AUCKLAND

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume IV, Issue 184, 22 July 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND

By tbe arrival of the s.s. Lady Bird, this morning, we have Auckland papers to Saturday last, from which we take the following

SUMMARY OF NEWS. (From the Weekly JS'eivs, July 23.) We have no news of importance to record this week with reference to the war. It seems pretty certain that a large number of rebels lately on the Upper Waikato have gone ( over to Taranaki, probably because subsistence is easier there than at quarters. The 70th Regiment have been sent to augment the garrison at New Plymouth, so as to be prepared if the rebels made an attack upon any of the posts. All is quiet on the Waikato and at Tauranga, only occasional stragglers being seen, which confirms the statement that the main army of the rebels has crossed over to Taranaki. Permanent huts are in course of erection at Tauranga for the occupation of the troops, and the land selected for the settlement of the Ist Waikato Regiment is being surveyed. Thirty or forty natives have surrendered to Mr. Rice, at Tauranga, giving up their guns and other weapons. These surrenders cannot be taken as indicating peaceful tendencies in the main body of the rebels, but they give a prospect of quietness in the Tauranga district. ' -■

Advices from Otago seem to hold out some prospect of improvement taking place shortly in commercial aflairs there, and recovery from the depression that has prevailed for some time owing to the diminution of the quantity of gold produced. In Southland, also, there was more activity in business, the railway works that had been suspended having been resumed, wdiich the Provincial authorities have been enabled to do by the assistance of the General Government. Flour was quoted at Invercargill at the very high rate of <£4o per ton. The news received from Australia during the week contains no event of much public interest. Morgan, the bushranger, had shot a police sergeant who was one of a party pursuing lum, and had succeeded in making his escape. The damage caused by the frequent floods on the Hunter river of late years having been very great, the inhabitants of the district liable to inundation have held a meeting at West Maitland to consider how these calamities could be prevented. It was decided to petition Government to make a survey of the river and adjacent country, with a view to embanking the stream, or cutting a canal to let it into the sea by a less circuitous route than at present. The recent news from California seems to have raised the price of breadstuff's in Australia. At Adelaide, on the 2nd instant, flour was quoted at from <£2s to £27 per ton ; on the 6th it was selling at £26 to £2B. By the arrival of a Californian' ship at

Sydney, we have nine days’ later news from New York than that brought by the last English mail. Details are given of the capture of Fo t Pillow by the Confederates, where it is alleged they butchered the negro soldiers of the North after they had surrendered, for which President Lincoln threatens retaliation. Minor engagements, with varying success, had taken place. The news from' California is to the 25th April, and we learn that at that date the breadstuffs market was decidedly firmer. The Auckland markets stood as follows ; Fine flour, £24 per ton; fat sheep, 9d. to lOd. per lb.; store sheep in demand, and at higher rates. The wreck of the steamer Ballarat was sold in Auckland on Friday last for the sum of ,£435.