THE GOVERNOR IN THE WAIKATO
[per press association,]
AUCKLAND, This day.
The Governor and suite arrived at Cambridge yesterday afternoon and were received enthusiastically by the Natives and Europeans, the former presenting a number of beautiful mats. A petition, numerously signed, was presented to. His Excellency praying for a diminution in the. sentence of Mikaere Te Papa sentenced for life two years a go, for the alleged murder by stabbing of a native on the Oxford racecourse. The general opinion of the public at the time was that Mikaere, who is a man of a most »peaceful disposition, never committed the deed.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1032, 9 May 1883, Page 3
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