COMMODORE CRACROFT. C.B.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 90, 26 February 1864, Page 3

COMMODORE CRACROFT. C.B.

! 1* iiom letters Iroin Port ivoyal. Jamaica. dated | oth November. \\o are glad io learn that our . I gallant friend continued in the enjoyment of irood i health. "We are permitted to furnish afew i extracts:— .j " A stormy time." lie says, "has set in unon ! you ; and it will be very long before the cutlass ' will be sheathed for a full due. All she accounts ! we have seen, nml we have read ewvthing. ' point only to one solution of the native dililcultv•; : this be the last one: no more hollow truces : to be set r.side at convenience. It appears more ; than probable that a war has commenced which ; ten years may not see the end of. unless the remnant of the m iserabie infatuated savage-; | mate their submission before. See how leiig the Maroon war in this very island of Jamaica i lasted: and thev were but a handful compared ! with tile numbers that your bellicose tribes can j : muster. 1 wish it may be true that theC.ovem- : n.ent are going to send seme .Siklis to (ictieral Cameron, ami supplement them with Jvaiiirs; the la: ter would heat the Maoris with their own j j weapons. I "1 hone soon to read of r. flotilla on theTaupo ; lake—(«hst a uracd country tha' mu.-t be on ! the borders or' i; l and thai the natives have lis-! : a precious g-.-od 1 : • k11r_x :rom General Cameron. ' I I