TE AROHA.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3786, 15 February 1881, Page 2

TE AROHA.

(FBOM OUB OWN COBEEBFONKBNT.)

Noon, this day.

I hare just heard on good authority, that the police have evidence tracing the amber mouthpiece of the pipe found near the body of the murdered native to the possession of Procoffy.

3.30 p.m

The specimens obtained in the Prospectors' new drive yesterday were of excellent quality, but loose stones. The manager thinks it probable that they hare come from a leader not yet discovered. <

A Ngatikoe native informs me that "a great tangi is going on .at the Ngatikoe pah over the remains of the murdered Maori, who is related to that tribe. Maoris from Whakatiwai and Eerepehi are present. Those who best know the natives say there will be trouble over the murder—his relatives are bound to demand blood for blood. There is an uneasy feeling here, and no Europeans are working in the Omahu mines, nor will they till the murder has blown over. The police are in possession of evidence that the prisoner had o his possession some days before the murder a mouth piece similar to that picked up near the corpse. Marshall swears positively that tbe one picked up is his, though it" may turn out that he is mistaken. Detective Farrell arrived here last eren« ing, and is following up the different clues, with what success has nofc yet transpired. ■ The Waikato Mail says the " Katrines " (meaning Catrans) were arrested on «tupicion of the murder. It is quite false, and the proprietor of the Mail may hate to answer for the statement. Man Missing. Last night a man named Seton was reported missing. He has been working a claim towards the Wairongormai, sooth of here, but since the murder has come in at nightfall to sleep in the township. On Sunday he went out for his tools, anel has not since been heard of. A search party have gone out to look for him. His friends entertain the idea that the natives have killed him, or some evil ha« befallen him. The Sunbe. m shareholders haTe just decided Co stop, work till the battery is erected. A Mullatto, nanced Jones, and Dillon, a Waikato man, are prepared to swear that the Russian, Pocoffy, offered,to sell the former on last Thursday a mouthpiece similar to that found near the murdered man. , , , Jones was shown today the mouthpiece in the possession of the police, and at once identified it. <