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ANOTHER MAORI MASSACRE. SIXTY EUROPEANS KILLED IN THE WAIKATO. [from ottr owx correspondents.] Taranaki, via Pate a, Dec. 31.
A man named Bishop was knocked off his horse at the Waitara sports and severely hurt. He has since died. On Monday, a man named Aiugle, while cutting the foot off a sheep, the knife slipped and cut a vein in his arm. He bled for sixteen houra without any one knowing it, and was found lying on his bed in a pool of blood. He is recovering. A Steam Navigation Company has been s f arted here. At the Agricultural Show the flax exhibited gave great dissatisfaction, as per judge's repoxt. JP? This is a very dull Christmas for tradesmen. A mounted orderly from Waiti camp is just in. He reports that four natives reached there from Mokau with the intelligence that sixty persons have been killed in the Waikato. - The" telegraphist was tomahawked on "the head. ' At the inquest on the man killed at Waitara sports, the verdict was "accidental death." Christchurch, Jan. 2. An inquest \w held on the 30th inst., at Akafoa, on^ the body of Thomas Growan, who was -killed in a drunken quarrel at Le Bon's Bay. A verdict of wilful murder was given against George Hall and David Wright. , The Volunteer encampment at Sumner commenced on SaturdsUjßtThree hundred Volunteers attended. a3ol. Harrington reviews them to-day. A sham fight takes place afterwards.
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Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 774, 3 January 1871, Page 2
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