WAIKATO.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 7, Issue 339, 16 April 1863, Page 3

WAIKATO.

The following is from the Southern Cross of the 27 th ult : We have dates from Waikato to the 25th inst. and the news from that quarter is not agreeable. The Government, at the request of the chief Te Where, determined to build a court-house and police station at Te Kohekohe, and workmen were building them. After frequent warnings, on this day week, 200 natives came, leaving their arms about two miles

off, and induced the ■ carpenters to leave the place (of course under pressure), and sent them down to Maungatawhiri, to which place they also sent down the timber in a raft Takari, their leader, said that if the carpenters left, he would have no quarrel with the Pakeha, only with the Maori. The natives took possession of the place. •v/fe Whero, indignant at these proceedings, went to Auckland and told the authorities that he meant to take back the timber and have the building proceeded with. What the upshot will be it is not easy to say. On tbe following Tuesday (24th March) the valiant soldiers of the Maori king marched from JVlokau to Te Awamutu, and in Mr. Gorst’s absence at Waipa, broke open the printing office and took away the press, types Me. with which the Pihoihoi Molcemohe is printed. On Mr. Gorst’s return in die evening, he found 30 of King I-'otatau’s soldiers encamped at the gate and sentinels posted all round the house, to prevent, as they said, any one from setting fire to the buildings, or stealing any of his property. They threatened to take Mr Gorst and his family to Maungatawhiri, and lie has been since warned to leave the Waikato in three weeks. The burglars were Ngatimaniapotos under the command of Hone Ropilio and Aporo But it does not appear that these lawless bands are to go about much longer unopposed. On the 2dth Hone te Papiti was near at hand with a large mob, bent on opposing the . Ngatimaniapotos One thing is certain, that the best directed and most pacific efforts on the pa.it of the Government to benefit these people are of no avail

Tlie Auckland correspondent of the A els on Examiner writes : Government detained the steamer Airedale to carry men, horses, and munitions of war to 'i avanaki. She has made two trips,, and transported, besides troops of the line, artillery (100 men and horses), ammunition, and stores. I learn by private. intelligence from England, that the 65th Regt. is to be replaced by the 2nd battalion of the 18th, and the 70th by the 2nd battalion of the 20th 11 ego. TARANAKI. On Friday, 17th March his Excellency had an interview with te Teira and bis people,- and visited Mataitawa and Waitara on 'I hursday. At Wilkinson’s farm the sfth have finished the redoubt and moved into it on Friday 20th nib. - A body of Ngatiruanui are in the I aranalci countryTamati Kaweora, had stated that tlie Taranakis are “ pakeke ” (obstinate) about Tataraimaka A feeling still exists- among tlie settlers that tlie ouly cure of their uncertainty is to have a war and let the Maoris have a thorough and complete beating. In the 1 rovincial Council the Loan Bill for £50,000 on the secuiity of the genei-

al revenue of the Province to reinstate the settlers by liquidating the losses they have sustained, has been passed.’ —Nelson Examiner