RIOTOUS NATIVES.
ASSAULT ON HOTEL. LICENSEE ROUGHLY HANDLED. Gisborne, Dec. 5. A riotous affair is reported from Ruatonea (East Coast). A party of twenty to thirty Maoris, at I a.m on New Y'ear’s Day rode up to the hotel and commenced to stone the building. The licensee, Mr. Raynham, remonstrated with the hooligans, who attacked him. He was borne down by weight of numbers, freely- kicked and struck by the rioters, but finally managed to struggle back to shelter, whereupon the natives- galloped away. Mr. Raynham was badly- knocked about, receiving cuts and bruises about the face, head and body.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XI, Issue 17, 5 January 1921, Page 6
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