CRIME IN THE FORTYMILE BUSH. (Our Own Correspondent.)
Pahiatita, This Day. Yesterday morning Constable Cooper received information from Alangatainoka that Mr. H. Wagataff's brewery bad been broken into, and a quantity of bottled beer taken away to a whare belonging to Mr. X> Crewe, and formerly ooonpiod by Mr. Teesdale aa » store. The constable thereupon went to .the district, and after a diligent searoh arrested four men, who are Bupposed to be the gang that broke into the railway station at Eketalirma last week. Later in the day Constable Cooper went down again to Mangatainoka, and while he was there a man rushed out of some sorub and assaulted three ladies who were going along the main road. The constable and Messrs. Barroll and Keohan gave ohase, but the man made his escape by biding in aornb olose by, and was lost sight of owing to night ooming on. The Mangatainoka people want a polios officer stationed in their midst there, numbers of men of bad oharaoter having passed through the district lately, and stopping in unoooupied premises.
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Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 2
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178CRIME IN THE FORTYMILE BUSH. (Our Own Correspondent.) Evening Post, Volume L, Issue 25, 29 July 1895, Page 2
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