AUCKLAND. [From the Southern Cross, July 16.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume VIII, Issue 731, 4 August 1852, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the Southern Cross, July 16.]

The long looked for, and almost despaired of, Gwdior, has at length arrived ; having come into port yesterday morning, after an almost unexampled passage of 186 days. It was particularly gratifying to behold the deep interest evinced' on Saturday last as the intelligence passed from lip to lip that the long missing vessel was safe. The agreeable tidings were, that morning, conveyed to Auckland by the coasting schooner ' Children, which spoke the barque some considerable 'distance off. the land ; supplying her with nine gallons of water, and bringing on a portion of her mail, as well as several of her wasted and waveweary passengers. Why a staunch and good looking (dirt excepted) vessel of some 3 or 400 tons should have taken eight and forty hours longer than a schooner of 30 tons in performance of the selfsame passage, is a puzzle which our nautical knowledge is altogether insufficient to evolve. It would be both imprudent and premature to offer any observations respecting the numberless rumours current, and the extraordinary reasons assigned for the tedious passage of the ship. Suffice it, for the present, that upon the arrival s of the passengers by the Children, a notarial declaration was made that the ship was destitute both of water and provisions, (although she had touched at the Cape, and sailed from thence only on the 24th of March,) upon which declaration her Majesty's surveying bngantine •' Pandora," Capt, Drury, proceeded to her relief forthwith, and having, no doubt, missed her on Saturday night, is still absent in search. ResidentMagistkate's Court. — Yesterday the crew of the Gwalior applied at the Court for their discharge, which they stated had been promised them by the captain. Mr. Whitaker, who appeared for the agents Messrs. Bain and Burtt, applied to have them sent on board to their duty. The men said they had been ordered on shore by the mate (and one of the crew produced a note to that effect), stating that they had incurred some expense, expecting to be discharged. ' The agents promised to pay any charge they had incurred for board if they went on board and discharged the ship. The men said they were willing •to discharge the ship, but not to go to sea with the Captain, as they considered their lives in danger. He (the captain) had threatened to stab the mate with a carving knife ; and during the passage out, he had been 17 days in irons, until the surgeon said he was fit to be released ; and that they were nearly starved. The Court said the law provided that Jhey^ should be paid for being short of provisious ; and the ship being now in harbour, if the captain interfered with them in an improper manner, they had- only to apply to that Court, and they would meet with redress. They at length agreed to go on board and discharge the ship, muttering that they "would not go to sea with the captain. The imports of Live Stock and Provisions, for the June quarter, amounted to £8,852 10s. The' principal items being: — flour, £2,651; sugar, £2,309 ; tea, £1,741 ;' and horses, £1,190. The exports, from the port of Auckland; during the same quarter, amounted'to £14,234. The principal items were sperm oil, 75 tuns, £4,500; spars, 233, £2,850; sawn timber, 507,000 feet, £2,214 ; copper ore, 73 tons, £1,775 ; flax and kauri gum, £1,156. - The recent arrival of the Inchinnan, pensioner ship, turns the quarterly scale of immigration in favour of the Colony ; — the totals being, inwards 374;— those enticed outwards to the Australian gold diggings, — in consequence of the unnatural prevention to farm diggings here, — 253. Balance, 121 souls; — preponderance children. " Let the country only be made available -to capital and industry, and in place of reckoning our quarterly immigration returns by tens, we shall assuredly be able to count them by hundreds, — -if not by thousands. i Monday, the 30th of August, has been appointed as the day for the nomination of Candidates, for election to seats in the Provincial Council of New Ulster; and Tuesday the 31st as the day on which polls will be taken. The nomination for the City of Auckland to fake

£1,190.

place at 10 a.m. — for the Suburbs at I p.m., and for the Northern Division at 3 p.m., — all in the Market-Place, Shortland Street.