LATEST PARTICULARS. Hawera, Last Night.

Waikato Times, Volume XV, Issue 1313, 27 November 1880, Page 2

LATEST PARTICULARS. Hawera, Last Night.

Miss Dobie went out for a walk towards Te Kamu, and not returning a search party was organised and bonfires lighted along the coast line. The body was found 40 yards off the main road to Te Kainu. The throat was cut from ear to ear, and life was quite extinct ; the body presents a dreadful appearance. Stannard, who has been arrested, is said to have passed the scene of the murder about the time. Hone Piharaa's daughter saw a horse with a saddle on tied at the scene of the murder. Colonel Roberts, Mr Hursthouse, and Hone Pihama have ju&t returned from the scene ; they found an old saddle, and a bunch of wild flowers evidently gathered by deceased; blood was found from 10 feet to 40 yards off the main road, and the ground shows traces of a desperate struggle. The scene is 100 yards from Te Nganui, an uninhabited pah. Great consternation and sympathy prevails. Mr Hursthouse is very energetic in pursuing enquiries, as also Colonel Roberts and Hone Pihama. It is understood that the wife of a storekeeper at Hawera wiped some blood off Stannard's clothes betore he started for Opunake. People here do not believe he id the culprit. Mr Pan-is left Hawera for Opunake this morning. Stannard was married by *he Registrar in the early part of the week to Miss Prosser of this place. The bloodstains on his coat were probably due to separating two men fighting at an hotel in Hawera on Tuesday night. Stannard has been horse-breaking near here, but bears a good name ; he is a cultivated, superior sort of man, and not likely to commit such a crime. Captain Wray, coroner, has gone up.