TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 220, 30 January 1865, Page 3

TARANAKI.

We take the following important item of news from an extract of the Southern Cross, of the 11th inst., from its Taranaki correspondent : January 13. I send you a few lines to let you know that three friendly natives have been killed here by William King’s people, with circumstances of much barbarity. Henare Ngakoti, a native belonging to ITrenui, but lately living at Waitara, started a fortnight ago to Kaipikari, a place just inside the edge of a bush, some distance to the north of the Waitara. His object was to let some of the people there know that Te Rakatau and others had come up from the Chatham Islands. When he got near the Kisnga he met some unarmed men, who at once went back, got their guns, and fired at him. wounding him in arm; he fell from his horse, and ran, but was overtaken and despatched. He was to have returned to Waitara the next day, but after waiting in vain for a week, his wife Rina, and an adopted child, started for Kaipikari, to see what had happened to Henare On arriving at the place they were treated in the same way, except that they were thrown, wounded, into a hole, and there despatched. The perpetrators of of this deed—Pitirori, Te Retui, and others —are relatives of Henare, and belong to Manukorihi, William King’s own hapu.