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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 87, 20 April 1870, Page 2

Whethee resulting from any particular state of the moon, a special conjunction of the stars, a pecuiiar electrical and magnetic state of the globe, or, any unusual meteorological condition of the atmosphere, certain it is that Hymen's rites are singularly fitful. His altars are so groaning to-day beneath the burthen of human hearts laid on them in sacrifice, that we feel constrained to devote a special paragraph to his service. We are happy to record that this morning Cr. P. Pierce, Ksq., Manager of the New Zealand Insurance Company, has been united in marriage to Miss Connell ; Francis Jnnes, tt.sq., i^eputy-Assis-tant Commissariat-General, to Miss Lyell; J. B. Bradshaw, hsq., member of the General Assembly, to Miss Boulton ; — Willoughby, Esq., from the Waikato, to a second Miss Boulton; S. E. Hughes, Esq., solicitor, to Miss Ansell ; and two other gentlemen, as we understand, well known citizens, who this morning for ever renounced the liberty and joys of single blessedness; and, led captive by the charms of female loveliness, have entered upon another and a better state. We observe that the shipping are dll flying bunting, which, we understand, is specially in honour of the marriage of Mr. Pierce and Mr. fnnes.

In accordance with the request of the Resident Magistrate from the Bench to the Pi ess to-day, we have nuch pleasure in drawing public attention to the following section of the Police Act:—" If any person allow in any house or place wherein liquors, provisions, or refreshments are sold or disposed of, any drunkenness or other disorderly conduct, or suffer any gaming therein, or suffer prostitutes or persons of notoriously bad character to be assembled therein, such person shall for Ilie first offence forfeit a penalty not exceeding ten pounds, and for every subsequent offence besides the said penalty, imprisonment for any term not exceeding one month may be awarded."—Auckland Municipal Police Act, 1866, section 16.

In the Police Court, to-day, there was the usual array of the drunk and disorderly. A charge of gambling in an oyster saloon occupied a considerable time, and was of interest from ihe fight made against conviction; and the result, as well as the remarks made by the Uesident Magistrate, are deserving of notice. It appeared that the stake was a supper of oysters ; aud the " counters" used were coins of the realm, which, to say the least, gave a suspicious aspect to the case. It being a first offence, with mitigating circumstances, and intended more as a warning, the prosecution consented to forego the penalty ; but from the remarks ef Mr. Ueckhanj, and the powers contained in the Municipal Police A etas to gaming and the frequenting by prostitutes in places of refreshment, we would recommend some people to look out. We believe the .Resident Magistrate means mischief.

An accident, such as at any time may prove fatal, was observed on the Wynyard Pier on Sunday evening last. A line little fellow of four years was tripping along on this rickety promenade closely behind his nurse when by one of the openings caused by the decay of the planking, he fell through, and had almost slipped into the water below when he was rescued. It is easy to say that this pier was not built for promenading children ; but everyone sees that children do resort there, and the scandalous leeklessness with which the pier is left in its present perilous state will, sooner or later, bring blood-guiltiness on somebody's head.