IMPORTANT NEWS PROM THE NORTH.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 57, 20 July 1868, Page 3

IMPORTANT NEWS PROM THE NORTH.

» o — . (From the Wellington Imkpondcnt, July \Bd

1/ANWNa 01)' TIIK CnATnAM TSLAND (NATivic) rmaoNKiia at povbrty I3AY. ; ■

A PAH IJUII/l 1 BY THEM,

TIIR 'RUNAWAYS FULLY AHMED.

GREAT JfiXCITJCMMNT IN NAPIER,

(irilOM Otm 61'KOtAf. OOKttKfIPONIHWT.) k tiArvtn, July 18, /MO p,m, f(' Startling intfllllgenco lino been received lioro from l'ovorty ISny. At one o'clock on Thursday, a moimcnger arrived from Wftlroa, bringing despatches from Ofl[it«ln« Dolfchton nnd Wggn, Their conlanin mnyho ntntoil an follows s~ Tho Ifau-Hnu prlnoncrn nt tho Chatham Island/?, who wore guarded by only fifteen mctV'fiuddonly rondo n r!«InK — fttt(uilco.<l and overwhelmed tho guard— and tlitifl ofTooted their lllierly, Aft«r firnt taking tho pruoau* llono to bind Cant. Tlioman nnd tho guard, tliov noxt floJzof] n Ji'rcnoh wjiullng vcaaul, which wiifl lying nt tho Clmilmniti, nnd, It 1h mippoßcd, compelled tho crow by for«o and thread, to tftko tlicrtt to New Zealand. At nil evontu. tho lato prlßonorH, who are 180, in number, did land at Wli/iroong/iongn, clono to Poverty Day, on Saturday lout, It In Hinted that they wcro fully armed, the fliippimltlon boliiK llmfc thoy h d obtained tlio rKIcH and ammuiiHlon from tho Government, fltoro at Wbarokourl, in tho Clmthnm Inlnntln. They nro now intrenched in a pa ncur Povorty UnyA It lit bollo'vcd that their landing In Now Zcnlnnd i« part o£ a precotieorted schomo tor o, general rl«lnp( on tho part of tho rohol natlveo. . ' Captain Rigp ban 120 men with which to proceed ngnfnnt them, but urgently rcqulrw rolnforcomont, When Mr Uolghton arrived hero, ho at omto de«j)ulfllifid Ilialca Wlianga and fiomo natives to hifl atifllatanca. Nothing 1h known an to particulars, but Toluntecrn nro being ruined! Col, Whltmoro and bin men proooed to tho R»HlHtan«o o£ Capt, Bl^fl to-morrow. Wo hnvo been informed in Napier that the Roflarlo and Waipnra nro both coming will) roinforcomentn to our al<l. Tho telegraph la constantly 'it work, nnd It Id stated that both tlio HoHiirlo and the Waipnra would bo employed by tho Govern^ mont to proceed to Napier nnd roverly Day, Tlioro in intenno oxoiteincnt both in tho town and country -dl»lrlotn ol tbo provlnoo, Hlfl Honor Donald M'Loan, litq , thoHuporintciidoiU, in nmt'li mlincd. Avcoflol ifl exiiuuted almoiit every mlnnto.