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ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC.

At Auckland Abraham fibwden, cab proprietor, was sentenced to 12 months' hard labor for perjury in the police court, and was also ordered to pay costs. , News has been rebeived from Tologoa Bay thai, Eria Motawhau murdered his wife at. Tairolaa last Wednesday uight, and afterwards committed suicide. Jealousy was at the bottom of the tragedy. A party of natives .were singing songs in their whare, and because his wife mentioned the name of another man in a song, Eria Mbtawhou, taking the opportunity of the other natives leaving the whare, stabbed her in the stomach and breast, and then made off to a j?ah three miles distant, whbre he bbtainied a gun and shot himself through the head, dying immediately, the unfortunate woman lingered several hours and then,died. Bria had been a notoriously bad character. Some years ago he narrowly missed killing a European settler, whom in a fit of aflger he struck on the head with av heavy rail. ■-, ■■:-f, ■ ~; ; - <■'"' :

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Temuka Leader, Issue 2754, 22 December 1894, Page 4

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165

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2754, 22 December 1894, Page 4

ACCIDENTS, OFFENCES, ETC. Temuka Leader, Issue 2754, 22 December 1894, Page 4

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