LATENT FROM taranaki.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1492, 29 January 1861, Page 4

LATENT FROM taranaki.

From the " Nelson Examiner."

By the arrival last evening of the schooner Jane, we have intelligence from Taranaki up to Saturday last, ( 19th inst.) and our correspondents' letters, which will be found in another column, give a concise account of the transactions of the war since our previous advices. The plan of the General appears to be, to drive the enemy from their positions with his artillery, and not to risk the lives of his men in assaults if he can avoid it. By pursuing this course, he is approaching close upon Huirangi, with little or no loss to himself, whilst the enemy must have suffered considerably, and is being driven out of his rifle pits which protect the approach to the pah, and compelled to seek shelter within the pah itself. So olose have we now advanced upon Kingi's stronghold, that our next advices will in all probability tell of its oapture; but with this intelligence we must be prepared, we fear, to hear of a considerable sacrifice of life ; for all we know of the natives leads to expect they will fight desperately in defence of a position which has cost them so much labour, and which they believed they had rendered impregnable.

A large body of natives, the Taranaki s and Ngatir&anuis, were hanging upon the southern oTnskirts of the town, burning such houses as they had previously spared and it was supposed contemplating an attack upon Waireka-hill, the scene of their former defeat.