WANGANUI.

Evening Post, Issue 220, 21 October 1865, Page 2

WANGANUI.

Mb. C. Broughton.— Mr. B. Broughton has returned from the front with -a conftfmation of the report we lately mentioned as having reached Waingohgoro, as to his brother's fate. It appears the unfortnnate gentleman never reached the pa, tut was killed while receiving a light from a native whom he met en route, by one of those who had decoyed him to the pa. The weapon with which he was struck down was a pouwhenua, one of those long handled wooden tomahawk-looking articles, often Been in the hands of the natives. There is a native rumour that Kemp, Wirihano, and Aperaniko, have been killed at Opotiki. We allude to it because these reports have several times proved to be well-founded. The four native guides detailed for service at Waitotara, are missing. They left town on Monday at midday, but did not arrive at Weraroa, and, it is believed, have deserted to the enemy. Before starting they got a second supply of arms and ammunition (breach-loading rifles and revolvers) at the Militia Office, by order ( it is said, of the acting Native R.M. They are some of Dr. Featherston's proteges, to whom he paid the Waitotara purchase money, and belonging to the Fa Karaka pa, whose inhabitauts were so conspicuously carried off by the Hau Haus last January. One of them is brother to the Rio Haeaterangi said to have been murdered at Waitotara. Public Meeting. A meeting was held last evening, at Dunleavy's hotel, to take ! into consideration, the Indemnity act lately passed by the General Assembly. Mr. J. Bryce was elected to the chair. Mr. Perham (solicitor) attended on behalf of Mr. Moore, and suggested that proceedings should be taken without individual reference to his case. A resolution was passed that a Memorial should be addressed to the House of Representatives, praying for the repeal of the act, and that all subsequent action taken thereon should be null

and void. Messrs. Reynolds, Burnett, A ' Williamson, Sim, E. T. Woon, and G. Beavan, were elected as a committee to prepare the memorial, and report to a future meeting. The meeting was numerously attended notwithstanding the pouring rain. A dreadful accident has just occurred in Victoria Avenue. Dr. Gibson has lately had a quantity of sand removed from the sandhill behind his bouse, and bad employed Mr. W. Aiken to erect a substantial fence along the foot of the excavation. When Mr. Aiken and three men were so engaged, a little earth fell and jammed the legs of one of the men, and while bis comrades were assisting him, fifteen or twenty tons more came down, burying three of tbe party, and hurling the other a distance of several yards. Mr. Aiken's bead and arm were left free, and he succeeded in uncovering the bead of the man next him» but in spite of the eager efforts of a number of persons who rushed to the spoti more than twenty minutes elapsed before tbe man first jammed could be extricated, and he was then to all appearance dead, but even Mr. Aiken did not know bis name. The foundation stone of the New Parish Church was laid on Monday, by tbe Bishop of the Diocese, and tbe day being all that could be desired, a large number of persons attended to witness the ceremony. We understand that a sum of £581 3s Id, is already collected, and £125 expected shortly, through the Bishop, from Wellington, and fully £300 more either promised or confidently relied on, so that we may hope shortly to see a building erected which will be an ornament to the town, and supply a want now become urgent through the increasing numbers of the congregation.— Wanganui Chronicle.