THE PARNELL RAPE CASE.

Waikato Times, Volume XIV, Issue 1193, 19 February 1880, Page 3

THE PARNELL RAPE CASE.

Thee Fijian suspected of attempted rape on a child at Parcel], on Friday last, is still unoaptured. The police, according to the Herald, are *till iv the vicinity of the bush alluded to in our telegrams of Tuesday. The Herald we notice advocates the employment of a few dogs to scour the bu»h, and brings the fellow to bay, when he could be arrested by those following the dogs. The police, would no f , be justified in employing savage dogs which would attack the runaway, but surely they might u-e such aritnais as would prevent him lyinsf in safety within a few yards of where they are passing. The Fijian has been seen coming out of vhe Kcrnb, covered with nud to the breast fiom haviug been in the swamp; he had on trousers and ihirt, but no hat 'o far as is known, he has had no fond since Sunday night, except such peaohe* as he may have picked up. and which are quite insufficient to nouri-h a man. The Herald .-ays it is really humiliating and quite unbusinesslike that the police should have to resort to the expedient of starving a man out when he is concealed by a bush about a quarter of a mile wide. One would have thought that the police would have be3n aided by the settlers of the ueigobourhooJ. The Government might any forenoon have got 50 men from vui;kland from amongst the volunteers, say, and have made a certainty of capturing the man within two hours. It is a miserable thing that a man, who is appearing evpiy few hours, cannot be captured in h y'ace within three miles of Auckland. Serireant- Major Mason and a fre-h number of police proceeded to the ute of the escape of the prisoner yesterday. ' his Kouimarama bu.shis alt eady famous from its concealment of v^ iniata. It extend.from St. John's ollege down a slope to a creek running into the Orakei basin : on the other side of the creek it ascends the hill, and then a ro id goes through it from the native rt serve to the lauiuki ■ oad. Krom thw road the bush is continuous to nearly the sea cuai»t. T^o Fijian is in the section between the road and the sea, where there in the swamp that has so often served him in good stead. At various points, clo^e to the scrub, a»"e peach groves, but no other food can be got, except by some pei son assisting, and there is no idea of that as yet. He cannot get to the sea for fish or shellfish, and the bush con>i-ts mostly of short birch trees, having none of the treos of the New Zealand bush whioh yield food.

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