Despoiling the Dead.
SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE IN HAWKE'S BAY. Hastings, Nov. 18, A great stir was caused on Friday night by a report that the vault in which several chiefs at Te Hauke are buried had been broken into, and the corpses removed. Recently, when the vault was opened in order that another member of the family might be interred, a startling disclosure was made The party found that the father's coffin bad been removed and opened, that the colli n of the second son lay at the bottom of the vault, and that that of the other son was standing on end The natives wer-a intensely excited, and the wildest rumours filled the air. The three bodies, they said, had been taken out, and the heads cut oil and removed from the vault. — Times Correspondent.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 122, 19 November 1894, Page 2
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