THE NATIVE WAR.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1504, 7 October 1865, Page 2

THE NATIVE WAR.

LATER FROM POvpßiy ™K ww (From fa Southern C r , m </' The schooner T« 7 '' if ') ttrday, bring# new* f rorn »rri» M lh«lr force. in ih.. n...;,,, been driven inland f r l, ~ I, TolagoHay»; and the c , m ,f ; k '"ru r - ; , n ? rived there on Wednesday Jy Napier, after debarkm/;!,- ' tr ' "-"•-thi-p,,,, "I™;,-!-. the Kawakavra, th« T«w„. a - a friendly chief, named >! stated that he wa, hr ''*. »-I s.s.Ht. Hilda, in order his men to Poverty f» a v iV""' -i that the native# at for an engagpnipnt. ; \' v Poverty Bay,the native, ' s v.; J building a pah, in ej,„. f;tui . r from Kereopa and hi, Mi,,**' " . »' to number m men. Af w »r.., 4jJ pah*. In order to be prei-arH i„ , ' '*■> any attack. n .j . * t . ToI T Bay thf! i building pahs, and making to receive the Hau-han, ,i 7 * rv; '>' I«roper again to attack them i, " 7 ' ; 'i membered that, alx.iic a f , rf , V' ; r»Queen native# at thi, f '•* had a.mart .kirmUll, in J! | ' 'v, l<yt«were killed with no lo„,'W u •* of the Queen native*. I,e '

By the arrival of the schoonw \h , Awanui, we learn that the troop* St Opotiki. dome twent* ''' hi. had the effect of u who are said to b« afraid to 1 since the arrival of the mil tary V'' at Opotiki can be distinctly U r ''""**'l natives at Awanui. The mi|i, 3rv J* '"■« tared » lar«e number of Maori V " converted them to their use u 1:1 are well supplied with corn and pM,2' t v 4 the fertile plains in the district. '""- Ta