LATEST NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

Bruce Herald, Volume II, Issue 41, 19 January 1865, Page 4

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

The following was published as a ' Daily Times ' extra on Tuesday.

Airdale has air! red from the North.

The Governor had abandoned his intention of visiting the South. His ostensible reasoii was, in the first instance, tha* he liad no vessel — all the men-of-war having .jeen engaged. Oa the Esk's arrival from Sydney it was arranged that he should leave in her on the 7th. His luji^a^e was shipped, and 'ie proceeded to thjr jetty. Second thoughts letermined him to remain. Full explanations are probably sent to Major Richardson by this mfiil. It U generally understood that the Comaiodore and General advised His Excellency not to leave Auckland, but that the Ministry advised otherwise. In this matter he deems imperial interest to . require chat he should act contrary to Ministers' •advice.

Mr Sewell, Major Atkinson, and Mr Man tell were still in Auckland, as was ilso General Cameron. "■ ■ ''. \

Portions of the Colonial Secretary's de* partment and the Treasury arrived in WeU iington by the Air-dale. The Native department has received peremptory orders to follow, and part ot their documents ' have >een shipped. :■ - • The 'Southern Cross' congratulate* Vucklund on getting rid of a great liin* In n c to good government of the natives. It is openly stated that Dr Featherstone has been urgently required to proceed to

England by the February o?aU, with - a view to finance.

Dr Feathersfbae will probably await a personal conference with the Premier, shortly to arrive from Canterbury, before accepting cr de-dining tjhe offer. The statement that he has accepted it is not true.

The site for the Government residence and domain has been chosen iti the Tana kori Road and Wade's Town, The cost of buying out the present owners is to be referred to the arbitration of Messrs Hunter and Waring Taylor. The Province is to be asked to buy the Nestpne Reserve of 75 acres, and close by, for a park. ;

A reconnoitering party went out to a pah at Rangariri on the 7th, and found only two old women.

Another expedition of 600 men started on the i lth. They went to the neighborhood of the fortified pah on the Wanganui River. The natives showed fight by firing a few shots, and the military returned.