A PROPER PUNISHMENT.
Our readers will remember that, while Mrs. Wilson (of Poverty Bay) was lying helpless from her numerous wounds, that a native, named Hori, robbnd her of part of the scant covering she had. It .appears that alter taking the shawl from Mrs. Wilson, he proceeded to help himself from a bottle, which he found lying close by, containing some liquor to him unknown. The natives, describing the effect upon that how-legsed " friendly" of the s!range draught, explained how the liquor caused Hori to make " queer faces," and spasmodic motions with his limbs, until he became "male moe, :> in better words, expired. The natives imagine he was bewitched. Wo know he was poisoned, and Mr 3. Hori never came into possession of the slviwl which indirectly " shortened the span" of her better half.
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Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 18 December 1868, Page 4
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135A PROPER PUNISHMENT. Colonist, Volume XII, Issue 1172, 18 December 1868, Page 4
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