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y separately published work icon Fifty Lashes : A Maori War Incident single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1891... 1891 Fifty Lashes : A Maori War Incident
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During the colonial wars in New Zealand, Charles Stanton, a British officer, falls in love with Kiora Selby, daughter of a Maori woman and a white settler. Stanton's courtship, however, is disrupted by the machinations of a fellow soldier, himself in love with Kiora, who manipulates Stanton into giving in to his weakness for alcohol.

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