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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 101, 6 May 1870, Page 2

Me. Blake, Inspector of Telegraph Works, arrived at Tauranga on Thursfrom Wellington, in the s.s. St. Kilda. The St. Kilda also brought a quantity of telegraph wire. !j ___ cuicket match, we believe, is to be played to-morrow in the Albert Barracks, between eleven of the Albert Cricket Club and eleven of the Press. Wickets to be pitched at 12 sharp. This morning in the Police Court, two persons were charged with exposing hen pheasants for sale, and during the case T. Beckham, Esq., the presiding magistrate, called particular attention to the 30th clause to the Protection to Animals Act, 1867. We publish it for the benefit of our readers: —" Every person who shall, within three years from the passing of this Act, sell, offer for sale, or expose for sale any dead hen pheasant shall, on conviction, forfeit and pay for every such act a sum uot exceeding £20, and if such person hold any license to kill or sell game under this Act, such license shall become on the conviction ipsi facto void.

In yesterday's issue of our contemporary the Morning Advertiser or News of the Day there is a species of sub-leader on the "Amenities of Journalism." Anything of the kind coming from such a source must be authoritative. The subjectmotive to this utterance is the charge brought by the Wellington Evening dPost against the Advertiser, for having appropriated his leader without acknowledgement, and tried to palm it off on the people of Auckland as an original. As our local contemporary has a habit of falling into these errors, having been recently " bowled out" by the Southern Cross for " cribbing" two articles in their entirety from Lloyd's Weekly News, credence was naturally given at oiice to the charge of the Evening Post. The Advertiser yesterday gave to the Evening Post in express terms the lie direct, and refers to his files. As we are confident nobody in Auckland files the Advertiser, the .challenge will be temporarily effective ; and, we presume, by the time a reply comes to us from the Wellington Evening Post, it will be all one to our local contemporary, and even we shall feel impelled to hush unkind criticism. At the same time, we cannot fail to remember that the | charge has been distinctly made by the Post, one of the most independent and best conducted journals in New Zealand, and well able to hold his own position. As for the homily delivered by the Advertiser to the journals of Auckland on •their inexperience and ignorance of right journalism, we can only say for ourselves, should the dim foreshadow ings of futurity tell us that a lengthened experience of the profession may make us be looked upon as the thief among the journals of New Zealand, may a kind heaven remove the Star in its early dawn, to shine in another and better world.

There was a pretty good attendance at the Prince of Wales Theatre last night, when Tom Taylor's comedy, entitled " An Unequal Match," wa. produced for the second time. Mrs. Walter Mill was particularly good in her impersonation of Hester Grazebrook, the daughter of the Village Black, mill), and after she has married a baronet, and has to conform to the rules of society, Mrs. Hill very faithfully shows how hard it is for a poor couutry eirl to turn a wife of the period. We have not spare to individualise the actors and actresses, but the whole piece shows careful study, and wa3 well put on the stage. In the Police Court to-day there was a rather numerous* attendance at the drunkards' hvee. The irrepressible Mr. Edwin La3_elles, whose mania for the excitement of law seems to oscillate between prosecuting and defending, had a fellow-citizen up for " wilful and corrupt perjury," on an information on which neither Court nor bar could discover either wilfulness, corruption, or perjury. A city rate case was contested with the usual vigour, and a citizen was brought up for having illegally suspended a bird— to wit, a pheasant—at his door. Another bird - one that has flown—occupied a good deal of the attention of the Court and bar. Mr. Fe Hirsch, against whom a very silly charge of libel was being pressed with unwonted determinatioa, thought the simplest way was to cut the Gordian-knot; and so, setting his fojt on board the City of Melbourne, he has quietly waived to law and lawyers a fond farewell. It is pretty generally

known that a large sura of money had fallen to this gentleman by inheritance in his native land, and that his absence for a few months longer would hare constituted him an alien, and entailed the forfieiture of the property ; and it was fancied that this prosecution was scarcely fair. The public generally takes the side of the weak, and there is a broad grin of fun today on Auckland s countenance at the discomfiture of the lawyers. The annirersary services m connection with the Grafton Road Wesleyan Church will be held on Sunday next. The Rev. Mr. Berry will preach in the morning, and the Rev. Mr. Harper in the evening. The anniversary services in connection with the Albert-street Congregational Church will be held on Sunday next. The Rev. John Macky, of Otahuhu, will preach io the morning, and the Rev. Warlow Davies, M.A., in the evening. A meeting, of No. 3 Company A.B.V. will be held at the Alexandra Hotel, Parnell, on Monday evening next, at 7 o'clock.

A public meeting of the ratepayers of" the Mount Albert Highway District will be held at the Whau Road School on Monday next, at 6 p.m., for the purpose of discussing the proposed new Highway Bill.