TARANAKI.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 103, 25 July 1846, Page 3

TARANAKI.

By the Carbon which arrived from Taranaki on Wednesday, we are glad to learn that the natives are very quiet and do not attempt to molest the settlers. The Carbon has brought thirty bags of flour, and 277 bushels of wheat. The news of the present price of flour and the probability of its being sustained, had greatly encouraged the farmers of that district who were proceeding with the work of cultivation with renewed vigour, and it was expected that the amount of wheat grown at Taranaki this year would considerably exceed the produce of last year. A small vessel called the Mary Ann had gone ashore at Taranaki. She had been chartered to proceed to Manukau, but after having been six days out the master returned to Taranaki without making Manukau and ran the vessel ashore. This accident is attributed entirely to the master's mismanagement and carelessness. It is feared that the schooner Margaret belonging to Messrs. Ridgways, Hickson, and Co. has been lost. She left Port Nicholson on the 2nd July, five days before the Carbon for New Plymouth, and has not since been heard of. It was her first voyage. A party of Waikatos had paid a visit to Taraneki about a month ago.They were about one hundred in number, well armed ; they were feasted and entertained by the natives of the district and after remaining there a few days they returned to their own country. We are informed that there is no probability of any disturbance among the natives of the district who begin now to be fully sensible of the advantages of having settlers resident among them, and have lately in several instances given up patches of disputed land. We may hope I that the Land Claims of this district will be speedily settled, when the settlers will have a clear field before them, and receive the reward they so justly deserve for their energy and patient perseverance. The Carbon returns immediately for another cargo and | there is every prospect of a brisk trade in i flour being carried on between the two settlements this season which i 3 greatly to be rejoiced at, as it will have the effect of connecting more closely together the settlements in Cook's Strait. Mr. R. Brown has captured a whale at his station at Taranaki which is likely to torn out eight tuns and a half of oil.