A telegram through Mr. Reuter stated on Thursday that the
troops in New Zealand had incurred another defeat at the hands of the Maories in some place impossible to identify, but on Friday the Government received a telegram from the Consul at Alexandria stating that hostilities had broken out again in the Whangaurea (Whaing,aroa ?) district, that is, we suppose, on the west coast near Raglan, — and that on the 25th January the Maories attacked the camp of General Cameron-800 strong— and were repulsed with a loss of seventy killed. Our loss was two officers mortally wounded and fifteen men killed, two officers severely wounded and thirty men wounded. This does not look like a disaster.