PORT NICHOLSON.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 89, 18 November 1843, Page 354

PORT NICHOLSON.

The Aurora arrived yesterday from Wellington, after a boisterous passage of eight days. She encountered nothing but strong westerly winds on her passage, and had therefore to beat the whole distance. A ship and a barque were met outside the heads, but no information was obtained respecting them.

From some cause or other our own papers have not been forwarded, but, by the kindness of a friend, we have seen the Gazette of the Ist and Bth instant, from which we learn that no less than six vessels are advertised for London, viz., the brig Victoria, schooner Lady Leigh, barque Indemnity, barque Tyrian, barque Glenarm, and barque Tyne. In an article headed " Exports," the Gazette states that the Indemnity will take goods at a very low freight, to induce parties to send to England as specimens a number of various matters, the produce of the colony, with a view to future exports. , " The schooner Oratava is advertised to sail in a few days for this place on her way to Sydney.

A road to connect the upper and lower Hutt is fast progressing, and will be completed in a few weeks.

A cargo of cattle brought from Twofold Bay in the Bolina, has been sold at an average, of £7 6s. Bd. per head ; and a few sheep, part of the same cargo, retched about 10s. each. Tha Gazette discourages the further importation of stock into that settlement, and states that what is already there suffers from excess of numbers. We recently showed that in this settlement there is an unlimited range for cattle, with pasturage of the finest description. Some experiments have been made to instruct Europeans in the native method of dressing flax, with complete success.

It is reported that the brigantine Hannah has been seized by a person named Ellis, who formerly commanded the brig Lunar, and that he, with a crew of twenty or twenty-five men, had left Bell, the captain and owner, on one of the Chatham Islands. The vessel was seen in Hawk' 8 Bay, and the present commander was endeavouring to procure the arms of the schooner Minerva, wrecked there last year.

The police reports mention some singular decisions of the Chief Police Magistrate. Major Richmond had fined the chief constable ISs. for assisting at a fire without first communicating with him, although considerable property -had been saved by his prompt exertions ; and another constable was fined 12s. 6d. for not being on the beach when, having apprehended some disorderly persons, he was keeping guard over them to prevent their escape from the watch-house.

There are three breweries in operation in Wellington, and it is said good beer maybe had from them at fifteen-pence per gallon. The barley grown in the settlement is highly spoken' of, and there is no doubt but the importation of malt liquor into New Zealand will soon cease, and become one of our earliest exports.

Some outrage has taken place at Wellington, in which the fence round Colonel Wakefield's house was destroyed. Not having a perfect file of papers, we are unable to give any particulars.