TRAGIC FIRES.
ONE WOMAN KILLED AND
ANOTHER INJURED,
(by telegeaph.-—press association.)
Gisborne, this day. A MAORI woman named Kakura Keating who was very old and imbecile, was burned to death last night in a whare near Gisborne. The occurrence is supposed to have been purely accidental.
A cottage occupied by Mrs Washington, ab Ormond, was burned down last night, and the woman was severely burned about the head in escaping.
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Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 139, 13 June 1888, Page 8
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