AUCKLAND.

Evening Post, Issue 56, 13 April 1865, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

Auckland flies, received by the Airedale, state, native matters seem in a very unsettled state. The Weekly News says, accounts from the East Coast are most threatening ; indeed, about as bad as can be. At Tauranga, the natives whom our misguided clemency left in possession of their lands, are in all but open hostility to our troops and military settlers. Further down the coast, Pai Marireism is full master of the situation. Bishop Williams, and indeed all the Europeans in the district are leaving, or have left, glad to escape safe in body. The rumour that an attack was in contemplation upon che settlements at Coromandel by a party of fanatics now at Kennedy's Bay caused a great deal of alarm in Auckland on Wednesday last, and although late intelligence gave a more harmless aspect to the thing there is still enough left of truth iv the report to cause considerable uneasiness in the mind of the public for the results of the attempts sure to be made to convert the natives of the Coromandel Peninsula to the new religion. So successful have these attempts been elsewhere, that it is not too much to say that in no single district where Paj Marireism has been preached has there been any lack of support fonnd for it, even amongst those whom we should have imr. gined least open to its influences."