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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 138, 22 April 1864, Page 3

CoKOMiMJia.—We are glad to learn that the several claims at work are progressing favourably aud that something like 3UU ounces of gold may be expected up shortly from JSo. 5. -Naval iimoADU.— lesterday at noon a detachment of the .Naval Brigade marched into town Jrom the front and were embarked on board the Curagoa. Among them were several wounded men who were however able to keep up with the detachment. JNt-WMAiiKiiT Cattle Sales. —We observe that Messrs. Styak and Hunter have altered their day of sale from Wednesday to Monday. A Hollow Peace.—Wo would draw the attention of our readers to a very excellent letter on the above subject, written by an old colonist and much respected fellow- citizen, and which will be found in another column. Coi'iiT House, Jvaitaka.—Tenders for the erection of a Court House at the Awaroa landing place, haipara, are requested to be sen! in to the -Native department of the Colonial Secretary's ollice. i'jiiNCE oj- Walks Theatkh.—Last evening Mr. Larry's company perlormod the play vi the " Stranger," Mr. Larry and Missioning taking the principal characters, giving them with great patho.-. The alter-piece -was the farce •• lour Life's in Danger." Mr. Daniels' representation of the bull-headed obtuse -Englishman who in Germany linds himself mistaken for a conspirator, and tancies himself in a lunatic asylum accordingly, was very comic aud true to life. LsTKuruisE viciisrs Max ia. —Enterprise, even if pushed to extremes, cannot well harm a country, liy enterprise is meant the desire to progress in every known branch of industry, and in creating new demands, and calling forth fresh resources which were before undeveloped, a foveri.sh desire to be continually exploring and experimenting upou every whemo by winch wealth may tie created. Mania la the ruih ot individuals upou souib useieuy and intrmaieuily valueleHH subject of a. temporary caprice, or .something which may bo valuable to a certain extent, forcing them, by scrambling for the envied possession, into an unnatural precociousness that is not its own aud cannot last. Enterprise carried to an extreme may be best exemplified by the great railway rush in England, though it afterwards degenerated into a mania. Although many were ruined, I))- the excess of I their greed, still it was iu a good cause, and the Iruits borne by the enterprise and the mania both raised England to three times the pitch ol her former greatness, and created such wealth as the world hail never seen. The mania pure and simple is best shown in the tulip mania of Holland when thousands were ruined, m a ridiculous speculation in tulips, which were of no value in reality, and could be of no benefit to the country in which the mania occurred, but were the result of caprice. Enterprise is now carrying some branches of commerce to a dangerous extent again in England, banking schemes, hotel schemes, and other inordinate strainings of the whole system of business to its utmost limits, but still, wlielhcr founded on false calculations and false estimates of demand and necessary supply, or not, it confers a benefit on society at large, by increasing the commerce and wealth of the nation, and by providing over accommodation lor a want which before was inslillicientlv supplied, and by adding, at all events, to the beauty of London. Over enterprise is preferable to a lack of it. The spirit of the I'ankee is better than the deadly inertness hitherto displayed by JN e\v Zealand. Here we have coal-liekl.s of our own, and have preferred importing our coals from England. We have lime-stone, and prefer burning shells instead. Lor some time we, to some extent, imported even bricks, although « e have I hebest brick andpottery clays in the world perhaps. '1 he iincst iron and steel in the world might be made from the iron sand, and yet we go on importing iron. Slowly we are creeping into providing ourselves with all these things. Lut business makes labour pleiitilul, and increases business, and many branches | of industry yet umvorked oiler rich fields for ■ enterprise. Stauk-stutk.—Yesterday evening about eight o'clock, several soldiers were creating a disturbance outside the J'rince of Wales theatre, upsetting the apple stalls, &e. One of them collected a moli of boys and men around him by rolling himself over and over on the pavement and to the foot of the stairs leading to the back seats. The mob then pushed him up-stairs w here he was met by two policemen, collared, and walked oil' to tlie police station. On the way the police met a picquet of the O'Stli and handed him over to their charge. We were pleased to observe that throughout the night this military picquet was on dut\- in the streets, a very necessary precaution for the sake of the men themselves, and lor the preservation of order in the town, the attention of the scanty police force being fully taken up in looking alter the civilian population. The knowledge that the military authorities are doing their best to look alter their men, and prevent the citizens from being injured and insulted, is sttllicient to remove much irritation that might arise, from those cases that will even then occur. The same remark applies equally to the iNavy.