Repeal of the Union between Auckland and Cook's Strait.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 57, 8 November 1845, Page 2

Repeal of the Union between Auckland and Cook's Strait.

It is now two mo ths, since there has hpen any coiii'Huiiicdnoi) between the mis-called Capital aiid the Southern cettlemeu's. It is si* months, since Captain Fitzroy wa>> ieca]'ed, and the Southern hettleme its know of the e« vent only through the new-pipers from Sydney. We extract from the Sjdney Morning Her/ifd, i lie following ?ie" 1 from the Noith. The Sir John Franklin, owing to heavy weather put into the Bay o[ Islands on the 13th September. H. M. i.rig Osprey, 12 guns, had an i veil tbere, 30 days ftoui Aujer, having on boatdthe freight intended to have been sent by H. M. S. Doedalus, ; she sailed thence for Au kland on the 15th September. The Hazard was cruising on the coast to enforce (he blockade, whicn had been extended fi om Auckland to the N« rth Cape. The North Star, Da/.hne, and SI tins Castle, were lying at the Ki.Jdi Kiddi River, in the Bay, No movement of importance had taken place a1. mong the troops, who were anxiously looking out for reinforcements from the sister colonies, when it Wds reported that Colonel Despard intended attacking Kowaiti's pah, who is industrious'y (ortifying his position with a lorce of about 700 men. The troops at the Waimate amounted to about 450 men, who were reported to he very badly clad and unable to piocure more than :heir soldiers' rations. Heki, it was said, had hail enough ol war, but would make peace orly on his own conditions — an unconditional pardon to all. Kowaiti was determined to carry on the war, ami on the 9th September had a skirmish with Nene Waka's tribe, when four were killed, and the former retired. A few days before, Kowtiti marched his followers to within three miles ol the Waimate, where the troops were busily engaged i i raising fortifications, anil fired a volley of musketry in defiance. Waka had received no reinforcement, but still expressed his determination to side with the English.