NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XIX, Issue 1112, 5 August 1871, Page 3

NATIVE INTELLIGENCE.

TE KOOTI DESIRES TO SURRENDER.

Intelligence was received in Auckland from a private source, to the effect that Te Kooti has intimated totheNgatiwhakau hapu of the Arawa tribe his wish to surrender. He has had a dream, in which his god and several of the Arawa chiefs advised him to give himself up to the Ngatiwhakau, who would protect him from any barm which the Government might otherwise lave inflicted upon him. The news was brought by a Urewera chief named Rameka, to Ohinemutu, and telegraphic communication with the Government at Napier, respecting the proposed surrender, was •commenced. These are tho facts as supplied to us, but we have not received any confirmation of them from our own ■correspondent, or from the General Government Agent in Auckland.

The Wairoa correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald says :—": — " Makarini, ■of Waikare, described in your intelligence as a chief, appears to be either a great rascal or a much injured individual. A few days ago, prior to the departure of the force now on its way td Waikare, a native named Hirini arrived here and stated himself as a bearer of a message from Te Kooti, whom he described as having been or being resident at Marau, on the Lake, some fourteen honrs' march from this. He was also the bearer of a box of percussion caps, said to have been forwarded by Te Kooti to the pakehas, informing them that Makarini was a traitor, had given him the caps, and be >(Kooti) now invited the Government to capture him. An expedition, consisting ■of Major Cumming, Captain G. McDonald, •fifteen Constabulary, and thirty-five of the Ngatimihi and Ngatihiwhikitea (under Hapimana), started for the Lake on Monday last, and have since been heard •of at Te Ariki on their way. Of course, those atrocious canards of Kooti's nbiquitous visits to Mr. Drummond and Ropata are entirely without foundation — the former gentleman not having been within iifty miles of Te Reinga, the alleged place of the interview."