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[BT BUBMABINE TELEGIIAPH.] Wellington, Oct. 23, 12.18 p.m. XLast Friday as Mesara Southby and T. Collins were riding from the Wairoa redoubt to Patea, they were fired on by an ambuscade of fifteen or twenty Maoris. "' Mr Southby 's horse saved him by galloping away, but Collins horse jibbed, and whilst trying to urge it on he was shot through the lungs. Tho next day a party went out and brought in the mutilated remains, but the head had been carried jxBQ The Wairoa redoubt is midway between Patea and Wereroa. This is the first murder on this side Patea. Colonel Wbitmore left Wanganui on Sunday for Wereroa, but he re-
ceived information on the road which caused him to turn back, and on Tueaday morning he left per steamer Woodpecker for Patea ; a gale springing up they were obliged to put back to Wanganui the came night. On Wednesday, Colonel Whitmore with Mr Booth, left overland. The earthquake on Sunday night injured the chimneys in Wanganui. 7.35 p.m. Napier telegrams state that tbe Star of the South has returned without the women from Wairoa,' who refused to leave. The danger to the township is exaggerated, but several settlers' abandoned houses have been plundered, probably by the friendly Natives. Messrs Richmond and M'Lean are gone on to the East Cape, Mr Ormond acting as agent for the General Government in the meantime.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 141, 24 October 1868, Page 2
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