SAD FATE OF A MAORI HUNTING PARTY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2623, 4 May 1889, Page 2

SAD FATE OF A MAORI HUNTING PARTY.

[BY TELKGRAPH.—OWN CORIIESPONnKNT.] Matata, Friday. TllltEE natives (brothers) loft hero on Monday to hunt pigs in the bush above Te Hunuihika. One of thetn returned to Te Hnniiihika late yesterday evening. He had no clothes on, and was quite out of his mind. He could give no information of the other two. A search party left hero yesterday morning, and about two o'clock the party found thveo horses and dogs, also the place where the two brothers must have passed part of the night on Tuesday or AVednesday. The blankets and clothes that were found were covered with vomit, and it was then ascertained that all three of them must have been poisoned by eating honey that they had obtained from a tree not far from the spot, after some time they tracked the two brothers down the hill to the crook at the bottom, where they found the eldest brother Peue iu the creek quite dead, and about two chains below they found the clothes of the other brother, The party continued tosearch up till a late hour, but without success. The whole tribe are goinf this morning to search for the one still missing. There were six brothers of this family, and great sympathy is folt both by Europeans and natives for the poor old mother and the young wife of Pene, the one that was found in the creek dead,