BAILED UP BY A MAORI MADMAN.

Temuka Leader, Issue 364, 17 March 1881, Page 3

BAILED UP BY A MAORI MADMAN.

Mr, John Robinson supplied the Auckland Star with an account of a thrilling and unpleasant adventure "“-1 was coming from Kataia on horseback at Apihara between nine and ten o’clock in the evening, and when about half way a man jumped up behind a hedge on one side of the road and crossed over to the middle of the road and crouched down arid knelt on one knee and levelled a gun at me. The horse would not pass him. He reared and plunged terribly as the man flew to one side of the road, then the other. The man jumped up and presented the gun right in front of me. The moon just pceiled from under a dark cloud, and I could see very plainly the man’s hand on the trigger. I shouted loud to him, and said,‘How dare you stop me on the highway ? Let me pass, else I will shoot you with this pistol which I have got.’ I said it to him four times. He never spoke, nor would not move then, but kept the gun pointed at me. I might state here that I had not a pistol with me, but thought it would frighten him if I sa ; d I had one. After I had broke my stick all to pieces over the horse, and I found lie would not pass the man, I tprned back and galloped as hard as I could to the first farmhouse—a Mr. Robertson’s, who very kindly sheltered me, for which I was very grateful. Since the above occured, I have heard that it was madman, who is a Maori.”