“EXPRESS” TELEGRAMS.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 127, 25 July 1868, Page 5

“EXPRESS” TELEGRAMS.

WELLINGTON. (From our Own Correspondent.) THE NATIVE DISTURBANCE AT THE PATEA! The Wanganui Times gives the following account of this disastrous event:—The attack on the Redoubt at TuroTuro Mokai was made before daylight on Sunday last. Lacey was on sentry outside idling alarmed, he challenged twice, and tlen bred ; he received a volley, and although he was shot through the shoulder, he ceeded in loading his rifle again, butcouß not fire it off’. He then went to the way, and saw Captain Ross in his slH|| handed his rifle to Ross, who Ross then fired off all the chambers revolver, and part of another. He called out "lam done for, men! must do the best you can for The men then seemed to have had a and some of them attempted to escajSl Four men jumped over the parapet, one of whom was caught and tomahawked, frightfully mutilated ! Three others got away to Wailii. Four others held one angle of the Redoubt, and two of these men, Milnise and Johnston, being armed with bayonets, kept the natives from getting over the parapet; the latter had cut steps iu the ramparts, and as soon as one showed his head, he was bayonneled. TheMaorisnevergot inside. Von Tempsky Company hearing firing started to assist, and reached the Redoubt while the above four w ere defending it Nine were killed and seven wounded.

Stafford stated: yesterday that the destination of the Rosario war steamer had been changed, and that she was going to Poverty Bay, instead of the Chathams. The Government schooner Rifleman is expected from Chathams daily.