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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 637, 17 February 1870, Page 3

(from oub own correspondent.) Taueanoa, Feb. 8. Yesterday intelligence was received that Te Kooti had arrived at Hotorua, and a messenger was at once despatched by Mr Commissioner Clarke to inform Colonel Fraser of the fact, desiring him, with as little delay ss possible, to take the force through the inland track, which is about eight hours' m&rch, in order to furnish protection to .the Arawa settlements now, with the women and children, left defenceless. The communication to Colonel Fraser also contained information of the murder of an Arawa chief tainess and child at a place called Paparata, one of the Arawa settlements, on reception of which intelligence Colonel Fraser thought it most prudent to send the forces by the sea to Maketu, and thence to Rotorua, in place of following up on Te Kooti's heels by the overland track, which is shorter than the route adopted by fully three days' march. If, however, the time likely to be consumed were to be judged of by the late movements of the troops no correct estimate can be formed, as on the last march from Maketu it took three days for the forces to reach Rotorua. Great excitement was caused to-day by the arrival, by the road from Oropi, of a large force of natives, numbering over 400 men, who marched into the township headed by Colonel Fraser, with flags flying, and halting in front of the Durham Redoubt, vented the effervescence of their spirits in an enthusiastic war-dance. There was no speechifying, but the Arawas expressed in undisguised language a very bitter feeling against the Ngaiterangi, who, they say, are acting a double part, and are not to be trusted. At the conclusion of the war-dance, they were ordered at once to prepare themselves to embark on board the Sturt for Rotorua by way of Maketu. The opinion of the Arawas openly expressed, is that Te Kooti has escaped ft r good, the opportunity for his capture again lost, and all their unprotected settlements at Rotorua and the neighborhood exposed to attack from him, with the extreme probability that he will again murder and destroy all before him,