SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 215, 21 July 1864, Page 3

SYDNEY.

By the ' Xanthe,' from Newcastle, wc liave received one day's later Sydney intelligence The new s of the last successful engagement at Tuuranga had been received in Sydney and the Sydney Morning Herald devotes an article to the subject, from which we quote the following paragraph, and recommend its perusal to those who hold peculiar but very dissimilar opinions on the advisability of where to iix the so-called frontier line. The defeated and retreating; natives have fallen hack upon other districts, and have been able, in (spite of their adverse iortune, to enlist actively in their support tribes that had previously been neutral, or lmd given thein at most only a silent sympathy. Thev still possess great power ot resistance, and have a huge area of country open to their retreat. As talus the season -ivill permit, it is expedient that every vietoi y should be wrll iollowtd tip. The difficulties ot transit, however, whieh decided the General to act on the delensive after the atl'air of the Uate l'a, may still militate against any extensive inland match. But, so far as resistance is concerned, the opportunities arc more favourable now than they were then. It would he a great point gained to conquer and clear a way right through troin Tauranga to the llorotiu .River. Such a line will have to bo run before the war can be consideud over. A chain of posts will have to be extended across the island in that latitude, and colonisation north of that line etleetually secured against incursions irom the tribes of the centre. That security is not given as yet even to the older settlements,"for, distant as the scat of war now is from Auckland, the settlers on the "SVairoa are still subject to alarms. All uncertainty of that kind in such proximity to the capital must be put an end to before a permanent peace can be guaranteed ; and the Irontier must lie pushed a long way to the southward, Up to the commencement of the present month the subscriptions collected in Sydney toward the relief of the sull'erers by the late Hoods had amounted to the sum of £10,U00. The bushranger Morgan has been hotly pressed by the police but escaped. The Government have placed a sum ot ±,T,OUO upon his head, dead or alive. The market reports and telegrams will be found elsewhere. From .Melbourne we have later dates, but no new s of general interest.