S TWO NOTABLE SURVIVORS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 864, 9 July 1910, Page 16

S TWO NOTABLE SURVIVORS.

' - | ■ LIVINGSTON AND FLYNN. j ONE TERRIBLE STORY. j... There aro reproduced here plioto- !'' graphs of Private John- Flynu and CapS tain : James Livingston, the only. two | 7 survivors of the fight/at To Ngutu oto j ; Manu, on September 7, 18(jS, when f Major Von Tempsky aiid 43 of his.men: | : wgre either killed or wounded when atj. . tempting to attack .a palisade-held-by i : Titok'owani. Te' Ngutu-o ;te Maim >is i near Okaiawa, and about twelve miles ! from Hawera. -The British force numS bered about 350 men, and the attack )- failed' mainly • through' an 'absence of | method on the part-of those in com- | L maud. Private John Flynn is a man i of middle size. .Ho was wounded early I in the fight, shot through the left thigh, j and was carried back by his comrades i during tho course of the long . seven S hours' retreat. In • tolling' the story of L the fight to a Dominion representative, • Mr." Flynn' made an interesting statement that he had good grounds for be- | licving that Von Tempsky and others ! who were wounded were burned by the i "Maoris while still alive. Some years j i later, said Sir. Flynn, when he was w I charge of a:bout 70 Natives, who woro. road-making, one of their number, . Manaia, who was a "go-between" be-; ! tween Natives and Europeans, informec- | him, in good faith, that after -the en- ; gagement the Maoris, burned the 1.. wounded with the dead, these including ! . iVon Tempsky. It. is a fact that none j -of the wounded who were left behind S were ever seen, again, and it is known | that tho Natives did burn the dead j bodies: Mr. Flyirn saw Von Tempsky j. fall—he was shot through tho lower ribs —and heard his request that his . sword and .-watch -should be given, to j -his wife.. . . .