LATEST FROM THE EAST COAST.
ANOTHER MURDER AT OPOTIKT.
FEARFUL MUTILATION OF THE BODY,
(From the Wellington Advertiser,.) By the s.s. Taranaki, which arrived in harbor yesterday from Napier and Auckland, we have later news from OpotiM, and we learn meagre particulars of another horrible murder by the natives. From what we can learn, and we are indebted for our in-, formation to Mr. Kebbell, purser of the Taranaki the Sturt was met with, at Poverty Bay, and she gavf information to the effect that there was an outbrea at Opotiki, and the natives had murdered Mr" Whyfce, the principal witness against the miscreants connected with the Fulloon tragedy, and some man who was in his company. Mr. Whyte's head had been^ cut off, and the body mutilated in the most horrible manner. The p.s. Sturt may be expected to-day with full particulars.
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Colonist, Volume X, Issue 743, 12 July 1867, Page 3
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