CAPTURE OF A MAORI OUTLAW.
— » [Per Press Association - .] GISBORNE, December 18. News was , received by the local police to-day that ' Hare Matenga had been captured. Matenga is wanted on a ohargß of stealing a horse about two years ago. Some time ago an expedition was sent out to capture him, but was unsuccessful, and the party . had a hard time, the weather being very rough. Since Matenga took to the bush after the alleged horse-stealing ho has been blamed for a number of petty thefts from bush camps. ,A, short time ago Detective Broberg, Constable Skinner and Green, a man with a knowledge of the district, left town to seek him again. On Monday they left Tahora to inquire into a report that a strange Maori had been seen at the Rangiora pa. From there they followed the trail, and came npon Matenga at Harapepa pa, about -fifty miles from town, Matenga was taken, and admitted sundry thefts from bush camps':
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 9113, 19 December 1907, Page 1
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