SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

ARRIVALS.

Georgetta, barque, Small, from Now York

DEPARTURES.

Rotorua, 's.s., (Macfarlane, for Napier ana me South , _ , Zealaudia. R.M.*.. Chevalier, for Sydney Niger, ship. Hallett, for New Bedford, via Society Islands . _ Foeoloa, schooner, Breckwold. for Samoa Golden Isle, schooner. Watts, for Russell

IMPORTS.

Per barqup Geor^ietta from New York : 9000 case? oil. 400 barrels plaster, 100 kegs nails, 10 caseslerftiUeit. 12 trucks, 2 bundles hardware, 6 mailet3 12 bundles sieves, 1 platform fscale, 100 easels, 209 dozen axe handles, 10 cases brooms, 5 doz^u baskets, 509 boxes clothes pegs, 200 bundles washboards, 88 dozen pails, 50 nests tubs. 537 cases chairs. —Arnold, Hines, .& Co. agents.

PBA ketch built by Mr P. Stone is to be launched to-day at the Thames. She is intended for the the Auckland and Thames trade The mail steamer Zealandia left for Sydney athiif-pastnveyesterda evening. The follow ing D.issengers were booked after our list pub lished yesterday was obtained. Saloon: Mrs Elliott Meyer, 3 children, and servant; W. Marti- ,Mr and Mrs Campbell, Mrs Gothe and daus-hrer. Steerage : Messrs Evans. King and 2 children, Mangnus, Jenkins. Tippetts, and W. The s.s. Rotorna, which left for the South at 5 o'clock yesterday afternoon, took the following pass^n^ers in addition to those publised by us yesterday- Messrs Rees (MVH.R.) and son, Hudson, Taylor, Hall, Williams, Stewart, Weadv, Boyd, McLevy, Forster, Hantley, Fraser. Holmes, Appett, Brushaver, Zmghart, Stauwith, Beal; Mesdames : O'Keefe and Beal; Misses Guthfie and Mabeer; 7 steerage, and oriarinal passengers from Sydney. The barque Georgietta arrived yesterday evening from New York, after a passage lasting 111 days, bringing a cargo of Yankee notions, &c, consigned to Arnold, Hines & Co. She left port on the Ist October, and had light winds to the Line ; crossed in S9 W. The eastings were run down in 4$ an 444 S.; Bass Straits were made on the 6th inst. Here the vessel was becalmed for six days. Thence to the Three Kings strong N.W. and W. winds: arriving off those islands on the evening of Sunday last. Carried N.W. winds to the Bay of Islands, where thick and heavy weather was experienced. It cleared up yesterday morning, and the harbour was made with fine westerly weather. After discharging her cargo the Georgietta is to be laid on to load bark for New York. "~ The s.s. Rotomahana is to leave for the Thames at six o'clock this evening, and not throe, as advertised. The schooner Fogoloa left yesterday evening for Samoa with a small cargo. The brigantine Linda Weber, lately at Dnnedin. is to load at Timaru for this port. The brigantine Active has come alongside to tranship her cargo of copra into the ship Loch Fleet. The schooner Colonist is loading at Manukau Heads for Wanganui with 36,000 ft. timber. HThe ship Fontenaye, which will be recollected as a visitor to this port about two years ago, left Gravesend for Auckland on the 10th D ; mem ber. Captain Taylor is in command, and the vessel i 3 under charter to Shaw, Savill, and Co. The barque Ann Gambles, according to the Loan and Mercantile Company's circular, has been laid on in London for the Bluff, and not for this port as stated by our contemporary. The s.s. Hawea arrived from Russell at 8.30 a.m. to-day. Psssengers:—Mr and Mrs Biss, Miss Davis, Miss Gilberd; Messrs Ord, Leslie, W. Davis, Colbert, Gilfillan, and Bedford. The Hawea is to leave on Friday for Tauranga and the South. The barque Bella Mary started discharging this morning, and during the day has made a good inroad into her cargo. The barque California was brought alongside the outer tee of the Queen-street wharf this morning. She will here discharge the Auck land portion of her cargo. The ship Loch Fleet is rapidly putting out her Southern produce, To-morrow she will be ready to take in her London cargo.

ENGLISH SHIPPING.

The barque Chile, which was cabled as having been injured by a collision in the Channel on starting for this port, is stated by the "Home News" to have received oonssderable damage and returned to port. Apparently she had not made another start before the* mail left. . The barque Camilla, from this port, arrived at New York on the 30th November. MThe barque Ann Gambles and the ship Electra (both from this port) arrived home together. Gravesend was reached by the former on the 28th November, and by the Electra on jthe 29th. The Ann Gambles left Auckland on the 14th July, and was consequently 135 days on the passage: the Electra left on the 11th August, and was 109 day 3on the voyage. The New Zealand Shipping Co'a. next vessels for this port after the departure of the mail were to be the Mendoza, barque, to sail on the 15th December, and the Camore, to sail on the 10th January. The barque Seatoller, Captain Messop, left London for this port on the Ist December, passing Deal the following day. She is under charter to the New Zealand Shipping Co.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND. Mails will Close as Under : For Thames, this day. at 5.30 p.m.; and to morrow, at 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m. For Waiheke and Coromandel, per Argyle, on Friday next, at 2.30 p.m. For Tryphena, per Three Brothers, this day, at 5 p.m. For Waiwera, Warkworth, and Te Arai, per Anne Milbank, to-morrow, at 10 a.m. For Tauranga, Gisborne, Napier, Southern Provinces, and Australian Colonies, per Hawea, on Friday next, at 2 p.m. For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers at 1 p.m. Late letters for Southern Provinces and Melbourne, at 2.20 p.m. For Whitiangi. Tauranga and Oponki, per Rowena, on Friday next, at 4 p.m. For Taranaki and Sonthern Provinces, per Taranaki, on Tuesday, 29th instant, at 1 p.m. Per City of New York, on Tuesday, sth Febru ary, as follows: — For Sandwich Inlands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 3 p.m. For United Kingdom and Continent of Europe, at 3 p.m. For money orders, registered letters and newspapers, at 1.30. Late letters bearing an extra fee of sixpence in addition to the post age will be received by the Mail Agent on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. S. B. BIS 3. Chief Postmaster.

DEATH.

CRUICKSHANK —On the 23rd January, at Remuera, Maud Logan, infant daughter of David and Bella Cruickßhank, aged 10 months.

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

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1878.

«or4fce cute that lacks asititanc*. Foe tee ifTuag thju: needs tesisuae*, FM the feture la the distance, Ami Iht a«**« •"«"**

The Russian army is now encamped within 130 miles of Constantinople. Adrianople, the second city of the Erapire,has fallen into the hands of the invader without a skirmish, and the great army of Rumelia, if it has any existence at all, is being concentrated at the Tchekemedge, about twenty miles from Constantinople, for a last defence of the capital. With the fall of Plevna, the Turkish defence completely broke down ; and one disaster has followed so rapidly upon another, that the victorious army is now safely quartered within a day's journey ' by rail, or a week's march, from the Golden Horn. The Tchekemedge, chosen by the Turks for their final stand, is a place which a Ghazi Osman might make absolutely impregnable. An inlet from the Sea of Marmora, on the west, narrows the actual line to be defended to between fifteen and eighteen miles. The country across the peninsular, from Marmora to the Black Sea, is inter sected by ranges of rugged hills and swamps, affording admirable positions for defence. The difficulty which proved fatal to Osman —want of supplies of food and ammunition—does not exist here. The place is in close communication with Con stantinople, and .the Turks command the highway of the sea. Since the opening of the war ample time has been afforded the Porte to strengthen this stronghold, and there has been some pretensions to the throwing up of earthworks. Whether the Turks, with their habitual supineness, have neglected to take full advantage of the natural defences, or whether they possess a commander who is equal to the occasion, can only be determined by the event. The Russians are now operating in a rich country, where supplies may easily be pro cured. A branch railw ay from Adrianople runs to the seaport of Enos, to which General Diebitch in 1829 despatched a column after the capture of Adrianople. An outlet may thus be gained to the Medi terranean without running the gauntlet of the fortresses of the Dardanelles, and a point d'appui secured, iron* which Gallipoli and the other strong positions of the straits might be menaced on the land ward side. It is improbable that any single position in South Turkey, except Constan tinople, is capable of holding out against a resolute attack in force, and the fortresses of the quadrilateral have been so greatly weakened by the withdrawal of troops for the main defence, that there is no prospect of a divetsion in that quarter by sorties operating on the rear of the Russian army. Turkey virtually lies at the feet of the conqueror. This is so un questionably true that there is no reason able pretext for delaying the Turkish re quest for an armistice and consideration of peace proposals. The Russians, encouraged by the unexpected success of the Rumelian campaign, may feel disposed to defer, by any expedient, the pending negotiations, with the object of carrying out a hurried march on Constantinople, which for the moment appears almost within grasp. But every step beyond what is absolutely I necessary for the accomplishment of a mission that has carried the sympathy of Europe, will bring Russia more into collision with Powers which she can have no desire to offend just now. We believe the next few days must either result in cessation of hostilities or produce European complications, theissue of which cannot be foreseen. It is ef interest at this juncture to note the position and movements of the British Squadron. Atlantic despatches by the San Francisco mail shew that the fleet was removed for winter quarters from the open and dan gerous harbour of Besika Bay further south to the Gulf of Vourla, near Smyrna. Our morning contemporary to-day erroneously confounds this I place with the Gulf of Vola, in Thessally. The object of the removal appears to have been simply to secure safe anchorage for the fleet at a sheltered port within easy steam of the Dardanelles. The Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh Avere at Malta. For the purpose of a naval demonstration, England is ready at a few days' notice to become an active participator in the struggle, but the concentration of an army is a more arduous undertaking. Even counting upon the armed support of Eng land for the defence of Constantinople, it would still depend upon the strength of the present Turkish lines of defence at the Tchekmedges whether the invader could be kept out of Constantinople until the arrival of external aid.

On our fourth page to-day appear letters on Commercial Morality and the election of Board of Education, also a sketch by " Max," giving his impressions of the Rev. Dr. Somerville.

A native woman named Namaha Evana Reilly, wife of John Reilly, who was com mitted on the 9th inst., at Hokianga, for attempting to murder her husband, was brought up this morning by the s.s. Hawea, and lodged in Mount Eden gaol to await her trial in April next at the Supreme Court. The monthly parades of the Victoria Hobson, and Scottish Companies were performed last evening in the Drill Shed, under the superintendence of Major Lusk and the officers of the respective Com panies. The Thames Harbour Board election re sulted in the return-of Messrs Davis' Men nie, and Price. Captain Butt was de feated.

At Timaru, a bullock driver named Hutt was attempting to pass from one carriage to another, when he fell, and his head was severed from his body by the flange of the wheel.

The Colonial Bank will declare a dividend of six per cent carrying £4,000 to reserve, and £2,111 to undivided profit.

A rumour is current in Christchurch that Mr Fitzroy will resign his seat for Selwyn. It would not be difficult to obtain a better man.

The auditor has made the following very satisfactory report on the Harbour Board accounts :—" Sir, —I have the honor to report that I have examined the accounts and vouchers of the Auckland Harbour Board both general and loan accounts for the. financial period ended 31st December, 1877, and that I find the same to be correct. I think the Board may be congratulated with reference to the arrangement and accuracy of their accounts, and which in my opinion reflect great credit both on the treasurer and officers of the Board.—Yours &c, B. Maclean, Auditor."

A niurderer named Thorpe was con demned to execution at Auburn, New York. There was, however, another male factor awaiting execution, but who was to be hanged fust, and Thorpe pleaded to be allowed to witness the affair in order to see how i 4-. v<vt.. W!"i%< ft!\i'rcms;Q!i wM.ro -4...--. <; mC >> i !.:.. .. .... •■• .

We have seen an excellent sample of material for cleana\ng and polishing gold, silver, and other metals, manufactured by Mr William Watkinson. Themixture has been tried by many housekeepers and others, and is" found superior to all otkes articles of the same class.

The Volunteers of the Victoria Company held a meeting last evening with respect to the proposed visit of the Thames Scottish Company te the City of Auckland. It was decided that a banquet should be held in Lome-street Hall in the evening after the match between them, and a limited number of tickets issued for the same. The match will take place on the 28th, and will be fired in two squads. The ranges are 200, 400, and 500 yards ; 10 shots at each range. Each man will fire half the shots at each distance with his own rifle and half with hat of a competitor.

A telegram in many of the American papers stated that the name of the Marquis of Normanby was mentioned in connection with the Governor-Generalship of Canada. Subsequent telegrams, however, state that the appointment was conferred on the Duke of Manchester. Perhaps it would have been well for New Zealand, if not for Conada, had the original rumour proved authentic.

The following donations towards defray ing the expenses in connection with Dr Somerville's evangelistic services have been received by the treasurers : —E. C. 5s ; Anna, 10s ; a Friend, 20s ; G. E. Priestley, ss; E. J. W., ss; a Friend, 5s ; G. W. Jones, 10s; a Friend, ss; J. P., ss; R. W. M., ss; a Friend, Is; Rev Mr Whe well, £l"ls ; a Friend, 20s; a Friend, 10s ; a Friend, 2s. The Auckl#id" Ro-jring ClaTu received by the Rotorua, a beautiful racing four-oared gig built by Greenlands of Melbourne. She is a likely craft and should travel very fast. The members have tried her with the most complete satisfaction, and she will be enrered for the Regatta. The Ponsonby boys haye been very unfortunate. They had arranged to have a similar boat sent from Melbourne by the Hero which was expected to arrive before the Regatta, but owing to her deten tion at Sydney until the 24th, she will not be here in time.

A very neat pair-oared gig is for sale at Mr,H. P. Barber's |store in Fort-street. Secretaries of clubs should take a look a her, for we understand, she is to be sold cheap. Mr King, of this office can give all the infonnationjdesired.

The Legislative Council of Victoria has adopted an address to the Queen requesting her to instruct the Governor to restore constitutional Government in that colony. Mr Berry, Premier, has addressed a meet ing of I,COO electorsatGeelong.andreceiveda vote of confidence. He declared his readi ness to appeal to the country on the present . crisis. Messrs Kohn Bros, jewellers, of Queen street, have in their possession a lady's gold watch and chain, picked up inParnell, and which will be given up to the rightfu owner whenever a proper description shall be furnished. At a Working Men's Club Meeting in San Francisco an orator named Burke got up to deliver an address. He was about to speak when Mrs Burke appeared on the scene, seized him by the collar, and "yanked" him oft with the remark, " Come along, sir; you belong to me, and not here.

At the Anniversary Regatta, at Wellington yesterday, the Pet, formerly of Auckland, won the open ship's boat race. In the yacht race the Minnehaha met with an accident and had to return.

An important judgment was given yester day, in Chambers, by His Honor Mr Justice Gillies, in the matter of Staines v. the Karangahape District Board. The facts briefly are these : The Board in question had. formed a street in their district, and cut the soil, when Mr Staines, who owned an immediate allotment, put in a claim of £50 for compensatum under the Public Works Act, 1876, on the plea that he was a sufferer in consequence of the soil in front of his land having been lowered. The Board took no notice of the claim, and the claimant, having waited the term of sixty days in accordance with the require ment of the Act, filed a copy of his claim in the Supreme Court. Mr Hesketh appeared for the Board, and Mr Rochfort for the claimant. Arguments on both sides were used. His Honor commented upon the facts, and ruled that the fact of the claim having been served at the Board office, in accordance with the provisions of the Act, did cast upon the respondents the duty of objecting, or giving notice within six days of their objections to the claim, if they had wished to dispute it. They are now too late ; they allowed judgment to go by default, and they will have to pay.

This morning the s.s. Hawea brought up to town the Maori woman Emma Reilly, who is charged with committing a murder ous assault on her husband, a European named John .Reilly, residing at Tepapa, near Hokianga. The main facts have been already published. It appears that on the Bth inst Reilly and his wife, apparently on the best of terms, left the house of a man named Joseph A. Sheerson to go home. Emma came back in an hour, crying, and said her husband was dead. When asked to explain, she said that he got drunk and felldown. The woman belongstoMangonui, and the man to Wicklow Island. The case was heard before Mr Yon Stunner and Mr Jno. Lambert Tole on the 17th inst., and the accused was committed for trial on the charge of attempting to murder. Since the accused has been confined at the lock up, she has behaved in a very wild manner, running round her cell, knocking her head against the walla, and tearing her clothes. There is a suspicion that she is mad.

The subscription to the forthcoming season of Italian opera progresses very successfully, and there is every prospect of a brilliant season. This must be gratifying to Signor Nobili, the agent of the Company, and while it is a .satisfactory guarantee to the management that their enterprise will be appreciated, it is a proof that the Choral and various societies of the city haye done much to educate the public taste to appre ciate high-class musical production. It must be ulso admitted that the excellent and liberal arrangements are much appre ciated. The price of dress circle tickets is the same as m former operatic seasons, viz., 7s. 6d., but by taking a season ticket the [.price is reduced to just over ss. per night; while as 24 tickets are issued for six guineas, the purchaser can either use the whole number in one night or two of three every night, and the tickets will also be transferable. As the time is limited for the sale of season tickets, and those pur chasing them obtain the right of selection of seats, the intending purchasers will do well to make early application at Messrs Upton and Go's.

The Secretary of the Auckland Ladies' Benevolent Society acknowledges with many thanks a donation of £5 5s from F. Woollams, Esq., Coromandel, towards the funds of that Society.

The Waxworks Exhibition was largely attended last evening, and the members of the Hibernian Band played several lively airs.

A smart young fellow, who gave the name of John Williams, but who rejoiced in a number of aliases, was brought up at the Police Court this morning on charges of larceny and forging of a cheque. He tell in yesterday with a liberal bushman named Mays, and they commenced a tour of hotel inspection together, until Mays got so drunk he could proceed no further. The>! hawker left his friend by the wayside, having, it is supposed, eased him of his watch, and £14 m money, before leaving him. The prosecutor's watch was found in the hawker's possession ;■ also sundry go\d rings, cheques, &c, of which the public will be better informed on Saturday next. An order of the Supreme Court was obtained yesterday by Mr Devore, for the purpose of instituting criminal proceedings against David Hamilton, late confectioner, of Queen-street, under the Fraudulent Debtors Act, 1875, for concealing portion of hi's r«tatc*, ami a varrant was issued for his

We have been requested by Mr J. Greetham, one of the sufferers by the late fire, to state that the rumour current to the effect that he has a bank account of £50 is untrue.

Fire at Mr Francis' Store.

GREAT SUCCESS OF THE FIRE

BRIGADE,

A FIRE broke out this morning in the large brick store of Mr J. B. Francis, Elliott street, at the rather unusual but certainly very convenient hour of about 8 o'clock. Mr Bakewell appears to have been the first to see the smoke issuing through the slate roof, as he looked out of the window of this office. He at once gave the alarm. Super intendent Hughes was immediately apprised of the outbreak, and on seeing from his door the volumes of snloke bursting through the slates, sent his nephew to ring the bell, and hurried down, on the way being joined by Foreman Wright. Within five minutes of the first alarm these officers, together with a number of their force were at tb c burning building with hose-reel _ adjusted, and finding that the fire was raging in the upper floor of the store, essayed to plant branchmen up the same, but the thick impenetrable smoke issuing from the burning and smouldering straw forbade even an entrance. At this early period the fortunate arrival of Captain Butler with his Salvage Corps and some of " Tyndall's respirators," enabled two branchmen who were supplied with respirators not only to effect an entrance but to main tain their footing in the midst of the other wise thick, black, suffocating smoke from the damp straw. Thus within about five minutes two streams of water were deluging the burning woodwork in the very heart of the fire. The branchmen were John Harley and Nathaniel Blair, and by knocking at intervals on the floor they apprised their comrades of their being all alive and kicking. Uther men on attempt ing without respirators to effect an entrance from the staircase, were almost at once knocked down by the intensity of the smoke; thus demonstrating the value of those adjuncts and the necessity of a liberal supply to the Fire Brigade. For some time it was not known how far the branchmen had succeeded, and no little anxiety was felt for safety ; but after some twenty minutes it was evident that all danger was past, both to them and the building. A rather vexing thing occurred on the second hose being adjusted and got to work—a fire plug at a short distance gave way, and though a great gush of water was in the street there was for a time an inefficient pressure though the hose thus somewhat delaying the submersion of the burning material. AFTER THE FIRE was put out, our reporter ventured— sheltered by an umbrella—to inspect the damage. On passing through the shower bath caused by the torrents of water running from the upper floor, and ascending the staircase, the visible extent of charred rafters, beams, and other woodwork, told of a gallant and smart struggle having been made, or the flames never would have been got under. The floor was strewn with broken glass and crockeryware, and hot steam was issuing from every crate of straw —the heat was so great in the middle of the crates that Superintendent Hughes re commended they should all be unpacked, and the straw removed at once. ORIGIN OF THE FIRE. It is supposed the fire was caused by damp straw. John Clark, the storeman, left all right at five minutes past five last night. Near the trap-door were a number of crates and here the fire evidently commenced. On the rafters about 10 feet over the crates were stacked about 30 boards; these caught fire, and the flames ran along beams, rafters, and the ties of the building, from the front of the building nearly the whole length of the roof, to the back. The crate which first burned came per Iron Queen, and was landed on or about the second week in this month ; it contained ewers and basins. DAMAGE. No very considerable damage has been caused by the fire. The nature of the stock is such as not to receive injury from a stream of pure water straight from the waterworks. The goods within the ciates of which there is a tremendous stock, would not experience the full force of the stream of water. The light fragile articles upon shelves were of course shivered to pieces. A grocer's and draper's stock would have suffered much more severely. From the walls a number of bundles of jugs were hung, but when the ropes burnt the jugs fell and broke. The Police and Naval Brigade were very quickly on the spot, and rendered all possible services. INSURANCE AND DAMAGE.

The building and stock are insured for £800 each in the New Zealand Insurance Company. The damage, propably will not exceep £100.

SUPREME COURT.—THIS DAY.

IN BANCO. (Before His Honor Mr Justice Gillies.) rN EE HENEY GARDNER HUNT. Mr Dufaur appeared for the debtor. There was only one creditor. He applied for his discharge under the 182 nd clause of the Act. His Honor said the Act did not apply in such a case as the present. The Act had been made to provide for the equal distribu tion of the property amongst the creditors, but here there was only one. He must re fuse the application. IN RE LOWIS FOTTRNIEE. Mr Thorne appeared for thG bankrupt, and asked for an order of discharge. The failure was attributed to a difficulty with regard to a lease, which he could not pay for. It was not through business losses. Mr Thorno read the affidavit filed in the Court. The bankrupt received hia discharge. IN EE AETHUE UTTING. Mr Devore appeared for the debtor, and Mr E. A. Whitaker for Messrs Owen and Graham and G. W. Owen, the principal creditors. Mr Devore said when the adjourned ap plication came on for hearing, the debtor had been committed for trial, and since then he was sentenced to six months' im prisonment under the Fraudulent Debtors' Act, and his term would expire on 3rd June. He therefore asked for the discharge, aa he had been sufficiently punished. There being no opposition by Mr Whitaker, the certificate of discharge was granted, to take effect from the 3rd June. His Honor said this case must not be taken as a precedent, as other cases might not come within the provisions of the Fraudu lent Debtors' Act. LAW PEACTITIONEES' ACT. Mr Hesketh applied on behalf of Mr Samuel Hesketh under the provisions of the above said Act for permission to practise as a solicitor of the Supreme Court. His Honor in granting the application complimented Mr Hesketh on the extremely satisfactory manner in which he had passed his examination. The applicant took the necessary oath, after which he was also admitted and enrolled as a banister of the Court. This concluded the business.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

[Before Messrs A. Beetham (chair) and J. ~%♦#> Cosgrave, Justices of the Peace.] THE UPAS TREE. Frederick Mayo, Wm. Ryks, and Win. Lestrange were fined ss. each for drunken ness. THE CASE OF STABBING. Elizabeth Douherty, a young girl on remand, was again brought up on a charge of maliciously stabbing her mother, Mary Douherty, with a knife on the 15th mst. The mother appeared in Court, but was in too weakly a state to give evidence. On the application of Sub-Inspector Pardy the hearing of the case was adjourned until Kriday next. bAIiCF.r.TY. John Williams alii'w 'Walters was brought

up on two charges—(l) with stealing a silver watch, value £8, the property of Frederick Mayo, on the 22nd instant, (2) with forging and uttering a cheque for £5 10s, on the New Zealand Bank, purporting to be signed by Cosgrave and Co., with in tent to defraud.

Sub-Inspector Pardy said the prisoner was a hawker, and as another cheque had been found upon him, he would ask for a remand in order to further enquiries. Remanded until Saturday.

THEATRE ROYAL.

The Theatre was again well patronised last evening, on the occasion of the fourth grand concert by Levy and Company. ■ The lower part of the house waa filled, and there could not have been less than 100 persona in the dress circle. The programme opened with the fantasia "Puritan!"(Giorza). which was artisti cally performed by Signor Giorza. The duet, "Guarda che Blaaca Luna" (Campana), was well sung by Miss Pitts and Signor Rosnati, while the song "Let me dream again " (Sullivan), was beautifully rendered by Miss Pitts. Ine song " Maid of Dundee" (Scotch), by Mrs Levy, was really splendid, and was greeted with a well deserved encore. Porch's celebrated varia tions for voico, (as sung by De Murska) were given by Mr Levy on the cornet with exquisite effect, and the performer was compelled to submit to an imperative encore. He was also encored in the aria '• Cuius Ammam" from the Stabat Mater (Kossini), and the "Maud Waltz," (Levy.) The trio "Martha" (Floton), by Mrs Levy, Miss Pitts, and Signor Rosnati, was really excellent, as was also the laughing trio 'Rose of Castile " (Balfe), by the same artistes. The ballata. " Questa O'Guella " (Verdi), by Signor Rosnati, was encored. The duo "I would that my love," (Mendelssohn), by Mrs Levy and Miss I Pitts, and the song "OhHow Delightful" by 1 Mrs Levy, were both extremely good. Signor Giorza was very successful in the grand fantasia on the pianoforte "Grand Duchess" (Giorza). for which he wa^ encored. The nong " Alas those Chimes (Wallace), was tastefully sung by Miss Pitts. The entertainment concluded with " God Save the Queen," by Signor Giorza. Levy^s next grand concert will take place to morrow evening.

CABLEGRAMS.

RUSSIANS OCCUPY ADRIANOPLE

TURKS RETREAT ON CONSTANTI-

NOPLE,

OSMAN PASHA TO BE TRIED.

STEINBERGER'S DEMANDS.

[SPECIAL TO THE MELBOURNE "ARGUS."] LONDON, January 21. The Russians occupied Adrianople on Saturday.

The Turks are destroying all munitions of war, and retreating in the direction of Constantinople. There is nothing definite respecting an armistice.

The Sultan appeals to all Mussulmen to defend Stamboul.

A Moscow telegram states that the Rus sians intend trying Osman Pasha and other officers by court-martial for the murder of Russian prisoners at Plevna.

Cleopatra's Needle has arrived in the Thames.

A treaty of commerce and friendship has been concluded between Italy and America.

Colonel Steinberger, of Samoa, de mands £400,000 from the British Govern ment.

ENGLISH MAIL.

Oar American Letter.

(SPECIALLY COMPILED FOR TBE

" STAR."

San Francisco,

December 31, midnight. Plentiful rains all over the Pacific Coast have restored confidence and improved busi ness.

The working men's agitation is strengthen ing in San Francisco, and the subject, as well as the Chinese question generally, is beginning to attract attention at Washing ton.

A panic in American securities was feared, if the Bill for the remonetization of silver passed Congress. A Convention, to consider the improve ment of the merchant marine, has been called at Washington. The Zealandia has been stted by a San Francisco merchant, for loss owing to im perfect stowage of fruit. Mrs William C. Ralston, widow of Ihe late President of the Bank of California, has created a scandal by associating with a confidence man named J. A. Chandor.

Military posts are to be erected along the Rio Grande river, to protect Texas from Mexican raiders. The prospect of war between the United States and Mexico is fainter.

Peter B. Sweeney, one of the New York Ring thieves, has settled up with the city by paying the last instalment ot §400,000. Six hundred petitions were presented in Congress on the 12th, asking rights of suffrage for women.

A Catholic priest has been imprisoned at Elmira, N.Y., for refusing to testify on matters that came to his knowledge through the confessional.

The Northern Indian difficulties are pretty nearly settled. Sitting Bull and his warriors remain beyond the Canada line.

An old dry goods house, Adriana, Robbins & Co., of New York, has failed in a large amount.

A convention is in session at Rochester, N.Y., to advocate an express acknowledge ment of the Deity in the Constitution of the United States.

Orders have been received in Philadelphia from Russia for forty large locomotives. Governor McCormick, late Assistant Treasurer, will be the Chief Commissioner of the United States at the Paris Exposition. The Indians are in future to have repre sentation in Congress ; one delegate for five tribes.

A proposition is made to sell the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, to the Government for a post-office.

Two engineers were killed and several stokemen injured in a collision on the Union Pacific Railroad, near Cheyenne, on the 26th instant.

Subscriptions are being forwarded from New York to aid the suffering in Russia and Turkey. Treasurer of New York Board of Excise levanted recently with §40,000.

A line of steamers is to be established between the Mississippi Valley States and South America.

Lambert, a New York Life Insurance Company President, has been imprisoned for perjury. JSio more subsidies will be given for United States merchant steamship lines, unless white American seamen are em ployed.

Chinamen, in numbers, are. returning home from San Francisco.

Re-imposition of the income tax is pro posed.

The working men of Washington, em ployed by Government, are petitioning for the restoration of the eight-hour system. A canal across the Isthmus of Darien has been declared a feasible project by Lieut. Wise, after topographical survey. Alonzo Bell, Assistant-Secretary of the Interior, has failed in his 100,000-do'llar libel suit brought against the N. Y. " Sun." Professor Gaingee, of London, is about to experiment with a view of reducing the temperature in the lower levels of the Bonanza mines, Virginia City, now almost unworkable on accoiint of extreme heat.

Carl Schurz is about to leave the Cabinet.

The Ecuadorian revolution is over. Cuban insurgents are surrendering at discretion. '

Osconyan, Turkish Consul-General at New York, sued his Government in a Court of that city for 200,000 dollars, commission on expediture of. 1,135,000 dollars for war material. The judge held that being a public officer, Osconyan was not entitled to this extra remuneration.

Senator Ccnhlin, and Secretary of Shite Evurts, promise to settle their personal

quarrel if Carl Schurz be removed from «, Cabinet. M A rebellion has broken out at Pnnt Arenas, Costa Rica. The captain of th garrision, Quizalde, was assassinated • th buildings fired, including a hospital filled with patients ; and commercial houspT robbed of thousands of dollars. Colonel William Koudolph Besheley eminent lawyer o£ Farmville, Virginia waa shot by Captain W. H. Kennedy onlthe 27th while seated in his office. The assassin then Mew out his oven brains. Jaiufs (J'Neil, a locomotive engineer was shot dead in the streets of Blooming! ton, Elinors, same date. Murderer un know!.. A. G. Bailey, late publisher of the " Conyressionol Globe," Washington, died on the 27th. :] The heavy New York Wall-street firm of Netter and Co. has failed for §3,000,000. Nathan Coombes, pioneer, prominent turf man,and leading Republican politician died on the 27th, Napa, Cal. ' Returns just in show the wheat crop of the United States for 1877 to be about 360,000,000 bushels, or 50,000,000 greater than any previous year. - James C. Flood, one of the San Francisco Bonanza millionaires, donates £7,000 in Chiselaires charities, chiefly to Orphan Asylums.

Courtney challenges any oarsman in the United States or Canada for any amount and the championship of America; the race to be rowed prior to the Trickett Match in July next.

Sixty-five polygamous marriages were made in Salt Lake City on the 2Sth inst, and there are as many more impatient candidates awaiting their turn for the next day.

The Indians of Western Texas are on the war-path.

Colonial immigrants are forbiddea to enter Brazil as labourers on the railway there.

Horace Davis, M. C., has applied to the British Government, through Secretary of State, for information relative to anti- Chinese enactment by Queensland Parlia ment and of other Australian Colonies.

There have been no vessels taken up for New Zealand ports during the month.

The failure of William Angus, President of the Canada Paper Company, ia reported • liabilities, £20,000.

Serious riots have taken place along the line of the Lachine Canal, Canada, and lives were lost in a fight. The strike ended on the 26th.

One hundred unemployed labourers waited on the Mayor of Toronto, Canada, oa the 27th, and stated they were starving, and work must be provided. They were set to stonebreaking.

Charles E. Williams, an alleged Chicago forger, has been extradited from Toronto. Henry Ward Beecher will be sued for a hundred thousand dollars for non-fulfilment of contract to write the "Life of Christ "in two volumes.

A rebellion broke out at Puntas Arenas, which the Governor was at first entirely unable to quell. It was organised solely for the purpose of exterminating Captain Quizalde, Chief of the garrison. The rebels, after cruelly assassinating the Cap tain, set fire to the buildings, including the hospital, with all the patients in it. They stole seven thousand dollars from the Treasury, and robbed all the commercial houses. In the confusion they were killing each other. Of the houses composing the colony only about half remain standiug. The total number killed is forty, and fourteen wouuded.

Dennis Kearney, President of the Work ing Men's Society in 'Frisco, has issued an address, in which he said our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty. Failing in that, they have rallied under the banner of the millionaire, the banker, the land mono polist, the railroad king, and the false poli tician, to effect their purpose. We hare permitted men to become immensely rich, against all sound republican policy, and they have turned upon us to sting ns to death. They have seized upon the govern ment by bribery and corruption. They have made peculation and public robbery a sci ence. They have loaded the nation, the state, the country, and the city with debt. They have stolen the public land. They grasped all to themselves, and by their un principled greed brought a crisis of un paralleled distress on 40,000,000 of people, who have natural resources to feed, clothe and shelter the whole human race. We feel that the day and hour have come for the working men of America to depose Capital and put Labour in the Presidential chair, in the Senate and Congress, in the State House and on the judicial bench. Working men must form a pai-ty of their own, take charge of the government, depose gilded fraud, and put honest toil in power. Land monopoly has seized upon all the best soil of this fair land. A few men own. from 10,000 to 200,000 acres each. The poor laborer can find, no resting place save on the barren mountain or on the trackless desert. Money monopoly has reached its grandest proportions. Here, in San Francisco, the great palace of the millionaire looms up above the hovel of the starving poor. To add-to our misery and despair, a bloated aristocracy has sent to China, the greatest and oldest despotism in the world, for a cheap-working slave. It rakes the slumsof Asia to find the meanest slave on earth,— the Chinese coolie—and import him hereto meet the free American. Their food is rice from China. They lodge 20 in a:^oom-10 by 10. They are whipped curs, abject in docility, means contemptible and obedient in all things. They have no wives, children or dependents. We have sworn that the Chinamen must leave us. We have petitioned Congress in vain. We have resolved to help ourselves. God helps those who held themselves. We seek our ends calmly, rationally, at the ballotbox. So far, good order, has marked all our pro ceedings. But we, know how false, how inhuman, how unjust our adversaries are. We know that if gold, if fraud, if force can defeat us, they will be used. May we not rely upon your sympathy and assistance ?

European.

SPECIAL LATE TELEGRAMS.

LONDON, 31st. Bismarck has remodelled the German Cabinet, and also removed from his path hostile courtiers. James Ballentine, author, Edinburgh, died on the 18th. The Chinese Government want Great Britain to help them in their famine troubles. The announcement of a Scottish Hierarchy has been postponed by the Papal Consistoiy. Sydney Smirke, R.A., died in London on the 11th. Russia and Turkey are cancelling orders for military supplies in England. Prince Leopold's health is declining, the Queen is alarmed. The Pope has granted a dispensation for the marriage of King Alphonso with the Princess Mercedes, daughter of Due de Montpensier. Four millions reals damage has been caused by a fire at Santuadur, Spain. The German estimates for 1878 shew a deficiency of §9,000,000. Alsace and Lorraine ask the General Go vernment for a constitution as a German state. General Grant is making a tour of Italy. ■ The largest crop of wheat ever raised in Southern Russia is useless for want of transferation, Government having monopo lised all the railways and rolling stock The Cretans are in revolution, and ask the protection of England. Meanwhile they are establishing a provisional Govern ment. The Dutch steanier Friesland has been lost off Cape Finisterre, with all on boiird.

EVENING STAR WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23. I*~B



Grand Show OF SUMMER COSTUMES. A. LINABURY & CO. HAVE JUST OPENED P JQ/» /COSTUMES Comprising— BLACK SILK COSTUMES COLOURED SILK COSTUMES JAPANESE SILK COSTUMES HOLLAND COSTUMES FRENCH BATISTE COSTUMEB BRAIDED PIQUE COSTUMES FRENCH PRINT COSTUMES CAMBRIC COSTUMES BLACK SILK SKIRTS, with Body Pieces COLOURED SILK SKIRTS, with Body Pieces HANDSOME BRAIDED LINEN COS TUMES and SKIRTS, with Body Pieces to match. The above GOODS were purchased at a Heavy Discount off English Invoice, and will be offered to the Public at ENGLISH COST. Inspection Invited. A T INABURY & r\O., 204 & 206, quern-street, Auckland. RS. BURTON, Ladies' Nurse, has Removed from Union-street to Brown street. Ponsonby.—January 21,1878. X\7"~A7N TED KNOWN. to tradesmenTmechanics, and others. MONEY ADVANCED in SUMS of £2 to £50 on personal security, re-payable by weekly instalments, at L. H.NEUMEGEN, Auckland Loan Office, 165, Queen-street, opposite Savings Bank. Private Entrance down right-of-way. YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION. Those who remaidedto the Meeting held at the close of Dr. Somerville's Lecture, and others interested in the Y.M.G.A., a»-e reminded of the Meeting on FRIDAY EVENING) 25th, at the Rooms, rt 7.30. -



LADIES' UNDERCLOTHING! CHILDREN'S UN nERCLOTHING !! And BABYLINEN!!! W. RATTUAY, Having bought the Whole of Messrs Sargood, Son and Ewen's Large and Well-selected Stock of LADIES' AND CHILDREN'S UNDER CLOTHING & BABYLINEN, AT A LARGE DISCOUNT, Has marked them at proportionately Low Rates. Ladies are requested to call and inspect the Stock. "VT E W 7EALAND TT OUS B, 66, *QUEEN-STftEET, Auckland. NEVER Have the Public had such a Choice of BED STEADS offered them as at the present time Besides our already well assorted Stock of Iron Bedsteads, and those of our own manur facture in Kattri, Rimu, Cedar, and Mottled Kauri, we ask them to bear in MIND that we have Just Openrd Up, ex ''Otaki,' TWO HUNDRED IRON BEDSTEADS of the most modern style, comprising French, Half Tester, Children's, and Stetmfs, also Cots, at Prices to suit all classks. Having purchased for Cash from THE Best Manufacturers, we can SELL A GOOD BEDSTEAD at a Very Low Price. BEDDING, of every description, kept in Stock. HOUSES FURNISHED THROUGHOUT at a Short Notice. Our system is to make a large return : to insure this We Sell for Ready CASH at a Small Profit, and DELIVER GOODS FREE to any part of the Town and Suburbs. S3S" Give your Furnishing Order to Holloway, Garlick 8s Cranwell, CABINETMAKERS, UPHOLSTERERS, AND CLOTHIERS, City Hall Arcade, QUEEN & LORNE-STREETS AUCKLAND. r\Ts THIS DAY AND DURING THE WEEK, WK "WILL SHOW PIB O S ES 10,000 MEo? ss FASHIONABLE JDRESS GOODS AND m- PRINTS. "®a REDUCED TO HALF PRICE IN ORDER TO CLEAR. J. COSGRAVE & CO., OUEEN-STREET. . T^XPIRATION OF T>ARTNERSHIP TERM. DRAPERY AND CLOTHING AT 20 PER Cent. REDUCTION! DUSHBROOK AND "ORIDGMAN. The abovenamed have decided (prior to Stock-taking), in order to facilitate adjustment of accounts, necessitated by the expiration of our term of partnership, to hold a f CLEARING-OUT SALE, g And will allow for a limited Cj "■• period, a td 5 DISCOUNT OF TWENTY PER *» 2 CENT. UPON ALL CASH W H PURCHASES. R © [? t> 4S.IN THE £ OFF THE USUAL PRICES. Q Q ' ' o 9 Commencing on *£ # FRIDAY, 11th JANUARY. °° "•• * , t-i H The Stock is Unusually Heavy, and "^ jz; Well-assorted in every 1-3 pq Department. £33 Q ft #V%5 5 § g § R. & 8., with satisfaction, direct <3 w attention to the fact that since com- t% k_, mencing business they have steadily m £ avoided all Selling Off, Cheap S Sales, &c.: their aim having been to O fi supply a GOOD ARTICLE at a m REASONABLE PRICE, and "NO q PUFF," and deem that the simple © H statement of the fact is snfficient to cj convince their friends and the public v of the bona fide character of the pre- j sg sent announcement. „ Goods Entered will be Charged Usual Prices. Country Orders, accompanied by remittance, will have prompt attention. RUSIBROOK & BRIDGMAN, DRAPERS, CLOTHIERS, &C, UPPER QUEEN-STREE m Auckland, (opposite the Army and Navy Hotel). FTNION INSURANCE COMPANY NEW ZEALAND. A.PITAL £2,000,000. UCK L A iTd" BRANCH: QUEEN-STREET, Next the Colonial Bank. FIRE DEPARTMENT. Insuranc granted on Dwelling-houses, Stores. Shops, Buildings in which trade is carried on. Merchandise, and Goods of every description. MARINE DEPARTMENT. Hulls of Ships or Steamers, Merchandise of all kinds, Specie and Wool to United Kingdom, at owest Current Rates. R. H. STEVENSON Manager. OPECIAL /IHEAP X INES IN DRAPERY AND CLOTHING FOR THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS. H. ATKINS Will Shew the Following Cheap Lines During the Christmas Holidays :— A Large Lot of Rich, Bright, Black Silks at 3/11, as bright as sold at 5/6 Cheap Coloured Silks, beautiful shades Cheap Japanese Silks Cheap Dress Materials Cheap French Muslins A Job Line of Extra Quality Black Silk Jackets at one-third the original prices. Silk Umbrellas, splendid value, at 8/11 Lined Parachutes (Bought a Job) at 2/11, worth double Cashmere and Lace Fischus, Capes, &c, at Reduced Prices Cheap Lace Curtains, Table Linen, Quilts, Sheetings, and Manchester Goods, for the Christmas Holidays. In the CLOTHING DEPARTMENT Cheap Silk Dust Coats, Black Alpacca Coats, Trousers and Vests, Tweed Suits, Paget, Galatea, and Sack Coats, Boys' and Youths' Suits, &c, &c, &c, All Marked at Low Prices for the Christmas Holiday. THE NEW PITH HELMET. Job Line of Men's Straw Hats at 1/11, half-price. Job Line of Boys' Straw Hats at 1/6, half-price. A Large Stock of MOSGIEL and other TWEEDS. Cheap Tweeds for Boys' Wear. H. A TKINS. mo COUNTRY RESIDENTS. A comfortable home provided for two or three Junior Pupils in close vicinity to Young Ladies Training School and Auckland Grammar Fchoitl. Terms reasonable.— Address X Y-2 , to office of '



\T:EW ZEALAND INSURANCE J3I ' COMPANY. REDUCED RATES FOR DETACHED DWELLING-HOUSICS :-In the City, from 12s. upwards: in the Country, from 13d. GEOFGE P. PIERCE, .sesneval Manager.



Fike-water inclosed in bottles which for merly held the most popular and agreeable medicinal beverage of the century, Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps, is being sold by unscrupulous traders upon the public health. These fiery poisons often bear imitation labels to render the deception more complete. Beware of them. Demand and re ceive none but the genuine.