THIS NOTITIT.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2304, 8 December 1864, Page 4

THIS NOTITIT.

The colonial gunboat 'Sai.d fly ' sailed for the Noith yesteivlay, to biing away the Rotoiua natives who weie teported to have joined the lebels in the neigh bouihood of Mahmxngi. We may state (hat steamer was sent by the late Minisfciy with the same object, and that only one of these natives came away. The chief 13.mlI 3 .ml has Leen sent by the Goveruoi on .1 mission to the lebels at IVliihiu.uigi. We are iufoimod by a gfiitleinau who letuined fiom the Knipain, and who lefttheie on Tuesday last, that all was quiet theie. A coi respondent ft om Mougonui says that he has jecenlly beui on a tour in the Noith about Mongonni, and on the West Coast, and lie sa'v no disposition on the p\it of the natue to ike there. He had con\eised with some of the Ttiiawa natives in tbe extreme Nwth, and he did not think they woie at all likely to do so, except it shou'tl be fio;n tlio f.ict Unit they .ne \ctyMlolt of food ji'st now, and ha\e been leducul, whiih they nevci ha>e been bcfoie, to eating fein loot. O'ip eouespoiident st.ite=, as an illustration of how the law ib adininis teied in those paits — that a native, belonyine; to a section of ilie Apoinii, a \eiy uninflucnti.il lube, was leconlly auesfcsd for eloilinj, but was so wtll tientul in his iinpiisonmunt that, on being asked him he lilted it, heu'plied that ho liked it veiy much, and that the coipot il (policpiiian) was veiy good to him He v.v allowed his liberty dining the day, and was occasionally employed by Ihe fcltleis in Alongonui, anil allogrthei seemed pleased with the change in his position. The natives belonging to the influential tiibes declined that they would not have allowed any of tlicii •jiumber to be taken. There is a upoit fiom the. Noitli th it the natives ahoufc llokianga are not in the most tianquil slite.