LATEST TELEGEAMS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume I, Issue 14, 7 May 1869, Page 3

LATEST TELEGEAMS.

i' • (Condensed from Dunedin 'Times.')

' ' WELLINGTON

Colonel Lyon has sent out several scouting expeditions in various directions without being able to'discover any trace of, the-enemy. , ■ -A few of Tito Kowaru's detached followers are said to have returned to Ohaia. 1 The sick men in the hospital-at Patea are recovering rapidly. A jSTgatiporou constable has been accidentally shot • dead ,by- one of his comrades. -

Colonel .M'Donnell is publishing at -Wahgnnuij.by subscription, a vindication .of his . .conduct, while 'in the chief command on the West Coast. The BlanchcT arrived here early this (2nd May) "morning. The Duke lauded privately, and went- out riding •in the afternoon. He left for Auckland early on IMfonday morning. A "cricket match took .place on Saturday last betweenv the Wellington CJub and the officers 5 of 'the G-alatea, and was'won by the former in one innings and 25 runs. A number of the Waitotara who were lately-with Tito iiowaru, have come /down the Wanganui river in canoes, "to Putiki, close to the town of Wanganui. Mr. Booth and the Eriend-.lies-have taken.them under their protection, an act which has aroused the indignation of the Wanganui papers. It is,said that these known rebels intend to claim compensat'iohfrom the Grovernjinent' for- the property belonging to them up the river, which was destroyed Iby our troops. 1

NAPIEH. Mr. Richmond's troops have arrived at Petane, and Captain Newland's from Poverty, Bay —in all, 208 constabulary. The expedition is waiting the return of the St. Kilda, .which is gone to seek the co-operation of the Ngatiporou. On Wednesday last, three settlers' houses were burnt at Turioroa, four miles from Wairoa. -News received from the "Waikato state -that the' great meeting has ended, it is said, pacifically. Mr. Searancke, E.M:, was present, as also about two

thousand natives, of whom 1700 were j Hauhaus. The King said-—" "Let men - cease killing men." Colonel Whitmore's advance to Taupo, however, may change the state of matters.

' The'barque 1 William Cargill sailed tor London with a cargo of wool. Orderlies who have arrived from Taupo, report all quiet there.