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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 403, 26 April 1871, Page 2

The p.s. Eojal Alfred leaves for the Thames to-morrow morning, at 11 o'clock. As (lie annual inspection of the Volunteers by Colonel Harrington will bo made at the Albert Barracks on next Fiidny afternoon, a parade will tako place on Thursday evening, at the Drill-shed. It is highly itnporlant that there should be a large muster on the occasion, so as to prepare for making a creditable show on the following day. The inspection on Friday will be at 3.30 p.m., and it is needless to say that the fine of £5 for absence will be rigorously enforced. We have received a letter from Mr. H. T. Sparrow, recently an inmate of the Lunatic Asylum, couched in terms of very warm gratitude to Dr. Kenderdine for the kind interest taken in Mr. Sparrow, and expressive of the writer's appreciation of (ho doctor's many other acts of unostentatious Christian kindness. We are informed that there will be on view 250 pairs of earrings on Saturday, in the window of F. H. Lewisson, jewellei*, Queen-street, next door to Cater, the bootmakor.—[Adyt.l J. Cosgravo and Co. are now holding a large drapery and clothing sale, and have" opened the newest and most extensive and by far the 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 and Co. would wish some person to inform them where are all the retiring drapers to go ? The recent astronomical observations have not discovered any now heavenly bodies in which those gentlemen could reside without Laving any opponents to contend against;. By the 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, the 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.— [Advt.] We are enabled to state upon authority that the men who served ia the 65th Kegiment in New Zealand, and have settled in the colony, should prefer their claim to the medal, to the Adjutant-General of the Forcese through the commanding officer of their late regiment, on the form prescribed by the Horse Guards' General Order No. 17, of March 1, 1869.