Sunning Amuck. FATAL ESCAPADE BY A DRUNKEN MAORI.
[Bt Telegraph. I I UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. J Auckland, 15th April. A Maori named Tawa, in a state of drunken Irenxy, was on horseback galloping through Rotorua township on Thursday night, when his horse ran through a crowd of natives coming from a meeting held by Sydney Taiwhanga, and one of them, a Maketu chief named Matia, was thrown and violently bruised, and he died on Friday morning. Tawa was thrown from his horse, and lies in a precarious condition. He is now in custody of the police.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1888, Page 2
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96Sunning Amuck. FATAL ESCAPADE BY A DRUNKEN MAORI. Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 88, 16 April 1888, Page 2
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