TAMAKI.

Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 February 1855, Page 4

TAMAKI.

Here where many a sanguinary battle was fought in the dark days of New Zealand, there is peace and plenty. A great quantity of potatoes has been raised in this distriet, and shipped in vessels to the neighbouring colonies, principally to Port Philip. It would appear too, that there are great facilities at Tamaki in reference to the shipment of produce. On this subject the 'New Zealander' says:— "Tiie Pirate, Steam Smr.—lt is exceedingly g ra tifying to us,—after all that has been said and written respecting the delays and the deten tions of the port of Auckland—to be enabled to record the remarkable expedition with which this ship has discharged and taken in cargo and got ready again for sea. The Pirate arrived in Auckland, from Melbourne, at 8 a.m. of Thursday the 28th ult. She remained at the anchorage during the remainder of the day ; but, in the course of the following forenoon, she steamed up the river Tamaki as far as Panmure, to take in a cargo of potatoes for the Melbourne Market. Arrived at the Wharf, she hoisted 100 tons of coals from her hold, and stowed them iii her bunkers. The hold was then swej t clean and dunaged. All her cabin fixtures were taken down and placed on deck. Three hundred and seven tons of potatoes were put on board ; and this was accomplished in the unprecendentedly short period of 231 working hours. Great credit is due to the charterers, Brown & Campbell and Robert Mitchell, for the celerity with which this lading has been accomplished. From the date of her arrival to that of her projected departure (this day at noon) the Pirate will have been six days in our waters. The potatoes were shot from a bank about forty feet above the level of the Tamaki into a broad shoot placed upon an inclined plane to the wharf, whence they were dropped into railway carriages, and deposited on board the steamer. Such are t!ie particulars with which we have been obligingly furnished. The arrangements are high-

ly creditable to all concerned. We would fain hope that the days of detention of shipping arc drawing to their close in Auckalnd ; and that the Queen-street Wharf, togethor with the per manent Harbour Works, will be carried on wit,} such a degree of rapidity that within a few months great and continually increasing facility may be afforded to ships trading to this port. The Pirate came up from the Tamaki yesterdaj evening at dusk, and proceeded to Messrs Brown and Campbell's Wharf to coal, she is very deep in the water."