POVERTY BAY.

Evening Post, Issue 147, 28 July 1865, Page 2

POVERTY BAY.

The ketch Sea Shell, which arrived yesterday from Poverty Bay, brings later news, from that quarter. The following is the report given us fey her commander, Capt. Harris: — "Left Poverty Bay on Thursday night last, and on Friday evening coummunicated with the Government cutter Mahia, off Gable End, ahout fifty miles north of Poverty Bay. tehe reported having landed forty-five volunteers from Napier, at the Waiapu, and that the first day the men were on shore one of them shot a friendly native, which caused a disturbance, and the two parties were fighting hard when she sailed. The natives at Poverty Bay were quiet, but there were evident signs of discontent brooding, and a renewal of hostilities was daily expected . The schooner Tawera had arrived there, and Capt. Read and other settlers had determined to forward their families to Auckland by her. She may be expected in a few days. Capt. Harris further states that when he put into Hick's Bay for provender, on Friday last, there was a native report afloat there that H.M.S.S. Eclipse had been blown on shore off Gable End Foreland, but it had not been authenticated. We cannot vouch for the truth of the above statements, but merely give them as they were handed to us. — N.Z. Herald July 19.