AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 19, 4 October 1842, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

(From the Auckland Times).

SUMMARY OF LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

We understand that a share list is in circulation to raise funds for the formation of a company to prosecute the Copper mines rknown to exist at the Barriers; the quality bf the ore, obtained there, has been tested, and found to be such as to justify the most diligent pursuit of the.adventure. ' We shall be. glad to make known, for the benefit of our readers/ any authentic information which the gentlemen concerned in this property may think proper to publish. The" specimens of ore obtained have

been, found to yield a per centage of 18 of copper, which upon reference to a competent scientific authority, will be found to be more than double the average of tables kept of the copper mines in Cornwall, from 1823 to 1836.

Since the above was in print, we have seen a private letter from Sydney, in which it is stated that immediate steps are about to be taken by a company formed there, to carry out this important object; it states that the brig Bandeith is laid on for • Auckland, and will sail from Sydney 16th September, that she brings twenty-two cabin, and twenty steerage passengers, the object of whose visit is exclusively directed to work the. copper mine at the Barrier. We hope all this promise will be realized. By the same vessel a patent flax machine will come down, from the successful application of which, much good to the colony is anticipated. The Osprey had arrived in Sydney on the 2.6 th August. . We understand that the present trip of the Victoria, is to be the first of a regular series of passages to and fro, between this place and Ports Nicholson and Nelson ; for the purpose of keeping up a regularity of communication, and conveying the mails with punctuality. We hail this as a favourable indication of a generous activity on the part' of the NeW Governor; we are sure that it will be a great public benefit. We warn His Excellency, however, that, as soon as the advantage becomes familiar, by use, he will be told, that it is an improper interference with the legitimate mercantile province, and that none will be so forward to say so, as the croakers at Wellington, who have done every thing they can to discourage so useful an object. For the pres'ent, on the part of our fellow-citizens, we have only to thank the government for their consideration.