A MAORI STABBING CASE.
[Pbb Press Association.] t . WELLINGTON, Oct. 25. The Evening Post's special wires from Palmerston North the following particulars of a Maori stabbing affair at Marton : — " Ngarape had warned the Natives that he would Mil any man who took his wife. The threat was evidently aimed at Warena, but notwithstanding this Warena had the woman away on Thursday, bringing her back to the meeting house on Friday morning. He was sitting there beside her when Ngarape went for him with a spear blade which he had concealed up his sleeve. Warena put up his left arm to shield himself, when the cold steel entered his arm above the wrist, making its way almost to the elbow, a hideous gash about three inches long showing. Warena defended himself with a billet of wood, and then with a gun, Ngarape still attacking him. Eventually the Maoris overpowered the latter and ejected him from the building. The wounded man is in a dangerous, condition, and unable to appear in Court.".
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6068, 26 October 1887, Page 3
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170A MAORI STABBING CASE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 6068, 26 October 1887, Page 3
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