THE MURDERER WINIATA.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 580, 8 February 1876, Page 2

THE MURDERER WINIATA.

Wimata is now in the King country. We can we think safely say us much as that. Constable Haddock— a pity some few of tho Auckland detectives were not :ia smart — has, we think, fairly established tlmb point As our readers are aware, he left here on Thursday evening to ascertain, tho whereabouts of Winiata, and from what he saw and heard when at the native settlement of Moeraugi, just the other side of the confiscated boundary, Winiata had been there. He came from Auckland by way of the Miranda, and crossed over to Moerangi, which is populated by about as disaffected a set of natives as any in the King territory. By tlnir manner they showed how elated they were at the way in which Winiata had pukcru'd the pakeha, describing with a savage glee the manner in which the fatal blows must have been given and received. The account they said they had received from a pakeha, but there was quite sufficient in the way they said so, and in the way they contradicted each other, to prove thatnoreliancecould be placed on such statement. That Winiata would receive their sympathy and support there is no doutyfetf" j The Auckland papers, we see, are still i«* the same doubt as ever about his move- • ments. The ''Star" supplies the following :—: — " There are a great many reports of the forraer doings and exploits of (Viniata going about now that his name is so notorious, by tho bir* barout murdor of Packer. Ole *tory it tlmb some six year* ago, when on a visit to Napier, ha had a love affair with a native girl there, that her friends not. consenting he eloped with her at his wife, and that being closuly followed bj T« Kauparalia, nnd Wi Tulto, tv the port, he carried the girl on hi* buck tied up in a tack, as hi* "baggag.)" and got hor safely on board the steamer, and ttway to Auokltml, where, however, they were afterwards followed, and the girl taken back by her friends." The Alexandra correspondent of the same paper appears to be of the opinion that he will not be long harbored by the King natives. " Should Winiata succeed in evading the partifi engaged in his pursuit, between here and Auckland, tin i reach the Kuiti, fioin all I can learn among tho natives themselves, I am in olined to tUinlc, tint he will not in that can escape the murderer's doom All I h ite tpoken to, and several of them mflue itul K'nj,'i rs, Unman, condemn him as a murdeior, c t.iugata> kohuru. c kore c Uki, a murderor without u region. I hiive never heard thin said bnfore ol any of the other outla ys now under Tawdiao's pro* tection. The murders of Todd, and Sullivan have their entiie svmpithy; in a Maori* view* thoy were jmtifl-d in thoir shedding of blood j in faot there it little doubt but it was dcm» by order. In the present cue, however, it i* different s then* ii nothing political in it whatever, and I think I may itafely tay, thar. with the ex* ception of the murderer* lm nednte relations, the Kmgite* would lik« him to b* caught within our own boun Jam*, and stru >q up a* he deser»~ v«s. and to sara them tad u», J«ay mor* furtW troubl#. aj