HOW MATENGA WAS CAPTURED

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13626, 20 December 1907, Page 4

HOW MATENGA WAS CAPTURED

'■■'.■ ' FIVE YEARS IN THE BUSH, [fiX TELEBBA.PB-—OWH CORBBBPOSM** J .; J Gisbobnb, Thurso*?. ; The story of the capture of Hare M»tMg» was related on the arrival of the P°Jk£ ', party in town this evening. The party, ' consisting of Detective Broherg, 'Constable A. Skinner, and Harry Green, * :' Poverty Bay man who accompanied *"•:;', 'officers of the law as their guide, leg Hutchinson's Tamora Station at W»8?r |||| on Monday morning. At dark thatnigM >,; "j - they made the Waima pa, on the Henga- , . roa River, near Mr. ■'White's station, : anft||||||vf; close to the sits of Rua's former encampment. . The men were most ; hospitaniy treated by the chief of the **$*"** Hukunui by name. ' They learned totfj strange Ngatipororu native had come w , the pa, with clothes torn, and long, ragged hair, about three weeks before. -*» ( hungry stranger was taken in, and enjoyed a week's hospitality, during wbwj time he had his hair cut and was »**£. . out with some clothes. When he depart ed he left behind him a doub e-barreMeo gun. The stranger on the 2nd inst- "J < j left to go in the direction of WaI VT Tuesday morning saw the party. oni w , , trail again. Eventually the ; B«f* ltu £; . was reached, and here the . traveller*. . known to the inquisitive natives .»« > . survey party, were well received *>; <* head man, Hawera. , » "We had been there about an torn.. explained the detective, "when ourgnttw. . who knew the ■ language,.-.picked out stranger. We could also see J be ..3to stranger to the tribe, so, we Jo*J'., j have a word with him. He had aWi silver watch and chain, with a pendant* tached, in which our guide; ™°*?:£j J ' '■ photo, of Mrs. Brothers. ' Aft« gwngj, fictitious name at first, he - &**% owned up, and admitted his identify- J* , _ gun he had left at Waima £* g£ , taken from a Motu camp, and .' roi "» • live years he had been living in-the »*; \' getting food from time to ■ time. U oWj * ous camps. He ( made no fight, ana . >[ .. had no firearms." '__ .. '■•^^A'/X^ry..