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(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Napier, May 22. Dispatches have been received from Colonel Whitmore, dated Fort Galatea, May 18. All the forces are safely down from the mountains to the plains on the Taupo side, where they will now remain. * One hundred men have been sent by water to Wairoa, to reinforce Major Herrick, so that vigorous operations might be prosecuted at Waikaremoana. Wellington, Thursday. The Natives on the West Coast who lately objected to the telegraph line passing .through their land, have now entered into a contract to provide and erect eight miles of telegraph poles, and also erect, but not provide, an additional seven miles. On the 7th inst., a party of the Armed Constabulary, at the White Cliffs, Taranaki, came across a dozen rebels and fired on them, but without result. Mr Douglass, of Kiwai, was drowned yesterday in crossing the Wairarapa,
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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 525, 29 May 1869, Page 2
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