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Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 2, Issue 70, 5 December 1844, Page 2

On Friday evening last U.MJSf. Bk&mdL returned from Port NidioHsoa, H©l|sj©ia % and Taranaki, after a quick passagOij, ha\ ing run from the latter settlement in little more than four days, bringing Hi% Excellency the Governor and his Private Secretary. We are most happy to hear that our friends to the Southward are still persevering in Agricultural pursuits; th© fisheries ; the preparation and manufacture, of New Zealand Flax; the result of which is likely to turn out to their own pecuni* ary advantage and highly beneficial to the colony. His Excellency has been little more than five weeks absent, during which time we believe he has made satisfactory arrangements with the natives who hav« given up certain portions of land which was in dispute between them and the Eu ropean settlers. We are glad of this ai it will euable our industrious fellow colonists to persevere in their pursuits, hoping the uatives will not again disturb them.

The papers from the Southward speak boldly regarding the flexibility of the Lo cal Government towards the natives, and a memorial from the settler? of tbe H«tt to His Excellency, signed by H$ of tdae settlers, winds *p by say ms i~*~ "They are suflering under hardships unparalleled by those of ao\ other of ,her Majesty's subjects, and unexampled in the Mstory off mdterw tibae*. Tlbey caaMwwtggefc!

panv, who are authorised by ibe Governrn.ant»;; they cannot purchase from the C own,.for it: has none to sell in the settle.menfc; tfeey, are prohibited fion>-, buying natives alone ; if Uiey rent lands, from their chiefs,,the iiovernment |dMbn,ft% to protect them in,t^ojr r lawful |b^fgpnfeqr ; '\}\>i\^ r ajthough Ithjsy aj-o>said ,to liwe. qqdier.■<,hft.jjtf*t njl4l p r roj:gctin.g ? lawsof their j|q>vieri taken from thftm, qjf poiiftr.tiy'. ill. the sqiJuva^4i^v#iht|iJ6bt^ni r . yp!Msf q<m&&mi oft itt lives, dndangered by tfteo qa^fl?eflrary t