TARANAKI.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 836, 19 March 1867, Page 3

TARANAKI.

ANOTHER MAORI OUTRAGE. (Fromtho "Herald," March 0.) The dream of peace in which people here have been indulging has been rudely dispelled, and ano.ther cowardly murder added to the list of Maori atrocities. Rumours were current here on Tuesday that a man had been killed by the Taranaki natives between Warea and Opunake, and these rumours, though at first of the usual doubtful character, proved to be only too true. It appears that on Thursday of last week a man named John Brady, formerly of the 65th Regiment, but lately a military settler of No. 6 company, started from Warea on the road southward in company with a halfcaste known as Dick Jackson. They left the redoubt about six o'clock in the evening, and nothing more was heard of them till the Monday of this week. On that day a native named Hori Pipi, who had left here the day before for Opunake, returned from the latter place to Warea with the news that a pakeha had been killed near Tipoka. It seems that Hori left Warea on Sunday evening, went on to Telkaroa and waited there till it was nearly dark, and then started. When he got near Waitaha he fell in with three natives fishing, who proved to be Taikomako (the successor of Te Ua), and two others. They told him to go back ; he said, Why should Igo back? and they then said. Don't you know that a pakeha has been killed at Tipoka ? The further particulars he learned were these : that the " twelve " (apostles) — or rather seven of them,, but they are still called the "twelve" — met a pakeha and a half-caste on the other side of Tipoka; that the pakeha had thereupon got off his horse and ran to (towards?) the reef; that he had been followed and killed there ; and that the half-caste was taken away a prisoner. They told him the names of those who had done it, but he only remembered one — that of Te Whetu — the others were strange to him and he had forgotten them. When Hori got to Opunake, Mr. Parris, who had arrived there from Patea, at once sent him back with a letter to Captain Clarke, 50 th Q.0., commanding at Warea, stating what had happened, and asking that an escort might be sent out to recover the body. Accordingly Captain Clarke, with commendable promptitude, took out a party of his men, and just on this side of Tipoka, near a small stream called Moukoro, and a few yards on the seaward side of the road, found poor Brady's body. He had been shot through the body and beaten on the head, apparently with tha butt of a gtm. The body was taken to Warea, and being far advanced towards decomposition, was there buried. A story similar to that of Hori had been received at Opunake from another source (the natives at Ngatoto) with one particular added — that Brady had run away when he saw one of them loading his gun ; from which it appears that their guns were not loaded when they met him. JNa'rrow Escape. — The unfortunate man Brady was murdered some time on Thursday night, and early on the same night Mr. C. Messenger, Mr. F. C. Wilson, and some Maoris, passed the spot on their way to Warea, and the next evening about sunset Mr. A. S. Atkinson and a Ngatiruanui lad also passed the same spot, without knowing that anything had happened, and fortunately without falling in with any of the rebels.