The Dunedin Tragedy.

Manawatu Times, Volume VIII, Issue 308, 10 July 1883, Page 2

The Dunedin Tragedy.

INTERESTING.^ AUTfetTLARS.

' '■"'■ Ne*w Plymouth, Jjuly 9. Mr Q. D. Whitecombe, Commissioner of Crown Lands, has furnished the Taranaki with ihe following particulars relative to 'the perpetrator of the fearful tragedy at Dunediu, during the time lie was m New Plymouth : — " George. Timothy Stephenson came to New Plymouth m March, 1875. He was often at the Laud Office inquiring about land. He said that he came Up from Otago, that he had been, m |a bank at Cromwell (the Natiqnal ( l think)' but' that he did riot like' desk !work. and had thrown it up, ( and !waa then interested m some' quartz reefs, whice turned out pretty well. He, however, intended to turn to farming, and wished .to take up laad m this district. After looking about, he took up 66»> acres m the jlVToa district, viz, sections 95 and, 97, ' '2b's acres for cash, sections '41,200 acres on deferred payments, m his own ' name, and sections j94, 200 acres, iuthe name of his wifp ,Ma'rv Bly'the Stephenson, as was allowed by the " Taranaki Wsste I and Act, 1874," then iv force. He went out to the bl ck.aud remained ! there some few months m a whare, Hooking alter the felling of a portion ; of the land. I believe he then told me that he was going to Dunedin to. fetch up. his . wife and child. |In 1876 he returned here, told me | that his,, wife would, not jeave , Dunedin, and hated, the idea of farming and bush life, and that he ■should have to get rid of his land. He aeiemed mnch upset ait' his /wife's refusal to come here, and the com sequent necessity for. disposing of hisland!" '; '' * ° •• » ; A Dunedin, July 9. The victims of the Manor Place dynamite tragedy : have now been buried, Mrs Stephenson yesterday, and Stepheuaon to-day.