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King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 578, 21 June 1913, Page 5

Mr Donald McKinnon, the well- | known Waikato farmer and sportsman, dieii from heart failure at his residence, Ohinewai, yesterday morning. Deceased, who arrived in the Dominion in 1864, was one of the oldest settlers in the Waikato, where he took up land in the seventies, and had resided there ever dince. The late Mr McKirmin was unmarried. Patrick Donovan, who escaped from "erracp Gaol, Wellington, on Wednesday, and was recaptured four hours later, was yesterday sentenced to an additional three months' imprisonmetlt. •'Remove not the ancient landmarks" is a rule to which the Maori pays special attention. Ths was illustrated in a case which came before the Native Appellate Court, when, at the request of some of the descendants of those who came to New Zealand in the canoe Tainui, Judges MacCormick and Ranson decided to mark a reserve of certain land on the Maketu Block at Kawhia on the seashore. According to tradition, it was to that spot fie ancestors of the Ngatimaniapoto and all other Waikato tribes landed. There are two stones set up at Ahurei, the Maoris state, by Hoturoa, the chief who commanded that canoe, and his tohunga as a sacred altar. These are the length apart of a big war canoe—that is, 80 to 90 feet. The Maoris assert that the Tainui waß buried between these stones, the bow one being named "Haui", which means "a destroyer," or "vanisher of persons," and the stern one "Puni," a spring, which is interpreted to signify , "a producer" or "bringer forth of man," It is a singular fact that, although the ground is surrounded bi