SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

wrr<TT wiTiTR , This Afternoon, 7.19 HUxtl WATI-K—j To . mom)w Morning, 7.37 SUN SET.—This Evening, 6.15. SUN RISE.—To-morrow Morning, 5.16. MOON'S AGE.—First Quarter, 25th, 7.34 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Flirt, brigantine, McKenzie, from Lyttelton

DEPARTURES. Scabird, brigantine, Nickleham, for Chatham - Islands

IMPORTS.!

Per Flirt, from Lyttelton .-—832 sacks wheats 500 sacks oats, 100 malt.—D. H. McKenzie, agent.

The schooner Saucy Kate cleared out this afternoon, for Napier, via Mercury Bay, with a general cargo for the latter port, where she will load timber ahd shingles for Napier.

The s.s. Southern Cross leaves for Napier this afternoon at 5 o'clock. The brigantine Flirt arrived from Lyttelton this morning, after a passage of 11 days. The captain reports having left last Saturday week, and experiencing light N.E. winds the greater part of the passage. She brings a cargo of grain.

The s.s. Jane Douglas is shortly expected hero from the East Coast. Messrs Cruickshank and Co. advertise that she will leave this port for Gisborne and Napier on or about Saturday, 28th instant.

COMMERCIAL.

Messrs E. & H. Isaacs held their very ex tensive sale of oil paintings, oleographs, cn f ravings, etc, this day at 11 o'clock, at the New heatre buildings, and, taking into consideration the present dullness of trade, fair prices were obtained, and a largo quantity wore quitted. The pictures were well advertised and cata logued, and we noticed many of our best judges amongst the audience, who pronounced the works of art to be somo of the best imported to our city.

AUCKLAND CATTLE MARKET.

Mr. Alfred Buckland's Weekly Report.— At the Haymarket on Friday last, small loads of fodder were in full numbers,and maintained late values. Maize, 4s 2d to -Is 3d the bushel; bone dust, £6 to £7 the ton. The carriage advertised, brought £90, double harness, £10 10s. Horse stock were in less than usual numbers, and were dull of sale, with the exception of strong riding horses which sold freely, and brought from £17 to £25. No draught horses sold. Small and medium horses, £6 to £9 each.—Hides were offered in larger than usual numbers, with a steady enquiry, from 2kl to 3kl the lb, depend ing on their condition ; skins in less than usual number ; they were slightly better worth, and brought from Is lOd to 3s 8d each; bags of wool, 7Jd the lb.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails avill Close as Under :—

For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m.. and to inor-

row, at 11.30 a.m. For Coromandel, per Argyle, on Friday next,

at 2.30 p.m. «_»._i| For Port Fitzroy, per Water Lily, to-morroAv, at

9 a.m. For Waiwera, Mahurangi, Matakana, and To Aria, per Anne Milbank, .to-morrow, at 10 a.m.

For Tahiti, per Coronet, to-morrow, at 3 p.m.

For Rarotonga, per Blanche, to-morroAV, at

3 p.m. For Whitiangi,'Tairua, Tauranga, and Opotiki,

per RoAvcna, on Friday next at 1 p.m. | For Taranaki, Southern Provinces, and Aus tralian Colonies, per s.s. "Wellington, on Friday next, at 8 a.m. .

Late letters A\ rill be recciA-ed till 8.15 a.m. . Per s.s. Australia, on Monday, 23rd instant; as under:— For Kankav ru, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada,. British Colum bia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 11 a.m. f Y For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe,

at 11 a.m. For money orders, registered letters, and neAvs papcrs, at 10 a.m. Late letters; bearing an extra fee of 6d. in addition to the postage, Avill be received by the mail agent on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. (Signed) S. B. BISS, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

BROOKING-On the 17th October, .Mrs. S, Brooking of a son.

MARRIAGE.

DUSTEAN—TAYLOR—On the 6th September, at tho bride's residence, by the Rev. Win. Tinsley, John Curtis Dustean to Susannah Taylor, both of Auckland. — Home papers please copy. - FIXLAY—HINCII—On Sunday, the loth inst., at the Church of St. Francis dc Sales, Symonds. street, by the Roy. Father Walter McDonald, § Mr. Patrick Finlay to Miss Catherine Ilinch, 1 both of Auckland. f.

DEATH.

jrj.Tix.LlPS—On the 12th instant, at the Lunatic Asylum, of fits, William, the only son of Elizabeth and Charles Phillips, of Ponsonby, aged 20 years. i ' X

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

M.B.—You have neglected tp send yom real name as a guarantee of gooc faith.

The Bombardment Despatches.

Further Opinions of the Press

BY TELEGRAPH

j . DUNEDIN, this day. The "Otago Daily Times" reverts to the Governor's despatch, saying :—" We cannot doubt, Avhen the circumstances are property represented to the Home Government, the immediate recall of the Governor will be the result. It is no slight evil that ho should have lent the Queen's name to a transaction wlpch Avould have had a very disreputable appear? anpe, and been greeted Avith severest censure if it h^d been done in the heat of political conflict, aiid'by t'hosp holding less distin guished positions than his. The sending home the despatch privately Avas In itself nothing. Of course the Governor hasfPg right to send any amount of the usual milk and water despatches home without showing them to anyone, but the making a coarse and personal attack on a colonial politician AV'as a sin against good taste, but not politi cal crime. To combine the two acts and send home a vulgar diatribe against apoliti cal opponent secretely, so that he should not be able to contradict'it Ayas at oiicff

A Political Crime and a Sooial

Offence. Although the Assembly was for the moment led ,away. by the Ministry toiseeni to approve this Shameful conduct, • aax. are quite certain that in their cooler moments members will take means to show they do

not approve a method of fighting which would be quite correct among a tribe of savages, but in no way comports with the custom of gentlemen or the usages of civi lised Avarfare. If the representative of the Queen is to take a share, and such a dis reputable share, in the local quarrels of politicians here; if -he is to import into the duties of his office a viruleuce of language and an acerbity of tone which Avould seem extreme among the most outspoken of our colonial politicans, then we fail altogether to see

Where on Earth is, the Advan tage of Having a Nominated Governor

at all. It is the interest of all parties in the State to endeavour to put ah end promptly to this kind of shameful conduct, which would do more to injure the Constitution than any one thing that has happened for a long time, if allowed to pass unnoticed. A Governor who can condescend to an action so- entirely unworthy of his high position is unfit to be a Governor at all.

SEVERE OFFICIAL MORALITY.

PENALTY OF SUPPORTING A GREYITE,

THE tAVO following letters terminate a corres pondence betAveen Mr. J. M.. Fraser and the Under Native Secretary. Mr. Fraser states that Mr. Hugh Carleton reported to the Government that Mr. Fraser took considerable interest in the last General Election, and notAvithstanding an earnest appeal for an enquiry into the correct ness of Mr. Carleton's report, Mr. Fraser's scrA"iccs have been dispensed with, no opportu nity having been afforded him of refuting Mr. Carleton's statement. The fact is, Mr. Fraser voted for a supporter of Sir George Grey, hence his dismissal:— "Native Office, " Wellington, 12th September, 1876. ," Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter, of the 31st ult., and by direction of the Hon. Native Minister, to inform you in reply that your services are no longer re quired by this Department. Sir Donald McLean has been pleased to authorise the payment of , your salary for August, and your abstract has ' been forwarded to the Treasury accordingly.—l have, &c,

"N. T. Claiike, " Under Secretary.

" J. M. Fraser, Esq." " Auckland, 30th September, 1876.

" Sir, —I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt, of your letter of tho I2th inst., in which you inform me that I am dismissed from the Civil Service, and that the Hop. Native Minister has been pleased to authorise payment of my salary for August. For, the latter lam much obliged. I protest that the treatment to Avhich I have been subjected by tho Government, h4s been by no means impartial, and decidedly un fair. That no good ground has been stated on which my dismissal could possibly be based—for if every Civil Servant Avho indulges in betting upon a candidate's return received the same punishment as has been inflicted,on mc, II make bold to _»y one half of the present officers would know their desks ;no more. l insist that it lias not been proved, nor is it true, that I took any interest whatever in the lapt general election, but granting that I had done so, and that the 'Government was satisfied bcyorfd doubt that such Was the case,'l ask Avhctherdt is fair that I alone should have suffered, Avhije' others avlio are ready at any and all times to toady to Hiepowers that be, and as a result havo openly shewn a considerable inclination to support, in matters politic, the present Admin istration, should be permitted to go scatheless, nay even receiA-e additions to their salaries. The Hon Native Minister is perfectly well aware that ninny Government oflicers take part in politics, and it has come under my observation that they haA-e been Undoubtedly encouraged by Ministers therein. It would appoar that it is not so heinous an offedec in a paid omccr of the Government to shepherd a neAVly elected member of the Moufeo of Representatives with a-Aicw to making that member support the present Administration, as lo A'ote for a member of the' Opposition. I, in conclusion, regret that I ever belonged tola service administered in such a manner that ability and pcrseveirance become subscrAaont to flunkeyism.—l have, etc.,

"J. M. Fraser,

" The Under Native Secretary."

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before Doctor Home, and George Donne Esq. Justices).

LUSH AM) LIFE. John Beaton, a powerful man, aa-us chargec Avith being drunk and disorderly.

Prisoner pleaded guilty, and hoped the Bench Avould be lenient as he had a job to

go to. Fined 20s and costs, or 48 hours.

THE IiAN OK VAGRANCY

Thomas Penderville, was charged under the Vagrancy Act with having no visible, lawful means of living. Prisoner, an old man, said he had been walking a long way, and avus very tired, and so he laid doAvn to rest on the cold, cold ground ; he had means of support. Mr Broham said that prisoner was a Avell-known vagrant at tho Thames, and had acknoAvledged that he had no means of li\-ing.

Prisoner said he Avas a jobber, but no in constant employment.

Constable Gordon found tbe prisoner asleep in the archway of the Post Oiiice at one o'clock this morning. Detective Grace had known prisoner at the Thames as a loafer and hanger on at public houses.

Prisoner said his health had been bad which avus the cause of his misfortune.

Tato months imprisonment Avith hard labour.

John Smith Johnstone, a tine groAvn, powerful man, pleaded guilty to a like cl targe.

The Bench Avere surprised to see such a capable man brought up under such a charge.

Mr Broham said that drunkenness was the cause of this man's downfall, as it had been in the case of Penderville.

Three months imprisonment with hard labour.

MR BUVGROVK'S DOt.

Valentine Blagrove again appeared to answer for a dog "Nipper," alleged to be his property, for not having a collar on his neck.

Mr Blagrovc said the dog avus not his, and by permission of the OAvner he had executed it.

Mr Brock then rose in defence of the defendant; and said that rather than bring down the members of his family to the, Court, he Avould submit to an injustice, by pleading guilty, and pay a small fine. Dr Home : You are sure that the dog won't appear again. . Mr. Brock : The dog is as dead as a door nail. Fined Is and costs. * NORTH SHORl_f BOYS. Henry Wood, a lad of the North Shore, Avas charged under the Municipal Police Act of 18o"6, Avith throwing stones in the Dcvonport HigliAvay, to the "danger of a lady residing at the North Shore. Mr. Tyler appeared for the defence. Mr. Broham informed the Court that complainant had frequently been to him respecting the boys, who' were continually annoying her in a A-ariety of Avays. Mrs Churton, a widow-lady of the Nqrth Shore, deposed that on the evening of the 10th inst. she Avas in the garden attached to her house, when the lad threAv several stores at her house, one of which nearly struck her ; the lad saw her as he threw the stones ; lje wa ; s but a short distance from her. She had been subjected to a long course of annoyance froiji the boys, and consequently she was compelled 'against her Avishes, to bring the ease to Court, To Mr. Tyler . There Ayere tAvo other boys Avith defendant ; she had lavo dogs on the premises. She Avas not aware that her dogs had bitten boys. She had never charged Mr Nolan with throAving eggs into her garden.

Mr. Broham objected to^this course of cross-examination,'

Mr. Tyler said the lady Avas labouring under some hallucination, and considered e\-ery person on the North :Shore was against her.

Constable Bond, deposed that Mrs Chur ton bad continually complained to him ; the house A\*a« in the bounds of the-Municipal Police Act. He knew that the dogs barked at persons through tlie fence, but Avas not aware that they had bitten any one.

Mr Tyler addressed the: Court, and said that several boys Avere passing Mrs Churton's house with a goat, .when the lady's dog commenced barking, and in con sequence a stone Avas throAvn at the dog, but it did not passthe fence; therewasno danger therefore, to Mrs Churton, as lie should proA re beyond question. Henry Wood, aged 10, deposed that he kneAv the nature of an oath. Dr Home : What Avill be the consequence to you if you do not speak the truth ? Mr Tyler said that very question had puzzled many a philosopher. ■ The boy's ansAver Avas satisfactory, and he said he Avas driving a goat past Mrs Churton's, when the dog came tOAvards him and began to bark; he threAv a stone at the dog. Mrs Churton was at. the other end of the garden, and the stone did not go near her; 'he only threAv one stone; he was afraid of the dogs, because they had bitten other boys. He never teased the dogs. The boy Avas .sharply taxed by Mr Broham on his evidence. Arthur Rees, aged 10, Harry Smith, aged 11, Lemon Rees, aged 11, Charles Bailey, aged 12, deposed to the biting propensities of the dogs, and that the defendant only threAv one stone. This being the Avhole of the evidence, the Bench retired to consider the case, and on returning into Court said that while the Bench sympathised Avith Mrs Churton, AA'ho had been, no doubt, subjected to much annoyance from boys, the proof in this case was not sufficient to convict the defendant. The case must be dismissed, each party paying oavu costs. This was all the business.

PARLIAMENTARY.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT],

WELLINGTON, this day. PUBLIC WORKS BILL. '

In the Upper House the Public Works Bill Avas passed.

MRS MEURANT'S CASE,

In reply to Mr SAvanson, the Premier said that steps had been taken to settle the claims of Mrs Meurant.

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING.

The "New Zealand Times," which is under the direction of your old friend J. M. Perrier, has been coming out in a style all its oavu lately. When the editor has not got Sir George Grey on the,brain, he has;a lling at Mr. E. T. Gillon, Avho generally repays those little attentions with compound interest. Yesterday, the Colonial Journal had a crazy notion that Mr. Macandrew had been sending seditious letters to members of the House, though, of course, everyone who knows anything of old Mac, is well aware that he is far too canny to do any thing > so- childish. Yesterday, Mr. _0e Latour, anxious I suppose, to raise a> laugh' at the expense of the Ministerial organ, rose to contradict the statement, and at the same time administered a .Avell-merited castigation to the " Times." ( . X. : • MR REES AND MR WHITAKER.! '

There Avas a little breeze 'yesterday be tween the Attorney-General fyid Mr, Rees: The latter had referred to the disqualifica tion of Ministers, wheft' Mr Whitaker got up and asked the hon. member if a docu ment had not been filed in .the Supreme Court at Auckland, which would disqualify him (Mr Rees) from sitting in that House.

Mr Rees challenged Mr Whitaker to name any document filed in the Suprerhc Court, or anvAvhcre else, that Avould disr qualify him from holding his seat. He asked Mr Whitaker to lay aside inuendo and state his meaning plainly and openly. If any such document as Avas hinted at had been in existence, the Government would have been only too glad to seize upon the chance of getting rid of him. WYNYARD PIER. In reply to Mr; Tole, Mr. Richardson said the Government had no intention of acting upon the recommendation of the Public Petition's Committee in respect to the petition of the residents of Auckland, Parnell, and North Shore, as to the inter rupted passage to the Wynyard Pier. MR. TONES. Leave of absence for the remainder of the session has been granted to Mr. B. Tonks, on urgent private affairs. TESTING ABOLITION. Sir CJcorge Grey moved that £5,000 be placed on the estimates with the A-ieAv ;of testing the legality or otherwise, of the : Abolition Act.

Tho Premier opposed the motion in a speech more remarkable for flippant self-con fidence than for logical argument. Mr IJodgkinson argued at length that the Act was ultra vires, producing a mass of legal testimony bearing on the case. Mr. Reid supported the motion. He pointed out that the only satisfactory way of settling the public mind on the question Avas to have it thoroughly tried.

Mr. Rees shewed that the tendency oi modern politics avus opposed to ithe use of power injan arbitrary way against the united avi'll of a large section of the people. Mr Whitaker asked Avhat Avas to be done in respect to abolition Avhilethequestion was be ing tried.. It might take a loiig time. Mr. Sheehan argued that the word " any" in the clause of the Ngav'Provinces Act, which gave power to alter the boundaries of certain provinces, to constitute others, and abolish any one of them, did not iueaii "all." Moreover, no, Government had a right to arbitrarily force a measure against the Avill of the people, and if the latter in upholding what they believe to be their rights resorted to force, and blood were shed, the blame Avould rest on the Ministry, whose poor heads would, be no kind of cOin peusation for the loss. This Avas felt as Ja. very severe remark, but it Avas equally forcible and true. Imagine the poor brainless pates of some of our political, charlatans AA'ho have got into office and pay by stedfastly clinging to Vogel's skirts, and by the magic poAver of lavish expenditure and profuse patronage, imagine such heads being worth anything at all. It is perfectly avcll knoAvn that beyond the low species of cunning AA-hich enables some of them to bribe votes and practice chicanery in playing oil* political parties they are mere brain-suckers, and depend entirely upon Under-Secretaries and back-door toadies for any idea beyond the condition of their oavu stomachs. Barring Mr. Whitaker—avlio is the only able man in the crowd—the Ministry are not Avorth "King, Charles' Head " Avith the brains scooped but.

LAST NIGHT.

[PRESS AGENCY.]

Mr Sheehan Attacks the Flour

and Sugar Incubus.

After resuming, the House went into Committee of Supply, after rejecting' Sir George Grey's motion. Mr Sheehan nioved that the vote for the Native Department be reduced by £5000 instead of £10,000, The hon. gentleman ijhen Avent on to make a fierce attack upon the Native Minister and this department generally. He' said the Native Minister demoralised ' the natives with rum, and was responsible for the Waitara AA'ar and, therefore, indirectly for all the subsequent Avars ; that a large majority, of natives desired nothing better than to be rid of him and his officers, that no man trafficked more largely in native lands or made more nionev out of them than' Sir Donald .McLean did. ' The hon. gentle man gave a minute history of the number of the native land transactions at Hawkc's Ray,, to shew that the Provincial and; Gen.ejral Government,'officer.*, and evenl Sir'; Donald McLean himself, were guilty of j dabbling in native land speculations. He j

believed it would have been better to have had no Native Department at all. lyjj Bowen defended Sir Donald McLc^ .deprecating such an attack upon the KzOfi' Minister, while he was absent fror^kle House through illness. He pointed "out how careful the committee ought to be in I accepting Mr Sheehan's statements, AA'ho was the paid advocate of a section of natives at HaAvke's Bay, who came and gave the House an ex parte statement, put ting his own case in the best possible light. He also said that nine-tenths of -SiFDouqld McLean's land Avas bought either direct from the Government or at a fair aud open competition at public auction. _ Mr Hunter explained how impossible ,it was for Sir Donald McLean to have any thing to do with the Waitara war, he being dangerously iU at the time at Mohaka> in Hawke'sßay. ; After a long discussion, Mr Sheehan's amendment was lost by 38 against l&gfcfa The Native Minister^ifSSifttle Organ has to Move on. An item of £400 intended to cover the cost of the "Waka Maori" (newspaper) was struck oft' by 29 against 21. THE DEFENCE ESTIMATES RE DUCED £1000. The Defence estimates led to a long and complicated descussiou, all sorts of amendments being proposed and suggested. ►Some advocated the abolition of the militia and volunteers in the Middle Island and Wellington, retaining them in other Pro vinces. The discontinuance of prizes for firing was also recommended; and the con version of the present militia and volunteers into artillery companies. The majority of opinions, hoAvever, con sidered that prize firing was the very life and soul of volunteering, in keeping the volunteers together. . Ultimately, on the suggestion of-the Premier, the vote for prize firing AArasfre tained, and the whole vote "reduced by £1000. Government domains, £1241, was passed, and the House adjourned at 3.35.

DOMAIN BOARD.—This Day.

A srEciAL meeting of the members of the Domain Board was held to-day, present,- jiMesgsrs Fenton (chair) Mitford, Macffarlane^JvisSling, Warnock, Cherry, Heale, and the'M3_P&jv:-£» LETTER, . v J A letter was read from the Chairman of the Grafton Road Board, requesting the Board to take into consideration the propriety of utilizing n large quantity of earth belonging to the said Jboard Avhich will be giA-en free of charge for the purpose of'lllling in and levelling and approach to the Bowling Green. It was then resolved that the request of the Grafton Road district be acceded to, and that Messrs. Heale, Mitford, and Cherry, bo appoin ted a sub-committee to carry out the details. \£ ; . J|R BRIGHTON'S LEASE. Mr: Brighton applied for liberty to assign /his lease of the Dqmain Garden to an eligible per son. -■ ■ '- . " ' '• , ni Mr Tonks (Mayor) suggested that' no' time should bq lost, as if the, strawberry season was allowed-to pass tho opportunity of ah eligible . lessee might be lost. _-.._... It Avas resolved that the secretary see to the matter at; once, and report thereon atrffch'erqjext meeting. ■ rj - dyyji ;. _

The Suez Mail News.

.-• . WELLINGTON,'ibis day. ARRIVAL OF THE ARAWATA AT THE BLUFF. .. . k The s.s. Arawata arrived at the Bluff, this morning. She left Melboiirne^ir the I2th instant. X ; " THE TURKISH ATROCITIES. The October mail, advices contain full particulars of the dreadful atrocities.'.co^u mitted by Turks, in Bulgaria, and tlie'gqenes of lust, rapine, and murder. At the village of Batak, there Avere-some awful outrages, and at other village.4wKere there Was a shew of resistance, three thou sand inhabitants A\'ere massacred, mostly women and children. Churches and buildings Avere levelled to the ground. Mothers Avere'butraged ih the pr|^niq^ of their daughters, and daughfc©rS2_iin_-_>_he presence of their mothers, sisters, and brothers.' , ■ '• The outrages at CaAvnpore are said to be far surpassed in Bulgaria. Tbe Colonal Huseum. The site for the Colonial^ Museum has been finally fixed on the Thames Embank ment, The building Avill cost £250,000, and the contributions will be according', to the amount of space required. India Avill have two fifths of the space. The offices of the A gents-Gen eraLs of the colonies-Ayiß be within the building-. ; \ y yyO'^O. - The "Hour," aXCohserA^iSvc-^jrSifiial, started in 1873, ,hy, Capt. Hamber and D. Morior Evans, has been discontinued. Threatened Forcible Release 'of Fenians. OAving to a threatened attempt to release from Chatham Prison some Fenian convicts and Bidwellj the hank forger, a strong body of military is on .duty night and day. Que warder was offered £1000 to' alloAv. JBidweU to escape. ''.'...■'-- _.-_..:.:■

Latest Telegrams.

SERVIA AND RUSSIA.

(VIA GALLE.)

■ ■ - - • ■ - London, September 12. The Czar's birthday was feted at Bel grade yesterday. X _ : ' At a banquet in the evening Prince Milan expressed his entire'dcA-otion to Russia.' SHIP WINDSOR ABANDONED! The sliip Windsor was abandoned on the 30th August in a sinking state. The creAV have been landed at Plymouth. SIR STAFFORD NORTHCOTE ON THE TURKISH QUESTION. '".''' September 18. Sir' Stafford Nortlicote, in addressing a meeting at Edinburgh denied that the Eastern policy of the Government had /been hampered by unworthy jealousy of Tfttesia, or a fear of the Maliomedan subjects of •India. He Avent on to- say that the c mpire of India depended upon good C4oA-erument, and that the Porte had sent a commission to Bulgaria, armed with judical poAver to enquire into the recent atrocities. NeAvspaper correspondents generally con sider the peace conditions imposed' by Turkey on Servia inadmissable.

AUSTRALIA.

rrvr^ wK?OUR^. October 12th. THE VICTORIAN ASSEMBLY Political' affairs are being• quietly conducted, and the hmshmg touches are being given to tlie Electoral Bill botorc it is sent tb the Upper Chamber.

AN OBSENE PRINT. Tho Government at length are about to-take atepa to put down that most disgraeefuf and Obsene print "Lee's Pictorial Budget," and a notice has been given of a bill with that object. THE DROUGHT.— £SO FOR WATERING

m . _ CATTLE. . Ihe long AYished'for rain has fallen in parts of I\eAv South Wales and South Australia. It was time,, when £50 has to be paid for n drink of Avator for travellihg cattle between the Lackland, and the Darling, We uoav hear of several hours steady rain with plenty of water aud grass. - ENCOURAGING- AGRICULTURE. The Government haA'e resolA.ed to buy a reaper and binder machine at the Philadelphia "Exhi bition, and bring it. OA-er here to compare with. % others. . • f WILSON'S CIRCUS A GREAT SUCCEf ll Wilson's circus: has proved a yreat draw 'y- I > first night 7000 Avere present, and the follow* ■.--rl niglits there Avas only'a little below the averaged RACING ACCIDENT. , • 4, n unfortunate gOfftUmt happened yesterday m the Breakneck Hurdle race.which will proba bly cost one man his life. ™5f ti? Di¥ CiP 12 ,BIURSKAJN REQUEST. Mddle De Murska'iss i\iuch:ix>tiuivr-d Avith her company Jo open the Academy of Music, as it is considered that an esstablislmtent, so designated fed^be^tlvoppnod.Avitb.to'rWra company. Although b'plendid terms Were ottered,' she is chary of accepting them? ' •- -*->^-.' ---t -Wi BOLRAf pUP-LATEST PETS. Wish &tew and Yalentia are still very stroßS

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

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1876.

For tlie cause that I.icUti assistance, l7or tlic Wronj; that needs resistance, 1-or tlie future in tlic distance. And tlic tfood that we can do.

HISTORY repeats itself. .In the struggles of communities for national freedom and purity of Government, this trite saying is specially true. There could scarcely be suggested a better illustration of tlie in herent tendencies of Government and the sloav growth of reform than that furnished by the evils against which the colonists of New Zealand are making a fierce and uphill light. The experience of countries, like that of individuals, must, it would appear, be acquired by personal,' suffering, for if history could teach, there' is no lack of parallels in the Constitutional struggles of older nations, thsj-i Avoiild 'point a Avay clear through the shoals and quicksands of State, corruption. We find j» .an old History of the British House of Confiflfliis, published in 1742, some very quaint passages, applying with remarkable force to the circumstances of this colony. Ad dressing the parliament of 16' SO', Sir F. Wilmington, evidently a Sir George Grey of the old school, said : " Mr Speaker, the last House of Commons, being sensible how narrowly this nation escaped being ruined by a sort of monsters called pensioners, which sat in the late Long Parliament, had entered into consideration lioav to prevent the like from coming into future parliaments, and in order thereto, resolved that, they would 'severely chastise some of those that had been" guilty, and make the best, laws they could to prevent the like ; for the iutuve." " i have often 'heard that England can never be destroyed but by itself :To have such parliaments Ava i the most likely Avay that ever yet waj wvejited. It was my fortune to sit heie. a .

little while in the Long Parliament, I dld observe that all those that had pension 9, and most of those that had offices, vote d all of a side, as they were directed by some great Officer, as exactly as if their business 8 in the House had been to preserve their Pensions and Offices, and not to make laws for the good of them that sent them here." The speaker displayed a very accurate ap preciation of the effects of such a system, and condemned it as creating an " arbitrary power," dangerous to the people. " These office-holders," he said, "were so far from being the true representatives of the_ people that they were a distinct middle interest between the King and the people, and their chief business was to serve the end of some great Minister of State, though never so opposite to the true interests of the people." To stimulate the House to immediate and active legislation to prevent any member from accepting an office under the Crown, the speaker declared : " There is a report that some of this House have now made a bargain at Court for great offices in order to vitiate and corrupt their votes in this House." Equally forcible and appropriate to our own case were the remedies prescribed for the corruption of Parliament through the Civil Service, by this early constitutional reformer: "I think," lie said "that for those that are tho legislators of the nation to take bribes (in pensions and offices) to undermine the laws and Government of this nation, that they ought to be chastised us traitors." His persistence in demanding attention to the evil is also worthy of Sir George Grey, and with this extract we shall close : "I think it a business of so great importance, that it never ought to be forgotten nor the prosecution of it deferred. Sir, this busi ness ought never to fall through, there . should he never so many prorogations and ' dissolutions of Parliament, before anything be done in it; I think it is the interest of the nation, that it should be prosecuted from Parliament to Parliament, as if there were an impeachment against them."

THE sensitiveness of the English money market is strikingly shewn by recent corres pondence between the Government and the Crown Agents, respecting the unucgociatcd balances of the unguaranteed debentures. Having been advised by cable on the 9th March, by Sir Julius Vogel, to arrange the sale of £1,250,000 of these debentures as "early as possible," Messrs Julyan aud Saigeiint wrote on' the 29th June last, statin-;- that they were Availing for the first favourable turn in the money market, being apprehensive that " anything like a general European war, which Russian armed interference in Turkey would probably pro voke, might not unlikely place us in a much worse condition to negotiate a loan twelve months hence than we are at present; and by that time it is, so far as Aye knOAV, quite possible that a much larger amount avill be wanted by your Government." The latter part of the sentence is unfortu nately "too true," as Dr. Cully would say, 'but those Avho pin their faith to unlimited borrowing would do avcll to bear in mind that there lire powerful influences at work in Europe before Avhich even the A-ersatile expedients of a Vogel or an Atkin son would bo as vain as (hat of the confident old lady Avho attempted to arrest the advanc ing Avaves Avith her domestic besom. It would be an awkward situation for this colony to find its securities unnegociable in the midst of a European Avar, Avhile a horde of clamourous contractors, and hungry dependants thronged the approaches to the Treasury, and besieged the back stairs of Ministers' ollices.

A someAvhat remarkable letter from the Inspector of Nuisances avi'll be found in onr report of the City Council meeting to-day. The Inspector was irresistably attracted to the Police Station by certain odorous exhalations proceeding therefrom,.and lie relates in his letter to the Council, in a manner remarkable for its graphic simplicity, Avhat happened on the occasion. i Ajd-'d-A- y XyXXXy (■i.M%'^'H&B,i f

TiXinay be avcll to rein md our morning contemporaries that there is a slight difl'er ence between the Press Agency telegrams and those sent by our own correspondents at Dunedin and'Christchurch. We have been in the habit of supplementing the Agency telegrams by fuller and earlier in telligence from regular correspondents at those and other centres of population in the colony, and our contemporaries avi'll doubt less see the fairness to all parties of distin guishing betAveen the tAvo sources in future. The " Waikato Times " states' that a firm in the North Island has received an order from Melbourne, for 1000 tons of Ncav Zea land dressed flax.

ToAvards the close of the Harbour Board meeting, after the STAR Avent to press yes terday," Mr. Meyers moved a resolution in favor of appointing a- committee, to consider the desirability of making the <iueen-strcet Avharf a-permanent work. He pointed out that in the years 1873, 1874, and 1875 £11,875 had been expended m general repairs: new works had cost £5,083; the Railway Wharf had cost £24,000 ; while the repairs now in progress Avould amount to £5,000. He advocated the formation ot tramways along the Avha.<f, and the erection of receiving sheds. After a discussion the motion was agreed to..

Canvassers for money towards the prize fund of tlie projected cattle slioav have been successful in getting hi subscriptions, hence it is/believed that thefortheonur.g exhibition AyjlJ. be a great success.

■ The 'cav£.o of the barque Robina Dunlop, Avl.ieh '"saited for London yesterday, j in cluded 9,524 o'zs -0 dwts 7 grs of gold, valued at £39,520. The total value ot the vessel's cargo avus £61,139.

A Sydney telegram reports that a proposal has been received from an English Company, to lay a duplicate telegraph cable to Aus tralia. ■

The pruning knife is being gently and tenderly applied to the gouty and over grown estimates of the Government, but nevertheless the patient winces ruefully under the operative. The Parliamentary telegrams reporting last nights' proceedings shew that Mr Sheehan made a wholesome attempt to apply the lancet to the plethoric, and obese Native Department, but out of sheer compassion for the piteous appeals of Mr Bowen tbe vole was passed. The item of £400 to cover the cost of the penny whistle of the Native Oiiice, the " Waka Maori" a journal devoted to supplying tho natives with milk and water travesties of of ."Ksops fables, and Munchausen talcs about lions, tigers, and sea-serpents—was struck out, ami the "Waka Maori" will probably be snuffed out. The Defence Estimates have been reduced by £1000.

Mrs Leikis, of Onehunga, desires to ac knowledge Avith thanks tlie afj'orts of friends Avholiave helped her in her distress, Mr Donne, one of the justices at the Police Court this morning, said that drunk ennes was not necessarily an offence against the law, and he thought the Act under which a man was charged, and the exact nature of his offence should be clearly set forth, so that tho man charged would be able to meet it by a defence. Mr Broham thought that such a course was unnecessary as drunkards avcll knew their position, and generally pleaded guilty. They might, hoAvever, be charged with a breach of the Licensing Act. Mr Donne thought the charge sheet should be amended in this respect, and here the matter dropped.

Our London correspondent sends some details of the recent outrages in China. " Since the massacre 'at Tientsin there has been nothing to equal the recent hor rors at Niug-Knoh-Fu. The rioters entered a church, stopped the service, forced the officiating priest on his knees, and demand that he should cease promulgating the doctrines of the Catholic Church./ He refused, and a scene of confusion eusued. The priest was then first tortured, but to the bust he stedfastly refused to become a rene gade to his vow 3. Ultimately death ended his sufferings, A child who was under the priest's protection was torn limb from limb. The body of an Italian priest, buried some twelve months before,' was exhumed and subjected to every mark of indignity and , insult. A military mandarin, named Wu, is said to havo been the prime instigator of these outrages. A wedding of unusual interest.: will, we arc informed, take place at St. Sepulchre's Church, Upper Symond-street, at half-past eleven o'clock to-morrow morning, when the Rev. John Still, of the Mclanesian Mis sion, will be married to Miss Nihill, daugh ' tor of a former member of the Mission Staff, under Bishop Selwyn. The service will be chorally rendered, and a very large atten dance of friends may be expected to witness the ceremony.

We regret to hear of the death of Mr Richard Riordan, late providore of the A.S.P. Co's vessels, and more recently employed at Mr Waller's tobacco establish ment. This gentleman had an epileptic fit four days after his brother's, death, a fort night ago, and has passed from one seizure to another till lie succumbed last night, at the Custom House Hotel. His funeral takes place to-morrow.

Notwithstanding prevailing dull times, the sum of £1928 16s 6d was collected during the Last fortnight on account of general and water rates. The residents of that part of Nelson-street situated between Cook and Wellington streets petitioned the City Council to-day upon the formation of their street. This is a most necessary work, and we are at a loss to discover why, when the other sections of the street was finished, the remainder was not pushed on to completfon with the first money available.

The petition of the residents of Waipa and Raglan shews how utterly at variance with fact was the statement of the Native Minister that only a small section of the settlers of Waikato were opposed to the proposal to locate large bodies of returned rebels in proximity to European settlers. The desirability of natives as near neigh bours has been forcibly illustrated on the East Coast, where they kept large Hocks of shoe]) dangerously infected with scab, to the wholesale destruction of the settler's sheep. The Scab Act was practically inoperative, as any attempt to enforce its pro visions was resisted, and threats were used which no Sheep Inspector in his'senscs' would dare disregard. In other districts the proximity of natives has been a fruitful source of bickerings, quarrels, immorality and crime.

A somcAA'hat singular case Avas recently heard before Mr H. E. Kenny, Resident Magistrate at New Plymouth. A nian named James Sluxav avus brought up by the Sergeant of Police on a, charge of having been drunk on the 7th October, in his own house. The evidence shewed that a Mr. James Pugh, a neighbour of Shaw's, ob served the latter drunk in his own house at nine o'clock on Saturday night, and fearing that he would set lire to the dwelling, went and informed the police. Sergeant Duifin deposed that he found the prisoner very drunk in the back part of his OAvn house, Avitli a lighted candle standing near him on a box. There was a quantity of straw and wood surrounding the house, and conceiving that Shaw might set fire to these, and en danger the neighbouring property, the sergeant took him into custody. Mr Ham merton, AA'ho appeared for the accused, con tended that a man had a perfect right to be drunk in his oavii house, so long as he did not injure his neighbours, and quoted as follows from Stevens on "Personal Rights " :— "To avoid, hoAvevcr, any misapprehension from the use of the term " duties," avc may remark that there are some duties J which have no connection with rights in the sense which avc have affixed to the latter ex pression, and of such duties our law con sequently takes no cognizance. These are such as the IaAV of Cod or conscience pre scribes, but the violation of which by the individual is attended Avitli no direct mischief to others. Thus, public sobriety is a duty recognized by the law, having regard to the right of each citizen to be protected from disgusting or contaminating exhibitions of vice ; but private sobriety is not enforced by any legal sanction, because secret intoxication, though equally opposed with open drunkenness to con science and the law of Cod, is no violation of any human right, nor its commission, if by any means detected, a fit; subject for human punishment." The Court ruled that the 25th section of the Sale of Liquors Ordinance, which enacts that " If any person shall lie convicted of drunkenness before any Justice of the Peace he shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding tAventy shillings," was sufficiently wide to convict persons of drunkenness, whether that drunkenness Avere public or private. It also observed that Mr Beckham gave that inter pretation to the clause to the same effect in the Auckland Ordinance. Of course, if the police went ordinarily into people's houses to arrest for drunkenness they would be liable to censure. But by acting discreetly, as in a case of the kind before the Count, Avhere amanAvas helplessly drunk close to a store of wood, and to stables where there was great dangel- of fire, they would be doing their duty. Defendant Avas lined ss, Avith costs of court and jail 13s, or 4S hours' im prisonment. The usual fortnightly meeting of the Court Zealandiail74l) ol' the Ancient Order of Forest ers Avill be held this evening in the Court room of (he Y.M.G.A. Wellesley-st., at tbe usual hour. Candidates for initiation l'nust be in attendance at nine o'clock.

The annual soiree of the Pitt-street Wesloyan Church Avill bo held this evening in the school room. The public meeting will bo addressed by ministers and gentlemen as per advertisement. Tbo choir Avill enliven tho proceedings by a series of selections of music.

THE lEVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, DCTQBER 18, 1876.

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;r^ORIN THI A N LOD GE. . The INAUGURATION has been Postponed to the 16th proximo. Visiting Brethren are especially im-ited to attend. The Evening Cele bration is changed from Ball to Banquet, tickets for which can be obtained from Bro. Leers, or ~of any-of the Order. r q WOOD WARD, - Secretary. WANTED, a respectable clean Lad to wait at table, clean AAandows, and make himself useful.—Apply bctAveen 3 and 5 daily to O. Burton, Refreshment Rooms, Queen-street. JIURNITURE! FURNITURE! Ladies and Gentlemen about to Famish are respect fully requested to inspect the Lwrge Stock of DRAWING-ROOM, DINING- BOOM BEDROOM, AND GENERAL SOUSEROLD FURNITURE, In our Nevj and Spacious Slimorooms. . T. & JL~COOKE> "■ 6f, QUEEN STREET, *" " - Adjoining Bank of New Zealand. ] f^\ i 'it C U L A JR . ~;; A. LINABURY & CO. Findlnjr that their late Premises Avere too small to allow ol' t .<if doing/justice to their numerous Cus tomers and Increasing Business, have taken those COMMODIOUS PREMISES (lal.ly In the occupation of Mr. W. Wilson), 204 and 206, l^U BEN-STREET. Tney take this opportunity of Informing their numerous friends- aud the general public that they ■will inaugurate the open'ng of their new Emporium by holding a UNIVERSAL SALE. For One Month our Entire Shipments of SPRING and SUMMER DRES3 GOODS. MILLINERY, 'COSTUMES GENERAL DRAPERY and. CLOTHING will be in cluded in this GRAND SALE. A. 1.. & Co. beg to tender th.ir sincere thanks to heir many friends, and the general public, for their liberal patronage, and feel assured that nothing will be wanting on their part to insure a continuance of hat support so liberally bestowed On them since opening. (; , DB, eSS GOODS. Tho immense ohoice of Fancy Dresses, compriein;; all the Latest Novelties in fabriefe-for Ladies' Co stumes and Walking Dresses, render it next to im ■posrible to supply!a complete list of the Stock now on view. Ladies will find in this Department a selection of Goods unsurpassed as regards Variety of Material, and Colouring. A PERFECT GIFT. 1000 yardsof» Spring and Summer Dress Materials bought a job, and must be cleared, - - t from 4id. ALI^REMNANTs'uNDER COST. A Large Stock of Summer Skirtings, in plain, checked and striped Unions.; FANCY DEPARTMENT. The Fancy Department comprises every novelty in Ladies' Hosiery, Gloves, Ribbons, Ties, Umbrellas, Fancy Goods, .Haberdashery, &c, Ac. •SHOWROOM. The attention of Ladies is particularly directed to the extensive choice in the Millinery Department, including- a selection of the very latest introductions of English and French Millinery. The Stock of Underclothing is also very Jarge, complete, and,well assorted, and Ladles can be supplied with every requisite article.- DRESS AND MANTLE MAKING. . Dresses Made on the Premises, f . . Costumes and Dresses made in 24 hours'ncti.p. Mourning Orders promptly executed. You can rely on a Good Fitting Dress, Fasbiorab y mad^, and at half the usual Auckland i r.ce. A large Stock of Dresses and Costumes X; ' . 'always on hand and made ..■.'■-■ d. ! ;.; .to order. ii*»i_.,/' t&~> Price List to be had on application. . 1 A, LINABURY & CO., 1



imURNITURE ARCADE. m CARPETS ! FOR THE PEOPLE ! „, CITY HALL ARCADE! ear FURNITURE ! FOR THE PEOPLE! CITY HALL ARCADE! SS- BEDDING! FOR THE PEOPLE! CITY HALL ARCADE ! SST FLOOR CLOTHS ! FOR THE PEOPLE! CITY HALL ARCADE! SST DRESS GOODS ! FOR THE PEOPLE ! CITY HALL ARCADE! m- MILLINERY! FOR THE PEOPLE ! CITY HALL ARCADE! SST MEN'S CLOTHING ! FOR THE PEOPLE! CITY HALL ARCADE! ear BOYS' CLOTHING! FOR THE PEOPLE ! | CITY HALL ARCADE ! Grandest Display of Goods, and Greatest Variety, at the ffCITY II AL L TEJI DRAPERY AND FURNITURE ARCADE. HOLLOWAY & GARLICK, CABINETMAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS' DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS. &c. R. Cranwell, Manager of Furniture Department. * ALL PERSONS indebted to the Estates of R. W. Dyson and James Ford, arc re quested to par the same to mo within six days. —F. G. EWINGTON. T7l O R «• A L E. TO ARRIVE, Ex Roderick Dhu: 97 BLOCKS (2,058 feet) OAMARU STONE. G. W. BINNEY. Something to please the eye.—ln travers ing our streets we are often tempted to^ look at the different novelties to bo seen in shop win dows. At present there is to be seen in Sho t and-stroot some of tho richest patterns of Brus sels carpet over exhibited in Auckland —at Winks and Hall's, noted for their tasto in select ing the best aud newest designs in furniture, car pets, &c. That firm has received per Sam Mendel a second shipment of the Bygonia pat-tern in black and drab ground Brussels, that attracted so much attention somo months ago. Those carpets have only lo be seen to bo appre ciated, and the prices arc reduced, so that the cost is no more that the ordinary Brussels. They have also received per Crownthorpe and Sam Mendel a choice assortment of lace, muslin, and net curtains, and tabic covers; walnut and rose wood drawing-room suites, oak and mahogany dining-room suites, mahogany bed-room suites, unsurpassed in New Zealand for quality and cheapness. Just landed per above vessels a _fcirther supply of Linoleum (the new cork-car pel), and floorcloths all widths. Per Invcrallen, a large assortment of gilt chimney glasses and gerandoleg, very handsome articles; brass window poles and cornices, all the newest pat terns: wool hearth rugs and door mats. The above goods arc now on view; and parties about to furnish would do well to inspect them previous to purchasing; as the stocks are large, they will have an opportunity of making a good selection. Publicans and storekeepers supplied with American chairs wholesale by tho case.—Winks and Hall, Wholesale'and Retail Cabinetmakers, Upholsterers, and Carpet Warehousemen. With a Loaded Pistol a'ivyour Head would you trifle with a footpad. WJi_*i then trifle with disease, which is often as mucltfo be dreaded as the ruffian who demands " your money or your life"' with his finger on the trigger. Recollect that a cough is the harbinger of consumption, that a trifling kidney disorder may develop into Bright's Disease, both considered incurable mala dies. Apply the remedy while it is yet time, and remember that Udoi.piio Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps is the best preventive. Mam Twain on Bad Musicians. — The musical public and general readers are cautioned not to purchase Weston's Wizard Oil and Magic Pills without carefully examining the outside wrapper—and bo sure that the words " None Genuine without the Signature of the Proprietor, Frank Weston, Sydney, N.5.W.," are engraven thereon. Any other so-called preparations oi" mine, are unauthorized by me, and calculated to mislead the ' public—Signed, Frank Weston. Sole Agents: Kcmpthome, Prosser and Co.— Price, Half-a-crown. The Medical Profession have declared Steane's Superlative Aromatic Tonic Wine to be a necessity to all in search of health, and especially to those suffering either from Incipient or Chronic Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and the dis orders arising therefrom. This Tonic is also particularly recommended to all who are in a measure compelled from the nature of their occupation to take stimulants, and at the same time are desirous of studying health by taking that which will act most beneficially on the system. Mr. Wm. Johnson, Government Analy tical Chemist, report: — "I have examined Steane's Superlative Aromatic Tonic Wine, and find it to be remarkably pleasant in flavour, con taining about 16 per cent, of a very pure alcohol, and holding in solution a clear wholesome, Vegetable Bitter, combined with a fruity spicy aroma. I consider this Bitter a very superior article."—Sold by all Storekeepers and Hotel keepers.