INCIDENTS OF THE NATIVE WAR.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 423, 8 December 1868, Page 2

INCIDENTS OF THE NATIVE WAR.

Mrs Wilson, who was so severely wounded in the massacre at Poverty Bay, was exposed two nights with only a nightgown to cover her. She crawled into a small building, and sent her son with a card, on which she wrote, " Could some kind friend come to our help, for God's sake. lam very much wounded. Lying in a little house at our place. My poor son, James, is with me. Come quick.—Alice "Wilson.—We have little or no clothing, and are in dreadful suffering " The Provincial Government of Otago, desirous of rendering some aid in the present severe crisis in the North have invited the Superintendents of Wellington and Hawke's Bay to send down to Otago some of the refugees from Poverty Bay, and from Patea and the surrounding districts, as also a few of the wounded.

Adjutant Stack has been ordered by the G-overnment to go to Melbourne, and to raise 200 men for the Armed Constabulary. He is also to get Snider rifles. Several thousand Sniders, it is said, arrived here on board a vessel, three months ago, for sale; but the Government would not buy them, though they were offered at a low price.

The Wanganui Chronicle of the 28th ult. says that a military movement, in a forward direction, which may take some time to fully develope, is about to be made at the Front, where the weather is very disagreeable just now, rain pouring, wind blowing, tents flapping. The native population from Te Ngutu-o-te-manu to Waitotara does not amount to 400 fighting men.

A portion of these have not joined the rebels, and so far as We can learn, there have been few accessions from other places. The likelihood is that the enemy in the field does not exceed 300 men, if so many. Letters have been received by the Resident Magistrate at Wanganui and others, addressed toMeto Kingi and other chiefs, intimating: that the King has signified his wish that there should be a general rising of the Hauhaus all over the island.

The Wanganui Timesh&s published, and the Wellington Independent has copied, a circumstantial account of a well-organised secret expedition of 300 Maoris, under well-known friendly West Coast chiefs, being about to start to attack Tito Kovvaru in his stronghold ; and that when there was every probability of his force being rooted out and destroyed, Colenel Haultain interfered at the last moment and prevented the expedition from starting. The statement is flatly denied by the Advertiser, the Grovernment organ.