CASUALTIES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 11191, 13 August 1898, Page 4

CASUALTIES.

• (Per United Press Association.) AUCKLAND, August 12. Further particulars have been, received c/l the inquest held on the Maori woman near Mongonui. The evidence went to show that . .deceased died on the Bth ult. Three weeks ' before her deatb ,'ishe ,was 'confined, and three days afterwards complained of being feverish and ill. •■ She '■ requested her husband to go for the .tohunga.'. Her husband went and brought,iNihe Papaia. The tohunga then told deceased's husband that he must- dip her three times: in cold water. The husband carried deceased that night to the lake,' stripped.her, and dipped her in the lake. 'He did same on the following morning. The tohunga .was not present on each occasion. Two '.weeks afterwards J -deceased's husband again dipped her in the water. The day after the last dipping her friends carried her ico Rongiaohia, eight I miles from her home. Deceased died two ■: days afterwards, and was' buried in due : course. On the sth ini=.t. a permit was ' granted by the Colonial "Secretary to exhume the body for "an inquest. The jury •as already, telegraphed, returned a verdict-'' -that the death of ithe woman was caused by "'""' or was greatly due ito "the treatment she received, and condemned the. action of the ,tohunga and others .in the matter. The ~Q™w l-n g rider was add6d t0 the verdict - - That publicity be given to the fact that free medicine and treatment can be obtained ' by Natives at '.Mongonui, and that the special attention of Natives be called to this fact. ,_■'', i ' _,'",' CHRISTCHURCH, August 12. Charles Howell, 39 years of age, a baker, was found lying dead on the footpath, near the South Belt this morning '■ •■' " > to war ■ l TPIARU, August 12. VV. M Keown, landowner, died yesterday j aged 60 He cam^toi Timaru 20 years ago from Clyde (Otalgq). \ . 6 A >,