WAITOTARA.
[f ROM OUR CORRESVOKREKT.J Wednesday Evening. Another native chief is dead. This morning, about six o’clock, the discharge of fire-arms in the native village just over the bridge, announced the death of an influential np-river chief named Eakei Mulunnitu. His age was probably between titty and sixty. The tangi is now proceeding. A Disgraceful Scene took place last night between nine and ten o’clock, a protracted fight going on in front of the Waitotara Hotel, by the light of the lamp. The combatants were stripped to the waist, and were knocking each other against the verandah posts in a way that might have ended seriously. A number of men were looking an and encouraging the exhibition by raising the men when down and calling <! time.” Some one went for the conservator of the peace, but finding that officer bad retired for the night, probably not dreaming of what was going on, came back without him to find the light all over. Such a thing would not have been allowed to occur here two months ago.
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Patea Mail, 29 July 1880, Page 3
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