[FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.]
"Wellington, Monday night, 7.55
Saturelay telegrams from Xapier say that reinforcements of 27b" friendly natives from "Wairoa effected a junction with out 1 people at the Front., and attacked the rebels' position last Wednesday. After a short but severe struggle the enemy was drawn from the rifle-pits, with a loss of thirty-eight lulled,
Our forces recaptured GOOO rounds of ammunition. Thirty-seven dead bodies were found on the field. The ground was not thoroughly examined, but the actual loss of the rebels in killed is supposed to be fifty.
A. meeting of the Maoris was held at Wairoapa, and the ultimate decision come to was, that the peace of the Wairoapa district should not be disturbed.
Government telegrams state that twothirds of the rebels decamped with Te Kooti and the wounded.
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1169, 8 December 1868, Page 3
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133[FROM ANOTHER CORRESPONDENT.] Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1169, 8 December 1868, Page 3
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