MISSTATEMENT OF THE TIMES.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 94, 2 March 1864, Page 3

MISSTATEMENT OF THE TIMES.

TiiF. small fry of the colonies and elsewhere may be forgiven if they occasionally fall into errors, when we find .-v.eli slaring inaccuracies as the fiiliowini; in the columns of tlm London Tiuta. j'ho 7'iincx has, it npyem-s a Melbourne correspondent, a;id that gi'iilk'insni f.'eiits, juuong other iniittev. of Mew Zealand affairs. A more ridiculous jiuiible of nonsense tiie state, of tilings ill this jjrovineo il has not been our lot. to read, i'apikurn. v.c U-urii, i< «iiuatcd on the Manuhiiu waters, and the disl.iiiee Iroin to the mouth of ihe Wniroa l.i, we now k'lirn, ionictliins less than siv niile«;. At the time we ourselves tramped, half the distance with a military escort from the W'uiroa redoubt to I'nrnkura, we found it a good twelve miles and a bittock. Then we are gravely informed that about three miles from tin: sra. alongside of the Galloway mk-übt, is the mission station of Arehdea'.-on\Brown. Arehdeiu-on Brown's station is at Taurangn. not "Wairoa, and is. as the. crow Hies, something under a hundred miles from the Gallowuy redoubt—(wo have not the map beside us to give the exact distance) ; and there never was ar,y mission station at any time at (he "VTairoa. " Then we come back to the a I tank of the loth of September Inst. This attack was not made on the Galloway redoubt at all, but on the. settler's stockade on the side- of the river; and then the poor Auckland iiille. Volunteers, who have had so much hard and dirty -work and so little pleasurable eveitement in the way ol' having a crack nt the niggers, are iirnoml altogether in the. aii'airs of the ICth, With, 17th, and ISth of Seprember. for it is said that Major Lyons had with him 30 of the 18th. Now the men Major Lyon commanded on all occasions were a mixed lot of Auckland Riile Volunteers, and Waikaio Militia, and all UlO e?:pedii,i.->i7s ivere principally composed of the Volunteers. Is o doubt there will be enough said at home of the dislike, of the iNuw Zealand settlers to serve as lnilitia, and there are those amongst us mlio endeavour for the purpose of indirectly serving Maori interest.;* to raise such an idea.' It is too bad then for ignorant correspondents who know no more of (Jieir subject than if they -were -.vritini? of the interior of to misrepresent nilairs here, and rob tno local forces of the credit of the little services they have had the luck to see. It is not their fault thut they have luivo not lfd:e:i purt in the various engageniesits. The extract iVoiit the Timr.i is as fellows -.—

T noiv leave Hi? WnifcJiio to direit the uttor.tipn of your reiidoi-s to imotlier f-jol. From l'3pii»\ira. ou tin-waU r.-. ot" the Mituuluu lo llr.it purt ul' tlu-Guif of Houraki, which iV known >w \S r ai!ie!;i the bruiidlli ol'tlie island is under six iniica. About tiii; midcilo of this six milts' isthmus, «s i' limy l>o ccllci. is tlie Wiviroii river. It runs I'roui tlu- .-<'>iiili to tinnorth, inclining to liio ciial>Muil 113 it iU-mtjuU.. About Iliren miles from the si-u ie, or v;itii.-i* t.':is. Brown's inisvion station. lie is Aivhii-neon o!' i'nat ctistrk't, ,-.u exot'lleiu Dean, .1 u'Oixl Aiapvi i.i-!io!:ir, iu\d hiW !ilw«ys lifCii in ntiir-uco «ilh that viiin iVl'c-w Tiimilmuit. Well, vhm iSir George (Ircy oii'i-ndcd Tamilmnii (properly, us I believe), the iatu-r jjin-e Arciideaeon Jtfrowu notice io quit, U3 Wairoa be attacked, aud he, Taiuiliana, might not be ::ble Io protect bin iVissd Par&mii (Maori ior Brcwu). So tlio Aichdeacou quitted vriti: hie family. Kovr, tiiia erigut to be j'.wad Ua ii.-. ■l'uuibi--A , a «os!it>- Is

waa a rcnwnnMc piueo of jjra'itudo to tbo Aivlv.lea- I con for cnriblini Tamihanu to write tine letters to tbe j newspaper durinp , tlio Tarannki war, pa: - is of which ] appeared at th.- time in the Time*. lu shsrt, Mr. ; Brov.r,. or persons under Mr. Browu'b direction, ' iva'dy tiiuyht-- Hr. Tamihar.a hi.- own So ; the \wmiuig cr notice to quit was only .".'/« (s.-itiiiucv • tioa or payment) (or pnst favours. Ar Wairoa, close ■ to thi> uiiasion-stntioii. tlieiv is a riijjubt Ka'.ueil ; Galloway. On the niornmi: or the 15th September. ; 111': Mauris iiia.lt , ii'i attack on tliio reuuiiV.. They ! coinweiicivl Ilieir aiUWi from the hu-ii in »iie n-iir of ; the house of a sekirv named Xieho'l. :in'! j-iiot at his ! fon, ti child of nine year* old. and the Sail passed j lhn>u«h the. lilt!-.' fellow's cap, furtunalely without, : injuring him. .Uajov Ly-jn, the oi'.icir (■onuviuiiciing, j advanced with 25 men Iwi:.-.-* during llie d:iy, anJ r. ' good deal of lirini; ; result no', known, | as the Maoris did not cr.H'r.-;i'." iVcm itie.bi'.sh. On i tlw 171U the iiiilues ioiii>«v'i th. , attack ; they v.\to ' opposed hv Lit'Ute;:arit Mtorio :i;i.l 'M of t?io YTairoa | l.'iiiw, j.iiiirtl by Maor L-.-o.i, n-i;l, :'.O of ihu lMrh. | Two l!a;)ris were hillcu, and they voMvatei to Orau. I ilvi'ppinn- their loa:U. In thi" al'tornoon, llaiov ! Lyon with about:,.", men pro -tv-cUvl to Otau to liiv on Iho the native v.imi'.'S or huts. Tlie )ilnec was Jopfrtc,!, but th-.'re w.iv evidences th.it ih.'v mii-t hare sul'.ered from th: , lire of ih > inoviiinj;. *Tho whav.s I wero riddled with sisot ; t!i r." w*i- Klor..', in pvDt'u , " I sion, both insiji , and out. T«','i Miiori n:ii!i. la.'CTi , .! j wi:h blood T.--.X luilu-t hcU'f. in •.■ueb, nvr: picked up. ' JSeveral ijiniH - .v. i'e f akcli. .''!:1 ;i :;oni di:ii of p':un iev taken from s-.-itlfr.-' hynscs ■.•.!. roeovi-ivrl. Tiic-v ; mil si have- ma.ie. a or. .•ij.'t-.ie :•".;•, r.:. Ths volit::- '• tpore ?.i-2 liiUfJi prai-0.1 for their ;:r.':.T.v.:-y. 'i'hi-> land towarJs unci upon tlu Walkatu up tj t'.n- hleit dates.