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We have delayed publishing in hopes of being able to furnish our readers with information by tbe Government brig, just arrived, but we must delay till Wednesday.
The reported blockade of the Bay of Islands by the Hazard and North Stir, seems to have been without foundation, as the former was lying at Auckland, and the latter has been engaged in conveying from the neighhood of the Bay, such settlers as escaped at the time the town was pillaged and destroyed.
~ About two o'clock on the morning of the Ist April, the people of Auckland were alarmed by a report that the sentries had heard musketry firing in different directions, and an immediate attack was expected. A gerieralturn out of the military and volunteer force ensued, and the crew of the Hazard hastened on shore to give assistance. After sometime it was ascertained that the alarm was a false one ; and that it had been caused by some natives a short distance from tbe the town firing, as is their custom, in consequence of the death of the wife of a chief.
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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 12, 10 May 1845, Page 3
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184POST SCRIPT Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 12, 10 May 1845, Page 3
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