WAITARA.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1496, 12 February 1861, Page 5

WAITARA.

We were hst week only able to give a brief notice of the repulse of the a^i.uh ou the redoubts in front of Kairau in grett haste from imperfect materials. . The following will tend to' the elucidation 'oPtbat statement^ and correct any ioacciiracies* that may haye 'crept in from tlie differeut and' often ineconcileable accounts.to which we are reduced for information. Wednesday, 28BD"J^AmiARY.-^H'ow often. we are deceived or in error, in our apparently most reasonable speculations on the events of the next coming hour. At somewhere about midnight I Wrote in last raemoranda--.no orders— l think there will be no fighting to-morrow, but there iia,pVwer*/o]^^ us. whose orders may not be diyinedjjAt. s^^Q ;minutes past 3, 1 was awakened \syj r-ft fire of small armsj with now. and tne^'iMley^,; and before 4 o'clock : the boom of' h* ! »v\£|^|^fe? 'shell made the still -air of the mn-hihgjtr^^ißJißMN: jWith iheir reverberating eohoei Cftuae tlwWiri