New Zealand Colonist. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1843.

New Zealand Colonist and Port Nicholson Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 48, 13 January 1843, Page 2

New Zealand Colonist. FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1843.

The arrival of the Government brig has put us in possession of news from Auckland up to the 30th of December. The whole of the emigrants from England, including the Parkhurst boys, had found employment from private individuals. Many families had settled in the country, and agricultural operations were being largely entered upon. Money was not very plentiful; but there appears to have been a great improvement since the date of our last advices. The war between the natives at Tauranga had been for the time quelled by the presence of the acting Governor, and the troops that he had brought with him; and there seemed good grounds to hope that no renewal of hostilities would be attempted. A strong party of troops was, however, left there, in the event of any hostile demonstration being attempted on either side, and they will amply suffice to maintain peace. The rumours whichJ&d been,.spread of. the attempted resistance of the natives,. and of the retreat of the troops, were totally without foundation.

We understand that it is the intention of Mr. Shortland, before returning to Auckland, to visit some parts of the coast, for the purpose of using his'influence to settle the disputed claims to land. As the New Zealand Company are prepared, at least we presume so, to make any reasonable payment, in order to complete their purchases, and enable them to give to the claimants under them peaceable possession of the land they have nominally professed to concede ; we should trust that the whole question may soon be settled. At any fate, we are assured that nothing will he spared to place this complicated and perilous question. upon a satisfactory footing, and to prevent the prese'nt misunderstandings and future collisions which would inevitably result from its being any longer left unadjusted.

\Yk regret tlmt we received the aeeouii||pf the .disturbance existing- between : the Makefwaihd Tauranga Natives too late for insertion in this days publication, we shall, however, be able to lay it before our readers in our next.