Glasgow Courier. — 1844-01-11 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

FROM MR. FREDERICK. TUCKETT, ACTING AGENT AT NELSON.  TO THE PRINCIPAL AGENT.  Nelson, July 3,1843. Sir,—Oa leaving the brig on the 20th, I avoided entering Tory Channel, and, keeping outside, proceeded through the night, as well as the following night, arriving here at daybreak on Wed. iiesday morning. The inhabitants, already apprised of the ime. parabbs,loss which they had sustained, and the appalling dream. stancee of the case, were in a 'tate of extreme agitation and fear. The magistrates occupied in taking depositions have yet hardly terminated their investigation. Arms and ammunition had, on the Grit, intelligence of the extent of our loss, been despatched to the Motueka ; and an armed party of 14 men sworn in as special constables, and another of five men had been sent to the survey station at the Takakao by Mr. Jollie, with the approbation of the magistrates and others. Our surveyors at Massacre Bay have lived in uninterriipted harmony with the natives there, and were in no way mixed up with the dispute which had occurred with the Coal and Lime Company, long since defunct. We have the most satisfactory information of the tranquillity and good feeling of the Motueka natives, on whom the ioteillgence produced no apparent effect other than an earnest proffer of aid from some of them to punish the murderers. I rtquested Mr. Aldred* to convey to them an assurance of our unchanged sentiments of confidence and good-will towards them, our abhorrence of acts of retaliation, and our obligation to leave to our lawful authorities the punishment of the guilty. My belief is that the natives professing Christianity, residents of PortUnderwood and its vicinity, were, with few exceptions, clear of any participation in the recent conflict at the Wairau, and had attempted to prevent the atrocious murder which had been afterwards perpetrated; also that our boat had been claimed by Puke (Raugitera men), who intended to proceed with it to the Motneka, and then restore it.  A letter to the same effect will be despatched by Mr. Aldred to the natives at the Titap. The first party of men who proceeded homeward overland have arrived r they met with Benham, one of the three men of whose f,re could gain no intelligence; the other two, Barton and Rai* have not yet been heard of, but Benham, from the direction of foot-marks which be observed, is of opinion that they left Wilma for the Bound or the Pelorus. The second and last overland party, consisting of five men, ought to have arrived yesterday. I made arrangements immediately on my arrival to send a party acquainted with the route to meet them, lest, having fallen in with the three missing men already alluded to, and having shared their provisions, they might undergo some privations; but considerable delay has occurred, owing to the rivers being swollen by continued rain and I doubt whether the five men have been able to cross the rain, for the same reason; in such cue they would return to Port-Underwood, and obtain subsistence at one of the whaling stations. The rain, OM had been most copious during the past week, still continua. I have the honour to be, &c.,