MYSTERIOUS DEATHS
(per press association.) Auckland, May 6. The details of the poisoning case near Matata state that three Natives (brothers) left that place to hunt pigs in the bush above Te Humuhika. One < f them afterward returned, almost naked and out of his mind. He could give no information of the other two. A search party was instituted, and from various traces it was ascertained that the men had been poisoned by eating honey obtained from a tree. After some time the party tracked the two brothers down a hill to a creek, where they found the eldest brother, Pere, in the creek, quite dead. About two chains below they found the clothes of the other man, Te Ngarara, and further on found his body, also dead.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 897, 10 May 1889, Page 28
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