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New Zealand Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 2457, 9 December 1871, Page 2

A quantity of local matters and letters (o tho lidilor are held over, in consequence of pressure on our space. The bazaar at the Auckland College, in aid of the funds of the Cadat Corp» belonging to that place of education, was continued yesterday. We have not space to speak of the proceedings in detail, but can only say that tho attendance was very numerous, and that the different sources of entertainment in connection therewith were again well patronised. The band ofNo. 1 Company was in attendance daring the evening, under Bandmaster MeL'omiali. The bazaar will be continued to-day, and will be brought to a close this evening, when wo have no doubt tho result will bo of a very satisfactory character.

Calls of sixpence per share bave been made in tlio Thames "View and Coromandel Excelsior Gold Mining Companies.—A meeting of the shareholders of the Windsor Castle G-oid Mining Company is convened, for the 20th instant.—The annual meeting of the Herald Gold Alining Company will take place on the 2Sth instant. —A dividend of one shilling per share has been declared in the Star of the Thames Gold Mining Company, payable on the 9tli instant.—A notice of forfeiture of certain shares in the Coromandel Excelsior Gold Alining Company appears in our advertising columns.—A similar notice appears with regard to the Otago Gold Mining Company. The Ponsonby Eoad rope-walk will be offared for sale by Ateasrs. Samuel Cochrane and Son on the 15th instant. We perceive that Mr. Walter Knott Q-rahaiii (of the firm of Messrs. Owen and Graham) is a passenger by the Nevada from Honolulu. Captain J. EE. Harrison was a passenger by the Ifevada from Honolulu. We observe that workmen are employed upon that portion of the New Zealand Insurance Company's Building lately destroyed by fire, while in the occupation of Mr. Haley, as a reading room and restaurant. We would call the attention of our musical readers to the advertisement of Signor Cagli in reference to the concerts to bo given at the Choral Hall on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings nest, by tlio Opera Company, assisted by the members of the Choral Society. We would call special attention to the prices of admission, which will be unprecedeutedly low—admission to any of the concerts being only half-a-crown. The Wanganui Herald, after quoting the remarks of Colonel Haultain on " shouting," delivered by him during a speech on the Permissive Bill, some time since in Auckland, adds :—Colonel Haultain is an anti-shouter in practice as well as theory. We all remember the happy times when Xitokowaru was knocking at the gate, and Col. Haultain preaching temperance to his officers in the old jßutland Hotel over hiß sherry.

In his charge to the grand jury on opening the criminal session of the Supreme Court at luvercargill, on Monday last, his Honor Mr. Justice Chapman commented on the fact that four out of the sis persons indicted were women. This, he said, was a very unusual circumstance, not only for Invercargill, but for the whole colony. Mr. William Beeves, of Canterbury, member of the House of Representatives for the Selwyn District, was sworn in a member of the Executive, on the 27th November. He will act generally for the Government in the Middle Island in all matters particularly affecting that part of the colony, as Minister of Public Works. Mr. Ormond, of Hawke's Bay, has been appointed to a similar office, to act for the North in all matters relative to public works. The following resignations and appointments appear in the Hew Zealand Gazette-.—The Hon. Henry SewelL has resigned his office as Commissioner of Stamps. The Hon. Julius Yogel has been appointed Commissioner of Customs. The Hon. William Reeves has been appointed a member of the Executive Council, and taken the necessary oath. Lieut.-Colonel Edward Gorton has been appointed Inspector of Stores under " The Public Stores Act, 1871."

Among tlio pa33Cnger3 by tho p. 3 Xeyada from Honolulu, 13 Agatha States* ope-atio company. We believe this company will* re main in Auckland a short time, and give a series of performances previous to their departure for Sydney.

A correspondent suggests that shopkeepers may evade in a legitimate wav the usi U g 0 r the twopenny receipt stamp, by giving", when an amount is paid off, not a receipt, but an acknowledgment that at a certain date the customer is not indebted to him. Such an acknowledgment, he considers, would require no stamp. We are not aware whether this evasion of tho duty would hold good in a court of law.

A correspondent of a Southern exchange writes suggesting the local manufacture of ink He says .—Our ink is manufactured for us in London, and conveyed to us at a considerable expense ; wlim obtaiued it is often found to be worthless. At tho same time we have- at our very doors the material for maW as good an ink as can be required; truly thiol's a case of carrying coals to Newcastle, ily made of ink-making is as follows X atrip a small bundle of bark from a hinau tree, this I bruise with a hammer and place in a clean iron saucepan. I then fill up with rain water iad boil till tho liquor is of the color and consistence of ink. Tbis liquor alone is equal to much of the English ink, but id order to perfect it I add copperas, gum, and alum, in the proportion of one ounce copperas, one ounce pum and a quarter of an ounce alum, to one quart of the liquor. 'Xlie recipe, however, may be improved upon. The Vail Mall Gazette states that there is in New Granada a plant, ccriaria thymifoUa, which might be dangerous to our ink makers, if it could be acclimatised in Europe. It is known under the name of the ink plant. Its juice cau be used in writing without any previous preparation. The letters traced with it are of a reddish eolor at first but turn to a deep black in a few hours. This juice also spoils steel penj less than common ink. The qualities of the plant seem to have been discovered under the Spanish administration. Some writiugs intended for the mother country were wet with sea-water on the voyage ; while the papers written with common ink were almost illegible, those with the juice of that plant were quite juuscathed. Orders were given in consequence that this vegetable ink was to be used for all public documents. Now tho plant alluded to is neither more or less than the tutu, which is only too abundant in this country.

"Do we want a Governor and a Second Chamber ?" This is the heading of a leading article in the JS T elson Xxammer, the gist of which is contained in the following sentences: —"Since we have been practically turned adrift by the Empire, there are no Imperial interests to protect, and, in ahort, the ouiee of Governor is un empty sinecure which might be abolished to-morrow, if il were certain from experience that the presidency of tho chief Minister would work satisfactorily. A. very similar account may be given of the Legislative Council. It is also a parody of an institution which is itself falling into decrepitude.

On Thursday last a handsome silver cup was presented, by the employees of the Caledonian battery, to Mr. W. Howe, late manager of the Caledonian Gold Mining Company, at the Wharf Hotel, Grahamstown. The chairman was Mr. Laird, manager of the batter} ; and he presented the cup, on which was a suitable inscription. It was accompanied by the following address : —" We, the undersigned employees at the company's battery, beg to express our sincere regret at your leaving the service of the company. Whil9 under your management we have at all times been treated in a fair and impartial manner, and now ask you to kindly accept the accompanying preseut as a small token of esteem, together with our best wishes for your health and prosperity."—Mr. Rowe returned thanks for the gift, and for the kind feeling displayed towards kirn, and proposed the " Success of the Caledonian Company," to which the manager, Ml'-'Richards, replied. "The Employees of tho Battery," "The Mining Interest," and other toasts were drunk.

"Sea View" is tho name given to a new claim which has just been registered in the Warden's Court, at Coromandel. Xfc is situated 011 Keren's Point, and adjoins the Golden Pa and Triton leases, and is bounded 011 the otiier sido by high-water mark. Work has already been commenced, and goodlooking atone, in which gold lias been seen, is now being taken from tho reef, which is three feet thick, and is said to bo the Neptune main reef. A crushing will soon take place. Some of the best Pali leaders go through this ground, and lam informed that it is to be formed into a company as soon as possible. Tho only tiling required to develop this part ot the golddekls is machinery, and I hear we are to have a buttery ou tho point very soon. —(Communicated.) Steps are being taken to secure a suitable site for a park or recreation ground for the use of the inhabitants of the Thames goldSeld. A meeting held for this object, of the committees of the several IRoad appointed a sub-committee to take necessary steps, and it was ' resolved to request the Superintendent to bring the matter before the Council. At the Thames Police Court, on Thursday, a man named Robert Bryson was fined £'10, or two months' imprisonment, for cruelly illtreating a horse by beating it about the head with a whip. A large number of natives gathered about Mr. R. Graham' 3 office yesterday, and proceeded to the Karaka flat, where they formally asserted their right over the piece of ground claimed by the Bright Smile Gold Mining Company, but held within the pegs of tho Queen of Beauty claim. The natives, we believe, assert that the piece of ground in question is without the goldfield boundary, and within their reserve, and consequently the property of Mr. R. Grraham. They vesterdiy asserted their tnaiia, and it now remains to be seen whether the mana will prove stronger in the Courts of law than tho mana of the Groldflelda Act. We hoar that it is intended to apply to tho Supreme Court for an injunction to prevent the Warden entertaining any question with respect to this piece of ground, on the allegation that it ia not in the goldfield. —Advertiser, Bth inst.

A presentation of a valuable silver tea and coffee service was made to Volunteer Walker, at the Governor Bowen Hotel, Grrahamstown, on Thursday. The subseripti«ns for the purchase of the plate were limited to 2a. 6(1. each. Captain Fraser, 8.M., in presenting the testimonial said "he had been requested by a committee of the inhabitants to perform the pleasing duty of presenting the service as a mark of the publfo esteem for him, and aa a memento for himself and his family of the gallant manner in which he had gone from the Thames to Otago, and there, amongst people who looked upon themselves as having permanently secured the laurels for rifle shooting, wrested from the bast man amongst them the honors they had hitherto held. It showed a great amount of courage to undertake this feat, and to accomplish it successfully against such, a man as Mr. Christie, the acknowledged champion shot of the Southern provinces, was a great undertaking. (Cheers.) The service wan presented, not so much for its intrinsic value, as a mark of the esteem in which Mr. Walker was held privately, and also as a marksman, by the inhabitants—not so much for his good shooting, as that lie went down as the vulture of the North, defeated the champion of the South upon his own dunghill, and was now the acknowledged champion of the North. (Cheers.) He hoped this would be an example to the Volunteers of the North, and especially that the Volunteers of the Thames would follow that example. He might say that the committee had limited the amount of eac subscription to a very small sum, so that t e service was the concentrated present of a gre many people. (Chears.)" The _P 3 f '°° was followed by a dinner, to which h yfriends of Mr. Walker s:;t down. Captain Fraser presided, and Mr. W. Rowe o?cupn a the viee-chiur. The usual toasts on fUMi occasions were drunk, Mr. Wa ker pr p - the health of Mr. Christie and the Ota„o Volunteers.

A cricket match, Eleven v. Twenty-two, is arranged to be played by the members of the United Cricket Club, on the Club's ground, Albert Barracks, on Monday next, December 11; wickets to bo pitckcd at 10 o'clock. Judging from the array of names, a good day's sport may be anticipated. The following arc the names of the players : —For tlio Eleven : Messrs. Slumford, Ilees, Bowcn, Simpson, Buckland, PococU, Clifton, E. Whitakcr, Gleeson, Davis, Masefield. For tho Twentytwo : Messrs. Witherford, Woodward, Carter, Eyton, Nicholson, Lloyd, Sharpe, Purchase, Willis, Humphries, Lincoln, Mosa, Swanson, Geo. Carter, Whitaker, Fleming, Pritchard, Jeffries, Lawless, Carder, Patman, Brown.

We learn that the natives and pafcehas at Ohinemuri are anxious to establish permanent steam communication between that district and Grrahamstown. A petition to tho Provincial Council for a subsidy for the steam launch Fairy, was inaugurated a few nights ago by some of the European and native residents, and in a couple of hours 150 signatures, principally native, were appended. It has been Bent inland, and is, we learn, receiving general assent from the natives. As soon as the petition has been fully signed, it T.'ill be forwarded to Mr. C. F. Mitchell, 51. P.C., to be presented by him to tho Executive and Council.—Advertiser, Bth inst.

The Artillery Volunteer Band wi 1 perform in the Albert Barracks this day (Saturday) from 3 till 5 o'clock, weather permitting. Programme : 1, Quick march, Annie H. Pearson ; 2, Grand march, Marie E. Brepsant; 3, Schottishe, " Bibette," Weipright ; 4, Waltzes, the* " Pipele," A. Zelman ; 5, Quadrille, " Ewolez" vous L'Couturier ; 6, Polka, " Adriana," L'Couturier ; 7, Galop, " Night Watch," J. P. Clarke ; God save the Queen.

Mr. James Craig sold yesterday, by auction, on the premises near the foot of the Moanatairi tramway, four tailings mills, made by ZTr. Bach, engineer. Two were sold at £16 each, and the remaining two at £I*l each. A six horse-power crab engine was purchased by Mr. White at £93 10s. A water tank fetched £3 os., and a lot of other material was purchased at remunerative prices. Twenty-five scrip shares in the Cock-a-Doodle were sold at 7s each, and a number of other mining interests were withdrawn. —Advertiser, Bth.

The London Daily iYetrs thus discourses on ■Railways as an investment: —There is not a line in the share list which has not at one time or other been subject to extravagant dapreciation, and such cases afford the opportunity to the investor who lias the courage to act boldly, because he can see clearly at a time when his neighbours surrender themselves to the contagion of panic. It is the combination of a fair and for the most part a good return with progressiveness that commends railway property to the public. Among the stocks in which careful people invest London and North Western has had its vicissitudes, and yet those who bought this at 100 fifteen years ago, and held it, have received on an average £5 lis 4d per annum ever since, and now find themselves in possession of a property that has advanced one-third (or 33 per cent.) in value. Similarly, those who bought at 83 in Apri 1859 have been receiving about 6J per cent, on their investment, the market value of which has improved more than 64 per cent. It is not given to the shrewdest merchant in the world always to buy at the lowest point of an active and fluctuating market, nor can money for investment always wait for the opportunities absolutely favourable, but by a little care and much sobriety money may be greatly economised in buying.

The name of Mr. (Dyer was inadvertently omitted from the division list, yesterday, upon the provincial industries ; he voted with the ayes. Mr. Hay also voted with the aye 3 upon the motion of Mr. Shepherd in aid of "grist mills."

The Speaker of the Provincial Council, in his strictures upon the erasure of a passage of a document, did not refer to the Clerk of Council.