ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1198, 25 November 1873, Page 2

ANCHOVIES AND TOAST.

Op-, Home Jottings by our London

Correspondent.

> London, August 28. MR KINEALY'S SPEECH. , '

After a speech of twenty-one days, during which, the weariness and disgust of bench,bar, jury, and audience could hot be con-* cealedj Dr. Kinealy concluded his;' opening," address for the defence of the Ticnibprne^ claimant. So far the witnesses for the de-i fence have been people from the'neighborhood of Wapping, who have sworn. that the defendant is not -Arthur Orton, but theirj evidence has not been given in;a satisfactory" manner, and Mr Hawkins has noi; been able to cross-examine properly in consequence of the defence not having supplied the prosecution with the heads of: evidence to be adduced. The Bench has therefore given Mr Hawkins permission to recall these witnesses as soon as he shall have had time for enquiry. Of course the defence say that they themselves were ignorant' of the nature of their own evidence, and so could riot supply it, but; every circumstance 01/tlns memorable trial hitherto hao gone to BhOW'that every* quibble has been taken advantage of by the. defence, and that there has been through-c out 1 a disposition to light '- it out on 'trivial! questions rather than On,the broad field of* honest fact. It is1 now more, thaty .ever believed in many quarters that' .the defendant is the tool of a strong „party, J arid ihhat this accounts for his callous and indifferent bearing. There are many things warrant such a suspicion." ~— — — — (.w AUCKLAND PAPERS .IN LONDON- T" kIS'K'-'. ~.> __'U'.>'J. iit. ' i- Oil v »*w i I conclude that theiWellington correspondent of the Times ha.s ! considered that under existing, circumstances "in "New Zealand thp bid proverb of" Least said/ soonest mqnded" would stand good, for he has refrained:from sending his usual budget of news. The; Times, moreover^ injeommon with the rest; of the i papers;; <has<"not 'given any: extracts' from New Zealand papers- received-by this mail, and in fact every-one seems to have shut his eyes to what .certainly cariribl/foe regarded as very pleasant intelligence. Great numbers of copies of the Auckland journals kre however .received and circulated inithis pountry, aridT nave been* glad td'iiotice Chat your* files t_*f« -latelyj come info tgeneral; favour as a J medium Of infbrihatioh; _\m kentlemandargely interested in New. Zealand mercantile matters told me the other day that he looked upon the Aucklarid Star as.the •Daily' Telegraph of New Zealand, and that the resemblance between the papers lay in their pos- \ sessingjthe. largest circulation and securing; the latest information. Ldou't^want to make| you blushi, but.iithink 'you '• ought ,to get & pat on thft back'occasionally/,and!that's.why I tell' you these things," Blink matters as they may,;therefore; people ] all-rknpwi about the threatening aspect of native matters, andl knijw ; of two instances <in which 7 i fairiilies intending to settle in Auckland 1 pro-; yirice have, determined on delaying"-a. few Souths, and in the meantime are talking of Le .Middle Island. One is the cas|j»;of a small tradesman,; the other- -that "of &* gentleman of .large capital with, a grown Up family, who "was contemplating cattle farming in the Waikato., valley. People are. r pretty generally -agreed .that, -, the' time has arrivedA'wnensthe Maori- should receive a startling _ lesson," and that the Governriient of the colony should not hesitate to strike a blow that.would be felt by every native in the country as final. The credit of the colony is good/ arid commercial men regard' her, future as/certain aincj. .glorious,; and j they regardjttheinative difficulty as a bugbear^whieh gotrid of-at any" ]|>rice. , It r is, simply intolerable^, they -'say, shat5 hat progress' should be' retarded by, this iatiyc.'elemerit,jarid they regard the, eircum-*' j stance that such a large body «f their fellow | subjects tamelyrto ; insult andjmurder • as'simply'incpmprehensihte/' Ah* t { ; l}ut,. MriEditof,if tKey knew as much, as-fyou .and .L triow1 about the -Native Office they would-' nejrei* think 'anything;, incomprehensible" any,; . more" as' long asi \ they " lived.' The' /question, however, is very seripusttfor you Northernl' Islanders because; people are beginriirig to,' Have a knowledge of colonial'geography,' arid/ they know that -the^Middle Island has the ]iull of you in the matter of native' affairs, and 5 they,consequently incline to, taking,up theiri aibpde, in ' a! laiict. where', the" sea . at. any I l rjati^ supplies a barrier 'betwPeri them and the. knife li of i the cannibal. It behovesthe Government take' this matter | in» 'and;'; carry" it out to the bitter end. There must be rib parleying a,bi)nt it. The' Middle Island people know t|i pjr advantage well, and Will keep it if they^ean top.'.'- ' I^__ - /.!.'.;'\- : J. ":. t M>„WRKCK «F -ANEMICtRANT isHIP. ! An emigrant ship/ the' Dunmail. has lately heon wrecked on the bar of the Mersey/ 1 uppity with no lossoorf r life. She was an •"outward-bounder, and.in charge of a pilot.

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The result of the enquiry has shown that the occurrence was due chiefly to the bad weather, but that pilot, captain, and crewwere^_~~>» to blame, the latter especially being in %_t, j ordinary condition of outward-bound lately'-^'' shipped crews, namely within coo-eh ofdelirium tremens. The legal assessor of theBoard of Trade at Liverpool has decided thatthe captain's, responsibility does not ceasewhen the pilot come on board, and that the master is not bound implicitly to follow the pilot's advice. In this case, as it was _mani. fested that there wonld not be sufficient water on the bar, he suspended the captain's certificate for three months. .LEADERS ON NEW ZEALAND IN THE " TIMES." I understood that the leaders on the prosperity of the colony of New Zealand, which have appeared from time to time until very lately in the columns of the Times, are from the peri of the husband of the authoress of those very clever and readaiiie hooks, " Station Life in New-Zealand," &c. .-->.• . Greenstone.1'