VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY IN QUEEN-STEEET.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 502, 22 June 1865, Page 4

VALUABLE LEASEHOLD PROPERTY IN QUEEN-STEEET.

Mii. David Nathan will offer for sale, to-day, one of the most valuable business sites in Queen-street, namely, tlie twenty-eight years" lease of the premises adjoining Messrs. Thornton, f-rnith, and Firth's steam flour-mill. The lease is a long one, and it is but a few weeks r.go that the lease of an adjacent property, subject to a ground rent of £52 per annum, sold for £"06 per foot. . . The present is one of those rare opportunities which occur for obtaining a business site in the best part of the c-iiy, and will, no doubt, be eagerly sought after. St. asd St. Jam's.—As a specimen of the snobbishness which characterised the notice of the late wedding at St. Paul s, which appeared in yesterday's Nac-ZealanJer we quote the following sentence. Alluding to the marriage our cotcmporary says, it " created quite a stir in the bam mende of Auckland, or, as wc heard a vulgar person remark, ' set the whole town agog.' " If any person wishes to indulge in a surfeit of vulgar remarks" we recommend to his notice the report of the marriage, as it appears in the columns of this newly selfdubbed censor of politeness in Auckland. The IViw Z,calandcr in its days of strength stigmatised the settlers of Auckland as " rapacious land-sharks" and " exterminators" —in its deerepid senility it rails at them as vulgar ! Mr. W'ityman will lecture this evening at the Mechanics'lnstitute, on the events oi his late mission to the troops and settlers in ~V\ aikato. Tli'j chair will be taken at 7 o'clock, and the meeting will be further addressed by several ministers and gentlemen interested in the work. The Gheat Koetu Eoad. —The public meeting to be held at Mr. Copland s, Whau Hotel, for the purpose of considering the best means of providing tor the safety of life and limb of thoso compelled to travel on the Great North Eoad, is advertised to take place this afternoon at 4 p.m. I'ensionkhs' Pay Dais. —Payments will bo made to pensioners for the ensuing quarter at the following places and dates. Auckland— Albert Barracks, 3rd of July, at 10 a.m. Onelumga—At Mr. MeMahon's, 10th of July, at 11 a.m. Otahulm —At the Commissariat Ollice, 3rd of July, at 11 a.m. Panmure —At the Post Office, sth of July, at half-past 10 a.m. Howick —At Mr. Crew's House, oth of July, at 2 p.m. SurKEMK Couht. —The hearing of two causes occupied the whole of yesterday. The iirst case was an action for slander—Henry Edgecombe v. Win. Edgecombe. The slanderous words which were the subject of the action were uttered in the Duke of Marlborough Hotel, Queen-street. The parties are not: related, but their intimacy appears to have sprung up from mutual inquiries made on that subject. Both are farmers at AVaiau, and one had purchased a farm for which the other was in treaty. This circumstance produced a jealousy, and first began complaints for trespass, next a summons for threatening language, next an indictment for perjury, and lastly an action for f-ilse imprisonment. These gentlemen met and the defendant called the plaintiff " thief," '"stealer," "prig," " swell mobsman." swindler cum mulhis aliis. Hence the action of yesterday. The jury returned a verdict for plaint:!!". Damages, £21.'« The second case was Bacon v. Cochrane. Tlir facts of this ens;! were very few. The plaintiff purchased four lots of land at Mr. Cochrane s mart, on the 13th of April, ISGI. It was discovered that one of these lots had been put up by mistake and without the authority of Mr. 'Ihos. liussell, the owner. The plain till'had paid the required deposit on the four allotments, £120. Mr. Cochrane offered to return the deposit onthe share which had been put up by mistake. Plaintiff answered that he would have none of the allotments and wanted the whole of his deposit, £120, returned, with interest at 10 per cent. A verdict was taken for plaintiff by consent for £200, subject to the judgment of the Court and upon a special case to be submitted. The Comt adjourned at a little after eight o'clock until Friday morning at ten o'clock.

Dissolving T"iews.—Tliis pleasing entertainment will be given to-night at the Odd Fellows' Hall. We believe those views will be exhibited only two nights more, to-morrow and Saturday niglitPrince of Wales The atee. —Last night" Our American Cousin" was again played, and we would recommend those who have'not seen this first-rate sensational drama to do so without delay, as we have no doubt but that it will be withdrawn at the eud of the week. To see the scenery alone is worth the money. Bkeweb v. (. i;i h;nTO>".—This cause lias been withdrawn, owing to the circumstance that the document which contains the alleged libel is at W ellingtou. It is an ofiicial document, and the dctendant refuses to accept a certified copy as a verification of the averments in the record'. The Pesolute, ship, from Glasgow, anchored off the North Head last night. She brings 35S passengers, and a considerable cargo. The Wattem ata Steam Ferry Compact (Limited.) —Ihe steamer .Waitemata will be laid up on Friday and Saturday next, to clean the boiler. Tvkxixo Lathe a.vp Ships' Galley.—Mr. Cochrane will sell to-day, a turning lathe, in good order, and a ships' galley. Messrs. Jones & Co. will sell to-day, a large and varied assortment of fruit trees, from Mr. MeEwen's old nursery, Matakana. Messrs. C. Stichbuky and Son will sell to-day, 12 eases and bales of drapery, consisting of ladies' jackets, mantles, skirts, crapes, coburgs, ribbons, hosiery, and haberdashery, &c. Also four chests of tea, CS and S, more or less damaged. Mr. Davit* Nathan will sell to-day, 5 packages tea, 11 chests do.. oOkegs butter, 7 do. pickles, IS casks fine Scotch oatmeal, 12 crates assorted crockery. Mr. Samuel Cochrane will sell, to-day, a large assortment of furniture, comprising iron bedsteads, wood ditto, tables, chairs, mattresses, palliasses, bolsters, saucepans, kettles, tubs, Arc. Mr. Alfred Buckianp will sell, to-day, at the Newmarket Yards, 5 working oxen, 50 two-year old steers, agricultural implements, comprising a four-liorse thrashing machine, wheat drill. Howard's ploughs, wooden harrows, chain harrows. \c. ; it) head of fat Australian cattle. 60 head of Auckland-fattcd cattle. 200 well-fatted sheep, also fat and store pigs. Mr. George SimnN will hold to-day, his weekly potato sale. in lots to suit purchasers. 13i: : cuit. —The fall in the price of flour has. we see. occasioned a fall in that of biscuit. Mr. C. F. Partington, the proprietor of the steam biscuit manufactory, Svmonds-street. at the old Windmill, has lowered his prices to £'27 and i' 22 respectively for best cabin and navy biscuits. Mr. Partington has a large stock, some !>0 or 100 tons of best cabin and a considerable stock of fancy biscuits ready packed in-cases for delivery, and is anxious to clear them out to make room for a consignment of Adelaide tlour daily expected to arrive in port. We have on previous occasions noticed the very perfect establishment of its kuTcl"" where Mr. Partington carries on his business. The cost of the machinery and fittings has been little less, we believe, than a couple of thousand pounds. r lhe whole of it has been supplied by the firm of T. T. Yiekers and Co., of Liverpool, who were awarded the first prize at the Great Exhibition of 1862. in London. It has all been erected under the superintendence of Mr. C. F. Partington, the proprietor, and is second to no machinery of the kind in the Australian colonies, and equalled by none in New Zealand. The labour of just two men and three boys only is required to keep all the work of this estal>_, lishment in motion, so great is the assistance rendertd by the very excellent motive power of Messrs. Yiekers and Co.'s machinery which is used, and in the space of ten hours these five hands can turn out two tons of biscuits, or four cwt. per hour. The water used is principally supplied from the roof, and is conducted to the different places where it is required from a large reservoir—in fact every c-are has been taken to lighten the labour so as to enable the proprietor to be as independent as possible of the chances of the labour market. Mr. Partington has always on supply all kinds of fancy biscuits, which are packed at once, upon the

premises, into sound. new boxes, fit for transmission to any part of the world. Ihey are cut in a variety of shapes and forms, a complete set of dies having been procured at a very great cost by the proprietor. Oxino'Gi Habboub. —We have received numerous complaints, to the effect that a number of dead sheep, which have recently been brought to the Jlanakau by one of the New Zealand Company's steamers, have been cither thrown overboard from the steamer into the harbour, or put into one of the cargo boats for the purpose. The result is that a number of dead sheep have been washed ashore on the Onehunga beach, where they may now be seen in various places. The stench arising from these dead animals is not only almost too intolerable to be borne bj' those who may happen to be walking on the beach, but must of necessity prove highly injurious to the health of the inhabitants who are living and working close by. Several horses have likewise recently been taken down the harbour and thrown into the tide. These also have been washed ashore. It is high time, we. think, that a stop should be put to this practice of disposing of dead cattle, and the sooner the matter is looked into by the authorities the better. 'lempekaxce.—ln order to promote habits of temperance amongst the military in .Auckland, a Military Total Abstinence Society has just been formed by a few staunch teetotallers connected with the Imperial military service now stationed at the Albert Barracks. The rules of the society have been framed to allow for the admission of members belonging to the Colonial corps, as well as those attached to Her Majesty s service. It is proposed to establish, as soon a3 opportunities present them. s elves for doing so, branch temperance societies at Hamilton. Alexandra. Cambridge, and other .stations m the AVaikato district. The Auckland members intend holding a meeting every Thursday evening, at the Military Academy (late Gorrie's school), for the purpose of promoting the cause they have so laudably taken in hand. Gt.et-steeet. —Despite the continuous dry weather we have had for the last week or ten days, this street, at its junction with Queenstreet, is a mass of soft niiid in which horses sink over the knees, in fac" we saw one equestrian whose horse was not able to carry him through it, and he had to get of! and lead it himself sinking to the knees. Yesterday, however, several labourers were put on to remove the soft " top-dressing," and la3 T down fascines. These being covered with a layer of scoria ash will make a comparatively firm roadway, especially when that is again covered with metal. it not be well if two or three men were kept employed with a horse and cart to throw down a few sbovelsful of metal wherever a hole appears in any of our streets. This is done at home in the old country, and thus the roads are kept in constant repair at a very slight expense. Here it is the practice never to repair a road until it becomes so bad that a dray can scarcely pass over it. Police.—There was no business of any importance before the Court yesterday. Wine drunkards were treated in the usual manner. Hori Taka and Matiu were brought up on remand and further remanded till next Tuesday. Kfsrncnt Magistbate's Cottkt. —There are seventy-seven cases on the lis* for hearing this day, for debts ranging from ten shillings up to fifty pounds, the highest sum which can be sued for in this Court. Kaeakgahape Road. —This road is now in a very forward state, the overseer, Mr. Quinn, having notice to have it finished in a fortnight. It has only been made on the provincial side, the City Boardhaving done nothing whatever to

their side of the road, although f Ley regularly received tlie rates from the inhabitants on that side; the only repairs that, nr.- done on that side having been done hy private enterprise. The hole oi the road oil the provincial side has been taken up, and a new bed of scoria blocks laid down, covered with scoria ash. A largo drain has been laid across the road, and carried down to the gully below Mr. Lorrigan's new public-house, so that, what- was once a mud ilat in wet weather, is likely to be a little more passable now. There arc about 22 men now employed on the various parts of the road, and considering the material which he has had to work with, groat praise is due to Mr. Quiun for the manner in which it has been done. The principal part of the material has been taken from the original road, and the only men who have been employed have been new chums by the last emigrant, ships. This is a sensible way of employing new arrivals, as they are before the public and any one who wants a labouring man may know at ouce where to seek for them. We would suggest that a good layer of broken metal be at once put on, and then the road will stand lor some years, with very little occasional repairs.