WAIKATO.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 14, Issue 711, 23 August 1869, Page 2

WAIKATO.

TAWHUO DEMANDS THE RESTORATION OF THE PRISONERS, THE ARMS, AND THE AMMUNITION, TAKEN AT NGARUAWAHIA. (From the New Zealand Herald.) Alexandua, August 16,12.18 p.m. Te Eooti is at Tuhua, a settlement about 37 miles from Alexandra. Kewi is with him. It is supposed that Te Kooti is waiting the arrival of Titokowaru and people from the Wanganui distriot. The reports that Te Eooti was at Taupo and Ohinemuri are false. They are given out no doubt to leai the Government astray. By yesterday's post we receired the following communication from our Alexandra correspondent:— Alexander, iugust 12. Te Kooti's last word's to the Waikatos were that he was going, but would return again shortly, meaning no doubt that when the whole of his arms and ammunition reached him that is known to be en route o the Waikato ; and he expects reinforcements from different quarters and imagines that the Government will withdraw their ibrees from the frontier, then will be the time to make a successful raid on the Waikato. Bewi has gone with Te Kooti. Tawhiao h«s sent a letter to the Government with a formal demand that the prisoners taken at Ngaruawahia, together with the arms ai d ammunition, should be returned to Tokongamutu, and if the demand is not immediately complied with, the Waikato threaten to attack the Waikato settlements, independent of Te Eooti and his murderous band.