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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 843, 17 October 1870, Page 2

On the 7th instant, the Auckland Rowing Club opened its sepond season by' a grand procession of boats, manned by members of the club. The following resolution was carried in the Provincial Council of Taranaki on the 7th inst.: —Mr Richmond moved, without notice, "That, in the opinion of this Council, it is urgently necessary, in order to prevent the renewal of hostilities on the West Coast, that the Government should at once decide as to the terms to be offered to Titokowaru; and that the continuance of the present condition of affairs, under which, although a proclaimed rebel, he is allowed to march through settlements of Europeans and disarmed natives with an armed body of supporters, is fraught with danger to the peace of this part of New Zealand ; and that a committee, consisting of Messrs. Grledhill, Lmrence, Webster, Bayly,' and the mover, be requested to draw up a memorial setting forth the danger of leaving the manner in which Titokowaru is to be dealt with undecided: the memorial to be laid before the Council at its next meeting." The motion was carried. The Thames Mail, 11th inst, contains the following paragraph : —" We were informed yesterday of a rumor which had reached town by a native who had just come down to the Thames from the interior. Although we can not believe that the story is true—especially in face of the fact that the Comerang, which arrived yesterday, and which called at Poverty Pay, brought no news of any disturbances on the East Coast —we yet think it worth while to give the statements as we received them, when we consider how often such flying reports, against all probabilities, have turned put to have a basis of fact. The native report is, that To Kooti, with his forces, marched against a body of friendly natives, consisting partly of Poverty Bay natives, and partly of Ngatik&hungunu, The friendly natives were drawn up on each side of a gully into which Te Kooti marched by special direction of his god. Te Kooti, acting under direction, commanded his men to fire to the right, when the majority of the friendly natives on that side fell killed or wounded. Te Kooti then ordered them to fire to the left, with a similar result, and thus the victory was gained. Te Kooti then left his former place, and went over to Tuhuo, a settlement beyond Tokangamutu, and he has, it is said, made peace with the King, and come to some agreement with him as to the policy to be pursued. Applying to the above statement the rules of criticism we have learned in dealing with such matters, we may say that the most probable part is that which refers to Te Kooti going to Tuhua, and to having had some correspondence with the Maori King. As to. the fighting, it is just possible that shots may have been exchanged be-: tween Te Kooti's men and some party of friendly natives in the interior, but the matter is, no doubt, greatly exaggerated, if not entirely invented, for the purpose of giving Te Eooti eclat on entering a new district. Two servant girls who were left in charge of the house of Achnagairn, near Inverness, were alarmed the other night by a strange and unexpected visitor. They had retired, when they were awakened by a noise in the house, with ringing of bells., succeeded by sounds as of some one playing on the pianoforte. The girls were too frightened to move until morning, when they found in, the drawing-room a young woman, the daughter of a neighbouring crofter, seated at the piano; she had a fire in the grate, and eleven candles burning in different parts of the room. When questioned, she said she was in her father's house, and qsked for a glass of wine. It turned out that the poor girl had recently shown decided symptoms of insanity, and had escaped from her father's care^