MR BALLANCE AND MAJOR ROPATA ON THE SPOT.
[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Gisborne, This Day. Reports are to hand from the Waipiro. of a most horrible affair having occurred there. The Waipiro block was adjudicated upon some six months ago the Land Court and the chief Nihoniho declared to have no interest in it. Tutawas strongly opposed to the decision and applied for a new trial which is just about to take place. Ha also at once erected a pah containing many whares in which some 100 natives were living. An intensely strong feeling consequently existed between the trespassers and the natives decided by the Court to be the owners, and several conflicts have taken place. • On Wednesday or Thursday night last the whole pah is reported to have been burned and three men and one woman burned" to death. It is believed the Hostile natives fired the ph. Mr Ballance and Major Ropata were expected to arrive at Waipiro yesterday and would make enquiry into the affair. The foregoing is only based on Maori raporte.
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 133, 20 April 1886, Page 3
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