WAIKATO.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 700, 15 July 1869, Page 3

WAIKATO.

bttMORED PftOBABLE KISING OF THE * u WAIKATOS. /From the Evening News, Auckland, June 28.) Napier, June 20. ojjpobts circulated here came from Locke and Fannin, that all Waikato is going to r ise, and asks us quickly to send 2000 «oljj erß . The letter to Locke was from Hohepa, and Hamlin translated it. Hohepa ii reply says, in reference to the rumored probability of the Waikato rising, that it is to be, but gives no grounds for his opinion. private telegrams received this afternoon from Napier state that Paora Hapi is re ported to have lost six men and fifteen wojjien killed by Te Kooti. A letter received from Henare To Palntatua, of the Am was, now at Taupo, jtatea that all the Waikatos are going. Hohepa and twenty men, who reconnoi tred Te Kooti's position from Tauranga, were tired at, and retired to Hohepa's pa. j|icy are anxious for help. (From an Auckland correspondent of the Hawke's 1 Bay Herald.) June 30, 1869. I have just had a conversation with a gentleman who has a large stake in the prosperity of the Waikato: His run is at jlatamata, and one of the most exposed in the event of a rising by the King party. He is as well acquainted with the native mind as any man I know in this province (t'XCtmt, perhaps, C. O. Davis) ; aud if, as Colonel Whitmore has stated, there were any danger of a rising, the gentleman I allude to would certainly know it. But however accurrte and trustworthy may be the information which Colonel Whitmore may have reccivcd,°lhe gentleman I allude to is, in my humble opinion, quite as good an authority as he. W does not tell me tliat there is any danger of a rising ; lie says, on the contrary, that Col. Whit more is too credulous to believe the canards of some natives drunk on commissariat rum, and that the gallant gentleman ought to be a good deal ash lined of his stupid conduct in sp eaciing reports that (did t!>ey come from anyone more worthy of belief)} might do an infinite amount of harm to the Waikato. It is all very well for Colonel Whitmore and m.-n of his kidney, whose ,: pay and allowances," with the little uumention.sble supplements, are involved, to got up tlit-se motors aud panics. It's their trade ; if there were no such things, the public might soon come to thi- k that there ',v;ts no longer any necessity for retaining the services of such men. We might even bring ourselves to such a pitch of serene resignation as to make any sacrifice, even lo parting with Colonel Whitmore, whom scnie enthusiastic admirer, in the exuberance of his feelings, has calh d " the saviour of his country." Save us from our friends."

IE EOOTI TO MEET THE KING PARTY AT TOKANGAMUTU. (rrom the Auckland correspondent of the Thames Times.) Ist July, 1569. Me. TxT-RNER arrived in town yesterday from the Kopua, and reports that the King party are making preparations for the reception of Te Kooti and his followers at Tokangamutu, the head-quarters of the King. It would be idle now to speculate as to the proposed meeting, but I believe it bodes no good. lam told by the very best authorities that Mr Firth's visit has hud the effect of disabusing the minds of the natives of the idea that they can repossess themselves of Waikato by peaceable means, and they have now determined to form an alliance with Te Kooti. One thing is certain, that Te Kooti's arrival at Tokangamutu will be the signal for all the turbulent spirits to flock to his standard— Keihana, To Kaokao, and men of a like kidney,—and the King's authority will be Utterly powerless to restrain them. With such a probable contingency it behoves us to be on our guard, and keep a vigilant look-out on the frontiers of the Waikato. Colonel Moule has obtained leave from the Government to put 70 men on pay in the Waikato.