FURTHER PARTIOULARS.

Evening Post, Volume XLIX, Issue 115, 16 May 1895, Page 3

FURTHER PARTIOULARS.

Niw Plymouth, This Dat. Further particulars to hand show that when tbe Maori settlement was visited the body of Pene was fonnd lying on its back and a double-barrelled gun lying between hi 3 legs, with the muzzle pointing to bia head. He had shot himself through the breast and fallen back. The body of the girl Teata was fonnd lying in a small fenced garden. She had been shot in the back of the head, the charge coming out through her month. The wife of Pene, who was named Pare, wbb found in a little whare half a mile from where the others were lying. It was covered with a olean white blanket. The woman was dressed, with the exception of her stockings and boots. The back part of her skull was smashed in, and the head was resting on the left arm. Under the mat on whioh the murdered woman waa reolining was a large axe, covered with blood. Bameka, an old Maori, states that at 12 o'olock on Wednesday he heard the report of a gun Oiose to a potato pit whioh he was in. He got out, and found Pene had just shot tho little girl. He tried to get the gun from him, but proved not to be strong enough, and Pene ran out of sight. Afterwards he heard another shot, so he called other Maoris who were in tbe field ploughing. They went and found Pene dead. The Maoris say Pene and his wife had been in bad health some time, and were very despondent.