IMPORTANT NEWS FROM TAURANGA.

New Zealand Herald, Volume II, Issue 541, 7 August 1865, Page 3

IMPORTANT NEWS FROM TAURANGA.

BRUTAL MURDER OF MR. INTERPRETER FAJ LOON AND THE CREW OF THE CUTTER 'KATE/ THE VESSEL BURNT. MR. BENNET WHITE IN THE HANDS OF THE FANATICS. We published, the following in a Second Edition on Saturday morning. Saturday, 9'30 a.m. The schooner Hope, Captain Black, has just arrived with most important despatches from Tauranga for the Government. The following is from our own correspondent :— " Tauranga, August Ist, 1865. " I hasten to give you the intelligence of another brutal murder which was perpetrated at Whakatana. " It appears tnat the cutter Kate, owned by Guilding, of Auckland, was going into Whakatane and some Natives went off in a canoe and had breakfast with the crew, when they gave the signal ind at once killed the Captain, his name, I believe, is Pringle. The nest one shot was a half-caste. They then went below and found Mr. Fulloon laying in his bunk ; they took his pistol and shot him through the arm ; they fired a second time and missed liim, when they fired again and shot him through the heart which proved, fatal. After the first shot poor Falloon was senseless. They then commenced to fire upon Mr. Bennett White, who had the vessel chartered, when his son who is a half-caste, interposed his body to save his father's life, and got badly wounded himself. They fired three shots at him and then let him go ; he is now in their hands. They have burnt the cutter; they have also seized a Maori schooner in the same place, and the dingy belonging to her they have made a coffin of to contain the body of Mr. Falloon. " The natives are getting worse than ever. I am leaving here to-morrow for Auckland by the Tauranga, and I shall give you full particulars of everything down here when I arrive in town. Before long I think you will hear of more news.

" The above I believe to be the true account as far as I can ascertain to the present time. I send a slip containing the name of the chief and his tribe (Pehura Kangatira ongati rangihouliiva te Kainga Ko to Auraateatua), who were engaged in the murder, and they reside between Maketn and Wakatane."