Kews from Tauranga slates that Tamati Tv and a number of other local natives left there this week for Whakatane, via Maketu, making a raid of the nature of a tana nwrn (a "robbing1 party") at the latter place in passing. A relative of the chief's was recently unfortunate enough to loss his wife, not by the remorseless hand of death but because the lady wandered off! with a native gentleman from Maketu. In such cases (says a Bay of Plenty paper) the Maori finds the Supreme Court too cumbersome and dull and prefers a taua whereby he secures horses, cattle, gims or other \iseful chattels in exchange for his faithless spouse.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXXI, Issue 64, 16 March 1900, Page 5
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