Poor Buku Rukn (writes the Patea correspondent of the Wanganui Herald), who keep* the public house at Kaupukanui, ia in trouble. He ia the victim of a “ muru." It appears that Baku's wife took a fancy to a young man of Omuturangi, or the young man of Omuturangi took a fancy to Buka’s wife. Be that as it may, the sages took council, and decided to have a “muru." This is how they did it. They went to Buku’s place, and literally stripped him of everything, stripped to gantline, except his wife, and I believe the young man of Omuturangi took her. Poor Baku, who was really very rich the other day, is now absolutely without a copper. This muru is a moat logical law ; the man’s wife does something wrong, . ergo, the man must be robbed —or a better word “ murued kapai muru.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume II, Issue 113, 1 October 1873, Page 3
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