AFFAIRS AT TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 124, 15 June 1863, Page 3

AFFAIRS AT TARANAKI.

(From the Fatly Southern Cross, June 5 .) We have barely space to call attention to the important news from Taranaki, which we publish to day. That war Las fairly begun there can now be no doubt; and since our troops have been allowed to act, the advantage has been on our side. We need not recapitulate the facts, which appear at length in our correspondent’s letter, and the extracts from the Taranaki Herald ; but one item is worth mentioning, as it may turn out to have an important bearing on the native problem. We refer to the last paragraph in the letter of our correspondent’s letter, in which it is stated that the Governor refuses to sign or issue the proclamation confiscating the block of land between the Omata and Tataraimaka, on which the murder was committed. We confess to have had misgivings on this head before, when we did not perceive the confiscation proclamation in the Gazette, but we could hardly have supposed that his Excellency would permit his Ministers to commit themselves in the way they have done with the public of Otago, and then refuse to give effect to their promise. We will have something to say on this subject, however, at an early date; meanwhile, we may say that this circumstance, added to the surrender of the Waitara, renders it compulsory on Ministers to summon the Assembly, and abide by the decision of the House. If they fail to press this course upon his Excellency, they will keep themselves in a false position before the country, until the time will have passed for setting themselves right, if indeed it can now be done at all.