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New Zealand Herald, Issue 12, 10 December 1863, Page 4

The Bombav.—The cargo of this vessel is one of gensral interest. The plant of the Auckland Gas Company has arrived, and she also brings a number of packages containing clothing for the Rifle Volunteers. A large supply of arms has, we learn, been shipped in the 1 Chariot of Fame' for the Government by tho colonial agent, Mr. Morrison, and will consist of rifles, revolvers, and swords, so that as the proposed levies of Volunteer Militia are enrolled and drafted here, arms will be in readiness to be placed in their hands. IfOBSON-STUiiET Wk.si.evan Cjiamot..—On Sunday ; next two sermons will be preaehed in the above j named Chapel on behalf of the Sunday School attached to the same, in the morning by the Rev. J. Warren, at 11 o'clock, and in the evening at G o'clock by the He v. T. Buddie. A tea meeting in connection with this place of worship will le held on the evening of the following Tuesday, when addresses will be delivered by various ministers and friends. House of Kki'Hkskntati vk.s. —Yesterday the House did not meet at live o'clock. Mr. Turton and Mr. A. Richmond were the only members present. The Speaker did not take the eh a ir. Bellamv's appeared to be deserted, an.l the three bills upo'i the order paper-the only business left —the Warden's Courts Appeal bill to he read a second time, and the Marlborough Land Regulations Amendment, and the Nelson Waste Laud Regulation Amendment bills, (o be reported, stand over until this dav, at noon. Down with the Dvst.—The City Board, with the assistance of the Resident Magistrate and two watereurts, are determined to carry out the above motto with becoming energy. Recusant ratepayers, or more properly speaking " ntte-owers," are informed that the collector will be in attendance to-day and to-morrow, at (lie olliee of the Hoard, from 10 n'm. to 4 p.m. to receive Ihe little mailer of rates still due, and as invitations to meet the Resident Magistrate and other oificial gentlemen are positively to be issued, on the following day. to all those who still hold out, the probability is that, the ratepayers will " down with the dust." Tin.'City Board, wilh'a becoming courtcsv nnd with a determination that dust shall no longer be thrown in the eye.- of the people, will return the compliment, and confer a real benefit upon the aforesaid people by hiring two watercarts and causing the application of a copious discharge of the aqueous fluid upon those minutely pulverised particles of | edscoriaof volcanic formation, known to the unscientific j as dust, but by the playful fancy of former Provincial Uovermcnts classed under the head of" road metal,' 1 and which—the minutely pulverised particles of disintegrated scoria of volcanic formation, not the l'roj vineial Governments, —so lamentably afllirt the visual j organs of the citizens generally and of the peripatetic | ph ; lo=ophcrs of" Sonierville's" comer" in particular. \fj V.VLUii OF COUOMANDKL GoLl).— Nine! v-seveil 'ounces of gold taken lately from the Pukewhau Creek were forwarded per • Novelty,' to Sydney, on her last trip, and a return has now Iven received of the price realized, which was, aft?r assay, £3 17s. 6d. per ounce. It would ihoa seem, ns ncleed has all along been ns- | f. rtcd, that the gold found on the south side of the I Coromandel Bay is of more value than that found • \ the Driving Crick, the gold from which has realized less than £'3 per ounce. It was from this part, Pukewhau, that Turner and partv obtained several hundred pounds worth of gold before the opening of tile diggings in 18t>2, and there is very little doubt but that this portion of Coromandel would, had it

been as well prospected as the Driving Creek, have shown results most astonishing to tlioso whose little faith in Coromandrl, as a gold field, have led them (o p->oli nooli what will, we assert, one day be found to be a "source of xealtli and prosperity to the Province. St. Matthew's Bazaar. —The largo room of the Brunswick Iluil, was inrougiioul the vvhoio of yesterday with the number of visitors who assembled at the very extensive Bazaar which is now being held in behalf of the building fund of the new church of St. Mat thew's. On either side of the hall lar<*e stalls have been creeted, and one occupying (he entire head of the room. The different stalls are tastefully deconited with (lowers, wliieh abound at this season of the year, and the Hall at the present moment most certainly excels in Graceful clegancc any former occasion of the kind. The articles of useful and laney work are both excellent in quality and extensive in quantity, and one stall which appeared to be loaded with a variety of toys, &e., seemed to bo .in high favour uitli the juvenile portion of the visitors. Although n larize number of the articles were sold yesterday, so extensive have been the preparations for tliis lia/aar, 1 hat the show of to-day is even, we are informed, more varied and elegant if possible than that of the preceding one. The following are the names of the ladies who otliciated at the several stalls:—No. 1, Mi's. Horn, Miss James, Miss llornc; No. 2, Misses O'Neill. Davis, Kelly mid Barnes ; No. 3, Airs. Cadnian, Mrs. Glennv, Mrs. Wedgewood, Mrs. Dickson, Mrs. K. Craig. Misses Holuiden, George, Cameron, Young, Reed, Crompton ; No. 4, Mrs. llobson, M rs. James Henderson, Misses Barber, Beale, Tregay, and Hobson ; No. 5, Mrs. Maude, Mrs. Henderson, Misses Read, Hansard, Stuart, Mrs. Morrin. Refreshment stall, Mrs. Gibbs, Misses Soppett and McDonald j No. 2, Mrs. Leaning and Miss Clark.