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New Zealand Herald, Volume V, Issue 1396, 9 May 1868, Page 3

Thames Chushing Company. —An extraordinary meeting of tho Shareholders of the Thames Crushing Company (Registered), is convened for Wednesday next, for the purpose of deciding upon tho number of directors, and electing the same, and for making rules in accordance with section 40 of tbe " Mining Companies Limited Liability Act, 1865." His Excellency's Visit to Otahuhu.—A notification appears in our advertising columns with reference to the forthcoming visit of His Excellency Sir George Bowen, and Lady Bowen to Otahuliu. They will proceed to that place on Wednesday next, for the purpose of attending the inauguration of the Nixon Memorial, on which occasion addresses will be E resented on behalf of the inhabitants. It will e seen, on reference to tho notification alluded to, that the committee request the co-operation of the inhabitants of the township, and the neighbouring districts of Howick, Papakura, Diury, and Wairoa. An undress levee will be held in the Town Hall, and there will be a concert and ball in the evening. Auckland Hifle Volunteem.—A general meeting of No. 5 Company of this corps will bo held at the Odd Fellows' Hall, Queen-street, at seven o'clock on Monday evening next, for the purpose of < lecting a Secretary and a member of the Managing Committee. Tho members are requested to attend with arms and accoutrements for company drill. It was reported in town last evening that the cutter Spey was on shore at tho Tapu Creek. Sahbath Sebvices.—The usual Sabbath services will be held in the Parnell Hall at 11 a.m., and in the Odd Fellows' Hall at half-past 6 p.m. to-morrow. Kvanoeltcal Pbeaching.—lt is announced that Mr. H. S. Earl, M.A., will preach in the Brunswick Hall, at half-past six o'clock, tomorrow evening. Subject:—" Man's liespousibility to God." We have been requested to draw the attention of Volunteers to the 65th clause of the Arolunteer Eegulations, which is as follows:—"Tho Inspector may once in each year order a parade of any Volunteer Corps for inspection, and any officer or volunteer who shall absent himself from such parade, without permission of the Inspector, shall be liable to have his commission cancelled or to bo at onco dismissed from the corps, as tho case may be, or to pay a fine of five pounds." Howick. —A public meeting of the inhabitants of Howick and adjacent districts is convened to be held at Brady's Hotel at 7 o'clock on Tuesday evening, to consider the advisability of erecting a grist flour mill of Messrs. Huston and Proctor's construction, in the neighbourhood. The Govebnob's Visit to Otahuhu'. —We aro requested to state that the Inspection of Volunteers, (Cavalry and Infantry) will take place at H'3o the morning of His J-Cxcelleney.s visit to the above district viz., on Wednesday next. Signs or Isipbovement in the Times.—A very noticeable indication of marked improvement in the times, showing that money _ is becoming moro plentiful among the working classes and others, may be observed by anyone attending tho various auction sales held in this city. On Monday last, at Mr. S. Cochrane's, and on Thursday, at Mr. Sibbin's auction rooms, furniture and household goods realised full fifty per cent, over late prices ; the bidding has been spirited and brisk, and the attendance numerous, and prices aro steadily on tlie advance. The same was the case at the salo of Mr. It. Graham s furniture, and again, yesterday, at the sale of furniture held by Mr. Sibbin in Hobson-strcct, goods in the latter instanco having realised nearly double that which they would have fetched a month ago. Another significant sign of the times is the number of marriages which arc daily taking place. Tho Thames has doubtless much, if not all, to do with this change in our affairs. The tide has turned, and not only is money moro plentiful among the working classes, and easier in commercial circles, but there is a daily and increasing confidence felt in tho assurance that Auckland has seen the worst of her bad times, and is steadily and surely emerging from them. Police. —At the Police Court, yesterday, one drunkard was punished in the usual manner. A number of claims for arrears of rates were heard, and judgment was given for the Collector. The native Wcraliiko charged with assaulting a waterman named George Keenc, thereby breaking his leg, pleaded guilty, and was ordered to pay a fine of £10 and the costs, or to be imprisoned for two months with hard labour. Pbogbess of the Suez Canal. —It was cal* culated by the engineers of the Isthmus of Suez Canal Company that at the close of November, 1867 32,562,631 cubic metres of earth, Ac., had been raised, out of a total of 74,112,130 cubic metres to be extracted, leaving 51,549,499 cubic metres still to be dealt with. The number ot dredgers at work at the close of November was thirty-nine, and twenty-one others remained to be set to work. It was expected that all these would be in operation by the close of December. The number of workmen employed at the end of November was 8340, of whom 5980 were engaged in the Suez division, which comprises the last twenty-eight miles of the canal. Five of the dredgers were at work in the l ort fsaid basin, six in the Port Said division of the canal, fourteen in the El-Guiscr division, ten in the , Ismailia division, and four in a basin which is i • being formed at Suex.—-Pall Alall Gazette.

VoiiTJNTEEB Cayalby.—The various Volunteer Cavalry Corps of the Auckland District are to assemble at Otahuhu, on Wednesday, for the purpose of being inspected at noon by the Inspector of Volunteers. Wesley an Missions.—The annual sermons on behalf of the Foreign Missions, under ths direction of the Wesleyan Conference, are announced to be preached in the Wesleyan Churches, High-street and Pitt-street, to-morrow Collections will be made in aid of the fund. The annual public meeting will be held at Pittstreet on Monday next, at 7 p.m. Mount Eden Highway Disteiot. —Tenders are invited for roadmaking and cutting scoria on the new North Road. The specifications may be seen at the office of Mr. Tothill, Crescent Chambers, Shortland-streefc. Thb Melbourne Argus of the 20th April, has the following sensible remarks on the " royal appointment" fuss:—For one reason, we are heartily glad that the Duke of Edinburgh has gone away. We shall be spared the infliction of those incessant communications from his Highness's equerries to bootmakers, gasfitters, greengrocers, tailors, fancy bread bakers, and other useful members of society, informing them that they have been selected severally to supply his Royal Highness with all sorts of domestic conveniences, whenever he shall require them. And considering that his Eoyal Highness will most probably never visit Australia again, his Eoval Highness's custom is not likely to prove a very profitable connexion. The amusingly absurd part of all this ' Eoyal appointment' fuss is, that every one of the greengrocer*, gasfitters, &c., has seemed to consider himself the exclusive object of the Duke of Edinburgh's favourite xegard. The letters of appointment have been published from day to day, something after the manner of those intensely uninteresting snake stories which, all through the summer, appear so regularly in the newspapers —everybody who is fortunate or unfortunate enough to see a snake, or hear of a snake, conceiving himself bound to make public mention of it. Ii would be well indeed if a categorical method were generally adopted in recording these events, so that one could take them all in at a gulp, say half a column at once, and get them over in a single effort. It is no doubt highly interesting to the persons immediately concerned in these Eoyal appointments to know that they have the exclusive privilege of supplying a Eoyal prince with boots, lamp oil, candlesticks, fresh vegetables, blacking, and opossum skins ; but as the rest of the world does not care a straw about it, but gets rather irritated than otherwise to be continually told about it, the fact of the announcements having, let us hope, come to an end is a subject for congratulation.