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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 184, 21 July 1911, Page 3

A somewhat remarkable coincidence. has just happened in Opotiki. Some three years ago a local settler agreed to purchase a piece of land from a native named Kurei. A meeting was arranged to complete the transaction, but on the day in question the parties concerned missed each other ,and next morning Kurei was dead, and his son reigned in his stead. Negotiations for the land proceeded lately between the settler and the son, and it was arranged on Friday last that the deed should be completed on Saturday. The settler turned up only to learn that Kurei number two had been found dead in his bed that morning.

The actions of a man, which are similar to those reported at North Sydney recently, are causing widespread consternation among the womenfolk of Wellington, an inland town of New South Wales. For

weeks past he has been accosting them, and in some instances has knocked them down, on their way home. A few nights ago Mr. T. Gildea heard a man try ng to get into his house through a side window. He seized his gun and filed a shot through the window. The iiian decamped, but returned again a couple of hours later, when he tried the front door. Not being able to get in, he tried the window of a room adjoining Air. Gildea’s bedroom, and got in by pulling the window down. Gildea fired again, the shot passing right through the door of the room in which the bufglar was located. Again he decamped. On the following night he made efforts to enter Mr. A. Gage’s house, but failed. Subsequently he visited a bedroom in which two little children were sleeping. He tore the wire netting away, and it is said attacked one of the children. On the child screaming he ran away. There is some talk of a vigilance committee to assist the police, who are undermanned.