AUCKLAND.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume III, 5 October 1844, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

We have received the Southern Cross to the 7th, the Times to the 10th, and the Chronicle to the 12th of September.

The Southern Cross, which the other day we were surprised to find had tacked round to the coercion view of the question of Maori treatment, has got upon the old concession tack again. " Sir, she can turn, and turn, and still go on" says Othello. The paper contains also a furious attack upon those present at Wairau, which their friends, we think, and their cause too by this time, both here and in England, can afford to despise. The cause of all this is perhaps rightly explained in the following paragraph from the Auckland Chronicle : —

" We hear that S. M. D. Martin, Esq., editor and proprietor of the Southern Crou, is in treaty' with ' the powers that be ' for a situation, that of C. P. M. at Akaroa. We shall not be surprised to find that our informant is correct, as there has been a good deal of ' soft sawdor ' in the Crou of late, and we have no doubt be will eagerly accept any appointment that will pay him better than continuing to print a newspaper in Auckland."

The editor of the Auckland Times is still as hearty and independent as before he sold liis mangle. From an article full of good sense on the Russell affair, we extract the following remark : — " The money that has been lavished upon bandying troops backwards and forwards, to be laughed at, would have supported an entire regiment in New Zealand ever since the foundation of the colony.