TARANAKI.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1584, 21 May 1861, Page 4

TARANAKI.

The \isit 0/ Mr. Parris to the Southern natives has not yet been folowed by any definite result. On the day previous to his arrival at Tauanioua, a large meeting had beon held at Kapoaiaia, at which men frotn all the Taranaki hapu were preseut. The Warea men took the tone of Ngatiruauui, refused to allow mails or travellers to pass or to accept any terras. W. Kingi Matakatea, Umuroa, whose place is south of Warea, left the meeting in disgust at this conduot, as did the Ngamahangn. The Umuroa people talk of leaving their kainga forth© uorlheru part of the Taranaki district. Umuroa lying unpleasantly between the Ngatiruanui tribe and the Warea men, both hostile, W. Kingi Malakatea is very anxious for a settlement with the Government. The Ngamahauga form a considerable section of Taranaki. They will be at Moturoa on Monday when the terms will be presented for signature, and some more definite notion arrived at as to the influence of their party. The chief at Warea is desirous of peace, but asks for it on the old terms of uo concession. The Warea natives have written to Mr. Riemenschneider, their missionary, not to return, the war is not yet ended : others of the tribe had invited him to come back. Last Saturday and Sunday the rivers were flooded higher than has been known since 1843. A bridge near the Union Mill was washed away, and the footbridge »near the Taranaki [nn was under water and displaced. The water was high in the cellars and outbuildings of the Masonic Hotel. On Saturday last a medling was held in the Hall to appoint a committee for corresponding with the friends of the colony, in England and elsewhere. The following gentlemen were elected, G. Cutfield, Esq , Capt. Brown, Capt. Atkinson, Messrs. Gledhill, Chilmau, Flight, W. Weston, Good, W. Bayly, Hulke, Elliott, Upj.ohn, and J. Riohmond.

it The Ai redn!e passed on Sunday to the northward to bring the mail for England. '* She could not land passengers owing to the heavy weather. The Corio and Tasj[ manian Maid arrived on Wednesday with y refugee families from Nelson. * The rumour that Hapurona had gone '. to Waikato is quite unfounded. Wi * Kiugi has written to his adherents plao- * ing them under the leadership of lhaia . Te Wharepa, an old chief little known fo the settlers. The coromony of giving and returning the land at Wailara to the . King by Wi Kingi and W. Thompson a » great many limes, but last it rests "in '- the hand "of VV. Thompson. ■ The Airedule arrived on Thursday with a good many passengers for Taranaki , with a good many passengers for Taranaki from Auckland, among them Col. Warre, C. 13., 57th Regl., who takes command here. The Taranaki Militia is constituted a Regiment, Capt. Charles Brown, T.M., is gazetted Paymaster. Mr R. Chilman is gazetted " Collector of Customs at the Port of New Plymouth."