AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, March 1.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 277, 25 March 1848, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, March I.]

The impressions of a stranger landing for the first time in Auckland are certainly calculated to be any thing but favourable. This arises not from any forbidding character in the town itself, when once fairly entered, as then the general emotions are those rather of pleasure and surprise ; but is solely imputable to the wretched state in which the most public approach to it is suffered to continue. We allude of course to Fort Street. This bustling thoroughfare, that from its great commercal value ought to be the bestkept quarter of the town, is in point of fact among the very worst. To call this dilapidated embankment a " street," is almost a misnomer. We trust that the Superintendent of Public Works, who seems indeed to be striving to do his best with his limited means, will look to this portion of the town at once, and make Fort Street something like what it ought to be. The substantial warehouses and other durable erections going on ihere, demand at least so much, to say nothing of the desirableness of presenting a favourable landingplace to the first view of visitors.