TOHUNGAISM.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume II, Issue 181, 16 July 1912, Page 2

TOHUNGAISM.

MAORI ON TRIAL. ; Peli-ierstou North. July 15. | Mr. Thompson. S.M.. war occupied ■ to-day with cases relating to a Maor' ; Tohunga named Harigav.-ata Tupa I roa. i In the first W. J. White. licensee ; of Whi le's Hotel. Foxioii. and Mrs. j Campbell, manager, were charged I wit h i '.’pp’i ing Hanguavata will: | liquor not for consumption on the i premises. Mrs. Campbell was fined £5 on each oi tiau cliaiges. with U">sf. .22 17 Judgment was rc.-.erv-I cd against White. Hangawata Tupuma was charged j with tape on Emily Hcta. a Maori | girl of 19 amt on six other ehaigc; of 'taking liquor into Jfotuiti pa and 1 supply ing Natives with liquor. I P< iicc-rseigrant Wills .‘■■tid Ifingai wain went to the pa on April 29th : wit h a laige supply of liquor and I gave a considerable amount ol [whiski to men and women, miking I Einilv driiiiK. and it was alleged that ihr i-r imnitted the rffence at night [without, her knowledge. The girl is in the ho.-pita! too ill to appear. 1 Dr. Adams ilrpiscd to being called | Io 're the girl, whom he found suffering Ire.in rapid <-oti:-uiiiption, peritonitis and cellulitis. A few days ■ later the police asked him m investigate a'- to rape having been committed <--i Apiil 29th. Il was so long past that he did not exprr- to find am tiaccs and found m thing 1 wrong. Emily Hrtab niothrr, U iinia Heta. I deposed that on April 27tlr Hingai wnta canir to her house with a j qua nt it v of whiskv and gave liquor to her. the 1 bring mode drunk. :ile <ame again <>;i August 29th and ■'gnic thrm Di, i? wliii-ki. and Emily i staggered inti - her mother s room i Mrs. Hingawata pulled her out and; lo'k her to bed with them, and next , I morning Emily fold li< r mother that ' Hingawata had assotilted her. | The hearing will be r ruimwl io-1 I morrow. i r . z I