ANOTHER AWFUL MURDER IN THE HUTT.

Wellington Independent, Volume II, Issue 71, 17 June 1846, Page 2

ANOTHER AWFUL MURDER IN THE HUTT.

It was generally reported in town daring the past week that th > rebels hal again left the Hatt for Pauhautanui. On Sunday, it was stated tlia: Rangihaeata, -wiJi mast of hie follower-*, hal started from his pah for Rangi iki, in order to efioot a junction with the Taupo tribe, and to destroy a fortification which was bei ig erected by the Ngatiawa's,: in ordif t> slop ihe passage 61' the Taupo tribe along the coast

The hostile natives having thr>aten6d to burn the premises of Messrs. Stilling and Barton, for the last three weeks a picket of Militia and Mounted Police has Wen stationed in the lasUnanied gentleman's house, whilst a line of sentinels kept up communication from th \nce to the bridgfc. The picket U called off at eight o'clock in the the morning. Thfsc reports were no doubt circula e>l by the rebels fora purpose, ai>d many ot tlie Hutt settlers began to return to their land for the purpose of chipping in wheat, fee!-ing.-secure, from the rep ir.ij that the rebels had evacuated the valley.

On Saturday night a few ducks were carried off from Mr. Barton's landsj inducing a suspicion with some, that the natives were still lurking about;

It is now our painful duty to record the fact of the presence of the rebels on the Hutt, from the painful circums'ance of the Murder of Mr, Richard Rush, a Huit settler. •

On Monday evening,,the inhabitants of Wellington-ware again thrown into a state of great excitement, intelligence having arrived frefm the Hutt to the effjet that a man had been found murdered in the valley that morning. The unfortunate deceased, Richard Hush, had gone out about eight o'clock in. the mornings to look after his horse, which hal strayed away during Sunday. The murdered man went in the direction ot Barton's paddock; and it appears that some of 'the rebels who tvere lurking abodt in that quarter surprized and tomahawked him, splitting his Dead into four pieces. After perpetrating the mur-der, the rebel* hailed the fnndly natives from across the river informing them that they had killed a white man, mentioning the spot, and stating that they might have the body. Capt. Hardy, the officer in commind at the camp, at Bouloot's, sent out a body of military and armed police, who found the m.mgleiJ remains of Hush, but fell in with none of the enemy.

The Hutt militia exasp rated at bein* driven from their horn** and at the mur°. nTih n a " d \ e murders of thi Gilleapi s, threatened to cro-s the nver and njoet tha rebels on Tuesday fnor.ung. J

Ye-torday they made soveral attempts, at various .points',, to .icrose tho Hmt, j n order to put their throats into c* >oiui , n , butovvirijr to the late luavy 'r*»i:i&, the river was nol fordablo. Thrf murlered rtian has loft a widow & four children to lament hi* l>s*; theMdbw is hear hdr confinement with a fifth. The arriy »1 of hi * Excclleuoy Cn.Ju\ n Grey, is indeed looked forvvard to by f the entire body of the settlers. Thu above horrible evorit adds one seal to tho bond, obliging the" authorities to explain, at proper time, and reason </f he dol&y in action. We tib.'t before we again go t<» press to have 'to report the arrival of Captain Grey.