WANGANUI.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 587, 18 June 1868, Page 2

WANGANUI.

MURDER IN THE EaTEA DISTRICT. A SETTLER TOMAHAWKED. (From tlic V.Air-muui 'Ames, 10th Jane.) Gun Pate a correspondent, under yesterday's date, writes the followin'! hurried sentences : “ /another fuul murder lias been CiaiUUKAni oy iisc iiiiuLiiius in uistricc. The victim this time is old Sergeant Cahill, who had taken up his laud aud resided upon it, within the Ketemarae. Mr Booth and Captain Ross were out to-d y in that direction, ani.l have returned. They saw numbers of armed Ilauhaus, who told them to gn back to Patea. Just while writing I hear that Captain Cummins is going to march out tu-uight with all the men he can muster. Colonel dl’Donnell is not here; lam told ho is on sick leave. A mounted trooper is going to start ■for Vvauganui. 1 will keep you advised of things as they turn up. There is only a very weak force here to meet .any emergency. We are all anxious to see Colonel Mvßonnell, hut he is on leave. Things look ugly.' 3 Since the foregoing was in type, we have received reliable intelligence of a very unsatisfactory report, which wo trust may he without foundation. It is that the natives who. murdered Cahill are acting under the imu notions of the Maori King, in expelling Europeans from their district. At all events, they assert that such is the case, but we must hear further upon that subject before we credit it. Before noon yesterday Col. M‘Donnell, although on a month’s leave, started for Patea and would reach there in a few hours. Whether a dread of Tie Pokiiik.u Commissi m will deter dim from trying' to put a stop to those foul murders, remains to he seen. At all events, he cannot do much with the few men under ins command, and the few settlers at Ikttea would be hardly sufimiont to keep the camp during the absence of the constabulary. (o'.i tt:a Itvvj.ins Herald.) Colonel MTlonnell is probably by this time with the force that Captain Cummins has taken to Wailui. Wa believe it is his determination to do his work thoroughly without regard To any interference that any civil officer whomsoever may attempt, and to accomplish a severe punishment on the murderers of Sergeant Cahill. He c msiders that a force of 200 men should be immediately enrolled to scour the district, aud let measures now be thorough, in reality as well as in official orders.