Dear Sir, The ship "Stateley" arrived here yesterday with 1 passenger. Mr. B. White, our old settler, and goods for this place which should be called neutral ground. She brings news of the wreck of a French frigate, northward of Hokianga and the loss of 14 lives, the rest of the ships company being in Auckland waiting an opportunity to return to their country - this is all I have heard relative to an accident everyone must deplore and is supposed to be the cause of a special arrival this afternoon of an Auckland native Policeman named Penebsmene with despatches for the Governor in Chief - to be taken on tomorrow morning by T. Heale, whose orders are to proceed to Wellington. White tells me that 14 passengers who left England for this settlement were induced to stay at Auckland in consequence of the following serious array of potent reasons - no harbour -