LATER PROM WANGANUI.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 666, 6 May 1865, Page 3

LATER PROM WANGANUI.

FROM THE NEW ZEALAND HEUALD CORRESPONDENT. Camp Patoa, >19th April. Things in this district are just in tho samo state as they were at the date of my last letter. The Lieut.-General with the Haad-quarters staff aro at this camp, while Brigadier-General Waddy, with the field force, is encamped at Tangahoe, a few miles on the other side of Manawapou. The weather has been so rough lately that none of the small steamers have visited this camp for the last twelve or fourteen days, all communication with the outer world is consequently cut off, Sometimes a mounted party arrives from town, with despatches for the General, but they seldom carry anything else. I believe tho cause of our present stoppage in operations is owing to the difficulty which the General experiences in finding the Governor to give the. nj^c^sary.instruations relative to tho fiiture plan of the campaign — the story going in the camp is, that when the General found that it would be impossible to advajica further than Waingongoro, in the direction of Taranaki, from this side, Sir Duncan immediately sent off dispatches to his Excellency, acquainting him of the decision arrived at, and asking for instructions as to his next step. As no answer has yet arrived, it is said that the steamer which conveyed the dispatches, has been to Wellington in search of his Eccellency, and not finding him there, another steamer with copies of those papers was sent off to Auckland, in hopes of catching his Excellency. lam not aware if the captain had instructions to call at the Kawau, but as it is some fourteen days since these dispatches were sent from Waingongoro, and no answer has yet arrived, it is presumed that his Excellency has not yet been found, and that he and his Ministers are having a little innocent game at " hide and seek," and that after all Sir George may yet turn up about the left bank of the Wanganui river. It is said that there is a good landing place about twenty miles below Colonel Warre's advanced post on the Taranaki side, and that if the Government still persist in occupying the whole of the country between Taranaki and Wanganui, that the General will remove the greater part of the field force from here to Taranaki, and complete his chain of posts from that side. Of course this will require the consent of his Excellency the Governor and his Ministry, and as nearly half a month has been lost trying to find some of these functionaries, it is questionable if ! the General will now undertake the task at this advanced period of the winter seaI son.

Colonel Chapman, 2nd battalion 18th Royal Irish, with a portion of his own regiment and detachments of the 50th and 57th occupy this post. A great number of the men are affected with sore eyes, caused from the iron sand, as the camp is pitched on tho top of a sand hill, • and no matter from what direction the wind may be blowing, the air is always impregnated with it.

LATEST PROM WANGANUI.

Tbe following are tho latest items contained in the Chronicle of the 29th ult. : —

The Wereroa Pa. — The natives now in this pa show less sign than ever of any intention to surrender. They have now their main position strengthened by two redoubts, and they are engaged in dragging up large balks — some of them largo enough for the mainmast of a ship — with bullocks, with which, it is supposed, they are making a strong palisade.