WANGANUI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 681, 19 January 1866, Page 4

WANGANUI.

The arriva l of the Ahuriri, Captain Flowerday, from Wanganui, places us in possession of Wanganui papers to the 16tli, and Wellington papers to the 12th inst. From these papers we learn the particulars of two engagements, accounts of which will bo found elsewhere, in which though many of the Hauhaus have been killed, our own losses hare been severe. When opposite Patea, the Ahuriri spoke the Gundagai, Captain Fox stated that there was lots of fighting going on along the "West Coast, that the General was at Taranaki, and that several of our men had been killed. The body of Colonel Hassard, who had died of his wound, was taken into Wanganui, and buried on Wednesday morning. This intelligence does not appear, of course, in the latest Wangiuaui papers received, JNo

doubt -we stall lave further particulars tie course Of a day or two by the Storm. Bird or Lady Bird, one of which, vessels is, we believe, due to-day. . "Wo also learn from a private source that 60 of the Hauhaus came down from Taupo to Taranaki and surrendered. "We take the following irom the Wanganui Chronicle cjf the 13tli, , No news of importance has coiiio from the front; since the skirmish on the Weouakura. Activity, however now reigns m thd camp and. outpoßfej, whero formerly all was listlesspess Everyone seems on the aw vive. The General, is still penetrating into the country. His head-quarters, wo behave, are now at Eakaraniea. ' After t'ie capture of the pa on tee Bth, a native, fleeinc from the place, was caught and brought into _ j n conversation with some of the native cone tincent he confessed to his having taken part in the death of private Dovitt of the 50th regiment, who ■nras brutally cut with tomahawks and murdered soma time ago. His confession was reported to the General • it was formally gone into; and the man making no 'attempt to deny or extenuate his crime, he was handed" over to the 50th; a file of soldiers were told off, and he meet his doom.