LATEST NATIVE NEWS.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 61, 24 July 1868, Page 3

LATEST NATIVE NEWS.

4 Latk&t i'iiom Patka,*— Particulars" about tho attack on Turn Moktil aro slowly oking out, in the absctieo of nn oflloial despatch. Wo shall most likely hoar tho first correct roporb of tho affair through Wellington, which will not increase our opinion ot the discretion of the " ofllolals " at Paten. Mr ('libit ii Informs us that Captain Roas's head was not cut off, and that ho died fighting ln tho gateway or ontranco to tho redoubt, oalling on his men to stand to thoir posts, it Is believed at Wullii, IC not actually known, that the Maoris wore Inside the redoubt. Five men run away, two of whom woro tomahawked. It Is known that only two bayonots woro in iho wholo redoubt, which woro turned to oxcollont account by MHmoc and Johnulon, Tbo Mnorls wore observed removing their dead and wounded during tho wlioloattnolc— Wanganui Herald, July 17, Patjca and Waitotaha SmTTMvIIB,— TIio women and children of tho settlors in theso districts aro flocking into towu, every con* voyanco being brought Into requisition, from a cart to a bullock dray. From the length of timo thoso vehicles have talcon to come in, many of the young children have sullbrcd great hardship from exposure to wot and cold, The Sturt will bring a largo number down when sho returns,— lbid, July 20. Cam.in(l out tub Mjmtia.— li'rom reliablo authority wo cun Blato that Llout.*Ooloiiol Gorton has rocolvcd poslllvo Instructions to call out tho militia for active sorv 100 in this distriot, tho boundaries of which arc thirty miles radius from tho Wanganui Court HoiiAO, It Is not, liowovor, his intention at preaont to cull upon thorn to perform duty, but merely to ordor tho Ist and 2nd class in town ami country to parade for receiving arms, and If! they do not como voluntarily forward to ballot for 150 or 200 men from the Ist class in town, to hold themselves in readiness to assumblo at certain posts on sound of bugle This is a very necessary precautionary meumiro, In so far as tho town of Wanganui lo concerned, and wo havo no doubt but mon will cheerfully como forward to roeolvo arms,— 'lbid, VTiiio Rkuioi.d' iMTKNTWNfI.--Tlio friendly natives havo received a letter from tbe rebel hoad chief, it boing put on a split stick und stuck In the roud near Wulhl. Its contents woro to tho effeot that ■' Ho had oaten tho whltoman thoy hnd killed— his wlfo and oblldron had also tastod tbo white-man, and it was good, In futuro all whltomcu would bo but food for tho boasts of tho Hold and fowls of tho air. Ills throat was open— lt was

hanging and red, Wo have tasted tbo whltcinuii, and who knows when wo will stop I You know not whon the winds die \ death Is now my friend. Every whlicinan who crojao hero death will olulm, oven ns the heavens, ho uro my words. Will' tho next meteor conn* from the cunt or from tho south, or from the north or from tlio west ? Yo know not } even so you know not where we will gather tho next palm of tho whlteman. I havo said," —Ibid.