The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1853.

New Zealander, Volume 9, Issue 779, 1 October 1853, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, OCT. 1, 1853.

Be just and fear not: let all the ends thou aira’st at, be thy Country’s, Thy God’s, and Truth’s.

The Joseph Fletcher arrived in our harbour yesterday, but amidst the many disappointments We have been called on to suffer in our English intercourse, scarcely one has ever occurred fraught with greater disappointment and inconvenience than the fact that she has arrived without her mail and without her Custom House documents , all having been landed at New Plymouth, and left there. The statement made to us hj that, after having experienced very bad weather, she was obliged to sail from New Plymouth without being able to obtain her papers or mail, the weather being such that the Captain could not venture to leave the ship, and the SubCollector refusing to give them to persons sent by the Captain for them. With the imperfect knowledge we yet have of the circumstances, we are unwilling to impute blame in any quarter; but when it is borne in mind that not only the mail is delayed until a vessel from Auckland can go and return here with it, but also that the cargo cannot be landed, it will be at once evident that, if these annoyances and losses could have been prevented, a heavy responsibility must rest somewhere. At all events, we suspect the Auckland mercantile community will soon weary of having to wail for their English advices and importations until another port ' in the colony has been first visited, as has been their lot now in the successive cases of the Cresswell and the Joseph Fletcher.