NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

Dunstan Times, Issue 357, 26 February 1869, Page 3

NEWS FROM THE NORTH.

(Abridged' from, the Xcw Zealand Sun telegrams. Ww.i.inotox, Fob. 13. TitoKowarau’s wh reabonts, hitherto undiscovered, is now believed to be within a mile from his late position, lying inland. Colonel Haultain is visiting the Front. Air. Stafford, having lately written AVhitmoro letters of advice, has boon plainly replied to that if the Government can fin' 1 any one better able to finish tho war, by all means to do so. Notwithstanding positive advice received by Government of the death of ‘Te Kooti, that in liviilnal has been ascertained to be alive an i active,

Feb. 10. There is nothing new from Wanganui. Colonel Haultain is there The ship St. Vincent, Captain Barron, left Wellington in Ballast on Saturday afternoon for Lyttelton, to load wool there. She was off Cape Campbell on Sunday at twelve o’clock at night ; encountered a s-uitherly gale, and at four o’c’ot-k yesterday morning drifted into Pallisber Bay, and at half past ten struck on Point Turakarai. The weather was thick, and the night very dark. The chief officer and the saiimaker were washed ashore alive, hut the captain and the crew, consisting of nineteen men, most of v/hom Were shipped in Wellington and a passenger named MTCay were drowned, The chief mate reached town this afternoon. The ship is a total wreck ; all the masts went whon-she first struck, M‘Kay’s and a few other bodies have been washed up. , . Fob. 17. The Melbourne mail tenders are not -yet decided. The tenderers make no secret of having tendered not only for Wellington direct! hut for alternative routes. The consi 'eration of these is supposed to be the cause of the delay iu.declaring the result. -■ The sailmaker of the-ill-fated St. Viacent has arrived. On’y two bo aes have been washed Up. The chief mate, Mr. Stringer, has gone nut to. rhajjo further search. An official inquiry will probably be hold on Monday. The ships in the harbor have their flags half mast high. Publie subscriptions arc being'raised for the benefit of the widows anti orphans. • • 4 _ m- - • 1 Feb. 20. The following intelligence is from Col. Whitmore to the WaHgaiutl papers i Ti B/W .etwiesmq o-.,Thursday; 6p.m. '< This afternoon ten men of Colonel, M‘Donnell's division, under Sorgt. Meiizlos, formed themselves into a foraging party, and to gather ! peaches,'which *hM been nhsan’/.d during the Colonel's expedition, the day hofore, i towards Turanganuitu. They had scarcely

moored tho canoo beside the peach grove when tho enemy opened fire from an ambuscade, and the men hurried back to the canoe. None appear to have been hit by the discharge, but in pushing off, tho man who had tho paddle was loft behind, and those in tho canoo not knowing or unable to manage it were easily overtaken by the rebels. Constable M‘Evoy and another man attempted to swim across, but the former was wounded mid tho latter killed when ascending tho opposite blink. Two other men took shelter in tho bush and escaped. Sergt. Menzies and tho other five men wore either shot from tho banks or tomahawked in tho water. Alenzie’s body alone was recovered. Colonel M ‘Donnell hurried out his division with the greatest possible despatch, and was on the ground in a very few minutes after the men were shot, the enemy firing at him as he advanced. The canoe was found au I taken possession of, and by that means the river crosse . The enemy were driven back, and the two men who had taken refuge in the bush were rescued.