The Evening Post. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1865. ARRIVAL OF THE LADY BIRD FROM AUCKLAND.

Evening Post, Issue 86, 19 May 1865, Page 2

The Evening Post. FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1865. ARRIVAL OF THE LADY BIRD FROM AUCKLAND.

We have received our files from the North ; dates to the 13th. There is no news of any importance, Trade reported dull, owing to the heavy rama which lasted for a week. Flour has fallen slightly ; coals unaltered in price, although numbers of colliers had arrived from Newcastle. We ar« under the necessity of cautioning the Government and the people of Hawke's Bay against the danger of permitting the present state of quietness, into which the rebel fanatics have subsided, to dull the province into a state of false security, as though no harm is meditated or intended by them to the European population, the truth being that they have found they were too fast in the murder of poor Mr. Volkner, having done this deed before they hai secured the full support of the Maoris along the coast. They coon found that the great body of natives were not prepared to go to the leugths required by them, and from motives of policy are working more secretly. Nevertheless, their intentions are still unaltered— their preparations are still going on— and they are probably making all the progress they expect or desire, and will show themselves as they are as soon as they can do so with safety. — Hawke's Bay Times. No intelligence of the whereabouts of Mr. T. A. White, R.M., has yet been obtained. The Esk, in her search for him and for the missing Kate Williams, had called in at Poverty Bay. Cwptain Read is of opinion, ¦with some others, that the vessel is lost at sea, and that Mr. White perished in her ; but vre must add that the assumption is by no mean's certain in either of its parts. It has not yet been proved that Mr. White was on board the Kate Williams. Ie is mire probable that lie was not, and there is nothing to

show as yet against the supposition that the vessel has itself fallen into the hands of the natives.— lbid. The ship Dauntless, which sailed from Dublin on the 50th December last, with a general ciro.and full of Government emigrants, was spoken on Wednesday last by H.M.S.S. Esk, which arrived in port yesterday morning. The s.a. Sir John Burgoyne, which arrived last evening, from the East Coast, also reports sighting a large English ship at ten a.m., on Tuesday, standing toward the East Cape. There is little doubt that this was the Dauntless, and that she ba9 come round by the south of New Zealand. The Dauntless is now 130 days at sea, and we may expect to see her number hoisted firing to-day. Now that both the Belgravia. IRd Dauntless have both made their appearance, we may not be surprised if the Winterthur follows in a few days. She quitted Gravesend on the 23rd January, and is over 100 days out. — N. Z. Herald, 12th May. A man named Brown, a deserter from the 57th Regiment, was brought in by the Esk yesterday, having been captured after an absence of more than two years, during which time he has been living with the Maoris. It is also supposed that he was implicated in the late tragedy at Opotiki. He will be brought before his Worship this morn" ing.— lbid. The Provincial Council, whicn has dragged its slow length along for many days owing to the fact that a sufficient number of members could not be get together to form a quorum, will be to.day prorogued by proclamation. — Ibid.