A NATIVE TRAGEDY.
SHOCKING MURDER AND SUICIDE.
A MAORI'S JEALOUSY.
By Telegraph. — Press Association. Gisbobne, December 20.
News has been received from Tologa Bay that a Native named Eria Matawhau murdered his wife at Pairakia last night, and afterwards committed suicide.
Jealousy was at the bottom of the tragedy. A party of Natives were singing songs in their whare last evening, and because his wife mentioned the name of another man in her song, Eria, taking the opportunity when the other Natives left the whare, stabbed her in the stomach and breast, and then made off to a pah three miles distant, where he obtained a gun, and shot himself through the head, dying immediately. The unfortunate woman lingered several hours, and then died. Eria was a notoriously bad character, and some -years ago narrowly missed killing a European settler, whom, in a fit of anger, he struck on the head with a heavy rail.
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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1191, 28 December 1894, Page 34
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