SHIPPING INTLLIGENCE.

HIGH WATER }?iSS_&. «-U SUNBET.-Thlß Evening. 4.46 - SUNK'SE.-To-Morrow Morning, 7.18 MOON_ AGE.-New Moon, 2,th. 1.4- a.m.

ARRIVALS.

TO-DAT.

Rotorua, as., Tozer, from Whangarei

DEPARTURES.

City of NewYor^.firSf^.bnrjr. for San n wl^_!_ :o Farqnhar, for -auranga. A?S__^_r-Wford,WwhMitarel q_£._! .ch-oner, Jones, for HokUmga

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

gSSr^«Sss_a?¥Si«.. 28th; Albion. Melbour-.^BO-th-Rotorua, Thursday T^aK-Glenelg, Tuesday and Thursday Mangawai-Fingal, Thursday Mercury Bay— Kfngal, Monday ______ and South-Wanaka, Tuesday Noumea— Tauranga, early -,*„„;_- Rn__il and Northern ports-lona, Monday iSS- and! Mangapai-Argyl . Tuesday and Friday

IMPORTS.

Per Opotlki, for Norfolk Island-3 packages tobacco. 6 boxesi and 2 .-chests tea. 91 mats sugar, 47 bags rice, 7 boxes candles^ I tasea milk. 15 dokerosine, I do starch, 3 do preset yes, 8 packages drapery, 8 ;ases and one parcel, 9 kegs nails, 43 bags salt, 3 bags lime, I 'Packages oilmen's store.. 83 bags Hoar, 37 tins biscnits. 33 boxes soap. 10 coils rope, bricks. 351 .ieces Bawn timber, 42 pacKage. sundry merchandize.

INWARDS COASTWISE.-Esk, AS"^** and Thames, with 08 sheep; Magic, lrom Ngunguru. . 10 bags oats. . waggons. ThoBS Taiaroa, which left Oamaru for the North on Friday; had on board the following cargo for Anckl__d: 300 sacks bran, 100 sacks Wheat. 20 sAcks oats, 10 cases preserved meats. The schooner Josephine has oatered outat tho Cuaton?a for Admiralty Island. The P.M.S.B. City ot Sydney from San Is ran- Cisco may be expected to arrive early on Sunday morning: She is announced, to steam for Sydney the samo evening. Thebrlgantino Look Out entered out at Sydney for this port on the 15th inst. The schooner Opotikl cleared at the Customs for Norfolk Island to day. Captain Kirby takes command.

.he s.s. Rotorua arrived from Whangarei this afternoon with one passenger—Mrs Day. She leaves for South at 10 a.m. to-morrow.

The following of H.M. Bhipß were on the Australian Btation on June 16th:—Wolverene, 17 guns, Commodore Wilson, at Sydney: Emerald, 12 guns. Captain W. H, Maxwell, S.S. Islands; Cormorant, 6 guns, Commander James Bruce, on a cruise; Alacrity, 1 gun. Lieutenant-Com mander W. M. Moore, on a surveying cruise; Conflict, 1 gun, Lieutenant-Commander Itez, on a cruise: Sandfly, 1 gun, S.S. Islands; Renard, 1 gun, Lieutenant-Commander G, E. Riciiardß, on a cruise; Beagle. 1 gun, Lieutenant-Con. mander T. De Houghton, on a oruise; Miranda, 0 guns, Hon. E. S. Dawson, S,S. Islands.

THE MAIL-STEAMER.

Tho P.M.s.s. City of New York, particulars of the quarantining of which steamer appears in another column, left Sydney on June 16, at 3 p.m.; discharged pilot at 3 p.m.; passed North Cape on Juno 20th, at 1.15 p.m.; arrived at Auckland on June 21st, at 6.38 a.m. The weather was pleasant through out the passage, with the exception of 30 hours immediately after Departure from Sydney, when a strong westerly gale was experienced For press par cels, reports, etc., we are indebted to Mr E. N. Piatt, purser. The mail-steamer loft for San Francisco at daybreak this morning with the following passengera in addition to the Hat published last evening :—Messrs M, Henderson, A. Anderson, and C. Calder. The steam launch waa again despatched to Motuhl at 8 o'olock this morning to bring up the malls. She arrived at the Island shortly after 9 am, The letters were fumigated one by one at 130 p.m. There were about: 15 out of the 18 bags ot mail thus disposed of. Three containing papers remained. It was therefore thought advisable to send the letters up, and the launoh accordingly returned, reaching the wharf at 2.30 p.m. She lelt again with provisions for the pas sengers on the island at 3 p.m., and will tiring the papers up this evening after they have been fumigated.

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Daroaville, this day. Two schooners, believed to be the Torea and Rona, were coming in at the heads yesterday. Arrived: Oamaru at Kopura yesterday: the Albatross arrived at Aratapu on Saturday.

RcrsSEix, this day. Arrived: Marion, from Suva, after a passage of twelve days. Loaded: Atlantic.

L-TTi'.itiiOM, yesterday, 1 Sailed: Arawata, s.s., for Port Chalmers.

New Pl-I_outh, this day. Arrived: Oretl and Wanaka, from Onehunga, at 7 a.m. "

Port Chalmers, yesterday. Sailed tvHawea, s.s., for the North.

Sydney, June 21, Arrived this afternoon: The Union Com pany's steamship Rotomahana, from Russell.

Melbourne, June 21. Sailed: The Unldn Company's steamship Te Anau, for the Bluff, this afternoon.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening star Uillce, Wednesday.

Mr L. W. Eaton held a fruit sale at his stores today. It was well attended by fruiterers. 'Che average prices were as follows:—Bananas, 2d to 3d; 12 cases pines, 9s per dozen; oranges, 7s 6d to 8a 6d. Messrs B. Tonka & Co. sold 48 ornamented stone filters to-day, more or less damaged. A ready Bale was effected at prices ranging from 4s 6d to 7s 6d. The brushware, ex Peru, con sisting of hair brooms, brushes of different kinda, and articlos of cutlery, brought first-rate prices. Messrs S. Cochrane & Sons held a book sale, comprising 300 vols., mostly In good condition, ot works in history, biography, travels, and law A good edition of the Encyclopaedia Britta"1""! in 16 vols., realised „4. The books w«re all sold at satisfactory prtoos. ,---.. , . . . Mr Gahiiei Lewis held a trade sale of boots and shoes, uppers, slippers, etc, nearly all were sold at fair trade prices- Mr Walter Dowden's sale of groceries and oilmen's stores was fairly attended and the maiority of the packages sold.

Mr R. Arthur held a fruit sale to-day at his Queen-street mart: Bananasi brought 1. dto 2Jd; pine apples, -a to S3 fid per dozen; lemons, Is 3d; apples, S3 to 9s 3d per case; oranges 6s to Bs. The sale was largiy attended.

Ma il Notice.

Mails will Close as Under.— THIS DAY. For Thames, per Enterprise, at 5.30 p.m. Thursday, 23rd instant. For Tairna, per Dreim, at 9 a.m. For Gisbome, Napier, Southern porta, and Aus tralian Colonies, per Rotorua, at 9 a.m. For Thames, per Rotomahana, at 9.30 a.m. For Waiwera, Te Kapa, Craigieburn. and Warkworth, per Rose Casey, at 10 a.m. For Admiralty Islands, per Josephine, at 3 p.in, For Mangawai, per Fingal, at 3 p.m. For -auranga. Ohinemutu, and Opotikl, per Glenelg, at 4 p.m. Friday, 21th Instant. ForWaihekeand Coromandel, perCoromandel, at 12.30 p.m. Saturday. 25th instant. For Suva and Lovuka, per Southern Cross, at 9 n.m. For Taranakl and Southern Ports, per Hawea, immediately after arrival of City of _ydney from Honolulu For Australian Colonies, per City of Sydney, immediately after her arrival from Honolulu S. B. BIS 3, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office. Auckland.

Meetings, Entertainments, Etc.

June 22,1881. Theatre Royal—Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company, 8 p.m. Protestant Hall, Newton—Loyal Orange Meet ing, re new hall, 7.30 p.m. Wesleyan Church, Pitt-street—Annual Meet ing in aid of Foreign Missions, 7.1S p.m. H.A.B.C. Pociety, St. Patrick's Hall—Half yearly Meeting, election of officers, etc., 7.30 p.m.

Death.

FOLEY.—On June 21st, at his residence, One hung., Miohael Foley: aged 73 years. The funeral will leave his late residence on Thursday, 23rd instant, at 3 p.m. Friends please accept this intimation.

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

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1881.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance For the future in the distance, . the eoocl that w« can do.

The House of Representatives yesterday anticipated two of the principal objections of the Licensed Victuallers to the Licensing Bill by striking out the bottle licenses and the family hotel licenses. While we agree with the wisdom of eliminating these provisions from the bill, because bottle licenses and secret sale have been found by experience to work badly, we .do not consider that the reaaons i given in the telegram from the Licensed Victuallers of Dunediu to the Colonial Secretary, which i 3 published in our parlia mentary news, are particularly good argu ments from their point of view. The Licens ing Bill proposed a fee of £40 for a bottle license (exactly the same as is to be charged for an ordi>""'y hotel license). The restric tions to the sale more than compensate for the privilege granted of conducting another trade. As for the moral considera tions about wines being supplied under the name of' groceries,' as an argument from the licensed victuallers, it is more likely to create a laugh than carry conviction. In fact, the whole of the telegram from tho Dunedin victuallers is curiously devised to damage their cause. Their objection to the election of Licensing Commissioners is the most amusing plea we have ever read. They object to elected Commissioners they say, because the Government, through their nominees, have been increasing the value of hotel properties during the last few years at a very great rate, and they fear any change of these piping times. At any rate, this argument has the merit of candour ; but until the memorialists show that they are in a special sense public benefactors whose properties the Govern ment ought to specially enhance in value, the force of the plea will find little to recom mend it beyond its truthfulness. Such confessions will always raise in the minds of men like Colonel Trimble the question why the Governmentshould forego the large revenues that might be obtained from bottle licenses merely in order to en hance the value of existing licenses. But for the moral evil of an unrestricted grog traffic the objection would be unanswer able, and the opposition of licensed victual lers to family, hotel and bottle licenses_is a confession of that demoralisation, and there fore gives to their opponents an argument that will doubtless be hurled back against themselves. The House of Representatives, we are glad to observe, last night declined to Btrike out the £1 license for the sale of New Zea land cider, peach, grape, and other wines. The public are not to be tied hand and foot to the chariot wheels of publicans in the matter of their drinks, and it is most desirable that the manufacture of these cheap and pure home wines shall be encouraged, and suitable facilities for their sale put in the way of those who are enter prising enough to engage in the industry. We hope the Auckland hotel-keepers will show that they are less narrow than their Dunedin brethren by refusing to endorse tbis objection. It is evident that they are by no meaus at one in other matters, for the provision inserted in the bill now before Parliament prohibiting any person from being beneficially inteiested in more than one license except as a freeholder, was one of the things prayed for in the memorial adopted by the Auckland Asso ciation little more than a fortnight ago. The ivunedin victuallers now ask them to raise their voices against it. By yesterday's Southern mail we have received a copy of the Licensing Bill now before Parliament, and from a hurried perusal it seems to be a very fair attempt to strike a middle course in licensing. It deals with one of the (grievances urged in the Auckland memorial by empowering the Licensing Commissioners to dispense with the provision about keeping an outside lamp burning in streets that are otherwise well lighted. It contains a number of other | good clauses that would work important reforms if passed into law. Sunday liquor trade is prohibited ; no child under 16 years of age is to be supplied with drink; a Magis trate may notify hotel-keepers of certain i habitual drunkards whom __ they must then refuse to serve ; no female is. to be employed in bars more than ten hours or after eleven o'clock, even with her own consent; no wages are to be paidin hotels ; persons who falsely represent themselves as travellers for the purpose of obtaining drink render themselves liable to prosecution, and in charges of illicit sale it is not necessary for the purposes of obtaining a conviction to shew that money passed or drink was actually consumed, proof _of consumption or intended consumption of liquor by other persons than the occupier or his servant being proof of sale. Such a clause would prevent a good deal of perjury in licensing cases, and would simplify the duties of Magistrates. The " Local Option " clauses in relation to new licenses provide for the appointment of a regular poll of the ratepayers in the district, the poll to be taken under the Regulation of Local Elections Act. If, as our correspondent predicts, the bill will be thrown out after the House has occupied several sittings upon, it; no better .nrnrf.nnnti__ha njffarnrl nf.th_ nttoiv inenmnn. ' '. - v.". 'i" ' TZ"^* ajq"ia*"*ll'l '*a*l*

tence of the New Zealand Parliament to legislate for the country upon questions where legislation is admitted on all sides to lie absolutely necessary.

THERE is a general feeling of sympathy for the unfortunate passengers by the City of New York who have been sentenced to seven days' imprisonment at Quarantine Island in this dismal weather. If small pox had been widely spread in Sydney, the extreme course that has been taken would have been proper, but in view of the fact that there have only been two cases in Sydney up to the present time, and those carefully isolated, inspection of the steamer "and passengers by the Health officer,would surely have satisfied all the demands of ordinary prudence. The pre sent proceedings savour too much of needless panic, and are more likely to produce disastrous results than avert them. The authorities at Mel bourne, which, from its proximity, runs much greater risks than New Zealand, con sider an inspection sufficient, and it misht, we think, satisfy the scruples of New Zea landers.

On our fourth page will be found corres pondence referring to " Public Scares " and " The Newmarket Water Supply ;" also an article, " Serious charge against the master of a vessel."

We would draw the special attention of Newmarket residents to a letter ou our fourth page on the important subject of water supply for that suburb. After the dire experience of fever last summer in Newmarket, the inhabitants ought to bestir themselves in the direction pointed out by our correspondent.

Water consumers are reminded to pay domestic rate during the present week at the City Council offices.

Professor Haselmayer left to-day for Coromandel where, no doubt, if the weather gives the diggers any chance of getting in, he will do a good business.

The argument on several points of law in the recent case, Johnstone v. Smith, in which defendant was cast in £50 damages by the jury for injuries to plaintiff's son by a kick from one of defendant's race-horses, will be heardon Friday morning in the Magistrates' Court. The monthly inspection of the several Companies of Volunteers was held by Major Withers last evening in the Drill shed, viz., the Hobsons, with their excellent band, 56 members ; the Victorians, about the same number ; and No. 3 and the Scottish, which were thinly represented, the muster of both companies being under 40. The men were subsequently put through their facings by Major Derrom ; and at the close marched out, headed by the Hobson Band, under Bandmaster Sheahan, who performed a number of lively airs in their march to the point of separation.

To the Editor : Sir, —I wish to know, for the public weal, whether constable or bailiff, under civil process, can legally issue in the public streets ? If so, it is high time that an especial Act of Parliament should be brought in to stop it.—l am, Sc, R. J. Feltus.

The " Central Australian," published at Bourke, is responsible for the following story:—" It is reported that on the day the telegraph office was opened at Cobar the editor of the local paper and some of the leading military men sent a telegram to Queen Victoria, congratulating all parties on the event. In reply the following tele gram was received :—" Am delighted to find telegraph wire extended so far iuto the interior of Africa, and that the Native chief and his officers understand the English language." The following is from the "Dunedin Berald":—Mr Almao informs us that he has already exported 9,000 rabbit skins to America, and he has 30,000 on hand for ex port. The manager of a large hat manu factory doing business in London and New York has forwarded several thousand pounds to Mr -ilmao for the purpose of buying rabbit skins in Dunedin.

The business of the St Andrew's Mutual Improvement Association to-morrow even ing will consist of an Essay on Cromwell, by Mr F. Moore, who will endeavour to depict Oliver in several new phases of character. The second essay by Mr S. E. Davis is entitled "Some Aspects of the Temperance Question." As ladies are in vited as well as visitors, there should be a good attendance should the rain cease.

At a meeting of the members and ad herents of St. David's Presbyterian congre gation, held on Monday evening, to further consider the question of obtaining a suitable minister for the church, the gentlemen who had at the previous meeting proposed, and seconded, the motion for a two months' postponement of the matter, withdrew their opposition, it was thereupon unanimously agreed to moderate in a call to the Rev. Mc- Kenzie Fraser, who is just now on a visit to Auckland. Twenty-seven votes were re corded in his favour, and there were no dissentients. The call will be laid before the Presbytery, for approval, at the earliest opportunity. A woman named Mary Brown, who has passed nearly six years of her life in Mount Eden Gaol on charges of drunkenness and vagrancy, was taken to the prison hospital this morning in a cab, in an apparently dying state. At an early hour this morning she was lying speechless in the cell, and as cold as death. The constables thought it was all over with the poor creature, or nearly so ; still the body seemed slightly warm, and the current of life perceptible on the official mirror. Blankets were pro cured, also a cab, and she was at once conveyed to her old quarters and placed under medical care, and we learn that doubts as to her recovery are entertained. The unfortunate woman was once in decent circumstances in Parnell, but gave way to excessive drinking, which has reduced to rags and infamy, and will, it is expected, shortly be ended in a grave.

A sale of second-hand books, principally ecclesiastical works intermixed with some of a legal and medical character, took place to-day at the auction mart of Messrs S. Cochrane and Son. There was a fair at tendance of bidder.", but very little compe tition. The scriptural and nomiletical volumes, although bearing the names of notable divines, did not average more than a penny each, While a few greasy-looking and well-thumbed! novels brought eleven pence each. A collection of New Zealand Statutes, well and substantially bound, went for a mere bagatelle, and several yearly volumes of the " Sunday at Home " and "Leisure Hour" were knocked down at six or seven shillings each. It is signi ficant of the spirit of the age that two hugs volumes, entitled "Tracts on Popery," about 150 years old, but in a good state of preservation, could only command Is 3d each. That there were no Orangemen present, va sans dire.

An expressman in town has a horse who indulges in sleep at a most peculiar hour. He objects to sleep in the stable. His owner puts him in harness in the morning and brings him into town. Some time dur ing the day, when little is doing, the horse and trap occupy a position on the usual stand—opposite the Metropolitan Hotel— and the horse invariable goes off to sleep. He seems to be afflicted in this manner more particularly when his owner is absent, and on whose return the animal is discovered lying very quietly on his side. A vigorous application of the whip generally brings him round, and neither horse nor trap suffers injury. To day, however, there had been a copious downpour of rain, and when our equine friend indulged in his usual nap, he laid down in a regular pool of mud and water. He was raised into a standing position in the usual manner, but was in a terribly filthy state, and the harness will require several hours' labour to bring it to its natural colour.

The subject of itinerancy is occupying the minds of the Methodist Church at home, in America, and the colonies. It is gaining ground, that the old " system " cannot be replaced with good to the Methodist Church. The A nnual Cenference of New j Zealand has tried hard to knock off itiner ancy as it was and is, but the Triennial Conference kept fast hold of this three years system, The Methodist organ, the "Weekly Advocate," has the following upon J the subject .-—"The Itinerancy." Tbis 1 changing is the severest test of our itiner ancy ; probably nobody likes it, though some may be glad to avail themselves of its changes for the sake of a chance to do better. Having a good circuit, one likes to keep it; being in the way of doing good at the maximum of one's power, it seems a pity to leave such a post ot service. And then, too, when Moses dies, will Joshua be quite equal to the old task and whatever new work may fall in? Moses thinks he may not be sufficient for these things, and therefore wishes for him self to stay a While longer. But so the Methodist world has gone round these hundred and forty years, and in going round has gained impetus and sweep. If the itinerancy is the ruinous thing it is said to be, it ought by this time to have ruined our church. It now and again throws off a man, a good man, too, but if he cannot work in a team there is no help for it, he must go. Let us look out on this new year with strong resolves to preach Christ, _to win souls, to save the world, thinking perhaps just a little less about the mechanism nlnnr rhm. h.

'•' Apprentice " a<ks why, when so much zeal, is displayed in enforcing the " Female Employment Act," no notice is taken of the number of " youths who are over-worked in merchants' offices, banks, drapers' and grocers' shops, and many other places of business. In many of our counting houses youths may be seen toiling far into the night."

One has heard of a drunken man attempt ing to light his pipe at a pump. Here is. a contrast. Robert Bradshaw, cotton opera tive, went home late at night drunk, and sat down on the top bar of the kitchen fireplace. His wife was awakened by his screams, and, coming down, found him enveloped in flames. He was dreadfully burned, and was removed to the Oldham Infirmary, where he died from his injuries.

The "Southland Times" says that a gentleman living in the vicinity of Wai papa Point mentions having seen on the beach a heavy piece of timber lined with iron, supposed to be part of the strongroom of the ill-fated Tararua. This supposition is strengthened by the fact that it is known that after the £5,000 robbery the strong room was lined with sheet iron. This being so bullion will have gone to the bottom, and in all probability become embedded in the sand, possibly to a considerable depth.

isome very interesting particulars con cerning the Sydney tramways were elicited from the Commissioner of Railways, a few days back, on the occasion of a banquet to Mr W. J. Trickett, M.L.A., ex-mayor of Woollahra. We have now 12 miles of tramways in operation, the cost of con struction of which has been at the rate of £8,333 per mile ; the working expenses are £11,057 per mile; the next revenue £1177 per mile ; the net earnings exceed 17 per cent, on the capital invested. The number of passengers who have travelled on our tram lines during 12 months is 7,540,000, while the number who have travelled over 1000 miles of our railways iv the same time is 4,403,000. On the Waverley and Woollahra line alone, 52,965 passengers travel weekly.

The following rather startling adventure by flood and held is narrated in an Austra lian contemporary as occurring during the recent flood at a place called the Six-mile Gate, leading to a certain station. It ap pears that a man anddiis wife passed through, and reached the above locality on the day the rain commenced. He had his wife and goods in a spring-cart and crossed a bend of the river to be near water. The rain poured down. He could not find his horses. He was caught between the arms of the creek. On the next night the cart began to sway about on the water and finally began to float. He thought it time then to shift. First he carried his wife, swimming about twenty yards and wading the rest, and deposited her on high ground on the top of a fence. Next he swam with the child. Then he carried off some clothing and provisions, and at last lashed the dray to a tree. He and his family lived on the fence until the third day, when the water subsided.

Reports from the Tiki district continue to be most encouraging, and if the contractors for the erection of the battery only push on their work, there is very little doubt but that there will be some large returns of gold trom Blackmore's, Tiernan's, and others, It is stated that the battery will be ready for work by the early part of July, and there seems to be a very general impression that Blackmore's claim alone will be able to keep twenty stampers going. If this is so, the battery power will very soon have to be extended, Tiernan's are reported to be on very rich gold, of a coarser description than Blackmore's. There has been a little in quiry for the stock, but there are tew sellers at quoted rates. Barrett's, Minns', and Stodart's are still in favour, and the rich find on the old Bakaia ground has caused quite a rush to that locality. Tokatea's are in request at lis, and none offering ; Mata wai's have been wanted at 2s, and Tiki Company's stocks (next Tiernan's) have been sold at 2s.

Sergeant Gamble is evidently determined that breaches of the Employment of Females Act shall'not be committed with impunity. Tho worthy officer took an investigating stroll up Queen-street last Saturday after noon, and the result of this kindness on his part was that about thirty young ladies were permitted to leave their work very suddenly. The first place which attracted his inquisitive gaze was one of the leading millinery and dressmaking establishments. He first visited the millinery workroom, which was found to be empty. Not so the dressmaking room, however. Although the time was twenty minutes past 2, ne found no less than eighteen girls busily era ployed. There was of course the customary confusion, but the blue-coated protector of Saturday afternoon half-holidays carefully noted down the names of the employers and of the forewoman. A. neighbouring estab lishment situated in Wellesley-street was honoured with a visit at 2.25 p.m., and a couple of females found at work upstairs. The Sergeant also dropped in at two dress making workrooms in Upper Queen-street, and in one he found four girls employed- at twenty minutes to 3, while in the other which was inspected subsequently, no less than seven females were discovered. _ The names of the employers were taken in all cases, and the prosecutions will come on in due course.

To the Editor: Sir,—Will you allow me space through your columns to draw atten tion to the conversazione, to be held at the Young Men. Rooms on Friday evening next, in connexion with the Young Woman's Institute. It is greatly to be desired that all who are interested in the prosperity of that work, specially all employers of female labour, should be there, as the object and scope ot the Institution, its needs and prospects, are to be fully gone into by speakers who have made themselves ac quainted with its details. Miss Smith and the ladies associated with her are anxious to place the Institute in a position to go on without making continual appeals to the public for help, and this can only be done by a vigorous effort and a concerted plan on the part of its friends now. It is doing such good work, and such wide possibilities lie before it, if it is supported, of raising the moral tone of that very important section of the community — the young women—of helping, by timely aid, to save many from going down into the darker phases of life, that it would be a crying sin if it were allowed to die out, or to be in such a perpetual struggle for bare existence that it could only do half its work. There is a subject to be mooted on Friday evening that will surely interest very many, viz., the establishment of a Servants' Home.—l am, &c, J. A. Judd. June 22nd.

The adjourned meeting of the Auckland Coffee Palace Company will beheld to-morrow afternoon in tho large room of the Insurance Buildings at 2 o'clook, Mr Joseph Newman In the chair. . Professor Fraser will deliver the first of his new series of lectures on popular scientific subjects to-morrow evening in the Temperance HalL The first subject will be "Human Science," to whioh the public will be admitted free of charge. The series will embrace subjects relating to phrenology, character, and the laws of health. Professor Fraser has a pleasing and familiar style of expression, which makes them acceptable to the people generally. The annual meeting of the members of the Wesleyau Church, Pitt-street, in aid of Foreign Missions, will be held this evoning in tho school-room, Thomas Buddie, Bsq, will occupy the chair, and addresses as follow will bo delivered:—On "The Influence ot Foreign Missions on the Church's Homo Work," by Rev. W. C Oliver; " New Testament Teaching as to Missions," by Rev R. H. Dewsbury; and " The Special Duties of the Colonial Church in relation to Mission work." by Rev. Wm. Morley. The meeting will be opened at 7.15 p.m.

POLICE COURT.-This day.

(Before J. E. Macdonald, Esq., R.M.) Drunkenness. — Isaac Duane and William Kilgonr were fined 5s each. Mary Brown.—This person was charged for the 48th time with drunkenness, but as she had fallen down in a fit, she was unable to appear, and, on the application of Mr Pardy, she was sent to the hospital for eight days. An Unfounded Charge. — Sophia Hunter, an elderly lady, residing in Hep burn-street, again appeared in answer to a summons charging her with assaulting Frederick Charles Zank by striking him on the ankle with a stone, on the 2nd instant. —Mr Blades appeared for complainant in this case, and asked for a withdrawal. —Miss Hunter complained that she had be dragged to the Court three times to answer to "Shank's" charge, which was entirely false, and which she could prove to be false by several wit nesses ; she was a quietly disposed woman, living in a very retired manner, but she was born in the stormy year 1813, and she was naturally stormy when the wind of calumny blew from persons like " Shanks." She hoped as she was perfectly innocent, as her milkman, Mr Campbell, could show, that His Worship would allow her costs ; she had come this morning all through tbe rain, and had broken her umbrella.—His. Worship expres sed his sympathy with defendant, and allowed her 5s towards her expenses. This was all the business.

" Well," said Blifkins, majestically, "we mustn't be too severe on the young fellows. 1 suppose I was as big a fool as any of them when I was young."—" Yes," replied I Fogg; "and you are not an old

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(Per R.M.S. Crry of New Yore.)

SYDNEY, June 16. A FURTHER examination of the ceiling of the City Treasurer's room, Town Hall, and that adjoining convinced Mr Sapsford that they were in a dangerous state. He therefore verbally reported the matter to the Mayor. The latter dispatched a messenger for three architects, who went to the Town Hall, and after examining the plaster, fully con firmed Mr Sapsfords statement. He recommended that the ceilings of both rooms should be pulled down, which was carried into effect. The new small-pox sufferer is Edward Rout, a carpenter," lately working on the top of a house opposite On Chong's. Fourteen souls share the residence of Rout, and the children attended three different schools till Tuesday, when the premises and inmates were quarantined. The tenants in the adjoining premises are re moving elsewhere. Two fresh cases have occurred, one a Chinaman at Waterloo, the other in Lower George-street. VICTOKIA, June 16. Two men, charged with being in posses sion of a licensed still, were fined a hundred pounds and fifty respectively. A power of attorney arrived by the mail on behalf of the Highland Railway Com pany, the owners of the Ferret, to receive possession of the vessel. Preparations have commenced in raising the capsized ship Bulwark. SOUTH AUSTRALIA, June 16. In the Assembly, the second reading of the Chinese Bill was moved by the Commis sioner of Lands. It is proposed to apply it both here and in the Northern Territory, the Government finding the Chinese labour unsuitable to plantations. Jules Joubert began arrangements for an exhibition here. An annexe to present Agricultural Society's building, 400 ft. long and 65ft. broad, is to be erected first. The building is to be completed by the beginning of July, so that exhibitors shall have three weeks to arrange exhibits. The Secretary telegraphed to the Sydc ey Government asking what he intended doing in view of the outbreak of small-pox. Th ey have also telegraphed to Victoria to the same purport. In the Supreme Court yesterday a lad of 14 named Harry Wilson obtained £445 damages against the Adelaide Steam Tug Company for injuries received through the collision of the steamer Yatala with Glenelg Jetty last December. Yesterday the Princes, the Governor, and suite rode to and mounted the lofty Marble Hill, where they lunched. In the evening a ball \i as given at Government House, at which there were 300 guests. Owners of coasting vessels have started a Mutual Insurance Club for covering risks on property at a moderate rate. WESTERN AUSTRALIA, June 16. The population of the colony is 31,000, being an increase ot 7,000 in ten years.

CAPSIZE OF THE SHIP BULWARK IN HOBSON'S BAY.

On Wednesday morning, June Bth, the ship Bulwark, 1332 tons register, capsized in Hobson's Bay, near the Fisherman's Bend, Sandridge. At 6 a.m. the mate pro ceeded to open the hatches, and on doing so discovered the hold to be full ot water, which was flowing in through the porthole in the port bow. An alarm was imme diately raised, and the pumps manned, but within half an hour the ship began to heel over, filling rapidly all the time and sinking. The crew manned one of the boats, and left for tbe shore, but shortly after leaving it was discovered that two of their number had been left on board. On observing this two boatmen, named J. Roberts and A. S. Monk, put off in a small skiff, and_ at the danger of their own lives brought them ashore. At eight o'clock, a.m., the vessel, although floating, has settled down about 4 feet, and the hatches bursting open, tbe cargo began to float out. The water and beach were soon strewed with timber, the greater portion of which were small Oregon laths and pickets. At noon the vessel had sunk in the sand some 4 feet, being then in about 14 feet of water, and still sinking. By 5 p.m. the decks had started, and threatened to burst open, but the wind lulling slightly hopes were entertained that this would not be the ease. The reason the disaster was not discovered before the vessel was full of water was that, as she was lying within the "line," she did not require a watchman. It is estimated that it will cost £800 to raise her. SINGULAR AND MELANCHOLY CALAMITY. The Wangaratta correspondent of the " Argus " gives the following particulars of the sad calamity which occurred in that dis trict on Monday last : —Dr. Angus Munro (who lately succeeded Dr. Hutchinson here), his sister (a young lady of probably 22 years), and a little girl nine years old (daughter of Mr Bundle, chemist, of this town) left for a drive to Tarrawingee on Monday afternoon, and did not return last night. No apprehensions were felt, as they went out by the high road; but next morning the buggy and the horse (drowned) were found in a back creek on the dan gerous flats between Wangaratta and Tara wingee, about a mile and a-half from town. A great number of people and the police were quickly at the spot, and first Dr. "Munro's body, and then that of the little girl, were discovered. The bodies of Dr Munro and of little Ena Rundle having been found, efforts were made to recover the body of Miss Monro, and to find out how the fatal accident occurred. The cause was evident. There is a black creek running from the Ovens above Wangaratta into the same stream lower down. This sometimes rises very suddenly and flows very strongly, and, as no bridge is available, a shingle and sand crossing-place has been provided. Sometimes there are six feet of water over this, with a strong current, and yesterday it was three feet, and showing marks of higher water during the night. Dr. Monro's buggy tracks showed that, instead of turning to left over the crossing at nearly right angles, he was swept down tne stream by the force of the current. The horse and buggy were found about 60 yards below where the tracks entered the creek. Just above that was a log in the creek, where it is said the little girl was seen alive at 8 o'clock in the morning. Above that again were found Dr. Munro's clothes, and about 20 yards below that the marks, perfectly plain, of his naked feet,where he went in,apparently to save the child. There was a very strong current on the side where the little girl is said to have been seen, with which even to-day, when the flood had gone down considerably, no swimmer could have contended. It is probable that Dr. Munro, who was a strong swimmer, was exhausted in his attempts to { save his sister. The 'horse in the buggy was disembowelled, but Dr. Munro's body showed no marks of injury. The doctor had, appaiently, got out, stripped, and gone in again more than once, and appearances point to his having put the child upon a log in the stream, where she probably lived through the night, as she had not been long dead when found. The body of Miss Munro has since been found. LOST IN THE BUSH. The "S. A. Advertiser" relates the following instance of maternal perseverance in search of a child:—"Two eirls, named respectively Jemima Myers, aged 12, and J. Sibill, 10, daughters of Mr August Myers and. Mr John Sibill, were lost in the scrub near Wallaroo on the night of the 3rd June, for six hours. It appears that they went out together in the afternoon to bring home some cows, and not returning at the usual time their parents became anxious and went in search of them. Not being successful in finding the wanderers, tho matter was, at 11 p.m. reported to the police. Lance corporal Smith promptly started and joined the search party. After an hour's attest the two girls were found together lying down beside a bush, quite exhausted and dis heartened in their efforts to gain an exit from the scrub. Like others who have been similarly situated, they had for the most part travelled in a circle. When found, they were in a state of torpor, and could not speak. They were immediately carried home and properly cared for, and are now recovering. The night being stormy and bitterly cold, and the girls without any cloaks, they would most probably have perished had they not been discovered before the morning. It was this thought that ii id iced Mrs Myers, the eldest girl's mother, with true maternal instinct, to continue her search for nearly five hours in spite of the cold squally rains which had already saturated every particle of her clothing; neither would she give up the search to others stronger and better fitted to conduct it, but actually crossed a swamp which was very dangerous. The corporal's horse, in venturing across this swamp, sank to its knees in mud. Having struggled across, Mrs Meyers continued her untiring efforts with dogged persever* ance, and was ultimately rewarded by finding tho wanderers as described. The girls and Mrs Meyers' are progressing MS59M&W"^j^ „ a ____. ■-, , .',,..;.._'-

CABLEGRAMS.

[HE-TEH'S TELEGRAMS-!

EUROPEAN.

PROGRESS OF THE IRISH LAND BILL.

LONDON, June 21. In the House of Commons to-night the third clause of the Irish Land Bill was, after further debate, passed in Committee. The Government is now meeting the views ' of opponent of the measure in. a conciliatory spirit in order to facilitate its passage. FIGHTING IN AFGHANISTAN. CALCUTTA, June 20th. Telegrams are to hand from Kandahar announcing that since the defeat inflicted prior to the 7th inst. at Girishk, by the Amir's troops upon the followers of Ayub Khan, further engagements have taken place between the two forces. In the last encounter Ayub's adherents were com pletely defeated and put to rout and have since fled from the neighbourhood of Girishk. It is now stated, however, that Ayub Khan, with a considerable following, is leaving Ghur-i-Safed (?), to reinforce his routed troops. THE FRANCO-ITALIAN RIOTS. PARIS, June 20. . Two hundred Italians were to-day arrested at Marseilles for having taken part in a recent disturbance. ROME, June 20. Intense excitement prevails throughout Italy over the occurrence at Marseilles. THE UNITED STATES AND FENIANS. LONDON, June 20. Iv the House of Commons to-day, the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, in reply to a question, confirmed the announcement made by the " Daily News " on the 17th inst., that representations had been made to the United States Government on the subject of the operations of the Fenians in England and America.

AUSTRALIAN.

SMALL POX IN SYDNEY. SYDNEY, June 21. No fresh cases of small pox have been reported in the city since the 15th instant, and the Health Officers continue to use every precaution to prevent the disease spreading. The weather is clear and frosty. SMALL-POX SCASE SUBSIDED. SYDNEY, this day. Owing to the absence of any fresh fresh case of small-pox, the panic in regard to the outbreak has considerably subsided, THE DETACHED SQUADRON. MELBOURNE, Wednesday. It is announced that the detached squadron will remain here for another three weeks, but the future movements of the vessels are uncertain. WANT-uF-CONFIDENCE VOTE. A caucus of Opposition members was held yesterday to consider the proposed vote of Want-of-confidence. No decision was come to, and the meeting was adjourned until to-day. The motion of Want-of-confidence was not brought on in tho Assembly last night as was expected. A desultory dis cussion took place in regard to the proposed motion, but nothing definite was decided. It is considered probable, however, that it will be introduced to-day by Sir Bryan O'Loghlan or Mr Grant. LAND TAX BILL REJECTED. MELBOURNE, June 21. In the Legislative Council to-day, after further debate the Land Tax Bill was finally rejected. THE SUEZ MAIL. ALBANY, June 21. The P. and O. Company's steamship Hydaspes arrived from Gnlle this morning.

QUARANTINE REGULATION.

The Mail Steamer ut Motuihi.

With the assistance of a few of our little feathered friends, the carrier pigeons, we were last evening enabled to present our readers with a portionof the mail summary, and the balance which camo in too late for publication will be found in the usual column of the present issue. Unfortunately, the message giving details of the quarantine operations and several other interesting items was among the late arrivals, and hence could not be published. It is as follows :—

Directly npon learning that the City of New York had been placed in quarantine, Mr T. T. Gamble—the P.M.s.s. Co.'s Auckland agent—commenced a- plan of operations, which, with commendable fore thought, he had arranged beforehand. His object was to have everything done as quickly as possible, to avoid any hitch and provide the greatest comfort in his power for the unfortunate passengers, who had been doomed to spend six days in quarantine. Dr. Fhilson, in accordance with the usual custom, was to have left for Motuihi in the Customs launch this (yester day) morning, but was induced to postpone his visit upon representations made by Mr Gamble. That gentleman was desirous that the Board of Health should hold a meeting before Dr. Philson left, so as to save any unnecessary delay, and the medical gentleman being willing to do all in his power to facilitate matters,, his request was granted. The Board met in the forenoon, and decided to accompany the doctor. Accordingly they embarked in the Customs launch, and left for the scene about 11 a.m. This matter being thus satisfactorily dis posed of, Mr Gamble turned his attention to other arrangements. He engaged the steamer Scotchman, and after having taken a goodly portion of the necessaries of life on board, left about 11..0 a.m., half-an hour after the launch. At about 12.30, when about three parts of the distance had been gone over, the Customs launch, with the members of the Board of Health on board, was met returning. She was hailed by Mr Gamble, 4_d came alongside. The Board then informed him that they had found no disease on board of the mail steamer, and gave him a permit to go alongside and deliver cargo, passengers and stores from Auckland, and also to remove the inward cargo after it had been sprinkled with carbolic acid on the wharf. The Scotch man- steamed alongside and discharged her cargo, and then left for the wharf at Motuihi. Here Mr Gamble expected to pick up the mails, but was greatly disap pointed. Mr Barnsley, who had been placed in full charge by the Board, stated that the mails were not yet fumigated; neither would they be put through until the postmaster sent him down men to carry the bags up. Captain Seabury, who was trying to make the best of everything, offered to loan him the whole ship's crew, but the kindly off* r wns declined, and thus it remained a question whether the mails would even be got up on the following day, for whether or not it is incumbent on Mr Biss to provide m?n to carry out the process of fumigation seeiiis extremely doubtful.

Meantime the Auckland passengers, bag and baggage, ha£t been removed to the island in boats, some grumbling terribly, others taking it as one of those things which could not be helped and had to be made the best of. In addition to the names already published there were several "lay over" passengers, the complete list of those now in quarantine being :—Mr and Mrs J. M. Dargaville and son, Mr Shepherd Smith, general manager of the Bank of New South Wales, Messrs G. H. Adams, H. Englebricht, A. Wade, Cholmondly, and servant, and four steerage passengers. The saloon passengers for San Francisco of course remained on board the steamer, the list of names being as follows:—Mr and Mrs R. R. Gibbs, Mr and Mrs J. C. Bagot, Mr and Mrs W. K. Thomson, Mrs Bell, Miss Bell, Miss Scbermeckan, Miss John ston, Hey W. S, Swaneon, Messrs H. Tur ton, T. Pleydell, C. V. Gorton, J. C. Wil son, B. O. Clarke, Thos. Purves, M. Dor mitzer, A. Goodwin, C. Bell, T. Bell, T. C. Oliver, H. Croft, F. Scluffman, F. W. Jackes, Newton Pratt, Mr W. Fleming, Miss Thompson, Miss M. Thornton. Mrs Hayman, L. Presse, W. Dayton, J. M. Goddard, A. Goldberg, and 27 steerage. The Scotchman with the Auckland cargo then returned to Queen-street wharf, arri ving at 5.30 p.m. This was discharged and the outward cargo which consisted principally of gum was taken in. The pas sengers embarked at the North Shore Ferry Cos. T, and the steamer again left at 8.30. p.m., for Motuihi. Among those on board was a post-office official, sent down by Mr Bias in compliance with the request made by Mr Barnsley. A stoppage was made at North Shore to take in a pilot, but after waiting for some considerable time—no pilot having been found—the steamer had to leave without him. The City of New York was reached about 10 o'clock, and after the passengers were put on board, the Scotchman returned. Having no pilot Captain fc'eabury declined to go out last evening, and postponed his departure until daybreak this morning when he got under way. .. ./-.- , r ■_. i-'

THE MAGIC OF PROPERTY.

» By B. A. mackechxie, Esq.

(Con eluded. J

I DESIRE to see working men independent, not insolently, so because they have a few shillings in their pockets—that is detestable, but in a quiet, manly, self-reliant way. To become so, to prevent yourselves becoming the sport of every man's will, to enable you to rule and fashion your lives somewhat in your own way, to be free, in fact, y»u must to a certain extent acquire property. I do not counsel you to strive for wealth, for pro bably you would not be happier in possess ing it. It is certainly unnecessary for con tentment and happiness. Our present wants are not many, and the mere neces saries of life can be obtained by most per sons in this colony. A true man—one who has a respect for himself and feels degraded to receive the doles and alms of others to support himself and family—will never be reduced to want so long as he has health. There need be," aud should be, few paupers here, and fewer charitable institutions. Our whole system of life is a not able failure. In our greed for self aggrandisement we neglect or impoverish those around us, and do our best to bring about pauperism and misery. Haying succeeded we then commence to relieve (distress and support the poor and their children. This we call charity, and take great credit to ourselves, as a nation, for the stupendous efforts made to alleviate distress of every kind. Bnt to my thinkinc; every institution for charitable purposes, instead of being a source of pride, should be a source of regret to any community, because it marks unmistakably a failure in life by a great many of the people. " True charity," it has been wisely said, " is that which helps a man to do the work he is most fitted for, not that which keeps and encourages him in idleness." I have told you how by a modification ot the laws re lating to land and the establishment of agricultural schools this colony ought, in process of time, to be covered throughout its length and breadth by peasant or working proprietors of the soil. But to yourselves, who live and work in a city, the first great essential is to]obtain a cottage and plot of ground of your own. Various business arrangements have from time to time been made by men of capital to assist the working man in improving his condition. The most notable of these are Building Societies of different kinds. These were commenced in the beginning of this century by a few persons animated with a desire to improve their social position, and impressed with the advantages to be derived from associating together for the purpose of raising funds to be lent out among them selves. The advantages of the system became in a short time so apparent that such associations multiplied exceedingly. The Government, at last thought it advis able to place Building Societies upon an independent basis, by passing an Act for their regulation. The Act was not perfec tion at first, but it has been amended. Our present Act of 1880 embodies those amend ments, and appears to give satisfaction. Now it may be asked, what is a Building Society ? A Building Society is simply a co-operative association to raise a common fund into which its members put their savings, some with the intention of obtain ing interest thereon, and these ate called investing shareholders; others with the purpose of borrowing money for the pur chase of land and cottages, and these are called borrowing members. These latter give security for the amount borrowed over the property purchased, and agree to pay back the amount with interest within a cer tain number of years. It is a puzzle to some how these societies can charge only a low rate ot interest to borrowers, and yet give a high rate to their investing share holders. The explanation is very simple. If the society lends out in small sums—say five or six hundred pounds—during one week, a portion of the loans is repaid during the next and succeeding weeks, and the society is shortly again enabled to make further loans out of these repayments. The more the society lends the more it can lend, and this constant repetition of receiving and lending out gives a compound interest which multiplies itself over and over again. There are ; two Building Societies iv this city, affording ready means for the in ! dustrious and provident to improve their condition. lam connected with one of these—the Industrial—under the manage ment of Mr George Eraser. But lam not here to advocate the claims of one at the ex pense of the other. My object is to impress upon you the necessity ot joining one of them, leaving you to choose between the two. As, however, lam better acquainted with the Industrial than the other, what I shall further state will relate more particularly to the Society with which I am connected. The advantages offrre_ then by that Society are briefly tbuie :- A shareholder can borrow money in any amount and for any time from 1 to 10 years at a low rate of (interest. The borrower pays no procuration fee for the loan which in ordinary cases is a pound tor every hundred he borrows. The cost of the mortgage deed is restricted by the rules to a small stated sum. The amount borrowed is repaid by weekly instalments, but the borrower, you will remember, is living rent free, and the instalments' are equivalent to, but are no more than, _an ordinary rent. At the end of the period, when the amount is paid off, he secures to himself a home that he can call his own. A tenant can never have the same motive for exertion in making his home comfortable as a man who feels that the cottage belongs to him; that no one can turn him or his family out ; and that whatever he expends upon it will be so much gain to himself. Those of you who remember what Newton and Ponsonby were 10 years ago, and how rapidly of late years the land there has increased In value, will see the advantage of becoming possessed of a house aud land of their own. The land[immediately around Auckland must increase in value if the city spreads as it has done of late, of which there can bej little doubt; and| I would gladly see every mechanic and working man in occupation of his own little freehold. A man, when the place is his own, employs every leisure moment in adding to his own comforts and the comforts of those depen dent upon him. He becomes proud of his property and spends many a happy hour with his household around him in improving it. A mechanic working in the town and the countries I have mentioned will care fully save till he can purchase a little plot of ground outside of this town. To this he will repair every working evening of his life, and with his family assisting him, will spend hours cheerfully and pleasantly toiling upon it. This you will say —though he considers it a relaxation—is constant work. No doubt it is, but we must all work! It appears to have been decreed, since man first appeared upon the earth, that he should live by the sweat of his brow. For long periods this was looked upon as a curse. But in recent times to the thoughtful of mankind, it has borne a different aspect or signification. Every earnest thinker, who has expressed himself to the world by spoken or written language, has in his own way impressed upon us this great lesson - that it is a high and honorable privilege to work—that man is dignified and enobled by work—and that what in fore times was looked upon as a curse, is in reality a blessing. No one in our time has impressed this upon the world with more earnestness, with more attcntion-airesting power than that great teacher Thomas Carlylc whose death has lately been re corded. Now men work in two ways —with their brains and with their hands. There are two forces mixed! up in our being—one, the nerve-force, which, act ing on the nerve centres of the brain, we call mind; the other the action of the muscles, which we call bodily strength— both forces are kept up by the same kind of nutriment. A man working with his brain, becomes exhausted in the same degree as when working with his muscles, and if the vigour is not kept up, .or the vitality supplied, by proper food, the Bystem becomes exhausted and dies out. Few men can work with both brtiin and muscle at the same time, It is generally found that where one is habitually used, the other is in a great measure neglected. Brain work is considered higher work than of muscle, but it does not confer the same amount of content and happiness. Those who work laboriously with the brain, as a rule, do not enjoy the best bodily health. They suffer in many ways from their com pulsory sedentary habits, which the muscle worker entirely avoids. The mind becomes more than ordinarily sensitive from being frequently overtaxed, and the brain worker is often tempted to envy the strong frame, robust health, and cheerful disposition of those who earn their-bread by manual labour. You thus Bee you have something in your position of life to be grateful for. There i 3 no book that will make yon more sad on reading it than the lives of those connected with literature. Most ot them in forme, days lived in straitened .circum stances, dependent on the good nature or charity c. others. Some were reduced to povevty and rage, some languished in prison for debt, some died of hunger, and some, so dire was their necessity, perished by their own hands. Even Carlyle, great as he was considered, and honoured as he is asa great thinker and writer, teils us himself that he was the .most miserable of men. Thus you see if we raise the veil from any

individual life, we find nothin. * and little to desire. TakeM§j_ 2}° eDI3 -ful men here, and note howen * SQCCe,a' are iv their business, with _i_l rosSe. t&ey they live, and how little «i_v "K^*l* */ of their own homes. NowaW 1" 6 seen °«t I obtaining the same comZrtlTj* ** pursuing business or work ™T.,.huM*l. steady application, and Uv(Z \ thß •»• will succeed as wek r_.ag a h <"*<_ m. make annually the sam» i_S not W ne wifi but he wiU be eaS?it a?o J untof abaaC this in my opinio™. JS*** il ia the worid " « the only this,? There is.ae otherS *BteS^»- fo' to draw your ER^.W thediv_iouofi_,fl ™ln c°nnection with that is the relSt°^ thß People, 3 induces. &ttSSfS>AM. which intelligence records the £g* *■» ordinarjr upon him in these S.*&.t made surprised, me as mach gg " But what as I drove along the pubE?^ was that, even near the tiljfct* bordered by rows of ma^fe. *aJ of various kinds. These _* ?S* tteej protection against theft*fi^S hedges o;r palings. They wffjj*l » any passenger along the 2 SWI could have plucked the fi o rfr„V^> often seen, i n the autumn ._. Ih»« boughs supported by M*»f* one end, and even thn>, ~ , .lta* tt under thnir harden _£ *eari? >W_l beneath covered with __, "?. the « but no oa/ShSS^^. with trees or frnit f h.,. "erlnS eitbefr miles of sachS side ___f/ ? '.'^a' 1 laud, Germany and TM,"^- I?Switzei" stantly loo_S_'J£_ »-?*'• ? nd h&ve cou' wonderful S^W^S.^,..'. *" this evinced." Ncra *JSa__%__^* ,° 11 blameableiasoJ^trrSr tence of the opposite state ofthKeSt our midst. A large poition aSS& land is occupied by unproductive brid rows, fences, waUs, and ditches. All ._ is rendered necessary by the babita o ft people. Every man trespasses and w. crouches or endeavours to do so upon hi, neighbour, and is only kept in ordcrbv 3i» strong arm of the law. Large tarn, d money-some 2 or 3 hundred thot_«_d pounds-are annually spent in maintain!^ gaols, police and judicial departments, M otherwise providing for the detection iii punishment of crime. Our streets are crowded with young persons apparently under no control, and the means of keeifa. them within bounds have to beincreiaed yearly. Are we not, I would again i.k answerable for this state of things? The government of a family, I would remind you, is the first stage of all governmimta that expands to the government of viUaea towns, countries, nations; but if we negli _; our duty in the limited sphere of "head ot a family," how can we do our duty in the more extended one of citizens t herd Macaulay, in his grave way, has wondered '< bow any parents can reasonably expect their children to be otherwise than they are themselves. The father may spend bis time at his club, smoking, billiard-playiiog | and idling. The mother may join in. all the frivolities and pleasures of life, and yet they most absurdly expect their children to be studious "and domesti cated. Neither by inheritance or ex ample, can this be so or the children be different from their parents. Should we ' not take home this truth to ourselves and endeavour to turn it to profitable account To aid you in doing so—to keep your children around you and yourselves under proper restraint—acquire property, not for itself only, but for its influence for good, The. money many cast away iv drink alone —not in what is efficient or good for cine, but in excess of all that—would make a, fair beginning for most men. There ara meu in this country—as you well know— who knock down in a few days' drinking the hard earnings of months, whose Ever alternate between lonely life in the bush and the fever frenzy of drink in a town. This arises partly from their having no interest in anything in the world, and partly from a want of knowledge how to use tlieir money profitably, and partly from having no control whatever over themselves. Now it is very instructive to note how this renKless unhappy mode of life, not uncommon among our wage class, immediately vanishes under a different system of land laws, and btiore an educational system which imparts greater practical knowledge in the various piiniails of life. In the countries I have mentioned, where such laws are in force, every y.oniea farmer, every peasant farmer, every labourer who owns a mere garden, devotes every;; spare moment be has to his land, in develop ing its fertility, tendiug its vegetables and fruits,studying and striving in every way to increase the value of its products. Thi lesson thus taught may well be taken to. heart by .the rulers of mankind, and those who desire the greatest happiness of the I greatest number. Teachers of the people I may tell them of theinjuriouseffectof alcohol to the end of time, but their voices! will remain unheeded, Give the mass of man kind an opportunity of acquiring property, restore to them a hopeful life, which human laws have deprived them of, and all the im. . provemont we desire to See in their con-( dition, conduct, and lives will immediately be developed. The acquisition of property ia the one thing that will enable you to stay a downward course, that will enable you to avoid a continuous strain upon your energies, 1 Let me ask youthen in tho interest which every right-minded man must teel ia the social order and improvement of the work, ing classes, in the prosperity and content-, ment of those around him, in the advance ment and happiness of his race, to give? yourselves and your children a chanw of doing well. Endeavour to realize the true dignity of independence and to feel the r. straining influence of property—an influence so marvellous in its action, so beneficial.in its results, as to betermed most appropriate ly "The Magic of Property."

MINING NEWS.

We mako the following extract from the,reports to hand to-day :—

SOCCKS3.—Mr .Peter Beid reports as follow) :- Since my last report I have lodged in tho Bank of New Zealand 2iozs. gold similar to tho last sent up. This last fortnight the ground has been Very hard, and to take both reefs I hare to ftuce a face of Beven feet in width, w_io_ prevents me from getting ahead as fast as I could with the distance driven this laßt week In aboat live feet. The main reef is a little broken 10-day, about a. foot In thlokness, but canying |»W. in all the veins. The new reef 1b abont two indies thlok at present, owing to the hardness of the ground, but with good prospeow; I«[ m hopes that when both reefs come togother aoont 12 feet further up something good will be ob tained. No. 2 level: The ground Is Btillhi-<- The reef is small, oarrying prospects ot loose gold. There is also a fresh flow, of waiariind mundic, indications similar to No..level, W-ere the best gold was got.

ONEHUNGA BOROUGH COUNCIL.

Thk usual fortnightly meeting of the above Council was held on Monday night last Cr Codlin was voted to the ohair, the Mayor being absent. The following Councillors were pre sent :-Cra Hartnett, Hills, Barle, Tapp.-**• son, and Hastie.-The minutes and cornsipoW ence were read and dealt witb.~B_n_ aocoaM, To credit balance, £227 19s 2d. A nnmWjtt accounts were passed for payment, j^JJvSt Clerk was instructed to Bend cheque f0T«B i* 6d to One-Tree Hill Highway Board, being one halt the cost of repairing boundary road.- ■{» Finance Committee's report recommended !»e Council to Btrike a rate of 6d in the*on m rateable property within the b^^M. Jackson moved that a copy of the nm Health _ct be procured. Agreed «.-w Karle moved that ten copies of the """"SH Orders be printed and supplied to w8;"^. Chairman considered it an unnecess WMm diture. and the motion lapsed—Cra Bum *»n Earle at this stage of the proc_sdin_»nf> «J£ their seats and left the Counoil.-w 0, m Jft Clerk stated that the arbitrators had m«»^ Boylan's Office, Auckland. Iwt'SSiout had heard several witnesses. Mffi a „_ that the contractor had made a^K__he laid it before the arbitrators, |!ffi££ one of Clerk, in answer to a au«ft?Xoftthtbat the contractor's witnesses d.eoum 0" "" , |Bt £15 per foot for driving '" *«BJ^ e _. of oharge—Cr Codlin said such a statemeio^ facts must take all by snrprife. and new. dered why the contractorirf^^i, donhle before the Council for «*wJ£i___^fi.3L-He that claim before ta?lS"^7__St_7*• would move that the BgffiU®"gSt _fn_b instructed to inform the arbitrators tnaio^ olaim has been laid before ,%s' h !T. Con-oU was not ref orred or contemplated by £M> n , when they granted contractor «™JF£ [ft Agreed to.-I_e Council then adjournea. m* fortnight.-(Own CorrellDonaenW_

WOMEN'S HUSBANDS.

Marriage goes, to a certain extest, by contrasts, if not by contraries, - A.'"""', * still less than a man, gets ttikhvalmaA^ paints to her fancy. Her cottnubial mkw are commonly regulated by herbage a?" - pcriemce; The man she desires W »*"*" or seventeen would be a burden »t\n,e?'-' and her idea! at twenty might prove' * ootb at twenty-five. She begins with eentwieu talism and ends with soberness; vamtK«" pels her first, but sympathy holds her upy> She is frequently surprised at the offers wu> receives and still more surprised at *o > offers she does not receive. The love tiai -, comes at first sight rarely remains; ij» !apt to be bom of the eye, not of J fie temperament. The love that grows gen erally endures and produces fruit, wv» . and marriage are not related, nwffi they should be. Love matches oftenwru out ill, and matches without love turn Mtt well No one can tell what love a; not can any one guess what marriage willh«ng« We are all, when young, full of thoght» and. theories about both, and »*«*"»" perience is ever contradicting w^twe navo learned. Marriage is as mvmemtie «... love. Few of us are Fep«?d *«j*W£| closures. We may love and marry a&w, but our ideal of love and marriage is rimo« always wholly unlike the thing Haul. "New York Times." . _H____f___il_M__.ll

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR WEDNESDAY, JUNE 32.



Special Advertisements. I rTIHE NEW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. Auckland Branch. THE Supply a Single' Gar- NKW ZEALAND ment at the Whole- OLOTHING FACTORY Bale Price. THE aave Branch Katab- NKW ZEALAND Hohments in every CLOTHING FACTORY 'town in New Zealand TTTW Are. now displaying NEW ZEALAND f N°w "g"^ ™c| CLOTHING FACTORY wLtert THK Vairiety of Styles pro- NEW ZEALAND no-Deed Unequalled CLOTHING FACTORY i:n the Market. THE Weai-reslstlng Tweeds NEW ZEALAND in every variety of CLOTHING FACTORY Garment. THE Dally increasing trade NEW ZEALAND proves the excellence CLOTHING FACTORY of Manufacture. . TH_ Produce and dispose of NEW ZEALAND Thousands of Gar- CLOTHING FACTORY ments Weekly. NEWZBALAND *%&* ** for Caß" CLOTHING FACTORY _y- — -„- Are thereforo patron wtm_ Ve-a ta wn iE6d by Thousands of NEW ZKAIiAND _l«_»_iin_. {-iHtom- CLOTHING FACTORY discerning _ustom THE Is the Premier Eetab NEW ZEALAND HshmentinNewZea CLOTHING FACTORY land. nVTOTE THE BRANCH ADDRESS JJ_ QUE-N-STREET, AUCKLAND. J. _ ttTZSIMONS, Branch Manager. And at Albert-street Thames. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. An Economy in every Household. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Nw elmprovoments without extra cost. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES Will last a lifetime in constant work. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. 10 per cent discount for cash. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Easy terms. Within the means of the poorest. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Easy terms. No addition to the price. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES Will earn their cost in a few months. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Best terms to Wholesale Buyers. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Write for addre?s of nearest Agent. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Send for Price List to The SINGER MAX .FACTORING COMPANY. No. 166a, Queen-street, Auckland. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES Sales exceed half a million annually. Tek SINGER MANUFACTORY COMPANY have opened a Wholesale and Retail Dep6t at 66i, Queen-street. Auckland. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. Hand or Treadle, at will. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES. - Established over 30 years,. SINGER'S SEWIJNG MACHINES, The most approved in mil countries. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES Have received 160 Finit-class Medals. SINGEH'S SEWING MACHINES. The beat for the family. Easiest to learn. SINGER'S.. SEWING MACHINES, The beat for the Dressmaker; most durable. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES, Best for the Tailor j sews strongest seairis. SINGER'S SEWING MACHINES, Beat for tho Bootmaker j light or heavy work. : C.INGER.S SEWING _lAC__NES |prTK-^^CT---iW~»c--.,.-"iL-_____:r._-^.-_ ,__ ■ ... -. _■. ____________[ i ii " ii ir "' ——"■-■ .-..-.—_«e= pgHHrr. -.--^v..^-r-.;,-^.--_-.--.-r-_.-_— j_v —-.-• M_K__T"~ " '



Special A-ver-isementa T7" A M 0 #1 0 A L. DEPOT: NEXT PUBLIC BATHS. OFFICE.: No. 5, Couth Bp.itish Inschance Company. KAMO COAL Is Delivered from depot ENTIRELY FREE FROM SLACK, And is Guaranteed SUPERIOR TO NEWCASTLE FOR HOUSEHOLD PURPOSES. VVf I N _-~S & JJ A h t" Wholesale and Retail partnktmakers and upholsterers, AND CARPET WAREHOUSEMEN, SHORTLAND-STREET, Beg to inform the Public, that they have Opened their New Warehouse "WITH A SPLENDID ASSORTMENT op FURNITURE, The Latest Novelties, and The Newest Designs. __ _ „___ \ Their stock of CARPETS, for Variety, Quality, j and Price has never been surpassed in Auckland. A large assortment of LINOLEUM and FLOOR CLOTHS in all widthß. MATTINGS, MATS, and RUGS in great variety. The Neweßt and Latest Patterns in Cretonnes and Trimmings. Silk and Worsted Reps. Cotelelnes, Tapestry, and Damask Coverings. Cloth and Tapestry Table Covers. Laoe, Net, and Muslin Curtains. A large and well-assorted Stock of all the Newest Patterns in Toiletware. Agents for the Iron Venetian Blinds—"The Blind of the Period." Theae are the only perfect blinds made. The Largest Stock of Brass and Iron BHID STkaDS and COTS in New Zealand to ohoose from. A choice assortment of Dolly Varden Down Quilts, Blankets, Bed and Table Linen, Towels, Toilet Covers, &c. &o. Inspection Invited. WINKS & HALL, SHORTLAND-STREET. ■vIHUE AND pHOYC. HAVE NOW OPKNED UP, ex Syden ham and Oxford, A Complete Assortment of Autumn and Winter (jtoods The following are Folly Stocked with all the Latest Styles •— Millinery and Mantle Department Costume Department Underolothing and Baby Linen Department Hosiery and Haberdashery Department Fancy Dress and Trimming Department Silk and Satin Department Linen, Calico, and Flannel Department Boyß' Clothing Department. TROUSSEAUX AND LAYETTES SUPPLIED AT THE SHORTEST NOTICE. The above Goods are from the First London Houses, are the Latest Styles, of a very superior description and quality, and the Prices defy competition, 5% Discount for Prompt Cash. MILNE & CHOYCE, QUEEN AND WELLESLEY STREETS. A UTUMN A«_, -A7INTER DRAPERY AND CLOTHING. RUSHBROOK AND BRIDGMAN Are now bringing forward their Stook of NEW GOODS FOR THE SEASON, ALL SELECTED WITH GREAT CARE AND WELL BOUGHT. Splendid Value in Blankets and Ruga Flannels, Shirtings, and all Plain Goods A Choice Lot of New Dress Goods, Slatln Cloth, Serge, Merino, Wincey, &c. Trimmings and Buttons Job Lines in Fancy Dress Goods, very cheap Ladies' Jackets and later Girls' and Maids' Ulsters Umbrellas. Hosiery, Ribbons, &c A LARGE STOCK OF CLOTHING TO SELECT FEOM OF ALL KINDS, FOE BOYS AND MEN. OVERCOATS, ULSTERS. & MACINTOSHES. Lahoe Selection of COLONIAL AND IMPORTED TWEEDS. STRONG MATERIAL FOR BOYS' WEAR- S-ROES, &C. s°/Discount <i° <n the £) allowed off all CASH Purchases of 203 and Upwards. "DUSHBROOK & T3RIDGMAN, [Opposite the Army and Navy Hotel], Upper Queen-street, Auckland; GARLICK AND CR AN WELL, COMPLETE HOUSE FURNISHERS* CITY HALL ARCADE, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. "\ ( GARLICK ANE M* CRAN WELL'S StOCk « I contains a very O extensive choice r, O of Furniture, ot "^ •" I English. Ameri- Kg gtf jean, Italian, and ■ o S, Colonial manufac- GJBJ aO^ I ture, and is sold at i-rige^VFURNITURE-i the lowest possible _■*_ price consistent Mg g B with durability feg cq and good taste; "p M and they respect ■. j fully invite an in _ spection of their w Show Rooms from Q those about te fur ) Vnish. t \ (A. Beautiful Lot of Drawing-room CARPETS, just H-j- landed ex Oxford, o_h most fashionable flj^rajHjSsa designß, and cer- JC_l3_)_ tainly very choice, HgHP^M The "Worcester" SSSQaSI r-ARPic.q J Stair Carpet has a _HmSs° f OAKPICTS 1 pile of horsehair, ££-„<]*_; and is the most «_!l*i_Q<! durable Carpet aver made. Tapes- HrtS try Carpets from feM 2s lid. Handsome Borders for Car pets, Hearth Ruga / Vmade to match. GARLICK & CRA.NWELL keep a Large Stock of Floor Cloths for Halls, Rooms and Offices. Linoleum, all widtlis, at lowest prices. GARLICK & CRANWELL keep a Great Variety of Austrian Bentwood Furniture, and American Cane Chairs. Whole sale and Retail. WE allow a DISCOUNT of Five per Cent, on Furniture, Carpets, and Floor cloths, for Cash Payments. BEDDING, all sizes, of our own manu facture, kept ready for Delivery, FURNITURE, and all other G.ods, delivered Free in Town, and Book Cata logues sent to intending Furnishers on ap plication. /GARLICK & CRANWELL keep an VJT immense assortment of Iron Bedsteads. FURNISH YOUR HOUSE From the CITY HALL ARCADE, GARLICK & CRANWELL. Proprietors. Cabinetmakers and Upholsterers npHE TJANA niRDLE, TBE NEW SHADED RIBBON& FASHIONABLE SHADED BLOND NETS. William Rattray HAS JUST OPENED A CASE OF NOVELTIES IN FANCY GOODS, Comprising a Laboe Assortment of tie CHENILLE NANA GIRDLES, In all the Fashionable Colours, THE NEW SHADED RIBBONS, in Various Widths, And SHADED BLOND NETS to match, AT NEW ZEALAND HOUSE, Drapery, Clothing, Mantle, Milli nery, and Dress Trimmings Establishment, I 62, QtJ.-N.STEKKT, AUCKLAND



Special Advertisements. pOAL! |~110-_LI /". UA L The undersigned are delivering LARGE TAUPIRI COAL from the New 10 feet Seam. Orders te be left at 1. Fort-street. HAMMOND & BYR-iV i^OALS ! MOALS I £10ALS I NEWCASTLE AND OTHER BEST CLASS COALS, And also FIREWOOD, FOR SALE, at Lowest Rates. F. At T W I N A M E. COAL YARDS: FORT-STREET.