SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE

HIGIH WATKRllJ^^^Ssj, 2.57 SUNSET.—This Evening. 7.9 BUNR-BE.—To-Morrow Morning, 4.10 MOON'S AGE.-Full Moon, 17th, 3.15 a.m.

ARRIVALS.

TO-DAY. Albion, s.s, Garrard, from tho South lona, s.s„ Stophonson, from Knssoll Krlemhilda, schooner, Da-hurst, from Wlinn- Jefsio, schooner, Doughty, from Glsborao

DEPARTURES.

TO-DAY. Albion, S.a, Garrard, for Whanßrar.i

PROJKCTICD DEPARTURE-. London— Wanganul. loading Sydney—AustraUa, P.M.-.5., Monday Levuka—Albion, s.s.. Monday Tauranga-Glonelg, Wednesday; Waltaki.Mon-

day Russell-lona. Monday Melbourne, via South—Tararua, I hursday Whangaroland Russeil-Waltakl, VVodnesday Now Plymouth and south—Hawea, Monday Whangorei—Argylo, Tuesdays and Fridays Waitakl, Friday

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Australla.'P.MS.?., from San Francisco, Mon-

Wolvorine, H.M.S., from Sydney, short y Lady Joeelyn, Bhip (1..V.1.-.), from London; sailed Sept.2B --,-.._ Margarot Galbraith, Bhip (J.1v.L.1'.), from Lon don, loading Looh Urr, bareitio (W.Q.L.K.), from London, sailed September 27 „-,„_.. A. C. do Friotas, barque (R.F.M.K.). from Lon don, sailed October 21th. Sydenham, barque (J.M.F.Q.), from London, loading Looh Ueo, barque, from L.n^on, lotdlng Beatrice Havemer, barqnoiJ.Q.L!.-.), from New

York, sailed Sept. 26 Cabarfoldh, barque |S.(_.SI.J.), from Hongkong Himalaya, barque (V.T.K.M), Irom London

sailed November Looh Fleet, barque (LK.P.S.), from Lonlon sailed Augjst 29 Ocean Ranger, barqttentine, (W.T.N. V.) from Lyttelton and Now York Flirt, brigantine (W.L.G.P.), from Leviika Helena, brigantine, from Rarotocga Active, brlg»ntino, from Samoa Look Oat. brigantine, from Sydney Boroalls, brigautino, from Levulta

IMPORTS.

For Roderick Dhu, from Durodin:—97s sack 3 and bags flour, 7 bags polla-d, 100 sacks oat', CO bales chn.F, 120 bags br»n, Gji acts oatmeal. 2CO sicks (bones, 93-casks beef. From Oainatu :— 1220 sacks wheat, 200 sacks bones.

Per Albion, from Dnnedin :-300 saoks and bags flour, 35 packages sundries. Krom Lyttel ton:—26oases bacon, 5 case, meats, 8 packages. From Wellington :-ll ko^s butter, 35 packages. From Napier 51 sheep.

Per Annie Bow, from Ti.-narn :-489 sacks oats, 88 sacks flour, ,25 sacks pollard.—John Reld, & Co. EXPORTS.

Per Saxon, for Lyttelton 50 tons doors and sashes.

Inwards COAStwish-.—Fairy, from Russet', with 52 tons coal; Rangatira, from Barrier, with 50 tons firewood,- Morning .Light, from Cabbage Hoy, with 59 tons firo wood ; Kala, from Port Charles, with 35,000 feet kauri j unk timber; Krlemhilda, from Wh^ngaroa, with 30.20) feet timber.

OUTWARD 3 Coastwise.—Fairy, for Thames, with 52 tons coal; Qriffln. for Thames, with 60 tonsooU; Uangatira, for Omaha; Christina, for Russell; Corallo, for Tairua; I Fanny Kelly, for Whangaroa; Morninur light, for Cabbage Bay; Rata, for Fort Charles.

The barquentino Annie Bow cleared at the Customs to-day for Newcastle in ballast.

■The s.s. Tararua from Sydney is expected to reach Hu'sell on Tuesday morning, and this port on Wednesday.

The s.s. Rotorua having been detained one day at Wellington will not arrive here uotil the forenoon of Tuesday next.

The brig Firefly has cleared at the Cnstomß for Whangaroa, where sho will probab'y load with timber for Melbourne.

The mission schooner Southern Cross is ex pected from Norfolk Island on Monday,

The P,M.s.s. Australia, from San Francisco and Honolulu, Is expected to-morrow evening or on Monday next.

Tbo B,s, Albion arrived at daybreak this morning from Tauranga, Hast Coast, and Southern ports, with tbo following passengers: —From Melbourne—Mrs and Mis 3 Buckhurst, Mrs Hackett and 3 chileran, Mr Rocke. From the Coast—Air and Mrs Raymond, Mrs leys, Messrs Barnett, Adams, Whlt.ker, Coleman and Austin. The Albion left several hours after her arrival for WhaDga'ei, where she will coal. She takes the place of the Southern Cro3s on the Levuka trade tor the next trip,

The s.s. lona which arrived this mornins.from Rnssell brought 7 bales wool, 250 sacks gum, 3 tacks fii-iRUS, 5 logs, 20 bags bones, t baskets fish, 10 hides, 2 b*les hay, 3 bags wool, 21 head cattle. Passengers :—Mrs Howes and child, Messrs Jow.Kingsford, K.neo, Hogan, Harrop, Kemp, and Bsteerago

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS.

Rowena, 8.5., Amodeo, from llckianga

DEPARTURES.

Rowena, s.s., Amoloo, for Waitara

The s.s. Rowena, from Hokianga,'brought 55 sacks and 7 osses gum, 3 tons sundries, and the following passengers -.—Mrs Brown and family, and Mr Purdy.

The s.s. Hawera, from the South, is expected to arrive to-morrow morning, fhe will await the arrival of tho Australia, and will leave at 6 p,m, on Monday with ths Southern portion of the mails it the steamer should, arrive before that timo.

PORT OF WHANGAROA.

Arrivals:—December 3: Toiara, scow, Mo- Donald, from Akahua, with ship limbers: Fanny Kelly, ketch, Williams, from Auckland, with general cargo. sth: Atlantic, sohoonor, Sopwith, from Auckland, with general oart-o. 7th: Kriemhilds, schconcr, Bathurst, from Auokland.with general cargo. Departures :—Decemb.-r 1 1 Totara, for Aka hua. In ballast-. 6th: Fanny Kelly, for Auck land, with 26,000 feet sawn timber. 7th : At lantic, for Noumea, with 3.800 feet sawn timbor and original cargo. 9th: Kriemhilda, for Auck land, with 30,000 feet sawn timber.

PORT OF KAIPARA.

Arrivals, Deoemb.r 7: Falcon, barquentino, Bolok, from Dunedln, in ballast. December 9: Mary King, schooner, Kao, from Lyttolton, with produce. Departures, December 9: Ansdoll, barque, Poulson, for Melbourne, with baulk timber; Wild Wave, brig, Hurley, for Sydney, with nawn timber; Moa, brig, Myers, for Dunedin, with baulk and sawn timber; Thomas and Henry, brier, Marks, for Dunedin, with baulk timber; Sarah Pile, brigantino, Komen.ll, for Wellington, with sawa timber; Aratapa, brigantino, Bower, for 1 yttelton, with sawn timber; Clansman, brigant-ne, Alexander, for Melbourne, with sawn timber; Julius Vogel, sohooner. Cnllen, for Waitara, with sawn timber. The brig Pakeha and brigantine Ada C. Owen will no doubt both be loaded on Saturday.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Tacbakg-, this day. Arrived : '.Glenelg. from Auckland, at 11.10 __*__

SvnNcy, December 10. Sailed: Tararua, yesterday, for Auckland. ... - r . : , Gisborne, yesterday. Arrived: Te Anan, from Auckland, at 1.30

• - Wellington, yesterday. The Rotorua has been detained until 10 a.m to-morrow

This day. The Botoru'a left for tho North at 10 o'clock, Passengers: Misses Weymouth, sheslm Sutherland, Brennner, Kindon, Criohton, Ball, Mesdames. Walton, Lov-well. Owon, Smith, Hunt, Messra Bates, Llddle, Hntt.-(2), Scott, Hayman.l-ovewell and Carter; 10«tcerage. .*.,' >;' !'l / i.l '.'.>'-: i LWTj-tiTOBr, yesterday.

Arrived: Omaha, from Chatham Islands, Sailed: Kenilworth, for Auckland; clematis, for Hokianga; Island City and Neptune, for Hoiianga. . V Timaro, yesterday. 'Arrived': Kato McGregor, schooner,- from Auckland '.'/ '_ - •'•. ■ '•* ~...,.... Port Chalmers, yesterday.. Arrived: Freetrader, barque, from Hobart Town, Adiep. from Greymouth. . ,

THE WEATHER.

A3 'OIJSERVED AT TELEGRAPH STATIONS,

~~~ (1.) WIND ESTIMATED AS n-Calm I F. Br.-Fresh Breeze -.'.-Light -' Sti-Stofmy Br.—Breeza * . I (3-.—Gale (2.) ANEEOID BAROMETER. (3.) WEATHER' ESTIMATED AS B —Bine sky. be theat- o.—Overcast,the whole "inosphero clear or sky covered with he a vy -»°k clouds a — Clouds, passing P.-Passin? showers clouds (..-Squally D.— Drizzling rain R. — Rain, continued F.-Foggy dar]£ s._Soow wof-ther T.-Thunder H^-Hail U.-Ugly, threatening S'-I-Khtnlnß appearance

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Officii-, Friday. There was a fair amount of business done in the new Md second-hand furniture depart ment. ~ . Mr Walter Dowden .'sale-rooms was well at tended, mid fair marketable prices reaped on ime-o-maize and potatoes; new brought 2s 6d per owt.; Oamarus, Is 9d per bag. Mr George Sibbln's sale was satisfactory, and Beve-al lines of bacon and cheese disposed of. Generally the sale was satisfactory. tu-- pa rthnr roDorts as followirof his general Is 9d to 2s §d each; ohlcks. Isi id to is M each

piceons, 81; pigs, 12s to 10s; tanks, 50. each ; potatoe?, 2sto 4s; onions, J-l to I'd ; peas.Od to lOd per pock ; beans. 8d per peck ; oat. '_« 3d ; maize, 2s lOdto 3s; wheat, 3s 4d: oatmeal, ljd; flour, £3to £13; goosobo rles, 33d to id: plums, 3_d to Id; lemons, lOd to lid; cheese, 23d to Gd; bacon, Id to 9'el.- lard, 64 : fresh butter. ,d; salt butter, 2Jd to 7d; beef, I'd to Sid; pork, 3d; raw oil, Is Gd; white load, Ud ; black paint, 3d; Bugar, -id to -ljd; tea (half-chests), lsßd to Is 9d; (boxes) 21s to 255; soap, lGs per cwt. -, cocoa. Is 6d : paper, Id: mustard. 9d; salt, 5s t053 Gd; bißcni.9,6d to 6. d ; Scotch mixtures, lOd ; pea nuts, 2d; chaff. 2s Gd per bag; sharps, 7s 3d par Back; bran, Is por bushel; turp3, 3slod.

' Mon shut their doors against a setting sun, it is a very remarkable saying, to bo found In "Timonof Athens," and one of tho oracular utterances of tho great Bard of Avon. The ex pression is a truism. Tho moment a thing declines, itis d'smisscd from public favour, Let a man degenerate, and friendship closes Rb hand against him, Bociety.tabooes.hlm, and he is exorcised, as ie were, from all his past associations. This contrary condition of things proves .the high esteem and popularity ot Udolpho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic Schnapps. The gates of all the marls of the world are.open to It.

CHEF POST-OFFICE, AUCKLAND.

Mails wiia Close as Under i—

Monday, 13th instant. For Thames, per Rotoiunhana. at 9.30 a.m. For Coromanelel, per Coromnndol, at 11.30 a.m. For Tarnnaki and Southern ports, per

Hawoa, at 3.15 p.m. For Russell, Kawakawa, Wangaroa, and

Mongonui.porlona.at4p.nl. For Tauracga and Opotlki, per Waitakl, at

4 p.m. For Thames, per Knterpriae, at 5.30 p.m.

TUKSDAT. lith instant. For Waiwora, Kawau, Omaha, and Matakana, per Rose Caaey, at 10 a.m. For Russell, Kawakawa, and Australian Colonies, per Rotorua, at 3 p.m. For Wangarel Heads, Waipu, Wangarel, and BJMnngapai, por Argyle, at 1 p.m.

For Australian Colonies, Batavia, Singapore, China, nnd Japan, via Torres Straits, por s.s. Australia, immediately after her arrival from Honolulu. . Supplementary Mails for India, Continent of Kurope, and United Kingdom, via Brindisi, (for letters, etc., specially so prepaid and ad dressed), por s.s. Australia, immediately after her arrival from Honolulu,

N.8.-From and after 20th November, malls for Ramarama and Bombay will closo at this Office on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 7 p.m., and will arrive on Tuosdays, Thurs days, and Saturdays, at 1.15 a.m. A Post-olllco has boon established at 'lo Aroha; mails will closo at Auckland every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 11 a.m.; and will arrive every Monday, Wodnosd-vy.nud Friday, at G.lO p.m. , , In future, the Money Order and Savings Bank Department of Chlot Post Ollleo will bo closod every Saturday at 2 p.m.; but tho Savings Bank will bo opened for deposits and opening of now accounts only from 0.30 to 8.30 p.m. on Saturdays.

ROBT. KAYE, Acting Cblof Postmastor.

Meetings, Entertainments, &c.

Dkckmhi-I- 11, 18S0. Dovonport Hall-Wcsloyan District Church Bazaar. . ~ , -, T _ Y.M.C.A.-D.votionnl neldrosi by Roy. J. S. Hill, 7.30 p.m. ~ ... ~ Auckland Senmon's Union meetlog-Worlung Men's Club. 8 p.m. , , „, „ Protestant Hall, Nowton-Ennlskillon OrailßO Lodge. 0 p.m. . . , liobson-sttvot Saloon-Davls's Boxing Class.

NOTICE TO CORRESPONDENTS.

X.Y.Z.—You must put your questions at one ot tho meeting. Tho columns ofanowspaper is not tho right place.

BIRTH.

CONDON —On December 8, nt Wellosley-strcct, tho wife of James Condon, of a daughter. COTTINGUAM.—On tho 11th Decombor, at her residence, Karangahape Road, tho wife of W. Cottingham, jun., of a sou.

DEATH.

DICKSON.—On the 9th Docombor, at Ilobsor stroot, George Dickson, aged 62 yoaw. Tho funeral will leavo his lato residonce at 2.30 p.m. to-morrow (Sunday). MOOD.-On tho 10th Instant, at Rookby-streot, Jomima, wlfo ot Goorgo Mood. Tho funeral will tako placo To-morrow afternoon, at 2 o'clock.

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

SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1880.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the (food that we can do.

War-clouds aro onco more rolling up in Eastern Europe. Turkey has ap pealed to the Great Powers to restrain Greece, which is arming to enforce her demand for territory. Tho Porte has no tified the Powers that ifc'is resolved to go to war rather than exceed the terms of compromise offered to Greece a few months ago. Meanwhile the Greeks are collecting an army, and profess their ability to raise a force of 100,000 men. It is to prevent this mobilization that Turkey now solicits mediation. The first blow struck between Turkey and Greece would probably bring tho Bulgarian and other Independent Principalities into the field, and it is impossible to say where the trouble would stop. No doubt the Powers will make an efiort to avert this cala mity, but in the present inllamatory state of the two principal belligerents success is by no means certain, and we may once more bo on the eve of another great European war.

DISUOVEKIEf* vl gold abounding in alluvial districts occasion a rapid and large mlister of diggers, for ia such localitic. the mere tyro in search of gold often shows himself equal to the most experienced miner. The returns are immediate, and obtained with very little outlay of capital. Hence, largo townships have arisen suddenly upon alluvial sites, and an equally expeditious collapse has sometimes followed after the golden crop has been gathered. Hitherto, the various gold discoveries of Auckland have occurred, whore the gold has been found iu"sitn,"croppingoutlntbeauriferous ranges of mountains, dividing the country from the Upper Thames to Cape Colville, affording permanent and profitable employ ment for a large population of miners, who may proceed in their busy opera tions during the entire year in . almost perfect immunity from the ptivations of climate, snow, and floods that try the con stitutions of gold-diggers with great severity in other parts. Here the digger can carry on his pursuits in one of the most genial climates under the sun, with wood and pure water abounding on all sides. He may erect his hut by but a few hours' labour, and in each instance inclose proximity to water conveyance, provisions being as readily obtained as in _> ucklaud city. The promising wealth of these regions, with har bours also on their eastern side, will induce the employment of extensive capital—per haps to an extent at present little within our calculations. That a lamentable supine ness or jealousy exists on the part of the Government in looking awry upon the geo logical features of this Northern Range is painful to observe. By a fortunate oppor tunity, in 1859, the Government procured from the Austrian Scientific Expedition of the " Novara," the special services of oue of the most eminent of geologists. In speaking of the Coromandel district at that time, Dr. Hockstelter said that small veins of quartz of amorphous character, or not crystalline, but after the appearance of chalcedony, Cornelia, agate, and jasper, were found on the shores of Coro mandel—these veins occurring in irachytic rocks, are quite different from the auriferous quartz veins in the primitive formations, a fact which he considered of much practical importance, to prevent the fruitless search for gold where gold does not exist. All the gold-bearing gravel in the creeks was derived, not from veins in the trachytie breccia, but| from the much thicker, and crystalline veins in the primary rocks. He also reeom mended mining opera tions in the hills immediately above any rich deposits. The sound character of this advice has been proved by the subsequent work ings in the old Coromandel-Kapanga and Corby. If such points had been heeded, and carefully examined, by evon the geolo gical means which the Government expen sively maintains, scores of thousands of pounds would have been saved to the public, in avoiding the enormous outlays that have been ignorantly wasted upon mining inlo formations upheaved in doodal masse?, through strata of widely different epochs. In illustration of this,"the Tiki district abounds with many hundreds of expensive explorations', where, guided by the fostering care or aid of a geologist, the pursuit would never have been so ruinously followed. About twenty-five years ago, the richest specimens ever found in the Coro mandel district were obtained iv the beds ot the creeks, fed from the country around the base of Castle Rock. Everyone felt assured that the source from whence the large amount of specimens came was a locality containing great auriferous wealth ; and an indiscriminate pursuit was main tained for years, in consequence. Tracks were cut along- the water courses, and roads formed to the ridges of the hills for the conveyance of quartz to the bat teries erected below on the Tiki aud Mata wai basis ot the ranges : in one instance a large drive was he-vn into the crown of a hill, some 400 feet through a hard basaltic rock; in another a drive of 400 feet, through a protrusion of trachytie trap, with its apparent gold bearing quartz veins, showing a texture of silicious secretions of different epoch from those of approximately true veins, adjoining the claim. Coarse gneiss formations were operated upon with most costly |per.ioaeity-eyeu boulders,

lodged iv the breccia, during the glacial per iod, were blasted, gadded, and dynamitized. When the Government geologists visited Coromandel, had they remained until possessed of but an elementary knowledge of the geological features of the range, practical diggers and managers might have learnt from their reports probable forma tions upon which to expend the money of confiding shareholders. The thousands of upheavals of stratified and unstratified rocks-primary and metamorphic -jumbled together, forming confused hills and up turned huddled heaps of ranges, com prise vaiious orders of formation, and success in gold mining can only be least expensively gained by discriminating the right from the impossible. This is peculiarly the case with the Tiki, or what would be rightly termed, "The Castle Hill Diggings," for below this locality the indications are only occasionally seen, where elevations have occurred in a lesser degree. After a quarter of a century's expensive search, the site of the disintegrated crowns of auriferous rocks about Castle Hill have been discovered—not by a geological research, when a year or two ago the parti cular locality escaped an examination by a mere accident—but by the unllagging per sistency of two practical miners, who for many years have toiled after the El Dorado with unwearied faith that the source of the denuded specimens, although covered by a dense forest, would bo fouud. Here, over an area of considerable ex tent, a succession of dislocated quartz strata have at various inclines boon upheaved, rich with llaky and line gold per meating the quartz throughout of unusually line finality, aud the samo will doubtless be found cropping out in hundreds of forma tions of same clnssiiication along the ranges that look down on the western shores of the Colvillc Peninsula, aud the Thames River to the Arolia mountain at least, where a larger area of auriferous laud is tracod than at other parts of the chain at present. From Castle Rock the hills trend down to Ken nedy, Wnngapoua, and Mercury Days on the East Coast. During the denudation of the quartz veins about Castlo Rock, specimons were carried down from the range to the present driving creek of Wangapoun on the East side ; as, also, down the water courses ot the Tiki and Matawai, ou the western slopes. An extensive degradation of the hills at Coromandel is perceptible in tlio filling up of the Tiki Flat, where several attempts havo been made to test the gravelly strata, but wcro hindered nt a few feet by the abundance of water percolating through them. The Coromandel authorities have applied themselves to the construction of a road to Uastlo Rook Diggings ; at the samo timo they would doubtloss confer a great benelit upon the public if they were to urge upon the Government the necessity of en gaging a competent goologist to give the entire district a thorough examination, thereby imparting a degree of conlidciico to capitalists, and saving a repetition of the vast fruitless expenditure of timo nnd means that has hitherto attended the partial de velopment of these auriferous ranges, where good results may be readily obtained if worked iv a systematic manner.

Owing to the Rotorua having beon detained at Wellington until this morning, Mr Proctor, who will come on from Napier by her will not arrivo hero till Tuesday. Tho opening lecture will in consequence not bo given before Wednesday, the Choral Hall being otherwise engaged on Tuesday. The remaining lectures of the Course "will bo giveu on the 17th, 18th, 20th, 22ud, aud 24th instant.

The owner of the open sailing boat Imp advertises his readiness to sail the Hattie May, late Pousonby, for£2s or £30 a-side.

At a session held at Whangaroa on the 2nd December, the No Surrender Lodge, No. 45, 1.0. G.T., elected Brother S. Brown as Grand Lodge Deputy for the ensuing twelve months ; Brother P. L. Cerston W.S., as representative to tbeGrand Lodge session, to be held on 4th January, 1881; and Brother M. Han.. AUcrnato readings, recitations, and music by the members brought a pleasant evening to a close. A meeting of those interested in forming an Athletic Club is called for Saturday next, when steps will be taken to form a Club. The Whangaroa and Kaeo Jockey Club has issued a liberal programme of events to como oil' at their annual meeting on the 27th December, and intending competitors are having their horses actively trained, aud some bets are already booked on tho two principal events.—Cußßkspondknt.

Mr Goodfellow, who was thrown from his horse at To Awamutu, is fortunately not so much hurt as was expected,

A meeting of tho delegates of Auckland Friendly Societies was held last evening in the Young Men's Rooms, Wellesley-stjcct, Mr Dorrington in tho chair. Tho chair limn liaviug introduced tlte business of the mcotiug, the following plan for the conduct of the demonstration was determined upon :— The committee of sports were Messrs, J, Phillips, G. Warbtirton, Little, Leydon, Andrews, aud Moore. Concert aud ball :— Messrs. Masters, 11. Philips, Connolly, Thome, and Prince. Procession :—Messrs. Little, Roberts, Drnmmond, Rafton, and Watson. The utmost good feeling prevailed, and the propositions woro unanimously approved of by all present.

4 chimney was aiscovered to be on fire last evening in Alexandra-street, which caused a slight commotion in the neigh bourhood. The flames were seen issuing from a foul chimney iv Leighton's build ings. The alarm, fortunately, was not rung, as the lire was speedily extinguished by simple means, buckets and water. It was quite light at the time, six o'clock, bo that the reflections were only observed by a few of the neighbours.

Dr. Philson successfully amputated the third finger of an Hospital patient yester day afternoon, and on inspecting the severed digit afterwards, the bone was found to have quite rotted away. The hand and arm of the man were greatly swollen and in flamed, and the operation had there fore to be performed without delay. Some doubt exists in the patient's mind as to whether the sore which led to the inflammation was caused by the bite of a katipo—native spider—or the prick of an acacia branch ; but he feels sure that it was either the one or the other. The swel ling has now subsided,

At the R. M. Court, Te Awamutu, W. Williams, of Kihikihi, blacksmith, was lined 10. for giving a receipt without a stamp ; Robt. McCormick was fined £3, for furious riding. In the civil case, F. R. Foster v. Alfred S. Hill, £12, personal service had not been secured ; the magis trate ordered that personal service bo dis pensed with, and fixed the case for the 28th inst. In the case Jones v. S. Bright the venue was changed owing to the illness of defendant; case to be heard at Cam bridge on the 17th inst. In the case W. Sloane v. F. Gordon,' judgment was given for plaintiff,for £12 3s 6'd; Sloane v. Elmsley and wife, verdict for plaintiff, £5 18s 6d.

Another case ol attack by a dog is thus referred to by a correspondent;—" I think many will agree with me when I say it is quite time something was done respecting the dog nuisance. On Wednesday night another case occurred, in which a person was bitten by one of these posts of society which ran atand attacked persons travelling through the streets. I hope, for the benefit of society, that the gentleman who was bitten at Parnell on Wednesday night will endeavour to make the owners of the dog feel their responsibility, and that the autho rities will see that the animal is destroyed. If nothing else is done, the gentleman (if he knows the dog) should give it a dose that will prevent its injuring anyone else. Permit me, through your columns, to warn the public asainst a dangerous dog in the vicinity of the Cheltenham Beach. I believe the same dog has run at me three different times, and the last time it did not seem inclined to leave me. I hope the next time it attacks me I may have a weapon which will effectually rid the neighbourhood of the dangerous nuisance. It is a large, rough dog, and I have a good idea which house it belongs to, and if the owners value it, I leave them to judge what course to pursue in the matter."

A most pleasing entertainment, under the auspicious patronage of Mr J. Macfarlane (chairman of committee), came off last night in aid of the prize fund of the Grafton Road school. Mr Slater, of St. Mary's, Parnell, opened with a crisp sparkling arrangement from Gounod's " Faust," the time and movement throughout being well sustained. Mr Kyan, in the " Friar of Orders Grey " and the "Song of the Labourer," chose two good bass songs, and did them justice. The "Saxon and the Gael " (Scott), reading— " Who spills the foremost foeman's life, that party conquers in the strife."—This should have rung with invective ; but the perform ance was creditable. Mrs Cooper sang plaintively "I cannot mind my wheel, mother," and Mr Herbert C. Brook, A.A., rendered " Good-bye, sweetheart, good bye" and Sankey's favourite " The Tar's Farewell." Mr Abernethy offered "Love's Request." Mr Forth, of St Mary's, gave "Since Then," which was one of the gems of the evening. " Time and Tide "is also very pretty. Mr Burnham in choosing "Polly" did well. Mr Fritz, in "Little Footsteps," pleased the audience, and Mr Gradwell obtained an encore for "Simon the Cellarer." The proceedings were varied by some capital readings by the scholars, l the precocity of Master Comrie astonishing the natives, who sent him to the top of the plass.

Referring to tho Opunake tragedy the Waikato "Timos" says:—" l'uhi, the murderer of Miss Dobie, will, we under stand, plead drunkenness in extenuation of his crime. We sincerely trust no maudlin bunkum, or Exeter Hall flannel, will inter fere with the ends of justice, which we have no hesitation in affirming as our opinion was the case iv the matter of the Fijian murderer. Much of the present native trouble in New Zealand may be laid at the door of the Church Missionary emissaries from Exeter Hall, and it is high time this kind of maudlin sympathy was put an cud to."

At the Licensing Court, Te Awatmitu, the following Licensing Commissioners took their seats on the Bench :—Captain North croft, R.M., Captain Bockett, J.P., A. Wainwright, Esq., and John Hutchinson, Esq. Mr J. A. Tole, solicitor, applied, on .behalf of Mr Maddigan, of Cambridge West, for a public-house license for a public house recently completed there._ The undermentioned counsel were retained to oppose the granting of the license : —Mr J. A. Beale, L. O'Neill, W. M. Hay, aud T. Gresham. In reply to a question from the Bench, it appeared that the house contained but one staircase. The Bench refused the application, and stated that they were unani mously of opinion that the application was premature. Application was made for a temporary transfer of the license granted to Mr Hugh Kirkwood, of Alexandra. No counsel were retained iv support of the application, which was refused. Tho Court then rose.

Tenders arc now being called at Christ church for the construction ot the railway bridge over the Tengawat River, on the Albury down section of the Opawa branch railway extension, the formation inclueling the culverts, &c, from Tcngawai to Fairlie Creek. A distaneo of teu miles is nearly completed by the unemployed contingent, and it is expected the sleepers and metals will be taid attcr the completion of the bridge. This bridge will be 1128 feet long, and will consist of 26 spans of 40 feet, and 8 spans of 11 feet. It will be constructed of timber on piles. The first contract of four milo. ot plate-laying on the Little River lino (Akaroa branch) are completed. The men have been paid, off. The live, however, is quite useless until it is com pleted to its terminus, tho formation of which has been finished for months.

A cock-and-bull story appeared in the " Herald " of Monday last, concerning the grievous condition ot au Hospital patient, who was under treatment for cancer in the tongue. He was snid to have contracted the disease through smoking, to have sulfered fiom it for years, and to be at that time in arlieulo mortis. All these state ments are contrary to fact, and the patient himself is desirous of having them corrected. The doctor is of opinion that the cancer was due to decayed teeth and rough living. The man was only ailing twelve weeks, and ho was compara tively strong when the operation of cutting it out was uudorgone. The attempt proved highly successful, and in a few days the invalid will be able to take his discharge.

To the Editor: Sir,—A trumped-up yarn has got about ro the St Stephou's Native- School sports, to tho cil'cct that no European spectators would be allowed on the playground. Having made enquiries I find there is no truth in tho statement, the object for starting it; is of course best known to the originators. In auy case the committee of the school would not feel very ilattcrcd at having such an act of meanness ascribed to them.—Yours, &c, Bona Fide.

The following is a specimen of the inflam matory speeches of the Irish Land Leaguers. It is from a speech by Mr Parncll:—Now, what arc you to do to the tenant who bids for a farm from which another tenant has been evicted? (Several voices, "Shoot him.") I think I heard somebody say shoot him. (Cheers.) I wish to point out to you a very much better way, a more Christian and charitable way, which will give the lost sinner au opportunity of repenting. (Langhtor, and liear, hear.) When a man takes a farm from which another has been evicted, you must shun him on the roadside when you meet him. You must shun him in the streets of the town. You must shun him in the Bhop, You must shun him in the fair green aud in the mar ket place, and even in the place of worship, by leaving him severely alone, by putting him into a moral convent, by isolating him from the rest of his countrymen, n < if he were the leper of old. You must she v him your dotestation of the crime he h-s com mitted. If you do this, you may depend upon it that there will be no man so full of avarice, so lost to shame, as to dare the public opinion of all right-thinking men in the country, and transgress your unwritten code of laws.

The "Poverty Bay Standard" is wrath with ouo of our local weekly coutempoiaries in consequence of an article insinuating that Mr Heea had notitle over land which ho could transfer to Mr Reed. The " Stan dard " declares its determination to enter upon a crusade for " unearthing and root ing out, if possible, the unprincipled rascals that prowl up aud down the back slums of the Colony, obtaining surreptitious entry to newspaper offices, and piving scope to their unbridled virulence, and opposition to all and sundry who have been succc«sful,in expo singand preventing theirnetarious designs." After a few more sentences in the same slashing style the "Standard" administers the following final kick:—"lt is not always the mere glass of whiskey that brings men of this class over to unclean ways. They are only too glad to stab a foe in the dark, because at fair fighting they are no match. Thus lying takes the place of truth-speaking; and the weapons wielded by unchivalrous hands are barbed to inflict a wound that science cannot reach."

A Christchurch telegram reports the death of Mr Andrew Duncan, a well known resident, at 8.45, on Thursday. He had been suifering from heart disease for some time, and lately took a trip to Australia, from which he returned worse. Since then he has been confined to his bed, from which he never rose. Mr Duncan came to Canterbury about twenty-two years ago, and occupied various prominent positions. He has been Mayor of Christ church, Member of the Provincial Council, and always has taken a prominent part in the various associations and public bodies of the town and province. He was also Immigration Agent for Canterbury, for a year. He died deeply respected, and the vacancy caused by his death will be noticed for some time to come.

Allahabad, where the Marquis of Ripon was struck down with foyer, is a large station midway between Simla, the summer residence of the Viceroy, and Calcutta. Thousands of natives are annually swept away by a deadly fever which prevails in that patt of India at certain periods of the year. The cause of the fatal malady is attributed to the poisonous malaria which arises from the stagnant vegetation of the jungle. This malaria, when a strong wind arises, takes its course over the North Western Provinces, striking down almost every individual in its path. The natives particularly, who are so susceptible to the ravages of this fever, they being consti tutionally woak and possessing no stamina, fall easy victims to it and die almost immediately on beitig attacked.

A concert of a very pleasing character was given last evening at,the Select School of the Sisters of Mercy, Parnell, under the presidency of His Grace Archbishop Steins, supported by Very Rev. Father Fynes, V.G., Fathers O'Sulliyan, 0.5.8., Mc- Donald, and O'Dwyer. Several concerted musical pieces were skilfully played on two pianos and a harmonium. As usual, at most of the children's concerts in connection with the schools of the Catholic Church, the proceedings were introduced by encouraging words from the president, and an original address by a young lady pupil, and in the present instance an address was made to the Archbishop, who replied in pleasaut terms, wishing them all a happy Christmas. The programme, with its many items was executed with that fidelity which careful training only can produce. A lively sketch, " A Cup of Tea," followed, by several young ladies, who were complimented on their success. Several seasonable bouquets ex changed hauds, and were accepted by the Archbishop, The finale was the National Anthem.

A novel and very effectual mode of col lecting debts has been introduced by a Wel lington tradesman. When the steamer Wakatipu was about to leave on her last trip to Sydney, the business man referred to discovered that a certain ex-Government official, who owed him £2 10s, had taken passage by her, and he therefore went on board for'the purpose of interviewing the debtor. After a lengthy search he fell in with him, and obtained a promise that if he would only wait a minute or two his claim should be satisfied. The ex-clerk dis appeared, but failed to return. A search throughout the length and breadth of the vessel resulted in nothing beyond the discovery of a small portmanteau, an um brella, and a walking stick, labelled with the name of the tardy debtor. All other means of recovering the money hav ing failed, the business man took away the articles mentioned, and thus left his acquaintance without even a change of linen for the voyage. By the return of the Wakatipu arrived adroit to cover the debt, with a request to forward the detained arti cles without delay. The trick was smart and successful, but not a little risky.

TheSpiritualiatsof Aucklandhavesccurcd the services of Mr G. W. Simons, the trance lecturer, who will deliver an oration at the Lome-street Hall, at 8 o'clock to morrow evening. This hour has been chosen in order that it may not clash with the services in the Churches.

A cable message has been received by the Union S.S. Co., intimating that their shares have been admitted on the London Stock Exchange.

The islands possess anything but a favor able repute from a hygienic point of view amongst seafaring men, and apparently the " sons of the ocean " have good reason for their feeling on the matter. 111-health seems to be the invariable outcome of a lengthened sojourn iv those tropical re gions, and the Auckland Hospital is conse quently recruited at periodical intervals with returning invalids. During the pre sent week four or five sailors from ELM. schooner Alacrity have been received into the Provincial sanatarium, all suffering more or less from dysentery. They are gradually recovering.

A young man named George Wilkins was admitted to the Hospital on Thursday last, Builcring from a severe cut on '.the left foot. It seems that he was engaged in felling timber at Meicury Bay, when the axe which he was using slipped off the wood and struck him severely over the iustep.

In our report of the Wesleyan bazaar at Devonport, the name of Mrs Kiusey, of the Ladies' Committee, was omitted.

The half-yearly Civil Service examina tions were commenced on Monday last in the school-room at the rear of the Supreme Court, under the direction of Mr Hudson Williamson ( Kegistrai), and they were brought to a conclusion yesterday. The number of candidates was larger than usual.

Mr J. Weudel, the well-known wine maker, of Symonds-street, who took a prize at the Sydney International Exhibition, has made a champagne of excellent quality. This wine is now well seasoned, and is of good flavour. The maker guarantees all his grape wines, both still and sparkling, to be unadulterated, and they are steadily making their way in the colonial market.

To the Editor : Sir,—Your correspon dent in Thursday's issue seems to be fonder of meddling with other people's initials than his own. Perhaps if his name were attached to the letteritmightbe possible to make a coarse pun upon it, without his put ting himself to so much trouble. The long cars of tho A.S.S. peep out from under the trappings. If your correspondent will send you, in confidence, his real name I will uudertakc to meet him fairly, and discuss the question of the possibility of spirit communication, upon its merits. Truth is mighty enough without descending to mean and spiteful subterfuges.—l am, &c, SPIRITIST.

The Artillery Band will perform a number of selections, fantasies, &c, in the Albert Park on Monday evening next, com mencing at 780 p.m. March, "Frater nitie," (companion to the celebrated " Sym pathie") Smith ; schoftische, "Pretty Blue Eyes," Otto Dourne ; grand descriptive fantasia, "Bound the World," H. Round ; solo waltz, "Fairy Revels," H. Round; Anthem, " Gratitude," Fawcett; solo polka, "Cavendish," Lintcr ; fantasia, "II Trovatore," Verdi; prize contest quadrilles, " Wheel of Fortune," H. Round; descrip tive, " Relief of Ekowe," H. Round. Tickets for the moonlight concert on Wed nesday next may be had from members dur ing the evening. Many of our readers will have seen the cuiiously worded advertisements, beginning with some classical or historical reference, and ending with a recommendation to take Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps for any and every ill that flesh is heir to. In some of the advertisements it has been stated that orders valued at £1 were placed in an aver age number of wrappers on the corks, and consumers are recommended to examine each- paper before (browing it away. Generally this was regarded as one of the usual trade "pull's," but wo have seen proof that Messrs Udolpho Wolfe, Son and Co., are as good as their word. In the North two of these papers were picked up by Maoris, each being found on examination to b_ worth £1. Mr L. C. GofFe, hotel-keeper, has sent in within a short time four orders taken off the corks of .Wolfe's Schiedam Schnapps, and upou which £1 each has been paid by the Auckland agents, Messrs Nathan and Company. The wording of the order runs as, follows :—£l. Hamburg, April, 1879, good for one pound sterling, payable at the office of M. Moss and Co., Sydney and Mel bourne, Udolpho Wolfe, Son and Co. No. 646.

A very pleasant social gathering ef yonng people was held in the Temperance Hall last night to celebrate the attainment of bis majority by Mr Leonard H. Bond. About 70 or 80 invitations had been issued, and there were very few failures to respond des pite the disagreeable weather which pre vailed. The guests as they arrived were heartily welcomed by the host and hostess (Mr Bond and his sister Mrs Lovett), and as soon as all had assembled the gentleman opened the proceedings with a neat speech, in the courso of which he alluded to his approaching departure from Auckland. He greatly regretted that he could not carry all his friends with him, but he consoled himself with the reflection, that although such a thiug was impracticable, yet that he would assuredly take with him their best wishes for his welfare. The sentiment was applauded to the echo. The ice of reserve had been thawed by a dance, the company fairly applied them selves to recreation; voCal and instrumental selections of music agreeably alternated with dances and parlour games, while a capitally acted charade proved the feature of the programme. Amongst the ladies and gentlemen who graciously contributed musi cal selections were Miss McMillan, Miss Mackie, the Misses Hales (2), Miss Spry, Miss Peace, Mr Jas. Warner, Mr W. Tremain, Mr L, Eady. A string band also performed one or two pieces. At 2 a.m. the guests dispersed, well-pleased with the evening's enjoyment.

We notice from our advertising columns that the New Zealand Timber Company has been successfully floated. The Com pany have purchased from Messrs C. A. Harris, senior and junior, the valuable Wangapoua estate of upwards of 25,000 acres of freehold land, and about 500 acres of leasehold, steam sawmill, store at Wan gapoua, stock logs, houses, sawn timber, railway, tramways, and the lease of those valuable allotments in Custom House-street West, opposite the Gasworks, having water frontage which can never be taken away, and upwards ot 60 years to run. They have also purchased the timber business of Messrs Car law and Co., and engaged Mr Carlaw to conduct the business in Auckland for the Company. We un derstand that tenders will be imme diately called for to complete the railway from the harbour of Wangapoua to the Waimaringaringa bush, that a locomotive has been purchased for running on the line, and in six weeks or two months the kings of the New Zealand forest will be dragged from the kauri bush to within a few yards of tho steam saw mill by a steam-engine, thus ensuring a quick and certain supply of timber of any length daily, and Saving the outlay of capital in bavins: logs for months, sometimes for years, detained in the bush until a fresh takes place, The new Com pany has now made a good start, and, possessing a very valuable property, has a prosperous future before It.

The special train on the Proctor lecture nights will leave Onehunga at 7 o'clock, return ing from Auckland at 1015. The North Shore ferry boat will also leave Auokland at 10*15. The Artilley Band's moonlight excursion, which was orginally fixed for Monday evening next, is postponed until Wednesday, Isth inst. The Share list of the Auckland Turkish Bath Company oloses on Wednesday next- Hundreds ot Bhares have been subscribed. Those wishicg to become investors should apply at once to Mi' Randerson, Insurance Buildings. Amonp the various ontertainments an nounced for the coming holidays, one of the most attraotive will be No. 3 Company's concert and ball in the Choral Hall on the even ing of Monday, 3rd January. Dean's Minstrels, with their usual kindness, have consented to anpaar in one of their pleasing chair perform ances, and the rest of the programme will be made Up by some of our leading lady and gentlemen vocalists. A crowded house may be safely anticipated. 'the jNo. 3 Company and Band will take their moonlight excursion on Monday evening next, at 7.30, from tho wharf, to the Willow Grove Strawberry Gardens, North Shore, The gardens will be ornamented with Chinese : lanterns. There will also be dancing on the lawn, a largo display of fireworks, and a number o' choice musical seleotions and waltzes. Boats will return at 8.30, and 11 p.m. Those who love music and exercise on the " light fantastic toe," under the scintillations of luna, will find amp c amusement, or with strawberries and cream, may enjoy a summer dream. Announcement.of Sunday services will bo found on our third page. The Newton Con gregational Sunday-school will be re-opened to morrow, end sermons Breached by the Keys, A, Carrlok, Wm. Morley, and J. Robertson, Rev. J. a. Hill will preaoh in the morning a( All Saints' church, and in the evening at St. Matthew's. Mr George B. Brown will lecture on "Spiritualism" in the Temperance Ball, at 6,30 p.m. Evening service at the Theatre at ho usual hour.

Mr A. Aley, watchmaker and jeweller, has received a large I importation of all kinds of silver and gold watches, suitable for Christmas presents, and invites the attention of the public to his homo made gold rir-gs, silver bracelets, of his own manufacture. Mr Aley has alao made considerable imptovoments in his shop, and in order to give purchasers the advantage, will make a reduction of 15 per cent., in caßh pur cbaue..- [ Advt.] The Rev. J. 8. Hill, who is at present on a visit to Auckland, will preaoh at two of the churches to-morrow. At 3 p.m. he will deliver an address to men only in the rooms of the Yong Men's Christian Association, and in the evening ho will preaoh In the Theatre Royal.

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.]

NAPIER, this day.

THE PROCTOR LECTURES, The Rotoruu sails to-morrow, Sunday, for Auckland.

A sermon is to be preached here to morrow evening, subject, " The Grandeur of the Univeise," in which reference will bo made to the Proctor lectures.

CHRISTCHURCU, this day. CANTERBURY RAILWAY TARIFF.

A meeting of farmers at Wakanui unani mously condemned the present railway tariff as excessive, and decided to use every means to get it altered, and a Minister appointed with some knowledge of public works and some sens? of justice, as between one part of the country and the other. Cole's Circua continues to attract an immense attendance. ACCIDENTAL SHOOTING. One of the Armed Constabulary named Henry Jertold accidentally shot himself in the the thigh this morning, whilst loading a revolver. He was removed to the Christchurch Hospital.

WELLINGTON, Friday.

The Customs authorities have issued in structions to the Crown Prosecutor to apply to the Supreme Court for a mandamus to compel the Mayor and Dr. Harding to give judgment in the case Customs authorities v. Charles Martin, of the Albion Hotel, charged with having seven unstamped boxes of cigars in his possession. The Justices named entered a conviction, but declined to inlliet a penalty as required by the law. At the Appeal Court to-day, judgment in the Crown cases reserved, of Quinn, Chrisl church, and O'Neill, Dunedin, were delivered, affirming the convictions. In the case Guy and Kinross (appellants) v. Bullocks (trustee), Napier, the Court reserved the judgment of the Court below, and overruled tho demurrer to the pleas of the defendants, Messrs. Guy and Kinross.

Tragedy at Chatham Islands.

[BY TE-KaEAPI., PRESS ASSOCIATION.]

A MAORI CHIEF MURDERS HIS

WHITE WIFE.

CBRISTCHURCH, Friday. THE schooner Omaha, which arrived in port yesterday from the Chatham Islands, brings news of a brutal murder committed there on the 19th November, as well as the murderer, who has been committed for trial at the ensuing session of the Supreme Court at Christchurch.

From Mr Walter Hood, who came up in the schooner, we learn the following parti culars of the tragedy:—On November 19, Wi Wharcapo, a well-to-do native, and one of the chief landowncis in the island, resid ing at Waitangi, was passing along the beach, when the blacksmith, as he passed the shop, noticed something strange about his manner, aud called him into his shop to have some tea. Wi Whareapa went into the forge, and shortly afterwards went and stood for some hours under the clift on the beach, with his head bent, and in a very dejected attitude. His actions were noticed by the blacksmith's wife, who fancied some thing wrong, aud got her husband to go up to vVhareapa's house. Tho blacksmith, ou reaching the house, saw nothing of Whareapa's wife, but traces of blood in great quantity. He returned to his wife telling her of what he had seen, and informed Mr Dcighton, R.M., of the circum stances. Mr Deighton went to the pa and got Wi Whareapa's sister and some others and went up to the house on search. On entering the kitchen or sittiDg-room the walls and ceiling aud floor were found splashed with blood and brains, the floor being much covered with blood. Not seeing the body about the house, Mr Hood and others went in search of it, and found it in a gully over the hill where the house stood. The upper part of the head was smashed to pieces, the features being beyond recogni tion. The Resident Magistrate at once swore in some special constables, who went and arrested Wi Whareapa on the beach. He made no resistance, simply telling the constables to stand off. When arrested he refused to say anything. On the case being hoard before the Resident Magistrate, the prisoner reserved his defence, and was then committed to take his trial for the murder of his wife at the next sessions of the Supreme Court at Christchurch. Wi Whareapa's wife was a native of Lyttelton, and her maiden name was Susan Toiwell, a niece of Mr Thomas Toswell, H.M. Customs, she went to the Chatham Islands about three years ago as a domestic servaut to one of the squatter's families, and married Wi Wha reapa about 18 months ago. She was about 20 years of age. Wi Whareapa is about 28, and was one of the principal men on the island, and very well off. He was always very quiet in disposition. Jealousy is sup posed to be the cause of the murder. From traces left in the kitchen -where the murder was committed, it seems that Wi Whareapa must have struck his wife on the head several times with a billet of wood, after which he took the fire-tongs and beat her head to pieces. Since his committal, it is said he has made confession to the crime in Maori. He appeared at first to he in a state of melancholy madness, but latterly has become quite calm. Since his confes sion he has been silent about it altogether. The Omaha was ready for sea on the morning that Wi Whareapa was arrested, and those who were there seem to think that he came down to the beach with the intention of getting on board the schooner and getting a,vay from the island. Hois, we hear, a firm believer in Te Whiti. The news of the murder created considerable excitement in Lyttelton, where the murdered girl was well-known, Wi Whareapa was heavily ironed during the passage from the island here, and on arrival of the vessel the police were signalled for,and they took him at once to the gaol. The ptisoner was brought up in charge ol Constable Rayner and the master and officer of the Omaha. He seems very unconcerned about his position.

MR R. A. PROCTOR, THE ASTRONOMER.

There are very few people in New Zealand, particularly among those who have ibeen In the habit of perusing the prinoipal British reviews and magazines, who are not familiar with the name of Mr Richard Anthony Proctor, the most popular astronomer Ot the present day. To a very large proportion of the general public in Great Britain, America, and tbo colonic*- Mr Proctor is well known for tho able manner in which he conveys knowledge on the most l.tricate astronomical subjects In the most faniliar language the result being that his name has beoome a household word, his writings having penetrated in to communities andfamilies where the works ot his great predecessors were only imperfectly known.' The Westminster Ke vlew, inspeakiug of his abilities as a writer and a leoturer, says :—'■ Mr Proctor, of ell writers of our time, best conforms to' Matthew Arnold's conception of a man of culture, in that he strives to humanise knowledge and divest It of whatever is harsh, crude, technical, and so to make it a source of happiness and brightness to all." The illustrious astronomer, who was born in 1837, has a family of six children, and is a widower, having lost his wife in 1879. It was in consequence of that bereavement that he started on his present tour, coming from San Franolsoo to Auckland. When he reached here his intentions in reference to lecturing were not a very deoided character; .but having met Mr R. S. Smy the, the well known manager, at Melbourne, arrangements were immediately made for his appearance in that olty. His success in Melbourne and Adelaide, which were the next places he visited, and subsequently in Sydney, is almost unprecedented in Australia. On his way to New Zealand be gave three lectures in Hobart Town, the House of Assembly adjourning that they might have the pleasure of hearing him. But nowhere was he more enthusiastically received than in JDunedin. 500 first-class, and more than 200 second-class couise- tloket_ were taken for his lectures. That his audiences inoluded bishops and ministers of all denominations is a sufficient reply to the charge bo unfairly made against him by some narrow-minded newspaper correspondents in Adelaide that his lectures hai an irreligious tendency. 8o far from this being the case, an effort was made by the Konian Catholic ciergy to induce him to give a lecture in tho convent school at Dunedin, the Sisters of the or.er being unable to attend any publio enter tainment. The reception accorded to the distinguished visitor in Christohurch was equally flattering. The Diocesan Synod ad journed its silting in order that the members might be present at the open ing lecture; the ordinary week-day services of St. John's Church were suspended, that the congregation might be freo to attend the course; and the City Council and other publio bodies adjourned for the same reason. The Christchurch audiences in cluded sis hundred season tloket holders. In Wellington, Nelson, Wanganui, New Plymouth, and Napier his lectures excited the same Intense interest; and there is no doubt that in Auokland also Mr Proctor will attract crowded audiences. He will give a course of six lectures in the Choral Hall, on alternate evenings, commencing next Wednesday. The subject of the opening lecture is "The Life and Death of a World," and this will be followed by discourses on the Sun, the Moon, the etar-Depths, Comets and Meteors, and Other Worlds than Ours. The lectures will be illustrated by the finest collection of astrono mical piotures in the world, and they will be illuminated by the oxy hydrogen light with a lantern lent by Mr Kllery of tho Melbourne Observatory. The ticket arrangements offer liberal facilities lo the purchasers of coarse tickets.

It is said that in the city of London alone there are £200,000,000 of money awaiting investment, and it is quite possible ; for there must be immense amounts of idle capital everywhere, in every branch of trade and industry.

CABLEGRAMS.

SU-KOFi-AW.

[e;!UTKE'- TEL HO BAMS. J

THE IRISH LA.ND QUESTION. LONDON, December 10. Thk Irish Land League has now instituted Courts for the settlement of disputes be. tween the landlords and tenants of the land

question,

THE MARQUIS OP RIPON. CALCUTTA, December 10. Latest telegrams from Allahabad report that all the feverish symptoms have now left the Marquis of Ripon, but he remains in a very weak condition. Tlie u-reek Frontier

Question. CONSTANTINOPLE, December 10. The Porte has addressed a circular vote to the Powers, calling upon them to restrain Greece from proceeding with the in. crease of her armaments, and to ask her if she will accept the compromise proposed in October last, namely, that territory to south of Janina, and Laiisa should be ceded, but not those towns themselves. The Porte adds that if Greece replies in the negative, a rupture must ensue.

NEW ZEALAND DEBENTURES. LONDON, December 9. New Zealand 5 per cent. 1889 loan, 107 • 5 per cent. 10-40 loan, 103. BANK OF ENGLAND KESERVE. LONDON, December 9. The Total reserve in notes and bullion in the Bank of England is £14,000,000. THE WOOL SALE. LONDON, December 9. At the wool sale to-day 4,100 bales were ottered. There was more enquiry, but the demand was principally speculative. 10,000 bales have been withdrawn from the sale since the opening of the auction.

AUSTRALIAN.

MINISTERIAL CRISIS IN VICTORIA,

MELBOURNE, this day.

The course to be pursued by the Opposi. tion in regard to the vote of want-1 of confidence proposed by Dr. Smith will' not be decided upon until Tuesday, when the motion comes up for discussion. The "Age" anticipates that there will be a very close division. SUMMER MEETING. The entries for tho races on New Year's Day, are generally small. For the Champion Stakes there are 49 subscribers. THE AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS, The Australian team of cricketers leave for New Zealand on the 4th January, AUSTRALIAN ELEVEN V. VIC TOBIAN REPRESENTATIVES. ' MELBOUB NE, December 10. The cricket match between the Aus tralian team lately returned from England and the Victorian representative eleven was commenced to-day. The latter went first to the wickets, and were all disposed of for 168 runs. The Australian team then went in for their first innings, and when the stumps were drawn for the dry had lost 2 wickets for 47 runs. Murdoch was bowled after scoring 26 runs. COMMERCIAL. * SYDNEY, December 10. Hennessy's brandy, case, 365; bulk, quarters, lis; kerosene, diamond, per' gallon, Is 7_d; keroseue, Devoe's, per gallon, Is Id; New Zealand wheat, per bushel, Is 3d; maize, per GOlbs., 2s; tobacco, Raven Twist, £61 7s; candles, D.RJ.'s per lb„ BJd to Ba.d. ADELAIDE, December 10.7*, The price of wheat per bushel is 4s 7d. The tone of the market is generally quiet,; New wheat is 4s to 4s 6d per bushel Town flour is £11; country, £9 15s. Freights to London for sailing vessels are 47s 6d; freights to United Kingdom, 50s to 52s 6d ._. freights to United Kingdom from out-port., 52s Gd to 555. THE ORIENT LINE. ADELAIDE, this day. ' Arrived :—The Orient steamship Potbs. from Plymouth.

POLICE COURT.—This Day.

(Before B. C. Barstow, Esq., E.M.) VOTARIES OF BACCHUS.

John Johnston, Robert Nixon, a _oy o_ ; 14, Edward Ryan, and Mary Bradfield, were charged with drunkenness, pleaded guilty, and were subjected to a fine of 5s each, ■«ith costs. . r cauoht at last. James Young was brought up on a charge of stealing a watch and chain at Devonpott' ou the Bth instant, value £8, from the dwelling house of William Morton. Mr Pardy explained that prisoner was lit the North Shore selling wares, when he took the opportunity of going into Morton's chamber, and stealing the watch and chain, As the witnesses were not over from the North Shore, he would ask for a rimawi;, until Monday next, which was granted. J it STRIKING A BELL. 7! 7

George Bell, on summons, was charged with assaulting Fanny Bell by striking hen on the head. , 7

Mr lhorne appeared in defence and pleaded not guilty. . . ~ " Mr Tyler opened the case, and said it -wo. one of those unfortunate quarrels between, man' and:wife which too. frequently coins before the Court.J Complainaut-hadtonnd it impossible to live with Mr Bell, owing to his intemperate habits, and had been obliged to seek her own living and'that of her family, and all that she asked was the r protection of the Court from jf^er 111 ---usage.."' .'. :'"_ ' ''7 '~'■ ... Fanny Bell deposed that she wits the wife Of defendant, and at present resided in the house of Mr Samuel Worms, in Newton. On Wednesday eyening, the 2nd instant, she was returning home with pome' things for the children, when Mr Bell camo up to her, and put his fist in' her face, call ing her a «.«beauty and a prostitute " as sociated with fearful language. He" con tinued abusing her, and finallygave *h.r- a violent blow on the head, which sent her., hat flying' across the road. ; He said she; should support him, or he would hunt'her to death. She-did not wish to punish him, but she felt afraid of him, and wished to have him hound over to keep the peace. She had received no support from him since January last, and had been coinpelledkto keep her children by her labour. ~ a To Mr Thome: She knew Mr Bedford,, who was a friend, and upon one occasion* brought her some fruit. Did not teach hi r children to call Mr Bedford " papa." s'O'i Dora Lyons knew Mr and Mrs , 8011. Remembered the Wednesday evening Saw him put his fist into complainant s face, accompanied by very bad language, He caught Mrs Bell by the throat, knocked her hat off, and tore the ulster (produced).. Mr Bell had frequently assaulted Mrs Bell. She knew Mr Bedford ; was not aware of his visits.

Mr Tyler objected; it did not matter whether Mr Bedford visited or not. ■ ,

Mr Thorne said he thought differently.; He felt that if it was his case he should' soon take off his coat, and most likely strike out.

Witness was not aware that Mrs Bell went to public houses. * To Mr Tyler: Mr Bedford was not, in the house at the time. Samuel Worms deposed that he was < a lit) assurance agent. His wife and six children ilived under his roof. Mrs Bell had apart ments.' "'. - 7

Mr Tyler: You have six children;l'm sorry for you. r , .- Mr Worms : The more the merrier; at least the more noise. Witness then the disturbance between the parties, and he was compelled to interfere. Mr Tyler : I wonder you had the courage to go between a man and his wife. Mr Worms: I have had to gather courage for a good many ventures in my life. Ho had never seen anything improper on the part of Mrs Bell. He would not allow it. To Mr Thorne : Ho should not consider that riding out in a trap with another man was prudent on the part of a wife. * '.-, George Bell, defendant, said he met Mi- Bell, as described, when he addressed beras his," beauty," and added: " You have got the poodle back again," a pet term for Bed- ford. She said she would do as she liked, and he must confess that he struck her with his open hand. She complained about his intimacy with a young widow, but there was nothing in it; it was prompted by tne "green-eyed monster." He would not strike his wife again. , His Worship said the evidence showed that an assault had been committed, ana rash language used. He must find defen dant guilty, and order him to pay a tine « Is, costs £2 9s, or in default 14 days im prisonment, also, to find sureties, himself jjj £20, and another in the same amount, to keep the peace for six calendar months.. This was all the business.

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Soecial Advertisements. ■jet- c wo o d s TiTEW QOODS I A. LINABUR.Y & CO. Are Now Showing their NEW SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. We hold the Largest and Best Stock of COSTUMES, MILLINERY FANCY GOODS, DRESS GOODS FLOWERS, FEATHERS, &o„ Sec. Special Line of Plain Dress Silks, only Ss lid per yard; worth 5s Gd. 5,000 Straw Hats, all now shapes. A Largo Stock of Ladies' and Children's Under oiothing. Dress and Mantle- making on the premises Costumes made in 21 hours'notlco. A. L INABU R V & CO., 201 AND 200, QUEEN-STRBET AUSTRIAN BENT-WOOD FITRNI. TURK.—A Large Shipment just to hand, light and strong, suitablo for Breakfast Sitting, Dining, or Drawing-room (Black, Walnut, and Light Colours. GARLICK & CRANWELL, City Hall Furnishing Arcade, Queen-street. Auckland. AIiPETS.— The Largest Stook in the Pro vince to select from—all kinds. Tapostry, from 2s lid; Brussels, from Is lid ; Kid derminster, Felt, and Juto. The New Worchsteb Stair Carpet, made of Horse Hair, just recolved—the most durable Carpet over made. GARLICK Se CRANWELL. BEDROOM FURNITURE.—A Groat Variety always ready for dcllvoy, to buR all classes. Chests of Dra*ors, Washstands, Toilet Tables and Wardrobes in various woods, Glasses and Toiletware. Bedding of all kinds and sizes; Spring Mattresses. GARLICK Se CRANWELL. EXHIBITION Designs in Iron Bedsteads — We keen the Greatest Variety of Iron Bedsteads in Town, and aro Importers direct from tho manufacturers. Hand- Bomo Wood Bedsteads from our own Factory. GARLICK Se CRANWELL. GARLICK & CRANWELL keep such a Largo Assortment of General Household Furnituro tnat you can Furnish a Houso throughout from their stock at a day's notice. DRAWING-ROOM fcultes in stock, suitable for a Cottago or a Mansion, all uphol stered by ourselves and guaranteed. Suites for Dining and Sitting Rooms in various styles. GARLICK & CRANWBLL.



ONLY Warehouse in Town conducted on tho London System, combining all depart ments of Furnishing, Drapery, and Clothing. CITg HALL ARCADE. FIVE Per Cent Caßh Discount on all kinds of Furniture, Carpotß, Matting, Flooroloths, Ironmongery, Toiletware, and Brush 6ARLICK & CRANWELL. BOOK CATALOGUES, post free or on applica tion, to those Intending to Furnish. Esti mates and designs given. Carpets made up. Linoleum and Oilcloths laid. Needlo work mounted. All kinds of Upholstery and Cabinet-work by first-class workmen. inspect our stock: The .Largest in Auckland ! GARLICK & CRANWELL, CITY BALL AROADff, QUEEN-STREET & LQRNE-STREBT, AUCKLAND T pOSGRAVE & pil„ At tre-is Premises, Queen-street, will mark a GENERAL SHOW OF THEIR XTEW ttUMMER SHIPMENTS! THIS DAT, Together with Important SPItCIAL LOTS, Purchased at Lahoe Discounts by our representative from various Manu facturers, as below stated. The FANCY DRKSB DEPARTMENT contains all the Newest Goods of tho Season, in Pompadours. Lustres, Cashmere and Beiges. The MILLINERY DKPARTMENT onsiets of the Choicest Designs in Hats and Bonnets, Ladies' and Childrens'Co*TUMEß, Vlsßttoa and Dolman's Lace, Bertha's Flowers and Feathers. The SILK DKPARTMENT is replete with the Newest Shadea in Velvets, Silks and Ribbons. We call particular attention to our Stock of BLACK BILKS, which is the Largest in the tolony. Our Stock of Ladies' UNDERCLOTHING is Large and Well-assorted, 'and contains all the Newest Makes and Styles, Ladles' and Children's Jerseys in all colours. In the MANCHESTER DEPARTMENT we are Offering Particularly Good Value in WniTE and Grey Calicos, Sheetings and Flannels. T pOSGRAVE &



are now offering Great Advantages •so the poblio, as the-- import their GOODS from the Best English and French Mancfacterbrs, AND ARS SELLING AT WHOLESALE PRICKS. M. M UR C HI E MERCHANT TAILOR AND IMPORTER. FRESH ARRIVALS. English and Scotch Tweeds—7 oases by 'Lonhnagar' Serge Suitings In Blue and Black, of a New Make and Finish Something New In Bannockburn Twoeds, whioh was awarded Ist prize at the Sydney Exhibition



Saxony Tweeds in Blue and Black, of snperlor quality and new design. Another Consignment to arrive by 'Fernglen. Samples mailed to any address. Tho immense quantity of Clothing we ship to the large cities and towns in the colony is a sufficient guarantee that tho QUALITY and MAKE of these Goods cannot be equalled, i Orders by mail will receive our best attention. ; WANTS P, four First-class Tailors, to whom constant employment will be given at the ten penny log. j M. MURC HI E, Opposite Arch. Clark & Son's, Shortland Street. SAARLAND'S BAKING POWDER. IS made with GRAPE CREAM TARTAR, Imported from the Wine Dlstrlot of Franco. it is The Perfection of Baking Powder, Always PURE, WHOLESOME, AND UNIFORM.



Testimonial t I have chemically examined and tested the Baking Powder manufactured by Sharland & Co., and I have found it to be perfectly pure, and free from any substance that would be objec tionable in the preparation of food. I use the Bread made with it at my own table, and find it very satisfactory.—o. H. Haines, 8.A., M.D., M.Cn„ L.A.H., F.R.G.S., L.M. ..., Proprietobs: SHARLAND ■_. CO., Wholesale Druggists & Manufacturing i •'•' Chemists, Auckland. < ' j Sold by all Grocers and Storekeepers, in can isters, at Is 6d and 2s 6d each.



: "ji/T I.L.N 1- __ {TIHO.YCE HAVE NOW REOHIVED B OYS'S U I T S, In all the Best Styles and Materials, including Brown Holland, Brown, White, and Striped Drill, Tweed, Serge, &_., in tho Brighton, Wim bledon, Nelson, Czar, Connatight, Sydney, Royal Tar, and other makes. Also, BOYS' SHIRTS, TIES, COLLARS, BRACES, BELTS, SOCKS, HOSIERY, &C LADIES' JERSEYS CHILDREN'S JERSEYS THE JERSEY CLOTH, by tho yard ladies' new hosiery - children's new hosiery. New Trimmed and Untbimmed Bon nets and Hats. Chekille Ribbon, Chenille Ties. Also A Large Variety of FANCY GOODS GBNHRALLY. TtJILNE '.& fiEQYCE. [I



Special Advertisements. D E E T I' S Almanac WILL BE PUBLISHED -2TIN A FEW DAYS.-^S COUNTRY AGENTS MUST FOR WARD THEIR ORDERS AT ONCE. . NO RETURNS WILL BE TAKEN. WHOLESALE: 10S. PER DOZEN. A UCKLAND MUSIC WAREHOUSE, QUEEN-STREET. I have this day disposed of the Auckland Mi'sio Warehouse (hitherto carried on under the management of Mr Arthur Eadjf) to Messrs J, J. MILNER Se CO., who alone havo any interest in tho business from this date. I have very great pleasuro In oommondlng Mr Milnor to the Musical Public who have so liberally supported tho Warohouse. His long experience and intimato acquaintance with tho Colonial Trade afford a thorough guarantoo that all requirements of tho business will bo fully supplied, and customers will receive every attention. BT All outstanding accounts will be received by Mr Milnor, at tho Music Warehouse Any claim, arising out of tho past business of the Warehouse, must bo rendorod at once to the Evening Star Office. H. BRETT. November 29,1880.



tyiTH reference to .the above,..Mussrs. J. J. MILNER & CO. beg respoctfully to solicit tho patronage of the public. It is their intention to spare no efforts to keep up tho high position attained by the Auckland Music Warehouse. Their Mr Milner (late of the firm of Mllner and Thompson, of Chrlstohuroh) has had upwards of ten years' experience in the Colonial Music Trade; and with the Instruments and -Music specially selected by him, they are oonfldont that the Musical Publlo of Auckland will have at their disposal a Stock that for Completeness and Variety, will be unapproacred by that of any other similar Establishment in tho Colony. t__ All letters should in future be addressed J. J. Milner & Co., Anokland Music Warohonse. J. J. MILNER & CO., sole proprietors op THE AUCKLAND MUSIC WAREHOUSE, Corner of Queen-street and Vuloan Lino, Auckland.



QTRANGERS AND TRAVELLERS | Visiting Auckland will find the LARGEST OUTFITTING STOCK IN THE COLON-T To Select from at THE NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. Thousands of Customers testify to the QurnßiOß Quality & Tj'iiTT-N- Of the Garments made by them.



The Stock of SHIRTS, TIKS, HATS, and I HOSIERY, Is very large, and includes a j CHOICE | ASSORTMENT OF NOVELTIES FOR THE HOLIDAYS. A special supply of PORTMANTEAUX BAGS, RUGS, and all Travelling Requisites for Tourists. i —— AUCKLAND BRANCH: Queen-street (opposite Theatre Royal), And at Albert-street, Thames. J. FITZSIMONB. MANAGER. TXf I N X fc. & IT ALL, HAVE REMOVED FROM SHORTLAND-STREET TO TEMPORARY PREMISES IN FORT STREET, ', '■ : OPPOSITE COCHRANE AND SON'S AUCTION MAKT, ' AND WIIIII CONTINUE THKIB CHEAP SALE FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGER, TO CLEAK SURPLUS STOCK,



THEY WILL REMAIN IN FORT-STREET DORINO THE RE-BUILDING OF THEIR WARE HOUSE IN SHORTLAND-STREET. O P £ C I .I L NOTICE. We.|the undersigned, respe .full !lnvite|the Inspection of the Ladies of|Auckland and the surrounding district to the fact .that] we are Opening up a A LARGE AND VARIKD ASSORTMENT OF ENGLISH, FRENCH, & AMERICAN GOODS, MILLINERY, HOSIERY GLOVES. FEATHERS FLOWERS, LACES &0., &c &o,



DUNNE, HALL, & CO., 174, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND Opposite the Thistle Hotel). i^HRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PRESENT Q I RE SEN T O ! Ladies' BLACK and COLORED COSTUME- I



■lAdies' BONNETS and HATS. In the Latest Paris Styles Ladies* SILK asd CASHMERE MANTLHS, CAPES and VISITES i LANGTREY HOODS Ladies' KID and TAFFETTA SILK GLOVES In Endless Variety Ladies'SlLK, SATIN and TUSSORE PARASOLS. CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS AND j ... „ , AND . NEW YEAR PRESKNrS, NEW YEAR PRESENTS, AT TyiLLIAM "DATTRAY'S drapery, mantle, and millinery establishment. New Zealand House, 66, queen-street, auckland.