LATEST NEWS.

Auckland Chronicle and New Zealand Colonist, Volume 1, Issue 7, 21 December 1842, Page 3

LATEST NEWS.

The R, Y. S. cutter Albatross , G. C. Blackett, Esq., Captain T. Stewart, Arrived cn Monday from the Coast. After diligent enquiry, we have ascertained that the run,ours of the Albatross having been chased by War cAnoes is unfounded. She passed Makatu, about a fortnight Ago,

and saw five or six caubes 'whether war does not appear), pulling after the ludustry, schooner, White, master, and learned from him, that there was some quarrel among the Maoris. The Albatross is going to Coromandel, and not to take in her guns, as has been rumoured. 'l’he latest intelligence from Taurangi, is by the Matilda , cutter, The Victoria anchored in the harbour at two o’clock on Sunday afternoon ; the Matilda left at eight in the evening, up to which period the troops had not been landed. The natives were assembled in numbers at the Pah, but we doubt not, the opinion we have elsewhere expressed, that actual hostilities will be prevented by negociation, will be realized.

The Black Hawk , cutter, came in yesteiday fion the Coast. Nhe brings no later news than the Matilda, Mr, Brodie and Mr. Hargraves arrived yesterday, in a whale-boat, from the Bay of Islands. They report the brig Diana, from Two-Fold Buy, wuh cattle, disposed of at (lie Bay;—the I.owestoffe (schooner), from Launceston, coming on to Auckland, with merchandise ; a>so a Bostonian (U.S.) brig, coming on to Auckland, with a general cargo.