The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 123, 1 June 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1, 1870.

The public meeting, held in Parnell last night, was one of considerable importance to the residents in that suburb. "We think, however, that a mistake is made in the selection of a single night for the ventilation of various subjects, and that more good would arise from the attention of the meeting being collected on a given question, and its vigorous prosecution to results. There is, no doubt, a connection between the making of the Beach Road, the Auckland Harbour Trust Bill, and the prospect of Parnell being swallowed up by the City, but the massing of all these subjects of agitation into one public meeting produces only the one general result, namely, an indefinite kind of conviction that Parnell has a grievance. Two main subjects occupied the attention of the meeting, the Harbour Trust Bill, and the Auckland Municipal Bill. On the former subject our suburban friends may rest assured their voice will not be listened to; on the latter the claims of justice plead for Parnell. In the constitution: of the Harbour Truafc Board, it was affirmed that, instead of four persons being elected by the payers of direct fees', one should be chosen by Parnell, one by Newton, one by the whole of Auckland City, and one by the payers of fees. Whab, under the sun, has Parnell to do with the harbour? what right has Newton to " rule the seas ?" and though the modesty of Parnell is conspicuous in allowing one representative to the City, we ask what has Auckland^.??' se as a city, to do with the harbour. There is not the smallest likelihood of the extensive powers specified being handed over by the conservators of the general interest, even to the representatives of our local shipping interests; biit the Parnell idea of distributing the control of the "Waitemata with its shipping, wharves, buoys, beacons, pilots, and lights, among the various suburbs is localization with a vengeance. The absorption of Parnell within the city, is a wholly different matter. The attempt to include the two suburbs within the Municipal bounds of the city, and so saddle them with the payment of the money that has been muddled away by mismanagement, has so much the aspect of robbery that it is not likely to be successful. At the same time, the suburbs should speak with no uncertain sound; and at least shosv, that they are aware of the character of the transaction. Newton and Parnell are represented in the House of Representatives, by men who can give force to the expression of their wants ; and if kept to their work by the well pronounced wishes of their constituents, Messrs. Creighton and Wood will be able to avert the spoliation. The union with the city proper, if effected, will be wholly one-sided in its advantages ; and for many years to come, the properties of the residents in Newton and Parnell, aud of their children after them, will bear the consequences.

The business at the Police Court today was very brief, consisting only in the punishment of three drunkards, and the binding over an old woman to keep the peace for the next three months. The presiding magistrates wers Messrs. Home and .Ritchie.

Theatre Hoy At. —The Star Dbamaiic Company. -We are pleased to find that his Excellency the Governor and Lady Bowen have signified their intention of patronising this talented troupe. The centre box will be reserved exclusively for his Excellency and suite during tlie present season, which will commence on Friday evening, June 3, and we anticipate a full and fashionable attendance.

This evening the service at St. Paul's Church will be conducted by the Bey. Mr. Nelson, who arrived per Mary Shepherd on Sunday last, to take the cure cf the parish. Mb. S. H. Smith desires to acknowledge receipt of Bs. from the tailors in the employ of Mr. W. Kattray, and ss. from the Hey. A. Macdonald, towards the " William Grant Fund."

The Bank of New Zealand shipped to Auckland, per p.s. Duke of .Edinburgh this morning, 1,575 ozs. of gold. This bank now sends regular weekly shipments. On Tuesday last a parcel of 1,442 ozs. was sent away, and the previous week's shipment amounted to 4,148 ozs., making the total quantity shipped by the Bank of New Zealand for the last three weeks 7,165 ozs. of gold.— Mail, 31st ult. The abstainers of H.M.S. Eosariohave iuvited a number of their friends to take tea with them at the Parnell Hal', tomorrow evening, when it is anticipated that a very pleasant evening will be spent.

Yovsa Men's Cheistian Association. —The third lecture of the annual course will be delivered on Friday evening next, the 3rd inst.—not the 10th, as formerly advertised, and on the printed cards —by His Honor the Superintendent (T. B Gillies, Esq.), subject: "Public Spirit." We are requested to announce that the lecture will be delivered in the new City Wall, Queen-street, instead of the Rooms of the institution, as being more commodious for the assemblage which "will be drawn together on that occasion, curious to hear His Honor's views on a matter oftener talked about than seen.

It is notified that the partnership hitherto existing between Messrs. R. Whitson and David Stuart Lyell has been dissolved by mutual consent.