The Evening Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 369, 16 March 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star. THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1871.

Notice is given that the Banks will close on Friday (St. Patrick's Day). We presume it is needless to announce that to-morrow (St. Patriot's Day) having been proclaimed as a holiday, the public offices will all be closed. To-morrow the races at Ofcaliuhu will lake place, under the patronage of the Earl of Pembroke and FTia Honor the Superintendent. Notice is siive-j, thai- in ponseqner.ee of the Volunteer Balls to come off this and Monday evening, there Trill be no parade on those evening?. Notice is siven by advertisement that the four mile walking match between W. Edwards and J. Spenc?, for £50 a side, and tbe championship, will take pbee to-morrow afternoon, in Cunningham's paddock, Newmarket. The transfer books of the Caledonian Gold Mining Company will be closed at noon on Saturday until noon on Tuesday, when a dividend will be payable at the company's office. The annual meeting of the members of the Young Men's Christian Association takes place this evening, in the Rooms, Wellesleystreet, when tbe annual report, accounts, etc., will be real, and the committee of management for the ensuing year elected. Tea on the table at half-past sis o'clock. A full attendance of members is earnestly requested. The whole of yesterday in the Supreme Court was occupied with the trial Dornwell v. Gillan. The property which is the subject of the litigation is situated at Grahamstown, and is known as the Scotia hotel. The property wa3 originally assigned by John Roberton to Alexander Gillan, who assigned to T. W. Brown, who assigned to J. S. Macfarlane, who sold (at auction) to the present plaintiff. The acton is brought by Dornwell to recover from Gillan possession and niesne profit, or damages for the loss occasioned by being deprived of occupation. The case had not concluded at nearly six o'clock, when the Court rose. Only two witnesses were examined—viz., solicitors engnged in the conduct of the affairs of the respective parties. The facts of the case have been already partially disclosed in a former action. The present contention is that Gillan was insolvent when he assigned to Brown, and the deed was intended to defraud creditors. The question upon which the suit turns is whether the plaintiff and Mr Macfarlane were aware of the circumstances affecting the assignment to Brown.

A Chicago exchange of recent date contains the following laughable incident: —About halfpast 12 o'clock yesterday, as people were returning from church, a lady dressed in the very height of fashion, with an enormous Grecian bend of magnificent proportions, tripped down Main-street in the most approved style, like a cat treading on eggs. Just as she reached the corner of Main and Jeffersonstreets, where the " gentiles mo3t congregate," a newspaper, neatly folded, slipped from under her skirts and fell upon the sidewalk. A polite " mackeril" saw it fall and called out to her that she had " dropped something," but she kept her eye 3 fixed on vacancy, and moved straight ahead without hearing him. A few steps and another wad fell from the same region, and there -was a diminution of the size of the hump on her back. The boy yelled after her again : " I say, Miasus, you're losin' all your papers." The only sign of hearing him that she gave was a quickening in her pace, as if she was anxious to get away from those disgings, if possible. A kindhearted lady who was walking behind her, and understood the situation, at this moment hurried up alongside and whispered (o her that she was losing her bend. This information caused her to turn into a friendly stairway near by to repair damages; but just as she put her foot in the door an enormous bnndlo of papers, a hundred or so in number, dropped from beneath her skirts and rolled on the I avement. The " mackeril," indignant at the treatment he had received and the apparent disdain with which his polite attention had been met, on this rushed forward and seizing the bundle of papers, startled the sabbnth stillness on the streets with, " 'Ere's your extra ; latest from the seat of war !" "The lady, it is needless to say, didn't stop to take an " Extra."