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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 289, 15 October 1864, Page 5

We draw attention to the articles which appear in isfcue, extracted from the Southern papers. The feeling of indignation experienced in Taranaki at the conduct ot Governor Grey ■will be seen by reference to our cwrespondent&Jetter. Ckickkt. —xt is intended, we perceive, that there shall be a meeting of the members ot tlie J United Cricket Club in the Domain ground, this afternoon, at half past 3 o'clock. Masonic. —The regular monthly meeting of the Lodge Waiteinatu will he held on Monday evening next, at the Lodge lioom, Masonic Hotel, at half-past seven o'clock.

Land Sale.—Mr. Alfred Euckland will, we perceive, oiler for sale, this day, some very valuable small farms in the neighbourhood of Auckland, and other properties, comprising lands at Epsom Eise. Sale ok the Schooner ' Constant.'—Messrs. Jones and Co. will 4 we perceive, offer for sale, to-day, at twelve o'clock, the schooner ' Constant,'' with new sails and rigging. The vessel is now lying at Onchunga. Newton Liteuahy Institute. —A course of three lectures will be given at the Newton Instituleon Mondaynext. On Monday 31st inst., and on Tuesday the 14th proximo. The lecture on Monday next will be given by Mr. Eastwood, the subject " M ary Queen of Scots, her trial and execution." Mihtahv Funkkal. —The funeral of Charles Schafer, a private attached to the Ist class of No. 3 Company, Auckland Militia, took place yesterday afternoon. The procession, commanded by Captain Brophy, Sergeant-Major Shanaghan, and Quarter-Master Sergeant Chapman, moved from the Albert Barracks, shortly before '1 o'clock, and marched to the residence of deceased's father, who is a baker in West Queen-street, where it was joined by a large number of the deceased's friends, from thence the cortege proceeded to the. Episcopalian Cemetery, where the corpse was interred. The deceased had some shoH time previous to his death been stationed at Drury, at which place he also lost a brother, who belonged tc the same company.

TIIK MaTAKANA OOTItAGES AND Till'. NKW Zeai.andeu. —We take this opportunity ol contradicting a glaring mis-statement which appears in the JS\tto Z,calaiidcr of yesterday in relation to the outrage perpetrated by the escaped prisoners at Mr. Sanchey's house. The A en- /.ca !a n tiers tales that the Maori did not present a pistol at Mrs. Sanchey, but simply held out a tobacco pipe and asked for " tire." We have been intonued by a settler from Matakana that the Maori afterwards afraid of being punished for the outrage, showed tho pistol to him and drove home the ramrod to prove that it was not loaded. "\Y e are not surprised that our contemporary should llnd excuses for any Maori outrage. With him the Maori can do no wrong—tlie settler only can be to blame. We have since heard from a settler just arrived from Pakiri, that the natives come down to the European settlement and take pigs and poultry, and whatever else they take a fancy to, without, offering any payment whatever. How long is Sir George Grey to be allowed to keep a body of rebels plundering the settlers. It is time indeed the Assembly was convened.

Mokxixg Batiis.—Of the necessity for providing .suit-water swimming baths in Auckland, there cim be little doubt. It is a duty, which in part devolves upon the City Hoard now sitting. "We think, that if the inhabitants of tlie city, East and West, were to apply respectively to the City authorities for a certain sum to be expended in fencing in two enclosures, the one on the east the other on the west side of the town, and would guarantee themselves to raise by private subscriptions, a like sum to complete tlie work—that money lor the purpose should be voted by the Board, and some of the Provincial Engineers be instructed to commence the work as soon as the subscriptions of the public had been gathered. .It only requires some one to move in the affair, as Mr. Jlamleydid last year in the city East, to set the matter going, the subscription lists for one-hall the expense of either of the enclosures would be quickly tilled up by the inhabitants of either district respectively, and the Provincial Government could hardly object to hand over the necessary sites, considering the public good to be obtained. The bathing places would be free to the public generally—and this is why such a plan would be preferable to leaving the want to be supplied by private enterprise. In the latter case, a charge for admission, would of course be demanded. Pieton, we see. is about to follow the example of Wellington, and erect swimming baths. The J/tn'/bvrtiitr/// 'Jimcs of the 'ttli inst. says : —*' The veritable and enterprising Charley "\\ illiamß. oil the Gridiron Hotel, is about to construct swimming baths nearly opposite his own residence The annual subscription is fixed at the low figure of one pound, and we believe the charge to casual visitors will be equally moderate. "V\ e need hardly say that we wish him success in the undertaking, and that a large number of the permanent residents of Pieton may be induced to become annual subscribers; and thus hall forward the undertaking." Tin-: Meeting of the Ass km i;ly.—The petition presented on Thursday, praying that the coming session of the General Asembly be held in Auckland was duly forwarded to his lixcelleney to-dav. The proclamation we believe lemains as vet unsigned, and the name of the place ami time of meeting as yet a olank. "13.y>'k or Issue" .Notes. —The police received information yesterday afternoon that one of these now celebrated notes was tendered for change at the " Nottingham Castle. 11 otel." in

Abercrombie-street. Upon enquiry. however, it appeared t hat a new arrival by the ' Portland,' who stated that he had found "the note in question lying upon the Queen-street "Wharf, had morelv entered the bar and asked if it was valuable. T1 lis circumstance shows that there are a considerable quantity of these notes about, and we publish this in order to set tradespeople 011 their guard

JJesidext M.uii.sTjiATi:'s Court.—Yestickiuv. —-Mary Kearns was charged with being a common drunkard. The accused made 110 appearance, and the service of the summons having been didy proved, a warrant was issued for her apprehension. There were seven eases of breaches of the Impounding Act, lSoti, and the eifendei's were severally lined in the full amount of 4<Js. and costs. Joseph Stainer and Arthur Cash were each mulcted in the same sum for allowing their horse and carts to remain in the public streets without a driver.

Stealing a Pair of Poors. —John Shine was charged in the Police Court, yesterday with having stolen a pair of digger's nugget boots from the shop of Mr. Xeven, in Queen-street. The accused pleaded guilty to the charge, and was remanded until this day. in order that the Commissioner of Police might make enquiries as to the circumstances of a boiler that was missing from a shop in Chancery-street, and which Mr. ]N T aughton believed to have been stolen by the prisoner.

The Pkkjcry Cast:. —Captain Stewart was brought before His Worship yesterday, and remanded until next Friday, in order to procure the attendance of necessary witnesses for the prosecution. The charge against Mrs. Stewart will also be proceeded with 011 that day. Ukuacji ok DuiuHMi Act. —The charge laid under this Act against Henry Probert was again adjourned yesterday for another week. Mr. Beveridge. who appeared for the accused, stated that in all probability the matter would be settled out of Court in the meantime.

The Duck Stkai.incj Cask. —The four boys implicated in this atliiir are now; till in custody and will be brought before the .Resident Magistrate this morning. Two were arrested 011 Thursday, one yesterday morning, and the fourth walked into the guard room last and stating he was very miserable, gave himself up as one of the thiel's.

Stealing a Boiler. —Mr jiout of the "Settlers' Store," Vulcan Lane, gave information to the Police 011 Thursday of the theft of a six gallon boiler from his shop. The Commissioner of Police had reason to suspect yesterday morning that the man iiajAwd— Shine, who pleaded ."■niltv in |l|e tL»<fifeMt .Magistrate's Court to stealing a pair of boots, was also implicated in this matter. Since then further proof has been gathered, and the accused will therefore be again brought before his Worship this morning 011 a charge of larceny.

D.tXGEiiors Occukkexce.—The inhabitants of Shortlnnd-strcct were much alarmed yesterday about noon by a voting horse which galloped with great speed down that street, dragging with it a large goods' cart, known as " Higgins's Lightning Express." The horse proceeded like iig/d ning down Shortland-street, turning the corner of Queen-street leading towards the Wharf, and narrowly escaping knocking down two ladies at that spot. The affrighted animal then pursued its headlong career along the W1 lari, and never stopped until compelled to do so'by the main rigging of the ' Glcndower,' that was luckily lying at the extreme end of the jetty. Strange to say that, although there were ten or twelve carts on the Wluirf at the time, and either side of it was filled wit a timber, no accident occurred.

Militia Shirkers.—The agitators against the calling out of the Militia down South have got up an absurd rumour, it'would seem, that when drilled, Middle Island nieu will be brought up here to tight the Maoris. Such a thing could not be clone without the consent of the Assembly, and therefore, they have no reason to believe this "rawheadnndbloody bones" story. Ifcveiy red coat were withdrawn from x\ew Zealand tomorrow, there are men enough, in the Province of Auckland alone, able and willing to conquer the whole country, and clear off all ob.-tructions to the free title to the land. "What the AngloSaxon race did in America, they are quite able to do again in the northern island of jNcw Zealand, without aid from British troops, British money, or any extraueous sourcc whatever. It

must conic to this by-and-byc, so there is no use m blinking the question. Thp whole moral responsibility of having caused such a state of things will bs a joint inheritance for the British f ' l George Grey, and Exeter Hall. ' Ihc Militia movement," says theMarlhorouql, " a PP e;u '.s to have excited a strong feeling ot indignation in the breasts of tho non-comba-tive. The provincials of Marlborough object to being made food for Maori rifles. The prevailing opinion being that a militia is only being enrolled for the purpose by-and-bye of drafting them off to Auckland. Should this be the object, a greater mistake could not have been made by the Northern Government. "What will desperate men not. do? The three million loan not negotiated. ] mperinl troops withdrawn, and the seat of Government removed, the Aucklanders may be pardoned in their extremity for attempting that which it is hopeless to suppose by cooler judgments will ever be accomplished."

Phincr of "Wales Thkatuk—The performances last night were the same as on the previous evening, and an excellent audience assembled to do justice to thorn. We have before not iced " The Will and the _ Way" at considerable length, suffice it therefore to say that the piece was most successful in every sense of the word. It is excellently mounted, and the parts, particularly that of " Old Martin,' by Mr. Barry, well played. To-night this wonderful production will be repeated, and we shall expect to see a crowded house.

Tjikatjsh Royal.—Last night was set apart by the management, of this Theatre as a " grand state night, and there w:;s a good attendance present. The bill of fare provided for the Occasion was well received. 11 is Excellency Sir George Grey honoured the Theatre with his presence. The burlesque of " Cinderella" seemed as great a favorite as ever. To-night, " Bob Boy" will b;: repeated.

Mn,ita it v T) usi:iiTi;i:s.—The Singleton correspondent of the J fail land Mcrcar// contains the following account- of the apprehension and discharge of a man naimed Dixon, said to be a deserter from the 14 th Regiment;—" Micha el Dixon was brought before the Bench charged with desertion. The sergeant, of police stated that the prisoner had given himself up to the police stating tlint he was a deserter from H.M. ,14th .Regiment of Foot in New Zealand, and wished to be sent back. The sergeant had forwarded a telegram to the authorities in Sydney, but no record of prisoner's desertion could be procured there ; but he still persisted in saying that he was a deserter. The prisoner was discharged."

Tun Mri:i>k!:kk Mc'Lkax.—Under tlie head of " what constitutes murder ?" tlie I'ollowing letter appears in the Ucii/i/ Times oi' the 4th instant : —" Sir, — A paragraph in your paper of this date informs us that ' Petitions are being extensively signed ill Auckland for a commutation of the sentence upon Alexander McLean, sentenced to deatli for wife murder.' I wonder it'tlie petitioners are aware of the fact, that this miscreant, had, <>/ Ivitxl, twice before attempted the life of his wretched helpmate ! J Once, when keeping the Devonshire Arms. Brighton. Victoria ; 011 which occasion the poor woman fell at the feet, of tlie writer, with the blade of a carving knife fixed in her shoulder. Secondly, about, Iwo years afterwards, when living at J'rahran. the noble husband, with a cavalry sword, almost hacked the woman to pieces, so that she was for weeks not expected to survive.—l am. St. Kij.pa : Punedin. rjrd October. 18(M.

Sum i: or Tin.; OoNSK(jri:Nci:s ok tiik Pi:t:si:nc i-: of Convicts ajioxust its. —On this topic the fief/inter, in au article on the anti-transporta-tion movement in Australia, remarks:—ln Tasmania for more than twenty years the natives remained in a state of amity with the set tlers ; but when the convicts, either as assigned servants, escaped felons, expirees, or ticket-of-leavcmen. became spread over the country, the horrible atrocities they pcr.petrnt.ed upon the natives goaded them to madness, and led to those scenes of slaughter and revenge that only terminated in their banishment and extinction as a race. Jn se*v South Wales similar cruelties were perpetrated upon these poor creatures, although not finally with the same fatal result. The history of this colony has been marked by a better treatment of the natives, only because it has not been a convict colony ; and if out of the comparatively few crimes against the aborigines we deduct ed those that have been committed by convicts from the other settlements, the contrast will be still more striking. In a short time these reprobates will be dispersed over new tracts of country inhabited by fresh tribes of natives, whose curliest experience of the character and conduct of white men will be obtained from the most reckless and brutal criminals of jMigland. It is a pity that those statesmen and parliamentary orators who become so sentimental when expatiating upon the supposed wrongs of the IS T ew Zeal an del' cannot pay more attention to the question, we now raise, and vent some of their indignant declamation on a system which turns loose among our Australian natives the very men most likely to corrupt and ill-use them —a system which renders the settlement of so-called Christians in a heathen land a curse instead of the blessing which it ought to be the aboriginal inhabitants.

Tin: Amuuicax Ckuiskks.—Mr. O'Connell sends to the Tiiiicx the following extract (Voin a letter received by him iVom Derrynane Abbey: —"Two steamers were lighting off tlie Bull Hock 011 Monday evening (-July 11th), supposed to be Americans. A t Derrynane the shots were heard from live lo seven p.m., and the dairyman in Irearill'saw the ships, ant! says his cattle were nearly driven mad by the firing. One vessel seemed to hint to be cm fire. One went lo lite north, the other out to sea after awhile." The Hull Hock is *o the north of Bantry Bay ; Scarili' is a,n island four miles west of iierrynane, and ten north of the Hull Hock. A .Paris letter says : —The ' Jvearsage' and the ' Sacramento' lelt Boulogne on the ISth for an unknown d( stination. Some suppose that they have gone to light, in pursuance of the tutrU•/ lately said to have been ex(lianged with Confederate naval ollicers. The Paris papers publish n despatch from Fecamp stating (hat, a sharp cannonade was heard at sen from that place on the IStli. An engagement was .supposed to be proceeding between Federal and Confederate vessels. The Prucitrxeitr of Antwerp states that the Confederate frigate * Is' iagai a' has been for the last two or three days oil' that port. In addition to her ollicers, she lias a crew of 500 men and a number of marines The Aberdeen Journal states that the report of a light between a Prussian and a Danish vessel off iVlontrose, probably arose from tlie presence in that locality of her jVlajesfy's ship 'Trafalgar.' which, about the time, and at the place indicated, was practising lier crew in shooting at a target.

Making Fiti:r. with the " PitESs" :x a Diggings Location.—The Marlborough Press publishes the following amusing instance of newspaper trials and tribulations : —There is a class of people who are under a very erroneous impression tliat any kind of notice may be inserted in the advertising columns of a newspaper, as long as it is paid for, and the writer's Mine is attached. Indeed, it will occasionally happen that the gentleman, in our olSice, whose duty it is to receive'advertisements, is occasionally told, when he rejected a notice or announcement which could not be inserted in any reputable journal, that he is bound to do it; and frequently it is insisted (fruitlessly nevertheless) that it shall be done. As a specimen of what occasionally occurs in this way, we give the following, which passed at our olliee ou Saturday last:— [Enter a very hirsute, stalwart being, jliavir.g the appearance of a sly-grog shanty-keeper —very dirty, more than half tipsy, and exhaling the odour of rum most offensively.]

Pitching down a very cram pled piece of paper, apparently tho fly-leaf of a book, lie exclaimed " How much P" Press Representative reads, shakes his head, and answers " Can't go in at any price." Slianty-keeper: I3ut I pays for it. Press Representative : Can't insert it. Slumty-keeper : My name's there. Press Representative: Can't insert it, I tell you. •Shanty-keeper: Then I'll make yer. Press Representative : No, I think not. Shanty-keeper: ISow, just you put that in. If you don't look out! Your head ain't thicker than iunny a chap's I've punched before now. Press Ilepresentative (civil but stubborn) : Can't go in, sir, on any account. Shanty-keeper: Just come out, then, into the street. Press Representative sticks the paper on a file, and says he will refer to head-quarters, lhis was done to .save his head, and the man walked awa3', uttering an obscene oath. The offered advertisement, for which the clerk s head was to lie punched, if it was not inserted, is here transcribed, the names only being altered, to avoid head-punching or a criminal prosecution for libel:— "Tom Ralerty had better keep out from coming to my tent. His wife won't com back no more to him. Site's a-goin' to live with me. Who was lagged for steeling biankits, and bolted from the Dusthole —Yours Tom Dully. Pitovtjfc-iAi, Coiij.cn,.—The Council sat yesterday irom :> till half-past, 8. Several petitions were received and ordered to lie on the table. Messages were brought down from the Superintendent on lhe subjects of the Auditor's Reports, the receipts and expenditure of the past year, a complaint against the Inspector of Thistles! salaries to Emigration .Agents, and the provisions of the Emigration Act. As there were spven-l military appellants for laud, it was [nought advisable that Mr. G'Ollaugher's name, as being acquainted with military matetrs, should be added to the Private Grievance Committee. Notices were given of addresses to his Honor the Superintendent, relative to correspondence with the lMigineer-m-Chiel ; to the amount of money paid to various odieers of the Provincial Government, by way of bonus ; to the appointment ot Captaui Daldy ; to the erection of a new Supreme Court House, &e. ; to correspondence about Mr. A. Clark. Mr. Carleton's bill for preventing any contractors for Government works from holding a seat in the Provincial Council a second time, and ordered to be considered for next sitting day. The Water Works Appropriation Bill was considered in Committee and postponed till Friday. On the motion for the first reading of the Auckland Water Work Bill, it was resolved to add certain names to the Committee, an the Council adjourned at half-past 8 till Tuesday next.