INTER-PROTINCIAL NEWS.

Southland Times, Issue 971, 19 June 1868, Page 3

INTER-PROTINCIAL NEWS.

We- are in receipt of our files of provincial papers by the ■'** Tararua," from which we extract the, follpwing items of* interest:-— ; i -••'. ;.<'..•; ; AUCKLAND. : /-/ u:i i i ? £ The " Southern Cross,'* 4th June, in writing on the probabilities of a renewal of the war, says :—^" We are in receipt "oif' further advices from the North; somewhat more precise than those from which we gave extracts on: Tuesday. last. ; : As we ourselves surmised, .the number of mear with Moses is not so great as was computed, but still greater than we expected: We can 'safely say that he has four hundred me", with him, Goncernmg the 'Kara wa force, we ; have 'i no farther, infor- ; matibn, beyond a surmise that the whole

of the tribe will not join in the fray: The Rarawa chiefs now declare that this' is a pakeha war, the .attempt .of the Government to take the murderer — an attempt which; did not go , beyond sending down the Resident Magistrates— being looked upon by them as tantamount to a. declaration of war by t v e Government. Some of the. Hokiansa settlers ? sare threatened. On the 24th ultimo Ngapuhi had not yet crossed the river ; it was ex-pected-thati by the influence -brought' to bear on them, they might be held in hand a few days longer, but that an affray was ultimately inevitable. The'huiat J£awd-i kawa has passed off quietly-^a '.'. great relief ; and the natives have dispersed! Our correspondent has been informed' that they have decided not to take up arms, or take any active measures in the Hokianga case, any further than to advise the Hokiauga natives to make peace ; but that, if they do take up arms, half ..the Ngaphui would join the Rarawa, and the other half the Hokianga. No one, in out opinion, can see his' way forward- for M week; we can,,. therefore^ only give the information from time to time as we receive it. — The same, paper of the 3rd inst. . thus summarises " Native Intelligence" £ — " Qur Tauranga correspondent writes : — 'Hakopa, a chief belonging to the Paengaroa settlement, has gone to the King to ask him whether a survey : VHich is approachingthatplace should be allowed to proceed. The surveyors have been already warned off, but force has not been resorted to. It is to be hoped cthat the peace of Tauranga will not be disturbed. It is said that the HauhausofWhalcatane . have captured four men of the Ngatiawa tribe, and that* two Hauhau8 J hare ' been killed in a fight.' Captain Erase? latelyvisited Katikati with a,' view^ of taking up a large, extensive tract of country for his ..yictorian friends, and is 'iipw |in « treaty with , the natives , to. that, effect. Shortly before the steamer -' Lord Ashley' left Tauranga; news arrived at Te Papa that a son ofTe Moananui . Marake, a chief of Katikati, had been killed in a drunken scuffle, which had taken place there, The man had died from the injuries he received,; and had been buried quietly. On" ' the news .reaching tTe ; Papa,. .persons, were sent to exhume the body, and apprehend' the suspected offenders., , Our iEaglan .correspondent writes on May 6 : — " The?aukati

is still in force between L this ; iplace and . Kawhia. Information arrived this? mornfriendly Maories being seized. Joy the Eingites on the-south side of the aukati line. Two horses belonging to the | Eingites, having strayed on the north side 6f the, line were taken as payment by the I sufferers. A native having' brought in the intelligence of ti large quartz reef being on the Hakarimata rangej about 12" miles from the township, a prospecting party consisting of fifteen of the settlers will start on Wednesday, the 6th instant, to test the locality." Some lptß of the confiscated lana at Mangere having been advertised for sale,: the natives living there and elsewhere in the vicinity, have got ny a petition urging that the land, should not be sold, but be kept for .. the natives "■> who may come in from the Hauhaua, and for the Waikatos who may come down; to Auckland. The land is part -of o that granted to the. Potatau family, and .was confiscated on the fight of Tamati Ngapora and the others to "Waikato at the outbreak of the war.