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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 316, 13 January 1871, Page 2

The Auckland Eiflo Volunteer Bancl will perform in front of G-overnment House, tomorrow, Saturday, at 5 p.m. Programme : March, " 'Tis hard to give the hand where the heart can never be," by McComish ; Quadrille, " Lucia di Lammermoor," by Verdi; Selection, opera, "II Lombardi," by Donizetti ; Waltz, " The Flower Girl," by Godfrey ; Maznrka, " Egmont," by Gassner ; Galop, " Midnight," by Aug. McComish ; Finale, " God save the Queen."

This evening the annual Parish Meeting will be held in St. Mary's Parish Schoolroom, Parnell, at half-past seven o'clock, when a full attendance is desired.

Many mil be interested to know that the elephant, who has made himself so popular, especially with young Auckland, but whose bibulous propensities were an offence to supporters of the Permissive Bill, has taken his departure. He was safely slung to-day into a barge, making huge outcry at the manner of his removal, and was conveyed on board the G-alatea preparatory to her departure from our shores.

The London correspondent of an Australian contemporary writes : —The legal and police records of the last month have a few interesting items—one in particular, which has struck dismay to the London jennesse of the fast tendency. This is the refusal of the Middlesex magistrates to renew the dancing licence to the Alhambra in Leicester-square. It appears that a very pronounced dance was nightly given by a French troupe, whose legs, according to the opinion of the police, were pointed a trifle higher than they should havebeen, and always to the audience. Whereupon the magistrates, who have long had doubts on the subject, now became quite convinced that the performance at the Alhambra was'immoral, and thus the ballets, which were the great pride of that establishment, will have to be given up. Severe as is the blow, and to be regretted as far as the number of employes who will be thrown out of work is concerned, there is, nevertheless, not the slightest doubt but that the magistrates have acted rightly, for the Alhambra, with all its gaiety and apparent well-conducted management, was tolerably notorious as being the largest and the most pleasant rendezvous in London for persons of free-and-easy morals, and although it was a gigantic concern, and a! great many respectable people had invested in it on account of its 20 per cent, dividends, that is no reason why it should have enjoyed an immunity such as is not allowed to smaller places of the kind. But great is the wailing and gnashing of teeth at this unexpected shell. Tattersall's is another instance of the same kind, which, from its fashion and old reputation, has never been placed under the same ban as the betting houses. But betting prosecutions are coming dangerously near it, and I see that the temper of the day will very soon demand its sacrifice. It is only right, indeed —for the nobility ought not to be allowed to ruin themselves and others more than Jack Brown is allowed to do so by patronising a book-list. Indeed, in the extraordinary number of bankruptcies amongst people in good society, we see how the evil has penetrated. To the list of the Hamiltons, the Hastings, and the Newcastles are now added the Earl of Winchelsea, Lord de Mauley, and Lord Mostyn; and if this sort of thing goes on, it will be difficult to find a solvent nobleman.

A call of sixpence per share has been made on the Cape of Good Hope Gold Mining Company.