LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 486, 3 April 1869, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

By telegrams, and by steamer from Wanganui, we have news from that place and from Napier, up to Monday last.

News to-day from Taupo states that Te Kooti is at Tauran»a, He has been strongly reinforced by the Ureweras, and by chiefs of noted bad characters. On the 9th, the Arawas from tlie Bay of Plenty overtook him and attacked him, but the result is not known. An attack on Napier was previously determined on. The natives believe that Te Kooti is already on the march, and are greatly excited. There is nothing fresh from Opotiki beyond a statement by a chief that sixty bodies of Te Kooti's men were found after the recent Whakatane engagement. A despatch from Colonel Whitmore states that on the 16th Kemp discovered traces of the enemy's full retreat towards IVTiakamara, and a column of 400 men entered into the bush in pursuit. At 10 p.m. Kemp came on the enemy, who were posted in a strong pah. Two hundred and fifty men were sent for and came up at daylight undiscovered. Tito was heard haranguing the people who were lamenting their great loss at Otautu. The women were holding a tangi all night. Kemp and the Arawas made a long detour to surround the enemy. A mounted scout discovered the Constabulary and gave the alarm. Our men immediately advanced upon the enemy, but the latter bolted, much to the disgust of the troop. Whakamara is a place no European was allowed to

Visit before. Colonel Vhitmore cut down the flag-staff there. He Bays that Tito is evidently panic-stricken, and that the Government may confidently rely that if he is again fallen in with, no obstacle will be suffered to prevent the troops charging him.