TARANAKI.

Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XIV, Issue 57, 13 October 1855, Page 3

TARANAKI.

Taranaki papers have reached us to the 26th of September. We gather little from them of the present proceedings of the natives or the troops, but we infer from this silence that nothing ie being done either by the one or the other. The presence of the military keeps the natives quiet, and the natives being quiet, they are not interfered with. This process of bind' ing the turbulent natives to keep their place vml be found expensive. But if the war excitement has subsided, another has sprung up. It will be remembered that the Bishop paid a visit to Taranaki a few weeks ago, to use his influence with Katatoreand his party to maintain peace, and that his lordship failed in his mission. On his return to Auckland, the Bishop addressed a pastoral letter to the members of the Episcopal Church in Taranaki, in which his lordship seeks to screen the turbulent natives, who are mostly in care of the Church mission, and threw the blame on the opposite party, who are Wesleyans, and on the Europeans. The settlers are told that " they grudge to an industrious people (the natives) the possession of land which they have shown themselves willing and able to cultivate," and are told that they are guilty of " the sin of covetousness." Several correspondents of the Herald indignantly protest against these charges. Not having seen Kis lordship's letter, we are not competent to express an opinion upon it ourselves, but from what we gan gather of it from the comments it has excited, it seems to be an extraordinary production.