AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, September 1.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 861, 2 November 1853, Page 3

AUCKLAND. [From the New Zealander, September I.]

The weather for more than a week has been more rough and boisterous than we usually experience here, even at the seasons when Equinoctial gales are expe'cMd to prevail. Strong winds, with bitter showers, TiaVe blown, chiefly from the South-west, coming frequently in violent gusts which have exiited not only some apprehension of disasters on the coabt, b»t current reports of one or more wrecks,

I which, however, v-e are happy to say, we have not been able to trace to any »v hor it y beyond mere rumtmr. The mu?t serious inccn* venience arises from the detention in the harbour of vessels, with full rsugoe*, Wieh hnve for several (lavs been quite ready to go to sea, had the weather permitted. The Galatea and Heather Bell bound to Sydney, and the Eugenk for Melbourne, are thas delayed.We mast probably also attribute to the tempestuous state of the weaiher the non arrival of the barque Delmar^ which sailed from Sydney on the *27th August, and the delay of which is more especially to b6 regretted, as the Delmar — having sailed a day before the Marmora, and three days before the Moa — has the mail for Auckland on board. As respects public news, we have, so far as our own journal is concerned, been prevented from feeling this delay as much as we otherwise might, the kindness of friends having supplied us with a complete file of Sydney papers to the 30th of August ; but the non-arrival of commercial and private correspondence is setiously inconvenient. Agricultural operations have neccess rilybeen .retarded by the severity of the weather; but this is of the less importance now, as the continuance of beautifully fine and favourab'e weather for some time previously had afforded our farmers an opportunity which, throughout the Auckland district, they energetically turned to account. Particular attention has been fie-, voted to the potato tillage, which now occupies a breadth of ground far beyond the precedent of any former year.