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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 842, 17 January 1866, Page 2

By the Airedale, which arrived this afternoon, we have our Northern files to the following dates :—Auckland, Bth ; Nelson, Il+h ; Lyttelton, 16th. The Southern Cross says that “there was a rumour in London, about the closing of the mail, in well-informed quarters, that a new Governor for New Zealand had been appointed. General Cameron was in Paris ; and on his arrival in London, a deputation of Auckland settlers would see him, and report to the general committee respecting the presentation of the sword subscribed by the people of Auckland.” A special summoned meeting of Court Pride of Dunedin of the Ancient Order of Foresters will he held to-morrow evening for the purpose of revising the laws of that body. “The Sea of Ice ” will be repeated this evening, preceded by Buckstone’s farce of “The Bough Diamond,” in which Miss Dolly Green sustains a character she is highly successful in, that of Margery, It is advertised in another column that the High School will be re-opened, after the midsummer holidays, upon Tuesday the 6th ox February next. Miss Grace Egeeton will make her first appearance before a Dunedin audience this evening at St George’s Hall. A journal in the North, where Miss Egerton has been giving her entertainments for some time with great success, says that “the audience was for three hours beguiled by a series of impersonations most exquisitively given ” upon tlie occasion of the performance of “ The Drawing Boom Floor,” and we are thus led to anticipate a great treat in its representation this evening. A Lodge of Instruction in connection with the Otago Kilwinning Lodge will he held tomorrow evening at 8 p.m. A meeting of the shareholders of the Horse Flat Mining Company was held to-day at Temple Chambers. After some preliminary matters were entered into, it was suggested by some shareholders to adjourn the meeting until after the departure of the mail, which proposition was agreed to. The adjourned meeting will he held on Friday, the 2Gth January, at three o’clock. The Wahatlp .Mail of the 6th hist. says : “We are informed that a slight shock of an earthquake occurred in this town between one and two o’clock on Thursday morning. We learn potatoes are very dear at the Dunstan and Nevis. At the latter place they are reported to be worth £24 per ton. Here they are worth only £2 to £3 per ton ; and for want of roads we can neither supply the Dunstan or the Nevis.”