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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 320, 18 January 1871, Page 2

We have just received numbers of the new Sydney journal—the Mercantile Advertiser, which commenced publication with the beginu>g of the year. There is something iinique about its get-up, and the difficulty in pleasing advertisers in the choice of places is got over by making each of its four pages a. fac simile of the others, so that the paper seems to have neither beginning nor end. The news also is interspersed among the advertisements, and is of a very readable kind. From the first appearance, and what we learn of its prospects, we believe that tho new journal, which depends on advertising, and is given away gratis, will make a footing in Sydney, and ultimately become a very prosperous concern.

We are informed that Mr. Bartlett is not the only one that has been honored with the patronage of His Royal Highness, Mr. Charles dutton, of Eden Crescent having been appointed manufacturer of aerated waters, and Mr. John Leech, carver and gilder to tho Duke of Edinburgh.

St. John Branigan, Commissioner of the New Zealand Armed Constabulary, has been authorised to convene cour.s-martial fen- the trial of any offences committed by the forces under his command.

The scarcity of wires for young men which prevails in the Province of Hawko's Bay having been brought under the notice of Government, arrangements are reported to be making lor the arrival quarterly at Napier of a small number of female immigrants.

Mews has been received at Batliurst, Australia, of three murders having been committed at Kane s Paddock, Forest Eeefa. A man named Patrick Martin went to the Orange

police station yesterday, and reported that: on his arriving at his place at Forest Beefs on the previous night ho found his wife, and her father and mother had been muvicrcd, and that his niece, a p:irl of fix years old, had been seriously wounded. A constable, accompanied by T)r. 'Warren and the man Martin, at once went to the scene of the murders., and found the bodies of the three persons, who had been killed by gunshot wounds ; the little girl had been shot through the ear, but was not in a dangerous state; upon being questioned, she said Martin had done it, but afterwards could not be induced to repeat the statement or give any further information. Martin was at once arrested on suspicion.

Mr. Thomson, of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, is, it would appear, about to have opposition. The Government intend to keep a lecturer as well, having, as a Southern contemporary tells us, appointed Mr. Biss, of the Dunedin Post Office, _ Sub Commissioner, and Captain Baldwin, Assistant Sub-Commissioner, under the Government Assurance and Annuities Act. The departmental duties will be performed by Mr. Biss, while Captain Baldwin will travel through the Province for the purpose of explaining the provisions of the Act.

Special Notice.—R. Hobbs considers it necessary to inform the public of hi 3 reasons for withdrawing his advertisements from the daily papers. He is so thoroughly disgusted with the lengths some parties have gone to in the advertisement line, that he does not intend to advertise after this notice, until an alteration takes place. As to the sy-tem of advertising goods at " catching," or very low prices, R. H. would simply remark, that it is no test of valtie, as the quality must be seen to test the value. Should 11. H. at any time advertise any .special line, of which he may have bought a large quantity, the public may rely that the quality is good; and he will not be ashamed to forward patterns to any part of the province, post free ; and buyers may depend on getting the goods according to pattern. R. H. has yet to find that any man in Auckland can buy or sell cheaper than he can, notwithstanding all the absurd and very questionable pretensions of some houses. —R. Hobbs, Wholesale and Retail Draper, Queen and Wakefield-streets. —[Advt.]