The Sun.
London, England, 1869-01-30 00:00:00

noRRIBLE FATE OF A SCOUTING PATTY.

The fate of the missing scouting party is thus recorded
in the Hawke's Bay journals :—" A careful search was
rewarded by the discovery of the bodies of the scouting
parties, all fearfully and brutally misused. Poor Karai-
tiana had been tomahawked, and his heart and liver
torn out and probably eaten ; he was split open as a
butcher opens a sheep. All the bodies were stripped, save
Ahita's. Karaitiana's death had been carefully plotted
and systematically brought about. He met at first (so
says the native story) with friendly welcome and
entertainment, and was attacked by Rehana, in the whare
when they were sleeping. All four were killed with the
tomahawk, their heads presenting a horrible appear.
ance. In hunting about in the plantations they captured
an old couple ; the woman being the mother of Te Waru's
wife, and the man a miserable old cripple, whose wretched
existence might have been fairly allowed to expend itself
in peace. Not so, however. His dog's luck brought him
a dog's end, the Europeans very properly protesting
against so unnecessary a crime, but unavailingly. Our
allies dragged the old fellow and shot him to appease the
manes of their friends. Poor sacrifice and pitiable war !
The woman's name is Maora Hinekino.",

A singular coincidence of events has recently oc-
curred at Ely, where a Mr. Thomas Ellis, finding his last
hour was approaching, sent a message to that effect to his
friend Mr. John Rester, who was also in declining health,
and the reply was—" Tell my old friend I shall not be long
after h7m." Within one hour both were dead. They were
born on the same day and hour, and died on the same day
and hour, aged 75.

A Chester tradesman, named Meacock, an ex-town
councillor, has been arrested in that city on a charge of
forging conveyances of property, upon which he subse-
quently obtained a mortgage of £2,200. The lady who owns
the property appeared yesterday before the magistrates, and
declared that her signature to the conveyance was a forgery.
The prisoner was remanded, and was sent to prison in de-
fault of obtaining the bail which was required.
it is announced that the Lord Primate of Ireland
has fixed the 3d of February for a conference of the Irish
bishops at Armagh. On the same day an aggregate
meeting of defence societies is to be held in the Dub-
lin Rotund°, under the presidency of Lord Bandon.
The Daily Express mentions a rumour which is in circulation
in Dublin, that the Government "have made overtures to
the Archbishop of Meath (Stopford) to assist them in the
preparation of a ball for the disestablishment and disendow-
went of the Church in Ireland."

At the close of the business the Manchester
City Police Court on Thursday, Mr. Fowler, the stipendiary
magistrate, paid a high compliment to the late Mr. Ernest
Jones. Ho spoke of him as being a remarkable man,
" whose name will always bo associated in this country
with the half century in which he lived, and who, what-
, ver his faults, possessed the great virtues of undoubted
integrity and honour, and of being thoroughly consistent,
never hitching from that course which he believed to be
right, though at times at the cost of fortune and free-
lom."

Mn. SPURGEON'S SERMONS.—Probably no ser-
mons ever bad such 'tde circulation as those of Mr.
Spurgeon. We are frequently hearing of them in corre-
spondence from all parts of the globe where any religious
literature is found. A lady at Nismes testifies that they
are distributed and read amongst the nominal Protestant
towns and villages in Provence and Languedoc ; indeed,
from Iceland to the equator, and all round the world, they
are to be found.—Freemun.
THE INDIAN WAR.— General Sheridan reports
that 400 lodges of Comanche Indians had offered to sur-
render, but he had refused to treat with them except at
Fort Cobb, where he would have them within range. A
telegram from Fort Hays, Kansas, Jan. 10, says:—
" Major-General W. A. Nichols, Assistant Adjutant-Gene-
ral, ajor Sheridan, commanding at Fort Dodge, reports
that Lieutenant Martin, of the 3rd Infantry, has just
arrived from the camp, and states that Colonel Evans has
captured a Comanche village of sixty lodges. Three
men of the 3rd Cavalry were wounded. No Indians
were killed. Colonel ]vans had returned to his depot
camp on the Canadian River." A communication from
the Secretary of War to the Senate reports that 25,601
regular troops and 1,213 volunteers are employed in
the Indian hostilities. The Indian Commissioner wants
an appropriation of $5,000 to pay for medals of Grant, to
be presented to the head men of the tribes where they
deserve some mark of confidence. The Cherokee, Creelr.
and Choctaw Indian delegates to Washington have united
in a representation against the transfer of the Indian
Bureau to the War Department, and also in a request
that the recent affair between General Custer and Black
Kettle's band shall be investigated. —Anal° Aytericaiti
Timm. ' •