DRURY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Saturday Sept. 19.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XIX, Issue 1928, 21 September 1863, Page 3

DRURY. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) Saturday Sept. 19.

There ii a great improvement in the weather to-d.iy. Jackson's Forest Rangers left the Mauku for Burts house yesterday. The Rangers will now be attached to Col. Nixon's force. "*■ lam glad to see that the Waiuku road is to be at once repaired. Harry Houdin arrived here yesterday. There will be a peifonnance to-night in Mil's large room. Saturday, noon. Tho Pukekohe volunteers and special constables have just auived in Diury, with various trophies taken from the" rebeli, and some of them w ith scars, indicative of the sharp euoeunter they have had with the enemy. One has a scar on his nose, another on his forehead. One is in possession of a double-barrelled gun, another of a ramrod, which were left by tho natives on Monday. lam assured by these courageous settlers that there inuit have been some thirty of the rebels killed or wounded. A letter was found written in Maori, dated July, in which the word " Potatou " occurred, and which had a good many tignntures attached. Their yelling, lain told, was truly fearful. And seeing they could make no impression upon the stockade by one cartridge, they even loaded two. On Tuesday they were firing volleys over the dead, and the same day a settler's house was seen to be on ffre. Macdonalds house was visited by the volunteeis this moining, and tho scene defies description. An attempt had evidently been made to »et it on fire, but had not succeeded. A youns? horse was found lying in the paddock, shot, no doubt, by the lobels. They appear now to have taken their departure from the dUtrict. Saturday night. I am informed that yesterday a native was shot at Waiuku Some of the volunteers, with Captain Lloyd, were going round the di»tiict, when near the homestead of one of the settleu they espied a Maori, who was, no doubt, prowecuting tho work of robbing the settlers' houses. He wai fired upon, but in the place '<>f fallinp, he mounted a log or stump to «cc fiom whence the firing proceeded. He was then struck by another ball, which brought him to the ground. _Hi» piece and ammunition, together with what articles belonging to settlers he might have, were taken from him, and he wm left. Expecting that other native! might come to ascertain what was his fate, the volunteer^, I believe, were to go out Again, to the »arne locality, but I have not heard the re«ult. Poor Maclean — the man that was mining at Burtt ■ farm — ha» at length been found. He vas discoveied in or near a swamp— of courie, lifeless. He had been shot, but not tomahawked. , His rifle, watoh, and part of hii,olotheg were taken. 1 knew him well, and he wai a very industrious and respectabla man. Another additiqn.tp the list of murdered civilians. Ilohdin. harf been performing to-night, and'he had a "tolerable though nomewhat noisy audience. He seenw *to' Have 'given 1 - great 1 satisfaction, and the amusement tnn^tie i«rsle r -fo impart a decided relief from the tontinu&rmonotony ot camp life, _ ' ' "' "