HAWKE'S BAY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 683, 22 January 1866, Page 5

HAWKE'S BAY.

(!'rom the JZatvkv'.i Bity Herald, January lGth.) ARRIVAL OF TEE ST. HILDA. The St. Kilda returned from Opotiki and PovertyBay at 9 a.m. on Saturday. The intelligence !>.> a Opotiki is that the chief Hauhau conspirator Parai'a is still hovering about that neighbourhood. The Hauhaus had beeu for some time quiet, but are now stirring up into fresh activity. They occupy a position at tho 'Waweka ; they recently lormcd an near Ohhva, and killed one of Apanni's native* named Hotene : some of the Europeans had a narrow escape, as it was supposed that that part of tho country wi\s •of the enemy. A section of the Oporiki trib known as the AVakatohea, who were doubtful, are suppose! to have been persuaded by Patnra to join iiie enemyMore fighting is expected at Op >tiki ; that part of the country cannot be considered in any way settled until Patara and his adherents are cleared out of it. From Poverty Bay we learn that 37 men and 40 women and children have been captured by a force of 50 natives under Tamilian a. A native named Abraham Tutoko was amoegsi tho number. This man is charged with being implicated in tho murder of Mr. Volkner at Opotiki. Native witnesses have arrived in the bt. Kilda to give evidence against him. Twenty-two stand of arms have been taken and sent up in the St. Kilda. IMPORTANT FROM WAIEOA. By the Lady Bird, schooncr, which dropped anchor in the roadstead on Sunday at 11 p.m , we have news from Wairoa to same date. No lotters, so far as we can learn, have been received by this opportunity, but the master of the Lady Bird reports that, at 9 a.m. a despatch was received from tho front, conveying intelligence of an engagement having' taken place between a party of friendly natives under Kopu and Thaka Whanga, and a party of the enemy—resulting in a loss to the latter of 25 killed, besides wounded, ar.d to tile former, of seven killed and wounded. Old lhakn, is one of the wounded, but the injury is slight-. It appears that a reconnoitring party of natives went out, that they mot tho jßauh'aus in a j;orge, and that a desperate fight ensued, with the result as above stnted. These statements are not verified by any despatches received by Mr. M'Lean, but there is every reason to suppose they are baaed upon fact.