The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, SEFT. 30, 1854.

New Zealander, Volume 10, Issue 883, 30 September 1854, Page 3

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, SATURDAY, SEFT. 30, 1854.

Be Just and feat not: I.et nil the en.4s thou aim'st at, be thy Country's, "Ihy God's, and TruthV.

l)\ the Galatea, which arrived on Thursday -evening, we have received Sydney papers to Che 20th inst. Our files, however, are still defective, owing to the irregular way in which the New South Wales journals have reached us for Ihe last week or two, —some being by the mail, some by private hand, while some numbers have not reached us at all. Under these circumslanoos, and in the absence of any colonial intelligence of immediately pressing importance, we deem it most advisable to postpone our usual summaries of such Australian matters as may be expected to have any interest for our readers, until our files shall he completed, as well as brought down to a stili more recent date, by the now hourly anticipated arrival of the steamer William Denny. Trade remained iu an exceedingly de-

pressed slate at Sydney. Indeed Hie sym ptoms of depression seemed rather to increase than diminish. The Empire of* the 19th (in its summary for England by the Madras)says, u The hnporlsconlinue largely in excess of the exports, and goods of all descriptions are a drug in the market," In another article, the same journal observes, u We regret lhalwc are unable to announce any improvement in our markets. The prices current, which appear in another column, are almost nominal, as business is nearly at a stand-still " Flour, however, remained at former quotations,— sol. per ton for fine, and 28/. for seconds. Wheat 1 Is. to 12s. per bushel. Congou Tea of superior quality had been sold by auction at Sis. per chest, and superior Java Kiee at 16s. per CWt.

At Melbourne, the most exciting occurrence had been the opening of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Hallway, with great ceremony, in the presence of Sir Charles llothani. . . . Exciting also, in another way, was the finding at italaaral of a Nugget weighing OS lbs. 0 o/., and believed to contain from 73 to 80 lbs. of pure gold. It had been called "The Lady llothani Nugget." The Melbourne Trade Heport (as given in Mr. K. P. W. Fletcher's Circular of the Bth inst), is—"The imports at tins moment are double the highest rale ever known, and quadruple the average. At the same time it would be absurd to place the present rate of consumption higher than doublethatof the period previousto ihodiscovery of gold, so that our present importation must be double the amount of consumption."