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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 11, 30 August 1871, Page 2

We have much pleasure in giving insertion to the calm and temperate letter signed " Teetotaller." There cannot be a doubt that more injury is done to the cause of teetotalism within, than without the camp. For the motives that prompt to teetotalism it is difficult to have any other feeling than respect. But when its advocates beeomo intemperate in Qpeech or action, the friends of temperance often feel irresistibly impelled to range themselves on the side of its enemies, and fling a stone at what appears as fanaticism. To the teetotallers of Auckland we owe the movement that produced the Permissive clause in our Licensing Act—the first instalment, we believe, of a great social reformation in the colony. We should like, therefore, to befriend their cause. But if they speak or act foolishly, they must be treated with rigid impartiality.

Another of the series Tof lectures in explanation of the Government scheme of Life Assurance, Annuities, and Endowments, is to be delivered by Thomas Macffarlane, Ksq., at the City Hall, on Monday evening next.

A very great improvement has been effected ill that part of Upper Queen-street lying between Wakefield and Edwardes-streets, by elevating a row of small, insignificant, wooden buildings, and placing below them a series of handsome chops. These are now occupied by respectable tradesmen, and add materially to tho appearance cf that part of the city. There are many other places in the town which might bo readily improved in tho same manner, at small cost, aud to the great advantage of the proprietors.

We have just received the Provincial Government Gazette, No. 29. Notifications of the usual kind appear in regard to Mining Leases, Highway Districts, &c. Messrs. P. Simpson and D. H. Bayldon are proclaimed Goldfields and Mining Surveyors, and various matters of merely local and personal interest are settled.

An entertainment, in aid of the Patients' Beueflt Fund, will bo given at the Provincial Lunatic Asylum on Friday next. Mr. Frazer, tbe piper, will attend, also Mr. McComish and several members of the late Volunteer .Band, and the entertainment will bo of tbe usual miscellaneous character. Dancing will afterwards tako place.

Mrs. Colclough (Polly Plum) will re-deliver her lecture on " The Subjection of Women," at Otahuhu, to-morrow evening. The Rev. J. Macky will occupy the chair.