RENEWED LAWLESSNESS AT TOKOMARU.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1222, 11 December 1882, Page 2

RENEWED LAWLESSNESS AT TOKOMARU.

On Monday fast, 4th December, Constable Stagpoole at Woga Bay, received iuformation that a robbery (probably a burglary) had been committed at the premises of Mr Fanklyn Hodges, T'okomaru. The articles stolen consist of four shawls, six -shirts, and several other things. Owing to the* absence at Napier of Sergeant McGuire, in wh'ose district Tokomaru lies, direct application was made in this instance to the Tologa Bay constable, who has gone up there to make enquiries into th<r matter, and if possible to recover the stolen property and discover and' apprehend the thieves. On the 7th (last Thursday) Tologa Bay was quite lively. Two schooners, the Gisborne and the Minnie Hare, were in the roads and discharged cargo from Auckland, Gisborne, and Me.rcury Bay. Both vessels made sail for Gisb orne in the afternoon. At 10 p.m. our slumbers were disturbed by the screeching of a steam-whistle, and we inferred that the Hannah Mokau was in attendance. Being dark, and dead low tide, besides that our boatmen were tired out with a hard day’s work, no boat went off. The steamer, which runs th e risk of having her name degenerate into the “Sea Horse,” or worse still the “East Coast Moke.” was non est inventus at day light next morning, so we (not the editorial, but the public ive) inferred that she had gome up tke Coast, and we expect her to come over our bar to-mor-row (Saturday). It is really a comfort to have a smart little steamer all to our cheek again; and we all fou dly hope the Mokau will turn out better than th. old jaded Rosina. Later. On Saturday Constable Sta gpoole returned to Tologa, having, with the a dd of Kaki, the Maori constable, recovered t he greater part of the articles stolen from F. Hodge’s store on the night of the 3rd inst. Out of £2O value £l6 8s were recovered, I hidden in sundry places, but no clue has yeti beep obtained to the thieves.