NEW PLYMOUTH.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue XI, 9 December 1880, Page 2

NEW PLYMOUTH.

This day. The Opuaake Outrage. From private information received by the Taranaki Herald, it learns that at Parihaka, the natives look upon the Opunake murder as the act of a dastard. They talk over it far more than if it was a man who had been the victim. They say it is the work of Pononga Kino, (a bad or rile glare) Tuhi, and that it was not an attendant at the Parihaka meetings. He may have been two or three times there, but not oftener. The natives are strongly impressed with the notion that Tuhi must have been drinking previous to committing the act.

■■ A native named Patea was found drowned this morning in a small stream called Mangaone, a tributary to the Waiwakaiho river. The deceased was living at Waiwakaiho settlement, and during the night, was heard by the natives in the whare where he slept, to get up and go outside. As he did not return, a search was made at daylight this morning, and his body was discovered in the stream, a short distance from the settlement. The deceased was an old man, and one of the prisoners recently liberated at Dunedin.