THE WEREROA PAH. (FROM THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE OF WEDNESDAY.)

Evening Post, Issue 141, 21 July 1865, Page 2

THE WEREROA PAH. (FROM THE WANGANUI CHRONICLE OF WEDNESDAY.)

His Excellency the Governor arrived here on Monday from Wellington by the Lady Bird, together with Major Grey and Capt. Bulkely. On Monday his Excellency and Brigadier- General Waddy, accompanied by Mr. Parris, went out to the Wereroa pah, and still remain there. Three of the rebel chiefs— Aperahama, Pehimana, and Buka —with their follower?, have come in, and have been acting as messengers from the Governor to the occupants of the pah, who are said to number about 100 men. They are headed by Haramona, a Ngarauru chieft who has hitherto turned a deaf ear to the arguments and offers of the Governor's ambassadors, and declares his intention to hold the pah to the last. An interview —the last it was said— was to take place this morning, and if it results in nothing, like the previous talks, it is believed at Nukumaru that the pah will be taken by force without further parley. As his Excellency is not particularity communicative as to his intentions time alone will show* whether this impression is correct. A report was brought down the river to Major Nixon by a native named Rewi Porangai on Monday night that Pipiriki was surrounded by a force of Hau Haus. Major Nixon came over to town immediately, and through Capt. Percy sent off a messenger at 10 p.m. to

Nukumaru, to inform the Governor and Major Rookes, of this intelligence. This morning Mr. Booth, R.M., was proceeding up the river whin he was met by some canoes which had been sent up with provisions and had been abliged to return. Their crews confirmed the report, which is not a very pleasant one. It appeais that about 400 rebels under the chiefs Pehi, Topine Tahana, Te Waka, Te Ihu, and Ngaihuru, have taken possession of a cliff about 30 feet high, on the left bank of the river, about 300 yards below and on the opposite side from Pipiriki, which commands a difficult rapid, and that they thereby prevent the ascent of canoes with provisions of which the Pipiriki garrison is said not to have too ample a supply. This force, the number of which, however, may be exaggerated, doe 3 not include the 200 Rangitikei natives on the march to Waitetara. They are snid to have arrived at Onepuehu, which is somewhere between the head waters of the Wangaehu and Mangawero, and may direct their march against any place which they may think most inviting— either Pipiriki or Parakino, or lower down. It is said, also, that Athene, a pah some miles below Pipiriki, has been occupied by the rebels, but we are not aware that this report has been confirmed. This new manifestation of rebellion is doubtless connected with the fast and looose game that has been playing at the Wereroa pah, and has probably been hastened by the withdrawal of all tne natives from the river.