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New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 2908, 24 May 1873, Page 2

Monday, in Auckland, will be observed as a public holiday, in commemoration of Her Majesty's birthday, although nine almanacs 'n the office announce that to-day is the day which 54? years ago ushered a Princess into the world who was to set an example to all £ho Courts of Europe, whether as a maiden, a wife, a widow, a mother, and a daughter. In ail the spheres of lifo which pertain to womanhood, the Queen lias fulfilled her duty beyond all compare. Of late years blio has suffered much from impaired health, and the long term of her bitter anguish for the loss of a husband iu every way worthy of so goo d and amiable a lady, has been heightened and intensified by a painful complaint always affecting her physical, and, as is knowH, occasionally her mental state. Our Royal lady comes of a long-lived family, and the wish of her subjects throughout the hemispheres of the world is, that she may long lire <.■ reign over them through the wisdom of her Parliaments and her noble adrisera. On Monday next tho day will be marked by a general cessation from business, by a review, by an excursion to the Thames, and a ball among some of the friendly societies. There was a full house at the City Hall last evening;, ou the occasion of the benefit of that charming young cantratrice, Miss Fannie Carandini. A programme of unusual excellence was gone through, and a number of new songs were rendered by different members of the company,—songs that had never before been sung in Auckland. In each of these cases encores were enthusiastically demanded, and on each occasion the demand was complied with. Principal among these was tho duet brilliant, "Brindisi," by the sisters Rosina and Fannie; the cavatina, " The Fh it bless," by Kosina, and selections from Wallace's opera of " Lurline," by the company. Tho other portions of the programme were of the usual interesting character. One of the most pleasing portions of the entertainment was the performance on the piano by Madame Winter of one of Dohler's " Tarentelles." This is a most difficult piece of instrumentation, but, it was rendered with great brilliancy and effect, and drew down loud applause. Madame Carandini sang some of her prettiest ballads, and Mr. Gordon was particularly effective in the rendition of several bass songs, principal and best among them being, "The Wolf," and " Will o' the Wisp." These charming entertainments are now drawing to a close. Next week wiil be the last week of the Carandinis in Auckland.

It. will be remembered that a short time ago a Water Supply Committee was appointed from among the members of the City Council. It seems that this Committee took upon itself the duty of advertising for tenders for tfie construction of the water-works, and this coming to the ears of the other members of the Council, they yesterday called a special meeting by requisition, when all the members were present but Councillors Darguville, Ilobbs, and Williams. The Council decided to etay the issue of the advertisements until the next meeting, and a good deal of warm discussion took place. Sir. McGregor, the engineer, was present, and put forward certain propositions, the principal one being that he would draw up a plan, and giro in estimates of the work for the sum of one hundred guineas. Considerable discussion took place on this question, and ultimately a committee wis appointed to make arrangements witn >it-. McGregor to furnish an approximate estimate of the cost and construction of the proposed water-works. A report of the proceedings will be found elsewhere. The first of the winter aeries of lectures at the Young Men's Christian Association, was delivered last evening by the Ven. Archdeacon Muunsell, the President of the Society. Subject: " The Gentleman." The large room was crowded, not a seat being vacant. An outline of the lecture will be found in another column. The next lecture will be given by Mr. Severn. A vote of thanks was passed to Dr. Maunsell by acclamation. The marked success which has so far characterised the present course must be very gratifying to the committee of the Association, and especially so to its painstaking and indefatigable hon. secretary (Mr. Thomaß Buddie), on whom the greater portion of the labour necessary for it 3 management has fallen. Few, save those who have undertaken a similar task, can comprehend and appreciate the infinity of trouble and loss of time involved in order to deserve, if not to command, success. Mr. Darran has already over a million feet of kauri timber for floating down the creek to the Hauraki Saw Mill. The foreßt is described as being a magnificent one. Some of the trees cut down are about II feet in diameter, and are estimated to contain 19,000 feet of timber each. There are forty men employed on the contract. A considerable number of the hands are engaged in the construction of a large dam, 26 feet high, on the Warohai Creek. This work will be completed in three weeks, and the contractors will commence driving down the logs as soon as this dam is finished. A labourer named Robert Henderson lately hanged himself in a closet at his residence, ut Ashby, Geelong, with a wire tied to the ridge-pole. It appears that he first stood on the Beat and made a noose, and then tied his hands behind his back with a wire. When these datermined preparations had been completed, he put his head into the noose and jumped off the seat. There was a warrant out for his arrest, on a charge of indency. The policeman who went to execute th» warrant discovered the unhappy man hanging lifeless.

Another effort was yesterday made by the water-police to find the body of the unfortunate young man, Hicliard Morton, who was drowned last Saturday. Two watermen weire also. engaged throughout the day with tbo same object, but their search was unsuccessful. It is feared that there is little chance of '.he I body being recovered.

Sixteen good upstanding troop horaes~li-» required for the Armed Constabulary Ti are called for by Colonel Lyon,and, to advertjsement, must be approved of by I board of officers at Cambridge. Whv Cambridge, Jo would like to be infor/ed ' An- Auckland dealer or owner may haTp half-a-dozen good horsea for saleAorJ, of the kind called lor, but he win probably not care to risk forwardin them to Cambridge with the probability 0 f £ a board of officers rejecting them. I* ther no one in authority in this citv • able to judge a horse, and what it J* to ba fit for, his age, and what he U We will undertake to say there j« n-j b*tt man in Auckland than Atr. Ivnlcte Broham, to know what sort of a horjJfit for bush business ; and if he wanted to have his judgment confirmed he knows those who could assist him.

The Auckland Grammar-school prizes were publicly presented, in the Mu3ie Hall Sv-monds-street, yesterday afternoon, a renorfc of which appears in another column. I n order to prevent unnecessary inconvenience *o the representatives of the Press, we would askthat in future, when reporters are expected to be present, a table should be orovidrd for their accommodation. On inqu'irino 0 r one of the schoolmasters, yesterdaj if° anv convenience was provided for the reporters the oniy ans-rer given wa-i, that he fc ne ' nothing at all about it. A littl« more accommodation for the reporters would have been felt a great convenience. And courte*v is so inexpensive an article, that a little more of it might have .been spared when dealing with the Press representatives. °

A somewhat serious accident occurred at the Thames Imperial Crown battery on lliursdav, to one of the men employed there named George French, livins in jlurphy'slane. The Advertiser states that French was lifting one of the stampers with au iron bar or lever, but had not withdrawn it smartly enough, and the stamper struck the end with great force. The other end of the bar struck French on the breast and on the throat under the chin. He was thrown on his back by th» force of the blow, and was taken up by h<"» mates and conveyed to the hospital in a cat It was found that his brea=fc was very seriously bruised, while the throat is cut'and injured.

Owing to the pressure of private business and the numerous calls made upon Ins time and attention, Mr M'Leod, M.if. R., has resigned his seat in the Legislative Assembly. Mr. M'Leod felt that if he did not resign, to enable bis seat to be occupied by some other person who could give his undivided attention to the business of the State without too great a sacrifice to his personal interests, he would not be acting fairly towards his constituency. We believe that Mr. Hujh Carleron will ask the suffrages of the electors, and there is little doubt of his being returned without a contest. It is not likely that any one else will appear in the field.

The JS'elson Examiner, speaking of Sullivan's murder, writes as follows :—Xhe recent murder of Sullivan by a body of Hauhaus was a political murder, let Ministerial scribes deny it as they may, and was committed in order to embroil the Government with the King party. We are plainly told, if we are to credit our telegrams, that the murder of Sullivan will be followed by others, and if the Maori King persists in sheltering the murderers from justice, we must couclude he approves of tho crime, and is prepared to accept the consequences of his couduct. The man Bichle, who was sentenced to three years' penal servitude at the criminal sessions of the Tirnaru District Court for stealing two bottles coutair.iug coins and documents from under the foundation stone of St. John's Masonic Lodge, Xiinaru, has since feigned madness, but the medical doctor has certified to his perfect sanity, and B. Woolleombe, Esq., the Visiting Justice of the Timaru gaol, on going to the gaol, sentenced him to three days' solitary confinement. Our Wangarei correspondent says : —A very excellent and entertaining concert was given by the Philharmonic Society, in the Court-house, on tho XGth instant. Xhe room was well filled, and an excellent programme was admirably carried through. The conceii. was a success, financially and otherwise; and although, where all did their best, it would be invidious to mention nauits, I cannot omit that of Miss Keating, whose exquisite execution of " Alice," on Lhe piano, won general admiration. We understand, says the Thames Adi-er-2e'ser,that Major Cooper, the officer commanding the Thames district, has received an intimation from the Government that in the event of the services of any person being required for active duty from this district, the Major will first be consulted as to the qualification of Buch person for the post. If the services of any body of men are required from this district, the Major will either himself accomI pany them, or appoint officers to take such command.

It is stated that a remonstrance has been sent in to the Board of Education against the site selected for the school in the Xitiraogi district, as being not central, and that, at the recent election of a school commit:, e, sererul of the voters were not duly qualified, not being resident householders. Other dotui!.in connection with the matter have also been submitted to the consideration of the Board, who will, no doubt, take them into consideration, and act accordingly. The old rifles of the police were yesterday called in, and they w"ere served with and short swords. Whether this bears uuy political significance or not we cannot say, though there are persons who believe that the whole of the Auckland Constabulary may shortly be called to the front, their duties here being undertaken by speeiaisi during their absence. This is possible, though not at all probable. The p.s. Royal Alfred will leave for the Thames this evening, at 7 o'clock. She will tike the Yolunteer Naval Brigade down to assist in the review to be held there on Monday. The Alfred will leave the Thames for Auckland at 10 a.m. to-morrow, and will be laid up on Monday. On Tuesday she wi" leave Auckland for Coromaudel at noon, returning the same evening. The If aval Brigade and Carets met for drill last evening, in the Princes-street Drill-shed. Captain Leßoy was in command of the m en » of whom there was a very good muster. Thej were put through the company and skirmishing drills, also various marching and wheeling evolutions, all of which were creditably gone through. The Revising Officer, Loughlin O'Brien, Esq., was engaged yesterday with the roll for Newton and Pamell. The list of objections has been published, and were, with .a few exceptions, allowed. The objections were, fcr the most part, on account of death or removal from the respective districts under revision. The usual weekly sitting of the Resident Magistrate's Court was held yesterday. There was rather a long list of uudefended but for small amounts, and all of them were either settled or withdrawn. Three defended cases wgra tried, the particulars of which Wlil .be found in another column.

'The following persons were in the lcck-uj> last evening:—John Wilson, Thom-is Hum Brooke, on a charge of stealing a watch, the property of Mr. Blyerj Mary Hoivley for vagrancy; a Kanaka, for stealing ou oranges from the shop of Mr. Bier, on L wharf, and two or tHres drunkards. It will be seen on reference to our advertising columns that the p.s. Golden Crown will make a cheap trip to the Thames, at 3'ngle fare.-, on Monday next (Queen's birthday), leaving Queen-streefc wharf at 9 a.m. and lararu wharf at 6 p.m. i An entertainment in aid of the Mine" Accident Relief Fund is promised for Monday evening by the Auckland Amateur Dramatic Club, at the Theatre Royal, Thames. The Bitting of the District Court for Mjndsv next wiil ba adjourned to the fo.lo*i £ day (Tuesday), so that suitors need u->>. attendance until Tuesday morning.

» Snvder," in the Weekly Herald, says : T|, e 'following suggestive mottoes have been forwarded to nie by a friend who takes a deep an d absorbing interest in the romantic Maori. first is intended to be placed in Exeter Jlall. aud reads as follows : —" When you see a llaori, pray for hitn." The second is a jjjotto for settlers, on the confines of the counted boundaries, and reads thus: —" When TO u see a Maori, slioofc him." The third is intoned for a Native Minister, it is "When TJll see a Maori, flour him and sugar him." j'jie interesting gentleman also suggests the following nursery rhymes to be impressed upon the memories of the children representthose to whom tho foregoing mottoes are 6 ii»aested as emblamatical of their feelings, for instance, how inexpressibly beautiful it vrou'.d be to hear the nursery chant of infant jips at an Exeter Hall meeting, giving forth in melodious unison— Tit, tat. toe, My first po, Three unconverted Maoris all in a row, Tray for their convcrsi'ui—to their coming round prcln eating murdered white man, wherever he bs found. Hie nursery song for an out-settler's child will be something iu sentimeut as follows : — Tit. tat. toe, My first go, A hundred murdering Maoris all in a row, StiVk them up-shoot them donn, Cirt tk.-in :uv:iy to their burial ground. lor the children of Ministerialists :—

Tit, tat, toe, Our first go, Thirty new appontinent* .ill in a row. fill tin 1 ])) villi supporters all staunch and sound, i_;iVL- :Ik-ui good fat salaries ilie whole year round. 31 v friend who has composed these things, savs the two best parts of a Maori are his lieaJ and his heart —they are both susceptible to the influence of a bullet, lie says —but then he is so absurd —that the friendly Maoris iu the Middle Island possess laud to the value of two millions sterling. He wants to know, if those Maoris bo so very friendly, whether they will object to contribute any portion of it towards raising a fund for putting down the tatooed unfriendlie; in the island ; and, if they objected, would it do any harm just to make the contribution in their name, whether they liked it or not. He wants to know, you know, why, us we protect life and property of the South Island aborigines as we do our own people, they should not iu !im« of need help to protect h». In short, to jo:n in with us and polish oil'the murdering u.isereants, and improve them oil? tlie face ol their land. But my friend's drift is this—why should we allow the friendlies iu the Sjuth to possess some of the richest lands in li'.c colony, while they sympathise—they qo sympathise —with their dusky brethren cutting our throats in the North ? A Southern contemporary states that the whooping cough is so prevalent in Warepa that hardly a household is free from it. The district school has been closed in consequence, bat no fata! cases have occurred up to the present time.

A football match (Volunteers v. Civilians) will be played this afternoon in the Albert Barracks, by the members of the Auckland Football Ciub, The game will commence at 2.45 p.is. sharp.

The Seereiary of the Auckland Gas Company gives notice that discount will be allowed oil gas accounts, if paid within office hours on Tuesday lies'. The company's office will not be open ou Holiday. The Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association announce in our advertising columns the addition of some seventy Toluoies to tlie library of the institution. The Chairman of the Harbour Bjard calls for tenders fur the erection of a new wharf at the North Shore. Pians and specifications may be seen at the office of the Board. Francis Young gives notice of his intention to pi:; hi, last examination, and apply for his order of discharge, at the Bankruptcy Court, on the Siu of June. Ti;e committee of the Thames Hospital advertise for a house surgeon, secretary aud collector, and dispenser and warder. A meeting of the shareholders of the Whanpapoua Gold Mining Company is convened for the 2nd of June.