AUCKLAND.

Bruce Herald, Volume III, Issue 69, 3 August 1865, Page 9

AUCKLAND.

Eesignation jof, Lieut. r QeneraJ[, Sir Iluncan Cameron, li .&&—By this' mail ' the General rec&v%d ari' ; 6fiickl intimation^ stating that inasmuch as the Imperial,. (Government were sib&mm* reduce the JSew Zealand command, his appTjcatibn to return^ Europe had been favorably .received.'" His successor in command Vwiii/ 1^ j^r^adier^General Ghiite, C.8., how conimandiu^ij.the' .troopi' in Australia. General , Chute. is;,Ayell and favorably known in. Auckland, where he served in command of the 70th 'Regiment, with Colonel, now MajorGeneral* Galloway. . JHls.niilitary experience thus, been very considerable, baying held an important separate "command in India during the mutiny.': [; : G.ene t ral r Uhu|e's Indian experience may be! of .use' hejFe..f The date fixed by Sir Duncan 'GaWe^ori for Miis departure is the Ist August next. ij Hefwill tske with him his personal staff, con^istintfof (3olone^ Pitt, Military Secrelaiy;fln.d',Go,lbivA'M i K eilt arid | Lieut. St^^illv^^G.^,/'^!^ 'J^K p B -' Deputy-Q'uarterniaster-General; tiplbnel Carey, C.B, I^:lfflty-A(lj.utantVtierieral; and Major Paul, Major of staff officers of the army, .remjyn in the coloriy. Mr Duncan" Cameron had trgquently applied, for permission to return $p.Eu.fope,;biit.;leiave was steadily refused ! t£n til '.it ' xtasVdeterniined to reduce the tbrc^ ; r|n-'t)^e"c9l : QnyVb);loW'a lieu tenant-fienerai'scoiinniai.id, and tbieri his request was at once accedej[l to. " .', "iA^riii-etirig was held in Auckland^ on" the." l^tTb,: at 'which it was resolved to present Geueral'VP.^ n^ ro ri with an address and a .the ci^st of^^ which, 500 guineas, is :tp;fbe';r ; arsed l>y siibseription and sent to London, tp'j 'purchase' it.— 'Southern Cross," 18th Ju\y.j } [,J U \j'^,'\ " ['."■ '' Brigadier- General^ Chute. neral Jrev -riQhute, wbo attains the command in New: Zealand on the departure of General Cameron, was promoted to the command of the Australian- station on the 6th Marcl), 1863. and received his- promotion to a Major-Gene-ralship on the 9th April, - The datts of his promotions are/given as follows in Hart's Arnvpliist 10th August, 1832,5^-lieu.tienant, ,28th October, lSSß^.c'aptain,;2n J d J August, 1839; major, 23rd April, .184^; 7 lieutenant-colonel, 14th December, 1849; colonel, 28th NovemWh, 1854; major- 1 general, 9th I April, 1 864. brigadier General Chute v it will be r^mvinbertd., was promoted to the '"command -of ; ihe -Australian station whilst serving with the 70th Regiment in New T^ea^and. "H« had ; preyipus^ly had command of: a brigade in India,* at AllaKabad, 1 and then left with his regiment for JNejw, Zealand. r . Removal of Colonial Forces from Tauranga. — »». c state ; "d c in'our issue s''of5 ''of yesterday that the Egmont was chartered by the Government to convey 350;0f the -Ist Waikatp Regiment from Taurahga to J Auckland^ but that i hv consequenice of ;Colpn.el fJ! Greer ? s, absence when the Egmont called, ! Lieuteriarit-Coioiel Shuttleworth, who wasiiri domriiarid, refused to allow them to be removed. The necessary authority having now been obtained, the Egmont was to leaye,atran early^hpuiythis morning, to. bring 1 these i nien ; up.- !j i i bid.-. i - i ."-. . ! . .> j.ii'.