A WHANGAREI TRADEDY.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 660, 10 November 1909, Page 6

A WHANGAREI TRADEDY.

(By TdccraDk-Succlnl CpricsDgpdcnt) Auckland, Ntnombcr 0. Tho fe\oltmg child muidci caso which oo cuued in tho Whangarei ihstiKt ioinu lwel\e months ago Mill bo trmorsod again in tho l'olico Court toinouo« nio'iiing. The circumstances ol the oaso Mcio sufficiently honiblo to lu\a remained m tjio moiiiory ot most'ptoplo, 'iwo -Nali\es tluow then child on a mo'atid tho child was burned to death, and (hov ptoaded subsequent)) I hut they hnrt dono it"in obedience to a command ot tho jiinn'i. fathei. The rlfair viai not diseased b} tho polico until a iortnight afterwards,, and inviuitiiuo the aged Maori, who it was alleged was tho lUiligntor of tho cniTK, had gono to Uljang.iroi ant' nttrActed some notice, as the icbult'of which he . was pi|t undei restraint at Avondalo n-i n <* lunatic. Tho other Uo perton; conceinpd, son ani his rtaughter-in-law! are now m gaol bPivißß lon- sentences} Iml-ttho jenr nt A*ondalo has f-o tar impro\ci!, the old Maori's mental conilition that ho is now lit to bo Hlwated, and tho n<) lam authorities haTO no right to delmn him. Tlio proeecdiiißi tomorrow nro instituted bj tlio police, who now ask. that ho lii committed, a? 0 crinnpn)