AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, March 24.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 384, 7 April 1849, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, March 24.]

His Excellency the Governor-in-Chief, the Colonial and Civil Secretaries, the Surveyor General, and Captain Vignoles, returned to town on Wednesday afternoon, from a tour of the Waikato. The parties, both of his Excellency, and Captain Henderson and Dr. Thomson, speak in terms of unqualified admiration of the rich and beautiful country through which they passed : which for fertility and convertibility of soil, they pronounce to be of the finest quality. Her Majesty's Ship Fly, eighteen guns, Commander Oliver, returned to port from the Bay of Islands, yesterday morning. A correspondent, under date the 21st instant, writes as follows :—": — " I have learnt from some of Hekes people, that he and the natives in the interior are in a very excited stats about, the mill which they hear is about to be put up at Owhaiwahai, for Tamati Waka. Heki, lam told, wants to go to Auckland, to see the Governor. There are several tribes in the north in a very unsettled state, quarrelling among themselves. I should not be surprised if they had a brush before long.

California. — T he excitement which for a short period prevailed here, relative to the gold digging, seems to be gradually subsiding, —a proof that the good sense of the people of Auckland is sufficient to keep down the effervescence of sanguine imaginations. It is generally believed that the United States Government has sent an armed force to take possession of the country, and put a stop to the digging ; but report also says, that the troops no sooner got within the influence of the exciting contagion, than they were smitten with the yellow fever themselves, and forgetful alike of the service in which they were engaged, aiid of military discipline, they deserted their colours, threw down their muskets, and seized the pickaxe and spade — preferring to gather gold themselves, than protect it from the grasp of other gatherers. Whether this.be true or not, we may safely conclude that California for a long period to come, will be the resort of the lawless and the violent. The American Government is even comparatively powerless in the remote districts of the recognized States. In many of the settlements of the far west, Lynchlaw is more powerful than statute law, and if such is the slate of things in the ordinarily settled, but remote, districts, of the United States, it is but natural to .suppose that matters will be rather worse than better at California. The Deborah, however, is laid on ; and a few adventurous spirits will, we believe, depart in her to try their fortunes in the region of gold. But we are happy to say that the majority of our townsmen are wise enough to act on the motto, " a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush."