THE EAST COAST.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXV, Issue 1636, 14 March 1866, Page 6

THE EAST COAST.

The Hawke's Bay Herald of Feb, 6, states: Since our last issue dispatches have been received from Waiapo and Turanga, reporting that the whole of the East Coast is fast returning to that state of tranquillity which is desired as much by the friends of the Maoris as of the colonists. We hear that in one place the men, who but recently were engaged in blasphemous imprecatious and idolatrous rites, have already begun to re-erect a church for the worship of the Almighty. Such intelligence as we hare been able to collect from the Wairoa is, we regret to say, not so satisfactory. Rumours are afloat that one if not tvro pahs are being erected on the other side of the Waibaremoana lake; on the other hand some dozen or fifteen men have given themselves up to justice. It appears not improbable that another blow will have to be struck, and therefore, that the settlement of the district will be delayed a few weeks longer; there can however be no possible question about the ultimate result, the more so as our rulers evince an intention not to rest, till the matter has been brought to a decisive issue, in fact, to do their work thoroughly. Wairoa, Feb. 2. It is reported by some that twelve Hau-haus had given themselves up, and others state the number to be twenty. ' The rebels were erecting a fighting pah on the other side of Waikare-Moana lake. | Messengers were sent out to the Hau-haus to | offer terms of surrender, but had not returned ! with any reply when the steamer left. , The troops belonging to the 12th Regiment , were landed safely from the Huntress on , Thursday morning. Upon disembarking, the men took charge of the stockade. The number of rebels killtd in the late en- ! gagement at Waikare-Moaka is stated to be - fifty. One of the rebel chiefs who was , wounded in the affair has since died.