The New York herald., 1868-11-11
NEW ZEALAND.
Battle Between the Insurgent MaOries and
the Colonial Troops.
from the London Standard, Oct. 80.
Nax ZAalnnn mall hrlnua ua the llnY

battle between the lm9ur9ent UHOrien anu
the Colonial Troops.
lTrom the London Standard, Oct. 3O.l
The New Zealand mall brings VS. the unwecome,
but familiar, news Of another disaster suffered
by the colonial troops In their encounter with the
rebel Hauhaus. the story is a continuation Of ths
exploits OF the escaped prisoners from Chatham
Island. Having joined themselves to several smal
east and west coast the insurgent Maorfes appear
to be once more strong enough to meet the insig
Of August force or Colonial volunteers ana nia'
under the orders Of Colonel Whitmore, numbering
eastern coast and sscceeded after severe struggle
In which the loss on both sides was nearly equal In
driving them nom strong position As usual, how.
OF the beaten enemy found themselves hemmed IN
by inaccessible forests and were compelled eventu-
ally to retreat, leaving their killed unburied and
bringing or their wounded with great difricuty.
The result Of this expedition seems to have inspired
the insurgents with fresh confidence The escaped
and to he In position to do much injury to the
European settlers on the eastern coast.
few days after Colonel Whitmore's frurtlcss
operations . similar attack was made by Colonel
Mcdonnell. with troops from the Taranakt and Wan
ganni provinces on the rebel villages at wailai.
strategy was borrowed from the enemy, Colonel
Mcdonnell was enabled, by clever ruse, to obtain
wa q sne q os Tns %
The 10th August subsequently TO this We are sorry
to say that the same body q natives under the
repulse upon the colonial forces. The circnm-
dred similar afairs in which nrst victory on our
side has been followed up, through the carelessness
or too great mpetuosity Of our men, by caamitous
scattered bodies OF the colonial troops were de-
spatched in search Of the nyng rebels In the neigh
numSsr Of the enemy having SHOWN
themselves near the scene Of their late defeat were
attacked by small body OF men under the com
Was found when too late to bo strongly defended by
concealed fnepits In the attempt to storm which Won
Tempsky's men were exposed to deadly fire from
PEELED 70 retreat with the loss OF their gallant COM
mander 70 naturalzed Pole In the service OF the New
Zealand governmentl besides four other officers and
seven Of the rebels are said to have been killed,
besides an unknown number OF wounded. The
ments Of Wanganni, ana is expected 70 give such
encouragement TO the disanected among the sur
rounding tribes a. WIN probably lead to an inded-
1t Is impossible not to perceive that the immediate
cause Of this disaster, and OF all tho perils likely
s% p ee p o. inc
the Queens supremacy over the natives. To this
we may add, one fertile and perennial source Of
black and : white race living together, the
foolish policy which, under the name Of humanity
favors the aboriginal at the expense Of the Euro
difficulties in New Zealand are traceabIe to the abb
surd and suicidal system OF pandering to the pre-
pdces ana the wnims Of the resident s sayages sos @
amalgamation Of the two races In New Zea and, and
It would have been blessed thing for the islands II
the noble Maori people, with their fine natural IN
stincts and their singular capacity for civilization,
had been trained as 10 form one nation with the
British settlers Tnas time 0n we wb.e nss ss er
now eternay divided and the conflict between them
can only end in the extinction OF one or the other.
avs May ana inc Maori - viii Insist upon
there must be war to the end and with vengeance.