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New Zealander, Volume XVI, Issue 1477, 13 June 1860, Page 3

The New Resident Magistrate's Courthouse and Police Office, is a substantial brick building with scoria-stone base, and of good elevation. It occupies an area of 4000 feet. The dressings and decorations are in part stone and Portland cement. The accommodation will consist of—Ground Story : A Court-room, 3d feet by 22 feet; a private room in the rear for Magistrate; guard-room ; police office; fire-proof strongroom ; and kitchen. —Cne-pair Story: Judge’s Chambers ; and suite of rooms for Resident Ma-gistrate.—Two-pair Story: A number of rooms for the use of the police.—The building has three fronts, the principal one being in Chancery -street. The Conrt is entered through a portico and spacious lobby, paved witli stone. The East front has two entrances, one to the Police-office, and the other to the Guard-room, Every attention has been paid to the ventilation of the offices, and the latest improvements adopted. The building has been erected by Messrs. Matthews and Vialou, under whose snperintendence the Main-sewer in Queen-street is being constructed. Architect, Mr. Reader G. Wood.

“ After a Storm there Comes a Calm ” is a very old and very popular saying. Within the last few days we have had to reverse this vox-popnli dictum : for we hare had more stormy and rainy weather in the course of some seven days than we have had during the last seven months. One of the greatest sufferers up to the present time is Dr. Fischer, whose “ Sans-Souci ” truly “ cottagc-ornce" has long formed one of the leading features of Britoraart Point. On Friday afternoon and evening, as every Auckland reader who “ happened to be out that night’’ knows to his cost, the rain came down in torrents. About midnight, Dr. Fischer received but too sure notice that a landslip was about to take place at the rear of his premises. This warning was too soon verified, by a great subsidence of the earth from the North to the South—chiefly from the “ cup’’ of a singular volcanic basin, the existence of which was pointed out to Dr. Hochstetter (during his visit to Auckland) by Dr. Fischer, who probably, at that time, little thought that the excavation of the adjacent cliff would, in the ensuing winter, cost him so dearly in the way of pounds, shillings, and pence. Fortunately for him, Dr. Fischer is not only a homeeopathist, but something of a philosopher ; and he soon was at work to prevent the damage from extending further, not only as regarded his own, hut his neighbours’ property.

Auckland Younq Men’s Association.— The first lecture of the present session was delivered on the Uth instant, by tho Rev. J. Mandeno, who selected as his topic the life of the great warrior, and still greater man—’‘Havelock”: a theme to which he did full justice.