CATTLE STEALING AT WAIKOUAITI.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 239, 25 September 1862, Page 5

CATTLE STEALING AT WAIKOUAITI.

Before G«». Lloyd, Esq., J P J. W. Murdock, Ehj., J. p.' Cattle SxEAUSfJ.-John Huntsr and J ames f c-.d were rhatysea by John R. Jone», ];«,.. wiS HU»lin ? m, tue 12thiiwt, one bullock, hm property value tU; an.l Andrew Herman, Rejil'. ~artS>' with t«:oniou ; ly recvivm^ »«*>lo« property, well know! hut it fr» ho stolen, and rm-ivinsran i nartakiu- of the pn,fit. of the «.ue a, a pirtuer. After a v?ry pro tr.ic.ed iinvHt.s.t.un the ~n * >ner* were cominittalfor trial at tlu: Suprcmt- (Jourt, Dunnlln.

(To the Editor of the Daii.v Times.)

Sin,—Lutterly cattle strdm^ in Ofago seems to ba uioa lucrative speculation, and carried on nmt extensivWy without molest* km or Undraaes, ju Kmfrom Uia Duincoui compl .inU of settlers in'and around Wmkonaiti an I other parts of ihe l'ruvinc* It appear* that on the morning of Saturday thf *~Kh instant, .Mr John Joaos Jnviriff raided some eatif.' iinme.hately nrococdwl to the l>.,lic, .Station, and there j.iformeJ 3err«nt M,j ,r Bracken ot hh. W w\ tiwt his suspicion, restfti very strongly on J.mes Ibnl bute ~>r, at W.uko-^in. Tlie Ser^ut-Jlrijo? anu-«j with author ty, at once proce Ji l«-d with Irs usual ala.■ ntv WHn is slaughter-*ard, wherr, he ilisi covered t!w hid.' of a ballo-.-it lately in the pu^j.ion ot Mr Jota-s. ati.l rc-ceatly killed by IlcW. whom lie bmiiisht to the Matiun. Soon afler be arrived there he |iibfovcrj.l a man nam*l Hunter had r.old the bullock to Kuid, and a^ist.-d him to yard it. To form the asiuaiutanw of Mr John Hunter, I -Live no doubt, was Uw next mast auxious desire of Major Bracken, for which purpt.se, 1 am infos-ovd he sjoured the country around Waikouaitf, huvi..,™ attl^ s:m»e time thrown out jntrols on the outskirts of th'"> town so as to cut oil any chance of escipe ; at lenjrth he entered Mr. Junes' stables, arid on the bft in a large quantity of hay mrvle two or three ineffec. tiial searches, and was about to «ivo up the cha*» in that quarter when In* eye caught a lon^-prongcd Ainencan fork, with which he again made Wreh arnaftcr&tahbin-abwuf ior feome time, the hunter rt.scov.rcl Hunter.who had a rao^t providenUal escape from being Killed, without time to consider th» error of Im ways. ' Too ja'ich cannot be said of the civility and efficiency oi the pohec at Waikouaiti, though few in numl»er, they have not allowed any crime in th*> diitnct to pa*» undetected. The nm9 lony l) 0 s^ u q( Uw Force generally- its effldeucy must be highly gratifying to the Government y Hoping sir, I have not intruded too much upon your valuable «imcp, I beg to subscribe myself Your obedient servant, Police Court, Waikouaiti, A CwBBAW fiKAI>ERtJ2nd September, 1862.