TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 306, 14 September 1865, Page 2

TARANAKI.

ATTACK BY THE NATIVES AT WAREA. . ONE MAN SHOT. FIRING AT THE WHITE CLIFFS. THE NATIVES IN POSSESSION OF WRECK OF THE ALEXANDRA. The. Taranaki News, of the 25th ultimo, gays » Yesterday, a boat arrived from the White Cliffs with intelligence that firing is going ori there. A'reinforcement of 50 of the Military settlers is under orders for that place, and were to have started to-day, but, owing to the inclemency of the* weather, the departure has been postponed. Yesterday morning, at daylight, five mounted men and two stockmen, in the employ of Mr Long, started from Warea southward in search ofa mob of cattle which escaped out of the .pound. The party had only got five miles from camp when then were fired upon by about forty Maoris. Mr Rowe was the only man in the saddle at the time, and was shot through both arms. Our people, seeing the strength of the'enemy, of course retreated. The Taranaki Herald of the 26th ultimo, writes;— . ' •_ The rebels both North and South seem to show signs of activity. By the Sturt, from the White Cliffs on Thursday, we have intelligence of the natives having taken possesion of the wreck of the steamer Alexandra, or, or at all events,' keeping up a constant fire from a wooded gully hear, which makes it unsafe to visit her ; and, also, that the natives had ventured to fire Tolley’s at long range into the camp at Clifton. We have no doubt that Captain Messenger will make a, good account of the Ngatimaninpotos if they will give him an opportunity. The Sturt put into the Waitara before the present rough weather set in, and Captain Williams, who is the bearer of the above news, came up thence to this port in hij boat. From Warea we hear that the natives in ambush fired at an orderly between that post and Opunaku, and severely wounded him in the shoulder. , lie narrowly escaped with his life. A passenger by the Otago from Nelson informs us that he saw e grea, many fires along the ooast between Opuake and Wares. Have the Weraroa pa defenders fouud their way into these parts ?

Yesterday a portion ofCapt. Page’s, company upwards of 50 men, started per s.s. Sturt, for the White Oliixs. It is not unlikely that (whatever danger existed) will be over before the reinforce* merit arrives. This (should such bo the case) will only be iu accordance with the military arrangement from the beginning.—Taranaki News, August 01.

Waingongoro. —A native who came in from Opunake on Thursday states that iMtclligenco had been received at that place that fighting had boon going on atWaingougoro betwten the ISgntiruauuia and Wuikatos, and Lieut.-Colonel Butler’s force there. The native also says licit a guerilla party of Waikatos under Tiknok io are between Ware# aiid Opunake.—Taranaki Herald, September 2.