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New Zealander, Volume XVIII, Issue 1742, 15 November 1862, Page 1

Brunswick Hall. SATURDAY, 15th NOVEMBER, GRAND GALA NIGHT! POSITIVELY THE LAST APPEARANCE OF MACKNEY, in ms Negro Delineations. A THATCHER IN HIS LATEST" LOCAL ODDITIES! “ The ‘ Indian Empire,’ ” “ The Cattle Show,” “ The ‘ William Miles,’ ” “ Mr. Edward Leary,” Two New Local Songs, - WRITTEN FOR THE OCCASION. MADAME VITELLI IN NEW BALLADS. ADMISSION FRONT SEATS Onehunga LibraryGRE AT ATTRACTION! POSITIVELY TWO NIGHTS ONLY, MONDAY AND TUESDAY, 1 7th -A N D 18 th NOVE M B E R. THATCHER The Inimitable Local Vocalist AND MADAME VITELLI Will appear as above in their POPULAR MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENTS. 2s. 4 s. Admission—Two Shillings. Reserved Seats—Four Shillings. ELECTRO-BIOLOGY, ON MONDAY EVENING NEXT, AT THE MECHANICS’ INSTITUTE, WITH PRACTICAL ILLUSTRATIONS. Reserved scats, 45.; hack scats, 2s. Doors open at f-past 7. Chair taken at 8 o’clock. ASSEMBLY ROOMS, Criterion Hotel, Otahuhu. A GRAND VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL CONCERT WILL BE GIVEN IN THE ABOVE ROOMS ON MON DA Y EVEN IN G XEX T , November 17th, ISO2. By the kind permission of Col. Chute and the officers, THE BAND OF H.M. 70m. REGT., CONDUCTOR MR. DITTRICH, «• WILL COMPOSE THE ORCHESTRA. MRS. CORLETT, MISS K. BROWN. Full particulars will he duly announced. FRONT SEATS v 4s. BACK SEATS 2s. Doors open at half-past 1 , to commence at 8 o’clock. A Lecture, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE LANCASHIRE RELIEF FUND. Mil. F. STREET having been requested by many friends to deliver the lecture on “PRINTING; ITS HISTORY AND ITS INFLUENCES,” . in Auckland also, he has consented to do so, in the Odd Fellows’ Hall, on MONDAY EVENING, Nov. 17th, and will apply the proceeds to the above Fund. Syllabus. —Man a progressive being—Early attempts to perpetuate historical facts and astronomical calculations—Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians and Mexicans —Origin oi' alphabetical characters and writing—Ancient manuscripts—Monastic institutions of England—The germ of the art of printing; stamps, brands, and coins of the ancients—Engraving; monumental brasses and the portraitures of Varro—Block printing; playing cards, “Biblia Pauperum,” and printing among the Chinese—lnvention of printing from moveable metal types —Gutenberg; his life’s labour and its results—Faust’s ungenerous spirit; the fatal lawsuit and the ruin of Gutenberg—The malice of the priesthood; their" success and their failure — Caxton’s inauspicious boyhood; his foreign commerce, and the introduction of printing into England—Gloom of Meditcval England dissipated by the press—The first newspaper —Modern journalism; its political and social influences—The impure press. A fac-simile of the “Biblia I’aupcrum,”.as well as of illuminated manuscripts and stamps, will be introduced in the course of the lecture. Admission Is. Doors open at 7 o’clock. Chair will he taken at half-past 7. Assembly Soiree. V PUBLIC SOIREE in connection with the first meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand, will (D.V.) he held on the evening of THURSDAY, the 27th instant, in the Brunswick Hall, when addresses will he delivered by several of the Representatives from the Southern Presbyteries and other gentlemen. Tea to be on the table at 6 o’clock. Tickets 2s. 6d. each, may be had of Messrs Vai\ty, Watte, and Chapman, Queen-street; Clark, Rattray, and Buchanan, Shortlaml-strcct; Dickson, Hobson-strect; Vaughan, Parnell; Lank ham, Newmarket; and Hall, Otahuhu. Auckland, 15th Nov., 1862. A BAZAAR OF USEFUL AND FANCY ARTICLES \T7ILL he held (D.V.) in he Odd Fellows’Hall, VV on TUESDAY and WEDNESDAY, Nov. 18th and 19th, to liquidate the debt on the High-street Congregational Sunday School Room. The Committee wish to notify their intention to offer the whole of the goods at fair prices, and that rallies or lotteries will not be permuted. A Band will he in attendance each evening. GST Doors open each day at 11 a m., and close at 10 p.m. “ Why is the Christian Church Divided ?’’ A DISCOURSE on the above subject will be delivered by Mr. M. Green, on LORD’S DAY Evening, N ovcm bcr 16th, at C o’clock, in the Commercial Schoolroom, llobsou-strect, (near Victoriastreet). Notice. A SPECIAL MEETING of the Justices of the XjL Peace for the City and District of Auckland* will be holdeu at the Resident Magistrate’s Court, Auckland, on TUESDAY, the 2nd of (December, at 12 o’clock, noon, for the purpose of receiving applications for the transfer of Publicans’ Licenses. WILLIAM F. LODGE, Clerk of t lie Court. Resident Magistrate’s Court, 6th November, 186:)