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1865, Missionary Carl Völkner killed at Ōpōtiki
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2 March
1865
Missionary Carl Völkner killed at Ōpōtiki
Local Māori adherents of a new religion, Pai Mārire, hanged the Church Missionary Society (Anglican) missionary Carl Völkner from a willow tree near his church at Ōpōtiki.
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