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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1027, 2 March 1869, Page 2

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BY ELEGTBIO TELEGBAPB, DfROM OT7B OWN COBEESPOJTDEHT.] Monday, March 1. The troops question stands thus :— When the telegram of the Poverty Bay massacre reached London, Earl Granville was in the country and Under Secretary Mousell in Ireland. The Suez mail was to leave the day after ; the Panama the day after that. Despatches from the war office had been sent via Suez to Major General Chute, requesting him to remove the troops from New Zealand by the Himalaya, but giving him some discretionary power dependent on the requirements of the Australian colonies. The captain of the Himalaya received from the Admiralty a telegram of later date, countermanding his orders to call at New Zealand. General Chute not having received any telegram, acted on his written instructions, and determined to remove only one wing of the regiment. Meanwhile, orders having been telegraphed to the Airedale, by the Governor or Government, not to remove the troops from Taranaki, the wing, if it goes, will probably be from Napier and Auckland. The Governor hopes to receive a telegram from the Colonial office by the Rangitoto, to-morrow ; and, until she arrives, the further consideration of the matter stands over. Altogether a very pretty mess. From Wanganui we learn that fires were being seen nightly about eight miles in the bush. A track nearly two wide (? yards or chains) in that direction has been now cut, with the view of making an attempt to follow the enemy. The verdict of the jury upon the murdered settlers at White Cliff was that of " Cruelly and barbarously murdered," with a rider censuring the authorities for not taking immediate steps after being warned by Dr. Pollen. The soldier charged with complicity with the enemy has been discharged and dealt with as a vagrant.