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Wellington Independent, Volume I, Issue 53, 4 March 1846, Page 3

We were recently three months and a half without official neus from the north. At any time this wou'd have been ann <ying, but at a period when hostile op rations were being carried on, the absence of news was exceedingly depres.-ing If news Wiis anxiously desired fiom a seat of war dis:ant some five hundred mi'es, how much more eager will ihe sutlers be at Warganui, Ne son, and Taranaki, to re ceive correct accounts of the miliary operations at ibis place. We therefore suggest to If is Excellency the propriety of chartering and dispatching in the course of this day ihe fast sailing: schooner—the Susannah Ann. It is due to our fellow colonists at the adjoining settlements, and we feel assured tiny would evince their sense of the consideration shown by such an act of prudence and justice. On Friday evening last, a cot;a?e on Clay Mill, which has f. r a length of time been a public nuisance—having been occupied by a number of females of loose character—caught fire, and alarmed th ■ whole of the neighbourhood. The flames at one time raged so furiously that the shipping in the harbour, owing to the darkness of the background, was as visible as in broad daylight. Capt. Stanley, of H. M.-S. Calli' pc, lowered his boats, and supplied ihe crews with buckets, and by his timely assistance the flames were promptly subdued. This generous and prompt aid of Capf. Stanley, in all probability, saved the houses in the immediate neighbourhood, and the property on the beach, from a similar destruction io that which took place from the fire of 1842. «. Extract from Tea and Sugar's Weekly Trash of date the 21st February, 1846. " At length we may congratulate our fellow colonists on the disputes about land in theHHutt t District being fairly settled. The intruding natives who have so long annoyed the settlers there, have given up the land without any opposition, and have either left or are preparing to leave, so that in a few days we may hope their set'lenient wi 1 be entirely brokeu up. No time should be los- iv puiling down tlicir Pa, so as to leave them no excuse for returning, and we would suggest the expediency of increasing the amount of the military force stationed here f and of having at least one ship of war for the protection of the Cook's Straits Settlements, as the only way to insure a faithfulness to their engagements on the pait of the natives is to convince them of the hopslessness of any attempt at resistance.' , Errata—For natives read settlers, for settlers read natives, and for Pa read houses.