SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

. , ARRIVALS. Ardvar, gflStong, J»rr>es Burr>s. from Glasgow Qn»en of tne fcsca, 322 tons, Robinson, from Hobart ■lowa

DEPARTURES.

erftDK Gny, schooner, for HokUnga

IMPORTS.

»imh Sf tl lo Sea from Rrjb«* Town : 18,000 ft ttobsr, 25,000 palm,,,, i O h p<> na cart 9hftft3 75 bags T>ark h 8 Me.«e-s and Co; 6 0 cases jam, order.- HS M>yers, ag«t ts Per G'«,lora barque. 'Torn London: 15 packages and sampl a T art - Mw',l, Per ATrtvar m ton., f,. om r,i, fgw : Plata cottons, colon™, do. t'J»i.. prin -ed do, £38; wool Una «|Me,£IO9; coitor j4!llid wool . ng . £617 ; muslins, #,Zn.u V -<tfs; h Mcry, £256; sewing thread, tl '. haDerd ..sherv £lfil9 ; cotton and linen shiits, **>< , apparel, £1.64; blankets. £356 ; rails and general r jachinerYj £7zlz . hoO^s> ; pap er, SI "™ ' ST-AtiOD«ry, £317 ; upholstery, £14 ; printing ™ale vials, £316; agricultural and garden seeds. £711; cw/ pipes, £31; hardware, cutlery. &c, £847; bar *^d r^d iron, 23 tons ; plate iron, 80 tons; linseed Oil, 165 gallons; rap- oil, 400 gallons ; turpentine, <30g*lloris; puint colours, £239; ba-r-jU of pitch. 6; 'china, *c ,£7 ; bran and floor bags, £173; brandy Tin balk, 26 gallons; British spir ts in bulk. 1101 calls; lin case, 7il gills ; beer in glass, 95 barrels ; salt fish, ■£71: oilmen's stores, £79; soda crystals, 4 tons.— Total value, £22,900 Per (ileulor*, from London:—100 boxes Price's cardies, 20 cases milk, 20 casks currants, 20 do OR sugar, 25 quarter-casks vinegar, 25 cases currants, 25 boxes pipes, 25 cases •> arrrulade, Barnett and Levy Per «rdvar from London :—3O casks white clover. 15 casks red clover, 20 c»sks cow gras», 10 ca-ks, alsyke, 1 cask trefoil, 1 cask lucerne, 2 casks rape seed 2 casks poa pratensis, 44 stoves, 2 bundles stoves, 7 bundles castings, 6 cases, 6 casks hardware, 3 cas-s augurs, 6 cas-s tools, 2S jk«s.. being 3 boilers, 340 furnace bars, 22 cases ironwork tor the waterworks, 2466 watei pipes, 20 iron castings, 6 Dkgs , 4 crates, 2 cases, 41 iron columns, 51 plates, 697 bars iron, T. and S. Morrln.

Per Ardvar from Glasgow: 20 casks, 26 boxes— Henderson and Micfarlane.

2 boxes - W, C, Wilson. 3 cases drapery, 300 cases spirits—Owen ana Graham.

Tha barque freetrader arrived at Hobart Town from Geelong on the Ist of February. She reported that an ordinary seaman named Edward Thompson, aged 18 years, had fallen from the upper reaintopsail-yard whilst maki'* sail abrut midnight. When taken up from ih^ rts(^ the unfortunate youth was bleeding from '_' ne ntfee, and ears, and was quite dead. F,, ff * is a na t,;yg of Tasmania.

The barque Queen ofthe Sep^ Captain Hen*? Robln- Bon, arrived from Hob.rt . fWa tMg mo j. nine with a ger,er»l cargo, atitj Messrs James Hamn.eth, and Mrs BaWnftton a% passenger^. The captain reoons : —\\ n . Hoßar .<i Town on T\ie«(lav, Febrnary 3, with Jr rf™ ' tr' ok °'aT fl'Parture from Cape Pillar on tne. >i', had light northetly and nor'-we t Winds un',,l the 11th. » hen it blew hard fr^m the north-east, ">ero fifty miles from Cape Maria Tan Dieman; "passed North Cape on 13ih at 9 am in company wilh fM iron barque Ardvar; hai head wirdi, light airs, and calms until arriv.T; anchored off t ue wharf at 7amth s day. We have to thank Captain Robinson for files to (he 3rd instant.

The Captain of tlie Queen of ttie Sea repnrts passing a brig<wtine about fifty miles S and W of Cape Maria \an Dicraan m Friday 3aal. She w.s apparently bound for Auckland

The Carnatic has been laid ofi by the New Zealand Shipping Comuany as their lest London ship She Bias a large portion (f cargo alr-ady engaged anu i* likely to bo rea-y to sail before the end of April. The Carnitic is a toe composite vessel (a styles of tmild which is at present in great favour) and has •delivered lur cargo in excellent condition. H>r pas senger actoftmodaition is of a superior description, and she has quarters for cabin, aeeond-class, and steerage passengers

This morning Mr T, Kiccol launched » smMl screw steamer at his yard, at the North Shore, fhewiil measure about 30 tons, and has brcn built for the owners of the Bowena who inteii^ to use her in the Taaranga and Opotiki trade as a connecsing boat with the Kowen*.

The schooner Agnes Bonal<l hus arrived at Gisbornn

The scho ncr Mary Melville may be exoented hourly from TVnjn.., BS fh» was to leave about three day3.after the yae>at Peerless. The schooner 'f ra nk Gny started this afternoon on hervoya»eto Bofcianga. After loading there with timber she "proceeds to Jydney.

COMMERCIAL,

Latjnotstok —The Chronicle of February 2 says: —"Buiiness in the gr-in market remains dull "Wheat, for which 5s was offered and refused some months ago, is beiDg stored In the hope of the price miner. Flour remiins at £10 10s per ton ; wheat. 4s 3d to 4j <8d per bu-hel; oats are also dull nt 2s 3rt to 2- 4d per -i^toyTeffiatttfSm^Motf ?!!?„ 0 f i j it d.scolotued. is rowing in at £2 10s to £2 liTper ton ; potted butter Is offering at lOd per lb. lor prime parcels.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND

MAXLS WIM, ULOSK AS FOLLOWS : — -For Thames to-morrow at 930 am and 5 30 pm, and to-morrow at 3 30 p m For Wbitiangij per Ocean, this day, at 4 30 p m For Waiwera, Mahurangi Matakana, etc, per Annie Milbank, to-morrow, at 10 am For Australian Colonies, per Hero, to-morrow, at 1 P m For Money Orders, Registered Letters and News papers, at noon Latn letters for Sydney and Melbourne v. ill be received all 1 20 p m For Hobart Town, per Bella Mary, to-morrow, at 3 p m For T*urapga, per Vincent, to-morrow, at 4 p m For Whitianga, Tairua, Tauranga. and Opotikl, per Kowena, on Friday next, at 4 p m For Taranaki and Southern provinces, and Aus tralian Colonies, per Wellington, on Saturday next, at 1.15 pm (Signed) 8. B. BISS, Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

OAKEY-On February 13, at Cook-street, the wife of

Captaia J. Carey of a daughter. TUCKER—On the 14th February, at her residence James-street, Newton, the wife of W. H. Tucker of a son.

DEATH.

SYMS—On the 15th instant, at her parents'residence, Wakefield-street. Mary Jane Eliza, the youngest daughter of H. J. and M. Sjms, aged 6 years and 10 months.

The funeral will take place at 2 30 p m. to-morrow. Frierds are invited to attend. A special invitation is given to the Edwarde-street Pabbath School, and the members of the I.O.O.)?., M..TJ.

BROWN—On the 15th February, 1876, at Hobson street, Ernest Brown, the adopted son of Mr. Haman Brown, aged 3J years.

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

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1870

For the caj^ s t }, at i AC^s a ss ; s tance, ¥,Qr the future in the distance, And the food that we cah uo.

To-moebow morning the citizens of Auck land will bo called on to do honor to the representative of her Majesty, and, as loyal subjects, we trust the reception will he such as will manifest the affectionate loyalty existing in every true Briton's heart towards the beat Queen that ever sat on a throne. Saying so much, we must be pardoned for saying a little more. The demonstration of to-morrow is intended to be a semi-political one, and, as such, a counter-blast to the re ception given to Sir George Grey. To this end every effort has been bent to ati extent never before attempted for working up a demon stration for the reception of a Governor. Official springs have been set in motion, and flunkeydom is being moved to its lowest depths. Be it known, aiso, that Dr Pollen comes the "Minister ia attendance" on his Excellency, and no doubt it is his object under the wing of hi 3 Excellency, to be shel tered from overt acts of popular displeasure, and to make a kind of public entry intj Auckland amid the plaudits of citizens, in which he will appear as having a personal share. We do not say that the Minister should be pelted with rotten eggs or put under a pump, although we believe in popu lar estimation he deserves both the one and the other at the hands of the people of Auckland. But we do assert that sbme meaT" 1 should •»» *«J»on to dissociate him, if he is- present, from the res pectful reception which will be accorded to the representative of royalty. It is a pity that his Excellency has allowed himself in this way to be placed in the position of protector to an obnoxious Minister. It is not the first time the Marquess of Normanby has suffered hfrnself to be placed in a false position by Ministers, and he should not complain if to some extent the odium caused by their insolence reflects on himself. We are not in a position to say for instance whether his Excellency is cognisant of the insult given to his Honor the Superintendent of this province in the circumstance of his being overlooked, while all others occupying any leading position have been commuicated with in 'relation to the reception of the Governor. If this insult ha 3 been with the knowledge and approval of the Governor, we candidly tell him he will find Auckland an infernally hot place to live in. If it has not been—and we believe his Excellency has too much sense to make himself a party man in this fashion—then it would be wise that there should be some official repudiation of the impertinence. We assume, as we believe, that hia Excellency is entirely innocent of this insult to the people of Auckland in the person of their Chief Magistrate, and, there fore, we trust that there will be nothing but what is respectful towards himself to morrow, and, subsequently. Dr. Pollen, a man who holds his position of Minister, in violation of all the prin ciples of popular institutions and of representative and responsible Government is no doubt at the bottom of it: and the people are perfectly justified if they please in marking their displeasure. If with a serenade of kerosine tins, or with a band of tin whistles playing the " Eogue's March," the people thought of amusing themselves to morrow morning, there is not the least danger of the demonstration being misunder stood. His Excellency could be assured by ' 'three cheers for the Governor"of the unabated loyalty, etc., etc., and he could be formally in formed that the special mark of favour was intended for the " Minister in attendance " whose bland expression and serene and unctuous smile of satisfaction <Jould not fail to express his appreciation of the honor. Trade and commerce being very dull just now in Auckland, we cannot ;but rejoice at the return and sojourn of vice-royalty. The money which such an event puts in circula tion among tradesmen and shopkeepers is not to be despised, and ranks among the chief— if it is not the chief —benefits conferred by vice-royalty on the colonies. And we shall,. therefore, be very sorry if anything may have occurred to incite a spirit cf alienation on the part of the people which would beyond question make the Governor's residence here unpleasant to him, and inevitably hasten his departure. For we venture to say that not even the snbserviency of the flunkeys to whom Government House society is like admission to the Upper Sanctuary, would baa substitute to the Governor for the con fidence and kindly sympathieß of the people. However, we have no doubt that a day or two will show that his Excellency had no part in the insult given to Sir George Grey, nor should it, in the meantime, do anything to suppress the manifestation of loyalty to the Queen, So let the Cross to-morrow usher in the dawn with a hysterical scream of loyalty, and summon the gathering : bat we

do trust that no attempt will be made to ape the spontaneous and triumphant ovation accorded to Sir George Grey, or to place the one in any form in contrast with the other. If the people will not assemble spontaneously let them appfeif officially and by deputy. htit the City Council represent the citizens, and let the Mayor apeak for us. If there is not a mace let him wear his hat as an emblem of authority. The mandarin authority is represented by an umbrella, and the peace j officer dons his chapeau in token of Vested power. Left the Mayor wear his hat. It will have an imposing effect that cannot fail to assure the Governor of the importance of this entrepot of the Pacific trades in fact this Corinth of the South, tadeed should other duties interfere to prevent the attendance of the City Council, ife might suffice to send this emblem of authority, in contemplation of which His Excellency could not avoid being inspired with the appropriate emotions on entering the City of Auckland. Let all other constituted authorities be represented by their chief officers, and let the polica and volunteers parade and provide the escort. And should any of the people go, we tiust that they wi.U not forget—the (t MinisiJflh attendance."

The Opposition in the New South. Wales legislature contemplate^ so writea oUr Sydney correspondent* the creation of a " Stonewall Opposition" rather than vote £750, expenses incurred by the Colonial Treasurer in a visit to England, where he ha.g assumed the Agent- Generalship, What »trifle to make such a faaa about, while young ISfew Zealand has, without a murmur, honoured drafts for £6,000 and £3,500 ia favour of its wandering Premier. "Stonewall Oppositions,I'appear to be the rage ia the colonies just now. Pablic business in Victoria has been blockaded by- one for several weeks, and the Government, unable to obtain an imprest supply, has no means of defraying the ordinary expenses of Government. Nor is the war carried on with the good humour that characterised the Opposition tactics in relation to aboli tion during last session of the New Zealand Parliament. Disgraceful scenes between members of the legislature, resulting in one or two instances in blows, aro of nightly occurrence, and at date of latest advices there was no prospect of settlement. The question at issue between the parties is one of very much less moment than that which justified Sir George Grey in pursuing a similar course. There is no desire on the part of the Victorian Cabinet to introduce constitutional changes or forcibly place th c people under a form of Government differing from that conferred upon them by the Imperial Parliament. The battle is purely one of " ins and outs " although nominally waged upon the question of a land tax. The members of the Opposition declare that the feeling of the country is in favour of a re-adjustment of public burdens, and demand that the correctness of their conclu sions shall be put to the teat by a dissolution. A. majority in the Assembly, however, emphatically *afnao ho W> thus summarily sent before their constituents, and the fact that the term for which members are elected does not expire for another eighteen months, affords them and the Government much better grounds of refnsal than those possessed by the Ministry of New Zealand when dealing with important constitutional questions in the last days of an expiring parliament. What the end of it all will be no one in Vic toria seems to know, but the spectacle of a legislature representing the wisdom and in telligence of an important community, en gaged in a wordy war, with no object in view except the dissipation of time, is by no means edifying, and is only justifiable in circum stances of extreme necessity, such as do not appear in connection with the present Vic fcorian dead-lock.

ThE Cross returns to the charge to-day, and quotes the Thames Advertiser in support of ita view,' that the shipment of unemployed rnea South is imperative. What the Adver tiser states is preciaely what we have pointed out repeatedly, that keen distress exists on the goldfields, and that private enterprise there is unable to afford employment for the present population. Thanks to the narrow policy which closed the Waiho-Karaka mines this is true ; but is the Government, there fore, justified in removing the men from the province for the purpose of employing them on public works in Wellington, while im portant works are required-in this part of the colony ? Weliave the word of Ministers— honorable gentlemen all—that the com mencement of the Kaipara railway was only delayed because of the scarcity of labour in the province, and now when a cry for work has arisen we are told that it.is necessary to take the unemployed away to Wellington, where public works are being pushed forward. But lor the stoppage of provincial revenue to meet deficiencies caused by General Govern ment mismanagement, the Provincial Go vernment would have experienced no diffi culty in tiding over the present temporary depression. With reasonable assistance from the Government, the igen would gradually have become absorbed in various parts of the province, and the skilled labour which the Government threaten to deport thus be saved to .develope our mining industry in future years. We repeat that, if the Gene ral Government did its duty, there would be no necessity whatever for the removal of one industrious man from the province.

At the instance of the Central Board of Health an information has been to-day laid against Mr Allender of the Soap and Candle works, Parnell, by Mr Kinsella, the district Inspector of Nuisances for a breach of the Municipal Police Act in allowing the render ing of fat to ba carried on on his premises to the annoyance of his neighbours. Mr W. L. E,ees has been engaged for the prosecution.

A new phase of mischief has recently been started by the idle larrikins of Auckland, which if possible should be stopped, namely that of interrupting entertainments by cast ing stones and other missiles through the windows. Not only has Wellesley-sfcreet been infested by these sneaks, but All Saints school room is subjected to the came kind of rascality, and the other evening while the vice-chairman of the Ponsonby Literary Society was delivering his inaugural address a large onion and a shower of scoria passed through the windows and did considerable damage. Several of the more active members rushed out after the miscreants and followed them pretty closely, until they turned into the titree and gullies by Freeman's Bay. Precautionary measures will be taken on next meeting night, by which means we believe the larrikins will be netted and handed over to the police.

Sir George Grey, KC.B., will deliver his lecture on " Tbe Australian Colonies and New Zealand " on Friday evening in the Choral Hall.

'" An Aucklander who was victimised by the sparks from the funnel of the* Alert on the Waikato river, has requested us to"'caution travellers against going Up on the days when that steamer is running owing'to' the cer tainty bf shffeiihjj rtaiiiiigfe io felething hdm spikks. We observe, however, from the lust issue of the W'aUcato Times that a wire netring similar to that on the funnel of the steamer Waikato is being fitted on the Alert, so that much of the danger will be averted.

A race*is to come oft' to-morrow afternoon between Auckland Rowing Club . orews, starting from the wharf, round tI.M. R.en ■ird, thence round the hulk to tho westward of ihe whaif, and back to the wharf. The prize ia a eet of cups, presented by l*srs Wor ship the Mayor. Four Brews have entered. The match will be rowed in heats with the Colonist and Manukau Maid. First heat, to-morrow; second heat, on Friday; and one heat on Saturday^rjpSj^Tpiidav. Talk about women having novoitSe in poli tics. There was ".Fanny Lear," alias "The Phcenix,' alias MiSs Blackford, the beautiful but bad daughter of th^\.merican>clergyman whoiwent to Ruasia, tifrned the head of the nobility, and became the mistresfl of the nephew of the &,%n Having liad a quarrel with her imperial lover she comes to Paris and published his love letters to her, in one of which he speaks of the Suez; "the road which our soldiers will some day follow to take India from the English." All Europe reads Miss Btae<?ford's book, and among the rest Mr Disraeli, Premier of tfre&t Britain. Ho reads the above Befrfcence of the Russian Prince:, works one eye, says '' aha" and straightway sends a man down to buy Egypt's canal shores from the Khedive. Russia is forestalled, France furious, England jubilant, all on account of the beautiful American and her book. Is there a moral in all this or not ?— Cleveland Leader1.

The Ardvar brings a large consignment of fine Liucoln sheep for Mr Thomas Russell. Ninety-six were put on board, and eighty nine ha.ye arrived safely. They have been selected from the Jjocka of Messrs Kirkham Dadding, Needham and Gueat. Ttie sheep are divided as follows i G rams, 5 lambs, and the resG ewes. Duiing tho heavy weather in the Channel they were fearfully knocked about, and it was then that ihe deaths occurred. They come in charge of Mr G. J. Mackinder who desires through us to acknowledge his indebtedness to Captain Burns for his assistance in looking after his charges. A large number of the sheep were ab first placed in a large pen secured by lash ings onto the top of tho main hutch. In a gale which was encountered shortly after the vessel left port, this was carried away to leaward and its occupants were in imminent danger. They were secured however after much labour and stowed elaewhere. Fivo or six died subsequently from the injuries rn ceived on this occasion, among them unfortu nately, the finest ram of the lot. The sheep may, in our opinion, be described as the (inetst consignments of Lincolns which has ever reached New Zealand. The rams are of an enormous size and of great symmetry of frame. Air Mackinder, who bas a lad from Lincolnshire as his assistant, may be con gratulated upon the conditions in which the animals are delivered. During the voy age they were fed upon patent compressed fodder. During the hot weather in the tropics the vessel came in for three days pouring rain which yielded a most useful extra supply of water, all the empty tankß being filled. No doubt this has something to do with the healthy and clean state in which the sheep arrive. The barque Glenlora whose arrival we rioted last uitjkt also brings a splendid lot of Lincoln sheep who have arrived in excellent condition. Out of 72 shipped 70 have arrived alive and well. The lod is almost equally divided between cw«s and rams. They have been imported by Mr. Melville Smith who accom panies them and Mr. Joseph May. Mr Smith it will be recollected came out with a former cousignmont in the Warwick, about a year and .1 half ago. It spe.-ika volumes for this gentleman's carts and ability that he has now brought two magnificent consignments of sheep to our shores so successfully.

A correspondent writes from the coal mines, Waikato : Sir, —Would you kindly inform me through the columns of your paper if the race horse Eclipse was ever beaten in a hack race,—Yours, &c.,. Enquirer. P.S. —This is to decide a bet. [Kelipse ran second to Bismarck in January. 1.874. They were afterwards both disqualified for being trained horses, and the race awarded to Cockey.—Ed. M.S.]

The rota of attendance at the Petty Sessions to be holden on Tuesday next in High-street Court-house includes Messrs. W. A. Graham, T. M. Haultain, D. Hean, Gustav Yon der Heyde, J H. Home, Wil liam John Hurst, E. Isaacs, H. M. Jervis, T. B. Kenderdine, W. H. Kenny, G. S. Kissling, and D. M. Luckie, Robert Graham, Chairman.

Padre Palacois, tho priest who was the cause of the outrages, murders and in cendiarism at San Migue], in Salvador, has been condemned to death by a military tribunal.

A ghastly discovery of 4,000 to 5,000 skulls is thus described in a Panama telegram to hand by the San Francisco mail: " Repairs to an old San Andreas hospital being necessary, one wall of the Chinese ward was thrown down, when the laborers found the wall was hollow and filled with human remains. The laborers then worked with zeal until between four and five thousand skeletons were discovered. San Andreas hospital was built in 1557 under the protection of the Marquis of Cautle, Don Andreas Huotado, and by the advice of a Spanish priest named Molina. Since then to the present time it has been employed for charitable and humane purposes for which it was constructed. How the skeletons came where they were found is not known to any one, but the South Pacific Times says the impression generally prevails that these bones belong to the victims of the Inquisition. They appear to be from 150 to 200 yoars old, and, from their appearance, lead to the belief that the bodies were thrown into the opening between the walls, as the skeletons appear to be clothed and dressed. Boots and shoes are found, mixed with large quantities of women's hair. A portion of a Spanish missal has also been found, but nothing of any value.

Mr Pringle, late purser of the s.s. Mac gregor, and well-known in the New Zealand steam trade, has joined the Eastern Com pany which is carrying on the trade between Queensland, Singapore, and China.

We learn that his Worship the Mayor has received £5 from Mr Christopher Greenaway 1 for distribution amongst those who assisted in saving the building occupied by Mr Schmidt, lithographer, at the Vulcan Lane fire. Application by those having a claim on the amount must be made to Mr Tonks. An American lawyer inf a recent trial broke forth into the following eloquent peroria tioD : " May it please your honor, this is a stu pendous question. Its decision by you, this day, will live in judicial history long after you and I shall have passed from this scene ofearthly glory and subiunary vanity ; when the tower of Pisa shall be forgotten ; when Waterloo and Boridino shall grow dim in the distant eyeless of receding centuries : when the names of Eugene, Marlborough and Napoleon are no longer remembered j when the pyramids of the Pharaohs shall have crumbled into dust, when the hippopotamus shall cease to inhabit its native Nile ; when our pwn rock-ribbed territory shall no more grow three-hundred "pound squashes ; even then your ruling upon this demurrer wiH still survive in the antique volumes of legal lore as fresh, green and imperishable as a Big Thompson grass-hopper or a Colorado potato bug." f; The rehearsal last evening by the Choral Society under direction of|Mr Edger was very satisfactory. ; ......... . I

We learn that Mrs Walter Hill, who long held a position on the Auckland stage as'^an accomplished actress, is about to resume her ! histrionic labours irUhis city under the lessee ship df Mr DeLias. The London World, pives ah Interesting sketch of the work of BarOn^S Bfcrdetfc Couits in behalf of humanity and moraitj. rJThe fnereetic munificence of this lady has built churches ai,cl schools in desolate dis tricts in London and in the provinces. &ne has planted the Church of England itself in several of our colc-Difcs, by. endowing bishop prics in .Australia* in the Cape of Good Hope and British Columbia at an aggregate Cost that might have purchased a principality 01 broad acres for her own enjoyment. A Society ftr impi oting the condition of the aborigines was also instituted at her sugge stion and by her aid. Her interest m every effort to promote religious knowledge has never slumbered. She provided funds tor ?ir Henry James' topographical survey 01 Jerusalem, and she employed agents to ob tain ancient manuscripts from the East for the verification of Scripture. Mi1 W. H. Skinner, who was burned, out in Vulcan Lane, has re-commenced business at Mr Leahy's former premises, West Queen street.

Sydney.

[FROM OXJtt OWN CORRESPONDENT \

OUR TREASUHER.—SACRIFICING RELATIVES.

The Opposition threaten to build up a "stone wall" similar to that thrown across the rond of public business in Victoria. The cause for their promised contnmsicy is tho demand by tho government of £72G for the expenses of Mr William Fo rater, the Treasurer, to Kngland. This " true patriot" was about four months getting home; took all his family, never communicated with his col leagues, and, on arriving in Eng!and,accepted the Agent-Generalship. People here are continually prating about his honesty and incorruptibility, but allow that be is crochotty. For my part I think he is idiotic in his peevish, netful impracticability, and as for his honesty the plainest proof of it is his grabbing the first office ever offered to him. In addition to this, Mr Forster is re pulsive in his personal appearance, boorish in his manners, slovenly in his dress, and has the reputation of beine; unco fond of P B And this is tho man who is to represent New South Wales in London ! The whole thing was a " plant." Sir Charles Cowper was dying-tho Ministry (all but Mr Forster) were sick of Mr Forster, who wanted to bring in an Education Bill and might upset the Government boat at any moment. 80 it was made up. Mr Forster sold everything he could sell, and never intended to come back, and it win fully understood that he was to be Agent-General, and that the Go vernment were to deny it to tha last. On Friday Mr Robinson made the announcement that ho had accepted the office, and was in such indecorous haste to buy another sup porter with the Treasurership,that he moved that Air Forster's seat be declared vacant. The decent members of the Assembly ob jected to this, but the Ministry have bought 'the bulk of the body, and the motion was carried. The herald says the declaration was invalid made, as it was in a ! telegram; everybody knew that a vague message of three words, ''Accept Agent- Generalship," was not a formal or constitu tional resignation of a solemn trust placed in a man by some thousands of people, but tho Assembly is corrupt to the core. There is scarely a member who has not received the price of a vote from the Ministry. There have been appointments and promotions by the hundred. It is proposed to increase our annual expenditure by over a million. All t-he Ministry have put their sons into office. Lockey (of the Works) took hia son, who failed to pass the simple farcial Civil Service examination, and was plucked five times, from being a supernumery in the Post-office, and promoted him over the heads of a score of old Civil Servants, to an office in his own department worth £800, that he can never fulfil satisfactorily. The same noble patriot sacrificed three of his wife's sons by a former marriage (he did well in the marriage business) upon the altar of public duty by making them station-masters. Lucas (of the Mines) made four changes so as to get his hopeful son promoted to a chief clerkship in the Water Police Court. Burns (of the Post) has a son 19 years of age, who can scarce tell a hawk from a handsaw, who is to 1 be chief clerk in the Law Department. I Garrett's (Lands) son is promoted in the Lands Department. Jock Robertson's (Col. Sec ) relatives already draw £3,540 a year from the public revenue, and he is providing for a few more. In fact the corruption is so open that the following motion is on the Parliamentary business paper for to-night: — Mr M'Elhone to move, —That an address be prespnted to the Governor, praying that his Excellency will be pleased to cause to be laid upon the table of this House, —1. A return showing the appointments and promotions and the dates thereof, made by each Minister since the present Government came into office, whether by the Executive Council or otherwise, with the office to be filled, and the salary in each case. 2. The names of the relatives of each member of the present Ministry now in the Government service, their relationship to such Minister, the dates of their appointments and promotions, if any. 3. The like returns as No 2, with reference to each member of the present Parliament. In addition to this the Go vernment propose to raise the salaries of all the Under-Secretaries, though they will not put a penny on to those of the poor Civil Servants who were docked when the Martin Ministry went in for retrenchment. The railway policy of the Government is bound to be negatived in spite of their purchase of votes, but the " patriots" are not likely to turn them out of office, because Parkes, who must succeed them, is, compared to the present Premier and his crew, a model of economy and rectitude. The only thing the Government have done is to pass an Amending Land Act, that has virtually stopped free selection —and the Agreements Solidating Bill, which wasframed so as to decoy laborers away from the other colonies. The Council refused to sanction the Gold Duty Abolition Bill. HORRIBLE CRUELTY IN" THE DESTI TUTE CHIIDRENS' ASYLUM. A frightful disclosure, respecting the management of the Kandwick Institution for Destitute Children has been made/ Some children ran away, and got to people who took them to a magistrate. He examined them, *vith a doctor, and found they had been inhumanly beaten. Other children left the Institution at night, and more disclo sures were made. It was found that some brutes had amused themselves systematically with torturing helpless infants. Thirty-six boys and a number of girls bore marks of unmerciful beatings—bruised bodies, broken skin, festering sores, and the whole bear such evident signs of having been subject to tyranny and cruelty that is plain the place has been an infamous den of brutality. One man has bsen sentenced to four months for one offence, and is committed to take his trial upon another charge, and others are to be proceeded against. And all this time, the Superintendent, who, in my opinion, is re sponsible for all this wretched business, lives in his fine house, and draws his munificent salary, while busying himself with bringing charges against everybody but the one guilty party—himself. ACCIDENTS AND CRIME. We have had a great number of fatalities and casualties. Deaths by drowning, Bui cides, fatal fights, etc., and Melbourne has beaten us hollow, as usual.—A shark drag ged a man's leg off on the beach opposite Emerald Hill, on Sunday, and caused his death. The ferocious brute also attacked a

man on horseback who o&ne %^s rescue _ or attacked the horae rather.-Two men ar eied and masked, stuck up the bfaaol bank at Canondale on the Bogon, and made the manager delifer tip the keys of the sate, which contained about £2000. One of the donkeys has been captured, careening around the country ™th £640 in casb' °n bim; SJPOETING AND THEATRICAL. Mr Funon", ftbe well known publican, takes Home Trlckett, our champion seoller, to chal lenge the champion of England, were asked to subscribe the monejr, bnt they hesitated, when Jim stepped forward gud all plages (first class) by the out going Suei mail, and goes home to coach theAus trali.ns, who will, if things go ont fairly, bring us the belt to a certainty. Tnokett « time is the best and fastest ever done.— Little Nell, a Californian actress is doing a great business at the Victoria. -Lmgard ?pens with "Our Boys/ at the Royal on Saturday.

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ANCHOVIES AfIJD TOAST.

[From our London Correspondent.] London, December 16. THE CAUSE Of AJJj THE FLURRY. From files of New Zealand papei-a to hand during the past month I noticed that several of tho"se journals bad been a good deal exer cised by something or obher which appeared, in an English Provincial weekly paper yclept the Yorkshire Gazette. To the office of that very staid and auciently-eataKUaned journal I wrote and obtained a copy of the nnmft-er. con taining the article which excited the ire of your contemporaries. After reading it I could scarcely wonder at the anger displayed, more especially as it is impossible to deny that the article in question contains some statements of an unpleasant kind which it is impossible to deny or at least to refute. Still I thought the thing temperately written and void of any show of animils,and indeed why any such should exist in such a quarter is hard to tell. A friend of mine knows the editor of the Yorkshire Gazette, and tells me that he is a iolly old boy over sixty years of age, who has never been out of England in his life, and de votes all his spare time to conviviality, for which they have ever been most famous in Yorkshire, ''where indeed they are most potent in potting." lam by no means sure that I did not spot the old boy at the Pro vincial Newspaper Society's festival this year at the Alexandra Palace. I noticed an old cock with a most rubicund face, gills purple and red, nose inclined to blossom, and fair round belly, with fab capon lined, amongst the vice-presidents of the Society, and I'm pretty sure he's the man who has been rub bing up the New Zealand fur the wrong way. What a pity some of your wrathful contem poraries can't ask the jovial old Bacchanalian to dinner—the editor of the Marlborouc/h Express, for instance,'who thinks he ought to be " gibbetted" (whatever that is - some tihcg horrid I suppose) for I am certain they would come to excellent terms over a mag num of port, and I would back the York shi reman to put the Marlborough man under the table twice over and drink fair. POhTLY NEW ZEALAND ABSENTEES. I almost wonder that you stay-at-home New Zealand colonists do not raise the cry of absenteeism as they do in Ireland and clap a good round swingeing tax on all those un patriotic and wealthy folks who draw their revenues out of your hardly-won earnings and spend them in Kngiand. At the present time I cannot walk through the city without jostling some ponderous, portly, and por tentous-looking worthy—always when the weather will permit in a white waistcoat— who, I am fully aware, is receiving many hundreds a year from his properties in New Zealand, but who does not pay a single copper towards the revenue of that colony. Is this right ? The difficulcies in the way of imposing a property-tax in Kew Zealand are of course enormous, and, indeed, so long as that ridiculous monstrosity, the Legislative Council, remains in existence it will be next door to impossible to impose any tax of such a kind. But the injustice to those who reside in the colony is so obvious as scarcely to need demonstration. The Irish ciy out against absentee landlords because they spend their incomes elsewhere than on tbeir own estates, but then these absentees have to pay heavy taxes and rates, the latter for the relief of the poor of the land, whilst you have a double grievance, for you don't get the benefit either of expenditure or taxes. In many respects a skilled workman is better off here than with yon. Here he pays no taxes whatever, whilst in New Zealand everything he touches is taxed to death. , The rich pay an immense proportion of the ; taxes in this country, but the only class with ground for complaint are clerks and small professional men, who with a certain small income and an appearance to keep up, pay severe imposts from which the miner and the skilled mechanic with quite as good incomes, escape scot free. ' BISHOP JENNER IN A NEW CHARACTER. i Bishop Jenner, whose ritualistic proclivi • ties have been so conspicuous at both ends iof the world, has come out in a new ; character. Since his return from his i stubborn flock in Otago, he has done nothing particular save aid and abet all the objec i tionable clergymen he could smell' out in ' such strange practises as incense and candle burning, dancing, - skipping, and bowing i about in divers, coloured garments, and performing all kinds of crazy acts during Divine Service, which would almost justify ; the party in claiming Mother Girling and her Shakers as kindred souls. Probably Bishop Jenner thought that some day he 1 might head a new Church of Clerical Cos i tumiers. However that may be, His Lord i ship has come to the conclusion tint there is nothing like contract either in tL., colour of sacred robes of office or in phases of the clerical existence, so ho appears in the prospectus of the Percy and Kelly Nickel Cobalt and Chrome Iron Mining Company (Limited) as a full-blown Director. On the same board with him are a man with an "Honourable" tacked to his name, a gentleman with the very particular and precise address of " Ireland," and a coroner who sits upon dead Cornishmen. This re doubtable mine where all these wonderful things are to be grubbed up is situated in New Caledonia, of all good places, and the capital required to grub them up is £120,000. How much of this very moderate sum will fall into the Episcopal apron it is difficult to say, and the prospectus does not tell us whether or* not his Reverence is going to take himself, his ritualism, and his risk away to the coral reefs of Noumea. I don't think any one here will bewail his departure if he does, and from the broiling sun of the French convict colony he might occasionally take refuge in the sleety cold of Dunedin and review the scenes of his former squabbles. THE WHITECHAPEL MURDER. Since I last wrote the Wainwright murder trial has concluded, and Heury Wainwright has been found guilty of the murder of Harriet Lane, in a cellar, in the White chapel Road, in September, 1874 I need not recapitulate the nasty details of this case, more especially as I observe that Mr Kirby and Mrs Bain have afforded you ample scope tor that kind of writing, besides I think I gave a sketch of the whole thing last month. He is to be hanged on the 20 th of this month. His brother, Thomas Wainwright, has been found guilty of being an accessory, and is to have seven years penal servitude. It is odd how the general feeling of the public seema to be that there is. to a certain extent, a mis carriage of justice in this case, and I share in the general belief that Thomas ought to swing alongside of his brother. Some people think that Thomas was the actual murderer, some that he planned and contrived the,

thing. It is at any rate certain that some- * thing is still hid which would throw light: upon the case Neither brother has opened his lips on the subject, and Henry has shown, srtch immense nerve that it is unlikely ha , will say anything tintil the last moment. Henry 'Wainwright is a man of very .aw** > . ability. Since his conviction it has knill . spired that he was a regular lecturer for many years at the various literary institutes in the country. Even at the age of 17 he f received as much as £5 for each' lecture, t When he began business he was in partner- I ship with his brother William, and the two j men were worth £4000, and they were then drawing £400 a year each out of the business* j „ Then Henry took to women, and as a matter { of course the words of the " wise man" came | true, as it always does in such instances, for he ii't^an to draw at the rate of £1000 a year "* j Ma ln-otbei was obliged to withdraw frtwa So SStLsbi? to f oid ruin. Thencefor ™«J the hifltorV of Henry IS a hiatory r <* s Tal ThetSass Papers have of cTu se made a harvest) cut of the horror, and to t week a dramatist version of he Wainwright murder was announced for-the Theatre Royal, Sundetland. J-he Lord j Chamberlain however interfered, and this highly instructive drama waa nipped in the TERRIBLE DISASTERS BY SEA AND LAND. : The year fe closing with a fearful catalogue of disasters at sea and on land. We have had || an awful series of gales, and our shores have : been strewn thickly with wrecks And death has not been idle ashore either, but has Maimed iris holocausts. A few day* Rinee a '■ f rkhtful explosion took place m the Swaithe Sf£ Colliery near Barnsley in Yorkshire, S at least 150 unfortunate miners were ; Sited or received such injuries that they > wire brought up only to die Two or three Z3 rite? this, the Drutschland one of the ' Sao Lloyds line of ocean steamers from ; ■o tn for' Hew York, ran on to the Ken- »..; 2h Knnl S in a fog near the mouth of the Thames, and some fifty of her.passengers : \wLned The Eame week came to us t renews o" an awful explosion of dynamite ] ; ; ■ ration with another steamer of the m C.T ne the Mosel, last as she was leaving same line, the mos « - . of somet hi Dg Bremen, W™™*^? German Llodya' lin! like 100 people. Ttog The Schiller has beeu W unljokyjate^ was one of tl.eir J oa{J- fe the other-hand, •■ , fertile th."\ a^n ot been so frequent y railway accident h^ regßure broUg M ht to ; or E°, b !i Intirp oress & the country upon bear by the which has X with this.

PONSONBY RATE SUMMONSES.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sm-Mr Jenkins cannot yet, it appears, acknowledge that the payment of tiie ezpeiißW in my cass should by made out of his pocket Zdlnd not out of the district rates, and as a just settlement of this matter will prevent much unpleasant contention, at the next highway annual meeting, I consider it of SpoTtance that I should further helplnm to take a correct view of the case, and to make up his mind to pty what 11 wiH gener ally be concluded he and not the district Juiht to pay. Last year I paid the lighting rate on demand, and, after 1 had paid it, it was found that the rate was illegal, and so a large number of ratepayers did not pay. When Mr Jenkins called upon me this year I would not pay at once but said I would wait and when I saw. that I wouldnot be.in last year's case, I would pay at once. Mr Jenkins construed this into a ref nS al on my part to pay and had me summoned forthwith, con trary to anything I bad reason to expect, and "when a man summonses in this way ©a the behalf of others and is beaten ; be ougM to bear the expense himself. I paid my_rate after enquiry that satisfied me, I should not) by so doing, be placed as I was last year. Pive days after this I w a s summoned. # Mr Jenkins, according to his letter in last night s Star, thinks my money ought to have been refused, and that I ought to have been kept as a summons case. 1 do not see now thia could have been done ; at any rate it shows how harsh and uneuited to his ofhee Mr Jenkins is. He alsdvsays that my money was taken because in Ntbe Court they were not noticed to refuse it. Now if this omissioa by him of giving notice in his ofb.ee caused. his defeat in my case, he and not the board ought to pay the expenses., He says 1 took advantage of this omission. This is simply absurd, for how could I have known anything about it? Indeed, if Mr Jenkins seriously meant this I am afraid that no amount of clear reasoning on any subject could convince him After I paid, 5 days elapsed before Iwas summoned. If Mr. Jenkins had attended to his busineas, he would have known, during these 5 days, that I had paid, and he would have prevented the issue of a summons against me, and the consequent expenses; but he did not attend to bis business, and so1 these expenses were incurred, which man ifestly he, and not the District ought to pay. These reasons I have no doubt will convince the ratepayere of Ponsonby, if they do_ not cenvince Mr. Jenkins, that he and not they ought to pay the law expenses in my case.— I am, &c, John H. Field.

Arrival of the Ardvar.

The smart new barque A rdvar, Captain Burns, arrived from Glasgow early this morning, after a fine weather passage of 113 days. She comes consigned to the New Zea land Shipping Company, and brings a general cargo in addition to the greater part of the machinery for the Auckland Waterworks, and as fine a consignment of Lincoln sheep aa has ever arrived in the colony. The Captain reports that the vessel left Glasgow on th'J, 22nd October, and on the 24th had a saw from S.S.E., which increased on the 25th, causing the ship to labour heavily and ship large quantities of water. The wea ther was unsteady til] the 30th, when ; it became more serene. On the 3rd Novem ber in lat. 42° 54° N. and long, 15° 7° W. had several severe squalls. The vessel shipped a heavy sea, which washed the sheep pen oft . the main hatch and killed some of the sheep. On the 4th the weather became fine. No N.E. trades were met with. Sighted Cape St. Antonio (Cape de Verde), on the 21st ■ November. Had moderate weather to the Equator, which was crossed on Saturday, the 4th December. Had very light S.K trades, which were carried to 21 S. Had pleasant weather the remainder of the south ing. Crossed the meredian of the Cape of Good Hope lin lat. 34 S., on December^. Sighted Gough Island on thei 24th. £ an the easting on the parallel of 45 S. Baa strong westerly breezes during this part or the voyage, and at times the ship made very heavy weather. On the 28th December a very strong gale from W.S.W. was experienced, and the stunsail-boomS were carried away, and other damage done. Crossed the meredian of Tasmania on the 30bh January. Had light winds and calms thence to New Zealand. Sighted Cape Van Dieman on Sunday morning last. Down the coast pleasant weather, anchoring at seven o'clock on the 16th February, The Ardvar brings seven saloon passengers, who au .arrive in good health. Of ninety-six sheep eighty-nine arrive safely, the othar seven died from bruises received in tne bad weather at the beginning of the voyage. The Ardvar is a new vessel on her nrss voyage. She was built by Messrs ma can, Port Glasgow, and launched about ■. two months before leaving port. on" i« 858 tons register, and has the' Rowing dimensions :-Length, 197 ft ; breadth < beam, 33ft; depth of hold, 19ft- 6m. She i« built of iron, of first-class workmanehin and materials, and has her bottom cemented^ with Portland cement. <•: Her,ipwer ; mMg |^ bowsprit, lower yards, and lower, tops»u

THE IVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, FBBRUAEY l±J^



rrpNDEES FOR BOOTS. Town Clerk's Office, February 16, 1876. Tenders for Nineteen (19) Pairs of Boot 3 for Fire Brigade, to be made to measure in accordance with Pattern on view at this office,'will be received until Boon of MONDAY, 21et inst. P. A. PHILIPS, Town Clerk. "Jji LECTION OF A S S E S S 0B S. City Council Offices, Auckland, February 12,1876. In pursuance of the Municipal Corporations Act J867. »nd Ihn Amendment Acts thereof, I, Benjamin Tonks, Esqcf.e, Mayor and Returning Officer of tha City of - uckltnd, do hereb/ eive notice that an Election will ba held on WEDNESDAY, the lat day of March next, for the Eaturc of TWO Qualified Persons to act as ASSESSORS of the City of Auck land. Candidatel will require to be nominated before Ssturdiy, the 19.h 'nstant, and any person desirous Of nominating a Candidate shall deliver to ma at this office, before 4 p->m. on the day next preceding the Nomination Day, a nomination paper signed by not less thau three persons. duly qua!ißed to vote at tho said Klect'on, and also by the person named therein as a Candidate. Nomination Papers can be obtained on application to the Town Oleik. B. TOVKS, Mayor and Returning Officer. "OLECTION OF AUDITORS. ■I j '—•—■ City Council Offices, AuckUnd, Februsry'l2,lß76. In pursuance of the Municipal Corporations Aot, 1867, and the amendment Acts thereof, I, .Benjamin TONKB, E-qoibb, Mayor and R»turning Officer of tha City of «uckUnd, do hereby give notice that an Election will be hald on WEDNESDAY, the Ist diy of Mai oh -next, f.r the Eeturtf of TWO qualified persons to aot aa AUDITORS of the City of Auckland. Cindidatoa will require to be Nominated before Saturday, thf 19th ibStait, and any person desirous of nominating a (Jiiiididate shall deliver to me at his office, before 4p.m. on the d y nt-xi.precedl- g the ilNouiiaation Dvy, a Nomioatton P*per, signed by Dot less th*n three persons duly qualified to vote at the paid rlection, and abo by the peisoa n n.med theroin as a Candidate. Kumiuaiion papers can be obtained on application to the Town Clerk. B. TONES. Mayor and Returning officer. /k i TDarqxje 'ARDYAR/ fe^/J|v -"-* FROM/- 1" ' !• ' CSJSSISw Consignees ate lo.iuested to pass . *HSB*?SKiBS* c ltries and take delivery orders from the undersigned, for their goods, without delay. Cargo impeding tha discharge of the vessel will be landed and stored at consignees risk and expense ! A Hight Entry to clear the vessel will be passed at K o'clock pm, on FitIUAY, the 18th inst. JOHN BATGER, Agent K.Z. Shipping Co (Limited). Auckland, February 16,1876.



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