THE MAN HUNT.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4969, 7 March 1895, Page 3

THE MAN HUNT.

♦ THE CHASE CONTINUED AT AKURA. Yesterday afternoon word came to the Masterton police that the desperado was in the native bush at Akura. The fellow seems almost übiquitous, for he has been interviewed all over the place, bobbing up serenely at Kuripuni and half-a-dozen other spots. However, definite intelligence as to his whereabouts reached Mastertnn yesterday, and the police assisted by a detective from Wellington, and sundry volunteers in this town proceeded in a. brake to Akura, some three miles out. Arriving on the spot they cut sticks and supplejacks, and thus armed entered the bush where the enemy was esconced. A Maori lad at the tail of the party was the first to perceive the man and gave the view holloa. Then there was a pretty chase. Away went the desperado, springing over Mbs and ditches like a deer, and folrawed by sv score of men and hoys, Looting andhallooiug.Tliedesperado drew away from tho hunters, He had no boots on, and excepting the Wellington detective no one could keep pace with him. It is said he was shot at, but if so.the shooter was no marksman, The man made for the low hills on Mr Holmes' land, and by the time the pursuers arrived panting aud breathless at the foot of oik! of them he was at the top, and ihe chase had to ho abandoned, It is said that when the hunters get to elost' quarters they are afraid of him, aud when they hold aloof he runs way from them.