WANGANUI.

Evening Post, Issue 226, 28 October 1865, Page 2

WANGANUI.

The Native Guises. — Tbe guides mentioned in our last as missing, returned on Monday, so that tbe fears entertained of their having deserted were needless. The idea seems to have originated at the Native Magistrate's ofitce, from some enquiries made by the military authorities respecting the guides days after they had left town, and was of course strengthened by their having applied for and obtained the duplicate arms. The Operations on the Coast.— The military expeditions recently organised seem to have resulted in very little, though from the wet weather and the rugged nature of the ground, they must have been very arduous to the troops engaged. At Patea the pa at which Mr. Broughton was murdered was visited and destroyed, as well as an apparently new stockade a little further inland. No natives were seen, though a quantity of potatoes and kumaras were found, and as we learn from tbe interpreter's journal the crowing of a cock was heard. The only trace of Mr. Broughton was the body of his horse, which was found some distance from the pa, tbe poor beast having apparently been upeared. At another pa inland of Manutahi,visited a day or two later, a freshly cooked dinner was found, but the company for whom it was prepared had evaporated. This pa was of course also destroyed. Two shots were fired after the troops as they retired by unseen natives. At Waitotara the operations resulted in the burning of some whares, and the capture of Hohepa a native who was sent to Waitotara with a letter by Mr. White, and never returned, having it was said been detained by the Hau Haus. After being captured he was allowed to return into the bush to get some of his things, and we believe has not yet come in though the natives expect he will do so as they brought in his wife and child.— Wanganui , Chronicle.