-Monday lost making diligent March' in every direction, fno trace* of him c have been- discovered. .His rifle being"- al»6 ; missing,' it ' U supposed' he went' out pig ■ shooting.' fVixripu*,; opinions are given as to his fate, ~but we think' the /mpit likely i«, that the unfprtuuata, iriiih h«ving T lo»t himself wandering in! the dehie forest/ and being subject to; disease, of 'the heart, has died suddenlyfrbm fright and exoitementj*atid lies 1 probably* at no great 'distance from Where he'started. — Ibid. "'(FfeOM THD "NEWH,".'APBIr. 30.) n < .' , The unfortunate 'manr Pratley,' who iwaai' working with others at the; intended German settlement, and who instead of returning with his, companions" to town on last Saturday week determined,' to re ? main behind, t ha? ' been missing ever since, aud although, search, was made for him, by, his com panions and the -friendly Maoris for several dayg, no traces of. him have be6n " discovered. ', He had r 'With 'him Hid rifle and 'had propbsed 'to go' in ; ' search of pigs. All suggestions 'about his fate are' of' course 'merely speculative. 1 * Some' of" his com.-' jpanions think that ho' may' have p'erishedin' at^ tempting 'to cross th* river on the day following { that on .which, they,yleft him; but, the* natives; assert their .belief that >he has fallen into tkehandsi <of the 1 Ngatiruanui c ■fllfh.om , they contend are/ jnj 'numbers ,in the far bush j '.and, after they \ had-, I sought iv vain for him they jwithilrew, their-, ■ people from the work^at the liew settlement, and th* Europeans were withdrawn bodu'after. '' \ 'The above incident, to'gbther with, a report prinoi-', 'pally emanating fr'oto the^ friendly "Maoris to the' 1 effect that Rewi is either* on his way, or is imme diately to set out from 1 Waikato for the, Sonth, has caused some anxietydnring thapast week, but wo must presume unnecessarily, as the Government would be <. (jnite as likely to be in. posbe&sion of his movements ! ,i£ any such, had, been in. contemplation,- a? pjuvato.iiVt j dividuals or the natives themselves. There are also reports of danger near. 