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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 979, 19 September 1868, Page 3

A Fiji Banking and Trading Company has been fairly launched in Melbourne.

How Many Natives weee Killed. — It is rather singular that in every engagement our forces have with the natives, there is neai'ly always considerable doubt as to the number killed on the side of tho enemy. The Wanganui Evening Herald says: — " We have asked the question of not less than six who were there, and they all concur that only the body of one Maori was found."

A Desebteb among Hau Haus.—^Kimball Bent, who some five or six years ago deserted from H.M. 57th Eegiment, is still living amongst the Hau-haus of the Ngatiruanui tribe. This is the man who, it is said, shot Lieutenant-Colonel Hassard on the 12th January, 1866, during the attack upon Otapawa by the force under the command of Major General Chute. From that time to the present, this Kimball Bent appears to have been present assisting the Hauhaus in almost every encounter which our men have had with them in the Patea district. He was present at To JSTgutu-o-te-mami when attacked by our men on the 21st ultimo, and left behind him a book in which he had written, in very bad English, a fevr memoranda, and several sentences expressive of regret for the past. He appears to be more afraid of being taken alive than of being killed in battle. He has had many hair-breadth escapes, and as our men are constantly on the look out for him we fully '.expect before long to ,hear of his being, either killed or captured. ~-A(h)ertis&r, Sept." 7. ' '