PIPIRIKI.

Evening Post, Issue 143, 24 July 1865, Page 2

PIPIRIKI.

We (Wanganui Chronicle) mentioned in our last that this place had been surrounded by rebel Maoris. Little authentic intelligence has since been received. The only intelligence that has arrived is given by a Maori woman, from Hihuharama, who brought it from three natives, who stated that they saw and heard what they reported. These men stated that the natives attacked Captain Brassey's position on Wednesday, and that fighting was going on all that day. On Thursday morning they state that one of the redoubts was rushed by the natives and taken, but they conclude merely that it was taken from the fact that they saw it on fire from a distance of half a mile. There are three redoubts at Pipiriki. The bushrangers redoubt is that said to be taken, but it is thought possible that the fire which the natives saw may have have been caused by the burning by Captain Brassey of the whares in the old pah. The native report is that several were killed on both sides. The natives at Wereroa were anxious to go up the river on Monday so soon as the intelligence was received, but his Excellency the Governor retained them till the Wereroa , affair should be settled. They are coming in

to-day (Saturday), and will go up the river to-morrow, accompanied, we understand, by 100 men of the 57th Regiment.