WAIROA.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 324, 16 November 1865, Page 2

WAIROA.

By the arrival of the schooner Vivid, Capt. Schon, from Wairoa, we learn that affairs in that district arc any tiling hut quiet. On Monday morning last, the 13lh hist., Kopu and several other of the native chiefs called a meeting of the hau-baus settled at Wairoa,

for the purpose of preventing the harboring of any of the Poverty Bay natives or robbers from that district; and likewise to prevent them from leaving this settlement for the purpose of assisting any other tribe of hauhaus. They also gave them to understand' that unless they complied with the above* mentioned restrictions, their land would be forfeited to the Crown. On the. day following, Toha, the pilot, had an interview with Oapt. Schou (to whom we are indebted for this information,) who informed him that on Monday evening after the meeting the hauhairs robbed Mr Munro’s store, and also his (Toha’s) store ; and that Mr Carroll’s place was in great danger. Toha also expressed his conviction that there would be an engagement in a few days,

BURGLARY. A burglary of a daring kind occurred at Wairoa on Thursday, the 2nd inst., between the hours of 2 and 6 p.m., at the store of Messrs Prentice & Co. It appears that the robber or robbers made their entry at the back of the premises, by forcing in a piece of woodwork, making an opening about three inches in width, to come within reach of a bar that fastened the window shutter. This being drawn, an easy entry was found, there being no glass window. The object of the robbers appears to have been to obtain cash only. The till was emptied of some .£3 to =£4, but no goods were missed. Every trunk and box on the premises was found to have be n forced open, and apparently with the idea of finding cash. This took place in broad daylight, within one hundred yards of the stockade, and persons passing close to the store every few minutes. The proprietors were absent during the hours abovenamed. No clue has as yet been found of the robbers. We think it strange that a district like the Wairoa, with nearly a hundred European inhabitants should be left without a Justice of the Peace; and the want of a police force has long since been felt.—Communicated. (We believe the Resident Magistrate of Wairoa, S. Deighton, Esq., has returned to his district since the date of the above communicati m.)