Latest from the North.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 8, Issue 379, 18 February 1864, Page 3

Latest from the North.

Thirty-eight Maories killed

The Storm Bird arrived here this morning at 10 o’clock. By the kindness of W. Jordan, Esq., one of the passengers, we are furnished with the following news : There is nothing new at Taranaki. The Storm Bird left I’aglau on Monday last. . The attack has not yet been made on the natives’ position at Pikopiko. It is reported as very strong, with 3000 to 4000 Maories in it, and is being gradually surrounded by our forces. Shells are thrown in day after day, and it is expected that the grand attack will not be much longer delayed Every available soldier is ordered to the front ; and so urgent is the demand for men that the 2nd class militia are out at Otahuhu. On Saturday, the 13th, Sir H. Havelack sent a party of bis men to bathe in the river, as a decoy. Two hundred Maories came out to do for them ; but. the} 7 were immediately attacked by a party of our soldiers waiting for them, and 38 of their number killed. His Excellency the Governor had been at Raglan, thence visited General Cameron at his headquarters, surveyed the position, and returned to Auckland on the 10th by the Waikato river. The Avonh&s had a hole knocked in her bottom by a snag, and the Koheroa has met with a similar mishap, so that the Commislriat are at their wits’ end to get the stores forward for the three thoiHand men in front. The Sovthern Cross of the 12th inst. states that four men of the 40th, on their way, in the fog of the morning, to relieve a picket before Paterangi, were fired upon by Maories., und wounded, one dangerously. two severely, and one slightly. It says, “ there was some talk yesterday about another hundred of the second class militia being under orders for the Front.”

The P rovincial Council was prorogued On the 11th,