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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2956, 21 July 1888, Page 2

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THE WAIAPU MURDER, Gisborne, July 20. Tlio Homld's Waiapu correspondent supplies the following farther particulars of the Waiapu murder William Tarei, aged 20 years, was possessed of a violent moody and ungovernable temper, and has frequently beaten and otherwise ill-used his wife, beside having on several occasions threateucd to kill her. His wife, Mary Tarei, 25 years old, was an industrious and tidy woman, beyond the general state of Maori females, There was no provocation on her part for his cruel system of treatment, The marriage was a forced one, and before it she was inclined to another man, 'William in his fits of rage used to cast up the former attachment, and oil one occasion lie threw her into the fire. A week ago William's father,because of Ins furious treatment, told his son he must leave the place, whoreupon William threatened to lfill him, On May last the man and his wife left there whare to go to a plantation, William carrying a elnld, Before going he loaded his gun. A woman seeing him asked what lie was going to do. Ho answered that there were pheasants on the road and lie wanted to shoot somo. Lator on a Maori was attracted by ail infant's cries, and found a flhild of this couple in the middle of a field, Hiving heard a gunshot, the man searched further, and found ill the midst of some scrub the body of a slaughtered woman, Her head was fairly cleft in twain, gne side being a mass of bruises and disfigurment, and well nigh beaten to a pulp, with burnt fragments of clollnng about the neck. The murderer has been tracked to the ranges, but nothing lifts been seen or heard of him since. The natives are collecting from all parts to Waiapu, aud arc very bitter against the murderer. The woman had many relatives, and all are unanimous in denouncing the.deed of blood,