AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 31, 10 May 1845, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

By the Fidele which > arrived on Wednesday, from Nelson, we have received, by the kindness of Messrs. J. Smith & Co., copies of the Nelson Examiner of the 26th April and 3d May, containing the following late intelligence from Auckland. About two o'clock on the morning of the Ist of April, the people of Auckland were alarmed by a report that the sentries had heard musketry firing in different directions, and an immediate attack was expected. A general turn out of of the military and volunteer force ensued, and the crew of the Hazard hastened on shore to give their assistance. After sometime it was ascertained that the alarm was a false one ; and that it had been caused by some natives a short distance from the town firing, as is their custom, in consequence of the death of the wife of a chief. The inhabitants of Auckland have subscribed £60 to purchase a sword for Captain Robertson. A deputation waited on the gallant officer to apprize him of the circumstance, and found him looking far better than they expected. The jfconey will 1)$ sent to the Secretary of the Admiralty, with a request that he will procure a suitable sword, and present it to Captain Robertson on his arrival in England. The late residents of the Bay of Islands have presented an address to Captain Robertson, thanking him for his gallant exertions on their behalf. It appears to be the opinion at Auckland that the natives will actually attack the town at no distant day. Every preparation seems to have been made to provide the inhabitants with a safe place of refuge, and to secure the town against any sudden attack. In the midst of all these preparations for war, Mr. Chief Protector Clark has stated publicly, in the Police-office, " that every soldier ought to be removed from the country, inasmuch as their presence is only a provocation, while his persuasion is quite capable of lulling into peace any maori discontent." The Times remarks :—: — There is pretty consistency in this argument, when we look back, first to the Tauranga contempt of our troops ; second, to the Mauranghi dispersion of Colonel Godfrey's court and authority ; third, to the present occupation of the land of the Hutt, after half a dozen payments for it ; fourth, to the destruction of the bridge and plunder of the inhabitants at New Plymouth ; fifth, to the robberies at Papakura, at Matakana, and half a hundred other places shamefully hushed up ; sixth, to the violation of the Supreme Court, and the rescue of a convicted thief ; seventh, to the never to be forgotten affair at the Wairau ; eighth, to the destruction of the oldest British settlement in New Zealand ; ninth, and now to the seat of Government in a state of siege and martial law. All these have been the blessed effects of the Exeter Hall Policy, which like Elliots imbecillity in China, would leave us a prey to spurious humanity and a contemptible disobedience of British courage. The papers in the Company's settlements have been charged with using strong language towards the Governor. Our readers shall now see the tone adopted by the Auckland papers. The authors of our present calamities, all the reverses we have suffered, all the evils we now endure, and all the terrors we are obliged to stare in the face, are entirely attributable to three causes : Lord Stanley's obstinate parsimony, Captain Fitzroy's fascination in favour of the Maories, and Exeter Hall and that archhypocrite Clarke ; and, lastly, his Excellency's total disregard of the honour and fame of the British name and flag. — Times, April 15.

Willj the Governor resign ? — We cannot help but echo the query of our southern contemporary, " Will Captain Fitzroy not resign" the office he fills not merely so inadequately, so

rashly, and so incompetently, but so completely dangerous in the minds of all but the three puppets who sit in Council, to be moved with the strings by which he holds on with a tenacity , in strong contrast with the facility with which he let go the ropes of his revenue, after boasting that he was too clever a captain to abandon one rope without full possession of the other ?—? — Auckland Times, April 8. A military enquiry has been made into the recent transactions at the Bay of Islands, but the result has not yet transpired. — Ibid. The reported blockade of the Bay of Islands by the Hazard wad North Star, seems to have been without foundation, as the former was lying at Auckland, and the latter has been engaged in conveying from the neighbourhood of the Bay such settlers as escaped at the time the town was pillaged and destroyed. We may be permitted to remind his Excellency of his pledge of constant employment to the miners and their famUies crimped from New Plymouth some three months since in the Go- . vernmcni brig, when we find by the following extract from an Auckland paper that the esiablishf mentis* entirely broken up, and the greater number of persons belonging to 'it have left Auckland for Sydney. It is clear that it is flot of greater value than the generality of his Excellency's pledges. The following paragraph from the Times of April 1 5, is very discouraging :—: — Among the other signs of the times, the Terror, one of our regular traders, and we believe built in New Zealand, took her departure on Sunday for Sydney. She has in all sixty passengers. Her spirited owner, W. Abercrombie, Esq., departs in her. She calls at the barrier to clear out all the sundry remains of the mining concern, in consequence of Maori intimidation. Thus painfully is the work of years of studious and competent industry overthrown by the effects of ignorant and upstart egotism.