New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, December 13, 1851.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 664, 13 December 1851, Page 3

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK’S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Saturday, December 13, 1851.

The Auckland papers received by the Cashmere do not contain much local intelligence. We reported in a former number the result of the Municipal elections. On the 22nd ult. the Mayor and Corporation were sworn in with all due consideration to their new digties, the customary oaths having been administered by the Chief Justice in the presence of his Excellency the Lieutenant Governor. Mr. Clark has been chosen Mayor, and Messrs. Dignan, O'Neill, Powditch and Mason have been elected Aidermen. The New Zealander, to shew the general interest felt by the electors for the introduction of the Charter, remarks that out of fourteen hundred and forty-eight registered voters, upwards of one thousand voted at the election.

Considerable dissatisfaction appears to have been caused at Auckland by th pcourse pursued in the management of the branch of the Union Bank of Australia there, a sudden stop, according to tie Southern Cross, having been put to all discounts without reference to responsibility and without the slightest warning; even the drafts of one of the most wealthy Missionary Societies having been thrown out. Both journals agree in condemning this conduct, which, while it is injurious to the interests of the Bank, is productive in many instances of serious difficulties to its customers and, referring to the profitable business which for years past the Bank has carried on, recommend as a protection to the commercial interests from the caprice of a selfish monopoly the establishment of another Bank. The Southern Cross continues its publication of letters by Metoikos; like, the Irishman at Donnybrook fair, he complains he is “ blue moulded for want of a bating no one will take notice of what he says, argal he is unanswerable. His overweenin°self conceit prevents, him from drawing! correct inference from the contemptuous silence with which his productions are received ; they are not noticed simply because they are not read, and his pedantic malice is allowed to pass withour remark or comment “like a tale Told by an idot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.”