TOHUNGAISM.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLII, Issue 10115, 24 October 1917, Page 6

TOHUNGAISM.

(Pee Rebbs association.) GISBORNE. Oct. 2-L _ i An elderly native named Rameira laraiti ’was lined £25 and £9 7s costs by Mr LarI ton, S.AL, to-day on a charge under the Tobungu Suppression Act. 1 The. charge- arose out of the recentlyi attempted suicide by a native, who alleged that the defendant.* bad bewitched him. : Amusing evidence was given bv native witI ne.-’SOH. The wifec! Ifie man who attempted suicide said slie- was under the defendant s I treatment at Napier. He commanded her to return to Gisborne and pour boiling water in her boxes,, to, exorcise evil sj nr its, and, on reaching Gisborne, to spit on the sand and draw her left heel through the spittle. Other natives gave evidence that, defendant, when consulted for various ill?, inside the sign of the cross over them and prayed for them. They described him as a man of prayer, and said that, at- the meeting house lie prayed -.night and morning. ! Mr Bumat'd, for, the defendant, urged I that there was little diflerenciv in these accounts of defendant’s acts and in what, is done in the orthodox methods ol ( liens* ianitv.