POVERTY BAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 541, 7 August 1865, Page 7

POVERTY BAY.

rpEOMOUE OIVS COBEUSPOJrD.BNT._; I July 25. The natives arc nearly ell gone over to the Hau lluus and sav they are determined to retake Waikato and all the confiscated land. They say it show* our weakness not to punish tho Opotiki people for the murder of their missionary, which v.-J would certainly have done it we had strength The Queen's tiu" wtu hoisted here on tho 20th mst. in the presence of about 100 natives, who pretend to ! belong to the Queen ; all the rest nro Hau iluus > lam afraid we shall have to leave this place before | Ion". The Aucklund Government take no notice of I us only fur Mr. McLean, Superintendent of Han-Ice'a i L!av, coming here now and then, and letting the ! natives know that we are not altogether forgotten by ! our countrymen, wo mi-lit hare been all murdered. | Could not.'the .Superintendent of Auckland get th ! niavi steamers to call here on their pass igos tiom ! ft apier to Auckland ? It "would have a good moral ell'ect j I hear that the Hau Tlaus are completely snubbed j at the Wairoa in consequence of the prompt action i taken by the Napi-r Government in tending volunteers and building blo.-khouses tiiri-e. ■ The Tawci'u. is chartered next trip to take tho half- ! i-jtsto and native scholars belonging to Bishop I William's school to tho Kawau. --viiioh tho Governor I bas put at (ho Bishop's disposal.