The Evening Star. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 529, 20 September 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 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."

Those Ethiopian Minstrels who delighted us a few weeks ago both by their harmonious strains and their eccentric movements, and who have had a great success at the Thames, are about to revisit us, and, we are given to understand, will appear ac the City Hall next Monday to still further delight an Auckland audience. - -

Tenders are required by the Provincial Government for the construction of a stone culvert in the Howick Road.

City n___.—The Gourlay Family, so well known favorably in this city, both as excellent musiciaus and as thoroughly experienced in the matter of those divertissements likely to amnso the -public", appeared last evening, afc City Hall, ainJ_'jtheir. programme was gone through with the greatest success, and to the most infinite delight of the audience. This evening there will be another entertainment, of a similarly good character, and we may accordingly hope that the room will again be weli;fitie_.s :' j' 1 7 ' 11| 77f f1 7 We perieiTiß, from an advertisement^: that the sale of leases of the Harbour Endowment property lias been postponed sirie'die, in consequence of some instructions which have been received from " the South."

When the clouds were opened, and the rain descended during the early part of last Autumn, the aquarians were in all their glory ; and in order to assist nature in washing the fice of this dusty country streams'were poured from watering carts over the face of the already saturated earth. But, now that really dry weather has set in, and paving stones are being impelled against the faces of wandering bipeds, and when a deposition of a little moisture would really add to the comfort of all the citizens, the carts are not forthcoming, and no one appears to know where their bones are deposited. It is time, surely, in spite of whatever regulations may have been made with respect to their appearance not further than the first of next month, to adopt some special measures to ensure comfort to people about town> and-to prevent tbe great "damage which is at present being inflicted on such wares of our shopkeepers as are perforce exposed to the-influence of the weather.

We are surprised to hear of some mistakes that have been made with reference to tho names of the jovial spirits referred to in Dick's letter. We feel the ridiculousness of having to say that Mr. Bennett, the barrister, ondJ Mr. Thomas Morrih were : riot among them-. The former gentleman's, character would repel' such 'anf:ln'siriuatibh, while _Ir.' Thomas Morrin's,. character, and thorough business habits -make' thW !id-a—ir it-ever entered anybody's head—equally absurd. Neither was£Mt<Bennett, commbhlf I'■ known as " Ballarat Bennett," of the according. f<i~dii. inforniaiion. ' fßut' -We ; do' trust that we shall not be called on to say that Iverv one with a name sitnilai^tadiiode 6frthe ','rollicking rams" was absent on the occasion. Let the public find it out for themselves.

I ,As rhvi.l:be! slen tio'rk Snot Her Whuhnl Etta of the harbour endowment.-, whi«:h was to have taken place to-morrow, has been postponed, in jcon^eqiie^ce «f Received from' Wellington. ' "

j The usual monthly meeting, of the Chamber Of Commerce will be held' at. 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon.

Tenders are repaired by Matthew Edgar, contractor of the Kaipara Railway, for the supply of sawn timber and sleepers.