THE Marlborough Express. SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1869. SECOND EDITION.

Marlborough Express, Volume IV, Issue 166, 27 March 1869, Page 1 (Supplement)

THE Marlborough Express.

SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1869. SECOND EDITION.

“ Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to ergue freely according- to conscience, above all other liberties.’ —.Milton.

Express Office, Saturday, II a.m. LATEST FROM PATE A. The following is from the Wanganui papers of the 18th March : “ Even now little additional to what we have already published is known of the fight at Otoia. It is certainly very singular that up to the date of the latest accounts from the Front, there is not a particle of intelligence of Kemp and his men, who, it may be remembered, started in pursuit of the enemy on Saturday forenoon. Fires have been seen several miles inland of Mantahi, but whether these are Kemp’s or the enemy’s, no one has been able to make out.

“The woman prisoner—but she is a most unreliable informant—states that Titokowaru was not in the fight at Otoia —that he had gone to Taranaki with sixty men a few days previously. She states what has been rumored before, and seems likely enough, that the Waitotara natives have not left their own ground—that they express themselves as having only joined Titokowaru under compulsion, and when he was in their territory—but that they declined to follow him across the river, and are glad he is gone. Their remaining in the Waitotara is quite probable, but their professions of past unwilling fighting, and present pacific intentions should be accepted with large allowance.

“In connection with the above ihtelli ligence, we have been requested to give publicity to the following : “ 1 Titokowaru’s force having been broken up by Col. Whitmore, a portion thereof has returned to the Waitotara—that district is now unsafe, and I am instructed by Colonel Whitmore to warn settlers of trie danger attending journeys in that district in too small parties and unarmed. “ ‘ Major Noake, Major Commanding W.M.H,” ’