A Niue Murderer.
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From Our Own Correspondent.
APIA, July 10.
THE N.Z. Government steamer “Maui Pomare,” on her last arrival, from New Zealand, via Niue, car ried a native of Niue Island, named Tioneuga, who, some time ago, mur dered another Niue native named Mohelagi, and had been sentenced to death by the Resident Commisssioner and Judge of Niue, Captain M. Bell, a former Deputy Administrator of the Island of Savaii.
The condemned man was delivered to the Samoan police and imprisoned at Vaimea prison, there to await the decision of the Governor-General of N.Z., in regard to his sentence.
Crimes of violence are rare at Niue Island, though its former name, “Savage Island,’’ given by Captain Cook, suggests that it was not always so.
EDITORIAL NOTE —Autre pays , autre moeurs!
The writer visited the native gaol in Port Moresby the other day. Out of 160 prisoners, about 128 were murderers.