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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 221, 23 September 1870, Page 2

Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co., E. and H. Isaacs, Lewis Brothers, I. Phillips, and C. Davis give notice that their places of business will be closed on Monday and Tuesday next. Even old shoes are now cnnsiderad as valuable in commerce as rags. A recent writer gives the following respecting their use and manufacture: " They are cut up in small pieces, and these are put for a couple of days in chloride of sulphur, which makes the leather very hard and brittle. After this is effected, the material is washed with water, dried, ground to powder, and mixed with soire substance which makes the particles adhere together, as shellac, good glue, or thick solution of gum. It is then pressed into moulds, and shaped into combs, buttons, knife-handles, and many other articles." Icesterday's Advertiser says : —" Within the last few days a requisition was numerously signed, asking Mr. Creighton to stand for the representation of this district in the Provincial Council. There were, we understand, 450 signatures appended to the requisition. Mr. Creighton has, however, declined to stand for the goldfleld, intending, we believe, to be a candidate for another district. Mr. Mitchel still remains in tho field, and as, notwithstanding a few foibles, we might easily go further and fare woi*3e, we think he ought to be allowed to walk the course."

From our Thames telegrams we learn that a young man named Marshall has been drowned in the Kauwaeranga Creek whilst attempting to ford the stream.