SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (FROM our own Correspondents.) Auckland, Friday, noon.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 579, 5 February 1876, Page 2

SPECIAL TELEGRAMS. (FROM our own Correspondents.) Auckland, Friday, noon.

No news of tho murderer Winiata. Tho police are- out in tho Piako district, one is m coiiiiuunioition with the Ouieif Tauiati, at the Miranda, and has traversed tho country botwoeii the W.iiroa and Whakatiw.ii ; anothoi was sent from the Thames to act in concert with the tthief IWpipipi ut tho I'i.iko. It is thought tho muidurer will gtuko for Tokangamutu via tlie Pi*ko, around European settlements and toads Copiea of the proclamation announcing tho reward and tho desci iption. of Winiaia have been printed in Maori and sent to all loading chiefs between, Auck land and the King country. The roport that Winiata was seen 'm horseback at Ilowick on Saturday night last i« believed 'by many. A M ton cl<is- ly answering- hia description called at Wu I,'stall's store, where was only a woman, bought wine food, asked about tho murder, and .s.nd ho should udt; into town to sco tho nun dorer, but rode oil' in a Un action uvsay fioin Auckland. If Wiuiuta, in on horseback he has probably passed central Wuikato on loutofui King country before now. The natives •generally approve tho Tairua murder, where aMaoii, PetiM.i Ko'koi, wiin d'-'liborately led away and killed by other natives for alleged witchci.ilt. Opinion goes that Petera has ol'teu been guilty of the same crime I Tlie coiistiuetiou of city tramways in Wellington will be comuieiioed iv a few da) a. 7.30 p.m. No further cluo to the wheieabouts of tho murderer. The police, by want of promptitude and vigour m prosecuting the search at Oiakei on the day of the murder, have let him slip through their lingers. J ( ]\ ideuce at inquest shew^ conclusively that he went to Onikei, but discovered nothing now. [The report of the luqupst will be found reprinted in full in to-day'a supplement.— Editor.] It is now ansei'ted that strong Huspicion exists that Wynyard murderod a Maori upon whose ovidenco ho was convicted of stealing 1 a saddle in 1873. The native was never seen after Wynyard 'a release from gaol. Wynyard stated that tho Maori died at Mangere, but recent enquiries shew no one else knew anything about hia death. £20 Jeumin to Wynyard's a edit in the Savings' Bank, and from this it is surmised he overslept himself on the morning of tho muidur; that it was his intention to kill Packer, bury the body, clean up all tiacea, and then go to work as usual next day. Had ho contemplated flight he would have proparod by drawing the money, which he must lose. His lateness and die appeaiance of the servant pievented his carrying out his intention. A German named Basket was drowned while floating logs down a creek at the Sandepit. Thenativrsof Ngunjjtiruhavo forw.uded to the Government, through Sir Robert Douglas, u prott'St against the cut tor iliUpheuiiii loading peaches and infusing payment for them. Tho inquest on Mrs. McLean, an old woman found dead, sliened that she came to Victoria with considerable money, invented it iv tho diggings and sank into p<*verty- Sho died of old ago. Wellington. Tho reception of Sir J. Vogel takes tho form of an illuminated address and banquet. DUNEDIN. Tlio labourers at the now the.itro hu\t> struck lor .increased wages, they receive nine shillings a day.