THE MURDERER WINIATA. HIS ARRIVAL AT AND DEPARTURE FROM TE KUITI.

Waikato Times, Volume X, Issue 582, 12 February 1876, Page 2

THE MURDERER WINIATA. HIS ARRIVAL AT AND DEPARTURE FROM TE KUITI.

From reliable information received yesterday evening, the, opinion all alou^ entertained bv tliia journal, t'i»r. Wuuata htd long tmee left the immediate n igbbourhood i>f Auckland, probably on the Saturday or Sund-ty night tifter the murder was committed, has been continued. On the part of the Kin* and le-uiiru ohiefs m the neighbourhood of the frontier, wearo m a position to state that tliwre lino truth 'whatrver in any of the report! tint Wimata has found »helter with the King. Such nbelter wad ' refuao I him, but at theiame tme the nAtiret oonsidared it, no part of their duty to a <> pie! rend him in«l he was allowed to pa** on to Tuhuv The King aifd his followert nevr with deteitatroo the ■murder of Packer at bein^ the cruel ami bloodthirsty de^d of a man acting under the mllueuce of r i^e aid uni looked upon the arrival 'f Winiata at To Kuiti at a most unhappj occurrence. We now learn, and «ir information may >b« taken-ai uuthontio, that VVuuata wit at tli - iloerangi wtleineut on VVfd'iesdiy lint, that ha alepl at Wt.antpap-ion buuday ni^ht last, nnd urn red at Ie Kuiti on the follovrm^ evening, keeping the Pnko aide of the VV'ttitato ?n his waj up. Tq« Eirtg't -orJerly who brought worl to Hie »ettlement for trle^r.ipaic transinusion to t >• Defence Minuter of thedi Ucn ImasHlf tavr Winia'a at Te Euiti on the day he hitiiclf left, Fues lay, and Wimaka vv»-t tnea a-bout to letve for Tdhua, the Kin.; refusing lum shelter. The K<ng natives have noiynipatny mtu him but tay they hare no oKuna upon th-in to aot «u cjmtablct in enforcing European I*\t.