NEWS FROM THE WEST COAST.

Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 150, 26 December 1868, Page 4

NEWS FROM THE WEST COAST.

. Five Hauhau villages destroyed. Large crops destroyed- 2 Hauhaus killed The s.s. Wanganui arrived on the 22nd I)ec., bringing,one day’s later news from Wanganui. Captain Pihpimore, with the Wanganui Volunteer Cavalry, , had made a most important expedition against theHauhaus. After passing Manutahi, the force— some sixty strong—proceeded into the bush, : attacked a pa, poured in a volley, and killed two Hauhaus. The troop then marched for the viflage of Mokoia, making a long detour,: as no one knew the direct way. This village was also destroyed. .... v • , ; j ■A flock ,of 250 sheep were found on the Manawapou by tvyo Patea settlers who accompanied the tr<)bp, and. they were, brought into Patea, mid restored to i their owners, under cover of. the cavalry, . The village of Ihupuku was also destroyed. Titokowarun camp and main body is still in the same, position at Aukumaru. ‘ 1 The fishing village of Otptuk, this side',bf Nukumaru* was pumed, A munificent canoe, together with a number of

smaller ones, were broken and burnt; and the work of devastation in the late expedition ceased the cavalry arriving quietly in town shortly after dark. Thus ended an expedition in which five villages—one of them a war pa—growing crops of potatoes, canoes, and about twelve whares were destroyed, two Hauhaus killed, a large quantity of stook recovered, and the enemy laughed at in his very den after the work had been done, and all without the loss of a man or horse The loss to the enemy cannot be less than three thousand pounds, while the moral effect must be infinitely greater.— lndependant. • J