The Navive Rebellion.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 59, 21 January 1864, Page 4

The Navive Rebellion.

TUT KAKAMEA. [FItOJI OUIt OWN" COIIKKSI'OXDENT.] January IS. Tm: ' Avon' came in to-day and brought up several oilieers of the 6(3111 Kegt., viz. : Colonel Young, Capt. lilewitt, Knsign (lieeter and Ensign Touhnieu, and an oflieer of the IStli. Colonel Wyatt returned by her on his way to town. Yesterday we had the pleasure ol the company of Mr. C'reighion, of the liailij Southern Cross, who paid us a- visit via Raglan, and returned to-day to town by the \Yaikato route. 'Themis nothing new to relate ; we hear of occasional " shaves," and it might create some excitement to repeat them, and give us employment in writing contradictions to them the next day, hut they are generally too absurd to pass as anything but inventions of some one of brighter genius than usual. A statement in one letter, iron: a coi'iespondent at one o : the stations down the river, caused some astonir-hmcnt,namely, that of the disbelief in the death of Mr. Armitage, and his detention amongst the Maoris being generally suspected. It would, howj ever, not l»e impos>ihle to meet with tho.se who have seen the body i f the unfortunate gentleman since his death. AVe had once another great "canard," namely, that tile bodv of one of the white men reported to he li-htine- on 'tin- .--ide of the Maoris had been found amongst the killed at Kangiriri. It turned out afterwards I'j bo one ol our own men. I'lli"; hist report relative to these terrible white outlaws is, that the man who actually pointed the great £iins at Meicnu ru for the Maoris ijot himself into a row with his daik friends, and having drawn knives and pistols, or swords and blunderbusses, to wreak his revenue u] on his Majesty Kinir Matutacra, he was taken away in chains by his Majesty's guards and shot straightway. ' That fearful apparition of a white man clothed in and with a violently red head of hair, that appeared to 11.< !.n makers at Pniry, must have been a. most startling atVair, and with a slow music and lights down wi uhl form a sensation se< no sueh as cannot often hi; equalled. Fancy that dreadful red bead and white face, with eyes confronting an innocent haymaker, and in hollow tones asking for pipe lii»*ht; and havinir g"t his lhjht. slowly—to use a metaphorical expression— " hooking it." Could anything he more mysterious and alarminiir Xow it is tlie fashion to invent every day a fresh I" ni by which tin' (idi'Tal fc to circumvent the Vaoris in front. One day it is positivi ly usm Tied Miat the (Jencral lias stated privately to the confidential partv who is kind enough to take you by the button, that it is his intention to advance without tents or baiTLMLre, and carry all before htm with a rush : and the next day yon are infoimcd that the repoit of the dav before is all wrontr, and » manated hum a person who is net the real original private nmjl'tcatv ol' the Central, and that the (ieiural's real intentieii is to tio through, a series <>1" the most intricate operations, which are all kindly explained with an unmistakable decree of clearness. And having cUeded combinations with < xpeditionary forces rot ;«t proent known ' f to any me but the (li-iural and tin's confidential person, of c' ci.-e, the Maoris will have to lay down their arms or die a uu'A nrseiable death. Fach time we we warm d not to insert this >11 it tiy conlidt ntial news in our coiniiiJini'aJiniis to the Auckland journals under pain ol beiujr Horned, or shot for misprision of treason, or -■•meihiiiLr equally siL:ut>aiil to niic's appivhcnsivi ieelinirs. [ am very xmy that 1 have nothinLv of a thriilinir nature to enlarge upon to-day, but the fact is that nothing more inten stinir than tin? usual arrival oi dinner at one o'clock ha?; oc« uried.