AUCKLAND.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 46, 21 January 1843, Page 183

AUCKLAND.

We have received the Auckland Times and Chronicle to the 24th of December. Our worthy contemporary, the Times, yet labours with his mangle, not having received his press and printing materials from Sydney. Notwithstanding his difficulties, he launches forth his thunder with as much energy as his great namesake. Our brethren at Wellington (the Gazette in particular) are called to account for their misdeeds. The eternal question as to the superior claims of Wellington or Auckland (" Hobson's choice or the Company's ") to be the capital of New Zealand is discussed at some length, and Port Nicholson itself abused with great spirit. We are glad to see that, by some improvement in the " machinery," the Times is now printed on both sides; and we sincerely hope that its editor may be enabled to surmount all his present difficulties and establish a paper that shall repay him for his heavy losses. An .Agricultural and Horticultural Society is about to be formed at Auckland. The Dispensary is to be immediately built. Meanwhile, the committee are endeavouring to make the purposes of the institution available to the poor. The immigrants who lately arrived by the Jane Gifford and the Duchess of Argyle are said to be nearly all engaged — mechanics at about six shillings a day, and good farm servants at £20 per annum with rations. A laud sale is advertised to take place, and the suburban allotments are said to 'be of a better character than those which it has hitherto been the practice to offer. The upset price per acre of one section named is £100, which the Times considers far too high, and suggests that £20 per acre would be quite sufficient to start with. The appearance of things in regard to the disposal of land is, however, stated ta be improving. The Chronicle contains little news but what relates to the quarrel between the natives at Tauranga; but as the arrival of the Victoria at Wellington has brought intelligence of the settlement of the matter, it is not worth while to republish all the speculations which bjjve appeared on the subject. ' • * •