AUCKLAND.

Wellington Independent, Volume XV, Issue 1403, 3 February 1860, Page 3

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By the White Swan, we have intelligence from Auckland to the 24th inst. We hear that his Excellency the Governor had returned on the 16th inst •>— On leaving the ship the Niger maimed her yards» and fired a salute of 17 guns, and a similar salute was fired from the Buttery at Point Britomart on his Excellency s landing at the Wynyard Pier, where a guard of honor under the command of Capt. Paul war. in readiness on the occasion. H.M.S. Iris had also arrived. Since the re turn of his Excellency and the arrival of the Ships of War the usual gaieties had commenced, and invitations had already been issued for parties at Government House and on board the Iris and Niijcr. H.M.S. Elk was also shortly expected to call on her' way to England* The weather has beien extremely hot, audtha want of water severely felt. The Duouoht.— It became necessary, in consequence of the continued dry weather, to warn the townspeople to be mura than usually citrefu,* about fire. Were a fire to break out at presents in the city, water for the engines, in some p;|ru would be obtained with difficulty ; in others ho at all. _ The wells are failing one after another, 1 and it is said that the water at Hobson's bridge

V his not been sO low as it is now, foreleren year? t past. Bush fires up thecquntry are continuous* , the ash of a tobacco pipe beinjr sufficient to snfc ; all in a blnf. What?th e . stock keepers are tn , do for feed, unless rain should fall, we know . not, neither dp they. We are told the military" t had to purchase water for the. use of the har- [ riicks, and that it was even proposed to encamp the men on the borders of the ktfce on the ri-r!,t , side o^ the Tama/ci road. — Southern CW, January 10. . , . . . r Tha. Weathbb -During- the late almost , ;?venHke Hot. w : eatihaf-the effects of which ori , health Was very' severe, as many know to 'their , cost qs to their head, eyes, and throat— there was no shade except under the fetf shop wanders erected by a few sensible folks; Then 1 what a- relief would be a well-filled street pump, with us stone cistern and iron cups, have been to the parched wayfarers. The Queen, street wharf has been nightly crowded with thousands of people anxioua: for a. little -fresh air beford hey went to bed ; .«nd they bad the full advance of the whole length of the Wharf as the Intake, once the hot-weather butfn'ear of •he opposers of improvements was nearly as! sweet as a medow. " r - f H. M. Steamship 'Niger, 13 gun*, £W,in Cracoft, amved in harbour, on Monday a 2 p.m., from her Southern cruise with his Exceli leucy the Governor and suite. We formerly raent.oned. that this fine corvette, after viaitinJ Nelson, proceeded to Pioton, tbe capital- of fe new Province of ftffarlboronjrh. From thence .she look her departure, at'noon o?7he 14th Deceniher nrooeedtaff t« sea by the Tory Cuiho 2 1 hll "I Whflr ? She rfiinaine^ «ntil the 21th. when she took her departure for Lytelton where she arrived on tl^an! ?S S-mt in I anCh ° r< Left L y» elt "« <"» the wiT^rUTStJK? lhe /^. •"* Poverty B.y at 4am o ' Z m£ T^ '} G-ycinor ami his pa% landing wi"Cnv seamen manning yards.) which was tagJaibJ ma i)lt »c Mth rejr im3l , t W i t i, ban( | , she may be expected to arrive about the end of week V. °7-V i^ I ""''^' of the ensuing The w CVwm, of the lOih inst., in re' marking, upon the nim.mr published it the fZ afn*,« t* the etfect that' the General A ss f™." bly would not meet in Wellington;- says i" We were much . snrprised when we read this f eP l Zt sure thatif .nob had been the case! the inl S lion would not have been withheld LJZ Nor shoald wo have noticed it \mthv the fact'of the nimour from source derived, having obtained very general credence. It suffice "If say that there is no foundation for it JIS r The ship Jura, fr m London, arrived at Auclr. land on the sth January, wiU, 87 pawiiiew all WoM Neilher births nordeaths oLurred o« board during 1 the voyajre. The ship Nimrod*trom London, arrived at Auckland On the 17th instant, with 50 passed 7 V s "tl^7' 1 23 West longitude.fi melatioholy accident occurred, Mr Duncan Jih! MoNoil, a cabin passenger, hayi nf? been knocked overboard by one of the staysail sheets it is supposed. The alarm was p»ftp Ig^n , w he man at the wheel the life buoy thrown over, h is lifp 1 ?T a an<l * V6ry eff^^^ to save clad and after a long and diluent search, the bout returned and the ship, which had beeu hove to, resumed her course U