The Evening Star. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 109, 16 May 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, MAY 16, 1870.

Four individuals appeared to-day in the Police Court, to render an account for over-indulgence in the cup that inebriates as well as cheers. A deserter, evidently finding that freedom has its responsibilities and duties which may become irksome, had determined to return to the ease and freedom from anxiety found in military life in times of " piping peace," and gave himself over to the Bench, which ordered him a free passage to

Sydney that he might rejoin his regiment. We think it would do no harm to put him through a little drill as a trial, lest he might, after obtaining a passage to Sydney at the expense of his country, find that he uad mistaken himself for some other person. The only other case was a charge of wife desertion. An oily-tongued cobbler, who expressed unaltered love for wife and children, but who had left them for three years to chance and Providence, was ordered to pay 20s. a week for their support, to his evident surprise and disappointment. He was clearly under the impression that his tale of woe, relating to his crippled state, and his anxiety for his family and his desires to live with them, aud wholly support them, had a telling effect on the Bench. But, unfortunately for his cause, the Police Oourt has a sad effect in blunting the finer feelings of nature, and making its officers look with unpitying eye away down into people's real thoughts and dispositions. His tongue has not delivered him —his awls and wax-ends may. Against the burthen of wife and children, eloquence has not availed him, and now " there's nothing like leather. John Wormall was taken into custody this morning, for grossly insulting the citizens of Auckland. This man has been only a few days released from a two months imprisonment, for assault. The poor fellow is undoubtedly mad, and it is to be hoped that Mr. Naughton will to-morrow morning request the Bench to send him to the proper house of detention, namely, the Lunatic Asylum.

Detective Murpliy arrested this morning one James Stewart for stealing a pair of boots from the shop of Martha Burke, Chancery-street, value Bs., and will have to answer the charge to-morrow morning. The Ttight Reverend the Lord Bishop of Auckland officiated in All Saints' Church yesterday morning. There was a large congregation, and an excellent choir present. His Lordship preached an eloquent and impressive sermon from Luke viii chapter, 11 verse, " The seed, is the Word of God."

A meeting of the members of the Chamber of Commerce will take place at the Mechanics' Institute at three o'clock on Thursday next.

We are glad to welcome back to this city, by the Airedale, on Saturday, T. M. Stewart, Esq., after an absence of about two years, during which time he has been Manager of the Bank of New Zealand at Wellington. He has been appointed manager of the head-office at Auckland, an appointment which we have no doubt *vlll give general satisfaction. Constable Eoestee, of the Armed Constabulary, left Auckland on Saturday for the Thames, to take charge of the gaol at Shortland. Foster has been in the police force for the last sixteen years, and has well earned the promotion which this change in his duties confers upon him.

Newton J?oll. —We learn that the signatures of objectors to voters on the above roll are all forgeries ; the list will, therefore, not be published, the names remaining on the roll as before. A vert fine circular headed clock, was landed from the Kate Waters on Saturday, which is to be fixed in the shop of Mr. Bartletfe, watchmaker. The clock itself was originally made by that gentleman in the year 1841, but it has been home to England to have a new dial manufactured, and to be fitted in a new case. It shows the Auckland, Wellington, and Greenwich time, and will form a very handsome ornament to Mr. Bartlett's shop, and a very useful article of reference to his customers.