NATIVE NEWS.
(united press association.) Pdnqaekhd, December S.
Colonel Reader and Mr Anderson arrived here last night. Colonel Reader went to Parihaka this morning. A very strong stockade is just finished at M.jor Goring's Camp, known as Fort Newall, iu which there are two angles built out of it. One holds an iron tank, already fixed for a magazioe, and in the other ia a Telegraph i office. A fatigue party yesterday blasted a lot > f rata stumps iu the enclosure of the stockade. A large barrack-ro.m is to be built iu it from the remains of the nfiarcs lately destroyed in the pah. A large party has been sorting material the last few days, and carrying it to the stockade. Immediately outside the new camping-ground, on the sea* ward side, is completed the building of three billiard-rooms. A canteen and a store will be commenced, A party of A.C.’a attempted the shifting of a where ou skids, yesterday, from Fort Rort R llestun to the new camp, but bad to abandon it when bait way, as the sides got loose. They will now take it to pieces.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6441, 5 December 1881, Page 2
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