OsimtrxGA, — The correspondent of the Adelaide Observer writes : — '"' Onehunga is the name of the very pretty port of Manu kau. It is built on an undulating piece of ground, and consequently shows to more ad vantage than if placed on a level surface. The houses are nearly all weather-board, painted white, mostly two-storyed, and con sequently contrasting favorably with the monotonous single-storeyed buildings pre vailing in South Austi-afia ; but of course, when the material of the fabric is considered, many persons will be inclined to give a pre ference to the more permanent and substan tial erections of your colony. Onehunga re minded me more of Kapunda than any other place I could think of, only it is more exten sive and much busier. Like Kapunda it boasts a newspaper — the Onehunga Warden. Everywhere evidences of military occupation are visible — a camp on the hill for soldiers' wives ; soldiers in all directions, at least every | fourth man being a man of war ; and the titles of the various offices required by the commissariat shown conspicuously ; the pub lic-house at the corner where the omnibus starts for Auckland as thronged as if there was a regatta or a public festival. A com panion, wishing to write a note, endeavoured to enter a side door, but found the private rooms full. In one there were two or three persons apparently of the class of " Bister Fagid's Boys." Hastily retreating from so uninviting society, we completed the note on the back of a door outside, and presently ob served one of the men come leisurely out by a different door and look around him, as true a "Bill Sykes" as ever lived — broad shoul ders, disagreeable bull neck, heavy head and face, upper lip unusually large, and over hanging a huge chin. These, even without noticing the small feet and hands which had never worked, were features enough to point out the cracksman. He had evidently come out to inspect us, and yet he never turned his face towards .us. Having made his ob servations, he retired as he came. There if? no doubt that at the present moment the felonry of the Australian Colonies is reaching us.
