SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WATBR }%2£££lft£&* M BTJNSBT.—This Kvening, 5.39 -• BUNKISK.—To-Morrow Morning. 6.18 MOON'S AGB.-FUU Moon, Bth. 4.18 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

LAST EVENJNO Argyle, 8.3., Crawford, from Whangarel TO-DAY.

DEPARTURES.

LAST BVKNINQ. Griffin, aohooner, Scott, for Tonga Glenelg, b,s., Stephenson, for Koff 6" Wellington, s.e..Farciuhar, for Tauranga FtogaTß.B.. Norris, for Mercury Bay to-day; Syren, brig, Harrison, for Sydney .. Omistina, gchooner, Kvanson, for Rustou Kriemhifda, sohooner, Batnurat, for wnai>garo»

PROJECTED DEPARTURES.

SSSJ^SS^SSS^dH^t". Monday and WtSiW Whangarei Heads-Argyle, :-• VKSSKia BXPBOTKD. Zeatandia. ship. (J.G.H.T.) from London: sailed glvtoot lay. shlP. (Q.N.D.T.) ftom London Loo hac^ JBhip,V.a.Q.V.)to.inGl«.gow;flaUed C /?&SS£&5& <H.T.N.F.)from New * York" Bailed June 18 Kthe^toigantine, fromDunedln 25.000 felt timber; Zillan. from Thames, with Zl.OOOieet timber. Outwards CoASiwise.-BUen, for Maraitoi. f&rOcean.for'RtßaeU; Adah, for Tairua; Lagoon, for Orewa. The three-masted schooner Falcon, loads at Melbourne for thia port. An English man-o'-war was Blgnalled as we went to press. She will probably prove to be the JBmerald from Sydney. 1 "Captain Qarrawayhasgivenoverthesc^ojper Transit to her owners. He will probably.runtne jSS Price to her stead, in the Bametrade. The B.s. Oretl, announoea to proceed to Gis borne and Napier this afternoon, had not taken SSdepirtureat 4 p.m. She has one passenger. Mr Hermind. The Taranakl, 1130 tons, and the Antares. 821 tom we«w> tile berth at London for this port °nThe^i: Bßotomahana did not proceed to Rus- BeU last evening, but is announced to.leave for . thatnort toilgnt. She leaves for Southern porta at 1 p.m. on Thursday next. I The B.S. Argvle, arrived from Whanirorei at 9 o'oloolc aetnfeht. She brought 42 Books gum, 5 sacks oyßters; 28 dozen mullet, i hides, 6 kegs butter./oozes eggs, 2 tons Bnndries. wdtte. fniinwine Dassenßers: — Messrs J. J. wiiflon. Anbwy.fi. WiKS McDonald, Kennedy, and j afagfoffA, The brig Hmily is loading at Dunedin for this has entered ouUUhe Cnstomsfor Noumea, and wiU sail about Satur day next. , . . j The sohooner Kate McGregor was dookedyeß- JuSSeimply amonntlDK to a few soratohes, have now been effiwed. a steamer inside Tiri was slgnaUed as w° Venttopress. She will probably prove to be 'H.M. Emerald from Sydney. Messrs Shaw, Saville & Oo.'s Zealandia, 'Oaptata Grsellaw. sailed from Gravesend on ;Shll 7«uirW^e dsW: M| Wflwird Brown, Mrs Brown, John Brown. HerbSt BrownTMißS S. March, Dr Bygate, H. JLPeaAe m 4 A. B. Oddie. Second cabin :H. f* iSnake T B. Smith. Mary Smith, Bdith v linitnlSian Smith, John Robinson, Frederick : S^L^a. ZSSSAJt IST J? G^r^erJ^ra^i r verner, ""StgjSjsnn llaiy Shackleton, Cathertno JtaSK Botert Bell, John Wil ii?r^M™ wsaEai. Miffl 8. Williams. Miss WfflSujSlL'^Uams, Miss B.Wil i^MarifiaverTßSnry Layer. Ellen Layer, ctwteslTver.Mrsi'atterßon, William Patter , pn July 2. M miles S.W.ot Soilly Island.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

'. DBPABTORB. Rowena,B.B., Scott, for Waitara Penguin, a.s., Malcolm, for the South

EXPORTS.

Per Eliza Mary, for Duneain: 100.000 feet timber. Per Penguin, for Southern ports: 30 cases keroairfa,6 sacks lime, 2 kegs nails, 1 case flies, flare steel, 2 hhds andl ca 3 a ale. 8 sacks bags, 4 sacks oysters, 15 DkW maohinery. 18 boiler totes, 9 oases blacnitß, 60 pkf?B sundries.

The o.s.Rowena left for Waitara at 2.30 p.m. yesterday with 30 cases apples, 6 cases bisoaita, ftndseveral tons sundries. She is announcedito teaveiigain at 1 p.m. to-morrow for the same The 8.8. Hannah Mokau ia expected to arrive from Waitera* to-morrow morning, and to return thitherto the afternoon. "The b.b: Penguin left for the South at; 10.30 a,ro. to-day. Passengers-Messrs W. A. Thome ion, Ford. F, G. Pryce, S. S. Tease, Harvey, E. Meade, Misses Lundon and O Brlon. The briganUne Eliza Mary oleared at the Cus oms fOT^unedin to-day with a full cargo of mtier. "! ■•:

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

iuibbbm. this day. At the loading ground: Glenelg, Kenilworth, 1 "S airy. Saucy Kate, and Waiwera, Arrived: Glenelg, 8.5., from Auckland, 9 a.m 'Waitaba, this day. I Arrived: Kowena, 5.8., from Waiters, 7.25 . ,»,m. . WBU.INOTOS, yesterday, '"■•' Arrived: Alexandra, barque, from London, af toa^Sneventfnl passage of 94 days. Sailed: Wahrißa. baroue, for London, with wool, StaMd skins, valued at £45.000; Hawea, 8.8.. " for Pioton and Nelson.

COMMERCIAL.

' Evbninq Stab Office, Tuesday. Messrs G. W. Binney and Co. sold two oases ■■ of envelopes at fair trade prices. The Bate of ■ i" potatoes wbb largely attended, and realised, I from 0. 2s 6d to S3. • i > ' Mr W. Dowden sold a number of lines Of ; V p otatqes from SI 3s. "Messrs B. Tonka ana Co. sold potatoes from «110a to «2. The verandah sun-blinds were all ' Bold at good prices. Mr Gabriel Lewis held a sale of C and F, ;Fr¥no£ calf. Bast Indian kip, drilla, lasts, and sewing maohines, with fair results. The sale wna well attended by the trade.

Mail Notice.

Mails will Close as Under.— this day. For Whangarel Heads, Waipn, Whangarei, and por Argylo. at & p.m. For Woangaroa, per Kreimhilda, at I p.m. Wkdnksday, 7th Instant. For Waitara, per Rowena, at 11 a.m. For Coromandel, per CoromandeU at 11.30 a.m. For Thames, per RotOmahana, at 11,30 a.m. For Hobart, per Loongana, at 3 p.m. For Thames, per Enterprise, at 5.30 p.m. TaOKSDAY. Bth instant. For Waiweta, Te Kapa, Craigiebnrn. hnd Warkworth, per Roae Casey, at 10 a.m. I For Russell, Kawakawa. and Australian; Colonies, per Albion, at 3 p.m. For|Mangawal, per Fingal, at 3 p.m. For Tauranga, Ohinemutu, and Opotiki, per Wellington, at 1 p.m. Friday, 9th instant. Per b.b. Rotomahana as follow :— For India, China, Japan.Medlteranean Ports, and Continent of Kurope, at 11 a.m. For Gisborne, Napier, Southern porta, Aus tralian Colonies, and United Kingdom, via! Suez and Srlndisi, for letters, &c, specially 80 prepaid and addressed, at noon For money orders, registered letters, and newspapers at 11 a.m. Late letters till li.Sil) a,m. Tuesday, 13th Instant Per b.B. Australia, as follows :— For Sandwich Islands, United States of America, Canada, British Columbia, Central and South America, and British and Foreign West Indies, at 1 p.m. For United Kingdom and Continent ot Europe, at lp.m. For money orders registered letters, and newspapers, at 11.30 a.m. [ Late letters bearing an extra fee of sixpence. J? Sll^ 0?. to *"? Postage, will be received by the Mall Agent <5n board the steamer np to the tune of Bailing, S. B. BIBS. Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office. Auckland.

Meetings, Entertainments, Etc.

September 6,1881. Theatre Royal—Mr V. Marshall in " Quilp," 8 p.m. Baresford-stroet Churoh—SolrfSe and Public Meeting, 6 p.m. ' Union-street Wesley an Chnroh—Soirte and Publio Meeting, 6.30 p.m. Eden Hall—Lecture by Mr K. Lewis, " Now Testament Teaching Concerning the Ghuroh ot Christ," 7.30 p.m.

Birth.

MILLS.—On Septembor 6th. 1881, at her resi dence, Dock-street, the wife of Mr. Kphraim Mills, builder, of a son.

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

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1881.

For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrong that needs resistance! FOl the future in the distance, And the good that we can do.

A leading article, prepared for to-day, is crowded out by pressure of local matter.

The thoroughbred entire War Eagle was put up for auction at the Haymarket to day, but the bidding did not reach the reserve, and he vra» consequently with drawn from competition.

To the Editor: Sir.l enclose Is,which you will be kind enough to give to Samuel Coombes. If he is not contemptible enough to call for it please give it to your devil, and advise Samuel to read tho 13th chapter of his Christian cognomen in the Bible, and he will get my opinion of him.—Yours, &&, Tom Burton.

Messrs Watson and Martin, contractors, are now engaged in the construction of the new Harbour Board Office on the Queen* street Wharf. The site chosen extends from the outer eastern T to the new T, and the building will face the west-ward. In all there will be eleven of&ces, one measuring 16ft x 9tt, and the others averaging lift x 7ft 9in. They will be completed in a few weeks, and occupied shortly by shipping agents and company's office, &c

Return of sick treated at the Provincial District Hospital, for the week ending Saturday, September 3rd, 1881. Remained last return, 103; admitted since, 10 ; dis charged, 14; died, 2; remaining, 102; males, 81; females, 21. Arrangement of cases : Zymotic, 17 ; constitutional, 8; local, 40 ; developmental, 20; violent, 17. Two Two deaths occurred, viz., W.8., aged 63 years, male, on 27th instant, of pneumonia; J.P., aged 29 years, male, on 30th instant, of phthisis pulmonalis.

The entries for the Walker Whiskey sculling contest were Elias Laycock (the winner of the Hop Bitters Prize on the Thames), W. Laycock, Pearce, W. Trickett (brother of - the champion), J. Edwards, Priddle, Reynolds, and Messenger, of Sydney; Kush and McDonald, of Grafton; K. Edwards, W. Edward?, Greenland, and Wing, Melbourne ; Shepherd, Maitland, and Power, Twofold Bay. Four heats were to have been rowed yesterday, two arc fixed for Wednesday, while the final takes place on Friday. The coarse for the even a on Monday and Wednesday was from the beginning of the Champion Course to Gladesyille Wharf, a distance of two-and-a half miles, and the final heat was over the full Paramatta Course.

The letters of some of the 57 objectors to granting ■ license to Mr Leon's hotel, con tained some curious and even poetical paragraphs. Ono writer said the granting of the license would lower the community as well as the money value of property; it will also clothe women in rags and send children barefooted about the streets. Another urged that children passing the hotel to achooi, would have their minds demoralised by dreadful sights and sounds. Another, the larrikin element here is as prevalent as the small-pox in Sydney, and an hotel will increase it. Another, should the Working Men's Club become a hotel, the awfnl effects no mortal may te.l; and lastly, a writer says, it is ont of tbo superivaion of the police, and mignt become pandemoniamic, the retreat of abandoned characters. No wonder the applicant ,-isked the bench for permission to with draw the application. At the regular communisation of -the Masonic Provincial Grand Lodge of Now Zealand, holding under the Irish Coastitu -1 tion last evening in the lodge-room, Masonic Hotel, the Lodge Ara was first opened by the W.M. (Bro. Crothers) and his officers. Bro. Pierce, P.G.M., and his officers were received in Masonic form, and took their respective positions. On the Grand Lodge being opened, Bro. Lodder, D.D.G.M., of the 8.C., and his officers, were announced, and received with customary honours. The D.D.G.M. was accompanied by Bro. Moat, D.U., Registrar, Bro. Wade, D.G., secre tary, and Bro. Ellison, P.G.S.W., of the S.C. The following P.M.'s were elected officers of the P,G. Lodge for ensuing year : P.G.S.W., Bro. P.M. Climo, Lodge of Light, Thames; P.G.J.W., Bro. P.M. Roycroft, Lodge United Service; treasurer and secretary, Bro. P.M. Rees, Lodge United Service; Chaplain, Bro. P.M. tho Rev. Dr. Kidd, No. 348; S.D., Bro. P.M. Goodacre, Lodge United Service; J.D., Bro. P.M. Durancej Lodge Ara; Director of Cere monies, Bro. P.M. Burns, Lodge United Service; Swordbearer, Bro. P.M. King, Lodge Coromandel: Organist, Bro. W.M. Crothers, Lodge Ara; Pursuivant, Bro. Powley j Outer Guard, Bro. Porter. ]

The pictures which are comprised within Messrß Upton and Co.'s Art Union deserve more than ordinary attention, from the'fact that some of them have emerged with the highest honour and encomium from a com petition of rigorous severity upon the widest conceivable basis, such as the Melbourne Exhibition provided. Many of them are fresh from the easels of artists of national (English, German, Italian, and French) or European distinction. All of them are works of a high order of merit, whether classed as oil paintings, water-colours, or examples of the newly-invented method of re-producing works of art. It is not possible in one simple notice to give even an approximate conception of the variety in kinds, value, and character of the prizes. There is scarcely any improved method of producing artistic effects from crude material which does not contribute some exquisite result in this collection. There is the painted glass and china, engraved glass, Japanese lacquer and designs, terra cottas, ivories, marbles, in every form of design, bronzes, amalgamated metals, such as shields, &c, raised in elaborate reliefs of the most perfectly • sculptured moulds. Those who would- participate in the pos sibilities of this Art Union should inspect the articles at Mr Halliday's, Shortland street.

Tenders were opened on August 29th, at tho office of W. F. Hammond, for additions to a house at Stokes Point, as follows :— Alex. Keyes, £220 accepted; Smith & Wooler, £270 5 J. Hill, £239 lss $ J. and E. Morris, £238 5 A. Stevenston, £312.

The " Herald" this tfnorning has a para« graph stating that two gentlemen endeavoured to get into the. theatre last night without paying, and were bustled out. The gentlemen in question have culled on us and given a very different version of the utfair. They explain that both are very deaf. They procured tickets at the dr'eaa circle entrance and went up stairs. The ticket-taker was not at the door when they entered, but after they had been seated a short time he came to them while the curtain was up and made a whispered request for their tickets. Not understanding him, they asked that he should wait till tho cultaih fell. He, how ever, believing ac Was being humbugged by dead-heads, began to hustle them out, and they were taken to the landing, when, finally comprehending tho situation, they produced their tickets and re-entered tho theatre, remaining throughout the per formance.

Our Port Albert correspondent writes t— " Mr Joseph Becroft has sold his house mid land to tho Education Board, for £2GO. The teacher, Mr B. M. 'liubb will at olico occupy tho hause, Which ,is cduVeniently situated as a teachers' residence. When it was known that tho Board contemplated purchasing this property, a petition was taken round v portion of the school district, and by unfair representations, a number of persons wore induced to Bign, Braying the Board to remove tho lately erected school buildings a mile nearer tho township, thus placing the school in one corner, or within half-a-mile of tho western and northern boundaries of the distriot. At a school committee meeting, on Thursday, the chairman, Mr J. Shepherd referred to this petition, when it was fouud that no mem ber of the committee had signed, the committee being unanimously opposed to removing the school from its present pcsition. lam told a number of names are on the petition not those of householders.— The Rodney County Council decided at its last meeting to give Albert riding two mem bers instead of one, taking one from Tauhoa. Anyone at all acquainted with the two ridings must admit the wisdom and fairness of this redistribution of members. At the election in November, Mr E. Brown and Mr J. Shepherd will be tho probable candidates for Albert riding. for Tauhoa, half-a dozen will offer their Bervicea. Mr J. Wil son, Mr Burdett, Mr Gardoner, and Mr G. H, Brookes are amongst those mentioned. For the electoral district of .Rodney, it will take a good man to make a " show " against Seymour George,"

A concert and ball were given last night by the members of tho Railway band, in the Parnell Hall. Notwithstanding the in clemency of the weather the hall was crowded to excess, thero being scarcely standing room. This, no doubt, will augur well for the complete succesa of the undertaking, financially and otherwise. Selections of music, vocal and instrumental, were contributed by ladies and gentlemen in the following order: Selection, Band; song, "Oft in tho Stilly Night," Mr O'Sullivan ; song, "Say not Farewell," Mrs Maxwell, (encore), delivered with taste and expression; glee, " Breathe Soft, ye Winds," &c, band ; song and chorus, "Eillecn Allannah," Mr Stanton; song, tho "Midship Mite 1 (encored). Master Gillillan, 8 years of age ; comet solo, from " Trovatoro,"Mr Dobblo ; duet, "Te :1 Kammento," Mrs Dobble and Mr O'Sullivan; song, " The Mountebank," Mr Spraggs; song, " The Whistling Thief," Mr Pope ; waltz, " Happy Moments," band ; Church Parade, band ; song, Mrs Elliot; song "Villkins and His Dinah," Mr Pope ; trio, " Lift Thine Eyes," band; somr, Mr Spragg; song, "'Gentle Annie," Mrs Dobbie; catch, Spraggs, Dobbie, and Frit 5 song, " Isle of Beauty," Mr Maxwell (encored); song, "The Bonnie Wee Window," Mr Dobbie; song, "Carissima," Mr O'Sullivan; duet, "The Pilot," Mrs Elliot and Mr Spragg. The concert having terminatod at 10 o'clock those who cared to trip it on " the light fantastic toe " whiled the hours away until the " wee ama' hours ayont tho 'twal."

The London " Daily Telegraph " says : - Perhaps the most pathetic, episode of the recent catastrophe at IN ice was that of which one Giovanni Betocchio, a master saddler of Turin, was the hero. This Un fortunate man, haying beon summoned to Nice by some business engagement, took with him thither his only daughter, an in telligent child of seven, to whom he was passionately attached, and whose fondness for music prompted her to persnadc her father to purchase scats in the doomed theatre for the performance which terminated so tragically. Ho secured places in the tront row ot tne gallery, and was occupying them with his little girl when the alarm of lire rang through the house. Snatching the child np in his arms, he endeavoured, and successfully, to break through the panic stricken crowd to the gallery door; but during the struggle his darling was torn from his grasp. By an almost superhuman effort he contrived to re-enter the gallery, by that time plunged in all but total darkness, and while groping about along the overthrown seats, caught hold of a little girl, insensible from fright, whom he carried out into the street, fully believing her to be his own daughter. She proved how ever, to be a strange child. Hastily setting her down upon the pavement, he desperately fought his way for the second time into the burning theatre, from which he never again emerged alive. His charred corpse was found, two days later, among the ruins of the gallery stairs.

A Sunday-school entertainment will be hold in the Newton Kirk, on Wednesday, the 7th task, to consist of a spelling bee, songs, muslo, recitations, and a distribution of gifts. Since the discontinuance of regular services at the kirk, Mrs Wallis and the teaohers have kept up the Bunday-sohool for the benefit of the juvenile population of the district, and with considerable success. This entertainment is projected for the encouragement and pleasure of the little ones.

Mr Kensington has been elected a mem ber of the By nod of the Diocese of Auckland for Bombay, Mr Fisher for Katikati,Mr Lar kins for Mahurangi, Mr Crispe for Mauku, Mr Upton for Ngaruawahia,Messrs Hill and Jackson for Onehunga, Messrs Batger and Pierce for St. Sepulchre's and Mr Cochrano for Waitara.

We desire to draw attention to the an nouncement that is made by the Seorotary of the Young Women's Institute, respecting a course of lectures about to be given by Mrs Ber nard Moore to ladies on " Home Nursing of the Siok." Of this lady's ability to give instruc tion on this eminently useful subject there is as surance from certificates held by her from the St. John of Jerusalem Ambulance Society. Ladies should send their names in as speedily as possible, as classes are to be formed accord ing to the number making application.

The programme of Mr Cranwell's Concert which is to be given in the Choral Hall on Thursday evening, appears in another column. The singing and reading of the pupils selooted from the public schools will, we are sure, be worth listening to, and will evidence a degree of profloienoy creditable at once to themselves and to their teachers. The reading from S hakß pere's play of '• Julius Cee3Br" and " Kin* John," would be a savers test for the capabilities of much older performers. The bolos of the even ing, will be sung by Mrs Bispham and Mr Grad well. The former, acoeding to special request, will sing the favourite sone, " Tho Carrier Dovo," and judging from previous efforts, in a style not oten heard in Auckland, The pro ceeds of the concert, we should mention, will go towards the promotion and extension of the Tonio Sol Fa System to teaching music

Those who have visited Mr Tanfield's china, glass and earthenware establishment will have noticed the change that has recently taken plaoe in the character and management of the goods displayed. We do not remember to have seen in Auckland a more magnificent collection of china dessert and tea services than those now being exhibited by him. There are also a large number of specimen oups and saucers of the most handsome description, from which orders .for complete sets of the same patterns are being taken to send home for execution. This should prove a great conveni ence to those who want really first-class sets of china. We notioa too a most magnificent assortment of glass centre stands, in great, variety of design. Mr Tan Bald is displaying considerable enterprise, in introducing goods of a very superior charaoter, and we have no doubt he will receive sufficient oncoursge ment'to keep pace with the advancing require ments of the oity.

THE TRANSIT OF VENUS.

ASTRONOMICAL PARTY iJ'OR AUCK LAND.

(BY TELEGRAPH,— PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

The New Zealand Government have received a despatch enclosing the prelimin ary, from the Royal Astronomical Society, relating to the Transit of Venus 1882. The report contains suggestions as to the stations favourable to observations of the different phases. The report states that Australia and New Zealand should be the best stations for observing the phase known as "egress retarded." The Society suggest that Auckland would probably be the best site for observa tion in New Zealand, and further that the New Zealand party of three Gentlemen should leave London about July the Ist, and arrive at Auckland the first week in September, thus giving them time to con sult with the local observers.

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Be brief, lor-It la with worts as with sniir beams; the more they are condensed the dee pc they burft/'^SttotßET. Fatty degeneration—Butterine. Mr Marshall's "Quilp" is the most remarkable performance over given, in Auckland. Mr Booth has obtained the contract for the Morrinaville Hotel, £538. If you make your life a success, you can afford to lot tho dogs bark as you go by. Sir Stafford Northcote has given his son, the Rev. John Stafford Northcote, a rector ship. The small diocese of Fond dv Lac (Episcopal), which contains only 2,353 communicants, raised the past year for various purposes £7,300. Bight persons have been killed andeleven injured by the Sydney tramway since it was opened. In three days, 3,000 kangaroos were slain at Gularcatnbone, Coonamble. Professor Fraser left to-day for a tour in the North. Mr W. F. Buckland will bo a candidate for Franklyn in the next elections. The Bible in Schools Association which baa beuu in a moribund condition, is to be galvanised into life. Inquirer—The quickest motion known to scieneo ia that of a man who has put his hand in a hornet. A Cincinnati woman knocked her hus band senseless with a copy of tho Bible. The old version is good and strong yet. Captain Wright of the . Valley-road, Mount Eden, is dangerously ill. A Phtladftlphian has resolved to starve himself to death; Ho will engage board at a watering place and never fee the waiter. Philadelphia wants a law against whistl -1 ing. The^r don't believe a man should busy his niouth with whistling when he might use it to lie with. A wealthy citizen of New York in cele brating the 50th anniversary of his wedd ing, toasted his wife aa the "healthy old lady who combines beauty with dura bility." Mr Cranwcll wil devote the proceeds of his concert on Thursday to the work of promoting a knowledge of the Tonic Sol Fa system in Auckland. A skeleton discovered at Clive, Hawke's Bay, m the object of Police investigation. It is reported that Kendel, tho Post office robber, has tried to hang himself in gaol. A Wellington Licensed victualler is be ing sued for refusing to supply an applicant with tea. • William John Kirton has boen appre hended in Wellington and remanded to Auckland on a charge of wife desertion. The Princes, in replying to the address presented by ihe Legislative Assembly, ex pressed the hope that an opportunity migbt occur for both the Prince of Wales and themselves again to viait the colonies. Tho " Albury Banner" states that on Mr Halliday's Brookong, N.S.W., Station this year 250,000, sheep will be shorn. Last year the total was 340,000, being the largest num ber ever put through one shed in the whole world. Mr Wybert Reevo is playing at the Opera House, Sydney and Mr Dewhurst at the Queen's. Canterbury potatoes sold to-day at auc tion for £1 per ton. Bags included and de livered to store. A new English book on the language of flowers contains this : " Let the bonds of marriage unite us. 1. Bonds — Blue con volvulus. 2. Marraige — Ivy. 3. Unite üb—A few wholo straws.'1 " What is to bo done when the blue convolvulus is out of flower?" asks the New York "Sun." 11 Oft in the stilly night, Kre slumber's ohain has bound mo," I hoar tho bloated mus-ke-to In tho " Devil's Dream " around me It dashoa off with ohoorful hum "The K'rl I left behind me," And tells aeain tho oft-told tale Ot how its " Bill will find me." The vicissitudes of life in Switzerland have been repeatedly illustrated this year. At present an enormous landslide is in progress near Sigriawcll, above the Lake of Thun, Meadows, troes and houses are slowly slipping toward the lake. A few weekß ago 1,300 aheep, with their shepherds, were overwhelmed by an avalanche pear Brigcl in the Grisons. At Connemara, in the Went of Ireland, the old women of the vicinity are given the priv ilege of gathering the wool scratched off the Bheep's backs oa the stones, hedges and bushes. This wool they then spin and knit into stockings, selling them at I2J cents a pair. As many as 200 pairs are knitted by a person in a season.

THEATRE ROYAL.

MR MARSHALL AS "QUILP."

"QuiLP"' was repeated at the Theatre Royal last evening before a capital house, the attendance in the dress circle being large and appreciative, and the lower parts of the house crowded. Very little can bo added to what has already been said in previous notices, here and elsewhere, of Mr Marshall's marvellous delineation of this extraordinary character. His wonderful realism amazes the spectator. The dis figured body of the impish dwarf, hia con tortions and grimaces, his grotesque agility and repulsive diabolical delight in the infliction of pain, are depicted with startling vividness. No performance like it has ever been given in Auckland ; it stands by itself, a marvel of realistic acting. In weighing its merits one hardly knows whether to give prominenco to the strained bodily contortion which is main tained in activity throughout long scenes, the sustained unnatural voice, or the demoniac exhibitions ol keen-witted malevolence. The artist is lost in his part, and tho audience see nothing before them but Dickens' most eccentric concep tion with all its bodily, mental, and moral deformities, developed in revolting hideous ness. Mr Marshall has made " Quilp " a liviogmonstrosity.anditis nottoohtgh praise to say that the success of all other " Quilps" everywhere will be measured by their approach to his masterpiece. The play is carried through by a series of tableaux arranged with artistic skill, which does infinite credit to the management and scenic and property departments. A know ledge of the book ia necessary to a full comprehension of all the situations—but i who is it now-a-days who does not possess 'tbat knowledge? The scenes illustrating I the wanderings of Little Nell are beauti fully mounted, and were most pathetically pourtrayed by Miss Maggie Knight, who sustained the part, with Mr Welsh as Grand* father Trent. Mention must specially bo made of the " Old Curiosity Shop," Jarley's Waxworks, the village church, and the deathbed scene.- The closing tab leau on Quilp's river island, with its rat infested shed and the cold river flowing past, is a most effective one, , and the final fall of the curtain npon the burning shed and drowning dwarf relieves the highly wrought feelings of those who have watched the drama through. During the entire Marshall and Carden seasons tbe pieces at the Theatre have been mounted with a taste and at an expense rarely equalled and never excelled in the metropolitan theatres of Syd ney and Melbourne. The interiors and and landscape scenes prepared expressly for these productions display the good judgment and ability of the artist and the liberality of the management. Such enterprize desarves a better recognition and support than it has received.

" Quilp " will be repeated to-night and to-morrow. No one should fail to add this to his recollections of remarkable perfor mances, for its reputation will be world wide. •

STANDARD FIRE AND MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY.

(BY TELEGRAPH.—PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

DUNEDIN, Monday. The fifteenth half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in the Standard Fire and Marine Insurance Company (Limited) was held this afternoon, Mr John Reid, chair man of directors, presided. The balance sheet showed a profit for the half-yoar of £5,190 14s 9d, which was carried for ward. In the course of the Chairman's remarks he said it must not be for gotten that for the last two and a-half years we were obliged to fall back upon our re serve fund, and having this in view your directors consider it best in the interests of the company that the profits of the half year should be retained to improve in some measure, and make up for lost ground, and in this.course I think you will cordially agree. Our premium income has been fairly maintained, notwithstanding the competition for business, the low rate rul ing, and the fact that your directors have followed a most cautious line of policy, declining altogether to insure certain classes of property which experience has proved to be unremunerative or exception ally hazardous, by which course we are aware of having avoided several heavy losses.

THE SUEZ MAIL.

A BOM ANTIC LAW CASE:

Etctiraordiftaii/ Imposture Btf Ail Adventuress.

A fciASE almost as romantic as the Tich. borne case, and happily a good deal shorter, has just come to an abrupt conclusion in an unusual way. Miss Mabel Wilberforce, a young lady, according to her own story, of some six and twenty summers but whose detractors say she is 45, brought aa action for slander against a Captain Philp, under the following circumstances : —Captain Philip's father was an old gentleman of strong platonic affections, and a few years ago, when travelling on the Continent, lie happened to meet in a casual manner, the young lady whoseso-called wroDgs have just been ventilated. Charmed with "her grace, her more than beauty," old Dt Philp treated Miss Wilberforce as. an adopted daughter. Becky Sharp was not taken to the bosom ot the Smedleys with a heartier welcome than MiBS Mabel received from her new papa. Her account of herself was circumstantial, detailed and romantic. The daughter of an old officer of Indianapolis, who had fallen in tho Mexican wars, she had come to Europe for the purpose of befog educated, in company with her aunt and cousin. They, alas 1 had died while here, and at the time of the Russo-Turkish war poor Miss Mabel Wilberforce had fouod herself alone and friendless. The. child of an old warrior, she could not see the evils of war around her without trying to alle viate them, and just before the fall of Plevna, she joined the Red Cross Society to nurse the sick and woundod. As Desdemona loved Othello, so did Dr. Philp Miss Mabel Wilberforce. There was, indeed, no confirmation of her story, but this the doctor did not seem to think necessary. Ue took her home to his house at Kensington, treated her aa a daughter, altcrod his will, so as to give her tho portion of a real daughter, who was dead, and Miss Wilberforce's success was almost assured. The truth of the old story that there is many a slip between the cup and the lip was to receive, however, a new proof. Dr. Philp's son and son.'s wife received their new visitor warmly enough at first, but their affection soon cooled down to fricid courtesy, Captain Philp became suspicious as to the authenticity of Miss Mabel's romantic history, and made en quiries concerning her of the Charity Organi sation Society. There he found she was pigeon-holed as an adventuress and swindler, in connection with an attempt she made to collect money for the wounded in the Russian war. She was treasurer, secretary, and general superintendent ot tho fund ; and the oflicers of the Charity Orga nisation Society had a shrewd suspicion that the moneys a generous public subscribed found no hotter use than administering to Miss Wiloerforce's own little comforts. The suspicions ot Mr Philp wero aroused, tho old gentleman's will was altered, and Mabel requested to seek another home. This, however, she flatly refused to do, and for twenty-threo days she locked herself up in her room at Earl's terrace and resisted the siege of Captain Philp, the cook and housemaid. After the third week a truce was agreed to. The besieged lady capitulated and she left the house with a cheque for a goodly sum bear ing Dr. Philp's name at the bottom, vr, Philp, who was upwards of eighty years old, had tor some time been invalided, and in his illness at Earls-terrace Miss Wilber force seems to have acted as head-nurse and attendant. Captain Philp's general sus picions began, some few months before tho siege, to take a specific turn, and he more than hinted to the medical attendant that Mabel was hastening the end of her new-tound father with the assist* ance of prussie acid. Cast out from her home, Miss Wilberforce bethought herself of this indiscretion of the captain's as a means of gratifying her revenge, and per haps extracting further plunder. A solicitor was seen, before whom the young lady posed as an injured martyr, and an action for slander was oommeneed against Captain Pbilp. The far he hadmontioned to the doctor was amplified and magnified, until, according to the young lady's story, the captaiu had slandered and libelled her to about a dozen different persons. Meanwhile, Dr. Philp died, and when the caso came on for the trial, Miss Wilberforce appeared in deep mourning and apparently in still deeper soriow. Her caso was conducted by Mr Murphy, a very well known member of the English bar, and so plausible did the young lady appear that Mr Justice Field, who tried the case, invited her to give her evidence from the bench, and almost hinted that the defence which Messrs Lewis and Lewis were setting up for the defendant was a disgraceful one. In cross-examination, however, a change came over the aspect ot the scene. She was asked point blank if she had not been a cook in a baronet's family thirty years ago; and she was con fronted with persons who said they had been fellow servants with her. Suggestions were also made that a boy, whom she called her brother, was really her son, and that she had also had a daughter, while living under the protection of a gentleman whose name was mentioned to her. A carte de visite was Bhown her, in which Bhe appeared with two children, but still she denied the odious calumnies, as she called them, which were being heaped up against her. She had to admit that there was no tittle of corroboration ot her story, and that she had destroyed all letters she bad received from her lather mother, and "brother"— some of them tho night before the trial— in order to preserve the sanctity of private communications. Vot two days she perse vered in her cross-examination nntil. her looks changed from six-and-twenty to sixty, illness then kept her away for a day, but on the next' she reappeared ready, ap parently, to renew her denials. The dduou ment, however, was close at hand. She had giyen the name of Mr Perry Morton, of Indianopolis, as her trustee; and a letter, purporting to be the copy of one received from him, was produced by her and read at the trial, in which he animadverted very strongly on the inhuman conduct of Captain Philp. This letter was dated 1880, and therefore, if it was genuine, Mr Morton ob viously was alive at that time. Miss Wil berforce's solicitor had been struck by the fact that she had no other letter from Mr Morton but this, and this only a copy and, further, that despite the frequent appli cations Miss Wilberforce said she made to him, no reply was received. Tho solicitor, therefore,, wrote himself to Mr Morton, and the American mail brought an answer to this letter on the morning of the day that Miss Wilberforce reappeared at Westmin ster. The letter, however, was not from Mr Perry Morton, but from his son, and announced two awkward facts. First, that no previous letters had been received in the Wilberforce matter; and secondly, that Mr Perry Morton died in 1877 —two to three years before tho date of the letter read in evidence. Of course after this there was only one thing to be done. MiBS Wilberforce's counsel retired from the caso as gracefully as he could, and the jury unhesitatingly returned a verdict for the defendant. The plaintiff had not prepared her case with the carefulness for detail necessary to make falsehood appear like truth, aud as a matter of fact she was easily exposed by Mr Charles Rnsaell, jvho cross-examined her. Bat for the audacity of her imposture Miss Wilberforce has scarcely ever had an equal. She was within an ace of succeed ing in getting Dr. Philp's money, and for her own sake one can scarcely help wishing that she had been just one whit less dis honest.

FENCING ON THE PLAINS.

The A, C. on the Alert,

(BY TELEGRAPH.-PRESS ASSOCIATION.)

NEW PLYMOUTH, this day. The serious aspect of affairs at Farihaka has caused the authorities to be on the alert. Colonel Roberts and Mr Hurst house left on Sunday evening for Pun. garehu, and orders were left for all the Armed Constabulary men in town to act at once, and proceed to head-quarters. Telegrams from Pungarehu and Rahotu laat evening, still refer to the Natives fencing, and persons who have arrived to-day, who have travelled through the digtrictjbear out the telegrams. The natives are fencing, and the Constabu lary felling down the fences which the Maoris re-erect. No prisoners have been taken, pending orders from Wellington. Mounted patrols report further fencing. It is reported that thirty Constabulary and officers are to be stationed at Te Perapara immediately. The Maoris say they &o not care how many constables are brought to the front; they are not frightened, but will commence fencing and not be taken prisoners, They number about six hundred.

CABLEGRAMS.

[REUTERS TEIiEQRAMS.J AYOUB LONDON, September 3. The " Times " to-day publishes a tele, gram from India stating that news has been received from Kandahar that Ayoub Khan has proclaimed his.intention of not proceed ing with any further hostile action against the Amier, and he has invited recruits for a jehad, or holy war, againbt the English in Afghanistan, The proclamation, however, is believed by tho " Times " correspondent to be a ruse on the part of Ayoub to obtain arms. . !

AUSTRALIAN.

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. Arrived, this morning : P. and 0. Com. pany's steamship Cathay with the Suez mails, which left London on July 29. FRESH MEAT SHIPMENTS. The Orient steamship Garonne, which left yesterday for London, takes 4,700 carcases of sheop jn her refrigeiating chambers. GOVERNMENT EMBEZZLING. ■ MELBOURNE, September 5. The trial of E. J. AgR, accountant of the Lands Department, for forgery, has resulted in tbe prisoner, who pleaded guilty, being sentenced to two years' imprisonment. CONTESTS FOR THE WHISKEY TROPHY. SYDNEY, September 5. The two first heats in the sculling races for the Walker Whiskey Trophy, the prizes for which amount to £300, were rowed to day on the Paramatta River over the course between Gadesville wharf and Bathhouse, at Ryde. In the first division the result was as follows :— W. Trickett, Sydney 1 J. J. Power, Twofold Bay 2 W. C. Laycock, Sydney ... 3 The second division resulted as follows :— Elias C. Laycock, Sydney 1 Shepherd, West Maitland 2 McDonald, Clarence River, who was drawn for this heat, did not start.

CHORAL HALL.-TEMPER ANCE SERVICE OF SONG.

The Committee and promoters of the Auck land Band of Hope Union repeated the Ser vice of Song, which had been previously given with so much success. The Choral Hall was crowded, and tho service through out was most satisfactory. The friends were fortunate in securing the services of Mrs Hampson, who read the Btory of '• John Tregenoweth, his Mark/ a temperance narrative, with remarkable clearness of de livery, every word of the narrative being heard at the remote part of the hall. The President of the Union, Mr George Hemus, occupied the chair, and the meeting was opened by prayer by Key. L. M. Isitt. The choir was large, augmented considerably by adult members who rendered good service. Mr Tudehope was the leader, and was most energetic and painstaking in his position. He certainly deserves a new baton. Mr Macdermott, the persevering secretary, displayed laudable activity, and was as busy as a bee in the pursuance of his duties. Mr VV. S. Hampson presided at the organ, surrounded by seven local musicians. Mrs Hampaon, on taking her place on tho platform, was greeted with a round of applause. She was formally intro duced by the president, who spoke briefly on the immense succeos of Mrs Hampaon's mission in this country, and that thou sands in these islands had been moved by her thrilling and eloquent addresses to a reformed life. The Btory of John, the Cornish miner, presented no new features ; it was the old story of a poor Cornishmar., who had sunk very low in the habit of drunkenness, and who, chiefly through the innocent instrumentality and gentle plead ings of his "little maid,'' had paused in his mad career, and turned into the brighter and more beautiful path of righteousness and peace. The story was of Cornish origiD, written by the Key. Mark Peatse, a gentleman known to Mr Isitt, and who wished him God speed, on leaving the old land lor the new land. The charac ter delineated was a striking picture of the Land's End County, the county of copper mines, Wesleyan chapels, pilchards and small poets. Tregenoweth appeared to have been a dweller on the bleak, rock bound coasts of Cornwall, equally remarkable for its apparent barren lands and inlets, cletbed with the sweetest of foliage and dotted with the loveliest of flowers. Like many poor Englishmen of forty years ago, poor John could only make his mark, x, and on this mark hangs the thread of the story. Some of the passages were deeply emotional, and one part especially, that of the good Betty tidivating, or making tidy the reformed man in order that he may make a decent appearance in church. Mrs Hampson made the most of these pas sages, the pathetic melting to tears and the humourous convulsing with laughter. The reading altogether was very creditable and pleasantry received. The hymns and ballads fitted the oassasjes, and were evidently selected with judgment from some of the .best poets and authors. No. 6, " Glorious News " was an excellent render ing by two sisters, the Misses Hargreaves, who were encored, and who gave, " Water io Best," a pretty lyric, with equal effect. "John Anderson, my Jo " (Burns) was well sung by Mrs Willow, and "Around the Throne " by Miss Kate Cundal, a little girl whose singing was loudly cheered, as much on account of the size of the fairy-like min strel as of her tiny warblings. At the close a vote of thanks was passed by acclamation to Mrs Hampson, on the motion of Mr Brame, and acknowledged by the lady in a fervid address on the ovils of intemperance, and an invitation to the pledge-book.

DOMAIN BOARD.

The Board mot yeßterday. There were pre sent: The Mayor of Auckland, in the chair, Messrs T. Maoffarlane (Chairman of the Graf ton Road Board), and Mr Sutton (Chairman of the Nowmarket Board).—ln reply to the application of the Board that the paddock at the rear of Go vernment house be placed nnder its control when His Excellency was not in Auckland, Mr Kolleaton wrote Btatiug that as tbe paddook was for the personal use of His Kxcollency, he did not foel j natifled in interfering.—The sub-Com mittee who had attended the Acclimatiza tion Society's sale reported that the camellia treea were all they thought worth saving, and Mr Bull agreed ■to reserve them. The action of the Bub-committoe was approved, —Mr Macffarlane said ho understood Mr Brett was to offer the animals and birds to the Board on the same terms that he got them.— The Chairman said that no communication hadbaen reoeiyed from Mr Brett, but had there been the Board was riot in a position to acoept it. — The future utilization of tbe gardens was then re ferred to.—The Chairman said Mr Goldie, the ranger, has inspected the gardens,and made ont a report. If the Government gave £300 and the Acolamatization Soolety £100, they might be ablo to take some action. The report, which was a length; one, was written in view of the Board taking over the gardens and working them as experimental and ornamental combined. They were not, he considered, well designed for the convenience of working, as soil and manure had to be deposited at the gate, and wheeled to where it was required. The flower beds were too large, and the effect would be better and more pleasing if they were small and numerous. The other portion of the grout! & is too full of trees, many of them being unsuit able for a garden or lawn. The grass all over the place is not very good, and a good deal of moss and other rubbish shows that the ground is damp and sour in winter times. Drains, limo, and top-dressing of new soil would remedy this. The old deer park would be suitable for a nursery for tbe keeping of larger stoofc;. The propagating pit requires a new boiler. Tha noil . was of poor quality if imed for flowers, shrubs, trees, etc. it is one of those soils with a very small depth of soil on tbe surface, and that of a poor descrip tion ; then, under it, the bottom is of a peculiar nature ; In winter it is soft, close, tenactous.and retentive; water does not penetrate easily, seems to lodtie on the surface, and as the sum mer oomes in, to gradually change from wet i into dry, then into a hard, compact state almost resembling cement. This portion of the Domain mi(?ht be brought into a good state by burning a portion of the soil, working the burnt portion into the other, (which would have the effect of making the ground more open. The poverty of the soil may be easily remedied by a liberal supply of manure. The soil being all of oiie nature or class, the Board would have to get other soils to incorporate, or make beds entirely of them, such as peat, sand, loam, &c, tor the different spades of plants they might have in hand.

The present fence round (he gardens is rotten and almost tumbling down, and would need to be repaired without any delay. With the addi tion of two other men to the present staff, and a gang of prison labour, a great deal might bo done. It was agreed, on the motion of the Mayor " that no action should be taken at present." Permission waa granted to Ah Hung to transfer the lease of tha Stanley-street gardens to Ah Chung.—The Ranger was authorised to pur chase the necessary seed for a box-thorne hedge alone the fence between the Domain and the railway, Mr A. V. JvicDonald having pro mised to have them pWnted and trimmed.—The Ranker reported that tho drive entranoe from Farnoii was too narrow, and the members de cided to meet on the ground and ascertain what was required.—On the motion of Mr Mcffarlane, the ranger was instructed to supply plants and pines for the Asylum Krouuda.—The meeting then terminated.

PARLIAMENTARY.

(FROM OUR SPECIAL REPORTER.)

THE REPRESENTATION BILL

PASSED.

WELLINGTON, this day. The debate upon the third reading of the Representation Bill was carried on tamelyj during yeaterday afternoon, the speakers for the most part meiely keeping iip the discussion until the adjournment, so that Sir George Grey might speak in the even ing as had been announced the previous day. Messrs Gisborne, Harris,Seddon and Taiaroa were the speakers, and they, of course, op posed the Bill as they had done before , it was generally expected that there would be an unparalleled scene—that Sir George Grey in defence of the liberties of the people and privileges of .Parliament, would offer himself up as a sacrifice, and foil into the clutches of the amiable Sergeant at Arms, upon a charge of political mis demeanour. That at least was the rumour that had gained currency during the day, and the result was that the galleries were crushed to an extent never before witnessed. The Strangers' Gallery was jammed almost to suffocation. The Speaker's, Galliery was packed, and the Ladies' Gallery was so crowded, that ladies who got fairly in, arid were unable to get a scat, (and some sat on the floor) were equally unable to get out again. About 100 ladies found it impossible to get iv at all, and stood (packed like sardines) in the lobbies surrounding the Chamber, The only gallery not filled was that devoted to the "lords." This is the most commodious gallery in the House, but it was only occupied by about a dozen hon. and gallant Legislative Councillors. After a host of ladies had been standing about an hour in the passage several were permitted to enter the sacred apartment of these gallant gentlemen, and were per mitted to stand up behind the lords of creation, notwithstanding there were many vacant "front seats." The proceedings, which everyone looked forward to so eagerly, were tame and disappointing, and nothing out of. the usual occurred. The amendment to read the Bill this day six months was negatived by a majority of 28.

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House of Kepresontativ93.

Monday. A RESIDENT MAGISTRATE. Replying to Mr Reeves, Mr Dice: said a former Resident Magis trate in Canterbury, who some time since retired on a pension and left the colony for England, recently returned to the colony, had been re-appointed Resident Magistrate for Lyttelton at a salary of £100 per annum in addition to his pension, and it was also true that owing to enfeebled health another magistrate had for a few weeks acted for him, and the Clerk of the Court at Lyttelton had sat upon the Bench as J.P., but on the attention of Government being called to the fact he was directed to resign his J. P.-ship, which he did. NEW PLYMOUTH HAKBOUR, Replying to Mr Wright, Mr Hall said that the obstruction to the public business was the reason why the New Plymouth Harbour Commission Bill bad not been circulated, and although they bad no power to suspend the Board's operations, tbe Government had no reason for supposing that the work at the breakwater was still being pushed on, STAMPS. Major Atkinson said that changes were in contemplation regarding the use of ad hesive stamps in payment of fees, and also for payment of office charges and legal pen alties in cash instead of stamps. MR NORTHCROFT, R.M. Replying to Mr HUTCHISON, Mr Dick said he had looked into the newspaper report of the case Edgar v. Montrose, tried by Mr Northcroft, R.M., at Cambridge. It looked as if there was something singular in the proceedings, and the Government would institute a formal inquiry into the real facts ot the case. WOOLLEN-WEAVING. Replying to Mr Pitt, Mr Dick said he was not aware it was possible by means of bonus to promote the weaving of woollen goods by cottagers and o then. CASWELL BAY MARBLB COMPANY. Replying to Mr Wakbfibld, Mr Rol- LESTON said that certain concessions had been made by the Waste Lands Board of Otago to the Caswell Bay Marble Company, leases of 320 acres haying been granted. Government had also made certain con cessions to the company for conveyance of .their freights in the Government steamer. OHINEMUTU LAND. Replying to Mr McDonald, Mr Rol leston said Government declined to go on in the meantime with the survey of the Te Koutu block, near Ohinemutu. NEW BILLS. The following Bills were introduced and read a first time:—To enable persons enter ing upon the tenancy of houses were gas is laid on to be supplied with the same with out being called upon to pay the arrears of previous" tenants (Mr Hutchieon) ; The Patent Dock Amendment (Mr Dick); The Waipawa Land Dispute (Mr Rolleston); a Bill to enable the Governor on the petition of a majority of the electors of any county to declare the Counties Act, 1876, shall be enforced therein (Mr Hall); to protect the property and goods of persons from un reasonable distress and seizure (Sir G. Grey). REPRESENTATION BILL. The debate on the Representation Bill was resumed by Mr Gisborne, who argued at some length that the Bill as it stood was one which would encourage plurality of voting. Major HARRIS said if the Bill passed separation would be the best thing which could happen for both islands. Mr Seddon said that if the property qualification was abandoned, and each man limited to one vote, all opposition to a re-distribution of representation on a popu lation baßis would be done away with.

Mr Taiaroa said that if the Government was determined not to increase the special representation, why did they not allow the Maori to bo placed on the roll, and be bene fitted by the European representation ? The debate was interrupted by the 5.30 adjournment, ' The House resumed at 7.30.

Mr Taiaroa continued the debate,

Mr Reeves followed, Baying he felt Ma hands tied and his mouth gagged, but still he must oppose the Bill to the utmost. Sir George Grey complained of having, when speaking on Friday, been ruled out of order -when alluding to the consequences which might result from the concentration of political power in afewgoverningfamilies. He held that the Bill should be entitled, not a Representation Bill, but one to further limit the electoral rights of the people of New Zealand. If full freedom of speech was not accorded him to speak as a states man then it was no use bis speaking at all. He would, however, proceed to speak fully and openly, and he hoped he would be permitted now to do so. New Zealand was, he believed, in a more desperate condition on the land question than even Ireland. The people had been plundered by chicanery and the employ ment of political power. The Premier had certainly stolen his clothes often enough, but this bill wss not of his garment. He explained the difference between this Bill and the one he had drafted. He had never offered unfair op position to the Bill. Even the very night before the coup d'etat he and Mr Mac-' andrew had been engaged in drawing up a compromise which he believed Jwould have been accepted; that the towns should not be divided; that no additional power should be given to property; and that the case of Nelson should be submitted te the House in a separate clause. When the action of Friday night was takeD, however, he saw all hope or peaceful settlement at an end, and determined to have nothing more to do with men capable of such conduct. He was not at all jealous of increased representation to the Middle Island, lie wanted representa tion for ali the colony according to popula tion. The Maoris in the North should, he thought, be taken into account. He woul 1 not even insist on this if equal voting power was secured to every elector in the colony. He spoke at length on the acquisition of large landed estates in this colony. He would suffer anything to expose the wrongs already perpetrated and likely to be perpetrated by tbis Bill. The state of land. matters in New Zealand was more alarming than in Ireland, In the latter country there were 135 persons hold ing over 10,000 acres, and in New Zealand, 250 persons; 90 holding 2000 acres in Ireland, and 118 persons in New Zealand; 14 persons had over 50,000 acres in Ireland, and in this country, 36 persons ; in Ireland three persons held over 100,000 acres, and in New Zealand there were seven. ■ That was the state of things between Ireland and this country. In New Zealand, these large properties were acquired by first the grid ironing system, and second what was called the pre-emptive right. The modus operandi

followed in ;.both oases was described. The enormous, area of 11,000,000 acres ia Ney Zealand had been divided among 1632 persona, Theße .were the men who were steadily fighting on to rule over them, to make them. serfs — aye, and serfa of the lowest grade; It was against such a doom as tnis they-had.striven. Leave this Bill as it was, and it meant the power of sending a majority of that class to the House. Mr Satjnders said they had heard that kind of declaration night after night, despite the fact that those who uttered it knew that it was wholly groundless. The Bill which waa now denounced was in reality, as had been shown, the Bill of his (Sir G. Grey's) own Cabinet. They had also been told that he dissented from it. It was remarkable, however, that that dissent had hot taken the form of resignation on his part; That of itself was a most significant fact. . There was no great tyranny to be apprehended from property. The tyranny was to be ap. prehended from the opposite class, the he'eri do-well unemployed and others, who never did anything worthy of the respect or con. sideration of the country. He was pro. ceeding to Bay that tn'ere was no reason for any honest man to be unemployed fn thfe country, when his remarks were interrupted by howling and hooting from the public gallery. The SPEAKBiJ said If any .interruption took place there he would cause the galler^ to be cleared at once. ;.: Mr Tvhnbull said he would call atten. tion to strangers being present. , •;, The Speaker said he had sufficient authority, and would exercise it if neces; sary.

Mr SAUNDEKS then proceeded, protest ins; against the efforts to set class against class. Mr Hutchison did not look upon the Bill as at all calculated to do injury to thß colony or to the North Island. For that reason he would vote for the third reading, as a step in the right direction. He appre hended, however, that they were getting this Bill at a humiliating sacrifice. The majority had had to coerce the minority. Mr H.UKST contended that the represen tation, as between North and South Wands, ought to have been left unaltered. He contended still that it was only right that the Maories should.have been included in the population, basis. He was not so sura but that the irregularity would eventually lead to the dismemberment of the colony. Sir G. Grey had voted for the second reading, although he now objected to the Bill, whereas he himself had opposed the Bill from the very first.

Mr Lundon criticised the remarks made by Mr Saunders, which he characterised as "rot." On being called to order he went on to Bay that Mr Saunders bad attempted to speak down the working man .when he was stopped by a howl of indignation from the gallery. Mr Lundon was again called to order, and in further discussion stated there was one class of hieti in the Assembly who could say what they liked, while the other class was allowed to say nothing. Mr Bail celled attention to the statement, and Mr Lundon was again called to order.; He concluded by saying he would vote; against the bill. < V The question for the third reading as' against the amendment was put, and on a division there voted—ayes,4B.; noes, 20. Di vision list: —Ayes: Messrs AJlwright, Au« drews, Atkinson, Bain, Barron, Beetham, Bowen, Brandon, Brown, Bunny, Dick, Driver, J. B. Fisher (Buller), J. T. Fisher,' (Heathcote), Fox, Fulton, Ball Hirst (Wal lace), Hutchison, Johnston, Jones, Kenny, Levin, Macandrew.McCaughau, McDonald, Montgomery, Murray, Oliver, Pyke, Rolles ton, Saunders, Seymour, Shanks, Shrimski-; Stevens, Stewart, Studholme, Sutfon, Swan son, Thomson, Trimble, Tumbull, Wake field, Wallis, Whitaker, Whyte, Wright. Noes: Ballance, Collias, George, Gibba, Gisborne, iiamlin, Harris, Hurst, Hurst house, Levestam, Lundon, Pitt, Reid, Kus sell, Seddon, Hheehan, Shepherd, Speight, Tole, Weston. Pairs : For : DeLautour, Finn, McLean, Richardson. Against: Ormond, Reeves, Moss, Grey. A second division on the. third reading resulted) Ayes: 48; noes : 19. ■ On the question being put "That the, Bill do. now pass," ..., Mr Seddon moved an addition of the words " provided it shall have no force or effect until after the next general election." The Speakbe ruled that this was sub stantially the same as a proposal already negatived that the Bill should not come into force until after next session of Parlia ment. He could not therefore receive it. i

Mr Seduon spoke on the question that, the Bill do now pass. , LJ Mr Shbehan and Leyesxam also spoke on the same question. ■ • Mr Huesthouse ia a few remarks, said,; although circumstances might compel him. at times, to vote, as on this occasion, with Sir G. Grey, he neve^ could bring him self to believe in his sincerity. His speech, that night had been totally at variance with his action while head of the Gevernment. > A further discussion ensued,on the motion' that the bill do now pass.

Messrs Pitt, Shepherd and Gisborne spoke at length against the bill, and Messrs Montgomery and Swanson in support or. it. ' ■."• ./.;■■

Mr HAIiL, referring to Sir George Grey'a speech, said every statement.by him could easily be reputed, but the lion, gentle man's statements were so notorious that it was really not worth while replying to them, Tne Nelson men, he admitted, had fought a sturdy battle. What course they would, take in the future he knew not. He had found his task a most unpalatable one, but he had been bound to act towards Nel son as he had done, even had they lost valued political support' by it. He denied that the prosperity and population of the South was due .to public works expenditure, and he did hot believe the bill would, increase the power of the wealthy;. Cutting np the city electorates into wards, would greatly lessen the cost and trouble of elections. He Bcoutcd the idea thai the bill would tend to produce either separation or a change of the seat of Government. To have longer de layed a fair readjustment would have had a more dangerous tendency in that direction. He quite admitted the bright prospects of the North Island, and in 1887 if he had any say in the matter he would be prepared most fully to recognise its rights and to give it increased Representation if it was entitled to it. He impressed apon the people the necessity of electing men of character and position rather than those pledged to a particu lar cry orleader or party. The country would hail the passage of the bill with a sigh of relief, and it would have an important effect on the political progress and material welfare of the colony.

' The House divided on the motion that the bill do now pass. Ayes, 33 ; noes, 8. After some discussion on the title of the bill it was carried by 32 to 9. ■

' At 4.10 a.m. the House adjourned until 7.30 to-day.

INTERCOLONIAL WEATHER EX CHANGE.

SYDNEY, Monday evening. S.W. winds over Australia, and strong in Tasmania, in relation to an extensive depres sion, which has now, passed to the S.K,, the barometer being: Albany, 30.5; Sydney,3o.o; Hobart, 29.8.

MINING NEWS.

MINE MANAGERS' REPORTS,

Nkw Golden Crown.—looft Level: No. 1 reef at this level has now been opened np a distance of 124 feet In length. Tho stopes are In Rood working order, and from them, a good supply ot payable quartz is corning to hand. The drive on this reet to N.W of main croaa-out has been discontinued for the present, and the men removed into the. stopos. In No. 2 reef, at same level, tho stopes have been pushed forward, and the reef is improving much as the stopes approach the side on S.K. of main oross-cut. Although but little god has yet been seen, the indications are good, and tho staff from here now is Bhaping much better at the battery level. The only work now being carried on at present on this level is in the stopes on the foot-wall leader, which have been carried up a considerable height above the back ot the drive, almost up sufficiently to meet the surface level which is now being driven along the course of this leader. In duo course all the quartz from these Btopes will pass through this surface level to the battery, and will be a great advantage to the working of tbia portion of the mine. Clearing np and retortinft ioote place on 31st ult. for the payabla yiela of 3040zs lOdwts melted gold. The battery is fully employed and the company's machinery all m good working order.—T. A. Du.nlop, manager, September sth. Golden Stab.—l am still pushing the main drive ahead. The small lead spoken of in my last on foot wall has made quartz light across the face; it looked as it there would be a change, as if the country was disturbed by a cross lode. The reason why no gold is got, toe mineral veins do not strike into the lode: once they do gold will most likely be had.—H. Cowb. Old Caledonian.—l had sir men stripping the drive. No. 1 level: Last week and on Friday started to blast the reef which looks well. It is heavily charged with.copper, anti mony and other good minerals and colours of gold are Bean after every shot. • From its appearance it should crash well. I shall, if possible, crush 10 or 15 loads this week to ascertain value. I am of opinion it is the continuation of the pros- Scots got by Mr James in the stage workings; ! bo thore would be any quantity to take out. Nothing done in rise or west drive at thla level since my latst. No. 2 level: Cleaning ont of cross-cut is still going on. Got the shoot or pass completed, and in a few days we should be on No. 1 and 2 reef here. I am also cleaning ont one of Abrian's old drives to get at the ground under where he got such good gold on, or about the boundary, of the Otago and Golden Call.— T. B. Hies. September 5.

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR. TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 6.



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