AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 496, 5 August 1857, Page 5

AUCKLAND.

We clip the following paragraphs from the Auckland papers recently arrived. Tbe Spray, brigantine, from Nova Scotia, the arrival of which at the Bay cf Islands ye noted a few days ago, came in at an -, r lv h°ur y esterday mormn %' She left Cape Breton on the 9th January—just in time to avoid being frozen in. The passage to the Cape of Good Hope was a tedious one occupying 73 days. The vessel called t Cape Town for water and provisions, remaining there 10 days, and leaving on the 9nd of April. Her passage thence was also a tedious one, much easterly wind having been experienced. On the 56th day from the Cape, the schooner put into Twofold Bay, and remained there to take onboard water and fresh provisions, She had a good run of eight days from the New South Wales to the New Zealand coast, and made the Bay on the eleventh. The prevalence of easterly winds detained her there eight days, she having not left till the evening of Tuesday last. The Spray, although a good large roomy vessel, would strike one as being scarcely adequate to the conveyanoe, for such a distance, of so many passengers — niuety-six in all, but the whole have arrived in good health. There were two births on board; no deaths nor sickness. No vessel was laid on to follow,the Spray, but many persons are represented as being anxious to emigrate, should they receive encouragement. The Spray is a Nova Scotia built vessel, hailing from Halifax. — -Southern Cross, June 26.

Mii.ita.-ry Movements. — After many rumours of departure, our old familiar, and well tried friends the 58th Regt., have at length received their orders for England. We feel certain that few old colonists will receive this intelligence without regret. The 58th came among us when the Province was in infancy and in peril; for twelve years, [they have been not only our defenders, but jour energetic assistants in many of the I arduous labours of practical colonization; they t have become, as it were, incorporated in our social sympathies, engrafted upon our affections, and though by far the greatest°number !of them either have, or eventually will, cast (their lot with ours, still we cannot think of | bidding along adieu to the brave old corps | without a strong feeling of regret. The fsßth, we learn, will be relieved by the 89th (named for this colony about four or ifive years since) now at the Cape of Good sHope, from which station they will be | relieved by the 3rd battalion of the Rifles, so |that, in all probability, some months will jelapse before they can arrive in Auckland. |The question of'relieving the 65th Regt. it is said, be deferred until after the meeting' of the General Assembly, and until |we opinion which shall be pronounced by jtuat body with respect to the number of .troops requisite for the service of New ;Zealand shall be transmitted to the Home authorities. It affords us sincere pleasure to learn that Colonel Wynyard has received iwtimaUon from the Horse Guards that the j^cant Good Service Pension of £100 per jnnum has been awarded him. We should * keen still more happy to have learnt «iat Colonel Wynyard's full pay service of \ "years had earned for him his promotion Jd appointment of Commander of the iroops b Ke W Zealand, an office for which nislongsevvices in this country so eminently him.— New Zealander, June 27. The Lighting cp the City. — The b »eet.lamps for which tenders were invited y the ipresent Provincial Government are d g put UP- The lam P P° sts are Q erected, and by the first of next inn ti aS pei" contract» the dark corners in will be rendered safe to gangers. This is one of the many Pr es ?n USeful refol™s effected by the fttnn * bovernm ent, in return for which the hothin ?• °f the late much-promising but Pover g tnonSh profusely-spending N C>merl- assume that the constituency of those of the other electoral pow> are anxi»us to see the "reins of present "out of the hands of the regime" —these practical reforms ;

showing them to be "so palpably unfitted" tor the administration of public affairs — lota.