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Dunstan Times, Issue 351, 15 January 1869, Page 1 (Supplement)

oat, or that tUo place will be taken by sap, the assault being oonsi lered too risky. TheWairoa expedition has taken nineteen prisoners. One of the prisoners reported that Te Warn had gone to the Waikato to excite disaffection among the natives there. The expedition which left Wairoa on the 21tb nit., on'arriving at jPuketapn, found it deserted. The bodies of the men who fell in Colonel Whitmore’s attack on the escapes, including Captain Carr, were buried by the expedition.

The Ahuriri arrived to-day from Poverty 1! »y. She reports that a skirmish took place before Ngatepe, in Which inspector Brown and two Friendlies were killed, and two wounded.

Three loads of ammunition have gone

I’he Ahuriri returns to-night. Te Kooti is said to be surrounded by the forces under Colonel Whitmore. The Hau-haus attempted an escape, but w ere driven back with loss. The A raw Contingent are close up to the enemy’s works. Inspector Brown, from the West Coast, was just married.

The pah of Puketapu, when entered, showed no signs of having been occupied for three mouths. The fortifications have been much exaggerated. The whares and

cultivations were destroyed. There was suspended in the Church a letter written by Te ivooti, calling on the Uriweras and Waikatos for help. The country was scoured, but no enemy was seen, and the force returned to Wuiroa on Friday.

Tareha, with two hundred Friendlies, arrive ! at Napier to-day, and Hen.ire, with the remainder, is expected to arrive to-

morrow. Tha reason for their return is that valuable wheat crops belonging to them ace ready for cutting ; but they are anxious alter the harvest is over, to take the Held

Ac Poverty Bay once more. There is nothing further from Ngatepe.

Ngatepe is taken. One-lmiulred-and-llfty Maoris were killed, and onc-humlred taken prisoners. On our side ten were killed and fifteen wounded.

Te Warn is among the killed, but T kooti escaped. TSIK) is offered for him, and he is sure to be captured. This news has just been brought by the Sturt.

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iho pah at Ngatepe, which is situated on a hill nearly two thousand feet above the level of tire sea, covered with bush to the top, was sapped in front by the main force.

At daylight ouTuesday morning (dth lust.,) a party under the command of hlajor Frazer scaled the rocky ridge in tnc rear of the pah. The want of men, however, preveutea him from stopping the ctesccnt of some Tlauhaus including Te Kooti, by the cliffs on the right.

.Sixty Hauhaus were killed on entering the pah, and sixty more during the pursuit. Among them are .Nikora and ilangiahu, the latter a Criwara chief.

The prisoners are eighty in number, of whom fourteen are men, and the remainder women and children.

adi'. 1 1 . 1, Hamsir the interpreter, was the

first man to enter the pah.

Cur loss is one oliicer killed and one wounded, and ten men killed and ten wounded

one dangerously, The names are not yet

Oil Wednesday the pursuit was being

kept up,

Ngatepe was shelled for two days before the assault took place. Good practice was made, and the execution done was terrible, hew details of the affair are yet to hand.

due St. Kilda arrived to-day with the remainder of the forces engaged in the late expedition to Jfuketapu. iviisss Lllisou, an amiable young lady aged twenty, was drowned yesterday, while bathing at Te Mata, near Napier. General grief is felt at the sad occurrence.