WEST COAST INTELLIGENCE.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 8 February 1866, Page 2

WEST COAST INTELLIGENCE.

WANGANUI.

Yesteedat morning, five or six canoes, containing about 70 Hau bans, men women and children, came down the Wanganui river, with the Union Jack filing at the prow of tho leading canoe commanded by the rebel Hare, chief of Taupo. Tho wily vagabonds having heard of General Chute’* triumphant career, and of his positive orders to Lieut.-Colonel Logan, commmanding at Pipiriki, to attack and destroy the Mangaihou pa, tho stronghold of the arch-rebelPchi, and to inflict condign punisnment upon him and hu associates, have come down to tender their submission! We may next expect the notorious Pehi, Tuhana.Topia, and the rest of them, and the old farce of Sir Geo. Grey coming to receive their submission, and once more dismissing them with presents and congratulations as loyal subjects to her Majesty! It is now some 9 or 10 days since Colonel Logan received hi* orders; it remains to be seen what those order* were, how they have been carried out, and how these rebils have been permitted to escape to Wanganui. It appears that they might for anything which tho defenders of the various posts up the river knew to the contrary, have come down the river in force for a different object than that of tendering their submission. The reticence observed by the authorities here may bo very dignified, but is of doubtful benefit to the public service. During the Indian mutiny a room was set apart for tho press, and regularly supplied with manuscript copies of all information, the publication of which was not considered detrimental to the public service. Here the enemy alone has authentic intelligence of every contemplated movement, even before officially communicated to the officer whose duty it is to carry it out. Rebels walk at large about ihf town of Wanganui, and have means of receir® ing and communicating intelligence which we cannot understand. It appears that those rebels we beg Mr Fitz Gerald’s para on: belligerent subjects of an independent monarch—have been joyfully received by tho loyal natives at Putiki; and this is another mystery which we may possibly be able to unravel in onr next. Meantime wo hope that they have not, by a feigned submission, been aWe to play off upon Colonel Logan one of the old tncks with which they have so frequently bamteoried Sir George Grey.—Waugaani TinjesL 2b4 February.