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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 184, 6 October 1866, Page 3

According to the Daily Southern Grossth.r news of the forcible..stoppage.of the &urv'oy ■' in two places near Tauranga is a.most.alarm--ing symptom ofthe disposition bf.the natives. It might be thought thnt these-'w^re the' adts only of a few men who -have not: the ;sym'~' pathy of the great mass of the .natives ;. but tho flight to the bush of a hapu^ taking with* them their &eec_ _' potatoes, a more widely spread disaffection than i t is at -all agreeable 1 ' to th i nk of. So far as -we' 'can' gather,' : *fcb"e'" ' "' survey has been stopped' to th 6 jibi'lii ; of ' tho '* Wairoa river.. When tho NgaiterangiisuT.-"' rendered to the Gpverh'orVafter , -'the : 'fig-ht-''atf' : * < Te Rangi, a block of ot>,oQo"dcFe_ wa_ yielded -" up as payment foi- the offenees-of tlie-tnb ? e.V i Ttwas understood,' it appears, by the* aativef/* that the Wairoa river would be the northenß-'---boundary of the : block'; but oh *-a : surv i e^v being made, it waa fouucl thsi; to'.'i'Belt&e^' 50,000 acres', it wbuld be' necessary to to go a considerable distance over the Wairoa. Whether this has been the cause of' tbe stoppage- we cannot tell, for no reason.seems to have been assigned by the natives, who said that' they acted by the orders of" William Thompson, a most unlikely story. The following letter relative tothe Panama Company, published in the money article of . the Times newspaper,' of the ioth July, must ' have had the .efFect- of increasing the confidence of the shareholders in the company :—- --41, Moorgate-street, I.3th July. Sir — As considerable anxiety has existed among the shareholders in this cpmpany, and the 'mercantile community, as to whether the eteamer K.ikaia would reach Panama in time to commence the mail service to New Zealand and Australia on the appointed day. the 24th June, I should esteem ifc a favor if yoa would announce that shejirriyed at Panama on the 17th Juue, and was ready- to sail on the contract date. The Rakaia performed the voyage from Milford Haven to Panama in 58 days', including all stoppages, the speed ofthe ship, averaging upwards of ten knot 3, notwithstanding that she experienced unusually bad weather. I am, &c, J. Wo R LEV. P.S. — The Bakaia was bruit and engined byMessrs. .Hand olphVElder, and Co., of Glasgow.