AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 27, 12 April 1845, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

There is an old adage " that the great thieves tiiey let run and the. small ones pay. up," the Clerical gentlemen at the B ay of Isjands complain of the introd.uduction of the retailing of spirits* there, hnf they 'omit to state that they themselves are wholesale purchasers of the urticle, we have some some of the receipts of these Reverend friends of the natives; for spirits in large quantities. Dare they gainsay the fact? Since our last, the North Star and Velocity have arrived with 200 men and officers of the 58th regiment, and a very fine set of sol.lierly officers and men they seem to be; but what avails their presence if the vile roapri policy is (as we fear) to be persevered in, we fully expect to hear that Honi Heki dines with HisExcellency one day next week. — Auckland Chronicle. There has been no direct intelligence from the Bay of Islands, since our last publication : but we' learn by the way of Wangari, that the natives who did not take part in the affray at Kororariki, are much displeased with Kowaiti. and bis tribe, and look upon it in' a different light to that of Heki. There is much excitement among the natives, and some alarm as to the intent of Europeans, in consequence of somany English being killed at Kororarika. They fear that revenge will be taken according to their own customs, and that all the"" tribes in the North will be alike exposed to the vengeance of Europeans. On Sunday last, there arrived here 230 of the 58th Regt. with six field pieces from Sydney, in H. M. S. " North Star " and' the schooner " Velocity. " These re-inforcenrents, with the excellent precautionary measures of putting' the barracks in complete itate of defence, — erecting block-houses in variou^difectiorijs, — anft strong patroles and picquets, nightly, around the town — impart feelings of security to the inhabitants, at the same time intimating to the- native population in the adjacent districts, that any* hostile, or predatory attempts on their part, on Auckland; . would be met by most determined powerful? resistance. We are sorry to observe, that many married. , ladies, forgetful of their promise of adhesion, " for. better for worse," have left Auckland, by the Shins Castle, for Sydney : it is this sort of alarm that breaks down the resolution of men in the time of most demand ! Where are our Flora Me Ivors ? or our devoted mothers who would arm their sons to the battle aud send them forth with a standard to defend, which, albeit in itself a trifle, they would part with their heart's blood rather than relinquish. These are feelings that we hope New Zealand, as a British community, will not be the first to allow to fall into discontinuance. A report was yeskerday circulated in the town that Wellington had been attacked by the Maories^ tb,at a victory had been gained ovd^the latter, apd many lives lost on both sides, After pje mostdiligpn

i.n-anirv we have -reason to believe there is no ;T a |L f O i- fhe nflnour. Some of theMaorie Sdar^Sthe Bay of Islands W hed-thfe udacitx to corhe int. > Auckland, in the cutter £ s tsy, to havrk about the tc-wn the produce of their exploits on'the beach of ; ! Being apprehended, they were jer united to escape, and ;hey have gone to sel. <<r barter their stolen property elsewere,