NEW CALEDONIA.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 265, 4 May 1860, Page 3

NEW CALEDONIA.

(From the Melbourne Age.) By way of Sydney, we have news from New Caledonia up to the 18th March. The intelligence is of more interest than usual. Another sharp struggle with the insurgent natives was considered to be impending, but in many respects the colony appeared to be making satisfactory progress. From the Moniteur Imperial, of Sunday, the 26th of February, we extract the following:— Advices received from the north of this island announces a speedy recommencement of hostilities. • •

The tribes of the coalition are once more concentrating themselves upon the territory of the chief Kaoua commonly called the Napeoleoii of tho North, under the pretext of an approaching grand festival. - . ■

The warriors of these tribes are constructing storing places to serve as yam depots, on the limits of the territory of Puebo.

The chief Felipo has been obliged to require hia people to evacuate the more distant points of the Puebo Mission, and to group themselves round the establishment of the Fathers of the Mission.

In the same paper we find the following under the head of local news :-—

One circumstance, not without importance, inasmuch as it shows the progress of our supreme authority in the section of land we purpose to occupy towards the south Y^ans le quadrilatere d' occupation dans le Sud)," has recently taken place. The shepherd Auali left Napoleonville with his flock, composed of 200 sheep, and with two bullocks, carrying his provisions and baggage. Following the track pursued from Kanala to Urai by the Expedition of 1859, and that from Urai to St. Loujs, by way of St. Vincent, he arrived at his destination in a fortnight, making short journeys daily, and finding every day excellent pas» turage.

The natives did not merely abstain from offering any opposition to the undertaking of Auali, but every time he passed through their villages did actually by hundreds assist him in driving his flock, and pointed out the bests spots for herding his sheep during the night. He only lost five sheep, which were drowned whilst passing the rivers swollen by the rains of the winter season. i "We bear testimony with pleasure," pays the Moniteur of the 4th ulfc., "to the rapidity with which the new buildings are being completed. Let those troops and ships come which are so impatiently expected; the authorities will make the necessary arrangements for the apeedy completion oflnkermann street. This will give everybody room for investment in land which is destined to be covered with houses and shops for the convenience of a population, which is every day increasing in numbers. • The quarters for the Admiration are quite finished, and the different departments of the public service all to be placed in possession of the apartments respectiveJy destined for their occupation. There is a special notice as to the necessity for ! every person in the colony to take care and provide himself with a passport. The Monge, steamer c6mmanded by M. Mourdais, capitaine de fregate, which left Tou||n on the Bth of November, last, arrived at the Port of France on the 26th of February, 1860. M. de Saisset, le Chef Division Governeur, hoisted his flag as the chief of a naval division of the first class, on the Ist ultimo. M. Foucher, the Sub Intendant Commissary, hsd received a highly complimentary letter from his Excellency de Saisset, and was to be recommended for the Cross of the Legion of Honor, and for promotion on aceounl of his services. The following, polite bat rather peremptory " invitation" will be read with a smile by some of our readers:—" The residents of the Port of France are invited not to tire off guna within the limits of the town, un 4« pain q£ being prosecuted according to law."