NATIVE INTELLIGENCE: THE PURSUIT OF TE KOOTI.
The 11. B: Herald saysWe learn that Sub-Inspector Ferris returned to Waikaremoana on the 24th iflt., after for some weeks following Te Kooti through the country between Poverty Bay and Waikaremoana. It is estimated that the tracks were followed fully 150 miles, principally through forest and over bad broken country. Every device was adopted by Te Kooti, sueli as travelling in the beds of torrents, for instance, to evade pursuit, and this rendered the task of his pursuers a very severe one. The party, however, succeeded in following his tracks to Waikaremoana Lake, and thence round the lake to the country in which lie was hiding when he burnt Mr Dolbel’s homestead, into which place Mr Ferris is nowfollowing him. The places in which he had camped at night were all found. It was observed that lie never slept twice in the same place. It is evident that the natives who are acting as guides to the pursuing party are trackers of a highly skilled description.
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 182, 9 May 1872, Page 3
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