NEWS FROM TAUPO- NO MURDERS COMMITTED.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 11, Issue 865, 10 August 1867, Page 2

NEWS FROM TAUPO- NO MURDERS COMMITTED.

Frederick Sullivan, an 4iitelligent h&&>' caste, returned on ; Thursday nigEt frqm^ the Taupo District, where he has beeti <oit^ some of Col. Whitmore's business. reports that he met two of the natives 'ifeho^^ went with the party fro^n^a,|>ief^tl^jßlr^ ;f; Firth's cattle, -Himiona and Ihaka,, at.te -yPatehe (a settlement about 15 xnile6 : oft^&e"-'.,' Napier side of Taupo), firon^. whom: |he learnt that the party in question had all arrived at, Taupo, but that the cattle had been stopped by the Hau Haus at Tapuwaeharuru, the point where the Waikato river flows from the lake, and ' Buckland's cattle had previously; been stopped. The friendly chief Poihipi has now obtained possession of the cattle. Our informant not then having heard the report . that they had been murdered, did not make particular enquiries about the party, and cannot therefore say where -the pakehas now are. He thinks, however, : that they V have gone to Maketu. The report of • their having b<?en stopped at Run»Dga was ; . , incorrect. Captains' Can and Birch, he , states, Jbave gone to Maketu run-hunting. The prospecting party, the return, of ... which is elsewhere referred, to, atso;testifjr;.7/ to the fact that such jnurders as ihose reported could not have been, commit^fd, without their having heard something about .:. them. ■ ■ :. . ■••- : ;•.■ •,.'; ; ;;;;^ i -v,