TARANAKI. (From our Correspondent.) April 16, 1849.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume V, Issue 391, 2 May 1849, Page 3

TARANAKI. (From our Correspondent.) April 16, 1849.

There is nothing stirring here ; the postponement of the Governor's visit, and the absence of Mr. M'Lean from the settlement effectually retard all farther acquisition of land from the natives. Since his Excellency promised fourteen months ago, that he would return, in two months, and complete the work that, he had left unfinished, the natives continue to expect him. It is difficult to assign a satisfactory reason for the Governor's, coniinued absence from New Plymouth. Indeed there is no settlement in New Zealand so neglected, or requiring so much care. The position that the settlers themselves occupy they owe to their own exertions, but to them there must be an end, as is seen by the tolerably regular departure of some of our population to other places. It is presumed that tho local authorities regularly inform his Excellency of these occurrences, yet his Excellency does not come to place the settlement in the position it should occupy. The employment of Mr. M'Lean in other places is most inconsiderate towards us. His presence is constantly required here, not only to adjust the land question, but in the most trivial disputes that may arise between the Europeans and natives there is no one left to act as a mediator, or who can, in our utterly defenceless position, attempt to control the lawless proceedings of the latter. The farmers are busily employed thrashing out their grain, and the mills are likely to be kept fully employed; we calculate upon being able to export about 200 tons of flour this year. We have experienced a very heavy gale from the south-east for the last five daysp so severe that, as no vessel has arrived, we presume that it has been blowing too hard in the Strait for a vessel to show canvass. The Harlequin, with Mr. Fox on board, is daily expected from Auckland. It is to be hoped that Mr. Fox and the purchasers from the New Zealand Company may arrive at an amicable adjustment of the compensation question.