WANGANUI.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 124, 19 December 1846, Page 3

WANGANUI.

By the cutter Cxtheiunk A'Ntt, Cemino, master, wliicli arrived in port "yesterday fromVVati'janui. we havo heon put in po*-ges-sion of the, /oliowmjj pariioulnr.-?. The authorities liaviuur received intimation of the intended oooflp'ntion f-f as a military post, set to work to prepare for till' reception of the soldiery. A body ofnaijvcß and neltlyrV,were employed pre paring a, stockade ajhort up the river; Ho>'n after cnmmencirifroperaiinns, Mamuku.or Mak*t«i f we know not which, came <loivn and enquired who they were building, for; not n.ceiviug,* sati*factory reply he ordered the party iff, threw their tdols and naile in tta river, au'l ilir'-atened tfjejn witluleathif they persisted in. pr... pariug "f.>r tho s->l.liers. On Sunday, arrived off the bar, and immediately comnvrwed landing the troops in life hrtatg belonging t> the 1, and the Karherine JoWt r>6 and the Catherine Ann, weie likewise employed for that purpose,. Tie remainder wer« disornbarki'd on Mosiday, On Welne-d-y the Gintrtimeht brig arrived,''ihe Armed Police and the ttotQ* were immediately landed. No oppogjtion had been offered io the military up.to, ilm failing of the euftor. • A bauery was to he erected on Shdkpspeare's Cliff conimaTidintf the town. The inhabitants wort- truly thankfuJ to >he Government, for the protection ihue timely afforded ihem.

The attention of otir readers Iβ directed loanable jntide from, ilio Nelson ExAMiHBR, which w!l[ Bo found in another part of 10-da? , * paper.