Cattle Stealing in the Forty Mile Bush.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2996, 6 September 1888, Page 2

Cattle Stealing in the Forty Mile Bush.

Further paiticulars aro given in the Examiner of the'alleged cattle stealing at Mangatainoka, for which two men were arrested, as published in our .; ~ telegrams oa Tuesday last, 1 result of the information given to tho< iWS

iind ||;MiJ|ii)tnaß'prociiede(l to the villago on the south side of the yesterday afternoon. SerOarlyon went to. the house of a $ named Jenkins, and '.Constable Barry to the whaii occupied by one barker,' > lira Jenkins refused lo fallow vSergeant CarlyOn admittance ','&vto ihe4Me,and'ho had to burst the |#popr;iPn.:. On getting inside ho a quantity of meat salted i'v and stowed away under tlieted, and ;'; V.tbeheafl of a /beast. He asked for |' ; ; Jenkins, but could get no answer as ii'-;to his .whereabouts. ; Jfo' searching, bo discovered his man in a at the rear of the promises, and him, A hide was found ||twith one brand cut out and the other The brand left on tbo :;.;;. ; hide' was somewhat indistinct, and f ; ;>-was. doubtless the reason why it was but Mr Thomas identified it r. 'BB Mr Holders brand, and tho hide thatof a cow he had purchased some time ago. The ears were cut fc ; off doubtless to obliterate the ear v j mark, but the pieces of ear found that o '■'; motffag by Mr .Thomas, and bearing -!• fitted the shape :;. of the out exaMy. A large salting "•' trough.was also found covered over ../.with iron. Meantime Constable *'}■.. Barry had arrested Parker, and on . - his promises also a quantity of meat wasfeiß. Parker is an ex-constable , and was formerly stationed at Wei- . linglon. Both raon wero brought to Woodville and placed in the lock-up, 1 Settlers at Pahia tun have also been missing stock as well as settlers on this side of the river,anditisbolieved that a gdDg of about six cattle stealers are yet at large. The police arc determined to put a stop to this sort of thing, and intend to prosecute their enquiries. '