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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 505, 23 August 1871, Page 2

Do the Auckland cricketers iiitpncfc to do anything towards ensuring tho proper' condi,tion of the ground-in the Albert .Barracks? 7v7e. haye1 not heard if any steps' fieing'. takoii. •Certaiilly it is high time, 'seeing! that' spriiig has set in, and the deciduous treel are in full bud, to adopt some measures for Jevpllipg $he, green, after the trampling of cattlo during the wii.fc'"' <-.>_- .' ""':,V' '' ' j 'yit <);,':,C'.'. !»;'• .'!.•, &■-." .'-iife-'. Vii! '..i-ir.'/.t'-....' s ....,". '_. ■ ... i" '*■ \ , .;.j r Jsßß^.4a¥&&***' " 'f'" *"'■-•/* I Tho usual monthly meeting of the Anokkpd. I Chamber of Commeroe will betheld at' three f o'clock to-morrow. '■ _

Durinp the proceedings in the Police Court. this .mo-fnihg,' Mr.'"Wayriiouth drew the atten'-' tion 'of the Bench to^.a statement in one of tho "newspapers, by which it.^was endeavoured to, make out that a charge brohght,.by- his son againsfe-certain parties .for stealin'g'timbbi. was al'rivololis one. The Bench*sa'id ; . they, considered Mr. Waymouth,;.junr.7*had done his duty to tho; public in haying the men arrested, and that they had only been allowed to depart without punishment, after mature consideration,' and because ."they had been locked up for a considerable time. At the same lime, the Bench remarked that, having read the reports in all the newspapers, they pould 'not perceive that any slur was; attempted to be .cast .upon Mr. Waymouth for tho action lie had taken in the matter.

Persons favourable to tho forming of a new gas &>inpaiiy pa i^iekland ar6' v Jrequested i to meet at tkJb J_fc_c-_a_-ics' Institute on Friday next, at half-past 2 o'clock.

A meeting of the shareholders o tho Dauntless aud Sink-to-Risc Gold Mining Company is convened for the 30th instant. A ball 6f sixp'&tf^efper soriphas been made in the Sunbeam ;Gold Mining Company. ■