AUCKLAND.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 39, 24 March 1863, Page 5 (Supplement)

AUCKLAND.

aye received our files of Auckjjppers to the 7th inst. The ■■4^ g are the principal items of J- T^nanian Maid left for Coro- ■} '■ w ih a number of passengers WT ;nre quantity of goods. The H ■! x J ' the works of the Auckland £^hing Company, and the IVf^^k^ 811^ 3 rom ne present MP^vrorZ has caused some little *»" ot in the Auckland mining *Some shares in No. 5 hare BgJ J hands during the last day or mormo\isly high rates. It is ■ f Ij "Hjtk "V. Buckland, who owns wFL f this claim, and who J^^-^^^^ilie steamer yesterday, a y w ith some three —^^^h' worth of gold to be of the Golden Point liV^^^H^g Oepheus. — DrsBodies. — We VI that one day VrO^^^^^^Bflkeek, two more -r to the 111- - tne beach 1 Bay> The and

no flesh at all upon the face and head, many of the teeth were wanting. A black silk tie was round his neck, but the only clothing on the body were a flannel under-shirt and white cotton or linen shirt, a portion of which latter garment, now in our possession, is marked in ink with the name A. Holga, Or A. Holya, it is difficult to determine which. There were a pair of white cotton socks and light boots, with elastic side upon the feet. Neither name mentioned above appears among the list of the officers belonging to the ship ; it is jus*: possible, however, that the deceased may have been a passenger, or rather visitor, on board, either from Sydney or home. The body was interred by Mr C. Tully and others, on the beach close to where it was found. A day or two afterwards another body, evidently that of a seaman, was picked up near Kakamatua, a short distance from Mr Roe's Saw mills, and was by that gentleman's directions buried alongside the other. At the head of the graves has been placed a cross, with the simple inscription of the particulars of the discovery of the bodies over which it is raised. Gold-bearing Quartz. — Three specimens brought up from Coromandel by the cutter Wanderer, and exhibited in Mr. D. Graham's shop-window in Queen-street, have been much admired. The finest specimen, a dirty rubble-like piece of quartz, cemented together with thick plates of gold, is from Murphy's claim, and is a portion of the broken stone shown to us by Mr. Charles Ring. The two specimens fiom No. 5, Driving Creek, do not show to advantage ; but the gold is fine, and the stone is, to use the term, saturated with it throughout, giving the face of the quartz merely a dirty yellowish green appearance. The Weather, — The severe drought which has burned up our pastures and emptied our wells, is evidently breaking up. A severe gale during the niaht of Friday and the greater part of Saturday was blowing from the north east. Over the whole of the Australian continent it would appear that the breaking up of the drought was followed by the same tempestuous winds as those which we experienced in Auckland on Friday and Saturday last, and that the falling of the wind was followed both in Victoria and New South Wales by a down-pour of rain of from six and thirty to eight and forty hours duratiou. The want of water has been severely felt in the city and suburbs, and but for the Queen-street wells, constructed by the late Provincial Government, great distress must have been experienced by the public for the want of even a sufficiency of water for drinking purposes.