The Hardy Maori.
(Per Press Association.; THAMES, June 13. A young Maori woman, an informant in a case of alleged assault with Intent to rape, performed a remarkable foat of endurance. The man was arrested in a kauri forest twenty live miles from the Thames, and brought here. The woman left yesterday, and walked the whole distance, carrying a baby, in pouring rain and soaked to the skin. Shortly after leaving she reajched a river swollen by the rains and attempted to ford it. Finding this impossible sho swam the river, and though bufletted about considerably reached the shore safely. The woman then walked the rest of the distance through almost impenetrable bush, ami arrived soaked and considerablv exhausted. The case was adjourned until Thursday,
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 137, 14 June 1904, Page 3
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125The Hardy Maori. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 137, 14 June 1904, Page 3
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