IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 83, 21 August 1863, Page 3

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

THE OOSKSCaSoN~ O1? WAIKATO. W smG.OFTH E si?^ ASTHATIVES '™-r.r «v ITTOSB?THE MAOKIES OF MQ^?i"oriiXTISUMINATION.: ;;■ ■ • APrOISTWm^ IMST^ ' TWO THOUSAND' VOLUNTEERS < IWU REQUIRED. ' ATHUVAL OF THE "NORWOOD" AER WITH TROOPS. mtt rTARY REINFORCEMENTS FROM JfllLliA* TAEANAKL the New Zealand Advertiser, 13th Aug ) The Auckland was engaged for three Aivs by «he General Government for the purpose of watching the mouth of the ■ Vairoa and the Thames Rivers. ■ The Auckland brings 13 cases of rifles I for Wellington. ■ No important military event had taken B place except a movement made by General ■ Cameron against the Native encampment ■At Paparata, a place distant about fifteen B miles from the Queen's Redoubt at Pokeno. Hit will convince our settlers that the ■ Maories are not such a formidable enemy Has Run-holding Government, their hired Hscribes, and their Missionary allies, have ■endeavored to make us believe. H . The natives have had to desert the ranges Hand fly to the Waikato for food as well as ■shelter. From tkis, too, the settlers in this may learn a lesson ; neither black ■soldiers nor white can be kept together ■without a supply of provisions. Jn the ■former war at Taranaki we stupidly supHplied the former with a Commissariat at ■ ihe settlers cost ■ On the whole we consider the news ■received hy the present mail to be such as Hwill re-assure country settlers, and at the ■same time convince the philo-Maori party, ■not excepting, we should think, even Dr c HFeaiherston himself, that no peace enn be ■possible until the King natives have been ■brought into subjection. That great ■favorite of this paity, William Thompson, Swho has been exalted into a Maori patriot ■[by some of their orators, and by others ■masuined into a hero or a demi-god, has iMannounced in the most savage terms his ■intention to take up arms against us, and ■■•*' slay and spare not" armed and unarmed aßalike. In consequence of this intimation Brown and all the settlers of MTkuranga had left for Auckland. All the iMUjivjiizing influences that hnvebeen brought (Bio hear upon this chief have been entirely :»thVovrD away. Instead of retiring from IstHtlle scene of strife — as wa* represented by ctßthe party who have made him a sort of a \ 'jmGaA for their idolatry — he had gone to the L^Usast Coast to rouse the natives against the '■wpakehas. The actual words he usen in a sfcwiind of manifesto addressed to Archdeacon were " I will not spare the unarmed vjlßnor their property." He concludes by ulgdefinin^ the character of the struggle — it is Jr- dete ™' ne w hat race is the stronger, [r«Pn consequence of this manifesto the whole tlfcf the East Coast natives are up in arms. hqT YV c staled in our summary that a Governpeßment a^ent had been dispatched to Auscomralia for the purpose of obiaining VolunicMteers for Waikato, an-d we had heard that r. jfthat person would be no less a person than ipifihe Native Minister, but we doubted di-Svliether Mr Bell who could not ndmin'kfister Native affairs at So great a distance nwrom the centre of the native population :■ oms- Wellington, would think of going himnwelf to Sydney, and thus le;ive the Colony t/»lto<jethcr. l"fc turns out that such is the ,awase; and we rejoice to hear it. He will sii ffiake a better ambassador than Native 'ii linister at times like the present. In >tji ft'mpany with Major Pitt and Mr Gorsthe 1» as gone to Sydney in the Claud Hamilton, .an of,- engage the services of 2,000 men as sji Jilitary settlers . tli J-Mr Russel, who was a member of the i .» fcbinet, without office has been appointed ),i ifar Minister. The idea af summoning opt le General Assembly under such circumlyit! iances appears to have been abandoned, act r Thc ship Norwood arrived at Auckland is j l the Gth with the remainder of the 18th lo» sgt., a company of thfe Royal Engineers, a*} ra twenty-five hoys of the Royal Navy. ■$; jThebarque Acacia was lost on the South bid epd of Hokianga harbor, on the 25th ult. pfffi he pilot, was on board, and all the crew IJ&t as saved. kft 'The battery" of Royal Artillery stationed f# 'Melbourne was under immediate orders 'j,bf»r.,Auckland. ig^jJThe A^n h a d raade a trip of ssx mi]es b $W -s" e Waikato river. All the native pahs u'Sw" l^ s were deserted.