The bugle instantly sounded the alarm, and in a , moment every man that heard it grasp* d his arms and started for Waioeka as fast as he could run —the infantry first, the cavalry as soon after as they could follow. Had the same celerity been tried the day we received the news of the murder of Bennett White and the mailman, the. blood-stained butchers « would, in less than twelve hours after they com mitted the crime, have been circumvented and cut off by the hand of retributive vengeance. A party of 52 men is to be sent to the Waiotahi, to construct and garrison a redoubt, which will protect the road to the Ohiwa. The cavalry, all except four men, have been struck off pay and duty this eveniDg. Of those four, two are to be stationed at Waioeka. The other two will accompany the detachment to Waio tahi. People here are beginning to contrast the supineness < f the Government as regards the late murders with their activity when the Rev. Mr. Grace was in jeopardy. Then the West Coast poured in its hundteds of hardy Rangers to avenge Volkner's death, and the ' Eclipse ' was despatched with all speed to succour Grace ; but the beggarly policy of Haultain will be the cause of a fresh war, as those who in future venture out of the settle ment will have to travel in armed parties for their own protection, and any Maoris they come across, if armed or unknown, are not likely to receive much quarter ; but least said is soonest mended. The arrival of the s.b. « Tauranga,' this morning, July 5, and her departure this evening, compels me to bring this tedious letter to a close. The remains of Moore and Beggs have just been laid in their graves. Major St. John read the funeral service on the occasion, and most of tbe inhabitants of the settlement, civil and military, followed the coffins from the church, in which the remains have lain since they were brought in, to the cemetery in which they were interred. It seems, by a camp order issued yesterday, that the Hauhaus are to be permitted to kill and murder whomever they find until the spring of the year, when Major Mair, at the head of the Arawas, and Major St. 