THE NATIVE WAR.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 18 December 1868, Page 4

THE NATIVE WAR.

THREATENED ATTACK ON OPOTIKI. The Auckland Weekly News of Saturday last, Dee. 12tli, gives the following :— TAintANCrA, Monday, Doe. 1. Intelligence of rather an alarming character lias ju^t been brought overland from Opotiki, to wit. that message* have been sent in io Opotiki by tlio Hauhans, thrcitloniiuj an attaclv-, and that further mi'ssa^es of n, similai" niitiivo two o\\)'?'Acil (o-dny. Tilajor Mair, who arrived licio a day or two aj;o from Opofiki, returns to-morrow morning' to ho present in case; of emergency. Tlii-; is only what might have been expected. To Kooti and his murderous follower", mad with the success of then1 late carnage, have dnubtb'ss marked out Opotiki. as the theatre of their next tragedy. A few days would take them from Poverty V>ay to Opoiiki, where wifh i]ie co-ope-ration of the Urowern, tlioy could nmkij a sul!"i and, it is greatly to be feared iv the present slender'/ proteeterl state of the place, successful sortie upon that ill-f.ited settlement. At, Tauranßii, a patrol to reconnoitre the-vicinity of the quarter-acres, and the Hae'i'ini and Jude'a fords, has been commenced.