CAMP, TE AWAMUTU. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XX, Issue 2103, 16 April 1864, Page 5

CAMP, TE AWAMUTU. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

, April 10. Akotjiru ■wounded native died at five a.m. this morning, and was buried in the foreuoon. Your paper of the 6th has coino to hand, and has caused a great feoline: of dissatisfaction among the officers and "men in camp. At all events, yon aro somewhat premature in censuring a portion of tho troops engaged, upon no better authority than tho rumbling hearsay communications of a correspondent who -was some miles distant from the scene of tho engagement, and who, moreovqi 1 , seems to have been actuated by motives of prejudice. I trust that if this gentloman has since learned that tho imputation was unjustifiable, he will lose no time in retracting it, and thus satisfying tho parties who hare been injured by the attack on tlleir reputations.

April 11. Another of the natives died this aftemoou from the effects of a, wound received at Orakan. The following is the number of Maori prisoners at TeAwamutu: — Pour menuniujured; ono boy, uninjured; ono female, uninjured; tweuty-two wounded, five of whom are females. Uight of the wounded have died The boy beeitis very useful ; lie is constantly engaged ln attending on his wounded companions. Three or four hospital orderlies from the regiments m camp have been struck off duty to attend to the wounded natives, and the doctors seem to bestow quite as much attention on the prisoners as on our own wounded ; but the natives seem to prefer their own mode of treatment to ours. They make poultices for their w ouuds of the loots of (ho common clock, and bathe them in the water in uluch it has been boiled, and they say that this is a speedier and more efficacious cure than ours

April 12. Private James "Ford, of the Gsth Eci*t., died between eleven and twelve last night, from the effects of a « ound received in the action at Orakau. The body was interred about three }> m. tin's afternoon This morning, three of tlie Maori prisoners were sent down to To l?oro under military escort, and will be sent on to the Queen's redoubt with as little delay as possible. The camp is all excitement from the probability of peace, nmliho leported submission of the chief William Thompson and his adherents.