HAWKE'S BAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 636, 25 November 1865, Page 5

HAWKE'S BAY.

Waihoa.—Tho Vivid brought news of some disturbance in this district, but nothing more than verbal accounts havo reached us. Captain l'eiathton, Tt.M , wished Captain Kchon to wait for despatches. He waited half an hour, but was unable, without losing a tide, to remain any longer. On the 6th instant, a Targe meeting was JielJ, at which, among other things, it was resolved that no robbers or other criminals should bo harboured in the district. The same evening, as if by way of practical commentary upon this resolve, two stores were robbed—those of Toha and of Mr. Munro— and it was supposed that active means wouV have to be taken to puuish the offenders. — Ifciioke's Bay Herald, ISth inst. The Mohaka Assatji/i Case —Capture ob thb Oj-fexdebs.—Paul Kerepu, of Hoholsa, and a small party of armed men, arrived on Wednesday evening by the Sailor's Bride, having in custody the native Waata Kohikohi, the man charged with having committed a mutderous assault at Mohaka upou Mr. John Havding and Mr. George Farrow. The native policemen sent from Napier to arrest the offender i came ba.k, it will be remembered, without him, 1 having only succeeded in capturing his horse. Paul —having been requested by tho authorities to prevent his escape, if possible, and knowing that old associations would take him towards Haroto and thence to Wailriito—followed, with 10 or 12 men, up tho river banks, keeping as much under cover as possible. On Satu.rday night last the party slept in the fern on the top of a hill, and in the morning kept a good look out. Presently they saw Waata accompanied by his M'ifc coming along; they lay close till he got in the midst of them, and then surrounded him with fixed bayonets. He wae so astounded that, according to Paul, ho turned so white that his tatoo marks wore lost. Tho party landed on Thursday morning, and, with a little excusable ostentation, Waata was marched to town —Paul wearing a swoid and his men carrying fixed bayonets. The prisoner was at once taken before John Curling, Esq., R.M., and Sumuel Locke, Esq., H.M., and to give time for the arrival of material witnesses, he was renvm Jod to Napier gaol till Friday next.— lbid. Lajior feom Auckland.—By the Queen, on "Wednesday night, forty laboring men, five women, and one child, arrived in this port, having been brought down by Mr. Cotterel, acting on behalf of the Provincial Government. Of the 40 men two were stowaways, out were ultimately placed in the same position as the others. Seven of the men and three of the women who were unmarried hava been engaged sinco their arrival, the Government being at once relieved of responsibility with regard to their passage. The remainder of the men have beon formed into three road parties and dispatched to Kereru, Puketapu, and Meanee respectively.— lbid. Major-General Chute, accompanied by Colonels Gamble and Pitt, and by Captain Spain, an officer of tho Transport department, paid a second visit to Napier, on his way from Auckland to Wellington by tho Queen. The Major-General inspected the 70th (his own regiment) yesterday morning, at an early hour, in Clivo Square—the mon being in heavy maTching order. The regiment marched past in slow and quick time, formed squaro, and performed a number of othor military evolutions. One or two mibtakes were committed, which did riot altogether please the fila}or-General, but on tho whole, a finerlooking or better drilled (wo might add, better conducted) regiment has not been seen by old officers in the service. The Major-General and suite continued their voyage to Wellington yesterday evening.— lbid. WaihOA. —A mail, although not the regular one, arrived from this district on Saturday evening. Wβ have seen letters dated the previous day—Friday, 17th inst.—but they make no mention of the disturbance reported on tho arrival of tho Vivid. On tho contrary, the resolution arrived at by the meeting— that no Wairoa natives should U\e part in the fighting at Turanga —would seem to have been concurred in by the Hau Haus themselves. A dispute is referred to, but it would seem l-> br- cf very recent date, and to be in a fair way of adjustment. A chief named Karauria, provoked at what he thought a personal injury on the part of tho Hau Haus, went in his angor and burned a bush on Carroll's run. The bueh. was tho joint property of Queen natives and Hau Haus, and a good deal of irritation has arisen. The ease, however, was likely, we hear, to be submitted to the decision of Mr. Deighton, K.M., who was fortunately on the spot.