MOVEMENTS OF TE KOOTI.

Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1215, 31 August 1869, Page 8

MOVEMENTS OF TE KOOTI.

(From the correspondent of the Neio Zealand Herald.) Alexandra, 12th August. Te Eooti's Inst words to the Waikatos were that he was going, hut would return again shortly, meaning no doubt when the whole of his arms and ammunition reached him that is known to be en route to the Waikato ; and he expects reinforcements from different quarters, and imagines thut the Government will withdraw their forces from the frontier ; then will be the time to make a successful raid on the Waikato. Rewi has gone with Te Eooti. Tawhiao has sent a letter to the Government, with a formal demand that the prisoners taken at Ngaruawahia, together with the arms and ammunition, should he immediately returned to Tokongamatu, and if the demand is not immediately complied with, the Waikatos threaten to attack the Waikato settlement, independent of Te Eooti and his murderous band. Alexandra, 16th August. Te Eooti is at Tuhua, a settlement about thirtyseven miles from Alexandra. Rewi is with them. It is supposed that Te Kooti is waiting the arrival of Tito Eowaru and people from the Wanganui district. The reports that Te Eooti was at Taupo and Ohinemuri are false. They are given out no doubt to lead the Government astray. Napieb, August 23. News reached here last evening, by Dr. Gibbs, that Tc Kooti with 300 of his followers, is between Runanga and Tapaharuru. Eighty foot constabulary left Petaue this morning, and seventy mounted men are under orders to leave on Thursday. The destination of tho forces is Runanga. Captain Fox, of the St. Kilda, reports rumors at Tauranga that Te Kooti was at Eatikati. The St. Eilda, however, landed her guns and ammunition. Waikato is slumbering. Colonel Elliott's orders have been received as to stopping the removal of the 18th Regiment from here.

Tito Kowabu. —By latest advicos our old friend Tito has returned to Ngutiniiiru, on the banks of the Waitotara river, with sixty of his own followers. Shortly after his arrival there he was joined by sixty of the Wanganui up-river Hauhaus, and that appears now to be the strength of his force. He is waiting without auy definite object to see what may turn ;.p. Wanc/anui Times, August 19.

Dr. Pollen is spoken as a candidate for the Superintendency of Auckland. A slight shock of earthquake was felt at Picton, at 7.20 on the morning of the 2(sth August.

Wool Bxpobt PEOir Oamaett.—The Times of August 13tb, says most of the wool for the season 1869 lias found its way to sea. The total numberof bales exported from the district have reached 9500 bales. A g-keenstone mere, said to be the first ever made by a white man, has just been completed by Mr. Lewisson, of Auckland, for the aged chief Patuone, of the North Shore. It took three months of constant application to finish the work. Mr. Pucket, of the Native Department, has been appointed successor to Mr. Commissioner Mackay. Mr. Thomas Young has been appointed Interpreter to the Maori members in the House, lately held by the first mentioned gentleman. Aw OfiDEaiT Dboavned at Taiustaki. —The Reraid of August 11th states : —James Cumin, an orderly, left Wai-iti at eight a.m. on Monday, and should have been at Urenui about 10. Mr W. Carringtou, juu., came by the same road a short time after the orderly, and on reaching Urenui was surprised that Curran had not arrived. Two orderlies were immediately sent to Wai-iti from Urenui to to communicate the circumstances. The bush was then scoured on both sides of the Mimi, but there were no traces of the missing man, although his horse was seen to come from the interior, near from. Mi1. Messenger's house. From later intelligence we gather that the body of James Curran was found near the fording-place, below high-water mark, with the spine of his back broken." The Coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Found drowned."

At a meeting of the Wellington Philosophical Society, Mr. Skey presented some silver ore from Stewart's Island, being the result of the analysis of a specimen of quartz gangue containing 6ozs. of silver to the ton, associated with pyrites, no gold being found. The vein is from the junction of fine grained, granite with blue slate, and has been discovered by a prospecting partly fitted out by Mr. Daniels, o Elver ton.

Loax for Public Works in Otago.—Tho Otago Loan Bill, authorising the raising of £50,000 on security of the pastoral rents, was introduced by message from the Governor. The resolution was passed last Thursday afternoon, after a long debate, by a majority of 27 to 18. Nearly all the speakers seemed to be divided between a feeling that Otago, with its large revenue, was fairly entitled to the required permission, and an unwillingness to re-open the question of allowing provincial loans, except as a part of some comprehensive well-digested scheme for the execution of public works throughout the Colony.

G-lobious Dividends ! —The New Zealand Serald of August 6, says : —" The shareholders in the Long Drive Claim, will draw another dividend of £3 per scrip to-day. This is the fourth dividend paid in less than two months, the four amounting to a sum of £15 per scrip ; the total sum thus paid being £18,000. The claim is reported to be fully equal in appearance to what it was a month ago. The leaders have been tapped at a low level, and are found equally as rich as they are above." Fi/AX Machines.—A number of gentlemen (says the Wellington Independent) including two or three members of tho Assembly, attended at Mr. E. W. Mills' Lion Foundry on Thursday last, for the purpose of testing the flax machines manufactured there. The trial was in every way most successful, the whole of the gentlemen present expressing their satisfaction atf tho manner in which the machine did its work. One or two of those present, who have had experience of machines made in other Provinces, considered it decidedly superior to any they had seen. Dr. Wilford, of the Hutt, ordered two machines.

A Stock Exchange has recently been, established in Auckland. At a meeting of gentlemen interested in the matter, it was) resolved that the scale of charges should be 5 per cent, up to £100 ; to £500 2§ percent.; £1000, li per cent., and documuntary evidence of the right to sell must be produced at the sale. "Man Overboabd."—On August 7th, as the cutter Snowflake wa» proceeding from the Thames to Coromandel, one of her passengers, named Ohisholm, fell overboard and was drowned. The vessel cruised about the spot for a couple of hours, but nothing was seen of him.

Plummes and Martin, the two felons who lately escaped from the prison at Auckland, have been recaptured. A contemporary suggests :. that blood hounds be kept at Ifce-gaol, not to be let'loose on the runaways, but to aid in tracking them by their scent.

Our Native Flax.—A contract has been taken in the Rangitikei district to deliver 2000 tons of flax at a mill, at 15s per ton, fifteen tons to be delivered a week. It has been ascertained that an acre of natural grown flax produced fifteen tons.

Six Lives Lost Through a Canoe Accident. —The Waiuku correspondent of the Southern Cross, writing on the 10th August, states: —" On the evening of Sunday last, Paora Katipa, his wife and two children, and three other women were returning from Port Waikato across the river to the Maioro, near which their settlement is, when the canoe, which was heavily luden with pipis, was. swamped, and all on board, except one woman perished. Three of the bodies have been recovered. They were of the Ngatitaata tribe."

Sad Occurrence.—We (Lyttelton Times, August 21st) are sorry to record the death of Thomas Munroe, captain of the ketch Margaret. It appears the vessel was in Little Akaroa, loading timber, and on Thursday morning the dingy broke away from the head of the bay, and the deceased went after it. Clambering over the rocks, and throwing offhis clothes he jumped into the water, bnt he had not proceeded far out when he got entangled in a large mass of kelp ; he managed to get his shoulders clear, but is got round his legs, and rendered him powerless. His perilous position was seen by his mate, who went to his assistance, but he was unable to get near enough to render any help. The body was dragged for, and after some hours spent in cutting away the kelp, it was recovered. The deceased was a single man, and highly respected. Attempted Suicide at Wellington.—The Independent of AHgust 14, states : —" An attempt at selfdestruction was made yesterday morning by a man named Johston. The means taken to ensure selfdestruction by the unfortunate man were most singular. It appears that he poured about a pound of gunpowder into an ordinary gun canister, which he pkced inside of an oil-can, over which he held his head. Prom the appearance of a linen collar which he had on, the strength of the explosion must have struck him on and under the left jaw, as that corner of tho collar which he had on at the time was very much burnt on the left side, the corner being quite gone. The wretched man is not so seriously injured as might have been imagiued under the circumstances, and is progressing favorably."

A man named David Manning, who was proceeding to his residence in Nelson-street, Auckland, at eleven o'clock on the night of the 28th ultimo, observed what he supposed to be a bundle of clothing, but which on nearer inspection proved to be the body of an infant. The spot at which the body was found is on the footpath at the intersection of Victoria and Nelson-street (commonly called Bond's Corner). The body, on being divested of a large wrapping of calico, which was closely pinned and bandaged with a knotted wrapper outside it, was found to be quite dead and cold. Subsequent examination showed that the body was that of a male child, and that it had apparently been bora alive.

Taranaici News.—A correspondent in Taranaki writes on August 20 :—The first smoking of the steel sand has proved a great success. I send you a piece of the metal; over half a ton weight has been taken from the crucible. Everything has been against the operations: the wet from the raita moistened the leather of the belts that drove the fan, and stretched them so that the blast was not kept up; there was a cold hearth, and the metal was not tapped soon enough. These are only practical difficulties, which experience can easily get over ; but the fact of the metal being there shows tlmt the right flux has been used to separate the steel from the other impurities. No native news of importance—everything is quiet North and South. A party is going out next week to the Kaitaki ranges, and resume work at the reef they left last summer, when the murders of the White Cliffs frightened them in. They are sanguine of finding gold.

Half-Beeds foe Boiling Down.—The Hawlce's Bay Herald says : —" Two hundred half-bred sheep, the property of Mr. R. Stokes, having been lately boiled down as an experiment, were found to yield from 28Ibs. to SOlts. tallow each—the weight of the sheep averaging about 5211)5. The Merino sheep yet boiled down have not produced more than I7lbs. of tallow, the weight being 501ba."

The Channel of Otago Haebok.—A notice on this subject; appears in the Gazette. Mr. Balfour, the Colonial Marine Engineer, says the channel is showing a strong tendency to return to its usual and and more permanent position, but any further changes will be duly advertised. The following is the notice : —"Owing to the continued, and recently sudden, changes of the channel across the outer bar, it has been considered necessary, in the meantime, to discontinue the use of the leading marks for tho same ; and mariners are hereby informed that the red beacon on the sandspit has been taken down, and masters of vessels are cautioned, when crossing the bar without having a pilot on board, to follow carefully the directions given by the semaphore at the flagstaff oa Taiaroa Head."

The schooner Coquette, which arrived in harbor on Thursday, July 29, brings intelligence of a very painful nature. It appears that the Donald M'Lean, Captain M'Leod, was trading among the New Hebrides, and on the 6th instant tho boat was sent ashore with the mate, John M'Donald, and some natives. During the stay of the boat at Erromango, they quarrelled with the natives ashore, and as tho boat was about to return to the vessel, the natives from the shore assembled and fired at those in the boat. One of the natives pulling in the boat was shot through the chest, and died immediately, and the mate, who was sitting in the stern of the1 boat, was shot through the arm and body. John M'Donald is a young man well known in Auckland, and liis friends reside at Wangarie. Although very dangerously wounded there was hopes of his recovery when the Coquette sailed. — Southern Cross, August 2.

Preserved Meat. —The Otago Daily Times, says : —" Some excellent samples of preserved meats were shown at the offices of Mr. Dunoan, in Rattraystreet. Four tins were opened, two of them containing meat preserved by Mr. Duncan, and two others, meat preserved by the Melbourne Company. Of the latter one tin was of beef, and the other of mutton, Mr. Duncan's samples consisting of mutton only. The whole of the meat was excellent, the Melbourne beef being, we think, preferable to the mutton from that place, which appeared to have been overcooked. We think that the mutton preserved by Mr. Duncan has decidedly better than that from Melbourne. The latter was stringy, and almost pulpy; the former, firm, solid, and presenting the appearance of meat just cooked, although it had been in the tins obout a month. The flavor was extremely good."

Holloway's Ointment and Piils. —In all outward complaints a desperate effort should be made to at once remove these annoying infirmities, and of establishing a cure. The remarkable remedies discovered by Professor Holloway will satisfactorily accomplish this desirable result, without any of those dangers or drawbacks which attended the old method of treating ulcerative inflammations, scrofulous affections, and scorbutic annoyances. The moat timid invalids may use both the Ointment and Pills with tho utmost safety and most certain success, provided a moderate attention be bestowed on their accompanying " Directions." Both the preparations soothe, heal, and purify. The one assists the othor moßt materially in effecting cures and renewing strength by helping exhausted nature jußt when she needs such succor.— Advt,

A Modebn SampsolC.—-Extraordinabt Feats of Strength;— There is stopping in Newcastle (New South Wales), just now a man of extraordinary strength, and who, for several nights past, has been performing some wonderful feats at the City Wine Vaults. Among other performances he dances a! hornpipe with fifty-six pounds weight attached to each of his feet. Before his departure he purposes doing several other extraordinary things. On the ' afternoon of Friday last, the athlete, Thomas Griffiths, who performs under the name of Young Samson, commenced his undertaking to walk one hundred miles in twenty-four hours. Tho course is said by some to be as near aB possible five- miles, 'although others make it at least a quarter of a mile more. At ten minutes to six o'clock Griffiths made his start at a swinging pace, and completed his first journey in fifty-seven minutes. The three next journeys were finished in fifty-five minutes each, and the fifth in fifty-nine minutes. The sixth occupied one hour and one minute. After the first distance had been walked, a young man called William Hodges joined Samson, and after the first two journeys had been finished, William Fuz also started in company with the others. Hodges completed his twen<y-flve miles and Fuz his twenty, walking side by side with Samson the whole time, when they gave in, and on the seventh round Samson again started alone at forty-eight minutes past eleven p.m. All night Sameon kept walking, and by noon on Saturday he had completed his eightieth mile. According to adveiltisement, he then turned aside to Mr. Murphy's smithy, where, lying down, he had a board placed on his body on which rested an anvil of 4201b5. weight. On this a pair of horseshoes were made, Samson all the while keeping his body in the form of an arch, resting on the ground only by his feet and hands, while a cloth was thrown over his face to keep pffthe sparks from the anvil. This part of the performance having been finished to the satisfaction of the assembled crowd, Samson started again towards the tollbar, apparently as brisk as ever, and completed four journeys more (or a hundred miles altogether) by twelve minutes past five o'clock, or forty-eight miles under the specified time. The actual walking time, including the delay at Mr. Murphy's shop and occasional brief stoppages at Eaton's and elsewhere, was only twenty-one hours forty-nine minutes. Samson appeared to be no more distressed with the long journey walked over at the rate of five miles an hour than many of our young men would be with a journey of five miles at the same pace ; and within two hours and a-half of the finish, he was able .to go through in his usual style, with all those heavy feats which have so much astonished his audiences in the Victoria Assembly Eooms. The powers of endui'ance of this man are tremendous, especially when it is considered that he is fifty-three years of age, and has been leading a life of uncommon exposure and hardship in these Colonies for many years past. He has not got the knack, possessed to such perfection by other performei'3 of much greater pretensions, but of much inferior powers, of making money by his performances. It cannot fail to strike one with surprise to see a man strap a pair of such ponderous weights on to his feet and walk about with them with as great ease as if they were only a pair of iron-heeled boots.— Newcastle Chronicle.