LATER FROM WHANGANUI.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXV, Issue 3760, 7 September 1869, Page 4

LATER FROM WHANGANUI.

By the air-val of the ss. ' Kiera ' and the g.s. ' Wangaimi ' in the Manuka i last evening, we are in receipt of Whaugnuu pa| o-s to the 4th ins'aut They, however, c<>uuin li tl>* ncw&of importance. '] ha body of a Timn nauud John liowrien Las been found at thu Bluff und brought u to Wh»nginui. An inquest was bel 1 upon it, when a, verdict of death by lirowniuof was returne'l. A. paragraph iu the Wanganui Times states that, from January to August inclusive, there were ex* jjorted fri.tn Whan^anm to Auckland 2,097 cattle, 18,088 shoep, and 1,180 oi^M. 'I ho Pat> a township U once moro going ahead. Buildings are springing up, and peeple stirring and thinking of business. Settlera are making arrangements to return to their lutid. Kapata and a pvty of Ngatiporous have left Pit'a to examine t'ie country about aud beyond Waihi, with the view of fixing upon a fi-'iutK r sctblemeut, which these nn'ives areto h ive givau to them, so as to foim a ptotyction t > the '•ettit-r». Most likely a small party of Con■t^bulary will *Ko be stationed at Bome central redoubt in the diatri t. Capti'n Doile, of the ' Sioriabird ' was fined £5 and o i 3ts atjtbe Resident Magistrate's Court, Whauganui, on September 3, for having, on the 2Stu A ugu&r, violated the Po*>t-r>ffioe Act, by fading to take the mail on board when it was tendered t > him.