AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 725, 11 October 1869, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

By the arrival of the Wellington at an early hour this morning, we have Auckland dates to Saturday last, the 9th inst. Great excitement was felt at Hokianga on "Saxby's day," in consequence of the tide rising between four and five leet above the usual level of high-water springs, necessitating the removal of everything from the bonded stores, which were flooded. The Bay of Islands and other parts of the Coast have been visited with unusually high tides, but have sustained no damage. At 10.30 p.m. on Tuesday, when the tide was about last quarter ebb, the sea rushed at a rapid rate up the Kawakawa river for about a quarter of an hour, and then receded. The p.s. Comerang, which was swung with the tide, was turned right round with the force of the current.

The three natives Paraihi, Mohi, and Bihari, convicted at the last session of the Supreme Court of conveying arms and ammunition with out license, and sentenced to twelve months' hard labor, were liberated on the 6th inst. by order of his Excellency the Governor. Shortland is now a port of entry, and tenders are accepted for the erection of a custom-house, bonded warehouse, court-house, and other Government buildings in Grahamstown.

A meeting +ook place on the Bth with reference to the formation of Short-land and Grahamstown into a corporation, The accounts from Coromandel are said to be very encouraging. A case of lynching has oocurred at Coromandel. Two men caught in the act of stealing grog from, a store were tied to a tree by the diggers, and punished with a dozen lashes.

The tailings at the Thames are being used in on some of the claims.

The Alexandra correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date October 5, says:—The only news from Tokangamutu is that live hundred natives, consisting of Nga-*imaniapo.t-os and Ngatimakutus, have left to take revenge upon Te Kooti for his murders in the Taupo country. Five hundr*.d natives have left this district within the last four days for Taupo, or Te Kooti's whereabouts. .. . The native meeting at Tokangamutu is not yet over.