AUCKLAND.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume I, Issue 12, 28 December 1844, Page 4

AUCKLAND.

We have received files of the Auckland limes to Dec. 10 ; and the Southern Ctoss to Dec. 14, from which we make the following extracts :—: — We publish the criticisms of the Auckland press on our journal. It is unnecessary to say more than that the Southern Cross is now the Government hack, and that the Auckland Times is an opposition paper.

" The " New Zealand Spectator." — The third number of our new contemporary has reached us, the first and- second have not aa yet been received. If we can judge of the future man by his appearance in childhood, our hopes of our contemporary are not very great. We neither know the Editor nor the publisher, but we have not the slightest hesitation in saying that the Spectator is a miserable production, certainly nearly the worst of the New Zealand periodicals, and infinitely behind its predecessor, the Gazette. The Spectator appears to be something like Ishmael, its hand is against every man, and every man's hand will be against it. The Government, the Missionaries, and the northern settlements are alike and at once the objects of its displeasure. Let the Spectator go a-head, it will soon settle its own existence. Laying aside the wildness of its politics, this new paper appears to be conducted without a single particle of talent, tact, or experience. In saying so, we trust the Editor will not accuse us of having apy personal feelings, for we really do not know who he is. Experience may improve him, but we fear he is barren soil whoever he be. And our advice to him is at once to throw away the pen and take to some other occupation. Whaling or ploughing will suit him much better than the guidance of the pen. We shall be glad to speak better of him when he deserves it.— Southern Cross. We have to • acknowledge the reoejpt of the second and third numbers ,-of the new series of the New Zealand Sptctqtor, — the first has not come to hand, being, we suppose, with our Nelson papers (which are also absent without leave,) on- board of the / don't know, >schooner, which left Wellington some days before the Victoria. We are -sorry taat we < have n6t-beettf«ble to set a, copy of the .New Zealand Spectator^ first number, but we like the tone of his two' succeeding ones. We trust we have-nowan* useful coadjutor to * help- us to put 'by. atgii->-meqt, and by ridieuje the' absurd 'Maori' mania Jronv the; policy --of the '.Coloniak 'cabinet. There is *los* argunaentatitei practical reasoning; against the-^tUity of thff:systein4nthe secQwL number : io the.thpd, an < expo.-' MtUfl of^besatoufdity^of *he.| hypothesis upon'

which it was first founded, and Since carried out, upon the absolutely false premises upon which it was first 'built. We propose to rrfake.some quotations next week, when we -hope-.to have our files completed by the arrival of Uhe I don't kncv>. — Auckland 2¥>fie>. 0

The New Zeaeand Company. — Ftfrty thousand pounds of the Company's bills hive found their way back dishonored' to' the Sydney branch of the Union Bank; and Mr. Sea, the Sydney Manager of that concern is now at Wellington, with therpurpose of making arrangements with the Corapany'i principal Agents. Johnny Box having so com* pletely identified the Bank and the Company, it will be no easy task to disentangle • their several affairs. Much distress prevails botH at Wellington and at Nelson, and his Excellency the Governor we fear will find anything but a bed of roses to repose upon when he arrives there. — Ibid.