The Daily Southern Cross from Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand • 3

TOR DAILY SOUTHERN CROSS MONDAY MAY 3 1875 ting up The washerwomen earn 2lfr per day and are oxpoeed to all weather in the public washing establishments of which there are 100 in tiie city and 130 in tiie river There are 114000 CATS IN PARIS The statistics having been made with a view of taxing them like dogs The police budget is aljont 20 millions of franca tiie state contributing one-third of this snm There is no special body of police constituting a detective force the most intelligent members take part in turn in this duty tho force numbers abont 8000 men not in-elndinar the ronnblican snard or mounted OUR PAUIs LETTER Farm March 9 nir MlNORlTI the majority FiiiTMExrKY go eminent as understood lioru seems to be that the minority shall rovern the majority Tips has lieen illiu-imted in the marching up the hill aiul mArfthing down again negotiations for the formation of a Cabinet Now that tho Republic is a reality on the statute book the Monarchists seem to claim the right to administer it The Republicans concede much to their rivals they are playing the COOPERATION AT KAWAKAWA The Kawakaw' Co-oporatii Society (limited) held their fifth quarterly general meeting on Friday the 23rd Mr James Konaldsou The balance-sheet and report wore submitted to the meeting and after a lengthy discussion as to certain alterations in trans-acting the business of the Society (advised in the auditors report) the Chairman moved their adoption which was unanimously agreed to The usual dividend of 10 per cent and a bonus of 2s in the pound on pui chases were duly Honoraria were ahrarded to the principal officers and 21s each to the auditors I should bo glad to know if the secretaries of the angaret Mahurangi and other co-operative societies would inform me through IfjY Southern Cross if the auditors TELEGRAPHIC NEWS IVllOM OUR OWN I'OKRKKFOXDEVM) ORAHAMSTOWN Saturday City of London Retorting for tho City of London took place this evening after a I shaft had koei ran with a forco of 40 head of I sinking dona The manager Mr Beeclie stampers at tho Knranui battery The 1 yield was BGlioz gold Tlie return is scarcely so good as previous avenges but it is a highly remunerative one notwithstanding the many expenses whioh have recently been inemred Queen of The fortnightly re- tor ting for tho Queen of Beauty Company that a change of ground was making the alsotook place this evening at the Com- west aide of the shaft This turned own mQl and also at At noither was there a foil work for the null was at a standstill for two days while the boiler was undergoing inspection and during the first crush- TIIE TAI11UA GOLDFIELD Tiie special repoiter of tho Thuutei Aitm titer thus writes from Tairaa on Friday last in t'io claim work lias steadily 'ogreued since my visit on Tuesday and on arrival this morning I found that the old haft had boon cleanouout aiul a few feet of inking dona The manager Mr Beeclie was ongaged in panning off some of the mill lock and sandstone that Hanks the rich seam Several dishes were tried each of which save fine payable prospects of a few grains to the dish Duriug the time occupied in doing this the men were steadily engaged sinking and it was shortly noticed oat to be a formation of a wall and to all appearances that which will henceforth form the hanging one as the strata of the country appears to be dipping westward This wall of a fins for captaring upon surpiiscd uuii) Onr man told me ie expected to hear that nut alxnc iitty people wei at tlia HalL Thera were about 1400 Then certainly Charles Claik must ie a bad man I Very Only for goodness sake do not tell anybody Well now 1 observe his sermon on Sunday night was was exceedingly good it was on extraordinary combination of the sublime the the sensible the witty and at the expense of the fanatics the laughable The woman levelling in the everlasting rest whilst her neglected children were running about the streets dirty and untaught was palpable Oh but then lie is an actor I Shocking I An actor eh I Well the Bible requires to do it justice a representative having histrionic gifts There are several incidental dramas in the Bible unsurpassed even by dramatists Of tbs asserted toot 0 Clark gave a fine exemplification on Sunday last first in the grand old Moses ascending Mount Nebo to Bitiiii and to desNirt this fife and second the modem Christian crossing the (metaphorical) Jordan with his eye cm the riorums promised land which acknowledgedly he did act and did act with fire and pothos An actor Yes and he is real and unaffected Now this I desire specially to note he ia natural Oh jet no speaker ape the orator let uo speaker act if he cannot naturally mid by prompting of geninsi let no speaker only naving done the book-work of elocution at gratuities Every week a list of articles found by the police is published these generally coin-prise umbrellas and canes purses and jewellery coats and muffs there is always ii notable number of railway shares and coupons It is a punishable offence for a person from which the new Government slionld hold impartially aloof Martial law onglit to be atj once abolished and the Commnnes restored the right to appoint their mayors eeured their independence Franco suffers from over-administration and self-govorn ment is mly in its infancy The attempt rn anything found sneh is at once to maybe given up by the Orloamsts to nmfce be lianded over tothe police France royalist that legend is as dead os a hkamov royalistx that legend THE FIRST ROHES OF THE SEASON brown sandstone and hugging it was a seam of cement with small streaks of quarts running through it Mr Xcevos the prospector came up just at this moment and his keen eye at once detected the fine gold which was disseminated profusely through the cement after pieeo was sent up from below of exactly the same quality so mneh so that tho mansgor felt it incumbent to send for several bags in order to stow it away corofnlly This latter work is almost necessary for visitors have hitherto lieim frequent and it is nsual for many of them to pan off a dish and take away the proceeds A little of the loose rabble of quarts and the as Bonapartism as Legitimacy as ideal Republicanism represented by Louis Blanc as the mountain tribe of 1848 that commenced to overthrow the Republic as soon as it was established and to declare war against its friends the moment they inherited office The men of the period for New France must be sagacious liberal have arrived in Faria they are pale have not a grand the life of the vase only and which is said to be bnt the space of a morning aiul they cost two francs each An evening patty whore bouquets of roses are obligatory thus amount to a pretty snm Irat for behind banquet at Boitc where he expended ten millions of serterces there was not sufficient water for the whole foroe of Bull's mill Tho returns ore battery 289ox battery Sdwt Thu will pay a good dividend Queen of the It was intended that there shonld have boon a retorting for the Queen of the May at battery today) but as it has been determined to make the doming up a complete one at this mill the retorting will not be completed until Monday The manager has now en the Herald battery recently vacated City of London and will employ the full force of it from Monday next Exchange --Steam will be got up on the propagation and the probabilities are that tho cnminala of future years will be chiefly descended from the sturdy sinners for whose restraint the police systems of to-day are mainly required The criminal class like the pauper class is to a great extent aa hereditary caste representing the uncivilised and largely uncivil liable elements of the community How to with this class how to turn its perverted forces into useful channels and make its perpetuation difficult if not possible is the great serial problem of the day Victor Hugo has said that the quickest way to civilize a man is to civilise his grandmother The saying is worthy of a place among the axioms of social science Certainly when society neglects the grandmother as it did in the esse of the waif called referred to in the Daily Southern Gross of March 12 to whom Dr Harris traces sneh a pestilent brood of human vipers the succeeding generations are pretty sue to pay a heavy penalty in perpetuated savagery Probably each one of the small army of criminal lunatics drunkards imbeciles and the rest to which she gave being has cost the country more than would have sufficed for the reclamation of a dozen such grandmothers to be certainly enough to surround them with conditions which would make it impossible for any one of them to stock a country with criminals and paupers It will not take many such cases it is to be hoped to route tho community to an appreciation of the urgent need of greater watchfulness in regard to the development of vagrant children and all children not subject to wholesome influences Who can say how many Maggies are skulking abont city ana country to-day or cowering in homra of brutality and vice receiving the training requisite for making them- criminals and breeders of criminals For its own safety let alone the present and future welfare society is bound to adopt more liberal and thorough measures for removing such heirs of crime and criminal poverty from their corrupting environment and for training them in the ways of industry and morality It may be impossible to make much of such unpromising material nevertheless it is possible to prevent much Mid with social as well as with individual disease prevention is better than cure Every boy or giri growing np in beggary and lawlessness is the possible ancestor of a line el pariahs as numerous and burdensome as Maggie's have been and neither prudence or philanthropy tolerate tiie neglect of them Aa a lice too society has the future to be afflicted with matter of justice too society ban right to allow I cement that had fallen daring tho breaking I out of the above was then placed in a dish and tri-1 from it we panned off close upon 4dwt of gold I a result which has not yot been equalled rather by Mr Neeves or any visitor who has I hitherto tested the staff Several dishes I were then tested from the near or hanging I wall and the result although nothing sp Vnt acquainting themselves as to the bona de nature of the stock list produced This is an important question as in companies of this description tho stock is undoubtedly the greatest asset One of the auditors retired by ballot and Mr Jamieson was elected to the vacancy In spite of every effort made by antagonistic store-keepers and others we are steadily and surely advancing and (under the able management of our energetic store-keeper Mr Thomas Payies) bid fair to become at no distant date tbs leading co-operative society in this province The shares are now in tike huA of OS members who are large consumers thirteen natives are also large consnmors Unlike most societies members are allowed to have credit up to 4-5bha of their respective investments In yielding this the society runs no risk of wting many bod dobts and it is an inducement for the non-saving community to take up a few shares Of tho profits just divided only the dividends williu paid in cash the bams will be issued shares bearing the same rate of interest as other shores and the aanOLnt of capital so raised is paid over to the building account ami goes to tbs Bay of Islands CoalCompcmy part paymentof £231 7s8d advanced by them for bnilding purposes The brjance sheet showed that on the 1st of senary there were goods on hand to the value of £717 Us 8u and purchases to tjie 31st March £1398 16a Freight trade expenses paid to building account he together with £137 10s lid nett profit upon the quarter made the total trade return up to £2366 9s 2d The sales amounted to £1488 7s 9cL goods mi hand £773 8 building paid £104 13s 8d total £2366 9s 2iL There are 754 shares token I broken down recently but gold up on which 15a each are paid and 4 shares I freely in the faces and in tho stone taken upon which 10s each are paid making the I out There have not been many rich sped' Society's capital C567 Correspondent I menu during the last few days bint the men yniime on Monday for the purpose of raumg a paroel of rook from the No 1 reef which has Deeu broken out by the baton Thq parcel will be a considerable one and will afford a good trial of tho quality of the reef A nice paroel of specimens opiwn to hml this forenoon from tho branch hand retorting having been postooned until Monday when the yields from both batteries Moauatniari and the the schools give ns as a beggarly sidistitnto for the real and natural start and taro Lit every speaker be perfectly himself entirely natural even though he be solid anil dry I quite believe however that more profound philosophy has been done in fire than 111 Fur one other example of this take Robert prelections It is a popular error that solid philosophy is necessarily dry and cold No not necessarily so anil tue fervid impassioned Charles Clark gives ont exalted ideas of man and propound views of this niarvul-lous world of ours with its gorgeous poetry Well now here is tulogy yet thoughtful and I have called it a critique An frtalliimni man told me the other day he had ever understood real criticism to mean fair fault-finding I answered No no it mesne duly to estimate whether the thing examined ie good bad or This eritirism of Clark for instance ie pretty mneh en encomium end I sincerely deem it just and proper and mmI demanded relatively eanefa- monionsneas is not sanctity and some seem not to believe (per Bible teaching) that there are a diversities of and man-I perceive the possibility of at least KS hSU wii I A were the divinities whose feet tiie nation kissed only when they were taking their departure these gods are now to be embraced from their arrival The proclamation of the Republic is the first instance in French history of a Government being inaugurated withpnt sound of the cornet sacklmt psaltery dulcimer and nil kinds of rnnaia Not a Te Doom not a review no illuminations' no free theatres no do cocagne Thera was no defile of soldiers 1 fi tbeir attention owing to the moving on tlio Bonlevnrds no flags from wmdows 0f perpetual making about of vSlto amwTg the latter altar erected on tChan-MMa Vily the wWn who collects the two eons for Franco 11 degenerating feto eommou sense the 1Jml olwipj performs wliat order patience and respect for the law 1 copper synophony She is so content as to have resumed work then charming qnStenses always in with confidence the very latest fashion shake their velvet THE ANNUAL art exhibition collecting hags tiU lying too hey the contents are emptied into a common purse carried by Judas laoariok as the lyadle is It is said that ft is not lucky for a gentleman to waylay Ms love in church Hence why so many members of the jennesse donie are certain to attend as they belong to the perverse and stiff-necked generation There is an advantage too in seeing ladies wardrobe preaching that from the seam was very good The footwsll at this point had come very sharp and contracted the scam henco the stuff of to-day is a pocket The nature of the seam stuff is ray peculiar consisting of cement and through which streaks or veins of quarto exist and is altogether different from anything I have seen in a quarts-reefing district Mr Beeehe states the seam to be about 15 or 18 I inches wide bat one can scarcely form any I idea either of its size or what it is likely to eventuate in Many are of opinion that tii rich stuff is the cap of a reef and ultimately the lode will be found a little deeper This latter' theory was propounded freely this morning when tho change in the shaft was noticed A few days more will probably make us better acquainted with what the rich conglomeration of dirt now in the shaft really is It is however evident that there is a heavy deposit of gold alxmt hero for the whole of the dirt thrown out from the shaft will pay the dirt thrown out from the shaft public auctiota-mart where the glories of an aotaass or a demi-mondian are exposed far view before being knocked down down to the old dif fraternity There are forty-one photos of tto ex-imperial family fXfious crowd that the French push or dis-in various postaum Nothing can be more I and many toilettes are de- gloomy moro foil of ennui than them I £1 tempera raffled there ladies groups apparently preparing for a whist indulge in rouge and powder appear to party of three 1 not a dash of heroism in the I feates covered with scalessnd cracked ngnres mostly all have books in their I hands What a studious family The living the Meteiajim when the grand doors are thrown open and anything but a dim religions light falls there is a good deal of it is' remarked that it is only in a 1 1- old Japan plate others present a vmuitwuUS aspect Ladies are quite right a perfect compatibility not so say mmilanty between the measures of Moody in Britain and Ireland and those of Clark in Australasia Finally holiday has heen only 1 change of very hard work Bnt he has been onWiday a pretty good answer to the grave opponents of Ins gaiety Now he resumes his ministerial labours in connection with the same huge chapel at Mel-POflnvf Slanderers forwardly affirmed he would not resume for a reason I intended to say much more I am dee! 3 Sadler I the pernirions fruit of sneh perairioqe steins I as it has to stock toe fields with pmsonous I plants or knowingly to establish the con- I ditions for the development of future pes- I HOW CAN SOCIETY HXLF ITSELF Primarily by civilizing so far as possible the naturally uncivilized grandmothers not 1 forgettingthe grandfathers also by bringing I them up in habits of honest indnstry in I useful occupations not in unnatural masses in selecting when they have never to face a I in prison-like asylums bnt in workshops ana full light I families This done rigorously the criminal A NEW DODGE of cabby I class would be hugely cut off conversion Some cabmen have tried with success a into aometiiing better We shall for when so mneh is done But probably mning when society proverttiily known to for thankful juKfiriMMsrtiie shoemakers and the time is have been chiefly employed stripping quarto I and when they break this there will I handsomely wMh crushed So for as can be be patches met with 1 with the underlie commenced this morning which will give 50ft of locks with little over 80ft to drive I ere the lode is intersected which should be I done in about a fortnight's time No 2 reef I is the larger body of stone that was recently tested and aa before stated its disoovery is itlintA of the Emperor in an arm-chair fijtwdling under dimenlties the Prince Im-1 penal (aged shout thirteen) is about attractive as an orphan of forty standing or an epitaph recording that the standing or an epitaph reconUng tnat tne I defunct aged sixty now an angel There I is a bononefe of violets and from between I Mated I will im the 'PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE Mr and Mrh Case (Grace Egertim) appeared on Saturday evening at the above place of amusement in their new programme entitled Apartments for a before a large and appreciative audience Mrs Case first introduces herself as a young lady who has awakened the tender possum in the heart of a bachelor musician over the way" who in order to be near the object of his affections seeks apartments in the home Bang aware of Ins intention tlio young lady de-ermines to annoy him by personating various disagreeable visitors The first character assumed is tlut of Katty Mooney a maid -of -all -work hailing from the Emerald Isle with a diversified string of admirers and a very remarkable love-letter This was followed by a clever representation of tho vulgar landlady with a propensity for hex try Captain do Boots a swell of the lah-de-dah type addicted to duelling I been for sane time untouched is likely once then enters and leaves tho meek musioian in a fearful state of trepidation Mrs Case in tiiis character sang the songs Captain de and in response to an encore probably some good Sharkvarkbt Sales: Queen of the May 8s Sellers Caledonian £8 I Bright Smile £1 12 61 Care 9s 6L City of Loudon £3 Buyers Albumia (paid) lOs Colonial Bank £1 5s COROMANDEL Saturday Neptune Started sanding good parcel of off to the Nil battery A fair yield ex- stuff pec ted City of Some remarkably good atone has been taken from this mine during the week and a good show still left in foce At a meeting of the shareholders lost night it was resolved to put claim into a company which was accordingly done and Mr Harrison appointed legal manager Golden Point manager continues to take ont some good atone from the leader whenever it is broken down Crushing for tins Company will likely start daring the City of This mine which has ime untouched is likely onue moro to start The City of Auckland leader lias been traced through the ground and it is hoped may be picked np without mneh trouble did lode and the value which the manager I recently put upon vis los per ton I will be found under the mark judging from I the show of grid yon can obtain all along the cap of it Neither expenses nor trouble Tho gold doliv ery for the month has not I seem to daunt the proprietary fur there is equalled anticipations This is greatly due already a stamper battery on the way via to the scarcity of water at the batteries Tairaa while a oontraot for catting up the The following is the yield from the various 1 1AA mines which nave crashed Golden Print timber at 20s per 100 feet this morning The Eldorado the newspapers consists in cabby investing in two or three different journals and lending one to whoever hires him at the rate of one son per perusal He may nnconsciosly produce a republican journal to a right divine monarchist or vice versa MUFFREK8ION OF OAMBLINO The edict of the Prefect of Police against Eblio billiard playing is considered to too sweeping two-liall pool is Mi that he believes depends on the ability of the players more but a game of chance in net gambling It would be better for the police to suppress notorious billiard naming tables where in addition a political dub is disguised THE CELEBRATED CHESTNUT TREE in the Tuileries gardens venerated by tiie a aJ keifr Mil fl IOV criminals In a more immediate and active sense than the words now carry the generation of the wicked will be ent off processes for effecting tins end are like most other natural processes very slow and very wasteful still more they are very unjust since the innocent suffer far more than the gudty The lusty vagabond leads a jolly life tilled to the end with all the enjoyment he is capable of and leaves behind him a nnmerons progeny to pay the penalty of his misdeeds in hereditary poverty impoverished constitutions depraved tastes wasting diseases other conditions of earlyuefeat in engagements and tiie morally and physically hralthy are taxed for the support of almhouses prisons asylums hospitals and other places of refuge for For tiie victims as well as for member of the Bonapartist family Nothing mm bo more droll yet it is intended for an artistic success The portrait of Napoleon 111 is surrounded with a scroll-work of texts of Seriptnro beneath is a reflection How lyemling to think that in the midst of dangers Providence reserves to one being to be tiie instrument of safety for all This allusion to the coup eouid not be more delicate Imperialists trade even in tiie Rngpr of God theory The Prince Imperial ism endless attitudes waving a tri-colour flag uttering some of the shibboleths of Cmsarinn democracy These photos of the Prince Imperial are anything bnt prepossessing able as are Ins partisans they could not force the son to lie There is no portrait of the ox-Emperor on horseback hauling his troops in a charge against myriads of Prussians that would be to crown his memory with supreme ridicule but he is on horseback in some battle-field earned with dead and wounded looking as insensible aa his uncle in the famous picture SANITARY EDUCATION To tho Editor In one of your leading articles of Saturday April 24 yon say the public will speedily ask the reason why That we having a moat magnificent climate healthy beyond a doubt shonld lie reduced to tiie deplorable condition that Auckland is now in ninety-two deaths in one month Mr 4 times more than ought to be (they bring of tiie class said to lie preventable) must and will speedily rouse tho public to ask the With your permission I will endeavour to place before tiie public the we are in the above deplorable state I apeak what I have seen myself Man (perfootly satisfied with his capabilities to execute that wMeh was for the first time in his life put before him end ignoring all tho experience to be gained by studying the history of London end many other places similarly situated to Auckland) attempts to do the sewerage of Auckland on the expediency wfieh is only another term for the same sort of work that yon cal Sir for more than fiftv years I havebeen conversant with the subject and I have by me an exhaustive report on the London sewerage by a Mr Phillips written moro than thirty years ago He advocated the separate system for seweragew At that time tiie Thames had become like onr harbour and Queen-street unbearable from filth and stench although the system of scavenging all solids was in full action bnt when tiie water-closet system was brought into full use then it was discovered that the Thames wEl to such an extent that wilting must be done to prevent London Napoleon dynasty Tbidi? fair this yeai to arrive some days earlier in bloom Ia this fffino toy I Bucephalus over tiie Alps explain if the battle-field ffoltoino You pays 1 piied hie examination about 25 ground owned by Messrs Prater Hewitt and party and is situated peg-and-peg with Kennanrs and lease north of the The continuation of the reefs oaunot foil to strike through tins gronnd but independent of these they are reported to have a first-rate show At usual in these discoveries a fallen tree has been the means of showing the cap of a reef from whenoe some golden stone lias been obtained Little wont has 36oz Three Brothers 58oz Claim 53oz City of Auckland 185os Tokatoa 100ozj sundries 40oz total 474(0 Royal Oak Tho manager reports I There is very little news to report from your mine for the past week The No 1 is till yielding a few pounds of specimens and picked stone and as yet the loader has every appearance of carrying gold to the snrfoce There is not mneh otLUige in the nature of the ground and although every stopo gets of galloping on There is nothing to be that of Sedan or milliners tome with dog-Latu getting fidelity to the eagles whioh is said to kill in France th htag riiitiiw-card yemag tiie Comte de Waldeck who has just of his 109th nearer the surface the ground still continues I yet been done merely fossicking but not a celebrated toe anniversary inarued his soooud nife at 80 and lias a son by that union 23 yean old- (Jomto ought to hold hia second ivies of silver wedding Ha is an artist of some aiufhis studio is a very pleasant NOTHING MORE FASHIONABLE as it not be infinitely better all round conld their existence be made impossible from the outset ADVANTAGE? OF A DIMINISHED BIRTH RATE Tlio rational tendency of high civilization is toward a diminished birth rate The waste of life that goes on in rnder societies through public wars and private through improvidence and unliealthtul conditions of living ie immensely lessened in cunlized communities and with it the need of nuw births A vastly larger proportion of toe (hihlrwn bom are able to attain maturity and the average duration of life ia much increased A low birthrate is therefore perfectly consistent with high national power and progress and the development of iD toit mtlfM fifo desirable and as we have said the tendency of civilisation is alwaya to attain such an economical birth rate Bnt unfortunately while the law bolds good the upper grades of civilized society the lower and more or leas uncivilized gradea arc under no such moral restraint Improvident in all things they are equally so in more MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS A new journal has appeared called The Orphan a prospectus of uloV may in Palis than influenza no escaped each has had to pay Awfully with considerable effect The next visitant to the now wretched lodger is Deborah Griggs a school-girl who attempts to ruin his auricular organs with an excruciating song about a rose Exit Mrs Griggs ana enter a country bumpkin with uong ax my This was very well received Tho first part of the entertainment wound up with Jinks tho know jug which scene the young lady is betrayed into confessing her love for the unhappy musician and the denouement is effected Fart two commences with Mrs Case as Miss Minerva Cassandra a lady who rehearses her poetical Mid dramatic fancies to Mr Cose This is followed by a rapid change to a dancing girl with song and bones accompaniment Mrs Case then appeared aa Mr Horatio Gineligni Jones and sang tho well known air art so near and yet so with an exceedingly clever imitation of a tenor voice Mr Case is then visited by Miss Martha Ever-growl an old lady with very gloomy ideas things in general who mokes pamfhl remarks on the shortness of his nook and throws ont horrid hints at apoplexy This one of the most admirable of the talented performances Mr Case terrified at tho awful insinuations of the rid lady riiics for a doctor to measure his nock Enter a sleepy boots who siugs a song expressive of the woes of followers of his profession This concluded the entertainment whioh altogether forms one of an unusually attractive kind All Mrs performances are most admirable conceptions and although they are undoubtedly the leading feature in the pro- Eamme Mr Case is a very powerful auxi-ry as a imwirim of high clssa His selections on the conoertina mcloded 11 The Last Rose of Remember Scotch airs and an imitation of the bagpipes His violin playing was also ro- rson has tnlrate hard which prevents any great progress being made I have on hind about 20 tons quarts in paddock and about 50lb specimens md pioked stone A WitohelL There is no news of importance to report from the mine suioe my last We have been gettingafittie grid from in Siege of Paria leveL battery has started to crush 10 we may expect pad-dock of stuff from this levu to be put thronjpi soon Grid continued on stope in Peep Day leader for a distance of about 30ft but I cannot send quarts to mQl from this or All loaders until wo get timber and erect shoots YesterdayT sent dishful of stuff from the oasing or reef ia tried but nearly a grain of goluean be got What is better they broke np some yesterday and gold showed freely through it while a little was brought to tho camp which may fairly bo oalloa Paddy Bonfidd with Catron and Trewheela arrived cm Tuesday night and they acted In such a strange way that it got wind that they were on some lay Reid who bos been prospecting in this locality for some years tn( who claims Now 1 South of tiie prospectors came on Wednesday night anil no at once chummed with the Catrons so that the supposition that something was Bnt life has not the lew on the even TtophUoaopher which if not harmonious are at least novel youth whana century old he may live 13 Men afflicted with the epidemic take up a position beside a comer at the fire ami 111 old coat or gown and slippers impatiently await the happy change of weather and that from going ont of town: for even the sonroes from which London drew a large part of ita water supply were contaminated by the filth of all tho towns bordering on the Thames To such an extent had the eyil caused by too nse of water-closets reached that a Com mission was appointed with powers to prevent all drainage of nlth into too Thames The consequence is that all towns on the Thames have to keep their filth to themselves hence the cry of What shall we do with it a cry certainly not answered pet by any of the engineering schemes which have promised such great wings There is a failure in the practical working of them I have the history of many by me The latest accounts renew the lament shall we do with it Irrigation cries hold enough! Filtration precipitation I am overdone cementation cannot find a market Other ations Inst not least comes Loudon with its first-class drainage res Loudon with its millions of gallons of water daily flashing the drains comes crying What shall we do with itf The lly sewer gas is far more deleterious than the oul night-carts the sewer gas is unbearable The Tint correspondent says Born it by bewnel fires plaoed on toe gully holes bnt Auckland says it Yes bag it is expedient I have it xcs mg expeura to mill about 200Ibs pioked atone Robert I jn the wind gained in strength by this com-Kclly I pauionsliip Measles-town was very lively BAY Saturday all that night everybody on the alert and it Abont BOO logs were got down last night I was not until nearly two am when people quantity of logs were got down to all the I began to think of retiring Not so how ever with all for during lha night you could hear tho itealthy walk in the vicinity of the tent where Reiil slept At early morning these men went ont followed by a whole crowd of men who want aa far as store Tairaa where party made thomaelves comfortable and with every intimation of doing 10 for a few days if nocessary Moot of tho men were sick of A quantity of logs mills TAURANGA Saturday Sergeant resignation in the Con' stibnlary has been accepted The 'Rowena' started again yesterday at noon towing the Kata McGregor to sea PER PEERS AGENCY authorities seized sample of flour analys abice noaMy throw them and found they i 1 advantages of descend- ante of the lower half of any community are pretty ante to preponderate numerically The criminal grades are especially proufic more than enough so to make up for the destructive influences of crime The effect upon the future well bring of society can in addition for three I scarcely be other than disastrous umeae in Mirnuon ior I gpecuj effort i mode to counteract the evil by preventive as well as by curative means I Jy' Colours She la known as the Flower out of compliment to her 40 summers she ht is I nature teems incompatible with public safety selling bcmqneta to the Grand 8tanu I to in hands in honor at unvileged to indulge in unpertinent replies are reaiy noin up 0000ft to be oomlnE The fair aex take lovingly to the malady provided it be neither too long nor too severe they keep not their bedroom but their boudoir and bestow all their attention to make toilette few this occasion and une figure de circon-tanee The robe is the mAtelasae form princesse trimmed with satin ami old loee with a nnfflvl of bows the head is enveloped in a cloud of material resembling woollen foam tlio feet are encased in slip-pen in harmony with toe robe then uith an air of a little suffering and a display of amiability that sickness increases tiie dear snunme mm altemat ntaht I 136 head of cattle and 1000 sheep 1 them over the whole ageato overcome the ill of the ar have acted on than expediency heedless of toising friends the results in the hereafter Now for yean mu nil harmed Queen-street bnt abont uo peninsula Neither iff these have yet returned and it is evident they intend to be true to their word Mid shepherd Reid and party until he either takes them in with him or lays them alongside The weather has been frightful again during the night raining in torrents and some of the men who went out after Catrana had neither tnokor nor tents in fact as the day was fine went out in their shut Lent ii very anatore Farin peode of to-day present no 1 I jsrJrjtstShStrii BaBai'uarj? a'ffaa'iLsrs'us: together TrilmnM nos ordered 1 1 I wuiu SUDDEN DEATH AT THE WHAU A man named Arthur Johnson died suddenly yesterday morning in a whare near the Vnau block-house The deceased was a gum-digger and fisherman and lias been for some five yean working with a mate named John Smith who waa with him when he died Tina man states that deceased got np os usual yesterday morning apparently quite well and waa sweeping the floor of the whare when he suddenly exclaimed God my and fell on hia back Smith lifted him into bed where he expired in a few minutes Constable Clarke of Newton upon receiving the information forwarded it to the Police uffice and following his instructions proceeded to the spot whence he Rml the body conveyed in on express to the dead-house Bay where it is now lying An inquest will be held this afternoon at two by tho coroner Dr Philsan oul her to to hCTR ironTtaKta P-M- does not fairly rive the hear hems I olis! and the oh aha those speeches mode peace mcurality sent to the -not as now to recuperate their wasted forces and return in a few weeks to enter mere lustily TTLuSJdatVh I than ever their evil conrsea but to be WELLINGTON Saturday In the description given by Mr Tor ward the architect of this new hospital it is stated that tiie ground will occupy abont two acres The whole of the buildings will be constructed of brick and cement The hospital will contain 112 beds and that number will entitle the Wellington hospital beoome recognised as a hospital having the'mtmber of beds required Ira tho examining Board of tiie United Kingdom and which will enable young men to commence their studies for the medical profession New Zealand instead of having to go to England The hospital ill be situated a little beyond the lunatic asylum 1 The artillery had again to postpone the firing for prizes in couscquenco of wet weathn POLICE Saturday glefore Thoh Betkham Em rurkkxness William McKecm and William Look were severally fined 10s and costs with tiie alternative of 48 hours imprisonment with hard labouo Mary Walton was charged with being a rogue sad a vagabond A number of previous convictions for drunkenness jfcc had been recorded against her She was sent to gaol for one year with liam labour twenty years ago btna the expediency plan of patting their filth in the Ligar canal Then when toe birds had fooled their own nests arose the en for drainage and expediency supplied an answer Send it into tlia horbonr It eras sent The harbour was made the receptacle of the filth of Auckland It was not long when it was found ont that if it waa expedient snob a course most certainly was not wise The smell arising from eo many water-olosets ending them filth into the mein drain led to tiie abortive expedient uf the silt and filth basins and now I will suggest to the (whoever he may be I know not) who designed them that he will have the good sense and feeling to obtain the patent charcoal respirators for the nse of the men employed in emptying the basins end the ivmagft to superintend them while doing so also to stop every filth-drain and water-closet running into the sewers The basins will thon be useful os stoppers of the rood materials end not ss the monstrous disseminators of disease and death Sir yon ay The gravity of the aitnation cannot be Bnt it oan be mooked by 11 bagging and Isay tost toettmb is mortifying Use the knife Extreme and dangerous tfases require extreme measures to meet them Tho water euro aliat flushing is intended to restore onr magnifioeut climate Will it Perhaps the deaths of seventy of onr merchants 4c instead of poor children would restore it I am 4c Strange- there is a plaee tor expiation called Forge tory when one pays to enter and to do VQpmnom tiMTO fa DO mdl Rule inFMfa ritfaana pay generally to escape all kind of puraatory The capital ie what Merrier wlttifyeelbd dancing garden of Paris coosnmea more pleasures than any city in the world taa clergy too aro tolerant for Babylonia generic name for huge oapitafa fearing perhaps as Nestor TAgnpiMi AM Fans wonla rise in insurrection the day when deprived of fresh strawberries All infractions of the laws of fttijfetinauMi may be set down as involuntary Talleyrand was very particular on the subject of fasting end one day it was discovered the of he had been eating the leg of a rabbit hie mlmircra at at once ran to the Archbishop to demand absolution for this involuntary in By means of salmon and sauces that would make BriUat-8avarin rub his hands (me fa enabled to pees the most faying days Other tiny kickshaws are not forgotten Mid-Lent fa also the ffite of the laundresses and when the guild select their queen the ceremony generally takes place with closed lanndiy doors where 1 upon fa tiU SmoSJfoSifa who made perfectly harmless as regards the copy there iVTtolm re ahwJor of future In this way only can the stream of reriMi aU 1 fal to nave a noiror which make lor unnghtcouM onler to obUta pl obj-etton -Wy bold to fmim to be serioudv I their representatives in the East have from the eJlSttime boro prized for thr ill the nunour oi an uP 8erviceableiiess Besides they are of little worth as workers as they Me and the change wonld rather tend to diminish their remnant tiinw Mid malm them more amenable to civilization Many an unmanageable hnman OT THE CORRESPONDENCE CRITIQUE ON CLARK To toe Editor Hir 1 liad the pleasure of seeing and hearing Charles Clark on two of the several occasion! of hia appearing and lerforming and preaching in the Aucklmil Choral Hall 1st on the first night of liis irst visit and 2nd on last Runday night 25th nit) when he was eugngod in behalt of a benevolent institution On reflection judge that the vary best beard of him in point of brilliant eloquence waa the peroration during the last 10 or 12 minutes of hia first deliverance here: Yon will re member that It was in substance a manly assertion that Dickens though facetious was religious (this he was) aiul that real religion does not demand the sacrifice of eommou manhood but rather ita cultivation I think Charles Clark is perhaps almost unconsciously himself a atnught-up down-right choker to the fanatics They who think the tine symliol uf religion is timed turning up the ye-whites end bating nature slionld if they weald not be tamed inside out and exposed keep away from diaries Clark Lately on the quiet I have heard some things smo and nave been surprised and annoyed 1 dare not trust myself greatly to enlarge on the matter for fear of feeling indignant lint evidently some pro-tend tobel'evethatlyuigaud jealous detraction are venial excusable: if there bo a presumed abstinence from all aorta of urine aiul an ostentations display of outward ceremonious religionism Tnoy ham slandered Clark 1 fear the heavy rain and gloomy aspoat on Sunday evening emptied all the nnmernna house- of public worship Then toe large Choral Hall waa too small news- I UmTb- ooaTMtol into WICKED I toiler as useful and bannlras as the fortunate circumstance that vice ia I ematnre whose patience under fine healths are toasted prewsratey to the annual and debauchery are niumg Hi in the erenThe rayal proce I and the childnmof tbeWrilyvi along the is now a tiling of the I very apt to enter along the Boulevaros and debauchery are killing uch A DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NEAR OTAHUHU On Saturday night about six a fire originated in the stable or outhouse of Mr John Taylor farmer at Otahuhu abont half a mile beyond the Tamaki bridge A valuable bull was in the stable at the time and so rapid ws the progress of the fire that it was impossible to remove him and he was burned In the aathowe were some eight tons of valuable potatoes There were distant only some 201t from the stable two large stacks of hay: bnt these woe fortunately preserved the directum of the wind just carrying the parks abont fifteen feet beyond the stacks The origin of the fire is not ascertained Mr Taylor hod just fed the ball and was sitting at tea when shortly after the boy came in and told him the place was on fire He supposes he must have trod on a iouso for otherwise he cannot account for ie faro Coust due Gamble was speedily on the spot and aided in preventing toe spread of tiie fire We have not heard whether the place was insured labour fa proverineL At any rat higher patency for exil would be eliminated is not an uncommon one for mme iustifiable then for the protection of ot toe cOT-mnnity-for toe prevention of that norat of social distempers hereditary crime ultimately self-destructive Lust violence mthemselve are tor exlsteiios weightedwilh winheritance of weakness and disease that their early extinction is all but inevitable It ia a faw of nature that the generation of the wickud shall be cut off To this beneficent law however there ate exceptions Certain phases of DRAL'Chb- I iibuint no i imniLiit nwdtd to the snianded Ictla tioiu a ieqieUable netUer to whom I fmwzwIcU a lmx niuliuiia toiniwamiiu from the iihi (Ia a di linjiu-liod AuikLuiu CIiohiM) of the iniiiiiiul Aiui-t 111 hi ik loud Hay of rteuU udeudiu 2 1874- Duu Hir-Allow me tender my 1st sinctie 1 lunik to you for tho LeueSt I taw received linn tho medicine Mqiplied by you for deafness 1 1 mm jew it I have boon auEdnuff from mi acquaintance of nun called but to yw uUerUhemuit 1 had been under the can at the 1 beldnated (login) but did not racsfys jBjy benefit bum hi tnuunent consequratly was jnltar (to um a borrowed idirwhubew totta ikiuber arote to yuu and the oegtnulnf ol Hovnumt I received your medietas After yETw1 traatewt I tud r-fa-iif roeovorod my hoartaff hut Mta( ubhzed toKO up the country Itaft off tw treatment CtaffratSiTl ta-r atortnjfatr eberaej mMjed tho moot your remedy I have now quite leooyorea Hhetnsl'MAein doing at the some I post like the Bceuf Gras besides sneh would not be in keering with republican institutions it fa farther well-known that the 15'00 washerwomen and washermen in Till HIUI--H ymir Hiilr Wlini ijK uc to I the 1DW wasnerwomen aw uanmuim in What fa everybody fJi AiDflfwTdreii turnliw l(iey whlto Mextote lUw tonewen" onknir'wlUvout Umlnz Gw wiiull of meat I Faria are aa divided on the the deetfon of Rwtnien1 it nks the halrcfamrintegly besutlfai the Belie faw fa not recognised aa te balu the Monarchists in the Assembly are re-1 serions with al was thus Irishman 1 love thy The calcinated line thy faults I love thee parodied by a whisky-hmug Ireland with all thy faults uWdl a imaMtrallie gnratl oCUytolr nuota wheie the glsnd sra not ilgtygL II mr BubMH" preiiareil tar Hwy Oxford Btriwt London and sold ever) where st ttl pnrbottie may be seen any morning in o-ir police courts are not only consistent with but aie uanally abundant animal vigour capable of indefinite peotingakiog and the parties rosnl itely decline to fuse The aniraal lanndiy bill of Paris is estimated at 60 million of francs of nhich ten represent the starching and get-.