SOULTORIA FOUND

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1481, 2 July 1912, Page 5

SOULTORIA FOUND

ABANDONED IN THE BUSH. HOW-THE STOLEN MARE WAS TRACED, (By TcleEraph.—Press Association,) Auckland, July I.' The Taring mate Koultoria, which wal stolen from Mr. Koulslon's etnbles at I'ukekohe, has bcon discovered u(: Tii' liaiiamoa, a. bu.sh settlement half-way between IMrongia and Kawhia, tiboitl Kll) miles from I'ukekohe.. On Sunday :i racehorse wns olrrrved lo be tethered in iliu bush atVirongia with .1 cover on. A man endeavoured lo buy. some fodder in tlio district', imd Mi.spicion was routed ns to Ilis liona iides. l'unliV ing that ho was watched with suspicious'. kk, the man disappeared, and evidently cast the animal adrift, i'nr Mime time later >he followed two men who wore nu Hie n'iiy (d JCawliia. Tile waro's cover had been removed. I'or somo distance flio followed the men, anil then they lost sight of her.

When the lolo<7rnph office opened at J'likckohe ye.-lcrduy morning, e. telegram was received from Mr. A. Jones, of Hamilton, staling that Soulloria. hail been keen some distance from l'irongia, mid a few- minutes later a further lelrsriun was. received from Mr. Pry, of Pirongia, .liking for a description of tlic mnre, as he believed ho hud seen her in his dieliict.

Immediately on receipt of (his advice, Messrs, V. and D. Koulslon proceeded to 'J'e Awamutu. On arrival thero they found that tile police had'cone- out earlier in (ho day (o 'J'e Jiauamoa, and last ovening they returned from tli.it district with III? mare, which .MY. ltniiNron at one* identiiicd as the mining Poiilrnria.

.From inlvicc F-α far to hand, it appear* Hint the thieves hud clippul lipv so us to si 11 err her appearance. AVlu'ii Ihi-y found Hie police on their trrtil they dropped the marc in the T« Hauaraoa ili-trict -without a cover, and -lie was discovered there by Constablo J.auder unionist ti-frco Ijubli in a very isolated s-pot.

It is understood that (li« police liavc ft full description of the pen-on who took Soultoria. through to the Kin? Country, on AVi'dne-day moraine h\-t. at 8.15 o'clock, Mr. Nicoll, of Tβ Kowhai, riw a man riding piM his shop leading a racehorse. There appears to be no doubt that the animal was Soultoria, and that (lit man was taking I he road throup;h Te Kowlni so a= to avoid the more frequented thorouslil'aro llironsh Hamilton. When inter 51 r. Xicoll nr.d ,i of ■Sotiltoria in the "liwahl," ho at once

identiiied her as (lie animal lie had scon going- pa?t liis door.

At the- present junch;re, the exact movements ot the thieves after taking the mare are not known, l>ut several reports .16 to the animal having lx-cn teen have come to hand. ; Strange to say, p. report has been received that a horse answnrini; the description of Soultoria, was unloaded ftora the liorso-box at Jforrinsvillc station. Until tho movements of the thieves have heon ascertained, it is not possible to state whether the animal unloaded at I .Morrinsvillo was Soultoria. Mr. .T. HanI s;]!, of that township, in a. letter dated June 20, which reached PuUekohe yesterday, staled that the horse unloaded there bore all tho marks on her hocks that Soultoria. carried, and he also advised that tho inaro' had been clipped. Owing to Soultoria. being a hiphlysh'iing animal, -Mr. Koulston has decided not to send Her homo by train, and slio will ho walked homo to her quarters at l'ukol'oJio. ,