SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS

Kapler, s.s., Bendall, from Napier via Tologa BayJ Star of the South, s.s., Holmes, from Napier, (at the Thames.) Hero, cutter, 30 tons, Moller, from Tauranga.

DEPARTURES.

St. Kilda, s.s., J. Flowerday, for Wanganui. Tauranga, schooner, for Tauranga. Mary Eliza, cutter, for Tauranga.

IMPORTS.

Per s.s. Napier, from Tologa Bay: —4oo sheep, order. —J. S. Macfarlane, agent.

The s.b. Napier will leave for Napier and Poverty Bay on Thursday. The Bella Mary is discharging her cargo in excellent condition. She will be finished on Thursday, and will sail for Hobart Town on Saturday. The s.s. Lord Ashley passed Tologa, going South, on Sunday, at 8 a.m., and the Welling ton at 4 p.m. The Star of the South, bound to the Thames, passed Tologa Bay at 10 a.m. on Sunday, and ■was . seen entering the Thames early this morning.

ARRIVAL OF THE NAPIER.

The s.s. Napier, Oapfc. Bendall, left Napier on Friday, the 16th, at 1 a.m., and arrived at Poverty Bay the same day at 3 p.m., where she landed a full cargo, 2 horses, and 18 passengers ; left again on the 17th, arriving at Tologa Bay the same night; loaded sheep on the 18fch, aud left for Auckland at 6 p.m.; experienced fair weather throughout the pas- Bage, and arrived at Kohimarima at 6 a.m. on the 20th.

PASSENGEES :—From .Napier—Mr. Smith. From Poverty Bay—Mr. Rathbone. From Tologa Bay"—*■ Messrs. Reeves and Gilmore.

COMMERCIAL.

Evening Star Office, Tuesday afternoon-

Messrs. L. D. Nathan and Co. held an exten sive sale of drapery, more or less damaged by salt water, ex Alexandrina, from London. There was a good attendance, and fair prices were realised.

At Messrs. H. S. Meyers and Co.'s sale, this morning, of fruit, jams, &c, ex Bella Mary, from Hobart Town, the following prices were realised : —Apples, Permains, 2|d ; crabs, If d to 2d; jams, Knight Bros., in tins, 6s 6d per dozen ; ditto, in jars, 6d per lb.; butter, 6d to 6^d ; onions, lid ; barley, ex Midge, 2s 6d to 2s Yd 5 maize, 4s Id, 4a 2d, 4s 3d; flour, 14s ; hops, ll|d to 16£ d.

Mr. Or. Sibbin held a sale of produce at his mart to-day, and the following prices were realised :—-Maize, 4s to 4s 3d ; potatoes, 3s 3d ; wheat, 3s 6d; barley, 3s 6d ; bacon, 5d to 6d per lb.; butter, 6d to 6|d ; cheese, 4|d to 5d ; tea, 2s 2d ; kerosene, 3s 6d.

Messrs. Samuel Cochrane and Son sold at their rooms, ;ifoi!t-Btreet,- this day, the follow ing, saved .front the wreck .of the schooner ludusfcry,:—-The hull, as it now lies at Waikato Heads, £5 ; standing rigging, 11s 6d per cwifr; wire rigging, 2d per Ib.; blocks, 2s, 2s 6d, 4s, and 6s 6d each; booms, 9s and 12s each; anchor, 2£d per lb. ; kedge, 3Jd per 1b..; rope, 2d ; 2Jd, 2fd, and 3d per lb.; sails, £1 12s 6d, £2 ss, £3 10s, and £8 15s e ach j copper,' 4£d per lb.; old chain, Id to 2d per lb.; new chain, 3d to 3|d per lb.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Mails will close as under :t-t ; , For Thames, this day, at 5.30 p.m., and to morrow, at 10.30' a.m. and 4 p.m. For Whitiaagi, per Mary Ellen, this day, at 5 p.m. For Great Barrier/per Mary Ann, to-morrow, at 8 a.m. For ' Kapanga, &c, per Lalla Eookh, on Thursday, 21st in3t., at 10.30 a.m. For Eussell, &'c, per'p.s. Duke of Edinburgh, on Thursday, 21st inst., at 11 a.m. For Taranaki and Southern ■ provinces, imme diately after the arrival of. the p.s. Nevada from Honolulu. For Napier and the Southern Provinces, per p.s. Nevada, six hours after her arrival from Honolulu.

Note.: —The public are informed that revised rates of postage can now be procured at this office, and attention is directed to many important alterations. which have been made in foreign postage.

Poßt-pffices have been opened at Te Hana Albertla'nd, and at Ohaupo, Waikato.

8. B. Biss, Chief Postmaster,

BIRTHS.

Robinson.—On June 18, at Dublin-street, Mount St. Mary's, the wife of Mr. Charles Seymour Robinson of a daughter.

Nathak. —On June 18, at St. Keven's, Karangahape Road, Mrs. L. D. Nathan of a daughter.

DEATH.

■Webster.—On June 19, at Cheltenham, North Shore, Mrs. Webster, in the 80th year of her age.

TUESDAY, JUNE 20, 1871.

We like to see an occasional shot fired at the habitues of " Scrip Cor ner." In fact we have a penchant for indulging in that little pastime our selves. But' there is. a length beyond which, we would not go, and where apparent mischief is meant, we feel impelled to range ourselves on the side of the " Corner." The City Council apparently mean mischief ; at least they will be assuming such an attitude if they accept the motion in tended to be tabled by Mr. Asher. This councillor proposes by a by4aw " to abatfe the nuisance" caused by the sharebrokers. We do not defend the selection made of the present scene of

the scrip market. We have advocated its removal to the covered area in the New Zealand Insurance Company's Buildings, but the resolution pro posed in the Council is unmistakably couched in terms of contemptuous hostility to this new thing that has sprung up iv our midst. It is. not so very long since it was easy enough to get along our streets ; and this very scrip has restored a state of things for which we long sighed in vain. It is all very well to affect an indiffer ence regarding what is making Auck land the envy of the colony, and soon, perhaps, to be the envy of all the colonies. And though there are smart transactions in scrip, dealing in that commodity is quite as legitimate and respectable as trading in drapery or any other article of merchantable character. There are, indeed, many " nuisances" to abate in Auckland, and we should be reluctant to do anything to quench the re forming zeal of the Council, bub there are less tolerable nuisances than our gold market, and where there are so many to select from, we fail to see on what special grounds " Scrip Corner" has been singled out. It is a more dainty kind of nuisance indeed than some others, and may be touched with less risk of defiling the fingers ; but if the City Council really wish to benefit the community, we would intimate that the Queen street sewer is a " nuisance" of no ordinary magnitude. This is not an original remark of ours,, and we are aware that attention has'been called to this subject before. Never theless do we feel and do we urge that it is a " nuisance " more clamant than that which the enormous yield of gold at the Thames has obtruded on our attention. Iv fact, we think that, with the sensible portion of our citizens, it would uot be a very great annoyance, even though Queen-street should be choked full and rendered iitterly im passable by the throng and the excite ment of our gold market. Long may we be inconvenienced by such " nui sances," is, we think, the public feeling of the city; nor do we think that much general sympathy will be given to the proposed resolution, framed as it is, evidently in conteuj.pt, and hos tility towards tho scrip m*ftrket.

We observe that those desirous of mementos of what is decidedly the wonder of the pro vince, and we might add of the world, so far a gold-mining is concerned, can have such by calling on Mr. Lewisson. He has succeeded in purchasing from the directors of the Cale donian a magnificent and very rich specimen, -which he is having cut up for manufacture into all kinds of bijouterie and articles of vertu. We have just inspected some of his combinations of auriferous quartz and green stone, for solitaires and rings, and really, for chaste design and beauty of execution and general effect, they are the most attractivo form of jewellery we have seen.

There will be a meeting of the Harbour Board to-morrow, when the election of secretary will take place, We understand that there are about 80 applicants.

The Auckland correspondent of the HawJce's Bay Her'ild, referring to the scrip mania here says: " There is a great lull in the scrip market from the high fever wlych existed some time ago. The excitement tllen was be yond all degree of prudence or wisdom. If it were to continue longer, I firmly believe the lunatic asylum would have to be en larged. It is really lamentable, with the experience of the past before their eyes, to see men madly rushing to their own ruin, for that must be the evident result, where people have not common ser>se or foresight. Scrip corner was a perfect nuisance, while the fever lasted, from the crowds assembleJ there every morning. Business was actually suspended* in everything but mining affairs. Believe me that trade will never prosper by a system of scrip-kiting that is rotten at the core. We have only emerged from its dire effects, .arul again to plunge into a similar or worse vortex is the height of madness. If the Thames and Coromandel goldfields are, allowed to develop them selves quietly, without the interference of this scrip-mania, there can be no doubt at all of the beneficial result. If our agriculturists aiid men of business would assiduously attend to their own legitimate callings, trade and com-, merce would be far better promoted, and prosperity follow more rapidly, than by hav ing their time, attention, and spare c»sh squandered in a mere hallucination" o£ the senses; and leave scrip-dealing to gambling speculators who appear to have no other mode of living,

Native Kew3.—William King, with a party of about fifty in number, who started from the Bay of Plenty abont three weeks ago oa an expedition in search of Te Kooti, accompanied by Lieutenant Rushton, came out at Poverty Bay three days after Eopata had gone in, and was there when the Napier left, having failed to find traces of Te Kooti, or, indeed, of any persona wandering in that1 part of the country. Wo news has been re ceived of Eopata since he went in.— Hawhe's Bay Herald, June.

Through the kindness of the directors of the Caledonian claim I have been enabled to pur chase a large piece of quartz, which I will at once proceed to cut up into slices. Anyone wishing to have a momentoof the Thames will do well tq give IF. 11. Lewisscmt an early visit. ■—Advt.] '

The monthly meeting of the Chamber of Commerce will be held at three o'clock next Thursday.

An entertainment will be held in the New ton Academy, Karangahape Eoad, this (Tues day evening, in aid of the Destitute Sfeildren's Home, when a large variety of new and rare dissolving views will be exhibited.

(3-entlemen interested in the formation of a Highland Volunteer Company are requested to meet at the Queen's Perry Hotel, at half past seven o'clock, next Friday evening.

A call of threepence per share has been made in the Berkeley Castle Q-old Mining Company.

James Poppleton gives notice that he in tends to apply for a transfer of the licence of the Waikoiniti Hotel to Jatne3 Johnson.

' "An emergency meeting of Lodge Ara, "No. 348, 1.C., will be held at the Masonic Hotel this evening.

On Saturday afternoon, as a man named James Salmon was going up the Waiotahi Creek, he slipped nnd fell a distance of fifteen or twenty feet down a cutting afc the mouth of a drive. He was taken up insensible, and conveyed to the Hospital. At the time of the accident, Salmon was, we are informed, intoxicated, and for some time after he had been tnken to the Hospital it was impossible to ascertain what injuries he had sustained. At night, however, it was found that the spine had been injured, and so seriously as to deprive the unfortunate man of all power of motion in the legs and lower part of the body. He is able (o move the right arm a little, but not the left. It is very doubtful if he will recover. For some time past Salmon has lived in a whare in the Waiotahi Creek, and been employed conveying and cutting fire wood.— Mail, 19th inst.

THE SHARE MARKET.

Mr. I. Phillips reports : —Thames, £41 ; Kelly, £4. In demand: Otago, £4 ss, £4 10s, £4 15s ; Prince Imperial, £5; Red Queen, 10s ; Moanatairi, £4.

Mr. J. T. Garlick reports to-day—Ca ledonian, £210 ; Thames, £41 10s ; Cen tral Italy, 35s ; Moanatairi, £3 15s; Middle Star, £4 10s, old shares, 10s ; Shotover, 7s 9d ; Union Sash and Door Company, £4 5s ; Otago, £4 15s.

Mr. -T. Newman reports a good demand for Otago this morning, and some sold at £5, but easier this afternoon. His sales are—Caledonian, £212 ; Thames, £41 10s; Moanatairi, £3 15s; Golden Calf, £2 ss; Otago, £5.

Mr. Samuel "Tickers reports sales to day :—Caledonian, £212 10s ; Thames, £42 ; Otago, £4 15s, £5 ; Kelly, £4 ss, £4 10s. In demand : Bank of New Zealand, Insurance, and Gas Company shares.

Mr. T. B. Hill reports having sold :— Thames, £42 ; Otago, £4 10s ; Red Queen, 11s.

SUPREME COURT.—Civil Sittings.

TUESDAY, JUNE 20,

[Before His Honor Sir Gh A. Arney, Knight,

Chief Justice, and Common Juries.] His Honob took his seat on the Bench at 10 o'clock.

Ritchie t. Ritchie and Anotheb.—Mr. Rees (instructed by Mr. Bennett) for ii plaintiff; Mr. Whitaker (instructed by Sir. Buddie) for the defendant.—This cause was part heard yesterday. The question was,. whether a co-partnership existed between the parties. '±he f»rte in this case have been published. Tiio co-partnership -was left to the jury, to bo inferred from a voluminous series of correspondence, invoices, account sales, and other documents.—Mr. Whi.taker addressed the jury for the defendants, deny ing the existence of any co-partnership.—His Honor was of opinion that the action could not be sustained. It did not appear that Robert llufcton Ritchie, the second de fendant, took any part in theso transactions. — Mr. Rees applied for leave to amend the record by striking out the name of the second defendant. —His Honor felt some doubt as to ■whether ho had power to amend; but he would reservo the point. In any case, he thought the second defendant entitled to his costs. He would then reserve leave for the other defendant to move for a nonsuit, or move that the verdict be entered for him on the ground that the Judge had no power to amend the record.—Mr. Bees was heard for the plaintiff.

(Left sitting.)

POLICE COURT'— Tuesday.

[Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., Resident

Magistrate. ]

Drunkenness.—One drunkard was punished in the usual manner.

Impounding Act. —S. T. Newbury was fined 15s. for allowing three horses to wander in Queen-street.

Municipal Police Act.—J. 0. White, A. Chapman, and W. Campion were fined seve rally 55., with costs, for allowing goats to stray. —J. Nicholson was fined 10s. for allow ing his chimney 6o' go on fire.—A charge was laid against *W. Anderson of having neglected to keep a lLht burning on a hoarding, in Q.uoen-street, during the effecting of repairs to a building. There being some doubfc with re ference to the serving of the summons, on the suggestion of the Court, the case was with drawn, a caution and warning being adminis tered.

The following on " the rat plague" is from the South Australian Register; —" The army of rata appear to have spread over a large por tion of the North, and Mr. G-. L. Debney, writing to us from Mundowadana, on April 12, remarks that they are in swarms, infesting every waterhole and spring. The creatures are of the common brown variety, laboriginally termed my-ar-roo, and by the blacks, who con sider the visitation as a windfall, are regarded as a great dainty. The natives state that they seldom visit that part of the country, the latest instance having been many years ago, and be fore the whites settled in the far Worth. On the last remembered occasion they came from the eaat and north-east, destroying all the feed, and, after staying about six months, left as suddenly as tliey arrived. In some places their tracks cover the ground for miles. Our present informant remarks than they seem chiefly to attack the grass roots, and although ho hits been more than ten years in the north, this is the first time he has seen them.'

A final dividend in the estate of F. J Bennet will be payable at the office of Mr. Ewington on the 20th inst.

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.

THIS DAT.

THE CALEDONIAN.—7 OWT. SPECIMENS THIS MOBNINGk

JUNCTION CRUSHING.

THERE WHITE AND BLUE

CEUSHING-.

AERIVAL OF THE STAB OF

THE SOUTH.

Q-EAHA.MSTOWN, 3 p.m

The Caledonian are taking, out rich stone from the under level of the new drive. They are also getting out specimens from the other workings. About seven hundredweight have been brought up this morning. The Junction are crushing at the Kuranui. The Moanatairi are crushing at the Tramway machine; another battery is to be engaged. The Red, "White, and Blue crushing will give about two ounces to the ton. The s.s. Star of the (South arrived this morning from Napier. She brings no later news. . The Lowland Lass have struck the Vulcan reef. Gold visible.

[FEOM ANOTHER COBEESPONDENT.] ■ 2 p.m. Theee is considerable excitement here this morning in consequence of the continued richness of the Caledonian, and the fact of the new run towards the Otago turning out bo rich, has caused a brisk demand for shares in that company. During last night about six hundredweight of splendid stone was taken oat from the reef, making twenty hundredweight brought up during twenty-four hours. The main lode is simply magnificent, the specimens coming from it being equal to any ever brought up from the mine—some of them being almost solid gold. The winze also produces the same rich stone. In the drive towards the Otago, the gold has been followed about twelve or thirteen feet, and at the end of this, both top and bottom, gold is to be seen.

The contractors will commence to sink the shaft on the Shotover on Thursday next. It is the general belief that something good will be found before sinking many feet.

Uncle Tim's Horse Fbbd.—Uncle Tim listened very patiently to Ned Hobb's wonder ful account of a trotting horse he owned. Ned certainly owned a good animal ; but it was full rs certain that he kaew how to put the matter forward in its best light. He closed his account with a detail of the method he followed in feeding horses which were liable to be called upon ab any time for speed. " Pooly good !" said Uncle Tim, when Ned had concluded ; " but, mercy aakes alive ! that ant nothin' compared with an old boss I owned over in Waterford. And talkiu' about feedin', —just let ma tell ye how I fetched that hoss up. Ye see, my cousin Antepast, he come home from Californy, and told me how the Injuns fed their hosses when they want 'em to do great things. They fed 'em on raw meat ! I'd seen signs of big stuff in my old beast, and thinks Ito myself, I'll just try that. And I did. I went down to Major Millett's, and en gaged ten pounds of fresh beef a day, I don't s,pose the hoss got quite ten pounds a day, because there was some bone in it, —but he got enough,—and he eat it, too. And, —ge- whittaker-to-git! didn't it put the snap into him. G-oodness gracious ! Talk about oats ! They ant nowhar ! I tell ye that raw beef made a perfect tiger of the animal. There warn't another man in town 'at dared to go near him only me. " Perhaps, gentlemen, you wonder whether that ere hoss could trot. I tried him on the track over in in Norway; and then I took him down to Lewiston ; but I couldn't make it work. The moment he be gun to come to his speed away flew the sulkey right out off 'm the track. 'Twouldn't hold on, nohow ! So, ye see, 'twan't no use to try to time him ! When I come vp # from Lew iston, Sim. Frost come with me. He was dreadful skittish about ridin' behind that hoss, but he was in a hurry to get home, so he ven tured. On the road I let the old hoss out. Jerewsalem and broomsticks! 'My eyes ! I'd never seen- him go so afore : ' Goodness me !' said Sim., ' what on ah'th did they build such a tarnal high, board fence as that for ?' I held on sharp and look to the side of road ; and there, sure enough I saw what Sim. had took to be a board fence, thirty feet high, at least. And I tell ye, gentlemen, if I hadn't a known just where we was, and just what it must be, I would 'aye sworn 'at Sam. was right." " Then it wasn't a board fence ?" sug gested Ned Hobbsf " Bless ye* soul ! no," answered Uncle Tim, with solemn seriousness ; " 'twas telegraph poles!"—S. C, Jr.

THE CAPTAIN AND HIS REW AND PASSENGERS.

(FROM THE QUEEN.) A puzzle was lately proposed or mired after in connection with, the two line— From numbers, aid and art, Kever will fame depart. The following explanation will perls be intelligible:—A captain is supposed xhave on board his ship 30 men, of whom 15 acrew and 15 passengers. In consequence I pro visions failing, {it is resolved to throw If the whole number overboad. How can v. ■be done so as to save all the crew and to I the passengers go? After mature delibelion, the men are brought and placed in attain order, according to the numbers present by the vowels in the foregoing distich. I=4, so let four of the crew stand in a line ; so let five of the passengers take their fees in continuation; E= 2, so send in t|of the crew ; A= l, so add one passenger t = 3, so add three men ; A=l, so add anier passenger ; A=l, so send up another ofhe men ; E=2, so send up two passenjk ; E= 2, so send up two men ; A=l, senchp another passenger ; E=2, send in two ire men ; E=2, send in two more passen^ ; A=l, send in the last of your men. 1 Passengers and crew are now arrasd thus :—

I I I ittttt I It I I it ifti ittt itrn Here the upright strokes represent tnte In you wish to save, and the crosses - the I. lowers of Jonah. Begin and count one, t! three, &c., on to nine, and you will find % a cross, which is cancelled. Continue k same process, and the second number ife will be a cross ; cancel this, and go on [ third time, and you will find your ninth m bears his cross, and must be cancelled. ~% have now come to the end of liie row witll three, so begin where you lbffc off— "ol two, three"—then back to the beginning your line, and count on " four, five," &c, 1 nine, which is a cross, and goes overboa» In this way you are to proceed until evel cross is cancelled, which will happen, if ye go on correctly, without touching one of tho; whom you mean to keep. Instead of mark: cards or counters may be used. The experiment may be tried in a pompanj where as many as thirty persons are presenti and some one to conduct the process. Al| lowing each fifteen to bear a distinctive badge, and calling them respectively Turks and Christians, or Jews and Turks, or passes gers and crew, or whatever you will, you may throw overboard— i. c., send out of the line or circle—everyone whom it is your intention to send out. If the general company are not let into the secret of the solution before the game begins, the effect will be thatof mystery; and certainly it is one of the cleverest, as it one of the most celebrated, puzzles ever in vented. The Jews use a Hebrew sentence, the initial letters in which give precisely the same results as the vowels in the English distich. It is necessary in all cases to begin with four of those who are to be preserved. A correspondent sends us the following com panion to this puzzle:—A schoolboy on a visit to a good-natured uncle was requested by him to take half the fruit on the table consisted of 15 apples ancl 15 oranges. The nephew was about to take all the oranges but the old gentleman objected to this unless he could arrange all the fruit in a circle in such a manner that every ninth article would be an orange. The clever youth won all the oranges by placing the fruit according to the order of the vowels in the following line from Virgil:— 45 21 31 12 231221 JPopuleam virgam mater regina f erebat. He commenced with apples, and placed four of them becaiise o is the fourth vowel, then five oranges because v is the fifth vowel, then two apples because c is the second vowel, then one orange because ais the first vowel, and so on right through, as will be easily seen by a glance at the figures placed over the vowels in the above Latin quotation. Many other sentences may be made use of besides this one and the one in the Queen, for in stance: — Our earth's final fate—enigma ever dark. And again, Our dear Richard's tale begins at the sea ; The arrangement of the vowels in all four cases is similar. The trick or puzzle is best performed with cards ; 15 black, and 15 red being used to denote either Turks and Chris tians, passengers and crew, or apples and .oranges.1

THE EVENING STAR

I June 20, 1871.



FOR SALE—Bi AOR'KS, 3 Acres of good yielding Orchard; with Two roomed House, on the Manukau. Price, £30.—Apply to Geor&e Sibbis, Auctioneer, Laud and Commission Agent.



The Hobart Town Mercury records the decease of Mrs. Martha Williamson, of Brown's River. In the year 1803, sixty-eighb years ago, when the colony of Tan Dieman's Land was founded, the deceased, then Miss Hays, was the first white woman—or rather English young lady, for she was only seventeen —that set foot on the island, and this she effected after a playful contest for the honour with a less fortunate rival of her own sex, on the flat where it was at that time intended to establish the capital, just below the residence of Mr. T. Q-. Gregson, at Risdon, or " Restdowu," as they named the spot in those days. With the exception of one lady who still survives, it is supposed that the deceased wa9 the last of the immigrants who formed a first British ettlemenb iv the land she lived in.



A good idea comes from America as regards raising broken or useless piles from wharf frontages, jetties, &c. On the Connecticut River a number of piles used for a bridge were broken away by a violent shock of large masses of ice, and it was a question how to remove the stumps, whick were as bad as our Murray snags. After many experiments and failures, at last a strong iron tube,'with a steel point, was ramm«d down alongside of each pile, and the t»be filled with gunpowder. The explo sion of the charge half lifted the piles from the soil, and their after raising was very easy of accomplishment. — South Australian Adver tiser. With respect to a telegram received from Sydney on the 22nd ult., stating that a white woman and child, the survivors of a wreck, have been seen with New Britain nativesj it has been suggested that the woman is probably Mrs. Smith, the wife of the captain of the Earl of Hard wicke,. which vessel was wrecked in the Sunda Straits about six years since, when Mrs. Smith and the captain were in one of the boats which left the ill-fated vessel. Three of the boats were rescuod, but that containing the captain and wife, and others, has not since been heard of. Mrs. Smith is a daughter of Mi1. Stacy, of Port Adelaide.



A meeting of the creditors of William. Bu chanan, of Matakana, is convened for the 29th inst. —Notice is given that Henry Borg, of Auckland, shipwright and boatbuilder, has become insolvent.—lt ia notified that divi dends will shortly be payable in the estate of Alexander Watson and A. H. Hunter. '•



Many hare remarked that there is nothing ' new under the sun, but the extraordinary yield from the Caledonian mine is something that was never yet known of, and even that is nothing when compared to the handsome Jewellery now being made daily by F. H. Lewisson, Jeweller, Queen-street, from the quartz-stone from that mine. There are ear rings, brooches, pins', studs, solitaires, sleeve links, &c, &c, &c. Many may think it impossible for them to be finished in Auck land, the articles being turned out in such first-class style, but having visited the green stone lapidary, as also the "workshop where the gold work is done (where anyone can see for themselves, should they feel so inclined), we can assure the public that the goods turned out by F. H- Lewisson (opposite the Union Bank) are purely Colonial, and would not disgrace any first-class house in London. A look in the window will well repay anyone, as there is always something new to be seen and admired, and never the same goods two dajs together. Advance New Zealand!— New Zealand Herald. —[Advt.] By the invitation of F. H. Lewisson we paid a visit to his factory to inspect some articles now being finished. "We were well repaid for our trouble, and had no idea of the perfection he has obtained in the working of auriferous quartz and greenstone into



Jeweiiery; also, a black stone found in Mari's Island, which, when cut and polished, 3urpasses the English jet. It may be as well to mention a few articles now being finished, under order for the outgoing mail, viz., a pair of black earrings and brooch ; a mosaic brooch made of light and dark gold-bearing quart? and greenstone, in the shape of a star—a beautiful specimen of colonial workmanship 5 a, mosaic quartz and greenstone cross ; an an chor made of quartz and greenstone, for a gentleman's pin; a set of studs, sleeve-links, and collar-buttons to match ; quartz horseshoe in the centre of a piece of greenstone i and 3everal masonic emblems, composed of quartz and greenstone. These, when the gold mount? ing is finished, will be worthy inspection, and we should advise anyone desirous of sending borne elegant presents to pay a visit to F. H. Lewisson's establishment, opposite the Union Bank, Queen-street.— Daily Southern Cross. — [Advt.] An inspection of Mr. F. H. Lewisson's shop, nearly opposite the Union Bank, Lower Queen street, will show what can be done in the manufacture of jewellery in Auckland. There Hngs, lockets, brooches, earrings, and other ■prms of jewellery, manufactured- in Mr. Lewisson's shop in Albert-street, are spread tut in tempting profusion, and are no less smarkable for their variety and originality, lanfor their tastefulness, and their very excel nt workmanship. We cannot undertake to sscribe here the various buds, leaves, plants, Iwers. and other things, formed out of gold, ver, quartz, greenstone, cornelian, kauri gum, d other materials selected for the purpose. • ley must be inspected, in order to their being predated, and this they will be largely by \ favourers of colonial industries. Mr. Irisson's jewellery has, of course, to compete to. the cheaply worked, productions of Great lUin and the Continent of Europe, but from f\ it has nothing to fear. Its superior cjlity and greater durability will not only ti to its being largely worn here, but to its ba» extensively exported. Those desiring to sel presents home will find all they could ■wijin Mr. Lewisson's shop to select from. Mi- of the articles for inspection and salUre as unique as they are beautiful. Milewisson's investment of capital, spirit of enfyrise, and artistic skill deserve all the cou^nance and support that can be accorded to h\— Evening News. —[Advt.] TxWeD—A G-ENERAL SERVANT; TTAgood references required.—Apply at the offli cf this paper. TTtAeD-A NURSE GIRL, 13 or 14 V V jjrs of age. —Apply to Mrs. Hesketh, Parnell.l W.WJED— A respectable SRRVANT : ?<nntry girl preferred.—Apply at the office o hs paper. WrtED— A General SERVANT, for a mall family at the Thames.—Apply "X," ithe Haymarket. WJIED— A BOY to wash bottles.— jply to Ryan, Bell and Co., Vulcan Lane. W~SeD— A PLAIN CO OK and in a small family, where a Man-yant is kept. —Apply at the Office of this i'er. WAPED— Immediately, a WAITER.— Iply at the Victoria Hotel, Victoria street. WAffiD-A Situation as HOUSE MD ; two years in last situation.— Apply 8% Office.' WAT ED — The following GOLD CINING- SHARES :- Caledonian i Thames I Tookey I Otago. W Zealand Bank Shares Is Shares, &c, &o. JIM. L E N N O"X ATE OF HIGH-STREET), 37, IJ EEN-ST EEE T, j, Nito Insurance Buildings. WANT —Bank of New Zealand SHARES. I MINING-. Belfasts Caledonians . Inverness Long Drives , Nomparails Thames V Tookev's I Young American A MARTIN SHOLL, jffi 1 Queen-street.^ MONEY Lend on Mining Shares.—Ap ply to . V. Stevens, Sharebroker, Queen-street^ FOR SAIU PRICE'S FIREPROOF SAFE, kd with Drawers, &c—Apply to Samuel CoUne and Son." LO S T—i-OLD LOCKET, with Jet Chain, aj bearing the initials M.J;H. —The finder m, e rewarded on leaving it at the office of thfc^i.