TE KOOTI TAKES TODRINK. (FaoH Our Own Correspondent.)

_~ _, Wellington-, February 25. ihe Government news from Poverty Bay is very vague aud meagre, but its general purport js that ie Kod.i i.,- still at Opotiki, and drinking heavily It is feared hs may while in liquor commit some aot,of folly whicu iniybt set aMaze all mimmmrtble ui.-.tecihl in the locality Iv ■><• crr.(aiice ; with .i tefegnuu received this cvonil.'ij from the Premier, the s.s. Stella was despatched to-night with an additional force of artillery in cluding, I hear, a contingent from Lyttc-lton Ihfc Ste la is instructed to hold herself at the Premier s orders.
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