IMPORTANT NATIVE INTELLILIGENCE.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 29, 12 August 1871, Page 3

IMPORTANT NATIVE INTELLILIGENCE.

(From the Southern Cross.) Intelligence was received in Auckland on the Ist instant from a private source, to the effect that Te Kooti has intimated to the .Ngatiwhakau hapu of the Arawa tribe his wish to surrender. He has had a dream, in which his god and several of the Arawa chiefs advised him to give himself up to the Ngatiwhakau, who would protect him from any harm which the Government might otherwise have inflicted upon him. The news was brought by a Urewera chief, named Rameka, to Ohinemuri, and telegraphic communication with the Government at Napier respecting the proposed surrender was commenced. These are the facts as supplied to us, but we have not received any confirmation of them from our own correspondent, or from the General Government Agent in Auckland.

The Wairoa correspondent of the “ Hawke’s Bay Herald” says :—“ Makarini, of Waikare, described in your intelligence as a chief, appears to be either a great rascal or a much-injured individual. A few days ago, prior to the departure of the force now on its way to Waikare, a native named Hirini arrived here and stated himself as the bearer of a message from Te Kooti, whom he described as having been or being resident at Marau, on the Lake, some fourteen hours’ march from this. He was also the bearer of a box of precussion caps, said to have been forwarded by Te Kooti to the pakehas, informing them that Makarini was a traitor, and had give him the caps, and he (Kooti) now invited the Government to capture him. An expedition consisting of Major Cumming, Captain G. M‘Donald, 15 Constabulary, and 35 of the Ngatimiki and Ngatihiwhikitea (under liapimana), started for the Lake on Monday last, aad have since been heard of at Te Ariki on their way. Of course those atrocious canards of Kooti’s übiquitous visits to Mr Drummond and Ropata are entirely without foundation—the former gentleman not having been within fifty miles of Te Reinga, the alleged place of the interview.”