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This colourful account of the local community in the aftermath of the murder of Alice McKenzie was published in the New Zealand newspaper Te Aroha News on 18 September 1889, but is credited to the Star, and was presumably written soon after the murder. The focus is on the Jewish community, and the language is very much of its time ("Little Jew boys, with big beady eyes and sallow faces", "Comely daughters of Judah" and so on):
