LATER NEWS FROM TARANAKI.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 22, 15 July 1863, Page 5

LATER NEWS FROM TARANAKI.

RISING OF THE WAIKATOS. WITHDRAWAL OF THE TROOPS FROM TARANAKI.

The s.s. Airedale from the Northern Provinces arrived at the Bluff on Thursday morning last, with mails and seventeen passengers. She brings the latest intelligence from the disturbed districts, of which the following are the particulars:— The Taranaki Herald of Saturdav writes:

The Eclipse arrived this morning from Manukau with important news from the North, the particulars of which we have not been able to learn, but the Waikatos are said to have risen. That something serious has occurred may be judged by the fact that instead of General Cameron coming back here, tre Eclipse returns to Auckland to-night with the 70th—and we hear that Captain Mercer and the Mounted Artillery, the 40th and the 65th are to follow. We suppose Tataraimaka will now be temporarily abandoned, and we hope Oakura and Poutoko too, as the natives will then be emboldened to come within reach. Four hundred Volunteers for "active service" are wanted by the Government for the Ist division of the Auckland Militia. They are to receive 2s. 6d. per day and rations.

(From a Correspondent of the Nelson Colonist.) New Plymouth, June 18, 1863.

On Thursday, Hapurona, William King's fighting chief, who was paid £IOO per annum by the Government for keeping possession of the Redoubt at Waitara, sent us a formal challenge, addressed to the Governor, the General, Mr. Bell, and Mr. Parris, with a verbal message that if they did not come and fight him in the light of the sun, he should march in from Mataitawa to the Bell Blocks, driving before him all living things that might come in his way. By the " light of the sun," he means openly, without ambuscade, but he forgets to name the day on which our troops are to meet them, or the place. Yesterday, the Eclipse returned from Auckland without the General, for the purpose of taking away troops, as the Waikatos have risen. This is all I could learn. About 300 were sent away by her at once—about 100 of the 70th, the remainder made up of the 65th and 40th. 400 mounted artillery are expected to leave by another steamer, probably by the Claude Hamilton or the Harrier.

The Airedale has arrived on her way to Nelson. She brings no confirmation of the Waikato disturbance that 1 can hear of.

Regarding Hapurona the Herald says :

Hapurona has not been to town since the 25th January, 1862, when he was arrested by the police for riotous and disorderly conduct in the public streets. He was then, we believe, in receipt of £IOO per annum as commandant of the Matarikoriko blockhouse, which he threw up in consequence of his having been made a " slave" of by the police. He has been residing with his followers at Te Arei, and in daily communication with the Mataitawa natives, whose leader he will be in fighting against the Pakehas, as he was in the last war. Many of our readers will remember that Hapurona was said to have been the chief officer of engineers at Puketakauere and Huirangi, and was in command of the 70 men who repulsed the 1200 at the latter place. We are informed that a few Taranaki natives have come down from Waikato with six kegs of gunpowder, which they intended taking round the mountain. They brought messages to the Mataitawa people. The Bell Blockhouse garrison is to be reinforced to-morrow by men from No. 1 Volunteers and No. 1 Militia. A QUEER MAORI AMBASSADOR TO SIR GEORGE GREY. The Auckland papers state that an ambassador extraordinary presented himself at the Government House on Monday. A bare-legged and ugly specimen of the native race announced himself as a herald from King Potatau 11. His message from his master was to the effect that his copper-colored majesty was of opinion that the Taranaki murders were perfectly right and in accordance with Maori usages! Further, if any person was to blame, it was the Governor himself, who had no business at Taranaki.

Whether the herald had any further intimations or overtures to make, it is now impossible to make out, inasmuch as his Excellency intimated, in unmistakeable terms, that unless he wished to find himself in the Auckland prison, he had better be out of the city in an hour.

ARREST UF A NATIVE FOR DESPOILING MR. GORST's PRINTING PREMISES. Aporo, the native who was one of the principal leaders in the attack on Mr. Gorst's printing establishment on Otawhao, was apprehended for the offence on June 13, and has been committed for trial. It is supposed that the Waikatos, indignant at the seizure of one of the tribe of their allies, may have risen, and hence the removal of the troops to Auckland, but as yet this is not known. The Waikato is distant about eight miles from Auckland.