on Friday, 9th July as under — Jfor Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South *.merles, and British and Foreign West Indies at 10.E0 a m For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 10 30 a m For money orders, registered letters, and news papers, at 9 30 am Late lettevs be*ring a late fee of 6d in addition to the postuga, will be received on board by the Mail Agent np to time of sailing. gjNntice.—The Steamer Alhambra is expected to leave Bluff, at 2 p m on Monday, tlie 28*.h instant. . Telegrams for tho .vustraltan C 110-iien or Kurope via Javj. C'iible, will be recrived at this otiic^ for trans mission to Bluff up till 12 o'clock noon of the 28:h inst. (Stoned) S. E BISS, Chief Postmaster

A Constant Destruction of bodily substance goes on in the human system oven in a stiite of health. This destructive process is mutfnilled fifty-fold by diase when it so completely overbalances nutrition, tliat the system is speedily worn out. Kidney diseases, uterine complaints, rheumatism and undue nervousness cause a tromendous waste of tissue. The loss of strength and substance engen dered by these and other maladies, is most effectually compensated for, by Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Abomatic Schnapps.

DEATHS.

FINNEGAN—On the 20th June, at his residence. Chapel-street North, Thomas Kinnegan, late of Portadown, County of Armagh, Ireland, aged •ii years. The funeral will leave to-morrow at 3 o'clock. Friends will please accept this invitation.

SARSFIELD.—On the 25th June, at his father's residence, William-street, Victoria Quadrant, James Sarsfield, aged 14. The funeral will leave his father's residence on Sunday, the 27th instant, at 2 p.m. Friends please accept this invitation.

OXENHAM —On the 26th June, at the North Shore, the infant son of Sydenham and Sarah Oxonham, aged 10 weeks The funeral will leave his father's residence at 3 p m. to-morrow (Sunday)

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

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1875.

For the cause that lacks, axn\tamcc, Jor the wront- that need* resini-j^ce, "or tha future la the d>«ta:iiv- A-nd the caud that ire can do.

Tee settlement of the Macassey v. Bell case, as reported in our telegraphic column, should teach a lesson to enthusiastic litigants. Macassey is jast where he started save in having had v the pleasure of paying his own costs and those of the Dunedin 'Evening Star to a very handsome amount, and seeing the prosecuted journal evoking an outburst of public sympathy in the tangible form of a presentation of £500. The reparation to bis offended feelings is just that which he had obtained before litigation was begun. Nothing more, nothing less. He was not content with it then. We presume he is not content with it now. But it is the best he can get. A new trial he could have, but a new. trial he does not now want. The last one was enough for him. He retires with the explanation and apology which he for merly refused, a sadder but a wiser man. We cannot help thinking how much more satisfactory it would be—we do not say to journalists alone, but to irate laymen—if severe journalistic comments were met with fair discussion instead of bounce and threats of law. No one with truth on his side needs fear such discussion, and there is not one jour nal in fifty that would persist in making reite ration of statements if shown to be wrong; and if such reiteration were made, there is fairness enough in the public mind to resent it. What a contrast to the conduct of small excitable and litigious people is supplied in the conduct of Lord Coleridge, related in a telegram in another column in to-day's issue- He had in another capacity conducted the suit against and subsequently directed the prosecution of the Claimant, and in the Englishman, Dr Keneally's organ, he has since j been abused with a virulence, to which it is haul to find a parallel, being deliberately charged with having suborned false witnesses, and the judges with having connived with the prosecution. But neither the judges, with their extraordinary powers, nor the then advocate, with his knowledge of the ways and ends of litigation, have instituted legal proceedings ; but, as we read in the telegram, " Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, has issued a refutation of the charges brought against the judges who tried the Tichborne Claimant." How much more dignified, how much more effective an

the action of little fussy people who fly to the machinery of the law courts to set them selves right, and generally end iv hurting their fingers with the Cogs.

We have much pleasure in learning that the street railway question is being pushed. We understand that on the request of Mr Turner

who is returning immediately to San Fran c isco, a special meeting of the City Council has been convened for -Wednesday next,

to receive from that gentleman, and consider a distinct and definite proposal on the subject. We arc not accustomed to see excessive haste in the initiation and performance of public work ; and sfter the long wrangling over the waterworks, it would be funny to see rapidity charac terising this street railway movement. But,the feeling seems all favorable, and this thing puts on no taxes, and we really see no reason why

there should be any great delay We under

stand th at a local company can bo formed to work in conjunction with Mr. Turner.

This we learn with mingled feelings, for we

should like to see this thing removed from the baleful influence of cliques andj;sets. We had hoped much from the infusion of foreign blood, and we still hope that Yankee interests will be largely concerned in the carrying out of the project.

We are very much pleased to learn that on the request of a number of citizens, Mr. Yon der Heyde has expressed his willingness to be nominated as a candidate for the vacancy in the City Council. The advantage to the Council of haviDg one of its members in the General Assembly cannot but be regarded as of great importance, and as morethancounter balancing any evil arising from the absence of one of its members from the Council for a few months in the year. It is exceedingly gratifying to see citizens of standing and in fluence connecting themselves with the ad ministration of our civic business, and we feel confident that Mr. Yon der Heyde's candidature will be very favorably received.

We think it will be admitted that none but a blackguard in heart and deed could write and publish the following, which we find in the Hawke's Bay Herald : "So far as we are aware, there is no truth in the report that one of tho editorial staff of the Welling ton JSveniny Post started in life as a master of ceremonies at a casino, but tbe astonishing familiarity displayed in the editorial columns of that journal, with reference to the differ ent varieties of indecent dances, would seem to indicate that, after all, the rumour may not be utterly without foundation.".. The cowardly way in which this base insinuation s put is characteristic of the tuft-hunting sycophant that does tbe editorials of the Hawke's Bay Herald. He has not the pluck to father the "rumour," which is solely the emanation of his own filthy brain, and his statement of it produces an irrepressible tingling in the toe of one's boot. When one compares the reputation of the Post, second to no journal in the Australasian colonies for honesty and fearlessness of independence, with tbe Hawke's Bay Herald, which has been infamous throughout the colony as the organ of the ring that has for years been sys tematically swindling the natives of Hawke's Bay out of their lands; and when one compares the honourable position won in journalism by Mr Gillon, of the Post, with the kind of fame the truckling editor of the Batches 1 Bay Herald enjoys, through crawling at the feet and licking the toes of those who are good to him, one feels angry at the impudence of such a fellow presuming to challenge com parisons. But the closing paragraph in the article of this skunk of journalism is more impudent still. .Says he generalising—" We do noh know why it should be that even ing papers should be almost necessarily low in tone, but such is nevertheless the case in Wellington, Auckland, Wanganui, and above all, in Napier. The evening journals in these places, seldom if ever uphold what is honest and worthy, but are ever ready to become the champions of dishonesty and indecency." "Well, we can speak for ourselves, and we think our readers will bear us out in the statement, when we say that our fame here is for being pretty sharp on dishonesty, in fact some think we a little overdo it. And we do not hesitate to say that since the first day of journalistic existence there has never been a deed of dishonesty or unfairness, or wrongdoing in the public life in our little world here, on which we have not jumped, and mercilessly rent the evil doers ; while we are told by those who are regarded as the religious world, that the Star is looked on as the defender of the faith and the champion of religion and morality. We believe the same is the character borne by our evening contempo raries in the places referred to, Wellington, Wanganui, and Napier. But if to lend our columns to a wealthy ring to support it in robberies that have offended the moral sense of the colony, if this is what is "honest and worthy " then we have never upheld what is honest and worthy. And if to rout. robbers and swindlers, hip and. thigh with great slaughter, however powerful and wealthy they may be, if this is "dishonesty and indecency," then we have ever been the "champions of dishonesty and indecency." And what we say of ourselves is true, we believe, of our contemporaries referred to. The best test of this is the approval of the people. iThe evening journal of Hawke's Bay has we believe three or four times the amount of circulation of the. Hawke'a Bay Herald. The Wellington Post has at least three times, the circulation of either of its local contem-' poraries. We need not refer to our own. But when we see a person of the mental constitution of the editor of the Hawke's Bay Herald, and a paper which at present enjoys the infamy of defending the ring who have by grog debauched, and by " mortgages" so obtained, robbed the natives of that province of their wordly possessions,—when we find such as these preaching virtue and morality, we say heaven have mercy on New Zealand.

We learn a special meeting of the City Council will be held on Wednesday next to consider an application made under the Tramways Act, 1872, from W. E. Turner, Esq., for the permit from the local authority.

The meeting of the Albion Quartz Mining Company, adjourned from yesterday, lapsed for want of a quorum.

A Provincial Government Gazette was published to-day, and contains a notice that the planß of a proposed road through lots 79 and 84, and the Government Reserve to the Mount Albert and Onehunga roads, that one objection to the proposed road had been received, and objections would be heard at the Superintendent's office a 11 o'clock, on the Bth July. The boundaries of the Mata mata Highway district are published with with other highway and Native Lands Court notices.

Mr John Hughes, Superintendent of the Auckland Fire Brigade, has been made a life honorary member of the Dunediu Volunteer Brigade, as a mark of respect and esteem on retiring from that brigade after six years secvice.

An important meeting of the members of the Carlton Cricket Club will be held this evening, in the Grafton road district school room, when it is hoped that all members will be present.

The1 man who bears' the name of James Dunne^ and who was committed from the Police Court yesterday, oh several charged of burglary, to take his trial at the next crimi nal sittings of the Supreme Court, had all those outer appearances of one of those heroes of the Jack Shepherd type, whose hair breadth escapes by flood and field aid in swelling the interesting pages of the New gate calender. A phrenologist would not pronounce a favorable opinion of Dunne from his peculiar leer and singular forehead, but whatever of truth there may be in the boasted science of phrenology ; it is, after all, the disposition of the person that to a very large extent, gives character tp the features. Dunne, like all such heroes, considered himself an injured man, the victim of police plotting, and the press, against which he declaimed for daring to associate the word "burglar," with the honorable name of " Dunne." This man, we lea^n, is a native of a town in the south oi Ireland, where be was born in 1831. He went to school until it was considered time to put him to a trade. He went to the shop of a village tailor, and entered into companionship with the thim ble and goose, OTa soon, it was said, learned to cabbage. Somewhat reckless and wild in his habits, he could not sit comfortably on the shop board, so he entered,the 18th Irish regiment, became a soldier, and left his native land for these shores. After retiring from the army, he married, and started a« a hawker at the Thames, where he was well known with his basket, and where in course of time he opened a store. He put on a res pectable, even a pious appearance, and passed creditably on without being suspected of pursuing a systematic course of robbery which was at length detected and for which he suf fered. During his late incarceration, his wife thought well to take to a new love, thinking that Jemmy was lost to her, and vvith him she proceeded south. On Diinne's release from prison in March last, he seems to have turned with renewed vigour to his old pur suits, and one of his first attempts at robbery was the stealing of a dog in Hobson street, but which attempt was frustrated by the timely appearance of Detective Grace, to whom Dunne said, he merely wanted a sharp dog to keep thieves from his house ; there were so many burglaries about just now. A few of the recent adventures of James Dunne are familiar to our readers, but of these he says, he shall clear his character when brought in face to face with justice and twelve honest jurymen.

A word of comment on the following is needless. Anything so diabolical and reck less we have not before heard of. Jf some poor child were poisoned, hanging would he too good for the wretch scattering the poisonous fruit:— " Sir, —Is the Inspector of Police aware that some person in the Pon sonby district has been dropping fruit or vegetables in public places for the parppso of poisoning goats. J need scarcely say that it is a very criminal and dangerous practice where children are in the habit of playing. Perhaps some person may be able to inform you who it is.—Patbbfamalus.

To-day there is issued, as a supplement, Mr Bobert Brewin's catalogue of agricultural, vegetable, and flower seeds tor 1875, with instructions regarding the month for sewing. The produce ot Mr Brewin's seeds has shewn out most satiHfactorily at the various agricul tural, and horticultural shows held in Auck land. Amateur gardeners should keep the list by them, as it will be a most useful guide to planting. We have much pleasure in acknowledging receipt of 10s. from Mrs. DeLias in aid of Mrs. Cassidy, whose deserving case was drawn attention to in our columns yester day. The statement of the affairs of the Bismarck and French Republic Gold Mining Company is gazetted to-day. Mr G. W. Deunes, the well-known im porter of sewing-machines, and the ownei of the admirable lime - light entertainment, announces through our columns that he is prepared to give his exhibitions in connection with Sunday-schools, and to return the whole of the nett proceeds to the school in the form of a sewing machiwe, to be competed for by the children. This offer is a very liberal one, and will afford schools a doixble source of entertainment —first, the exhibition itself, which is a most instructive one, and second, a, valuable prize for competition afterwards. On tramways, a correspondent writes: — "Sir, —It would be a great public con venience and add not a little to the railway receipts if the gaage adopted for the pro posed tramway were the same as used by our railway, and a branch of the tramway were laid on the wharf. Railway passengers could then be put down and taken up either in the city or suburbs at their pleasure, and goods could be forwarded to or from vessels at the wharf, or stores, shops, *c, in the city or suburbs with out reloading at the Auckland station. 'The wharf tramway could also be used for the purpose of forwarding goods to the stores and shops in the town. This would save the wharf a good deal ef wear and tear. There is one thing against these suggestions, and that is that the sanction of " Frank B. Passmore " might have to be obtained, and that worthy might make himself tro\xblesome if he thought Auckland would be improved by it. Apologising for taking up so much of your valuable space, I am, &c., TRAMWAY." " Woe to Europe when the Czar of Russia wears a beard!" cried the exile of St. Helena, And, lo ! the last woe is to be fulfilled ; for by imperial ukase all but court officials are allowed the privilege of wearing a beard, and the Czar will soon follow. Mr. Robert Heller and his daughter Haidee are now trying to puzzle the citzens of Edinburgh. " I believe," writes a London correspondent, "they are very successful in everything except in inducing many people to come to be puzzled." Lucretia Boyd, settled the matter with her slow wooer by simply shedding a few tears and saying, " I dont believe I have a real friend on earth." What could the poor fellow do but open his arms and exclaim, ' • Here is your refuge." A Danbury man, who bought a new pair of boots on Saturday, s»ys a ship may stand on one tack all night if it wants to. but he finds an hour and a half an elegant sufficiency. The spc.etary of the Carpenters and Joiaers Protection Society requests the attendance of ,members at a special meeting to be held in the Young Men's Rooms, Wellesley-street, on Monday evening next. We are glal to notice that Mr Eady, butcher, who has for several months been prostrated by the ill-health of himself and family, wilbemmo business on Monday next at No. 14 stall, Auckland market. Are you about to be married ? Have you builfc a house ? Do you wish to furnish economically ? If so there isj without excep tion, the best and largest variety of carpets and floor-cloths in the province to choose from at the City Hall, furnishing and dra pery establishment. Holloway and Garlick furnish banks, hotels, offices, and private residences cheaper than any other house in town. In addition to Brussel, tapestry, Kid derminster, ana hemp carpets, they have flax, coir, and china matting, hearthrugs, wool mats (in all colors), door-mats (every requisite size), union and wool damasks, quilts, blan kets, alieetiDg, curtains, etc. Before buying, inspect the stock at the City Hall. We are still selling gents' umbrellas at reduced rates : ISilk at 7s 6d, 9s lid, 12a 6d ; alpaca, 4s 6d to-6s 6d ; ladies' silk, 5s lid and 6s lid ; alpaca, 3s lid to ss. Drapery, clothing, and^ millinery at prices to suit the times—Hollo way & Garlick, City Hall, 230, Queen-street. The great variety entertainment ia favour of Mrs Sextie and family will be given in the Lome-street Hall, by Mr P. Doran and his merry troupe of minstrels, on the evening of Thursday, the Ist of July. The enter tainment, consisting of Bongs, dances, and comicalities, will be patronised by the Odd fellows and Hibernians of Auckland.

We' learn from an EDglish journal that De&n Stanley delivered ah eloquent address at Dundee on " Religion, Science, and Litera ture," which he embodied in the study of three contemporaries, or almost contetn peraries,—Calvin, Galileo, and Shakespere. He treated Calvin as the great theologian of predestination, 'which he regarded as a strained and extreme form of, but still a form of the gospel of Providential gudiance, and claimed for Calvin in this matter no less a disciple amongst modern men of genius than Carlyle. Galilei he treated as the true scientific man, aod Shakespere as the poet whose faith was all the greater for not being confined to any definite creed. The Dean ridiculed'the notion that theology vrouhl soon perish from off the earth and declaredtthat its alliance with science and literature must be eternal.

Previous to signing the bonds of the wit nesses in the case of the notorious burglar, James Dunne, His Worship the Mayor ex pressed pleasure on behalf of himself and Dr. Home in recording their approbation of the able and efficient manner in which the detec tives, especially Detective Jeffrey, had traced out the stolen property. None but an ex perienced officer could have shewn such acuteness, and he (the Mayor) hoped that his words of commendation would not ba overlooked by the Inspector of Police.

To-night is the last opportunity that will be afforded the people of Auckland for seeing the wonderful double headed calf and the four-legged fowl. Of all the natural, or rather unnatural monstrosities that have ever been offered for the inspection of a curious public here, these are the most remark able, and those who have not yet seen them should not omit a visit to their room at the old Market Keserve during their Saturday's night's perambulations this evening. The admission fee has been reduced to sixpence ; youngsters half-price ; so that none big or little need stay away on account of poverty. The proprietor from here proceeds to the Thames and other districts.

Additional game licenses have been issued to Messrs. Thomas F. Masefield, G. Waller, and A. Price. ' ,

We learn that Captain Daldy has tabled a motion in the Harbour Board, " That it be an instruction to the Wharf Committee to enquire into and report upon the best means of preventing confusion and delay in dis charging the cargoes of vessels at the Queen-street wharf." The motion will come on for discussion at the meeting of the Board on Tuesday next. The action of Captain Daldy in thus promptly taking up a grievance of which both the business firms of our city and the captains of ships trading here have good reason «to complain, cannot be too highly commended.

We call the attention of readers to the announcements of subjects of discourse at the Beveral churches of the city and suburbs, which appear in our advertisernesft page. Fine weather having at last favored the advocates of the game of football, matches are going on this afternoon at Ellerslie be tween the Auckland Club and the Ponsonby Club, and in the Domain between Parnell and Grafton Road Clubs. The high wind of the last few days has dried the gronnd after the x>lenteous rains of the pact month, and enjoyable and interesting games should take place to-day. The names of the players have been already published.

Sir George Grey and the Sale of Timber and Water Rights at Tairua.

We learn that it is the intention of hi 3 Honor tlm Superintendent to publish, in a Pro vivcial Government Gazette, the two deeds bearing on the sale of the timber and water rights on the Tairua block to private purchasers shortly before the block was purchased by the Government. We have before us copies of these deeds. The first one is a deed executed by" the native owners of Mercury Bay, in which they sell to Messrs. Richard Seccombe and J. C. Sec combe, brewers of Kyber Pass, Auckland, the forest-trees for the sum of £500, upon or about all that piece or parcel of land con taining six thousand acres more or leas situated at Tairua, with the " sole and exclusive right to cut such trees, and to make all paths, roads, and tramways re quired, to dig sawpits, erect sawmills, make watercources and dams, and to have the ex clusive use of all creeks, rivers, and water courses or streams on the said land," and to do all other things necessary or desirable for the removal of the said timber, and further to give effect to the foregoing the Baid grantors do demise and lease to the said grantees the land men tioned with all rights and appurtenances thereto belonging as tenants in common for the term of forty years at a yearly rental of five shillings. The agreement further makes this sale and lease binding on the grantees' heirs and executors notwithstanding any_act or thing the grantors may do to the con trary, and gives a good title. This agree ment is witnessed by J. W. R. Guilding, licensed interpreter ; and Gerald O'Hallo ran, land agent, Shortland ; is certified by the usual declaration under the Native Lands Acts, and bears date November 24th, 1872. The second deed is dated December 24, 1872, and sells and conveys to the Queen for the sum of £2900 all that parcel of land at Tairua containing .36,000 acres, boundaries of which are described, subject to the sale and grant of the timber and other rights demised by the deed between the grantees and Messrs. Seccombe. This deed is also witnessed by J. R. Guilding, Licensed Inter preter, and Gerald O'Halloran, and is in dorsed by Mr James Mackay, jun., Agent for Land Purchases,[lmmigration and Public Works Act.

Attempted Suicide in Beresford street.

A yotjxg man named John Hunter, of re- Gpectable appearance, about twenty-eight years of age, was brought up this morning before Mr Beckham, the Resident Magis trate, on a charge of attempting; to cut his throat with a razor. The facts of the case are few and simple. Hunter is a baker by trade, and has been lodging with his married sister, a Mrs Kennedy, in Beresford-street, for some time past. It is supposed that the young man's raah attempt at self-destruction, though resulting immediately from excessive drinking, originally proceeded from unre quitted love. During the present week he has been continually drinking, and on return ing home last evening he appeared in a state of semi-madness, and raved in a strange, wild manner. His sister became alarmed, when he swore he would do it. He could endure the weight of life no longer ; his brain was on fire. He rushed to the inner room and grasped his razor, and drew it across his throat but not effectually > merely drawing blood slightly. He swung his arm back with, the intention, as was supposed, of making the fatal gash, when his sister, Mrs Kennedy, rushed forward, caught him by the arm, and prevented him from accomplishing his deadly purpose. Hunter stared and trembled, as the razor fell from his hands, exclaiming "You have saved me, sister." Mrs Kennedy, whose hand was cut and bleeding in rescuing her brother, uttered a scream which quickly brought Constable Mnlville, who was near at hand to the house. Seeing Hunter's perturbed state of mind, he deemed it prudent to secure him from further barm, and at once took him under his pro tection, and accompanied him to the police station. Hunter is somewhat more com posed since his incarceration, but-does npt refer to his attempted suicide. His appetite seems to be remarkably good, and his sister has been most-attentive in ministering to his fancies in the lock-up. He now appears very quiet and resigned, and does not refer to the offence of which he is charged, and for which he will have to answer on Monday next.

POLICE COURT.—THIS DAY.

(Befoie Thomas Beckham, Esq., R.M.) Tflt! lAS* OF THE PAGANS. An elderly person, with a black eye, but otherwise of decent appearance, pleaded guilty to being drunk last right. His Worship expressed surprise at a person of prisoner's years being found in such a disgraceful condition. ' . _ . Prisoner evinced penitence, and raid a fine of 10s and costs.

PUNNE (DONE) BKOWN. Michael Dunne, alias Brown, was charged with the same offence. Prisoner, who presented, a lamentable appearance in Conrt, was found by Constable Mulville in a helpless state of drunkenness, pleaded guilcy, and was fined 53. and costs. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE. John Hunter, a young man, was charged with attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor on the 2oth. The hearing of the case was adjeurned until Monddy, at the request of the Inspector This was all the business-

PONSONBY HIGHWAY DISTRICT.

MEETtNa LAST NIGHT. The ratepayers of Alma "Place, Brookville, Richmond, and Springbank congregated last evening in the school-room, Ponsonby Road, at eight o'clock, for the purpose of eliciting the general views of the district, as to the right, men to be elected at the annual general meeting of the ratepayers of the Ponsonby district, to be held on the 9fch proximo. The place was crowded long before the hour for beginning. At eight o'clock, the general crowd moved into the room, and, on the motion of two ratepayers of the district, Mr Fieming wan voted to the chair. The Chairman said that he would simply preside over the deliberations of the meeting, and allow each man a chance of saying his mind without fear or favour. He would now call upon Mr Alexander Black, a retiring trustee, to address the meeting. Mr Black immediately mounted the plat form, and, for the space of nearly two hour?, spoke upon the past, present, and future of the district ; and, in the course of his re marks at times, his native eloquence (un known to himself) rose to the height of en thusiasm. He dwelt in most scathing terms on the present Board, shewing that, in his opinion, the Bouth side of the district had been swindled, and the rates collected mainly distributed around, or close to the tfoors of the other member's of the Boaid or their friends, to whom they owed the debt of being put in as trustees. He said there was no confidence in the men; the ratepayers boldly asserted their views of their capacity, and in terms not very complimentary to their native talent. There was nothing but disorder and discontent in the place, because the Board hf d not the principle to deal out equally the rates collected, shewing favor to none. He proved from statistics, that certain amounts had been collected ; and he called upon the self-styled Board to answer where had the monies been spent? He was the only member of the Board who ever paid regular visits to the labourers on the road to see what was being done. He boldly asserted, and challenged contradiction, that the Board was paying for material and scoria almost double the amount <if that con tracted by the City Council. The present Board did not want his presence, they strived to thwart him in every possible way ; and even on last evening he got a note pus into his hand of a meeting of Trustees, but he knew their little game. He believed they in'ended to get him to the meeting and then net him lockfid'up till the meeting was over. He was afraid of no man. He had driven a political coach for nearly thirty years with honour to himself and those he represented. The working man was the backbone of the* place —the cream of society. At this juncture of the meeting Mr. Black was frequently interrupted, and after dealing out his views with the candour peculiar to him, he retired to his seat in the midst of roars of laughter. Mr W. J. Rees considered it wrong for anyone having held a seat in the Board, apd taken part in its proceedings to come to a public meeting and complain of them as Mr Black had done. The old Board would retire with clean hands and w-uld be able at their annual meeting to submit a statement which they had no reason to feel ashamed of. He intended to offer himself again for re-election and would continue to do his best. He con sidered that the making of side paths should be a first consideration. Proxies and double toting, he . thought, were a curse to a 1 district. He thought the Cross people were to blame in not presenting their account sooner. Tbe business man who let an account stand over for five or six years could not reasonably expect to recover it. The trustees were placed at a disad vantage through the con fusion in the former trustees' accounts. However, if the Cross . had not taken action, he was disposed to have brought their claim forward at a general meeting, and to have voted for its settlement. Mr. Morton came to the front in defence of his co-trustees and himself. Mr. Black, he said, had been throwing dust in the eyes of the meeting, and had indulged in person alities which could hurt no one but Mr. Black himself. He knew Mr. Black had a spite against him. and this evening was a good chance for him to give vent to it. He cared nothing for empty attacks of vain and conceited old men, who plumed them selves upon nothing but their audacity; men who, if they .had got a few loads of scoria around their own doors, would silently retire to say nothing. He called upon the ratepayers to look around and see if the cash collected had not been spent to the best interests of the district. They had done their part well for the general interest, and he defied the finger of scorn. The accounts were well kept; they had vouchers for every penny spent, and were not afraid, of meeting any ratepayer in the face. Th« assertions of Mr Black were without foundation and mainly untrue. An Elector : " How about the recent law expenses ?" Mr Morton : In the recent law cases we did what we thought to be our duty, not to allow any and every account to be passed upon us for payment, for which we had no knowledge of contracting. A voice : ' • Why were the ratepayers not called to see if proceedings in law were to go on?" Mr Morton : We, as trustees, were put in to represent you, and if you could not depend upon our opinion ia such matters, the sooner we retired from office the better. (At this part there was a great uproar and commotion.) Mr. A. Boardman next addressed the -meeting. He said, if the audience would allow him, he would make a few explana tions regarding himself and others. It had been currently said that when he and his'co trastees were in office they did nothing but look out for themselves. This, gentlemen, was a base falsehood, and proceeded from those who live upon calumniating others. He would appeal to any man present if he and his workers, including Mr. 8. Jones, had not done almost the whole of the works that now greet the eyes of the ratepayers. Let them look,at the streets formed, at the side streets—not back streets, as Mr. Rees would term them, —and who had they to thank for the improvements done ? To the old trustees, not to Mr. Morton and hia clique. To these men they could not look to with any confi dence. Men who were the weak dupes of others of less brain than themselves, and that was not much ; men who can be turned about too easily, who, he would not say, made self-interest their highest motives. They mast put men into the Board who would do fairly to all, that would distribute equally the rates collected, and who would have the general good of the district at heart. He asked the trustees why 'the accounts which had been owing for yean to

the Herald, Cross, and Stats, were unpaid, and refused. Those amounts were honora bly owing; they were contracted for the benefit of the district. Mr. S. Jones, with himself (Mr. Boardman) went to the office and gave the orders, and upon their word and honour, when they had no cash to pay, the accounts were held over for their convenience. He said to the ratepayers that if they still continued to allow the present frusteps to remain the District Board, they took their part, and were accomplices in the disgraceful design of defrauding those proprietors out of their earnings. The trustees promised to pay tho accounts. Why was it not done, and not to allow such a wide-spTead and deserved disgrace rest upon their flourishing district? Let them see to-night that the ratepayers of Ponsonby should, to a man, vote for honest men, for men who would be true to their interests. Mr Boardman sat down amid thunders of applause. An elector then rose and proposed Mr A. Black as a fit person to represent the interests of the ratepayers. Put to the meeting and carried unanimously. Mr Wm. Thome was next proposed, and carried. Great applause followed, and while many were trying to speak, and the Chair man calling for order, the meeting broke up without even according a vote of thanks to the Chairman.

WAIWERA (HOT SPRINGS.)

(PER SAB CARRIER PIGEON.)

This day, 1 p'.m

The large plunge bath in the tunnel is finished, also ten new baths, with an abun dant supply of hot water. The tunnel is a great success. „ One of the visitors has gained Blbs weight in five days. All the invalids are progressing favourably. We have fine weather here. Ail visitors are in great spirits, and eDJoying the Wai-

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ADDITIONAL ENGLISH NEWS.

(By Cable.)

(PER BASBY AT WELLINGTON.)

THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION".

MONUMENT TO LORD BYRON.

VINDICATION BY LORD COLERIDGE.

LONDON.

June 15. Two days' sale of pictures in London rea lised £100,000. Dover is about to]be madera fortified har bour.

Captain Markbam, of the Arctic Expedi tion, was presented to the Queen on her Majesty's Birthday. A. meeting was held, presided over by Mr Disraeli, to take steps for the erection of a monument to Lord Byron. Mr Warner the secretary of the Sim Building Society, has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling £35,000. The Lord Mayor of London is to visit Dublin in June, on the occasion of an Irish banquet to American riflemen. It will be the first Mayoral State visit this century. Lord Coleridge, Chief Justice of Common Pleas, has issued a refutation of the charges brought against the Judges who tried the Tichbo ne Claimant. Mr J, Cowen, member for Newcastle-on- Tyne, has tabled a notice of motion condem natory of proceedings in reference to the trial of the Guikowar of Baroda. Renewed hostilities on a large scale are pending in Spain. Consols, April 30, 93£ to 94.. Obituary.—-Baron Pigott, Professor Sel wyn, Mr Pickersgill (artist), General Brooke, Dowager Lady Duff Gordon, General Smith, Countess Arnim, Lady Caroline Barrington.

TELEGRAPHIC.

GRAHAMSTOWJST.

(From our Own Correspondent.) This day. Mr Mackay and Sir George Grey. The Advertiser this morning says :—" We have received the following characteristic telegram from Mr Mackay, now in Auckland. Mr Mackay may send us a dozen " cautions" if he likes, but they will not prevent US" from reporting whatever Sir George Grey • may say in public, because we believe with Mr Mackay that he is not " capable of deliberate misrepresentation of facts." What ever appeared in our report was certainly uttered by the Superintendent, as it was taken down at the time in shorthand, and at the present we cannot regard the statement as '"canards." If Mr Mackay, when he gives us the "other side," can convince us by indisputable facts that such is the case, we shall tell the Superintendent that he is a humbug. Until this is done we must regard Sir George Grey's statements as coirect. The following is Mr Mackay's "caution" :—" I caution you against publishing canards and ex parte statements said to be tittered by • Sir George Grey, whom I do not think to be capable of deliberate misrepresentation of facts. At any rate hear the other side before condemning it. You can publish this or not as you please.—Mackay." A vessel is being built by Mr Stone, and will be launched next week. The Prince Alfred arrived last night from Lyttelton will full cargo of produce for the Thames. Mining Matters. The Hazelbank tribute, from 45 tons, obtained lOlozs. of melted gold. The Queen of Beauty cleaning up to-day, probably have 600ozb. for the fortnight's yield. The City of London and Queen of May's * retorting is postponed till Monday. The .Point Russell tribute, from 7 tons, got loz. 19dwts. 12grs. of melted gold. * The Cure are getting further lots of specimens to-day out of the main drive, and have a good show in the stopes.

TAIRUA.

The reporter o.f the Advertiser writes :— Prospecting in the Tairua Company's shaft was continued yesterday, and if anything, the stone sent to the surface was superior to any yet sent out. Several large specimens therefrom were perfect gems, unique in beauty with pieces of rough coarse gold, and the remainder thickly impregnated with line gold specimens, the like of which are rarely seen ac the Thames, not only in richness but in the peculiarity of stone, the beat of the stone is on the west of the shaft in a leader about 12 inches wide. The reef is over 4 feet.

The Independent or Bergens has started, and expects to have 500 feet of the reef if it keeps its course. .

Gold is reported to have been found on the Ajax claim, and shares are being steadily bought up.

MAKETU.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. Great Tangi. The Tangi for Hemema is still going on. Te Pokiha acknowledges the receipt of £50 from the Government. Taiapara charges the Government with a \ breach of trust in Bending Tamihana and Te Retui to Tauranga gaol for the robbery at . Rotorua. ' The Armed Constabulary Ordered Away. Jgft. The natives have ordered the Govern^ j n 1 to remove the Armed Constabulary \\ .' f sequence. ' The settlers consider Mnne j , Hamlin and Forster quite right, bu. \ lenimt. v /'

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HHE COLONIAL BANK OF L NEW ZEALAND. apital, £2,000,000; Subscribed Capital, £850,000. A Branch of this Bank, for the conduct of General anting Business, will be opened on or about UEBDAY, the 20th July, in the premises Queen reet, next the Insurance Buildings, and lately scnpied by the National Bank—J. T. WARREN, ranch Inspector.—Auckland, 21st June, 1875. |~ /^OSGRAVE AND C^O. HAVE RECEIVED TWENTY-SIX CASES ■ OB" LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDERCLOjTHING, Peb Febnglen. They -will be Sold to the Public at V COST PRICE. V SPECIAL. t% ARE DAILY OPENING UP CHEAP AND FIRST-CLASS GOODS.. , f : JUST TO HAND— 9x4 White Blankets, 103 6d, a bargain Good White Blankets, 13s 6d a pair Grey do, 7s lid; large size, 10s 9d Toilet Quilts, 4a lid and 5s 6d ; large size, 6s lid 72-iDch'Croydon Sheeting, Is Id Wool Crimean Shirting, is 2d Wincey Skirts from 3s lid, good value Laclies' Cloth. Jackets, 4s lid; handsomely trimmed, 8s Cd Large 'ot.of Ladies' Silk.Umbrellas from 4s lid Anti-Rheumatic Fiannel, good, Is 4d , . •• " Imitation Welsh Flannel, lOjd 5 pieces Fancy Dress Goods, @ 7s 6d dress of 12 , yards , Trimmed Hats from 3s lid Tapy Carpets from 3s per yard Coir Door Mats from 33 6d . Ladies' and Children's Underclothing in the New Show Boom. . HOLLO WAY~^~ GARLICK, rapery, Clothing, ant> Furnishing House, CITY HAL L, 230, Queen-stroet; Auckland. T7" EAR-RE SI STING FABRIC IMB BOYS' AND YOUTHS' CLOTHING. A. LINABURY 4; CO. ye j art opened up |a Iwfle quantity of Real Home Spun Melton Cloths, specially adapted for Boys' and Youths' Clothing, Double Width (nearly Two yards wide), 6d, 3a lid, and 4s 6d PER YARD FIFTY DOZEiV PATES PERiOR£ID •GLOVES.



1 QLSosrs V \ rpoMATO a AtrcE. The undersigned having Purchased from Mr. H. Olson the EECIPE of his CELEBRATED SAUCE, together with the Gpodwill of his Bxisiness, beg to solicit a continuance of the Public Favour. The Sauce may be depended upon as perfectly Pure, and free from Adulteration. It creates appe tite and promotes digestion, and as none but the best and most wholesome ingredients are used, it cannot but merit a continuance of the high favour it has already attained in public estimation. EICHAED GAELICK & CO. M O T I C E BOUGHT AT AUCTION, AND TO BE SOLD CHEAP FOR CASH. ox 4 "White Blankets, 12/0 1$ pair 9x4 White Blankets, 13/6 3? pair Blue Blankets from 11/6 T$ pair Men's Waterproof Coats, much below regular value &0., fze ALSO, To our order, direct from the Manufacturers, ex Emily McSLaren— 10 x 4 and 11 x I White Blankets 12 x 4 Extra Superfine Blankets 03 x 90, and 70 x 90, Reversible Rugs, Flannels Sheetings, &c. AH Wool Flannels at 1/2 "ft yard White and Grey Calicoes very cheap &c, &c. BAEGAINS IN GIRLS' AND WOMEN'S WATERPROOF MANTLES. Girls' from 4/ Ladies' from 0/11, much below usual prices. And a complete and well-assorted Stock in every Department. RUSHBROOK & BEIDGMAN, [Late R. Hobbs], JUNCTION DRAPERY WAREHOUSE, Opposite the Army and Navy Hotel, Upper Qorev-street, ' Auckland.