NAVAL AND MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 4, Issue 189, 4 May 1861, Page 4

NAVAL AND MILITARY MOVEMENTS.

['New Zealander,' April 20.] H.M. ship Fawn, 17 guns, Commander Cator, arrived in the Manukau from Taranaki on Wednesday morning. The Governor, Captain Steward, the Attorney-General, the Native Minister, and Dr. White, 65th Regt., were passengers. H.M. Niger, 13 guns, Captain' Cracroffc, arrived from Taranaki a few hours after the Fawn, bringing with her a detachment of the 65th Regiment, comprising Captain Turner, Lieutenants Warren, White, and Talbofc, Ensigns Gold and Spiller, and 350 non-commissioned officers and privates, under command of Colonel Young.' The detachment was played into barracks by the band of the 14th Regiment on Thursday afternoon. The head quarter division of the gallant Tigers may be expected from Taranaki in the course of this afternoon or to-morrow — the Niger and Fawn having sailed for Taranaki on Thursday morning ~ - The valley of the Waitara is once more left in solitude All the redoubts have been abandoned, all the troops withdrawn. The 40th were the first to move off the ground, from their front position at No. 7 ; and, as they passed No. 6, the 65th manned the parapets, greeting them with lusty cheers, which were as lustily returned. The 65th themselves then fell in and commenced their march towards the camp at Waitara. In passing No. 1, the 57th cheered them, and immediately afterwards marched into Waitara. The return of the 65fch to Auckland has been a sudden and agj eaable su- prise to their many fr.ends at.dacquaintances, by whom they were heartily welcomed. We have been told that the whole regiment is to be immediately concentrated here, that portion stationed at VVanganui to be relieved by the draft of the 14th at present at Waitara, which is to be garrisoned by the 12th Regiment. We have been further informed that the 57th are to be stationed at New Plymouth ; and that the 40th are to take up their winter quarters in this city, where the Artillery and Engineers may likewise be expected. ["New Zealander,' April 24.] H.M. ships Niger and Fawn are plying a busy trade, as troopers, between Taranaki and Auckland, at which latter port, since the evacuation of the Waitara, the principal portion of the forces serving in If ew Zealand are being concentrated. Within the past week the Niger has brought up upwards of seven hundred men. She arrived on her last trip on Sunday evening, having sailed from Waitara on the previous afternoon, with the head quarters of the 65th Regiment, consisting of 314 noncommissioned officers and soldiers, and Captain Buck, Lieutenants TJrquhart, Whitbread, Toker, Lewis, Pennefather, and Pa?an, Dr. Grace, staff surgeon, under command of Colonel Wyatt. '.Che troops were greatly crowded, and suffered much during their wet and tempestuous passage, the corvette's decks being ankle deep from the quantity of rain that was falling, and which could not hnd vent at the scuppers, the decks being encumbered with baggage and stores. The gallant fellows inarched into Albert J&u'raeks on Monday', where their tents are now pitched, at one of the most unpropitious times of a long and fine season, a hard gale blowing, and torrents of rain descending. The Fawn sailed from waitara on the evening before the Niger, but, as she has not yet made her appearance, it is supposed that she has sought shelter at Port Hardy unto] the weather moderates. Captain MacGregor, Lieiitenant Wrixon, Ensign Butler, and 120 of the 65th are on board. Both the Niger and Fawn return for more troops from Taranaki as soon as wind and weather permit. The Niger has been working double tides almost ever since her arrival in New Zealand. The line clipper schooner Tawera arrived from Sydney on-Monday night, bringing intelligence to the lltn inst. A British steam frigate was entering Sydney as the Tawera was leaving, supposed to have been the Miranda, the relieving ship of our good and trusty Niger. H.M. ship Cordelia, 11 guns, Commander Hume, which arrived in Sydney from Taranaki ou the 22nd March, went at once into Cockatoo Dock to refit. The following ships were taken up for the conveyance of the 70th (Surrey) ILagiment from Calcutta to Auckland:—Daniel Rankin, 1017 tons register, at 2SB rupees per head; Minden, 917 tons register, at 270 rupees per head ; and Louisa, (tonnage unknown,) at 255 rupees per head. These ships may be hourly looked for, the Minden having sailed on the 7th February.