SURRENDER OF THE CHIEF MOANANUI, WITH SEVERAL OTHERS.

Evening Post, Issue 146, 27 July 1865, Page 2

SURRENDER OF THE CHIEF MOANANUI, WITH SEVERAL OTHERS.

On Monday last, we published a letter from a correspondent of the Nelson Examiner at Auckland, containing an account of an engagement between Kereopa and a portion of the Arawas, when five of the Arawa chiefs were cooked and eaten. To-day the facts are confirmed by the receipt of the Auckland papers, the Tauranga correspondent of the Herald furnishing that journal with particu* lars of the fight, and announcing the surrender of the chief Moananui, with others of the Ngaterangis. Writing from the Camp at Tauranga on the 17th July, the correspondent of the Herald says :— On the 13th inst., information was received that the rebel chief Te Moananui might be expected in camp, for the purpose of surrendering, along with several others. About 2 p.m. a number of the friendlier who were in camp announced that the rebel chiefs were sailing up the river in the direction of the camp, which caused a little excitement at the time of their landing. Until such times as arrangements had been made by the authorities as to where they were to be received, &c , they were escorted into the temporary building used as a Custom House, remaining for a full hour, when they were summoned up to the old quarters, where all the other branches of the Ngaterangis surrendered, which was in the lawn in front of the residence of Colonel Greer, C.8., commander of the forces in this district. Lieutenant Colonel Shuttleworth, 68th L. 1., commanding this station in the absence of Colonel Greer, was present along with Henry Tacy Clarke, Esq., Civil Commissioner of Tauranga, Adjutant Corry, Col. Harrington, Ist Waikato Regiment, &c, &c. Mr. H. E. Rice was in attendance on behalf of the natives. After some preliminary discussion amongst the authorities, it was agreed that nothing but an unconditional surrender would be received. To this Mr. Rioe stated that the natives had come for that purpose, and that it was positively and clearly understood by the whole of them. Col. Shuttleworth then desired Mr. Rice to read over to them the declaration which was made by the Ngaterangis at the general surrender iv August, 18G4. They were then asked whether they were prepared to make the same declaration, to which they all individually gave their assent. This being considered satisfactory, they were then called upon to come forward with what arms, &c, they possessed, and sign their names to the memorable Ngaterangi declaration of 1864.