The Evening Star. FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1871.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 549, 13 October 1871, Page 2

The Evening Star.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 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."

The Lalla Rookh returned from Coromatldel last evening, but brings little news of importance; The Tokatea have obtained £7.800 for the gold from the last crushing. It is expected that the dividend will be either 6s. or 7s. per share.

A lecture will be delivered this evening in the large hall of the Young Men's Christian Association, by' the Rev. ,G. M. Reed) on a subject of a very unusual character. "The Pew and the Pulpit, colonially considered," is the matter for treatment.

The first convictions under the Municipal Corporation Act .0f_.1.567 were made this morning, and the proprietors of a few wandermn goats were fined for allowing thorn to straggle into places where they had no right.

When unfortunate shoopkeepers pi^e their crates of goodson.the footpo'l'* and^-obstruct tier YMajesty's subject in their; petambulamttffi they are >ery'*quickly brought -tip 'Hvith a round turn by the conservators of the peace, and either find or cautioned in a way they are not likely to forget. But obstructions created by the Municipal authorities are quite another thing, and may bo allowed,to remain -without query. * -Several of "'tKeaJj official nuisances may be seen in_ varidus partY of 'the municipality;'" but ' tlid one to which our attention . has been strongly diawn within-* the' last1 few days is a lamp-post, which has been stuck up at the corner, of Pitt-and Yiucent streets.1 Sortie1 scientific arrangements have been made, under whieb, instead of.the bearer of luininositybeing placed on or near the kerb-stone, it has been erected at exactly; thati pointswhece;.ani incautious individual, walking along the street on a night before the rising pf. the c mopn, wxjuld be ceit'-in to come into cdntact' with the iron pillar.

Considerable..part,bf the 'premises'-"recently occupied by the Messrs. Eeesing, Doitsch and Keesing has been-''taken' by Mr. Rattray, the well-known draper and clothier of Shortland Crescent. We are told that the place will be onened to-morrow on a scale of great magnificence.

An accident of rather-an uuusual character happened in Queen-street last night to a member of that unfortunate, but withal honorable " Brotherhood," —we mean, our city shoeblacks. It appears that after having unceasingly toiled all the day, he began to wend hjsway homeward. , He might have been seen with that miscellaneous collection of tools upon his back which belong to his craft, walking as steadily as his wdaried'limbs would allow; sometimes coming into close contact with a companion in the'-flesh.juntil he arrived .*t the Greyhound Hotel, when he came to a full stop. Just at this Juncture lie remembered that he wanted* sbmethihg,"(l heed not say (what it was), when down came his " apple cart" upon tins, payeuaent. | Hy* ho^-jand contents, which had siood his friend for many a year, 3 ere scattered right before his, eves, with uOothWr alternatiVe but tfo go' homej'soMwhat lighter than when he came, with a fixed regret uporphis /ace, and, np heavj .frfi keart!'' Our readers will not feel surprised at this when they hear that all he possessed in the world was contained in the box, and thus his anxiety accounted for.

| The usual monthly inspection of four companies of Cadets attached' to the Auckland College, Grammar, and Blue schools was held yesterday, at noon, in the Albert Barracks. Major Gordon was the inspecting officer, and put the little soldiers through a variety pf . mpvemepfSj v moulding j marching past,'' deploying into line, and forming battalion and company square, all of which were executed with admirable1 precision and steadiness. An experymentaPlecture^wilF be, delivered br-Mr/'H. 4. BevejM, atijhe Cho>£l Hal), on Monday' next. ' Subject : " Galvanism, Terrestiiil Magnetism, Magnetism, and ElectroMagnetism, &c, &c.'v- u- '■'•' }

I A performance will be given at thereat™ Royal'! oh -SafnrdMy! e-vehing;' in aid/of/itUe*' funds of the Staff Corps Band. Distinguished patronage has been obtained" for the occasion, and an excellent programme arranged.

; This evening, the Rev.,.J.. J.^Le-wis.^will deliver hil lecture rin) -the pi&pel, Parnell, and hot in"the Parnell Hall, as previously stated.

A Yorkshireman and a Leicestershireman, contending for the superior fertility of the soil of their respective counties, the Leicestershireman declared that if he turned a horse into a new-mown field, the next morning the grass 'would be above his hoofs. " That's nothing," cried the Yorkshireman; " you may turn a horse into a.field iivYorrksfirej^d'-pot l*)Cssf to -find it :hext mffirnfn^ "' Tht:re''aro inaiVy ■paddocks like that nearer home. " At what time of life may a man bo said to belong to the vegetablo kingdom ?—When ■lopg experience has made him sage.