MILITARY.
It will be seen by our Correspondents' letters, that detachments of several corps are on their way to Auckland, with the ultimate destination of Taranaki in view. We hear, also, that it is possible now that the Northern difficulty lias been staved off, by the consent of the escaped prisoners to live quietly in their pah at Omaha, without plundering the settlers, so long as the Governor will continue to supply them with provisions and other comforts, the General will take with him some '1000 troops to Taranaki, which with those already there, will make anyavailable field force of o,ooomen. Speaking of the Omaha affair, we heaivthat the account given by us yesterday in theletterof our correspondent from Omaha is correct. The ' Victoria ' left Auckland by order of His Excellency,on a secret mission to Omaha,and the negotiations of Major Cooper ojj the part of the Governor. with the escaped rebel prisoners, ended, as we informed our readers yesterday, in the insrlorious compromise of feeding them into quiet. What effect this evidence of our weakness will have on the minds of the Natives from Cook's Straits to the North Cape, we need not tell our readers.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 289, 15 October 1864, Page 5
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