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The only events of any great importance in India since the date of the last Calcutta and Madras mail are, firstly and secondly, the fact of the new income tax coming into operation, and the lamented death of Sir Henry Ward, governor of Madras (both which facts were made known to us last week by the Bombay mail) ; and, thirdly, the equally de plorable loss of Mr. Jas. Wilson, financial member of the Governor-General's Council, which was com municated here by private telegraph. Of the first-mentioned subject we read as follows : The income tax has received the assent of the Governor-General, and is now in operation all over India. The mode in which it has been introduced is characteristic. Telegrams were despatched to the various Governments telling them that the act had passed, and calling on them to deduct the tax from the incomes of Government officers immediately, that is, to deduct it from the salaries for July paid on the Ist August, although it appears (from the reports of the debmtes in the Legislative Council, for the act itself has not yet reached us) that the time fixed for the coming into operation of the act was from the 31st of July. It is repotted in Madras that a high legal functionary has refused to receive his pay, under the circumstances, minus the amount of the tax; and it is rumoured at Bom bay that the Supreme Court Judges have expressed an opinion that the authority conveyed in a tele gram is not legally sufficient. It is also said that the natives of Madras are in a state of great indig nation, more especially the money-lending portion of the community, and that they have held meet ings among themselves to consider the best means of evading the Government demand: At Bombay there has been a more open demonstration of dis satisfaction, the Hindoo merchants having resolved to shut up their shops. We take from the Madras Atheneum the fol lowing details of the loss of the two eminent public men whom India and England have to deplore : We announce with the deepest regret the deaths of our Governor, Sir Henry Ward, and of the Right Hon. Mr. Wilson. The first named melan choly event took place at Madras on the evening of the 2d of August, and the disease which proved fatal to our late ruler was that fearful scourge, the cholera. So sudden and so sad a termination to a career but just begun has filled all classes with pro found regret. It is no exaggeration to say that he has fallen a martyr to his sense of duty. From the time of his arrival to within a day of his death he had been in ill health, and his medical adviser had strongly urged upon him the necessity of moving from Government-house, which was not considered to be surrounded by a healthy atmosphere, to Guindy-park, a few miles distant. But Sir Henry steadily refused, saying that a residence at Guindy , would interfere with the despatch of public busi ness, and that that must be attended to before all things. So he remained at Government-house, and only left it to be carried to his grave. He was buried inside the Church of Fort St. George, with all the ceremony befitting the high position he had occupied among us; and it is scarcely necessary to add that the past week, at the request of the acting governor, has been observed as one of general mourning. The death of Sir Henry, sad enough in itself, is peculiarly unfortunate at the present time. Just as the income tax is introduced, and a state of affairs may arise requiring a clear head and firm and delicate hand to grapple with, he who possessed these qualities is snatched from amongst us. Un like the present able head of the government, he was uncommitted to any opinion against the policy of Mr. Wilson's scheme of taxation, and was there fore in a better position to carry that scheme out. No one doubts the ability of the present Government to deal with a crisis, should ono arise, hut it is not to be denied that their position is a very peculiar one—required as they are to carry out taxes which they have condemned in the most unqualified man ner. With regard to the death of Mr. Wilson all that we know at present is that the melancholy event took place on the night of the 11th of August, at ten o'clock, and that he was to be buried on the evening of the following day. The sad news was conveyed to Madras in a government telegrm, dated Calcutta the 12th. Mr. Wilson has been ailing for some time past, and was so indisposed on the 28th July as to be unable to attend in the Legislative Council. Rumours have been current that he was about to proceed to the Neilgherries, there to recruit his shattered health, but man proposes and God dis poses. It is not mentioned in the telegraphic message of what disease Mr. Wilson died, but it is rumoured here that it was acute dysentery, and this, under the circumstances, we think highly pro bable. It is unnecessary for us to remark on the loss to the empire, perhaps irreparable, which this event has occasioned, for it is too much to expect that the Calcutta blunderers will be able to carry out the scheme of financial re-organisation which Mr. Wilson had inaugurated; or that another English financier of the same ability and reputation will be induced to risk his life in the same cause. CHINA. Political matters, says the Hong Kong China Mail, remain here much the same as they did when last mail left. Lord Elgin arrived at Talien Bay on the afternoon of the 9th July; and Baron Gros, left Shanghae for Cheefoo, the rendezvous of the French, on the 4th July. It is said the French force is very far behind with their preparations, and that they have protested against our taking a larger force than they. We believe, however, that Lord Elgin has induced Baron Gros to withdraw the protest, and that active operations will com mence about the Ist of August. No negotiations will take place until the destruction of the Taku forts. From Talien we learn that the force there is very healthy. All the men had been landed to the number of 11,000 men, for the purpose of giving the exercise. The general had gone to Cheefoo, to make arrange ments with the French. There were upwards of 150 sail in the bay, which is described as being very large, about 10 miles bioad and 15 miles from the entrance to the head. The weather is described as being delightful and exhilarating. The people are very shrewd, and do not now hesitate to come for ward to sell articles. Two melancholy incidents had occurred. The commander of one of the gun boats, the Leven, had been shot by a marine in his cabin, as also the second master, who had gone to his assistance. We are happy to say, however, both are recovering. The marine was tried, and hung at the yardarm of one of the vessels. A boat from the steamer Imperatriz was capsized, when Captain Gordon, of the Madras Engineers, was drowned. We have no intelligence from Cheefoo, but believe the French forces there were very healthy. The following is miscellaneous matter from various parts of China : There is no additional intelligence from Shanghai as to the movement of the rebels. Some mission aries and gentlemen have paid the rebels visits, and have been courteously and even friendly received. The insurgents have expressed their unwillingness to come into collision with foreigners, and it is evident they avoid attacking Shanghai on-that ac count, that city being defended by French and English troops. The Chinese say . that the city of Hangchau has either fallen, or is in great danger of falling into their hands. Her Britannic Majesty's consul has issued a notification warning her Ma jesty's subjects from interfering in any way with the present state of matters in China, by assisting the Government or any party in opposition to the Government, "by enlisting, or by furnishing or procuring warlike stores of any description, or by fitting out vessels ; or by knowingly doing any other act for either party, by which neutrality may be violated." From Chusan we have no particular intelligence. One of the commissioners, Mr. H u g hes, was going home, and would be relieved by M r . Si n clair , vice consul at Ningpo. There is no news of an important nature from either Canton or Macao. Mr. Parkes has left Canton for the Nortb, to join Lord Elgin ; and M. de Chenez, the French Commissioner, goes home by this mail. In the colony of Hong Kong we have no news worthy of notice. AUSTRALtA. By the arrival of the Australian mail we have , received files of papers from Melbourne to the 25th of July, and from Sydney to the 20th July. We extract the following from the summary of the Melbourne Arqus of the July The Peninsular and Orients h Company's steam ship Salsette, Capt. Methven, arrived off Kangaroo Island on the morning of the 4th inst., and an chored in Hobson's Bay at an early hour on the 6th, with the English mail of the 18th of May. The Salsette brought no later intelligence - by telegram to Alexandria, and the Red Sea Cable is still out of working order. The new arrangements for our mails coming into operation at 15nce on this end of the line, the Ottawa has been detained from the 17th, and sails to-morrow, the 26th inst., with the mails from Victoria, New South Wales, New Zea land, and Tasmania. The Adelaide Government have chartered the Oscar, a coasting steamer, to meet the Ottawa with the South Australian mail at Xing George's Sound. No arrangement has yet been made by South Austratia with the Government of this colony, as to the proportion of the subsidy to be paid by that Government ; and though it is not probable that the Ottawa will carry instruc tions to refuse the South Australian mail on this occasion, it cannot be expected by that Government that they will be permitted to receive and despatch their mails at and from King George's Sound with out an understanding having been previously ar rived at with the Government of this colony. To make King George's Sound the depot for their mails will cost the South Australian Government £24,000 a year (at the rate of the tender for the first month's service), independently of their share of the cost of the main line service—too large a sum to pay for any benefit to be derived from a station at King George's Sound in place of Hobson's Bay. The change of the mail arrangements has been well received in this colony and in Tasmania, while New South Wales, in the mortification to which she is exposed, reaps the fruits of her recent hasty, petty, and unwise course in her relations with this colony as to the mail route and otherwise. The next change hoped for is a fortnightly service between Melbourne and Galle, which this colony will en courage by every means in its power. The advices from Europe, warning us of impend ing troubles, were followed by disastrous intelli gence from New Zealand, the particulars of which are given elsewhere. The evil tidings, however, has had the effect of drawing out the most loyal sentiments from every district of Victoria—a suffi cient answer to the unfounded statements that have lately received currency in England as to the feelings of this colony towards the mother coun try, Immediate help for New Zealand was resolved upon, and on the 18th instant the fast steamship City of Hobart was despatched for New Plymouth, carrying Lieut.-Col. Leslie and 210 officers and men of the 40th Regt. Major-General Pratt, Comman der-in-Chief of her Majesty's forces in Australasia, communicated to the Governor his intention of pro ceeding to the seat of war, with his staff and the head-quarters of the 40th. The announcement gave great satisfaction to the colony, and the colonial armed steamer Victoria. which had been placed at the service of the New Zealand Government, and which had brought over the despatches, was again placed at the Major-General's service, and sailed on Tuesday last, the 24th inst., with Gen. Pratt, the staff, and about . so men of the 40th. Only a few sick men and boys of the regiment are left in Mel bourne, and the Volunteer Rifles have responded in the most loyal manner to the call to take up the garrison duty hitherto performed by the military. This duty they undertook a fortnight ago, and their only.complaint is the non-arrival of the arms so long expected from England. The Assembly took up the subject simultaneously with the arrival of the despatches, and, on the motion of Mr. Wil son Gray, one of the ultra-democratic members, voted an additional sum of £5,000 to provide prizes for the best marksmen among the Volunteers, the erection of huts, the formation of bands, &c., while the Ministry brought in a bill to increase the num ber of the Volunteer force from 2,000 to 10,000, and announced that should an emergency arise during the veces they would be prepared to meet any ex penditure that might be called for, trusting to the loyal feeling of the house for a bill of indemnity next session. Victoria, therefore, at this moment is without a single military representative of her Majesty, and is engaged in her own defences in the most loyal spirit to the Crown. The land question approaches a settlement. At the date of our last summary the:bill was under consideration by the Council, after a Ministerial crisis, brought about by the opposition of the squatters in the Upper House to the measure. The bill was altered in many of its essential fea tures, especially in the substitution of a system of limited auction for that of lot, in deciding between applicants for any particular section whose claims were equal; and on the return of the bill a fierce faction fight was got up by the extreme party in the Assembly, headed on this occasion by Mr. Duffy. Ministers, while indicating the amendments they would agree to, and those they would not as sent to, proposed to consider the amendments seriatim. Mr. Duffy proposed the rejection of the amendments in globe. A fierce debate followed, lasting over two sittings ; and although the O'Sha nassy party combined with the few Duffyites and " the Corner," Ministers triumphed by the unex pectedly large majority of 37 to 23. The amendments were then taken up in detail. A number of them, of small importance, were agreed to, and the Bill, restored almost to the shape in which it had origi nally been sent up, was returned to the Council. There the battle was again fought, mainly on the question of lot or limited auction. The Council has taken its stand on three points—limited auc tion, the limitation of the land to be surveyed and open for selection in one year to 2,000,000 acres, and the subdivision of allotments into two in place of four. They desire that the purchaser of one sub division shall have the privilege of leasing the re maining half, for pastoral purposes only, with a pre-emptive right, in place of three fourths of the lot, as originally proposed by the Assembly. The practical difference between the two propo3itions, as regards the subdivision, is, that by the Assembly's amendment the price of the land would be ss. per acre ; but the Council's, 10s. per acre, with seven years given to buy, in the one ease, the three-fourths, and in the other, the half, of the lot leased. On Tuesday night last the question was again before the Assembly, and the state of matters at the latest date will be found in another column. Some important measures have been under dis cussion during the month. The Divorce Bill (originally sent down by the Council) has passed the Assembly. This bill assimilates the law to that of England, excepting in one provision, considered very desirable in the circumstances of this colony— namely, absolute divorce in cases of desertion for four years. It is probable that tke addition of this proviso may occasion the reservation of the measure for the sanction of her Majesty, in terms of a de spatch dated in 1858, from Lord Stanley, then Colonial Secretary ; but with this warning before it, and notwithstanding the remonstrances of the law officers of the Crown, the Assembly, in repeated divisions, insisted on the retention of the proviso ; and as the social state of the colony demands a change of law, in the interests of morality and humanity, such as the bill provides, we trust the measure as it has left the Assembly may receive the Royal assent. The bill to abolish imprisonment for debt has also been passed through the Assembly, and that abolishing Ministerial pensions and legalising limited partner ships in mining enterprises, will shortly pass into law. A Law of Property Amendment Bill, in tended to remedy a very great variety of legal anomalies and difficulties, has almost reached its last stage. Ministers have announced for an early day next session a bill for the institution of district councils and the management of commons, with a view to the transference of the care of roads, &c., to these local Parliaments. The subject of pastoral licenses, with a view to the final settlement of the squatting question, will also be then dealt with. The railways are still a source of difficulty. The recent investigations, and the remeasurement of the works by the new engineer in -chief, have led to a resolution on the part of the Government to abandon the system of payments on what are known as "progress" measurements. It is understood that these quantities have been found to be, in many instances, largely in excess of the work actu ally performed. In regard to the execution of the work itself the report of the engineer-in -chief is favourable. The latest phase of the railway ques tion is a strike of the labourers, who have resisted for some four or five weeks an attempt t o i n t ro d uce monthly, in place of fortnightly, settlement s . The strike is likely to terminate in the yielding of the men. The dredging operations on the bar of the Yarra have been successful. Vessels drawing 14 feet of water can now enter at any time of the tide. Within the last few days additional interest has been given to the subject of the internal navigation NING, SEPTEMBER 13, 1860. of Australia by the fact of two steamers—one draw ing 2 feet and the other 32 feet of water—having made their way from the Murray up the River Edward as far as Deniliquin, carrying large •argoes. The leaders of the exploring expedition have been chosen. Mr. Richard O'Hara Burke, long superintendent of the police of Castlemaine district, is first in command, and his second is Mr. Landells, who recently brought the camels from Indii.. Mr. Wills, from the Melbourne Observatory, is ap pointed astronomer to the expedition; an d Dr. Becker accompanies it as naturalist. The expedition will start in the course of next month, making Cooper's Creek their point of departure. The port of Sandridge is about to ba separated . from Melbourne, and constituted an independent municipality. The prospecting parties in Gipps-land have found traces of gold in many places, but as yet no new payable goldfield has been reported from that dis trict. We are still, however, without reports, pri vate or official, from two of the parties—M'Crae's and Macdonald's—sent out to examine the likely ground on the head waters of the Yarra. A new and important goldfield has been officially reported as existing on the Goalbourn, and numerous parties of miners from Inglewood and other goldfields , who were preparing to try the Snowy River, have turned aside to the Goulbeurn. The Yandoit dis trict, near Castlemaine, is attracting some attention —seven large nuggets having been found within a limited area in as many weeks. The last of these nuggets, weighing 3840 z., was discovered on the 17th inst. Another diamond, weighing nearly three carats ; has been found in the Ovens district, near Yackandandah. The telegraphic cable across Bass's Straits is still out of order. It has been ascertained that the in juries to the cable occurred on Xing's Island, during one of the violent storms which are so fre quently experienced in the Straits. The repairs have been considerably delayed by the tempestuous character of the weather for some time past, but they are now in progress. One of the most interesting events of the month has been the marriage of his Excellency the Go vernor, Sir Henryßarkly, K.C.8., with Miss Pratt, the only daughter of Major-General Pratt, Com mander of the Forces in Australasia. The cere mony was performed in the most private manner at Christ Church, South Yarra, on Saturday last. It is anticipated that Parliament will be pro rogued in about 10 days. The "unemployed" made their usual demonstra tion before the departure of the mail yesterday in the Eastern market. The " United Masons" still adhere to their demand for 16s. a day, but a new society has been formed of men who are willing to work for 14s. a day. In the present state of the colony the high terms insisted on by the masons practically suspend building operations and produce much of the misery periodically complained of. THE GOLDFIELDS. We are still looking forward to the opening up of new fields as the result of the very general pros pecting of the country in all directions. Reports of important discoveries there are from time to time, but none of these has been confirmed as yet by the only sure test of their value, the work of many hands. Numbers of people are now proceeding to wards that point of the great mountain chain from which the Goulburn and its tributaries flow, in search of the diggings lately announced to have been found there ; but of the little is known as yet except that a small number of men have been for some time profitably employed on the new ground, such having been the case occasionally for years past on one or other of the creeks flowing Borth ward from these ranges. Further to the eastward, and more towards Omeo, or the now famous Kian dra, a new goldfield of great extent is reported to have been discovered ; but of this nothing authenti• is yet known, the bearers of the intelligence having merely heard that the place is within our territory, that gold is plentiful, but that the auriferous ground said to cover 20 square miles, is now covered with snow. Since the exciting intelligence from Kiandra, at the close of last summer, disturbed the pub lic mind once more with visions of speedy fortunes to be realised by digging, nothing but the dis covery of an entirely new and extensive field, with room and to spare for thousands, will satisfy the general desire, so more limited dis coveries are scarcely deemed worthy of notice. We have had, however, to chronicle not a few of these, and some of no little importance in proportion to the number of miners finding scope for exertion thereon. Inglewood, the site of the last great rush, now some months since, has fallen sadly into disrepute of late; for, although it is an extensive field, and some of the runs of gold and portions of reefs within its limits are very rich, besides there being a very great extent of surfacing ground, which will be worked to good advantage as soon as ever enough water is to be had, it was altogether overcrowded, and is now being deserted as rapidly as it was peopled at first. But at Lamplough, the site of the great rush before that again and almost deserted at one time for Inglewood, numbers are now doing very well, and one of the best leads opened of late is now worked within four miles, and is giving employment to several hundreds of men, and a competency to a fair proportion of these. The same thing has happened at Back Creek, a place once in as great estimation as the two named, and afterwards almost depopulated for them, where the course of one of the rich leads, for some time lost, has been recovered, and these diggings are in as high favour as ever, but only with a compara tively small number, after the experience obtained there once before of the folly of overcrowding even the richest spot: On several others of the older gold-fields fresh leads, or continuations or branches! of those supposed to have been worked out, or else good patches have been found, but still insufficient to absorb the number of miners unsettled, and half or totally unemployed, and for these we want new fields. Yet the old ground is far from being worked out, and in proof of this we need only refer to the three nuggets found within a few weeks at Yan doit, in a spot little tried before; but now that it has been ascertained to contain such prizes, sure to be pretty well turned over. The first of these, weighing 501 b. has been described in a former sum mary, and the second 2400 z., was found a few days after. Since then the third, and last as yet, weigh ing 2840 z., was found by another party, at a depth of 16 feet from the surface. About the time of the finding of the second, a nugget of 671 b. loz., and measuring 181 inches in length by 51 inches in breadth, with an average thickness of - about two inches, was obtained at X.ingower, within a foot of the surface. Several smaller nuggets have also been found within the last few weeks, and among the number one of 190 z., at the Boggy Creek dig gings in Gipps Land, which is mostly very fine, at least on the lower portions of the rivers where the workings now are, but not, vc e should imagine, higher up and nearer to the reefs or other sources of supply. New reefs have been opened up in dif ferent directions through the country, and the reef ing interest generally is in a prosperous condition. The largest cake of amalgamated gold produced lately was one of 1,1580 z., 10 dwt., the yield of 40 tons of stone, taken out of a claim on the Eastern Victoria reef in the Bendigo district. NEW SOUTH WALES. MONTHLY COMMERCIAL REVIEW. JULY 20. During the past month the money market has continued tight, and we regret to record that several failures have taken place. The following houses have called meetings of their creditors :—Messrs. J. N. Fairhurst and Co., Bensusan and Haes, Bette ridge and Haden, W. Jolly and Co. ' and Bowden and Peden. The liabilities of these firms are not very large, and altogether do not amount to more than £120,000. The rates of exchange charged by the banks con tinue the same. The buying rate for bills on Lon don, at 60 days' sight, being 2 per cent. discount, and the selling rate 1 per cent. premium. The rates of discount remain at 7,8, and 9 per cent. A comparative statement of the consolidated re• venue of the colony of New South Wales, and of the special funds paid into the Treasury at Sydney during the quarters ended June 30, 1859, and June 30, 1860, respectively showing the increase or de crease-under each head thereof h as been published in the Gazette. From this statement we find the total revenue received during the quarter ended the 30th of June, 1860, was £339,654 19s. Bd. For the corresponding quarter of 1859 the revenue amounted to £370,188 3s. 2d., or 9 per cent. on the receipts of the quarter. During the first half-year of the year 1869 the revenue amounted to £721,365 19s. lld , and during the half-year ended the 30th of June ,. 1860, to £595 ,912 18s. B d. The decrease i n th e half-year is, therefore, £125,453 ls. 3d., or over 21 per cent. The falling off in the revenue this quar tere r iod revenueo f last has year. i is again in the Customs and land revenue It must also but it is satisfactory to find that during the last' two , improved and is fully mont equal utahletCoutshtaotmps' be borne in mind that the sep • aration of Moreton B a y makes a difference in our Customs' revenue of PRICE 4D. STAMPED, sr. about £3,000 a month, but still the decline on the half-year is so considerable that there is very little probability of the year's revenue being equal to that of 1859, and consequently it will fall short of the estimated revenue,so that the treasurer, unless some wonderful change takes place during the present half-year, will have to meet Purliament next session with a &licit instead of the surplus he anticipated. The share market during the past month has been remarkably quiet, and the transactions that have taken place have be, n very limited. The amount of capital offering for investment at pre sent is s nail, but as holders are not disposed to , submit to any reduction in prices, or anxious I o force sales, no decline has taken place. The news from Eng land by the May mail, although showing a great fall in the value of our securities in the London mar ket, has not in any degree affected the prices ruling here 'I he half-yearly meetings of the Commercial Bank, Australian Joint-stock Bank, Australasian Steam Navigation Company, and Newcastle Coal and Copper Company will take place at the end of the month, and should their reports be as favour able as they are expected, and their dividends equal to those declared last half-year, an improvement in the value of these shares may be looked for. Government debentures were firm, and termin ables due in 1861 have been sold for remittance to England at 11 per cent. premium and interest. Those due in 1874 have changed_hands at par and interest. Interminables are steady, and have been sold at 981- and interest. City and Sydney deben tures have been dealt in at 98. The following will show the amounts of golddust received from the Western, Southern, and Northern goldfields during the first six months of the years 1859 and 1860 :-1859—Western, 60,522 ounces; Southern, 50,275 ounces ; Northern, 26,344 ounces. 1860— Western, 62,220 ounces; Southern, 95,098 ounces ; Northern, 25,774 ounces. From this state ment it will be found that there is an increase of 1,698 ounces, or 22 per cent., on the yield from the *Western goldfields • but from the Southern, in cluding Kiandra, the increase is very large, being over 44,821 ounces, or 89 per cent. On the return of the Northern goldfields, however, there is a slight decrease of 570 ounces, or nearly 2 per cent. The Customs' revenue collected at the port of Sydney during the month of June amounted to £47,154, 17s. 2d. During the corresponding month of 1859 the receipts were £45,356, 18s. 7d. ; there is, therefore, an increase on the month of £1,797, 18s. 7d., or nearly 4 per cent. For the half-year ended the 30th of June, 1859, the Customs' revenue amounted to £308,030, 10s. 2d. During the same period of 1860 the duties collected have amounted to £277,982, 19s. 9d. ; the decrease on the receipts of the half-year is, therefore, £30,047, 10s. sd. or 10/ per cent. It is gratifyin g t o fi n d t h at the Cus toms revenue is recovering from the decline that took place during the first five months of the pre sent year, and it is to be hoped that before the year closes the receipts will be fully equal to those of last year. - . THE NATIVE WAR IN NEW ZEALAND. The correspondent of the Melbourne -Herald writes : " About daybreak on Wednesday, June 27, a force of 200 men in all, from the 40th and Naval Brigade, set out from the camp with the big guns, and took up position on the side of the pah next the camp. These men had with them Major Nel son, Capt. Richards, of the 40th ; Capt. Seymour and First Lieutenant Baddiscombe, of the Pelorus ; and Lieut. M'Naughten, of the Artillery. Another party of 150 men was sent round between the pah and the river, and, leaving a detachment in the flat, came up in the rear of the pah, on the inland side. The pah was thus surrounded, so that none coming out could escape from one force or another. " The main force in front opened fire with artil lery at seven a,m. ; and, after some firing, effected a small breach. But the ground was known to be furrowed with old entrenchments, and a gully in tervened between the Artillery and left wing and the pah. The natives came boldly out on the op posite side of the gully, sometimes within a 100 yards, and a steady and busy firing went on. On the right wing, however, which consisted of the grenadier company of the 40th and part of the Naval Brigade, and which overlapped the head of the gully, a distressing fire was maintained from a broad ditch, and the order was given to fix bayonets and charge. The natives, lying down with loaded guns, started up when the line was with a few yards; their numbers were great, their guns double barrels, and they fairly shook the advancing party. They closed, however, 'and a hand to hand fight followed, in which many fell. One big fellow of the 40th is said to have bayonetted six of the enemy, and was then shot down. Some whiteskinned scoundrel was amonc , . the enemy, directing them, and I fear escaped hanging by getting shot. The grenadier company lost 33 men killed and wounded, chiefly in the struggle. " Whilst this was going on the Maories came pouring in from the back country, and outflanked our men ; and after holding out as long as he thought fair to the men, no reinforcement arriving, Major Nelson ordered a retreat. An attempt was made to do so, followed:by a perfect crowd of natives, when the artillery, which had been run off dia gonally to cover the retreat, threw in a few rounds of grape, and one discharge made, it is said, A lane through them,' and they gave up the attempt to pursue. _ _ _ " The parties in the rear had meanwhile been en gaged with the natives on the ridge on which stands the pah, and had cut off some who were endeavour ing to escape on that side; they were part of them stationed in high fern and tutu, and the crowd from inland had nearly surprised them. When the bugle sounded the retreat they were separated from the main body by swarms of natives, and were obliged to make the best of their way back by the low ground over which they had advanced. They had been taken to their position by the celebrated chief Ihai. He is still suffering from some scorbutic complaint contracted in the long siege of the Karaka pah, and being half lame and knocked up had to crawl back to the camp, where he arrived at 11 o'clock, covered with mud, thorns, and thistle seed. He did his duty, and it is fair to mention him here, as he might be forgotten, and his whole fierce and energetic mind is bent on aiding our cause. His absence, however, left the rear party without a guide. Lieut. Brooke was killed in a swamp, fighting several natives with his sword, till a cut on the wrist disabled him, and he fell by the blows of their tomahawks. The rearward party left 13 men on the ground. Only one wounded man escaped, the whole retreat hav ing to be hardly fought against great odds. The whole loss on our side was 40th Regiment Naval Brigade Artillery Of these 29 were killed and 32 wounded ; one of the latter has since died. Among the killed was Lieut. Brooke, and among the wounded was C a p tain Seymour, of the Pelorus ; but I am glad to say his wound is not likely to deprive us long of his in valuable services. "It is worth recording that the natives were observed to dispense with the ramrod in loading— their balls going easily down their guns, the butts of which they struck two or three times on the ground. ge F r om the spectators of this fight, and the few who joined it of their own choice, we hear butone tale. Every one fought with steady active courage h; fireal alike e t t a i id in their i t no one skulked ; o ffi cers and men duty under gre at odds and a fi erceness that astonished veterans of the In dian of a service. The natives, it is said, are w arriors f eq ua l to the Sikhs. I he ar the name Ferozeshah, Sobraon, the Redan, us ed to describe the sort of conflict. It was no disgrace, then to be repelled. We may be proud of the 27th June at Puketa kauere. One man there was who could have made this affair a decisive victory. It was an enlarged r epetion of Wairek a , Succour was at hand, b u t it was needed, and it was withheld. Not only are the rebels unconquered, but the bodies of our dead lie unburied, or - are indebted to the enemy for burial. Here was n i o divided responsibility, no orders , to hamper t lay in the power of the com mander o f the f . orces to co-operate, to succour, or promptly _ to ret r i eve . One after another he neg lected or declined these opportunities as th ey passed. H e did no t crea t e a di vers i on ;h e d elay'd e when he should have hurried to relieve and he marched his eager me n b ac k t o quarter s 411 n he should have gone forward to renew the strife.e It Is true that all was quiet when he left Mahoetalti ; but for aught he knew it might be the quiet of death. I know something will be said about the town ; but the town was not unprotected. Here is, roughly, the state of the force we had on Wed nesday, the 27th : At Waitara With Colonel Gold . 3OO At Bell Block 5O At Omata At Tataraimaka 2OO In town 1920 Reducing the number here d i stated by 100 for n valids, we — hiire - lrloree -- surely able to itself, and protect the barracks, in whi, emergency we should secure the helpless. war yet made us so selfish that any one in, in the town can look on the brave soldiers at outposts as strangers, or grudge some risk to our selves that succour s hould be afforded to them in their need. I see no justification of the course of Colonel Gold on Wednesday - . I will not try to give it its proper name, for there is no pleasure in using harsh words, and mild ones will not express my opinions. It is fitter for me to be a mere annalist and easier to leave the facts without further remark to yourself and the public. In the nature of things it must surely be that some way exists of removing a person so unfit as Colonel Gold from a station of such great trust as he now occupies. I desire no more. And the emergency is too grave for me to hesitate about sa; ing that th's is absolutely neecs sary." . FURTHER PARTICULARS. The officers engaged were— Naval Brigade—First Lieutenant Bittiscombe, Midshipman Wadlow. Midshipman Garnett, Lieu tenant Mot ris, Royal Marine Artillery. Royal En gineers —Lieutenant :Mould. Royal Artillery—Lieutenant M'Naughtcn. 40th Regiment—M a j or Nelson, Limit. Brooke (killed), Lieutenants Downian, Jackson, and Rees, Ensign and Adjutant Whelan. The following is an authentic list of the killed and wounded among the 40th Regiment :—Killed , Dumfrey, —Lieutenant Brooke, Sergeant O'Callaghan, Cor poralsS. M'Burney, J. Ryan; Privates Doug_la ,s Downes, Byrne, Gore Abrey Abrey, DA.lVleanh, Broderick,ey, , Fegan, Fillm • • ghatn, Harris, Hayes, M Cabe, Mar- Cliff, Gill, Webber, Hickey, M'Cann, Marsden, com, Perry, Scott, G . allagher,D?wn Channin s Robin son. Wounded Privates Bryan , Lynch, Lucas, M'Carthy, Maguire (since dead), Molton, Murphy, Newman, Plunkett, Smith, Burke, O'Brien, Burgess, Tedder, Head, Hogan, Louge, Smith, Tourney. (From the Sydney Morning Herald.) By the Prince Alfred mail steamer we have papers from New Plymouth (Taranaki), to the 30th of June. She brings news of a very painful and disastrous character. An advance upon the rebels' pah at Waitara has been made, and, after fighting for more than four hours with great gallantry against large numbers of natives, covered by their intrench meats, our forces were obliged to retreat, leaving 29 dead and 33 wounded on the field. The die is cast. It is plain that we have a foe to deal with who is not to be despised ; it is equally so that he must be put down at all cost. Major Nelson and Captain Seymour, with the whole of their men, appear to have acted with great gallantry, and in a manner equally removed from over-caution. The Taranaki _Herald says : " While last Saturday's sheet was printing guns were heard at Waitara, and the Tasmanian Maid on Tuesday brought intelligence that a reconnoit ring party of the 40th had been fired on by the natives from the pah restored at Puketakauere. This act of aggression loosened the hands of our military commander, and steps were taken to punish the insurgents for their growing boldness. " Wednesday morning was fixed for attacking the pah. Guns and reinforcements of the 40th Regiment and of the blue jackets were despatched from town, and plans of proceeding canvassed by men with and without authority. " Weather of the most inclement kind that this country knows added to the hardships of this pre paring for the rough business. " The reinforcements waded out through a sea of mud, under south-west squalls and showers. " The Puketakauere fah consists of two stock ades ; one upon the intrenchments of the old pah of the same name, the other new and appa rently without intrenchments. They stand on a ridge formed by two small gullies. These gullies meet a little below the pah, and open on a swampy ground in the Waitara Valley, forming a sort of long Y, the stalk towards the river, and the stock ades in the fork. " The main body, consisting of the Grenadier and Light Companies of the 40th Regiment, under Capt. Richards, and 60 blue jackets, under Ist Lieut. Battiscombe of the Pelorus, with the Artillery, ap proached the pah by the direstcst road from the camp, and at 6 o'clock a.m. the guns were brought to bear, and the nten extended on the northwest, or seaward side of the pah, the smaller gully between them and it. With this division were Major Nelson, and Capt. Seymour, of the Pelorus. " A second division of about 50 men, under Capt. Messenger, was posted on the flat of the Waitara, to cut off the retreat on that side; and a third,under Capt. Bw.vdler, passed along the river banks, and attempted to take the pah in the rear. " The natives were aware of the movement, and were on the alert. The first firing was on the rear ward party, and a Maori informant states that, finding the troops advancing on that side, many of the natives went out of the stockade, some of them endeavouring to escape, and some occupying the iutrenchments of a second old pal), to the rearward of—that is to say, nearer to the IVaitara than—the two stockades. It could be seen that the party under Capt. Messenger was doing great execution on the stragglers who attempted to escape, and for a time it appeared as if the attack in the rear would succeed ; but after a short space a large reinforce ment from the inland settlements of Wi Kingi ar rived among the high fern, and a fierce battle en sued, the natives greatly outnumbering the troops. " The Grenadier company of the 40th Regiment and the blue jackets formed the right wing of the main party in front, and extended beyond the head of the gully, facing partly round towards the south west side of the pah. Large numbers of the en em y came to the brink of the gully, and the pah was pro bably almost empty. The combatants were about 150 yards apart, divided by the gully, firing briskly and steadily, but not able to close except where the right wing overlapped the head of the gully, and here a desperate struggle took place with a party of natives who had a trench at one of the outworks of the old fortifications. Here was the hottest fight ing and the greatest loss sustained by this division. " Early in the day a messenger of the rebels vv . ag seen to start from the rear, and between 9 2. 1 . 1 c 1 _ 0 o'clock large reinforcements came from ill_ a la c r e l c i part of which, as we have already said, attacked the 2d and 3d divisions , and the out flanked the main body in front. time, without " Having held this ground for rme of a diversion reinforcements arriving, or any signs. r aers to sound the appearing, Major Nelson gave ° was checked by a remainder ' retire.' Some attempt to follow and the main body serious molestation, murderous retreatedi n fi re order fr andom thte awithoutrpti." The other divisions and arrived in camp d a in l their retreat, not having se rt them. We believe it was in they ns were killed. They endea voured°an t Brooke and the other had advanced, but gallant retreathewerea heavy y ingtuuhncasht retire Li to eutenant uur as ain s o divisions or mistake of the ground t t o i oisfyertntehh; res cause . o f the serious loss on this side. we fear way back to the camp. wassfellowsomepartly an Th e y had to fight their There were men present cool enough to see that the British honour was not only sustained but exalted by this fierce struggle. The great numerical superi ority of the natives alone made it necessary for our troops to reti re. O fficers and men fought with steadi ness and en ergy, under a fire which an Indian officer compares to that at Ferozeshah and Sobraen, and which a soldier of the Crimea states to have been hotter than that in the Redan. The gallant Captain Seymour of the Pelorus, received a bullet in the leg. Lieut. Brooke sold his life dearly, and fell only when his sword arm was helplessly wounded. Non-com missioned officers and privates were recognised in some cases singly and coolly firing on large bodies of the enemy, and then as coolly retiring. The enemy, too, showed unexpected resolution, and have proved the first body of men able to meet the British bayo net. " It must not be omitted, either, that thought ful preparations had been made by the excellent commander of the 40th for the day's work. Double rations of food were cooked, carts, bul locks, ammunition, everything was punctually at its place; and the excellent plan of operations and gallant conduct of the attacks did fresh honour to the name idolised by Britons. " This sanguinary fight would have been th e annihilation of the native force at Waitara bad more troops been present. . - 8 a five " The large army assembled about Kingli ~c h comment on the policy of our Government , 7, 0 ; _. stands trifling with mild addresses and Mtto:.l,6r 'laments, while the men whom it seeksgna, conciliatetogice gather by the thousand, with tams in their senators that dignity to the deliberations of w r. which belongs to a sense of theirr ina k e a s in the rear further " The blszing houses of Tata a r t a , l s of our retreating column on th austh i g de b , e a t r w e e a en every illustration of the system P blow in a struggle to make u p his mind to continue made;stheof oveprytiuvrieles g t e o a th n e d f e o n e i a b i e ld h ascertain if he has t w h i a g t h t t h h e a m ve o t s a t u t t i n ts the contest. embel lishment of New Zealand is repeating , work. hand makes the bloodiest ie ß u a t t . t m isc o o r rn ri b s, e ß , A o l y id a - 1 ~ Th e o fficers l'igC°l e eu n nir. g el a j _e.re sh i p , in.Neanvawl B rigade n—First Artillery. 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