MANAWATU.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 110, 31 October 1846, Page 2

MANAWATU.

[from our correspondent ]

Friday, October 23,1846. All is perfectly quiet here at present. Potaiuo planting is the ordor of the day among the natives, and among a portion

of the Europeans also. Rasgihaeata Mokau, as the natives still call hi, n |, war name, continues his abode at P 8 tawao. He has not offered to mole*/ o '' of the settlers. He professes peane't in this locality. He has few, if " strangers with him at present; thirty of his men are up this riveV ing potatoes in the neighborhood ofT Maire, the rest are employed in ih e 8a operation about Poroutawao, He i 8 n so far as is known, contemplating any hrf' tile movement till the potatoe plar>tj„ J s " all over. What he may do then is ama ter of uncertainty. The coast is all quit c ear and safe for travelling. The native! along the coast seem very anxious for em ployment on the public roads, and cc/ tamly in cutting timber and clearing away wood and bush they might be employ I great advantage. At this season of the year, when both sun and wind become such valuable auxiliaries in road makin.r no time -should be lost, no assign™ should be declined. The •< navies " t borrow a current word from the railw a y vocabulary, should be made as numerous as practicable, and urged on in their labors with all possibie speed. It would be for the benefit of the natives to be il )U8 employed, and greatly conducive to the peace as well as the prosperity of the colony to have the principal roads speedily finished. , J