New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 22, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 658, 22 November 1851, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, November 22, 1851.

By the Overland Mail we have received Auckland papers to the 25th ult., from which learn the arrival of the Cashmere at Auckland after a passage of 125 days, with °^ e hundred and three passengers, many of om were for that settlement. Both the e U‘ Zealander and Southern Cross contain, from candidates for office, and “ er signa of thg approaching elections uner the charter of Incorporation recently eire d on the borough of Auckland ; we not observe in them any other subjects ° c al interest.

In the Otago Witness a correspondence is published on the subject of the alleged discovery of gold in that district. With the view of affording our readers all the information received we have reprinted the correspondence, but from the guarded way in which the different parties'speak of the discovery, we fear that no great importance is at present to be attached to it. In the absence of any local news from Lyttelton, we have reprinted from the Lonuon Times a notice of the first number of their Lyttelton namesake, in which the writer in an easy playful vein of persiflage touches on the different topics connected with the new settlement as indicated in that Journal. The Times is very happy in its allusions to the distress of the editor for want of materials for a leading article, but though the “ apple of discord’’ had not then been thrown among the newly arrived settlers, the man with a grievance—“ the friend of humanity”— soon appeared in the person of the Agent of the Association, who has tried hard but with indifferent success to excite and keep alive among the pilgrims the spirit of political agitation, and to persuade “ these victims of despotism” that they are very ill used, and ought to be very unhappy.