AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 53, 3 July 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND.

(From the New Zealanher, June^/.) The Governor, Sir George Grey, we leam, is about to proceed to Kaipara immediately. A rumour was current yesterday that the old Chief Tirarau himself had fallen. There is not so far as we have been able to learn, any truth in this rumour. The great military enterprise of making the load iiom Drury to Waikato has bean completed, and the troops, creeping those stationed at Pokinoc, have come into winter quarters. We hear nothing but unqualified approval of the manner in which this business lias been accomplished. Ihe name of General Cameron will always be associated, in the minds of the Auckland people with this noble work of peace and civilization. ’ There is not, we believe, any probability that the appointed place of meeting of the General Assembly will be changed from Wellington to Auckland, or that any postponement of the opening of the session will be rendered necessary by recent occurrences in this Province. On tne 26tu instant our friends in the “.Empire City” will witness the consummation of their wishes in having the Parliament of New Zealand sitting in their midst. Steps have been taken for the organization of a Company for supplying the city wfth Gas, and *j u dging from the success with which other associations for purposes of public utility have been organized of late, there seems no reason to doubt that the Gas Company will speedily be recorded on the roll of “ facts.” The timber trade continues to be prosecuted with vigor to the other provinces, the quantity shipped during the month exceeding 230,000 feet. All the sawing stations are in full work. New and improved machinery is continually arriving, and new mills are being brought into operation with the utmost despatch. The quantity of timber taken off for homo consumption at the present time is very large. A great many new and costly buildings have been contracted for, and are springing up in every direction. The much maligned Queen-street Wharf has been the makin° of Queen-street, which, from a row of filthy wooden tenements, is rapidly changing to a street of handsome buildings calculated to adorn a city of much older standing than our own ; carpenters, brickmakers, bricklayers, stone masons, plasterers, painters, plumbers, in short, all descriptions of of skilled laborers arc in full employment and active demand. It is with and through these that town lands are so much in request and at such favorable prices every man his own landlord being a principle thoroughly appreciated and extensively adopted by the industrial classes of Auckland. Since the arrival of the Cashmere on the Bth of April, wo have not had an English ship in our waters. To Auckland as well as to Adelaide, Melbourne, and Sydney, every vessel is long overdue, no such protracted passages having occuraed lor many years. It is satisfactory to know that our New Zealand shipping is doing no worse than others, for when 130 and 110 days elapse without giving any sign of the long expected ones, there naturally arises a good deal of anxiety, if not of positive uneasiness; this, to some extent, has lately been the ease here, and we have heard of several risks having been taken at extra premiums. The ships hourly looked for arc the Messina, Hubert Small , and Pirndeii. The only ship of the Australian Naval Squadron in the New Zealand waters is lI.M. steam sloop Harrier, 17 guns, Commander Sir Malcolm M Gregor, Dart., which is in attendance upon his Excellency Governor Sir George Grey, K.C.B, liis tour of the Southern Provinces. About a fortnight since, wc had a Hying visit from 101. screw sloop Fawn, 17 guns, Commander Cator, which touched here on her way to the Islands to receive some deserters. 1 rom the Islands, Fawn will proceed to Hobart Town, and from thence return to this port. lI.M. ships Miranda , 13 guns, Captain Robert Jenkins, and j Pcdoris 21 guns. Commodore Seymour, were botli at Sydney on the 27th May. Miranda reported as about to sail on a cruise to the Fijis. Felons waiting the arrival of her relief ship Orphan's, 21 guns, Commodore Burnett, immediately expected. The screw sloop Pioneer, 6 guns, Commander 11. A. Reilly, was at Melbourne at date of last advices.