SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

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DHEPARTURE.

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IMPORTS.

Per Merwunjeo France from London-Si cases draper*. —T Me tf a«e >\ PerMrrwitj p Pramjse from Lonrton-2 bo'lers, -a fox, 7 cj'<,i, i'2s!eam bnpines) 10S9 -arh weights. l» ! g? njßchtnpry, 31 stores, 3 bi ndles itovtS, 8 Pgicnshifs, etbuarU 3 spade.-., 21 esses g*lv»n;se(3 i-o , 103 bu-idles tnreß, 7 tnbrp, 13 casks shot, 2 S lyka ccniio p t c, 7 sheets lerd 1 ca-e c ectro-i.Ute, ' ? gs r'<"iles, 4 c<sei mnchi-.er(\ 3 casks files, 3 , I l.* c • i cac"!< """'P'fS. 3c«ks tool", 1 cxan «iuninfi. 1 case screwing tackle, 1 case cartridges, 15 cams gunpowder. 8 oases chocolate-B. Porter and Per Merwang'e Frangee : 45 packages, Barnett and Per Mfirwa«ig e ei Framgee from London!: 40 cases sama oil. 30 caaaa fauce, 80 bores starch, 70 cases pickles. 20 do confectionery, 20 do bott'ei fruits, 25 <loi cornflour, 10 do mustards, 70 caska whiting, 50 do S aa. crystals, 90 packages currents. 100 oases lalsins, 10 qr-c*slts port and Mielry, 60 oises Geneva, 60 do o^a 3 ' Packß ßtt« sundries, O*en and Grahnm.. 200 c^ee i old t/Dm. 3000 do geneva, 175 do Hennes sey s hrindir, 6 i, rxe3 tin plateg j ca , B Bet eno , s 9 oales su?!ir hai es> x cage Holloway's pills, 5 q--cißl>s Bernard* gl(lg , r win 6( 2 cages walklng . s ti c k*, 699 Ik\ ' E and H Is*»C3. Tlj 'oackagei, 20 hoses, 23 paclmges, Stone Bro3. *<> J paokftcos, H S Meyers ani Co. .0 barrels currants, SO cases ra'sins, 48 casea window -?las», 15 ctsos conOctionery, 50 cases rum, 10 cases hams, 40 cases d>tes, 100 cases gingf-r wine, ICO cases wlrt-kfy. 77 c ,tip S cla ef, Kummer and Co. 150cRska cement, !0 crates earthenware, 10 casks vinegar, 17 ra«s fancy goods, 2 cases light and yjekets Henderson and WTarfulano 1 cask glassware, 2 o«bVs cirnp oven dishes. 2 casks coll chaiD, 20 rnlos raknm. 17 keßs soft soip, 3 cases lathes and drilling machines 2 ca'es brasn /'onndry, 30 ciß's BHocop.'s ranges, 4 c^sks, 2 cases hardware, 28 packages rope, T and H Mcrln. Per Jane from Hnbart T..wn : 210 cases green fruit, S3 00 do. 47 do do. 44 do i mi R Arthur. m p 'r Way., pf Life , from Sydney • 350 b^gs b;,ncdnit 80 bales hemp. 23 cases merchmtdise '~ bi! fi q iq *"" mrsapariiK 1 spring cart, 4 , as , B rarMOft 2 b. rein I c; skSl/ 4'-bafrS ''^ 23 coils rop ß 20 ct^flLT^^^'-^ 443 tog* T}o". 6 oolls 'Russian dersnn b-'-'»"r>e. 17 colls Wehtor's cordage. Hen in. M'acfarlane. x.^* ■<■-, Rarnntt & ' evy. 4. ong^s curacoa, H. s Meyers * Co. 384 esses brandy Owen & O«ham. 12 pair shafts, E. Porter & Co.

EXPORTS.

Per Transit for Dunedin : 65,000 ft timber, 4 hhd3 sle.

ARRIVAL OB1 THE MBRWANJSE FRAMJEE.

EXTRORDINARY PASSAGE.

Tontrary to general exp»ctftlion the ship which wa nlludecT to Hstnf{rr>t, and which was sierna'led imme diately after the isme of our seconi cdi ion, tnrncl , out t^ be the "VTerwarjee France which was not, due acco-din? to tl'o average time taken In the pa~s*f?e , for another three wer-ks. "With the exception of the ■■pMSBge mado by the Lo"h Act lust yar, which w«a two riays faster, the run made b? this ship is the , fastest between London and Auckland for many yaa*s. It "will bfl Feen by the ariiuxed report th*t 'h<? Equator wns recripd in the unprccrienterllr shnrt ■ time of Ifl daTB frrm Orayeserd. Tha Me-wanj^n ■ Trsmjoe is a ClvnV-boilt iron vessel nf 10T0 tons, 12 • years oM. anfl hnils from T-.ivnrr o"l. Captain Brdw->ll comes in command. The shfp brings several saloon and other, passengers, all of whom arrire in good health, and a large general ca»go Messrs Owen and Rirahim are Hie Auckland apents, and some not're3 In regard to the ship w*ll b« found in our advertising columns. The followiop ii th=! report of passive Left Gravsend on Tues 'ay, Jsninry 4, arid on Thnrsday, the-6th. was off the Start Point. Had a moderate breeze snd fine veather to the Eqna'or, which wa* crnpspd in 23° "W, 19 f"aya from Orave'end and 17 from tho Start. Hence to the merid'an of tlie nape Of Good Hopa, ard latitude 46° 30' 8, light wind and very fine weather. Crossed thfl meridian on Febnwy 17, 44. day? from (Tnive>enr>, 42 dais from the S'ar», From February 20 lat'tude 4R° 4/ f, lonpitwle 55 ° 58'E, (o tlie 22nd, latitude 49= 36' S, loiifi'ncle 46° E. ranpi'tl norn rous icfbergn On the evening of i]ib ?G'h, pwsfd eonth of K>Tpne!em Islmrt ; fresh NW windu ai d thick mist On M-rch 19' sighted the Threo King 3. Ou March 21 took pilot, &rJL anchored sume nieht, Dnrim? the voyago the following vet sels were spr ken :— January 10. TMlbnr. London to Atfel*irle, latitude 38? N, 1 ntritnde 15° 47' V/ ; Jsnrury £0, "to Q. "Russell. London (o Mel binrna (»11 well), latitud-i 3= SS' N, longitude °2 3 28' W; F(bru>rr 8| American lnvque Chatanrotfa, ■N"ew Yirk fo Melbourne (all well)', latitude 28° 27' », longitude. 27° 52' W. The paffngo seems by all accounts to have heen a very erj'y«b'e one. The weather was ma rule favorable, and 'he ciptain and passengers" hit it" tootheraHmir*bly. At intervals roncerts and glee part'es helpei to wi'o awpy the time, and B">me animation was rau'el b? the ciichirg of some fine Rlbatros«es and a fhark. The lofr s! ows some capital ninninj. On the 19th ard 13th Frbrnary 305 ard 303 miles were recorded. On the 2<Hh Feb., 297; the 38;h,, 272; and on the 4th srtd s<h March, 290 and 295." On the Bth February,-when the C'hata noogv was spoken, Iha weather was very calm and Captain Bliiwe'l, n party from the Werwangee Fram jee. biarrted the Yankee and er-joy»d the c^p^ain's hospitality All t)>e pospergera npealr highly nf the manner in which their comwt has he n st-died by CapUin Bidwfll, *nd tVis morn'rg both the ra>)in and^ other pa^euperg pave the skipper the flattering testimonials which orpe^r e'sewhe™ ' A WONDERFrrL ICEB'RG. On the 2lst Feb , in )nt 49 <*, \nnv 3* E, an immense ..lnebßrg was passed, which was estimated at half-a wilevJde, 2 miles long, arid nbont an avrage of 300 fe t high. Several smaller iceberg" were also seen in the In.mediate neithbourhooi Pas?eugers : C. cabin, Messrs KA'mstroDg, Arthur B "VVrieht W X Kobert son, Win Warren, and Jo« B Bridzmati. S^nnnd cabin: Messrs Heywocd, Chanmas, E Plum bridge. Steerage : Messrs FrAncis O Mirtin. Georee V Hen de'*on, 3 ff Wnods. Wm Munhear. Kdwardßßillett, .Harriet JVHett, lizzie Billet.t, Wm Billett. Jamas *urner, Michael Cochrine, Thnmas Prake, Zacheus Sleeman, and Louis C ] amer-ce. Phe comes con -B?gn»d to Messrs Owen and Graham. Having powder on boad, the ship anchored down at the powder-ground. The passengers landed this morning. Sad Incident on tlie Voyage-?. About ten days ago, one of Him st-f.ond-cUss p.wsen gera, a mirriud lady, named Mrs 8i1'63, whose hus band and two child red wereon hoard, hegan to display symptims of aberration of intellect, which increased In intensity up to end of the v.yacre. One day Fhe was diacoverol trying to force herself through one of the port-hole 3, and careful restraint had to be nut upon her actions. The unfortunpte lady was brought ashore in a racing condition Tshen th: passengejs were landed this mmiii.g, and taken care of at the stution-house till arrangements can be mada for her BCcommodMtoniin the asylum. T)r Philson and t)r Keiulordine n»va exsmlred her, and we loam that it is their opinion that lunacy was Induced .by fea^s of being cmfln'-d on the voTa<e, Mr3 Uilles being in an advaoced state p£ pregnancy. ; : Thefoliowipg testimonials were presented to Capt. Eidwell on arrival ia port :— ' • ■ ~ n Ship Mftrwanjee Frirojeo. With mtnh'pleasure we tsstlfy'to the universal attention and cntirtesy which we have received from Captain Bidwell, (luring tke voyage from London to Auckland. With the passage to speakforitsolf.it wou^ft be BUperfluou? to refer to his official caraoitv. —We are, &0., W. Kerr Robertson, A. B. Wright. E. Armstrong, William Warren 3 Balston Bxidgman, passengers. March 22,1876. To Captain Bldwell, * Ship Merwa^jfie Fraru(ee, . ■• Off Auckland, March 22,1876. At length after a most successful and quite unpre cedented voyige of'seventy odd days from London, the undfr«i«ned passengers feel they cannot leave the vessel and separate without expressing to you and the other officers their grateful thanks for the great Kindnesses they have received on many occasions from your hands. Whether in health or Bickness. whether it was in the hot tropicil regions, where it was almost too oppressive for anything, or whether it was amidst a shoal of icebergs, the wish to help us was Btlll there ; whether for concerts and such like, or on Sundays when assembled for Divine Worship, all w*a done that was possible to make us comfortable and help us in our present little community. We s>iall ilw»ya in after life look back to this Voyage wi h prrat pleasure, and we are sure this little token of our thanks will be received by you with the same feelings that it it ours to subacrite to it la conclusion, we hine that the Lord will prosper your t ature, and grant you many, m»ny voyages on thii great highway of life, that after you can look back upon them with the same pleasure as we do this — We remain, dear sir, youra respeefc'ullr, R Plum bridge, 'VVilllam Mukead B*mu'el tocMaster, Hey wood Chapman William B*rraclou?h, Louis C. Lawrence, Michiel Corcoran, Zaceheus Slpeman, H. Martin, Edward Billed, James Turner, Thomas Drake, 3. Henderaon.

The schooner Lsetltia has started on another Voyage to the Islands. The barque Stag sailed last night for Newcastle in ballast. ' ', The schooner Wave of Life, arrived this morning from Sydney, • The captain reports leaving on the 29ih February, and having head winds and dirty ■weather during the passaga. Passengers: Mr and Lambert and four ohlldr >n. The pchooner Miry Melville cleared to-day in ballast for Russell. She will load there for Napier. The 'Chooner Transit cleared to-day for Dunedin with timber and ale.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND

.HAixa win Close as follows:— For Thames tliij day at 5 30 p m and to-morrow at 10 30 am For Tainia tomorrow at fi am For Kapancia on Friday at 103J am For Waiwera BLthurangi and Te Arai, per Anne Wilbarilt, t^-mmvow at 10 am For Napier »"d OMahorne to-morrow at 3 pm Kor Lsvuka (F ji) on Friday ntxt at 11 am For Tanmiiki and Australian colonies on Saturday next at G a m For Napier and Southern provinces per Colima four hours after arrival For Chithnm IslaDds on Friday, 31st insbant, »t 2 pm (Signed) S. B. BISS, Chief Postmaster.

DEATH.

MATTISON—On the 21st instant, at his late resi dence, Grov-Btrept, Wm. Mattison, aged 30 years. The funeral •will take place to-morrow (Thurs day), at 4 o'clock p.m.

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

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 22, 1876

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong th.it needs resistance, Vor the future in the distar.ee, And the food that we can do.

We have been furnished with an explanation relative to the proposal of a five-inch main water pipe for Upper Franklyn-stieet, which was recently made in the City Council, and to which we yesterday referred in a leader etta. Our informant submits the "Pipe Chart; "of the city, showing the line of the pipes throughout, and decidedly makes out the case that the district proposed to be benefitted, is at present exceptionally treated. A glance at the chart shows that great care has been manifested by the Coun cil, or rather, we presume, by the Engineer, and a perfect network of blue threads, re presenting the water pipes, is the result. And the eye is struck with a manifest avoid ance of the direction ot Ponsonby; in which direction the district in question lies. We do not say the Council is wrong in thia, for the Ponsonby boya are a curious lot, and should be tenderly handled. If the district in question is not of the character of " Debateable territory," which it is not, nor of a "No man's land," which it is not either, it is of the nature of that " Border land," which from time immemorial has been subject to foray, and other evils incident to its peculiar position. We do not say that the City Council conceived the idea of surround ing themselves with a parched and barren desert, as was wont with monarchs in olden times, but it may be that they deserve to keep their cool streams far aloof from the men of Ponsonby, so that perchance the denizens of that remote and warlike suburb may be brought to] amicable arrangement for the extension of the benefits of the water supply. However this may be it is a fact patent to the eye that the tract of terri tory in whose behalf Mr Prime moved, aad which abut 3on Ponsonby, is singularly bereft of the blue lines which mark the course of the vital fluid through the city. We know that the people of the western districts of the city are generally regarded aa "old growls," and as always having a grievanoe, but while this blue cordon goes all round the boundaries of the city elsewhere,

it is broken in the west, and for a district thereabout, fully aa large as our opened"hand, not even a blue thread save two little stunted ones is to be seen. Oar informant i asks us why ia this thus ? he asks it on be half of Angieseastreet, Pioton-street, Col lingwood-street, Franklyn-street, and the city side of Ponsonby road itself, and all those thickly populated districts which have the misfortune to lie under the shadow of the highland suburb. And he tells us that all the people there residing will be expected to pay water rates, while they of all in the city are entirely beyond and out of reach of the arterial system which is to bring health and refreshment to the people. And he says^ and we cannot feel in our conscience to con. tradict him, or we would, that it is the only large district within the entire limits of the city that is utterly overlooked in the present system of water supply ; and he says that Mr Errington, the engineer, estimates that £550 would 'ay the five-inch main that would meet the requirements, and that there has been a saving of £2000 on the original con tract in the site of the pumping house being shifted to the other corner of the reserve, some hnlf-a-mile nearer to the oifcy ; and he says that the pipes "are available from the presently-to-be-discarded Domain water sup ply ; and from among tho lot supplied for SleccomV.e's pumping • and then he points to the blank spaces on the chart, and he talks to us about "the cause that lacks assistance,' and he asks us what we have to say. And we answer that he has eaid it all so well that we have nothing at all to say. And thus it is.

No more significant illustration of the results of bad government could be furnished than that which appears from its sp°cial corres pondent at the Thame3 in the Cross today. We reproduce it in our local columns Twelve successful miner?, having with them £4,000, left yesterday by the Hero to seek in other lands a place of settlement. It is not more thews and sinews that are moving off for want of employment, from wbafc was once and will be again the scene of active in cluatrial enterpripe. But the accumulated and realised wealth which would have em ployed those strong and willing bands 13 also left to drift away. It would bo impossible to apeak in too strong terms of condemnation of the mis-government that has led to this If a demon, possessed of all those mngligrant and malicious motives which are popularly believed to inspire such beings, bad intended to work evil to the Thames, he could hardly, have conceived any thing more effective than the course pursued by the General Govern ment. Keeping the land eurroun'Jing closed to settlement, while money waa being freely made, and people were longing to form quiet and settled homes, and then, when a temporary cloud rested over the district, suspending public works that might and should have been proceeding long ago. The purchase of 230,000 acres of fertile land in the adjoining district, just completed, so annonnced by the same writer in the same letter, ia like a grim mockery of a long suffer ing and patient people, when read in context. Land in plenty to be bought, and land in plenty already bought. But dog-in-the manger-like, the spirit of Pollenism haa brooded over the place, and ib is as it ia today. How long is patience to be abused ?

Enclosing a sura of five shillings we have received the following letter:-"To the Editor: Sir,—Great are the benefits of education, md yet it says in the much dcepiEed Old Book, ' He that increases know ledge, increases sorrow'; 'Of making many books there is no end, tnd much study i 3 a weariness to the flesh.' But isn't it a burn ieg shame upon our boasted civilization, a sarcastically cutting comment upon the so called advantages of your educational system, that a poor man the father of a family, who has been out of work at the Thames for weeks and months, and nevertheless has had to pay some 14s per week to the hospital towards the keep of a poor sick wife who has been ill for eighteen years ? Isn't it, I say, a burning shame, that a poor man like this, because forsooth he has neglected, perhaps inadvertently omitted, or it may be forgos, to go at a particular time, and humble him self 'in forma pauperis ' before a body of personal strangers, a ' local school com mittee,' should be deported from his home, his household broken up, his children left breadless, to the mercies of neigh bours probably as badly off as himaclf, or to the care of the police, to be cast a burthen upon an orphan home, and he himself sent to receive the first portion of his " education" as a common felon in the gaol-bird school of Mount Eden ! Not only so, who paid his passage up from the Thames to bring him up to the " Garden of Eden," to "take it out of his carcase ?" Did not the Government ? What right then have the Government (moral right 1 mean), when they have taken their pound of flesh, to set the mau free to beg his way back to the deserted home from which they have ejected him ? Sir, I know nothing of this man, and nobhing of his case, but what I see in the reports of yourself and. the Herald. I am not an agitator against the Education rate, which I have paid long since, on the principle of ~ Give to him that demands from thee," but mark my words, if the injustices which the ruling classes of New Zealand are now in flicting upon their less fortunate brethren do not presently bring upon those ruling classes a summary retribution at the hands of those less fortunate brethren, they will neverthe less be individually and terribly atoned for at a future day. The " poor and needy Bhall not alway be'forgofcten." Sir, I enclose five shillings to help pay the fare of that poor man down to his deserted home, and if he is gone, per favour of the steamboat captain (as the herald generously suggests), or in any other way, as it isn't worth while sending him so small a sum alone, give it to the poor old lady whoso case has touched your editorial heart, a thing I'm glad to see, for you'll have plenty of opportunity to exercise the charitable functions of your office, Mr Editor, in this poor purse ridden, officialated Auckland presently. Alas! poor Auckland, "which indeed appears beautiful outwards, but is within full of dead bones and of all uncleanness. — I am sir, yours obediently, MoA.— We thank our correspondent for his kindness, and aa he has left the disposal of his money to our discretion we have elected to.give it to "the poor old lady whose case has touched our editorial heart." And we shall explain the process of thought by which we came to our decision. The "victim" of the Education law was up to-day before the Bench for drunkenness. We considered whether the 5s would be properly spent in paying his fine. We thought not because he is so frequently drunk that it would be but a momentary relief. We find the magistrate also touched with the sadness of the case has foregone the offence of his being drunk j and if we gave him the 5s from what we SSn from a trustworthy Thames friend who knows the " victim" well,.it would merely m hSi to the nearest pub We are happy £ relieve our correspondent Wnadfrom the of evil JhavingSresulted to th* 1

victim's moral character from having been " sent to receive the first portion of his education as a common felon in the gaol bird school of Mount Eden." He has learned his A.8.0.'s before in this depaitment of education, having, we believe, graduated in petty larceny ; aßd generally he is regarded in such a light that his friends are under no apprehensions of hi«i having suffered deteriora tion by hia late residence in Captain Eyre's Boarding School. With reference to the humiliation of having to go before " a body of strangers"—the School Committee —and "humble himself forma pauper is " in order to get exemption, we may add thab he had no scruples or false delicacy on the Bubject himself, for he did try it on ; but the Com mittee knew him too well, knew at once his ability to pay, and his decided preference for spending his money in ways much more ob jectionable, and seeing that other and decent men in far poorer circumstances had paid the rate, and that his children were likely to reap advantages of free education at the expense of decent men, and that he being well able to pay for their teaching, preferred spending the money in a public-house, the Committee declined to give him exemption. Our cor respondent tells ix 3he " knows nothing of this man, and nothing of his case," which is enough to excuse his sympathy being awak ened. But we know the circumstances from the testimony of one familiar with the man's history and ciroumstauces, and it is there fore we take the liberty of diverting the silver crown to other and a more deserving oliji et. Wo hope our correspondent's anti citations of vengeance from heaven on this place wi 1 not be realised, but sure we are that the lightnings of heaven will not be evoked by such a case of hardship as that of the boosuy gentlemen who to-day made his row in the Police Court. But while we say all this, we cannot close without testifying to the goodness of heart that has been moved by tin's man's case, which prima facie is one of hardship; and quite confident are we that, when our correspondent knows the whole case, he will endorse with his approval our disposal of bis benen'eeace.

Constable Moar is truly an unfortunate man, and the spectacle he presented in Court yesterday was calculated to elicit the sympa thy of all who saw him. The poor fellow nearly got killed some months ago through injudiciously interfering with some drunken sailors in Victoria-street, and which placed him at; death's door. He had hardly re covered when he was sent to quell a dis turbanco in Parnell on Saturday last, and there he nearly received his finishing blow. After hearing and digesting the evidence in the Parnell row, we cannot help thinking thnt Constable Moar, as in the Victoria street case, acted injudiciously ia being bo rearlv with the handcuffs in proof of his authority We hold the opinion, after care fully weighing the evidence, that Constable Moir, who has been sadly maltreated, did nob act with due discretion.

The fortnightly meeting of CoUrtZealandia, A.OF., will be held in the Lodge-room, Princes-street, this evening, at eight o'clock. Condemning undue familiarity, the Phila delphia Leader incidentally relates the fol lowing :—"There is an anecdote of Wash ington, never, so far aa we have seen, deemed of sufficient importance to find a place in formal biography or history, which is in point. While Preaident of the United States, he was one day the subject of conver sation among some of his former companions in arms. His stately demeanour was referred to as enforcing respect. One of the gentle men - not conspicuous for his dignity of carriage —ridiculed the President's ' awe inspiring presence.' He declared that he would not hesitate to clap the President on tho back ; and, under the banter of hia companions, carried out his boast. The look of astonished indignation which Washington turned round upon him was an everlasting lesson to him on the subject of personal dignity."

The Vienna Academy of Sciences, says La Nature, is occupied with a question which concerns all Europe —the decrease of the quantity of water in springs, rivera, and water-course*. A circular, accompanied by a very instructive report, has been addressed to the scientific societies of othor countries, inviting them to undertake observations which, in time, may yield useful results. The academy calls attention to the fact that during a certain number of years there has been observed a diminution in the waters of the Danube and ether large rivers, especially since the practice of felling forests has become common. The Austrian Engineers' and Architects' Union are also occupied with this question, and have •appointed a hydrostatic commission to collect facts and prepare a report. The Danube, the Elbe, and the Ehine have each been assigned to two members, while two others will be occupied with the meteorology relating to the same subject, and with the influence that glaciers and Alpine torrents may exercise on the general result. The commission considers the question urgent, and recommends the immediate adoption of measures to remedy the evil. According to the Revue dcs JEaux et Forests, it is unanimous in declaring that the prime cause of the disastrous decrease of the water is the devastation of the forests.

Mr. Ewingtou will deliver his third and last lecture to-morrow evening in the Wellesley-street Yoiing Men's Rooms, on the "Dutch Revolt against Spain." Tbis lecture will be full of historical interest, shewing how the facts of the past bear upon the features of the present. The syllabus of Mr. Ewington's discourse is already before the public, and as will be seen, will be iuterspersed with opinions in harmony with the views expressed by his torians, from the writings of Gladstone, Manning, John Henry Newman, and from the mouth of His Holiness the Pope. We believe that the subjects will be discussed by Mr. Ewington in a truthful and dispassionate manner to the satisfaction of the auditory. Anthems and pieces will be sung by the choir to the music of the harmonium under the active fingers of Mr. Lambert.

A second meeting of creditors in the estate of Joseph Hart, Mr Meyer for bank rupt, was held yesterday. The liabilities were set down at £590, assets £327. The ordinary liquidation order was passed. In the estate of Joseph Moses, bankrupt, the liabilities were £1,982, assets £1,822. (Mr Meyer for bankrupt.) In this as in the former case, the bankrupt received his dis charge.

In reply to our correspondent" Ponsonby," who asks for information in the estimates of Water Works of expenditure, of the item legal expenses £500, we find on enquiry that the item should read "Contingencies unpro vided for, and legal expenses £500. The legal expenses are connected with the pur chase of two estates, Motion's farm, mill, dwelling house and springs, and the Hospital Trust estate oE 40 acres, also the purchase of the various pipe tracks crossing private pro perty, and generally such legal expenses connected with the undertaking, bub which will not in the whole amount to more than probably a fifth of the above amount. Referring to the remarks of " Sanitary" in our issue of last evening, we believe the authorities are well aware of the necessities for public conveniences,bub unfortunately no provision was made originally for sites for urinals and public closets, and owners of property object; to their neighbourhood respecting the present ones. Until the water supply is in the town, it will be impossible to properly keep them cleansed. They are, we learn, daily attended to.

The following is the rota of attendance of Justices at the Court of Petty Sessions to be holden at the Court-house, High-street, on Tuesday next, the 28th. instant :—Messrs R. B. Lusk, T. Macffarlane, G. M. Mitford, J. May, D. L. Murdoch, H. D. Morpeth, L. J). Nathan, L. A. Nathan, H. M. Nation, J, Newman, A. O'Neill.

Now York hag twenty-seven oenfcenariana, and of these, twenty were born in Ireland, one each in England, Spain, New Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, and two in the city. This is a remarkable showing for the Emerald Isle, which does not supply more than one fifth of the entire population of the national metropolis, nor more than one-third of the adults, while it bag three-fourths "of the centenarians. A city of a million inhabitants has twenty-seven centenarians and only two of them born in the city ! The New Yorkers must live too fast. San Francisco will make a better showing than that in a hundred years from now.

In our issue of last evening the name of John Leech apppars as a city rate defaulter; we since learn that Mr Leech had previously paid his rate.

A meeting of the residents of the Eden Terrace district was hsld last evening after numerous attempts to a meeting together. The object was the procuring of a postal delivery in the locality. Mr Read, chair man of the district, was appointed to the chair, and spoke on the general business before them. It was finally resolved that a deputation, consisting of Messrs Bead, Stoke*, Shaw, and Carlyle, wait upon the Chief Postmaster of the province to urge the request of the district for a postal delivery, viz , to commence at Mr Gilfillan's corner, down the Kyber Pass to the lower gaol road, thence to the chnin bar, Mount Roskill road, to the starting point A vote of thanks to the chiirman finished the business.

The statement, made in our paper last even ing that, Mr J. Worms is the sole agent for the Government fife Insurance, Bhould read Industrial Branch only. Mr P. A. Philips has been for some years the agent for the Government Lifo Insurance.

A financial statement in connection witb the North Shore wharves was introduced yesterday at the sitting of the HarVinnr Board, which shewed that from 1873 to 1875, total expenditure, £927 15s 31 (less contribu tions on account of new whatf. £110); buffer Tiilps, Victoria wharf, £06 ; total expenditure, £913 15s 3d. Income, £198 s<4d ; Stokes's Point I wharf, repairs. £45 15s lid; new wharf,'£642 ; total, £687 15s lid. < License fees, received £6 ; wharfage, Victoria wharf, paid collector £0 ; tolls collected, £.°> 12s lOd; balance, £2 7s 2d.—Mr Oliver Mays, as the representative of the North Shore people, ppoke at length on the matter of the wharves. He said that the Board had receivpd from the North Shore people more than they had received in return. The Har bour Boird now received £12 pc>r annum for the old wharf, which been entirely built by the residents. Mr Mays then moved the adoption of the report, and Mr Niccol seconded. Mr Boylan was very humorous upon the North Shore poople, and urged that they were a burthen to the Board, and some plan should be adopted to get more money out of them ; be believed ths Board were hetter without the North Fhore ; he wished the Board had not taken them in.- Mr Cos grave : The North Shore people have taken us in.—Mr Mays : It is quite clear that you bave taken me in, or I should not have been bere. —After a eood deal of fun at the ex pense of the North Shore, the motion was

carried

The Wairarapa Standard gives the follow ing particulars of a somewhat serious accident which happened to a paesenger by the mail coach while descending the Rimu+.aka to F^athersron on Thursday afternoon last. When half way down the hill, on turning a sharp corner, the horses came suddenly UDon a man who sat by the side of tho road, with a swag on a stump near him. This startled the horses, which shied into the bank on the upper sirte of the road. The driver, Mr Morgan, pulled them in at once, but unfortun ately a lady who sat next to the driver was unable to keep her seat, and fell forward over the front of the coach among the horses, dragging the driver down from his seat after her. A scene of indescribable confusion ensued. The horees, owing, to the promptness of tho driver in pulling them up, stood st'll, but beneath their feet was the unfortunate lady who had fallen, while jammed between the coach, and the bink was Mr Morgan, the driver. Mr McKirdy, who was on the top of the coach, sprang down on the road, and with the assistance of another passenger extricated the lady from her perilous position. It w.is found that the pole of the coach was sprung and the crossbars broken. These damages were temporarily repaired, and the coach proceeded to Featherston. A passenger in forms us that the driver was throughout the accident perfectly cool and self-possessed, and that it was impossible for him to have prevented the accident. The lady, a Mrs Andrew, is. we understand, a stranger to the district. The injuries which she received were mainly cuts and bruises about the head. We are glad to learn that they are not of a serious character, and that the patient is progressing favorably under the care of Dr Spratt.

It is with feelings of the liveliest pleasure that we' see the odoriferous intake in Custom-Honse-street gradually being filled in. Dr. Campbell has recently come to an agreement with Messrs Jones and Vare, the contractors for the new Beach Road, to fill up the portion belonging to him, and already the work is well advanced. We wonder that the other owners do not hasten to make terms for having their allotments filled in. Messrs Jones and Vare have to remove a large quantity of earth from the cutting in Fort Britomart, and they would gladly shoot it at such a convenient spot rs the intake.

We learn from a private source that disease in various forms prevails in Coromandel. Our informant states that an infant of Mr E. Randle has died of croupe, and a child of Mr Whitmarsh of the same malady. Fever, said to be scarlatina, is also reported, nearly one whole family being prostrated with this affliction.

The Inter-Provincial pigeon match between Dunedin and Auckland, over which such a bangle was made two months ago, is to be fired again next Saturday. The Auckland team is composed of the following gentlemen Messrs Eussell, R. Wynyard, S. Morrin, A. Aiken, Bishop, Isaacs, Gwynne, Middleton, McGregor, Bay, Kennedy, Hill, and R. Laing. The inatcb. as before -will be fired simultaneously, each team shooting on their own ground, with umpires and referees to watch the shooting on behalf of the other side. Thirteen birds are to be Bhot at by each man. Wet rust that this time the arrangements will be fully understood on both sides and the trial come to a satisfactory issue.

The girlo from Newmarket, who attend the Mouut Hobson School situated in Remuera, are guilty every day of an act of indiscretion, which, if nob put a stop to, will result in one or other of their dear little forms being knocked down by the buffer of the engine, and themselves being annihilated. Such a thing is "shocking to think on," as an old lady of our acquaintance puts it. These children leave school at the time the afternoon train is due at) Newmarket from Auckland, and a general rush is made to the unprotected crossing, the same either being raced over before the train, or else thronged with the little ones. The engine driver has to give an extra whistle or two in consequence. This is held by the families living upon the New market side of .the railroad to be a strong argument for taking the whole of the school children beyond it. The Sunday School connected with St Mark's Ghuroh, Remuera, ia now being held in tfie Newmarket Hall on Sundays, the same being regarded as more central for the bulk of the children in the parish, and no doubt it is so. A good Sun day School at this spot should be well at tended, and it is calculated to do a large amount of good. The venerable Archdeacon Pritt is unceasing in his efforts to promote the well being of all classes of the commun ity.

An "Equestrians's" letter will appear to-morrow, being orowded out.

We observe from a Gisborne contemporary that Pr Pollen has commenced the practice of the medical profession at Poverty Bay. It is not the Colonial Secretary, but his nephew, who unfortunately for himself bears the same name. We wish the young man success, but the name is enough to damn him. We would recommend him to change it to Dr Bullen or Dr Callen or Dr Pulling or any thing else, or that at least he should add in parentheses (not the Colonial Secretary) like the (Limited) after the nanws of the Companies. In additiou to the ss. forwarded by •' Mo» :> we beg with thanks to acknowledge receipt of 5 3 . from "Hard up," and 3a. from M., for tho distressed and very aged woman whose cause we yesterday pleaded.

Items by the Sues Mail.

[From the European Mail.']

THE RIFLE CHAMPIONSHIP OF THE

WORLD

Besides the rifle match between Great Britain and America, which is arranged to be held on the other side of the Atlantic in the coming season—the preliminaries being ar ranged—a comp tition which is likely to create even greater interest is now being organised for, the "championship of the world," in which selected teams of eight men from England, Scotland, Ireland, Ger many, France, Austria, the Dominion of Canada, the South American States, and other colonies will participate. With this object a letter has been addressed by the president and secretary of tho National JRifle Association of New York to the various rifle associations of this and other countries, in which they state—"lbis the desire of our association that your country should be represented in the matches contemplated in honour of the centennial anniversary of American independance. These matches will constitute one of the features of the Centen nial Exhibition, and will be conducted under the auspices of the Centennial Commission. The principal match will be for the cham pionship of the world, open to teams of eight from each country ; distances, 800, 900, and 1000 yards; Creedmoor rules; prize, a trophy presented by the citizens of the United States."

THE FENIANS AND THE " SFAUGH-

RAUN."

Mr Dion Boucicault has addressed a letter to the Premier, urging the success of the " Shauahraun " in London as a reason why her Majesty should pardon the Fenian pri soners. Mr Boucicault calls to witness two hundred thousand of the people of London who have been present to witness the per formance of the " Shaugbraun " during one hundred nights, and he also calls the whole world to witness the spectacle of the Govern ment of England authorising and approving of the representation jf a play which invites people to sympathise with one who is endea vouring to elude the penalty of a great offence. He asks, " Why do they watch his progress nightly, and when an'announcement is made that her Majesty's pardon has been granted to all the political prisoners, why are these words greeted with hearty ap plause ?" He adds that this question has been asked nightly one hundred times to two thousand people of all classes from the Prince and Princess of Wales downwards, and there has not been a dissentient voice.

SAD EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.

On the evening of Christmas Day a man named Charles Keenan died suddenly in the county of Armagh. When an inquest was held on the body it appeared that the deceased went out of his own house after breakfast on Christmas morning and returned home drunk. He went to bed and fell asleep. No rtotice was taken of him until his brother went to look at him and found him expiring. The priest and a doctor were sent for, but the man was dead before either of them arrived. This fact was made the subject of comment by a priest in chapel on the following. Sunday morning, and he created a sensation among the congregation when he pointed out Keenan'e fate as a terrible warning against drunkenness. The coroner's jury found as their verdict that de ceased died from an overdose of whisky. The deceased was interred at the hour of early dawn, but there was no religious ceremony over the grave ; and it is currently reported that the Most Rev. Dr. M'Gettigan, the Roman Catholic Primate, was in favour of the rites of Christian burial being accorded the decased, but some priests held a different opinion, and no clergyman attended. On the same evening a young man named Alfred Anderson was stabbed in the townland of Donacloney, county of Down, under the fol lowing circumstances :—lt appears that he attempted to separate three . drunken men who were quarrelling on the road, when they commenced to beat Mm, and during the scuffle one of them stabbed him in the shoulder with a large knife, inflicting a dangerous wound The three men were sub sequently taken into custody.

A MAORI LEUKERBAD,

The writer of an amusing paper called " A Week among the Maoris of Taupo," in the CornMll Magazine for January, says : — "Arriving, we were transfixed with astonish ment and amusement. The ground was as hard as stone, covered with a rock-like deposit of silica, which formed a sort of plat form. As if scooped oat of this were three almost circular basins, of about twelve feet in diameter and immeasurably deep. The light and left pools were nearly boiling—the central basin just right for a dip. In this cauldron were 48 persons "hitched" on round the edges, shoulder to shoulder, and with heads, just out of water, or sporting in 'the midst. We soon decided what to do, and immediately there were 50 persons instead of 48, smiling and laughing, and shaking hands or rubbiug noses in the water. They were all eorta and sizes, and all en costume d'archange. Some were old tattoed grandsires, some babies hardly able to walk; there were fathers of families and mothers of the same; young men and maidens, boys and girls laughed together. The most per fect decorum and propriety were observed. Little brown babies nestled in their father's arms ; and the latter, to amuse us pitched the little things into the midst, to show how they could swim. They would sink for a moment, and then disclose a little brown solemn face above the waters and strike out for their fathers' arms again. I shall never now believe that children cannot learn to swim as soon as they can walk or before."

OUR PAKIS LETTER.

Paris, January 23,

Marshal Canrobert is in a fair way to lose the popularity he won, in memory of his bravery at Gravelotte, and as a reward for his exemplary testimony at the Bazaine trial ; not that the nation forgot ha was a very cruel agent of the second of December, and a faithful among the faithless Bonapartists. He declined to being put forward by his party as a rival to Marshal MacMahon ; the chief of the Cabinet then interferes, and instructs the officials of the department of Lot, to secure the return of Canrobert as Senator, as the candidate of Marshal MacMahon, of the army, of the nation, &c. Thus the Government unblushingly inaug urates the system of official candidates, and supports the chief representative of Bona partism. In the Lot, Canrobert is presented as the Government candidate, in the depart ment of the Sarthe his own party choose him also as a suitor. He is thus, at once, to up hold and overthrow the existing constitution. Fortunately the decision rests with the free and independent electors. The Prime Minister backs in the Lot, the sworn enemy of a constitution he himself dislikes, while Gambetta recommends the electors to vote only for those who will maintain the Republic as by law established. Now the Minister claims to be the purest of the pure among the conservatives, and Gambetta is accused

jf being a radical. In Spain radioaia aie sailed conservatives, and the same designa» fcion merits to be adopted in France, ~—. In China the story runs, a law was^onls decreed, ordering every citizen to carry a lantern after nightfall: the lanterns duly appeared, lees the candles : a Becond decree ordered the use of candles ; the lantern with the candle appeared, but all was in Egyptian darknes, until a third decree, directed the candles to be lighted. The Assembly before its descent into history, voted a law depriving Prefects of the power of suspending 0 » prohibiting the sale of journals.on the public thoroughfares—a much needed and righteous measure, but depriving the local viceroys of their Damocles's sword, ever kept hanginc over the heads of Spartan editors. It appears the Jaw does not deprive the Prefects of the right to concede or cancel licences to the hawkers of newspapers, co the newsboys and their wares, are yet at the mercy of the local Satrap. Of course all this sort of thing ig childish for foreigners nursed in practical liberties, but ought to make observers reflect before concluding the French are di fficult to govern, how far their governors are responsible for that difficulty. Interference and com pression naturally provoke reprisals, for peo pies resemble very much those wicked animals that defend themselves when struck. It is the administrators rather than the administered' tnat require reformation in this country! Casimir Perier was the type of a modern. French Minister ; he was a success, and the people were content. Why ? He practised toleration, permitted no official thwartings looked on all Frenchmen as his fellow citizens, irrespective of thtii* political opinions; ex tended equal liberties to all, but mercilessly punished those who wilfully violated the laws oi' filled to respect the institutions it established. That's the regime, it is to be hoped, the double electionn will enable the ; Republic to found. Germany may bide her time; great i>ni astonishing as are the vital resources of Fiance, they are not. the less surely limited, and she cannot permanently support the stram|of competing factions, or the enervation of provisional governments without end. The nition is in want of fair play from its Legislature. The only thing difficult to all appearance to acclimatise or tame in France, is politicß. Paris is so full this moment of lions, tigers, elephants, ostriches, and serpents, that a Bedouin of the desert might be excused for feeling himself at home. There are as many tamers of wild beastg in the city as there were, till a week ago, deputies at Versailles. The tamer, with impunity, can put his head in3ide the mouth of a lion or an elephant, ride a cock horse on the back of a tiger, and make a hyena laugh in the midst of a Catherine wheel, but let an Orleanisttry that mode of civilization on a Bonaparlist, and you will have a different result. The lion of the amiable Faubourgs is tamed, and demands only work and the elections, and the lion of the desert jumps through paper hoops like a circus rider, and makes the saut perilleuz as a simple clown ; elephants dance fandangoes and play the castanets. Per haps another deluge is coming,and the animals are uniting to be ready to obey the commands of another Noah. Oxen, sheep, &nd pigs, are habitues, dead, if not alive, of the capital; camels promenade more easily along the streets than calves ; grues fill the theatres, and the other day a wild boar peactisedia the avenue de l'Jmperatrice, its hunting ground. Paris however is proverbial for its hospitality to strangers, it is thus that kan garoos, crocodiles, and boa constrictors, can be had in the markets ; but these foreigners never aim to deceive anybody. The restau rants are so changed that the Chinese duck, has superseded the French canard, the latter is reported to have selected Berlin for its habitat. The other day a housekeeper, in order to induce a father with a large• family to rent an apartment, assured him triumphantly that an elephant lodged on the ground floor. Instead of tho notice board displaying there is a " lift," it will be, there is an " ostrich ;" instead of " gas on every landing," it will be, there are dromedaries as far as the fourth"BJjory. Who knows but there may be a reserved staircase for the pochyderms, with sealions or white bears for watch dogs, and zebras and pelicans for tranquil houses. Everything has the prospect of progressing, save the politicians. It is remarked that at this period, where people exchange cards with out any hostile intentions, there is a peculiar art required, not only to be displayed on the drawing-room table as large a heap of bits of paste board as possible, but so to arrange that every important name will be conspi cuous, as if the consequence of admired dis t order. It is very strange that the furnishers lof balls and dinner parties do not loan out with the flowers, and plates, and fruits never to be touched, a soueoupe rilled with_ the visiting cards of the illustrious of society. Of all the fancy cards that- are now produced the culmination generally of bad taste and eccentricity, none can compete with that which is simply plain. To collect these cards in an album, like photographs, would be a positive crime. It is miserable enough as it is to be asked to study in a drawing-room the family album, with its 100 likenesses of old aunts and thirty-first cousins. ' Since two months five new literary journals have appeared in Paris, apparently by hazard, and all are meeting with a fair sup port. They belong to the class known as the petite presse, which means according to French logic a journal selling at one or two sous the copy. ■>>

Great Native Meeting.

The Flour and Sugar Policy.

(from octb. own correspondent.)

Waitakartotj. I told you I would take the earliest oppor tunity of sending you something about the late meeting, and I now fulfil my Pr °" misc. The meeting was held at Waitaka* raru, near the Piako, and was brought about by Mr James Mack ay, who invited the Ngal timarus, Ngatitemataras, and Ngatipaoas to assemble there. There was a good muster, notwithstanding the fact that the Nga timarus refused to come, but went eel-fishing, headed by Tikapa Taipari. The object of the gather ing was to complete the purchase of large blocks of land in the Piako and Ohinemun district, upon which advances have already been made, and also to negotiate for the transfer of an extensive tract of flat country in the Piako district, which is partly under water. Mr Mackay opened the meetiog on Wednesday last, and did a great deal of speechifying, which was very contentedly listened to, as there was plenty of hfo knocking round. I counted seven boat loads of dried eels, and should be sorry to say how many bushels of pota toes. The Government also sent down by a vessel which came to Shortland 4 tons flour and over a.ton of sugar. _ It was put about that Mackay supplied this out or his private purse, but .there is very little reliance placed on that statement, in fact no one believes it. lam sorry to tell you very little has been done with this extensive sweetening. Mr Mackay does all he can to get things to a settlement, but the rascals ate as cunning—well you can't say much more than that they are cunning as Maoris— and so long as they think they can get the - flour and sugar sent them they are not likely to bring the argument to a close. The natives are behaving abominably. There is no doubt about their having received money in advance for their lands, 'SSa~UQw they refuse to complete. Mr Mackay is"i"^[ blamed for taking into his confidence £P™ employment persons who are acting og^^)!*; him. I shall be able to send you fui thear particulars as to results in a few dayß. You recollect the great feaßt at Whakao. tiwai, near the Miranda, about two years ago. On that occasion the affair was got up

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AUSTRALIAN MUTUAL PROVIDENT SOCIETY. Members are informed that in consequence of the resignation hy Mr. Henry Gilfillan of th<* Agency of the above Hocietv for Auckland and its district, Mr. Al(>xs>nder Saunders has be<m appointed Agen', and Will act as such n and after Monday the 13th met., at his ofn>es, No. 2, Insurance Buildings, Queen- Street, Auckland. By order of the Board, JOSEPH DYER, Resident Secretary; Auckland, March 14,11876.



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