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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1683, 10 July 1875, Page 3

A pleasant gathering will be hel<? in the Choral Hall on Monday evening next in celebration of the anniversary of the Orange Institution. We do not profess to any acquaintance with the inner working of this Order, which lays claim to the high position of being the bulwark of Protestantism, but we know that in such of its outward developments as it is permitted for the outside world to see, the Institutition seems to be much more closely associated with social enjoyments than with swords, javelins, and plots. On the present occasion the Society comes before the public with a first-class musical and literary programme. We need not recapitulate the various items of the programme as given by advertisement in another column. It is sufficient here to remark that the entertainment will be contributed to by some of our most popular amateurs. Ministers of various denominations will deliver suitable addresses of an instructive character, in keeping with the aims and objects of the institution. An old offender named Catherine Douglas was arrested by Constable Clarke to-day on a charge of stealing an umbrella, the property of Mr Maxheld, and a pair of opera glasses, owner unknown. The umbrella was taken from the hall of Mr. Cardno's house, Hobson-street, on the morning of the Bth inst. The opera-glasses had been sold for Is 6d. They are a small, but apparently very good pair, in black leather, with portions of a suspending chain on each side. The owner will oblige by calling on the police and identifying them at once. Catherine says a gentleman gave them to her at the Theatre. The gale of Sunday last was felt with great force at ;Waiuku. The Whiriwhiri schoolhouse was blown over. A pane of glass was blowk out of the Presbyterian Church, and otherjdamage done. , Some hlman bones, evidently many years buried, wire found at Messrs Sims and Brown's Baip-building yard, North Shore, " buried on :Jhe beach. They were, in all probabilty, thl remains of a native or European drowned, whose body had been thrown up on the short and since covered with sand by the tide. \ A singular importation came into the colony frorri Hobart Town with the Bella Mary this trip. This was nothing else than a Tasmanila Devil which had been sent for by Mr Brown, Mr Robert Graham's manager at Ellerslie Gardens. The animal is described as most precocious looking andjof a great size. We understand that the Custom-bouse officer was quite nonplussed to know what rate of ;duty to charge up|n it. While the discussion was going on the animal evinced his decided disinclinationlo leave the ship, and, getting a slant, made a bolt for the hold, where he has taken up a strong position, and defies all attempts to capture him.