The Gnndagai came into the river on Sunday, from tho Waitotara, in which she had been detained for some days by stress of weather. On Sunday, the 16th, an alarm was given by a breathless messenger from the redoubt that 200 Maoris had just crossed the river and were now coming along the sandhills to plunder the vessel. ~ The messonger was followed in hot haste by 100 soldiers who declared that the Maoris would be down upon them immediately, being in fact behind the sand-hill within a few yards of the vessel. At the first alarm Captain Fairohild got out hf» rifles and revolvers, and improvised A kind of barricade made of sacks of oats. No Maoris, however made their appear* franco, and on afterwards examining th» place at which they were Said to have crossed the river, no trace of a Maori could be seen.—-CA/ontcfe,
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 666, 6 May 1865, Page 6
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