MURDER AND SUICIDE.
Uisnoiihu, Dscember 20.
Nawn Ina l)cen received ftom Tologa iiay that Erin MoShwli'iu nmrdered hi< wifo at Tairokia last niK''t lvl)d afterwards committed suicide.
Jealousy was at the bottom of tho Native tragedy reported from Tolojfa Bay. A party of Natives wero singiug sougs iv their wharo last ovonii.g, and beoiuse his vit'u mentioned the nnmo of nuuthsr mj.ii in a song Kci.i Mctovfh&u, taking t,ri« opportunity of the other Natives leaving the v/luiro, stubbed Ui.t in tho stomach sud breast, and thcu nvide off to tUo pa, three miles distant, vyhere ho obiainnd a gun and shot himself through the h«ad, dyiug immediately. The unfortunutu woman lingorod several hours and thea <tie<l. Bviti has been a notoriously bad character. Potne years *go he narrovily "misled killing a Europcaa settler, whom, iv a lit of anger, he struck on the head with a heavy rail.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10263, 22 January 1895, Page 7
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148MURDER AND SUICIDE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 10263, 22 January 1895, Page 7
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