THE LATE BURGLARY.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 795, 16 June 1881, Page 2

THE LATE BURGLARY.

The latest particulars, «3 can ; as can be learned at present, are that tlio goods stolen have been recovered, but the thief has as yet managed to elude jlie: clutches of the police. •■ .Sergeant McArdle> having a suspicion, ohi strange Maori he had seen knocking about, paid a visit to the. pah at Te Oro Oro, and acquainted the : uatives with the occurrence, and obtained a promise from Iwo of them, named Miiuihera and Thompson that they would watch the suspected party.- ; They advised the police to retiro from the. spot, as the thief would probably bo "watching them as closely as they watched him, if he was about, The:Se.rgeant ; .'(ioiiseijuently returned to Masterton, and received intelligence "yesterday morning that Manihera and Thb nps'oii liad : watched the night before,and saw, Pakoamu Hapuroiia,- the suspected native, go to a ijax bush and put off a piece of •bacon, 'whidll' he took av,',»y aud cqoked at a fjre near tile pah. On seurpjiiiig the flax, the suits of clothes and the bacon were discovered, and these were handed over to tht> yiolice when' they arrived, 'lt appears' that lie had not gone away from the district at biice because lie 1 was' in love with a Maori maiden at Te Oro Ore, aud wished to induce her to fly with- •hiiri. '• 'Her people not bejng willing, and she,;not .caring' to go.withoift tlieirpqnaeijt, kopt the lover fromilying at biicpfrbiii'the arms of justice. Maiiihera'aud'Tlfodipaori, knowing this, did not gp down fur the Sergeant the s!im.e njgl't, but-left jt' till 'rtifcrhing. l But wjien daylig||t,appeared;t]ie* bjra had flown, also the horse,' bridle,* and saddle of another native;..lt |s;hot thought the horse is stolen, but Only borrowed, and that it will be left at some pah on his line of flight, There is only a faint clue at present as to the direction he hap taken, but little doubt is entertained of his ultimate .capture, as it appears, that, though a native of Tbr'aVinn, he is very well known all over the Wairarapa and Manawatu Districts. [He has since been seen near Ekelahuua.] . •..-,■:-:. . . ■