LATEST FROM WANGANUI.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 440, 29 December 1868, Page 2

LATEST FROM WANGANUI.

(From the Wellington Independent, 19th December.) The s.s. Wanganui arrived here early this morning, bringing one day's later news from Wanganui. Captain Fiunimore, with the "Wanganui Volunteer Cavalry, had made a most important expedition against the Han Haus. After passing Manutahi, the force—some sixty strong —proceeded into the bush, attacked a pah, poured in a volley, and killed two Hau Haus. The troops then marched for the village Mokoia, making a long detour, as no one knew the direct way. This village was also burnt. A flock of 250 sheep were found on the Mauawapou by two Patea settlers who accompanied their troop, and they were brought into Patea and restored to their owners, under cover of the cavalry. The village of Ihupuku was also destroyed. Titoko Waru's camp and main body is still in the same position at Nukumaru. The fishing village of Ototuk, this side of Nukumaru, was burnt. A magnificent canoe, together with a number of smaller ones, were broken and burnt; and the work of devastation in the late expedition ceased, the cavalry arriving quietly in town shortly after dark. Thus ended an expedition in which five villages, one of them a war pah, growing crops of potatoes, canoes, and about twelve whares were destroyed, two Hau-haus killed, a large quantity of stock recovered, and the enemy laughed at in his very den, after the work had been done, and all without the loss of a man or horse. The loss to the enemy cannot be less than three thousand pounds, while the moral effect must be infinitely greater.