The Evening Star. TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 498, 15 August 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1871.

♦ " For the cause that lacks assistance. For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that we can do."

A public meeting of the Auckland Alliunc< for tho suppression of the liqaor traffic, wil be 'held this evening, at tho Rooms of the i oung Men's Christian Association. Messrs. Brown and Campbell offer a reward of £5 for such information as will lead to tin apprehension of certain parties who have foi some time past been sawing and removing thi rails of the fence of the One-Tree Hill Farm on the Onehunge Road. ■ A final dividend in the estate of William S Laurie will be payable on the 2lst instant tc those creditors who may have proved theii debts on or before Friday, 18th inst. Creditors of the West Coast G-old Mining Company are requested to prove and send ir their claims to the Official Agent appointed by the Court. At the meeting of the City Council yestor day, Mr. George Staines gave notice that oc next sitting day he would move, " That th« photographs of the first members of the Borough Council of Auckland be taken and hung iv the Borough Chambers for the benefit of posterity." CJ'eorgc is right. H« does not say in what form that benefit will bi conferred; whether e^tt^homdr"Example, 01 as a model ,_B_Mffififation; this, it is t» b< supposedj.-'will depend upon their aftei SSTSer'. But that posterity will be interested in beholding these memorials of departed greatness, and will derive profit j from gazing ou the features of the early lathers ol the city is beyond the question. In those fai off days to come, when it will be the delight of antiquaries to pore over the musty tomei of the chronicles of Auckland, the halo which which antiquity invariably surrounds the heath of historical personages will give a dignity tc our fellow citizens unknown in their own irreverent age; and. features that are regarded as containing nothing but what is commonplace, will beam from the collodion with glory reflected from the subsequent greatness of the commercial capital of the Southern Seas. One suggestion we would humbly make. If the Council is to bo photographed in a group, wo would recommend that the sitting should tako place at tho lower end of the main street of the city j that the members of Council should bo placed in a sitting posture on that portion of the wharf immediately over the archway of the city cloaca, or aqueduct. The situation would be significant, and would connect the early fathers with the imperishable memory of the most interesting institution of the city in the age in which they live. It is exceedingly satisfactory to see that at last decisive steps have been taken regarding the pavement of the Queen-street footpaths. Our irregular footing for pedestrians in our main street has been ono of the standing reproaches if our city, and next to the city sewer, was taken as significant of the death of public spirit. .Everything considered, the arrangement as between leaseholders and freeholders is reasonable and fair, for the benefit received by an occupier during the tenancy of his leasehold is one that should be equitably paid for. It might, perhaps, have been too much to lay the entire burthen on an occupant, even though his lease were a lengthened one ; but the equal division of the expense between the landlord and tenant will be the nearest approach to affording general satisfaction that may be expected in connection with anything which embraces the compulsory payment of money. A Troy Teuton lost a pocket-book containing'6oo dollars. A young man of that city had the good fortune to find it, and discovering the name of the owner upon some papers in it, he returned it to him safe and sound. The gratified Tcutcn, after counting the money and finding it nil right, thus addressed the finder: "Bob, jouis one honest man. I'll toll you what I'll do—l'll toss you for tho lager." Wonders of Fashions.—Wear my hat on my bead! Impossible, grandpa, dear! Haven't done such things for ages! It'pinned on with my hair!"