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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1964, 22 January 1914, Page 5

settle in the Upper Mutt; the Barton family came later on. 'i lie lather os tno Brown family bad some startling experiences in the old days, particularly during the Maori disturbances! when every man was enrolled in the militia, and hail to be called out frequently to scour the country when the Natives made their appearance. Lie. wasp-resent, along with tiie other uiilitin men, when the Natives allocked the Dou'rccti stockade. There was a company of military troops stationed there, and tlw? .Maoris came down and tomahawked the pickets, who were in tents samo distance from the stockade. That was where the hunter hoy had his right hand cut oft' while sounding the alarm; the little hero who picked up the bugle with his left hand and again Rounded the alarm. Many soldier-:.; were killed and wmindc'd in and around .the stockade. My father and two others took refuse under a big stump Some distance away, and when the engagement was over thc-y found several bulh'ts lodged in the slump, which proved the narrow escape they hart even in such vantage ground.

A great deal more might he said on this important subject, hut time will not permit, though what I have written is sufficient to shew how great a chaise has come over the scene since ]840, and how few- besides myself are now- alive, to see and relate the wondrous change which time, patience, and industry have wrought in the environs of this industrious mid go-ahead city of ours,.