Auckland.
Rumours ■or War erom the Thames. <r-The New Zealand Herald, March 27, has “ been informed through a gentlemen generally well informed upon native matters, that some commotion is observable among the natives in the above district, owing to the.news of tho movements of fighting parties now engaged in the Tau~ ranga and Rotorua districts. The tenor "of information is to the following effect, namely, that Monunui (Thames), and Pita (Coromandel), were on their way to Oliipemura to attend a meeting convened by Mr Commissioner Mackay. Two natives also came in there from the Upper Thames with the news that the Hauhaus had taken and made prisoners thirty Arawas near Rotorua. The remainder of Arawas had taken refuge “on the island” in the s wamp. They reported further that the Hauhaus had taken two wav canoes. Mr Mackay has gone up the Thames to look alter The Ngatipoas.- It was rumored that in the event of the Ngatipoas not being found, a force was to be sent in search of them. The name of the island referred'to is Puhirua, inland of Maketu.
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Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 April 1867, Page 82
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182Auckland. Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 14, 8 April 1867, Page 82
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