New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, October 4, 1848.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 332, 4 October 1848, Page 2

New Zealand Spectator, AND COOK'S STRAIT GUARDIAN. Wednesday, October 4, 1848.

By the Sisters we have received Auckland papers to the 20th September, extracts from which will be found in another part of this Journal. The Clara had arrived at Auckland on the 16th Sept. having sailed from England on the 10th May. The Auckland journals do not contain any local news of importance. Our contemporaries appear to be sadly distressed for want of something to complain about, the land question to be sure with them is always a standing grievance ; and the expected changes to be made in the Government of New Zealand, on the Governor-in-chief's return to Auckland, help to provoke discussion. The New Zealander deprecates the idea of a Corporation for Auckland, and can detect " but difficulty and distress" in its establishment ; our contemporary is querulously censorious on the impatience "of the people of the South in screaming for their paper constitution !" The Acheron had not arrived at Auckland previous to -the departure of the Sisters.

A meeting of some of the' friends of the late Colonel Wakefield was held at the Aurora Tavern on Saturday last, the 30th September, for the purpose of making arrangements for collecting subscriptions to erect a monument to his memory. The chair was taken by the Hon. H. Petre,, and several

resolutions were passed for the furtherance of the objects of the meeting. The subscriptions were limited to one guinea, and Major Baker was requested to act as Secretary, and to communicate with the other settlements inviting their co-opeiation. It was also proposed to collect further subscriptions' towards the _' erection of a monument in the Nelson settlement, to the memory of the sufferers in the Wairau Massacre.

Last Saturday sennight a flock of ewes belonging to Mr. Crawford, depasturing at Cape Terrawitte, were attacked by native dogs and thirty-one of them destroyed on the spot, and several have since died from the effects of the bites and worrying they received. The ewes were just on the eve of lambing, the remainder of the flock having lambed two or three days afterwards, so that the loss is doubly severe. The owners of sheep stations are continually exposed to severe losses by the depredations, of Maori dogs, of which there are always a number at each pa belonging to no particular owner, and unless some steps be taken to abate th c nuisance, it will operate as a severe drawback on the profits of sheep farming. The Dog Ordinance applies only to dogs kept by Europeans, and does not extend to native dogs.

Wellington, October 1, 1848. Spirits and Tobacco under bond this day : Brandy 8106ga13. Rum 13,842 „ Gin 2230 „ Liqueurs 16 „ Whisky 78 „ Tobacco, manufactured 37,636 lbs. „ unmanufactured 2638 „ „ Cigars 1042 „

Quantitt of rain fallen in the month of September, 1848 — 3in.