IMPORTANT FROM TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 102, 30 March 1863, Page 2

IMPORTANT FROM TARANAKI.

The following intelligence is given in the Wan-

ganui Chronicle, of the 10th hist.—-A letter came the other clay from Tamati Raukawa, chief of this tribe to the Waitotaras, iiiforming them that the Governor had landed at Taranaki, that the Europeans had occupied the ground at Waircka, and that a great meeting was to be held to decide on the stops to bo taken should the Tataraimaka block be attempted to be occupied by the troops. Letters from some of tlie chiefs of the Wanganui King tribes, stating that 500 soldiers had encamped near Waireka, and that he was about to proceed with 150 men to the Tataraimaka to occupy it and to resist the troops should they attempt to seize it. The Wanganui tribes are to hold meetings on the subject shortly. The Waitotaras hold a meeting to-raorrow to decide if help is to bo sent; and it is understood that the majority of them will immediately go north.— JS r ew Zealand Advertiser, March 21. LATER XEWS FROM TARANAKI. A maoki messenger arrived on Tuesday night from Wanganui, bringing despatches from the Native Minister for the lion. Mr. Mantell. The information received amounts to little moi’e than that published in this Journal last Saturday, viz., that the troops had occupied the ground at Waireka, and that the Governor intended to take possession of Tataraimaka. It differs, however, in one important particular ; for whereas the information conveyed through the letters of King natives spoke of resistance being given to the troops should they attempt to seize Tataraimaka, the information brought on Tuesday evening is to the effect that there would probably bo no resistance offered; because—as we have been informed—the natives intended to take possession instead of the lands they had ceded at the Waitara. Strange to say, however, on the strength of such vague information, one of our local contemporaries published an “ Extra,” while both make the announcement that the Taranaki question now be considered tinallv settled. —New Zealand Advertiser , March 2G.