IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 34, 26 August 1863, Page 3

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

(From the New Zealand Aug. 13.) The Auckland was engaged for three days by the General Government, for the purpose of watching the mouth of the Wairoa and the Thames Rivers. The Auckland brings 13 cases of rifles for Wellington. No important military event had taken place, except a movement made by General Cameron against the Native encampment at Paparata, a place distant about fifteen miles from the Queen's redoubt at Pokeno. It will convince out settlers that the Maories are not such a formidable enemy as a run-holding Government, their hired scribes, and their Missionary allies, have endeavored to make us believe The natives have had to desert the ranges and fly to the Waikato for food as well as shelter. From this, too, the settlers in this Province may learn a lesson; neither black soldiers nor white can be kept together without a supply of provisions. In the former war at Taranaki we stupidly supplied the former with a Commissariat at the settlers' cost. On the whole we consider the news received by the present mail to be such as will reassure country settlers, and at the same time convince the philo-Maori party, not excepting, we should think, even Dr. Featherston himself, that no peace can be possible until the King natives have been brought into subjection. That great favorite of this party, William Thompson, who has been exalted into a Maori patriot by some of their orators, and by others magnified into a hero or demi-god, has announced in the most savage terms his intention to take up arms against us, and " slay and spare not," armed and unarmed alike. In consequence of this intimation, Archdeacon Brown and all the settlers of Tuaranga had left for Auckland. All the civilizing influences that have been brought to bear upon this chief have been entirely thrown away. Instead of retiring from the scene of strife—as was represented by the party who have made him a sort of a god for their idolatry —he had gone to the East Coast to rouse the natives against the pakehas. The actual words he used in a kind of manifesto addressed to Archdeacon Brown were, " I will not spare the unarmed or their property." He concludes by defining the character of the struggle—it is to determine what race is the stronger. In consequence of this manifesto, the whole of the East Coast natives are up in arms. We stated in our summary that a Government agent bad been dispatched to Australia for the purpose of obtaining Volunteers for Waikato, and we had heard that that person would be no less a person than the Native Minister; but we doubted whether Mr. Bell, who could not administer native affairs at so great a distance from the centre of the population as Wellington, would think of going himself to Sydney, and thus leave the colony altogether. It turns out that such is the case, and we rejoice to hear it. He will make a better ambassador than Native Minister at times like the present. In company with Major Pitt and Mr. Gorst, he has gone to Sydney in the Claude Hamilton, to engage the services of 2,000 men as military settlers. Mr. Russel, who was a member of the Cabinet, without office, has been appointed War Minister. The idea of summoning the General Assembly under such circumstances appears to have been abandoned. The ship Norwood arrived at Auckland on the 6th with the remainder of the 18th Regiment, a company of the Royal Engineers, and 25 boys of the Royal Navy. The barque Acacia was lost on the South Head of Hokianga harbor, on the 28th ult. The pilot was on board, and all the crew was saved. The battery of Royal Artillery stationed at Melbourne was under immediate orders for Auckland. The Avon had made a trip of six miles up the Waikato river. All the native pahs on its banks were deserted.