FIFTY YEARS AGO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20716, 8 November 1930, Page 8

FIFTY YEARS AGO.

EXTRACTS FROM THE HERALD. The following are Extracts from the New Zealand Herald of November 9, 1880: The latest intelligence from Basutoland ■reports continuous fighting with the enemy. The Cape Rifles, under Colonel Clarke, have stormed Molethane's stronghold, and driven the enemy from their position. The Basutos, however, in'overwhelming numbers, have recaptured Letherodi's village, which was recently; taken by Carrington's colonials. Notwithstanding the strength of the enemy they retired from the village in good order. For the first time since the war, Tawhiao has come so far among the settlements of Europeans as the residence of Heta Tarawhiti, on the Waipa. The object, however, was not to make peace with the pakeha, or to show any sign of amity, but to prevent a grandchild of Heta's from being buried at Taupiri, on the Lower Waikato, at the ancient family burying place and near to the railway. Tawhiao was determined that the body of the child should bo taken to Hikurangi, his own headquarters, and was at length successful. The immigrants by the ship Wanganui were landed yesterday forenoon at the Queen Street Wharf. A large crowd of loafers and others assembled to witness the debarkation and the water police found ii necessary to improvise a barricade to save the immigrants from being rudely jostled about.