THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT Wednesday, April 22, 1846.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 60, 22 April 1846, Page 2

THE WELLINGTON INDEPENDENT Wednesday, April 22, 1846.

On Friday last, H.M.S. Calliope, H. M. Steamer Driver, and the hired transport Slams Castle, returned to port from Porirua, The ships experienced the full effect of the late gale, being prevented from landing the troops and stores for five days. The troops were landed on Thursday, and encamped near Toms' fishery on a neck of land abutiing on the Bay' The place can ea-ily be rendered one of great strength, and when the breastworks are completed, a few soldi' rs will be found

[ sufficient for its defence, so that tlie majoi.yoTth force will be able to prosecuU, with vigor, against Rang^ea^ Since the landing, .he troops have been busily employed -throwing op intrenchtnenis, under the superintendence of Upt. Marlowe, of tho Engineers. .. On Friday, a detachment of -the 9^ h regiment, under the command of Lieut. De Winton, departed for Po.irua by the road, where they arrived the same evenmg 6n Saturday, the Slams Castle got under weij>h and proceeded to Ponrua, having on board stores and other requi-sites-for the force stationed there. On Monday, a letter arrived in town stating that a body of armed natives, from Pawatanganui, the Pali of the rebels, were preparing to fall on the Hutt. 'The same night, the district south of a line drawn from Wainai in Cook's Straits, to Castle Point on the East Coast, excluding the Town of Wellington, was proclaimed under Martial Law by his Excellency Capt. Grey, The roads, previously stated by us as about to be formed, are to be commenced immediately by the military, under the superintendence of Captain Russell, of the 58.h. The Government Surveyor, T. Fitzgerald, E>q., has received instructions to lay out the necessary lines. On such roads, the armed police will be found of ihe greatest v ility. The road to Porirua will be carried round the shores of the Bay, thus putting an end to ihe present nuisance of ferries for passing the cattle. It is also proposed to carry the line through the Pukirua bush to Wainui, where the hard sandy beach road to Manawatu oom« mences, thus opening the coast line. The effective force which will be left in this district on the departure of his Excellency for Auckland, will be nearly 500 mill ary of the 58th and 99th regiments, under the command of Major Last; 160 militia, and fifty armed police. H.M.S. Calliop l , also remains to protect the seitlement. We hear that it is intended to s ation H.M.S. Racehorse, at present in the north, on'this station. Lieut.Col.l-lulme,of the96ih,&Brigade Major M'Lerie, of the 58ih, return to Auckland in H.M.S. Castor. The detachments of the 96th, have received orders to hold themselves in readiness tpembi-n-k-on board the Slams Gasile, for Auckland, ■■■ , — Ths inhabitants regrefWceeMngly ihe necessity which is about to separate '»hem from Capt. Eyron and his party. However, it may be some little grat fixation for them to know, that wherever it may be their fortune to be stationed, the gallant officer and his men bear with th.-m the wishes of the whole of the settlors for their future welfare.