The New-Zealander. AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1855.

New Zealander, Volume 11, Issue 988, 3 October 1855, Page 2

The New-Zealander.

AUCKLAND, WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1855.

be just ami fear nut: Let all the ends thou aim’st at, he thy Country's, 1 l.y lion's, anil Truth's.

The Overland Mail has put us in possession of one number of (he Taranaki Herald. The contents aiv unimportant. .New Plymouth is now abundantly garrisoned. The transport ship Duke of Portland,” arrived from Wellington on the Blh ultimo, with ' a drall oi iho Doth Uegl., numbering upwards < of -dt) bayonets, under the command of Major i Murray. Everything appears to he tranquil. V* e learn, through a private channel, that there was a rumour of Rat a tore having with- 1 drawn with a considerable force into theinlcrior, 1 wit!) the intention of retiring within an intrenched pah to be thereafter constructed. ■ 1 here wore other rumours of further acres- ; sions to the opposing parties from the neigh- , hour hood of Queen Charlotte's Sound, and oilier localities in I lie Middle island. ' Sh. moichants ol t aranaki appear to tic bent upon I :k; establishment of a direct trade between i England and New Plymouth; and, with that view, application was about to be made to the Messrs. Voting to dispatch fine of their vessels ] periodically to \i*w Plymouth. A public dinner ■ wasgi.enlo Captain Seymour of the tine ship '■ Duke or' Portland.” t tie "/mgan” bad not arrived from Mann- 1 ken at the dale ol the departureot the mail.