AUCKLAND.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3644, 31 August 1880, Page 2

AUCKLAND.

This day. Mr Samuel Brown, who was so unwarrantably arrested on Friday night, and placed in the lock up, intends to prefer a formal complaint to Superintendent Thompson as to the conduct of the police on the occasion, and for hating in riew of the surrounding circumstances, declined to acquaint his family with his arrest, so that steps might bo taken to procure his release. Great surprise has been excited at the anxiety shown by Mr Bars tow, R.M., to justify, the condnct of the police. He the finding of gold at Mangonui, Q*H. Beyuell writes toJhe^ uaOKiing^aper that he never, saw a more promising country. •' * JtV a meeting of the Working Men's Political Association, the President said the report of the Colonial Industrie? Commission was a tissue of falsehood and misstatements from beginning to end. An extraordinary statement is made by gome natives in town ;• they say that a man named Hoani and his wife had a Mjprt time since been dicing £Uiu uear ou the Waikato, when the ultimately died, aud the current that she had becu ' " luakutued," by her of the woman, who

reside in the King country, and her tw brothers came down for the purpose of killing the man who was possessed of such dreadful power. They found him quietly digging for gum, and as he had a large hole open, the men killed him with a tomahawk, put him in the hole and covered him up. They then returned to the King country, congratulating themselves on having done the State some service by ridding New Zealand of a mau who might be the death of anybody whenever he took it into his head. These are the facts as stated by the natives in town yesterday, but probably it will not be thought worth while to enquire into the matter,

It may be mentioned that Wiremu Beweti, the well-known chief of Kaipara, is at present at Mechanics Bay on his way. to the King country. He has been ill for some time, and both he and his friends are convinced that he has been bewitched and that the only chance of cure lies in a visit to a priest resident amongst the Kingites, who can remove the spell.