AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 143, 9 October 1863, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

TH E WA R. New-Zealander ” Office, October 6th 1803. Summer approaches with rapid strides. Our winter rains are fining down to April showers. Our equinoctial gales are on the wane ; and the stormy winds that now and then do blow severe only to remind us of the cutting blasts of an angry English march. The streets and roads are becoming solid ; men, munitions, and ships keep tumbling in ; large and efficient reinforcements on the way ; And, unless another Te Area qualm come over the hearts of our rulers, unless the chemise sidle of Maori convenience carry more weight than British bayonets, British gunboats, and Armstrong -10-poimders—the war cannot fail of being brought to a speedy, a successful, and conclusive termination.

The arrivals since Friday have been many and the means of offence and defence with which they have supplied us have been of a striking effective character. On Friday night Commodore Sir William S. Wiseman, with his fine and powerful frigate Curacoa, came to an anchor off the Wynyard Pier. On Saturday morning Colonel Hamilton, with some 270 rank and file, comprising the head quarter division of the 12th regiment, disembarked on the Queen-street Wharf, their gallant chief with all the esprit of a thorough-bred soldier, superintending the marshalling of his men, and marching them, with colours cased but trumpets sounding, to the Albert Barracks, where they at present remain. They are a fine soldierly body of young fellows, and were greeted with cheers of hearty welcome as they passed up our streets.

In the course of the same day, the steamer Corio , -with a full cargo of cattle and sheep, arrived from Napier. She was followed by the Auckland clipper Novelty, nine days from Sydney. She, in turn, was again followed by the magnificent ship Tyhurnia, which had that day released from quarantine, having dreed some thirty days of weary weired at the desolate quarantine ground by Rangitoto reef. We have hitherto been so fortunate in escaping any visitation of sickly ships, that no proper provision has been made for the reception and ameliorating the condition of such unfortunates. The Tyburnia has struck the key-note of warning, and we hope that immediate means may be taken as well for the protection of the city as for the comfort and convenience of unlucky ships and passengers. ' On Sunday the favourite London clipper Ida Ziegler, with a full complement of passengers, arrived from Plymouth, after a passage of ninety-three days, having sailed on the 3rd July. Yesterday, at an early hour, signal was

made for a barque in sight, which proved to be the Golden Age, with tiie last division of Victorian Volunteers from Melbourne. They number about 150 fine, stalwart ami well conducted fellows, and have come here in command of Colonel Pitt, who, if desired, might have doubled the levies, which now count very close upon a thousand Victorians. This draft will disembark at the Queen-street Wharf this morning. Turning to Auckland’s western port, the Manukau, it afford us very sincere pleasure to say that H.M.S.S. Eclipse, with the colonial gunboat Waikato under her convoy, arrived in the course of Saturday, after a very boisterous passage of eleven days, from Sydney. The manner in which the Waikato —a shallow boat, with a flat floor—has been brought across, reflects the very highest credit upon Captains Mayue and Breton.’ Much anxiety was felt respecting the safety of her transit. We heartily rejoice that she has arrived off the White Bluff, and trust that before many days elapse she will be found “ all there,” —where her services have been so long and so anxiously looked for—in the bights and bends, and within convenient range of the rebel pas and positions of the Waikato.

The Lady Bird steamer, from Wellington and the South, arrived off Onehunga on Sunday. We placed before our readers, iu yesterday’s issue, the news she brought from Taranaki. The Maories appear to be mustering in the vicinity of New Plymouth. If this be a diversion got up to draw off attention from Waikato, we hope and believe it

•..an i.r. ,\,.,a.i i i,„„ i " U 1 (.bVcIU. iUlLJVlitim Ucl3 jJUUiCU out her soldiery of all arms and conditions in order that Waikato may learn the effects of a power she has derided and defied. For New Plymouth—commanded by such a chief as Colonel Warre, garrisoned by such a corps as the renowned “ die hards,” with the Taranaki militia and volunteers—we entertain not the smallest apprehension. She will perform her devoir, 'as Auckland will unfalteringly discharge hers. There has been a long and patient lull ; but the war-cloud is rapidly becoming enlarged, and it will not be very long before au explosion may be expected to ensue.