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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 94, 28 April 1870, Page 2

An unusual number of persons were punished at the police Court this morning for drunkenness. Three vagrants were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment varying form one month to six. The case of Chas. O'Brien for assaulting Mr. W. H. Newton with a riding whip, came on for hearing. After hearing the case the Bench fined defendant £10, or in defanlt six weeks imprisonment, and also bound him over for six months, himself in £100 and two sureties in £50. Defendant was given until Saturday to provide the mouey for the fine. James Hay, charged with wiffully breaking a window, was sentenced to two months imprisonment. In the Resident Magistrate's Cout, this morning, the case of Heed and others v. Drak9, had only come on for hearing, as we went to press, and would pfobably last the remainder of the day. The annual meeting of the subscribers to the Orphan Home, St. Stephen's, Parnell, will be held in St. Paul's schoolroom to-morrow, at 4 o'clock, to receive the report and statement of accounts for the past year, and to elect members of the Board of Management for the ensuing year. We observe that the partnership hithertoexisting between George Dunnet and P. S. Mackenzie"is dissolved. A general meeting of the shareholders of the Edinburgh Castle Gold Mining Company will be held at the office of the company, fehortland-street, on Friday, 14th May, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. The office of the Cure Gold Mining Company has been removed to Messrs. Styak and Philpi' office, High-street. A call of 2s. per scrip share has been made in the Band of Hope Gold Mining Company. We have been requested to call attention to the alteration in the sailing of the p.s. Duke of Edinburgh for the Thames this evening. Instead of leaving at two o'clock, as previously advertised, she will not start till half-past ten p.m. It will be seen from an advertisement which appears elsewhere that instructions have been given by the Provincial Government to proceed against any person shooting or pursuing game, or otherwise trespassing upon the Island of Motu Ihi, without having first obtained permission in writing from the superintendent. We presume this notice is the Tesult of the discussion which took place at the meeting of the Acclimatisation Society yesterday, when it was stated that a well-known gentleman had destroyed a very valuable stag on the island for the sake of its antlers. We sincerely trust that the object of the notice will be fully carried out, for it appears to us to be an act of wantonness that ought not to be allowed, to destroy animals not indigenous to the country, but imported at a very heavy expense for the purposes of breeding and multiplying in the province. It is notified that meetings of creditors in the following estates will be held at ttie times and place specified below :— John Proctor Hydes, John Howe, Charles Herberte, and Richard fioberts, Supreme Court, noon, 4th May ; Charles Cecil Rookes, Supreme Court, noon, 3rd May. The appointment of Mr. Movbray as trustee in the estate of Henry Nathan i 3 confirmed. Notice is given that Oliver Alfred Kayson will apply, at the next public sitting of the Bankruptcy Court for the complete Execution of a dee! of composition with his creditors; and thai a deed of assignment and arrangement has been made and duly filel between Henry Hawkes Wright, of Onehunga, John Buchanan, of Auckland, and Isaac Philps, of Auckland, for the mutual benefit of the creditors of the said Henry Hawkes Wright. The annual general meeting of members of the Auckland Club was held £t the Club House, yesterday, J. T. Maikelvie, Esq., in the chair. Statements of receipts and expenditure for past year, and assets and liabilities were read and approved, the latter showed that the litbilities had been reduced from £492 If a 6d to £5 0s 4d. It was estimated th.it the receipts for current year would eiceed the expenditure by about £2<D. The Club now numbers 122 membeis. D. L. Murdoch, Esq., was unanimously elected President, and Messrs. James

Cruickshank, J. 0. Firth, iW^g^JQaldy, and Every M aclean, members _of com•mittee£:in. the roqmjpf/'bthers re.sign.cd. - A 'sPEjDiAii jmeetinjf of \the members of the Adoiklaiid Acclimatisations Sbciejty was held at the office of the society, Fortstreet, ;at XI o'cl'pck yesterday morning. Present — Messrs., James Williamson (president), B. Tonks, W; Mprrin, G. B. Owen, T.. B. Gillies, and tlie Secretary. A good deal of business was done, a. summary of which will '.be found elsewhere. ;•■ ■ .*•. > ' V ' Nobthebn Division.—The new* list of claimants to vote in this- division was posted at the Devonport Hall the othar day by the Returning Officer. Out of two hundred and thirty claims sent in one hundred and fifty are Maoris'— the bulk of them being witnessed by a Mr. Charles Stannaway. They are said to be resident in villages at the Kaipara. Of course, if these gentlemen have crown grants for the property which gives them the right of voting, we can have no objection to see them registered as electors. But we would suggest to some of our active politicians m the Northern Division the advisability of testing the genuineness of these Maori claims by objecting to them seriatim on or before Saturday next. As Maoris invariably vote in a block they will form a heavy majority for their friends at any elections, and in fact judging, from past experience, their votes if admitted without question, will decide any election for tho district. We shall be glad to supply the proper forms of objection at bur office. One hundred years ago to-day Captain Cook first planted the British flag in Australia. ' . i