VERY LATEST NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 2, Issue 102, 14 December 1868, Page 301

VERY LATEST NEWS.

Three more. Murders by the Hauhaus. ( TriiES Office,. . Mon<lay,*s p m..The schooner Success; Captain Trimmer, arrived in: port from Poverty Bay at-2.-30'p.m. to-day, "having left Turanganni yesterday afternoon.. We . .regret' to report that ; three more murders have-been committed by the-- Hauhaus, - the victims being William :Wy llie; a'lad; son of Mr J. Wyllie ; Finlay Ferguson, ’ brother-in-law of Air J. Harris; and the son of Hape,. one:of' the most trustworthy friendly -natives of Foveity Bay.;. ~.As_far as we can learn- Mr-Fergu-son, accompaniedby WiUiam WylHe; and .the . native,; left ’ Turanga ! on Saturday,: to repair sheep-pens near the Big. River, 'about 5 miles below Patutahi; by. the; - Pipiwaka 'bush.** •As . they did’not' return, 1 a party'of Muriwai. natives ' under ' Hon are Maukai went in search of them-yes-terday morning, and feU in with a party of Hauhaus; -with ‘Whom they were .fighting when - their messenger -lbffc:.-: " •-

. j In, ihe - meantime (probably 'on Saturday),:: the scouts being 7 ‘unable .to find-any trace of the enemj-, CoL Whitmore had- placed the Constabulary oii board-the Sturt; whSich 'tessel. .'-in/Leaving" got :> agroUnd. 6n’ the bar; No sooner had <this occurred than intelligence ’ arrrved^from' : the scouts that /Hftuhaus had ; been seen at *i Patutahi. - Colonel Whitmore disembarked the v men and started

with a paiiy ; to that'place; : but by iatesti acooimtsihad seen nothirig Af the; enemy. . "-Messengers were -despatched to him.by "the skirmishing party at the 'same time as to Turanga,

so that in all probability assistance was speedily on the spot. - !• This was the state of affairs when the Succe*ss left. ■ "We cannot, -r of course, vouch, for details, but believe it to he substantially correct! It is supposed that the Hauhaus, as before' the massacre of Matewhero, descended upon the flat during the night, by some native track unknown to the scouts.

The Ahuriri will probably arrive to-night,- and-bring further particulars.