A Conflict Between Maories at Waipiro.
A WHOLE PAH BURNED.
THREE MEN AND ONE WOMAN BURNT TO DEATH.
(Press Association.) .Gisbokne, this day. Reports are to hand from Waiapu of a most horrible affair having. occurred at Waipiro. The Waipiro Block was adjudicated upon some six months' ago by the Land Court, and was declared to have no interest in it. Tuta waß strongly opposed to the decision, and applied for a new trial, which was just about to take place.' He also at once erected a pah, containing many whares, in which some one hundred nativos were living. An intensely strong feeling consequently existed between the trespassers and the natives declared by Court to be the owners, and several conflicts have taken place. On Wednesday or Thursday night last the whole pah is reported to have been burned, and three men and one woman burned to death. It is believed the hostile natives fired the pah, Mr Balhnce and Ropata were expected to arrive at Waipiro yesterday, and would make im enquiry into the affair. The foregoingjs only based mi Maori reports.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2275, 20 April 1886, Page 2
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183A Conflict Between Maories at Waipiro. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 2275, 20 April 1886, Page 2
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