AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume III, Issue 122, 7 May 1853, Page 11

AUCKLAND.

We are still without any Auckland papers later than January. We extract the following from the Wellington Independent :

"We have received files of the NewZealander and Southern Cross to the 19th March. Our friends at the north appear to be most actively employed in procuring supplies of New Zealand produce for the Australian markets, and trade was consequently very brisk.

" The Southern Cross says—' That from a well informed private correspondent in London, we learn that a report was very current for several days to the effect that Governor Grey is to be removed to British America. This had not been contradicted, hut only alleged to be premature.'

"/The schooner 'Koyalist,' from Sydney 3rd March, arrived at Auckland on the 17th, and reported the 'William Hyde' as having sailed from Newcastle, N.S.W., on the 15th Feb.,-for Wellington, with a cargo of cattle, horses, and sheep; but having met with baffling winds, she was spoken by the ' Koyalist' off Cape Brett, and the captain stated his intention of bearing up for Auckland, instead of proceeding to Wei' lington." NELSON. We have files of the Examiner to the 16th ult. We extract the following resume of news. The Settlement has been denuded of goods of every description, save rum, and such a scarcity has never before been experienced. Two months had elapsed without communication with iiTyellington, which draws from the Examiner #, pathetic regret at the want of steam communication between the Settlements, and of Sir George Grey's broken promises with respect to the light-house at Wellington and the town clock at Nelson. All very true, but the remedy for these things will soon be in our own hands. The Examiner has not yet commenced publishing twice a week, paper being a scarce commodity just now, and great difficulty existing in procuring sufficient for the regular issue. An horticultural exhibition had taken place, which afforded general satisfaction. The following particulars may prove of interest and encourage^ ment to ourselves •• "In consequence of the backwardness of the season, the exhibitors of grapes were not numerous, but this was compensated for by a most admirable show of apples. Finer fruit was never exhibited where the utmost care is bestowed upon its culture, and we may safely prognosticate that this will become a great apple-growing country, and that we shall at no distant day supply the neighbouring ./ Monies with cider. For the first time, we saw "nuts and filberts grown in the Settlement, and some other novelties were exhibited, among which we may mention the sloe, so familiar to us in the hedge rows of old England, Among the flowers .there were several of great beaut}', nor must we omit mention of the two magnificent hop vines, which, supported by the poles around which they had wouncl themselves, graced the entrance to the exhibition."

Mr. Francis Jollie, Mr. Stafford, and Mr. Saxon, are candidates for the office of Superintendent. Party feeling seems to be running rather high with regard to the respective qualifications of these gentlemen for the office. Mr. Smith, the brewer, met his death under the following painful circumstances. He was in his hop-garden, and the women engaged in hop-picking having threatened to put him in one of the bins, he laid himself down on the ground, when four of the women lifted him into a bin, but while one of them was engaged in throwing some hops on his face, her companions tumbled her in ivpon Mr. Smith, and, falling upon him heavily, she struck him in the lower part of his stomach, and caused an internal contusion. The deceased then went home and sent for medical assistance, but deplorable to state, he died the following morning. An inquest sat on the body, but no serious blame seems to be attached to any of the parties. The serious turn which the accident took may in part be attributed to the stout full habit of the deceased. Mr. Smith was a man much respected here, and was one of the most enterprising of our settlers.

We learn that the Hon. Constantine Dillon, Commissioner of Crown Lands, was drowned in attempting to cross the Wairau river. We have no particulars of this distressing event.