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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 401, 24 April 1871, Page 2

As will bo seen from another column, Mr. T. B. JJih has commenced business ns 0 sharebroker, also, as house and land agent in tin's city. We have no doubt that from the large circle of busine.-s friends which Mr. Hill lias already connected with him, and from his well known character and enterprising disposition as a business man, ho will receive a largo amount of public support.

A contemporary urges strongly that the new town clock, in the tower of the New Zealand Insurance Company, should be lighted up. Wo have authority for saying that the subject is under tho consideration of the authorities, and that so soon as the most satisfactory and economical means of lighting the clock can be devised this groat convenience will bo provided to citizens.

We arc requested to draw tho attention of masters of vessels and others to the fact that the Admiralty Charts can be had at tho Custom-house.

The anniversary services in connection with the Albert-street church, will bo held on Sunday next. Tho Rev. J. CO3II will preach in tho morning, the Rev. J. ,T. Lewis in tho afternoon, and the Eev. Warlow Davies iv the evening. The annual tea meeting v,*ill take place on the following evening.

i 3. Cosgrave and Co. are now holding a large drapery and clothing sale, and have opened the newest and most extensive and by fir flic largest stock ever exhibited in Auckland. They also beg to inform the people of the province they are not retiring from the drapery trade, and regret exceedingly that respectable houses have to resort to such subterfuges in order to sell their goods. J. Cosgrave ami Co. would wish some person to inform them where are all the retiring drapers to go ? The recent astronomical observations have not discovered any new heavenly bodies in which those gentlemen could reside without having any opponents to contend against. By tho arrival of the City of Melbourne we have received no intelligence of any new land being discovered, no more people to bo clothed, no Elysium where those modern Jobs could spend the remainder of their days in peace, and, alas! where are they to go ?—" the shy, tho dull, and the gay." It is a pity we have no'gifted bard among us to compose some plaintive poem upon the departure of those modern Pilgrim Fathers.— [Abvt.]

A daring joke was played off in Christchurch on the first of April. The presence of his Excellency the Grovernor, and the well-known urgent desire of many cilizens to interview him, were events not to bo passed over by the wits. The result was the issue of letters, purporting to be signed by his Excellency's aide-de-camp, and inviting tho recipients to attend a levee at the Club. By some the trick was discovered in time ; but others, so overpowered by the honour conferred upon them, did not observo that the letters were signed Kidd, A.D.C., instead of Pitt, A.D.C., and after much careful preparation, proceeded in orthodox costume to the Club at tho appointed hour. What; their feelings were when they were told that a hoax had been perpetrated may he imagined.