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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 293, 10 December 1900, Page 2

Mr S. Watson, who has been several months absent on a trip Home, was a passenger by the s.s Elingamite, which arrived from Sydney this afternoon.

Captain Edwin advises for 24 hours from 9 a.m. this day: "Moderate to strong westerly winds during next 20 hours, then changing to betweennortheast and north and west; glass fall; indications for rain after midnight, weather warmer." A youth named Whymau In _li, engaged on board the s.s. Rotoiti, mis arrested at Onejmnga last night by Constable McCarthy on a charge of stealing a mackintosh, valued 30/, (he property of W. M. Saunders, fie appeared before Dr. W. It. Close Bwn. J.F*, this morning, and was rem .a.J.d till to-morrow.

Mr. Henry Varley writes to say that he was unable to take passage to New Zealand by the steamer Alameda, as tlie company changed her time, and she sailed three days earlier than her first announced date. Mr. Varley's preaching engagements were full up to her first date of sailing. Many old friends who visited the steamer in hopes of seeing the evangelist, and were disappointed, will be glad to hear that he. i.s in good health, and is now going to England by the P. & 0. Company. Another curious story reaches us (says the Tauranga "Times") from Moiiti, showiug that the Maori belief in the power of the tohungas and their makutu is anything but extinct ye.. H seems that a young oLief named Wahatoto was taken ill some two years ago with some iniiammatory complaint in the head, which was put down to the effect of maltutu (witchcraft). Rehara Te Keke, a tohunga of repute on the East Coast, being here «t the time, was oousulted. and prescribed removal, to Motiti Island, and seclusion on a certain sprd v,*. away from the. village, not even hip. wife, but only his niece, a girl of 12, was to be Ins attendant, to wa.h aT.d cook for him. he himself being ordered to kccp.hirnsc.il" well crn pi 1"7----with prayers. Wahatoto strictly 'ollowed this*'.ndvic*. for two yea-;, n..i re.ently sent word fo the settlement to say' that lie wn . fniite enred end ivsp coming to vis-it the people there He is now regsrch'cl as being himself a tohuDfira of great power.