LATEST TELEGRAMS

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 21 September 1868, Page 230

LATEST TELEGRAMS

IMPORTANT FROM WELLINGTON.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEQ-RAPH.J

[fEOMOUB OWN CORRESPONDENT,]

Wellington, Sept. 16, 3.24 p.m. The .debate on Mr Fox’s motion is likely to last for some days. Dissolu don, it is thought, will result. An important, notice was given yesterday by Mr M‘Lean, of want of confidence in the native policy of the Government.

The correspondent of the Wanganui Chronicle, writing from the Front on the 11th, says—“ Two very strong and distinct accounts are given one throwing the whole blame on M‘Donnell, the other entirely exonerating him from blame. The number of the enemy killed is, I fear, under the number reported. According to the best information not more than five of the rebels are known to have been killed, three men and two children. The Ketioneatea hapu, (Anitana’s people) were present at the fight, having joiued the rebels, though it had been hoped they would remain neutral. Titokowaru thus gains an accession of sixty or seventy men to his force. Last night, at about ten o’clock, the rebels advanced to within 400 yards of the Waihi camp and fired heavy volleys into it. They have done so again this morning. They are no doubt from a party that had been out searching the bush for the bodies of the poor fellows left there. Drunkenness still continues. Booth has this evening shut up the public houses, and prohibited those who .hold bush licenses from selling spirits to any of the members of the local forces unless under order from officers. There is great want of management somewhere, as the township is in a very unprotected state. The Pakakohi, and other neutral natives are still quiet, and promise to continue so.”