TE KOOTI'S FORCE.
A Into Hawke's Bay paper states: —" To Kooti is reported to muster üboiit 150 men armed with rifles, although his force altogether may exoeed 400; the grenter, part armed morely with old flint muskets, tomahawks and knees; from all I can learn, theip
store of iiinrannition appe;ir3 to have been almost expended, but. of course this has since.been replenished through ours having fallen into the'r hands. The rebel leader is said to have despatched messengers to tho Wnikato and Uriwera tribe*, bogging for reinforcements. These may in all probability have reached him ere now. It wus h«8 intention, had he been permitted to get nway unmolested, to have gone direct to Te Wairoa, where scenes of horror similar to those enacted here might in all likelihood have taken place. This accursed villain exercises an absolute sway over his people. With him lays the power of life and death, tho deluded wretches believing implicitly in his supernatural powers, and submitting without a murmur to the iron rule by which the tyrant holds the mass together."
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 18 December 1868, Page 4
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177TE KOOTI'S FORCE. Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 18 December 1868, Page 4
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