The Daily Southern Cross.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1782, 6 April 1863, Page 3

The Daily Southern Cross.

I.IJCKO NON TIRO. "If I have beon extinguished, yet thwo rise A thousand beacons fiom the ?pnrk I bore."

MONDAY, APRIL G, 18G3.

Stnce writing our monthly Summary article, we have received fuller particulars, and later dates from the Waikato, which we append :—: —

UPPER WAIPA. (rnoji orit own correspondent.) March 26, 1803. On the 2itli instant, Mr. Commissioner Gorst visited Waipa, on his return to Otawhao. In the evening he found that the natives had attacked the printing office of the school, gutted it, and that the spoil had been carried away to Kihikihi. Rewi Tukorehu and his band were encamped hi the paddock w ith the inleutiou of remaining there until Mr. Gorst went away. On the following day the Rev. A. Reid wont over to Otawliao. He reasoned with Rewi and persuaded him to draw off his forces, Mr. Gorst having given him a promise in writing to go in three weeks from that time, if ordered by the Governor so to do. Rewi stated that it had been his intention to have burnt dow n the whole place that night. Taati and Tioreore pretended to take Mr. Gorst's part. They blamed Rewi and his men for breaking the leg of the press, and for coming armed, though agreeing with him in the propriety of expelling the magistrate. Being his near neighbours, and having been on friendly terms with him; Maori etiquette required that they should say a word or two in his favour. The Ngatimaniapoto tribe by whom this raid was made, are perhaps the most sta-enuous and consistent supporters the Maori King has got; they were the first to go to Taranaki, and the last to return; they kept so well under cover that they lost but few men, and they are not a little proud of having been the victors at the battle of the " Rotten Potato Water " (the engagement with Major Nelson). The natives lower down the river have pulled clown the school and Court-house Governor Grey was having erected at William To Wheoro's place, a few miles above Maungatawliiri ; they have floated all the timber down there. Mr. Swainson had his fowling piece taken from him as ho was coming up the river. I believe he managed to recover it subsequently. All European canoes coming up the river are ransacked in search of spirituous liquors. The Pihoihoi of the 9th March, 1863, contains a remarkable letter from the Rev. Riwai Te Ahu to William King, and that chief's reply. He tells William King that if ho persists in refusing to have the Waitara dispute investigated, "the English,gentlemen, the'bisliopt and ministers, wlio took Ms part, toill he divided, and that tlw words of Governor Broime and hisdand purchasers will he believed."' William King replied, " that he has »o thought of having Waitar* tried." , . , , .-,,:-.

•Men and -women carried into slavery many years ago frequently discover their relations among deputations visiting the King at Ngaruawahia. All this fraternizing among themselves would be very gratifying if we did not know that a hostile feeling to us is at the bottom of it. The natives generalty appear to expect that Governor Grey will resent the expulsion of his magistrate and schools. When told of the folly of their conduct, and of the hopelessness of resistance, they say their object ia "to die nobly" (kin mate pai). There aro several haughty spirits among them, who, [ bolieve, would blow their own brains out rather than submit to English law or any civilised law. But there can be no doubt if the mass get a few good thrashings, they would yield as other highspirited races have done before now. You may remember a drunken Soldier struck a native at Taranaki some little time ago. A great deal has been made of this affair. If Governor Ore}' thought that these peoplo would permit a reactionary journal to be published in their midst, he lias been widely mistaken. By moving the troops on the territory claimed by their allies, whom they are pledged to assist, ho has broken the truce, and must now be prepared to meet the hostility of tho Waikato tribes. R.