Extract from a Private Letter from Port Nicholson.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume I, Issue 23, 23 September 1843, Page 2

Extract from a Private Letter from Port Nicholson.

If the^Tyne" had reached this place before t*. " Mary," the news she had on board, would hi'^ broken up this place, viz. : — that the Government acy the New Zealand Company were at open war, indefcj'j: all intercourse and correspondence had ceased ; tif the news of Captain Hobson's death had arrived days before the " Mary" left, and that removed ok obstacle out of the way. A secret Committee of ttfii principal parties connected with the Company, "si formed, and their negotiations opened up again. T|| Company had offered to pay ,£ J loo,ooo, the amount^ debta contracted by the New Zealand Government, Eg conditions that, if not the Governor, yet a Lieuteiu|p Governor should be established here, which it is »>'■« will be acceeded to. (This intelligence yon may eoif| manicate as fact?.) A vessel called the " Ursul«P was to leave Gravesend on the lOth May positive.; when the result of their negotiations with Governntfi j will be ascertained by which the new Governor • j probably come out. The Maories are quiet, * i peaceably disposed as usual ; they will not act on offensive at all ; but on the defensive, in the c*< of their chiefs being attacked. Rauparaha says, I not wish to fight with the Pakeha's, if they wish fight with me, let them send word, and I will "" j them. %