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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 5, 13 July 1865, Page 2

Sib George Grey on his way Home.— The Adelaide Register says:—“ We hear that Sir George Grey, Governor of New Zealand, is not unlikely to visit his old Seat of Government in South Australia on his going to England.”

A Maori’s Commentary on ottb Military Tactics. —The following is given by a correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle, as the remarks of one of our native allies on the late bungling in not taking the Wereroa pa:—‘‘Too much the walk about, to much the korero, too little the fight. There are only a hundred men in the pa, we could not easily take it; next week when the big gun and plenty of soldiers come up, there will be hundreds of fighting men from all around in the pa, and soldiers march away again same as other day. Too much the kakino; the paJceha d d fool.”

The Inspector of Customs. —We regret to learn.that Mr Carkeek, the Inspector of Customs for New Zealand, now on a visit to this province, has been seized with severe illness, and is now laid up, unable to attend to buisness, in Lyttelton. The attack is stated to have recently assumed a somewhat serious character.—Lyttelton Times, July 6.