REPORTED TOHUNGAISM.
[BT TELEGRArH.— SrECIAL TO The PO3T.] AUCKLAND, This Day. Tohungaism still appears to flourish. The rough and ready methods adopted by some natives in the healing of the sick were, it is stated, responsible for the death of a native girl named Jessio Kake, in a settlement north of Hukerenui ; _ On Tuesday last, wliile she was suffering from inflammation of ihe lungs, she was, according to the report, dipped into a creek with tho result that she expired shortly afterwards. A tangi was held, and the body remained unburied until Saturday, when a warrant to bury was obtained by the police.
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Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 2
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103REPORTED TOHUNGAISM. Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 47, 25 February 1908, Page 2
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