AUCKLAND.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 6, Issue 287, 27 March 1862, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

The Aucklander of March 3 gives the following extract from a letter dated Waitetuna, 24th February:—

“ On the troops being moved to Te Tea (Maungatawhiri),Wi Tamihana with difficulty restrained the more impetuous of his followers from attacking them, by significantly telling them, ‘ Wait ! to drive the troops away, ( the whole island must ri'i&Mat 6 nk&.’t, EaM' now informed that ,ai.^»fc\«ouncil,£is j i;n contemplation, when it decided whether to wait untif some 0? the. troops are withdrawn, or to recommences 1 the war.’ '''

: “An interesting case awaits the return to Raglan magistrate of Lower Waikato. A store keeper on the Raglan township, requiring a small boat load of stones to finish a chimney, sent across the harbour at low water and had out .of.the tide., Forthwith, the Kgatitahunga same across to Mr. Harsant, R. M., who then holding his weekly court* demanded payment. Mr. i Harsant’s decision that they had no claim to land below low water mark, they stated their intention of bringing their claim before Mr. Armitage. If thbir claim is good, to what distance ? from the ■ coaStdoes native jurisdiction extend? I think that civilized natives -claim, three miles from the coast.

: The Southern Cross I ; The Provincial Cohßhil < hat^. i ipledged s themselves to vote the sum of £2OOO to' a'ny person who; will: poin t 'out' r &T payable" ■ gold fieldto. l paying' gold field’ will be taken to exist when it can be proved to have afforded employment, for; three months { at fair .remunerating wages, vdiggers.'i hope claims will soon be put in, so that the diggers in Auckland,- and to arrive, may know where to turn their attention. In reference to a paragraph in our last, which stated that a rumour was current regarding the landing of four tons of gunpowderat/the r j Marks,commahder’bf the‘Caroline’ gun-boat- requests us to state, that he was informed on his passage to Napiei*, that two days before he was off the East Gape, half a ton of gunpowder had been landed trom a; ship ; but that he did not put into Kawakawa, as his doing so would then have been useless. There has -been no report mdde to the Government. ***'••'