NATIVE FIGHT AT BAY OF ISLANDS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXVII, Issue 3219, 5 September 1879, Page 2

NATIVE FIGHT AT BAY OF ISLANDS.

I* t U'.lW.'J ,MK)..''i — ."-"■ {-([.I ; I i . ; FOUR NATIVES KILLED.

..Vi ' i-.0.. SEJ^EBAL WOUNDED.

,: ATTACKING iPARTY OF FORTY. \

[by telegraph.] RussßLp,. September ,4. — The native constable furinslies the following report of the Kuik6he affair i— '"• ) ■> 1 • • i

The Ngfttitutu' 'tribe Otawa agreed to sell a blpok Ijo, t Jolin Lundou, tyiid, ye.deiveclq. deposit. • Tliq samejian^Vas claimed by the Ngaitepake tribe living at Kalkohe: Ngaitu- went with the surveyors to point out" tho boundaries and were working . when a messenger -arrived from Ngaitewake to toll Ngaftu to return home.- The latter replied, with aii invitation' to join 1 in'the survey. Sixteen Ngaitus' were cu^t^g lilies ,-i — thirteen of them with guns — when •ten of the Ngaitewake -arrived,-- aijd,' without much parley, fire.^l two vollqys without 'effect. Oiib" of the Ngaitu, then seized .a. gun.-, and,- killed ftfNgaijbewake irianii-- . i" I ;«».vv l »«i v/:i.: | Tho fight then beoa ; mo r general, t iihe atjirtoktn^iiarty numbferiii'g fo^tyaj.'i^ed men. „. ,1 '. ,;• „';,'" . '.'.' \ \. w « -' The dasualties -were i— Two kill 3d, Ngaitewakaina and Kui ; th'e*f6rmev a leading chiof. ' " \ ' " lTi Two of the Ngaitu were killed, Pai*a.tai and Te Akauhe ; and two wounded, Hohi Turner 0 andNgaikawa, the formei* being shot through the jaw, oannofr live. The dead and wounded wore conveyed to their respective kaingas, for treatment or burial. The Ngaitus say they will resume cutting the linos, and go with a fo^ce of armed men, and, if interfered wi^h, will retaliate severely. ' !

On? of the most learned raon of soienoe has worn his head nearly bald trying, to invent a inaohine that would calculate With aonW'kihd' of accuraby the difference I^ebwee^ the weight of a fish when .ifj, is first taken out of t|ie water and whop/it gets' into tho news- ' papers.- ,..:.- „1,1: si,i ,10 I'°