TARANAKI.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 189, 3 May 1860, Page 3

TARANAKI.

[From the Taranaki Herald Extra.] ARRIVAL OF THE “AIRDALE.” Herald Office, April 21, 11 a.nn Since our publication this morning rumours from Auckland have reached us, whicli we cannot ignore, and which it is hard to believe. The substance of them is, that there have been dispatches to the Commander of the Forces here, and also-to the Captain of the Niger, which vessel was under orders for this plaee, directing suspension of warlike operations. The grounds of these dispatches are alleged to be that his Excellency the Governor has been convinced by the arguments of Bishop Selwyn and the late Chief Justice Martin, that he has been morally wrong in undertaking the present warlike operations, and that IV. Kiugi is right in his pretensions. fVe wish our readers to be tranquil respecting this. painful rumour, tho bare possibility -of which must he indeed received as a

public calamity. We have the following reasons for thinking it false. His Excellency has meditated the particular claim of W. Kingi for 12 months; has consulted the Home Government thereon; has had the views of the Rev. Prelate named in the rumour before opening the war. He must be aware that by commencing the war he has altered the relations of settler and maori considerably. He has made amicable dealings difficult with all, impossible with many of the latter, and placed the former in straits from which he could not extricate them by any means at his command in the colony. Let us wait. We have shown before that we can wait. The rumoui’s are absolutely incredible. We believe, then, that he cannot have entered on this war so lightly as the rumour hints, and the present state of the account makes it more absolutely necessary to prosecute, than it was to begin it. The colony can bear the whole burthen, and lie knows the colony supports his action with soul, body, and goods. He has not let us spill our blood and risk the labour of twenty years on a woolgathering expedition, to come home shorn by his own hands.