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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 815, 15 December 1865, Page 2

There will be a Battalion Parade of the Artillery Regiment this evening. The members will fall in at the Custom House. The North Dunedin Cricketers will meet for practice on Saturday next at 3 o'clock. The terms of entrance fees and annual subscription advertised are very moderate. The Lodge of St. Andrew will meet this evening for business at 7 o'clock sharp. "We understand that the Installation Banquet will take place on Friday the 22nd inst. The Contractor for watering the streets has commenced his work, but the single barrel at present employed is quite inadequate for its proper performance. At least two are necessary to ensure the work being done according to the specification. " Barlow " is the great attraction at present, and the Theatre was very well attended last night. His comic songs would- make the most hypochondriacal individual laugh, whilst his "negro peculiarities" are both funny and natural. The "Five Cripples" is the most comical of ditties, and the " Auld Wife's " admonition to the " Wee Bairn," " Creep afore ye gang," was given in snch a style as to command a vociferous encore. The intermediate portions of the programme comprised some very excellent horsemanship, Signor Raphael winning loud applause for his daring and graceful equestrianism. It would be an improvement if Mr Barlow's entertainment occupied the first and third portions of the programme, instead of, as at present, the first and last. We notice that to-morrow there will be another mid-day performance, and as it must be the last (the dramatic company being on their way back from Christchurch), no one should lose the opportunity of "attending it. Referring to Mr B. L. Farj eon's Christmas book, now in the press, the D unstan Times says : "The story is principally of a local character, some of the incidents being laid in the Dunstan district. From the well known ability of the author, there is no doubt the work will be highly appreciated, especially amongst those who have spent a portion of their time upon the goldfields. The Dunstan Times says :—" In one of our late issues, Ave remarked that it was more than probable that all the terraces breasting the Kawarau from the Gorge to the Roaring Meg, would at an early date be taken up and effectively worked. This statement is now, to some extent, endorsed by the Mountaineer Company, and the claim now worked adjoining their ground is an earnest of a fruitful harvest to others taking up claims in the locality. This claim bears the name of ' Ballarat/ and its owners, ELelsall and party are realising on an average from eight to ten pounds per man per week, and ground before them that will require not months but years to work out. On the same side of the river, but down at the Gorge, ground of the most promising nature has been opened by Nicholls and party, and judging by the commodious dams erected by them they are providing against summer drought, as Pipe Clay Gully, out of which their race springs, has in it but a limited supply of water during the summer months. Permanency in sluicing appears to be the general study of the miners in that immediate district at present, and a determination to carry operations on extensively is unmistakeably visible to any ordinary observer." The Southern Cross of the 2nd inst. says : By the arrival last evening of the p. s. Tasmanian Maid, we learn that the Kapanga Gold Mining Company's claim at Coromandel still bears every prospect of a valuable yield. Daring the week some very excellent specimens of gold-bearing quartz have been produced, which afford indications of the presence of a rich leader in the immediate vicinity of the claim. Steps are being taken to augment the working-party there, in order to continue the sinking for the leader, which must exist at a spot not far removed from tise present workings.