DISTURBANCE AT RAHOTU
ATTEMPT TO ARREST A NATIVE. By TclenraDli—l'reflS Association. New Plymouth, March 30. Tbo "Taranaki Herald's" correspondent at llahotu roports a serious disturbance there on Thursday evening. While Constable O'Neill was arresting a Maori named Billy Te Whiti, the Maori resisted, and raised a war cry, which brought about seventy Maoris to his rescue. Constable O'Neill called on whites for assistance, and for an hour a general fight was carried on between tho Maoris and about half a dozen pakehas. Te Whiti got away, and the fight subsided.
The constable had his eyes blacked, and is badly bruised all over. A man named Edward Duggnn had his thumb nearly bitten off, and Private Willcox's uniform was almost torn off hie back.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 164, 1 April 1918, Page 6
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123DISTURBANCE AT RAHOTU Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 164, 1 April 1918, Page 6
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