A Ntire Accused of Murder.
[By Tblbobaph.] ,UNtTI!D PREBB ABfIOOIATIOIt.I Auckland, Thh Day. A rumour is current at Te Awamntu that George Savago, Mr. Tole's servant, supposed to have ■ boon accidentally drowned in the Puni, on the sth ifist., was'mnrdored by a native named Pukekora. It appears that a native named Maniapoto stated in an hotel at Kihikihi, on the 13th mat., to a lad namod Benjamin Ward, that Puktkor* ddQ(4 Savago, and threw him into the river. The •tatemont roaohod tho oars of Conitabl* Qillios (the man who arranged Winiata's arrest, and oaptnrod Pa>karaand Epiha). and he brought Ward and Maniapoto together, when the latter denied all knowledge. Pukokora iB now in the native country, but tho police beliovo .the, story desorvei crodonce.
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Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 99, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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124A Ntire Accused of Murder. Evening Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 99, 15 November 1882, Page 2
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