AUCKLAND.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 6, Issue 333, 18 December 1865, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

ARRIVAL OF H.M.S.S. ECLIPSE. INTELLIGENCE VIA TAUPO. SUPPOSED HANGING OF KEREOPA B T THE HAU-HAUS! I The arrival yesterday of H.M.S.S. Eclipse, Captain Freemantle, has placed us in posesssien of two days’ later news. The papers contain nothing of very great interest, being chiefly taken up with reports •of Council proceedings. A report had reached Auckland by tne arrival of the schooner Fortune, from Tauranga, of the supposed death by drowning of Adjutant Covey, 68th Regiment, and a party of ladies in that river—the boat they went away in having been picked up floating out to sea.

A man of the 40th Hegt. had been nearly killed by a woman named Smith, who kept a, house of ill-farae—she having struck him such a severe blow on the neck as to leave little hope of hisrecovery, Shehad been placed under arrest. It would appear that the unfortunate man, who was slightly tipsy at the time, was trying to force an entrance into her house.

But the most important intelligence (if true) to hand by this opportunity is that furnished by the following extract from the letter of the Coromandel correspondent of the New Zealand Herald, under date Dec. 11 :—■

Information was received here on Saturday evening from a reliable source, that the arch-fiend Kereopa had met his doom. A few days ago, when at Tnnpo, and while on bis way to Wanga-

Mui, he was compelled to attend a runanga, at which his crimes were enumerated. He was adjudged worthy of death by the natives (Hau-haus) who formed it; and when the question was put to the meeting, as to how the miscreant should be despatched, the unanimous response was to the effect that he should suffer a like death to that of the Rev. Mr Yolkner. No sooner was the mind of tbe meeting made known on this point, than a Maori came forward with a rope, and ere many minutes had elapsed, this worker of iniquity was launched beyond the power of men. It is to be regretted that the murderer did not pay the forfeit of his crime from the decision of an European tribunal, but still it is satisfactory to know that the Haiv bans at any rate are atlast alive to the enormity of this man’s deeds. A prophet of the fanatict is reported to have been the prime mover in the capture, accusation and condign punishment.