LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 468, 20 February 1869, Page 2

LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

Telegrams in the Christchurch papers contain some later items from Wanganui than we had received. Colonel Haultain arrived there in the Sturt on Friday with thirty Arawas, and proceeded to the front. The Sturt returns north for more Arawas. Mrs Von Tempsky has forwarded £SO to the widow of Corporal Russell, who was killed at the same time as Major Von Tempsky. The enemy is supposed to have extensive cultivations at the Seven Hummocks. Mr Anderson, editor of the Independent, writing from the Front, says : " Clearly, since Tito has gone in for bush tactics, we are good for another year or two of desultory war. The bulk of our own men are not sufficiently trained for this work, and it will take another year to train them." An almost continuous rain has laid much of the crops, some of which are already begining to sprout. A thousand sheep in the "Wairarapa have been sold for half-a-crown a-head, and a drove from the "West Coast were sold to a boiling-down establishment in town for three shillings and sixpence after paying two shillings a head for driving. Tito's exact whereabouts, hitherto undiscoverable, is now believed to be only one mile inland of the late pah. Mr Stafford, having written to Colonel Whitmore a letter of advice, has been plainly replied to, that if he can get any one to do the work better, by all means to do so. Notwithstanding the positive advice received by the G-overnment of the death of Te Kooti, it is now ascertained that he is alive and active.