TARANAKI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 649, 11 December 1865, Page 4

TARANAKI.

ANOTHER MTJBDER BY THE HAUHAUS. FEARFUL MUTILATION OF THE BODY. By ihe Ahuriri, which arrived yesterday from Wanganui and Taranaki. we are in possession of 'J aranaln papers up to Saturday last, and of Wanganui papers to ihe 6th instant; also, the following " Extra," published on Saturday morning last by the Tarmiaki Herald: — VNOTHEU DIABOT.Tf.AL MTJT'.DER BY THE HATJiTAUa. It is our painful duty to roroid the perpetration of anethcrunprovokfd and cold-blooded murder, by the tribe who, a few months ago. murdered Kerciti. the hiarer of tho pcaeo proclamation. Tho victim upon this occasi n is a man named John Arbon, who served twelve j cars in H.M. 12th Regiment, was discharged, and had been emploied as a drayman by Mr ,-impson, duri g tho la-t two years Arbon',. duty wns to cart supplies—especially ale and spirit?, to the various military outposts. On Monday last he left Wanganui for Nukumniu with his twohorae d-«y, and stopped at .Al-xandcr's that night. On Tueidav he proceeded to his destination, and on Wednesday, started to return to Wangnnui. He had then on his person upwards of £50 in cheques, and about £7 in notes. M'lmi ho had arrived half-way between JJukumarn and Alexander's be was attacked hy the Ilauhaus and brutally murdered. A fearful struggle evidently teidt place, as clearly indicated by lho spot upon which he fell, and from whenc.i his body was drngged to tho middle of tho road, where it was discoveied ►hortly afterwards by Mr. Mit- hell of Kukumaiu. The body was found quite naked with a largo temi.hawk cut on the left sido ot tho head, tbe throat cut ncrots, the two thighs noir tho groin cut up, the cuts extending at eaeti sido of tho hips, as if attempting to dismember the body. Tho cliost was cut open about oghtcen inches downwards, and then a gash which severed ono tide about tho naval. Thiß accomplished they tbagged out their victim's heart and entrails. Our informant, who had seen the body, Bays the heart was missing. Most likely both heart and kidneys were carried away and devoured. A large piece of flesh cut out of ono arm showed that poor Arbon, who was unarm- d, had fought hard for his iifo. Immedintely on i .telligenco reaching Nuknmaru twenty men of the 18th ltoyal Irish were sent out, and the mutilated remains tabn to tho camp. 'J ho two hor es and dray were taken off hy the murderer''; the dray was subscqttently traced to the vicinity of a native village, but the party did not consider it prudent to f How up the track The deceased was a native of mfTolli, and his mother is slil living there. Arbon's little dog was found lying beside his murdered master.

Immediately on the intelligence reaching Wangnnui, lirigadier-Goneral Wuddy ordered out the Forest Hangers to ast-ist the troops stationed at Ntikomaru to pursue tlio murderers. Unfortunateh' Major. Von Tempky and Major M'Dc.nnell were 1 oth at Kangilikei recruiting for the Native Contingent. In their absence Lieut-Colonel Rookos volunteeiel his services, and wo beliovo ho accompanied the detachment, which is under the command of Lieut Pilmer. The Rangers went out yesterday evening cheering as they marched along, with " threo cheers mora for General Waddy.". No doubt Von Tempsky and M'Donncll, as soon as th<<y hear of it, will ride post haste after them. Let us wish them " God speed," and hope that the murderers, upon this occasion, will meet with comlun punishment. We »lso learn from the Taranaki Herald of the 9 h, that " The lion. Oo'onel Haultnin, Mefence Mini.-ter, arrived by the Storm Bird. Ha his visited th > outposts of tho ftoney Kifur and at the White Qiffii. It wad mid an expedition was" aotmt to Start to dislodge

- -■_ ■* the natii'Ga from the neighbourhood of tho lattet place, and considerable prepur.itions were tnado, ba no move Ins yfifc taken place." Tho Wdnganui Chronicle of tho 6th says of the lato Charles Broughton,, Rgq., who was so brutally murdered by tho Hauhaus :— A suggestion has b»en mule by the Brijadier-Gene-ral commanding tho district, that something should bo done by tho troops employed in tho Taranati campaign to show their appreciation of the sen-ices of tho late Mr. Broughton, more especially consider, ing (hat he met his death while engaged in a special mission atKakanmea. The Gonsral oropotes that a sum of money, sufficient to place d tablet or ornamental window to the mcrawj of deceased in the Episcopal Church at Wanganui, should he raised and for this purpose ho requests those officers who approve of his suggestion to open subscription lists for their respective corps. No doubt the military will titko up the matter warmly, and we are oare many of Mr. Broughton's townsmen wil feel a melancholy pleasure in joining them in thus testify, ing their respect for a gent eman nhose untimolj fate has evoked suvh generd sr.rrow.

We learn from tho Taranaki Herald, of the 9th thna"an inquest was held during the woek on the body of an infant Miori child six weeks old which died under circums'ances deminding inve-tigatinn. The mother of the child. Tari, h .d, it appea- s. shortly after its tdrth left hrr hnsbanrl ami g"ne to live with another Maori, Tnnioti I iranmu—the inducement, apparently, be : ng that tho latti r kept a ' Canteen' or unlicensed grog-shop, for lie is by no means attractivo in person. According to her own evidence, lari Flept without clothing (tahanga) on the fl or of ihe canteen on the night before tlrat on which the child died. ' IlerPj' be says, ' its illness beg in. She wr,ippe i it in he' petticiat. but the hardness of the bnaids m.d'< ils hack bad" Tho text day Mi-; and her parammr went 10 find a wct-nursf for the child ; they fund one, anil lef' the child with her, anil a few hour* afigrward* it died. The jury, after hearing a portion c-f thoevi. said thev did lift think it notessaiyto heat any more, and returned a verdict of "mitural death." There wero witms-iesin Court who would have spoken to the state in which the child was hr in to the pi where tne wct-nurao lived, how it w.s dripping wet, with hardly a r'g of clothing on it, and in face of a cold south westerly wind. An infant .-ix weeks old had been exposed to the rain and wind for a considerable time; at da\break the following morning it dies of congestion of tho lungs —according; to the jury this was " from natural cause* on'y." We might asdt whether it was for a mother so to expose her child, and then leave it in the hands of strangers to die—whether there was riot something approaching to crim nal neglect in whit she did—whether her conduct did not at least deserve a word of ceneuto ? 'J he friendly natives of the neighbourhood h ne teen in a sta'e of excitement about the matter, believing the chi'd to have been murdered to pet it out of the way, and wo do not think they have much reason to congratulate themselves on this appeal to our law. As will be seen elsewhere, the Victoria Cross has been presented on parade to Sergeant Murray, of the 68th Eegimcnt.