TARANAKI.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1852, 7 April 1863, Page 5

TARANAKI.

By the arrival of the Prince Alfred this morning, we have received intelligence from Taranaki, via Nelson, up to the Ist instant. The Nelson Examiner of the 4th inst. says: — The arrival of the Airedale on Thursday, with our Auckland and Taranaki mails, confirms the news we published in our last from the Wanganui Chronicle. Troops and horses, with some seige guns, have been sent from Auckland to Taranaki. On Friday, March 17, his Excellency the Governor had an interview with Te Teira and his people, and visited Mataitawa aud Waitara on Thursday. The 57th at Wilkinson's farm, have finished the redoubt, and moved into it on Friday, March 20. The only news from the South is that a body of the Ngatiruanui are in the Taranaki country ; Tamati Kaweora hud stated that the Taranakis are " pakeke" (obstinate) about Tataraiinaka. According to her advices everything was quiet, but the feeliug was that a native ontbreak might take place at any moment. There was, however, a sense of security against any such outbreak, as the number and dispositions of the troops were deemed such as to act with vigor and efficiency against any rising that might take place. There is, notwithstanding, still existing among the settlers a feeling that the only cure of their uncertainly is to have a war, and let the Maoris have a thorough and complete beating. It is perhaps this feeling that helps to engender the expectation of a war, the wish being lather to the thought. Governor Sir George Grey is determined, we are informed, to carry out aud form the Omata Road ; ana if the men employed be molested or stopped, then the strong force now assembled, it is expected, will give a good account of the dark skinned assailants. The Taranaki Herald of the 28th ult. says : " All the troops oft duty, comprising 57th, 65th, and Mounted Artillery Corps, inarched but to the Redoubt on Wilkinson's farm on Thursday morning, carrying one day's cooked ( provisions. They returned to town before dusk." In the Provincial Council of Tarauaki the Loau Bill was read a third time and passed. It empowers the Government to raise £50,000 upon the security of the general revenue of the province to reinstate the Taranaki settlers by liquidating losses they hare sustained. The following letter iv the above paper regarding the Maori King's alleged assumption of power explains itself: — " On lookiug over the Neio Zealander of the 19th instant, a paragraph appears which asserts that ' there is not the slightest proof given by the Taranaki settlers that the natives ever asked them to become subjects of the Maori King.' In No?em» ber last a party of the King's adherents invited me to occupy ray farm at i'ataraimaka on. condition that I would become, subject to the Maori King, and further that I should be en<J titled to the same privileges as themselves. — Wm. Bayly, Jun."