NEWS FROM TUARANGA. (From the Second Edition of the Southern Cross.) Saturday, April 23.

North Otago Times, Volume I, Issue 12, 12 May 1864, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM TUARANGA. (From the Second Edition of the Southern Cross.) Saturday, April 23.

H M.S. Falcon lias just arrived from Tauranga, having left there at 4 p.m. yestcri ay. On Wednesday last, Major CoMlle Avas out shooting, and was fired upon by a native. He returned to camp, and took out a force of 200 men with him. A slight engagement ensued at Maketu, in which four of our men (68th or 43rd) were

wounded, one dangerously ; and it was reported that about thirty of the rebels had been lulled or wounded. On Monday, the 18th, the troops weie under arms fioni half-past thiee o'clock in the morning, and were in the expectation of an attack, as the rebels were about. The troops went out subsequently, but returned without meeting with the enemy. On the Sandfly's passage down to Tauranga she oalled'in at the Thames, to send the Esk up, and while off Mercury Island it was so rough that she had to lay there for twenty-four hours. One of the marines of the Harrier fell into the engine-room, and was crushed to pieces. His mutilated remains were buried at Mercury Island. All the* troops were safely landed at Tauranga. The Esk had stuck on a rock for three hours, but had received no damage ; and the Falcon was for eight hours on a sand bank. The Sandfly had gone down with the schooner Mavis to Maketu, and took troops with her. Yesterday the natives hoisted a white flag on their first pa, but red flags were still flying on the other. The clay before yesterday, ?00 men started as a covering party to bring in the cattle belonging to the Commissariat. A few of the party had been fired on. The troops had been under arms for two or three nights, hourly expecting an attack by the rebels.