OTAHCHU.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 11, 7 December 1863, Page 3

OTAHCHU.

[rjiOM ouh own cciitii£sio:;nr.NT.] EvrnvrniSG seems to be getting ahead aga-i. Our little village is beginning to look as busy as -.vhni General Cameron witli the army first marched for the front. Day by day orderlies may be seen living past at a break-neck pa'e, their horses snorting aiul foaming at the mouth, nntl the lo'g An 'uv n Fcrraras dangling at their sides gi. es them n look of great importance—carts, idled with stores, coutm ally parsing to and from Dniry, as almost evtrvih>-:t* is carried overland uo'.v—:-old:ers marching out in, keep people won-lerinc what is the cause, a.i.i anxious to know what ue\t. Yesterday a'.tcrnoon ' tbe baggage carts of the Auckb.n 1 Militia }vi-'-r:j | through t:ii route for Auckland, and tc;"var;ls evening ' the whole arrived a' Ca'np Oiahuhu under the eom- : maiul of Major Tighe. 'L'Uo gallant Mmiva were [ covered with dust. After their long dreary manh from Dniry, the. of them were quite brow ti in | colour, and gome of them looked iatigued; ahcr staying nil night ill the lints, (hey were marched (or ! Auckland this morning at 9 a.m. . About 150 of the 50th paneled <J»4 w: nmg. a.ler lan carlv break A.4, <«:>d man-bed l ; >r Ov.uv. ltM : expected that their pla e will be taken up b> » tuchmeul from Auck.aiid. . .lied f About 150 of the 3rd Wa.kaw regiment man.uU ' from Vapnl oilof yesterday tor l >ru>-y. i T'. diMil-i es Hili b' take-1 by the men who t..t>iy 1 ,-iv tVom Ota-'o. Papatoitoi is the head-quarters ] "f'thi3rd Waikato, who are command,d by lri n i All sett/. 1-.- (hat arrive now luim. to join the ! ird r viment (ill they have their full compliment of j which a Itu regiment will be raised.