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Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1023, 30 April 1873, Page 3

We are glad to learn that the youth and vigour of the North Shore are about turning themselves to the study and practice of athletic sports. To-night, at half-past, seven, a meeting' is cdnvened to the Flagstaff Hotel, for the formation of a Football Club, and we understand that it is the intention of the promoters to challenge the athletes of Auckland, and all other places, to come over from time to time and try conclusions with muscles nurtured amid the bracing breezes of the North Shore. We are requested to correct an error which appeared in last night's issue, namely, that the members of the Auckland Cavalry troop did not make their appearance for their annual inspection. We have since learned they met in the domain, and were addressed both by Colonel Harington and Major Gordon, and were instructed by Sergt. Wainhouse. Mr .Larnach, formerly colonial manager of the Bank of Otago, and now Dunedin manager of the new National Bank, and agent for several large English and Australian capitalists, has made another large ' station purchase in Southland, having bought the Longridge station, belonging to Mr Peter McKellar,: and containing 8,000 acres freehold and 30,000 leasehold, fully stocked, for £34,000, the run being 55 miles from Invercargill, and only ten from the line of the Winton and Kingston railway. Mr Larnach has also bought the Eyre' Creek run, about 70 miles from Invercargill, containing 5100 acres freehold, and 40,000 leasehold, for £25.000. This station has long been held by Messrs Dalgetty and Co. Webb lost £200,000 by the San Francisco mail service, so he says. Hawkes Bay has 93,0032 acres under cultivation; Westland, 3573£ ; and Otago, j 301,1414. One of the little pleasantries of the gallery "gods" at the Dublin Opera House, con-; sists in throwing on the stage a bouquet to which a piece of thread is attached. When the prima donna goes to pick up the nosegay, it is suddenly drawn up again amid the roars of the deities.