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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 413, 8 May 1871, Page 2

We are gkd to lc:?:* that the young man Webb, w'.ofell from the roof of St. James's Presbyterian Church, aj derailed in our Saturday's issue, is -iloiug as well as can be expected, consider! ug the seiions injuiio3 which he ■•_• ceived. Tho month Jy inspection parade of the Ar' rllei-/ Volunteer* will take place at "Port Eri: omerfc at 7.30 p.m. 10-morrow. All merabera absenting themselves will be fined. Ihe Thames Mail of Saturday says : —" We are pleased to learn that the balance of debt upon the new Presbyterian Church, KJaraka Bridge, has been cleared off, through the energy of the pastor, and the liberality of Mr. Crombie, photographer, of Auckland, a fortunate Caledonian shareholder, who very generously gave a cheque to the Rev. Mr. Hill for half the balance of £150, otter that gentleman had collected the other portion." A divorce case is on the tapis in Wellington (says the Wanganui Herald), in which a respectable hotel-keeper is petitioner, the corespondent being a groom. Legal action, we hear, is pending, and the circumstances avo of the mo3t painful nature, creating much sympathy for the injured husband, who has given no cause for bis partner's deliberate and professed infidelity. The monthly inspection of the Auckland Volunteer Artillery will take place to-morrow evening. A meeting of the members of the second company, Naval Voluuteers, i? advertised to be held this evening.—A meeting of the members of the Auckland Troop Cavalry Volunteers will take place to-morrow evening. The p.s. Duke of Edinburgh leaves for Wangarei and Mangapai at seven o'clock tins evening.