LATER FROM WANGANUI.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 426, 11 December 1868, Page 2

LATER FROM WANGANUI.

ARRIVAL OE THE WALLABI. The steamer "Wallabi arrived yesterday afternoon, from Wanganui. The news she brings has been nearly all anticipated by the very full telegrams which we have lately received. In fact she had no files of papers on board, and for those which we have obtained we are indebted to the courtesy of Mr

W. Robertson, of Robertson and Co. By these we learn that "VVoodall's redoubt, reported by telegraph yesterday as having been abandoned, was considered on Friday last to be in imminent risk of being attacked by the Natives. The Wanganui cavalry had left to aid the garrison, and Colonel M'Donnell, who has again been appointed to a command by the Government, had started for the Front with a hundred Kupapas, expectiug to be joined by one or two hundred moiw In view of an attack upon the town, it was ordered that the Natives s tuuld retire to their respective places outside at night-fall. Within three miles of the Mount Bryce block-house, the Maoris were seen burning down the houses of settlers. The following, reported by the Chronicle of Saturday, is the only other incident worthy of notice :

" Yesterday two ITau-haus deliberately rode into WobdalPs redoubt under a flag of truce —an emblem of peace they themselves would never recognise— actually bearing a message from Tito Kowaru ordering our men to clear out at once ! Of course they were laughed at, but more than- that, Major Herrick made prisoners of them and sent them into town. One of these fellows, we understand, was a native assessor in this district —by name Rimitiriu—and on the person of this scoundrel was found a gold chain, supposed to belong to the late Lieut. Hastings, and the silver- watch of a man who had been left in the bush at Te Ngutu-o-te-Manu. The watch contains the name of the owner inside the case. The prisoners are stout fellows —one of them says he belongs to Pakaraka, the other to Waitotara. They are now in the hands of the civil authorities."