TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 29, 16 January 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

TARANAKI.

We have received files up to the 26th instant. An extract from the News of said date will be found below, and we may remark in reference to it that it is gratifying to find from it that there exists no intention in high places of condoning the acts of rebellion and atrocity committed by the natives, South of New Plymouth.

The Lord Worst ey arrived on Tuesday morning and brought £20,000, part of the compensation voted by the General Assembly for the Taranaki losses by the war. The management of the distribution of this fund has been committed by the minister to the charge of the District Judge, and Captains Atkinson and Burton. The amount it is calculated will pay 15 per cent, and a fraction in the pound upon the amount of claims sustained before the Commissioner. It has not yet transpired when or in what manner, or under what conditions the distribution will take place, but wo presume the trustees will lose no time in making these points known as soon as they shall have determind the necessary preliminaries. —Taranaki News, Dec. 11.

We are sorry to hear that we shall shortly lose two more companies of the 57th, who are under orders for Wanganui in the course of next week under command of Major Hassard. It is stated that the detachment of the 65th at present at Wanganui will take their place and remain here until relieved by a detachment of the 14th from Auckland. —l bid.

The native intelligence from the South is unaltered in character, The natives of "Warea have sent in word that the Tataraimaka settlers may go to the block cut the grass there, the seed of which is worth many thousand pounds, but if they cut it theW area n at ives will burn it. Ofasimilarcharacter Mr. J. Daly, who desired his grass cut for seed. Tt was intimated to him that if any portion was cut they would burn the whole. The natives have cut out a race course on Mr. Greenwood’s land at Tataraimaka, and there arc two reports as to the wishes of the natives on the subject, which we presume indicate the views of the two parties. One that we are invited to run our horses "at the races, to be held on the block conquered from us by them, the other, an intimation of the mischief likely to ensue, by the message that many of the natives there will have tomahawks under their blankets. A letter from the officer commanding will be found below stating the wish of the Governor that no one should go down to Tataraimaka. The republication of this caution in the Gazette of Tuesday last, struck us at the time as unnecessary, but we were mistaken, as a party of officers and others rode out to the block the same day. We would point out our fellow-settlers that while the Tataraimaka block is claimed by right of con-

quest by the enemy, those who go on the block on sufferance tacitly admit that right, and furnish grounds for their assuming that the desolation of that fair district, and the atrocities which preceded it, are condoned and forgotten. Superintendent’s Office, New Plymouth, Dec. 23, 1861.—The following letter from the officer commanding in the Province is published for general information. The Superintendent trusts that the wishes of His Excellency the Governor conveyed in it will be observed by the settlers of the Province.—Charles Brown, Superintendent. [Copy.] Sir, —I have the honor to inform you that it will be contrary to the -wishes of his Excellency the Governor, as expressed in my letter of the 14th October, for Europeans to attend the races about to begot up by the natives at Tataraimaka ; and I trust you will use your endeavors to prevent their doing so under the present circumstances.— I have &c., H. J. Wane, Commanding at Taranaki.—His Honor the Superintendent, New Plymouth.—Taranaki'News, Dec. 26.