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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 224, 20 November 1888, Page 3

The other day a Napier resident wanted to send to a friend in Heretaunga some willow cuttings. He took them to the railway station and the booking clerk decided to class them as timber. Timber must be charged as 100 feet, and so the consignor was asked to p ;y as if he was sending 100 feet of timber. H- objected, wrapped some straw round the cuttings, and took them back again, when they were sent at parcel rates, charged Is. The escaped prisoner Hone Mare was captured in the Lyttelton tunnel at half past two on Saturday morning. The police and artillerymen had been divided into patrols of two men each. An artillerymen named Stanley and Constable McCormick, who captured Murray after his first escape, were in ambush not far above the mouth of the tunnel, when they saw Mare creeping along, carrying three small sacks. They made a dash at him, and the Maori dropped the bagsand made off, the officers in hot pursuit. An exciting chase through the streets ensued, McCormick leading the pursuit and now and then firing ineffectually at the Maori. By this time other patrols had joined in the chase, and the fugitive, who had run down the hill on to the wharves, was turned off among the railway trucks. For a few moments he was lost to view. Someone suggested he had entered the tunnel, and a lantern was procured, and Constable Connor and others dashed in after Mare. They found him about half-way, crouched between the waterpipe and the wall. The Maori seeing the odds against him made no resistance, but treated the matter philosophically, saying he would escape again. He was wearing clothes he had stolen from Mr Hunt’s and Rev Hill’s houses. The bags he dropped contained proyiaionSf