THE PAI MARIRES AT WAIROA. Tho following is from the HawTce's Bay Times : — Wairoa, April 17. After a long period of suspense, expec- 1 tation has been gratified by the actual ! arrival of the main body of the Hauhau in this district. Some three hundred men and a crowd of women and children are now at Te Uhi. The white man is still with them, and appears determined to con tinue to cast in his lot with theirs. Thero has been a good deal of talk of demanding him, and some alarm lest doing so should provoke a 1 collision. To-morrow for tho great muster and talk. A large number of Mohaka natives aro in our immediate neighbourhood, under arms ; and, general ly, the Wairoa is in a great state of effer vescence. Nearly all the whites have re ceived arms, now supplied withoutquestion, although only a short fortnight ago doubts were expressed as to the advisability of furnishing the settlers with them, it being conceived that the arming of the friendly natives was all that could be asked of Heaven or the Government. The conduct of the Government in allow ing so large a body to roam at pleasure through the country, whilst their object is avowedly hostile, ia moefe annoying. This

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By His Excellency Sir George Grey, Commander of the Most Honor, able Order of the Bath, Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and v over Her Majesty's Colony of New Zealand and its Depend encios, and Vice-Admiral of the same, &c., &c, &c. 