HAWKE'S BAY.
A" Maobi Suicide.—A correspondent of the Hawke's Bay Herald, writing from Wairou, gives the following account of the suicide of a Maori :• — "About a fortnight ago a native named Piripi te Note, of Whangawehi, committed suicide under the following rather singular circumstances: —He had been appointed to act as a sort of duenna, and take charge of a number of young women who were gathering karakas at the Mahunga, and performed his duty in a most laudable manner, but afterwards, under similar circumstances, did not behave so stoically; consequently he became liable to the runanga^ was arrested, tried, and sentenced to be banished into the bush for a short, time. On the day succeeding his condemnation he carefully washed and dressed himself, and taking up a woolpack, went into the bush and got up into a tree, where he managed to introduce himself into the woolpack with a rope around his neck (previously made fast to a bough), and turned himself off. He was found quite dead—his pipe, looking-glass, and comb subjacent." .
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Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 597, 14 July 1863, Page 3
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HAWKE'S BAY.
Colonist, Volume VI, Issue 597, 14 July 1863, Page 3
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