TARANAKI.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VI, Issue 398, 30 August 1856, Page 6

TARANAKI.

The inhabitants of the town were startled on Wednesday last by a report that the whole of the Ngatiruanui and Southern Natives had evacuated the neighbourhood of the Bell Block, and gone offinabody to their homes, having first burnt and destroyed their pa, together with all the strengths they had erected close to the boundary line. Various are the reasons suggested as having led to this sudden and important movement; but there is nothing satisfactory, either as to its cause or what it may portend of good or evil, can be ascertained at present from either native or European information. Beyond the relief which the disappearance of so large a body of turbulently disposed savages from our immediate neighbourhood m»st be admitted "to bestow, all is at present shrouded in mystery. The-most probable of the reasons assigned for their hasty departure is, that their recent defeat in thu attack upon lhaia's people had predisposed them to retire from a conflict in which from the first they had been.the principal sufferers; and that the interference of some neutral natives of this neighbourhood determined them,

It may he hoped that the new and possibly favourable complexion given by this event to the native difficulties which had so long controlled the extension and prosperity of the province; will-promptly, engage the attention of the Government, It may be just possible that a mild but firm.interference between the-bellige-rent natives now left to themselves, reduced in number, and more sensible of the futility of the strife they have been waging, might avail to'put an end at once to a state of things, pointed at in.neighbouring'colonies, as well as in this, as a reproach and a stigma on British rule and civilization.— Herald Aug. 9.