THE EAST COAST. TE KOOT'S ENFORCEMENTS.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3750, 26 July 1869, Page 4

THE EAST COAST. TE KOOT'S ENFORCEMENTS.

We take the following from the HawMs Bay Herald of the 16th instant : — 'Ihe p.s. < >St;nt ! ' Captain Fairchild, arrived here from Wairoa on Tuesday last, having entered the uvei, received ou boaid 170 NKatiporous, and put them on boar 1 the «St. ItiJda' in the roadhtead, v hich 1 ttter vissel Subsequently steamed for Tuparoa with hei live caigo. 'Ihe ' Stint,' on her return to Na^u-r, towed to port the schooners ' Hero' and 'Aluiewai.' The 'Heto' is being dismantled, pupaiatory to a thorough oveibaul. Tho 'Start' left again at 2 o'clock am. ou Tlmrsd>y for Wairoa, with the intentiou first, of receiving on board, nnd «ffcenvard« transhipping into the 'St. Kilda,' which was expected at WViroion Wednesday evening, a large body of the Armed Oonstabul.uy, which the Litter vessel will tuko on to Napier ; secoud, of receiviog on board the remainder of the >gatipoiou Contingent - expected by that time to haw reached Wairoa froai Waikarenioaiia— and conveying them home. The CouuUmilaiy, on their mr.val at Napier in the * So, Ivddn,' will there await further oideis as to their destination— al pre^nt behevad to be Te Haro^o. \injor Withers and Mr. Hamlin have been engaged „a ying iij.» atietua U all tlie forces. Among the pis-enjj( is by the ' rvi urb ' en Tuesday last weie the chiefs liopata and Ihaka Whau^a l.ofcb of whom (xpi.fas aivn val of th^ tiinpora-y withdrawal of the foic(\s They and K.nnitiana puiposfe to proceed to U ollmgton by the ' Kangatini ' on her downward tup, then object homa to confer with the Government as to future actiou for the protection of themselres and the. J'moppaiis. Yesterday a letter was received fiom an Aiaw.v chief named Waratini, addressed to T.irelu, Jicnita, Karaifciana, and HapuUi. It confirms wl'at we aheady learut via Auckland, that Te Ko ti hid armed st Tokaugamotu toconfer vMih the MiO'j King, he object being to obtaiu, if p'^sible, tlie'uelp and co-O' eration of royalty in a »eneial atticli upon the Europeans and fnendly rrthf q If un ncees'fnl lie would fmm ajnn-tiin with Tifco'co\>'a)ii, and act in eoncit v.'iMi him in fivweiMls. A despatch recetv d ftom Oiptdin Sfc Oeorcje, dated tlio J.'J h jn^t.tnt mcut.ond tliat Te Kxaii bis been j mu-d by IT J» .r»i.'. of P.ittteie nn I !{• wi of NVfilmunhpoto ; tl.afc when lie Joffc f<n'Cokanu'iiaiiUi ou tlii> CJi he had with him 540 men, 310 of whom were Urewvra undor Hapurona and To Jlanyi; and lhcnniainder Taujio Hauhaus, undor Huiihcu and Pa'irnii. The iiauliau leader, Hitiri PaeraU, had al o i mcd bun, This informaiion is said to hare be n" corroborated by a Hauhau Ulcn piisoner by a d tfcLment of Arawas, but itisbeljevcd lho mimbri-a aie greatly exaggerated,