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PAPERS RELATIVE TO MILITARY OPERATIONS

Enclosure 2 in No. 46. Mr. Clarke, Civil Commissioner, to Captain Mair. Civil Commissioner's Office, Sir,— Tauranga, 14th March, 1870. I have tho honor to enclose, for your guidance and. information, a copy of a telegram received by the Hon. the Defence and Native Minister from the General Government Agent, Napier, being a copy of instructions sent you via Taupo. I have therefore to request that you will be good enough to take immediate steps to engage the services of sixty active Arawa, to be stationed under your command at Kaiteriria, ten of this number to be mounted. I need not enter into particulars of the services expected of you, as they are sufficiently clear in the copy of telegram above alluded to. I have requested Lieutenant Way to proceed at once to Maketu, to make arrangements for transport of supplies to Kaiteriria for your force. You will be good enough to report information and your movements to Major Eoberts, and send duplicates to this office. I have, &c, Henry T. Clarke, Captain Gilbert Mair, Tauranga. Civil Commissioner.

No. 47. Lieut.-Colonel Haeington to Mr. H. T. Clarke, Civil Commissioner. Sir, — General Government Office, Auckland, March, 23rd 1870. I am directed by tho Hon. the Defence Minister to acknowledge the receipt of your letter to the Pilot, at Tauranga, of the 14th instant, requesting him to remain there pending further instructions, and beg to inform you that he approves of the steps you have taken in this matter. As the Provincial Government Government declines to continue the services of the Pilot, you will be good enough to acquaint Captain Carmichael that he will be retained as Pilot by the General Government until further orders, and that he will have the same rate of pay, that he was receiving at the time the Provincial Government dispensed with his services. I have, &c, H. T. Clarke, Esq., Civil, Commissioner, Piiiltp Harington, Lieut.-Colonel. Tauranga.

No. 48. Major Kemp to the Hon. the Defence Minister. To Mr. McLean,— Opotiki, 30th March, 1870. Salutations to you. Now listen. It was on the 20tli March that my force commenced to march, at 10 o'clock at night. On the 23rd day I sent forward three of my men, whoso names are Tapa, Ura, and Paul, and Austin, the European. There were 120 men that formed this party. They came upon a village which they attacked, and took eight adults (males). There were also four women and four children. After this a larger party moved on and attacked another pa of the Hauhaus. For this I told off 200 men. They attacked this pa and took every soul; not one escaped. After this they moved on to another pa and took all the people in it. At one pa they took ten women, two men, and two children, one a boy. From thence they pushed on, and here I increased the force to 300 men for the purpose of attacking the pa, in which were Hakaraia and Kereopa the eye-eater. Having reached the pa, dispositions were made to surround it. The pa was attacked, aud tho prisoners taken by Te Kooti, —I mean the people of the Whakatohea, —were recovered by us, those who were taken at Opape. Of tho Whakatohea, there were —Males, 57; females, 83; children, 78; total, 218. Belonging to To Kooti —Males taken alive, 23; females, 38; children, 26; men killed, 18; grand total, 323. There were amongst the killed three chiefs —Hakaraia, of the Ngaiterangi; Timoti, who commanded the vessel that brought the prisoners from the Chatham Islands, and Hakopa, a cousin of Te Kooti's. As for Kereopa, it was owing to the confusion that took place about the Whakatohea, or during the confusion that ensued, that he managed to escape ; and another thing, none of the Wanganui knew him by sight, and it was also owing to this that he managed to escape. Mr. McLean, I wish to bring under your notice the good doings of the Chief Wiremu Kingi, of the Ngaitai Tribe ;of Kerei Kawakura, of the Ngatiawa; both behaved well. Also the Ngatipukeko Tribe, headed by their chief Te Meihana: they all did their work equally well. This finishes my report. The Hon. tho Defence Minister. Major Kemp Te TAiTOKOKiTEtrRU. .

No. 49. Major Kemp to the Hon. the Premier. To William Fox, the Head of the Government. Opotiki, 30th March, 1870. Sir, salutations to you. I have received your letter, written from Napier on the 15th January, about To Kooti, Kereopa the eye-eater, and Hakaraia the son of Satan.