SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

HIGH WAT__Rj™ 0 E™°lnfo_^.ll.S3 SUNSET.-_-ti- Evening, 7.18- SUNRISE,—To-Morrow Morning. 1.55 MOONS AGB.-Fir_t Qoarter' 7t__. *.» P.m.

ARRIVALS.

TO-DAY. Glenelg. ■ _.. Farquhar, from Tauranga Waitaki, S.S., Edie, from Tauranga

DEPARTURES.

LAST EVE-TUTO.

Bannockburn, brigantine. Lamb, for Hokianga Wellington, barque, Davi?, for Kaipara

TO-DAY

Queen, schooner, Jones, for Hokianga Julia Pry__, sohooner. Onannemcz, for KUBSeU To_.er__, cutter, Cinnamon, for Taurans-

PROJECTED DEPARTURES, Sydney—City of New York, Wednesday ; Ro torua, 11th _ , ,__,__ Lonflon-Wanganui, loading: Dunloe, loading Levuka—Southern Cross, Wednesday Tauranga—Glenelg, Thursday; Waitaki, Mon day Russell—lona, Monday Melbourne, via South—Arawata, Thai-day Whan care! and Kua»ell-Waitaki, Wednes lay New Plymouth and Soutt—Wanaka, Tuesday WhaJigarei—Argyle, Tact-ays anl Fridays Waitaki, Friday _k_clety IsJands—Sybil, loading Napier—Loch Fleet, barque New York—Oceola, brigantine, loading

VESSELS EXPECTED.

Citypf New York.T.M. S.S., from San Francisco, Wednesd.y , . ~ Wolverine, H.M.S., from Sydney, shorty Margaret Galbraith, shin (J.K.L.U.), from Lon don: sailed October 29 , Oxford, ship. (M T.L.S.I from London; loading Loch Urr, barque (1V.Q.L.K.1, from London; sailed September 27 A. C. do Frieta., barque (R.F.M.K.), from Lon-

don, sailed October 21th. Sydenham, barque (J.M.F.Q), from Lcndon; loading Peru, barque, from London: loading Loch Dee. barque, from L.n.on; loiding Beatrice Havernsr. barque I J.Q.O.L), from New

York, sailed Sept. 39 8-perior, barque, from New lork; sailed

October 23 Cabarfeidh, barq.e (. .Q.M.J.). trom Hongkong Himalaya, barque (V.r.K.M), from London

sailed November Ocean Ranger, barquentine, (H.D.Q.L) from

LytteU. _ and New York Flirt, brlgantin. (W.L.G.P.I. from Levuka Active, br g.nt'ne, from Samoa Orwell, brigantine, from the Islands Borealis. brigantine. _ror_i Lytt—ttoa Mj-nle, brigantine, from Tonga Roderick Dhu. briga-tine, from Dunedin Clansman, brigantine. from Melbourne Defiance, brizantine. from Melbourne Xthel, brigantine. from Dunedin Rons, schooner, from South Torea, schooner, from Lyttelton

Istvard. Coastwise.—Perseverance, from Band_pit. with 300 bu.he_i sind; Ziilah, from Thames.

Outward. Co_srwis_:— Makara. for Try phena; Perseverance, for Waiheke; Zillah, for Thames.

The new bnr/antine Banncckbarn sailed an her maiden trip last evening, she proceeds to Hokianga, in o.der to load with timber for Srdney. The topsail schooner Sybil is loading far Tahiti. She entered out at the Customs to-day.

The brigantine Oceola is expected to sail for New York with a cargo of kauri gum on Satur day.

The barque Wellington loads with timber at Kaipara for Melbourne.

The ship Watganui is rapidly completing her Joadinj for London, and the crew were engaged bending sails today. She wiil clear at tfce Customs on Mon Jay rest, and wiil sail immeii ately afterward;.

The barqne Lech Fleet hia discharged nearly the whole of her inward c&rgo. She is expected to .ail next week for Napier, where she loads with wool and general produce for London.

The s s. Glenelg, which arrived this morning from Tauranga, brought 393 sheep, 11 bags gum, and I Was Enodrie.. Passengers:—Cap__in and -Mr. Moore, Slips ?mit_. iliis Gannon, Messrs __a_de_o. Smith. Gco.einan, McLeod, J. Sheehan, and twelve others.

Mr Sibbin, auctioceer, announces tiat he will sell 43 M ton 3of tha schooner JCaiedoiiia to morrow.

Tbe f.llowingis the report of the ship Lady Jocelyn, 2,133 tons register, from London to Tauransa: Left London- _7th September, passed Gi_.ve.end on the 2_th, the Downs on the 29t_: Octob.r 3, at noon, the I____r_ bore north-east, 20 __ilei\ from which we take our departure; oa the Sth Oct.ber crossed the latitude cf Madeja, and Cape de Verde on the 19th: had very light north-east trade., arid lost them in 13 degrees _..; theses to the Equator had a long time of light aire and cairns: crossed the Equator 7th November, in 25:egaCuius VT„ 35 days out; cleared the southern tropic., 16th November ; passed Tri.tin d'Acanha oa the 26:h, and rounded the Cape of Gooa Hope Ith December, aud the m. ridian of St. Paul 3on tho 16th De cember ; the meridian of Cape Otvray and South Cape of Tasmania on 26th December; from the Cape we had fine weather and fresh breezes from tho N. N T. W. to S. *. all the way to Tasma nia, and southerlyiwinds up to the Three Kings, which was made at 1 p.m. on the 31et December —_9 -ays from tho Lizard.

The "Bayof Plenty Time 3" give 3 the follow ing account of the attempt mad«- by the Glenelg to tow the 1 ady Jocelyn into Tauracga. On fetting outside ihe Mount .ho found the Lady ocelyn wa3 six miles to the eastward of the entrance of th 3 harbour and to leeward. Capt. Farquhar went after her, but it was half-past 3 o'clock before he wa_ signalled to take her in t jw. Capt Farquhar was unable to get along side until the sails were taken down, a work which occupied a considerable tioic. When this waa done a wiro hawser belongi.i to the Lady Jocelyn was ta-en on board tho Ulenelg, and a warp belonging to the latter vessel w«a fastened to the Lady Jocelyn, The Glenelg found she was unable to pull uo the f aipng vessel toward, tbe wind, as the Lady Jocel." 1 was nearer the wind th_n tho steamship. The Lady Jocelyn was then hailed to put up a jib'and ease her head off, but for some reason or other she did not do so. Capt. Farquhar then saw the only chance was to pull her round to leeward, which was done. Everyone on board the Glenelg was surprised to see how little assistance was given by the Lady Jocelyn. During the latter manoeuvre the steel hawser cut through tbe after clete and Bwept the stern of the Glenelg clean, all the bulwarks being carried away. Capt. Farquhar peraevered in the teeth of a strong head wind, but unfortunately the pump feeding the condenser became choked with seaweed. With all these disadvantages the Glenelg suceee.el in towing the Lady Jocelyn nearly as far as the end of the reef out3ide the Mount. When at this point the wind [abated in strength, and the pumps being freed the Glenelg seemed to bo coming up splendidly when the Lady Joce'yn loosed her sails and insisted on the ropes being caa; off, as it was too late to get into Tauranga. Although Capt. Farquhar said he would get her in in half an hour, it was no avail, Capt. Best apparently deeming it unsafe to continue the attempt any longer.

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS Bannah Mokau, ss. Keane, from Waitara

TELEGRAPHIC SHIPPING.

Port Chalmbhb, yesterday. Arrived: Clifton, barque, from Hong Kong, .via Melbourne. Sailed: Dunedin, Fbip, for London. Ship Auckland, from London, at the Heads

Russell, thia day. Arrived: Arawata, from Auckland, at 6 a.m.; Leo, Jessie, Onward. Sail.d: Golden Me and Spitfire. A number of woremen and horses arrived to day by the Arawata for Messrs Lar- Kina aod O'Brien.

THE WEATHER.

AS OBSERVED AT TELEGEAPH STATIONS TnunssDAY, January 6.

(1) WIND ESTIMATED A3 C—Calm I F. Br.—Fresh Breeze _--_Jght St.—Stormy Br.—Breeze I 6.—Galo (2.) ANEROID BAROMETER. (3.) WEATHER ESTIMATED AS B.—Blue sky, be the at- o.—Overcast.the whole mosnhere clear or sky covered with heavy thick clouds C. — Clouds, passing P.—Passim? showers clouds Q.—Squally D.—Drizzling rain • R. — Rain, continued F.—Foggy rain Cf. — Gloomy, dark S.—Snow weather T.—Thunder H,—Hail U.—Ugly, threatening L.—_4ght--.fr. appearance

Mail Notice.

Mails will Clobb as Urr_i___ :— Tuts I) ay. For Tharais, per Rotomahana, at 5 p.m. Friday, 7th instant. Per ts. Arawata as follows :— For India, China,Japan,Medit .ranean Ports, and Continent of Europe, at 8 a.m. For Gisborne, Napier, Southorn Ports, . Australian Colonies, and United Kingdom, via Brindisl, for letters specially so prepaid and addressed, at 9 a.m. For Waiheke and Coromandel, per Coro mandol, at 2.30 p.m. For Whiiiangi. Tairua, Tauranga, and Opotiki, per Glenolg, at 4 p.m. For Tahiti, per Sybil, at 4 p.m. I. or Wangarei Heads, Waipu, Wangarei, and Mangapai, per Argyle, at 4 p.m. For Thames, per Rotomahana, at 5,30 p.m. For Wangarei Heads and Wangarei, per Waitaki, at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sth instant, For Waiwera, Kawau, Mahuranei, Matakana, Mangawai. Waipu, and Mangapai, per Rose Casey, at 8 a.m. For Thames, per Rotomahana, at 5.30 p.m. Monday, 10th Instant. For Taranaki and Southern ports, per Wanaka, at 1.15 p.m.

Note.-The P«st-offlcc3 at Ararlmu. Perl waka, and Upper Parnell havo beon closed.

Receiving boxes have been established at Mr I_?slie_ Shop, in Upper Parnell, clotrcd daily at 6.30 a.m. and 12 noon: and at Mr Talbot's shop. in Parnell, cleared daily at 6.35 a,m. and 12,5 p.m.

Post-offices havo been opened at Buckland s Mails wiU be closed at chief offlce dally at 7 p.m.,and wllarrlvodallyat6.lOp.m.: atParua mails closing every Friday at 4 p.m., and arriv ing every Tuesday at 9 a m.-. at To Mats, mails closing overy Toured .y at 7 p.m , and arriving every Baturday at 6.10 p.m.; and at Victoria Valley, near Nongonni, rrtnils closing every Monday at 1 p.m., and arriving every Saturday at 9 a.m.

8. B. 8133, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Auckland.

Meetings, Entertainments, Etc.

Jamjary 6, 1881. Theatre Royal—"Wreck of the Pinafore," 8 p.m. Crlck.ters' Meeting, to consider visit of Aus tralian Team—Thames Hotel, 8 p m. Good TemDlars—i-rand Lodge Meeting at Temperance HaU, 7.31 p.m. Maaonio Hotel—Ara Lodge, 7.30 p.m. V.M.C.A. Rooms—Devotional, 7.50 p.m. npiphany Church—Divine Pervice, sermon by Yen. Archdeacon Maunsell, 7.30 p.m.

Notices to Correspondents.

T.B.3.—Your letter ia libellous. . S.G.R.—Lone Hand won the Steeplechase of 1-80. Bcbsciiib„r (Pokeno).—^n«.b a violent personal attack should not be made anonymously. If justified it ought, moreover, bo addres. Ed to the local committeo or the Board of Educa tion, when its truth would be investigated.

Birth.

DKAN.—On December 27th, at hor residence, "Glenlora View," Karangahape Road, Mrs Horace Dean, of a eon.

Marriage.

CUTHBERT_ON-MAC__AY. -On the 22nd December, at tha residenca of tho bride's father, Roslyn, Dunedin, by tha Rev. L. Mao ki-?, William Fawcett Outhbertaon, to Mary Anne Mackay.

Death.

HALE.-On the Cth January, 1831, at the resi dence of his father-in-law, Parnell, Kot-ert Hale, aged 42 years. Formerly of Westeru super-mere, Kn(?laad. The funeral will take place to morrow after noon. Friends are respectfully invited to attend.

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

THURSDAY, JANUARY 6, 1881.

For c cause that lacks assistance. For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And tbe good that we can dc.

The " Apprenticeship of the Future " is the title of an important article, contributed by Professor S3. Thompson in a recent number of tho " Contem porary Ileview." The Professor deals with a Bubject which for some years past ha 3 been strenuously advocated in these columns, namely, the necessity of imparting a more technical and less of a literary character to the teaching in our schools. Advanced thinkers in England and the colonies have for some time past been impressed with a conviction that the defective system of teaching in the primary schools is unfavourable to the maintenance of that supremacy in manufactures which used to distinguish tbe nation, and the Professor deals in a practical manner with this important subject. He describes the rise and fall of ap prenticeship in former times, when every skilled master took an apprentice in his own house and instructed him in his trade. The system was partly destroyed by the jealousy of the journey men, which merged into the modern strikes and combinations against capital, , and partly also by the introduction of

improvvd machinery, which rendered the apprentices the mere drudges of tha skilled workmen, and left them to acquire „ knowledge of tho trade by inadequate means. Professor Thomp son regards this defective training as ono of the primary causes of the de terioration of British manufactures, nnd he shows that the system of instruction in the schools excludes technical train ing, gives boys rather a distaste than a liking for real work,and encourages them to at-ich too great importance to what are called " genteel occupations" and to professions which are already overcrowd ed aud do not hold out such prospects of advancement us skilled nrtizansllip. As a remedy forthesedifficulties, theP.o fessor suggests the substitution of tech nical studies for much of tho literary instruction now imparted in tho schools, Ho shews tho remarkable stimulus given to the manufacturing industries of] the Continent by the Technical and ] Polytechnic schools, where parents of the highest rank elevate the dignity of work hy compelling their sons' to learn skilled handic-at... Tho German technical te.chers boast that it the mental capacity of a boy dw_ not rise boy ond the ability to make boots and shoos, he shall at least enjoy facilities for acquiring a thorough knowledge of all that is requisite to mako a first-class workman. As a contribution towards the solution of the problem, the Professor describes four establishments in Paris. The Communal school, which wd3 founded iv 1873, prepares pupils for ap prenticeship. They are not bound to earn anything. In addition to primary education they learn something of constructive industry by means of models, drawings, and tools ; they spend tho first two years at the bench, tho lathe, aud the ' forge, aud afterward, adopt that pur suit for which they aro best fitted. Tho object of tho teacher is to develop the boys' faculties, to watch tho natural bent of his mind und inclinations, and to givo him that Class of training which will make him a producer as well as a good citizen. Theboysenler uponthc world forearmed for the battle of lifo. They are not mero drudge.) but aro prepared to undertake useful work. At the second institution, tho school of the Chris tian Brothers, tho greater part of the day is spent in labour iv the sixteen workshops which are connected with the establishment, only twelve hours in the week being devoted to merely literary instruction. The teachers are practical men carrying on extensive manufactures in the city. The apprentices trained in this school are eagerly sought for by masters, and quickly rise to be foremen. At tho printing office of M. M. Chaix and Co., founded in 1826, forty apprentices are instructed in various blanches of the trade, receiving from sixpence to four shillings per day. In addition to tlie technical course they spend two hours each day iv tho school, where they learn the ele ments of languages, and at the end of their apprenticeship they are employed in the general printing establishment, which is successfully worked upon co operative principles. The fourth insti tution is tho Municipal School of A\> prentices, founded in 1872, und sup ported by the city of Paris. One half of the teaching i_ devoted to schooling, the other to downright hard work— the main object being to turn out good mechanics and artizuns. During the first year tho pupil makes tho round of six workshops, in the second he settles down to somo trade in one of six categories, the education

being gratuitous without board. Tho pupils, however, receive a small honor arium. The Professor does not describe the German technical schools, in which the system of training is more thorough and on a more c .tensive scale than in tlie four institutions which he visited. The object, however, in all cases, is the same—to instil into the youthful mind during its receptive state a practical knowledge of remunerative industry, aud a tasto for work. In Great JBritiau and tlio Colonies tlio popular education does not attach sullicient importance to the dignity of labor, otherwise there would not be the present rush of boys into povorty stricken clerkships, or of girls from tlie old fashioned ranks of useful domestic employments which prepared tlieni for the duties of life. In a letter written in February, 1877, Mr Gladstone said :—

" Working men should for themselves, and especially for their children, try more to elevate handicaft, and less to escape from it into the supposed paradise of pen and ink. Thia conviction and its practical recognition becoming generally popular, the cells of prison* and the wards of work houses would also become far less crowded by miserable inmates.'"

Mr Fawcett referred to the same subject in his speech at the distribution of the prizes gained in the Oxford and Cambridge local examinations at Salis bury, when he said : —-

" As to clerks, he had noticed that it not unfrequcntly happened that a youth, because he bad received lather more schooling than his father, thought he would better his condition by leaving the trade, business, or handicraft, to which his father had been accustomed in order to seek employment as a clerk. Considering the overcrowded state of the clerk market at the present time, he though it was im possible to take a more unfortunate step. Sometimes he was atraid tbat a young person was prompted to adopt the course by a very silly feeling that he would occupy a better social position if he was employed as a clerk, than he would if he earned his living by trade. If society could fairly be held responsible for such folly, he was afraid bo would have to answer for thousands b.-ing encouraged to seek employment where tbat employment was most difficult to be obtained."

These observations are singularly api plicable to this colony. The " genteel occupations " are overcrowded from two sources, badly-selected immigrants, and ill-trained youths sent out from the schools to seek a livelihood. The system of instruction aims at an unnecessarily high standard. Linguistic teaching in the classic and modern languages, elocution. Binging, and other accomplishments aro un doubtedly useful, but they generally involve too great a sacrifice of valuable time where the youth is destined by inevitable circumstances for some industrial pursuit, and they actually divert from tho produc tive occupations boys whoso natural inclination, as well as social circum stances, would lead them under a healthy system of teaching to adopt some trade or handicraft, instead of bein" eucouraged to regard the labour of the hands as unbecoming in one possessed of a more than average education. There can be no question tbat the same evils which Professor Thompson, Mr Gladstone, Mr Fawcett, and others have noticed in the Rnghsh system of education, exist in New Zealand in an even worse form. The limited extent of our manufactures and avenues for apprenticeship leave a very large percentage of our boys prac tically without means of learning a use ful trade. They either overcrowd the « genteel" employments-become a bur den on their parents, or loaf abou the streets, bars, and billiard-rooms, picking v a precarious livelihood by question able Lans. The timo is coming when ou common school system must par fake moro of a technical character, and I

those parents who desire to see their children educated iv modem accom plishmentsbe mad. to pay for it-. If ever the resources of the country are to be adequately developed, and an impetus given to manufacturing industry, one of the prin.ipal means of achieving t'<e?o happy results will be a judicious eucouragement of t\ t-ste for industry in the rising generation. What we should like to see is the estab lishment of technical schools "in connection with primary education iv the four principal cities of the 1 colony.

Cricketers are requested to meet at the Thames Hotel to-night to make necessary arrangements in Connection with the approaching visit of the Australian Eleven. Amongst other matters the .election of a team to represent Aucklaud will be considered, and it is therefore advisable that theie should he a large attendance.

We observe this morning that the rumour of yestctday of the withdrawal of Mr Stevenson trom contesting the scat in the Borough Council ia correct, inasmuch, tbat notices are posted up stating that he bas withdrawn, nnd that not being awntc that the Act required two days'notice, could not comply with the ollicial requirements.

Mr \Y. Tregoweth, of the Thames, and Mr 11. Hill, of Auckland, played a return match at billiards nt the Occidental Uolcl last night. The game was five hundred up, and the Thames mau won rather easily. He took the lead almost from the start nnd was nevi r caught up, winning eventually by ninety-eight points. A in itch is now biinu arranged between Mr Tregoweth and Mr P, iiutlcr for|to-night.

The serrice of Bong, "Jessica's First Prayer," a juvenile story written by a lady for a worthy purpose, was repeated last evening at the United Free Methodist Church, but the :imliencc was not so numerous ns anticipated, considering that it was repeated hy request, A full choir was present under the ellicicnt direction of the leader, Ml' H. Tudehope, nud the vocal nnd musical interlineations were apt nnd harmonious. Mr Trigg accompanied Ihe siugers on the harmonium very gracefully. The story, exceeding simple in detail, was fairly read by Mr Georgo Hemus, and elicited general approbation. Altogether the hours were pleasantly and profitably spent, nnd the choir ami friends who strove to interest and amuse by the story nnd its associations merited their meed of applause.

Messrs Darga.illc nnd Birley, who re cently represented Auckland in a friendly match at lawn tenuis with the Waikato, have since had their skill decried by num bers of persons who uvcr that they arc better players. The immediate result of this was the arrangement of a challenge match between Mr Dargaville and Mr A. McDonald, M.11.H. It was played yester day afternoon, in the Government House grouuds, und resulted iv a victory for the former gcutleman, who won It out of IB games. The .take, go to the local chari ties. Mr llirlev is prepared to similarly vindicate bio position as a champion playci upon like conditions a. to di.po.ition of stakes.

A well-known and respected Ponsonby resilient who was present |.il the races on Monday, hitched up to bis boggy a strange hor.e with a strange tet of harness, drove into town with the animal, humleil him over to his man to put in the stable, and never 1.111111 out the mistake until the following morning, when the owner aad his man wondered how deal old Rubin had been replaced by an "utter stranger," The missing horse lias since turned up.

To the Editor : >ir, —l'eimit me through your columns to thank '' One ol the Guild " for the iufor"nation that one of the bells is broken, and of which I was not aware ; nnd I am glad to hear that a suggestion has been made for raising a fund for recasting it. '1 hat ceilaiuly is very necessary, and 1 have no doubt that such au appeal will be duly responded to.but I further believe that the citizens of Auckland would readily subscribe for the greater work of providing a suitable tower wherein to hang tho re cast bell and the rest of its companions to do the duty they wee original y iutented fo . 1 see by last evening's issue that a peal often bells is oidered for the Christ church Cathedral. I hope Auckland will not lag behind, but that a peal of bells will be ready for duty long befoie tho opening of anoiher year. There are p'eiity ol ringers iv Auckland, who know the true English style,—l am, i.e., A IIINQKR,

A Christmas tico and sale of fancy and useful work by Indies will be opened to morrow afternoon iv the Young * omen's Institute, Adams' Building-. The rooms will be opened from li until 9 o'clock for general inspection and .ales, when friends will have au opportunity of aiding the funds by making purchases of such ireful articles as tbey may need iv their homes. Some weeKs ago we visited this excellent Institution for young, anil penned a descrip tion of Ihe same, which was founded and is still under the judicious uiaiing.inciit of Mis* Smith, \.ho«c experience entitles her to public confidence. The arrangements of the Institute are praiseworthy ; tbe rooms arc well-lighted and open to the natuial inllucnces of light and air ; there is the nucleus of a good library under the hand of a lady, an cxpciicnccd cook, and all the comforts of a pleasant home at a merely nominal figure. The Ini stitute was established cutirely in the interest of homeless young women, and, considering tbe temptations to vice and that numbers of young persons are falling by the wayside, the object of the Youug Women's Institute deserve practical sympathy.

Wo have much pleasure in acknowledg ing the receipt of p_*t two of (he hand«omo drawing-room book of New Zealand ferns (illustrated) by Mr li. Dobbie. The author has increased the number of varieties to 14S, and has made a useful addition in a plate, showing the fructification of each genus. The specimens are magnified so us to show more clearly their distinctive fcatur.s. The difference which this pro duces may be very readily perceived by com paring platesßsand 88, which are alikein out line, with the fructification plates 21 and 23. Nefbrodium Molle is one of the rarest and most interesting ferns in New Zealaud. It is a common tropical fern, bu. only found in New Zealand iv the vicinity of the hot lakes. G. Dictiot.m.. and N. Unitmn, though mo'c plentiful, p.re only found in the same locality. Mr Dobbiuhas .athered these ferns iv Samoa and Fiji where they are very plentiful, The fact of tropical ferns growing iv a tempetate climate, seems (o indicate that tlie climate was formerly tropical, and thfse ferns have alone survived owing to tbe warmth of the locality. The book will be welcomed by all lovers of ferns and will no doubt be in good request throughout the colony, both for local use and for sending to friends abroad. Its cheapness and adaptability for posting enhance its value for the latter purpose.

Mr Joseph Gano, for many years an energetic ollice bearer in connection with the Wcsieyan Church in Waikato, nod now of the linu of Messrs Clark aud Gave, of Auckland, has been presented by the Wesleyans of the Waikato ciicuit with a very handsome tctimonial, consisting of a valuable inkstand, pmebased from Mr 11. Kohn, Queen-street. An address, which hun been skilfully prepared by Mr Robert shaw, of Cambtidge, accompanies the souvenir. The presentation was made by Mr R. Reynolds yesterday on behalf of the subscribers.

1 The " Daily News/ in commenting on tbe latest evenls of the cricketing world, says :—" Tbe season of 1880 lias been, perhaps, the most eventful since 1876, when the gigantic .coring of Dr. \V. G. Grace aud others put all previous records in the shade. In 1870 a Dew era commenced in cricket history, for then we were for the lirst time opposed on our own grounds on equal terms by a colonial eleven. It is a familiar say ing that cticket is played wherever tho English tongue is spokcu ; but of all the British possessions beyond seas, Australia alone has bred ctickcters lit to con tend agaiust those of the mother country. The career of the 1878 eleven is familiar to every reader, while thejdoings of the present Australian team have been to fully reported day after day ia these columns, ond the general re sult has so recently been commented upon that it is needless to tell the talc again. Before, however, wc speak of English cricket pure and simple, a reference must be made to the visit'paid us by the Cana dians. These men came here without any of the prejudice with which the Australians were handicapped. They had every oppor tunity of exhibiting what, for want of a belter term, must be called their skill, and yet they failed miserably. The weather in the early patt of the season was certainly utigenial, and the team came insuliiciently provided with the sinews of war; but these obstacles would have been easily overcome if the citizens ct the Dominion had been proficient in the game tbey came to play. The credulity of the British sightseer has often been the butt at which wits have aimed their shaft?, but Ihe unqualified failure of the Canadians, who could not play, aud the umiualiGed success of the Australians, who could, is an eloquent ! tribute to the general good sense of the sport-loving public. No doubi at some future time a better and more representa tive team will come from Canada, where cricket is slowly but surely developing."

The damage sustained by the Glenelg while towing the Ltl_y Jocolyn into Tau ranga was greatly exaggerated. Only two stanchions and a email piece of tbe rail were carried away.

A social and literary entert_lnm.ht frill be given this evening it b,.lf-p_st 7 o'clock in the Union-.trect Wesleyan Chapel. Admission irce.

Miss Sharmao Crawford, an English lady, a niece of the William Sharman Crawford who for many years represented Rochdale iv Parliament, has so far felt the injustice of the British method of farming land that she has given her tenants (in the county of Wateiford a lease for»everof their holdings.

Mr W. Lindsay, of Bombay, writes with reference to the late a'ccideut, " The horse that was the cause of the lirst accident was not mine hut a neighbour... The accident your corre.spouaent reports in last Thurs day's paper win caused by a quiet old horse, the result of children beiDg too caielcss in shoving cloße at their heels."

At about 3 o'clock on Wednesday even ing, three small ricks of hay were acciden tally binned at Mount Sm.rt.Onehuugn,the property of Mr William Kemp. Mr Kemp and a mnn in his employ were woiking con venient to the stacks nt the time, and it is believed that some matches must have been accidentally dropped in grass near to the stacks, which ignited. The stacks, which were in close proximity to each other, con tained about 12 tons of meadow and oaten hay. The hay was uninsured, nud Mr Kemp's loss will he over £40.

Simonsen's Opera Company have been playing 11.M.5. Pinafore with the follow ing' cast :—Sir Joseph Porter, Signor Riccnrtli; Captain Corcoran, J. Craiu ; Ralph l_a.k_traw, Signor (Jaetauo Riauchi; DickDcadeye.Mr E. St. Clair; Bill Bob stay, Mr Weutwottb ; Bib Beckett, Mr Ingniiie ; Sergeant of Marines, Mr 1). Jones; Hebe, Miss Frances Simonscn ; Little Buttercup, Miss Leonora Simonsen ; Josephine, Miss Martina Simonsen,

By the death of Elieabeth Mary, Dowager Yii-countess Gort, the City of Rochester saves £425 per annum under somewhat singular circumstances. Iv 1818 the Cor poration of Rochester borrowed £5,000 of Lady Uort's father, a Mr Jones, the repayment of which, it was arranged, should he in the shape of an annuity to Mr Jones, and after his death to his daughter. . hoiilil she survive him. Owiug, it is said, to the supposition that the daughter was in anything but robust health, the Corporation made the aunuity £425. Mr Jones' daughter not only survived him, hut had reached to the ripe nge !of 89 when she died. Thus for .2 years tho ratepayers ol Rochester have been paying this annual charge of £425, so that for the £5,000 originally received, £2.,250 have been paid.

During the recent holidays, aud for some lime previously, cop stables on night duty have experience- much difficulty iv getting drunken persons — e.pccialiy stalwart women—to the station. They invariably evince a froward disposition, and " don't like the lodgings," as Kitty Clarke said, when it took four constables to secure her in Queen-street. The old police baud-cart had done good eeivice, aud, like a relic of Scotland Yard,

" It stood unused, a worn-out thing-

With broken wheel, without a npiing."

The application for a new hand-cart has been favourably considered at Welling ton, and an order trom Government has been received by Superintendent Thomson for a new Bacchanalian carriage. The order has been given to Mr Mackie, of Victoria-street, for a cart with patent springs, duly painted, ond noiseles*, iv order that the nocturnal slumbers of sober citizens may not be broken.

The attendance return for the Dunedin schools has been publuhed by the Kduca. tion Department. It shows that there arc 152 schools open, employing 234 nuilo aud 174 female teachers, besides 18 teachers of eewing. There were 15,677 children on the rolls at the beginning of the quarter, and 19,195 at the end, consisting of 9524 males and 9371 females. The average attendance was 83.1 males aud 7.97 females, making a total of 1G.055, being an increase on the previous quarter of 524, and on ihe corres ponding quarter last year of 1421. The attendance out of the Duuedin schools was :

Normal, 806 ; Arthur-street, 715; Union, street, .51 ; Albany-tree., (i__ ; William street, 552; George-street, 440.

The police are endeavouring to trace the identity of a young man, about twenty years of age, who committed suicide at Woolwich, lie was seen fo go to the bind of the Town Pier, from which the London steamers depart, take oil his cont and hat and throw them down, and then, after ex claiming " Good-bye; I die for her," plunged into the river. Ineffectual efforts were made to rescue him. The portraits of himself and a young lady were found in the coat pocket, with a bunch of keys, a mouth piece for cigarettes, and a paper containing the addresses of several firms in the City, from whom no information can be gleaned.

Mr Wakefield, in his Timaru speech, said Mr Saunders was the father of Ihe ten per cent, deductions. He pronounced it a very rude rule of thumb way of doing. It had knocked the heart out of the Civil Service, and the liability to such an arbitrary mode of dealing with public officers must lead to permanent di.satisfuct'on. The estimates were reduced by something like £250.000, which was good work, and prevented the session being altogether a barren one. The Ministers do not get much credit for this good work. It was tho House that did it. If Ministers had been in earnest, they ought to have reduced the estimates before sub mitting them. He described the land pur chase system iv the North Island as a tangled web of corruption and rascality.

Referring to the mystical sentence "Kna maoa to tawa," the last word of which, it is now pretty conclusi.ely shown, was mis spelled by the telegraphist in transmission, a correspondent under the signature " Tawa " writes :—" In former times, when the Maoris adhered more to their old customs than they do in the present day, hiuau, tawa, koroi, and other berries were gathered by them for food, as also birds were speared and snared, and the native rat was among the delicacies mentioned as being food for the chiefs. In many cases, part of the berries were given to the chiefs of the tribes or to the owners of the lands froia which the berries were gathered, as a royalty, or to signify a recognition of ownership of the land or chieftainship of a tribe. This custom, of course, was more prevalent when a party of strangers (native), during their wandering to and fro, located themselves on a block of land belonging to a different tribe. Tbey would then on their return from the forest expeditions carry into the chiefs or owners of the land their offering of hinau, tawa, or berries, and place it before them. The balance, of course, they would retain. There is a whakatauki or proverb among the natives which refers to the hinau berry only. In native as follows: " Kia whaknara koe i te whatutunuiarua ; or, if you awake me out of my sleep let it be for whatutunuiarua — for something of im portance," This refers to a food par taken of by the chiefs only. It was made from tho berry of the hinaw, by bruising in a wooden vessel about six feet in length hewn out expressly for the purpose. The outside pait of tho berry only is bruised to a pulp, which is the part eaten, tho 1 c uel is not made use of.

A curious ca«e is recorded in the English papers. Ledg.r Del Monico, a coloured man, who travels with Edmond's Mena gerie as a tamer of lions, hyenas, See, was charged at the Derby Borough Folice Court with cruelty to four hyenas. The case was a test one, and was brought by Inspector Warr, of the Uoyal Society for the Preven tion of Cruelty to animals. This officer proved that on the night of the I3th Octo ber he visited the menagerie in the Market Place, and saw the defendant put the hyenas through a peiformance. The animals appeared in abject fear of defen dant, and crouched in a corner ol the earn /vau. He hit them severely with a thick stick, aud only forced them by violence to promenade and jump. Cruelly was in flicted on them to induce them to jump through a hoop ot fire; the defendant put the mass of fire near the noses of the animals, and also hit them with the lighted hoop. In jumping through this hoop the animals had their backs burned by the ignited oil which fell from the tow twisted around the hoop. A female hyena had lost one of its eyes, and there were bruises about the head which showed that she had been burnt and hit violently. Mr Pier son, who defended, contended that no offence had been committed against the Act, as hyenas were not dorocsttc ani mals. The contention of the solicitor for the prosecution (Mr Hextall), that being caged up and dependent on man for their food they wero as much domestic animals as cats, was, however, upheld by the Bencb, who ultimately lined defendant £5 and costs.—John Laws, employed at the menagerie, was next fined £1 and costs for ill-treating a moufflon, by hitting it violently several times with a whip.

SCINTILLATIONS.

"Bo brief; f. r it is wtn words as with sun beam.! the lii Ore they are condensed, tho deeper they burn."-Souths v.

A mee:ing of the Board of Education will be held at 2 p.m. to-morrow. Counterfeit florins are in circulation in Wellington. The Hon. J. Bryce left Dunedin for Christchurch to-day. Never cry over spilt milk. Ten to oue there is water enough in it already, And now Lady Uodiva is said to be a myth—a bare falsehood, as it were. If you wish to take care of your health, take air. ... 130,000 bushels of Oats have been shipped in three days, from Chriitchurch to the Cape. , The appointment of John Knox, Esq., Mayor of Hamilton, as a Justice of the Peace is gazetted. James Monteith McLaren has been ap pointed a Mining Inspector lor Te Aroha <llStriCt' - f TtT . _• Soren Gillius Hansen, miner, of Waiotahi Creek, has received letters of naturaliza tion. , , . Mr Robert Lundon, the newly appointed engineer to the Hokianga County Council, was a passenger North to-day An Armed Constabulary camp is being formed at Ngakumikumi, five miles from Pungarehu. £42,232 was collected in Customs duties at Wellington during the past quarter. The miners aro returning to Te Aroha after their holidays in town. The coronor's jury exonerated all parties from blame in the case of Mra Charles Wilson, who died in childbirth at the Thames. The Thames Boating Club will send a crew to compete in the outrigger race at the Auckland regatta. The railway authorities at Greymouth refuse to unload the Coal Company's trucks except at an increased price per ton. A miner named Robert Armstrong is supposed to have fallen down an abandoned shaft at Hokitika.

The hon. Mr Oliver is sufficiently re covered to attend to his official duties at Dunedin. "There is no place like home," repeated Mrllcnpcck, looking at a motto, and he heartily added, " 1 am glad there isn't." " I am satisfied with my lot," said a real estate ow.ier, who held a piece of city grouud worth #5,000 a foot. Ptedenck William Armitagc, Esq., ba. been appointed the Health Officer for the port of Tauranga, under the Public Health Act, 1870. The prisoners' dock and two witness boxes belonging to the old Supreme Court, Wellington, were recently knocked down at Ot.

At the Irish watering-places itis found that most Irish girls surpass the English girls in swimming. They jump at once into six feet of water aud swim with the tide.

Sympathy comes near and speaks low. It docs not shout through a tin trumpet and hail a mourner Irorn the top of a passing omnibus.

The L'amilton people want to know how it is that, while the tolls collected on the biidgc last year amounted to £938, only cue £100 debenture has been taken up.

At the time of the revolution, a ci-devant, coming out of the theatre, said tosomebody, "Call my servant." " There are no more servants," said a 'citoyen;' we arc all brother".'" " then call your brother."

Neatly five hundred persons, of all ages and sexes, have declared their conversion through Mrs Uampson's evangelistic labours, aud Church attendance has been materially swelled by these recruit*. All England wondered for a year why women pull oil"the right shoe first on going to bed, and then somebody discovered that they didn't. They always take the left shoe fust.

There is n difference among tbe Hamilton trustees as to whether the balauce of £150 from the bazaar should go to the ball fund or to St Peter's Church. The question has been referred to a meeting of trustees on the Ist February.

"Bridget, bave you dres.ed that turkey '!" inquired a lady of the new girl. "No, mum ; the plaguey thing won't stan' still long enough, and besides there's no clothes in ths house that'll half lit him."

A South IJ ill debating club is wrestling with: " Can a Community Kxist Without Women ? We think it might exist for a while, but then it wouldn't know what was going on. Tbe gentleman who interviewed \. illiam Thompson at the close of the Waikato Wai, was Mr George Graham, not David Graham as cironcously stated in a para graph in last evening's issue. The surgery of Dr. liln__.cn, Te Awa mutu, and the first and second Mondays iv each month, from 10 until noon, are the place and lime, appointed for tbe perfoim a_cc of vaccination, and for inspecting the progress of vaccination. The inhalation of air charged with ammonia vopers, as a remedy for whoop ing cough, has been tried in France with success. One of the methods of application employed is boiling strong ammonia in the room where the patient is. It is stated on the au'.hority of a local p.per that a Philadelphia literary associa tion, composed of young men and women, broke up iv a serious row simply because tbe male members insisted upon having as the question for debate, " Is the man ia the moon bow-legged ?' Science has never yet discovered Ihe reason why ladies always look among the deaths and marriages for the most interes ting news. Said Angelina, " The paper is utterly barren this morning; not a single person whom I know is cither married or dead."

A lady and servant girl enter the post office where the former buys a postage stamp. She then beckons to the maid. The latter sticKS out her tongue. The lady moistens her stamp on it, sticks the stamp on letter and both depart.

" Uneasy frog" and "happy duck" are the names of two new colors for female fixings. The mau who invents the names of colors must be a college graduate and possess a massive intellect. Sooner or later he may strike upon " stubborn mule" aud "lucky spider." Mis Plaindamc, after looking thought fully at a plaster cast of Shakespeare, re marked : "Poor man! How pale he was. He couldn't have been well when it was taken." "No," replied Fogg; "he was dead." " Ah, that accounts for it," replied Mrs P., drawing a sympathetic breath.

Oh, the perversity of woman! Herds one of the sex at Eureka Springs, Ala., who attempts to elope, but is detected by her husband. Now what follows ? Why, in the kindness of his heart he offers to pay the expenses of her intended journey. And she? She won't go. As we said in tbe beginning : Oh, the perversity of woman 1 Feminine tenderness sometimes crops out iv queer places, Tbe widow of a French chemist, famous for his researches in toxi cology, was on trial for poisoning her hus band, It was proved tbat arsenic was the medium employed. " Why did you use that poison !" asked the presiding magis trate. " Because," sobbed the fair culprit, " it was the one he liked best."

" Auy cood shooing on your farm ?'' asked the hunter of a farmer. " Splendid," replied the agriculturist; " there's a drive well mau down in the clover meadow, a cloth-peddler at tbe house, a candidate out in the barn and two tramps down in the stockyard. Climb right over the fence, young man, load both barrels and sail io."

It was at a Board of Trade inquiry, and on the termination of the case the collector of Customs walked off by mistake with a solicitor's hat. " Hi, Mr Collector, you've got my hat," called out the solicitor. "If you are a collector of Customs you are no collector of bats." " Right," said the magistrate's clerk ; " but you forget he is a Receiver of Wrecks." And the man of law looked at his shockingly dilapidated tile, and went away sorrowing. Visitor at hotel in Queen-street to bar maid, " t an you tell me whether Mr is staying here ?" Hebe: " Ask ihe waiter." Visitor goes in search of waiter andreturusunsuccessful. "Can you tell me where to find a waiter !" Hebe -. " Oh, Ihavc nothing to do with waitcre." Visitor goes on another voyage of discovery and finds a chambermaid. Can you tell me whether Mr ; lives here ? Abigail : "You had better aßk Sarah." Visitor: "Where is Sarah !" Abigail: " I don't know. You had better look about the passages." Visitor: "Is there a visitors'book here?" Abigail: "It is locked up," Visitor: "Can you get tbe key?" "No, Mr has taken it away in his pocket." Exit visitor in disgust.

THEATRE ROYAL.

" The Wreck of the Pianofore " will be performed to-night for the last timp. Gilbert and .ullivan's "H.M.S. Pinafore" .ill be re-produced to-morrow evening.

' Men shut tne:r floors against a sett.ng sun, t is a very remarkable saying, to be found in " Timon ot Athens," and ono of tbe oracular uttoraices oi the great Bard of Avon. The ex pression Is a truism. The moment a thing declines, it la d'smisaed from public favour, Let a man degenerate, and friendship closes its hand against Mm, societyJlabooes liim, and he is exorcised, as it were, from all bis past associations. This contrary oonditlon ot things prove, the high esteem and populaiity of Udolpho Wolfe . Pohledam Aromatic Schnapps, '/he gates of all the marts of the world aro open toit.

CABLEGRAMS.

EUROPEAN.

[BEUI-B'ii TELBGB AMB.J

THE TORPEDO STORY

LONDON, January 5. AX official denial bas been given to tbe report circulated yesterday that a torpedo had been found under the bow of H.M... Lord Warden, in the Frith of Forth. ATTEMPT TO DESTROY LIVERPOOL DOCKS. A fire broke out at Liverpool Docks to day, but it was extinguished'before any damage was done. It has since been dis covered that the fire was caused by incen diaries, who had used petroleum, with the evident intention of completely destroying tbe Dock.. THB BOERS INVADE NATAL. CAPETOWN, January 4. News has been received from Durban that a considerable body cf Beers yesterday entered Natal -from the Transvaal, aud marched some distance across the border. They came up with a detachment of Bnti.-h troops and opposed its advance towards Transvaal. It is not know whether any fighting occurred. INDIAN EEINFORCEMENTS FOR NATAL. BOMBAY, January 5, The military authorities have received I orders to despatch further reinforcements of Indian troops to Natal.

AUSTRALIAN.

FOUTBALL TEAM FOR ENGLAND. MELBOURNE, January 6. The footballers here are organising a team to leave for Kngland in May. It will in cluoe five New Zeaianders. EXBIBITION AWARDS FOR NEW ZEALAND. MELBOURNE, January 5. Two thousand one hundred and three Exhibition awards have been made. The following belong to New Zealand :—First prize for pieces of kauri timber, Hokianga Saw Mill Company. Second prizes : Speci mens of Australian and New Zealand timber, showing the action of .he toredo nava'.is, and specimens of jarrah and totara timber, Auckland Harbour Board; collec tion of timbers showing the result of ex periments for determining the strength of colonial timbers, Museum, Wellington; large collection of timbers of Canterbury and Wcstland, Professor Julius Yon Haast, Canterbury Museum ; eight specimens of native ornamental woods, Mr F. Halccmbe, Fielding, Wellington; two plauk. rimu polished, Mr John Hornby, Mount Pleasant Mills, Picton; fine specimen of kauri tim ber, New Zealand Commissioner-, Welling ton. 'Ibitd prizes: Thirty-one samples of polished and. named limbers grown iv New Zealand, chiefly in the neigh bourhood of Dunedin, Mr Robert Guthrie, Dunedin; specimens of large kauri timber grown in New Zealand, Mr G. Holdebip, Auckland ; sixteen varie ties of ornamental timber, New Zealand forests, Mr William Norrie, cabinetmaker, Auckland; specimens cf native timber of Otago, portion of totara log worked with stone adzes from the Maori fith wir, Shag River, Otago Museum, Dunedin ; speci mens of Southland timber. Messrs R, and A. Tapper, Invercargill; Tarauaki iron sand in its various stages, Mr E. M. Smith, New Plymouth. Fourth prizes: Sample of hoard of kabikatea, Messrs Bagnall Brothers and Co., lhames ; polii-hed aud named samples of New Zealand woods, Mr W. N. Blair, Engineer-in-Chief, South Tsiand, Dunedin ; two slabs kauri pine, Dr. J. Logan Campbell, Auckland, anil Mr Cuming, Hokitika; block of toUra wood, suitable for veneering cabiuct work, John GeorgeDenne, Nelson; plank of yellow pine timber, John Fletcher, Paha; kawa, Collinj;wood, Nelson ; specimen of New Zealand woods polished on the face and rough at back, Mr J. C. George, Tara' naki ; specimens of timber from Westlaod ; Hokitika, local committee. Hokitika; samples of birch and totara, Messrs J. W, Roliertson and Co., Queenstown, Otago; veneers of colonial wood, Mr Robert Stone, Thames; twenty speci mens of New Zealand timber aud barks for tanning, Messrs, Wilding and Ball, V. aipukurau, Napier. Fifth prizes : section of stump of flowering fuschia tree, sixty-live inches in circumference, John Beckcnbam, Nelson; rough piece of kauri timber, showing natural formati.n of Kauri gum, It d ward l»aacs, Eden Crescent, Auckland, and Mr Mc Counell, Hokitika,

WOOL EXHIBITS. MELBOURNE, January 5. The Wool Exhibits at the International

Exhibition opened to-day. There were scarcely sufficient representatives, there being only a few from New Zealand. 10.30 p.m. At the Wool Show the qualities were unsurpassed. The experts fiud it most difficult to determine wnich is the best. SUGAR FOR NEW ZEALAND. Mauritius advices state tbat engage ments for Lyttelton amount to 450 tons.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT IN SYMONDS-STREET.

A SERIOUS accident occurred ia Upper Symonds-street on Tuesday morning. Mr Robert Garrett, of the firm of Garrett Brothers, was riding one horse and taking two others out to the firm's tannery, when one of the horses became difficult to manage. In using the whip to the restive animal the lash curled round the butt end of the tail of the animal Mr Garrett was riding. The horse suddenly kicked out, throwing its rider on his head upon the road, uncon scious. He shortly after came round, and, having been placed upon a cart, he requested to be taken out to Dr. Young, at the asylum. On arrival there the doctor dressed the injury, and the sufferer was brought back to town in a cab. During Tuesday night he was very delirious, but is now easier. Though the skull is not fractured, very extensive and severe scalp wounds have been inflicted, which cause the sufferer severe pain.

TIMBER TARIFF ON RAIL WAYS.

FkOM the 3rd inst. certain alterations and additions came into force in the rates for tne conveyance, delivery, and storage of timber on all tho New Zealand railways. Class It applies to sawn timber, squared logs, and mouldings. Timber will be c.mcd iv single wagons minimum quan tity, 1,200 superficial feet for distance of 175 miles and under ; 2,000 superficial feet for distances over 75 miles. Where a check wagon is used it will bo charged for. Timber carried iv tim ber trucks, minimum, 2000 superficial feet per pair of trucks for distances of 75 miles and under; minimum, 4000 superficial feet per pair of trucks for distances over 75 miles. Where a check wagon is used it will be charged for. Any less quantity i which can be carried in one truck will be charged as such minimum, or at Id per 100 superficial feet per mile ; where this rate is charged, the minimum quantity will be 100 feet; and the minimum charge Is 3d per 100 superficial feet, without further charge for loading or unloading. The minimum charges for each consign ment will be 2s Gd. Instead of tbe classified rates, timber for 225 miles and over will be charged as follows, viz : 4s Gd per 100 superficial feet for distances of 225 miles, and id per 100 superficial feet per mile will be added for every additional mile, subject to all conditions and regulations applying to the conveyance of timber. Mouldings will be carried solely at owners' risk. In computing the charges for timber, 25 teet or under in excess of any multiple of 100 are to be foregone ; over 25 feet to be charged as tbe next 100. Australian and Tasmanian timbers will be charged at a rate aud a half; any quantity less than the minimum will be charged as such minimum at a rate and a half, or as ordinary timber at the rate for small lots. Round timber, measure ment, as follows :—The average girth in inchoi to be squared and divided by 152, the result to be multiplied by length in feet which will give the contents of the log in superficial feet. No allowance to be made for bark by " ringing " or otherwise, or for tops, butts, or unsound wood. All sawn timber from half-inch to oue will be taken as inch stuff in computing the mea surement. Half-inch and under will be taken as half Ihe amount of inch stuff. 100 palings, or 1,000 shingles, as 100 feet timber. All loading and unloading must be done by the owner. For each loading or unloading done by the railway, 3d per 100 feet addi tional will be charged. Where senders who do their own loading require a receipt for number of pieces, 3d per 100 feet superficial additional will be charged as it loading had been done by the Department.

Nominations for the Poverty Bay Races close at Gisborno on Saturday evening next,

POLICE COURT.-This Day.

(Before X, C. Barstow, Esq., R.M.)

DBUXKENh'ESS. Two persons were fined 5s each for this offence. THE PAINTED MA-., William Dawson, the man who under went the ordeal of clipping and painting, was assisted into Court by the constables, rut was entirely unable to plead to a charge of drunkenness. Mr Pardy said the prisoner was suffering from a serious attack of delirium tremens. He bad been continually drunk for some time past. Prisoner eaid he wanted a doctor to drive the spirits away. Ihey had.been worrying him all night. . Remanded to the H.spital tor eight days, THE WILD BCS3MAX. Patrick Reilly, charged with drunkenness and di-orclerly conduct, was again brought before the Court. Prisoner wished to be taken care of in some place of safety, as he was in a very nervous and excitable state. He believed his liver was affected, as he had experienced dreadful dreams lately. Seven days' imprisonment with hard la bour. __________-__-__-_-

THE WAIMATE PLAINS.

(FBOM OUK OWN COBBESPONDENT.)

THE SALE 01. THE PLAINS.

The Waimate Plains have been disposed of with the exception of a piece running from the ten past the Kanae to the bush, and another piece of one some 35 chains wide, between Rawa and the boundary of the survey at WaLamouku. What the latter piece is left for it is impossible to say. The survey of tbe Plains ended at Wabaniouku, and, subsequently, on the recommendation of tbe Royal Commission, the Waimate Plains were elongated to Oeo for the pur pose of making a reserve for Hone Pihama. It had been said that ihe settlement of the Waimate Plains would be facilitated if a reserve were given to Hone, but as the lat*«r claimed no land, or the Waimate Plains, and as it was absolutely necessary after the recommendation that the land awarded to Bone should at least be called Waimate, the survey of a portion of Taranaki land was made, awardedto Hone and included in the icc-mmendation of the Royal Commission under the name ot Waimate Plains. This award is bounded on tbe south by the survey line of Waimate prop, r, and why the sale of tbe land was Dot carried right up to the boundary instead of leaving a small block less than half a mile in width unsold, is the puzzle your cor respondent is anxious to unravel. Perhaps it is proposed to give this also to Hone, for it would appear tbat the stanch henchman of Mr Parris, and steadfast followers ot Te Wluti cannot ask too much at the bands of the Commission, of which Mr Parris is the real head, but ostensible servant. It h_s been said before tbat after all Hone it but a rsclaimed rebel, if he is even that, and it appears strange to your correspondent that be should receive such large con-ideraiion, whilst those never in rebellion against their Government have their claims totally ignored. It was understood in the issue of the third report of tbe Koyal Commission that 25,000 acres should be set apart for reserves for the natives, and that thii area, it was thougln, would be sufficient for all, although it has never been shown how the Commission arrived at this result. It would appear to your correspondent to be nothing but just that the natives, loyal and rebel, owning land on the Waimate Plains, should have awards made for them on their 25,000 acres previous to any poilion of it being allocated for other purposes. The natives certainly looked upon this 25,000 acres as land to be divided amongst them, and it will not tend to increase tbe "entente cordialc" between the two people, when it is known that 3,000 acres of this has already been taken for the supply of timber to the settlers on tbe Plains. Before a single award has been made to a native, loyal or rebel, 3,000 acres of the reserve to be divided amongst Ihe native owners of the Plains, have been taken away. Surely Te \Vhiti is right in saying we wish to provoke him, and correct in his estimate of the forbearance of his people under node served tribulation. In consequence of the settlement by Europeans of the West Coast lands seme tribes are totally deprived of all the open lands they possess, v hilstno award has been made to them elsewhere on which to build a home and cultivate their crops. Of such is Xgatihamia of Opunake. They have no choice between encroaching on the lands of other tubes or attacking the_ dense bnsb, which is now their only inheritance. Expediency may be here, but certainly not justice. MISS DOBIE'S MURDERER.

It is said that Tuhiata's father is vowing vengeance on Europeans should they execute Miss Dobie's murderer, but your corres pondent believes not the report. This Wharengaro, father of the miscreant, is said to be a man of a vile temper, and bad disposition altogether, but he certainly will not be allowed to make a national matter of a treacherous murder. Such a proceeding is diametrically opposed to the teachings of Te Whiti, aod it is probable that tho com ings and goings of Wharengaro are not un watched. The day before the murder, father and son were working with a bullock team, when, through some inadvertence on the part of the former, the wheel of tbe dray passed over Tuhia's foot. He complained very much of the pain, and his father got off the dray and stooped to examine the wounded member, and whilst in this position the son exhibited nis filial affection by springing on his father, throwing him on the ground, and attempt ing to throttle bim, an attempt which would probably have proved succcssfal but for the interposition of other natives. Subsequently himself and bis father had a very violent quarrel, aud it is thought by many natives in the neighbourhood that the murderous spirit then aroused had not sub sided when he met the lady, and that this spirit only dormant, not extinguished, prompted the sudden impulse which was consummated by murder.

TE WHITI AND THE CBILDREN OF

ISRAEL.

It would appear to be the intention of To Whiti and bis followers to establish themselves as an entirely independent people nt Parihaka, judging by tho way in which the land in that neighbour hood has been apportioned among the tribes of the West Coast. In imitation perhaps of the division of Canaan among the tribes of Israel the whole of the land between FarU baka and Mount Egmont has been apportioned out to the various tribes, and those portiops again bisected by lines form ing the boundaries of the various hapus, regard being had in the sub-division to the number of persons in each family. Chains have been made use of in the allotments and everything done in a systematical manner. Bush-falling, to a very large exteut, has already commenced, aud the energy with which the natives work at Parihaka, compared with their almost total negligence of their old cultivations on their various tribal lands, point to the conclusion tbat Parihaka is destined to be the head quarter of the whole of the tribes of the West Coast.

SCARCITY OF FOOD. Being at the end of the old potatoes and the beginning of the new, food is at present rather scarce at Parihaka, and Ngatiruanui have returned 'o their homes for a short time. Only foi a short time, however.'for a week or so will see their return to Parihaka and before long abundance will supersede the scarcity now existing. Never has so largo a quantity of food been planted at Parihaka as is the case this bcsson. Con trary to the expectation of many, the wheat crops look exceedingly well, and the quantity of potatoes rapidly ripening is practically unlimited. THE NEW LIGHTHOUSE.

The erection of the lighthouse nt Cape Egmont is being energetically proceeded with, the foundation of concrete _ being nearly complete. The ponderous regiments of the iron lighthouse are being rapidly brought on the ground, and cottages are to be erected for the habitations of the light tenders. When completed, the lighthouse will prove a great boou to mariners travers ing tbe ocean between the Manukau and Southern poits.

SHEEP STEALING

In reading the accounts published in the newspapers of the sheep-stealing aflair at the camp, it would appear as if a native went deliberately to that place for the purpose of stealing sheep. This i 3 not the case. The sheep being killed whilst tres passing ou the wheat, and in conformity to the ordets of Te Wbiti, that any sheep or pigs being found on the wheat the property of Europeans or Maoris, should be killed. Of course, the offence is indefensible, but the trespass_ of the sheep on the wheat is an extenuating circumstance. Eating the sheep after it was killed does not make the affair better for the natives, but still, the matter stands in this way ; the sheep was killed for tres pass on the wheat and the consumption of the carcase was au after consideration. The natives say that if a constable was arrested for every pig killed by the A.C, there would be none left to flash their arms :..«i. ..... _______ ■ '■ - *-"— '■*•- *^—

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR, TREKS DA r, JANUARY (>



Station.

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bar clear

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{CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR PBESBNTQI Limes' BLACK and COLORED COSTUMES ADiKs' BONNKT3 and lIAT3. in the Latest Paris Styles Lambs' SILK asd CASHMERE MANTLES, CAPES AND VISITES LANGTREY HOODS LADISB' KID AND TAFFETTA SILK GLOVES In Endless Variety liAMBS'SILK, SATIN and TUSSORE PARASOLS. CHRISTMAS CHRISTMAS AND AND NEW YEAR PR-TSttNTS, NEW YEAR PRESENTS, AT VyiLLIAM TDATTRAY'S DRAPERY, MANTLE, AND MILLINERY ESTABLISHMENT. New Zealand House, 66, qtjkbn-stbeet, auckland. '



Special Advertisements. QUE ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SALE WILL COMMENCE ON MONDAY, 20TH INST. THE GOODS WILL BE OFFERED AT nOST T> It ICE! FOR A FEW WEEKS ONLY 1 Is Order to Clear Heavy Stocks 1 T pOSGRAYE & £JO., Importers pf DRAPERY AND CLOTHING, QUEEN-STREET, AUCKLAND. /V._?.— No Goods will be entered during the Sale. t_m*m% WHEN" the Immortal Bard wrote, ••Throw Physic to the dogs," he had not heard of SHARLAND'S SARSAPARIL T A, A pleasant aad aromatic BLOOD-MAKING FLUID. Unsurpassed in the world ia aroma, ri.-hness, and flavour; a bright golden fluid. Had 3hakspeare now lived, he would have c_Red ihree times a day for SHARLAND SARSAPARILLA BITTERS, A Genuine Tonio and Appetiser, A LIVER STIMULANT, And Di-peller of the Megrims or Blues. Ask your Merchant, your Purveyor, your Hotel Proprietor, for sharland _ Sarsaparilla and Sar-aparil'la Bitters, and see that no other is substituted. Sold In Oeart Bottle 3. M. M UR C H I E, HEECHANT WILDE AND IMPORTER. FRESH ARRIVALS. Xxgi.ish aud Scotch Tv.__.ds-7 cases by ' Loe.hnagar' -._.«. Serge Suitings in Blue and Black, of a New Make and Finish Something New In Bannockburn Tweeds, which was awarded Ist prize at the Sydney Exhibition _-~_. _, SAXONY Tweeds in Blue and Black, of superior quality and new design. Another Consignment to arrive by ' Fernglen. Sample? mailed to any address. Tbo immense quantity ot CiothinK we ship to the laiKe cities and towns in the colony is a sufficient guarantee thut the QUALITY and MAKE of these Goods cannot be equalled. Orders by maU will receive our beßt attention. WANTED, four Flrat-class Tailors, to whom constant employment wiU.be given . t the ten penny log, M. MURCHIE, Opposite Arch. Clark & -On'p, ___ns Street, <3 A _ L T' 1000 BAGS W. & W. FINK 1000 BAGS W. & W. COARSE ON HAND AND TO ARRIVE PER 'LOCH URB,' From London. In lots to suit purchaser., W. S. LAUR IE, 7, Wyndham .treat, T>EGATTA EXCURSIONS, ISBI. A DSTEALI-N QRICKETERS' T^ISIT, 1881 WE are Prepared to SUPPLY YOU with the MostSui tableland FASmoNABI. eC-.0-nixG Requlred for Holiday Gathering', Picnics, Water Excursions, Lawn Tennis and Garden Parties. GARLICK & CRANWELL. SUNSH \DES, for Afternoon Use —G. SUNSHADKS,for Picnics.ls upwards—& 3UNSHADKS, for Carriage Übo — S._ OMPAL) OUR Dresa Go .is. New Pat. — G BATKEN, New Lo', jnet opened — to NOVELTIES in Dre.9 Goods con- stantly arriving ________ CHILDRKN'S Pompadour Dresses, Very Cheap — G. CHILDREN'S 2-Bntton Kid Gloves - to CHILDREN'S Hoaiery-an Immense Variety — C. ATS, La-lies'. Job Line, 1b 3d worth 2a 6d— G. HATS and Bonnets Trimmed Cheap — to HATS for Children from Ib upwards — C. GARLICK & CRANWELL would remind the Public that they have BACRIFICKD a Credit Trade tor tbe sake of establish ing tho pO-OPERATIVE PASH CYSTEM We Open no New Accounts for Dra. pery. We LOSE Customers who ask for Credit ; all we ask In return Is a Liberal Support by Cash Buyers, to enable ua to continue what is a Publlo Benefit. Our Goods are very Carefully Bought, and Marked at a Very Small Percentage over Cost, and we must do a Lines Business to continue the System, and the Larger our "Turn Over .the jmoro our Cußtcnaers wiU Benefit by their Support LAWN TENNI3 APRONS —G. RIDING GLOVES, Bilk Glove. - & KIDQLOVKg, 1,2, 3, ., 6, to 8 Button— O. FANCY BAGS and Boxes of Handkerchiefs for Presents GOLD and CHENILLE Scarves and Collarettes — G. GOLD and SILVER Trimmings — to GOLD COLOURED -ilk Fringes..:..— C. SILKS, we bave the Cheapest — G. SILK., Special Lines, _.9d,.53d, Ib 6d per yard — & SATINS and Fancy Gooda for Trim- mjng — C. CRETONNES, on immense Assortment — G. CRETONNES, backed with Lace, Curtain Pattern — to CRETONNES, New Styles, from 7d per yard — C. ARTICLE, of New Designs too numerous to mentlon in Hosiery. Underclothing, Millinery, Ladles' Nick Nacks, and Fancy Goods. BANKRUPT STOCK of Men's and Boys Clothing and Mercery. Now beiDg SOLD at Robinson's Cost, and Manu facturers' Prices by GARLICK &: CRANWELT. VERY CHEAP TABLE DAMASKS, from Is 6d per yard. A pURE /"I ASH erSTEM. /P \ ALL DRAPERY & CLOTHING / S. \ AT \ ~ /CO-OPERATIVE CASH \ G c/ PRICES, \V AT THE rtITY TTA__i iRCADE, GARLICK & CRANWELL, pbietors. W I X b & g ALL, HAVE REMOVED FROM SHORTLAND-STREET TO TEMPORARY PREMISES IN FORT STREET, OPPOSITE COCHRANE AND SON'S AUCTION MART, AND WILL CONTINUE THKIE CHEAP SALE FOR A FEW WEEKS LONGER, TO CLEAR SURPLUS STOCK. THEY WILL REMAIN IN FORT-STREET DURING THE RE-BUILDING OF TB-3B WARE HOUSE IN SHOBTLAND'SI-BEIT,



Speoial Advertisements. OTRANGEItS AND TRAVELLERS Vis.ting Auckland will flod the larqe3t outfitting stock in the colons: To Select from at THE NfiW ZEALAND CLOTHING FACTORY. Thousands of Customers teslif j- to tho QUPSRIOR /~VOALITT to "CUTTING Of the Garmonts made by them. The Stock of SHIRTS, TIES, HATS, and HOSIERY, Is very large, and Includes a CHOICE ASSORTMENT UF NOV|BLT|IES ."OR TOR HOLIDAYS. A special supply of PORTMANTEAUX BAGS, HUG?, and ail Travelling Requisites for Touri.t.. AUCKLAND BRANCH: Queen-street (opposito Theatre Royal', And at Albert-ttreet, Thames. J. FIIZSIMONS. Manaqkr. "VTEW /^OOOSi A>D -jVTOVEL-EES FOR TIH . TX OLIDAY OKASON RUSHBROOK & BRIDGMAiYS, A Cboick Lor (p LADIES' NEW LACK AND SILK CAPES SILK SQUARES, Ere. LAC is FICHUS, A JOB LINE VERY CHEAP. SUN SHADES . AND UMBRELLAS. Ribbons, Gloves, &c. NEW" AND SEASONABLE DRESS MATERIALS In Yeby Great Variety. _3-some job line 3 very cheap. _i - SATEENS, poMPADOUK. GALATEA STRIPES. Kto. GENERAL AND FURNISHING DRAPERY of evek_" dkscription. Summer Clothing .-*• For Boys" and M_.n'_ Wear. __£_ss. SILK DUST COATS, ALPACA and HOLLAND COAT 3. Full Stocks of WHITE SHIRTS. OXFORD SHIRTS, TIES SCAKVKS, COLLARS, &c. Btraw, Leghorn and Hush Hats, of all kinds for Boys and Men. Is in the £ Discount allowed upon all Cash Purchases of SOs and Upwards, J^USHBROOK &|T>RIDGMAN JUNCTION DRAPKKY WAREHOUSE [Opposite tho Army and Navy Hotel], Upper Queen-street, Auckland



"Carpo Diem." which literally translated n.eans pluck the d»y, liberally construed, signifies seize ho occasion. It is an oid Roman maxim by which its poopio acted, and thus became famous aiiionij tho nations of the worid. Neglected ailments Boon become chronio and 0000 deeply rooted aro difficult of removal. On tho first symptoms ,-,f any of tho malaiies for which it Is specially designed, Udoliho Wolfe's Schiedam Aromatic t-chnapps will not only chock its course, but so toaify the parts as to render them incapable of sudden relapses.



The " Observer," ready to-morrow (Fri day), contains etchings of the Rev. Allan Webb, Mr s.mlth (tbe owner ot Tim Whlflierl, and Mr Craig as the bosun in "Pinafore"; also, a splendid portrait ot tbe Shah ot Persia, a pen and-ink portrait of Mr K. T. Glllon, Auckland Thirty years Hence, full description ot ladies' dresses at the Races, Longfellow's new poem, and an unusually large variety of social, sport ing, and theatrical kobslp.-[_i>. T,]