AUCKLAND.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 66, 31 October 1864, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

Hv- the stoamei's Otago and Wellington tto have files from Auckland to tlio 19tli. TllG following Froclamation calling the Assembly together at Auckland, and not at Wellington, as supposed : — A. PROCLAMATION. By His Excellency Sir Greorgc Grey, Knight Commander of the Most Honorable Order of the Bath, Governor and Com-mander-in-Chief in aud over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c., &c. In the pursuance of the power and authority ve3ted hi me by virtue of an Act of the Imperial Parliament, passed in the session holden in tho fifteenth and sixteenth years of the reign of her Majesty Queen Victoria, intituled "An Act to grant a Representative Constitution to the Colony of New Zealand," I do hereby summon and call together the General Assembly of New Zealand twenty-first day of Norember next, at two of fcho clock in the afternoon, at the city of Auckland ; and you and each of you, the Honorable Legislative Councillors, and the Members elected to serve in the House of Representatives, are hereby enjoined to give your attendance at the said time and pace accordingly. Given under my hand, at tho Government House, at Auckland, and issued under tho seal of the Colony of New Zealand, this eighteenth day of October, in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-four. G. Gjiey. By his Excellency's command, William Fox. God save the Queen ! The Southern Cross in reference to this proclamation has the following: —"The General Assembly ia to meet in Auckland on the 21st of next month. This was the decision come to yesterday ; and the usual proclamation in a New Zealand. Gazette was published in the course of the afternoon. His Excellency persisted in his refusal to leave Auckland if the Assembly was held elsewhere, and therefore the alternative of having the meeting here, or not at all, was accepted by Ministers. The point in dispute having been finally settled, it remains to be seen how the objects for which the Assembly has been called will be effected. The time, it will be perceived, has been extended from the 15th to the 21st of November, which is little enough to enable members in the more southern provinces to prepare for their departure. The distance they have had to travel has always been a sore point -with them, and doubtless will be so again. But we would remind the Southern members that it is not on Auckland that they should expend their wrath this time, nor upon the Ministry —His Excellency the Governor being the ruler of their destinies in this instance. Hi 3 Excellency has said it —that he will not go to them, and that they must come to him —and we can well imagine the consequences. Southern members will not be in the best possible humor while ' suffering a recovery' from seasickness, or deploring their pecuniary loss in being dragged away from their businesses, to discuss the grave question which is to be submitted to them. His Excellency, his Ministers, and the Auckianders generally, will come in for a share of refined abuse, and probably nearly all but His Excellency, who cannot bear to leave the vicinity of his beloved Eawau, will wish that tho Asserubly met anywhere but here. We hope that our anticipations may not be realised; and, if so, we may not have to regret that the Assembly met in Auckland." M'Lean, tho murderer, was to be executed on tho 21st inst. The Governor, in reply to the memorial praying for a commutation of sentence, found no grounds for exercising his prerogative. Thomas Fawcett has been (after doing penance in Sydney jail for robbery) brought on to Auckland to answer a charge of uttering a forged cheque for £4-7 135., in May last. Mr. Blandford, the successful tenderer for the construction of the Auckland and Drury railway, having failed to find the necessary securities, the tender of Messrs. Higgins and Bioomiield, of Melbourne, has been accepted instead. Their tender amounts to £10,000 or £15,000 more than that of Mr. Blandford. Five rebels of the Ngatimakmo tribe have surrendered themselves at Maketu. They had no arms. W. Thompson, on the Upper Thames, has warned Mr. Heale, the surveyor, and his companions, not to go to Tawhitinui, or they would be killed. So much for this li white scarf! " o ■