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Auckland.” 1 This report, urging most emphatically the esta- 
blishing of mines, was delivered by Commodore Wullerstorf to 
His Excellency, the Governor of New Zealand, Colonel 77/. Gore 
Brown , while our frigate was yet at anchor in the harbour of 
Auckland; — it called forth further proceedings and negotiations. 
In a country , as yet perfectly unknown in a geological point 
of view , in the various parts of which various mineral treasures, 
such as gold, copper, iron, coal, promised most essentially to raise 
the natural resources of the young and fast-rising colony, the ne- 
cessity of a more extensive geological exploration seemed so press- 
ing; it appeared to be so much the universal wish of the colonists, 
that the opportunity for carrying such an exploration into effect, 
now offered by the presence of a geologist, should be eagerly em- 
braced: — that the Government of New Zealand applied to the 
Commodore with the request , that he would consent to a longer stay 
in New Zealand of the geologist of the expedition , for the purpose 
of making geological surveys in that country, but especially in the 
province of Auckland. 
Commodore von Wullerstorf, on reflecting that during the rest 
of the voyage no more such unexplored countries would be touched, 
was quite inclined to comply with the request, provided I could 
make up my mind to remain behind alone. Indeed , lie was the 
more willing from the conviction, that the geological exploration 
of a country so little known as New Zealand, would lead to re- 
sults, which through all generations to come would secure, even 
at the Antipodes, a lasting memento to the Novara Expedition, 
which had first been projected by His Imperial Highness, the Arch- 
duke Ferdinand Max, and which , in consequence of being sanc- 
tioned by His Majesty, the Emperor, has proved so important 
to Austria. 
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1 Report of a Geological Exploration of the Coalfield in the Drury and Hunua 
Districts, in the Province of Auckland (N. Z.) by Dr. F. Hochstetter, Geologist on 
hoard the Austrian frigate Novara. It appeared first on January 14. 1858 in the 
“New Zealand Government Gazette,” and in a supplement to the “New Zealander;” 
afterwards in several other New Zealand papers. 
SPWHVNQU.** 
