[From the Times June 16th.]

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 59, 22 November 1845, Page 3

[From the Times June 16th.]

The Directors of the New Zealand Corti* pany have just issued a supplement to tbeiU 18th Report, containing " recent information received from the colony." This information is not more recent than that which we have already been enabled to lay before our readers, but we extract a few additional particulars illustrative of the present condition of the colony. We have given an account of the aggressions of Heki at Russell, and of the robberies and assaults by the natives upon the Europeans at Wangari. A letter from Colonel Wakefield, the principal agent of the Company, referring to these, has the following passage :— " Governor Fftzroy, in consequence of these fresh outrages, has issued proclamations offering rewards for the apprehension of Hone Heki and three other chiefs, and has a second time sent lo Sydney to require assistance from the Governor of New South Wales. lam inform* ed that upon the arrival of the 200 additional soldiers, with a train of field artillery and camp equipage, and commissariat supplies for three months' consumption, which he ha* required, his Excellency intends toxommence active'operations against the natives. of the Bay of Islands* It is proposed subsequently to exacft atonement for the illegal proceedings at Wangari^ and finally to visit this settlement with a View of forcibly ejecting the natives who have so' long held an undistuibed possession of the Valley of the Hutt, notwithstanding the treaty eiftered into between Captain Fitzroy and Rauparaba, detailed in my letter of the 3d December last, and the more recent negociations between that chief and the Superintendent of the Southern Division, communicated to you on the Bth ult. It is intended that the movement on (he Hutt should take place as early in April as the execution of the proposed measures in the North will permit. " It is unnecessary for me to offer any re* marks on this change in the policy of the local Government, which the impunity extended to native offenders has now rendered indispensable to the maintenance of British authority in. the colony. It is only to be hoped that the Governor will not again trifle with the question by sending back the troops, and that v is not yet too late to remedy the mischief created by his former misplaced indulgence." Before the Governor will have the oppor* tunity of carrying out his last new line of policy spoken of above, it is probable that the news of his recall will reach him, and terminate his mischievous reign. We fear that he was even less to be trusted as to severity than as to conciliation, the effects being yet more irreparable. A very striking contrast to the feeble and foolish couduct of official persons is afforded by the account of the resolute behaviour of a party of settlets of the Nelson district, headed by a Mr. Fox, who, finding that no protection from native aggression and invasion was to be looked for from the Government, and indeed in actual disobedience to the positive orders of the authorities of the place, formed themselves into an ex tempore corps, 80 strong, and proceeded to mark out and trace their boundaries, and notified to the aggressors that they should be punished if they repeated their former attack. Their spirit and energy carried their point, and the hostile chief was compelled to submit and come to terras. But surely a strange state of affairs must have been brought about that could not only justify the renunciation of obedience to the magistrates, but could even make it laudable, remitting the parties to first principles and the right to protect themselves.