“EXPRESS” TELEGRAMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 126, 18 July 1868, Page 4

“EXPRESS” TELEGRAMS.

[The following Telegram was distributed ai an Extra on Wednesday last.]

, WELLINGTON. (From our Own Correspondent.) THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE AT THE PATEA ! ATTACK ON A NATIVE PA ! i : DEFEAT OF THE COLONIAL TROOPS ! ! 19 KILLED AND 6 WOUNDED ! ! ! Wednesday, 11-40 a.m. Cobb's coach came in last night bringing sad news from Wanganui. A mounted orderly had arrived there on Sunday with despatches from Colonel M’Donnell stating that verbal information had been brought him that on Friday or Saturday night last, an attack was made by the Colonial Forces on the newly-erected Pa, (supposed to be at Matiriomoko,) in which nineteen of the attacking party were killed, and the remaining six wounded! Captain Ross and Sergeant M’Farlane were among the killed. : On closing his dispatches, Colonel M’Donnell had started for the scene of operations with a mounted force. Colonel Gorton, at Wanganui, has called for one hundred volunteers, and the Magistrates have held a meeting, when Mr. Fox was chairman, at which they passed resolutions affirming the necessity for precautionary measures, and calling on the Government to reinforce McDonnell, &c. The information was, however, only verbal, and from natives; the details are possibly exaggerated, but it is much tb be feared that there is a substratum of truth in it. Further particulars are hourly expected.

Wellington, 12-10 p.m. Another version is that a redoubt occupied by the troops at Turoturomoki, containing twenty-five men, was attacked by the natives with the results already telegraphed. This is thought more likely to be. correct. The Government has no definite information. •