AUCKLAND.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2742, 30 November 1871, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(from our own correspondent.) November 23rd, 1871. Caglo and Comper’s Opera troupe arrived about tin-, beginning of the month, and are now about the finishing their engagement with the public. The theatre has been crowded every night. Nearly all the dress circle was taken up by season tickets, costing L 7 7s each. The public appear to be well pleased with the troupe. It is eight or nine years since the last, Lyster’s, company was here. There was a large attendence of the Volunteers at a review held in a paddock of Mr Farmer’.-', on the 9bh instant- The day was very line and a good many visitors were on the ground. The review went off well The agricultural show was held 1 on ihe 16th inst in the barrack yards About 4009 people visited it during the day r . The show was very poor, and not to be compared with some of the same kind in Dunedin and Christchurch. There were only two different breeds of sheep and catcle, and the horses of all classes were very indifferent. The new rifle range at Mount Eden was opened on Monday, the 20th inst. The Mayor’s cup has to be fired for as soon as the Volunteers have had some practice on the new ground. ! The 'Auckland Kifje Association has been started, and is in a fair way of going ahead. Your volunteers mint look out, or their reputation as leading shots in the Colony may be Iqrt. The members' of the Legislature returned from Wellington on the 18th inst., and tbs Provincial Council was opened on the 22nd inst. by the Superintendent (Mr T. B. Gillies). Very little lias been done as yet. The share market has been very dull all the month. The Caledonians were down to L7O, hut are now up to LOO. A sumtion was created in the market by a report that the Caledonian claim had struck a very rich reef close to the Tookey claim, and which appeared to run into it. The Tookey shares rose ftom L3O to L 49, but are now quoted at L4O. It is reported that some speculators despatched a steamer to Melbourne with orders to agents there to buy up all the Tookey shares that could he got. It must lie mentioned that the claim is principally owned by Victorian speculators. A telegram was despatched by way of Tauranga to catch the Melbourne steamer ; if it hat done so, it is probable that the speculators here may have all their trouble for nothing, as I do not hear that anything beyond the probable or possible has been ascertained, The weather is very fine at present, and the farmers are calling out for rain. Lil e their class everywhere, they are as bad to please with the weather as with prices. Their crops are always burnt up with di y weather, drowned with wet, or eaten by worms, grubs, or caterpillars ; when the harvest turns out abundant, they say it is not worth reaping, and when scant, they have nothing to sell. But people arc content to wait the result, knowing that weather is usually better provided for them than they could arrange it themselves