SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

prrr-TT wititt? (This Afternoon, 1.55 HIGH WATER—j To . morrow Morning, 2.23 SUN SET.—This Evening, 5.44 SUN RISE.—To-morrow Morning, 6.26 MOON'SAGE.—New Moon, 14th, 5.29 a,.m

ARRIVALS.

Transport, brig, from Newcastle Stag, barque, Matthews, from Newcastle lona, s.s.. Farquhar, from the North Rowena, s.s.. from Tauranga Pretty Jane, s.s., from Napier and Gisborne Wellington, s.s., Lloyd, from the South

DEPARTURES.

Courser, barque, Killman, from New York Southern Cross, auxiliary screwbarquentine, for Norfolk Island.

IMPORTS.

Per Transport, from Newcastle: 460 tons coal, 1100 felloes, 15 pair shafts.—Stone Bros., agents.

EXPORTS.

Per Kate McGregor, for Oamaru: 50,000 ft, timber.—D. H. McKcnzie, agent.

DEPARTURE OF THE MISSION VESSEL.

TheMelanesian mission vessel Southern Cross, Captain Bongard, left this afternoon for her annual six months' trip to the Islands. Two o'clock was the time appointed for her de parture, and as that time drew on, there was quite a crowd assembled on the outer eastern tee of the Queen-street wharf to see the vessel away and say good-bye to those on board, especially to Bishop Selwyn, who to-day starts for the scene of his missionary labours, for the first time after his consecration. The Southern Cross will call in at the Kawau, and remain there till Monday, when she will leave for Norfolk Island direct. Passengers: Bishop and Mrs Selwyn, Rev. A. Penny. Rev. R. B. Cummings, Miss Fairburn, Miss Duder, and Miss Calvert.

The barque Emma is open for freight or charter.

The barque Melrose is loading with coal at Newcastle for Messrs Stone Bros.

The brig Transport arrived from Newcastle to-dny with coals. She was in company with the barque Stag on leaving port, and on the New Zealand coast, so that she experienced similar weather.

The s.s. Wellington is expected in the Manu kau this afternoon from the South.

The barque Courser left yesterday afternoon for New York.

Captain Farquhar of the s.s. lona reports that the brigantine Augusta, for some time past expected from Fiji, was off Parengarenga. on Wednesday last, and sent ofF a boat for provis sions. She was 26 days out, and the crew had been on short rations for some days, The boat was swamped in the surf, and the mate lost £7, which he had brought ashore to buy a stock of food. The captain manned another boat with passengers, and towed the first back to the ship. The following are the passengers who pro ceeded South in the Taupo yesterday afternoon : Mr and Mrs Lnsk, Mrs Sutcliffe, Misses Hill, Kirk, Captain Cross, Messrs Thomas, French, Watts, Smith Marshall, Raine, Thomson (2), X"hen, E. G. Smith.Thatcher, Hill, Gibson, Kelly, "Well?, Anderson, Buckland, and five steerage.— Henderson and Macfarlane, agents. The barque Stag, Captain Matthews, arrived from Newcastle last evening with a cargo of coal for Mr D. H. McKenz'e. The vessel left on the 19th, and encountered strong easterly winds for three days. About two day's sail from Cape Maria Van Dieman the wind shifted to the South. The Three Kings were sighted on Mon day at noon, and light S. and S.K. winds were experienced on the coast. The s.s. Rowena arrived this morning: from Tauranga. Captain|Sellars reports experiencing a very heavy squall at 9 o'clock, when the wind shifted from the N.E. to N.W.—Passengers: Miss Gordon, Cummings, Mr and Mrs Bull, Mrs Fergusson, Mrs Gillman, Miss Holford, Miss M'iCanley, Mrs Taylor, Messrs Brennan, Jnc. Allen, Market, Abrahams. Douglas, Seccombc, "Vcrcoe, Burse, Fletcher, W. Kelly, and six natives. Cargo: 250 bags wheat, 2 biles wool, 8 bales hay, and 12 pkgs. The ketch Adah cleared for the Thames to-day with the following cargo : 1 "marter-cask brandy, 20 bags maize, 2 tons flour, J ton salt, 2 sacks bran, 6 kegs butter, 6 bags sugar.—Stone Bros., agents. The s.s. Pretty Jane arrived this morning from Poverty Bay, via the Thames. Cargo :30 hides, 12 casks tallow, 26 hides, 25 sacks grass seed, 36 pigs. Passengers: Mr Macfarlane and the Chicago Minstrel Troupe. The schooner Kate McGregor cleared out for Oamaru to-day with a cargo of timber.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails will Close as Under :— For Thames, this day, at 4.30 p.m., 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 Kina, at 4.30 p.m. For Noumea, (New Caledonia), per Minehaha,

on Monday next, at 8 a.m. For Tryphena, per Three, Brothers, this day,

at 4 p.m. For Tairua, per Mercury, on Monday next,

at 11 a.m. For Russell, Wangaroa, and Mongenui, per

lona, on Monday, at 4 p.m. For Whitianga, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Rowena. on Monday next, at 4 p.m. For Australian Colonies, per Rotorua, on

Tuesday, 10th inst. at 11 a.m. For Tauranga and Gisborne, per Pretty Jane,

on Tuesday, 10th instant, at 3 p.m. For Taranaki, Southern Provinces, and Aus-

tralian Colonies, per Wellington, on Wednes-

day, 11th inst., at 5 a.m. Per s.s. Zealandia, on Wednesday, {11th inst., as follows:— For 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. N.B. —The new issue of the New Zealand Postal Guide for the current quarter, can now be obtained at this office. Price, 6d.

S. B. BISS. Chief Postmaster.

BIRTH.

KEAN.—On the 4th April, Mrs. Henry Kean, of the Thistle Hotel, Queen-street, of a daughter.

MARRIAGE.

PHILLIPS—McLELLAN.—On the sth April, at the residence of the brides mother, West street, Newton, by the Rev. R. P. Macnicol, Henry Phillips to Martha McLellan. both of this city.—Southern papers please copy.

DEATH.

CHITCH 4lM.—On the 6th instant, at the resi dence of her parents, Nelson-street, Mabel, infant daughter of Charles and Mary Jane Chitcham, aged 9 months. The funeral will take place at 3 o'clock p.m.. to-morrow (Sunday).

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

SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1877

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

De. Skae, the Inspector of Asylums, upon, whose salary and appointment Parlia ment descended like the ancient Assyrian on the children of Israel, and who, like the chosen ones, has been miraculously pre served to testify unto wisdom, has com pleted a series of official visits to the various colonial Lunatic Asylums. His report on the institution at the Whau, in the hands of the Government for some time past, has at length become available for pubiic perusal, and reveals a state of things the reverse of satisfactory. The building, he states, was designed for the accommodation of 50 patients, and into this confined place are packed no loss than 1 Go. Day-room, chapel, tailor's and shoemaker's shops, corridors, passages, stair-head, doctor's office, dining room, and portions of the airing courts have one by one given way to the demand for sleep ing-room. The attendants are too few by four male and two female warders, drainageshockinglybad,and accommodation for the patients during the day, such as to preclude the employment of curative treatment. Turning from the picture of the asylum interior by night, when beds are strewn about in all conceivable and inconceivable places, Dr Skae presents the following uninviting view of the institution by day :—

The day space is equally deficient. The carpenter's shop is the only day room for the males. When visited repeatedly during the inspection, even when Its crowded state was relievedby the adjacent airing court—which it cannot be in wet weather—it was a most depressing place to go into. It was absolutely without furniture (there is no room for any), except a few benches fixed to the walls. There was always noise and excitement. Numbers ot idle patients were found impatiently pacing up and down the room, some sitting listlessly "n the benches, others lying about in different directions. Many of these patients are very violent and dangerous; others are very suiuy and discontented ; most of them aro demented, with nothing whatever to interest them, or keep them from daily sinking into dementia. In winter, as must frequently for long periods be the case, the weather does not admit of the patients going into the court, there must be upwards of 80 patients herded together in this one room. If any of them recover, it must be in spite of, and not because of, such treatment.

The Inspector proceeds to say that the fittings and supplies of the asylum are as inadequate as its accommodation, although the dietary scale was found to be liberal and the food of good quality. Summarising all his observations, Dr Skae remarks:

When the crowded state of this Asylum, its defective appliances and inadequate stair of attendants aro taken into consideration, it must bo freely conceded that to conduct, its management in an entirely satisfactory man ner is not possible for any one. These things being held in view, the mortality appears very low, the proportion of recoveries high; and the rarity of serious accidents, and the small extent to which seclusion and retirement are resorted to, is very creditable to the medical oilicer and his staff. Nevertheless, there is not sufficient txcuse for several things which have been commented upon in this report, such as the small number of patients em ployed, the little or nothing which is done for their recreation, the large number confined to the airing courts, the untidy and neglected appearance of the patients, and the muddled state of the registers. This is the only asylum i n the colony which has the great advantage of a resident medical omcer, and yet in respect of the energetic and enterprising management, it makes a sorry figure in comparison with those, for example, of Christchurch or Hokitika.

Most of the statements in Dr. Skae's report, unsatisfactory as they are, have been matter of notoriety for years, but the want of avail able funds has weighed against all eflorts at reform, until the evil has grown to the pro portions of a public scandal. The forcible detention of patients of both sexes, whose mental and physical condition requires careful treatment, in a crowded den like this, is nothing short of gross cruelty, the effects of which will be devel oped in a perpetual aggravation of the original misfortune, and an increasing burden upon the State. Above the doors of such an institution should be written Dante's inscription over inferno : "Abandon hope all ye who enter here." Of necessity, ! it must be that many whose reason, tottering under violent shock, but capable of restor ation with rest, quiet, and suitable medical treatment, are driven into the ranks of the hopelessly insane by exposure to all the mad pranks of the motley crew huddled in this badly designed hive. It is creditable to the medical officer that the motto we have chosen for the institution has been so far modified as to maintain even a high per centage of persons who have escaped from the Bedlam. The general charge of want of energy, brought by Dr Skae against the management, might have been anticipated. A continual struggle with expedients and unsuitable appliances is destructive of efficiency, and when informed that the head of the institu tion had no corrective control over the sub ordinate officers, we should not have been surprised if insubordination and a total want of discipline were added to the other charges against the institution. With the reports of Dr Skao and the Commissioners in their possession, the Government have thrown upon them the duty of instituting immediate reforms. Two courses, more or less effectual, are open: the erection of the long-contemplated new wing, and the supply of other requisites suggested by Dr Skae, or the cheaper process adopted with reference to the over-crowded Bene volent Institution of Dimedin, mentioned in our last evening's issue. By turning the superfluous patients out of doors, and instructing Magistrates to send no more, the Government may sever the Gordian knot at a single stroke. The plan is com mended by a perfect contesseration of advantages, if it does net quite fulfil pre conceived notions of the functions of wise Government. Should it be decided, how ever, to enlarge the building and supply all appliances requisite to establish a thorough state of efficiency, and the results do not then realise what may reasonably be expected, we shall be warranted m conclud ing that there is something radically wrong in the management. Assuredly the present comfortless condition of our retreat for those who have been visited Avitli the saddest of all afflictions, is a reproach to the city, and demands immediate reforma tion. As contributing to that end, we thinkDr Skae's report is judiciously worded, sensible in its recommendations, and well-

timed.

Sunday services will be held as usual in the several city and suburban churches according to announcements in our third page. The evening service for the people in the Theatre Royal, will waig£Ace at %$ h, S uj? $ ejgh^ o/cjiacj^

A dividend of £2 108 per share was declared this morning in the Moanatairi mine, and will be payable on Thursday next.

A considerable amount of excitement was caused in the sharemarket this afternoon by the fall of Moauatairis to £14 10s. It was a curious and interesting sight, worthy the pencil of a Leech, that motley assemblage of anxioiis men, ranging in social position from the would-be-minister to the cabman, and varying in height from six feet one to live feet nothing. There was the barber and the tailor, representatives of the scissois and shears ; the draper, who had dropped his measure ; tlie smith, who had left his anvil; the W.C.T. of a Good Templar lodge, and a prominent member of the L.V. A., all busy on Moanatairis, wondering at their fall, and expressing a hope that Monday might not only bring a change of weather, but a favourable change in the temple of their expectations.

This morning, as every one has reason to know who was out in it, there was a tre mendous squall of wind and rain about half-past eight o'clock. The wind was from the N.E. in the earlier hours, and blew lustily, but at eight o'clock it began to shift to the westward, and increased in violence. About a quarter to nine it was blowing a hurricane, and it was a work of difficulty for the passengers on the foot paths in Princes-street and other high thoroughfares facing to the north, to keep on their feet. The rain at the same time came down in a deluge, and as itwas just the time when clerks, and dressmakers, and business people in general were repairing to their scenes of industry, there was a universal skedaddle. It was piteous to see young and delicate-looking girls, with the clothes they would have to sit in all day completely saturated, and their boots and stockings dripping and besmeared with mud from the kennel. Poor things ! How many of them will have to date from this morning, racking rheumatism, churchyard coughs, and per haps rapid consumption. One little inci dent in the storm we noticed, which had an aspect of comedy about it but also a sugges tion of tragedy. Some few days ago the Cus toms outhoritics had a small pay ollice taken round to Jthe new Railway wharf to serve the purpese of a landing water* otlice"until a permanent office was built. This little box went on wheels, and this morning stood on the wide part of the wharf at the angle. At about ten minutes to nine, a sudden gust caught the broadside of the structure, and away it went at full speed across the wharf. The plank which fringes the edge of the parapet proved no safe guard. It struck it heavily, and at once tippled over, and was precipitated into the tide. Was anybody inside ? was a question which immediately occurred to the lookers-on. We have made enquiries, and we believe we are right in saying that the rumour that an unfortunate Custom House officer was capsized with the machine is altogether unfounded. At the same time, |fhe accident is illustrative of what will take place unless a permanent office is built without delay.

The committee and teachers of the All Sainis' .Sunday-school are about to make an effort in {favour of their funds, and have projected a series of lectures and entertain ments for the purpose of lightening the cloud of debt hanging over them. The first of these efforts will be a lecture on " The Lost Tribes of Israel," by Mr Win. Francis Hammond, on Wednesday evening next. Rev E. N. Bree will be the chairman of the evening, and the lecture will be illustrated by melodies and diagrams.

The anniversary services of the Mount Eden Baptist Sunday-school will be held to-morrow, when special .sermons will be preached, in the morning by ltcv T. F. Fee, and in the evening by Rev J, Buttle. Addresses will be delivered at the afternoon service by Mr J. Brame and Mr Ralph Stewart, of Somersetshire. The annual tea-meeting will be held on Tuesday even ing.

We observe by advertisement in another column that the anniversary of Court Zealandia of the Ancient Order of Foresters will bo celebrated by a soiree and ball on the evening of the Queen's Birthday, 24th May next, in the Lome-street Hall. This will be the fourth anniversary of this rising young Court, which was founded in the year 1873, and has since made considerable progress, the most notable feature in con nection with it being that its members are mostly .all young men, who all strive and work together, and endeavour to do their utmost to further its interests. It is a b ranch of one of those Friendly Societies which is calculated to do a great deal of good by providing for its members in the hour of need, and doing good generally. Great efforts are being made by the committee to make this soiree a success, and the low price of the tickets, viz., 3s, should ensure a good attendance, not only of members of the order, but of the public generally.

A beautiful Princess robe, made by the hand, of finest blackjlace mayjbe seen to-day and on Monday next, in the shop of Mr Teutenberg, next to Mr John Smith's, McArthur's buildings, Queen-street. This splendid article of dress, entirely wrought by Miss Teutenberg, from her own design, for Mrs Emmet, is the most intricate ;md charming article of a lady's'hand work, that has yet been exhibited in Auckland or in any other Colonial towr. A jacket of the same character and quality, and a new banner are also exhibited for a short time. We learn that Miss Teutenberg has received orders for goods from ladies in Englajpi, who have resided in this city, and are unable to get materials of like design and finish in London.

Travellers in remote parts of Australia have discovered in various Druidical nooks, deep in the forest primeval the distinct im pressions of human hands marked upon hard rocks. The marks are usually of a black colour, and are perfectly indelible, penetrating some depth into the stone. The origin of these marks is involved in mystery, the blacks having only the most obscure traditions on the subject; according to some the marks were made by devils. Apropos of this subject at the meeting of the Philosophical Institute at Christchurch, Dr. Haast, in his opening address, gave an account of the discovery of remarkable ancient rock paintings in Wcka Pass ranges. He exhibited careful drawings of them, made by S. S. Cousins. Some of the rock paintings are 15 feet long. They repre sent animals of foreign countries, weapons, and dresses of semi-civilised people. Under neath them are characters like those of the Tanil language, resembling those on an ancient bell found in the North Island.

The racing at the A.J.C. Autumn meet ing, appears to have been of a very interest ing character. The Chrysolite colt who was one of the few equine survivors of the calamity on board the City of Melbourne, just after the A. J.C. Spring meeting, has been restored to health and his old form, and succeeded in winning the St Leger, for which he was the favorite. By the cable grams received last night, we see that His Excellency's colt Tocal, has won the All Aged Stakes, the race which Briseis won last year. Chester followed up his Champagne victory by landing the Sires Produce Stakes while Pride of the Hill, the three year old heroine of the season, easily overthrew Chrysolite colt and Viva in the Cumberland Stakes.

The criminal sittings will be resumed on Monday morning at ten o'clock, when the cases of Peter McGrath, for wife beating, John Pyke, for larceny, and William Gibbons, for indecent assault,will be taken. The Brunner Coal Mining Company have bought the Luna for £4000, Wellington, is

Mr J. L. Hall has taken a lease of the Masonic Hall, Canterbury, for a period of two years. He purposes calling it the Gaiety Theatre.

The Dunedin " Star " says that the price of butchers' meat in that city is so high that the people will have to resort to vegetarian ism.

The dead body found on an island in the "Waitaki river turns out to be that of a man named Arthur Dimmick, aged 30 years, the son of a prosperous business man, in Wolver hampton, England. He had been drinking heavily.

Mrs Scott Siddons will appear at Blen heim, assisted by Mr Steele.

A well-known digger in New York named Andrew Ludwig, buried a can of intro glycerine in his garden, and afterwards went to dig it up. In doing so he struck the can with his pickaxe, and a fearful explosion was the result. Ludwig was blown into fragments, houses in the neighbourhood were shaken to their foundations, and windows shattered.

Inspector Crap and 30 Native A.C. are to be stationed at Taupo.

The inquiry at Kaitangata into the origin of the fire discovered on the premises of R. McDonald, timber merchant, shewed that a bag saturated with turpentine was found, but extinguished in time to save the prem ises. The jury returned a verdict that the place had heen maliciously set on fire by some person or persons unknown.

The " World " prints the following state ment, as the true proceedings in the May- Bennett duel: It is asserted that when the seconds asked the principals if they were ready, May twice replied that he was not; that after the second asking, the snap of a pistol was heard ; that May's second thereupon advanced in front of Bennett and asked if it was his pistol which had been snapped ; that Bennett exhibited his weapon in proof that such Avas not the case ; that May then spoke up and said his pistol had accidentally snapped ; that after this the seconds adjudged to Bennett the right to fire; that Bennett leveled his pistol, took aim, and then suddenly throwing up his arm, fired in the air, whereby the duel ended with no bloodshed.

The manager of the Temperance Variety Troupe has succeeded in getting up a capital programme for the Temperance Hall concert this evening, including several comic and sentimental songs by ladies and gentlemen, and a new farce " Going to the J3a11." Mr James Cox will take the chair, and deliver the address of the evening.

It is rumored in Dunedin that his Honor Mr Justice Williams is to be removed from the Otago district either to Christchurch or the West Coast, and that his Honor Mr Justice Johnston is going to England on leave of absence. it is hoped that these contemplated changes will be as satisfactory to the public as to their Honors themselves.

A telegram from Christchurch the other day alluded, in a somewhat mysterious manner, to an MILK, who had lately joined a business firm, and was using his member's ticket when travelling on the railways. " This telegram," says the " Grey Kiver Argus," " refers to the mem ber for Grey Valley, Mr C. Woolcock, who has recently accepted the post of traveller for a produce firm in Canterbury. The interesting economy practised by this gentleman adds another to the numerous claims lie has upon the admiration of his constituents."

It is stated in an English journal that a romantic contest for possession of the pro perty of an Australian squatter is goingjon in the Court of Chancery, London. The money value of the property is about £00,01)0, and the man who left this vast wealth was originally a poor Scotch emigrant from the Isle of Arran, who landed in Australia with half-a-crown in his pocket. Having died without a will, his relatives arc squabbling about the right of succession. Thomas Vivers emigrated about Jifty-six years ago, and died at Sydney in 1857, leav ing 900 acres of grazing land, valued at £14,000, with 30,000 sheep, 2,000 head of cattle, many horses, and much general farm stock, the whole valued at £50,000. Two nephews had also gone out, and lived with him a few years. One of these nephews, liobert Vivers, Avas a character, and distinguished himself as a local preacher and magic lantern exhibitor, and he became editor of Sydney " Punch." Ilobert seized the whole property on the death of his uncle, declared himself next of kin, and even came to London to take an oath in Chancery to that eifect. Now, a sister of the dead squatter, Mrs liae, comes forward to claim the property as next of kin, and accuses her nephew of forgery and perjury in setting up his groundless claim. The case promises to occupy Vice-Chancellor Malms some time.

Mdlle. Atlanti, an American operatic singer and elocutionist, purposes to give one or two entertainments in Auckland, and will open witli the first at the Lornu street Hall on Monday week. The press of Napier, where Mdlle. last appeared, speaks in very eulogistic te^ns of her ability. The " Hawke's Bay Herald " says : —" Perhaps the most remarkable circumstance in connection with the enter tainment, was the power to keep up the atten tion of the audience displayed by Mdlle. Atlanti. Going through her programme wholly unassisted, she yet contrived to keep her audience entertained with scarcely any intermission. That she is an excellent musician was evinced by her execution of the several selections she played on the piano, and which included waltzes from Strauss, and other com posers, " The Maiden's Prayer" and several others. Her singing is also very good. She sang " Robert toi que j'aime" with much sweetness of expression, " Shells of the Ocean" and " Coming through the rye" Avere both much applauded, and the comic song " Constantinople" was rendered very amusingly. But, however high Mdlle. Atlanti may rank as a musician, she must take a still higher place as an elocutionist. She is undoubtedly mistress of the art of reading Avith effect. " The Four Henries," was as fine a reading as we have ever heard, and the rendering of " Fetha the Dwarf" was full of pathos."

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before G. Yon der Heyde Esq. (chairman), and John Cosgrave Esq. Justices of the Peace.) THE COMMON FRAILTY. Sam. George, and Henry, tipplers three, Paid each a crown and then were free. Samuel Fuller, George Walker, and Henry Edwards, were severally charged with drunkenness, and fined 5s each with costs. A ROUGH BUSH. Mike threatened Ellen—itjwas more than sport— And Ellen sought protection of the Court. Michael Bushe, was charged with unlaw fully assaulting Ellen Freeman by striking her on her head, kicking her body, and otherwise ill-treating her. Prisoner pleaded not guilty. Sub-Inspector Pardy said this was a very bad case, and one which the police should take up. Ellen Freeman was a -stop-daughter of the prisoner, and ' she |{ad been subjected to the most revolting cruelty from prisoner. There were several respectable witnesses who could give evidence in. relation to the case, but one of the principle witnesses was ill; the prosecutrix was also ill in bed in conse quence of prisoner's savage treatment. The Bench remanded the prisoner until Monday for the attendance of witnesses.

VAGRANT PAT. Pat Murphy wass brought up to Court again 5 A well-known member of tfia vagrant wain.

under the Vagrant Act, with being an habitual drunkard, a rogue, and vagabond, without visible means, etc.

Prisoner denied the charge. Detectives Jeffrey and Grace proved that prisoner was a thief and beggar, and had a decided obje«tion to honest work. As there was a long list of convictions against the prisoner, he was sent to gaol for two years.

GOING TO THE BAD.

Pat Sandles, from the land of stars and stripes, "VTas brought up charged with stealing five clay

pipes. Patrick Sandles, a lad of 15, was charged with stealing five pipes, value 2s, the pro perty of Mr Gotch, tobacconist, of Queen street.

The boy burst into tears. The father of the boy then came forward and expressed regret at the unfortunate position of his son, and if the Bench permit him, he would take care of the youth.

Discharged. MATRIMONIAL JARS.

Wild storms arise, and surging waves of strife, And strange winds stir the sea of married life.

John B. Smyth, appeared in answer to a charsre of threatening his wife, Kate Smyth, on Wednesday last, with intent, &c. Kate Smyth deposed that she was the wife of defendant, and that she had a protection order. She was living in a respectable neighbourhood, where she hoped for a life of peace, but John would make her periodical visits, much against her will, and made terrible threats towards her, promising to do for her, to smash her, etc.', and she feared if he was not restrained he Avould carry his threats into execution. Thomas Smyth, son of the defendant, gave evidence against his father, and was reprimanded by the Bench for his im pertinence. John B. Smyth said he went, on Wednes day last, to his wife's residence for his second son to come to work. He went in for a little mill which belonged to him, and his wife immediately caught hold of the mill, and tried to prevent him from taking it away ; not that she wanted the mill, but in order to create a mill. See called him " Dirty Jack," and other unpleasant epithets. She would not let'his boys work for him, and thus hindered them from learning a trade which might be of service to them in the future. He was a cabinet maker.

The Bench having questioned the parties, considered it a frivolous charge, and dis missed the case.

MRS SULLIVAN'S SONS,

"We have our troub es on the troublous sea,

Still, when we Ye money, jolly boy 3 are we. Robert and Hugh Sullivan, brothers, and fishermen, Avere charged Avith neglecting to contribute towards the support of their mother in distressed circumstances.

Defendants were about to speak upon the preeariousness of fishermen's lives, Avhen the clerk suggested that the case should be remanded until Saturday next, in the pre sence of Mr BarstoAV, Avho had previously heard the particulars of the case.

THK CHILD

Barney was summoned, but he only smiled. And left poor Charlotte to maintain his child* Barney Coyle, was charged "with refusing to support bis illegitimate child, at the instance of Charlotte Sadgrove.

Mr Coyle, did not put in an appearance, and the case was allowed to stand over for a week.

LUNACY.

A respectable married woman from Par nell Avas committed to the Wliau Asylum, she being of unsound mind, on the medical testimony of Dr. Wright and Dr. Ellis. This was all the business.

My Weekly Dose.

BY " THE DOCTOR."

" Shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living a<3 they rise."

SINGULAR SELF-DENIAL.

There is a man in Italy Avho scorns * fortune of £7,200,000, preferring to "coach" pupils at 12s. a day—just about the Avages of a stonemason in Ncav Zealand. Methinks I should like to see that man, because he must be about the only specimen of the kind alive, and probably there Avill not be such another for a few centuries. Nature is exceedingly saving of such men. His father was the Duke of Genoa, an Italian grandee, who gave a trifle of £800,000 for

the improvement of the port of Genoa, just as Captain Daldy is going to do for Auck land when he shuffles off this mortal coil. The grandee (I mean, of course the Eye talian, not Captain Daldy), left £7,200,000 to his adopted son, who is troubled with compunctious visitings of conscience about the manner in which the money was acquired, iv fact he thinks it wasn't got exactly on the square. Therefore, instead of gallivanting around at Carnivals, sere nading under Senorita's windows Avith a banjo, cruising about in a gondola in search of new amours, and enjoying life like other sensible Italians, this exceedingly conscientious and worthy young man crams students, and flips his maccaroni on twelve bob a day ! Meantime £7,200,000 is going to waste, and where is Julius Vogel ? Here is the " Herald " telling us in this Friday's issue that "the next session will have to make arrangements for further borrowing," and yet Julius makes no sign. Is he laid up Avith the gout ? and why doesn't Atkin son send a cablegram instructing him to proceed post haste to Genoa, and bone that £7,200.000 at 5 per cent ?

POOR PAUPERISED BLENHEIM,

The editor of a beggarly snarling little print yclept, the " Marlborough Express " put on his Avar paint not long ago, and danced an Indian war-dance over the poverty of Auckland. I believe you rebuked him in a mild, fatherly spirit, and added something about the frequency of incendiary fires at Blen heim, upon which the Marlborough man's " dander riz," and after flourishing his scalping knife, he sat down and designed a cunning contrivance out of his water-tank, by which any lurking incendiary would be incontinently droAvned. But the editor, in the consciousness of security, has been again having a fling at " pauperized Auckland." Well, seeing that there's no gaol in Marl borough, I pondered the matter over a great deal, until I discovered there was nothing there worth stealing, except the editor's tank, so that a gaol is unnecessary. The "Blenheim Express" need'nt crow any longer. A toAvn that can't support a gaol is'nt Avorth a cent.

PARSON'S LOGIC,

That Avas a very edifying anecdote Avhich the Rev. J. Robertson told the other day about a stonemason. This student of elementary geology Avas in the habit of invoking certain ocular treatment, very frequently in request amongst sailors. It is unnecessary to go into particulars, but it avill suffice to say that the word Avhich expresses the operation is spelled someAvhat like another employed in connection with certain useful Avorks in rivers and mill streams. I can only suppose that the man was troubled AAdth a "cataract" in Ins eye, and that the proposed obstruction would have stopped it Ihe rev. gentleman tells us that the stonemason's eyes got so affected that he had to consult a medical man, Avho recommended a shoAver bath; that one day, Avhen the aforesaid stone-mason was pulling the string to let down the Avater the machine flopped down on his head, and made him see stars ; and here's Avherc the moral comes in; The stonemason had prayed for this, and got his deserts. Did WU°£ gh? *Did, P,!' ay that his h™& might bo contused by the descent of a bi" water can? But then what about those exceedingly pious and warm-hearted old gentlemen who are continually giving vent

blmssings on their souls ? Are their pra y «« answered, and if not, why not' y AN ENTHUSIAST IN HIS PRO FESSION. m' Dickens' Dennis, in "The Story of «,* Bastile," was an enthusiast in his line »Wa so is Dr Wallis, though they belong to X different branches of the profession Benon? when he got jammed in a narrow nua^ in the^ pyramid and was almost choked with the dust of decayed mummies AvaJ also an enthusiast. So was Midshipman Easy's father when he got squeezed in his patent phrenological bump-reducer • so is the constable who stopped the bathers at Pamell; so's Inspector Goldio, andmuch more so Silas Pugsby, of Greytown, who backed himself for a wager against any man in Wellington to " smell him" any distance up to 20 miles. But none of these can hold a candle to Dr Johnston, coroner of Wellington. He attended prof essionally at an inquest on a corpse, and at the close of the proceedings thanked the "gentle, man of the jury" for their attendance remarking "For my part, my duty has been a pleasant one." N.B. The corpse was the Province of Wellington, and the jury the Provincial officials. OUR ARISTOCRACY. When is the first number of the " New Zealand Peerage " to be published ? Every, body is being knighted, and no one comes forward to record their shining virtues and enrol their names. This shews what a loss the colony has suffered in sending Sir Julius Vogel home. Were he here now we should have a College of Herald's, which would yield so much the first year, so much more the second, and so on in geometric series. PRACTICAL SYMPATHY. A good story comes from Taranaki. A missionary, who had been away for many years, revisited the scenes of his former labours, bxit was affected unto tears when he found that a heap of stones and a far strawberries were all that marked the site of the mission station. (He ate the straw, berries in order to relieve his feelings.) He gazed on the melancholy scene, meditated on the mutability of worldly things, made a note out for his next sermon, and then poured his sorrows into the sympathising ear of a Maori guide. The latter wiped away the unbidden tear that flowed, fand besought the missionary to lend him half-a< crown, in order that he might repair unto a hotel hard by, and suscitate his drooping spirits in rum. MORE TALES ABOUT TAILS. We never hear much about the tailed men of Kalili nowadays. Their caudal appendages have been put out of joint hv the long-eared tribe who use oneear asa mattrass and"the other as a coverlet. I presume,also, the ears come in useful as umbrellas to keep off the rain, or to preserve their com plexions from being spoiled by the rays' of the tropical sun. In that country, when a native, addressing another in the language of Shakespeare, says, "Lend me your eats," it is equivalent to our "Let me share your umbrella." Another curious thing is that owing to the difficulty experienced by the natives in dragging' these inconveniently large ears about, they are called "Ings." I present this curious fact to students of philological ethnology. (How's that for high ?) But even these auricular wonders are surpassed by what Canon Liddon beheld in his journey down the Save, in Turkey. Men were perched on what looked like poles, acting as scare-crows and bean tenters, and a learned sayan has discovered that there were no poles at all about it, but the fellows were simply sitting up on the end of their straightened tails ! This is all very wonderful, and illustrates the old adage that one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives. But still the wonder grows. There is a tribe somewhere in the interior of Africa in latitude—l forget the exact latitude and longitude, but it doesn't matter —who have two long tusks in their front teeth, which they use as .agri cultural implements !! I Is there anything else to be discovered in the world, I wonder! Isn't this planet about played out, used up, and teetotally explored ? and isn't it time for mankind to sit down quietly, and reflect a bit, and arrange things, before they go on finding out any more marvellous "inherited monstrosities ?'" It seems to me that we've enough in stock to last awhile. SAVED BY HIS FAT. I never could understand why fat men should be objects of ridicule. There is that about your fat man that is the impersonation of good living, contentment, and geniality, and he always " carries weight in the com munity. " " 'Tis the men of the " that spare Cassnis" sort, that "be never at heart's ease." Therefore let the fat man take heart of grease—l mean grace. There is a fellow at Palermo, Italy, who was lately set upon by six brigands, who wanted to carry him off in order to exact a ransom from his friends. They came, they saw, and they didn't conquer. The man who was to be spirited away plumped down on his door step and refused to budge, whilc^ the brigands contemplated his mountainous proportions in dismay. They tried threats, flattery, prospective bribes in venison and turtle soup, but in vain. One ferocious brigand suggested that the obstinate party should be removed in sections, another that the job should be let by contract. Some of 'era went in search of a cart, and while the brigands were fooling around an enormous personage poked a shot-sun out of a second floor window, and saluted the abductors with slugs. The brigands skedaddled. Thus, my Christian readers, doth Dame Nature, in the distribution of her bountiful gifts, compensate for the withholding of personal graces. Had Beneditti Marcio been a dandy with the waist of ajnantua makpr, he must have been carried into captivity, and if the ransom were not forth coming, would have had his wizen slit WHO WANTS A LIBRARY, CHEAP Don't all speak at once ! I hear people? complain of the expensiveness of books. Well, there are books and books. Some of the books are got up so grand and gorgeous in gilt and ivory that it seems a pity to read them for fear of spoiling 'em. They are made to lie on drawing-room tables,, and they are not the only things that lie ther* by a long way. But then if you want to> possess a useful library out and out for * sum of money which would just suffice to buy half-a-dbzen butterfly, gingerbread, gewgaws, go to Wayte's, in Queen-street, ask for Miiner and Sowerby's series of one and threepenny books, known as the "Cottage Library," comprising all the best modern poets, and a well-selected list or useful entertaining amusing, and instructive standard prose works, by the best authors, all the said books being substantially an* durably bound in cloth, neatly got up, ttbH printed, and so marvellously cheap, as to do infinite credit to the enterprisingpuo lishers (who never offered me a cent in their blessed lives, and I wouldn't take if if they did). I write this in the interest of country settlers, and country libraries. I Know what it is to live a wearisome existence ml the bush, where the literacy stock m traae is limited to a few well-thumbed creasy novels (with a hiatus at the most exoitmg places) and I write this out of pure sym pathy. Anyone can secure from Waytea neat, durable, portable, and tolerably com plete library of the Miiner andSowerby series, comprising standard works in poetry, ( art, science, history, travels, domestic lnror* mation, cattle, farmyard, and garden flsna, books, and fiction, for a five pound nore. Having regard to this fact I fail to seei wny every small country settlement should nw have its public library. Say 100 settlers,-^ apiece, the price of two nobblers; W*> settlers, 4a apiece, the price of -a very Jitut spree, and a very big headache, * Y°**M* sion, it is hardly necessary to add that w» is written. & thoroughly JwngSgW iipi^ to www

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1877.



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