The Evening Star. MONDAY, JULY 24, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 479, 24 July 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

MONDAY, JULY 24, 1871.

" For the cause that licks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good tliat we can do.1'

We were shown some excellent specimens from the Green Harp claim, at Coromandel, worked by Messrs. Howe> mid party. The spur where the specimens ciime from is supposed to bo the continuation of the Kaptinga lead. .■ •-■ ' f-»j'- j ""■' "".;"■:;'■■''' •■ '- "/•■■"•: -■■■-iis great interest attaches to the rapid transit of mails across the Pacific, we commend to notice the following unpanilled passage made by the Crown from Honolulu to Sydney, as recorded in this morning's issua of the Morning News. " The Crown, from Honolulu on the 2nd June, arrived on the samo day at Sydney, with 553*2 bags and 950 kegs sugar." A meeting of No. 2 company, Auckland Rifle Volunteers, will be held at the Drillshed this evening, for the election of a captain. It was announced yesterday at St. Paul's Church by the Incumbent, that after Wednesday next the usual weekly service would be discontinued until further notice, Muuy nnecdotes have been told of oddtirs that found expression in extemporaneous prayer. One of those, iuw going the rounds, is as follows : " A ecrt'iin distinguished citizen of Mussiiuhusclts who is not now living, after his return from a short European tour, was accustomed to refer to it more frequently than good tfisttf would dictate, and on being asked to deliver v pnivor in public, lie began :' O Lord ! Thou knowest when I was in Europe,' " &c. 'ihis tails to mind the story of a distinguished preacher, much given to Latin quotations, who opened a prnyer in public th in :" O Thou great Sine Qua Non, Thou exalted Suinmum fiontan of the universe!" And yet another preacher, distinguished for logic rather than devotional feeling, who prayed in these words : " O Lord how paradoxical it must seem to Thee !"