AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 19, 7 November 1861, Page 5 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND.

I Trade continues in the same steady, non-spccu-Jative condition that has characterised it for several months. ' Internal quiet remains undisturbed. Our late Is aval squadron diminishes. Cordelia lias gone to England ; Harrier is absent at the Eijis : and Felon's, Miranda, and Fawn repose upon their own graceful images on the pellucid waters of the W aitemata. Whether we hare arrived at the calm that is .said to precede the storm it might be difficult to conjecture ; but judging from all we hear and see, it looks as if peace were likely to be re-established on a safe and permanent basis. Such a belief is unquestionably gaining ground in England.' The gradual renewal of immigration testifies to that fact; and under the circumstances now existing at home and settling down here, with an able and indefatigable governor on the alert to mould them to the public weal, we have every reason to enterdam the most confident assurance for the early and ; continuous prosperity of New Zealand. ! Looking at her as a gold bearing country, the prospects arc most satisfactory. At Otago, beyond all question, gold abounds. In our own Coromandel district, every day’s experience only more and more tends to confirm the assurance of its great auriferous riches, and we are happy to find . that not only is the native title likely to be shortly extinguished over a large portion of this territory .but that measures are now on foot with the view of rendering the whole district available to European enterprise. Prove this but successful, and a gold field will be laid open which, by universal consent is pronounced to bo a rich one, and which from the nature of its position—accessible at nil points by water carriage—will surpass all the gold fields ever yet discovered for the facility of its approaches, the inexpensivenoss of transport, and the consequent moderation in tlie ,i living.