The Evening Star. MONDAY, JUNE 13, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 133, 13 June 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDA Y, JUNE 13, 1870.

Thehe is some amusement in tbe city, at the circumstance of the doctor on board the City of Melbourne being yesterday left behind. It appears rather unkindly relations exist between the medical man and certain officers on board; and, though we will not say that the City gave him the .'.' slip/ yet her leaving the wharf en the instant of the appointed time, and while Esculapius -was running about, through the town after drugs, givos the circumstance that appearance. "We cannot say that wo sympathise with tbe doctor. We learn tbat on the steamer arriving at Honolulu, this gentleman, in whose cabin the files of exchanges had been placed., shut himself up, and proceeded with his1 ablutious, while the reporters for the Honolulu papers were kept waiting for above an hour ; and we can also say that on our reporter going on board on the arrival of the steamer in our harbour, there was a similar delay in obtaining our papers, arising from the same cause. If this feature has characterised the doctor throughout the voyage, we congratulate the officers of the mail boat on the result of his search for drugs. As a great deal of the success of the new line will depend on the courtesy of the officers, we trust that the lesson will not be lost on Dr. Schulzen ; and if he again has the honour of sailing in the mail bonts, we Jhope he will curb his tetchiness in general, and that in an especial manner he will not give inconvenience to the whole public by interposing his majestic presence in the way of the earliest receipt of news. In the name of the Press we thank the City of Melbourne ; and as the doctor purposes going on to Sydney by the Hero to-morrow, we trust he wiU be on the wharf in time.

Theee were but two cases of drunkenness in the Police Court to-day. A charge of disobedience to'orders on board the Schiehallion was mercifully dealt -with, owing to the good character of the man charged; and a case was introduced to notice and remanded for a week, that is in its features absolutely unique. A person stands charged with having, at hi 9 leisure, furnished the establishment of some lady, friends of his, in the most sumptuous style with damask curtains, Brussels carpets, and all the etceteras of the most recherche kind, and with a discrimination reflecting the highest credit on his good taste ; this in itself may not seem reprehensible, but the point to which blame attaches, is, as alleged, that he did not enter into preliminary arrangements with the dealers in those articles, in fact that he neither asked permission,, nor I gave the " equivalent" usual in such ■ cases. We desire to draw attention to the unusually important sale of house and land property, city and suburban, to be held to-morrow, by Arthur and Son. Some of the lots witli the erections on them are of the most valuable in the city. Among others we observe the allotments and building of the Waitemata Hotel. The following calls have been made : — Punga Flat Gold Mining Company, one shilling and sixpence; .Nonpareil Gold Mining Company, sixpence. A meeting of the directors of the Ballarat Gold Mining Company will be held on tbe loth instant, at iShortland. An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Alexander Gillian, of Grahamstown, will be held at the Supreme Court, on the 17th inst. The members of the Auckland Team R.V. to fire the return match with the Thames Volunteers are requested to meet on board the Eoyal Alfred, at a quarterpast three o'clock this afternoon. The first monthly meeting (of the present season) of the Auckland Institute will be held this evening, when, after the delivery of the- President's address, two very interesting papers will be read—one "On the botany of certain parts of the Waikato," by Mr. T. Kirk; the othar, "On the sailing flight of the albatross," by Captain Hutton. ' We are informed by the treasurer of ■the Orphan Home that Mr. Crowther has in the most handsome manner arranged to put on four omnibuses to run from the foot of Shortland-street to the Parnell Hall, on Tuesday evening, for the purpose of conveying, free of charge, such persons as hold tickets for the entertainment to be given by the seamen of H.M.S. Kosario, for the benefit of the Orphan Home.