MANAWATU.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 82, 27 July 1868, Page 179

MANAWATU.

(Prom the Wanganui Times, 14th July.) We have much pleasure in informing our readers that the “ difficulty ” which Mr Gotty’s sheep created on the Manawatu block is at an efid.

On Tuesday last, Captain M‘Donnell started from here for Manawatu, and on his arrival there found a considerable number of both Ngutiapas and Ngatiraukawus encamped on opposite sides of the bush in which Mr Gotty’s sheep were penned up. On that day the Neratiapas, headed by General Hunia, crossed the river with their tents, but as the Ngatirnukawas had threatened to burn them down, if pitched, the Ngatiapa threw up earthworks and erected a redoubt around their encampment. Meantime a party of the Ngatiapas had commenced to drive the sheep out of the enclosure.-for the purpose of driving them off the land and across the river. The Ngatiraukawas resisted: the sheep were worried, penned up in'heaps upon each other, and the result was that about four hundred of them was smothered.

On Sunday the Ngtiraukawas consented to have the sheep driven off as soon as Mr Gotty could find a place for them. Mr Gotty said that his loss was very Bevere and that he would sue for damages. Meantime he had got a run for the sheep that were left, and would drive them off as soon as ( the river was low enough to enable him to do so. Out of 1250 sheep'-it is supposed that 400 were smothered, and that 200 or 300 were killed and eaten. - Thus ends that 1 difficulty. Governor Hui.ia, went on to finish, and still occupies his redoubt with a very strong force of the Ngatiapas He says that whilst Hauhaus are in the district, and mixed up with the Ngatirakawas, precautionary measures are'necossary and that, at all events, the redoubt might be useful ; to the Government at some future period.