The Evening Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 522, 12 September 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1871.

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

The steamer Luna will leave for Tauranga and Nnpier at. 4 p.m. to-day. The Taranaki will leave the Manu!<au at daybreak to-morrow morning. The Nebraska leaves for Sydney at noon to-morrow.

On account of pressure on our columns from the arrival of the English mail, we are obliged to hold over " The Man about Town," and other local matters, till to-morrow.

We remind our readers of tho Choral Society's concert this evening, at 8 o'clock, when the oratorio of " St. Paul" will be repeated.

A meeting of the Hazelbank Gold Mining Company was held yesterday, at Mr. Rees' officio; Mr. N. S. Walker occupied the chair, and the following gentlemen were elected directors: —Messrs. Walker, Spray, Fernandez; Bonnington, and Stichbury. The office of the company has been removed from Grahamstown to Auckland.

Messrs. Harding, Harrington, Denny, Yon Blarcom, Cavalli, and Williams, wool buyers and manufacturers from Boston and New York, have arrived by the Nebraska.

S. and J. R. Vailc'r* drapery establishment will be closed this day, and on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and will be re-opened on Saturday, the 16th instant. —[Advt-]

A disgraceful-street row occurred at Grahamstown on Saturday evening, at Ihe close of the performance at tho Theatre Royal. The origin appeared to be a quarrel between two tipsy men. An immense crowd congregated iv a few seconds, and immense confusion existed. Windows were smashed with stones, and ladies and others pitched into the mud. James McDonuld was eventually arrested, and G-erald Fitzmaurice, the latter for assaulting Mason, the special constable.

Mr. Wright, a practical phrenologist, gave a lecture last evening, in the rooms of the Young Men's Christian Association. The large room was hung with portraits, diagrams, and illustrations. MrJ Wright described his Jecture as preliminary. The weather was very unfavourable, and the audience was verysmall.

On Friday evening last a complimentary dinner was gicon to Mr. J. Reeve, J.l'., on the occasion of his leaving the colony. Mr. John Goodall occupied the chair, supported by Mr. H. O. Lawlor. Between twenty and thirty persons were present. The chairman, in proposing the tonst of the evening, said he had known Mr. Reeve for twenty years, and that he was the oldest mine manager on the field, aud had been manager of the Kapanga, Coromandel, iv the earliest days of that field.

Another of those ajcidenta, the frequency of which is becoming really, (earful,, occurred this morning- at half-past eleven o'clock, at the Tweedcide claim, Hape Creek. A miner named Thomas Davits, who is about thirty years of age, Was engaged working in an open cutting, which is 20 feet deep, when suddenly the earth gave way, aiid a fall of about two tons came down, crushing him under its weight. Another mati, who was working close by narrowly escaped. Davies was extricated as soon as possible. It was found that no bones were broken, but he is severely bruised about the small of the back, and is evidently suffering from internal injuries, a3 he complains of severe pains in the siomach and intestines. —• Thames Mail, August 11.