"DKP AitTTmns Wellln R ton s s Carey for the South (from Manufeau) Bio Loge, brig, Miles, for Puget's Sound

For the South—Hawea. s s, 6th July For Wellington-Dido. H Ms, early For London- Fernglen. ship, early e ;S 0l0I18a ~Blaache and coronet'achooners. For the Cape-Shooting star, barque, early

Vtbsrels EXPECTED £?M> s *> tom Sydney. 2nd July >|nes, schooner, from Bunedin Victor barquentine. from Port Gamble, early Kosetrad, schooner, from Duntdin, early VivM, barque, from Circular Head, early Byno, bngantine' from "Rotumah early Fapna, schooner, from Rarotonga, early vfui ' *>«que, from ihe Islands, early Ktlith, schoo; er, from the Islands, enrly Ma Sroh ci9 HS°Pl SWp ' fr°m tona°n•' saited Fleobero, ship from London ; sailed 13th April gutter«rorth, ship, from London; sailed 10th April Bella wary, barque, from Hobart Town vision, nrig, from Samoa Sarah, hrig, from Woeraki, early Alumbagb, ship, from London Carisbrook Castle, ship, from Liverpool; sailed Columbus, ship, from London City of Auckland, shio, from London Cnarybdi*. schooner, from the Navigators Fairlie, schooner, from Lyttelton, early Kenilworth, schooner from Noumea, early &en^*ri gsss* 0*Lytteiton '«* Kobma Dunlop, barque, from London ; sailed 29th •Otiftrcn

consignees or shippers' names inserted in this'column.

The s.s Wellington was appointed to leave the Manukau this afternoon for the bouth. By latest from Onehunga the bar ™V*, cle*r of break, and it is therefore pro bable she would go nt her proper time, three ocJock. Passengers : Messrs. Chudleigh, and Scotland, Miss White, Messrs. Main, J. Hart, Connochie, Palmer, Mr. and Mrs. Walsh and family, and several others. Ihe schooner Golden Isle and cutter Maud have cleared in ballast for Rusell. The barque Glimpse cleared to-day in ballast for Newcastle. She will sail as soon as the weather moderates. The brigs Derwent and Rio Loge are still at anchor inside the North Head. The westerly gales which set in yesterday have continued to-day with unabated violence putting an entire stop to business on the wharf. The cutter Wanderer which has had a portion of her port bulwarks knocked away by colliding with the schooner Echo, was being repaired to-day in Commercial Bay by Messrs Sims and Brown.

taWi'lT? 1"16 <; U'. ter Rjn?lea(ler. Captain Gray, has returned to port a'ter a loagLh cruise on the coast.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Nelson, this day. The Phoebe left for the North at seven o clock last night.

KAIPARA SHIPPING. IFrom ova own Correspondent ]

_ , „ Kopin Mill (Kaipnra), June 28. Tne followincr vessels are now loading here:—At >ratapu Mill: The btrque Hspeculador and bri?antiije Helena, both for Lyttelton. At the Kopru Mill : The bngantine Hannah Bloomfield, for Wellington ; and the cutter Hero, for Waitara. The bripantine Nightingale is loading up the Otamatea river. Vessels sailed : Schooner Tewari, for Lyttelton ; schooner Cynthia, for Wellington. At tne Heads: Brigantine Mary Webster, bound for Taranaki.

CALLS AND DIVIDENDS.

The following are the current calls and dividends payable in the companies named below :— Amount. Date Cams : £ s. d. Otago .. .. .. ~ 010 .. July 14 Puketui 0 0 6 .. July 14 Una *© 0 6 .. July 14 Dividmtd : City of London , 0 2 C .. July 3

SPECIAL.

WE ARE DAILY OPENING UP CHEAP

AND FIRST-CLASS GOODS.

JUST TO HAND—

9x4 White Blankets, 10s 6d, a bargain Good White Blankets, 13s 6d a pair "*K<xrey do. 7s lid; large size, 10s 9d ?<ttle£Qui]ts, 4s Ild and ss'6d ;»large size, 6s lid ¥2-iDctr&wdon Sheeting, Is Id Wool Crime'a>f hirting, Is 2d Wincey SWrU fl"8*l^ slld> good value Ladies' Clotl Jack^*s> 4s Ud; handsomely trimmd, 8s 6dt * Xarge >ot of »adies' «ilk Umbrellas from 4s lid Anti-Rheunftic FJarinel. S°od, Is 4d Imitation "Vfelsh Flannel, IOJd 5 pieces F«cy Duress Goods, @ 7s 6d dress of 12 yards j Trimmed T/ts fripni 3s lid Tapy Carpa froifn 3s per yard Coir Door gts fifrom 3s 6d Ladies' anphil^ren's Underclothing in the New Showqjpn.,

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will Close as follows .— For Thames, to-morrow, at 11.30 am 1 iTor Russell, per Golden Isle, to-morrow, at 11 a m For Whitiangi, Tairaa, Opotiki, and Napier, via Tauranga, per.Bowena. to-morrow, at 3 pm For Wanearei, etc,.per Wang»rei, to-morrow,at 4pm Per s s. Mikado, on Friday, 9th July as under — ,For Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South Americ&, and British and Foreign West Indies at 10.30 a m For the United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 10 30 am For money orders, registered letters, and news papers, at 9 30 am Late letters bearing a 'ate fee of 6rt in addition to the postage, will be received on board by the Mail Agent up to time of sailing. (Signed) S. B BliS, Chief Postmaster.

Breathes there a man or woman afflicted with kidney disease, rheumatism, dyspepsia, nervous ness, or debility, who would not pay liberally to be cured? Many thousands do so without receiving the least benefit. To allsr/hoare thus afflicted, we take this opportunity of communicating what to them must indeed be " glad tidings of great joy;" viz., that there is an absolute specific for their various ills, to be had at a vex-y reasonable cost. It is Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Akomatio Schnapps.

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

THURSDAY, JULY 1, 1875.

Tw th. c»ubb that lacks assi.tance, &r tha future in the distance Art th» nod that we can da.

Ws yesterday published the letter of the Paymaster-General transmitting the im ponnded capitation money to the Wellington Provincial Treasury. It was received by us per telegram as we went to press, and want of time precluded any comment. It is, in deed, a remarkable letter, and well worthy of preservation. As an effort to put a good face on a bad business it is ingeni ous if not particularly successful. It is not so much an explanation of the pay ment of the money as an apology for its former retention. The writer saya he has the " honor by direction of the Colonial Treasurer "—under which thimble does the pea rest now ?—" to explain that this payment has been withheld until now in a hope that the Treasury might be enabled to adjust the charge against the province in respect of interest payable," etc. This is how it was then. Three weeks ago, the same gentleman telegraphed: " The charge for interest on cost of Auckland railways, chargeable against capitation, will absorb the whole sum due ;" and only ten days ago Dr Pollen telegraphed that the "recovery of the amount due by the province was made in the rernlar course of business and as is done in the case of monies due by other provinces." The Paymaster-General explains that it was only xoitTiheld in tke hope of adjusting 'accounts, and the Colonial Secretary says the money was impounded "in the regular course of business." Both of these statements cannot be true, and either the Colonal Secretary or ;he Paymaster-General is fibbing. We go farther, and say that both at<j doing so ; and it is exceedingly disgraceful to New Zealand that it is so. Dr. Pollen must have known well that this illegal action was not " in the. regular course of business," and that auch a thing had never been done , by him 6*. by any other member of the Ministry before. It was the very first case, under the Public Works policy, of interest for a partially constructed railway being charged against any province, and the very first case of capitation allowance having been stopped jw transitu for- such a purpose. It was ' ~r'~**refore in the " regular course of ■"\ seeing it was the attempted 4 a new and, as is proved by : unwarrantable and illegal paymaster, acting as he actions, palpably does \on his own motion* *<ttk term;' but acting

under compulsion' lie is, of course, not morally accountable. His statement is tantamount to saying that they did not mean to keep the money. In fact, like a man caught with, his hand in another's pocket declaring— "Upon my honor I didn't mean it-it was only a lark." The " ambiguity of the law" and the " difficulty of reconciling the views of the Commissioners of Audit, and of the Treasury on the several points involved," were, forsooth, the moving causes that in duced the Government to relax its grasp of the plunder. We do not know that we have read of a more miserable shuffle Ito get out of a . bad position on the part of any one caught ,/lagrtinte delieto. The real fact is that Dr Pollen found he could not stick to the plunder. Sir George G rfey i n Auckland and Mr Fiteherbert i a Wellington had severally and separately taken legal opinion, and had agreed to joint action to com pel payment; and now tne General Go . vernment resort to the miserable' subter fuge of instructing an unfortunate civil servant, whose bread and butter are dependant on his doing what he is told, to say that they did not mean to keep the money. If this is the sort of blundering and shuffl.ng to which the country and the Assembly are to be treated by the Govern ment m the absence of the Brains of the Ministry, the end cannot be very far G tf

The City CoudcU have not treated Mr W. E. Turner fairly. Fully appreciating the force of all the arguments used in the meeting yesterd ay, we continue of this opinion, and we believe that it will be generally endorsed We are very far from saying that Mr Turner should be able to say, I came, I saw, I con quered, or that he should have his way to the exclusion of every other one's way. But the res olution at which the Council has arrived virtually shuts him out, and we have no doubt this was the intention—not of the Council but of those who have been working the oracle without. It is known to the Council that Mr Turner must return immediately to San Francisco. Thanks to his kindness, citizens have got as much information as to the feasibility and success of the principle of street railways as they are likely to have on the 20th of July; but at that date Mr Turner will be far away on the Pacific, and the lobbiers will be at hand and at work. The Council have sucked his brains, and now he may Q>. We venture to say that Mr. Turner has done more within the past few weeks to remove preju dice, and to awken a general desire in favour of this project, that many months' ordinary discussion of it would have effected. He has taught the members of Council who sat docile at his feet till they got all they wanted ; he instructed the public till multi tudes have caught the railway itch, and now we cast him off like an old pair of boots. This is Auckland to the life. We find a strarger and we take him in. We admit, and we believe, that it is wise as urged, that conditions should be attached to the consent of the City Council, and that too before such consent is transmitted to the Superinten dent. The utmost caution and safeguards should be provided in the public interest, but till tbe twentieth of .Tuty is either too short or too long a period for the recep tion of proposals. Had it been fixed at three or four months, the desires of the Council might have been made known in the neighbouring colonies and in California; but three weeks afford opportunity for no more applicants than would one week; while it very effectually prejudices the position and chances of one applicant who to say the least did not deserve exceptionally bad treatment. There is not one intending proposer at the present hour who could not have all his data, and his proposals based on those data, ready in a week as easily as in three weeks # It may be said Mr Turner can have his pro posal lodged before leaving, and then go and have it considered in his absence. Bah ! People are very soft, are they not ? There is not a doubt that there is a power working behind, and we believe some members of the Council have been innocently made the instruments. This is the style of thing that threw a dark shadow so long over the proposed waterworks. The people got into their heads the belief that private interests were at work, and that outside hands were moving the Council. Must the same suspicion attach to such a harmless thing as these street railways? Why can we have no public project in Auck land without the vermin coming out and crawling over it ? Mr. Turner may go now. We have got all we want out of him. He has shown that there ia money sticking out of this, and we -can do the rest ourselves.

Sic vos non vobis.

We have not latterly had ranch cause to complain of our morning contemporaries using our special telegrams without acknow ledgment. This morning, however, both of them have appropriated from our columns a valuable special telegram from Wellington being the letter of Mr. Batkin, Paymaster- General of the Colonial Treasury in Welling ton, to the Superintendent of that province, giving the reasons for the late withholding of the capitation money due to the two provinces and each has embodied this telegram la words, in. a leading article based on its information; and in each case without the least acknowledgment of the source No intimation on the subject had reached our own Provincial Government until we forwarded the information yesterday • and the Herald states : "We understand on application that no telegram was sent to the Proviucial Government to inform them of the payment. All they know is that £3200 the amount disputed, is placed at the credit bf the province with the bank." Our con temporaries had of course the bare announce ment in their own telegram that the General Government had paid the capitation, but as the chief interest lav in the possible excuse for the strange action of the Government, we think our "special" is deserving of some recognition for hunting up and transmitting the letter in question. The Herald baldly says- "Mr Batfdn's letter is as follows." The Cross is more explicit but equally misleading - " A telegram forwards the following letter from » J"* asury t0 the Superintendents of Auckland and Wellington," implying that this telegram was received in Auckland either by the Superintendent or the Cross As our two ciQtemporaries have recently been engaged in xa spirited contest of re pudiation of all s«,ts of plagiarism, each shewing itself snow l*. comparison with the other, we may reasonably expect them to exhibit to-morrow a simii^ ze al i n shewing that this little embezzlemtut was merely through? oversight. V"--——

■ J T™ financial; haH-year"encled yesterday^ tfte rfOth of slunej and. tfas Customs returns show that 'during the past month the people of Auckland have'paid the exciseman £20,774; during the quarter, £59,074; for the half-year, £126,006 ; and for the -whole of last year, £234,549. It will be a profitable Bubject of inquiry for them to ascertain what they are receiving in return for this enormous sum. On spirits, tobacco, and tea, there has been a considerable increase^ but on ateand cigars the returns show a slight falling off. It may be interesting .to the drinkers and smokers of Auckland to know that, apart from their contributions to the other heads of taxation equally with the rest cf the com munity, they paid £98>572 duty on the special articles of. grog and tobacco. '-'■ The industrial statistics of New Zealand shew that Auckland has only 111 manu factories and works and Otago 250, but the Auckland manufactories must be on a larger scale, for we find that they give employment to 2353 male, and 46 female hands, while those in Otago only employ 2,603 males, and 79 females, although, as already stated, their number is double those of Auckland. Land and Building Societies seem to flourish better in the South than in Auckland. The census returns shew that while there are six of these Societies in Canterbury, four in Wellington, and fourteen in Otago, there is only one in Auckland. The religious wants of the province of Auckland are supplied by 137 churches, 34 school houses used for Worship, and 4 dwel lings used for a similar purpose. These pro vide sitting accommodation for 29.880 persons) and only 18,004 attend the services. In Otago, with a larger population, there is only Church accommodation for 28,057, and 17,209 attend service. The returns from the whole colony shew that the Ch-ureh of England provides a sitting occommodation of 30,983 and has an attendance of 19 91G ; the Presbyterians, sitting accommodation 20,188, attendance 18,541 ; and the Wes leyans, accommodation 18,885, attendance 12.723; Baptist, accomodation 2,990 ; atten dance 1610; United Free Methodists, accom modation 2400, attendance 1447 ; Congre^a tionalist, 2450, attendance 1140; Primitive Methodists, accomodation 1660, attendance 840. The case of'Mr James B. Francis, who was summoned by the City Council yesterday for a rate on property in Queen-street which was burnt down, indicates great carelessness in keeping the rate accounts at the office of the City Council. After the fire, in which Mr Francis lost all his receipts, he went to the office and paid all demands for rates, when, to his surprise, he was summoned fdr the amount of eighteen shillings and sixpence, which special rate was paid by his landlord, Mr Westwood. The City Treasurer proved upon oat;h that the rate had never been paid, and judgment wept against defendant. 'I his morning however, Mr Westwood sent the receipt duly signed by the collectsr for the said rate, and about which there could be no Pi? Swu L Mr J*eckham was satisfied that the rate had been paid, amount and date corresponding, and advised Mr Francis to see the Mayor upon the subject, and shift the costs 14s from his own shoulders. °f Sir««G^u Cge Bowen> the London Times says:— 1 here occurs Bometimes in the course of a man's life a moment of supreme good fortune and honour which it can scarcely be thought will be exceeded by any thmg yet to happen, Bnd which it may be too venturesome to hope will continue always unabated. Are we, then to con sider the piesent possessor of it a happy man or the reverse? 'I he old standard advice in such cases has always been to die at once, and so to put the final snal upon a felicity which is uncertain from its very greatness. Sir George Fereusson Bowen is still so youDg a man, and he has, we may well hope, so many years of honourable use fulness before him, that we will not, in our own interests, counsel him thus effectually to insure himself against the UDseen dangers of the future ; but he is clearly just now one of the class."

Mr. It. J. Creighton ia reported to have in view as hia future constituency the Wairarapa district, and it is said that he ha 3 been pro missed the Scandinavian vote which musters strongly in that electorate. The Howie k divorce case, Foulkes v. Poulkes and Cross, recently decided in Wel lington, has (say the Times) its touching in cident. "During the trial in the Divorce Court, and the final struggle for the writ of habeas corpus to secure the bodies of the children—as the law vulgarly puts it —the parties on both sides went into the business very coolly. The father was flinty in his resolution to conquer—the mother re sisted, with a steady purpose and maternal fondness which redeemed her in the cold and cruel public eye. But the fiat of the law went forth, and the children were parted from her who had brought them to years of understanding, aud handed ovar to him who, after all, had the best right to them, for Foulkes all through this severe and pro tracted trial has proved himself a worthy man. On Monday he took the children away with him to Dunedin, and as he sat on the deck ©f the Phoebe waiting for the vessel's departure, with a child on each knee, his stern manhood relaxed into tears of joy over a possession he had long striven for. Persons of tender susceptibility who wit nessed the scene could scarcely restrain the sympathetic thrill, for it ia an incident such as this that " breathes high language to the listening soul." The extremes of climate involved in the present Fiji service has proved so trying to the officers and crew of the Star of the South that most of them last trip resigned. This is readily understood when we consider that in a little more than a fortnight the men are transferred from the intense heat of Levuka to the bitter cold of Port Chalmers and are then hurried back again to the relaxing climate of the islands.

The excitement about Tairua and the ex troardinary rise in shares of the Prospectors' Company, remind people of the old days of mining speculation. At four pounds a share the Tairua Company's mine stands at a market value of £40,000, and this on a new and un tried field. Everyone must feel glad at this manifestation of confidence in a goldfield which has been opened at a moment of great need, for mining matters were at a decidedly low ebb when the Tairua discovery was made.

The New York State is sueing W. M. Tweed for six million dollars, part of the spoils of his notorious official plundering.

The Duvalli troupe close their week's sea son at the Prince of Wales Theatre on Satur day, and will give the people of Otahuhu on Monday an opportunity for witnessing an entertainment of a kind that does not often go their wav. —Mr. De* Lias's excellent com pany, with Miss May Howard, after a most successful season at the Thames, re-open at the Prince of Wales theatre on Monday withy Jezebel." This is the way Mexican bandits treat comrades who leave their ranks. The story is told by the Visalia Delta: "About two months ago, a Mexican by the name of Francisco Viella camei to the ranche of John Heinlan, on Mussel Slough, and hired out to herd horses. He subsequently stated that he had been one of the Chavis band, had resolved to leave them, and was fearful that he would be murdered for so doing. On the morning of the 10th inst. after Viella had gone to his work, a large well-dressed man—whom the Chinese cook took to be either a Mexican or a Frenchman

—rode up and wanted breakfast. . He was mounted on a large bay horse, and well armed with pistols and gun. He rode away over the plain. Toward night the horse of Viella was found tied to the fence, with the saddle removed, and forty or fifty rods away the dead body of the rider was found, where he had been lassooed and dragged over the plain until his neck was broken and life extinct.

I There can be no doubt bat the murderer was i.a member of I the Chavis gang.

to size M quantity of oysters, d p ™^ its markelble size in boh three to four years; 3 on the artificiallycultm^L beds in the Basin of Areacho*, in France it is marketable when twenty-seven months old.

Tl-ade i 8 very stagnant ™ GeTm*n?>™* the unemployed are said to number many thousands in Berlin alone, A most remarkable and significant fact as concerning one of the tendencies ot tne New Zealand climate is demonstrated in the last series of census papers, which shewtnat although the colony is, Fiji excef>ted, tne youngest of Her Majesty's possessions, 122,635 persons, or nearly one-third of the whole population, are of New Zealand DirtD —a number equal to all the English ana Scotch in the colony. As compared with England the returns bhew an average for the colony of one child born to every marnad woman in the colony every 3"31 years. In England the proportion is one birth every 3-48 years. Concerning lithe nationalities of the colonial population, we find that in Aucklandj Tarahaki, Hawke s Bay, Nelson, Westlaud, and Canterbury, the Irish element outnumbers the Scotch, whilst the English maintain predominance ; and in Otago the Scotch stand first with 21,400, the English second with 14,359, and the Irish number only 7001. The claims of homcepathy have been advo cated in a singular way in a novel entitled, " Dr. Lowe's Sacrifice; or, the Triumphs of Homojpathy." A certain lot of characters are introduced, all of whom, men and women, discuss the relative merits of allopathy and homcepathy. The advocates of the former system utter the most stupid idea, and betray a most shameful lack of honour, both in their arguments and in their conduct. The homceopathists, on the contrary, are invariably calm, dignified, logical, and suc cessful. In practice the system works wonders. By its aid the hero of the tale ia able to cure the most hopeless diseases, to win fame and wealth, and at last to secure the heart of his once faithless fiancee, who bad deserted him on account of his espousal of the cause of homoeopathy. At the meeting of the Otahuhu Mutual Improvement Society on Monday evening, Mr A. Sturges read a capital paper on " Disappointment and Success in Life." The •selection was a very happy one, and was well illustrated by Mr Sturges. An exhaus tive essay on the subject would be a boon to the young men of the colonies. Mr Kerr gave a recitation on " Hagar in the Wilder ness," which was much applauded. Rabbits have become a fearful nuisance in Otago. Owing to the presence of these pests one estate of GOjOOO acres, carries about 75,000 sheep less than ifc otherwise would do. One day last week 325 rabbiis were killed on this property, and between 7000 and 8000 were destroyed on it last year. A French gentleman, named Gorges, has •clicovered a fluid which will effectually pre serve fish. For this fluid he has taken out a patent which has been practically tested. Fish of various kinds were simply placed in a bath of the solution for two hoars only; they were then taken out of the solution and placed in a cellar for six days. A party of gentlemen interested in fish culture were then invited by Mr Frank Buckland, inspector of salmon fisheries, to taste the fish preserved by the patent process, and the verdict of those present was most favorable. The fish, salmon especially, was found to have kept its flavour and colour. Delicate awh, such as soles, mackerel, red mullet, turbot, &c. were found quite up to the mark, and though three days from the sea, as palatable as though fresh from the fishmongers' stall.

An unfortunate Celestial who had success fully smuggled a quantity of contraband goods ashore at Cooktown, made a melan choly mistake. After successfully hawking his wares through the town he, in an unlucky moment, approached a large painted building with a verandah round it. He entered and offered his wares, which he readily admitted had paid no dnty on to a gentle man standing behind the counter. "After some inquiry, the unlucky Chinaman waa |to bring all he had got and it would all be purchased ; but, not liking the look of mat ters, John tried to get back his goods. But in yam; the goods were in the grip of an institution that but seldom relaxes its grasp, and John had to depart minus his goods, doubtless regretting, the unlucky fate that took him mto a Custom-house to sell smuggled goods to the sub-collector himself. The ratepayers., of Karangahape Highway district will hold a mseting to-morrow even ing in the new ExcelßiorHall (corner of Pitt and East-streets), for the purpose of con sidering matters of great importance to the residents of the district. Mr. McPherson, living near Columbus, Nebraska, while visiting some friends on Sunday night, left four small children at home and during his absence the house was burned, and three of the children were burned to death. The fire is aupposed to have been the work of an incendiary. A late New York telegram says Mrs. John Farns, daughter of Joseph Thomas, of Wood hull, was betrayed into marriage by John Farris, a notorious scoundrel and thief Three days after he married Miss Thomas he told her she had married a bigamist, and then deserted her. In consequence of his deception she committed suicide by throwing herself in front of a locomotive on the North ern Central Railroad. Farria is imprisoned.

The Otago Times view of the political situation is that Mr Stafford will not attempt to take the reins of power this session; that the Government will be allowed to go on for this session, and that, as Mr Vogel is not ex pected to seek re-election, a new Ministry must be formed after the general election and that Mr Stafford will ally himself with Dr Pollen and Major Atkinson, who are old followers of his, and construct a powerful anti-Provincial Government.

The juvenile pioneers of the Pioneer Temple of Good Templars held a business meeting last evening in the Lodge-room, Wellesley street, when officers for the ensuing quarter were duly elected. The proceedings were very harmonious.

The funeral of the late Rev. J. Davies, of the Thames, on Tuesday last, was largely attended by members of his own congregation and members of the Good Templar body with whom deceased was-an active worker' The ftevs. Messrs Cornford, Hill, and Laishley officiated, and the Templar funeral service was read over the grave by brother Hind.

There is a piece of roadway lying between Franklin-road ■ and Sheridan-street, leading into Napier-street, in a most lamentable condition and which is really unsafe in the dark ; the ruts and holes are dangerous as the traveller is likely to sink to his knees in one part; several narrow escapes from accidents' have already occurred here. We hope the authorities will look at this matter

The " Lakes of Killarney" and the "High wayman's Holiday" formed the programme of last evening at the Prince of Wales Theatre. The sisters Duvalli exerted them selves to the utmost to give satisfaction, and their numerous ditties, puns, and dances were highly relished by the audience. Messrs. Ooutts and Hall amused the visitors with several songs, which assisted in swelling the harmony of the evening. To-night there will be an entire change of programme and a piece of remarkable interest will be produced by the sisters, entitled the "Demon Lover," and to-morrow evening " Magic Toys" will be introduced for the benefit of the sisters Davalli.

. The variety ccbcert for tie rbWMf: ' oextieand family, by the Doran frtape, will tr n P^ Cc this evening in the Lorne-s-tfe©t t programme of the entertainment may be seen elsewhere, and is of a very at tractive charaCUr, The circumstance under which this genuine case of distress has arisen is well-known, and we trust there will be such an attendance to-night as will realise a s ubstantial sum to relieve the necessities of t he widow and orphans. No poor in New Zealand !—So say some people. However, during the past year in prosperous Canterbury alone " about a thou sand pounds sterling a month ha* been dis bursed in charitable aid." All the people in a Paris house were startled one night by a tremendous noise made in an upper apartment. Rushing to the doors, they saw a man earning down four steps at a time. He was arrested, half dead with fear. He was a thief, had made bis way with a false key, and feeling his way about the apartments from room to room to find valuables, had come upon some strange, soft, movable, upright thing in the middle of a room. He felt it, passed his hand higher and higher and felt a face, cold as ice. Frightened, eager to escape, he could not find his way to the door, and in his flight upset every article of furniture in the apart ment. They all went upstairs and found the tenant of the fourth floor hanged in his room. Mr W. E. Turner last evening delivered a capital address on Temperance "in the Choral Wall, Onehunga, in connection with the local (*ood Templar lodge. Mr Robert Veal occupied the chair. Owing to the inclem ency of the night, the attendance was not very large, and a promise was extracted from the speaker that he would address auother meeting at the same place on Tues day next. Mr Turner's style of lecture is quite novel to an English audience, and very telling. A cordial vote of thanks was passed by the meeting. The Maori population of the colony is estimated at 45,470 souls, of whom 43,538 are in the North Island. lb was arranged in the Supreme Court this morning that next Monday week should be fixed for trying the suit, Clark v. Casey, in which the plaintiff, a settler at Hokianga, sues the owner of the -steamer Lily for £1500 damages for injuries sustained by his wife through an explosion of steam on board the said vess el, together with £500 damages for loss of his wife's services. The census returns show that 27 Chinamen in New Zealand are married to European women. There is oniy one Chinese lady in the colony. The meeting of the Morning Star Gold Mining Company, announced at Messrs. Fraser and Tinne's to-day,.lapsed for want of a quorum.

POLICE COURT.-THIS DAY.

(Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., E.M.) STUMBLERS IN-THE DARK.

Edward Hogan was charged with drunken ness. Ned avowed that it was so ; he had beenimbibing in opposition to the wet weather; the whiskey was not genuine, and seriously affected his head; he happily fell into the arms of Constable Axam, who kindly took care of him. Fined 10s and costs.

James Clarke and Nicholas Scott we're fined 10s each for the same offence.

Patrick Murphy alias Neagle, was found in a sad state of inebriation at midnight by Constable O'Reilly.

The prisoner an old man pleaded guilty, and was fined 10s and costs.

Edward Walsh, a smart-looking intelligent little fellow, wbo has frequently been before the Court for getting drunk, was again chareed with a repetition of the old failing, and.fined 20a and costs.

The little man bowed his head, smiled, and paid the fine.

A NEGLECTED CHILD.

Mary Barstow, a poor little diminutive child of Chancery Lane, whose parents are in prison, was charged with being a neglected child within the meaning of the Act.

The child bore evident traces of parental neglect, and had all the appearance of semi starvation. The mother was committed yesterday for three months to prison, where the wretched father has been incarcerated for^some time. The girl, who was ten years old, was ordered to St. Mary's Orphanage for four years, to be brought up in the Catholic faith. trtJSEEMLY. The wife of a respectable tradesman, was brought up on a charge of using baa language in Victoria-street last night. Mr Brohara said the prisoner wai the wife of a tradesman, and tbe language*used was of a very bad description. His Worship said that prisoner's position of respectability made the matter so much the worse. He regretted the circumstance. She must pay 40s and costs, or go to prison. HTTNTER, THE BAKER. The young man, John Hunter, describee as a baker, was again brought into Court on a charge of attempting to take his life by means of a razor on the 25th ult. The particulars of this case were fully reported in last evening's Star. His Worship reserved his decision. - His Worship said that he had considered the case in all its details, and having compared the case with similar cases, lie thought-, it was not a case sufficient to sen! to the Supreme Court, but had the prisoner attempted to take the life of his sister it would have been a very different affair. Tin prisoner, therefore, would be discharged, but he must remember that his escape w» due in a great measure to the ingenuity of hV counsel, Mr Joy, or it might have been othe* wiae^ He would advise him to keep sobei, and, if he did so, there would be no fear | his rushing into the presence of his Maker, with all his "imperfections on his head." Prisoner thanked his Worship, and w>» led away from Court by his sister. A TRIO OF ROBBERS. Thomas "William Boulton, William Maf donald and William Sutton, alias Buttd, were charged with stealing the sum of £$ from the dwelling house of Mr. James DoJ', at Dairy Flat, on the 25th ult. Mr. Broham asked for a remand in tlfo case in order to complete the enquiry. The prisoners, three young men, w<re remanded until to-morrow. "ELIZ.VTHEFAIK." Eliza Mc'Ginn, a loquacious female, vna brought up under the vagrancy act chared with drunkenness, disoidely conduct, &c. 6c Prisoner implored the mercy of fee court, although she had Spent about thiee years in prison, and haaSbeen convicfed sixty-two times, still & Qe w«. not a roaae nor a vagabond. She nev er fofeued a man of his shirt in her life. Sh 0 had|a husbaid somewhere, but de'il only kneW1-where lie was ; she didn't care. She l a( j to support herself. Her only fault was * l ove o f f^ Q^ sne dearly loved the oratur. T\ e police knew she was not a bad sort. His Worship suggested to Mr thaV as the woman pleaded so had, sVe might be allowed another chance. ° | Eliza : God bless you, you? Wors\i p ! may you reign for ever ! Detective Jeffrey: Hush, Eliza, h\sh j it will be your turn presently. | Mr Broham said if there va.% the remotest chance of prisoner's "reformation, he wesuld willingly withdraw the charge ; but he fea*ed she would get drunk on rega>ni n g jj er liberty Prisoner : Oh no, bless yfe, I' U off h Q a cocksparrow, and will trouble yom*lordship no more. Eliza will nev«r come into the dock again. , His Worship: But probably You w m De brought here. Well, Mr.Jßroham ihat^o you say ? I 'w

Anite«t b«ad S above L, T§£ I'J] n few that love me ■P- &^'im get drunk-n, never £t word! |nd? iliOi:e(i She T ld P^ ■ Priso.Per clipping otrtof Court, and 1 her vo,L gra^^J aw | y - fe the dis- \ . Ml U- .

SltJ]?BJE|ffio-URT.—fc Banco. [Befo^ H^or^ r Jnsfce Gillies.] WHtTEv; j|ij jticyJRLANJjAND ANOTHER. J-iiisvcßa j^acti^nfor spjcific relief and account l ro^fc by plaintiff, against the defendant spbe yeai4go, for loss sustained by the ityJgj - ]e £ o |jtj e defendant in allowing {ertain ]og3 j, be Lfc The ma tter ""'^j) the Court botitsk months ago. MFHe«k e ti DOW . a blie(lf«r the action to be aMmiteed'Cn the #un(f of want of pro secution^ tie plainff. -!The learned coun sel said thi appiicatioitadbeen made before, b^^rtitopremaure; •t"? Hoabrgrantedjhe {-der. » HABEASI'oiJTrS. APPLICiQqj. ExrAfE OSEPH NAYLOR. iT lJee »a)plie<i *<?he ?ourfc *or a writ of habeas coj^ to brfrjiupthe body cf Joseph Naylor, nw: U nder^ingft sentence of four months haifllabour ijMcpnt Eden gaol. Jrom t^ijffidavit|n phich the applica tion was njjj^ it apwrd that Naylor waß committed j prison! Tjos. Beckham, Esq. K.M., on Warrant, jpty with one Mary Orr for abi a ch of th Vjgrant Act on the 2naJnne } j, being fjpd together at nighfe oa *ne presses of on|iß.«pouf. Mr. fieesj:ssigned i his ground of appli cation the idct that |c committal was bad in law, beoise underlie JVagrant Act there coald be no; oint offeip, joint conviction, or joint commjtal. His Hoir grante<the writ, making it returnable >n Mon^- at; half-past ten o'clock.

SMITI V. THOMS AND OTHERS. In thig cse, again sthe Queen of Beauty mine, the jgument l demurrer was settled in favour ofche plainif at the last sitting. Mr. Hestth now bplied for leave to ap peal agains' the deci|on. The application was made uder the ith section of the Act of 1870, wlchiby th<4th {tection, was made to refer to ecijiohs oi demurrers. MrMacornick arjued against the appeal being grated.! If pirmission was given by the Course t-ustedthat it would be made a conditiorthi nothng should prevent th© pontiff f>m proceding to trial on the ismes of fct.

;Mr Hesethtobjected to thi& condition bang mac, ti it would alter the whole praition ofhe prties. His Horr tbught it "would be very in coavenienfto Lye the trial upon the issues of fact bforsjthe appeal; because the qtestion pon iwhich the demurrer was raped ,woid b<" continually cropping up at tie trial., "■ ' '

After sine farther • argument from Mr MaeCormas, hs Honor said he thought it woald be ir biter to have the question of law settledn tbj Court of "Appeal before the trial upon feue «f fact. JLeive tapped was then granted, defend ant! leingfequiied to give security for costs to the extei of iIOO.

SITTING IN BANKRUPTCY.

He is. JMttnkoe McKensie.

i'This caseyas sit down for hearing, on the firef Couijiiay after the Sessions— viz., Thiraday, |c 21st July. A Thomas Cheesematst. [DEBTOR SUMMONS. In'this be Thomas Cheeseman through Mr Bees deed his liability on a promissory ite for iOO claimed upon by William Aitkin.

The debt's counsel applied for permission imjer a chse of the Bankruptcy Act, for l& client,) adduce evidence and cross- Hamine tt creditor, on the grounds that |c note ii question lapsed eight years ago, mil that fe understanding then was that payment tlreof should not be sought. |;Hi3 Honr granted the required permission »pd fixed luradayjj the 15th inst., for the examinatidof Mr Aitkin.

This wastll the business.

Acciden at the Supreme Court.

r <& SEEiousccident happened this morning 0 Jietween tt and eleven o'clock to a lad named "Waam Giles, aged ten years, l*ho was wjtiDg upon his father, a plasterer, g j employed othe alterations at the Supreme SCourfc-housj The lad was on the second tier of Kffolding about twenty feet from, the ?round, and while his father \jras busy) t his work amused himself Sy playing jifch a rope in connection with a part of .theioaffolding, and losing hold, he Slipped sudcnly from his position and was precipitatedto a distance of about twenty1 feet on to tl path in front of the Court. His fall fortunfely was broken by the next tier of scjfolding, and partly by the Tope, or rlis supposed his fall would have been |itended with fatal results. A number [of i»rkmen witnessed the accident, and the laiJwas immediately lifted from his positiot apparently speechless, and was bleedii profusely from the ears and mouth^nd apparently had suffered Borne interj| shock. The men ran in different dictions for a medical man, and Dr. Ho(|r was at length found, who, having'exanjed the lad, ordered his re moval to theospital. Captain Heale imme diately sentiir a cab, and the patient, in company wi| his father, was conveyed thither. Upoßrrival fhere the house surgeon (Mr. Norton)|amined the lad carefully, but could not fiti any bones broken, or any symptoms of |ternal injury. He therefore advised the |l's father to take him home, which was ic&dingly done.

Another Serious Accident.

f We learn 'thafe, man named Arthur Lisle was brought jtwn from Newcastle yester day, suffering yeat agony from an injury received on J|lay afternoon last whilst in the act of juarpg from a canoe into another boat. It appSs upon his admission to the Hospital last jvening between seven and eight o'clock tl:provincial surgeon found the unfortunate mato be ailing from strangulated inguinal hernuand decided upon operation being at ;once|one, which was successful, and the patien|(upon making inquiries this afternooi}), wejad, is doing arfwell as could be expected. 1

NEW ZEALAND DIVORCE CASE.

At the "DivorceDourt, Sydney, on the 12th, alt., tbi case o Wilson v. Wilson came up or adjudication, the parties to which for some time reside in New Zealand. At the ftrial, the e|ience disclosed a heart less case of wifeieabing and cruel desertion. The material f a<* wer e; these : Both parties were married o; April 24, 1856, at Leeds, England, by a ©arch qf England clergyman, \amed Chapm| About fifteen months alterwarflß, thf arrived > in New Zea lan^ where & Wilson, carried on a sheeji farminn|bii3ine3s for three years. . They tyen cao|ir to Sydney, and opened up a \drapeil sb<ip in, Pitt-street. After being enj |ed in such business three years thar cc|bitat»n ceased in April, 1863, through (r s Wilson discovering that her hustand ha |>een (jarrying on an adult erous intimacy |th one of their shop girls, named Isabella Ifarphy, Mrs Wilson charged -him with bis inleiity,l but he denied it, and from that time ilusedher. At one time she , was locked up ixi^er bedroom for a fortnight,/ and from hialcrueiy Bhe was forced to desert h«r j| o me (to regain her usual good health. i| or g j x years afterwards



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