AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 114, 11 May 1863, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

May 6, 1863. [From a Correspondent.'] Auckland is progressing rapidly, and the province is becoming peopled fast, Emigration has again set in bringing labour and capital; the Royal Bride and Nimrod, two English vessels have just arrived with cargo and passengers. Emigration Societies are forming in England for the purpose of carrying out the scheme on extensive and

successful principles. A “Pioneer,” agent of one company has just arrived here, and will commence his work at once, preparing for the reception of his people. There is a rumour that the “Colonial Emigration Society” will appoint resident agents here, and probably charter their own ships, as twenty thousand people may be the result of this, one Society’s operation. Such an accession of souls must benefit very materially the provinces they are landed in. Emigration is tending to assist in the solution of the Native difficulty, as land and roads must follow their advent into the country. There is a rumour that the Waikato Natives are sending the out settlers into Town, and true that a few persons had come, but it creates no uneasiness in the minds of Auckland people. We have four hundred men employed in re-metalling the Great South Load, from Auckland to the Waikato river, and it is confidently expected that we shall very soon place a bridge over the river. A many new and handsome buildings are going on in the City, in fact, the improvements being made are immense. Water is about being supplied by conveyance pipes to the inhabitants own houses. The City Board are making gigantic efforts in progressing with the sewers and completing the streets. Coromandel Gold Field too is now beginning to make itself felt commercially beneficial, an export has begun and doubless will continue, and from trustworthy information we hear that the increase will be great, thus proving that a steady quartz gold-yielding country is far better in the end than one of an alluvial character. A field is created with quartz for capital and labour, and not to be subjected to the ephemeral movement of the diggers, “fossicking with knife, &c.” The markets hei’e are tolerably steady and fairly supplied, except timber, which is at a high price, and no material reduction is expected until the railway to Drury is made, when it will make the forest of the Hunua with its valuable timber, coal, and lime, available for the Auckland market. The great feature of this province appears, as I set out with remarking, “progress” and “progressing”