The Evening Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 86, 19 April 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. TUESDAY, APRIL 19, 1870.

His Honor the Superintendent left for Tauranga at an early hour this morning in the p.s. Sturt.

Among the various industries springing into existence in the district deserving notice is the fellmongery belonging to Messrs. S. Cochrane and J. G-oodall, finished on Wednesday the 13th inst. It is situated at Russell's Waterfall about a mile from the Whau Bridge. There are three buildings erected on thepremises, one is 45 x 20 and 12 feet high intended for packiDg wool, &c, the second is for drying;, and the third forms a covering for three brick steam pits 8 feet square. This building is 27 x 18 feet and 11 feet high. Also, there is a never failing dam on the premises. The contractor for the buildings was Mr. William Price, and for the brickwork Mr. J. Keane, who have done tbeir work in a manner that needs no comment. The owners purpose enlarging the premises when sufficient inducement offers. We wish them every success in their undertaking.

Condition op Affairs at the Gulf of Carpentaeia — The state of Norman's Town is thus described in a letter to the Brisbane Courier :—" The town is a furnace, and in most places the thermometer reaches 104 ° , 105 °, and 106 °_ in the shade, but I have never noticed mine over 101 ° in the shade, and that in a buildino- very high and well ventilated. There is nothing here but ' barber,' public-house, and bed ; bad cheques, calabashes, and starvation. It is almost pleasing to think there are no ladies here, for some authority says 'that no word falls from the lips without an influence for good or bad.' Our pets andheroeshereare bullock-drivers —they, like the mountain, won't corns to Mahomet, so we, like Mahomet, have to knuckle down to them. By the last import ship lots of liquors, from fighting rum to Bass's beer, arrived, and of course a jollification was the result. From that time forward for a month seven faces in God's image were all that could be counted, although we numbered about 100 fighting men ; all the rest had black eyes, broken noses, and all that flesh is heir to when it comes in contact with knuckles, hobnailed boots, or mother earth's backbone (for we live on a hard gravel ridge). . . . At this moment starvation is staring: us in the face. To live upon, we have no flour, rice, biscuit, potatoes, garden stuff, barley—no nothing, except sardines, salmon, patent groats, arrowroot, hogs, bullocks, and sheep—nothing to drink but sodawater, lemonade, and ginger beer (all bad), and the lagoon water thoroughly impregnated with the rotten lotus and lilly. I have, however, a filter here, and am pesterd with thirsty souls."

j Pbovincial Hospital—Return of sick treated during the week ending Saturday, April 13.h, 1870. Remained last return, 71; admitted siace, 9 ; discharged, 8 ; died, 2; remaining, 70; males, 61; females, 9. Classification: Fever (typhoid), 3 ; syphilis, 5 ; erysipelas, 1 ; cancer, 1 ; rheumatism, 7 ; phthisis pulmonalis, 10; epilepsy, 2 ; chorea, 1; paralysis, 9; amaurosis, 1; neuralgia, 1 ; bronchitis, 1 ; cataract,: 1 ; uterine, 1; whitlow, 1 ; abscess and ulcer, 8 ; wouuds and contusions, 5 ; fractures, 4 ; cutaneous, 1; debility 6. Two men died during the week—one of paralysis of many years' standing, and the result of disease of the brain; and tho other of acute phthisis. The sum of £1 Is was handed over by the Commissioner of Police to the credit of the hospital.

. As some of the members ofthe Auckland Troop R.. C. V. were returning from Penrose last evening in a buggy, and when between the two graveyards in Symonds-street, thehorses took fright,and dashed away at a furious pace ; nor could they be stopped until brought up with a jerk again .t the coping ot the wall, doing serious injury to the shafts and other parts ofthe vehicle, but fortunately without anj danger to the occupants, who were four in number.

The members of the A.R.V. Battalion will parade for company drill at the Albert Barrack Square every Tuesday and Friday morning, and every Wednesday and Saturday afternoon.