TE, AROHA. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Late Murder.

Waikato Times, Volume XVI, Issue 1348, 19 February 1881, Page 2

TE, AROHA. [FROM OCR OWN CORRESPONDENT.] The Late Murder.

The excitement concerning the murder, has cooled down somewhat and work, which had been pretty well suspended in some of the claims, has .been resumed. The natives have held a great tangi over the remains of the unfortunate dative at the Ngatihoka pah, at which a great quantity of Kai was consumed bad the ush&l amount of talk indulged in. This appears to have acted as a vent "for their excite* ment, and they are now again visiting the Township in considerable numbers, always clearing out, however, before as nothing would indiica them to paqs £he spot where the murder was committed after dark. They- have, also "tnpued the creek, which runs past O'Hnlloran's Hotel, on account of water from it, being u*ei 10 wash the body of the murdered man, and are very particular in seeing that the water they drink, even in the Hotel, doea not come from that source. A silly hoax has been perpetrated at ike Thames, by some sensation monger re* porting that the natives here, were terribly ezcited, and that ,the lives of the people here were in danger, and urgently needed protection. A good .deal of excitement was caused, and I believe steps were being taken to send us assistance when the report was happily contradicted, I need hardly say that no one here ever anticipated that the natives would make any organised attack on the township,, the only damage feared was that some £fr the natives in their excitement might seek revenge by murdering some one in the vicinity of the settlement, that danger however, appears to be passing away the majority of the natives being willing to leave the matter in the hands of the authorities. The police under Detective Farrell and Sergt. Mulville are still working hard in procuring evidence and it is announced that a large amount of evidence will be forthcoming at , the , examination of the prisoner which takes place on Monday next. Whatever new light the Police may have in the matter is kept strictly secret, but a rumour is gaining ground that the guilty party (whether the Erisoner or not, I cannot say) will be rought to justice. A minute survey, and plan of the scene of the murder and its surroundings is being made for the authorities by Mr Kenuy, lately Sub-Inspector of the police. Some amusement has been caused here by the visit of Messrs Seed and Batkin, the secretaries to the Treasury and Cus» toms who are now going the round of the colony to see what reductions can be made in the Civil Service. It is thought here that it would be more to the purpose if the Government were to send some one with power to provide for the absolutelynecessary requirement of the place notably a lock-up and the' connection by Tele* graph with the rest of the colony. It is absolutely shameful l that ip & place with a population as " large as this and with the bad char* aoters which are incidental to every new rush, the police should be with* out the means of confining any drunken or refractory persons except chaining them to a tent-pole, in fact there is little doubt that the Government are directly responsible for the murder just committed, caused, as it in all probability |ras, by the drunkenness of one or more rowdy characters, whom the police had no means of restraining through the wont of « proper lockup. It is useless to say, that they are .waiting for the development of tjie" field, for even should the mining' Industry turn out to be unremunerativ©, which' I don't believe, the increase of settlement which is rapidly taking: place all roundttur will be jrinply sufficient to maintain ahci render flourishing the township,. Tfie Government are selling' large quantities of land in the district, and, as 7 a commercial speculation it would, well repay them, to spend the little money zequfmyn' connecting us with the telegifatlaWß(|; of the colony, and 1 our Other: a^H necessary requirements. ""^

The milliners are disgusted with the diminished quantity: of material, uued for evening ac weU as walking dresses. , The absence of long trains in dancing dresses is, of course/, a Iffsa bn I> , outfit than the fashion of trading skirts, which not only^deman'd' more' material, bnt a more frequenjt. renewal of the same, as a ; crowded dihoing room rarely lea/ci fa enthusiafiticf dancetfl more Jthtn a moiety of their'aerialikirfs. Tdnrrinres »ro>worn B^'stainthe trtin ai it fills; fftnd; a faint indication of the panier fashion is* Tis»W«