SUPERINTENDENT'S LECTURE.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4330, 1 July 1871, Page 3

SUPERINTENDENT'S LECTURE.

THE EDITOR. Sir,— l fear that few of us will rate Mr. "Turner's capacity as a veracious historian at as high a standard as he does himself. His letter, published in your issue of the 28th in3tant, abounds in mis-statements. ■ It would only weary you and yotir readers to point them out, but I will content myself with one, from which may -bo judged the reliance that may be placed on the whole. Mr. Turner says :— "In 1837 it was very seldom a whaler entered the Bay of Islands, but they increased afterwards." I take the following statement from a return placed before the Houses of Parliament, compiled by Mr. Busby, then British Resident at the Bay. It ia headed :— " A list of all vessels which have visited the Bay of Islands during the six months ending December 31, 1836."

Coasters and vessels entering a second time are excluded. This large fleet of vessels must have afforded a goodly source of in,come to the "six white people" who, Mr. Turner tells us, composed the town of Koro« rarika.' Will you allow mo, irf conclusion,' to thank Mr. Turner for not abgepiipg Sir George Grey's invitation to" write his life and a history of New Zealand ? Crepitans.

An old gentleman of the nameof Gould, having married a very young wife, wrote a poetics epistle to a friend to inform him of it, and concluded thus :—: — •' So you see, my dear »ir, though I'm eighty yeara old. A girl of eighteen is in love with— old Gould." To which his friend replied :—: — " A girl of eighteen may love Gold, it is true. ' But bo'ieve me, dear sir, it is Gold without U!" A new-inado minister, having occasion to marry a couple as his official act, and there being quite an assemblage present, determined to strike them dumb with awe, and so in winding up he said, "I pronounce you man and wife, and the Lord have mercy on, your sinful pouls !" Pretty girls, unless they have wise mothers, are more educated by the opposite sex than their own. Put them where you will, there is always some man busying himself in rheir instruction ; and the burden of masculine teaching is generally about the same, and might be stereotyped as follows : "You don't need to be or do anything. Your business in life is to look pretty, and arnuao us. You don't need to study : you know all by nature that a woman needs t^ know. The only sense you need is lovely nonsense. You are, by virtue of being a pretty woman, superior to anything we can teach you j and we wouldn't, for the world, have you anything but what you are." At a neighbour's house was a very bright little girl. It chanced one day that they had for a guest a minister, and an esteemed friend. Little Annie watched him very closely, and finally sat down beside him aud began to draw on her slate. " What are you doing, Annie ?" said ihe clergyman. " I's making your picture," said the child. So the gentleman sat very still, and she worked away earnestly for a while. Then she stopped and compared her work with, the original, and shook her little head-.— '-" •*" can't like it much," she said. "^raint a great deal like you. I dess I'll pjt'' a tail to Ft and call it a dorg." F*ney ms feelings! What a likeness there have been ! HOLLOWAY'S OINafaENT AND PILLS.— Chest Pbeskrvat^es- — At all seasons of the year the ra<-« of mortality from diseases of the lunga ia very great. Holloway's Ointment we ll rubbed upon the chest, aided by his pills, arrests all mischief. - These cleansing medicaments exercise a most salutary and restorative influence over the entire contents of the pectoral cavity. Air tubes, nerves, bloodvessels, and all other tissues feel the wholesomely potent power, more particularly in their thoroughly purifying both venous and arterial blood by promoting 1 the free circulation of air. Neither ointment nor pills contain any noxious ingredient whatever, bnt their balsamic nature nourishes rather than irritates the system, and kindly subdues all untoward symptoms, till all is well once more. — [Adv.] Children Teething. — A.t no period of young life is more anxiety and trouble given to mothers and nurse* than when children are " cutting" their teeth. The pain can be immediately relieved by applying to fi« gums Mrs. Johnson's American Soothin? Syrnp.which has stood the tost 4) f nearly half a century. It is innocent, efficacious, aad acceptable to the child None genuine without the name of " Barclay & Soni, 95, Fartingdon-street, London," on the -stamp. Sold by all chemists, at 2s. 9d. a bottle. — Agents, Yennell and Co., Auckland. — Adv.

British ships of war . . . • 2 British whalers .. .. ..25 British trading vessels . . . . 2 New South w ales whalers . . 35 New .^outh Wales merchantmen . . 26 Van Dienien's Land whalers . . _i American whalers . . . . H9 American traders .. .. 5. French whalers .. .. .. 3 Tah'tian trader .. .. .. I Total .. ..151

July August September .. October November . . December . . 2 whalers 8^ whaler* € whalers 10 whaler 3 13 whaleri 1 merchantman 1 merchantman 1 merchantman 2 merchantmen 5 merchantmen 2 merchantmen SS 12

A summary for the same year is as follows :—