The Omahu Trouble.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume III, Issue 313, 18 June 1889, Page 2

The Omahu Trouble.

Na?;xb, yesterflay. Karsuria, died in the Hospital at 5 o'clock lest evening,

The Hawke's Bay Herald of Saturday has the following :—" Waatara was in a eorry plight when locked up, ae the women who attacked him subsequently to the shootin; gave him a good hammering about the hea< with the butts ot the revolvers, besides nesrly dislocating hie right arm in holding him down, He on hi* part was not altogether idle, as Turanga's wife got her right hand little finger near enough te Waatara's mouth for him to bite it, and hoi gnawed it badly. When ho was planed in a oell the polioe called in Dr Fracton, who examined the prisoner's head and dressed hie wounds, He hse 17 soalp wounds, ooused in some instances by th* butt of S'revolver, and ih other by its hammer or trigger' guatd, but none of the wounds ere serious. The wounded' man was brought into town last evening in h oovered vehicle, and was taken to the Hospital, where ha now lies in g most serious oondition, Ths other bullet ha* not been found yet, but it ia cuppmed to ba lodged in his liver. Turanga is a fine young fellow of good conetitqtlon, and should it fortunately prove that hl* intestines are not lerforatea he will probabty recover, but it ie eared tint perforation has taken place. No further disturbance is anticipated, as all tljAnative* at Qm*bu are much shocked and grl*te4at what has oqpurred, ~