Pomahaka Mystery.
The Star’s correspondent at Clinton telegraphed as follows on Thursday : Tt having been reported to the police that a bundle of woman’s clothing had been found in the Fomahaka River, Constable liatimer on Wednesday proceeded to the locality and there found clothing, consisting of dresses, underclothing, etc., also a tin box containing three bonnets. In the box was a Dunedin dyer’s receipt in favor of Mrs Matheson. Inquiries elicited the fact that Mrs Matheson, who had obtained a court order in Dunedin for ssa week against her who is rabbit ng on the Fomahaka, came to Clinton about Saturday last en route to Fomahaka. Shewas taken over the river by n settler on hoiseback, and deposited close to her husband’s house. Thehuaband had during her absence bestowed his affections on a youug woman from Dunedin, who was living with him. On the wife’s arrival this woman was packed off to Dunedin, and the end of the romance so far i» the finding of Mrs Matheson’s clothes. Matheson i« a foreigner, about fifty years of age.
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Lake County Press, Issue 698, 5 March 1896, Page 2
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