SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

I fetnn vo-A'iiTO JThis Evening, ".IS *"'•'"- WA ' Morning, 7.35 BV<S''T:. This Evening, C.59 SO NlUSK.—'l'o-inoiTow Morning, 5.31 ; BOOK'S AWP!.—Full Moon, 11th, 1.27 p.m.

ARRIVALS.

Lookout, brignntlnß, Stewart, from Sydney Tanrangn, soli, Duucan, I'rom Kusscll Zuttlandia, i'.il.s.s., Webber, from San Fran

Cisco Waituki, s.s., Crawford from Whangai'ci Sanaily, schooner, liurroll, from Tonga Rotoinahana, s.s., Corey, from tho Sonth Eowcna, v.a., Norria, from Whangaroi

DEPARTURES.

Zralnndin, P.H.9.8., Wobbcr, for Sydney Stanley, brlganMne, Gould, for Noumcn Grifltn, sch. Olson, for Russell Fanny Kelly, ketch, Williams, !»r Mongonui Venus ketch, Noil, for Opotlki Daphne, cutter, Burr, for Suwarrow

IMPORTS.

Per Zenlandia, from San Francisco—6 cases drugs, 41 cases paint, 7 cases books, 12 packages carta, 50 packages fruit, 10 packagos casings, 10 canes canned jelly, 149 packages machinery, 6 cases telephone parts, 0 cases rubborgoods, 258 cases salmon, P9O sacks boncdust, U packages carriage material.

Pel tiaudfly, from Tonga—Boo cocoanuts, 0 bags pennuts.

Per Amazon, from Now York — 12 cases turpentine, 11 barrels varnish, 40 cases sewing machines, !) cases hardware, 15 packages machinery, 2G packages odgo tools, 40 boxos clocks. I!Vi coils barb wire, 67 cases chairs, 6 cases woodware, Gl cases drugs, 3 cases llnuorico, organs, 5 cases buggies, 59 cases school slatca, 31 packages ink, 32 packages lamp goods, 27 bundles papor, 21 pieces plank.

EXPORTS.

Per Doric, for London—Wool, £6,897; gum, £1.755; cotton, £1,010; presorved moat. £155; books, • £»50; tollow, £85; poarl sholl, £60; leather, .CIO; horses (2), £200; sundrlos, £300. Total valuo, £10,?52.

Tho brigantino Stanley sailed for Noumea al o o clock on Saturday evonlng.

' Tho Crusnder, 1,058 tons, nnd tho Pova, 761 tons, were loading at London for this port on January 4.

The 8.8. Southern Cross, which arrived from liisborno on Saturday, returns South about 6 o clock this evening.

. Tho out tor Daphne sailed for Suwarrow lv Dallasc on Sunday morning.

Tho biigantine Deflanco arrived at Sydnoy Irom Whangaroa on Friday last.

The schoonor Sandfly.af ter a month's absence returned hero lato on Saturday evening. Sho Jo« long* on tho Ist Instant, and had strong gales and squalls all tho way up.

n^3 WA?,? s£ OASTWISE--Bes9lc, from Konnody H*j. with 20.000 ft. timbor; Ruakaka, from Manttawai, with 38,000 ft. timber.

Outwards CoASTwisn.-Bessio, for Konnedy Whiilan 1? f°r Waiwora> c <>ralle, for

The'barqao Planter proceeds from here to vijaritfaroa, whore sho will load timber for Ijauncoston,

iiio brUantlne Ryno arrived at Russell from oavatfe Island yesterday with a full cargo of Island produce.

Tlicß.a. Rowena arrived from Whangareion Saturday ovening with the following paa seayoi',, :_Mossrs Harvey. O. T. Evans, Butler, Lnapman, Miss Butler, Mrs Sandlie.

Tlio tonnago loading on the berth at London on Decsrabet 27th for Australia and New ~ea!ami amounted to 51,208 tons.

Mtjsr-i Staley, Radford & Co. quote rates won) London to Auckland : Rough moasuro immt, mv i fino, <0s; liquids, 50n: weight, 30s; ceiaunt, 03 per cask ; beer, lOd pu» dozen; salt,

In addition to Auckland cargo, the Zcalandia -loutrbt the following for Southern ports :-F« Fc-tohalmors: 300 cases salmon. For Welling ton. 11) cases. For Bluff: 60 cases salmon. l] oi -yttoflon: J3pioces pipes, 7S cases Balmon, 5 OOXOB letter /lies, 5 cases oil.

The as. Penguin will leave for Fiji about, flvo ocloci tjus evening. Passengers: Messrs R. A. Can-, and Boylan.

The departure of the s.s. Rotomahana for llnssell has been postponed until 3 p.m. to morrow. Siio will hare a large number of cxtfiirsiontsta to the Russell Regatta, whioh t ikea place on Wednesday.

Freights at New York on January 10 showed no capcoial change since laßt advices. Vessels were somewhat bettor in supply, but still far from Loins: plentiful. Freights to Wellington ana Auckland nre quoted at 250.

The barque Claribel was loading at New York for Nieilnujton and Auckland when the mail toft. S;io was expected to sail about January

Tho steamer Waitaki. which mot with an acoiricnt at Whangarel, as described in our Columns on Saturday evening, arrivod here yestonlay morning. The damage sustainod by the influx of the tide docs not appear to be of a serious character. Passongera: — Mesdamcs Lea, J. "Whitolaw, 801 l and child, Miss White law and servant, Messrs Barbury, E. Lewis, W. S. Walker. MacPhail, J. Montgomery, Brown, Collings, Adams and Robinson.

TJio barque Alnstor, 821 tona, left London for Auckland on December 89, in charge of Captain Glazebrook. She brings the following passongcrs :—Second Class: Richard Smith. Steerage: Jas. Wothorspoau, Mary Wothcr spoon, James Wotherspoon, John Wothcrspoon, Willie. Wolhorspoon, Henry H.Noyes, Bridgot Joyce, Francis Gribbin, George A. Groen Emma H. Gresi, Lydia E. Groen, Amy a. Green, George A. Green, Arthur W. Groon, Arthur Sulman, James Johnston, Margaret Johnston and child, William Forster, Isabella Forster. Sarah Forster, Maybolla Forstor, James Forstor, John Forster, John T. Cassidy, and Annis Hagerty.

Arrival of the Zealandia.—A Stormy Voyage.

Tho P.M.S.S. Company's steamer Zealandia arrived from San Francisco via Honolulu at 8 o'clock this morning. Captain Webber reports as follows:—Discharged San Francisco pilot at 2 a.m. on January 22nd, and arrived at Hono lulu at 3.30 p.m. on the 28th (making the passage in ii days J3J hours). Left again at 9.40 samo day; crossed the Equator on February 2n4~fjr longitude l«W0 W.; pas^tj^V^espiTof 'l'utuil^ jj f_ io anToinKesth, and sighted Tiri light at 12.45 a.m. on tho 11th; received Auckland pilot at G. 57 a.m. on the 11th. From San I'Vancisco to lat. 31- N. oxporienced light northerly and N.W. winds with fine weather; thenco to Honolulu, moderate to strong N.E. trades wore encountered; thence to Tutuila, variable to fresh north-easterly winds, with squally weather and high confused Bea. On February 6th a very confused sea with variablo >wind was experienced, with thick, threatening B^jnthcr, a gradually inoreasing N.B. wind, and T^jhjj^r high sea, both Increasing rapidly as the 'ivinT?^il!oii to the oa9t, gradually working to WV R^PNiigter fulling from 29'9S to 29-62, at noononS?aS|aflaM»»e wind blew at hurri cano force, witSSßriSpa squalls and very thick weather. Ship undeiNseled fore trysail, main trysail, and ttorm staysail, squalls and sea in creasing in violence. At i p.m. on the 9th the barometer began to rise slowly, and during the uight the win J and- sea still inoreased in vio lence causing the ship to labour very much, bui behaving splondidly. At 5.30 a.m. on Sunday the hurricane was at lte height, with a most dangerous sea running, rendering it unsafo for ship to proceed. Barometor standing at 2971. Hove ship to until noon, when snip's position ivui obtained for the first time sinco Thursday, the 7th. The barometer then gradually rose to 2980, wind and sea moderating considerably.with occasional fleroe rain squalls until 8 p.m. Sunday, when the wind made round to the west. Thence to port hid flno weather. On Saturday, when the storm wag at its height, two of the men wore seriously injured, one falling from tho yard-arm. Passengers (saloon) for Auckland from San Wrwwisco: Miss J. Russell, Miss Elton, C. T. Mann R. B. Jones. From Honolulu: Mrs E. M Parry, son, and two daughters, R. H. llioaos, Messrs Miller and Mann (mail agents). Stewige: Jas. Harvey, John Parkes, W. B. HaVvey, James Arthur, Wm. Baiklr, Daniel BsiMr, BS. I). Bouldor, A. C. Giddlngs, John CronY- wife, and C children, James Medland, vrifc, and 1 children, Miss W. Hodgkins.

PASSENGERS FOR SYDNEY.

The mall steamer resumed her voyage for Sviuiev at noon. She took the following passen gers from this port:—Messrs B. Ladyman, Thoa. Rr jr v. Williamson, F. Williamson, D. Gi,"t G Simras, wife and children, E. W. Kliiidiaxdcn, A. Knox and wife, C. Abwell, and Miss Williamson.

ARRIVAL OF THE ROTOMAHANA.

Tho s s. Rotomahana arrivod from Melbourne and Southern ports at 10/0 a.m to-day. She loft Dunedin at 5.20 p.m. on tho 6th; arrived at Lvttelton at 10 a.m. on tho 7th; loft at 8 p.m. on tho sauio day; arrived at Wellington at 9 a.m. on tho Bth; loft at 7.15 p.m. on the same day; Arrived at at Napier at 9 a.m. on the 9th; left a^ain at 10.40 p.m. on; arrivod at Gisborne at 810 am. on tho 10th; left again at 10.20a.r0., and arrived at Auckland as above. Passengers:— Messrs Dill, Singer, Burns, Wales, Fitzsimmons, j Uouaall, McGregor, Borthwick, Maddison, McKiunou. Mcßrido. Brookes, TJarby, Hurley, Falconer, Amesß, Pringle, Griove, Bartwhistle, Curric, Vaughan, Elliott, Blyth, Andrews, Christie, Barker, Griffiths, Foreman, Meyer, BUvuston, Luth, Lysaoht (2), Mason, Grant, Henilry, Davis, Chombors, Prltchard, Gardiner, Young, PhilUps. Smith, McLean, Neville, Griffith, Mcadamea MoNicol, Fuller and Infant, Flitch, Maddison. Dill, .Kemp, Darby, Jaklns, Hurley and family (2), Blyth Andrews, Griffiths. Andrewß, Foreman, Grant Blair, Chambers, Flatt and 2 children, Weston Good, Morrison, Misses Dill, Smith, Lewis. Hosa, Falconer, Grey, Shaw, Andrews, Good son, Grant, Schultz. Kane. Morrison, Masters Grant, Hamlin, Blyth, Andrews, and 39 in tho Btcerago. ■ -

PORT OF ONEHUNGA.

ARRIVALS. Hanna Mokau, s.s., Dale, from Waitara 'I'nkawino s.s., Jones, from tho South Wanaka, s.s., Neville, from the Bout* Argylo, 5.3., MoArthur, from Hokianga

DEPARTURES.

TnUfttiuna, s.s., Jones, for the Bouth LaKoolh s.s., Baiiey, for Waitara Mary CampbeU, schooner, Brothers, for Grey ■p»>p2m?a 'ketch, Edstron, for Greymouth . WaS;33.7Noville.forthoSouth , •

Tho- Union Co'e. express steamer Takapuna arrived from Southern ports at 2.30 p.m. on SntnrdDV. Passengers: Mesdames Cpawshaw, fffiWßuddie. MesßreGroy Bell, Chap man\ Crawshaw, Mogilvo, Buddie, Butter, Mc- Sj?Je, A. C. Douglas, and 7 in tho steerage. Sne loft again for Southern ports at 5 p.m. with n>,i-oliowinir passengers:—Miss Musgrore, Miss 1" Sewn %. Williamson, Tonks. SfoWte ®j MoVay. Close, Courtney, Ponne fnthtr Williamson, Macbeth, Tod, Dunwoodie, Svine', Mustor Brittan, and 16 steerage.

Tho as Wanaka arrived from Southern ports Ht!;.:0-im. yesterday. Passongors-Mosdames Vuuni. Barlow, Dayis and family, Wright and r- i.lfy Aliases. Cfllemari, Richmond, Bishop, u,^a Wrigiit, jloasrs Barlow. Chapman, Pißgott, Hdwcruiaa' Hiohmond, Edwards, Norris, Newell, South, Butler, Wells, Goosey, limit Colman, and 7 steerage.

ThoNorthern Company's s.s. Argyle arrived from Hoklanga early this morning. Tim s 9. Wanaka returned South at 11.15 a.m. Passengers:—D. B. Nolan, Qolagtern and child, j. Parkeo, J. Harvoy.

Chief Post-office, Auckland.

Mails wiix Olosb as under:— Tnis Day. For Suva, Fiji, aid Samoa, por Penguin, at I p.m. For Tauranga, Ohinomutu, and Opotlkl, per Qlonolg, at i p.m. For Russoll, Kawakawa, Whangaroa, and Mongonui, per lona, at 4.30 p.m. For Gisborne and Napier, per Southern Cross, at 5 p.m. For Whltiangi and Upper Mill, por Rowona, at 5 p.m. For Whnngarci Heads, Komo, Whangarei, and Mangapal, per Waitaki, at 5 p.m. For Thames, per Enterprise, at 5.30 p.m. Tuesday, nth inst. For Walwera, Kawau, Omaha, Matakana, and Warkworth, por Roec Casey, at 10 a.m. For Thames, por Rotomahana, at 2.30 p.m. For Russell and Kawakawa, per Rotomahana, at 4 p.m. For Whangarei Heads, Parua, Waipu, Whan garei, Kama, and Mongapoi, per Macgrcgor «t 4 p.m. Fer Watorford, Tauranga, etc., per Annie Mil bank, at 5 p.m. For Thames, per Anno MilbaxAc. at 5.30 p.m. Wddnkhday, 13th liißt. Per Rlngarooma, as follows :— For Mediterranean Ports and Contiuont of Europo, at noon. For Australian Colonies and United King dom, via Sura and Brlndisi, or Naples, for letters, &c, specially so prepaid and addressed, at 1 p.m. Money Orders, for Australia only, at noon For registered letters and newspapers, at noon. Late letters for Sydney and Melbourne only at 1.20. p.m. a B. BBS, Chief Postmaster. Chief Post-office, Auckland.

Meetings, Entertainments, Etc.

February 11,1884,

Abbott's Opera Houbj—Profosaor Payno's En tertainment, 8 p.m.

Lorne-strcet Hall—Entertainment and Ball in aid of Mr Holllster, 8 p.m.

St. Sepulchre's Mutual Improvement Socioty —Preliminary Meeting of Members, 8 p.m.

PonsonDy Baptist Band of Hope Entertain mont, 7.30 p.m.

Auckland Institute of Architects—Museum Buildings, 7.30 p.m.

Ponsonby Hall-Rohcarsal by Choral Society, 8 p.m.

Parnoll Oddfellows' Hall-Working Men's Aid Society, 7 pan.

Births.

FOX.-On February 8, at VJctorla-strcet West, Auckland, the wife of Charles James Fox of a son. HAIGH.—On Fobrnory 2nd, at Tatora-strcot, tho wife of John Haigh of a son. JONES.-On February 10, at her residence Riohmond Road, Ponaonby, the wife of Joseph IL Jones, Engineer, of a daughter. _..- WHITELAWE.-On February 10. at Customs street West, near Freeman's Bay, the wifo of Mr Whitelawe of twins (daughters).

Marriages.

BALLAJ.TYNE-MORRIN.-On Fobruary 6, at Holy Trinity Church, Gisborne, by tlio Rev. J. Hill. Robert Wallace Stanley Ballantync, of Gisborne, to Anna Maude, eldest daughter of J. C. Morrin. of Auckland. HAULTAIN-CROKER.-On the 9th Fobruary, 1881, at the Holy Trinity Church, North Shore, by the Rev. Joseph Bates, James Fredorlok, third son of Colonel T. M. Haultain, to Amy Maudo de Vero Croker, second daughter of Major Croker, formerly of Auckland. MCDONALD— DANDO.—Ou tho lßt Fobruary, at the Congregational Church, Onohunga, by tho Rev. Honry W. J. Miller, Malcolm John McDonald to Beatrice Phcebo Dundo, niece of Mr S. Dando, Epsom.

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

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1884.

For tho cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For £ho future In the distance, And the good that wo can do.

Only about half of the English mail arrived by the Zealandia this morning. It appoars that a, portion of the mail was put aboard the stoamor Celtic, but owing to an accident to that vessel she had to put back. The mail was then transferred to the Germanic, but she also broke her shaft on the voyage, and had not arrived at New York when the Zealandia" left San Francisco. This will account for any irregularity observed in the advices this month. We give elsewhere a full resumd of the news of the month.

The mail steamer Zealandia, which arrived from San Francisco this morning, ex perienced some very bad weather during the voyage, particulars of which will be found in our shipping column. She brought 24 passengers for Auckland, and 13 saloon and 34 steerage for Sydney. The New Zealand Shipping Company have received the following cable: — " Tongariro arrived Plymouth on Bth inst., thirty-eight days three hours' steaming. Meat in prime condition. lonic left Tene riffe for Wellington on 3rd inst."

The well-known operatic impressai'io, Martin Simonsen, was a through passenger for Sydney by the mail steamer Zealandia, which called here to-day. Mr Simonsen, we observed, was upon crutches. It ap pears that very recently a lady dropped her thimble while in his company. Ho stooped to pick it up, and in so doing strained one of nis legs so badly that he has been unable to walk since without the aid of crutches.

The Chancery Lane assault case was called on at the Police Court this morning, in which Margaret Barstow and Willian Don lan wore charged with committing a violent assault upon a man named Richard James Torpey, A number of witnesses were present, but Torpey, it appeared, was not ablo to give evidence, and the case was ad journed for a few days.

The passage of the steamer Zealandia bo tween San Francisco and this port was an eventful one. A succession of gales was experienced, the vessel's rail at times being eighteen inches under water. On one occa sion, a seaman named Lambert, who ha* Wf f uP}°yed^n rßOme necoaf"iry work aloft, fell from the fore-yard to the hurri cane deck. The man fell head foremost, but fortunately struck the canvas covering and the consequences were thus much less severe than might have been anticipated. His head, however, was severely cut, and he had to be placed under medical care. Another sailor slipped and fell heavily upon the deck, sustaining several slight bruises about the head. Both are progressing favourably towards recovery.

At the Police Court to-day, before Messrs D. B. MacDonneU and E. Isaacs, Justices of the Peace, three persons were punished for drunkenness. Maria Smith was charged under the Vagrant Act with creating a dis turbance in Kybor Pass Road on Saturday morning. Constable Dews and two other witnesses testified to the drunken habite of the "prisoner.1 The 'Jforich sentenced the woman'.to'Mx months'imprisonment withi hard labour;' "' ■''■' '"■' '■' •■ ' ■<'- •■< ■

Nows from tho Springs of tho South Pacific Petroleum Co., Oisbornc, received to-night advises that boring operations wore progressing very satisfactorily. Tho ground keeps firm and reliable, and tho strata through wliich thoy aro passing is now more of a sandy nature, and prospoeta aro decidedly bright.

Mr Percival preached for tlio last time at St. Petor'a Church, L,ako Takapuna, yes tsrday. He is to bo ordained in a fort night, and will then assist the Roy. Mr Walpolo at St. Mary's, Pftrnoll.

Mr Neville Goorgo Barnett, organist of St. Luke's, Christchurch, and who was re cently in this city on a visit, has, wo leans accepted tho position of organist of St. Matthew's Church. Ho will bo a great acquisition to tho musical power of the city, and intends, we understand, to accept pupils. He will enter on his duties about April next.

A sailing race between tho sixtcen-feet open sailing boats Vi«, Ely, and Spray took place on Saturday afternoon. Tho Ely won easily, with tho Vie second.

" Charity" writes that ho hopes tho Hospital management will soon rocoivo the late Mr Costloy's boquest to enablo them extending the accommodation at that building, and prevent the lamentablo sight of poor dying persons being carted about tho streots or rofused admission becauso there is no room for them—and that in a Christian land !

A considerable number of persons attended on the Hospital lawn yesterday afternoon to listen to the musical strains of tho popular Artillory Band, under the direction of Bandmaster Huntor. Tho sacred selections included, "Moot Mo at tho Fountain," "Christian Soldiers," "Tlio Song of tho Angels," Tho Hoavons aro Tolling" (Haydn), and others from great composers.

On Saturday afternoon, at Mount Eden Rango, twenty members of tlio Hobson Rifles competed for a trophy presonted by a lady to tho Company. Captain Dignan was in command, Lieutenants Clifton and Connolly being also present. Tho ranges wero 200, 300, 500, and COO yards, !5 shots each range. Tho prizo was won by Volnntcor W. Jennings, with a ecoro ot 51 point:!. Rango prizes wore also won by Volunteers Stephen, 200 yards; W. Jennings, 300 and (>OO yards; and M. Jonos, COO yards. About ton membors of tho Naval Artillery, under command of Potty Officer F. Smith, also tired same time for choice of representatives at tho New Zealand Ritlo Association ineoting. Tho ranges woro 200, 300, and 500 yards. Potty Ofiicor Smith hoaded tho list with tho good scoro of 52 points.

To tho Editor: Sir,—The meeting in St. James's Hall on Friday evening was not con vened by mo, but by a committoo (of which I am not a member), at whoso request I agreed to act as Chairman.—l am, &c, W. Tiiorne.

At the fortnightly mooting of tho French Literary Society on Saturday evening, Mr GrahamTawhai, yon of Hono Mold Tawhai, M.H.R. for tho Northern Maori District, was unanimously elected to memborship. The Rev. Peter Mason, 15.A., delivored an interesting and well-constructed lecture on "Alfred tho Groat," and an animated dis cussion ensued.

Thero was not sufficient wind to-day fortho scow raco between tho Vixen and tho Re sult, so tho ovont was again postponod.

A very oxclting occiirronco took placo at Northcoto yostorday. Captain Aloxandcr, of tho steamer Devonport, accidentally fell over tho wharf, and having struck a por tion of the woodwork in his doscont, ho fell into tho water almost holploss. A person on tho wharf pushed a ladder towards him, but ho was unablo to got hold of it, and appeared in great danger of drowning until tho McKay brothovs, who had obsorved tho accidont from tho cliff above, camo to tho rescue George McKay and another stripped and swam to Captain Alexander, who was in a very exhausted condition, and they hold him abovo water until their com panions, who had secured a boat, camo to their ossistanco and rescued tho drowning man. Captain Aloxandor waa almost un conscious when brought ashoro, but soon recovered under judicious treatment. Ho had a very narrow escape indosd, nnd great praise is duo to thoso who so pluckily and smartly proceeded to his assistance and (saved his life.

Messrs Cochrano and Son sold to-day tho gold watch, chain, and newspaper files, in tho estate of tho lato W. B. Langbridgo. Tho remains wero of small valuo, and wero sold at low prices,...

Tho box-offico at Lonnox's, Queen-street, opener] fo-day for tho forthcoming season of comic opora by tho Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove Combination. As there in a lively domand for tickets, intending patrons should eeeuro their scats without dolay to save disappointment.

A correspondent signing himself " Quory " asks, apropos of insurance coin panes' risks, do not tho companies con tribute at Christchurch towards tho sup port of the firo brigades? Ho adds :"I presume if they do so it is becauso tho water supply is not sufficient, so that the only way to acquire the companies' assistance, it would appoar, is to havo no supply."

Messrs T. T. Masefield, W. Farquhar, junr., and several other woll.-known Pon sonby residents wero out shark-fishing in tho harbour on Saturday afternoon. Oil" Kauri Point » Jarge fish mado towards the boat, attracted by tho savoury smell of the bait hung over tho side. Thoy made an effort to capture tho voracious monster, but through somo mischance it got away. Speaking of this incident, an obfuscated or purblind contributor to our morning con temporary remarks :—" Tho men in tho boat, apparently Maoris, must havo been much chagrined at thoir ilMuck. There were provisions for a month in that shark if they had captured him." Rathor rough on tho Ponsonuy residents !

A number of cricket matches wero in progress on tho Domain Cricket Ground on Saturday afternoon, but prossuro on our space caused by mail news, compels us to hold over our report of tho various gamo.°, Auckland and West End continued thoir match, which concluded in favour of tho former by eleven runs on tho result of tho first innings. Auckland made 175 on tho previous Saturday, and West End now put together 164, Arneil, 47, and Reid, 42, being tho top scorara. Auckland had lost two-wickets for 48whenstumps weredrawn. Gordon defeated Our Boys by 28 runs, whilo the Grammar School won their match against Eden by 38. The North Shore and Otahuhu match was resumed, and resulted in a win for North Shore by 53 runs on the first innings. Tho North Shore continued their innings, and wero all disposed of for the good score of 129. Otanuhu started their second innings, and had 6 wickets down for 52 runs, when time was called, The othor matches concluded as follows: —Standard dofoated Avondalo by 13 runs, Ponsonby was beaten by Alpha by seven wickets and some runs, Alma defoatod Surrey Hills by 54 runs on the first innings, Eton defeated Albion by 26, Holland's employe's defeated tho Gas works by 8, Parngll proved victorious over "Herald ' 34, while tho "Herald's" second also sustained a dofeat at the hands of Newton Eaet School by fivo wickets. The following matches were drawn:— West End second and third elevens, the former getting GO for the loss of three wickets, and the latter making 81. ExceUior v. United Second, tho former making 85 and the latter losing 8 wickets for 41. National v. Our Boys, tho formor making 45 runs for eight wickots, and Our Boys 53.

A grand complimentary concert, vocal and instrumental, ydll bo tendorod to tho Artillery Band funa to-morrow (Tuesday) evening, in tho Thoatro Royal, by tho Waito mata Minstrels. Tho programme ia spocially interesting : tho orchestra will include no loss than ten instruments, pianoforte, violins, fiutos, cornet, and violoncello Mossrsllanncloinßros., and Messrs Bartloy Bros., will give their musical assistance.

The employees of thp Golden Crown Boot Factory will give a return picnic to the employers on Thursday next, tho 14th, at Bt. Holler's Bay, starting from Queen - street wharf at 10 o'clock a.m. by the p.s. Tongariro.

The Ratepayers Provisional Committee will meet this evening in tho office of Mr Win. Thorne, Vulcan Lane, for the purpose of pre paring rules, otc., to bo submitted at a future meeting of ratepayers gonerally.

The congregation and choir of the Beres ford-street Church will tako a moonlight water concort to-morrow evening on board tho p.s. Victoria, leaving the whart at 8 o'clock. The proceeds will bo given to the now organ fund. Mr J. P. Hopton will conduct tho choir.

Perambulators and carpets, reversiblo bicycle wheel and other kinds ofporambulators J n™ B Si? ned,. f° m P 1 t0 £7- Now designs in v?™f°}i ond tapestry carpets. Furrtish your r?£^i'S? Bh?H, t, from, Garlick ai"i CranweU'B City Hall Furnishing Warehouse, Queen-street. mmi ofll?e^bfrLof0 fll?e^ bf rL of tl)e Auckand Club are SMce^toaft g** —tin, SEWING MACHINES for ever v bodv D. S. Chambers, 70, Queen-street -[aV t T ~ Bicycles, unequalled for finish, price and We are requested to convey the thanks of all connected with the Hospital to the ArtU tery Band, and to wish thorn a full house on Tuesday evening.^fADVT.J v Tho annual general meeting of the members of jjhe Aueklaud Club will toko placo tomorrow (Tuesday); February 12th, at Ipfm. —W. Flood, Secretary.—[Advt,]

ARRIVAL OR THE P.M.S.S. ZEALANDIA WITH THE. English and American Mails, VIA SAN FRANCISCO.

ANttLO-L'OLONIAL SUMMARY.

[from mm owncqkhksi'oxdent.]

London, January 3,

A Disagreeable Christmas.

A chill, cheerless, clay-cold, coffin-pro moter's Christmas has been followed by a damp, dirty, drizzly, depressing, and dolorous New Year. Tlio holidays will not bo over till Monday, and consequently most of our Anglo-Colonial friends aro etill away. The Agont-Gonoral sticks to tlio metropolis, but Sir John Hall nnd \m family aro enjoying a good timo sleighing and skating in North Germany, and Sir Julius and Lady Vogol lmvo gono to stay in Cornwall for a fow weoks. I find I was mistaken whon I told you tlio Marquis of Bute and his party wero outward passen gers by tho steamer Oriont last month. They engaged cabins, and their names ap peared in tho passongor list, but at the last moment a relatives died, and tho Marquis was obliged to postpono tho whole busi ness. Tho Failure- of tho Brogdons. Tlio first tit-bit of spicy intelligence that greeted Anglo-Colonials when they opened thoir papers on Now Year's morning was tho Rimouncemont of tho bankruptcy of your old friends and contractors, tlio lirogdens, who have dono credit to their reputation for conducting mammoth undertakings by failing for tho leviathan sum total of threo quarters of a million Btorling. Tho assots aro rumoured to bo small, a fact which no ono appears to bo specially surprisod at. I see Aloxanderßrogdon describes himsolf as of Wellington, Now Zealand. This gigantic bankruptcy will necessarily affect other houses in tho trado very soriously, and "Money" prophesies a series of breakdowns- Things aro also looking black in tho shipbuilding business. On tho 31st of December John Elder and Company, tho famous Clydo house, wero obliged to turn oft" two thousand men. In tho city I learn that tho Brogdens failuro "is attributed to tho fact of tho numerous actions which thoy brought against tho Govornmont of Now Zealand going against thorn. Thoir affairs havo been in tlio hands of trustees for somo timo past. No New Zealandors aro mentioned as creditors; in fact, thoso who ought to know declare tho colony will not suffer in any way. Tho Bank of Now Zealand, which usod todo a good deal of busi ness for Brogdons oneo upon a timo, has had no transactions with thorn for sovoral yoara. Gonoral Notes. Elsewhero will bo found a full account of tho consecration of tho Bishop of Sydney and l'rimato of Australia at Westminster Abboy, on Now Year's morning. I was not ablo to bo present, but a N.S.W. friend who wont sayn tho ceremony was most iin prossivo and tho Abboy crowded. Ho noticed a fow Anglo-Colonials, but tho majority of guests seomod to lie eithor friends 01 Dr. Barry or pupils from King's College. A Mr Wm. Britton, who lived many years at llawko's Bay, Now Zoaland, is being urgently advertised for in tho "Times " "agony " column.

At tho annual mooting of tho Kapanga Goldmining Company tho other day, it was resolved not to wind the Company up, but to give tho mine another chance by the issue of 85,000 shares of XI oach, which aro to bo put down as having had 17s (id paid on them, tlio remaining 2s Gd to bo called up by degrees. AMr John Hanna, who was for somo time connocted with a gymnasium in Aberdeen, has, it is said, been appointed gymnastic in structor to tho High Schools and other educational establishments in Dunodin.

Tho sales of frozen mutton dining tho holidays havo naturally bcon very email; in /act, baroly 100 carcases ox British Qucon havo changed hands during the fort night. Prices, however, continue to harden, tho last wholesulo quotatien being GJd a pound.

Tho chilled butter and cheese ex British Queen has not been sold yet. It seems much tho samo in quality as tlio Doric's, and will doubtless realiso similar rates. I fear, though, thoso ratea may not satisfy tho exporters. Mr Y. Borton and tho Missos Borton wero through passengers by tho Orient liner Lusitania to Port Chalmers on tho 27th of December, and by tlio same steamer Dr. \V. Foil returned to Wellington, and Mr W. B. Caccia and Mr V. W, B. Pochin wero booked for Napier, N.Z. ■ A number of notable Anglo-Colonials aro going to return to your part of tho world by tho P. and O. s.s. Mirzaporo on .January 17th. Amongst others tho passenger list includes Sir William and Lady Maiming and family, Sir Charles and Lady Lilloy, the Archdeacon of Nowcastle, Captain Wil son and Mr Porter. Tho Roy. Mr Tuant is booked lav Auckland by this steamer.

Tho new Bishop of Sydiioy, who will be accompanied by Mrs Barry and two sons, does not leave till tho P. and O. steamer of February 14th. Mr Chattorton and Miss Dale sail to day per Sutlej for Nelson, via Melbourne. Tho Roy. Mr and Mrs Laishloy, who havo been abroad this last fow weeks, roturn to Auckland (via Sydnoy) by tho s.s. Ballarat on January 31st. Mr Me- Clarcn will bo a paswongor to Dunodin by the Mino boat.

Tho actress, Cjonovicvo Ward, was not allowed to leave England for her colonial tour without somo tokens of rogard. On her arrival at tho Docks Station, she found tlio platform crowded with frionds, who had cotno from far and near to wish hor God speed,. Tho president of tho P. and O. Company sont his secretary to accompany hor on board tho Btoamer and introduce hor to tho captain and officers, who put a pri vate cabin at hor disposal. Passing Shoo buryness, tho veseol was saluted with guns fired in hor honour. Miss Ward intends to publish a volume of colonial pxperionces on her roturn.

Messrs William Ashby & Co., tho N. Z. brokers' and passengers' agents, have issued a circular to intending emigrants which concludes with tho following pithy little bit of advice ;—''Clerks, and persons of this class, wo would implore not to go to Now Zealand, as thoy aro already super abundant, but men who can and will work with thoir hands, and women who can make themsolvos gonorally useful in household work will find tho colony a perfect paradiso."

Mrs Ashby, wife of Captain William Ashby, sonior imrtnorin thoabove firm,auda lady who resided many years in Auckland, presented her husband with a welcome Christmas-box in the ehapo of a lovely little daughter on December 20th. Mother and child doing well. Mr Vesey Stewart does not, after all, return to tho colony just yet. He lent Messrs Shaw, Savill & Co such offectivo aid in securing passongers for tho Northumber land that thoy havo hold ont inducements to him to stay until two more vessels are despatched. The liovegrovp Family. The young man who took up tho ease of Lovegrove (tho claimant to the Derwent water estates, about whom I told you a long story some mails back) has absolutely collected £70 for the family, and expects to raiso £120, so that after all tho Waikato folk will probably have an opportunity of welcoming thoir old friends back andsetting " dear Georgo "on his legs again. If, how over, thero should not be enough money subscribed to pay passages to Auckland, the Lovegrove's will go out cheaply as emi grants to Queensland. The conduct of tho young man who has exerted himself so effectively for the luckless glazier is simply beyond praise. Lovogrove's only claim on him was that coming home on board an Orient steamer he promisod the youth the stewardship of his mythical Dorwontwater estates. Ono feols inclined to cay with Falstaff— "What, all this gratitude for a ha'porthofsaok !"

GENERAL SUMMARY.

[Dates.From Europe to January 20tii.]

The steamahip Zoalandia, tailing for Sydney January 21st, was detained at San Francisco three days over advertised time of departure, owing to tho breaking-down of tho Atlantic steamer Germanic, carrying English mails.

A despatch from London, January 19th, says the British Post Office, after Septem ber Ist, 1884, will forward all mails for America by the fastest steamer, under a monthly contract,- chiefly by way of Queenstown. The mails are to be for warded, if an agreement is reached,,by tho

Southampton mid-weekly font steamers, which leave there at midnight on Thurs days, connecting from London. Tlio premises of J. W. Silver & Co., colonial morchants, in Sun Court, G7 Corn hill, London, woro destroyed by tiro on the morning of January 17th.

Tho reformatory shipClarenco was burned in tho River Mersey on January Kith. All hands were saved.

Tlio jury, in tlio caso of William Wolff, on trial in London for unlawful possession of explosives, disagreed on sthe 19th and woro discharged. Mail advices received in London from China say that several Chineso bankers havo committed suicide owing to the un settled political situation, and the deplorable state of the money market. Miss Hogarth, tho surviving executrix of Charles Dickens, has taken steps to prevent tho publication in England of tho novolist'H letters to his solicitor, on tho ground that thoy were never intended for tho public. Lord Lytton's biography of his father meets with no sale in England, because, it is said, the price is too high and the work too bulky. William Henry White, third Earl of Bautz, died on January 14th, aged 83. Tho American Minister, Mr Jas. Russell Lowoll, has accopted tho presidency of tho Birmingham and Midland Institute. Schuyler, the explorer of equatorial Africa, is reported dead. Tho marriage of Prince Louis of Batten burg with ono of Quoon Victoria's grand daughters is fixed for April 15th. Lord Mayo, who latoly explored tho Congo, is on his way to exploro Patagonia and Tiorra dol Fuego. The family estates of tho celebrated sport ing baronet, Sir John Astloy, at Norwich, England, aro ollbrod for sale. Qucon Victoria is about to present a por trait of horsclf, painted by Princess Bcatrico, to tho National Portrait Gal lory. A sensation has boon caused by tho be quest of £500,000, made by a wealthy Lon don lady to Popo Loo XIII. Rumours of Fenian plots aro heard in London on ovory hand. A cablegram of January 13 says that how or whoro they originate cannot bo ascertained; but it is cortain that more than usual credence is given to the latest ones. Redoubled vigi lanco is now being exercised at Windsor Castlo, and similar care is bning taken at tho homo of Mr Gladstone. Tho Govorn mont Buildings aro all guarded very closely. The Catholics of England havo com ploted arrangements (says a despatch of January 12) to begin the oroction of a cathedral in Westminster, to cost over ±"500,000, and to bo erected within a stone's throw of Victoria Station. Tho design, as approved, is similar to tho Votivo Ktrche, Vienna.

Secrotary Howard, of tho Prisoners' Aid Association, London, ha 3 published a criti cism of tho Amorlcan prison system, which, ho asserts, increases crimo by overfeeding and rolaxed discipline. These defeat the purpose of imprisonment. Charles Snntloy, tho woll-known English baritone, was rocontly married to a wealthy Amorican woman in Vienna.

In conaoquonco of tho renewal of throats by tho dynamiters, an additional police guard was placod at tho Pont-ollico and othor public buildings in Glasgow on January 6th. Gilbert and Sullivan's now opera, "The Priucoss Ida," producod in London on January Cth, was an instantaneous suc cess.

A portion of tho bridgo on tho railway botween Wigan and Preston collapsed on January sth, killing seven workmen and injuring many others. A now book by Quoon Victoria, entitled " Moro Leaves from a Journal of Lifo in the Highlands from 1802 to 1882," is announced. Copios have already been presonted to a fow privileged persons. The book is a sort of tribute to tho late John Brown, giving tho reason of his riso in tho Royal favour. The U.S. Ministor, Mr James R. Lowoll, retired on the 2nd inst. from the rectorship of St. Androw's University, to which he was recently elected. He stated as the causo that his dutios as rector and the domands of his diplomatic condition would conflict.

Dart and Rogers, morchants of Liverpool, ■ failed on January Bth. Liab:iii:es,£iOd,ooo Honry George, an Anglo-American, who sooms to bo tho rocognised oiponent of the anti-monopoly movement, and tho lead ing advocato of oqual rights iv the soil, loctured at St. Jamos's Hall, London, on January 9th on " Progress and Povorty." Henry Labouchore, M.P., prosided, and Michael Davitt, Honry Broadhurst, M.P., and tho Roy. Stewart Head lam worb on tho platform. In the course of his lecturo, George said tho struggle for equal rights in land must come in England, and was sure to come in America. It is said tho Duke of Argyll in tends to write n roply to George's book, " Progress and Povorty." Austin's laco factory, at Long Eaton, near Nottingham, was burned on tho Bth, Los?, 1/100,000. General " Chinese " Gordon goes to the Congo about tho Ist of February, in tho in terest of Belgium, principally to suppress tho slavo trade in tho Soudanese supply district. Ho retains h(s commission in the British army.

France.

It is denied that tho Rothchllds have offered to buy tlio Government railways. A company will be formed for tho purpose* of acquiring thsm. A Bayonno telegram, January 2nd, states that a revolutionary movement is oxpocted to occur on tho Franco-Spanish frontier, and tho prefects nro warned to take pro cautions.

Marquja do Rays, found guilty in a Paris Court of falsoly inducing many people to subscribe to on alleged enterprise for tho colonisation of tho island of tort Breton, in tho South Soas, and with misappropriat ing tho funds, was condemnod, on January 2nd, to four years' imprisonment. A Paris despatch of January 10th says tho British Cabinet is divided on the Egyptian question. M. Forry thinks tho present a good timo for Franco to regain hor position in Egypt, while somo of his col loaguos deprocato any actini in tho matter. M. Lo Royer has boon re-olected Presi dont of tho Fronch Senate,

A mooting of 4,000 parsons, including sovoral women, took place in Paris on Janu ary 13. Violent speeches wore doliverod, favouring an armed revolution as the only means or ending the stagnation of trade. Tho delegates present from tho Working Moa'a Associations, howovor, adopted a more moderate tono, expressing the belief that an appeal to the Chambers would mitigato tho crisis. The meeting separated quietly. 150,000 aro out of employment in Paris.

Tho grand mass, to bo hold at tho Madelaiue, Paris, January '21st (tho anni vorsary of the death of Louis XIV.), was looked forwaul to as tho occasion of a Royalist demonstration. A large crowd of Royalists assembled at tho railway depot on tho 11th, when the Count do Paris left for Madrid, and handed him an address in tho name of tho Royalist League. Cries of "Vivo le Comto do Paris" and "Vivolo Roi" wero raised. Soveral porsons were arrested, Tho Count went to Madrid on tho invitation of King Alfonso. Tho "Figaro" of January 12 puts the number of suicides in Paris for tho year ISS3 at 4,000. Ifc says tho number is un oxampled, and accounts for the increaso by " the pace at which we live."

Threatened Revolution in Spain.

A cable special from Madrid, January S, says the rupturo between tho Liberal factions is comploto, and tho oountry is waiting to soo whom King Alfonso will call to power. Great uneasiness prevails, The army is suspooted of preparing for yovolt, and the funds are falling. The language of tho Republican, and even of tho Ministerial press is hostile to the King. In tho Cortes, on the Bth. Colonol Portu ondo, Republican, doclared that, though tho Republicans approved tho military reforms, they did not support the monarchy. Groat tumult followed, and the Promier, amid cheering, obsorved that an officer who had taken the oath of allegianoe to the King could not, as a deputy, attack the monarchy in tho Cortes.

A cable despatch from London, January 13, says reports from the Spanish Parlia ment show that it has been turned into a bear garden, and that the patched-up alliance with the various Liberal groups is broken. The War Minister's proposal of increased pay to officers of the army is suspected as forecasting a coup d'etat. Several Republican refugees have dis appeared from their plaoos of retreat, and the soldiers in many garrisons have been kopt under arms at night, Nobody seems to Know why, but tho iropreoslon is general that Alfonso will soon have to fight tor his crown.

The Pope Threatened by Fenians.

The "London Post's" Rome corres. pondont telegraphs, January 3, that the Pope's secretary, Monsiguor Bocoalli, opened a letter from America addressed to Leo XIII. ■ containing Fenian threats. Should the Pope continue supporting England against the national oiiubo in Ireland, the letter states the protection which the Italian Government gives the Popo, who is now the only sovereign safe

from dynamite, will bo of no avail. Tho Pope is warned these are priests ho is bound to receive, who will obtain access to his preeonco to sustain tho causo of the Irish against oppression.

The Russian Nihiliets.—Fearful Outrages.

M. Tolßtoi, Minister of the Interior, re ceived a letter on January 8, stating that he had been sentenced to death by the Nihilists. The letter also intimated the speedy murder of the Chief Public Prosecu tor, M. Dofreskansky. The latest version of tho accident to tho Czar on Decomber 17, while returning from a shooting excursion to Balchina Palaco in Austria, is to the effect that he was accom panied by his suite in eight sledges with a number of servants. Although darkness was coming on, tho party noticed ahead six men, apparently peasants. The Czar's aides drove forward and ordered the men to clear tho way. The men saluted tho officers and appeared to obey orders, but whon tho Czar's sledge came on a level with them they suddenly wheeled round and fired at him thrice, and two of them ran towards tho sledgo. The hor.ses attached becamo frightoned, and galloped some hundred paces, when tho Czar was thrown out of tho sledgo. A bullet lodged in tho Czar's shoulder, but it was not a dangerous wound. Tho Czar's followers immediately mounted slodge horses and followed the assassins, who escaped to a neighbouring wood. Owing to tho depth of snow, pursuit was fruitless. Ono of tho pursuing otlicorH von turod too far and did not return. Tho "Telegraph" thinks the attack was an attempt tooxecuto the sentence of death re cently passed upon tho Czar by the Nihilists.

Lieutenant Sudeilun was murdered at Sd Petersburg on December 31st., by tho Nihilists. He was decoyed into one of their sccrot mooting places, tortured for two hours to compel divulgonce of somo polico scouts, and when ho did at last give them up, and they woro verified as correct, ho was stabbed to death as a measure of safety to tho conspirators. Tho murder is attributed to tho instrumentality of Mmo. Walkonstein, sister of the lady who shared in all tho attempts against the lato Czar, and who was finally hanged. A second account says tho Colonel was a tall and powerful man, and that to judge from tho broken furniture and debris in the room, ho did not dio without a desperate struggle. Thirty-soven students woro arrested on tho 9th for complicity in tho murder. Sudeikin's nephew, with him at the time, was severely wounded, and died on the 17th without re covering consciousness. The assassination had a most depressing effect on tho Czar, who was on the point of making constitu tional concessions, but it is now said he has firmly resolved on boing more stringent than over. Ho sent for Count Tolstoi, Minister of the Interior, and violently re proached him fer his lack of energy and in capacity ; M. Tolstoi thereupon resigned. A German Court Scandal. Lokdox, January 10.—Court circles in Berlin are excited by a scandal, the alleged culprit being no less a personage than Princo Frederick Charles Nicholas, nophow of the Emperor, and one of the most dis tinguished generals of the Franco-Prussian war. His wife, tho Princess Maria Ann, daughter of Duko Leopold Frederick of Anhalt, recently discovered what she con siders conclusive evidence of tho Prince's unfaithfulness. Tho female in the case is a lady who iB prominent in tho court of tho Empress Augusta, but whose name has not been allowed to bo mentioned publicly. It is almost cortain that tho Princo's offenco, if ho has been an offender, is a thing of tho past, and that tho liason was ended sevoral years ago. The Princess confronted him with proofs of his guilt, and a tcrriblo scene resulted. The upshot of tho row was that Frederick Charles refused to oomply with the demand of tho Princess that ho should refuse to speak to tho lady in question, and that tho Princess threatened to prosecute him for divorco in the public courts. The Princo has submitted tho question to the Emperor, and agreed to abide by Jus deci sion as head of tho Hohenzollern family. Tho Emperor haß issued an order in wb>"h ho decidos that a suit for diveiw may bo arranged after duo provision has been made to ptr>*eet theiioritago rights of the Prin cess and her offspring. France and China. A private letter from a gentleman residing in Cnnton, dated December sth, was published in New York on January 10th. It is to tho effect that China is determined to fight, and war con only be avoided by Franco backing clear down to tho ground. France has mode an awful muddlo of tho wliolo affair. Had she acted with force at first, Tonquin would havo been hers, and ovcrytliing would now bo quiet. Tho idea of occupying the country with a thousand or two of troops is too absurd for sorious contemplation ; but that is just what Franco attempted. France, in her delay anil want of resolution, led China to beliovo that fear kept her back, nnd this idea took such hold on China's mind that she will not bo satis fied with anything short of a complete surrondor of tho position which France has assumed in Tonquin, Troops are pouring I in from tho north, and are being raised here. An intelligent Chinaman, who returned to Portland, Oregon, on January 16th, from a visit to China, gives a very different ver sion of tho Btorming of Sontay to that published by the French. He acknowledges that about 3,000 Chineso wero killed, but declares tho invading force of the French was almost totally annihilated. Tho Chinese, ho said, had mined tho ground, and then lured tho Fronch over the minos, with most disastrous results. Ho is confi dent the French will have tho " walk over" at Baoninh they expeot, An attach^ of the Frenoh legation in London, being interviewed on January 19, said that Franco is determined to tako Bacninh at all cost. Whon that is accom plished, aho would bp ready to accent tho mediation of England and tho United States. A Destructive Storm- Conoy Island, of lato years tho great pleasure resort of tho middle classes ofNew York, was almost completely inundated by tho sea in a torrifio galo- on January 9th, and from $500,000 to 51.000,000 of pro perty was swept away. The marine railway botwoon Manhattan and Brighton waa entirely destroyed, and hundreds of foot of the now iron pier demolished. Tho Brighton Bench Hotel was demolished, and all the bath-houses went to sen. At Atlantic city, Now Jersey, the galo raged to such an extent and the tide rose so high that boarding-houses, stores, dwellings, bath houses, and other buildings were carried off ocean ward. Wilkosbarre, Pa., Portland, Ma., and Portsmouth, N.H., also felt the fury of the storm ; but tho coro of it was in New York bay and harbour, where tho greatest mischief vas dono. It is sup posed Coney Island will have to be abandoned as a pleasure placo. This will bo a mis fortune for tho populaco of Now York.

A Convent Burned.—Twenty-seven Lives Lost.

The Convent of tho Sisters of Notre Dame, at Belleville, Illinois, was burned at eleven o'clock on the night of January Cth, involving a great loss of life and a loss in property of from IOO.OOOdoIs. to 150,000d015. Five nuns jumped from a fifth-story window, and wore killed—one instantly. Tho fire was one of the most destructive to life and property thatßellovillo has ever experienced. When tho ruins had sufficiently cooled, volunteers went to work to bring out the bodies, and a terriblo sight was rovoalod. At timos tho searchors would find two or three charred masses huddled closely togothor, Beomingly seeking protection against tho flames. Tho deaths numbered twenty-seven, of which twonty-two were pupils and five sisters. Among tho latter was tho Sister Superior. The bodies were all near each other, and tho Sister Superior's body seemed to bo tho centre of a ghastly circlo of black remains. The work of ex humation was awful, and moro than once stopped because of the sickening sensations that overcame the workmen. The Convent was a favourite school, and patronised by Catholic families, pupils being sent there from all parts of tho country.

Railway Train on Fire-Three Women Burned to Death.

Bradford, Pa., January 15th —A stream of waste oil, flowing from a tank across tho Bradford, Bordell, and Kingua Railroad, caught fire this morning. The passenger train .from Wellsville for Brad ford ran into it, and the train was im mediately enveloped in flamos, The track for a distance of fully one hundred yards was oovered with oil. It is believed that gas, coming in oontact with the firo-box of the engine, exploded, firing the oil whioh rapidly spread and enveloped the doomed train in an instant in a mass of flames. So intense was the heat that tho windows cracked and fell in. In less time than it takes to writs it the passenger coach and baggage car were converted into a seething-, hissing moss of fire. The coach was filled. There was a rush for the door, but the heat was so intense that the panicstrioken passengers were driven back and forced to jump through the windows to the landing in the snow. A relief train with surgeons and cots was despatched to tho sceno. Upon arrival, a terrible sight presented itself.

The passenger coach and baggage-car wore smoking ruins. The engine fay on its back, having turned a complete somersault. It is definitely known that only three persons (women) were burned to death. Tho dead aro Mrs L. C. Fair, of Kingua Junction, who was burned beyond recognition ; Mrs Fair, a young woman who had only been married two years, her husband escaping by jump ing through the window ; Miss Katie Morans, of Aliens, N. V., a mail station near Aikan. The latter was burned almost to a crisp. Miss Morans was found hanging outside tho coach, grasping the window sill. Tho other dead woman has not been identified. Thirteen other persons were severely burned, and a number will die.

General Gordon's Mission to the Soudan.

The London "Times" of January 20th, says :—" General ("Chinese ") Gordon goes straight to Suakim via tho Canal. He will meet Baring, the British Consul-General, at Suez, and come to an agreement in regard to the co-operation of English authorities in Egypt so far as may be necessary. Moussa, the Chief of tho Hadendowa tribe, whoso sons General Gordon saved from death, to which they had been condemned by tho Egyptian officials for making raids, will bo summoned to Souakim,[and General Gordon will go with his escort to Khartoum, where he will assemble tho heads of the tribes and announce that he has como on behalf of England to restore their liberty and remove the adventurers who have been a curse to the country. He will also inform the chiefs that tho slavo trade must cease. So soon as he has linished his task in the Soudan, he will go to the Congo country and deal with tho slave trade ot its head-quarters. General Gordon expects to be five months in the Soudan. The King of tho Belgians has asked tine English Government to send him English officers to act in General Gor don's place in tho Congo country until General Gordon is ready to fulfil his en gagement. A despatch from Khartoum, January 18, says it is reported that a number of der vishes here have summoned the people to join El Mahdi, and a great army is ex pected in ten days. English sovereigns, recently popular in bazars, aro now refused or only taken at a discount. This is regarded as ominous. The bearing of tho people has been totally changed, and some very strong influence is at work. Caiuo, January 20.—Khartoum still remains open to Cairo. The appointment of Chinese Gordon is generally welcomed, and, it is said, receives the cordial sanction of tho Government.

AMERICAN SUMMARY.

San Francisco, January 21. The failure of William H. Guion, late of the firm of Williams and Guion, of New York, was announced on the 19th. The liabilities are said to bo $2,000,000. Guion will be known by his connection with tho line of steamships bearing his name.

The Redmonds, John E. and William, were announced to speak on Irish affairs in Chicago on January 29th. Matthew Arnold lectured in Chicago qn January 20th. He expressed his surpriso at Americans flocking to cities and seeking an education fitting them only for clerical labour.

The live-stock dealers of the United States presented a petition to Congress on January 15th asking for legislation to pro tect their interests, and that means be pro vided for the extinction of tho disease pleuro-pneumonia. This, they say, can only be done by tho slaughter of all in fected cattle at an estimated expense of 1,500,000d018. The petition also asks that a rigid inspection be mado of all meat pro ducts exported, so that there can be no ex cuho for their exclusion from the European markets.

A curious complication, growing out of the O'Donnoll case, threatens to cut short the political career of a prominent politician named Hewitt, and a candidate for the Pro sirinncy. Hewitt, catering for the Irish in fluence, professed great interest in O'Don nell, and introduced a resolution in Con gress asking President Arthur to obtain a stay of his execution. Now it ia charged that he immediately afterwards called on the British Minister, Mr West, apologised for his action in the matter, and told him the resolution was only "buncombe," in tended to satisfy Irish-American clamour. Mr We*it telegraphed to the London "Times" correspondent at Philadelphia, asking him to cable to his paper Hewitt's remarks, that the resolution was "bun combo," and no attention should be paid to it, but that the Government should execute O'Donnoll according to programme. It was through the "Times " that the story of Hewitt's visit to the Minister got out. Hewitt denies the impeachment in the main ; but still the- affair is widely talked about, and has injured him so much politi cally that it may result in his retiring from Congress. Charles Delmonieo, the celebrated New York caterer, came to his death on January 14thunder distressing circumstances. Being ill, and partially out of his mind, he escaped from his guardians, wandered into New Jersey, and was found on the morning of the day named between Orange and Mount Clair, lying under a troo frofcen stiff. The East River, between New York and Brooklyn, was bridged by ice on the 13th, the first time since 1875. The Mormon leaders are becoming so bold that in their Tabernacle sermons at Salt Lake they openly defy the United States Government. On Sunday, the 13th, Apostle Teasdalo impressed upon his hearerg the necessity of plural marriage, saying that the Church could not exist without it. The streets of Boston, Mass,, a city that has enjoyed the reputation of being the best municipally governed in the United States, have become unsafe by reason of bold robberies and brutal assaults on re spectablo oitizens, A proposition was introduced into Con gress, January 9, backed chiefly by Western sentiment, to excludo German and French products from the United States, in retalia* tion for tho hostility of these Governments to tho American hog. This policy is strongly favoured by California wine growers. In this connection tho news is to tho effect that tho tariff reformers among the Democratic members ot Congress, who made Carlislo speaker on tho question of a reduction in dotiqs, are weakening, and tho indications are that they will abandon the position altogether. The large shipping house of Waterman and Co., San Francisco, fuiled January 7, for §150,000. High charters and low priee^of wheat tho oause. Many failures of large flour and grain merchants had also occurred in New York from the same cause.

Dr. Edward Lasker, the ominent German, died in New York, suddenly, on Jan. 5. He was loader of the National Liberal party in the German Parliament, and was in tho United States on invitation from Villard, to attend tho opening of tho Northern Pacific Kailroad. His body was taken to Berlin for interment.

The organ of the American Iron and Steel Association stated, on Dec. 22, that prices are about steady, and owing to the re striction in production lately, there will bo no further depression. The labouring classes of the country realise the change in the con dition of trado, and appreciate it. Wages are not destined in proportion to fall in prices. At the present price of steel rails the consumption of iron and steel will about equal tlie outputs. Tho American coal miners in Pennsylvania have commenced war against tho Hungarian immigrants brought over to work in the coal districts of that stato. Trouble is anticipated. An open-air mass mooting, under tho auspices of tho organisation known as the " Army of the People," was held in Brooklyn, Now York, in Janu ary. Tho objects are the election of a President and a Vice-President of the United States by a direct voto of the people, free postago, Government telegraph, tax on all incomes over §10,000, unlimited coinage of gold and silver, protection against mono polies, and other radical changes. Matthew Arnold has expressed himself as much gratified by the attendance on his lectures in all the American cities ho visited, excepting Baltimore. Ho had found, he said to a reporter, many groups of cultured people, but he was afraid they were not of the class that misjht bo termed average Americans. Rose Horan, formerly lady's maid to lady Mandevillo, lias begun suit in a New York Court to recover §20,000 damages for false arrest and imprisonment at the instance of Lady Mandoville, who charged tho maid with larceny. Lady Mandeville is an American woman married to an Englishman of title.

The estimated reduction for December of the Public Debt of the United States is 812,000,000.

J. E. Redmond, M.P., arrived in San Francisco by the s.s. Zealandia on Decem ber 31, and has delivered several lectures there on Irish affairs. He was warmly re ceived by the Irish Americans. Mr Ked mond is en route to Europe. The "New York World," of January! says :-" During 1883, not one American vessel cleared from the port of New York for Europo laden with grain. During the year there wore exported from New York in 491 vessels, 21,545,000 bushels of wheat' 20,222,608 bushels of c0rn,5,052,043 bushels

of ryo, and 1,474,300 bushels of oats. Tho lowest amount of freight-money paid for the transportation of this grain was at least §4,000,000, not ono dollar boing recoived by American ship owners."

The work of recovering £1,000,000 in treasure, supposed to hare been lost in tho wreck of the British frigate Hussar in the bottom of East River, New York, just below Fort Morris, has been commenced. The vessel was wrecked in 1780, while on the way to Norwich, Conn., and the money was for the payment of the British troops. The Hussar had also seventy American prisoners chained to her gun-decks. The company engaged in the work retain 90 per cent of their findings, tho U.S. Government 10 per cent.

Frederick do Belleville, the actor, known in Australia, was divorced from his wife in New York, January sth. Tho lady is a native of Melbourne, where the parties were married.

The Marquis of Lansdowno, Govornor- General of Canada, and lady, visited Chicago, January Bth. The special train in which he travelled was strongly guarded, owing to threats made by Fenian dynamiters, and, on arrival in Chicago, he was met at the depot by one hundred Volunteers, who escorted him wherever he went during his stay. Captain Eads, builder of the jetties at the mouth of tho Mississippi River, left for London on January 7th, to interest English capitalists in his project to build & ship railway across the Isthmus of Tohuantepcc. This enterprise is said to bo regarded with more favour in London than De Lesseps's Panama scheme.

South and Central America, Mexico, and the West Indies.

Tho Mexican Government announces that no arrangement exists for the conversion of the Mexican indebtedness in England.

The Argentine Government ie about to issue bonds for §4,000,000 to advance public instruction in tho provinces, and for build ing 300 school-houses. Yellow fever has nearly disappeared from Havana.

A despatch from Buenos Ayres, Dec. 23, says that Mr Callan, a member of the British Parliament, was at that place, and it is believed that his object is to introduce Irish colonisation into the Argentine Re public. The Mexicans have refused to accept ths new nickel coinage on account oi debase ment. Their issue led to a riot, and Presi dentGonzales was pelted with the coin in the public streets. The Municipal Council of the city of Mexico is, however, opening stores far the sale of prime necessities for nickels, and the President has ordered a strict en forcement of tho nickel law.

The latest news from Panama says that men continue to arrive by every vessel for the Canal Company. The number now employed exceeds 14,000. The dry season has set in, and it is hoped that much pro gress will be made this year on thework. The American dredge No. 2 was burned on the 14th January ; loss §150,000, and unin sured.

Great alarm was caused at Martevldeo on January 16th by immense tidal waves. They are attributed to a volcano. Each wave was preceded by a large dark cloud.

Canada.

A grand winter carnival will commence in Montreal on February 14th, during which time Governor-General Lansdowne will be tho guest of the city. Ton thousand blocks will bo used in the construction of tho ice-palace, and seventy-five horses have been entered for trotting matches «n the frozen surface of the river. Curling matches have been made without number. Fourteen gold medals will bo competed for. The Governor-General opened Parliament at Ottawa on January 17th. In his speech, he said the general condition of the Dominion was such as to justify him in congratulating the Canadians on its pros perity.

The Erskine Presbyterian Church in Toronto was burned on tho 20tL instant. The Sabbath-school was in session at the time,, but fortunately all the children escaped. Loss, $40,000.

IRISH AFFAIRS

John Daly, M.P. for Cork, has suddenly resigned. It is alleged that he did so owing to a slight inflicted by Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, who, wishing to fill a vacancy in a Government office here, asked Parnell to nominate a suitatfte person. Edward Han ingtpn, editor and proprietor of the Kerry " Sentinel," who, in June laßt, was sentenced to six month's imprisonment on account of the publication of a treason able placard, was released on January 6tb, his term of imprisonment having expired. Bishop Ryan, of St. Louie, Missouri, preached in Dublin, Jan. 6th, and said, in effect, that religion and patriotism had been pitted against each other in Ireland, and the former had triumphed. The clergy loved the people too well to inculcate false principles among them. The Irish Nationalists threaten to con tinue the invasion of Ulster, and Lord Spencer, who had been in London attending Cabinet meetings.returned to Dublin on the 6th January with power to deal with any fresh emergencies. Bailiff Simms, while returning from Tullamore Law Court on Jan. Otfo, was fatally shot by an unknown person. Mrs Carey, the informer's widow, declines to leave Great Britain, and asks safa employment at home. Justin McCarthy, junr., son of the novelist and historian, is the favourite Nationalist oandidata of tho City of Cork for Parliament. Henry George's doctrine of land dis tribution has enlisted all the Irish press against him, and Mr Davitt haß made him self unpopular by his effusive welcome of this new agitator. A despatch of the 13th predicts that Mr George's mission to Ireland will be a failure. Mr Chamberlain, President of the Board of Trade, said, in a speech delivered at Newcastle, January 15, that the improved state of Ireland was due to the Land Aot rather than tho Crimes Act. He severely censured the recent language of the Parnellites toward Earl Spencer, and condemned Trevelzan.Chiel Secretary, and theOrango agitation. In a speooh before the Conservative Association of Dorchester, on the 16th insi, Lord Salisbury deprecated the extension of the franchise in Ireland. A riot occurred at Enniskillon on Satur day, the 19th January, during which the polico charged a mob, and were met by a shower of stones from the Nationalists. The Orangemen also stoned the police, and afterwards stoned the Catholic school-house.

The Killing of Carey.

A Dublin journal, " United Ireland,"Jani 3, publishes a fresh account of the killing of Carey, tho informer, by O'Donneli, written' by a gentleman who received it from tho latter. It shows that O'Donneli deliberately killed Carey. There was co struggle, and Carey made no attack on O'Donneli. Had Judge Denman permitted O'Donneli to speak he would have told the whole story of the killing. O'Donneli was not acquainted with Carey on the voyage from England to the Cape of Good Hope-. He was not a member of any society. He recognised Carey by a wood-cut which ho saw at Cape Town, and rosolved to kill him. He intended to go with him to a farm at Port Elizabeth, which Carey had told him ho was going to take, and thus show that there was no spot where Carey could be safe. Finding himself, however, alone with Carey, he could not resist the desire to kill him. Carey perceived his danger, and said, "Do you know me ?" O'Donneli re plied, " You are Carey, the informer. To h with you !" The bullet sped with the words, and the deed was done! Carey clutched his own revolver, but too late. O'Donneli iired two shots, and Carey rolled to the deck. Nobody saw tho encounter except O'Donnell's companion, who threw hor arms around him and filled the ship with her cries. Ho told her that morning he meant to kill Carey and would hang for it. When Mrs Carey reached the scene, O'Donnoll said to her, " I had to do it."

PARTY RIOTING IN NEW FOUNDLAND.

Many Persons Killed and Wounded. The Orangomon's procession at Harbour Grace, on December 26, was attacked by a mob, and three men instantly killed and ' several fatally wounded. The riot lasted far into the evening. At first the Orangemen thought the firing was from guns loaded only with powder in the hands of their friends, until they saw their men fall. Two Orange men and two Roman Catholics are reported killed, eight mortally wounded, andfrom 13 to 20 slightly. Head-Constable Doyle isi among the latter. The details of the affair m brof, as received by telegraph, are that tho Orangemen walked out on the morning of St. Stephen's Day, and cot as tar as tho point leading down from Harney street to Water-street. They had just ar rived at the bridge, and the band was play ing " Boyne Water," when they were met by a mob and told to come no further, but. go back. _ The Roman Catholics were ar r ranged in line, those- in tho fropt >.'"? , Plckets -.in their hands, ■ and it nau been determined to uae no other weapons unless in self-defence. They fought with these till Head-Constable Doylo

THE AUCKLAND EVENING STAR MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1884.



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