WANGANUI.
(From the Wanganui Chronicle, March 18.) It will be observed from our correspondent's letters that the troops have now arrived within a short distance of Manawapou. The place at which they were encamped by the last account (Manutahi) is a pa on the branch road, which, it will be seen from our map, leads down to the sea. It is about half way down the road, standing on the edge of a gully in which a small stream runs, having its embouchure on the north-west side of Manawapou. The hist named pa is well known as being the place at which the Taranaki land league was formed about eleven years ago. Five hundred were present and a strong feeling against the Government was displayed. They met in a house named Taiporohenui, which is 120 feet long and 35 feet wide ; and it was resolved that no more land should be sold. The possession of Manawapon, which stands on a cliff of about 400 feet in height, overlooking the sea and the creek, is also of importance..
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 660, 25 March 1865, Page 3
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