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Wednesday Evening, 8.35 p.m. Queen's Redoubt, 22nd July. — Ail quiet here. The enemy got peimission yesterday to bury their dead under a flag of truce. The number killed at the engagement at Koheroa is 44. One of their leading men Heteraki is missisg. The victory was most complete. The natives never had been so thoroughly beaten before. It was entirely an infantry affair. Owing to tbe nature of the ground, 200 of our men were actively engaged Our whole force was 500. The troops are building three small Redoubts at Koheroa.
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Wellington Independent, Volume XVIII, Issue 1901, 30 July 1863, Page 3
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