A Religious War in the Tonga Group.
ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION OF TJIK KEV R BAKER The long expected religious war between Ihe Wesleyan and Free Church factions has at last broken oul. il has taken an unexpected form in the attempted assassination of the liev Shirley Baker, 1 Go Premier, who founded tho Tree Churcti. Mr Baker 'U'i\iug iu his buggy with his daughter Heat rum Mini his son Shirley, when some men tired, hiding liis ion on the left arm. Alias Baker was thrown out ot the buggy wounded in the thigh. The whole town wiii *con on the scene mined with guns, axes, clubs, -.pom*, Ac. On Sit unlay the jlupai warriors 'Mai ted out iu gaugn and plundered a number 01 towns and country village**, so far as the Wesleyan'* are concerned in die districts of llmim, Tho \\es« Ryans were stripped of all their home*, it i» said the shooting was done by escaped convicts, but Mr Baker says Europeans were concerned m il.
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Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2028, 9 February 1887, Page 2
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167A Religious War in the Tonga Group. Wairarapa Standard, Volume XX, Issue 2028, 9 February 1887, Page 2
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