TARANAKI.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 62, 22 October 1864, Page 3

TARANAKI.

The Herald relates the capture of several native pahs on the Bth inst. Early that morning Major Ryan, with 200 of the 70th regiment, Captain Martin, B». A. with two field guns, and. several companies of bushrangers and mounted men, started northward. Major Saltmarsh, with 150 more of the 20th, joined them at Mahoetahi, and the whole was under command of Colonel Warre, C.B. After halting a short time at Sentry Hill, and addressing the Bushrangers, he ordered them to advance on Manutahi. In front of Manutahi there is & large flat fern path mainly surrounded by bush, and the pah ia built right across the back of it where the open land is about 150 yards wide, the two ends of the pah resting on the bush. Col Warre divided Major Atkinson's men into two parties, sending one into the bush on the left, and on the right, the 70th advancing in the open as a support. The natives in the pa (about 20 in number) fired briskly as the Bushrangers approached, but finding themselves out-flanked on both sides they broke and fled when the final rush was made and two of them fell as they ran out of the back of the pa, a third wounded, one escaping. The one killed was To Roiri, a turbulent man, the one wounded and brought away was Te Kepa, a half-caste, nephew to Wi Kingi, on the mother's side. His wounds (several bad ones in the legs) were promptly attended to by Drs. "Wordsworth and Tomlinson. Only one man on our side was injured Another had a very narrow escape. Colonel Warre then proceeded to Mataitawa, but no resistance was attempted here. It was then destroyed, and then the force returned, bringing away several horses, &c. as booty. The pa was of a very singular shape, being, as we have said, nearly 150 yards long, rather crescent shaped, and not more than twenty yards wide in the middle, but spread out at the ends. The ditches were deep, the banks high, and twelve feet thick, and altogether it was very strong; if it had been adequately garrisoned it would have been difficult to take. »