AUCKLAND.
This day. Wetcre, the Mokau chief, who escorted Hursthouse, arrived at Alexandra laat tiight. He reports that under the pretence of going on to Mokau he escaped from the party who stopped them. He i says most of the party were stripped of I their clothes in defending Hursthouse and Newsbam, whom they had surrounded. His men, seeing the determination of the attacking party, broke off their stirrup leathers and irons to defend , themselves and the Europeans. Seeing the danger of bloodshed Wetere called upon them' to desist, when all left for the settlement each prisoner being guarded. At present the five men are indifferent houses. Wetere has interviewed Wahanui since at Kopua ; the latter is indignant at the affair, and has sent out messengers in all directions in the locality to assemble to-morrow to release them, or accompany them, through Bryce having put responsibility on him. At least 200 will start from Kopua for Te Hira with this object.
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4435, 22 March 1883, Page 2
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161AUCKLAND. Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4435, 22 March 1883, Page 2
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