THE WAIKATO.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 153, 18 December 1863, Page 3

THE WAIKATO.

We suppose, as suspicion has been sought to be cast upon the authenticity of the intelligence which we furnished in our issue of Monday, that that which we have now to communicate may be received with some degree of mistrust. If any such doubt he entertained, we beg our readers and supporters to dismiss it from their minds. We do not put pen to paper rashly. At a moment like the present, when men’s minds are on the tenter hooks of impatience, we investigate both the subject matter dealt with and the sources from whence our information is derived. Satisfied in all these respects, we put our intelligence before the public, which may confidently rely upon the accuracy and authenticity of our details. The intelligence since received from Waikato is fully confirmatory of that which we published on Monday. The friendly chief Te AVheoro has been the hearer of letters from the Governor to the Waikato leaders, informing them that his Excellency could not treat with them until they had laid down their arms.

On the arrival of Te Wlieoro at Xgaruawaliia he found that the Xgatimaniapotos had < irrived there, and that the purport of their visit was to cut down the King’s flagstall in order to prevent the British troops from doing so. This Thompson and the Waikatos would not suffer them to do, and they began to quarrel about it. In the end the Waikatos handed over Xgarnawahia, the flagstaff, the dwellings, and so forth, to be surrendered by Te Wlieoro to the General and the Governor, at the same time expressing their determination to evacuate the place.

There were no natives seen by To AVheoro between Rangiriri and Ngarnawaliia. On his arrival at the delta of the Waikato and AVaipa, he found the Ngatimaniapotos drawn up on the Waipa side, and Thompson and the AVaikatos on the AVaikato side. He was received, according to Maori custom, witli a salute of fire-arms, a succession of volleys having been delivered.— Neiv Zealand Herald, Dec. 9.