AUCKLAND, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1864.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 146, 2 May 1864, Page 3

AUCKLAND, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1864.

TAURAXGA. i ATTACK ON THE EXEMY'S l'OSl. : TIOX. ! EEPFLsK OK Til K STOKMLXG PAETY ; EYACI'ATIOX OE THE PAH BY TIIE j XATLYKS !; Y XIGI IT. i 10:! OEl'l CKKS AN D MEX KII.,LED | AND AYOUXDEI). i

Tiik in:e!!i<jt'iu\' i>t" another dear bought virtorv reai'lti-il town vcstcntay inoniiii£, in wiiii'lt our :mops liuvo lost ;is many men ;>s ;it KaiiLririri. ami ;i>:;iin rhe eiii'inv have i-si-apcM niuler darluie>s of the niijbt. ami as j far as is Act knowifc their loss has been in- ; eonsidei'able when compared wilii our own. ! The pall niraiiist which tlie troups made ; an atraek on the afternoon ot' the "JiUh ult., i is known as the- fra.U* Fail, and i.s conniilored by eoinjjotem. judges to havoliccn ku peri or jw a lort iiieat ion even io that of l\an<jiriri. Like that stronghold. it seems that the real itanuer to the attacl-.inir party was not ex- j perieiK-ed until tliev were witiiin the breach. I,ed on bv their respective oliiccrs the 1 storming partv rnslu'd 1 he Maori entrenchment with a gallant cheer, and shewed ureal daring and spirit, but suddenly a panic : seized upon them, and they !'e!l back. lea\inlt 1 their oliiccrs to livtlit it nut. as the lonix list of casualties aiiwui' them too sadly shows.. The I'b'd alone lost lour captains, j and the lt:i 1 Li;it Colonel I'ooth. who is sc- i vorelv wouuiieil in the l.ack and arm. and ! other wounded oliiccrs and men were left j beside the dead, within the fort ilicat ions, when our men retreated. From ( olonel Mouth 1 he naiixes took his watch and a few ! itlier things, but tliev did not ill-treat liim. I indeed, none of the wounded who were leit j in the pall, were ill-used by the Maoris. : Colonel Month was brought in next morning ' alter the evacuation of 1 lie pah by the; Mauris. alive but very badly hit. i After the repulse, a cordon was drawn j round the pah. to prevent if possible. 1 lie ; retreat of the enemy dtiritiLT the j the (>Nth rent, forming a semi-circle about it. i small parlies ben it; posted at intervals, j J)urint, r the latter pari of the niu'ht however j theeiiemv made their retreat, losint; ; in their escape it is supposed some thirty or 1 fori v men bv the lire of t he <> s tli picqnets. : These with some- lbrt v dead bodies found in ' the pah. after our men took possession ot it in the lnornint;. constitute tb.e whole Maori | loss a.- at present known. li appears that the engineering talent of the .Maoris is becoming st ill furtherdeveloped. and t hat this pah in many points is even more strout-'lv and scient ilically constructed than those which have already excited the wonder and admiration of our best engineers. In the p:'e.-ent case, instead of the ditch, which at Hanijiriri. when once carried, aflordcd cover and shelter to our men. a palisading I was used, and proved a far more deadly ob- : staele. The gallantry and bravery <>i the oliicei's who, when left by their men. refused to leave the ground and stood resolutely at hay. endeavouring to counteract the panic which hud seized upon the troops, is beyond all praise. One ollieer. Lieut. Glover, was wounded while carrying oil'the boilvofhis brother, Capt. Glover, who had been killed. We had. hoped with l.he experience gained from the loss of life inctired in the rush made upon Kangiriri, and only lately at, Orakau, 1 lint these Maori positions, to st rongly and scientifically built, would have been in future met.not by brute force, but by t he applicat ion of superior science, and by all those means which the study of the art of war and the possession of every necessary material give us over such enemies as the Maoris. At ()rakau tho chief loss occurred in ' he rush which was made upon the position before a resort was had to the less dangerous use of the sap. and in this present engagement at ; the Gate pah, iiad not the Maoris evacuated j it during the night, resort must; have been j had to the sap. or the risk of repulse and j fearful loss have been again incurred. j Col. Harstow with, head quarters of I Tsatt. j of Artillery.and thereat of thoDeience J'oree j proceed to Tauranga this day. in the ' Ale.x- • andra.'takiru; with them two 10-inch mortars, two 32-1 b. howitzers, and a large quantity ol ammunition. A detachment of the K'oyal Artillery. ] Mattery, under the command ol Lieut. Toogood, arrived in town yesterday from Drury, and also proceed to Tauranga. The list of the killed and. wounded, which I we append, shows that our casualties j amount to l'K-?, out of which twenty-six ol all ; ranks were killed ami 77 wounded. '1 wenty- | two of the wounded were brought to town j by the ■ Alexandra ' during ihc afieruooii of! vesterihiy, and were conveyed in ambulance ' watrgons lo the hospital. Their names are I as follows. Ist Malt. 12th Ret;!., private! Andrew Mitchell: 2nd JJatt. I Ith. Sergt. j W. Armstroug, privates Thomns Burilett, j .'John luitli ; •i-Ijrd liegt. Privates James j Macfarlauc, Win. Sergeant, John .Simmons, I Corpl. .1. Kverett, privates A. Mryaui. T. \Vrigiit:, Mernard Conroy. .James Warburton, J George Clarke, John Noble. Michael Casey. I (>"ith regl., Private G. Ilalliwell. Serjt. J. j Cain ; (Jsth regt., Privates Hugh Tonn, P. j Sweeney, "William Johneon. One of the I

lidViil Rnijineors, and 0110 of tlio GStli ]»Tvioii(f!y inv.'ilidcd wore sent up with the ; tunc men. in;il;iiio' (wenty-t\vo in nil. Tlio.se ol the sciuncn \v!x, were wdiimlcil h.-ive been sent mi lit>:iril llieir respective sliijis. The Hdnpitrll was visiH'd veslei'ihiv 1> v Dr. Temple. K'A., ■\v!ki himself intended to the dressing of tl )c wounds. A notice.-ihle feature in these wounds is that those of Conroy and l']verit( appear to have been inilicted with some such weapon as a sword, more especially that of Conroy. which is ;i lonrr incised wound on the severing the Itmneral artery. \Ye regret to say that very little hopes are entertained of the recovery of Colonel Eooth. Ilall-an-hour before the 'Alexandra' left TauranLca paralysis liad sot in. and the principal wound, as our readers will tseo. is a spinal one.