MAORI MADNESS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1383, 19 May 1883, Page 2

MAORI MADNESS.

B ' 'At Warigaauvsays thaf Chroniele," e ; tke NatiTo stabbing 1 case on the 26th uli,,',tkaK a flood of t light upon thlit/flewMysterious of a maladies—the ancestral madness of Wanganui, Maoris. ILorio may bd !", prisoner | 'Boharama, this phara of insanity oo- " cisionally tikes troublesome forms, and *' a .'policeman of ordinary intelligence ' may,bo held blamefcjssjfoho mistakes J , ! , ; symptoms are also very sevore. It was to 'hear Ppharama's mother D doßcriba how his eyes started so far out ' of ; bis bead that, as a moasure of i mammal thought it ,: advisable to jam them back again into' their sockota, . The most inter esting witness yesterday was a Wai- ,- .totara Native who has for years past i carried on/q^W^esJons' s o | a ■■ prophet and-doptpi} modf of. ' curing mainesMjllpeculiari Tate a '. .petticoat. .bolonstf||to the patient'i |; iwife,bum itjip 'jasm mix tho ashes j miti^^tp^mi i: Aim he isn't cured, ! 'the« is no.d6.ubt|ie ought to be. ■ remedy may [ /prove b some cannot be saicT to htunciont, for it is not so many yean • since a petticoat walas unknown to a Maori as a missionary or a rum-bottle. ; 'The^ri 1 'Mat- Wntly believed both in his wraedy and his supernatu- • !»Vp'6werg"'ih(iiugh"'#oliMWß arrest by a pakeha policeman did more to ' suddenly cureintiiftkatt anything else.