THE AUCKLAND MAIL

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1738, 8 July 1862, Page 3

THE AUCKLAND MAIL

We call the attention of Mr. Ward to the neglect of the Postmaster at Nelson in not forwarding on the mail per Queen from Auckland, by the Airedale. We have so often had to complain of the delay which maiis from everywhere frequently experience at Nelson, that we almost fear there is somethi;ig radically wrong in the system pursued in that office. The annoyance is all the greater just now, because of the presence of so many members and others from Auckland, who are not only anxious to receive letters, but equally so to. answer them by the iuail that goes out to-day. As the Harrier left Auckland the day before the Queen, there may have been no mail sent by the latter, but we can scarcely believe that such is the case. We extract the following from the Nelson Examiner of Saturday last : The news from Auckland, received yesterday, is highly important, Sir George Grey had succeeded in persuading the late combatants at Kai- | para to submit their land differences to arbitration, and ho haa thua restored peace to the Ngapuhi tribes. His Excellency had likewise succeeded in arranging with the native owners of the land at Corotnandel to allow it to be prospected and worked for gold, and the district has been proclaimed a gold-field. The Auckland press is very sanguine as to the success of these diggings, which they prognosticate will prove the richest in the world. We will gis'e extracts in our next. VSe learn from an Auckland correspondent, that Sir G. Grey left for Wellington by H.M.S Harrier on the afternoon of Tuesday, the Ist instant. He has purchased the island of Kawau, and another adjacent. And it is reported , probably on the strength of theso purchases, that fee intends to settle in the Province of Auckland when relieved of office. The Raglan road is to be carried on in spite of the king party. Mr. Rogan returned thence a fortnight back, being unable to cany on his operations. Captain Macgregor, late of the 65tli | Regiment, is appointed Resident Magistrate in Lower Waikato, in .the place of Mr. Annitage, j who resigned some time back. Captain Macgregor is also to carry on the Raglan road. This may result in anything from war downwards:.

Coromandel (including Paul's . land) is opene nd ihe diggers are flocking in steadily. The quartz crushing will probably pay. but at present the alluvial diggings are not to be relied on, although as our correspondent says, ' if Coromandel could have been written into «, gold-field what a ich one we should have there !"