ARRIVAL OF THE SCHOONER QUEEN, FROM AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 8, Issue 440, 22 November 1866, Page 2

ARRIVAL OF THE SCHOONER QUEEN, FROM AUCKLAND.

FOUR DAYS’ LATER INTELLIGENCE. IMPORTANT PROM RAGLAN. The arrival of the schooner Queen, Captain Loverock, from Auckland, on Tuesday last, we have papers to the 16th inst. The twentieth session of the Provincial Council was opened by His Honor the Superintendent on Monday, 12th inst. There was a large attendance of members, and the strangers’ gallery was crowded. The I battery of Royal Artillery embarked on board the hired transport Norwood on the 14th inst., for conveyance to England. This battery arrived in New Zealand some five years ago by the same ship, and has done good service during the war, and we join with the people and press of Auckland in saying, “ God speed, and a safe and pleasant passage home to Old England.” A correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross, writing from Raglan, under date 10th November, furnishes the following significant items of intelligence:— I do not wish to be considered an alarmist, therefore write these few lines that you may be aware how native matters are progressing. The King Maoris have been to Ot-oa, using both threats and peruasions to induce the friendlies to leave en tuasse. They threaten all that did not go, to return, till them, and destroy their cultivations. Several of the otea natives were so frightened that they escaped from them. Mrs Swan came up this week, and informed a settler that ihey sent a message to her saying that they intended to kill her and Mrs Duncan. Also, they went to Mrs Charleton’s, at Kawhia, and compelled a Maori, named Timothy, to go with them against bis wish. They are now mustering near Kawhia—it is supposed to attack one of the settlements,

THE ENGLISH MAIL, The s.s. Lady Bird, as will be seen by advertisement, inay be expected here on Saturday next, 24th insfc., with the English Mail for September. Eeferring to this, our local contemporary says, “ We are glad to see this, and trust it may be accepted as an indication that the Government has reconsidered its former decision.” We wish we could feel as sanguine on the subject. It must not be forgotten that the Government could not stop the subsidy which was being paid to our English Mail steamer under two months’ notice. However, we will doubtless know more about it when the Lady Bird arrives.