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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 36, 9 May 1850, Page 2

Having already made our Maori readers acequainted with the new settlement at the Auckland Islands, and the demand there is likely to arise for provisions for the supply of that settlement; we shall continue to furnish whatever information we may, from time to time, obtain regarding the state and prospects of the settlers—in order that it may bo seen what arli'-les are nio.;t in demand there, and

what influence ilio Auckland Islands arc likely to exorcise upon the intliistri.il anil roductl e energies of New Zealand. I'y the overland Mail, which arrived from !\irt Nicholson on Saturday, we received Wellington papers lo the <>th of April. From tlie " Independent." of the 27'.1i of March xvo copy as fol'ows.j The barque "Artemisia," Capt, liidler, arrived on Sunday ;the 2-llh inst, from the Auckland Islands. She was taken up at Sydney to onvcy stock an I provisions lor the whaling settlement, and has been absent from Port Jackson about two months. The weather was intensely cold at the Aucklands. The settlers were mostly living on board ship, the houses not being completely finished. The natives, who prior to the arrival of the expedition wero living in a slate of great destitution and misery, are now perfectly contented and happy, finding profitable employment from the Europeans, and obtaining good food and clothing. The timber of the Islands is. stunted and not fitted for building purposes. The land is represented as good, and there is a large extent of ground covered with excellent grass, (it for grazing. Hilt such is the b:C'ak situation of the islands that we greatly fear the attempt to form a settlement will prove a failure. Now, had the Company selected any one spot in the .Straits, tlicy coufl have carried on their operations with greater facility than at the Aucfclaiii.'s. Ono of the ships had been on a cruise as far ns (50° S., hut though w!ialt<s were observed in jjreat iiuiti eis. the boats could not lie lowc.vd owing to the tenipesiuoui weather in tliosu high la!i:n.l(S.