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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 113, 10 May 1876, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

, , ♦ —— [Per Press . Agency.] . NELSON. 9. Lucas,; senior proprietor, of the Nelson Evening Mail , died this morning', after a lingering illness. , , At a naeeting ,of the regatta committee last night, it was resolved to hold an: Interprovinbial Eegalta in ..January, of which: the Marquis of Normanby is to bej asked to be patron. Cross, Harnor Master,? offers silver cup, valued £25 for four oared! gigs. AUCKLAND. May 9. The Llewellyn has arrived from Levuka. A disturbance has occurred amongst the mountaineers of Viti Levu. In consequence of reported restlessness of hill tribes,' Captains Olivo and Garew, with a force of about ,200 armed-native troops, were despatched for the mountain region of 1 Viti Levu about two months back. They were forbidden by mountain chiefs to continue their march into country, and as the object of expedition was more to keep insurgents quiet than to provoke hostilities, the Con-, stitutional force camped at a respective distance. On the Bth April, two officers

.in charge were, startled at'hearing that the rebels had descended on the opposite side of rarJges and laid .waste several coast villages near the river Sangitoto, committing in their raid most frightful atrocities. No precise particulars of the amount ot destruction has been received, but it was reported that thirty villages has been ravaged. In many., cases the inhabitants —men, women, and children were massacred in a most brutal manner, being thrown into burning houses, and rbasted alive. In. receiving the intelligence, Captain Olive started for Le\ uka as soon as possible and conveyed a statement of the condition of affairs to the Governor. Meanwhile, the coast chiefs were not idle. They collected their forces and marched against mountaineers. Reinforcements have been despatched from Levuka to subdue the rebels. , , ~ Other news unimportant. i