LATEST FROM OPOTIKI.
LAEG-E SURRENDER OF REBELS. Intelligence was rereived yesterday afternoon by the Government, from Opotiki, by way of Tauranga, to the effect that twenty-five of the natives who have lately been in arms have surrendered. Of this number, fix belong to the Ngatiporou tribe, of AJataura, a settlement this side of Tauranga, from which Te Kooti has been reccivini: considerable sympathy, and support in the shape of percussion caps and ammunition. Two of those who have surrendered are Poverty Bay natives, and the rest belong to the Whakatohca, of Opotiki and its vicinity. Several more are cxprcted to surrender, as they consider the fas!fiesses of the i'riwera country are no longer invulnerable. In addition to the men, thirty-one women and children have also came in. HeratePopo. a chief of considerable influence, whose wife was taken prisoner by T opi.i's party, and who has been occupying a strong position up the Waioeka Gorge, expresses himself anxious to surrender if his life is spared, and his wife is restored to him.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume VII, Issue 1977, 20 May 1870, Page 3
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