REPORTED SKIRMISH BETWEEN THE NATIVES OF THE EAST COAST.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume 2075, Issue XX, 14 March 1864, Page 3

REPORTED SKIRMISH BETWEEN THE NATIVES OF THE EAST COAST.

Thf 'Couo' letiuned fiom Tamanga., on Satuiday moining, bunging intelligence of aiepoited skiinush between the natives on the East Coast. This bcais out the mfoi matiou we gave to om leadeisafew days ago, of the piob.ibility of an encounter ensuing in the event of the disloyal natives attempting to cioss over the land belonging to the loyal natives. The pin ticulai s of the sku nush at c moi o tliau meagre, theie being simply a lepoit that an engagement had oceuued, and that it had been compaiativoly blood less,- -a chaiactoiistie of native cncountcis. We have consequently nothing more to add to the second edition which we published on Satiuday, and which is as follows :— Satuiday nioining 1 he ' Coiio,' Captain Tiuuei, i (.turned this mom ing fiom Taiuang.v, and bungs the following intelligence of a skirmish between the natives :—: — On Wednesday nioitnug l.\«t the • Mnand.i' vent dow n to Maketn, with two hundred tioops, uudei the command of Colonel Caiey, who, finding that then- was too niuch Miif to laud them in boats, letnincd. The tioops were then matched ovei land a distance of about twenty two miles, the provisions being sent down in the ' Maws ' schoonci. Tho de tichment was under the command ot JU-i]oi Colville, of tho 4Snl A lepoit came into Tauianga. bofoie tlie 'Coiio' left, th.it theic. bad been an engagement between the Mdketu n.itne^ and a tube f.ulliii liast. Tt was sxid.it lust that hfty natives had fallen in the cni; moment, but only two woie known to have boon killed Colonel C.uey has letiuned to Auckland by the 'Couo,' aKo, Major Mould, i! \i , Lieutenant Mu<-!,io\e, of th<» ' Mn.xnda,' P.i} mastei Barnes, and Commissionei Smith. The tioop-, at T.iui.iiiga aie undei the commaud of Lioutenint O"loiiel Moiaut Cipt.un lin 1101 a^suiCb us that tho abn\o is all tli it was known about the afl.ui when ho left