NEW PLYMOUTH.
1 We have intelligence from New Plymouth to the 29th of January, at which date the settlers were busy with their harvest. On the 28th Mr. H. King cut from 17 to 20 acres of wheat, and afterwards gave a dinner to all the people employed, amounting to nearly sixty persons. On the following day a similar festival took place on the farm of Mr. J. Smart. A public meeting was held on the 16th to take measures to erect a subscription flourmill, in shares of £2 10s f each, in consequence of the present high charges for grinding v/heat. A committee was appointed to report on the subject to another meeting, and on the 24th the second meeting took place, when the report was adopted, and rules and regulations framed : about 180 shares were taken. English early potatoes have done well this season at New Plymouth. j A misunderstanding took place a short time since between the Taranaki natives and those residing near Mokau : and the latter, in consequence, tabooed the road which runs through their district from the former place to Auckland. Mr. Thatcher, and another gentleman from New Plymouth, journeyiug towards ! Auckland, were in consequence compelled to return to Taranaki ; but through the exertions of Mr. M'Lean, the protector of aborigines at New Plymouth, the road is again opened. We have often heard this gentleman's services spoken of in the highest terms, <tnd beheve him to be one of the few of the protectorate body who has alike the confidence o f Europeans and natives. — Nelson Examiner, i
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 73, 28 February 1846, Page 3
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263NEW PLYMOUTH. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 73, 28 February 1846, Page 3
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