NEW ZEALAND.
[by telegraph.—press association. I THAMES, Monday. A young man named Charles Henry Wight was arrested at Komata on Saturday, by Constable Mitchell on a charge of criminally assaulting a Maori woman named Hariata Maraka. He was brought up at the police court to-day before Mr Stratford, R.M., when evidence was given by Horiata as to the nature of the assault, which is alleged to have taken place in some ti-tree bush at Komata about six o'clock last Saturday morning. Three or lour witnesses have yet to be examined, and the case will occupy the Court until a late hour this evening. The husband of the woman is said to have cut a portion of the accused's ear off. CHRISTCHURCH Monday. Messrs Working and Scott Bros, foundry was engaged all day yesterday and all night over a job of casting a nsw flange for the ship Arawa. The work was finished this morning and repairs to the steampipe effected. The vessel left again for London at 11.30 a.m.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2311, 3 May 1887, Page 2
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169NEW ZEALAND. Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2311, 3 May 1887, Page 2
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