TELEGRAMS.
[I’!CR TRESS ASSOCIATION.] Nautical Inquiry. Wellington, To-day. The enquiry into the collision between the Ladybird and the Wakitu is now proceeding. A Maori Tragedy. At Waitava on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock, a native named Poharama Takorangi, belonging to Kaipo, stabbed his wife and a man named Winp.oharama. Poharama and the native whom ho stabbed are both chiefs. The wife re ceived one stab which is said to be a dangerous one, and the man was stabl ed in four places, on the right side of the chest and tho left loin. Little hope is entertained of his recovery. Pohurama’u house which was destroyed was a new one, and is believed that ho set firo to it while suffering from delirium tremens. Tho police are out searching for him. An Agreeable Process. Fatea Poharoma, the native whostabbed his wife and another native at Waitotara Flat on Sunday, has been punished. The natives, after trying him, inflicted punishment by dropping boiling water on hi* face and applying burning rags to hi* back and spine.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 637, 16 May 1882, Page 2
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174TELEGRAMS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume III, Issue 637, 16 May 1882, Page 2
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