WOMAN'S REVENGE.
A correspondent, writing from Kangoon en May 4, says :—The news that has come lately to hand from Mandalay reveals as hideous a picture of crime and diabolical cruelty as the mind can conceive, King Theebau has allowed himself to be ruled by his strong-minded Queen so that the real Government of the Upper Burmah is now vested in the Soopayahiat. One of this woman's first acts was to wreak her vengeance on the rival who had supplanted her. During the Chief Queen's last confinement the King had made himself particularly agreeable to the grand-daughter of the eld Kanipat Mingyee, and even went the length of making her a Queen. But when the Soopayahiat was herself again she made it so uncomfortable for
the Royal husband that he was forced to put his new wife away. Not content with this triumph, the Queen preraMed on her weak-minded husband to have the new Queen punished, and she carried her point so far as to persuade the King to hare her beaten with rods. The unfortunate young Queen was dragged into the presence of the Soopayahiat, and, though far advanced in pregnancy, was inhumanly beaten to death with clubs, the- Queen calmly sitting out the entire senc. To prevent the story of the murder getting abroad, the Queen ot tiered all those who were aware of the crime to be imprisoned,
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Temuka Leader, Issue 1012, 3 October 1882, Page 3
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231WOMAN'S REVENGE. Temuka Leader, Issue 1012, 3 October 1882, Page 3
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