The New Zealand Herald. AUCKLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1865

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 547, 14 August 1865, Page 4

The New Zealand Herald.

AUCKLAND, MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1865

.sri:rn;Mi;i: ackndo. " (live cvorv tnan thin" ear. Imt ic*\v tliv voire : 'hike. eaeh man's but t!»v juu^meut. This above all,—To thine mvnsrlf In* into ; Ami it mu>t follow, :in the 11 i'_clll the ii:iy. Thou I'iinst net llu-n he to any nun."

(1 f.m:i;ali Oamkuon" Ii! LS 110011 accuscil of two (listiiu-i: Tlio <nio with having m':;'lcele(l linnscll' lo reihice I lie "Wereroa pa Uio other witli having, by his onlovs" to Brioailier-Ociu'i-al Waihly. prcfUnk-d thai olUiht from ali'oi'diiig Sir the assist mice askcnl for 011 the. on-asiou of its Ileitis ocotij)ieil hy our troops." The lirst i-liarg'e is an unfair one. General Cameron limy comphiin with the poet.

« ilos .-g.. v. r-ic:ilo< f i, tnlit alt.-r ii.'.norca." Tt was lie, and not Kir George Grey, who look the W'ereroa pa. Again and again lias Sic Duncan Cameron, in Ins leUers to ihe .< overnor. point I'll out to hnii tnat the operations lie was then conducting in Wanuanui were the best and least costly way of rciiiu-i 11ir the garrison by drawing (ill the rebel forces into other directions. This in fart lie did. and thus paved the way for Sir George G rev to step in and lake possessi, m. A~t the 'tinie when Sir Duncan was I.lamed for not assaulting the pa. there were in it some (100 arm,--d rebels. -it, the time when Sir George Grey took possession of it there was one old woman. With, regard to the second charge we need no laboured argument to prove its entire baselessness. In the published correspondence between the General and the Governor we lind the following paragraph, contained in a letter dated theliOth .May, and addressed by Sir Duncan Cameron to Sir George Grey : " 1 have, however, t o inform your Excellency "that before 1 received your letter ot the " l'.tth inst., 1 had sent iSrigadier-General '• Waddv to form a post near Nukumaru, to "strengthen the frontier of the settlement of

• W'anganui."' '• Tin.; establishment of this post" will also • In- us.'tul in the event of a formal attack •• .mi the i'.a (\\ creroa) being undertaken by " vmir K.\colleucy's desire." 1 have further given Brigadier-General ■' Waddv ])fi'iiuxxhni to siir/inxe or hhil'k a ■■ I'lhick 0,1 i/ir j:ht<- n i!' he considers •• that the informal ion he may receive as to the nuiiibei' of natives in it justifies him in so lining. It is not impossible that the •• t -l«'se. proxnuiiv ol this post to tne pa may " of ilsell cause tin- abandonment ot 1 lie •• position ol' ils siirreiiiii'!' by the natives, 'it will thus be seen that the General had ualiy ordered 1 'Srigadier-General Waddy to lio tlie very u liieh.in liis speech on the opening of the Assembly. Sir George G ivy accused" the General of having liy his orders preel third (i eneral Waddy from doing. Not oulv. too. (ii.L lie order General \\ aildy to render such assistance if repaired, but estalN lisiie-la posl at Xukumaru for the purpose of assisting in such an undertaking, and, as was actually the result, iii drawing oil" the garrison from t he rebel pa. The night 1 n'fore his I .xcellcney iclt Auckland when lie lorwarded to us the. lettci we published on the Ist instant, denying that aiiv orders ot hi.s hail precluded the commanding the troops in the \\ anganui district from assisting the Governor, the gentleman, one ol the Generals stall', who brought us the letter, told us thai' Sir Duncan would, had he had time to have done so, have relnted other insinuations thrown out against him by his I'j.xeellencv—amongst 1 ncm the charge that he had so long neglected to take the Wereroa pa, the cause of _his doing so beiii"' the express orders ot his iixcelleney.