WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 7, Issue 368, 16 April 1866, Page 3

WAIROA.

The following portion of the letter of our Wairoa correspondent was omitted from our i last:— | Ffom Tautope we learnt that'the party we had surprised consisted of 71 in number, armed with 57 guns. Of these we captured 16, and a quantity of ammunition, &c. We also gathered from the same source that there were 70 or 80 more close at hand in tne vicinity of Whanganui a pama, and 200 at Eua Tahima. On Monday morning she was despatched with a letter proposing submission. On the evening of the same day she brought acceptances from Te Warn and his son, the youngest, in pledge of amity. They were both sent back with a Queen’s flag, and our party shortly after broke camp and returned. The doctor, Mr Preece, and myself left the Lake on Sunday morning, and reached Pakowai the same night. As the matter now stands nine or ten have come in. Te Waru is coming : as I never knew him break his word I believe he will come. Te Uriwera won’t, and never intended. Te Ritu and Wairoa natives are at Maunga Powhatu, and don’t know of the fight or anything else. One thing more and I have done. It was thought that Major Fraser could have spared the lives of Tuahine and others taken at Te Kepoto. I now know that he could not have done so. And, moreover, that he tried to do it, but failed. Ihaka was wounded by the Hau-baus, then-tomahawked, his head chopped off, and his body stripped and buried in his socks only. The head wrapped in a piece of flannel was buried in another place. Patara, his brother, declared that if he should catch Te Kohi, the Uriwera chief who tomahawked Ihaka, he would eat him; and I believe it too. The other brother’s (Hapimana) face was a caution when Te Eawhe was caught. Kopu called my attention to it, and said, “ does that man look like mercy ?” I turned on my heel and walked away.—Te Eawhe was the only man of any note.