WOMAN KILLED.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18636, 10 March 1926, Page 8

WOMAN KILLED.

HUSBAND FRIGHTFULLY INJURED. MYSTERIOUS TRAGEDY, (PEESS ASSOCIATION TZLEOBAM.) HAMILTON, March 9. A shocking tragedy occurred at the Te Kowhai Settlement, about eight miles from Hamilton, this afternoon. A Maori woman, Ngapeti Koti Rawiri, was killed, and her husband, Peter Rawiri, is in hospital, not expected to live. Deceased, her husband, her brother J£oti, and iihau, another iNative, stayed the previous night at the Ngaruawahia pah, leaving this morning for Te ixoivhai, Koti leaving the party when about a mile from the destination. Arrived at the whare, Peter Rawiri went outside and called his wife. Shortly afterwards Ehau, who remained in the whare, heard an explosion, followed by footsteps approaching and receding from the whare. Going outside ho saw Peter Rawiri falling hear a body lying on the ground. Investigation showed that the woman's body had been badly shattered by an explosion. The man's left hand had been blown off at the wrist, and also his throat was fearfully gashed. A razor was lying behind his 'head. A neighbour was communicated with and he summoned the police, who brought the body into Hamilton, arid conveyed the man to the hospital, where his condition is considered hopeless. , The cause of the tragedy is a mystery. The party were all friendly, and there had been *no quarrelling. There was no evidence of' liquor. The man had been working in another district, and had returned home only the previous day. Deceased leaves two or three children.