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New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 541, 7 August 1865, Page 3

Mr. S. Cochrane will soli, to-day, at No. 2, Koberton Cottage, Upper Symonds - street, corner of Kyber I'ass Koad. the whole of the valuable furniture and household effects on tho premises, comprising ehilFosiers, tables, clothes chests and drawers, glassware, dinner aud tea. services, books, plate, etc. Messrs. ' uxtku will sell, to-daj r , at the Newmarket yards, six first-class dairy cow s, fifty-five head of provir .-ial fatted cattle, and 1,000 wethers from Napier. Cameeon Testimonial Committee. —We observe that there <vill be a meeting of this Committee at the Chamber of Commerce to-day, at noon. ... . Northern Association.—The Council ot this Association will meet to-day at 4 o clock p.m., in the Chamber of Commerce, on impovtunt business. The Secretary of the City Board announces that the City rates from the period of the Ist, of June to the 30th of November, ISGS, is now due, and requests paymeut of the same at the office of the Board, Canada Buildings.

Waitakehei East—The Collector of rates for this district under tlie " Highways Act," inform those whom it may concern that he is er: • powered to recover the rates by seizure and distress, and requests payment of rates due at Mr. W. J. Marks, plumber, Chapel-street, within 14 days. The greatest excitement prevailed in the city on Saturday, in consequence of tba news received by the Hop.', from Tsuranga. Much sympathy was felt for the victims of the cruel onslaught mado by the natives upon the unarmed Europeans, -mongst those who tia\o been killed is a young man named Kobinson. the mate of the Kate. This poor fellow, it will bo remembered, came out h«re as fourth mate or the ship Portland, in 1863, and was an universal favourite with the passengers, bince t e has served as chief officer ot the paddle » Novelty and Waitematn, and was ni teemed bv all who knew him. „ H.M.S.S. Brisk, Capt. n for hugton yesterday moimng. tn His Excellency the of obtain I at Tauranga on die wa>, wrm

ing further details of the massacre, at Wluikii tune. , . T Pkince or TV.ut:* •.! hrvthe. —A Spanish dm ma" entitled " (iiraldn, the ,\1 illor's Wife. o< the Haunted -Mill." was produced on Siitiinhn evening; with entire success. This piece is on the model of Lc Diah/c <( Qiutlrr. and tin denouement exhibits more inventive iiipvnuitthan emotional satisfaction. The title of th piece is certainly not justified by the deveiou meat of the ]>loi, f.>i- the heroine is not at an time the miller's wife, and there are no in the mill that are not exo.vilinglv animated and won id be highly respectable lle-h and blood anywhere else. The story is as iollows : 1 village beauty, <-» I'sjuuinr, is engaged tu !•' married to a bumpkin of a miller, but she iattraeted by a pillar of light m the form ol a verv dark cavalier. Jhe miller is avaricious and the cavalier bribes him to be permitted It j take his place at the altar. The Duke o .Arragon has the character ot being no better than he ought, but his wite. the Duchess, is reputed to be religious, and has destined the young cavalier aforesaid for the superior of an order ot military monks, who are enjoined to perpetual celibacy. Then there is an elderly Lord in "waiting, who has a secret marriage on hand, am the result of these inter-communications is an imbroglio the most ridiculous that can be con ceive 1? Every one ot' the J,\uiuih* per<>nut nr.' condemned to act in the dark, and to an amoun' of self revelation which provokes irres'.stiihly th laughter of the audience. Mr. Daniels playthepart of Gil the Miller with verre and noticlmlhtiwe. Mr. I l '. l > Don Manuel de Bivar with the greatest s in! and Mr. West, in the rJr of Philip, l'nke o! Arragon, gives to the part an air ol /i/K.jv that• amourous intinniiv in roval hearts usually begets. Mi>s Juno plays the grand Duchess with dignity, and M iss Corcoran is. of conr>e. the prettv maiden who causes sueh_ an aniazini: quantitv "of dramatic mischief. We should not forget to mention Mr. Havgarth, who has taken up the comic vien. ami acquits himself admn anl\. in the impersonation ot an otlieious wine-driiiiv ing. subservient, and am iron-;, but somewhat vulgar old courtier. 'flic pi.'fe caul'' oil satisfactorily, and was tollowvd by the laughable farce entitled -The Railway Station. Mr Jianiels plaving the part of Sn iz'.le. e shoi'lu also mention a pretty ballet ar-angeimmt in the opening of the iir.-t piece, which elicited genera! applause. More l"r-■<[ 11 ■ • jit resort to this expedient would give a spnghthness which would be verv welcome. c must also mention riiurburv's new act-drop. It is a very beautiful scene, but some 01 the details are as yet 1111 finished, and criticism would be premature The idea is of one of those sunny Italian lakes which Turner delighted to paint, the dome, we think, of St. Mark's, white and shilling in the distance. Ihe scene is suppo-ed to be a_ view frjm a stone terrace. It is in this particular that the scene is still incomplete. Wk take the foilo-ving from the TVjan tnni Chronicle of the 2nd i:i-t:uit :—" Captain hew. who is down here to prosecute his c aim upon the Government for the lass of his property a'_ Op,">tiki. bv an a"peai by counsel at the bar oj tlie House, has b 'en sii'iialO'ied by the police t" visit the ship, and li-is identified some five or six as natives of the Hav o| L'leutv district, though I believe he is unable to prove that_ they actually took part in tin- murder tit' Mr. Volkm-r. Bui I have heard that the chief Wi Tako. of_ W'nikanae, who was in town yesterday, came for tin purpose of giving information that the actual perpetrator ot that savage outrage was at hi> place, and to obtain instruct ions as to h:s disposal. He was led to the discovery ofjiis retreat bv abo v. who came in and told i Inko of his "whereabouts. He left for his own piac. yesterday, with the intention of returning immediately. but whether with instructions to briug iu the murderer I am not aware."

Shooting.— Vbout half-past ton o flock on Saturday morning 1 a~t. the persons in the sho: 1 of Mrs. M'LaugHlin. militior, at the corner of Shortland and rrine-'S->treet. wore startled by h 'aring the breaking of a pane of glass in the window in Hiortl -md-street. L pon examinntion, a bullet was foil ml by a gentleman who was passing by at the time. This had broken but not penetrated the glass. How it found it< way to t ie window no cine can teil. but we have since been informed by a gentleman that as hi' stood at the lower end of Quecn->treet. close to the wharf, lie heard the sound as of one or two rifles "being discharged. as he thought, aboul the further end of the wharf. If this were the case, it is possible that the ball nhieh broke the pane of glass in question wns fired fr mi fi sfun either by accid-nt or carelessness, and that it met with no obstacle until it struck tha window, and its force nvt-t then have been spent, -dncf it did not pass through the gla««. A little girl was sitting in the shop immediately opposite the place where the bull s'ruclc the window, and might have been seriously or, indeed, fatally injur'-d, had not the foree of the ball been weakened. Persons certainly ought to be very careful how thev discharge londed firearms in the midst or in the neig'ub jurhood of a populous city. Cast Away.—The following Invcrcargill telegram is published in the Canterbury papers : — Captain Musgrave. the mate, and Alroek. a .seaman. belong'ng to the schooner Orafton. of Svdnev, and wrecked o|f the Auckland Island, twenty months since, have arrived ; two of the crew are left on the Island.

Tiri! Dinin/in Daihi yens savs :—The Congregationalists at Port < 'hnlriiers. having now the 2(ov. Mr. Forsaith s*-ttlo-1 .■Linoii l ,' them a< their orrlained pastor, are building a manse for his accommodation. and some improvements are also being effected on the church. 'I lie manse i= situated contiguous to the church, which, with several other new buildings, occupies fi site in "VYickelifie-terracn, overlooking Mussel Buy.