TARANAKI.
New Plymouth, 30t!i April, 1864. We have great news, and send you a line just as I am off to Sentry Hill. This morning three hundred natives, (estimated) surrounded the Redoubt, and were repulsed with slaughter. Major Butler and Captain Short in command. Large reinforcements have gone out, and are going to follow up the advantage. Thirty-three dead bodies were brought into the Eedoubt, including that of PARENGA KINGI, the most savage and worst leader of the Taranakis. Three prisoners, wounded, were likewise brought in, and one of them was Big Joe, badly wounded in the chest. The two others have since died, making in all 35 killed and 1 wounded. Numbers of bodies were carried off by the natives, and Major Butler estimated the enemy’s loss at 100 killed and wounded. Mataitawa is to be attacked this time. Among these natives are the men who murdered Br. Hope and Lieutenant Tragett, at the commencement of the war.
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume III, Issue 173, 6 May 1864, Page 2
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