ILL-TREATMENT OF A POLYNESIAN.
[from TilK TOOWOWRA OUUUN'ICUO.] A QuKENsr.AXD paper relates the following horrible story : —“ It would a]> pear that a number of Polynesians were on their way to the Mitchell district, and that one of them became seriously ill—so ill in fact that he could not travel. It was evident that he was dying’, and the man in charge was so impatient that he would imt wait for the poor creature to die outright, hut had a lade dug, mid tlie Polynesian roughly hurled before death had actually taken place.
Two (if tin? Polymsians at night ret(li'H■ ■(I in the s]iot where 11 1(-*i r comrade ! i;i i in);'n buried, and exhumed him, find I !,c st atenl<)u 1. rs that the poor ('•-i!• >\v 'liv'd nearly two hours after his exhuination. We an; informed that information eonneei.cd with 1 bis eiretmistance lias reached ilia (iovni:lllk nl, and if so, we trust a rigid inquiry will hj •
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Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 186, 20 January 1877, Page 4
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159ILL-TREATMENT OF A POLYNESIAN. Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 186, 20 January 1877, Page 4
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