CHATHAM ISLANDS.
(BBOM OVU OWW COEEESPONDENT.) Waitangi, October 5, 1869. The cutter Squirrel will clear out about the 7th inst. with salt pork and beef for Dunedin. The schooner Rifleman arrived on the 3rd inst. from Lyttelton, in ballast. A few days since, a maori woman named Na Moni, residing at Waitangi, committed suicide by hanging herself. Upon entering the dwelling, just after sunset, her husband discovered her suspended from a beam. He immediately cut the rope ; life was not quite extinct, and he ran for a medical man, but ere his return all was over. The poor woman was one of the best of her class. Jealousy is said to be the cause of the tragedy. A few days since a whare belonging to a white man, containing goods of considerable value, was burnt to the ground. Nothing was saved. Whether the fire was wilful or accidental, has not been ascertained.
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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1088, 1 October 1869, Page 2
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152CHATHAM ISLANDS. Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 13, Issue 1088, 1 October 1869, Page 2
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