THE Marlborough Express.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1868. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
“ Giva me the liberty to know, to utter, ami to prgus freely according to conscience, above all other liberties." —Milton.
(From our Own Correspondent.) The Loan Conversions. Increase of Public Debt. Latest from the East Coast. Another Ambuscade—One Man Shot and Mutilated. The Women refuse to leave the Settle-ment-Destruction in abandoned DistrictsWellington, Friday evening, October 23rd, 1868. Letters received from Mr. Fitzherbert by the mail state the Conversion of the Eight and Ten per cents has been effected. Of the Provincial debentures only £144,650 About £500,000 remains out, of which, the Crown Agents suppose the larger proportion is held by pesons in the Colony. Mr. Fitzherbert remains to offer further proposals, and will not leave England till next year. The total increase of the Colonial Debt by the conversions already effected is £241,650; but the decrease in the annual interest, &c., will be £26,880. Major Turner of the 65th Regt- is appointed staff-officer with Col. Whitmore. On Friday, two men named Southby and Thomas Collins left the Wairoa ( Clyde) x*edoubt for Patea, and fell into an ambuscade of 15 or 20 natives. Southby’s life was saved by his horse galloping ; Collins jibbed while urging it, and he was shot through the lungs. His body was fetched in next day ; it was found dreadfully mutilated, and the head gone. This is the first murder on this side the Patea river. Wairoa is situate midway between Wereroa and Patea. Colonel Whitmore left Wanganui on Wednesday for the Front. The earthquake was severely felt at Wanganui, and many chimneys were injured. Telegrams from Napier, to-day, state that no attack has yet been made on Wairoa (East Coast). The women of the military settlement bravely declined leaving by the steamer. Some of the settlei s’ houses have been destroyed in the abandoned districts.
THE Marlborough Express. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1868. BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH
Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 141, 24 October 1868, Page 3
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