MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 57, 11 October 1864, Page 3

MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

The New Zealand Herald of the 27th says : — We understand that early next week a move towards Taranaki will be made. The field force will consist of detachments from all the regiments except the 50th and 18th, and Major Von Tempsky and his company of Forest Kangers will, by special permission of the General, be allowed to accompany the force. Three companies of the Transport Corps, and 300 pack horses will embark immediately in the Alexandra. On arriving at New Plymouth, the force will, we hear, be immediately detailed off for road-making, and will proceed with the construction of a trunk road from New Plymouth to the Wanganui. The Southern Cross of the 28th, doeß not apeak in such precise terms, though it mentions a movement in the direction of Taranaki ac at least in contemplation : — There are some military movements on the tapis ; but the nature of them, beyond the' fact that TaranaH will be the direction of them has not been disclosed yet. A week or two ago thera was to be a move of this kind, but the escape of the Maori prisoners, which seems to have completely engrossed the attention of His Excellency the Governor, together with the important but not veyy favorable news from home, upset certain arrangements which had been made by General Sir Duncan Cameron, no doubt by the direction of His Excellency the Governor as Commander-in- Chief. Whether ths Escaped Captives Question has been sufficiently ventilated now t6 enable His Excellency to turn thoughts to the urgent requisitions that have been made for military reinforcements from the South we are unable to say ; but that those requisition are every day becoming more earnest is a fact. Everything i* now favorable for- the prosecution and final suppression of the rebellion in Taranaki.