LATEST FROM THE EAST COAST.

Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 201, 31 August 1870, Page 2

LATEST FROM THE EAST COAST.

KOPATA'S MOVEMENTS

A SETTLER DROWNED IN A WELL,

We have been courteously shown a private letter, dated Gisborne, August 18, from which we extract the following : —

We have got no news of Ropata's whereabouts, which convinces me that he haj taken another direction to avoid our people. Our expedition is still at Waikohu, but is now reduced to fifty men. We have had much rain here, so that it is almost impossible to move far in that direction yet.

We have had a most melancholy occurrence here. A man named David Morrison, late in the employ of Mr. Blair, has been'missing for some time, and was yesterday discovered at the bottom of Blair's well, in a state of decomposition, and they had been using the water up to the time of the discovery. The verdict at the inquisition was that he had destroyed himself while in a fit of temporary insanity. The poor fellow was undoubtedly mad, which- the evidence at the inquest shows. We have at last succeeded in getting a respectable medical man at Gisborne. It is the late Besident Magistrate at Maketu, Dr. Nesbitt. He seems to be just the sort of man we want.

There is no more news. Everything is going on quietly here. Reed is*going to start a paper. Bousefield is to be editor.— Haivke's Bay Herald, August 27.