SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

fTTOTT W4TITP V This Afternoon, 11.13 iliOriri VVAIM^ iTo . mom)W Morning, 11.36 SUN SET.—This Evening, 5.48 SUX RISE.—To-morrow Morning, 6.23 MOON'S AGE.—Last Quarter, sth April, 4.9 a.m.

ARRIVALS.

Kcnu worth, schooner, McDonald, ifrom LytMton. Taupo, us., from the South. Jessie, schooner, 38 tons, from Lyttelton. Matchless, brigantine, Mackay, from Timaru.

DEPARTURES.

Uaysprmg, schooner, for the Islands.

IMPORTS.

Per Emu, from Levuka :— 62 bags peanuts, 10 bags cocoanuts, 10 casks resin. SOS bags maize, I perambulator, 9 bags Loans, 52 cases fruit, GO bunches bananas.— .Sjoir. Bros., Agents. £52 boxes tobacco.—Owen and Graham. fePer Jessie from Lyttelton: 80 sacks flour, 25 bags (lOOlbs.) flour, SO bags (501b5.) flour, 50 bags (2.'ilbs.) oatmeal, 30 sacks wheat.—Master, agent. 250 sacks oats.—M. Niccol. i:;o sacks malt.—Coupland & Co. Per Kenilworth from Lyttelton: 30 tons flour, 20!) bags grass seed.—Coupland and Co. Per Matchless from Timaru: I,COO sacks wheat. —Order.

EXPORTS.

Per s.s. Wanaka, for Wellington;— 3 bales leather, 90 sides sole leather, 50 do kip, 2 cases Raddles ansl saddlery. For Christchurcn: 1 bale leather. For Dunedin : 8 bales leather, 230 sides sole leather, 71) do kip, 5 pkg3 saddlers, Ireland Bros. Per s.s. Star of the South, for Gisborne: —4 hal"s leather, 15 sides kip, 51 do sole leather, 20 sides harness leather, 3 pkgs saddlery and grindery, Ireland Bros. Per Rowena, for East Coast Ports:—l bale solo leather, 2 cases grindery, 1 pkg saddlery, 20 sides kip leather, -11 do sole leather, Ireland Bros.

ARRIVAL OF THE EMU.

The steam barquentine E:nu arrived in harbour at eiurht o'clock this morning. Capt. Martin reports having left Levuka on the 2lst ultimo. Had fresh S.E. and easterly winds until making the Three King;, on Saturday last. Got the wind from S.W. .:or 12 hours, till making Cape Brett. Passed the Bay of Islands at S o'clock on Sunday morning. Since then light and variable winds into port. The length of the voyage is attributable to an accident to the machinery of the engine, which occurred 12 hours after leaving port, and loss of one of the blades of the propellor on the coast. Pas senger : Mr N. G. Carpenter.

The schooner Jessie arrived from Lyttelton this morning with a cargo of grain, &c. She cleared at Lyttelton on the 20th Marcn, so that she lias had a tedious passage. The schooner Elsinore brings 52 tons coal from Russell, and the schooner Onward 5i tons. The brigantine Matchless arrived from Timaru this morning with a cargo of Avheat. She has been about thirteen days on the passage. The barque Courser hauled away from the wharf this morning, and is now rea«iy to sail for New York to-morrow. She has 4,500 cases of gum on board. ■ The s.s. Star of the South is to sail for Gis borno and Napier at 8 o'clock this evening. Passenger^: Mrs Long and 2 children. The brigantine Augusta was to have left Nandi a week betore the departure of the Emu from Levuka, and may be looked for every hour.

The schooner Sissy leaves Onehunga to-day to load at the Manukau Heads for Waitara.

The s.s. Rowena leaves this evening for Tauranga. The brig Camilla left New York for Dunedin and this port on the 13th January, with a cargo of Yankee " notions."

The schooner Kenilworth arrived in harbour yesterday evening from Lyttelton, bringing a cargo of grain and other .Southern produce. Captain Murdoch, of ithft barque Loch Urr, has to-day secured the balance of cargo requisite to nil up his vessel. As it is mostly kauri gum, a substance very easily shipped, it is not likely that the Loch Urr will be detained in port more than a week longer. The missionary schooner Dayspring took her departure this afternoon for the New Hebrides. Passengers: Mrs Braithwaite, Rev. Mr and Mrs Watt.

The s.s. Taupo arrived this afternoon, from the South. Passengers—Mr. and Mrs. Renshaw, l)r. and Mrs. Walker, Misses Boor, Kempthorne, Clarke. Walker, Capt. Petherbridgp, Messrs Levy, Wells, Sutton. Cartwright, Scott, Bacon, Gariick, Murphy, Edge, Harker, and 3 lteerage. The s.s. Wanaka left for Tauranga this after noon.

COMMERCIAL.

Mr R. Arthur held a sale of household furni ture and effects to-day. There was a moderate attendance and bidding Avas spirited.

AUCKLAND STOCK AND MINING REPORT.

Bank of New Zealand—Buyers, £19 17s 6d. Colonial Bank (403 paid-up)-38s; buyers, 37s

Cd. Thames Gas—Buyers, 25s 6d. South British Insurance—Buyers, 795. National Insurance. —Buyers, 30s. New Zealand Loan and Mereantive (new issue) 535. Red Oueen —is ; buyers, te; sellers, 4s 3d. Caledonian (double)— Sellers, £3 10s. Moanatairi—£l9los to £20; sellers, £20. Inverness—Sellers, 7s. pqWaitekauri—l9s; buyers. 18s ; sellers, 193 6(1. "Alburnia—2o3; sellers, 21s. Queen of May (new)— Sellers, 11s 6d. Union Beach—42s 6d, 455. Tokatea —Sellers, 7s 3d. Queen of Beauty—2ss ; sellers, 27s 6d. Kuranui Hill—26s, ; sellers, 265. Welcome—Sellers, 7s. Coromandel—2s 6d: sellers, 2s 6d. Thames—Sellers, £310s. JOSEPH NEWMAN. Chairman.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as uxdeb:— For Thames, this day, at 1.30 p.m. and 5.30 p.m., and to-morrow, 5 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, per Kina, this day, at 4.30 p.m. and to-morrow, at 4.30 p.m. For Whitianga. Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Rowena, this day, at 4 p.m. For Gisborna and Napier, per Star of the South, this day. at 5 p.m. For Waiwera, Warkworth, and Te Arai, per Anne Miibank, to-morrow, at 10 a.m. For Wangarei Heads, per Rover, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. For Waiheke. per Spey, to-morrow, at 11 a.m. For Taranald, and Southern Provinces, per Taupo, on Friday next, at 11 a.m. For Norfolk Island, per Southern Cross, on Saturday next at 7 a.m., and on Monday via at 4 p.m. For Australian Colonies, per Rotorua, on Tuesday, 10th inst. at 11 a.m. Per s.s. Zealandia, on Wednesday, 11th inst., as follows :— gg>3jFor Kandavu, Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 11 a.m. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 11 a.m. For money orders and registered letters, and newspapers, at 9.30 a.m. Late letters bearing an extra fee of 6d in addition to the postage, will be received by the Mail Agent on board up to time of sailing. S. B. BISS.' Chief Postmaster.

NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS.

•'Dion Snip" is too tender. If he entered a protest through the newspapers against all the fanatical utterances that find.their way into English periodicals, nothing short of a paper to himself will supply the requisite space. His complaint is hardly of sufficient public interest to justify insertion. John Halifax, Gentleman.—Your letter is about the most unmitigated twaddle we have ever read. Please spare us from any further infliction. Time is too precious to waste in the perusal of such rubbish. " Quiz's" letter is inadmissible. It would be nothing short of an imposition on our readers to publish, knowingly, a self-written puff as the opinion of an outside impartial critic.

BIRTH.

LEWIS.—On the 2nd instant, at her residence, Jermyn-street, the wife of Gabriel Lewis of a daughter.

DEATH.

McCARTEN.—On the 4th April, at Onehunga, Margaret, the eldest daughter of Mr. Felix McCarten, aged 28 years. The funeral will leave her parents' residence to-morrow (Thursday), at 4 p.m. Friends will please accept this invitation.—Gisborne and Napier papers please copy.

IBBETSON.—On the Ith April, at his parents' residence, Eden Crescent. Alfred Webb, the second and only son of George and Emma Ibbetson, aged 11 months.

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

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877

"^ For the cavse that lacks assistance For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance, And the cood that we can do.

A CHARACTERISTICALLYVogeIian argument was employed by the new Agent-General at a recent meeting of the British Statistical Society, to hear an able essay by Mr Archibald Hamilton, on New Zealand. Sir Julius Vogel felt it necessary to combat the doubt expressed by the essayist con cerning the wisdom of drawing so heavily and rapidly upon the English money market, even for the most important public improvements. After making a full estimate of all the reproductive works executed from loans, there still remains a wide disparity between the sums borrowed and the avail able assets. But the genius of the Agent- General was equal to the occasion. "It had been calculated by a German authority," he said, " that immigrants were worth £200 each to the colony ; but lie himself thought they were Avorth more." A discussion, sustained by the savants present, ensued, and it Avas stated that the United States estimate of each immigrant was £166 13s 6d, while Dr. Fair pointed out that the Journal of the Statistical Society proved, from actual observation, the value of an agricultural labourer, aged 25, to be £246. This calculation Avas made twenty - four years ago, and with the increased cost of labour the individual value would now be proportionately higher. The abstract worth of a good workman to a community, how ever, is only a factor in the problem. We must give some place to the character of the person and his cost to the State. And Avhen we apply such averages to a mixed system of free immigration like that which has been indulged in by New Zealand of late years the deductions "will bu found \ rery large. It is quite true that many good colonists have been introduced by the large immigration expenditure. A not inconsiderable proportion of the new comers have even added to the monicd capital of the country, but there has also been a large per centago of people who, like the ex-inmates of the Cork workhouse,are a heavy burden rather than a profit to the State. Sir Julius should have informed the Statistical Society Avhat the country would actually have been saved by those immigrants and their pauperized progeny continuing recipients of British charity, in stead of transferring their patronage to the New Zealand taxpayer. A comparison between the increase in revenue, large as that h;is been, and the growth of the annual expenditure of the Colonial Government since the borrowing policy Avas inaugurated, would place matters in a very much less favourable light than the Agent-General Avould desire English money-lenders to believe. But without entering further into this phase of the subject, it may be gene rally affirmed that, as an ansAver to Mr. Hamilton's deprecation of excessive borrow ing, the personal value of the immigrants introduced out of loan is a quota of very small moment. It may be capable of demonstration to the entire satisfaction of any statistical society or political econo mist, that an agricultural labourer of 25 will, in the course of his lifetime, be woith £200 to the State, if lie does not leave the country, as many immigrants and colonists have done and as many others would do if taxation became unbearable, but as a realis able asset, the individual is of precious little marketable value, and if Sir Julius Vogel doubts the fact let him try a cargo in the best knoAvn market of the world.

The Waipa County Council has solemnly tried and executed the permissive clauses of the Counties Act. The motion for suspension was proposed by Cr. Germann, seconded by Cr. Hay, and the motion was carried. The Council decided that the subsidies should be appor tioned pound for pound, according to the rates raised in the several Highway dis tricts. The " Waikato Times " condemns the action of the Council, principally on the ground that it tends to create disunity in the district.

The quarterly open meeting of the members of the Star of Newton Good Templar Lodge, will be held to-morrow evening iv the Congregational school room, Edinburgh-street. A good programme lias been carefully prepared by the Committee, comprising songs, recitations, and music.

Subscribers who have not received their numbers of the " Presbyterian News," will kindly send their addresses to the office of the Star, where they will receive imme diate attention.

The congregation of St Sepulchre's church held a meeting last evening, for the purpose of saying farewell to Bishop Selwyn, prior to his departure for the sphere of his missionary labours. The Bishop of Auck land presided, supported by Rev Mr Dudley, and Rev Mr Biggs. The meeting was numerously attended, and during the pro ceedings, three beautifully bound volumes were presented to Miss Rose Gilbert, and Masters Wilfred Percival, and Ernest Roberts, being the prizes awarded to the successful scholars in the late examination. The Bishop having made some suitable remarks, Rev Mr Dudley asked his Lord ship to kindly present to Rev Mr Biggs, for the services that gentleman had rendered to their Sunday school, an illuminated address, a commentary, and Bible Educator. His Lordship then presented the testimonies of their esteem, and for which Rev Mr Biggs returned thanks. His Lordship next conveyed the thanks of the church to Bishop Selwyn for his services during Passion week. Rev Dr Purchas also, spoke in eulogistic terms of Bishop Selwyn's services to St Sepulchre's. Bishop CoAvie conveyed the feelings of the _ congre gation to Bishop Selwyn, to which that "entleman replied in terms of sincerity and gratitude. The choir then sang a hymn, and the proceedings, which were of a most interesting character, closed with the bene diction pronounced by Bishop Cowie. Mr. Thatcher's benefit takes place at the Theatre Royal to-morrow evening. A full notice of; it appears elsewhere,

The young men of St. James' Mutual Improvement Society met last evening for the purpose of; hearing and discussing two essays, one on'," Character," by Mr. James Spry, and the taiher on " Inventors and In ventions," by Mr. Thomas H. Hanna. The compositions displayed critical power, and the discussions which followed were credit able to the class.

To the Editor : Sir,—lt is, I believe, a rule that all cabs plying for hire shall have a list of the fares, as laid down by regula tion, placed in a conspicuous place in their vehicles. As it is very difficult ever to find two cabmen ask the same fare, and gene rally when they do, it is more than regula tion, I think an enforcement of the rule would be a public boon. —Yours, &c, Civis.

Two persons were " run in" this afternoon for drunkenness.

In the letter last evening, on City "West Election, there occurred three important errata : instead of two counties, read two countries ; instead of reflexibly firm, read inflexibly firm; and instead of W., read W. E. Sadler.

An amusing story in connection with the Lynch Family of Bellringers, and Messrs Verten and Margetts, who, by-the-bye, are nearly all bachelors, recently appeared in the " Lantern," a comic journal printed in Adelaide. At the time, the company were drawing very large houses at the Town Hall, and several ladies (young ones, we presume) wrote under assumed names, advising them to exchange the single state for married blessedness. As the epistles were very laughable affairs, one of the com pany, at the evening concert, read them (amidst roars of laughter) to the audience. It so happened that the writers, with some friends, were present, and, as may be guessed, were thunderstruck at hearing their productions read. Standing it, how ever, as long as human patience could, and fearing, perhaps, by some mishap their names might be appended, they, with some confusioUjhumed to the door; but not before the audience, noticing how matters stood, and guessing rightly that they were the authors of the letters in question, had given them such a round of applause and cheers that considerably heightened their confusion and quickened their departure. So much was the incident enjoyed by those present, that several minutes elapsed before order was restored."

The usual fortnightly meeting of Court Zealandia, A.0.F., takes place this evening, at their Court-room, Wellesley-street, at eight o'clock.

At the Cook-street Meeting House, at 7.30 last evening, a lecture was delivered by Mr Edward Lewis, Evangelist, his subject being: " The Clergy v. Royal Priesthood." The lecturer quoted many and various passages of scripture, proving his standpoint, and argued against a separ ate class who consider themselves superior to the people, and who arrogate to them selves the position of mediators between them and their God. Every true Christian was a priest unto God, and it was totally false doctrine to place one class of men above another, when all were equal in God's sight. Though lie acknowledged the necessity for one class of men to be placed in the position of instructors of the people, it was not for those instructors to lord it over them, and pretend to a much greater holiness than those who loved God and their Saviour. A very intelligent discus sion followed, led oil' by two Baptists, Messrs Ewington and Shalders, and parti cipated in by others.

Messrs Richardson and Porter, of Pokeno, have purchased the flax-dressing plant which was formerly owned by Lcatham, the unfortunate man who was killed by light ning. The machine has been erected near to the railroad, and is worked by steam power. It i* not working quite as well as was expected, owing probably to some in jury .sustained during the process of removal and of re-fixing. A new machine, made to order, has arrived, and will shortly bo at work. Messrs Price, the well-known engineers and manufacturers at the Thames, are the producers of the new machine, and their name is a sufficient guarantee of its being the genuine article.

A native meeting was recently held a* Port Waikato to discuss inter-tribal ques tions, and the guests eat their hosts out o house and home.

The writer of "Feathers and Chaff" in the " Waikato Times " discourses as follows on native matters :—"The article in your Thursday's issue has been well spoken of here. You have hit the right nail on the head. When you hear Native officials speaking of Tawhiao as ' His Majesty,' the ' old gentleman," and so forth, it is time to ask what it is all coming to. I heard a story the other day which may serve to the position. A rank rebel from the King country visited some relatives amongst the Ngapuhi, and the latter were astonished at the swellislmess of his attire, his watch and chain, and his new saddle. They wanted to know how he managed it. He said they were ' kuare.' Why didn't they set up a King for Nga puhi, and then the Government would give them all these things for nothing."

Among the legion of unfailing remedies which are, propounded for the benefit of suffering humanity, one of the simplest but most beneficial, appears to be that adver tised as Hitchens' Blood Restorer. This is a purely local remedy for rheumatism in all its forms, and for general sickness and debility. Its author and maker, like Professor Holloway, has launched his panacea upon the sea of human life, leaving it at first to depend for support upon its own merits, and to receive from the world the verdict as to its supreme curative proper ties. From the scores of testimonials received by the maker, it is evident that a wonderful success lias attended the adminis tration of the medicine, while the safety of using it is shown in the fact that children of two years of age and upwards can take it without sustaining any injury, but on the contrary, are by its use relieved from ordinary attacks of indisposition. Mr Hit chens proposes at some future time to publish a few testimonials, in order that the community may be made thoroughly alive to the fact, that there is at hand speedy relief for distressing sickness, and a safe and certain remedy in Hitchens' Blood Restorer for most of the ills which affect the foundation of life in man, viz, the blood.

The General Government have taken over the magazines at Mount Eden.

Auctioneers' licenses expire on the 15th inst., and will be renewed by the Collector of Customs.

The following amusing paragraph appears under the head of " Feathers and Chaff" in the •'Waikato Times," "The scrip mania has got the people bad. Wherever you go you hear of nothing else but Moanatairis. I asked a policeman in Queen-street where lived, and he replied abstractedly, while glancing over at the Insurance Building, ' Moanatairi street, first house right hand side.' The young woman at Water's who usually supplies me with my frugal tiffen, and who had heard the customers talk of nothing else but scrip, asked me if I'd 'take some Moanatairi soup.' I really pity that young woman. The monotony of her ex istence must be frightful. All day long there is dinned into her ears nothing but ' Moanatairis, 9 and the items of the bill of fare. When she seeks her virtuons couch her slumbers must be troubled with con fused visions of i roast beef for two,' ' soup for one,'| and ' Moanat,airis for all.' But after all, she is no worse off than Waters himself. He was sending the juvenile cashier for change, and he said «Walter, get change for two Red Queens— l me&n twQ £1 notes,"

The London "Daily Telegraph," of Feb. 6th, notices Mr. Broorahall's special settle ment scheme.

Mr Dornwell gave a picnic at the Whan to his employes on Monday, and the affair was a great success.

A picnic was held yesterday under the breezy influences of the Three Kings, by the scholars and teachers of Pitt-street Wesleyan Sunday-school. The party were quickly driven out of town in four Quick omnibuses and two traps. A variety of games were pursued with avidity, and a pleasant day was passed. A hearty vote of thanks was passed to the principal, the Rev. T. Buddie, who had done so much for their general amusement.

The negotiations with Captain Williams for the purchase of a ten-oared gig for the Thames Naval Brigade, have been success fully concluded by Lieut. Bennett.

In spite of the Bay of Islands' signalman's assurance to the contrary, it turns out that the barque-rigged steamer descried from his station on Sunday morning Avas the Emu, after all. The vessel arrived this morning, and the captain reports passing the Bay at 8 o'clock on Sunday morning. His tedious voyage down the Coast is explained by the fact, that on Monday one of the blades of the propeller snapped off, and she had to come the rest of the way under sail, against a southerly wind. The signalman is not so much to blame, for mistaking a small boat like the Emu for the mail steamer, as might be supposed. In certain conditions of the atmosphere, a small vessel a distance out at sea will loom very large upon the hori zon, and we know of one case in which the Enterprise was mistaken for one of the mail boats, by three gentlemen not unversed in nautical matters who were looking at her through a glass at Ilem uera. On the prairies of America, it is in like manner, sometimes difficult to tell whether live objects seen at a distance, are buffaloes or crows. There was a rumour in town yesterday, that the tele grams were sent for a first of April hoax, but this idea is preposterous. Joke or no joke, they proved rather expensive, for somebody will have to pay £50 for the services of the Wanaka. The most singular part of the whole business, was the fact of the mail steamer being met in exactly the place where Captain Burgess and others calculating the speed and distance, she would travel in the disabled condition des cribed in the telegrams, judged she would be found. The telegrams are now proved to have had no reference whatever to the City of Sydney, and yet the calculation made on the assumption that they did refer to her, turns out exactly correct. This is a remarkable instance of a right conclusion drawn from false premises.

Electors of City West.—Gentlemen, —Refrain from pledging yourselves for the present.—[Advt.]

The Moanatairi.

THE following was posted at the Company's ollice to-day : —

" GrahamstoAvn,

'This day, 10.20 a. m

" Ten hundred weight of splendid speci mens just broken from new run. Excellent show still in face.

"Robt. Comer."

CABLEGRAMS.

[PRESS AGENCY.]

AUSTRALIAN.

Tho All-England Match.

MELBOURNE, April 3

The position of the match is now—Com bined Team : Gregory, 3(>; Thompson, 35 ; no wickets down-

MEETING OF THE PRESBYTERY.

The quarterly mooting of the Presbytery was held this morning in St. Andrew's Church. Present: Rev. James Galloway, Moderator; Clergy—Revs Messrs D. Bruce, Nome, Sommerviile, Macnicol, Hill, Macky, Brown (Clerk), Runciman, Wallace; Elders: Messrs J. Lamb and Thompson. MR PENMAN'S ORDINATION. An application from this gentleman to have his ordination deferred for the present, was held over for discussion at the next meeting. THEOLOGICAL STUDENTS. The 'Presbytery then proceeded to con sider the notice given by Mr Bruce at last ordinary meeting, viz. : " That the Presby tery take steps to appoint Theological tutors for the training of Theological ■students in Auckland, in conformity with the decision of last Assembly." Mr Bruce moved: "That the considera tion of this matter be postponed till next ordinary meeting of Presbytery." Mr Macnicol seconded pro forma. Mr Macky moved as an amendment : " That the consideration of this matter be postponed till the necessity for it be made apparent." Mr Hill seconded the amendment. On the vote being taken the motion was carried. Rev D. Bruce moved that the considera tion of tha matter be deferred till the next meeting of the Presbytery. This was seconded.

Rev Mr Macky moved as an amendment that the matter be deferred till the neces sity of it be made apparent to the Presby tery. The Rev Mr Hill seconded this.

The original motion was carried

CALL FROM TAURANGA

The Clerk said the next matter for con sideration was a call to the Rev Mr Hay from Tauranga. The call was in due form, and was sent to the Rev Mr McNicol, who was no doubt prepared to support it. That gentleman said it was a mistake the Tauranga Presbytery not sending any deputy, as he was quite unable to say what the district was able todo in way of support. The Rev D. Bruce said he was able to give some information on that point. He had been told that £100 would be guaran teed, and rent of a house and hall. At this moment the Rev. Mr McNicol received a letter on the subject, which he read. This intimated that the £100 was expected to be supplemented by another £100 from the Auckland Presbytery. On the motion of the Rev. Mr Bruce, the call was sustained, and allowed to remain on the table for consideration at the next meeting. LEASING LAND AT THE WHATT. It was mentioned that a gentleman, who ■ had applied for the lease of a piece of land belonging to the "VVhau church, now wished to alter his selection and obtain the lease of a piece exactly opposite the church door at the junction of the Great-north and Manukau Roads. A very decided opinion was expressed that it_ would be most injudicious to lease the piece asked for. ILLNESS OF THE REV. MR WALLACE. The Rev. Mr Wallace stated that his state of health had prevented his officiating at Wangarei for six Aveeks, and as he was at present no better, he should request the Presbytery to make some arrangements for granting supply to the. Wangarei people. After discussion, much sympathy was exj^ressed for Mr Wallace, and a motion was passed to refer the matter to the Home Mission Committee. SUPPLY FOR WHATIPU. It was ai'ranged that the Rev. Mr Brown should hold monthly services at this place. THE BKV. MB MONRO. The Rev. D. Bruce moved, "That the clerk make arrangements for a meeting of the Pres bytery to be held on the arrival of the Rev, Mr Monro, the expected new minister forßemuera. A (Jilfexenofi pf opinion shewed tQ esist Iwhethw

the appointment ofjjthe rev. gentleman by a commission at home were sufficient to complete kiß induction, or whether a call in the ordinary way were necessary. It was decided that the clerk should convene a special meeting. SABBATH SCHOOL EXAMINATION'S. The Rev. Mr Macnicol asked if the annual examinations of the Sabbath schools should be continued. The Clerk: Certainly; Why not ? As there seemed some doubt Avhether the examination lately held was simply a tenative examination or the first of a permanent series, the Itev. Mr Bruce moved, and it Avas carried that the examinations should be annual.

This was all tho business of importance.

DOMAIN BOARD.—This Day.

The ordinary monthly meeting of the Domain Board Avas held in the City Council Chambers to-day. Present: F. D. Fenton, Esq. (in the chair), F. Cherry, G. M. Mitford. Heale, and W. J, Hurst. MINUTES. The minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed FENCING THE CRICKET GROUND. Mr Grundy wrote, asking that a dividing fence might be erected betAveen his garden and the Domain Cricket Ground, between the ditch and the top of the hill. His object was to pre serve the plants and flowers in his garden from the encroachments of a horse, which was kept on the Cricket Ground for the purpose of rolling the ground. The horse had strayed into his garden several times, and although the damage done was slight, he wished to provide against further casualties in that direction. The length of the fence required was six chains. Mr Fenton stated that there were a large number of hurdles in the Government House grounds, the property of the Board,(which were suitable for the purpose. He would propose :— " That Mr Mitford be authorised to obtain from Mr Gillespie all the hurdles owned by the Board now lying in the grounds of Government house." Mr Mitford: But perhaps Mr Gillespie avlU refuse to hand them over. Mr Fenton: Then we shall be compelled to consultJMr Whitaker.

ACCOUNTS OF THE BOARD.

The following communication was received from the convener of the Audit Commission :— "The Commissioners of Audit wish to know in whose name the deposit of £200 in the Savings Bank is placed. They think the account is imperfect without an investment account, shew ing on the debit side the cash paid for each investment, .and on the credit side the actual securities held, balancing the account with a profit or loss entry as the case may require. The Commisssioners request that such an account may be rendered, when tho accounts which have been passed, will be gazetted. The ac counts for 1876 have not yet been received." The secretary of the Board was instructed to write to the Commissioners of Audit, under the direction of Mr Heale, and to forward the accounts of 1876

EXTENSION OP LEASE. Mr Gundry applied for an extension of his lease of the Domain grounds for a further period of ten years. If he succeeded in obtaining the extension, he intended to expend considerable capital in the improvement of the grounds. The expired term of the lease was six years, so that he would not be warranted in investing his money unless he was certain as to the time in which he would remain in the Gardens.

Mr Hurst thought that it would not be advis able to consent to Mr Grundy's application. He proposed, " That the application made by Mr Grundy for the extension of his lease be not entertained.

On being put to the meeting, the motion Avas carried unanimously.

This concluded the business,

PUBLIC HEALTH ACT.

(To the Editor of the Evening Star.) Sir, —The Editor of the morning paper is evidently unaware that besides the diseases mentioned in the Public Health Act IS7G, the following haA-c been gazetted by order in Council:—lnfectious diseases within the meaning of this Act—Typhus fever, Typhoid fever, Diphtheria, Measles. The Provincial Government paid local officers of Health for the suburban dis tricts, since the General Government took over provincial matters. There has been no supervision, the matter has been brought under the notice of the Central Board at Wellington a month since by the city authorities, but no notice lias been titken. There is no reason to find fault with matters in the city, but what is the use of that Avhen supervision over the largely populated suburban districts is totally neglected. The statistics of the city evidently prove that the Sanitary Inspector is doing his duty. It has been too much the fashion to "foul our OAvn nests." But let us hope the day is past Avhen stenches Avere talked and written about as a matter of course. Let us learn to refrain from fault-finding when occasion ceases, and iioav and then give a look around our own prcnises—a Avord to the Aviso.—l am, etc., Veiib. Sap.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before Gustav Yon der Heyde, and John Cosgrave, Esqs., Justices of the Peace.) JOHNS, A CKOAVN-A-HEAD. John A. Bent, John McGulf, John Condy, John Reed, John HadsAvell, and John Carey, were caarged Avith drunken ness, and fined a croATii each and costs. VAGK.VNCY. John Welsh was brought up under the Vagrancy Act, charged with Avilfully exposing himself in Qieen-street, yesterday afternoon.

Prisoner said he Ava; not guilty. The constable deposed to the circum stances, which were Aery bad; ladies were passing; prisoner was in the middle of the path.

Prisoner :Itis a falsa accusation. I Avas in Mr Richmond's Andior Hotel. The Bench found bin guilty, and ordered him to prison for three months Avith hard labour. John McGrevy, Avas charged Avith a like offence in Shortland-stjeet. Prisoner pleaded guily, but as the offence Avas not so bad as the jreceding, the Bench ordered 48 hours impritonment. A WOMAN IN TROUBLE. Elizabeth KilshaAV, alias Kelly, AA ras charged with using mest offensive language in William-street, Chincery Lane. Prisoner said shs night be guilty, she was drunk. Fined 10s and costs.

DESERTING,

James Heath was diarged with deserting from the barque Couiser, on the 2nd inst. Prisoner pleaded giilty. Sentenced to prisoi for seven days. BRUTALITY TO A HORSE. Abraham Bowden and Daniel Slade were charged with cruelly ill-treating a horse in Hobson-street, on tte 23rd March. Bowden was also charged wrfli using indecent langu age within the hearhg of persons passing. Mr Kissling appeared for Bowden, and Sub-Inspector Pardy conducted the case. Samuel Charles Smith, store-keener, of Hobson-street, deposed that on the 23rd inst., in the evening, he saw Bowden driving an express, and Slade driving a dray. A rope wai tied round the neck of Bowden's horse) which was bound to the dray. The hwse was in a lamentable condition, and it was being drawn by the other horses as though the head of the poor animal would coixe oft". At length the rope broke and the animal fell from ex haustion. He expojtutated with them on the brutality of thei- conduct, when Slade used the most honidlanguage towards him To Mr Kissling :He could distinguish between a horse and other animals; he could also ride a horse. William McLellan,gave similar evidence ■ the dray was laden vith manure. William Steel, of Hobson-street, I saw the conduct of the defendant, and described it as vtry bad. Sergeant-Major Mason, saw the horse in Chapel-street, the lorse was weak and staggering; it was tovered with prespira tion, and the rope web still round the neck. Mr. Kissling suggested that the Bench should dismiss the case, as it was a case of obstmancy m the aiimal, and not one of wanton cruelty. Abraham Bowdei said that he had bought the horse that day, and took him out for a trial, and when in Hobson. street the horse turned stubborn, and he asked Slade, who yt passing, to lend him his lQa.de? j he M not; ua§ a whip, th«

horse broke the rope in pulling back, \, did not use harsh means; the rope Avas on the horse's neck when he hnl v him ; he did use rough language to tst Smith to which he pleaded gilt? Mr> The Bench dismissed Slade, and havi complimented the witnesses, Avho wouldh,? accept expenses for coming forward inau^l a fine of £3, for cruelty, and 20s for^hS language ; costs 19s 6d. "°

Supreme Court.—This Day.

OPENING OF CRIMINAL SITTINGS

(Before His Honor Mr. Justice Gillies) The Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court were opened at 11 o'clock this morn ing, at which hour the body of the court and gallery were crowded. His Honor was accompanied by Col. Haultain, Sheriff and R. H. Rattray, Esq., Judge's Secretary SWEARING THE GRAND JURY.

The Registrar, E. S. Wilcox, Esq., read over the names of the Grand Jury as follow • —A. Beethan, J. T. Baber, J. Buchanan F. Buckland, J. L. Campbell, W. Earl j' Fairburn, J. C. Firth, G. S. Graham, G.V. Jones, O. Jones, G. S. Kissling, F. Kin<r* H. Sellara, R. J. Taylor, R. C. Taylor W J. Taylor, C. Tothill, T. Whitson,' j" McCosh Clark; Dr. J. L. Campbellwas chosen foreman, and the jury were sworn in the customary manner.

THE JUDGE'S CHARGE,

His Honor then delivered his charge to the Grand Jury. He said in the calendar with which the Grand Jury would have to deal, there were 24 prisoners charged -with 28 offences, and of these five offences were against the person. There was one charge of murder, two cases of criminal assault upon children, one of doing grievous bodily harm, and one of wife beating. The other 23 cases were offences against property, viz., one of arson, two of housebrealdng, four horse and cattle stealing, five larceny, various charges of receiving stolen goods, eight cases of forgery and uttering, and three cases of obtaining money and goods by false pretences. Of the 24 offenders, five Avere Maoris, charged with the crimes of murder, doing grievous bodily harm, horse stealing, and housebrealdng._ Of the European offenders, one could neither read nor write, two could read but not write, six teen could, both read and write ; thirteen of the sixteen, were under 30 years of age, 15 were single men, and all belonged to some denomination or other. These were facts suggestive and worthy of consideration. He would, however, offer no conclusions of his own on these facts, but would leave the jury to form their own conclusions, and probably their pre-conceived notions would somewhat modify the conclusions which they would draw. There were very few cases on the calendar on which he deemed it necessaiy to make any remarks, as the depositions disclosed the nature of most of them. There Avass one case of forgery, in which almost the only eAddence against the accused was that of his accomplice. He would ask the jury to look at the hand writing to the forged document, and compare it with the acknowledged handwriting of the accused. There was the case of a married woman, charged generally with her husband and another man with stealing from the person. The jury would he so good as to remember that a married woman was, under circumstances where her hus band, was present, presumed lo be acting under his coercion, and the jury would, therefore be ready to give the woman the benefit of that presumption, and more particularly as they would find that she was not personally concerned in the theft. In another case against a woman, the evidence would be found someAvhat Aveak, inasmuch as it entirely depended upon the evidence of another woman, AA rho Avas asked to take care of the stolen money, and refused to do so, and the stolen money was not found in the possession of the accused person. There Avas a curious case in which a man was charged AA rith larceny under the folloAving circumstances:—A married woman had been living apart from her husband for a couple of years, and had not been supported by him. She was provided by the accused with monies and a sewing machine, but in his absence the husband Avent to see her, and she then departed for Anckland, taking Avith her the sewing machine and other goods, the accused hiring the cab, assist ing in the things, and aftenvards living Avith the woman in Anckland. The law Avas, that Avhatever Avas, or became the personal property of a wife instantly becomes her husband's, and, therefore, any one guilty of illegally removing it would be guilty of larceny of the husband's property. But a, Avife could not be guilty of larceny of her husband's property, she having a joint interest in it; and if in removing goods she was not guilty of larceny, how could anyone assisting her be guilty? But a woman in adultery determined her joint right in her husband's property, and therefore it was reasonable to infer she had determined his right to take posses sion of the fruits of her misconduct. The marriage IaAV in regard to property was in consistent, and therefore he (the learned judge) could not guide the jury, who would have to use their own common sense in judging whether the man was guilty of larceny, in helping the wife to take away her husband's goods which he himself had given her. They Avould remember that the intent to deprive the husband of that which was his was the essence of the offence of larceny in such a case. If the wife herself had been charged with larceny probably the case Avould have been more clear. He had no further re marks to make, and would noAV ask the Grand Jury to retire in order to consider the bills th"at would be laid before them.

COMMON JURY.

The names of the common jurymen were read over, and they were sworn.

JURYMAN EXCUSED. T. Collingwood, a juryman, informed his Honor that he had removed from the suburbs of Auckland, and was now per* manently resident at Waiuku, 35 miles distant. , His Honor said he would be excused from service.

Mr Collingwood applied for expenses, when the learned Judge said he had no power to grant.

FORGERY AND UTTERING,

EobertLeight Remmington, a young matt of respectable appearance, was charged with having, on the 18th January, forged ana uttered a certain cheque. Prisoner pleaded guilty to uttering only» Mr. Brookfield, Crown Prosecutor, said he would-be satisfied to take that plea._ . i His Honor said in consideration of this being the prisoner's first offence, he would be inclined to deal with it more leniently than otherwise, but the crime of forgery had become so frequent of late, that it was necessary to impose a more serious sentence. As, however, the offence Wcxs only uttering the sentence would be twelve months' mi" prisonment with hard labour.

HORSE STEALING.

Heremaia, alias Henare Pui, a native, aged 20, was arraigned upon an indictment charging him with stealing two horses a* the Bay of Islands, on the Ist of March last, the property of Henry Parker. A The prisoner pleaded guilty through Mjf Brown, the interpreter, to stealing tne horses. ' * The prisoner was made to understand that horse stealing was a very serious offence, and that he was liable to fourteen years imprisonment. But as this was n» first offence, the Court would deal lenient^ with him. . « Two j'ears impyisonment y^ltil ««« labour,

THE EVENING STAR, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1877.



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