The Evening Star. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1870.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 253, 31 October 1870, Page 2

The Evening Star. MONDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1870.

As will be seen from another column, there will be opened in the City Hall on Wednesday whut have down South been called " Heller's Wonders." The descriptions which have followed Mr. Heller's appearances every place he has been exceed anything we have read before in colonial journalism, and his illusions, we understand, are absolutely bewildering. We shall treat the subject more fully in our next issue.

We see by advertisement that the railway is already anticipated, a large tract of land on the Pakiri block, containing 460 acres, being in the market.

In Hokitika, a verdict of wilful murder has been returned by a coroner's jury against a man named David Souter, for having caused the death of a woman named Mary Ann Hamill, with whom he bad been cohabiting, but whom he appears to have treated most barbarously. He has been committed for trial. A good deal of amusement was created in Q'ieen street; and on the wharf yesterday morning by the appearance and pursuit of a veritable wild pig of the bush type, whose snout was covered with immense bristles, and from whose mouth protruded two formidable tusks. In his flight down the street the pig overturned a weman and two children, upon which a crowd of men and boys at once proceeded in chase. Tbey managed to surround the animal, but he very quickly dashed through their ranks, knocking.them over in his fight. He proceeded down the wharf, where a crowd of men and boys, armed with oars and boatstretchers, attempted his capture. When fairly at bay on the • furthest end of the wharf, he made a rush at one of his pur- ' suers, severely biting him, again broke through the crowd, and rushed back, followed by a large number of people, among whom the police were not wanting —Constable Carrigan, being conspicuous, by thevery able manner in which he wielded a boat's stretcher. Along Custom-house-street and the Breakwater Road the animal continued his headlong career, and at last was driven into the sea near the Wynyard Pier, when, after a good deal of difficulty, he was secured with ropes, and conveyed to the pound. He proved a very ugly customer, and inflicted several severe wounds on many of his pursuers. It is surmised that the pig must have made his escape from a party of Maoris.

An emergency meeting of Lodge United Service, 421, 1.C., will take place this evening. An adjourned meeting of the members of the Auckland Club will take place on Suturday next.

J. Gosgrave and Co. beg to inform the public that there is an entire revolution in dress, also in the prices of goods. It is necessary it should be so, as Auckland ii not in the flourishing position it was twelve manlhs ago ; it is like all goldfield cities, suffering %mder a recovery, the working classes are more mcmerous and money less plentiful. Therefore, the prices of drapery and clothinn must come down to suit the times. Thept.puition must have clothing suitable for an almost tropical summer. J. Cosgrave and Co. have met the crisis, they have broken doion the monopsoly of larg profits that hive reigned here for years past. They are determined the people shall be clad and that cheaply ; a great chance teas offered lately, the stock of a large importer of drapery was in the market, a discout off English cost was given, and J. Cosgrave and Co. became the purchasers, hence our extensive and valuable sale of drapery takes place This Day.—[Advt._W