THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE AND RANGITIKEI MESSENGER. "Vérité sans peur.” Wanganui, October 4, 1860.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 211, 4 October 1860, Page 2

THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE AND RANGITIKEI MESSENGER. "Vérité sans peur.” Wanganui, October 4, 1860.

The ? European news by this mail is not..of an exciting kind, apart ..from the consideration that the great nations of Europe seem gradually ..drifting* Into a.whirlpool, of. blood. May the eviHbe’* ’'averted^'* 1 And : the' 'sounding, of the note of alarm by such a manias Lord Palmerston/hitherto the : friend and stedfast ally of Louis Napoleon,, may warn him. off the rock on which his fortunes must' be wrecked, if he really has the idea of attempting to

avenge m.ust surely be sheer desperation alone tliat wfll/drive him into war with Grdat 'BntaiiiV'whose might he knows too well not to fear it. Notwithstanding this alarm, some assistance is to be sent to our Governor. Z’he second battalion of the 14th regt. has received orders for New Zealand ; and a deputation of New Zealand gentlemen having waited on Lord Palmerston on the 18tli Ju 1 ytourge thehec'essify of immediately sendingi, additional troops*, the, ; noble' / lord seemed to think it would be best to order them from India. The Nelson Examiner of 22nd ult., repeats a report from Auckland that a - regiment of native troops is on its.r way from', 1 India, and may be expected in about a'month / On the 18th ult. the ad interim report of the Taranaki Pelief Committee was laid before .the house of representatives, ..and its recommendations approved of. These are, — that the expences. of maintaining; the refugee families from T’arauaki should be .borne by the general revenue of the colony ; that grants • of land should be given, on certain conditions, to such families, in any of the'provinces in which they may settle; and that temporary * pecuniary relief should be afforded, to be deducted from the compensation that may after- ' wards be allowed them. ■ An addition has been'made to the House'of» Representatives of 12 new members, of whom We get one—Rangitikei now returning oiteA member, and fFanganui another. ' - • It will be seen* from the report of the Native meeting held on Monday up the river, • that the great, majority of the Wanganui natives are of the King party, but peaceably disposed, because : no doubt they : see it their interest to be so. It would be desirable that the settlers should also request his Excellency to make Wanganui the place of meeting for next year.