ROBBERY OF MAORI CURIOS.
SENSATIONAL OCCURRENCE. A FURIOUS MELEE. [nr *iaxacitAPH.— ' association*.] .■■ * . • _ Gissobne, Tuesday. Whitest a native interpreter named Balneavis '.»»"'« away at the golf tournament in Duncdin, his residence was broken into, and property worth £300 stolen, including a valuable collection of Maori curios, a violin over 100 years old, and £50 in cash. Two attempts were made to fire the dwelling/- Balnea vis received an anonymous letter statins; that the perpetrator of the crime was on his way to America, with the articles! stolen. Last evening Detective Nixon arrested a young native named Tuta Huia at the residence of Tuta Nihon>ho. The young man violently resisted arrest, and iu a furious melee; which took place, the detective being single-handed, the prisoner escaped. The police are now scouring the country for hini '/Some women in the house say lis took poison with hip- -■ ' M ■:' ■-•■• -. ."■ '■■ .'- ■: '
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12713, 16 November 1904, Page 5
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144ROBBERY OF MAORI CURIOS. New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12713, 16 November 1904, Page 5
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