The Sun. — 1865-04-13 (London, England)

WOUNDED-18th Regiment—Private Trevors, mortally ; Privates Thos. Lock, Daniel Wadkins, and Thos. Graham, severely; Privates Thomas High and Patrick Whelan, slightly. 50th Regiment—Ensign D.L. Grant, dangerously;* Lieut. W. H. Wilson, very severely; Private John Lydon, dangerously; Privates Arthur Poor, J. Cunningham, Jas. Reardon, George Box, John Barley, and John Christopher, very severely ; Privates Phelim' Brown, Thomas Dobell, William Griffin, B. Hargreaves, Wm. Miles, John Flynn, James Bleasdale, H. Handover, M. Burke, Robert Barrett, and William Croat, severely. No farther engagement has taken place. General Cameron has reached the Waitotara river, into which a small steamer has succeeded in entering en under the command of Capt. Cadell, of River Murray (Australia) celebrity, who has for some time past been engaged in opening up the New Zealand rivers. A further movement 'to the Patea river,. distant about 15 miles, is contemplated, if the river can be entered so as to afford facilities for commissariat purposes. The loyal natives up the Wanganui river, those who fought so well when the rebel horde attempted to pass down last year, are still as zealous as ever. It occurs to me to state, in proof of the good fellowship between the settlers and natives, between the much maligned, " greedy, covetous, land-sharking settlers," and the natives whom they are supposed to have maltreated during the last 25 years, that there is not a single soldier in the whole of the settled districts of the Wellington province, the few formerly garrisoning this city having gone to the front last week, all the fighting being beyond the settled province of the Wanganui district, which does not extend more than 12 miles north of that town. There is not a soldier within 120 miles of 'Wellington city, nor a man-of-war in its harbour, though there are five at anchor in the port of Auckland. All the garrison duty is being done by volunteers, and not only are the natives quiet but friendly. even Wi Tako, whose kingism was once such a bugbear, lately paid into the Treasury a,sum of £3O to obtain the grant in aid towards a road his people are making through the centre of his now friendly settlement. I only hope that the calling out the militia at Wanganui for service at the front will not give the rebels occasion for regarding it as a settlers' war. It is bad enough for the orators of St. Stephen's to misname it a settlers' war, but it would be far worse in its immediate consequences if the clearer knowledge of the natives should become similarly beclouded. But I am afraid that my hopes will not be wholly realised, for only this morning the Wanganui steamer startles us with the intelligence that on the night of the 9th Mr. J. D. Hewitt, M.P.C.,:ene of the settlers furthest out from Wanganui (about nine miles), was brutally murdered in his own house by natives, who carried the stockades close by, the family off his head. Mr. Hewitt's iln ervyshavianngt escapedto providentially been sent into Wanganui a few days ago for safety. As the news of the outrage spreads it will make the out-settlers elsewhere very timid, and I fear that if we hear of more such occurrences it will tend to panic. The agitation in Auckland for a separation of that province into a distinct colony, under the irresponsible government of a governor appointed by the Queen, is continued all the more vigorously now  (From the Supplement to the London Gazette of Tuesday, April 11.— Wednesday, April 12.)