SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

UTr>Tr hmt™ (This Afternoon, 0.36 HIGH WAl&R— j To . morrow Mormng, 1.23 SUN SET.—This Evening. h:lb SUN lil.SiO.— To-morrow Morning, 6.11 MOON'SAGE.—First Quarter, 21st, 7.16 a.m

ARRIVALS.

xona, s.s. Farquhar, trom the North. Moa, brig, Mci)earmed, from Timaru

DEPARTURES.

Australia, R.M.S., Cartfill, for Sydney

IMPORTS.

Per Moa. brig, from Timaru : 91S sacks wheat, 601 sacks oats, 511) barley, til Hour, 308 bran, 102 malt.

THE ROWENA BREAKS DOWN.

Telegrams from Taunmga to-day relate, that the s.s. Rowcna left for Auckland at 5 o'clock last night, and when off Katihati, lost her pro pillcr. The s.s. Staffa went out to her assistance.

The Elizabeth Curio cleared to-day for the Thames, where she load for Lyttelton.

The s.s. Tain O'Shani.er, with the English mails ex Australia, left Ouehcnga wharf at 0.30 last nijjht; crossed the bar at 1.30 this morning?, and transhipped mails into the s.s. Taranaki, which was at anchor omside. The Taranaki left at 2.30 a.m. for New Plymouth. The s.s. Australia left for Sydney at nine o'clock last night, having been detained some hours later than intended owing- to the quantity of cargo she had to put out. The following Auckland passengers proceeded by her: T )'■ bnsjantine Flirt i 3 now loading for Lyttelton. Hie s.s. lona arrived from the North this morning before daylight, with several passen gers (whose names liave already appeared), and for cargo a quantity of gum, and 85 bags oysters. The s s. Pretty Jane arrived at 5 o'clock this morning from Tauranga and Gisborno" Passen gers: Messrs Aiker, Collins, Morgan, Thompson, Uoad, McDoiurall. Cargo :Jo bales of wool, for transhipment into the Glenlora for London.

The Go-ahead lias been barbound at Gisborne for three days. She got out at noon to-day, and may be expected hare about Monday morning.

The schooner Norval, Captain M. McKe'nzie, cleared out to-day for Samoa via Tonga, with a general cargo, principally shipped by Cruiek shank and Co. She is to sail this afternoon. Mr K. KcMenzie goes as chief officer, and Mr Ogilvie as super(argo. The trip is likely to last about two mouths.

The brig Moa, Captain M'Darmid, (arrived hero this afternoon from Timaru, after a passage of seven days. Sailed from Timaru on the even ing of the 14th inst, experienced fresh southerly and westerly winds with high sea running, and rain. Rounded the East Cape on the 18th inst., from there to arrival had light variable winds, and fine weather. Passed through SMp Channel last night, and was in company with a white schooner, bound to Mercury Bay

We are informed that the brig Camille, 221 tons, from New York, January 13, for Dunedin, will come on here from that port, and load kauri gum for New York, for Rolph and Co.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will Close as Under :— ForiThames, this dar, at 4.30 and on Monday next at 9.30 a.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Coromandel, per Argyle, on Monday next,

at 11.30 a.m., and per Kin a, at 4.30 p.m." For Waiheke, per Spey, this day, at 4.30 p.m. For Taranaki, Southern Provinces, and Anstralian Colonies, per Taupo, this day, at 5 p.ni. For AVhitianga, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Rowena, on Monday next, at 4 p.m. For Napier, per Star of the South, on Monday

next, at 4 p.m. For llussell, Wangaroa, and Mangamri, per lona, on Monday next, at i p.m. For Tauranga and Gisborne, per Prettj- Jane, on Tuesday next, at 3 p.m. For Gisborne anl xsapier, per Go-ahead, on Wednesday next, at 3 p.m. For Tonga und Eva, per Tonga

~ on Monday

next, at 0 a.m. For Tryphena. per Three Brothers, on Monday

hexr, at 1 p.m. For Waiwera, Kuwait, and Matakana, per Anne Milbank, on Tuesday next, at 10 a.m. S. B. BISS. Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

PURDIE.—On the 21st instant, at Victoria Nursery, Mechanics' Bay, the y< ife of C. N. L Purdio of a son.

MELDRUM.— On the 20th instant, at Upper Queen-street, the wife of W. B. Meldrum of a daughter.

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877.

Tor the cause that lacks assistance, l'r.r llic «roii-,' that needs re:>i.,t.iiice, li,r llic tulurc in llic distance, And the iioucl that we can do.

Tiik Government have not manifested any rcluptfvuce to form Parnell into a borougli. Indeed, tlie time provided bylaw during which opposing petitions might he presented has barely expired when notice that His Excellency graciously acceded to the prayer of the memorialists, is received by telegraph, as follows : —

" W.li. Kissling Esq

" J'nrnell, Aucklnnci

" I'arnell boiTmjjh was proclaimed on the 19th hist. John Benjamin! Strange appointed Town Clerk, and Ed ward Lister Green, Returning Olliccr, to hold the first election of Mayor, Councillors, and auditors of the borough. On Wednesday, Kith May, for lirst election of Mayor; Friday, ]Bth May, for election of Councillors; and Friday, the Ist June, for election of auditors; Tuesday, the 22nd of May, first meeting of the Council, and Parnell Hall the place of such meeting. " Amemus M. Smith, " Assistant Uniler-Seeretary."

We should probably be led into error, however, if we accepted this unusual expedition in the sluggish movement* or red tape as betokening any general growth of oilicial zeal at Wellington. The Govern ment is not altogether without interest in pressing on the matter, for by a single stroke, over £600, County subsidy on the Purncllrates, fallinto the Colonial Treasury. We pointed this out repeatedly in the long discussions on the various Local Govern ment bills, and, but for the fear of having their properties brought under County rat ing, the Paniell electors would probably have adhered to the well-tried and inexpen sive highway system. Exorcising sole control over the expenditure of all rates, licenses, pound for pound subsidy, and other local revenues, the new Corpora tion Avill begin its career with ample means and excellent prospects, and we anticipate a healthy rivalry for the honour of presiding as iinst Mayor of Paniell.

A ckoAN cornea from the various highway hoards. The terms of oilice of the present trustees an: rapidly drawing to an end, and as \vt tin: promised General Government subsidies arc not to hand. The ollicials at Wellington, however, have bit upon a most ingenious expedient for staving oirtrouble sonie chairmen, and the correspondence and " returns " passing backwards and forwards between local districts ami the Kinpire City must make things lively in the postal department, to say nothing of the stall" of hard-working Tito Barnacles kept employed thereby in the circumlocution ollioe. The Hoards do not see exactly why the city should hare received its doceur, while the more needy country districts are left to struggle with advem'ty and hard-hearted bankers.

It i.s quite evident now that the Colonial Treasurer must face ;i serious deficit. The decline on last quarter added £19,70") to the delicit of the preceding six months. How is thia to bo balanced against the liberal appropriations of last session ': Swift cometh tlio ready answer : " Treasury Bills."

We have only space to make a bare allusion to the conviction at the Police Court yester day, for introducing scabby sheep, the ca.se being the one referred to in a recent issue of the Si'AK. The fact stated by Mr Lewis, that some of th«se sheep got among the sound Hocks of a purchaser, shews how serious the matter is to our farmers. So far as Mr Jiailey is concerned, the fine inflicted was rather a hardship. He had paid sixpence a head for inspection, and after the sheep were duly passed he was warranted in believing them sound. We hope the conviction will induce increased vigilance in protecting sheep-breeders from tho dangers of infection, ami the public from the horrors of diseased meat. Mr Inspector Lewis deserves great credit for his vigilance and prompt action.

THE Satsuma rebellion, reference to which was made in a recent cablegram via Torres Straits has for its object the overthrow of the present ministry, or Cabinet of the Mikado ; and is said to more seriously threaten the peace of the Empire than any previous out break. Several engagements between the Government and insurgent troops have taken place at Kumamoto, but the results are not made known, the information which the Government permits to be published being scanty and indefinite. The military authorities of Japan are, however, fully alive to the seriousness of the crisis, and are despatching troops to the scone with all possible speed. Tlie province of Satsuma has been for many years a kind of imperium in imperio its predominance being mainly due to the powerful influence of Shimadzu Saburo —tho power behind the throne—and General Saigo, the idolized warrior of Japan, and formerly Com mauder-in-Chiet of the military forces of the Empire, who was lately deposed by an Imperial edict. The army and navy arc, however, largely composed of Satsuma men, who arc said lobe the finest soldiers in Japan, and in General Saigo they have thft best military leader in Japan. Hois said to be the Robert E. Lee of the rebel lion, and will probably be able to place 40,000 men in the Held, well armed and equipped. The main anxiety of the Japanese Government relates tothe question of the loyalty of the Samurai and Satsuma men. The complication is most serious, and cither the Government or the rebellion must be crushed.

We are already into the thick of the City West campaign. The Returning Officer has h'xed the (late of nomination at noon on the 30th of April and, the poll, if necessary, on the 2nd of May. Addresses to the electors from Mr Robert Graham and Dr. Wallis appear in our advertising columns, and Dr. Wallis has convened meetings at three points of the electorate : Young Men's Christian Association rooms on Tuesday night; Catholic Institute, Friday ; and the Mechanic's Institute, on Tuesday, tho Ist May, the night preceding the poll.

It will he remembered that the Haiwaiin Government voted a sum of 20,000d015. as a subsidy for the Pacific mail. The present Ministry now decline to pay the subsidy, on the ground that it was only to be paid for some further advantages than Honolulu now enjoys, such as making that place a terminal port of call.

Monday next, being the anniversary of St. George, the banks of Auckland will be closed.. fhe 23rd might also be termed Shakespeare's day, as the poet was horn on that day in the year 15G4.

The following additional auctioneer's license? have been tajcen, out \ Msgsi'a U.

The usual service well be held in the Theatre Royal to-morrow, commencing at 8 p.m. The committee request the friends to come early as late comers distract atten tion'

Jem (Jobs, the pugilist, has got into trouble through his presence at the glove fight between Jem Mace ami Joe Cockburn. He was required to find sureties, but being unable to do so, Jem has been lodged in the Kentucky gaol.

Tn our notice of the beautiful specimen of local art, made from Lowmoor iron, the maker's name was given as James Birley. It should have been Peter Birley.

The annual meeting of the Justices of the Peace, for the purpose of choosing a chairman of Potty Sessions, for the ensuing year, and other business, will be held at noon ou Tuesday next, in the High-street Court-hoiue. The rota of attendance for that day, includes the following Justices : — Mr. G.M. Mitford (chairman), Messrs G. B. Owen, P. A. Philips, G. I. Pierce, R. V. Porter, J. U. Sharland, V. E. Stewart, A. K. Taylor, P. P>. Thomson, W. E. Thomas, \V. St. Clair Tisdall, J. L. Tolft, J. Wilson, J. Williamson, R, G. Wood, and W. Young.

We would call attention to advertisement elsewhere the blinds of the period, the now meltalic Venetian blind. Messrs Winks and Hall lias just received another shipment of the above per Electra.

The Public Work* Department lately sent Mr Pennist.m, who has for the last four years superintended the Kuller Coal mines to this province for the purpose of prospect ing, and reporting upon the coal measures of the different districts. Mr Deuniston, having completed his task, returned to Auckland by the Argylc this morning from Whangaroi. The coal measures of Waikato are inferior to those of the north of Auck land. Lignite only was found in Waikat >, while north of Whangarei and Kawakawa a superior class of coal abounds, and at llikurangi a still stronger and hotter coal was found, but has not up the present been developed. The Whangarri and Kawa kaxva coal aic from the same seam of coal according to Mr Dcnnniston's exploration, and he considers the Ktuno coal equal to Kawakawa article.

" A Broken-hearted Woman " writes from Sea field View, urging that a pol iceman should be stationed to watch certain public-houses in that neighbourhood on the Sabbath day. .She says :—" I have a large family, Mr Editor, and my children are literally with out clothing, owing to these pot-houses. During the week I am forced to put up with it, but I think something should be done to enforce the publicans to keep closed doors on the Sabbath day. They entice men there, and take from them the money that should go to the support of their families. Shame, T say, to the hotel-keepers. Can they not get sufficient out of the public iluring the six days that other men work, for their expenses, thnt they must be so craving and grasping that they cannot even lake for themselves one day of rest out of the seven. Them are some honest publicans, and these should aid in the cause. I should not have troubled you. Mr Editor, with these few lines, but that 1 think it is the only tiling left for me to do. I have remonstrated with these men, and begged that they would refuse my husband drink when he has already had quite suiliciont ; but all to no purpose. When 1 have gone to fetch him out of tin: house on a Sunday, he has even been denied to me, til though 1 have heard his voice, and knew him to be there. The best purl of my husband's \vagi"s go to these houses, and dial mostly on the Sabbat I) ; and 1 have known my husband go so far a.'t to say, if lie fi'iuld not get drink so easy on the Sun day he would not have it—and if it was only once denied him he would not try again. And I know that my case is not the only one of the kind. Hoping, sir, you will insert tlieso few lines in your valu able paper, and trusting that they will have the desired effect, 1 am, etc., SKAKIKU) VIKW. Another correspondent writes on the same subject, and asks : Arc there not too many hotels? Should not the tick system be effectually stopped ? Many a man would be shut oil'from drink if it were not that he knows he can get tick plenty, and that it has to be paid before becomes home on Saturday. That tick could get many a little hat and little pair of boots, or even a couple of working shirts for himself. More over, I should like to ask whether, if a man goes out of Ilis oivn house on Sunday, not many steps to an hotel, he is considered a bone fide traveller? I think not. If Mr (iambic was as clever at capturing some of the married men at -n early hour, coming out of as be is at die weights and measures, lie would lie a benefactor indeed. —I am etc., Not a Good Tkmi'LAH, hut a SUKKKJiKK THHOUGH THE DIOVII/s DRIKK.

Mr (rieenshiclds, of the Insurance Build ings, has shewn us a new patent spring for saddle-girths, which are highly estimated

by those who have used them in the old country. There arc two girths to the saddle, each girth having four spiral springs, which buckle beneath the Hap of the saddle, the strength of the springs collectively being equal to 1321b5. Racing men, and men who require frequently to mount and dismount, will Hud these springs safe and useful, ami more comfortable to the horse, as they adapt themselves readily t:> the muscular move ments, either in running or jumping. Mr Grcenshields will be glad to shew and ex plain his patent springs to any person who may favor him with a call.

The Temperance Variety Troupe will give a musical and vocal entertainment this evening in the Temperance Hall. Mr Donald in the chair. In addition to tin: ordinary programme, the farce of the " Uarbcr of Seville " will be performed.

Particulars of (Sunday services will be found in our third page. The anniversary services of the Edwardes-street Primitive Methodist chapel will be held to-morrow, preachers, Revs. It. Taylor, and W. Kirk ; the afternoon address by Rev. 13. J. Wcst brooke. The annual .soiree will be held on Monday evening. The Sunday evening service, as usual, at the Theatre Royal.

The mail telegrams report that ci British war-ship had exacted satisfaction from the savages of Western Africa for an attack on the American schooner, Thomas Nickersou. The " Alta California" thus comments on the affair :—" One more cheer for John Bull. Commend us to the protection, to the gallantry of the British sailor; to,the protection, when needed, of the British Navy. Our own navy has at times oper ated with the British, and our own heroes, like Admiral McDuigall, have proved that blood is thicker than water. And now our Caucasian cousins have avenged us as if we were nearer relations even than mere cousins. That forms one more bond of unity,one link more in the chain of national friendship and kinhood, which we hope may never again be broken." —"Alta California."

Many of our readers will feel interested in learning that Captain Kuorr, of the Hertha, han been appointed Director of the Imperial wharf at Wilhelmshaven. The cadets who were here in November last, with one exception, passed their examina tions a,t Kiel.

The library of the Young Men's Chris tian Association, has just received a further supply of some choice new books, which will add much to its increasing usefulness to the large number of subscribers.

The congregation of St Sepnlchre's church were much inconvenience on Sunday even ing last by the constant flickering and going out of the gas-lights. We are desired to say that the same inconvenience Avili not be possible to-morrow evening, as the pipes and burner have been thoroughly inspected. Wi put in order,

"Inquirer" writes from Parnell to the effect that our article on the melancholy poisoning case had caused general satisfac tion in Parnell, although, for his own part, he thought we had " put too fine a point on it." He says :—" The bad tilings said against, the deceased should have been peremptorily and sharply rebuked. Truth should not be stamped cm in the street." We agree with our correspondent, and for that very reason have refrained from publishing his very pungent criticism on various striking features of the inquiry. "Diogenes" writes commenting on the inconclusive character of the inquest.

Yesterday afternoon a man, passing along Turner-street, struck a match to light his pipe, and threw the lighted match down auioug some dry furze running along the College ground fence. Shortly after, the furze caught lire, and the flame spread to the fence which soon ignited, and but for the promptness of a little girl, who ran and jumped upon the Jire until she had trodden it out, the consequences might have been more serious. The little girl burned her hand in trying to extinguish the fire on the burning fence.

There will be a large number of persons disfranchised in the city, who may not have paid rates. Thore yet remain Monday and Tuesday, after which the Burgess Revision Court sits on Wednesday next at noon ; after the Jioll is completed no names can be added. A word to the wise, be in time. A musical and literary entertainment in aid of the funds of the Ponsonby Wesloyan Sabbath school library will be ffiven on Friday evening next in tins Ponsonby wosloyan Church, at hall' past 7 o'clock. The services of some eminent local readers, reciters, and other performers are secured, so that the public inny rely upon some thing of a cliastc and unique character. The programme is now being prepared, and will appear shortly.

My Weekly Dose.

(HY THE DOCTOR).

" Laugh and grow fat, sir." })n. Johnson

THE EASTERN QUESTION. That's what's the matter. The St. James' Mutual Improvement Association, having discussed the question,—" Ought Turkey to have a place amongst the nations of Europe ?" has decided in the negative by the President's casting vote, and the Turks are, therefore, to be compelled to seek a place somewhere else. The Sultan had instructed my old friend Finamore to tele graph for the result of the vote, which was awaited with the deepest .anxiety. When it was received, the Porte put up the shut ters, and went into mourning. The Major at once sent me the following, by Java cable :—■

CONSTANTINOPLE, April 20th

Allah is great ! Bismillah ! How are the mighty fallen ! The Commander of the Faithful is still down with the tooth-ache, and has got worse since he received the decision of die St. James' Mutual Improve ment Conference. Who can oppose the will of Allah !

LATER, April 21st. Abdul llamid, the Porte, and the Sjftas, propose to remove to Asia, Minor. fI he (irand Vizier says the only way out of the difficulty, is to induce the St. .lames' Mutual Improvement Society to reconsider their decision. The army is much dis pirited.

FrNXAYMoii.u; Pasha

The Association has also decided in tlie negative, by seven votes to six, on the question, " Mas the policy of England on tin; Eastern Question been Sound and Bone liciiii '!"

The consequence is that Earl Beacons field has sent in his resignation, ami infoims Her Majesty that lie cannot think of continuing in ollice in the face of such a direct vote of censure. lie lias recommended Her Majesty to send for Mr William Cooper.

A HINT FOII DE LIAS

" He knelt down on his collin, and was requested to sit there while a photographer ]>roscnt took a picture. Lee called the artist to him, and requested that each of his wives should he forwarded a copy." And, of course, after that he died happy. When I read the above touching incident in your American mail telegrams yesterday, I wept. John I). Lee was one of the most cold bloo led ruffians that could ho found, even amongst the debased and brutal Mormons of Salt Lake, and yet, you see, he died in a manner that would have drawn tears from a cobblers's lap-stone. What a fine tab leaux it must have made '. —the hoary headed murderer kneeling meekly on his coffin, the few stray locks left after a long career of multitudinous matrimony flutter ing in the breeze, the soldiers .standing by with loaded rifles, and the photographer taking a sight at him through tlio. camera. One can imagine how the artist, in his anxiety to do him justice, lias shifted the victim's head a little more forward, then a little to the right, raised his hands into a devout position, told him to throw just a little more of the martyr's expression into his eyes, to turn 'em a trine more upwards, and so forth. And then, having uttered the final injunction " kejp steady," the cap is pulled off, and the business is done How that affectionate tribute to the "wives must have melted the hearts of the by standers ! I wonder whether Lee's last moments were disturbed with the thought fiat possibly the artist might forget any" of the wives. They are so many you know. The whole affair reminds l'nc of a a passage in " Don Juan," where the hero shot a footpad on Shooter's Hill, and the thief—

From his swelling throat untied A kerchief .crying, "give Sal that!"—and died. If there are many executions of Mormons in America, photography must ba a flourish ing business in that country.

A WRINKLE FOR NEW ZEALAND

The Turks are moving ahead. Tempora mnlantur, el nos mutamur in Mis." Formerly, when a Grand Vizier received his conge he was bowstrung; They order these things ditterontly now at Stamboul. AVlien Midhat Pasha was dismissed, a steamer was in waiting to convey him to some sunny isle of the Mediterranean, and a purse containing £500 in gold was pressed into his hand for travelling expenses. When Aye wanted to get rid of Julius Vogel we made him Agent-General, and paid his travelling expenses. There are several points of resemblance between Julius and Midhat, but if Julius had lived in Turkey they wouldn't have got rid of him for £500. Not if he knew it.

A STUPID JOKE.

Home one at the Whau has sent mo the following :—" Why 1J light the water-pipes to be. taken up by the police ? D'ye give it up V Because they are on the burst." I beg_ to say that if .Sub-Inspector Pardy desires to make the acquaintance of the lunatic who perpetrated the above, I shall be prepared, in the interests of public safety, to give up his name.

NOT ON

A friend of mine at Christchurch has sent me an account of an incident that happened at the recent race-meeting. Some sharpers, returning by train, were playing the three card trick in a friendly way, and invited an old gentleman on the opposite seat, who had been watching the game with con* siderable interest, to join them. "It is quite easy," they said, " and you are sure to win." The stranger replied in coxirteous tones, "No doubt, but there is just a little difficulty in the way. You .see, I ant the Resident Magistrate of the district, tmd as it is morally vKH'tyin that you. will eonm

before me in the course of a week, perhaps, on the whole, I'd better not become particeps criminis." The sharpers got out at the next station.

CRUEL, CRUEL MAN ! " Tis woman that seduces all mankind : liy her weiirstwere taught, the wheedling arts." —The Beggar's Opera.

The young woman I have in my mind's eye was just one of that sort. She ha I dark expressive eyes, and a smile, —ye gods! such a smile. It Vent through and through you like the shock o£ a galvanic battery. She was going away, and she wanted a letter of introduction, and she tried to smile a friend of the Doctor's into writing one. For reasons which it is not necessary to explain he begged to be excused. The friend is by no means susceptible. He i* a very moral married man, and is used to the ways of the sex.

Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods and becks, and wreathed smiles are wasted on him.- He stood the battery of those two eyes without flinching ; the sweetest and most insinuating smiles were shed upon him like water on a duck's back. She put out her hand to bid him farewell, and a tear trembled upon her eyelid. She pressed his hand with a gentle soueeze, turned those liquid eyes full upon liis un sympathisiHg features, and murmured, " Cruel, cruel man, not to give me one little line." He caved.

PROPHECY.

"The Predicted Fall of Turkey," by Robert Flemming, printed on your fourth page on Friday evening, " knocked" me considerably. 'Anyone who takes to pro phecy can perceive at a glance that the days of the "unspeakable Turk" arc nearly numbered, and tkp.iv.fore the James' Mutual Improvementers are not to lie blamed for voting 'oin out of Europe. *I'm a little given to prophecy myself. It runs through the family, one of my great grand-fathers having been fourth cousin to the famous mother Shipton, against whom, of course, old Fleming can't prophecy worth a cent. Perhaps you will be good enough to find apace for the following, which I would re commend your readers to paste in their scrap books for future reference : — A.I). ISSS.

There is a peculiar potency,about these figures, As you will discover" on taking a slate and pencil, they are divisible by 2 and 4. I am persuaded that about that date the following events will happen : Several New Zealand loans having ex pired, and there being no money to pay them, there will be weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth on the London Stock Exchange.

Sir Julius Vogel, who will some years previously have returned to the colony, will try to iloat another £20,000,000 loan. He won't .succeed. He will then be appointed Agent-General at Bagdad.

A great European Avar having1 broken out, Mr William Cooper, Attorney-General, will propose mediation, and the disputed ques tions will be submitted to the" decision of a conference held in the St. James' School room. A.T). 2,000 v This will lie a year of marvellous won ders. Aucklandia, having becomi a groat and powerful nation, will declare war against Canto-Otagia. A great naval engagement will take place somewhere in Cook's Strait*, resulting in a brilliant victory for Auck landia. The enemy will su>; for peace and will have to pay an indemnity of £50,090,090, which they will raise out of Land Fund.

The Lost Tribes of Israel will resume the land of promise.

The Moon Aerial Railway Company, and the ./Jupiter Railway Company, will lower their fares.

The main sewer nuisance will b<? re medied.

Posterity will immortalize

THE DOCTOR,

CABLEGRAMS.

(Press Agency)

War Preparations Increased

Russian Embassy Leaving Stamboul-

Declaration of War Imminent

LONDON.

April 19th.

.Active preparations for war continue in Russia and Turkey. The Russian Embassy is leaving Stam-

boul.

It is expected that the Porte Avill order the expulsion of all Russians from Constan tinople and Turkish soil.

Prince Gortschakotf has issued a circular justifying Avar by Russia.

Australian News.

Breads buffs Market

Resignation of the Governor of

South Australia.

SYDNEY—THIS DAY,

Commercial.—There is little alterations Bread stuffs advancing ; flour, £1« 10s, Sales.—Adelaide wheat, 7s Gd.

Mr Cairns, Governor of South Australia, has res igned owing to ill health.

SPORTING NOTES.

The entries which were received last night shew- well for good sport at the summer meeting. It will be observed that Hippocampus ngures among the nominations, from which^it may bo inferred that there is some chance of this splendid colt being sufficiently recovere<Ho appear at the meeting. From what I lifefcr, &© strained himself slightly in the old plabe -wiiUe running in the Dunedin Cup, and made it worse the next day m the Derby. No South Island names have been sent up, and it i 3 therefore ?nr }h^W Willt™s wi!l be allowed a walk ove? tor the St. Leger. The unsoundness of Hippocam pus however, may induce some of the outsidcS Lady Vavasour, Aconite and Co., to dispute the prize with him. It will be seen withgenei a! satisfaction that we are to have a sight of that great horse Opavva. This animal is one o f the most remarkable in the colony. He last season served about seventy mares and tkn came out at tho Taranaki and Wanganui meetings and won nparly every race he started for He is a perfect glutton at a distance, and is quite indifferent as to weight, Bide-a-wee who Veat him at Taranaki, but was disqualified for cross ing, is also entered. Owen Mcfiee'sname is seen AnokHn CH Ct h U With 0 naw candidates fo? Auckland honours. These are Blsa and Con mar! bva^«fl FSa^.- a s,lashin* 'our-Jea^Sfd maie b> Iraducer—Cnuoline. She showed weignt forage, Wanganui Stakes • McGee oh tamed her from Mr Duric, lor £200.' Connaucht isaS P Hch ei> kl\ o^nbyhisoldnameofMfpf" is an aged horse by Don Juan. He is eood at LinST-f'-O He 1 -VaS P«rS haßoH f™m bS Jbingara tor &0, and is entered in our Steenle- M^r X u°dei't tand that Owen McGee has SJft of ln f oha '»e of Mr Joseph Chadwick, •ii V al*? tara'for stud-purposes. Her first mats the^fJhf .mP Qlt ed llorse GladiKp, a son oi the: mighty Frenchman of that name, Who won felt hats, whites- brown breeches and tonhnS?, m§mm

THE MISSING VESSEL KATE BRAIN.

PROBABLY WRECKED WITH Tnco OF ALL HANDS. LOSS

WE yesterday commented on the nn appearance of the brigantine Kate R» which left Timaru on the 6th inaf i ! this port with gain. fZ'^ inquiry into the weather on the East (v! immediately after she left port and faT r what appears in the subjoined extract hi the "New Zealand Timi" of.the f?£? we are compelled to express the apprehensions that the vessel and alfw have been lost. The Kate Brain i-? brigantine of about 130 tons, and W L! last m this port was painted a dark green Some commotion was caused in tort '„ Saturday amongst nautical circles wh Pn rumou"- bocame current that a vesseiwas^i a in Palliser Bay. Captain McKay, of tWW c Herald, received a telegram from GroSS" stating that a paragraph in the "AVairaran1 Standard" mentioned that portions ofa2 of about 100 tons had been picked™p in pS Bay. This tel-.jrram was the cause of th» ! rumonr. The following is the parairranh » : ferred to as taken from Saturday's "StandL * " Yestorday portions of a wreck were rr covered in Palliser Bay, supposed to bo that oft Hchoon«r ot about 80 or ioo tons. The log T m , 5 have been of recent date, and have hapoS during the late gales, as the timbers areS i-resh, having; no barnacles on them or slim? $ any kind. One part of the wreck consists $ nine planks with chain-plates attached aiS another part is composed of six planks of iff 14 feet lon^. Mr Merson, of the Lake V'S Hotel, has since picked up the gangway ti'tli vessel, and also the companion hatch TT» I vessel had bfen painted back over gre*n * We have received no further particulars" There is no vessel that we know of missm* At least, none bound to or from this port but"tk I probability is that it is one of the large fleet of vessels which trade between Lyttelton Vanicr Kaipara, and other northern ports, and whrf during the lato heavy southerly weather eni blown into tne Bay-a positioh whichever? mariner dreads, and which in nine cases out of ten ends in the total destruction of the unfortun ate craft, and not unfroquently the loss of Urn I whole crew, as with a southerly wind afriehtfol ; heavy sea rolls in, and the whole of the coast witu the exception of a few small patches rf i sand, is lined with shoals of rocks and innumer- I able reefs." There i.s top much reason to believe that I the wreck in Palliser Bay is all that | remains of the Kate Brain. She is known j to have left Timaru on the 6th inst, and it ! is ominous that the fearful S.E. »ale reported by the s.s. Wanaka occurreSon I the Bth and 9th. It is fearfully probable that the storm caught-her close in off Cape Palliser, and once Mown to leeward pf tie Cape, there would have been no hope of her working off the land. Captain D. H. McKenzie, the .Auckland agent, feats : the worst. He knows the Kate Brain ' to be a powerful fast sailing craft, and feels convinced that no cause short of some acci-

dent could have kept her out of port behind vessels which left more than a week after her. The Kate Brain is now owned in Dunedin, but she was built at "\Vaiigar6 by Messrs Brain and Bishop about three years and a half ago. Before she was a year old she was wrecked at the Bluff, and was aban doned. The New Zealand Insurance people got her oif at a very small expense and very slightly injured, and subsequently sold her to a Dunedin firm. Before coming to Timaru she had half loaded at Dunedin,

Captain Geo. Gay was in command. Captain McDeormid, of the Moa, whicli ! has arrived t >-day from Timaru, says- it is almost certain that the wreck a">ovealluded to is the Kate Brain. He noticed when that she was at Timaru this time she m\ painted black over green. The fact that the wreck took place abmit twelve days, coupled with t!ie circumstance that no word has# been heard, of

any survivors is suggestive of the las of life having been total. CaptainK. H. » McKenzie, who had over 1,200 sacks of \ grain on board, is fully insureJ, Being • Saturday, we have been nnalie to gather a full particulars of insurance.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before R. C. Biirstowi Esq., R. M.) DKUN'KEXNKSS. George Smith. Walter Serkett, James Blackmoor, George Hodgson, George Guess, , and Charles McLean, were each subjected ; to a fine of os and costs for beiui'drunk last! night. V.-; I

ISKEACH OF THE LICENSING ACT.

James Dempsey, landlord of the "Sham rock" Hotel, Wellesley-street, was charged with committing a hreach of the Licensing Act of 1871, .sec. 41 by permitting wages to be paid in his licensed house, on the 14th inst, to Thomas McKay and Thomas Spam Defendant pleaded guilty, lie vw obligated to do so*in this instance, as le was suddenly deprived of the use of an j office where he was in the habit of payw? the men at Fort Britomart. He wished to inform the Court that he would not allow the men, to drink in his house. They .cane to him for their money, and he did not lite j ti refuse them. - F His Worship said he might have *' | them into a shop and paid them. ■"??? against the act to pay wages in a pi* house. 11 Sub-Inspector Pardy said the statemfl* . made by Mr Dempsey was correct, al ™ there was no drinking during the transac tion, but tlie action was taken to sip others similarly situated that paying w| by a landlord in his own licensed ions was a'violation of the act. . i... His Worship said that defendant BUS"1 have paid the men outside. Mr Dempsey said it rained. , i Fined 20s and 6s 6d costs. BAD LANGUAGE. . Charles Champ was charged withl m bad language yesterday afternoon onQn^' street whan. .. j Prisoner said he had no recollection" the charge ;he was quite drunk. . 11 Sergeant Clarke proved the offence, gave in the words used on a slip of P a P Other witnesses Ayeie present. , • Fined 40s and costs, or seven days imp I sonment.

SIRES AND SONS. g, g Matthew Carroll was charged m.^ I ing to contribute towards the support" i child in St. Mary's Orphanage. Anw £1 14s. . I : i I Defendant admitted the debt, anap 10s on account. • , . jU I Sub-Inspector Pardy said that deM^ could pay, but spent his monej m instead of supporting his children. (} | Ordered to pay in a fortnight, or g» | prison. . -jm f Neil McGochan was ehargedw»t|»p I neglect in respect of his sou. A"*** p Defendant admitted oj^^^SP.l and expressed his detenmnaMS I future., he farther stated that Ue *? | position to pay. *««**s' 1 Ordered to pay by two instalment^ | or in default om m Pith's imprison |

nsHKSMEf _ Hugh and Robert Sullivan ?«« upon to answer f-> n clung? M'"'^r. tribute towards tho snpnortol WW vfr{ * Defendants d.il nr»t apjW *{! «]cjd<« presented by <'.»ir wKcp, w'"f poverty, and paM fIS-eacb^a^gSiJ women, with tlicii- fanu'iJC'i ,~f state described. «niri tttf 1

THE EVENING STAR SATURDAY, APRIL 21, 1877.



fr f* =s ?» a> s» YVE NOTICE A GREAT RUSH of I- ople into PEARSE'S CHEAP DRAPERY and CLOTHING SHOP. On investigation WE find the EXCITEMENT is caused by his Selling CLOTHING, DRAPERY, French Merinos, Alpaccas, Blankets. -Flannels, Ribbons, Ruffles, Millinery, Silk Umbrellas, &c, at frightfully LOW PRICES, which seem to us SUCH a SACRIFICE. However, we recommend all who have the CASH to ROLL UP for Bargains now the CHEAP SALE IS ON. WILT, ALL FIND GOODS TO SUIT THEM AT THE piTY IT ALL A RCADE. HOLLO WAY & GARLICK'S DRESS DEPARTMENT is replete with the Newest Seasonable Goods. Damasse Cloths, ") As worn in Pa-is. Matelasse do. \ XT . ~, , Satin Trails, j New Designs and Colours. Plain and Fancy Satin Cloths, Broehe Lustrines, and Fancy Diagonals. French Merinoes, and Homespun Tweeds. WINCEYS, immense variety, for town and country wear. OUR SHOW ROOMS (166 feet long) contain the greatest variety of DRAPERY, CLOTHING, & FURNISHING GOODS IN AUCKLAND. Blankets, froni 10s. to 15s. per pair Flannels, white, coloured and fancy Ladies" Winter Skirts in great variety Shirtings, all Wool, Crimean, and Union. MEN'S & BOYS' CLOTHING. Our Stock is constantly being Renewed with Clothes especially made for Country as well as Town Wear. Our Moleskin and Working Men's Trousers arc VERY LOW FKICED. Ladies, Purchase your Millinery at the Arcade. Large Stock Ready Trimmed Hats & JJonncts Milliners on the Premises, to execute orders with dispatch. Til 10 ONLY ESTABLISHMENT Conducted on the English system of combining Drapery, Clothing, Millinery, Underclothing, Carpets, and House Furnishing. QUEEN-STREET & LORNE-STREET. H 0 LLOWAY & GARLICK, J. OOSGRA YE di Qo:S G R E A T SALE of Messrs. Stewart & Anderson's Wholesale Slock of DRAPERY AND CLOTHING will commence on SATURDAY, the 31s* March. The whole of that Valuable and Extensive Stock will he offered to the Public at Extraoi xlinary Reductions. TO TOURISTS AND VISITORS TO WAIKATO AND THE LAKES. BUGGIES (DOUBLE AND SINGLE), AND SADDLE HORSES, ALWAYS READY FOR HIRE AT REASONABLE CHARGES. Parties intendingto go through to the Lakes provided with first-class animals by B. EDWARDS (Late of Cobb & Co.), LIVERY STABLEKEEPER, Hamilton Hotel, Hamilton, Waikato. TTjIURJVITURE ! FURNITURE! Ladies and Gent emen about to Furnish arc respect fully requested to inspect the Large Stock of Bit A WING - BOOM, DINING -ROOM BJSDBOOM, AND GENERAL MOUSEhOLD FURNITURE, Jfn our New and Spacions Slwvnooins, 2\ & STCOOKQ 6?, QUBRR-STMBT



BLANKETS! T> LANK ET S !! BLANKETS !!! BLANKETS !!! In addition to Large Parcels of NEW GOODS for the incoming- Season already announced, the undersigned have pleasure in informing their customers and the public that the bulk of their NEW SEASON'S Stock of BLANKETS are now to hand. In order to maintain the well known character of our house for goods of this description, Great Oare has been exercised in Selection and Purchase, due regard being had to Quality and Price, and full advantage has been taken of an overstocked market and falling prices. Inspection will prove that we commence the season's trade with a Stock of Blankets, which for Price and Quality are second TO NONE. BLANKETS (all sizes), "White, Blue, and Grey. !) x 1 Blankets, from 10 (5 per pair. in , 17r (bought a job, 10 x* " " 1(/t) " "(splendidvalue. ]J x t " } equally cheap. FLANNELS, all makes and qualities. New Winceys, exceptionally cheap--a good line at s:|d. French Merinoe;, All wool Plaids, Sat in Cloths, and New Fancy Dress Materials, in great variety. A nice assortment of New Black Silks, very good value. WINTER, HOSIERY, of every description. Children's and Ladies' Waterproof Mantles, ■Waterproof Tweeds, &c, NEW LINEN GOODS—Cuffs, Collars, and Sets, new shapes and styles. Strong Grey and Drab CORSETS, at very low prices. New Ribbons, Flowers, Hats, Fancy Buttons, frc,, &c. CLOTHING, OF ALL DKSCniPTIOXS, for Boys and Men, good and cheap. iJ3T One Shilling in the £ returned on all Cash Purchases of 20s. and upwards. RUSH BROOK & BRIDGM\N, junction drapery warehouse, Opposite the Army and Navy Hotel), Upphu Quken-strbkt /Yiiokliind.



OPECIAL N O T I C E. ; A OTUMN Ss WINTER GOODS, 1 B4NNOCKBURN AND MO3GIEL TWEEDS i 11. L. POSSENNISKIE Opening Out these New Seasonable Goods, I would call particular attention to their quality, which is second to none imported, [ while from his large aii'i varied Stock Gentlemen can rely on a choice of Cloth unattainable else where in the colony. IT. L. POSSENNISKIE, MERCHANT TAILOR & HABITMAKER, Opposite! the City Mart, Shortland-strect. ' nniIORNTON SMITH, AND FIRTH'S - A PRICES CURRENT (WHOLESALE). Sacks. 100's. 50's. r Crown Brand Flour, £ s. d. S s. d. & s. d. ? per ton 19 0010100 20 0 0 , T.S.&F. Canterbury Brand 17 0 0 17 10 0 18 0 0 , Seconds Flour .. .. 1-110 0 Sharps 8 10 0 . Bran 6 0 0 Fowl Wheat .. .. 0 1 oto 4s. Cd. The above prices include sacks and bags ; sacks and bags not returnable. Terms: Cash. Auckland. April 21. 1877. MUTUAL LIFE ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALASIA. Incorporated by Act of Parliament. NEW ZEALAND BRANCH: Head Otlice, Auckland ; Local Director: George Burgoynk Owen 1, E«q. (Messrs. Owen ; and Graham.) Principal Medical Officer: » Charles Field Goldsp.ro', Esq., M.I). General Agent for Kew Zealand : William T. J. Brll. . With Sub-Agencies in all the Principal Towns. Every information on the subject of LIFE ASSURANCE ANNUITIES, and ENDOW t MENTS FOR CHILDREN, afforded by J. A. Lowe, Travelling Agent to the Association ; or i WILLIAM T. J. BELL, General Agent. $3L Special Features.— Age admitted on Policies, which are unciiallangable from date of issu«. Lowest Rates of Premiums, and no HAMPER ING conditions as to residence or occupation. \TEW r^EALANJ) TTOUSE, GG, QUEEN-STREET, Auckland. During the WINTER MONTHS this Establish ' mcntwill be CLOSED at 5.30 p.m. (Saturdays execpted), commencing on MONDAY, the 10th April. W. RATTRAY, DRAPER, CLOT [I TlClt, AND SILK MERCER, G6, QUEEN-STREET. Auckland WANTED KNOWN, that H. Serjeant, of Excelsior Store, Karangahape Road, has now Opened a BRANCH, in the NEW M ARKET, Queen-street, with a Genuine Stock of i Groceries, at prices to suit the times. One trial i will prove the fact, that the following articles are the Best and Cheapest in Auckland :—Good Family Tea, 2s V 1I>; Choice do, 2s Gd ; Sergeant's Excelsior Mixture, di, being a combination of rarest and choicest Teas imported ; Good House hold Flour, 7ltis for Is ; Preserved Milk, best brand, Od V tin, 8s $ di,z.; Good Bacon, yd V II.; Good Cheese, from Id V- lb; Sparkling White Sugar, orl V- 1l>; Purn Limejuice, Sd 1' bot. ; Pearl Barley, 3^l V lb; Whiting, Id V- lb ; Washing Soda. 7U>s for Is. Every other art'elo of the best quality at the lowest possible prices. T\TEW BOOKS Purchased for the Young A-% Men's Christian Association Library:— "Day of Rest," "Leisure Hour," "Sunday at Home," "' Argosy," "Colonial Travels," "The Orescent and the Cross," "Yachting Hx-uise, South Seas," "India and Sepoy Mutiny," "'Log Letters of the Challenger," "Lariy Clarissa," "The Golden Dream," "At Last," "Oakshali Castle," "The Gold of Chickaree," "My Little Lady," "Dr. Livingston's Last Journal, Vol.l and 2," "Talmago's Sermons," "Sketches of Australian Life," " Revival and Revival Work," "Oliver of the Mill," "Reptiles and Birds," "Half Hour in Far East," " Th« Queen of the Colonies"; and about 100 Volumes of Standard Works by the best authors. Scamps arc selling counterfeits of that most wholesale of medicinal stimulants, Udolpiio Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, famous alike for its health-giving properties and agreeable flavour. The knaves who are carry ing on this wicked traffic put their liery decoct ions into empty bottles of the real article, and In most instances imitate the genuine labels. Insist upon having the real Schnapps. Pi.kk and Healthy Blood, Olkak Skin, and Good Complexion obtained by using Biiaklaxd's Concentrated Sarsaparilla. Price, 3s. 6d. and 4s. Gd. a bottle. ShaklANd'S Podo phyllin (Pearl) Pills, for Billiousness, Constipa tion, and Liver. Price, Is. and 2s. Gd a box.— T3T Apothecaries Hall, opposite Post-oiliee, Auckland. The Medical Profession have declared ■Jteane's Superlative Aromatic Tonic Wine to be a necessity to all in search of health, and especially to those suffering either f rom Incipient or Chronic Indigestion, Dyspepsia, and the dis orders arising therefrom. This Tonic is also particularly recommended to all who are in a measure compelled from the nature of their occupation to take stimulants, and at the same time are desirous of studying health by taking that which will act most beneficially on the system. Mr. Wm. Johnson, Government Analy tical Chemist, report: —• "I have examined Steane's Superlative Aromatic Tonic Wine, and find it to be rcmai'kably pleasant in flavour, con taining about 16 per cent, of a very pure alcohol, and holding in solution a clear wholesome, Vegetable Bitter, combined with a fruity spicy o,i' nma. I consider this Bitter a very superior «ttflte»Mie!4ky »11 Storclccppors iwX ilnt-ul--



pus, 3 years; Bide-a-wee, 5 years; l ri ?, lp,Po<W bhanneen, o yaars; Magician a»»H. A 4yß*t«' years. sca 'Opawa )( j Handicap Steeplechase, of 70 tow. miles—Butcher Boy. aged •Fa £SE3\OQt 31 Merry Monarch, late Cossack j3fc=2ltear S' Don, aßod; Connaught Ranw S^3fcjh6 aged; The Arrow, aged; Shai Islesman, aged ; BucUstone.lat fl' Wrangler, ajred • Perfume, 6^ pttr^-, M; Autumn Handicap, of 80 aovf^W^A' fume, 6 years; Elsa. i years: KingflT.f fi~" Per- Hippocampus, 3 years; Bide-a-Wee - ye *r8; Ariel, 1 years; Shannecn. 5 years- \? y.e ¥*: aged ; Opawa, 6 years; Baron, 2 years Slcian>