HOW THE REBELS GET THEIR AMMUNITION.

Otago Witness, Issue 928, 11 September 1869, Page 20

HOW THE REBELS GET THEIR AMMUNITION.

Speculation bus frequency boon mdnlg'd in as to the manner iv which tbo rebels got their supplies of ammunition. Some light is thrown on this subject by the Wellington ladtjpendtnt in a reuont isnue, from whioh we tfcke the following :— " Thnro i* nothing," a native tells v*» whose present pontoon •hontd »how him to bo * good authority, "servos our purpose better than a good fight. After tho Pftkchat have retired, which they generally do, we pick op bandreds ana thousands of rounds of am* mrinitioD. Whole packages we often find, tbrtwt neder the roots of tree* and ail aorta of out of the w»y hole* and ooenort. This vu especially tho catn at several of the engagements <ra the West Coast, Weu»edto buy from the aoldiere, too, tometusea, and onoo got 2'o rounds for It 64 and a tiu pot" But those toaroes of tnpply are foiling now, and there if reMon Ito bilitve thai the wao> of ammunition Is ! the chief o*ute of the surretirier of th*nne\ves by the natives. When Tito Kowara wm sarprfiod si Ofcauto, whenoe he deoatnptd so hMtilythst ho left bis ooftt ♦••bind, with LISO In osth io thepookett, several packages of *mmanition were found, with wot more than one t»*epoonfol of powdor to • doz»n ballots, and the small pnokage of powder wrapped up most osrsfalhr i* almost it»«n«*bW folds of paper Mid efeftfe to ws» MTtfl it fro© $• <U»jp, f