The Evening Star. TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 104, 10 May 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. TUESDA Y, MAY 10, 1870.

The arrival of the Wonga Wonga last night, on her return from Honolulu, produced, as was anticipated, an unusual excitement throughout the city, and the impatient waiting for her coming soon changed into a feeling of sincere rejoicing when it rapidly spread that her trip had been in every respect a satisfactory one. Large numbers of cabs had assembled among the throng oa the wharf in anticipation, we know not on what grounds, of a large number of passengers, and to some it must have been a disappointment that a solitary pair should be the avant couriers of sucu anticipated crowds. There are no reasonable grounds for expecting that one or two or even three trips will fairly open the return traffic. On this side of the route, intending voyagers see the steamers that leave our harbours to bring them iuio connection with a long established and successful line of steamers. In London or in San Francisco travellers know that tbpy can get sately to Honolulu, but ; all beyond that, must appear to them as the realms of chance and experiment; an I if!

the return traffic do not reach our wishes for a feyv months, it is not to be attributed to anything inherent in the route, but to natural caution respecting an experiment in distant seas. We have every reason to give our public and sincere congratulations to Captain Beal and his officers for his successful completion of the pioneer trip, and to the projectors of the scheme for their administrative powers in forwarding the passengers and muils so expeditiously from the islands. A few days' additional expended in opening the passage to and fro are reasonable and excusable, and that no mishaps or inconvenience has attended the passage will have already almost invested the transPacific mail route with prestige. If popularity greeted the projecting of the scheme, enhanced favour will now assuredly attend it, and we are confident that the rejoicings and congratulations of the Chamber of Commerce in San Francisco will be echoed back from every porl of the Western Pacific.

Ik the Police Court today the assemblage of drunkards was not numerous. Two well-known frequenters of the Police Court appeared, the one for larceny, the other for offences of the " unruly member." The man of kleptomaniac tendency presented amostdilapidated physiognomy, a large gasli extending from the top of his nose, all the way to his ear. Whether or not the lady who had lost the articles of clothing had inflicted physical chastisement, he had evidenlty got a hammering more according to his derervings than the sham penalty of four months' imprisonment. The absurdity of this trifling with guilt could not be more apparent. Fresh from gaol this man had the effrontery to appear before the Bench iv the very clothing1 stolen, and he is simply returned to prison for another four months. The only other case was a neighbours' squabble, threatening laaguage ending in assault. The defendant, who explained that it was owing to the inferior class of persons among whom her lot had been cast, that she so often appeared in Court, possessed a most voluble-tongue, to which she gave full play in Court; and it was evident to all within earshot that she possessed iv it an instrument of great power, which was capable of being so wielded as to really place her Majesty's subjects in bodily "ear. She was ordered to find security for its orderly behaviour for three months, a bond which we should be very " unwilling to sign.

On next Thursday afternoon, at one o'clock, an inquest will be held by Dr. Philson and a jury, at the Koyal Hotel, Onehunga, to enquire into the cause of the fire which resulted in the burning of Mr. Pilkington's premises, on the 7th of last month.

Theee was a very good attendance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, when the Mulatto Slave, and the Maid and the Magpie, were produced. The former piece passed off very successfully, but the burlesque dragged a good deal. To-night the same programme will be produced.

The first of the series of lectures in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association, will be delivered by the Hight .ftev. Dr. Cowie, Bishop of Auckland, at the Eooms, Wellesley-street, on Friday evening next, ihe subject is " Five Months in Cashmere."

The Hawaiian Gazette, of the 13th ultimo, says :—" Advices from San Francisco say there is hardly a doubt but that W. H. Webb would obtain the English and American subsidy for the Australian line, as the Australians themselves favor an American line."