AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VII, Issue 459, 28 March 1857, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

By the Daring, schooner, we have Auckland papers to the 11th instant. The question between the Superintendent and the Provincial Council has not quite disappeared from the public prints, a great quantity of correspondence still appearing on the subject. A collateral item for discussion has grown out of the late affair. ~Mr. Walter Brodie, a member of the Provincial Council, having gone down to look, through the window at his colegislators while they were locked in, was seized upon by the crowd outside and threatened to be thrust through into the House. An action for assault, which was dismissed, a leading article or two, and a host of letters to the papers, containing a great deal of unpleasant recrimination, are the result of this little escapade and form a good" share of the contents of the journals before us. Arguments upon the William Denny, pro and con, form another very prominent item in the leading articles of either paper, and help to swell the correspondence, which is always of very extended dimensions. Other public news there is none. Both journals-draw attention to the subject of whale fishing as a profitable speculation for Auckland, now that the agricultural export begins to fall off. Fish are reported to be very plentiful, and there are numbers of American whalers constantly on the coast. The question a?ked is, if it is profitable to New ■ Bedford and Nantucket, why should it not be so also to Auckland. Auckland harbour is. to receive various extensive improvements at the hands of the Provincial Government. We observe that the wharf is-to be extended 700 feet further, into three fathoms at low water, and ■to be widened fourteen feet. The piles alone are stated to cost ■ £12,000. Sir W. Denison,- Governor of New South Wales, sent a comprehensive plan for the improvement of the harbour, but the .works are not to be performed in accordance with his suggestions. Sheep Destroyed by Fiee.—On Wednesday week, a number of sheep, the property of Mr. Grigg, of Otalmhu, were destroyed or otherwise very severely injured, under the following circumstances. A quantity of stubble had been set on fire, and, as we understand, left to burn. Owing to the heat of the weather, however, the flames ' spread and passed under the sheep, numbering about 120 in all, and-then feeding in a compact flock. The sufferings of the poor creatures, many of which have sustained fearful injuries, must have been dreadful. -— Southern Cross, March 6. Action foe Libel.—Y resterday a notice of intended legal procceedings was served upon the publisher pf the "Auckland Examiner" by Messrs. Merriman and Jackson, as attornies for Dr. Pollen. The intended proceedings are based upon an article that recently appeared in that journal headed " Dr. Jonah and the*Patribtic Furid," and said to contain; a false and malicious libel.— lbid.