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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 4, Issue 186, 12 April 1860, Page 2

The bombardment and capture of the L stockade on the 17th and 18th, and the engagement at Waiieka on the 28th March, are the two great events at Taranaki since the last report we were able to publish. It is difficult to think of either of them without vexation. In the one case the enemy, cooped up in the pa and apparently entirely at our mercy, escaped during the night without the slightest difficulty. In the other case, had the pa not been taken we could have had no claim to the victory. The military retreated from the field and left the enemy in possession of it —and the volunteers and militia, who acted in such, a gallant manner, were obliged to wait, till night. should favour their retirement, in order to get back to town. All this for want of ammunition ! Had there been plenty of it, and had the frigid prudence of Lt. Col. Murray thawed in the presence of so hot a fire, the whole force of the Maories might have been destroyed, and a wholesome terror of our arms created throughout the whole island.