LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 33, 13 February 1862, Page 3

LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.

The name of Michael Fitzgerald, Esq., lias been added to the Commission of the Peace for Incw Zealand.

Mr. Ct. F. Harris has been appointed Deputy of (he Registrar of Births, Deaths, and Marriages tor the District of Ahuriri. ’

Alteration op tup JNhw Zealand Volunteer Regulations.— The Neio Zealand Gazette of the 20th January contains a new code of regulations touching the conduct of Volunteer corps throughout the colony, copies of which have been desp.itened to the various settlements for distribution, by which it is ordered that there shall be no limit to the term of service ; but that each volunteer shall, on application, be discharged at the expiration of a month’s notice, should the commanding officer be satisfied that urgent necessity exists for such discharge. A circular, having reference to (ho formation of a company in this Province, has been received by Major Douglas, a copy of which will bo found below; and it is intended, we believe, to cull a meeting in the course of a fortnight or three weeks, to take the subject into consideration. COLONIAL FORCES. Deputy Adjutant General’s Office. Auckland, 22nd January, 1862 Sin, —I have the honor by dirertion of the Govcrnmeiit, to enclose as per margin. Yon will perceive that the whole Volunteer Force are absolved from their oath, and the commissions of Officers lapse. I would suggest that either yourself or the Adjutant of Militia' call a meeting and distribute the now regulations to those who have served as Volunteers and to any one who may wish to obtain the same. Then, after giving a week’s time, at another meeting, a list of those who wish to reform a Volunteer corps (perhaps under the same name) be made and bo submitted to the Government, through this Office, with the name of the proposed corps or company, and the names of officers proposed. ’ In the meantime any person may bo sworn by the Adjutant of Militia, to enable him to fire for the different prizes which may bo competed for before an answer can be returned. Those members wuo do not wish to rejoin will return their arms and accoutrements into store. The number of companies allotted to your Province is one (1). This arrangement of the number of companies allotted to each Province has been made according to population, and sufficient arms will be forwarded to arm all, when the number of members who accept service is ascertained. I have the honor to be, Sir, A our most obedient servant 11. C. BALREAVIS, ~ . Dop.-Adj-Gon. of Militia and Volunteers. Major Douglas, &c., &c., &c., Rapier. Working of the new Poticv.—lt isj onr unpleasant duty to record another most instance of the disrespect in which the 'natives of Hawke’s Bay hold the law, notwithstanding the certainly they now have that every just demand t.iey may make will bo admitted in the Resident Magistrate's Court. A demand of £2 10s. has been made upon Mr. J. Harding for grass eaten by his team of bullocks on several occasions durum their stages to and from the town ! Two bullocks ha\o been seized as security for the of tills demand, and it is intimated by them, that they have the intention to seize on ‘the cattle of other settlers on the same pretence. One of the delinquents in this case is, we understand, named Aperahama. . ■*^ le Allowing is a copy of the letter referred to in onr leading article ot to-day, recently received by hie Honor from some of the natives in the Moliaka district, which a correspondent has handed to us for publication : t _ , , Feb. 2,1862. Capt. Carter, Superintendent. 1 RiENii, —Salutations to yon. Son, beg am I. I have seen this talk in your newspapers with respect to making stockyards for the cattle oltuc Europeans. Do you listen hero, that work L am the example of here at , that same work will be carried out by me—it will not cease for this reason—that European is a bad man. Ihc evil of that man consists in his wrong meanings to the rules hud down, and making it known to other men. Great is the evil of that man. I say to that European,—“Sou, if your sheep, cattle and horses come hero I will catch thousand those men which talk thus will not be strong to take fiom me, because mine and llori Tainaiwdiitia, is that land, and also to our tribe, that is - . I will therefore bo strong to stop them, to enclose them in a stockyard, if it (i.e. the land) belonged to any other man I would not bo strong. Listen here. If you should appoint a Magistrate, I will not allow him to stand. I will hold on to the property of the Europeans. If you appoint Te Teira he will do, being the head of the Runanga, he will investigate tno evil, the evil of that place, and of other places. That is all from Waata Koiiekoiie. . CounfKNT on the above would bo superfluous. The contemptuous tone'in which the writer (a young fellow, recently arrived in this province from Archdeacon Hadfield’s establishment at Otaki, where lie has been pupil and native teacher) addresses the Superintendent as “ Sonis very rich, and the spirit of defiance displayed in the expressed determination to seize on and hold to the property of the European I scttlcr, in opposition to all law, and prevent the nterfcrence of any Magistrate the Superintendent may appoint, except it may bo “ To Teira,” speaks volumes as to the state of the native animus, particularly of the educated and intelligent class, to which this gentleman, Mr. Waata Ivohekohe belongs.