AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 676, 24 January 1852, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

Propose?) Lunatic Asylum. — The subscribers to this much-needed project of benevolence, and the friends of humanity generally, will be gratified to hear that the building is about to be commenced forthwith. Some delay necessarily occurred, first in collecting the subcriptions so as to enable the Committee to guarantee the amount of £3OO which they had undertaken to provide towards the cost of the work, and then in selecting a site at which a sufficient supply of water would be certain, and in preparing and considering the plans for the erection. During the present week, in consequence of a communication from the Government to the effect that the building would be set about at once if the committee were satisfied as to the site, a considerable number of the members personally inspected the locality of the Hospital Grounds, at which water had been bored for and found in abundance, and agreed to signify their approbation of the choice. We anticipate therefore that those who feel interested in the object will almost immediately see the work in actual progress.— New Zealander, December 20. Launch.—The new steam vessel which has been for some lime building in Freeman’s Bay, was launched privately on Wednesday evening, the 24th instant. - She is a sound and sightly craft of the following dimensions:—Length of keel, 49 feet; length over all, 60 feet; breadth of beam, 13 feet <5 inches; depth of hold, 6 feet; burthen, 43 tons, old measurement. Draft of water, with engines and fuel, 2 feet 6 inches. She will be brought round on Monday next to Commercial Bay, to receive her boilers, and in about a week, of which due notice will be given, she will proceed to the Wynyard Pier, in Official Bay, when she will receive her name, and at once make a start on her experimental trip.— Southern Cross, December 27.