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SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

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_ O rro/rrtiirf] Cautain Andrew, arrived at ' G J^Jbarf at 11 am. this morning. She left ?ww fat i 20 p 12 , on the 12th ; arrived at Lifnn IVSO a bi. on the JSth, s-iiled B'4o p.m on i-h • nr.ivei «t Wlißgton at 1115 a.m. on the «iVefl "4 910 p Pi. ■ °71 the 16lh ; arrived a* Pic' V 7.55, p ', m oiifi nailsv' 1 »t 10 5 p.m., aame evening; miil'T*w en the 37vh s.tilea at 11 »0 a.m. on ft fit 3 5 P.m *»£>« d?y i"*»ed here *JL*bovo. •? to arrival SW- winds, iresli imd cross .sea. -obbotb ■Mr ivA Mrs. Mirtiu, IWeaBK. Gret nup, Dougherty, ) unw forlMi» • |c ketch Piincs Euper•■ arrived^ tbis monung Ja cargo .fttaW/^ rXich have teen ißmassys^s m, tod, thdr KrttoSto^Srite tt discharging her cargo of -^ aitr-cnoon, W here her altc- SfSSSL 0®?!-! Lyttelton lor Kaipara Ktffiu to leave Dunadiu for. tbis MlcgllkOr,'?» t™. w'tate!" ruu between amer about 6 tons "|^ tendea to work in mraoga and OPO* 1/-..^. 0 " bed on with dtapateh t KThTr StSiMrS. ore the end of the

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cm, ?° ro "%nifi Mn t of d a"ger than a dry, hacking ££?■ Sllfflcli U iiß h«ta tngerof consumption. It ' '^8 been ascert u,f T , e d l>v rei 'eated experiment that, in action ro its t, tnic divA 'tic; and 1 depurating pro- I'ortieß tliat TJ do lpho. Woii ™'3 Scam?DAii Aroma^ ' SOWAR* pom^^Jbi* do virtues of no ir M ord 7 er; that it ' "fotn f»S invigorates the irr "« J tata -of ttS \ il4 and brondh ****** fij*-*8 *J"-SSrtto from extenair and

BIRTHS.

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DEATHS.

WiriTSON —o, „ r tbii * M* October. John McNair WaterJoo Ojifl :d s'n O* Robert Whitson, Esq., ?hc fvmera JJ™™*-, oged 87 yeaw. »'iiterloo On leave liis lather's residence, p.m. irieid idri'*n',:, to-morrosv (Thursday), at 3 s w U) please accept this intimation.

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1875.

>th» waae ttat lacto asslstanc*, t the wrcrag that need.i ivr.iiiavcj, r (ho fnturo ir. tha diitstac*, And tbe Baa 4 that •xc ctr, a*.

V resentation Bill which has just . ' 3 branch of the legislature more immediate , ~. , . . j -v ly aitected, is a curious ana char acteristic . . , . , .. -r, c i.l piece of legislation. Born of the .^ /, dch demanded an alteration in the admitted i . , . , , . » .1 y and grossly unjust state or the repres^n atibn, it has been nursed by the feeble an a cow . ardly hands of a temporising ministry . and rougbly used and battered a 011 . f members, the uncouth bantling is nei ler t ( credit to its parents nor a benefit to the cou titry. One of the most important political questions of the hour, because affecting all other que3tioDg) the repvesenta tlon of the people has been the sport of c ,° asand and one petty and contempt- V ifluences that have guided legisla . • f the present parliament. One place 13 rC' aresentcd by a valuable party man» or it may be by a " good fellow " that nobody likes to hurt, and Bnon his dristrict is kindly, even liberally ;d in the distribution of seats. Another " . has the advocacy of some one who has ied the ministry or its supporters, and it } B znished for his sake, while another has 'ound.irieg altered by its wakeful repre -36 ative so as to exclude one portion of i tory or include another, accojding as the an aexecl or separated district i 3 likely to a ecfc tJie return of the silting member at ffencra? & lection. At one moment the ' 'Use j$ ; n 6 ood humour and districts are SEDi/ed on • afc an°tUPr it *s sullen, Tl' lT° c } Jetide elector- Ko P rinci Ple neither of' 1 of system has guided the amendment th e 6' and t^en on any basis, cOll r .osition of the representation of the ple , .try is as purely anomalous, *nd as com" H ;ely a muddle as before. That Upper O f onse may throw the thing out as unworthy ] I the necessities of the occasion, is to .be aoped on the grounds that non-alteration no« will compel perhaps the resumption of the question in an Assembly, where honour an 3 uprightness will probably reign rather than dodge and political trickery ; and in which i some standard may be fixed by which consti tnencieswill be measured alike. The diffi culties in the circumstances of any legisla ture honestly altering its own consti tuencies must be obvious to any observer of human nature. Those difficul-

ties have become impossibilities when the Ministerial majority is co largely made up of members representing minor electorates, electorates that would be swept out of existence or amalgamated, if one equitable rule were fixed and applied. And unless the new Assembly consists of men actuated by wholly different principles, we can have but little hope of amendment of the repre sentation unless the Assembly voluntarily surrenders the business to a commissiou, removed from the personal considerations that influence members themselves, and de termined that a basis shall be fixed once and for all time, by which the political represen tation of the country may from time to time adjust itself to the ever varying changes in the circumstances and relations of the several districts of the colony.

Tenders are invited by the City Council for fifty debentures of £100 each, bearing interest at G per cent, per annum, payable half-yearly in Auckland, Dunedin, Sydney, or London. This is part of the loan of £50 000 which the city was authorised to borrow, but only raised £20,000. At that time (some twelve months since) the rentals were about £2000 per annum ; by judicious management they have already increased to £2629 7s. 6d., being sufficient to pay the interest on £45,000, but the amount intended to be borrowed will not for the present exceed £30 000 The annual drawings will com mence in 1880, when by the falling in of valuable leasehold properties, it is fully believed the annual rentals will exceed £5000 per annum. These valuable properties comprise an area of nearly fifty acres of city property, and at> a fifteen-years purchase ™iue, are valued at about £100,000. Further information may be obtained from the Town Clerk

The Pioneer Lodge of Good Templars will meet to-morrow evening, the open meeting having been postponed. The members of tho Auckland Total Abstinence Society proceeded to BLemuera today by the 1.50 train for the purpose of attending the funeral of the late Arch. Glark, who for so many years held the office of President of that Society.

The Newmarket Hall Building Committee met last evening to receive the names ot further subscribers to the fund. The total amount promised will enable the committee to commence operations at an early date. Mr Wrigley promised to draw plans and submit the same to a special meeting of the commit tee to be held next Tuesday evening.

: We publish in another column to-day the interesting address delivered by the Rev. K. S. Haseard at the Choral Hall last night on the "Old Catholic Movement" In. to morrow's issue we shall endeavour to give the Rev. Mr. Tomlinson's advice to new comers.

Mr -Woon, native interpreter and land purchaser^ has taken an office in Somervill s buildings, Vuloan Lane. The export of brandy from Charente during the year 1874 amounted to 83,418 casks, 723,058 cases, and a tonnage of 38,54202/ James Hennessy and Co. head the list, Martell and Go. second, and Bisquit Dubouche and Co. third with 5,824 casks, 25,012 cases and 1,761-87 tonnage. There are over twenjby other shippers.

y .-. Hooper, in his report en the Auckland jjpensary for the quarter ending September 60, says : "There have been 211 fresh cases admitted, and 596 professional visits made at their own houses, and 1200 prescriptions compounded; 18 chronic cases still remain on the books. And there have been seven deaths, 1 from typhoid fever, 2 from phthisis pulmonalis, 2 heart disease, 1 chronic bron chitis (70 years), and 1 (baby) from dysen tery ;11 were sent to the Hospital. Typhoid fever was prevalent in the early part of the quarter, but I am glad to say this has quite died out, and beyond influenza and ordinary catarrh, there seems to be no epidemic of a serious character."

Leasehold property situated at Xewmarket, in the estate of Mr gKilgour, was sold by Messrs Cochrane and Son to-day. There was a good attendance ; a shop and dwelling situ ated on Epsom road, sold for £104 ; back allotment, £5 ; shop and dwelling Kyber Pass, £27. The operators and clerks in the telegraph office have formed a boating club, and Mr Bailey of the North Shore, is at present en gaged building for them a large gig well adapted for pleasure excursions. The confine ment and close application for many hours imposed upon telegraph clerks render such invigorating exercise as is afforded by boat ing very desirable. Mr. Grice, agent for the Star at New market, desires us to apologise for the insuf ficiency of the Stars forwarded to thsti district lately, which has caused a refusal to a number of applicants, and to state that the growing circulation in the district will be met in future by a larger number sent out each evening. The bricklayers for many centuries before the days of Shakespeare's friend Ben Jonson, who was a bricklayer, have been a useful body of men. They built the walls of Jeru salem and Jericho, and might have raised the wondrous wall of China which was erected by the self-righteous Chinese for the purpose of keeping out the dishonest Tartars. The bricklayers of Auckland are of the noble Saxon race, and will be in greater request with the growth of more substantial houses. We notice that, like other mechanics, the bricklayers are about to make a move in the right direction, and to-morrow (Thursday) evening they will hold a meeting of the trade in the Temperance Hall, Albert-street, to which all good bricklayers who have an eye to the general interest of their body are specially invited. Mr. T. McMaster, draper and clothier, of Queen-street, has just received from London the iirst of his shipments of summer drapery and millinery, comprising fashionable novel ties in black, coloured, and Japanese silks, \ho plain and fancy mohairs, lustres, mus- Kns, flowers, feathers, and ornaments, which he is1 prepared to sell at the lowest possible

prices. <Yn error occurred in one of our loc.ils yes terday. It was stated that Messrs Philcox and Bartley w-ere at work upon Mr G. W. Owea'a allotments on the Old Supreme Court site. The owne." of the two allotments upon which building has been commenced is Mr G W. Waller. This gentlemen intends put tin" up three commanding shops upon his portion of the land, each with 20 feet of frontage, and having plate glass windows. In accordance with the conditions of sale, the buildings will be all three-storied. On the 20th October ISOG, the yout' jful poet, Henry Kirke White, d«sd at Not .fog. ham, in his twenty-fi.-st year. Whil^ w&s the son of a butcher, an ddiedo?cons?vnnpfci on accelerated by over application. H.ia mother could not bear th« thought that her beloved son, Henry, should carry a butcher's t, r ay in obedience- to the wisl t o£ his pra»jrtioal minded father. On com] sleting his Pimple education in his native tow c, be was p] /, C ed in a lawyer's office, where, in his Jeisur *> hours, he studied several language! tin all of which he made considerable progresf i, He ? i i ßo| wrote a number of pleasing lyrics, anc\ a ver y f a j r poem, his only finished co) npoai.cion entitled, "Clifton Grove," being a tradition of that in teresting village beside i tVie river Trent. White's poetical abilities attracted the atten tion of influential friends, v /ho sent him to St John's College, Cambrid g*, } where he made rapid progress in hia stuc ii« d s,and delivered an oration on " Genius "of two hours in length. His piety and exemplar / moral conduct were as remarkable as his poetry. His life was written by Soathey wl 10 published "White's Remains," and a beaut j;;ul eulogy was written on his character by L o; rd Byron.

A fact for Auck\an d girls.—There is not one married man am< >ng the officers of the National Bank.

The members o.f the Pioneer Juvenile Temple L'D.G.T. will h .old th« ir usual weekly meet ing this evening at seven o'clock in the Young Men'p.. Christian rooms, Wellesley st reet.

Messw J. and J. Dtckey, the well-known ironmongers, announce a discount of five p> er cent upon all cash purchasers of goods to the value of twenty shillings. They have just received large shipments of the best .£aglish cntlery, electro-plated, ware and all kinds of useful ironmongery, etc.

The following is the rota of. attendance of Justices for the Court of Petty Seßßions to be held on Tuesday, Oct. 26 :—Messrs W. A. Graham, J. M. Haultain, D. Hean, G. Yon der Heyde, J. H. Home, W. J. Hurst, E. Isaacs, H- M. Jervis, T. B. Ke nderdine, W. H. Kenny, S. Kissling, and D. M. Xuckie.

LATE ENGISH TELEGRAMS.

(PER ALBION AT HOKITIKA.)

SOUTH AFRICAN FEDERATION.

THE FRENCH ARMY.

LONDON,

October 12.

The Oape Ministry has summoned a special session of Parliament to consider . Lord Car narvons proposal for Federation. The French Government has ordered the formation of a territorial army of 110,000 men.

Australian Telegrams.

(PER ALBION AT HOKITIKA.)

THE VICTORIAN MINISTRY RE-

SIGNED.

A BANK MANAGER CONVICTED,

(PER PRESS TELEGRAM AGENCY.)

MELBOURNE.

Thursday, October 14,

The Ministry having resigned, Sir James McCalloch has been sent for to form a Minis try. The House adjourned till Tuesday to enable him to complete the necesa&ry arrange ments. Nothing has yet transpired, but there is no doubt that the task will be suc cessful. It is just possible that Mr Kerford will be Chief Secretary, and Sir James McCalloch Premier and Treasurer. Oppo sition to the new Ministers is threatened. The inquiry into the wreck of the Flying Squirrel on Kings Island resulted in the master being acquitted from blame, as the rock struck on was nob'shown on the Ad miralty charts. Bentley, late manager of the Bank of New South Wales at Beechworth, has been con victed of several charges of making false entries and remanded for sentence. Oats are very quiet. It is reported that large quantities are coming from New Zea land in the Poilland. Sailed : 13th, St. Kilda for Greymouth.

NEWCASTLE.

Sailed : 12bh, the Neptune tor vveiims^". SIDNEY. _, Oct. 14. Treeve has been committed for trial for forging a promissory note for £4,095. me information was laid by the Phoenix Budding Society, of which he was secretary. At Mudgee John Regan was acquitted ot the murder of his paramour. Drought at Bass is causing serious appre hension for the crops. A disc marker was slightly wounded by a bullet, a volunteer having fired at the wrong target. ■

PRESBYTERIAN CEMETERY.

At a meeting held yesterday of the com mittee charged with the improvement ottbe Presbyterian Cemetery a very satisfactory account was rendered by the collectors, showing that with sums actually promise y and sums expected from those who regarded as being ccsrtain to give theirnr as subscribers, an amount of somethir two hundred pouride, will be aval^^ &t once for proceeding with the wor lfc wag reported that the gorae had \jeorj ent i re hr eradicated, and a plan and est itar tes for tn^ new wall and gates prepared V Mr n( j er . eon and Mr Cameron Vere approved and orders given that t /eSlderß for theae should be forthwith cs iledj rece i V able till Tuesday next^when th c committee will be in a positio-n to accept a tender and have the work co3ißtructed immediately. It was also resolved that the collectors snould complete their lisiis and p? iy in all the money on that dato. It is exf jeedingly satisfactory to ob serve tin .t thiis movement has been a complete success.

TELEGRAPHIC.

GRAHAMSTOWN.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. State of the Murderess Wall. The ninrde; reas Mrs. W all is still indifferent to her positioi 1. The adjourned inquest takes place this afternoon, at,7 yhich the doctor's evi dence of hermtntal co n< Jitionis expected to be taken. The children were buried by Bub scription. The fath kc is to be helped away from the colony by the same means. The Un a, Reef Cut. The Uua broke through to the reef yesterday with a good show of auriferous quartz. At the salt,» c,f forfeited shares to-day 4s 3d was realised. The Tairua and Ajax companies are about to erect the old f Jhotover and Middle Star batteries. Some intending candidates are aadly dis appointed that £}j e Thames only gets one additional men _^ >er< _. Elhow in the Cure. lho Lur a jjad another splendid parcel of 80 lbs. of specimens to-day. A c ontract is let for the removal of macn'' aery from the Central Italy to the Q°e' jn of May. Jures sold for 21s. The Crown Princess crushed 70 tons for J 20 07.3. Shotover Battery for Tairua. The Tairua Company h&s purchased the Shotover battery of twelve head stampers and bars, and accepted tenders for engine and boiler.

TAURANGA.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day.

We have had a great deal of wet season able weather which makes the wheat crops look green and healthy. The Europeans and natives were diligently planting extensively pobatoes. The missing cutter Blonde, belonging to T. D. Wrigley, produced a melancholy feel ing throughout the community. The Katikati settlers have commenced in right earnest to plant crops potatoes.

TAURANGA.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day. The Eowena sailed at eleven o'clock last night for Auckland. Passengers.—Messrs Lord, Darcy, Osborne, Rev. Clarke, Dr. Button, Mies Crossby, Mra Ellis, Mra Clarke, Messrs Hunter, Bramwell, Sevrett. Church, Trimble, Wood, Ellis, Beache, A. Clarke and others. The weather is magnificent.

A large number of tourists are at Ohine mutu.

LATEST SOUTHERN TELEGRAMS.

POET CHALMERS.

(From our own Correspondent.) This day. Salvage from the * Bruce.' Operations for saving material from the wreck of the Bruce commenced yesterday, and were very succssful. The windlass, anchors, chains, sails, and a lot of deck fittings were recovered. The weather is singularly calm and favourable.

INVERCARGILL.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) luesday. Biting a Farmer's Nose. At the Magistrates Court to-day a farmer named McNab. was charged with wounding Grant, a neighbouring settle^r. It arose out of a case of trespass. Grant was maltreated, McNab having bitten a piece out of his nose. The accused was bailed out on £200.

CHRISTCHURCH.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day, Interprovincial Pigeon Match.

Efforts are being made to hold an Inter provincial pigeon shooting match. It is likely that Canterbury, Otago, _ Auckland, Wellington, will compete. It is proposed that each province will choose ten competi tors, shooting on their own ground, who will elect their own handicapper. The first, second, and third prizes will be given for aggregate scores.

HOKITIKA.

(Per Press Telegram Agency.) This day.

The Albion left on the I#,h at 5.30 p.m., and experienced fine weather throughout the passage. On the 18th passed a schooner painted white, bound, westward. The Suez mail was not telegraphed when she left.

LAUNCH THIS DAY.

A new paddle steamer for the North Swore Ferry Company was launched to-day from the yard of Messrs Niccol & Son at the North Shore. The new vessel was sent off in a rough unfinished condition in order to go alongside the British Empire, and receive her engines which have been brought from Englahd in that ship. She is, however, sufficiently? com plete to form an idea of the kind of boat she will be, and judging from her shape and\work manship, the company will have a* very useful addition to their fleet. She is com posite built 102ffc. long, 14ft. 2in. broad, and sft. 9in. deep, with a draught of water of 3ft. 9in. The boat will steer from either end. Her cabin will be built a good deal lower in the vessel than that of the Takapuna, so that she will have very little top hamper and will be much steadier in a seaway. Her hurri cane deck altogether is to be 55ft. long, this will comprise engine room, and fore and main cabins. She differs from most composite boats in having one plate of iron all round her top-sides. The vessel was sent off about

eleven o'clock and made/ a very rapid and which is said to have visited New Zealand. The ceremony of christening was gracefully performed by Miss Buchanan the daugh* of Mr William Buchanan, the director ' t Ferry Company, under whose su" the the vessel has been built. The ' about 25 horse power nomr engines are expected they will drive t 1 } an d it i a knots an hour, There V jfe boat quite 10 shape of the hull will no doubt that the a high rate of spf materially conduce to beautiful and the >sd. The line 3 are very sions show ap' ' 'ends fine while the dimen than the T?' length but smaller beam for the co 1 -f^'puna. The Tinui will be ready ■^^any's service in about a month.

A SUBURBAN RAMBLE.

PROGRESS OF T>ONSONBY.

In the course of a few years, as the trees grows up, and the land is cultivated more generally, Auckland will become the centre of a thriving and more contented community. Aa sobriety advances and drunkenness declines, so will the means of human happi ness widen in influence, and art and industry triumph. The promise of a brighter future is apparent in surrounding districts, and in none more than in the progressive neighbor hood of Ponsonby, with its little church, flourishing literary society, and well-trimmed gardens. The Ponsonby Hall has been pro nounced a failure, but the population, as yet, is hardly thick enough to support an Institu tion of this sort. The proprietor of the newly erected hotel calculated too early on a license for his elegant building. The inhabi tants generally considered that an hotel was not yet wanted, and thinking it might inter fere with the quietude of a suburban sabbabh were not eager for its opening. The license however, is only delayed for a time, unless the Good Templars prove themselves sufficiently powerful to prevent it. The branch Baptist Church, on the way from the Hall to Shelly Beach (not named after the poet Shelly, bub on account of the number of small shells to be found by the water-side), is attended on Sundays by some forty or fifty people, and there is the nucleus of a promising Sunday school in connection with the Church. In this western suburb, indications of still greater progress is everywhere visible, and the wonder is, from its healthy and picture esque situation that it has nob taken preced ence as the first of the suburbs of .Auckland. The main road curving boldly from the easternside of the city, along the summit of its western border with its many branches to the waters of the Waitemata aba height of about two hundred feet above highwater mark, forms one of the most; beautiful drives in the locality, with extensive views of the surrounding country, interspersed with hill, dale, and water, which would have delighted the author of the "Seasons." The extreme point, known as " Herne Bay," named after the favorite Kentish locality where the late Douglas Jerrold wrote many of his epigrammatic sketches, in the im mediate neighbourhood of the Ponsonby Gardens of Mason Brothers, which have obtained celebrity for their fruits, particu lary their lemony and strawberries, is by the fine road which abuts on the water edge, and seems only to be waiting for some colonial Brindley to erect a trellis bridge across the shallow water to the opposite bank, which would form a short and easy way to the waterworks now being prosecuted with vigour and earnestness. Bella Vista, with its spherical table-land, is also a busy scene ; a great portion of which is being taken up by settlers. The new road leading from one part of Ponsonby road, curving with the coastline, and called the Marine Parade, is also bein fenced; men were busily engaged laying out the gronnd, and imprpvins; the cottage thereon. Taking this road arid return ing by way of Home Bay along the cliff, we noticed two new cottageßhave been recently erected and occupied. Campballville, where the late Mr Campbell resided knd possessed perhaps the fiaeat library of Irish literature in the colony, and which was a solitary farm, is now dotted over with a number of neatly constructed cottages, after the most approved designs. Such is the Buburban district of P^flßonby, to which many o^our city mer chants have resorted, and which is likely to become ere long one of the choicest of suburban retreats, while its main road, to which we have referred, will present an agreable line of valuable properties.

RELIGIOUS SELECTION.

To the Editor of the Evening Star. Sir, —Would you kindly enlighten my dark mind relative to a religious meeting held last night in the Young Men's Christian Associa tion rooms. The meeting was for Sunday school teachers, etc, of this city. This being the .first meeting of the kind I have attended, I was sorely puzzled to know the meaning of certain names on perfumed paper. From time to time the names were called on to supplicate high Heaven for blessings. The perfume, I suppose, was incense to go up with the prayers. lam not a member of any ring either com mercial or religious, but there was very like a ring at last night's meeting. No wonder everything was cold in that meeting, when they serve oub the grace of God by measure, and only to a chosen few. If they want a revival let them first learn that God is no respecter of persons. If a com mittee had chosen the twelve desciples how different would it have been. The vulgar fisherman would never have been thought of —the doctors sitting in the Temple would be appointed by the committee, who would call on that beggar covered with sores : saying, "Mr Lazarus, pray, if you please;" but rather, "Mr Jtichtiian, -would you kindly pray." Who would call on that despised Nazarene ; but rather, "Mr Caiaphas will please pray with us." They want a revival that they will not get, for it is the work of God, and not of man. When God works a revival it is so plain to the working classes, also to the poorest beggar, they all com prehend it. It is as plain to them as the light of your beautifulEvENiNa Star, warn ing them of present dangers or coming events. Let a good Christian working man pray to the working classes. They understand him at once. See that engine driver on the rail way, he fears God and loves his mates. Hey .(Says, " Tom you are going down the incline to destruction ; for God's Bake put on the break." Tom understands him at once, for of a truth God is no respecter of persons.—Youra, etc., C0.,-Oct. 19, 1875.

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE AT AUCK LAND.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star ) Sir, —It is a well-known fact that many5 honorable persons have been sued for debt in the Courts here, and although they have acknowledged what they owe, and expressed their willingness to pay every farthing that is justly due from them, they have been tried, condemned and cast into prison with out even giving them the chance of a short space of time bo that they might redeem themselves to relieve them from the ignominy of going to prison, and when there the prose cuting creditor tears the beds from under their poor families without giving them the least time to rally their friends, so as to pay the debt. One man sues another for debt, and then the little game of grab all com mences, and is played out until the unfortu nate debtor is ruined, and his wife and family turned out of doors half naked and starving, which might have been averted through a little leniency. I have seen^ijb' different in the Court at which Judge Fonton presides ; he listens attentively to both sid«s of the case and then punishes him only whom he thinks worthy of punishment. I am sure every man in Auckland would be proud to have the aid of such a man as Judge Fenton in the cause of resistance to such awful rule

as that stp .^W^^^^^^ ■ — that dur- above> it js clear enough °* *""- .ingthe time we have had the honour ty .ring Judge Fenton sitting as R.M. on uG Auckland Bench he has had the welfare of the public before his eyes in all his decisions. This is the Judge whom the natives term the honest and just Judge.— Yours, &c, Vide et Grede.

THE KAIPARA TELEGRAPH.

Tei/egraphic communication with Helens ville, Kaipwa, was established to-day. The line North is not likely to prove a sonrce of profit to the department, the messages trans mitted beine very few. No doubt as the settlers become accustomed to the luxury of quick communication they will patronise it more liberally.

PARLIAMENTARY.

(From our own Correspondent.)

WELLINGTON.

Tuesday.

Onehunga Custom House. In reply to Mr O'Rorke's question whether the Government would erect a Custom-house at Onehunga adjoining the railway station, Mr Reynolds expressed surprise that more money should be asked for Onehunga. He said a Custom-house wag nob at present required there, and when the railway build ings were completed, accommodation for the Customs department would be found in it. Kaipara Railway. In reply to Mr Yon der Heyde's question whether the £60,000 voted for the Kaipara railway extension would be at once laid out, Mr Richardson said the Government thought it more advisable to push on the Southern railway ab present, but if circumstances were favourable, the Kaipara railway would be placed under contract. Thames Water Race. In reply to Mr O'tfeiil, Mr Richardson said the Thames water race would be com pleted about the end of next month. Lighthouses- Mr Reynolds, in reply to Mr O'Neill, said the plant for lighthouses at Cape Maria Van Diemen and Mokinni had long been ordered, but the Government had not received any advices regarding its shipment. Representation Bill. The third reading of the Representation Bill was carried after Messr3 Sheehan, Reid, and Sir Oeorge Grey had spoken in condem nation of it. Mr Pyke said the hon. mem ber for Cifcy West had asked whether the measure would not result in separation of the the two islands. He hoped it would causa a separation of the two islands with a Federal Government to deal with national matters, such as financial, postal, and tele graphic. —Messrs Bowen and Atkinson de fended the Representation Bill.

LAST NIGHT.

[Per Press Telegram Agency.]

This day,

The House resumed at 7.30. i Gratuity to Jflrs. Williamson

Upon the motidn for going into Committee of Supply, Mr O'Rorke moved for a gratuity of £600 to the widow of the late Superinten dent of Auckland. After a eulogy upon Mr Williamson by Sir Donald McLean, the motion .was agreed to.

The Financial State of the Colony-

Mr Fitzherbert proceeded to review the ■financial position of tie colony.- He said "there was a total charge of twenty millions and in annual charge of a million to pay to out side creditors, while there was only a popula tion of three hundred thousand. A million was a large sum to go out of the colony to foreign creditors, He compared our position with that of Tnrkey, which had to pay twelve million a year to outside creditors The .credit of Turkey was not favorable, but/.Turkey would not be more deeply in debted than New Zealand if it had to pay eighty millic«n3 per year for interest. He acdused Sir? Julius Vogel of deceiving the House, and of negotiating four millions disadvantageouely. It would have been better to have acted as the agents advised, and placed fche loan in the market two millions at a time. It was a serious omission that no indication had been given as to the incidence of future taxation. Major Atkinson denied that Mr Vogel de ceived the Honse, and maintained that the loan hae been negociated advantageously. The comparison with Turkey was worthless, as her last loan realised only 43£ per cent.

The Treasurer made his additionalj&nancial statement The present service vtere not now provided f0r.... (They were omitted, and the total expenditure proposed now was £2,103,664. The Government had propoaed to spend £80,000 in subsidies, and £60,000 in local government works. Now they pro posed to spend £80,000 only, and in this way it had been proposed to give Road Boards £2 for every £1 raised, and £1 to Jfctural Munici palities for every £1 raised. Now they pro posed to give Municipalities one-third of a pound per pound, and Road Boards one-third of. £2 for every £2 raised, or 13s. 4d.; and £80,000 was the total amount of the vote the Goverment proposed to take. The Government would lose revenue, but expected to have a surplus of £127,000. The estimate, how ever, did not include the supplementary esti mates, so that there would have to be added something like £12,000. £92,000 also had to be provided for Auckland and Westland ; and this, with £48,000 which the provinces were entitled to under the Public Works Ad vances Act, would leave him unable, even if the revenue resulted as estimated to: meet expenditure without issuing treasury bills. The expenditure would be £140,000, while the surplus revenue was but £127,000 to meet this. He would employ consolidated revenue as much as possible, and would only issue Treasury bills when necessary. The supplementary estimates were passed, and the House adjourned at 3.20.

SIR JULIUS VOGEL'S OVERDRAFT.

The Cross correspondent -telegraphs from Wellington that "All that the committee got out of Mr. Bridges ia said to have been the fact that Sir Julius Vogel, at different pe riods, had considerable over-drafts at the bank here, and used to cover them by cheques or drafts on fihe head office of the bank in Auck land." In the Supplementary Estimates the £385,000 chargeable on defence and other purposes loan, are contingent defence and liabilities additional, £20,500; roads in native districts, North Island, £10,000; roads, North Auckland, £800. Under another heading appears £1,000 for tbe Supreme Court-house at Auckland, this will be for repairs lately made on the exterior of the building. The opening of Ohinemuri Goldfields cost £578 Bs. which is provided for in the Estimates. There is an additional gratuity of £400 to the widow of the late Mr. Williamson, Mr. Swan son, M.H.R., is to get £200 compensation for delay in stamping a deed which was lost in the Stamp Office for a long time -causing a loss in mining property, toMr. Swanson of about £1,000. £100istobe voted to Edward and David Foley for cost of survey on lands paid by them; and £35 is down for T. L. White for loss incurred by damage to an exhibit sent to Vienna under safe conduct of the Government. £365 19a is to be given to Messrs Yon Stunner and Williams two Justices of the Peace, who were put.to these costs in legal proceedings taken to? quash a conviction of theirs ; and under similar circumstances other two Jus tices, Messrs Home and Jervia, are set down for £226 9s 4ds. I

The Old Catholic .

By the request of many \% O J; i' the Church meeting in th| cF**■' '-—' "-^ night, we republish the int^w I • haustive paper read by .tiljvf? " " ~ , . ~ , ■■ lipSsMpyeawiifi which has excited so mucf, wfeZJM Europe: — In doing so I will confine myself ttf;^^ entt>-^ try in v.-hich the movement'is most'af.^ Utl" ' : ous, viz., Germany, and \s-ili endear S' " sketch its rise and progress tB the pr© e Tf and then point out some of its most hit* * ing features. ''""'" m-' as to its origin;!; The climax —the culminating act w v t ■'" ■ brought about the movement— wasrt.^ \ ration of Papal Infallability by thevJs " Council, July 18, 1870. The l^ o f twenty minutes paper will not permit our en tering into a discussion as to the exact m ing of this dogma ; but, taken at its minimi it must mean (says Bishop Harold Brownri that ' the authority which had imposed a new article of belief,' viz., the Immaculate C ception of the B. Virgin Mary, but sixteen years ago, was now declared to be absolute All the bulls of all past, and all present Pom were invested with the authority of infallible truth; or, to quote the words of a prominent member of the the Old Catholic Movement. Professor Michelis, "I openly raise upmv voice," he says, "in accusation of Piu s r^* because, and in so far as, by the abuse of a. general council, he has proclaimed as a re. vealed doctrine * *' • the proposition founded neither in Holy Scripture nor in tia' dition, rather directly contradicting the Church constitution appointed by Christ—that the Pope, apart from the teaching body of bishops is the infallible teacher of the Church." So much for the originating cause. We will' now watch the COMMENCEMENT OF THE MOVE MENT. When it became known, or rather ru moured, that this dogma of Papal Infallability was to be brought before the Council, a large number of Bishops of Diocese went up pre. pared to resist. We cannot spare time to en. large upon that falsely called (Ecumenical Council; suffice it to say, that (as the Old Catholics think), by means of scandalous ma noeuvring and packing of the Council with. Bishops who were not Bishops of Dioceses, the dogma was.passed, and a new article was added to the Roman Creed. As soon,.or even before, the dogma was passed, the Council was dispersed, and many thousands of anxious souls waited to see what course would be taken by the 88 Bishops who acted in opposition. One side or other they must take—either the side of their people, with whom they agreed, or the side of the Pope with whom they disagreed. An interesting account was given at the last Church Congress in England, of the return of one of these Bishops, the Archbishop of Munich (Sclierr), and his interviews, with Dr. Yon Dollinger. On the 18th of July tie dogma was passed; on July 19th, at mid night, the Archbishop arrived at Munich, Next day reports flew about that he had sub mitted. The theological faculty was summoned to meet him on the 21st, at 10 o'clock, and. appeared in full force, Dollinger at their head. ■ After some compliments the Archbishop said, " Rome has spoken. You know yourselves what follows ; we can do nothing but submit." He then gave an account of the efforts of tie German Hishops to weaken the definition of Infallability. At the end of the meeting, turn- j ing to Dollinger, he said, " Well, then, let us begin again to work for the Church." "Yes," replied Dollinger, "for the OLD Church," | The Archbishop retorted, "There is. but one I Church, and that is neither new nor old, I Dollinger replied, " The Vatican decrees have g made a new Church." The baffled Arch- g bishop then terminated the interview. Nest I day he sought in vain to win over the doctor, 'm The movement then commenced. t The leaders of the movement at the first 1 were several University Professors, of whom I Dr. yon Dolliifeer seemed by natural right to |. take the lead^f-a man upwards of 70 years of i age—genial, llamed, and skillful in leading. I At first the leaders hoped to keep within the 1 pale of the Ro&an communion : hoped against | hope that the (jrermun bishops would acknow- g ledge the righteousness of their cause, and | come over to their side. But, as time went on, 1 and one Prelate after another, ignoring their own plighted word, published the Vatican I decrees, and excommunications and censures m I began to cloud the air, the Old Catholics were ' brought to see that no help or relief was to be. expected from Rome. Deprived of their offices, M expelled from the sacraments, they must either H|. submit or make a bold stroke. Submission, m was impossible, and, accordingly, a first Coun- I gil of all who sympathized in the movement was summoned to meet at Munich. At this meeting they decided to take the Councilot | Trent as their standard, and also to_ elect a h Bishop on Primitive and " Catholic pnncipls m A second Council was held soon afterwards at Cologne. Here the Council of Trent was again taken as a standard, but with a .very m | decided voice. And at this Council tie Uurc? || organziation was more fully developed. ■_ \IJ« M management of Church affairs was to be in me | hartds of a Synod, elected annually and m» |r ing at Whit Suntide. Out of this Conned lv® | to be elected a Synodal Council of and five laymen, with the Bishop as Chang § They also proceeded to elect.a Bishop, and tt 1 choice fell upon Dr. Reinkens/ of whom lg I quote the following words from the G«fl«^ | newspaper : * Reinkens is a man who* H made friends wherever he has gone; w* m Protestant and Catholics alike, his *ameg US tower of streiigth, and all lovers ot spnws W religion, hail his election as a triumph faith." - : ' '■>- M : - DIFFICULTIES. , But now a great rock stood in their » . It was not enough to elect a Bishop. As £T | I Catholics they knew that it was necessary J- fc , that a Bishop should be consecrated • w §g who was himself a duly consecrated« H None of the German Bishops would ad .w», . In this difficulty they turned to the 1W a neighbouring Church in Holland, gj} | called the Janseuist Church, The.^k§ this Janseuist Church is so in^f^flt I ■ cannot refraitt from briefly referring to * 1 ' Janseuists derive their name from j^ 1 a French Bishop, who, in the middle o.^ g seventeenth century, wrote a book wiuu .^ n opposed to the doctrines of toe Jf""* H ' return' for this opposition his book w| « demned. Driven from France, his W^ jf , ■ settled in Holland, where they wCTe,Pfel| ' by the Archbishop of Utrecht, and op | the sympathy of nearly all the Romar iLW I ,of the country. Since that tuneJWj^ 1 . bishops of Utrecht have not receiv^ | orders from the Pope; Zt^vo 1 Steenhoni was consecrated Bishopt^ .jj, | Catholic Bishop who had been I taking their part Here they have m^ | to maintain the Episcopal f cce^°" I free from the Roman Church. if their Bishops has been f™. p^9o»lf bishop of Utrecht;" and, lest tfjSf should be lost, two suffragan Bishgl"^* lem and Deventer) were also createa. m to this small community, numbering \^m more than S,ooo members, ™* 1 O {PW Catholics looked for the consecration | Bishop. But the story is I of these three Bishoprics (HaarlJ^^^g* vacant. The senior of we. ™ 1 W Bishops-the Archbishop of UtrecM, | to perform the office, when, ™J*%&;* I that the Old Catholics made tb«ar-... » too was suddenly removed by.de^ and|l remaining Bishop was the only nug^ g m him, on August 7th, l°l^'J^j^g^> -B consecrated Bishop of..^s|^Pk . B Catholics. ' " coi>se«P> | A third Council, soon afte-tne^^^

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