PUNISHMENT FITTING THE CRIME.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 218, 20 September 1901, Page 2

PUNISHMENT FITTING THE CRIME.

HOW THE MAORIS WOULD DEAL WITH AN ASSASSIN.

" PLENTY OF BOILING SPRINGS,

(Special to Times.) Auckland, last night. The Northern Maoris are much grieved about the shooting of President McKinley. They pronounce tho murderer to he "a “ kuri ” (dog). Remembering tiie free and unguarded manner in which the Duke and Duchess of York went about at Rotorua, they say that if any European had attempted to injure them there, tho law would never have had a chance to deal with the culprits, as they would have dealt summarily with him themselves, the Maoris adding, significantly, that “ there are plenty of ngawhas (boiiing springs) in the vicinity.”

WRECK OF THE MOONSTONE.

STRUCK A ROCK WHEN READY

TO LE AYE

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Sydney, Sept. 19.

The Quirang has arrived with the crew of tiie- Moonstone, wrecked at Ocean Island, where she arrived on July 3rd. Oil the morning of July 26th, when the Moonstone had almost completed ioadin" a cargo of 3000 tons of phosphates forXew Zealand, and whilst she was attempting to pick up her moorings, tho vessel bumped heavily on a reef at the south end of the Island.

With the assistance of the Pacific Island Company’s staff all personal effects and ship’s stores were saved. Tiie cargo was jettisoned, but the vessel gradually settled down, and the same night slipped off the reef and sank in 130 fathoms of water.

The crew were a month on tho Island before the Quirang arrived,