The Native Rebellion.

New Zealand Herald, Issue 105, 15 March 1864, Page 3

The Native Rebellion.

EAGLAJS". , FROM OCE OWN COKBESFONDENT. ] March R. Iho overland mail from Auckland arriviii yesterday evening, anil just at sunset the • Wonga Wonga ' entered the harbour after a very rough passage. \Ve aro in the last stage of " euiiui " here, if there are any gradations in that pleasant state. March The steamer is fixed here to-day, as it is blowing strong from the westward. She was flying her company's Hag hull-mast high all (lie forenoon yesterday, it child having died on her passage down. March 10. 1- or the last two or three days Ilaglan has been lull of Maoris who have coino liere to attend Navlor's runanga. As far as I can understand tho object of this meeting, Naylor and his people wish to persuade V> illiam Thompson and his party to make terms with tho Government at once, lest "a day should arrive hen no tonus will bo given all. Many of tho more sensible speakers were of opinion that the wish for peace should he expressed by the rebels first. One man said, in so. many words, " Wo, as Queen natives, aro pakehas, and, if wo interf-ru in the matter, the King party will sav that, it was the Europeans who wished for peace, and not them." There has been an enormous consumption of pigs, loaves sharks, peaches melons, &e., and that is certainly the only part of the meeting that was worth noticing. The.iewere something upwards of 100 men present, rile ' Wonga 'Wonga" started for the south at 2 p.m. to-day, and tho ' Storm Bird' is said to be outside now. She may, however, not come in, as there is rather a heavy sea on tho liar. March 11.

The steamer 'Storm liird' arrived from the South this evening, and theretori' tin; steam vessel I chronicled in my last as being outside the harbour must; have been either the ' Flying rhitchman,' or the '"Wonga Wonga' making boards oil' and on to got an otling. !,otters arrived by I;ist night's mail containing instructions which have eventuated in two of the companies here (those of Captains l'icken and Drury) being ordered to the trout,—to what particular locality 1 have not, heard. Tho " shave * now is that the regulars are going to move on: and the last niaori report says that, when the General tret* to some place near Maungatautari (a snot with a"crackjaw name ending in—ihingarangi) SVilliam Thompson wiUho portedly satisfied as to (he u.-elessness of prolonging the struggle, ami will givo up his arms, iV.'c., tJcc. He is said to have held out so long onlv because he is in an intense state of funk tor his personal safety, and lor that of his - tamaiti," King Matutaera. r lhe least asw ell of his magnitude ooidd do, one would think, would be to sacriliee himseif blithe good of his countrymen. <iu second consideration, though, perhaps a ehir,-droits spirit ean't hi; " riz." on potatoe diet. 'I'll.- • K.No.-ls'inr has bo.-n shipping limestone, and starts South with the lust (air wind.