Lieutenant Perceval.—This promising young officer, whose untimely death took place on Friday, in the neighbourhood of tho Bald Hills, at the Mau kau, whilst engaged with a handful of men against four or five hundred armed natives, arrived in this province by th. 'Golden Age,' having joined the force raised by Colonel Pitt at Melbourne, and been ap pointed lieutenant. The date of his commission in the Waikato Military Force, Ist Regiment, was Ist September. Since his arrival here, he had been sta-

tioned for a short time nt Otahuhu, and afterwards proceided to the front. His name was John Spencer Perceval, and not Percival—a lieutenant of the latter name having recently joined the same regiment. The deceased was the ion,of Spencer Perceval, Esq., well known as a leading member of the Houie of Com mon, for iom. years, and grandson of Spencer Per ceval, First Lord ot the Treasury arid Prime Minister in, 1809, and assassinated on May 11, 1812, by Bellingham, in the lobby of the House of Commons.— ' Daily Southern Cross," October 26. The Maoko Fight.—Our loss at this engagement was eight men and officers killed, and one man wounded. The wound of Johnston is soriom, the ball having lodged in the region of his lungs. , We are only able to supply the names of seven of the killed, viz. :—Lievt. Percival, Lieut. Norman, Cor poral Power, Privates Williamson, Besick, Oburn, and Worthiugtbn. — " Daily Southern "Cross" October, 26. ' Finu IN East Newton.—Yesterday at noon, a house situate on the Karangahape road, East Newton, neatly opposite the Newton Hotel, was discoveied to he on fire. It was occupied by a family who had te cently arrived from England, by the 'Gauges,'but belonged to Mr. P. Lorrigan, grocer, Quean-street. Fortunately the flames had not obtained firm hold of the building before being noticed, and the prompt ap plication of a few,buckets of water by the neighbours who ran to ths spot on the first alarm being given quickly extinguished them. It appeared to have com menced underneath the,house, and was supposed to have originated from a quantity of straw lying there, having become ignited by a shovelful of ashes, care lessly thrown upon it by a little gill, the daughter of the inmates. The boaTuTwere well charred before the fire was put out. 