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Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 450, 20 June 1871, Page 2

We observe that those desirous of mementos of what is decidedly the wonder of the province, 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 Caledonian 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 greenstone, 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 scripmarket from the high fever wlych existed some time ago. The excitement tllen was beyond all degree of prudence or wisdom. If it were to continue longer, I firmly believe the lunatic asylum would have to be enlarged. 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 themselves 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 having 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 received 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 purchase 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 Newton Academy, Karangahape Eoad, this (Tuesday 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 halfpast 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 intends 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 firewood.— Mail, 19th inst.