LATEST WAR NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 172, 29 April 1864, Page 4

LATEST WAR NEWS.

CAMP TE AWAMUTU. (From the Correspondent of the Daily Southern Cross.) April 20. Great excitement in camp this morning. About 11 a.m. three mounted natives were observed approaching Te Awamutu from the direction of Kihikihi. They were mounted and the foremost one held a white flag in his hand. ’ So rumour with her thousand tongues soon carried the news into the remotest corners and crannies of the camp asserting that “ Rewi was coming in to give up his arms,” and that the Ngatimaniapotos were suing for peace. The natives, who were very well dressed, were conducted to the quarters of the Brigadier-General, who met them in the yard fronting his quarters, shaking hands with and telling them that they were welcome, and an orderly was instantly despatched for Mr. Main, interpreter. 1 The three natives proved to be friendly chiefs, the principal one being Hone Teoni, the magistrate of Kawhia. They had passed through Awamutu some days ago, bearing a missive from the head-quarters at Pukerimu, to Rewi and the Ngatimaniapotos, being provided with a pass to allow them (the friendly chiefs) to proceed unmolested on their errand. They have returned after-visit-ing Rewi and his people, who are now at Rangitoto, and they bring a letter from two chiefs and their tribes who are willing to come to terms, and perhaps to give up their arms. Of course the contents of the letter are at present shrouded in mystery, being known only to “ the powers that be,” and a few others of their confidants. Hone Teoni reports that Rewi w’as not wounded at Orakau, but that he and his tribe are apparently much dispirited from the effects of their late defeat at Orakau.