NEW ZEALAND.

Press, Volume II, Issue 44, 15 March 1862, Page 5

NEW ZEALAND.

WELLINGTON. The following is from a supplement of the ' New Zealand Advertiser.' Monday morning. March 10. The Governor has not arrived. The s.s. Storm Hied came into port yesterday afternoon, and the disappointment felt on learning that his Excellency was" not on board may ba better imagined than described. The following explanation is given by i.ho Ilawke's Bay Herald :— •• On Thursday evening, the 27th ult., Mr. Fox arrived at Napier, by the overland route from Auckland and Taupo, bringing the unwelcome intelligence tliat his Excellency's journey southward had been unavoidably postponed. Mr. 'Fox. ou arriving at Taupo, learned by letter that Commander Cator, of IfAt.S. Fawn, bad expressed himself as unable, owing to the state of the ship's boilers, to steam to Tauranga—where his Excellency was to be landed— .md would have, in consequence, to convey his Excellency under canvas; in the present state of feeling in mc Waikato, the time that might thus be frittered away in a coasting voyage was of too much importance to permit his Excellency to undertake ifc $ in consequence the journey has been indefinitely postponed." THe""liower Waikatos had assumed a menacing aspect, but they had been dissuaded by the Kingites from offering any armed opposition for the present" to the operations of the military. '!'he following opinion with reference to the policy of the Governor, which we extract from the ' Hawke's Buy Herald,' is the one generally received here :— " Sir George fGrey in carrying forbearance to the inmost limit, does so with the threefold purpose of <l'.'l;oching those who are disposed to be loyal, of {raining time for preparation, and of depriving the ultra-peace party of the slightest pretext for objecting to the blow which inevitably will fall, sooner or W'-t. Certainly if the colony should be forced into a war. there will be no possibility of questioning the justice or humanity of the Government, so far as the uarivos are concerned; while it is evident that the very conciliatory measures of Sir George Grey will •"■win some of his opponents, and even procure him should the infatuation of the Kingites lead inon to persist in their rebellion." Meetings of natives, numbering 1000 to 1500, were b •'■•l-held at Hawke's B:iy. one of which Mr. Pox -''"'-idea, but the Maoris did not appear over anxious v> :»ci'|.pt the new institutions—they wanted the • 'in<;ira and a number of other vexed questions **Wed first. 'acre are a large number of natives at present in »«h!ngton, some ou their way to celebrate the anni!T rs: j"7, 0 -' l! ' e h° istiil ?? ot " the'Xing flag at Otaki, on '"• t-th instant, aud others who have" come in for :iu purpose of meeting the Governor ; 150 of these, ?'? 'inderyf/iud. are to dine at the Government Build»i_* this day.