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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 3927, 8 June 1877, Page 3

A chapter of criminal romance is at present occupying the attention of the Poit Saidees. A Syrian Christian at Beyrout married a young wife of his own persuasion and nationality, but after the marriage the bride detested him so much for some reason or other that she declined ( o live with him, and, accompanied by her mother, ran away to Mansoorah, in the Egyptian Delta. There both renounced Christianity and became professed Moslem converts, the "wife renouncing also her Christian husband. The lmsband hearing of his wife and her mother being there, left Syria and came to Port Said, where, at his earnest request, a priest of his religion endeavored, but without success, to induce the erring wife to return to the bosom of her lawful lord. One morning a baker on his rounds opened the door of their house and found both women lying dead in a pool of blood, with surrounding evidences that showed that they had psrished at the hands of some assassin. The Rev. Thomas Spencer Forsaith, of New South Wales, well known in the early days of the colony in various public capacities, having been a member if the House of Representatives, and also of the " clean-shirt Ministry," which had a life of two days, preached in the Beresford street church last night. — Auckland Herald.