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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 754, 6 July 1853, Page 2

Four Views of Auckland, New Zealand.— In Tinted Lithograph. Brawn by J. p. Hogan, Auckland. Lithographed by Stakdirce and Go. (Old Jewry, London). Published by J. Williamson. Now that, in various ways, attention is turned at home to Auckland, in some degree proportioned to the rising importance of the good city, it is evidently desirable that those who read of it should have some trustworthy pictorial representations of its several localities, such as have been produced of other places since the modern facilities for the diffusion of such information, by direct and striking appeals to the eye, have become so abundant, and obtainable at so comparatively cheap a rate. Previously, in the pages of the Illustrated London Neics, and otherwise, views of Auckland have appeared, which,— however thankful we might be for them while we had nothing better to offer to public notice,—were very far from conveying such ideas of the town and its neighbourhood, as we could be thoroughly contented with, or willing to have put forward as adequate to the communication of correct notions of the progress of the place. Under these circumstances, we cannot but regard with lively gratification the issue of these plates, which possess at once sufficient artistical merit to claim attention even 071 that ground, and, still better, are characterised by a fidelity which must be acknowledged by all who are acquainted with the scenes which they dc^vct. No. {, represents Auckland as seen from Hobson street, south. It includes the Harbour and entrance, with the Little Barrier, Tiritirimatangi, Waiheki, Rangiloto, and Motutapu islands, the North Shore, and Mount Victoria; also, part of the towrf, showing St. Paul's Church, St. Patrick's (R. C.) Church; the Wesleyan, Independent, and Primitive Methodist Chapels; the Wesleyan College, Odd Fellows' Hall, and Albert Barracks. No. 2 is Auckland as seen from Smale's Point. It represents Commercial Bay, Britomart Barracks, St. Paul's Church, Shortland street, and Fort street. No. 3 is Auckland as seen from Britomart Barracks. This view includes Commercial Bay, part of Lower Queen street, the New Wharf, Albert Hill, Wyndham street, West Queen street, with Stl Malhew's Church, and St. Patrick's (R. C.) Church. Prominent in this picture is the Governor lVynyard, l\\e first steamer launched on the waters of New Zealand, which in all her parts, including the machinery, was constructed at Auckland. No. 4 is Auckland as seen from the New Wharf. This includes Queen street, the lower part of Shorlland street, the Market House, Wesleyan Chapel, Wesleyan College, Windmill, etc. In all these views, the fidelity of representation is remarkable,—not only the more prominent public buildings, but many of die principal shops and private houses, being so accurately given that—(we can speak from having actually subjected them to the tesi)even a little child living in the town may, with the utmost readiness, point them out. This correctness, even in minute details, is? of course, the most valuable excellence "j" such representations could possess; hut the execution of the pictures, in the style of tinted lithograph which recent improvements have rendered attractive, is so good as them worth possessing even as works oi ai * and to warrant the anticipation that,— ex" 1 " bited, as no doubt they are, in the windows of print shops at home, —they will draw attention to Auckland from many who n»t£ otherwise scarcely have thought of its eg tence. Here they will have a special, ibou„ different, interest; and, framed as they way be in some of our beautiful New Zeaiaw woods, will form an ornament to wlncb a most tasteful may be willing to accoia place in his drawing room. " As connected with this subject, we n»jjy notice the increasing popularity °J "Chapters on Auckland and its NeighD°ur hood," which originally appeared m-JJ. columns of theNew-Zealasbeb, an additional and influential only in this colony, but also in Australia especially at Melbourne,—in the form in which they were subsequently P lished. On reaching England, they jwg transferred in extenso to the pages oi Australian and New Zealand GazclU'i . which they have been again i'C-publislieo a pamphlet form, by Messrs. Saunders a Stamford, of Charing Cross, who, ip * . advertisement state,— 41 The account m

they furnish of Auckland and its Neighbourhood, within forty miles of the Gold Fields, is the most complete that has ever been jmblished in\lhis country," This pamphlet being issued at a very low price, and accompanied xvitii "other information likely to be of use to the intending emigrant" would probably command an extensive circulation, and carry out more fully the purpose of theearuestan 1 liberal, as well as well-informed and able, friend of Auckland from whose pen the work proceeded. The publication in such a form would, moreover, rather increase than diminish the welcome with which those interested in the prosperity of the North of New Zealand would receive the new edition of the book,—with large and important additions by the Author, a view of Auckland, (distinct from those we have noticed above, but by the same artist,—Mr. P. J. Hogan), a map &c., which probably about this time is published in London, All we need is to have Auckland known as it really is and fairly promises to be—not as it has been misrepresented by Mr. Fox, Mr. Gibbon Wakefield, the Agents of the New Zealand Company generally,, and other caricaturists and slanderers, —in order to make it an object of paramount interest in the estimation of intending emigrants,—especially of such as appreciate more highly, than they do the feverish excitement of Australian gold-mining, those prospects of a quiet, safe, and—so far as any prospect of the kind can be so,-- certain remuneration for their industry and provision for their children, which this Province presents.