BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2144, 21 March 1870, Page 2

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) BKUCE ELECTION. The nomination took place to-day at noon. There were only twenty persons present. Mr J. L. Gillies, M.P.C., proposed, and Mr H Clark, M.P.C., seconded, Mr James Clarke Brown, as a fit and proper person. There was no opposition, and Mr Brown was declared duly elected member for Bruce.

Auckland, via Wellington,

March 18. Particulars of Te Kooti’s late raid arc to hand. The place captured is called Opape, to the southward of Opotiki. Whakatohoes were taken prisoners to the number of 150 men, women, and children. Forty Arawas and thirty Europeans pursued the enemy, and a fight took place, when William Marsh’s son was killed. An Arawa and two Europeans were also killed. The Hau-haus were victorious—the Arawas and Europeans retreating to Opotiki, One prisoner, an old man, was released, in order to get some rum, his wife and child being held as hostages. He returned with the nun, and found his wife and child tomahawked. The Hau-haus also lOlililljit/uKcd Lint. -A. Loy ocoupod, and reported that the prisoners in the hands of the rebels were in danger of being massacred. The Southern Cross's correspondent says the thirty Maories, men, women, and children, were butchered by the Hau-haus, but an official account by Mr M'Leau denies this. Native letters say that there are seventy Hau-haus under Te Kooti. The settlers at Opotiki arc under arms, and the public house there has been fortified. Te Kooti has returned to Torere, and says he intends to march along the coast, attacking the settlements on the way. Last reports say that Kemp has accepted the submission of a number of Hau-haus in the TJriwera country; also that a party who has surrendered will co-operate in the capture of Te Kooti, Orushings—City of Dunedin, 260 tons, 2750z5; Whau, 90 tons, 288ozs hard amalgam ; Kuranui (two week’s work) 800ozs; Jamaica, 181ozs; Young May Moon, 325 tons, 53ozs.