AFTER MATENGA.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 65, 10 December 1907, Page 5

AFTER MATENGA.

DETECTIVE BROBERG RESUMES THE CHASE. ~'.'" • Slatonga, the Maori outlaw, whoso depredations in the early winter of 1906 in the bush country at the back of Poverty Bay, and'between there and tlio East.Ciip'6, earned for him the reputation'ofboing a veritablo " wild man of the woods," has boon once moro in evidence in that part of the country, tho police having been advised of his reappearance in the vicinity of tho bush camps of the Poverty Bay district, whero •* ho is regarded as a bogy by. the outlying settlor, who nover knows at what moment his supplies may bo raided.

Acting on certain information,' Commissioner Dinnio has dispatched Detective Broberg and Constables Skinner, tho well-known wrestler, to tho north to make a thorough search for tho outlaw. They will bo assisted in thoir soarch by others who , havo local knowledge of the district. ■ • ■ It \yill bo romembcred that Dntcctivo Broberg and those wibh him had a very seven? experience during the. winter of 1906, when keeping a look-out for Matenga on tho bushcovered mountains inlaiiil' from Tolaga Bay. The party experienced groat privations, land through repeated wettings they all suffered more or less from rheumatics. Though a wide stretch of rough country was covered on that occasion, they saw.no sign .of Matenea. The weather is all that could bo desired for oamping out at the present time, and the present partjr aopea to tyve better luck.