INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS.
Gisborni, Ootober 29.
A Maori woman, utmad Roro Kakari, wab bvroed to death at Tekoro, near Awaaul, on Tuesday night, during the absence of her husband at a tangt over Hone Mokena. The woman usually kept a light burning, con»isting of a fat-lamp, manufactured out of the shell of a vegetable. Ie ii supposed this caught the bed clotblDg, and the was Bufoo&ted with the smoke, as abe did not appeir to have made any attempt to escape. . A Maori living near saw the wture ablaze, but was too late to cave the woman.
Dunedin, October 29.
A young nvtn named Hubert D. Wilkinson was killed this morning. Ho had gone out shooting on a pony, a« d it ie onrtniied that the pony was startled by his firing orßlippedand threw him. At any rate on search being made on his nut returning home ac the usual time his body was found quite dead. He was twentyone years of aye.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1699, 31 October 1887, Page 2
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162INTERPROVINCIAL NEWS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1699, 31 October 1887, Page 2
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