TAUPO.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 499, 12 August 1867, Page 2

TAUPO.

i'' 10 i• A ’ll,ll' Y t ; r AFFAELIS iil.lAi; (.■ i ; iroiKN-E of iiau-iiats AFAX 'i OF LAAIA | From I’-a Kw-i/u’-uurh.'od cf Lake' Tuut.-o Yi’c Is .vc news tm to Tm-sdny,' v)!,s iiiA . by nu-ans cf gome returned ;edd yr -veeture, mul from a n;iOvc si.uiv-e. We k-aia that a large■y:n: or ccuferor.co of rebel natives: ■vu ud -r t i !•.' -M—the- objects of: which, iii.e.’glj i;-e y sdively known, is nr-ysvl ;.J l-v lee discussion of n:s.'i:;A cvuits, and for laying clown a rule of j-receduvo ou the part of the

fans ties, —to which natives were as- ' s.-mbling in large numbers from all ’ dim ctions, and which meeting was 1 tihi'iy lo be fraught with resuits of i import .nice. The rumwja pro . • ■or huh 1: -’t comnienc.d up to theji a ho'.a- dote, but extensive preparations * vane being made lor it. As to tne reported murder of four iiuropsans and four Maoris at To - uunanga, we are in a posit ion to state that there is at least a probability that no murders have been committed, —Mr Fin It's cattle having boon seen some 10 in ties beyond To liunanga, where it was said they were stopped and tiie reported murders committed. We do not know that the Europeans . leave been seen, but cannot learn that there was other grounds for the re- ' port of the muisTrs than a delay in ; ithe arrival of the party at Maketu, :LJ 7 , ' which might easily be accounted for, _ hut which Tne excitable imaginations of the native pes.pie readdy construed into a proof of their desuaction. We ■trust it will be found that the party have all arrived safely at their des- . inaliou.