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New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 775, 17 September 1853, Page 2

The weather for more than a week has t becn more rough and boisterous than we usually experience hce, even at the seasons when Equinoctial gales are expected to prevail. Strong vvituls, with bitter showers, haveblown, chiefly from the South-west, coming frequently in violent gusts which have excited not only some apprehension of disasters on the coast, but current reports of one or more wrecks,—which, however, we are happy to say, we have not been able lo trace to any authority beyond mere rumour. The most serious inconvenience arises fvtfm the detention in the harbour of vessels, with full cargoes, which have for

several days been quite ready lo goto sea, had the weather permitted. The Galatea and Heather Bell bound for Sydney, and the Eugene for Melbourne, are thus delayed. We must probably also attribute to the tempestuous stale of the weather the nonarrival of the barque Delmar, winch sailed from Svdney on the 271h August, and the delav of which is more especially to be regretted, as the Delmar— having sailed a day before the Marmora, and three days before the Moa— has the mail for Auckland on board. As respects public news, we have, so far as our own journal is concerned, been prevented from feeling this delav as much as we otherwise might, the kindness of friends having supplied us with a complete file of Sydney papers lo the 50th of August; but the non-arrival of commercial and private correspondence is seriously inconvenient. Agricultural operations have necessarily been retarded by theseverity of the weather; but this is of the less importance now, as the continuance of beautifully fine and favourable weather for some time previously had afforded our farmers an opportunity which, throughout the Auckland district, they energetically turned to account. Particular attention has been devoted to the polatoc tillage, which now occupies a breadth of ground far beyond the precedent of any former year.