TARANAKI.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 112, 26 August 1846, Page 2

TARANAKI.

Wk have received the following summary of news from Taranaki by the schooner Carbon : The Carbon arrived here on the 11th inst., in fourteen days from Wellington, having been caught by the recent south-easter in Cook's Strait, which carried her some hundred miles from land. She will ship the following cargo for Wellington :—47: — 47 bags barley, 180 bags flour, 1 cask Geneva. The cutter Royal William anchored here from Sydney via Nelson on the 6th. She landed goods to of der frcm Sydney, and sailed for Auckland on the following day. The whaling season has been successful to the present time. Mr. Brown's boats have taken 45 tuns of oil, and Barrett's 4 tuns. A portion will be retained in the settlement for consumption, the remainder with the bone will be forwarded to Wellington for shipment. Casks are very much wanted. A small police force, consisting of an inspector, serjeant, corporal, and nine privates, was enrolled on the 18th June ; but until raised to the proper strength, will be ineffective fox the services intended for it by the Governor. It is anticipated that his Excellency has formed this as the nucleus of a force to be raised to the same strength as those in Auckland and Wellington. The men are well drilled in the use of the gun and sword, and take night duty in the settlement. A most daring native outrage occurred in the settlement on the sth inst. Four pigs, the property of one of our farmers, trespassed in a native clearing. A native not the owner deliberately killed one, cleaned it, and carried the carcase to his pa. Two others were secured, and also taken. The remaining pig escaped to the owner, who was compelled to kill it, in consequence of a bad wound inflicted on it with a tomahawk. It was never attempted to capture the man with our weak armed police ; so the old mo !e of mediation laid down by former Governors was resorted to. Thus was hushed up one more addition to the long catalogue of native outrages. The following is a correct accounf of the recent accident which happened to the schooner Mary Aun. Previously to the sailing of the schooner Mary Ann for Manukau, she was beached here to discharge her lime fram_Nelson. In getting her off, she struck on a portion of the lime which had been imprudently left in her way. She then went to Waitara, and after completing the trifling repairs neceagfltttthw-g ceeded to Manukau on the 18thJ|^^HHG| left that port, and arrived off thj^^^^^^^H on the Bth July. It soon.after^^^^^^^f S.W., but the wind subseque^^^^^^^^H the N.W. That, however, wa^^^^^HH as the vessel had a good °^ n g-^^B^ lowing morning the wind was W.^|^^Kjfa~ but.W.S.W. (parallel with our coasf^n the settlement. The schooner was therefore beached in a W.S.W. wind, which must have been felt above a mile from the shore.^. She also had Waitara on her lee, and if imppssibj^, to have kept the vessel at sea, she should have run there^ it was high water. The captain was to blame for leaving Manukau without sufficient ballast, and he had no right whatever to abandon the good offing he had on the Bth, the preceding day, by approaching the coast in the unsettled state of the weather. Little damage was occasioned at the time by this mismanagement. High tides and bad weather, however, afterwards injured her hlill, which was repaired without delay. The schooner was launched on the evening of the Bth inst. with trifling injury, and the whole of Sunday, a perfectly calm day, was suffered to pass by without loading her with the oil and bone at Moturoa ready for shipment, or, with the exception of a few casks of sea water, putting ballast on board. On the following Monday (10th inst.) the weather changed to N.W., and with greatdifficulty a few tons of ballast were put on board. She then sailed for Nelson, but whether she reached that port is uncertain, as from her lightness she made lee-way on starting. Four hundred instead of one hundred Waikatos were recently in our settlement ; a xc-

t*T*e result of a comprormse wxtb our re8id Mr "johTwilHams, farmer, shot himself 'th a ffu" in a very deliberate manner on the 14th inst., in the wood on the banks of the lagoon inland of Moturoa. Intemperance, to which he had of late become addicted, is supposed to have weakened his mind. In the absence of a coroner, the magistrates instituted tbe usual inquiry, and the deceased was interred on Tuesday the 16th, at Marsland Hill cemetery, by the Rev. W. Bollaud. Several of deceased's fellow passengers by the Amelia Thompson in 1841, as well as other settlers, followed tbe body to the grave. The Sarah Berry from Auckland, in entering "Wangaroa, got on the spit. Messrs. J. Spenrer • and Searancke, and crew, were saved with difficulty.