AUCKLAND.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 69, 10 June 1846, Page 3

AUCKLAND.

■[From the Nelson Examiner, Misy 16] We have Auckland papers to the 18th April, and we learn that the whole northern district, from Kawlm to the North Cape, is in a very unsettled and disturbed state. Heki is contemplating an attack on Nene, of whom he expresess himself highly jealous, from the favour in which he is held by the Government. This restless chief has again a considerable body of followers, numbering, indeed-, above a thousand, and the whole of the northern tribes are said to be ready to support him The Waikato *nd Waipa districts are in a great state of excitement, arising from a quarrel between two chiefs about the boundary of some land near Manakau. One or two engagements have taken place between the disputants, which have only tended to widen the breach and draw into the ■quarrel chiefs vVbo, in the first instance, stood neutral. AH the pah's resemble war camps, and are filled with armed natives. Unless the Government steps in and puts an end to the quarrel, it is more than probable it will end in a general native war, and seriously endanger the safety of the European out-settlers. Further south-, in the neighbourhood of Kawhia and Taranaki, another quarrel exists among the natives. An old Fikopo chief, named Tuanui, has laid a tape on the road i from Kawhia to Taranaki; and so strictly is it: kept, that Mr. Swainson, the Attorney-General, was unable to get over the road between those places. Tuanui is collecting a large body of followers to accompany him to Taranaki, to have out his quarrel with the natives residing there, and j unlets be can bully therti or the Europeans | Into payment of dtu, hostilities will very likely j take place. A correspondent of the "NewZealander" strongly urges the Government to { take measure to stop these quarrels t remarking that whatever advantages the north may possess for settlement, they are completely lost so long as tha country is in a state of warfare.

The '* New Zealander" still labours to prove that Auckland is the only proper site for the sea l of Government. The grand argument is the large native population in the north, who " will cve r require the most strict vigilance and incessant serious consideration of the Government; and among them must be the chief seat of authority and and power*" Should colonisation progress in this island (and who doubts but it will, as there are so few natives here ?) «' the population can be easily regulated by municipal institutions." This is the

o'd storr of a Government Ps'ablisheJ for the toU hem fit of the natives—the Europeans to be taxed f o maintain it.