LATEST FROM THE NORTH

Dunstan Times, Issue 345, 4 December 1868, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE NORTH

(From the N w Zealand Sun tele-grams.) Wellington, Nov. 23

The following are the terms on which the Government are willing to accept the services 1 f a Guerilla Corps for Wanganui, to he called “Bushranging Volunteers:”— The nav to he Is. per diem more than that of the Militia.

The Bruhrangers to Be commanded By Colonel Whitmore. Their duties to Be, to act ns tccuts, to hairass the enemy, cutting iff str.-fflcrp, destroying provisiens and creep, obtaining information astolhewhereaIc.uts cf the enemy, and keeping the front

if tha field foraa claw of tlia enemy's scouts o :o raging parties, Arid spies. Each man to ba armed with a broach 11 loader and revolver. A premium will ba given by Government e of £5 for every man or l.i belonging to tha ' snemy, brought in alive by the Bushrangers, * trhether such prisoners ba wound id or not s A a ecial reward of £IOOO is promised totho t :orps for the person of Tito Kowaru, dead t jr alive. J The corps may be divi ’ed into parties of not less than twenty men each, with one 1 j flitter, and the usual proportion of non- t commissioned officers to each; * The Bushrangers and their families to ba t entitled to the “ Military Tensioners Act.” . i These conditions are signed by Colone [ Ilunltain. f A number of Volunteers have already t joined (he Bushrangers, at a public meeting ' whan the above terms Were read. ■ The “Wanganui Chronicle" publishes a , proclamation, alleged to be by the Maori ( King, to every tribe in New Zealand, in which be orders a gent r d rising, and enu- 1 merates the names of the tribes who shall j take charge of each par, itular block in the 1 North Island, and destroy the Europeans thereon. The North Island is represented as divi- ( ded into eight parts, and the name of the '■ chief is given who is to drive the whites out of each. Latest accounts fas to the Poverty Bay i Massacre state that thirty two whites and i twenty two frion dies were killed ; and that ! silica, about twenty friendlies have been , killed: There were 475 men of tha Wellington sccou i class Milit a sworn in yesterday, ' making a tot 1 now of lUod men. j Arms and ammunition are being sent to i the Mana-.vatu settlers, and in a few days ' every man in ihe Province will be armed. The latest telegrams from Napier state that intelligence has bee» received tro.u Taupo, that Moliuka and Wairoa have been named as the points to be attacked whan thy general rising takes place. The refugees at Napier, notwithstanding the general cTor's to alleviate their distress, are much in want. The enemy attacked the escort, and seized seven kegs of xiwder and stores, and then seized the depot with twenty kegs. Communication wi hj the front is cut oil. When the eight kegs of ammunition were captured by the Ilau-haus Irom Major Lambert’s force, only twelve Europeans | and fourteen Natives wvre in charge of it. : They at.once bolted, From later into' igenca from Napier, eon- j siderable doubt is expressed as to Te Koot- ; ti's i cath, and our victory at Poverty Bay bai boon much magnified j At eleven o,clock, a telegram from Napier was received by the Government, stating that the force under Lambert was attacked by the H ui-hau’s while marching to effect a junction with Westrupp. The Ilau-haus ou flanked Lambert, attacked bis rear, and captured eight kegs of ammunition and arms, besides cutting off his retreat and holding the road etweeu him and Napier. Volunteer! g in every shape is the or er of the day now in Wellington. The Defence Minister has agreed to pay the following for arms recovered from the rebels ; one pound for every Government riile or breech loader : ten shillings for a double barrelled guu.