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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 170, 30 May 1864, Page 4

Our Summaey for transmission to England will be issued on Saturday next, the Ith of June, in time for the Supplementary English mail which leavos ou the Monday following. Borne apology is due to the public of Auckland that ou the last occasion of issuing our summary jiouic , hundreds of persons were unable to procure ic on the day of publication. The reason of'his was that during the evening previous to publication orders for between three and four Tuindrrd copies were received in the ofliee, and without i; knowledge of this, no more than the urnai number vreivs struck off. and consequently bi/yond those issued to our regular subscribers Bud tno.sp specially ordered, the supply was less Than the demand Those v.iio are desirous of obtaining copies of our summary will do well to order them at once. Masonic.—Ooloxel Nixon's Funeral.— We perceive by an advertisement in another <!ohi]v<n that the brethren of the several Masonic Lodges in Auckland will assemble, at half-past two o'clock, this afternoon, in full mourning masonic costume, at the Lodge room, Masonic Hotel, for the purpose of joiniug the funeral cortege of the late brother Colonel ISixon. The late Captain I{in<s.- —A telegram -was }-eceived in Auckland yesterday, announcing that the remains of the lamented Captain King, of the 18th regiment, who fell so gallantly leading on the storming party at Orakau, had been exhumed, and might be expected to arrive here during the course of this morning. Should such expectations be realised, the remains of this officer will share in the sad solemn honors about to be awarded as the last tribute of respect to his late comrade in arms, the gallant and beloved Colonel Ivixon. The s.s. 'Princk Alfred' while steaming slowly towards Blufi'Harbour, on the morning of the 11th. grounded upon the tail of a reef oil' Waipapa, in two and a-half fathoms. The engines were immediately reversed, and the M-ate: deepened to seven fathoms. We are glad to state that no appearances during her performances since has indicated damage to the ship. She proceeds from this port to Sydney for a refit, and the ' Auckland' will take the East Coast service for one trip. Messes. Styak & Hunter announce that in consequence of the funeral of the late Colonel !Nixon, which tabes place to-day, their sale will be postponed until to-morrow.' The Stkeets.—We are glad to perceive that the police, with that alacrity which they ever display in the zealous performance of their duties, have commenced the work of keeping the Queen-street pavement clear of idlers. On Saturday night particularly the very agreeable ehanpe was noticeable, and the convenience afforded to the respectable portion of the public ■will no doubt enable many to venture out, who otherwise would not do :;o unless iu cases of absolute necessity. ir'uuiT Sale.—To-day at 11 o'clock. Mr. S. Cochrane will sell at his rooms in Fort-street, a large quantity of fruit, consisting of 60.0N10 oranges. 3tX) pine apples and other fruits, also two kits of arrowroot. From the quantity lor sale there is little doubt, but this will afford Louse keepers a good opportunity of laying in a stock cheap. A Pbovinciali Govkbxment Gazette was published on Saturday, and contains a letter from the Manager of the IS'.Z.S.N. Companj , , explaining the non-nppenrance of the 'StormInrd' in the Manuknu. The letter will be found in another place. Also a notification that the undermentioned persons : Messrs. Geo. Burnett, W. Carruth, H. Holman, A. L. Meldrum, and Eobt. lieyburn, have been elected highway trustees for the Wangarei district. Mr. J. 11. AVickham has been appointed collector of highway rates for the district of Mahurangi. The Gazette also contains a list of persons who arc about to take the benefit of the Insolvent Act. Ekkatum.—ln our obituary notice of Saturday last on the death of Colonel an error occurred in stating that the deceased gentleman originally settled on a farm rented from Major Greenwood. When Colonel >'ixon arrived in this colony he became entitled to some SIX) acres of land, under the "Naval and Military Settlers Act," on which estate he resided, and it ■was not until five years afterwards that, in conjunction with Coionel Iluultain, he rented Major Greenwood's property as a sheep run. Police Court, Satuhdav.—The only business transacted was the disposal of three drunkards in the usual manner, befere Mr. Commissioner Kaughton, and James Preece, Esq., J.P. The Streets.—The showers of the hist few days being onl}'enough to raise the mud without being violent enough to wash it away, have converted our roadways into the worse than impassable sloughs of despond to which we have usually been accustomed each winter in Auckland. Accordingly we now begin to hear the old stories of carts being bogged, and fire engines on their way to the tire being stuck so fast that had the whole town been alight they could not have been moved. Proposed New Settlement-—We learn by one of the Dunedin papers that " a proposal has been made to the Superintendent by the Society in London which has within the last two years BPitt out between three and four thousand colonists to Auckland, and founded the settlement of Albertland, to have assigned to them a block of land in Otago, which thc3 r would undertake to settle in a similar manner. At Auckland the Llock of land was made a special grant under the forty-acre immigration scheme, and a modification of the same plan might, we think, be advantageously introduced here. At all events, here is the machinery in readiness to colonize part of the waste land of our province, and, when, the question shall be submitted to the Council, as of course it will, it will be entitled to consideration." The Pbice of Land in New South Wales. —The subjoined notice of the prices realised for land and house property in JN'ew South Wales, will show those who argue that the prices in Auckland are exaggerated and baseless, that,

at all events, they are suifei ing from the same effects of over-weeuingconeeit, &e, {ad ivfinitvm) as we are here. It is only fair. then, to give the nther sidp of the question the bem-fit of the doubt and to suppose, for the sake of arciiment. Hint it is just possible that thes« liiurli prices are the usunlresult .of the law of supply ;i;id demand. —"Real Property.--The year has .'pened with a. fair prospect of considerable business being transacted in real estate..and v it 11 a gn-wing desire to rnpitnlists to secure i-iigilnV investments in the city nnd suburbs. The hijli premiums offered by our banks for iixed cash deposits and the other numerous outlets for cupital 7nny in a measure effect the demand ; but so loni; as a return is obtainable from property of 10 to 12 per cent., it will remain a favourite security. AVe cannot, however, find anything to induce us to think that there will be any change in prices. Ineligible outside properties remain very dull of sale, and even an extreme rental return of interest on outlay (considerably over the rate above mentioned) will scarcely tempt buyers. Building land, except in choice positions, cannot be placed except at prices lower than what is generally expected by vendors. Country properties remain without change. Among our sales during the month we notice—An extensive property known as Mr. Lenehan's manufactory and show rooms in Castlereagli and King-streets. £11.000 cash ; land in Goulburn-street, near Casilereagh-street. 53 feet frontage, together with several dilapidated cottages of little value. £10 per foot ; land in Albert-street, opposite the Water Police-ollice. 'M kc.i frontage, ,CSSO; house and land. Glndesvilln, Parrainaltii lliver. £510 ; land, South Kingston, Xewtown. 255. per foot; land, Drair.well estate, Parramattu Pailway Junction, £15 per acre. And the following properties in the town of Goulburn —Finhiy's Auction Mart, Auburn-street, £2,000; shop and dwelling, Auburn-street, known as Dixon's, £1.175 ; Robert Burns Inn, Auburn-street. £1,000 ; the Woolpnek Inn. Grafton-street, £040. — Richardson &; Cos Circular, Jan. 20." Hissing Fmknps ix Australia. —In countries where a large proportion of the population must of necessity be a shifting one, we are all aware how difficult it sometimes it is to find our relatives and friends. People frequently emigrate to these colonies with the hope of find ing their friends at the address of the last letters received from them, and are almost as frequently doomed to a painful disappointment. The establishment of an institution for seeking out missing friends in South Australia would, we (ire convinced, be of much advantage both to the promoter and to those who availed themselves of its benefits. Mr. Arthur Cubit t. the well-known news agents of Sydney, 2S'ew South Wales, has lately opened an oiliee of the kind mentioned above, and is gradually reaping the reward of his enterprise. Recently we have had to engage the services of Mr. C. with a view to discovering particulars concerning an indiuHual whose friends here are interested about him, and the result has been such as to nfiord us every satisfaction. W.e have before us evident testimony of the fulness with which he supplies the information sought, and also the care with which lie tries to remove the possibility of all doubts as to identity. In the ease before us, otlieial copies of correspondence, with notarial seals, and other documents of a vnluable nature, arc all forwarded, and evince much earnestness and determination to arrive at the truth. ]\lr. Cnbitt has agents for carrying out his instructions throughout the Australian colonies, and in appointing them has successfully endeavoured to secure gentlemen possessing much local knowledge, and with sutlicient influence to be enabled to obtain tidings of those who are " wanted."— fov/h Avstruliun Arfa-r/i.scr, May 2nd. bsiil. The Last Days ok a Pnrxic.u;i>.—The name' ofYelverton has been before the public, ii, one way and another, and those not aluavs by anv means the most creditable, for some years past. The following account from the Srir Zculaml ]£xo.mi>ier of the end of one of the family will not be altogether without interest:—" The body ol'a woman, half-naked, and frozen to death, j was found early last Saturday morning in a ■ gutter in Barrack-street. Douglas, Isle of Man. It was recognised as that of the drunken and dissolute Hon. .lane Yelverton. alias Jenny I Keefe, by which name she was better known, the widow of the Jloir Augustus Yelverton. brother of Lord Avoiirnorc. and feilow-uncle with that nobleman to the notorious Major Yel- ! verton, whose marriage and lawsuit have for the i last, five years occupied the attention of the ! public. At an inquest held the same day it was stated that the J [on. Augustus Yelverton. the husband of Jenny Kcefe, to whom lie was ni:irj ried about twenty.live years since, died in Liverpool about two months ago; that, he left her a considerable sum of money for her maintenance, which was to be paid |o her in instalments by a I lawyer in Liverpool, from w hid; town she had j arrived in Houulas ouTuesday week, her fare to ■ the island (according to a statement, she made In I a woman in a low public-house, on the night J before her frightful death) having been paid by I the lawyer in question. The inquest was held ! by Mr.'.f. (Jell, high baililf of I'astleiow n. and during the proceedings In; stated that the Hon. Augustus i elverton and tin , deceased had lived in Castlctovvn for many years, and so dissolute and depraved were they in their habits that he had committed them to pri.-on fully a hundred times for being drunk and disorderly. At this time they were allowed by Lord Avonmore, it is understood, an ample income to keep them comfortably, bid they were in the habit of spending ! it in drink as quickly as they got it, and they I ever had on them sufficient rags, let alone clothing, to cover their nakedness. Jenny Keefe, who was a low-born woman, was the third wife of the ]Jon. Augustus Yelverton. he having previously been married to a Spanish, ladv and an Irish one. He had no children by his last wife, but. he had several by his former wives. Li consequence, however, of his depraved habits, they were taken from him, and they now occupy respectable positions in life. Although in rank ami in education there whs such a dill'erence between Jenny Keefe and her husband, yc-t they Were greatly attached to each oilier; they invariably accompanied one another in their orgies, and if one of them was sent to gaol for seme outrage against the ] eace committed during a dunken fit, it was the practice of (he other to smash some shop windows, or make a disturbance ill , the streets, for the sole purpose of getting committed to goal also, in order that they might keep each other company. They scarcely ever had a place to lay their heads in and they lived the greater portion of their time either in the streets or in prison. All the clothing that Jenny Keefe had on when she was found dead was an old gauze frock which did not reach to her knees, and was no thicker than a piece of paper, an old pair of socks that just reached above her ankles, and a pair of thin slippers. A few Lours before her death she was seen standing in a house door dose to where she was found dead, and was heard trolling out, in a voice husky with drink, a street balled called " True blue for uver." The following communication, which has been received from tlie Manager of the New Zealand Steam Coin? anv on the subject of the delay expected to take place in eoiiunenciiii: the steam service from Auckland northwards, waspublished for general in formation on Saturday, in the Provincial Government Gazette. New Zealand Steam Navigation Company (Limited), Auckland, laih May, IS(M. Sib, —Referring to the conversation l' h«d the honor of having with you this morning, regarding the time the eteamer for the northern service from Auckland would reach here, and commence the service, and in accordance with your wish, I now brg to state in writing the reason's that have caused the delay which has already taken pluee. imd which will yet ensue before the contmtt win bu properly tje»uii. When W. A. Khodes, Esq., and myself were in Auckland in the early part of April, and entered into the above urruugi.-iiii.-iit with you, both Captain.

■Rhodes nnd myfcK wore ae'ing in tho hope that the boiler which was being mnde , for the s. s. ' Storm Hird' would soon iiftel-wards, or even nt (lint time, have iirrivrd at "Wellington for her. Besides, we were both living in the hope that the ' Wellington'— the steamer from Scotland—would have reached Sew Zealand about the snmc time. T , V rr,vt *t> stato that the boiler from Sydney will not !.,> receive! until the middle of June, and that it will fak.- about six w.-cls to have it put inlo the vfss.-l. and before other repairs run be cHceterl so as to en«l>le li:-r to (•■ mineree and to continue tt> perform the prwi("*'-d srrv"-i- in a satisfactory manner. The dhi-ctors Ivive also sulfoictl n pi vfie disapDointment in the (Ipliv which has tiWsnn in tho arrival of the ' WL-llinp-ton.' Had this s'oimer boon on the const, it wnuld in .nil probability hsivo permitted tho directors to sr-nd the ' "WYmpa Wonq-a' o> , • ■Rnnsrntirn" to run until such time as the ' Storm Hiril , ' was rendy. T fear, therefore under present circumstances it will he miite impossible to have the 'Storm Bird' in Au.-klan<l before the middle, or endof .Inly. Keim-ttiii;r execcdinfrlytho (1e1,, v f1,,, K eaiised, and trusting it may not produce incrmvonienon to vour Honor or the public ireiirrally, T have, &r., ]{. .1. Di'ncan, Manager. His Honor the Superintendent of Auckland.