LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

North Otago Times, Volume XI, Issue 349, 25 September 1868, Page 2

LATEST FROM THE FRONT.

There is a stir and an unrest among tho natives generally. It was reported that the Pakakohe tribes were wavering in their allegiance, and Col. M'Donnell and Mr Booth considered it their duty to visit them. These gentlemen returned with the fullest assurances of amity, but as a per contra, the body of a man named Peake, missiug from Patea for some days, has been found in the territory of these same natives, and the body bears such marks as leave no doubt that the ill-fated man has been murdered by savages. "We further learn that a Corporal Beck, undeterred by the miserable life of Kiinbal Bent, has betaken himself to the enemy's pah, in consequence of some slight or punishment put upon him by his superior officers. — Wauganui Chronicle. Since the first affair at Te Ngatoutemanu, the natives there, it is said, have received, as might have been expected, considerable reinforcements from the Taupo country, and even from the Waikato. The disaffected Maoties in the Wairarapa district have bestirred themselves, and, it is said, have erected a pah at some little distance from Masterton. It is strongly fortified.— Ibid. The Wellington correspondent of the " Timaru Herald" telegraphs that, " A man named Don came into Waihi quite emaciated after being five days out. Whilst hiding in the bush, after the recent engagement atNgatu o te Manu he heard the Maoris dragging two men tov»ards the pah, ono of whom said, ' Why do you not kill me at once you wretches.' Soon afterwards he heard great yelling and shouting mingled with horrible screams. He believes that tho two men were roasted alive."