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New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2342, 28 July 1871, Page 2

J allies Frederick Cobb, of Shortland, tailor, gives notice that he has filed a declaration of liis inability to meet liis engagement* with lug creditor!.

The usual weekly parade of the Auckland Battalion Bifle Volunteers was held last evening at the Drill-shed; Major Gordon in command. There was a very good attendance of members. After the parade, the Major read the financial statement in connection with the battalion for the last year. A letter was read from Colonel Harrington, in wiiicti he expressed his intention of annually giving a prize, value £5, to the Auckland Volunteers. A letter wa3 read from Mr. Rees, late Captain of No. 2 Company, in which he forwarded his resignation, and announced his intention of annually giving a p.-ize, value £5, to be shot for by the battalion.

The fifth lecture of the winter series will be delivered before the Young Men's Christian Association this evening, by Mr. G-. M. Reed. Subject: " The Influence of Colonial Life on the Formation and Development of Human Character." The lecturer has visited nearly all the Australian colonies, and, as a keen and clo.-e observer of colonial life and characteristics, may be expected to give a racy and entertaining lecture.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Beehive G-old Mining Company is convened for the 15th proximo.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of the Christmas Box Grold Mining Company, Coromandel, was held yesterrlay morning at the Mechanics' Institute. The object of the meeting was to increase the capita; of the company, so as to leave a liability of only shillings per share. This is considered ample, as the mine has always paid its own expenses and well rewarded the original holders. The first ton of stuff crushed from it realised 19|- ozs, and since the general stuff lias averaged from 3 to 4 ozs., and it is expected the next crushing will fully equal if not exceed that. 30 or 40 tons are now going through the bastery, and is showing remarkably well on the plates. A letter just sent from the mine was read, in which it stated that good gold-bearing stone was being taken out daily. The rules for the guidance of the company were read and passed, and Messrs. Richard Whitaker, W. G-. Harrison, Thomas Ritchie, J. C. Stovin, R. Coolie, and A. Devoir were elected directors. A meeting of the directors was afterwards held.

The annual general meeting of the shareholders of Kelly's G-old Mining Company was convened for yesterday, at the office of the legal manager, but it lapsed for want of a quorum.

Mr. Samuel Cochrane's sale of properties, at Tauranga and Onehunga, has been postponed until Monday, the 7lh August.

The annual meeting of the Inverness G-old Mining Company will be held at the Mechanics' Institute, at 2 o'clock to-day.

A meeting of the shareholders of the Whaling Company was held yesterday, in the New Zealand Insurance Company's Building, Mr. L. A. Nathan in the chair. From the chairman's statement it appeared that the acting directors had purchased the barque Albion for £2600, and charge had been given over to Captain Claytcn. The vessel is being equipped and made ready for sea. The captain of the Albion not being able to give a good title, the money ha 9 been paid into the Bank of New Zealand, and twelve months are allowed to the vendor to make good the title.

A call of one shilling per share has been made in the Brighton Gold Miniug Company.

A call of sixpence per share has been made in the Evening Star G-old Mining Company.

Monsieur Morrell, the chiropodist and aurist, announces that his charges are but moderate to those who can pav, and that he gratuitously attends those who cannot pay. He advertises to treat successfully, corns, bunions, warts, moles, freckles, gout, deafness, and other diseases to which the human frame is subject, without pain aud without bloodletting.

Peter Clark, a bankrupt, gives notice of his intention to apply to pass his last examination, and for his order of discharge, on the 17th proximo.

At a meet ing of the Thames Scottish Volunteers on Wednesday evening, the following challenge was read by the chairman. " hamstown, 21st July, 1871. I hereby challenge Captain Wales, champion shot of New Zealand, or any other man in New Zealand, to shoot a rifle match for fifty pounds (50£.) to two hundred and fifty pounds (250/.) a side, on the foliowiug conditions : —Rifle, any rifle. Distances and shots, ten (10) each, at 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900, and at 1000 yards. Position, any position, firing from a level surface. Targets, in every respect to be similar to those used in small-bore international and inter-colonial matches. Marking by disks and flags, and the usual conditions generally adopted in the above-named matches. I will be agreeable to shoot at Auckland, Wellington,orOtago. The highest aggregate scorer to be the winner. I will give you 2bl. as a guarantee that I mean business. J. W. Walker, Vol. T. S. C., Captain Murray, Thames Scottish Vol. Co."—The members of the company testified considerable enthusiasm on hearing the spirited chi.llenge of their fellow volunteer. It was agreed that Captain Murray should take the mears which seemed most suitable to make the challenge widely known throughout the colony.

Auckland Dispensary return, for the quarter ending June 30th, 1871 : Number of patients admitted, 208 ; number of visits at homes of patients, 712 ; number of prescriptions compounded, 1752 ; number of deaths, 6. Causes of death : 1, heart disease and dropsy; 1, dysentery ; 1, typhoid fever; 1 disease of lungs and heart ; 2, pu'monary consumption.

Mr. Anthony Trollope is on the point of paying a risit to Australia. Mr. Trollope starts, we haar, next Saturday.—Athenceun. 29th April.

It is confidently stated that a Methodist chapel is about to be erected in the city of Rome.

It seems all but settled that the Suez Canal will pass in a great measure into English hands

Mr. W. F. Denning, Honorary Secretary of the Observing Astronomical Society, announce?, in the Times of April 24th, an organization of some thirty-six gentlemen for continuously observing the planet Venus until the 24th of October, 1872, for the purpose of obtaining a more correct knowledge of the conditions of the surface of the planet than that which we now possess.

Ihe people are getting highly sober, virtuous, and honest in Auckland. Last nigbt, at twelve o'clock, there was a clean chargesheet at the Police station, —not even a solitary drunkard having been apprehended. There was also a clean sheet on the previous night, so that crimes of all kinds appear to be disappearing from among us.

At the Devon port Highway meeting, the following were elected trustees: Messrs. Cochrane, Lewis, Holmes, Brown, and Leek.

The usual weekly sitting in bankruptcy was held yesterday, before Mr. Laughlin O'Brien, when the following unopposed cases were adjourned, in order to comply with certaiu forms : —Frederick Augustus Wrigg, for four weeks ; Albert Mico Shepherd, for a fortnight.

Mr. Halliwell has had the good fortune to discover evidence that Shakspeare acted on two occasions before Queen Elizabeth, in the year 1594, in company with Kemp and Burbage, all three being described as " Servants to the Lord Chamberlain." Critical students of the biography of Shakspeare will at once appreciate the significance of these interesting facts. The poet was then in his thirty-first year. No record of his performances as an actor at so early a period has yet been produced, but the circumstance of his then being a member of the Lord Chamberlain's company is of still greater interest. We now know, what hitherto has been merely a conjecture, that the great dramatist belonged to that body before the Globe Theatre was opened, and when the_ company were performing at Newington the old piay of "Hamlet," the predecessor of Shakgpeare's tragedy.—Atlunceun,