CAMP ALEXANDRA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 276, 30 September 1864, Page 9

CAMP ALEXANDRA.

[i ItOM ill" It OWN COIiIiESVONBENT.] September 5. The surveyors were much alarmed a lew days since by lhe upj cm ance of armed Maoris, about four iii i!. * west ot the I amp. On receipt of the intelligence Colonel tlar.ltam dispatched a party of the 2i;:: \'."ailciso Cegiincm, consisting of one Captain, one i.icuiciiaci, a'iid forty men, ill t lie direction indicated, but although they marched lor a considerable < li~; .nice through swamps, almost up to their necks in some places, they tailed lo come ill contact "with the ee.ciuy. Septi-mber 19. The cscfijic 01 llio rebels lias caused a sensation at 111irs ]ini-' place certainly nut second to the sensation caused in Auckland itself. How this matter is ti> be fx iiliimetl piiazlcs us. One thing, however, is cei lain ; liw Y'.'nikato men cjjj/ct an explanation of .'i matur which cliches them so vitally—not a quibble, or Mi].eriici:d ■statement, hut something tangible. There are two s-ogent reasons for this:—Firstly. It is patent tliat there are many influential chiefs amongst them, whoso sentiments arc known to ho •" war to the knife with the pakeha." Secondly. What.may tiie eSect of such a contretemps have at the present crisis Both of these reasons atfect the WaiUato men more than it can possibly attect any oiiier men in the island, inasmuch, as the prospect of tiie withdrawal of the greater part of the Imperial t loops a thort time hence, "will leave the entire brunt of a (possible) severe campaign to be borne by them. 13e it understood that they do not ilinch from it for a single moment —far l'rom it. Nothing would they gloiy in so much as to meet with and tigfit with their wily' toe. 'lhey cannot understand the escape of these rebels though. Tiie Snag-drawing machine is forcing up daily huge snags lrom"the bed of the river, and there is no doubt whatever that in process of time, by the aid of dredging, the river "SYaipa will bo made navigabieat all seasons of the year.