AUCKLAND.

Lyttelton Times, Volume X, Issue 596, 21 July 1858, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

The Breadalbane had'arrived at Auckland with another batch of Nova Scotians. who immediately proceeded to Wangavie, to locate

! themselves amongst their predeceseors from the same distant colony. ' ■'.. .■-,-•■■-.■ ' Mtjs ™aJ Festivai.—Wp perceive from-tha papers that the lovers of harmony in Auckland ■ f.™ , to I1? t!' eatfid ifch Handel's grand oratorio, • Die Messiah, '>on the 22nd instant. _ The^ Auckland- Flax Company appears to be m a ueraiiged portion. The <Newzealanuer J of the 26th to ay gives the -following account of tlio last meet ing-of the shareholders :— On Saturday last, a meeting- o f sababribere to the loan to assist the Baron de Thierry in bringing into operation his plan of preparing na- - tive flax for exportation/was held at the°Exehange Hotel, for the purpose, of receiving the resignation of Messrs. T. Mackay, H°M Jarvis, and G. Smallneld,-of their office of trustees to the fund.- -Mr. Bracev was in the cbam The reasons given by the trustees for ' declining, to act any longer in that, capacity were thus stated :—ln the outset, it proposed to establish atvadingassociation to-be called the-,"-Auckland Flax ; .Company,"-, under the superintendence of Baron tie '-Thierry ' cnital£2Ooo.in2oO£MO s1 ,^ AiSgmiX ot shaies were subsculed for, but not sufficient to coi.ie up +o the imount i eqvned, md the majority of tho^e who h id <>übscnb<\l foi -,h, let, then agiculto adva.ice Half tV lcspectivo sums standing -n then nimc in the sLaieb>t by way of loin (£GOOI to enable T3uion de T.uen <' to comm nee opei ttions—but m atcoulan<e ! with ceitam conditions stated by himself j Mes=is Blacky, Joins, and Smallheld a<Lng as | tiu-,tecs <*nd the money thus loarcd being paid mfo the Union Uank m then names—The I constiucfion of the machmeiy w is enhusted to Hi Dove, and the Rnon de Tlueny took the &team mill in Freeman's Bay, in h's own name, at a lent of £200 a-year, to piepaie foi the leception and fitang up of the machn-eiy a> completed This machinery consisted of fne i pans of misv\e cast ii^n cjlmdeis (with i smooth bin free*, frame, cog-v/heeK, &c, and I foui pans ha\e Leer dehveied with the fiarae, I and put in then right-places. Theolheipni and the lemamder of the machineiy aie likewise complete and leady foi delrveij , but | owing to the whole of the promise 1 lorn not having been paid up, the funds, in handueie t not «,ufHoi»nt to meet Ivl. Do\ c's de.nand for , £106 jctdue The Baion d^ Tlnevy then ?p-------plied to the Geneial Gorramfit to see if they could mike an advance by v ay of loan, and named the tiustees ns the paities uiidci whom the pin ate loan had been expended The Colonial ,Secie iuj (without pleclo-nik the Govcikmpnt to any Sijecific action),"communicated to , the trustees. theißavon's!application, and asked j whether, in the event of the application being | entertained, the trustees, would continue to act .!■ as such^andswhat'sequrity ibr f the ? rapayiaeritof the. requested, loa^ they were prepared to'offer. The trustees ■having.-.conferred .with the Subscribers'.Committee, pointed ,out: ta :thel-Baron-thai would be for :him now to execute a ;deed*- of I trust in compliance witn liis' own proposals ] when, raising the- loan (given above). { After j some discussion as to /terms, the Baron assented, j and Mr. Dry ; was r instructed . to prepare the j deed. Mr. Dry dicl so, in strict accordance I with those .terms, and carefully preserving the Baron's right of redemption of" the property at anytime he was-in a position so to do. :To the surprise and annoyance of the trustees, when the deed was completed and handed to the Baron for signature, he refused to sign, and wanted to make" other conditions. The trustees, however conscious that they were acting in good faith, felt that once having been broken faith with, they could no longer with any confidence act as trustees with the Baron, or become security for him .to-the Government; and the Subscribers' Committee, (who had been preparing to canvass for additional subscriptions on tlie faith of this deed being signed), declined to take any further steps in the matter. The trustees —all of whom are subscribers to the loan—resigned their office, and informed the meeting of their intention to make known the case to the Government, with their reasons for so doing. The resignations were accepted by the meeting, and the committee were instructed to have a proper statement of accounts drawn and audited, and then published for the information of the subscribers and the public. The meeting was unanimously of opiuim that the trustees could not have taken any other course than they had done, especially after the communication they had received from the Colonial Secretary; aitd there was a general feeling of regret that the Baron DeThierry should by his refusal to keep his engagements have perilled the success of an undertaking in which the subscribers and trustees had taken so warm an interest, not in the hope of personal profit for themselves, but of aiding ii\ the development of the natural resources of the province, and also i of promoting the personal prosperity of the Baron DeThierry. The same journal gives the following paragraph on the Coromandel Gold Fields :— Native Gold Dig&ijtgs ±t Papasoha.— We were shown the other day by "John Hobbs" of the Native Office, a fine sample of gold obtained some ten days since at the. head of a small creek about one-aud-a-half miles inland of Pnparoha, which is about seven miles north of the Wynyard Diggings, Coromandel. It was found on native land, and was procured . by four Maories, with very imperfect apparatus. I in a few days. The quantity was- 7 ounces. , Some was in quartz, and some obtained by washing —in which process the diggers "were j not at all expert. The ground about-which the ! gold was got, is very swampy, and is .tenanted :. at. present only b} r hundreds of what' ..were •formerly believed to be "myths" in New Zea. land— -ft offs. T.ho natives are anything bu '

-'-enamoured of these croaking - choristers, whose *ong.in the. northern: hemisphere has been thus translated-by n-l&ussian " fkig-ling-uist";— " Brekeke, br-ekeke i Eoax,-koax, -To-00, to-ooT' —nThe gold was purchasod-'byone of our Auckland .firms -at a price whichnt is 'hoped-will induce the maori owners of the-laud, to prosecute ■the digging. Old .Patuone, howev-er, shakes 4iis head and? says-if his countrymen were wise i.hey would sell the-knd or get pakehas to dig Xhe gold out for them.