HORRIBLE MURDER.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 4988, 23 April 1889, Page 2

HORRIBLE MURDER.

ARREST OP THE ALLEGED MURDERER. (Br Telegraph.) NAPIER, April 22. The Herald's Wairoa correspondent wires that the shepherd’s house at Mahia, on the run of Mr George Ormond, has been discovered burned to the ground with the remains of a man supposed to be Gollan, shepherd to Mr Ormond, in the debris. As suspicious circumstances were reported, Mr Large, J.P., who has gone up to hold an inquest, is accompanied by Detective Grace and Dr Wilkinson. GISBORNE, April 22. News has been received here of a horrible murder committed on Mahia Peninsula. A man named Robert Gollan has been murdered by a half-caste named McQuarrie. Gol'an’s remains were found amongst the ruins of his whare, which bad been destroyed at Table Cape. On the night of the murder McQuarrie loft his home, and his young brother-in-law being frightened of being at home in the dark followed, a short distance behind him. McQuarrie was heard to fire three shots. The appearance of the ground around Golian’s whare showed that the bleeding body had been dragged into the whare, which had been burnt. The motive assigned is jealousy. McQuarrie has often expressed himself in jealous terms of Gollan on account of a Maori woman with whom ho was livirg, and of whom McQuarrie was deeply enamoured. The other day he offered a Maori £lO if he would bring the woman to him. The police are at Mahia, and McQuarrio has been arrested.