Hohepa again in Trouble.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 585, 21 March 1891, Page 3

Hohepa again in Trouble.

Thk native named Hohepa Te Pera, who Was such a prominent figure in connection with the trial concerning the dreadful Pook tragedy, is so well known by name, that there is not much need to explain who and what he his. He was first arrested in connection with the murdets. but then be was let off, and eventually his brother was convicted and hanged for the crime, Hohepa was subsequently shadowed for a long time, but no evidence of complicity could be obtained. Now, after so many months, he has once more got into the hands of the police, having, at Waipiro, been committed for trial on a charge of robbery with violence. Hohepa bears a very bad character at Waipiro.

The horse fly threatens to prove a great pest to Canterbury farmers. AMr Cooper, of Lyttelton, states that one of his horses has been attacked.

By a big SaU vation demonstration in Napier the Army hoped to play the devil out of the town. A squeamish journal stated that rhe Army intended to play the out of the town.

In order to attract colonial wool to the proposed Austrian wool market at Triewie, Australian squatters are promised that their wool shall be conveyed there at one-eighth of a penry per pound, less than ihe ounent rases, with the guarantee that in ths eveyt of inadequate Couiinental sales the remnants snail be carried to London free of charge, in time for the yearly sales of the English market.

people are going tp blase away £/O worth of fireworks un their JntviigeD<y« Ginborne people will wonder why they do not lift out the plug at the oil works and apply a match. The most brilliant tiMfirias* Uon we ever had in Poverty Bay was fch? PV n fs<l - tQ ? av< ! b y the plug of linnid S ’ hoo, l |i 8 ”P •»« letting the Y?e to BparU from tila *ery. otd dlyj. Mme saew ‘ Mo 8« l! > lh«