TAUPO.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1110, 17 December 1869, Page 2

TAUPO.

In last Herald, adverting to the (position of affairs, at 3? aupp, we . $ ere :^tp jState that[Kep)p,an4Top|a # ere flfc on . the Waiigdriui river, about to start for Tuhua, where Te Kooti was belieyjea^to' be. Also, that our forces, under, Lieut.-Colonel : M'Donriell ana Major-Itoberfe,: were about to move on Kooti's position frooj l^tio arid Tapuaehararu;respe,o > tively,., r; " J "• *'' • There fe riot mucVtoja'dd oss v mation, excepting^, that^ by - jat^|jpdvjc£s, all projected movements .wereiin^ferbsnreßß. The force under Ive^mp and Topia, from 400 to 50"Q strong, left Jerusalem for^uVuft,, on . Monday last.- Major 'Roberts": baci\moved forward his men, and, 6ii theJaEbe^da^ decuple J Qrua.nui,, a ; position; f believed»to cpminana the ro^d from Tuhua to Waikatp. 'Ljeut-Colonel M'Donneli advanced at the ssjme tfmefrpta Tokand.U^Thus^'&e various j divisions of the field force are-known to have moved simultaneously upon the enemy; and a very few days more will inform us definitely whether or not the Government have at last succeeded in their efforts to cut short the career of this miscreant,, .At any raVe, there is re^on to hope forj \Suecess ,♦ and it is so far satisfactory to learn.that the movements directed against 'him.- from' different quartersj.have been in unison. Kooti is still believed to.be at, ori close to, Tuhua, and, to: have from 200 to 300 men with him; but it is very, i doubtful whether the Ngatitawharetou^ tribe .would hot desert* him at once dh his being-attacked, as it is believed they have only rejoined him through fear. , In that case lie wpul& only have some ISO men to depend upon~composed of his own band, the Chatham Island prisoners,'and the Urewlera who bare been with him from the commencement, of hostilities ai Taupo. We trust, in next issue, to Heebie to give definite.;intel%fen.ee respecting the operations in course of progress. i ' 1