REPORTED NATIVE MURDER.
It is rumored, says the Thames Star, that two Natives, residents of Tauranga, have been foully murdered at Mercury Bay by a party of the Urewera tribe, at present gum-digging at that place. No particulars of the murder are yet to hand, and it is possible the whole afl'air may prove to he only a drunken quarrel, though at present it is thought to wear a more serious aspect, as it is supposed this is a retaliation for the murder of a Native named ICohikohi, committed some time ago off Whangamata. Hone Nahi, late M.H.K,, with about sixty followers, has »one from the Thames to inquire into "the matter, and will, it is hoped, be able to come to an amicable understanding. The late chief Hon Taupaea, when in Wellington, had an interview with the Hon. the Native Minister touching the feud which exists between the Tauranga Natives and the Ureweras, and requested that the latter tribe should be asked to leave the district in order that bloodshed might be avoided,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 934, 25 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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174REPORTED NATIVE MURDER. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 934, 25 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)
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