WANGUNUI.
Ocr dates from AVansjanui arc to the 21st. Captain Lloyd's head has "been taken down the coast, ami on the 20th, was at a pa on tho AVsiitotura, some twenty miles from tho sea. Its destination is Vihil'ihi. to •which place it has boon sent as a present tu tho relatives of Hon and his men who foil at Katikara. An effort has boon made by tho native police at to obtain it but without effect. A Maori prophet (Hopanaia) lias risen up amonir tho natives, who is in comnmncation. according to his own account, with the Gabriel and the Virgin }farv, both of whom informed him t?i;it M.-uuiirntau-tftri had boon taken on Saturday by the Maoris who ibad killed XOOO soldiers and eaten 19 of them.—
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New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 141, 26 April 1864, Page 4
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