LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2542, 26 February 1869, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[bt electric telegraph.] Wellington, Feb. 25,7.33 p.m. The London Times, in commenting | on the telegraphic news of the Poverty Bay massacre, says—"The agency " which has produced this calamity is " the almost incredible negligence of " the colony itself, and the colony is " best left to deal by itself with the " effects of its own inertness." It condemns the employment of friendly natives. Field-marshal Burgoyne, on. the contrary, advocates their employment, and writes to the Times, pointing out tactics to be used in Maori warfare. Mr Travers writes to the Independent, vindicating the self-reliant policy, but saying he and other supporters of it expected that the Government would act with promptitude, vigour, and foresight, and obtain the most skilled means for meeting the emergency. He ' also Bays that, in many respects, bis anticipations have been disappointed. He urged the Ministry, some time ago, to send home an agent to enlist 800 or 1000 men from the Abyssinian and other regiments, under officers and a commander approved by the War Office, and armed with the latest improved weapons. His suggestions were not adopted, and the policy carried out is not what he understood by Belf-reliance, He suggests now the propriety of honestly offering special rewards to those men of the Colonial force who see the war out, and fair compensation to those who suffer personally,, or through relatives in service. It is too late now to send to Eugland. Mr Travers concludes by deprecating the systematic abuse of every act of the Government, and of the efforts made to impress the rebels with the idea that we are unable to cope with them. In a postscript, he notices the Taranaki rising, and says in the circumstances he will urge the Government to retain in the colony the present garrison of the 18th Eegiment till steps be taken to meet; the new emergency, and concludes by saying, " I do hope that the disaffection of a portion of the European population in the Middle Island will not be allowed by the Government to weigh against the necessity of the most strenuous efforts to protect the threatened districts." Auckland advices state positively that Te Kooti is encamped about 30 miles up the Wioeka river. Wi Kingi has offered us his help, in caseofan attack on Opotikior Tauranga. The wreck of the Sb Yincent, offered for sale by auction to-day, was bought in at £l. The Blanche goes on a trip to the Auckland Islands next week. Murphy, the suspected accomplice in the murder of MrWhiteley at Taranaki, deserted from the 57th Eegiment three years ago, and has been living with Maoris; since and before the raid he had uttered vague hints of something being about to happen. The Reception Committee met today, and resolved to have a procession on the Prince's landing, and a public ball during bis stay; only one address to be presented, and everything to be as inexpensive as possible.