LATEST FROM TARANAKI.

Colonist, Volume IV, Issue 318, 6 November 1860, Page 3

LATEST FROM TARANAKI.

(From the Herald.)

The latest news from the coast will be found in the Journal. The Taranaki and Ngatiruanui rebels had determined to make a stand at Kaihihi knowing they would be attacked by the second expedition dispatched against them, and they have been compelled to effect a night retreat leaving three pahs in our hands, As Major* General Pratt was concerting his measures for pursuing them, a despatch from Auckland, advising the General, it i 3 conjectured, of the Waikato movement against Taranaki, has led to the return of the expedition which has already reached Tataraimaka. Nothing could be more unlucky, as we do not hear that the Waikatos are at all likely to reach Waitara for a week. What is wanted, and what has never yet been done, is to follow up an advantage over the natives, and give them no time to rally. The importance of this, the General seems to have been alive to. For want of this a thousand men bave been fighting at Kaihihi when a hundred, would have sufficed to complete the route, of these rebels at Waireka last March. The result of the expedition, cut short as it has been by the untoward circumstance stated, must be decidedly beneficial, and forms an agreeable feature in the ■war The friendly natives have rendered a substantial service by effecting the capture of Hoera, a native of Ratapi.hipihi, and although he may not be chargeable with complicity in the butcheries in which Manahi was implicated, he is a rebel in the full sense of the word, and has oarried arms against the Government from the commencement of the /war. —October 13.

Our Journal of Events contains late news of importance regarding the Waikatos, who, if our informant is to be depended upon, have already crossed the Waitara river. It would appear tbat they contemplate talcing up their residence in our district, whioh is a new feature in the war.

The necessity of obtaining more authentic -information of the movements of the natives, is proved by this sudden intelligence of the actual arrival of such large numbers, when by the latest accounts from the Waitara it was reported that very few would arrive there for a week cr two. —October 20.

We are given to understand that arrangements have been made by General Pratt for a bi-monthly communciation with Wanganui by the Wonga Wonga. We trust that our Wellington friends will forward their mails overland in time to be brought on by her.'—Oct. 27