CRIMES AND OFFENCES
TOHUNGA FINED -£25.
GISBORNE, October 23
I An elderly Native named Ramiera ,-, 1 Tarairi was fined £25. and £9 7s costs," r in default two months' imprisonment,' by Mr W. A. Barton, S.M., to-da;f jjfc 'a'charge under the Tohunga SupfTOff 3ion Act. The charge arose out of reVcent attempts at suicide by a Natives, who alleged that the defendant had him. Amusing evidence was given by. Native witnesses. The wife of the main who attempted ' suicide said sho was under defendant's treatment at Napier. /He commanded her to return to Glsborne, pour boiling water in her boxes to exorcise,spirits, ' 1 and' on reaching Gisborne to spit on the sand and draw her left'heel through the spittle. Other Natives gave evidence that defendant, when ' consulted for various ills, made the sign of the cross oyer ■ them and prayed for them. They Jcle- ■ scribed him as a man of prayer, and ' said that at the meeting-house he prayed night and morning. ' ■ ' Mr Burnard, for the' defendant, urged that there" was little-difference-in these accounts of defendant's acts ' and what was, done in orthodox meth" ■ ods- of Cliristianitiy. t
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9127, 24 October 1917, Page 4
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