TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume I, Issue 23, 5 December 1861, Page 5 (Supplement)

TARANAKI.

Wo have papers from this province to the 16th mst. It was true, as reported here, that Bishop Selwyn was received at New Plymouth in a manner that was more warm than agreeable. The Taranaki Herald deplores that the Bishop’s fine energies are so much wasted, and his influence so much diminished amongst them. He left Taranaki by the coast track, southward, on Monday, the 11th inst. We hear that his reception among the Ngatiruanuis was no better than he met with from the Taranaki settlers.

It would seem that the Native policy of Sir G. Grey had not yet been divulged. The Herald of the 9th observes—

“ To the request that he would give the information, which as a matter of business, and in no idle curiosity tlilslittlecommunitysomuch needs as to its future prospects he frankly replied ‘ that his plans were not so matured that he could satisfy us, that he would use no mystery or needless delay, but at the earliest practicable moment state his intentions and that on his return from the north, (where he went on Monday last for ten days) he proposed to come down to Taranaki.’ ”

The following is the reply of the Governor to the address forwarded from Taranaki:—

' Government House, Auckland, Nov. 2, 1861,

Gentlemen, —I thank you most cordially for your address of welcome, which Mr. J. C. Richmond has placed in my hands. You tell me that you look to me with hope and confidence, under your ealamaties, that peace raay be established on such terms as shall ensure the permanent good of both races.

I can only reply that I am well aware of the noble patience with which you have borne these calamities, and of the great exertions you have made to struggle against difficulties, and that I hope I may be strengthened to fulfil the hopes reposed in me, which I should, under any circumstances, from a sense of duty, strive to do : but to be an instrument in restoring to Taranaki prosperity and happiness wouldjje a peculiarly grateful and most enviable task to me, from a remcmborance of many happy days 1 have passed in it, and from a sense of strong personal regard to many'of its inhabitants.

G. GREY, The Gentlemen signing the Address from Taranaki.