LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3236, 14 November 1881, Page 3

LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

(by telegbaph.)

(from united press association's special correspondent.) Pungarehu, November 14, 9.20 a.m. An imposing sight was witnessed at i_ the volunteer camp this morning. The r~ men were astir at daylight. The Wellington Rifles, Guards, and Engineers, along with the Wairarapa contingent, who are ordered home, paraded at 7 o'clock. Cheera were given for Captain Hammersley and the remaining companies. The order was then given to march to Opunake, and as the men, headed by the Guards band, left the camp, they were followed by the Canterbury volunteers, who cheered vociferously. Several officers from the other camps came down to witness the departure. 10.25 a.m. The Constabulary are in the pah at Parihaka taking the Wanganui men, and Major Tuke rode to Pungarehu at 10 o'clock thia morning, and ordered the Mounted Kifles to surround the natives on guard at the fence, and the Maoris were then taken into a whare and placed under a guard. The Rifles were then moved on to some ivhares a ehort distance from Pungarehu and placed natives assembled there under a guard. The natives will be detained until search has been made to ascertain if any Wanganui men are amongst them. There is only one Wanganui man amongst those taken at the fence. 11.6 a.m. The Constabulary have returned with forty-six native men, women, and children, who were collected from the pabe in the neighborhood of Parapara. These, along with the thirteen taken from the fences, have started for Parihaka under . an escort of cavalry. There are several JT Wansjanui natives among them, who will be arrested, and the others released. The Constabulary are posted to prevent cattle straying on to the native plantation.