SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 23, 10 January 1844, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

By our late arrivals we are ii po session of the back numbers of the Southern Australian and Adelaide Observer, to the latter end of November. By the papers we perceive that matters assume a much more healthy appearance than they have done of late, but at the same time we cannot help expressing our surprise and regret, that any proprietor of a respectable journal would so forget his duty to the public, and the injury such statements as the following mi<>ht inflict on the Colony of New Zealand, and our friends at home. Tn the Southern Ausrralian of Nov. 7, we find the following :•-- " New Zealand.—On the authority of letters from Hobarton, it is said that the natives of New Zealand had risen infcebelliou, and had shot (be Governor (Mr. Shortlsfc. we presume), and many »t the piincipal inhabitants. Every vessel that ronld be pot was taken by the Government at Hobarton, to convey troops." We have read many paragraphs in our contemporaries of the sister colonies, but the above is a base fabrication, as we are happy to say that there has existed the best possible understanding between Natives and Europeans in this part of New Zealand, and we hope it may long continue, which it is likely to-do whilst we have such a man as our present Governor ; but we are sorry to say that the Southern Australian is not the only paper that has been imposed on, as m the Adelaide Observer of Nov. 4tl» we find the following : " Our own papers from New Zealand are to the 13rd September ; bnt Mr, Stocks is iu rece ; pi of » letter from Hobart Town, dated October 14, which inform* him that letters from New Zealand had reached Hobart Town reporting another massacre of Europeans by the n tiv»s. 'J he writer adds : It seems the Governor and Chief Police Magistrate are among the victims. The Emerald Isle, which arrived only \esteiday with prisoners from Emiland, will bt- de>patched with troops to New Zealand to nigh;.'' We repeat that this may have caused alarm to the friends of the Colony in England and elsewhere, but our contemporaries have been grossly misinformed.