The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-11 00:00:00

NEW ZEALAND.

Intelligence had been received at Melbourne of
more than one engagement between the volunteer
forces and the native rebels. The first encounter
was between a small party of volunteers, under
Major Fraser, and about an equal number of
the enemy. The Hau Haus fought with
courage, but twelve of their number having
been killed in less than five minutes, the rest
fled, leaving the field in possession of their
antagonists. The chief Te Hangihiroa was amongst
the killed, and five natives were taken prisoners.
Of the volunteers only one man was wounded. A
few days later a severe engagement took place at
Ketemarai, near Wanganui, between the rebels and
the colonial force under Major M'Donnell. The
majors troops were at first repulsed, but
being reinforced the next day, they attacked and
ccrried the rebel pa, killing seven natives and
taking twenty-five prisoners. On the following night
a second expedition started to make another
attack. One body of men was led by Captain
M'Donnell, who, when advancing, came suddenly
upon two sentries, who discharged their pieces, and
the contents of one of them entered Captain
M'Donnell's groin, shattering the thigh bone.
On the fall of their leader the men retreated, car-
rying him off with them, and the object for
which the expedition started was abandoned. Cap_
fain M'Donnell, though thought to be mortally
wounded, has recovered.

News from Fiji, so Auckland, reports that the
natives who were under missionary influence had
risen en masse against the other natives, and a war
was going on.

AMERICA.
(ST ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, JAN. 10, EVENING.

Gold 133 i. Sterling exchange on London, 1091;
5-20 United States Bonds, 1064 ; Illinois, 118 ;
Erie, 63. Cotton, midland upland, 34i.

From New South Wales we learn there has been
• " scene" in the Legislative Assembly of so violent a
character that the reporters' galleries were eleared,so that
there might be no record of the language. It seems that
a Mr. Allan M'Pherson called another member, Mr.
Robert Buchanan, a " hog." This was objected to, and
after a long debate, during which the offender refused to
withdraw his bad language, the Speaker's warrant for his
arrest was made out. Mr. M'Pherson then retracted the
expression.

The aplomb() Obserrer of the 15th ult. say, :
" The annual or hi-annual migration of butterflies has
commenced within the last few days, and all along Col-
petty anti Galle Face during the forenoon a continuous
stream of the bright yellow gossamers pursue their rapid
and unwearied eight always in the teeth of the wind,
which they seem to delight in combatting. Nothing turns
them from their course, the wails and building of the
Fort are climbed over and they still sweep onwards—the
questions are, whither and wherefore ?"

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