THE TUHUA TRAGEDY.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 581, 18 November 1880, Page 3

THE TUHUA TRAGEDY.

Wajiganui.; Further particulars of the tragedy ; ia.t,:<Tuhuai,,ajqe..to,,Jiand. i; Moffat add Henare travelled together without interruption until ihey arrived on Sunday last at the Native village of Matabuhura, which is within a ! few miles of Taumarumui. Tautnarumui is situa ted at a spot'"where'' *he northern branch of the Wanganui river points to the parent stream.' From tlie Natives, at Matabuhunaj Moffat-and hisT .companion received- na. welcome from the Maoris, who appeared sullen, and told' the travellers that- they had no there, and that the road was tabooed to white-men/ 'The *ame : night the Natives sent a messenger to TanmaiS uni to inform the inhabitants of the ■ Pah, ofithen arrival); of Moffat;- and Henare, Obief of Tanmarunui, at once held a meeting," at which it was decided that Moffat should be shot; and .they sent out an ar r med party ,of. seven "men" under the ' leaderships ' 6f Ngati, Mamaku* , : tiephew, to carry the sentence out. The murderers form'ed-'ah ambuscade? in a-fer'nby the side of the. Maori ..track, along which Moffatt and would have tb< pass. On Monday the travellers resumed their journey, and when they, came'within about ten yards of the spot were/the: party was the Mabrie.s rose up, and. one fired at Moffatt, and wounded him, be. .staggered.forward, drying out " kati f kati " (stop stop), when a second shot was fired, and~ he fell in the track" a dead man; then his j companion, Henare, called on the party to shoot him also, but they would' not do it, as they knew hiin well as a Wanganui Native. Henare Baw Mr Kemp at Parikino, and he told him to hasten down to Wanganui arid inform the authorities, and this he did .without loss of time, i -! / --■.;

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