RAILWAY FROM RIVERHEAD TO KAIPARA.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 193, 22 August 1870, Page 2

RAILWAY FROM RIVERHEAD TO KAIPARA.

THE CLYDE GOLD ROBBERY

RECOVERY OF THE TREASURE

[Br Electric Telegraph.]

WELLINGTON, August 19. Satisfactory arrangements have been made for the construction of the Kaipara railway.

O AMARU, August 13. A £5 note stolen at the late Clyde robbery has been found.

William Elvis has been arrested, and brought up before the Magistrates. The excitement in connection with the case is intense.

August 15

Elvis was discharged this morning, consequent upon a man named Rennie's confession of the robbery. The £5 note found on Elvis was one of those advertised as stolen.

The utmost mystery surrounds the affair, and the police have been blamed for arresting Elvis.

Nearly every policeman in the province has been engaged in endeavouring to trace the offenders.

It is reported that the gold and notes are safe.

DUNEDIN, August 15

Rennie has confessed that his shipmate, Malcolm Macdennon, now a policeman, was connected with the escort robbery. He found a false key for tho outer door, and kept watch while the theft was committed. Both arrived here in 1369 from home.

The gold and note 3 are reported safe.

The Deputy-Superintendent has received a telegram from certain residents in Queenstown, stating that the thieves are in custody, and claiming the reward.

1.20 p.m

Rennie, after ln3 confession, took the police to the place where the treasure was planted. It has all been recovered excepting £600 in notes, lost by the thief.

The policeman stationed at Clyde is suspected. The treasure was secreted in four different places, extending over a- distance of forty miles. The following telegram, from the DeputySuperintendent of Otago, has been courteously placed at our disposal by Mr. M'lndoe : — The Clyde gold robbers have been discovered. All the gold and treasure has been recovered, with the exception of thirty ounces of gold and 500 one pound notes. The treasure was planted in different places. No particulars have yet been received as to how many were concerned in the affair. There are four claimants at Queenstown for the reward.

WELLINGTON, August 15

It is rumoured here that Mr. Macandrew, the Otago Superintendent, is trying to negotiate the annexation to Otago of a portion of the County Westland. The coveted por on is situated South of the river Teremakau.

WANGANUI, August 15. The Lady Denisou, reported as having been wrecked on the Spit, has been got oft, and is now safe iv the river. She has not sustained any damage.

HOKITIKA, Auaust 16

Mr. Barff has telegraphed to the West Coast Times that the Alinistry intend amending the County of Westland Act so that the Governor shall nominate a chairman.

Much uneasiness prevails, as there could be nothing more hateful to people of Westland than a nominee ruler. It is believed that the intentions of tne Government must have been misconstrued.

TIMARU, August 13. The schooner Aurora, stranded here two months since, was lauched this afternoeon, and is not damaged.

NAPIER. August 15. Captain Porter reports that Te Kooti passed Waikohu on the Ist, about twenty miles from Poverty Bay. He found Te Kooti's tracks and fires. It is not known whether Kooti has gone by way of Waioeka or Ruatahuna.

Nothing has beeii heard about Ropata -ince he left Tologa Biy. He is most likely on Te Kooti's track. Ropata says :—" I wil pursue Te Kooti till I capture him." An eye-witness describes Ropata's rage as " awful" at Te Kooti's presumption in attack-

ing a Ngatiporou settlement. Ropata means mischief. Mr. Ormond left this afternoon for Wellington. A temporary stoppage has occurred in the erection of the telegraph line between Taupo and Rotorua. The natives cut down one of the poles. On communicating with Mr. Locke the natives returned to erect the pole cut down. A misunderstanding had arisen between the contractor and the native owners of the timber, regarding the price to be paid for it.

GREYMOUTH, August 12. Mr. Wilkie, member for the Grey district in the Nelson Provincial Council, was brought up yesterday at the Resident Magistrate's Court, Greymouth, on a charge of perjury. He was committed for trial, .but admitted to bail.