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LATEST NEWS FROM NAPIER. (by electric telegraph.) [from our own correspondent.] CAPTAIN THOMAS SEIZED.

PRISONERS ENTKENiiIED IN A STRONG POSITION:

A whaling ship landed 180 Maori*prisoners at Whai'eougaonga, five niilesl froni Poverty Bay. They had seized Captaiu Thomas and the ¦ guard *an!d ' bound them up. Can tain Biggs has sb ax-ted with, a few men for Poverty Bay. Volunteers are being enlisted, and i Major Whitmore with the force proceed to-morrow in the Waipara, expected ironi Welliugton. The escaped natives are entrenched in a strong position. The "Wairoa friendly natives have been ordered up. Much alarm exists up-country.

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Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 132, 17 July 1868, Page 2

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LATEST NEWS FROM NAPIER. (by electric telegraph.) [from our own correspondent.] CAPTAIN THOMAS SEIZED. Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 132, 17 July 1868, Page 2

LATEST NEWS FROM NAPIER. (by electric telegraph.) [from our own correspondent.] CAPTAIN THOMAS SEIZED. Evening Post, Volume IV, Issue 132, 17 July 1868, Page 2