WELLINGTON.

North Otago Times, Volume II, Issue 41, 1 December 1864, Page 3

WELLINGTON.

The '-Wellington Independent" sa}*s: — " Orders have been received by Colonel Dwyer from head-quarters for a company of the 2nd Battalion, 14th Regiment, to hold itself in readiness to proceed at once to Auckland. Instructions have also been received at Napier for three companies of the same regiment to hold themselves in readiness to proceed to the same destination."

The district of Wanganui (which Sir George Grey terms tbe key to the Maori country) bas taken the initiative in petitioning the Assembly for his recall. A petition is in circulation, which sets forth :—

•* That your Memorialists believe that the policy pursued by bis Excellency with respect to the natives, has been calculated to infuse into their minds feelings of disrespect towards her Majesty and her Government—and has been most derogatory to tha dignity of the British nation.

•• That it ha. been fraught with the most in jurious results to tbe natives —its main tendency having been to create in their minds a false impression of their own power, and to strengthen the spirit of rebellion. " That to the inhabitant, of this colony it has been productive of the most disastrous consequences." The memorial concludes with the prayer:— •'That you, as our representatives, will be pleased to exercise all legal power of which you may be possessed, to restrain his Excellency from the continuance of the commission of acts alike injurious to both races, and will urge upon her Majesty the imperative necessity of the speedy recall of Sir George Grey and the appointment of another Governor, who, while maintaining the dignity of the Crown, will be an instrument of preservation to the natives and a protection to the colonists."