POVERTY BAY.

The Sturt arrived in porfc yesferday morning, having called at Poverty Bay qii her way from Matata. j . , ' ', ;."" We expected^.a. correspondent's letter from Turanganui, but have been .disappointed. < We 'learn, however, that the Native Land Court had been sitting there, and that a good deal of business had been done. The land question is at length finally settled, but by no means in a satisfactory manner. The deed of cession said to have been obtained by the Hon. J. C. Richmond was not even produced in court ; but the native owners, or at least the persons calling themselves such, voluntarily ceded I*o,ooo acres of flat land at the back of the bay, in three blocks, for the purpose of a military settlement, and 30,000 acres of rough hand on the hills inland. All the rest, with the exception of the old purchases by resident settlers, is to become the fee simple of the remnant of the Poverty -Bay natives, without any nice distinction, if any, between loyal and disloyal men. Such at least is the state ofthe case as told us verbally, hut we regret that, on so important a subject, no written Communication should have been forwarded us. On Friday last, the 2nd inst., there was a very solemn ceremony at Poverty Bay. On that day the bodies of all the settlers killed at the original massacre were exhumed and re-interred in a piece of land set apart for the purposes of a cemetery, about tbree miles from Turanganui. The bodies, 28 in number, were placed in 12 coffins — each family being buried by itself. The whole population, civil and military, j were present on the mournful occasion. The burial service was impressively conducted by the Veri. Archdeacon Williams, and a volley over the newly made graves by a firing party told off for tbe purpose, brought to a close the sad, and in many respects painful, ceremony.