Clever Capture of the Thief in the King Country.

Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2113, 23 January 1886, Page 3

Clever Capture of the Thief in the King Country.

Our correspondent writes on the 21st :— Constable Joues effected a clever capture yesterday, in arresting a half-caste named lioani Warena for whom a warrant had been issued, charging him with having bmken into the btore of Mr J. D. Hill, nt Alexandra, and stealing therefrom a shawl and money amounting to some £3 odd on Tuesday night or early on Wednesday morning la«t. It appears that on Mr Hill being aware of his premises being broken into and liii lo«s, at once placed the matter into the hands of Constable Jones, who on enquiry, found that a person answering the description of Warena, had been loitering about the t>l<>re on Tuesday even ing, ana had been seen outride it at a very late hour. At an euly hour Constable Jones, accompanied by Trooper Shanaghan proceeded up-couutry to look for the suspected party, and received information at Mr Elba's store that he had been there and purchased a bridle for which he paid 7s Gii all in copper (some 30s worth of copper coin was amongst the money stolen) knowing that native hor»e racing sports were about to take place at Kangatiki, Tawbiuo's old settlement above Otorohanga, the constables provided thither and met and arrested their prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the robbery, and returned with him to Alexandra without let or hindrance from any of the other natives present. The prisoner Hnani Warena {John Warren), was brought up this morning before Mr F. C. Gertnann, charged with the offence, and on the application of CoDstablo Jones, whs remanded until Saturday next. This arrest and apprehension of a native so far m the King Country is a very noticeable event. The fii-.t I think in which the law has been vindicated by a Government servant. In Winiata's case it was one of his own people who made the capture. Constables Jones and Shanaghan are deserving of great praise for their pluck in making tho arrest and running down th«ir man so speedily.

List of visitors to Te Aroha Hot Springs last week :— Mr and Mrs Symington, Mr Fitzgerald, Mi* S. Mucky, Mr Kenriuk, jun., Mr Banks and two son*, Mr Kirkpatrick and f 1 iend, Mr and Mrs G. M. C. Harrison, Thames. Mr and Mr MoArthur, Mr and Mrs Scott, Mr and Mrs Cochrane, i Mr and Mrs Nolan, Mr Smilherton, Mr ' and Mrs Jones and daughter, Mr and Mn> Tan Hold and daughter, Piofe>sor Brown, Mr Dickey and two children, Hon. W. Swanson, M.L.C., Hon. G. McLean, M.L.0., Mr Hurst, M.H.K., Mr Outrani, Mr and Mrs Bell, Mr Knight, Mr Medcalf, Prof. Thomas, Mr Jones, Inspector Thomson, Mr Hud^ou, Auckland. Mr D. M. Beere, Mr Woolf, Waikato. Mr Lambourt, Matamatft. Mr Noble, Scotland. Hon. Mr Kichardson (Minister for Public Work*). Mr and Mrs Maxwell, Wellington; Mr Studholme, Mr Pierceson, Mr Lanagan, Ohristchurch. Mr J. B. Whyte, M.H.R., Mr Cooin, Auckland. Mr Montgomery »nd friend, Thames. Revs. D. Whytock and Mason, Mrs and Miss Robinson, Mrs Walpole, Mrs Ashwell, Mm Boyce, Mrs Jagger, nurse, and four children, Mr, Mrs and Mist Mahoney, Mr and Mrs Williams, Misses Gordon (2), Weston, Woodhouse, Munro, Messrs Day, A. C. Caiiphey, Murray, Soames, John Henderson, John Howie, Tester, Roger*, Bookes, Booker, Auckland. Misses Fletcher, Betchpr, Mis ! and Master Kilgour, MhJ. H. Smith and family, Mr and Mrs Gallagher, nnrsi\ and five children, Me*.srs Pope, Gripe. Rolifo, Murdoch, Role, Thames. Mr L. Edward-*, Miss M. Clymo, Mr E. Morgan, CWomandel. Mr R. Phillips, Marlb< trough. Mr Holt, Mr D'Arcv McDougall. Queensland. Mr Gray, Melbourne. Mr Tyrrel, Sydney. Miss White, Pakuranga. Mr H. Russell, Wanganni. Mrs Gly, Onehunga. Mrs McLeod, Melbourne. Mr S. White, Wanganui. Mrs Shipley and child, New York. Miss Glover, Mrs Hickson, England. Mr Clarke, Gisborne. Mr Feiguson, Waihi. Mr Cirr, Waik.tto. Mr and Mrs Allen, Chribtchurch. Mr Napner, Waikato. Mr Raymond, Dargaville. Mr* Hickson, Mrs Norman, Mrs Raymond, Mrs Baker, Onehunga, Mr Mauniville, Wellington. Mr Pearson, Mrs Buckley, etc., etc. Good Words— Frov Good Authority.—* •• We confess tbat n-e are perfectly amazed at the run of your American Co's Hop Bitteis. We never had an)thi»fr like it, and ne\er heard of the like. The writer (Kenton) has been selling' drugs here nearly thirty \ears and h?* seen the rise of Hostetter's Vinegar and all other bi t r<t and patent medicine*, but never did an/ of them, in their be- 1 days, begin to have the run that American Hop Biters have. • * W«> rant get enough of them We are out of them half the time. • • Extract from letter to Hop Bitters Co., U.S.A.. Aueust 22. '78. from Binto.v, My bks and Co., Wholesale druggists, Cleveland, 0. Be sure and ste