AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, Feb. 3.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 371, 21 February 1849, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, Feb. 3.]

His Excellency, as most of our readers are aware, has manifested a great deal of anxiety to warn the Natives of the fearful chai acter of small-pox, and to guard them against that loathly disease; a history of the disorder, its origin, consequences, and prevention having, at his desire, been drawn up by Dr. Thomson of the 58th regiment, published in the Maori Messenger, and reprinted in a pamphlet, intended to be widely circulated. To induce vaccination, the Governor was inoculated by Dr. Davies, on Wednesday, in presence of Te Whero "Whero, and several other chiefs. We trust sincerely that the lymph may have been sufficiently active, and that the example thus set may lead our Maori fellow-subjects to have recourse to so simple an antidote against a scourge whose ravages, if unhappily introduced, it would be deplorable to contemplate. Several Natives from Tonga, and other islands of the Southern Ocean, have, we are informed, been invited to visit Auckland by the Missionary brig John Wesley, in order that they themselves may be vaccinated, and acquire instruction in the art, and be furnished with the materials for vaccinating their fellow-countrymen.

Wellington Subscription. —Mr. Heale, the chairman of the meeting at which this money was subscribed, having arrived in town during the week, the several sums will be refunded on application at the office of Mr. W. S. Grahame, on Monday and Tuesday next, between the hours of nine and eleven o'clock. Likewise by Messrs. Rout and Salmon —that is to say, by those to whom subscribers paid their- contributions. I

[From the Southern Crort, Jan. 27/J Nativk Church. — The,-picturesque building in the Elizabethan style, whiph graces the promontory beyond Mechanics' Bay, was opened last Sunday for Divine Service, and is intended, we hear, for the joint benefit of Natives and Europeans, service being proposed to be conducted in Maori in the morning, and in English in the evening. The Church was erected, we believe, by subscription, and is mainly the result of the indefatigable exertions of the Rev. G. A. Kissling, who has been unremitting in his labours in promotion of the undertaking. The building is equally creditable to the architect, to the philanthropic individuals who projected it, and to the benevolent subscribers who lent their aid towards its erection.