MAORI MURDERS AND SUPERSTITION.
(by telegraph.) Auckland, August 31,
An extraordinary statement haa been made by some natives in town. They say that a man named Hoani and his wife had a short time since been digging gum near Point Russell on the Waikate. The wife took ill and ultimately died, but a story became current that she had been bewitched, or makutued, by her husband. Relations of the woman reside in the King Country, and two brothers came down for the purpose of killing the man who possessed of such dreadful power. They found him quietly digging for gum. He had a large hpta open, ana the men killed him with a tomahawk, put
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 1 September 1880, Page 2
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115MAORI MURDERS AND SUPERSTITION. Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 1 September 1880, Page 2
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