THE REVOLT AT MOTU-IHI.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1492, 21 November 1874, Page 2

THE REVOLT AT MOTU-IHI.

I The army sent down to the reduction of the insurgents at Motu-Ihi, under the command of Sergeant-Ma jor Pardy, returned triumphantly at half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon, having successfully completed their arduous and dangerous task. As they marched with martial tread up the wharf, many and eager were the enquiries made by friends and relatives after the killed and wounded on either side, and great and unfeigned was the joy expressed at the tidings of a bloodless victory. Our reporter (who had dubbed himself for the oocasiou "Our Special War Correspondent") had read up Creasy's " Fifteen Decisive Battles," and was prepared to have given an accurate and graphic account of the conflict by an " eye-witness"—from the Queen-street wharf, —but he complains that it is labour lost, for he declares that it is impossible even to bring in Othello's remark about " Hair bredth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach." The police went down. Sergeant Pardy ordered the luggage

to be taken to the boats. He was obeyed It was placed on board the steamer and brought up to town. The «P£*«» «£ minds us of that famous one of the King of France, who, with 20,000 men, marched up a hill and then marched down again.