THE MAORI STABBING CASE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1076, 17 May 1882, Page 2

THE MAORI STABBING CASE.

A correspondent of the Wanganui Herald furnishes the followiny particulars ot the events leading up to the abovementioned proceedings:-" On Sunday morning at 4 o'clock, a native named f oharama Takoranga, belonging lo Kaipo, stabbed his wife and a man named Win, and then left the poh. He had been m. Wanganui the latter part of last week, and came out by Friday's evening tram, and, from the account given by the natives, he seemed to bo out of his mind tough drmk, and they took him to the Hiapuku pah, where the above occurrence took place. L The natives were out all day ooking for him, hut without success, and be had evidently gone up the river. At 10 0 clock last night an alarm of fire was raised, and a six-rpomed house the property of missing man, wasfoundtobe >nflame, Tefirehad sueha/holLon the bu.ldi.ig that it was fo und to b J

impossibility to put ibmTimdiUaslH lierod PobenmAmuthi be lUdlde, tothe fact of Ihs dog, Which left tg Hiapuku with him, being close to thY burmngbuilding, which liwould not leave, but this morning a party wont; to tearoh but found no traces of aiw pardon being inside. The dog returnCtoKaipo about midnight, and the lay they heard -Poharama whiaUing-for it about 2 o'clock in.the morning,, froniynear Mr Hurley's ~' house. The Native" is still supposed to bo ' lurking about thetowtJßlnp.or. rather the buah close by.