LATEST NEWS PROM AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, 10 August 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

LATEST NEWS PROM AUCKLAND.

Times Office, Monday, 12 a.m. By the Auckland, which arrived from the North this morning, we have intelligence from the seat of war to the Bth instant. SUPPLEMENTARY SUMMARY. [From the Daily Southern Cross, 6th August^. We reprint our Monthly Summary of news to-day, owing to the large demand for papers, which we were unable to meet on Saturday. The Thames natives have declared themselves openly for the king, but whether there should be an individual exception made regarding them, we can hardly say We rather think there is not a single friend to British rule amongst them, and they are under the leadership of one of the most bloodthirsty and embruted savages in the whole of New Zealand. When the mild and politic William Thompson declares that he will spare neither the unarmed and the weak, we may feel well assured that Teria, the last of the cannibals, will have few qualms of conscience. However, this fact does not alarm us. It proves that' we have all along been right—that the natives are bent on asserting the supremacy of brute force over the law ; and that they are prepared to make the present struggle a war of races. The Government, we are glad to say, have taken steps to watch the entrance to the Wairoa The natives have received most of their supplies by that river, and the authorities are determined to put a stop to this. The mail steamer Auckland, has been chartered io remain a few days in the Gulf of Thames, and to watch the entrance to the Wairoa, until the Eclipse returns from Taranaki. This is as it should be, and we willingly bear our testimony to the energy of the Government in checking the treasonable designs of the natives in that quarter. Last Sunday General Cameron, C. 8., made an attack at dayligbt'on the native stronghold of Paparata, an account of which will be found elsewhere from the pen of our special correspondent, who was on the spot. The body of a native killed at the attack on the escort on the 17th ult., has been found ; and since then the body of a native, shot’at the last attack'on the troops at Pukikiweriki has likewise been found.

The Avon steamer went up the Waikato several miles above our position on the right bank of the river, on Saturday last. Capt. Sullivan, R.M., of H.M.s.s. Harrier was on board, and made' a survey of the river.

H.M.s.s. Eclipse, Commander Mayne, has gone to Taranaki for 2 00 of the troops. On her return she will be placed to watch the Wairoa. The Hon. the Native Minister, accompanied by Major Pitt and Mr. Gorst, left for Sydney in the Claude Hamilton to engage the services of 2,000 men as military settlers.