LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

Grey River Argus, Volume VII, Issue 488, 2 March 1869, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

(From the Wanganui Chronicle, February 23. ) Colonel Whitmore is in hope 3 that he is closing upon Titokowaru, who is encamped, so far as has yet been ascertained, in a gorge leading into the Momahaki River, behind Okutuku, and rather nearer Waitotara. It is necessarily slow work, as the track has to be cut pari passu with the progress of the force. The men find it exceedingly djfticiilt to- move about for the scrub and bush, and those entrusted with the commissariat find it still more so to bring up provisions. There ia now a practicable dray-track from Woreroa to Wairoa. Of course all tracks made into the bush are simply fit for pack-horses, and no more. There is work going on, but it may all end in nothing. It seems more than likely that the enemy won't stand when the force gets up to him ; he will take himself off to some other gorge, and then the same kind of work has all to bo done over again. On the other hand, it is quite within the range of probability that our ; men may come upon Mm when they little expect it. A brush with the enemy may happen any day — any hour, in fact. The following is a return of the killed, wounded, and missing in the xmfortunate affair of Thursday last :— -Sergeant Menzies, killed and mutilated ; Constable Connel Boyle, killed ; Constable John M'Evoy, wounded ; Constable Alfred Wakeford, wounded ; Constable R. Henderson, returned ; Corporal Geo. Horspool, missing; Constable James Banks, missing ; Constable John Howe, missing ; Constable Abel Barris, missing ; Constable Matthew — , missing.