Murder and Suicide.
(Per Press Association). Gisuobne December 20. Jealousy was at the bottom of the native tragedy reported from Tologa Bay. A party of natives were singing songs in their whare last evening, and because his wifo mentioned the nauio of another man in the song, Eria Motawhau, taking the opportunity of the other natives leaving the whare, stabbed her in the breast and stomach, and then made off to the pah three miles distant, where he obtained a gun and shot himself through the bead, dying immediately. The unfortunate woman lingered several hours and then died Eria had been a notoriously bad character some years ago. He narrowly missed killing a European settler, whom in a fit of anger he struck on the head with a heavy rail.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 150, 21 December 1894, Page 2
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