HORRIBLE DEATH OF A MAORI WO MAN.
+ [BY TELBGBAPH. — PHESS ASSOCIATION.] Gisbobne, 7lli December. A partly demented Maori womftu, Akeniha Keating, wife of a European, has met with a horrible death at North Gisborne. She was helpless, and had to he fed and lifted about by her husband. On returning home from Gisborne on Saturday, he found the long grass in the orchard blazing, and his wife dead in the midst of the flames. It is supposed she had been smoking, and had thrown a lighted match into the grass. The poor woman was dreadfully burned about the upper part of her body, and all the hair was off her head. Eight or ten years ago her mother was burned to death within a few yards of the same spot. To the Electors of Wellington. — A great slaughter in bicycles, cyolos for the million. — S. Luke & Co., Limited, are determined to put cycles within the reach of everyone. Ladies' and gontlemen's machines from J520 upwards. Tho standards of the world top of the poll. A large shipment by tho Rimutaka, and also Star of New. Zealand. Buyers, call early .--Aim 1 . .
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Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 169, 8 December 1896, Page 5
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191HORRIBLE DEATH OF A MAORI WOMAN. Evening Post, Volume LII, Issue 169, 8 December 1896, Page 5
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