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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue XIV, 3 April 1879, Page 2

A recent Goulburn (Victoria) telegram Bays:— Laat evening, on the way from Crookwell to Goulburn, Mr Wilkios, chemist, of Crookwell, says he was confronted by two men armed with a gun and pistol. They ordered him to stand and deliver, and took from him £75 and a ring vauled at £5. The men had their faces blackened. Bushranging seems to be spreading like an epidemic. Full particulars of the massacres by the Queensland blacks show that at Mills Creek they murdered three men named James Kelly, Harry Butler, and Tommy Hohnes, and threw the bodies into a water hole. The blacks rushed up between the. men and tbe camp, thus cutting them off from their firearms, and killed them with tomahawks and nulla-nullas. Since this the blacks attacked Mr Sheaffe's station, on this creek, but the men being on the alert frustrated the attempt. Mr Duncan Mackay, while forming a station at Templefon Kiver, was also killed by blacks. The Poverty Bay Standard publishes the following from " an esteemed contributor " : — A suspicious-looking half caste has been knocking about Warenga-a-hika. The police noticed him to be a stranger, and being struck with bis appearance, instituted inquiries respecting him. Mr Kydd, blacksmith, recognised him as Wynyard (or Winiata) who murdered Packer at Epsom, Auckland, three or four years ago. Mr Kydd had worked with him several years ago at the Bay of Islands, and although this j half-caste is closed shaved, he knew him to be Winiata immediately. The story goes j that the supposed-to-be Winiata told someone that he knew Kydd. Kydd sought an | interview with him, in the course of which j he asked Winiata if he had not worked with I him at a certain place. This he at first denied, but afterwards admitted that he had, and that he was Winiata. Constable Villers did not think it advisable to arrest him on suspicion, so he has telegraphed for a description of Winiata. In the meantime the suspected one is being well watched.