SENSATION AT A MAORI PA
■■...• ——-♦ -■ ALLEGED A§SAUI2T ABD /ABSOK. (By Telegraph.—ft— FEILDIIfAG, TMs Day. < The local police havis been informed of a sensational oeeauauee at Awahnrl six nules away, test night. A halfeaste Maori residing at a pa there is now missing, and is being searched for by the police. The story is that Safeerland, the missing man, had a difference with his wife, and that sepaav tion- proceedings were pending. , The wife was staying with her parents, and at midnight the hoase was discovered in flames. >'On emerging all three were assaalted, the wife being stabbed by Sutherland, who then disappeared. The wife lost a great deal of blood, and is in a seriova eonditioß. Both women were taken to the hospital. The hoase was rednoed to ashes. -
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7
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129SENSATION AT A MAORI PA Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 36, 11 February 1926, Page 7
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