AUCKLAND.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 81, 23 August 1873, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

[from a correspondent.]

August 15. The master of the Dido has just told me that he is about to visit your port direct, so I take the opportunity to send you a few lines. The news has just arrived that the new tariff has been passed, fixing the ad valorem duties at 10 per cent., aud remitting duties on certain articles required in local manufactures. There is a rumor from Wellington of an intended movement to separate the North Island from the Middle Island, fixing capitals at Auckland and Dunedin, respectively. Of course the Wellington people would not like the idea. I do not see a chance of having the telegraph to Gisborne for some time. Mr. Archard (who has already taken sevaral contracts for telegraph work in different places) told me lately that it was his intention to shortly visit Gisborne, with the idea of looking at the style of country through which the line would pass, and the best places at which he would land the poles, in ease he had to send them from Auckland. He will tender, but I think th»t nothing can be done until Mr. Floyd has finished his present work. The Superintendeney matter is slowly progressing. Mr. Lusk is away on an election four in the North. Mr. Dargaville is daily addressing meetings in the suburbs, and Messrs. Williamson and J. S. Macfarlane are at Wellington.

I see by the Gazette that the wharfage on horses and cattle at Gisborne is raised to 2b 6d per head. 16th.

I send you the Star, with a report of Dargaville’s speech at Newton. This paper reports very fully and well, so you can make an estimate of his policy. The Comerang is due here to-day, and I suppose will be laid up for a short time, as tenders are out for repairs to her boilers and machinery.