AUCKLAND.

Taranaki Herald, Volume II, Issue 66, 2 November 1853, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

By the Auckland Ore-land mail we learn thtf arrival of the Comodore from Sidney. A large number of British journals brought by the Stratford and Shanghai reached Auckland by this vessel, there is, however, very little mwsof later date than , that furnished by the " Joseph Fletcher/' and we are compelled by want of space to postpone our exirac s until next week. We give from the southern Cross of the 14th ultimo, Australian news from the Sydney Empire of the 26th of Sept. Our Auckland contemporaries contain nothing of importance but we learn from private bourses that ihe Government Brig ai riven at' Auckland un Sunday the 16th. uliimoj bringing Sir Geoig.-j and Lady Guy, and Miite. The Fotutoe crops are amd to be extent siTely damaged by the Idle ra:ni; mutih O{ tlu 1 seed having been rotted in the ground. The" quantity planted, is described as mormons. Potatoes were, lit the date of our

eiler, seilingt n (lie ground at from £\ 10s. o £5. per ton. The following extract relates to the timber marked in Australia, from the Southern Cross of the 14th ultimo.

Timber, one of New Zealand's staple commodities, has (as wai anticipated) fallen very materially in price. Thf Pi ices Current, are guarded in (heir quotations ; and in its commentary the Empire merely says, that ■ the commodity is unsaleable l'rom private channels, we are informed that the price at which purchases can be made, is from iGs to 17s. per hundred teet, and that, with no immediate probability ol an advance.