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

LATEST FROM NAPIER.

Letters received by tue Government to the 31*t August j^ive the following intelligence with refer^i.ce to Te Kofti'a movements aud the disposit'on of i he colonial fo ces : — The Ureweras have returned to th6 east side of Wwkare Moans, but nothing moie id kuowti of their movements. Te Kooti is still at Rotoaira, and ia «ai>i t>> be building a pi there. Hie force is computed at from 150 to 200 meu. The Waroa is (.rottcted by all the force available for that purpose, and the forts at; Te Haroto and Tito Okura secure coinmuaicition v>»th Taupo and protect the settlement on th»t M'Je. A force of nearly 200 mea, o >mpO8ed of 90 n.f^ntry, 40 cavalry, aud 40 or 60 natives, under Colonel He rrick, reached Ruuan a on Saturday la^. Lieutenant-Cjlouel McDonnell haa moved from Wbaogauui to Bare Tautekcv's oamp m the Taupo country. One humlred mounted nativnfl have koup from Napier to j m HareTauteka. Those, with Hare's own cavalry and tbe constabulary, make a force of 200 cavalry. Captain i-t George ia at Taupo Lake with an available force of 100 men. The iotoet will not ast on the ofFemive unleFs attacked or unless » certainty of crushing Te Kooti presents itself. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for provisioning the corps.

A m-eting of dm.ctois in the Tauranga Goldmil ing Company was held on Saturday, when t'ue subject of Kejiar.vtion from tbn Goloomta lea-ie ami Sin^loraau's ie^ae «as cinonssed at some leugth. it nan carr el that ao extraordiiiary geueral metting of ■shareholders iu the company should be held on Tuesday, September %l, >