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escaped, making their way overland to Dunedin. On crossing a river one of them involuntarily expiated his iniquities by getting drowned. The other two reached Dunedin, where they were arrested, but there being in those days no Supreme Court in New Zealand, the criminals were deported to Sydney, where they were tried, convicted, and punished.
Fortunately almost all the stolen property was ultimately discovered and restored to the Messrs. Greenwood, but the incident itself so deeply impressed them, that when the added calamity of the accidental death by drowning of Mr. Joseph Greenwood (on his way from Purau to Motonau) overtook them, the remaining two brothers became so disheartened that in 1847 they sold Purau to Messrs. W. B. and G. Rhodes.
The two Greenwood Brothers went to Sydney with the intention of buying stock for their Motonau Station. With this object in view, Mr. James Greenwood had a considerable amount of money in his possession, but in some mysterious way, possibly connected with this fact, he completely disappeared, and has never been heard of since.
Mr. Edward Greenwood went to England,
