NAPIER.
: This^ay.'■'
| Tbe Synod of the diocese of Waiapu opened yesterday/ There wasa large number of clergy andJaity members -present. 'Bishop Stuart delivered a long opening address, and in the evening: .there was a full choral service in the church.
The.-Hon. H. Ri-Eussell was very ill early yesterday morning, and directions j were given to! put dff the marriage of Mii'sl Russell with Mr Henry Gaisford that was fixed,for to-day,,b,ut last night ajle directions were countermanded, Mr Eussell being'somewhat better., _." "■-'■'•''•■■ Monday. j Ec the muvder of a Maori woman at jWaiapu, the natives gave up as a prisoner one :oi ; the • men implicated?/ a half-caVte named Henare JPeti; but the other man, beiug a ..chief, was, only sent down as a witness. After the two had, gone to Gisborne, Inspector Scully arrived at Waiapu, and, finding that no inquest had been held, he communicated with the authorities on the subject, /and in consequence" the two; natives and MrKenricfc, the coroner, go up from Gisborne to IWaiapu to-night; i '■'■)'/$ Tj ; s ;• lil, >. A. .
' Inspector Scully says he will try to have the woman's body exhumed, though it is against Maori custom.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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190NAPIER. Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2986, 10 September 1878, Page 2
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