SHIPPING.

PORT OF AUCKLAND.

ARRIVALS. Faro, h.s.. 750 tons, T. Logan, from Sydney and Melbourne.

Chrisna, barque, Stephens, from Sydney. Speedwell, ketch, Bewicke, from W angaroa,

The brig Australia, Captain Hamilton, sailed frcm° Newcastle for this port on the 15th instant, with 210 tons coal, ■The Novelf\v was to leave Sydney for this port on the 22nd instant. Ihe schooner Tauranga will leave for lau ranga to-morrow.

ARRIVAL OF THE CRISHNA.

HEAVY GALES

The barque Crisbna, Capt. Stephen?, arrived in harbour this morning, after a very stormy passage. During a heavy gale she had her boats'smashed. She brings a cargo of coals for Messrs. Henderson and Macfarlane.

CHIEF POST-OFFICE.

Maiis will close a3 under : — For Thames, this clay, at 4 p.m., and to

morrow, at 9.30 a.m. For Sydney and Australian Colonies, per Kate, to-morrow, at 9 a.m. For Fiji, per Strathnaver, to-morrow, at 11

a.m. _ For Tnuranga and Opotiki, per Tauranga, on Wednesday next, at 5 p.m. For Wangarei Heads, &c, per Royal Alfred,

to-morrow, at 5 p.m. , For Gisborne and Napier, per ISapier, on Wednesday, 29th instant, at 10 a.m. For Taranaki and the Southern Provinces, per 3s. Taranaki, on Thursday, 30th instant at noon Lace letters and telegrams for transmission from the Nelson Station will be received at this office till 12.30 p.m., ana at Onehunga till 1.30 p.m. For Sydney and the Australian Colonies, per Hero, on Thursday, 30th instant, at 2 p.m. Late letters for Sydney and Melbourne wih be received at this office till 2.30 p.m. Mails for the undermentioned places, per 9.3. Wonga Wonga, will close at this office on Friday, *7th April, as follows = — For Sandwich Islands, British Columbia, United States of America, British, Central, and South America, British and Foreign West Indies, and Continent of Europe, via England, at 1 p.m. For United Kingdom, via San Francisco, at 1

p.m. For money orders, registered letters, anc. newspapers, at 11 a.m. Late letters for the United States of America and the Unitea Kingdom, beaming a late fee of sixpence, in addition to the postage, will be received at this office til! 1 30 p.m., and by the mail agent on board the steamer up to the time of sailing. Note. —Post-offices have been opened at North Omauharo and Tuipana Bay, Great Barrier. S. B. Bis 3, Chief Postmaster.

POLICE COURT.

The following is the rota for attendance of Magistrates at the Police Court for the week anding Saturday, April 1, 1871: —

Tnesday, March, 28 : Petty Sessions—Messrs- Kempthorne, Kenderdine, Kenny, R. B- Lnste, May, J. 5. Macfarlane, Mitford, Morrow, Murdoch, L. D. Nathan, New-

man, and O'Rorke. Wednesday, March 29: Messrs. J. OWeill

and J. Baber. Thursday, March 30 : Messrs. a. P. Pierce and

R. F. Porter. Friday, March 31 : Messrs. T. Ritchie and

A. K. Taylor. Saturday, April 1 : Messrs. H. H. Turton and James Williamson.

MARRIAGE.

McCoMirEi.ii—Arbihtkoso. —At St. Paul's Ckuroh, Auckland, on the 22nd March, by the Key. C. M. Nelson John McConneU, of Pamell, to Catherine Sylvia, yoange.st daughter of Mr. Pv. Armstrong, of Moyard, County Tyrone, Ireland.

The Evening Star. MONDA Y, MARCH 27, 1871.

It is exceedingly gratifying to observe that the spirit of volunteering has re ceived fresh life from the occurrence of the rifle contest. The latest deve lopment of the movement is among the people of North Shore ; and to night the residents in the suburbs are to lake preliminary steps for the for mation of a volunteer rifle corps. rJhe fiasco resulting from the last attempt at soldiering on the other side of the Waitemata should not dis spirit the promoters of the pre sent movement, but should serve to guard them from placing the guid ance of the movement in the hands of stupid people, who take to volunteer ing only as an opportunity for grati fying their own self-conceit. We pre sume our North Miore friends will not again attempt anything so ambitious

as a regiment of Cavalry, and we are confident that a movement modestly and judiciously directed to the for mation of a company of Eiflea on the j North Maore will be attended with: treat success. In no place around the city is thereto be found a more: desirable place for a rifle range than that presented on the outer beach, and if the North Shore Volun teers do not take high rank as sharp shooters it is not for want of facilities denied to others. In an excellent drill-shed, and plenty of ground for skirmishing and light infantry drill, all within a few minutes' walk of every resident on the North Shore, there are further important elements of success, and we sincerely hope that at the muster to-night there will be such a number not only of intending Vo lunteers, but of "friends and sympa thisers, as will at once give stability to the movement. "We would venture however, to suggest to the promoters, that the most suitable branch of ser vice would be a Company of Artillery for the North Shore. The position of that tongue of land, and the contour of its hills, point it out as the natural site of the fortification for the pro tection of Auckland, and if there is one district in or around the city that could lay claim to the special right of representing the most popular branch of the service it is the North Shore.

There is no communication with the Thames to-daj by telegraph. The hull of the wrecked cutter Alabama was sold this morning for £5. The p.s. G-olden Crown will leave for the Thames at 9 o'clock to-morrow morning. The p. 3. Eoyal Alfred leaves for the Thames this afternoon at 4.30, and will take the place of the p.s. Duke of Edinburgh for Wangarei to-morrow, for this trip only.

H.M. s.s. Challenger arrived off Plymouth from the Australian Colonies ou the 21st February.

We drew attention to the intimation in another column regarding an unusual treat to be given on Easter Monday a-id Tuesday in the Albert Barracks. From the programme of the Athletic Games, and from the names of the Committee of Management, but most of all from the appearance and perfor mances on the occasion of the celebrated athletes, Messrs. Harris, Hewitt, and Bird, we are confident that the entertainment pro vided will be highly appreciated by our citizens. We shall refer to the subject more in detail on another occasion.

A correspondent writing from Sydney under date March 21st, says : —" Mr. and Mrs. George Barrel! are playing at the Prince of Waies Theatre, but to very poor houses. Mr. J. B. Howe also did very little here, scarcely paying expenses. Mr. Dry is here with hi 3 picture; doing very little."

The nineteenth anniversary services, in con nection with the High-street Congregational Chapel, -were held yesterdny. The "Rev. James Cosh preached in the morning, aad the Rev. J. J. Lewis in the evening. A col lection vras made at the close of each service-, in aid of the chapel funds. The Mount Eden Highway Board give notice that they will hand over to a solicitor for recovery, all rates not paid within four teen days. A dividend will be payable to the share holders in the All Nations Gold Mining Com pany on Thursday next.

THE SHAKE MARKET.

Monday afternoon. Business has been moderately bri^k to day. Caledonians have sold freely at £85 ; Tookey's, £7 03 ; Thames, £10 ; Unas, 20s; Belfasts, 255.

THE SCHOONER SUNBEA M ASHORE.

Duetxg the gale on Saturday the schooner Sunbeam ( aptain lane, was driven ashore on Tiri Tiri, and has sustained considerable damage. It is thought she may be got off.

PRINCE OF WALES THEATRE.

The re-opening of the Prince of Wales Theatre, on {Saturday night, was exceed ingly satisfactory in the circumstances. The company is an excellent one, and created a verr favorable impression. We are confident that great success will attend the present company under the management of Mr. B. JN*. Jones. To night the celebrated " Frou Freu," which has created such a sensation in Ifnglancl, will be produced, and, we have no doubt, to a crowded house.

DISTRICT COURT.—Monday.

[Before Thomas Beekham, Esq., District Judge.] Judgments sou P:lainti:ff3.—Watson v. Watt (this case was heard last Court-day) — Judgment for the amount paid into Court, together with 3s. 3d., which was sufficient to carry costs. —Wallace r. Hunter and Nobm ; Brown, Campbell, and Co. v. Grahame, £72. Case Adjourned.—"Buckland v. Hawke. Defended Cases.

Sjiatvly Lord Raglan G-old Mining Compant.—This case was heard last Court day. Mr. Beveridge now applied for a re hearing on behalf of the company, agninst which the Court gave judgment when the case was heard.—Mr. Heskith opposed the grant ing ot t,h-3 rehearing*—The Court said it would give itsdecision before the Court rose. Neil v. McKenzie.—Mr. James Russell for the plaintiff, Mr. Ree3 for the defendant. —This was a claim for £47, balance of an ac count for a quantity of timber. There were a number of disputed items in the account, wholly one of figures, and without the slightest public interest. A number of witnesses were called on both side 3.

THE FILIBUSTERING EXPEDITION FOR AUSTRALIA.

GOLD SHIPS TO BE IN TERCEPTED.

A private telegram has been sent from the Imperial Government to the Earl of Belmore, Sydney, to the effect that advices had been received from America of the probable departure from the States of a Filibustering Expedition bound for the Australian Colonies, with a view to intercept the gold shipa when on their way to England. The telegram further stated that a visit to Sydney is included in the design.

"200" additional rren have been put on to hurry forward the fortifications and to place the guns in position. Sir Juines Martin snd the other members of the Government have gone down for a special inspection of the defences. It is stated that E. C. Cracknell, Esq., Superintendent of Telegrams, haa been in communication with the Government and the Commodorp, and that special instructions have been issued to all the coast telegraph stations to use every vigilance in looking out for strange-looking vessels. We have been favoured by Sir James Martin with the following : — " The British Government has received a statement which they do not ci-edit, but think it ri"ht to send word, that a filibuster expedi tions to leave the United States this month for Melbourne, Sydney, and Otago."

Telegram dated 16th Feb., 1871

POLICE COURT.— Monday

(Before J. O'Neill and L. D. Nathan, Esq3., Justices.) Drl tnicenn'E£3.—J. Conolly, Ahirata, and A. Benison were fined ss. and eost3, and W. Benton, for a second offence, was fluei 10a. and co=l?, or to be imprisoned 48 hours. Dp.cnic a:;d Dr orderly.-Mary (an abori ginal) was fined 20s. and costs, or to be imprisoned 13 hours for this offence. Lauce.vy.—J. D. Carter, alias Collins, wi3 charged by D. Yourk with having stolen clot lung to the value of 30s. He wa3 ulso charged with having stolen two shirts from F. J. Benne'.t, valu-j 15s. C^se remanded till next day. Neglected Ciiiivd. —Georgina Boa wright, eleven years old, was brought up as a neglected child.—.Detective Ternahan gave evidence as to the disivputable character of the child's mother. Sent for twelve months to the Home for neglected and destitute children. Lakce.ny.— Arthuv Nicholson and Solomon Lew, two iittle boys, were charged by F. D. Fenton with having pulled down and taken away three palings, riiluo Is , ~from the fence around his property in Jennyn-streel. —F. D Fenton proved the facts of the case, and, on the request of Mr. Broham, the ca.?e was adjourned till day following, for enquiries as to the parents of the children. Destitute Persons Relief Okd"er. —John Cronn, was charged by Ann Cronn with having neglected to provide for her the sum of 10s a week, in obedience to an order of the Bench. —Mr. Wynn for the defence, took a technical objection, and the case was ad journed till next day. Assact.t.—Charles Pike was charged by Samuel Bright with having assulle.l him in the scliooi-rooin at Parnell on the 21st March. Mr. Wynn appeared for the defendant. —8. Bright, deposed that he had gone to the schoolroom when the High way Trustees were

assembled for the purpose of presenting a petition. On going in he was a3ked to retire, as the meeting was a private one. He did not do so, and the defendant took him by the shoulder and threw him down on one of the seats, and threatened to knock his brains out. He also called witness a blasted scoundrel. —In cross-examination by Mr. Wynn, witness stated that he was not a ratepayer in the district; he had not paid his rates for two years. Had never paid his rates to the Parnell Highway Board. Defendant called him a conspirator, and in reply he had called defendant "a " liar."—G. Robershaw gave similar evidence.—Mr. Wynn appled for a dismissal, on account of the trivial nature of the charge, although prepared with rebutting evidence. The case was dismissed. Mr. Wynn applied for, aud obtained, a certificate of dismissal.

FUNERAL OF GUNNER LORIGAN.

An inquest was held on Saturday afternoon, at the Suffolk Hotel, College-street, before Dr. Philson and a respectable jury, upon the body of Francis Lorrigan, aged Iwenty years, whose sudden death on the previous evening was reported in our Saturday's issue. The deceased lived with his father and mother in Union-street, and op. the evening in question he had gone to the house of a friend named George Young, living in Newton, where he stayed to tea. After tea he had a game of cards. He drank nothing but a single spoonful of spirits, declining to take any thing else. He had been during the previous week suffering from the effects of a cold. While playing at cards he suddenly fell for ward and expired. Several witnesses were examined at the inquest, the principal one being Dr. Bayntou, -who deposed that he had made apost mortem examination of the body, from which he came to the conclusion that the deceased Lad died from apoplexy. A verdict in accordance with the evidence was accord ingly returned. Yesterday afternoon the body was interred. It was followed to the grave by a number of the Artillery Volunteers, of which corps deceased was a member, and also by a large circle of private friends. The bands of the Artillery, Naval, and Rifle Volunteers, also followed the body to the grave, the Artillery Band playing the Dead March in Saul during the procession.

MELBOURNE SHARE MARKET.

TOOKEY'S SHARES

The share reports published in the Melbourne Argus of the 14th instant, quote Tookey's shares in active request, and sale 3 made on the previous day at £7 10s, £8, and £8 4s. At Ballarat shares were wanted at £7 103 to £8

ARRIVAL OF THE S. S. 'HERO.' WITH THE ENGLISH MAIL.

ADDITION All ENGLISH NEWS.

The war for the present prevents the C'euis tunnel being utilised for the Eastern mails. The progress of the telegraph line aci'O3s Central Australia is watched with great in terest. Messrs. Boss and Douglass have sent a communication to the limes on the subject. The latter deprecates South Australian jealousy preventing the junction of the Queensland Hue with cable al Port Darwin. A lecture on the colonial policy of the Go vernment was delivered by Mr. Eddy, before the Westminster Working Men's Constitu tional Association. The disintegrating policy was condemned by the meeting.

Mr. Eichard Jones Ims perfected a new process for preserving meat in tins, by which the juices and flavour are retained. Tallerman's meat soup is supplied daily to the outside poor at the Holborn Union. A large order for breech-loaders has been received' from the Government of New South Wales.

Owing to heavy stormy weather off New foundland, the American cable ia still unre paired. The restoration of the Falmouth and Gib raltar line is hindered by the same cause. A memorial with reference to the Queens land slave trade wa3 presented to the Foreign Secretary.

Mr. Childers continues seriously indisposed. On the 19th January tie Times announced his resignation, naming Mr. Foster as his suc cessor. The Daily Tebgraph authoritatively contradicts this arrangement: that it was for a temporary purpose.

Minor Ministerial appointments consequent on Mr. Bright's retirement, are unanimously condemned. Public confidence in the Administration is much weakened. Mr. Cardwell is disturbed in the present crisis. Mr. Shaw Lpfevre is Under-Secretary to the Board of Trade, and Mr. Hibbert, Poor Law Secretary. The Right Hon. J. E. Denison i 3 expected to retire from the Speakership soon. A new Flying Squadron, under Admiral Seymour, left Plymouth for West Indies. Several naval stewards have been arrested at Chatham for fraud, connected with victual ling ships. Mr. Martin, a Repealer, has been returned for the electorate of Meatli by a large majority over Mr. Plunkett, a Liberal, who was sup ported by the Roman Catholic clergy. Mr. Tilletthas been unseated for Norwich, because an act of bribery was proved against an agent of Sir W. Russell in the election of 1868, when both contested. The discreditable mancouvres of the Tory clique to unseat Mr. Gladstone for Green wich have signally failed. The 35-ton gun was tried at Woolwich ! with a charge of 130 lbs. of powder.

Immense activity prevailed at the Birming ham firearm factory, on acsount of home and foreign Governments.

Horses are eagerly bought up for France and Prussia.

Judge Pbillimore has given judgment en the seizure of an international ship with the French cable. The British Government are required to restore the vessel to the owners without costs.

In response to a request from the Bishop of Versailles, the Lord Mayor presided at a meeting for the relief of non-combatants urnund Paris, who are starving daily.

The Daily Tchglaph proprietors contributed £10,000.

Mr. Otway explained that his retirement arose from a disagreement with his chief on the foreign policy of the Government.

Several liberal members decline to support Ml. Miall's forthcoming motion for the dis establishment of the English Church.

Numerous crowded meetings have been held in London by sympathisers with France, and urging England to war ; counter meet ings of the working classes oppose interven tion.

The Committee preparing for the recep tion of Favre was disappointed by his non appearance. Fourteen of the released Fenians sailed for America with a Government outfit and £5 of pocket money. Agrarian outrages continue in Ireland. A colliery strike of 30,000 men is threatened for a rise in wages. Public mortality has seriously increased by the severity of the weather ; many paupers have been frozen to death iv London. The Scotsman newspaper is dead. Efforts are still making for the reduction of the newspaper postage by the overland route. Earl De Gray and Itipou, Sir Edward Thornton, Sir J. McDonald, Sir John Eose, and Montague Bernard, represent England in the commission, while President Grant has nominated General Schenck, Mr. Fish, Mr. Hoare, Justice Nelson, and Senator Williams.

The first fifty waggons of food supplied from the city of London, entered Paris on the 4th February.

The British Government have contributed three cargoes of provisions via Dieppe, and four cargoes via Havre.

Mr. M'Fie has given notice that he will call the attention of the House to the rela tion existing between England and the colo nies.

Mr. G-ladstone, in the House of Commons, said that G-ertnany and France would arrange the conditions of peace for themselves. He believed they did not require intervention. He hoped the conditions would be moderate, for he would regard with horror intolerable conditions which would result in another war. If arrangements were not arrived at, the good offices of England might be used.

Money is plentiful ; discount rates, 2 to 3.

In the stock market business is inactive from political uncertainty.

Subscriptions were received in London for a £3,000,000 German loan. A further French loan is postponed.

AMERICA.

The correspondence iv reference to the re call of Mr. Motley from the Court of St. James shows how shamefully he was treated by his Government. Mr. Schenk, the new Minister, has been warned against after-dinner speeches. Different American cities are sending cloth ing and provisions to the French suffeivi'3 by the war.

INDIA AND THE EAST.

Galle, February 22. The Cerberus left for Melbourne on the sth February, and is to coast at Batavia. She steams.and "sails slowly, but is an object of interest at all ports visited by her. The crew are sickly from the heat. The Magdala and Abyssinia, monitors, for Bombay harbour, have arrived there. Small-pox is prevalent in India, China, and Europe. Simultaneously, a large increase has Deen made on the telegraphic rates on the India and European lines, which is exciting indigna tion iv India. The rumoured cession of Pondicherry to Prussia has provoked a strong feeling. The reduction of the mail steamer passen ger rates will bring all the traffic back to the old company, and it is expected there will be a crowding of the steamers. A Eussian line of Suez canal steamers is about to run from Odessa to China.

Tribes in Arabia are still fighting. A famine in Persia \a threatening, and there has been an outbreak of wild tribes again ; the tea planters' lives aye in danger, and one oi- two have been killed. The troops are marching there. The coffee crops in Ceylon and India are very short. Tonnage is scarce at Ceylon, India, and China ; and freights are steady, at high rates.

LATE NEWS BY THE MAIL.

From the Eg'/pte, a French journal pub lished in Egypt on the 4th of February last, we translate" the telegrams, forwarded by the Renter Havns Agency. It will be observed that the intelligence thereby transmitted is of the latest date. Lo>"DO>*, February 18. In order to prevent the inhabitants of Paris from suffering at once by famine, the Germans have supplied three millions of rations. Two villages, near Pontalier, have been taken by storm, by the vanguard of Manteu fell's army. Straggling bands of Bouvbaki's army have passed the Swiss Frontier, and not the whole army, with, the artillery, as has recently been stated.

There i 9 a great sadnes3 at Paris, but every where there reigns a perfect tranquility. The railways and bridges are beiug repaired to facilitate the transport of provisions. BoiJEDEAtJX, February 2. Dispatch of General Clinchant from the French Frontier :—

The First Army of Manteuffel has refused to recognise the armistice, and continues hos tilities. It refused an armistice of sixteen hours, and a3 it threatened to cut off the re treat of the French, Clinchant has, therefore, concluded a convention with the Swiss authori ties authorising the French troops to pass the frontiers with arms and with material. Dillet covers the retreat.

A telegram from Jules Favre of yesterday says that the German authorities know nothing of what is going on in Alsace. As regards the French general elections, the Centre pro tests against the Prussian demauds relative to the line of demarcation. Garibaldi has escaped out of the hands of Manteuffel. The oppositionist journals of this day pro test against last Tuesday's decree excluding certain descriptions of persons from candidature for the Assembly. Jules Simon declares that. a decree at Paris, of the 28th ultimo, has abolished all disabilities, and that he will persist in carrying out the treaty.

LATE TELEGRAMS.

I>" our telegraphic message some items were obscure, which the Indian papers elucidate, and we therefore, re-insert them :—

London, Friday, February 17- —Owing to a representation from the Department, the Emperor William has reduced by two-thirds the contribution of twenty-five millions im posed on the Seine Department. Versailles, February 17. —In consequence of active armaments of the French in the South, and of class IS7I being called out, Count Bismarck has extended the armistice only for five days. The Emperor Napoleon's proclamation is unfavourably received in Paris. The National Assembly has resolved on the appointment of a commission to nego tiate the terms of peace.

London, February 17. —The budget for the English army is estimated at £15,851,700, being an increase of £2,886,700. The number of men is to be raised to 133,000, being an increase of 19,980. Agrarian Fenian out rages in Ireland are again reported. The inspection of Chatham Dockyard by foreigners has been prohibited. The old George and Dragon sovereigns are to be revived. The steamer Great Victoria, from Madras to Lon don, by the Suez canal, has been twice in collision off Dungeness, but was only slightly injured.

AbdttctioX. —Two men, Earned Gibbs and Casemore, artd one Eliza Stephenson, were on January 16 charged at the Clerkenweil Police Court with having abducted a girl named Taylor, 16 years of age. The case for the prosecution is, that the girl, who assisted her father, a milkman, carrying on business in the Hornsey Koad, was induced first to rob her paivnts, and then to leave her home. She was absent from October 17 until January 12, when her father received a letter stating that she had been deprived of her clothes and turned into the street. She was discovered i:i a house in Burntash Lane, Leigh, Kent, where she had been taken by two of the prisoners. A remand was granted. The girl alluded to was born in New Z 'aland.— European Mail.

THE EVENING STAR, MARCH 27, 1871.



pBINCE OF WALE 3 THEATRE. TO-NIGHT. FEOU FR O U ! GEOB.GE SIBBIN, Auctioneer & Commission Agent, COBSER OP QUEEN & WYNDHAM-STIIBETS. pKINCE OF WALES THEATRE. TO-NIGHT. TO-NIGHT. MONDAY. THE GREAT PRIZE PLAT !



TH E gentleman that took the wrong Hat from 3t. Sepulchre's Church on Sun day night will find his own at Mr. Stretton's Store, Grey-street. WANTED— A Small BOY, about 16 years old.—Apply to J. & D. Oxley, Ship Chandlers, Wharf, at once.



WANTED— A Good Plain COOk.—Ap ply at Porteb's Dining Booms, Queen-street. References required. WANTED, by a respectable person, a Situation as Housekeeper.—Address A. B. C, Evening Star Office." WANTED KNOWN, that Hooper, Ollitf, ats-d Co' 9 Celebrated Bottled Stout and Light Bitter Alea, recommended by the Faculty, can only be had wholesale at the G-olden Crown Brewery, Welleslcy-atreet East. The trade and families supplied. WANTED— The public to know that PRINTING- of every description is executed at the Even-ing- Stak Office, with neatness and despatch. WA N T E D-S If A E E S in the Caldonian Gold Mining Company Long Drive Gold Mining Company Tokatea Gold Mining Company Gas Company Union Sash and Door Company. Clients can obtain gratis a revised share list, as also the latest minin 3 news at my office. J. TONSON GAELICS', Sharebroker. Shortland-street, Auckland, 22nd March, 1871., WANTED — Bank of New Zealand SHARES. Beifasts Caledonians Inverness Long Drives Nonpareils Thames Tookev's Younx American . ... . MARTIN SHOLL, Queen-street. A LADY is desirous of meeting with another to live with her. Must wait on herself. Terms low.—Address E. A. C, Evening Star Office. pEINCE OF WALES THEATRE. Don't fail to See FEOU F E 0 U. LOST— A Black and Tan Terrier PUP, with a patent Leather Collar, hi Vincent street. —The finder will be suitably rewarded by leav ing at it the Northern Club.—Owen JojfES. COMFORTABLE LODGINGS for one or two Gentlemen. —Mrs. Jenkins, Pitt street, house nest the Chapel. £5 0 0 BEWABD. weliieslet-steeet, a pew doors above Dyson's, THE AMERICAN" EESTATJEANT. SOUP, Joints, Vegetables, Pudding or Pastry, charge 6d ; Tea or Coffee, with Bread and Butter, 3d; Soup, with Bread, 3d. MEALS AT ALL HOUE3. LEWIS EiELLY. _ TO BOOT AND SHOEMAKERS, STORE KEEPERS, AND OTHERS. TW. HO ARE begs to inform the above . that lie receives shipments by every steau.er of MELBOURNE-MADE BOOTS and SHOES, MANUFACTURED UPPERS, LEATHER, GRINDERY, &c. Melbourne Agency, 12, High-street, Auckland. NOTICE. NIGHTMAN. A. FLETCHER BEGS to inform the Public that he is prepared, on the shortest notice, to Empty Cesspools at the most reasonable pi-ices. Orders left at Mr. Sceats, British Hotel, Queen-street ; Mr. Everson. Cale donian Hotel, Symonds-street. DAYIS & BROOKING, Sharebrokers Legal Managers, Commission and ■ General Agents, Eent and Debt Collectors, 6,Wyndhara-street, Auckland. . fIEOfN DISTILLERY, ( \J AUCKLAND. The CKOW.N DISTILLERY has fully established : these facts —that Spirits can be distilled in Auckland , equal in qiiality to those imported, that they can be produced at a cost to give a large profit - (even selling, 1 duty paid, at a price equal only to the duty on . Foreign Spirits),—and that there is a ready sale and a daily increasing demand for the products of the Distillery. At the same time, it has become obvious that ad -1 vantage should be taken of the present excellent and abundant harvest to lay in an ample stock of grain, at a minimum cost ; that a large quantity of Spirits should be made before next summer, the season least favourable for distillation ; that a large stock should be placed in bond to improve by age—the only want to render the Spirits unexceptionable; and that the Plant should be enlarged by an additional Still, and 1 other minor improvements, especially with a view to make available the Sugar Beetroot, which can be grown to so much advantage in this Province, and liroduces a n excellent spirit at a small cost. In order to attain the greater success which the fully carrying out of this plan would ensure, addi . tional Capital is required, and this it is intended to raise by extending the present Proprietary, and thus affording to those who have expressed a wish to partake in the undertaking an opportunity of doing so. With this view it is proposed to register the Com ' pany under the Joint Stock Companies Act, with a nominal Capital of £20,000, in 4,000 shares of £5 each. 1 Of these, 2,000 will be taken as paid iip by the present Proprietors as the value of the Plant and Business ; 1,000 will be sold so as to raise £5,000, and the re ■ maining 1,000 Shares will remain the property of the • Company, available for raising additional Capital should such a course be hereafter deemed advantage ous. Thus the whole of the Capital to be raised will be used for the promotion of the efficiency and the i extension of the business of the undertaking. The amount on the Shares now offered will be re quired to be paid up as follows: - 10s. per Share on application, 10s. per Share on allotment, &l per Share on the Ist of May, &1 per Share on the ,^jt of June, and £2 per Share on the Ist of July next. V~ Particulars, and an order to inspect tlio Distillery, ' may be obtained on application to Mb. CawkWFM. Vulcan Lane, to whom applications for Shares may 1 be made. As soon as a sufficient number of Shares are applied for, a meeting of the .Shareholders will be held in 1 order to complete the arrangements for the Uoniypan. CHALLENGE. (i TpCHO" will EON "HARKAWAY" Jjj three or four miles over hunting > country, for £50, in a month's time. FRANCIS PALMER. Auckland, March 27, 1871.