With News From Australia.

There were in the early sixties during the years of the Maori War what were then considered some noted vessels trading from Australia to Auckland, such as the Claud Hamilton, the Auckland, the Otago, and the Prince Alfred, a craft of 700 tons, the last-mentioned being very little bigger than the Northern Company's steamer Clansman. These steamers were subsidised for a few years to bring over from Sydney the English mails, and return with the outward mail and passengers to connect with the steamers leaving Australia for England. The Phoebe, in command of Captain Worsp, who in later years settled with his family in Auckland, also traded between Sydney and Auckland in 1864. These steamers were engaged in bringing over from Australia troops and provisions. Auckland being the first port of call, the young town was for three or four years more regularly supplied with mails and news from the outside world, but when the war in the Waikato ceased, we had again to rely mainly upon sailing vessels for Australian papers, which from time to time would contain summaries of English, Continental and American news brought to Albany, and sent on the wire to Melbourne and Sydney.