TRIAL ABANDONED.
o CHATHAM ISLANDS CASE. [by telegraph.— association.] CHRISTCHUECH. Tuesday.
Advice lias been received from the Chatham Islands that the Justice Department has decided to abandon the trial of Hare . Piwari, Peter Piwiri, and Pitau Panirau, charged with the manslaughter in June, 1918, of Ria Eoromona Rehe, who died as the result of injuries said to have been inflicted by tho accused while practising tohungaism. Another accused, Katie Piwari, died last November. The accused were committed for trial at the August, 1918, sittings of the Supreme Court at Christchurch, but the cane had to be held over from time to time on account of the difficulty of conveying the prisoners to New Zealand consequent upon the loss of the Himitangi, the regular Island trader.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17125, 2 April 1919, Page 8
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